Club Shay Shay - Ralph Barbosa Part 1

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On this episode of Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe sits down with rising stand-up sensation Ralph Barbosa — the chill king of comedy with a dry wit and a Netflix special to prove it. Ralph opens up about the moment he got the call about his Hulu special, how bad he is at acting, and his hilarious (and very real) reaction to finding out Dallas traded Luka. Raised by his grandparents, he explains why they were the best parents for him and shares memories of spending summers in Mexico, moving between different family members, and growing up as an only child — until more siblings came into the picture. He keeps it honest about his dating life, why he’s not trying to get married, and what it was like watching his mom date when he was younger. From spinning the block on exes to red flags in relationships, Ralph isn’t holding back. In school, Ralph was cutting more than class — he was cutting hair, learning how to be a barber (and messing up a few heads along the way), fighting friends in the restroom between periods, and discovering the strange difference between barber licenses and gun licenses in Texas. He also talks about his stand-up grind — from getting booed at his first open mic to performing at a gentleman’s club, and eventually selling out Chicago.

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Speaker 25 You meet Chappelle, did he give you any advice? He was like, man, I'm not like no teacher, nothing like that, but if there's anything you want to talk about, just hit me up.

Speaker 25 When I closed the deal with Netflix, I asked him, what are the do's and don'ts? Or like, what's the general direction I should go in now? And he sent me like four or five mini paragraphs.

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Speaker 25 Hello, welcome to another episode of Club Shay Shay. I am your host, Shannon Sharp.
I'm also the proprietor of Club Shay Shay. Stopping by for conversation on a drink today.

Speaker 25 He's a rising star, one of the best young comedians working right now. He was nominated as one of Variety's 10 best comics to watch.
People of all ages love his down-to-earth humor.

Speaker 25 Some say he's the funniest comedian in Texas. Writer, entertainer, headliner across the country, internet sensation.
Here he is, Ralph Barbosa. How you doing, Chase? Yeah.
How was that intro?

Speaker 25 You like that intro? I mean, did I do you right? Mr. Shannon, that is a good intro.

Speaker 25 Did I leave off anything? Nah, I think it might be a little overhyped.

Speaker 25 Let me ask you a question. When you hear me reading off of the accolades that you've earned,

Speaker 25 what goes through your mind?

Speaker 25 I need to get to work.

Speaker 25 You need to do more work. Yeah, anytime somebody says something nice about me, it kind of motivates me to just make sure I can live up to it.
Can I say something real quick? You absolutely.

Speaker 25 We're rolling, right?

Speaker 25 Yeah, we're absolutely. I just want to say, yes, I'm wearing my grills right now.
Yeah.

Speaker 25 But I'm doing it as a promotion for my buddy Ken. Ken Flores was the first comedian to wear grills on stage and in his special.
And it's streaming on Hulu. May he long live Ken Flores.
Okay.

Speaker 25 He passed away recently, but he lives forever on YouTube on Hulu. Look him up on Hulu.
All right, Ken Flores. That's what I was about to ask you, your Hulu special.
Tell us a little bit about it.

Speaker 25 Yeah. Hulu

Speaker 25 made an offer, and I liked it a lot.

Speaker 25 So

Speaker 25 the Hulu made the offer, is that how you got the grill or you had the grill first? Nah, the offer came first.

Speaker 25 We had to tape the special to get the grill. Okay, you tape the special to get the grill, okay?

Speaker 25 Yeah, nah, Hulu, you know, they had this big plan because they didn't produce their own comedy specials at first. Right.

Speaker 25 So they reached out to so many comedians to get them like on board. And

Speaker 25 this was the first year they do it so it's like one comedian uh releases their special like each month so august is my month my special release is august 8th and uh you excited promo yeah i'm excited i'm nervous i'm anxious i'm i'm everything yeah so when you when hulu said you know what they reached out to your representative is like man we really want ralph to do a special when you got the call from your agent What's going through your mind?

Speaker 25 And you're like, did you have an idea kind of where you wanted to go? So I just want to know when he picks up the call and say, hey, Ralph, I got a call from Hulu. Hulu wants you to do a special.

Speaker 25 They're doing this thing where they're going to have a comedian do a special each month. In one of the months, they want Ralph to do it.
Well, at first, I'm like, Hulu.

Speaker 25 They don't do no specials, man. Right.

Speaker 25 But, I mean,

Speaker 25 it seemed worth the risk.

Speaker 25 I had had an appearance on HBO already.

Speaker 25 I had, you know, YouTube sets go viral. I had my Netflix appearance already.
I was like, we might as well go for another, you know what I mean? So, yeah. And I mean,

Speaker 25 they had like a good plan. Like, they told us what their plan was.
And

Speaker 25 I didn't feel like we could go wrong.

Speaker 25 Then, then they showed me the list of other comedians that also signed up. And I was like, well, they're doing it.
Hell yeah. Let's go.
I'm down. Yeah.

Speaker 25 If they're jumping off a bridge, let's jump.

Speaker 25 Let me ask you this.

Speaker 25 Because I'm not a

Speaker 25 comedian, you know, historian or anything like that, but you mentioned Ken Flores. George Lopez is another famous Hispanic comedian.

Speaker 25 That, I mean, who did you draw inspiration from when you were growing up? Did you always want to be a comedian? Yeah, I always wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to be a comedic actor, though.
Okay.

Speaker 25 Yeah, I wanted to be like Adam Sandler. Yeah.

Speaker 25 Or I wanted to be like on skits. Like I really liked, you know, Chappelle show skits, Saturday Night Life skits.

Speaker 25 So I went to an acting class because I read online that Adam Sandler did acting school. Yeah.
So I went to one at a community college. I couldn't go to the one he went to.

Speaker 25 And I was horrible at it.

Speaker 25 My acting teacher was like,

Speaker 25 yeah,

Speaker 25 why do you want to do this?

Speaker 25 I mean, he was like supportive and everything, but I told him I just wanted to be like a funny actor.

Speaker 25 And he told me that a lot of the funny actors, they do other types of comedy too, like improv and stand-ups. He told me about like open mics.

Speaker 25 And I bombed really bad, but I also got like obsessed with it right off the bat. So I was like, man, I'm just stick to that.
I didn't go back to the acting class.

Speaker 25 Stay that open mics. Right.

Speaker 25 You're from Dallas. Yes, sir.
Does that mean you're a Cowboys fan? I mean, like, yeah, by default. I don't watch a lot of football, but I'm a Cowboys fan.
You Cowboy Dallas?

Speaker 25 That's where I'm from, man.

Speaker 25 So y'all, y'all, Super Bowl this year?

Speaker 25 Yeah, every year is our year.

Speaker 25 Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 25 But it ain't been y'all year for a minute, though. It's been 30 years.
Were you alive?

Speaker 25 What about dude, Shannon? I was just about to ask you, were you alive when the Cowboys won the last Super Bowl? I almost feel like they're bad luck charms. They stopped winning after I was born.

Speaker 25 Don't laugh at me.

Speaker 25 What about the Mavericks? Are you a Mavericks fan? Yeah, I'm a Mavericks fan.

Speaker 25 Okay. You're a Mavericks fan.
You find out they're trading Luca. What goes through your mind?

Speaker 25 A bunch of cuss words, a bunch of bad stuff about the new owner,

Speaker 25 and then tears. Because he didn't even want to go.

Speaker 25 It's like when your mom has like a new boyfriend and you like him a lot, but then she dumps him or like she cheats on him.

Speaker 25 Like, bro, we finally had one. Yeah, we had what he wanted to be here.
Yeah, he wanted to be here. Yeah, you ran him off.

Speaker 25 And then it's worse because I don't like the Lakers. It's like, of all the people, the Lakers is horrible.
That's like if your chick starts banging your worst enemy.

Speaker 25 That just hurt. And then Lakers fans are all supporting him now.
Yeah.

Speaker 25 But you, you know, LA,

Speaker 25 they got a big community man cuz I mean you should like that they got a big

Speaker 25 Hispanic community. Y'all got something to bond over like when you had Lucas now they got Lucas.
I love that LA has a big Hispanic community and I love LA.

Speaker 25 Yeah, but you know what and I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate over this

Speaker 25 teams wise I don't like the Lakers. Why you don't like the Lakers? I like the Celtics.

Speaker 25 I want to infiltrate the cities that have a smaller Hispanic population. I want all the Mexicans to move to Boston.

Speaker 25 That's a long commute, bro.

Speaker 25 Okay, but think about it like this, Mexicans,

Speaker 25 who are going to cross, you know, maybe you're planning to cross tomorrow. The further you go up north, the harder it is for them to catch you.

Speaker 25 That being said, look, I want to show you this is my automotive channel. Okay.
We got these shirts available online if y'all want one.

Speaker 25 What is it? Let me see what it is.

Speaker 25 Oh, wait. Where? Stay right here.

Speaker 25 Can you see it? Can you see it? Okay. They can't deport us if they can't catch us.
Yeah. Damn.

Speaker 25 That's our automotive channel. It's called Formula Bean.
Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 25 What happens if they actually catch one of y'all and they somebody got that shirt on on camera when Ice has you guys the handcuffs? I just go work out for you.

Speaker 25 I don't think you're gonna sell any more shirts. We'll go down more even more popular.

Speaker 25 It's better to go down on camera, you know.

Speaker 25 Oh, but goodness. Let me ask you, okay.
Luca goes to the Lakers.

Speaker 25 What if LeBron went to the Mavericks? I mean, I'd want to just to get even,

Speaker 25 but I don't even think a lot of L.A. fans would even care.
They'd be like, so what? We got Luca, like, he's younger.

Speaker 25 Yeah, true. I don't know.
I don't know how much longer. So you spiteful.
You vengeful. That's the whole thing.
You vindictive. If I wasn't vindictive, I wouldn't have a career right now.

Speaker 25 I'm still, every time I'm getting on stage, I still think about open micers from 10 years ago that pissed me off. What happened to Open Mic 10 years ago?

Speaker 25 Oh, just people who like, maybe other comedians who booed me or something. Other comedians will boo?

Speaker 25 Yeah, my first time on stage, I got booed by other open micers. Come on, bro.

Speaker 25 I thought y'all were supposed to support each other. For the most part, we do, but it was like my first open mic ever.

Speaker 25 Sign up was like at 5 p.m. Mike starts at 8 p.m.

Speaker 25 By the time I go up, it's like one in the morning.

Speaker 25 There's like, there's the host, the guy who's hosting the mic, and then there's like another local comic, open micer, and then his buddy were there.

Speaker 25 And so he was just on after me, but he was drunk at that point. So by the time I get up there, and I just start talking, he's like, get the f off.

Speaker 25 And so I was like, all right, this is my time.

Speaker 25 So you cut your set short?

Speaker 25 I mean, open mic, what do you get? Five minutes, ten minutes, maybe? At 1 a.m., you get three minutes. Three minutes.
So you could, hold on, you only had three minutes and he got up there.

Speaker 25 He was already, you know, a little inebriated. I got about a minute, 15, minute, 20.

Speaker 25 and you cut your own you cut your own set short my my first like year of comedy anytime anybody would yell i would get off stage i would get nervous damn but you know it's like repetition now i'm on stage so much that if people talk to me like

Speaker 25 i i'm more comfortable i'm way more comfortable than anybody in the audience right the stage like it don't matter what stage it is any stage and i think any comic will agree after you do it so many times the stage is like your house right how you gonna talk to me in my house right so it's fun now you know what i you know what what I like about you, Ralph?

Speaker 25 Is that because every most of the comedians that I've had up here, oh, they've never been booed.

Speaker 25 They started off and they were already at the level they are now. They almost like it seemed make it seem like they started off at that level.

Speaker 25 And you were here because they man, when I went to Over Mike, man, I got booed. There were but four people in the house and one of them was supposed to come on after me and he booed me.

Speaker 25 Every comedian is lying. Every comedian is lying.
I don't care who you are. Your first year is trash.
Yeah. And maybe it wasn't as trash as mine or as the next comedian, but.

Speaker 25 But you had to build a start from somewhere. Yeah.

Speaker 25 If you were that funny in your first year of comedy, you would have already been touring in your first year of comedy. Something would have popped off.
Right. What was it like growing up in Dallas?

Speaker 25 I technically grew up in Mesquite, which is like a suburb of Dallas. Okay.
And I spent a lot of my weekends in Oak Cliff, which is like a hood of Dallas. Okay.

Speaker 25 But it was like, in Oak Cliff, they'd make fun of me for being in Mesquite. Okay.
Yeah, because, you know, Mesquite was kind of

Speaker 25 for people that were actually from the hood, Mesquite was like a nice neighborhood. Right.

Speaker 25 but to white people mesquite was still trash so i feel like i couldn't win so it being in the mesquite if you're like it's a nice area if you're there but if you're not from mesquite they're like bro what where you from oh oh

Speaker 25 i don't know how to explain it and then i'm like a block away from dallas yeah like to from the county line there's no difference like there's not a big difference But because I was a block away, if Dallas people would hear me claim Dallas, they'd be like, you're not from here.

Speaker 25 Yeah. You're from across the street.
You're from Mesquite.

Speaker 25 But then I got on Netflix and everybody was like, you know, he's from Dallas, right?

Speaker 25 So

Speaker 25 once you started popping, then they wanted to claim you. Yeah,

Speaker 25 county lines didn't matter no more.

Speaker 25 I read your grandmother raised you. My grandmother raised me.
What was, I mean,

Speaker 25 I don't know your situation with your mom, but what was that experience like with grandmas? Because grandmas are normally a little bit more strict than moms. My grandma was not.

Speaker 25 From what I hear, my grandma and my grandpa were really strict and tough on my mom and my uncle.

Speaker 25 But to me, they were like the best parents in the world.

Speaker 25 And soup, like spoiled me. My grandma, as soon as school would be out, my grandma would take us down to Mexico.
She would drive, like me and my cousin, and sometimes I'll take like a friend.

Speaker 25 And then she would go to like,

Speaker 25 because we'd visit like three different cities. We got family like in three different cities in Mexico.
So she would drive to like the furthest city out to pick up more of my cousins. Damn.

Speaker 25 And then bring us to the city where she had a bunch of people. She had a soup us.
I mean, you picking up a lot of people. We were in a single cab pickup truck.

Speaker 25 You're just riding in the bed of the truck through Mexico.

Speaker 25 Over there, that's cool.

Speaker 25 They don't trip on that. We did that when we were younger, Ralph, but we were working.
We were going to the fields. Dang.
Yeah.

Speaker 25 How old are you? That was a long time ago, the fields. 57.
Oh.

Speaker 25 Yeah. I don't, people still, I mean, I haven't seen people still ride in the bed of a pickup truck.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I live out in the country, so out there, yeah.

Speaker 25 So you have a pickup truck. Yeah.

Speaker 25 We had a few. One of them runs.

Speaker 25 But yeah, we used to go. You used to go with spare parts.

Speaker 25 My grandma used to take us to Yellow at Prostitutes in Mexico. What? Yeah.
So, like, she would take us to the movies.

Speaker 25 And it's a border town we'd be at. It's called Matamoros.
So she'd take us over to Brownsville, Texas to go to the movies. Right.
And then she'd take us back across and it'd be about like 11 p.m.

Speaker 25 And she'd take us to a park and we'd be out there at the park. And then, after that, she'd take us to a like a little corner store where they got women in bikinis that serve you like liquor and stuff.

Speaker 25 Yeah, we weren't buying liquors, we're just buying like chips and sodas. Oh, I thought you were talking about buying something else.

Speaker 25 But one time, I yelled at one of the bikini ladies to call me, so then my grandma started driving around to like where there would be like hookers and stuff, and then we'd all just yell, Let me get your number and stuff, and then she would drive off, and she would just laugh.

Speaker 25 I had a great childhood,

Speaker 25 Granny was like that, huh? Yeah.

Speaker 25 She was fun.

Speaker 25 Why do you feel that? And I feel this exact same way. That grandparents are so

Speaker 25 instrumental in minority communities?

Speaker 25 I don't know.

Speaker 25 I think within minority communities,

Speaker 25 and I'm not trying to

Speaker 25 disrespect white people, maybe it's not a.

Speaker 25 Because we can only speak to what we know.

Speaker 25 Maybe it's not a money thing. Maybe it's like a money thing, but I think that

Speaker 25 when you have less,

Speaker 25 you cherish your family more.

Speaker 25 So I think maybe

Speaker 25 the grandparents get a lot wiser in minority communities.

Speaker 25 I think in minority communities, our grandparents were the first to realize that if you...

Speaker 25 If you raise your kids right, you can spoil your grandkids. But if you spoil your kids, you'll end up raising your grandkids.
Correct.

Speaker 25 So I think my grandma knew, like, all right, well, I got to raise them now. But at the same time, like, hey, my kids, I can can spoil him.

Speaker 25 Because he gets bad, I send him back to his mommy.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Oh, man. Let me ask you this.
You said

Speaker 25 your girlfriend parents never argued in front of her. My ex-girlfriend.
Your ex-girlfriend.

Speaker 25 But your parents,

Speaker 25 they could, what they say, okay, he's around now. Let's go.

Speaker 25 I think sometimes my grandpa would argue with my grandma in front of me on purpose to be like, why? I think he would do it to be like, look, this is what you need to be like.

Speaker 25 He wanted to show you he was the man. And then my grandma would do it because she'll be like, Look, this is what you don't need to be like.
Like,

Speaker 25 I don't know. I would just ignore them.
But it's hard to ignore them because, like, my room was right in front of the living room. Right.
So, like, I hear everything. Right.

Speaker 25 What were some of the things they would argue about? You coming in late, you know, maybe some bills didn't paid, maybe this or that.

Speaker 25 My grandpa, as he got older, started, I think, losing

Speaker 25 his authority.

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 25 so, like, he used to be the type to, I mean, he was always the type to tell my grandma, like, where you at? You need to be home at this time. Like, I need my dinner.
I need this, whatever, right?

Speaker 25 But as I started getting older, as I was like a teenager, my grandma would meet up with all her old lady friends from the neighborhood and from down the street or whatever, and play, you ever played Loteria?

Speaker 25 It's like Mexican bingo, but instead of numbers, it's like little pictures. Okay.

Speaker 25 And her and her friends will play till like two, three in the morning. What? They'll take little cigarette breaks and they'll go back and they're gambling, like a little dollar game, $2 games.

Speaker 25 And so my grandpa would be mad. He would be calling her and calling, blowing up her phone, like she needs to come home.
And one day she just like stopped. She was just like, man, I don't care.

Speaker 25 So they would argue about that. Sometimes, like, she'll get home and he'll be mad.
Or the next day, he'll be mad, telling her, like, you can't be doing that.

Speaker 25 But she was like, man, I don't give a damn no more.

Speaker 25 Is it true that you would get in trouble at school?

Speaker 25 The teachers would call home, call your house, and then you would translate for your grandmother what they were saying in Spanish, which actually wasn't what they were saying.

Speaker 25 That really only happened like one time.

Speaker 25 But every couple times that I would have to translate anything, like even if I was in trouble, my grandma would assume that I was in trouble, but she also wouldn't really care.

Speaker 25 My mom lived with us too. My mom would just move out sometimes and then come back and stuff.
My mom, when she was living with us, she would be the one to be more mad about like if I got in trouble.

Speaker 25 So my grandma would tell me like, if you're in trouble just call my phone like

Speaker 25 because she wouldn't understand the menu she'd be like oh okay like we'll talk about it and then like just whatever hang up

Speaker 25 so like she didn't even care so you but you translated you like oh yeah grandma it was good they said i got good grades or they said i was i was well behaved but were you were you a class clown were you always funny so how did you how did you stumble or did you stumble upon this comedic side of you did you know you always wanted to be a comedian how did that come about i knew i knew i wanted to be a a comedian but i was

Speaker 25 i was only class clown in some classes right um

Speaker 25 as a kid i was always nervous about my voice i didn't i was insecure about the way i sounded when i talked i felt like i sounded goofy like like in a bad way right i had a friend named alex i have a friend named alex roses and he's always really handsome and he talked real like suave and i would be like bro i want to talk like how you talk like but when i talk people don't really take me serious so So what I would do, especially when I got to like high school, is on the first couple of weeks of school, I would test the waters and I would try to throw a joke out there or something.

Speaker 25 And if they laugh, well, I know I could be a class clown in this class. And if they didn't, then I just wouldn't talk.
But I didn't like my voice enough to just conversate with anybody.

Speaker 25 I also was nervous to talk to people one-on-one conversation. So I wouldn't talk unless it was like.
something goofy to say.

Speaker 25 But if they weren't really laughing, like laughing at my jokes, then I just wouldn't talk the whole year in that class

Speaker 25 your grandmother grew up in Mexico you grew up in Mesquite close to Dallas things of that nature did you spend a lot of time in Mexico as a child other than just going you know your grandmother going you pegging you back and forth and did you spend like say three weeks or a month or anything yeah I spent like three months over there every summer like the whole summer over there what was that experience like what what is the difference between Mexico and say you know you say you spend a little time in Brownsville because that's the border town Laredo all that's close down there so what what's it like in mexico compared to where you were growing up in Mesquite, Dallas?

Speaker 25 We're from

Speaker 25 the coast. Our family is near the coast.
So it was like... What's the name of that?

Speaker 25 Tamaulipas.

Speaker 25 And so we're like at the beach a lot. I'm at the beach all the time.
Okay. So, you know, we're always swimming.

Speaker 25 It's funner over there. Even like,

Speaker 25 you know, maybe my cousin's houses weren't as nice as our house back in the States. You have to use like our house.
But it was like, it was funner.

Speaker 25 You learn to, I guess, to get a little humbled.

Speaker 25 The little town that my cousin is from is called Las Lomas.

Speaker 25 And it's almost like a

Speaker 25 kick your shoes off type of vibe. Like the whole little town, everybody knows everybody.
It's a dirt road town. I could walk barefoot, shirtless through the whole town.

Speaker 25 You got to move to the side so the herd of cows can walk through.

Speaker 25 It's cool, man. You see the beach right there.

Speaker 25 I would say the difference is right there, you just be more casual whereas over here like if I walk around without a shirt people probably think I'm on drugs or something

Speaker 25 they do if I'm barefooted

Speaker 25 absolutely so like I don't know out there it's just you feel a little more relaxed I think what's the difference in cuisine because you know everybody says like it's a lot more diarrhea over there

Speaker 25 because you know like they have okay let's just say particularly they have Nigerian Kuwait you have

Speaker 25 Caribbean have Jamaican X4 Y and Z and you might have that in the States, but people that's from those areas say it doesn't actually taste like it does if it's over there.

Speaker 25 Do you notice a difference? Like when you go to Mexico and you have a dish from Mexico, and then they

Speaker 25 cook that same dish over here in the States? Yeah, I mean, I haven't been back since I was a teenager, but I mean, the food is definitely greasier from what I remember.

Speaker 25 Over there, over there.

Speaker 25 Okay, okay. And you can get it, you can match it over here, but you got to go to like a real hole-in-the-wall spot, you know what I mean?

Speaker 25 Where people don't, people aren't trying to live up to like any

Speaker 25 standards. Like people are just trying trying to cook it the same way they cooked it when they were back home

Speaker 25 oh okay

Speaker 25 you go to mexico

Speaker 25 i'm gonna take you to mexico man i'm gonna go to the beach i'm gonna take you in our pickup truck no no no no no we gotta go in a sprinter

Speaker 25 we gotta go in a sprinter man uh

Speaker 25 is it true that your grandmother told you that when you came here look don't touch nothing Just say, because I guess she was afraid. Nah, not necessarily.
Like, we would see stuff on TV.

Speaker 25 And, you know, I was, I mean, I was a little kid, but it was like George Bush on TV and a bunch of like new stuff. I racked with her.
Right.

Speaker 25 But she would just be like, like, her opinion about every politician was essentially like, oh, they're crazy. Like, don't worry about that.
They're crazy. But

Speaker 25 she wouldn't like encourage me to like, you need to vote or you need to pay attention to this stuff. Like, none of that.
She was just like,

Speaker 25 maybe, maybe once she actually told me, like, don't even bother voting. Like, they're just all crazy.
Fuck that.

Speaker 25 so that's your the grandmother that raised you that was your mom's mom did you uh your your your father's mom how did you go when you did you go spend time with her every now and then right yeah but she had she had a lot of stories you sit down near your grandma

Speaker 25 i feel like everybody at least one of your grandmas is like that Where you sit down and she just automatically starts a story that maybe she left off at the last cookout.

Speaker 25 And you remember to start telling it again. Yeah, she just starts telling it again or she starts telling you how she's related to everybody

Speaker 25 like you never she started showing me pictures of like this is your grandpa's cousin but i divorced your grandpa like in 88

Speaker 25 or his cousin was so nice and i'm like why are you showing me this like right right what did that got to do with the conversation girl yeah so like she was more like that you know

Speaker 25 my grandparents like i live i lived with my um my uh my mom's Mom and dad grandparents. Where did you grow up at? I grew up in South Georgia.
Okay. They raised us.

Speaker 25 When when we got an opportunity to go with my dad's parents they didn't get an opportunity to see us much so we got whatever we wanted

Speaker 25 we go to the store we get any kind of cereal we want we got hamburgers with hamburger buns we got hot dogs with hot dog buns we got honey buns we got all kind of stuff and then we go back like

Speaker 25 I remember telling my brother, man, I sure wish we could stay with Grandma Charlie because, ooh,

Speaker 25 it was such a vast difference between the two. Did you notice a difference between grandparents?

Speaker 25 I I grew up great. We always had hot dog buns.

Speaker 25 Now, no, do you get hot dogs? You know, hot dog with light with.

Speaker 25 I guess y'all call it. Sandwich bread.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, we call it lightning bread.
But yeah. Lightning bread? Yeah.
Oh, we just call it sandwich bread.

Speaker 25 Why you call it lightning bread? I don't know. That's just what they call it in the South.
So

Speaker 25 yeah, yeah. Okay.
I'm going to start using that.

Speaker 25 So let me ask,

Speaker 25 look, you're Hispanic and you see what's, you saw all the Hispanics for Trump, and you saw farmers for Trump, you saw gays for Trump,

Speaker 25 and then you see what. These people were supporting him, too? Yeah.
That's crazy.

Speaker 25 Well, some people might say the same thing about, you know, Hispanic because they

Speaker 25 do it a lot around me. You gays always surprise me.

Speaker 25 Oh, Lord.

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Speaker 25 I think that no matter, like, I mean, hey, support who you want to support. That's like the beauty of this country, right?

Speaker 25 More power to you. But I think if you like,

Speaker 25 excuse my language, if you dick right either side too much, like you lame, you dork. Right.
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Speaker 25 You can go, you know, left, like be left, but I think when you're like just shoving that out there and you swear that like Trump is the new Jesus Christ, like shut the forever you vote for and they do something, like, okay, there's like he kind of told you like what he was going to do.

Speaker 25 He wanted to have this mass deportations and he wanted to round up, so forth and so on.

Speaker 25 So if you're one of that, you know, Hispanics for Trump, and all of a sudden you're a family member or you get ensnared in that trap, you can't be mad and and says, well, why is he doing this?

Speaker 25 Because he told you that's what he was going to do. Yeah, I wasn't supporting Trump, though.

Speaker 25 Why are you coming out?

Speaker 25 No, no, no. Don't clip that up, Shannon.

Speaker 25 Like, Shannon Sharp goes off on route for voting for Trump.

Speaker 25 Hell, nah. No.
But I'm saying, you know, you see a lot of people now just like, well, this is not what I voted for. That's exactly what you voted for.
Yeah, there is a lot of that.

Speaker 25 People are like, why is he doing this? Like, why is he doing what he said he was going to do? Yeah, why are you mad? Because he's doing what he said he was doing.

Speaker 25 I don't like when people come at come at me or they be in my comments, they're talking about, you know, Obama deported more people. It's like, bro, I was like 15 when Obama got in Australia.

Speaker 25 I didn't vote for Obama either. I didn't vote for nobody.
Do you know anyone that's been deported? Uh,

Speaker 25 yeah, my uncle, but he's back, right?

Speaker 25 But he always gets deported. But you, you, you know, you're not supposed to say that.
You know, somebody might watch this and then go get him again. Man, I got like 18 uncles.

Speaker 25 They don't know which one. They don't know which one.

Speaker 25 Plus, he's probably hiding somewhere. Yeah.

Speaker 25 Help me understand this.

Speaker 25 And this is what I tell people. When I was growing up and I became what I became, I said, work a lot of jobs because working a lot of jobs will tell you what you don't want to do when you get older.

Speaker 25 Because if you, I promise you, when you young and you full of energy, you energetic and you just like you just go, go, go, if you don't want to do those jobs then, You think you're going to want to do them when you're 25, 30, 35, 40, 50?

Speaker 25 And so the problem that I have is that, okay, we're going to round up these people, but these people, some of these people are doing jobs.

Speaker 25 I ain't going to lie, a whole lot of Americans ain't going to want to do that manual labor, that field stuff.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 25 People that, that people that

Speaker 25 also,

Speaker 25 everybody who's like, I mean, not everybody, right? But I see a lot of these videos of people at the rallies for Trump. And like,

Speaker 25 they're like, oh, well,

Speaker 25 they need, they're in this country illegally and a bunch of them are criminals and criminals and criminals. But why are they pulling up to job sites if they're looking for criminals? Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 25 yeah.

Speaker 25 And then when they shut down, you see farmers, you know, going bankrupt because a lot of them do farm work, construction. A lot of them do construction work.
A lot of them do

Speaker 25 they're doing work, Ralph, that I promise you, there are not a whole lot of Americans. I'm not saying not every American, but there are a lot of Americans that don't want to do those jobs.

Speaker 25 Yeah, also, they're getting hired by people who want them here, bro. Like, what the fuck? It's not like they just showed up, like, hey, you gonna pay me? Right.
Or we'll kill your family.

Speaker 25 You used the ice hotline? Nah, nah.

Speaker 25 That was a joke. Yeah, I know.
I gotta clarify this, man, because even

Speaker 25 people believe that's true. Yeah, even like other Hispanic people.
Like, I joke like that because it's like, bro, I'm joking about my own people, like with my own people. You know what I mean?

Speaker 25 And then people want to comment, like,

Speaker 25 Ralph is destroying his own people. And it's like,

Speaker 25 I don't know. But you, you call on your ex-girlfriend? Yeah, I'll call it on her.

Speaker 25 Nah, you never, like,

Speaker 25 this is maybe whole advice, but you never completely get rid of an ex-man. Why not? You might need that hotline one day.

Speaker 25 You might need a shoulder to cry on one day. Hey, how you been? You know, you don't ever do that.
Hey, how you been? I've been thinking about you lately. Hold up.

Speaker 25 Are you like crying? You trying to get back or you just, I mean, you really going through something and you really need someone to talk to? No, it's booty cost.

Speaker 25 Oh, no, no, no no no no no no ain't no spinning the block ral

Speaker 25 you done you done ral you can't be doing that bro why what you mean why you broke up for a reason

Speaker 25 okay but we could be friends no ral

Speaker 25 you go her way you you go your way and allow her to go her way allow her to have somebody in her life shannon Let me tell you something.

Speaker 25 When you start dating somebody, even if y'all don't get serious, y'all reach some level of intimacy. Yes.
I don't want to go and get intimate with every girl I meet and have to date her.

Speaker 25 Sometimes you just hit up an old flame and you watch some TV together, you hulu and chill.

Speaker 25 Okay, okay,

Speaker 25 hulu and chill.

Speaker 25 Division in your community, Latin community. Why is there so much division in the Latin community? You call some of it too.
You all them jokes you be telling. Yeah, maybe I call some of the girl girl.

Speaker 25 Maybe I should put a magnifying glass up, too.

Speaker 25 I don't know, man. It sucks to say, but damn, bro, Mexicans, Mexicans be hating on other Mexicans.

Speaker 25 But see, that's funny that you say that because from the outside, it looks like I was like, man, y'all great in the community.

Speaker 25 Like, y'all live together, the grandparents, parents, kids, all y'all live together. So I would assume until I started like, hold on, they be beefing like that?

Speaker 25 Yeah, it's weird. You can't have success

Speaker 25 near your loved ones really too much maybe i don't know i just feel like

Speaker 25 and i don't want to be stereo stereotypical because people are saying see how he generalizes a mexican we all live together but i'm just saying that's something i know what you mean like we're we're very close families yes yes yes but it's weird man like 90 of my fan base is probably mexican it's all all i all i can go off of is

Speaker 25 Like what I'm speaking here is from my experience, right? Like based off of my comments, my messages, my feedback that people have to show.

Speaker 25 Like,

Speaker 25 I'm never Mexican enough, bro. Like, there's always so many people.
But also, these people are judging me based off of one or two clips they might have seen. Like, they don't even know me.
Right.

Speaker 25 If I don't post the clip where I'm speaking Spanish for a month, they're like, ah, he doesn't know Spanish. He's not a real Mexican.
He's not doing Spanish jokes, so he's not a real Mexican.

Speaker 25 He's a no Sabo kid. If I do jokes in Spanish, they're like, oh, well, now he's catering.
Now he's like your stereotypical Mexican. He's like, bro, that never happened.

Speaker 25 So you're never going to be able to please everybody.

Speaker 25 But it doesn't bother me too much because the ones I'm not pleasing, it's very small compared to the ones who are pleased, who are the ones I'm pleasing. Right.

Speaker 25 That sounds weird to say, but I'm pleasing more people than I'm not pleasing.

Speaker 25 You travel the country. So obviously they're

Speaker 25 a vast community. So

Speaker 25 how you accept it, say, in the West versus the South versus the Northwest, the midwest, the east?

Speaker 25 I would say

Speaker 25 east coast, west coast, and the south,

Speaker 25 boom. Like, I could never, I can never go broke there as long as I'm telling jokes.
Yeah, you know what I mean? Uh, Midwest shows a lot of love too.

Speaker 25 Like, Chicago,

Speaker 25 Chicago, I don't, I don't know if anybody's ever sold out my shows as fast as Chicago has. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 25 I wouldn't, I would not think there's a hairy hairy demographic Hispanic demographic in Chicago. Yeah.

Speaker 25 And what's cool about the Midwest and the East Coast is that it goes into other

Speaker 25 cultures too. Like I'll get Mexicans, I get Puerto Ricans, I'll get the minister.

Speaker 25 I even start getting like in the Midwest and the East Coast, I didn't start getting like a lot of like Indians. Really? A little bit of Asians, you know what I mean? Okay.

Speaker 25 But yeah, the West Coast also super supportive. Like California will sell out really fast.
Yes. Texas will sell out fast.
You know what's crazy about Texas?

Speaker 25 Like I'm from Dallas and Dallas is always sold out. You know, it's my hometown.
They show a lot of love. But Houston will sell out quicker.
I don't know who sells out quicker, Houston or Chicago. Wow.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 25 And New York sells well, too. You know what I mean? Like, New York, North Carolina,

Speaker 25 I feel like they do really well there. But in between those, like, once you go to like upstate New York or once you go to like,

Speaker 25 like, I've never been to. Wyoming.
Right. I don't think I got a fan out there.

Speaker 25 I would like to go to some different places. How do you guys put together where you're going to tour at? Man, I leave that to like my manager, my agent.

Speaker 25 I will tell them, like, hey, I get a lot of comments of people telling me to like, come to Detroit or come to this city, come to that city. Like, can y'all?

Speaker 25 And they'll.

Speaker 25 Can we? Yeah.

Speaker 25 The first time I ever started touring or trying to schedule a tour, they were telling me like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to set up a Zoom meeting and this is our like,

Speaker 25 like data analysis person. We're going to see where you do the best at.
But I'm like, bro, I'm going off of these comments. Like, please put me in Chicago.
Like, and I remember that one specifically.

Speaker 25 I felt like, I love my agent. He's cool and everything.
But I felt like, bro, why is he not listening to me? Like, why, why don't I have a Chicago booked already?

Speaker 25 I told them maybe like two, three times, and they were like, yeah, yeah, well, right now we got an offer for this city, that city.

Speaker 25 And then they put up my first Chicago show ever.

Speaker 25 They put it up for sale. And I remember.
telling him like maybe like in an hour i was like bro it's sold out already and like let's see if we can add one. It's like, all right, yeah.

Speaker 25 And then we ended up having to move it because I ended up doing the,

Speaker 25 I had to clear out the schedule to do, to leave dates open to do the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon.

Speaker 25 But yeah, we went back. And even to this day, like, I'll go to Chicago just to work out material.
If I post, like, I got two shows tonight, they'll sell out real fast. So then we'll add it.

Speaker 25 Last time we did that, we stayed there for like a week because we just kept adding shows and adding shows. Yeah.
And Chicago people are cool as hell, like humble as hell.

Speaker 25 Same, I mean, and it's everywhere. Like, you get cool, humble people everywhere, but I don't know what's in the water over there.
They like me. Right.

Speaker 25 So, Chicago is one of your favorite cities to tour to. But I was listening to you say, like, your dad, like, your manager and your agent and stuff, and that's what they look at.
They look at the data.

Speaker 25 They look at, you know, the most people who probably who's looking at those comments, who buy merchandise, who, you know, so forth and so on.

Speaker 25 And so they base it on, well, you know, LA, we got to do LA. LA shows a lot of love.
Yeah, california all of california shows like i can go to certain states

Speaker 25 and

Speaker 25 like if we go to the big cities like okay yeah we'll sell tickets no problem we'll have some good shows everything right but then we'll go to like their smaller cities right and maybe it's a little harder to sell but like california texas and i mean that's that's really all i can think of maybe arizona too like i can go to the the big cities and the little cities and they'll still like you know what i mean

Speaker 25 bakersfield it's a tiny little town out of Cali, that will sell out as quick as L.A. will.
Really? You know what I mean? Yeah. Wow.
So that's what I like about California, Texas.

Speaker 25 Big town, little town, don't matter.

Speaker 25 Did you have anybody

Speaker 25 to switch to topics, and I wanted to talk to you about this? Did you have anybody impacted by the flood?

Speaker 25 No, not that I know personally, no. Right.
But,

Speaker 25 yeah,

Speaker 25 that's

Speaker 25 crazy. Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 25 That sounded something almost like it was made up. It was scary.
You know what?

Speaker 25 And I saw a time lapse, and I don't know if it was AI, and they were showing it how it was just like, you know, raining, and all of a sudden

Speaker 25 you see the rain and people getting out of town. And then all of a sudden, I don't know, like I said, I don't know if it was AI, and then all of a sudden, water's tall as houses.

Speaker 25 That's insane. I'm like, what the hell? Yeah, I opened up my phone and I saw that.
And how many people had passed away? Yes. I was like, that just sounds unreal.

Speaker 25 But I'm watching it in your community, how you guys came together to help. Yeah.
Like rescue and look and to do things like that.

Speaker 25 I mean, it's always great to see communities come together because although maybe some maybe that community, someone from that family, they didn't have a family or a friend or a loved one that was lost, but to see communities band together, because we do have more similarities than dislike.

Speaker 25 Somehow, over the years, we've allowed politicians to say, whatever little

Speaker 25 dislike that we are, they play on that

Speaker 25 and it grows. I mean,

Speaker 25 I guess I really always love that about being from Texas.

Speaker 25 And I know other people from other states that be like, y'all swear y'all so cool because y'all from Texas. Why do y'all love Texas? But Texans are very proud to be Texans.

Speaker 25 I think we kind of band together over that. Like, Texans help other Texans.

Speaker 25 You believe in aliens? Yeah.

Speaker 25 It's funner to believe in them than not to believe in them. Why am I going to walk around here like there's nobody out there?

Speaker 25 But you said they're dumb.

Speaker 25 I mean,

Speaker 25 because they, you know, you know, they always crash.

Speaker 25 They never can land safely.

Speaker 25 Aliens, I don't know why we assume they're naked all the time.

Speaker 25 Why else would we assume they're naked unless there was proof that they're naked? You know what I mean?

Speaker 25 Well, you think you think the uh like, okay, like all the all the cartoons, all the movies, yeah, they're always like, look at these intelligent life forms that are coming to the planet.

Speaker 25 Either we go to war with them or they're way smarter than us and their technology is advanced. But why are they naked? Is that part of evolution? Are we going to be naked in 200 years?

Speaker 25 Well, let me ask you this. What if the aliens showed up in chrome hearts? Jeans.

Speaker 25 And some nikes. Then you're like, okay.
Then I would want to study them.

Speaker 25 I'd be like, who do you follow on this?

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Speaker 25 So your mom was a young mom.

Speaker 25 And, you know, that's probably why your grandparents had such, especially your grandmother had such a big impact in your life. What's your relationship like with your mom?

Speaker 25 Oh, my mom has like the greatest sense of humor. I think she's a big reason I got into comedy.
She loved like funny movies. She still loves funny movies, funny shows, like all that stuff.

Speaker 25 And I go, I take my son to see her.

Speaker 25 I try to go once a week. Sometimes I don't make it, you know what I mean? But yeah, we get along great.
She worries about me a lot.

Speaker 25 I mean, she had me at a young age. So she was like.
She had to grow up. Yeah.
A child at a young age, right? Well, that's the thing. At first, she wasn't growing up.

Speaker 25 She still wanted to be a kid. So, you know, I understand.
But I watched that kid grow up before my own eyes, and I'm so proud of her.

Speaker 25 Now, because I have a, I got other siblings, you know,

Speaker 25 between like my dad and my stepmom,

Speaker 25 whatever. But my, my mom,

Speaker 25 with my mom, I have another sister, and my sister is, I believe she's 13 right now.

Speaker 25 And it's crazy watching my mom be like,

Speaker 25 so different with her than she was with you. Yeah, because now my mom's older and everything.
And like, I'm all for it too. You know what I mean? Like, whatever I can do to like help them out.

Speaker 25 I'm all like, my sister, my sister plays volleyball. She's really good at ball.
She plays like on select teams and stuff. Wow.

Speaker 25 So sometimes I can get pricey, but like I'll make, like, I'll do my part part to like help them out and make sure she can stay in there because my mom's all for it my mom works her nine to five and then right after work we'll take my sister to her practice or to her to her like uh she my sister's in band where

Speaker 25 so like it's crazy seeing that but i love it i love when i go over there she's always just worried about me but i joke around her a lot i tell her i'm out here on drugs and i'm dying and stuff

Speaker 25 even though you know she's worried about you yeah but she knows i'm playing around you know

Speaker 25 You said that your mom broke up with a lot of people, but you respected the guys that beat her to the punch and broke up with her first.

Speaker 25 Are you joking?

Speaker 25 Yes and no.

Speaker 25 What yellow?

Speaker 25 How you gonna be applaud the visitors? The whole team is mom. How you applaud the visitors? I love my mom, but like, like,

Speaker 25 I learned a lot about like...

Speaker 25 how not to be as an adult through these men's failures

Speaker 25 and through my mom. like, no offense to my mom, but I also have a lack of trust in women because of my mom.
Because I would see her, like,

Speaker 25 just treat these dudes like whatever. Like, she'll brush them off to the side, be like, I don't want to date this dude no more.

Speaker 25 Like, and these dudes would like call her and just be like, please get back with me and stuff. And it was lame.

Speaker 25 So, whenever I would, if I ever caught wind of a dude breaking over my mom first and I saw my mom like cry for him or something, I'll be like, look, that's how you need to be.

Speaker 25 Man, how are you going to see your mom disappointed about, yeah, they got you back? Well, because like, it's not that I was like, oh,

Speaker 25 they finally got you, Ma, nah, like, I feel bad for her too, you know what I mean? But at the same time, like, I watched my mom be like,

Speaker 25 like, she wasn't, she wasn't no sucker for no dude, you know what I mean? So, like, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't,

Speaker 25 I didn't feel so bad for her because I'm like, she's gonna be fine, right? Like, she knows what she's doing, she's fine. Did you ever get close to some of the gentlemen that she was dating?

Speaker 25 Nah, I never really liked them. But you know, they were going to be around for a long time.
They wasn't going to be around long. It wasn't that.
I didn't think.

Speaker 25 Because she would have, like, you know, long-term relationships or whatever. I just never liked that.
Cause, like, to me, my, like, I, like, I have my dad, you know what I mean?

Speaker 25 So it's like, I have a dad. I'm not looking for a father figure.
I also have my grandpa who was like my dad, you know, my mom's dad.

Speaker 25 So it's like, I was never like. Is this my dad? Like, I was like, bro, you basically dating my sister right now.

Speaker 25 And they would try to be all cool with me and stuff. I was just like, all right, whatever.
You ain't getting no money out of them. Like, hey,

Speaker 25 hey, you want me to like you, break me off a couple of dollars?

Speaker 25 There was one dude who, when I was 12, was with my mom for a while. And

Speaker 25 he would let me drive his truck. He kind of gave me a couple lessons and he would just let me take off in my truck, go pick up my friends.
I was like 12. And I thought he was cool for that.

Speaker 25 You know, he also caught me sleeping in school one day and he didn't snitch. He was sniffing.
Nah, he just told me, like, man, don't be doing that. Like, you know, whatever.

Speaker 25 So I always thought he was pretty cool.

Speaker 25 And I remember when they broke up, I did get kind of sad.

Speaker 25 And he, like,

Speaker 25 he was the only one

Speaker 25 of the guys my mom dated when I was growing up. He was the only one that sat down and told me, like, hey, man, like, I'm sorry, but me and your mom are not going to date no more.

Speaker 25 And then he just hands me like a hundred bucks. I'm like, the f is this?

Speaker 25 These ain't good fellas.

Speaker 25 He's like, now I got to turn my back on you.

Speaker 25 I mean, I took it, but I was like, yeah, exactly. You ain't like, nah, bro, I'm good.

Speaker 25 So you're like, that was the only one that you really got close to it.

Speaker 25 But seeing your mom interact with men,

Speaker 25 how did that shape the way you interact with women?

Speaker 25 I don't believe nothing they tell me.

Speaker 25 But damn. I mean, like, I believe some stuff, but like...
Like, if they're like, you know, you're the only guy that this, this, and that. I'm like, I don't, I don't care.

Speaker 25 I don't know if I believe you or not, but you you don't got to tell me that. Like, I don't necessarily, I'm not that,

Speaker 25 I don't know. I'm not that receptive towards compliments or towards like, you're the only one this or you don't want that.
Right.

Speaker 25 Whatever.

Speaker 25 Because I'm human. But it's going to be tough.
You know, it's going to be tough if you become cynical. of everything of the relationship and what she's trying to tell you.

Speaker 25 It's going to be really hard, Ralph, for you to have, to find a stable situation.

Speaker 25 I feel like it's impossible for me to find a stable situation, a stable relationship, because one, I have these issues that I saw my parents in so many failed relationships, right? Right.

Speaker 25 So I don't trust anybody already. And then two,

Speaker 25 I've accumulated

Speaker 25 what I think is a good level of success. So now I'm always wondering like, why are you with me? Yeah, so you know what I mean? So like, it's too much trust issue.

Speaker 25 All I can hope is that I meet some genuine women in my life and get to really know them, you know what I mean? You didn't have anybody before you became this Raph Barbosa.

Speaker 25 Did you not have a young lady in your life that saw before you started to blow up? I mean, I dated my son's mom, you know, but

Speaker 25 we were broken up before this even like took off. Right.
You know what I mean? You might as well go and get back with y'all. You already got a family.
Nah, I'm good. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 25 You good? Yeah, I'm good.

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Speaker 25 But you know she sincerely and genuinely loves you for you.

Speaker 25 Will you talk to her?

Speaker 25 You don't know what goes through that woman's mind. Nah, I'm just saying.
She was with you before any of this stardom, any of this fandom.

Speaker 25 I mean, there wasn't like a whole lot of women that were with me before the stardom, but there was a handful. Yeah.
I'm not going to go back to them now.

Speaker 25 So for hey, do you want to get married now? Because you passed the are you trying to get, do you, would you like to get married? No.

Speaker 25 Okay, so. But I would like to like

Speaker 25 settle down, if that makes sense. Yeah, but I just don't want to like sign paperwork.

Speaker 25 But you do realize in your profession, it's hard to settle down because you're on the road. I don't know how many dates, maybe 200, 250 days out of the year, you're on the road.

Speaker 25 Now, do you plan on taking this young lady on the road with you or she's back where she is? It sounds like you don't want me to get married. No, I'm just asking you.

Speaker 25 I want you to be happy. But I'm just saying, I think in realistic, it's kind of hard when you, basically, you travel.
Your job, you travel. Yeah,

Speaker 25 I need a date like a flight attendant. Oh, geez.
But my friend had a threesome with a flight attendant, so I can't trust them either now. Oh, God.

Speaker 25 You need stories.

Speaker 25 I just think for the time being, you probably rap. You might need to just, you know, kick it so low.
Yeah, for sure. Like, I've been in Vegas two days.

Speaker 25 I haven't been hitting on nobody.

Speaker 25 I was thinking, like, man, you know, it's Vegas. We'll meet some girls, whatever.
But honestly, I've just been enjoying my time here as a single dude with my friends.

Speaker 25 It's a little gay, but it's whatever.

Speaker 25 What's it like having step parents?

Speaker 25 You treat them good? Do you treat the step parents like you treat your real parents?

Speaker 25 Man, I think I'm blessed that my stepmom my dad's wife has always been so good to me and never referred to me as a stepson at least not in my face you know what i mean like she's she's been so good to me man uh what do you call her you call her mom or what do you call you call her by birth name i call her by her first name okay you know but

Speaker 25 she like

Speaker 25 I didn't know, I didn't like, I was almost taking it for granted how like nice she was treating me and like how, how much like love she had for me and like really treated me me like if i was her kid when i'd be over there

Speaker 25 because when i got older and i started working different jobs and making friends that were like older than me

Speaker 25 uh who had kids that were older than me i would see these people who have like their own kids and then they marry somebody who has their own kids right and then i'll hear how they talk about like her kids and how and then i would treat

Speaker 25 maybe how she treats his kids and i'm like damn bro it's kind of cold like i didn't have to go through that thankfully like

Speaker 25 if I would be over there with my dad you know my dad sometimes would have to go do handle business whatever and he would leave me right there with my stepmom and like my younger brother young sister like it was like no problem bro like I didn't have to worry about her treating me any different or nothing like

Speaker 25 she she she's an angel so how how how was

Speaker 25 did they have kids together yeah so how was that because you know That's not your biological mom, but theoretically the kid, you know, did they call you?

Speaker 25 They look up at you, they like big brother. You, I mean, you take him around, you did things.
I think they used to look up to me. I think right now, they're probably mad at me.
Why they're mad?

Speaker 25 Because we all live together right now, and um, like my brother, my sister, they're teenagers, okay, and they live with you, yeah.

Speaker 25 We all live at my dad's, we all live on the same like property and stuff. Where they are, man, we're out in the country, you sold you, you saving your money, huh? Yeah,

Speaker 25 all your money went for a grill, yeah, and spent a while wife and a bunch of cars. I built a garage right there on the lands, bought a bunch of cars.

Speaker 25 You don't want to get your own place?

Speaker 25 Eventually, but for what? I'm always traveling.

Speaker 25 This whole country so far has been one big home.

Speaker 25 You pay your dad rent?

Speaker 25 Yeah, I'll give him, like, he don't charge me rent. I just give him some money for like expenses and stuff, you know?

Speaker 25 I might not give him money one month, but the next month, I might give him, like, maybe way more money than I need to give them. You know what I mean? Right.
And so on and so on.

Speaker 25 So how did that arrangement come about? You like, okay, dad, I mean, you traveling.

Speaker 25 No, no, no, no. So this is before I even started touring.
This is right before things kicked off for me. Okay.
This is like 2022.

Speaker 25 My lease was up. I was living with my uncle, my mom's brother.
We had it. Have you ever had a place of your own? No.

Speaker 25 Damn.

Speaker 25 You just go from uncle to aunt to mom to dad to grandparents. If I I lived on my own, I think I move around so much, I would forget that I have my own place.

Speaker 25 And I would forget to go check up on the house.

Speaker 25 Okay,

Speaker 25 before you stayed with your dad, you were with your uncle before things popped off, okay?

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 25 I was always struggling financially, though, because I was like, man,

Speaker 25 I can't go get another lease somewhere.

Speaker 25 My son at the time was about three.

Speaker 25 And he liked going to my dad's a lot because the neighbor has like horses and it's just a lot of room to to play and stuff.

Speaker 25 Your dad is in Texas, right? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 25 So my dad would tell me like, you know, come move in over here. Come move in over here.

Speaker 25 To be fair, my dad would tell me that pretty often throughout my childhood, but I was just like, nah. Yeah.

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 25 yeah, my son liked it a lot. And I needed a place to stay.
And one day my son got a little sick. Like he had like a flu or something.
I don't remember. And we just stayed right there at my dad's.

Speaker 25 I just didn't leave. I was like, man, so can I still stay then? He's just like, yeah.
And we just stayed. He never charged me rent.
Like to this day, he technically doesn't charge me rent.

Speaker 25 I can't just be making money and then not give him something. You know what I mean? Like, I feel better.
Yeah, hold it on to yours.

Speaker 25 Let me ask you, how do you, how do you, how does one go about asking a relative to live with them? So how did you stay? How did you like your uncle? I don't know his name. What's your uncle's name?

Speaker 25 Oh, Charlie. Charlie.
He's over here right now. Oh, okay.

Speaker 25 Okay. Hey, what up, Charlie?

Speaker 25 So let me ask you a question. How do you go about, hey, Charlie, you know, I want to kick it over here for a couple of days.
And then a couple of days days turn it to a couple of months.

Speaker 25 Well, nah, we got it together, like we agreed. Like, my uncle's, man, my uncle's a bachelor.

Speaker 25 My uncle's in his mid-40s, late 40s. And I'll be like, hey, let's go get an Airbnb somewhere.
He'll be like, all right, let's go. Damn.

Speaker 25 It's cool people, my uncle.

Speaker 25 Yeah. So, are you eventually? Do you hope to eventually get your own spot?

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 25 I'm just like,

Speaker 25 because I have a few different ideas, I don't want to invest into anything until I have like a more

Speaker 25 concrete idea

Speaker 25 because I'm, man, I'm very impulsive. Yeah.
So I'll go.

Speaker 25 I just don't want to make a big purchase and then, well, I'm only like a bunch of people. You've been regret it.
Yeah. I'm getting.

Speaker 25 Like you said, you know what? You look, I travel 250 days out of the year. I don't even know place.
I can stay, you know, stay with my dad, break him off a couple of dollars. I'm straight.
Yeah. Like,

Speaker 25 I love hotels. Like, I love hotels.
Really? And like, I'll go home. Like, don't get me wrong.
I miss being home a lot, right? So I'll go home.

Speaker 25 But if I'm home for like two weeks straight, by the second week, I even feel like, damn, I think I'm bugging my family. Like, I don't think they're used to me being around so much.

Speaker 25 Like, I'm telling you, my brother and my sister, they're teenagers. And like, I kind of started cracking down on them lately because they do little teenager stuff.
And I was like, bro, respect.

Speaker 25 Respect my dad's side. I was like, respect us not to like lie, bro.

Speaker 25 What do y'all got to lie for? Like, like, you wanna be grown, be grown, stop lying. Like,

Speaker 25 so is my intelligence, and I don't think they like that when I like talk shit to them over there.

Speaker 25 So, like, sometimes I feel like they're looking at you like a brother, and you tell them, hey, respect my dad, you're like, oh, that's our dad, too. Yeah, like,

Speaker 25 but I'm like, I feel like I'm bugging sometimes after a while. Right.
So, I'm like ready to get back on the road after a week and a half. But for the longest, you thought you were the only child, huh?

Speaker 25 I mean, I grew up very much only child. You know, just me and my grandparents.
And then once my, so my mom has me and my sister, and then my dad has

Speaker 25 three other daughters and one other son. Okay.

Speaker 25 So like. Oh, you're the oldest, though? I'm the oldest.
Okay. So like I was alone with my grandparents.
And then when my, when my sister,

Speaker 25 as I started having siblings, like, you know, the ones that my dad had, I never lived with them. I used to go visit.

Speaker 25 And then when my mom had my sister, she was the first sibling to like really live with me and stuff. But I was already like 15 when she was born.
So I grew up solo dolo. Right.

Speaker 25 What's the relationship like with your siblings?

Speaker 25 I love them all.

Speaker 25 But they know you're somebody. They know that you ain't just

Speaker 25 no normal big brother. Yeah.

Speaker 25 It feels like,

Speaker 25 I don't know what the,

Speaker 25 I don't know what the official term is.

Speaker 25 Like maybe arrogant, maybe like like a head ass type thing. I try to

Speaker 25 I want to warn them that like hey some of the people that come around y'all might might just be coming around to like try to get a picture but then I don't want to assume that like that's true either I don't like hey

Speaker 25 but like my brother or like my my sister on my mom's side you know sometimes I'll just see them hanging out with somebody and and then next month they're hanging out with a whole other group of friends and the next next week is a whole other group of friends and I'm like you're like dad what happened to the other group of friends that you yeah so so I'm like and then my brother's trying to make content now too you know know?

Speaker 25 So it's just like, man, I don't know.

Speaker 25 Like, some of these dudes might just want to be around you because they think you're going to be famous or maybe they're trying to come and just be at our house and watch me eat or something.

Speaker 25 But I also don't, like, I feel like when I say that.

Speaker 25 You don't want to seem arrogant. I don't want to seem arrogant, but they're also teenagers.
They don't got the best judgment. You know what I mean?

Speaker 25 But also, it's like, as soon as I'm saying it, I can already, I can hear their eyeballs roll to the back of their head. You know what I mean? So it's just like, I just don't say nothing.

Speaker 25 I just keep traveling. Your dad did a bid.

Speaker 25 How did that impact? That's my uncle.

Speaker 25 Damn, Charlie?

Speaker 25 Charlie said, yeah, they had me locked up, too.

Speaker 25 How did that impact you?

Speaker 25 It just really influenced me to make sure that I learned the skill and

Speaker 25 became successful with a skill because

Speaker 25 I wasn't really doing much when they both, they both ended up going away around the same time, like separate cases, separate scenarios.

Speaker 25 Yeah, you chose the right thing because you dying people out because you told old Charlie, I didn't even ask you about Charlie.

Speaker 25 You dyed Charlie. I quit.
Oh, my uncle, too, right?

Speaker 25 Yeah, man.

Speaker 25 I just didn't, you know, I just did, like,

Speaker 25 my older cousin, he didn't go to like the Fez or nothing like that, but he had his run-ins with the law. Right.

Speaker 25 So, you know, with just everything going on in our family, I felt like all our relatives maybe suffered enough with stuff like that.

Speaker 25 Like, I remember when my uncle had to go turn himself in, my grandpa was tearing up, and he told me, like,

Speaker 25 don't ever get involved with that bullshit because this hurts too much.

Speaker 25 So, I just, you know, also, I was like bad at it. Like, I'm not good at like

Speaker 25 the streets. Yeah.
So, yeah, I just never went that route.

Speaker 25 Do you get a lot of fights as a kid? I fight with my friends a lot. And, you know, maybe

Speaker 25 you got friends and you fighting them? I don't know. They just like fighting.

Speaker 25 They or you? We all did.

Speaker 25 And it made it easier to like fight other kids because then I, you know. Y'all team up and go fight other people, huh?

Speaker 25 We wouldn't team up, but it's like, man, I done got beat up by my friend so many times. Like, who's this dude?

Speaker 25 But yeah, we fight a lot. Sometimes with gloves, sometimes no gloves.

Speaker 25 Did you ever do that? You look like you beat up your friend. Nah, you know what? I didn't really try to fight nobody, rap.
I'm just, you know.

Speaker 25 that's what the swole dudes always say

Speaker 25 puff dudes always like i don't want to hurt nobody no but i didn't i was i was the youngest uh of all my cousins you know i had a i was the youngest so seven years six years my brother was three years had a cousin two years and then i was the youngest of the guys um and obviously you know wrestling and fighting those guys like when you go to school and you people your age

Speaker 25 Obviously, you know, you're more developed. And so you could, but I was never, I was never a bad kid.
I just wanted to, you know, I tell jokes, rag on people, and stuff like that.

Speaker 25 I was good in athletics. I didn't really try to fight nobody unless I absolutely, positively had to fight.

Speaker 25 Yeah, like real fights, I might, like, against like a stranger, like somebody I really didn't like. I just had like a handful.
I fought my own friends more than I fought strangers.

Speaker 25 Yeah, I mean, you know, in college, I had one fight, but it was a dude on the team. But as far as like, you know,

Speaker 25 I always had bad luck. I think I got weak bones.
One time, one time I was fighting my friend. I fell back and I tried to catch myself and I broke my middle finger trying to catch myself.

Speaker 25 So So not even like in the fight.

Speaker 25 I mean, you ain't drink enough milk. That, yeah, I didn't, that's true.

Speaker 25 Milk makes me sleepy. Yeah.

Speaker 25 But let me, so you're fighting and you fought your friends. Did y'all make up or were you like, nah, once you fight your friends, I'm done with y'all.
We can't be friends no more.

Speaker 25 We'd fight like every day. We had like a fight club.
We'd meet up in the restrooms in between classes. We had three minutes in middle school, we had three minutes in between classes.

Speaker 25 So we would fight for two minutes and then you got a minute to get to class. So you get to class and your shirt's all stretched out.

Speaker 25 Teacher asked you what happened? They're like, why are you bleeding? You're like, I fell.

Speaker 25 It seems like you got a lot of enjoyment out of that. Yeah.

Speaker 25 My childhood was fun, man. It was funny.
Why?

Speaker 25 I mean, it seems like to me, look, y'all at prostitutes fight your friends. You fight who? I said, I would yell at prostitutes and then I'd fight.
I fight, you know, you fight your friends. It's fun.

Speaker 25 But I mean, I'm just like, okay, yeah, friends are going to have a disagreement, and you might fight.

Speaker 25 But you guys, like, friends, and y'all, like, okay, bro, we got to, we got to, hey, what were y'all? Do you know what you do? Remember what you guys were fighting about?

Speaker 25 No, to see who was a better fighter. It wasn't like we were like mad.
If anything, if you got mad, we'll probably be like, all right, bro, maybe don't fight because you're getting mad for real. Yeah.

Speaker 25 It was, man, I don't know.

Speaker 25 Did you win any of the fights? Yeah, a couple times. Couple? The way you talk?

Speaker 25 I was also a smaller one. That's what what I'm saying.

Speaker 25 I knew I would lose, but my mentality was like, all right, even though I'm going to lose against these bigger dudes, I'm going to keep on fighting them because whenever I fight somebody my size, I'm going to just beat the shit out of them.

Speaker 25 But it wasn't nobody your size.

Speaker 25 The few times that I had to fight somebody that was like around my size, you got them. Man, I'll demolish them.
It was like nothing at that point. You felt good.
You felt good. Like, yeah.

Speaker 25 I was like, this must be how my big friends feel all the time.

Speaker 25 No wonder they beat my ass. This is amazing.

Speaker 25 you were a barber yes sir i started cutting hair at 13. really

Speaker 25 how do you how did you how did you get i mean let somebody say hey rab did you like cut your own hair did you start up in your own hair how i mean how does somebody like you look let them just you ain't got no barber's license and you just start cutting people here yeah i i went to ross they got ross over here Ross, like the

Speaker 25 store? Yeah. Yeah.
I went to a Ross and at the entrance, they had like a clearance basket and they had like some some clippers like Remington or down there or something like that. I got those and

Speaker 25 then

Speaker 25 I was only using those for a couple months. I think my birthday came up and I got like total from birthday cash.
I got like 150 bucks. Yeah.

Speaker 25 And across the street from my middle school, there was like a little, like an Asian beauty shop, you know? So I went in there, I bought like some real clippers and started using those.

Speaker 25 But there was no YouTube tutorials back then. There was like one dude.
YouTube was caking his Randy. He had like one video that actually helped me out.

Speaker 25 The other people on YouTube,

Speaker 25 they were still trying to make money.

Speaker 25 If you found a video of a haircut, it would be like a time-lapse. And then it'll be like, you want to cut hair like this? Go to my website and buy my DVD.
Because this is like, I was like 13.

Speaker 25 There was no real tutorials back then. Now this is a tutorial for every damn fade.

Speaker 25 But back then, I would go to the barbershop on a Friday to get my cut and then I would stay there like extra time where I would show up early to like watch them cut hair.

Speaker 25 And I would ask the barbers, how do you do this? How do you do that? And I would watch them, you know. And one of the barbers there was really cool.

Speaker 25 He actually let me like on my friend, let me like kind of

Speaker 25 change it up.

Speaker 25 So then I would try to remember that, and then I'd go and like beg for clients at school. I used to walk around the hall.
He's like, bro, let me cut your hair, please, please.

Speaker 25 Were you charging or you cutting it for free?

Speaker 25 I would cut it for free. And then I'd be like, if you like it, then the next one, pay me.
Right. But they would get the free one, then they'll never come back because I'll f them up.

Speaker 25 Do you blabel?

Speaker 25 Maybe you lucky somebody put hands on you, Ralph Mac. You know, you can't.
People,

Speaker 25 what they're gonna do, I got the clippers in my hands. I'll hit them.
No, but I'm saying, once I, hey, you handle the mirror, say, hey, what you think, bro?

Speaker 25 What you think, bro?

Speaker 25 I said, got a, I got, you ever seen, they're called the Fade Masters. It's a big old chrome.
It's a heavy ass clipper. What you think, bro? Smash you on the heavy clipper.

Speaker 25 So, what, so, So, what's the funny story you have of cutting somebody's hair? Have you really, like, really, really messed somebody up? Yes, bad, man.

Speaker 25 Look, this one is probably one of my favorite stories. But I didn't him up, though.
This is when I was already kind of getting the fade down. Right.

Speaker 25 One of my good friends, Robinson,

Speaker 25 real quiet dude.

Speaker 25 I convinced him, let me cut his hair. So he comes, he rides my bus because he usually gets a ride home, right? So that day, he rides my bus all the way to my house and we get there to my house and

Speaker 25 we actually I would cut hair at the other end of my block at my friend's house. They had a better garage setup.
So I'll go right there sometimes. And

Speaker 25 I would still take so long, you know, when you start off,

Speaker 25 I'm taking like an hour on one side and I'm doing the haircut. And then my mom calls me and she said that she had to take me to a doctor appointment.
I didn't know how to doctor appointment that day.

Speaker 25 So like Robinson, you're going to have to come back again tomorrow after school, bro.

Speaker 25 So, the next day, Robinson, I see him in Spanish class, and this has one fade, and then nothing over here.

Speaker 25 So, you left the guy, it finished your

Speaker 25 haircut up the next day.

Speaker 25 It was a 2B continued cut. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 25 You told a joke. You said it's harder to get a barber's license than it is a gun license in Texas.

Speaker 25 Yeah, because you don't need a license in Texas.

Speaker 25 You need a license

Speaker 25 to be a barber, but you don't need a license to carry a gun. Well, like, here's what's crazy to me.
And I like guns. I'm not trying to say, like, they need to make it harder.
Like,

Speaker 25 that's a whole other conversation for some political show, you know? I like guns.

Speaker 25 I've gone into a store and filled out the little background check, 20 minutes, walk out with a gun, you know? It's easy. Fine.
That's not my issue. My issue is that

Speaker 25 one day,

Speaker 25 one of the first barbershops, One of my first days at the barbershop I worked at is called Oak Cliff Barbers.

Speaker 25 I'm working there maybe like a month, right? But I only go in in the afternoons. I work from like 5 p.m.
to like maybe 8 p.m. Right.
Because I'm still in barber college. I'm not licensed.

Speaker 25 But I go in those hours because it's when the TDLR, the Texas Department of Licensing and whatever, they don't work those hours. So they can't, it's less likely they're going to show up at 6 p.m.

Speaker 25 and be like, where's your license? Right.

Speaker 25 But I'm working there for like a month. And one day I get there and it looks like they got raided by like DEA or something.

Speaker 25 Like everything is just torn up because TDLR have showed up that day and checked for license and checked if everything was up to code. And it's like, bro,

Speaker 25 because we're fading people up,

Speaker 25 because we're cutting people's hair, you know what I mean? Like I got a killing machine right here. Like

Speaker 25 got it in 20 minutes, but I got to go to school for 1,500.

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Speaker 25 it's me again.

Speaker 25 We prepped.

Speaker 25 It's the time for empowerment.

Speaker 25 And I've got a message for you.

Speaker 25 You gotta think about central health.

Speaker 25 No matter what,

Speaker 25 when

Speaker 25 with who.

Speaker 25 Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 30 This is the story of the one.

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Speaker 25 Thousand hours. But when I went, it was 1,500 hours and two exams.

Speaker 25 The Texas practical, the barber, the practical, first off, you got to do a thousand hours to unlock the first test. You go and you sit down at these computers and you can't look at nobody next to you.

Speaker 25 If you look at them and talk, they're just like, you failed. Like if we're taking some CIA exam,

Speaker 25 and you're just there filling out like, what are the shaving techniques? Like,

Speaker 25 all right. Then once you pass that test, you can complete.
Now you're allowed to do the next 500 hours. So there goes another fucking six months of your life.
Right.

Speaker 25 Then when you do that, you got to do the practical in front of the state board. So you go, you take your model.
Like, if you were my model, I sit you down and I got a bag full of stuff.

Speaker 25 And I got to separate all my items in different bags and label them. And I got to shampoo you and drape you a certain way.
Towel, drape, towel, this.

Speaker 25 And then when I'm done using that towel, I put it in my little trash bag, right?

Speaker 25 If you were to be like, oh man, I accidentally grabbed the towel that I hadn't used and threw it away, let me get it back from that bag. All that's in it,

Speaker 25 you lose five points. Wow.
And then it's like a four-hour long process, bro. And you can't even talk to your model unless it's instructions.
And my, my, when my best friend, Jaime, was right there.

Speaker 25 He was falling asleep because we had drank the day before.

Speaker 25 So I'm like whispering. I'm like, wake up, wake up.
And I started pinching his back fat to like wake him him up.

Speaker 25 But it's like, and then they're walking around just looking at you and like checking you and seeing him talking. I'm like, bro, this is not CIA.
Right. It's not that serious.
It's not that serious.

Speaker 25 And I walked out with a killing machine from Academy Sports and Outdoors in 10 minutes. Like,

Speaker 25 I don't know. That's just the only thing.
The barber stuff needs to be like.

Speaker 25 I think now to get a barber's license, you even need to know how to do a manicure.

Speaker 25 Yeah, they gotta do it. So how long were you a barber?

Speaker 25 Uh, I was cutting full-time from when I was like 20

Speaker 25 to I was

Speaker 25 how old was I a few years ago? So, I was like 20, from 20 to 26, maybe 20 to 25 around there. But you knew that wasn't that was not a lifelong ambition of yours, that was just something to make.

Speaker 25 I always loved it, yeah, but it wasn't like, I mean,

Speaker 25 I love the barbershop I worked at, and I liked, I love cutting hair.

Speaker 25 I don't know. It's cool to me.

Speaker 25 And I remember being at the barbershop and those guys were so funny to me and it was just so fun being there.

Speaker 25 I had the realization, like, hey, if comedy never works out and I worked here with these dudes for the rest of my life, I'll be all right, too. You good with that? Yeah.

Speaker 25 You mentioned earlier, the very first time, Open Mike, you got booed. Why the hell you go back?

Speaker 25 Because a lot of people didn't have a rejection. Because I can't take a loss.

Speaker 25 I can't do it. You want to go take that L?

Speaker 25 Like, if I really like something, nah, I can't take the L. Like,

Speaker 25 I walked off stage immediately thinking, like, why did I even come up here? Like, I'm an idiot for thinking I could do this. And the host

Speaker 25 is a comedian named Luke Moore.

Speaker 25 I have seen him on stage that same night. He was funny.
And he was like, hey, man, he's like, come back.

Speaker 25 And I was like, what? Like, the f ⁇ , come back. Did you not see what happened? Like, I thought he was making fun of me or something, you know? So I walked to the car.
My friend Tony was with me.

Speaker 25 And I remember apologizing to him. Like, I'm sorry I even brought you out here.
We've been out here all night. Like, that was stupid.
Why? Like, why did I think I could do that?

Speaker 25 But by the time I got home, I was like, maybe if I would have said this different.

Speaker 25 And then the next day, I was,

Speaker 25 I think. I think I was working at a diner.
I was a short order cook,

Speaker 25 like just making hash browns and shit. I'm thinking, like, man, if I was that different, man, may I try this? Like, were you prepared? Because at the end of the day, I was like, somewhat prepared.

Speaker 25 Okay. You know, but I just kept thinking about it.
And

Speaker 25 I think that goes for anything that I try that I really like. And anybody, like, you up, but then you start like re-evaluating everything in your head.
Like, oh, I could try this.

Speaker 25 Maybe I should have zigged when I zagged, you know? So then it took me like two months, but I went up on stage again

Speaker 25 and I bombed again damn but i was like hey but i did the whole time this time yeah so you did you didn't let them you didn't let them make you walk off yeah so i'm like now and i gotta figure this out like that

Speaker 25 and the first time i got like a real laugh was kind of unplanned like it wasn't even a joke that i wrote is i was about to walk on stage and this was uh at a different comedy club this is a backdoor comedy club shout out to miss linda stogner who's a dallas legend uh she threw me up on stage and

Speaker 25 that open mic was in like a nicer part of Dallas.

Speaker 25 It was the first time I've seen an open mic with so many, like, it was the first time I was in a room with so many rich-looking white people. And I was like intimidated.

Speaker 25 So as I was about to walk on stage, I remember this one dude in the front row was like, I was like, bro, that guy looks like someone who's called the cops on me before.

Speaker 25 So I just said that on stage. I'm like, this dude looks like he's calling the cops on me.
And out of nervousness, and everybody just started laughing.

Speaker 25 And I was like, damn, vulnerability, honesty, and confidence. That's my first lesson.
Like, that's.

Speaker 25 When you got that laugh, you were hooked. Yeah, because it was like a medium laugh.
It was like, everybody was like, ah,

Speaker 25 but when you first hear it, you feel like everybody's just like, ah. Right.
And whenever you think of something and you say it, and everybody laughs, you feel like a genius. You know what I mean?

Speaker 25 Do you remember the first joke you told?

Speaker 25 Like the actual joke that I wrote, I think,

Speaker 25 yeah,

Speaker 25 yeah, yeah, yeah. I had just started.
This is like the actual like rigid joke that actually worked.

Speaker 25 I mean, it was somewhat work.

Speaker 25 I was working, I had just started working

Speaker 25 construction under like the electrical, like industrial electrician. You know, you had a lot of jobs growing up, right, Dad? Yeah, I had a lot of jobs.

Speaker 25 And the other thing that you didn't do growing up, you cut hair, you were a barber.

Speaker 25 I mean, you were a barber, you construction. I was wanting to work on a boat, but you know, I grew up in Dallas.
There's no coastal. Yeah, what, boy? When you go to work on in Dallas?

Speaker 25 Well, that's what I'm saying. That's a job I didn't have.
You asked me what job I didn't do, and there was like a question. Well, you know, Dallas catch.
I don't know if they still shoot that.

Speaker 25 They show the bar and see. One day I'm going to go do that.
Watch. I'm going to just disappear.
I'm going to go do that.

Speaker 25 But anyway, my joke was that I was working for an uncle of mine. Charlie? No, no, no, no.
Man, my uncle ain't never going to work no.

Speaker 25 My uncle keeps his fingernails clean.

Speaker 25 Okay,

Speaker 25 you're working for your uncle?

Speaker 25 My uncle Charlie is the one that taught me to work smarter, not harder.

Speaker 25 He's the one that made me use my brain more than my hands. But I'm working in industrial electricity for an uncle on my dad's side.
And

Speaker 25 I did this joke where I said, I'm working as an electrician, but

Speaker 25 for my uncle, but he says things that I feel like electricians shouldn't say or uncles. I was like, and I wrote them down and I'd pull out a piece of paper.

Speaker 25 I'd be like, the first thing that he says is like, we'll know if it's wired correctly, if we don't blow up. The second one that he says that scares me is like,

Speaker 25 I think this is where this goes.

Speaker 25 The third one he says that scares me is, all right, no one's around, lock the door and pull your pants down.

Speaker 25 And like, that one, that one will get like a little laugh. But that was like the first joke that I like.
That you started? Yeah. You wrote down to you?

Speaker 25 And, yeah, I remember the club, one of the clubs that I did it at, they only liked you to do like clean comedy. Right.
And they were like, maybe don't do that one.

Speaker 25 So then I had to like start changing changing it up. Right.

Speaker 25 The second time you performed, the first time you went to open mouth, you got booed. The second one, you went to you performed at a strip joint.
No, no, no.

Speaker 25 So that was like my first, like, uh, what was it? So the first time you actually got paid, you went to a paid gig. And I, and I didn't get paid.

Speaker 25 I lost money because they charged me five dollars to get in the strip club.

Speaker 25 And they never paid me.

Speaker 25 But it was all fun. I didn't care.

Speaker 25 I'm just trying to figure out. How do you perform? How do you have a comedy show at a strip joint? Oh, it was a whole lot of fun.
At a gentleman's club, excuse me.

Speaker 25 I didn't look for the record, I didn't put this on. All right,

Speaker 25 they asked me if I wanted to do it. I said, Hell yeah.

Speaker 25 The show was called Laughs in Ass,

Speaker 25 which honestly, you don't want to be laughing when there's ass out,

Speaker 25 just focus on the ass, you know, you're not going to compete. I was, so

Speaker 25 they had a wireless mic and they kept cutting out. But I just, I don't know, it's just a horrible idea.

Speaker 25 I'm on the stage where the strippers dance, and there's like a pole right here. Right.

Speaker 25 And some of the people in there were still getting dances because they didn't care. They didn't show up for the comedy.
And I remember one of the strippers, she was so supportive.

Speaker 25 There was a dude getting all danced on by this big girl. And the girl's facing me.

Speaker 25 The dude's like way back there. He's facing that wall.
But he's listening. And he liked one of my jokes.
He turns around. He's like, woo!

Speaker 25 And then the girl's like, the girl's like, good job, baby. And I was like, oh, like, thank you.

Speaker 25 Man, but the mic kept cutting out. This is so awkward, bro.
And there was an ugly, nasty stripper. And I remember she walked up to me when I was waiting to go on stage.
And she started like, like,

Speaker 25 twerking on me. And I was like, no, I don't have money.
Like, don't, like, trust me, don't do that. I don't have money.

Speaker 25 And this is the first time that a stripper was like, nah, like, tip me so I can leave. Like, give me a dollar and I'll leave you alone.

Speaker 25 I was like, oh, man, I had like, that was my, I had 10 bucks that day. Right.
And five was for the entry, and the other like three went to her. I had two dollars for chips after that.

Speaker 25 So in other words, she said, give me some money and I'll leave you alone. Yes.
Well, you just got to be dancing for free.

Speaker 25 So the internet. Now this thing, there's this thing called internet.
And a lot of comedians, it's different than the old

Speaker 25 comedians because you had to go to the gig, then you had to go.

Speaker 25 put your time in. Now the internet can really help young comedians blow up.
How did the internet help you? Man, the internet gave me a career.

Speaker 25 You know, I feel like before the internet, for people to make it as a comedian, as an actor, as a singer, it's like the industry, whoever was running,

Speaker 25 whoever was making moves in the industry had to kind of choose you. You know, casting directors, bookers had to be like, I like this person.
Let's make them famous. Let's put them on this TV.

Speaker 25 So let's put them.

Speaker 25 The internet, you put a video yourself out there and it's the people's choice now. You know what I mean? So yeah, like, shout out.

Speaker 25 I love

Speaker 25 anybody who's ever liked my videos, man.

Speaker 25 The Mexican community, the Puerto Rican community, the black community, Indians, anybody out there who's ever liked my videos and just shared them, even if you never come to a show.

Speaker 25 Thank you so much for giving, for changing my life.

Speaker 25 Do you do you believe that you blew up too fast?

Speaker 25 I think I blew up maybe a little prematurely. Uh,

Speaker 25 well, used to that problem, huh, Shannon?

Speaker 25 Nah, I think that I wasn't ready to be a headliner when I started blowing up. You know, I think I was still,

Speaker 25 because

Speaker 25 traditionally, how it goes in comedy is like you will start off hosting shows where you do like 10 minutes, then you introduce the next comic, next comic, whatever.

Speaker 25 Then you work your way up to feature act. So you'll go on right before the main act and you'll do like 20, 25 minutes.
Then, you know, over time, you become a headliner and you kill 45 to an hour.

Speaker 25 Right. So when I first started going on the road, I don't feel like I had a killer hour like that, you know, but I had to learn it.

Speaker 25 I think it took like six months of me headlining shows before I learned to be like a headliner. Right.

Speaker 25 The difference now is that, say, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago, you could tell a joke and you could recycle that joke. Ooh, long time.

Speaker 25 You can't do that anymore because the internet, cell phones. So basically,

Speaker 25 and I talked to a lot of comedians. They said, the first time you tell a joke joke is not the best time you're going to tell that joke because over time you perfect it.

Speaker 25 And now it's hard to perfect a joke because once you tell a joke, man, I heard him say that the other day. Man, he said that in Kansas City.
Many I heard him say that same joke in Cali.

Speaker 25 They kill you for it. How do you expand on a joke? How do you get a joke from its infancy to adulthood now?

Speaker 25 And you can't force it. I don't think.

Speaker 25 uh my one of my buddies kind of taught me that he's like you can't

Speaker 25 you could think you could think on it and like rewrite it right but sometimes i just kind of like don't force it like i go up there with the idea of how to say the joke i'll try it out on stage and if it works then all right i'll make a note in my mind like keep using this one

Speaker 25 but then maybe next time that i'm on stage I don't want to put too much pressure on that joke. But

Speaker 25 as I'm talking, as I'm saying it, I'm having another conversation in my head right so i'm like oh

Speaker 25 say this different this time it makes more sense like that so then i'll just say but i'll usually keep changing the joke or keep adding to it until it like dies again right so it's like i'll say the joke next time i say it add a punchline next time i'll say it add this But then maybe the fifth time I say it, I added something and it was just like, now you got too much fat on this.

Speaker 25 You know what I mean? It's like a sandwich. You just add in too much

Speaker 25 taste no more. So I'm like, all right, let me backtrack.

Speaker 25 this concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two is also posted, and you can access it to whichever podcast platform you just listened to part one on.

Speaker 25 Just simply go back to Club Shether profile, and I'll see you there.

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