Meeting Dave Chappelle on SNL Gabriel Iglesias, Beating Matt Rife

Anthony A. shares his experiences meeting Dave Chappelle on SNL, performing in his hometown with the legendary, Gabriel Iglesias, and beating Matt Ride for the number 1 comedy album on iTunes. You don't want to miss it!

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• 0:00 Intro
• 1:45 Behind The Scenes at SNL
• 22:35 Working With Gabriel Iglesias
• 36:00 Beating out Matt Rife For Best Selling Comedy Album
• 45:12 The Impact of Attractiveness and Perception
• 59:09 Challenges and Experiences of Transgenders
• 1:13:00 Vegas vs Scottsdale
• 1:15:06 Religion and Conflict: The Intertwined Relationship
• 1:19:00 Anthony's Journey From YouTube Interviews to Radio
• 1:21:17 Sharing Memorable Experiences

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We, us four, got to go up and kick it with Kenan during the live taping of SNL when Justin Timberlake was there. So they told us, too, they have no idea who's gonna sit back there, could be anybody, just get ready. And I worked in radio, so thought I've had a pretty good run in with celebrities, and I'm like, okay, I'm not, there's nobody, I got men making the nod, negos, nothing's gonna phase me, dawg, not one bit. Right when we walk in, turn the corner, first person you see, Mark Cuban, dawg. I go, There's like a little mingling happening after the show and that's when like the power was hanging out. I gotta like tell you what's happening. Turn this into a beatbox. I swear to God. You were doing some shows with Gabriel and Gleises who you're working with someone that's, you know, top 10 all time and then you got to do that in your hometown, right? Yeah. So how did that feel? It was, was, that was a dream come true. So when I put out my EP on iTunes, it number one to first name, which is a blessing. And I thought, okay, Matt Rife definitely gonna pass it. And then, He went to number two and I stayed at number one. And that's when I was like, this is something. This is cool. You're now rockin' with the funny truth Because it's better with a laugh The truth is more appealing when it put you on your ass Keep it real, I will make a slap with the will I feel like everybody got a cap and I'm finna reveal it through a joke The human is the way that I provoke It's the only way to get you to promote So here we go, we gettin' serious now It's the truth, but you know we gotta give you a smile We gotta do that now, stick around and we gon' make you laugh out loud. Stick around and we gon' make you laugh out loud. You're now rockin' with the funny truth. Tell me about the Saturday Night Live experience and the Kenan Thompson. Yeah, dude. That was sick, man. I did a showcase at Mic Drop. That was a Kenan Thompson showcase. And then from that, I got selected to go meet Kenan at SNL. also shout out to all the Phoenix comics, too, and everybody in the AZ scene, because that Kenan Thompson showcase, I've done a couple of them now. And that's still, in my opinion, the best one I've ever been a part of. And it was sick because all the comics were like, it wasn't like a competition. So it was just a showcase. So you just go up there. There wasn't that comedy contest feeling. It's weird and tight and shit. It wasn't like that. It just felt like a regular show. And that really helped everybody. so yeah, it was just a good look for all of us. And they always talk about that show. But from that one, I got selected to go. And they picked me, another girl from Chicago. name's Tanisha Wilson. She goes by. She is the T on Instagram, I think. So anyway, she got like a million followers on TikTok and Instagram. Yeah, dude, we were is me her this homie Rod Mingher from Atlanta, who's super fucking funny. And this guy, Zach Pinkett, pick it from he won the New York one. So we us four got to go up and kick it with Kenan during the live taping of SNL when Justin Timberlake was there. OK, holy shit, dude. Where they see you like or were you back? So we were in Kenan's green room for the most of what? Yeah for most of it and then do you get to watch like the stuff going on while you're in there? Yeah, you do shows. Yeah, it was it was crazy, bro We're watching just a live taping from like the front from the back of the house and that was kind of surreal too Yeah, it's like happening like yes happening the next door. Yeah, and so I guess like I'm kind of like skimming down much time We got time, right? Chapters, yeah, so yeah, so they fly us out We do a showcase in Atlantic City. You guys been to Atlantic City? No. Isn't that where Trump tried to have casinos? No, that's where Trump did. And Trump crushed over there in Atlantic City. Bro, Atlantic City is so wild. I walked in there and I was like, you know We need Trump back over here. That was crazy. I never thought I say those words out of my mouth. I was like, you know, we need Trump back now. Trump's in one place, other is like, Atlantic City is like, New Jersey. Yes, it's okay. Yes, so Atlantic City reminded me of Las Vegas without deodorant. That's really what it felt like in there. So Las Vegas is a clean place. Yeah. So, you know, but you're by the Atlantic Ocean, which is cool for a person who lives, dwells in the desert. So that was dope. And also it was like a cool vibe. That show was dope. So we did that show there in Atlantic City, performed like a lot of Philadelphia comics too. Yes. I did. I did a show in Philly in December. Was it like my show was like full of black Yeah, there's a lot of black people a lot of black homies miles all black homies But there's also like a I have to crowd was blank cuz like the Shane Gillis rising There's also like a lot like a whole white guy, Pennsylvania. Sure. Well, yeah, the one I was on everyone kept calling They're like referring to young homies as young bulls Fiddler is weird. It's like it's like there's like this ghetto blank side of it and then there's just this gay side of it Like like it reminds me of a Portland yeah, and like an East Coast Portland by so like gay side you mean like the sixer fans That's only franchise in Philadelphia I don't want smoke with Trust the transition Well the the show I did I was doing It's all it's like a it's like a their version of don't tell just within Philly. It's called next in line Philly and the show I was at. It cool little venue, but afterwards it was just this huge gay, gay party after the like you want to go check out this room and I went in there it was just flaming. was like I mean I don't know why is that nice but the neighborhood we were in. We didn't finish your fucking story. I know who mine's booked Mark Hatton. This gay party that you were at. just saying Philly's it's funny. your arm up when you tell the gay story. Yeah, so that we did the show to let it city the next night we go to SNL and Man even from like walking into the building to like 30 Rock was crazy like as we're walking in that's where they filmed Jimmy Fallon the ground Yeah, it's crazy in comedy. Yeah, exactly and so like we're walking in and like right away like quest loves like walking around the corner and One of the homies asked him for a pick and quest is like And I was like, shit, all right, we're an open one as a group. We're on that kind of time. So they told us, they're like, hey, they have no idea who you're going to see back there. So it could be anybody, just get ready. And I've worked in radio, so I've had a pretty good run in with celebrities. And I'm like, OK, I'm not. There's nobody. I met Nicki Minaj, Migos, Young Thug. I've been around some people in some situations. I'm like, nothing's going to phase me, dog, not one bit. And I went in there mentally prepared to see everybody from like the comedy world of who's who. Right when we walk in, turn the corner, first person we see Mark Cuban dog. Really? Bro. I go, and he and nobody, luckily nobody saw me, but Mark Cuban saw me. And this is all right chemical there. Yeah, really but yeah So cool, yeah, he was so cool. He just gave me a head nod He saw everything I did he looked at me the whole time. So he was cool. Mark Cuban is like that dude Got into the billionaire class that wasn't supposed to be there. Yeah, bro. And he's just hanging. He's hanging out. He was that dude. He's the OG drop shipper. Mark Cuban is so cool, but I should have spent way more time talking to him when I had the chance. So, yes. So then we go into Kenan's green room and we start watching the taping. At this point, we haven't met Kenan yet. And then Justin Timberlake was the first performer or the performer for that. The host. Yeah, him and. Dakota Johnson. Madame Wipp? Yeah. Yeah, she also did 50 Shades of Grey, right? Yeah. Yeah, Exactly. Yeah, they were the hosts. so we went to watch Justin Timberlake's performance. And dude, that was, he's doing the performance that he's doing on the tour now. And bro, that fool was like. Because I remember, y 'all remember when he was doing that, like, Man in the Woods? Yeah. I don't remember that. That wasn't it. That wasn't And everyone was like, turning like, yo, Justin Timberlake and God in the Morning. And I remember seeing him that night, like, this fool's back. Like, he was doing everything live, singing. It was crazy. So then while we're walking back, we turn the corner, and they're getting ready to do the weekly update. And it's a live set. And so also, you can also imagine there's a team of cast members. And then there's also a team of writers as well too. So how do I explain this for the comedians who are watching? It was all great. It was a great experience. But you could definitely feel the energy of, I couldn't tell from who, but some people were like, who are these new comedians in here? It wasn't. It's like, why are you here? It's an intense energy. Yeah. Because it's competitive. And rightfully so, everyone there is great. So it was just interesting to sit back and absorb that. How long have you been doing comedy in Phoenix? In Phoenix? I've been in Phoenix since 2019, but I've been doing comedy for about 10 years now. So you've been doing Michael Longfield as a weekly update? Yeah, dude. Michael Longfield. No, he's on it, but he doesn't do it. It's Michael Che and then Colin Right, right. But he gets on there. Now, did you ever do comedy when he was doing comedy here? We did one show in Gilbert together, and yeah, that was that. But I didn't really know him, so we didn't even talk that night. Sure. But yeah, so then when Justin Timberlake's performing, we're coming back around, we're setting up for the weekly update, and then they stop you, because it's like a live set, so you just gotta stand in place. And then so we were right next to like Michael Che, coolest motherfucker in the world. I wanna be that cool before I go on stage. He like - He had aura? Yeah, he did. He calmed me down. I don't even know why I was nervous. was like, I was just watching him set up, and he was just like, what's up, bro? Like literally standing right next to me while they're setting everything up and just He's so calm like he wasn't about to go on national television and do you know 10 minutes of new or whatever it is like seven minutes of new material Yeah, that was just another yeah, so that was cool to watch too and then Colin Josen had a side was equally as like collected But also he was kind of like more bent down and looked like in a meditative state almost kind of lock in Yeah, kind of what I would more be expected. I imagine so like going on. Yeah, that's more I mean just yeah, just like watch the NBA finals. Wait, Before they go out to the NBA finals. Oh yes, yes, yes. When they're like, you see the person that's like, they have their headphones on, they're just like, and then you see the person, like, another day. Exactly. Let's clock in. 100%. So that was cool to watch them go from that to doing it live and then just hearing the pops and hearing everything was dope. So that was one of my favorite parts. And then as we're walking back to Kenan's green room, fucking Jimmy Fallon's coming down the hallway, dog. And I'm like, hold up, bro. I fist bump But I was trying to steal his powers, dog. was like, so fist bump, Jimmy fell. And then when we come back around, that's when Kenan, we came back to the green room that time. Kenan was in the green room. And so I met him for the first time while he was getting ready to go on and do, it was like an airport skit. And that was a surreal moment to be sitting in his green room, kicking it, having a good time, watching him get ready. And then seeing all of it, he has this big old poster when he played Guam and Ali. And it says, think it's like 15 ,000 sketches or some crazy number that he's been on. Dude, thought with Saturday Night Live, you can only be on there for a certain amount of time. Kenan's been on there. Kenan is the longest cast member they've ever had. Yeah. is he like the Jackie Robinson of SNL? Like breaking barriers? Yeah. I think, I feel I like I'm to have to ask him how he feels about that comparison. But I think so. Yeah, I think so. Well, I thought with how that whole thing worked, I thought you're only on there for a limited time. I don't think they have a term. I don't think they have term. They don't have a specific number. Really? No. I thought that is like a traditional thing. I don't know. I I watched the Chris Farley documentary. Maybe he's fucked up. But they were like, yo, it's like your Usually a lot of people just get out when they feel it's time to go ahead. But some people have only been there, they don't really let people go. But anyway, yeah, watching him get ready was cool. And then seeing how that was done live, people literally coming in, giving him line changes. Wow. Just right before. Right before he looks at it, OK. And then goes back and goes out there and does his thing. so that was cool. And then we got done with the show. And he popped back, at the end, at the end of the show, dog, they do the final wave off and everything. And out of nowhere, Dave Chappelle just pops up for the final wave off. And everyone's like, what the fuck? He wasn't on the show. He wasn't doing anything. He was just there. So he just did the wave off. And at that point, everyone's like, Chappelle's here. Chappelle's here. So it got a little crazy. And then that's when Keenan came back. And he was like, yo, let's go take pictures on the stage. And walking through SNL the first time, Like with all the homies was cool because everyone was nice but security was definitely like watch where you're going. Yeah. Don't be doing this. You know they're like very honest but do one of the coolest moments of my life was walking through the SNL studios with Keenan like part of his entourage. I make sure I walk my fucking ass. I was walking like right next to him. Yeah. Yeah. You see. And the people were just like parting ways. And that's how we got like we got to take pictures on the stage. We do all that fun stuff. But then after we did that, like there's like a little mingling happening after the show. And that's where like Chappell was hanging out. So I got to like say what's up to him. It's always the afters. Yeah. And I would not have been there if we weren't standing next to Keenan for sure. They would not have let me stand on that side. Yeah, it's like when it's not your bottle yeah So so Michael Che was there and in like I think it was like 2017 I did a show with Michael Che and Sipha Sounds in Dallas. Okay, and that's my favorite city. So Sounds about Dallas is your favorite city? like to I like going to Dallas. I think Dallas would like you too. They'd love me. I can see that. I like Dallas too. That's surprising. Really? Yeah, it's more of an Austin vibe here. My girl and I were seriously considering a move to Austin and I bet this is my third time going there third time I went with her and both kind of just consensus like fuck this place. This is so dirty and gross. I just can't do it man. The whole thing is like Portland's like keep Austin weird. Yeah, yeah, it's like it's like it's like portland in the fact that it's dirty and homeless But it's also like you could still get away with you know At least in the comedy sense saying like things that you wouldn't be able to you know, necessarily do I guess yeah, got you Yeah, what do you think about this? Well, you know, it's so hot in arizona our homeless people don't even die they just evaporate and become spirits and sadhana I think that if you make it through a summer homeless here like that If we're narrowing down who Jesus is, we had to weed them out. I've always thought that, bro. I'm like, yeah, dog. Yeah, she's right. And if you make it through, if you're homeless, shout out to them. I don't think they're seeing this, I hate that I had one of those. That was one of those like two nice moments that Adam talked about. Well, my. Shout out to the unhoused. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to offend you're on radio now. I've always thought that though I've always thought like I've always thought that Jesus would be like one of the homeless people in front of Circle K. Like you know because people are always so Especially people who are like maybe conservative go to church like we do this It's like we're a God -fearing family blah blah blah They would spit on like a homeless person like get a job, but that would be Jesus. Yeah true gotcha That's like a thing right you never know the devil's gonna be you never know that's what I think is I kind of I can't give money to everybody yeah, yeah, yeah, I yeah just so like I like I used to believe that too I used to feel that strong but they want to what if it's like the one person I don't give money to is Jesus. It doesn't yeah I mean it doesn't mean You don't have to give him money. Just don't be a dick. Don't be a dick, dude. Don't be an asshole. Don't be like, eww. You don't think he already knows what your bank account looks like? No. Just saying, If he's part of God, he knows everything. He knows what your bank account looks like. Yeah, OK. So he's going to be like, OK, that's good. That's good. You're right. You're right. Yeah. Just just. I used to wait till I did a shitty thing. Okay. I'm like, let me fix my... That's Catholic. want me to... So next time a homeless person asks me for money and I don't have it, I'm like, you know what? You know what's going on. Start pouring a water bottle and be like, walk on this. Because if you can, I'll go in the red for both Turn this into a beatbox. I swear to God. man, I was dropping my microphone cause I was holding up. That's the remix of the Bible. Like he turned water into a beatbox. That's how I know he black. Black people drink beatboxes, they? No, but they beatbox. think like the new age, Jesus probably turned that shit into like sweet tea. Or what is it? Like Twisted Tea? So yes, anyway, back at Saturday Night Live. And so after that, we take the pictures. We got to go to the after party. I didn't understand the, like, everyone kept talking about the dinner after party of Saturday Night Live. And I didn't understand the politics behind it. I thought we were just going to get some free food and some free drinks and shit. That's I was there for. Yeah, that's I was there for too. we get to sit at Kenan's table. And like when you're sitting at Kenan's table, that's when everyone comes and talks to you and shit. So people were just like walking up and they're like, what are you? What are you here for? Obviously looking at me like, what are you doing here? And that's when I got a chance to talk to Michael Che and remind him about the show in Dallas. And at that time, he was talking to Dave Chappelle. So I was like, all Here's my one chance to kind of smooch in and be like that. So that's how I break into conversation. I went to talk to Che, and he was like, yeah, super dope. At least he acted like he remembered. I don't know if he did or not. he was nice, and he did. And for like two seconds, I looked, and I saw Dave Chappelle watching us talk. I was like, what the fuck? That's so instantly, of course, when I saw him kind of like interested, I was like, can I get a picture? Right away, I'm sorry, I did it. It was the vibe is right. You know what? You know what? You know, I got it. Yeah. I mean, you know what the best way to approach it is like, but do you want a picture or something? Or just like fine, I'll take a picture with you. That might have worked with that one. So we go to take the picture and then when he, when Michael Che was gonna walk away and I was like, yo Mike, get in this picture too. And then Dave Chappelle just goes, come on Michael, Michael, Michael, Michael. And then and then the rest of the night he just kept going Marco Marco Marco Marco Marco Marco so that was like my one Marco Marco Michael is my Dave Chappelle story and encounter and I was Dave Chappelle for me which is dope yeah Marco Marco Marco we just go walk around say that fucking with him and then and I just start feeling myself in that encounter and I was circled back for that's for a video and security was like Kill. It's a good love I love things. It's just like when people are like, how do you like it here? I'm like, it's good sometimes That's just the weather other than that man. I love it here. Yeah the weather Yeah, once you don't have to navigate through that it's good stay indoors Mm -hmm. I have sensitive skin I'm literally allergic to the Sun Never really thought I'd be a shorts clearly above the knee guy me either, but dude I do they they're nice man. I I bought my first pair of shorts from Costco They were they were the French Terry shorts. They were champion brand and Yeah, they're about right here. What the fuck is French Terry exactly But I like them. It sounds like another name. That sounds like another alias for Hulk Hogan French Terry And yes So so you did the SNL thing and then I've also seen that you were doing some shows with Gabriel and slices who seems like a Fluffy, know how comedy is is like I was talking my girlfriend about this Gabriel Iglesias is like, he might be top 10 as far as ticket sales go, as far as most beloved of all time. Whether you personally like his comedy or not, you can't deny. The dude sold out Dodger Stadium. Bro, that's 55 ,000. Yeah. He it over. He turned it two shows on one night. Yeah, yeah. So you're working with someone that's top 10 all time, if we look at it that way. Drake. more records in the Beatles, know, more hits in the Beatles. So it's like you're in that. And then you got to do that in your hometown. Right. Yeah. So how did that feel? And because I could imagine, you know, me going back to my hometown and doing something like that would be fantastic. It was was that was a dream come true. And that was also a byproduct of the Kenan Thompson connection. OK. And like that was, know, when when I got selected for the Kenan Presents, you know, showcase. Part of it was like when we're talking at the after party is like, do you how can we help you? What can you do and? Besides putting on a festival in Vegas that I do for them The only thing I wanted to do that like it's been a good 10 year goal for me is to get on that stage with fluffy in my hometown and So I told Kenan that and he was like, well, I don't have it I know I don't have a direct contact with them But if you get in touch, they will do whatever we need to do to vouch. That's dope So then we did a little quick then we did a little quick video me and Kenan and he's like, come on, Gabe, let him get on. He basically vouched for me in the video. And then I had some homies who like worked with him before my homie, Ken Flores. And then I met you. You tapped in with the Latino comedy scene. I'm up in the mix. I got on this show in Dallas with your guy, polar bear. That's my guy. Yeah. John polar bear. I dropped your name. I was like, when we were in Dallas, dude. Funniest. Dallas is a funny story, but yeah, we were doing some shows with Neil Nanda and then our flight was at like 1130 at night on a Friday. Gross. Right. I was like, I messaged him like a couple of weeks. was like, yo, like guest spot. I know, like, looks like we have some people in common. I dropped your name. He was like, sure, man. He was very, very cool. He's a comedian's comedian and talk about somebody who has like a beloved audience as well. Oh, he's a heart of gold. Did he? hope he gets through whatever he's going through, he, do my, my phone broke on the trip. I couldn't even, I couldn't even get to the fucking airport and the dude, he paid for my Uber and everything. Hey, John Paul, dollars. He saved me on, that one. I mean, I did crush. yeah. But, but it was, yeah, that was just funny. Like I know you're tapped in. was talking to her about that. I was like, there's just certain niches of a comedy that Like Anthony's very tapped in with this and I was like, I think what makes a good show is like, don't, like if you're headlining a show, you don't want to do all the same type of people that have the same type of humor. You want to mix it up. Like when I did your show, was a good mix of, like you had, had Denzmore on there. had had long, you had, Daniel, Andrew, me do one of my, think the funniest moment for me at that show was I was in the green room. I think you were up on stage. I was in the green room and Andrew and Daniel were going back and forth about like Andrew's Jordans and I just like I was just sitting there by myself like And I just I just stopped him and I was like Andrew I don't care what anyone says those Jordans look real Crushed That's trying to explain it to some of the homies there's like this on stage performance and then there's a green room dang that's way more and you could yeah It's almost you could like you could perform bad on the show. Yeah, it's save yourself on a hang also vice versa. Mm -hmm I've seen it go down each way So, fuck yeah, so yeah, out Ken Flores I performed with him Rene vodka Alfred Robles and you're in chingle bling. Yeah, she knows my homie. So I was just talking about this before you got here I was doing that was featuring it this at the El Paso comic strip like last And the host just kept going up and he was like, and don't forget guys, Chingle Bling will be here next week. And I was like, was like, who the fuck is Chingle Bling? And then like, I'm like, do know who Chingle Bling is? Yeah, you don't know who that is. Chingle Bling, dog, great overall entertainer, like a real like, dude, does everything. He does everything. He everything, bro. He's so fast. Food truck. Some of those people you just look at, you're like, bro, you're so talented in whatever he does. And yeah, comics are like barbers, Yeah. A lot of times. So I mean, Chingo Dog, so he's like he did a lot of like amazing comic, bro. And his new material that he's been working on is fucking super funny. So if you ever have a chance to go see him, go watch Chingo Bling. And but he's also like, bro, he has so much like he's such a good music artist as well. Yeah, it's mind blowing, dog. He could just come like he's he's so entertaining. And yes, I don't think I'm I'm done glazing him now. So yeah, so but working with working with Ken, working with Alfred and working with Renee specifically, they had all done a fluffy show. Yeah, fluffy like that's a fluffy bro. He put Ken on in the United Center in Chicago. Wow. And like brought him out and like Michael Jordan played. Yeah. And like, OK. Yeah, for the listeners Is there another facts about the United Center? think that's it right? Yeah, there's not much else. So Derek Rose played there Rose. Yeah Michael Dunleavy jr. Rock Chalk Jayhawk Guys guys we're getting off topic here. He's a Kansas guy. Yeah. Yeah, was nice beat my duck. Yo, freaking dude, Kansas Jayhawk Basketball is like dude. Yeah, well I played I played NAIA basketball and like division one division twos, whatever But then like NAIA is kind of this hidden division skip three Yeah, that's like you don't get it at least scholarships. Yeah, no, but but the NAIA dude it's just like hidden gem, but most of it's in the Midwest and These people are crazy about basketball. yeah, a bunch of free Shooters with like long hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah like like man if these guys were four inches taller they would beat these D1C's I swear through the power of friendship and teamwork. Exactly dog. When the offense motion motion. Bro. Trusting the offense. Yes bro. system. Playing together. Nobody's better. Nobody's bigger than anyone else. Beat him to the spot and take the charge for the team. Dude. Like shit. They live and breathe basketball. It's funny because You look at basketball as like this urban sport that like, you know, the kids from the inner city are good at, but like there's these other people in the Midwest that are fucking crazy about basketball that are like, like when I would play AAU, we would get crushed by these all white teams from like Idaho or somewhere in the Midwest. was just like, are you familiar with the Resball? Yeah. yeah. I, did a, I did a city league a couple months ago in Scottsdale I haven't done cardio in like eight years. I suck. Basketball, dude, that's you, dog. Basketball. You play these teams. And in rec league, there's these teams that are even playing together for years. They're setting back screens. They're setting off ball screens. They're moving without the ball. That's me getting screened up. And yeah, dude, our first game was against this team from the rest. And they'd probably beat us by 40. They were just. They were. up in New Mexico, playing AAU basketball in New Mexico, we played a lot against like a Yeah, bro, these fools are like 12. This was like Yankee from the volleyball line. Yeah dudes the people who love basketball the most are all under six feet They just love it dude My homie was like a he's a basketball trainer and his biggest clientele in Oregon was this was a city called madras It's right outside like Bend and Redmond. It's it's like a huge reservation down Well, like 200 kids show up for this this camp. He's like, that's my that's my money That's where I make my money is on the reservation. I don't know. They love it. It sounded not good. Yeah, I don't like the way you got a little. I don't know. But you know what is right. It's a good spirit. He is the way he lost. It's not you. It's not. It's It's in our Arizona mindset. He put it. He put it back in the side. You look. He put it back in the slots. Like he was they were playing to 21 they got a different game of 21 So yeah, so I got done performing with Ken. Ken Flores, 3 ,000? Yeah, Ken Flores, 300. After we got done doing those shows, so the Kenan video that I made was in January, the end of January. I had this video the whole time, but I was like, I don't feel comfortable. I just felt. Did you post it yet? No, I didn't post it until April is like April the day before the Kenan Festival in Vegas, like April 25th. didn't. Did I see it? I don't know if I saw it. So. Or I forgot about it. No, I mean like. He knows what he did. Right, right, right. No, no, no. The algorithms would be wild. No, that speaks to another thing that I was, because I'd be deep in the trenches on that. It's like the biggest thing you can do is just repost stuff like that that's already worked or try something that like. Maybe you post at the right time. Maybe you're missing something from it. Because the dude was like 99 % of the people that follow you either one don't see what you posted or B, forget what you posted. I was like, shit, I might have liked it. I usually like all your stuff. But I don't always see it. Sometimes I'll be like, 'all ever just wake up in the morning and look at Instagram from your bed and not see shit? But that's a homie. Yeah. I liking stuff. I was like that all the time too. So yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm not offended that you didn't see it or keep up with that. It's cool though. But you knew about it. So it's good. I know about your Kenan experience, but I don't know like you're this big dramatic video. Yeah, dude It was so I posted a I posted the first a photo I had of me and fluffy from like 20 when I was in San Antonio We did a radio interview together. So I think I think I know it should I I posted that one Yeah, and I was like yo, I was like here we go. Here's the first I posted that and then Yeah, I supposed to that and it was like a carousel post I did that one and then I did the video has a lot to do. I was fucking look at it. Sorry guys So yeah, see. Yeah. So yeah, so it was this. I did a carousel post. And that was the video of me and Kenan. So I posted that video and I told homies I was like yo tag tag fluffy Yeah, and I at first dog it started slow. shit. This is gonna be the corniest My life you only get like three. Yeah There's bombing there's bombing on stage and then bombing on social media I do but the thing is if you're bombing on social media, that means nobody saw it already. So you just I don't to mean Sometimes people deserve it and I'm like, it's not like I think righteously in my head you deserve it. It just comes out. Sometimes you can't control it. You can't control it. dude, I cook. Like when somebody's, you know, it's just like, it's just You don't match energies, you maximize energies, what you do. So that was what I wanted to talk about too is another really cool thing you did is with your comedy album. yeah. On iTunes. Cause it reminds me of, You know, this is not a comparison, but like I was a best -selling author at one point on Amazon. Similar thing, you know, pushing it out. And I remember when I was starting the podcast, it was like, you know, if you can get a certain amount of downloads and subscriptions within a certain amount of time, then you can bump yourself up to the top of the charts. And I think that's kind of what you did successfully. Thank you, bro. And that's cool that you brought that up because a week or not sure when it's coming out, but June 21st is going to be the one year anniversary of that AP. Yeah, dude. No, that was dope. So yeah, that was kind of something that gave me a good little pop within the comedy audio side of the industry and people who pay attention to those charts. people like... Put you on the radar. Yeah, it did in a certain way where, I think the same week I dropped, Matt Reif put his crowd work special up on there. And then... The real competition I had was with, he's a puppeteer, guess, if you will. His name is Randy Feltface. He has a purple thing. He's from the UK. Interesting. he dropped. So when I put out my EP on iTunes, it went number one the first night, which was a blessing. And I thought, OK, Matt Rife, definitely going to pass it. And then I saw that Randy Feltface had his pre -orders ready. I was like, that shit's going to blow mine out. So it was cool. It was a one -night thing. And then when Feltface dropped, I went he went to number two and I stayed at number one. Whoa. And that's when I was like, this is something. This is cool. So felt face. How about fuck face? Right away. I try not to be too nice right away. I was like, it's just jokes, but That's what the homies are for bro. He ain't gonna say it cause he too nice. stay out of our territory. Exactly. that was cool bro. it connected me with some industry people in regards to like shout out to the laugh after dark production team. So they saw the release and everything. So that was cool. And if you're watching this, yeah, go download a Ratt's Tale available on all digital platforms. I just think, how long was it? Was it like six minutes? like seven minutes. Yeah, yeah. It was like short. I was like, interesting. I'm a student of the game. So I was watching. I was like, that's dope. I can appreciate that from a marketer standpoint. And I think that's dope that, I mean. You have to use grassroots on that because it's not like you're pulling out ads and really pushing it like that or You know, you don't have a million followers. So you have you don't need a million followers You need just like the followers that follow you to really fuck with you. That's what people don't understand Yeah, people are always so they're looking at the metrics and the numbers you know, I got I got a decent amount of followers, but not not not not fucking Diehards, I'm a big I'm a big Nipsey Hussle person and Nipsey Hussle had his proud to pay campaign for his Crenshaw album where he did it was a hundred dollars an album and People are you know, that's crazy. But he's like if I move a thousand move a thousand units Yeah, we're just trying to sell right. We're just trying to reach the masses and do a million If I focus on a thousand people that really love No, that's the real way to buy it. And then so that's like something I kind of looked at and used for a lot of inspiration when putting out the EP. So yeah. Yeah. But 100 percent everything you're saying is accurate and correct. So yeah. Well, because I've like I've tried doing that stuff for myself, too. So I recognize it. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's that's awesome. Getting it on the streaming platforms was something harder than I anticipated, even with like I went through a tune core, which was a pretty cool distribution site. I was used for music a lot. That's funny. didn't know that you so like before, like one thing like, man, it took me forever to get like the picture for iTunes right. Like I had to do like, I don't even know. Oh yeah, because you to have the correct resolution. resolution. 3000 by 3000. But it wouldn't like accept it. We did it so many Because it's too big. For whatever reason. Yeah, so you have to condense it. I don't know what's going on with the Spotify charts, but they don't have comedy as a genre in the United States. So the album's up Spotify as well too, but it's under like spoken word is what Spotify dude. That's a fucking close That's a fucking term that makes me laugh every time I'm like what the fuck else is word? Yeah, I was just thinking out loud What are you talking about first time hitting the blunt I think I'm doing spoken word. What? Yeah, no fucking shit. Well, that's like literally reinventing the wheel. What if we got you? So funny for that already. dude, those are two good jokes delivered right in my face. Man, that's beautiful. Those are such good jokes. I forgot what we were talking about. yeah. So the EP. So, One year out and yeah, it's not that everyone downloaded it go stream it up. So whatever happened with You remember that video that we had we were at your thing at the 10 p improv Yeah, dude, and we interviewed we interviewed all the people on the show and it's like I don't know. What was that? was that? I don't know What happened to it or what was that whole thing? Like it was your oh that's the kins only I know you had like film there. Yeah, you're trying to shoot a special. I was actually what that was, was I was trying to do two things. One, you know, growing up in New Mexico at the time, we have two comedy clubs now, another one on the way. We didn't have any comedy clubs. So the only closest one we had that was like of any notoriety. Is that why you had to get out? not yeah, I guess to pursue comedy Eventually kind of like had to but so again the way you say it makes it seem like okay I left like I never want a bad tint to anything. Well, like I left if I answer it the right way, it's still gonna seem like how he put it Well, like I can relate because like this is loaded question is not but I said it I get that I can relate because like the city I left we had one comedy club in you how politics are it's I'm not getting spots out here and it's like but there's other reasons why I'm leaving too for sure but like that was the biggest one was for Comedy. Yep, one ever said so I get that and let's see look at that. That sounds the way it is. That sounds more likeable less theatric, but you know more likeable. So for that also, yeah, I was trying to record as a first or second take of the EP. Okay, and so then and then on what I want to do also too is like being that We never had a comedy club in New Mexico. I wanted just to come bring my New Mexico homies to come get on the world famous Improv Dog. It's a big stage. Yeah. So I remember when I moved here, like my first week, I still have it saved on like a Snapchat memory is a Show me the video before I went and I drove in front of the Tempe Improv and I was like, I'm going to perform here. I'm going to I'm going to do it. And then I. I've got I got I got on a show randomly, you know, I booked a do I met a dude in LA at a show and he was like, dude, you were really good. So it's kind of size and blah, blah, blah. And his name is Eric Schwartz. he like Eric Schwartz is man. He's so talented. yeah. That's another person like chingos. I think he hates me. Yeah, I think he does, Because like as quick. Well, because because, you know, I'm unfiltered. she's like, it's just like I was like. He's on the episode and I was like, how old are you? He's like, wow, that's a great fucking question. And then like I seen him in the green room, like at the show and I was like, no, but like, how old are you? And he was like 48 and I swear to Christ when he told me he was 48, I swear to Christ, I saw like all the liver spots after that. Like I was like, Oh. That makes sense. I'm starting to see your lip response. I just know I offended the fuck out of him. Yeah, that sounded pretty offensive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like, but like it was in like, I didn't mean you were just riffing on it. Just not even riffing. Just like being like, yeah, sometimes being a friend. homies don't pick up what you're putting down. Right. Right. And that's goes left. But like he was, he put me on for his show at the, don't you hate when that happens? I'm just used to it, man. Yeah. Like I don't, I don't like, I actually am pretty sensitive in the fact that I'm like, I hope I didn't. upset them, but like also I'm just being like genuine, know? So like, I don't feel bad for how I. intention behind it. You know your intention. So yeah, there's not, you know, obviously intentions and what happens is not the same thing, but I was like, I'm not, you know, Pete Carroll decided to throw the ball in the one yard line. Got to win the next game, you know? Everyone could say that was the stupidest fucking move. Yeah. You know? But I was just, know. And anybody can say anytime you compare yourself to Super Bowl Pete Carroll. Not a good thing. But that's my team, Yeah. I remember watching that game, thinking like I was just pouring the Skittles in my hand like, they're Super Bowl. You think that? They threw that pick. I've never been sick to my stomach from watching. I think that is what retired me from caring about sports. That makes sense. Four opportunities, It was the first down. think they threw that ball. Yeah Lynch almost scored They stopped him like the half yard line and then that's it that easy and then what they had the best defense in the league and would have had like 20 seconds on the clock to stop the Patriots they universe just didn't want the Seahawks owned the Seahawks owned the Patriots they own Tom Brady Maybe there's higher ups. It just didn't want us to see Marshawn Lynch being the hero that he I could see that. like that. Maybe something like that. Because you see that. There's a lot of. It's like, how do you not give him the bet? there's a lot of it. He says it to this day. There's a lot of how do not give me, you know, when it comes to some, you know, everyone has their opinions now when it comes to sports betting, because like, well, that's my money on this shit. You know, like that didn't mean something to me now. That's why I've got back into sports with betting. But you see the stuff about rigging of games or like refs doing things. I mean, it literally happened in the NBA. But the fact that these organizations are labeled as entertainment, like same as a WWE. Yeah. So like they're not. And it's not like it's directly rigged, but like the NBA will send down, you know, rules like, like example. think if you ever watched a Tim Donaghy documentary, he was talking about the LA Lakers center. Yeah, they sent in film and they're like, here's 25 plays of Kobe getting fouled. And so he's like, I knew he's like, I loved betting on Kobe because I knew if anyone breathed on him, it was going to be a foul. So like, I knew that this is what was going to happen. Or like when Jordan was playing, like there's a certain move, you know, when you do this with your elbows, like, like, yeah, but don't call that Jordan. You call that on, this guy, call it, you call it on Kurt Ramsey. You don't call that on Jordan. And that's just kind of like, it's set up in a way to where you could watch the NBA now. Like, Luca Doncius gets the stupidest foul calls all the time. Yeah, you have like a good European uphill. And like, if you do bet and you're paying attention to the spread and stuff, you're like, spread was 7 and 1 points. God, they lost by 7. But if you're betting on the other side of that, those are great Yeah, for sure. For sure. But like, that's a coin flip at that point. know, betting on that stuff. There's NBA players that are on podcasts now. Gilbert Arenas, if you ever watched clips of him talking about it and Rashid Wallace talking about it. They're just like, when they're looking at where the house money is, and it's like, it would benefit us if it hit the over tonight. It's like, we're going to call a lot of fouls tonight. Yeah on role players because we know the star players are gonna fill it Gilbert Arena's talked about that. goes yeah It made more sense for the other team to win that night He goes so we knew we were in for a rough one doesn't mean that we couldn't win I think it just meant that the scales were tipped in in their favor Who's a dude? He's a blade for the Blazers. His name's Evan He played for Ohio State Evan Turner. Yeah, I think it was Evan Turner talking about that and he's like he was I think he's when he's on Philly maybe and he was It was a game seven, like we got this, like veterans come in, they're like, yo, we have to win by 15 to win by one tonight. Like, so you have to, and so you hear players talk about it. So it's not out of the possibility at all. And now you're hearing about players betting on sports more and more. Shohei Otani got away with it because he's Shohei Otani, but like another dude from the Padres just got pinched and he's banned for life. Damn. know, John T Porter got pinched. Like he's not, he's not. Time to do the, obligatory obligatory obligatory Pete Rose needs to be in the Hall of Fame. for sure. Yeah, dude. He wasn't even betting. I think he was been on his own team. So yeah, that's up. No, that's down. That's down. Yeah, gambling was like the most innocent gambling. Gambling is the same is treated the same as weed now where it's like most states legal but like back in the day schedule one. This guy's a fucking animal Yo, yeah, Reggie Bush got his Heisman Trophy back Pete Rose should get in the Hall of Fame Especially if it's after the yotani stuff that was crazy. He does have everyone needs a fall home like that But that's like he's too important to this dying sport that we can't do this, dude I think that's the only reason like Puerto Rico still in the United States dog So we have like American Puerto Rico Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic they holding us down because you're right, bro The Japanese are on the way dog and they are gonna do the Asians can ball But if you've ever been to the casino, you know, who's there? Mm -hmm. You know who's there man. So, so Ken Flores, right? We're not gonna do is defend every group of people today, okay? We haven't got to the Jews yet You think you have this idea of who I am maybe I made you think I Love that Michael Jordan thing. Maybe I made you think it was easy. Maybe I made you think Michael Jordan looks like he's just always on the verge of like Cardiac arrest? Well no, see Michael Jordan, same with Kobe Bryant, they are slash were sociopaths. They just channeled it to basketball. I'm talking about like the playing aspect about it. I'm talking like when you see him in those interviews now, he always has like those cheese eyes on him. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, he's a sociopath. But he channeled it into basketball. Somebody said he had the duck sauce eyes. Instead of butchering people, he was like, I'm gonna do it in basketball. That's where they channeled it. That's where sports can be healthy. But it would probably be not fun a lot of time being those guys' Because other guys are just like, I'm 7 '1". I'm just here because I'm 7 '1". I'm kind of nice. But I like to live my life, Shut up, Bill Cartwright. Kobe, and I don't blame Kobe for that. They're like, why don't you pass it more? It's I'm here earlier than everybody else and I'm staying later getting up all these shots. Why should I pass you the ball? Like that's a good point. That's a very good point. You know what? Do what you got to do, My favorite thing are those Kobe stories. Whether it's like talking about Kobe in the Olympics. Like, yeah, he ran right through Palgasol's chest. And everyone's like, he came and set the tempo. There's all those like famous Kobe stories. yeah. I wish I had one those. Yeah, it was funny with Kobe, man. I hated Kobe cuz I'm a trailblazers guy. Yeah, and like that ruined my childhood. Yeah, he was well they didn't I mean he doesn't game seven it was It wasn't it wasn't like it wasn't like what Luca did the Phoenix wasn't like that bad. No Luca Luca did a Phoenix was bad, but what Yannis did the Phoenix was worse Have you watched the Yannis documentary on prime no, he's amazing probably watch that on prime The Yanis documentary is really good. Yeah, Yanis is great. He's so funny. He's so cool He's so like dude. I was hosting when they when they played the Suns played the Bucks in the finals I was hosting Copper Blues in downtown Phoenix. yeah, and it was it was like right across the street. yeah, it was a party dog It was a party bro. Don't you hate when it's so fun and then that fast break happened and I saw Drew holiday get the ball as I yana's running down on the TV as it no, yeah Yeah, no, yeah Fucking guy knows the most heartbreaking that donkey threw down you could feel all the energy of the whole like city just Go it was over that yeah, it was are you all sad or what? do I have nothing else other than that? like that Good no, bro. No, you know, where do you get your nails done? Oh nice, I gotta go get a fucking My girl just cleans up my nails. This is like our little activity. That's what's up. Yeah, been yoga lately. Dude, I want to fuck with yoga. I gotta get more fit though. But yoga is a good way to get into everything because You can just lay there if you need to. Do you do hot yoga? The room's pretty hot. It's like a They set it at a certain temperature, right? keep it like at 90 or you could just go and they'll keep it like at a regular temp. Yeah, but you do hot yoga. I dab. Sometimes you just walk in from the car to the gym. Yeah, but hear the piss but with yoga you gotta have good feet dog and no I mean got no I got my feet are pretty flat but they're not like ugly but they were nasty but I didn't say they were ugly let me tell you what happened dog I was at yoga day two, struggling dog, and I looked down at my pathos, I was like, no, that grows. Fucking cinder blocks on the bottom of his mind. I didn't lotion them up at least before, Nails all long and stuff, ratcheting the feet, because then there's people in front of you, kind of like jail. There's people in front and people in the back of you. So I'm just trying to do yoga poses, but make sure my toes are hidden at the same time. bro. So I have to go get, what is it? Is it a manicure, pedicure? What's the one in the piece? Pedicure. Pedicure. I gotta get me a pedicure. And that's why I was inquiring about your nails. Yeah, no. Maticures and pedicures are my shit, But I have beautiful nails. You paint your nails just to still? It's not about the nails, it's about sending a message. Phil Jule asked me that about my nails too. And then I saw the back of his head and I was like, that's disgusting. Man, shut up. Shut up. Shout out Phil Jule, man, my barber. But he fucked me up this last time. I don't know if it was him or it's just the fact that I'm 30 now. That's a little bit of both. Yeah. Sorry. You know, no, I get it. Because I like when I was in high school, I used to get like the like the the fade, like maybe like a one or two on top, but like a line up. And like a bald fade and then like he cut me up and he like gave me the mirror and I looked at him man I've never been so just that's tough cuz like he was my hairline was like back back far and I was like I've had like my barber in the past tell me like it's kind of difficult to do your like lineup just I have a scar right here on my head and shit and But once you know somebody's once you know somebody's hair, you know, you know what they're doing. So I was like You know it's bad when you wear a hat out of the barbershop So and it still hasn't grown back since It's been like two months. it's tough when life hits you like that. It's always a good realization Yeah, well dude like personally personally. like I like I Like keeping it short because it's harder to maintain But you know how many guys hit me later on in life like I used to always keep my hair short So many guys would just hold on to this shitty hair like they have nothing up here and the hair back here. I'm like, why are you even keeping it? I can't judge. I had a rat tail for a long time. Yeah, yeah. No, know why you wear a hat all the time. For sure, dog. So. And so like, but I was like, maybe there's something to this. Like I personally don't. It's weird. I don't necessarily like having long hair or even looking at myself like how I look. But I know that the perception that looks better. But I actually like having it short. Sounds like you don't. I did. What mean you know about perception that you don't, but you... Long hair. because like, you know how many guys are like so depressed about not having hair or like they keep this, they have no hair right here and they just keep this thing. I'm like, like, I'm like, why? And I'm like, there's some, there's some element of denial there. There's some element of Gotta keep what's left and I was like, I actually have a gift. I still have like long hair like yeah, bro That's a good gift to have and and It you know, it plays better for me I feel like I feel like it made me almost a better comedian cutting my hair because now people couldn't judge me as good -looking Yeah. Like, Shut up, That breakthrough, think, is really hard. think that realization is, That's gone. That's off the table. I thought maybe you were like. The audience isn't no more looking up and being like, man. I was like, I got 6 He's a really good looking guy. I'm going to laugh. Yeah, they're not thinking about fucking you anymore, right? No, it's opposite. It's You're thinking about killing No, it's the opposite. Like an example, last summer. You remember when I did my shows in Portland, I got put on another show. Dude, I'm telling you, I was murdering this room. But there was this group of people throughout the room that was like Portland, like lesbian, liberal type people. Just for the first 10 minutes of my set, man, had their arms folded just like this. Just because like, how good looking you were. Like, well, straight white male and happened to be attractive. so, and six foot five. I didn't know I was being filmed, but, I, uh, yeah, no, I just, I just, I, that's, that's another reason why I left Portland. Cause I know whenever I would be doing mics and shit. there would just be this upfront judgment when I would get up there. It didn't have anything to do with. Anything that's all based up because of your hair? What I look like. I I think you other features besides your hair. Right, right, right. Yeah, but. I walked in, I forgot you even cut your hair. Yeah, but it's what I look like. I'm done. And so I was just like, all right. Like, you're not. You're not even gonna listen to what I'm saying because you're like, you part of the you part of the straight white straight white male, right? Yeah, so I was like, yeah, I think I'm doing good in life because I started to feel bad for straight white males now You know and I think you know, what's funny? You know, what's funny? You know, what's funny is I've been hearing that from like like my blank friends and other minority friends who like like when someone says something they'll say it to me to be like, you know if I was to or it's like if you were to make that joke blah blah blah or If you were to say that about this group of people like you get in trouble for it But they can just say whatever they want. I'm like, don't defend me now They're like no I get it I'm like you'll never get it Dude straight white males have been saved by like this sudden outbreak of anti-semitism, bro. It's just like I know it's biblical and shit, but it's just come back rampantly, dude. I was like, yo, stop bringing up anti-Semitism. he was like, I'm just, I'm just because, because we all grew up in the same time. We all grew up in the same time where they're like, yo, Hitler bad Nazis bad. Can't do it. Can't say anything bad about the Jews or you get everyone on you. But like all of a sudden it's just back out of nowhere. And Like that's back. no abortions is back. Like that was a law for a long time and all of a sudden it's back now. Like in like didn't see that coming. That's always been on the table. It's always been on the table, but you never really thought they were going to take it off. You know, like you're like, okay, I see what you're doing. You're trying to fucking leverage this to get the, maybe I don't know. Maybe I, I don't know your experiences or what led to that conclusion. And that's definitely not wrong, but I feel like after living in Texas for a few years, I was like, When did you live in Texas? I lived in Texas from 2016 and 2019. Oh, then you came here. What part of Texas? San Antonio. Oh. OK. That's like a middle ground of Austin and Yeah, it's like south central tech. Not south, but like central Texas. It's kind of like the Philly part. It's a halfway point. So yeah, it's only four hours in Dallas, maybe less than two hours in Austin, and about two and a half hours to Houston. I like the. There's this dude on Instagram who does these videos like he does like uh, he does like the TNT Enviation and he's like, but he'll do it like for a day. He'll be like September 11th 2001 Two planes crash into the skyscraper and and uh Charles like he does like Charles Barkley impression I know why that tower really filled. Women from San Antonio on Big old women from San Antonio. Big old women from San Antonio. Okay, tell me, so living... you all at the City Walk. It's so funny because that motherfucker has a big back motherfucker. Living there. Living in San Antonio, was Charles Barkley what he said correct? Charles Barkley? No, come on fool. Nah, dog. There's like, there's hot. Like once you get, there's, there's more meat on the bone in Texas, my friend. yeah. And that's a glorious thing. saw, and yeah. Like once you go like that slim thick Texas, like you got the, like, that's a land of Selena. That's a land who was like, that's land of making the stallion Beyonce. these. Yeah. That's, that's kind of what my assessment has been of it on the female side is like you're here in Arizona. Why do think George Strait and Drake both got X's in Texas, Doug? Yeah. I am part of that group too. And, you know, once you get it's hard with the Texas women, dog, they they're gritty, hot women. think a woman will out drink you, dog. I'll drink. You have you ever been out? Yeah, terrible. My girlfriend. Dude, I was just watching a tick tock or someone sent me a video to like today or yesterday. And they're like, I don't know who sent it to me, but he's So I used to live in LA now I live in Texas and one thing I can say is that LA women would beat the shit out of Texas women mostly because they're all men. I kind of knew it was going that route somehow but like it was still funny. But I would say the assessment that I've seen. Maybe he's just fucking a lot of dudes. I don't know dude. Right dude. I tried to write a joke about that a long time ago that I never really completed but I was just You ever think that, think it's a, it's funny. Like, it's a funny joke structure, but it's like, there's not really, no, it's, it's more like, not valid though. was nothing to know. It's more, cause they wouldn't Texas women. more that it's more that like, don't, I don't care if you're trans, the only trans I care about is transparency. You know, like, imagine going home with somebody, having sex with them. And that person knows that if they've, if you found that they used to be a dude like this guy might kill me but I'm also in love and so they never tell them and 10 years later they're still married like why can't I have kids you know but they're still with them and that that person like there could very well be a lot of couples out there like that that have been together for that long that have no clue oh I've heard Because have you seen some of these? I'm like, bro, man, you did hit that way, didn't you? Have you seen some of these trans? You're like, you would think that's a woman. And then when they tell you, like, I used to be a man, then you start looking at their jawline. Then you start like, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it now. But if they never would have said anything, you wouldn't have. If you get the Mona Lisa of Here's the thing that tripped me out is. Was getting me trying to set me up when I was younger Don't don't say anything. It's all you guys trying to get me to clear me So listen so listen so when I was when I was One of the things I used to watch a lot when I was younger, my dad and I would bond over is we'd watch Morrie. You know most of the time the Morrie show was like, he the father, is he not the father? But every so often there was like the freak episodes. And one of the episodes was, is it a man or is it a woman? And they brought out like 25, oh you gotta put a battery in. I think that was the universe being like, no. No, no, no. Oh, and he's in a memory card? No, but they would bring out they're like, is it a man or woman? They bring out 25 and they're all gorgeous. But now that you're like, is it a dude or not? You're starting to look at all these features and you're like, you're looking for like, how do I distinguish? And you couldn't. Whatever happened, you couldn't. Now he's talking about the guy who went after him. Yeah, we won't name names now that we're back. But Wait, I'm trying to figure out. I know I didn't even call him a school shooter. No, no, no. Sometimes you don't know, Sometimes you're just like, man, I'm just being funny. It goes back to the thing of just not trying to offend people, but just trying to be funny. No, it was Daniel Bridget. Yeah. I mean, sometimes that happens in a room. You know what's funny, though? You remember when we were all like after the show, the audience members wanted to take pictures. They were all asking where he was. Dude, he did good. That's what saying. like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like this whole time. I realized, I don't know. Do think he knows how funny it is to say, Hey, I went up there and murdered and then he gets mad over somebody calling him a match shooter. Yeah, dude. But like, like, like, do you not do it? don't, I used to think that I just had them all figured out and I think this whole time I'm lost. Amen, you know brother sometimes some people are tapped into the divine and maybe we are not my friend. Well, but yeah, shout out. out Dustin. thing with them. I've seen Dustin like when he's not because producing a show and then being on the show is always a lot. So sometimes you're not as gathered as you can be when you're doing that. but that's when I was best. I've seen him when he's not. I've seen him when he's not producing shows on it. And every time I've seen him, he's done really good. So I was like, he was funny to he. And the minute. You can get him stirred up. God, he fucking goes. Whenever I'm at a show that he's on, I purposely heckle from the back. And from there, dude, it's like I'm entertainment. He gets going. I remember I was at JP's when I was running through all the open mics when you would go to the one at Improv Mania and jump over to JP's. I was on Improv Mania first, he was there, and then I met JP's and he comes in there all pissed off. He's fucking furious about something, bro. He's like, these motherfuckers. He's just fucking furious. And he goes up on stage, and murders, dude. I'm in tears, dude. I'm in tears laughing. I don't know what he said. It was just so fucking, and then he didn't even stick around. He just left. Like the back door was open from him leaving. I was like. Why don't you do this all the time? Yeah, shout out Dustin Dogg. Dude, yeah, I'm a... You know what's funny about comedies? Every time I think I have it all figured out, I realize I don't know shit. That is crazy. I've never... I just never thought the one time I'd hear you be nice about a person, it'd be Dustin Headlock. That's not even me being nice. That's me. I've never heard you spew that many compliments about him. Yeah. Anybody fuck is chingo bling? Hadlock though. I love him brother and he brings out the nice guy in he's More dust and hadlock, baby Fuck is chingo bling, but I just it's funny. It's funny. I'm that but you just saying have you heard about Dustin hadlock? What should we need more of let's get it, dude I love you being nice like this and the fact that he brings that I'm eating nice though. It is it's not me being nice. I'm not I'm saying when I see game like That was very nice dude is Las Vegas $120 all I cost she had calluses was concerned. Yeah, it was surprising I'd never like I didn't go there with any of intentions you had it. Oh, It surprise, dude. I never do this. I never usually do this. It's so weird. It was always funny hanging out with you. It was a spa right by a Pizza Hut. I was like, here we go, dude. I was staying in Vegas. Pizza and bread dicks. I was bro, I like to. they get the glaze for the cinestakes? I like to get a little pre -show massage if I can. There's this one spot in Phoenix. All the Asian homies, do it. 60 bucks, no weird stuff, just normal massage. Talented men. Cheap, it's a good massage price, right? 60 bucks if you need to. Whatever, 20 bucks if you're in a rush or whatever. I was like, I was looking for one of those little spas, stumbled into the one spot number 69 right by the pizza hut. I think it's called 64. Anyway, just a number and you know, it's funny, man. They say the same thing. Right. I walked in and noticed some double doors, which I was like, you know, this is kind of wild for a spa. OK, following so far. Yeah. And then out pops a homegirl. was like, it looks like it's normal spa so far. And then the first little like, the fuck am I moment I had was when I got there, beyond the fact that it was right next to a pizza hut, is when I got there, there was just like the cheapest little like hospital blanket on the bed. And I was like, this isn't good. Disposable. Yeah. That's you right dude, that's what it was dog. Yeah, it comes off like a paper towel Yeah, I was like she's like who sells these things that's tough. Yeah, dude all the above. Yeah drop shipping. Yeah, I was just like yo, okay. She's like, okay, well you get you change now Biggest exporters Taiwan, but yeah, have a couple smaller markets Everyone builds their business in Vegas. Yeah, so you got a Big deal. You got a wristy of it. You're talking about it. Like it's a fucking your senior problem. I've before do She knows yes, she got a punch card Anyway So yeah, it was my first time, dude. It was a big deal for me, dude. And I didn't expect that. the first time you stumbled into the Porn Island. Yes, dude. I didn't go over there expecting to get cramped. Sure, sure, sure. I went over there just being like... Well, yeah. So that's my thing is I feel like Vegas is this place where people go where you know it's fucking bad news, but you're like, I don't know when I got here. But like Scottsdale and Phoenix is like, that's for the seasoned vets who are like, no, I know what I want. Like that's that's that's the because we've all had crazy Vegas times and you're like, I don't know they got here. But like, you know what the fuck? Well, it was. Yeah, it just happened, dude. I don't know. But yeah, Scottsdale Phoenix is right. Because I was there a moment in that story where I was like, yo, should I go to a spa right next to a pizza hut? Yeah, do. Yeah, you're right. Part of me is like, OK, I want to see this. No, let's this through. I'm right here. I'm right here. Vegas is my pussy. Vegas is that place for that. What's behind this door? happens in Vegas? in Vegas. I hope there's no sin behind this door. What? Since when? I was just here for the United Methodist Baptist Conference. This is not yoga. There's always the guy in the company that's like, we should do the company trip in Vegas this year. Well, I guess. That guy's going to be me now. No, I mean, that's that's where like Vegas is the place to it's almost biblical to it's the was that this. Yes, it's placement. It's a modern day. You know, you know what the fuck you're getting into. Like we literally have we have modern day gladiator fights there. The UFC like that's where it all happens. I never heard about this. What is it called in the Bible? Saga Megamora? Saga Megamora? Yeah, Saga Megamora? Where they just did whatever they wanted. were like fucking each other and all this sort of stuff in the Bible. Yeah, yeah. It's where all the crazy, like weird, as far away from God as you can get stuff happens. And then that was the place that burned. Yeah. know, first, right? Yeah, God was like, okay. the first colony that First of all. this place yeah was it like ever turn at all though like is it yeah like Jesus still kicked it there you know what I mean so he pulled up for real for real yeah because everyone goes to Vegas at some point yeah so that was he so then what's wrong like so he pulled up to it thought and he just wouldn't like you'd be like yo you gotta go home who knows Who knows yeah, who knows if you know is there people anyway if they be watch away doing what they don't know I don't know how I don't know how the whole I'm Catholic I don't know how it goes. man Catholics Catholic. That's a tough one to grow up in it. I didn't grow up in it. I became Catholic when I Did you have a girlfriend is Kelly? I did yes. I I was at that See what I mean with the nice guy Mmm, I think you have ashes on your forehead. that's kind of crazy. We're talking about Catholicism and you have ash on your forehead. Yeah, now it looks... do I still got it there? I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah, it's gone. I was saying that goes back to my point of the nice guy thing. Like you would... I could see you getting with a girl, change your religion to Catholic and be like, no, we can wait till marriage. You're gonna laugh at that, my brothers. At one point in the game, yeah, but we actually broke up and then you went to your Vegas phase, man. No, actually, that's not what the Catholic phase. that was that was was to try and get her back. That's like when you break up and you're like, I'll fix all the things that you always complained about about me now. Did it did me becoming Catholic and getting my confirmation and sitting out the whole like first communion process was that an Operation to get my bitch back. Yes, originally. Yes guys will go to no length originally Yes, but by the end of the 12 month process I was like mentally and completely like moved on I think also for me I had explored I didn't grow up in church at all. My mom didn't take us to church. So and she was very you know, could just treat people well and you could believe in whatever you want. Do you ever feel like, because I grew up in the same way, like my mom was this exact same way, made you want to go to church more because you weren't allowed to go? if that wasn't a thing you guys did. was always like, don't we ever go to church? And you wanted it, that's crazy. That is crazy, because I grew up the same way. had no desire. Yeah, I was like, nah, My mom, mom. Let's watch football on Sunday. was like, what? You think we want on Sunday now? Sundays, and we watch football, get pizza, should we make breakfast on Sundays? My mom was smart. She didn't like the organized religion things. My dad, he had had lupus and almost died. I think at that point, he gave his life to God and whatever. He survived he was supposed to die and he he would be at church like putting like hundreds of dollars Yeah collection play. what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, these people aren't these people didn't save you. It was the doctors who save you and yeah, so she was like, yeah Fuck this organized religion not teach their own in regards to how you feel spiritual Whatever it is you use to guide your spiritual compass I think it's more like you know when when you can't have something you like I want it more Yeah, that's just an interesting thing and the first for me that I've heard of somebody like a kid wanting I wanted to go to church. yeah, I always did and yeah, we just there wasn't a thing we did and then like to organize religion What set did you claim? None, dude. It's it's too. I'm a businessman too. So I'm like I see what you guys are up to. Yeah Have you seen righteous gemstones? You're watching the Yes. That's the one with Danny McBride, right? Adam Devine, Danny McBride, John Goodman. Star -studded cast. And it's just about a mega church family. Yeah. Nahome, plays like the other guy who plays like Danny McBride's counterpart, he's fucking funny. He's also in. He's been in a lot of Danny McBride stuff. I think of his name. But yeah, so with me and church, that's where I started off that. And then by the end of it, I also felt like I went and checked out a lot of different. places of praise, you may, around Albuquerque. And the one that was kind of just the whole process of going to mass and then the pray, the reading the Bible and stuff that connected with me. So at that time, that's what I signed up for. And by the end of it, yeah, it was more for like a me kind of growth and thing. But it was cool. Yeah, fuck. How do we start here? We had that we had it at my. don't think I really experienced or delved into religion until the last school I went to for college was like private Christian school. know I've talked about this before, but we had a class where it's religion of the world. Every week we would bring in a new member from the community in Portland that was like, we had like Jewish, Muslim, we had native, we had Christian, we had atheists, we had Scientologists. A Scientologist? And then we had to do a field trip to two different places. I never seen a Scientology church until I was in Portland. Yeah, the Church of Scientology is huge. Honestly though, honestly, out of all the speakers, out of all the speakers, the Scientology dude was like the most cool. I was like, this guy is speaking to me. But also, man, they're already in the tie, man. They're giving the fucking sales pitch right there on the spot. And I was like, this guy seems pretty rational. And they're definitely like, though, can't like, in, but out type shit, right? So the final of that class was every religion, we had to sum it up in one to two sentences, like, explain what this is. And so for Scientology, it's really weird because it's very ambiguous, but it was like, man has created the way the Earth is for his pleasure. So with every creation comes destruction. And that's basically what I got from it. And I was like, that's not far off. You know what I really appreciate about this is how we started off this conversation started off Vegas about me getting yanked in Vegas. And then now we talked about the place. No, that's Catholic. That's Catholicism. You feel guilty and so you start going to me. Let me talk to my higher self. Well, I got a little character there. I'm not usually like this. that's so funny. That wasn't my attention at all That's how the church goes. I wanted to walk you through my experience, but you stopped that and I feel like talking about like What is this dude like we've all like Catholic is a huge religion like, you know you meet and you're his you're Hispanic, right? So that's a that's like the biggest one out of that So a lot of people you know where that and just like the meeting the people that So your types are funny because they're true. Yeah people who have met Catholic is just man let go of the guilt dog just like stop feeling so bad man yeah jesus christ like that's it's like but their whole that that's another thing i learned from that class and also another group of homies who are article catholic the irish people yeah well that's white people yeah yeah that's a of white homies that are but i think something from religion It's really, it encompasses more than, even if you claim that you're an atheist, the society we live in in America is still Christian at like its values of like, because there's certain laws that people make or certain things that you can't put a number or a fact on, like an abortion thing, like that's just a moral stance. And that comes down to like people's religion and religions, even when people don't think they're religious, No, the laws that we have put in place and morals that we've built in place are still from religion. Yeah. that's not, that's not, you know, it's, it's too, thing that, that class taught me was like religion and conflict are so intertwined that it'll never be unraveled because there's always going to be, at some point you're like, I don't agree with the way you live your life. And now it's impacting me and one of us is going to have to Yeah, that's kind of how like all the wars like yeah, like weren't like the Crusaders and so that like they were Yeah, dude. Just yeah. Well, yeah, like people that are Mormon even like they go on mission trips is like who said these people fucking believe in what you said like what do mean? You're on them. Like are you on a mission trip or you're like colonialism trip? But if we want to colonize another planet, that's you know If we want to colonize Mars, that's different. That's different. That's going to bring us all together. Yeah, that's not human. Because that's the thing, too, is I think we needed, at a certain point, people needed like blood. Dude, I just want to say, before you move on, though, your Mormon comparisons were so funny that I had to not publicly laugh completely loud outside. Why? Because that was better for my soul. I wanted to drink that You don't think that's weird? You don't think that's funny? Like people that play basketball, people that play basketball, BYU is like, nope, got to leave for two years. And I got to go to this fucking country and tell them. Shout out to Mormon homies. Everybody has a Mormon homie who has a key to a basketball gym. yeah. Hell yeah. I used to in Yeah, they'd be hooping. for real. Mormon homies would be hooping. No curse words, though. You can't say fuck when you miss. No. That's I was saying is when I would play AAU there'd be these teams from Idaho and Utah that would be just crushing teams, dude. I'd be the one white dude on the all-black team and we'd be getting murdered. A black homie from Utah crushed my basketball dreams. Yeah. Here in... I just wanted to tell you that story. I feel like maybe, but... Continue? Yeah, it was an Arizona team basketball camp, which if you ever played like those basketball camps, you play like 13, 14 games in a weekend or something. Never did those. You never did Arizona State would have them and we would all like teams around the country would come and you play and you just like run like 13 14 games over the weekend. Is Arizona State that desperate for money? I mean, rather go to you. I'd rather go to you. If I was going to sit if I had a kid and was sending him to college, definitely be going to you. Why so come on, Get out of this area. Let's kind of say it might be worse. I'd rather live in Tempe than yeah, just because there's nothing else to do You might be right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like I know the ASU gets the bad rap That's cuz you have a is good at sports. But like that's a good point I used to go down there and party and it was Yeah, I can see that yeah that makes sense Okay, you just don't get talked about it. No, right. So my you know my complete what I thought was what you know is completely wrong You're going to Northern, Arizona NAU, there you go. GCU. There it is. Who's actually on a ride basketball wise, right? Dude, but wasn't the school like this close to foreclosing? I have no idea about that. I kept seeing TikToks about it. I kept seeing TikToks No, I did. was like when you don't know if you're having your finals or not. But your basketball team's in NCAA tournament? And it was wild. GCU is one of the most expensive schools in Arizona. Have you seen? In the hood. You know one lot off the campus? Right off of 27th place you've ever been in life. That's crazy. Right off of 27th Avenue. is. It is. That's a bigger version of the school I went to, because it was this Christian school, but it was right in the hood. It was disgusting. That's exactly it. I was driving one of the comedians home from an open mic and he's like, I live at GCU and I dropped him off and like... I seen the area. was like, what the fuck? I pulled up to the circle. Okay. And there was, there was three dudes leaning like, and the dude was throwing paper straws at him. And I just like looked around. I was like, this is the right environment. I just, I just pissed on the building. Yeah. That's something. Yeah. That's something you could do. is normal. he's just peeing. He's only peeing. That's fine. He's just peeing. He's not impeding traffic. But that was really like, I was like, holy shit. No, the jokes are true. Yeah, 27th Ave is a wild place for any place in America. The other worst place that's a little pocket is the Circle K in downtown Phoenix. It's got four gas pumps. It's any circle. that one's that one's extra. You know what I'm talking about. That one's like The hardest right across from that Starbucks. Yeah, it gets the Mexican restaurant It's like it like it's like a place for like homeless homies together with the most shade. That's where yeah, that's a lot of shade right there That's where all the nicotine products are behind bars. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff Have you been like you gotta be in a wild position to stop me put have you been to like have you been like yeah Well, that's the only time you stop at circle K is when you're in a bad spot Like that's the only time I would go to pay for gas and change. Yeah. And I'm looked at. looked at as like a normal person. Yeah. Like, thank God, at least he's paying. Yeah. Like, I would never do that at a quick trip, Last time, last time I was at Circle K, this dude walked up to me. And he was like, got one for you, too, after this. was like, hey, A -O -G. He's like, hey, bro, I got to some money. I was like, what the fuck? Did you just call me, He's like, A -O -G? like, ain't, bro. Bro, I ain't no A -O -G, dog. You so you started I'm sorry started tripping. I started tripping Yeah, I was like, but I'm listening to real albuquerque shit yeah, I'm about to Respect you give me about 34 dog. I'm not in like og like that's the last check sounding offensive. Oh Little sensitive. Yeah, I think is me. So I'm just trying to walk and navigate about how you just wild out on somebody Turns out it was Jesus In my 30 30 year to he's like he's like he's like I know how to get this I pulled up at a circle K with my girlfriend. We're putting some gas in the and this dude walks up and he's like, I'm a vampire, bro. Are you a vampire? And I was like, yeah, bro. And he was like, right on, You want some of this pizza? I had almost first offered me pizza. I hope that wasn't after Philips haircut. How like, how wild you got to like, how crazy you got to look, dog? Yeah. It's like yo you keep the Oh dude. had this my worst fear about me being homeless is that I don't know how to like write on the signs. I'm gonna misspell some shit. Well, you're kind of better off. What I I said about what I said last with the only game in the spell the podcast podcast we do with Josh. I was like I was like if you are an alcoholic already man being homeless you drink 240 you could sleep anywhere. Yeah sure. Yeah, have you ever slept on concrete? No, I have I have yeah, yeah, dude and I was last cruises, New Mexico That sounds like a place. I never want to be Like Cruz's sounds like crucifix I got fresh with this Native American woman in between two bushes. She's The more the more I hear about you man. I'm like man Get it together. After after two 40s for sure. Yeah, they're all beautiful. When your voice get higher. She was bigger than the bush. It's like you're trying to convince yourself. No, she was fool. You guys weren't there, dude. You fucking there, bro. You weren't there. You couldn't tell if the bush was a bush or her pubes. No, dude. She was very elegant. she was a... I don't know if have a woman to compare her to, but... Yeah. She spoke old English. Elegant. She reeked of elegance. Yeah, she reeked of elegance. yeah, and so... She had two uncle named Mickey's. My mom was running around on the phone and picked me up and she left and I was like, fuck it, I'm just going to lay back right here and... What happens in Las Cruces? What happens in Las Cruces? It follows you for a decade at least. It has you in confession man. Where'd you fall asleep on concrete? Like my friend's driveway. In the suburbs. But that doesn't mean that it takes away from sleeping on concrete. the funniest sound bite. Where'd you sleep on the concrete? Nah, it was funny. You met my friend Cory. I remember we got tossed one night and we went back to our high school team's football game, we were fated. We were driving back in the Uber and Corey was throwing up in a Taco Bell bag, but it shot through the plastic and just all over the dude's car. And the dude was driving, he's like, he's peeking all over my car. He's like, can you hear it? Can you hear it? He was so nice about it, But like, yeah, he just, and just fucking straight through the plastic. I was like, I'm done bro. Like my buddy's like, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. He's trying to clean it out. I just fell asleep on, on his sidewalk. We've all been there, dog. I mean, some of us, man, dude, the night, the first time you were on this podcast, have you ever slept on concrete? Nah, I've always had somebody pull me out of and just not care about me. You know what that reminds I almost did it one time, I hopped over a wall and I fell in the bushes. They were looking for me. You just gave up? no. But then they were looking for me and I heard them, were like, yo, yo, and I was like shhh. I one crazy story when I was in Dude, I had my camera click on me during a set. I was doing an hour and I was like, it. And Rob was like, you film me. I was like, okay. And it ran out of battery. I was like this on your shit. Yeah. I was like, I was doing it and I heard beep. I was like, yeah, I, I never film. Like, yeah, I never asked. I hate when it happens or I would hate for that to happen. Dude, we filmed a show, I didn't even do the show, but we filmed on this camera like a week ago or two weeks ago. dude, it looked amazing. No audio. don't know how that happened. You familiar with the rapper Wale? yeah. Yeah, I drove six hours into Wale one time. And we didn't, we didn't. We haven't talked about that at all. We talked about your radio life. Like we, I have a lot of questions about that. Dude, I don't think I've finished one story. That's okay. That's okay. I don't think I've ever finished talking about I was always like, I got a good one for that. No, no, no. Because I have you here. I like too. Because I you here. sprinkled throughout. had never finished a fluffy story. Yes, yes. I'd never finished a story about how I got dunked on at the ASU team camp by a guy. Well, here's what my coach said in college. He said, you're not playing good basketball unless you're getting dunked on. There you go. But chains so big can't pop my collar. I get Wale's great. You're in a radio game. I have a lot of questions about this. So I've heard you in the morning before when my phone's dead and I can't play the aux. That's what we're there for, baby. Yeah. Are you actually working during? Are you live during that time? Is it pre -recorded? We usually like from a lot of morning shows since we flagship here, we are live. OK. But then a lot of content is pre -recorded too as well. a lot of our there ever. Is there a page where people can complain about the show? You guys get a read. mean, there's just the Internet. OK. And then sometimes you get people who like call in or like. do voicemails or you know dude those funny when I was in El Paso we went the headliner and I went on the radio station oh yeah and he played like these voice messages they were insane dude like the hosted yeah the voice messages were insane like it was like yeah just done from and in Civil War is coming brother and Trump 2020 and like he was going off and we're just like it's it was too stereotypical man you're like oh people like that do exist is why stereotypes are out there. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, we've had especially when we were here for the election year, especially being in Arizona was an interesting time. then for like during a pandemic, we were deemed essential employees because like the radio still is like a medium, like a tool, like a service for the community. So that was pretty cool. Yeah, how'd you land that gig by the way DJ automatic I was doing like comedy and then I was doing a lot of interviews for YouTube. Mm -hmm. Like when I interviewed while I didn't I wasn't even on the radio then I was just like doing I would like do interviews and then I would send them out to like different like hip -hop websites, okay, and that's when like the hip -hop websites were big I would send them out and then the blogs would repost them. So that's how I would get a lot of interviews. then we, through that we drove up, got Wale to agree to interview. Fucking drove six hours from Albuquerque to Denver. One of the coolest nights. Got to kick it with him for New Year's Eve. Partied with him and shit. Talked football with him. And then we did the interview and he was dope as fuck. We just didn't adjust the audio levels or the audio. to from the mic to the like it was we plugged in our mic into the camera but didn't switch it over. No we didn't turn it over to like the microphone. There's just no audio. Fuck dude. And while it was in there and it was right before he signed to right before he signed a .G. with Rick Ross but he was he was signed to Jay Z at the time and he was just saying that he thought on like rock it's all stuff that he ended up eventually saying. But he said on rock nation he just wasn't getting the looks he wanted. And I was like when it was happening I was like about to be fucking I'm about to my own show about to be is over dog when you tell me all this I was like bro and then we partied hard as fuck that night one of the funniest stories in Denver ever happened got intervened with his like couple who were fighting I Love that. Yeah, we were cuz like that's like that was one of those a blessed situation really very few nights. I'm like It was cool. Like we were allowed to go in this green room. He gave us bottles like fucking had these like big ass Jamaican beers. We're the Red Stripes. Stripes. Red Stripes. Yeah. Like none of the homies, none of his homies wanted to drink them and they had like a cooler full. So they were just like, yeah, but we were free. We We were fucking pounding Red Stripes dog walking around his bottle with a bottle, club with a bottle of Patron. And my homie Mario pulls this one chick bag and she's like, yeah, this guy done fighting with my man. This and that and he's we're just like, you know, you're backstage. Well, you kicking it. You good homie. Nolan is out front looking for weed runs into the other dude who's like, yeah, my lady just left me. I don't know where she's at. We all get into the production van to leave fucking Nolan and the homie are sitting in the front. Mario and the chicks like like they don't even notice each other. Mario, my friend, slide in the backseat. So now we pull off, bro. And sure enough, he does like to do the boyfriend just like goes, hold and looks back and his girls in the backseat with us dog. my God. And they just start going at it. I can't believe you fucking here you were my night. There's arguing with each other. And then I don't know where she does. You're not even a real Rastafarian. Damn. And then damn. I was like, whoa. shit, he got mad. Only girls can cut that deep, Only girls can I didn't even know what those words meant, dog. I was just like, whoa. Yeah, like what is... They know everything that your entire life is wrapped up into. Boom, they got it. Just one thing, dog. And that dude just got out the... He just opened a van and then just took off running, bro. And we don't know where he went, but we dropped her off at home and the homie dropped his weed in the car. So had a bunch of little joints. That was cool. But yeah, that was Denver. So I like how you brought back your Wallet story. Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's good crowd work. You stuck to the bit. So I just want to know, like, you got into, how did you get your job, basically? With Automatic, when I was doing all these YouTube interviews around Albuquerque, he kind of caught wind of it. And I interviewed him one time, actually. And then we just kind of stayed in contact. And Dana's co -host at the time. He got another job. So he went and did that. And then she brought me on. I guest spotted with her for like two weeks and it kind of just clicked right away. Yeah. And then we just been rocking since then. And I was like, you guys seem like a very tight unit. Yeah. Well, me and the show that Dana Cortez show for sure. Just because we've been through a lot. Like we've just we went from Albuquerque, moved to San Antonio together and then from San Antonio we were on a station, left the station, started the syndication. And then that's what brought us here to Phoenix. OK. And then so yeah. And then like the team just continues to grow too because they automatics that sun's DJ. Yeah. So like that's like a whole other like thing that's weren't you at the Sun's game doing some. Yeah. Shout out to like shout out to you know them recognizing Brown Anytime they do like Chicano night or something Bring out the dickies bring out the Cortez's dog Yeah, dude, so shout out to the sons for recognizing what's up. And yes, I got a host for them for Chicano night dog I remember seeing that I like, that's cool. I was almost I almost almost bodied up a joelle and bead bro for what? So in the beginning of the game, they say That was a sick moment like you run out the lights go black and then the cheerleaders run out and then the flag dudes run out with the big old flags and then the gorilla runs out and then you run out after the gorilla with the microphone and you're like you're hot like the whole place and You're trying to get everyone to stand up The bull like the front bowl people they're all the rich people so they didn't really gonna stand up But everyone else you just like yeah, I get up get up. Yeah, just hyping them. I asked him. was like, all right, so what do Where do I run to? And there was like, go all the way down to court if you want and shit. So I went fucking all the way down and then I couldn't hear them in it here in the earpiece. But they're like, you know, Anthony, come back, come back, bro. As soon as I fucking turn around, I almost run into Joelle and be done. He gets really little. like, hey, I'm like, he's like slightly brushy. I was up to his waist. I was crazy. So yeah. That's what that was. Shout out to Wally Bede. man. I don't think Adam asking me a question and getting up to leave has an intention on how it looks on camera. Don't take it personal. take it personal. Adam just sucks. I'm trying not to. It's okay buddy. That's all good dog. I don't I'm just like every time I'm with you guys I'm like, I feel like I've only been here for 10 minutes, but I know we've been here for like an hour. it's two hours. Yeah, I already know. I was like I was like was looking at the fucking land this That's how he is. a lot for me to edit. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot dog. I already knew it. We didn't finish one story. No, they were great. It was great. was a fun time. I kind of liked how Adam weaved. Adam kind of reminds me of Denzel Washington when he played that drunk pilot. He's back now there he is I heard everything you're saying about me and I'd listen to everything so don't don't take it personally I said a PB but Yeah, you know you made fun of me earlier in the podcast for not being able to complete a story first side to do give me the You know, I said you I said No, you're talking about me. You were saying something about how I won on the scratcher. I was like, bro, I'm telling you where I'm at. And you just kept criticizing Anthony Davis. You guys have the same name. I was like, dude, fuck you. Like fucking can I fucking can I talk? Yeah, dude. Jesus Christ. Your stories either have like no path or they just like start from the know they have a they have a have an exact path. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You can't see it. I'm sorry. You can't see it. But not everyone got the vision, baby. What'd do in that bathroom? came back different. I pissed, dude. I peed for so long. Dude, so long. The Ultras got your boys going. They're all gone. And so when the Ultras are gone, that's when we got to wrap it up. but I feel like I know a little bit more about you. Maybe next time we have you on, I'll learn some more. Always the biggest compliment I get was like, people like seeing you outside of the radio as well. man, I appreciate that. Hell yes. That's awesome. I always hear that about when you were on the last time. damn, hell yeah. I appreciate y 'all. This is always fun. And it's always a treat being with you boys. And I think we've got some good content.