E303 Jo Koy 3
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 40 minutes
Words per Minute
200.3187
Summary
Comedian Joe Coy joins Jemele to talk about his relationship with his son's mom and how she's affected his dating life. He also talks about the pain of growing up in a broken family and how he deals with it.
Transcript
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Today's episode is brought to you by Magic Mind.
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And you want to know for a fact that flow state now comes in a bottle.
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And he's got so many big things happening in his life.
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I think I'm just amazed we're even able to have him in here today.
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And he's a man of comedy and you know him from Netflix and television.
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I've been dating a girl on and off for a couple years.
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Or do you like, it's kind of like paranoia because we're in a certain position now.
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Like, I know, I know that I, like I make a certain amount of money.
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I don't think it's something that you could do.
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So I think no matter what you say, it's coming from a place where it's like, okay, I'm just
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And I, and I hate it because I, my trust is so it's, I've been burned a lot by, you know,
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And then, and then, and just like my trust is just so bad.
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She was with me when I had fucked up teeth, when I was working at Nordstrom Rack and Borders
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Uh, some Marina Del Rey cleaning yachts and then running over to Laugh Factory and doing
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Do you, sometimes I, do you feel bad for not like committing to the, to the mom?
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No, I think we both have like a great understanding.
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Man, we're, if anyone gets a divorce, her and I should write a book because we are the
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If my mom and dad could have just done what we did, I mean, we'd have a great life right
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Like I, like maybe I wouldn't be so PTSD about my, my childhood.
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I wouldn't be so holding on to certain feelings that I've had, you know, with my mom and my
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And then you start to exhibit the same relation, you, you, you exude and, and, and do the same
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And I was starting to Theo, when we first divorced, I was, I was being that guy, you know, I'll make
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I was like, I remember my mom's like, you remember how you felt when, ah shit.
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I don't want to put that out there, but you know, I love my dad, you know what I mean?
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But they, they were going through a time and I didn't see my dad and, um, and, and I don't
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ever want my son to feel that feeling of the dad, not around and being a phone dad.
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That's why I, I don't know what I, you know, I, I don't dig into you, but when you do your,
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like your single mom shows, that comes from a place, right?
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I think, yeah, I think sometimes, you know, we just sent some money out to some single
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We'll like every now and then just write out some check, just nothing crazy.
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But we have like a little group that we kind of try to add to over the time.
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But it's funny cause I was thinking the other day, like, why do we do like what?
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And I think it's just like, I think cause I, I wish maybe somebody had like given my mom
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some extra money to do something or, and not that these women even need it.
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But, um, but you're also setting a trend and starting something new.
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Like as long as you can plant the seed, as long as like, you know, you have a beautiful
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platform and you speak to a lot of people, a lot of kids too.
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And if they see something like that, that's inspirational that, that teaches them not to,
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Not by much, but, but enough to like during my time, I think divorce was new.
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Like there was, that's when all the divorce courts started coming out and all the divorce
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shows were coming out and, you know what I mean?
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And, and, and, and, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't get mad at my dad.
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I, I, you know, I tell my dad, I love you so much all the time, but, um, I also tell
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It was like their, their role models were like, had like drove like, um, Ford LTDs or
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They always went off cause there was no safety.
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But there were dirty jokes that they got from a book.
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It was like, I, they, they used to have like the worst dirty books.
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I remember going there as a kid and say, do you, do you know what I'm talking about?
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I remember a kid came to the school and this thing called the truly tasteless.
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And we all gathered around during lunch and we all pulled it out and just died, died laughing.
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The most crudest, nastiest things you could ever read.
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We used to pay to had a dude who you'd pay him a couple of dollars and he would draw you
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But yeah, man, for a couple of dollars, he sketched you out a beautiful piece of ass.
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Bro, and if you had one of those, you were good for the weekend, you know?
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You were, if you had a couple of dollars to get you a little sketch, bro.
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And I remember I used to bike across town to go, they had this man and he, he had a family.
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And I would go over to his house and I was like buddies with his son and they had pornography
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Oh, and I'd bike five miles over to their house on the weekend.
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To go to the bathroom to pretend I was pooping for like an hour.
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It was a massive poop, but you didn't even poop?
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And I'm just in there just jerking off and feeling sorry about myself.
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Then I had to come out of the bathroom and pretend to be friends with their son for a while.
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And then you also had to let your semi go down.
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Because just because you're done, it doesn't, it's not, it doesn't go back to its resting place.
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I'm like building up steam to get back in there, you know?
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My friend's dad had a stack of magazines in his bathroom and I always wanted to use his
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It was on top of the, you know, the tank and it was like Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated
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and then another magazine, Mechanics, Popular Mechanics and then, and then the goodies.
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And he just had to use, he had to remember what magazine was on top.
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Bro, all of the, and your favorite, and the dad wouldn't have noticed any of that probably
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And then the dad's like, oh, my son is a piece of shit.
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Oh, it's the greatest thing in the world is having a kid.
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The saddest part is when they get old or older, they want to throw things away.
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And it's like you're throwing your heart in the garbage.
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He's got all these things that I bought, and now it's just in the way, because now he's
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And I'm telling you, I was crying on the inside, but I'm not showing him any emotion.
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But anyways, so I bought him this, what is it called?
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So it looks like a red sofa, but when you open, it's Tempur-Pedic.
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When you lay on it, it doesn't feel like one of those regular couch beds.
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He's had it forever, but my son's sick of it, right?
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When we finally got the guys to move it, and we all looked at the ground, and I'm like,
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Dude, I can't believe, and this is something that's probably obtuse, but something that's
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coming soon is that, think of all of the value, the nutritional and value that it's
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People toss it and then go have some fucking ruffles.
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You actually have the ingredients to make a human, and you fucking throw it on the floor
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and just grab a drumstick, and you're trying to get the chocolate from the bottom of the
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Oh, dude, they had this big guy who used to jerk off, and he'd bring it on the bus and
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And so, there's so much detail that, like, people don't know if you're lying or not.
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I'm telling the truth probably 95% of the time and 92%.
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Dude, and this handicapped kid would always try to catch it from him all the time, which
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They, I don't know his full name, but his nickname was Thundercat, TJ.
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And he would try to catch semen out of the air.
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So the red guy would jerk off in his hand, toss it, and then in super slow-mo, Thundercat-
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He'd catch enough to probably feel good about himself.
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You know, it's like, you know, one man's trash is another man's treasure, or whatever
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But think about the fact that we're just, like, you know, people are going to the store
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and getting all of this macadamia and oyster, you know, cream for your-
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Meanwhile, there are three kids in the back of the house are just blowing through the
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It's gross, but I feel like we're almost there.
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No, I was watching something on Ellen, and Sandra Bullock was on, and she-
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And Ellen was like, why don't you tell the people why your face is so beautiful and tight?
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They said that that's inside the makeup that she uses.
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Thinking about that, they're cutting it off of people, sometimes adults, too.
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That means there's a back-end business to the snipping.
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Like, he's like, you know, this is good for your kid, and, you know, this will be cleaner
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for that area, so I'll cut it off for this much, and then he charges them, and then when
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he gets in his hand, he runs through the back door, he's like, I got two.
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Extraction from a piece of skin that came from-
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They're doing it to the south so they don't get ripped off.
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Far, far away, and they somehow figured out how to extract-
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And I'll ask you, since you're closer to this, really, element, is,
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why would Koreans be more likely to give it up?
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You sounded like he passed away when you first started talking.
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You tell a brother we're going to carve a little bit of your meat off, bro.
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Meanwhile, they're hitting up a Korean guy who's got the frickin' 11th pinky out here.
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We got a question right here from a beautiful couple right here.
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Yo, from one Cajun-Asian couple to another, you and Joe, what do y'all, what Asian type
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So I like a little bit of white with a little Filipino.
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It's like when you see a white guy doing the limbo, you know?
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Dude, there's something about the white dad that crushes the luau that just saves the family.
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And he gets like free pineapple or whatever for the whole table.
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But he was like, it wasn't good, but it was so funny.
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And we got, and you know, we'd go out during, we'd steal some liquor during the day and go
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bury it in the sand and then go get it back at night like, you know, like turtles do.
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And so then we'd dig it up at night and go drink it.
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And then we'd meet up with strangers on the beach, strange women.
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I met this girl that was in the Wiccan one time, witchcraftery.
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She was literally walking on the beach in the middle of the night.
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And we, I don't know what we did, but we did something, man.
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But when you're a father and your kids come back from the beach saying that shit, because
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They're like, oh, we met some dudes on the beach.
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Like, well, you don't hang out with dudes at the beach.
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Talking to 15-year-old kids is cool at the beach.
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Dude, when I think back, because we had this fellow named Richard Langenstein, and the listeners
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know this, and this fellow was eventually convicted or semi-convicted pedophile.
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But when I was young, he was just this cool guy that we went to smoke weed with and would
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Dude, there's a couple of half memories that I have that I don't want to read all the
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I don't want to read the second half of the book.
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But he was- But at the time, we thought it was so cool that he drove one of my friends
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Accused, religious brother, accused of molesting student.
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I was a freaking, like, a penis mule for this guy.
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You were like that girl on Smallville, Allison Mack.
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You should be serving 120 years right now, Theo.
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But anyway, but at the time, it's so crazy at the time how I thought, oh, it's so cool.
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Now, when I think about it, okay, if at 40, I'm smoking weed with a 15-year-old.
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It's so wild how from the other side of the coin.
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When Mike, you got to remember, I'm taking responsibility of all my nephews.
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And they come running back into the house, and they're like, yo, we met these dudes,
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If I get a DM or anything like that, it's always like, hey, man, thank you so much, kid.
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I mean, hey, tell your father, Mr. Coy, says thank you.
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I'll ask a girl straight up if they're going to try to me too me or not.
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Like, wait, this girl's me too me and said she wasn't going to be too me.
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But I'm going to go through, let me think, Nick dates an Asian girl, too.
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So, yeah, you better watch her back on that one.
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And a Vietnamese person, they could sleep on a damn, on a rack of a clock.
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I saw a Vietnamese person fall asleep on a whole thing of cans.
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My next door neighbor was Vietnamese, and he was the shit, man.
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When I do the Vietnamese accent, it's always V.
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I think, Theo, when you get like when military presence is there, does this make sense?
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Like the Philippines has a lot of military back in the day.
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And I think they absorb that culture and that lifestyle.
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And they get, you know, when you tell a joke, they get it.
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Because they probably were like all the, a lot of what they probably saw was a lot of American stuff.
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Yeah, and they hear American humor and the way they talk and like the little words that we use and they get it.
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They're like, they're gangster business people.
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Like Louisiana has one of the largest populations of Vietnamese in the U.S.
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We're the only Vietnamese person in the House of Representatives.
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Is out of Louisiana because of all the fishing industry.
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So they come down there hunting shrimp and they stay.
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My girlfriend helped secure two pounds of weed for Boosie Badass.
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Yep, we had to pay Boosie Badass and weed when he showed up.
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And they don't give a fuck if the order's wrong.
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Yeah, there's something more like, I don't know.
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We got, white culture gets so, a little bit too proper over time.
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And a lot of these cultures that have had a lot more of a rot gut experience or a tougher
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They really, there's so much more humor, bro, on that side of the head.
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Like when you go through just shit and your only form of entertainment is yourself.
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And you can only be funny and make fun of yourself.
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When you're broke and you don't have any money and you depend on the family to be the entertainment
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No, I think, look, when you look at a lot of cultures, that's where a lot of humor really
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comes out of, you know, is some type of, not turmoil really, but just, I think a place
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of unrest or not having something where you need to become an instrument as a person.
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You need to become funny or become, because it's not there.
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Like, there's not the other elements that you have to get the entertainment.
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So it's like, unless somebody's going to go rent a VHS, you know, which somebody has the
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Then otherwise, somebody's going to have to start entertaining.
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But yeah, I'm going to go through and rank now.
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Japanese, I've, and I've, you know, I've long been, you know, I'm not an,
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It's hard to know if they care what's going on.
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You know, I never, I can't tell if they've just come from a fire or if they just got a
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Like I went to a Japanese, a buddy of mine married a Japanese girl and was at the wedding
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and I was like, dude, are you sure this girl like you?
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And I think it's just because if you don't grow up around a certain population, you have
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just have no idea what their expressions are like.
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China is really like the black community of Asia.
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Chinese people, Chinese people don't care if they die, bro.
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You'll be walking down the street with like in Shanghai, somebody dies.
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Bro, sell fucking whatever his name was, you know, him key soup and it's a fucking funeral
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When one drops, it's like you get to open your arms just a little bit more.
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The Chinese, and it's not, like we have the luxury of having a little bit of space over
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I'm so sick of people going, man, we're so overpopulated.
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I'm like, have you ever flown from L.A. to Vegas?
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You ever fly from, like, Omaha to, what's the next state over?
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Oh, man, there's so many people in Los Angeles.
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I think more people are starting to spread out now, especially.
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I think during this whole pandy, a lot of people were like, hey, I got a, I don't know
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I want to go see about being a human being, you know?
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Um, you know, also states without taxes, you know, without state taxes are getting busier
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I got a house in Vegas and a, I mean, I have a house here.
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I think I'm gonna try Nashville for a little while.
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The reason why I like Vegas so much, it's a, it's an hour flight, man.
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Whereas like you live in Vegas, you're living your life and it's like, hey, we need you to do
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You could have a call and decide you need to be there the next morning.
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You could take a flight and be done fresh and ready the next day.
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One thing that's nice about Nashville is the proximity.
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Like you can drive to, you want to go perform in Huntsville.
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Like you just don't really realize how many places you could just go do comedy that are
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You could just, you know, get on a plane at 11 and be at your hotel by 2 p.m.
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Like when New York was like that big jazz movement and entertainment movement, you know, am I making
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Back in the day, you could just go to New York and everyone was playing jazz music everywhere
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I see it in, you know, like movies and just like, man, I wish I lived during that time.
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You go to these clubs and all of a sudden this, musicians were just playing and like, you know
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And you hear all these stories like, and then all of a sudden you see, I go to Nashville
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It was like, I was seeing, I don't like country, but when I'm in Nashville, I love country.
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That whole jazz movement in New York, I'm seeing in Nashville, I'm walking every bar,
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I went to a brunch and there was a band playing.
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I still say this every time I had this CD from the Gin Sisters.
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I don't know if they made it or if they became big.
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And I got off my plane in Nashville and a huge crowd wrapped around them.
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All they had was a speaker, an amplifier, and two, I think two sisters, I hope they're
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sisters, and they were playing, bought their CD.
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And that's what that whole, when you see someone hungry, when someone's hungry.
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There's that energy, you know, when you see someone just, I'm in an airport plane.
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Do you find that it's tougher to recreate that desire as you achieve more success and
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I'm still thinking of things that I need to do.
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Well, I'm still thinking of things that I need to do.
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And you're up for an Emmy right now, aren't you?
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And that special that I shot in the Philippines was burning inside of me for years.
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And for it to come to life the way it did, I was so excited.
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I can never explain it to someone what that special meant to me because, you know, we live
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in a time now where you get to watch, you get to go online and see whoever it is that
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Like, you know, if you're Vietnamese, you can go online and find Vietnamese entertainment.
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But try doing that in 1982 and try and find a Filipino that looked like me doing stand-up.
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People thought you were Sinbad's son a lot of it.
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So, you know, I had the hazel eyes, but then they were, like, Asian-looking.
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But anyways, what I'm getting at is just, like, that's what that whole thing was.
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Like, being able to create something to help inspire other kids that are trying to get into
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Oh, I can only imagine something like that, what that will do, that fuse.
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Like, I just remember the first time I ever even went and saw a stand-up comedy.
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I'd never, I know my brother had, like, gotten the videos of Eddie Murphy and stuff, but I
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Yeah, they wouldn't let me come watch those with them.
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So, I would just hear about it, and I would see Living Color.
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But I was in college, and somebody took me to the comedy club, and there was a man up
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Great joke writer, and he's just up there telling jokes, and I'm like, this is a job.
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And yeah, and it just blew my mind that that was the real thing.
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But I could only, and that was probably where the seed comes from.
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So, I can only imagine if you're sitting in the Philippines, you know?
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I wanted to be able to show the world, like, yo, this is the culture I'm talking about.
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Bro, I've been to the Azores Islands over there.
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This is Theo was asked, which person would he send, and it's related, which person would
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You know, they call them the smiling people somewhere on the internet, and every Filipino
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Who else are you going to send out there, dude?
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And what a lot of people don't realize is, before you die, a lot of...
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The last person a lot of people see is a Filipino person.
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That's pretty fascinating when you think about that.
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When you think about whatever scope of God's world that it is, that that is the last...
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I don't care if you're white or black or whoever.
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I wonder what effect that has on the culture over time, if it has any...
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Like I said earlier, man, when you have absolutely nothing...
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Like when you actually go to the Philippines and visit it and you realize, holy fuck, man,
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Like you go there and you see these kids barefoot and I remember we were shooting something and
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We were shooting something because I wanted to show the guys just like these monuments,
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And there was this woman that was, you know, she had a cart and she's selling, you know,
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And then her kid, barefoot and everything, after we bought the food, she takes his clothes
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No, but like full on shower and the kid's happy as hell.
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And she's bathing him with soap and everything, cup of water, dries him off, clothes back on,
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But when I saw that, I was like, holy shit, man.
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So it's like, what do you do to get out of that, right?
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I'll make sure that his or hers last days are the best last days ever.
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Because, yeah, it's a lot of, I wonder how many people in their lives have been racist
00:40:14.020
And even if they weren't their own, they learned them or whatever.
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And then they're laying on their deathbed or whatever.
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And the person that's there usually, that's what's crazy about life, man.
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The person that's there usually is probably of another ethnicity.
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And you have to, at that point, you have to inside of yourself think like, man, I have
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Even if I just need them just to be the last person that's there when I'm gone and I leave.
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We got a white fellow right here who obviously likes the Lakers and we're excited to have him.
00:44:45.660
I knew from back in the day on Chelsea Handler as one of the panel.
00:44:50.700
I was just wondering if you missed doing those shows or do you enjoy doing stand-up more.
00:44:55.620
The Mofongo skit with the cool whip container as a child is easily one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
00:45:03.100
No one ever wanted to trade for those Doritos or Oreos, man.
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But I always tell people she was the new Johnny Carson.
00:45:27.700
When Johnny waved you over to the seat, that meant you made it.
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If she invited you to that pound you slayed, man, you made it.
00:45:51.920
It was like the only thing going on for a lot of comedians.
00:45:58.620
You know, you guys were getting on television every week.
00:46:41.000
Like, just thinking about all these other things and just being funny.
00:46:51.700
I feel like when you started doing, after your last special, and then you hit the pod, right?
00:47:03.100
Like, I feel like your voice really just, like, cut right through after that.
00:47:07.940
I feel like during Chelsea, I think you were still in that stage of, I'm funny, but I don't know.
00:47:18.100
I'm trying to be like a white guy that could be on a sitcom.
00:47:28.620
You know, there's not a lot of acceptance of Southern-style comedians, really.
00:47:32.540
There's not a lot of Southern, since the Blue Collar Tour, there's not even, and I don't
00:47:38.740
They don't have that, they just haven't really taken anybody from our area, even.
00:47:44.600
I don't even like that label, by the way, to be honest.
00:47:48.020
Like, I don't like it when people, I would never want to, like, I would never label Theo
00:47:53.840
Like, you're just a comedian, and you're really fucking funny.
00:47:57.840
Just like when people go, oh, funny, Asian American.
00:48:11.720
And, you know, I think there are different genres of comedy.
00:48:16.040
There's a puppeteer, and then there's a dancer, and then there's a magician, and there's political,
00:48:31.980
Yeah, I never really felt into that space, kind of.
00:48:34.280
But I think I always felt like I had to fight this label or something.
00:48:36.920
I think a lot of the war was in, maybe possibly even in my own head, you know?
00:48:41.880
You were right, because I felt the same way with me.
00:48:44.620
I felt like, I don't understand why you guys are making me fight for this.
00:48:49.740
So, that's why I love Chelsea so much, because she saw it right away when, you know, I used
00:48:54.140
to open for John Lovitz, and then, did I tell you this story?
00:48:58.200
So, I used to open for John Lovitz at the Laugh Factory, and this is when I'm cleaning
00:49:05.180
I remember when I was going to Nordstrom Rack, and I'd look at my phone, it's just a number,
00:49:07.880
and I answered, and it's like, hi, it's John Lovitz, and I'm freaking out, because I used
00:49:12.840
to impersonate him in school, you know what I mean?
00:49:15.180
The liar and all that stuff, you know, all those jokes.
00:49:17.540
And then, here he is, actually, on my phone, and he's like, I really, I've been watching
00:49:21.980
you at the Laugh Factory, and I really want you to open for me.
00:49:28.460
I'm doing a show, I'm doing a show every Wednesday night.
00:49:34.100
Love it or not, or some shit, I'm trying to make shit up.
00:49:36.720
And then, so I was like, yeah, and I started doing these shows with him, and next thing
00:49:41.280
you know, this is a true story, you're going to love this.
00:49:46.900
I don't know if I told you this story, but he goes, I'm going to start, I'm going to
00:49:51.700
start, this is so funny, I'm going to start putting this lady on the show, her name is
00:50:13.920
And I went home, and it was literally Tom and her, and that's when I found out who Chelsea
00:50:17.980
was, and she started doing these shows, and after every show, she would talk so much shit.
00:50:23.480
So while John's on stage, she's just talking shit, and then she's like, I want you to be
00:50:27.920
I got this show idea, and we're pitching this show, and I want you to be my sidekick.
00:50:43.760
They weren't full-on production meetings, but it was ideas and going through the meetings
00:50:48.880
And then finally, I was just like, I go, hey, Chelsea.
00:50:53.140
I was like, hey, I just, I really want to be my guy.
00:51:04.760
She's like, oh, good luck with that fucking shit.
00:51:08.580
She's like, this show's going to be a fucking hit.
00:51:11.920
And then she hangs up the phone, and I'm just like, oh.
00:51:15.080
And six months later, Chelsea, lately, is just blowing up.
00:51:20.820
And I remember my ex-wife picking me up, and while she's driving me home, she's like,
00:51:30.300
And I'm like, that's the fucking show I was supposed to be on.
00:51:33.780
And I remember I was so depressed and wondering why I said no to it.
00:51:40.100
And for six months, I didn't get a call from her.
00:51:43.380
But anyways, what I was getting at, I feel like I'm always fighting to tell people I'm funny.
00:51:54.500
And it was funny, because it was just like Comedy Central's passing on me.
00:52:11.900
I just like, what is it that you're not getting?
00:52:20.060
So, did you feel that way when you were shooting your shit?
00:52:24.100
Yeah, I mean, I guess I felt, I started to get upset.
00:52:29.620
And it's a lot of the same person when you go in there.
00:52:32.520
Whether or not the industry wants to really admit it, I feel like it's always, it's usually
00:52:42.800
So, it's like, at a certain point, I'm like, well, how can any of these people have any,
00:52:48.340
like, at a certain point, there's just too much of the same, they're just looking through
00:52:55.540
Even if they don't, just like if I went into a place and it was all like redneck women
00:53:01.320
or something, at a certain point, I'd be like, this is just too, there's too much of
00:53:07.580
And at a certain point, it's just like, I'm just like a salmon, but the water's too thick,
00:53:11.240
It's just like, this, you know, and it made me feel like, but it also made me feel like
00:53:18.960
And it made me mad because it was like, man, I, you know, you're supposed to, you're telling
00:53:24.160
me that I'm supposed to come out of my small town and get to Hollywood and this is where
00:53:28.000
And this is, but then I get there and it's like, you don't want any, nobody like me,
00:53:34.340
You know, and I think it was also like around, um, I mean, I think I kind of made my switch
00:53:40.180
for things like right around like the last election and it was like, um, like somebody
00:53:46.220
wrote an article about my special where it was like, uh, Oh, this guy would be a perfect,
00:53:53.660
And it's like, don't you see, this is a character.
00:53:58.320
Like what a fucking idiot writer, you know, like it just, I don't know, man.
00:54:02.800
I just felt so turned off by such a, a, a industry that was supposed to be welcoming to everybody.
00:54:17.640
And then it doesn't already have a favorite standup comedian.
00:54:20.160
Uh, he may find his kindred spirit in Theo Vaughn.
00:54:22.560
And that's just fucking, I mean, what an asshole.
00:54:31.700
Like you shouldn't even put it up because you, you just, you're giving them energy, which
00:54:35.920
is stupid because obviously this guy is desperate and he was always desperate and he would always
00:54:41.020
write about like the soup, like Schumer, he would always, and they would always make fun
00:54:48.480
And he's meanwhile, just peddling to write whatever article.
00:54:51.840
And I'm like, just the whole industry kind of made me a little bit sick, but that's
00:55:02.140
You guys had me on over there when you were working at Corolla Studios.
00:55:08.680
That's when I was like, Oh, I'm just going to talk about stuff that I know about.
00:55:13.200
And you know, what's, you know, you know, what's cool is like as, as much as that pisses
00:55:28.080
And like, I did not understand why I had to pay for my own special.
00:55:31.200
Like I, it, I remember backstage after I, I taped the first show, me and my agent, my
00:55:43.760
Cause it's like, you know, cause say, Oh, by the way, they already said when I, when
00:55:48.560
I said I was shooting in Seattle, uh, they made sure to call and go, Hey, we just want
00:55:52.580
you guys to know we don't, we're not interested.
00:55:54.440
Like they really wanted to make sure that we knew that.
00:56:01.760
And like, and my son's laying on the couch in the green room.
00:56:14.200
And then you have to, then you have to put it on their network.
00:56:33.820
And who's to say, who's to say, cause I, I, I use this example all the time.
00:56:38.900
Like, it's like, you can't get mad at someone that's responsible for billions of dollars.
00:56:45.360
And they hire certain people like, all right, you get, you get 50 million.
00:56:54.660
And say my, my special flops, which I knew it wasn't, but say it did.
00:57:00.540
So it's like, imagine if I had a couple million dollars and someone goes, go find me some talent.
00:57:08.420
And I'm, I know I'm making excuses, but I'm also happy that they, they didn't give me a special because I went and shot that thing myself.
00:57:18.000
And I went on to shoot three more on my own for Netflix and, and, and the, the, the two that, that I shot after that, they gave me the money.
00:57:26.060
Like they literally just gave me the money and said, here, here, we're all in just, you shoot it.
00:57:35.700
So it's like, yeah, I was fucked up with the obstacle that they gave me.
00:57:39.400
But when I showed them that I could do it and give them a good product, they bought three more from me.
00:57:46.700
It's like, you just got to get that scale to tip.
00:57:51.440
Maybe it's like, yo, you keep getting pushed up against the wall.
00:58:02.920
And now we have a, yeah, now we have a new special that we're doing with Netflix, which is cool.
00:58:10.760
Sometimes it did just seem like the journey, like the, the, the struggle was easier for other people.
00:58:29.320
So you and I both saw, you know, certain comics and we're not hating on them.
00:58:34.860
We're not, but we just knew that we, there was an obstacle and it wasn't fair.
00:58:42.940
Cause there was, I would watch a special and go, what the fuck?
00:58:56.120
But, but I knew, but I knew my time was coming.
00:59:01.280
And if I had to make it, then I had to make it and I'll still make it.
00:59:05.840
They just, I just signed another deal for my fourth.
00:59:09.660
And, and I'm ready and they want me to shoot now.
00:59:12.580
And I'm like, no, I know exactly when I'm going to shoot it.
00:59:16.160
And I know exactly where I'm going to shoot it.
00:59:24.080
And that's one thing that's nice about Netflix is that they give you that.
00:59:30.620
Robbie Prague, Neil, Joanne, they, they, man, Robert Guillermo, yo, they are amazing over
00:59:38.580
And, uh, and yo, and I always say that, you know, I, what I just told you right now,
00:59:45.400
I was doing this huge venue in Malaysia and I, and I told the whole Netflix,
00:59:49.940
story about how they didn't give me the, the deal and how I tried to get them to come
00:59:54.380
down and they kept canceling, you know, come to this show.
00:59:59.000
I even, I told my manager, I'll fly them to San Francisco.
01:00:04.660
We'll, we'll shuttle them back to the jet and fly back.
01:00:09.620
And they kept turning it down and I was like, I don't get it.
01:00:12.000
Like, why, why don't you want to see what I'm doing right now?
01:00:14.780
Like I was really hurt by it and I was saying this on stage and then I, you know, and then
01:00:19.220
ended the story by saying, Hey, I shot it myself and then they bought it from me.
01:00:24.300
So what I'm trying to say is don't let obstacles get in front.
01:00:28.880
And then they were there and I had no idea that, uh, one of the execs was there and he
01:00:37.120
was in line and he came and you know, the meet and greet and my fucking heart fell out of my
01:00:45.340
And I'm like, yo, I don't want to say his name, but, uh, I go, what?
01:00:50.100
I go, you know that I, you know, I, I, I'm just telling my side of the story and, you
01:00:55.520
know, but as you could tell, like, I gave you guys love that he was, you know, you don't
01:01:03.780
In fact, do that story on your next special on Netflix.
01:01:10.600
And when he said that, I just hugged him and I was like, thank you.
01:01:13.500
I just, you know, there, there was just a lot of struggle that I was going through.
01:01:18.660
And yeah, there's nowhere to put it all a lot of times.
01:01:22.300
Like nobody wants to hear like a lot of the, you know, the sob story just doesn't really,
01:01:30.380
It's like all of your, what do you think that is, Theo?
01:01:34.100
What do you think it is that people don't want to hear the sob story?
01:01:42.680
Like when people hear like what you just said to me, like, I didn't know that about you.
01:01:46.620
I didn't know you were struggling through that.
01:01:48.820
And I, I always looked at you as the guy that was like killing it.
01:01:56.760
Cause I knew I had like at least 10 years on you.
01:02:07.960
And, and, um, but it inspired that, that inspires me.
01:02:12.540
Like when I see someone blowing up, that inspires me.
01:02:29.120
I think there's, I think the motivational side of it, there's, there's a place for it.
01:02:36.400
There's a place to share what happened and what it was like and your point of view.
01:02:39.620
I think what there isn't a lot of times is there's no, here's what there isn't.
01:02:49.860
There's never like, and from the industry, from whatever your, your idea in our heads of
01:02:56.140
what the industry is, what, there's never like, Hey, I'm, I'm sorry.
01:03:02.760
And I think that sometimes like can be like, it's just an unforgiving business.
01:03:11.520
And, and it's in the end, it's, it's just what I've learned about business.
01:03:15.340
That business is just, you know, like you said, it's somebody in an office who, you know,
01:03:21.340
finally Robbie Praw came and saw me downtown at the Wiltern and we crushed it.
01:03:26.420
And it was like, and he was really great, gracious backstage and like really kind.
01:03:29.960
And like, um, and it was different, like, you know, in my head, I'm always thinking
01:03:35.180
like, Oh, these people don't like me or they don't, you know, uh, you know, and, but all
01:03:46.360
They're just thinking about whatever they have to do that day in their business.
01:03:52.040
That's, I think there's never, it's like that about a lot of things in life.
01:03:55.660
Like there's never, you know, there's never like your, maybe your dad behaved a certain
01:04:02.100
There's, there's no way to get a, like a healing from it.
01:04:10.000
You have to like, just forgive, you know, even if you made the war up in your own head
01:04:18.040
You have to, there's never that moment of like, Hey, we were wrong, you know?
01:04:23.800
I, and I don't know if that's one thing about life.
01:04:26.320
That's kind of tough sometimes is, um, you know, cause I struggle with my relationship
01:04:30.160
with my mother and I, but at a certain point, it's like, what am I going to do?
01:04:33.120
How, like, you know, she's an older, she's getting older now.
01:04:37.200
It's like, all I can do is be forgiving, you know, just, I may never get whatever it was
01:04:44.860
I needed her to, you know, to say or to do that shit may have long sailed, you know?
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I see it with a lot of these, like, athletes, too.
01:06:24.040
You know, Antonio Brown and, you know, Michael Thomas is having an issue this year, it seems
01:06:29.340
Just, like, the hype and the, you know, just what it is.
01:06:33.620
I mean, that's a separate avenue, but just what that does to us thinking about ourselves.
01:06:40.580
What I meant by ego is, like, just being a little too prideful where you're like,
01:06:45.640
I know I'm right, and until you say sorry, then we can just not talk.
01:06:54.900
It's like, until you figure out your side of it.
01:06:57.480
But then sometimes it's like you're holding a grudge that's never going to be.
01:07:07.080
So then it just leaves you sitting there with the pieces, and it's like, okay, well, what
01:07:10.880
Are you going to keep cutting your wrist with these pieces, or are you going to fucking, you
01:07:14.360
know, you're going to make them into like a stained glass window and fucking move on?
01:07:21.140
And sometimes you'll make the window, and that bitch will fall apart again, and you'll
01:07:37.880
But then also, it's like, you don't, like, I think you don't realize, like, that you're
01:07:43.620
Like, man, Joe Coy had to make his own, had to convince these people, like, had to, and
01:07:51.220
Like, you know, it always seemed like they're making, they're looking for diversity.
01:07:54.120
They're looking for, you know, who else, what other, what are they going to get, Manny
01:08:00.240
Like, he can't even hold the microphone, the gloves.
01:08:12.140
How do they, and then, and then the gift you also give them by reaching this audience.
01:08:20.520
And so, it's hard sometimes to feel when you've been burned to then turn around and realize
01:08:25.220
that now you're just gifting, you know, even more of, you know, of an audience to this
01:08:36.500
I'm just happy that, that you and I live in that time where we got to show these kids that,
01:08:47.760
People also did it by coming to see us, by not giving, like, fans, that's what it is,
01:08:52.240
You know, people are like, I'm going to go see Joe Coy make this special because I know
01:08:59.000
Or I'm going to go be there at the Wiltern and have a great time.
01:09:02.740
And all those people don't realize that all of that goes into that moment where, like,
01:09:09.180
the executive finally says, oh, okay, this is a new piece of business for us.
01:09:16.680
It's just, it's tough when art and your heart meet, you know, when art and business meet
01:09:25.940
It's just, it's a, it's just a tough thing, man.
01:09:30.260
Here's a fellow right here who has a, wants to chime in.
01:09:33.280
He looks like he's been growing a baby hair mustache for a long time.
01:09:43.600
A question to you two is, how do you stay positive knowing that your dreams are pretty
01:09:51.780
You had to cash in that corporate check in order to pay for some bills and didn't end
01:10:01.060
You know, both of y'all are standard comedians.
01:10:04.120
But for those others out there, people like me, what do we got to say so we can keep on
01:10:10.160
Man, how crazy that you press play to that video after we just said this.
01:10:20.320
But man, like there's a lot of people like out there that think like that, you know,
01:10:30.620
So take us there and then take us out of there.
01:10:32.320
Bro, when I was working at at Nordstrom Rack, I swear, and Tony Rock just got a deal with
01:10:40.440
I forgot what the show was, but it was being produced by Will Smith.
01:10:43.720
And, you know, and we're doing the Laugh Factory every night and I'm at Nordstrom Rack.
01:10:52.920
I got mustard and shit on my chest and I'm crushing, you know, alongside Tony and Dane
01:11:03.560
But then I'm shelving shoes and I'm trying to buy diapers and I'm just trying to make
01:11:14.440
And by the way, when I say shelving shoes, I'm just grabbing the shit that's on the floor
01:11:24.600
When they always came to ask me for a size, I go back there.
01:11:27.960
I literally went back there to not look for that fucking size.
01:11:33.420
It was a five minute break for me and I came back in.
01:11:37.640
I think someone that tried it on left it out there.
01:11:42.080
And you just see this bitch like, well, my God, can someone pick up these fucking shoes?
01:11:47.640
It was like supermarket sweep for your feet, I feel like, in that store.
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I remember I was walking down the aisle because I had to pick up shoes and put them in a trash
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And then you fill up the trash can and then you restock it, right?
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As I'm going down each aisle, there's a lady that had a shoe on and it didn't work and she
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She's just trying them on and kicking them off.
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But what I was saying is, dude, there was times where I wanted to quit, man.
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You know, you see all these guys just getting stuff, man.
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Even my mom was telling me, just get a full-time job already.
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Like your son's getting older now and not older, but he was like two.
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But she's like, you got to start thinking about, you know, school.
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What kind of insurance are you going to get your son?
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And that shit is in your ear, but it's also like reality.
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You're like, yeah, I got to start thinking about my son.
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Maybe I'll go be a manager at a bank or something.
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But I remember paying someone 500 bucks or something like that for like three cameras
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And I was going to sell that as my special because everyone else was getting specials.
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It was like somewhere on Sunset Boulevard, some art museum or something like that.
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That would crush if you got your hands on that.
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You know, I used to burn DVDs of my friend Chris.
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Did you buy the three disc tower and you burn them like that?
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Take it to wherever to fucking Looney Bin or whatever.
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Dude, some of the sketches on it, they weren't even fucking mine.
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They were the shit I'd found on the internet that I brought on.
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There was some shit that some of it was just like this black guy singing, dude.
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There was like, I don't even know what this shit is.
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These are some of the funniest things I like to watch.
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Dude, one time a lady, I just sold her the case on accident.
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And I would print off down in the lobby of the business area.
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I would print off all the little DVD inserts and put those things in, man.
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I, my friend Chris worked at Blockbuster Video.
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But they wanted their covers to say Blockbuster on the inside of it.
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So they would take those covers and throw them away and replace those covers with,
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I had thousands of Blockbuster, like, whatever, those covers.
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And that's, and that's what I, I put my sleeve in that.
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I even scanned a barcode and it's in the bottom right corner.
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I even got the logo that said DVD and I put it on the, on the spine of the thing.
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I went and got those printed off at a, a legit printing company.
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It said Joe Coy's DVD volume one because Jay-Z had a volume one.
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Oh, but you buy a stack for a hundred bucks, right?
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You get a hundred DVDs and I sold them for five bucks a pop, man.
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Dude, if you were making some money, man, cause you, you didn't make any money going to do
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Dude, I remember I went 20, over about 10 years, I had 27,000, I think in credit card
01:16:44.360
But I think with having a dream or how you bounce back into it, man, I think one thing
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that's interesting about these days is you can, you can start so many new things.
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You know, like rarely back in the day did someone go from being like a realist, like a miner
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And then two months later, you could be mixing beats.
01:17:10.160
And I think there's unique ways you can find to create talent and create like some type
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With all the tools that these kids have now, right?
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You can make your own movie in the palm of your hand.
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Your camera is legit this close to being a red camera.
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And what I'm trying to say is, if you're not doing something because you have an excuse
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because you need something else, you're literally just lazy.
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It has nothing to do with what you got or how much money you got or I need this or I need
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And you can, and that's something that can be kind of cured, you know?
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And not even to look at it like, also maximizing your laziness.
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You know, like if you're going to be lazy, be lazy, but also have some semblance of a
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But yeah, I think, I feel like, you know, your dreams can change at any time.
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I want you, I want everyone to know, I know Nick as well.
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And he would roll up and go, hey man, the trunk of my car is missing.
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And then when I did get fired, yeah, Theo likes to say, pick me up off the free agent
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But Nick was living in his car, and Nick went to Vegas to play cards.
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I played, I played full-time online poker after college, and I dropped out.
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But then, separately, I just quit my job, full-time job in Minneapolis, and drove out here and
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lived in my car until I got the internship at Corolla.
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So, I think there's ways, yeah, there's just like, I think there's different times in your
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Like, this gentleman's saying, you know, he might be at a different point in his life.
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You might have a wife or kids, some responsibilities.
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You might have a family member you're responsible for taking care of.
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So, he's a comedian, and he ended up getting married, and he has two daughters.
01:19:45.600
And now, they have a, like, a Facebook Live show that's like a really popular show.
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And he just, you know, we worked together a couple of times.
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And he just kind of figured out how to make something work for him.
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And now, they have like a family show that, you know, that helps bring in revenue for their
01:20:15.920
When you travel down that path, and you stay on that path, it eventually works out.
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I think, like, sometimes you don't know where the path is going to go, and that's the hardest
01:20:25.500
Like, knowing, like, because I used to do this thing called crank texting, where I would
01:20:35.640
And then I'd get into a conversation sometimes, and somebody would think I was an old friend
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And it's like, yeah, I haven't heard from you in a while.
01:20:42.940
And then next thing you know, I'm asking if I can come stay the night.
01:20:45.860
And it's like, you know, I'm in this crazy conversation that makes no sense, right?
01:20:56.160
So, I mean, I texted probably about 40,000 numbers over a couple of year period.
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Wait, this is when you were on the road, or you were just doing this?
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And sometimes I would just text just a group of people, you know?
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So, obviously, it needs to be adjusted here for the screen somehow.
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But, yeah, you get into different conversations.
01:21:37.860
Like, I would text people in a certain area code, like in Indiana, and I'd be like, we're
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raising money for Civil War reenactments after school team, right?
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People start leaving you voicemails, and next thing you know, you have this whole conversation.
01:21:50.640
Then you can take it, and you post it in here, right?
01:21:53.660
So, you get into, like, you know, this one was one I would text.
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Thank you for entering the Love Your Hellman's contest.
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We'll be contacting you once the judges have reviewed all entries.
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Good luck, and thank you for loving your Hellman's.
01:22:06.020
So, you just send that to strangers, and people are like, what in the fuck are you talking about, dude?
01:22:15.600
Anyway, but anyway, I got into insane conversations.
01:22:17.940
I would text a group of people, and I would be like, oh, Ricky won third place.
01:22:21.660
And I would get a picture of an Asian kid with a trophy and just send it to all of them in a mass text, right?
01:22:26.060
And so, somebody would be like, who's Ricky, right?
01:22:29.500
And somebody would be like, take me off this chain, right?
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And somebody would be like, oh, bless his heart, man.
01:22:34.340
And then somebody else would be like, who in the fuck is this, man?
01:22:38.120
And I'd be like, if some of you guys cared, if you had been there, if you cared more, you'd have been there to see him win, right?
01:22:43.540
So, anyway, I'd get in this crazy conversation with people, and I would just save them and put them online.
01:22:53.180
So, Howie Mandel was looking for somebody to host a prank show.
01:22:59.400
I'd spent a ton of money paying people to edit them up.
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And so, that's how I got a job hosting his prank show.
01:23:15.200
And so, it was like, I'd spent all this time doing it, and it wasn't getting anywhere.
01:23:28.280
And it wasn't, you know, it wasn't like my type of show, really, but it was a great opportunity.
01:23:33.160
It gave me enough money where I was able to then to pay back the comedy debt that I built up.
01:23:40.180
And now I still have a relationship with Howie, which is great.
01:23:43.980
He got me on, like, Arsenio Hall one time to perform.
01:23:48.040
So, it's just like, you just don't know what you're doing now where it could end you up sometimes.
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Or when you stray off that path, you know what I mean, and go off into a different direction.
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And if your heart isn't that way, nothing's going to happen, right?
01:24:09.300
And no matter how bad the struggle is, as long as your heart is there, things will happen.
01:24:16.140
Like, every time I go on this road, something just comes into my path.
01:24:26.280
And then next thing you know, this relationship starts.
01:24:36.080
Like, if I would have became a manager like my mom wanted me to be, I'd be at Wells Fargo going,
01:24:40.660
Hey, man, let me tell you this one joke that I got.
01:24:53.640
When I was living in my car, I started a website.
01:24:57.520
Because they just released this thing on NFL.com.
01:25:06.100
And I bought a website called PackersFilmRoom.com.
01:25:12.020
So, like, $150 for a domain at that time was a significant amount of money.
01:25:18.220
But I learned how to build a website and a bunch of that stuff.
01:25:20.520
When I got hired at Corolla, I immediately started doing some of that stuff for them.
01:25:28.820
But you were so – your heart was in it that – thank God you did that.
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Because it gave you the tools that you needed when you did get the opportunity.
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Doing something is always better than doing nothing.
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But also, you don't know what the things you've been doing, where those elements are going to be needed.
01:25:54.820
You just don't know when that value is going to pay off sometimes, man.
01:26:01.500
And they do – they talk about gambling on fights, right?
01:26:12.200
But who knows, you know, who knows a decade ago when he's, you know, just, you know, playing online poker.
01:26:19.820
That's the amazing thing about life is that it'd be like, oh, I still didn't realize this little thing that happened so long ago.
01:26:25.640
Is going to pay this unique dividend in a financial way or a spiritual way or all types of ways, man.
01:26:34.620
My live from Seattle, the special that I had to shoot, the opening joke was a joke I wrote when I opened for Corey Holcomb on some nightclub that was out in – what is that freeway?
01:26:50.840
Just some weird freeway when you're going towards Magic Mountain.
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We performed in the middle of the dance floor because the owner didn't want you to scratch up the dance floor with chairs and tables.
01:27:13.700
Don't scratch up the dance floor with your shit jokes.
01:27:18.040
By the way, every comic always says they kill, right?
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I'm like, so now I got to bait him into a compliment.
01:27:30.420
And I'm like, yo, man, I destroyed that shit, right?
01:27:32.420
And he's like, yeah, but still don't know who the fuck you are, motherfucker.
01:27:49.460
Basically, I was just doing the easy shit, right?
01:27:57.160
And then I swear to God, man, that whole ride was just kind of like, I mean, we were still
01:28:01.320
But in my head, I was like, fuck, I got to write about who I am.
01:28:07.160
And I, by the way, I was still opening for Corey, by the way.
01:28:12.220
And I tell this story in my book because it was such a, it was one of those moments where
01:28:17.120
you get hip checked and you get hip checked hard because I was killing so much.
01:28:25.380
Until you open for a veteran and he's like, who the fuck are you, bro?
01:28:35.540
And I went home and I literally was just, I couldn't even sleep, Theo.
01:28:39.720
I just kept looking at the ceiling, just like trying to figure out how do I tell people
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How can I say my dad real quick without going into it too deep?
01:28:50.400
And that's that opening line that I say in that special for Live from Seattle was written
01:28:57.040
that night from Corey Holcomb, like 14 years ago.
01:29:08.160
There's jokes that I'll be afraid to use for a long time, you know, for some reason.
01:29:21.220
It was supposed to be out this year, but I can't do a book tour.
01:29:29.080
But I still want to be on the road when that book comes out.
01:30:11.700
I think a lot of people forget to just be grateful.
01:30:15.200
People do stuff for us, and then we just act as if that's what they were supposed to do.
01:30:19.640
It also sucks when you help somebody, and they walk by, and you're like,
01:30:26.480
My mom sacrificed everything to give me the opportunity to live my dream.
01:30:31.220
And this toast was the best opportunity for me to say thank you.
01:30:34.760
You know, when my mom and dad divorced, I was right around 10, 11, and she became everything.
01:30:40.020
She was pretty much the backbone of the entire family.
01:30:43.600
When I said I wanted to be a comic, her head was like, what?
01:30:50.400
I remember working in a store still doing stand-up at night, and my mom was just like,
01:30:58.920
We live in a country where dreams are possible, and it can happen.
01:31:04.840
Since day one, I wanted to make sure that the world could laugh, and when I tell your story
01:31:11.940
on stage, it's something that I'm very proud of.
01:31:14.380
For years, I was like, how am I going to talk about my mom?
01:31:17.260
I didn't want to go up on stage and just be like, oh, I'm Filipino, and Filipinos do this.
01:31:21.040
If you listen, you're going to be like, oh, my mom does the same shit.
01:31:25.740
I mean, you're doing great, and I'm proud of you.
01:31:41.600
What I take from that is the same thing that I got from my mom, and that's why Sam Adams
01:31:49.280
The reason why I brought you here today is I wanted to toast you.
01:32:00.680
When you came to this country, it was to give the kids an opportunity that you knew that
01:32:06.460
Everywhere I go, people will be yelling your name, and they clap their hand, and I know
01:32:13.580
So I also want you to know that I'm so proud of you.
01:32:18.480
You're the reason why I've been able to do this.
01:32:49.080
Bro, I didn't plan on watching it all the way through, but it's nice.
01:32:55.780
You know, it's hard to have moments like that with our parents, I think.
01:32:59.200
It's hard to get to those moments and then actually follow through and actually have
01:33:03.620
Like, sometimes I'll have an idea in my head, like, okay, I want to talk to my mom about
01:33:07.080
this or say this or, you know, tell a family member this, but when it comes down to the
01:33:11.740
moment, I just don't really follow through the way I want to.
01:33:16.420
I'll back off at a moment when I have a feeling of some sort that's uncomfortable.
01:33:41.800
That's when you know I'm not lying about my mom when she goes, when I knew you were a
01:33:50.660
Those were those conversations when she would tell me to quit.
01:33:55.540
People don't just throw that around a lot of times.
01:33:57.640
She was all about benefits and health insurance, security, retirement.
01:34:13.560
My mom has been talking about retirement since she was 36.
01:34:30.620
Now, thanks for calling those guys, by the way.
01:34:41.940
So mine was just at the Laugh Factory with the audience.
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Thank you for coming in today and just chatting.
01:35:07.800
just kind of stay the road and just be reminded that I still want to be funny
01:35:13.660
and I want to just find that dream, that passion.
01:35:17.740
You know, and realize that I still have stories that I want to tell.
01:35:25.780
You know, like, I love telling stories and I love telling,
01:35:28.540
but sometimes it would be brave to even get even more into who I am.
01:35:33.260
But that's why when I said that last time about your cartoons,
01:35:38.960
It's like you have a story after a story after a story
01:36:04.840
My favorite part is when we both looked down at
01:36:44.460
Have you ever known anybody that got to do that?