The Steve Trevino Episode

Don't get it twisted on code and we danceing for no buttament biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces in the building. Collectively we are the ghetto boys, and reloaded, reloaded with another episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Steve Travino, I'm not clapping for that guy, No, thank you. I like that y'all have Mexican uh producers. That ship

made me feel comfortable. What we do, man, is that we bring in We bring in the producers based on who the guest. That's what I was thinking. You know, yeah, you guys went to home, Deepo picked up Mato and Louise. You're like, hey, hey, you want to work today? And the lake to and then motherfucker's will jump in your car. Dude, have you ever got Mexicans at home? Depot? Uh? You know you gotta lock the doors. I'm gonna teach use y'all gotta lock the doors. When you're asking to hire Mexicans.

Just jump in the back seat and they're like, I'm hiring you just hired me. I'm in the back seat now. I'm figured that's how you Hey, how how did you do it? Man? How did you get into the first place? Man? You know it? I thought I didn't. I didn't want to do anything else growing up. I just knew that that was for me. Eight you were eight when you so did the family Like we used to come over and gather around and your mom say, Steve, no, you know what. I always tell this story because it's it's

you know, it's a trippy story. And I remember so you know, you know how you remember times in your life. You know, drink um. So we always have barbecues at our house and always the men were outside, women inside, right, and you know, man, my dad, refinery worker, welder, pipe fitter. I mean they're tough dudes, man, you know, tough Mexican dudes. And they'd be outside hanging out. I remember one time the men and the women were inside and I'm like,

I remember thinking, this is different. You know, these husbands don't hang out with these wives. And it was, by the way, my bad trips out because I'm like, we're having game night. It's like game night, yeah, my wife other wives like what are you fucking gay? And I'm like, no, like we hang out, man. But it was they were watching they were watching Richard Pryor and they were all laughing, man, And I thought to myself, I've never seen my dad and my mom sit down together and laugh like that.

And it changed my life that right there. I was like, that's what I'm gonna do. Shot out like Jack and Richard jokes like, did you Eddie Murphy's because I know I used to do that toot Eddie Murphy raw. Man. I started watching Eddie Murphy rall your funny motherfucker bro for real, man, like a funny motherfucker for real. We look man, and I ain't bullshitting you guys. I learned so much from listening to you guys, And that's not bullshit. And I tell you why, y'all's lyrics and I wanted

to talk about this. Y'all's lyrics are so honest and you show you you guys show weakness, and most rappers don't show weakness. Well, you know, you know the walk around well when you know what he's talking about, you know, like vulnerability and talking about being scared and wanted to get out of the game and and you know, making mistakes, right, making mistakes. And to me, that's why y'all's music connected to me so much. It's because to me, it felt

more real than just going hard all the time. Yeah, you know those lyrics in my mind is playing tricks on me. When you talk about you know, you know I want I didn't want to be with her, and you realize you sucked up, you know, or when you're in church asking God to get you, you know, all that stuff. And so I take that to my stand up. I try to be vulnerable in my stand up. I try to be I try to be sometimes I'm losing.

You know, a lot of comics they always want to win, right, And my stand up man I lose all the time. My wife wins, you know what I mean? How but how how do your wife wins so much? When you speak wife? Because at the end of the day, I'm still with it, you know what I mean, At the end of the day, I'm still with her. At the end of the day, I love her. And at the end of the day she always gets what she wants anyway, you know. So it is a happy life, happy life.

It feels that it seems like it seems like it is. I tell people all the time, like, man, I don't need ship. We're talking about earlier. I don't need ship, you know, I want the same bullshit. But but are you happy though? I mean, I'm very happy, man, Okay. And you know what I didn't know. No, Well, here's what's tripping. I don't know if you guys, uh, talent wise. I didn't start be I started changing in my stand up because I fell in love with this girl and

I fucking hated her for it. I for real hated her for it because I'm like, man, I'm I'm on the road, I'm a comic, I'm a fucking pirate. I'm crushing ass everywhere I go. I'm drinking. I'm doing whatever I want. What's a pirate but fucking raping and pillaging and fucking going from town to town um and then all sadden. I meet this girl and I'm fall in love with her, and I hated her for it. So I walked on stage and started talking about hating her for it, and it was funny, but it wasn't connecting

because I was angry. And then once I decided, once I felt okay with being that guy and being with her, then the love came into the jokes them. Ship really changed for me, and we did Relatable in Corpus Christie for Netflix, and that thing blew up Man and everybody. You know, they couldn't see the love I had from my wife in it when before it was just angry. Yeah, So were you cognizant of putting the funny in it? Make it? Because I always here, I hit comedians that

was that a serious? Sometimes they go through certain things and they want to bring that out in the comedy. And I've always respected comedians who awoke who who who would go there and talk about social issues. But you know, did you ever did you ever get to a point to where you you thought that um, you know, perhaps I need need to make it. I need to stick to funny first and then talk about serious away exactly,

you know. And I remember hearing Richard Prior talking about that, right, Like, at the end of the day, we're our comics and the idea is to be funny. But nowadays, man, it's gotten deep for me. My act is about family, being a family man, trying to be a better dad, a better husband, you know, And I get deep in that way. I don't do politics, I don't do religion. I get deep in the you know, man. I I work every day to be a good dad. I work every day to be a good husband to my wife. And it's

a it's a growth process. So while I'm telling these stories that are funny, I kind of like, like I said that that premise that I'm working on right now. How do you raise a privileged kid? Right, because the three of us here, well, I don't have ship growing up. I had hard working dad and me and me and we just talked about each other. We didn't really have right, So how do you raise a prevous job? Don't know? Man, you know, that's that's a struggle to me and my

wife for having are you privileged? Now twenty years of doing stand up man? Now you know I got a bank rom I'm rich. I mean, I mean yeah, but you know you know that that's interesting that you would do you have the joke? Do you have it formattic as a joke? Get how do you raise a previous chime? Yeah? So right now, you know, I I bring up the fact that and we'll do some of the you know, talk about some of it. Now, all of us, all our kids have way more than we had. Right My

son can watch cartoons anywhere anywhere in the world. Tell me more. I got a son that's sitting in here right now. That's minus one Kidney. I didn't know that kid game Christney. So yeah, he don't have more. He got list because he looked out for his dad. We're Chris. I love you, bro, Thank you man. And I heard I heard you're gonna be a grandpa again. You got another baby on the way. I got It's not him, not me, isn't him? Chris? Yeah? And Christmas? I got

four and I going I'm the Mexican. I got two kids. I'm very white. We gotta we gotta sign and a daughter. Obviously he's talking about material things, you know, like they them having more than we have the material things and access and options, right and and those kids that they got a lot more, and also not being aware. You know, we live in this neighborhood where I have to try to make him aware that, hey, man, like we're so lucky to be here. So I make him volunteer, we

do stuff. You know, if he gets a new toy, I make him give up a new toy, you know, stuff like that, right, because you know, I mean I grew up going to church all the time, you know, so and and we I grew up in a little town, man, I mean nobody really had much. You grew up in Gregory, Portland, Portland, Texas. Right man? How is CHRISTI Hey, yeah, you're twenty minutes away from corporate So how what's that? Dude? That look? But I'm country as fun and and that was what

that was. What's cool about about being a Texan is I always tell people, man, when you're texting, you're Texan. You live in Texas? Yeah, I live in your Braunfels, Texas. Now how do you live out there? I'm just asking because I need an airport. So I got Austin San Antonio Airport. My wife's parents are from the same little town, Greggory, Portland, so we wanted our kids to have access to their their grandpa's, you know, grandma's. So you know, we picked

just North. They're good job. That's David J. David J. Is half Puerto Rican and half Pakistani, which is fucked up. It's gotta be fucked up. Um, but no, you know it is. But but you know, and and my son, you know, and you guys are on the road like me. I mean, that boy goes to he's he's a gold member on American Airlines. You know, he sits first alas it took me. I didn't get first class till I was thirty five. This kid's fucking five in first class. We got a hotel rooms and he's like, Dad, do

they have room service? I'm like, fuck you? How about fuck you? You know what I mean, that's what you work for, right, That's what That's what you work for me because I oftentimes I just look at my kids. Man, I'm thinking, wow, man, it's it happened for real, you know, because I envisioned that before they were born, and them actually live that type of lifestyle and had that type of access that they have. I love that you said in rewarding you have to envision it, man. I've always

envisioned being a comic. I always envisioned having success. I've always envisioned working hard and having these things. I will say that that you know, I have become now famous, and it's not what I thought it was gonna be. Like it is. It's harder. Yeah, my phone rings all the time, you know, and I try not to change my cell phone. But you got motherfucker's that that you gave your the number to ten fifteen years ago. And now all of a sudden, like, hey, I'm in talking

on who the fund is it? Like, you know, can I get a hook up? Can I get a picture? Can I? You know? And and it's arm Me and my wife were We're eating dinner and and people like, oh can I get a picture? And you know, and and you start giving up your privacy that I had that I didn't realize I enjoyed so much before. I mean sure, I was at home DEEPO the other day talking to the dude and this lady was like, can you talk again? I go, excuse me? She was talking again?

What do you mean talking again? You're him, You're the guy from TikTok. So then once she freaked out, then other people. So now I'm at home, people taking pictures, which I'm happy to do, right because I'm honored and I feel proven. You know, I feel very lucky. But I thought fame was different, and I feel exactly the same. I just have more problems, yeah, more money, more problems, yeah, man, for real. And it's it's and the privacy. You know what I do when it comes to that, the privacy thing,

I make sure that I don't. If I leave my house, I'm prepared for being accosted. I'm a I'm a prepared. I'm prepared. I'm prepared for somebody walking up to me and asking for an autograph or a picture or whatever, even just to try to have a small conversation. I'm prepared for that. Now, I can't always accommodate them, but when I when I step out that door, I understand who I am and what I mean to certain people. So when I come across them and they get that moment,

I give it to him. So yeah, and if I don't feel like it, if I don't really feel like being bothered at all by anybody, you know, just anybody, not necessarily fans. It's just anybody. I just stay at home, right But and Brat Garrett told me that from everybody loves Raymond. He told me, He'll Steve, we chose this life. It's the minute you walk out your door, approach somebody boldly and aggressively. It's what the cosputers. Now, Yeah, I got you. I mean people text me, hey, what times

the show tonight? I'm like, motherfucker and the time it took you to text me and figured it out. It's on the internet. It's on the internet. So I started getting these um these words for the day, like Willie get and I'm gonna get y'all one, give me one. We're gonna mix it, We're gonna work it in. Now let me ask you about so my top two favorite rap songs of all time are Notorious Thugs, which is Biggie and Bone Thugs, right and bring it On? They bring it on? Okay, now, how did that? I'm so

enamored with that song because it's nine. Willie was on a hiatus. He wouldn't back then. So I picture all you dude in the studio dropping versus. Is that how it went down? And and did you plan on making it a nine minute song? I did not. As a matter of fact, we had a we had the songs that we had, uh, we had songs that we call posse cuts, and it was just like everybody on the label, we're getting and spirited verse from what I can remember, because you know that it was like two d years ago,

two hundred years ago. So um, we we all wrapped on it. It It was nine minutes. It's about nine minutes. Ship more more Producer Mario, how long is that song? Say it in Spanish? Bro, Mario? Beat your Mario mix? No, that song is? It is like nine and it's one of my favorite songs. Man. We we had some It's a lot of people that would on that song because I'm like, well, who's this and who's that? And then somebody would come in on the verse. I'm like, oh funk,

I gotta figure out who the funk that was? Who passed on that? We know? Bellow see O three two was three to I think I don't think he was on there. Let me see what was on bring it on? But yeah, um, what song is bringing on? Chris? Yeah? Hey, so I got a new word. Were not a new word, but it's called temporize. It means avoid making decision, a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. Will I'm going to temporize on this? Im a temporizing? Read

that again? What the fund is it? I don't think I understand it. I don't either temporize avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. Does that mean temporarily? Is it in the sentence? I don't even know how. It was a lot of traffic on the freeway. So really temporized a rival. That's just like fucking manual season. That's pretty good, a little temporized. Steve, you said you were eight years old when you started your your comedy run, when you got into comedy, Second

Greade talent. Okay, I was going to ask, did you tell some jokes? Well, I mean I would assume you guys grew up a lot like me. I mean I had a talented family too, you know, I mean my cousins. We all get together and we put on talent shows. We would sing, you know, we we you know, and I always wanted to make people laugh, you know. And I was like, wow, do comedy. I would do Eddie Murphy Row, you know, and everybody, and you know, a lot of my ts were like, oh my god, why

is he saying those things? He's eight, you know. And I'd be like, you ever take a ship and that ship come back? What does that ship want? My dad's laughing all the men I got. I got my grandma over there, like what the fun was? Eight? Oh? Man? I would run my mouth man, and I mean we were, you know, like I said, man, blue collar family, a bunch of you know, welder's pipe fitters. I mean, tough motherfucker's man, and we were just My mom had nine

brothers and sisters. So we had forty cousins right there, you know. And then my dad's won a four so we had another twenty cousins over here. We all get together and it was talent show time. Man, So did you win a talent show? In second grade? Second grade? I walked up to the teacher and I'm like, hey, I'm gonna do stand up and She's like, okay, what are your jokes? And uh, you ever take a ship? Like? You know? As I dropping any murro, No, I didn't,

but I was. It was pretty rough and she was like, um, I'll let you be a stand up, but we gotta work on your jokes. So then from then on I was doing stand up. And then you step into a comedy club at what nineteen the first time when when you grew up in Gregory, Portland, Texas. I mean, and you know, we didn't when we didn't go on vacations. We I mean we went to Astra World. That was

a big deal for us here. You know, yeah, for like a day, you know, it comes to actual world and my dad like, hey, we ain't eating ship, we ain't doing ship. You're gonna ride the rides. We're gonna fuck home right stout in the back. You know, you gotta bring the food. You know, you gotta leave the park to go to the truck to get you know. Um. But you when you when you don't know where to go, when you grow up like that, you're like, I don't you know, I don't know where to go, man. And

then my cousin, My cousin calls me up. He's like, hey, man, I just moved to Dallas and there's a comedy club across the street. I said, fucking I'm on my way. Uh. The Addison Improv The Addison Improv and and man, I drove there. I got there on a Tuesday. I walked in on Wednesday. All you know, when your young ignorance is bliss right. I walked there. I'm like, hey, I'm a comedian, man, and they're like, oh, you're a comedian. Yeah, I'm a comedian. I need to I need to be

on your stage. And the manager was like, oh shit, all right, well we gotta open mic tonight. And Jamie Kennedy was headlining the open mic from screen, you know, Jamie. And I remember thinking, you know, man, I just met a celebrity like this dude's from Scream. You know. He was hosting the open mic. I did all right, and then uh, I thought minutes five minutes. I told the manager. I said, hey, man, you know I need to be headlining. I need to be you know, I need to be

I need to be working the weekend. He goes, yeah, because, man, why don't you get a job here. I'm a comedian. I don't need a job. He's like, no, why don't you get a job here. So I was a door guy. I met people like Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle was coming through those days. You know, um, all the blue collar guys.

Um Joe Rogan was was just headlining back then. You know, yeah, he wouldn't even you know, I remember meeting him and Joey Diaz and you know, he was selling out Friday Saturday, but he wasn't selling out Thursday when I met him when I was twenty years ago. Man, Ralph, he may got rest his soul. He was an opening act for Jay Moore. Um, Bobby Lee. I mean, all these dudes, man, they come to and and my goal, my goal was you know. I told the manager said, hey, man, who

takes him to radio in the morning? And He's like, why do And I'm like, what can I do it? He was happy because he's like, well, funk, I don't gotta wake up a five in the morning to pick these dudes up. I'm like, I'll do it. I picked these dudes up, talk to him, try to get to know him, picked their brains, you know. Chappelle, I remember I had Chris Rock in my car man Monique, you know Monique in my car, uh and Chris is. I was so excited to meet Chris. I go pick him up.

I'm like, oh ship, Chris Rock. You know what I mean. I picked him up. He says zero words to me. He puts his hat down in the car, puts his hoodie over his head. I take him to radio. Still says no words to me, walks on the radio and just turns into Chris Rock. I mean, I'm like, oh, get back in the car, turns his hand. I took him back to the hotel. Mother said zero words to me. But anyway, I mean, that's hilarious. Man. I remember Bruce Bruce, Man,

the hotel's right here, the comic clothes right here. They share a parking lot. That's how fucking clothes they are. And Bruce Bruce was like, because most comics would just walk because no, bull Ship, it's just parking. Yeah, Bruce, like, come to me up. I had a nine six and a half Nissan pickup truck. He got in the back and the airport. Bro, He's trying to get in that truck.

I'm like, dude, by the time you get in this truck and you could have walked to the impron and then his security was holding onto my truck as we walked through the parking lot. But Ship like that, man, it was it was cool. Man. And when you're around it all the time, you know, and I'm watching these dudes. Man. Kevin Hart was my camps opener when I met him. Kevin harton you know a lot of comedy clubs have comedy condos. A comedy condo. Yeah, so they rent an

apartment for the comedians to stay at. You have to call him comedy condos. And Kevin Hart was like, hey, man, they got a comedy condo. I go, no, man, we don't have a comedy condos. Like, man, I got nowhere to stay because I came out here to open from my camps, but I don't get a room. And I was like, man, you crashing my couch. And Kevin crashed on my couch man twenty years ago, Man, no ship have you spoken to him since? I see him? I see many once. That motherfucker. Man. We were doing a

show together at the end prov several years ago. I was it was me than him. First show, second show. He's like, man, fuck you, I'm going after you. He's like, you're going last. I ain't following you no more. I'm working on new material. You're over here trying to murder me. Mother, Like Kevin spid people. Man, and that's what's hard about this business man is sometimes you meet your heroes. Yeah, and I let you down. Man that I met that was a hero man was j J. Yeah, Jimmy Walker.

He's a he's a fun he's a mess sucker, first of all. Under the any other condition, I would say you out of pocket. But you're absolutely right. When I met when I was, when I met him, straight up, she did, asked Nick. Everybody else coolande The dude went out of his way to be an asked. And the only reason why I didn't drop him, it's because I don't hit j J. I didn't want it on my record. I didn't. I didn't want have been more fucked up. You would have been like I know, Mike, I didn't

want on my record that I noted. You know, I didn't want that on my record. Just fighters straight up slip is ass. But he's got to be seventies, No, you gotta be nineties. I don't give an you met, then you meet your heroes, and then I'll send your friends with him, like, oh ship that I'm a friend that I'm friend with. Uh Steve Harrington, Uh uh Brown? I mean I mean for me. Remember, you know be sleeping. You know who Tom Wilson is. Tom Wilson though he's

a Biff from Back to the Future. Oh, no, dude. And that dude, man, I meet him as an opening act door guy. We hang out in Dallas. He's like, hey, man, you know I want to go see Deely Plaza bub Blaes Like, will you take me? I'm like, yeah, man, I'm on it super cool with me and I'm just sitting there going, man, I'm hanging out with Biff from Back to the Future. And this was forever ago. Fast forward ten years. Man, I'm walking through the airport and

I hear Trevino. Trevino. I turned around, it's it's him, and I'm like, man, I never in a million years thought I've been walking through an airport and Biff from Back to the Future calling me over to say what's up? You know you trip out? Man? But oh I met Mike Tyson. He did. I would do a show in Vegas and then he would do the show afterwards. That dude shook my hand but wouldn't let go. You know,

that uncomfortable ship and it's Mike. Yeah, you don't want him to actually only snap and thank you so I'm just letting him shake my hand as long as he wants to shake my hand. He's I mean, he's making eye contact with me, and he goes, I love what you did up there, he goes, I'm the baddest man on the planet. He goes, and I'm scared shitless of my wife. And he's still holding my hand, and I'm like trying to pull away, but not not aggressive, because

you don't want no ship. I don't want no ship with my typon, you know, speaking of that that vulnerability you was talking about, that's Mike got that. Yeah, that's why Mike ha is beloved. I mean, you know, it's you know, yeah, you know, he whooped ass and all that kind of stuff, and yeah, kick ass, take names, and he's carved out a nice career for himself and put itself into history books. But that was a time when he was not beloved. People just loved what he did.

But I admire growth, Yeah, like I admire people who who have grown, and you can tell that Mike has grown absolutely, you know, and and his humility and his ability to go, hey man, I know who I am and I know that I want to be better, and that's what I think I admire about about all people. Man' That's why I get mad about this cancel culture bullshit, Like you're gonna go back twenty years to cancel the motherfucker I was. I was a different person twenty years ago.

You know, some of the stuff I found funny twenty years ago, I don't funny today. Do you ever think I think to temper your your comedy, you know, because of cancel culture? No? I mean I'm lucky. You know. I talk about my wife, my family, you know, And I tell you about the time the only person you can cancel me is my wife. And as long as

my wife is cool, I'm good and nobody can cancel me. Man, you know, and you know, right like right now, and you'll see tonight I do a bit where my dad calls me, uh right, But it's him telling me back when I was a kid, right, you'll see it tonight. That's all out of context right now, But I need that word so that you can understand who my dad was. Yeah, you know, my dad's this hard Vietnam vet um military man, refinery worker. He used words like that. Now Do I

like those words? Do I use that word? No? But you can't take that away from me when I'm telling a story. You know what I mean? Well, I think context is everything, and I think most people can appreciate that when it's put into proper context. Any word, any word, an I do believe. I mean, you got people like Dave Chappelle, you know who I think is a genius. Man.

I'm sure you saw the Last Special right, So watching that Last Special man, the way he it was like a sermon, like a preaching preaching man, a sermon, I'm telling you. And and and if you listen, I mean, if you're listen and you watch it again, watch how he brings all that ship around in that full circle. And and and and he says, man, I don't want to talk about this no more, you know, but stop punching down on my people. Right that's right there. It was.

I was like, brilliant. It was brilliant. But I think that you, as an artist or I don't think the regular person, regular civilian sees the art. They don't, they don't, they don't peep it. And the main point was, here's this small community that has the ability to change things in cancel, yet my black community can't. Bro And we've we've been fighting for centuries, get shit changed and to kill me. No, yeah, you're right, you're right. But I

just found something. You know, I'm a sucking worring, so I just found something. You're ready. A bundle of sticks are twigs bound together as fuel? See, we're just talking about fuel. Yeah. Uh, the Peanut Gallery likes that ship Mario and Louisa they're making. Going back to Dave Chappelle, you know, one of the things that I admire by comedians so much, is there uh there intelligence most comedians, most comedians, I know, the good ones are intelligent, and

it is very difficult to craft jokes. Like really, I'm talking about when you I may do real comment I ain't talking about just joking jokes. I'm talking about that It's easy to be funny, but to craft a joke has a great degree of difficulty and how hard I mean, how how amazed are you when you see somebody like Dave Chappelle do that ship put on three specials in one year to three specials in one year when most people, most most comedians cannot do that type of thing. Will

get jealous five six, seven years. A lot of comics get jealous, get fired up. Yeah, man, I see somebody like Dave Chappelle do something like that. And by the way, I don't watch stand up because I don't want to be influenced. But then you get somebody like Dave Chappelle, who he's so above me. His mother's not gonna influence me. He's so amazing. I mean where his head's at right now. And that's what tripped people out about Dave. We got to remember that Dave was famous in his early thirties.

Then the man disappeared and came back as a grown ass man. So we all remember Day was famous in his twenties. What was that ship where he was missed? A nice guy? And then he was talking about the doctor said I need to back out of me. So he's already famous as in his twenties. Yeah, the man disappears, comes back as a grown ass man with real opinions, with kids, with a wife, and all of a sudden that changed for for us as a community, Like, whoa, what is that crazy high dude that we remember as

a kid. He's still in there. He's still in there, but now he's a grown ass man and he's got grown ass man opinions. He's evolved and he's grown man and man said, I had to try to save him. Uh huh, whatever, because at the end of the night it was probably gonna be aswing up for us to pussy that she didn't have joke up. But that's another thing about this. He'll drop you some knowledge and then he'll hit you with a stupid as. That's a kid funny,

you know, but it's but it's not coincidental. When he dropped the knowledge and hit you with the stupid ass, he knows exactly what he's doing. It's to set up brilliant man. I mean, and same with you guys. When you're coming up, there's a million rappers on the streets. When I was coming up, there's a million stand up I mean, this motherfucker. And every city I go to there's a community of stand ups. Houston probably has a thousand.

It's some. It's a community of stand ups. But the elites the cream, right, Yeah, the cream is going to rise to the top every time. You could be in a bundle in the circle of a ton of rappers. Like when I find a young comedian. If I find a young comedian, I like like like Dave J for example, I tell him, I look, dude, you're the best of all the shitty ones. You're you're the best comedian. But he's only but he's only two years in the game.

And it's like Dave where they talk about you like that. Man, come in, man, can we get him a chair? But are you funny? I think so? Are you? Uh? Uh? What is Puerto Rican? And in Pakistani? Oh goddamn, this is gonna be good. I'm telling you that this dude's a mess and his and his Pakistani daddy left him. Yeah, that's why I'm a comedian. Yeah. So, so how do you feel? How do you how do you feel with when Steve's the best of the shitty comedian? Well, Steve's

my boss, so I like it. No, good answer, good answer. If you wouldn't, if you wouldn't get fired. Would you say some ship about him right now? No? No, he said his wife is the only one who can cancel him. But I got some ship on Stieve two. I can cancel show like canceled. Steve's asked Trevino, you can take your MinC now, babe. But what what he is saying is like and he was talking about before other comedians

is like, there's a thousand comedians in Houston. I live in Austin example from the the Comedian's there's a thousand competing in every city. But like, if you wanna do it at this level, you have to compete with Dave Chapelle, You have to compete with these huge guys, you know what I mean. Well, that's when these young these young cats don't know, right, It's like, you're not competing against

that open micro that you're standing next to. If you want the job, you're competing with Chris Rock and the best in the world. You're competing against me, You're competing against Bert Kreisher, You're competing against all these dudes. Man, you know so, so why are you worried about these folds? Right? You know, stop trying to compete with these dudes when

you should be competing with the very best. Go ahead and go reach for it, go ahead and hit that way, right, Yeah, don't stay out here with us, out of here, go go go. And a lot of young comics because of the local scene, they're concerned about that that comedian in town that thinks he's the big ship. And it's like, dude, this there ain't nobody. You need to be worried about the motherfucker's that are nationally headlining, the dudes that are getting on TV. I mean, we're not competing against I

don't compete against him. I'm competing against Kevin Hart. He's a funny, he's hilarious. But you know what, sometimes so you would agree that being a comedian is, um, it's competitive. Very well, it doesn't have to be And I was gonna say that it doesn't have to be competitive, but it is competitive. In the beginning for me, it was very competitive, right and as I got older, That's what I'm trying to tell you know, Dave too, I'm like, man,

you gotta not worry about these dudes. Man, don't compete against these dudes. Go out there, do you do what you know how to do the way you do it, and don't worry about it because it's all subjective. It's hard. Okay, day, what's the best piece of advice Steve's giving you so far? Well, I mean we talked about comedy from a whole bunch of different sides, right, Like, there's like the technical parts of it. There's about you know, individual like jokes and

tags and speed and things like that. But you know what he's talking about. Uh, just now like having the ability to kind of see past little jokes, just like you're seeing past the scene and go like, what are you really talking about? You know what I mean? You can put together a bunch of popsicle stick jokes, um, but what are you gonna make with them? Are you gonna have a message that matters or is expressive who

you are? Or is it just goofy and again talking about like what you guys do, man, is is is being vulnerable, you know, and and digging deep inside of yourself to too. That's what people connect to, man. You know, people people walk out and I got I got grown man. At the end of my shows. Now with this new set I'm doing, they come up to me and they're they're crying, man, I mean they're they just have the comedy show and then that's the best comedy show I've

ever been to. But you made me think of my dad. You made me think about how hard my dad works, you know, And that's the stuff that make people go, hey, Trevino is my comic. That's my dude. You know what that this just made me think about something like you're the everyday guys guy that the politicians pretend to be when they're running on the campaign trail, right, because they always come up where you know, my dad he raised and a little cabin in Yeah, and it was just us.

We didn't have food. Sometimes you had two million dollars in the bank, legalized, legalized staff, legalized legalized staff. So you know, I am. But and again going back to the privileged part in the celebrity part, you know, it's hard to stay grounded too. I gotta make sure I stay grounded. I gotta make sure that I am aware. And I saw my same friends from high school man too. You know, no new friends, no friends, no old business. Did you lose at least one of them, one or

two after the thame you lose a couple. Yeah, and that's because they don't quite get it. They changed before you change, dude. I'm so glad you said that, man, And I hate when they tell me that you changed the arena and I'm like, no, dude, you changed towards me. I'm the same dude. My road manager, Kyle and I

have been together since elementary school. That's my homie from elementary school, and we're still working together right now, you know, and cows the Yellowstone looking the Yellowstone looking dude ump. But I also have to stay around it, you know when you look at Martin Lawrence and I remember being at the comedy store when Martin Lawrence was making a comeback and stand up man. He was so unfucking relatable because he's different. I mean, the dude is a huge celebrity.

And you could tell that that first couple of months that he was up there, he couldn't find it, couldn't find that that relatability. I mean, you know, Martin was the every dude man, you know, and and after months of watching him work, watching him work, he started seeing that he started really changing the way he would word things or the way and because words matter, man, you know that words matter and the way you say things and the way you have to be aware. I want

to make sure I don't ever lose that. So you hit at seventeen, nineteen years old, you hit the scene, started doing your comedy. At some point you started riding for uh Carlos Carlos Carlo Spencer picks me up and we what did you? What do you meet? We met? We met in Corpus Christie senior year in high school. I'm driving to school with my buddy Joey, who who introduced me to you guys. Joey introduced me to the ghetto boys. Joey had an old ask copy tape and he put it in. He got, dude, we listen to

this ship man's fucking badass, you know. And he put it in and he's one introduced me to the ghetto boys. And we're driving. We're driving high school. I turned on the radio and I hear Carlo Spency on the radio. He's coming to Corpus. I'm like, oh, ship, Joey, Fox School, Let's go to the radio station. And I left a skipped school, went to the radio station and Seel walks out like I'm a comedian, and he goes, I'll tell you what, man, you sell fifty tickets tonight, I'll put

you on stage. I said, give me the tickets this so I sold them, my fucking man, and he led me on stage. And then he came back the next year and he was like, hey, if you can sell a Hunter tickets, I'll let you do more time. I'm on it sound tickets. I moved to Dallas. He comes through Dallas and he's like, oh, ship, you're doing it. I'm like, yeah, man, I'm doing it, and he goes, I'll tell you what I'm working on this tour called the Three A Meagles Tour. Paul Rodriguez, George Lopez, Carlo Spinca.

Here's I'll make you the opener. And I was like, that's it. I'm rich, I made it. I'm sorry. You know. Ever since then, man, I was twenty years old. Many day and we did and you guys would love this. Man. We did the Bronco Bowl. Oh that's a skate and drink or some remember that ship back in the day, skate rink or something. Cliff I was like a skate crank the Bronco Bowl, Man, Cliff Dallas was it a or some ship? Think you with the bowl? We all

did shows back over there, Man did Broco bo. But but you know we we I'm on the road with these guys. Carlo Spencia, George and Paul hated each other. They man, they couldn't get along. They're fighting with each other. They're fighting each other they are. We're doing arenas and I'm the opening act and I'm like, oh, shoot, this is the best ever happened to me. That breaks up, and then Mencia puts together a new three Meals tour. Paul goes and does Latin Kings of Comedy instead, Paul

and George do Latin Kings of Comedy. Mencia brings on Pablo Francisco, Freddy Soto who's dead now, and myself, which is another hard thing in this business. Man. You you get to know all these comics and then you know drug abuse takes them, suicide takes the cocaine, cocaine, you know, and that breaks your heart too. Man, I'm I'm you know, I know so many people who have committed suicide, you know, whether it was intentional they put a gun to their

head or the drugs and alcohol, you know. Um. So then Mencia was like, hey, man, three Megal tours over. I'll take you on the road for time and and if there's any young cats out there listening. My goal, like my dad taught me, be irreplaceable. Absolutely be irreplaceable. So as soon as Mena gave me the opportunity and I sold fucking merch best I could. If that I knew he drank diet cokes, I'd have a diet coke waiting for him when he got off stage, you know.

I mean, I was sucking on it, man, and I'm like, this dude cannot go on without me. I gotta make sure that I'm gonna be with this fucking dude, because this guy's give me an opportunity. And then we ended up h he ended up getting mind him and c on Comedy Central, and he started writing, started writing for him, and ship went real bad between me and him? Did things go bad between you and him? But first of all, why did things go back? You know? And and I

got nothing against Carlos man. I want to make that very clear. Like I have forgiven him, forgiven us is such a valuable thing in life. Man, I have forgiven him um for and I always say I got I got kind of me too. If you with you know I was, I was twenty years old. He made me all these promises, you know, And and he would be like,

hey man, you know he paid me no money. I mean when I tell you no money, no money, I mean even when you was writing, even when I was writing that the writers Guild didn't look a zero money like no money like I would. I would make about three fty dollars a week that ain't no money, no money money. And he was the type of dude that'd be like, hey man, if you need money, just hit me up. I got money. I'll help you. Yeah. And I'd be like, well how about you just paying me? Man?

Like you know what I mean? Um, And that's why we with with David J. You know, he gets the opener money and the middle money. And I paid for his flight and I paid for everything while we're here because of that experience, right, I wanted this dude to make some money. I mean I deserved I'm the one selling the tickets. I deserve this. But hey man, you deserve a good life. You know you're doing a good job. You were best. They kind of open up for you. Bro,

come on, baby up for you. Tell a joke right now. Let's see if you can make it. Let's see if you can cut it as a comedian. Let's see if you're the shittiest comedian, the best of all the city comedian. Come on, let's hear a joke. But it ain't nothing funny right now? Didn't go back and and and I saw you know, uh, it was just weird man ego ship you So so all of this stuff started happening before Joe Rogan exposed him. Oh yeah, man, you don't know.

That's a Joe Rogan confronted him at the Comedy Store on while he was on stage, said Yo, dude, you've been stealing jokes, and he had backup. You know, Joe Rogan talks about cancel culture. That's the first motherfucker to cancel somebody, Joe. Let me tell you something broke Joe. Joe took him out. Bro So I want to be on your podcast. Okay, go ahead, you know, Joe coming to do the podcast. Yeah, but but yeah, Joe, I want to do his I want him to want to

do too. Okay. So it was a trip. So I get Mencia and I have a fallen out first season Minu Mencia and and he does this like, hey, you know, um, you know, I hope you don't mind, but you're not gonna write on second season of Minna. And I'm like, well why not. He's like, whoa, why don't you go headline? Go a headline? That mean, go be the headliner at the clubs, you know, be the top bill, you know. And I was like, yeah, but I mean I want

to write on the show. Why would I not want to be on the show, and he's like, no, man, you know, just go do your thing, which turned out to be a blessing for me because they canceled the second season. Well, the third season got canceled, but Rogan got into it with him second second season, so I had already disassociated myself with him when But still, I mean a lot of that Shrapnell got me. Man. A lot of people were like, well, Trevino's men see his boy,

you know. And and for me, I don't think people realize how young I was, you know. I think I was writing on the minor Mencia. I was a kid, you know, And I don't know any better. Did they ever try to connect any of your jokes that you wrote for him as plagiarism? Not not well the way Mencia would do it? And and two things. Number one, Mencia is a very good stand up comedian Number one. Number two does he steal? Yes? Number three, I don't know if he knows he steals like for real, like

he's like. But some people would argue that how can he be a very good stand up comedian if he's not using his own words, if those are not his own jokes? How can he be a stand up a good stand up comedian. It's like somebody says, somebody just know how to deliver that ship. Bro, he knows how to fix up some ship for some motherfuckers they knew

how to deliver. No, but you know how you like you fix it like you know how you You hear somebody throw a verse out and you're like, nah, this goes over here, change take that out like you guys already know your pros. Yeah, I remember when he remember I remember when he when he when he said that he didn't know that he hadn't heard the Bill Cosby joke before about about his son becoming a star football player, Like that's no fucking wor you didn't hear that joke before?

So I worked on that. Wait a minute, Yeah, I'm gonna go so wait wait, wait, time out, time out, hold on. So he said, want to be jokes man? Straight how it robbed him without a gun straight up him. We're talking about loan joke. We're talking about like a little quick We're talking about a loan jo the whole joke, talking about three minute joke. Come here, I teach him to play football and then at the end, Hi momo.

It's the joke. It's the joke where he talked about teaching his son how to play football from Dave from from two years old, going going into pee wee, going into high school, college, then the Pros, and then they win the Super Bowl and he says, Mom, ha, mom, you know that I'm working on that special, right. I go up to the other writers, I go up to his agent, I go up to his manager, and I go, he can't do that joke. Huh, I go, I go, I go, we gotta talk to him. We're gonna film.

We're already gonna film that night in San Francisco at the I think we're at the war for the war Field, and I go the special, the special. So I pull all the team together. I go, I go, that's Bill Cosby's joke. Oh no, I go, I go. We can't let him do it. Do not let him do it. So then we have a meeting agents, managers, the whole thing. They tell men see Ned, his name is Ned. They tell Ned. They go, hey, man, um, you know, let's not do that joke. And he defended himself. He's like,

I fun that I wrote that joke. And we're like you know, I don't care if you wrote it or not, don't do it. Sure ship, he starts doing it. So in the edit room that got edited out first, Well, they re release an unedited version. Joe Rogan calls him out that joke's on there and to me, that was the nail and the coffin for him, everything's coffin, nail shut. Now they can't open their back up. I don't think so man. You know, well, he I think he will be able to do small venues because he does have

I guess the following. He has a following, but Arena, Yeah, but the Arena ship is over. But yeah, but how do you dudes feel about TikTok? Now? Like TikTok, people are doing my bits and becoming influencers by doing my bits, so they're getting paid. You should bang TikTok. You can't. Yes, you can, but that's a hard one because it sells tickets. What they're doing is that that like he's saying that taking the Joe some rearranging and changing a little, this,

a little that, my bit. They're gonna stroke for stroke, joke for joke, my bit, and they pant a moment. You know, these dude yeah, but you know what you know. But you know what TikTok could do. TikTok could put a disclaimer on there every time every time somebody does a voice over like that, they could put a disclaimer saying who it is. They could do that, just like they do with music. If you play somebody's music, it shows the the song up there at the time of

the title. And so this is something, this is the fight that that you guys should take on as comedians because because they are messing with your lives. Tiffany Howes, she's starting to do it. Uh there, she's starting to fight with that and saying, hey, how are we not getting paid for these clips? Right? It's it's our it's our property. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. You can, you can, you can. But the average person look at it like, oh, it's just funny. It's funny, but they

don't realize it's our art. It's yeah, you know, It's like I told my wife, you know, when I first met her, she would read magazines in the grocery store aisle and put them back and I said, baby, buy it, buy it. It's three dollars. Just but I just wanted to read that one thing. How do somebody gets paid to write that? Uh? Just buy it. It's three dollars, man, you know. And now she has a different attitude where she's like, you know what, you're right, like, I will

buy it because it's gonna go away. So at first she was Captain Evil and then she's still Captain Evil. She se Trovigno and captain how did that podcast come to be? And Captain Evil that's what he called his wife. You know. I called her Captain Evil and my relatable special. That ship stuck. We sell merchandise, Captain Evil merchandise. It fucking kills. And man, the pandemic hit and I had been, like I said earlier, I've been on the roads, and I was twenty full time, forty six weeks a year.

You know. The pandemic hits, and I'm sitting at home, you know. And and man, I never had dealt with depression. I got depressed. I used to talk about depressed people. I used to be like, man, get the funk up, go to work. I should ain't really right, dude. That ship hit me. I mean, I don't want to leave my bed. Man and my wife came in. Thank God for my wife and she was like, this, ain't you. She's like, stop being a bit, get the funk up, let's do something. Did she she use those words, so

let's do something? And I said no, she said, don't be a bit. She said this ain't you because she knows me. I'm a motivated motherfucker man, and she was like this, ain't you. Stop being a bitch. It's called let's do something. I go, what the funk you want me to do? And she's, well, we gotta do something. So we started this. Uh, I'm a big sports fan. So there's the part of the interruption, you know that

show two minutes topics. We started doing part in the bitching and she would get to pick something a bit about and I would get pick something a bit about, and then we'd bitch and we would go live on Facebook. And then before you know it, man, we were getting you know, thousands and thousands of yews and we're like, well, we gotta do this every week. So through the start doing the sports comedy. Sports marriage and comedy is yeah, yeah,

came up with that. That's when I came up with the sports marriage and comedy because I'm such a sports fan and I love talking about marriage and comedy, so we put it together. We had a deal with NFL Network that we're still trying to work out. Um, but the podcast for me. And it's crazy that people come up to me the day and they go, I got I got through the pandemic because of you and your wife. We were able to watch every Wednesday or every Friday.

You guys would put your episode out and that helped us get through the pandemic. And I'm like, you helped us get through the pandemic. You helped me because I was done. Man, I was depressed. I was unhappy, you know how sad. You know, I wasn't even a good dad. I want a good husband because man, I'm taking the stage away from me and I used to talk ship. Man, I'll be like, you know what, one of these days I'll retire. I don't need the stage. And after that,

I'm like, I can't ever retiree. I love the stage too much. I love to create too much. I love to be on stage too much. The quarantine is over right now for at least for the time being. So are you still doing my life in quarantine? We we filled my life in quarantine. We just filmed um I speak wife. That's another thing too, man. Me and my

wife decided to produce all our own ship. You know once I once I got the special on Showtime and I and I only own thirty and it's when it clicked, I gotta I got my first royalty check from Grandpa Joe's son from Showtime, and it was a fatass check. And I'm like, wait a minute, this is only what's the seventy I need to own this ship. So my next special, Relatable, we filmed in Corpus Christie every penny I had. Man, when I was done filming that special,

me and my wife together had four dollars. We put everything we had. That was our wedding money. We were going to use that money for our wedding. And I convinced the wife. I said, fuget will self produce, and we threw every fucking penny we had. Man not to mention the ticket sales money had to go towards production too. So we left that day with four dollars. I said, baby, this has to work. We gotta get this ship to work. It hits Netflix, nothing happens, I don't sell another fucking ticket.

That's what I told the wife. I said, you know, we gotta let people know it's there. And we started doing these little clips with with the punchline on it, you know, and then boom viral. And when I tell you viral, I would refresh my Facebook and then every time I'd refreshed, they were coming in by the It was crazy. Man. That video today has a hundred and

sixty seventy million views. On one of those videos, there's four versions of it all my we we calculated the other day all my videos together have a billion views with a B And that's what changed my life. And I tell you all the time. So I was headlining and I'm making you know bucks for the week, you know, which ain't bad, right, I call up the Improv. I started going viral. I call up the Improv and bray, I'm living in l A. I tell the manager. I'm like, hey, dude,

can I have a Wednesday? And he's like, same deal? Like, no, I'm not the same deal because on Wednesdays he'd give me two hundred bucks. I said, I can have a door deal. Here's here's last time you were here. Man, we papered the room. You sold nine tickets. Last time you were there nine exactly. Are you sure you don't want the two hundreds? I I go, now, man, I'll take the door. It sold out in forty five minutes. Forty five minutes, we sold every ticket. We added another

show Wednesday night. I ended up selling out two shows on a Wednesday night, made more money and that night that I hadn't made in a year, and my life changed forever. That's it. That's hilarious. Tell us about helicopters for heroes. Man, my dad's Vietnam bat, my dad desperate, and and A's and and as a Latino man, as a Mexicano, you know, um, and people always trip out because they're like, man, your favorite comedian was Eddie Murphy. I go, yeah, but I relate more to black people

than I do white people. And I'm not being racist. I just I just do you know comic wise, right? And when I was coming up, there were no Latino comedians. It was just Paul Rodriguez, you know, I remember, and now ships all sucked up, But I remember I wanted Bill Cosby to be my dad. You know when you watched the Cosby shows, like man, I wish that was my dad. You know what I mean, Ummerica's favorite dad. So how is that sucked up? Won't Bill Coomy to be your dad? Well, because now he's now he's a

fucking convicted you know. Uh Jello, Uh she puts a little h but but but you know, when I was a kid, you know, that's who I related to it. As a Latino, we didn't have any comedians and we still don't. That's what's sucking trippy, y'all? Do who we got? George Ship? Yeah, dude, that's still go the jokes wine? What about cheat? Cheach is in the stand up But we'll take him, you know what, for the sake of

the conversation, will take him cheat. We got three he wouldn't know man so so now named black comics, it's still right. So as a Latino, as Latino growing up, that was my influence, you know, was was um what now I got off track? Was the original question? You know, So as a Latino and having my dad, my dad loves this country, man, I mean, my dad fucking loves this country. And fourth of July he puts his flag out,

you know, and he served in Vietnam. You know, my dad desperately wanted me to serve I broke my back in high school. I wasn't able to serve how football play football. I got spired in the back. You didn't break it. Your opponent broke in the back, and that spirit in the back when you paralyzed. I was not paralyzed, but it shattered my lumbar five, which is the connector. You got your spine, and then you got a connector. That connector was broken. Always I'm always in pain. Hamstrings

leg forty two. Yep, it's gonna really get sucked up around. No, I'm already getting there. We're getting close. When it's cold, I'm fucked. Man. I gotta have that hot tub at home. I got getting a hot tub. Um. But you know, my dad wanted me to serve. I couldn't serve. I always felt like he was really bummed about it, you know. So now I serve in other ways. I raised money, you know, um with Helicopters for Heroes, which is my organization.

We're volunteer and what we do is we raise the money and then organizations come to us and they pitched to us why we should give them our money. This year, we picked one from right here in Houston. They're called us vets um. And by the way, again going back to the black and Latino thing. You know, blacks and Latinos have served this country since the very first war this country ever had. You know, we love this country, man, we we we died for this country. Are people, you know.

And that's another reason I'm involved with veterans because a lot of us are Latino and black. Man. And the guy that runs US vets he takes veterans off the streets and he because they're homeless. One and one and every nine homeless people in your city right now is a veteran and he grabs them, gives him a home, rehabilitates them, get some a job, and put them back into into society. And he has an eight percent success rate right here in Houston. So we're gonna be writing

us US vets man. If you ever get a chance, go visit these dudes. Man. They got a spot right here in Houston, and it's an old hotel that they have turned into a halfway house between the streets and getting them their apartment. I went and visited them. I helped him feed him last actually last time I was in town. That's how I met the dude. I'm always looking for for something in the town that I go to where I could help out. And I met this dude. I saw what he was doing, and I'm like, man,

you need better ship. You know, this dude's in old travel in you know, in the hood. You know it's got Yeah, Man, you need money? How can I help? So this year already, man, we're at almost eight hundred thousand dollars raised. And last year last year I raised half a million man d dollars in two days. We all year, we raised all year. You know we got in year new year last year, right, right? So so, uh going back to your dad, uh serving having faithfully

served this country, being a proud American. First of all, are you first a second generation? I am? It's it's kind of complicated. I am. I am my dad's family in Texas generations. My great great grandmother was born in Portland, Texas in the eight hundreds. Um the panyard side, which is my mom. My mom has nine brothers and sisters. The three youngest ones were born in the States. All the other six were born in Mexico. So, and I always making fun of my mom. I'm like, hey, Mom,

you're a wet backman. And she's like, she's like, no, no, no, you're Theos and theaz are I'm not. I'm not they are they are right? Um? But so, so your father was born in the US. Yes, my father born in the US. His father born in the US, his grandfather born in the US. So, having faithfully served this country, how did your father feel when you had people in this country saying build the wall and stopped to stop other Mexican people from coming. He uh, he and my

mom are not very political, you know. And I asked him the same question, you know, I said, hey, dad, how do you how do you feel about that? And my dad says, he goes, I worry about the Mexican Americans that are here. Is how can we how can we make sure that the Mexican Americans that are here have a better life, because I don't worry about them coming over, I worry about the ones that are here. And I thought that was a good perspective from him, to be like, look, I'm trying to bring up our

people here. You know, whatever we gotta do over there, they gotta do. But right now, I'm worried about right here where I'm at right now, you know. And I have to agree with it, man, I mean, you know, it makes me sad. I fly first class everywhere I go. I'm not bragging, I'm proud, and it's part of the story. I always look for the other Latino in first class. I always, I always look for the other black person in first class. And ninety percent of the time I'm

the only fucking brown person Latino in first class. And it makes me go, what are we doing wrong? We gotta do something different because I'm the only one in first class here, you know, and especially as a Latino too. I'm like, I'm at you know. I go to the lounge, you know, the American Airlines lounge. I'm a member. I go in there. The only Latinos I see are serving me, Ain't none of them were Ain't none of them enjoying like me? So so what, you know what I mean,

I'm always thinking, how do we change it? And by the way, that's why my stand up is the way my stand up is. I don't I don't. I don't make it about being Latino. I make it about this is my wife, my kids, my dad, my life. If you relate to us a Latinos, because I am Latino,

not because I'm making it about being Latino. But you know, clearly we live in a country where there different groups experience different things, right, So when you think about comedy, in your opinion, are there you need like special challenges that Mexican Americans face that black comedians don't face being marginal groups. That's a great question. I I am not in a movie, i am not on a TV show. I can't tell you how many times. And I'm with UT, a biggest comedy agency in the car Tree. Um My

Management is a huge management company. And I used to get auditions all the time and it was always accent required. And I would walk into these auditions and they would be like, oh, you're not Mexican, And I'm like, what then does that mean? Well? Can you do this with an accent? You know? I mean I gotta I got, you know. Will and Grace came back and my my agent calls me, Steve Man. You you're going straight to producers. They think you're great. And I'm like, oh, Ship, all right,

like send me the script. And it was all I was I was to play a gay Latino with an accent. And instead of Jack, I would say it said Yak with a y hey yack, you know. And so then when I would go in to pitch my TV shows, which I've had several opportunities to do, so they would look at me and go, well, how is this Mexican? And I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't happening out the jokes for you, but this is my life. So what

So what happened when they gave you the pitch? When they gave you the pitch and say that we want you to play a gay Latino? Were you receptive of that. I'm not doing that. I'm sorry, I ain't doing I'm I'm not gonna put on an accent. I'm not gonna make fun of my people. You know, I'm just not doing it. Put on that dress? Yeah, but but it is on a dress. No no, no, no no, but but I mean it depends. Was it a cute dress though?

Was it a cute dress? But but you know, so those are the issues that as a as a Latino comedian that I deal with constantly. Is they have a box for me? You know. I was so excited to film my first special for Showtime. I called it Grandpa Joe Son. I get this opportunity, I'm like oh my god, man, like, my first ever special. It's gonna be on showtimes, will be huge. They played it for Single to Mile and

that was it. They literally played it for the Single to Mile Month and then the and and their defense. They played it again in September for Mexican Heritage Month and that was it. Meanwhile, all the other dudes I filmed with that weekend, they were being aired all year long, and they put me on Seakal the Mile and they put me on on you know, and early on my career, my agents Ultraeno Man, CBS has a diversity showcase. We're

gonna get you in the diversity showcase. And I'm like, all right, I guess And I'm like, wait a minute, why do I can't they just get on a damn showcase? Well this has to be a diversity Well you gotta put me again in a box again, you know. And I can't tell how many times I walked into a studio and they go, well, we already have a Latino project. What does that mean? Do you tell white people you already have a white project? You know what I mean?

I'm like, wait, what the are you talking about? Black people still get it some but not to the extent that you gonts get it, and and and white people don't get it at all. It's just like, you know, and you know, I talked about this on Berk Chrisher's podcast, and then all of a sudden, I get all these comics and comments of people going, damn, dude, get over it. Maybe Mexicans aren't talented, and all kinds of ship, and oh, here we go with race card again, and I'm like,

it's not race card, it's facts. Look it up. You know, out of out of all the movies and all the TV that was out in two thousand and eighteen, the Mexican American had only a hundred rolls, one hundred out of all of it. Not only that just put fourth perspective, how many roles were there? Thousands To put it into perspective, we were point oh five percent of on screen rolls in two thousand and eighteen, point oh five percent. Now, six of those hundred played an accent, played rapists, murderers,

drug dealers, valet parkers are maids. So now you've only got forty left. That means there's only forty rolls, right, and there's only there's only very few famous Latino people. So Michael Penny, I probably got two of those roles. Sophia Vagara j Low, you know, I mean, there's only a few of us, so you know I'm not pulling the race card. I'm telling you how my life is and what I It is safe for you to play the race card any time you want. But but it's

real ship. But it's real ship. You can play any you too, Willie, you too, you can play. You got all kinds of race going out here. You got too many cards because you know why we didn't invent race, right, I mean we didn't. We didn't invent race, and we definitely didn't invent race to be separated. I think that the people responsible for race period and responsible for separating race to allow us to play that race card any time we want to. But that's what I love. That's

what I mean. To say that they should allow us to play the car would be like asking for probition. We just do just race card right now. But but that's what I love about, you know. I always tell people like you know, I didn't feel racism growing up in Texas until I moved to California. And when I moved to California, Black people here, Asian people here, white people here, Latinos here, and I go, man, growing up in Texas, we're just Texans, and nobody gave a funk,

at least where I grew up. You know, nobody. Well, Houston, they give a funk. But it's still it's still, it's still a very a melting pie here though it's a it's a it's me, but let the powers that be give a fuck. Well, I mean, and that's what would bump me out right, because I'd be like, wait a minute, when I'm getting standing innovations in the o R at the comedy store, nobody else's you know, I'm I'm I'm

touring the I'm not even right now. Man. I got I got one point three million followers on Facebook right now. I got almost a million on TikTok. I got, um, you know, a successful podcast, my specials do well. I don't have a deal. You don't have a deal. I don't have a deal. I don't have a TV show. I don't have you know. And it's like it's and I assure you if I played the vacto, if I walked on stage and played the a what's up? Bro.

You know, I assure you, because it's all about formula. Right, we all know formulas, and we see the formulas and the patterns. Right. Four Latinos have ever been on HBO four All right, Carlo's Vencia, Paul Rodrigez, George Lopez, and Felippez Parza. They all have the exact same things in common. They're all from Los Angeles, they all grew up on welfare with immigrant parents. They all have an accent. It's

they're all the same. But when they see a texting like me in South Texan, like me who wears cowboy boots and jeans and a T shirt, they don't know what the funk? I am comedian? You dressed like a comedian. I'm a I'm a comment. You know. You may have to just I have to. Just you fund it, mad, fund that ship yourself because and I'm happy because because they're there are a lot of platforms out there that are begging for content they need, and they're competing for content.

And you shoot your own ship and then you put it in their face and it'll be a lot easier for them to pick it up once they see it, as opposed to them trying to envision that your vision is, and that's exactly what we've been doing. Yeah, And I'm happy to do it and I love doing it. And I have a great life, and I have a great career, and I have this beer, and and that was my goal, you know when I when Another reason the podcast to me is important because me and my wife are on

this podcast. She's Latina, I'm Latino, and we're able to show the world who we are for real, no stereotypes, no bullshit, no no, uh can you have an accent? Which just us right. So I just keep doing it myself and I love doing it myself. Do your wife ever get mad at you when you tell jokes about it, because she is like, you know, the sin to many of your jokes. She she's never been upset with me. And I did one thing and she goes up to me. She was, that's the most disgusting ship, she was, don't

do it right. And I would I would say that when when we were delivering our baby, that the doctor would come in and go, and she was like, that's the most disgusting ship. She was, don't do it anymore. She people think it's gross, right, And the nurse would come in. But that's what I'm saying. And my wife was like, that's it. Don't do that ship, what's what is that noise symbolize? What is that? Well, you know it's all wet down there. Thank you the Peanut Gallery,

thank you, thank you. Sound like sound like the sound again. Don't do that again. You know where you know where I got that from when we were when we were a kids. When we were kids, you grab somebody's head and go right and then you start fighting. That's where we got it from. When we were kids. You grab somebody. Hey, man, what's up? Are you moving? Touching me there? To thank you for coming on the show. You know, I can't tell you, man, how influential you guys are on my life.

And when when I got when you guys reached out, man, it tripped me out because you know, like I said, man, Joey was like, dude, listen to this ship. And as I got older, man, y'all's lyrics are I mean, I think you guys lyrically are are the best. I mean again, really diving deep into you hear minus playing tricks on me and talking all the stuff you guys talking about. It's like wow, man, Wow, I mean, and I don't

think people realize, you know. I think every a lot of people got introduced to you guys because of office space, you know. But when we were kids and where I grew up in Corpus Christie, Granted, Portland, we were all listening to you guys daily. You know. But then as you get older and you start listening to the lyrics, you're like, wow, man, Like that ship is deep, man, and you gotta be smart to come up with that ship. And you got you know, like I said, I think

hit my time. I mean Notorious Dougs. It's a really great song with bone thugs and harmony. And then bring it on and minus playing tricks on me? Is is way up there for me? Man, Because and that's then nothing about being a Texan. I'm here. I am this country boy, you know. I mean we got corn fields and ship like that. I mean, I grew up in a town of two thousand people, you know, but we were all listening. I ain't doing that ship. You got so many skeletons, Homi. I'm get divorced, for sure, get

divorced for sure. Um, But you know, I just I'm so happy to be here man, And it's it's really cool. We appreciate how you dudes, man, because and hopefully you come to the show tonight. Can you can you can you make sure I get there? Absolutely? To Christ that's not good. How can people get in contact with you? Or how can they don't don't give me a phone number, but how can they get to see you? Yes? Trip

you man. It's everywhere. You put Steve too in the search everywhere, Instagram and the Instagram's blown up TikTok Texas Trevino TikTok Facebook Man, I'm Texas Trevino, Texas Trevino. By the way, that was some ship. Before I even knew TikTok was gonna be, before I had fans, I was like, oh, I'll just be Texas Trevino. And then now I'm like, man, stupid ship. Why did I do that? I'm glad you went with Steve. Steve, I'm glad. I'm glad. Well, my real name is at stab Yeah, that Steve name. This

Steve was Steve Ghetto boys. I'm glad you went with Steve. Here's how trippy it is, Steve, yes too. I didn't know so when I was a little kid, when I was living around like Copus Area. No, he lived in baytam. When I was a little kid, I was always Steve, right, yeah, he was too. Then I when I go to school, they're like and I'm like, man, who then is this there's another Threno here? What are the fun And they were like is that your name? And I'm like, I

don't know, right, I'm Steve. So then so then my dad's apparently my mom made me a step on. My dad hated it, so he was like, fuck you bitch, I'm gonna call him Steve. So he always called me Steve. They're divorced now, as you can imagine, and he always call me Steve. So you know, I was only Steve. But I was the best part about it is and not anymore. But if I got a phone call and they're like can we speak with a step And I'm like, oh no, that dude ain't here. That's some legal let

Steve's here. He's good. But that is step On. Guy's been sucking up. Well you said aoutful man. Steve's here and he's good. Thank you for having me. Absolutely, that's a wrap, y'all funny as fun mmmm. This episode was produced by Aching and brought to you by The Black Effect Podcast Network and i Heart Radio