Funny Over Everything! w/ Luenell

Summary

DOPE AS USUAL Podcast

Episode: Funny Over Everything! w/ Luenell

Hosts: Marty O’Neill & Thomas “Dopa” Araujo
Guest: Luenell (Actress, Comedian, Voice Actor)
Release Date: June 23, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this vibrant, laughter-filled episode, Thomas Dopa and Marty O’Neill sit down with comedic legend Luenell for an unfiltered, wide-ranging conversation. Jumping between her storied Hollywood career, thoughts on Oakland’s decline, drug tales of the past, her unique approach to comedy, and reflections on fame and authenticity, Luenell brings her signature candor and energy. Through personal stories, industry wisdom, and plenty of hilarious detours, the trio delivers a raw and relatable conversation — proving that funny really is over everything.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Voice Acting vs. On-Camera Work

[01:28 – 03:23]

• Luenell shares her love for voice acting, describing it as the “dream job.”
  • “Voice acting is the dream. That’s the goal. Because you don’t have to get dressed, you don’t have to do makeup. You don’t even have to memorize.” – Luenell [01:42]
  • She details ADR (dubbing lines for TV/airline edits), emphasizing the freedom and flexibility vs. standard filming.
  • “For the third time: you do not have to get dressed up, which is great.” – Luenell [03:23]

2. Oakland & Bay Area Reflections

[03:29 – 05:21]

• Discussion of Oakland’s decline, loss of sports teams, lack of opportunities for kids.
• Luenell recognizes she hasn’t lived there for over 20 years; her memories contrast sharply with today’s blight.
  • “The Oakland that I was raised in is way different than the Oakland that is now.” – Luenell [03:52]
• Thomas and Luenell agree new leadership and investment are needed.

3. Chappelle, Comedy Specials & Filmmaking

[06:12 – 08:59]

• Luenell talks about her latest special, “Home Team,” produced by Dave Chappelle.
  • “Just to have Chappelle even know you, let alone produce something for you. Yeah. Was a flex.” – Luenell [06:51]
• She recounts creative, “guerrilla” filmmaking for the special’s airport scenes, and her decade-long rapport with Chappelle.
• Stories from performing at Chappelle’s Yellow Springs outdoor theater during COVID.

4. The Culture & Economy of Weed

[09:53 – 12:44]

• Jokes about weed as a payment in Humboldt, stoner fridge organization, and the California “weed lifestyle.”
  • “They pay you in weed... You’re happy. Happy.” – Luenell [10:11]
  • Fun exchanges on life partners sharing the same stoner habits.

5. House Rules & Home Life Post-COVID

[12:05 – 14:29]

• Luenell discusses being “very picky” about who comes into her sanctuary, especially after COVID.
  • “I only let Black people, Italians, and Mexicans in my house. The white people that come in my house are only workers… I said it was gonna be wild.” – Luenell [12:08]
• Controversial, comedic riff on public pools vs. private pool hygiene post-pandemic.
  • “Since we’ve been through COVID, why would I ever get in the pool with 1,500 peeing people?” – Luenell [13:27]
  • “That bubble just came from the crack your ass... Soup.” – Luenell [14:30]

6. Luenell’s “Bank Robbery” Embezzlement Story

[15:55 – 19:10]

• Luenell details her infamous past: working at a bank, stealing enough money to make it a felony—not a misdemeanor.
  • “If I hadn’t took so much, I would have just got away clean. But because I took enough money to make it a felony... felonies never go away.” – Luenell [16:09]
• She eluded capture for over 10 years until caught by a government aid paperwork slip-up.
• “I blame my daughter for this.” – Luenell [16:33]
• Enthusiastic storytelling about being on the run and the realities of women’s jail.

7. Family, Race, and Parental Chaos

[19:18 – 21:18]

• Thomas shares his mom’s wild relationship history—from marrying a white supremacist to getting a Mexican tattoo—while Luenell riffs on multicultural “ho-ism.”
  • “She’s multicultural. I like that. But not just white supremacists.” – Luenell [20:12]
• The contradictions of racism and family connections: “You can be racist and still like black people.” – Luenell [20:44]
• A rare sincere moment as Luenell offers support: “You can call me if you ever need to talk to somebody.” – Luenell [21:32]

8. Comedy Audience, Gender, and Crowd Dynamics

[22:17 – 25:19; 49:59 – 50:33]

• Luenell discusses appealing to male comedy fans, not just women.
  • “I’m not a female comic that just adheres to females… I want five guys to come see me, you know, without their girlfriends.” – Luenell [22:37]
• On dealing with tough, unsympathetic or non-traditional crowds and winning them over anyway:
  • “A lot of crowds are not my crowd. But you have to win them over. I make them my crowd. Because the stuff that I talk about is funny over everything, you know?” – Luenell [49:59]

9. Bay Area Music Shoutouts

[24:17 – 25:51]

• Luenell picks Too Short as her rap MVP, but makes a heartfelt case for MC Hammer as Oakland’s true “mainstream” breakthrough.
  • “Hammer put us on the map, actually.” – Luenell [24:53]
• Quick nods to Digital Underground and the generosity of Hammer.

10. Happy Madison, Adam Sandler, and Absurd Movie Sets

[27:19 – 29:09]

• Luenell breaks down her work on “That’s My Boy” and the “Hotel Transylvania” series—both with Adam Sandler’s team.
• Behind-the-scenes of ridiculous physical comedy (juice-blowing, fake boobs), and anecdotes about cast members.

11. 70s/80s Drug Stories & Psychedelics

[35:08 – 41:44]

• Luenell and Thomas share love for “old school” drugs: mescaline, mushrooms, barbiturates.
  • “Purple microdot was the best thing that ever happened to me in the 70s. The only thing that compares is mushrooms.” – Luenell [35:20]
• Wild tales from cabin-tripping in the snow and drug-fueled friendship/love stories.
• Nostalgia for extinct drugs: Thai sticks, Black Beauties, cross tops (“bennies”). Luenell invites old school listeners to reminisce.

12. Comedy Career, Social Media, and New Projects

[52:00 – 59:57; 65:02 – 65:49]

• The hosts riff on Luenell’s endless IMDb and her role as a Savage X Fenty brand ambassador.
  • “Thank God for IMDb because we gave up. Praise God for that, though.” – Luenell [52:33]
• She hypes her new podcast filmed at Flappers, noting its rapid success and first guest (Kathy Griffin).
  • “Now I’m going to become a big radio star... and I’ll build a moat too.” – Luenell [59:31]
• Drops details on her Las Vegas residency at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club, plus merch/fragrance at heylunell.com.

13. Reflections on Iconic TV & Film Appearances

[65:50 – End]

• Shouts out her appearance in "Borat," emphasizing the realness and longevity of its impact.
  • “Every day, at least once a week, somebody still talks to me about Borat. And it's coming up on 20 years, I think.” – Luenell [60:41]
• Endearing segment on comfort TV: Luenell’s love for "I Love Lucy" and Thomas’s on "Seinfeld."
• Luenell’s Instagram: @luenell

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On COVID paranoia in social situations:

  • "That bubble just came from the crack your ass... Soup." – Luenell [14:30]

• On being discovered by Chappelle:

  • "Just to have Chappelle even know you, let alone produce something for you. Yeah. Was a flex." – Luenell [06:51]

• On her “multicultural” mother:

  • "She's multicultural. I like that. But not just white supremacists." – Luenell [20:12]

• Comedy as Universal Language:

  • "Funny over everything. Even if you're going to talk about politics, we've got to be funny." – Luenell [50:03]

• On drug tales:

  • “Purple microdot was the best thing that ever happened to me in the 70s... the only thing that compares is mushrooms.” – Luenell [35:20]

• On career goals:

  • "Now, I'm going to become a big radio star, get my own show on iHeart or SiriusXM or Netflix... and I'll build a moat too." – Luenell [59:31]

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------------------------|--------------| | Voice acting vs. on-camera work | 01:28–03:23 | | Reflections on Oakland & San Francisco | 03:29–05:21 | | Chappelle, COVID, “Home Team” special | 06:12–08:59 | | Weed culture stories & relationships | 09:53–12:44 | | Luenell’s “bank robbery”-embezzlement tale | 15:55–19:10 | | Riffing on race, family, odd upbringings | 19:18–21:18 | | Comedy, gender, crowd dynamics | 22:17–25:19, 49:59–50:33 | | Bay Area music MVPs | 24:17–25:51 | | Happy Madison & Adam Sandler stories | 27:19–29:09 | | Psychedelic tales & extinct drugs | 35:08–41:44 | | Luenell’s podcast & residency plug, brand work | 52:00–59:57, 65:02–65:49 | | Inside “Borat” & reflections on its cultural impact | 60:00–61:38 | | Classic TV fandom—Seinfeld, I Love Lucy | 65:50–66:40 |

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Connect with Luenell

• Vegas Residency: Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club, Las Vegas — Shows every Sunday & Monday (9:30 PM).
• Podcast: “Hey Lunell: Comedy Podcast” @ Flappers, Burbank – First Wednesday (and online, ~1 week later).
• Website/Tickets/Merch: heylunell.com
• Instagram: @luenell

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Final Thoughts

Luenell’s appearance is a masterclass in unfiltered comedy, storytelling, and wisdom gained from a wild life in and out of the spotlight. The episode proves why comedy truly is “funny over everything” — cutting through politics, race, and generational divides with laughter and honesty. For fans, aspiring comics, and anyone needing a reminder that you can own your past and your present, it’s a must-listen.

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Transcript

[Thomas Dopa]

Hi, diva.

[Lunel]

It's Rachel and Jordan. Yeah, hi.

[Co-host/Producer]

Quick question.

[Lunel]

Why are you not spending your Venmo balance?

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, we're concerned you can, like, buy stuff with it.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

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[Thomas Dopa]

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[Lunel]

Mm.

[Thomas Dopa]

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[Lunel]

So the money your friend sent you

[Thomas Dopa]

yesterday, that's today's ramen or rideshare or eye patches.

[Co-host/Producer]

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[Commercial/Ad Voice]

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[Lunel]

Sor. All right. I. I said it was gonna be wild, not that. I mean, hey, these days. Perfect. Perfect.

[Co-host/Producer]

Per.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

Perfect.

[Thomas Dopa]

What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Dope as Usual podcast. My name is Thomas Dopa. Jolo. Whatever you want to call me. This is my co host, Marty o'.

[Lunel]

Neill.

[Co-host/Producer]

What's up, guys?

[Thomas Dopa]

What's up, guys? Welcome back to the show. Today we have a special guest. Actress, comedian, voice actress. Welcome, Lunel. Yeah, exactly what's going on right now.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Thanks for being here.

[Lunel]

Thanks for having me.

[Thomas Dopa]

Appreciate you. I mean, everybody knows who you are, but when doing research about you, I didn't realize how much you've actually done, how much stuff you've been doing. And you're doing voice acting. How is that compared to having to clock in and be on camera?

[Lunel]

Voice acting is the dream. That's the goal. Because you don't have to get dressed, you don't have to do makeup. You don't even have to memorize. It's good to be familiar, you know? I mean, you know, take it. If you're doing voiceover acting, you're. You're doing it to a. A visual. You know what I mean? And so, of course, anytime you do adr, which is like, if you said something that was low and you got to go back in the studio and say a little louder. Or when you're filming and they're gonna change it from the movies to airline mode to TV mode, you have to change the. To dine, to dimes, to damn. You know what I'm saying?

[Thomas Dopa]

You do those?

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

On tv, always thought it was just some random dude doing those.

[Lunel]

No, no, in your own. Like you're in a movie and you say, get this out of here in the movie. Then when they want to play it on the plane, they may not use the. Out of Here, they may use the. This dog on.

[Thomas Dopa]

And you have to do that too.

[Lunel]

Yeah, you have to do it a couple of times.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, so they do it right then. Hey, in case. For tv.

[Lunel]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Prepped. Now that's. That's like non stoner stuff.

[Lunel]

Or for. For animation, you have to acted to the cartoon because there's usually a big screen and you can see what you're like.

[Thomas Dopa]

Mrs. Doubtfire.

[Lunel]

But you don't have to be dressed up. And I like that.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. Getting paid to just talk and not have to be on stage, hold a mic, or be on camera talk.

[Lunel]

You have to take the. You have to voice act. Like if your director says true, you know, do this one more time. Do a little bit more aggressive. You have to be able to change that. So. So it's not.

[Thomas Dopa]

So you're still doing it, but just nobody's looking at you.

[Lunel]

Yeah, yeah. And you don't have to get dressed up. For the third time. You do not have to get dressed up, which is great.

[Thomas Dopa]

Awesome. All right. I have another question. I did not realize you were. I'm from Merced, up north.

[Lunel]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay. And I know. Question for About Oakland. So growing up in Oakland, what happened to Oakland recently? I used to go there a lot and now it just feels like everything's leaving. The sports are gone. They're taking all the sports teams. What happened and what's the fix?

[Lunel]

I don't know because I actually haven't lived in Oakland for over 20 years now. I was raised there, and the Oakland that I was raised in is way different than the Oakland that is now. And I don't know what the fix is because, you know, every city wants to present their downtown as the. The Mecca. This is great downtown, but the rest of the city, we're about to blight in the rest of the city. So I don't know if it starts in the political arena or if it's just the people have gone to or, you know, they don't have anything for kids to do in Oakland and all the sports are gone and it's like they sort of want to wipe it clean and start it all over again.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's what I said yesterday. We need to wipe it clean and start over. Because honestly, San Francisco for what, five years straight was turn it into the same thing.

[Lunel]

It is the same thing. And you know, in the Tenderloin and stuff.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, I was just there the other day. It's still annoying. It's still bad, man.

[Lunel]

Yeah, it's like zombie town.

[Thomas Dopa]

Exactly. It's like us watching Skid Row.

[Lunel]

What is it, the Living Dead? No, not Walking Dead. It's like the Walking Dead in the Fillmore and stuff like that.

[Thomas Dopa]

You should go down there as a kid. Like you have 40 bucks, but you can go hang out in San Francisco. And then now it's like you're getting robbed. You're not going to.

[Co-host/Producer]

Stairs.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

You're not going to drive, get your car broken.

[Lunel]

I just don't know what the answer is. I just don't know what the answer is.

[Thomas Dopa]

I think it's a change in leadership and put the money into good things.

[Lunel]

Yes.

[Thomas Dopa]

You know, I mean, because if I can get like 30 Mexicans, go clean up the street, the government can provide us with some money to get 100 Mexicans who clean up the street.

[Lunel]

Right.

[Thomas Dopa]

I just talking.

[Co-host/Producer]

We were talking about the Spencer Pratt AI videos about LA the other day. Did you see those?

[Lunel]

Please don't ask me. Best friends. Please, please.

[Co-host/Producer]

It's not.

[Thomas Dopa]

We don't have opinions.

[Lunel]

You mean the. The hills? Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

I didn't know the same guy. I had no idea.

[Lunel]

Oh, he was such a dick on the TV show. And he remained, you know, why would he not be a dick now? Why would we think that Spencer Pratt. Never mind me and Kathy Griffin, we'll talk about it. We talk about him.

[Thomas Dopa]

Done.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Lunel]

All right.

[Thomas Dopa]

But yeah, his AI videos definitely made me go. It's possible you can clean it up. All right, we'll see. Not you, but we'll see.

[Lunel]

Yeah, it's possible.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay. You are working on or. You have dropped a lot of stuff recently, and the most recent. Was it Hell's Home Team or home.

[Lunel]

Yeah, home team.

[Thomas Dopa]

And then I saw that your last special was produced by Chappelle also, so you have this, I guess I would call a run that hasn't stopped yet. How do you feel about this latest one? It's a lot shorter than a special.

[Lunel]

It's. Yeah, it's like 23 minutes. 20. 32 minutes. 32 minutes, which I don't know why I thought it was going to be an hour, but whatever they say, you know, I didn't. I didn't get paid. Like it was 32 minutes, I tell you that. And I just was. I was real happy with it, though.

[Thomas Dopa]

You go, by the way, if you want to smoke that, feel free.

[Lunel]

Well, I don't mind if I do. Yeah. You know, just to have Chappelle even know you, let alone produce something for you. Yeah. Was a flex. And I'm real happy about It. I think it was good. You seen it?

[Thomas Dopa]

I saw part of it.

[Lunel]

Me, Marty.

[Thomas Dopa]

What were he sitting here yesterday watching?

[Lunel]

Did you start it from the beginning?

[Thomas Dopa]

Of course.

[Lunel]

So remember, it started in the airport. So, see, we had to fly to Atlanta, and that was a airplane simulator. And those were actors, so he paid extra people to even do my intro thing, you know.

[Co-host/Producer]

2 sec.

[Thomas Dopa]

Would it be too expensive to go to an airport?

[Lunel]

We went that. We did that too, because the interiors, we had to buy, like a ticket to just anywhere, just so we could get through security and go film inside. It was gorilla filmmaking.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, so you don't all that. Oh, snap. Sounds way cheaper.

[Co-host/Producer]

That sounds like some.

[Thomas Dopa]

I do. I do. As long as your tripod's not on the ground in la, you don't have

[Co-host/Producer]

to have a permit.

[Thomas Dopa]

Did you know that?

[Lunel]

What? As long as it's not on the

[Thomas Dopa]

ground, you put a tripod on your foot. Like I'm not on your property. Isn't that awesome? I. Yeah, it's one little trick.

[Lunel]

My homie shot me some Hollywood. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Isn't that cool?

[Co-host/Producer]

Have you been knowing Chappelle forever or is that like a new relationship?

[Lunel]

It's not a new relationship. I've been knowing for maybe about 10 years, but I didn't know that he knew me like that. You know, we met actually at the Montreal Comedy Festival. You know about that? No. Well, it's in Montreal.

[Co-host/Producer]

That's one of the biggest ones.

[Lunel]

Comedy festival, and it's pretty lit. And I had went to go see him out there and he noticed me then, but I didn't know. And then we ran into each other backstage at the. When Eddie Murphy went back to Saturday Night Live after like, what, 25 years or something like that. We were there for that together, too. Then I just got a call and said, chappelle wants you to come to Yellow Springs. This is during COVID because remember, he built that.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yes, I do. Remember the outdoor arena theater in Ohio, Right?

[Lunel]

Yeah. And so did you perform there?

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, I was performing in when the World Shut down. Because we all thought the world was over.

[Lunel]

Collect that house and performing in front of a cornfield full of white folks. That's what was really a trip.

[Thomas Dopa]

Was it fun?

[Lunel]

It ended up being fun, but it

[Thomas Dopa]

was a little like, yeah, sometimes you get those crowds, like, no, they're not there.

[Lunel]

You know, they had to get used to him being there, and he's from there.

[Thomas Dopa]

This guy's got all the money, huh?

[Lunel]

Yeah, he doesn't. Bought up the town. This is amazing. By the Way.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, really?

[Lunel]

Great. Glad you're here. Perfectly Europe.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah. Which we. It's called Member Berry. Oh, it's kind of sweet.

[Lunel]

Member Berry.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, some south park references.

[Lunel]

Sexual.

[Thomas Dopa]

It could be. Probably.

[Co-host/Producer]

He's been on the road for the past year getting all the different types of crowds.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, just trying my best, trying it out.

[Lunel]

But you're from a fed, so you started off with good weed.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, no, he's talking about doing comedy. Comedy stuff. I love that you know about Mercedes go weed. Because it does.

[Lunel]

I know that.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's just a place that all.

[Lunel]

Have you ever been booked in Humble?

[Thomas Dopa]

No.

[Lunel]

What?

[Thomas Dopa]

No.

[Lunel]

They pay you in weed. Like, let's say you do a 3, 500 show, you can get $1500 worth of wheat and the other 15. That sounds. And you're happy? Happy.

[Thomas Dopa]

I just have so much weed.

[Co-host/Producer]

I would definitely do that.

[Thomas Dopa]

Hey, man, can you give me like, just money? I'm a snob with the weed. Like, I will go buy weed if I have weed just because I know I want to try it. Yeah, yeah. It's my. It's my only hobby.

[Lunel]

I stock up on it.

[Thomas Dopa]

Same.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

The refrigerator at my house, that's like each shelf is a different thing.

[Lunel]

What?

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, like half shelf, edible shelf.

[Lunel]

Really?

[Thomas Dopa]

Jar shelf.

[Lunel]

Single.

[Co-host/Producer]

No.

[Thomas Dopa]

Me and my wife smoke all day.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

That's amazing. You got a life partner. Soulmate.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah. I better. I better sell it or weed.

[Co-host/Producer]

No kids, they just sit around chilling, running businesses.

[Lunel]

That's an American love story right there.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yes. Thank you.

[Co-host/Producer]

For real.

[Thomas Dopa]

Every other guest is like, what are you doing with your life? Have a child. Like, what?

[Lunel]

You got a bad. That he married that they got a weed connection. And, you know, the kids, they'll be

[Co-host/Producer]

there and they came up together.

[Lunel]

Your life, you. So that's so lucky. You got anybody saying anything other. They just hate her. You. You live in a dream. You and your girl can do it.

[Co-host/Producer]

So many guests.

[Thomas Dopa]

Every single guest other than you is like, no, don't. You should have kids now.

[Lunel]

Oh, no, they're up. They just want you to join in the same.

[Thomas Dopa]

And all of them have eight kids that we've talked to. So they're Mexican. So there's. Oh, they'll be eventually. Yeah, eventually. But yeah, no, I've been on the road, like you said, a bunch of white people. That's fine. I grew up around a lot of white people.

[Lunel]

Ish. Do you know this is. It's gonna sound wild. I don't. This is gonna sound wild.

[Thomas Dopa]

But I like the start of This.

[Lunel]

I only let black people, Italians and Mexicans in my house. The white people that come in my house are only workers. Sorry, I. I said it was gonna be wild, not that, I mean, hey, these days you can't trust the cable man. They gonna plant something. But I vet everybody that comes to my house. I just don't have that many in Vietnam, in la, everybody comes to my house. Like a trap house. But.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, that's your sanctuary home.

[Lunel]

That's different, Ryan.

[Thomas Dopa]

Is it because they're white devils? No, I'm just kidding. Marty's blue eyes. What are you saying?

[Lunel]

Yes, that's why what I'm hearing is

[Co-host/Producer]

she trusts us to come in and do the job.

[Thomas Dopa]

There we go. Trust us to come in. And not like a quarter of me is all mad right now.

[Lunel]

People that are watching out there, the adopus usual fans. This is not a racial slur. This is all comedy and stuff like that. But I mean what I said, but I'm just saying it's, you know, don't take it all.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's a joke in the truth.

[Lunel]

Don't get all butt hurt about it and.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay, but you have to vet everybody. I'm paranoid too, because I bet everybody

[Lunel]

gets in my pool. See, I never owned a pool before, and now that I own a pool and since we've been through covet, I'm like, why would I ever go back and get in the pool with 1500 peeing people who might have abscesses on their ass? That water gonna get in my mouth. Why would I ever do that when I can stay in my own pool and. And I know, like the eight people who've been in here.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay, I. You know, now I get what you're saying. Totally.

[Lunel]

I don't. I mean, you do that when you really ain't thinking about it, but that was before COVID Covid changed, you know, my way of thinking a lot. Like the fact that we've gone back to the same nasty habits that we had before COVID Nobody is still doing 60 second hand washes. They're not. I never did 60 second hand.

[Thomas Dopa]

You were such a waste of life.

[Lunel]

Blocking quickly, Junior would say is a waste of water.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. 60 seconds. I have things to do.

[Co-host/Producer]

I appreciate you saying that because I take a lot of from my wife for hating public pools. You know what I mean?

[Thomas Dopa]

Public pool sucked.

[Lunel]

Honey, show her this segment. Yeah, sweetheart, it's a no.

[Thomas Dopa]

She's gonna not let you back in

[Lunel]

the house in your mouth. I feel the same way about jacuzziing with people. Even worse, because that bubble just came from the crack your ass. And now it's right here by my mouth. Soup.

[Thomas Dopa]

Like a soup. Okay, so, yes, I searched my house. It's. I used to sell a lot of packs when I was younger, and I always have. I told him yesterday, you always open the door all the way first.

[Lunel]

You've been to jail.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, because I'm good at it. And this smile. You don't think I have weed in the car, right?

[Lunel]

Cause you look so sweet.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, hi. There's so much weed. But it's also a California thing.

[Lunel]

Yeah, well.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, so speaking of jail, I didn't know it was considered bank Robbie, if you work there.

[Lunel]

I heard your story called embezzlement. Oh, but it sounds more gangster when you just say bank robbery. Because in the end of the day, it is bank robbery.

[Thomas Dopa]

So good, so good, so good.

[Lunel]

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[Thomas Dopa]

So for our fans. I've heard this story twice.

[Lunel]

I just told it today.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay, there it is. So you used to work at a bank. You took some money and they're like, yo, this is embezzlement. But it's technically bank robbery. But you got away for so long.

[Lunel]

Yeah, over 10 years. If I hadn't took so much, I would have just got away clean. But because I took enough money to make it a felony instead of a misdemeanor, it don't have no statue, statute of limitation. So you can do something a felony at 22 and they can bust you for it at 89. Because felonies never go away.

[Thomas Dopa]

How'd they find you after 10 years?

[Lunel]

Because I had a baby. I blame my daughter for this.

[Thomas Dopa]

See, you don't have no kids.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

Baby.

[Lunel]

And I filed for the wic and, you know, the milk and the program like that and the Social Security numbers crossed up and they came and got my ass.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, they knew it was you that took it well?

[Lunel]

Yeah, I mean, I had already been convicted in court, and they said when you come back to court, the next time we're gonna. It'll be for sentence.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, you just take it off. I would have been speaking Spanish by with. I would have been left already.

[Lunel]

I was a vapor. They didn't catch me.

[Thomas Dopa]

I Was a vapor is the new.

[Lunel]

Like I'm a ghost Vapor. Vapor.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. See that's got me looking over my shoulder. And you're still doing shows. How is that possible every time you're on stages?

[Lunel]

I was and my name was in the paper and everything. And I thought that maybe they're gonna bust me because I am just my picture in the paper. You know the entertainment section when you used to get the newspaper. But it wasn't. It wasn't that. It was my kid trying to feed her ass got me busted.

[Thomas Dopa]

Why would they just find you? But hey, she's in the B. Cuz

[Lunel]

I had absconded from Long beach where I did it and came back to the Bay Area. So I wasn't in the area no more. Oh they had to extradite me back

[Thomas Dopa]

a super fun in the st in the same state. And you that you're brave. I would have been gone. I would live in new new.

[Lunel]

Well you're going to do the same time if you shop lift a pack of gum. Is that if you still 50,000. I mean not like that but if you take $1 out the bank or you take $50,000. Same. Same.

[Thomas Dopa]

Should have went for a hundred.

[Lunel]

Well next time.

[Thomas Dopa]

She wore a big shirt that day.

[Lunel]

Next time.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay, so yeah, I've heard that story. I just. It just bring it up again. It sounds fake. Honestly.

[Lunel]

It's like a lot of my sound fake.

[Thomas Dopa]

But this sounds cool. Crazy. Just. Just for the fact that I'm on the run in the same state. My face is in the paper.

[Co-host/Producer]

Right?

[Lunel]

You just don't have the balls to do it.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, I don't. Woman jail is way different than guy jail. I'll go to woman jail. Can we trade places? I'll go to woman jail.

[Co-host/Producer]

But yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

I have three to six open for any ladies. All right, bye. Yeah, I'd be. I'd be have all the commissary my.

[Lunel]

Do you want dick Ramen, man, I had to learn about commerce.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll be fattest fatter.

[Lunel]

Until you get commissary. You can't get a real toothbrush so you gotta use county tooth. But this big. It's like you're fisting yourself trying to

[Thomas Dopa]

pressure my mom dated or married to a big old.

[Lunel]

No, no, no, no, no. You think.

[Thomas Dopa]

You would think. Yeah, you would think. My mom dares a white supremacist fool for like 12 years.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

So I've been in the prisons every weekend for like 10 years straight. So I know exactly what you mean.

[Lunel]

A white Supremacist.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, she's a dummy.

[Lunel]

She is.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, she is. And she's Jewish. She did it for spite.

[Lunel]

She's confused.

[Thomas Dopa]

She's very confused.

[Lunel]

She's a race hater. She hates. She's Jewish and married a white supremacist. Excuse me.

[Thomas Dopa]

Well, then she went through a phase where she's like, I date only Mexicans. I'm gonna get a Mexican tattoo. And then she's like, now I date black guys. I'm gonna get my nose pierced. And this is.

[Lunel]

This is.

[Thomas Dopa]

She's just. I didn't say it.

[Lunel]

I didn't say it. Was she gonna beat me up?

[Thomas Dopa]

I didn't say it. My mom's scary, but she would never do that.

[Lunel]

Well, she is. I mean, you know, it was all hoes in the 70s. I'll take accountability for my hoism.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's fun. That's cool.

[Lunel]

She's multicultural. I like that. But not just white supremacists. You don't have no influence on your mom. You don't have a. Sit down on the bed, like, mom. Oh, Mom. Are you serious?

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, welcome. Welcome to the show. I've had her on here. I'm like, hey, you can't leave. We're doing a. I drank a fifth, and we talked for five hours, and I finally was like, it was fun. It was fun.

[Co-host/Producer]

It's a good one.

[Thomas Dopa]

He taught me some Spanish, which is funny because he spoke fluent Spanish. This is. Yeah, yeah.

[Lunel]

Well, you know what? Matter of fact, we was talking about this other day. You can be racist and still like black people.

[Thomas Dopa]

Of course.

[Lunel]

Like, you can marry a black woman and still be a racist. Yeah. Isn't that crazy, though?

[Thomas Dopa]

In prison, he was right. He always told me, in jail. This is how I am out here. You're my son.

[Lunel]

You're brown.

[Thomas Dopa]

My best friend's black. His. All my. And he's like, that's like my little son. And I was like, I'm confused.

[Lunel]

I'm trusting.

[Thomas Dopa]

I did. He just likes drugs too much. He was a good guy, man. Like, he was a very good guy. In jail, man. You do what he had to do. It was bad.

[Lunel]

Oh, my God.

[Thomas Dopa]

It was a weird story. It's a. It's weird. But, like, have you had any counseling? That's what Dr. Drew said. I'm chilling, man. No, I'm chilling, man.

[Lunel]

Okay. You good?

[Thomas Dopa]

I'm chilling, dude.

[Lunel]

You can call me if you ever need to talk to somebody.

[Thomas Dopa]

This.

[Lunel]

No, that's right. You got your. You got your wifey.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, we're chilling.

[Lunel]

Yeah. That's cool.

[Thomas Dopa]

2015. Yeah.

[Lunel]

When you get a homie like that, you know, my girl's my homie. That's awesome.

[Thomas Dopa]

Exactly.

[Lunel]

It is.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's why I don't really hang out with anybody.

[Lunel]

Well, that's cool. I heard that. Look at you.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. This is hitting hard.

[Co-host/Producer]

I had a adopted brother that actually robbed a bank with a gun.

[Lunel]

Oh, that's right. Oh, Marty's like, no gun, no note. I didn't have any of that.

[Thomas Dopa]

Marty has the opposite of my life.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

Wow.

[Co-host/Producer]

So, yeah, but he was like 17, so they were, they were going to give him like adult time, but he only ended up doing three years.

[Lunel]

I would love to. What is the demographic of your show, may I ask?

[Thomas Dopa]

Every single thing you can think. Every race, every age group.

[Lunel]

Mostly guys.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yes.

[Lunel]

A guy podcast.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's mostly guys.

[Lunel]

Hey, fellas. Hey. I'm not a female comic that just, just adheres to females because that alienates the man. They get bored. You're not talking to us. I'm just here because my wife wanted to see it. I'm a female coming who wants to appease the guys too. Like, I want five guys to come see me, you know, without their girlfriends, you know, just because I'm that funny. Yeah. And I have that. I, I, I need more of that.

[Thomas Dopa]

I saw your line in Vegas. There's a lot of guys, too.

[Lunel]

Yeah. Yeah. Because I like guys.

[Thomas Dopa]

Real quick. What's up, guys? Taking a quick break to talk about the sponsor of this episode. Shout out to my bookie. The World cup is still going on and if you like to bet, this is the time because now is lock of the season. Shout out to my bookie. First goal score. Jackpot. I'm gonna explain it. Five thousand dollar jackpot. To opt in, you have to place a qualifying wager to even be able to participate. So the first goal scorer, you gotta bet at least $5. It's the split jackpot. Whoever bets, whoever gets it right, you split it with them all the way up to 5,000. It's like a big pool. The prize is going to be free play and you can roll over. One time, Argentina, Austria, Brazil and Scotland. I actually watched a Scotland match. Uruguay and Spain, Colombia and Portugal is a South American showdown. Take advantage of the lock of the season with my boogie right now during the World Cup. It's not going to last long. I know it's the biggest event on earth. So if it's the biggest event on earth and you like to gamble, take advantage of it. Use our code Dope as usual on your first bet, sign up. If you already signed up, make your homie sign up and use their phone. It's the World Cup. So remember, if you want to bet on something, on anything, anytime, anywhere, use my bookie Arco. Dope as usual. Shout out to my bookie, who's your favorite artist out of out of the bay that you can think of?

[Lunel]

Rap artists.

[Thomas Dopa]

Any artist. You don't have to be only rap artist. That's all I listened to as a kid. So when I heard. Oh, wow, nice.

[Lunel]

So many different genres of music. So you gotta tell new.

[Thomas Dopa]

All right, let's go rap first. Let's go rap first.

[Co-host/Producer]

Okay.

[Lunel]

So probably too short.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay. He's been doing that for almost a half a century.

[Lunel]

But you know what can I just say? Can I just say that? Shout out to my man Hammer. Everybody be sleeping on Hammer. They don't give him his prop. And yeah, short. You know what's my favorite word? But Hammond put us on the map, actually.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oakland, mainstream wise.

[Lunel]

And yeah. And. And. And I just know him to be a good guy. And you know, he don't be in. No. He got faulted because he was trying to put too many people on. That was the only thing they could fault him for. And never been bus for no drug. Don't cheat on this wife. Sorry. And you know, so Hammer too. But then there's millions. You know, we got Digital Underground. We got, you know, all kind of people.

[Co-host/Producer]

You'd be great to get on the show.

[Thomas Dopa]

MC Hammer does a give back in my town every year at the food bank. See, that's why I'm almost like Gypsy. Hammer's a man dude.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

You never hear bad things about him. He does a food bank giveaway.

[Lunel]

Everything. I sleep on Hammer now.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah.

[Lunel]

Let's get it started.

[Co-host/Producer]

He's never come up on the show this whole time. All these you're not wrong area discussions.

[Thomas Dopa]

You're not wrong and you're right. The only thing you ever heard. He tried to help his family out too much.

[Lunel]

Like that was really it all is all his partners too.

[Thomas Dopa]

You guys put him on the payroll, man.

[Lunel]

Yeah, but can I never.

[Thomas Dopa]

He'll never do it again. Hopefully he pops off again with something else. Reality gets his own flavor of love. He's already had all famous again dude.

[Lunel]

Flavor. Look. He married.

[Thomas Dopa]

Hey man. Something. Maybe he could.

[Lunel]

I don't know.

[Thomas Dopa]

Maybe he could do something else. I just like when pop back off that I like, you know. Remember when Flavor Love came back. That's a whole New. He started reality TV date and now he's.

[Lunel]

He's ambassador for the Olympics.

[Thomas Dopa]

No.

[Lunel]

Yeah. No, but last, last year, like this year, he's been all about supporting the female basketball team. Women's basketball. And he was out there in the snow at the Winter Olympics with the Bob Sledgers and all that kind of stuff you don't know about.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, I didn't be in the house

[Lunel]

with your girl chilling and you don't even know what's going.

[Thomas Dopa]

I watched so much Olympic and I'd never seen. Oh, you're not around. Let's go.

[Lunel]

Thank you very much.

[Thomas Dopa]

He's morphing into Spike Lee right there. What the is that? Look at that picture of him. The same guy for a minute.

[Lunel]

Dude. Very, very involved with the Olympics.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's awesome.

[Lunel]

And also a self taught classical pianist. Did you know Flavor of Flav? Self taught classical piano?

[Thomas Dopa]

No, I did not know that.

[Lunel]

Don't with me. I know my stats. All right.

[Thomas Dopa]

One other thing you're doing. There's. There's. You have a. Such a long list of things. But I'll get into this stuff that I'm hyped about.

[Lunel]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopa]

My, my favorite guy ever is Adam Sandler. Everybody knows that. Since I was a child I've been watching him and somehow a newer Adam Sandler movie made my top list. And that's. That's my boy. And the funniest scene that I crack up the most is when you try to drink juice upside down on the ship hole.

[Lunel]

So.

[Thomas Dopa]

And then you're. I think you're eating a plate of eggs. It's just a ridiculous scene.

[Co-host/Producer]

I've been hearing about this for years.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, I know. Mar hasn't seen it.

[Co-host/Producer]

We talk.

[Thomas Dopa]

Exactly. This is who I'm talking. I brought the scene up before on the show. Okay, so what's that connection? Cuz if that's a Happy Madison connection, is there going to be any more? And how was that?

[Lunel]

Well, I've done three movies with Happy Madison, but the Hotel Transylvania one and two.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh wow.

[Lunel]

More voice acting.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's a good movie too.

[Lunel]

They really are. They're good to get high and watch that. I love it.

[Thomas Dopa]

I love how I watch anything, especially.

[Lunel]

Never mind. But the. I don't know. I auditioned. I auditioned. I auditioned for that like three times or something. And we had a double. A double. You know, and we had to get fake boob imprints and.

[Co-host/Producer]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopa]

With the long ass tassels. They were long as hell.

[Lunel]

Not tassels, not nipples. Okay. And nipples are fine. They're not long, but. But yeah. And then they had to get sewn into my lingerie stuff because it was just that crazy. And then. Yeah, I really did. I was blowing orange juice out my nose for like a week.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, that. Yeah, you really did. I mean, you could.

[Lunel]

Is he pulling it out?

[Thomas Dopa]

It's a great. It's such a great scene, dude. I. I just love the movie.

[Lunel]

Look at everybody that was in that movie, though.

[Thomas Dopa]

What a. We're just talking about James.

[Lunel]

James Khan's in that movie. Rex Ryan.

[Thomas Dopa]

And who was the. Sorry. Who was the singer? The boss. What's his name again?

[Lunel]

Who?

[Thomas Dopa]

The boss of. Of Andy Sandberg in that movie. He's a singer. What's this? Tony. No.

[Lunel]

Orlando.

[Thomas Dopa]

Tony Orlando. Thank you.

[Lunel]

Andy Samberg.

[Thomas Dopa]

Andy Samberg. Vanilla ice Isn't that bad.

[Lunel]

Todd Bridges and Vanilla Ice and Sierra. Remember, Sierra played my daughter.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

I've watched the movie a hundred times.

[Lunel]

That's Sierra. Bless.

[Thomas Dopa]

Damn, dude, I'm slipping. That is her. I haven't seen her forever. Damn.

[Lunel]

She happy and out the way.

[Thomas Dopa]

That fact. That sounds awesome.

[Lunel]

Like you. She happy and out the way. Out the way.

[Thomas Dopa]

Dude, if I have social media, you wouldn't know I lived. I just pee at my house, sneaking around, doing. Hey, it's fun.

[Lunel]

It is.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. I want to get a massage chair. Just. I can sit there and do mushrooms or something.

[Lunel]

I got a table.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, y. I was thinking about buying one yesterday.

[Lunel]

Oh, get one.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

Then just have them suits come to your house and lugging all.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, I do because my back's up, but they have to lug their up every time. That'd be cool if I just had it.

[Lunel]

Get at your house. All right. My table.

[Thomas Dopa]

Sick.

[Lunel]

Get the heated.

[Thomas Dopa]

Dude, it's so cool.

[Lunel]

Not massage table. Oh, my God.

[Co-host/Producer]

Sauna. The massage table.

[Thomas Dopa]

But I bought a cool little baby sauna. It's fun, though, being able to. Like you said, I'm not trying to go to a jacuzzi with eight people. I don't want to sweat around a bunch of dudes. Oh, do a push up to the side. I've done it.

[Lunel]

Guys in the jacuzzi. It's suspect made up.

[Co-host/Producer]

Thank you. That's another thing I try to tell my wife.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's funny. You really do talk about that. I don't want to be a song.

[Co-host/Producer]

I'm not going to take a bath with a dude. I'm not.

[Thomas Dopa]

A bath with a dude in public is really what you're doing.

[Co-host/Producer]

Multiple dudes. The out of here.

[Lunel]

It's a little Too cozy.

[Thomas Dopa]

And I keep hearing Russian. This guy keeps speaking Russian on his phone. That's all I remember, man. Yeah. Yeah. I like being bougie now. Now that I'm older, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm not going to stay at Motel 6.

[Lunel]

Do you have a gardener?

[Thomas Dopa]

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[Lunel]

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[Thomas Dopa]

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[Lunel]

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[Co-host/Producer]

So disappointed.

[Thomas Dopa]

He's so disappointed. He's like, your house. This is your house.

[Lunel]

Huh?

[Thomas Dopa]

No Spanish, huh?

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Sick.

[Lunel]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Smells like weed. Like, just roll the lawn. Dude, I'm sorry. It's not my fault. It came with the spot.

[Lunel]

Yeah, that, that.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. Every time someone does something for me, I'm like, I'm a lazy. And then I go, I'm an adult, it's okay. I got other things to do. And then I go, sit down.

[Lunel]

Well, how old are you though? Not telling you. Lazy. You're a lazy. Because I'm like w age and I don't have to. I don't do as little as possible.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'm trying. We.

[Lunel]

I. I just can't because I got, you know, we got a performance too, you know, flying. All this.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah.

[Lunel]

On my mind.

[Thomas Dopa]

I feel you. We just run hella businesses. Like,

[Lunel]

I will clean the toilet.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's funny, I do that at like 4 in the morning. I looked at it last night.

[Lunel]

Wait, no. Nobody can do this. We gonna get this right now.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. I'll clean my house.

[Lunel]

I will clean it.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, I'll clean my house. Eight hours later I'm like, I need to pay a to do this.

[Lunel]

I know it.

[Thomas Dopa]

I could have done so much downstairs. Thank you. Thank you. It takes too long. I'm good, man. I did as a kid because I'd have to do now.

[Lunel]

This is your job as a kid?

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

Called chores. People make your kids do something.

[Thomas Dopa]

Thank you. How do you feel about iPad kids?

[Lunel]

It's. It's a lot. It's a lot. I mean, it's a Double edged sword because you don't want them to be glued to this device, but you do want them to sit down and shut the up. So here

[Thomas Dopa]

she used to scream at me, go watch the tv. Don't move. But all right.

[Lunel]

And now here we are doing tv.

[Thomas Dopa]

Here we are just reciting every movie I've ever seen because I'm sat there for eight years straight.

[Lunel]

Yeah. But can you recite Fridays? My daughter can recite the whole.

[Thomas Dopa]

The whole movie from any dead end.

[Lunel]

Yeah, right. No, Friday after next. That's the one.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, that's harder. I watched Friday.

[Lunel]

She got that down times 100.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, no, I have a weird memory. So I can remember a lot of like, stupid.

[Lunel]

This one here.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

His memory is.

[Thomas Dopa]

Do you find crazy, you can remember like the colors, what you're wearing, what the person's wearing? Do you have like that kind of. Yeah, me too. It sucks. It sucks because people like, yo, do you remember that? But yeah, I remember what I was doing when I heard that song for the first time. I was driving right here. It's always movies, what people said, what I was looking at when they said it.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah,

[Thomas Dopa]

it is. But it's annoying because even the bad. You're like, I remember all that. Oh, God, that sucked. That's the only bad part about it.

[Lunel]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Because I have another YouTube channel where I just, I tell stories. That's when I. That's how I got my following.

[Lunel]

Yeah. And it's because I have stories.

[Thomas Dopa]

Every story you can think of, really. Everything you ever. I just done a lot of drugs before because I grew up in Merced.

[Lunel]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopa]

So like, I'll be like meth story, crack story, PCP story, coke story, masculine story.

[Lunel]

Didn't you ever do mescaline? It was the joy drug of my life.

[Co-host/Producer]

The joy on his face.

[Lunel]

What?

[Thomas Dopa]

Yes.

[Lunel]

Purple microdot was the best thing that ever happened to. To me in the 70s. I had so much fun. The only thing that compares is mushroom. But the purple microdot was this color and it was a tiny, tiny little, powerful little pill.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh. We became friends, Right now my favorite drug is mescaline. I love it so much. Turn into a blob of nothing, but

[Lunel]

I know I'm walking. One time I did some mescaline and me and some friends, and I don't do this. We went up to a cabin in the snow, me and my peeps and I. I sat in this chair, right? And. And the mescaline kicked in. And I felt like if I let go of this chair, I'M gonna shoot through the roof of this house. And I sat that chair gripped for like five hours. I didn't get up and move. I was like, if I get up, I'm gonna shoot straight through the room. That's. How high. Was it fun? It was fun.

[Thomas Dopa]

I love Mexico.

[Lunel]

I don't do it now.

[Thomas Dopa]

I would.

[Lunel]

I'm not doing nothing now but smoking weed and drinking a liquor because I don't trust nothing.

[Thomas Dopa]

No mushrooms.

[Lunel]

Yeah,

[Thomas Dopa]

I love mushrooms. Well, it grows.

[Lunel]

I cannot tell a lie. A mushroom is a vegetable, is it not? Of course. True. It's a fun guy. Vegetable. Fun guy. Get it? All right, all right.

[Thomas Dopa]

So if it grows, you'll. You'll smoke it or drink it. I like it.

[Lunel]

What?

[Thomas Dopa]

Mushrooms.

[Lunel]

I'm scared to drink the mushroom syrup that I have. Oh, and I got some syrup.

[Co-host/Producer]

Sounds scary.

[Lunel]

Honey, I'm scared. I don't know how much, you know.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, I feel you.

[Lunel]

So I've got it. I'll just give it to a. That I know. Yeah. And. But I do eat mushrooms.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, see?

[Lunel]

But I don't take. No, I don't do. No, no, no, no cocaine. No. No weirdo pills.

[Thomas Dopa]

Nothing that could be. Hey, I'm gonna kill you with this, like, Russian roulette. Too much to do to die.

[Lunel]

The.

[Thomas Dopa]

I used to.

[Lunel]

I mean, did you used to do blow, though?

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah. We've had a lot of discussions on this show about it. Like, man, I would spell my name out and then like over the course

[Lunel]

of half an hour, and then over

[Thomas Dopa]

the course, if I could, like, 30, 40 minutes, but done. But like, I don't know what it was like, my mom and dad were both crank addicts my whole life.

[Lunel]

Oh, my God.

[Thomas Dopa]

So I think, like, I like drugs, but stay away from me because I like.

[Lunel]

Yeah, yeah. Because I lack.

[Thomas Dopa]

But I also like not being a piece of loser.

[Lunel]

So that's why I'm like, oh, absolutely,

[Thomas Dopa]

I still gotta go to work. We talked about this yesterday. I still have to go to work. So I can get up till five and then I stop and go to work. Because I have to go to work.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

But I'm also on. On cocaine at work. Which is fine. At least I'm there doing my job.

[Co-host/Producer]

Great fine line between living outside and living inside.

[Thomas Dopa]

A lot of my best friends live outside now. Like four of them.

[Lunel]

Right.

[Thomas Dopa]

Like outside, they live under bridges. And now. Yeah. So it's very odd, like, looking at the drug because I always say, hey, you not gonna go to work? My Mexican ass grandpa would shun me. If I didn't work. So I'm like, no, I'm not gonna be the embarrassment we're talking about. We just talked about this. So that's why I love cocaine. But say I had, like, a gram. I don't know what it was. I would do, like, 0.4 under my tongue. And then I'd snore like a 0.3. And I put the other point four on my top teeth. And then I just sit there for, like 40 minutes. Yeah. It's just the right. Isn't that so fun? I love plumbing it more than anything.

[Lunel]

You are a fool.

[Thomas Dopa]

But you know.

[Lunel]

You agree. But of course. Because now, see, I was. Was 70s cocaine.

[Thomas Dopa]

Cooler, fun. Cocaine with the disco.

[Lunel]

It was the cocaine and the disc.

[Co-host/Producer]

So much cooler back then.

[Lunel]

So much cooler. So it was no drama. It was like coke and let's go have fun and party. And that was it.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's awesome.

[Lunel]

Yeah, it was great.

[Thomas Dopa]

Now it's like I bought it off some tweaker. I don't even know what it's called. That's pretty much.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

It

[Co-host/Producer]

sounds like Molly in the 70s. What? Molly

[Thomas Dopa]

MDN. Like, no, I never tried the Molly.

[Lunel]

No. No.

[Co-host/Producer]

I don't know.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. Oh, for mescaline. Me and my wife, we're best. Like, we were really good friends for like a year and a half.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

And then her friend was sick. We always hang out. She's like, monica's sick. I'll just come over. My. Yeah, I don't have any friends. Come over. It's just gonna be us. She's like, that's fine. I go, oh. And I had just got 300, like 330 pills of mescaline for my homie. Because I was starting to sell them. Because I was selling packs.

[Lunel]

But I'll start selling. Right. Right.

[Thomas Dopa]

We took. We're about seven pills deep each. And we're sitting there on my couch, and she's like, hey, I like you. I go, for real, I like you. I didn't want to this up. And we've been together ever since.

[Lunel]

That's.

[Thomas Dopa]

But it was the mescaline.

[Lunel]

I remember.

[Thomas Dopa]

We're both melting. Just. We didn't sleep. We drove to a concert that night. All the way in Santa Cruz the next day. I was up for two days.

[Lunel]

Of course.

[Co-host/Producer]

You should have told this story at the wedding.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

For real.

[Lunel]

That's a great love story. That's awesome.

[Thomas Dopa]

But colors never looked so cool. That night I watched the Flintstones.

[Lunel]

I don't like it. I don't like to drive on It. Because the lights be with me.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, I never drove on it. I was taking. I think we did like, 12 that night each. But she's.

[Lunel]

Damn.

[Thomas Dopa]

We're like half. Half, half.

[Lunel]

So you don't. Okay. So before you were joined, your drug scene and when I was already in it, there was also an era of barbiturates called Black Beauties that everybody. They were a black capsule, like a. Like a.

[Thomas Dopa]

Heard it too many songs.

[Lunel]

The slick capsule, not like an aspirin capsule. It was black capsule, black. And you could take this, and you could walk from here to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. It was that much energy. Like, I was slim. You couldn't tell me shit when I was on them Black Beauties. And they also had these things called cross tops. Wait till your audience starts writing about this. They were bennies. They called them bennies. You could buy them by the jar, and they were white and they had crosstops. And you eat them bitches like Skittles. Totally, Steve.

[Thomas Dopa]

That was fun, man.

[Lunel]

Wait till your people. Right here. I need to know. I need to. I need the link and all that so I can look and see. Because your people are gonna be like, oh, dude, I remember.

[Thomas Dopa]

I love talking about drugs that are extinct, but, yo.

[Lunel]

Wow, Is that drugs that are extinct?

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

So like, Thai Thai stick weed.

[Thomas Dopa]

Homie could do that. The Thai stick you're talking about, the.

[Lunel]

It's used to smell like candy.

[Thomas Dopa]

What about the strain? Yeah, yeah, my homie does that. My homie OG like it used to be, though.

[Co-host/Producer]

He's.

[Thomas Dopa]

If it's gonna be close, it'd be him.

[Lunel]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll say. I trust him with the tie.

[Lunel]

Stick was a wonderful thing.

[Thomas Dopa]

They're called cannon cigars. Now, as Thai stick is like a. It's a product now. They do weed over the course of, like, a week. They compact, compact, compact to put the hash, compact to compact it. And it gets down to, like, a brick. And it'll burn for, like, five to six hours.

[Co-host/Producer]

Damn. Oh, I get it.

[Thomas Dopa]

Remember, my homie's the one that. That brought it out.

[Co-host/Producer]

I've always seen one. Like, one time,

[Thomas Dopa]

my wedding, my homie rolled me a QP1.

[Lunel]

Oh, geez.

[Thomas Dopa]

We had a dab bar at my wedding.

[Lunel]

No, not the dad bar. No.

[Thomas Dopa]

Nobody threw up, nobody got too drunk, nobody crashed. Got a dui. And I think that worked because you

[Co-host/Producer]

couldn't smoke because it was in the woods.

[Thomas Dopa]

It was in the woods, so you can't burn. So I'm like dad bars. I had, like, 30 different rig setups with a bunch of different stuff, like with a heat up and.

[Lunel]

I was in the woods.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, it was.

[Lunel]

What sign you? When's your birthday?

[Thomas Dopa]

September.

[Lunel]

What does that make you? Virgo?

[Thomas Dopa]

I don't know. I don't know. The.

[Lunel]

The. The.

[Thomas Dopa]

The ladies and the rocks and the. And the astrology stuff.

[Lunel]

Me neither, but my cousin doesn't. She always wants to know. She's a Virgo. Well, I do. Only Virgo guys that I've known, you can't tell them about because they know everything about every goddamn thing. That's all I know. Not you, though.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know shit. I know about weed and movies, actually.

[Co-host/Producer]

Ignorant as.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, we learned what a Republican Democrat was on this show recently, kind of two seasons ago. We don't know Democrat. I don't pay attention. That sold drugs my whole life and have an American education.

[Lunel]

So, like, did you see the Michael movie?

[Thomas Dopa]

No. Is it cool? Is it bad? You're leaving?

[Co-host/Producer]

No, we saw it.

[Thomas Dopa]

We saw it,

[Lunel]

okay? Because I was about to leave the building.

[Thomas Dopa]

I saw it come in your house.

[Lunel]

Please.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll fix it. Oh, I swear to God, I'll fix your ceiling. No. Is it great? Is it good?

[Lunel]

What do you think?

[Thomas Dopa]

I don't know.

[Lunel]

I haven't really. Didn't see it?

[Thomas Dopa]

No, I haven't seen it.

[Lunel]

It came out okay. Because you're not. You're not okay.

[Thomas Dopa]

I go to the movies.

[Lunel]

I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to your. Your. Your people. I'm talking to your people. Now, you clearly are not of the age of Michael Obsession. You. You didn't get it. You don't. You don't get it. You don't get it. Like, no, you can't understand.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, no, I understand. It's just great music.

[Lunel]

Because if you did, there would be no way you didn't see the movie.

[Thomas Dopa]

Well, usually they do people wrong and they're after posthumous movies, so.

[Lunel]

What? No, no, but this Temptations one was pretty good. State was over this. They. Okay, did. His children did. And his nephew played him. His nephew played Michael. Michael's nephew played him.

[Co-host/Producer]

Jafar.

[Lunel]

You didn't know that?

[Thomas Dopa]

His name's Jafar. Shut up. No, it's not Jafar. His name's Jafar, like the bad guy from Aladdin. That's crazy name to pick because he's like my age. Then if he's his nephew and that's like picking. That's like, oh, what's your son's name? Oh, his name's Putin. Like, what the are you doing out here, man? Why would you pick Jafar? Jafar, that's this bad guy from Aladdin.

[Lunel]

No, he's Michael's nephew. I love little Mike and he played it. Listen, go see the movie.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll watch it.

[Lunel]

I go to movies all the time while they're streaming. Now.

[Thomas Dopa]

I saw that last night. I said pre order last night.

[Lunel]

Yeah, please watch that. Oh, my God.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's his nephew.

[Lunel]

Wow.

[Thomas Dopa]

I don't pay attention to any news. I don't watch anything. You should see my feedback. It's just people. This is how you lose weight as a fat piece of. Hey, do you like this weed? Over and over. This.

[Lunel]

I used to watch how to lose weight videos while I was eating. Okay. Go figure. He be like, yeah, I'm going to do that tomorrow.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, I used to do Tao with my mom.

[Lunel]

With Bill.

[Thomas Dopa]

I used to do it. I was a fat little. I was like, why am I so fat? Billy Blanks. You weren't cutting it, dude. And the P90X came out.

[Lunel]

I don't like trainers that are already in the shape, study and play come together on a Windows 11 PC.

[Co-host/Producer]

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[Thomas Dopa]

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[Co-host/Producer]

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[Lunel]

Like, why don't we do this together, you fat. You know, I want to see a trainer lose with me. Let me see it work. You're already the shape. You want me to do what you do another one for your viewers.

[Thomas Dopa]

I want to apply that to other things. Like, yo, I don't want a drug counselor. I want a meth head to get clean with me and we'll film it and make a YouTube channel.

[Lunel]

You put her like that. Maybe not like that, but sort of like that.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, I want a fat trainer. Is the funniest I do.

[Lunel]

Damn it.

[Thomas Dopa]

I want a trainer that doesn't look at their phone when I ask them a question about my back. I'm like, what's. Well, let me google it. Oh, you don't know what you're talking about, man. That's what. I have a shitty back. So I'm like, yo, you don't know

[Lunel]

what you're doing about that accident?

[Thomas Dopa]

Well, no, he should know about the Muscles. But, hey, don't do this move, because that's a big strain on your back. My trainer now is the man. It doesn't. I look like I'm lying, but I do. I was fatter. I'm trying.

[Lunel]

Hey, I'm with you. I'd like to lose a Hot 60, but I think I'd look like I was on meth. If I lost 60, maybe 40. How many pounds would you like to be down?

[Thomas Dopa]

Me, like 130. I'm fat as shit. It doesn't look like a guy, but

[Lunel]

I weigh a lot.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's fine. She love me as a buff guy, too. If I look at Mario Lopez, I'd be like, give me a fucking deal, Colgate. Look at me, man. If I was buff as shit, like Mario Lopez, dude, I got E. Hollywood News. Hollywood News is mine. Soap operas are mine. Mexican commercials are mine.

[Co-host/Producer]

You're one six pack away from all this.

[Lunel]

Can you imagine how much money Maya Lopez makes? Because he's on every tv.

[Co-host/Producer]

Oh, yes.

[Thomas Dopa]

We had him on the show. We talked about it. Yeah.

[Lunel]

Here.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. He's the man.

[Lunel]

And he is the mother. He.

[Thomas Dopa]

He's everything every Mexican kid should look up to. Like, you have a wife. Like, you're not beating the out of her. You're not drinking all day. And smile, smile.

[Co-host/Producer]

You do jiu jitsu. Come on.

[Thomas Dopa]

And you can fight badass.

[Co-host/Producer]

Like, cool as show.

[Thomas Dopa]

I have his picture from colors signed in my office. I printed it out. He's like, that was beer. He didn't. He didn't look like he. He mad. Everybody else all down. He's right. All pretty and with a bandana like Falco.

[Lunel]

You a fool.

[Co-host/Producer]

But he circled back and got Thomas on his comedy shows. And so that was cool at the Laugh Factory, right?

[Thomas Dopa]

What's that?

[Co-host/Producer]

The Mario Lopez comedy?

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah, I did his show. I did a show recently, the Laugh Factor. Yeah, it's cool, man. I'm the only motherfucker going up there not speaking Spanish. But it's cool for all these white people out here. Watch this. You'll know who Rosie o' Donnell is, don't you? That's when I know the crowd. I'll either say, oh, Jeezy or Rosie o' Donnell for the certain reference because, like, there's enough white people in here. Yep, Rosie o' Donnell worked. Yeah. No, it's like we're talking about earlier. You talked to all white crowd. Is there ever a time you go out there, you're like, oh, this is. I can see this crowd is not My crowd. But it always. You're a professional.

[Lunel]

A lot of crowds are not my crowd.

[Thomas Dopa]

But I, you have to win them over.

[Lunel]

I make them my crowd. Because the stuff that I talk about is funny over everything, you know? Funny over everything. Even if you're going to talk about politics, we've got to be funny. Yes. It gets preachy and all that type of shit. And you know, when I talk about like sex and relationships, that covers every demographic. Yeah, right. So that's gay, straight, you know, black, white, Latin, any, anything like that. So I, in Vegas especially, I have a very diverse crowd.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's what the first thing I noticed is. Everybody a little dad break. Take Dabs.

[Lunel]

Is this a gift?

[Thomas Dopa]

I have one for if you watch for me. A warehouse full of gifts.

[Co-host/Producer]

We got a duffel bag for you.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

Oh my God.

[Thomas Dopa]

Wait a minute. Do you date Dabs at all?

[Lunel]

No. Oh, nope. Because you know what, what happened? So. Oh, no. I went to a dispensary and I spun the wheel, right. And it's a one free dab.

[Co-host/Producer]

You can't judge it off that.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, no.

[Lunel]

I took a really big bet. She was hot and I was coughing. I had to sit the down, drink some water.

[Co-host/Producer]

This is technology. This is not gonna do that. This is apple of weed.

[Thomas Dopa]

Do you smoke cash ever in the weed?

[Lunel]

I mean,

[Thomas Dopa]

we.

[Lunel]

No, no, no, no. I'm just a regular daggler.

[Co-host/Producer]

That's where I was.

[Lunel]

Joint girl.

[Co-host/Producer]

I took bong rips all day.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's cool.

[Co-host/Producer]

I started dabbing a little bit.

[Thomas Dopa]

You'll do bong rips, huh? Did you do bong rips at all?

[Lunel]

What's that?

[Thomas Dopa]

A bomb. You know what mescaline is? You know what a bog is?

[Lunel]

I know, I, I, I haven't done a bong in a while.

[Co-host/Producer]

We should break out the six footer for it.

[Thomas Dopa]

I have a six foot better.

[Lunel]

I'm not doing it.

[Commercial/Ad Voice]

Okay.

[Co-host/Producer]

It's okay.

[Lunel]

Oh my God. You're making my neck up just thinking about it. Oh my gosh. But I'll be glad to watch you do it though.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I was just packing it up in

[Lunel]

case you want to notice that.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll smoke it here in a minute.

[Lunel]

Okay. Well, I can't wait till this drops. I'm gonna watch, right? Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Good, good. That was like 30 minutes ago. I was asked this question. Then we got high and forgot crutch show. You're on the show crutch. There's another show called Hacks. There's so many damn movie credits. We talked about The Adam Sandler stuff. There's. Now you're talking about.

[Co-host/Producer]

IMDb is endless.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's. It doesn't. It just keeps going. And I went. I'm cherry picking because this is just too much.

[Lunel]

You know, we tried to keep my back in the resume. They try to keep my resume up to date, but I was doing so much so fast because we stopped.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's just. There's so much.

[Lunel]

Thank God for IMDb because we gave up. Praise God for that, though.

[Thomas Dopa]

Then I saw. I'm just going over headlines here. That you. Is it a lingerie brand ambassador? Yeah, for the Rihanna. What's is Savage and Fenty, both her companies.

[Lunel]

Savage X. Fenty is a company.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, that's the whole name. I thought it was collaboration because I had a little X.

[Lunel]

Well, Fenty's her real last name.

[Thomas Dopa]

Rihanna's. Damn, I gotta get ball. My last name is just. That's the. The name. My name sucks.

[Lunel]

I think it's Robin, isn't it? Mark Robin. Fenty. Robin.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's a normal ass name. Actually, I got to be honest, I thought it was going to be something crazy. Yeah, that's a pretty normal name, dude.

[Lunel]

Yeah, but she ain't normal. She's everything.

[Thomas Dopa]

She a billionaire, right?

[Lunel]

And. And bad at that. Just.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll be ugly as. Give me a billion dollars.

[Lunel]

I don't care.

[Thomas Dopa]

I look so shiny with all. Dude, if I. Honestly, If I had Mr. T. No, you know what I'd do if I had a billion dollars? Here's what I do. I would buy a gigantic house. And one. One room is a giant bounce house. And I could just jump around and there's velcro walls.

[Lunel]

Oh, no, you can't get off the Velcro.

[Thomas Dopa]

I'll have an assistant there. And he's big enough to go, hey, don't worry, don't worry. Hire the big show to work for me with a billion dollars. And I'm like, yo, put your theme song on every time you pick me up. I don't know. What else would you do? I put a go kart. I'd buy that moat for sure.

[Lunel]

I'd buy the most plane.

[Thomas Dopa]

No. Oh, what? I'd rather drive.

[Lunel]

You want? Well, I mean, of course you'll have a fleet of cars if you have a billion dollars. Yeah, but don't you want a jet?

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay, how about this? If I can do a jet, I get to pick the pilot and know that he has stuff to live for and he has no debts and then alcoholic background.

[Lunel]

What was that? What was that movie Denzel was in. He was that horrible flight.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's what that was.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

That was a heaven that made me

[Co-host/Producer]

really never want to fly again. I already hated flying.

[Lunel]

That was pretty traumatized.

[Co-host/Producer]

Like, I'm all set on these pilots. They're all strange.

[Thomas Dopa]

Sticks on a plane. Did it for me, man. It didn't at all. It was every other movie. It was Found Destination, everyone.

[Lunel]

Did you see Wolf of Wall Street? Yeah, of course. He saw the cocaine movie.

[Thomas Dopa]

Of course.

[Co-host/Producer]

It's a good movie.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's Mars Scorsese movie. Man's a white lead. What's this gonna be about? Never has a white lead. I want to see what this is.

[Lunel]

That was. Wow.

[Thomas Dopa]

It was a good.

[Co-host/Producer]

That's one of my last favorite movies.

[Thomas Dopa]

It was a good one. It was a good one.

[Lunel]

That thing was wild. I was like this the whole time,

[Thomas Dopa]

but also, like, I would do the same if I was in that position. But, yeah, cocaine, and we're gonna make a billion dollars. And I'm gonna make a. A moat around my house and get a go kart. Just like I would say right back to it. Sorry. Back to the crowds. Like, you were talking about you making me crowds. I found this. Armenian crowds just don't like to laugh. Have you. Have you performed in front of Armenians?

[Lunel]

No, not a lot.

[Thomas Dopa]

I perform with a comedian, Jack Jr. He. He's a king of Armenians, and I perform with him sometimes. And I found out. I found out they don't like me at all. Oh, I'll go up there and go, you guys. Jesus Christ. I've never seen so many beards like, you just delivered my Uber Eats dog. Laugh for me, please. I tip to you because I swear to God, they do not like to laugh. And I asked him, like, what's up with. He goes, humor's new to them. And I went, I'm doomed if that's what you just said right now.

[Lunel]

How did you end up in that situation?

[Thomas Dopa]

I keep going and performing with him just to. I did Netflix as a joke with him. All Armenian crowd. And thank God all the executives left because I was up there dying. I looked around. That is laying down on two chairs. This is done. And I got off with. I'm out here. I just walked off like, that was a terrible set. And I just keep going to, like, harden my skin.

[Lunel]

That's right, that's right, that's right.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's the worst feeling. Just.

[Lunel]

No. You know, I used to fuck up a lot. Not. Not my comedy. Just up a lot. And no matter what you do, like, I've been real drunk before on stage, you know, and just fucked up a set like that. And then, like, maybe your friends will escort your drunk ass out. But no matter what you do or how long you take, whenever you come back, they'll be waiting for you. You got to go through that fire there. Yeah. You up? Last time I seen you. Know what I mean? Yeah. You gotta go through it. So, you know, just like you said, you just keep going.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh. Just keep doing it. A group of old Mexican women. I'll never be scared again. A bunch of grandmas hating me. I will never, ever be scared again, dude. Well, Mexican ladies, they don't like weed, but they'll. You could do coke and. And they like, yo, you beat my ass for 80 years. Don't smoke weed. That's like the. The Mexican mindset, right? Like, beat the. Out of me. You're smoking weed.

[Lunel]

No.

[Thomas Dopa]

You're a piece of.

[Co-host/Producer]

Dude, take this mouth.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. To smoke some meth first. That's what it is.

[Co-host/Producer]

I don't know.

[Thomas Dopa]

But I. I mean, as soon as I started talking about anything about any kind of drug, they all just tuned out.

[Lunel]

Well, why are you talking to grandma and them about drugs?

[Thomas Dopa]

Hey, I was so new to this. I'm like, this is the only set I have. This is my. This is my 15 I'm working on. That was like, my seventh show. My seventh time up. I'm like, I don't care what the crowd looks like. I'm doing the same set. Like, I don't have another.

[Co-host/Producer]

He got thrown in the deep water of his first shows. Was like, comedy star laugh factor.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. Yeah. It's like, oh, let's try this. And I'm like, all right. And plus, I don't want to up. I'm do the. I know works. It doesn't work everywhere.

[Lunel]

Wow.

[Thomas Dopa]

It doesn't work.

[Lunel]

You gotta read the room.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, I read them, and I went this one.

[Lunel]

Terrible.

[Thomas Dopa]

I knew what was coming. It's like, I could dodge this punch. I'm not. Yeah, but I'm gonna. I can dodge it.

[Co-host/Producer]

You got, like, 20 minutes now, right?

[Thomas Dopa]

So, yeah, I'm up to, like, my. My 20 minutes.

[Lunel]

Like, where I'm gonna see you at next? Where you gonna. Vegas.

[Thomas Dopa]

We'll be. Yes, I'll be in Vegas. Any. Any. I go to Vegas a lot, so. Josh, like, come perform anytime.

[Lunel]

Yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

I got the Brea Improv in two weeks.

[Co-host/Producer]

He does flappers also.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

And then Covina.

[Lunel]

You know, that's what my. My podcast is.

[Thomas Dopa]

He was telling me about that. I performed there once. It was cool. I like the room.

[Lunel]

I did a once a month last year and it was very successful. But this year we're doing it different. It's like 15 minutes of comedy than I have on a guest. And then we like film in front of, you know, three cameras in front of the flappers audience and take questions from the audience. And my first guest was Kathy Griffin.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's the one I saw.

[Lunel]

Yeah. So then I have next guest. I can't tell you on the air who it's going to be, but I'll tell you when I get off.

[Thomas Dopa]

Nice.

[Lunel]

And then really big people and then I, you know, I'm going to become a big radio star. Get my own show on iHeart or on Sirius XM or Netflix or something like that.

[Co-host/Producer]

Spotify.

[Lunel]

And I'll become a billionaire. And I'll build a moat too.

[Thomas Dopa]

Let's go back. Come on. You can just fall asleep. You're not going anywhere.

[Co-host/Producer]

You're perfect for that. That whole path, everything you just said is like.

[Thomas Dopa]

If you have to speak it out loud though.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Like you just did. It'll happen.

[Lunel]

It will.

[Thomas Dopa]

We're just talking about this too, like as a.

[Co-host/Producer]

As a host. A whole new career path as a host, basically.

[Lunel]

Yeah. But it's. It's what I've been doing all along for years.

[Co-host/Producer]

Like I'm seeing same muscle.

[Lunel]

You need to see it on my. It's just pull it up. Hey, Lunel comedy podcast. And you'll see it and.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh no, he had it. He had it brought up.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

And I know everybody's like, you didn't ask about it. I have to ask. Even though it's. I know you've talked about it before. I have to ask about the Borat and obviously you get some wild roles, I would say. I would say. But that was a genuine reaction.

[Lunel]

Correct.

[Thomas Dopa]

Like when you walked into that room.

[Lunel]

Oh, yes.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay.

[Lunel]

Everything was the. The thing about Borat. I talked about it yesterday. That keeps on get every day, every. At least once a week, somebody still talks to me about Borat. And it's coming up on 20 years, I think.

[Co-host/Producer]

Really.

[Lunel]

So I would hope that. I hope that they do like a. A retrospective or something like that, you know, I think we would know by. By now. So you're probably not going to do it, but it was quite an experience, you know, and it's acting, but that's

[Thomas Dopa]

more like theater, performance, street performance in public because no one else is in on it. Like it's kind of a odd thing. To take in. Right?

[Lunel]

For sure. And I wanted to try to watch it about six months ago. I put it on, I got 10 minutes in, I was like, I can't. And I'm in the movie. And I was like, I just can't watch this. Crazy. Yes. Is that crazy? You know how crazy I movie I love.

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[Thomas Dopa]

The. The only. The first bad mushroom chip I ever had we talked about it was with Borat. I started watching. No, I was having a bad trip and I put on borax. I was in my room tripping and nobody was home and I had my blanket on. And then he got onto the bus with those guys drinking beer and go, those guys are racist. Those guys are weird. You know, on mushrooms you're like hyper aware. Like that guy wants to say, say. And I got to where he put the bag over Pamela or he tried to bag her. And I'm like, that trip is gone. And then I realized like I'm back.

[Lunel]

And then I went outside, I'm back.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah. So that calmed me down.

[Lunel]

That's the last person he was trying to abduct. P Man.

[Thomas Dopa]

Ah, yeah. What a movie.

[Lunel]

I don't know. I do do a lot of wild though.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, yeah, you have a lot of wild roles. I'll say. When you in the in person roles. But you auditioned for that, you got picked like cuz that's kind of like it's a mockumentary. So is their audition separate or is it just on the fly?

[Lunel]

The audition was just like. It was Larry Charles who was the director, who looks like a madman and is one. And then Sasha and. But see, I had not seen Sasha outside of his Ali G. I knew so I didn't know what he looked like as a regular dude. So I didn't know that was him with his accent. Yeah, a little bit. And so I auditioned for them, but it was just like, go in there and they'll tell you to do us. Just make up something that you know. You're at a dinner party and you want to get out real bad. And then I don't know, I got it. Next thing I knew, I was flying to Romania. Now imagine I'm leaving Crenshaw Boulevard to go to the airport, fly to Romania. I'm like, huh?

[Thomas Dopa]

For the scene in the Village that Village is real. Oh yeah. You can tell when it looks at those people's faces. That's their life. Yeah, that's.

[Lunel]

That's.

[Thomas Dopa]

Every time I feel ungrateful, I'm like, I could be living in a India man.

[Lunel]

You could be living in Kazakhstan.

[Thomas Dopa]

I could be living somewhere where sucks worse.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

I can at least get high and watch something hilarious.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Okay. So I have. That's what I was wanting to do. Audition. They go, hey, this same scene in front of real people.

[Lunel]

Sometime, sometime they just pick me.

[Thomas Dopa]

I was just talking about for Bora. It's just what an odd thing concept. So 20 years, huh? Yeah.

[Lunel]

Come on. Damn.

[Thomas Dopa]

Yeah, time flies. Okay, any of residency is every Sunday

[Lunel]

and Monday and Monday at 9:30.

[Co-host/Producer]

So many dates on the website. It's ridiculous on my site.

[Thomas Dopa]

I mean it's.

[Co-host/Producer]

It's a never ending scroll.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

So where can people buy tickets? Because I know the residency is always there. It's a Jimmy Kimmel's comedy club in

[Lunel]

Las Vegas by the big high roller Ferris wheel. And you can go to hey lunel.com which you'll beautiful website.

[Co-host/Producer]

Very well.

[Lunel]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hey lunel.com you can get tickets, you can get merchandise. Have my own fragrance. Have two nice legendary and iconic. And I have T shirts and yeah, nice.

[Co-host/Producer]

Very well on.

[Thomas Dopa]

Awesome. And then for all tickets, do you have any. Anything big coming up that you want to talk about before we get out of here?

[Lunel]

I got a couple of big things coming up, but I can't talk about it.

[Thomas Dopa]

Well, that's always the best because you know, it's huge if you can't even say it yet. Yeah, that's when you know you have something going. That's awesome.

[Lunel]

Yeah. And, but, but right now I'm just excited about my podcast. My comedy podcast, which you must come through sometime. Flappers every first Wednesday of the month. But this next month it'll be on the 8th, not the 1st.

[Thomas Dopa]

So July 8th, July 8th at Flappers in Burbank, guys, where we are September,

[Lunel]

October, November and December.

[Thomas Dopa]

And when did they drop online?

[Lunel]

The. The tickets for Flappers are online now.

[Thomas Dopa]

No, say it drops like that.

[Lunel]

You go like within a week.

[Thomas Dopa]

Within a week after we watch online for everyone that can't make it watch the show.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Lunel]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopa]

Hey Lu Nail.

[Lunel]

Yeah. Hey, Lunel. Comedy podcast.

[Co-host/Producer]

Nice.

[Thomas Dopa]

So this is. You're only one episode deep.

[Lunel]

Yeah. And we already got like 48, 000 views on them.

[Thomas Dopa]

Let's go. All right, well everybody, you want to go watch it with Kathy Griffin. Yeah, I was watching her episode of Seinfeld last night. I watch Seinfeld every night because I. I get high.

[Lunel]

My baby daddy is obsessed with Seinfeld.

[Thomas Dopa]

It's the best show. It's the best show ever.

[Lunel]

Ensemble is just.

[Thomas Dopa]

I watched it every night on the projector in my bed. So I have to move. I just watch it and then I wake up and it's still on. Yeah, Every day of my life.

[Lunel]

I could do that. Well, I love Lucy. I could watch live.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's the most wholesome, favorite show ever.

[Lunel]

But that 30, 50 years later, I'm still cracking the.

[Thomas Dopa]

That's funny, dude. And to think behind the scenes, she's dipping and dodging punches the whole time. Damn. Breaks my heart, man.

[Lunel]

And Ricky was hoeing around.

[Co-host/Producer]

Of course.

[Thomas Dopa]

Of course he was. Look at his foot.

[Co-host/Producer]

Look at him.

[Thomas Dopa]

Look at that guy.

[Co-host/Producer]

Mario Lopez.

[Thomas Dopa]

He's got the Mario Lopez, but like. Oh, right hook too.

[Co-host/Producer]

You know, just like Mario.

[Thomas Dopa]

Just like Mario, actually. Yeah, he's got no ground game like Mario. Cubans don't have the Mexican ground game.

[Co-host/Producer]

Jiu jitsu.

[Lunel]

Oh, and they can follow me on Instagram if any of y' all have Instagram at Lunell. L U E N E L L in the description.

[Thomas Dopa]

Everything's always linked website and her Instagram.

[Lunel]

It's so high tech.

[Thomas Dopa]

Oh, we'll do it. I mean, I'm just hyper. I just copy paste. I'm terrible. He. He does. I'm terrible.

[Lunel]

You always gotta have somebody who can do it.

[Thomas Dopa]

The work you're allowed in my house.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah, that's what I'm here for.

[Thomas Dopa]

You can come in.

[Lunel]

All right.

[Thomas Dopa]

Thank you so much for being here.

[Lunel]

Thanks.

[Thomas Dopa]

Appreciate you. This was fun. Thank you so much, Marty, Lunel and I thank you guys. Have a dope ass day.

[Lunel]

Later. Perfect. Perfect.

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