January 11, 2018 • 46 mins
Season 2 kicks off with comedian, Last Comic Standing winner, and host of the podcast "What's Up Fool" Felipe Esparza. Matty and Felipe talk about the importance of being honest with the audience, the funny side of sobriety, and Felipe's picks for an all star podcast of dead comedians.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey Ze, Maddie, what's up ful? I get it? Yeah, alright, Uh,
what do you know about Felipe Sparza? Thank the commedia
and he's funny and he's on all things comedy. Did
you also know that he won last Comic Standing? Did
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you also know that he's sober and sobriety is a
big part of his life in his comedy. Well, then
you better listen today because we're talking to Felipe Sparza,
host of What's Up Fool. So, Felipe, welcome to Access podcast, buddy,
thanks for having me on podcast. Thank you man. I'm
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glad to talk to you, and I was glad to
listen to your show today because, uh, what's up full?
It made me feel good and relaxed. And the reason
I was feeling up tight is just I was on
social media and uh, I got you know, I made
the mistake of like engaging and that's always like, oh,
it's always bad news. I could take up your whole
day it is, you know, And I noticed that, you know,
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you don't get political on on at least that I
can see from social on social media, is that something
you try to, you know, stay away from in general?
Or um you know, do you feel like you dress
all that with your comedy sometimes you know, um, we
say something in the podcast that's political but not too political. Well,
we don't take sizes which I attack both sides. Well,
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I think that, you know, one of the things that's
it's great about your show is that you keep it
like today, I was listening to the first episode. I
know a podcast is good, what I want to jump
in and I'm like, I'm trying to engage in the
conversation with my headphones on, and you guys are you
were talking about Dukes of Hazzard and I was just
and I was going off because I used to get
so angry that they used code names. He'd be like
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Shepherd a lost sheep. But with Luke, are you there?
And it's like, why the fund do you use a
code name when you say their name right after it
uncle Jesse? I know, right, like uh the right, because
Shepherd is uh lost, Shepherd is Uncle Jessing, lost, Sheep
is Daisy Duke and those two guys I forgot who
they were. Yeah, yeah, And there was just you guys
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got into this conversation and then it ended up going
about like what was on TV on CBS at the time,
and you know, for people from a certain generation. For me,
I was, I was so engaged in it, and like
I said, I needed that. Today I listened to and
I was like, you see, this is the this is
this is what I missed from social media, and this
is what I missed from media in general. I don't
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feel like it's light enough anymore. And like, I don't
hear these kind of cool pop culture conversations I know,
every pop political Like even if you're talking about Star Wars. Oh,
I like the old Star Wars, but then didn't put
any African Americans in it or Mexican American actors, you
know what I mean. And then people start talking about,
oh man, I love Start Wars before Disney owned it,
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and then he go, then didn't did it throws into
a topic about Jewish people. It is um yeah, it
is insane how everything gets gets so politicized. And um,
I mean, is that something you you really strive for
to do on the show, is to keep it light
or you know, or is that just that's just naturally
who you are. I think that's naturally who I am.
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You know. Um, Like I remember my mom and dad,
like during that when they were growing when I was
growing up, you know, we had they had a Bush,
not not Bush. They had not a Reagan as president
and then Bush. But I don't remember my mom and
dad ever talking about bad about Reagan or talking bad
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about Bush, because all they did is go home, go work,
come back home, go work, come back home. I don't
think they ever even had time to open the news.
I didn't want to know about the news. They want
to be entertained. So my parents would already watch Spanish
um comedy like these a comedians from Mexico. So we
grew up watching those shows. But my mom and dad
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never spoke to us about like mikhole, you better run
home tonight, because on a regulars president reporting a lot
of people. We never got into the topics like that
because we just my mom and dad, you went to work.
They never like sat down and talked to him about
anything political. So and then we were kids, we didn't
talk about political stuff. I think the only political joke
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ever had was when my seventh grade or sixth grade
teacher she asked us, um, why is there a conflict?
And I ran and Iraq, you know, why are they fighting?
Why is there a war between them and I don't
know why they were fighting. I'm a kid, so I said,
the reason they're fighting is because for years, for years
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I ran and Iraq couldn't this side and how to
end the the lettering and the spelling of the country.
I ran and said, no, we need to end our
country with the end, and the rack said no, it
ends with a queue. So they want a war over
Q and n see. Do you think that you know
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with your your your parents are immigrants from Mexico and
reading a lot about you know, translate this, You're you're special.
A lot of that is you know about translating, you
know for your parents. Do you feel that because you
know when they came and they're just working to get by,
which is kind of what you were saying that you know,
there's there's less time to worry about all the other
stuff when you're just trying to worry about making sure
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your kids are you know, everything's taken care of. Yeah,
there's there's a lot less time to worry about because
there's no social media back and we're not put this way.
We're all informed now, everybody knows everything. There's nothing too
high now, you know, maybe it's a bad thing that
we all know what's going on, you know, or it's
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a good thing, you know. I like that everybody knows
what's going on, But now there's more fights because of
what everybody knows what's going on. Like when I was,
like I would say, like fifteen years ago, we probably
would have not known anything about the judge from Alabama
running for senator. We would have never known that. Only
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the people in um Alabama and Mississippi and stal would
have known that. That story would have not ever been
publicized growing up because it's not interesting enough. We probably
would have it probably never made it to the National
Enquired because the National Enquired and that was the only
magazine that that actually had fake news, you know, alternative
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alternative facts. You know, uf im pregnant a woman in
New York City. Now that that kind of loose ice
to here growing up. So when you one of the
things that I've I've always said about my friends who
were Mexican American and I'm from Appalachia, so I'm from
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like small town, poor West Virginia, and I've always said
that people from a yeah, man, the two things that
I always found in common was this these storytelling abilities,
and and and being funny at doing it because I
knew where I grew up that was that was entertainment.
You know, if somebody went to the store, they tell
you a twenty five minute story about it. Do you
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think that you know your culture and it's helpful when
it comes to doing something long form like doing a
podcast work. I mean it is basically storytelling and and
and swapping stories back and forth. Man. Well, when I
first always stand up, I think it's um storytelling. It's
it's it's a natural gift. I mean, some people don't
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know how to tell a story without saying, man, you
ain't gonna believe this ship. Most of the most of
the great stories I've ever heard started at this, Man,
you ain't gonna believe this ship. And most of the
time I don't believe it. But Um, as a stand
up comedian, I was afraid, afraid to get personal and
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talk to the audience. I never knew. It took me
years of failure em bombing to finally like talk to
the audience or get off the script and not do
the stand up comedy. I was afraid because I was
my favorite comedian with Ronnie Dangerfield and George Carlin, Richard Pryor,
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Power Rodriguez, those comedians. Man, I've never seen him get
up of the script. The Dangerfield never said anything political
on stage, or or anything close to a political view.
He just wrote jokes like one joke after another, Stephen
Wright another one, just one joke after another, Mitch Hebert
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another one, one joke after another. I think, um the
closest to anybody that's coming up and being free and
talking about stuff with Richard Pryor. But then again, and
that was an act, you know, he made it into
an act with thanks to Paul Mooney, who pretty much
wrote half of his act. But I'm shy. I grew
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up shy, so I I would stay to the script.
But it took me, like I was saying, in the
last seven years of struggling to write new material and
forcing myself to be more personal and talk. And I've
always I've always been I guess I've always been a
great storyteller. But I had I did not know, because
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I would talk at any meetings, you know, narcotage anonymous
or alcoholic anonymous. When I was going to the meetings,
I remember talking for thirty five minutes and half of
it was hilarious, But I didn't know that I was
doing a stand up comedy. But I just felt that
I was just opening up with my about myself, because
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I remember telling somebody a story at Denny's, a comedian
named Willie barsenna and gave reglets. Yes, I said that
one time, this this guy came to my house and
he wanted to buy cocaine crack. But I wasn't selling
crack cocaine out of my house. You know. He found
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out where I lived, so he came knocked into my
house looking for crack, and I was gonna beat his
ass first of all for going to my house, Like,
who invalued you? But I have no crack and I
would never sell it out of my house. He said,
I don't. I don't have any money, you know, And
I told him I don't have any cracks. I don't
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have He had money, but I had no crack. So no,
he had no money to buy crack and I had
no crack. So I told him, why are you at
my house if you have no money to buy crack?
And you know I don't stut crack out of this house.
I thought, maybe because loan me the money. I say,
why loan you the money. Loan you the money so
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you can go buy crack from someone else. So I
thought that was a crazy, crazier proposition right there. But
I told him this, all right, man, give me sixty
I'll give you sixty dollars bills if you loan me
your car for the whole night. So you know, I
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gave him sixty dollars out of my pocket. He loaned
me his car. He wouldn't go buy crack somewhere else.
And I drove his car, and I was drunk when
he gave him the keys. Like you see these commercials
about don't drink and drive and then you hand the
keys over to a friend. Well, this guy handed his
keys over to us, to a drunk man. So I
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got his car. Me and my friends wanted to go
to Vendor's Beach at midnight. We never made it. I
total the car. I crashed the car. It was a
seventy one Cherry and Palla and I total there, bro
I mean I crashed hard, and I left the car
in the freeway and walked out of there with like
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with blood on my hand. And my friend, now we're
holy nacho cheese. But nachos and when I when we crashed,
their head almost went to the windshield. But what stopped
them before they hit Their head hit the windshield, their
face hit the natural cheese and Halle penuls first little
blind h by Hala penels. You know I left his
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car there. The next day he comes to my house
looking for the car, and I told them, listen, man,
I don't know we've crashed your car. You gave your
card to a drug man. I don't know who your
car is. Right now, here's your keys. Here's another sixty.
But deal over. So I gave the sixty dollars and
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I give his car keys back and that was the
end of the story. That's it. It's closed. He should
have come later on to ask for more money. And
I thought, listen, man, we made a deal to deal
was done. You know, you loan your car with no
insurance to a guy who's drunk. I see this guy
ten years later at a narcotics a noon of his meeting,
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and I'm telling a story. And after the after the meeting,
he told me Philippe, I'm the guy who borrowed that car.
That's awesome. I'm also in recovery. I'm A. I'm a
I'm a proud friend of Bill w and I have
often said that if they could put cameras and meetings,
especially in some of the meetings that I've been in
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in l A and Oakland. I mean, that would be
like the most watched, funniest TV show you ever saw.
That should be a show that the A the A
podcast or Friends of Bill podcast and everybody just speaks
annaly in a microphone. It would be great. I I
agree with you A because um, you know, and unlet's
and you're just talking about like being on this. You know,
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I I spent a lot of my radio career doing
mornings and being the drunk guy and the guy that
came on and told you the outrageously awful thing I
did when I was drunk. But when I got sober,
you know, even just bring it up right now, I
still had that moment of hesitation, that little worry because
you know, I'm just you know, I'm still I still
wonder you're people gonna judge me because you know I'm
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an alcoholic. I mean, and you're so open with it
as well. I mean, but did you ever have a
point where like maybe you thought maybe this isn't you
know should I bring this up or should I not
bring it up? Oh? Man, of course I thought about
that a lot of times. Man, because am I incriminating myself?
Am I gonna make myself feel like a lout? Is
a loser to my to my comedy fans who don't
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know me, and they didn't stopped listening to me, or
because I used to be this loser, But actually the
honestly will grab more new people, Like I know, people
gravitated to my podcast because my honesty, like some of
my list don't. They didn't know it was a stand
up comedian. And I noticed when podcast listeners go to
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stand up watch me do stand up comedy, they just
sit there and they laugh a little bit to take
in all the words. Yeah, I had the same experience. Yeah,
go ahead. If people don't know alcoholics like I don't know,
I'm glad you told me you're an alcoholic. Like last week,
for example, my wife made them egg She was drinking
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an eggnog and I had an egg knog. But my
eggnog had no rum, no brandy, her egg he egg,
no printy Dane. You know it was. It was a
good alcoholic eggnog, you know, for somebody whould like to drink.
But I grabbed the wrong drink. I drank it, and
then right away the alcohol hit my tongue immediately, like fired,
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like a strike a match, and I spit it all out.
And I knew right away when she was having a drink,
like the odesty of my alcoholism came out, and I
told her, you know, what's the difference between you and
I is that you could enjoy that eggnog and go
and go go do your work. You know, you could.
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You could go read a book after that drink. You
could go bicycally, you could go go do things. But
an alcoholic like myself, I can never do that. I
can never drink that and then go hiking or think
about happy thoughts. That drink is gonna leave to a
thousand more drinks that night, and then I'm going to
disappear and I come home to two days after New
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Year's even. Yeah, it's the whole you know. I always
tell my friends, I I play the tape out. You know,
I know what, I know how the tape ends. I've
got I've got banks of them, I got rooms full
of them to go to like I know how what's
gonna end. And I think that that that moment of
fear though, when you think you're gonna drink. I still
I don't know if you have them at all, but
I have to have someone once in a while had
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the dreams where I have a drink and I wake
up and panicked the ship. You think that's like, um,
that that has to be like, um, what what what?
I like a war wedding? What's goes through? Huh? Well,
I mean it from the damage broke, I would say,
in some ways it is. I mean it's I mean,
you know, if you're like you know, it sounds like
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you were like me. So there was damage done, there
was trauma, like it wasn't all pretty. I have a friend,
my friend, um, my friends, one of my friends, her
brother he stopped, he recovered, he's recovering right now. But
he was a math head for many years and alcoholic
for many years. And she was telling me that her
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brother he just got into stand up comedy, like he
was never into stand up comedy. He just got into um,
I guess he got into pants and horticulture and painting
and fishing. And I was telling her that when a
person stops drinking. His mind goes back to the time
when he when he first had that drink, you know,
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when he would be it goes because you're ambitious to back. Yeah,
I know. I I tell people all the time, I'm
I'm living my eleven year old life because I'm I'm
I do like five different jobs and and it's because
I can and and you know, I'm you know, I'm
open to all those things. Um. I didn't expect this
to turn into this, but I like this because again,
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this just gets back to the you know, the whole
idea of like being an alcoholic means if you're if
you're real, you have to be honest, and you have
to be honest all the time. And I think that again,
that's what we're you know, I hear when I do
your show, and I really um appreciate that with your
comedy as well, me too. So I wanted to talk
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to you a little bit about this documentary dying laughing
and I'm just you the whole idea of like I
don't think people think about it about with comedians and
you know, you have the one job where if you
have a bad day, you get ridiculed for it or
you have to face a whole room of people that
are like this guy sucks. Um, I mean it doesn't
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happen in my job. I mean it does with radio.
It's saying to some extent, but I mean, like, you know,
when I have a you know, I don't go in
a business meeting and and give a pitch and you know,
when I'm done, nobody like stands up and tells me
I suck. I know, man, when you're a radio you know,
you suck when you show up and your keys don't
open the studio? How is that? How have you dealt
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with that in your career? And it is something that
still happens and bother you? Oh it does bother me.
I think bombing is is something that a comedian will
always carry with him in his in his life, you know.
But as you bomb more, it's how you bounce back
after the bombing. You know, that where the experience as
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a standard comedian comes down. Because when you first bombed,
like my first time bombing, it hurts. It hurt a lot.
You know, I just stood up there. You know, the
your first time you bomb, you freeze, You stay up
there and then your mouth drives up and then you
go you go into a trans word, the same joke
only pops up in your head like no new stuff
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comes up, like you can't even think about anything else
to say but good night. But you stay up there.
And why did you stay up there? Because you don't
know how to get off. But the second time you bomb,
it's it's just as worse as the first one. But
now you know you gotta say good night. You say
good night. But the third one you already know you're
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sucking up there before you start seeing yourself bombing, before
the audience starts seeing your bombing, and and you don't
say good night. You know. You try to fight it
this time, you try to fight your way through it.
On the third one, you try to fight your way
through it, but you can't. You bomb again. But the
fair fat six times you bomb, no one knows seventh as,
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twelve time, twentieth time, no one knows your bombing at all.
Only you know this time. And that's the hardest bomb ever,
when no one else you're bombing. No one else knows
your bombing, but you know you are. Because the jokes
are People are laughing at the jokes, but they're not
laughing like the last show you did, and man, bombing sucks.
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People don't understand that, like the best. The only person
that could I said it right, I'm that I'm dying
up here was Mike Epps. Like, when you bomb, you know,
when you bomb, you start taking a bunch of finances,
he said, But as true, man, Like, the hardest bomb
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I ever had was in Tacoma, Washington, when I got
booed off the stage and the audience member went up
on stage and took the microphone away, and then I
and then I said, I said something that made it
we even worst. I said. Chris Rock was right, there's
black people and then there's your people here to Cooma, Washington,
take a good night. That's great. You know, doing comedy
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live it's different, I'm assuming from doing the podcast live.
I love doing live podcasts, um I just because when
you're doing a podcast, you don't get the you don't
get the laughs, you don't get the feedback. Um And
I know, I know, she you know you do live
podcast from time to time. How how how much different
is that from being on stage on comedy? Oh man,
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I did a I did a live podcast last night
for another comedian, Martine Moreno, Martin Moreno, he's up. He
hosts for Game Regless. Yes, he's a guy that introduced
Gabrielssia from every from I think the last six specials
he's done. Yeah, I know that guy. Yeah, yeah, he's
funny at podcast. I gotta hear that. So here's a
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live podcast now with his son, like his son, him
and him and don't have a podcast. So that's a
lot of pressure for his son and Martin as a
father because you're talking Martin the hold back. He's so
nasty and he's saying all this stuff in front of
his son. And he had a live podcast last night
in hertvels in Long Beach, California, and that was his
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first live podcast, and every tell you man, everything that
could go wrong at the first, at your first live podcast,
it went wrong with mine because when you do a
live podcast, you don't know when to end it. When
you do the recording podcast at your house, you know
when to end an hour and a half, you gotta
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end it. But live I don't know how, Like we
didn't know, he don't know when. We don't know when
to end the life podcast because sometimes it gets so
good you don't want to end it. Man, that podcast
live podcast last night started at eight thirty, no started
around nine, It ended at midnight. Oh my god, I
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hate it was chaotic, Bro. He he had he had
a live he had a dating game. A live dating
game on a live podcast was a porn starter and
then got out of hand. And then he had like
a communal wine. Everybody stood up in line to get
a shot of wine and medicine. No bread, Jesus, oh
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staying bro. It was insane as if you ever wanted
to ding down short a comedy store. It was that
crazy man. I just as a as a as a producer,
that would drive me insane. Bro. I tried to produce
past because nobody was listening to the producer and I
don't know if there was a producers there, but it
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was chaos like. And then I went up on stage last,
and then it got even longer because I was telling
a story and I kept bring I kept bringing back
one of the guests to back me up. Then we
had a lot of people on the on the stage.
Then at the end of the show, we could be
brought all the audience on the stage. Man, I think
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we're gonna over break that stage. It was insane. I
don't know how part team got through it. Do you
see yourself now as as a role model for other
comedians doing podcasts? You know, you've been at it for
a while and been successful. Did they come to you
for advice or you just bring them on your bring
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them on your show to you know, kind of give
them some some publicity to most of the most of
the people that come from for advice are a lot
of the the Latin comedians who don't have a podcast,
who are well there always the main question always get
from anybody starting a podcast, This is the main question
I would get. Is it too late to start a podcast? No? Bro,
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it is not too late, it's just the beginning. It's late. No.
For as far as um for Latinos and podcast there
isn't There isn't that many. I mean I could count
them in my hand right now. Joey Coco Diaz, which
is not really a Latino podcast, and then I'm myself,
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And then there's the guy from Las Vegas I don't
know his name right now, and I'm George Perez, George
Peress Stories and the Yo Yo Yo podcast. That's five
right there, and I think I'm there's another one out
there somewhere else, but it's new. I would say that
podcasting is new for the Latino audience. It's like an
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untapped market. And I'm glad to be one of the first,
one of the first pioneers h Latinos to have a
podcast because when I think of podcast, I follow the
main podcast out there are probably Joe Rogan. That's probably
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like the biggest podcast in the world, I think, And
that podcast is like Oprah Winfrey, you know what I mean,
Like anybody who goes on the Joe Rogan podcast, it's
gonna have a lot of followers. Like just to mention,
when Al Madrigal was on the show on Joe Rogan Experience,
he mentioned me, and I moved up to number seventy
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six just on the mention. I mean, he just mentioned me.
When I was on Bill Burst podcast, I moved up
to number thirty five. After doing this podcast, you'll probably drop,
so I apologize in advance. So when he dropped, just sorry,
I'm sorry. Man, Well brother, you're gonna move out that Yeah,
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I need it. Give it to me, man, help a
guy out. And I tell anybody anybody I told, I
tell like the main people I tell I give advice
to it. When I our club owners, comedy club owners
that I run into, like managers, like I'm going to
the Addison Improv every comedy club but I go to
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because some shows to sell out, you know, like, but
there's other places I don't sell out, like Florida or
any city that calls their police officers constable. I don't
do well ahead any city that has UM, that has UH.
I don't know that that has UH. I don't know
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that has Let's still follow the old British rules in America,
I'm not I don't do good at anybody that calls
the conster constable, I ain't going. So you talked to
the managers about doing podcasts? Yes, so I taught a
managers there and listen, man, I look at the look
at the crowd on Thursday night, right and it's like
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about eighties six people out of two hundred and fifty
when it's really low, a hundred out of three hundred,
three hundred on Thursday. I told the owner of that list, man,
you need to eat. What you need to do is
get yourself the nerdiest comedian here in the sad at
the open making and the funniest comedian, and you get
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them both together to do a podcast, the funniest One
in the nerliest one. And every week when a comedian
shows up like myself, you have them on a podcast.
Every comedian that performs here every week that should be
against on this podcast. You call it the Lando impro Podcast.
And the headliner every week talked about his life. Promost
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the show, you guys, fucking share it to all your
social media, email it to your email list and have
them watch it. You know, because a lot of the
club owners right now, they're not pushing the comedy nowhere.
Like if I go in there, just say I go
in there this week, I'm gonna do press, I'm gonna
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be on television, I'm gonna be on radio. I'm gonna
be promoting my show. Now. Next week they have Marcella
are Gore showing up. I guess what, no press, no
radio for no TV only because she had no TV credit.
And that's where the comedy clubs are messing up. If
you're gonna do radio for one comedian, you gotta do
(30:09):
radio for every comedian, and don't expect because a lot
of people club owners, they expect the comedian to do
all the promoting, Well, put them on radio, startup podcast
and you know what you could have worked in promoting too. Yeah,
and you don't see the promotion on radio as much
as you used to when I when I was doing mornings,
we would have comedians on every day and they'd hang
out for an hour, um. And today it's like you're
(30:31):
lucky if you can get on the show for five minutes, um.
It is. It is definitely a different thing. And I
think that what you're saying for for the owners to
do is is what in the business we call branded
content podcast And it's absolutely I think it's a great
idea and I think it'd be I think also be
good for the comedians if a lot of these clubs
put little podcast studios in the clubs, because a lot
of comedians do podcasts, make it commedian for him, come
(30:53):
in and do the show from there, and they get
a little pressed that way too. I mean that that
there's so many things that they could be doing, Like
that's a that's a good idea, man, because every comedy
club should have a podcast studio and you can make
money renting it up to the comedian. I mean, the
Comedy Store has a podcast studio now, yeah, and I
think the last factor you used to have one. But
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I think if you're gonna start a comedy club, you
gotta have a podcast studio because then you could sell
ticket to the podcast studio. Tell me about your vinyl
album right now? All right? I have a vinyl of
Mice comedy special that came out on HBO. I have
(31:34):
a vinyl that you can you can buy at Philippe's
World dot com slash shop. We only made five hundred
albums and this is a comedy album like not like
any other comedy album. It's a double album. So there's
two to three inch records in the album with a poster,
(31:54):
and we have some that are limited addition, they're counted
and you could also get the CD if you want
to get the CD on my web page. But I
do have an album like a record for the hipsters.
Anybody that had the record player or you collect vinyl,
I got you. I'm one of those hipsters with with
(32:16):
the with the record player. I'm in the record play guard.
You probably old use one or the newer one. I
got a nineteen seventy four tech techniques. That's old school
right there. Technique that's the first. That's what that's the
first techniques where the old school DJs, whey, those that
(32:36):
radio shot. Yeah, that's what I got man. So if
I buy it and I come down to l A
and a couple, sometimes when you sign it for me too, yes,
and also when you buy it, if you want to
sign it, I'll just sign it on you a little
note and I'm signing it too. All right, I'm doing
the bad decisions towards it's all new jokes. I'm working
(32:58):
on new material and I'm going on tour with it.
I'll be in January. I'll be in Boulder, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, Chicago,
New York, and Coachella and Tuston, Arizona. All these days
philippin World dot com slash toy or by the album
Philippa World dot com slash shop. And we will also
(33:21):
put all this out on our Facebook page, access podcast
and as your dates come up, support support the man
who's been on the show. Before we get out of here,
I wanted to do a little thing. I just just
a real quick I call it three killer questions. If
you're up for this, I got three questions for you, Philippe.
First one is if you could listen to a podcast
(33:44):
featuring anybody living or dead, who would you like to
hear do a podcast? Man, I would say Richard pryor
Mitch Hedberg. That would be That would be excellent, like together,
like in the same room, Mitch Hepberg, Pryor and Tom Jeerson.
Oh my god, that the three guys in the podcast
(34:07):
telling jokes while rich Herbert takes a nap. Perfect. I
could picture of ch Headberg just napping and just every
every ten pitty minutes say one good funny joke and
passed out again. If you were, um, if you were
(34:27):
an actual sandwich. I love sandwiches, So I asked about sandwiches, um,
not not like what's your favorite? But if you were
sandwich and it said who you were, what kind of
sandwich would you be? I'd probably be the captains save
the whole sandwich. Now what is that? Oh? Man? It
would it be? Uh man, it would be toast. It
would it be like shobbatta bread or some good bread,
(34:50):
you know, like sour dough, not like some good like
submarine bread like the fresh row bread with madonnaise of
course on one stipe mustard on the other. That pickles
and you know, if I wasn't vegan, I'm vegan now,
but if I wasn't vegan, of course it would be
like Swiss jack cheese, American cheese and ham, um, ham, lettuce, tomato, avocado, halapenos. Yeah,
(35:23):
man like that. But since I'm vegan now, I would
just make a vegan Since I'm vegan now, I would
make like the would be like the the Felipe supernatural sandwich,
which would be toasted we bread on vegan aise and
child cheese which is vegan cheese and temper bacon and
(35:50):
vegan turkey on top, with pickles on a sweet bread
bro deep and then with melted with cheese and then
deep Friday in a batter. You go. How about the
last podcast you binged? What's the last one you you
you sat down and listened to a few episodes of
it row I don't know. I don't know if I
(36:13):
listened to a lot of podcasts, but the last podcast
I would binge it was the last time I bade
a podcast was Grant or a Girl? Oh he really,
she's been that's been around a long time, man. I
was like, yeah, that's that's like a twelve year old podcast.
That's that's interesting that you benched at why why? I
don't know why, because last year, um, they were breaking down.
(36:37):
She had like a holiday special and they were talking
about different different language you know that that we don't
use anymore. And I got into it because I remember,
like she was talking about languages and the way and
where does where do the words originate? You know, like
when the world? Where do the where did the world
really come from? You know? And I was interested in that.
(36:58):
And then litterale I started learning history on words. I
like history and I never heard history about when words
I started and they were talking about holiday season, like
I think she was talking about it's the season or
tests the season t I s. And then she broke
it down why they used tests and who uses this
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and and it goes back to back then when people
were not educated, when people didn't go to work, they
didn't go to school because they had to work a
lot of a lot of the words that are used
now were made by people who were poor, who couldn't
really pronounce the word or didn't know the word, so
(37:41):
they started making up their own language. And so I
was interested in that. So I started listening to her
all the time, I think I followed her. I used
to follow her on Snapchat, but she didn't follow me back,
so I stopped following her. Part of the All Things
Comedy Network, Felipe as far as that and What's Up
Full podcast, you can check it out, check it out
(38:02):
on I already thanks for coming on, buddy, So What's
Up Full? Again? Yeah? I don't know. I thought it
was funny the first time. Everybody, this is z Um.
If you're new to the show, z is uh my producer,
my friend, my former student. And yeah, yeah, welcome to
(38:25):
season to Maddie, Yeah, welcome to season. We made it
season season two of Access podcast. Um. It will be
a little different than season one. I'm always I want
to loosen it up a little bit this season. So
Felipe was a great first guest to have on. I
feel naked when I when I have a guest that
I'm so when I talk about me so much about
(38:47):
you know what I mean. It's always kind of weird
to bring it up, but I think that it's just
part of building connections and right, you guys had a
lot to relate to, so yeah, part of it. So
I'll be honest. We recorded that, uh, interview before the break,
and I have not talked to Philipe since then, so
I'm excited to kind of read because we we ended
and we were like, yeah, we'll talk and you know,
(39:09):
we'll hook up, and I hope. So I like him
a lot. He was cool. He's like effortlessly funny. Yeah,
you know what I mean. It's just it just feels
so part of him, like he's not really trying at all. Yeah.
You know. I always say some podcasts you listen to
you because it's like reading a book and you're like
you're getting information and you're really into it. And his
podcast is when you can listen to and just sit
back and like hang because you're hanging You're just hanging
(39:30):
out with him, all right. So comedy lots of comedy
podcasts out there to choose from. We've got three for you.
I think I picked one and Z you picked two. Well,
you picked one that I don't know in the one
that we both agree on, Let's start with the one
that you picked. Tell me about it. Okay, So this
is actually a recommendation by our very own Dalton Dalton. Yeah,
(39:51):
that guy doesn't know comedy. No, it's called My Brother,
My brother and me, And it's just three brothers, Justin, Travis,
and Griffin, who there I don't even know how to explain,
but they have such different personalities but they meshed so
well together. And what they describe their podcast is telling
people how to live their lives because they do it
(40:11):
so well. Pinpoint why it's so funny. But it's never
an episode that I'm not like dying laughing. So the
hosts are engaging. Yeah, they're engaging, and they're just so different,
but it works well. And they even have a video
component of it. And I mean, trust me, guys, my
brother and my brother and me. Check it out, all right,
(40:33):
it doesn't sound bad. I'll check it out. I'll check
it out. Second one I can tell you, Um, we're
both fans of let me just say, Turbo Hottie. I've
loved her forever. She's like the perfect combination of hotness
and coolness and funniness just everything, like you just want
to hang out. And that's what I like about her
podcast too, because like Filipe, she's really effortlessly funny and
(40:56):
what she says for her podcast it's not great relation
ship advice, and she has celebrities and you get to
see this different side of them, and she like brings
out the best in them and you know, makes them
really comfortable. And yeah, like you said, she's just a
cool girl. And she's embraced podcasting. You know, there are
people who do podcast because their celebrities and they feel
like they have to. She's embraced the meeting to the
(41:18):
point where she's actually teaching a podcasting class. I think
at Santa Monica Community College they did they or one
of the one of the schools in l A they
did it. They did like a podcasting class, not as
good as mine, but but she was. She was teaching it.
So let's check it out if you haven't heard it
before on a Ferris. All right, she's great. Can I
(41:39):
can I introduce the third one? I can't tell you
how much I love this podcast. Is the first podcast
that I ever would have to pause because I was
laughing so hard. It's called my Dad Wrote a Porno.
And you have to start at season one, episode one.
You cannot jump into the middle of this. And here
(42:00):
is the deal. This the host of the show, Jamie
found a podcast that are found a poor note that
his dad had written legitimately found a pornographic book, that
is his dad had written, his dad, who he wouldn't
seem like he would be writing a porno at all,
and they read it. He and his two friends read
it every week and it is. Oh, it's so funny.
(42:24):
It's everything that's right about British people. It's also um,
it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh, it's
so good. We'll play a little bit, but man, just
go check it out. British accents make everything better a
little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, just
the way they engage with each other in the little
terms that they have is funny. Check it out. Alright,
(42:49):
she's great. Can I can I introduce the third one?
I can't tell you how much I love this podcast
is the first podcast that I ever would have to
pause because I was laughing so hard. It's called my
dad Wrote a Porno. And you have to start at
season one, episode one. You cannot jump into the middle
(43:09):
of this. And here is the deal. This the host
of the show, Jamie found a podcast that are found
a poor note that his dad had written legitimately found
a pornographic book that is his dad had written his
dad who he wouldn't seem like he would be writing
a porno at all. And they read it. He and
his two friends read it every week and it is Oh,
(43:34):
it's so funny. It's everything that's right about British people.
It's also, um, it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh,
it's so good. We'll play a little bit, but man,
just go check it out. British accents make everything better
a little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like
just the way they engage with each other and the
little terms that they have, which is funny. Check it out.
(44:06):
All right. Those a three great podcast to start off
the new year. Um, as we start off the new year,
did you have a good break? By the way I did?
It was relaxing. I just hung out with my family.
What about you? I want to do a shout out. Um,
I got I went surfing and I like, did a
good job. I'm gonna put a picture up on access
or Facebook page. I'll do it. Yeah, I want to
shout out to Jeff. Who was he? He's He's an
(44:28):
East Virginia guy. He's Alway's from Virginia and I'm like, oh,
you're gonna teach me how to surf. I'm like, you're
from Virginia. Uh, and he was a great teacher. There
you go, shout Jeff. I told him I was going
to leave a bunch of yell p reviews about how
bad he sucked, just for fun. But I wouldn't do that.
But you know, what's up? What's up, Mauie. I love Mauie.
I want to be there now than I am a
(44:49):
tan man. I'm gonna try to stay this way too. Hello,
Channing Booth. That's so cheesy though. Yeah. Whatever, I will
do it anyway. Uh whatever, I do what I want
access podcast. We do what we want. I want to
thank Chris Peterson from my Heart Radio for for making
this podcast happen. Also Dalton, who we mentioned earlier does
the graphics, Casey who does the music and also helps
out with a lot of the production. Katie Wilcox and
(45:11):
Don Parker here at I Heart Radio, San Francisco as
we broadcast from our brand new studio. We have a
beautiful new studio and we are looking for sponsor to
take it over and they'll also be sponsoring the show.
So if you're interested, just let us know. But our
sales staff is out. They got a couple of folks
looking like they want to do it. So thanks to
everybody that works on the show, and see thank you
(45:32):
for for a great season one and and this new
season two is going to be fantastic. I have no
doubts we've got a great show next week. Lindsey Graham,
not that Lindsay Graham. No, he is actually the host
of a podcast called American History Tellers from the Wandering Network.
So it's all about history podcast next week on Access Podcast.
(45:53):
So that's it. Go check out a podcast and share
it with your friends, and do it now.
Hey Ze, Maddie, what's up ful? I get it? Yeah, alright, Uh,
what do you know about Felipe Sparza? Thank the commedia
and he's funny and he's on all things comedy. Did
you also know that he won last Comic Standing? Did
(00:27):
you also know that he's sober and sobriety is a
big part of his life in his comedy. Well, then
you better listen today because we're talking to Felipe Sparza,
host of What's Up Fool. So, Felipe, welcome to Access podcast, buddy,
thanks for having me on podcast. Thank you man. I'm
(00:53):
glad to talk to you, and I was glad to
listen to your show today because, uh, what's up full?
It made me feel good and relaxed. And the reason
I was feeling up tight is just I was on
social media and uh, I got you know, I made
the mistake of like engaging and that's always like, oh,
it's always bad news. I could take up your whole
day it is, you know, And I noticed that, you know,
(01:16):
you don't get political on on at least that I
can see from social on social media, is that something
you try to, you know, stay away from in general?
Or um you know, do you feel like you dress
all that with your comedy sometimes you know, um, we
say something in the podcast that's political but not too political. Well,
we don't take sizes which I attack both sides. Well,
(01:39):
I think that, you know, one of the things that's
it's great about your show is that you keep it
like today, I was listening to the first episode. I
know a podcast is good, what I want to jump
in and I'm like, I'm trying to engage in the
conversation with my headphones on, and you guys are you
were talking about Dukes of Hazzard and I was just
and I was going off because I used to get
so angry that they used code names. He'd be like
(02:01):
Shepherd a lost sheep. But with Luke, are you there?
And it's like, why the fund do you use a
code name when you say their name right after it
uncle Jesse? I know, right, like uh the right, because
Shepherd is uh lost, Shepherd is Uncle Jessing, lost, Sheep
is Daisy Duke and those two guys I forgot who
they were. Yeah, yeah, And there was just you guys
(02:25):
got into this conversation and then it ended up going
about like what was on TV on CBS at the time,
and you know, for people from a certain generation. For me,
I was, I was so engaged in it, and like
I said, I needed that. Today I listened to and
I was like, you see, this is the this is
this is what I missed from social media, and this
is what I missed from media in general. I don't
(02:45):
feel like it's light enough anymore. And like, I don't
hear these kind of cool pop culture conversations I know,
every pop political Like even if you're talking about Star Wars. Oh,
I like the old Star Wars, but then didn't put
any African Americans in it or Mexican American actors, you
know what I mean. And then people start talking about,
oh man, I love Start Wars before Disney owned it,
(03:08):
and then he go, then didn't did it throws into
a topic about Jewish people. It is um yeah, it
is insane how everything gets gets so politicized. And um,
I mean, is that something you you really strive for
to do on the show, is to keep it light
or you know, or is that just that's just naturally
who you are. I think that's naturally who I am.
(03:31):
You know. Um, Like I remember my mom and dad,
like during that when they were growing when I was
growing up, you know, we had they had a Bush,
not not Bush. They had not a Reagan as president
and then Bush. But I don't remember my mom and
dad ever talking about bad about Reagan or talking bad
(03:51):
about Bush, because all they did is go home, go work,
come back home, go work, come back home. I don't
think they ever even had time to open the news.
I didn't want to know about the news. They want
to be entertained. So my parents would already watch Spanish
um comedy like these a comedians from Mexico. So we
grew up watching those shows. But my mom and dad
(04:13):
never spoke to us about like mikhole, you better run
home tonight, because on a regulars president reporting a lot
of people. We never got into the topics like that
because we just my mom and dad, you went to work.
They never like sat down and talked to him about
anything political. So and then we were kids, we didn't
talk about political stuff. I think the only political joke
(04:36):
ever had was when my seventh grade or sixth grade
teacher she asked us, um, why is there a conflict?
And I ran and Iraq, you know, why are they fighting?
Why is there a war between them and I don't
know why they were fighting. I'm a kid, so I said,
the reason they're fighting is because for years, for years
(04:57):
I ran and Iraq couldn't this side and how to
end the the lettering and the spelling of the country.
I ran and said, no, we need to end our
country with the end, and the rack said no, it
ends with a queue. So they want a war over
Q and n see. Do you think that you know
(05:19):
with your your your parents are immigrants from Mexico and
reading a lot about you know, translate this, You're you're special.
A lot of that is you know about translating, you
know for your parents. Do you feel that because you
know when they came and they're just working to get by,
which is kind of what you were saying that you know,
there's there's less time to worry about all the other
stuff when you're just trying to worry about making sure
(05:40):
your kids are you know, everything's taken care of. Yeah,
there's there's a lot less time to worry about because
there's no social media back and we're not put this way.
We're all informed now, everybody knows everything. There's nothing too
high now, you know, maybe it's a bad thing that
we all know what's going on, you know, or it's
(06:01):
a good thing, you know. I like that everybody knows
what's going on, But now there's more fights because of
what everybody knows what's going on. Like when I was,
like I would say, like fifteen years ago, we probably
would have not known anything about the judge from Alabama
running for senator. We would have never known that. Only
(06:23):
the people in um Alabama and Mississippi and stal would
have known that. That story would have not ever been
publicized growing up because it's not interesting enough. We probably
would have it probably never made it to the National
Enquired because the National Enquired and that was the only
magazine that that actually had fake news, you know, alternative
(06:47):
alternative facts. You know, uf im pregnant a woman in
New York City. Now that that kind of loose ice
to here growing up. So when you one of the
things that I've I've always said about my friends who
were Mexican American and I'm from Appalachia, so I'm from
(07:08):
like small town, poor West Virginia, and I've always said
that people from a yeah, man, the two things that
I always found in common was this these storytelling abilities,
and and and being funny at doing it because I
knew where I grew up that was that was entertainment.
You know, if somebody went to the store, they tell
you a twenty five minute story about it. Do you
(07:28):
think that you know your culture and it's helpful when
it comes to doing something long form like doing a
podcast work. I mean it is basically storytelling and and
and swapping stories back and forth. Man. Well, when I
first always stand up, I think it's um storytelling. It's
it's it's a natural gift. I mean, some people don't
(07:50):
know how to tell a story without saying, man, you
ain't gonna believe this ship. Most of the most of
the great stories I've ever heard started at this, Man,
you ain't gonna believe this ship. And most of the
time I don't believe it. But Um, as a stand
up comedian, I was afraid, afraid to get personal and
(08:14):
talk to the audience. I never knew. It took me
years of failure em bombing to finally like talk to
the audience or get off the script and not do
the stand up comedy. I was afraid because I was
my favorite comedian with Ronnie Dangerfield and George Carlin, Richard Pryor,
(08:34):
Power Rodriguez, those comedians. Man, I've never seen him get
up of the script. The Dangerfield never said anything political
on stage, or or anything close to a political view.
He just wrote jokes like one joke after another, Stephen
Wright another one, just one joke after another, Mitch Hebert
(08:57):
another one, one joke after another. I think, um the
closest to anybody that's coming up and being free and
talking about stuff with Richard Pryor. But then again, and
that was an act, you know, he made it into
an act with thanks to Paul Mooney, who pretty much
wrote half of his act. But I'm shy. I grew
(09:20):
up shy, so I I would stay to the script.
But it took me, like I was saying, in the
last seven years of struggling to write new material and
forcing myself to be more personal and talk. And I've
always I've always been I guess I've always been a
great storyteller. But I had I did not know, because
(09:40):
I would talk at any meetings, you know, narcotage anonymous
or alcoholic anonymous. When I was going to the meetings,
I remember talking for thirty five minutes and half of
it was hilarious, But I didn't know that I was
doing a stand up comedy. But I just felt that
I was just opening up with my about myself, because
(10:01):
I remember telling somebody a story at Denny's, a comedian
named Willie barsenna and gave reglets. Yes, I said that
one time, this this guy came to my house and
he wanted to buy cocaine crack. But I wasn't selling
crack cocaine out of my house. You know. He found
(10:21):
out where I lived, so he came knocked into my
house looking for crack, and I was gonna beat his
ass first of all for going to my house, Like,
who invalued you? But I have no crack and I
would never sell it out of my house. He said,
I don't. I don't have any money, you know, And
I told him I don't have any cracks. I don't
(10:43):
have He had money, but I had no crack. So no,
he had no money to buy crack and I had
no crack. So I told him, why are you at
my house if you have no money to buy crack?
And you know I don't stut crack out of this house.
I thought, maybe because loan me the money. I say,
why loan you the money. Loan you the money so
(11:05):
you can go buy crack from someone else. So I
thought that was a crazy, crazier proposition right there. But
I told him this, all right, man, give me sixty
I'll give you sixty dollars bills if you loan me
your car for the whole night. So you know, I
(11:27):
gave him sixty dollars out of my pocket. He loaned
me his car. He wouldn't go buy crack somewhere else.
And I drove his car, and I was drunk when
he gave him the keys. Like you see these commercials
about don't drink and drive and then you hand the
keys over to a friend. Well, this guy handed his
keys over to us, to a drunk man. So I
(11:48):
got his car. Me and my friends wanted to go
to Vendor's Beach at midnight. We never made it. I
total the car. I crashed the car. It was a
seventy one Cherry and Palla and I total there, bro
I mean I crashed hard, and I left the car
in the freeway and walked out of there with like
(12:10):
with blood on my hand. And my friend, now we're
holy nacho cheese. But nachos and when I when we crashed,
their head almost went to the windshield. But what stopped
them before they hit Their head hit the windshield, their
face hit the natural cheese and Halle penuls first little
blind h by Hala penels. You know I left his
(12:33):
car there. The next day he comes to my house
looking for the car, and I told them, listen, man,
I don't know we've crashed your car. You gave your
card to a drug man. I don't know who your
car is. Right now, here's your keys. Here's another sixty.
But deal over. So I gave the sixty dollars and
(12:54):
I give his car keys back and that was the
end of the story. That's it. It's closed. He should
have come later on to ask for more money. And
I thought, listen, man, we made a deal to deal
was done. You know, you loan your car with no
insurance to a guy who's drunk. I see this guy
ten years later at a narcotics a noon of his meeting,
(13:17):
and I'm telling a story. And after the after the meeting,
he told me Philippe, I'm the guy who borrowed that car.
That's awesome. I'm also in recovery. I'm A. I'm a
I'm a proud friend of Bill w and I have
often said that if they could put cameras and meetings,
especially in some of the meetings that I've been in
(13:38):
in l A and Oakland. I mean, that would be
like the most watched, funniest TV show you ever saw.
That should be a show that the A the A
podcast or Friends of Bill podcast and everybody just speaks
annaly in a microphone. It would be great. I I
agree with you A because um, you know, and unlet's
and you're just talking about like being on this. You know,
(14:00):
I I spent a lot of my radio career doing
mornings and being the drunk guy and the guy that
came on and told you the outrageously awful thing I
did when I was drunk. But when I got sober,
you know, even just bring it up right now, I
still had that moment of hesitation, that little worry because
you know, I'm just you know, I'm still I still
wonder you're people gonna judge me because you know I'm
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an alcoholic. I mean, and you're so open with it
as well. I mean, but did you ever have a
point where like maybe you thought maybe this isn't you
know should I bring this up or should I not
bring it up? Oh? Man, of course I thought about
that a lot of times. Man, because am I incriminating myself?
Am I gonna make myself feel like a lout? Is
a loser to my to my comedy fans who don't
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know me, and they didn't stopped listening to me, or
because I used to be this loser, But actually the
honestly will grab more new people, Like I know, people
gravitated to my podcast because my honesty, like some of
my list don't. They didn't know it was a stand
up comedian. And I noticed when podcast listeners go to
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stand up watch me do stand up comedy, they just
sit there and they laugh a little bit to take
in all the words. Yeah, I had the same experience. Yeah,
go ahead. If people don't know alcoholics like I don't know,
I'm glad you told me you're an alcoholic. Like last week,
for example, my wife made them egg She was drinking
(15:25):
an eggnog and I had an egg knog. But my
eggnog had no rum, no brandy, her egg he egg,
no printy Dane. You know it was. It was a
good alcoholic eggnog, you know, for somebody whould like to drink.
But I grabbed the wrong drink. I drank it, and
then right away the alcohol hit my tongue immediately, like fired,
(15:47):
like a strike a match, and I spit it all out.
And I knew right away when she was having a drink,
like the odesty of my alcoholism came out, and I
told her, you know, what's the difference between you and
I is that you could enjoy that eggnog and go
and go go do your work. You know, you could.
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You could go read a book after that drink. You
could go bicycally, you could go go do things. But
an alcoholic like myself, I can never do that. I
can never drink that and then go hiking or think
about happy thoughts. That drink is gonna leave to a
thousand more drinks that night, and then I'm going to
disappear and I come home to two days after New
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Year's even. Yeah, it's the whole you know. I always
tell my friends, I I play the tape out. You know,
I know what, I know how the tape ends. I've
got I've got banks of them, I got rooms full
of them to go to like I know how what's
gonna end. And I think that that that moment of
fear though, when you think you're gonna drink. I still
I don't know if you have them at all, but
I have to have someone once in a while had
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the dreams where I have a drink and I wake
up and panicked the ship. You think that's like, um,
that that has to be like, um, what what what?
I like a war wedding? What's goes through? Huh? Well,
I mean it from the damage broke, I would say,
in some ways it is. I mean it's I mean,
you know, if you're like you know, it sounds like
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you were like me. So there was damage done, there
was trauma, like it wasn't all pretty. I have a friend,
my friend, um, my friends, one of my friends, her
brother he stopped, he recovered, he's recovering right now. But
he was a math head for many years and alcoholic
for many years. And she was telling me that her
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brother he just got into stand up comedy, like he
was never into stand up comedy. He just got into um,
I guess he got into pants and horticulture and painting
and fishing. And I was telling her that when a
person stops drinking. His mind goes back to the time
when he when he first had that drink, you know,
(17:58):
when he would be it goes because you're ambitious to back. Yeah,
I know. I I tell people all the time, I'm
I'm living my eleven year old life because I'm I'm
I do like five different jobs and and it's because
I can and and you know, I'm you know, I'm
open to all those things. Um. I didn't expect this
to turn into this, but I like this because again,
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this just gets back to the you know, the whole
idea of like being an alcoholic means if you're if
you're real, you have to be honest, and you have
to be honest all the time. And I think that again,
that's what we're you know, I hear when I do
your show, and I really um appreciate that with your
comedy as well, me too. So I wanted to talk
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to you a little bit about this documentary dying laughing
and I'm just you the whole idea of like I
don't think people think about it about with comedians and
you know, you have the one job where if you
have a bad day, you get ridiculed for it or
you have to face a whole room of people that
are like this guy sucks. Um, I mean it doesn't
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happen in my job. I mean it does with radio.
It's saying to some extent, but I mean, like, you know,
when I have a you know, I don't go in
a business meeting and and give a pitch and you know,
when I'm done, nobody like stands up and tells me
I suck. I know, man, when you're a radio you know,
you suck when you show up and your keys don't
open the studio? How is that? How have you dealt
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with that in your career? And it is something that
still happens and bother you? Oh it does bother me.
I think bombing is is something that a comedian will
always carry with him in his in his life, you know.
But as you bomb more, it's how you bounce back
after the bombing. You know, that where the experience as
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a standard comedian comes down. Because when you first bombed,
like my first time bombing, it hurts. It hurt a lot.
You know, I just stood up there. You know, the
your first time you bomb, you freeze, You stay up
there and then your mouth drives up and then you
go you go into a trans word, the same joke
only pops up in your head like no new stuff
(20:13):
comes up, like you can't even think about anything else
to say but good night. But you stay up there.
And why did you stay up there? Because you don't
know how to get off. But the second time you bomb,
it's it's just as worse as the first one. But
now you know you gotta say good night. You say
good night. But the third one you already know you're
(20:37):
sucking up there before you start seeing yourself bombing, before
the audience starts seeing your bombing, and and you don't
say good night. You know. You try to fight it
this time, you try to fight your way through it.
On the third one, you try to fight your way
through it, but you can't. You bomb again. But the
fair fat six times you bomb, no one knows seventh as,
(21:01):
twelve time, twentieth time, no one knows your bombing at all.
Only you know this time. And that's the hardest bomb ever,
when no one else you're bombing. No one else knows
your bombing, but you know you are. Because the jokes
are People are laughing at the jokes, but they're not
laughing like the last show you did, and man, bombing sucks.
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People don't understand that, like the best. The only person
that could I said it right, I'm that I'm dying
up here was Mike Epps. Like, when you bomb, you know,
when you bomb, you start taking a bunch of finances,
he said, But as true, man, Like, the hardest bomb
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I ever had was in Tacoma, Washington, when I got
booed off the stage and the audience member went up
on stage and took the microphone away, and then I
and then I said, I said something that made it
we even worst. I said. Chris Rock was right, there's
black people and then there's your people here to Cooma, Washington,
take a good night. That's great. You know, doing comedy
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live it's different, I'm assuming from doing the podcast live.
I love doing live podcasts, um I just because when
you're doing a podcast, you don't get the you don't
get the laughs, you don't get the feedback. Um And
I know, I know, she you know you do live
podcast from time to time. How how how much different
is that from being on stage on comedy? Oh man,
(22:33):
I did a I did a live podcast last night
for another comedian, Martine Moreno, Martin Moreno, he's up. He
hosts for Game Regless. Yes, he's a guy that introduced
Gabrielssia from every from I think the last six specials
he's done. Yeah, I know that guy. Yeah, yeah, he's
funny at podcast. I gotta hear that. So here's a
(22:57):
live podcast now with his son, like his son, him
and him and don't have a podcast. So that's a
lot of pressure for his son and Martin as a
father because you're talking Martin the hold back. He's so
nasty and he's saying all this stuff in front of
his son. And he had a live podcast last night
in hertvels in Long Beach, California, and that was his
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first live podcast, and every tell you man, everything that
could go wrong at the first, at your first live podcast,
it went wrong with mine because when you do a
live podcast, you don't know when to end it. When
you do the recording podcast at your house, you know
when to end an hour and a half, you gotta
(23:41):
end it. But live I don't know how, Like we
didn't know, he don't know when. We don't know when
to end the life podcast because sometimes it gets so
good you don't want to end it. Man, that podcast
live podcast last night started at eight thirty, no started
around nine, It ended at midnight. Oh my god, I
(24:02):
hate it was chaotic, Bro. He he had he had
a live he had a dating game. A live dating
game on a live podcast was a porn starter and
then got out of hand. And then he had like
a communal wine. Everybody stood up in line to get
a shot of wine and medicine. No bread, Jesus, oh
(24:24):
staying bro. It was insane as if you ever wanted
to ding down short a comedy store. It was that
crazy man. I just as a as a as a producer,
that would drive me insane. Bro. I tried to produce
past because nobody was listening to the producer and I
don't know if there was a producers there, but it
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was chaos like. And then I went up on stage last,
and then it got even longer because I was telling
a story and I kept bring I kept bringing back
one of the guests to back me up. Then we
had a lot of people on the on the stage.
Then at the end of the show, we could be
brought all the audience on the stage. Man, I think
(25:05):
we're gonna over break that stage. It was insane. I
don't know how part team got through it. Do you
see yourself now as as a role model for other
comedians doing podcasts? You know, you've been at it for
a while and been successful. Did they come to you
for advice or you just bring them on your bring
(25:26):
them on your show to you know, kind of give
them some some publicity to most of the most of
the people that come from for advice are a lot
of the the Latin comedians who don't have a podcast,
who are well there always the main question always get
from anybody starting a podcast, This is the main question
I would get. Is it too late to start a podcast? No? Bro,
(25:50):
it is not too late, it's just the beginning. It's late. No.
For as far as um for Latinos and podcast there
isn't There isn't that many. I mean I could count
them in my hand right now. Joey Coco Diaz, which
is not really a Latino podcast, and then I'm myself,
(26:10):
And then there's the guy from Las Vegas I don't
know his name right now, and I'm George Perez, George
Peress Stories and the Yo Yo Yo podcast. That's five
right there, and I think I'm there's another one out
there somewhere else, but it's new. I would say that
podcasting is new for the Latino audience. It's like an
(26:31):
untapped market. And I'm glad to be one of the first,
one of the first pioneers h Latinos to have a
podcast because when I think of podcast, I follow the
main podcast out there are probably Joe Rogan. That's probably
(26:52):
like the biggest podcast in the world, I think, And
that podcast is like Oprah Winfrey, you know what I mean,
Like anybody who goes on the Joe Rogan podcast, it's
gonna have a lot of followers. Like just to mention,
when Al Madrigal was on the show on Joe Rogan Experience,
he mentioned me, and I moved up to number seventy
(27:15):
six just on the mention. I mean, he just mentioned me.
When I was on Bill Burst podcast, I moved up
to number thirty five. After doing this podcast, you'll probably drop,
so I apologize in advance. So when he dropped, just sorry,
I'm sorry. Man, Well brother, you're gonna move out that Yeah,
(27:37):
I need it. Give it to me, man, help a
guy out. And I tell anybody anybody I told, I
tell like the main people I tell I give advice
to it. When I our club owners, comedy club owners
that I run into, like managers, like I'm going to
the Addison Improv every comedy club but I go to
(27:58):
because some shows to sell out, you know, like, but
there's other places I don't sell out, like Florida or
any city that calls their police officers constable. I don't
do well ahead any city that has UM, that has UH.
I don't know that that has UH. I don't know
(28:22):
that has Let's still follow the old British rules in America,
I'm not I don't do good at anybody that calls
the conster constable, I ain't going. So you talked to
the managers about doing podcasts? Yes, so I taught a
managers there and listen, man, I look at the look
at the crowd on Thursday night, right and it's like
(28:42):
about eighties six people out of two hundred and fifty
when it's really low, a hundred out of three hundred,
three hundred on Thursday. I told the owner of that list, man,
you need to eat. What you need to do is
get yourself the nerdiest comedian here in the sad at
the open making and the funniest comedian, and you get
(29:03):
them both together to do a podcast, the funniest One
in the nerliest one. And every week when a comedian
shows up like myself, you have them on a podcast.
Every comedian that performs here every week that should be
against on this podcast. You call it the Lando impro Podcast.
And the headliner every week talked about his life. Promost
(29:26):
the show, you guys, fucking share it to all your
social media, email it to your email list and have
them watch it. You know, because a lot of the
club owners right now, they're not pushing the comedy nowhere.
Like if I go in there, just say I go
in there this week, I'm gonna do press, I'm gonna
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be on television, I'm gonna be on radio. I'm gonna
be promoting my show. Now. Next week they have Marcella
are Gore showing up. I guess what, no press, no
radio for no TV only because she had no TV credit.
And that's where the comedy clubs are messing up. If
you're gonna do radio for one comedian, you gotta do
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radio for every comedian, and don't expect because a lot
of people club owners, they expect the comedian to do
all the promoting, Well, put them on radio, startup podcast
and you know what you could have worked in promoting too. Yeah,
and you don't see the promotion on radio as much
as you used to when I when I was doing mornings,
we would have comedians on every day and they'd hang
out for an hour, um. And today it's like you're
(30:31):
lucky if you can get on the show for five minutes, um.
It is. It is definitely a different thing. And I
think that what you're saying for for the owners to
do is is what in the business we call branded
content podcast And it's absolutely I think it's a great
idea and I think it'd be I think also be
good for the comedians if a lot of these clubs
put little podcast studios in the clubs, because a lot
of comedians do podcasts, make it commedian for him, come
(30:53):
in and do the show from there, and they get
a little pressed that way too. I mean that that
there's so many things that they could be doing, Like
that's a that's a good idea, man, because every comedy
club should have a podcast studio and you can make
money renting it up to the comedian. I mean, the
Comedy Store has a podcast studio now, yeah, and I
think the last factor you used to have one. But
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I think if you're gonna start a comedy club, you
gotta have a podcast studio because then you could sell
ticket to the podcast studio. Tell me about your vinyl
album right now? All right? I have a vinyl of
Mice comedy special that came out on HBO. I have
(31:34):
a vinyl that you can you can buy at Philippe's
World dot com slash shop. We only made five hundred
albums and this is a comedy album like not like
any other comedy album. It's a double album. So there's
two to three inch records in the album with a poster,
(31:54):
and we have some that are limited addition, they're counted
and you could also get the CD if you want
to get the CD on my web page. But I
do have an album like a record for the hipsters.
Anybody that had the record player or you collect vinyl,
I got you. I'm one of those hipsters with with
(32:16):
the with the record player. I'm in the record play guard.
You probably old use one or the newer one. I
got a nineteen seventy four tech techniques. That's old school
right there. Technique that's the first. That's what that's the
first techniques where the old school DJs, whey, those that
(32:36):
radio shot. Yeah, that's what I got man. So if
I buy it and I come down to l A
and a couple, sometimes when you sign it for me too, yes,
and also when you buy it, if you want to
sign it, I'll just sign it on you a little
note and I'm signing it too. All right, I'm doing
the bad decisions towards it's all new jokes. I'm working
(32:58):
on new material and I'm going on tour with it.
I'll be in January. I'll be in Boulder, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, Chicago,
New York, and Coachella and Tuston, Arizona. All these days
philippin World dot com slash toy or by the album
Philippa World dot com slash shop. And we will also
(33:21):
put all this out on our Facebook page, access podcast
and as your dates come up, support support the man
who's been on the show. Before we get out of here,
I wanted to do a little thing. I just just
a real quick I call it three killer questions. If
you're up for this, I got three questions for you, Philippe.
First one is if you could listen to a podcast
(33:44):
featuring anybody living or dead, who would you like to
hear do a podcast? Man, I would say Richard pryor
Mitch Hedberg. That would be That would be excellent, like together,
like in the same room, Mitch Hepberg, Pryor and Tom Jeerson.
Oh my god, that the three guys in the podcast
(34:07):
telling jokes while rich Herbert takes a nap. Perfect. I
could picture of ch Headberg just napping and just every
every ten pitty minutes say one good funny joke and
passed out again. If you were, um, if you were
(34:27):
an actual sandwich. I love sandwiches, So I asked about sandwiches, um,
not not like what's your favorite? But if you were
sandwich and it said who you were, what kind of
sandwich would you be? I'd probably be the captains save
the whole sandwich. Now what is that? Oh? Man? It
would it be? Uh man, it would be toast. It
would it be like shobbatta bread or some good bread,
(34:50):
you know, like sour dough, not like some good like
submarine bread like the fresh row bread with madonnaise of
course on one stipe mustard on the other. That pickles
and you know, if I wasn't vegan, I'm vegan now,
but if I wasn't vegan, of course it would be
like Swiss jack cheese, American cheese and ham, um, ham, lettuce, tomato, avocado, halapenos. Yeah,
(35:23):
man like that. But since I'm vegan now, I would
just make a vegan Since I'm vegan now, I would
make like the would be like the the Felipe supernatural sandwich,
which would be toasted we bread on vegan aise and
child cheese which is vegan cheese and temper bacon and
(35:50):
vegan turkey on top, with pickles on a sweet bread
bro deep and then with melted with cheese and then
deep Friday in a batter. You go. How about the
last podcast you binged? What's the last one you you
you sat down and listened to a few episodes of
it row I don't know. I don't know if I
(36:13):
listened to a lot of podcasts, but the last podcast
I would binge it was the last time I bade
a podcast was Grant or a Girl? Oh he really,
she's been that's been around a long time, man. I
was like, yeah, that's that's like a twelve year old podcast.
That's that's interesting that you benched at why why? I
don't know why, because last year, um, they were breaking down.
(36:37):
She had like a holiday special and they were talking
about different different language you know that that we don't
use anymore. And I got into it because I remember,
like she was talking about languages and the way and
where does where do the words originate? You know, like
when the world? Where do the where did the world
really come from? You know? And I was interested in that.
(36:58):
And then litterale I started learning history on words. I
like history and I never heard history about when words
I started and they were talking about holiday season, like
I think she was talking about it's the season or
tests the season t I s. And then she broke
it down why they used tests and who uses this
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and and it goes back to back then when people
were not educated, when people didn't go to work, they
didn't go to school because they had to work a
lot of a lot of the words that are used
now were made by people who were poor, who couldn't
really pronounce the word or didn't know the word, so
(37:41):
they started making up their own language. And so I
was interested in that. So I started listening to her
all the time, I think I followed her. I used
to follow her on Snapchat, but she didn't follow me back,
so I stopped following her. Part of the All Things
Comedy Network, Felipe as far as that and What's Up
Full podcast, you can check it out, check it out
(38:02):
on I already thanks for coming on, buddy, So What's
Up Full? Again? Yeah? I don't know. I thought it
was funny the first time. Everybody, this is z Um.
If you're new to the show, z is uh my producer,
my friend, my former student. And yeah, yeah, welcome to
(38:25):
season to Maddie, Yeah, welcome to season. We made it
season season two of Access podcast. Um. It will be
a little different than season one. I'm always I want
to loosen it up a little bit this season. So
Felipe was a great first guest to have on. I
feel naked when I when I have a guest that
I'm so when I talk about me so much about
(38:47):
you know what I mean. It's always kind of weird
to bring it up, but I think that it's just
part of building connections and right, you guys had a
lot to relate to, so yeah, part of it. So
I'll be honest. We recorded that, uh, interview before the break,
and I have not talked to Philipe since then, so
I'm excited to kind of read because we we ended
and we were like, yeah, we'll talk and you know,
(39:09):
we'll hook up, and I hope. So I like him
a lot. He was cool. He's like effortlessly funny. Yeah,
you know what I mean. It's just it just feels
so part of him, like he's not really trying at all. Yeah.
You know. I always say some podcasts you listen to
you because it's like reading a book and you're like
you're getting information and you're really into it. And his
podcast is when you can listen to and just sit
back and like hang because you're hanging You're just hanging
(39:30):
out with him, all right. So comedy lots of comedy
podcasts out there to choose from. We've got three for you.
I think I picked one and Z you picked two. Well,
you picked one that I don't know in the one
that we both agree on, Let's start with the one
that you picked. Tell me about it. Okay, So this
is actually a recommendation by our very own Dalton Dalton. Yeah,
(39:51):
that guy doesn't know comedy. No, it's called My Brother,
My brother and me, And it's just three brothers, Justin, Travis,
and Griffin, who there I don't even know how to explain,
but they have such different personalities but they meshed so
well together. And what they describe their podcast is telling
people how to live their lives because they do it
(40:11):
so well. Pinpoint why it's so funny. But it's never
an episode that I'm not like dying laughing. So the
hosts are engaging. Yeah, they're engaging, and they're just so different,
but it works well. And they even have a video
component of it. And I mean, trust me, guys, my
brother and my brother and me. Check it out, all right,
(40:33):
it doesn't sound bad. I'll check it out. I'll check
it out. Second one I can tell you, Um, we're
both fans of let me just say, Turbo Hottie. I've
loved her forever. She's like the perfect combination of hotness
and coolness and funniness just everything, like you just want
to hang out. And that's what I like about her
podcast too, because like Filipe, she's really effortlessly funny and
(40:56):
what she says for her podcast it's not great relation
ship advice, and she has celebrities and you get to
see this different side of them, and she like brings
out the best in them and you know, makes them
really comfortable. And yeah, like you said, she's just a
cool girl. And she's embraced podcasting. You know, there are
people who do podcast because their celebrities and they feel
like they have to. She's embraced the meeting to the
(41:18):
point where she's actually teaching a podcasting class. I think
at Santa Monica Community College they did they or one
of the one of the schools in l A they
did it. They did like a podcasting class, not as
good as mine, but but she was. She was teaching it.
So let's check it out if you haven't heard it
before on a Ferris. All right, she's great. Can I
(41:39):
can I introduce the third one? I can't tell you
how much I love this podcast. Is the first podcast
that I ever would have to pause because I was
laughing so hard. It's called my Dad Wrote a Porno.
And you have to start at season one, episode one.
You cannot jump into the middle of this. And here
(42:00):
is the deal. This the host of the show, Jamie
found a podcast that are found a poor note that
his dad had written legitimately found a pornographic book, that
is his dad had written, his dad, who he wouldn't
seem like he would be writing a porno at all,
and they read it. He and his two friends read
it every week and it is. Oh, it's so funny.
(42:24):
It's everything that's right about British people. It's also um,
it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh, it's
so good. We'll play a little bit, but man, just
go check it out. British accents make everything better a
little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, just
the way they engage with each other in the little
terms that they have is funny. Check it out. Alright,
(42:49):
she's great. Can I can I introduce the third one?
I can't tell you how much I love this podcast
is the first podcast that I ever would have to
pause because I was laughing so hard. It's called my
dad Wrote a Porno. And you have to start at
season one, episode one. You cannot jump into the middle
(43:09):
of this. And here is the deal. This the host
of the show, Jamie found a podcast that are found
a poor note that his dad had written legitimately found
a pornographic book that is his dad had written his
dad who he wouldn't seem like he would be writing
a porno at all. And they read it. He and
his two friends read it every week and it is Oh,
(43:34):
it's so funny. It's everything that's right about British people.
It's also, um, it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh,
it's so good. We'll play a little bit, but man,
just go check it out. British accents make everything better
a little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like
just the way they engage with each other and the
little terms that they have, which is funny. Check it out.
(44:06):
All right. Those a three great podcast to start off
the new year. Um, as we start off the new year,
did you have a good break? By the way I did?
It was relaxing. I just hung out with my family.
What about you? I want to do a shout out. Um,
I got I went surfing and I like, did a
good job. I'm gonna put a picture up on access
or Facebook page. I'll do it. Yeah, I want to
shout out to Jeff. Who was he? He's He's an
(44:28):
East Virginia guy. He's Alway's from Virginia and I'm like, oh,
you're gonna teach me how to surf. I'm like, you're
from Virginia. Uh, and he was a great teacher. There
you go, shout Jeff. I told him I was going
to leave a bunch of yell p reviews about how
bad he sucked, just for fun. But I wouldn't do that.
But you know, what's up? What's up, Mauie. I love Mauie.
I want to be there now than I am a
(44:49):
tan man. I'm gonna try to stay this way too. Hello,
Channing Booth. That's so cheesy though. Yeah. Whatever, I will
do it anyway. Uh whatever, I do what I want
access podcast. We do what we want. I want to
thank Chris Peterson from my Heart Radio for for making
this podcast happen. Also Dalton, who we mentioned earlier does
the graphics, Casey who does the music and also helps
out with a lot of the production. Katie Wilcox and
(45:11):
Don Parker here at I Heart Radio, San Francisco as
we broadcast from our brand new studio. We have a
beautiful new studio and we are looking for sponsor to
take it over and they'll also be sponsoring the show.
So if you're interested, just let us know. But our
sales staff is out. They got a couple of folks
looking like they want to do it. So thanks to
everybody that works on the show, and see thank you
(45:32):
for for a great season one and and this new
season two is going to be fantastic. I have no
doubts we've got a great show next week. Lindsey Graham,
not that Lindsay Graham. No, he is actually the host
of a podcast called American History Tellers from the Wandering Network.
So it's all about history podcast next week on Access Podcast.
(45:53):
So that's it. Go check out a podcast and share
it with your friends, and do it now.
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