Speaker 1: Hey Ze, Maddie, what's up ful? I get it? Yeah, alright, Uh,
Speaker 1: what do you know about Felipe Sparza? Thank the commedia
Speaker 1: and he's funny and he's on all things comedy. Did
Speaker 1: you also know that he won last Comic Standing? Did
Speaker 1: you also know that he's sober and sobriety is a
Speaker 1: big part of his life in his comedy. Well, then
Speaker 1: you better listen today because we're talking to Felipe Sparza,
Speaker 1: host of What's Up Fool. So, Felipe, welcome to Access podcast, buddy,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on podcast. Thank you man. I'm
Speaker 1: glad to talk to you, and I was glad to
Speaker 1: listen to your show today because, uh, what's up full?
Speaker 1: It made me feel good and relaxed. And the reason
Speaker 1: I was feeling up tight is just I was on
Speaker 1: social media and uh, I got you know, I made
Speaker 1: the mistake of like engaging and that's always like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's always bad news. I could take up your whole
Speaker 1: day it is, you know, And I noticed that, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't get political on on at least that I
Speaker 1: can see from social on social media, is that something
Speaker 1: you try to, you know, stay away from in general?
Speaker 1: Or um you know, do you feel like you dress
Speaker 1: all that with your comedy sometimes you know, um, we
Speaker 1: say something in the podcast that's political but not too political. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't take sizes which I attack both sides. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, one of the things that's
Speaker 1: it's great about your show is that you keep it
Speaker 1: like today, I was listening to the first episode. I
Speaker 1: know a podcast is good, what I want to jump
Speaker 1: in and I'm like, I'm trying to engage in the
Speaker 1: conversation with my headphones on, and you guys are you
Speaker 1: were talking about Dukes of Hazzard and I was just
Speaker 1: and I was going off because I used to get
Speaker 1: so angry that they used code names. He'd be like
Speaker 1: Shepherd a lost sheep. But with Luke, are you there?
Speaker 1: And it's like, why the fund do you use a
Speaker 1: code name when you say their name right after it
Speaker 1: uncle Jesse? I know, right, like uh the right, because
Speaker 1: Shepherd is uh lost, Shepherd is Uncle Jessing, lost, Sheep
Speaker 1: is Daisy Duke and those two guys I forgot who
Speaker 1: they were. Yeah, yeah, And there was just you guys
Speaker 1: got into this conversation and then it ended up going
Speaker 1: about like what was on TV on CBS at the time,
Speaker 1: and you know, for people from a certain generation. For me,
Speaker 1: I was, I was so engaged in it, and like
Speaker 1: I said, I needed that. Today I listened to and
Speaker 1: I was like, you see, this is the this is
Speaker 1: this is what I missed from social media, and this
Speaker 1: is what I missed from media in general. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like it's light enough anymore. And like, I don't
Speaker 1: hear these kind of cool pop culture conversations I know,
Speaker 1: every pop political Like even if you're talking about Star Wars. Oh,
Speaker 1: I like the old Star Wars, but then didn't put
Speaker 1: any African Americans in it or Mexican American actors, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And then people start talking about,
Speaker 1: oh man, I love Start Wars before Disney owned it,
Speaker 1: and then he go, then didn't did it throws into
Speaker 1: a topic about Jewish people. It is um yeah, it
Speaker 1: is insane how everything gets gets so politicized. And um,
Speaker 1: I mean, is that something you you really strive for
Speaker 1: to do on the show, is to keep it light
Speaker 1: or you know, or is that just that's just naturally
Speaker 1: who you are. I think that's naturally who I am.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, Like I remember my mom and dad,
Speaker 1: like during that when they were growing when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, you know, we had they had a Bush,
Speaker 1: not not Bush. They had not a Reagan as president
Speaker 1: and then Bush. But I don't remember my mom and
Speaker 1: dad ever talking about bad about Reagan or talking bad
Speaker 1: about Bush, because all they did is go home, go work,
Speaker 1: come back home, go work, come back home. I don't
Speaker 1: think they ever even had time to open the news.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to know about the news. They want
Speaker 1: to be entertained. So my parents would already watch Spanish
Speaker 1: um comedy like these a comedians from Mexico. So we
Speaker 1: grew up watching those shows. But my mom and dad
Speaker 1: never spoke to us about like mikhole, you better run
Speaker 1: home tonight, because on a regulars president reporting a lot
Speaker 1: of people. We never got into the topics like that
Speaker 1: because we just my mom and dad, you went to work.
Speaker 1: They never like sat down and talked to him about
Speaker 1: anything political. So and then we were kids, we didn't
Speaker 1: talk about political stuff. I think the only political joke
Speaker 1: ever had was when my seventh grade or sixth grade
Speaker 1: teacher she asked us, um, why is there a conflict?
Speaker 1: And I ran and Iraq, you know, why are they fighting?
Speaker 1: Why is there a war between them and I don't
Speaker 1: know why they were fighting. I'm a kid, so I said,
Speaker 1: the reason they're fighting is because for years, for years
Speaker 1: I ran and Iraq couldn't this side and how to
Speaker 1: end the the lettering and the spelling of the country.
Speaker 1: I ran and said, no, we need to end our
Speaker 1: country with the end, and the rack said no, it
Speaker 1: ends with a queue. So they want a war over
Speaker 1: Q and n see. Do you think that you know
Speaker 1: with your your your parents are immigrants from Mexico and
Speaker 1: reading a lot about you know, translate this, You're you're special.
Speaker 1: A lot of that is you know about translating, you
Speaker 1: know for your parents. Do you feel that because you
Speaker 1: know when they came and they're just working to get by,
Speaker 1: which is kind of what you were saying that you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's less time to worry about all the other
Speaker 1: stuff when you're just trying to worry about making sure
Speaker 1: your kids are you know, everything's taken care of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot less time to worry about because
Speaker 1: there's no social media back and we're not put this way.
Speaker 1: We're all informed now, everybody knows everything. There's nothing too
Speaker 1: high now, you know, maybe it's a bad thing that
Speaker 1: we all know what's going on, you know, or it's
Speaker 1: a good thing, you know. I like that everybody knows
Speaker 1: what's going on, But now there's more fights because of
Speaker 1: what everybody knows what's going on. Like when I was,
Speaker 1: like I would say, like fifteen years ago, we probably
Speaker 1: would have not known anything about the judge from Alabama
Speaker 1: running for senator. We would have never known that. Only
Speaker 1: the people in um Alabama and Mississippi and stal would
Speaker 1: have known that. That story would have not ever been
Speaker 1: publicized growing up because it's not interesting enough. We probably
Speaker 1: would have it probably never made it to the National
Speaker 1: Enquired because the National Enquired and that was the only
Speaker 1: magazine that that actually had fake news, you know, alternative
Speaker 1: alternative facts. You know, uf im pregnant a woman in
Speaker 1: New York City. Now that that kind of loose ice
Speaker 1: to here growing up. So when you one of the
Speaker 1: things that I've I've always said about my friends who
Speaker 1: were Mexican American and I'm from Appalachia, so I'm from
Speaker 1: like small town, poor West Virginia, and I've always said
Speaker 1: that people from a yeah, man, the two things that
Speaker 1: I always found in common was this these storytelling abilities,
Speaker 1: and and and being funny at doing it because I
Speaker 1: knew where I grew up that was that was entertainment.
Speaker 1: You know, if somebody went to the store, they tell
Speaker 1: you a twenty five minute story about it. Do you
Speaker 1: think that you know your culture and it's helpful when
Speaker 1: it comes to doing something long form like doing a
Speaker 1: podcast work. I mean it is basically storytelling and and
Speaker 1: and swapping stories back and forth. Man. Well, when I
Speaker 1: first always stand up, I think it's um storytelling. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's a natural gift. I mean, some people don't
Speaker 1: know how to tell a story without saying, man, you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna believe this ship. Most of the most of
Speaker 1: the great stories I've ever heard started at this, Man,
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna believe this ship. And most of the
Speaker 1: time I don't believe it. But Um, as a stand
Speaker 1: up comedian, I was afraid, afraid to get personal and
Speaker 1: talk to the audience. I never knew. It took me
Speaker 1: years of failure em bombing to finally like talk to
Speaker 1: the audience or get off the script and not do
Speaker 1: the stand up comedy. I was afraid because I was
Speaker 1: my favorite comedian with Ronnie Dangerfield and George Carlin, Richard Pryor,
Speaker 1: Power Rodriguez, those comedians. Man, I've never seen him get
Speaker 1: up of the script. The Dangerfield never said anything political
Speaker 1: on stage, or or anything close to a political view.
Speaker 1: He just wrote jokes like one joke after another, Stephen
Speaker 1: Wright another one, just one joke after another, Mitch Hebert
Speaker 1: another one, one joke after another. I think, um the
Speaker 1: closest to anybody that's coming up and being free and
Speaker 1: talking about stuff with Richard Pryor. But then again, and
Speaker 1: that was an act, you know, he made it into
Speaker 1: an act with thanks to Paul Mooney, who pretty much
Speaker 1: wrote half of his act. But I'm shy. I grew
Speaker 1: up shy, so I I would stay to the script.
Speaker 1: But it took me, like I was saying, in the
Speaker 1: last seven years of struggling to write new material and
Speaker 1: forcing myself to be more personal and talk. And I've
Speaker 1: always I've always been I guess I've always been a
Speaker 1: great storyteller. But I had I did not know, because
Speaker 1: I would talk at any meetings, you know, narcotage anonymous
Speaker 1: or alcoholic anonymous. When I was going to the meetings,
Speaker 1: I remember talking for thirty five minutes and half of
Speaker 1: it was hilarious, But I didn't know that I was
Speaker 1: doing a stand up comedy. But I just felt that
Speaker 1: I was just opening up with my about myself, because
Speaker 1: I remember telling somebody a story at Denny's, a comedian
Speaker 1: named Willie barsenna and gave reglets. Yes, I said that
Speaker 1: one time, this this guy came to my house and
Speaker 1: he wanted to buy cocaine crack. But I wasn't selling
Speaker 1: crack cocaine out of my house. You know. He found
Speaker 1: out where I lived, so he came knocked into my
Speaker 1: house looking for crack, and I was gonna beat his
Speaker 1: ass first of all for going to my house, Like,
Speaker 1: who invalued you? But I have no crack and I
Speaker 1: would never sell it out of my house. He said,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have any money, you know, And
Speaker 1: I told him I don't have any cracks. I don't
Speaker 1: have He had money, but I had no crack. So no,
Speaker 1: he had no money to buy crack and I had
Speaker 1: no crack. So I told him, why are you at
Speaker 1: my house if you have no money to buy crack?
Speaker 1: And you know I don't stut crack out of this house.
Speaker 1: I thought, maybe because loan me the money. I say,
Speaker 1: why loan you the money. Loan you the money so
Speaker 1: you can go buy crack from someone else. So I
Speaker 1: thought that was a crazy, crazier proposition right there. But
Speaker 1: I told him this, all right, man, give me sixty
Speaker 1: I'll give you sixty dollars bills if you loan me
Speaker 1: your car for the whole night. So you know, I
Speaker 1: gave him sixty dollars out of my pocket. He loaned
Speaker 1: me his car. He wouldn't go buy crack somewhere else.
Speaker 1: And I drove his car, and I was drunk when
Speaker 1: he gave him the keys. Like you see these commercials
Speaker 1: about don't drink and drive and then you hand the
Speaker 1: keys over to a friend. Well, this guy handed his
Speaker 1: keys over to us, to a drunk man. So I
Speaker 1: got his car. Me and my friends wanted to go
Speaker 1: to Vendor's Beach at midnight. We never made it. I
Speaker 1: total the car. I crashed the car. It was a
Speaker 1: seventy one Cherry and Palla and I total there, bro
Speaker 1: I mean I crashed hard, and I left the car
Speaker 1: in the freeway and walked out of there with like
Speaker 1: with blood on my hand. And my friend, now we're
Speaker 1: holy nacho cheese. But nachos and when I when we crashed,
Speaker 1: their head almost went to the windshield. But what stopped
Speaker 1: them before they hit Their head hit the windshield, their
Speaker 1: face hit the natural cheese and Halle penuls first little
Speaker 1: blind h by Hala penels. You know I left his
Speaker 1: car there. The next day he comes to my house
Speaker 1: looking for the car, and I told them, listen, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know we've crashed your car. You gave your
Speaker 1: card to a drug man. I don't know who your
Speaker 1: car is. Right now, here's your keys. Here's another sixty.
Speaker 1: But deal over. So I gave the sixty dollars and
Speaker 1: I give his car keys back and that was the
Speaker 1: end of the story. That's it. It's closed. He should
Speaker 1: have come later on to ask for more money. And
Speaker 1: I thought, listen, man, we made a deal to deal
Speaker 1: was done. You know, you loan your car with no
Speaker 1: insurance to a guy who's drunk. I see this guy
Speaker 1: ten years later at a narcotics a noon of his meeting,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling a story. And after the after the meeting,
Speaker 1: he told me Philippe, I'm the guy who borrowed that car.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm also in recovery. I'm A. I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a proud friend of Bill w and I have
Speaker 1: often said that if they could put cameras and meetings,
Speaker 1: especially in some of the meetings that I've been in
Speaker 1: in l A and Oakland. I mean, that would be
Speaker 1: like the most watched, funniest TV show you ever saw.
Speaker 1: That should be a show that the A the A
Speaker 1: podcast or Friends of Bill podcast and everybody just speaks
Speaker 1: annaly in a microphone. It would be great. I I
Speaker 1: agree with you A because um, you know, and unlet's
Speaker 1: and you're just talking about like being on this. You know,
Speaker 1: I I spent a lot of my radio career doing
Speaker 1: mornings and being the drunk guy and the guy that
Speaker 1: came on and told you the outrageously awful thing I
Speaker 1: did when I was drunk. But when I got sober,
Speaker 1: you know, even just bring it up right now, I
Speaker 1: still had that moment of hesitation, that little worry because
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just you know, I'm still I still
Speaker 1: wonder you're people gonna judge me because you know I'm
Speaker 1: an alcoholic. I mean, and you're so open with it
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, but did you ever have a
Speaker 1: point where like maybe you thought maybe this isn't you
Speaker 1: know should I bring this up or should I not
Speaker 1: bring it up? Oh? Man, of course I thought about
Speaker 1: that a lot of times. Man, because am I incriminating myself?
Speaker 1: Am I gonna make myself feel like a lout? Is
Speaker 1: a loser to my to my comedy fans who don't
Speaker 1: know me, and they didn't stopped listening to me, or
Speaker 1: because I used to be this loser, But actually the
Speaker 1: honestly will grab more new people, Like I know, people
Speaker 1: gravitated to my podcast because my honesty, like some of
Speaker 1: my list don't. They didn't know it was a stand
Speaker 1: up comedian. And I noticed when podcast listeners go to
Speaker 1: stand up watch me do stand up comedy, they just
Speaker 1: sit there and they laugh a little bit to take
Speaker 1: in all the words. Yeah, I had the same experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead. If people don't know alcoholics like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you told me you're an alcoholic. Like last week,
Speaker 1: for example, my wife made them egg She was drinking
Speaker 1: an eggnog and I had an egg knog. But my
Speaker 1: eggnog had no rum, no brandy, her egg he egg,
Speaker 1: no printy Dane. You know it was. It was a
Speaker 1: good alcoholic eggnog, you know, for somebody whould like to drink.
Speaker 1: But I grabbed the wrong drink. I drank it, and
Speaker 1: then right away the alcohol hit my tongue immediately, like fired,
Speaker 1: like a strike a match, and I spit it all out.
Speaker 1: And I knew right away when she was having a drink,
Speaker 1: like the odesty of my alcoholism came out, and I
Speaker 1: told her, you know, what's the difference between you and
Speaker 1: I is that you could enjoy that eggnog and go
Speaker 1: and go go do your work. You know, you could.
Speaker 1: You could go read a book after that drink. You
Speaker 1: could go bicycally, you could go go do things. But
Speaker 1: an alcoholic like myself, I can never do that. I
Speaker 1: can never drink that and then go hiking or think
Speaker 1: about happy thoughts. That drink is gonna leave to a
Speaker 1: thousand more drinks that night, and then I'm going to
Speaker 1: disappear and I come home to two days after New
Speaker 1: Year's even. Yeah, it's the whole you know. I always
Speaker 1: tell my friends, I I play the tape out. You know,
Speaker 1: I know what, I know how the tape ends. I've
Speaker 1: got I've got banks of them, I got rooms full
Speaker 1: of them to go to like I know how what's
Speaker 1: gonna end. And I think that that that moment of
Speaker 1: fear though, when you think you're gonna drink. I still
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have them at all, but
Speaker 1: I have to have someone once in a while had
Speaker 1: the dreams where I have a drink and I wake
Speaker 1: up and panicked the ship. You think that's like, um,
Speaker 1: that that has to be like, um, what what what?
Speaker 1: I like a war wedding? What's goes through? Huh? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it from the damage broke, I would say,
Speaker 1: in some ways it is. I mean it's I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're like you know, it sounds like
Speaker 1: you were like me. So there was damage done, there
Speaker 1: was trauma, like it wasn't all pretty. I have a friend,
Speaker 1: my friend, um, my friends, one of my friends, her
Speaker 1: brother he stopped, he recovered, he's recovering right now. But
Speaker 1: he was a math head for many years and alcoholic
Speaker 1: for many years. And she was telling me that her
Speaker 1: brother he just got into stand up comedy, like he
Speaker 1: was never into stand up comedy. He just got into um,
Speaker 1: I guess he got into pants and horticulture and painting
Speaker 1: and fishing. And I was telling her that when a
Speaker 1: person stops drinking. His mind goes back to the time
Speaker 1: when he when he first had that drink, you know,
Speaker 1: when he would be it goes because you're ambitious to back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I I tell people all the time, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm living my eleven year old life because I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I do like five different jobs and and it's because
Speaker 1: I can and and you know, I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: open to all those things. Um. I didn't expect this
Speaker 1: to turn into this, but I like this because again,
Speaker 1: this just gets back to the you know, the whole
Speaker 1: idea of like being an alcoholic means if you're if
Speaker 1: you're real, you have to be honest, and you have
Speaker 1: to be honest all the time. And I think that again,
Speaker 1: that's what we're you know, I hear when I do
Speaker 1: your show, and I really um appreciate that with your
Speaker 1: comedy as well, me too. So I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you a little bit about this documentary dying laughing
Speaker 1: and I'm just you the whole idea of like I
Speaker 1: don't think people think about it about with comedians and
Speaker 1: you know, you have the one job where if you
Speaker 1: have a bad day, you get ridiculed for it or
Speaker 1: you have to face a whole room of people that
Speaker 1: are like this guy sucks. Um, I mean it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen in my job. I mean it does with radio.
Speaker 1: It's saying to some extent, but I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 1: when I have a you know, I don't go in
Speaker 1: a business meeting and and give a pitch and you know,
Speaker 1: when I'm done, nobody like stands up and tells me
Speaker 1: I suck. I know, man, when you're a radio you know,
Speaker 1: you suck when you show up and your keys don't
Speaker 1: open the studio? How is that? How have you dealt
Speaker 1: with that in your career? And it is something that
Speaker 1: still happens and bother you? Oh it does bother me.
Speaker 1: I think bombing is is something that a comedian will
Speaker 1: always carry with him in his in his life, you know.
Speaker 1: But as you bomb more, it's how you bounce back
Speaker 1: after the bombing. You know, that where the experience as
Speaker 1: a standard comedian comes down. Because when you first bombed,
Speaker 1: like my first time bombing, it hurts. It hurt a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, I just stood up there. You know, the
Speaker 1: your first time you bomb, you freeze, You stay up
Speaker 1: there and then your mouth drives up and then you
Speaker 1: go you go into a trans word, the same joke
Speaker 1: only pops up in your head like no new stuff
Speaker 1: comes up, like you can't even think about anything else
Speaker 1: to say but good night. But you stay up there.
Speaker 1: And why did you stay up there? Because you don't
Speaker 1: know how to get off. But the second time you bomb,
Speaker 1: it's it's just as worse as the first one. But
Speaker 1: now you know you gotta say good night. You say
Speaker 1: good night. But the third one you already know you're
Speaker 1: sucking up there before you start seeing yourself bombing, before
Speaker 1: the audience starts seeing your bombing, and and you don't
Speaker 1: say good night. You know. You try to fight it
Speaker 1: this time, you try to fight your way through it.
Speaker 1: On the third one, you try to fight your way
Speaker 1: through it, but you can't. You bomb again. But the
Speaker 1: fair fat six times you bomb, no one knows seventh as,
Speaker 1: twelve time, twentieth time, no one knows your bombing at all.
Speaker 1: Only you know this time. And that's the hardest bomb ever,
Speaker 1: when no one else you're bombing. No one else knows
Speaker 1: your bombing, but you know you are. Because the jokes
Speaker 1: are People are laughing at the jokes, but they're not
Speaker 1: laughing like the last show you did, and man, bombing sucks.
Speaker 1: People don't understand that, like the best. The only person
Speaker 1: that could I said it right, I'm that I'm dying
Speaker 1: up here was Mike Epps. Like, when you bomb, you know,
Speaker 1: when you bomb, you start taking a bunch of finances,
Speaker 1: he said, But as true, man, Like, the hardest bomb
Speaker 1: I ever had was in Tacoma, Washington, when I got
Speaker 1: booed off the stage and the audience member went up
Speaker 1: on stage and took the microphone away, and then I
Speaker 1: and then I said, I said something that made it
Speaker 1: we even worst. I said. Chris Rock was right, there's
Speaker 1: black people and then there's your people here to Cooma, Washington,
Speaker 1: take a good night. That's great. You know, doing comedy
Speaker 1: live it's different, I'm assuming from doing the podcast live.
Speaker 1: I love doing live podcasts, um I just because when
Speaker 1: you're doing a podcast, you don't get the you don't
Speaker 1: get the laughs, you don't get the feedback. Um And
Speaker 1: I know, I know, she you know you do live
Speaker 1: podcast from time to time. How how how much different
Speaker 1: is that from being on stage on comedy? Oh man,
Speaker 1: I did a I did a live podcast last night
Speaker 1: for another comedian, Martine Moreno, Martin Moreno, he's up. He
Speaker 1: hosts for Game Regless. Yes, he's a guy that introduced
Speaker 1: Gabrielssia from every from I think the last six specials
Speaker 1: he's done. Yeah, I know that guy. Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: funny at podcast. I gotta hear that. So here's a
Speaker 1: live podcast now with his son, like his son, him
Speaker 1: and him and don't have a podcast. So that's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure for his son and Martin as a
Speaker 1: father because you're talking Martin the hold back. He's so
Speaker 1: nasty and he's saying all this stuff in front of
Speaker 1: his son. And he had a live podcast last night
Speaker 1: in hertvels in Long Beach, California, and that was his
Speaker 1: first live podcast, and every tell you man, everything that
Speaker 1: could go wrong at the first, at your first live podcast,
Speaker 1: it went wrong with mine because when you do a
Speaker 1: live podcast, you don't know when to end it. When
Speaker 1: you do the recording podcast at your house, you know
Speaker 1: when to end an hour and a half, you gotta
Speaker 1: end it. But live I don't know how, Like we
Speaker 1: didn't know, he don't know when. We don't know when
Speaker 1: to end the life podcast because sometimes it gets so
Speaker 1: good you don't want to end it. Man, that podcast
Speaker 1: live podcast last night started at eight thirty, no started
Speaker 1: around nine, It ended at midnight. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: hate it was chaotic, Bro. He he had he had
Speaker 1: a live he had a dating game. A live dating
Speaker 1: game on a live podcast was a porn starter and
Speaker 1: then got out of hand. And then he had like
Speaker 1: a communal wine. Everybody stood up in line to get
Speaker 1: a shot of wine and medicine. No bread, Jesus, oh
Speaker 1: staying bro. It was insane as if you ever wanted
Speaker 1: to ding down short a comedy store. It was that
Speaker 1: crazy man. I just as a as a as a producer,
Speaker 1: that would drive me insane. Bro. I tried to produce
Speaker 1: past because nobody was listening to the producer and I
Speaker 1: don't know if there was a producers there, but it
Speaker 1: was chaos like. And then I went up on stage last,
Speaker 1: and then it got even longer because I was telling
Speaker 1: a story and I kept bring I kept bringing back
Speaker 1: one of the guests to back me up. Then we
Speaker 1: had a lot of people on the on the stage.
Speaker 1: Then at the end of the show, we could be
Speaker 1: brought all the audience on the stage. Man, I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna over break that stage. It was insane. I
Speaker 1: don't know how part team got through it. Do you
Speaker 1: see yourself now as as a role model for other
Speaker 1: comedians doing podcasts? You know, you've been at it for
Speaker 1: a while and been successful. Did they come to you
Speaker 1: for advice or you just bring them on your bring
Speaker 1: them on your show to you know, kind of give
Speaker 1: them some some publicity to most of the most of
Speaker 1: the people that come from for advice are a lot
Speaker 1: of the the Latin comedians who don't have a podcast,
Speaker 1: who are well there always the main question always get
Speaker 1: from anybody starting a podcast, This is the main question
Speaker 1: I would get. Is it too late to start a podcast? No? Bro,
Speaker 1: it is not too late, it's just the beginning. It's late. No.
Speaker 1: For as far as um for Latinos and podcast there
Speaker 1: isn't There isn't that many. I mean I could count
Speaker 1: them in my hand right now. Joey Coco Diaz, which
Speaker 1: is not really a Latino podcast, and then I'm myself,
Speaker 1: And then there's the guy from Las Vegas I don't
Speaker 1: know his name right now, and I'm George Perez, George
Speaker 1: Peress Stories and the Yo Yo Yo podcast. That's five
Speaker 1: right there, and I think I'm there's another one out
Speaker 1: there somewhere else, but it's new. I would say that
Speaker 1: podcasting is new for the Latino audience. It's like an
Speaker 1: untapped market. And I'm glad to be one of the first,
Speaker 1: one of the first pioneers h Latinos to have a
Speaker 1: podcast because when I think of podcast, I follow the
Speaker 1: main podcast out there are probably Joe Rogan. That's probably
Speaker 1: like the biggest podcast in the world, I think, And
Speaker 1: that podcast is like Oprah Winfrey, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like anybody who goes on the Joe Rogan podcast, it's
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of followers. Like just to mention,
Speaker 1: when Al Madrigal was on the show on Joe Rogan Experience,
Speaker 1: he mentioned me, and I moved up to number seventy
Speaker 1: six just on the mention. I mean, he just mentioned me.
Speaker 1: When I was on Bill Burst podcast, I moved up
Speaker 1: to number thirty five. After doing this podcast, you'll probably drop,
Speaker 1: so I apologize in advance. So when he dropped, just sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Man, Well brother, you're gonna move out that Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need it. Give it to me, man, help a
Speaker 1: guy out. And I tell anybody anybody I told, I
Speaker 1: tell like the main people I tell I give advice
Speaker 1: to it. When I our club owners, comedy club owners
Speaker 1: that I run into, like managers, like I'm going to
Speaker 1: the Addison Improv every comedy club but I go to
Speaker 1: because some shows to sell out, you know, like, but
Speaker 1: there's other places I don't sell out, like Florida or
Speaker 1: any city that calls their police officers constable. I don't
Speaker 1: do well ahead any city that has UM, that has UH.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that has UH. I don't know
Speaker 1: that has Let's still follow the old British rules in America,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't do good at anybody that calls
Speaker 1: the conster constable, I ain't going. So you talked to
Speaker 1: the managers about doing podcasts? Yes, so I taught a
Speaker 1: managers there and listen, man, I look at the look
Speaker 1: at the crowd on Thursday night, right and it's like
Speaker 1: about eighties six people out of two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: when it's really low, a hundred out of three hundred,
Speaker 1: three hundred on Thursday. I told the owner of that list, man,
Speaker 1: you need to eat. What you need to do is
Speaker 1: get yourself the nerdiest comedian here in the sad at
Speaker 1: the open making and the funniest comedian, and you get
Speaker 1: them both together to do a podcast, the funniest One
Speaker 1: in the nerliest one. And every week when a comedian
Speaker 1: shows up like myself, you have them on a podcast.
Speaker 1: Every comedian that performs here every week that should be
Speaker 1: against on this podcast. You call it the Lando impro Podcast.
Speaker 1: And the headliner every week talked about his life. Promost
Speaker 1: the show, you guys, fucking share it to all your
Speaker 1: social media, email it to your email list and have
Speaker 1: them watch it. You know, because a lot of the
Speaker 1: club owners right now, they're not pushing the comedy nowhere.
Speaker 1: Like if I go in there, just say I go
Speaker 1: in there this week, I'm gonna do press, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be on television, I'm gonna be on radio. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be promoting my show. Now. Next week they have Marcella
Speaker 1: are Gore showing up. I guess what, no press, no
Speaker 1: radio for no TV only because she had no TV credit.
Speaker 1: And that's where the comedy clubs are messing up. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna do radio for one comedian, you gotta do
Speaker 1: radio for every comedian, and don't expect because a lot
Speaker 1: of people club owners, they expect the comedian to do
Speaker 1: all the promoting, Well, put them on radio, startup podcast
Speaker 1: and you know what you could have worked in promoting too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you don't see the promotion on radio as much
Speaker 1: as you used to when I when I was doing mornings,
Speaker 1: we would have comedians on every day and they'd hang
Speaker 1: out for an hour, um. And today it's like you're
Speaker 1: lucky if you can get on the show for five minutes, um.
Speaker 1: It is. It is definitely a different thing. And I
Speaker 1: think that what you're saying for for the owners to
Speaker 1: do is is what in the business we call branded
Speaker 1: content podcast And it's absolutely I think it's a great
Speaker 1: idea and I think it'd be I think also be
Speaker 1: good for the comedians if a lot of these clubs
Speaker 1: put little podcast studios in the clubs, because a lot
Speaker 1: of comedians do podcasts, make it commedian for him, come
Speaker 1: in and do the show from there, and they get
Speaker 1: a little pressed that way too. I mean that that
Speaker 1: there's so many things that they could be doing, Like
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good idea, man, because every comedy
Speaker 1: club should have a podcast studio and you can make
Speaker 1: money renting it up to the comedian. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Comedy Store has a podcast studio now, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think the last factor you used to have one. But
Speaker 1: I think if you're gonna start a comedy club, you
Speaker 1: gotta have a podcast studio because then you could sell
Speaker 1: ticket to the podcast studio. Tell me about your vinyl
Speaker 1: album right now? All right? I have a vinyl of
Speaker 1: Mice comedy special that came out on HBO. I have
Speaker 1: a vinyl that you can you can buy at Philippe's
Speaker 1: World dot com slash shop. We only made five hundred
Speaker 1: albums and this is a comedy album like not like
Speaker 1: any other comedy album. It's a double album. So there's
Speaker 1: two to three inch records in the album with a poster,
Speaker 1: and we have some that are limited addition, they're counted
Speaker 1: and you could also get the CD if you want
Speaker 1: to get the CD on my web page. But I
Speaker 1: do have an album like a record for the hipsters.
Speaker 1: Anybody that had the record player or you collect vinyl,
Speaker 1: I got you. I'm one of those hipsters with with
Speaker 1: the with the record player. I'm in the record play guard.
Speaker 1: You probably old use one or the newer one. I
Speaker 1: got a nineteen seventy four tech techniques. That's old school
Speaker 1: right there. Technique that's the first. That's what that's the
Speaker 1: first techniques where the old school DJs, whey, those that
Speaker 1: radio shot. Yeah, that's what I got man. So if
Speaker 1: I buy it and I come down to l A
Speaker 1: and a couple, sometimes when you sign it for me too, yes,
Speaker 1: and also when you buy it, if you want to
Speaker 1: sign it, I'll just sign it on you a little
Speaker 1: note and I'm signing it too. All right, I'm doing
Speaker 1: the bad decisions towards it's all new jokes. I'm working
Speaker 1: on new material and I'm going on tour with it.
Speaker 1: I'll be in January. I'll be in Boulder, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, Chicago,
Speaker 1: New York, and Coachella and Tuston, Arizona. All these days
Speaker 1: philippin World dot com slash toy or by the album
Speaker 1: Philippa World dot com slash shop. And we will also
Speaker 1: put all this out on our Facebook page, access podcast
Speaker 1: and as your dates come up, support support the man
Speaker 1: who's been on the show. Before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: I wanted to do a little thing. I just just
Speaker 1: a real quick I call it three killer questions. If
Speaker 1: you're up for this, I got three questions for you, Philippe.
Speaker 1: First one is if you could listen to a podcast
Speaker 1: featuring anybody living or dead, who would you like to
Speaker 1: hear do a podcast? Man, I would say Richard pryor
Speaker 1: Mitch Hedberg. That would be That would be excellent, like together,
Speaker 1: like in the same room, Mitch Hepberg, Pryor and Tom Jeerson.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that the three guys in the podcast
Speaker 1: telling jokes while rich Herbert takes a nap. Perfect. I
Speaker 1: could picture of ch Headberg just napping and just every
Speaker 1: every ten pitty minutes say one good funny joke and
Speaker 1: passed out again. If you were, um, if you were
Speaker 1: an actual sandwich. I love sandwiches, So I asked about sandwiches, um,
Speaker 1: not not like what's your favorite? But if you were
Speaker 1: sandwich and it said who you were, what kind of
Speaker 1: sandwich would you be? I'd probably be the captains save
Speaker 1: the whole sandwich. Now what is that? Oh? Man? It
Speaker 1: would it be? Uh man, it would be toast. It
Speaker 1: would it be like shobbatta bread or some good bread,
Speaker 1: you know, like sour dough, not like some good like
Speaker 1: submarine bread like the fresh row bread with madonnaise of
Speaker 1: course on one stipe mustard on the other. That pickles
Speaker 1: and you know, if I wasn't vegan, I'm vegan now,
Speaker 1: but if I wasn't vegan, of course it would be
Speaker 1: like Swiss jack cheese, American cheese and ham, um, ham, lettuce, tomato, avocado, halapenos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man like that. But since I'm vegan now, I would
Speaker 1: just make a vegan Since I'm vegan now, I would
Speaker 1: make like the would be like the the Felipe supernatural sandwich,
Speaker 1: which would be toasted we bread on vegan aise and
Speaker 1: child cheese which is vegan cheese and temper bacon and
Speaker 1: vegan turkey on top, with pickles on a sweet bread
Speaker 1: bro deep and then with melted with cheese and then
Speaker 1: deep Friday in a batter. You go. How about the
Speaker 1: last podcast you binged? What's the last one you you
Speaker 1: you sat down and listened to a few episodes of
Speaker 1: it row I don't know. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: listened to a lot of podcasts, but the last podcast
Speaker 1: I would binge it was the last time I bade
Speaker 1: a podcast was Grant or a Girl? Oh he really,
Speaker 1: she's been that's been around a long time, man. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's that's like a twelve year old podcast.
Speaker 1: That's that's interesting that you benched at why why? I
Speaker 1: don't know why, because last year, um, they were breaking down.
Speaker 1: She had like a holiday special and they were talking
Speaker 1: about different different language you know that that we don't
Speaker 1: use anymore. And I got into it because I remember,
Speaker 1: like she was talking about languages and the way and
Speaker 1: where does where do the words originate? You know, like
Speaker 1: when the world? Where do the where did the world
Speaker 1: really come from? You know? And I was interested in that.
Speaker 1: And then litterale I started learning history on words. I
Speaker 1: like history and I never heard history about when words
Speaker 1: I started and they were talking about holiday season, like
Speaker 1: I think she was talking about it's the season or
Speaker 1: tests the season t I s. And then she broke
Speaker 1: it down why they used tests and who uses this
Speaker 1: and and it goes back to back then when people
Speaker 1: were not educated, when people didn't go to work, they
Speaker 1: didn't go to school because they had to work a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of the words that are used
Speaker 1: now were made by people who were poor, who couldn't
Speaker 1: really pronounce the word or didn't know the word, so
Speaker 1: they started making up their own language. And so I
Speaker 1: was interested in that. So I started listening to her
Speaker 1: all the time, I think I followed her. I used
Speaker 1: to follow her on Snapchat, but she didn't follow me back,
Speaker 1: so I stopped following her. Part of the All Things
Speaker 1: Comedy Network, Felipe as far as that and What's Up
Speaker 1: Full podcast, you can check it out, check it out
Speaker 1: on I already thanks for coming on, buddy, So What's
Speaker 1: Up Full? Again? Yeah? I don't know. I thought it
Speaker 1: was funny the first time. Everybody, this is z Um.
Speaker 1: If you're new to the show, z is uh my producer,
Speaker 1: my friend, my former student. And yeah, yeah, welcome to
Speaker 1: season to Maddie, Yeah, welcome to season. We made it
Speaker 1: season season two of Access podcast. Um. It will be
Speaker 1: a little different than season one. I'm always I want
Speaker 1: to loosen it up a little bit this season. So
Speaker 1: Felipe was a great first guest to have on. I
Speaker 1: feel naked when I when I have a guest that
Speaker 1: I'm so when I talk about me so much about
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's always kind of weird
Speaker 1: to bring it up, but I think that it's just
Speaker 1: part of building connections and right, you guys had a
Speaker 1: lot to relate to, so yeah, part of it. So
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. We recorded that, uh, interview before the break,
Speaker 1: and I have not talked to Philipe since then, so
Speaker 1: I'm excited to kind of read because we we ended
Speaker 1: and we were like, yeah, we'll talk and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll hook up, and I hope. So I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. He was cool. He's like effortlessly funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's just it just feels
Speaker 1: so part of him, like he's not really trying at all. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know. I always say some podcasts you listen to
Speaker 1: you because it's like reading a book and you're like
Speaker 1: you're getting information and you're really into it. And his
Speaker 1: podcast is when you can listen to and just sit
Speaker 1: back and like hang because you're hanging You're just hanging
Speaker 1: out with him, all right. So comedy lots of comedy
Speaker 1: podcasts out there to choose from. We've got three for you.
Speaker 1: I think I picked one and Z you picked two. Well,
Speaker 1: you picked one that I don't know in the one
Speaker 1: that we both agree on, Let's start with the one
Speaker 1: that you picked. Tell me about it. Okay, So this
Speaker 1: is actually a recommendation by our very own Dalton Dalton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy doesn't know comedy. No, it's called My Brother,
Speaker 1: My brother and me, And it's just three brothers, Justin, Travis,
Speaker 1: and Griffin, who there I don't even know how to explain,
Speaker 1: but they have such different personalities but they meshed so
Speaker 1: well together. And what they describe their podcast is telling
Speaker 1: people how to live their lives because they do it
Speaker 1: so well. Pinpoint why it's so funny. But it's never
Speaker 1: an episode that I'm not like dying laughing. So the
Speaker 1: hosts are engaging. Yeah, they're engaging, and they're just so different,
Speaker 1: but it works well. And they even have a video
Speaker 1: component of it. And I mean, trust me, guys, my
Speaker 1: brother and my brother and me. Check it out, all right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound bad. I'll check it out. I'll check
Speaker 1: it out. Second one I can tell you, Um, we're
Speaker 1: both fans of let me just say, Turbo Hottie. I've
Speaker 1: loved her forever. She's like the perfect combination of hotness
Speaker 1: and coolness and funniness just everything, like you just want
Speaker 1: to hang out. And that's what I like about her
Speaker 1: podcast too, because like Filipe, she's really effortlessly funny and
Speaker 1: what she says for her podcast it's not great relation
Speaker 1: ship advice, and she has celebrities and you get to
Speaker 1: see this different side of them, and she like brings
Speaker 1: out the best in them and you know, makes them
Speaker 1: really comfortable. And yeah, like you said, she's just a
Speaker 1: cool girl. And she's embraced podcasting. You know, there are
Speaker 1: people who do podcast because their celebrities and they feel
Speaker 1: like they have to. She's embraced the meeting to the
Speaker 1: point where she's actually teaching a podcasting class. I think
Speaker 1: at Santa Monica Community College they did they or one
Speaker 1: of the one of the schools in l A they
Speaker 1: did it. They did like a podcasting class, not as
Speaker 1: good as mine, but but she was. She was teaching it.
Speaker 1: So let's check it out if you haven't heard it
Speaker 1: before on a Ferris. All right, she's great. Can I
Speaker 1: can I introduce the third one? I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how much I love this podcast. Is the first podcast
Speaker 1: that I ever would have to pause because I was
Speaker 1: laughing so hard. It's called my Dad Wrote a Porno.
Speaker 1: And you have to start at season one, episode one.
Speaker 1: You cannot jump into the middle of this. And here
Speaker 1: is the deal. This the host of the show, Jamie
Speaker 1: found a podcast that are found a poor note that
Speaker 1: his dad had written legitimately found a pornographic book, that
Speaker 1: is his dad had written, his dad, who he wouldn't
Speaker 1: seem like he would be writing a porno at all,
Speaker 1: and they read it. He and his two friends read
Speaker 1: it every week and it is. Oh, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: It's everything that's right about British people. It's also um,
Speaker 1: it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: so good. We'll play a little bit, but man, just
Speaker 1: go check it out. British accents make everything better a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, just
Speaker 1: the way they engage with each other in the little
Speaker 1: terms that they have is funny. Check it out. Alright,
Speaker 1: she's great. Can I can I introduce the third one?
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I love this podcast
Speaker 1: is the first podcast that I ever would have to
Speaker 1: pause because I was laughing so hard. It's called my
Speaker 1: dad Wrote a Porno. And you have to start at
Speaker 1: season one, episode one. You cannot jump into the middle
Speaker 1: of this. And here is the deal. This the host
Speaker 1: of the show, Jamie found a podcast that are found
Speaker 1: a poor note that his dad had written legitimately found
Speaker 1: a pornographic book that is his dad had written his
Speaker 1: dad who he wouldn't seem like he would be writing
Speaker 1: a porno at all. And they read it. He and
Speaker 1: his two friends read it every week and it is Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. It's everything that's right about British people.
Speaker 1: It's also, um, it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so good. We'll play a little bit, but man,
Speaker 1: just go check it out. British accents make everything better
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: just the way they engage with each other and the
Speaker 1: little terms that they have, which is funny. Check it out.
Speaker 1: All right. Those a three great podcast to start off
Speaker 1: the new year. Um, as we start off the new year,
Speaker 1: did you have a good break? By the way I did?
Speaker 1: It was relaxing. I just hung out with my family.
Speaker 1: What about you? I want to do a shout out. Um,
Speaker 1: I got I went surfing and I like, did a
Speaker 1: good job. I'm gonna put a picture up on access
Speaker 1: or Facebook page. I'll do it. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: shout out to Jeff. Who was he? He's He's an
Speaker 1: East Virginia guy. He's Alway's from Virginia and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna teach me how to surf. I'm like, you're
Speaker 1: from Virginia. Uh, and he was a great teacher. There
Speaker 1: you go, shout Jeff. I told him I was going
Speaker 1: to leave a bunch of yell p reviews about how
Speaker 1: bad he sucked, just for fun. But I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: But you know, what's up? What's up, Mauie. I love Mauie.
Speaker 1: I want to be there now than I am a
Speaker 1: tan man. I'm gonna try to stay this way too. Hello,
Speaker 1: Channing Booth. That's so cheesy though. Yeah. Whatever, I will
Speaker 1: do it anyway. Uh whatever, I do what I want
Speaker 1: access podcast. We do what we want. I want to
Speaker 1: thank Chris Peterson from my Heart Radio for for making
Speaker 1: this podcast happen. Also Dalton, who we mentioned earlier does
Speaker 1: the graphics, Casey who does the music and also helps
Speaker 1: out with a lot of the production. Katie Wilcox and
Speaker 1: Don Parker here at I Heart Radio, San Francisco as
Speaker 1: we broadcast from our brand new studio. We have a
Speaker 1: beautiful new studio and we are looking for sponsor to
Speaker 1: take it over and they'll also be sponsoring the show.
Speaker 1: So if you're interested, just let us know. But our
Speaker 1: sales staff is out. They got a couple of folks
Speaker 1: looking like they want to do it. So thanks to
Speaker 1: everybody that works on the show, and see thank you
Speaker 1: for for a great season one and and this new
Speaker 1: season two is going to be fantastic. I have no
Speaker 1: doubts we've got a great show next week. Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 1: not that Lindsay Graham. No, he is actually the host
Speaker 1: of a podcast called American History Tellers from the Wandering Network.
Speaker 1: So it's all about history podcast next week on Access Podcast.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Go check out a podcast and share
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