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Bryan & Christina sat down with comedian Felipe Esparza before the holidays to chat all things food, fun and Atlanta Jazz Clubs!
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Chris
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Felipe Esparza
On this.
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Chris
Episode of the commercial break.
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Felipe Esparza
I was too on that on that corner because they had Chaz Bar, Chaz Bar, Soul food, Restaurant, Atlanta, Punchline, and some Mexican restaurant with a sharpie. And then the daycare.
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Chris
And right across the street they had the strip club Flashers, iconic across the street. Flashers. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
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Christina
That's my opinion.
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Chris
Hey there, cats and kittens. And best to you. Welcome to the episode before the episode that officially starts season number six of the commercial break, here's a history lesson. On March 10, 1870, 1976, Alexander Graham Bell made the very first phone call to his assistant, Tom Watson. And do you want to know what the first thing ever said was?
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Felipe Esparza
Speak louder, you.
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Chris
I can't hear you. And then Watson and Bell went on to figure out how to charge us all a bunch of money to send electrical signals across wires. And when I was born, if you wanted to call a place like England, you'd pick up your physical phone sticking to your kitchen wall, dial 0 and have an actual person help you connect to the phone number across the pond. Then AT&T would charge $26.56aminute to say three words, wait six minutes and hear three words back. And if you were lucky, you'd be able to understand each other. But if it was raining or the sun flares were out or whatever the fuck, it's likely you'd hear some weird echo fuzzy noises, or just generally have a shitty connection. Telephone technology has come a long way. Now I can call Timbuktu and it'll sound like that person sitting right next to me. Why am I giving you this lesson, you ask? Well, here's a TCB history lesson. Early on in the show, I made a decision, for better or for worse, to air everything that came out of the microphones. You see, some podcasters like to cut out the ums and the ahs and the breaths and they even go so far is to fact check and make sure the things that they are saying are actually true. Not here on the commercial break. When I speak, I'm just as dumb as I sound. So when you hear an episode of the commercial break, there's almost zero editing of the actual content. This is a very long precursor to today's episode with the incredibly talented comedian Felipe Esparza. A couple of weeks before the holidays, Chrissy had had to take a day off. So Christina joined me in the studio when I interviewed Felipe. And even though we're using the magic technology of 2024, this episode @ times sounds like we're making the very first phone call in 1876. We didn't realize any of this until long after Felipe had said goodbye. Then I struggled and striped in my own brain. I tossed and turned and lost sleep. Not really over whether or not I should even air this episode. But Felipe was hilarious and the conversation is one of the most wide ranging, weird and interesting we've ever had with a guest. So today, on the very last episode of season number five, I'm making the fearless decision to send out to the world the not so perfect audio of Cristina and I talking to Felipe. I promise the substance is worth it and I'll tell you right now, some of this episode has been edited because parts of the audio were just unlistenable. That's okay, we'll have Felipe back and we'll get it right the second time. Go to Felipe's world.com to check out all things Felipe Esparza. He's a former winner of the Last Comic Standing. He's had roles on the Eric Andre show Superstore and as a popular podcast, what's up Fool? And as you'll learn in the show, he's got a new podcast all about history. And it would be a shame if I didn't mention that. Felipe is on an immense world tour right now. All right, let's do this. We'll take a short break, and when we get back, Christina and I sit down with the incomparable, very lovable Felipe Esparza. And we talk about slaughterhouses. That's right. This episode is not for the squeamish. I'll be back with that interview after this.
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Christina
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Chris
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Felipe Esparza
What's up, fool? How you doing?
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Chris
Yeah, listen, I don't have any complaints. Of course I could complain, but no one's going to listen. So I have 13 to 20. You have, you have children. You have a lot of children, don't you? You have four children?
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Felipe Esparza
I have three. Three of mine and one with my wife, but I'm not the real father.
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Chris
How old are the children?
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Felipe Esparza
They're not children or adults now. I had them when I was in high school.
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Chris
Oh, God bless you. You're out of the.
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Felipe Esparza
I've been out since they've been born. What you call what people say that? Empty nester. I was an empty nester when I was 18, throughout of my life.
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Chris
Oh man, I could claim the same. I'm in the middle of it right now. So are the holidays big for you, Felipe? Do you like. Does everybody get together and.
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Felipe Esparza
And I think we're big. When I was growing up, when I was growing up as a kid, we always spent holidays with our, with our cousins and our aunts and our grandma. Yeah, we have. Most of my father's family, they live in Los Angeles. Like all of them, I think of all his brothers and sisters migrated to Los Angeles at one time in the late 70s, early 70s. And so all the family we knew as my father's family. So we will go over there and they will kill a pig, man. Kill a goat. Literally kill it right in front of us. And in. Like they didn't care about the city code or nothing.
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Chris
No, that's weird, man.
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Felipe Esparza
Like, we would go to a place where they will slaughter animals in Rosemead, California, which is only like 35 minutes. And people just have ranches with, with livestock and we would just go over there and buy goats. I didn't even know because they were gonna baptize my brother when he was three and we didn't know we were a slaugh. I'm still affected by it because that's probably why I'm vegan now. No, we were playing with these three goats. I thought it was a petting zoo because we were kids and we're just like petting them. And next, you know, these two guys grab our playful goats and they slit their throats. Right in front of us. Oh, and they run around spraying blood out of their neck, crying, of course. And oh, my God, we ate them the next day.
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Chris
Yes. So. So, Felipe, you learned this lesson early. My father was in, like, the commodities trading business, so he would, like, buy 100,000 head of cattle, send them somewhere to be slaughtered, package them, sell them. Right? That's what he did. And when.
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Felipe Esparza
Wow, cool jobs.
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Chris
Yeah, really cool job. Killing a bunch.
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Felipe Esparza
He's not there when it happened, though, so.
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Chris
No, but listen, at least there's that. He was there sometimes when it happened. He. We spent three months in Mexico when I was 15 years old. He brought us down to see what he did for a living. And he was there doing business. He took us to a slaughterhouse in Monterey, I think it was. And we saw the cattle alive, and then we saw them chopped up. Like, the whole situation, we saw it from beginning to end. And it changed my perception about food altogether, because it can't. Not when you actually see that happen. You. It's a whole different animal. Pun intended. Like.
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Felipe Esparza
I know.
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Chris
Yeah. It's a weird thing, but I'm sorry.
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Felipe Esparza
They killed the cows. Was that little cow prowler, like, no country for old man, that they slit their throat. They shot him.
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Chris
Yeah, they would shoot it. They. They would. They would zap them into a little. Into a little lane, and then in that lane, there was an automatic, like, shot machine. And the shot. They would give them a shot, it would stun them, and then they would hang them up by their back hoofs. And then.
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Christina
Oh, my God.
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Chris
And I'm not kidding you. I know this is like, Merry Christmas, everybody.
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Christina
Wasn't expecting to hear about all of this today. I'm sorry, guys.
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Chris
A guy. A guy would come and they call it stip to stern, and he would just take a machete and he would just slit it down the middle. And then everything would fall out and on to the next and on to the next.
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Felipe Esparza
The people that are actually doing the slaughtering are not the people that could actually put up a sentence and a paragraph together.
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Christina
You know, My dad's first job was also a slaughterhouse.
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Chris
Really?
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Christina
Yeah. But he calls it the abattoir. Because he's English.
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Chris
Well, yeah, they call it the abattoir.
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Christina
Because he wants in the abattoir. I was like, what's that? He goes a slaughterhouse?
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Chris
The United Healthcare CEO.
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Felipe Esparza
The guy's name, when we went and rose me, his name was Ales.
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Christina
Oh, wow.
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Chris
Maybe that's what he did.
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Felipe Esparza
You know, I asked about the pig because there were no cows where we went, but there was a lot of pigs. And I remember the guy shot the.
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Chris
Pig with a gun.
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Felipe Esparza
Yeah. Right in the forehead. Like he just. He grabbed them and just shot them. And like they put them upside down and then they. They cut it and then a bucket. I remember everything falling down. I was like four or five watching. And then they saved the blood. I remember that I asked my dad, what are they saving? That part. And my dad said that that's the stuff they could sell to a doctor to make medicine, I guess. Insulin.
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Chris
Oh, huh. I didn't know that.
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Felipe Esparza
Yeah, Insulin for diabetes.
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Christina
That's crazy.
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Chris
Yeah. I mean, listen, you know, if you want, you know, you go to McDonald's, you have a hamburger, you go to your family, you have the Christmas ham. That there is a whole situation that went in to that, A through B. And I think when you see it, there's some intell. Like you're imparted with some kind of universal intelligence about how the world really fucking works.
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Christina
A little trauma.
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Chris
Yeah, a little trauma.
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Christina
I think you two need some therapy.
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Chris
I got therapy, but I can't get over that slaughterhouse. I just can't get over the slaughterhouse. Are you vegan now?
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Felipe Esparza
Yeah. People don't believe me because I'm so big and they say, what do you eat? Crops. What do you. Deep fried lettuce.
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Christina
Oh, wow.
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Felipe Esparza
Oh, yeah. Nutter Butters and Oreos are vegan, so you. That must. You must eat that all day.
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Christina
Nutter Butters are vegan.
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Felipe Esparza
Yeah, they're peanut butter.
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Christina
Well, that's great news.
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Chris
I love that. Fantastic. That's one of my favorite. It's a good Nutter Butter. What is your favorite? Nutter Butters are good, man. I gotta tell you.
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Felipe Esparza
Like you said, good Nutter Butters. I just imagine you with a big cup of milk and stuffing them all in there, eating with a spoon.
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Christina
That's so on brand for you.
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Chris
That's right. That is on brand.
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Christina
It really is.
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Chris
Only not milk. Half and half.
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Felipe Esparza
Yeah.
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Chris
Disgusting.
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Felipe Esparza
You get all the cereals, you crush it up or you eat it like a cereal pudding.
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Christina
Yeah. Now we're talking.
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Chris
Felipe has video cameras. He has video.
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Felipe Esparza
That one that will get like. Like he would get like those sweet potatoes or the. I guess they call sweet potatoes, right?
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Chris
Yeah.
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Felipe Esparza
He'll just put a piece of aluminum foil and cut up chunks of brown sugar and put it in the oven and take it out and eat it. He'll add extra syrup and then he'll eat it like that.
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Chris
Never like that one of my favorite things in the world during the holiday season is like the very Caucasian dish of marshmallows on top of yams. Do you know what I'm saying?
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Christina
I know about it. I've never had it so good, man.
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Felipe Esparza
Candied yams. I had that for the first time at my friend's house. And they were. They're Mexican, but they were all born in America, so they got more of the good food. More. More of the American Thanksgiving. He made candied ham and he made candied yams. Yes. And, man, that ham. I know we just talk about the slaughter, but that ham. I don't know how they did it, but every piece tastes like candy.
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Chris
It's crazy. Yes. My dad does this too. It's caramelized. They put like syrup on. They like marinate syrup and water. Sugar water is so delicious. It is so good. And probably just extraordinarily terrible for you, but it is so delicious. And there's something about candied yams or yams with marshmallows on it. Caramelized marshmallows. That is just one of my favorite things. And I only have it during the holiday season. It's not like I go and I make a sweet potato with marshmallows every day.
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Felipe Esparza
I know. You're not. You're not going to find a street vendor selling that.
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Chris
Yes. Now there's an idea. As time as.
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Christina
Honestly.
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Chris
Yeah.
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Christina
Thanksgiving food.
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Felipe Esparza
You know, it's funny you say Monterey. I saw a street vendor in Mexico in Monterey and he had. He was selling baked potatoes like that. Yeah.
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Christina
I love baked potatoes.
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Felipe Esparza
And he will put that. That tres leches, that condensed sweet milk over them.
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Chris
Yes.
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Felipe Esparza
And sprinkle marshmallows and just mix it all up.
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Chris
Oh, that's delicious.
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Christina
That's good stuff.
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Chris
Do you like tres leches? So my wife is Venezuelan. Right. So, you know, Venezuelan there for the first 22 years of her life. So she's really Venezuelan. And one of the things she imparted on me is tres leches and is one of favorite desserts in the world. It's so good. It's hard not to like tres leches. Dense milk and sponge cake. I mean, who. What else is there in life but trace, is that something you eat? Is that, is that something that. The.
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Felipe Esparza
That.
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Chris
That's in Mexican culture also?
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Felipe Esparza
Yes. The condensed milk, the thread leche, the sweet condensed milk, they put that on everything. But I didn't really start liking it more until I went to Hawaii and they put in a snow cones.
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Christina
Oh, I've Never seen that.
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Felipe Esparza
Like pineapple syrup and then coconut syrup. And then they put the white cream over it. Oh, my God. That.
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Christina
That sounds good.
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Chris
Fucking delicious. Wow, they are little. They're really sorcerers over there.
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Christina
Opening my eyes up today. I mean, a slaughterhouse. A snow cone with sweetened condensed milk. It's a big day.
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Chris
You're giving us ideas for lunch this afternoon. I'm going to shave some ice with some tres leches on it. What is in the. In your household? And I know you're vegan, but when you're household, what is like the one dish you guys cook for the holidays, that's that you just look forward to?
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Felipe Esparza
Every year we make tamales. My wife was raised vegan by her. By her family, I think they were.
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Chris
That's very forward.
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Felipe Esparza
I don't know the name of religion. Third Day Adventist, I think.
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Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Felipe Esparza
They grew up on all that horrible vegan food from the 80s. Yeah, horrible, man. Like she, she, she. To buy. She told me this. I think it's called Lorna. And they sell. Oh, my God. They sell vegan franks in a can.
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Christina
In a can.
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Felipe Esparza
In a can. So you open it up and do like four or three vegan francs in there. And then there's another package that has four vegan chicken nuggets. And then you can just break it apart with your hands. And you can make. I guess you could put mayonnaise and make tuna or tuna salad or chicken salad or cut it up. Yeah. You're gonna add a bunch of seasoning to it, though.
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Christina
Yeah, yeah.
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Chris
It's just.
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Christina
I made a chickpea salad the other day, like the fake tuna salad for my sister. She's vegetarian. And I went in with the garlic powder and the onion powder. I was like, I gotta make this taste good or she's gonna kill me.
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Felipe Esparza
You know, we found out that the chickpea can. The juice that's inside the chickpea, if you whip it hard enough, it'll turn into a meringue. And you could use that as a fake meringue for a meringue pie.
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Christina
No way. People use it in cocktails as well. Like on top of a little pisco sour.
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Chris
Wow.
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Christina
Some good stuff.
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Chris
We're learning stuff here in the commercial break. I had no idea. You can take the chickpea juice called aquafaba. Aquafaba sounds fancy.
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Christina
Yeah.
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Chris
If you put your aquafaba. Is it meringue? Is it. You put some sugar in it, it becomes sweet.
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Felipe Esparza
It does, but because sugar, I gotta whip it. I gotta Work.
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Chris
God, Felipe, you. Well, I mean, you're vegan. You're vegan. So you have to have like a bunch of recipes at your disposal. Because it's not like you can just drive through somewhere and grab something. You have to have a bunch of recipes ready to go. I don't know about Lorna Weenies in a can. But the chicken nuggets don't sou too bad. The weenies in a can.
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Felipe Esparza
I know back I remember also when, when I growing up and you know, when you're single, I remember buying hor to canned tamales. Oh, the most grossest thing ever, man. It was like a can hor hormel chili. But they make tamales too. But you gotta. You gotta really know, you gotta really want them. And you just open the can and there's three or four tamale sticks wrapped in a wax paper. And you gotta microwave it. Y bro. Yes. It's like one. It comes out, it looks like a real fat mozzarella stick, but it has corn, like a tamale and a sliver of meat inside of it.
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Chris
No, just like one little tiny ribbon of meat.
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Felipe Esparza
Yeah, one line.
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Chris
You know, this reminds me of something. So one of the things that I used to eat when I was single was taquitos by El Paso. I think they like frozen taquitos, right? Corn and flour. Now listen, shredded beef, chicken, taquitos, I used to go in on these things, microwave them, put some cheese on them, little by the hot sauce.
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Felipe Esparza
Did you buy the half gallon guacamole to go with it?
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Chris
Listen, I'm not ashamed to say that pre made guacamole, like made the year before is that I have had in my life. I don't know what they put in it, but okay. So I started realizing something during the pandemic. If you go to Publix and you buy those flour taquitos and then you go to Walmart and you buy the flour taquitos, the difference in quality is incredibly crazy.
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Christina
Really?
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Chris
They are terrible always, right? I mean, they're terrible for you, but they taste good. When you buy them from Publix, when you buy them from Walmart, something's different.
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Christina
Such as like an emotional bias you have.
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Chris
I don't think it's an emotional bias. I have this theory that the exact same box, let's say that you're on a big, you know, El Paso's in this, the El Paso factory, and they're making these. And some get rejected because they look different, they have different quality meat. There's bones in One of them, I don't know what happens. But then they send those to Walmart because the difference in price is like $3 a box. And I'm like, wait, how does Publix get away with. I know Publix is like, you know, the upper. Upper crust of society grocery stores, but how did they get away with selling it for $7.99 when you can buy it for 4.99 at Walmart? I thought I was being.
- [26:31]
Christina
Yeah.
- [26:31]
Chris
And what I realized is, no, fuck that. They're selling the rejects to Walmart because.
- [26:36]
Christina
That'S how they do Taquito rejects.
- [26:39]
Felipe Esparza
Oh, man.
- [26:40]
Chris
Big Taquito is after us. Big Taquito is fucking us ever.
- [26:45]
Felipe Esparza
One time I was like, I was really high and I was reading those tacos, the ones you're talking about, the cheaper ones, with a little cheap gallon of guacamole and open one up.
- [26:57]
Chris
Don't do that.
- [26:57]
Christina
Danger zone.
- [26:58]
Felipe Esparza
Yes. I open one up to see what the meat looked like. And it was just a black rice round meat patty.
- [27:04]
Chris
Yes.
- [27:05]
Christina
Oh, that's giving.
- [27:05]
Felipe Esparza
Like, they rolled it in the taco. And I was like, oh, I felt like that kid from Christmas Story when he found out that the cold ring was just a commercial. Yes. Yeah.
- [27:20]
Christina
I don't know what possessed you to do that.
- [27:25]
Felipe Esparza
Like, bologna patty black. And that was the beast. And it's just the taco, I guess you're not supposed to open them, I guess, but I thought it wouldn't be like shredded meat or something. But no, it was just a black.
- [27:36]
Chris
Patty, tomatoes, and spices. He had his drink your Ovaltine moment when he opened up.
- [27:43]
Felipe Esparza
Eat real tacos.
- [27:48]
Chris
So, Felipe, you're on. You're. You're on a never ending tour. I saw on your website you've got dates well into 2025. Have you actually. Are you in the middle of the tour right now or.
- [28:00]
Felipe Esparza
Yes, I'm in the middle of the tour right now. I just got back. Back last. This week, last week from Dublin and England and Amsterdam. I had a show in Dublin and it was canceled. So I was in Dublin already. So I stood there for three days and I went to England and I did my big show. And then the next day, I did a regular show with British comics.
- [28:24]
Christina
Oh, fun.
- [28:25]
Chris
So, okay, so this interesting. So tell me about Dublin. What did you think about Dublin? Dublin?
- [28:29]
Felipe Esparza
Oh, man, it was a real. I learned a lot. I learned a lot of history about Dublin, and I found out that they had the revolution in 1916 against the British, and then they had their own civil war against each other in 1921 through 1922. And I went to the prison where they. Where they actually killed most of the war prisoners of war. Kellingham Prison.
- [28:53]
Chris
Yeah.
- [28:56]
Felipe Esparza
Kilim Prison. And I went on a boat ride. I went to a Guinness. Guinness. Guinness factory.
- [29:02]
Christina
Nice.
- [29:03]
Chris
That's what I was gonna ask you. Yeah.
- [29:04]
Felipe Esparza
And I went there with my. My wife, her brother, his three daughters, my friend and my. My stepson. And they made me a big non alcoholic Guinness. And the foam had my face on it.
- [29:15]
Chris
Oh, yeah. Oh, they imprinted your face on it with like the foam printer. They.
- [29:19]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah, they take a picture of you when you order it and then they. When you go over there, you can watch your. Your beard being formed to your face.
- [29:26]
Chris
It's incredible.
- [29:27]
Felipe Esparza
I can send you a video of it later if you want.
- [29:29]
Chris
Yeah, no, please do. I'll text you. I'll get. I didn't go to the Guinness factory when I went to Dublin. We went during one of the. You'd think it snows in Dublin, right? That's the assumption. I think that's the assumption I made when we went to Dublin. We learned quickly that snow doesn't happen there very often. But it snowed almost a foot and a half the night we arrived. The entire town shut down. So we weren't able to go to the Guinness factory. But Dublin was lovely. I mean, it was lovely. The people treated us lovely. Everyone was stuck, you know, trucks couldn't get there. We didn't have like food or water at the hotel was scarce and people were. Everyone was like coming together, together to make it a thing. But that Guinness factory is a town.
- [30:06]
Felipe Esparza
It looks like a town like Hershey, Pennsylvania Big.
- [30:10]
Chris
Yes, exactly. You're right about that. Big walls and then inside of the. I think that people live there. I think some people live inside of the Guinness factory or like the management or something like that. Why did the. Why did the show get canceled?
- [30:23]
Felipe Esparza
Oh, we didn't sell enough tickets.
- [30:25]
Chris
Oh, that's a reason. Yeah, we know about that. That's a reason. Yeah. But then you did a big show in England.
- [30:31]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah, I did a bigger show in England. Lester Theater.
- [30:35]
Chris
Okay.
- [30:36]
Felipe Esparza
It was like 200 people. And then the next day I did a small show at a regular comedy club.
- [30:43]
Chris
Like at a. Just like a regular. When you go over to Europe, is this your first time taking a leg in Europe or have you done this before?
- [30:52]
Felipe Esparza
Actually, my first time doing a leg in Europe. I've been there before, but just to do a one nighter in Rotterdam. Another.
- [31:00]
Chris
Sure, yeah.
- [31:01]
Felipe Esparza
But the crowd at my show were all like, mostly like European Latinos.
- [31:10]
Chris
Yeah.
- [31:11]
Felipe Esparza
Or expats that left Mexico, they left Venezuela to live in England.
- [31:16]
Chris
Sure.
- [31:17]
Felipe Esparza
But there were a lot of people from Los Angeles or people who moved from Los Angeles to live in England. They all came to my show.
- [31:24]
Chris
Yeah, that's really.
- [31:26]
Felipe Esparza
All British people. People like. All British people. I had to change words around for.
- [31:32]
Chris
That show because they weren't going to understand.
- [31:36]
Felipe Esparza
No, in America we have child support, and I would joke about child support, but in England it's called child maintenance.
- [31:43]
Chris
Oh, child maintenance. That sounds like a more appropriate word because that's what you do with children. You maintain them. There's no supporting them. You just maintain them. Make sure that they stay alive when. But that's. That's got to be exciting to you, that you now can go over there and do a legacy over in. In Europe. That's a. That must be an exciting part of the career when you can go over there and sustain a couple shows and have some. Have some people come out. And there are quite a few expats in Venezuelan, you know, in Spain and England and. And. And stuff like that. They moved. They're moving out of the hole somewhere. Yeah.
- [32:15]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah, man. They were. Some of them were from actually East Los Angeles. I met a Colombian guy in Dublin, actually. No, Dublin. No. I met a Colombian guy at my. He was there by himself and he had a lot of weed he was smoking right outside the theater. He didn't care. I talked to him. How did you make it out here? He goes, my wife, she's in the. She's in the British Navy. And I get over here on her dime.
- [32:44]
Chris
Wow.
- [32:45]
Christina
Nice.
- [32:46]
Felipe Esparza
Full benefits. He's probably going to be a British citizen already. And his wife. Wife, she's a navy officer somewhere. And he's enjoying standup comedy.
- [32:57]
Chris
He's enjoying standup comedy. Smoking weed outside.
- [33:00]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah.
- [33:00]
Chris
His wife must. His wife. His wife must be probably. They don't give a. Over there, actually.
- [33:04]
Christina
He's living the life.
- [33:05]
Chris
Yeah. A lot of people smoke weed over there. It doesn't seem to be like that big of an issue to. To me, actually. When I went over there, I noticed a lot of. A lot.
- [33:12]
Christina
Never really thought about it.
- [33:13]
Chris
The smell of weed was in the air. Kind of like how. Atlanta. Yeah. Have you been to Atlanta? Bunch, I'm sure. Right.
- [33:19]
Felipe Esparza
You know, when you said people in Dublin were nice. They are very nice. When we're on the train and there was a. There was a sign on a train, and instead I'll report anybody that's being rude and not friendly.
- [33:34]
Chris
Yes, that's cute.
- [33:35]
Felipe Esparza
So somebody doesn't say hello, you got to report them. You know what? If. Anybody listening? If you go to Dubai, Portland, Ireland, you're not allowed inside pubs wearing tracksuits. Oh, I was wearing a full Adidas tracksuit with Adidas shoes. And I. And I try to get in. They stopped me at the door, mate. They said, no tracksuits. And I said, wait a minute. Okay, I can see it. A lot of soccer games, people wear tracksuits, suits with colors of their teams, you know, or they might be a drug dealer or anybody who looks. You watch a European movie, all the drug dealers wear tracksuits.
- [34:21]
Christina
Yeah, that's true.
- [34:22]
Chris
That's true.
- [34:22]
Felipe Esparza
So I have to stand outside at the. We went to the famous bar, the Temple Bar.
- [34:28]
Chris
Oh, yeah, the Temple Bar, sure. Yeah, yeah. And so they didn't let you into the tracksuit. But I do think you're right about this. I think that they have notoriously had issues when teams clash. Soccer teams clash. You know, that's the thing they get all upset about over there when the team loses or wins and they've had riots and people have died, and there's been whole wars fought over local soccer teams.
- [34:48]
Felipe Esparza
I went to a soccer game in England. I was Crystal palace versus Newcastle.
- [34:54]
Christina
Oh, really fun.
- [34:56]
Felipe Esparza
I was in South London. That's where the. The stadium is. I was sitting with Crystal Palace. I think that's where they shoot that. That show, Ted Lasso.
- [35:05]
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, I think they do. I think you're right about that.
- [35:08]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah. And, man, it was different from watching an NFL or a baseball game. It was fast. And you know what? They don't. They don't allow. They don't allow you to take your beer into the stands.
- [35:22]
Chris
Oh, is that because you'll throw it?
- [35:25]
Felipe Esparza
People go crazy. People are crazy sober already. So during halftime, they. Everybody goes to the beer. They start chugging beers, man. Man. And no, they don't sell, like, nachos, man. They sell mince pie.
- [35:42]
Christina
Oh, I love a mince pie.
- [35:45]
Chris
She's from Scott.
- [35:45]
Felipe Esparza
She's from Scotland pie. And I tore it up. It was delicious.
- [35:51]
Chris
Was it really good?
- [35:52]
Felipe Esparza
It was, man. The. My, my. It was like dark, black meat. And they give you this sauce. I think that's the meat they put in the taquitos over here.
- [36:03]
Christina
They have really good vegan options in the uk.
- [36:06]
Felipe Esparza
Yes, a lot of vegan options.
- [36:07]
Christina
Such good vegan options.
- [36:09]
Felipe Esparza
I went to a steakhouse in Dublin, and they had, like, ch. Bone steaks. Like those big chuck steak. They have pieces of the cow outside.
- [36:19]
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [36:20]
Felipe Esparza
And they actually had a vegan steak. They had a, a steak made out of a mushroom, a line main mushroom.
- [36:28]
Chris
Oh nice.
- [36:29]
Felipe Esparza
So it was like red, this fat and they made it look like. My wife said it tastes like steak because she never had steak before so she has nothing to compare it with. So I guess it tastes like steak if you forgot what taste what steak tastes like.
- [36:46]
Chris
Yeah, yeah. But lion's mane mushroom, some of those, some of those mushrooms you can, they do have like a steaky.
- [36:54]
Christina
Umami.
- [36:55]
Chris
Some might say umami. That's right. They've got the special umami game when you went to that soccer game. Like it's a different atmosphere over there.
- [37:03]
Felipe Esparza
Like rowdy man. I didn't see any women besides my wife and my sister in law.
- [37:09]
Chris
It's dangerous. They get crazy over there. It's.
- [37:11]
Felipe Esparza
It was crazy man, that like I don't know the parking, like I don't know the, the parking situation man, over there. But it seemed like everybody took a bus and they were screaming in the bus and they were singing their, their anthem. Oh, Crystal Palace.
- [37:35]
Chris
That's the one thing that I love about. I mean there's a lot of things I love about Europe, but one of the things I love about Europe and I think they've gotten so right and I know that they have history on their side, but they don't rely on a vehicle for everything. You can literally get a bus to anywhere. The villages are small, they're walkable and, and if the bus says it's going to be there at 8:01 and 30 fucking seconds, it will. 801 and 30 fucking seconds here in Atlanta. The martyr says it's going to be there at 8:01. You don't know if it's a.m. or p.m. you have no clue what time it's going to be there. And that's just. We just don't have great transportation here.
- [38:11]
Felipe Esparza
I know man. Would it hurt the bus companies anywhere in America to put a leave of sinuses run a bus? Bottom doesn't run on Sunday. Just tell us.
- [38:22]
Christina
Yeah, just let us know exactly. That's all we're asking. A little heads up.
- [38:26]
Chris
You're so right about this. Yeah, no, it's. It's big bus. Big bus and big taquitos. They're after us.
- [38:34]
Felipe Esparza
In Atlanta, I went to a restaurant called Blacksican.
- [38:39]
Chris
Blacksican?
- [38:40]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah, it's. It's a black Mexican restaurant. It's like Mexican soul food. Food was it good?
- [38:47]
Chris
Was it good?
- [38:47]
Felipe Esparza
It was good.
- [38:48]
Chris
Oh, wow. Was it down?
- [38:50]
Christina
Catch me there next weekend.
- [38:51]
Felipe Esparza
And they had like, I think all the other regular beef, like the barbecue beef, it was made into a quesadilla. Like you could have like, like, I don't know, black eyed peas.
- [39:03]
Chris
Wow.
- [39:04]
Christina
That's my kind of food.
- [39:06]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah. And blacks again. He used to have a. He used to have a four trucks and a restaurant, but now he had a restaurant and maybe two trucks, folks.
- [39:14]
Chris
Oh, this does sound like something that happens in Atlanta. Blacks again, because we're so multicultural in this city and I see how that's a thing. There's a lot of Mexican folks that live here, people who lived in Mexico or from that descent and there. And we have a lot of black folks. That's why I love Atlanta. We're such a great hodgepodge of human beings.
- [39:33]
Felipe Esparza
I know, man.
- [39:34]
Chris
That happens in Atlanta.
- [39:34]
Felipe Esparza
I eat a lot of vegan food over there at overpriced slowly vegan cafe.
- [39:40]
Christina
Slutty vegan.
- [39:41]
Chris
Yeah.
- [39:42]
Felipe Esparza
Our essays are for dollar signs.
- [39:44]
Christina
Yeah. I mean, it's good, but it's.
- [39:49]
Chris
But it's very expensive. Yeah. You know, that's. There's also the Sunflower Cafe, I think is another one.
- [39:55]
Felipe Esparza
I love that place. I went to that place. It's by, by the Yodelan Punchline, right?
- [40:01]
Chris
That's right. Yep. It's down there in, In Buckhead, I think.
- [40:04]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah. Buckhead.
- [40:05]
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. It's great. How often do you come to Atlanta?
- [40:09]
Felipe Esparza
I used to go there every year. To Atlanta Punchline. That the original one. But now they moved to Buckhead at that diner.
- [40:16]
Chris
Oh, yeah.
- [40:17]
Felipe Esparza
When it was at the original one. OMG, right next door they had a 24 hour daycare. Yeah, man. So you could be at the club, man, and then drop out your, your, your, your, your chick's baby at that place and then go have no business.
- [40:34]
Christina
That's so Atlanta.
- [40:37]
Chris
I love that for us, I want.
- [40:38]
Felipe Esparza
To put out on that corner because they had jazz bar. Jazz bar, soul food restaurant Atlanta Punchline and some Mexican restaurant with a sharpie and then the daycare.
- [40:52]
Chris
And right across the street they had the strip club Flashers, iconic across the street. Flashers. You know, Felipe, when I was a young guy, that Punchline Court corner was the place to go if you had drugs or you wanted them. That was one of the two reasons you would go to that corner. Let's be honest about it. A jazz bar in Atlanta does not survive without a little cocaine pushing it along. And those jazz bars were the place you didn't even have to know anybody. You just walked in and you knew you could see the guy at the corner of the bar. You knew what he was doing. But all of a sudden you're into jazz. If you do a little toot, you're into jazz. All of a sudden I'm a jazz musician. I'm a jazz band.
- [41:28]
Felipe Esparza
I only went there for the toots.
- [41:33]
Chris
I ain't talking about the trumpet. I was, I was there having some fun. It was that little corner there, right there was rowdy punchline. Jazz bar. I forgot what that jazz bar. New Orleans jazz bar or something like that. But it was. That was a. That was a quite the scene. You wouldn't.
- [41:48]
Felipe Esparza
Oh, man. And I went to. I did a show there with. For American Insurance. I'm pretty sure it's big. American Family Insurance Insurance. And I did a show in Atlanta because American Family Insurance, they like to put up a big stand up show every year and they put all the stand up in their website. So when people go to the insurance company or they're filling out forms, they could watch Bill Bellamy do stand up. Right? So we went there and I didn't know that Atlanta was a lot of gay people. People.
- [42:23]
Chris
Huge. Huge.
- [42:25]
Felipe Esparza
Because we went. Because as soon as we got there at the hotel room, it was nothing but man, like I tripped over a dick. But there was no, there was no, there was no women. But we got invited to an after hour at this club, bro, that was the most expensive club ever, man. It was called the Post or the Vote or the. Or the. Or the. Or the compound. I don't know what. The cow compound.
- [42:52]
Chris
Yes, yes.
- [42:52]
Felipe Esparza
It's in an old vacant car lot. They used to be a car lot. $1,500.
- [42:59]
Chris
$1,500 for a bottle service? Oh, you got bottle service.
- [43:05]
Felipe Esparza
I didn't get it. Tony Rock got it. But there was a big line to get in and everybody that was order. They were. Order. They were making you get bottle service when you came in. And I saw Tony Rock walking with two bottles because he wasn't sharing. And I.
- [43:18]
Christina
And then like neither at that price.
- [43:20]
Felipe Esparza
It was a big line for vip, which is real long. And then the general admission was just as long. But if you wanted to buy of service right away, they just let you ride in.
- [43:29]
Chris
That's it.
- [43:29]
Felipe Esparza
And I saw a police officer. He let the guy, the Atlanta, the Atlanta police officer, he was the size of a regular linebacker in the NFL and he was fighting. He got into a argument with another person that was like a Regular size defenseman from NFL. And they were both yelling. And, man, that cop, he took out that extended.
- [43:54]
Chris
Oh, yeah, the baton.
- [43:55]
Felipe Esparza
The extended metal baton. And I saw him. I saw him from the. From the hotel van we're about to park, and I saw him take it out and started beating that guy in the right places, you know, like a real cop. If he wants to really beat you up, he'll hit you on the elbows, the wrist, fingers, kneecaps, and the ankles. And that way nobody will see it, you know, that was just a regular beating. Like, I'm gonna let you know, I'll let you off easy on this one, because he wants to murder you. He'll hit you the face, the eyeballs. So this guy got hit in the elbows, both elbows, so he couldn't. He couldn't swing no more. And then he took one to the. He took one to the kneecap, and he got down and he took one to the shoulder. And then he didn't arrest him.
- [44:42]
Chris
No.
- [44:43]
Christina
Honestly, it's like you've lived here.
- [44:45]
Chris
Yeah, it's like. It's like, you know, you've had all.
- [44:47]
Christina
Of the Atlanta experiences.
- [44:49]
Chris
Yeah. APD Is not to be trifled with.
- [44:54]
Felipe Esparza
Mess around, man. Like, when they say, like, it's a. The good old boys. It's a good old boys.
- [44:59]
Chris
It's the good old boys. And. And. And in Atlanta, the police off. I mean, listen, the police officers got hard work to do, Right? I. I agree with that. But they ain't around. You don't.
- [45:10]
Felipe Esparza
They ain't around, man.
- [45:11]
Chris
You don't play games with the APD.
- [45:13]
Felipe Esparza
Atlanta pd Not just like lapd where some guy woke up and saw chips or TJ Hooker wanted to be a cop. Cop. Atlanta PD is someone who's already mad because he didn't make it to the NFL.
- [45:26]
Chris
Yes, y. Right about that. Yeah.
- [45:28]
Felipe Esparza
And he's too smart to be a regular bouncer somewhere.
- [45:32]
Christina
Yes. But too dumb to be anything else besides a cop.
- [45:37]
Chris
He played. He was a star linebacker in high school, but he just couldn't make it past college. But, you know, and he put. So he's putting his big prowess to. To work and, you know, compound, which you don't know because you're a little too young for that. But compound was a huge. And he's so right about this. It was really well known that mainly tourists and people who had just had a lot of expendable money, mainly, you know, rich old white guys would go in there and they would force you if you wanted to get in the door you're going to have to pay not just the COVID charge of 50 or 75 bucks, but you're going to have to buy a bottle. That's the way you get in the door. And then once you got into compound, if you knew somebody, somebody at a table, once you got into compound, half the time. Time the place was half empty. And they kept it that way. They kept people outside to make it look like there was a bunch of people waiting to get in. And they would just sell you thousand dollar bottles. It was insane.
- [46:30]
Christina
How strange.
- [46:30]
Chris
But, you know, that's the club business in general. I think a lot of times that's the way it works. You got to make your money somehow. Right.
- [46:36]
Felipe Esparza
So, yeah, you got to be a ludicrous being there.
- [46:38]
Chris
Yeah, yeah, that's true. I know. I went there twice, I think. Once for a bachelor party. I was not paying, but somebody else paid and it was a lot of money. And then the second time, we actually had an office across the street and the people who. So like the head bartender, he gave us a pass that we could go in and whatever. But I only went once. Even though I could get in, I only went once because I only found it interesting once. All right. Felipe is on tour from now. When are you. How many dates are you doing on your new tour?
- [47:04]
Felipe Esparza
Like 50. We're gone every. Every week.
- [47:08]
Chris
You like to travel?
- [47:10]
Felipe Esparza
I love to travel, man. I come a family of seven kids. I couldn't get away to get away from them. Like whenever, whenever, like whenever. My family will go on a trip and they will say, who wants to stay? I look at the hands. Okay, I'll stay alone. I'll stay home alone.
- [47:30]
Christina
Yeah. You're like perfect. My plot.
- [47:32]
Chris
I grew up in a big family too, and I. I feel that. I feel. I think the people who grow up in big families are the people who end up needing a lot of alone time because you just grew up in all that chaos. It's like, for five seconds, can I get some peace and quiet?
- [47:45]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah, yeah, man. And I sit alone on the couch.
- [47:49]
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
- [47:50]
Christina
Nothing like it.
- [47:51]
Chris
My dad used to say, sit and ponder your navel. That's what I'd like to do.
- [47:55]
Felipe Esparza
Yeah. That's why I do a bit about how I said home alone only works with a real rich white family. That movie. Because if you're rich, you're never alone.
- [48:05]
Chris
Yeah.
- [48:06]
Felipe Esparza
Because even. Even if you're left alone, you're gonna. Grandma will be sleeping somewhere and you gotta take care of her now. And will be you trying to kill.
- [48:16]
Christina
Grandma, that's the truth.
- [48:19]
Chris
Felipe is on tour. You can buy tickets now at Ticketmaster or the website.
- [48:23]
Felipe Esparza
What's the website address, felipe?world.com.
- [48:26]
Chris
Okay. And we'll put that link right in the show notes below. We'll also put a link to Ticketmaster to buy those tickets directly. Lots of cities probably coming to one near you. When you come to Atlanta, we would love to see you. Felipe will come and say hello. Send us the video with the foam.
- [48:39]
Felipe Esparza
I'd love to see to you.
- [48:42]
Chris
Okay, I'll. I'll. I'll send you an email and you can respond to it. Felipe, such a pleasure. Oh, also, bad decisions on Netflix. If you want to go see some of this work. It's a great special. I watched it last night. Congratulations on all the sex success, Felipe. And we. Please come back and visit us. We'd love that.
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Felipe Esparza
Thanks for having me, man. I'll take you to Blackin.
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Chris
Yes. If you come to Atlanta, I'll take you to Black.
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Felipe Esparza
Thank you, man, this was fun.
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Chris
Yeah. Blackin and compound. It's a night.
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Felipe Esparza
Call it massacre and massacre animals and then the compound belt.
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Chris
Yes. Thank you, Felipe. We appreciate it. Happy holidays, brother.
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Felipe Esparza
Happy holiday. Happy Kwanzaa.
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Chris
Yeah. Merry Christmas.
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Felipe Esparza
Thank you. That was fun.
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Christina
I have a wild idea. Go to our Instagram and follow us at the commercial break and then go to our TikTok and follow us there@tcb podcast and then go to our YouTube YouTube.com the commercial break and follow us there and then text us at 212-4333, TCB and tell us that you followed us on all of those other places and then go to our website tcb podcast.com and browse, I guess. Well, those are all the ideas I have for today, so see you tomorrow. Bye.
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Chris
Wow. What's up?
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Christina
I just bought and financed a car through Carvana and in minutes, you, the.
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D
Person who agonized four weeks over whether.
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Chris
To paint your walls eggshell or off.
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Christina
White, bought and financed a car in minutes. They made it easy, transparent terms, customizable, down and monthly. Didn't even have to do any paperwork.
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Felipe Esparza
Wow.
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Chris
Mm.
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Christina
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Chris
And if you made it this far, I am super proud of you. Super proud of you. No fault of Felipe's. That audio was at times pretty rocky and I swear to God we pay for like the best interview interface software supposedly ever in the world and it just fails us miserably sometimes. But that's okay. Technology has never been our strong suit here at the commercial break anyway. All right, all of Felipe's shit is available@felipeworld.com Tickets to his tour, links to his specials, his social media, his podcast, and his ever growing library of YouTube videos. The guy is prolific and he's fucking hilarious. He is a favorite here at this household and I think once you get turned on to him, you'll figure out why. Also, I am going to post on social media that video of his face actually being put on a pint of Guinness. You won't believe it. The things they're doing with technology these days. Yet I can't make a phone call to Felipe without hearing myself in triplicate. You think I'm fussy about this situation? You think? Anywho, I want to thank very much Christina for joining me in studio to tackle this one with Felipe, Chrissy and I. With Christina back in studio tomorrow, you will hear from us as we start season number six, the fifth year of the commercial break. 256,000 hours of this dumb show with zero end in sight. And while we're talking about this dumb show, do us a couple of favors. First, follow us on Apple Podcasts or you can listen for free on on the Odyssey app. That's our home network. And if you don't have the Odyssey app, you should get it because it's really cool. Give us a couple stars and a review if you're so inclined. But more importantly, just download the show when a new episode comes out. Also, please do us a favor. Use our sponsors special URLs and codes when I give them to you on the commercials. That lets the sponsors know we're doing our job. They put a little jingle jingle in our pocket. We keep making episodes. You subscribe smile. That's how it goes at the commercial break on the ever growing Instagram TCB podcast on TikTok. And now every single episode is available on YouTube.com the commercial break. That's right. You have to check out the new studio. Chrissy and I in 4K, Christina in 2K because I can't afford to give her a good camera and the blue cam which will occasionally show blue barking eyes. Also, if you if you don't mind, call us, text us, send us a message and we promise to respond. 212-433-3822 212-4333 tcb plus get your free tcb schwag. We won't ask for anything in return. Just go to tcbpodcast.com hit the contact us button, drop down menu. I want my free sticker. Give us your physical address and we promise we'll send it to you before season season 10 starts. Also, you can find all the audio and the video right there on the website. So if you're just a browser kind of person, if you like to browse, if you don't want to go to any of the applications, you just want to browse Safari, Chrome, Yahoo. If you're nasty, then go to tcbpodcast.com no muss, no fuss, no worries, no furries. We'll take care of you there also. All right, you'll hear from us Tomorrow on the 675th episode of the commercial break for the start of season number six. Until then, I must tell you that I love you. I'll say best to you and I will say I do say and I must say goodbye this cold and flu season, Instacart is here to help deliver all your sick day essentials. Whether you're in prevention mode and need vitamins, hand sanitizer and that lemon tea your Nana swears by, or you're in healing mode and need medicine, soup and a lot more tissues. Simply download the Instacart app to get sick day supplies that reinvigorate or relieve. Delivered in as fast as 30 minutes. Plus enjoy. Zero delivery fees on your first three orders. Excludes restaurant orders, service fees and terms apply.
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Chris
Sack and keep on making.