Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - George Lopez

Episode Date: November 26, 2021

Santino sits down with George Lopez to chat about growing up in LA and dreaming of living in Los Feliz as a kid going to Dodger games, how his house is haunted and he's got proof, representing the latino comic community as a legend and how he's not fighting the industry anymore he's going to do it his way on his time. 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! FREEZE PIPE Don't let your lungs get ripped up while you do https://www.freezepipe.com code WHISKEY for 10% off BETTERHELP Its not a crisis line or self help, it's professional counseling done securly online https://betterhelp.com/whiskey GET 10% OFF your fist month MANSCAPED Clean up your body, face and balls Get 20% OFF plus free shipping!! https://www.manscaped.com code WHISKEY20 AMAZON MUSIC Stream unlimited music, podcasts and much more offline too!!! 3 MONTHS FREE!!! https://www.amazon.com/wg 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 #whiskeyginger #andrewsantino #Georgelopez #omghipodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What up, Whiskey Ginger fans? Welcome back to the show. Man, dude, we got a good one for you today. My man George Lopez is on the show. This dude is a legend, an icon, a staple of Los Angeles. Probably one of the greatest comedians and creators and humans that I've met in this game. He is a wonderful dude, and I'm so happy that we had him on the show. I'm on the road. AndrewSantino.com for the tickets.

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Let's go to the episode. In here, we pour whiskey. Whiskey, whiskey, 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 gene is a curse gingers are beautiful you owe me five

dollars for the whiskey and 75 dollars for the horse gingers are hell no this whiskey is 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 legendary the og la, LA's finest, George Lopez. Thank you for coming, man. Yes, sir, man. Nice to meet you. This is huge.

And George said he wanted something to drink, so I broke this out. My boy Whiskey Pete gave this to me. This is Blanton's, and this was dumped on 8-14-18. So it's a special beer. It's more special than this, but I figured I could crack it out for you, man. Yeah, why not? Look at it. It's so old that this has fallen right off.

Oh, wow. Yo, so tell me. We were just talking off camera, which is funny you said that because you brought up. I saw last night Adele did that private performance at the Griffith Park Observatory. Pretty amazing, man. I mean, there's a guy. Neighbor next door and citizen, I'm on both. Neighbor next door is for what fucking Mexicans call fucking metiche, like a motherfucker that

can't mind his own business. You know, you pull in and then across the street, the people look and they go back and, you know, my grandmother was that way. And metiche is a great fucking word. Like, you know, somebody that butts in. Metiche. Metiche.

And, uh, um, so, uh, you know, all that shit that fucking comedians and. Awesome, man. So wait, Griffith Park though, wait, uh, you know, all that shit that comedians and. Awesome. So wait, Griffith park though. Wait, tell me you were talking before. Yeah. So Griffith park, the observatory. Oh, so the neighbor next door app, there's a guy that takes beautiful pictures, you know, a coyote.

Yeah. Uh, uh, a deer. Um, yeah. Uh, the sunset, the observatory, beautiful pictures. Right. And neighbor next door in that neighborhood is like, you know, I'm leaving town. Can somebody watch my cat from 4 p.m. Saturday till noon Sunday? And somebody would.

And it's just, I have a weed party at my house. Like, I haven't had it in two years. You're invited. I want to come. I have a weed party at my house. Like, I haven't had it in two years. You're invited. I want to come. I have a weed party at my house. And it's called Who Weed In My Pool. Who Weed In My Pool. Yeah.

Because, you know, when I bought that house, some guys came over that I grew up with, and they were like, hey, can we smoke in here? And I was going to say no. And then I realized I wasn't married anymore. I didn't have a kid in the house. And I said, fuck, of course. Yeah.

Read, go inside, whatever, man. So these dudes started to come over and I said, I should have a fucking party, like just have some music. Right. And have some food and just invite people. And we were on that comedy get down tour, me, Charlie, Eddie Griffin, Seth, and DL. And the next day we're at the forum, and the next day was an off day,

and I had my first weed party. A baby face was there, and fucking Ed Asner and Larry Fishburn and all these dudes. Did Ed Asner burn? Yeah. Does he smoke? No, he didn't burn. He just sat there and checked out all the chicks

and kept telling all the big guys how big they were. You're a fucking horse. What the fuck? I was hoping he burned I was like If that dude smoked Cheers by the way Cheers brother

Yeah and rest in peace Salud Salud That dude That dude is a legend So you'd have all these People come over Come to the house

And get smoked out It's good huh Oh man Yeah that's smooth That's this bottle You can check it out You know That's some good jazz

Right there man We had a guy Runs a dispensary up here Music smooth that's this bottle you can check it out you know that's some good jazz right there so weed had a guy runs a dispensary up here music had a little combo had a dj selfie booth hannah tattoos porn stars uh eddie murphy uh guys i went to school with lino rodriguez like every around our tests everybody yeah and and it just became this thing. And then the poster was a weed, a pool with a splash of a weed leaf with me in the middle. So we, we left that outside the whole day. Right. Then neighbor next door.

They're like, what's going on at this house there that there's a, there's a sign out there all day with a marijuana leaf and my kids go by there. And what is that saying to the neighborhood? What is it saying to the kids of this area? Should we say something? Should we be upset? Who lives there? There's screaming coming out of the backyard at 9 PM. And then they're going, you know, I was going to call the cops.

And then somebody said, George Lopez lives in that house. And then he's on this app. So if you want to tell him something, tell him. Right. On the next door app. Fucking silence. Got a fucking, tell him. Right. On the next door app. Fucking silence. Got a fucking word after that. Right.

You know, I'm no thug, but you know, just, these are just people that, you know, they're Metiches, man. They talk behind people's back. Right. So, so citizen, somebody goes, go on citizen. So, so neighbor next door is pretty much like, if anybody wants to go for a walk Sunday, I'm available. And citizen is like i'm shot there was a dude

fucking uh uh guys at a flasher down my street like 800 feet what was a flat like flash his dick i'm like what the fuck how could be one so fucking different than the other no coyotes a fucking they found a body in a fucking rug out by griffith park by Park by the fucking Greek Oh no that's right I heard about that Crazy shit Yeah that's crazy One app ignores all of that shit

Right And then the other it's almost like in the old days like if you were Johnny Carson you said you know my show is on

another network Right There was fucking three of them Right there was only ABC, NBC, CBS Yeah that's it It's like they ignore

all the crime Yeah And then Citizen is keep it real man Yeah the other one, it's one for snitches. It's one for snitches. And then there's one

for fucking thugs. Legit shit. Don't go out and fucking get shot. Wait, did you do Carson, by the way? I did. How many times did you do it?

I just do it, I just did it once. One time. Check this out. So, you know, I was working at the Maxim Hotel in 1980,

it's Christmas of 87. My grandfather died in 88 had to borrow some money to to bury him i was out there making 750 a week doing shows tuesday through sunday to and to a night and i was staying in the maximum hotel would walk across street to al phillips the cleaner leave my suits over there pick up like two cheeseburgers and Doritos and a bottle of Diet Coke and come back to the room with the USA Today every day at 10 o'clock. Like clockwork. Like clockwork. I pick up the lifestyle. Ron Schock.

Ron Schock was on the cover of the life of the USA Today Life. A big picture of him. the USA today life, big, a big picture of him. And it was like, it was a year later and it was about Johnny Carson retiring and how there's only six more spots for new comedians. Yeah. So I'm sitting in Las Vegas, just only working there really not on the road, maybe not so much, but just pretty much stuck there. And I look and I go, fuck man.

It's like, it's like fucking Willy Wonka, like fucking six golden tickets, six golden tickets. And I'm never thinking that I would, that I would get one. Right. So I go back to, uh, LA and, uh, Shapiro West Seinfeld's people, George Wallace people. They were going to come and see me on a Wednesday at the, uh, uh, improv on Melrose. And they come to see me. And as they're standing there, Jim McCauley comes next to him and he, they look over and

Jim McCauley is watching me and he says, do you represent this guy he goes no we're thinking about it well if you do tell him the i'd like to see more so of course they see me and they go i think we got you the tonight show fuck fucking bullshit they were standing next to the fucking jim mccauley they didn't give me shit and then i went over there and it's like those it's like those things that i don't i'm sure nobody does it anymore like say you're Jim McCauley I come in he goes okay what do you got

this and you do it in front of him just you and him in the I've done yeah doing stand up in the room

for an executive right there so wild man it's crazy I mean you're just in a little box room sometimes there's a camera on you and there's a dude

little a little like you know 19 year old dude who just moved here recording you with the headphones on it's so fucking uncomfortable nobody can do it i don't give a fuck no i don't care how hard you crush and and it's always fucking awkward so i'm talking no laughs yeah nothing and he goes okay uh tell you what i don't like this in the front move this

to the middle move Move the back there. Move this here. And then none of them go in order. Then they rearrange your whole set. They rearrange the whole fucking shit. Yeah. I go home and I work a week, 10 days. I'd fall asleep on the fucking pen.

I'd wake up, the pen would be stuck right here. And then the next Wednesday I go over there and by chance he walks in again. And he comes up to me. He goes, Hey, uh, are you doing any of this stuff? And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wasn't. Right. But I did it.

And then he followed me out and he said, Hey, congratulations, man. I think you got it. I think we've got you a spot. Fuck. And I was like, holy shit. And then it's right around when magic came out, HIV. Oh, wow. And then I was on that week, and Bill Cosby bumped me.

And then I got bumped, and all my friends were like, all comedian friends were like, man, you're never going to get out now. Once you bump you. It's over. Because those guys that got bumped, they never got back on. Yeah. So I got bumped, but I got like the next Wednesday. They slotted you in.

They were like, we'll get you next Wednesday. Did you think that they were going to fuck you on Wednesday or no? I did. Yeah, you were like, that's not going to happen. I'm going to get slidid off slid off until it goes away man and then uh i did it with lisa stansfield and bob newhart and uh johnny carson was getting some death threats from crazy people in burbank why i just i think i think it's just those fucking stalkers like oh yeah just like a stalker was more dangerous back when somebody would just turn up

behind your car right right by your right somebody would just turn up behind your car. Right. Or by your fucking- Right. They would just show up. Yeah. It wasn't about the internet. They would be like, I'm coming.

They'd call. I'm coming. Oh, they'd fucking come from, I mean, look at Robert Blake was sending letters to that lady. She came out. Yeah. You know? So after the show, he comes down the hall.

These police come down the hall and they go, clear the hall. Everybody clears the hall. I'm fucking standing in the doorway like, oh, fuck, they're in the hall, man. And he comes around the corner and he's got this like polyester, the big knotted tie, liver spots on his hands and his face right here. And he stops. He shakes my hand. That was great. Maybe talk to Jim.

Come back one more time. I was like, I don't give a fuck about coming back one more time. But I did it, man. I did it with him. That's wild. Never thought. Never, never thought. were you already kind of running a little bit then or did it change your life like you know it didn't change my life you know kerry drew kerry was one of those situations where like you know freddie prince like freddie prince in 1974 73

whenever he did it he he kate sammy davis jr was on and then and then freddie came out and killed it and then johnny carson over. Yeah, to the couch. And Drew Carey got called over. And, you know, Drew Carey was living in his car, man. Like, and he did the Tonight Show and fucking just destroyed. Yeah. He had that, you know. I've seen it. The tie.

Yeah. And he goes, you know, it was raining. He gets pulled over by the cop. Right. And he goes, you know, I pulled you over. You know why? You know, that kind of. Yeah.

Beautiful. Fucking masterful. And he just blew up man it's like you can see fucking people blow up you know tim allen we talked and he never did it with with never did stand-up like they wanted him on but he wanted to do stand-up on johnny carson he didn't want to come out and just talk he wanted he wanted to do stand-up but he did but the couch because for stand-ups doing couch is another form of stand-up. But there's something so formal about getting up that you want to kind of, back then, at least I'm sure, guys wanted to show that they could do that set and kill that set.

Yeah. Because killing on the couch is different than killing on the stage. Killing on your feet is better because they might think it's a setup. Somebody asks you a question. Hey, tell me about your daughter. My daughter. Right. And you're up there.

It's just you. Yeah. And you look over to your left and you see Doc Severinsen. You look over you're up there it's just you and you look over to your left and you see doc severance and you look over to your right you see ed mcmahon and johnny carson you see freddie cordevo you see all the people you see the clock it's wild fucking crazy yeah man and what does that feel like then years later than you have your own show you know like well you had you had more than one show but lopez tonight you had your own talk show like that did you did did that ever kind of feel? Did that ever kind of feel as a comic is that it was that kind of wild being like a man?

I had the opportunity to bring up other comics. Yeah, I did. Yeah, you did I mean you did on that show hosted a shitload of comedians Maz Shit, we had a lot Chris Alonso did it right? Yep. Um, Philippe did it? Yeah, Philippe did it and Felipe did it, yeah? Felipe did it. Yeah. And, God, Chris D'Elia.

Yeah. I got all those because the girl was looking at him and saying, I found these guys. And I would look at him and I'd say, oh, these guys are all fucking great, man. Just line them all up and bang them out. Yeah. Did you always want to have a show like that or no? You don't know, man. You know, the guy, you know, Jim Peritore, he passed away. He was doing Ellen.

The guy, you know, Jim Peritore, he passed away. He was doing Ellen. And there was a guy named Dick Richardson. And he was the head of syndication. So one day when we probably had like 53 episodes of my sitcom, we walked across the street to go meet with syndication because syndication was at 88. And, man, all of that's been a fucking just a wild thing, dude. I'm like the guy. We'll get to it. But so we're in there, it's been a fucking, just a wild thing, dude. Yeah.

I'm like the guy, well, we'll get to it. But so we're in there and Paratory says, you know, Alan had just started. And then Paratory said, you ever thought about having your own talk show? And I said, I still got this fucking show, dude. Yeah. And he's like, no, no, that show's not going to run forever. I don't say that. He says, let me get, let me get through this.

Let me finish the race first. Finish this. Yeah. And then Paratory came. I took a year off when the show ended in seven. through this. Let me finish the race first. Finish this. Yeah. And then Paratory came. I took a year off when the show ended in seven. And then I took a year off at home with my wife when I was married. And it was not a good year at home because you're

so used to going someplace. Right. For seven years and now you're at home. It was a little difficult. So in eight, I signed a deal and then we did TBS. But TBS was not the place for late night because all those motherfuckers were scared to piss people off i remember i did uh we did a thing with a nun on a stripping pole and we did a thing with uh uh somebody who was on dancing with the stars

that i got in trouble for making a joke about her size. And it was all that shit in one, Andrew, in one fucking show. It was like seven flags on one, but bad, bad. And they were fucking killing me. And then, I don't think I've ever said this to anybody. My wife calls me and says, you know, so-and-so has a weight problem, but you got to be more sensitive. You know, you have an issue with weight. I'm like, bitch me.

And it's just, you know, it's just, it was just, you know, you couldn't listen. I think, I think part of late night is not making everybody happy. Yeah. You can't. Those dudes wanted to make everybody happy. Right.

And Jim Peritore said, Hey man, you guys want to go swimming and you don't want to fucking get wet. Like let us do our thing. Right. One day, no African-Americans are watching. Too many Latinos are watching. No women are watching.

No Hispanics are watching. And it just became a thing. I enjoyed it. I look back, I enjoyed it. But I didn't like the idea of somebody beating up your ass every single fucking day. Were they handing you those statistics every day? Like, yo, man, we have to have more black.

We have to have more women. A little bit. But all the things that, you know, we did that thing, creepy little white girl and she would appear in the thing she had like a vandy camps a cookie baker outfit with a doll with no head and carlos santana was like oh i fucking love that girl man i love her every time i see her i would send them the tapes yeah and then they were like we hate her and then we did a thing bullet hole not a bullet hole where you took people who were like ethnically diverse and they would ask a Korean guy, you know, have you ever eaten dog?

And then they would stop and bring a contestant and they're like, I'm going to say no. And then the girl would go, yeah, I went to Korea to visit my grandmother. We're all eating. And I didn't know that she was feeding this dog, you know? So it was all the stuff that was wrong, but all the shit that, that makes it right. Yeah. That made it funny. That made comedy funny.

And then a lot, a lot of times, you know, it was like the first guest of like Far East Movement and a lot of Justin Bieber's first late night show. Wow. And all that kind of shit was fun. That's wild, man. But now,

now is all that stuff in the past for you, you want to just tour and do stand up and do your thing? You know, I didn't want to let the pandemic kind of finish

or just end in the pandemic, you know. Yeah, yeah. I've been doing it a long time, 42 years. Yeah. And so, You know what, I didn't want to let the pandemic kind of finish or just end in the pandemic. Yeah, yeah. I've been doing it a long time, 42 years. Yeah. And so I still enjoy that I'm selling tickets, but I could kind of see maybe the end of the tunnel. I'll be 61 next year. I was born in 61. And to me, 61, 61 is a nice.

That's a good way to say it. It's a good way to go. Yeah, that's a good way. 61, 61. Well, but what does that mean to you in terms of like, there's no way you're going to stop creating. No. So what does that mean to you in terms of like, there's no way you're going to stop creating. No. So what does it look like? I think it looks like, you know, we're doing the restaurants now and the beer is doing good.

Yeah. And then we have some weed that, you know, this guy says to me, you know, you can't stump, you can't stump us. Right. I mean, we're never at a loss where, oh, I don't know. The guy says to me, you know, you follow edibles and you follow marijuana. I said, I do. He goes, do you see something out there that that's not there that you think should be there?

And I said, yeah. He goes, what's that? How about Vicks, the mentholatum rub that everybody uses? How about you put CBD and THC in Vicks? And we did it. I would love that. It's coming out. You put it on your chest or something like that?

You got to send me some of that. I love that. That's beautiful, dude. I'll send you some. Because I use that. I will. Everybody uses that shit, especially if you're like feeling a on your chest or something like that you gotta send me some of that i love that beautiful dude i'll send you some because i use that i will everyone uses that shit especially if you're like feeling a little off and you're like i need to knock out right here right on your nose yeah my grandmother put it behind my ear she would go you know here here's some for later on it'd be behind your ear so if you were in class you'd go like this

like a fucking pitcher with like yeah, just behind the earlobes. Yeah. Yeah, but so then, because what's wild to me is like, you know, you started in LA and it's- I started the comedy store in Westwood. Oh, you did? Fuck, man. The original. I tell the story on my podcast.

The original, it was in Westwood. It was tiny. I saw Gary Shanling there. He was driving a 280Z, a Datsun two 80 Z. Wow. And, uh, we would see him pull up and he opened the hatchback and he pulled out like a purple windbreaker and he put it on. It's all wrinkled.

All his notes were there. Scripts from Sanford and son. Wow. Stuff he was working on in his car. We'd walk him. We'd walk in with them. And Were there, who was the guys from that generation that you think kind of helped

you out? Did anybody throw you, throw you a bone and like, you know, Joe Gaynor was always cool to me, man, from the beginning. Even when I, even when I wasn't doing it, I remember my friend Ernie, who I used to go with to the clubs, and he saw Ernie at the Ramos Chinese for the original Superman premiere. And he says, hey, man, where's George?

He goes, oh, he's not doing, you know, much standup. And he said, tell him to come back, man. He's funny. And that meant a lot. Wow. I saw Ernie the next day. He talked to me.

He said, remember Joey from the comedy show? I saw him over there. And he said, for you to go back to that you were funny. What do you think, what was it that gave you the first pop that you ever had? What was the thing that you were like, man, I think this is like the start of something? Man, I was still in high school during the day. And then the first time you're a little bit shaky. And then the second time not good. And then I took a week off and I kind of retool.

I didn't have anything. I just moved some things around. And then the third time I got mixed up with, it was a sold out Monday night in the end of June, 1979. It was always fucking packed. People from Westwood, good looking people. And Joey Gaynor came by me at like 8.50 and he goes, you're next. And I was, me, I'm not supposed to go up there.

Nine o'clock spots, good, man. Fucking went up there and I didn't even know what I was doing. I fucking killed him. And then me and Ernie ran out. I was taping, I tape everything. We ran out and we ran up and down the street. Like I'd never felt so good about myself.

Because you knew what you were doing was right. Because it just felt like I had just gotten an infusion of what real, of love, of being funny. Yeah. And we were just running around looking for, we listened to that tape like 10 times in a row. It was only like four minutes. But I think Arsenio too, back there in, in, um, Arsenio was coming on, uh, January of 18 of, uh, 89. And I saw him the middle of February. And as I left the stage, he followed me and he said, Hey, I have your tape at my office,

but I'm going to put you on, man. I've never seen you, but you have the tape of the office, but I'm glad I saw you. And I did that like 15, 16 times. We're still friends. That means a lot. That means a lot to me, man, because, you know, Arsenio was in that time where if you went to the bank the next day, everybody would be like, hey, man, we saw you on Arsenio.

Like everybody would see you in those four. He was on five years, but in the first three years, you couldn't go anywhere. Huge. It was so massive. But that's when TV was so well watched like everyone would watch and what he was doing was you know he did nwa he did you know hammer i was on that show he did with uh vanilla ice where he you know the tough question he called

him out yeah yeah he called him out he called him out yeah green fucking shiny ass suit and he was i guess he was at the american music awards the night before. He was hungover. And they're going like, you might have to put you first. First? Why are you going to put a comedian first? Yeah, homeboy's asleep, man. He's had a long night.

He's up there trying to wake him up, trying to get him ready. Great. Fun times. Yeah, man. But I think that was it. And then 91 was the Tonight Show. And then Arsenio finished in 95.

And then I spent like, you know, 95, 99, like in a dark, road comic, dark place, drinking a lot. Just drinking and traveling too much. Yeah. Motel, motel, motel, hotel. Yeah. Yeah, that kind of thing. Was there, because your generation, I always hear from some of the older guys, they were like, you motherfuckers don't even know. We used to not get paid sometimes.

Like, did you ever have it where they fucked you on money? We went to a place, we went to a place to, uh, where Amway's from, like, uh, in Michigan.

Yeah. Um, and the last comedian comes in, closes the door, he goes, we're going to get fucked. Like, what do you mean?

Because we're not going to get paid. And they were like, what the fuck do you mean we're not going to get paid? We're not going to get paid. This dude comes in, he goes, uh, I got bad news for you guys. You guys aren't going to get paid. We're like, what do you mean we're not going to get paid? We're not going to get paid. This dude comes in. He goes, I got bad news for you guys.

You guys aren't going to get paid. We're like, what do you mean we're not going to get fucking paid, man? What the fuck? Motherfucker puts a briefcase down. He opens it up, takes out a fucking gun, and he goes, you're not getting paid. All right, I guess we're not getting fucking paid. All right, man, what about airfare? Ain't the fucking airfare.

And then I think somebody said, i'm just owed airfare i'm owed air that's all i need is like you're not gonna get paid motherfucker and we called up our agent uh it was that uh gersh um and he hung up on us we told him the dude pulled a gun on us and he fucking hung up like i'm not dealing with that with this shit but you know not a lot but you know certain times you you get you'd get fucking stiff. And I remember I was in Dallas when my show first started. I went to this club in Oak Cliff, you know, this kind of ghetto, kind of Latino area club. And I went in there, you know, it's like a little cartel.

I'm like, what the fuck are we doing this thing? It's like a fucking cartel hangout. The guy comes over to me and he goes, Señor Lopez, soy el dueño. I'm the owner. Posible que one day you can do a show in here. I said, yeah,

one day I will. Fucking dude comes with like a cord, about a hundred feet of cord with a microphone. He fucking gave me the cord of the microphone. He goes,

ahorita. Right. They put the light on me and I was like, no, not right now. And then fucking, I did like 20 minutes

in that fucking club because I had to. Yeah, you were forced to. Yeah, there was no way. That's some crazy shit. You can't say no.

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Chicano or Latino comedians, especially Paul Rodriguez or Mencia or whatever. Nobody who was progressing. Like you'd see those dudes, they kind of like Paul Rodriguez kind of was in the beginning of, of the eighties. Yeah. And, uh, um, but for a guy to get a TV show and

then the show last, then he goes and does something else and you're going to do animation movies and movies and all that stuff that, you know, I've been, you know, I've done well the whole time. Yeah. No, I mean, well, that's, what's interesting. I mean, you say it, but I've thought about that a lot about how like, there's such a rich Latino community in LA, obviously, but also as far as like Latino comics goes on in your generation coming up, it was mostly you doing

clubs with all white dudes. I mean, it was, there wasn't a big faction of Latino comics. I mean, and if they did, did they not want to go play those, those white rooms that they want to do more East side, East LA rooms, or were there more Latino rooms that were only Latino comics. I mean, and if they did, did they not want to go play those, those white rooms? Did they want to do more East side, East LA rooms or were there more Latino rooms that were only Latino comics? No, no, no, not at all. No. I mean, um, there was like a place in Ventura club soda. There was a fucking lamppost pizza, deli smoker on Ventura. Right.

Um, you know, deli smoker on Ventura. There was this guy that, that was a, that was a, a medium, like a psychic. They did magic and he, and he read futures right so my girlfriend in high school was named judy and you know i had fucked her i think i'd gone to like a motel with her she'd gotten married and divorced and i was kind of seeing her in the early 80s but i was also seeing a lady that i worked with she was older than me and we get in the car and she's silent you know and i said what's going on and she goes nothing and i said what's going on she she always believed in the cards.

So she went over and got her fortune read. And that fucking dude told her, didn't know it was me. Whoever you're seeing is seeing someone else. And her first initial starts with J. And she gets in the car and she tells me that. And I said, no. What the fuck? That guy, motherfucker nailed it. For me that. And I said, no. What the fuck? That guy, motherfucker nailed it.

For anybody that, he didn't know me. He didn't know her. And he didn't know the situation. And you're just like, this motherfucker. He smoked it out. Fucking nailed it. He nailed it, dude. That has got to wild.

I've never done that. The medium, all that. I don't trust that shit. It weirds me out for some reason. There's a little bit of some voodoo shit because he had it right and the whole thing i was like what the fuck you know i we we believe in it as a culture and um yeah so i've grown i've grown up believing the house that i live in now has has had some demons in it poltergeist did you have someone come check it out or something like that

yeah well i'll show you some pictures man you got to tell me though what it like how because to me you know, like as a kid, I remember going to my friend, my good friend had a split level house, right? The half of the, half of the bottom was below the ground and half was above, you know? Yeah.

And they had said that the, the woman that lived there died in the house. She fell down the stairs and died. So one night we were in the basement and I never was into all that shit. I never bought it. You know, I was like, I don and I never was into all that shit. I never bought it You know into I was like, I don't know about spirits and all that shit And one night i'm sitting there and my and we had gotten high and my buddy went to bed

This is I was in high school And I couldn't go to sleep and I kept looking at looking up at the stairs thinking i'll go in the kitchen and go eat Something, you know And as right right as I was getting up I hear the kitchen door There was a there was a pocket door in the kitchen between the bedrooms upstairs. And I hear it. You can hear the pocket door. And I'm thinking, oh, maybe his brother's up.

I'll go say what's up. So I go up there and the door is closed. But I was like, I heard it open. I know for a fact it was open, right? And I open it up. I go in the kitchen. He's not there. I think nothing of it.

I go back downstairs and I'm eating, sitting on their, their, uh, pullout couch watching TV. And I look over at the stairs again. Cause I'm like, man, that's so strange. And I swear to God to this day, it's never happened again. I saw a thing come right around the stairway and to the left, I couldn't even tell you what it was. I could feel it. I saw it. I know what it was, but I couldn't, I can't articulate it. But from then on, I was like, I'm not sleeping know what it was But I couldn't I can't articulate it But from then on I was like I'm not sleeping In that fucking basement

I'm sleeping upstairs Outside in the garage If I have to Well you know what If there's people out there That don't Don't believe in that shit Yeah

It's All you gotta do Is look at At YouTube Some of the stuff is false But there's a lot of stuff I was always into Like abandoned buildings

So you know My daughter gets me Watching YouTube I'm not watching YouTube at all Right And now that's all I fucking watch Yeah But in the house that i bought um which is crazy man because you know i lived in toluca lake loved it yeah bought one house you know the show moved around

the corner and then leaving that house i thought it's gonna be tough man it's beautiful house and then i leased a couple houses and i said well the, well, the next house I'm going to buy is going to be the one I'm going to live in. So on Trulia, I find this house. And I tell my realtor, hey, see if you can get me an appointment over at the house. And she goes, we got it tomorrow at 1 o'clock. I'm like, 1 o'clock? She goes, oh, everybody wants this house. So we go in there.

And there's people filling out, looking at their driver's license, filling application on the hood of their car. They want it. And I'm like, what the fuck is it? Let's look at it. The guy, the realtor sees me calls the guys who own it. Hey, George Lopez in here. You know?

Oh yeah. Tell him, tell him if he gives us full price. We'll we'll it's his cash cash. Yeah. Full price. And they told me that it was a Saturday, Sunday, Monday, first thing in the morning, got it. Damn.

So I was doing St. George and over there for FX like 14. Wasn't kind of living there doing some work. And then I was born at the General Hospital off of the 5 and headed toward East LA. And when I was born, I never knew my father, but my grandmother, my mom wanted to name me after who she thought my father was and my grandmother who was just mean and fucking incredible like funny fuck that and she's you're not naming him after that motherfucker she tells the nurse what

day is it today the nurse is like it's Tuesday no on the calendar the St. George day April 23rd so he goes oh your name is going to be George. That's how you got your name. So in the fireplaces, they were all charred from all the years. I brought a guy in there to sandblast, you know, layers of paint off there. And I said, hey, man, go into that master fireplace and clean it up in there, man.

I was thinking about, that's this ornate thing around it. And he calls me up and he goes, when you get home, man, look inside, there's like a conquistador in there. I look inside and it's a fucking saint george tile from the 1920s get the fuck out of here inside your fireplace holy shit but this is uh damn george this right here did that fuck you does that fuck you up when you when you felt that there's i mean it's like that's like something else is that's hard to explain let me see you got. So this one here, it'll say numbers at first, which is not me. And then you'll hear banging and you'll see orbs flying and a flash. But remember, I live alone.

Okay. This is solo. This is me holding the camera. Okay. Look at the orbs flying around. Holy shit. the camera okay look at the orbs flying around holy shit what you hear the banging what is that high pitch noise what is that it's a sound for the dogs okay i mean that is so i it's in your house. You're alone. I'm holding the camera.

What the fuck? That's so loud, George. It loves you. Oh my God. Holy shit. What do you do, though? You sit in it. You sit in it.

You let it just happen. You want to just feel it? You want to... Because I'm the kind to do this. I'm in my car. I'm it. You let it just happen. You want to just feel it. You want to have, because I'm the kind to do this. I'm in my car. I'm gone. You know what, man? I was pretty cool with that.

But then I felt like there was, check this out. I felt like there was something on the right side. Now that was in the left in the hallway. I mean, you could also see those little light that the light is going. Are you sitting in your bed recording that you're sitting in your room and you just wake up and hear that? Check this out. your bed recording that you're sitting in your room and you just wake up and hear that check this out so so on the right so on the right side all of a sudden i'm like i feel like there's

something over there i take a picture and then i there's a rectangle in the picture and i zoom in the picture and this fucking green head is in the fucking painting it's not in there yo what the fuck it's not in there see that fucking green head yeah man so what are you what are you doing about this now that fucking green head right there yeah and in that video i showed you if i zoom it in there's something in the reflection in the picture in the hallway that is oh my god that is moving while i'm talking but here's another here's another one so so so do you have so are you gonna have someone come to the house to investigate any of this stuff oh you did do it again.

So I'm not going to tell you who it is. I was friends with somebody who was rather successful, very famous. At that? You mean doing that thing? No, no, in business. Okay, okay. And I took a picture of a, it was the anniversary of his passing. was it and it was the anniversary of his passing and i took a picture of a picture but in another picture his face is morphed it's distorted which happens in movies yeah man never

really check this out i mean that's i mean the the world is supernatural though it's like unless you experience it it's hard to kind of wrap your head around people some people don't they don't vibe which is cool but but you saw it you saw it and i hear this stuff um okay so let me when i had said that by the way when i that story about my friend's house i remember vividly the way i felt when it happened like i knew someone was there do you know what i mean i i it wasn't like it wasn't like i saw it then i felt weird i was feeling strange like man i think his brother or someone is there and i could just feel this thing move right around the stairs but i can see it it was bright enough where the t you know the light from the tv bouncing off my face i could see this thing just shift around the corner real fast you know so you know some of those things man

some of those things are here's the original picture let me see okay right on so i took a picture of this let me show you let me show you this in this picture so look down here at the bottom of the picture there's an image of somebody at the bottom that's not that's that's the frame of the picture but that that's the reflection it's not that does yeah that's not me no i know but that's like that's not you that's a That's like what would be in the reflection but that's just a person It's just a person And they're not in the room with me And that's not in the frame

But that's half of it So then I take a picture from the side And a picture wouldn't distort Right And look at the face of the guy in this picture What the fuck is that? That's, oh my God. If you took, if me and you took a picture right now and you took a picture from the angle, our faces would be in the angle.

It would just be angled that side. Yeah. And this one is. So his mouth is open, his eyes are open. And, and there's a, there's a, there's a mist over me. Look at my face. There's a mist. There's a mist over me. Look at my face. There's a mist over me that's not in the original picture. That's covering up your face.

Yeah. Oh, my God, George. So I had the lady come in. Yeah. I might have her come in again. What did she deduce of all this shit? She deduced that there was probably, I mean, whoever lived there before, they lived there a long time. Yeah. And, um, the first people that came in, they would say, uh, to me, oh, uh, there's a powder room.

Like when you come in and there's like a place to hang coats. Right. And the person would say, what's going on here? I said, I don't know. He goes, uh, did they have kids? I said, I think they did. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. They might've put the kids in that closet to punish them. Don't ever, she said, don't ever close that door. That door hasn't been closed since the day I. You take the hinges off that bitch and it's like, no, fuck that. That fucking thing in there. If I really wanted to test it, I would close the door and sleep in there overnight. And then, and then there's an, there's an attic above and she goes, that's an attic, right?

And I said, yes. Okay. They put the kids up there and they put the kids in there to punish them. Oh my God. Is your assumption, because my assumption is the banging is those kids that are in the attic or in that. Hey man, you heard that banging loud, right? That was so loud. I was holding the, I'm holding the phone.

Right. And that shit is, that shit is loud. Do you ever go up in the attic or no? That, that night I, I went over there and it has a light on the outside. I turned the light on, opened the door, nothing. Even I had the Orkin guy come to see if there was droppings or something. Yeah, there's animals upstairs. Yeah, right.

That's the instinct is, oh, it's got to be animals rummaging around or something. And do you know what day it was? The guy I showed you the picture? It was the day that he passed. No. So I found out about it i was at doctor's office somebody sent me a text that they shouldn't have yeah found out in the car and then around sundown i said hey man if you're out there and you're okay let me know you're okay

and that's what happened that night jesus christ same night i don't want to say who because yeah no it's fine but when you when you when you said it right before we started talking about this, that you said in my culture, it's part of the thing. We believe it. But do you think, you think that's been influenced your life so much that it's kind of surrounding you a little bit? No, I think that that house had some issues. Yeah. Something happened. The polter.

So if you, if you call somebody, you know how people would have a say on your hands. Yeah. If you call somebody, you know how people have a say in their own hands? Yeah. If you call somebody, they might show up. But also, it might be a poltergeist showing up to pretend that it's that person like in The Exorcist. Right, right. When the little girl's talking like, hey, father, you have any spare change for a fellow Catholic? Right. Then it's that girl.

Right. I mean, there's a lot of that going on. That's right. And also up the street, I think Lisa Bloom from Court TV bought this house. And in the 50s, the mid-50s, a doctor lived there with his wife and two kids. And he took a ball-ping hammer to the kids and to his wife. I think the kids lived. They ran out. And nobody's lived in that house before.

Jesus Christ. And I went by it the other day. And I told the guy that was driving me. I said, I think and nobody's lived in that house before. Jesus Christ. And I went by it the other day and I told the guy that was driving me, I said, I think I can fucking live in that house.

Nobody wants to live in that house. I'm like, I think I can fucking handle it and nobody wants to go to that house. He killed him

with a ball pin hammer. And here it is right here. Wouldn't you just get a divorce? I don't know why. Grab a hammer, dude. There it is right there. Go get a fucking lawyer.

Let me see what it looks like It's a big house It's a big house And it's called the murder mansion Yeah I feel like I've seen I feel like I've seen this Nobody's been in it since Empty

Lisa Bloom bought it And I think they were doing some work And then they stopped doing it Well did they Did she gut it out or anything Or just leave it how it is I think they They didn't do

anything i think it's just empty but in but the inside but oh that gives me the fucking creep he was a doctor too he was a doctor the dude that killed his wife yeah have you has this been no so you've you've been always been interested in the supernatural shit like that or no well you know fucking your own man you know that whole story about the the woman that drowned her kids is like the whole mexican folklore you know of of stuff you know right so in that whole story about the, the woman that drowned her kids is like the whole Mexican folklore, you know, of, of stuff, you know? Right. So in the, in the, in the special I did on Netflix, you know, the uncle that you'd say, you could ask him any question and he'd answer it, you go, Hey, who

would win between Annabelle and the Yorona? Who? The little doll fuck, hey Yorona would fuck that little doll up. She killed her kids. She wouldn't fuck up a doll. You know, that kind of shit. So you grow, you grow up with all those, you know, all that shit in your head but in the house i grew up and i never had it like i have it like i have it there it just feels different man dude like i you know

a guy was gonna come and we're gonna do like you know we're doing all those zoom meetings and he was gonna come sunday night to do the zoom and he says hey i'm on my way over i said all right i'm gonna leave the door open the side door you come in there i'm gonna take a shower get ready and then as i'm getting ready i can hear something downstairs and then i'm all he's here and then he comes into the door and i go would you forget something and he goes no i just got here and you see shit downstairs crazy god fucking god that's a pretty big house does it make you want to leave or you want to stay you know what man i thought about leaving but you kind of like it i don't know i think i think it's time for that lady to come back it's not like it was before i called that lady to come the first time she did a pretty good job this happened after she came

this happened before she okay okay when i saw that green head in that picture yeah i said you call so in that video there's a reflection of somebody moving in a in a picture in the hallway i didn't show you but it's fucking strange man because the house is so old well yeah see that's what i was gonna say la houses i mean look we're not as old as east coast houses but my house is from 1941 right and it the master bedroom is so much colder than any other room in the house and it creeps me the fuck out you fuck out and that's what shows up fucking temperature yeah temperature there's a flash of light like i'd be upstairs and and i'll the side of my eye i'll see something that's like a flash and but i live alone the first time i i started to hear voices wasn't that long after i moved in and uh i heard! And I was like, what the fuck?

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I always spend time alone. Yeah. I play the guitar. I transcribe my shows. We're in the car, watch TV, go golf over there. We're members of the same club. Yeah, yeah. And women have been interested, but I'm on that app, Raya.

That Raya app? Oh, Raya. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Raya, yeah. And if somebody says, why are you on fucking Raya? um i'm on that app raya that raya oh raya yeah that's right yeah yeah right yeah and uh they that you know if somebody says why are you on fucking raya i'm like you know when you go fishing sometimes you leave the pole there and you can go walk off and come back there might be something on the hook this guy told me about it and he was friends with the guys who created it and they put me on there but uh i haven't gone i don't think i've gone on many dates with with the women from

there yeah because i feel like there's a certain age where you're like, I don't really want to chase and do all that stuff anymore. You'd rather just do your own thing. Well, you know, I think, I don't know if it's in the way that women are, but I've always had, I don't think when I was young, I had an easy manner. Like, I understand who I am. I understand where I came from. You know, I don't, I believe everything that's happened to me, but I don't rub it in anybody's face. Right. But also I've never, I, you know, I worked hard to become somebody that didn't fly off the handle hearing something that didn't go his way. Right. And, and in that easy manner, sometimes women, if they're around you they take that for

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Um, the local, the local brewing. And then there's's it called by the way? Um, Taloco, Taloco Brewing. And then there's four different types of, um, beer. Damn. And the guy that, I just had some flavors that the guy worked at Stone Brewing for 30 years and he just created this amazing stuff. Stone in San Diego here.

Yeah, that's right. Oh, I've, I've been there. That place is great. Yeah. So he, we got him and you know, I go in there and I said, Hey man, can you remember those, uh, 50, 50 bars? Like the outside is orange and the inside is like cream.

He goes, yeah, yeah. A dream sickle. I say, yeah. Can you think you can make a beer? Yeah, I can do that. How about a beer? Like in Mexico, they use a lot of grapefruit and they use a little president that like squirt.

Can you make a beer taste like it's got like squirt in it? Yeah, of course I could do that. How about like hibiscus? You know, that kind of Jamaica, that, that, that flower, hibiscus flower. Oh, we could do that. And if I had this clip for us to fuck it, man, let's let this guy do it.

And he, and he brewed all that shit. Good job. That's wild, man. And that just came from changing agents, man. And somebody saying, I mean, you know, I bet Paul Newman in like 2006, five around there, I was at a golf tournament travelers up there in Connecticut. And I was always somebody that was talking to all the people and doing all this stuff and

making people feel good. And he came over to say hello. And, you know, we talked a little bit about, about the hole in the wall gang and about his foundation and about all the products that he did. And I thought, wow, man, that must be really something, man.

Cause you can go buy Oreo cookies, but they're Paul Newman dressing, chips, salsa, everything. And I thought, and it was in my head i didn't say that oh i'm gonna be the chicano paul newman but when that guy said you ever thought about owning a restaurant i thought fuck man this would be a good chance to do you know what paul newman had done yeah because what he did with i think a lot of kids like you know a lot of even friends in my generation may not know that he was i mean i think most people know he was a phenomenal actor but like younger kids only know him as you know popcorn and chips and dressing and all that stuff but how amazing he was as an actor was like even more even more trumping but like now his name is cemented forever i mean you want you want to have lopez's name cemented

forever this little dude got out of this car he's wearing all white he had these two hearing aids it does it with these little antennas coming out and his hair he's old he's wearing all white he had these two hearing aids it does it with these little antennas coming out and his hair he's old he's got the bluest fucking eyes you've ever seen yeah and he just he's walked over and goes i wanted to come over and say hello hi to the guy there everybody's talking about and you're like fucking paul newman wow that's gotta for that who was there was there like someone of your generation when you were growing up that you looked up to that was in film or television it's like I met everybody, Andrew. I mean, I went to see Kiss in 1976, February at the Forum.

It was a $14 ticket. I had to beg my grandfather. You would have thought I asked him to fucking buy the house next door to him. This guy's like fucking made me just fucking grind for this $14. And I was a Kiss fan, Kiss freak, whatever they call them. And then I have a poster of, picture of me young. I was just showing somebody. And then I became friends with those guys.

So I became friends with all the. With Gene in them. Yeah. With all the people that I admired growing up, man. Was there someone in comedy or, or, or was there someone in comedy that influenced you a little bit? Was there somebody you were like, man, I love that dude. I wish I want to be like that dude. There's the 15-year-old George.

Wow, man. Gene Simmons in the back. Yeah. And then here's the grown-up George with Gene Simmons. That's fucking wild. Crazy. Doesn't that feel weird? Becoming friends with your heroes a little bit?

But I think I saw Pryor. I would go see Pryor at his house. And Freddie Prinze Jr. And I became, became friends cause Freddie was like the, the reason I started doing standup. But, um, you know, to see Eddie Murphy, to have Eddie Murphy come to your house is,

Yeah. Was fucking crazy to have Eddie Van Halen come over and give me one of his amps and have his guy, Matt, come and plug it in and then play Unchained in my house was what the fuck fucking amazing man and this this may feel weird for for me to ask you but like do you feel look whether you like it or not you're you're a legend in our world and legend can sometimes be taken as like a negative connotation like it's the aftermarket but you're cemented

forever and being a legend of comedy right fact. And what's wild to me is like, does it ever kind of hit you that you're like, hey man, I am one of only a selected few Latino comics that are legends in this comedy game. Like, does that ever kind of fuck you up sometimes? Do you ever think you change, you literally, I mean, for young Latino comics, there's no doubt in my mind,

you and Rodriguez are probably the two names that they know the most, right? Yeah. That must feel something to you being a kid that grew up in la making it in la and in a latino community that was you know how supportive of who you became i mean does that ever fuck you up sometimes do you ever get perspective on it i think every you know you know it's funny man because you know bruce alfred did drew carrie and we were doing the show we're writing the show. We're writing the show and they said, okay, ABC doesn't want to name the show after you. We have to figure out a name.

We have to figure out a name for you, figure out a name for the show. Okay. Right in the first, you know, episode, we already got bought. We're not even figuring a name. They go, okay, let's take the weekend, Monday morning. We'll all get together. We'll come up with a name. I was trying to think of names.

You know, there was a guy named Wilson Alvarez that was a pitcher for the White Sox. And I thought, Wilson Alvarez, you know, kind of Wilson and then Alvarez, you know. And I had a friend of mine named Kenny Ramirez who had passed away when he was like 20. And I was thinking of all these things. And then I'm going to my lawyer's office

and Bruce calls me and he goes, you're driving, where are you? I'm driving, pull over. Pull over in this thing right there by, you know, right off of Santa Monica Boulevard and the, and the 405. And he goes, I just got the phone with ABC and they want to call the show. George Lopez. I said, I thought they want to name it after me.

No, no, not the George Lopez show. Just George Lopez. I go, that's my name. Yeah. He goes, yeah, I know. I don't know. And he goes, but listen, you know, he goes, I've gone through the whole thing with Drew. And I've been with Drew when people, Drew, hey, Drew Carey.

So he goes, know that if you name your show George Lopez, like wherever you go, people are going to be in success. People are going to be like, hey, George Lopez. And I said, well, fuck it. Nobody knows me now. Why not? And it was George Lopez. And whenever somebody sees me, they don't say, hey, George. They say, hey, George Lopez. And I said, well, fuck it. Nobody knows me now. Why not? And, and it was George Lopez. And whenever somebody sees me, they don't say, Hey George, they say, Hey, George Lopez. Oh, like one word. Right. But that, but that, that's it though. Right. You know, you never

think that. I mean, there's so listen, I mean, one of the hardest, one of the hardest things about being an actor or actress performer is when you have to go audition to somebody with somebody and behind them, remember those, those open filing cap or open like a shelves they would have, and they would have a hundred scripts and the name of the thing would be written in the binding. Yes. So you went in there to read and behind you, I could see a hundred shows that never went. Right. And then you're looking at that. I don't think they they do it intentionally but when you remember that you've gone to places to audition and behind them are hundreds of fucking shows that never never went why would you think that your show would make it yeah and then you just figure i'm just gonna work harder than everybody else and that one ended up fucking working out

it's crazy you know the star on the hollywood walk of Fame was a big deal because when, when, uh, when we were 15, I had a friend of mine, Guillermo, who worked at General Motors and you could buy a car for like, you know, a third of the price. And he had this fucking Trans Am and he'd take the T-tops off and we'd go to Hollywood Boulevard but back in time for all my children.

At noon, we all watched all my children in the summer, but we would go and walk and you would see George Burns' star and I would stand there and I would think George Lopez, george burns never fucking thinking that it was ever going to happen in 2006 on the on the 100th episode of my show i got my star on the rock of fame wow crazy that is fucking crazy and you know there's people that hate and you know that's fine probably would have bothered me more when i was younger but now older like i know i even tell people like motherfuckers when i'm when i'm dead i'll still be around You know, that's fine. Probably would have bothered me more when I was younger, but now older, like I know,

I even tell people like, motherfuckers, when I'm dead, I'll still be around. That's, yeah, that's right. And you know, I'll never be gone. No. I mean, I think it's, to me, what's always impressive, I started in LA. I'm from Chicago, but I started here, right? And the reason I moved here was because I wanted to sink or swim. I thought this was the only place I was, you know, if I went to New York, New York to me felt like it was close to home. And I was like, I need to be so far away from home that it's going

to either fuck me up or I'm going to beat it. Right. And it's a big deal to move, man. Like I never had to move, but it's always interesting when you hear, because at some point you say, I'm going to move, then you make the arrangements. And then a day comes where you're like, I'm leaving. Yeah. I had to had to i mean i got here on the 4th of july uh i drove a u-haul i broke up with my girlfriend and i drove a u-haul here and she was like i mean she wanted to fucking kill i thought she was going to kill me in the middle of the night i was staying in her place because i didn't have a place anymore and we we got drunk and we got into a fight and i was like well you're not coming to la and they would just i would just

i needed to get it out because i was like i don't don't want to. No. I was like, I had maybe, I think 800 bucks. 800 bucks was all the money I had. And I was like, I can't go broke with you. I need to go broke. I need to be broke alone. You know what I mean? I can't be poor with two people. I was like, I can't do that shit.

So when I moved here, it was, it was one of those, I felt the risk like the fourth or fifth night because I remember the panic setting. But where did you get here? So you drove and you stopped where you probably stopped in Arizona? Long Beach. No, Long Beach, Long Beach, Long Beach. I went straight to Long Beach because friends of mine from Northern California, they were like, I knew you want to move to LA.

And they're like, you won't do it unless you come with us first. Because they knew it was hard. I couldn't afford it. So they said, we have a couch. So I slept on a fucking lazy boy in Long Beach I would sleep on a lazy boy until and then I started

my buddy was still is he's a great gambler and I would drop him off at Commerce you know and all the casinos he had a truck

and I would drop him off and I would take the truck up to LA do shows and then go back and pick him up after his shift at playing Commerce

or whatever it was and so I did that for a while until I finally got up here but what was it that that started me off um i think it was like the moment i realized that it was kind of cracking a little bit was um the hollywood improv was the first club to like pass me um and uh they had you know i had been kicking around there doing the mics and I did, and one mic I did, I did so fucking well on the mic and all the other comics were annoyed. You know, they were pissed. You know, I crushed the mic and they were mad as fuck. And I remember if only my friends were stoked, they were like, man, that set was fucking great. And it was like the

best four minutes that I had, you know, it was like joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. It was machine gun jokes. And they were like, you know, kind of like a little annoyed. A few of the guys that I had fucked off. And so me and a couple of guys went to go eat at, um, uh, Cantor's and, uh, which is fucking awesome. And we were sitting there. Oh yeah. And we were sitting there and we were eating and I was like, man, I just, I was like, I know I'm going to get into that club soon. And sure enough, this is wild. You kind of, you're talking about dates and shit on my fucking birthday on October 16th was when I got the phone call that I could host my first paid spot at the improv. And from then it was that, that was the feeling that I knew all these nights I was working,

doing my day job and all that shit that, you know, I was working long fucking hours, day and night doing two jobs. And when I knew, when I got passed to do just a hosting spot, and he was real strict back then, they used to tell you in the email, it was like, you do not do time between the fucking comedians. You know, like nowadays, fucking everyone does whatever the fuck they want. But it used to be like,

you don't bother the biggest names on the lineup. You shut the fuck up. You do the spot. You go back in the hallway and you wait. And I did all that and i think that was the cracking moment that was a trip man because because you got to see people that you saw on tv yeah and that you thought you would never see standing right next to me or i'd bring them on stage yeah i mean that was that to me was kind of the wildest shit was to

bring up guys that i was like holy fuck this i see i saw this guy's hbo special yeah that it that kind of fucked me up a little bit. Yeah. It's a trip, man, because wherever you come from, the people that come, like I'm from here. We were talking about that. We were doing this thing. But would I have had the same desire to be a comedian

if I didn't have to travel fucking 10 miles to go to the comedy store or go to the lab factory or the improv? I don't know. So anybody that comes from out of state, to me, I won't know what that's like, but I know it's a big decision. Yeah, it's a life change.

Especially when you say to somebody, you can't go. Because if you take them with you, it's almost, you have the same issues you had there, but just in a fucking tighter spot in a newer place. Yeah, it was going to be way more expensive here. I would take these fucking girls with me, man. They were like, you want to come with me when i'm performing and you're like yeah

and they would be like um well am i gonna sit by myself do i have to wait by what are you gonna do what are you gonna be done and you're just like fuck that man go fucking by yourself yeah i wanted to drown alone that's what it was because i thought those nights that i had that were sleepless nights i was like i want to and i wanted to learn this city by myself. I wanted to kind of feel it out to kind of get through the, the muck of it all. You know what I mean? Oh, tell me, by the way, uh, you, you reminded me, just tell me the Griffith Park story that we were talking beforehand with the guy that, with the, um, with that orb or whatever, you know what I'm saying?

That he cut that thing that you were talking about. Oh shit. Or push that. Yeah. So, so going to Dodger stadium as a kid. Yeah. Um, I remember when my grandfather had this Pontiac and I'm playing with my friends in the street and he pulls up and I'm like, you know, every time you saw your grandfather come and get you or any of your family come and get you in the car, you're like, get in the car, motherfucker. And then we get in the car and we're driving down the five and I'm like, where are we going?

And they didn't say anything. And then we come over to Elysian Parkway and you see Dodger Stadium and you're just like, fuck, man. Just up and then you go down there. And we went to all these games. I saw all these fucking great players play. And as we drove down the five, you would see Los Feliz, Los Feliz. And it means the happy. And then you go and then in fifth grade.

But before that, even with Fernando Valenzuela, we went to see Fernando pitch in like 81, 82, and we're driving in front of a fucking Corvette, and it says FV34. That was his number. And me and my buddy Ernie go, is that fucking Fernando in a Vette? And he was just like three years out of Mexico. And we go around the side and it's him in a vet by himself going to Los Feliz. And we're honking, man. And he looks over and he goes like this.

And we're like, oh, he gets off on Los Feliz and goes up Los Feliz. And I'm like, man, now I got to live in Los Feliz. So we went in fifth grade we went to the observatory. Adele did her show over there. Yeah. So when you go into the observatory, there's a gold wire hanging with like this huge pendulum that goes back and forth. And it tells the world's time. As the world moves, this pendulum moves.

And it's perfect on time. And at the bottom, it moves. And it's this thing from the top of the observatory down. So in fifth grade, we're all standing there looking down. And all of a sudden this fucking kid reaches out like this, like a hook and pulls the wire. And the fucking pendulum falls to the bottom. Boom. And that wire goes up to the top.

Like you see in the movies, like just like a pigtail. And fucking these, all these fucking guards come out at the observatory. Like everybody outside, outside there, they're fucking grabbing you like this. What the fuck? So there were all these

like three schools there and they fucking interviewed everybody to see who did it. Of course, everybody fucking thought I did it, but the guy that did it, I really didn't look at him, but I could just see

was somebody lean over and pull on it. And pull it, man. Why I really didn't look, look at him, but I could just see was somebody lean over. And pull on it. And pull it, man. Why'd they think it was you? Were you, were you that kind of kid that did, did that shit all the time? Were you always in trouble? Uh.

Mm-hmm. I don't know. Yeah. I think so. But you're a little Chicano, a little dark motherfucker. You'd be like, that guy did it. But, but the sound of that fucking gold pendulum

hitting the bottom of. Yeah. I'm prepared to hit the bottom of it. Sunk in your head. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't supposed to. And that wire going.

And I don't think I've been in there since. And seeing the Adele thing, you know, it's like, I had to go in there again. And then, um, but they threw everybody out. Yeah. I mean, that thing had never been disconnected, I think, since the starting of the observatory. And, and, uh, and I live right around the corner from that, from the observatory. Are you over there now? Yeah.

I'm over there right now. Yeah. I'm over there right now, yeah. What feels like, what part of LA feels like it's changed the most as you've grown older in the city? You know what, the Hollywood Boulevard sunset, because, you know, in Europe, you know, I never really traveled as a kid. And then you start to go to Europe and then you'll see that they'll have restaurants on the bottom and then living on top. Yeah. And that was never kind of the way in LA. And now if you go down Hollywood Boulevard, they have, you know, commerce down below and then above. Residential top. Yeah. And that was never kind of the way in LA. And now if you go down Hollywood Boulevard, they have, you know, uh, commerce down below

and then above. Residential above. Yeah. And it's destroyed that whole kind of look of, of, uh, like you go down Fairfax or you go down La Brea and it's all just that stores down there and then living above. Right. It changes the dynamic of, of, you know, on YouTube, you could look and see somebody drive down the Sunset Boulevard in 1979 versus now. Yeah.

But, you know, to drive, you know, the boss on Mary Tyler Moore or Alan Hale, the skipper from Gilligan had his own restaurant and I saw Alan Carr who did Saturday Night Fever. I saw Famous Amos

on Sunset because that Argentinian restaurant used to be a Famous Amos cookie place. So, if you drove around there, yeah, you see hookers, but also you'd see famous.

I fucking saw Chevy Chase and a Porsche right in front of the comedy store. I saw Richard Pryor in front of the comedy store. Yeah. And you would see, you would see people, man. It felt, it feels a lot different now. You won't, yeah. Back then you could see somebody now. Do you think you'll live the rest of your life in LA?

You know, that's a good question i i think that as i start to get you know in my i think by 65 i'll probably maybe move out like i could see myself living in europe a little bit really yeah where would you go i would i would live in amsterdam i would probably find a place i got a buddy that's a lawyer in scotland over by troon uh-huh oh yeah i said hey motherfucker i'm gonna come and live next place and he goes hey we'll play every day that's a and live next to you, man. Let's play some fucking golf. And he goes, hey, we'll play every day. That's a hard, by myself, my daughter's 25,

it's a hard offer not to take up. Well, yeah, and it's your, is that your only one kid, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so then you're good now. She's grown. Her and I signed a deal with NBC. We sold Lopez vs. Lopez

with Bruce Halford, who did my first show. Yeah. To create the show about, about our lives after the divorce. Is she an actor? She went to, she got in the second city. Oh, no shit.

When she was 19. Wow. She went to second city and she's, she's good. She went to Campbell Hall out here and, um, you know, I think that, uh, you know, she was so charming in the, in the zoom meetings when we sold the show, I think they were more excited to talk to her than, than to me. Like I remember I said something and they were like okay anyways uh dated you're like i'm george lopez by the way you guys know you don't want to be dated like you don't want to say some shit

where they go okay dad thanks you know that kind of shit that right does she do that to you does she did i did that on that fucking zoom meeting where they all they all went like okay anyways mine what did you what'd you say some bullshit i funny, but. Yeah, they didn't like it. Yeah. So, you know, we did this thing, you know, Mr. Cartoon, the graphic, the artist, and Esteban, the guy from LA Originals. You know, they came to me with this idea called Once Upon a Time in Aztlan. All of Aztlan, you know, it used to be LA kind of thing about this, like a Sopranos. This guy that works at a linen factory. He's the boss, and he's got a son

who he's estranged from, another one that just got out from stealing cars, and a daughter that runs a club, and then a daughter that goes to UCLA. And then I'm playing the father. I'm a grandfather in this. Wow. In this fucking thing,

and you can't believe it, man. That's wild. And I'm doing this scene down under by the Sixth Street Bridge. I got this 1939 fucking Chevy fucking badass car. I'm driving it. You know, we collect cars, you know, it's

kind of like that car lifestyle in LA. Sure, yeah. And I'm like, hey, don't ever come down here without me, all right? And we're going down here and you just see these cars and cartoons. You're just like, fucking man, crazy. Mr. Cartoon did that show with you?

He's an executive producer. Where is it on? It's going to be on Amazon. Oh, that's fucking dope. And you know what? You know, we sold it as a thing and then they make you do like a pilot of it, you know, so they cut it in half. But today's the last day of shooting. I finished yesterday, but it's pretty solid, man.

It's good. And you know, those guys, like, you know, as much as you love those guys, you know, they're Chicano. So they're like, I've got to do it like this. And you're like, no, let's do it like this. And you're like, no, let's do it like this. And then if we get picked up to series, then we'll do it. Right.

Right. Let's do it. Let's do it more like this first. Right. You have to, that's our business. I learned from Bruce, man. I learned from,

I learned from the best, man. That you got it. Yeah. Sometimes you have to like, you have to please a lot of the parties. Then when it goes, then you can get to narrow it down to the thing that you're like.

But Seinfeld did comedian, that dude, that guy, army, whatever that guy's name was, the other comedian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the thing where he got pissed off and left, you know, somebody had a discussion with me when I was, when we were starting to pitch a show and they said pretty much like, listen, you guys kind of live with your material and you're very connected to it. But here you have to remember that what is said today might not be what's said

tomorrow. Right. So stay in the game and don't say, fuck it. If it's not this way, I'm out, which a lot of people did. Yeah.

And then you're out of the game. Stay in the game until you see what's going to transpire in the game. You take yourself out of the game, you're out of the game. And I thought, man, wow, what fucking great advice. It's real advice. I mean, well, like, did you ever, when you were doing your show, you take yourself out of the game, you're out of the game. And I thought, man, wow, what fucking great advice.

It's real advice. I mean, well, like, did you ever, when you were doing your show, you were sacrificing any of your standup jokes for the show? Like, did you ever take bits? I did, but I did, but you know, I wasn't really kind of known, you know, I wasn't really kind of a known dude by then. Right. You know, I'd even done, I don't think I'd done some CDs, but it wasn't like I was giving

up the best stuff that I had. Right. So, you know, you know, my grandmother was, was the basis of the mom. And then the wife was a little bit different from man, but then having a daughter, but the friend was named Ernie. And it was just really kind of the stuff where, you know, um, it came more from my life than it came from the writers. Sure. And I think that's, that was the, that was essential to that show, especially because I met with a guy that wrote for Cheers and I went to meet him at Paramount and this motherfucker sat in this office and across the table, he said to me, I don't write for Latinos.

I write comedy. And I'm like, uh, well, I'm a comedian. Yeah. I, yeah, but I don't, I don't know where you come from. I don't know. I wouldn't know what to write. And I was like, is this motherfucker serious? Holy shit, man.

And I left. I mean. Yeah. What a fucking dick. Oh, I mean, I left, you know, Paramount's on Gower. I had to walk, walk the street to, to walk across the street to the parking garage and in my car. And the whole time I was like, fuck, man.

Like, am I fucked because of the way I look or because of the way I am? And no, you're never fucked because of the way you are. You just have to find the right. You have to find the right people to fit. And it's hard. You know it's hard. It's always going to be hard. Yeah.

But anybody that comes out here from wherever that has a dream, it's not impossible. No, you can do it. That's the fucking best thing about being out here is that I, you know, I turned into a fucking dramatic actor. I was never, you know, I couldn't even act, you know, comedians, mostly, you know, nobody ever asks us, you know, when those guys were getting deals, nobody ever asked, like, can you act? They, they know you're funny.

Yeah. They wanted to check. They were like, yeah ever asked, like, can you act? They know you're funny. Yeah, they wanted to check. They were like, mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, of course. And then I read with the guy in 2001. They played my best friend right before we went to the Christmas break. And they said, why don't you read?

He looked like he was going to get the part, the guy, Valente Rodriguez. And they said, why don't you guys read together? And I couldn't read for shit. And I looked over at my partners, Bruce and Robert. They were like this, like, and I said, fuck it, man. And then when I got home, I said, I need to

find an acting coach. And I found the right coach. And I had an acting coach with me for the first 102 episodes of my show. I knew that I couldn't do it alone and pay for it out of my pocket. But also nobody would do that because they go, why would you pay for it out of your pocket?

Like, Hey man, fuck all that shit. Like I ain't even worried about Warner Brothers paying for it or the show paying for it. I'll pay for it and I'll just show up every day and be better than I was the week before. And it worked. It worked. And it worked really fucking well.

That was amazing. That's fucking, because you had no formal training as a kid. I had no formal training at all. Never did any of that shit. When I first went to the acting coach, she would say, okay, read it to me. I couldn't even read to her.

I would say, why don't you read it to me and then I'll hear it and then I'll go and do it the way that you say it. And she's like, no, that's not fucking acting. But that's how kind of introverted I was where I couldn't even act with her. Right. She got me out of that. She was a great, a great Warner Laughlin. Great, great teacher great football teacher. And I want to ask you real quick, uh, because

I appreciate your time. I know we got to go soon. Um, how good are you at golf? Are you a stick? We got to play. Let's play. What are we talking? You know, you know.

How long have you been playing golf? Well, uh, you don't have to, you know, you don't have to be playing a long time to be good. Yeah. I started playing 1981 on Christmas Day as a dare. My friend Ernie called me up around 1245, and he's like, what are you doing today? I'm like, we're on nothing, man. It's Christmas.

It's fucking Christmas. We went to El Carizo in Sylmar. We went and played. We laughed, drank some beers, had fun, didn't know what the fuck we were doing, and I never put a club down. And it's interesting, man, because I played baseball my whole life, I loved baseball. But also what I didn't realize is that I quit at everything that was tough.

That was hard. You know, I quit at guitar, I quit at accordion, I quit at karate, all these fucking kids are taking karate. And it wasn't until my baseball coach in high school, Steve Martin, he passed. We had a brand new batting cage and some equipment. And in order to pay for the equipment,

the baseball team had a car wash and we had to sell tickets. This is the turning point of my fucking life right here. So I'm 17 and I can't talk to anybody. I didn't sell any fucking tickets. So I take the book back to him and he looks at the book. I remember he turned around, he goes, you owe me $250. And I said, for what?

For these tickets. And I said, I didn't sell any. He goes, no, no, but you're going to benefit from using the equipment, but you're not going to sell any tickets. So you're liable for the two 50. I said, no, fuck that.

And he said, fuck what? I said, I'm not giving you shit. And he got in my face and he goes, you know what? It just, that's who you are.

How you're a fucking quitter. You don't want to sell a fucking ticket. You want to use some shit for free. I like to see where you become in 10 years, a fucking quitter. Cause when shit gets tough, you fucking quit. You couldn't sell a fucking ticket. So you didn't fucking sell any, did you?

And we're just like this. And he goes, you're a quitter. You've always been a quitter. You'll always be a fucking quitter. He goes, you know what? Check in with me in fucking 10 years and tell me where you're at. I look back at my friends and those dudes, you know, this is a 17-year-old kid fighting with his baseball, an adult, fucking male.

And those guys were like this. So I started playing golf at El Carizo, and when it got tough, I would quit, pick it up after nine holes. I'd say, hey, you guys, go ahead, man. I got to go do some things, lying to myself. And then one time I picked it up, and then I was leaving. It's like that motherfucker's head came over my shoulder, and he's like, you're a quitter.

And I fucking was like, fucking holy shit, man. If it wasn't for golf, I wouldn't have realized that when shit got hard, I fucking bailed. I just thought you could bail and have no repercussion. Bail, bail these guys. But you're bailing on your life. And I was like in the car like, holy shit, man. And I went back to high school.

Nobody had even seen me in high school for fucking four years. Never went back for anything. That alumni games and all that shit. And I drive up and the baseball team's still practicing. I'm in this car. And the guys start going in the locker room. And he's there picking up the equipment like he'd always been. And I walk up and he turns and he sees me walking.

He can't figure out who it is. And he's like, is that my third baseman right there? I said, hey, what's up, coach? He goes, what are you doing here? I said, hey, man, I came to apologize to you. He goes, for what? I said, for the way that I behaved when I was here. You know, you told me I was a quitter.

We had that thing. You know, didn't respect you as a person. And I think you were right, you know. So I just want to come and tell you that I apologized for the way I behaved and you were right about me. And he said, you came here to tell me that? And I said, yeah. I still remember his hand being put out.

And he goes, there's hope for you yet. And fucking, I don't think I could have lived one day of my life if I hadn't gone to apologize to him for the way I behaved. And I hadn't apologized to anybody in my life. That was the first time in my life I ever apologized to somebody. And then I started to realize, well, what had I quit? I said, I quit standup. That's the only thing I ever wanted to do. And on April 23rd, 1984, I was 23 years old.

I was living on my friend's couch in fucking Pacoima. I got up and it was a Monday. Of course, Monday night, open mic. Yeah. Comedy store Westwood. That's right. I fucking went back there, man. That was the beginning. And I started again night, open mic. Yeah. Comedy store Westwood. That's right. I fucking went back there, man. That was the beginning.

And I started again and I said, I'm not going to quit until I realize what happens, good or bad. Yeah. Wow, man. Fuck, George. Fucking, I don't think I've ever told anybody all of those. That's wild. Fucking wild, man. And even though I'm older and I fucking see, I still remember myself as a fucking young guy.

And I appreciate you coming from Chicago and doing all the things you had to do. Cause I know it's not easy. Yeah. It's a grind. It's virtually impossible, but it's not impossible. But whatever impossible is us making it is just

fucking right there. It's right fucking there. A lot of motherfuckers quit and they could have made it. Yeah. And I thought I'd never wanted to be one of those dudes that like that guy, Joey said was good. And I thought I never wanted to be one of those dudes that, like that guy Joey said, was good, and I never gave myself an opportunity because I quit on myself.

I mean, I had a lot of guys I started with that I thought were phenomenal comics, and they quit. So many guys that were fucking, I mean, amazing joke writers, and they quit, and I was like, man, if they just didn't quit, if they just had that, like, extra push to go through the shitty times, they would be huge. But, you know, that is part of it all hard man you know trying to find parking to go to an audition oh yeah trying to get there on time going in there especially when you're broke and you got it can you can you

get a button-down shirt and you're like i don't have a i don't have a new button-down fucking shirt you know what i mean oh well they don't like you blue shirts you have to go buy a new white shirt all that shit and yeah all those things add up to the frustration it's kind of like the cop gives the ticket to the guy who can't afford to pay the ticket because he's got to go to his job to get the money but he can't get the job you know it's like that trickle down of a constant of the constant chaos but um but you know when i when i was late you know when i was late paying my um my car payment i would drive down barham to go to the bank and pay in person and i would see see Warner Brothers on the right-hand side. I would think to myself, what the fuck do you have to do to get in there, man?

Mm-hmm. It just seemed like this fortress, man. It is. What do you have to do? Put up those big fucking walls and gates. They would put all the shows up there. Right. And I would think, what do you have to do to get in there?

And fucking, I got to- Figured it out. I got to fucking work hard. All right, George, are you on the road right now? Are you going to do some dates? Can we talk about some dates or no? What are you doing? Do you know what you're doing? Yeah, I'm it. Figured it out. I got to fucking work hard. All right, George, are you on the road right now? Are you going to do some dates? Can we talk about some dates or no? What are you doing? Do you know what you're doing?

Yeah, I'm doing a little bit. I'm out there. This comes out in a week. Where are you going to be? I don't know, man. Yeah, just go to the website. That's where he's going to be. They're almost.

Go to, what is it, georgelopez.com? Georgelopez.com, yeah. Yeah. Go check out George on the road. I think we're boys now, man. Yeah, man. I don't know. We had a connection, brother.

Hey, man, we got to crack them. I want to go play. Yeah, let's do it. I started playing when I was, I mean, my dad loved golf and he's terrible at golf. It's so funny. He always loved golf. But when I was a kid, my grandfather was always this, he was a fireman and he always made fun of the, his thing was like making fun of the rich. You know, that was a rich man's game.

Yeah, of course. And then when golf slowly became something that you could do at park districts in Chicago, started owning courses. So they were much more affordable. You know, it was like in the early 90s, you could go play golf for 25 bucks at a, you know what I mean? Yeah. And then my grandfather got into it when he retired later in life, but he always used

to shit on golf. We'd make fun of it. So in my mind as a kid, it was always this rich, rich guy sport. Even today, people say that, but you can be a guy who you know who makes an average living a good living and go play public courses they're fucking everywhere but you know also if you if you go get some shitty clubs you go hit some balls hitting balls is good fucking therapy oh man it feels so just go to the driving and somebody goes oh yeah but it's all expensive i go dude you can go get a you can go get a set of old clubs for like a hundred bucks.

Easy. You can go get an old shitty set of clubs and go smack them around. And I started around high school and then I quit. And then I quit because I didn't want to do it anymore. I don't have a beautiful story about a coach, but I gave it up. And then I started again because I was like,

I need a way to get out of my own space because I was always working. It was always like, either I'm trying to do stand-up, or I'm going to this audition, or I'm trying to create this. And at some point, I was like, I want a little bit of getaway time. And I started again probably in my late 20s, maybe. I kind of really started to play again. Because in college, I would just go get drunk with friends

and go smack balls around, and we'd never finish. Yeah. But when you're by yourself, it's a great getaway thing because you're still thinking, but you're not in some one place stuck. Yeah. And you go over and you putt a little bit and stuff like that. I get away from this. I mean, the business and the life and all that stuff.

Like all I'm thinking about is fucking around and golf. Yeah. So it's a good getaway. We'll play. You had some sponsors to help you get in? Yeah, I will. Yeah, yeah. I got some guys.

I'll tell you off camera who got me in. I'll tell you the way they snuck me in there. You know what? I got in there in 2004 and I've been in there this whole time. And then when somebody wants to be a new member and they ask me, would you write me a letter? I say, yeah, I might not be the right person, but

I can direct you. I can direct you to who the right person might be. But I think golf is, it's, you know, if it wasn't for golf, I'm not sure that I would have the life that I have. And it just seems so kind of innocuous that it would be golf, but you know, Lee Trevino and I are friends, like family.

Fucking calls all the time and we talk to, it's like, it's been a great, It's beautiful. It's been a great thing to have, yeah. yeah it's beautiful all right my man george i appreciate you look in that camera right there and we end the show the same way one word or one phrase i used to say one word and then some people were like well i don't know where it all but if you have one word or one phrase to end the episode say it into that camera whatever uh whatever you want ch Ching on! In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. You are 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.