TigerBelly - Frankie Quiñones & That’s What’s Down

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

Frankie Quiñones (Creeper’s Crib, This Fool) returns to TigerBelly. We chat relapse, Shabu Shabu awakening, House of Pies detox, asking for $15K, Roosevelt Hotel police call, vape withdrawals, and reverse Schindler’s List. Stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to www.zocdoc.com/belly to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. That’s www.zocdoc.com/belly Don’t let financial opportunity slip through the cracks. Use code TIGERBELLY at www.monarch.com monarch dot com in your browser for half off your first year. That’s 50% off your first year at www.monarch.com with code TIGERBELLY. 

Good Tuckookewaka wu, Paka'i, Chukumola, Ka'a, Kallai, Kallai, Kallai,

T'uukumba, I don't look at I've been playing, I've been playing, dying line. Oh, the zombie games. Is that good? It's fun. Dude, at night is so scary. You're just running. I mean, there's 3,000 zombies.

He's chasing, you're just running, trying to get to your home base. The first... Did you ever play Dead Rising? Did you always play Dead Rising? Do you ever play it, buddy? Huh? Because us Hispanics love Dead Rising. I love Dead Rising.

You can make your own... You can make your own weapons and stuff. What the hell? Yeah. I work out and I play fucking Dead Rising. I mean, I'm like fucking Mexican Juggernaut. You know what I mean? I'll run through walls.

I look like I'm on PCP because I can run through balls. Fuck you, man. I hear that that's like a tactic. CCP. That's another. No, but when you when you have no comeback,

that's what they What do you mean? Like, I saw this thing on TikTok where it's like you always know when someone's on the losing end of the argument because their final like counter is always like dead rising. I know, I have nothing.

I have nothing. Dead rising. So it's like they mock the person's voice. because they have like nothing else. Yeah, I have nothing else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I would say it again. Have you ever played Dead Rising?

Yeah, it's a good game. No, you still need a comeback though. Oh, yeah. Yeah? What, is this 2008? Good one. Great one. Yeah, that was a pretty good one.

Yeah, you got me, man, I don't know the year. Do it again, do it again. Hey, did you ever play Dead Rising? Hey, do you ever play Dead Rising? It's better. It's better. It's funny. It is funnier.

I think my instig was right on that one. Yeah, I think so. I love zombie games, though. Do you ever play dying light? I just played cod zombies. That's pretty much in Dead Rising. Yeah. Dying Light's interesting because you,

there's a lot of, you activate zones. Is it similar to Dead Rising? Like that's not. No, no, no. Nope. Do women play those games? Yeah, women do play that game. You know what I mean?

Because women can work now. they can afford their own consoles and they can vote and everything. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, we're in 2025, bud. Okay. Yeah.

Why don't you go back to 2008? Yeah. I like it. Oh, shit. That's the winning end. That's the winning end, right? Yeah. You're up and coming talent, dude.

Yeah, you're up and coming. But, yeah, I've been playing that. And then you ever see Love Death and Robots on Netflix? Yeah, I have. I've seen all of those. It's good. I like it. They're really good.

What else? Do you see one battle after another? Not yet, because you already know I don't have the time to for a three-hour movie. Did you see weapons yet? I already told you. I don't like the kids theme. Okay, yeah. But do you see one battle after another?

I haven't seen it yet. No. Is it good? Real, real good. I heard Leonardo DiCaprio was really enthusiastic about it. He's so funny in it. Really? Oh, my God, dude.

He's so funny in it. And Benicio, Sean Penn's great. Do you see it? Not yet. A lot of people don't like it, though. Really? I feel like everyone loves it. No, I've seen TikToks of like, you know what I mean?

Like, you know what I'm right? I walked out. You know what? I mean, this woke bullshit. Oh, I saw the other way. What other way? In reverse? There's a whole movement where...

I love watching... A bunch of black people are saying they don't like how they wrote the female black characters. Really? Tiana Taylor. Oh, they were saying one battle after the backwards. One battle after another backwards. I watched Shindler's back.

It's a more upbeat film When you watch it backwards Because it's tragic in the beginning Oh, and it becomes hopeful And it becomes hopeful Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, people become free in it, you know what I mean? What are a sad movie?

And then that are movies that become sad if you watch it backwards? Titanic Titanic is a far better movie backward Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah A worst movie is blindside backwards He has a family and he loses it slowly Yeah, that's, yeah, that's a sadder movie That's a really good point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Star Wars, is that a good movie backwards? He just becomes a farmer. That's whatever. Yeah, yeah, Luke becomes a farmer. You like Star Wars? Yeah. What do you like about it?

The characters. Yeah. You ever see it? Yeah. What's it about? What's it about? Stars. No, no, explain to you what Star Wars is about, but let's be real.

Okay, it's about two kingdoms. Hmm. And they're battling good versus evil in the sky. Are you being real right now? Yes. You don't know anything about so? I do. It's not wrong.

Good guess. About two kingdoms? What is this fucking Lord of the Rings? The light side, dark side. Dark side, light side. That's not a kingdom, though. Yeah, Darth Vader's kingdom is dark. And he's his Luke's father, who's white.

Oh, whoa. Now we're getting into the beginning. And then there's the guy, the Seth. Spoiler alert. Cover your ears. The Seith, Seth? The Seith. The Sith.

Yeah, yeah. And he's scary. I like Seth better. Yeah, the Seth. I have some trivia. What was Luke Skywalker's uncle's name? I don't know any of this. Okay.

Gilbert? Uncle. No, I was thinking Uncle Levi. Uncle Ben. Well, Ben Kenobi is, yeah. But remember? Was his last name, Kenobi? No.

No. Uncle Owen. Oh. You remember? Uncle. You know what I mean? I'm going to fix the Dillithreraers.

I don't know what the name is. The Lither Raiders. Anyway, yeah. Jar Jar. That's in the prequel ones. Yeah, I don't really like those. I'm not a big fan of those ones. But I like the,

what do you think of the later ones with the J.J. Abrams on. What did you think of those? First one was okay. Yeah. I thought they were corny a little bit. Yeah. I like Daisy Ridley.

I don't know about you. She's fun. I love her. love her i don't know why i just do yeah yeah um those are good but um so i did the show monday and it's a high level show i signed an nda you can put this out and um so i can't tell you what it's a or anything about it but i just going to tell you this i failed miserably i um first of all i had to do a chinese accent which i'm not good at but it was like because you're Korean? No, I just

Asian accent. No, no. I don't think I think, Klau, you've said this. You don't think I do a good Asian accent. Sometimes it hits and it hits real good. Yeah. But then you go in and out of it. Oh, yeah? Yeah. So like, stick with it. Like, okay, from now for two minutes,

only Asian accent. And real or comedic? Like grounded? Like comedic. What kind, though? There's different kinds. How about South Korean? No, no, no. I'm not in specific regions. I'm not going to. I do two different kinds. Aggressive, your good one is aggressive Japanese.

Oh. Like my, hello, how are you? How are you? Uh-huh. My name is Toshi Okomoda. Stanley. It's still good, yeah. Yeah.

I don't know anything. I don't know nothing. Yeah. Was that aggressive Japanese? It can get it. Why don't you? Clear your room. But see, that's more like angry Korean now.

Yeah. Yeah, okay. But the one I did Monday was, you know, because the dictator, her already was in the dictator? Yeah. It's the higher up one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. How are you? Who's the one you did with Andrew Santino and Adam Ray, the Huttututuri? Oh, love that guy. That wasn't supposed to be Asian, though. That was more weird, islander-y kind of a thing. That one is really good.

I am Hut to do you don't know anything If I don't know You know I like that one If you break my arm I break your Eye for eye

That's island Yeah yeah that's more island What island That's a Generic island Some could argue Japan's a big island Generic island

How about you Do you do Do you do Asian accent I do you do one right now I don't want because I don't want to, like, mock my own people. Oh, so I'm mock around people.

You let me do fucking... Two minutes of fucking mocking. That's why you get decided NDA. Yeah, yeah. Can you do an Asian accent? Uh-huh. Try it. No, I can't.

We'll bleep it out and blow your face. No, no, you got it. How about this? No. No, do this. Let's do it in an... Yeah, there we go. Yeah, yeah.

We don't want to do this. Let's create a mock accent. That's what I like... It's fun to do. Okay. An accent that you... You don't even know where it's from. So like the Tiger Belly theme song.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So let's try. So now you can't get in trouble. But, um, okay. So it can just be. Hey, me.

I'm trying out. Hold on. Hey, me. I'm out. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go to the store. Yeah, that. We don't know what that's from.

Yeah. Yeah. You try. Ambiguous. You won't do any of them. No. Because you're scared. Because whatever I do, there's going to be a country for it.

I see. I see. I see. Yeah, yeah. I can't, like, I'm not that imaginative. Right. Okay. Yeah. You think stereotypes are real?

Yes. Yes. But are they? Think about it. We look some up. No, I know. I know that. Like Asian stereotypes.

Let's get real about it. What about the watermelon one? Whoa. Asian watermelons? Yeah, yeah. I feel like... Japanese love watermelons, by the way. Philippines, we have the best.

Philippines. Best watermelon. I'm supposed to be honest. The Japanese have better ones. I don't know. The square ones are like $10,000 one. Oh, I've never seen those ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Japanese have really good fruit. They do have fruit. They're the fruit kings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, this is true. Yeah. So it's stereotypes like, Asians can't drive.

I don't think that's right. That's not right. I think it's accurate. Here's why, though. But it actually makes sense culturally. You go to like Southeast Asian countries. The traffic laws are not the same here. We just drive different.

Yeah, it's just a difference. So I think it's the stereotype is true. driving down. Yeah, because I was in Thailand once. I saw a head-on collision. They both put their head out the wind. They go, okay, let's move on. See, it's just different.

They don't stop or anything. They exchange insurance. No insurance. Yeah, yeah. It's okay. It's okay. Move on, right? The fender's gone.

One of the cars on fire. It's like, I can't. Everything okay. You know what I mean? I actually think Asians are too good. I would also agree. I would agree with that. I would agree with that.

Yeah, we're too good. We're reckless. We're too good that we're reckless. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's over here, it's very lawful, right? And, like, we come from a land of, like, lawlessness on the road. Yeah. And also, like, zero road rage.

Yeah. Over here, it's lawful and ragey. Yeah. And so it's, like, I don't know. It's like you have, it's different. But I would say, like, any time I'm in a car with an Asian person, do I, like, brace? I do. Do I brace?

But not because they're bad drivers. I just think that they take risk. I'm bad. No, you're incredible. I actually think... How many accidents have you been in with Bobby? How many cars have been? And not only that, you always say that, you know, the way I drive, you get nauseous.

He is so good that he could be a race car driver. That's why I fear... I hate driving with him because he's so fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been a fender bender with him. Yeah, but that's like race cars. You don't think in race cars are when they go in the circles? An F1, true.

Yeah, yeah, they get him find a vendors. If he hits a car... If he thinks bumper cars, he's a great driver. This is what great thing about him. If he hits a car, even if it's a fender bender bender, he takes a car. It takes $500, he puts it on the windshield, and it's like, okay. Yeah, what's up? Frankie Ginnonis, homie.

What's up, bud? We're talking about Asian driving. Any thoughts? Oh, shit. We're talking about stereotypes to see, hey, buddy. Stereotypes to see if they're true or not. You know what I mean? Yeah, that was true, right?

So you know what the Asians, the stereotype Asians can't drive? You think it's true or not? I mean, obviously there's some Asians that can, but overall, yeah. Really? Okay. Yeah, yeah. What about, I've, you know, I've dated some Asian women, both of them. Yeah, but is it the woman part that's...

Oh, here we go. Oh, hey. You know, you could be the woman part. You know, I mean? Can women parlor park? Yeah. Okay. I can't.

I don't. Let's go through the Asians, they're good at math. Wait, can I just ask a question? Go ahead. Are there Asians in the F-1 racies? Yes. Yes, they're right there.

By the way, Bianca Bustamante. Okay. Who's that? She said, Bianca Bustamante. I don't like that energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Bobby, you dated. She said it like Michael Jordan.

Like, we all supposed to know who that person. Have you heard of this person? You should. If you have it, then it's a name. Because she's so cool. Oh, my gosh. She's hot, right? Well, more than that.

an incredible driver. And by the way, Bobby, you dated a race car driver. That is true. Damn, you don't know who this is? You dated Lewis Hamilton? I wish. If you dated Louis Hamilton. Yeah. No, I dated a girl that was like a really professional driver. And incredibly hot.

Incredibly hot and I used to watch her races online. Yeah. Wow. And I used to get super nervous. That's crazy. Is she like is she good at it? She's really good. What do you mean? I mean, does she like win any races? Yes. No, no. No, she does.

She wins all of them. He goes backwards. I think she's ranked like top ten in the world. Wow. Really? Holy shit. It's probably because she's so hot.

You're distracted by her. She's a little bit out. She's just driving by both of that. They'll be like, fuck. Yeah, she's super cute. She has more followers than me. It hurts my feelings. But anyway, oh, no, you're going to give her more followers?

I heard she liked Zach Woods post. Okay. We're not putting that out there. Let's go, Kat. Fearless, dude, over here. It's a callback. You weren't here. Yeah, I was like,

nobody was here. So Asians are going to math, do you think that's real? I'm not good at it at all. I think you are. Give me an equation. One plus one. I'm out.

I'm lost. Two. Give me a more complex one. Okay, okay. X squared plus the four squared equals. Oh, this is too hard. hard, man. What about you? You know it? No, hell no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As soon as you say squared and all that shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you see equation, I get freaked out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sock Doc. Zock Dock for your health.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's perfect. That's a perfect place to be two point something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just right in the middle. But if you brought home bad grades, were you scared? Yeah, homie. Oh, me, fuck, bro. Homie, I don't know what kind of fuck.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, if I was, like, getting a D's or, or whatever yeah would they hit you yeah yeah me too the worst days of my life were report card days

I even thought about suicide really oh yeah like I would go to a cliff there was a cliff by my house and I would sit there with the report card I wouldn't really do it I didn't do it because I'm alive now you know what I would look at the report card

and look at the cliff and go this could be a better option Like if you didn't do well in geography My parents would beat the shit out of there Oh yeah I hear it I thought I feel You know that right You know that yeah yeah yeah

But I don't know the feeling of getting bad grids What's bad grades? Like what were you like family? Oh 1.2 you should get Oh yeah Yeah yeah you should get it Yeah D's F's yeah all across the board I started to fuck around

But then before that I just I was too afraid I was too afraid like I know the beating around the corner, why would I fuck around? Yeah, but I'm a man, I'm a warrior. You are. You're brave with me. I knew I was going to get beat.

I still got bad grades. Wow. You're crazy. I don't think that's because you were a warrior. That's not because you were a warrior. That's because you were dung-dum. Really? No, I would be like, yeah.

Okay. Is that that I can't, I could comprehend. I actually think you're better at math than you give yourself credit for. Okay. Because, like, when he, like, calculates tips, like, as he's paying for things. He's so fast. He's faster than anyone at the table. Yeah, see, he probably just doesn't even notice his Asian-ness when it comes on.

He's just like, I'm done, but really. Really, maybe. How about this stereotype? Asians are sneaky. Is that a stereotype? Because it's a ninja? Oh. Is that the thing?

Is that a stereotype? Or did I make it up? Or is that you? Are you sneaky? I'm very sneaky. He's sneaky. I'm sneaky as fog, bro. What's your sneaky?

thing you've ever done. Well, sometimes I'm there, I'm not there. That's ninja. Yeah, that's a ninja shit, yeah. Yeah. So anyway, what about Hispanic? You like the stereotypes? Hispanic stereotypes.

No, I don't even like that word Hispanic. What do you like to be called? Latino, honey. All right, homie. I didn't know, dude. You got to draw a boundary. You're drawing a boundary, dude. Right, homie?

All right? I didn't know that about you. Yeah, yeah. From now on, I'm going to say fucking... I mean, whatever, it's fine. That's, like, on a, you know, filling out an informational sheet or whatever. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, yeah.

So, Latino, what Latino stereotypes are not true, you think? For me, it's like, you know, they say, some say Mexicans are lazy. They're not. They're not, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's some out there. Yeah, everyone has people out there. I know a lot of lazy whites.

Yeah. Well, yeah, well, yeah. They could be the lazy whites. In the craziest in many ways. Lazy is a myth. It doesn't exist. What? I actually believe that I don't believe there's anyone inherently lazy, like in the world.

You just like, I think that either they're not able to do it because of whatever. You need help, Latina? Yeah, yeah. I don't put a chair, man. That's all right. I don't feel, I don't believe that people are just like, oh, I'm just going to, I don't see people that are lazy at all. I think there always is a reason. why they can't do what they want to do or need to do.

Son, get us up. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. It does. You don't think they have that moment where like, I know I could do that, but man, nah, fuck that. But there's always a reason, right? Like, I don't believe that someone's, like, just straight up. The reason why is it's because they're lazy. They're not lazy.

They're not lazy. I don't believe it. Right? I don't believe it. But I think they're making a conscious decision to just kick it and not go do that right there to take out that trash. Yeah, but that still has to do with either why you want to avoid doing something. Like for me, right? like I like to avoid or like do things really last minute

not because I'm lazy I'm afraid of not failing at that thing so I'll like just not do it at all But there are people that don't want to do it There's no reason What I'm saying is why son get a job No dad I just want to Why? I just don't want to

But you're saying there's a deeper reason Why is everyone a surfer guy I don't know I just don't want to dude dude my dad just said to get a fucking job dude are you gonna get a job dude

no way dude no way dude you know what you want let's be fucking lazy together dude that's pretty good fuck yeah dude lazy's the way

it is the way of our us we explore myself I don't get caught up in the system dude let's just sit here on this couch and smoke weed feel like it

haha but those guys white those were white This is the next BFus and brought out. Well, dude, I feel like it's different with a lot of white homies, though, because they already know, they probably have money. They're not tripping off that.

They're just like, why? Why do I need to work? Like, my mom and dad die, I'm going to get all this money. Oh, you mean like people, like nepotism, but what do you call them? Nepot. No, not NEPO babies. People that are going to get, trust fund kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'd love to be a, would you be doing comedy if you were a trust fund kid? I don't know that's tough I mean there's some funny ass Trust Fun comedians out there But yeah I don't know I think our comedy is a little bit I know who they are

He's sneaky Say the names will believe that I know I know there You find out Oh their parents are billionaires And they're that funny Oh yeah I knew that And he was like

He got gamed up by his dad Because he invested all his shit In real estate He's making money in his sleep Like comedy He's like a little side piece It's a side thing, yeah. Which kind of makes comedy feel like more lighthearted

because it's just nothing, you don't have to like invest everything into it because you're like, oh, I just whatever, you know? Yeah. He's good at, though. Hey, he's super humble and chill, though. That's why, you know. I like that dude. That's how you know they're like rich, rich.

Oh, he's really. Because how much chill people are. Yes, because super successful, super humble and chill, like are always humble and chill and nice. When they haven't made it yet, they're mean and nasty. You ever noticed that? Oh, like new money versus old money? No, not that at all.

Doggy, world. Get out of my way. It's like when they haven't hit that level of success that they want to be yet, they're scrappier, they're meaner, because they're hungry still. Even when they're already rich, you're saying this still. No, no, not yet. When they make it and they make that money

and they're comfortable, they're more supportive of their peers, they're nicer, they're just less like, because they're not, like, fighting for their lives anymore. So they have space to be kind, if that makes sense. are you talking about rich kids that make it i'm talking about anyone like comic i don't i disagree why i i believe that poor kids that make it i've noticed they hoard and then they protect their status and then they buy into their own bullshit what do you mean i think you're thinking of

someone specific yeah that's very specific yeah he's got one his name is stephen Well, think about yourself, right? Like, you know how before you used to, like, drag and kick other, like, your peers? I didn't drag and kick anybody. I never dragon kicked anybody. Somebody drank and kicked my face. Oh, wait, that's, yeah. Okay, so between you and so and so, or you and Ari, you guys were always, like, beefing and fighting and fighting.

But then you get to a level of success where you guys are actually able to, like, be friends now. Oh, right, right, right. You know, we're successful now. We all made it, you know? It's like Kobe and Shaq. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

After the rings, they were like, okay. We're chill now. Yeah. Maybe Drake and Kendrick will get there too. Maybe. Maybe. It's a big ass. Who knows?

Long time from now. You don't have beefs, huh? No. There's not one person. You don't have to say names. Resetment. There's not somebody who are like, ah, fuck that, dude. Resentments for sure.

I mean, oh, yeah, well, resentments are, that's different. You have resentment? You have resentment? I mean, toward comedians? Oh, no, no, not towards comedians. Oh. I mean, maybe earlier on, but I don't, yeah. Yeah.

I never had. Bobby, stop trying to find it. You're trying to find him. No, but it was like, when I'm such a nice guy that I'm like, I believe him. I believe him. Yeah, I really have to like think about it. Like, yeah, I didn't have a problem with that dude. I don't know.

There's nobody that like, hey, you know what fuck that dude? That one time. Yeah. Yeah. You have a war against yourself. Yeah. My resentment more towards myself. Yeah.

No, because I find that too. I you know there's no more I hate than myself you know I mean so I punish myself and then I feel these things and I want to drown it with you know what I mean drugs and alcohol and all these other things you know because of the self kind of hatred you know which I've completely gotten better at you know I think I'm beginning to really like myself a lot more I really I do believe yeah I feel um when I show up to places now I I there's more of a sense of like I belong here. Do you feel that?

Yes. For sure. Yeah, you do belong in the comedy community. I think you're well loved. Oh, thank you for see. First of all, give Frankie Cunitas a run of love. Hey, what's on me?

What's up on me? I love Frankie. It's a Hulu special that's out now on Hulu. What's it called? God damn, that's crazy. Dan, that's crazy. I saw you work it out

in the belly room a couple of times. You know what I mean? It's so good. Oh, yeah, yeah. And at the end product, was it, did you feel good about it? Yes, I did. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Which I, you know, I hate watching myself, thinking of the self-hate thing. You know, but after I saw it, and then, you know, Ali Wong helped, she was directed and produced it. She was real hands-on in post. Yeah. So, like, she kind of took a first pass at it, and then I started watching it, and I was like, I didn't hate it. You know, I was like, oh, okay, yeah. This is actually good. Yeah, no, I didn't hate it.

Wow, wow, wow. Which is rare for me, you know. Yeah. Usually when I'm watching myself. stuff, I'm like, ugh, ugh, ugh.

How many shows did you shoot? Two. Two in Portland. In Portland. A place called Revolution Hall. Yeah. And did you,

both set did you like, or was there one set that you liked more than the other? You know what? I ended up liking them both. I mean, I was so well prepared, man.

I was just, I was just like, because I was so paranoid that I was going to fuck it up that I just like, yeah, so I was really prepared. But, uh,

interesting though, interestingly, though, the earlier show was more rowdy than the later show, like crowd-wise. Oh, wow. Yeah,

which was kind of funny, but they were both good shows. Wow, that's amazing. It's so good. And it's out now. And is that the trailer? Yeah, there's a trailer. Yeah. So, you know, it looks pretty cool.

Yeah, looks cool, dude. It's so good. It's so good. Yeah. How many seats was the venue? Like eight something. Oh, eight hundred something. Yeah, yeah.

Wow. Two shows. Congratulations. Is that your second special? First hour special, yeah. You did a half hour? I did like a half hour, like variety shows. show thing for like HBO years ago but

yeah this is the first amazing piece of all stand up just bam I like your shoes too oh thank you homie yeah you have a Robinson edition Cortez nice what is it Jackie Robinson Edition Cortez special edition I had to get them on eBay

yeah what I mean how do you choose your clothes was that a hard thing to do it was so funny I was like they like like Hulu gave me some money to like you know go like find an outfit and I went and like bought all this shit shit, because I hate shopping.

Yeah, yeah. I'm fucking, I just going, like, yeah, cool, that looks cool. I just buy a bunch of shit. And then I ended up wearing, like, what I normally wear. Just a black tea is a jeez. Did you buy a set of them or no? What? A couple of pairs of the same thing, or no?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Except I bought two pairs of those shoes that I bought, like, you know, I bought like every black shirt there was. But just, I was trying to wear something else, something more colorful. But then Allie was like, you know, what do you normally wear? I'm like, dude, I wear a black tea and like, you know, that's why I feel comfortable she's like then do that

you know and I was like all right cool because I'm thinking about because when I do mine a complete outfit but maybe no no all leather no no no no oh me no no because we could like we talked about that

we're like you know you can tell when you watch a special and like a comedian's like wearing a certain outfit you could tell like they don't normally wear that you can like feel the energy I agree they feel out of their body yeah they're like they're doing too much

like oh a special so they try to like you know and say hey homie you don't you don't normally wear that yeah they don't look like themselves right right or you could tell they don't they're not moving like themselves i have a brown monkey like brown like a full-on just one color monkey monk oh monk oh monk i think i have a brown like you know what i mean like sort of like a loose monkey kind of you know i'll say monkey again yeah you say monkey yeah you say what are you

saying monk dash why like a monk oh like a brown like no please god no why why why Shave my head bald Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it So I just wear your jeans And that's what you're wearing today I feel like that's, you're going to be the most free up there In what you always wear Yeah, but doesn't look like a special outfit

I think you can, yeah Go ahead Sorry No, no, go ahead, go ahead I said, I think you could wear I think you could wear anything you wanted on stage and it would make it feel comfortable. I don't feel like you would be out of your

body in an outfit. Do you, I don't know. I wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Like, look at what Eddie Murphy wore. Yeah, but that's, he's, he was a different beast, homie. You could tell, like, he belongs in that suit. Yeah, that's, yeah. How about this?

This is what I'm going to do. Okay. I'm going to buy a bunch of outfits. Yeah. And then we're going to collectively look at them. Let's workshop it. We'll workshop it. Yeah, yeah.

That's what, is it. Now, I've never seen Ali wear that. But that's iconic now. On the streets. No. Yeah. I feel like she does. She doesn't.

I know her well. She goes old school rat pack. Just wear a suit. Yeah. Go back to previous. Let's see what Mullaney wear. Yeah, I've never seen Malini wear that at the clubs. He always wears suits, though, for his specials, right?

That's what I'm saying. I've never seen them wear a tie like that with that much art on it, though. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Lenny Bruce. People do suits. Yeah, people wear suits. Yeah, I can't do a suit, though.

Yeah, I can't do a suit. What's that one? Gallagher? I don't know who this is. George Carlin. Yeah. You can go aggressively. Go back.

Yeah, I'll go aggressively like that, that maybe. Yeah, that's like. Yeah, like that. Don't you wear something like that? That orange, like, construction shirt, you, a sleeveless shirt, you always wear that people hate. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll do that.

The highlighter shirt. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. You do have, like, a very strong sense. I don't wear the highlighter shirt. I think you're a fashionista a little bit. I agree. Yeah.

Yeah. It is. I'm scared now I'll figure out later It's months away Dude yeah That is like That's the last thing

Your worries Yeah Now that your backdrop Did you choose that Yeah Yeah yeah yeah They did like You know like a mock-up

Of like some options Yeah And then they're like You know What do you want to use And what color And how do you want the curtains to go Yeah

But we went as Simple Yeah Simple as simple As can be Yeah Because Ali was like Yeah you can maybe

Play around In the next special but your material's so strong and all that you just want people to just sit with it and I was like, oh no, I have a whole fucking background I hired a whole kid to do it? No, no. Oh, no.

People already know you, you know? Yeah, yeah. I'm like, people on this one are like, hey, this is, get to know me a little bit, you know? All right. People might be expecting that from me. Like, oh shit, Bobby Lee's coming in special. But with no pressure.

I'm just saying, like, you're going to do great. What does your backdrop look like? I'm doing it fucking, my neighbor, Totoro. Yeah, Haya Miyazaki. like Studio Ghibli. Ooh, sick. Yeah, yeah. Like woodsy, you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Creatures in the background. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't put too many creatures, though. Why? Because you don't want people get distracted, like, you know,

every frame you don't want to see a creature in the background. I want to see you. I need help. Yeah, yeah. No, I need that. I need help. Yeah, yeah.

I know, right? I'm just like, all right, I do a close-up to the creatures. Yeah, yeah. I'm not talking about creatures. I'm just saying a little eyeballs. a little figure, you know, behind tree.

Yeah, that's cool. I like that idea, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, your budget's probably way bigger than mine. It sounds like, but, yeah, congratulations, yeah. We got the same. We got the same dogs. Yeah.

And do you think they're promoting it well, or? I feel like it, yeah, you know. I don't know, hopefully people are watching it. Yes. Yeah. I did. I was in, they had a big one at Times Square. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. And then, um. Did you go there and take a photo? Yeah, I did. You did? You did? I had to.

I was out there doing press last week, and then a couple of homies to me, I was like, dude, your shit's in Times Square. I was like, oh, that's so awesome. Yeah. And as we're walking up, it just pops up. Oh, it's one of those screens that switches or? Yeah, you know, it's Times Square. You know, all those big old screens.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know, but like every, I don't know, four or five minutes it pops up. When you see that, how do you, because I remember I was on, I've been on a couple of billboards and, um. Just see, no, I've been on a couple of billboards. in the 30 year career I've had two one was a Guyco commercial

sorry Elpoa loco Elpoa loco Wait weren't you in Elpoa loco? Yeah I was Yeah I was Elpoio loco really

Yeah I was in that I was fucking hungry and needy and desperate I'm not That's why I did the Elpoia loco Wait wait Didn't Brad Pitt

Like, dude, he dressed as a chicken, right, for El Pollo Loco or something? Brad Pitt did? Yeah, was it a Brad Pitt? Yeah, I remember something like that. Dang. Yeah, I think it's Brad Pitt. Yeah, he was like the sign guy for an Alpoio Loco restaurant. Before he made it?

Yeah. Yeah. It was right after Ocean's 11. Oh, shit. That's me in the Locoilocks. All right. Oh, good. Oh, so quick.

What? Oh, you're holding a drumstick clap. Why are you holding one drumstick doing this? I know, dude. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. Is that Warner Brothers? Yeah, I don't remember, but that was a long time ago, dude.

Oh, my God. That's hilarious. I've done a lot of those weird commercials. But anyway, yeah, what was you talking about? The feeling of the billboard. Oh, yeah, the billboard. So when you take a photo of it, how do you feel? Yeah, I mean, it's.

It's out of body. It's crazy. And we had some for this full, you know, but this one was just like, just me, like my head all big. So it's a little bit like, oh, yeah, it's just crazy. Yeah. But then you're like, all right, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Because it may, I think about that first time I got 20 bucks and two free drinks to do a gig.

And I was like, oh, hey, man, we're on our way. You know, and then that was like, here we are almost 20 years later. And then it's like, you know, fuck, billboard in Times Square, yeah. Also, people don't drive by go, oh, there's Frankie or Bobby or whatever. They just go, whatever. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. It doesn't mean.

For us, it's kind of cool. Yeah, it is cool for us. It is, honey. No, it is great. No, it's great. Homie? Why did you say it all kind of? Yeah, it is cool for us, huh?

Yeah. It is cool. You know what I mean? So, can we talk about sobriety or no? Sure, homie. Yeah. How much time do you have now? Nine months today.

That's fucking amazing. It's a baby. It's a baby. I should put that on here. I should put that on here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. but um yeah it's a whole last baby i was thinking is yeah somebody rammed the day first day i didn't drink or do drugs and then now that baby came out today yeah yeah nine months he doesn't know that

gestation yeah oh yeah yeah calculations oh you're doing a baby reference yeah a cat mentioned you did it's a baby nine months i know i know that nine months yeah it's actually 10 yeah i know nine months square yeah yeah yeah nine months squared yeah nine months square if it's a year what happens it's like elephants i think are longer like wait but if you if a big you mean you say If you left a baby in there for a year? Yeah. I don't think you can do that. The water would break and then it would drown.

What about six months? Six months? They make it. They can. They can make it. I was born almost three months early. No way. It was an incubator for like 18 days.

Oh my gosh. I see those little NICU babies on TikTok and I cry. I cried. Yeah, I was a little homie. Really? I still have a little hobby, but yeah, that's probably why. Yeah. But my, my Tia talk shit, bro.

She was like, you look like a little alien. You didn't have no eyebrows or eyelash. My mom thought I was. the cutest thing, but all my tias are like, and were you like this small when you were like this? Yeah, it was probably like that.

I think they're nervous that you weren't going to make it? I don't think it was that crazy, but it was like, he's got to be here for a while. Wow. But I think right away, they were like,

he's going to be okay, but he's got to be in this little thing. Yeah. At that age, your lungs aren't quite, you don't have the surfactant in your lungs to breathe well. Like, you need so much help and you're that small three months.

But what, why does that even happen? You're eager? Yeah, like, I needed to come out for some reason. Oh, I see. They did a C-section on my mom and then... Oh, okay. And then a little homie came like, eh-uh. Yeah, yeah.

And were you the... You have sisters, brother? I have a sister. Older? The younger. Oh, I see. So you're the first. Six and a half years younger than me, yeah.

Really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, my mom and dad were planners. Yeah. But so were you close with her because... Yeah. Oh, you were?

I know. It seems like it's a big... But once we were, like, both in our 20s and we were just like, all right. Oh, you love her. Yeah, yeah. We talk almost, we talk pretty much every day. Oh, that's nice. But what changed this time with your sobriety, you think?

Yeah, just all the rock bottoms, oh, me. It was crazy. Yeah. I mean, I was still battling the last time I was here, the last time I did Tiger Belly, I was like, I got on a sick one that night, and I was trying to, like, keep it cool. Wait, wait. I think I relapsed that night, right? Really?

Yeah. You did type? What? I was still like on shaky ground I knew I needed to get sober and then we were talking about it even and I felt good leaving here and then I went home and I was by myself

and yeah and I think I found a baggie in a drawer and that's all it took and I was supposed to go meet some people at the comedy store and I ended up just isolating it just had me you know two years ago

yeah there you go homie that night wow and we're like we're having fun you're doing you're like I'm gonna fuck a relive tonight though It's a relapse tonight, oh. You get on a sick one. Yeah, yeah.

You know, I'll be honest with you, Frankie, it's hard. I mean, there are times where I'm at a club, and I'm, like, really depressed at a bad sad, or, you know, I read a bad comment online, and I'm like, I should just take a couple of shots of whiskey. What's that going to hurt? And I just don't do it. You know what?

But it is, I mean, I've come. almost pretty close of like just going fuck it just do it yeah yeah and i just don't it's yeah it's so hard in the beginning man after i had to get past that hump yeah i mean i always tell this story i think i mentioned it last time but you were the first one to be like you have it man you know you have the disease or whatever and i'm like this my honor you don't fucking know me but fuck you homie yeah and then like a year later i was like oh maybe he was right yeah but i did that but yeah and then in the beginning uh it just sucked man man and I was like I just had trouble getting on stage

I just wasn't like I wasn't bomb you were worried about you oh yeah of course I was worried about you then I was worried I was just like you know yeah it's not gonna it's not gonna end I'm hopeless you know yeah but uh yeah it's the longest chunk of time you've had right oh yeah homie I only had

I think the longest I had was around 100 100 days and and that was like you know I wasn't working the program really though but now I'm just all in you're all in yeah that's awesome that's fucking amazing nine months homie. So it was like, yeah, yeah. You know, and I had the chunks before that, but nothing of that length.

A lot of the relapses were like, you know what, I'm going to have some drinks, oh, me, I'll be good. Alcohol is never my problem. It was always, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eccasy and mushrooms are always my jam, but cocaine's what drove me to the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to be careful with cocaine. Okay, now, you know.

Bro, oh. Yeah. They had to wheel me out of the Anda's the next door of the comedy story, you know? Really. And I started on a Saturday night. I had, I had been filming for like, Tiger Pelly, I'm just kidding. No, no, no.

This was in 2023. Wow. And I never went back to that dark place. Obviously, I drank and partied a little bit after that, but I never went back to that, thank God. But I was filming like a bunch of, I did, we did this full season two, the Walking Dead spin off in Jersey,

and then I was in Toronto doing what we do in the shadows. So I was like banging shit out for like five months. And work-wise, because we're contract workers. I was always, it kept me like an assistant. safe bubble because I never wanted to fuck that up. Yeah. So I would just get locked in on that. But then when you finish, you know, you feel like you deserve a reward.

So I'm like, hey, I've been good. Oh, me? Like, I want my party. You know what I'm going to go. Yeah, yeah. And then I had a gig at the laugh factory and the comedy store. And then I got a hotel suite at the Andas right next door. Right.

Right next door. And then I started on Saturday. I kept extending my stay next to you know. Tuesday, like at whatever, 1 p.m. They're wheeling me out of there. Take me to the hospital home here. I'm just like, I try to tell him like, no, I'm good because they walked in on me and I was, you know,

I'm supposed to check out. Dude, and I'm like in my robe, passed out with my head against a headboard like this, my dick's all out and shit. There's drugs and shit over me, and I just wake up and they're standing over me like, hey man, paramedics are here, you know. Wow. And I told him, I said, no, man, I'm good. And they were like, we got to, we already showed up

so you're going to get charged for this either way, so we're going to take you. And then I was like, you know, they found out I had insurance. So they took me, yeah. Wow. Crazy. That was crazy. But I was like, oh. Okay, you know, I just had to go with them, like, you know.

But yeah, still. And then so my sister was like, motherfucker, promise me you're going to get help, you know. Yeah. And then my sister wrote me a letter of how it would play out for each family member if I died. Wow. It got real, you know. Oh, she loves, loves you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the homie right there. Shout to my sister. She listens to every episode of this podcast, so she'll be listening to this. Oh, that's so sweet. I'm going to be devastated if you died from it. Okay. What the heck? You know, I'm just going to let you know.

It would devastate me. Yeah, yeah. It would be tears of fucking despair. Okay? Yeah, well. I'm just letting you know, homie. What? What's so funny?

He's just, he's not going to, he's still. I know, I know. Hey, the way he looked at me, I would be devastated. My sister listens to this podcast. No, I know, right. She's definitely going to cry on that part. I love you that much.

No, no, I love you too, Bobby. It goes both ways, man. Yeah, in fact, there's, I mean, you name me a name. I'll tell you if I would be devastated. Donald Trump. No, come on. No, someone that's in the comedy community. That's in AA?

No, just in general, if they died. Tom Segura. Devastated. Burt Kreischer. Devastated. Dio Vaughn. Dude, that would, the level. Why is this different from?

I'll tell you why. The level of devastation I'd be with Theo would be the same as Frankie's. That's the highest devastation. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same type of feeling that I have toward these people.

I shouldn't play this game because I don't want to get in trouble. It's a weird game. Yeah, it's a weird game. And it's very sad. I imagine if you were like, eh, not that. Not devastated. I can tell you level. There's levels of devastation.

Okay. Right. So is Tom Segura below? Define. Define devastation for you. Okay. Okay, I'll define devastation. Okay, here's how you define devastation.

You're playing dying light. Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. You get the news? Yeah, yeah. How long before you play dying light again? All right, so I'm playing dying light. This is good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. There's a speaker phone, so someone's going to call me. Yeah. So who's going to call me? Can I call? Okay, you can go. Okay, you can go. Come, come, come, run, run, run, run.

Ring, ring. Run, ring. You're on speaker? Hey, it's me, cat. Who? Cat. What? Nothing.

Nothing. Tom Sugara, he actually, he passed away. Immediately. Turn off, turn off, turn off, turn. What? Give me a name that we haven't mentioned yet. Okay, okay. Who called?

No, don't, you have to do the dial again. Hello? Yeah? Hi, it's me, Kat. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, hurry, hurry. I'm sorry, I'm trying.

What are you laughing about? What's going on? Why are you laughing? She's crying. Frankie, what are you doing online? We're on three-way calls. All right, Frankie, what's up? You guys, what's something to say?

You're not giving you a name that's going to be on the fence. Ring, ring, ring. Yeah, give me one. Hey, ring. Yeah, yeah. Yo, Bobby, Bobbie. What's up? Yeah, what's up?

What were you going to say? It's Gilbert. Is it Gilbert? Yeah. What's up? Okay. Well, your opener died, Ramsey Badali. Oh.

Bobby, why are you? I have to get to the, I have to get to the safe point. Let me get to the save point. Run, run, run, run. Hold on, hold on. What, what? Ramsey, what the fuck? Run, run, run, run.

Why are you saying run, run, run, run. Save, save. Turn it off. Oh my God, what happened. Yeah, yeah. There are some people that you would mention it, I wouldn't even turn it off at all. Wow. You just play through the tears?

No, there'd be no. tears I would like even forget that you even said it good no not good okay okay sorry yeah I mean like like when Brody died that was remember when you told me when Brody died yeah I delivered the news poorly sorry

that was a poor delivery I did one of these like I woke him up and I was like wake up you whispered yeah and he's like and he had a show later on at the Irvine Improv oh he was taking a nap I was taking a nap yeah but no it wasn't it was 4 p.m he just hadn't woken up yet

I live in a free society where the options are endless You know what that was bad That was a bad day That was a bad Yeah fuck man So how did you deliver you just poked, poked And then I was sleeping like if it had been like 8, 9 a.m

I would have been like okay let the man sleep But it's like 4 p.m. Okay, anyway, how'd you do it? I was sleeping I was like, wait What's up, what's up? What time is it? 4 p.m.

It's 4. Why is cat bird here? I don't even know cat bird Why is this random white person here That I don't even know She lives here now Okay anyway Frankie, what are you doing here?

Last night was fun What the fuck is everyone doing here? What is the right way to deliver Yeah, I don't know how to do it Wait, how did you deliver it? That's what I said I was like, hey, like really bad news Like so and so passed away

But he was still in like Dreamland? You didn't like fully wake him up yet. Yeah, I don't think he was fully awake. No, this is what happened. I remember the day. Yeah. You woke me up.

I was dead asleep. You said it. And it took me about five seconds to absorb the information, right? Yeah, he did an initial in his sleep, what? And then he sprung up and he was like, what? Yeah, I sprung up. And then he had a third what.

And the third what was tears of devastation. Fuck, man. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't think there is. That one. And then you canceled your show that night. I did, yeah.

Yeah. I think a lot of people did, right? I don't know if there is a good way to give that kind of news. There isn't. There's no good way. Is there a funny way to do it? There's just, oh, there's bits. There's for sure.

Hey, so. Hey, bud. Oh, God. Knock, knock. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because that's where the cops do it, right? They go knock, knock.

Guess who's dead? Who's there? Yeah. Yeah. Not your kid. Yeah. Oh. Oh, wow.

Fucking cat. The worst is like in military movies where the mother looks out the window. And they see the people come. And they see the military people with the flag thing. And then they collapsed. Was that saving private Ryan? Did she collapse?

Oh, God, it's devastating. And then four kids died in that. Right? She had four sons that died and the fifth one is. Come on, back me up. You all nod their heads. I know what's not saving private Ryan. I think we're all trying to move on for them.

back me up yeah four died yeah yeah Jesus what it's a death thing is real sad but this comment this podcast goes to different areas

don't die don't die don't die don't die let's not die man we're good yeah but yeah it's good not to die but thanks for saying that because I yeah yeah yeah but to your point though

like I was such in a dark clouded space that I would like if I was doing like a bunch of blow and all that like between lines and stuff because I was isolating I would put the drugs back in the drawer and close the drawer and like kind of be tidy between lines even though I was doing a line every fucking 20 minutes just in case I died

like people wouldn't walk in on just drugs everywhere which is crazy that's crazy dude I know it's insane it's also at the height of things happening yeah I'm in my own fucking you're killing house like fucking but you're killing it you're doing all these TV shows yeah yeah right

and to do that is crazy. It's insane. It's insane. But now you're able to enjoy the special. Yeah, I recorded the special sober. I prepared for it sober. Did your family go? Not sober, yeah.

Yay. Oh, who? My mom, my dad, my sister. Yeah. Would they proud? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I don't have to cover your mouth.

I was getting emotional, dude. We're, I, fuck, you know what? Fuck everyone here, man. Come on. Come on, Bob. Come on, man. I'm fucking tired of the fucking shit, dude. You don't mean that.

It looked like a fake cry. It looked like you were making fun of me. Day in, day out. I'd become real. You looked like you're sneezing. Yeah, it was like, oh. Fuck you. No, I didn't do it like that.

That's my mom and dad or my sister, man. No, no, dude, I wasn't. No, I was going on. A chew. Fuck you, catbird. No, I was like, no. I was like going, oh, were they proud? Yes.

My sister even brought like a little cake that had a old picture of her and I when we were kids on the cake. Yeah, we had it after in the green room. It was dope, man. She's like the heart of the family of my sister. But yeah, and then my mom and dad were like pretty emotional because I got pretty vulnerable in the special specifically towards the end.

Yeah. Yeah. And it was like, yeah. Nigo miho. Thank you, mejo. Congratulations, miho. Right? Yeah, exactly like that.

Do more Spanish. Do more Spanish. Much gracious, Amigo. Amigo. I'm so much of a kid. Amigo. My encaptu baller, my go. Bealar your pantalones.

Yeah, those pantalo. Like that makes sense. La Hamburgerza, Amigo. I'm just throwing the net. Yeah, yeah. The school. The school, amigo. As we're.

crying and hugged, yeah, yeah, the school, the school. I mean, if my dad went, the school son, that would be weird, yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is your mom going to be at your film taping?

No. Because she doesn't understand what it is. I don't think she would want to be there. Where are you taping it? Have you asked? San Diego. Oh, yeah, shit. I don't think she'll understand her son

performing in front of a lot of cameras with an amazing crowd. I know, but we, We brought her to this Phoenix show, like 4,000 seats. She came up and stayed. She ran off. She got, I don't ever want to do that again. You know what I mean?

Like, she doesn't like to cry. Well, yeah, because you brought her on stage. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, when she's like, I hate this. Yeah, yeah. I know, but you know, my mom, like, you know, when I'm performing, I've seen her in the audience. And she's like, you know what I mean, playing, you know what I mean?

They'll trigger you. Solitaire on our iPad. She doesn't know. She's not paying attention. Yeah, she's not into it. No, but she's probably proud But like, okay, he's so proud Bobby's doing that thing

But also Koreans are more monetary They're more like, you know what I mean? Like my son's doing well Because I'm getting this check every month Right It's just a way of expression Of me taking care of Like the oldest Korean son

Taking care of the family I'm already doing that So there's always there's always pride in that You know I mean But in terms of like The art What? The art she doesn't really fully understand

Like joke structure or, you know, any of that kind of stuff, you know, yeah. But I know that, you know, she's proud of me. It's funny just picturing her sitting in a full crowd of like 3,000, 4,000 people just dying of laughter and her just sitting there, like, playing on her phone just like, yeah. But, like, proud, though. Yeah, I mean.

Just on Wordle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And, you know, we've flown her into, like, when we did bad friends. In Vegas, we flew her in. You know what I mean? And, you know, nice hotel. I mean, so she gets the benefits of it.

And also, you know, I've been a good son for the last 25 years. I've sent her like, every month I send her a check. And she saves it. And with her social security in the check, she's living a really comfortable life. Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought you meant like she saves it, like she doesn't deposit it. She doesn't pay. Aw.

She doesn't answer it. yeah so you know do you have family members asking for money for sure homie yeah do get and just homies that are like little league with or yeah little league it's crazy yeah it's crazy there was this guy that I used to have a mad crush on when I was in high school and then a couple years ago he hit me up on Facebook asking if I could pay for his dental bill whoa yeah that's crazy yeah Did you? No.

Did he have bad teeth? But he was talking about how, like, his teeth were rotting and he was just trying to turn his life around. Oh, my God. You're, like, send me photos. He was banking on the fact that I had a huge crush on him back in the day. You know what I mean? So he probably was like, let me, yeah, yeah, old shit. Like, hey, I always thought you were so pretty, you know, like, can you pay for my teeth?

That's creepy as hell. But if he had grubby, like, gross teeth, you'd be like, ew, I don't know. Right. like I but I but you know they come out yeah they all they come out well first of all they think I have more money than I do you know right but then second is like do they give you like a specific amount yes sometimes they'll give me a specific amount and I will what's the what's the most amount they've asked oh yeah that's a lot oh yeah yeah I've gotten that too that's like the most though usually yeah yeah and sometimes they just say hey I need help some people I will break off but I'll

always be like all right check it out I'm gonna give you this money but like I don't want to hear from you until you have my money back or if you want to just pay me like a hundred bucks a month back whatever and then sadly most of those people you never hear from him again I know what was sorry yeah what was the $15,000 for what was that yeah it was like I don't know he was going through a divorce and da-da-da and they were gonna he lost the house to the wife and he didn't have his job and you know it was The whole story. I don't know how much of it was true, though,

but, you know, I was like, bro, I don't. Yeah. I have one, so I have one that's, I have to be very careful. But, so I was talking to a family member about this other family member. So I'll just say family number one is the one I was talking to. And the family number two is going to be the one that's going to ask me for money. So family number one was like, make up names. What?

Make up names. All right. So family number one was like, hey, Tony. Tony Lee. It's Tony Lee. Bob and Tony. Yeah. So Tony just, he's just got no motivation.

He has no jobs. He has no aspirations. You know what I mean? He's really doing nothing, right? Is he lazy? Lazy. Yeah. You know, he just has a fear of, like, getting rejected.

Oh, he's depressed. No, dude. He's a lot of childhood job. You're lazy. Lazy. Yeah. So then literally. So I'm talking number one.

Then 10 minutes later, out of the blue, Tony calls me, who hasn't even talked to in 25 years, calls me and goes, hey, man, so I'm doing pretty good. I'm starting a business. I just need a little money cash up front. I go, how much you need? He goes, 15 grand. Wow.

Then I go. Same number. Yeah, do you know what I said? I go, so-and-so just called me and told me that you're smoking weed all day long. You have no motivations. You have no plans. And he goes, they did call you?

And they go, yeah, they called. He goes, okay, then never mind. Oh. I felt so bad about to buy so much weed. Why'd you do that? Oh, you think I should give them the $15,000? I don't know, but why'd you like, say, because you've just been like, hey, dude, not right now.

Why'd you like, you know, be like, hey, so and so was talking to? Because I don't, I don't like the tricker. you know what I mean like if he's lying to him he's lying to me and also like I have given family members money to start a business oh you know that we know yeah yeah yeah George Gilbert we we know we know right I don't know do you know Frankie what what what what oh I don't know his story I know that I know that I know that story yeah oh my rule is this I'll give you to one time you can always ask one time and it's got to be reasonable what reasonable what's the If it's a deep family member, I think the top 10, but with a reason.

And with a business plan. Not just a business plan. Like, dude, if I know, you know, I have three kids, I lost my job. I can't pay my mortgage. I'm drowning. Yeah. Then, yes, one time. If it's, yeah, if it's a close family member, I've helped out close family members.

That's my rule, too. If they're kids involved, for me. But I get a lot of people I haven't talked to in 25 years And I don't like that Because it's like, you don't have a relationship with me Exactly Yeah, yeah, yeah But I do something a little bit different

Because I have family in the Philippines And I clearly like send money all the time I don't send money directly to the parents anymore I pay for the kids school myself Yeah, that's a good question So like whatever the kids need I'll pay for myself I'll get the receipts from the school

so I'm not dealing with the parents bullshit anymore. Right, right. It's like when a homeless person asks for money and you're like, I'll just get you food. Yeah. You know they're going to eat. Yeah. No, no, let's talk about that for a second. Okay. Bobby has a very different I have a different philosophy when it comes to that out. Oh, for food?

No, for homeless people. Oh, okay. What's going on? No, no, I was just... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just flowing, huh? Oh, what? Yeah. A what, a what? Yeah. Do you give homeless people money? You know, I used to, a lot.

And then I would, like, feel good about it. Like, oh, I'm helping. Yeah, yeah. But when I lived in, you know, off LaBrea and Sunset in that area, my move was socks and toothbrushes. So I always had a, I always, I would order, like, a box from Amazon, like a box of socks or toothbrushes. And then every now and then, if I was walking the store,

whatever, I would just bring a bag and then just pass them out, you know. Oh, that's cool. That's awesome. That's a good thing. And then there was a dude, man. I still think about this dude, man. He was always on the corner right there behind the bus stop in a wheelchair. And he had like a little pile of his stuff around him.

Was it socks and toothpaste? He would always ask me through a cigarette, right? So he was the one dude that I would get cigarettes and a lighter for. I don't smoke. Yeah. But I would just get him for him. And he couldn't even talk where he would just be like, um, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. You know, I don't know if, I'm assuming he was saying thank you, whatever.

What if he's saying? What if he's saying some racist Hispanic thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. I'm going to call Elias. Thanks a lot, Beaner. Like, oh, my goodness. Yeah, yeah, no.

But, yeah, I always wonder what happened to that guy. And then one day he was just gone. He was there for like a long-ass time, a couple years. Oh, no. Yeah, I know. Gagogy. I'm like, yeah. My theory is this.

Okay. Okay. Anyway, it's positive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bobby's like, I took him. No, I give cash. Oh, that's it. Right?

And I don't care what they get with it. Okay. Because at the end of the day, it's just like, it's just going to make that. happy they've already made their choices you know I mean I don't know I mean you know you they could buy it's to me I don't even want to know here's 20 right they could be buying drugs but they also could be buying Taylor Swift tickets for $20 dollars nose bleed yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I don't know mailer myth tickets you know so

it's like I it's not you know whatever you get with it but just as long as you're happy I actually agree with you Thank you Yeah it took a while for me to get there But I really like that Because it's like They're like oh they're going to use it on drugs It's like they're going to

Whether it's you or someone else They're going to use it on something They're going to steal a radio to get it I mean you know A radio Like they'll break into a car and steal something Oh But who do you think they'll remember longer

The dude that gave them money for more drugs Or the dude that gave him a nice warm pair of socks Sox guy I don't know dude Think about it I'm your drug dealer, right, when you were using And I brought you socks instead of cocaine No

Think about that How would you feel? That's different though You're talking about the dealer I don't think you'll be happy How is it different? How is it different? No, because I'm going to my drug dealer

I'm going to get drugs I mean you give me socks, what the fuck? If it's just some random dude that comes up to me Gives me something different But I know but they don't want socks Yes they do Would they rather have alcohol or something? And you know what?

You know what? I think I'm wrong. I'm assuming. No, I know. I know. I'm assuming that all homeless people are on some sort of chemical dependence. Yeah. That's what I'm assuming and that's wrong.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Maybe like 7030. I think higher. Like 90-10. Mental illness too. That's a big one. That's a big one.

So what? what you? Down under luck. Yeah. You're right. I think, no, there's a lot of people that have lost their job that are living out of their cars

or they're living in RV parks and stuff like that. I get that tense. I'm not saying that all of those people are substance abusers. But generally, the ones that ask for money, I can tell that it's,

you know what I mean? And when I know that they're on some sort of substance abuse, I have no problem giving them money, is all I'm saying. Oh, interesting. Okay. I don't know.

One thing I always think about that you told me, though, even like today or, you know, now, if I think about thoughts of drinking or whatever, you're like career, you know, we have our careers and then there's like partying and you're like, you just, you can't have both. You know, so I'm always like, that thought sometimes crosses my head when I'd be like, ah, drink sounds nice. Hey, homie, you can't have both. You want to do this? You want to do that. You can't have both if you're a drug addict or alcoholic. Exactly. That's what I mean.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. If you're a drug alcohol, yeah, you should clarify it. If you're a normal person and then, yeah. Kudos to fucking you, asshole. Because you look at the history of anybody with that, like Robert Donnie Jr., right?

His career took off, you know what I mean, whence he got sober. Yeah. You know what I mean? Riley Cooper. Yeah. So it's like, I just don't think that you can be active addiction,

especially in this specific business. I think all businesses, but in this specific business, it's almost impossible. Yeah. I remember the conversation we had the last time you got sober. Do you remember that?

When you were like, I just need a couple more, I just need a couple more months of using. And I was like, okay, let's go get shaboo shaboo. Remember? No, I don't remember. Because you were using your high out of your mind. And I was like, I have, you know, so-and-so's number here, you know, the place you like to go to.

What do you mean? What place? Shabu Shabu. Oh, the mental place. Hot pot soup. Oh, yummy, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yummy.

Okay, all right. That's good. Yeah, yeah. Take you after. Yeah. It's really good. Yeah. Yeah.

You have you had it? Yeah. Very wholesome meal. Oh, I love it. It's wholesome. I love it. Yeah. It's a clean, it's a very clean meal.

It's very clean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're on our way there. And then, um... Wow, he's high as fuck. You're driving. He's high. All right.

Yeah. And he, I was like, okay, like, how much, how much longer of this? And he's like, I don't know. I don't know. I just don't, I know when I'm, I, I will let you know when I'm done. I know I'm going to get to a point where I'll know I'm done, right? I'm like, scary, okay, I was like, scary thing to say. But then we ate shaboo, shaboo, and on our drive back, he was like, okay, I think I'm done.

Why? I, I think that you had lost quite a bit at that point. Yeah. And then, um, going there, you were like, fuck no, I'm not getting sober. And then on your way back, you had some light bulb go off where I was shocked. Not only did you say, okay, I'm going on Saturday because I was like, hey, this appointment I made for you, they're ready to take you on Saturday. If you're not ready, don't go. But if you're ready, let me know.

I'll buy your plane ticket. And on the way back, he's like, okay, I'll go. It was within a span of an hour and a half, which made me think that, like, I hope, I don't know what happened in your brain during that shaboo shaboo period, but something like clicked. I've always been like that, though. Every time I'm using, I can shift my thinking. I can have a quick spiritual awakening or, you know what I mean? Do you remember it at that time that you're feeling it? I know the feeling.

It's like, you know what I mean? I contemplate everything. Okay. I can ask you what your relapses look like? Like, what do you use? Just alcohol. Just alcohol and weed. Yeah.

But the alcohol He's funny He's funny grandpa It's not a whiskey bottle He's like we're talking Clamatoes Like a real Korean man No but like he's like in a hotel room

Or those fireball Those fireball Yeah Oh my God I would buy like 30 of those little fireballs And just And then he's like Getting banned

But he's getting banned from hotels because of you know he's you know like I was I was you're breaking shit in the hotel I was on a I was on a TV show right and you know how the actors

stay at a hotel yeah and then they the hotel called the producers and go he's banned from the fucking hotel because why and then now the producers are calling me going what's up dude

right yeah and I'm like oh fuck you know me it's like those situations where I'm like this is not good because this is not good

because this still get around. Wait, why were you, were you breaking shit in the hotel? You're having part? No, I was, I told, I told this story. I was, I was at a hotel. Okay. I'll just say it, right?

So quiet. I was at a hotel. I was on the balcony and, peeing off the balcony? No, no, no, I was in the balcony. And I stuck, I stuck my head out of the hotel. Because at this particular hotel,

there was only two rooms with a balcony. and they happen to be... A balcony? It's the darkest point of his life. What you're doing, homie? Okay, you're on the balcony. Go back to this guy, dude. All right.

Positive way. Yeah, yeah, be positive, dude. Balcony. Okay. Better? So this balcony is literally where the kids, where the kids' swimming pool is. right so I didn't be

if I was out there smoking a bong everyone just on these slides and stuff like that so I stuck my head out of the like the hotel and I would just stick my head out of this you know and smoke hanging off the balcony

yeah yeah yeah yeah speaking right and I and I hear hey you can't smoke here what are you doing and I look up and there's a fat guy like five stories up with his head sticking out

looking down on me yelling I go fuck you fat fuck but he was the manager of the hotel right and then immediately they call did you call the hotel guy fat fuck fat fuck fat fuck oh he spoke of weed

I go yeah that's the hotel guy yeah yeah yeah yeah and you know what I mean Hotel guy it's a hotel yeah and those little incidents little they accumulate Yeah, and you poo yourself.

I poo myself all the time. And like, oh, yeah. I got, I got a cop, my mom called the cops on me when I was at the, I was at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. For pooing yourself? No. I know you're shitting. Yeah, that was all bad. She knew you were up there?

Yeah, she knew I was there. Yeah. But to that note, though, I said I would hate seeing people, you know, I was isolating, but I was like, hate seeing people in public when they recognize me. when you're talking about being on a TV show. Yeah, yeah. And I remember I went down to meet the dope man again downstairs and there was this family in the lobby. I'm talking like, these kids were like 10 and 12.

And they were like, hey, can we get photos? And I'm like tweaked out, homie. I've been slept for two days. Yeah. I'm just like, fuck, you know, that feeling. You know, you're just like, yeah. Taking the picture, like, all right, thanks for watching my show. I'm going to get more shit.

It's like, fuck, I'm like so glad I don't have to do that anymore. Yeah, yeah. Wow But yeah And the cops showed up It was bad At the end of that one You know the house of pies

On Los Files? Yeah I love how Oh yeah I love that spot When I was detoxing Off of Vicodin Right

I just remember Eating soup Because I didn't eat in days Were you constipated From the Vicodian No I was I quit doing it Okay

Okay And I was like day two detox And I just remember People were staring at me And I have a bowl Of Ministoni soup It's so funny Sorry

Right And I'm shaking so bad that the spoon is hitting the bowl so loud, like, because I couldn't control my hand, right? And at that point, people kind of knew who I was, too. And I'm looking around, you don't know what I was shaking, but I had to eat because I hadn't eaten in days. You know what I mean? And it's just like that, that was embarrassing. Remember that one time I was coughing out blood?

Mm-hmm. And then you said, take me to the doctor. So I took him to the doctor But then, okay, more context More context. He called me, I'm not kidding you, every 10 minutes and he was like,

I think I'm dying, there's something really wrong with me and he was in this loop that he was dying because he was like coughing up blood I was like, okay, let's go to the doctor. And I had the doctor, he was like,

Kalila, I swear to you with my whole life that if I get a clean bill of health Oh, shut on, I know where you're going at this and that's fucking bullshit. And he goes, no, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, Sorry, sorry.

What are you? You brought it up. I see the road. You brought it up. I see the road and I don't like the road. We all see the road. Yeah, yeah. If, if this isn't cancer, I promise you, I swear with my whole life that I will never pick up a vapor cigarette again.

And then it wasn't cancer. Because of what I realized, what I deduced. Okay. Balcony. Balcony Balcony All right What I deduced is this

I was smoking so much weed Right In conjunction with the bongheads And the fucking joints Along with smoking cigarettes Was what caused the lung disturbance Yeah The irritation

After not smoking for a long time Or not smoking the weed for a long time Yeah I was doing it how long I mean I did you see the collection I had Yeah I had a collection Of hundreds of weeds you know and then

it was crazy and like hundreds of weeds he said like that hundreds of weeds I think he would take up to like a thousand milligrams of edible

on top of you're taking edibles on top of smoking weed 24 seven where you would see him like walking in the living room and then stop and he would like freeze and stay there for like five minutes yeah

whoa wow did you like doing the Edibles, so? Oh, I love it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because in the, when it, because I had 17 years of sobriety, and the first time I took edibles, after 17 years of sobriety, I was flying to Hawaii, remember?

And when I landed in Hawaii, I just did a 45-minute laugh attack. Dude, imagine 17 years of not doing it. Yeah, yeah. I land in Hawaii. I go, and I just. I couldn't even I don't know what I was laughing at you know what I had so much fun that weekend

in Hawaii by myself just taking smoking weed, edibles walking around and just eating engorging and going oh this is what I missed but then three months later it becomes the opposite something else yeah

yeah something else yeah anyway do you have fun this podcast Yeah, it was a wild ride I thought it was a good ride Yeah, no, in a good way I mean You know

I thought it was a pleasant We talked about, you know Positive vibes, positive vibes, dad What's going on with this fool? Is it just Yeah, just on two seasons Genuinely, one of my favorite shows I couldn't believe it got camera

I know, it's so crazy And so many people like love it I know Rotten Tomatoes, yeah I know it's crazy Like people are like The people that like the fans of it like they can't believe it ended you know so yeah i don't know i mean there's a small hope maybe

what happened what happened yeah they canceled it man i mean everybody at hulu wanted it but disney uh disney did like a lot of budget cuts around that time like after the strike and we were just like another number you know and like uh so it was just like yeah but so funny so good it was a beloved show is there a possibility of it coming back at all i mean you know anything's possible it's possible but but yeah who knows that that'd be dope. I know what makes you think about shows what is it, Twin Peaks or

Arrested Development, like they got popular after they got canceled. And they did another season. I did that one, the second time they did that. Oh, that's what's up. What do you mean? That'd be like, hey, congratulations.

That's cool. That's what's up? That's a good thing. That's definitely a good thing. All right, homie. All right, homie. Interesting. is there a that's what's down

what's that is there a that's what's down no no I mean try like just try it naturally yeah yeah that's what's down oh yeah when you do it

it sounds good yeah when I do it then I try to him casually like all right hey yeah I'm probably gonna go

I get some nice nice dinner later that's what's down no yeah hey that's what's down Oh, there you go. I don't know.

Oh, there he is. Hey, bro, that's what's now. Better? That's what's up. That's what's up? That's what? That's what? That's what's in the middle, bro.

Go, like, you know what I mean? Equalize it. That's what's in the middle. Yeah, that's what's in the middle, dude. That's what's in the middle, dude. What does that mean? I don't know, dude. It's right there.

Even kill, you know. Even kill, dude. That's what's in the middle. Yeah. Like the meat in a sandwich, you know. Why do Hispanics love Asians so much? You can't say these. Oh, Latinos.

Yeah. Yeah. There's Hispanic bad. There's no Hispanic. All right. Like, you're an Asian man. You're from Asia, you know. How about white people?

Come on. Oh, fight for that. No, I just said, boy. Poor white people. Yeah, yeah. You know what? Cat, can't fight for it. I don't know. I want to hear your white grievances. No, I'm just saying there's no white land.

You said that there's Asia land. Your skin color is white. Yeah. It is interesting. It's reductive. What? That's so reductive. Yeah, it is interesting that you can, I can call you a white person.

Yeah. But can I call you a brown person? Yeah. All the time. Brown pride. Would you call me a yellow person? No. No.

No. No. No. No. I'm actually brown, homie. You're like. Yeah, yeah. You're white, actually.

I think East Asians are like whiter. Dude, dude, if this color was in the crayon box, it would be tan. Yeah, it would be, but look at him. Yeah, his is brown, mine's more tan. This isn't yellow. Yeah, I know. Just look at the sun. That's what you're saying.

We're green. I don't know where that comes from. I don't know. Okay. I have no idea. What does that mean? What does that mean? But why can I, you call it brown, why can white?

And then yellow, why? Because you're not yellow. Yeah. Oh, I see. Black and yellow, black and yellow. But, you know, it's like, cool. Like, are you, like, is anyone out there being like yellow pride? Yellow pride.

Oh, yeah. Some, some, there are. Yeah, yeah. Like gay pride, but yellow. As a joke. It's not like. What's black and yellow? Black and yellow.

What is that? Is that a song? It's for the Steelers, I think, right? Black and yellow. It's, yeah. It's, yeah. It's Kalifa. It's cool.

Yeah, yeah. It's interesting. What's up. Yeah, okay, so is, is Hispanic like if you call me an Oriental? No, no, it's not that bad. Look, look, look, it's more of like, I'm not the only one who feels that way about the word, but I'm not like offended by Hispanic. I just don't, you're just like a good, you're one of my good friends, you know,

so I don't want my good homie, doesn't need to be calling me Hispanic, you know what I mean? All right, homie, all right. We're not doing a consensus or like a, you know what I mean? Like a data processing. Yeah, yeah. All right, right. But I don't even look at your race. Oh, what a nice.

Yeah, right, dude. That's what white people I don't even look at your race. I don't all my homies, I'm the one that definitely looks at race. I don't even look at your race, man. Let me clarify. Are you talking about it?

La Esquela. All right. Okay. What I'm saying is that, you know, if I'm saying, If I'm around Al Madrigal, I don't think to myself, I'm hanging out with my, you know,

Latin friend, Latino friend. You know what I mean? It's just, Al. When I look at you, I'm just Frankie. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

In the comedy space, we lean on these things for entertainment, right? But in real life, I don't think about it. And you know that's the truth. Are you sure? I don't think so. I think you're right, I think when you think about me, I think when you think about me in her head,

you're like, oh, yeah, Frankie. I don't, I have a. Like, hey, George, who's our guests? Oh, hey, it's a, yeah, you know, a homie. We have a couple witnesses in the room. There's Gilbert, there's, Gilbert, E.J., Kat, and Alex were at your birthday party. We went bowling.

And you made a speech, and one of the first things you said was, Chappelle Lacey You're the only black guy here Yeah And then no Nothing else Yeah see what I'm saying

That's Bobby You're the old black guy here That's good You said that's good And then you moved on To the rest of your speech No because I was just No I would

No here's the thing My speech My speech I was just No let me express myself Right I was just pointing out factual information

True I said there are open micers here too Welcome Ranzi Badawi and Catbird. That's me. Did I say that? Yeah, yeah. You didn't call me white.

Yeah, yeah. But my point being is that it's also, the whole speech was about making it weird and uncomfortable. And was it not funny? It was fantastic. Well, then I did my job. Yeah. So for you to call that out, he's ridiculous to me. I apologize.

Sorry, you're right. Okay. All right. It was comedic. But in general, I think minorities, like, when I walk into a room, like, I'm looking around to see if there's other minorities. clock it. Yeah, yeah. I think I always clock it. You and I did that at the Hulu thing. Oh, yeah. Do you remember

in New York? Oh, yeah. You and I hung out a little bit. Oh, yeah. You were like a lifeline there. I hate doing those events. Yeah, we plumbed together and we just sat there. I know it's the worst. Yeah, and I was like, Bobby, come here, score. We went to the corner and we were like, yeah, look at all these whites. I know.

They're giving us money, though, so be cool with them. It's also like, you can tell that the shirt talkers. Yeah. You know what I mean? The shirt talkers? Whoa, what a fabulous turnout. Bro, you have to do this at party. Wonderful, wonderful.

Such a unique voice you have. We love your point of view. It's enlightening. I hate it. And him and I are just going, and they talk like that and we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't know what to say. Thanks for the opportunity. We're letting us in here.

For letting us in here. You know what I mean? For letting us in here. Even though we're doing specials for this fucking. Yeah, yeah. Helping them, maybe. The whole reason why this party exists because we're doing it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, it's the worst. Yeah. Stay there and be grateful. Yeah. But so your special, Frankie Cunonas.

Quinoes. Kin. Kin. Kin. He never says my last name right. Damn, that's crazy. Quinoes. Quinoes?

No, Quignones. Think about the yokeanon. Kinyoes. Yeah, perfect. It has a little wormy. It don't forget my first. Yeah, yeah. A little wormy.

Potato potato. Yeah. No? Dan, that's crazy. Look, check it out. Hilarious stand-up special. He's, oh, look at Andrews is there, too. Yeah, yeah.

His was last month. Yeah, last month. Yeah, one a month. And check it out, Because he's one of my favorite people in the whole world. And he's, I just think that you're going to get bigger, bigger opportunities because there's no one out there like you. And please check it out.

He's our family member. He's our homie. He's our friend. And support his special, I mean, on Hulu. Damn, that's crazy. Hey, if you go watch Creepers Crib, it's on YouTube. It's called Creepers Cribb live from my Carpaccarriage. And then just go to frankicinionnas.com.

Hopefully I'll come to your city soon. Thanks for having me. All right, so give Frankie a round of a pause. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, having.