Felipe Esparza

thanks for having me on podcast. Thank you man. I'm glad to talk to you, and I was glad to listen to your show today because, uh, what's up full? It made me feel good and relaxed. And the reason I was feeling up tight is just I was on social media and uh, I got you know, I made the mistake of like engaging and that's always like, oh,

it's always bad news. I could take up your whole day it is, you know, And I noticed that, you know, you don't get political on on at least that I can see from social on social media, is that something you try to, you know, stay away from in general? Or um you know, do you feel like you dress all that with your comedy sometimes you know, um, we say something in the podcast that's political but not too political. Well,

we don't take sizes which I attack both sides. Well, I think that, you know, one of the things that's it's great about your show is that you keep it like today, I was listening to the first episode. I know a podcast is good, what I want to jump in and I'm like, I'm trying to engage in the conversation with my headphones on, and you guys are you were talking about Dukes of Hazzard and I was just and I was going off because I used to get so angry that they used code names. He'd be like

Shepherd a lost sheep. But with Luke, are you there? And it's like, why the fund do you use a code name when you say their name right after it uncle Jesse? I know, right, like uh the right, because Shepherd is uh lost, Shepherd is Uncle Jessing, lost, Sheep is Daisy Duke and those two guys I forgot who they were. Yeah, yeah, And there was just you guys got into this conversation and then it ended up going about like what was on TV on CBS at the time,

and you know, for people from a certain generation. For me, I was, I was so engaged in it, and like I said, I needed that. Today I listened to and I was like, you see, this is the this is this is what I missed from social media, and this is what I missed from media in general. I don't feel like it's light enough anymore. And like, I don't hear these kind of cool pop culture conversations I know,

every pop political Like even if you're talking about Star Wars. Oh, I like the old Star Wars, but then didn't put any African Americans in it or Mexican American actors, you know what I mean. And then people start talking about, oh man, I love Start Wars before Disney owned it, and then he go, then didn't did it throws into a topic about Jewish people. It is um yeah, it

is insane how everything gets gets so politicized. And um, I mean, is that something you you really strive for to do on the show, is to keep it light or you know, or is that just that's just naturally who you are. I think that's naturally who I am. You know. Um, Like I remember my mom and dad, like during that when they were growing when I was growing up, you know, we had they had a Bush, not not Bush. They had not a Reagan as president

and then Bush. But I don't remember my mom and dad ever talking about bad about Reagan or talking bad about Bush, because all they did is go home, go work, come back home, go work, come back home. I don't think they ever even had time to open the news. I didn't want to know about the news. They want to be entertained. So my parents would already watch Spanish um comedy like these a comedians from Mexico. So we

grew up watching those shows. But my mom and dad never spoke to us about like mikhole, you better run home tonight, because on a regulars president reporting a lot of people. We never got into the topics like that because we just my mom and dad, you went to work. They never like sat down and talked to him about anything political. So and then we were kids, we didn't

talk about political stuff. I think the only political joke ever had was when my seventh grade or sixth grade teacher she asked us, um, why is there a conflict? And I ran and Iraq, you know, why are they fighting? Why is there a war between them and I don't know why they were fighting. I'm a kid, so I said, the reason they're fighting is because for years, for years I ran and Iraq couldn't this side and how to end the the lettering and the spelling of the country.

I ran and said, no, we need to end our country with the end, and the rack said no, it ends with a queue. So they want a war over Q and n see. Do you think that you know with your your your parents are immigrants from Mexico and reading a lot about you know, translate this, You're you're special. A lot of that is you know about translating, you

know for your parents. Do you feel that because you know when they came and they're just working to get by, which is kind of what you were saying that you know, there's there's less time to worry about all the other stuff when you're just trying to worry about making sure your kids are you know, everything's taken care of. Yeah, there's there's a lot less time to worry about because there's no social media back and we're not put this way.

We're all informed now, everybody knows everything. There's nothing too high now, you know, maybe it's a bad thing that we all know what's going on, you know, or it's a good thing, you know. I like that everybody knows what's going on, But now there's more fights because of what everybody knows what's going on. Like when I was, like I would say, like fifteen years ago, we probably would have not known anything about the judge from Alabama

running for senator. We would have never known that. Only the people in um Alabama and Mississippi and stal would have known that. That story would have not ever been publicized growing up because it's not interesting enough. We probably would have it probably never made it to the National Enquired because the National Enquired and that was the only magazine that that actually had fake news, you know, alternative alternative facts. You know, uf im pregnant a woman in

New York City. Now that that kind of loose ice to here growing up. So when you one of the things that I've I've always said about my friends who were Mexican American and I'm from Appalachia, so I'm from like small town, poor West Virginia, and I've always said that people from a yeah, man, the two things that I always found in common was this these storytelling abilities, and and and being funny at doing it because I knew where I grew up that was that was entertainment.

You know, if somebody went to the store, they tell you a twenty five minute story about it. Do you think that you know your culture and it's helpful when it comes to doing something long form like doing a podcast work. I mean it is basically storytelling and and and swapping stories back and forth. Man. Well, when I first always stand up, I think it's um storytelling. It's it's it's a natural gift. I mean, some people don't know how to tell a story without saying, man, you

ain't gonna believe this ship. Most of the most of the great stories I've ever heard started at this, Man, you ain't gonna believe this ship. And most of the time I don't believe it. But Um, as a stand up comedian, I was afraid, afraid to get personal and talk to the audience. I never knew. It took me years of failure em bombing to finally like talk to the audience or get off the script and not do

the stand up comedy. I was afraid because I was my favorite comedian with Ronnie Dangerfield and George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Power Rodriguez, those comedians. Man, I've never seen him get up of the script. The Dangerfield never said anything political on stage, or or anything close to a political view. He just wrote jokes like one joke after another, Stephen Wright another one, just one joke after another, Mitch Hebert

another one, one joke after another. I think, um the closest to anybody that's coming up and being free and talking about stuff with Richard Pryor. But then again, and that was an act, you know, he made it into an act with thanks to Paul Mooney, who pretty much wrote half of his act. But I'm shy. I grew up shy, so I I would stay to the script. But it took me, like I was saying, in the last seven years of struggling to write new material and

forcing myself to be more personal and talk. And I've always I've always been I guess I've always been a great storyteller. But I had I did not know, because I would talk at any meetings, you know, narcotage anonymous or alcoholic anonymous. When I was going to the meetings, I remember talking for thirty five minutes and half of it was hilarious, But I didn't know that I was

doing a stand up comedy. But I just felt that I was just opening up with my about myself, because I remember telling somebody a story at Denny's, a comedian named Willie barsenna and gave reglets. Yes, I said that one time, this this guy came to my house and he wanted to buy cocaine crack. But I wasn't selling

crack cocaine out of my house. You know. He found out where I lived, so he came knocked into my house looking for crack, and I was gonna beat his ass first of all for going to my house, Like, who invalued you? But I have no crack and I would never sell it out of my house. He said, I don't. I don't have any money, you know, And I told him I don't have any cracks. I don't have He had money, but I had no crack. So no, he had no money to buy crack and I had

no crack. So I told him, why are you at my house if you have no money to buy crack? And you know I don't stut crack out of this house. I thought, maybe because loan me the money. I say, why loan you the money. Loan you the money so you can go buy crack from someone else. So I thought that was a crazy, crazier proposition right there. But I told him this, all right, man, give me sixty I'll give you sixty dollars bills if you loan me your car for the whole night. So you know, I

gave him sixty dollars out of my pocket. He loaned me his car. He wouldn't go buy crack somewhere else. And I drove his car, and I was drunk when he gave him the keys. Like you see these commercials about don't drink and drive and then you hand the keys over to a friend. Well, this guy handed his keys over to us, to a drunk man. So I got his car. Me and my friends wanted to go to Vendor's Beach at midnight. We never made it. I

total the car. I crashed the car. It was a seventy one Cherry and Palla and I total there, bro I mean I crashed hard, and I left the car in the freeway and walked out of there with like with blood on my hand. And my friend, now we're holy nacho cheese. But nachos and when I when we crashed, their head almost went to the windshield. But what stopped them before they hit Their head hit the windshield, their face hit the natural cheese and Halle penuls first little

blind h by Hala penels. You know I left his car there. The next day he comes to my house looking for the car, and I told them, listen, man, I don't know we've crashed your car. You gave your card to a drug man. I don't know who your car is. Right now, here's your keys. Here's another sixty. But deal over. So I gave the sixty dollars and I give his car keys back and that was the end of the story. That's it. It's closed. He should

have come later on to ask for more money. And I thought, listen, man, we made a deal to deal was done. You know, you loan your car with no insurance to a guy who's drunk. I see this guy ten years later at a narcotics a noon of his meeting, and I'm telling a story. And after the after the meeting, he told me Philippe, I'm the guy who borrowed that car.

That's awesome. I'm also in recovery. I'm A. I'm a I'm a proud friend of Bill w and I have often said that if they could put cameras and meetings, especially in some of the meetings that I've been in in l A and Oakland. I mean, that would be like the most watched, funniest TV show you ever saw. That should be a show that the A the A podcast or Friends of Bill podcast and everybody just speaks annaly in a microphone. It would be great. I I agree with you A because um, you know, and unlet's

and you're just talking about like being on this. You know, I I spent a lot of my radio career doing mornings and being the drunk guy and the guy that came on and told you the outrageously awful thing I did when I was drunk. But when I got sober, you know, even just bring it up right now, I still had that moment of hesitation, that little worry because you know, I'm just you know, I'm still I still wonder you're people gonna judge me because you know I'm

an alcoholic. I mean, and you're so open with it as well. I mean, but did you ever have a point where like maybe you thought maybe this isn't you know should I bring this up or should I not bring it up? Oh? Man, of course I thought about that a lot of times. Man, because am I incriminating myself?

Am I gonna make myself feel like a lout? Is a loser to my to my comedy fans who don't know me, and they didn't stopped listening to me, or because I used to be this loser, But actually the honestly will grab more new people, Like I know, people gravitated to my podcast because my honesty, like some of my list don't. They didn't know it was a stand up comedian. And I noticed when podcast listeners go to stand up watch me do stand up comedy, they just sit there and they laugh a little bit to take

in all the words. Yeah, I had the same experience. Yeah, go ahead. If people don't know alcoholics like I don't know, I'm glad you told me you're an alcoholic. Like last week, for example, my wife made them egg She was drinking an eggnog and I had an egg knog. But my eggnog had no rum, no brandy, her egg he egg, no printy Dane. You know it was. It was a good alcoholic eggnog, you know, for somebody whould like to drink.

But I grabbed the wrong drink. I drank it, and then right away the alcohol hit my tongue immediately, like fired, like a strike a match, and I spit it all out. And I knew right away when she was having a drink, like the odesty of my alcoholism came out, and I told her, you know, what's the difference between you and I is that you could enjoy that eggnog and go and go go do your work. You know, you could. You could go read a book after that drink. You

could go bicycally, you could go go do things. But an alcoholic like myself, I can never do that. I can never drink that and then go hiking or think about happy thoughts. That drink is gonna leave to a thousand more drinks that night, and then I'm going to disappear and I come home to two days after New Year's even. Yeah, it's the whole you know. I always tell my friends, I I play the tape out. You know,

I know what, I know how the tape ends. I've got I've got banks of them, I got rooms full of them to go to like I know how what's gonna end. And I think that that that moment of fear though, when you think you're gonna drink. I still I don't know if you have them at all, but I have to have someone once in a while had the dreams where I have a drink and I wake up and panicked the ship. You think that's like, um, that that has to be like, um, what what what?

I like a war wedding? What's goes through? Huh? Well, I mean it from the damage broke, I would say, in some ways it is. I mean it's I mean, you know, if you're like you know, it sounds like you were like me. So there was damage done, there was trauma, like it wasn't all pretty. I have a friend, my friend, um, my friends, one of my friends, her brother he stopped, he recovered, he's recovering right now. But he was a math head for many years and alcoholic

for many years. And she was telling me that her brother he just got into stand up comedy, like he was never into stand up comedy. He just got into um, I guess he got into pants and horticulture and painting and fishing. And I was telling her that when a person stops drinking. His mind goes back to the time when he when he first had that drink, you know, when he would be it goes because you're ambitious to back. Yeah,

I know. I I tell people all the time, I'm I'm living my eleven year old life because I'm I'm I do like five different jobs and and it's because I can and and you know, I'm you know, I'm open to all those things. Um. I didn't expect this to turn into this, but I like this because again, this just gets back to the you know, the whole idea of like being an alcoholic means if you're if you're real, you have to be honest, and you have

to be honest all the time. And I think that again, that's what we're you know, I hear when I do your show, and I really um appreciate that with your comedy as well, me too. So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about this documentary dying laughing and I'm just you the whole idea of like I don't think people think about it about with comedians and you know, you have the one job where if you have a bad day, you get ridiculed for it or you have to face a whole room of people that

are like this guy sucks. Um, I mean it doesn't happen in my job. I mean it does with radio. It's saying to some extent, but I mean, like, you know, when I have a you know, I don't go in a business meeting and and give a pitch and you know, when I'm done, nobody like stands up and tells me I suck. I know, man, when you're a radio you know, you suck when you show up and your keys don't open the studio? How is that? How have you dealt with that in your career? And it is something that

still happens and bother you? Oh it does bother me. I think bombing is is something that a comedian will always carry with him in his in his life, you know. But as you bomb more, it's how you bounce back after the bombing. You know, that where the experience as a standard comedian comes down. Because when you first bombed, like my first time bombing, it hurts. It hurt a lot.

You know, I just stood up there. You know, the your first time you bomb, you freeze, You stay up there and then your mouth drives up and then you go you go into a trans word, the same joke only pops up in your head like no new stuff comes up, like you can't even think about anything else to say but good night. But you stay up there. And why did you stay up there? Because you don't know how to get off. But the second time you bomb, it's it's just as worse as the first one. But

now you know you gotta say good night. You say good night. But the third one you already know you're sucking up there before you start seeing yourself bombing, before the audience starts seeing your bombing, and and you don't say good night. You know. You try to fight it this time, you try to fight your way through it. On the third one, you try to fight your way

through it, but you can't. You bomb again. But the fair fat six times you bomb, no one knows seventh as, twelve time, twentieth time, no one knows your bombing at all. Only you know this time. And that's the hardest bomb ever, when no one else you're bombing. No one else knows your bombing, but you know you are. Because the jokes are People are laughing at the jokes, but they're not laughing like the last show you did, and man, bombing sucks.

People don't understand that, like the best. The only person that could I said it right, I'm that I'm dying up here was Mike Epps. Like, when you bomb, you know, when you bomb, you start taking a bunch of finances, he said, But as true, man, Like, the hardest bomb I ever had was in Tacoma, Washington, when I got booed off the stage and the audience member went up on stage and took the microphone away, and then I and then I said, I said something that made it

we even worst. I said. Chris Rock was right, there's black people and then there's your people here to Cooma, Washington, take a good night. That's great. You know, doing comedy live it's different, I'm assuming from doing the podcast live. I love doing live podcasts, um I just because when you're doing a podcast, you don't get the you don't get the laughs, you don't get the feedback. Um And I know, I know, she you know you do live podcast from time to time. How how how much different

is that from being on stage on comedy? Oh man, I did a I did a live podcast last night for another comedian, Martine Moreno, Martin Moreno, he's up. He hosts for Game Regless. Yes, he's a guy that introduced Gabrielssia from every from I think the last six specials he's done. Yeah, I know that guy. Yeah, yeah, he's funny at podcast. I gotta hear that. So here's a live podcast now with his son, like his son, him

and him and don't have a podcast. So that's a lot of pressure for his son and Martin as a father because you're talking Martin the hold back. He's so nasty and he's saying all this stuff in front of his son. And he had a live podcast last night in hertvels in Long Beach, California, and that was his first live podcast, and every tell you man, everything that could go wrong at the first, at your first live podcast, it went wrong with mine because when you do a

live podcast, you don't know when to end it. When you do the recording podcast at your house, you know when to end an hour and a half, you gotta end it. But live I don't know how, Like we didn't know, he don't know when. We don't know when to end the life podcast because sometimes it gets so good you don't want to end it. Man, that podcast live podcast last night started at eight thirty, no started around nine, It ended at midnight. Oh my god, I hate it was chaotic, Bro. He he had he had

a live he had a dating game. A live dating game on a live podcast was a porn starter and then got out of hand. And then he had like a communal wine. Everybody stood up in line to get a shot of wine and medicine. No bread, Jesus, oh staying bro. It was insane as if you ever wanted to ding down short a comedy store. It was that crazy man. I just as a as a as a producer,

that would drive me insane. Bro. I tried to produce past because nobody was listening to the producer and I don't know if there was a producers there, but it was chaos like. And then I went up on stage last, and then it got even longer because I was telling a story and I kept bring I kept bringing back one of the guests to back me up. Then we had a lot of people on the on the stage. Then at the end of the show, we could be brought all the audience on the stage. Man, I think

we're gonna over break that stage. It was insane. I don't know how part team got through it. Do you see yourself now as as a role model for other comedians doing podcasts? You know, you've been at it for

a while and been successful. Did they come to you for advice or you just bring them on your bring them on your show to you know, kind of give them some some publicity to most of the most of the people that come from for advice are a lot of the the Latin comedians who don't have a podcast, who are well there always the main question always get from anybody starting a podcast, This is the main question I would get. Is it too late to start a podcast? No? Bro,

it is not too late, it's just the beginning. It's late. No. For as far as um for Latinos and podcast there isn't There isn't that many. I mean I could count them in my hand right now. Joey Coco Diaz, which is not really a Latino podcast, and then I'm myself, And then there's the guy from Las Vegas I don't know his name right now, and I'm George Perez, George Peress Stories and the Yo Yo Yo podcast. That's five right there, and I think I'm there's another one out

there somewhere else, but it's new. I would say that podcasting is new for the Latino audience. It's like an untapped market. And I'm glad to be one of the first, one of the first pioneers h Latinos to have a podcast because when I think of podcast, I follow the main podcast out there are probably Joe Rogan. That's probably like the biggest podcast in the world, I think, And that podcast is like Oprah Winfrey, you know what I mean, Like anybody who goes on the Joe Rogan podcast, it's

gonna have a lot of followers. Like just to mention, when Al Madrigal was on the show on Joe Rogan Experience, he mentioned me, and I moved up to number seventy six just on the mention. I mean, he just mentioned me. When I was on Bill Burst podcast, I moved up to number thirty five. After doing this podcast, you'll probably drop, so I apologize in advance. So when he dropped, just sorry, I'm sorry. Man, Well brother, you're gonna move out that Yeah, I need it. Give it to me, man, help a

guy out. And I tell anybody anybody I told, I tell like the main people I tell I give advice to it. When I our club owners, comedy club owners that I run into, like managers, like I'm going to the Addison Improv every comedy club but I go to because some shows to sell out, you know, like, but there's other places I don't sell out, like Florida or any city that calls their police officers constable. I don't do well ahead any city that has UM, that has UH.

I don't know that that has UH. I don't know that has Let's still follow the old British rules in America, I'm not I don't do good at anybody that calls the conster constable, I ain't going. So you talked to the managers about doing podcasts? Yes, so I taught a managers there and listen, man, I look at the look at the crowd on Thursday night, right and it's like about eighties six people out of two hundred and fifty when it's really low, a hundred out of three hundred,

three hundred on Thursday. I told the owner of that list, man, you need to eat. What you need to do is get yourself the nerdiest comedian here in the sad at the open making and the funniest comedian, and you get them both together to do a podcast, the funniest One in the nerliest one. And every week when a comedian shows up like myself, you have them on a podcast. Every comedian that performs here every week that should be against on this podcast. You call it the Lando impro Podcast.

And the headliner every week talked about his life. Promost the show, you guys, fucking share it to all your social media, email it to your email list and have them watch it. You know, because a lot of the club owners right now, they're not pushing the comedy nowhere. Like if I go in there, just say I go in there this week, I'm gonna do press, I'm gonna be on television, I'm gonna be on radio. I'm gonna be promoting my show. Now. Next week they have Marcella

are Gore showing up. I guess what, no press, no radio for no TV only because she had no TV credit. And that's where the comedy clubs are messing up. If you're gonna do radio for one comedian, you gotta do radio for every comedian, and don't expect because a lot of people club owners, they expect the comedian to do all the promoting, Well, put them on radio, startup podcast

and you know what you could have worked in promoting too. Yeah, and you don't see the promotion on radio as much as you used to when I when I was doing mornings, we would have comedians on every day and they'd hang out for an hour, um. And today it's like you're lucky if you can get on the show for five minutes, um.

It is. It is definitely a different thing. And I think that what you're saying for for the owners to do is is what in the business we call branded content podcast And it's absolutely I think it's a great idea and I think it'd be I think also be good for the comedians if a lot of these clubs put little podcast studios in the clubs, because a lot of comedians do podcasts, make it commedian for him, come in and do the show from there, and they get

a little pressed that way too. I mean that that there's so many things that they could be doing, Like that's a that's a good idea, man, because every comedy club should have a podcast studio and you can make money renting it up to the comedian. I mean, the Comedy Store has a podcast studio now, yeah, and I think the last factor you used to have one. But I think if you're gonna start a comedy club, you gotta have a podcast studio because then you could sell

ticket to the podcast studio. Tell me about your vinyl album right now? All right? I have a vinyl of Mice comedy special that came out on HBO. I have a vinyl that you can you can buy at Philippe's World dot com slash shop. We only made five hundred albums and this is a comedy album like not like

any other comedy album. It's a double album. So there's two to three inch records in the album with a poster, and we have some that are limited addition, they're counted and you could also get the CD if you want to get the CD on my web page. But I do have an album like a record for the hipsters. Anybody that had the record player or you collect vinyl, I got you. I'm one of those hipsters with with the with the record player. I'm in the record play guard.

You probably old use one or the newer one. I got a nineteen seventy four tech techniques. That's old school right there. Technique that's the first. That's what that's the first techniques where the old school DJs, whey, those that radio shot. Yeah, that's what I got man. So if I buy it and I come down to l A and a couple, sometimes when you sign it for me too, yes, and also when you buy it, if you want to sign it, I'll just sign it on you a little

note and I'm signing it too. All right, I'm doing the bad decisions towards it's all new jokes. I'm working on new material and I'm going on tour with it. I'll be in January. I'll be in Boulder, Colorado, Portland, Oregon, Chicago, New York, and Coachella and Tuston, Arizona. All these days philippin World dot com slash toy or by the album Philippa World dot com slash shop. And we will also put all this out on our Facebook page, access podcast and as your dates come up, support support the man

who's been on the show. Before we get out of here, I wanted to do a little thing. I just just a real quick I call it three killer questions. If you're up for this, I got three questions for you, Philippe. First one is if you could listen to a podcast featuring anybody living or dead, who would you like to hear do a podcast? Man, I would say Richard pryor Mitch Hedberg. That would be That would be excellent, like together, like in the same room, Mitch Hepberg, Pryor and Tom Jeerson.

Oh my god, that the three guys in the podcast telling jokes while rich Herbert takes a nap. Perfect. I could picture of ch Headberg just napping and just every every ten pitty minutes say one good funny joke and passed out again. If you were, um, if you were an actual sandwich. I love sandwiches, So I asked about sandwiches, um, not not like what's your favorite? But if you were sandwich and it said who you were, what kind of sandwich would you be? I'd probably be the captains save

the whole sandwich. Now what is that? Oh? Man? It would it be? Uh man, it would be toast. It would it be like shobbatta bread or some good bread, you know, like sour dough, not like some good like submarine bread like the fresh row bread with madonnaise of course on one stipe mustard on the other. That pickles and you know, if I wasn't vegan, I'm vegan now, but if I wasn't vegan, of course it would be

like Swiss jack cheese, American cheese and ham, um, ham, lettuce, tomato, avocado, halapenos. Yeah, man like that. But since I'm vegan now, I would just make a vegan Since I'm vegan now, I would make like the would be like the the Felipe supernatural sandwich, which would be toasted we bread on vegan aise and child cheese which is vegan cheese and temper bacon and vegan turkey on top, with pickles on a sweet bread bro deep and then with melted with cheese and then

deep Friday in a batter. You go. How about the last podcast you binged? What's the last one you you you sat down and listened to a few episodes of it row I don't know. I don't know if I listened to a lot of podcasts, but the last podcast I would binge it was the last time I bade a podcast was Grant or a Girl? Oh he really, she's been that's been around a long time, man. I was like, yeah, that's that's like a twelve year old podcast.

That's that's interesting that you benched at why why? I don't know why, because last year, um, they were breaking down. She had like a holiday special and they were talking about different different language you know that that we don't use anymore. And I got into it because I remember, like she was talking about languages and the way and where does where do the words originate? You know, like when the world? Where do the where did the world

really come from? You know? And I was interested in that.

And then litterale I started learning history on words. I like history and I never heard history about when words I started and they were talking about holiday season, like I think she was talking about it's the season or tests the season t I s. And then she broke it down why they used tests and who uses this and and it goes back to back then when people were not educated, when people didn't go to work, they didn't go to school because they had to work a lot of a lot of the words that are used

now were made by people who were poor, who couldn't really pronounce the word or didn't know the word, so they started making up their own language. And so I was interested in that. So I started listening to her all the time, I think I followed her. I used to follow her on Snapchat, but she didn't follow me back,

so I stopped following her. Part of the All Things Comedy Network, Felipe as far as that and What's Up Full podcast, you can check it out, check it out on I already thanks for coming on, buddy, So What's Up Full? Again? Yeah? I don't know. I thought it was funny the first time. Everybody, this is z Um. If you're new to the show, z is uh my producer, my friend, my former student. And yeah, yeah, welcome to season to Maddie, Yeah, welcome to season. We made it

season season two of Access podcast. Um. It will be a little different than season one. I'm always I want to loosen it up a little bit this season. So Felipe was a great first guest to have on. I feel naked when I when I have a guest that I'm so when I talk about me so much about you know what I mean. It's always kind of weird to bring it up, but I think that it's just part of building connections and right, you guys had a lot to relate to, so yeah, part of it. So

I'll be honest. We recorded that, uh, interview before the break, and I have not talked to Philipe since then, so I'm excited to kind of read because we we ended and we were like, yeah, we'll talk and you know, we'll hook up, and I hope. So I like him a lot. He was cool. He's like effortlessly funny. Yeah, you know what I mean. It's just it just feels so part of him, like he's not really trying at all. Yeah.

You know. I always say some podcasts you listen to you because it's like reading a book and you're like you're getting information and you're really into it. And his podcast is when you can listen to and just sit back and like hang because you're hanging You're just hanging out with him, all right. So comedy lots of comedy podcasts out there to choose from. We've got three for you.

I think I picked one and Z you picked two. Well, you picked one that I don't know in the one that we both agree on, Let's start with the one that you picked. Tell me about it. Okay, So this is actually a recommendation by our very own Dalton Dalton. Yeah, that guy doesn't know comedy. No, it's called My Brother, My brother and me, And it's just three brothers, Justin, Travis, and Griffin, who there I don't even know how to explain, but they have such different personalities but they meshed so

well together. And what they describe their podcast is telling people how to live their lives because they do it so well. Pinpoint why it's so funny. But it's never an episode that I'm not like dying laughing. So the hosts are engaging. Yeah, they're engaging, and they're just so different, but it works well. And they even have a video component of it. And I mean, trust me, guys, my brother and my brother and me. Check it out, all right, it doesn't sound bad. I'll check it out. I'll check

it out. Second one I can tell you, Um, we're both fans of let me just say, Turbo Hottie. I've loved her forever. She's like the perfect combination of hotness and coolness and funniness just everything, like you just want

to hang out. And that's what I like about her podcast too, because like Filipe, she's really effortlessly funny and what she says for her podcast it's not great relation ship advice, and she has celebrities and you get to see this different side of them, and she like brings out the best in them and you know, makes them really comfortable. And yeah, like you said, she's just a

cool girl. And she's embraced podcasting. You know, there are people who do podcast because their celebrities and they feel like they have to. She's embraced the meeting to the point where she's actually teaching a podcasting class. I think at Santa Monica Community College they did they or one of the one of the schools in l A they did it. They did like a podcasting class, not as good as mine, but but she was. She was teaching it. So let's check it out if you haven't heard it

before on a Ferris. All right, she's great. Can I can I introduce the third one? I can't tell you how much I love this podcast. Is the first podcast that I ever would have to pause because I was laughing so hard. It's called my Dad Wrote a Porno. And you have to start at season one, episode one. You cannot jump into the middle of this. And here

is the deal. This the host of the show, Jamie found a podcast that are found a poor note that his dad had written legitimately found a pornographic book, that is his dad had written, his dad, who he wouldn't seem like he would be writing a porno at all, and they read it. He and his two friends read it every week and it is. Oh, it's so funny. It's everything that's right about British people. It's also um, it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh, it's

so good. We'll play a little bit, but man, just go check it out. British accents make everything better a little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, just the way they engage with each other in the little terms that they have is funny. Check it out. Alright, she's great. Can I can I introduce the third one? I can't tell you how much I love this podcast is the first podcast that I ever would have to pause because I was laughing so hard. It's called my dad Wrote a Porno. And you have to start at

season one, episode one. You cannot jump into the middle of this. And here is the deal. This the host of the show, Jamie found a podcast that are found a poor note that his dad had written legitimately found a pornographic book that is his dad had written his dad who he wouldn't seem like he would be writing a porno at all. And they read it. He and his two friends read it every week and it is Oh, it's so funny. It's everything that's right about British people.

It's also, um, it's just so entertaining and how it's evolved. Oh, it's so good. We'll play a little bit, but man, just go check it out. British accents make everything better a little bit. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like just the way they engage with each other and the little terms that they have, which is funny. Check it out. All right. Those a three great podcast to start off the new year. Um, as we start off the new year, did you have a good break? By the way I did?

It was relaxing. I just hung out with my family. What about you? I want to do a shout out. Um, I got I went surfing and I like, did a good job. I'm gonna put a picture up on access or Facebook page. I'll do it. Yeah, I want to shout out to Jeff. Who was he? He's He's an East Virginia guy. He's Alway's from Virginia and I'm like, oh, you're gonna teach me how to surf. I'm like, you're from Virginia. Uh, and he was a great teacher. There

you go, shout Jeff. I told him I was going to leave a bunch of yell p reviews about how bad he sucked, just for fun. But I wouldn't do that. But you know, what's up? What's up, Mauie. I love Mauie. I want to be there now than I am a tan man. I'm gonna try to stay this way too. Hello, Channing Booth. That's so cheesy though. Yeah. Whatever, I will do it anyway. Uh whatever, I do what I want access podcast. We do what we want. I want to thank Chris Peterson from my Heart Radio for for making

this podcast happen. Also Dalton, who we mentioned earlier does the graphics, Casey who does the music and also helps out with a lot of the production. Katie Wilcox and Don Parker here at I Heart Radio, San Francisco as we broadcast from our brand new studio. We have a beautiful new studio and we are looking for sponsor to take it over and they'll also be sponsoring the show. So if you're interested, just let us know. But our sales staff is out. They got a couple of folks

looking like they want to do it. So thanks to everybody that works on the show, and see thank you for for a great season one and and this new season two is going to be fantastic. I have no doubts we've got a great show next week. Lindsey Graham, not that Lindsay Graham. No, he is actually the host of a podcast called American History Tellers from the Wandering Network. So it's all about history podcast next week on Access Podcast.

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