Speaker 1: Get get no boys, it's back and reloaded all in
Speaker 1: your mind. Yeah and now deep throating. This is for
Speaker 1: the streets, the reel, the railroading, the disanfranchise, the truth,
Speaker 1: the scapegoating, and they ain't knowing we speak the truth,
Speaker 1: so they ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North
Speaker 1: South East Coat g b my for keeping your head bobbing.
Speaker 1: It ain't no stopping and wants to be try head
Speaker 1: by then the system is so corrupt they throw the
Speaker 1: rock out their heads and then blame it on us.
Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted on code and we danceing for
Speaker 1: no buttament biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces in
Speaker 1: the building. Collectively we are the ghetto boys, and reloaded,
Speaker 1: reloaded with another episode of information and instructions to help
Speaker 1: you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio,
Speaker 1: Steve Travino, I'm not clapping for that guy, No, thank you.
Speaker 1: I like that y'all have Mexican uh producers. That ship
Speaker 1: made me feel comfortable. What we do, man, is that
Speaker 1: we bring in We bring in the producers based on
Speaker 1: who the guest. That's what I was thinking. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys went to home, Deepo picked up Mato and Louise.
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, hey, you want to work today? And
Speaker 1: the lake to and then motherfucker's will jump in your car. Dude,
Speaker 1: have you ever got Mexicans at home? Depot? Uh? You
Speaker 1: know you gotta lock the doors. I'm gonna teach use
Speaker 1: y'all gotta lock the doors. When you're asking to hire Mexicans.
Speaker 1: Just jump in the back seat and they're like, I'm
Speaker 1: hiring you just hired me. I'm in the back seat now.
Speaker 1: I'm figured that's how you Hey, how how did you
Speaker 1: do it? Man? How did you get into the first place? Man?
Speaker 1: You know it? I thought I didn't. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do anything else growing up. I just knew that
Speaker 1: that was for me. Eight you were eight when you
Speaker 1: so did the family Like we used to come over
Speaker 1: and gather around and your mom say, Steve, no, you
Speaker 1: know what. I always tell this story because it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a trippy story. And I remember so
Speaker 1: you know, you know how you remember times in your life.
Speaker 1: You know, drink um. So we always have barbecues at
Speaker 1: our house and always the men were outside, women inside, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, man, my dad, refinery worker, welder, pipe fitter.
Speaker 1: I mean they're tough dudes, man, you know, tough Mexican dudes.
Speaker 1: And they'd be outside hanging out. I remember one time
Speaker 1: the men and the women were inside and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, this is different. You know, these husbands
Speaker 1: don't hang out with these wives. And it was, by
Speaker 1: the way, my bad trips out because I'm like, we're
Speaker 1: having game night. It's like game night, yeah, my wife
Speaker 1: other wives like what are you fucking gay? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: like we hang out, man. But it was they were
Speaker 1: watching they were watching Richard Pryor and they were all laughing, man,
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, I've never seen my dad
Speaker 1: and my mom sit down together and laugh like that.
Speaker 1: And it changed my life that right there. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do. Shot out like Jack and
Speaker 1: Richard jokes like, did you Eddie Murphy's because I know
Speaker 1: I used to do that toot Eddie Murphy raw. Man.
Speaker 1: I started watching Eddie Murphy rall your funny motherfucker bro
Speaker 1: for real, man, like a funny motherfucker for real. We
Speaker 1: look man, and I ain't bullshitting you guys. I learned
Speaker 1: so much from listening to you guys, And that's not bullshit.
Speaker 1: And I tell you why, y'all's lyrics and I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about this. Y'all's lyrics are so honest and
Speaker 1: you show you you guys show weakness, and most rappers
Speaker 1: don't show weakness. Well, you know, you know the walk
Speaker 1: around well when you know what he's talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: like vulnerability and talking about being scared and wanted to
Speaker 1: get out of the game and and you know, making mistakes, right,
Speaker 1: making mistakes. And to me, that's why y'all's music connected
Speaker 1: to me so much. It's because to me, it felt
Speaker 1: more real than just going hard all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know those lyrics in my mind is playing tricks
Speaker 1: on me. When you talk about you know, you know
Speaker 1: I want I didn't want to be with her, and
Speaker 1: you realize you sucked up, you know, or when you're
Speaker 1: in church asking God to get you, you know, all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And so I take that to my stand up.
Speaker 1: I try to be vulnerable in my stand up. I
Speaker 1: try to be I try to be sometimes I'm losing.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of comics they always want to win, right,
Speaker 1: And my stand up man I lose all the time.
Speaker 1: My wife wins, you know what I mean? How but
Speaker 1: how how do your wife wins so much? When you
Speaker 1: speak wife? Because at the end of the day, I'm
Speaker 1: still with it, you know what I mean, At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm still with her. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I love her. And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day she always gets what she wants anyway,
Speaker 1: you know. So it is a happy life, happy life.
Speaker 1: It feels that it seems like it seems like it is.
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, like, man, I don't
Speaker 1: need ship. We're talking about earlier. I don't need ship,
Speaker 1: you know, I want the same bullshit. But but are
Speaker 1: you happy though? I mean, I'm very happy, man, Okay.
Speaker 1: And you know what I didn't know. No, Well, here's
Speaker 1: what's tripping. I don't know if you guys, uh, talent wise.
Speaker 1: I didn't start be I started changing in my stand
Speaker 1: up because I fell in love with this girl and
Speaker 1: I fucking hated her for it. I for real hated
Speaker 1: her for it because I'm like, man, I'm I'm on
Speaker 1: the road, I'm a comic, I'm a fucking pirate. I'm
Speaker 1: crushing ass everywhere I go. I'm drinking. I'm doing whatever
Speaker 1: I want. What's a pirate but fucking raping and pillaging
Speaker 1: and fucking going from town to town um and then
Speaker 1: all sadden. I meet this girl and I'm fall in
Speaker 1: love with her, and I hated her for it. So
Speaker 1: I walked on stage and started talking about hating her
Speaker 1: for it, and it was funny, but it wasn't connecting
Speaker 1: because I was angry. And then once I decided, once
Speaker 1: I felt okay with being that guy and being with her,
Speaker 1: then the love came into the jokes them. Ship really
Speaker 1: changed for me, and we did Relatable in Corpus Christie
Speaker 1: for Netflix, and that thing blew up Man and everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, they couldn't see the love I had from
Speaker 1: my wife in it when before it was just angry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So were you cognizant of putting the funny in it?
Speaker 1: Make it? Because I always here, I hit comedians that
Speaker 1: was that a serious? Sometimes they go through certain things
Speaker 1: and they want to bring that out in the comedy.
Speaker 1: And I've always respected comedians who awoke who who who
Speaker 1: would go there and talk about social issues. But you know,
Speaker 1: did you ever did you ever get to a point
Speaker 1: to where you you thought that um, you know, perhaps
Speaker 1: I need need to make it. I need to stick
Speaker 1: to funny first and then talk about serious away exactly,
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember hearing Richard Prior talking about that, right, Like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're our comics and
Speaker 1: the idea is to be funny. But nowadays, man, it's
Speaker 1: gotten deep for me. My act is about family, being
Speaker 1: a family man, trying to be a better dad, a
Speaker 1: better husband, you know, And I get deep in that way.
Speaker 1: I don't do politics, I don't do religion. I get
Speaker 1: deep in the you know, man. I I work every
Speaker 1: day to be a good dad. I work every day
Speaker 1: to be a good husband to my wife. And it's
Speaker 1: a it's a growth process. So while I'm telling these
Speaker 1: stories that are funny, I kind of like, like I
Speaker 1: said that that premise that I'm working on right now.
Speaker 1: How do you raise a privileged kid? Right, because the
Speaker 1: three of us here, well, I don't have ship growing up.
Speaker 1: I had hard working dad and me and me and
Speaker 1: we just talked about each other. We didn't really have right,
Speaker 1: So how do you raise a prevous job? Don't know? Man,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's a struggle to me and my
Speaker 1: wife for having are you privileged? Now twenty years of
Speaker 1: doing stand up man? Now you know I got a
Speaker 1: bank rom I'm rich. I mean, I mean yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know you know that that's interesting that you would
Speaker 1: do you have the joke? Do you have it formattic
Speaker 1: as a joke? Get how do you raise a previous chime? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So right now, you know, I I bring up the
Speaker 1: fact that and we'll do some of the you know,
Speaker 1: talk about some of it. Now, all of us, all
Speaker 1: our kids have way more than we had. Right My
Speaker 1: son can watch cartoons anywhere anywhere in the world. Tell
Speaker 1: me more. I got a son that's sitting in here
Speaker 1: right now. That's minus one Kidney. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: kid game Christney. So yeah, he don't have more. He
Speaker 1: got list because he looked out for his dad. We're Chris.
Speaker 1: I love you, bro, Thank you man. And I heard
Speaker 1: I heard you're gonna be a grandpa again. You got
Speaker 1: another baby on the way. I got It's not him,
Speaker 1: not me, isn't him? Chris? Yeah? And Christmas? I got
Speaker 1: four and I going I'm the Mexican. I got two kids.
Speaker 1: I'm very white. We gotta we gotta sign and a daughter.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's talking about material things, you know, like they
Speaker 1: them having more than we have the material things and
Speaker 1: access and options, right and and those kids that they
Speaker 1: got a lot more, and also not being aware. You know,
Speaker 1: we live in this neighborhood where I have to try
Speaker 1: to make him aware that, hey, man, like we're so
Speaker 1: lucky to be here. So I make him volunteer, we
Speaker 1: do stuff. You know, if he gets a new toy,
Speaker 1: I make him give up a new toy, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, right, because you know, I mean I
Speaker 1: grew up going to church all the time, you know,
Speaker 1: so and and we I grew up in a little town, man,
Speaker 1: I mean nobody really had much. You grew up in Gregory, Portland, Portland, Texas.
Speaker 1: Right man? How is CHRISTI Hey, yeah, you're twenty minutes
Speaker 1: away from corporate So how what's that? Dude? That look?
Speaker 1: But I'm country as fun and and that was what
Speaker 1: that was. What's cool about about being a Texan is
Speaker 1: I always tell people, man, when you're texting, you're Texan.
Speaker 1: You live in Texas? Yeah, I live in your Braunfels, Texas.
Speaker 1: Now how do you live out there? I'm just asking
Speaker 1: because I need an airport. So I got Austin San
Speaker 1: Antonio Airport. My wife's parents are from the same little town, Greggory, Portland,
Speaker 1: so we wanted our kids to have access to their
Speaker 1: their grandpa's, you know, grandma's. So you know, we picked
Speaker 1: just North. They're good job. That's David J. David J.
Speaker 1: Is half Puerto Rican and half Pakistani, which is fucked up.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be fucked up. Um, but no, you know
Speaker 1: it is. But but you know, and and my son,
Speaker 1: you know, and you guys are on the road like me.
Speaker 1: I mean, that boy goes to he's he's a gold
Speaker 1: member on American Airlines. You know, he sits first alas
Speaker 1: it took me. I didn't get first class till I
Speaker 1: was thirty five. This kid's fucking five in first class.
Speaker 1: We got a hotel rooms and he's like, Dad, do
Speaker 1: they have room service? I'm like, fuck you? How about
Speaker 1: fuck you? You know what I mean, that's what you
Speaker 1: work for, right, That's what That's what you work for
Speaker 1: me because I oftentimes I just look at my kids. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, wow, man, it's it happened for real, you know,
Speaker 1: because I envisioned that before they were born, and them
Speaker 1: actually live that type of lifestyle and had that type
Speaker 1: of access that they have. I love that you said
Speaker 1: in rewarding you have to envision it, man. I've always
Speaker 1: envisioned being a comic. I always envisioned having success. I've
Speaker 1: always envisioned working hard and having these things. I will
Speaker 1: say that that you know, I have become now famous,
Speaker 1: and it's not what I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 1: Like it is. It's harder. Yeah, my phone rings all
Speaker 1: the time, you know, and I try not to change
Speaker 1: my cell phone. But you got motherfucker's that that you
Speaker 1: gave your the number to ten fifteen years ago. And
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, like, hey, I'm in talking
Speaker 1: on who the fund is it? Like, you know, can
Speaker 1: I get a hook up? Can I get a picture?
Speaker 1: Can I? You know? And and it's arm Me and
Speaker 1: my wife were We're eating dinner and and people like,
Speaker 1: oh can I get a picture? And you know, and
Speaker 1: and you start giving up your privacy that I had
Speaker 1: that I didn't realize I enjoyed so much before. I
Speaker 1: mean sure, I was at home DEEPO the other day
Speaker 1: talking to the dude and this lady was like, can
Speaker 1: you talk again? I go, excuse me? She was talking again?
Speaker 1: What do you mean talking again? You're him, You're the
Speaker 1: guy from TikTok. So then once she freaked out, then
Speaker 1: other people. So now I'm at home, people taking pictures,
Speaker 1: which I'm happy to do, right because I'm honored and
Speaker 1: I feel proven. You know, I feel very lucky. But
Speaker 1: I thought fame was different, and I feel exactly the same.
Speaker 1: I just have more problems, yeah, more money, more problems, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: for real. And it's it's and the privacy. You know
Speaker 1: what I do when it comes to that, the privacy thing,
Speaker 1: I make sure that I don't. If I leave my house,
Speaker 1: I'm prepared for being accosted. I'm a I'm a prepared.
Speaker 1: I'm prepared. I'm prepared for somebody walking up to me
Speaker 1: and asking for an autograph or a picture or whatever,
Speaker 1: even just to try to have a small conversation. I'm
Speaker 1: prepared for that. Now, I can't always accommodate them, but
Speaker 1: when I when I step out that door, I understand
Speaker 1: who I am and what I mean to certain people.
Speaker 1: So when I come across them and they get that moment,
Speaker 1: I give it to him. So yeah, and if I
Speaker 1: don't feel like it, if I don't really feel like
Speaker 1: being bothered at all by anybody, you know, just anybody,
Speaker 1: not necessarily fans. It's just anybody. I just stay at home,
Speaker 1: right But and Brat Garrett told me that from everybody
Speaker 1: loves Raymond. He told me, He'll Steve, we chose this life.
Speaker 1: It's the minute you walk out your door, approach somebody
Speaker 1: boldly and aggressively. It's what the cosputers. Now, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got you. I mean people text me, hey, what times
Speaker 1: the show tonight? I'm like, motherfucker and the time it
Speaker 1: took you to text me and figured it out. It's
Speaker 1: on the internet. It's on the internet. So I started
Speaker 1: getting these um these words for the day, like Willie
Speaker 1: get and I'm gonna get y'all one, give me one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna mix it, We're gonna work it in. Now
Speaker 1: let me ask you about so my top two favorite
Speaker 1: rap songs of all time are Notorious Thugs, which is
Speaker 1: Biggie and Bone Thugs, right and bring it On? They
Speaker 1: bring it on? Okay, now, how did that? I'm so
Speaker 1: enamored with that song because it's nine. Willie was on
Speaker 1: a hiatus. He wouldn't back then. So I picture all
Speaker 1: you dude in the studio dropping versus. Is that how
Speaker 1: it went down? And and did you plan on making
Speaker 1: it a nine minute song? I did not. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, we had a we had the songs
Speaker 1: that we had, uh, we had songs that we call
Speaker 1: posse cuts, and it was just like everybody on the label,
Speaker 1: we're getting and spirited verse from what I can remember,
Speaker 1: because you know that it was like two d years ago,
Speaker 1: two hundred years ago. So um, we we all wrapped
Speaker 1: on it. It It was nine minutes. It's about nine minutes.
Speaker 1: Ship more more Producer Mario, how long is that song?
Speaker 1: Say it in Spanish? Bro, Mario? Beat your Mario mix? No,
Speaker 1: that song is? It is like nine and it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite songs. Man. We we had some It's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that would on that song because
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, who's this and who's that? And then
Speaker 1: somebody would come in on the verse. I'm like, oh funk,
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out who the funk that was? Who
Speaker 1: passed on that? We know? Bellow see O three two
Speaker 1: was three to I think I don't think he was
Speaker 1: on there. Let me see what was on bring it on?
Speaker 1: But yeah, um, what song is bringing on? Chris? Yeah? Hey,
Speaker 1: so I got a new word. Were not a new word,
Speaker 1: but it's called temporize. It means avoid making decision, a
Speaker 1: decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. Will
Speaker 1: I'm going to temporize on this? Im a temporizing? Read
Speaker 1: that again? What the fund is it? I don't think
Speaker 1: I understand it. I don't either temporize avoid making a
Speaker 1: decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. Does
Speaker 1: that mean temporarily? Is it in the sentence? I don't
Speaker 1: even know how. It was a lot of traffic on
Speaker 1: the freeway. So really temporized a rival. That's just like
Speaker 1: fucking manual season. That's pretty good, a little temporized. Steve,
Speaker 1: you said you were eight years old when you started
Speaker 1: your your comedy run, when you got into comedy, Second
Speaker 1: Greade talent. Okay, I was going to ask, did you
Speaker 1: tell some jokes? Well, I mean I would assume you
Speaker 1: guys grew up a lot like me. I mean I
Speaker 1: had a talented family too, you know, I mean my cousins.
Speaker 1: We all get together and we put on talent shows.
Speaker 1: We would sing, you know, we we you know, and
Speaker 1: I always wanted to make people laugh, you know. And
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, do comedy. I would do Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy Row, you know, and everybody, and you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of my ts were like, oh my god, why
Speaker 1: is he saying those things? He's eight, you know. And
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you ever take a ship and that
Speaker 1: ship come back? What does that ship want? My dad's
Speaker 1: laughing all the men I got. I got my grandma
Speaker 1: over there, like what the fun was? Eight? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: I would run my mouth man, and I mean we were,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, man, blue collar family, a
Speaker 1: bunch of you know, welder's pipe fitters. I mean, tough
Speaker 1: motherfucker's man, and we were just My mom had nine
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. So we had forty cousins right there,
Speaker 1: you know. And then my dad's won a four so
Speaker 1: we had another twenty cousins over here. We all get
Speaker 1: together and it was talent show time. Man, So did
Speaker 1: you win a talent show? In second grade? Second grade?
Speaker 1: I walked up to the teacher and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do stand up and She's like, okay, what
Speaker 1: are your jokes? And uh, you ever take a ship? Like?
Speaker 1: You know? As I dropping any murro, No, I didn't,
Speaker 1: but I was. It was pretty rough and she was like, um,
Speaker 1: I'll let you be a stand up, but we gotta
Speaker 1: work on your jokes. So then from then on I
Speaker 1: was doing stand up. And then you step into a
Speaker 1: comedy club at what nineteen the first time when when
Speaker 1: you grew up in Gregory, Portland, Texas. I mean, and
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't when we didn't go on vacations.
Speaker 1: We I mean we went to Astra World. That was
Speaker 1: a big deal for us here. You know, yeah, for
Speaker 1: like a day, you know, it comes to actual world
Speaker 1: and my dad like, hey, we ain't eating ship, we
Speaker 1: ain't doing ship. You're gonna ride the rides. We're gonna
Speaker 1: fuck home right stout in the back. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta bring the food. You know, you gotta leave the
Speaker 1: park to go to the truck to get you know. Um.
Speaker 1: But you when you when you don't know where to go,
Speaker 1: when you grow up like that, you're like, I don't
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know where to go, man. And
Speaker 1: then my cousin, My cousin calls me up. He's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I just moved to Dallas and there's a comedy club
Speaker 1: across the street. I said, fucking I'm on my way. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Addison Improv The Addison Improv and and man, I
Speaker 1: drove there. I got there on a Tuesday. I walked
Speaker 1: in on Wednesday. All you know, when your young ignorance
Speaker 1: is bliss right. I walked there. I'm like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: a comedian, man, and they're like, oh, you're a comedian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian. I need to I need to be
Speaker 1: on your stage. And the manager was like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: all right, well we gotta open mic tonight. And Jamie
Speaker 1: Kennedy was headlining the open mic from screen, you know, Jamie.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, you know, man, I just met
Speaker 1: a celebrity like this dude's from Scream. You know. He
Speaker 1: was hosting the open mic. I did all right, and
Speaker 1: then uh, I thought minutes five minutes. I told the manager.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, you know I need to be headlining.
Speaker 1: I need to be you know, I need to be
Speaker 1: I need to be working the weekend. He goes, yeah, because, man,
Speaker 1: why don't you get a job here. I'm a comedian.
Speaker 1: I don't need a job. He's like, no, why don't
Speaker 1: you get a job here. So I was a door guy.
Speaker 1: I met people like Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle was coming
Speaker 1: through those days. You know, um, all the blue collar guys.
Speaker 1: Um Joe Rogan was was just headlining back then. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't even you know, I remember meeting him and
Speaker 1: Joey Diaz and you know, he was selling out Friday Saturday,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't selling out Thursday when I met him
Speaker 1: when I was twenty years ago. Man, Ralph, he may
Speaker 1: got rest his soul. He was an opening act for
Speaker 1: Jay Moore. Um, Bobby Lee. I mean, all these dudes, man,
Speaker 1: they come to and and my goal, my goal was
Speaker 1: you know. I told the manager said, hey, man, who
Speaker 1: takes him to radio in the morning? And He's like,
Speaker 1: why do And I'm like, what can I do it?
Speaker 1: He was happy because he's like, well, funk, I don't
Speaker 1: gotta wake up a five in the morning to pick
Speaker 1: these dudes up. I'm like, I'll do it. I picked
Speaker 1: these dudes up, talk to him, try to get to
Speaker 1: know him, picked their brains, you know. Chappelle, I remember
Speaker 1: I had Chris Rock in my car man Monique, you
Speaker 1: know Monique in my car, uh and Chris is. I
Speaker 1: was so excited to meet Chris. I go pick him up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh ship, Chris Rock. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I picked him up. He says zero words to me.
Speaker 1: He puts his hat down in the car, puts his
Speaker 1: hoodie over his head. I take him to radio. Still
Speaker 1: says no words to me, walks on the radio and
Speaker 1: just turns into Chris Rock. I mean, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: get back in the car, turns his hand. I took
Speaker 1: him back to the hotel. Mother said zero words to me.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I mean, that's hilarious. Man. I remember Bruce Bruce, Man,
Speaker 1: the hotel's right here, the comic clothes right here. They
Speaker 1: share a parking lot. That's how fucking clothes they are.
Speaker 1: And Bruce Bruce was like, because most comics would just
Speaker 1: walk because no, bull Ship, it's just parking. Yeah, Bruce, like,
Speaker 1: come to me up. I had a nine six and
Speaker 1: a half Nissan pickup truck. He got in the back
Speaker 1: and the airport. Bro, He's trying to get in that truck.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, by the time you get in this
Speaker 1: truck and you could have walked to the impron and
Speaker 1: then his security was holding onto my truck as we
Speaker 1: walked through the parking lot. But Ship like that, man,
Speaker 1: it was it was cool. Man. And when you're around
Speaker 1: it all the time, you know, and I'm watching these dudes. Man.
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart was my camps opener when I met him.
Speaker 1: Kevin harton you know a lot of comedy clubs have
Speaker 1: comedy condos. A comedy condo. Yeah, so they rent an
Speaker 1: apartment for the comedians to stay at. You have to
Speaker 1: call him comedy condos. And Kevin Hart was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: they got a comedy condo. I go, no, man, we
Speaker 1: don't have a comedy condos. Like, man, I got nowhere
Speaker 1: to stay because I came out here to open from
Speaker 1: my camps, but I don't get a room. And I
Speaker 1: was like, man, you crashing my couch. And Kevin crashed
Speaker 1: on my couch man twenty years ago, Man, no ship
Speaker 1: have you spoken to him since? I see him? I
Speaker 1: see many once. That motherfucker. Man. We were doing a
Speaker 1: show together at the end prov several years ago. I
Speaker 1: was it was me than him. First show, second show.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, fuck you, I'm going after you. He's like,
Speaker 1: you're going last. I ain't following you no more. I'm
Speaker 1: working on new material. You're over here trying to murder me. Mother,
Speaker 1: Like Kevin spid people. Man, and that's what's hard about
Speaker 1: this business man is sometimes you meet your heroes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I let you down. Man that I met that
Speaker 1: was a hero man was j J. Yeah, Jimmy Walker.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a fun he's a mess sucker, first
Speaker 1: of all. Under the any other condition, I would say
Speaker 1: you out of pocket. But you're absolutely right. When I
Speaker 1: met when I was, when I met him, straight up,
Speaker 1: she did, asked Nick. Everybody else coolande The dude went
Speaker 1: out of his way to be an asked. And the
Speaker 1: only reason why I didn't drop him, it's because I
Speaker 1: don't hit j J. I didn't want it on my record.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want have been more fucked up.
Speaker 1: You would have been like I know, Mike, I didn't
Speaker 1: want on my record that I noted. You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't want that on my record. Just fighters straight up
Speaker 1: slip is ass. But he's got to be seventies, No,
Speaker 1: you gotta be nineties. I don't give an you met,
Speaker 1: then you meet your heroes, and then I'll send your
Speaker 1: friends with him, like, oh ship that I'm a friend
Speaker 1: that I'm friend with. Uh Steve Harrington, Uh uh Brown?
Speaker 1: I mean I mean for me. Remember, you know be sleeping.
Speaker 1: You know who Tom Wilson is. Tom Wilson though he's
Speaker 1: a Biff from Back to the Future. Oh, no, dude.
Speaker 1: And that dude, man, I meet him as an opening
Speaker 1: act door guy. We hang out in Dallas. He's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you know I want to go see Deely Plaza bub
Speaker 1: Blaes Like, will you take me? I'm like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm on it super cool with me and I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting there going, man, I'm hanging out with Biff from
Speaker 1: Back to the Future. And this was forever ago. Fast
Speaker 1: forward ten years. Man, I'm walking through the airport and
Speaker 1: I hear Trevino. Trevino. I turned around, it's it's him,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, I never in a million years
Speaker 1: thought I've been walking through an airport and Biff from
Speaker 1: Back to the Future calling me over to say what's up?
Speaker 1: You know you trip out? Man? But oh I met
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. He did. I would do a show in
Speaker 1: Vegas and then he would do the show afterwards. That
Speaker 1: dude shook my hand but wouldn't let go. You know,
Speaker 1: that uncomfortable ship and it's Mike. Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: him to actually only snap and thank you so I'm
Speaker 1: just letting him shake my hand as long as he
Speaker 1: wants to shake my hand. He's I mean, he's making
Speaker 1: eye contact with me, and he goes, I love what
Speaker 1: you did up there, he goes, I'm the baddest man
Speaker 1: on the planet. He goes, and I'm scared shitless of
Speaker 1: my wife. And he's still holding my hand, and I'm
Speaker 1: like trying to pull away, but not not aggressive, because
Speaker 1: you don't want no ship. I don't want no ship
Speaker 1: with my typon, you know, speaking of that that vulnerability
Speaker 1: you was talking about, that's Mike got that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: why Mike ha is beloved. I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you know, he whooped ass and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and yeah, kick ass, take names,
Speaker 1: and he's carved out a nice career for himself and
Speaker 1: put itself into history books. But that was a time
Speaker 1: when he was not beloved. People just loved what he did.
Speaker 1: But I admire growth, Yeah, like I admire people who
Speaker 1: who have grown, and you can tell that Mike has
Speaker 1: grown absolutely, you know, and and his humility and his
Speaker 1: ability to go, hey man, I know who I am
Speaker 1: and I know that I want to be better, and
Speaker 1: that's what I think I admire about about all people. Man'
Speaker 1: That's why I get mad about this cancel culture bullshit,
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna go back twenty years to cancel the
Speaker 1: motherfucker I was. I was a different person twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: You know, some of the stuff I found funny twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, I don't funny today. Do you ever think
Speaker 1: I think to temper your your comedy, you know, because
Speaker 1: of cancel culture? No? I mean I'm lucky. You know.
Speaker 1: I talk about my wife, my family, you know, And
Speaker 1: I tell you about the time the only person you
Speaker 1: can cancel me is my wife. And as long as
Speaker 1: my wife is cool, I'm good and nobody can cancel me. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, right like right now, and
Speaker 1: you'll see tonight I do a bit where my dad
Speaker 1: calls me, uh right, But it's him telling me back
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, right, you'll see it tonight.
Speaker 1: That's all out of context right now, But I need
Speaker 1: that word so that you can understand who my dad was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, my dad's this hard Vietnam vet um military man,
Speaker 1: refinery worker. He used words like that. Now Do I
Speaker 1: like those words? Do I use that word? No? But
Speaker 1: you can't take that away from me when I'm telling
Speaker 1: a story. You know what I mean? Well, I think
Speaker 1: context is everything, and I think most people can appreciate
Speaker 1: that when it's put into proper context. Any word, any word,
Speaker 1: an I do believe. I mean, you got people like
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle, you know who I think is a genius. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw the Last Special right, So watching
Speaker 1: that Last Special man, the way he it was like
Speaker 1: a sermon, like a preaching preaching man, a sermon, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. And and and if you listen, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're listen and you watch it again, watch how
Speaker 1: he brings all that ship around in that full circle.
Speaker 1: And and and and he says, man, I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about this no more, you know, but stop
Speaker 1: punching down on my people. Right that's right there. It was.
Speaker 1: I was like, brilliant. It was brilliant. But I think
Speaker 1: that you, as an artist or I don't think the
Speaker 1: regular person, regular civilian sees the art. They don't, they don't,
Speaker 1: they don't peep it. And the main point was, here's
Speaker 1: this small community that has the ability to change things
Speaker 1: in cancel, yet my black community can't. Bro And we've
Speaker 1: we've been fighting for centuries, get shit changed and to
Speaker 1: kill me. No, yeah, you're right, you're right. But I
Speaker 1: just found something. You know, I'm a sucking worring, so
Speaker 1: I just found something. You're ready. A bundle of sticks
Speaker 1: are twigs bound together as fuel? See, we're just talking
Speaker 1: about fuel. Yeah. Uh, the Peanut Gallery likes that ship
Speaker 1: Mario and Louisa they're making. Going back to Dave Chappelle,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I admire by
Speaker 1: comedians so much, is there uh there intelligence most comedians,
Speaker 1: most comedians, I know, the good ones are intelligent, and
Speaker 1: it is very difficult to craft jokes. Like really, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about when you I may do real comment I
Speaker 1: ain't talking about just joking jokes. I'm talking about that
Speaker 1: It's easy to be funny, but to craft a joke
Speaker 1: has a great degree of difficulty and how hard I mean,
Speaker 1: how how amazed are you when you see somebody like
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle do that ship put on three specials in
Speaker 1: one year to three specials in one year when most people,
Speaker 1: most most comedians cannot do that type of thing. Will
Speaker 1: get jealous five six, seven years. A lot of comics
Speaker 1: get jealous, get fired up. Yeah, man, I see somebody
Speaker 1: like Dave Chappelle do something like that. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't watch stand up because I don't want to
Speaker 1: be influenced. But then you get somebody like Dave Chappelle,
Speaker 1: who he's so above me. His mother's not gonna influence me.
Speaker 1: He's so amazing. I mean where his head's at right now.
Speaker 1: And that's what tripped people out about Dave. We got
Speaker 1: to remember that Dave was famous in his early thirties.
Speaker 1: Then the man disappeared and came back as a grown
Speaker 1: ass man. So we all remember Day was famous in
Speaker 1: his twenties. What was that ship where he was missed?
Speaker 1: A nice guy? And then he was talking about the
Speaker 1: doctor said I need to back out of me. So
Speaker 1: he's already famous as in his twenties. Yeah, the man disappears,
Speaker 1: comes back as a grown ass man with real opinions,
Speaker 1: with kids, with a wife, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: that changed for for us as a community, Like, whoa,
Speaker 1: what is that crazy high dude that we remember as
Speaker 1: a kid. He's still in there. He's still in there,
Speaker 1: but now he's a grown ass man and he's got
Speaker 1: grown ass man opinions. He's evolved and he's grown man
Speaker 1: and man said, I had to try to save him.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, whatever, because at the end of the night
Speaker 1: it was probably gonna be aswing up for us to
Speaker 1: pussy that she didn't have joke up. But that's another
Speaker 1: thing about this. He'll drop you some knowledge and then
Speaker 1: he'll hit you with a stupid as. That's a kid funny,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's but it's not coincidental. When he
Speaker 1: dropped the knowledge and hit you with the stupid ass,
Speaker 1: he knows exactly what he's doing. It's to set up
Speaker 1: brilliant man. I mean, and same with you guys. When
Speaker 1: you're coming up, there's a million rappers on the streets.
Speaker 1: When I was coming up, there's a million stand up
Speaker 1: I mean, this motherfucker. And every city I go to
Speaker 1: there's a community of stand ups. Houston probably has a thousand.
Speaker 1: It's some. It's a community of stand ups. But the
Speaker 1: elites the cream, right, Yeah, the cream is going to
Speaker 1: rise to the top every time. You could be in
Speaker 1: a bundle in the circle of a ton of rappers.
Speaker 1: Like when I find a young comedian. If I find
Speaker 1: a young comedian, I like like like Dave J for example,
Speaker 1: I tell him, I look, dude, you're the best of
Speaker 1: all the shitty ones. You're you're the best comedian. But
Speaker 1: he's only but he's only two years in the game.
Speaker 1: And it's like Dave where they talk about you like that. Man,
Speaker 1: come in, man, can we get him a chair? But
Speaker 1: are you funny? I think so? Are you? Uh? Uh?
Speaker 1: What is Puerto Rican? And in Pakistani? Oh goddamn, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be good. I'm telling you that this dude's
Speaker 1: a mess and his and his Pakistani daddy left him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm a comedian. Yeah. So, so how do
Speaker 1: you feel? How do you how do you feel with
Speaker 1: when Steve's the best of the shitty comedian? Well, Steve's
Speaker 1: my boss, so I like it. No, good answer, good answer.
Speaker 1: If you wouldn't, if you wouldn't get fired. Would you
Speaker 1: say some ship about him right now? No? No, he
Speaker 1: said his wife is the only one who can cancel him.
Speaker 1: But I got some ship on Stieve two. I can
Speaker 1: cancel show like canceled. Steve's asked Trevino, you can take
Speaker 1: your MinC now, babe. But what what he is saying
Speaker 1: is like and he was talking about before other comedians
Speaker 1: is like, there's a thousand comedians in Houston. I live
Speaker 1: in Austin example from the the Comedian's there's a thousand
Speaker 1: competing in every city. But like, if you wanna do
Speaker 1: it at this level, you have to compete with Dave Chapelle,
Speaker 1: You have to compete with these huge guys, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Well, that's when these young these young
Speaker 1: cats don't know, right, It's like, you're not competing against
Speaker 1: that open micro that you're standing next to. If you
Speaker 1: want the job, you're competing with Chris Rock and the
Speaker 1: best in the world. You're competing against me, You're competing
Speaker 1: against Bert Kreisher, You're competing against all these dudes. Man,
Speaker 1: you know so, so why are you worried about these folds? Right?
Speaker 1: You know, stop trying to compete with these dudes when
Speaker 1: you should be competing with the very best. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and go reach for it, go ahead and hit that way, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't stay out here with us, out of here, go
Speaker 1: go go. And a lot of young comics because of
Speaker 1: the local scene, they're concerned about that that comedian in
Speaker 1: town that thinks he's the big ship. And it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: this there ain't nobody. You need to be worried about
Speaker 1: the motherfucker's that are nationally headlining, the dudes that are
Speaker 1: getting on TV. I mean, we're not competing against I
Speaker 1: don't compete against him. I'm competing against Kevin Hart. He's
Speaker 1: a funny, he's hilarious. But you know what, sometimes so
Speaker 1: you would agree that being a comedian is, um, it's competitive.
Speaker 1: Very well, it doesn't have to be And I was
Speaker 1: gonna say that it doesn't have to be competitive, but
Speaker 1: it is competitive. In the beginning for me, it was
Speaker 1: very competitive, right and as I got older, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you know, Dave too, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta not worry about these dudes. Man, don't compete
Speaker 1: against these dudes. Go out there, do you do what
Speaker 1: you know how to do the way you do it,
Speaker 1: and don't worry about it because it's all subjective. It's hard. Okay, day,
Speaker 1: what's the best piece of advice Steve's giving you so far? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about comedy from a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different sides, right, Like, there's like the technical parts
Speaker 1: of it. There's about you know, individual like jokes and
Speaker 1: tags and speed and things like that. But you know
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. Uh, just now like having the
Speaker 1: ability to kind of see past little jokes, just like
Speaker 1: you're seeing past the scene and go like, what are
Speaker 1: you really talking about? You know what I mean? You
Speaker 1: can put together a bunch of popsicle stick jokes, um,
Speaker 1: but what are you gonna make with them? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna have a message that matters or is expressive who
Speaker 1: you are? Or is it just goofy and again talking
Speaker 1: about like what you guys do, man, is is is
Speaker 1: being vulnerable, you know, and and digging deep inside of
Speaker 1: yourself to too. That's what people connect to, man. You know,
Speaker 1: people people walk out and I got I got grown man.
Speaker 1: At the end of my shows. Now with this new
Speaker 1: set I'm doing, they come up to me and they're
Speaker 1: they're crying, man, I mean they're they just have the
Speaker 1: comedy show and then that's the best comedy show I've
Speaker 1: ever been to. But you made me think of my dad.
Speaker 1: You made me think about how hard my dad works,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's the stuff that make people go, hey,
Speaker 1: Trevino is my comic. That's my dude. You know what
Speaker 1: that this just made me think about something like you're
Speaker 1: the everyday guys guy that the politicians pretend to be
Speaker 1: when they're running on the campaign trail, right, because they
Speaker 1: always come up where you know, my dad he raised
Speaker 1: and a little cabin in Yeah, and it was just us.
Speaker 1: We didn't have food. Sometimes you had two million dollars
Speaker 1: in the bank, legalized, legalized staff, legalized legalized staff. So
Speaker 1: you know, I am. But and again going back to
Speaker 1: the privileged part in the celebrity part, you know, it's
Speaker 1: hard to stay grounded too. I gotta make sure I
Speaker 1: stay grounded. I gotta make sure that I am aware.
Speaker 1: And I saw my same friends from high school man too.
Speaker 1: You know, no new friends, no friends, no old business.
Speaker 1: Did you lose at least one of them, one or
Speaker 1: two after the thame you lose a couple. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's because they don't quite get it. They changed before
Speaker 1: you change, dude. I'm so glad you said that, man,
Speaker 1: And I hate when they tell me that you changed
Speaker 1: the arena and I'm like, no, dude, you changed towards me.
Speaker 1: I'm the same dude. My road manager, Kyle and I
Speaker 1: have been together since elementary school. That's my homie from
Speaker 1: elementary school, and we're still working together right now, you know,
Speaker 1: and cows the Yellowstone looking the Yellowstone looking dude ump.
Speaker 1: But I also have to stay around it, you know
Speaker 1: when you look at Martin Lawrence and I remember being
Speaker 1: at the comedy store when Martin Lawrence was making a
Speaker 1: comeback and stand up man. He was so unfucking relatable
Speaker 1: because he's different. I mean, the dude is a huge celebrity.
Speaker 1: And you could tell that that first couple of months
Speaker 1: that he was up there, he couldn't find it, couldn't
Speaker 1: find that that relatability. I mean, you know, Martin was
Speaker 1: the every dude man, you know, and and after months
Speaker 1: of watching him work, watching him work, he started seeing
Speaker 1: that he started really changing the way he would word
Speaker 1: things or the way and because words matter, man, you
Speaker 1: know that words matter and the way you say things
Speaker 1: and the way you have to be aware. I want
Speaker 1: to make sure I don't ever lose that. So you
Speaker 1: hit at seventeen, nineteen years old, you hit the scene,
Speaker 1: started doing your comedy. At some point you started riding
Speaker 1: for uh Carlos Carlos Carlo Spencer picks me up and
Speaker 1: we what did you? What do you meet? We met?
Speaker 1: We met in Corpus Christie senior year in high school.
Speaker 1: I'm driving to school with my buddy Joey, who who
Speaker 1: introduced me to you guys. Joey introduced me to the
Speaker 1: ghetto boys. Joey had an old ask copy tape and
Speaker 1: he put it in. He got, dude, we listen to
Speaker 1: this ship man's fucking badass, you know. And he put
Speaker 1: it in and he's one introduced me to the ghetto boys.
Speaker 1: And we're driving. We're driving high school. I turned on
Speaker 1: the radio and I hear Carlo Spency on the radio.
Speaker 1: He's coming to Corpus. I'm like, oh, ship, Joey, Fox School,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the radio station. And I left a
Speaker 1: skipped school, went to the radio station and Seel walks
Speaker 1: out like I'm a comedian, and he goes, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, man, you sell fifty tickets tonight, I'll put
Speaker 1: you on stage. I said, give me the tickets this
Speaker 1: so I sold them, my fucking man, and he led
Speaker 1: me on stage. And then he came back the next
Speaker 1: year and he was like, hey, if you can sell
Speaker 1: a Hunter tickets, I'll let you do more time. I'm
Speaker 1: on it sound tickets. I moved to Dallas. He comes
Speaker 1: through Dallas and he's like, oh, ship, you're doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, man, I'm doing it, and he goes,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm working on this tour called
Speaker 1: the Three A Meagles Tour. Paul Rodriguez, George Lopez, Carlo Spinca.
Speaker 1: Here's I'll make you the opener. And I was like,
Speaker 1: that's it. I'm rich, I made it. I'm sorry. You know.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, man, I was twenty years old. Many
Speaker 1: day and we did and you guys would love this. Man.
Speaker 1: We did the Bronco Bowl. Oh that's a skate and
Speaker 1: drink or some remember that ship back in the day,
Speaker 1: skate rink or something. Cliff I was like a skate
Speaker 1: crank the Bronco Bowl, Man, Cliff Dallas was it a
Speaker 1: or some ship? Think you with the bowl? We all
Speaker 1: did shows back over there, Man did Broco bo. But
Speaker 1: but you know we we I'm on the road with
Speaker 1: these guys. Carlo Spencia, George and Paul hated each other.
Speaker 1: They man, they couldn't get along. They're fighting with each other.
Speaker 1: They're fighting each other they are. We're doing arenas and
Speaker 1: I'm the opening act and I'm like, oh, shoot, this
Speaker 1: is the best ever happened to me. That breaks up,
Speaker 1: and then Mencia puts together a new three Meals tour.
Speaker 1: Paul goes and does Latin Kings of Comedy instead, Paul
Speaker 1: and George do Latin Kings of Comedy. Mencia brings on
Speaker 1: Pablo Francisco, Freddy Soto who's dead now, and myself, which
Speaker 1: is another hard thing in this business. Man. You you
Speaker 1: get to know all these comics and then you know
Speaker 1: drug abuse takes them, suicide takes the cocaine, cocaine, you know,
Speaker 1: and that breaks your heart too. Man, I'm I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I know so many people who have committed suicide, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it was intentional they put a gun to their
Speaker 1: head or the drugs and alcohol, you know. Um. So
Speaker 1: then Mencia was like, hey, man, three Megal tours over.
Speaker 1: I'll take you on the road for time and and
Speaker 1: if there's any young cats out there listening. My goal,
Speaker 1: like my dad taught me, be irreplaceable. Absolutely be irreplaceable.
Speaker 1: So as soon as Mena gave me the opportunity and
Speaker 1: I sold fucking merch best I could. If that I
Speaker 1: knew he drank diet cokes, I'd have a diet coke
Speaker 1: waiting for him when he got off stage, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was sucking on it, man, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this dude cannot go on without me. I gotta make
Speaker 1: sure that I'm gonna be with this fucking dude, because
Speaker 1: this guy's give me an opportunity. And then we ended
Speaker 1: up h he ended up getting mind him and c
Speaker 1: on Comedy Central, and he started writing, started writing for him,
Speaker 1: and ship went real bad between me and him? Did
Speaker 1: things go bad between you and him? But first of all,
Speaker 1: why did things go back? You know? And and I
Speaker 1: got nothing against Carlos man. I want to make that
Speaker 1: very clear. Like I have forgiven him, forgiven us is
Speaker 1: such a valuable thing in life. Man, I have forgiven
Speaker 1: him um for and I always say I got I
Speaker 1: got kind of me too. If you with you know
Speaker 1: I was, I was twenty years old. He made me
Speaker 1: all these promises, you know, And and he would be like,
Speaker 1: hey man, you know he paid me no money. I
Speaker 1: mean when I tell you no money, no money, I
Speaker 1: mean even when you was writing, even when I was
Speaker 1: writing that the writers Guild didn't look a zero money
Speaker 1: like no money like I would. I would make about
Speaker 1: three fty dollars a week that ain't no money, no
Speaker 1: money money. And he was the type of dude that'd
Speaker 1: be like, hey man, if you need money, just hit
Speaker 1: me up. I got money. I'll help you. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I'd be like, well how about you just paying me? Man?
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean? Um, And that's why
Speaker 1: we with with David J. You know, he gets the
Speaker 1: opener money and the middle money. And I paid for
Speaker 1: his flight and I paid for everything while we're here
Speaker 1: because of that experience, right, I wanted this dude to
Speaker 1: make some money. I mean I deserved I'm the one
Speaker 1: selling the tickets. I deserve this. But hey man, you
Speaker 1: deserve a good life. You know you're doing a good job.
Speaker 1: You were best. They kind of open up for you. Bro,
Speaker 1: come on, baby up for you. Tell a joke right now.
Speaker 1: Let's see if you can make it. Let's see if
Speaker 1: you can cut it as a comedian. Let's see if
Speaker 1: you're the shittiest comedian, the best of all the city comedian.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's hear a joke. But it ain't nothing
Speaker 1: funny right now? Didn't go back and and and I
Speaker 1: saw you know, uh, it was just weird man ego
Speaker 1: ship you So so all of this stuff started happening
Speaker 1: before Joe Rogan exposed him. Oh yeah, man, you don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a Joe Rogan confronted him at the Comedy Store
Speaker 1: on while he was on stage, said Yo, dude, you've
Speaker 1: been stealing jokes, and he had backup. You know, Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan talks about cancel culture. That's the first motherfucker to
Speaker 1: cancel somebody, Joe. Let me tell you something broke Joe.
Speaker 1: Joe took him out. Bro So I want to be
Speaker 1: on your podcast. Okay, go ahead, you know, Joe coming
Speaker 1: to do the podcast. Yeah, but but yeah, Joe, I
Speaker 1: want to do his I want him to want to
Speaker 1: do too. Okay. So it was a trip. So I
Speaker 1: get Mencia and I have a fallen out first season
Speaker 1: Minu Mencia and and he does this like, hey, you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I hope you don't mind, but you're not
Speaker 1: gonna write on second season of Minna. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: well why not. He's like, whoa, why don't you go headline?
Speaker 1: Go a headline? That mean, go be the headliner at
Speaker 1: the clubs, you know, be the top bill, you know.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, but I mean I want
Speaker 1: to write on the show. Why would I not want
Speaker 1: to be on the show, and he's like, no, man,
Speaker 1: you know, just go do your thing, which turned out
Speaker 1: to be a blessing for me because they canceled the
Speaker 1: second season. Well, the third season got canceled, but Rogan
Speaker 1: got into it with him second second season, so I
Speaker 1: had already disassociated myself with him when But still, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of that Shrapnell got me. Man. A
Speaker 1: lot of people were like, well, Trevino's men see his boy,
Speaker 1: you know. And and for me, I don't think people
Speaker 1: realize how young I was, you know. I think I
Speaker 1: was writing on the minor Mencia. I was a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, And I don't know any better. Did they
Speaker 1: ever try to connect any of your jokes that you
Speaker 1: wrote for him as plagiarism? Not not well the way
Speaker 1: Mencia would do it? And and two things. Number one,
Speaker 1: Mencia is a very good stand up comedian Number one.
Speaker 1: Number two does he steal? Yes? Number three, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he knows he steals like for real, like
Speaker 1: he's like. But some people would argue that how can
Speaker 1: he be a very good stand up comedian if he's
Speaker 1: not using his own words, if those are not his
Speaker 1: own jokes? How can he be a stand up a
Speaker 1: good stand up comedian. It's like somebody says, somebody just
Speaker 1: know how to deliver that ship. Bro, he knows how
Speaker 1: to fix up some ship for some motherfuckers they knew
Speaker 1: how to deliver. No, but you know how you like
Speaker 1: you fix it like you know how you You hear
Speaker 1: somebody throw a verse out and you're like, nah, this
Speaker 1: goes over here, change take that out like you guys
Speaker 1: already know your pros. Yeah, I remember when he remember
Speaker 1: I remember when he when he when he said that
Speaker 1: he didn't know that he hadn't heard the Bill Cosby
Speaker 1: joke before about about his son becoming a star football player,
Speaker 1: Like that's no fucking wor you didn't hear that joke before?
Speaker 1: So I worked on that. Wait a minute, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go so wait wait, wait, time out, time out,
Speaker 1: hold on. So he said, want to be jokes man?
Speaker 1: Straight how it robbed him without a gun straight up him.
Speaker 1: We're talking about loan joke. We're talking about like a
Speaker 1: little quick We're talking about a loan jo the whole joke,
Speaker 1: talking about three minute joke. Come here, I teach him
Speaker 1: to play football and then at the end, Hi momo.
Speaker 1: It's the joke. It's the joke where he talked about
Speaker 1: teaching his son how to play football from Dave from
Speaker 1: from two years old, going going into pee wee, going
Speaker 1: into high school, college, then the Pros, and then they
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and he says, Mom, ha, mom,
Speaker 1: you know that I'm working on that special, right. I
Speaker 1: go up to the other writers, I go up to
Speaker 1: his agent, I go up to his manager, and I go,
Speaker 1: he can't do that joke. Huh, I go, I go,
Speaker 1: I go, we gotta talk to him. We're gonna film.
Speaker 1: We're already gonna film that night in San Francisco at
Speaker 1: the I think we're at the war for the war Field,
Speaker 1: and I go the special, the special. So I pull
Speaker 1: all the team together. I go, I go, that's Bill
Speaker 1: Cosby's joke. Oh no, I go, I go. We can't
Speaker 1: let him do it. Do not let him do it.
Speaker 1: So then we have a meeting agents, managers, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: They tell men see Ned, his name is Ned. They
Speaker 1: tell Ned. They go, hey, man, um, you know, let's
Speaker 1: not do that joke. And he defended himself. He's like,
Speaker 1: I fun that I wrote that joke. And we're like
Speaker 1: you know, I don't care if you wrote it or not,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Sure ship, he starts doing it. So
Speaker 1: in the edit room that got edited out first, Well,
Speaker 1: they re release an unedited version. Joe Rogan calls him
Speaker 1: out that joke's on there and to me, that was
Speaker 1: the nail and the coffin for him, everything's coffin, nail shut.
Speaker 1: Now they can't open their back up. I don't think
Speaker 1: so man. You know, well, he I think he will
Speaker 1: be able to do small venues because he does have
Speaker 1: I guess the following. He has a following, but Arena, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the Arena ship is over. But yeah, but how
Speaker 1: do you dudes feel about TikTok? Now? Like TikTok, people
Speaker 1: are doing my bits and becoming influencers by doing my bits,
Speaker 1: so they're getting paid. You should bang TikTok. You can't. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can, but that's a hard one because it sells tickets.
Speaker 1: What they're doing is that that like he's saying that
Speaker 1: taking the Joe some rearranging and changing a little, this,
Speaker 1: a little that, my bit. They're gonna stroke for stroke,
Speaker 1: joke for joke, my bit, and they pant a moment.
Speaker 1: You know, these dude yeah, but you know what you know.
Speaker 1: But you know what TikTok could do. TikTok could put
Speaker 1: a disclaimer on there every time every time somebody does
Speaker 1: a voice over like that, they could put a disclaimer
Speaker 1: saying who it is. They could do that, just like
Speaker 1: they do with music. If you play somebody's music, it
Speaker 1: shows the the song up there at the time of
Speaker 1: the title. And so this is something, this is the
Speaker 1: fight that that you guys should take on as comedians
Speaker 1: because because they are messing with your lives. Tiffany Howes,
Speaker 1: she's starting to do it. Uh there, she's starting to
Speaker 1: fight with that and saying, hey, how are we not
Speaker 1: getting paid for these clips? Right? It's it's our it's
Speaker 1: our property. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. You can,
Speaker 1: you can, you can. But the average person look at
Speaker 1: it like, oh, it's just funny. It's funny, but they
Speaker 1: don't realize it's our art. It's yeah, you know, It's
Speaker 1: like I told my wife, you know, when I first
Speaker 1: met her, she would read magazines in the grocery store
Speaker 1: aisle and put them back and I said, baby, buy it,
Speaker 1: buy it. It's three dollars. Just but I just wanted
Speaker 1: to read that one thing. How do somebody gets paid
Speaker 1: to write that? Uh? Just buy it. It's three dollars, man,
Speaker 1: you know. And now she has a different attitude where
Speaker 1: she's like, you know what, you're right, like, I will
Speaker 1: buy it because it's gonna go away. So at first
Speaker 1: she was Captain Evil and then she's still Captain Evil.
Speaker 1: She se Trovigno and captain how did that podcast come
Speaker 1: to be? And Captain Evil that's what he called his wife.
Speaker 1: You know. I called her Captain Evil and my relatable special.
Speaker 1: That ship stuck. We sell merchandise, Captain Evil merchandise. It
Speaker 1: fucking kills. And man, the pandemic hit and I had been,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I've been on the roads, and
Speaker 1: I was twenty full time, forty six weeks a year.
Speaker 1: You know. The pandemic hits, and I'm sitting at home,
Speaker 1: you know. And and man, I never had dealt with depression.
Speaker 1: I got depressed. I used to talk about depressed people.
Speaker 1: I used to be like, man, get the funk up,
Speaker 1: go to work. I should ain't really right, dude. That
Speaker 1: ship hit me. I mean, I don't want to leave
Speaker 1: my bed. Man and my wife came in. Thank God
Speaker 1: for my wife and she was like, this, ain't you.
Speaker 1: She's like, stop being a bit, get the funk up,
Speaker 1: let's do something. Did she she use those words, so
Speaker 1: let's do something? And I said no, she said, don't
Speaker 1: be a bit. She said this ain't you because she
Speaker 1: knows me. I'm a motivated motherfucker man, and she was
Speaker 1: like this, ain't you. Stop being a bitch. It's called
Speaker 1: let's do something. I go, what the funk you want
Speaker 1: me to do? And she's, well, we gotta do something.
Speaker 1: So we started this. Uh, I'm a big sports fan.
Speaker 1: So there's the part of the interruption, you know that
Speaker 1: show two minutes topics. We started doing part in the
Speaker 1: bitching and she would get to pick something a bit
Speaker 1: about and I would get pick something a bit about,
Speaker 1: and then we'd bitch and we would go live on Facebook.
Speaker 1: And then before you know it, man, we were getting
Speaker 1: you know, thousands and thousands of yews and we're like, well,
Speaker 1: we gotta do this every week. So through the start
Speaker 1: doing the sports comedy. Sports marriage and comedy is yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: came up with that. That's when I came up with
Speaker 1: the sports marriage and comedy because I'm such a sports
Speaker 1: fan and I love talking about marriage and comedy, so
Speaker 1: we put it together. We had a deal with NFL
Speaker 1: Network that we're still trying to work out. Um, but
Speaker 1: the podcast for me. And it's crazy that people come
Speaker 1: up to me the day and they go, I got
Speaker 1: I got through the pandemic because of you and your wife.
Speaker 1: We were able to watch every Wednesday or every Friday.
Speaker 1: You guys would put your episode out and that helped
Speaker 1: us get through the pandemic. And I'm like, you helped
Speaker 1: us get through the pandemic. You helped me because I
Speaker 1: was done. Man, I was depressed. I was unhappy, you
Speaker 1: know how sad. You know, I wasn't even a good dad.
Speaker 1: I want a good husband because man, I'm taking the
Speaker 1: stage away from me and I used to talk ship. Man,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, you know what, one of these days
Speaker 1: I'll retire. I don't need the stage. And after that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't ever retiree. I love the stage
Speaker 1: too much. I love to create too much. I love
Speaker 1: to be on stage too much. The quarantine is over
Speaker 1: right now for at least for the time being. So
Speaker 1: are you still doing my life in quarantine? We we
Speaker 1: filled my life in quarantine. We just filmed um I
Speaker 1: speak wife. That's another thing too, man. Me and my
Speaker 1: wife decided to produce all our own ship. You know
Speaker 1: once I once I got the special on Showtime and
Speaker 1: I and I only own thirty and it's when it clicked,
Speaker 1: I gotta I got my first royalty check from Grandpa
Speaker 1: Joe's son from Showtime, and it was a fatass check.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait a minute, this is only what's
Speaker 1: the seventy I need to own this ship. So my
Speaker 1: next special, Relatable, we filmed in Corpus Christie every penny
Speaker 1: I had. Man, when I was done filming that special,
Speaker 1: me and my wife together had four dollars. We put
Speaker 1: everything we had. That was our wedding money. We were
Speaker 1: going to use that money for our wedding. And I
Speaker 1: convinced the wife. I said, fuget will self produce, and
Speaker 1: we threw every fucking penny we had. Man not to
Speaker 1: mention the ticket sales money had to go towards production too.
Speaker 1: So we left that day with four dollars. I said, baby,
Speaker 1: this has to work. We gotta get this ship to work.
Speaker 1: It hits Netflix, nothing happens, I don't sell another fucking ticket.
Speaker 1: That's what I told the wife. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta let people know it's there. And we started
Speaker 1: doing these little clips with with the punchline on it,
Speaker 1: you know, and then boom viral. And when I tell
Speaker 1: you viral, I would refresh my Facebook and then every
Speaker 1: time I'd refreshed, they were coming in by the It
Speaker 1: was crazy. Man. That video today has a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty seventy million views. On one of those videos, there's
Speaker 1: four versions of it all my we we calculated the
Speaker 1: other day all my videos together have a billion views
Speaker 1: with a B And that's what changed my life. And
Speaker 1: I tell you all the time. So I was headlining
Speaker 1: and I'm making you know bucks for the week, you know,
Speaker 1: which ain't bad, right, I call up the Improv. I
Speaker 1: started going viral. I call up the Improv and bray,
Speaker 1: I'm living in l A. I tell the manager. I'm like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: can I have a Wednesday? And he's like, same deal? Like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not the same deal because on Wednesdays he'd give
Speaker 1: me two hundred bucks. I said, I can have a
Speaker 1: door deal. Here's here's last time you were here. Man,
Speaker 1: we papered the room. You sold nine tickets. Last time
Speaker 1: you were there nine exactly. Are you sure you don't
Speaker 1: want the two hundreds? I I go, now, man, I'll
Speaker 1: take the door. It sold out in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Forty five minutes, we sold every ticket. We added another
Speaker 1: show Wednesday night. I ended up selling out two shows
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday night, made more money and that night
Speaker 1: that I hadn't made in a year, and my life
Speaker 1: changed forever. That's it. That's hilarious. Tell us about helicopters
Speaker 1: for heroes. Man, my dad's Vietnam bat, my dad desperate,
Speaker 1: and and A's and and as a Latino man, as
Speaker 1: a Mexicano, you know, um, and people always trip out
Speaker 1: because they're like, man, your favorite comedian was Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, but I relate more to black people
Speaker 1: than I do white people. And I'm not being racist.
Speaker 1: I just I just do you know comic wise, right?
Speaker 1: And when I was coming up, there were no Latino comedians.
Speaker 1: It was just Paul Rodriguez, you know, I remember, and
Speaker 1: now ships all sucked up, But I remember I wanted
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby to be my dad. You know when you
Speaker 1: watched the Cosby shows, like man, I wish that was
Speaker 1: my dad. You know what I mean, Ummerica's favorite dad.
Speaker 1: So how is that sucked up? Won't Bill Coomy to
Speaker 1: be your dad? Well, because now he's now he's a
Speaker 1: fucking convicted you know. Uh Jello, Uh she puts a
Speaker 1: little h but but but you know, when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, you know, that's who I related to it.
Speaker 1: As a Latino, we didn't have any comedians and we
Speaker 1: still don't. That's what's sucking trippy, y'all? Do who we got?
Speaker 1: George Ship? Yeah, dude, that's still go the jokes wine?
Speaker 1: What about cheat? Cheach is in the stand up But
Speaker 1: we'll take him, you know what, for the sake of
Speaker 1: the conversation, will take him cheat. We got three he
Speaker 1: wouldn't know man so so now named black comics, it's
Speaker 1: still right. So as a Latino, as Latino growing up,
Speaker 1: that was my influence, you know, was was um what
Speaker 1: now I got off track? Was the original question? You know,
Speaker 1: So as a Latino and having my dad, my dad
Speaker 1: loves this country, man, I mean, my dad fucking loves
Speaker 1: this country. And fourth of July he puts his flag out,
Speaker 1: you know, and he served in Vietnam. You know, my
Speaker 1: dad desperately wanted me to serve I broke my back
Speaker 1: in high school. I wasn't able to serve how football
Speaker 1: play football. I got spired in the back. You didn't
Speaker 1: break it. Your opponent broke in the back, and that
Speaker 1: spirit in the back when you paralyzed. I was not paralyzed,
Speaker 1: but it shattered my lumbar five, which is the connector.
Speaker 1: You got your spine, and then you got a connector.
Speaker 1: That connector was broken. Always I'm always in pain. Hamstrings
Speaker 1: leg forty two. Yep, it's gonna really get sucked up around. No,
Speaker 1: I'm already getting there. We're getting close. When it's cold,
Speaker 1: I'm fucked. Man. I gotta have that hot tub at home.
Speaker 1: I got getting a hot tub. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: my dad wanted me to serve. I couldn't serve. I
Speaker 1: always felt like he was really bummed about it, you know.
Speaker 1: So now I serve in other ways. I raised money,
Speaker 1: you know, um with Helicopters for Heroes, which is my organization.
Speaker 1: We're volunteer and what we do is we raise the
Speaker 1: money and then organizations come to us and they pitched
Speaker 1: to us why we should give them our money. This year,
Speaker 1: we picked one from right here in Houston. They're called
Speaker 1: us vets um. And by the way, again going back
Speaker 1: to the black and Latino thing. You know, blacks and
Speaker 1: Latinos have served this country since the very first war
Speaker 1: this country ever had. You know, we love this country, man,
Speaker 1: we we we died for this country. Are people, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's another reason I'm involved with veterans because a
Speaker 1: lot of us are Latino and black. Man. And the
Speaker 1: guy that runs US vets he takes veterans off the
Speaker 1: streets and he because they're homeless. One and one and
Speaker 1: every nine homeless people in your city right now is
Speaker 1: a veteran and he grabs them, gives him a home,
Speaker 1: rehabilitates them, get some a job, and put them back
Speaker 1: into into society. And he has an eight percent success
Speaker 1: rate right here in Houston. So we're gonna be writing
Speaker 1: us US vets man. If you ever get a chance,
Speaker 1: go visit these dudes. Man. They got a spot right
Speaker 1: here in Houston, and it's an old hotel that they
Speaker 1: have turned into a halfway house between the streets and
Speaker 1: getting them their apartment. I went and visited them. I
Speaker 1: helped him feed him last actually last time I was
Speaker 1: in town. That's how I met the dude. I'm always
Speaker 1: looking for for something in the town that I go
Speaker 1: to where I could help out. And I met this dude.
Speaker 1: I saw what he was doing, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: you need better ship. You know, this dude's in old
Speaker 1: travel in you know, in the hood. You know it's
Speaker 1: got Yeah, Man, you need money? How can I help?
Speaker 1: So this year already, man, we're at almost eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars raised. And last year last year I raised
Speaker 1: half a million man d dollars in two days. We
Speaker 1: all year, we raised all year. You know we got
Speaker 1: in year new year last year, right, right? So so,
Speaker 1: uh going back to your dad, uh serving having faithfully
Speaker 1: served this country, being a proud American. First of all,
Speaker 1: are you first a second generation? I am? It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of complicated. I am. I am my dad's family
Speaker 1: in Texas generations. My great great grandmother was born in Portland,
Speaker 1: Texas in the eight hundreds. Um the panyard side, which
Speaker 1: is my mom. My mom has nine brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1: The three youngest ones were born in the States. All
Speaker 1: the other six were born in Mexico. So, and I
Speaker 1: always making fun of my mom. I'm like, hey, Mom,
Speaker 1: you're a wet backman. And she's like, she's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're Theos and theaz are I'm not. I'm not they
Speaker 1: are they are right? Um? But so, so your father
Speaker 1: was born in the US. Yes, my father born in
Speaker 1: the US. His father born in the US, his grandfather
Speaker 1: born in the US. So, having faithfully served this country,
Speaker 1: how did your father feel when you had people in
Speaker 1: this country saying build the wall and stopped to stop
Speaker 1: other Mexican people from coming. He uh, he and my
Speaker 1: mom are not very political, you know. And I asked
Speaker 1: him the same question, you know, I said, hey, dad,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you feel about that? And
Speaker 1: my dad says, he goes, I worry about the Mexican
Speaker 1: Americans that are here. Is how can we how can
Speaker 1: we make sure that the Mexican Americans that are here
Speaker 1: have a better life, because I don't worry about them
Speaker 1: coming over, I worry about the ones that are here.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was a good perspective from him,
Speaker 1: to be like, look, I'm trying to bring up our
Speaker 1: people here. You know, whatever we gotta do over there,
Speaker 1: they gotta do. But right now, I'm worried about right
Speaker 1: here where I'm at right now, you know. And I
Speaker 1: have to agree with it, man, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it makes me sad. I fly first class everywhere I go.
Speaker 1: I'm not bragging, I'm proud, and it's part of the story.
Speaker 1: I always look for the other Latino in first class.
Speaker 1: I always, I always look for the other black person
Speaker 1: in first class. And ninety percent of the time I'm
Speaker 1: the only fucking brown person Latino in first class. And
Speaker 1: it makes me go, what are we doing wrong? We
Speaker 1: gotta do something different because I'm the only one in
Speaker 1: first class here, you know, and especially as a Latino too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm at you know. I go to the lounge,
Speaker 1: you know, the American Airlines lounge. I'm a member. I
Speaker 1: go in there. The only Latinos I see are serving me,
Speaker 1: Ain't none of them were Ain't none of them enjoying
Speaker 1: like me? So so what, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm always thinking, how do we change it? And by
Speaker 1: the way, that's why my stand up is the way
Speaker 1: my stand up is. I don't I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: make it about being Latino. I make it about this
Speaker 1: is my wife, my kids, my dad, my life. If
Speaker 1: you relate to us a Latinos, because I am Latino,
Speaker 1: not because I'm making it about being Latino. But you know,
Speaker 1: clearly we live in a country where there different groups
Speaker 1: experience different things, right, So when you think about comedy,
Speaker 1: in your opinion, are there you need like special challenges
Speaker 1: that Mexican Americans face that black comedians don't face being
Speaker 1: marginal groups. That's a great question. I I am not
Speaker 1: in a movie, i am not on a TV show.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times. And I'm with UT,
Speaker 1: a biggest comedy agency in the car Tree. Um My
Speaker 1: Management is a huge management company. And I used to
Speaker 1: get auditions all the time and it was always accent required.
Speaker 1: And I would walk into these auditions and they would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, you're not Mexican, And I'm like, what
Speaker 1: then does that mean? Well? Can you do this with
Speaker 1: an accent? You know? I mean I gotta I got,
Speaker 1: you know. Will and Grace came back and my my
Speaker 1: agent calls me, Steve Man. You you're going straight to producers.
Speaker 1: They think you're great. And I'm like, oh, Ship, all right,
Speaker 1: like send me the script. And it was all I
Speaker 1: was I was to play a gay Latino with an accent.
Speaker 1: And instead of Jack, I would say it said Yak
Speaker 1: with a y hey yack, you know. And so then
Speaker 1: when I would go in to pitch my TV shows,
Speaker 1: which I've had several opportunities to do, so they would
Speaker 1: look at me and go, well, how is this Mexican?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't happening out the
Speaker 1: jokes for you, but this is my life. So what
Speaker 1: So what happened when they gave you the pitch? When
Speaker 1: they gave you the pitch and say that we want
Speaker 1: you to play a gay Latino? Were you receptive of that.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. I'm sorry, I ain't doing I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put on an accent. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: make fun of my people. You know, I'm just not
Speaker 1: doing it. Put on that dress? Yeah, but but it
Speaker 1: is on a dress. No no, no, no no, but
Speaker 1: but I mean it depends. Was it a cute dress though?
Speaker 1: Was it a cute dress? But but you know, so
Speaker 1: those are the issues that as a as a Latino
Speaker 1: comedian that I deal with constantly. Is they have a
Speaker 1: box for me? You know. I was so excited to
Speaker 1: film my first special for Showtime. I called it Grandpa
Speaker 1: Joe Son. I get this opportunity, I'm like oh my god, man, like,
Speaker 1: my first ever special. It's gonna be on showtimes, will
Speaker 1: be huge. They played it for Single to Mile and
Speaker 1: that was it. They literally played it for the Single
Speaker 1: to Mile Month and then the and and their defense.
Speaker 1: They played it again in September for Mexican Heritage Month
Speaker 1: and that was it. Meanwhile, all the other dudes I
Speaker 1: filmed with that weekend, they were being aired all year long,
Speaker 1: and they put me on Seakal the Mile and they
Speaker 1: put me on on you know, and early on my career,
Speaker 1: my agents Ultraeno Man, CBS has a diversity showcase. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get you in the diversity showcase. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, I guess And I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: why do I can't they just get on a damn showcase?
Speaker 1: Well this has to be a diversity Well you gotta
Speaker 1: put me again in a box again, you know. And
Speaker 1: I can't tell how many times I walked into a
Speaker 1: studio and they go, well, we already have a Latino project.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Do you tell white people you
Speaker 1: already have a white project? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what the are you talking about? Black
Speaker 1: people still get it some but not to the extent
Speaker 1: that you gonts get it, and and and white people
Speaker 1: don't get it at all. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, I talked about this on Berk Chrisher's podcast,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I get all these
Speaker 1: comics and comments of people going, damn, dude, get over it.
Speaker 1: Maybe Mexicans aren't talented, and all kinds of ship, and oh,
Speaker 1: here we go with race card again, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's not race card, it's facts. Look it up. You know,
Speaker 1: out of out of all the movies and all the
Speaker 1: TV that was out in two thousand and eighteen, the
Speaker 1: Mexican American had only a hundred rolls, one hundred out
Speaker 1: of all of it. Not only that just put fourth perspective,
Speaker 1: how many roles were there? Thousands To put it into perspective,
Speaker 1: we were point oh five percent of on screen rolls
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eighteen, point oh five percent. Now,
Speaker 1: six of those hundred played an accent, played rapists, murderers,
Speaker 1: drug dealers, valet parkers are maids. So now you've only
Speaker 1: got forty left. That means there's only forty rolls, right,
Speaker 1: and there's only there's only very few famous Latino people.
Speaker 1: So Michael Penny, I probably got two of those roles.
Speaker 1: Sophia Vagara j Low, you know, I mean, there's only
Speaker 1: a few of us, so you know I'm not pulling
Speaker 1: the race card. I'm telling you how my life is
Speaker 1: and what I It is safe for you to play
Speaker 1: the race card any time you want. But but it's
Speaker 1: real ship. But it's real ship. You can play any
Speaker 1: you too, Willie, you too, you can play. You got
Speaker 1: all kinds of race going out here. You got too
Speaker 1: many cards because you know why we didn't invent race, right,
Speaker 1: I mean we didn't. We didn't invent race, and we
Speaker 1: definitely didn't invent race to be separated. I think that
Speaker 1: the people responsible for race period and responsible for separating
Speaker 1: race to allow us to play that race card any
Speaker 1: time we want to. But that's what I love. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean. To say that they should allow us
Speaker 1: to play the car would be like asking for probition.
Speaker 1: We just do just race card right now. But but
Speaker 1: that's what I love about, you know. I always tell
Speaker 1: people like you know, I didn't feel racism growing up
Speaker 1: in Texas until I moved to California. And when I
Speaker 1: moved to California, Black people here, Asian people here, white
Speaker 1: people here, Latinos here, and I go, man, growing up
Speaker 1: in Texas, we're just Texans, and nobody gave a funk,
Speaker 1: at least where I grew up. You know, nobody. Well, Houston,
Speaker 1: they give a funk. But it's still it's still, it's
Speaker 1: still a very a melting pie here though it's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's me, but let the powers that be
Speaker 1: give a fuck. Well, I mean, and that's what would
Speaker 1: bump me out right, because I'd be like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: when I'm getting standing innovations in the o R at
Speaker 1: the comedy store, nobody else's you know, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: touring the I'm not even right now. Man. I got
Speaker 1: I got one point three million followers on Facebook right now.
Speaker 1: I got almost a million on TikTok. I got, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a successful podcast, my specials do well. I
Speaker 1: don't have a deal. You don't have a deal. I
Speaker 1: don't have a deal. I don't have a TV show.
Speaker 1: I don't have you know. And it's like it's and
Speaker 1: I assure you if I played the vacto, if I
Speaker 1: walked on stage and played the a what's up? Bro.
Speaker 1: You know, I assure you, because it's all about formula. Right,
Speaker 1: we all know formulas, and we see the formulas and
Speaker 1: the patterns. Right. Four Latinos have ever been on HBO
Speaker 1: four All right, Carlo's Vencia, Paul Rodrigez, George Lopez, and
Speaker 1: Felippez Parza. They all have the exact same things in common.
Speaker 1: They're all from Los Angeles, they all grew up on
Speaker 1: welfare with immigrant parents. They all have an accent. It's
Speaker 1: they're all the same. But when they see a texting
Speaker 1: like me in South Texan, like me who wears cowboy
Speaker 1: boots and jeans and a T shirt, they don't know
Speaker 1: what the funk? I am comedian? You dressed like a comedian.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a comment. You know. You may have
Speaker 1: to just I have to. Just you fund it, mad,
Speaker 1: fund that ship yourself because and I'm happy because because
Speaker 1: they're there are a lot of platforms out there that
Speaker 1: are begging for content they need, and they're competing for content.
Speaker 1: And you shoot your own ship and then you put
Speaker 1: it in their face and it'll be a lot easier
Speaker 1: for them to pick it up once they see it,
Speaker 1: as opposed to them trying to envision that your vision is,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what we've been doing. Yeah, And I'm
Speaker 1: happy to do it and I love doing it. And
Speaker 1: I have a great life, and I have a great career,
Speaker 1: and I have this beer, and and that was my goal,
Speaker 1: you know when I when Another reason the podcast to
Speaker 1: me is important because me and my wife are on
Speaker 1: this podcast. She's Latina, I'm Latino, and we're able to
Speaker 1: show the world who we are for real, no stereotypes,
Speaker 1: no bullshit, no no, uh can you have an accent?
Speaker 1: Which just us right. So I just keep doing it
Speaker 1: myself and I love doing it myself. Do your wife
Speaker 1: ever get mad at you when you tell jokes about it,
Speaker 1: because she is like, you know, the sin to many
Speaker 1: of your jokes. She she's never been upset with me.
Speaker 1: And I did one thing and she goes up to me.
Speaker 1: She was, that's the most disgusting ship, she was, don't
Speaker 1: do it right. And I would I would say that
Speaker 1: when when we were delivering our baby, that the doctor
Speaker 1: would come in and go, and she was like, that's
Speaker 1: the most disgusting ship. She was, don't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: She people think it's gross, right, And the nurse would
Speaker 1: come in. But that's what I'm saying. And my wife
Speaker 1: was like, that's it. Don't do that ship, what's what
Speaker 1: is that noise symbolize? What is that? Well, you know
Speaker 1: it's all wet down there. Thank you the Peanut Gallery,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Sound like sound like the sound again.
Speaker 1: Don't do that again. You know where you know where
Speaker 1: I got that from when we were when we were
Speaker 1: a kids. When we were kids, you grab somebody's head
Speaker 1: and go right and then you start fighting. That's where
Speaker 1: we got it from. When we were kids. You grab somebody. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: what's up? Are you moving? Touching me there? To thank
Speaker 1: you for coming on the show. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: tell you, man, how influential you guys are on my life.
Speaker 1: And when when I got when you guys reached out, man,
Speaker 1: it tripped me out because you know, like I said, man,
Speaker 1: Joey was like, dude, listen to this ship. And as
Speaker 1: I got older, man, y'all's lyrics are I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you guys lyrically are are the best. I mean again,
Speaker 1: really diving deep into you hear minus playing tricks on
Speaker 1: me and talking all the stuff you guys talking about.
Speaker 1: It's like wow, man, Wow, I mean, and I don't
Speaker 1: think people realize, you know. I think every a lot
Speaker 1: of people got introduced to you guys because of office space,
Speaker 1: you know. But when we were kids and where I
Speaker 1: grew up in Corpus Christie, Granted, Portland, we were all
Speaker 1: listening to you guys daily. You know. But then as
Speaker 1: you get older and you start listening to the lyrics,
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, man, Like that ship is deep, man,
Speaker 1: and you gotta be smart to come up with that ship.
Speaker 1: And you got you know, like I said, I think
Speaker 1: hit my time. I mean Notorious Dougs. It's a really
Speaker 1: great song with bone thugs and harmony. And then bring
Speaker 1: it on and minus playing tricks on me? Is is
Speaker 1: way up there for me? Man, Because and that's then
Speaker 1: nothing about being a Texan. I'm here. I am this
Speaker 1: country boy, you know. I mean we got corn fields
Speaker 1: and ship like that. I mean, I grew up in
Speaker 1: a town of two thousand people, you know, but we
Speaker 1: were all listening. I ain't doing that ship. You got
Speaker 1: so many skeletons, Homi. I'm get divorced, for sure, get
Speaker 1: divorced for sure. Um, But you know, I just I'm
Speaker 1: so happy to be here man, And it's it's really cool.
Speaker 1: We appreciate how you dudes, man, because and hopefully you
Speaker 1: come to the show tonight. Can you can you can
Speaker 1: you make sure I get there? Absolutely? To Christ that's
Speaker 1: not good. How can people get in contact with you?
Speaker 1: Or how can they don't don't give me a phone number,
Speaker 1: but how can they get to see you? Yes? Trip
Speaker 1: you man. It's everywhere. You put Steve too in the
Speaker 1: search everywhere, Instagram and the Instagram's blown up TikTok Texas
Speaker 1: Trevino TikTok Facebook Man, I'm Texas Trevino, Texas Trevino. By
Speaker 1: the way, that was some ship. Before I even knew
Speaker 1: TikTok was gonna be, before I had fans, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just be Texas Trevino. And then now I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: stupid ship. Why did I do that? I'm glad you
Speaker 1: went with Steve. Steve, I'm glad. I'm glad. Well, my
Speaker 1: real name is at stab Yeah, that Steve name. This
Speaker 1: Steve was Steve Ghetto boys. I'm glad you went with Steve.
Speaker 1: Here's how trippy it is, Steve, yes too. I didn't
Speaker 1: know so when I was a little kid, when I
Speaker 1: was living around like Copus Area. No, he lived in baytam.
Speaker 1: When I was a little kid, I was always Steve, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was too. Then I when I go to school,
Speaker 1: they're like and I'm like, man, who then is this
Speaker 1: there's another Threno here? What are the fun And they
Speaker 1: were like is that your name? And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, right, I'm Steve. So then so then my
Speaker 1: dad's apparently my mom made me a step on. My
Speaker 1: dad hated it, so he was like, fuck you bitch,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him Steve. So he always called me Steve.
Speaker 1: They're divorced now, as you can imagine, and he always
Speaker 1: call me Steve. So you know, I was only Steve.
Speaker 1: But I was the best part about it is and
Speaker 1: not anymore. But if I got a phone call and
Speaker 1: they're like can we speak with a step And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, that dude ain't here. That's some legal let
Speaker 1: Steve's here. He's good. But that is step On. Guy's
Speaker 1: been sucking up. Well you said aoutful man. Steve's here
Speaker 1: and he's good. Thank you for having me. Absolutely, that's
Speaker 1: a wrap, y'all funny as fun mmmm. This episode was
Speaker 1: produced by Aching and brought to you by The Black
Speaker 1: Effect Podcast Network and i Heart Radio