Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Corpse Christi Originals back at it again. We're here, downtown Produce Sound Studios at the Stream Lab at Dusty's spot. Today we got Chingo Bling.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Hey, Javi
[00:00:11] Speaker A: Luna, Lito Cortez.
[00:00:14] Speaker C: What up?
[00:00:14] Speaker A: What's going on, fellas? How y'all doing today?
[00:00:16] Speaker B: Good, bro. Did you go next door for that, sir?
[00:00:20] Speaker D: He brought his lunch box, bro.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Cuz, man, I just burned my throat.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: 1877. Hook us up, HEB.
[00:00:34] Speaker D: Good stuff.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah. At least some samples. Something.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: Thank you, bro. I appreciate it.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Cheers.
[00:00:40] Speaker C: Yeah, no problem.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: Cheers.
[00:00:41] Speaker D: Cheers.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: Equipment. It's produce.
They got the good.
[00:00:47] Speaker C: This is a technique for my drink down here. Me and my. My bad luck don't get it on the technique.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: How's it going, fellas? So the presidential election. How's that affecting comedy? What do y'all think?
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Damn, bro.
Hey, I didn't give you the list of things.
Literally, I'm always like, don't ask me about spm. Don't ask me about Donald Trump.
[00:01:13] Speaker D: There was an election?
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Wait, hold on.
[00:01:17] Speaker D: In this country. Yeah. Damn.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: Four years went by already, bro.
[00:01:24] Speaker D: My watch must be slow.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: So.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: So you had the cancel, right? Because you. You were gonna go meet Trump.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it happened, dude. I took my barber and everything, bro. I was like, yeah, you know, this is my presidential cut right now. What you mean, baby? You know what I'm saying? But you know what I mean, Big Dog, people have reached out his camp. Talk to my camp. Now I gotta cancel Corpus Christi Originals. I got.
[00:01:48] Speaker D: I gotta postpone, you know, talking about a cabinet position.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: I hope you saved. I hope you saved the audio. I'm like, hey, look, dog, I can't say 50 bucks. I hope you saved. It.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Just happened, bro.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: You know? You ain't gonna believe this.
Going to meet, you know, the president.
[00:02:07] Speaker D: Right now, you know?
[00:02:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: So that means I ain't gonna be able to pull up on you Monday.
[00:02:12] Speaker D: Might have to.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: It's all good.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: We're gonna make them a pullover. Air Force One.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Another thing, too, bro. So I did some digging, bro, and I found this photo right here.
[00:02:24] Speaker B: Bro. That's a good one.
[00:02:26] Speaker D: Oh, wow.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: That's a good one.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: We're not gonna show it to the people.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: This is how you know it's fake. Because at the all White party, I had a white cowboy hat.
[00:02:35] Speaker D: You know what I'm saying?
[00:02:36] Speaker B: That's how you know that's fake.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I was listening to some of your interviews.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: He had me, Tone.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: That's actually Russell.
[00:02:49] Speaker D: Brad.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: You could airbrush them pimples off my cheek right there. You get airbrush. Yeah.
[00:02:56] Speaker D: If you're photoshopping.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:57] Speaker D: You could have done some lemons. Correct.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: I mean, show me some love, bro. At least make my neck match.
[00:03:01] Speaker D: What was going on? What was going on there, bro? That was just Russell Brand. No, no, no, with the pimple. That, that was like road food. What, what was happening right now, man?
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Just real bad breakouts at that time.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: You know.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: Young adult with teenage skin.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Regarding that deal, man, how did you know that, that you had, you wanted to keep your masters? Like, how did you know that that was important at that point in time?
[00:03:27] Speaker B: Well, that, that's a good question. But somehow, some way innately, it just, it's just such a boss thing. Like when, when you're, when you're a nerd of the, of the hip hop game and you're watching how certain people move and you see things glittery and glitzy on tv, but you don't really know, like, like it looks a certain way. So. So to explain what I mean.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: So before we knew he was the diddler, you know, he was like a icon, somebody that you could look up to. We didn't know he was a party planner on us when he was just.
[00:04:01] Speaker D: Dancing in the video.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: That was it.
[00:04:03] Speaker D: That was it.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Just taking hits from the 80s, making him sound crazy.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: And so, but, but, you know, so you, you could get real. You could lose yourself in this game, you know, especially you're young, trying to make a name for yourself. And if you don't know yourself and you don't really know what you're trying to get out the game, somebody could dangle a contract. Oh, here's, you know, here' this. Sign here. Or look, I'm a famous. I'm on tv. I could put you on a tv. Just sign here. Next thing you know, hey, you're locked in. You don't have creative control, and you signed up for something that you didn't want. Like you didn't want to have a boss. That's why you got into entertainment or the arts.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Right on, man. Looking good. You looking sw. Bro. That Jiu Jitsu. Up and out. You doing weights or just Jiu Jitsu?
[00:04:45] Speaker B: Well, right now I'm trying. I'm doing this, doing a buddy.
I mean, I'm not, I'm not real, real good on the eating part.
[00:04:59] Speaker D: Yeah, Corpus will feed you, man.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Don't, don't, don't let them do it to you about like the, the supplements. Because, I mean, we're all getting older, right? So.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:07] Speaker C: I mean, I. Yeah, I was lifting and working out hard, and I just got tired, bro. So I'm already at that age where I'm like, maybe I need a little something.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:15] Speaker C: Something special around the room.
[00:05:17] Speaker D: What kind of vitamins? You would give us a rundown.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Okay, so more than vitamins.
[00:05:21] Speaker C: I'm talking, like.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: I'm not on TRT yet, but next time you see me up in here, I'm gonna have the big HGH head.
[00:05:37] Speaker C: One of my. One of my best friends.
He started about a year ago. He's a big dude.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: He's a big. Yeah, you got to be careful with all that stuff.
[00:05:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: Because it's. It's hormones, and you. You messing with your endocrine system. So, like, I. I know a couple homies that go through doctors, and.
[00:05:56] Speaker C: No, that's what he's doing. He's going through doctors. He's a big dude, and he's always been able to lift, and he's been doing it for a year, and he's lost, like, 80 pounds.
[00:06:03] Speaker D: Yeah, I hear.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: I hear good things. I hear good things about it, but you just got to be well educated on potential side effects. But. So I'm not there yet. I do want to end up getting on that.
[00:06:12] Speaker D: Right on.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: But. But where I'm at with it is kind of like, you know, different health things run in my family. So, you know, I'm just like. You get reality calls, use. People in your family go to the hospital, and they're telling them things about blockages and, you know, certain things like that. Right. So I'm like, okay.
I'm like, you what? Supplements?
[00:06:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:34] Speaker D: So.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So at night, I'll take my wife, and I will take zinc and magnesium, like zmas, because a lot of people don't get enough magnesium. So that already just makes you feel calm and relaxed, and you. You feel a bit just. I don't know, more homeostasis, hydrated, kind of get balanced.
[00:06:53] Speaker D: You know what I'm saying?
[00:06:55] Speaker B: So anyway, so. So like. Like that. I ain't gonna lie. I ran out of my multivitamin. I'm not. I'm staying on top of all my.
[00:07:02] Speaker D: That's a problem that gets expensive, bro. Like, but.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: And I got so many different things that I'll buy. Like, oh, we ain't got none of this. This. This is for. For that or this. For whatever. And then. And then in jiu jitsu, I'll be getting my butt wood.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: My daughter.
[00:07:25] Speaker D: Bro, forgot to turn off His DMS.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Shout out to the fam.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Yeah, bro.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Showing jiu jitsu. I'll be getting beat up. So that's when I realized, oh, you getting windy. You need to work on. You gotta. You're my coach, always says, everybody's in charge of their own gas tank.
And then he. The other day, I think he got a little mad at me. He's like, hey, when you're on the road, you'd be like in your hotel stretching and stuff, man. You know, what you doing, you know, stuff like that. So I keep it in the back of my head, like, all right, bro. So there's this other thing I found.
It's called a Norwegian, like, workout type of thing.
[00:08:04] Speaker D: It's.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: You heard of it?
[00:08:05] Speaker D: No.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: So it's. You work out.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: My mind right now, bro.
[00:08:17] Speaker D: How you be m. How you be.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Nodding along with you just to walk you up a cliff?
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Norwegian.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Norwegian Johnson.
[00:08:29] Speaker D: Yeah. I'm talking about people I don't know.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: So. So, yeah, so this is what it is. You set up on your iPhone, you set up two timers, a four minute timer, and a three minute timer. You could change it, but that's the one I'm on, right? So for four minutes, go hard. Like, whatever you're gonna do, right? Like, whatever you saw. Like, today I saw a sled. I said, I'm gonna push that, and then I'm gonna run this way, and then I'm gonna pick up that kettlebell until the four minutes is up. You're just trying to keep it pumping. Dance goombias, clean up the house, run up and down the stairs, whatever. And then three minutes chill. You just relax.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: Relax.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: You're just resting. Depending on how hard you went, you're not gonna be able to do, but maybe walk.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Oh, crazy.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: Catch a breath. All right, Boom. So you just do four of those. So it's 16 minutes of workout total. It's the four rest. Three. Four rest, three and.
And little by little, yeah. You start thinking you a young Sancho out there, my boy. No, prtv, man.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: I really. I know you through your comedy and not through your music. And that the Theo Juventino dude is freaking funny, bro. I was watching once a day. I don't remember what he's talking about, but, dude, it's funny, man. Like, is that some. Actually after somebody that you know, like, personally, that character?
[00:09:41] Speaker B: It's like a lot of people probably, that we all know all mixed.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: All right, I was.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: I was. I'm not gonna lie, I was a little high and I was driving up Here. Right. That's rare. I was on my drive up here, and I had to be high to possess myself to actually listen to what. Actually, it automatically started playing a podcast. A. Which last night, I did a live stream. Who did a live stream? And I'm just driving. I'm like, all right, what the. What did. What did Juve do now? You know? And I'm listening. He's like, like, in the movie colors, and it's like, Robert Duvall, Chapo, bro. And there's bros and cars and sir. There was a random sir.
And I'm just listening and I'm giggling like I was there when he said it.
[00:10:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: But I'm listening back, like, what the.
[00:10:33] Speaker D: You give yourself did multiple personality.
That wasn't me.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: For them to turn into like that.
[00:10:59] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. It attaches.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Oh, I gotta watch.
[00:11:02] Speaker D: These guys are smart, you know, not.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: Well, I was thinking that too. Like, comedians, bro. Y'all think about all kinds of stuff, don't y'all? Like, you think about different topics because you got to come up with new material. Like, for you guys, every year, y'all come up with. With like a new. A new thing or a new whatever.
[00:11:18] Speaker D: He gonna give me. Give me started on. On. On the craft talk. But you. You start to see the world through the comedy lens.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: Right.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:27] Speaker D: Everything. That. That's why sometimes it's not good for your. Your relationship. If. If. No, because you literally can't go through any experience without saying what's funny about this.
[00:11:39] Speaker C: Where's the funny at?
[00:11:40] Speaker B: Don't get hobby to a funeral.
[00:11:42] Speaker D: No, seriously, I. I just had. I just had an aunt that passed away, and I was at her funeral, and mid funeral, I was writing a bit about what was. Yeah. What was transpiring.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: And it's probably very relatable.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: I've done the same thing. I sat there and be like, man, what's my funeral going to be like? Yeah. I was like, I don't want it to be normal.
[00:12:07] Speaker D: This one wasn't normal.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Right. So. So you figure out. So then you. Okay, you do that. Then you figure out how. You figure out how it's relatable to people.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Right?
[00:12:15] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: And then every audience is different.
[00:12:17] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Right.
[00:12:18] Speaker D: So if you go, where's the humanity in this?
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I remember in. In one podcast, you were talking about, like, the. Like in New York, like, just trying to.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: Cultural things.
[00:12:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:28] Speaker D: Concrete jungle where dreams are made.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:30] Speaker D: Hell yeah.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Been all over.
[00:12:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: What are the differences between, like, where y'all been like that? How do you change how you flip it or.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Well, I guess I. I'll give you my version of the answer.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: The concrete juggle. That was. Was that something earlier?
Yeah, but.
Ha. Girl. She was, like, saying it, or she was saying.
[00:12:50] Speaker D: Oh, was she?
[00:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah, she was saying it, like, in.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: But she said something else. Right that moment.
[00:12:55] Speaker D: You're biting.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: I'm sorry.
[00:12:57] Speaker D: I'm sorry. You know. Yeah.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: That's what I'm talking about. I can't remember what phrase, but it was one of those, like.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Kind of.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: The same type of.
[00:13:10] Speaker C: She said something. Wet dream tomato. That's what she went off on her again?
[00:13:19] Speaker D: No, man.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: So you're doing a lot of podcasting, bro. Do you feel like you. I mean, how come. How come you're doing that? I mean, just to. I mean, I know you want to promote the show. You're here. Whatever. Whatever is it.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a lot of reasons. I mean, you know, it's fun. It's cool. You make connections, and it. It's cool because we're creating content together, we're collaborating, but we're not necessarily having to, like, map out a show and plan out a bunch of. We could, like. I. I think. I think a cool thing about podcasts is that people can really get to know you when you're having a conversation. They can read between the lines, see if you're authentic, see if you're transparent and somewhat relatable.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: And did you see a jump once you started the podcast and started doing it, like, consistent?
[00:14:01] Speaker B: No. I just lost about 7, 000 followers in the last 24 hours.
[00:14:05] Speaker A: Seriously? Yeah, because.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Because I posted a fake Photoshop.
I'm out here promoting for free. I ain't gonna bring it up, but.
[00:14:20] Speaker C: The first time it happened, you lost, I think, more than that. Right.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: I didn't really count, but it was a lot.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Is it because of that? Because of what you. What you call it?
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Controversy?
[00:14:29] Speaker C: Because people.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Well, I saw that post you made. Like, I think it was today. It was on your story. Like.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Back then, they didn't want me.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Cool. It's accept. It's normalized.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: I had a. I got a cousin, man. My. My. My wife's cousin. He's got a brand. He wanted to give you guys this.
He's got a brand called Run It.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:14:49] Speaker D: Oh, nice. Like, it's, like, all fishing stuff.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fishing stuff. I was like, here's a cat.
[00:14:55] Speaker D: Oh, thank you, brother.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: Appreciate you. Primo. My wife's cousin.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Oh, thank you.
[00:15:00] Speaker D: That's cool, man.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Right. By the way, Extra large my bell. Hey, thank you though.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: Yeah, no, you good?
[00:15:11] Speaker D: Hey, you gotta do like a, like a. Which college am I going?
I'm taking my talents to produce.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: Dang. So, so I think you were talking about like social media, right? Like how it impacts like comedy or comics and stuff like that.
[00:15:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I don't know what exactly it's like.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: So. Okay, so comics didn't have, didn't have social media.
[00:15:40] Speaker C: I think it's because everybody has a platform now, right?
[00:15:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:43] Speaker C: And if your platform's good and people want to listen to it, they'll, they'll tune in. And that's, that's why like you see people popping from smaller cities that back in the day there was no, they didn't have a voice or a platform. Now you can get on YouTube, you can get on Instagram live, you can get on, you can start your own podcast through your phone. And I mean, if it's good, if it's good content.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: So can a comedian be a comedian without like them going on stage and just have, you know what I mean? And just have a following through social.
[00:16:10] Speaker C: Media at the end of the day, what's your definition? Just what's your definition of comedian? Because then there's a. Yeah, yeah.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: The specific art form.
[00:16:18] Speaker C: Yeah. Then there's people that only do reels or shorts and those, man, those dudes sell out clubs now.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: It's freaking crazy. That's crazy, bro.
[00:16:25] Speaker D: So that's why you hear a lot of, a lot of stand ups. Now we use that, that to, oh, he's a stand up or a comic as opposed to me. Because comedian can mean, can mean a lot of things. You're, you're, you're comedian on social media, you're a humorist, you're, you're a comedic actor. You know, those are all comedians.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:43] Speaker D: But to the, the stand, the stand up part of it or to be a quote unquote comic is that's a specific lane in it. And some people are good at multiple types of comics. Some people can do sketch very well and they're good stand ups. You know, some people can only do one. Like you have some stand ups that you, you wouldn't want to put them in a movie or, or a TV show because they, they can't act. They're just good at writing and telling their, yeah, their, their jokes.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: You know, I know y'all touched on the, on Yalls podcast y'all had about, which is, which is like Ralph Barboza and George Lopez and all that stuff. So what are yalls thoughts on that? Like how like supposedly George doesn't like to have comics that are Latino or whatever on his tour or whatever.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: I've never, I mean there's hearsay. I've never really, I've never met George Lopez.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Like. Okay, so how do you pro, how do you approach it personally? Like I mean obviously hobbies on your tour.
[00:17:43] Speaker D: Right.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: So do you don't feel like that's like I guess affecting your stand up? You know what I mean? Like how do you think about it?
[00:17:50] Speaker B: You're asking about like the idea that some comics don't like why he wouldn't want it.
[00:17:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:57] Speaker D: What you're referring to is supposed. Supposedly the word is that he doesn't like Latinos to open for him.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So yeah, I'm trying to understand why. Right.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: I'm not a mind reader, bro.
[00:18:08] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: And I can expect.
[00:18:09] Speaker D: We, we used to have a podcast and I touched on, on this episode. So when I, I've been doing comedy 14 years this coming April. I've been in it long enough where prior to the social media aspect like you still had to come up in the traditional way by someone had to take you to open for them and you had to do clubs and whatever and then you showcased and maybe you get a spot on a T5 minute on Comedy Central or whatever and that's how you got your career. Now social media is different. But one of the things I remember from 14 years ago is that was not, that was not new. Like that's why you saw this explosion when that Barbosa stuff happens. Like that's not new for George Lopez. Everybody, everybody in comedy knew that like he does not have Latinos opening form now. Right or wrong. Whatever, whatever.
You know, everyone makes their choices for a certain reason. The fact is you can't like the guy. Don't like the guy for and for, for whatever your reasons are.
He, he, he was a game changer as far as Latino comedians.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Right?
[00:19:12] Speaker D: He, he was, he was at that, at his point, he was the biggest to ever do it. Right. Now you can go back and say, you know, without him there wouldn't, without Paul Rodriguez there wouldn't be a ham. Without Freddie Prince, there wouldn't be a Paul Rodriguez, you know, but he was the biggest to do it no one had done on his level. He was so momentous that his, his influence was noticeable for about a decade after he hit.
Everyone was trying to be, I thought.
[00:19:39] Speaker C: I was gonna say George Lopez just about to say that.
[00:19:41] Speaker D: So why would he want somebody that sounds like him. That's, that's touching on this. Trying to hit the same notes that he's hitting to, to open for him, you know. No, you don't want that. Yeah, you, you know, so, so it was almost. Did he take it a bridge too far and say, like, well, I don't want any. He. Could he have found. Were there Latino comics that weren't trying to sound like him? Yes. Could he have gone the extra step and found them? Yes, but he just found it easier to say, you know what, Just give me somebody that's not Latino. So that way I know they're not.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Gonna, wow, crazy try.
[00:20:17] Speaker D: Because you do want some diversity, right? We don't want to. That's why we work together. We, Even though we're, we're both Latino, even though we have similar backgrounds, both grew up in the southern parts of Texas. I mean, Houston is not exactly South Texas, but. But it's south, Southeast, right? You know, you know, but we still don't hit on, on, on the same stuff. You want some diversity? And, and there is a fear I've even had, you know, but you know me as far as being, being a, A big comedian, fat, whatever, Whatever you word you want. You want.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: You don't let no fat dudes open up for me.
[00:20:53] Speaker D: Well, no, I do, but I, But I had march or whatever I do because, Because I, early on, I, I gave myself the mon. The original gordito. People say original fluffy. No, and I don't mean like, original that I'm the first. I mean that I do it differently than anybody else does it. Right. Like, I don't. I have no concern. So I have, I'll have Bubba Flores or Danielle Torres or, you know, whoever open up for me because I'm not worried. Do your fat jokes because you're not going to do them the way that I do them. And there has to be a certain confidence at some point to know that, you know, you can't nobody do what I do the way I do it, you know, and, and maybe for whatever his insecurities were, he didn't have that confidence. And saying, like, you know, yeah, let. Go ahead, try to try to do Latino humor. But I'm, but I'm the originator, you know, he, he, he just, you know, made him just act the way he did.
[00:21:47] Speaker C: And I, I, I think for him doing it for so long, for years, you're talking like 20 years, he would have somebody that wasn't. It's the same flavor, the same style as him.
[00:21:55] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:21:56] Speaker C: Not opening up for him. It just became, like, normal for him. Yeah, like, he's like. Yeah, maybe he's.
[00:22:02] Speaker D: Maybe he is a little bit of a hater, you know? You know. You know, it happens.
[00:22:05] Speaker C: Yeah. But it's. At the end of the day, it's his show. Right. So he's gonna do.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: I mean, honestly, I don't know. Like, I don't know.
[00:22:12] Speaker D: Yeah, no, it's all speculation.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: Like, you don't look. You don't even look.
[00:22:15] Speaker D: I don't.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: I don't deal with a lot of people that deal with him. I mean, you hear little stories of, like, oh, people bump heads or whatever. But like Javi said, you know, make certain decisions, that's a prerogative, you know?
[00:22:27] Speaker D: Right, right.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: But.
[00:22:29] Speaker D: But I.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: But. But this is all stem. The original question was, like, specifically the Ralph thing. Right, right. I think that was kind of a misunderstanding.
[00:22:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I think so.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: He might be a hater at times, but I don't really think he was hating on him that particular time.
[00:22:44] Speaker D: I think he got annoyed.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: How many? Who?
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Because he kept on mentioning his name.
[00:22:51] Speaker D: It could have been anything.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: Big part. Yeah.
[00:22:53] Speaker D: Yeah. It could have been any name that he was unfamiliar with. He was Ramon, as far as I.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: Saying, Carlos Mencia, John Louisamo.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: What about them?
[00:23:01] Speaker A: He's just trying to throw him into the conversation topics.
[00:23:05] Speaker D: Yeah, I like Ned. He's cool.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: Do comics. Do comics try to talk like, oh, this. Like. Like, try to find the top of which. Like, I've heard that before. Like, if you're thinking about a topic, you try to find the top, like, the best joke of that topic. Y'all. Do y'all do that? You know what I'm saying? Like. Like, you're talking about funerals, right? Do you try to, like, top other. Not, like, not.
[00:23:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Not competition. Like, oh, I'm better than you, but, like, no, like, as a kind of bringing each other. You know what I'm saying?
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Like the quintessential dad, you know, like, quintessential relationship joke. Not necessarily. Only because I. That's. That's not how I write.
[00:23:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: I don't be like, I need a funeral joke.
[00:23:48] Speaker D: I recognize it more in other comics than. Than I do in my own. So. So I don't think it's a conscious thing, like, where you're saying, like. Like you said, like, where. When you're writing, you' this has to be the greatest joke about mineral water ever, you know? But when I see another comic, like, I. I don't have her name. It was just on. On Tik Tok, and she did a joke about some. About something. And I can't even remember what the joke was about, but when I saw. I go, I go, she hit it. She hit. She. She got to the center of the tipsy pop of. Of the joke. And, and, and, and, and so now she touched it. And, and that is an accom. Like, that's the joke about that. And there might be other ones like it, but no, no, no one's gonna hit. Hit it, you know?
[00:24:38] Speaker A: Well, like, so what. So now. So, okay, I imagine you've been doing it for 10 years, right? And you. For 14 years. So, like, can. When developing your stuff, is it easier to develop as opposed to when you first started? Is it quicker to develop something?
[00:24:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely develop an idea.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: An idea.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah, because you, You.
You just understand the anatomy of it more. You know, if it's going to work before you even go up there and try it, you already, you, you can already, like, like deconstruct, you know?
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Like, once you learn the geometry and you see the angles and, and you already.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: Formula.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: You don't have to always pull out the calculator or the paper. You already know 99, 80.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: So.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: Yeah, that's quick.
[00:25:21] Speaker C: I feel you get more confident with, like, your delivery each time. You're like, okay, I know that'll work. I just got to figure it out.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Or I'm willing to try. I'm bold enough to try it because I'm confident in the fact that there's the main part. There's like a face or a tag or.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah, right on, right on.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: A little twist in the curve.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: So.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: And then when you. So you obviously got to go practice them, right? Then you listen to the audience to continue to develop that.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: He's like, practice.
[00:26:10] Speaker D: Yeah. No, ab. But. But that's part of the experience, right? Like, you don't, you don't need that. That. The workshop kind is much, much shorter because of the, the. All the writing that you've done before, all the performing the road experience that you have in front of different audience experience, as soon as you have the thought, you're like, it is like, like, you know, I don't. When I write something like, that's a bit. I know it's a bit. I know it's gonna work. It's just a matter of how, How. How am I gonna get everything that I can out of it? Is this going to be a closer? Is this going to be just something that I do every now and Then is it? You know, but even now, even when I write, I'm like, that's gonna be a cornerstone of my set this next year. You know, I, I, I, I, I can tell. You know, so it's, it becomes less about the practice and more of just you. You do have to put it on stage at some point. Right, Right. But that confidence comes to. You don't need to maybe do it at an open mic. You can now, you know, we're to the point where, hey, you know, we'll be in the green room, and I'm gonna do that on stage tonight.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: Just.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Why?
[00:27:15] Speaker D: Because. Why? Because, yeah, right before I'm gonna do it on stage tonight, I'll be the first thing I say. And then if it doesn't go well, which it's not not gonna go well, it just might not be great.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: So tweak it, tweak it, tweak it.
[00:27:28] Speaker D: And then you do it, like, especially. That's why it's great when we do weekends like we did in San Antonio.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:27:34] Speaker D: Seven shows. I can take a whole brand new bit five, seven minutes long. And by, and by the end of the weekend, it's, it's tight. It's, it's, it's, it's ready to, to go out in a clip. It's, it's done because. Because that's all you needed to workshop it because you already know how.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: Now, is it easier to do that in front of some audiences?
[00:27:57] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: Okay. So it depends on.
[00:27:59] Speaker C: And then where you're at at the end of the day, if you have the funny bone. He's got the funny bone. This dude can make people laugh. Like, Chris, is it. He's got the funny bone.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: Right?
[00:28:07] Speaker C: He knows, like, okay, I'm gonna find the funny. I'm gonna, it's, it's gonna be there. It eventually figure figuring out how to get that. It'll, It'll, it'll work itself out. Like the good ones, the comics that are doing it and like, okay, where's the funny? Let's find the funny. Let's just play with it. Let's say something outlandish.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: So, okay, so is it like, is it okay, you have, you, you, you're trailing them a certain direction, and then you just turn in a different direction. Is that how you see a joke? Do you know what I'm saying?
[00:28:33] Speaker B: Like, right, right.
Hey, notice he never said into a pad. He's like, you know when I go in there and I spit it in the booth?
[00:28:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:51] Speaker D: Not always that way, Jer.
[00:28:56] Speaker C: When Alan's at the. At the craps table, and he just.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: Sees, like, yeah, not the autistic bro.
[00:29:02] Speaker D: Now, I always. I always preface this because sometimes whenever I say that, I don't condone that for young comics, but. But I don't. I have very bad writing habits now because what I do. Don't do what I do until you're ready to do what I.
What I do.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: That makes sense.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: I made that mistake. And just try to go up there and be like, oh, yeah, let's do this. Yeah, I have to write it out. Like, okay, this is what I want to talk about. And I'll write. Right, right, right, right. I'm like, okay, this is kind of the premise. Let's go play around.
[00:29:32] Speaker D: This is the me putting all those years pin to pad.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Okay. Yes.
[00:29:37] Speaker D: When I started, because I was. When I first started, I was the guy, I would go, I got you. I used to work at the state school over here, and my uncle's restaurant was, like, right there. Five minutes from there. So I would get up 45 minutes, an hour early so that I could go and I would Write there for 30 minutes every day.
I think it might have been from Rick Guterres. That said, you don't used to say, get the news. This is old school. Get the newspaper.
Get the newspaper. Pick an article, write five jokes about that article. You might not never say him on stage, but it's developing the muscle. The lens. Yeah.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: Taught me that too. And I was getting USA Today papers. Like, I was getting behind on my work, and my babysitter, she's from Mexico, and she's just like, what are you doing with this newspaper? And I'm like, nice.
[00:30:28] Speaker D: Yeah, but.
[00:30:30] Speaker B: But, yeah, the USA Today every day.
[00:30:33] Speaker D: It's the fundamental. It's the running the. It's the running the drills of comedy. Yeah. Those first handful of years, you should be getting on every single stage you can, every single open mic, every single showcase. You should be writing every day and all that. And then years from now, now it's like, okay, yeah, I'm just gonna work it out on a show.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:51] Speaker D: In front of a Live. In front of a hot audience. Right. A real. A paid audience. It's there to laugh. And then because that's you there to perform. Really. That's what opened are for. You're trying to get good enough that you can. You can do it in front of a paid audience. They paid for it. Right? So what? Where better to try that in front of a hot audience?
[00:31:09] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome, man. Wow. So you guys are going to be at Mesquite South?
[00:31:13] Speaker D: Yes, 8th and N Street South. One show a night.
[00:31:17] Speaker A: One show a night.
[00:31:18] Speaker C: Tomorrow, Saturday.
[00:31:19] Speaker D: Tomorrow and Saturday. Get them tickets. J Bling dot com.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: Don't miss it.
[00:31:23] Speaker D: We got Ramona sp. Got questions, though, bro.
[00:31:25] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, we'll get. Yeah, y'all call them out. Call out the questions. But yeah, it's gonna be fun shows, man. Just trying to make as many people laugh as possible. We've been going city to city all year, so it's finally time to bring you home and come together, have a good time. Y'all know somebody needs a laugh. Send them our way.
[00:31:43] Speaker A: Hell yeah.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: Send them.
[00:31:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: Awesome, man. It's awesome, man. You show you. You're doing some jiu jitsu thing in Cancun.
[00:31:49] Speaker C: Comedy.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eddie Bravo's crazy ass.
He. He. He dreamt up this thing where he's like, it's gonna be the. The Coachella.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: We're gonna invite this.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: Gonna be there.
Yeah. So I'm, I'm. Man, I'm so honored. I'm so honored that he even said, chingo. I want you to be a part of this because there's gonna be seminars in the day from, like, big gnome that, like, super OG black belt and then fights different ones, like female, female on female combat, Jiu jitsu, Ebi, Eddie, Bravo, invitation, like, all that. A different show, I think, per night and then comedy at night. And so, yeah, dude, like, I'm just gonna be trying to soak up that game and attending the classes, you know?
[00:32:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: Big name people. It's almost as if, like, in the comedian equivalent, it'd be like, bro, it's gonna be like Bill Burr's teaching the class in one morning. You got a Ricky Gervais doing a thing on. On roasting, whoever, whoever, you know?
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's awesome, man.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: So.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: So how do you feel? Because you had to start comedy basically in off of your, you know, your music career or whatever, and you had to, like, fumble around and figure out what you were doing in front of a paid audience. Right? What was that like?
[00:33:19] Speaker B: It's pretty nerve wracking a little bit. But, I mean, I just. I just really enjoyed stand up. And even if. Even if, like, it never took off or never did anything, it would just be one of those things, you know how, like. Yeah, you know how. Kind of like, kind of like jiu jitsu, you know, or like, if you see like, Robert Rodriguez, film director, but he's got a Band. Yeah. I mean, he plays a guitar.
[00:33:43] Speaker A: John Way. What's his name?
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Don't ask him about the movies right.
[00:33:45] Speaker D: Now when you see him.
[00:33:48] Speaker B: Don't ask him about the movies, bro. He's on his music.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Don't mention it.
[00:33:53] Speaker D: Lieutenant Dan has a bit. Yeah. You know, you get a little side project, you know.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: Yeah. So. So I knew. I loved it that much. Like, even if it wasn't gonna turn into anything real, I just knew, like, it was gonna keep me sane. It was gonna be like, a cool hobby.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: And something to, like, you know, community, make friends and. And it's pretty exhilarating. Right?
[00:34:12] Speaker A: Right. That's awesome to do. Yeah. No, and then, too, you mentioned, like, I just didn't. I really just didn't want a real job, bro. I need to figure out what I'm gonna do.
[00:34:20] Speaker D: I mean, was the.
[00:34:21] Speaker C: Was a transition hard? Like, doesn't mean the. The rapper, the. All the Persona.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I. I already was coming in with some type of brand recognition, some type of notoriety, so that was a huge advantage.
The maturity. I already had the. The experience. Already had. Just from, like, show business to understand you cannot fumble this bag or this ball. Really don't. Let's not talk about it. Like, monetary.
[00:34:46] Speaker A: But, like, damn, is that serious?
[00:34:49] Speaker B: What do you mean? Like, you, like, no, like, I'm telling myself, like, yo, like. Like, I'm telling myself, like, bro, you. You already been in the game for years, right? Like, you were wise enough to understand what we're dealing with. Meaning you're not gonna be out here chasing women, getting drunk, partying.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: Like, that's what I meant. Like, basically, don't mess this up.
[00:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah, like. Like, you're making people laugh and, like, you're connecting with people, and it's like such a cool art form.
[00:35:14] Speaker C: And the main thing, I mean, that I saw from. From the outside is that you didn't go straight to, hey, I'm selling tickets, I'm doing comedy. Come come see me make you laugh at the very, very beginning, you know what I mean? Like, from what I saw, you were doing, like, paying your dues, like, doing the small gigs, learning on the job. Yeah.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: Basically, like, you had. You hosted a show, right? A Netflix show. Like, you decided to hold it instead of.
[00:35:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. I wasn't ready.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: You weren't ready at that point.
[00:35:41] Speaker C: I mean, I've seen. I've seen influencers or it's almost like tick talkers or whatever, sell tickets that weren't ready. And then people were like, I don't want to see that guy.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: Well, dude, like true crazy, that net, that project we did for Netflix, it's almost like, it's almost like what you're saying, like these influencer Tick Tockers are doing venues in a way that I was like, I was the original influencer type person who fell into some. You know what I'm saying?
[00:36:10] Speaker D: Right, right. And.
[00:36:10] Speaker A: But so they're doing that at. But at like a huge. Like you. What you're saying is that what you're.
[00:36:15] Speaker D: Saying, they're trying to headline.
[00:36:16] Speaker C: Yeah, they were trying.
[00:36:18] Speaker D: And they. Yeah, because, because the demand's there. They're selling tickets.
[00:36:22] Speaker C: I'm sure they had.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Somebody got the money coming in.
[00:36:24] Speaker D: Some of them.
[00:36:24] Speaker C: There was some agent that came behind him and said, hey, you can still.
[00:36:27] Speaker D: Oh, no, these, these Tick Tockers are getting signed by some of the biggest agencies out there.
[00:36:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:32] Speaker D: And, and they are working them to the bone. They got them on the road.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: Are they crazy? Like, are they good at stuff?
[00:36:39] Speaker D: Some of them are. Some of them, Some of them can't transition, you know, some. And you know, there's, there's a.
They're being graded on a curve. Some, some of them, you know, because the people like you, you know, you know, a lot, A lot of stand up is you're getting the audience to like you. Right. As an unknown comic. That's your job. When I get up there, I have to convince these people not only am I funny, but they don't. I'm. I'm worthy. Them liking part of that job is done for you when they paid to come see I like you already. I'm a fan of I paid to come see your show. So, so even if they're not the best standup wise, you know, then they, they get a little, a little bump from that, right? They. I'm gonna laugh a little bit more because I paid to come see. You're the person I came to see. You're the picture. You're the picture up on the, on, on, on the poster. I opened for, for one Tick Tocker, you know, and I won't call them out, but they've only been doing it, you know, two, two years. Open mics.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:37:42] Speaker D: They hadn't even done any paid shows. Now they're blowing up on Tik Tok, you know, they're figuring it out. You know, they had, they. Now they're selling 400 seats.
That's a big jump to go from an open mic that maybe had 20 people to now, now you have to entertain 400 people for, for 45 minutes for 45 minutes to an hour is a hit, is a headline set. That, that's a, that's a big task.
I think they'll figure it out. I saw you. You know, I can look at somebody now and kind of figure out who it is. There's some that they get one year and they can't sell after that because it was that bad.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: So they bur their name.
[00:38:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:38:21] Speaker A: So we got AI and stuff like that. Do you think they. How, how do you think that affects. Because people could go on there, hey, write me at one hour or whatchamacallit, whatever.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: Hold on. Really?
[00:38:29] Speaker D: Well, the AI, but, you know, I mean, that's no different because they always had the option of hiring writers. Okay. So this is, it's, it's new, but it's not new in the sense, because the, as far as the influencer, the comic pipeline, because back in the day there was a lot of actors, comedic actors, and I will call this person out by name, like Chris Katan, who. Everyone was like, oh, my God, he's so funny on snl and he, he's mango. It's like, yeah, you know, but he, but his standup is absolute trash, bro. Like, but he, but he's good enough where he could have someone help him develop a set and, and, and he can get through it. And because there he's famous, people are going to pay to, to, to come, to come see it.
[00:39:22] Speaker B: Right.
[00:39:22] Speaker D: So you could. They always have the option. So it's just a matter really who. Who. Who's it hurting? Well, now they don't need to hire a writer. They can, they can have AI. So everyone's always been capable of getting help, help from someone else, you know.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: Like having a research paper written or.
[00:39:37] Speaker D: Whatever from like, I, I worked and written with other comics, you know, and I've had, I've had newer comics want, you know, the same assistance. And the thing is though, you know, I can write you a good joke, but can you perform that joke? Can you make that joke yours? You know, you can't just hand over a, a good joke to any, to anybody. And I, I know because I tried it and I'm some. Sometimes I've been like, like, man, can I have someone back? Because, like, you ain't gonna do it right?
And that was good. Like, like, let me keep that, Let me keep that one, you know, because. Because it was, it was good.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: You know, it's cool to have like three comics in a conversation.
[00:40:22] Speaker C: I was gonna say you started with one comic each Each, like, podcaster.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:26] Speaker C: Solos with the comic. I think hobby was the first. And now you're like, let's just bring three comics in and let.
[00:40:34] Speaker D: Did I do your first episode? Yes, you did. I did. Right. Okay.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: Thanks for wearing my. Our shirt at your special, man.
[00:40:41] Speaker D: Thank you, man.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: And then shouting us out at the end credits. I saw that on the San Antonio podcast you're on.
[00:40:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: You're not finished, bro. So we're looking forward to them.
[00:40:49] Speaker D: Not finished, man. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do another one, man. You know, we're gonna make it happen.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: Well, what do you got coming up, Chico? Well, obviously you got a bunch of stuff rolling or going on. Do you have any, like, specials coming out? Do you look at that or specials?
[00:41:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I might want to tape and record a lot of the stuff that. That I have so far for this year just to kind of have it as well. But next year in January, doing some stuff like military bases in January and then I think again in August. So it'll be like Pacific Ocean stuff in January, like Guam and Korea. And thankfully, hopefully everything will be nice and peaceful before I go overseas like that. And I had to take a whole anti terrorism course, like a safety thing. So I'm certified. I'm certified.
I'm a blue belt, Jiu Jitsu, and I'm certified.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: You're going to Okinawa.
[00:41:44] Speaker B: I. I don't. I don't remember the exact list. Might be. It was a lot of Asian stuff.
[00:41:50] Speaker D: You're going to Tommy Village.
Tommy village. That's where Mr. Miyagi, wow.
This Tommy Village. You're standing on it.
[00:42:05] Speaker A: Standing on it, bro.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: Tony, man.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: So you started fighting on.
[00:42:09] Speaker C: Hold on, I want to touch back on something. I congratulated him on his. On how deep Javi single handedly turned a joke into a Netflix special.
[00:42:17] Speaker D: Oh, I did. What Serious.
[00:42:20] Speaker C: Started saying that years ago.
Javi started saying a joke how Daniel. Daniel LaRusso was the bad guy guy. How old was that?
[00:42:28] Speaker D: Like, at least that. It was way before the show. It was way before I stopped doing the joke. Not because of the ne. Not because of the show, but because a YouTube video went viral on it and. And 91 people thinking that I was. But I used to have. Have a joke about that. Karate Kid was one of my favorite movies.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:45] Speaker D: And then I had watched it so much that I started to see it from the angle of that Daniel was the bad guy. And I. And I used to do this.
[00:42:53] Speaker C: Daniel was the.
[00:42:54] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, I used to do this Whole bit like it was. It was him, dude. Like the kid that wasn' your boombox, bro. Right? I'm like, yeah, I used to do this. Yeah. And I used to do this bit about Mr. Miyagi, how that was not like non appropriate relationship. Like, like, why is a 6 year.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: Old Asian man, like, paint my thing?
[00:43:17] Speaker D: Like, like, like, why is this 6 year old Asian man hanging out with this little boy, Italian boy, making him do yard work, getting all hot and sweaty and then he gives him a massage and gives him saki, like. Yeah, and give him a car, bro. He's giving them gifts, bro. Like, and the d. All I just say you start, you know, you start.
[00:43:48] Speaker C: To see from a different angle out to the universe. And the universe said, you know what?
[00:43:51] Speaker D: I like that, you know, it need. Need to be done.
[00:43:54] Speaker A: But.
[00:43:54] Speaker D: But that's. But that's part of comedy, right? You're seeing things that everybody else is seeing and, you know. Yeah.
[00:43:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
[00:44:01] Speaker C: That's pretty wild, bro.
[00:44:02] Speaker A: Y. So y'all started around the same time, though?
[00:44:04] Speaker D: I started probably maybe like a couple year or two after. Yeah, I remember, in fact, I think the first time. One of the first time I saw you, you did Funny in Corpus, I think, right? Like the year after I had won it.
[00:44:18] Speaker C: The. Yeah, I think.
[00:44:19] Speaker D: Yeah. Because I remember I was hosting it.
[00:44:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I think.
[00:44:21] Speaker D: I think that was funny.
[00:44:21] Speaker C: Corpus was like my fourth or fifth time on stage.
[00:44:24] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, that was one of the first times I remember seeing you.
[00:44:27] Speaker C: The whole squad came out. Everybody.
[00:44:28] Speaker D: I remember.
[00:44:28] Speaker C: Sure, everybody came out.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:31] Speaker D: No, you did great.
[00:44:32] Speaker C: But I did a lot. I mean, I was new, so I did a lot of local stuff. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, but everybody had fun.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: Everybody.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: Like, what's up with Bonet?
[00:44:39] Speaker C: Yeah, I was making heb feed references.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah. So you think it's harder for a comic, like, I guess, to make it if it's in a town like ours looks kind of small as opposed to like maybe Houston or something like that.
[00:44:54] Speaker C: I think it's hard no matter where you're at. If you go to Houston, there's so many guys out there, right. I think if you find your crowd and your crowd will push you and you.
[00:45:03] Speaker D: You're.
[00:45:03] Speaker C: You're giving them good stuff, you'll make it, right?
[00:45:06] Speaker A: So. So it doesn't matter about, like, how many performances that you might. Because you gotta have more. A lot of performances, right?
[00:45:14] Speaker C: At the end of the day, if you're funny, you're funny.
[00:45:16] Speaker B: And if you're pushing, there's just there's just so many variables, bro. That's like saying like, I mean you, it's hard to factor everything in. It's like saying, okay, Alisa Deke, he's from Houston. Let's count how many times he's been on stage. Time multiply by how, how many years he's been doing it times how he rides and then find somebody else from Houston, you know what I mean?
[00:45:36] Speaker A: Right, right, right.
[00:45:37] Speaker B: And try to compare. But there's just some, there's luck. There's, you know, right time, right place. Hustle, hustle. Being I have grit, not giving up. And then you meet somebody and yeah, and you get lucky and then other. And then you start growing your finding your tribe and then somebody might like shout you out on Rogan.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: That's what I, that's what I noticed. Like, cuz you, it seems like you've been networking for a lot of years and you, would you say that that's important too for a comic or a comedian or you know what I'm saying?
[00:46:09] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:46:11] Speaker A: It's like basic, right?
[00:46:12] Speaker C: I mean, Chingo's been a, a staple in a Hispanic Latin community for, for years. I mean, the first time I saw him, I was probably like 10 at car shows. So my dad's, we've been in car shows since we were kids. My dad's pretty well known in the, in the scene.
So when we were kids, like we met this guy.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:46:32] Speaker C: And then little by little, just, hey, there's that, that kid. Hey, there's that, there's that guy. And little by little, just more and more, more.
[00:46:38] Speaker B: Next thing you know, next thing you know. Staple.
[00:46:40] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:46:44] Speaker C: He'S, he's, he's paid the dues. He's, I mean what he's trying, what.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: He'S trying to say is I, I, I, how is it, how could I be in the game 20 years and just be a square? Like, you're just not, like you're not even networking, bro. That's the least you could do, you know?
[00:47:01] Speaker C: And then, and then, I mean, talent, at the end of the day, you got talent and you, you hone into it. I mean, LeBron James is 68, but LeBron James is gifted, right? Like, everybody knows he's talented. Like if you have the talent, you hone it in, you work hard. The end of the day you're going to be successful.
[00:47:16] Speaker D: You're shying from anywhere where, I mean, I, I, I, I, I can feel like I can speak to that a little bit because I, I found my, my spot in the comedy industry. Right. I'm not, not a household name by any, by any kind of kind of measure, but I, I, I do, I do what I do and, and, and those that, that know, know and and respect what I do and I did that for here from, from corporate. So I feel like I can speak to that. You're absolutely right. Talent will, will shine from wherever. But your path is going to be different.
[00:47:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Right.
[00:47:50] Speaker D: Because simply because in a bigger market your opportunities are going to be different. Just like, like Chingo was saying, the, the, there's pros and cons to everything. So like someone doing starting comedy in Houston or Austin or LA is going to have that benefit of extra time. Right? There's so many more stages you're going to be in so many in front of so many other people.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: So much traffic.
[00:48:15] Speaker D: Yeah, so, so, so much.
[00:48:16] Speaker B: Hey, so much rent traffic traffic.
[00:48:19] Speaker D: Versus like to say like when I started, when I started comedy here, yeah, there was no comedy open mics here. There's, it was, I had House of Rock and Revolution, you know what I'm saying? So there, there is different. And Steve Thuringo was the first person to tell me, you know, he goes, you know, you're, you're gonna someday be competing against guys that are doing 15 open mics a week. Right? How are you going to compete with. Right. And, and, and that was very daunting to someone who was just starting comedy.
What I found out year years later as I eventually met with those guys from la, you, you know, I had to find a different way to get my stage. I had to start my own open mic so that I could then create stage. I had to, to start to start a group with some other comics so that we started putting on our own shows. What ended up happening from that is when I met up with these guys from la.
Yes, they were doing, they had many more open mics to do and they were doing four or five minute sets, but I got to start featuring and, and headlining bar shows in the state of Texas within a year of starting comedy. So where they had 20 minute sets, I had an hour already. Oh, when they got their first headlining set, I had already thrown away an hour material. So there are pros and cons to everything from being a, being a big fish in a small pond to being in a bigger market where there might be but on the same slide. A lot of them, they, they got their HBO spots because they get to showcase, they get to network, they get.
[00:49:58] Speaker A: To be in wherever that I'll give.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: You an example of the music days back in the day where, let's say you're from somewhere like Houston. Right? Houston, Texas. And then you have other cats doing the rap thing, but they're like in LA or New York.
[00:50:16] Speaker A: Right, right.
[00:50:16] Speaker B: That's where all the labels are. Right. So it's like, bro, you literally walk past the Sony building on your way to work. Whatever. Like, you drive past the Capitol building on the way to your mom's and it's like you can literally try and like, deliver a demo. Or your, your uncle's cousin's niece works at the front desk at Atlantic, you know, whatever that type of thing. Thing.
So the beautiful thing is on the music side, like, Texas created kind of like other markets too. Like, like maybe like the Bay Area, Atlanta. Well, now all the industries in Atlanta too. Now you see all the capital records or whatever. But, but like, you didn't have the luxury of walking past the Sony building every day, so you had to find your audience, build your brand. Like. Like find your fans, you know, your customers, the people that rock with you, the people you speak to, the people that you represent, the people that you're trying to connect with, your tribe or whatever they call. Yeah, there's a bunch of different ways, but the people that support you, show you love, show up, buy a shirt, leave the comment, share the video, leave the laugh emoji, tell their friend about you.
So. So with, with that example I was given, it's like, yeah, like, for example, even Hollywood, you know, you might grow up right by it. And your uncle used to work security at the Disney lot.
[00:51:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Or whatever.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: But it's like, can you hustle? Can you build something? You know, I mean, can you create and make something that's going to resonate and stand out? Oh, you know, and that's why sometimes I get a little frustrated. Like, with like, you know, you want to do at one point a little bit more focus on like acting, movie, Hollywood type related. But then you realize, oh, these smell like baby oil.
And then you realize, good, I'm glad. I never like the grasses and grass.
Because, because, because especially like once, like for me, personal, like being on the Philly Brown movie set, working with all these big names, like having lunch with Edward James almost, or Lou Diamond Phillips gives you props, or you're in the scene with Gina Rodriguez and all these people and, and you're like, well, they know I got the sauce. You know what I mean? It's like, why ain't. Why the. They ain't never reach out, be like Bro, we need that kid from Houston, like, Cat Williams right here. Yeah, I'm not entitled either. I'm not like, hey, where's my.
[00:52:47] Speaker D: Yeah, where's my.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: Where's my sitcom?
[00:52:52] Speaker D: What's the arena tour?
You.
[00:52:59] Speaker B: He's like.
[00:53:01] Speaker A: So.
[00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah, so sometime, you know, sometimes. Sometimes, like, for example, Cat Williams, when I met him, he told me straight up, he's like. Like he was telling another comic right there at his crib. He's telling another comic, like, he's like, I've been to jail. This the. He's like, they don't. Like, whoever's the biggest name for the Mexicans, right? The king. You know, the person that was ordained the king of all Mexican comics. They're like. They don't really rock with him. They're like, he 50 years old, ain't got not one tattoo.
[00:53:30] Speaker A: The.
[00:53:31] Speaker B: They like, you know, and I'm there at his house, and Cat Williams is. I don't even do standup yet at the time. And he's telling me like, dog, you the one got the sauce. Like, he's playing me songs. Songs. I'm like, you're Cat Williams? And he's asking me about rap and the most. But he was like. He was really holding court. He was like a professor breaking down the universe and little smart.
[00:53:51] Speaker A: Yeah, he's super, bro.
[00:53:52] Speaker B: All these interviews y'all been seeing, I saw that firsthand right there in his house.
[00:53:57] Speaker C: I mean, he did it, what, 20 years ago in that special, and everybody's, like, laughing, and now they're going back and watching it, and they're like, which.
[00:54:03] Speaker B: Which one? Which part?
[00:54:06] Speaker C: The one where he's talking about going into. To the party, opening doors.
[00:54:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:10] Speaker C: He says so? And so he calls him by their. Their name on a. On a. On a TV show. And he's like, like, telling everybody it.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: Was an actor or somebody.
[00:54:19] Speaker C: Yeah, it was. I forgot his name, but I looked him up and I was like, yeah, you seen that guy? And he's played the dad in tons of movies and sitcoms and pretty bad. But I mean, 20 years ago, he was doing that, like, on stage.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: So, I mean, I watched that whole interview, man. With the. Who was a Shannon Sharp or whatever that he had thing.
[00:54:37] Speaker D: Yeah, like three hours, right?
[00:54:39] Speaker A: Yeah, the whole thing. I'm a truck driver.
[00:54:41] Speaker D: Oh, that's right. That's right.
[00:54:43] Speaker B: He's like, I can play it again.
[00:54:47] Speaker A: 0.25X speed or whatever.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah, you memorize it.
[00:54:50] Speaker D: I got. I got the highlights.
[00:54:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, the dude was like, What? Like, like 12 years old, and he was at a bus stop, like, trying to find a ride to somewhere or whatever at such a young age. You know what I mean? It's. It's phenomenal how he's so smart at.
You know, he goes to different cities and he may go to jail in those cities or whatever, but I don't know. I don't.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: That's why he was like, I've been to jail.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: He's like, exactly.
[00:55:14] Speaker B: He the one they like. But anyway, go ahead.
[00:55:16] Speaker A: No, no, I was just saying that, like, it seems like I don't know if he does it because it helps his. At his. His, you know, his standup or whatever, just being a part of that city. Because go to jail? No, not go to jail, but like, like, because, like, to know the area or to know, like, the lingo or whatever.
[00:55:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, he always does, like, local material.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:37] Speaker C: All the shows are like 15 minutes. The first 15 minutes are all local. Local references. That's what he says.
[00:55:42] Speaker B: That's crazy.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: It's awesome, man. Thanks for coming on the show, you guys. I was gonna bring some. Some political stuff on, but we went down a. This other kind of rabbit hole.
[00:55:52] Speaker D: Once you get us talking comedy, man, that's all we.
[00:55:54] Speaker A: I like it, bro. It's awesome, man.
[00:55:56] Speaker D: Ramon, to answer your question, blood and blood out. It's a toss up between Milline Tawan and Born in east la.
And he was asking, I guess.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: Yeah. On the podcast. So Ramon Esparza saying on Facebook, america me or blood in, Blood out. What do y'all think?
[00:56:14] Speaker B: Me or blood in blood?
[00:56:16] Speaker A: Do they influence?
[00:56:17] Speaker B: Honestly, I mean, I saw. I saw American me more. More than blood and blood out. I just happen to just see it more.
[00:56:25] Speaker D: Yeah, like, them both. But Blood and blood out, for me.
[00:56:28] Speaker A: A million to cancel me for that.
[00:56:30] Speaker B: Like, he doesn't even know Blood and Blood, dude.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: How do you deal with, like, that cancel culture and all that stuff? Because it seems like you've been having to deal with that a lot. Have you dealt with that, Javi? Cancel culture?
[00:56:41] Speaker D: Nah, no one cares. Cares what I say.
And I don't care what they think they think either.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we got pretty thick skin at this point, you know, like, the first time, it's like you're catching all the arrows. They're calling you. Everything they done ran with the narrative and. And you just don't even have time to put out all. It's like 10,000 fires. One person's like, I heard, you know, you're anti this or you hate XYZ and. And Then you're just like, no, not true. And 50, oh, no. And you know, know different directions, arrows.
[00:57:15] Speaker A: Coming from a different direction. Wow, that's crazy, man.
[00:57:17] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So now it's easy to like just look back and laugh, but at the time it's like your wife is like, I'm losing followers. And it's like, honey, I didn't sign up for this. You know, I worked hard for those followers.
We could laugh at it now. We can laugh at it now, dog. But hey, you know, you got pray to.
[00:57:37] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, I even got strays.
[00:57:41] Speaker C: Too.
[00:57:41] Speaker B: Honestly.
You want the strong US dollar and cheap gas.
[00:57:51] Speaker D: Bye. Damn.
[00:57:53] Speaker A: Cheap gas, bro.
[00:57:55] Speaker B: Hobby caught a straight ch.
[00:57:58] Speaker D: I lost five followers, man.
But it's about percentage. That's a.
I needed, I needed those 5ch, though.
[00:58:14] Speaker B: I lost 3.5%, you know what I'm saying?
[00:58:18] Speaker D: That's five tickets I could have sold, you know, $10 a ticket. That's. That's a tank of gas right there, man.
[00:58:27] Speaker A: So what? So there. Somebody put on like a. Oh, Trump got voted in. It was like 294 now. That's like 2, 298 now. Thanks a lot, Trump. Or whatever.
Yeah.
[00:58:39] Speaker B: The peaceful transfer of power is January 20th.
[00:58:42] Speaker D: I can't believe I missed that election, man.
[00:58:44] Speaker A: Oh, man. Well, thanks for coming on the show. Coming up.
[00:58:47] Speaker C: Keep saying, I miss that.
[00:58:52] Speaker B: He stayed out of it.
[00:58:53] Speaker D: I was like, I like, that was this week.
[00:58:56] Speaker B: This week. I'm just playing dumb. I'mma stay out of it. I don't know.
[00:59:01] Speaker D: I don't know nothing that happened.
[00:59:02] Speaker A: Do you, I mean, do comics like, who was. Do comics like.
[00:59:07] Speaker D: That was this. You know what I'm saying?
[00:59:09] Speaker A: Comics, like, stay out of politics. Purpose.
[00:59:11] Speaker D: No, I mean, no, not per.
[00:59:13] Speaker B: I mean, most people do. Most people do. It's pretty wise, I think most people do. If you have a business and you like need money to live, then chances are you probably going to be these days, in modern day 2024America, you can.
[00:59:27] Speaker A: Lose a job over.
[00:59:28] Speaker B: I mean, you can lose friends, family, or your best friend, your homeboy business partner.
[00:59:33] Speaker D: I just, I just protect my own peace, so.
[00:59:36] Speaker A: So, okay, so you guys are comics. How do y'all feel about, like the freedom of speech aspect of, I guess, the United States or whatever?
[00:59:42] Speaker C: If it's funny, good luck, like, make it fun.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: Like, do you feel like you have to like tiptoe around, like, you know what I'm saying?
[00:59:49] Speaker B: Like self censor?
[00:59:51] Speaker D: Yeah, you can self censor. I mean, one freedom. Freedom of speech is referring to. To. To your Your. Your legal troubles. Right, right. With. With what? With what you're saying. People can like or not like what. What you say. That's not freedom of speech. A business can decide whether or not to. To. To. To let you perform in their. Their club or not. That's not violating. It's. It's when you have a government agency waiting for you to get off the stage, waiting for you to say the wrong thing while you're on stage. Like how Lenny Bruce, the cops, when he was speaking out against the church and religion and the government didn't like that. The powers to be didn't. Didn't like that. Were would stand in the back of the room waiting for him to say the wrong thing so that they could arrest him when he got off stage.
[01:00:38] Speaker B: That's a violation.
Or like when the government pressures Mark Zuckerberg to silence you if you're posting something about health or whatever they decided that week, you know, it's their platform and you know, things like that.
[01:00:53] Speaker A: Right.
[01:00:53] Speaker B: Like, you know, but, but right now, you know, not to get too deep, but. But yeah, right now what we're experiencing is like a big psyop. It's like the media and it's like Maoism of like that type of cancer. Cancel. Cancel culture where it's like, we're going to shame you, we're going to bully you and we're going to ostracize.
[01:01:10] Speaker D: It's different now.
[01:01:10] Speaker B: We're going to label you and it's like so.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: So that what, you lose your job, you lose this stuff, they're gonna hit.
[01:01:16] Speaker D: You where it hurts. Your. Your pocketbook, you know. Ain't gonna arrest you no more.
[01:01:21] Speaker A: That sucks, bro.
Damn. Appreciate you guys coming on the T.R. you saying that.
[01:01:26] Speaker D: That's why I stay broke.
[01:01:27] Speaker A: This here's the Mexican.
[01:01:28] Speaker D: More money, more problems.
[01:01:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. What you say? Say it again.
[01:01:32] Speaker D: Some more money put more problems.
[01:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm coming.
Thank you, bro.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: So Mosquit street, what is it? November.
[01:01:39] Speaker B: November 8th. November 9th.
[01:01:41] Speaker A: Go ahead, say. Say a promo right now to the camera. That way we can reclip it right there.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: Right there.
[01:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:46] Speaker B: Corpus Christi, we are here. Chingo. Bling and friends. I got my boy Javi Luna in the building. We're out here in 361 Bis street live. Get your tickets now. Chingle bling.com two shows November 8th, November 9th pull up on your bo.
[01:02:01] Speaker A: Appreciate you guys for joining the podcast. Stay tuned for the next few shingle Bling Javiluna Lito Cortez. Appreciate you guys. Have a good one. Bye.
[01:02:08] Speaker B: Thank you.
