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Speaker 1: Comedy Saved Me. Oh my gosh, Raymond. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to talk to you. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: just say thank you, like Buzz just said to Romeo Vaughn,

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Speaker 1: because we had him on another podcast that I host

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Speaker 1: called Music Save Me. And I found out that we

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Speaker 1: had this podcast about Comedy Saved Me. He nearly fell

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Speaker 1: off his chairs, like you have to talk to Raymond,

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Speaker 1: We're in so no.

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Speaker 2: My my buddy Romeo man, he's I've known him for

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Speaker 2: several years and I actually ran into him going to

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Speaker 2: on his way to Nashville. I was on my way

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Speaker 2: about it. I'm like, bro, this is awesome, Like this

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Speaker 2: is and he's been doing some massive things for his

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Speaker 2: music career and I've been crushing it in the comedy

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you guys down the road, you could do

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Speaker 1: like a comedy music show.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's definitely in the works for sure. He's

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Speaker 2: naturally funny too. Yeah, he really is. And I think

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Speaker 2: everybody in the valley where we're from has a natural

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Speaker 1: I love it. Well, thank you again for coming on.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm really excited. I read this thing. Let

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Speaker 1: me I'm trying to find where I wrote it down

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Speaker 1: this it says, this is crazy. Raymond Orta, a comedy

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Speaker 1: prodigy since the age of eight, delivers high energy, vivid storytelling.

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Speaker 1: His shows are so intense that he often leaves audiences

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Speaker 1: and hysteric, sometimes literally needing medical attention. Have you actually

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Speaker 1: had to, like clear, you know, bring someone back to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that actually happened at this like outdoor Beach and

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Speaker 2: biker Fest is what it's called. It's like a like

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Speaker 2: a Harley Davidson rally out in South Pounder Island. And

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Speaker 2: I made this lady laugh and pass out and she

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Speaker 1: Wow, all right, So that's why I was just wanting

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Speaker 1: to breakfast this for our listeners.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of my claim to fames is, uh,

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Speaker 2: I've made two people that I know of completely crap

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Speaker 2: their pants. And that's really hard to do in comedy.

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Speaker 2: That's that's Uh, that's really hard. That's like the mount

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Speaker 1: I have never ever heard that before, but I love it.

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Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta understand that. It's like the stars

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Speaker 2: having to align for that to happen. This guy had

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Speaker 2: they had to like they were locking up their house

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Speaker 2: and they're like, man, I got it, I should probably

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Speaker 1: On that note, if you have to go to the bathroom,

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Speaker 1: you might want to go. Now we're going to go

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Speaker 1: take a break with some commercials and then we're going

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Speaker 1: to come right back with Raymond Orta.

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Speaker 2: It's the time to do it.

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Speaker 1: Comedy Saved Me. Welcome back to Comedy Saved Me. The

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Speaker 1: show where we sit down with some of the funniest

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Speaker 1: might have literally saved them and others too. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Lynn Hoffman, and if you're into inspiring stories of resilience, redemption,

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Speaker 1: and the transformative power of humor like this one, please

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Speaker 1: share it with your friends and maybe just lift them

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Speaker 1: all about here on the Comedy Save Me Podcast. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I get them confused sometimes. Today's guest is someone who

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Speaker 1: If you've never seen him live, you know you are

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Speaker 1: Raymond Orta experience. So buckle up. Today we're talking heart, hustle,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to comedy Save Me.

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Speaker 2: What an awesome intro. I really appreciate that. That was, Like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know where you got that Chad GPT knocked

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Speaker 2: I was really really, really well done. That was so good.

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Speaker 2: And from that moment, I was hooked. I've been passionately

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Speaker 1: That's so impressive to me. And the crazy thing is

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Speaker 1: But people usually do tell you to do what you

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Speaker 2: He's funny. And so I had three other teachers take

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It was. It was awesome, amazing. By the time

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, that's cool.

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Speaker 2: They were. They were all about it. So it was

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Speaker 2: It was it was really cool.

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Speaker 1: That's very fun, especially when you get to hear yourself

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Speaker 2: Don't don't judge me by by my comedy influences because uh, okay,

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Speaker 2: when I tell them that, they're like really like what, like,

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Speaker 1: I well, I was a big fan of wrestling growing

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Speaker 2: So me too, Me too. Okay, So one of my

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Speaker 2: Now we found out that he's all sorts of like

434
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Speaker 2: a sexual deviant and perpose but.

435
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: A showman nonetheless, and you picked up.

436
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 2: On this strange showman and for me, for me comedy

437
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 2: like man, I see, Vince mcman is like a big

438
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 2: time like for he's a Showman and I and I

439
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 2: and I took my hat to him in essence when

440
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: I didn't know what he was doing. Right. Let me

441
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 2: make sure that people know that when I was a

442
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: kid watching vincemc man, it's like you're gonna have to

443
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 2: guess my Yeah, it's fun.

444
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,239
Speaker 1: It was hilarious and me and Joe Green wasn't like

445
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: and he was a character and then it was all

446
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 1: the best of wrestling back then.

447
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 2: For real and at the Attitude era was a big

448
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 2: part of my comedy influence because and then a lot

449
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 2: of the times I would do all these wrestling impressions

450
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 2: for my friends too, so they love the the voices

451
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:20,200
Speaker 2: and stuff like guess yeah, the man Randy Savage, SI Gym. Yeah,

452
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 2: it's the cream with the group.

453
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: That is so good that sounds just like him.

454
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Speaker 2: I would do. I would do all of like like uh,

455
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 2: and I was just I was just watching a Vince

456
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 2: McMann clip the other day, just yesterday actually, and just

457
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 2: made me laugh like he was funny man. But another

458
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 2: comedy influence of mine, and people don't see this one

459
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 2: coming either, is uh. One of my favorites is this

460
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 2: is really old school. To let you know that I'm

461
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 2: a student of the game. Dean Martin.

462
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, that's cool.

463
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,919
Speaker 2: Seeing Dean Martin like uh sing and perform and like

464
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 2: just oozing charisma. Yeah, and class was like, man, I

465
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 2: want to be like that on stage where it's like, man,

466
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 2: everybody wants to hang out with that guy. And and

467
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 2: that's how I kind of like molded my career. A

468
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 2: little bit of Robin Williams thrown in there, a little

469
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 2: bit of John Leguizamo and Vince McMahon.

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Speaker 1: John and Vince McMahon totally. Oh my god, I'm.

471
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 2: Just watching Spectrum.

472
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. John's in a new a show that I'm watching

473
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 1: right now and I can't remember the name of it.

474
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 1: I'll think of if I can think of it. At

475
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: the end. It's really good and he plays a great

476
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: character and it's not over yet. Speaking of that, you

477
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: give away all your videos for like, you don't monetize

478
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: your videos, do you.

479
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 2: They're they're they're like, uh, well generate income, they're they're

480
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 2: they're like social media has been paying me money, but

481
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,959
Speaker 2: I don't put any ads on them or nothing like that.

482
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 2: They just, uh, they're there for for for the watching

483
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 2: and amazing you.

484
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Speaker 1: Just go right. I love when you just go right

485
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: there and it turns on and you're not like bombar

486
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: with stuff, you know.

487
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love making people laugh. Like, there's so

488
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 2: many messages that I've gotten of people that are going

489
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 2: through a bunch of dark stuff, man, and they go

490
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 2: to my videos they leave me long messages. I've gotten

491
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: so many messages from people that are going through some

492
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 2: depression and sadness, maybe they lost somebody, and they go

493
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 2: and leave big comments on my page saying like, man,

494
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 2: I'm really thankful that you put this video out there

495
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 2: because it's getting me through some trauma or some dark

496
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 2: times right now. And I'm like that that really that

497
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 2: really makes things worthwhile for me big time.

498
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Speaker 1: That's for sure. I Mean, obviously your message is very

499
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 1: strong in the positivity and lifting people up and everything

500
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,439
Speaker 1: that I've read about you.

501
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Speaker 4: You will be right back with more of the Comedy

502
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Speaker 4: Saved Me Podcast. Welcome back to the Comedy Saved Me Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever use your comedy to address serious topics

504
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: and and how do you balance sort of like that

505
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: heart and humor when you go out on stage.

506
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 2: So I I my serious topics that I cover are

507
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: like my own upbringing, you know, like uh, like having

508
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 2: my grandpa like passing away. I talk about him like

509
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 2: passing away, but in a it's such a funny, crazy joke,

510
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 2: and I do his voice, uh like super good.

511
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: Uh.

512
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: People freak out with the voice that I do because

513
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 2: he's he was an old Mexican man, so you can

514
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: imagine when I get into his voice. Oh yeah, mio

515
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 2: can't take paying a danger. And so when I get

516
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 2: into that voice, people are like, man, and I I go, Uh.

517
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 2: I tell a joke where he's in the hospital and

518
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 2: the doctor tells me, is like, uh, you know, your

519
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: grandpa's kind of like really in bad shape. I heard

520
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: him blink and I'm like what, and uh, He's like, yeah,

521
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 2: I heard him blink. Like, go talk to your grandpa,

522
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: and if you hear him blink, you'll know that he's

523
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 2: like you know, he's he's already towards the end of

524
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: his life. And so I do this whole bit about

525
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 2: going in to talk to my grandpa and I hear

526
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 2: him blink. I don't know if you'll be able to

527
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: hear it, but I'm gonna try to do it on

528
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 2: the microphone. He goes and I walked in and I'm like, man,

529
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: I heard my grandpa blink clear as day and I

530
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 2: and I and he's talking to me, He's like, oh

531
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 2: you me, and man, when.

532
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: I wish people could just see your face right now?

533
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 2: No, And when people see it on live, man, it's

534
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: one of the crowd favorites jokes. And then usually people

535
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: like they like how you did, like you kind of

536
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 2: like hold your laughter, and I'll call him out, like, no,

537
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: don't you hold your laughter in let it out, let

538
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: that laugh out. And I started, I started kind of

539
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: like picking on the whole subject. But uh, it's such

540
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 2: it's one of the crowd favorite jokes. And and I

541
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: do that little blinking sound every time he's blinking and

542
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: people are losing it like it's it's supposed to sound again,

543
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: and man, on a microphone, it sounds so like.

544
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: Just moist.

545
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 2: It's just like, h.

546
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew today was the day that I didn't

547
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: bring the tissues.

548
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's great.

549
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: Can I just ask you what this feels like right

550
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: now when you see me literally with tears rolling down

551
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: my face, laughing hysterically.

552
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 2: I live for that right there, man, I really genuinely, Uh.

553
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: I love love, love, love love love doing what I do.

554
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: And it feels like a superpower. I bet yeah, it

555
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: feels like a super super power. And like, for example,

556
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 2: I just did a show in Albuquerque a few weeks ago,

557
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: and there was this lady in the front row wearing

558
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: a mask and she was laughing so hard like she

559
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 2: what we in the business we call them shotgun laughs.

560
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: Shotgun laugh is like when it looks like somebody took

561
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: a shotgun and just blasted somebody in the head and

562
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: they throw their head back like And this lady was

563
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 2: letting loose like her whole for the whole hour that

564
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 2: I was on stage, she was laughing like that. And

565
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: afterwards she told my friend that opened up for me

566
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: that she was battling stage four cancer and that was

567
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 2: the hardest she's ever laughed in her life. And for me, man,

568
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 2: that means the world to me. Like, man, this lady's

569
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: going through some stuff. And I've actually taken a college

570
00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 2: class on the medical benefits of laughter, and there's a thing, yeah,

571
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 2: and there's laughter therapy, and I want to and I

572
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: genuinely feel that. Man's like, she got some real good

573
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: medicine that night, like that laughter really really she needed that,

574
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: And for me, that's what my life is all about

575
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: I have. Even before I go on stage, I always

576
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: say a while back, before my son was born, I

577
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: had a near death experience where I died for a

578
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 2: few minutes and I got a chance to have an

579
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Speaker 2: encounter with the Father in heaven and I feel his love.

580
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: And every time I go on stage, I want to

581
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: exude that love that he has for us through with

582
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 2: the laughter. So I always say a prayer that the

583
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: love of the Father befell through the laughter that we brought,

584
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 2: through the talent that he gave me. And man, when

585
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: I go up on stage, I'm just letting him flow

586
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 2: through me in a way that's super powerful. And I

587
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 2: genuinely love what I do. Like it when people see

588
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: me on stage, they see somebody that's just passionately having

589
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 2: a good time and living what is purpose is meant

590
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 2: to be. You know.

591
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: Wow? So I mean, would you would you say that

592
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: in a way, comedy saved you?

593
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: Oh man, Comedy has saved me, Comedy has saved my.

594
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: Comedy has saved my family many times, Like I can't

595
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: tell you how many times I've been in a rut

596
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: or my mom needed several like a big chunk of money,

597
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 2: like all the taxes are doue or something she needs

598
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 2: like ten thousand dollars, like, mam, I got it. Don't worry.

599
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go do a couple of shows. I'll be back,

600
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: give me a weekend, you know, and I'll come and

601
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 2: give my mom a big stack of a big envelope

602
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 2: full of cash. And she's just like, oh, man, like

603
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: thank you, son, Like wow. And it feels good to

604
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: be the son that that because she had me when

605
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 2: she was real young. She got she she was pregnant

606
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: with me when she was sixteen, had me when she

607
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 2: was seventeen, And it feels good to to have her

608
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 2: back like that because she's she's never been the one

609
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: to ever tell me like, no, you should go get

610
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: a job. You should. She's always men super sort for

611
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: supportive of my comedy and and it's and it feels

612
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: good that she's had my back, so I of course

613
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: I have to help her oute big time.

614
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: Wow, that's it's so inspiring your your I'd say, Raymond

615
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: orta medicine. Man.

616
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: My mom wanted me for me to be a doctor.

617
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: And uh, and I genuinely you know what. One movie

618
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 2: that I really liked was Patch Adams. Did you ever

619
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: see that one?

620
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: Oh?

621
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, So Patch Adams was a big time

622
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: inspiration to me. Uh. Then I realized like how much

623
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 2: time people have to put in through medical school to

624
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 2: get to become a doctor. I was like, um, like,

625
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: is there a way to go around this?

626
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Speaker 1: That's so much fun? We have that in common. Two

627
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: things that you said today. So number one, when I

628
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: didn't want to go to sleep at night, my brother

629
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Speaker 1: and I would do everything we could to make my

630
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: mom laugh so that we wouldn't have to go to bed.

631
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Speaker 1: She'd have to call my father Mark. The kids won't

632
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: stop and we'd been making like farting noises or something

633
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: or you know. But that and then Mom thought I

634
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: was going to be a doctor. And but then it

635
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: was the sight of blood in the cost of medical

636
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: school that was.

637
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 2: Real for real, man, Like like this and maybe this

638
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 2: one time my wife was in the hospital and she

639
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: was having this procedure done and they they were doing

640
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 2: like an IV line and they missed it and she

641
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 2: started like blood squirting. Man. I almost fainted, And I

642
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: was like, man, I'm glad they didn't get into the

643
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: medical field because that's the last thing you need. And

644
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 2: I'm a huge guy. I'm like six foot five at

645
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: sixty poundy I'm a big dude.

646
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Speaker 1: Wow.

647
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 2: So I walked out of the room and I just

648
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: I'm like looking at the nurses station, like excuse me, ma'am.

649
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: And this lady turns around. I was like four foot

650
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Speaker 2: ten and she's just like yes. I'm like I think

651
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 2: I'm about to fade, and.

652
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: She's like, please don't fall on me.

653
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 2: Like the mountain of a man just falling over on her.

654
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: But luckily they got a chair for me, and I

655
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: sat down and gave me some water.

656
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: Thank goodness. Let me ask you a question. You know

657
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: you are. You're so you're larger than life in many ways,

658
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: and you every time I've ever seen you, you've always had

659
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: a huge smile on your face. And it's obvious that

660
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: you love what you do and you love helping people

661
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: through your comedy to heal in myriad ways. How do

662
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: you take care of your own mental health? And does

663
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 1: comedy have you know any role in your self? Care

664
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: for yourself?

665
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 2: My my family will tell you that I'm like the

666
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: last person that takes care of himself. I want to

667
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 2: take care of everybody else and and fix everybody's problems

668
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 2: before I take care of mine. I'll just whatever's bugging me,

669
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 2: I'll just eat it, you know. Yeah, I do that

670
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: a lot. I kind of like just eat it and

671
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 2: keep on keep on running, you know. Like And but

672
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of it has come down

673
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: to my mental health comes from a good, strong relationship

674
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 2: in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's he's my savior.

675
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 2: He backs me up every time I go on stage,

676
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 2: every time I'm not on stage. I have a like

677
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: sincere relationship with him. I love I love helping people,

678
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 2: I love giving giving to people, and like it's one

679
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: of those things where having that foundation with him, I

680
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 2: really don't feel like things can be going bad. And

681
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: I never, like my mom says, like, man, the whole

682
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: house and the whole world could be burning, and I'm like,

683
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 2: it's fine, you know. I have a real strong mentality

684
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 2: with with with a firm, firm relationship with with our

685
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: creator and our father in heaven. And it's just that's

686
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: that's what really holds me over. And if there's anybody

687
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,720
Speaker 2: that's that's listening to this that is, you know, suffering

688
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 2: from mental health problems or or or or depression, or something.

689
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: I really firmly believe that you're listening to this for

690
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: a reason, and I really would love for you to

691
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: for you to understand that there's a creator in heaven.

692
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 2: He loves you so much. He's created you from nothing,

693
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: created you in your mother's womb, Niche molecule by molecule,

694
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 2: so that you so that you can know him and

695
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: that he can know you intimately and have an intimate

696
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 2: relationship with you in a way where he's your best friend,

697
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 2: he's your dad, he's your he's he's your everyday companion.

698
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: And without him, I'm nothing. And without him, I can't

699
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 2: accomplish anything. I'm a piece of dirt. And uh, I

700
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 2: look at it. I look at myself that way. I'm

701
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 2: I'm a piece of dirt lucky enough to have his

702
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 2: breath of life in me. And that's that's the way

703
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 2: I carry myself every day.

704
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: That's such a beautiful sentiment to share with with people,

705
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: and what an amazing way to live your life, just

706
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, leave it up to up to a higher power,

707
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: like don't don't take any of that onto yourself. My

708
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: next question was going to be was there anyone in

709
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: comedy that gave you advice on how to you know,

710
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: stick it out in a in a business that's not

711
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: always very kind.

712
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: Oh man, my, you know what, my my, my, one

713
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 2: of my best friends and uh, he's actually like a

714
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 2: mentor of mine. Was the guy that I worked with

715
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: the radio and he does comedy too, but he's he's

716
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: been a DJ for man probably like forty forty five years.

717
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: Who is it what radio station where he's down.

718
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: Here in South Texas. He's syndicated also towards Olpaso. His

719
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 2: name is rock and roll James.

720
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: And he's actually seems I've known.

721
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 2: Yeah you ever. He's he's amazing. He's a he's a

722
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: real good friend of mine. And he's a lead singer

723
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 2: of a of a kind of like an outlaw country

724
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 2: band called Whiskey Bee.

725
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: And I'm writing that down.

726
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's extremely talented, extremely talented, and uh, he taught

727
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 2: me so much about the business and not and not

728
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 2: necessarily comedy. He did see to me a lot about comedy,

729
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: but just marketing in general. Man, this guy's a marketing

730
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 2: genius and he's so good. Like he's he's he's a

731
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 2: high school dropout, but he's one of the most brilliant

732
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 2: people I've ever met. Like, he's book smart, street smart,

733
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 2: and he's like he knows the stuff man, and he

734
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 2: knows how to market. He'll sell, he'll sell you. He'll

735
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 2: sell you the close off your back and you'll buy

736
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: it from him. He's a he's amazing. He's really he's

737
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 2: really top tier talent. And I've never heard that. But

738
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 2: can I steal that one from you? Yeah? For sure,

739
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: for sure. And he's a real good friend of mine.

740
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: But in comedy, you, like you said earlier, it's not

741
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 2: so kind comedy. All these comedians feel the need that

742
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: they they got to keep their secrets to themselves. They gotta,

743
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 2: they gotta. You know, they won't tell you, like who's

744
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: booking what, they won't give you, they won't open any

745
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 2: doors for you or nothing like that.

746
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

747
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 2: So I've made a big career on my on my own,

748
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: like kind of opening my own doors. You know. I've

749
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 2: done so many shows where I call a venue and

750
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 2: be like, hey man, can I do a comedy show

751
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 2: at your place? Just let me keep the door, And

752
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 2: they're like, well, okay, sure whatever, and they'll they'll uh,

753
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: they'll let me keep the door and I'll go over

754
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: there set up my own sound system, set up my

755
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 2: own lights, and I got a little spotlight right here

756
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: right now.

757
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: I'll go and you have a hairlight, you need a hairlin?

758
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got I got it, I got it all.

759
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 2: I got my whole production that I can fit into

760
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 2: the trunk of my car. And man, I'll make a

761
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: couple of thousand dollars every night that I go on

762
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 2: stage and call it done. And but nobody taught me

763
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 2: that except that guy, my my buddy rock and roll James,

764
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 2: everybody else in the comedy scene. Like you said, it's

765
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 2: real cut through and super kind of like gatekeeper ish,

766
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: And I can say that is a word, uh And

767
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 2: and I'm and I'm not the type of guy that's

768
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: going to go over there and kiss people's butts. I

769
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 2: don't like to do that. So I I like to

770
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 2: open my own my own doors and and do my

771
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: own thing. And the people that are cool with it,

772
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 2: they're cool. And the people that are not cool, I

773
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: don't care.

774
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: That's such a great attitude to have, honestly, and you

775
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: have to have that. The entertainment business as a whole

776
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: can just be so disruptive to a human's psyche big time.

777
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 2: Anyone in actually actually like the scene in Hollywood, man,

778
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 2: you know, like that that whole thing about the dress

779
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: the dress culture and stuff like that. No, oh you've

780
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 2: never You've never heard about like the dress club.

781
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: No tell me, I'm out of it. I'm I'm out.

782
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is this is gonna blow your mind

783
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: a little bit. So what you know, like dress culture,

784
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 2: the dress club, like you ever like think about it?

785
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 2: And in all the comedy movies that you've seen, how

786
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: many male comedians have you seen put on a dress?

787
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: Well? Quite a few actually, Like I'm starting all the

788
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: way back at the Three Stooges and going forward and like, yeah,

789
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: I mean like Missus dellfire N Williams or Dustin Hoffman

790
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: more of an actor than comedian, but still funny.

791
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, John Leguizamos one of them. Yeah, Jim Carrey, all

792
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 2: the big time actors, they've all put on dresses. And

793
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 2: it's one of those like rituals that Hollywood does, uh

794
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: you oh yeah, And there's some dark stuff in Hollywood

795
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: that is real sinister. And I was offered a role

796
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 2: in a movie where they wanted me to put on

797
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 2: a dress, and I'm like, bro, look at me, I'm

798
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: a big I'm a big beard. Yeah, Like come on, bro,

799
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 2: I'm from Texas, Like I can't put on a dress.

800
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 2: And they were super adamant they had offered me kind

801
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 2: of like like uh, you know the movie Big Mama's House. Yeah,

802
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: so that's that's another one. Martin Lawrence puts on a dress.

803
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 2: And but the the record labels or the studios, they

804
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: kind of sign you into a contract where they make

805
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 2: you do these favors like of the sexual nature in

806
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 2: order for you to get these big contracts and big

807
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: movie roles.

808
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: Yep, and I now, now, now, I can't stop thinking

809
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: about all of them. Eddie Murphy like everybody wow.

810
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 2: And they and they make you do stuff and that

811
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 2: when they put you in address, it's kind of their

812
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 2: way of letting their friends know, like in the other studios,

813
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: like hey, I own this person, like I made this

814
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 2: person my own property, you know. And it's the real,

815
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 2: real disgusting, like behind the scenes stuff that goes on

816
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 2: in order for these comedians to get these movie roles.

817
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 2: So I was offered a movie role in a role

818
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: that Estay gabrily Less has turned down. And it was

819
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 2: kind of like a spin off of Big Mama's House

820
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 2: called Dia Juana's House and it's it was a role.

821
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 2: When they told me that Gabriel Less has it turned

822
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 2: down kind of threw up some red flags for me.

823
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, why did you turn it down?

824
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, just they send me the script

825
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: and like check it out. It's it's super funny. You

826
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: could You'll be perfect for it. And I started reading

827
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 2: the script and I started and I saw the plot

828
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: of the movie was this nephew lives with his aunt Juana,

829
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 2: and she wins the lottery and she he has a

830
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: heart attack and dies, but he has to go claim

831
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 2: her her prize dressed as her like so he can

832
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 2: get the money for himself. And I'm like like and

833
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 2: I kind of told him, like, nah, man, I'm not

834
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: going to get into a dress. And uh, They're like, oh,

835
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 2: come on and be super funny, and I'm like, nah,

836
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't get in. I can't get into

837
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: a dress, man, And they're like, oh, why not, Like

838
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 2: it's going to be super funny. And I told him like, look, dude,

839
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 2: I'm from Texas, Like yeah, I can't get an address.

840
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: I'll never win another argument ever. Again. You know, doesn't

841
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 2: matter what I'm saying, like, they'll just put up a

842
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: meme of me in a dress and it's like arguments over.

843
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: You know at that time, did you know that's what?

844
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: That why they were pushing it you? So you knew

845
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: that you were trying to back out respectfully, so you

846
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: didn't burn a bridge or hurt your wife.

847
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 2: I try to try to back out respectfully, but they

848
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 2: were still pushing my buttons like come on, it'll be

849
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 2: super funny, and I'm like, no, I don't. I don't

850
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 2: need to put on a dress to be funny. I'm

851
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 2: super funny by myself, Like trust me, like I'm funny,

852
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 2: and they're like no, come on, come on like you can.

853
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 2: It'd be a great role for you and all stuff.

854
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 2: And I finally just told him like, look, man, I'm

855
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: not going to get an address. It goes against my

856
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 2: religious beliefs. And as soon as I said that, man,

857
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: it was like waw, like doors closed, everything's like nah.

858
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 2: And they told me, well, you'll never get any work

859
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: around here with that kind of closed minded attitude. And

860
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 2: that was the last I ever heard from Hollywood. It

861
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 2: was crazy.

862
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: But did that make you want to be more successful

863
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: than ever, just to prove them that you could do

864
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: it without them.

865
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 2: That's what I've been doing ever since that happened. I've

866
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 2: been doing on my own terms, on my own rules,

867
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 2: ever since that happened, and it's it's been the best

868
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,919
Speaker 2: decision I've ever made. I mean, granted, they're not trying

869
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 2: to put me on the big screen or anything like that,

870
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 2: but I'm super happy I've been doing theaters i've been.

871
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,479
Speaker 2: I'm super humble to the effect I like to say,

872
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 2: I'm humble like Moses.

873
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: I love that.

874
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is funny because Moses wrote the place where

875
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 2: he where he said that he's the he was the

876
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 2: most humble, but he's like the one writing this is

877
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 2: like really right? Yeah, yeah, well there was there was

878
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 2: no person humbler than Moses. You know, I'm humble like Moses.

879
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 2: Like this weekend, I'm doing somebody's backyard party and there's

880
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 2: probably like twenty thirty people that are going to be there,

881
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 2: and uh but man, if if people are willing to

882
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 2: pay money, just hear me tell jokes. I'm gonna do it.

883
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: Like I don't care. I'm not I'm not how you say, like,

884
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 2: I don't like the comedians that are like, Oh, I'm

885
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 2: not going to do this pool hall or I'm not

886
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 2: going to do this bar, this dive bar. Bro put

887
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: me up anywhere. I'm gonna crush it. I'm gonna I'm

888
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 2: gonna go out there and dominate and I'm gonna put

889
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 2: on a show. And I was raised in some crazy,

890
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: crazy bars like to starting my career. One of the

891
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 2: one of the bars that we used to do comedy

892
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: at was called Paradise Roadhouse and it was like a

893
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: mad house. Like you you're just seen that movie Pee

894
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 2: Wee's Big Adventure.

895
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: Of course, one of my favorites.

896
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 2: So you know when he steps into that bar, like uh.

897
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: When he knocks all the motorcycles.

898
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, So that was exactly what that

899
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 2: bar is like. Like when we're doing comedy, it's the

900
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 2: main people at the is the audience where the Bandilo,

901
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 2: motorcycle gang, the cartel, and the local valley gang all

902
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 2: together and none of them want to laugh because they

903
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: think laughter is weakness. So like if you can make

904
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,919
Speaker 2: them laugh there, man, your jokes will kill anywhere. Wow.

905
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: That sounds like it's like peoria in a bar.

906
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 3: It was.

907
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 2: It was so it was so such a hard, hard

908
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: place to do comedy. I saw so many veterans of

909
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 2: comedy going there and just tank, just eat a fat

910
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: plate of just fat plate of crap, and like it

911
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 2: was humbling for so many people. I was like, man,

912
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 2: and I would go over there and just routinely crush it.

913
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, this is awesome. So anytime I would

914
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: go out of town and do like an actual comedy

915
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 2: club where people are there like applight and like ready

916
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 2: to listen, I'm like, oh, this is easy, it's going

917
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 2: to be.

918
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: Have you ever bombed and had to like early on

919
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: and had to keep going throughout the whole show? Can?

920
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: Has it ever happened?

921
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: Yes? All right, I love this story so much so

922
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: you're already laughing because it's so funny now. Because Okay,

923
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: from third grade, eight years old, all the way till

924
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 2: I was eighteen, I had never had a bad show.

925
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 2: Okay never. And then so I'm like I'm already doing

926
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 2: like bars and stuff like that. I've been crushing it.

927
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 2: I'm feeling confident, I'm feeling good. I'm like, yeah, man,

928
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,479
Speaker 2: kick an ass out here. And I had this guy

929
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 2: that was like acting as my manager, and he goes Bro,

930
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: I got you a gig. It's going to be in

931
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 2: front of like two three thousand people, and it's going

932
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 2: to be at a boxing match. And I'm just like,

933
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 2: let's go, bro, I'm gonna crush this. Okay, let's do this.

934
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 2: And he goes all right, man, You're gonna go on

935
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 2: in between fights like like a ring girl with the

936
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 2: with the numbers. Yeah. But yeah, but like like you know,

937
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: when when one fight ends, there's like a like probably

938
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 2: ten fifteen minutes of break time before they bring in

939
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: another fight. Yeah, I was gonna perform in that time

940
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: during during the intermission of the fights, right, So I

941
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 2: go on on the ring and this is the I'm

942
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 2: performing outside in a park, and outdoor comedy is the hardest, okay.

943
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 2: The laughter just goes up into the air and you

944
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: can't hear anything. But then this was the first time

945
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 2: that I was performing in a full three sixty like

946
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 2: I had used to be performing, Like the stages is

947
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 2: over here, the audience is over there. But this is

948
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 2: like the first time after performing a circle, which I

949
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 2: was not used to. And then I was using a

950
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 2: wireless microphone outside and this microphone every time a gust

951
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: of wind would come by, it would cut off the microphone, right, dude,

952
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that's like setup, and then it would

953
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 2: take like three to five seconds to boot back on. Right.

954
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 2: So I'm there like, is this thing blow it in

955
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 2: the microphone? Hello? Okay, well, uh let me let me

956
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 2: finish this joke real quick. Oh It's terrible. It was

957
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 2: so bad, and I'm doing my show in a circle

958
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 2: and every time it seems like I'm gonna say a punchline,

959
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 2: the microphone was cutting off, and I was like, oh no,

960
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 2: and everybody's like like, what's this guy doing, Like we'll

961
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 2: get this. Who is this guy? And man, I'm like

962
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 2: just feeling like so bad, And I will never forget

963
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: it because I would. I would do a three sixty

964
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 2: and I'd see I'd come around and this lady would

965
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 2: catch my my my vision because she was sitting in

966
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 2: her own lawn chair in the park and she's wearing

967
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: this magenta like man, she looked like Job of the

968
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 2: Hut in a in a magenta tank top with magenta

969
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 2: biker shorts and just like a super white lady, pink

970
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 2: with heat, you know, like a humid, pink, frizzy hot mess,

971
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: just just oozing out of this lawn chair that's barely

972
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 2: holding on for dear life, and every time she sees me,

973
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 2: she's making sure to make eye contacted me and just

974
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 2: doing this.

975
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: Oh no, you remember that, like vividly you remember.

976
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 2: I'll never forget it. I'll never forget it because it

977
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 2: was It was one of those things where I'm like,

978
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 2: I had never had a bad show. I had never

979
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 2: had a bad show, and that was the first time

980
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 2: that I had tasted like legit, just a straight up

981
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 2: bomb rejection. Wow. Yeah, yeah, like a straight up rejection.

982
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 2: I got off stage and it was like nobody was

983
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 2: like hey man, Like nobody that was just like look

984
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: at me, like what are you doing? Bro? Like, oh,

985
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 2: it's terrible. It was in front of so many people too.

986
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 2: It's like in front of oh man, it was terrible.

987
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 2: Like I really genuinely wanted to quit comedy, like I

988
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: wanted to I had never had a bad show. I didn't.

989
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 2: I didn't know how to handle that.

990
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 1: Like how did you make it to the next show?

991
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: What did you have to work with yourself on?

992
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 2: I have I have such a a hard headed nature,

993
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 2: ask my wife, uh, I asked, I have such a

994
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 2: hard headed nature that I couldn't end on a loss,

995
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 2: Like I had to get that out of my system,

996
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 2: Like I even if it was like, oh, go do

997
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 2: like a bar or like some cheesy open mic or something,

998
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: just to get that taste out of my mouth. Yeah,

999
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: And and I went to go do like a I

1000
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 2: think it was like a club, like a lounge area

1001
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 2: or something like that, where I got a chance to

1002
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 2: perform and people were like losing, and I was like, nah,

1003
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 2: this is still good at this. I'm good at this. Yeah.

1004
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 2: But bombing is so funny to me, Like now nowadays,

1005
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 2: I haven't bombed in so long, Like it's.

1006
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: It's a knock on the wood here, come on now.

1007
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I enjoy I enjoy them because like

1008
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 2: all laugh. The last time I bomb was this was

1009
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 2: this Christmas party that they hired me for. But this

1010
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 2: it wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault though, Like

1011
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 2: the the the people that were dou that were putting

1012
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 2: on the party. As soon as they gave me the microphone,

1013
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, and by the way, the buffet line

1014
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 2: is open. Everybody can get up and get their food.

1015
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 2: And everybody just got out there. And I'm just like

1016
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 2: like just left me there by myself. So I kind

1017
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 2: of started like crapping on my own, like, well, this

1018
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 2: is where my career comes to die, people like, you know,

1019
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 2: just making fun of yourself, just making fun of myself.

1020
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 2: So now I've learned how to like bounce it, uh

1021
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 2: bounce it off and and and uh kind of make

1022
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,479
Speaker 2: fun of myself in the process where I'm still having

1023
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: fun with it, you know. And I know that you

1024
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 2: learn a lot more from bombing than you do from

1025
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 2: doing good. So I've learned so much from from uh

1026
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 2: from the bad sets that I really trained myself that

1027
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 2: I'm never like I can handle almost every single situation

1028
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 2: that has been thrown my way because I've I've done

1029
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 2: so many shows you know where this is gonna happen

1030
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 2: and this you know, this is what you got to do.

1031
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 2: But like that that Christmas party that I did, I'm like, hey,

1032
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 2: you hired me for an hour. I'm gonna do an hour.

1033
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna get me, whether you like it or not.

1034
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you're gonna get These jokes, man, I'm gonna

1035
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep slinging them, and even though nobody's listening,

1036
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep slinging them and then I'll be like,

1037
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 2: have you ever seen that movie Balls of Fury?

1038
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: Yes?

1039
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 2: Of course, So so I was like, I feel like

1040
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 2: that guy, what he is, what he's like that daytime?

1041
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 2: Casiit is that allay.

1042
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: Very much? Wow, I swear Raymond, you must be probably

1043
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: one Romeo Vaughn, by the way, he was on my

1044
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: other podcast, Music Saved Me, which we asked talked about

1045
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: up front, he did you such justice. But now that

1046
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: I'm getting a chance to talk to you and people

1047
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: are getting a chance to hear you, I would have

1048
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: to say that most everyone listening right now would agree

1049
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: that you are probably one of the happiest human beings

1050
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: on the planet that I've I've met.

1051
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 2: I love I love being so I love being a

1052
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:11,879
Speaker 2: positive like a positive force man, And like uh, Jesus said,

1053
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 2: let your light shine before people so that they can

1054
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 2: see the light shining within you. And I'm that person.

1055
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 2: Like I love to man, anytime somebody's going through something,

1056
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: I love to bring them up. And I love like, hey, man,

1057
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: like you know, let's let's think of a way to

1058
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: solve your problem. Let's think of a way to like

1059
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 2: like overcome this. We could do this, you know, and

1060
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,720
Speaker 2: I I sometimes to a fault, might believe in people

1061
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 2: more than they believe in themselves. You know what I'm saying.

1062
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: Oh, I definitely know what you're saying. You are. You

1063
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: are a cheerleader, a fellow cheerleader for people who you

1064
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: just want to see people succeed in life. That's your payback. Yeah,

1065
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:52,240
Speaker 1: which is pretty amazing. Wow, I got so lost in everything.

1066
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 1: I almost lost my last question for you. I don't

1067
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: know where it went. Oh, here we go to how

1068
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: would you like your comedy to impact people and the

1069
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:02,919
Speaker 1: legacy that you hope to leave.

1070
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 2: Man, my fans that have seen me, they'll tell you

1071
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 2: that that, Like, Man, they're they're they're hardcore fans. And

1072
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 2: that's That's one of the reasons that I'm like super successful,

1073
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 2: is that the fans that have seen me know that

1074
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: you'll never You'll never see the same show twice. I'm

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00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 2: not a scripted robot. I'm not a person that you're

1076
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 2: going to be like, oh I heard the same jokes.

1077
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 2: I have like nine hours of material that I've written

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00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 2: so far, and like, I love coming up with stuff

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00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 2: on the fly as well, So you're never gonna see

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00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: the same show twice. So anybody that has as far

1081
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 2: as like, what do I want my comedy to be

1082
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 2: known as. I wanted to be known as a person

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00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 2: that goes on stage and genuinely gives like everything that

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00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 2: they got into what they love to do, and and

1085
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 2: passionately pours into the people that are there. It doesn't

1086
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 2: matter if there's two people in the crowd or two

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00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 2: thousand people or twenty thousand people. I'm going to give

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00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 2: you one hundred percent of who I am and enjoy myself.

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00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 2: I love to have fun on stage. I love to

1090
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 2: be happy on stage because being I look at it

1091
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 2: this way, people are going to these shows, you never

1092
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 2: know who's in the crowd. You never know what kind

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00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 2: of problems they're going through. And I have this one

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00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 2: story of this guy that texted me one time for

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00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 2: Father's Day, and rather intense story. He texted me for

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00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 2: Father's Day. Hey, and I don't know how he got

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00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 2: how he got my number, but he just I got

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00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 2: a text for Father's Day and he said, hey, happy

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00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 2: Father's Day. You don't know who I am, but I

1100
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 2: was at your show last night and for Father's Day,

1101
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 2: I was thinking about ending my life because my wife

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00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 2: left me, she took my kids, and I wanted to

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00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 2: end my life on Father's Day so that every time

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00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 2: Father's Day rolls around they would remember me and be

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00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 2: like super hurt by it. And I was doing a

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00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 2: Father's Day show on the Saturday before before Father's Day,

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Speaker 2: and this guy just happened to walk in to the

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00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 2: show and he was walking I was performing at a

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00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 2: place kind of like a are you familiar with, like

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00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 2: Sixth Street in Austin, where there's like bars next to

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00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: each other, like like a long strip of bars and

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00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,959
Speaker 2: clubs next to each other, and there's like a little

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00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 2: mini theater where I was performing at. Well, this guy

1114
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 2: was just going from bar to bar, drinking himself to

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00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: the point where he was gonna end his life at

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00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 2: the end of the night. Well, he walked by the

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00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 2: theater that I was performing at, and he heard laughter

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00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 2: coming in from inside, and he walked in. This was

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00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 2: already like in the middle of the show, so there

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00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 2: was nobody even at the door to charge him or nothing.

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00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 2: He just walked in, heard the show, and had such

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00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 2: a great time that it changed his whole outlook on life.

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Speaker 2: And he texted me, this is like man like today

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00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 2: I'm alive because of the show that you put on

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00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 2: last night and I and I came to pick up

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Speaker 2: my kids to spend time with them instead of instead

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00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 2: of having ended my life. Yes last night, and I

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Speaker 2: just wanted to say Happy Father's Day to you, uh,

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Speaker 2: because because of you, I got to be a father

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Speaker 2: to my kids to day. Like right, you want to

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00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 2: talk about like making my day like like so amazing. Uh,

1132
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 2: that's the kind of stuff that like any comedian lives for,

1133
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 2: and any comedian worth their salt wants those kinds of

1134
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 2: interactions with the people, not necessarily their fans. They did

1135
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 2: the guy didn't even pay for the show, But I

1136
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 2: just wanted, like to impact people on that level. Or man,

1137
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 2: you say you're saving people's lives with jokes, like, that's

1138
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 2: amazing stuff for me that that, for me is is

1139
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 2: what I was made for right there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it gets any better than that, to

1141
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: be honest, real, I mean, really, if you can do that,

1142
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: then wow, the rest of life seems easy when when

1143
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: you when you hear stories like that. And by the way,

1144
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: your light is shine so bright. I need to put

1145
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: on some sunglasses. Thank you so much, Raymond Orta for

1146
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: sharing your incredible journey with us, and to all our listeners,

1147
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: thank you for checking the show out. And to Romeo Vaughn,

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00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: thank you for introducing us to this wonderful ray of

1149
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: sunshine that I hope we get to keep in touch with.

1150
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on comedy. Save me Raymond, and keep

1151
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: spreading your love and doing what you're doing because you're amazing.

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00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 2: Hey, I appreciate you having me. And if I may

1153
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 2: be so bold, may the Lord bless you, May he

1154
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 2: keep you, May shine his face on you, and be

1155
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: gracious to you. And may the blood of Jesus cover

1156
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 2: us all. Oh, bless you guys. Thank you so much,

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00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: Oh one more thing, where can people find you online

1159
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: to see your amazing comedy?

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00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, at Raymond is funny across all social media platforms.

1161
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 2: At Raymond is funny pretty much everything. Facebook dot com

1162
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 2: slash Raymond is funny, Instagram dot com slash Raymond is funny,

1163
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 2: YouTube dot com slash Raymond is funny. The only one

1164
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 2: that's different is TikTok because my Raymond is Funny page

1165
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 2: got banned. Oh but I got Raymond out of the comedy.

1166
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: On TikTok and Raymond is fun.

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01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 2: My TikTok's My TikTok's been blowing up lately, so that's good.

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01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: All right, Well, go go, Raymond, go do your thing.

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01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to keep you so long. You have

1170
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: to go out.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate, I appreciate the interview, and thank you so much.

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01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 2: You guys were lovely and I look forward to meeting

1173
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 2: you guys at Romeo. Talked to some real good, real

1174
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 2: good vibes about you guys.

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01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, right back and let us know when

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01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: you're in our area, please,