Club Shay Shay - Club Shay Shay - Ralph Barbosa Part 1

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

On this episode of Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe sits down with rising stand-up sensation Ralph Barbosa — the chill king of comedy with a dry wit and a Netflix special to prove it.Ralph opens up about the moment he got the call about his Hulu special, how bad he is at acting, and his hilarious (and very real) reaction to finding out Dallas traded Luka. Raised by his grandparents, he explains why they were the best parents for him and shares memories of spending summers in Mexico, moving between different family members, and growing up as an only child — until more siblings came into the picture.He keeps it honest about his dating life, why he’s not trying to get married, and what it was like watching his mom date when he was younger. From spinning the block on exes to red flags in relationships, Ralph isn’t holding back.In school, Ralph was cutting more than class — he was cutting hair, learning how to be a barber (and messing up a few heads along the way), fighting friends in the restroom between periods, and discovering the strange difference between barber licenses and gun licenses in Texas.He also talks about his stand-up grind — from getting booed at his first open mic to performing at a gentleman’s club, and eventually selling out Chicago.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to another episode of Club Shethe. I am your host, Shannon Sharper. I'm also the propriet of Club Shay Shay. Stopping by for conversation on the drink today, he's a rising star, one of the best young comedians working right now. He was nominated as one of Variety's 10 best comics to watch.

People of all agents love his down-to-earth humor. Some say he's the funniest comedian in Texas. Writer, entertainer, headlining, across the country, internet sensation, here he is, Ralph Barbosa. How you doing, Jason? Yeah. How was that intro? You like that intro?

Did I do you right? Mr. Shannon, that is a good intro. Did I leave off anything? Nah, I think it might be a little overhyped. Let me ask you a question. When you hear me reading off of the accolades that you've earned, what goes through your mind? I need to get to work. You need to do more work.

Yeah, anytime somebody says something nice about me, it kind of motivates me to just make sure I can live up to it. Can I say something real quick? We're rolling, right? Yeah, we're absolutely. I just want to say, yes, I'm wearing my grills right now. Yeah. But I'm doing it as a promotion for my buddy Ken. Ken Flores was the first comedian to wear grills on stage and in his special, and it's streaming on Hulu.

May he long-lived Ken Flores. Okay. He passed away recently, but he lives forever on YouTube, on Hulu. Look him up on Hulu, all right, Ken Flores. That's what I was about to ask you, your Hulu special. Tell us a little bit about it. Uh, yeah, Hulu made an offer, and I liked it a lot. So, the Hulu made your offers, is that how you got the grill or you had the grill first?

Nah, the offer came first. We had to tape the special to get the grill. Okay, you taped the special to get the grill, okay? Yeah, now, Hulu, they, you know, they had this big plan because they didn't produce their own comedy specials at first. Right. So they reached out to so many comedians to get them. like on board and uh this was the first year they do it so it's like one comedian uh releases their special like each month so august is my month my special release is august eight and uh

you excited much promo yeah i'm excited i'm nervous i'm anxious i'm i'm everything so when when hulu said you know what they reached out to your representative is like man we really want ralph to do a special when you got the call from your agent what's going through your mind and you Like, did you have an idea of kind of where you wanted to go? So I just want to know when he picks up the call. It's like, hey, Ralph, I got a call from Hulu. Hulu want you to do a special. They're doing this thing where they're going to have a comedian do a special each month.

In one of the month, they want Ralph to do it. Well, at first, I'm like, Hulu. They don't do no specials then. Right. But, I mean, it seemed worth the risk. I had had an appearance on HBO already. I had, I had, you know, YouTube sets go viral. I had my Netflix appearance already

I was like we might as well go for another you know what I mean so yeah and I mean they they had like a good plan like they told us what their plan was and I didn't feel like we could go wrong

then they showed me the list of other comedians that also signed up and I was like well they're doing the hell yeah let's go I'm down yeah they're jumping off a bridge let's jump let me ask you this because I'm not a a comedian, you know, history or anything like that.

But you mentioned Ken Flores. George Lopez is another famous Hispanic comedian that, I mean, who did you draw inspiration from when you were growing up? Did you always want to be a comedian? Yeah, I always wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to be a comedic actor, though. Okay. Yeah, I wanted to be like Adam.

Or I wanted to be like on skits. Like I really like, you know, Chappelle Show skits, Saturday Night Live skits. So I went to an actor. acting class because I read online that Adam Sandler did acting school. Yeah. So I went to one at a community college. I couldn't go to the one he went to. And I was horrible at it.

My acting teacher was like, like, why do you know, why do you want to do this with her? I mean, he was like supportive and everything, but I told him I just wanted to be like a funny actor. And he told me that a lot of the funny actors, they do other types of comedy too, like improv and stand-ups. He told me about like open mics and a bomb really bad. I also got, like, obsessed with it right off the back. So I was like, man, I'm just stick to that. I didn't go back to the acting class. Say that open mics.

Right. You're from Dallas. Yes, sir. Does that mean you a Cowboys fan? I mean, like, yeah, by default. I don't watch a lot of football, but I'm a Cowboys fan. You Cowboys, that's where I'm from, man. So y'all, y'all, you're out, so, Super Bowl this year.

Yeah, every year's our year. Yeah, I know. But it ain't been y'all year for a minute, though. It's been 30 years. Were you a lot? We're about, dude. I was just about to ask you, were you alive when the Cowboys won the last Super Bowl? I almost feel like their bad luck charm.

They start winning after I was born. Don't laugh at me. What about the Maverick? Are you a Mavericks fan? Yeah, I'm a Mavericks fan. Okay, you're a Mavericks fan. You find out the trading Luca will go through your mind. A bunch of cuss words.

A bunch of bad stuff about the new owner. and tears because he didn't even want to go it's like when your mom has like a new boyfriend and you like him a lot but then she dumps him or like she cheats on him like bro we finally had one

yeah we had what he he wanted to be here yeah he wanted to be yeah you ran him off and now and it's words because I don't like the Lakers it's like of all the people the Lakers it's horrible that's like if your chick starts banging your worst enemy like that just hurt and then Lakers fans are all sporting him now yeah but but you know you know L.A. they got a big they got a big community man

because I mean you should like that they got a big Hispanic community y'all got something to bond like when you had Luca now they got Luca I love that L.A. has a big Hispanic community and I love L.A. Yeah. But you know what and I don't know I'm going to get a lot of hate over this teams wise I don't like the Lakers. Why you don't like the Lakers? I like the Celtics. I want to infiltrate the cities that have a smaller Hispanic population. I want all the Mexicans to move to Boston.

That's a long commute, bro. Okay, but think about it like this, Mexicans who are going to cross, you know, maybe you're planning to cross tomorrow. The further you go up north, the harder it is for them to catch you, maybe. That being said, look, I'm going to show you, this is my automotive channel. Okay. We got these shirts available online if y'all want one. What did they say?

Let me see. What is it? Oh, wait. Where? Stay right here? Can you see it? Okay. They can't deport us if they can't catch us.

Yeah. Damn. That's our automotive channel. It's called Formula Bean. Let me ask you a question. What happens if they actually catch one of y'all and they somebody got that shirt on on camera when ICE has you guys in handcuffs? I don't go work out for you.

I don't think you're going to sell them more shirts. We go down even more popular. It's better to go down on camera, you know. Oh, my goodness. Let me ask you, okay. Luca goes to the Lakers. What if LeBron went to the Mavericks? I mean, I'd want to just to get even.

But I don't even think a lot of L.A. fans would even care. They'd be like, so what? We got Luca, like, his younger. Yeah, true. I don't know how much longer. So you're spiteful. You're vengeful. You're vindictive.

If I wasn't vindictive, I wouldn't have a career right now. I'm still, every time I'm getting on stage, I still think about open micers from 10 years ago that pissed me off. What happened open mic 10 years ago? Oh, just people who like, maybe other comedians who booed me or something. Other comedians would boo? Yeah, my first time on stage, I got booed by other open micers. Come on, bro.

I thought y'all supposed to support each other. For the most part, we do, but it was like my first open mic ever. signed up was like at 5 p.m. Mike starts at 8 p.m. By the time I go up, it's like one in the morning. There's like, there's the host, the guy who's hosting the mic, and then there's like another local comic, open mic, and then his buddy were there.

And so he was just on after me, but he was drunk at that point. So by time I get up there and I just start talking, he's like, get the fuck off. So I was like, all right, then my time. So you cut your set short? Yeah. I mean, open mic, what do you get? five minutes, ten minutes, maybe?

At 1 a.m., you get three minutes. Three minutes. So you could, hold on, you only had three minutes, and he got up there, he was already, you know, a little inebriated. I got about a minute, 15, minute, 20. And you cut your own, you cut your own set short. My first, like, year of comedy, anytime anybody would yell, I would get off stage.

I would get nervous. Damn. But, you know, it's like repetition. Now I'm on stage so much that if people talk to me, like, I'm more comfortable. I'm way more comfortable than anybody in the audience. right the stage like it don't matter what stage it is any stage and I think any comic will agree after you do it so many times the stage is like your house right

how are you gonna talk shit to me in my house right so it's fun now you know what I like about you Ralph is that because every most of the comedians that I had up here oh they've never been booed they started off and they were already at the level they are now they almost like it seemed make it seem like they started off at that level and you were here because they man when I went to over mic man I got booed there wasn't but ten four people in the house and one of them was supposed to come on after Me and he booed me. Every comedian is lying.

Every comedian is lying. I don't care who you are. Your first year is trashed. Yeah. And maybe it wasn't as trash as mine or as the next comedian, but... But you had to be a star from somewhere. Yeah. If you were that funny in your first year of comedy,

you would have already been touring in your first year of comedy. You would have something would have popped off. Right. What was it like growing up in Dallas? I technically grew up in Mesquite, which is like a suburb of Dallas. Okay. And I spend a lot of my weekends in Oak Cliff, which is like a hood. of Dallas. Okay. But it was like in Oak Cliff, they make fun of me for being in

Mesquite. Okay. Yeah, because, you know, mesquite was kind of, for people that were actually from the hood, Mesquit was like a nice neighborhood. Right. But to white people, Muskeet was still trash. So I felt like I couldn't win. So being in the mesquite, if you're like, it's a nice area if you're there. But if you're not from Mesquite, they're like, where are you from? Oh, ooh. I don't know how I explain it. And then I'm like a block away from Dallas, like to, from the county line. There's no difference. Like, there's not a big difference. But because I was a block away, if Dallas people would hear me claim Dallas, they'd be like, you're not from here.

Yeah. You're from across the street. You're from the street. But then I got on Netflix and everybody was like, you know he's from Dallas, right? So once you started popping, then they wanted to claim you. Yeah. County lines didn't matter no more. Right.

I read your grandmother raised you. My grandmother raised me. What would, I mean, I don't know your situation with your mom, but what was that experience like with grandma? Because grandmas are normally a little bit more strict than moms. My grandma was not. From what I hear, my grandma and my grandpa were really strict and tough on my mom and my uncle. But to me, they were like the best parents in the world. Like, then soup, like spoiled me.

My grandma, as soon as school would be out, my grandma would take us down to Mexico. She would drive, like me and my cousin, and sometimes I'll take, like, a friend. And then she would go to, like, because we'd visit. It's like three different cities. We've got family like in three different cities in Mexico. So she would drive to like the further city out to pick up more of my cousins. Damn. And then bring us to the city where she had a house in Mexico.

I mean, you're picking up a lot of people. We're in a single cab pickup truck. Just riding in the bed of the truck through Mexico. Over there, that's cool. Like they don't trip on that. We did that when we were younger, Ralph, but we were working. We were going to the fields. Dang.

Yeah. How old are you? That was a long time ago to the fields. 57. Oh. Yeah. I don't, people still, I mean, I haven't seen, people still riding the bed of a pickup truck? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I live out in the country, so out there, yeah. So you have a pickup truck? Yeah. We got a few. One of them runs.

But yeah, we used to go, we used my grandma. You used to other ones with spare parts. You know, you get, you got, my grandma used to take us to yell at prostitutes in Mexico. What? Yeah. So, like, she would take us to the movies. And it's a border town we'd be at It's called Matamoros So she'd take us over to Brownsville, Texas To go to the movies Right

And then she'd take us back across And it'd be about like 11 p.m. And she'd take us to a park And we'd be out there at the park And then after that she'd take us to Like a little corner store Where they got women in bikinis That serve you like liquor and stuff

Yeah And we weren't buying liquor though We're just buying like chips and sodas Oh, I thought you were talking about buying something else But one time I yelled at one of the The bikini ladies to come so then my grandma started driving around to where there would be like

hookers and stuff and then we'd all just yell like let me get your number and stuff and then she would drive all and she would just laugh I had a great childhood great great it was like that huh

yeah she was fun why do you feel that and I feel this exact same way that grandparents are so instrumental in minority communities I don't know

I think I think I think within minority communities, and I'm not trying to, like, disrespect white people, maybe it's not a... Because we can only speak to what we know. Yeah, maybe it's not a color thing. Maybe it's like a money thing, but I think that when you have less,

you cherish your family more. So I think maybe, like, the grandparents get a lot wiser in minority communities. I think in minority communities, Our grandparents were the first to realize that if you raise your kids, right, you can spoil your grandkids. But if you spoil your kids, you end up raising your grandkids. Correct. So I think my grandma knew, like, all right, well, I got to raise them now.

But at the same time, like, he ain't my kids, I can spoil them. Because if you get bad, I sit him back to his mom and dad. Yeah. Oh, man. Let me ask you this. You said your girlfriend, parents, never argued in front of her. My ex-girlfriend. Your ex-girlfriend.

Yeah. But your parents, like, they could, what they're like, okay, he's around now, let's go. I think sometimes my grandpa would argue with my grandma in front of me on purpose. Why? I think he would do it to be like, look, this is what you need to be like, or something. He wanted to show you he was the man.

And then my grandma would do it because she'll be like, look, this is what you don't need to be like. I would just ignore them. But it's hard to ignore them because, like, my room was right in front of the living room. Right. So, like, I hear everything. Right. what was some of the things they would argue about you coming in late you know maybe some bills

didn't pay paid maybe this or that my grandpa as he got older started i think losing his uh his authority and um so like he used to be the type to i mean he was always the type to tell my grandma like where you at you need to be home at this time right i need my dinner i need this whatever right but as i started getting older i was like a teenager my grandma was would meet up with all her old lady friends from the neighborhood and from down the street or whatever and play a, you're played Loteria. It's like Mexican bingo, but instead of numbers, it's like little pictures. Okay.

And her and her friends will play until like two, three in the morning. What? They'll take little cigarette breaks and they'll go back, and they're gambling, like, little dollar games, two dollar games. And so my grandpa would be mad. He would be calling her and calling her and blowing up her phone, like, she needs to come home. And one day, she just like, stop. She was just like, man, okay. So they would argue about that sometimes, like, she'll get home and he'll be mad,

or the next day he'll be mad telling her, like, you can't be doing that. But she was like, man, I don't give a damn no more. I tell you, is it true that you would get in trouble at school? The teachers would call home, call your house, and then you would translate for your grandmother what they would say in Spanish, which actually wasn't what they were saying. That really only happened like one time, but every couple times that I would. have to translate anything like even if i was in trouble my grandma would assume that i was in trouble but she also wouldn't really care right my mom my mom lived with us too my mom just

move out sometimes and then come back and stuff my mom when she when she was living with us she would be the one to be more mad about like if i got in trouble right so my grandma would tell me like if you're in trouble just call my phone like because she wouldn't understand the menu where she'd be like oh okay like we'll talk about it and then like just whatever hang up so like she didn't even care. So you, but you translated, you're like, oh yeah, grandma, it was good. They said I got good grades or they said I was well-behaved. But were you

a class clown? Were you always funny? So how did you, how did you stumble upon this comedic side of you? Did you know you always wanted to be a comedian? How did that come about? I knew I knew I wanted to be a comedian but I was only class clown in some classes.

Right. As a kid, I was always nervous about my voice. I I didn't, I was insecure about the way I sounded when I talked. I felt like I sounded goofy, like, in a bad way. Right. I had a friend named Alex, I have a friend named Alex Roses, and he was always really handsome, and he talked real, like, swab.

And I would be like, bro, I want to talk, like, how you talk, like. But when I talk, people don't really take me serious. So what I would do, especially when I got to, like, high school, is on the first couple weeks of school, I would test the waters, and I would try to throw a joke out there. And if they laugh, why I know I could be a class clown in this class? And if they didn't, then I just wouldn't talk. But I didn't like my voice enough to just conversate with anybody.

I also was nervous to talk to people one-on-one-one conversation. So I wouldn't talk unless it was like something goofy to say. But if they weren't really laughing at my drugs, then I just wouldn't talk the whole year in that class. Your grandmother grew up in Mexico. You grew up in Mesquite, close to Dallas, things of that nature. Did you spend a lot of time in Mexico as a child other than just go, you know, your grandmother going, picking your back and forth, and did you spend, like, say, three weeks or a month or anything? Yeah, I'll spend, like, three months over there every summer, like the whole summer over there.

What was that experience like? What is the difference between Mexico and, say, you know, say you spend a little time in Brownsville because that's the border town, Laredo, all that's close down there. So what's it like in Mexico compared to where you was growing up in Mesquite, Dallas? We're from, like, the coast. Our family's near the coast. So it was like... What's the name of that? Tamolipas. Okay. And so we're like at the beach a lot.

I'm going to go to the beach all the time. Okay. So, you know, we're always swimming. It's funer over there. Even like, you know, maybe my cousin's houses weren't as nice as like our house back in the States. Right. You have to use like a house. But it was like, it was funner.

You learned, you learn to, I guess, to get a little humbled. A little town that my cousin is from is called Los Lomas. And it's almost like a kick year. kick your shoes off type of vibe like the whole little town everybody knows everybody it's a dirt road town I could walk barefoot shirtless through the whole town right like you got to move to the side so the herd of cows can walk through yeah it's it's cool man you see the beach right there like I would say the difference is right there you just be more casual whereas over here like if I walk around without a shirt people probably think I'm on drugs or something they do if I'm barefoot and shirt oh you're

sure absolutely so like I don't know how there, it's just, you feel a little more relaxed, I think. What's the difference in cuisine? Because, you know, everybody says, like... It's a lot more diarrhea over there. Because, you know, like, they have, okay, let's just say particularly they have Nigerian, you have, correct, Caribbean, have Jamaican, X, Y, and Z. And you might have that in the States, but people that from those areas says it doesn't

actually taste like it does if it's over there. Do you notice a difference? Like, when you go to Mexico and you have a dish from Mexico? Mexico and then they kick that, cook that same dish over here in the States? Yeah, I mean, I haven't been back since I was a teenager, but I mean, the food is definitely greasier from what I remember. Over there? Over there.

Okay, okay. Then you can get, you can match it over here, but you got to go to like a real hole in the wild spot, you know what I mean, where people don't, people aren't trying to live up to like any standards, yeah. Any standards, like people were just trying to cook it the same way they cooked it when they were back home. Oh, okay. You go to Mexico?

I'm going to take you to Mexico, man. I want to go to the beach. I'm going to take you in Mexico. in a pickup truck. No, no, no, no. We got to go in a sprinter. We got to go on the sprinter, man. Is it true that your grandmother told you that when you came here, look, don't touch nothing?

Just, hey, because I guess she was afraid. Nah, not necessarily. Like, we would see stuff on TV, and, you know, I was, I mean, I was a little kid, but it was like George Bush on TV and a bunch of, like, new stuff, Iraq with her. Right. But she would just. be like like her opinion about every politician was essentially like ah they're crazy like don't worry about that they're crazy but she wouldn't she wouldn't like encourage me to like you need

to vote or like you need to pay attention to this stuff like none of that she was just like maybe maybe once she actually told me like don't even bother voting like they're just all crazy right so that's your the grandmother that raised you that was your mom's mom did your your father's mom How, did you go spend time with her? Every now and then. Yeah. Yeah. But she had a lot of stories.

You sit down near your grandma. I feel like everybody, at least one of your grandma's is like that. When you sit down and she just automatically starts a story that maybe she left off at the last cookout. And you remember to start telling it again? Yeah, she starts telling it again. She starts telling you how she's related to everybody. Like, you know, she starts showing me pictures of like, this is your grandkids. Grandpa's cousin, but I divorced your grandpa like in ADA or his cousin was so nice.

I'm like, why are you showing me this? Right, right. What have that got to do with the conversation, girl? Yeah, so like she was more like that, you know. My grandparents, like I lived with my mom's mom and dad, grandparent. Where did you grow up at? I grew up in South Georgia. Okay.

They raised us. When we got an opportunity to go with my dad's parents, they didn't get an opportunity to see us much. So we got whatever we wanted. We go to the store, we get any kind of cereal we want. We got hamburgers with hamburger buns. We got hot dogs with hot dog buns. We got all kind of stuff. And then we go back like, I remember telling my brother said, man, I show wish we could stay with Grandma Charlie because.

Ooh, it was such a vast difference between the two. Did you notice a difference between grandparents? I grew up great. We always had hot dog buns. Now, no, you get hot dog, you know hot dog would like with. I guess y'all call it white bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, we call it lightning bread.

But yeah. Lightning bread? Yeah. We just call it sandwich bread. Why you call it lightning bread? I don't know. That's just what they call it in the South and so. Lightning bread.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm going to start using that. So let me ask, you, look, you're Hispanic and you see what's, you saw all the Hispanics for Trump. And you saw farmers for Trump. You saw gays for Trump. And then you see what's- Gay people who were supporting him too?

Yeah. That's crazy. Well, some people might say the same thing about, you know, Hispanic because they do it a lot around him. You gays always surprise me. Oh, Lord. I love it, though. When you see what's happening, what goes through your mind?

I think that no matter, like, I mean, hey, support who you want to support. That's like the beauty of this country, right? More power to you. But I think if you like, excuse my language, if you dick right, either side too much, like, you're lame, you're dork. Right. Like, if you're going to go red, like, fine, be red. It's the biggest party of the summer. WWE SummerSlam is here, and wrestling with Freddie is all over it.

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and you swear that, like, Trump is the new Jesus Christ, like, shut the fuck up. You do realize now, if whomever you vote for, and they do something, like, okay, And it's like, he kind of told you, like, what he was going to do. He wanted to have this mass deportations and he wanted to round up so forth to so on. So if you was one of that, you know, Hispanics for Trump and all of a sudden your family member or you get ensnared in that trap, you can't be mad and says, well, why is he doing this? Because he told you that's what he was going to do.

Yeah, I wasn't supporting Trump though. Why are you coming at me like that? No, no, no. Don't clip that up, Shannon. Like, Shannon Sharp goes off on route for voting for Trump. I'm like... Nah, hell, nah. No.

But I'm saying, you know, you see a lot of people now that's like, well, this is not what I voted for. That's exactly what you voted for. Yeah, there is a lot of that. People were like, why is he doing this? Like, why is he doing what he said you're going to do? Yeah, why are you mad because he's doing what he said? I don't like when people come at me or they be in my comments. They're talking about, you know, Obama deported more people.

It was like, probably like 15 when Obama got in my thing. I didn't vote for Obama either. Right. No, for nobody. Do you know anyone that's been deported? Yeah, my uncle, but he's back. Right. But he always gets deported.

But you know, you're not supposed to say that. You know, somebody might watch this and then go get him again. Man, I got like 18 uncles. They don't know which one. They don't know which one. Plus, he's probably hiding somewhere. Yeah, yeah. Help me understand this.

And this is what I tell people. When I was growing up and I became what I became, I said, work a lot of jobs because working a lot of jobs will tell you what you don't want to do when you get older. Because if you, I promise you, when you're young and you're full of energy, you're energetic and you just go, go, go. If you don't want to do those jobs then, you think you're going to want to do them when you're 25, 30, 35, 40, 50? And so the problem that I have is that, okay, we're going to round up these people. But these people, some of these people are doing jobs, I ain't going to lie. A whole lot of America, they ain't going to want to do that manual labor, that field stuff.

that people that people that also that everybody who was like I mean not everybody right but I see a lot of these videos of people at the rallies for Trump and like they're like oh well they need they're in this country legally and a bunch of them are criminals and criminals and criminals but why are they pulling up to job sites and they're looking for criminals?

Yeah yeah yeah and then when they shut down you see a farmer's going bankrupt because a lot of them do farm work construction a lot of them do construction work a lot of them do they're doing work ralph that i promise you they're not a whole lot of americans i'm not saying not every american but there are a lot of americans that don't want to do those jobs yeah also they're getting hired like by people who want them here bro like what the fuck it's not like they just showed up like hey you're going pay me right or kill your family uh you used the ice hotline nah that was a joke i know yeah i don't i got a clarion

clarify this man because even people believe that's true yeah even even like other Hispanic people like I joke like that because it's like bro I'm joking about my own people like with my own people right I mean and and then people want to comment like Ralph is destroying his own people it's like I don't know but you you call on your ex-girlfriend yeah I'll call it on her no you never like this is this is maybe whole advice but you never completely get rid of an ex, man. Why not? You might need that hotline one day.

You might need a shoulder to cry on one day. Hey, how you been? You know, you don't ever do that? Hey, how you, how you been? I've been thinking about you lately. Hold on, are you, are you like, crime, you're trying to get back, or you just, I mean, you're really going through something

that you really need someone to talk to? No, it's booty costs. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're done, you're done, Ralph, you can't be doing that, Bro? Why? What you mean why? You broke up for a reason. Okay, but we could be friends?

No, Ralph. You go her way, you go your way, and allow her to go her way. Allow her to have somebody in her life. Shannon, let me tell you something. When you start dating somebody, even if y'all don't get serious, y'all reach some level of intimacy. Yes. I don't want to go and get intimate with every girl I meet and have to date her.

Sometimes you just hit up an old flame and you watch. some TV together, you Hulu and Chill. Okay, okay, uh, uh, uh, Hulu and Chill. Division in your, in the community, Latin community. Why is there so much division in the Latin community? You call some of it, too. You all them jokes you'd be telling. Yeah, maybe I'll call you a little bit of it.

Maybe I should put a magnifying glass up to it. I don't know, man. It sucks to say, but damn, bro, Mexico. Mexicans, Mexicans be hating on other Mexicans. But see, that's funny that you say that, because from the outside, it looks like, I would like, man, y'all great in the community, like, y'all live together, the grandparents, parents, kids, all y'all live together. So I would assume until I started like, hold on, they be beefing like that.

Yeah, it's weird. You can't have success near your loved ones. Really? Not too much, maybe. I don't know. I just feel like. And I don't want to be. stereotypical because people say we'll see how he generalizes

Mexicans like we all live together but I'm just saying that's how people I know what you mean like we're very close family yes yes yes but it's weird man like 90% of my fan base is probably Mexican it's all I all I can go off of is like what I'm speaking here is from my experience right like based off of my comments my messages my feedback right people have to show like I'm never Mexican enough bro like There's always so many people. But also, these people are judging me based off of one or two clips they might have seen. Like, they don't even know me.

Right. If I don't post the clip where I'm speaking Spanish for a month, they're like, ah, he don't know Spanish. He's not a real Mexican. He's not doing Spanish jokes. So he's not real Mexican. He's don't know Savo kid. If I do jokes in Spanish, they're like, well, now he's catering. Now he's like your stereotypical Mexican.

It's like, well, they're never going to be able to please everybody. Mm-mm. But it doesn't bother me too much because the ones I'm not pleasing, it's very small compared. to the, to the ones who are pleased, who the ones I'm pleasing. Right. That sounds weird to say, but I'm pleasing more people

than I'm not pleasing. You travel the country. So obviously, they're a vast community. So how you accepted, say, in the West versus the South, versus the Northwest, the Midwest, the East? I would say,

East Coast. West Coast and the South, boom, like, I can never, I can never go broke there as long as I'm telling jokes. Yeah. You know what I mean? Midwest shows a lot of love, too. Like Chicago, Chicago, I don't know if anybody's ever sold out my shows as fast as Chicago has. Really? Yeah.

I would not think there's a hairy Hispanic demographic in Chicago. Yeah. Yeah. And what's cool about the Midwest and the East Coast is that it goes into other, you know, cultures, too. Like, I'll get Mexicans, I'll get Puerto Ricans. I'll get Dominican. Okay. I even start getting, like, in the Midwest and the East Coast, I can start getting, like, a lot of, like, Indians, a little bit of Asians, you know what I mean? Okay. But, yeah, the West Coast also super supportive, like California will sell out really fast. Yes. Texas will sell out fast. You know what's crazy about Texas? Like, I'm from Dallas, and Dallas is always sold out. You know, it's my hometown that show a lot of love.

But Houston will sell out quicker. I don't know who sells out quicker, Houston and Chicago. Wow. Yeah. And New York sells well, too. You know what I mean? Like New York, North Carolina, I feel like I do really well there. But in between those, like once you go to like upstate New York or once you go to like, I've never been to Wyoming.

Right. I don't think I got a fan out there, you know. I would like to go to some different places. How do you guys put together where you're going to tour at? Man, I leave that to, like, my manager, my agent. I will tell them, like, hey, I get a lot of comments of people telling me to, like, come to Detroit or come to this city, come to that city. Like, can y'all?

Can you all? Can we, yeah. The first time I ever started, like, touring or trying to schedule a tour, they were telling me, like, oh, yeah, yeah, we're going to set up a Zoom meeting, and this is our, like, like, data analysis person. We're going to see where you do the best at. But I'm like, bro, I'm going off of these comments. Like, please put me in Chicago. And I remember that one specifically, I felt like, I love my agent, he's cool and everything.

But I felt like, bro, why he's not listening to me? Like, why don't I have a Chicago that booked already? I told them maybe like two, three times, and they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, right now we got an offer for this city, that city. And then they put up my first Chicago show ever, they put it up for sale. And I remember telling him, like, maybe like in an hour. I was like, bro, it's sold out already. Wow.

I see if we can add one. It's like, all right, yeah. And then we ended up having to move it. because I ended up doing the, I had to clear out the schedule to do, to leave dates open to do the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. But yeah, we went back. And even until this day, like, I'll go to Chicago just to work out material. If I post, like, I got two shows tonight.

They'll settle out real fast. So then we'll add. Last time we did that, we stayed there for like a week because we just kept adding shows and out of shows. Yeah. And Chicago people are cool as hell, like humble as hell. I mean, and it's everywhere. Like, you get cool, humble people.

people everywhere, but I don't know what's in the water over there, they like me. Right. So Chicago is one of your favorite city to tour or two. But I was listening to you say, like your dad, like your manager and your agent and stuff, and that's what they look at. They look at the data. They look at, you know, the most people who, probably who's looking at those comments, who buy merchandise, who, you know, so forth and so on.

And so they're based on, well, you know, L.A. We got to do L.A. L.A. shows a lot of love. Yeah. California. All of California shows. certain states and like if we go to the big cities like okay yeah we'll still take is no problem we'll have some good shows everything right but then we'll go to like they're smaller cities

right and maybe it's a little harder to sell but like California Texas and I mean that's really all I can think of maybe Arizona too like I can go to the big cities and the little cities and they'll still like you know what I mean? Bakersfield it's just tiny little town on Cali that will sell out as quick as LA will. You know what I mean? Yeah. Wow. So that's what I like about, like, California and Texas. Big town, little town don't matter. Did you have anybody, just switch the topics, and I wanted to talk to you about this.

Did you have anybody impacted by the flood? No, not that I know personally, no. Right. But, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it's tough. That sounds there's something almost like it was made up. It was scary. You know what?

And I saw a time lapse, and I don't know if it was AI. And they were showing it how it was just like, you know, raining and all of a sudden you see, you know, you see the rain and people getting out of town. And then all of a sudden, I don't know, like I said, I don't know if it was AI. And then all of a sudden, water's tall as houses. That's, that's insane.

I'm like, what the hell? Yeah, I opened up my phone and I saw that. And I was, how many people had passed away. Yes. I was like, that just sounds unreal. But I'm watching it in your community how you guys came together to help. Yeah. Like rescue and look and to do things like that.

I mean, it's always great to see communities come together because although maybe that community, someone from that family, they didn't have a family or a friend or a loved one that was lost, but to see communities band together because we do have more similarities to dislike. Somehow, over the years, we've allowed politicians to say whatever little dislike that we are, they play on that and it grows. I mean, I guess I really always love that about being from Texas, and I know other people from other states, they'd be like, y'all swear y'all are so cool because you're from Texas or why y'all love Texans? But Texans are very proud to be Texans. They are.

I think we kind of band together over that, like Texans help other Texans. You believe in aliens? Yeah. It's funner to believe in them than not to believe in them. Why am I going to walk around here like, there's nobody out there? But you said they're dumb. I mean, I just, you know, kind of, you know, they always crash, they never can land safely. Aliens, I don't know why we assume they're naked all the time.

Why else would we assume they're naked unless there was proof that they're naked? You know what I mean? Well, you think, you think the, like, okay, like all the cartoons, all the movies, they're always like, look at these intelligent life forms that are coming to the planet and kind of, either we go to war with them or they're way smarter than us. and their technologies that advanced. But why are they naked? Is that part of evolution? We're going to be naked in the 200 years? Well, let me ask you this.

What if the aliens showed up in chrome parts? Jeans. And some Nike. Then were you like, okay. Then I would want to study them. I'd be like, who do you follow on this? The dog days of summer means it's time for the boards of summer to kick into gear. And the best way to cash in on your baseball IQ is with Draft King's Sportsbook.

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The crown is yours. Your mom gave birth to you when she was 16. Your mom, so your mom was a young mom. And, you know, that's probably why your grandparents had such, especially your grandmother, had such a big impact in your life. What's your relationship like with your mom? Oh, my mom has, like, the greatest sense of humor. I think she's a big reason I got into comedy.

She loved, like, funny movies. She still loves funny movies, funny shows, like, all that stuff. And I go, I take my son to see her. I try to go once a week. Sometimes I don't make it, you know what I mean? But, yeah, we get a long grade. She worries about me a lot. I mean, she had me at a young age, so she was like.

She had to grow up. But you have a child at a young age, right? Boy, that's the thing. It's like, at first she wasn't growing up. She still wanted to be a kid. So, you know, I understand. But I watched that kid grow up before my own eyes, and I'm so proud of her. She, now, because I have a, I got other siblings, you know.

between, like, my dad and my stepmom, whatever. But my mom, with my mom, I have another sister. And my sister is, I believe she's 13 right now. And it's crazy watching my mom be like... So different with her than she was with you. Yeah, because now my mom's older and everything. And, like, I'm out for it too, you know what I mean? Like, whatever I can do to, like, help them out.

I'm all, like, my sister plays volleyball. She's really good at volleyball. She plays, like, on select teams and stuff. Wow. So sometimes I can get proud. pricey, but I'll make, like, I'll do my part to, like, help them out and make sure she can stay in there because my mom's all for it. My mom works, her nine to five, and then right after work, we'll take my sister to her practice or to her, like, my sister's in band, whatever. So, like, it's crazy seeing that, but I love it. I love when I go over there. She's always just worried about me, but I joke around her a lot. I tell her I'm out here on drugs and I'm dying and stuff. Even though you know she's worried about you Yeah, but she knows I'm playing around

You said That your mom broke up with a lot of people But you respected the guys That beat her to the punch And broke up with her fur Were you joking? Yes and no What do you love?

How are you going to be applaud The visitors? The home team is mom How do you applaud the visitors? I love my mom But like I learned a lot about like how not to be as an adult through through these men's failures and through my mom like

no offense to my mom but also have a lack of trust in women because of my mom because I would see her like just treat these dudes like whatever like she'll brush them off to the side be like I don't want to date this dude no more like and these dudes would like call her and just be like please get back with me and stuff and it was lame so whenever I would If I ever caught wind of a dude breaking over my mom first and I saw my mom, like, cry for him or something, I'll be like, look, that's how you need to be? Man, how are you going to see your mom disappointed and talk about, yeah, they got you back? Well, because, like, it's not that I was like, ah, they got, they finally got you mom. Nah, like, I feel bad for her, too, you know what I mean?

But at the same time, like, I watched my mom be like, like, she wasn't, she wasn't no sucker for no dude, you know what I'm? Right. Like, I didn't feel so bad for her because I'm like, she's going to be fine. Right. Like, she knows what she's doing. She's fine. Did you ever get close to some of the gentlemen that she was dating? Nah, I never really, like, they were nice.

Because you know, they were going to be around for a long time. They wasn't going to be around longer. It wasn't that, I didn't think, because she would have, like, you know, long-term relationship or whatever. I just never liked that because, like, to me, my, like, I have my dad, like, I have my dad. I'm not looking for a father figure. I also have my grandpa. who was like my dad, you know, my mom's dad. So it's like, I was never like, is this my dad like?

Right. I was like, bro, you basically dating my sister right now. And they would try to be all cool with me and stuff. I was just like, all right, whatever. You ain't get no money out of? Like, hey, hey, you want me to like you break me off a couple of dollars. There was one dude who when I was 12 was with my mom for a while. And he would let me drive his truck.

He kind of gave me a couple lessons and he would just let me take off in my truck go pick up my friends it was like 12 and I thought he was cool for that you know he also caught me skip in school one day and he didn't snitch me out he just told me like man don't be doing that like you know whatever so I always thought he was pretty cool right and I remember when they broke up I did get kind of sad and he like he was the only one of the guys my mom dated when I was growing up he was the only one that like sat down and told me like hey man like I'm sorry but me and your mom were not going to date no more yeah yeah and And then he just hands me like a hundred bucks.

I'm like, the fuck is this? This ain't good fellas? He's like, now I got to turn my back on you. I mean, I took you, but I was like. Yeah, exactly. You ain't said, no, bro, I'm good. So you're like, that was the only one that you really got close to it. But so did, but seeing your mom interact with men, how did that shape the way you interact with women?

I don't believe nothing they tell me like if they're like I mean like I believe some stuff but like if they're like you know you're the only guy that this is and that I'm like I don't I don't care I don't know if I believe you or not but you don't got to tell me that like I don't must have said I'm not that I don't know I'm not that uh receptive towards compliments or towards like you're the only one this you don't know that right whatever because I'm human but it's gonna be tough you know it's gonna be tough if you become cynical of everything of the relationship and what she's trying to tell you

it's going to be really hard around for you to find a stable situation I feel like it's impossible for me to find a stable situation a stable relationship because one I have these issues that I saw my parents in so many failed relationships right? Right. So I don't trust anybody already

and two I've accumulated what I think is a good level of success so now I'm always wondering like Why are you with me? Yeah So, you know what I mean? So, like, it's too much trust issue. I like in hope is that I meet some genuine women in my life and get to really know them, you know what I mean?

You didn't have anybody before you became this rap Barbosa? Did you not have a young lady in your life that before you started to blow up? I mean, I dated my son's mom, you know, but we were broken up before this even, like, took off. You know what I mean? You might be going to get back with, y'all. You already got a family. No, I'm good. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you good.

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But you know she sincerely and genuinely loves you for you. Do you, will you talk to her? You don't know what goes through that woman's mind. No, I'm just saying. She was with you before any of this stardom, any of this fandom. I mean, there wasn't like a whole lot of women that were women before the stardom, but there was a handful. Yeah.

I'm not going to go back to them now. So, hey, do you want to get married now because you pass the 10? Are you trying to get, do you, would you like to get married? No. Okay, so. But I would like to like settle down if that makes sense. Yeah, but I just don't want to like sign paperwork. But you do realize in your profession, it's hard to settle down because you're on the road.

I don't know how many dates, maybe 200, 250 days out of the year. You're on the road. Now, do you plan on taking this young lady on the road with you? or she's back where she's at. It sounds like you don't want me to get married. No, I'm just asking you. I want you to be happy. But I'm just saying, I think it's realistic.

It's kind of hard when you, basically you travel. Your job keep, you travel. Yeah, I need a date like a flight attendant. Oh, geez. But my friend had a threesome with a flight attendant, so I can't trust them either now. Oh, God. You need stories. I just think for the time being you proud of rap, you might do.

just, you know, kick it so low. Yeah, for sure. Like, I've been in Vegas two days. I haven't been hitting on nobody. I was thinking, like, man, you know, it's Vegas. We'll meet some girls with her. But honestly, I've just been enjoying my time here as a single dude with my friends. It's a little gay, but it's whatever.

What's it like having step-parents? You treat them good? Do you treat step-parents like you treat your real parents? Man, I think I'm blessed. that my stepmom, my dad's wife, has always been so good to me and never referred to me as a stepson, at least not in my face, you know what I mean? Like, she's, she's been so good to me, man. What do you call her? You call her mom, but what do you call her, do you call about first name? I call her by her first name, you know, but she, like, I didn't know, like, I was

almost taking it for granted how, like, nice she was treating me and, like, how much, like, love she had for me and like really treated me like if I was her kid when I'd be over there because when I got older and I started working different jobs and making friends that were like older than me who had kids that were older than me I would see these people who have like their own kids and then they marry somebody who has their own kids right and then I'll hear how they talk about like her kids and how and then I would see maybe how she treats his kids and I'm like damn bro it's kind of cold like I didn't have to go through that thankfully like if i would be over there with my dad you know my dad

sometimes would have to go do handle business whatever and he'll leave me right there with my stepmom and like my younger brother young sister like there was like no problem bro like i didn't have to worry about her treating me any different or nothing like she she's an angel so how how was how was did they have kids together yeah so how was that because you know that's not your biological mom and but theoretically the kid you know did they They call you, they look up to you, they're like big brother. I mean, you take them around. You did think they used to look up to me.

I think right now they're probably mad at me. What a bad? Because we all live together right now. And like my brother, my sister, they're teenagers. Okay. And they live with you? Yeah, we all live at my dad's. We all live on the same, like, property and stuff.

We're out in the country. So you're saving your money, huh? Yeah. All your money went for? a grill and a watch and a bunch of cars i built a garage right there on the land bought a bunch of cars i still you don't want to get your own place eventually but for what i'm always traveling the the country this whole country so far has been one big home the man's uh you pay your dad rent uh yeah i'll give him like he don't charge me rent i just give him some money for like

expenses and stuff you know but like rent i might not give him money one month but then that Next month, I might give them, like, maybe way more money than I need to give them, you know what I mean? Right. And so on and so on. So how did that arrangement come about? You're like, okay, Dad, I mean, you're traveling. You know, you... No, no, no.

So this is before I even started touring. This is right before things kicked off from me. Okay. This is like 2022. My lease was up. I was living with my uncle, my mom's brother, we had her... Have you ever had a place to your own? No.

Damn. You just go from Uncle to Odd to Mom to Dad, to Dad. Dad, the grandparents. If I lived on my own, I think I moved around so much, I would forget that I have my own place. And I would forget to go check up on the house. Okay. Before you stayed with your dad, you was with your uncle before things popped off, okay?

And I was always struggling financially, though. So I was like, man, I can't go get another leave somewhere. My son at the time was about three. And he liked going to my dad's a lot because the neighbor has, like, horse. and it's just a lot of room to play and stuff. Your dad is in Texas, right? Yeah. Okay.

So my dad would tell me, like, you know, come move in over here, come and over here, to be fair, my dad would tell me that pretty often throughout my childhood, but I was just like, nah. Yeah. And, yeah, my son liked it a lot, and I needed a place to stay. And one day my son got a little sick. Like, he had like a flu or something. I don't remember when we just stayed right there with my dad's,

and I just didn't leave. I was like, man, so can I still stay then? He's just like, yeah. And he never charged me rent Like to this day he technically doesn't charge me rent Right I can't just be making money And then not give him something

You know what I mean? Like feel better Yeah, hold it over to your Let me ask you How does one How does one go about asking a relative To live with them So how did you stay

How did you like your uncle? I don't know his name What's your uncle's name? Oh Charlie Charlie? He's over here right now Oh okay Oh okay

Everyone on Charlie So let me ask you a question How do you go about Hey Charlie you know I want to kick it over here for a couple of days. And then a couple of days turned it to a couple of months. Well, now, we got it together. Like, we agreed.

Like, my uncle's, man, my uncle's a bachelor. My uncle's in his mid-40s, late 40s. And I'll be like, hey, let's go get an Airbnb somewhere. He'll be like, all, let's go. Damn! It's cool people, my uncle. So are you eventually, do you hope to eventually get your own spot? Yeah.

Um, I'm just like, because I, because I have a few different ideas, I don't want to invest into anything until I have like a more like concrete idea. Because I'm, man, I'm, I'm very impulsive. Yeah. So I'll go, I don't, I just don't want to make a big purchase and then what I'm only like Yeah, I'm getting. And like you said, you know what? You look, I travel 250 days out of the year.

I don't need no place. I can stay, you know, stay with my, my dad. break him off a couple of dollars in them straight yeah like i love hotels like i love hotels really not and like i'll go home like don't get me wrong i miss being home a lot right so i'll go home but if i'm home for like two weeks straight by the second week i even feel like that i think i'm bugging my family like i don't think they're used to me being around so much like i'm telling you my brother my sister they're teenagers and like i kind of started cracking down on them lately because they do little teenager stuff and i'm like bro respect respect my dad's house like

respect us not to like lie bro like I got a lie for like you want to be grown be grown stop lying like it insults my intelligence and I don't think they like that when I like talk shit to them over there so like sometimes I feel like I'm looking at you like a brother and you tell them hey respect my dad

you're like oh that's my dad too yeah but I'm like I feel like I'm bugging sometimes after a while so I'm like ready to get back on the road after a week and a half but for the longest you thought you were the only child huh I mean I grew up very much only child you know just me and my grandparents and then once my so my mom has me and

my sister and then my dad has three other daughters and one other son okay so like but you're the oldest though I'm the oldest okay so like I was alone with my grandparents and then when my when my sister as I started having siblings like you know the ones that my dad had I never lived with them I just go visit and then when my mom had my sister was She was the first sibling to, like, really live with me and stuff. But I was already, like, 15 when she was born. So I grew up solo, dolo. Right.

What's the relationship like with your sibling? I love them all. But they know you somebody. They know that they, you ain't just no normal big brother. Yeah. I feels like, I don't know what the, how did it, how do it, I don't know what the official term is. Like, maybe you're arrogant, maybe like, like, like a head-ass type thing. I try to, I want to warn them that, like, hey, some of the people that come around

they all might just be coming around to, like, try to get a picture. But then I don't want to assume that, like, that's true either. Right. Like, hey, but like my brother or, like, my sister on my mom's side, you know, sometimes I just see them hanging out with somebody, and then next month they're hanging out with a whole other group of friends, and then next week it's a whole other group of friends, and I'm like. What happened to the other group of friends that you have? Yeah, so I'm like, and then my brother's trying to make content now, too, you know?

So it's just like, man, I don't know. Like, some of these dudes might just want to be around you because they think you're going to be famous or maybe they're trying to come and just be at our house and watch me eat or something. But I also don't, like, I feel like when I say that. You don't want to see Merrigan. I don't want to see Merrigan. But they're also teenagers. They don't got the best judgment.

You know what I mean? But also, it's like, as soon as I'm saying it, I can already. I can hear their eyeballs roll to the back of their head, you know what I mean? So it's just like, I just don't say nothing. I just keep traveling. Your dad did a bed. Mm-hmm. How did that impact?

I'm my uncle. Damn, Charlie! Charlie said, yeah, they had me locked up to. How did that impact you? It just really influenced me to, like, make sure that I learned the skill and, like, became successful with, like, like, a skill because, um, I, I wasn't really doing much when they both, they both ended up going away around the same time, like separate cases, separate scenarios.

Yeah, you choose the right thing because you're going to, you're dying people out because you told on Charlie, I didn't even ask you about Charlie. You died Charlie, I quit. Oh, my uncle, too, right? Yeah, man. I, uh, I just didn't, you know, I just did, like,

my older cousin, he didn't go to, like, the federal and like that, but he had his run-ins with the law. Right. So, you know, just everything going on in our family, I felt like all our relatives maybe suffered enough with stuff like that. Like I remember when my uncle had to go turn himself in, my grandpa was tearing up. And he told me like, don't never get involved with that bullshit because this hurts too much.

Right. So I just, you know, also I was like bad at it. Like I'm not good at like the streets. Yeah. So yeah, I just never went that route. Do you get a lot of fights as a kid? I fight with my friends a lot and, you know, maybe... But damn, how you got friends are you fighting them?

I don't know. They just, like, fighting. They or you? We all did. And it made easier to, like, fight other kids because then I, you know... Y'all team up and go fight other people, huh? We wouldn't team up, but it's like, man, I don't got beat up by my friend so many times. Like, who's this dude?

But, yeah, we fight a lot. Sometimes with gloves, sometimes no gloves. You ever do that? You look like you beat up your friend. Nah, you know what? I didn't really try to fight nobody, uh, uh, rap. I'm just, you know. That's what a slow dudes always say.

Buff do's always like, I don't want to hurt nobody. No, but I didn't, I was the youngest of all my cousins. You know, I was the youngest. So seven years, six years, my brother was three years, had a cousin, two years, and then I was the youngest of the guys. And obviously, you know, wrestling and fighting those guys, like when you go to school and people your age, honestly you're more developed and so you could but I was never I was never a bad kid I just

want to you know I tell jokes rag on people and stuff like that I was good in athletic I didn't really try to fight nobody unless I absolutely positively had to fight yeah like real fights I might like against like a stranger like somebody I really didn't like I just had like a handful I found my own friends more than I fought strangers yeah I mean you know I in college I had one fight but it was a dude on the team but as far as like you know I always have bad luck I think I got weak bones one time I One time I was fighting my friend, I fell back, and I tried to catch myself. And I broke my middle finger trying to catch myself. So not even, like, in the fight.

I mean, you, you ain't drank enough milk. That, yeah, I didn't, that's true. Milk makes me sleep. Yeah. But let me, so you're fighting, you fought your friends. Did y'all make up or were you like, nah, once you fight your friends, I'm done with y'all. We can't be friends no more. We fight, we fight like every day.

We had like a fight club. We meet up in the restrooms in between classes. We had three minutes in middle school, we had three minutes. in between classes. So we would fight for two minutes and then you got a minute to get to class. So you get to class

and shirts off, stretched out. Teach you asked you what happened? They're like, why are you bleeding? You're like, I fell? It seemed like you got a lot of enjoyment out of that. Yeah.

My childhood was fun, man. It was funny. Why? I mean, it seems like to me, look. You yell at prostitutes, fight your friends. You fight who? I said, I would yell at

prostitutes and then I fight you know you fight your friends it's fun but I mean I'm just like okay yeah friends go have a disagreement of you might fight but you guys like friends and y'all like okay bro we got we got a hey what we y'all do you know what you do you remember what you guys were fighting about no to see who was a better fighter it wasn't like we were like mad if anything if you got mad we'll probably be like all right bro maybe don't fight because you get it mad for real yeah it was man I don't know did you win any of the fight Yeah, a couple times. Couple?

The way you told. I was also a smaller one. That's what I'm saying. I knew I would lose, but my mentality was like, all right, even though I'm going to lose against these bigger dudes, I'm going to keep on fighting them because whenever I fight somebody my size, I'm going to just beat the shit at them. But it wasn't nobody your size. The few times that I had to fight somebody that was like around my size. You got them? Man, I'll demolish them.

It was like nothing at that point. You feel good. You feel good like, yeah. I was like, this must be how my big friends feel all the time. No wonder they beat my, this is amazing. You were a barber? Yes, sir. I started cutting hair at 13.

Really? Mm-hmm. How did you, how did you get, I mean, somebody said, hey, Rab, did you like cut your own hair and start up in your own hair? I mean, how does somebody let them just, you ain't got no barber's license, and you just start cutting people here? Yeah, I went to Ross. They got Ross over here.

Ross, like the store? Yeah. I went to a Ross, and at the entrance, they had like a clearance basket, and they had like some clippers. Like Remington or Cornere or something like that. I got those, and then I was only using those for a couple months.

I think my birthday came up, and I got like, total from birthday cash, I got like 150 bucks. Yeah. And across the street from my middle school, there was like a little, like an Asian beauty shop, you know. So I went in there. I bought like some real clippers and started using those.

But there was no YouTube tutorials back then. There was like one dude. YouTube was cake and his Randy. He had like one video that actually helped me out. The other people on YouTube, they were still trying to make money. Like if you found a video of a haircut, it would be like a time lapse. And then it would be like, you want to cut hair like this? Go to my website and buy my DVD.

Because this is like, I'm out like 13. There was no real tutorials back then. Now this is a tutorial for every damn phase. yes but back then i would go to the barbershop on a friday to get my cut and then i would stay there like extra time where i'll show up early to like watch them cut hair and i would ask the barbers how do you do this how do you do that and i would watch them you know and one of the barbers there was really cool he actually let me like on my friend let me like kind of let you let you touch it up so then i would try to remember that and then i'd go and like beg for clients

at school i used to walk around the house he's like bro let me cut your hair please Were you charging or you was cutting it for free? I would cut it for free and then I'd be like, if you like it, then the next one pay me. Right. But they would get the free one and then they'd never come back because I'll f*** them up. Do you label? Yeah. You look at somebody

put hands on you, Ralph, man. You know, and people burn it by the hair? How are they going to do? I got the clippers in my hands. I'll hit them. No, but I'm saying, what's like, hey, you handle the mirror and say, hey, what you think, bro? What you think, bro? I got a, I got, you're seeing they're called the fade masters

it's a big old chrome it's a heavy-ass clip but what you think for a smash you on the head with it so what's the funny story you have of cutting somebody here have you really like really really miss somebody up

yes bad man I look this one is probably one of my favorite stories but I didn't fuck them up though this is when I was already kind of getting the fade down right one of my good friends Robinson real quiet dude

he um i convinced him let me cut his hair so he comes he rides my bus because he usually gets a ride home right so that day he rides my bus all the way to my house and uh we get there to my house and and we actually i i would cut hair at the other end of my block at my friend's house they had a better garage set up so i'll go right there sometimes and i'm and i'm i would still take so long you know when you start off you yeah take yeah i'm taking like an hour on one side and and I'm doing the haircut and then my mom calls me and she said that

she had to take me to a doctor appointment I didn't know I had a doctor appointment that day so like Robinson you can have to come back again tomorrow

after school bro so the next day Robinson I see him in Spanish class and this who has one fade and then nothing over here

so you you left the guy it finished your hair cut up the next day it was a 2B continued cut oh my goodness

you told a joke you said it's harder to get a barber license, then it is a gun's license in Texas. Yeah, because you don't need a license in Texas. You need a license to be a barber, but you don't need a license to carry a gun. Well, like, here's what's crazy to me. And I like guns.

I'm not trying to say, like, they need to make it harder. Like, that's a whole other conversation for some political show, you know. I like guns. I've gone into a store and filled out the little background check, 20 minutes, walk out with a gun, you know? It's easy. Fine. That's not my issue.

My issue is that one day, one of the first barbershops, one of my first days at the barbershop I worked at, it's called Oak Cliff Barbers. I'm working there maybe like a month, right? But I only go in in the afternoons. I work from like 5 p.m. to like maybe 8 p.m. Right. Because I'm still in barber college. I'm not licensed. But I go in those hours because it's when the TDRR, the Texas Department of Licensing and then whatever, they don't work those hours.

So they can't, it's less likely they're going to show up at 6 p.m. be like, where's your license? Right. But I'm working there for like a month. And one day I get there and it looks like they got raided by like DEA or something. Like everything is just torn up because TDRR has showed up that day and checked for license and checked if everything was up to code. And it's like, bro, because we're fading people up, because we're cutting people's hair.

You know what I mean? Like I got a killing machine right here. Yeah. Got it in 20 minutes. But I got to go to school for $1,500. I think now they change it to it. It's the biggest party of the summer. W.W.E. SummerSlam is here, and wrestling with Freddie is all over it.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. thousand hours but when i went it was 1500 hours and two exams you're the the texas practical the barber the practical first off you got to do a thousand hours to unlock the first test you go and you you sit down at these computers and you can't you can't look at nobody next to you if you look at them and talk they're just like you felt like we're taking some CIA exam yeah and you're just there filling out like what are the shaving techniques like all right then once you pass that test you can complete now you're allowed to do the the next 500 hours right so there goes another fucking six months of your life right then when you do that you got to do the practical

in front of the state board so you go you take your model like if you were my model i sit you down and i got a bag full of stuff and i got to separate all my items in different bags and label them and i got to shampoo you and drape you a certain way towel drape towel this and then when i'm done using that towel I put it in my little trash bag, right? If you were to be like, oh, man, I accidentally grabbed the towel that I hadn't used and threw it away. Let me get it back from that bag. All that's in it. You lose five points.

Wow. And then it's like a four-hour-long process, bro. And you can't even talk to your model unless it's instructions. And when my best friend, Jaime, was right there, he was falling asleep because we had drank the day before. So I'm like, I'm like whispering. I'm like, wake up. Wake up, and I started pinching his back fat to, like, wake him up. But it's like, and then they're walking around, just looking at you and, like, checking you and seeing him talking.

I'm like, bro, this is not CIA. Right. It's not that serious. It's not that serious. And I walked out with a killing machine from Academy Sports and Outdoors, like, in 10 minutes, like, I don't know. That's just the only thing. The barber's stuff needs to be like, I think now to get a barber's license, you even need to, like, know how to do a manicure, like. yeah they ain't got to do so how long were you a barber uh i was cutting full time

from when i was like 20 to i was how was that few years ago so i was like 20 from 20 to 26 maybe 20 to 25 around there but you knew that wasn't that was not a lifelong ambition of yours that was just something to make money i always loved it yeah But it wasn't like, I mean, I love the barbershop I worked at, and I like, I love cutting hair, like, I don't know, it's cool to me. And I remember being at the barbershop and those guys were so funny to me and it was just so fun being there. I had the realization, like, hey, if comedy never works out and I worked here with these dudes for the rest of my life, I'd be all right too. You're good with that. Yeah.

You mentioned earlier, the very first time open mic, you got. boo. Why the hell you go back? Because a lot of people can't handle rejection. Because I can't take a loss. I can't do it. You're going to take that L? Like, if I really like something, nah, I can't take the L. Like, I walked

off stage immediately thinking like, why did I even come up here? Like, I'm an idiot for thinking I could do this. And the host is a comedian named Luke Moore. I have seen him on stage that same night he was funny and he was like hey man he's like come back and I was like what

like the fuck oh come back did you not see what happened like I thought he was making fun of me or something you know so I walked to the car and my friend Tony was with me and I remember apologizing to him like I'm sorry I even brought you out here we've been out here all night like it was stupid why like why did I think I could do that but by the time I got home I was like maybe if I would have said this different and then the next day I was I think I think I was working at a diner. I was a short order cook. Like just making hash browns

and shit. I'm not thinking like man, if I were said that different, man, man, I try this. Like, what are you prepared? I was like somewhat prepared. You know, but I just kept thinking about it. And I think I think that goes for anything that I try that I really like. And anybody, like you f*** up, but then you start like

re-evaluating everything in your head like, oh, I could try this. Maybe I should have zigg when I zagged, you know. So then it took me like two months, but I went up on stage again and I bombed again. Damn! But I was like, hey, but I did the whole time this time. Yeah. So you didn't let them make you walk off? Yeah.

So I'm like, now and I got to figure this out like that. And the first time I got like a real laugh was kind of unplanned. Like it wasn't even a joke that I wrote as I was about a walk on stage and this was at a different comedy close. This is a backdoor comedy club. Shout out to Ms. Linda Stogner, who's a Dallas legend. She threw me up on stage. And that open mic was in like a nicer part of Dallas. It was the first time I seen an open mic with so many, like,

it was the first time I was in the room with so many rich looking white people. I was like intimidated. So as I was about to walk on stage, I remember this one dude in the front row was like, I was like, bro, that looks like someone who's called the cops on me before. So I just said that on stage. I'm like, dude, look like he's called. in the cops and out of nervousness and everybody just started laughing

and I was like damn vulnerability, honesty and confidence that's my first lesson like that's when you got that laugh you was hooked yeah because it was like a medium laugh it was like a brother's like ah ha ha but when you first hear it you feel like everybody's just like ah right

and whenever you think of something and you say it and everybody laughs you feel like a genius yeah you know what I mean do you remember the first joke joke you told The actual joke that I wrote, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I had just started, this is like the actual, like, reading joke that actually worked. I mean, it was somewhat where I was working, I had just started working construction under, like, the electrical, like industrial electrician. You know, you had a lot of jobs growing up, right? Yeah, I had a lot of jobs.

And the other thing that you didn't do growing up, you cut hair, you were a barber. I mean, you're a barber, you're construction. I always want to work on a boat, but, you know, I grew up in Dallas. There's no coast like that. Yeah, what, boy, when were you going to work on the Dallas? Well, that's what I'm saying. That's a job I didn't have. You asked me what job I didn't do, and it was like a crash.

Well, you know, Dallas catch. I don't know if they still shooting that. They don't know the bear and sea. One day I'm going to go do that, watch. I'm going to just disappear. I'm going to go do that. But anyway, my joke was that I was working for an uncle of mine. Charlie?

No, no, no. Man, my uncle, and they were going to work no. My uncle keeps his fingernails clean. Okay, you're working for your uncle? My uncle Charlie is the one that taught me to work smarter, not harder. Right. He's the one that made me use my brain more than my hands. But I'm working in industrial electricity for an uncle on my dad's side.

And I did this joke where I said, I'm working as an electrician, but, you know, from my uncle. But he says things that I feel like, Christian shouldn't say or uncles and I was like and I wrote them down and I'd pull out a piece of paper I'd be like the first thing that he that he says is like we'll know if it's wired correctly if we don't blow up the second one that he says that scares me is like um I think this is where this goes the third one he says that scares me is uh all right no one's around lock the door and pull your pants down and like that one that one will get like a little laugh but that was like

the first joke that I like that you started yeah wrote down to you And, yeah, I remember the club, one of the clubs that I did it at, they only liked you to do, like, clean comedy. Right. And they were like, maybe don't do that one. So then I had to, like, start changing it up. Right. The second time you performed, the first time you went to open mic, you got booed, the second one you went to, you performed at a strip joint.

No, no, so that was like my first, like, was supposed to. So the first time you actually got paid, you went to a paid gig, and I didn't get paid. I lost money because they charged me $5 to get in the strip club. And they never paid me. It was all fun. I didn't care. I'm just trying to figure. How do you perform at a show, how do you have a comedy show at a strip joint?

Oh, it was a horrible idea. At a gentleman's club, excuse me. I didn't, look, for the record, I didn't put this on, all right? They asked me if I wanted to do it. I said, hell yeah. The show was called Laps and Ass, which, honestly, you don't want to be laughing when there's ass out. Just focus on the ass, you know? right in the compete i was so they they had a wireless mic and they kept cutting out but i i just

i don't know it's this horrible idea i'm on i'm on the stage where the strippers dance and there's like a pole right here right and some of the people when they were still getting dances because they didn't care they didn't show up for the comedy and i remember there was one of the strippers she was so supportive the there was a dude getting all danced on by this big girl and the girls facing me the dude the dude's like way back there he's facing that well right but he's listening and he liked one of my joke he turns around he's like woo and then the girl's like the girl's like good job baby and I was like oh like thank you man but the mic kept cutting out this is so awkward and there was an ugly nasty stripper and I remember

she walked up to me when I was waiting to go on stage and she started like like twirking on me and I was like no I don't have money like don't like trust me don't do that her money and this is the first time that a stripper was like nah like tip me so i can leave like give me a dollar and i leave you alone i was like oh man i had like i had 10 bucks that day right and five was for the entry and the other like three went to her i had two dollars for chips after that so in other words she said give me some money and i'll leave you alone yes well you're just going to be dancing free so the internet now this thing there's this thing called internet and a lot of comedians. It's different than the old comedians because you had to go to your gigs and you had to go

put your time in. Now the internet can really help young comedians blow up. How did the internet help you? Man, the internet gave me a career. You know, I feel like before the internet for people to make it as a comedian, as an actor, as a singer, it's like the industry, whoever was running, you know, whoever was making moving in the industry had to kind of choose you, you know, casting directors or the bookers had to be like I like this person let's make them famous let's put them on this TV shows put them but the internet you put a video yourself out there and it's the people's choice now yes so yeah like shout out I love I love anybody who's ever liked my videos man Mexican community the Puerto Rican community the

black community Indians anybody out there who's ever liked my videos and just shared them even if you never come to a show thank you so much for giving for changing my life. Do you believe that you blew up too fast? I think I blew up maybe a little prematurely. You said that problem, huh, Shannon? Nah, I think that I wasn't ready to be a headliner when I started blowing up.

You know, I think I was still, because traditionally how it goes in comedy is like you start off hosting shows where you do like 10 minutes and then you introduce the next comic, next comic, next comic, whatever. Then you work your way up to feature act. So you'll go on right before the main act and you'll do like 20, 25 minutes. Then, you know, over time you become a headliner and you kill 45 to an hour. Right. So when I first started going on the road, I don't feel like I had a killer hour like that, you know, but I had to learn it. I think it took like six months

of me headlining shows before I learned to be like a headliner. Right. The difference now is that, say, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago, you could tell a joke and you could recycle that joke, ooh, long time. You can't do that anymore because the internet, cell phones. So basically, and I talk to a lot of comedies, they say the first time you tell a joke is not the best time you're going to tell that joke

because over time you perfect it. And now it's hard to perfect a joke because once you tell a joke, man, I heard him. said that the other day. He said that in Kansas City. Maybe I heard him say that same joke in Cali to kill you for it. How do you expand on the joke?

How do you get a joke from his infancy to adulthood now? And you can't force it. I don't think one of my buddies kind of taught me that. It's like you can't, you can think on it and like rewrite it, right? But sometimes I just kind of like don't force it.

Like, I'll go up there with the idea of how to say the joke. I'll try it out on stage. And if it works, then all right, I'll make a note in my mind, like, keep using this one. But then maybe next time that I'm on stage, I don't want to put too much pressure on that joke. But as I'm talking, as I'm saying it, I'm having another conversation in my head. Right. So I'm like, oh, shit. Say this different this time.

It makes more sense like that. So then I'll just say it. But I'll usually keep changing the joke or keep adding to it. until it, like, dies again. Right. So it's like, I'll say the joke. Next time I say it, add a punchline. Next time I'll say it, add this.

But then maybe the fifth time I say it, I added something, and it was just like, now you got too much fat on it. You know what I mean? It's like a sandwich. You just add in too much. You know, you're like, so I'm like, all right, let me backtrack.

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