Jo Koy

0:00Find your next fall favorites at Quince. Download the Quince app for app exclusive offers for go to quince.com slash on that note. Get free shipping on your order and 365 day returns now available in Canada and the UK too. That's q-u-i-n-c-e.com slash on that note. Yamabah Resort and Casino at Sandman Well is bringing the biggest laughs to the stage. Break taboos with Ali Wang on August 28th and 29th. Enjoy Ralph Barbosa's dry humor on September 18th and 19th. And don't miss Nikki Glacier's unapologetic comedy November 19th. Tickets on sale now at Yamabah Theatre dot com. Only at Yamabah Resort and Casino, celebrating its 40th anniversary. You in must be 21 to enter. Hey guys, this is Joe Koy and you can watch me right now on that note with Sean Stockman. Or right after you can watch Blue in the face on Netflix. My new Netflix special.

1:01But right now I'm wearing a Prishan to bring them chocolate chip cookies. Hey, Mil. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of on that note. My name is Sean. I'm your host. And of course, this is the place where we speak a language we all understand. And that's music. Now you peep the theme. Are you peeping the theme? Well, man. We're wearing blue hoodies. All explain my blue hoodie with your blue hoodie. Okay, okay, cool. But first let me get this intro out the way I had it. That is dope, bro. Yeah, well, thanks. You made it. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Every now and then you get somebody on this show where you don't really need an introduction. You just need to get the hell out of the way and let the conversation happen. Like you just witnessed. It's my brother here. And this is one of those times. My brother is back. Now the last time him and I sat down, we had such a good time and I knew eventually we were going to have to run this thing back.

2:02And since then this man has apparently decided that selling out arenas and stadiums. This guy sells out so far. Like I ate nothing. Swish. Taking comedy around the world and becoming one of the biggest stand-up comedians on the planet just wasn't enough. So now he's back with his sixth Netflix special blue in the face. And what I've always respected about Joe is that underneath all the voices, the stories, insanity and probably at least one story, his family wishes he would stop telling. There's always some truth in it. He can make an entire arena laugh at some, or I'm sorry, an entire stadium laugh. That's something that in somebody else's hands might actually make you cry. That's the gift. And because this is the second time, his second time here, I'm not giving him the polite interview today. No? No. We'll pass that shit. Yeah, we'll pass that. Okay.

3:02Yeah. All right. So my friend, my brother, the ridiculously funny Mr. Joe Cohen, he's back. One on that note. Thank you. That was beautiful. Hey man. You're not gonna believe the interview I have for you. Uh-oh. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Now I'm supposed to do that. You're supposed to relax. How you feel? I'm good now. Six Netflix. Sixth one. Yeah, blue in the face. Bro, I love this. That's such a five-inch. It's so sick and I love the artwork for it. I love how we use the Filipino Sun for the Oh. It's Joe Koi. Blue in the face is just homage to my uh, my stepdad. Yeah, where did the name come from? Tell me. So my stepdad. My stepdad, who, you know, he passed, uh, Reston P.s. Fred, Sergeant Fred Harrison. P.s. Fred. But he was a, he was a huge Dodgers fan. So, uh, Roger Blue. With Roger Blue on. Uh-huh. The Mahalkeet Dodd, the LA, and then of course, Blue in the face. And I don't want to give away the, the whole definition of why you call it that.

4:04But when you hear the story, yeah, you're gonna love it, man. Because he was a great guy and he was one of those, uh, I don't know, were you, were you in a, were you in a single parent household or? Yes, I was. We had your dad and mom. No, I, I lived with my mother, uh, until I was 12. Yeah. And then I moved with my father. So yeah, really? Single parent kind of. I don't know. Oh, yeah, that's the same. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Mine was single parent too. My dad moved to Phoenix and all I have was my mom. And it was during that time where I needed that dude and the house. Yeah, sure. You know what I mean? I needed some, some discipline, man. I was unruly. And, uh, and then here came Sergeant Fred Harrison. Yeah. So that's why he means a lot to me, dude. Yeah. It was a very influential part of my, uh, my life. Yeah. And, uh, you know, like, you know, I, I, I told you about my brother, right? Robert. So Robert has, you know, he has a mental, you know, he has a mental disability. I hope I'm saying the right thing. And you talk about, right? Talk about Robert. But one thing I never really talked about is how Robert used to like

5:08cause havoc in the house, you know what I mean? And, and he was just such a dominant. He's a tiny guy, but he'll fight anybody. Right. You know what I mean? And, and we were all scared of him to the point where cops were always coming to the house. Yeah. I mean, and even the cops would take like three cops trying to hold my brother down, put cops on him. And it was just always that, that, that, that moment of being scared in, in your own home. So Fred Harrison. Yeah. Sergeant Fred Harrison was the first one. Bro, two purple hearts, two broad stars. Yeah. I mean, that's, and he's just, he's that kind of all. Yeah. And, and, and the one thing he didn't put up with. And this is the first fight that he had with Robert. He just threw him on the ground and laid on it and laid on him. He goes, all right, I don't, I don't want to fight you, bubble. That's what he said. Hmm. I'm gonna fight you, all right? You won't respect me in this house. Right. Right. But I'm a lad on you. Right. You know where you pick me up, bubble. Yeah. So you, you decide when you want to get up. And when you get up, you're going to get the fuck out of this house. Right. My brother's like, let me up.

6:09Let me up. Right. Let him back up. Right. Start walking through the door. He throws another punch. Right grabs him. Pa. Yeah. Like, look, mama, I can do this all day. I don't want to hurt you, brother. Right. What do you want to do? The police is on the way. Yeah. They already called the police. Now, I'm giving you a chance to get out. Boom. Get's back up. We get him to the front door. My brother throws another punch. Fred hits him in the face. Yeah. The rose him on the ground again. And he's like, look, we going to wait for the police. We going to leave. Yeah. I got all day, my guy. And that was it. That was, I swear to God, Sean. That moment, right? I think I was 16. Don't quote me on the age. All right. I'm 55 now. I don't remember everything. But I think I was 16 or 15 or whatever. And watching my brother walk down. And I felt that because I love my brother. You know, but he has nowhere to go. Right. Really does. He's just walking. But it was at that moment, like, where I'm like, oh, shit, we're safe.

7:10I'm safe now. That matter. I could not do that to my brother. That matters, though. That feeling. Yeah. Safety. Like just like my back got straight. You know what I mean? I stood next to Fred and yelling at my brother. Yeah. Yeah, man. And there's more of that. Right? Yeah. We're on their way. Bro, when we used to tell my brother that it comes around their way, he's like, they better send two more cop cars. Like it was that type of shit. Like on his back and hitting them. And like, come some of my brother. Just look at me. Do I tell you this? Or you just look at me? No, you didn't. Oh my God. He would just look at me like they're scared, man. Looking up. They're scared. Wow. And I'd be like looking at my brother like, I'm scared. I'm scared. Robert. Oh, this. He's just put the fucking handcuffs on. So we can go to sleep. Well, I mean, and I love my brother. Yeah. I mean, he knows that. Yeah, he knows that. But he needed Fred in his life. He needed it.

8:10And I really needed it. Yeah. And you know, my Fred taught me how, you know, play sports, throw a football, and just like, yeah, protection. Like, it was just crazy. Like, I loved it. And that's why this, this special means so much to me. Because it's something I've been holding on to for like years. I've been telling, I've been telling Fred stories for so long. Yeah. And then I was like, man, but this won't be the right time to do this story. Big dad. Well, don't, bro. And you know, he just passed. So it's just like, this is my final. Rest in peace, Fred. Yeah. And this, this whole special is dedicated to you. Yeah. To you. To you. Yeah. Now this is, I can't wait for you to watch it. No, I can't wait either. It's, it's on September 15th. September 15th Netflix. Yes. And so while you're watching this, you're going to watch this first, and then you're going to watch this special. Because this is going to be on the same day. Oh, yes. So is that how I say it? Special. That's how I say it. That's how I say it. No, no, no, no, no. Okay, good, good. We do this raw, baby. Yeah. Pause. Pause. Yeah, just.

9:11Yeah. Pause. Or the two little lights. Right. Right. Right. There you go. Just for a second. Let it, let it marinate. Let it marinate. And then, and then we're going. Press play. Yeah. Press play again. Yeah. Don't look me dead in the eye on a straight face. One. I like it raw, man. Like, all right, Sean. I gotta go now, man. Stop it. Jesus. We just started. Come on. All right. I like it raw, dog. What? Sean, what did you just say? You know what I mean? The show. What? I like it raw, dog. Till you're blue in the face. Oh, okay. Talk. Okay. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Why did you say that? Mahal Kitab, bro. Means I love you. Sean. I love you raw. I love you raw, man. Okay. That was fun. That's what we wanted to be at. That was great.

10:12Yeah. Yeah. Good times. Good times. Okay. Now, um, you're six. You're six special. Yeah. Does it still feel like the first? Bro, I love it. I love, I love stand up so much. Like, I can't even tell you how much. Like, this is, it wanted to my savior. You know what I mean? Richard Pryor. You know, it's so cliche when you hear a comic go. Richard Pryor. Bro, Richard Bucket Pryor. Like, it's, it's not, it's not even about. I, I think I have to explain why. It's like, now the access is so easy, right? You can look up any comic. Yo, I saw this guy yesterday at the chuckle hut. And you type in guy at chuckle hut yesterday. And Google's like, oh, you mean Timothy, my mom. Yeah, he's up in comic. He's been doing it for about a year. Like, just know the fucking bio race. Yeah. Which is dope. That's the access of these kids have. Bro, we didn't have that back then. I personally would love to see Timothy.

11:12Yeah, blah, blah. He sounds pretty funny. He's very funny. But what I was saying is back then, we didn't have that access. Like, there was three networks, bro. And if you weren't like famous, you weren't getting on it. So there was a lot of underground black comics that we didn't see. There was a ton of Asian comics that no one knew about. There was a lot of Latino comics that no one knew about. It was just dead, just, just in some kind of secret society, you know what I mean? That no, that the elite, let us see. It sucked. So when you dig it, a glimpse of like a richer prior, you know what I mean? Like, it's life changing. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. So I'm not relating to these sitcoms about these nuclear white families. Right. You know what I mean? With a mom and dad, I don't have that. I have a struggling mom and I got a dad and Phoenix and we're broke as shit. Do you have anything like that that I can listen to? Yeah, real talk. Can I hear that? I don't care what color it is.

12:12Just bring them to me. Sometimes those shows, when I think about it, there was some residual, not guilt, but it was more like sadness. Yes. Like when you like looked at like silver spoons. For all come on, man. I'm a droader. Like, I don't know if you're a little too young, but like silver spoons was about this kid that basically lived in this amazing house. Yeah. I mean, he had a Chuchu train going through the house. Well, here's the thing. He didn't have the Chuchu train. His dad had the Chuchu train. That's right, because he was more. That was a kid. Yes, his dad was the kid. Yes, right. Ricky was more of the mature. That's right. Yeah, that's right. But to look at that house and to look at mine, that kind of thing, you kind of go, bro, it was like, I'm never going to need, bro, you don't think I said the same thing? I'm never going to like it. And how many times you go, when I make it, oh, mine, Chuchu train. Yeah, I'm going to get a Chuchu train. I'm going to ride the caboose to the kitchen. No, right, but no, real talk. For real.

13:13Listen, one time we were at Michael Jackson's house. Yeah. Right. Hold on. And let me just look at the camera. This is what I'm telling you guys. Like, sometimes you'll be at home going, man, I wish I was friends with someone that had Grammys. Like, that would be so cool to be like, like really close friends with someone that's saying, you know, some of the biggest songs of our generation and change culture and beat Elvis Presley's record and Whitney Houston's record. And then you become friends with him. And then they do these humble brags like, bro, I was having breakfast with Michael Jackson at that house. And let me tell you, when we jumped in the pool, we were like, this is not warm enough. And Michael was like, I'll be right back. And you're like, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, no, I don't know what the fuck you're saying. The fuck are you saying?

14:13Can I finish my story? I guess. Jesus. Come on, man. All right, go. All right, thanks. So you're at Michael Jackson. Please tell me. You know, I forget it. I'm not going to do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right. Okay, okay. What I'm saying was it correlates with the train, man. Yeah. Okay? Because he had a room. Right. He had a room in his house where it looked like a small, practically a small city. He had this huge platform. And it was like a small town with a railroad track. Wow. It was like, oh, he did have a railroad track. I remember that. Like in his room, no. Oh, he had like the town, the state store, the mountains. And I remember just watching the thing. How old were you? I mean, we were in our 20s. I think at the time. Still kids. Yeah. Yeah. So I just remember watching that. I was like, oh, this shit. I was just watching the trains just go around and round.

15:16I'm just, this is 91, 92. No, a little later than that. It was like more like 93, 93, 94. And I remember that. And I always said one day, and I haven't gotten it yet. But I want to be able to have a room where it just looks like a small town. Yeah. And I hit a button and the train goes and the train was stopped and it would pick up cargo and shit. Like it was so fire. In 93? Yeah. No, Michael hadn't. He had it. I bet you those real people operating like that. It could have been. Yeah. Little Midgets that he found. Is that that's that's that's politically incorrect? Yeah, yeah. Just say little small people. Yeah. I didn't say that. That's okay. We'll cut that. We'll cut that. I'm sure. We'll cut that. We'll cut that. Little small people. Yeah. But is that yeah? Okay, little people. Little people. Yeah. All right, cool. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah, six special.

16:16No, no, no, no, but let's go back to Michael Jackson. Yeah. Look, I want I want to ask you a question about Michael. Okay. Because now that he's gone, it's like it's like all you have are stories now, you know what I mean? So like I want to hear him all. But like when he invited you to the house, was it was it just because like just to get to know you guys or was there a moment where he was like we should do a song together? Because that would have been amazing. Well, a song was never brought up. Damn. That would have been so sick because that was all make love to your era, right? Yeah. 1993. Yes. 93.94. You know, our relationship with Michael, I still can't believe it to this day. I think if I'm allowed to say, he just liked us. Yeah. Well, who did it? No, he just liked us. Like Michael would find out we're in town.

17:17Yeah. It was one time that we were in New York City. I tell the story a few times. He found out we were in town called one of our security. Hey, Michael, want to see you guys. This is around the time where he was making the the dangerous album with Teddy. Yeah. So we get into town. We drive to the to the hit factory. And he's there and he invites us in and he invites us to his room. And within that five to 10 minutes, we were there. Yeah. He taught me personally so much. First off, you walk in, he has a bed in the room. So basically, he's sleeping in the studio. Wow. We're guessing that's the first thing I thought of. This dude's not even leaving the studio. Wow. He's got a bed in the studio. So basically gets up in the morning or whenever he comes up with ideas and he created that masterpiece which was the dangerous album. Yeah. Would that be cool if you asked him? And he goes, that's not my dad. I've been thinking the same thing. I don't know why that's here.

18:18Things are, why is this, why is this bed here? And everything you thought that it would work having. And then he looks at you goes like this. I'm here for like 45 minutes. And I got to go buy a train set at FAO shorts. That's what I'm doing. I got to do a couple hiccups. Teddy's going to do a couple slap hands. Right, right, right, right, that's it. Teddy's going to wrap real quick. And I'm done. And I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm buying train. Time. I'm at FAO. Oh my god. Can you remember FAO? Yes. It's a love FAO. It's a good. Anyway, I'm sorry. The work ethic. Holy cow. Yeah. Okay. So work ethic. Work ethic. He had a chalkboard in his room. And he told us, this is my five year plan. He had a five year play hat's nuts. Like for some of do this,

19:18and I'm going to do this, I'm going to tour Mars basically. Wow. I'm going to go here. I'm going to meet with the Klingons. I'm going to defeat Thanos. Like he had a whole thing lined up. And that was another thing. Like wow, he got it lined up to five years. That was really a thing. Yeah. So in the movie, he showed that too. Yeah. How he says, I'm not going to do interviews anymore. Yeah, no, no. I'm going to do one last tour. A lot of that movie was very, very true. Like the sticky notes, the stuff that he would write to himself. That's so true. Like all of those things, like I took in just within that 10 minutes. And we had a deep conversation. And we never go too deep into the conversation. He's like, do you like trains? Yeah. And you're like, this is so deep. Yeah, this is heavy. This shit is just not heavy.

20:19It's just got so heavy right now. I'm so heavy. Yo, can I go to the other room and come back? Hold on. Did you say trains? Did you say trains? Like the one in your house? Because then what are we going to do is I need a mentally prepared myself. I'm going to go. Caboose. Caboose. How many cars? No, but, um, cargo. Cole. Yeah, so yeah, so yeah, right, right, right. So, so he tells us, and I say this all the time. And again, it, we didn't really understand why he said this to us until much later. But he was like, guys always know your words. Don't let anybody tell you that you are worth less than what you really are. And he said never forget that. He said always know your words. That's so crazy, man. You know, it wasn't until like later, you saw how much of a badass he was. Michael was a G, but he was a GG.

21:19It's so crazy because then you hear all these stories. You're like, wow, he really was that guy. Yeah, don't let the high pitch voice for you first off. And he was the only one that talked back to Joe Jackson, right? From what I know, it's, I don't know. I don't want to say too much or whatever. I don't know who they said in the movie. Oh, he's the only one that would snap back at him. And I've always heard that about him. But it was also like, you know, it was always like stuff like that. Oh, your worth. Don't sell out blah blah. And then I heard that one story about Eminem dissing him, you know, record. And then he just went, what is that? A lot of cattle. A whole cattle. Making a song with Paul McCartney. And then Paul McCartney's like, trying to, I'm trying to raise money for those. I'm on one of them. I want to know all the Beatles catalog. I'm a buy. And Michael's like, oh, really? Yeah. This is, he got to make a phone call like this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, buy the Beatles. Yeah, exactly. No, what I was told a lot the Beatles catalog. No, what I was told was he was going to tell Pete told Paul

22:20that he was going to buy it and Paul laughed at him. Really? Like laugh almost like, huh, whatever. Michael said, huh, watch this. Hold my glove. Yeah, how you gonna laugh at the guy that just sold the most records of all like, he has the money. He bought that bitch. Yeah, he bought that bitch. He bought Beatles. He bought the Beatles. Ladybugs. Grasshoppers. Yes. Bumblebees. He bought all the insects. He bought Eminem. Eminem. Snickers. Kit Katz. He bought all the chocolates. And payday. No, it was his payday. Yes, exactly. No, Michael was a, he was a real boss. And one of the reasons why a lot of folks didn't like him. Yeah. Really? He held a lot of cards, man. I mean, look, we just, wow, this is blown my mind. We just rattled off, you mean my ears itch. We just rattled off just a little bit of catalog. He bought, he had more. But the little bit of catalog that he bought.

23:22The Beatles, bro. Already Billion. The Beatles? The Beatles? He had it. A black guy. Easy, dude. With a Jerry curl. Yeah. Or a perm. Or a part, both. Both. Depending on what decade. Exactly. He had them both. And them both. And the fro. Would have been dope though when he, when he, when he separated from Sony and just did things on his own. And they, like, they made himself black. Like a super like, like, like injections and then an afro. And then it was like, his next time was like, I'm back, like Jordan. You just lower his voice. I'm back, mother. I'm back, mother fuckers. Surprise, mother. Yeah. This time, you're gonna beat it. I'm back, mother fuckers. I'm wearing both gloves. Yeah, yeah, you know, you do, hey, do the move and you hold it like, like, junk. Yeah, but his dick actually comes out. Right. And he holds it. You thought I was bullshit. Boom.

24:23Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Just looking at the camera. Your butt is my. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. This is the thing. He's laughing though. No, he's laughing. He's, he's laughing his head off. He's dying right now. He loves it. Michael, Michael. He will always do that. She's like, no, talk about him. Let him rest in peace. I'm the fucker. They want to hear that. No, no, no, Michael. I want to hear if you're still talking about him. Yeah, don't forget that. And he was a prankster. He was a prankster. And he grew up with a family from Gary, Indiana. Yeah. If you know anything about Gary and Andy. No one does. Well, yeah, not one person in here or even out there. Let me tell you something. Is bro, he's so stupid. It's pretty hood. Is it really? Yeah. No. Yeah. Damn. Gary's hood.

25:23Yeah, but go like to do you play small town still or no? Yeah. It's my favorite. Me too. Like secondary markets are like where I like shine them up. Like I enjoy it. It's a moment of relaxation. It's like you're in a town where it's just like, yeah, we got a coffee house. But Starbucks is 45 minutes away from here. Yeah, I mean, but we got nice. Rebecca makes some scones with some jalapenos. Rebecca makes some go. And cheddar cheese and it's delicious. And she's got and her beans she gets it from Costco, but she does good with it. You should try it. And you go to this place and you have a coffee there. Yeah. It's a house that they turn into a coffee. Like I love it, bro. I love going to those towns like that. I do too. Yeah. I love those cities because they're here. They're up for it. They're up for it. They've been waiting four months for them. They've been able to take it. They brought the outfits. They're ready to party. And then you get the best reactions.

26:23Best thrift stores are in small towns like that. Great. Just like you were lying. You weren't joking about the coffee and stuff. Like those small local. Yeah. Some of the best coffee tea best. Muffins. Yep. I've ever had. Yep. Isn't like in a small town where I have one lady walk up to my table. That was the cutest shit. Yeah. It's good, huh? Yeah. Yes, it is. I know. I know. What'd you think of the carrot cake? That takes me a long time to make. Yeah, right. Right. So you better say the right answer. Right. I'll do a little threat jokes. Put a laced apron. Yeah. Yeah. No, listen, man. I love those. I love those towns, man. Let me be the first to say it's hard to find hair products for men and women of color in many of the bigger stores. We ended up having to buy products that not only did not suit our hair texture, but end up damaging it in the process. We had nothing healthy for our hair until now.

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29:28So I always do that. And when I got to stocked it, man, like just, like I always knew that there were migrant, you know, the Filipino migrant workers were always in stocked in first. That's where they first came. But I know the history like that in depth, with the monos, like I knew about the monos, but I didn't know what they really endured and the racism that they went through. The killings that took place, you know, the, the, the, the burning down, like basically just, everything that happened to them, building the freeway inside Numenola so that they get displaced. Like there was a lot of negative energy that happened and stocked it. Remember, this is 100 years ago. I'm not trying to shine light on it, because, you know, now we're here in 2026. My whole goal is like, look, we can remember the past, but like, let's celebrate the future now. Like, yeah, let's, let's celebrate what these monos had to go through and what, and what they had to endure, the racism that they went through.

30:29And it sucks. But let's also remind ourselves, let's never go back to that. Yeah. All of us, we can get along. And now look, the, the very area where they didn't want us to hang out in, I just brought a bunch of cameras here. And we're hanging out in it. And I got this big Filipino son on stage for some artwork, just to remind everybody that we're still here. Yeah. So that, that was my whole like idea behind that, to like get awareness out, but also like uplift the community. I brought a lot of money to that town, man. But you bring Netflix anywhere. You're, you're generating a broad economy. The economy went through the roof that day. Yeah. They gave me the keys of the city. They gave me my own day. And it was a celebration. It makes people that are living there, especially of color, like Filipinos were just like, yo, we're here. And we've been here for a while. I have to say, I think that's the biggest takeaway from you doing two nights there. Yeah. Sold out nights. But yeah. The fact that it's like you said, the presence of your people

31:30was always there. And because of how a lot of these cities in America are structured, it's easy to kind of just push all those different ethnic groups to the side. Yeah. You put it in the forefront. Yeah. And you made people acknowledge you're people. Yeah. You're here. We're here. We've been here. We'll be here. Yeah. And we're to be celebrated. Yeah. And I think just because of that, your presence in being there and doing what you did for the city, not once but twice, allows people to really acknowledge the cultural diversity of the town. Yeah, man. And that's the biggest play. Yeah. The fact that yes, you made people laugh and all that. But if people really understood what was going on, they in the midst of all the laugh. And I hope everybody just took a moment to look around. Yeah. In the arena. Yeah. And see the melting pot of the yeah. I mean, the front row alone was just beautiful. Yeah. Like it was every color show.

32:32And they're just fans of comedy. Yeah. They're just bands of my comedy. Yeah. And that was just a beautiful thing to see. And it's like, and like we got into this point where it's like it's 2026. And for some reason, we're still putting ourselves in boxes. It's kind of like a dog when it you kennel a dog. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then you're like, Are we going to that? And then your dog walks to the kennel. Yeah. You don't mean like, I don't know if that's the right analogy. But what I'm saying is, let's stop putting ourselves in these boxes. Like sometimes we tend we have a tendency to do it to ourselves. We do. Stop. Like we, they get it. We all get it, bro. No, you're like, like we're, we're universal now. Like there's music that's always been the number one language for the world. Comedy is a close second ring. 100%. And the world and the internet has proved it. 100%. 100%. Yeah, we so it brings people together. I say this sometimes on stage, occasionally if inspiration hits me, but I tell people, like pause for a second.

33:38I'll normally say it near the end of the show. I say I want everybody to take a second and look around. Yeah. So look at each other. Yeah. What do you see? You see black, you see white, you see Asian, you see Latino, you see everything. Like this is proof positive that we can get along if we want to. Yeah, man. Because we sat here for hour and a half. Yeah. There was no fights. Yeah. There was no disagreements. There was nobody arguing about anything stupid or silly. And we all sang the same songs together. Yeah. I love that. Just keep that in mind, guys, as you walk out of the building, that this can be that. Outside. Love that. If you want it. If you want it to. So stop listening to that outside noise. Yeah. Because that's when you know that friction is being made. Yeah. And it's how you respond to it. And it's how you respond to it. When I always say this too, like we live in a time like with this younger generation that they listen to reels.

34:39Yes. And it's it's 60 seconds of some bullshit about somebody else. But that they don't want to like they don't want to like investigate or or figure out like your own opinion. You just take the story headline, listen to the 30 seconds of whatever negative thing they have to say. And then you just regurgitate it, right? Without anything. And I always tell everybody that's not real information. That's why they spell it are EEL. Because it's not fucking real. That's a bar. So just stop. Go outside. Go outside. Just go outside. Stop living in the palm of your hand. Because all that shit is that's that's that this whoever owns this, they're doing it for a reason. Because you can't control society unless there's friction. If we're all lovey-dubby and we're all kumbaya holding hands, guess what? The guys up here, the controls, the controls gone and they can't sell that shit. They can't. We need friction, bro.

35:39Yeah. We need to control you guys somehow. Right. You know, it's the only way you're invited. You are absolutely right. 100. And it's nothing worse than seeing people of the same race with that crab mentality. And not realizing what it takes for us to get to where we needed to get just to hold the door open for you. Like the struggle, like investigate that shit, man. Find out what the fuck we did in the racism that we had in the door. Just so that you can go through a little easier. Not that much easier. Right. But the door has been cracked open. Yeah. By two cats that were broke, that didn't even know anybody. And all we have was this gift and this dream. And we followed it. We pursued it. That's shit's dope. Yeah. And walking that door and walked in man. By the way, my door was still locked to 2016. Yeah. 2015 was still locked. I was like, one of my I'm up 37 years in the game right now. I started 89. So look 10 years ago, I was like,

36:39I was 47, bro. Like with a son. Right. Go what the fuck? And you're like, when am I going to get this special, bro? You can't push him. Pay for myself. So if you investigate that information, you didn't understand that like the hustle and the grind of what someone did. Then bro, you'll appreciate what you're doing. But if you're going to just sit there and throw, hey, and just be this cloud all the time, then we're not going to move. None of us are going to fucking move. Right. We're not. We're going to stay right here. And who's who's capitalizing on that? The person that caused the friction. That's it. That's it. Bro. It's really that simple. It's that simple. You know what I'm talking about. I'm 100%. It's within our own culture that does that shit. Yes, we do. It's the weirdest shit. It is don't get it. It's weird. The only way to combat it is just like you said, block the noise. Block the noise, bro. Because what people are not going to understand is the process. Never. Because they're not made to understand. Yeah. They're made to hate the process. Yeah. Or to take the process and pick it apart.

37:42Yeah. And act like it doesn't work. It's a yellow, bro. You shouldn't be doing that. Or you know if you do that, you're going to be labeled as just just just. Yeah. You know, you are this. You are that the whole thing and block it out. It's crazy. It's a big. It's a bigger picture. It is. That we always have to look at. Yeah. And it not be about what everybody thinks is correct. Because most of the time, they're not seeing the same thing. No. They don't get it, bro. No. They really, it's you. Here, I'm going to give you a perfect example. Before the internet, and before there was Instagram or Facebook, right? Like, hey, come see me live. I make a flyer on whatever, chat GBT, right? And it makes me a flyer in six seconds, right? Right. And then I can size it. And then I can send it to all my fans. And then on top of that, it gives me a boost option for like $5.99. And I send that out to 19 million people. Right. Right. I can do that. Right. Right. That's the option that they live.

38:43That's what they have now. Right. You and I didn't have that option. We had King Co's. We had King Co's. We had one color. Yeah. You had a white piece of paper. Or you buy colored paper and put black ink on that. That was expensive. That was expensive. I went with white paper. Yeah, yeah. And then you put four to a page. Then you cut that so 100 pages. 100 white pages give you 400 flyers. You cut them up. Sometimes it'd be angled because I didn't cut them straight. And then you know the parking lot, you put them in windshield. Yes. And at the end of the night when the mall's empty, you see about 200-year-old Dan Flores on the goddamn ground. That's right. And you just got to suck it. I'm keep doing it. Yep. Guess what I still do to this day. And what we can go to my car, I still make flyers. Yeah, that's cool. To this day, bro. That's cool. Five by seven full-color flyers that can't beat this logo right here. Yeah. And I'm still, if I go to a copy house, drop it. You can't beat that. No, man. Because that's my passion. Yeah. So you can't sit there and get mad at what's going on in my career.

39:46But you know what you can do? You can just look at it and just take the blueprint. Yeah, I think it's safe to say if anyone who wants to do what you're doing, if they don't even refer to you in some way, shape or form, then you just need to quit. Like knock it off. Like the guy is successful. Did I tell you he sold out so far? Did I say that? I don't know if I said that. Did I say that? Yeah. I think I said that. Love you as there, man. It was dope. Yeah. So about my point is there are certain things. Yes, times are going to change. The world is going to change. But there's some things that will never change. And that is human connection. Yeah. What you do on stage and why your jokes hit and why your stories hit is because everybody can relate to them, Joe. Yeah. The human, like the human experiences that sometimes when we go through them, we may not laugh at the time. But the genius that you create is that you're

40:50able to make us laugh at ourselves. Makes the load a little lighter. Because it allows us to understand and reevaluate. You know what? Life ain't that serious. It doesn't have to be. It was the all go through the things that we go through. But it doesn't mean that we can't make room to laugh. Yeah. To smile. To look at other people and to enjoy each other's company. That's really why we do what we do. We work as hard as we do, Joe. And everybody out there so we can have more access to human things. Yeah. To be able to sit, to laugh, to drink, to smoke, to watch your favorite television show, and to just be happy. Yeah, man. You know what I'm saying? Now, you may be. And also do all those things. Raw. Raw. You know what I mean, Doc? Raw.

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43:53But we didn't have that, right? Like, do you think Brooklyn understands like this is a crazy reality that she's in? Like to be able to be like, Dad, I want no boo. Hmm. You know how insane that question is? Do you even understand how insane that question? Not only is it sushi on a Tuesday, but it's no boo sushi in Malibu. And that's what you want, girl. A piece of rice is 50 bucks. You want that? Yeah. Well, you know, but that's crazy. You know what I asked my mom? Can I have water? Yeah. Where is the water off to? Right, right. Yeah, I can. I'm really the joke. You know, you're just a real story. I want people to understand how broke we were. Because I don't think people really understand. Like my mom was not getting the child support that she needed for three kids, bro. It was crazy. Do you remember the little Kool-Aid packets, the little square one?

44:54And then you added a half a pound of sugar. And that was a drink. Yeah, it was a drink. It was delicious. It was just diabetes water. It was great. Bro, you know my mom, we ran up, dude. This is crazy. Let's say this right now and get emotional. But we had lemon, the lemon-nade packet, right? Kool-Aid, poured it in. No sugar. You know what she did? Brown sugar. And mixed it in there. How did 10? Bro, it tastes like shit. Ah! And I remember just like yelling at my mom because I'm a kid. And I don't understand that. Like, I ain't got money. And she's like trying to convince me that's gonna be good. It's sugar. Yeah, it's sugar. Sugar, Joseph. Sweet. But I'm just looking at her like, but like now that I'm this age, I'm like, God, damn, bro. Yeah. Oh, by the way, those packs were like 15 cents maybe. Yeah. Remember the little Kool-Aid? Yes. Like 15 cents? Yeah, 15 cents.

45:54Yeah. Yep. Like she didn't have enough money to make me Kool-Aid, bro. Yeah. Yeah. I remember this. Here's my fucking kid going, I had sugarfish. Which is okay. Right, right, right. The situation where it is. Right, right. My son does understand the value of it all. Yes, yes. But it's just like, man, what a reality that they live in. Let me tell you this story. Because, and then I'll tell you about my kids. I used to make sugar bread. Mm. Oh, I love sugar bread. To be honest, I can still eat sugar bread now. Yeah. That's just broke ass cinnamon roll. Yeah, sugar bread roll. I put cinnamon on that. Oh, shit. You had cinnamon, boy. You rich as fuck. That's cinnamon. Ah! Bro. You rich, yeah. I'm pretty sure you didn't have butter, huh? No, no. No, hell, no. Country cropped. That's just melted butter. You sure you were broke? Country crock, that's broke. That's expensive, though. That's not expensive. I had government butter. Oh, yeah. I had that with my son.

46:55You don't know that. We were so broke. I was on government assistance when we had my son. And government butter. Yeah. With gum and cheese. To be honest, though, it's good. Yeah, the goodest hell. The government cheesed it, too. My sister got out to Titaria, love you. Oh, hold on. Let's sit on that name for a second. Are you talking about Titaria? Like that, that same man? I'm a Titaria. Yeah. And what's cool about that? You know, that's an ancient civilization. You know what's cool about my sister? What? She has this gray streak that goes like, we all gray early. And she's had this for years. And she has this one gray streak, like rogue from the X-Men. Wow. That's cool. It's so fire. But you have that gray. Yeah, I got it. But I kind of die. This is real. I do have the gray blotch. I get it from my pop. Yeah. And but 80% honestly, of my hair is gray. I dye it. And I just leave the gray patch. Oh, you're gray all the way? What?

47:55If I let my hair go, look, I painted this just before we started this five. If I let my hair go, like I would look, if my hair would practically be white. Really? You look like a guy that sells cookies. Hello, kids. Hey, kids, I'm sure. I like John the Chip. Look, look. You're having a real cane sugar. And then all the poo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. John's dog may case sugar cookie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chocolate chips and goodies. I come to spend, you can't go poop. You have milk? And then you look at go, oh, the bug I rich. The chip cookie. It just walked out. Yeah. The bug I rich. That's funny. That's the motto.

48:56Sure, sure. It's chocolate chip cookies. The bug I rich. The bug I rich. It's gray hair to go, T. But don't. It frees it off a foot up. The bug I rich. Did. John's dog may chocolate chip cookies. Coming to it. It's super market near you. Yeah. Look at love it. But hey, listen. As far as my kids shout out. Silver spoons brought to you by Sean Stockman. Chocolate chip cookies. But don't order. Other hunger. I ain't rich. Don't. Don't. But wait, shout out to Brooklyn to Micah to tie. You're a good kid, man. Yeah, Micah sons too. My kid, my daughter, she likes noble. OK, cool with me. Yeah. But she's also dead. Can we go to ending out? Yeah.

49:57Need to get that burger. I'm hungry. It's been cheering all day. Yeah. I need a burger. I need a burger, dad. I need a burger. Let's get that burger. I was like, we're going to get that burger. Yeah. So and even in tie, I always joke with him. He's going to hate it. What if I say this, but I'm saying it anyway. Why do you always start off a tie story with he's going to hate it when it's going to do? Because he's so like, dad. But you know what? You know what I noticed about you? You and your wife. You always say something like, well, you know, tie. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we better stuff. And then I go see Ty. He's like, hey, Jim. It's like, it's not the description that they fucking. Yeah. Because you don't get to see the tie to people. I like the tie I see. Well, we were in Hawaii. I love Hawaii. I love Ty. Ty's an amazing kid. He's an amazing kid. Sometimes he's kind of like, oh, dad, you know, he got to say that. But you know, I always joking. I was like, he's going to be like a rich slum lord. Yeah. Like because he doesn't care about material stuff.

50:59Yeah. He doesn't do the Gucci, Louis thing. He thriffs. He doesn't want some fancy car. And because when I first got him a car, I was like, it, man, I get you anything you want. Yeah. What do you want? I'm thinking Range Rover, some. He's like, no, jeeps. Why? That's my son too. Yeah. Like you're sure? He was like, yeah, that's so nuts. And he's had it for years and don't want to try. He's fine. That's what I'm saying. My kids are so chill. That's so cool, man. My son too. Yeah. I'm doing all this thing. I was just asking about Brooklyn. You know what I mean? Because I didn't know. But like, yeah, that's my son too. Yeah. Same thing. Like she's a little, little, little, he's a little, yeah, she's a little, she gets it from a mama. Yeah. So she's a little, your, charada is very glamorous. Yeah, she's a piece of cat. She's a peacock. Yeah. It's a peacock. She is. She'll tell you. She sees a peacock. She's bloody. The nails, the, the pow, like, no. You ain't got ever seen. Don't you hate it?

51:59Don't you hate it when you know someone that could just put anything on it. It looks fly as shit. Like if I put on a Charada outfit, they're gonna be like, oh my god, Joe's homeless. What happened? What happened? He just told out so far. What happened? You blow it all on drugs? Toronto put a oversized jacket on some camel pants some Adidas and look funky not only does it work It's like it's for hope. Yes, no. Yeah, she's she's always had that taste that flare for yeah putting stuff together This took me like 45 minutes to put together. I'm like does this match right to wake my son up This blue match with blue I Can we animate yes, I would love to like a piece like a Back of these right you at gray hair to go T gray hair go T's yes, it's like I used to be

53:02I used to be an award-winning RBC, but I love cookies. Yeah, love cookies. I moved to Hawaii and all I do is bake That's all you do like the last years of your life. You're just barefoot on like Maui with a grass skirt Grass skirt sandal I'm masculine one the ones that you're the guys with the fire batons Yeah, you're that guy is right and I make my cookies raw I forgot You like cookies? Then you should eat them raw I do Mother fuck I rich did Bro that should you know we got a campaign. I want it cookie should really make these cookies come on Yeah, or we can just white label it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bye. I could just put your face on it. There you go. I work on it I work on it tonight. I'll send you to renders You know why I said that because I remember there was a bag of cookies with an old black guy on it

54:07The famous amazamus Well, and they were amazing bro. I still eat them. They're in a bag amazing. They're amazing cookies I'm gonna shout out of amazing cookie maker right now. Who's that black man by the name of Anthony Anthony? He's in the bay. Okay, Anthony's cookies. I have to shout him out and you know what? I'll give you his information, okay, and he will ship them to you shout out to Anthony in the bay That was quick Even try to yeah, oh Shout out to Anthony in the bay. You know, we love the bay. Yeah, you know, I'm saying so I love I personally I'm a peanut butter cookie guy. He bro. I love snickered doodles. Oh he could do it. I like sugar cookies. Yeah, and my wife loves chocolate chip and What's my daughter she likes chocolate? No, she doesn't like chocolate chip. She likes sugar cookies too. So hey man You know, yeah, I'm an official sponsor of one that knows I'm gonna tell him that you said that. Yeah, he's gonna trip when you see it No, the next the next time I

55:08Do it do a show If he sends the cookies I'll put the bag right there. That's so I'll put it up. Yeah, no, I'll make sure he puts you on a yearly plan He's he's amazing. Yeah You're black guy. Yeah, he started making him out of his house Too good to be at the house now. He's got a brick and mortar. Yeah, bro. I it's mandatory that I go to go there and Every time I have a show there he just hit me up by the way, cuz I'm gonna be an Oakland. Oh, he's an Oakland Yeah, and he's like well, he's in the bay. He's in San Francisco. Oh, okay, and then I don't know I just said that but it's the same thing. Yeah, it's got it, but uh, but he he's gonna Once again, he's he's gonna bring me like 36 cookies. So yeah, dope can't wait. Yeah, anyway now listen support Uh, support local businesses. Yeah, and especially people that are trying to make it man. Yeah, right? It doesn't hurt even if it's just a post on Instagram anything Just to bring awareness to someone Can I do it all the time, bro? You should do it too. I do For into a copy house shout out to a young lady

56:10Not forget her name, but I did post a picture. She made us these amazing hats. She's out of Baltimore And uh, she made these great hats for us with each with our initials in it and they're so funky Like this super super dope. So again, you know who I'm speaking of so shout out to you Thank you so very much for presenting that um to us in B more like it was super fly and I will be wearing them For wearing wearing to add anything. I was a naive. Yeah, for sure. Now listen man. Listen to it. I I got off the page No, it's okay. It's I rambled a lot. No, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's good stuff But you made millions of people laugh telling stories about your family. Yeah, right? At this point when something embarrass and happens that things giving yeah Does everybody look at you and say don't you fucking dare? No, they already know. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah It's there's it's like by the way when I talk it's my story. Yeah You just happen to be in my goddamn story right now if you don't want to be in it Don't come to Thanksgiving This is my story right. I'm talking about my life right so it none of them like yo bro. Yeah, don't don't don't do that

57:15They just know it's it's it's it's going It's probably gonna go viral. It's gonna probably go viral. Yeah now what I love is when I you know I'll talk to the crowd. You know what I mean? I do I love you know I love every element of standard right like even when I tell a story if you watch it like if you listen to it You see the structure of it like there's always like The exact way it's supposed to come yeah, and it's so funny because my son goes dad you talk in joke like you talk in joke Right he's like like but I don't mean to I think I was just such a student of it like I I understand yeah, I know how to like Do my voice. I know how to Yeah, I'm gonna voice levels. I know how to bring it down. I know how to set you up I know how to pause which I learn from Joe Tory by the way Big shout out to Joe Tory. I love you. I'm not I'm not this but you do it. So I'll do it. Yes Are you an old are you a cue? I'm a signal. Oh, okay. Yeah, one is a cue, right? Yeah, but anyway, uh But Joe Joe, but man, dude, but yeah, he turned me out of pause and mm-hmm and just uh

58:20Yeah, but at that that's how like even if I'm telling a story you'll see it like you'll be like oh shit. This is Exactly how you're supposed to write it. Yeah But it just comes naturally like I don't and then another thing is like my callbacks like I don't know where they come from Hmm the callbacks just that's what I like about it. They're crazy. Yeah, what what you do like Joe will say he'll get into his set and He'll like find somebody in the audience. He'll have like a moment with about five minutes Yeah, and then he'll go back into his set And then he calls back to that person in the middle of the joke. Yeah in the other joke. It's crazy That's ridiculous roll. I swear to God and I'm not trying to like lie. I'm pat I'm bragging about myself But I'm not really not really not because I want you to say I'm Joe I want you to understand that I really love comedy so much that like Like even when I go backstage when when I say good night. Yeah, it's the first thing we all talk about like like we

59:21Like all my openers and even my son's like yo, and then you brought the yeah the thing at the beginning And like that's crazy because it was about the copyhouse and then you Tied it into done and then it connected and yeah, and I literally looking at go I don't know what's going on. It's like an out of body like it really is because it just it literally like Like I literally just trust my gut. Yeah, and my mouth Right, right, right, right, like I don't all work. I never let this interfere This is that me since yeah, yeah, like I'll never question it 100% if it falls flat it falls flat My fall on my face. I don't give a fuck. Yeah. Yeah, that's the cool thing about this. Yes, it is hair Yeah, and and and sometimes even that's funny. Yeah, like like when when the joke doesn't land Yeah, and people know it didn't land and it's almost like this uncomfortable, but funny laughter. Yeah, where's like oh, okay Everyone physically saw someone do oops right Oops, yeah my bad and that's okay. It's okay You're allowed to fail. Yeah, I think that's when people don't understand it home

1:00:25You're supposed to fail. Oh, that's 100% that's the problem a lot We're supposed to fail fail fail. Yeah You know who's and that's not failing that's that's winning. Yeah, I think that's the misconception. Oh my god He failed everyone on the internet. Oh my god. Did you see me failed? Yeah, no he won. Yeah, the person that fails is the one that has a dream or an idea It doesn't try. Mm-hmm. That's barely. Mm-hmm Yeah Did you never go to Michael Jordan be like yo, you remember when you lost to Boston? In the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying you remember Larry bird You taught you shot 63 points man. What a fucking wasted effort Fucking bird hit that three to win by yeah, by by Michael. What's your last name right? Right? Right? No, he learned Michael Be like what the fuck are you really talking about the day I failed? Yeah, cuz I went on to win six. Yeah, it's funny cuz there was a sometimes I go live and

1:01:27You know me and the guys did a few television appearances to summer One I will admit wasn't the greatest performance wasn't the greatest representation of who we were, but it happens, right? Yeah, and You know, I'm on a live and I'm looking at people kind of met and some girl Goes off. Hey, I saw you on this show It wasn't that good and it was this that did it like a oh, yeah, we can paragraph And I read it and I pause in the live And I read it out loud and I said at the end I said Sometimes we have bad shows Lars That's so good That's so good. We don't need to do. I don't know what you want what what you who is that statement for what do you want me to say? Yeah, who is it for though? Yeah, right like like Is it for you because it's not for me. I say what Mariah Carey. Yeah Right, we broke a record right like literally we made a record and we broke a record right like I don't know who you're talking to other than you Does it make you feel good to bring someone down to you? I hate to make this so public

1:02:29Yeah, there's a gentleman, but We screw up from time to time. Yeah, and that's fine. It's yeah, I know And it's not even a screw a soccer because the fact that we still went up on stage You know, I had I had walking the money one time right and the cat and the check was so big It was already sold out. Yeah, right And I remember like that the morning I woke up to go do it. I was like I was even talking like this And then uh I think I was like no, I'm fucking I gotta try. I gotta try and I really I literally went up I let everybody know that wasn't feeling good. Mm-hmm. I'm an hour and a half. I was just Sweating profusely Literally rushed to urgent care right when I got off stage You know what I mean, but they don't know that right no one knows that they're not supposed to they're not supposed to and that's fine Yeah, but they don't know what we go through. No, you know me. No, it's okay But this whole Going to what you respect to what you were saying is perfection thing shout out to JoJo

1:03:31She's an amazing vocalist amazing singer and she posted something maybe a few weeks ago about How she felt about Pre-recorded lead vocals. Yeah, I want television shows and stuff like that and how The ability to sing live is now gone because everybody's obsessed with being perfect And I posted under that and said is because people are afraid to be human and and part of My thrill of seeing people perform whether they're comedians whether they're guitar players singers or whatever It's seeing the human side of it Like I always tell the story of like I was a front and road of John mayor content And he's doing the song and then he rips into a solo right He fucks up and I hear him from the stage go ah Like I heard him say it like you know you know, he's a band on and he does a And he does it and he he went ah But then after that

1:04:33The cloud split really ripped that shit after that. He was like I was like that is what I look for that's no that's what I look for yeah like when you see somebody make a mistake But You the the genius is how to get out of it. Yeah And that's the that's the genius. Yeah to be able to say yes, I messed up Here's the problem Here's the solution. Yeah, and in real time Solve the problem. Yeah, that is dope. Yeah, that's amazing the human side of people who screw up who have a heck Do you ever had a heckler in your show and in the middle of your set and somehow it turns from your jokes to them? Yeah, and then the show just takes it to another notch because of How masterful You handled the problem. Yeah And people in real time witness to solution. Yeah, that's that's the best

1:05:39Yeah, but you know like What one For a singer it's different right for a comic the minute you say something on a keyword Like a keyword. I need to hit this word right here The minute you say something on top of that right? The joke you can go ahead and throw the whole joke away. It's done. Wow. So I have to divert So like to them they think oh man, it was just fun. It's like bro you You just one fuck the whole audience out of something that I you know That took me a couple years to write. Yeah, I mean you fucked them. They're never gonna be able to hear that Right and yeah, what what we had that interaction was a good time and it was funny everyone loved it But just understand what you did was like taking One of your songs away in the in the show Like the minute you guys start seeing a song that everyone's waiting for you know in Motown Philly

1:06:41and all of a sudden Someone does something stupid and the cops come we got to stop the song. Right. Right. You just rub Everybody from that one song that everyone's waiting for like literally that's what what happens when you just Do something stupid like that like I know that was a long explanation No, no, it just it it it it hurts more when it happens to a comic, but I don't think people understand What it is that you're doing like you're you're you really fucked up something really nice Hmm Probably said was blah blah blah. I know but you said it in the middle of a setup right the important part Right, I can't because now you want me to start thing over right and I can't pick up from after that Because they didn't hear that part that I need them to hear right so now I gotta throw everything away I never look into it. It's just one time, but like it's gone now. Wow, because of that I never looked at it that way. Yeah, it sucks. It really sucks And nothing and that's why you'll see you repeat you'll see someone repeat it

1:07:41You know what I mean like like if like they if someone yells out While you're setting up that that word right and and they yelled out you'll see them repeat the word again You really need to hear that word Yeah, I mean that's crazy. I never looked at it down. I always thought that it was When when comedians did that In circumstances like that there's almost like You guys played off like I just took it on a chance and yeah and kind of just kept it moving from that point. Yeah Looking at it from that yeah, listen to it. So it's so frustrating especially when it's something that you work Really hard for right like like I have a dog joke that I do you know when I talk about Kingston And there's this time where you need to listen like it's gonna be right. It's gonna be dead in the rule Need you to be dead. Yeah, I'm really gonna. I'm gonna hit you left I mean I'm taking you to the right right now, but I'm gonna fucking hit you real hard right and the minutes someone walked on it

1:08:44Oh Yeah, did I remember going I remember I remember I remember I left the joke And I also told that person like like you just killed something really cool, but it's all good right But Wow, but yeah, but then I then I had to like engage and yeah, of course I fucking destroyed them. Yeah, yeah right right But it was like put that it was just like I worked so hard like I was like I was setting this motherfucker up right old in any it was ready for it You had to do the some prick head to just something just yelled out something I had nothing to do with anything That's crazy. I want to never thought of it that way because again I've never written a joke or stood in front of anybody to tell a joke. Yeah, microphone in my life. Yeah, so when you guys do it It's almost like watching Jordan play. Yeah, man. Make it look so easy. Yeah, and the thing is they think that uh environments are not Crucial you know, I mean it's like it's like telling Michael Jordan to

1:09:44win a championship, but today The basketball court is gonna be made out of mud Right right now do that thing where you do that thing Yeah, it's you can't take our tools away bro. Yeah, we have tools. Yeah, yeah, like you know, I mean yeah, wow I never I've never seen it and just have it all you can eat sushi bar while you're trying to have someone talk It's all jokes right. Yeah, I mean, yeah, what are you talking about right now? Like no That's I think what you need is a circus clown right Oh, I think the power went out oh they went out What happened Did the battery die? Yeah, that was a good line to what I said. Yeah, well, we got you here. Oh, we still got it. Oh, no, man. Oh, that's the wide Yeah, that's the wide

1:10:46Oh Got hot That's never happened before Well, that's LED. Oh, there goes on. Yeah Wow, that's crazy The air condition is on though right because I feel it from time to time Okay, all right. That was a perfect example of a heckle Do you understand what you're saying? That's a perfect example of a heckle that is yeah when you're in a flow I was in the flow and I was really setting up the the whole you can't expect me To be funny when you're when I'm performing on it all you can eat You see buffet you're right. You guys are popping bottles right and you want me to Like that doesn't make sense. We asked who you're you're insane. I understand that better now. Yeah Yama va resort and casino it sandman well is bringing the biggest laughs to the stage Break taboos with Ali Wang on August 28th and 29th enjoy Ralph Barbosa's dry humor on September 18th and 19th

1:11:47And don't miss nicky glazers on apologetic comedy November 19th Tickets on sale now at Yama va theater dot com only at Yama va resort and casino celebrating its 40th anniversary You in must be 21 to enter Like in my whole career That was one thing I always you know my my agent was always like are you sure you don't want to do this gig for Good sprint Sprint cellular you know the conventions. Yeah, we're not convention like a what are they called? What was called a corporate corporate gig? Yeah, yeah, yeah, corporate Look at this check. Yeah, no man. Yeah, we're gonna be eating fucking turkey right there's gonna be a swan carved out of ice Hey And everyone's gonna run to it because they're getting free drinks out of it. There's gonna be a line at the goddamn Shrimp table. I'm not gonna lie and say to me and the guys haven't done no, but what I'm saying is Like music is cool because that the ambience sound, but it is distracting for you

1:12:51I get that but the ambient sound of music people love it. Yes, and not all that but people are also gonna still watch and listen Yeah, that's true I need you to not like the fucking plate with the knife and that's what I got you. Yeah, it's a little different and asking for bread please So you're out of the pretzel bread and I'm trying to set up Country crack. Yeah, yeah So you don't have butter? Well, then what kind of gig is this? I Just donated $2,500 I Won't go home and get some sugar bread. Am I gonna get some shan stock me cookie? Do I want milk motherfucker? I rich Didn't it Now listen, you spent your whole career well most of it talking about your mom your son your family being Filipino Yeah, what happens when the people in those stories start changing or Are in a round really talking about them being Filipino?

1:13:53Okay, just talk about my mom. Okay, does it happen to be Filipino? Okay, so does the book there's a big difference But because because of that connection. Yeah, does the comedy become more precious. Yeah Because those are real stories. Yes. Yeah, I mean So when I'm talking about my mom kicking out my sisters out of the house It's it's about a mom kicking her sister my sister's out of the house right now. There's an emotional attachment to it Yeah, where I was mentally when I was like I think when they were you know, I was like 12 My first sister got kicked out my sister's first sister got kicked out of 16 Like that was crazy. You know traumatic that shit is and you see to fight that in suit. Why does she get kicked out? And let's just keep that there Let's not explain okay Dynamic was crazy. Yeah, you know, I mean and Anyway, it's called being broke is what it's called broke struggle and fuck you sure sure I mean, so that's what that life was all about and I hate it, you know, and plus we had this my brother who is Mentally disabled who's also causing friction in the house, you know, I mean

1:14:57So I'm seeing all this shit happens like I'm just trying to escape with comedy. Yeah, I mean man, I also want to respect my mom like What she did was amazing like to be able to raise us in that environment With me a little money that she had with the racism that she's dealing with every day You know, I mean and just even the racism that's on TV that's being portrayed. Yeah, like that we got a watch Yeah, I mean yeah, because that's all we can watch right it's free TV. Yeah, so but but Anyway, what I'm trying to say is like Like I want to tell my mom's story and then you just happen to know that she's Filipino I then when you're done here in the story you go Yo, my mom kicked my sister out when she was 15 and now it becomes this thing of like oh, that's just mom shit. This is just life shit, right Everyone goes through it. Yeah, I guess I get it. No bullshit Sean in my 20s I never talked about my mom kicking my sisters out. I was so embarrassed

1:16:01I honestly thought I was the only person that had family members getting kicked out of house No, I was so embarrassed no, I wouldn't even I would literally not tell people yeah, like everything was just oh fucking Bros is at the house. It wasn't until I got older. I was like no, I need to start speaking my truth Because I'm dealing with like this PTSD on all my childhood right now, you know, I mean like I'm raising my son on like this this This old mentality, you know, I mean like I couldn't went that way. Yeah, you know me when I divorced Angie I could have caused friction in the household and did it the way they divorced right does that make sense? Yes, and I did it So like me telling those stories on stage man like that was like very like therapeutic. Yeah, what did you discover? And that in those moments that Having a diverse crowd normally in your audience that we're not so different after all yeah because just again

1:17:03Your jokes relate to everyone because Unbeknownst to you your family wasn't the only family exactly it had people getting kicked out. Yeah Do you know me DMs that got yeah, we do the minute that special aired. I was getting DMs after DMs after DMs Yeah, all from like girls. Yeah from chicks like yo, I my mom kicked me out when a blah blah blah my mom hated my boyfriend blah blah You know, I mean the same shit. Yeah, and then I was like, oh, okay, we're the same. Yeah All right, well, I'm not the only one. Oh, okay. I guess my family isn't just the only fucked up family You know, I mean We're all we all went through some shit. We're all doing it. I'm just functioning every clan every clan, man Yeah, I mean I had this one joke. This I love telling this one because you'll love it because you're kind of a gamer Mm-hmm. Got a real gamer. Yeah, but my mom for the first time in my life Played a video game. It was called we remember the we yeah, yeah, no, we

1:18:05And it was Christmas and she was visiting us and my son was playing we I just bought him the we for Christmas He's like playing tennis and stuff. This is a joke. I actually did yeah on on don't make him angry and And she's like I want to play How do you do that? Grows the the thing and my son's like and then when it gets close you just swing and she's like oh my god What? Boom she starts playing with my son now they're fucking battling Right and then she wins and she's like game over Next my mom's talking. Oh, yeah, you shit. Yeah, and then when we was all set and done She was like she's like you need to buy what at least for me Please I need this for exercise. Yeah, like my heart is Oh, that's and I went and I went and then I taught I literally I sort of got I did a Christmas show that day at the lap Factory, right? So this is when I was still doing the lap after an improv. Yeah, and I literally went on stage and just like

1:19:05You're not gonna believe what I just witnessed right now and I talked about my mom playing the we yeah with my son And they were dying people were laughing and then all these people were walking up to me who white people black people like You know, we just bought the we too my mom did the same thing. Oh, that's awesome My mother fucking black people. Oh my god. You're the biggest my mom's doing the same shit. Yeah. Yeah To the point where people started bringing their weak controllers And I had to sign it for their moms mom's were bringing it everyone's bringing their weak controllers. Yeah, I was signing them That's so dope, which is a perfect example of like we keep putting ourselves in boxes stop. Yeah There's no difference my mom is my mom and your mom is your mom and guess what they both play we with their grandkids And it's fucking hysterical so stop separating us stop putting yourself in a box. Yeah, what the same I say this on stage broke has no race. Oh, I don't Broke is broke no matter what the fuck call it yo. There's a white guy eating sugar sandwiches right now. There's a black guy eating sugar sandwiches

1:20:13There's an Asian guy Eating sugar sandwiches with a hint of cinnamon. Yeah, because the black guy didn't have cinnamon. That's right fancy Fancy yes, yeah, cinnamon. You know how much cinnamon what oh you had oh boy you guys are Yeah, I'm about to do that go home right now you guys want broke Cinnamon anyway, you when sun made came out with cinnamon toast. Have you see that oh, yeah, sun made? Yes, and my son loves it And I looked at my son. I go I can make that Hmm you need to buy that low on make it did you make it my son goes I'd rather buy it right You don't mind I'd rather buy this one. Yeah, sorry dad. Yeah Give me the give me the credit card credit card You're gonna buy it now, but what you touched on man that that's a real thing and again, these are the things that that bind us yeah, the the similarities that we tend to try to ignore especially in Hollywood. Yeah

1:21:18You being of Filipino descent. Yeah, do you think that your presence in the business um doing the things that you're doing and representing where you from so hard um, do you feel like you've helped uh the your people in in in Hollywood on a bigger platform allowing them to be seen and allowing to be represented because of what you've done. Oh yeah, man. That's my number one goal. Yeah, I mean look at my look at my receipts. Yeah, I mean when I got coming in hot My second special on Netflix they offered me a second one right so it was a two deal right so I could do two specials The third one instead of doing a special I was like can we just go to the Philippines And let's just bring Filipino Americans Like some comics that are Filipino American that were born here and let's bring them to the motherland. Yeah And let them talk to the Filipinos. Yeah, and you get to realize that not only will they get it

1:22:18But they speak fluent English in the Philippines. Right. You know what I mean? And let that let let's just show the world that Let's put this on Netflix Philippines. I want to show it to the world. Exactly Show the culture. Let's show Bind you you only get 59 minutes. I don't think people understand how much time you get you only get 59 minutes So let me squeeze all this in and then not only that let's show some Filipinos that live in the Philippines that are inspired by American entertainment and let's merge those two together So like I had ill-mine. He was a Filipino producer here in the States. You know, he's done drake jazzy Like he's got a Beyonce He's got all these accolades. Yeah, you know, let's bring them to the Philippines and let them co-write the theme song with a Filipino producer In the Philippines. You know, I mean, Ben Messiah. We got them to do something together I got this singer that lives in the uh the film. I got him to sing. I got Ronnie B boy Ronnie from full force Super crew, you know, I've known him since he was 17. He's Filipino. Wow. I go boom. Let's fly you to the Philippines

1:23:22Let's have you choreographer of a bunch of B boys that live in the Philippines right right right right right You got all these kids that are just like auditioning and then boom now. We got a B-boy segment You know, I mean we merged the two worlds together all I was doing there was just trying to show One where you guys came from and two where you guys can make it like you guys can make it like we see you We just have to open the door for you. Yeah, so don't give up Yeah, you know what I mean? So that I you know that that was I I'm just saying this right now because Sean asked okay because I don't normally do this But I want you to know the money that they gave me I could have pocketed right It was not that hard. I could have shot a third special in fucking Jacksonville, Florida And I could have pocketed about 90% that shit. I could have got a theater some cameras and shot that shit Didn't I went to the Philippines and I gave up all that money all of it The entire budget and then some and then I dug into my pocket and paid for more

1:24:26That's crazy just letting you know that and I never publicly put that out there But I just wanted that one show on the internet or on on on on Netflix I want people to be like oh wow just that one moment where they go. Oh, they speak English in the blue You know many people and that just go through life not knowing that they speak Fluent English in the Philippines and now that they sink bro as Sean let them sing Uh Bend in knee some of the baddest singers I've heard them sing bend in the Edna arena in in Manila Guess it's crazy. You know when you hold the microphone to the crowd How much you want to bet the entire crowd is singing that song? Yeah and harmonizing and harmonizing and crushing it I crushed that believe me when I say this. That's real. But how important is that like you asked me is it important? Yes, it's important because I was raised by a mom that had to watch a horrible representation of all Asians generally put into one little Circle you know mean and they all had to be represented by this one person

1:25:28And that's how the rest of the world is going to be programmed to think what Asians are How do you know? Fulipito? Korea Vietnamese this is what you guys are to us. Yeah, and that's how we perceived it when we watched TV in the 80s You know, I mean and I had to sit there and watch my mom watch that and like you know and suck it up You know and not show any Like emotion whether kids like laughing at this stuff because I'm laughing at it. What else am I supposed to do right? Anyway, what I'm trying to say is Fast-forward 30 something years later now my mom has a show produced by me on Netflix and it's her country It's her people Just all beautiful Filipinos by the way all the cameraman all the everybody was Filipino on that so on that thing Everybody so that's what in his elements meant to me and it was just so important And thank God for Joanne Oh red Netflix and yeah, it was just it was an amazing moment and yeah, I oh you know another one here lies love

1:26:30Hmm, which was the musical Broadway. Yeah, I've I've ePed that I didn't know that yeah no one knows You know what I mean no one knows so first time in history and all Filipino cast on a Filipino story wow Singing Filipino songs. Yeah, you know, I mean and it was on Broadway not off Broadway. Yeah, we were like right next to like I think it was the tonight show like we were on Broadway like whatever it was we were right there on Broadway Wow, and it was the first time in the history ever was the first time and Boom finance boom. I was one of the people that donated a ton of money. That's amazing just so that these Filipinos can For once be like yo, I was in a Filipino musical right I mean You do it right, Jo shout out to Leah Salaunga and and Tia Carrera and Lou Diamond Phillips and all the Filipinos that paved the way during such a Rough time. Yeah to make it in in Hollywood and they were able to

1:27:30Shine through that and open up, you know, the doors that they could yeah dealing with the the racism of our own People like calling them out, you know, I mean like they had to deal with that Lou Diamond Phillips was getting called out all the time Because no one understood that this is the only fucking role that I can get because this is all Hollywood will let me read for So what do you want me to do there? Yeah, there are no stories about Filipinos right now. That's what Lou Diamond's going through I was the best actor that got called into the casting room. I'm the reason why I got richy valid right other than I kind of looked like them Yeah, I'm not Mexican. Yeah, but dude. I look like I'm like fucking act my ass off and right now I'm sleeping underneath a staircase with three other actors. It's just so clear what I said no No, I really told me that not listen he said he was sleeping underneath the staircase with a pillar and they had a little small door But yet he's getting fucking rent he's getting reamed by the Filipino community because he was playing a Mexican and he's getting

1:28:31Read by the Mexican community because he's not Mexican right and then he's being praised by Hollywood because he killed the character But no one understands that the guy is like eating crackers living underneath the staircase All this is happening because they did barely paid him for like That's the kind of shit that we have to go through behind the scenes And all he did was all he did was slightly open the door for all of us. Yeah And that's what I'm saying about us putting ourselves in boxes because It I feel like what he did right there What all that shit that was happening within the community that they slowly pulled the door back closed because the people in power go Look, you don't even know how to act Right, they don't even know how to act look at them right there they go again, right, right, right Pause in a stir, right Which is kind of corny because so corny you know when I got my movie with Steven Spielberg Easter Sunday Well the first thing I did when I was in that room at At Ambulance right and I'm sitting in there and I go

1:29:33That they asked me who do you want in this movie right because I pitched him Easter Sunday I go look my mom and her sister have not talked in over 30 something years And every holiday is a fucking struggle because now I don't know where to go If I go to my aunt's house to eat first my mom's pissed. Oh go go go to your aunt Enjoy Christmas there. I'm for I'll stay here. Oh, yeah Okay, but they will never make up and and that was the pitch I go look like Easter Sunday is just one of those days where it's like It's church it's family, but for some reason there's just this Disfunction yeah, no one understands what the fuck it is yeah, and I pitched it I go my aunt and my mom do not talk to this day They can't even compliment each other You know what I mean? It's always a fight and I go I would love to just show My family dynamic and all the beautiful things that my family has to offer Yeah, but also show that we're a real family right and we're dealing with bullshit as well right over some dumb shit

1:30:38Too aunt going at it for no reason and and that was a pitch and and I literally said to to everyone at Ambulance I go holly mario. I love you Uh, I go I need tier career and I need Louis Yeah, I need them. Yeah, like this is a moment. Yeah, like if I'm gonna do this moment of like Filipino representation We got to give it to the two people that went through so much shit when holly would didn't even give a fuck Yeah, so now they get to represent like tier tier career got to do a Filipino accent right the first time right in the history of her damn You know me Lou diamond got to play uh, you know a son yeah, it led a Filipino actress play his mom Yeah, it's just like he's all badass in the movie and then his mom yells I'll be right there mom like right like literally like all that she was real like it was fun to do a funny take on on our reality Joe You just mentioned something like when the movie came out

1:31:39Um, by the way first Filipino all cast by a by a major studio in a hollywood was Easter Sunday Congratulations dream works baby. Yeah, so by the way the whole cast was I was part of that whole casting process Yeah, and it was all Filipinos, you know, I mean except for why you ain't a bunny suit. I put one in a bunny suit I'll see if I'll he killed it every mother Eugene could there everybody killed that movie man I was so and the woman that played my my my my god. Yeah, amazing. She studied everything and she killed it, but Joe Did that movie Lydia and in any way that's don't the dead shit did that movie in any way at least Get your mother and auntie at least to the table now It was about them, but I'm about to tell you some shit, and I don't like doing this, but you know my mom is you know, she's not well Okay, I mean, but uh, it not brought them together So it's just sucks We had to wait that long for that yeah But whatever yeah, that's what life is as long as

1:32:42But as long as like as horrible as life is sometimes, but it's also beautiful at the same time and At least they're gonna they're talking now Yeah, my god, man, that was it's just crazy It's so crazy. It didn't make sense man There's a rough one without a lot did I talk too much? No, not at all. Yeah, okay. I'm not at all bro This is not an interview. This is yeah, we just chopping it up It just so happens that there are cameras on and people are watching us talk. Yeah, yeah Yeah, we're just in the studio kicking it But that is my end goal like I saw my mom Like go to church looking for brown people that look Filipino because there was no Facebook if she just wanted to She just wanted friends, but I saw that you know, I mean when she divorced my dad we were like church every Sunday And just walk up to Philip. Are you Filipino? Yeah, I mean the next you know, they're talking next to the other friends and exchange numbers now We're renting out nights at Columbus Hall at the church. Yeah every Sunday at like six o'clock

1:33:46We got we got a potluck all these like you know, I mean like I do that joke about a dobo in a tub I was about to say any of them continue yo That's clearly what it looked like cool in container neo-polletin ice cream filled with soup You know what I mean? It was just all this just yeah, I mean broke ass Tupperware is what I called it and like it was the best time is of my life And to this day I still remember those times. Yeah, I'll see a picture And I remember that day. I was I was you know, I was doing Michael Jackson You know, I mean I have a glove that my mom made me and I'm orman. You just see all these Filipinos Like you got to see it. It's the greatest shit, man That's dope and like those are my fondest mario So like I know how important it was for my mom to have representation And to be seen and that's why it's just such a thing for me, man like that's why it upset to me when I see Filipinos just like going after Filipinos like what are you doing bro? We're yeah We're here like we're all trying to open this door bro like what are you doing? Yeah, we're all one family

1:34:47We're all one family bro and and that's the thing is like and it's the same thing when it comes to my folks is like when you see I'm doing crazy stuff and It gives your your platform that much more cadence in a sense of uh You you it gives you purpose yeah Um because sometimes they don't see again what we see so sometimes it takes Someone like yourself to go to your community to say yo, man Like what are you all doing? Yeah, here's why you shouldn't yeah So let's make this movie let's get this special together. Let's all do it together. Yeah And then hopefully in that moment you'll get to see what could be yeah Instead of fighting about scraps and and pieces of something. Yeah, you can have a whole thing Exactly if you understand how to get it. Let me show you the let's do this. That's let's do this yeah now We talked about this the other day shout out for Gotten Island too. That's about to come up the animated

1:35:50Movie from Dreamworks as well. Oh nice. Tell us about for Gotten Island It's just well. I'm just I play a small character But it's it's about Filipino folklore and okay pretty cool to it's a good story about friendship and yeah, and uh And her hers the star. Oh nice. So and everyone knows hers half black. Yeah, you know and her mom is the shit right The mom's such a fun thing to witness, you know every time you know she gets Anaculate just her mom's reaction is just so beautiful genuine. I love watching that But anyway, I'm I just I play a small part, but in theaters baby. Yeah, so make sure you see that beautiful now again As I was about to mention we we talked about this yesterday And I just want to ask this in front of everybody like What's something everybody thinks Joe Koi Gives a shit about That he absolutely does not give a shit about oh Oh Yo that's that that is such a That's such a That can go anywhere because that's a growth thing. Yeah, that's that can go anywhere. Yeah, just go let it go wherever you you feel the most

1:36:57Freest oh, I really don't care how you feel Like you know, I mean what whatever your opinion is it has nothing to do with me Everyone's in Tyler's own opinion, but like to to think that It's so great. I don't know if I had this conversation with you, but my son was like that. I don't understand how someone Will just Comment under a post and hit send. Mm-hmm. It is the most yeah Like I don't I don't understand what kind of human that is yeah to be able to like Who didn't a comment that Sometimes either defaming or Just brutally shitty. Yeah And to hit sent and then just like Like to lean back on your couch ago. Yeah, I did that yeah It's the weirdest shit. Whoo and to be honest and to even to to sit there Not even knowing if anyone's even seen it

1:37:59Like you're you're reacting to the thought But you don't even know what it even did right in nor do you give two shits which is a weird human being to me I've caught people In like red handed like don't make a comment on something And the comment Make sure to understand oh they didn't see it Oh They're just commenting Oh, I think bad Stop yeah, I saw that no I've caught certain people red handed like knowing they didn't see yo see that's that see now we're dealing with like a whole Another time oh yeah, no, it's a whole level of of of just of hubris and yeah, because They just wanted to say something bad and not even react to anything They don't even know what they're reacting to don't even know they're reacting to that's crazy and I've and I And some I just laugh at I laugh at all of them, but There's one or two where I go bro. Did you even watch the clip? Yeah

1:39:02Like you didn't watch the clip did you didn't see it you didn't see it You're just making a comment you're just oh man. It is some it's it's a pieces of work out That's crazy. I've never experienced that just agents of chaos. They just they just want to To just Sturrup something to make something yeah, that's saying agents of chaos or you just make that Oh, I got dead from the Joker from the dark agents of Yeah, yeah, I love that. I'm an agent of chaos. I love that Yeah, really out there. Yeah, oh 100% you live amongst them 100% When the skin suit falls off you just see it. It's just like this menacing smile. They just like to see yeah a mess. Yeah And for no reason just because they make them feel good. It makes them feel good It's it's a stem or something. I don't know. I'm the opposite. Me too. Yeah me too. We're built. You know, that's why that's why I designed that hat like that It's for the agents of chaos

1:40:03Because that that font already represent it doesn't represent But you know you you think of Compton like hardcore and the way type font. Mm-hmm. You look at it looks hard Right, right, right, looks hard as what right, right, right, right What is what is my how to keep down me and then you just looking to go means I love you. I'm like oh, oh And the agent of chaos could not do so much long You're hot. I hate it. You know what that is right. Well, that's love wrong God that's when you love and somebody wrong. That's when you love raw You want some milk? I reach motherfucker did it did It's like a fucked up You're pointing yeah, you're supposed to point this way if it's right. Yeah, you Right before you up right before you were gonna go here, but they caught you. Yeah, but the editor decided to go here Yeah, that's a 1970s. Yeah

1:41:10So let's go back real quick. Yeah Because we kind of glazed over the bit. Yeah, but Dude you did so far. Yeah, that's a big deal. That's crazy How did that feel like going out on stage? It's it's insane. I'm so mad I wasn't there. I am too because I told you guys about it like Like 10 months before it even happened. Yeah, we had to get that like even more I think I told you a year before it happened that we were gonna do it. Yeah, and uh So that really pisses me off because that was That was the moment you got yeah, I'm like I'm thinking about it in my head right now and just like listen The moment I start the bit that I always do with you guys anyway, which would have happened organically And then for you three to pop out of the toaster. Yeah Yeah, it'll be crazy and a sold out so by stadium. Yeah That's just crazy. You just gotta do another one. Yeah, that's true But I'm telling you man how did it feel like like it was crazy. Yeah, it was crazy because like

1:42:14Like people don't understand like it's so funny because people go oh you were at Soap Ice stadium and in their head they're like I wonder how much Soap I paid you. It's like No one paid me but me Like when you take on something like Soap Ice stadium you rent out Soap Ice stadium. Yeah That's granted not everyone can rent out about to say whoa Let's let's let's let's highlight that piece of game Joe Koi He buys the venues. Yeah, that he performs it. Yes If anybody knows anything about that side of the business. It's like Really cutting out the promoter the middle man. Well hold on. I have a promoter. Meaning we're that's our style. Yes He buys the venue so Let me simplify When you buy the venue that means that every ticket from dollar one goes to Yeah, yeah Everyone after we pay 100% yeah 100% but that's a rarity. Yeah, but artists to experience a huge risk and it's it's a huge risk too, but

1:43:20That's what what your business model was from the very beginning. Yeah, you did that from the game. Yeah And it works for you. Mm-hmm Like how does one Build that type of business for themselves you just you know, it's I don't know man. I think it's Racism is crazy, bro. You know, I mean I'm half white half Filipino people like yeah, but you're half white. Okay, tell tell a white person right you know I half white half Filipino means in Hollywood. It means I'm Filipino. Right. That's right 100% all right, you know, you want to know what a half black half white guy is he's black black. Yes So don't don't give me that yeah, all right the the windows are opportunity or not as far It's not as open as you think it is and it's not open at all if bad Especially trying to talk about Certain specific things that isn't general. Yeah, if you're gonna talk about being Filipino, that's so Specific it's like wait, you're not gonna talk about Asians in general. Yeah, no because it's not in 1971 anymore

1:44:25Like now we need to hear all of our stories. Yeah, sure. So can I say it? No, you can't oh, okay Well, why not well because it's too specific Yeah, like before the internet they had that to sit on right they could do that there It was easy. It was like this really controlled racism back in the 80s in 90s They could be like oh, but the algorithm we have we you know, we did a poll of 100 people right right right and 97 Don't know what a Filipino is right. Well, that's 97 white fuckers from Ohio right right what kind of pole system What are you doing? So that makes it even more intriguing that you being a Filipino yeah, it has the ability to Create the business model that should create because normally there's always someone trying to put their grubb Hands in on the on the profit. I think what I was trying to say though I agree with you right is because I wasn't getting into the regular rooms So they give you the off rooms. Mm-hmm. You know, they'll give you the nights where the the the lights are turned off like fat Tuesday's Guy Tory, mm-hmm, like people need to appreciate what the fuck guy Tory did. Yeah, you know, I mean like no black comics

1:45:27We're going up on stage in Hollywood none. Yeah, I don't give a fuck if you're Steve Arby Chris Tucker Bill Bellamy Whoever they weren't getting the opportunities Just weren't and they weren't going to give you the the weekend We consider to be the white night. Yeah, right. You know, and you get three white guys and then another person that's of color You know, I mean and they're excuse was like well our demographic is like, you know, it's 90% wine on the weekend. So I don't know if they're gonna get their sugar sandwich I don't know if they're gonna get the sugar sandwich there John yeah, they they will buy your cookies And you're like this I did it again. It did it's great. Yeah, we do it call back. It's my callbacks are crazy anyway But like it doesn't matter because They when they they when they guide guide Tory they were like kind of sort of like look

1:46:28You know what we'll give you the worst day of the week How about Tuesday How about Tuesday nights no one's on hollywood on Tuesday. Let's see if we get some bloke we believe I'm not even trying to be funny about it. I know you're not fucking reality laughing at it But it's turn the lights on you know, and if you can just get some of them in there and then buy drinks We'll be happy. We'll cut you some we'll give you a couple, you know, 100 bucks guy That fucking became the number one show on the strip bro. Yeah That Tuesday's was so popular you couldn't even get in that mother right right It made so many stars from Bernie Mac to Steve Harvey to Chris Tugger Bill Bellamy Joe Toy everybody came from that room Gary Owen all of them. Yeah, they made so many stars JB smooth JB smooth was not getting time anywhere bro Before he got curved he was curved right right right right seriously like Anyway, I'm not trying to make this a rastic What I'm trying to say is the window of opportunity was not Joe that's a life thing I know, but I just wanted like I don't know stop stop because because I want us and people of color to stop a pilot

1:47:33But guys about shit we never created yeah, we that was deep. We we never created this world. Yeah We never created this system. We never we just had to learn how to live in this shit And part of our story is talking about how we lived in this shit and how we endured and still Did it not just did it, but we did it to death and we did it better than most of the motherfuckers that had the opportunity Layed to them in the silver platter. Yeah, that's just as real. Yes. That's real. I'm tired of apologizing It's not our fault. It's not our fault. It's not our fault Yeah, and that's the mental fucking mind fuck that we go through yeah, sorry for my cursing, but it's true It's it's like this this this Jedi mind trick that they put on us So where we feel guilty for fucking expressing how we feel yeah, and then they still act like we have every opportunity Yeah, like shut up, bro. Yeah, where's my opportunity? Where's my office? Why might why I'm I paying for the Netflix special. Yeah, why And why why I our own people

1:48:34Attack that oh, you got Netflix. No, no, I did it. I got Netflix right I Did it right he said no to me right right right Yeah, bro, it's five I got yeah, they give you They gave me some cheese on that one But the first one when they said no to me right I went rent to those cameras. Yeah, I rented the theater I ripped the tickets. I was just being my mom Yeah at the church walking up to people are you Filipino? What are you do you like comedy? What are you? You know, blah blah you want to come see me. Yeah, here's my flyer. Yeah Sold out people need to hear these It drives me crazy, bro. Yeah, it's so nuts like you'll see Comment one of my favorites is like everyone's always said jokoy in the in the car. It's a thing in Hollywood No, me and Tiffany hadish the reason why me and tippy and hadish are like this is because we were both broke Right, Tiffany was living in her car dude

1:49:34Pulling clothes out of her fucking trunk and wearing it on say she would wear like I can call right now I'll tell her you remember the yellow jellies. Yeah, yellow shirt. Yeah, she would wait We knew it would be Wednesday just by her fucking outfit Still beautiful, right, right, do what her thing trying to do her shit just trying to make it here You know, I'm gonna attack that but no one knows that she was living in her car. Yeah, it's crazy You know they used to sell these hot dogs wrapped in bacon and and literally like it was $2.50 Bro, I remember one time she goes can you buy me to and I bought her to she and years later She goes you know what I did with that other bit hot dog. I go what she goes I saved it for the morning No one knows that you just gonna attack her You know what I mean, right? Yeah, that's the same. It's that's the frustration is because not only do we have to deal with like Well hour our own yeah, we got to deal with our own people yeah, but they don't understand what that what we're dealing on a grandest Yo, just trying to get the door open for us. Yeah, and the minute we go in we're trying to get other people in it's like

1:50:38It's just it's just such a mind-fuck sure. I'll never apologize. Yeah for your story. Yeah Never apologize. I'm I'll say that to every person of color that I know you know Because we always have to leave with the I'm sorry because that's what we were trained to do. Yeah, stop it I it is it's our story. Yeah Again, we didn't make the rules they make the rules there you did you did you did and we still get by and we still do it the death And we still do it still do it better than anybody and I will say this about Netflix if you don't mind me saying this least Yes, they said no the first one right live from Seattle. They said no And I'm glad they did because it just lit this fire of like I got to get this special to him and if they didn't say no, I don't think we'd be here for blue in the face Because I'm Tony it was literally let's go rent those cameras. Yeah, my manager Joe's like we got the money Let's go do it And we shot it. Oh, it was meant to happen exactly and I was like oh, I swear to God man

1:51:40Yeah, when I when I finished editing that special I remember going we got to bring this in that place Because this is undeniable. Yeah We we have product now. Yeah, or it was just like a man you come see me at the improv like I should shoot an hour We guys and they said no I get it. That's the business. Yeah, but now I got product and when they see it they're gonna buy it pro submit that shit I think 45 minutes later we get a phone call Like we want it. Don't shop it no where we want it. There it is. It's the craziest thing So it's just like it's how you handle that information right like when someone denies you of an opportunity Do you sit there and dwell on it and hate on everybody that God an opportunity? I could have easily done that I could have hated on every single comic that got a special that year. Yeah, and they denied me I could have easily went oh, I'm better than that person. Oh, why do why do you get it? Yeah, I've been doing it for $89 I deserve I could have done all that negative shit that everyone does on the internet right now Or you can take that information and be like I'll be right back. Yeah. Oh, you said no one second

1:52:44I mean, maybe you need to see it. I'll be right back. Correct Maybe that's what you should do. That's it Or else you're gonna find yourself 10 years later just Yeah, here's my call back know you worth yeah, oh Know you're worth, bro know you worth and something we're weird. I'm gonna continue because you know I know we got a rap but something weird about comedians that turn into haters It comes off worse It's just like when you see a comedian like that that that is like Dogging other comedians and hating on other comedians or whatever. I don't know what that is. It's weird Like it's weird to look at with comedians. Yeah, because comedians we look at you guys is being bubbly and cheerful and things that nature so when you see a comedian with like a screw face Talking about some other comedian and hateful way. It's weird. It's very strange to see. I don't know what that is It makes me addicted to likes and shares it is an addiction. It's yeah It's home before it's the dopamine. It's the dopamine

1:53:46It's kind of weird though because it kind of becomes bitchified. Yep, and now you're turning into the gossipy woman on the student. What we're talking about on the other day like it's something about men sitting on Some platforms like this with microphones in front of their faces talking about other men. Yeah, that's so You want to talk about it? I mean, that's a Like I only want to hang out with that. Yeah, here's what here's what I mentioned I said this on your podcast. I said if you are on a podcast and someone invited you on Just sit for hour and a half to talk about somebody else You really need to like consider your life choices. Yeah If if you're not talking about you Yeah, and what you're doing and instead of you're talking about somebody else For hour and a half Bro, you were plop on your on yet you're not really even understand that that's free advertisement right for the person you're talking You have millions of people's attention and you're talking about some other

1:54:50You literally have just made a bunch of people click over You really need to reconsider your life watch it for themselves enjoy it. Yeah, you know like I don't know what you're talking about really think about your life right now That you're not interesting enough to hold an outward conversation about yourself. That's crazy You're I don't understand that yeah, I don't get it Funniest comedian you ever saw live. I'm a disspeed round. Give me some. That's too many Give me better comedy. Give me give me three Funniest funniest. Yes Eddie Murphy. Okay. Yeah. I saw him at the Seattle Coliseum when I was 15 super dope. Yeah, it's another one Give me a suit open for him. Oh Paul Mooney Wow before the internet before anything wow him walking out was like watching a Black God. Yeah come to existence. Yeah, because there was no internet man, right? Him walking our stage. No one knew who the fuck that was. I just saw a black guy with a big pink Fedora Sitting on a stool girl you motherfuckers. Yeah, right, right, right, right, right, right, please white people right right in the 80s. Yeah, that's crazy

1:55:57I was like whoa, he's gonna go to prison, right? I'm gonna rest him at the end of the show, right? All of you are devil. Right right right. Whoa! No Paul was raw. Bro that that Paul By the way, this is before Dave Chappelle Paul. Yeah Yeah, this is before this is the 80s. Yeah, this is like All Paul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like raw prior Eddie Murphy Paul. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's crazy Paul was was was amazing too. That was one of the greatest things I ever witnessed. Okay Comedian who made you want to quit? None. Okay, uh, but I will say this. Huh? Um Cedric the entertainer let me know what a headliner is. Got you I'll never quit. I love this shit. Yeah, you can like me on fire, bro. You can throw Fucking potatoes tomatoes. Yeah, the whole goddamn thing you sticking pot roast. But Cedric made made you understand their levels Cedric made me He was like, oh, let me show you what a famous headliner does. Right. Right. Their levels to the shit levels, bro

1:57:03And uh he uh when I crushed in front of him at the pachanga and my son was one. He was in the car seat And he was there too and uh his mommy And uh I fucking crushed and I'm made sure to wear an orange adita jacket because no one knows who I am But you're gonna remember the orange adita jacket when I walk outside Because I'm trying to sell these DVDs for five bucks a pop right ones. I burnt from fries electronic About a DVD burn. I burnt all these DVDs. It had a showtime with the Apollo and uh BET's comic view on me No, but I broke now selling for five bucks a pop. I'm gonna sell all these motherfuckers tonight There ain't no way Cedric to follow me right crushed I did this Michael Jackson bit crushed right how crazy? We're talking about Michael Jackson. Yeah crushed second night Place went crazy Cedric's on the side You got a Fedora on you got a three-piece suit on with that's that's what I'm talking about Joe Make me make me work for this motherfucking money. I know that's right

1:58:07Standing ovation for three minutes He starts doing his dances. He always does songs. He starts doing throwback songs No No one remembered the guy that One fucking person bought a DVD. I think a couple of people pat him my shoulder He good job man then he got to the point where I was just handing out the shit I was That's crazy. It's crazy levels Yeah, and he's the reason why I always want heat in front of me. I don't want softballs in front of me I don't want a friend that's been there since the beginning in front of me. I want I want bangers. Yeah, oh my guys that just Crush yeah, I even say it to every guy that opens where I'm like a make sure Yeah, fucking burn this house. Yeah, make it hot. Yeah. Yeah, there is and I oh you can check out any person I open for him. You know you know you still have him open for you. That's crazy. I ain't shot and dying, huh? Yeah, man. I love it. I keep doing it. There's a girl now out there right now

1:59:10Terracan Astrosi. She's so funny man. Another one Lulu Gonzalez. Hmm. Just a beast man. Yeah You'll see you'll watch this project that me and Martin did man. We handpicked 24 comics. Real quick real quick. Please tell me about that that that that project. Yeah Martin Lawrence and I created more and wanted to do You know Martin was like, hey, we should do a comedy competition. I was like Martin, I don't I'm not about all that man. Like it's a struggle for every comic And comedy is suggestive. You know, it's a suggested Subjective it's also It's also a different genres. Mm-hmm. You know mean politics Sure storyteller puppeteer whatever man dance whatever like comedy's comedy But it's it's it's whatever genre you like wrap country whatever So I told him I go. I don't want to put that in a competition like let's just showcase it man Let's yo your Martin Lawrence bro. You brought us dev jam. Yeah, let's re not recreate it

2:00:12But leave give some type of form like that a showcase that highlights Comics that are killing on the road right now, but just need some shine. Yeah And I think that'll be the right way. Let's build the thread. You remember the dev jam had that yes Small stage pop out into audience. I go let's redo that. What's the name of the show? Past the mic Oh, it's so dope It's so dope bro. I'm telling you I know we always say oh you're gonna love this, but like literally like I just had dinner with Martin two days ago And we were still talking about past the mic. You're just like that was it was special. Yeah And it's coming soon. Oh, yeah, we're editing it right now. It's it's amazing. Yeah, and Martin crushed it man Whatever I wanted he gave it to me. I can't wait. Yeah, one last question. Yep finished his sentence at this point in my life I don't have time for little shit Yeah, man Don't have time I lived out my DVD Mm-hmm right like my my my my life is a movie. It's not a blu-ray disc. Mm-hmm. And right now I'm at the I'm a I'm on the bonus features

2:01:18Yeah, but the DVD this is all just All just just extra just some extra stuff. I did it. I did everything. I wanted to do bro Did it did the movie. I did the arenas. I did the football stadium. I did You know, I mean I did everything that that kid at 11 years old was dreaming about met shower I used to have a microphone in the shower. It's a big boom box. I had a microphone. I used to pretend I used to do my intros Yeah, you know, you're not gonna believe this guy man. Yeah, yeah sure For any murvy man, please put your hands. Yeah, I used to do intro a thousand intro. That's crazy It was funny, man. You manifested it. Yeah, man before I even knew what manifesting was. That's it. Yeah, man. No time for the bullshit No, no time for shit, but he does have time for Sean Stockton cookies, bro I'll tell you this I ain't fucking rich Ladies gentlemen, can you please give it up for my brother my friend Jokoi that's cool. Clap it up. All right, man. I love you real quick. Love you too. But hold on

2:02:23I'm gonna get all right for nothing. I don't think I can do it. You don't think so. No. All right. I tell you what You're impossible. Hey, no, no, no. So here's what we gonna do. Who's gonna do? I had two songs prepared. We got it. We got to practice. Yeah, it's okay. Here we go You don't you don't you don't have to do much. Yeah, let me see You you Mordanor You Cause I'm not to leafy.

2:03:26Can't tell you everything that's going on. Baby, there's a few things in my past. I should not be explaining. I'm asking you, baby. Baby, baby, for a little while. Please. No questions asked. Baby, there can be lies. I do love you. Can't call up your shoes. Let your pretty sexy hair down. I'm asking you, baby. Yeah, baby, you're a piece of me. You can't have. I'm having a piece of my love. It's waiting for you. And girl, it's true. I do love you. You can have a piece of my love. It's waiting for you.

2:04:28Girl, it's true. I do love you. Come on, Jordan. That was cool. That was dope. Yo, that was crazy. I was crazy when she would connect with that guy. Yo. Yeah. I just sound, you sound alright. Sound great. Goddamn that's scary. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Mr. Joe Koi. And alright, I was drinking milk before the song. Well, the fuck I am rich. Make sure you check out Joe Koi blue in the face right now. Yeah. Because listen, you just watched this situation, this podcast. Now you can go to Netflix, click it on his face. Right? Pause. And there. And watch it, raw. And watch him raw. We out. We out. We actually run credits. For the first time ever, Yamavar Resort and Casino at Sandman Well is giving away a new

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