Speaker 1: La laughing. If you watch coffee Time too, baby, you
Speaker 1: know the name flame, my role also known as my
Speaker 1: role Flame. Come in with last and come in with
Speaker 1: JN love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when you
Speaker 1: can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting now comics,
Speaker 1: just paying homics. What's up? Tips? Yeah? You know she
Speaker 1: raped shot towns on seek into the ground a second.
Speaker 1: We're gonna last cut of the kicking in at the end.
Speaker 1: We leave it with just a lift spirit to think
Speaker 1: you want to revisit, so your friends take a list
Speaker 1: of your folk. Say it's lit ah folks that we
Speaker 1: take it. He' no do what you don't, no kiss,
Speaker 1: do what you do? Can't no kiss, do what I do?
Speaker 1: No kisa, Good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to laugh, Yes,
Speaker 1: let's welcome to laugh and learn everybody, and to get started,
Speaker 1: let's bring in the one and the only Mrs Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: the one and only. Does he have on draw because
Speaker 1: I ain't got none on the day, but y'all can't
Speaker 1: say listen, he is dressed. I was looking for Kim
Speaker 1: Joy who is this rights? He helped pack my bag,
Speaker 1: so you know my car was at the airport. So
Speaker 1: I told easy to get my Kim Joy week. She
Speaker 1: get my joy, Kim Weed Kim so I'm gonna have Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Kim Joy. Let me tell you something. The flight
Speaker 1: was delayed, but I was determined that wasn't an issue.
Speaker 1: We got here like eleven fifteen deep plane, deep plane
Speaker 1: to the minute because it was not even that many
Speaker 1: people on the plane, but they were moving very slowly.
Speaker 1: Then I left out of United, so I parked my
Speaker 1: car at United. But I came back on American, which
Speaker 1: is terminal four, and then I was at terminal seven.
Speaker 1: There's no more flyaway shuttle, so I had to walk
Speaker 1: with my bag seven. Thanks go back to catch catch
Speaker 1: everybody up because where were you? Why did you go? So?
Speaker 1: I went to Chicago to drop my daughters off to
Speaker 1: see their mom and to get some new dresses. Made
Speaker 1: that ups lost no usps, lost my boxes. I had
Speaker 1: the bad fabric while I was there to get dresses. Yes, please,
Speaker 1: so but overall it was a good trip. We did
Speaker 1: the audition. Let me tell you something about Lauren Hoke
Speaker 1: and y'all, Lauren drilled me on this all day. I
Speaker 1: really told my ass up on this because the first
Speaker 1: time I was horrible. I told you all that though
Speaker 1: I was terrible, and yesterday I did much better. But
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna get this row. That white
Speaker 1: lady like me, and then cause she was white, she
Speaker 1: just didn't like me. I wasn't what she no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think that I was what she was looking forward.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you how I feel, because at the end
Speaker 1: it was, oh my Godflame, your endeavorged and you're gonna
Speaker 1: do great things, and it was pretty much, yeah, bitch,
Speaker 1: I don't want you. Let me check him. I know
Speaker 1: how to read between the lines. I'm real grown. Was
Speaker 1: that the version of unfortunately very much? So we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm expecting a call today. We'll see what
Speaker 1: Lauren has an optimistic output on it. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: I heard bets what the lady was saying. Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do wonderful things in your career. You're great
Speaker 1: who you're like, Yeah, you just want to be be doing
Speaker 1: something wonderful with this project. And it's fine. Like I
Speaker 1: tell Flame, everything happens for a reason. Everything's a learning
Speaker 1: experience and it just may not be this opportunity, but
Speaker 1: there'll be other things. I am a walking testament to that.
Speaker 1: And I agree with you, Lauren. I think the Flame
Speaker 1: more often than not underestimates the value that she brings
Speaker 1: into a room. Um. I think that sometimes that mouth
Speaker 1: kind of tells Flame what Flame wants here, But the
Speaker 1: rest of us see more than that, and those who
Speaker 1: get to interact with her, you know exactly who who
Speaker 1: Flame can bring to the table, so exactly I believe
Speaker 1: that you can. I bring a comb to the table
Speaker 1: because this hair is nice. You know what? You know
Speaker 1: who I look like? Remember and still make notice when
Speaker 1: Julie Roberts told her mama, who's the mama, Sally, how
Speaker 1: you want your hand down? Just make it like a
Speaker 1: football him, I'm feeling like the feeling like the football.
Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm sorry you started out. We had absolutely
Speaker 1: good afternoon, Flame, good after Lawrence. I think we'd be
Speaker 1: remiss if we did not start off with the historic
Speaker 1: events of last week, right, um. And I specifically want
Speaker 1: to point out, uh, just the amount of joy I felt.
Speaker 1: And I said to you Flame, Uh, A might being
Speaker 1: melodramatic again or overly sensitive like you you often criticize
Speaker 1: me for with feeling like maybe the weight of the
Speaker 1: world had been lifted on on Tuesday. On Wednesday, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said when it happened. The day before it happened,
Speaker 1: I said, I would like for a rainbow just too
Speaker 1: circumference America to show us that, wow, there is going
Speaker 1: to be a pot of gold in this rainbow. Now
Speaker 1: that might not be gold, but we'll take what we
Speaker 1: can get right now, and we take a stimulus. They
Speaker 1: gotta be going I take that stimulus. Any who. But
Speaker 1: when somebody painted that picture and they had all the
Speaker 1: Michelle Obamas and the Nancy Pelosi's and all with all
Speaker 1: the colors, and the young lady Gorman, all these beautiful
Speaker 1: colors and all these different flavors of people. When I
Speaker 1: say flavors of people, I'm talking about it looked like
Speaker 1: ice cream company with so many different colors. It was
Speaker 1: so great to me, so that it was it was
Speaker 1: that it made me feel inspired. And I say it
Speaker 1: on my post that we have been in some ship.
Speaker 1: We still in some ship. The difference is we now
Speaker 1: have shovels. Yeah. I think as a whole we all
Speaker 1: went like one. I think that's what everybody did. We
Speaker 1: kind of just exhaled a sigh of relief and we
Speaker 1: were all thankful to just see what our future almost
Speaker 1: it's gonna hold you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 1: know I was watching Kamala Harris, you know, put her
Speaker 1: hand on that Bible and swearing her oath. I was overjoyed, overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a myriad of feeling you know,
Speaker 1: that I had for me. But I think as a whole,
Speaker 1: we're now just finally saying, Okay, things are gonna get better.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be okay, We're going in a better direction hopefully.
Speaker 1: And within the first I would say, five days of
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, there's so many things that he's already
Speaker 1: doing to overturn what Trump did. Flame you and I
Speaker 1: talked about this on your way here today, was that
Speaker 1: he lifted the military band again trans the standard community today,
Speaker 1: So findal sight on Yeah. And he's electing me and brothers,
Speaker 1: and he's electing um, you know, someone who's a transgender
Speaker 1: to the position of Assistant Health secretary. So he's making
Speaker 1: a lot of strides in the right direction to be
Speaker 1: as inclusive and diverse as possible. Let me speak on
Speaker 1: that inclusion from the Joe Biden aspect. Thank you, Mr Biden,
Speaker 1: Thank you President Joe Biden for the inclusion, because within
Speaker 1: our own community it's not this much inclusion. We gotta
Speaker 1: stop saying that they don't like us, they don't see us,
Speaker 1: they hate us. We have a trans senator, first ever
Speaker 1: in history this year out of Pennsylvania. You're affiliates Delaware,
Speaker 1: we now have a transgender doctor. Now mind you the one,
Speaker 1: the one that works as a senator in Delaware. She's lovely,
Speaker 1: the new doctor. She looks like George Washington, the original one,
Speaker 1: but she got the position. And let me say what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We also have the ban on the military
Speaker 1: lifted for trans met and women to go back. We
Speaker 1: gotta stop with this. They don't like us, they don't
Speaker 1: see us. We gotta pick better battles to pick fights. So,
Speaker 1: because if we're not voting collectively as a as a group,
Speaker 1: the trans and gay community, who's voting for us? Because
Speaker 1: this senator was voted in. Somebody Biden knew about this woman.
Speaker 1: Biden has been more than fair to women and women
Speaker 1: of color and all sexualities. Joe Biden is something y'all think.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Geoe Biden get it in on wedding night.
Speaker 1: I mean, on inauguration night. I'm sure Kamala and how
Speaker 1: Mandeve y'all think Joe and Geo get it in. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this flame. I think that we have a responsibility,
Speaker 1: honestly as voters to also still hold this administration of
Speaker 1: comical as well. You know, don't the question, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: do you think that Joe and Geoe get it in
Speaker 1: on inauguration night? Oh? I'm not. I don't know anything, Joe.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You know, Joe Steele got
Speaker 1: the Jews. Remember when he ran to the podium. Well
Speaker 1: you remember when he ran to the podium when it
Speaker 1: was snapping him. People want to go damn. I'm an
Speaker 1: American and I want to know the FAI will say.
Speaker 1: Joe and Jill went uphill to fetch a pale and water.
Speaker 1: Jill fell down and Joe fell down on top of it.
Speaker 1: And baby, if they have another daughter, come on withever.
Speaker 1: You know what I will say about the inauguration with
Speaker 1: Jill and Joe Biden, excuse me, present Biden? And first
Speaker 1: of anybody, that bible she was holding? How big was
Speaker 1: that Bible? Did you see that? That was a workout?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like that Bible was huge bible was
Speaker 1: who was comlas. I'm not sure whose commless Bible was,
Speaker 1: but that was the Bible that Jill was holding, was
Speaker 1: like their family bible that they've had for years. Because
Speaker 1: you told me that the Bible that uh, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: this one you know, had never been touched by a woman.
Speaker 1: Was that you who told me that it had never
Speaker 1: been touched by a woman. I don't know that because
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Oh well, I don't doubt that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think that bible was actually if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: and Flames can jump in here, but I believe the
Speaker 1: Bible that Kamala used was the one that the woman
Speaker 1: who was like a mother to her had and kind
Speaker 1: of had been in the family for a while as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that historic significantly. We're here together, and I know for
Speaker 1: a fact that it was also a problem. And when
Speaker 1: to give a shout out, Lauren to your SaaS, I
Speaker 1: think that it was definitely a problem for a k
Speaker 1: s around the globe who were not surprised. I saw
Speaker 1: a number of her line sisters help me here, Lauren,
Speaker 1: who were just talking about No, we're not surprised. She's
Speaker 1: always been a leader. And this is, uh, this is
Speaker 1: what we come to expect of all of our sisters,
Speaker 1: that we can make a difference in the world. And
Speaker 1: now the world is seeing the power of what sororities
Speaker 1: can do and be. And Kamala is a shining example. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And I wore my a k swich her two work
Speaker 1: that day and everybody saw it and I had no shame.
Speaker 1: And I also to want to point out that Kamala
Speaker 1: wore the color royal purple and that was actually an
Speaker 1: o to Shirley Chisholm. So yeah, so its overall. It
Speaker 1: was just there was a lot of subliminal and significant
Speaker 1: things happening at the inauguration that day. So um more,
Speaker 1: I'm learning swore her in Latino woman. Uh surely chisum
Speaker 1: If you guys don't know, what's the first black woman
Speaker 1: to ever run for president? This is way back in
Speaker 1: the seventies. Baby, she was Maxine Water per personifat Maxine
Speaker 1: Water is like a little ruty poot next to Shirley Chismen.
Speaker 1: Surely chisen didn't play the games at all. That lady
Speaker 1: will hit you, I think for really, you know, I
Speaker 1: know we have a special guest today and before we
Speaker 1: go go there, I want to talk about a couple
Speaker 1: more things with the inauguration specifically before we move on.
Speaker 1: I also want to recognize Amanda Gorman. We talked about
Speaker 1: just how inspiring she was, and I loved that this
Speaker 1: young woman stood there and delivered I think what was
Speaker 1: a poem for all time and it was definitely one
Speaker 1: built and based on hope and inspiration. And I love
Speaker 1: to see young people who don't feel defeated, you know
Speaker 1: that that she just really seemed to feel empowered and
Speaker 1: that's the message she wanted to share. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I think it was also beautiful too because she was
Speaker 1: the youngest inaugural poet in the history of inaugurations, and
Speaker 1: her her poem was just, um, it was heartfelt, it
Speaker 1: was engaging, and it was just one that you could
Speaker 1: really connect with, you know. So I just want to,
Speaker 1: you know, congratulate her on that she's been actually speaking
Speaker 1: for a long time and she had a speech impediment
Speaker 1: when she was younger, so this was a real accomplishment
Speaker 1: for her, and just shout out to black girl magic
Speaker 1: in general because she did the damn thing. Can they
Speaker 1: just talk about that this young black sister was a
Speaker 1: regular looking, a very attractive black woman, dark skin because
Speaker 1: you know, you've always got this whole thing about the
Speaker 1: lights and the darks. And she wore bright yellow so
Speaker 1: you could see her ask from cross the pond, baby,
Speaker 1: oh my god, with that bill riding. She had a
Speaker 1: beautiful smile. She's I did not see her speech because
Speaker 1: I had the rush to come to work to rehearsal
Speaker 1: that day, but I saw the after on CND and
Speaker 1: she was fantastic. She was like wow. I held myself
Speaker 1: that she spoke such powerful words. I wish I could
Speaker 1: speak powerful like that. I don't speak proberful, just talked
Speaker 1: to my ship. But y'all like it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was beautiful. I did. I just thought everything worked in concert.
Speaker 1: I even I'm even gonna say that I thought that
Speaker 1: the pre produced special was good. You know that that
Speaker 1: it moved. I'm going to even say this. This is
Speaker 1: where it even gets a little more interesting. I think
Speaker 1: that it was probably better because of the pandemic, if
Speaker 1: you want to know the truth, and because of the
Speaker 1: security concerns. I felt like it was more orchestrated and coordinated,
Speaker 1: and it moved. It was never boring, like I watched
Speaker 1: the event over and I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: a little bit of this. But I thought Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: really moved it along. I thought it was an interesting
Speaker 1: mix of people. I even called I think Lauren, i e.
Speaker 1: They're texted to or flame. I'm like, who is this
Speaker 1: girl with the short hair singing? I didn't even recognize
Speaker 1: Demi Levado? And I thought Demi Levado absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, you know, we're doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of riffing and everything there. Yeah. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was really well done. We're gonna talk about singing. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the beginning part of the singing too. Who
Speaker 1: sang jolo Jo looked lovely, she said, Jelo stayed in harrange.
Speaker 1: Good girl, smart girl. Well, I said this. I think
Speaker 1: Jaylo was prerecorded, similar to how Beyonce was when she
Speaker 1: participated in the Barack Obama's inauguration, because it was just
Speaker 1: the fact that she didn't hit a bad note. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody knows Jaylo's not the best singer in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the fact that she didn't hit a bad note made
Speaker 1: me a little skeptical, like, okay, maybe this was prerecorded. Overall,
Speaker 1: though fabulous drop to her. You know, kudos to Jolo,
Speaker 1: but just my thoughts. Okay, now before we leave and
Speaker 1: go with Jim Cory, I have to give homage to
Speaker 1: Chicago because when I tell you that super Fly and
Speaker 1: black Mama, White Mama, she would walk through them do
Speaker 1: it when Michelle bust them doors open with that long
Speaker 1: flowing hair and that burgundy MAXI coote like the matrix
Speaker 1: with them pants and that big old buck bell buck.
Speaker 1: I said, you know what you told black drink of water.
Speaker 1: Can't call her that baby? Tell my ass up, I screamed.
Speaker 1: And they walked down the stairs like they like Millie
Speaker 1: Jackson said, and loves and girlfriends. They walked in like
Speaker 1: they own the motherfucker. I said, yes, that's how you
Speaker 1: bumped through the stairs. Flame. I saw a couple of
Speaker 1: women say Michelle walked through those doors like two seconds
Speaker 1: before she took those rollers out and saying, Okay, hold
Speaker 1: these rollers, let's go. We're right here. And he was
Speaker 1: holding his wife's hands so proudly. Something I like, I
Speaker 1: like they love. I like what I see on the
Speaker 1: outside looking at it. I'm not on the other side.
Speaker 1: But for what they show us, I like their love.
Speaker 1: But you know what, plame Barack better hold Michelle type
Speaker 1: because everybody loves Michelle George, everybody, Garth Brooks the way
Speaker 1: he ran over there, everybody was running over to Michelle.
Speaker 1: Michelle was definitely from Hawaii. He is not any from Chicago.
Speaker 1: He ain't pressed at all that nigga skills will always
Speaker 1: keep her at home. Now I understand what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Come out one of the topics we were going to
Speaker 1: talk about, and then we found out we had Joe
Speaker 1: Koy as a special guest today. We were we were
Speaker 1: going to talk about the working homeless, because one of
Speaker 1: our Instagram followers sent me a message saying that they
Speaker 1: had taken and they had taken a lift ride and
Speaker 1: they could just tell some and was off with this
Speaker 1: driver and this particular driver had been living in their
Speaker 1: car and they said, hey, Nick, I was not going
Speaker 1: to report them, but it just reminded me that there
Speaker 1: are still people who are struggling right now, and that
Speaker 1: just because we have a new administration, we can't forget
Speaker 1: the fact that there are those who are still struggling,
Speaker 1: still in need of assistance and support in many different ways.
Speaker 1: So let's just keep that in mind, and we'll we'll
Speaker 1: do a deeper dive on he was living in the
Speaker 1: kind and draving that's called rolling and just let me go,
Speaker 1: let me go to work, and you just sit up
Speaker 1: a side draft, let me go to work. You just
Speaker 1: sit up and side drab. But but it's it's inflame.
Speaker 1: Is it's an acknowledgement to that that you know, we
Speaker 1: were talking about that there's some people who are just
Speaker 1: trying to make it the best way that they can,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's just it's still tough for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. And one thing I do want to
Speaker 1: just touch on really quickly before we get into our
Speaker 1: special guests. We did want to make sure that we
Speaker 1: honored and recognized the legendary Hank Aaron as well. He
Speaker 1: was the phenomenal baseball player who just passed this past week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just giving you some facts about him. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was born in February and mobile out Obama, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't actually allowed to play organized high school baseball
Speaker 1: because it was whites only. Um. But despite all of
Speaker 1: you know, the racism and all of just the the
Speaker 1: criticism that he received, you know, he was the National
Speaker 1: League MVP seven, the same year that the Braves won
Speaker 1: the World Series. Um he was a two time National
Speaker 1: League batting champion, a three time Gold Glove winner in
Speaker 1: the right field, and a record five time All Star,
Speaker 1: earning that honor every season but his first and his last.
Speaker 1: So we would be remiss if we didn't pay homage
Speaker 1: to him, say thank you for all of your accomplishments,
Speaker 1: thank you for all of your civil rights activism, and
Speaker 1: thank you for paving the way for others to be
Speaker 1: able to be in this profession and excel in this sport.
Speaker 1: Is that why they told try to tell the capital
Speaker 1: of last week because those white only signs will be
Speaker 1: becoming a thing of the pants that we probably never
Speaker 1: see them again. Who knows. There's a myriad of things.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expected to answer. I was just, you know,
Speaker 1: throwing out, you know how we do, but but interestingly
Speaker 1: enough to and you know, Nick, please chime and if
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts though. Hank Aaron also received the
Speaker 1: COVID vaccine on January six and passed away two weeks later,
Speaker 1: which people were kind of drawing a bit of a
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna call it a conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: but they're drawing parallel to to say, he was eighty
Speaker 1: six years old, got a COVID vaccine, and two weeks later,
Speaker 1: you know, he passed away while he was sleeping. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think, Um In all I say, I
Speaker 1: think that, like you and I kind of talked about before,
Speaker 1: I think out of respect to the family. I understand
Speaker 1: that is definitely circulating online. Um, but I think that
Speaker 1: out of respect to the family and out of deference
Speaker 1: to what we do not know, since this man is
Speaker 1: indeed someone who deserves it, that that level of respect.
Speaker 1: That until the family says that they believe that there's
Speaker 1: a link or some type of tie, I I agree
Speaker 1: that I would avoid that as well. They're just simply
Speaker 1: because I don't know. I want to compound their pain
Speaker 1: right now, because I think it has to be difficult
Speaker 1: to when you have someone who is what considered by
Speaker 1: many to be a national treasure, to lose them. You
Speaker 1: don't only lose them to yourself, you lose them to
Speaker 1: everyone else, who then wants to reach out to you
Speaker 1: to say, oh, Lauren, I'm so sorry for your loss. O, Lauren,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for your loss, So you almost grieve
Speaker 1: it over and over again, or like many talk about
Speaker 1: it and when you have lost you find your time yourself,
Speaker 1: yourself trying to comfort them. They're they're they're breaking down.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh you know what, Rosetta, rosetta ms Rosetta. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm remand you with your mama told you, uh oh,
Speaker 1: I'm go ahead, go ahead. No no, no, no with you,
Speaker 1: but we both of y'all what y'are saying, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be politically correct. I'm not taking the vaccine.
Speaker 1: It's too much still coming out with this vaccine. One
Speaker 1: is one disease, right is there It's one coronavirus, right,
Speaker 1: Well there's different strands, Yeah, there are different, but how
Speaker 1: many companies? Then why don't you talking about where we
Speaker 1: had predicting the next three months is going to be
Speaker 1: this virus so that's when you're gonna release it. Because
Speaker 1: if you could predict that, why you didn't predict the
Speaker 1: billion the numbers for the billionaire? A lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: Ship don't uh all that speculation. I understand what everybody saying.
Speaker 1: I even understand your inboxes when y'all sent me flame.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be against the vaccine. You can't speak for me,
Speaker 1: because I don't speak for you. If you want to
Speaker 1: take it, take it. If you don't want to take it,
Speaker 1: don't take it. But don't let nobody tell you what
Speaker 1: to do. Well, we don't want to make that the focus.
Speaker 1: So you want to talk about hanking. So anyway, rest
Speaker 1: in peace to legend he wait a minute, didn't Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you can't be by name after him back in
Speaker 1: the seventies and eighties or something. No, you're thinking, did he?
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to baby Ruth. But Henry,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, yes, he did know about that years
Speaker 1: before you. I was looking up some things after he
Speaker 1: passed away, so I didn't see that, you know anything
Speaker 1: that's something to do with the food. My fat's gonna remember? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh name, give me, give me? Oh Henry, Oh that
Speaker 1: sounds so dirty. Oh hey, what do you want? Oh Henry?
Speaker 1: Miss Jess where are you? See you all up in
Speaker 1: the comments? We are coming to you, Miss Jess as
Speaker 1: a as a as a beautiful Latino woman who watched
Speaker 1: another beautiful Latino woman. Well, I don't know about so
Speaker 1: to my arm, she s high FLA, how are you
Speaker 1: how are you feeling? I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: see you. I was in and out of quite a
Speaker 1: few things, quite a few spaces. Uh huh, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. You got to see one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Chicago singers, Teresa. Yes, I love her. I hung out
Speaker 1: with Teresa a little bit. So how do you feel
Speaker 1: after the whole um Um inauguration and everything, all the
Speaker 1: festivities from last week? You know what? I actually I
Speaker 1: feel like we're getting into back into a uh a
Speaker 1: kind of normal because, as you see, it was cold
Speaker 1: here in Chicago. The winner finally showed up. It's always
Speaker 1: cold in Chicago. And y'all carjacking car why they steal
Speaker 1: in everybody's car, that cargo. Yeah, I know about that.
Speaker 1: That That car jacking is ridiculous. It's getting out it.
Speaker 1: It's it's really bad right now, carjackings, really carjacking people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really hot in the wicker Park, you know
Speaker 1: where wicker Park is flaying wicker Park, and and in
Speaker 1: like Logan Square and the gender fied neighborhoods. It's really
Speaker 1: bad though. That the carjacking, it's kind of like scary
Speaker 1: and more scary than than normal. So they're back into me.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you how it's happening. Because I
Speaker 1: went out with my girlfriends the other night. We went
Speaker 1: to get taffy apples Becau that wanted some taffy apples,
Speaker 1: and we were in the grocery, so the cars kind
Speaker 1: of boxed you in to like one is on this side,
Speaker 1: one is understand. So when you're backing out, then another
Speaker 1: on pools behind you, so you kind of boxing. They
Speaker 1: just and so I was I was paranoid, like are
Speaker 1: they trying to jack us because we were boxing? I
Speaker 1: think they were just maneuvering their car. So I told
Speaker 1: my sister Tiff, baby, I'm about to hit this games
Speaker 1: pedal back and straight on. We're about to just go
Speaker 1: forward because you know I'm on there that we I
Speaker 1: don't know to get away. But it wasn't that, it
Speaker 1: was it was it was It was scary. It was
Speaker 1: scary because you can't go to gas stations in certain neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: especially after a certain time, because they're getting you at
Speaker 1: the gas stations. Why are you going into gas when
Speaker 1: you come back their way? Doing you what? That sounds
Speaker 1: like training day to me. So we have a big,
Speaker 1: a big spot North Avenue, Damon and Milwaukee Avenue and
Speaker 1: I know flame and all my other Chicago people know
Speaker 1: where that is. So that's a that's a train stop,
Speaker 1: a major bus stops because there's three bus lines there
Speaker 1: and the train and the cars, and that's a hotspot
Speaker 1: for car jacking right there in the area. We have
Speaker 1: twelve year old riding on bicycles with guns too. My
Speaker 1: husband was like, he came home from work and he says,
Speaker 1: you know this is mine you two summers ago, he said,
Speaker 1: I saw a kid with a bicycle branding is ship branding?
Speaker 1: Is sh it? Oh, I can't say that word. It
Speaker 1: um at at people that were walking by. It's on
Speaker 1: the bicycle. I said, get out of here. I go
Speaker 1: to Julie's call the police. He said, no, I said,
Speaker 1: I was trying to get home. It's a very scary situation.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pray for all my people in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Y'all be careful because it's dangerous out there and the
Speaker 1: tide people get for money, and the longer we have
Speaker 1: to wait, no, the worst is going to be for us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they don't need a good whooping. It's too
Speaker 1: late for their Angela herd. They don't need a whoop
Speaker 1: and it's too late for whoopings and sometimes you missed
Speaker 1: that opportunity. What do you think about the homeless story
Speaker 1: that Nick was a really talking about as well before
Speaker 1: he went out, Actually, I'm the one who sent the message.
Speaker 1: Oh it was you. Okay, So where did you say? So?
Speaker 1: Where did you see the story? I mean, I went
Speaker 1: to the grocery store Friday and I called for a lift.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to get my driver in trouble.
Speaker 1: So thank god my name is it on here as
Speaker 1: as as well as my lift account um, because I
Speaker 1: don't want to get the driver in trouble. He I
Speaker 1: was putting my groceries in the in the trunk and
Speaker 1: I looked at it was real neat, but there were
Speaker 1: things in there and I was like, why does he
Speaker 1: have you know, this, this, this tote and stuff? And
Speaker 1: I I asked him, are you living out of your car? Again?
Speaker 1: I have no filter? And he said why, He goes,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? I said, well, I'm just asking you.
Speaker 1: I wasn't afraid or anything, but I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta I just it just hit you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like it all lined up in that quick second,
Speaker 1: you know, in the back of my head. It just
Speaker 1: added up. And so after are a couple of moments
Speaker 1: of him like, oh you know, have you had experience?
Speaker 1: But blah, you know, back and forth banter. He said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, but he said, uh, you can't
Speaker 1: report me. I said, well, no, I'm not gonna report you,
Speaker 1: because if I report you, you're gonna report me and
Speaker 1: my customer rating will go down. I was trying to
Speaker 1: make I was trying to make him feel comfortable, you know,
Speaker 1: with my banter, and found out that he actually decided,
Speaker 1: well not decided, but because of financial circumstances, he started
Speaker 1: to sell things off and minimalize his life, um, to
Speaker 1: try to pay off debt, you know, and get himself
Speaker 1: in a better place. So he is sleeping in his
Speaker 1: trunk and he actually got blessed. I hope everybody prayed
Speaker 1: for him. Um. He was supposed to be leaving here
Speaker 1: Chicago to drive to Georgia yesterday Sunday. Wait, he was
Speaker 1: living in the trunk. Yeah, he sleeps. He was sleeping.
Speaker 1: He sleeps in his trunk. He showed me the pictures.
Speaker 1: He explained to me how we did it. I said,
Speaker 1: do you need a blanket, do you want something to eat?
Speaker 1: I you know, as he's driving me to my home,
Speaker 1: I was asking them these things. I was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, and we we had a real nice conversation.
Speaker 1: I asked him, are you sure you know this is
Speaker 1: you know you're you're safe tonight because it was gonna
Speaker 1: be ton degrees or fifteen degrees at night in Chicago.
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, you know, I just let us
Speaker 1: just tell you thank you because black folks in Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican folks just like that. We might not invite you
Speaker 1: to come in that house, but we damn Su'll give
Speaker 1: you a blanket and we'll feed you. Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to play. I give you we got some extra beefstill,
Speaker 1: we got some extra super here. Well we'll feed you.
Speaker 1: We got some extra fire cheeck. But you ain't coming
Speaker 1: to say that house. I don't know you like that.
Speaker 1: We want your thank you, just saying I think I
Speaker 1: just saw our boy. We're gonna bring our special guests on.
Speaker 1: Just thank you for popping in with us. Thank you, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I'm glad you didn't report
Speaker 1: that man either. I'm not going to know. I know
Speaker 1: that would have been musty. I might have been like, dude,
Speaker 1: this cars out I'm calling in. Does that make a difference, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely does. Let me do what I do, Honey,
Speaker 1: y'alln't just be mad. Ladies and gentlemen, Please welcome to
Speaker 1: our show to laugh and learn. Our very special guest today,
Speaker 1: the one and only funny smart Uh. What's my word? Yang?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know if I like you
Speaker 1: without the glasses, with the glasses. Without the glasses, you
Speaker 1: look real sneaky, Joe. So now you look like a teacher.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Now you look like a pedophile. Take
Speaker 1: the glasses. How about what I'm doing in roll? Look
Speaker 1: what I'm doing? Are you wrong? In the studio right now,
Speaker 1: I'm doing the audio version of my book. Very good.
Speaker 1: You want to grant me for that? I'm I'm speaking
Speaker 1: into it, fruition, You're gonna win. Give me that, Give
Speaker 1: me that. Let me start off by saying, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us today. I appreciate you. Like,
Speaker 1: can I just say something real quick? Sure? We had
Speaker 1: to schedule another studio time? Uh for this, for this,
Speaker 1: for reading this book? Because I had no idea. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how to read. I had no idea I
Speaker 1: cannot read to save my life, Monroe, I'm reading my
Speaker 1: own book and uh, we're adding studio sessions. This is hard.
Speaker 1: It's it's also emotional too, so it's like reading my
Speaker 1: own words and going and reliving what I wrote about
Speaker 1: is also just as hard, you know. So it takes
Speaker 1: a toll on you mentally. Well we are. We all
Speaker 1: read differently because you know what happens that when you write,
Speaker 1: like like when you write your material, if flow is
Speaker 1: once because you do it and you do what you
Speaker 1: do it. But when you just have to read it
Speaker 1: code just like code paid cold turkey, it could be
Speaker 1: a little rough, It could be a little challenging. At
Speaker 1: least you got your glasses. I don't even have my
Speaker 1: real glasses on. I don't even read. All I see
Speaker 1: is your teeth. I don't see. All I see is
Speaker 1: your teeth. You're ridiculous, Joe. You are so freaking hilarious.
Speaker 1: But you know what I love about you the absolute most.
Speaker 1: That that relationship that you have with your son. That
Speaker 1: when you talk about that, because I talked about my kids,
Speaker 1: don't say when you talk about that, you people always
Speaker 1: say that was a joke, That was a joke. There
Speaker 1: is always some truth to some of those stories, and
Speaker 1: you know, you have to listen between to find out
Speaker 1: what is real and what is not. But dude, Joe
Speaker 1: hustle is like, great, you got the Kevin Hard Times.
Speaker 1: All you agents got that good hustle. I always say
Speaker 1: that agents got the most disciplined. I think I'm part
Speaker 1: of Asia. I'm Kim Joey, but you ain't met her yet.
Speaker 1: I think it's just staying word. I just don't want
Speaker 1: to be hungry man. Like you know, I'm like, it
Speaker 1: took me this long to get here, and I really
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to selling shoes at North
Speaker 1: to Wreck. So I'm gonna maintain this and uh and
Speaker 1: do what it what it takes to to to stay here. So,
Speaker 1: and you were doing comedy thirty years, right, thirty years,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be thirty one year pretty soon. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: see people always thinking because they see you, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he just break out coming. He just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: They don't know all the years that you be in
Speaker 1: the trenches and doing the hole in the wall clubs
Speaker 1: and getting walked out on by the promoters. And he
Speaker 1: was only getting twenty fives and then when I got
Speaker 1: tea in for you. Oh my god, y'all don't know
Speaker 1: those horrible days. So it's very worth it when you
Speaker 1: come and say stuff like that that you know it
Speaker 1: took you a long time to get here, and you
Speaker 1: got to suck the bone, marrow out the bone, Joe,
Speaker 1: get it all. Get it. You don't know how you
Speaker 1: Filipinos do. I used to day the Filipino hilarious. You're
Speaker 1: so funny. Listen. Let me. We were just talking about
Speaker 1: this with my son because my son doesn't want to
Speaker 1: eat chicken anymore. And uh, and I was like, you
Speaker 1: gotta see how my brothers. The way my brother ate
Speaker 1: chicken is disgusting. He would he would know off the
Speaker 1: cartilage crunch it that he cracked the middle and sucked
Speaker 1: the meryl. So what you're saying is not a lie.
Speaker 1: That sounds nutrition though it was so bad it was
Speaker 1: would be into the poor room. Just like I can't
Speaker 1: eat anymore, Robert. I look at my brother eating just
Speaker 1: like I can't eat. Man. So let me introduce you
Speaker 1: to Own because he's in Arkansas. He also does the
Speaker 1: news over there in Arkansas. We watching so Lauren been
Speaker 1: watching you. She knew who you was. Of course I did.
Speaker 1: Nicholas knew who you were. But we've been just getting
Speaker 1: freshened up on some of your stuff that you have done.
Speaker 1: Because you've got two Netflix specials on now or three
Speaker 1: three three Next Successors on right now, that's been trending
Speaker 1: for what two years? Yeah, change changed my life actually
Speaker 1: this last one. You did that Lord, and I was
Speaker 1: talking about that because what Tiffany did for me was
Speaker 1: bring me on because nobody else would have given me
Speaker 1: that opportunity. All those people that you brought on, you
Speaker 1: given those opportunities. That payback is great, Joe, What made
Speaker 1: you think that? Um? You know, it's it's me as
Speaker 1: a kid and not having an identity, you know, being
Speaker 1: being a mixed kid. You struggle, right, you stand on
Speaker 1: the fence and it's like, I'm white, but I'm also Filipino,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm proud of being Filipino. And then
Speaker 1: you know, when my mom and dad divorced, I gravitated
Speaker 1: towards the Filipino side. So trying to get into this
Speaker 1: industry and talking about my mom and and knowing getting
Speaker 1: it and and watching TV and there's no representation. You know,
Speaker 1: when I when I finally got that opportunity to open
Speaker 1: the door. I was like, I'm gonna let them all in,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm I'm gonna get Filipino dancers, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get Filipino singers, I'm gonna get a Filipino producer, I'm
Speaker 1: Filipino rappers. Everything. I'm gonna get everybody in this door
Speaker 1: that I can, just to give us that that one
Speaker 1: little chance, that little opportunity to show the world what
Speaker 1: our culture is all about. And that's what that was
Speaker 1: all all about. Literally, that's what I pitched in the room.
Speaker 1: It was great, it was It was a phenomenal. My
Speaker 1: whole thing is I love when we bring recognition to
Speaker 1: the arts, specifically because I think that as a whole,
Speaker 1: the arts isn't value to something important anymore, which I
Speaker 1: think is ludicrous and just so unfortunate. So when you
Speaker 1: brought all those different elements from music to dance to comedy,
Speaker 1: it was just like a great mashup of just what
Speaker 1: you know we should really what makes us happy really,
Speaker 1: So for me, that was probably my favorite special so
Speaker 1: far that you've done, because I'm sure there's going to
Speaker 1: be more, because like you said, you're hungry so I
Speaker 1: know that there's definitely going to be more. But being
Speaker 1: being that you've had this thirty year career though, one
Speaker 1: who was your inspiration to even get you to be
Speaker 1: in this space just in comedy, the space of comedy
Speaker 1: wherever you want to take it. It was Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: There was something about Eddie like I was already into
Speaker 1: stand up, like I loved Richard and I loved Arland
Speaker 1: and all that. You know, we're talking like nineteen eight,
Speaker 1: one eighty two, right, I was getting into comedy. But
Speaker 1: just something about the youthful and the hipness and the
Speaker 1: coolness factor of Eddie that that resonated with me, Like
Speaker 1: I enjoyed listening to him, like he was something. He
Speaker 1: was cool to look at, you know, the way he
Speaker 1: walked on stage, the way I don't know, just everything
Speaker 1: about that guy, the way he talked about his mom,
Speaker 1: the way he talked about his uncle, like it was
Speaker 1: just I don't know everything that he did. I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta be him. I want to be I want
Speaker 1: to be Eddie. I want to tell stories like Eddie
Speaker 1: you did, because that that that gangster uncle that don't
Speaker 1: get away as uncle here when you talk about your
Speaker 1: gangster sisters. That is hilarious to me. But let me
Speaker 1: tell you someone. They always say web black men don't
Speaker 1: dave black women because they grew up with black sisters.
Speaker 1: Because when I tell are you all day? And my
Speaker 1: son is like, I'm getting anything but as black girl,
Speaker 1: And that's bad to say, but it's the true Joe
Speaker 1: that is. And you. I love that you are raw
Speaker 1: and fentic and you say so much of what people
Speaker 1: are thinking. And I hate that comedy has become so
Speaker 1: censured that we can't say anything without offending these groups.
Speaker 1: But I don't commend you for being just like me,
Speaker 1: but just Filipino. I'm part of Filipino to I'm Kim Joy. Say,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Kim Joy. Lets. So Kim Joy is
Speaker 1: a character I created because people always say that I
Speaker 1: got Asian ask because especially if I had an edible
Speaker 1: and I'd be looking really really uh. And that's my
Speaker 1: little blocker, because you know, you get the haters on
Speaker 1: your on your social media. So Kim Joy will show
Speaker 1: up and like the beauty supply, we will black you.
Speaker 1: That should be a tour. I can see that tour.
Speaker 1: Kim Joy Coy and Kim Joy the Yang and the Twain. Yeah, twin,
Speaker 1: y'all ask me why I'm telling When I saw you,
Speaker 1: uh you know when uh, when Tipney did the That's
Speaker 1: Special with everybody. Man. I mean, first of all, everyone
Speaker 1: trusted you that night, you know, and I became fans
Speaker 1: of everybody that night. But man, you you man, you
Speaker 1: laid it down. I remember I hit the fallow button
Speaker 1: right away when I watched yours. I went to Instagram.
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, who is this? Yeah, specially your
Speaker 1: next special could be built around that Christmas tree. How
Speaker 1: big was that? True? Joe? Oh my god, twenty two
Speaker 1: and a half feet It was crazy. Yeah. I saw
Speaker 1: you in your family putting that up the lad I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, now that's just doing it to being
Speaker 1: Joe that it's never too big. During the times up
Speaker 1: we're in right now, I had to give myself the
Speaker 1: best Christmas, and I had to get the whole family
Speaker 1: the best Christmas. We were all stressed out. So I
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, let's do this big. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: the name of my special, my next special. It's never
Speaker 1: to be. Yeah. We'll also tell you you kind of
Speaker 1: just mentioned something, being that this is a pandemic. How
Speaker 1: have you been handling it being a dad? Like, what's
Speaker 1: what's been going on? Man? I've been loving this year
Speaker 1: like I've never This is my first time being with
Speaker 1: my son a whole year, like a whole year, every
Speaker 1: weekend and with my son like that's the last I
Speaker 1: mean for the whole time my son has been born.
Speaker 1: I've been always gone every weekend. You know that. That's
Speaker 1: that's the life of a comic. And man, two thousand
Speaker 1: twenty was just I know it sucked, but man, I
Speaker 1: loved it. I was with my son every single day,
Speaker 1: and and thank god I was in a position where
Speaker 1: I can financially do that, and and you know, and
Speaker 1: I know that there's people out there that are struggling,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for things to get back to
Speaker 1: normal again. But god, damn, I loved every minute with
Speaker 1: my son. It was the best. Okay, So Joe, I
Speaker 1: gotta ask, because you've got a lot of swag, and
Speaker 1: you say you Filipino and white. Where did you get
Speaker 1: out of this way from from the Filippino from? I
Speaker 1: think that's on the Filipino side. My brother, if you
Speaker 1: ever met my brother, he was he was women, he
Speaker 1: was wearing women's taper jeans in the eighties because he
Speaker 1: was the only thing that was tapered. You know, guys
Speaker 1: usually have the straight legs in the back of the day.
Speaker 1: My brother was already wearing uh, women's genes, but doll
Speaker 1: sassoon and like, look how it looks. Joe goes right
Speaker 1: off top of my boots. And he was right, like,
Speaker 1: I want women's genes too, but for very different reasons.
Speaker 1: But that's buddy. Yeah, my brother always had that swag. Man,
Speaker 1: there was something about him, and you know, and and
Speaker 1: Filipinos just got that that Spanish influence, that that swag
Speaker 1: that it's it's pretty cool, man. So I've always been
Speaker 1: in touch with the culture. You know, now you and
Speaker 1: you know what's beautiful about that because they always want
Speaker 1: to tell each culture that you need to do this,
Speaker 1: to try to go to go with the flow of
Speaker 1: whatever culture is supposed to be the crim crime culture,
Speaker 1: and then you lose who you are. I never wanted
Speaker 1: to lose my blackness. I never wanted to lose my
Speaker 1: lgbt qness. But it's only a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: I never wanted to lose who I was as a
Speaker 1: comic because when you let people mold you to who
Speaker 1: they want you to be, you lose yourself and then
Speaker 1: you lose what you could really have could have been.
Speaker 1: And I love that you so stay so true to
Speaker 1: who you are and keep your culture right there in
Speaker 1: the front, because I talked about the real stuff and
Speaker 1: and people always say you just tell everything and so authentic,
Speaker 1: Joe Coy, you tell everything. That is what makes us
Speaker 1: love you because when you talk about those stories about
Speaker 1: the mama and how you grew up, and you know
Speaker 1: we were We all have had hard times. We have
Speaker 1: different faces and different skin color, but a lot of
Speaker 1: us have the same stories, just from different nationalities. And
Speaker 1: I love I love the fact that that that's funny
Speaker 1: is universal. You know, we all speak the same language
Speaker 1: when it comes to funny. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like when I tell my mom and how she disciplined
Speaker 1: or how she took care of me, and then getting
Speaker 1: a response from people that aren't Filipino, go, my mom
Speaker 1: did the same thing. I'm like, exactly, because moms are moms.
Speaker 1: Just my mom happens to be Filipino, but she's still
Speaker 1: a mom. She's doing mom ship. Like we can all relate.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that I'm Filipino, that you're not gonna
Speaker 1: understand what I'm talking about. Filipinos are nicer though, because
Speaker 1: she let you stay till you was twenty eight, and
Speaker 1: the black House you got to about and no matter what,
Speaker 1: they don't change. They moved the house a lot, like
Speaker 1: a big spatula. Come and move the house around to
Speaker 1: the two blocks over. You won't even know where. It's
Speaker 1: a hilarious. But speaking of your family though, because I
Speaker 1: just watched in his Elements your Special, was that joke
Speaker 1: about your aunt true we're regarding your name? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: just found that out, really just found that out. I
Speaker 1: never knew what Joe Coy meant because her sister, my
Speaker 1: AUNTI Lynn, she called her Langoy. That was her nickname,
Speaker 1: so she always called her Langoy, and mine was Joe Koy,
Speaker 1: So I thought she'd just like to put ois at
Speaker 1: the end of the names. And then last year she
Speaker 1: or yeah, last year or two years ago, she goes,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't call you Joe Joy. I call
Speaker 1: you a joke all and I'm like, and that's why
Speaker 1: I had no idea. And co means mine, so intang
Speaker 1: cole beats mine. And then Joe. So she was her
Speaker 1: nickname for me is my Joe. And this whole time
Speaker 1: I thought she was calling me Joe Coy. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this ship wrong for years. Is paying off names.
Speaker 1: Everybody gonna come and see Joe code and we all
Speaker 1: know Joe con't this nigga must be a knockoff of No,
Speaker 1: we don't want the knockoff nigga. We want the Filipino brother. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: that's so amazing that you didn't know that. But we
Speaker 1: actually have some people in the comments that are asking questions.
Speaker 1: So are you up for some questions from some of
Speaker 1: our claim Its okay? Here they come, so um, somebody's
Speaker 1: asking Joe Coy, tell us about your teeth. They're all fake.
Speaker 1: They're all faked. It is the most expensive toilet you'll
Speaker 1: ever see. I spent almost I bought two sets of
Speaker 1: Veneers and my first set was fifty eight thousand and
Speaker 1: the second one was six thousand. I got it from
Speaker 1: Dr mcdahi in Beverly Hills. He's the best. He's been
Speaker 1: on Oprah. He he's amazing, he's been on doctors. This
Speaker 1: guy does the best set of teeth. I fell on
Speaker 1: a rock when I was twelve. Twelve years old, I
Speaker 1: fell on a boulder, face first and knocked out my
Speaker 1: fore front teeth, all four of them. They're all broken
Speaker 1: in half. So my whole until I was like thirty
Speaker 1: years old, I had like these big brown teeth that
Speaker 1: were just they were hideous. And Uh. When I finally
Speaker 1: got money, I'm like, I'm gonna change this ship right now.
Speaker 1: You change it. They shot, but you tell that doctor
Speaker 1: Huluka whatever his name is, that's what they can do.
Speaker 1: You got a discount because I can't affords. Good guy
Speaker 1: didn't cost that much. Good God. Yeah it was pricey,
Speaker 1: but it was worth it. I am very excited to
Speaker 1: one day be in the same space with you and
Speaker 1: be on the stage with you because I didn't think
Speaker 1: that the energy will be fantastic. Well, we gotta get
Speaker 1: it is damn pandemic. And well I'm asking you about
Speaker 1: this pandemic, Joe, what do you think about this whole
Speaker 1: vaccine thing? What's your take on the vaccine? I don't
Speaker 1: know even how. I don't even know how to speak
Speaker 1: on that right now. It's you know, it's a sensitive
Speaker 1: time right now. You know you're talking to a guy
Speaker 1: that's never taking a flu shot because I don't believe
Speaker 1: in flu shots. Uh, we're talking about a guy that's uh,
Speaker 1: that has a child that I don't give vaccines to
Speaker 1: and I've never had because I've heard a lot of
Speaker 1: things about vaccines, you know what I mean. So what
Speaker 1: do I do now? Like, where do I go? Where
Speaker 1: do I stand? What? We're at a different time now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to act or how to respond.
Speaker 1: And then also my livelihood depends on on this decision
Speaker 1: as well, I feel, so as of right now, the
Speaker 1: vaccine can go. We'll go fund itself until it becomes right,
Speaker 1: until I don't see somebody fading or dying from it.
Speaker 1: Myself in this little booth. My mama told me, when
Speaker 1: you don't know what the dude, don't do nothing. So
Speaker 1: and you're not sure, don't do anything. Just keep doing
Speaker 1: what you're doing, which is making us laugh and keeping
Speaker 1: that hustle on and take care of that baby. Is
Speaker 1: that the only kid you want? You don't want anymore? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's he's he's my guy. Man. He changed my life. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great time right now. He's like he's
Speaker 1: like finding is uh, he's finding what he wants to
Speaker 1: be in life, and it's just fun to watch him
Speaker 1: do that and uh be on the outside like my
Speaker 1: like watching watching him make this decision, his life decision,
Speaker 1: and I'm enjoying it because I'm a support him. I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be like my mom and tell him not
Speaker 1: to do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna support him on this. Joe,
Speaker 1: you ain't got but one key, Joe pullout game must
Speaker 1: be wonderful. My pullout game as ship perfect. Right you
Speaker 1: on the river him? You get that beat? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: know when to jump out like Chinese throw jump in,
Speaker 1: jump out and jump and jump on being jump out, baby,
Speaker 1: I know when to jump in. I'd begetting to jump
Speaker 1: out on time. You know black You know black folks
Speaker 1: don't do it on time because we never had cocks.
Speaker 1: When we was in the field, we had to wait
Speaker 1: for somebody to say it's Quentin time. So I don't
Speaker 1: nobody tell me it's Quentin time, so I just keep
Speaker 1: going ship. Okay, Wait, what's the name of the book.
Speaker 1: It's called bigs Plate. So you have to actually read
Speaker 1: the book, but not standard. You have to put your
Speaker 1: own personality and spin into the because what do you
Speaker 1: call that with the verb books? What is that called?
Speaker 1: Audio books? Yeah? Yeah, wow, I've been doing this whole morning.
Speaker 1: Isn't it hard trying to pretend to be you when
Speaker 1: it's not natural? Isn't that hard? It's rough, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: and then hear your own words and then having to
Speaker 1: like act him out, you know, and then you know,
Speaker 1: I got these guys in here, and and uh, and
Speaker 1: I know they're frustrated, but ship, it's hard. They got
Speaker 1: a check, you gotta take no teeth. They know they
Speaker 1: got a chick that's only for the top. How much
Speaker 1: was the bottom set? What this one? The whole moutain?
Speaker 1: Two for two sets were hundred and fifty So, ladies, ladies,
Speaker 1: do you know that you can get some a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollar here? Oh my god, that is amazing.
Speaker 1: That should be your pitch, Joe, You're so bad, very bad. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring it back onto a bit of a
Speaker 1: serious not because I do have some other questions that
Speaker 1: people are asking to um over announcement before we get serious. Yes, so,
Speaker 1: my my second special coming in Hot is on Netflix
Speaker 1: and someone where I shot in Hawaii and um, Steven
Speaker 1: Spielberg watched it and brought me in for a meeting,
Speaker 1: and I sold him my movie that that we're filming
Speaker 1: in May, so may post any trainees in there. I'm
Speaker 1: just I think I know a girl. You can wear
Speaker 1: any color, she can look like whatever you want to
Speaker 1: look like. Right, I could be the grocery. So that
Speaker 1: had be to be step Rod the bank. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Just put me in the damn shout out to Damn
Speaker 1: Land and Steven Spielberg, Hollybario, everybody on that tea. God,
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Spredingbergs for so many Steven
Speaker 1: Spielberg has the greatest movies. Everybody thinks that Steven Spielberg's
Speaker 1: first movie was Color Purple. That's what black folks think.
Speaker 1: This is black folks. I'm telling about black folks right now,
Speaker 1: Joe Still, Steven Spielberg did et uh with so many
Speaker 1: movies that were Yeah, I just need Harrison Ford. Harrison,
Speaker 1: let it go, Boo. You can't do it well. He
Speaker 1: could be a great great great granddaddy, but the nigger
Speaker 1: can't jump across no more road. So they can't even
Speaker 1: fly the planes without crashing to together. Yeah, Harris said,
Speaker 1: not at all. And I love Indie, E, Jones, all
Speaker 1: of them, but now we don't want to do India
Speaker 1: and Jones and the old folks home. Let it go,
Speaker 1: just let it go. Oh my goodness, Joe, you can
Speaker 1: be even new Indiana Jones funeral. I'm ready, um so switching.
Speaker 1: So congratulations. That's a major, that is huge. We are
Speaker 1: definitely gonna keep an eye out for that. Um but
Speaker 1: I want to know too, and so do some of
Speaker 1: the flames in here. You know, you had a very
Speaker 1: You've had a very long career. It's thirty years. What
Speaker 1: has been the biggest obstacle or uh, you know, biggest
Speaker 1: hurdle you've had to overcome just to kind of get
Speaker 1: to that next phase of your career. When Netflix told
Speaker 1: me no, when they said when when they were they
Speaker 1: were they were getting everyone our spec they were giving
Speaker 1: our specials. In two thousand and seventeen, they were, they
Speaker 1: were doing original comedy and uh, and I was selling
Speaker 1: out everywhere. I was telling shows out everywhere, and I
Speaker 1: thought for sure they were gonna give me an hour
Speaker 1: special and they never offered. So then we kept taking
Speaker 1: meetings and they kept saying no, And then I offered
Speaker 1: to fly them out to watch me perform, and they
Speaker 1: kept saying and know and and I just didn't understand
Speaker 1: why they kept saying no and uh and I literally
Speaker 1: wanted to go to Twitter and go, hey, everybody, can't
Speaker 1: your subscription, uh to Netflix, they don't like Asians on
Speaker 1: their network. I want to do something like real ill
Speaker 1: like that, but but I knew that would be the
Speaker 1: stupidest decision. So uh, I went and produced it myself,
Speaker 1: so live from Seattle, I shot myself, I paid for
Speaker 1: it myself, and uh and I remember as I was
Speaker 1: taping it, they still called us and let us know
Speaker 1: that that they weren't interested, like they got when that
Speaker 1: we were taping it ourselves and they're like, hey, we're
Speaker 1: still uninterested. And that was by far the biggest obstacle
Speaker 1: ever because I literally wanted to quit stand up at
Speaker 1: that point because I just was like, it's never gonna
Speaker 1: happen if they're not gonna give me a shot, Like
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they don't even want to give
Speaker 1: me a shot. Like I was, I was killing on
Speaker 1: the road. I had this huge fan base, but yet
Speaker 1: I can't get a Netflix special and I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: and whatever the case may be, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They have their reasons and and I'm not gonna hate
Speaker 1: them for that. But if I didn't shoot that, specially myself,
Speaker 1: they would have never got it. And we brought it
Speaker 1: into them and they bought it from me. Thank God.
Speaker 1: I love you Netflix, and I love Netflix. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love this story that you just told because you
Speaker 1: know that did Joe. I just me and Loen just
Speaker 1: had this come say, when somebody tells me no, it
Speaker 1: puts it makes me angry and you want to retaliate.
Speaker 1: But what it should do is put a fire up
Speaker 1: on you to say, you know what, I'm still you
Speaker 1: don't tell me no. You don't get the right to
Speaker 1: tell me. I love that because we just had this
Speaker 1: with a damn audition the other day and after and
Speaker 1: I did much better than I did that first hand.
Speaker 1: But that's great, Joe. Yeah, And and um so do
Speaker 1: you think that Fresh off the Boat has opened up
Speaker 1: people's eyes to Asian to Asian community because that show
Speaker 1: is funny and shit. I love I love Randolph Park,
Speaker 1: I love uh, you know, Melvin mar the producer amazing, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's just I'm just proud that that
Speaker 1: was seven seasons. I think watch seventh season The Mother,
Speaker 1: The Mother and the Sun was very you and when
Speaker 1: you talk about you and your mom, baby, the Sun
Speaker 1: was so getto and so who he was so funny.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that the boy was so funny. That
Speaker 1: was I don't know. Filippinos y'all gangster, y'all just hood.
Speaker 1: I love its Filipino. I'm gonna go home and watch me.
Speaker 1: It's the Filipino point just today. But they're not gonna
Speaker 1: have a hundred and fifty thousand dollars teeth. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying my two cents from row. That's crazy hilarious. But
Speaker 1: I didn't want to backtrack though. So how did you
Speaker 1: end up getting your special on Netflix? Like? How did
Speaker 1: they approach you? What happened? They didn't approach me. They
Speaker 1: I shot at myself and then I cut it myself
Speaker 1: and uh, and then we had I had my agent
Speaker 1: bring it in and just go, hey, watch it, please,
Speaker 1: just give it one more shot. And they watched it,
Speaker 1: and God bless that whole team. Man, I love everybody
Speaker 1: over there. And mind you, I think there was a
Speaker 1: transition too, because the new cats that came in, you know,
Speaker 1: Robbie Prau and Joanne and and uh god, Robert Garmo
Speaker 1: and god, there's so many names I want to shout
Speaker 1: out right now, but uh, thank god they came in, Neil,
Speaker 1: they all came in and they saw that special on
Speaker 1: the campaigned and put it on that that two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen roster Man and Man that changed my life. Bro that,
Speaker 1: I mean that life from Seattle changed my life. I
Speaker 1: went from comedy clubs to like selling out multiple theaters.
Speaker 1: I think I broke I broke Mariah Carey's record in
Speaker 1: uh Hawaii for a twenty thousand tickets sold like by
Speaker 1: a solo artists, Like it was crazy. So when you
Speaker 1: when you speak about that, Joe, is so much pride
Speaker 1: and so much happiness in your voice when you that's
Speaker 1: that's great. So you it's very authentic what you say.
Speaker 1: And then Joanne is a movement shake it over in Netflix. Joanne.
Speaker 1: Joanne will pick up the phone and say done, and
Speaker 1: it's she got that kind of juice. Tiffany had ish
Speaker 1: my eyeballs told me I told her you were coming
Speaker 1: on the show. She's like, ill, he wants me to
Speaker 1: do this movie. I said, well girl, I'll tell him
Speaker 1: to do the movie and right to tell me about
Speaker 1: the party and for a training. But she said, I
Speaker 1: loved I loved Joe flame. He has so much energy.
Speaker 1: So Tiffany definitely loves you, Joe. I loved Tiffany. That's
Speaker 1: that's my girl. Man, we go way back. I was
Speaker 1: just on the phone with her. So that's why he
Speaker 1: was later. That's why he was late for my show
Speaker 1: audio Books. Audio Books, I say, I was working for sure.
Speaker 1: We do have a couple more questions coming in and
Speaker 1: people want to ask you, so, um, I want to
Speaker 1: know what you based on? What are you based on? Joe?
Speaker 1: I got two places you big time. I live in
Speaker 1: l A. I got a house and uh get a
Speaker 1: Laurel Candy right here at Studio City. And then I
Speaker 1: got a house in Vegas. Uh in summerland. And you
Speaker 1: know that's where my family's at. So I like to
Speaker 1: take my son. They're like, you know, like holidays in summer.
Speaker 1: So that's where I go. Summer's in Vega. No, thank
Speaker 1: you for that heat. I can't this is all philicone.
Speaker 1: I'd be melted like the Wicked Witch. And that's a
Speaker 1: whole lot. I can't go to cold and I freeze
Speaker 1: like the Tim Man, I can't get too hot. L
Speaker 1: It's I'm just funked up all over ya. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you, it's just I'm falling the pie Joe. Another
Speaker 1: question we had though, because interestingly enough, this was also
Speaker 1: in your special, but somebody's asking, have you ever before
Speaker 1: you were famous, because you're famous, before everybody knew who
Speaker 1: you were, were people confused about your nationality? Similar to
Speaker 1: Andrew Lopez on on the show, Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you know my first joke on the Tonight Show. You
Speaker 1: know I did that, uh seventeen years ago. And the
Speaker 1: first joke I said is I'm half white, half Asian.
Speaker 1: Uh oh wait no, no, the first yow guy I
Speaker 1: did there as I go, I hate living in l
Speaker 1: A because when I tell people in Asian, they got
Speaker 1: the worst compliments. And that's a true story. I used
Speaker 1: to tell people I was Filipino and they'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love orange chicken. I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: not Filipinos don't eat ship. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that identity and and and being mixed,
Speaker 1: and people always trying to find out what I was,
Speaker 1: especially because I was Filipino. It was kind of annoying
Speaker 1: on the come up. You know, it was like I was,
Speaker 1: I was. I felt like I was always an ambassador
Speaker 1: of the Philippines, like telling telling people about our food
Speaker 1: because they didn't know what Filipino food is. They just
Speaker 1: assumed that it was Chinese food or you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like it was just always that so yeah,
Speaker 1: that it sucks, you know, coming up. And that's another
Speaker 1: reason why I did that special in the Philippines. I
Speaker 1: wanted to give us that identity and let people know
Speaker 1: a little bit about our culture, you know, and you
Speaker 1: show more than just that. You guys are not just
Speaker 1: uh what did you say? You guys were nurses and dancers.
Speaker 1: That was Rob didn't see me that joke. This morning,
Speaker 1: I tackle the ship out of my god. Nurses and dancers. Joe,
Speaker 1: you got moves. He used to be a boy. You're
Speaker 1: a boy. I'm a b boy. I was a boy
Speaker 1: from back. I wantn't to be boy. I just used
Speaker 1: to be a boy. Wait a minute, what happened? Does
Speaker 1: that that's so that would be be boy? Be a
Speaker 1: boy qualified. We'll take it for now, We'll take it
Speaker 1: for sure. It is. It is such a pleasure to
Speaker 1: have somebody who's you know, because I love the comics,
Speaker 1: because you know, they say you can't use coming in
Speaker 1: this room because you're trained, or you're black, or you're
Speaker 1: white or you I love like what you said that
Speaker 1: laughter is a universal language. When when when you're funny
Speaker 1: in any ring, they don't even have to speak English.
Speaker 1: That good. They feel your energy. Joe, You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of energy on stage. How old are you? Twenty good?
Speaker 1: Wish you'd be bouncing around and jumping around. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna walk. I can't do all everyone in
Speaker 1: my fat ass, So tell us to what's next? So
Speaker 1: you just did the special, You're doing the audio book,
Speaker 1: you got the movie coming out? What else is happening
Speaker 1: in the world? I just signed I just signed another
Speaker 1: deal for another special on Netflix. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: my fourth one. They called me, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you weigh now, Okay, I'm gonna shoot that at the Forum.
Speaker 1: I want to shoot that. Wow, I want to be there.
Speaker 1: I want to be let me know, I want to
Speaker 1: be in the cave with Tippany. You know I did
Speaker 1: it already. I sold two out right before the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I did two Forum shows and Tippity went up that night.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. We was working some let me let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. The pandemic stuff, everything with us
Speaker 1: cold Turkey. We just I worked on no on March
Speaker 1: to fourteen. On Mars to sixteen, everything just shut down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything shut down. Well for the Forum, you gotta come.
Speaker 1: We gotta make sure that we do have to be there. Baby,
Speaker 1: I want to be sitting in the front row. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have I'm gonna distract you. I'm gonna have my
Speaker 1: bullets out now. I got two sets of bullets. Joe
Speaker 1: hat or you look low. I want you you go
Speaker 1: and I tell you you know anything you want me
Speaker 1: for right there, Joe. I love your comedy. I love
Speaker 1: your authenticity, and I love that you're not afraid or
Speaker 1: shane to be worried about who you offended. Because if
Speaker 1: it's fucking funny, it's fucking funny. Everybody's so worried about, Oh,
Speaker 1: you can't say this, You're gonna bother this group, You're
Speaker 1: gonna upset. I don't give a damn. This is funny
Speaker 1: to me. And what they don't understand is as a comic,
Speaker 1: it needs to be funny to you first, because then
Speaker 1: it flows better. Yeah, so you might be offended, but
Speaker 1: I don't about that. It was funny to me. Y'all
Speaker 1: might not leave, I laughed. I'm hoping to give out
Speaker 1: one hour special. We Are Activity is gonna EP and
Speaker 1: hopefully and I already have it written. We just don't
Speaker 1: have any stage. Just like to get out and get
Speaker 1: out and do it. But it's going to be ridiculous. Joe,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a wig switch and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: you all on the rack because my new fan base
Speaker 1: is straight me in like you know, like yourself straight
Speaker 1: and have been loving me and not in a sexual capacity. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I can talk about that. I love my relationships
Speaker 1: that I have with me and with women, you know,
Speaker 1: so I'm honest about it. Ain't no secrets to you.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see this. I'm gonna be there
Speaker 1: for that one. Oh yeah, Joe Coore, you gather be there.
Speaker 1: I might use you as a target. Let's go. And
Speaker 1: I think that's a good segue too though, because I
Speaker 1: know Flame has talked about not being on stage, So
Speaker 1: what are you doing to stay you know, fresh and
Speaker 1: up on your toes with your material? Of you know this,
Speaker 1: you know, you know writing you know, I'm writing that
Speaker 1: movie as well. And this, Uh, by the way, shout
Speaker 1: out to Ken Say, one of my writers on the movie.
Speaker 1: But but doing this and not only that, I've been
Speaker 1: going up. You know, I got to do uh you know,
Speaker 1: I did fifteen shows in Arizona at Stand up Live. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, because I'm right in this hour as we speak. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Tiffany and I we flew out to uh to
Speaker 1: Yellow Springs that did Chappelle's show. Yeah, they just that's
Speaker 1: a positive. God bless Dave and his family, y'all. Prison
Speaker 1: spoke to I just spoke to his wife that they're
Speaker 1: doing great. By the way, yesterday good because Ida was
Speaker 1: with him last weekend and um and um. They were
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas for Angelie's birthday, and I say they
Speaker 1: went to breakfast at the Word and Dave Chappelle brought
Speaker 1: up my name and just went on and on giving
Speaker 1: me praise. Mind you, Joe, I didn't even think that
Speaker 1: he knew who I was. I thought that I'm like, Okay, Dave,
Speaker 1: what's up. I'm ready. I am ready to work and
Speaker 1: I want to be on stage with all y'all graades
Speaker 1: because I want people to see that this ain't nothing
Speaker 1: but comedians. This is just a bunch of comedians, you
Speaker 1: know all that I tell all the alternative comedians. Now,
Speaker 1: I took the meetings for all y'all. I was the slave.
Speaker 1: They beat the ship out of me for twenty years
Speaker 1: because Joe. I had horrible backstories from other comedians when
Speaker 1: I first came out, because I was living my truth.
Speaker 1: But when y'all did finally come around at you, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: when the comics family did let down their shielding, fine,
Speaker 1: just like one of the fountains, what's up playing? What's
Speaker 1: up him? You know so? And I received that. I
Speaker 1: don't take that as disrespect. I don't take that as shade.
Speaker 1: I've been I waited on that to be one of
Speaker 1: the colleagues for years. I just wanted to be received
Speaker 1: as another comedian. Yeah, the teas and ship just extra.
Speaker 1: Yeah it caught your extra too, but it's just extra.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people don't understand that
Speaker 1: about you know you, And of course I feel me
Speaker 1: as well. You know, like we took we we took
Speaker 1: a lot, and we had to go through a lot,
Speaker 1: and now it seems like the norm now. But like, man,
Speaker 1: if you were here twenty years ago where you had
Speaker 1: to go up on a theme night, you don't just
Speaker 1: get stage time Asian invasion, you know, on Wednesday nights,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean to gay nights, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean doing whatever? They always had like theme nights,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like that was the norm back then,
Speaker 1: but now it's like no, everyone could just be on
Speaker 1: the same stage. Now it's we broke them out. Let
Speaker 1: me get my half, I get my half a Joe
Speaker 1: Boom that I told you it's called The Yang and
Speaker 1: the Twin. Uh it really quickly to just tell us
Speaker 1: what the movie is about, just so people know what
Speaker 1: to expect, because you said it's coming out in May.
Speaker 1: It's called Easter Sunday. It takes place one day. It's
Speaker 1: just one day, Easter Sunday. And it's got just complete
Speaker 1: chaos with my family, every and every single Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the most diversity you've ever seen. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have everybody. It's gonna have black people, white people,
Speaker 1: Latino people, Asian people, everyone's gonna be represented this movie.
Speaker 1: And just and just what it what it looks like
Speaker 1: in my house on Easter Sunday, and that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. So wait a minute. So I didn't even
Speaker 1: know to see, that's something something you teaching us. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that Easter was big in the Filipino community.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's really big. Easter Sunday is a
Speaker 1: really big day. So a lot of prayer, a lot
Speaker 1: of food, a lot of entertainment. What's the tradition. What's
Speaker 1: the traditional food that you guys eat? My favorite is
Speaker 1: chicken a doobo, and I think everyone should try it.
Speaker 1: I keep pushing it, I keep campaigning it. If people
Speaker 1: have just try, it will become mainstream. I wanted to
Speaker 1: be household. I went on Good Morning America promoting a
Speaker 1: chicken a doobo. What's in it? It's just it's basic.
Speaker 1: It's vinegar, it's uh soy sauce, a little bit of
Speaker 1: brown sugar and chicken and garlic, and you can throw
Speaker 1: some money ins in there. It's amazing. I'll make it
Speaker 1: for you, But bro make it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: kiss somebody right there with a good God, that sounds
Speaker 1: like that. I had your breath, heart, But do you
Speaker 1: make it? Do you bake it? Though, right, or do
Speaker 1: you talk to Okay, yeah, I figured you wouldake. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to try that. I'm gonna have to have
Speaker 1: something when I come to you one now especially, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be there. Oh. I want to be there
Speaker 1: to see it because I want to see how yours? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm excited Netflix, that 'all hear that? Did you get
Speaker 1: Joe Joan? If y'all, don't you know e Joe, don't
Speaker 1: do that. You're gonna give me fire, don't come on
Speaker 1: my pace? Yours is your all, your special and I
Speaker 1: love that you have so much with you? Now? How
Speaker 1: you use all of this because you have so much material,
Speaker 1: so you know it has to be different material for
Speaker 1: each special and you just from life and experience or
Speaker 1: just going out or do you actually sit down and
Speaker 1: actually write because some comedies are lazy, they just will
Speaker 1: not write. Yeah, no, I jotted down. And you know,
Speaker 1: especially now that the material I had just from this
Speaker 1: year alone was amazing. You know, just seeing my son
Speaker 1: go from going to school to take in zoom classes,
Speaker 1: It's just like the most unreal, the most unreal thing
Speaker 1: I've ever witnessed in my life, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And the discipline that he's going through and uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's crazy. So I've been talking about that a lot,
Speaker 1: and just this whole experience. So yeah, I I right,
Speaker 1: just awful whatever life gives me. And and hope that
Speaker 1: it's funny, but I'm not. I'm not scared to say it,
Speaker 1: so you know, do it laughs and oh, well, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I guess I'll drop it or
Speaker 1: all work on it more. But yeah, I'm continually writing.
Speaker 1: I can't stop writing. I have to like on everything.
Speaker 1: And and see I might not write the whole story,
Speaker 1: but I write the bullet points because it always triggers
Speaker 1: me to know, this is what I was going to say. There.
Speaker 1: That always gets me going. Half the time, I can't
Speaker 1: read my own handwriting. Joe, look at my hand right?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I can't even read this? Hilarious?
Speaker 1: What is it backwards? Wait a minute, don't we talk
Speaker 1: about my education? I was an educated girl. And boy,
Speaker 1: we just want to tell you thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us. We appreciate you. And I can tell
Speaker 1: I love that you got your new team, cause nigger,
Speaker 1: you ain't stop smiling because you get this taste. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, please make some wonderful love and give hearts
Speaker 1: and hearts and hearts for us very special guests, A
Speaker 1: very talented Joe Koy. Joe, what you gotta let me
Speaker 1: know as soon as beforehandles, You're got to get dressed
Speaker 1: up when I come to your one out. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be the style on stage when I would be
Speaker 1: the beach in the audience. Joe, Joey got pretty teeth.
Speaker 1: I want to give me some hundred fifty dollars two
Speaker 1: all right, and you have to pay for a seven
Speaker 1: I want. They got lay away, they got finger hut
Speaker 1: finger hud you pay for on six times? Y'all a
Speaker 1: ridiculous play. You're ridiculous. You know that. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. Do you think finger huod got fake teeth?
Speaker 1: Because baby, let me tell I get payment playing ship.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. Uh what my takeaway was?
Speaker 1: Joe Koy also wants to be an EP on your
Speaker 1: our special like uh that that that is awesome? Tiffany
Speaker 1: and Joe and Joe Yeah flame, I think, um yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna give me some fans on the
Speaker 1: Asian community. Babe from the Yang from Kim Joyce Kim
Speaker 1: Joey's Yeah. But you know Lauren and Flame some of
Speaker 1: the make your takeaways. I just want to go back
Speaker 1: to what joy what Joe just shared with us. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know we had talked about we joked about his uh,
Speaker 1: his aunt making the name Joe Koy and it was
Speaker 1: actually Joe Coo. And I love that. I just loved
Speaker 1: how you recognized immediately his authenticity with that just sharing
Speaker 1: real stories, which is what makes it so funny, because
Speaker 1: you've talked about why that's so important as a comic yourself,
Speaker 1: because you know that you you have that Even with
Speaker 1: all the stuff that we talked about on Netflix with
Speaker 1: the whole football player, people always say, is that true?
Speaker 1: There is always true to the story you We may
Speaker 1: not we we found the funny. Some of the stories
Speaker 1: are hurtful. Some of the stories are painful, but as
Speaker 1: a comedian, you found the joy to make to turn
Speaker 1: it around. So it's kind of like a therapy. I'm
Speaker 1: retelling this story that hurt me, but I'm telling it
Speaker 1: to a way that I can make y'all laugh with me,
Speaker 1: because y'all can help me heal this pain. I may
Speaker 1: not be all y'all to fix my life. But I
Speaker 1: damn show saw some ship and we turned that down.
Speaker 1: But I only fixed my life. Are you a line
Speaker 1: gonna fix it? She been fixing them ain she did her, Lauren,
Speaker 1: Or you're gonna have to learn to use your right hand,
Speaker 1: just like every monthers because they're just sometimes I'm like Lauren,
Speaker 1: you know, mus I don't want to get hit back.
Speaker 1: She don't forget we're on camera and I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: hit I don't want I know her mom. I would
Speaker 1: never get on fire. Oh no, thank you, baby God.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something else too. I want to go
Speaker 1: back to Joe one more time before we close out,
Speaker 1: because Lauren, the comments were coming too quickly. You couldn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just trying. It was a lot coming. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know. Joe also just talked about something flame that
Speaker 1: I just think it's just um, something that's worth recognizing
Speaker 1: once again, the power of family and paying it forward. Uh.
Speaker 1: Joe talked about why his most recent special Right Now
Speaker 1: on Netflix um where he made sure he went back.
Speaker 1: He highlighted DJ's, he highlighted dancers, He highlighted his brother,
Speaker 1: who cooks, Who's Who's the show UM, and they did
Speaker 1: all of this, and they talked about different ways to
Speaker 1: just uplift, shine a light on glorify the Filipino community.
Speaker 1: And I just thought it was absolutely fantastic because that
Speaker 1: is what we should all aspire to do that. Remember,
Speaker 1: Common even talked about it, how to who much has
Speaker 1: given much as UH is expected right UH, and how
Speaker 1: he has worked to pay it forward. We have been
Speaker 1: blessed to have people on the show who seemed to
Speaker 1: have that as part of their core principle UM, and
Speaker 1: they have shared that as guests. April Ryan shared that
Speaker 1: as a guest, Titia Campbell shared that as a guest,
Speaker 1: Common shared that as a guest, and now Joe Joe
Speaker 1: shared that as a guest, UH talking about how important
Speaker 1: it is that you recognize where you come from and
Speaker 1: that you try to support others who are also part
Speaker 1: of the journey. Side note, I appreciated the shameless plug
Speaker 1: of all that we have had already on the show.
Speaker 1: The show wasn't doing that well, so good kudos to
Speaker 1: UNI to YouTube because you two care this. What I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the reason this works is that I'm not
Speaker 1: in that room, but I'm so in that room with you. Lauren,
Speaker 1: you keep it going. Flame keeps it going, and our
Speaker 1: guests are comfortable and there having a good time, and
Speaker 1: our our listeners are enjoying it. And I want you
Speaker 1: all to go ahead and close it out because this
Speaker 1: is what laugh and learn again. It's all about you know.
Speaker 1: We talk about a little bit of everything, and we
Speaker 1: are not trying to get anyone at all to change
Speaker 1: their mind. Lauren. Yes, we're not getting you to change
Speaker 1: your mind. As Nick said, We're getting you to use
Speaker 1: your mind. So if you have one, if you have,
Speaker 1: some of you ain't got one. Let me just let
Speaker 1: me tell you the truth. I've been on the plane
Speaker 1: for four hours. Some of y'all ain't got no damn man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling people have somebody how crazy? But understand me
Speaker 1: that whatever your truth is and whatever you want to do,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. Joe Koy is living his life
Speaker 1: and what you said, Nick was great because I'm not
Speaker 1: anti anything else. I am pro black because I'm black.
Speaker 1: If I was a Latino, then I would be pro Latino.
Speaker 1: If I was white, I would be pro white. That
Speaker 1: does not negate that I don't love all people, but
Speaker 1: I do love my culture because I'm part of my
Speaker 1: and I'm familiar with my culture. You know. It's when
Speaker 1: you grow up in another culture and you're one thing
Speaker 1: and you're trying to pretend to be somebody else. That's
Speaker 1: what we were just talking about with Joe. Don't let
Speaker 1: somebody mold you and you lose so much of you
Speaker 1: that you can't find you again, because then you're doing
Speaker 1: what they want you to do, and you may be
Speaker 1: making the money, you may have the fame, but you
Speaker 1: won't be happy. You won't be happy because you have
Speaker 1: lost yourself. Every time I lose myself, I turned around
Speaker 1: and look at the mirror, because if I started backing up,
Speaker 1: I sound like one of those garbage trucks. Be just
Speaker 1: fat of heale. I love it, big booty. Big booties
Speaker 1: in the house say I'm not gonna lose me. Don't
Speaker 1: lose you. Whatever your decision is, baby, that's your decision.
Speaker 1: I'm talking ship. But y'all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Y'all know what I'm about to close out with. Whatever
Speaker 1: choice you make with these eight, nine, twelve, fifteen companies
Speaker 1: giving y'all, we don't need one. You don't need to
Speaker 1: You're not You only need one. First, of all you
Speaker 1: needed to then it had to be at sub zero temperature.
Speaker 1: Nowama can sit outside and the room tempt you. I
Speaker 1: don't even like room tempert your water. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: all right now, it's too many theories. There's too many vaccines.
Speaker 1: If it's one illness, then it should be one vaccine.
Speaker 1: I ain't telling you what to do. I'm just talking.
Speaker 1: I'm talking my ship. Ain't that right, Lauren? Yes? And
Speaker 1: to reiterate Nick, what do we say. We're not trying
Speaker 1: to get anybody at all to change their mind, just
Speaker 1: getting you to use your mind and your like. So
Speaker 1: I love you. Flame spread yourself and got spread getting
Speaker 1: off that plane. So just so, just so y'all know
Speaker 1: how this works. And I'm supposed to get a coronavirus
Speaker 1: test again today. If not today, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: it over tomorrow because I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: people around me. I say, but I was very because
Speaker 1: y'all know I'm baby. I almost got a hazmat suit
Speaker 1: ship the Flame. Last thing I'm gonna say before, because
Speaker 1: again people have been coming into the comments. I want
Speaker 1: to thank people everyone for remembering to subscribe, to comment
Speaker 1: and to share the show. Uh if I don't get
Speaker 1: back to your right away. Please don't hold it against
Speaker 1: my my my my heart, because my my heart is
Speaker 1: in it. But I've had to turn the alerts off
Speaker 1: of my phone because um we we all kind of
Speaker 1: work and do other things, you know, say, y'all have
Speaker 1: been sending Nicholas all kind of pitches and everything. Y'all
Speaker 1: be first with Nick trying to get something. How y'all
Speaker 1: know Nick ain't got a significant How y'all know he
Speaker 1: ain't got a girl from y'all. Y'all know y'all thoughts,
Speaker 1: y'all know, y'all just sending I say something, I've seen
Speaker 1: some of the stuff you and on that note, where
Speaker 1: can everybody find you? You can find me at Nick
Speaker 1: Smith News on all social media platforms, and where can
Speaker 1: we find you? You can find you on Instagram at
Speaker 1: Lauren Armani h as well as on YouTube Lauren Hogan.
Speaker 1: I was told to get a YouTube, so I've been
Speaker 1: uploading the videos that I was constructed to see. Is
Speaker 1: very professional. I don't care what Trip will say about it,
Speaker 1: and you and you canna follow me alright? Flame mon Role,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it was flame Underscore Monroe on Twitter. Monroe
Speaker 1: Flame on Instagram, Uh, Flame mon Role on YouTube and
Speaker 1: Marcus Flame Monroe Park. And that's a legal name. You
Speaker 1: want to send a check in Marcus Park, I can
Speaker 1: catch that. But if you send me a checking Flame Role,
Speaker 1: it's just like sending me like sex with a condom.
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna work. It's just not gonna It's
Speaker 1: just gonna work. I'm in my head. I thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much. We appreciate you. Thank you ken Do,
Speaker 1: thank you Trivil, thank you nix Man if we miss
Speaker 1: you here in the studio. Thank you my Lauren Hogan,
Speaker 1: thank you flame MANX for joining us. And all of
Speaker 1: Joe Coore, y'all follow Joe Koy. Joe you got a
Speaker 1: new movie coming out. Joe Koy is doing big things.
Speaker 1: And they had a twenty two ft Christmas Street and
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty dollars teeth ladies. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's single or not, but he ain't. Mary, I say
Speaker 1: all is fair in love and no ring because he
Speaker 1: might get it and you might not. He might not
Speaker 1: put a ring on it, but that it might put
Speaker 1: a ring around it sometimes that's most important, Hope, And
Speaker 1: I do want to say to thank you for him.
Speaker 1: You thank all of us. We need to thank you
Speaker 1: so thank you for providing us a space to be here. Well,
Speaker 1: I love my team. This is a great team, all
Speaker 1: five of us, and I'm telling you we're making it
Speaker 1: work and we're calling to you guys. So all five
Speaker 1: of us here and all I Flame mass out there.
Speaker 1: We thank you, guys. We see you guys on next week,
Speaker 1: Love Lounge tonight on I G between six thirty seven.
Speaker 1: I'm home alone, the kids is gone. We're gonna get real,
Speaker 1: foul real. I see y'all. Leave piece, bye bye,