WEBVTT - Greatest L.A. Athletes with Steve Hernandez 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:10.840 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello, 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.720 and welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I'm Megan 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:20.680 Gaily joined in my home. Um, surrounded by festive, beautiful 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.000 decorations that have been put up by my co host. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.800 Um we don't. We don't just host the podcast together, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.480 we also decorate our home and make love together. Um. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.400 Please welcome my co host and husband, C. J. Colado. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.360 How's it going. My number one credit is I make 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.440 love to Megan High to our parents in law who 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.040 heard that. Um, wells, I mean legally they're your parents. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.280 But how how are you doing? Yeah? Very very festive 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.360 around here. Um, we were like, we're gonna be trapped here, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:01:00.760 so we really went all outland reath, three multiple glittered 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:06.080 gold reindeer statues. Um. My mom informed me that there 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.199 are two bins, giant bins filled with snowmen. She didn't 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:15.240 want anymore traveling from Indianapolis to Los Angeles. As we speak, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.280 I can't wait to welcome those cuddly cutie boys into 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.600 our house. Our snowmen. Yeah, there's snow men. I honestly 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.800 for it to be like a snow woman, she needs 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.319 to have some sort of stereotypical woman. No, I was 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.160 going to say, like an apron. All right, well, um whatever, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.480 because I do want our Our guests are very close 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:44.800 friend uh fellows Los Angeles comedian uh runs a awesome 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.840 show in West Covina called The chatter Box and has 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.080 so many podcasts. We've got the Male Gaze, Who's Your God? 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.040 Views from the Vista, which maybe on hiatus now because 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.880 um no, it's not. It's not. All right, okay, it's 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.640 not gonna talk about it. It's not on hold. It's going. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.760 Those are three podcasts right there. So the ladies and 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.880 gentlemen please welcome our guest, Steve Hernandez. All right, thank 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:14.760 you guys, so good to be here. Megan. Megan said, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.760 you guys make love I think together, which is not 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.320 the same you said CJ that you had sex with her, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.560 but her way was more. It was like, oh, we're fun. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.560 This is a co co op kind of situation. I 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.280 like them. Yeah, thank you. It was really just I 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.440 messed up because make love together almost sounds like we 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.080 make love with different people next to each other. Well 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.120 that's that's you know, not yet, but we'll see in 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.480 twenty years. Second second lockdown and we can't even make 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.440 love in our backyard with straight so second lockdown, just 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.080 ce J and me. We'll see in twenty years how 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.680 it all ends up. Hopefully we'll all have enough money 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.160 to be part of some kind of l a Illuminati thing. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.880 So I see, I'm down with that. I'm the current situation. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.000 This is a me and Megan situation. But in twenty years, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:14.280 if we're for loading and board, why not well yea, yeah, yeah, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.760 you're saying, if you get rich enough, you will become 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:24.080 a swinger. I can't wait to watch this journey for you. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:30.359 I'll sit back and just just smile and laugh. Steve, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.360 thank you so much for being here. Hey, my pleasure. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.839 I love you guys. I'm so happy that the decorations 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.240 are up. C J. Did you really hire somebody to 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.920 help you put those up? The lights? The roof, because 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.560 there's a whole like I gotta go buy a ladder 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.000 or you can rent a ladder. And I went to 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.560 home depot and got anxiety from how packed it was, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.000 and I got my car and turned around. I just 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.600 found somebody who had a tall ladder could get on 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.720 our roof. So so yeah good, I'm proud of Yeah, 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.200 I mean, I'm really proud of you. Yeah, I was 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.240 sort of guy when I looked at that stuff. I've 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.160 never had a home for myself. I mean when when 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.840 I was older, my dad used to do it. So 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.200 I just feel like that's what you've got married a 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.120 year ago, You're putting up lights at this home now, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.760 like it's all that's like real man stuff. And I'm 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.520 really proud of you. I'm really happy for you. Thank you. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.120 I mean, yeah, I that those are the things that 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.400 I'm totally down for. Like when I watched sitcoms and 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.599 like the dads are like falling off a ladder and 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.880 stuff like that's what I signed up to get. My 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.880 sleeve caught on a nail and it ripped off my 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.359 whole shirt, Like I'm ready for that. To be a 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.919 bumbling husband. Yeah. I could also see c J like 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.680 changing a diaper and like opening it and then going 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:51.159 like yeah yeah, and I'm trying to like, yes, stop it, um, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.280 but Steve, you are you are recently engaged. You are 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.680 joining the force. Yes, nobody saw it coming. That's part 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.880 of why I did it. Very punk for me. A 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.200 lot of people don't understand that, but it's very punk 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.279 rock for me. I think, you know, I've been blessed 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.479 enough to have the love of many wonderful women in 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.200 my life, and uh, I think I finally got to 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.359 the age where I was like, what happens if I 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.359 just let this wash over me instead of fight it? 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.440 Because that's what I've done my whole life is to 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.359 fight the love of all these beautiful, wonderful women. And 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.080 then I was like, what if you just let it 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.919 wash over? What's that like? And I finally was like, Okay, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.039 I'll just let it. I mean, you know, anybody who 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:36.080 knows my fiance, she's so beautiful, so funny, so smart, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.640 and she loves me, I think more than anybody what 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.200 you're saying a lot has ever loved me. And she 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.719 just looks at me sometimes, You'll like look up at 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.640 me with this love, like she's trying to crush me 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.839 with her fucking eyeballs with love. And I'm like, well, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.560 we gotta You've got to fucking tie this down. You've 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.159 got if it'll nothing will make this person happier in 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.840 the world than me committing my life to them, you've 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.279 gotta give it to him. Yeah, I know, I know 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.000 what you mean. And um, Yeah, I just know what 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.400 you mean. You know, the crushing looks, the thing you 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.640 feel like I look at you in a way where 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.440 I could crush you with my love. Absolutely that is 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.240 like that. That is, um, what you're describing, Steve, the 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.200 crushing love and you're like, I have to react to 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.000 this is a total It's totally a thing that I'm 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.120 like still trying to figure out what you're how you're 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.560 supposed to respond sometimes. Uh, you know, it's so funny. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.640 I would imagine that's how you are in private, but 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.960 you two do something that I really love. I think 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.760 you guys really play up like a sitcom couple in 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.719 public where I have I probably five videos of you 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.080 kissing Megan and her looking away and disgust. Uh. They're 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.800 like some of my funniest the It's like one of 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.320 the funniest things I think in the world. And I 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:52.880 don't you guys are doing I think you just do 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.080 it in public. Obviously, I believe Megan loves you as 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.960 much like you're just you're talking about. But yeah, I 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.479 do think. Um, I think it's a head you wait 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.200 for a man to finally say, Okay, I'm going to 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.160 take responsibility for this love, and so I've I've come 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.880 to that point in my life where I you know, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.320 I was divorced before, and um, I handled that. I 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.880 was a bad husband and I was irresponsible with that 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.520 because I just thought dumb things. I was just an idiot. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.200 I'm forty two years old. I've been around the block. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.560 I'm still an idiot in many ways. But I also know, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.560 like there's times when it's like, no, I don't do that. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.120 You remember, you remember that ten years ago, don't do 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.000 that again. So yeah, I mean, you know, I stopped 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.800 drinking two years ago. And there's so many times when 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.800 I'm in a situation and uh, the you know, I'm 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.720 a comedian, so the fucking ship will go in my 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.640 brain and I'm like, so glad I don't have a 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.080 drink in me right now, Just like, don't say it. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.720 Don't say you have no absolutely no reason to say. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.000 And I think it's worse as a comedian too, because 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.320 a lot of times I want to say something funny, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.400 you know, even to Julia to get a lad and 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.920 it's like, don't do it. You know, there's no reason 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.480 for this. Yeah. Yeah. We we go through a lot 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.360 in this house of us back and forth saying to 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.920 each other. You know, you don't need to roast to 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.280 me every day. Um, we are partners in love and 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:24.000 you don't have to go whenever I say something, what 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.320 do you I mean? Yeah, now go ahead, Okay, well no, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:28.720 you go ahead because I want to hear what you 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.760 have to say. Okay, yeah, I mean it's just like 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.240 she my wife, Megan, and she is my best friend, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.440 you know so, and that's how I hanged I you 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.800 know you're gonna have to There's so much time in 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.040 a day as well, and it's been multiplied by so 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.000 much during this pandemic that we've either ran out of 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.079 things to talk about or it's just like you are, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.360 we are truly meeting who we really are. And there's 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.360 where we're interacting with each other in so many different roles, 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.959 not just husband and wife, now friends, now co we're 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.000 you know, in in a twenty four hour day together 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.160 in pandemics, I have not run out of things to 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:11.719 talk about, filled with topics we could get to know. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.080 I know you you guys are part of a crew 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.360 to where it's there's a lot of married people when 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.839 they're both comedians and stuff, and I do think it's 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.839 one of the reasons the pandemic is one of the 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.840 reasons why I'm getting married too, because I feel like, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.440 for not just in personal areas, but professionally and everything, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.800 this is kind of like sped up how people are 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.160 thinking about things. For maybe like five years. I mean, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.040 we've come to a stand still in a lot of 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.000 the business of our lives, so I was able to 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.320 think about things. But yeah, there's no person that I love, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.240 and I know you guys are best friends. Julie and 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.560 I are best friends, and we laugh so much. We 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.920 have such a good time together. So it's just like, well, okay, 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.080 if if we ever split up, it will be as 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.679 devastating as a divorce, so we should get married. And uh, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.760 I'm very excited. Yeah, I mean, like if we split up, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.760 and since I've made the decision where I turned the 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.880 thing and say, well, I told you know what, because 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.320 I was going to pick out the ring, I'm not. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.520 I just can't do that gifts for me a really, 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.480 it's give It's one of the few things in life 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.840 that gives me anxiety. So I told her, hey, you 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.760 know what's start looking for a few rings, give me 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.920 a few options, and then I'll pick something. And when 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.160 I told her that and we've talked about it obviously 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.079 at nauseam, she was like okay, And ever since then 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.760 my love for her has grown more than it was before. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:30.080 I do feel like there's something about commitment, like in 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.640 an open way where it allows you to be like 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:34.720 I mean, she was always part of my team, but 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.240 now I feel like we're going to be publicly a team. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.240 So it's like I will do what and I think 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.680 you guys are the same way. We will do whatever 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.360 it takes to win in this life. And I want 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.200 to shove it down everyone's throat so they could fucking 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.800 see we're gonna win. I can't even I can't even 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.960 think of someone who would be against your and Julia's team. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.320 Do you guys think about that? I try and do 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.600 this sometimes. I'm like c J, who hates us um 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.040 I because we hate people that are obscure that you 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.720 would have no idea, hates you know, Like, there's definitely 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.320 people I hate that like would have no clue. I 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.920 hate them. I don't lose that to me. I don't 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.480 think that CIEGE. I don't think anyone could hate c J. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:22.320 Because he's so affable and kind of doesn't. Okay, well, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.720 that's just what I think. I think, Megan, I think 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.200 people could hate you because you're a very successful woman, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.040 so got men could certainly hate you. And then women, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.440 you guys hate each other for the fucking weirdest reason. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.600 So there's that too, like women like I'm sure there's 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.480 some woman's female Chicago comedian. You fucking did something eight 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:47.240 years ago that you are ten years ago. The fact 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:52.120 that you said one Chicago female I mean, I mean, yeah, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.640 the legal pad of topics I have for things CJ 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.040 and I to talk about is probably just as long 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.440 as Chicago comedians anything has the best friend who hates me, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.559 you know, so it really is. We talk a lot 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.080 about Chicago on here. That's where we, you know, comedically 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:16.400 come from. Steve is born and raised Covina, West Covina. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.199 L A for those OFO that don't know, for those 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.439 THO that don't watch Crazy Act Girlfriend, that is l 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.040 A and you. You. I mean, you're wearing a shirt 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.360 right now that I can see that says Latino Heat 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:33.000 on it. You are you You're You're one like step 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:38.439 below Danny Trejo at this point. For for l A mascots, 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:43.160 I think, well, I'm very unknown outside of it, you know, Twitter. Slowly, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.800 my Twitter presence is slowly growing. I've got to take 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.160 more topless picks, I think, to get really grow the 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.040 leaps and bonds I need. But yeah, I was born 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:58.199 at Pasadena at Huntington's Hospital. Grew up in Lincoln Heights, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.720 Highland Park Toys four years old. Then we moved to 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.600 West Covina. My dad bought a little three bedroom, two 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.840 two bathroom house out there with his g I Bill, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.280 and uh. Then I started doing stand up ten years ago, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.440 so I would have never left Covina. But I got married, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.280 my wife got a job in Pasadena. We moved to Pasadena, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.360 and then a bunch of things happened for me allow 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.600 me to get into stand up in Los Angeles. But yeah, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.200 I am l a born and bread. I proposed to 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:33.480 Julia off of in Um like the sal Park kind of. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.080 There's this area where my my dad grew up, near 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.520 the White Fence Hazzar Gang neighborhood, and my grandma used 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.680 to live there, and there's the most beautiful view I've 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.480 ever seen. It might be the one on blooded and 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.920 Blood out if anybody's familiar with that. But it's a 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.000 most beautiful view I've ever seen. My dad said, I 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.720 he used to go there and after high school and like, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.360 look at the city. You could see the ocean, you 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.640 could see Dodgerston, you could see everything. I'll take you 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.000 guys there some point and I I took Julia there 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.000 and I remember my when my dad showed it to me, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.160 maybe twenty years ago. I was like, oh, I would 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.160 love to propose to my wife here because it's such 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.120 a It's one of those few places I feel like, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.080 you know, I'm kind of a jaded person like many 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.080 people in a lot of ways, but where I still 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.120 feel magic up there. And so I was like, I 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.520 would love to share this magic with the person I'm 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.920 going to marry. And so I took over there, right 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.440 off a Soda street, right by the Lincoln Heights COVID 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:27.760 testing Center behind that. Oh yeah, that's where I go now, Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.880 it's so fast. But um yeah. I moved out to 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.800 Los Angeles proper after my divorce, probably about seven or 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.200 eight years ago, and um yeah, it's really made me 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:39.720 fall in love with the city in a way that 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.800 just being from West Covina didn't. So I love this place. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.640 I love Los Angeles comedy. It's fucked up in a 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.400 lot of ways, but I do believe in the next 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.840 ten years we're going to see a generation of comics 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.400 raised uh that are very, very good and it's better 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.480 than anybody else. Wow, because like we um, you know, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:02.840 Chicago comics are myself c included some of the most 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.280 insufferable people, and you know, we're just like we're the 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.160 best where we have the most friends, we have the 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:09.960 most fun, we have, we drink the most, we stay 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.760 up like you know, we're this is a lot. And 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.040 then so when we would come to New York, people 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.520 were like excited to have us, and then there was 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.680 this like massive influx and people are like, we're good 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.080 on you actually, And but when l A Comics would 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.120 come to New York, people would just we would just 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:28.800 stand at the room, arms crossed, like, who's this hot 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.600 fucking hack? Like you just when someone is in l 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.400 A Comic, especially someone who like started here and then 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.400 ends up getting any amount of buzz, whether it be 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.800 like new faces or something, you're just like so ready 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.640 to hate them. But the reality is it would be really, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.440 really really hard to start here. And I'm happy that 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.280 I did not have to. Yeah, it's definitely its own thing. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.640 I remember I went to Chicago maybe two and a 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.680 half years in and you realize how hard it is 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.040 here because you get everyone just keeps coming here. So 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.040 I start. I start here and the open mics, you know, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.800 our thirty people, you get three minutes and you start 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.360 here and you just do as many of those. When 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.280 I started, I did ten to fifteen mics a week, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.640 and they just keep coming, stars just keep coming. But 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.320 if you can hold out and get good and like 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.720 figure out what's going on in like and within three years. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.000 I feel if you can get like pretty good in 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.640 l A and three years, then you'll be okay and 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.960 you're like very competent. So when I went to Chicago 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.440 that first time, I realized, oh, I've been playing with 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.360 weights on. Like it's been fucked up to not have 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.240 real real people all those times, because you learn to 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.880 be funny. I know a lot of people say, uh, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.440 open mic comedy, if you may get last though, you 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.520 won't get them anywhere else. But I feel like in 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.400 l A the open mic scene is very you're like 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.120 chopping heads, so there's like very competitive, very much, especially 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.520 you know something like the chatter Box where that open 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.840 mic on Thursdays is like a show where we get 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.640 regular to get a crowd of regular people. So we're 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.639 chopping heads, you know. And I'm bartending on Thursday nights too, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.919 so I've got to like serve Acholo a beer and 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.840 I go up and start talking about sucking dick, and 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.320 I come back and get get the Trolo another beer. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.240 I mean, I really am like that, I very much. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.320 My I'm the thing I'm most proud of so far 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.000 is the crew coming up at the chatter Box where 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.399 now you know, when I started, there was one other 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.760 alternative Latino guy guy named what's John's last name? He 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.080 was Kyle Kanane's roommate for years. And then, um, now 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.919 we have a bunch and I've got a bunch of 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.120 those guys are talking about being by and shipped over 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.240 there now, and I'm like, okay, this is cool. We're 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:43.080 like incubating something over there that that like it's okay 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.880 to like be weird, and crolos are once you get 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.399 clos talking, there's some of the fucking weird. Before the shutdown, 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.879 we had newer like cholo comics that were like seeing 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.040 it's okay to talk about weird ship and they're like 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.800 they're like fucking Martians. So I'm very excited, like I said, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.080 in the next five to tay years to like see 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.600 what comedy is going to come out of Los Angeles. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:10.120 But for right now, absolutely nothing's happening. It's it's kind 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.879 of reminding me of like Hannibal and Blurred almost of 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.840 like finding this niche within a community that has been like, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.040 oh no, we do stuff this way, but it's like, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.879 oh no, there are I mean, there's a guy that 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.120 would be at chatter Box just like head to toe 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:31.760 Dodgers gear and then yeah, talking about his depression and 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.880 you're like this is wild. So yeah, I am very 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.240 stoked about that. I'm very proud of the chatter Box 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.080 and everything we've done over there, but you know, we'll see. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.800 I'm I'm actually very grateful for this time in COVID too, 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.040 because it's allowed me to be thoughtful and to figure 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.959 out my career trajectory and everything I really want to do. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.879 So I'm very excited to be here. I'm excited to 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:59.680 be your friends, and uh it feels like yeah doing stuff. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.639 I mean, the thing I am so glad you said that. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.600 I mean, I feel like it was maybe a couple 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.840 of years ago, but I was always so intimidated by 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.919 you because like early, I mean I I always I 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.040 moved here like three times, and I probably met you 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.640 in the first time, and you very much were like 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.880 l A. You were, I mean, you wore a Dodger's 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.679 hat and stuff, but also like you were part of 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.000 that crew of like the l A comedians that were 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.720 starting to get a break. And I was like, I 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.040 think I was here by myself. There weren't a lot 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.679 of Chicago comedians, and I was like, I knew I 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.440 wanted to stay here in l A. And I also 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.600 wanted to be a part of the community. And I 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.959 was like, and I would go to Chatterbox like hangout 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:35.879 with wit and I think maybe I did a showcase 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.040 there early on, and I wasn't friends with you yet, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.000 but I was like, shit, I don't care anyone laughs 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.600 in this room except for Steve behind the bar, like 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.560 and so like that was like you you were really 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.359 like a write of passage back then. And you know, 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.640 I've been here for what like eight years on and off, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.919 and and yeah, that's very my only problem with you 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.199 as you just kept quitting, So I did not know 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.199 if you think. So I'm like, I love stand up. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.440 I love stand up like you know, I used to 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.679 be a youth pastor, so a lot of that like 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.920 bleeds out in my stuff, and I like, I love 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.400 stand up like I used to love Christ. And so 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.440 I don't. I don't care about the business. I care 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.919 about really the spirit of the thing I think of 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.960 stand ups is like Jedi nights. I think about what 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.960 we really do is so separate from the business. Trust me, though, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:24.600 I mean, I mean, in a way, I'm kicking myself 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.600 because I would love to have dental insurance right now, 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.119 and so I'm pivoting to that kind of stuff. But 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.120 there is a thing where I'm like, I don't care 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.159 about any of it. I care about what happens in 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.880 the room. And what happens in the room we comedians 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:38.920 can do one of the It's one of those rare 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.720 things in this fucking dumb modern world where we can 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.080 make magic happen and so um when so you, to 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.359 me are like someone who kept backsliding. I was like, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:54.280 does this fool love Christ? You know? And then I'm 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.200 over there like cutting my skin for christ you know, 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.080 to win to stand up. You know, I was fully 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.080 committed to quitting but I can't. But then but all 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.240 of my friends were in stand up. And then I 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:08.840