It’s Never Too Big with Jo Koy

We leave it with just a lift spirit to think you want to revisit, so your friends take a list of your folk. Say it's lit ah folks that we take it. He' no do what you don't, no kiss, do what you do? Can't no kiss, do what I do? No kisa, Good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to laugh, Yes, let's welcome to laugh and learn everybody, and to get started, let's bring in the one and the only Mrs Yes, indeed, the one and only. Does he have on draw because I ain't got none on the day, but y'all can't

say listen, he is dressed. I was looking for Kim Joy who is this rights? He helped pack my bag, so you know my car was at the airport. So I told easy to get my Kim Joy week. She get my joy, Kim Weed Kim so I'm gonna have Yeah, so Kim Joy. Let me tell you something. The flight was delayed, but I was determined that wasn't an issue. We got here like eleven fifteen deep plane, deep plane to the minute because it was not even that many people on the plane, but they were moving very slowly.

Then I left out of United, so I parked my car at United. But I came back on American, which is terminal four, and then I was at terminal seven. There's no more flyaway shuttle, so I had to walk with my bag seven. Thanks go back to catch catch everybody up because where were you? Why did you go? So? I went to Chicago to drop my daughters off to see their mom and to get some new dresses. Made that ups lost no usps, lost my boxes. I had the bad fabric while I was there to get dresses. Yes, please,

so but overall it was a good trip. We did the audition. Let me tell you something about Lauren Hoke and y'all, Lauren drilled me on this all day. I really told my ass up on this because the first time I was horrible. I told you all that though I was terrible, and yesterday I did much better. But I don't think I'm gonna get this row. That white lady like me, and then cause she was white, she just didn't like me. I wasn't what she no, no, no, I don't think that I was what she was looking forward.

I'm telling you how I feel, because at the end it was, oh my Godflame, your endeavorged and you're gonna do great things, and it was pretty much, yeah, bitch, I don't want you. Let me check him. I know how to read between the lines. I'm real grown. Was that the version of unfortunately very much? So we'll see, we'll see. I'm expecting a call today. We'll see what Lauren has an optimistic output on it. I'm telling you I heard bets what the lady was saying. Yeah, Oh,

you're gonna do wonderful things in your career. You're great who you're like, Yeah, you just want to be be doing something wonderful with this project. And it's fine. Like I tell Flame, everything happens for a reason. Everything's a learning experience and it just may not be this opportunity, but there'll be other things. I am a walking testament to that. And I agree with you, Lauren. I think the Flame more often than not underestimates the value that she brings

into a room. Um. I think that sometimes that mouth kind of tells Flame what Flame wants here, But the rest of us see more than that, and those who get to interact with her, you know exactly who who Flame can bring to the table, so exactly I believe that you can. I bring a comb to the table because this hair is nice. You know what? You know who I look like? Remember and still make notice when Julie Roberts told her mama, who's the mama, Sally, how

you want your hand down? Just make it like a football him, I'm feeling like the feeling like the football. Good morning. I'm sorry you started out. We had absolutely good afternoon, Flame, good after Lawrence. I think we'd be remiss if we did not start off with the historic events of last week, right, um. And I specifically want to point out, uh, just the amount of joy I felt.

And I said to you Flame, Uh, A might being melodramatic again or overly sensitive like you you often criticize me for with feeling like maybe the weight of the world had been lifted on on Tuesday. On Wednesday, yeah, I said when it happened. The day before it happened, I said, I would like for a rainbow just too circumference America to show us that, wow, there is going to be a pot of gold in this rainbow. Now that might not be gold, but we'll take what we

can get right now, and we take a stimulus. They gotta be going I take that stimulus. Any who. But when somebody painted that picture and they had all the Michelle Obamas and the Nancy Pelosi's and all with all the colors, and the young lady Gorman, all these beautiful colors and all these different flavors of people. When I say flavors of people, I'm talking about it looked like ice cream company with so many different colors. It was so great to me, so that it was it was

that it made me feel inspired. And I say it on my post that we have been in some ship. We still in some ship. The difference is we now have shovels. Yeah. I think as a whole we all went like one. I think that's what everybody did. We kind of just exhaled a sigh of relief and we were all thankful to just see what our future almost it's gonna hold you know what I mean. So I know I was watching Kamala Harris, you know, put her hand on that Bible and swearing her oath. I was overjoyed, overwhelmed.

It was. It was a myriad of feeling you know, that I had for me. But I think as a whole, we're now just finally saying, Okay, things are gonna get better. We're gonna be okay, We're going in a better direction hopefully. And within the first I would say, five days of the Biden administration, there's so many things that he's already

doing to overturn what Trump did. Flame you and I talked about this on your way here today, was that he lifted the military band again trans the standard community today, So findal sight on Yeah. And he's electing me and brothers, and he's electing um, you know, someone who's a transgender to the position of Assistant Health secretary. So he's making a lot of strides in the right direction to be as inclusive and diverse as possible. Let me speak on

that inclusion from the Joe Biden aspect. Thank you, Mr Biden, Thank you President Joe Biden for the inclusion, because within our own community it's not this much inclusion. We gotta stop saying that they don't like us, they don't see us, they hate us. We have a trans senator, first ever in history this year out of Pennsylvania. You're affiliates Delaware, we now have a transgender doctor. Now mind you the one, the one that works as a senator in Delaware. She's lovely,

the new doctor. She looks like George Washington, the original one, but she got the position. And let me say what I'm saying. We also have the ban on the military lifted for trans met and women to go back. We gotta stop with this. They don't like us, they don't see us. We gotta pick better battles to pick fights. So, because if we're not voting collectively as a as a group, the trans and gay community, who's voting for us? Because this senator was voted in. Somebody Biden knew about this woman.

Biden has been more than fair to women and women of color and all sexualities. Joe Biden is something y'all think. Joe Biden and Geoe Biden get it in on wedding night. I mean, on inauguration night. I'm sure Kamala and how Mandeve y'all think Joe and Geo get it in. I'm gonna say this flame. I think that we have a responsibility, honestly as voters to also still hold this administration of comical as well. You know, don't the question, Donald Trump, do you think that Joe and Geoe get it in

on inauguration night? Oh? I'm not. I don't know anything, Joe. Let me tell you something. You know, Joe Steele got the Jews. Remember when he ran to the podium. Well you remember when he ran to the podium when it was snapping him. People want to go damn. I'm an American and I want to know the FAI will say. Joe and Jill went uphill to fetch a pale and water. Jill fell down and Joe fell down on top of it. And baby, if they have another daughter, come on withever.

You know what I will say about the inauguration with Jill and Joe Biden, excuse me, present Biden? And first of anybody, that bible she was holding? How big was that Bible? Did you see that? That was a workout? You know, I'm like that Bible was huge bible was who was comlas. I'm not sure whose commless Bible was, but that was the Bible that Jill was holding, was

like their family bible that they've had for years. Because you told me that the Bible that uh, Kamala Harris, this one you know, had never been touched by a woman. Was that you who told me that it had never been touched by a woman. I don't know that because

I didn't know that. Oh well, I don't doubt that. Yeah, but I think that bible was actually if I remember correctly, and Flames can jump in here, but I believe the Bible that Kamala used was the one that the woman who was like a mother to her had and kind of had been in the family for a while as well. Yeah, that historic significantly. We're here together, and I know for

a fact that it was also a problem. And when to give a shout out, Lauren to your SaaS, I think that it was definitely a problem for a k s around the globe who were not surprised. I saw a number of her line sisters help me here, Lauren, who were just talking about No, we're not surprised. She's always been a leader. And this is, uh, this is what we come to expect of all of our sisters, that we can make a difference in the world. And now the world is seeing the power of what sororities

can do and be. And Kamala is a shining example. Absolutely. And I wore my a k swich her two work that day and everybody saw it and I had no shame. And I also to want to point out that Kamala wore the color royal purple and that was actually an o to Shirley Chisholm. So yeah, so its overall. It was just there was a lot of subliminal and significant things happening at the inauguration that day. So um more,

I'm learning swore her in Latino woman. Uh surely chisum If you guys don't know, what's the first black woman to ever run for president? This is way back in the seventies. Baby, she was Maxine Water per personifat Maxine Water is like a little ruty poot next to Shirley Chismen.

Surely chisen didn't play the games at all. That lady will hit you, I think for really, you know, I know we have a special guest today and before we go go there, I want to talk about a couple more things with the inauguration specifically before we move on. I also want to recognize Amanda Gorman. We talked about just how inspiring she was, and I loved that this young woman stood there and delivered I think what was a poem for all time and it was definitely one

built and based on hope and inspiration. And I love to see young people who don't feel defeated, you know that that she just really seemed to feel empowered and that's the message she wanted to share. Yeah, I just I think it was also beautiful too because she was the youngest inaugural poet in the history of inaugurations, and her her poem was just, um, it was heartfelt, it was engaging, and it was just one that you could

really connect with, you know. So I just want to, you know, congratulate her on that she's been actually speaking for a long time and she had a speech impediment when she was younger, so this was a real accomplishment for her, and just shout out to black girl magic in general because she did the damn thing. Can they just talk about that this young black sister was a regular looking, a very attractive black woman, dark skin because you know, you've always got this whole thing about the

lights and the darks. And she wore bright yellow so you could see her ask from cross the pond, baby, oh my god, with that bill riding. She had a beautiful smile. She's I did not see her speech because I had the rush to come to work to rehearsal that day, but I saw the after on CND and she was fantastic. She was like wow. I held myself that she spoke such powerful words. I wish I could speak powerful like that. I don't speak proberful, just talked to my ship. But y'all like it. I thought it

was beautiful. I did. I just thought everything worked in concert. I even I'm even gonna say that I thought that the pre produced special was good. You know that that it moved. I'm going to even say this. This is where it even gets a little more interesting. I think that it was probably better because of the pandemic, if you want to know the truth, and because of the security concerns. I felt like it was more orchestrated and coordinated,

and it moved. It was never boring, like I watched the event over and I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna watch a little bit of this. But I thought Tom Hanks really moved it along. I thought it was an interesting mix of people. I even called I think Lauren, i e. They're texted to or flame. I'm like, who is this girl with the short hair singing? I didn't even recognize Demi Levado? And I thought Demi Levado absolutely crushed it. You know, uh, you know, we're doing a little bit

of riffing and everything there. Yeah. I just thought it was really well done. We're gonna talk about singing. Let's talk about the beginning part of the singing too. Who sang jolo Jo looked lovely, she said, Jelo stayed in harrange. Good girl, smart girl. Well, I said this. I think Jaylo was prerecorded, similar to how Beyonce was when she participated in the Barack Obama's inauguration, because it was just

the fact that she didn't hit a bad note. You know, everybody knows Jaylo's not the best singer in my opinion, the fact that she didn't hit a bad note made me a little skeptical, like, okay, maybe this was prerecorded. Overall, though fabulous drop to her. You know, kudos to Jolo,

but just my thoughts. Okay, now before we leave and go with Jim Cory, I have to give homage to Chicago because when I tell you that super Fly and black Mama, White Mama, she would walk through them do it when Michelle bust them doors open with that long flowing hair and that burgundy MAXI coote like the matrix with them pants and that big old buck bell buck. I said, you know what you told black drink of water. Can't call her that baby? Tell my ass up, I screamed.

And they walked down the stairs like they like Millie Jackson said, and loves and girlfriends. They walked in like they own the motherfucker. I said, yes, that's how you bumped through the stairs. Flame. I saw a couple of women say Michelle walked through those doors like two seconds before she took those rollers out and saying, Okay, hold these rollers, let's go. We're right here. And he was holding his wife's hands so proudly. Something I like, I like they love. I like what I see on the

outside looking at it. I'm not on the other side. But for what they show us, I like their love. But you know what, plame Barack better hold Michelle type because everybody loves Michelle George, everybody, Garth Brooks the way he ran over there, everybody was running over to Michelle. Michelle was definitely from Hawaii. He is not any from Chicago. He ain't pressed at all that nigga skills will always keep her at home. Now I understand what I'm talking about.

Come out one of the topics we were going to talk about, and then we found out we had Joe

Koy as a special guest today. We were we were going to talk about the working homeless, because one of our Instagram followers sent me a message saying that they had taken and they had taken a lift ride and they could just tell some and was off with this driver and this particular driver had been living in their car and they said, hey, Nick, I was not going to report them, but it just reminded me that there are still people who are struggling right now, and that

just because we have a new administration, we can't forget the fact that there are those who are still struggling, still in need of assistance and support in many different ways. So let's just keep that in mind, and we'll we'll do a deeper dive on he was living in the kind and draving that's called rolling and just let me go, let me go to work, and you just sit up a side draft, let me go to work. You just sit up and side drab. But but it's it's inflame.

Is it's an acknowledgement to that that you know, we were talking about that there's some people who are just trying to make it the best way that they can, you know, and it's just it's still tough for a lot of people. And one thing I do want to just touch on really quickly before we get into our special guests. We did want to make sure that we honored and recognized the legendary Hank Aaron as well. He was the phenomenal baseball player who just passed this past week. Um,

you know, just giving you some facts about him. Uh. He was born in February and mobile out Obama, and he wasn't actually allowed to play organized high school baseball because it was whites only. Um. But despite all of you know, the racism and all of just the the criticism that he received, you know, he was the National League MVP seven, the same year that the Braves won

the World Series. Um he was a two time National League batting champion, a three time Gold Glove winner in the right field, and a record five time All Star, earning that honor every season but his first and his last. So we would be remiss if we didn't pay homage to him, say thank you for all of your accomplishments, thank you for all of your civil rights activism, and thank you for paving the way for others to be able to be in this profession and excel in this sport.

Is that why they told try to tell the capital of last week because those white only signs will be becoming a thing of the pants that we probably never see them again. Who knows. There's a myriad of things. I wasn't expected to answer. I was just, you know, throwing out, you know how we do, but but interestingly enough to and you know, Nick, please chime and if

you have any thoughts though. Hank Aaron also received the COVID vaccine on January six and passed away two weeks later, which people were kind of drawing a bit of a I don't know if we're gonna call it a conspiracy theory, but they're drawing parallel to to say, he was eighty six years old, got a COVID vaccine, and two weeks later, you know, he passed away while he was sleeping. So yeah, I think I think, Um In all I say, I think that, like you and I kind of talked about before,

I think out of respect to the family. I understand that is definitely circulating online. Um, but I think that out of respect to the family and out of deference to what we do not know, since this man is indeed someone who deserves it, that that level of respect. That until the family says that they believe that there's a link or some type of tie, I I agree that I would avoid that as well. They're just simply

because I don't know. I want to compound their pain right now, because I think it has to be difficult to when you have someone who is what considered by many to be a national treasure, to lose them. You don't only lose them to yourself, you lose them to everyone else, who then wants to reach out to you

to say, oh, Lauren, I'm so sorry for your loss. O, Lauren, I'm so sorry for your loss, So you almost grieve it over and over again, or like many talk about it and when you have lost you find your time yourself, yourself trying to comfort them. They're they're they're breaking down. You're like, oh you know what, Rosetta, rosetta ms Rosetta. Okay, I'm remand you with your mama told you, uh oh, I'm go ahead, go ahead. No no, no, no with you, but we both of y'all what y'are saying, I'm not

going to be politically correct. I'm not taking the vaccine. It's too much still coming out with this vaccine. One is one disease, right is there It's one coronavirus, right, Well there's different strands, Yeah, there are different, but how many companies? Then why don't you talking about where we had predicting the next three months is going to be this virus so that's when you're gonna release it. Because if you could predict that, why you didn't predict the

billion the numbers for the billionaire? A lot of reasons. Ship don't uh all that speculation. I understand what everybody saying. I even understand your inboxes when y'all sent me flame. You shouldn't be against the vaccine. You can't speak for me, because I don't speak for you. If you want to take it, take it. If you don't want to take it, don't take it. But don't let nobody tell you what to do. Well, we don't want to make that the focus.

So you want to talk about hanking. So anyway, rest in peace to legend he wait a minute, didn't Yeah, but you can't be by name after him back in the seventies and eighties or something. No, you're thinking, did he? I thought we were going to baby Ruth. But Henry, Oh yeah, yes, yes, he did know about that years before you. I was looking up some things after he passed away, so I didn't see that, you know anything that's something to do with the food. My fat's gonna remember? Yeah,

oh name, give me, give me? Oh Henry, Oh that sounds so dirty. Oh hey, what do you want? Oh Henry? Miss Jess where are you? See you all up in the comments? We are coming to you, Miss Jess as a as a as a beautiful Latino woman who watched another beautiful Latino woman. Well, I don't know about so to my arm, she s high FLA, how are you how are you feeling? I didn't get a chance to see you. I was in and out of quite a few things, quite a few spaces. Uh huh, I know,

I know. You got to see one of my favorite Chicago singers, Teresa. Yes, I love her. I hung out with Teresa a little bit. So how do you feel after the whole um Um inauguration and everything, all the festivities from last week? You know what? I actually I feel like we're getting into back into a uh a kind of normal because, as you see, it was cold here in Chicago. The winner finally showed up. It's always cold in Chicago. And y'all carjacking car why they steal

in everybody's car, that cargo. Yeah, I know about that. That That car jacking is ridiculous. It's getting out it. It's it's really bad right now, carjackings, really carjacking people. Yeah, it's it's really hot in the wicker Park, you know where wicker Park is flaying wicker Park, and and in like Logan Square and the gender fied neighborhoods. It's really bad though. That the carjacking, it's kind of like scary and more scary than than normal. So they're back into me.

So let me tell you how it's happening. Because I went out with my girlfriends the other night. We went to get taffy apples Becau that wanted some taffy apples, and we were in the grocery, so the cars kind of boxed you in to like one is on this side, one is understand. So when you're backing out, then another on pools behind you, so you kind of boxing. They just and so I was I was paranoid, like are they trying to jack us because we were boxing? I

think they were just maneuvering their car. So I told my sister Tiff, baby, I'm about to hit this games pedal back and straight on. We're about to just go forward because you know I'm on there that we I don't know to get away. But it wasn't that, it was it was it was It was scary. It was scary because you can't go to gas stations in certain neighborhoods, especially after a certain time, because they're getting you at the gas stations. Why are you going into gas when

you come back their way? Doing you what? That sounds like training day to me. So we have a big, a big spot North Avenue, Damon and Milwaukee Avenue and I know flame and all my other Chicago people know where that is. So that's a that's a train stop, a major bus stops because there's three bus lines there and the train and the cars, and that's a hotspot for car jacking right there in the area. We have

twelve year old riding on bicycles with guns too. My husband was like, he came home from work and he says, you know this is mine you two summers ago, he said, I saw a kid with a bicycle branding is ship branding? Is sh it? Oh, I can't say that word. It um at at people that were walking by. It's on the bicycle. I said, get out of here. I go to Julie's call the police. He said, no, I said, I was trying to get home. It's a very scary situation. I'm just gonna pray for all my people in Chicago.

Y'all be careful because it's dangerous out there and the tide people get for money, and the longer we have to wait, no, the worst is going to be for us. So yeah, they don't need a good whooping. It's too late for their Angela herd. They don't need a whoop and it's too late for whoopings and sometimes you missed that opportunity. What do you think about the homeless story that Nick was a really talking about as well before he went out, Actually, I'm the one who sent the message.

Oh it was you. Okay, So where did you say? So? Where did you see the story? I mean, I went to the grocery store Friday and I called for a lift. And I don't want to get my driver in trouble. So thank god my name is it on here as as as well as my lift account um, because I don't want to get the driver in trouble. He I was putting my groceries in the in the trunk and I looked at it was real neat, but there were things in there and I was like, why does he

have you know, this, this, this tote and stuff? And I I asked him, are you living out of your car? Again? I have no filter? And he said why, He goes, what do you mean? I said, well, I'm just asking you. I wasn't afraid or anything, but I was like, you know, I gotta I just it just hit you know what I mean, like it all lined up in that quick second, you know, in the back of my head. It just added up. And so after are a couple of moments of him like, oh you know, have you had experience?

But blah, you know, back and forth banter. He said, Okay, I'm gonna tell you, but he said, uh, you can't report me. I said, well, no, I'm not gonna report you, because if I report you, you're gonna report me and

my customer rating will go down. I was trying to make I was trying to make him feel comfortable, you know, with my banter, and found out that he actually decided, well not decided, but because of financial circumstances, he started to sell things off and minimalize his life, um, to try to pay off debt, you know, and get himself in a better place. So he is sleeping in his trunk and he actually got blessed. I hope everybody prayed for him. Um. He was supposed to be leaving here

Chicago to drive to Georgia yesterday Sunday. Wait, he was living in the trunk. Yeah, he sleeps. He was sleeping. He sleeps in his trunk. He showed me the pictures. He explained to me how we did it. I said, do you need a blanket, do you want something to eat? I you know, as he's driving me to my home, I was asking them these things. I was just like, you know, and we we had a real nice conversation.

I asked him, are you sure you know this is you know you're you're safe tonight because it was gonna be ton degrees or fifteen degrees at night in Chicago. And he said, yeah, you know, I just let us just tell you thank you because black folks in Puerto Rican folks just like that. We might not invite you to come in that house, but we damn Su'll give you a blanket and we'll feed you. Maybe you want to play. I give you we got some extra beefstill, we got some extra super here. Well we'll feed you.

We got some extra fire cheeck. But you ain't coming to say that house. I don't know you like that. We want your thank you, just saying I think I just saw our boy. We're gonna bring our special guests on. Just thank you for popping in with us. Thank you, yes, thank you for having me. I'm glad you didn't report that man either. I'm not going to know. I know that would have been musty. I might have been like, dude, this cars out I'm calling in. Does that make a difference, Yeah,

it definitely does. Let me do what I do, Honey, y'alln't just be mad. Ladies and gentlemen, Please welcome to our show to laugh and learn. Our very special guest today, the one and only funny smart Uh. What's my word? Yang? Oh my god, I don't know if I like you without the glasses, with the glasses. Without the glasses, you look real sneaky, Joe. So now you look like a teacher. I don't know. Now you look like a pedophile. Take the glasses. How about what I'm doing in roll? Look

what I'm doing? Are you wrong? In the studio right now, I'm doing the audio version of my book. Very good. You want to grant me for that? I'm I'm speaking into it, fruition, You're gonna win. Give me that, Give me that. Let me start off by saying, thank you so much for joining us today. I appreciate you. Like, can I just say something real quick? Sure? We had to schedule another studio time? Uh for this, for this, for reading this book? Because I had no idea. I

didn't know how to read. I had no idea I cannot read to save my life, Monroe, I'm reading my own book and uh, we're adding studio sessions. This is hard. It's it's also emotional too, so it's like reading my own words and going and reliving what I wrote about is also just as hard, you know. So it takes

a toll on you mentally. Well we are. We all read differently because you know what happens that when you write, like like when you write your material, if flow is once because you do it and you do what you do it. But when you just have to read it code just like code paid cold turkey, it could be a little rough, It could be a little challenging. At least you got your glasses. I don't even have my real glasses on. I don't even read. All I see is your teeth. I don't see. All I see is

your teeth. You're ridiculous, Joe. You are so freaking hilarious. But you know what I love about you the absolute most. That that relationship that you have with your son. That when you talk about that, because I talked about my kids, don't say when you talk about that, you people always say that was a joke, That was a joke. There is always some truth to some of those stories, and you know, you have to listen between to find out

what is real and what is not. But dude, Joe hustle is like, great, you got the Kevin Hard Times. All you agents got that good hustle. I always say that agents got the most disciplined. I think I'm part of Asia. I'm Kim Joey, but you ain't met her yet. I think it's just staying word. I just don't want to be hungry man. Like you know, I'm like, it took me this long to get here, and I really don't want to go back to selling shoes at North to Wreck. So I'm gonna maintain this and uh and

do what it what it takes to to to stay here. So, and you were doing comedy thirty years, right, thirty years, It's gonna be thirty one year pretty soon. Yeah. I see people always thinking because they see you, oh my god, he just break out coming. He just came out of nowhere. They don't know all the years that you be in the trenches and doing the hole in the wall clubs and getting walked out on by the promoters. And he was only getting twenty fives and then when I got

tea in for you. Oh my god, y'all don't know those horrible days. So it's very worth it when you come and say stuff like that that you know it took you a long time to get here, and you got to suck the bone, marrow out the bone, Joe, get it all. Get it. You don't know how you Filipinos do. I used to day the Filipino hilarious. You're so funny. Listen. Let me. We were just talking about this with my son because my son doesn't want to eat chicken anymore. And uh, and I was like, you

gotta see how my brothers. The way my brother ate chicken is disgusting. He would he would know off the cartilage crunch it that he cracked the middle and sucked the meryl. So what you're saying is not a lie. That sounds nutrition though it was so bad it was would be into the poor room. Just like I can't eat anymore, Robert. I look at my brother eating just like I can't eat. Man. So let me introduce you to Own because he's in Arkansas. He also does the

news over there in Arkansas. We watching so Lauren been watching you. She knew who you was. Of course I did. Nicholas knew who you were. But we've been just getting freshened up on some of your stuff that you have done. Because you've got two Netflix specials on now or three three three Next Successors on right now, that's been trending for what two years? Yeah, change changed my life actually

this last one. You did that Lord, and I was talking about that because what Tiffany did for me was bring me on because nobody else would have given me that opportunity. All those people that you brought on, you given those opportunities. That payback is great, Joe, What made you think that? Um? You know, it's it's me as a kid and not having an identity, you know, being being a mixed kid. You struggle, right, you stand on the fence and it's like, I'm white, but I'm also Filipino,

and you know, I'm proud of being Filipino. And then you know, when my mom and dad divorced, I gravitated towards the Filipino side. So trying to get into this industry and talking about my mom and and knowing getting it and and watching TV and there's no representation. You know, when I when I finally got that opportunity to open the door. I was like, I'm gonna let them all in, you know. I'm I'm gonna get Filipino dancers, I'm gonna get Filipino singers, I'm gonna get a Filipino producer, I'm

Filipino rappers. Everything. I'm gonna get everybody in this door that I can, just to give us that that one little chance, that little opportunity to show the world what our culture is all about. And that's what that was all all about. Literally, that's what I pitched in the room. It was great, it was It was a phenomenal. My whole thing is I love when we bring recognition to the arts, specifically because I think that as a whole, the arts isn't value to something important anymore, which I

think is ludicrous and just so unfortunate. So when you brought all those different elements from music to dance to comedy, it was just like a great mashup of just what you know we should really what makes us happy really, So for me, that was probably my favorite special so far that you've done, because I'm sure there's going to be more, because like you said, you're hungry so I

know that there's definitely going to be more. But being being that you've had this thirty year career though, one who was your inspiration to even get you to be in this space just in comedy, the space of comedy wherever you want to take it. It was Eddie Murphy. There was something about Eddie like I was already into stand up, like I loved Richard and I loved Arland and all that. You know, we're talking like nineteen eight,

one eighty two, right, I was getting into comedy. But just something about the youthful and the hipness and the coolness factor of Eddie that that resonated with me, Like I enjoyed listening to him, like he was something. He was cool to look at, you know, the way he walked on stage, the way I don't know, just everything about that guy, the way he talked about his mom, the way he talked about his uncle, like it was just I don't know everything that he did. I was like,

I gotta be him. I want to be I want to be Eddie. I want to tell stories like Eddie you did, because that that that gangster uncle that don't get away as uncle here when you talk about your gangster sisters. That is hilarious to me. But let me tell you someone. They always say web black men don't dave black women because they grew up with black sisters. Because when I tell are you all day? And my son is like, I'm getting anything but as black girl, And that's bad to say, but it's the true Joe

that is. And you. I love that you are raw and fentic and you say so much of what people are thinking. And I hate that comedy has become so censured that we can't say anything without offending these groups. But I don't commend you for being just like me, but just Filipino. I'm part of Filipino to I'm Kim Joy. Say, let's talk about Kim Joy. Lets. So Kim Joy is a character I created because people always say that I got Asian ask because especially if I had an edible

and I'd be looking really really uh. And that's my little blocker, because you know, you get the haters on your on your social media. So Kim Joy will show up and like the beauty supply, we will black you. That should be a tour. I can see that tour. Kim Joy Coy and Kim Joy the Yang and the Twain. Yeah, twin, y'all ask me why I'm telling When I saw you, uh you know when uh, when Tipney did the That's

Special with everybody. Man. I mean, first of all, everyone trusted you that night, you know, and I became fans of everybody that night. But man, you you man, you laid it down. I remember I hit the fallow button right away when I watched yours. I went to Instagram. I was like, Yo, who is this? Yeah, specially your next special could be built around that Christmas tree. How big was that? True? Joe? Oh my god, twenty two

and a half feet It was crazy. Yeah. I saw you in your family putting that up the lad I'm like, oh my god, now that's just doing it to being Joe that it's never too big. During the times up we're in right now, I had to give myself the best Christmas, and I had to get the whole family the best Christmas. We were all stressed out. So I was like, Yo, let's do this big. That's gonna be the name of my special, my next special. It's never to be. Yeah. We'll also tell you you kind of

just mentioned something, being that this is a pandemic. How have you been handling it being a dad? Like, what's what's been going on? Man? I've been loving this year like I've never This is my first time being with my son a whole year, like a whole year, every weekend and with my son like that's the last I mean for the whole time my son has been born. I've been always gone every weekend. You know that. That's

that's the life of a comic. And man, two thousand twenty was just I know it sucked, but man, I loved it. I was with my son every single day, and and thank god I was in a position where I can financially do that, and and you know, and I know that there's people out there that are struggling, and I can't wait for things to get back to normal again. But god, damn, I loved every minute with my son. It was the best. Okay, So Joe, I gotta ask, because you've got a lot of swag, and

you say you Filipino and white. Where did you get out of this way from from the Filippino from? I think that's on the Filipino side. My brother, if you ever met my brother, he was he was women, he was wearing women's taper jeans in the eighties because he was the only thing that was tapered. You know, guys usually have the straight legs in the back of the day. My brother was already wearing uh, women's genes, but doll sassoon and like, look how it looks. Joe goes right

off top of my boots. And he was right, like, I want women's genes too, but for very different reasons. But that's buddy. Yeah, my brother always had that swag. Man, there was something about him, and you know, and and Filipinos just got that that Spanish influence, that that swag that it's it's pretty cool, man. So I've always been

in touch with the culture. You know, now you and you know what's beautiful about that because they always want to tell each culture that you need to do this, to try to go to go with the flow of whatever culture is supposed to be the crim crime culture, and then you lose who you are. I never wanted to lose my blackness. I never wanted to lose my lgbt qness. But it's only a little bit of that.

I never wanted to lose who I was as a comic because when you let people mold you to who they want you to be, you lose yourself and then you lose what you could really have could have been. And I love that you so stay so true to who you are and keep your culture right there in the front, because I talked about the real stuff and and people always say you just tell everything and so authentic,

Joe Coy, you tell everything. That is what makes us love you because when you talk about those stories about the mama and how you grew up, and you know we were We all have had hard times. We have different faces and different skin color, but a lot of us have the same stories, just from different nationalities. And I love I love the fact that that that's funny is universal. You know, we all speak the same language

when it comes to funny. You know what I mean, Like when I tell my mom and how she disciplined or how she took care of me, and then getting a response from people that aren't Filipino, go, my mom did the same thing. I'm like, exactly, because moms are moms. Just my mom happens to be Filipino, but she's still a mom. She's doing mom ship. Like we can all relate. It doesn't matter that I'm Filipino, that you're not gonna

understand what I'm talking about. Filipinos are nicer though, because she let you stay till you was twenty eight, and the black House you got to about and no matter what, they don't change. They moved the house a lot, like a big spatula. Come and move the house around to the two blocks over. You won't even know where. It's a hilarious. But speaking of your family though, because I just watched in his Elements your Special, was that joke about your aunt true we're regarding your name? Yeah, that

just found that out, really just found that out. I never knew what Joe Coy meant because her sister, my AUNTI Lynn, she called her Langoy. That was her nickname, so she always called her Langoy, and mine was Joe Koy, So I thought she'd just like to put ois at the end of the names. And then last year she or yeah, last year or two years ago, she goes, you know, I don't call you Joe Joy. I call you a joke all and I'm like, and that's why I had no idea. And co means mine, so intang

cole beats mine. And then Joe. So she was her nickname for me is my Joe. And this whole time I thought she was calling me Joe Coy. I've been doing this ship wrong for years. Is paying off names. Everybody gonna come and see Joe code and we all know Joe con't this nigga must be a knockoff of No, we don't want the knockoff nigga. We want the Filipino brother. Yes, indeed, that's so amazing that you didn't know that. But we actually have some people in the comments that are asking questions.

So are you up for some questions from some of our claim Its okay? Here they come, so um, somebody's asking Joe Coy, tell us about your teeth. They're all fake. They're all faked. It is the most expensive toilet you'll ever see. I spent almost I bought two sets of Veneers and my first set was fifty eight thousand and the second one was six thousand. I got it from Dr mcdahi in Beverly Hills. He's the best. He's been on Oprah. He he's amazing, he's been on doctors. This

guy does the best set of teeth. I fell on a rock when I was twelve. Twelve years old, I fell on a boulder, face first and knocked out my fore front teeth, all four of them. They're all broken in half. So my whole until I was like thirty years old, I had like these big brown teeth that were just they were hideous. And Uh. When I finally got money, I'm like, I'm gonna change this ship right now.

You change it. They shot, but you tell that doctor Huluka whatever his name is, that's what they can do. You got a discount because I can't affords. Good guy didn't cost that much. Good God. Yeah it was pricey, but it was worth it. I am very excited to one day be in the same space with you and be on the stage with you because I didn't think that the energy will be fantastic. Well, we gotta get

it is damn pandemic. And well I'm asking you about this pandemic, Joe, what do you think about this whole vaccine thing? What's your take on the vaccine? I don't know even how. I don't even know how to speak on that right now. It's you know, it's a sensitive time right now. You know you're talking to a guy that's never taking a flu shot because I don't believe

in flu shots. Uh, we're talking about a guy that's uh, that has a child that I don't give vaccines to and I've never had because I've heard a lot of things about vaccines, you know what I mean. So what do I do now? Like, where do I go? Where do I stand? What? We're at a different time now, and I don't know how to act or how to respond. And then also my livelihood depends on on this decision as well, I feel, so as of right now, the

vaccine can go. We'll go fund itself until it becomes right, until I don't see somebody fading or dying from it. Myself in this little booth. My mama told me, when you don't know what the dude, don't do nothing. So and you're not sure, don't do anything. Just keep doing what you're doing, which is making us laugh and keeping that hustle on and take care of that baby. Is that the only kid you want? You don't want anymore? Yeah, that's he's he's my guy. Man. He changed my life. So, uh,

it's it's a great time right now. He's like he's like finding is uh, he's finding what he wants to be in life, and it's just fun to watch him do that and uh be on the outside like my like watching watching him make this decision, his life decision, and I'm enjoying it because I'm a support him. I ain't gonna be like my mom and tell him not to do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna support him on this. Joe, you ain't got but one key, Joe pullout game must

be wonderful. My pullout game as ship perfect. Right you on the river him? You get that beat? Yeah? You know when to jump out like Chinese throw jump in, jump out and jump and jump on being jump out, baby, I know when to jump in. I'd begetting to jump out on time. You know black You know black folks don't do it on time because we never had cocks. When we was in the field, we had to wait for somebody to say it's Quentin time. So I don't nobody tell me it's Quentin time, so I just keep

going ship. Okay, Wait, what's the name of the book. It's called bigs Plate. So you have to actually read the book, but not standard. You have to put your own personality and spin into the because what do you call that with the verb books? What is that called? Audio books? Yeah? Yeah, wow, I've been doing this whole morning. Isn't it hard trying to pretend to be you when

it's not natural? Isn't that hard? It's rough, I'm telling you, and then hear your own words and then having to like act him out, you know, and then you know, I got these guys in here, and and uh, and I know they're frustrated, but ship, it's hard. They got a check, you gotta take no teeth. They know they got a chick that's only for the top. How much was the bottom set? What this one? The whole moutain?

Two for two sets were hundred and fifty So, ladies, ladies, do you know that you can get some a hundred and fifty dollar here? Oh my god, that is amazing. That should be your pitch, Joe, You're so bad, very bad. Well, we're gonna bring it back onto a bit of a serious not because I do have some other questions that

people are asking to um over announcement before we get serious. Yes, so, my my second special coming in Hot is on Netflix and someone where I shot in Hawaii and um, Steven Spielberg watched it and brought me in for a meeting, and I sold him my movie that that we're filming in May, so may post any trainees in there. I'm just I think I know a girl. You can wear any color, she can look like whatever you want to look like. Right, I could be the grocery. So that

had be to be step Rod the bank. I don't care. Just put me in the damn shout out to Damn Land and Steven Spielberg, Hollybario, everybody on that tea. God, I've been a fan of Spredingbergs for so many Steven Spielberg has the greatest movies. Everybody thinks that Steven Spielberg's first movie was Color Purple. That's what black folks think. This is black folks. I'm telling about black folks right now, Joe Still, Steven Spielberg did et uh with so many

movies that were Yeah, I just need Harrison Ford. Harrison, let it go, Boo. You can't do it well. He could be a great great great granddaddy, but the nigger can't jump across no more road. So they can't even fly the planes without crashing to together. Yeah, Harris said, not at all. And I love Indie, E, Jones, all of them, but now we don't want to do India and Jones and the old folks home. Let it go, just let it go. Oh my goodness, Joe, you can

be even new Indiana Jones funeral. I'm ready, um so switching. So congratulations. That's a major, that is huge. We are definitely gonna keep an eye out for that. Um but I want to know too, and so do some of the flames in here. You know, you had a very You've had a very long career. It's thirty years. What has been the biggest obstacle or uh, you know, biggest hurdle you've had to overcome just to kind of get

to that next phase of your career. When Netflix told me no, when they said when when they were they were they were getting everyone our spec they were giving our specials. In two thousand and seventeen, they were, they were doing original comedy and uh, and I was selling out everywhere. I was telling shows out everywhere, and I thought for sure they were gonna give me an hour

special and they never offered. So then we kept taking meetings and they kept saying no, And then I offered to fly them out to watch me perform, and they kept saying and know and and I just didn't understand why they kept saying no and uh and I literally wanted to go to Twitter and go, hey, everybody, can't your subscription, uh to Netflix, they don't like Asians on their network. I want to do something like real ill like that, but but I knew that would be the

stupidest decision. So uh, I went and produced it myself, so live from Seattle, I shot myself, I paid for it myself, and uh and I remember as I was taping it, they still called us and let us know that that they weren't interested, like they got when that we were taping it ourselves and they're like, hey, we're

still uninterested. And that was by far the biggest obstacle ever because I literally wanted to quit stand up at that point because I just was like, it's never gonna happen if they're not gonna give me a shot, Like I don't understand why they don't even want to give me a shot. Like I was, I was killing on the road. I had this huge fan base, but yet I can't get a Netflix special and I didn't get it, and whatever the case may be, you know what I mean.

They have their reasons and and I'm not gonna hate them for that. But if I didn't shoot that, specially myself, they would have never got it. And we brought it into them and they bought it from me. Thank God. I love you Netflix, and I love Netflix. I love that. I love this story that you just told because you know that did Joe. I just me and Loen just had this come say, when somebody tells me no, it puts it makes me angry and you want to retaliate.

But what it should do is put a fire up on you to say, you know what, I'm still you don't tell me no. You don't get the right to tell me. I love that because we just had this with a damn audition the other day and after and I did much better than I did that first hand. But that's great, Joe. Yeah, And and um so do you think that Fresh off the Boat has opened up people's eyes to Asian to Asian community because that show

is funny and shit. I love I love Randolph Park, I love uh, you know, Melvin mar the producer amazing, Uh, you know, and it's just I'm just proud that that was seven seasons. I think watch seventh season The Mother, The Mother and the Sun was very you and when you talk about you and your mom, baby, the Sun was so getto and so who he was so funny. Oh my god, that the boy was so funny. That was I don't know. Filippinos y'all gangster, y'all just hood.

I love its Filipino. I'm gonna go home and watch me. It's the Filipino point just today. But they're not gonna have a hundred and fifty thousand dollars teeth. I'm just saying my two cents from row. That's crazy hilarious. But I didn't want to backtrack though. So how did you end up getting your special on Netflix? Like? How did

they approach you? What happened? They didn't approach me. They I shot at myself and then I cut it myself and uh, and then we had I had my agent bring it in and just go, hey, watch it, please, just give it one more shot. And they watched it, and God bless that whole team. Man, I love everybody

over there. And mind you, I think there was a transition too, because the new cats that came in, you know, Robbie Prau and Joanne and and uh god, Robert Garmo and god, there's so many names I want to shout out right now, but uh, thank god they came in, Neil, they all came in and they saw that special on the campaigned and put it on that that two thousand seventeen roster Man and Man that changed my life. Bro that,

I mean that life from Seattle changed my life. I went from comedy clubs to like selling out multiple theaters. I think I broke I broke Mariah Carey's record in uh Hawaii for a twenty thousand tickets sold like by a solo artists, Like it was crazy. So when you when you speak about that, Joe, is so much pride and so much happiness in your voice when you that's that's great. So you it's very authentic what you say. And then Joanne is a movement shake it over in Netflix. Joanne.

Joanne will pick up the phone and say done, and it's she got that kind of juice. Tiffany had ish my eyeballs told me I told her you were coming on the show. She's like, ill, he wants me to do this movie. I said, well girl, I'll tell him to do the movie and right to tell me about the party and for a training. But she said, I loved I loved Joe flame. He has so much energy. So Tiffany definitely loves you, Joe. I loved Tiffany. That's that's my girl. Man, we go way back. I was

just on the phone with her. So that's why he was later. That's why he was late for my show audio Books. Audio Books, I say, I was working for sure. We do have a couple more questions coming in and people want to ask you, so, um, I want to know what you based on? What are you based on? Joe? I got two places you big time. I live in l A. I got a house and uh get a Laurel Candy right here at Studio City. And then I got a house in Vegas. Uh in summerland. And you

know that's where my family's at. So I like to take my son. They're like, you know, like holidays in summer. So that's where I go. Summer's in Vega. No, thank you for that heat. I can't this is all philicone. I'd be melted like the Wicked Witch. And that's a whole lot. I can't go to cold and I freeze like the Tim Man, I can't get too hot. L It's I'm just funked up all over ya. I'm just

telling you, it's just I'm falling the pie Joe. Another question we had though, because interestingly enough, this was also in your special, but somebody's asking, have you ever before you were famous, because you're famous, before everybody knew who you were, were people confused about your nationality? Similar to Andrew Lopez on on the show, Oh yeah, I mean you know my first joke on the Tonight Show. You

know I did that, uh seventeen years ago. And the first joke I said is I'm half white, half Asian. Uh oh wait no, no, the first yow guy I did there as I go, I hate living in l A because when I tell people in Asian, they got the worst compliments. And that's a true story. I used to tell people I was Filipino and they'd be like, oh my god, I love orange chicken. I'm like, that's not Filipinos don't eat ship. What are you talking about?

So yeah, that that identity and and and being mixed, and people always trying to find out what I was, especially because I was Filipino. It was kind of annoying on the come up. You know, it was like I was, I was. I felt like I was always an ambassador of the Philippines, like telling telling people about our food because they didn't know what Filipino food is. They just assumed that it was Chinese food or you know what I mean. Like it was just always that so yeah,

that it sucks, you know, coming up. And that's another reason why I did that special in the Philippines. I wanted to give us that identity and let people know a little bit about our culture, you know, and you show more than just that. You guys are not just uh what did you say? You guys were nurses and dancers. That was Rob didn't see me that joke. This morning, I tackle the ship out of my god. Nurses and dancers. Joe, you got moves. He used to be a boy. You're a boy. I'm a b boy. I was a boy

from back. I wantn't to be boy. I just used to be a boy. Wait a minute, what happened? Does that that's so that would be be boy? Be a boy qualified. We'll take it for now, We'll take it for sure. It is. It is such a pleasure to have somebody who's you know, because I love the comics, because you know, they say you can't use coming in this room because you're trained, or you're black, or you're white or you I love like what you said that

laughter is a universal language. When when when you're funny in any ring, they don't even have to speak English. That good. They feel your energy. Joe, You've got a lot of energy on stage. How old are you? Twenty good? Wish you'd be bouncing around and jumping around. I'm like, I'm just gonna walk. I can't do all everyone in my fat ass, So tell us to what's next? So you just did the special, You're doing the audio book, you got the movie coming out? What else is happening

in the world? I just signed I just signed another deal for another special on Netflix. So it's gonna be my fourth one. They called me, I don't know what you weigh now, Okay, I'm gonna shoot that at the Forum. I want to shoot that. Wow, I want to be there. I want to be let me know, I want to be in the cave with Tippany. You know I did it already. I sold two out right before the pandemic. I did two Forum shows and Tippity went up that night. It was amazing. We was working some let me let

me tell you something. The pandemic stuff, everything with us cold Turkey. We just I worked on no on March to fourteen. On Mars to sixteen, everything just shut down. Yeah, everything shut down. Well for the Forum, you gotta come. We gotta make sure that we do have to be there. Baby, I want to be sitting in the front row. I'm gonna have I'm gonna distract you. I'm gonna have my bullets out now. I got two sets of bullets. Joe

hat or you look low. I want you you go and I tell you you know anything you want me for right there, Joe. I love your comedy. I love your authenticity, and I love that you're not afraid or shane to be worried about who you offended. Because if it's fucking funny, it's fucking funny. Everybody's so worried about, Oh, you can't say this, You're gonna bother this group, You're gonna upset. I don't give a damn. This is funny

to me. And what they don't understand is as a comic, it needs to be funny to you first, because then it flows better. Yeah, so you might be offended, but I don't about that. It was funny to me. Y'all might not leave, I laughed. I'm hoping to give out one hour special. We Are Activity is gonna EP and hopefully and I already have it written. We just don't have any stage. Just like to get out and get

out and do it. But it's going to be ridiculous. Joe, I'm gonna do a wig switch and I'm gonna take you all on the rack because my new fan base is straight me in like you know, like yourself straight and have been loving me and not in a sexual capacity. Yes, and I can talk about that. I love my relationships that I have with me and with women, you know, so I'm honest about it. Ain't no secrets to you. I can't wait to see this. I'm gonna be there

for that one. Oh yeah, Joe Coore, you gather be there. I might use you as a target. Let's go. And I think that's a good segue too though, because I know Flame has talked about not being on stage, So what are you doing to stay you know, fresh and up on your toes with your material? Of you know this, you know, you know writing you know, I'm writing that movie as well. And this, Uh, by the way, shout out to Ken Say, one of my writers on the movie. But but doing this and not only that, I've been

going up. You know, I got to do uh you know, I did fifteen shows in Arizona at Stand up Live. Uh. You know, because I'm right in this hour as we speak. Oh, the Tiffany and I we flew out to uh to Yellow Springs that did Chappelle's show. Yeah, they just that's a positive. God bless Dave and his family, y'all. Prison spoke to I just spoke to his wife that they're doing great. By the way, yesterday good because Ida was

with him last weekend and um and um. They were in Austin, Texas for Angelie's birthday, and I say they went to breakfast at the Word and Dave Chappelle brought up my name and just went on and on giving me praise. Mind you, Joe, I didn't even think that he knew who I was. I thought that I'm like, Okay, Dave, what's up. I'm ready. I am ready to work and I want to be on stage with all y'all graades because I want people to see that this ain't nothing

but comedians. This is just a bunch of comedians, you know all that I tell all the alternative comedians. Now, I took the meetings for all y'all. I was the slave. They beat the ship out of me for twenty years because Joe. I had horrible backstories from other comedians when I first came out, because I was living my truth. But when y'all did finally come around at you, I'm saying, when the comics family did let down their shielding, fine, just like one of the fountains, what's up playing? What's

up him? You know so? And I received that. I don't take that as disrespect. I don't take that as shade. I've been I waited on that to be one of the colleagues for years. I just wanted to be received as another comedian. Yeah, the teas and ship just extra. Yeah it caught your extra too, but it's just extra. But I think a lot of people don't understand that about you know you, And of course I feel me as well. You know, like we took we we took a lot, and we had to go through a lot,

and now it seems like the norm now. But like, man, if you were here twenty years ago where you had to go up on a theme night, you don't just get stage time Asian invasion, you know, on Wednesday nights, you know what I mean to gay nights, you know what I mean doing whatever? They always had like theme nights, you know, and it's like that was the norm back then, but now it's like no, everyone could just be on

the same stage. Now it's we broke them out. Let me get my half, I get my half a Joe Boom that I told you it's called The Yang and the Twin. Uh it really quickly to just tell us what the movie is about, just so people know what to expect, because you said it's coming out in May. It's called Easter Sunday. It takes place one day. It's just one day, Easter Sunday. And it's got just complete chaos with my family, every and every single Uh. You know,

it's gonna be the most diversity you've ever seen. It's gonna have everybody. It's gonna have black people, white people, Latino people, Asian people, everyone's gonna be represented this movie. And just and just what it what it looks like in my house on Easter Sunday, and that's what we're gonna do. So wait a minute. So I didn't even know to see, that's something something you teaching us. I didn't know that Easter was big in the Filipino community.

Oh yeah, that's that's really big. Easter Sunday is a really big day. So a lot of prayer, a lot of food, a lot of entertainment. What's the tradition. What's the traditional food that you guys eat? My favorite is chicken a doobo, and I think everyone should try it. I keep pushing it, I keep campaigning it. If people have just try, it will become mainstream. I wanted to be household. I went on Good Morning America promoting a chicken a doobo. What's in it? It's just it's basic.

It's vinegar, it's uh soy sauce, a little bit of brown sugar and chicken and garlic, and you can throw some money ins in there. It's amazing. I'll make it for you, But bro make it. I don't want to kiss somebody right there with a good God, that sounds like that. I had your breath, heart, But do you make it? Do you bake it? Though, right, or do you talk to Okay, yeah, I figured you wouldake. We're gonna have to try that. I'm gonna have to have something when I come to you one now especially, I'm

definitely gonna be there. Oh. I want to be there to see it because I want to see how yours? Yes, I'm excited Netflix, that 'all hear that? Did you get Joe Joan? If y'all, don't you know e Joe, don't do that. You're gonna give me fire, don't come on my pace? Yours is your all, your special and I

love that you have so much with you? Now? How you use all of this because you have so much material, so you know it has to be different material for each special and you just from life and experience or just going out or do you actually sit down and actually write because some comedies are lazy, they just will not write. Yeah, no, I jotted down. And you know, especially now that the material I had just from this

year alone was amazing. You know, just seeing my son go from going to school to take in zoom classes, It's just like the most unreal, the most unreal thing I've ever witnessed in my life, you know what I mean? And the discipline that he's going through and uh, it's it's crazy. So I've been talking about that a lot, and just this whole experience. So yeah, I I right, just awful whatever life gives me. And and hope that

it's funny, but I'm not. I'm not scared to say it, so you know, do it laughs and oh, well, you know what I mean. I guess I'll drop it or all work on it more. But yeah, I'm continually writing. I can't stop writing. I have to like on everything. And and see I might not write the whole story, but I write the bullet points because it always triggers me to know, this is what I was going to say. There. That always gets me going. Half the time, I can't

read my own handwriting. Joe, look at my hand right? Are you kidding me? I can't even read this? Hilarious? What is it backwards? Wait a minute, don't we talk about my education? I was an educated girl. And boy, we just want to tell you thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you. And I can tell I love that you got your new team, cause nigger,

you ain't stop smiling because you get this taste. Ladies and gentlemen, please make some wonderful love and give hearts and hearts and hearts for us very special guests, A very talented Joe Koy. Joe, what you gotta let me know as soon as beforehandles, You're got to get dressed up when I come to your one out. Oh, you're gonna be the style on stage when I would be the beach in the audience. Joe, Joey got pretty teeth.

I want to give me some hundred fifty dollars two all right, and you have to pay for a seven I want. They got lay away, they got finger hut finger hud you pay for on six times? Y'all a ridiculous play. You're ridiculous. You know that. Let me tell you something. Do you think finger huod got fake teeth? Because baby, let me tell I get payment playing ship. I'm gonna tell you something. Uh what my takeaway was? Joe Koy also wants to be an EP on your

our special like uh that that that is awesome? Tiffany and Joe and Joe Yeah flame, I think, um yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna give me some fans on the Asian community. Babe from the Yang from Kim Joyce Kim Joey's Yeah. But you know Lauren and Flame some of the make your takeaways. I just want to go back to what joy what Joe just shared with us. Uh, you know we had talked about we joked about his uh, his aunt making the name Joe Koy and it was

actually Joe Coo. And I love that. I just loved how you recognized immediately his authenticity with that just sharing real stories, which is what makes it so funny, because you've talked about why that's so important as a comic yourself, because you know that you you have that Even with all the stuff that we talked about on Netflix with the whole football player, people always say, is that true? There is always true to the story you We may not we we found the funny. Some of the stories

are hurtful. Some of the stories are painful, but as a comedian, you found the joy to make to turn it around. So it's kind of like a therapy. I'm retelling this story that hurt me, but I'm telling it to a way that I can make y'all laugh with me, because y'all can help me heal this pain. I may not be all y'all to fix my life. But I damn show saw some ship and we turned that down. But I only fixed my life. Are you a line

gonna fix it? She been fixing them ain she did her, Lauren, Or you're gonna have to learn to use your right hand, just like every monthers because they're just sometimes I'm like Lauren, you know, mus I don't want to get hit back. She don't forget we're on camera and I'm gonna get hit I don't want I know her mom. I would never get on fire. Oh no, thank you, baby God. I'll tell you something else too. I want to go back to Joe one more time before we close out,

because Lauren, the comments were coming too quickly. You couldn't. Yeah, it was just trying. It was a lot coming. Uh. You know. Joe also just talked about something flame that I just think it's just um, something that's worth recognizing once again, the power of family and paying it forward. Uh. Joe talked about why his most recent special Right Now on Netflix um where he made sure he went back.

He highlighted DJ's, he highlighted dancers, He highlighted his brother, who cooks, Who's Who's the show UM, and they did all of this, and they talked about different ways to just uplift, shine a light on glorify the Filipino community. And I just thought it was absolutely fantastic because that is what we should all aspire to do that. Remember, Common even talked about it, how to who much has given much as UH is expected right UH, and how

he has worked to pay it forward. We have been blessed to have people on the show who seemed to have that as part of their core principle UM, and they have shared that as guests. April Ryan shared that as a guest, Titia Campbell shared that as a guest, Common shared that as a guest, and now Joe Joe shared that as a guest, UH talking about how important it is that you recognize where you come from and that you try to support others who are also part

of the journey. Side note, I appreciated the shameless plug of all that we have had already on the show. The show wasn't doing that well, so good kudos to UNI to YouTube because you two care this. What I'm talking about the reason this works is that I'm not in that room, but I'm so in that room with you. Lauren, you keep it going. Flame keeps it going, and our guests are comfortable and there having a good time, and

our our listeners are enjoying it. And I want you all to go ahead and close it out because this is what laugh and learn again. It's all about you know. We talk about a little bit of everything, and we are not trying to get anyone at all to change their mind. Lauren. Yes, we're not getting you to change your mind. As Nick said, We're getting you to use your mind. So if you have one, if you have, some of you ain't got one. Let me just let me tell you the truth. I've been on the plane

for four hours. Some of y'all ain't got no damn man, I'm telling people have somebody how crazy? But understand me that whatever your truth is and whatever you want to do, that's what you do. Joe Koy is living his life and what you said, Nick was great because I'm not anti anything else. I am pro black because I'm black. If I was a Latino, then I would be pro Latino.

If I was white, I would be pro white. That does not negate that I don't love all people, but I do love my culture because I'm part of my and I'm familiar with my culture. You know. It's when you grow up in another culture and you're one thing and you're trying to pretend to be somebody else. That's

what we were just talking about with Joe. Don't let somebody mold you and you lose so much of you that you can't find you again, because then you're doing what they want you to do, and you may be making the money, you may have the fame, but you won't be happy. You won't be happy because you have lost yourself. Every time I lose myself, I turned around and look at the mirror, because if I started backing up, I sound like one of those garbage trucks. Be just

fat of heale. I love it, big booty. Big booties in the house say I'm not gonna lose me. Don't lose you. Whatever your decision is, baby, that's your decision. I'm talking ship. But y'all know what I'm talking about. Y'all know what I'm about to close out with. Whatever choice you make with these eight, nine, twelve, fifteen companies giving y'all, we don't need one. You don't need to You're not You only need one. First, of all you needed to then it had to be at sub zero temperature.

Nowama can sit outside and the room tempt you. I don't even like room tempert your water. I'm telling you all right now, it's too many theories. There's too many vaccines. If it's one illness, then it should be one vaccine. I ain't telling you what to do. I'm just talking. I'm talking my ship. Ain't that right, Lauren? Yes? And to reiterate Nick, what do we say. We're not trying to get anybody at all to change their mind, just getting you to use your mind and your like. So

I love you. Flame spread yourself and got spread getting off that plane. So just so, just so y'all know how this works. And I'm supposed to get a coronavirus test again today. If not today, I'm going to get it over tomorrow because I want to make sure that people around me. I say, but I was very because y'all know I'm baby. I almost got a hazmat suit ship the Flame. Last thing I'm gonna say before, because

again people have been coming into the comments. I want to thank people everyone for remembering to subscribe, to comment and to share the show. Uh if I don't get back to your right away. Please don't hold it against my my my my heart, because my my heart is in it. But I've had to turn the alerts off of my phone because um we we all kind of work and do other things, you know, say, y'all have been sending Nicholas all kind of pitches and everything. Y'all

be first with Nick trying to get something. How y'all know Nick ain't got a significant How y'all know he ain't got a girl from y'all. Y'all know y'all thoughts, y'all know, y'all just sending I say something, I've seen some of the stuff you and on that note, where can everybody find you? You can find me at Nick Smith News on all social media platforms, and where can we find you? You can find you on Instagram at Lauren Armani h as well as on YouTube Lauren Hogan.

I was told to get a YouTube, so I've been uploading the videos that I was constructed to see. Is very professional. I don't care what Trip will say about it, and you and you canna follow me alright? Flame mon Role, Uh yeah, it was flame Underscore Monroe on Twitter. Monroe Flame on Instagram, Uh, Flame mon Role on YouTube and Marcus Flame Monroe Park. And that's a legal name. You want to send a check in Marcus Park, I can

catch that. But if you send me a checking Flame Role, it's just like sending me like sex with a condom. It's just not gonna work. It's just not gonna It's just gonna work. I'm in my head. I thank you guys so much. We appreciate you. Thank you ken Do, thank you Trivil, thank you nix Man if we miss you here in the studio. Thank you my Lauren Hogan, thank you flame MANX for joining us. And all of Joe Coore, y'all follow Joe Koy. Joe you got a new movie coming out. Joe Koy is doing big things.

And they had a twenty two ft Christmas Street and a hundred fifty dollars teeth ladies. I don't know if he's single or not, but he ain't. Mary, I say all is fair in love and no ring because he might get it and you might not. He might not put a ring on it, but that it might put a ring around it sometimes that's most important, Hope, And I do want to say to thank you for him. You thank all of us. We need to thank you so thank you for providing us a space to be here. Well,

I love my team. This is a great team, all five of us, and I'm telling you we're making it work and we're calling to you guys. So all five of us here and all I Flame mass out there. We thank you, guys. We see you guys on next week, Love Lounge tonight on I G between six thirty seven. I'm home alone, the kids is gone. We're gonna get real, foul real. I see y'all. Leave piece, bye bye,