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144. Comedian Jesus Trejos on "PBS Roots of Comedy" and His New Children's Books
Award-winning comedian and actor Jesus Trejo joins us for an exciting in-studio session of the Todo Latino Show! Jesus Trejo also shares his experiences creating the PBS docu-series "Roots of Comedy," illuminating the deep connections and cultural insights gained during its production. Plus, don't miss our top Latino songs of the 2000s according to ChatGPT. This episode is packed with laughter, heartfelt moments, and lively discussions that you won't want to miss.
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Speaker 2:Hey everybody and welcome back to the Todo Latino Show. I am your host, rafael. I am here with the crew, daisy Jovi. We have a great show for you today. Cardi B is expecting her third kid. Ben Affleck is apparently using J-Lo's drink as the reason for why he's getting a divorce. We go through the top 10 songs, or Latino songs, of GBT from 2000. And joining us on the show is comedian actor, award-winning author, jesus Trejo. What's up?
Speaker 1:man, thank you for having me this is really cool.
Speaker 2:It's been a while.
Speaker 1:It has. We were just talking about that. Yeah, it's been what? Four years? Probably about four years, three or four years Wow, Long time.
Speaker 2:And to top it all off, the last time we did this it was in a show. We were online.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what a beautiful studio. As soon as I walked in, I'm like, wow, this is nice. I like what's going on, the vibe is cool.
Speaker 2:There's the promo shot for 1500.
Speaker 1:Live yeah, at Pro Audio LA 1500 Live yeah, it's great, the promo.
Speaker 2:Really great it. It's really amazing to have you. I can't wait to get in. We're going to actually do some highlights first and he's going to join us for all that, so we'll get him in.
Speaker 3:He said he's not big on this news, but he's going to try his best.
Speaker 2:He's going to chime in. He's going to chime in, so go ahead.
Speaker 3:So did you guys know? Cardi B is expecting her third child with Offset Woo, but they're not going to stay together. She's filing divorce.
Speaker 1:She's filing, yes, filing for divorce.
Speaker 3:So I'm not surprised. I'm not shocked, to be honest. They've been on and off for many years and I used to think they were a cute couple, but they're never really stable. In my opinion, they're toxic as hell, man. They're toxic, yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if they get back together eventually and then have the fourth child. But what do you guys think I?
Speaker 2:think she said it best. Why would you need to even go out there and let everybody know?
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, because the thing is that there was, you know, after the announcement of her pregnancy, she put the divorce, the filing of the divorce, and then she made another announcement saying, hey, this third kid that I'm having is from offset, and I was like, why?
Speaker 2:you know, okay, you're making it clear to us people. Yeah, I think people gonna question.
Speaker 3:That's why well, allegedly he's never been faithful to her, so I can see why. Maybe she had hoped that the relationship would get better, but maybe he kept going they grew apart.
Speaker 4:um, I'm not surprised what you say. Maybe later on down they may, they may get together, I don't know, but I wish it the best. I definitely would like to see more music and hopefully.
Speaker 3:Maybe more breakup music, which we love.
Speaker 2:Why is it? Every time that the women break up, there's a breakup music?
Speaker 4:Better songs. It's proven, it's proven.
Speaker 2:Every single time there's a breakup. There's a breakup. Shakira just capitalized on it.
Speaker 4:I mean, Taylor Swift has made her whole life.
Speaker 1:What do you think about?
Speaker 3:that.
Speaker 1:I think what you're saying right now is really interesting, I think, when you're talking about artists, especially music but you see it in every genre, I think whatever's going on in their lives leading up to that album or that piece or that sequence of works, you see it reflected. So it makes sense that somebody would make breakup music. It would make sense that somebody is like I'm curious to see what that's going to sound like.
Speaker 2:I think it reflects it, if that makes sense they do it in comedy, though, right, I think comedians do it 100%.
Speaker 1:Our North Star in stand-up comedy is Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor, he was always reflecting what was going on in his life, good or bad. I mean, some of it was. I mean, yeah, it's like things that you're like, oh man, at the time I can't believe he's talking about this, but he was very truthful. I think art is where people turn to bring their truth to therapy, so to speak.
Speaker 2:Well, percent of it is everybody copes differently through music, through comedy have you ever taken your sure?
Speaker 1:I mean, I've talked about my caregiving journey, you know, with my parents. You know my late mother. You know I talked about that like a bunch of like what that was like. You know being a caregiver and you know it's like my experience and trying to find the humor in it. So sure, you know it's like I think people have a different threshold as to what they want to bring to the stage. At the time that was. You know my truth and I I spoke about it. You know, in a respectful way, trying to make it funny, and I think think I, as a matter of fact, I've heard this before it's like you find what is it? You find commonality through specificity. So the more specific you are with an experience it's like. So I'm sure, circling back to what you're saying, this album I think it's going to bring like commonality with people's like I've been through that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so definitely something that they can relate to.
Speaker 3:I'm excited for that album.
Speaker 2:I'm interested. You're assuming that that's what she's like. She came up that whole conversation started with an assumption, so we'll see.
Speaker 3:We'll see if she pops out After she gives birth to her third child.
Speaker 4:It's a bittersweet moment in her life because you everything that she's going through, but she said that she's not going to stop having her tour her music. Everything is coming through. That's crazy, so it serves us as an inspiration.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100%, all right, so we're going to go into the divorce topic again.
Speaker 3:Oh no, it doesn't stop here. That's what seems to be happening in celebrity.
Speaker 2:So give it up to Hollywood to always give us those stories.
Speaker 2:So J-Lo and Ben ben and we thought, the move you know it was just another boring j-lo breaking up another divorce for j-lo. Here's the thing. So according to sources and this has been all over all over the news now ben's pal said the last draw was j-lo's cocktail line. That and that's what started the divorce. So apparently his friend said that it made Ben sick. He had to fight to get his life back after overcoming alcohol, knowing how he lost everything, including the love of his family, knowing he could possibly relapse, jen decided to her own spritzer line for more money, as if she did not have enough. That was quotes, by the way. They added that was one of the things that broke the camel's back. But, uh, because ben wanted to save his sobriety. Do you buy that?
Speaker 3:I will say I found it extremely rare that she started a alcohol brand when she doesn't even drink herself. I know I was so confused with that. I tried it.
Speaker 4:I tried it for the premiere of Mother, so I didn't know that Jada don't drink.
Speaker 3:She doesn't. She does not drink and she's promoting alcohol. So that's weird to me. I don't know, I didn't really think that was. She's not a drinker, yeah.
Speaker 2:Would that cause you like? Would you Okay, so I'm not somebody who's dealt with substance abuse, or that would keep you away. Or do you just stay away from the business, because I feel like using that as an excuse for the divorce probably a little sus.
Speaker 3:I think, her selfish ways, the fact that she's never stopped wanting attention. I think maybe it was more what she was doing behind the scenes. It seems like he wanted a more relaxed lifestyle and she was always trying to be on there.
Speaker 4:She has been being always very hideful. It's like you know. He also has like a gambling problem. Imagine if she would be going to the casino also all the time. So I don't know.
Speaker 2:She doesn't have to go to the factory. It's not like she's bringing, it's not like I mean, I don't know Like he doesn't have to join her for that part like. I don't know, what do you? Do you think like if you had that issue and you were, you were married with somebody who was now doing that like? Do you feel like that would be your out? And, first of all, this isn't Ben's words, these are his pals, so to speak, and it's interesting, like I'll go devil's advocate to what you said.
Speaker 1:I'll go the opposite, I think, like assuming best intentions. Right, if he said that he can't be around it. It's like you have to respect somebody's boundaries, especially with something so delicate as like substance abuse, right? If that's what they need, you and and you also hope on the other side of that is that you also hope that your partner, your person you know is um is able to understand that right, yeah, to kind of give you an environment that's going to be conducive to your sobriety, what you need.
Speaker 1:So it like if if that's true, I I think you know it sounds like he knows what his uh boundaries are, which I think are very hard. It's like we've all tried to put boundaries and that could be very hard. So I don't know. It's uh. I don't know too much of their relationship or history, but if, if that's true, I think he's looking out for his well-being.
Speaker 2:Can you think that's a? I don't know. I find it weird that he would.
Speaker 4:Target on that.
Speaker 2:Target on that. I mean, they have so many other issues and I feel like Now, don't mind me. There's people who are going to be like, oh, he's just protecting himself. I'm not a type of person who likes to watch sexual content or anything like that, so when there's people on my in my house watching that kind of stuff, I'm like you guys can go watch that, I'm not gonna do it, okay. And so for me, like I feel like if you're married to somebody, I'm pretty sure that that line was coming out, like before he even got with her, because that's a long process yeah, I don't think that's the reason.
Speaker 3:You know what?
Speaker 2:I'm saying, like, why not just stay away from that, unless she's literally bringing it to the house and everybody's partying?
Speaker 4:with the wine. But that's what they said and they were saying she's not drinking, she may do the promo.
Speaker 3:You know the content she may have, obviously you know the premiere of mother because we went to an after party remember and that's what they are promoting at that event, but they weren't even there that long they. That's why I'm saying how is it affecting her marriage if she's not drinking herself?
Speaker 2:they were in the in the corner booth, I think for for maybe 45 minutes and then after that they left and everybody else was left drinking, drinking her stuff. Now, mind you, I don't drink, so I think if I had somebody who was creating an alcohol line or something like that, yeah, he was there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he doesn't want to be around it. You see, I'm saying this never see the around.
Speaker 2:It is different for me than like like you know what I'm saying. Like, just stay away yes, so, so.
Speaker 1:So, like when she goes to the factory, don't go exactly you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:Like I don't know, yeah, I guess everyone's different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, it's hard to arrive at something. It feels like we don't know the whole story right. I feel like, well, there's definitely something missing also the story is coming.
Speaker 2:You know his are saying that's what broke the camels back according to what they were saying. I'm just saying I'm curious for all of you watching this. Would that be a deal breaker for you? And, should you know, does it sound just wishy-washy, like and like? Now they're trying to come up with reasons for that. Comment below definitely interested to hear on that. I want to talk about social media hotness. Quinceañera's gone wild. I've never seen anything like it in my life. You saw the video. I saw the video. I finally was trying to figure out Everybody's like oh, you guys should watch this. It's really weird. I saw pictures and memes of it because everybody was sitting there going.
Speaker 4:Ah, tia's probably going nuts.
Speaker 2:Tia, la abuela le estaba dando un ataque. So apparently this girl had a quinceañera. Just to kind of paint the picture. We're going to play the clip here for those of you who are watching the show. And they went in dirty dancing and everything. I mean it was all twerking. They were on the floor, twerking, butts up in the air and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3:Weren't they giving lap dances to the? They were giving lap dances to the guys, to the chamela.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, it was an insane process and, as I'm watching it, it started off okay because it was just some merengue.
Speaker 1:They were doing some salsa, and then all of a sudden, the floor dropped I was like.
Speaker 2:I was expecting you know, lil Jon and stuff, to come in and loot her, because I mean, it was just crazy. You have seen the videos as a woman, because I know, as a dad, I would have grabbed that girl, everybody who was out there. We would have just left that. Quinceanera is over, it's a wrap. But as women, what do you think? I don't know.
Speaker 3:First of all, have you had a quinceanera Coming from me that I had a quinceanera coming from me that I had a quinceanera in a surprise dance. Looking back at my surprise dance it was so innocent compared to hers. I would say the same thing. My parents would have dragged me out of that party if they saw me doing that. There you go, like no that would have been.
Speaker 2:I feel like the tea coming from that quinceanera had to be like legit, like people, the expression oh, there's somebody talking about me, there's an ear ringing, yeah, yeah, yeah. That shit must have sounded like sirens.
Speaker 4:The thing is that you gotta draw the line when something is trending versus, you know, getting in, in, doing about it and executing it. That's the thing you know. That's where you get confused within the lines, the music, the trending, but the choreography, what they were wearing, how you know, everything is just like.
Speaker 2:He's an adult by the way it's a, quinceañera it's a quinceañera. It's like we're, you know, age-appropriate. I'm curious who the choreographer was.
Speaker 4:And then I'm like I'm not even saying.
Speaker 2:It's like Ice Spice's choreographer Exactly.
Speaker 3:Have you seen the video have?
Speaker 1:you seen the video at all. Yeah, it's crazy, he will check it out, but I agree with what you're saying. There's a traditional aspect to it and it's like it's supposed to be celebrating womanhood, right it's? Like the innocence of a young lady entering womanhood.
Speaker 3:So it's kind of like we have the whole tradition of the muñeca that because you're entering womanhood, you know it's the innocence.
Speaker 2:Well, not a yeah so I'm I'm curious are you justifying?
Speaker 4:it because she's going into a moment. No, he's not justifying it. No, I was curious if he was like twerk it up. No, he's saying that it's.
Speaker 3:It should be an innocent experience. It should be a transition. Yeah, and it's very familia oriented too.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the whole family was there. Tu abuela tu tia.
Speaker 4:Todo el mundo is like hello. It's like come on, you know, but your elders are there too.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised nobody stopped it though that's the.
Speaker 4:That's the part that really got me.
Speaker 2:I'm like and you can hear the women, some women, you know, because there's some crazy the tias went home and were talking smack on that there were some people who were I'm assuming they were all cheering that on and I was just like I don't know who was cheering remember what are you gonna be the one to stop it?
Speaker 1:so there's a respect thing it's like I mean, that's not my daughter, you know so.
Speaker 2:I agree with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're like yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 3:you're putting you're not gonna walk into the dance and be like stop this right here. Yeah, no stage.
Speaker 4:You know. It's like you know, because there's a period of time where all the teenagers I remember there was a time that you go to everybody's quinceañera and all of that but then it's like how are you upstage to that? It's like it just went a little bit, but quinceañeras were innocent.
Speaker 3:It would have been funny if everybody's dad of all those girls just went out there at one time just grab their dollars, just grab them. Well, you guys want to know something funny that you might think is weird. My mom actually got me a stripper for my 21st birthday but hey that is 21 and I thought that was cool of my mom to do, because I would have never expected her to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's, that's a. That's a.
Speaker 4:That's a different type of situation I wouldn't have done that, but mom's and daughter relationships completely different.
Speaker 2:I think she got it for herself though now that I think about it, I don't think it was for me. She was definitely projecting that. It's like when you buy something and you actually need it for yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I was like, why would I want a stripper for my 21st? But okay, she was like you need this, sweetie, you need this she was like no, no, no, you definitely need this.
Speaker 2:She's like no, no, no you definitely need this.
Speaker 3:You're like I'm not even the one, I'm going to step back, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's the one in front of me. Do you have kids? No kids.
Speaker 3:No, okay, I was going to say what are your thoughts as a parent?
Speaker 2:No, I don't have kids.
Speaker 3:As a tío. As a tío, your niece being in a quinceanera senora and doing that it goes back to the thing of it's not my daughter.
Speaker 1:I mean, if they ask me for my opinion, it's like, hey, I don't think that's appropriate. It's a kid yeah, about a kid, let's not lose sight of that yeah um, but it's you know again, it's not my kid. If they were to ask my opinion, I'm like you know, it's like I don't think this is appropriate.
Speaker 3:It's a kid so we all agree, it was wrong, but I mean the comments agreed with us.
Speaker 2:It's not like we're in the anomaly here, like like the minority. Everybody in the comments was like no, this is crazy, and everybody knew some shit was going to happen once I was over, because, damn Sorry, all right, so then from there we're going to transition to another thing.
Speaker 4:Another adventure story.
Speaker 2:Women seem to be the topic of this conversation. The hot tua girl, oh my gosh. Spit on that thing.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, she won the lottery. When it comes to viral the viral lotto she won, she won.
Speaker 2:I mean, have you seen it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that one was like a clip. It kind of comes up here and there.
Speaker 2:It comes up.
Speaker 3:yeah, my thing is, when do you put a stop to going viral and not making it that it's your whole career, because she is turning it into a career now. Yes, well.
Speaker 2:I mean she didn't make it a career, they made it into a career?
Speaker 3:No, she had her five minutes of fame, but now she's confusing.
Speaker 4:I thought it was 15.
Speaker 3:Or 15. Whatever?
Speaker 2:it was.
Speaker 3:I personally didn't think it was funny. It was a whole last interview.
Speaker 2:First of all, I mean, I don't know if she was sober or not. I don't think that's not my thing to figure it out. So she wasn't sober.
Speaker 4:No, she wasn't sober Okay.
Speaker 2:So I mean, but I think virality is one of those things where, like you can't, once you got it, you can't choose. You can't choose it Now. I see what you're saying.
Speaker 3:She's going on tour now. She's like she's banking on it.
Speaker 4:She's banking on it?
Speaker 2:I don't know. Look so pros and cons.
Speaker 3:And why would you want to be famous for that? I don't know. That's a singing career.
Speaker 2:That's where my thing goes.
Speaker 1:It's like at what point do you handle it? I'm curious because it's like when does it stop? And it's like you're in that situation, right, and they say, hey, like there's a 25K appearance fee and you know it's a club, you don't have to do anything, just kind of like you know, see you behind the DJ booth waving at the audience.
Speaker 3:Yeah, maybe because I'm not in the situation. I just think it's going to get old and everything's going to go away and she's going to like be forgotten.
Speaker 4:so it's like an army of people behind her right now I don't think she needs to be getting security guards.
Speaker 3:I don't think she needs to be like taking it yeah, she's got, so she got to sing on stage with zach ryan and she said she can't sing for shit.
Speaker 2:But she ended up being on stage.
Speaker 4:Oh, so now she wants to be a singer agency. By the way, they signed her up. Yeah, she's got managers.
Speaker 2:Now she's made over 100k already. Oh so I need to hack two on the video too, because she's made over 100k on that I'm like go for the reality shows.
Speaker 4:What is it?
Speaker 2:love island one of those everybody, everybody keeps, keeps trying to get it. The thing about her is she's it's not she, it's not like, she's from like new york, she's from tennessee, in a town that has like 788 people, so I'm assuming that this is like life-changing maybe, oh yeah for her. Oh yeah, because she's now talking about how she has paparazzi at her house, in front of her house, all the time. I mean, I'm not sure what they're waiting for. Like she's, like she got famous for saying hot too. Like, like is that? That's where that's. My question comes in like what you're saying? Like how long can you run it? Like, are you, you going to go on the Tonight Show and every now and then, paris Hilton?
Speaker 4:was saying what? For 20 years she's like this is hot, this is hot, it's hot. She came up with that one.
Speaker 3:But that's Paris Hilton.
Speaker 4:But still, paris Hilton was getting paid also for appearances, you know For saying that, yeah, but she was getting paid just for appearances to be at certain places like a lot of money.
Speaker 2:I feel like her coming on Jimmy Fallon would be funny as shit. Though it's hot Because think about it it's like hey, can you say it for us? And they're like that's literally what she's going to do her entire life. Hot to us.
Speaker 2:Or maybe you know what, maybe she will be around she's apparently got managers and she's got attorneys now because people are apparently selling merch with her face and that comment on and she's apparently launching her brand, which is what you were talking about business now and apparently her attorneys are going after the people who are going to be making knockoffs. So she's got a whole hot tour campaign 24 thing going on. It's an actual property there.
Speaker 3:Huh, Okay, my question is if you guys got famous for a phrase you said, would you milk it or would you Viral?
Speaker 2:Lada? Oh, I'd milk the shit out of it. Who was it? Adasa from Encanto. I love you, adasa, but she's milking the shit out of that boy. She is Dolores everywhere, she.
Speaker 4:she is on Dolores tour for the last two years, like Encanto never finished on that account and for the fact that Encanto 2 is coming soon, sometime at one point in time, yeah but she, she is still at Comic Cons and all kinds of stuff she still has.
Speaker 2:They must have given her the outfit. Because she has the outfit, she's walking around doing the entire the entire. Thing hey, but I feel like, I feel like that happens on on everything. I feel like if you have, uh, I guess, in comedy, like if you have a good stand-up and people keep or like a good joke, and you know so it's like the artists that we go see, like the nostalgia of it, like you know, it's like I hope they do the song it's kind of like.
Speaker 1:That thing is like will they forever milk? They forever milk it. It's not really milking it, it's part of their body of work, but to be known for something like a phrase like that.
Speaker 2:it's like it's part of their body of work, body of work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, body of work.
Speaker 2:No, I'm saying for her because of the phrase. Oh, for her it's a phrase yeah, Can Well. You know, the hot two is part of our body of work, but you know what the difference here is.
Speaker 1:Now that I'm thinking of it, it's like it's almost like a meme. It's like a meme when, like you know, when somebody sends you like an old meme and you're like, hey, this is funny, you're like, oh, I've seen this one already. Yeah, it's part of that library, so I think she holds a place in this In that spectrum.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because it's like we can like that's cool that you called it that, though. A meme hall of fame? Yes, there is for example.
Speaker 1:It's like the kid that. Do you remember this video where this little kid's on camera he goes. I like turtles oh my god, I still remember him, yeah so this will be in the in somebody's like rolodex in their mind. It's like do you remember this meme, this meme? Do you remember the Hak Tua girl?
Speaker 3:Oh, there you go, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's not so much a thing, but it's also interesting.
Speaker 4:It's the pop culture, that's the word.
Speaker 2:I hope she's not a VH1 special later on.
Speaker 3:I like corn.
Speaker 2:You remember those?
Speaker 3:Those were never any good, where are they now? Where are they?
Speaker 2:now the Hak Tua girl. Then they just show her and she's holding a thing yeah they're part of pop culture.
Speaker 4:That's it? Yeah, I think that's what it is. She made her print and stuff.
Speaker 1:Right now they're woven into the tapestry of what the time is. Now you look back on it. You're like I like Turtle.
Speaker 2:Guy.
Speaker 1:It's like I wonder what he's doing now.
Speaker 4:Or the corn person, yeah the corn kid, the corn kid acting, so it's a viral lotto.
Speaker 2:I mean, the thing with her is she's pretty, so I wouldn't be surprised if she moves on to something else or something like that well, even the lady that I told you about the other day, the one that had the 50 episodes on TikTok, with her real life story.
Speaker 3:Oh, but she's just right now. Risa Tisa. No, she's not a writer, that's different though Risa Tisa.
Speaker 2:right, I'm not going to put her in the same category. She was creative as hell. True, she has a whole series.
Speaker 3:That was a good series. I watched it.
Speaker 4:Everybody was hooked on that novella, I know, but it's just that stamp of that moment in time that you're like, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Now, because of her, people say here we go. Story time of how I found out.
Speaker 2:Now they're like. You know, that's what I'm saying. That's like she was revolution.
Speaker 4:He told me that Risa Tisa has credentials and the Haktor girl is just.
Speaker 2:So there was a woman who had a relationship issue with a man. She found out that everything that he was doing was a lie. And so on TikTok. She literally put that out there as like a series, and so she would do like day one.
Speaker 3:It was like part one of how I found out my husband was a liar.
Speaker 4:She made it like a whole, but people were hooked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, latinos, like uncles. They were sitting there like, as the captions were on the bottom, they were hooked. They watched all 40 episodes. Yes, I think it was like it was a long. I don't consider that in the near.
Speaker 1:Near to hacktua, near hacktua. I mean, that was just something that was caught. I forgot who said this earlier. But something about going viral. Right, it's like the, the, the choice that's what makes things viral, that you don't have a choice. So it's like you, like the, the internet, or whatever it keeps the video going, will decide when the fire is over, like the fire ain't over till it's over, and like, like the, I like turtle guy, it's like we've. Everyone has really forgotten about it because it was so long ago 10 plus years, right, but every so often it'll come back up. You know what I mean. So I feel like in this case it's like, yeah, it's like when is enough enough. Who knows, the internet dictates it that's what's so wild.
Speaker 2:I would write it though so you would write it.
Speaker 3:Would you write it um, I guess you wouldn.
Speaker 1:I would ride it, though you would ride it. Oh, I would ride it. You would ride the wave, so you would ride it. Would you ride it? I guess you wouldn't. I feel like I wouldn't have a choice. You ride it as it comes. It comes in waves and you have to ride it, you only get one shot dude yeah.
Speaker 2:Like 100K. That's what she's gotten.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like I can't turn that down I think, as a creative, it's so like funny because you're like you work so hard on certain things.
Speaker 4:You're like I hope this takes off and it doesn't, but it's like no, that's what people have expectations and then they get this.
Speaker 3:That always happens. You don't put any effort into a video and then it goes viral.
Speaker 2:I feel like I feel like if I, if I got the opportunity and somebody's turned around and started saying, hey, you're gonna come on this show to talk about this and blah Like I'm not going to miss out on that money in this one in a lifetime chance, you're going to be the guy known for that I can take care of my family with that money and all kinds of stuff, Unless it's something that's like I want to, you know, unless you go viral for being a racist or something like that.
Speaker 1:That's a different story. You know, what I saw recently was I don't know if you guys see this. I'm so bad, so I'm even surprised. I'm like oh, I have another example of this. There was a woman from Chile or Peru, so I forget, but basically this woman did a dance. I know what you're talking about Son amores.
Speaker 3:She goes, eh, eh.
Speaker 1:It's so funny.
Speaker 2:Wait, the lady the dancing one.
Speaker 3:Son amores, but she's teaching you and she's like no, no, you're going to go like, and she's like teaching you, and then she's like teaching you the moves. Now she's on TV. She's on TV. She's like it literally changed. Like it literally was like You're talking about the same person, son Amores. Is it that one? I?
Speaker 1:don't know. Yeah, son Amores, yeah, we're talking about the same one, right, and even the artists of the song reached out. But she was on like their biggest shows in that country and she made like a press run and just her doing like a, like a silly dance and giggling with the song. Now that changed her life, her family's life. Yeah, like they were from a small village, like I I don't want to put too much on it because I don't remember the specifics, but small village chains of families, well-being forever. Like they were poor and now they have resources. They have resources.
Speaker 2:Crazy.
Speaker 3:That's where I feel like yeah, you get access.
Speaker 2:Okay, no, I wasn't thinking about her, but I saw her too, so she's teaching you the ways. Oh, that's crazy though. Oh that's crazy though, aw.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a cool story and everybody's reenacting it on shows like on TikTok, right, she's viral Like she's known for that.
Speaker 1:So now, we're going back to the conversation. This is a kind of meme hall of fame. That's part of it right in the Latino world, because this was more for a Latino audience.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:But to bring it full circle, is that I hope the Hatua girl has been able to find benefit to it and it enhances her life, as opposed to making it like a nightmare that won't end. For her, it seems like it's been a blessing. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I see what you mean.
Speaker 3:So that's always what I worry about. See, maybe I was being a little biased, because with the Hatua girl I was like stop milking it. It was one phrase, Get over it.
Speaker 1:Would one phrase get over it? Would you feel better if she kept milking it for the next 20 years? I mean?
Speaker 3:I guess when you put it that way, where you're like it's benefiting her family, then you do what you gotta do.
Speaker 2:It's a very complex thing From my understanding. Look, she lives in a small town in Tennessee that has 788 people. I'm guarantee you 100k has changed that family's career she has a promising role.
Speaker 4:She wanted, like do a singing career, so that would level it to for her to have access to. You know what she did not you know attain at the time. Now she has an army of people working for her and an agency that is gonna bank on her too yeah, maybe it'll allow her to live out whatever creative dream she has.
Speaker 2:I need to get out there and make a some type of I can just say some stupid shit. You remember?
Speaker 4:the guy also that did the song. For what is it, stephen Nicks?
Speaker 1:I think it's Dog Face, I think 420 oh, I know what you're talking about the cranberry juice he's in a skateboard, oh now here we go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's like in the skateboard with his camera he has created that was the beginning of that's another tick tock. That was the beginning of tick tock during coven.
Speaker 4:He made a video and he went my room. Yeah, I think his dog face 420 dog face.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's an example skateboard to work.
Speaker 1:He was drinking a thing of like cranberry juice, but he was so happy he was playing good music.
Speaker 3:The vibes were good, so everybody just loved him for his vibes and the company give him a car or something like that and I think everything a truck yeah, he has his own also doesn't he sponsor a bunch of like dispenser brands, different brands? Yeah, oh, I didn't know that he has done I'm definitely taking advantage of that.
Speaker 4:shit happens you see all the talk that you guys? Yeah, because he.
Speaker 2:Lady got her own shows and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the premise was that his car broke down and that's why he had to take the skateboard to work.
Speaker 3:But he was still optimistic about life and that's why people loved him. Oh, that's cool. There you go.
Speaker 1:So here's another part to there's more. No, I I think we're like stepping into something else. Yes, it's the reason we're talking about it, because there's a captivating story behind it. Right, they towed his car. He does this thing, he gets a car.
Speaker 1:There's a triumphant story you know, the woman with the soy amores small village not a lot of resources now has resources taking care of her family, like the hatua girl is like. I'm curious to see. That's why there's management behind it's like what's the story we would love to hear you know. It's like is she a creative? I've been trying to sing my whole life. This is what got me viral, but this is what I'm doing now.
Speaker 2:I am curious about that because I want to see, like even, what her family life was and to see how it benefited her family. Sure right.
Speaker 1:That would be interesting to turn around.
Speaker 2:Hey, I want to talk about you man. So we? I mean, like I said, the last time we were having a conversation, you know you were doing stand-up. We had just talked about. We were talking about, we need to talk about America. That's what you were on.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it was on Fuse TV. Yeah, wow. Now you have your show man Roots of Comedy on PBS. Yeah, I got to ask you how did that concept come about?
Speaker 1:Wow, I was working. We started working on it in 2020. Can you believe?
Speaker 2:it, wow, and we recorded it last year. So during the pandemic you guys were sitting there writing that up.
Speaker 1:Right before everything closed down we were working it out, and then it went into Zoom stuff. We were trying to work it out and there was nothing else to do, so I couldn't get on stage, I couldn't do anything. So we just kind of chipped at it, but it took a very long time and we didn't film this show until, Actually, we were still filming last year, this time the last episode that's crazy, yeah. And then so we finished filming it like second to third week of August and now it came out two months ago.
Speaker 2:It's really good. It's funny because I wasn't paying attention to all the shows that were taking place because we've been planning so much. My mother reached out to me Not that I'm saying your show is old.
Speaker 1:She watches PBS, pbs is cool.
Speaker 2:My mother reached out to me. She's like, by the way, you know, the gentleman that you had interviewed a couple years back. I'm looking at a show right now called the Roots of Comedy. It's an excellent show. I love the way he runs the entire show and it's really entertaining and so, yeah, so you have like the number one fan because she watched all the episodes.
Speaker 1:Give her a big round of applause. For me, that's very sweet.
Speaker 2:And then I watched it and I was like, wow, this is really cool the way that you guys dig into it. How did you guys choose the comedians who were going to be on that?
Speaker 1:That was very hard, man. That was very hard because we only had six episodes.
Speaker 4:Who do you highlight? Six episodes, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, six episodes docu-series. So it's like who do you highlight?
Speaker 4:Docu-series.
Speaker 1:It's tough because there's so many comics that I'm friends with and a lot that were like friendly on social media, who I love their work, so it was like trying to find like a diverse group of comics that you know uh, showcase their community in a in a great light and also are doing a lot of great work. You know, it's like the premise of the show is like how every joke traces back to community and I thought that was really cool to be able to. I mean, we were in Portland, we were in Denver, we were in Navajo Reservation in Chimney, arizona. We were here in LA, we went to Laredo, texas. It was very special. It was really cool to hang out Like Tatanka Means is not somebody who I knew before. We were friendly on social media.
Speaker 1:I went to go and really soak in. I had never been on a reservation before to have that experience. Actually, we were there Fourth of July weekend, so that was a very complex visit. He was very welcoming, his family was very welcoming. The town was very welcoming. His family was very welcoming, the town was very welcoming and we learned so much. We got to hear so many stories and we got to showcase Tatanka but that was every episode. But really cool, it was a great experience, for sure.
Speaker 2:What was there like PBS? How did you guys end up getting PBS to pick that up?
Speaker 1:I was already working with PBS that we're working on a show. They had done a version of this before and they were trying to like kick started again and we were kind of tinkering with the idea of like what, what could it be? You know, and you know PBS was on board from the get-go and it took a long time. You know there was a lot of fundraising that needed to happen. There was a lot of, you know, working out the pitch deck to make sure that all the ideas were fleshed out and getting the right comedians behind it. And you know we got an amazing director. We got an amazing director of photography. You know, getting all the pieces in place was a lot of work and it was really cool. You know it was my first executive produced project like that, you know, and that was like a big blessing for sure.
Speaker 2:Are you still doing? What was it the tacos?
Speaker 1:Tacos con todos, no more yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's done. We never got to do it.
Speaker 1:I know you heard it here first. So there were some like it was our first week feast, we only did three seasons and that was kind of the end of it. You know we did three seasons and then you know it's like you know there were like companies merged with BuzzFeed. It was like kind of complex, but yeah, it was good, we did it for three seasons and then you know, that was it, and the skills that I learned there definitely helped me with, you know, roots of Comedy. I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2:Is that something that you're going to? Because it was kind of cool. It was kind of like the Anthony.
Speaker 4:Bourdain for comedy.
Speaker 2:Oh thank you so much Thank you. That's very sweet.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of responsibility and a lot of work. I mean I was it was a big team. It's like like it's all a team environment, all teamwork, and it's like it's hard. It's hard to do, it's hard to do to move a project along and make sure it's great. Everyone has notes for the project, you know, because you want the project to be the best it could be, so everyone's, you know, kind of throwing in what they think would help elevate the project. And you know I had my pitches and some of them didn't go in and that's okay. You know, at the end of the day, our priority was to showcase these comedians and make them um, yeah, make them look good on camera, so so people can follow their careers and support them.
Speaker 3:That was our priority where can people watch it if they want to go you can see.
Speaker 1:See it for free on the PBS app. All six episodes are there. You can even see them on YouTube now under the PBS channel.
Speaker 4:That's where I took a peek of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, cool, cool, yeah On.
Speaker 4:YouTube that's where.
Speaker 2:I watched them because my mom was telling me about them, and then I caught some of the episodes on PBS and then the other ones.
Speaker 1:Nice, yeah, so you can check it out there. But they really made it really accessible for people to check it out. I think that's PBS's whole thing, you know make it accessible.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the thing about PBS. I don't know about you guys, but I grew up with PBS because I didn't have cable. You know, Arthur and like.
Speaker 2:It was our Channel 13 in New York.
Speaker 3:And I didn't have the privilege of having cable, you know, so I didn't have Nickelodeon and like Disney Channel. But I remember every day after school running home to watch PBS right.
Speaker 1:A hundred percent. Do you remember Wishbone?
Speaker 3:Yes, oh my God, oh man, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Do you remember the grocery store show that they had?
Speaker 2:It was like you shop for for a certain amount of things. Whatever's in your car had to add up to a certain amount.
Speaker 1:I remember that, and Sesame Street, of course has such a big part of most people's upbringing here in the States?
Speaker 3:Was Bill the science guy on there too, bill Nye, no, I think.
Speaker 2:Bill Nye was on Nickelodeon.
Speaker 1:I remember seeing Bill Nye. I can't remember if he was on PBS.
Speaker 3:I think he was on PBS.
Speaker 1:Was he? Did you grow up out here in LA? Yeah, technically OCLA yeah, was it Channel 13? Yeah, yeah, I think it was like the UPN, it's like that's where, who knows? But I do remember Bill Nye was there. Do you guys remember the Eyewitness, Like the kind of documentary nature documentaries. I think they were called Eyewitness. What's the other one? Oh, Bob Ross, seeing him paint.
Speaker 3:Aw, yeah, I remember that, yeah. I'm sitting there trying to paint they have all the colors, so I'm like I'm trying to think of more cartoons. What were other ones that were on there?
Speaker 1:Oh, Puzzle Place.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That was a puppet show. You guys remember that. No Puzzle Place, whatever there was.
Speaker 4:I was born in Panama, raised in Panama.
Speaker 3:You didn't watch PBS.
Speaker 4:By the time I got here yeah, sesame Street. Sesame Street, yeah, but the thing is that this is what happened Panama, because we had the Southern Command, the American administration, so Channel 7 will serve as one of the only English channels in Panama. So I will. Actually that was my Saturday morning. That's how I used to see Sesame Street, inspector Gadget all those shows in English.
Speaker 1:Speaking of Sesame Street, I just found this out recently. Do you know that Sesame Street has a different Big Bird?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:For the different languages.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I didn't know that there's a.
Speaker 1:I just saw this, you're right, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, so Plaza Sesamo, which is a Mexican version, is very different than the French one, so Big Bird is completely different.
Speaker 3:Different in how he looks. Yeah, it's a different character, it's a different character. Nice I literally just recently learned that.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've noticed that, but I remember Plazaésamo, plaza, sésamo, and it was like orange and green and of course Big Burfer was completely yellow with orange socks or whatever that was Wow. Crazy.
Speaker 3:But going into your books, congratulations, thank you. I feel like I love the cover as soon as I saw them, and the names of the books really made me feel like, kind of like it resonated with me because my mom loves her plants. Really made me feel like kind of like it resonated with me because my mom loves her plants, you know. And, and our parents, like they obviously like papas magica um, what is it? Papa's magical water jug clock. Like I don't even have to read it and I already feel like I know what it's gonna be about.
Speaker 1:So tell us a little bit about your books so these books are like something I've tried to do for a long time and I I think that the first question people always ask me is like, why a kid's book? Right? And I think like it took me a while to really put into words what it is. But and now what I say is like I always wanted to see myself in a book and I never did. And uh, the books that I read growing up here I'm born here in long beach.
Speaker 1:My parents are from mexico, like the books never had parents that looked like my parents, talked like they did or had jobs like they did. So you know, seeing that my parents, I mean barely knew how to read and write in their own language, you know they had very little schooling. Between the both of them, it's like for them to see themselves in a book, I thought was like the biggest way for me to pay homage to them. And you know the American dream kind of thing, you know. But it was just such a big deal. I've been trying to pitch books for a long time and it never hit. And you know they finally did and I pitched these two first, so it was part of a deal, yeah, and so they decided to publish this one first, and this one is based on my upbringing working with my dad. My dad was a landscaper, oh wow. So I used to mow lawns from a very young age. You know I did it for a very long time.
Speaker 1:Through college I was even when I did comedy for a few years or some overlap there you know, I was a family business, so this book is based on an inside joke that my dad had, because he used to tell me that he was able to tell time based on how much water was in the jug and I used to think that was like the most amazing thing ever. He goes. You know how I know it's time to go home. When the water is gone, I'm like great.
Speaker 3:So, whenever.
Speaker 4:I wanted to go home early.
Speaker 1:I used to like waste water To see like oh, and that became the basis.
Speaker 4:I love that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like you were shading that, that's crazy, yeah, and the message here is time and water are precious. They shouldn't be wasted. So that was the basis of it, and we got to work with an amazing Latina illustrator out of Austin, eliza Kinks, and she's a Tejana Mexican-American just super talent, I mean, it's like I love her work and the Spanish version was translated by my wife, adria Marquez, and you know you can see her name here on the new one. It wasn't on the cover of this one, but you can see it in the back and I don't know. It was just cool to work with my wife in that capacity and work with an amazing, you know, latina illustrator. And my, my editor was amazing too. She was, you know, italian woman, just a genius of a woman. Shout out to Maria Russo.
Speaker 3:And yeah, now and this one hasn't came out yet, or no, right September 10th, okay.
Speaker 1:And this one's based on my mom's love for plantitas, you know, basically looking for a big brother to help her raise her plantitas. You know, and that's the story of my upbringing, you know, I would help my mom take care of these plants, but little did I know. It's like that's how she raised me, you know.
Speaker 4:You were her only child, right? Only child, yeah, Only child. I got you.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's what I say.
Speaker 3:When I saw the cover and the name of it. I was like that's my mom too. My mom has way too many plants and they were dying recently when she went through surgery. But because my mom talks to her plants and she has a whole relationship with them and she says they feel you know they do I've never understood that until now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a part in the book where it's like I'm trying to cheer up one of the plants. That seems to be, you know, kind of feeling down and it's like everything that I know works for me, but it's stuff that my mom told me. It's like let's play catch, let's sing songs, let's dance, you know how. About a haircut? You know I'm trying to cut the, you know the leaves. So it's. I realize that those are all skills that my mom taught me and I'm trying to take care of her plants. And then, you know, I break one of the plants or whatever. But the lesson here is that sometimes you know you've got to break things and sometimes things do break, but it's what allows us to get repotted and go into a bigger pot and be able to grow.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's deep. That is deep and I love it.
Speaker 4:But I'm like well you brought me back. My grandmother used to love a lot of plants too as well.
Speaker 1:What kind of plants did she have?
Speaker 4:She had the snake plants. She had begonias, pitonias, you name it. It was a lot At first. I was, like you know, at the time I was a teenager and I was like this patio looks like a jungle with so many plants. But then I realized because she told me also plants, you know clear, because you told me also plants, you know clear. The air, there's a natural air filter and many other properties that they have.
Speaker 1:How was?
Speaker 4:this project, you know working you said you mentioned, you're working with your wife.
Speaker 1:You got recently married. Yeah, how is that going? It's going great. I mean, I'm so happy. It's like my homie was like how do you know?
Speaker 4:you know she's the one, the one I said I still suck at my stomach when she walks in the room. Do you consider yourself also a late bloomer? Because you took your time, you know?
Speaker 1:oh, you think I'm a late bloomer. I thought it happened quick wait, how old are you? Uh, 40, that's not a late bloomer. No, actually I don't know why I said 40. I'm 38 actually I'm about to I feel 40 I feel 40 that's so funny.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I, but you've been with her for a while, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been with her for a while and you know we got engaged in New Year's and then we got married April 29th.
Speaker 2:You know, Gracias.
Speaker 1:And we're still going to do the church wedding next year.
Speaker 4:So we're doing the whole thing.
Speaker 1:So we just kind of eloped-ish, you know kind of thing, so we're doing the whole thing. So we just kind of eloped-ish, you know kind of thing.
Speaker 4:So we just did the thing.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's great. It's great to be able to work with my wife in that capacity. I thought that she brought so much to the project. Because we're all Latinos here, we know how complex the language can be and sometimes I found that the initial translation was good. But it's like you know, you got to put the twang on it.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of regionalisms and stuff like that, because I am Mexican American and I grew up here on the west coast in LA there's a specificity that goes along with it that as soon as you read it, like, oh, this is Mexican, american or LA Spanish, so I wanted that to be authentic to it, and I think she, like, did an amazing job consulting on the translation, and so that was cool. And then working with Eliza was great. I had no idea that authors and illustrators don't meet in the process until after the fact.
Speaker 4:Oh really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they don't like they want you to have notes go through the right chain, oh man, going to the editor and this kind of thing. So we met after the fact, after this book, and then we became best buds and we were definitely in communication through this one. We still followed the the proper channels, but it was really cool to see a friendship strengthened between this book and that book and, um, yeah, I'm, I'm very lucky to work with the team that I have it's. It's been a blessing. Like I can't, I can't wait to write more books. So hopefully people can go out and get a September 10th. I'll be out.
Speaker 2:That's very cool. Like I have one question on on the like when did I know that Comedians write? You write notes for your jokes and stuff, but when did you decide, like I want to make books Right?
Speaker 1:Since I was a kid, I mean, that was up there I wanted to have. So when I, all I ever wanted to do is have comedy specials and be able to write books, and I'm like, if I could do that, I think I'll be very, very happy. And I'm on this journey, I get to do it now. It's like man, it's like I hope to do it until, like, I'm a viejito, I mean.
Speaker 2:So you gave yourself 40.
Speaker 1:40. I don't know why I said that I'm still thinking about it Mentally, you're done.
Speaker 3:That's it, no, the fact that Yobi said you're a late bloomer. I was like excuse me.
Speaker 2:Oh, she would be great.
Speaker 4:But what is a late bloomer? Oh, I'm listening. Make that the real thing.
Speaker 3:There is no such thing as a late bloomer. If anything, I think there's better chances for you to have a more successful marriage the older you are when you get married. That's my opinion, because you're more like I, feel like mature and you know what you want, rather than like marrying very early on.
Speaker 1:We do see people that get married young and that works for them.
Speaker 3:But sometimes it works too. You never know, let's just face it.
Speaker 2:I think what she was saying is we're Latinos.
Speaker 3:We're Latinos. She's like if you don't have a kid by 21,.
Speaker 4:I don't know what the hell is going on in life. The premises of Latino standards is pretty young. Well, I'm already ancient then?
Speaker 3:because I have no kids In Latino America. Forget about that. Everybody's getting married the minute they pop out. The minute they pop out you're arranged.
Speaker 2:You're like, yeah, fulanito just gave birth to Fulanita and now they're going to. That's how we go about it, so you're back on tour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to start going back on the road this month. Actually, yes, I was starting in Connecticut and just moving around. So, yeah, I'm back on the road. I'm excited to get to start working on this new hour. I had the second hour come out last year in October and you know I got to go on the Tonight Show and promote it. It was really cool, especially for a self-produced special. You know I self-produced it and launched it and I was able to go on there and talk about it. So I'm like cool, now I want to do another one, I other one, I I definitely want to self-produce this next one. If somebody comes knocking, believe me, I mean I would love to sit down and talk but, as you know, you know we have our eyes set on on uh, yeah, starting to work.
Speaker 3:Uh on the special now and maybe top of next year. Any shows in la? I would love to attend one oh my god.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you guys are invited. So I usually perform here at the comedy store in hollywood. I'm there most nights if I'm not on the road. We know our schedules as of Tuesday. So as of Tuesday, they put up all the spots that the comedians are gonna do during the week in the Comedy Club. But, yes, I would love for you all to come down. We'll grab a drink and yeah, yeah we're definitely on the way.
Speaker 4:How you decided the style of your comedy. How you decided the style of your comedy. You know how you decided the style of your comedy very observational, but very you know when you because there's different styles of comedy how you determined that you. This is the way that I wanted to do.
Speaker 1:I think I think the just trusting. I think I don't think it was an active decision of like I'm gonna be an observational comic or a crowd work like, of like I'm going to be an observational comic or or a crowd work on like any of that. I I think it just, you know you go with. Look at the yama. Yeah, I mean it's like my observations, my lived experience. I like storytelling at the most. I like telling the story and being able to fill punch lines in it and and hold the audience like hold the audience attention on on a single story like um, yeah, I really enjoy. I like to make up silly stories and that kind of thing too, like uh, the closer for the last special was this story about a air fryer with chicken wings in it and it felt so amazing that's the thing that I was like.
Speaker 4:Looking at your content, I was like, oh, you decided also to keep it clean, because you also you know that those are layers of comedy.
Speaker 1:I tried to. Yeah, I tried to. I feel like there would be more opportunities if you work clean. So I that that was a decision that I I was like I'm going to try to work clean and there's certain premises that, like I won't take on, certain ideas that I just won't talk is like you know, it's like, um, you limit your you limit your comedy?
Speaker 2:no, yeah, you limit your comedy. And I read the comedy but you limit the, the spaces your comedy can be seen.
Speaker 1:You limit your comedy, but it it, at least to a certain extent, ensures that I will be in certain spaces. You know it's like and I while working clean that my comedy might not be for everybody.
Speaker 2:That's comedy, it's subjective. You know lo que le gusta a uno no le gusta a lo otro, and that's great, but lo que le?
Speaker 1:gusta a la mayoría works out really well yeah 100%? I'm still trying to figure that out. La mayoría, you know, it's like.
Speaker 2:I do what I like and you know it makes me happy yeah why not? You obviously want to be in the majority because obviously you'll go mainstream, but at the same time you want to be yeah, you want to have fun.
Speaker 1:I think at the end of the day, it's like life is so. I've learned this in the last few years Life can be so tough. It's like y todo el tiempo va a haber this or that. It's like why got a chance to do that?
Speaker 2:taga, you know you're like man, I had fun, I did what I wanted to do, you know. All right. So we got one more thing to do before we take off. Sure, but we asked chat dbt the top 10 latino songs of the 2000s. You're a 2000s person, right, like everybody here for the most part is a 2000s person I just wanted to make sure, so there you go Now that we know he's 40.
Speaker 3:I'm like 91. I'm like 91.
Speaker 2:91. 91.
Speaker 3:Okay, so you were still there.
Speaker 2:I'm ancient, according to this, I should be on my third kid by now.
Speaker 3:Listen, it's laughing standards.
Speaker 4:I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3:It's laughing standards, All right give us the songs.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go through all these, let me know what you guys think and let me know if it's right. So the top 10. Now, this is according to ChatGBT. We didn't ask you know Latinos, we thought you know, just throw it in there. So number 10. Oye me encantó, which is Nore Nina.
Speaker 4:Sky.
Speaker 2:Danny.
Speaker 3:Yanko, oye Me Canto. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:I said that completely wrong, because I read that Oye Me Canto, oye Me Canto. Oye Me Canto. Yeah, hope that in Spanish worked for me.
Speaker 1:Chad GPT said it that way. Chad GPT said that.
Speaker 2:I just copied it the way it said it yeah, didn't even add the accent, so it was just like I don't know why I added that to that mark anthony they played that one so many times.
Speaker 4:Number nine yeah, that was overplayed, but but I mean it's, it's saying it's, there's a slight um intersectionality between that, that song, that when he was with j-lo, and all of that it always goes back to j-lo yeah, it always. It's about j-lo and we're just living in her world.
Speaker 3:We're just living in her world at this point, and all of that it always goes back to JLo. Yeah, it always 60 Degrees of Separation. It's about JLo and we're just living in her world. We're just living in her world at this point.
Speaker 2:And the Hot Tua Girl, yeah, baila Morena.
Speaker 3:Baila, morena Baila.
Speaker 2:Morena, hector and Tito featuring Don Omar. That's number eight. That's number which I have this song in my car. I love this song, danza Cuduro.
Speaker 4:Danza Cuduro. I think it's a Zumba Cuduro, cuduro, danza Cuduro. Danza Cuduro is a Zumba.
Speaker 3:Cuduro yeah, it's Zumba.
Speaker 2:No, there's definitely Brazilian in there. Well, it's Zumba.
Speaker 3:La mano arriba.
Speaker 4:That's a he's definitely a Dile Don Omar.
Speaker 2:Wow, Don Omar is a lot of 2000s. He was a 2000s.
Speaker 4:Don Omar is actually in tour, I think the early 2000s were really like stamp vibes Reggaeton.
Speaker 3:Reggaeton, yeah, like the big burst of like.
Speaker 1:Looney.
Speaker 2:Tunes and Bachata Right Looney.
Speaker 1:Tunes. Yeah, those were there, that's true.
Speaker 2:Which goes into the next one, obsession Obs, aventura, aventura.
Speaker 3:Aventura was the 2000s. Yeah, that was the original Ozuna.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like Ozuna really reminds me of Aventura really. Yeah, ozuna, yeah, in writing style yeah, different sound, but writing is like that's the same.
Speaker 2:I could see that right, yeah yeah, alright, number four Adios Le Pido by. Juanes Juanes that's a beautiful song, adios Lepido and then I'm shocked that this made the list, but I mean, it was so big. Number three is Hips. Don't Lie with Shakira and Wyclef that was a big song that collaboration was really big and then she takes number two, la Tortura.
Speaker 3:Shakira with Alejandro.
Speaker 2:Sanz and then number one. I'll give you guys a guess who's number one in the 2000s.
Speaker 1:Try to guess, Ooh, number one Happy Birthday song.
Speaker 2:No, I'm playing the number one song in the entire planet Ever Number one song.
Speaker 1:I would say Gasolina. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3:It made me think of, like the Grand Agaton area. That was everybody's song. That's everybody's favorite song now.
Speaker 2:It's still going all over the place.
Speaker 3:One thing I will say where is? We See Me, Yandel, no 20.
Speaker 2:I don't know that was missing. I think there was quite a few songs. There was quite a few songs on here, and then it was huge.
Speaker 4:Yes, that's when he was 20 years old.
Speaker 2:That's why I was shocked that they gave me two Shakiras, because I feel like La Tortura was not and they gave you two Don Omar's.
Speaker 3:Maybe they should have. What if you?
Speaker 1:ask it to like. Give me Like ask it again and see, gave you the same list.
Speaker 2:It's based off of popularity both in the charts and then popularity in public and apparently these were the songs that hit both really wow. I was shocked because I was like sometimes it's subjective, like when we had the chat GBT one with the with the top favorite shows of the 1980s. You know Italy that changed a couple of times and I went with the one that was the most consistent. This one didn't. It went through all that, so you guessed the number one if this is true, what else is true in that era?
Speaker 1:it had to be Gasolina because that was like at the time he was the bad bunny of the time it was nothing bigger any country that you visited during that time. You're going to hear Daddy Yankee Gasolina. At the time he was the bad bunny of the time.
Speaker 2:It was nothing bigger Any country that you visited during that time. You're going to hear Daddy Yankee Gasolina Very cool. Yeah, interesting. All right, brother. Well, I mean this was amazing.
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