Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias

Episode Date: December 2, 2022

Santino sits down with stand up star "Fluffy" Gabriel Iglesias & his pup to talk about his insane show at Dodger Stadium, his love of the VW bus, and much much more! #fluffy #gabrieliglesias #andrewsantino #whiskeyginger #podcast COME SEE ME ON TOUR!!! https://www.andrewsantino.com ORDER SOME MERCH!!! https://www.andrewsantinostore.com Join our Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/whiskeygingerpodcast ============================================================ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! ROMAN Get 20% OFF your order https://ro.co/whiskey PRIZE PICKS Promo Code: WHISKEY Matching deposit up to $100 https://prizepicks.com TRADE Get $30 off a subscription with Trade https://drinktrade.com/whiskey MIZZEN + MAIN $25 OFF with Promo Code: WHISKEY https://mizzenandmain.com/whiskey Follow Santino on Insta and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino Whiskey Ginger Insta and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast/ & https://twitter.com/whiskeyginger_ Whiskey Ginger Clips: http://www.youtube.com/c/WhiskeyGingerPodcastClips Produced and edited by Joe Faria IG: @itsjoefaria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What up, Whiskey Ginger fans? Welcome back to the show. If it's your first time joining the show, welcome to the show. We got a good one for you today. Like my man Steve Harvey done say, it's Gabriel Iglesias. My man Fluffy is on the show. So happy to have this guy on. Watch his special right now, Stadium Fluffy, available on Netflix. Also, I want to let you know, I'm coming to Boston. I've been talking about it on the show for a while. I'm coming to Boston for New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve Eve. Please go get those tickets right now. It's my last show of the year.

I'm not going to be touring for quite a while. So Boston, come out and see your boy in Boston. New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve Eve at the Wilba Theater. AndrewSantino.com for those tickets. AndrewSantino.com for the tickets. Enough rambling from me. Let's go to the episode and see Fluffy. In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. me. Let's go to the episode and see Fl excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today. It is the first time on the show, the first time I've met the gentleman, Fluffy himself, Gabriel Iglesias. Thank you for coming. Cheers to you, my friend. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Clinks. Sorry I was late. You weren't late. Yeah. Time is of the essence. Joe, the editor is going to make sure that I'm not late for this, right? We're starting. Everything's cool.

Yeah, Joe. I've been here the whole time. Yeah. No, you weren't late. You were casually lost. I was casually lost. Yeah. And that's okay.

You got to go see some other parts of the city on your way here. Yeah. So just so you know, your address with the different zip code is actually Griffith Park. Okay, nice. And we'll put our real address right here. Joe, show everybody where the studio is right there. We'll just put out the real address so people see it. You were late, but you came with your pup, with Elisa.

I don't know if you could see her. She's in a basically an old school Jake the Snake snake bag. It's like a little sleeping bag. Yeah, it's a little tiny a little sleeping bag yeah a little tiny it's a little tiny on the go here a little little tiny on the go a little sorry on the go a little on the go um a little on the go blanket that says love all over it Risa right yes my little she's uh 17 years old chihuahua 17 years old yeah ridiculous by the way I wore my dodger blue for you just for you thank you and made this blue just for

you. Because if anybody who doesn't know isn't on planet Earth and awake, but you have a special out right now. Stadium Fluffy on Netflix. You like this, Jack? I just took a hit of a cigarette. I felt the need to blow air. After you take a hit of this, you gotta blow it out a little bit.

The special's great. I watched it. Two hours? I mean, you're a machine. I know, right? Have you ever done a special under an hour or at just an hour or no? For Comedy Central, yes, back in the day. They were very strict on the time because with Comedy Central, you gotta make time for commercials.

Right. So the show itself was probably 44 minutes because if it's a one-hour special, you're doing about 44 minutes. I remember that. When I did my half hour with them, 22, 5. 22, yeah, exactly. And when you first do it, you tape 30, sometimes 35. I taped 34 minutes or something.

And then you realize, yeah, you're like, oh, my God, they're just going to slice this to pieces. So then they were like, make sure that you have overage so you can, you know, keep in a joke that you love and then throw out one where you're like nah it wasn't it's painful when they do it like that that's why i love the creativity and the freedom that you have over at netflix freedom baby freedom it's the greatest country in the world america yeah no it is true but it's great go watch it people everyone that's watching this now has probably either seen it by now, but fantastic to do something at Dodger Stadium.

Impressive, intimidating, maybe. I mean, I talked to Bill Burr about, you know, him playing Boston, same to you playing here, similar regard. And I think, you know, I texted him and I was like, what an amazing feat. Like, what a great feeling. And I was like, never a doubt. You know what I mean? And he was like never a doubt you know what I mean and he was like few doubts and I was like

oh I was like even still at that level you know it's still a little intimidating because it's just so um the sheer magnitude of something like that you know what I mean like yeah it's not it's not something that you do every day and uh you know props to Bill for playing Fenway yeah that's pretty awesome yeah it's you know it's it's one of those where it's like you know, a club is, you go from a club, club to a theater, theater to a bigger theater, bigger theater to an arena, arena, and then, you know, what's next? What is next for you?

Stadium. You gonna play on Mars? What are you gonna do? You gonna be on space? Nice, right? Broadcasting? I gotta make friends with Elon, so I'm gonna get on Twitter right now and give him a shout out. See if I can... I think you're going out of... I don't think you need Elon. I think you're doing it right. Well, if I want to do some space shows, him or Bezos. So I got to reach out to one of the two.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. NASA's not taking Mexicans to space. Not anymore. Not yet. No. Have they ever? No, that's not true.

I think maybe one made it up there. Just did he ever come back? I don't know, man. You left me, eh? Still disappearing in space. No, but it is an incredible feat. And props to you. Heavy props to be able to do that.

And also, truth be told, to make the special feel intimate, even though it's such a big venue. Because it looks, it's shot very well. It looks beautiful. And it doesn't feel cavernous. And you know what I mean? It doesn't feel like big and empty and open as it literally is. I mean, it doesn't feel like big and empty and open as it literally is. I was very fortunate that I've had the same director, same production company from day one.

Oh, wow. All of my specials have been done by the same group of people. And it was basically like a celebration at the end, which was, you know, we already know each other's, you know, how we work. And so it was like, it was the biggest show they've ever done too. You know what I mean? So it was kind of like, all right, we're all in this together.

We're all growing together. And it's been since 2007 when we did the first special for Comedy Central, Hot and Fluffy. And now, you know, it was like, hey,

we made it. We graduated. Wow. That's wild. We're looking at each other at the end of the night. We're like, can't believe we're all here.

I think that's more than a graduation. That's med school. That was, yeah. I think's more than a graduation that's that's med school you that was yeah i think you i think you've gotten a few degrees yeah that's that's to me that's uh i'm a chicago kid you know i couldn't even imagine playing wrigley would be wild but it's you know theaters are good for now but wrigley would be to me that would be my pinnacle because you're like you know you're a southern california kid but you're born you're born san diego or you're a Southern California kid, but you're born San Diego or you born in LA?

I was born in San Diego, but I've never, you know, I'm a Dodgers fan. I'm not a Padres fan. Sure. I respect the Padres for what they did,

but I'm not, you know, I'm not going to bandwagon all of a sudden just because they beat the Dodgers. No, good for you. Yeah. Same thing.

Chargers, eh. You know? It's like, eh. Yeah. Same thing. Chargers. Eh. You know? It's like. The uh says it all. Chargers. Should that be their slogan? The Los Angeles Chargers.

Eh. Eh. You know? So, I mean, anybody that wears bolts, you are a diehard. You are. Yeah, they really are. That is a real fan. It's easy to be a Rams fan because, you know, they're champions.

Sure. They're a great team. Been a big, awesome team for a while. It's easy to be a Patriots fan or a Bucks fan, you know, but man, you know, like, you know who's the biggest, most hardcore fan? Detroit Lions fans. No, I know my neighbor. Those are real fans right there.

That's tough. That's, those are fans. Well, I'm tough to be a Bears fan, but my neighbor is a Lions fan. But at least you can you can you can go back to those like you know the 85 Bears or remember that one year

or this and that you know what I mean yeah but 40 years is catching up to us you know what I mean like we had a thing but it's been so long now that you're like

I don't even know if we can call back to it that's a long it was a long well we went to the Super Bowl in between then but also took an L so that's tough.

I always feel like they've been really good contenders. We're trying our best. We're trying our best. We're trying our best, man. But also now I support L.A. teams who have been living here for so long that I love, I just love going to see, you know, games here. I mean, the only team that I kind of really am gung-ho for is the Dodgers because baseball is my number one. So if you did get to do a stadium, would you want do wrigley would you want to do soldier field would you want to do

where uh the white socks play i want to say it's uh it's called a loser park i think it's called loser park nice i think that's what they really mean no that's what the cubs fans call it it used to be called yeah no it used to be called kamiski then it was called u.s cellular field now it's called honestly i genuinely don't know. Like, they've changed the name. It's Corporate Takeover. You know what I mean? It's... Whatever. PNC.com. You know, it's all these names now get changed to whatever corporate entity, but

I don't know what it's called. But I would play... You know, I... Wrigley. Wrigley, probably. Genuinely is the one I'd want to go to. Soldier Field wouldn't have as much of a connection to me. It's also going to be gone soon. So I don't think I'll... You know, they're going to move out to the suburbs. Oh, probably. Genuinely is the one I'd want to go to. Soldier Field wouldn't have as much of a connection to me. It's also going to be gone soon. So I don't think I'll, you know, they're going to move out to the suburbs.

Oh, okay. I did not know that. Yeah, we got a place called Arlington that has an old racetrack at it. Okay. And they've taken over the lot for that land. And so they're going to move it from downtown to there. They're going to make something very impressive. Well, it's going to be new.

It'll be brand new. We need it. Because they put a spaceship inside Soldier Field and it looks absurd. It's so dumb. It's like when somebody tricks out a Civic. You know, they put like – the Civic is six grand and they put nine grand into tricking it out. And you're like, dude, you could have shifted the focus here and not done that. That's what it looks like.

It looks like they tried. They did too – you're doing too much. But they're moving to the suburbs and a lot of people got mad because they're like, you know, it's out of the city and all this stuff. But they need a new space. There isn't any space downtown. And, I mean, look at L.A. Like moving just south to Englewood, look what that did. I mean, that stadium is unbelievable.

It is an unbelievable stadium. I've been there for a couple concerts, and wow. It's beautiful. I've seen a couple of games, and it's just like, you know, I was never so used to that. That screen that hangs from the ceiling well you find yourself staring at that more than looking right down at the field I was down on the field looking right up at the screen

how old are you? oh my god I didn't, 39 your eyesight you want to look at what's easier to see you want to strain your eyes and try to look at the guys on the field hey look at that, nice and clear I can take off my glasses and look up I don't have to i don't have to put my contact i need prescription for distance so you do yeah yeah as you're at that stage how about at night when you drive do you get

i need nighttime drivers it's a bummer yeah right here i'm good but you know yeah this close this is fine this is fine a couple of steps i can read my phone no problem this see this clears up my focus i can read everything on the walls no problem but uh anything further than outside of the room outside of this room that's it i have an problem. But shouldn't that be this test when you go get your eyes checked? They're like, can you see everything in this room? Yeah, you're fine. Get out of here. Don't worry about it. How far do you need to see? You need to be able to read the signs when you're getting off the freeway. Like, hey, am I close? You know what it is. You know, you recognize it. I mean, clearly today, I needed my glasses. I needed my glasses

today. But you're a Southern California boy, which is why I think that meant so much, the Dodger Stadium thing. And now, you know, I think it's one of those things where it's hard to explain to people that don't do stand-up. But when you do something huge and you have a big accomplishment, everybody always is like, well, you know, how do you feel? You know how, what's it like? And there's no way to explain it because afterwards you don't feel the same as when you're inside of it. Like when you're doing it, when you were taping it, that's where the buzz is afterwards. It's not as much of a high anymore. Like to me, when you're doing it is incredible. But when someone asks you after, like, how is it? You're like, it's great, but you can't really describe what's going on while you're doing it is incredible. But when someone asks you after, like, how is it? You're like, it's great.

But you can't really describe what's going on while you're up there. You know what I mean? For me, I felt like, you know, people say that they've had, you know, oh, this was I remember this was a good day. This was a great day. This was an awesome day. But it's not every day you get to document the greatest day and moment of your life. That's it for you? That was it for me right there.

Wow. That was top of the charts. That was top of the charts. And I've been fortunate that I've had some pretty incredible moments over the last 25 years of doing standup. Yeah. But for my career, that was definitely the peak. But for my just life in general, I'm just, I'm standing there on that stage and I'm looking

around at one point doing my set. And I was I wasn't nervous, which is crazy because you would think that I would be. I was not nervous. I was so comfortable and so relaxed on that stage. But at one point I see the Goodyear blimp going overhead and it's got my face on it. And then it starts flashing my name as I'm trying to do my set. And I'm like, I'm visually being heckled by a blimp. and it's got my face on it and then it starts flashing my name as i'm trying to do my set and i'm like i'm visually being heckled by a blimp and i stopped my set and i pulled out my phone and they caught it in the in the special yeah and i just started recording the blimp as i'm sorry

people but it's not every day that you know my face is on a blimp going over a baseball stadium where i you know grew up coming and it was just like wow it was mind-blowing and it felt surreal i did i i when i got off stage i was just like i wow, it was mind blowing. And it felt surreal. I did. I, when I got off stage, I was just like, I couldn't believe that, that it happened. That's what I mean. It's hard to like articulate what that is. It's like, how do you even, by the way, the blimp should have said ice cubes of pimp. Nice.

I thought about it. Yeah. It should have said ice cubes of pimp. And you know it and I know it. I even saw those lights. Cause when I was up there, I said it. I said the line about ice cubes. Ice cube is a pimp. when I was up there, I said it. I said the line about Ice Cube. Ice Cube is a pimp.

Oh, man. But yeah, no, I think it's hard to articulate to people that feeling is what I mean because it's hard to say it in words what that does to you when all those people are there locked into you. And I think that because it took so many years to get to that point, I don't think I would have had the same level of appreciation for that if it would have taken a couple years. Sure. Right. You know, I firmly believe that, you know, this generation is going to miss out on the struggle. Yeah. I think that everything is expected to happen too fast. And I think you need to fight, man. You need to really just claw and scratch and not have and want. And how bad do you want to make it happen? And it's just year after year after year after year and some years were great some years weren't you know and it's just like after 25 years to have the biggest moment of my career happen at home there were so many people that were at that concert that remember going to see me do shows

at holes in the wall people were like dude, dude, I remember seeing you perform in garages. It felt like it was a celebration where everybody was part of it. It wasn't me going out there like, look what I did. It was, look what we did. And that was the greatest part because even at the end of the night when I said, thank you, good night, and the show was over and the confetti flying and the cameras are going and stuff like that as soon as the music stopped i didn't get off the stage i stayed on the stage and i started drinking and then i said kick the music and i brought my friends out on stage and the crowd did not leave right they stayed there and they celebrated with me oh that's great man you know and and then we just started sharing stories i started passing the mic around we started sharing stories you're not going to. We started sharing stories. You're not going to see that in the special.

Right. You're not going to see it in the special because I think by the time I got off, it was about three hours and 10 minutes. And the special was 155. So they had to chop off basically the celebration. Another hour of fun. Yeah. And I got fined. I got fined by the Dodgers, by Dodger Stadium, because we went way over.

There's running the light and then there's what I did. Yeah. You ran all the light. You ran the light to the Dodger Stadium because we went way over there's running the light and then there's what I did yeah you ran all the you ran the lights of the Dodger Stadium I ran all the lights of Dodger Stadium yeah we did not leave what's that fine oh man it's it's uh it's over it's over 100 yeah 100 G's just for having you had a hundred thousand dollar party it was great yeah but you know what hope it was worth it it was for the greatest night of my life absolutely i've set money on fire for other stupid reasons but that was like no can you tell me can you tell me some of the other stupid reasons you've let money on fire what's some other i'll keep drinking and maybe ask me again in 15 all right but yeah we didn't leave dodger

stadium until probably at least for me uh maybe four in the morning, just because I was lit at that point. And we had a trailer back there and we still had a VIP party and I was just hugging all my friends. And there was so just, I mean, it was so nice. And we're all back there reflecting like, wow, we did it. You know, we can't believe. So I'm talking to the director, the producers and the management and just everybody that was involved in the day toto-day that led up to that. And so, yeah, man, 4 a.m. And we got the Dodger people and they're like, hey, you gonna start breaking that down? Yeah, we'll think about it.

It's funny to think, though. It's like there's nothing coming. They don't got a game later that night. Chill out. Yeah, no, it was Mother's Day weekend when it went down. It was May 7th. I think their game was, was that Monday or Tuesday then? Because they had a game that week.

Two days later, right? Yeah. Yeah, they had a game a couple days before that because it took three days to do a load-in on that. That's insane. God, I mean, but also, truly, and I mean this, what do you do next? Do you want to go bigger than that?

Oh, that's good. Like, would you want to continue to try to scale up and see how big you can go? So the only issue I have with trying to go bigger is that does it take away from that moment at Dodger Stadium because it was so special and so big and so epic and it was at home?

Do you take a chance on kind of maybe tarnishing that by attempting to duplicate? I don't know. But what is that? Because of how impactful it was and how emotional and how good it felt. And, you know, like, how would you talk? Because even if even if let's say I went and did Soldier Field. All right.

Like, OK, what's what's going to be the I mean, yeah, maybe, you know, people showed up and and, you know, let's say hypothetically we sold it out. Cool. I mean, but is it is it then, oh, is it just another thing? I think that what made this special is that it's never been done. You know, it was the first time a comic tried it and the first time a comic actually filled it. And then it was recorded for a special. So, I mean, there were so many factors that made it that much more. You know, it's a home show.

Never been done. 25 years in the making. You know, it's a home show, never been done, 25 years in the making. You know, it's just Netflix was involved. I mean, it was so many different things. And then it was the comedy festival happening. And so there's all these different shows happening in town. Chappelle was over at the Hollywood Bowl. Oh, that's right.

Kreischer was in town. I asked Kreischer to be a special guest, but he couldn't because he had his own show that night. But he wanted to be part of it. There were so many different shows happening. And so the fact that we were still able to pull that off with the amount of talent that was happening. Because, you know, you try not to step on each other's toes. So if, like, if you're performing somewhere, you know, and you see there's another name that could potentially pull from you,

and you see there's another name that could potentially pull from you, you either push yourself to the following week or try to come in the week before so that you're not... No overlap. Yeah, you know what I mean? But not for that festival. Everybody was in town. How many seats? How many seats at...

At Dodger, was it? Do you know how many people it was total? It was between 45 and 50. So many things. And it was a number right in between that, right there. Yeah. Well, here's what I'll do next. Did you go to college?

No. Because college football stadiums, that's next. I went to City College. I went to City College. I dropped off friends. Yeah, yeah. That's it. That's all I did.

LA City College? Is that where you went? No, Long Beach City College. Oh, Long Beach. Okay. I grew my comedy chops. I started in Long Beach. I mean, I moved here to Long Beach first. I lived down by Belmont Shore. Okay. I grew, I started, I grew my comedy chops, I started in Long Beach. I mean,

I moved here to Long Beach first and I lived down in, by Belmont Shore. Okay. That was my first spot that I ever lived. That's a hell of a place to live in Long Beach.

It was a pin drop. That's a very nice part of town. Yeah, it was kind of weird. It was like dudes I knew knew a guy that had a place down there and would let us sleep in his living room.

It was like, that was my first stop to LA. I had no other option because we didn't know anybody in la so he was like there's a guy that lives in this place that's near long beach and we can you can stay in this lazy boy for a while and i was like i'll take it and i didn't i had no idea how lucky i got that that place was so it was so it was so cool and nice i mean i didn't i didn't know this guy was so nice he didn't know me from a hole in the wall but it was nice of him to

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It was wild to watch him do that. God, that was years ago. Yeah, it was 2006 or 2005, something like that. Wow. Yeah, it was a long time ago. But yeah, I guess you're right. The reason I ask about college is because those stadiums get up to a hundred thousand plus seats so it's like you know that could be the next pinnacle for you is could you sell a hundred thousand tickets but then but then

it's like okay you know um what like what's it what's it doing for comedy what's it doing for you know because you you want to make sure that everyone is having a great experience, a great time. And, you know, if you're going to do something that big, you need to make sure that if, you know, the screens, the sound, the over. There's so many different things that could go wrong. And that's my fear is that, man, you don't have a lot of control over certain situations. And you want to make sure that you're providing a good experience for people. You don't want people to regret, you know, like, oh, man, I should have just waited until his career went down and go see him at Helium in Philadelphia. I want to watch him when he bombs.

You know what I mean? It's one of those like, because I get it. There's something to be said about watching a comedy show in an intimate setting versus watching it. Because, you know, for example, I've seen Kevin Hart. Yeah. I know Kevin. I've seen him in, you know, a comedy club and I've seen him at a football stadium. I saw him when he, I was there when he did What Now?

Yeah. In Philadelphia. Yeah. And I remember sitting there. I was in the second row. And even sitting in the second row, I just remember how far away Kevin looked. And I'm like, dang, I'm in the second row. And he still looks far.

Yeah. You know? Yeah. And so it was one of those, like, I found myself looking at this giant screen more than anything else. And I'm like, okay, if I'm in the second row and it already feels this detached, like, how must it feel for people that are way up in the nosebleeds, you know? Yeah.

But to play devil's advocate, I think some people being there is it just as much as anything else. We were part of an event like that. Yeah, because that's beautiful. I mean you got to think people came to your show. And exactly. That did the same thing. It didn't have as great a seat as some other people. But the event is as powerful as anything.

people but the event is as powerful as anything like i it's for me you know when i was a kid even going to watch the bulls games i was a kid watching jordan play and we would have terrible seats but it just like didn't even matter it was like being there to watch jordan was wild and when you left like everyone's emotion was the same it was like it's jordan it was jordan i mean it wasn't a game where i didn't feel like it was spectacular and maybe it was a moment in time because i've seen you know lebron and kobe and and it's great but it never felt the same but it did still feel back then like even if i was in the fucking top top tip top nosebleeds still was like i'm here watching Jordan. It didn't even matter. You know, like it never, it just never, I never cared how far I was.

So I think that still happens too at that level. But I know what you're saying. Sometimes it gets so big that it's like. But I, you know, I definitely feel like people made exceptions to certain things just because of what that night meant. Yeah. You know, the fact that it was historic, never been done. Netflix is involved. to certain things just because of what that night meant. Yeah. You know, the fact that it was historic, never been done. Netflix is involved.

It's being taped for a special. Yeah. You know, it's just all these first-time things that were happening. Yeah. You employed a lot of babysitters that night. I'm sure you gave a lot of people work, man. I bet you employed something like, at a minimum, 10,000 babysitters across Los Angeles. Probably, yeah. That's pretty impressive, man.

That's what I mean to think about it. It's almost like, is Fluffy creating jobs? Like, you better believe it, dude. That night, definitely. Yeah, big time. And also, you know. And paid a lot of overtime. That's right.

Paid a lot of overtime. Were people tailgating, by the way? That's what I thought about that. Were people tailgating, by the way? That's what I thought about that. Were people tailgating out in the lot? We had a thing where we wanted to make sure that we could start on time because it's different for a baseball game. A baseball game, most of the time people show up whenever they want. So some people get there really early. Some people get there right when the game starts.

Some people wait until after the national anthem. Some people show up in the fourth inning. You know? So it's like whatever. But with the concert, it starts at a certain time. Yeah. Or it's supposed to start at a certain time. So we knew that getting people in and then situated and then there was issues with the ticketing system.

Ticketmaster was down or something like that? Not that they were down, but like, you know, most of the tickets now are digital. And if there's issues with wife, you know, the signal. Oh, right, right. You know, that's a a thing there was a lot of people that couldn't get it oh i found out yeah oh wow um most of them were my people freaking guest list sorry yeah so uh and also you know issues in the parking lot the you know getting people in for parking and stuff like that so we did a uh an event during the day and encouraged people to come out for the free event. Oh, that's cool.

There was a free event. I had a bunch of my Volkswagen buses set up so people wanted to come see the car collection or they wanted to come see just random things, just like a little mini carnival type of thing where people would just show up and eat. There was food. So some people, I guess, were tailgating not like a regular like a football game kind of thing but i would imagine your fans you do have some la hardcore la oh yeah one that needed to tell that needed to go drink and hang out beforehand and the beauty of it was

is that people were showing up in their in their baseball gear yeah you know yeah we're still it was hey man it's a home team and you know i was all about it and they gave did they give you the uh they gave you your fluffy jersey you've got your dodger fluffy jersey enshrined somewhere at the house uh i've got yes yes i do uh they i have a couple actually i got a chance to throw out a couple first pitches but they gave me a special one for that that's what i was gonna say you gotta have they gotta have a they gave me one just for the night and then of course of course, the shirt that I wore was a custom shirt that I made that had the little fluffy Dodgers all over it.

And you're going to give that to me. He did say live on the show he's going to give that to me, and thank you so much. That's very nice of you, man. Welcome! Who's your favorite Dodger of all time? Oh, man, we've got to go back to Fernando Valenzuela. Valenzuela's so dope. Oh, yeah. So good, man. I think, well, because you're, you're too young, too.

Fernando mania. But when they first came over here, 50, what, six or seven? Yeah, six or seven, something like that, right? Because Dodger Stadium was in the 60s, early 60s, 62 or three or something like that they built it. And for you, you're still younger than that, obviously. But for you, growing up in Southern California is wild because a brand new team was given to this city and then enshrined in this town immediately. It almost got – because it left Brooklyn, something about the Dodgers coming here and gaining that audience, specifically a lot of Latino fans kind of owning it as their own. That's such a, it was such a cool thing to have happen to that team.

So for you as a kid, that's got to be wild to like grow up with a homegrown team. They were literally remade in this town, you know? They never felt like a transplant, you know? No, because all you read about is, I love baseball. And everyone always talked about how Brooklyn, those games would never even come close to selling out. I mean, they never would have enough fans to go see them. And people would complain, you know, years later being like, okay, that's a shame they ever left Brooklyn,

but Brooklyn never really supported the team. And then the moment they came to LA, it was like, they were kings. I mean, they were gods in this town. And they still are, in my opinion, the ultimate Los Angeles teameles team i mean i know the lakers legacy is very important but to me when i when i think of los angeles i immediately think of the dodgers absolutely yeah immediately like it's the first thing i've always as a kid in chicago i always thought about it it was like that's the dodgers that's the dodgers city so and that stadium is one of the oldest yeah it is right i want to say it's number two or three yeah it's got to be two or three.

I want to think it's either Wrigley, Fenway. Wrigley and Fenway are two. We're pretty close. We're tied. And then the Dodgers. You guys are probably one of the last bastions. I mean, after Baltimore did his thing. Oh, she's walking around. She needs to get her exercise.

Come here. 17, by the way. She can go wherever she wants, by the way. And if she pees or poops in here, someone will clean it up. Not me, but someone will. That's what's good to know. God, 17 is so wild, huh?

Get over here. Get over here. And a full-bred chihuahua? Is it full chihuahua? She's four pounds. Four pounds. Four pounds. That's nuts.

Sorry. Do you ever lose her? No, no. Like around the house, I mean. I'm not going to lie. One time we took a flight. We were at a, it was a private terminal, and I went to use the bathroom, and I told the guys, hey, keep an eye. And she was quick, and so she jumped out of her little bed thing, and where she at?

And she was actually in an office down the hall. And someone came holding her. Someone came holding her. They're like, does this belong to someone? I'm like, oh, my God. So only one time. Only one time. Only one time.

Never again. Never, ever again. Do you travel with her everywhere you go? Yeah. She's been over 35 states. I have her and I have another chihuahua named Vinny. He's twice her size, which is why I didn't bring him. Yeah.

With her, she's a palm pile. I can carry her. Yeah, but I mean, you could have brought them all, man. We got a pup. So I'm a big fan of the dogs, man. Not a fan of cats. Can't do the cats, sadly. You know, cats, I respect cats.

I respect cats enough to not have one because they're a little bit too independent, whereas this requires all my love and attention. That's right. Well, also, my mom is allergic to cats, and I have the same kind of thing. When I get around them, I get crazy. And if I get scratched by a cat, it's over. It's over. That's it. My arm puffs up.

It looks like I have an extra vein growing out of my arm. You know, that little – Easy to find if you give blood. When you said the buses on stage, like the VW buses, I'm a car guy as well. How many do you have? How many VW buses do you have? Including the ones that are in the process of being restored, probably around – between 30 and 35. God. I tell everybody it's a jay leno starter kit jay's

the one i blame jay jay's the one that got me started on cars it's all your fault jay leno yeah i went to i went to visit him buses is so mad that's a ton man yes and uh i did that in a matter of like five years wild so i didn't have i didn't have any volwagens. My first bus was a 1968 Volkswagen bus that I had when I was like 19 years old. And what happened is I was hanging out with Jay and we were having a conversation about investments and money and stuff like that. And he was just being like, hey, man, are you taking care of yourself? He saw that I started doing more and he's like, hey, how are you handling yourself? What are you getting into? And he's like, hey, how are you handling yourself?

You know, what are you getting into? And he brought up the thing about cars and how if I like cars, then it's kind of like an investment. When they're classic cars and it's the right car, then you can enjoy it. And if you ever decide to sell it, it would appreciate in value versus buying something brand new that would depreciate. And so it's like you enjoy your investment, you know, and it's there. It's not like something that's tied up in some stock or some Bitcoin or something that you can't see or enjoy. And so what wound up happening is at the time, my girlfriend, she was like, every time she'd see her first car around town, she used to have a 1979 Trans Am. And so I talked to Jay's guys and I says, Hey man, can you guys help me get a 1979 Trans Am for my girlfriend?

I want to get her something for Christmas. And I think that she'd get a kick out of it. And sure enough, they found it. They found it quick. And I didn't have anywhere to hide it. So Jay let me keep it at his place. At the garage. Yeah.

And we wound up getting my girl her Trans Am. And then i told the guys i go hey man i go you guys think you could help me find a volkswagen because now that she's got her first car back i want to see if maybe i can get my first car yeah and they're like well what do you like and i told them and two days later they had a volkswagen bus that was the and then the addiction and then they said uh you know let us know if you want anything else and then i said well if you come across something let me know and then the phone calls just started happening of course car after car after car after car the first hit is free

and then they're like yeah i had just bought a building and it was originally intended for merchandise you know um i do a lot of merch on the road and so i was one of like we need a place to store everything and um the cars started coming and the merch started getting pushed to the back pushed to the back pushed to the back and next I know, they're pushed into a back building. You had to buy another building for merch. Yeah. Yeah, that one filled up with cars, man. We got to put the t-shirts in the other one.

Yeah, so it's one building cars, and the other building's merch. Wild. How many cars are in your collection in total? It's under 50. Okay. It's under 50, it's under it's under 50 but um mostly volkswagens and then i have a muscle car collection so i have uh 269 chevelles one's an original all the way and the other one's resto mod uh so it's you know it's pimped out it's yeah it can it can keep up on the freeway

it's got air conditioning all the you know all the cool stuff, gadgets, whistles, Bluetooth. I have a 1991 Camaro. It's a Z28. I have a 5.0, 1991. I have a 1968 Camaro. And then I also got myself a 1979 Trans Am. What's the newest car you have? Oh, and I also have a 1982 Mercedes-Benz Turbo Diesel. I call it the Rocky Balboa car.

It's the car that chased Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV. Right, right. So remember the Russians are like, Mr. Balboa, we are your chaperone. And so Rocky's like running and they're chasing him in the car. That's the car. You got the Rocky. I got the Rocky car. What's the newest age car do you have?

Do you like any new cars or you specifically like older cars? I got into Dodge for a minute. So I bought the hellcat and then i had the trackhawk and then i had a chrysler 300 and uh i bought the demon and i found myself not using the demon because i was afraid to drive it because it was just you know it had the fat tires on it for like you know the track and i wasn't taking the car to the track and you know i don't want to do freaking 180 on the 405. It's, you know.

Yeah. I didn't enjoy it. I had it for a couple of years and I only put a thousand miles on it. And got rid of it. Yeah. Yeah. I sold it recently at the Barrett Jackson auctions. Oh, those are great. I used to work those when I was a college.

Oh, man. So much fun. They're addicting. Yeah. Yeah. Because the guy starts, you know, and it's like, it's a party, dude. And you're just excited. You caught up in the moment.

And they start pointing at you. And you're like, yeah. And at the end, you're like, I paid how much for that? Like, okay, let's do it. I want to see the philosophical breakdown about the moment they realize that a fast-talking guy spewing numbers can just get you excited to spend more money. Because there's so much psychology behind. There is. That like, and then some guy's a hundred grand there is it's a whole show i mean you you get

caught up in the moment yeah that and that's all it is yeah getting caught up in the moment it's brilliant but it's fun yeah it is fun it's a lot of fun until you gotta pay at the end yeah that's what they expect you to pay you know you buy something it's like yeah i used to work valet when i was at at asu when i was in college and they used to let us you know like if you were doing well uh schedule wise if you weren't taking days off and you were like a good employee they would let you work valet at barrett-jackson and that was so much money because you know you get to drive fun cars and everyone that came with a fun car always wanted to show off so they'd tip you you'd get big cash and the best part was you know all you had to do was say something nice to a guy in a car that you wanted to drive and they'll be like oh yeah take it around you

know because it's basically on a track out there and they're like yeah go whip it around go ahead do whatever you want 19 year old idiot you know so i got to drive around i mean i don't know every one of my little dream cars back then i mean mean, like different phases as I've gotten older. But when I was young, I used to love BMW. I always loved German motors, so I was obsessed with the M3s when I was a kid and then getting to drive one of those when I was in college. It's just so funny how you get addicted to the next and you want to see what the next thing is, the next thing is, the next.

That's why I'm not collecting cars yet because i'm scared of i'll i'm scared yeah because then one leads to two two leads a 10 10 leads a 30 yeah it's it gets it gets scary do you ever is there a car that you own that you've never driven at all that just sits that you've never once driven um i have a uh 1958 uh 23 window bus that that's as close to original as possible. I mean, there's nothing trick about it. The motor is like the way that it was supposed to be. Everything is set to original specs on it. And I've maybe driven it twice.

A few times, just a couple miles on it? Yeah, just a little bit. And it's slow. I mean, the power couple miles on it? Yeah, just a little bit. And it's slow. I mean, the power on it, it's probably, what, like 36 horsepower? I was going to say, it's got to be under 50, yeah. I mean, you know, you could do 15 miles an hour in a jack-in-the-box drive-thru, I mean, all day. But it's really pretty, and it's original. So there's no chrome.

It's not, you know, because all my other cars are chromed out. Sure. They're chromed out. Some are lowered some have you know uh like i have one bus that i i tricked out and i put a subaru engine in it called a subaru swap oh nice and so i took out the engine that i had put a subaru one in it so it just oh yeah yeah yeah so it's you know it'll go up a hill it'll go down a hill you can pass cars it's pretty awesome and that's always fun to see in traffic because cars get passed up by a Volkswagen bus and they're like, you know, something wrong with my car?

Yeah. What gear am I even in? But that one bus, I'm telling you, you have driven it twice. And so it's just chilling. In here, we pour whiskey. Hey, if you're like me, you get up every morning and the first thing that you do is make yourself a cup of coffee. I love warming up the house and warming up my insides

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The biggest burn as far as cars or just in general? Well, give me both. What's the biggest burn of car money that you had? Biggest burn of car money? I think just, you know, a Volkswagen bus is not cheap. So that's $100,000 automatically. Jesus. I've never spent more than $200,000 for a car.

Right. So there's never been a car that I might have spent that much money with gas and fixing it and fixing it and fixing it. Yeah. Paint it this or do this or that with time, but never an initial like, yeah, let's do this. I've never gone for a Bentley or a Rolls. No exotics. G-W wagon or something you know right that's not your flavor uh it's not that it's not my flavor i just ah man i feel

even now it still feels weird to put that much into just one so like for example at the bear jackson auction i bought an audi r8 which is normally you know brand new easily over two yeah but when i got it i got it for 60 and I'm like, you know what? I got no problem paying 60 for an R8. Sure. Was it a V10 or the V8? V8. Yeah.

And it had 30,000 miles on it. That's great. And so I'm like, okay, so I got in the car, the leather was a little beat up, so, you know,

spent about five, six to get the leather redone so it looks brand new on the inside. Yeah. Had a good mechanic look at the car, work it over a little bit,

did a, had a guy detail it. Hey man, it looks great you're good to go yeah yeah i got no problem in all probably about 80k that i've that i've spent on that car and the car drives like a new car that's because that was a lot what's the big okay what's the biggest burn that you've thrown away dodger stadium all day yeah that was every day that's the biggest burn of money that was millions and you just you were like we i don't have a million i have to but you know at the Thrown away. Dodger Stadium all day. Yeah, that was the biggest burn you've ever had. That's the biggest burn of money. That was millions. And you were like, I don't have a choice. I have to.

But at the end of the day, again, it's a Netflix special. Yeah. It's a Netflix special. It was the greatest night of my life, and I'd do it all over again. Do you think you might do it more than once? Again, you know what? I don't think I would because that night was so amazing it would have to be a different venue sure if i did it yeah i wouldn't want to go through that whole because

there was a lot of issues backstage you know trying to get just get everything you know situated yeah yeah yeah the logistics on that is crazy i think people don't understand like even there's even logistics on a theater on a on a small theater there's stuff that needs to work the right way and figure you'd. You need a stage manager. Club days, you just got to walk out and have a good time. When you're working out new stuff now, where do you work out? Where's your workout? So my first show since the special, because the special came out a couple weeks ago, I went to La Jolla and I went to the Comedy Store.

That was my first round of shows. I did four shows. Nice little 200-seater. Oh, man, it felt great. It's great. I just, I walked in, you know, maybe 10 minutes before I had to be on stage. Right. You know, I had my openers up there that were doing their thing, and I walk in, and, you know, I was in the room.

As soon as you walk in that club, because they knock down the walls. So as soon as you walk in the front door, you're in the showroom. Oh, they knock down the back walls. They knock down the back walls. Oh, wow. Yeah. So by the bar, it's all open. It's open. It looks really cool. Wow. I haven't're in the showroom. Oh, they knocked on the back walls. They knocked on the back walls. Oh, wow. Yeah. So by the bar, it's all open.

It's open. It looks really cool. Oh, wow. I haven't been in since before COVID. The only issue is you can hear when they're making margaritas.

That's the only part that sucks. You know, you're like, yeah, yeah. Well, you used to be able to hear it a little bit sometimes when you're on stage

because that little cubby back there, but that is funny to think. Yeah, that's right because it's wide. It's kind of like how, oh, why can't I think of it uh not punchline punchline punchlines like that where you can see the punchline yeah both punchlines yeah you see the bar all right you see the bartender

everything yeah and then some drunk dude you're like come on that's not what i heard exactly yeah but i like that dude There's something about those days. I had so much fun at the club and it felt great to do that. And I told the crowd, I go, this is my first show back since the special has come out. And this is because, you know, I retired everything. Right. Everything that was on that special is gone. Done.

So I told the crowd that night, I go, who saw the special? Okay, good. All that material you saw, it's all gone. So this is brand new. Wow. And what do you, like how much time are you starting with when you go back? Like, do you have a bevy of stuff that you're ready to kick or you're kind of still feeding it out as it's coming to you when you're doing like La Jolla and stuff?

Well, it's material that didn't necessarily make it to the special stuff that's, you know, I've been working on. You know, I always have material that I, you know, interchange in the shows and sometimes, you know i've been working on you know i always have material that i you know interchange in the shows and sometimes you know you got to find something that fits yeah and maybe it might not fit now but maybe it'll fit later right and so that's material that i've you know that i'm using right now and so the show right now before it was all about two hours right now i'm coming in right around one one five to one.10. Wild. 1.55 to me seems so light. I couldn't believe that. And then the other specials are still an hour and a half, an hour and 20, hour 40.

I mean, would you ever do a special less than an hour and a half? Or you love that number of 90 minutes. I love that number, but at the same time it's like it became expected. Right. Now your fans are like, dude. No, not just that. It better be more than an hour. But it became expected. Right. Now your fans are like, dude. No, not just that. It better be more than an hour. It became expected by Netflix.

So originally Netflix was like, well, we want an hour special. And so when I turned it in, the first show that I did was – I'm not fat. I'm not. No, no. I'm fat. I'm fluffy. It was called – I'm sorry for what I said when I was hungry. It's a special I shot in Chicago.

And that special came in at about 1.35. And they are like, oh, that's way too long. The algorithms say that there's drop-off and this and that and the retention. Yeah, right. So, like, can you cut it down? I'm like, man, I don't want to chop it down. That's like, you know. Yeah.

And so they're like, okay, look, just get it under 1.30. Bring it under 1.30. And to you know i knock off some time and i want to say it came in at like 129 or some change and uh they let it go and they came back afterwards and they said you know what the people stuck around to see your whole thing it was really high so you know your next special now we want 90 and i I'm like, you mother. Yeah, you did that, man. In essence, I think they got a free special because, you know, if you're only supposed to do an hour and you turned in freaking two 90-minute specials, they got a freebie. Yeah, they did.

Yeah. Well, that's on you, man. That's my fault. You made your bet. I love the fact that I was not restricted on the time. And now, you know, so I pushed the envelope and I says, all right, you know, this was going to go longer than 1.30. They were cool at 1.30 already. But, you know, by making it the event that it was, plus it was the first time that Netflix called it a Netflix comedy event.

It wasn't a Netflix comedy special. It was a Netflix comedy event. They let me have that, which I thought was really cool. Did you ask for that? i did ask for that because i told robbie i go dude man there's you can't put this in the same category as some of these specials that are out there man i goes this is not a regular special this is an event right you know and netflix is putting their name on it's not something you guys licensed that i did it wasn't a special that i did and you know that someone somebody else put out there and now you're licensing it.

You guys are doing this. Right. And it's different. There's something. It's different. So I said, just, you know, you want to do something for me? Let me have that.

That's so funny. Just a word. That's all you want is a word. Because it changes everything. Yeah. I guarantee you now people, other comics are going to be like, all right, so, you know,

I wanted to say event too. A Netflix special, a Netflix comedy experiment. People are going to be like, all right. So, you know, I wanted to say event too. A Netflix comedy experiment. People are going to now change the word to something else. Yeah. A Netflix comedy razzmatazz. Razzmatazz. Yeah. A new Netflix joint.

Well, I mean, that's great, man. Honestly, I think, you know, those things do make a difference, particularly for you as the performer, as the artist, the creator. It shifts the way you feel about it as well because it made it more important to you, which carries a lot of weight because you care. You're not someone that's just throwing stuff out there. Yeah, I wasn't just trying to get a check. I was trying to put my heart and soul into this thing. I'm like, man, this thing's going to live forever on the on the on the you know on the network so it's like hey yeah you gotta what now how much time now before you go back on on tour tour before you

do a tour again um well i i told my uh my peoples my peoples call them my peeps my peeps uh that i wanted to you know let me let me go back to the clubs. Let me have fun. Let me just, you know. Yeah. Because the clubs, there's no pressure. There's absolutely no pressure. The hardest thing to do at a club show is, you know, get through when they drop the checks and the whole room stops. Yeah. And then you just got to wait those two minutes and then it's back to normal.

That's the hardest thing. Check drop. And if there's a heckler, you see exactly who's heckling you. It's not like at an arena where it's, you know, hearing sound and you're like, it came from darkness. You know, at a club, you're like, that dude's being a dick. Right. Please. Please get him out.

He's out. You didn't have any hecklers at Dodger Stadium. And if I did, I don't. You wouldn't have known. I wouldn't have known. They'd had a bullhorn. They would have needed something because, you know, I mean, and I could see everybody in front of me, which was really, really cool. You know, and I wanted to make sure that uh another thing i asked for was

for the stage to be low oh yeah not to be too high no i needed it to be low enough to where somebody could actually reach me and you would think that in this day and age i was gonna say the last thing you want yeah because security was real that night we were you know this was coming on the on the heels of the Chappelle thing and the Chris Rock. So it was like, are you sure you want to do that to yourself? And it's like, you know, there was enough security there where if somebody would have gone for it, there'd be enough time to react. Also, you're not a, you know.

I'm a little harder to take down. I think you can handle your own. I'm a little harder to take down. Yeah, I think you'll slug back. I feel like you'd swing back. I feel like you could stand up for yourself just fine. Just a tad. Just a tad, just a little bit. Just a little harder to take down you know yeah i think you'll slug back i feel like you'd swing back i feel like you could stand up for yourself just fine just a tad just a tad just a little bit just a little bit uh what so what is your like um only because i don't you know all i know of you as a comedian like as a as outside of that like what's your nitty-gritty

hobby like what's your getaway from comedy what's the thing that like takes you out of it and you know this the pup life huh yep pup life is it my doggies uh that's why they go with me everywhere uh when i go up on stage that's probably the only time they're not with me that's it you know they're spoiled because they you know most of the time if you have a pet you go to work and you're away from your pet for at least 12 hours. They get you for half the time. Whereas these guys, full time. So I feel like I'm fortunate because I've got to spend more time with my pets than most people do. And that's one of those things where it's like, look at her. Licking away.

Was it like this when you were a kid? Did you guys always have pets? Is that why you have such an attachment, you think? My sister gave me a chihuahua when I was 12 years old. So I've had dogs since 12. Yeah. So yeah. Did she give it to you for your birthday or something like that?

I don't remember what the occasion was. I just remember I woke up and there was a dog on me. That was it. Yeah, she put the dog on the bed and was like, oh my God. So you were, yeah, you were hooked from the jump. How many have you had? Do you know? This one, she's, oof.

The attachment's real. Let me see. I've had probably about five. Five. All chihuahuas, yeah? Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Would you ever stray?

Would you do a non-chihuahua or no? Well, it's funny because my son, his girlfriend just gave him a pit bull. And, you know, pit bull's got the bad rep and everything uh that pit bull is she's such a sweetheart but she's big i mean massive yeah she's only like five months old oh wow and huge like i had her on me yesterday and it's just like you know she's easily six times this size like her paw is the size of risa's head you know what i mean it's just a big dog yeah sweetheart and and i'm like oh but it's nice to her no no she's not about it she's not about the chihuahuas are not about it yeah you know the pit bull wants to play with everybody but uh it was

the first time i was like oh man like you know like really interacting with another dog like the dog just connected with me like i was playing with a dog and we were there with a trainer because, you know, I want to make sure that, you know, that everything's cool. You know what I mean? That this dog's going to be, you know, probably as strong or stronger than my son. And so I need to make sure that everything's cool. But I thought about it afterwards. I was like, man, what would it be like to have a non-chihuahua because these are attitude anything anything you've heard about chihuahuas is freaking true right they are angry they are they nip they you know they got attitude you know they're very protective and uh possessive yeah okay that i've that i've heard yeah they're very like uh this is my person or my especially

like you know if uh guys can get close but if a girl tries to get close forget about this one oh forget it if you own a vagina stay away from my dog because she's like nah bitch go what about your girl is she cool with her or no well i don't have a girl so that's why okay yeah no that's why this is the girl i have right here so she's like yeah don't even try it so when you bring so when you do start dating people that's got to go to the Risa pass, huh? So there's been a couple of times where I've, you know, I'm sorry. She caught me talking to someone and she'll walk up and she'll dig right into my leg. She'll just straight dig into my leg.

Like, don't act like you don't see me. And I'm like, oh my God. And then I'll pick her up. And usually like when I pick her up, she's like this. But if there's, like, a girl, she's just fixated right on. And will she start growling and stuff? Won't growl, but she's just, like, just watching. Locked in.

Yeah. You know? And if the girl's like, ooh, she's so cute. Let me pet her. Right away, just. Yeah, don't do that. Not today. Don't do that.

Not today. Because she looks, you know, she looks sweet. Yeah, she looks innocent. She looks sweet. And, of course course I could pet her and do whatever all I want but if a girl tries to touch her oh

yeah it's over well I'm glad and she has no teeth I'm glad you brought her no really not one tooth but man she could still she could do something

Ruthless Toothless there yeah Ruthless Toothless Ruthless Toothless well listen I appreciate you coming on the show it means a lot I do think people who haven't seen it coming on the show it means a lot uh i do think people who haven't seen it need to watch it it's a feat uh if nothing else like it to be it's just a feat

of impressive magnitude to do a special in a stadium as iconic and historic as dodger stadium i think that's amazing um go watch uh stadium fluffy now on net Netflix If you don't have Netflix I don't know, steal a password from a friend Can they still let you do that? Are they still barring people from sharing? You know what? They nailed me the other day I remember something popped up on my phone Because I think I've got one too many We do too, we share with my whole family

Netflix is like, you're done They're cracking down Well go get it, go watch it It is great, I'm excited to see what else you're gonna come up with and if no one's ever ever seen my stuff all my stuff's available online for free

go get it it's all there all you gotta do is Google Google the word fluffy yeah if you Google the word fluffy I'm the number one thing

that pops up I've branded myself that hard yeah or I come up before bunnies, quilts, comforters cotton candy I am the

number one search and you're made of all that stuff in the world oddly enough yeah that's that's my claim right there well because your tv show was called what was called mystery okay it was the first time i actually wanted it the idea was uh when i did the sitcom i wanted to put focus on my last name no i mean just because it's iglesias, no one ever says, hey, that's a guy, you know, Gabriel Iglesias. It's always Fluffy. Yeah.

Fluffy took over. Well, you did that though, right? Didn't you kind of brand it? I branded it so much that yeah, it beat out Iglesias. So I figured, all right,

let me do this show where I have to have the name on there. Right. That way it's stamped in a little bit. That's why, yeah. My buddy Jesus Trejo

did your show. Yes, he did. That's my boy. I love that guy. He's so funny, man. Such a funny dude. Trejo's funny and So funny, man. Such a funny dude. Trejo's funny. And he's finally over his fear of dogs.

Is he? Yeah. But now when he comes to hang with you, he's okay with it? Oh, yeah. She used to freaking scare him, but he's at a good point now where- To be scared of this four-pound dog is very funny to me because it's just, even at her height, would not be so scary to me. Give it a bite.

Maybe just a little nip. Right. So barely a nip. scary to me. Give it a bite. Maybe just a little nip. Barely a nip. Well, check Fluffy out when he's coming around to your city to work out what will be, I'm sure, another magnificent

hour. We end the show the same way. You look in that camera right there. Oh, I'm finishing the whiskey? Yeah, I got it. Well, you don't have to. Oh, you can do. No. If you want to polish it off. It's going down. Oh, there it is. Oh, that's amazing that's incredible one big gulp we ended with one word or one phrase look in that camera now and give me one word or one

phrase to end the episode for the rest of time d-u-i in here we pour whisk Whiskey, whiskey. You're that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.