Ep 276: Fluffy w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand

Summary

We Might Be Drunk – Ep 276: Fluffy w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand (March 23, 2026)

Guests: Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, Joe Coy
Theme: Behind the Scenes with Fluffy – Comedy Stadiums, Stand-Up Craft, and Comedian Camaraderie

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Episode Overview

This episode features Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, joined by host comedians Mark Normand and (guest co-host) Joe Coy, in a wide-ranging, lively chat about stand-up comedy at the highest levels. Gabriel shares behind-the-scenes stories from playing sold-out stadiums like Dodger Stadium, his approach to crafting new material, what drives him at this stage of his career, and the community of comedians navigating both huge successes and the realities of comedy life. The trio joke and riff with the irreverent, loose energy characteristic of the podcast, balancing personal revelations, showbiz insight, and quick-moving banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Timestamps

1. Fluffy’s Love for Chihuahuas and Private Life

[00:06–01:28]

• Gabriel brings his chihuahua Roka, sparking early jokes.
• On keeping relationships private:

  "I've never put posted photos of who I'm dating. I always kept it really private because...if I put it out there, then...People are gonna start reaching out."
  — Gabriel Iglesias [01:00]

• Mark and Joe riff about public relationships and social media overcompensation.

Memorable Quote:

"The more you post, the worse the relationship is...a week later they're done."
— Mark Normand [01:55]

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2. Relationships, Gifts, and Marriage Stats

[02:11–03:09]

• Discussion of overcompensating with gifts ("My time is the biggest gift here" — Gabriel [02:24]).
• Mark brings up the "Oscar marriage curse":

  "Best actress winners are 63% more likely to have their marriage end within four years."
  — Mark Normand [03:36]

• Playful speculation about why fame disrupts relationships.

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3. Early Comedy Club Gigs and Odd Venues

[03:36–05:11]

• Mark shares tales from under-attended and theme shows, including “service dog graduation night”:

  "I'd be like, bombing, you know, so I'd be like...I was at the grocery store the other day...and I was like, God damn it. You can't tell the dog to shut the fuck up."
  — Mark Normand [04:10]

• Joe shares that breast cancer survivor crowds, and benefit shows for people with tough experiences, are the best audiences:

  "People who have been through real shit, no one's gonna...Karen comment card you."
  — Joe Coy [04:51]

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4. Performing at Dodger Stadium and Stadium Shows

[06:57–10:42]

• Gabriel recounts being the first comic to headline and sell out Dodger Stadium—twice.

  "I was selling more tickets than the Dodgers at the time...I was the catalyst for that."
  — Gabriel Iglesias [07:08]

• Mark marvels at performing for tens of thousands, and Gabriel explains the technical aspects (delayed towers make it feel like a club—[08:39]).

• Swag and perks from performing at Dodger Stadium—for Fluffy, nothing is better than the experience itself.

Memorable Moment:

"It'll be on my tombstone...born this day, died this day. And on the bottom, Dodger Stadium."
— Gabriel Iglesias [10:31]

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5. Comedy Club Buying and Comedy Legacy

[13:34–16:47]

• After stadium peak, Gabriel says he considered retiring but instead looked into new goals—like buying The Ice House comedy club (deal fell through after Lakers sold for $9 billion).
• On mentoring comics and staying relevant:

  "Man, how much longer can I do this at this level without falling off?"
  — Gabriel Iglesias [17:43]

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6. Comedian Survival, Relevance, and Special Saturation

[18:16–20:16]

• On comedy’s changing audience and legacy, referencing Seinfeld:

  "He goes, thank God for that show [Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee] or I wouldn't be relevant."
  — Mark Normand [19:08]

• Discussion on how the abundance of specials on streaming and YouTube has changed the industry.

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7. International Touring and Culture Shocks

[20:40–22:23]

• Gabriel on performing in the Middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia), Japan (culture shock: “silence is literally golden in Japan” [21:28]), and traveling worldwide.
• The challenge and reward of playing diverse crowds.

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8. Fluffy’s VW Bus Collection

[31:13–34:08]

• Gabriel owns 30 pristine Volkswagen buses—sparked by nostalgia for his first car and encouraged by Jay Leno.
• His accountant:

  "She said Volkswagens and Rolexes, you can buy as many cuz they're only going to go up."
  — Gabriel Iglesias [34:20]

• Mark jokes about the investment as “Jewish triggering” [34:39].

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9. Crafting and Testing New Material (Comedy Process)

[41:03–46:07]

• Gabriel’s material: never written out, always improvised and honed by listening to audio from every show:

  "I've never written anything out. I cannot just sit...it's too structured for me. ...I hate work. I want to have fun. I'd rather go out on stage and just start venting and telling stories and whatever gets the laugh."
  — Gabriel Iglesias [43:09]

• On trimming the fat and “getting tight” by working clubs, not arenas.
• Discussion about new comics relying on phones on stage.

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10. Tour Life: Buses, Condos and Bathrooms

[64:52–73:10]

• Gabriel prefers his custom tour bus (complete with full-size bathroom and a urinal, now becoming a trend), as opposed to grimy comedy condos.

  "I have a massive bathroom on my bus. My shower is huge. ...It's pretty pimp."
  — Gabriel Iglesias [67:47]

• Mark shares stories of grimy club condos (unsanitary, weird food, Pauly Shore’s “jizzed-on” couch [70:12]).

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11. Clubs vs Arenas, Staying Hungry

[58:51–59:55]

• On the necessity of working small rooms, even after playing stadiums:

  "Once you feel like you’re too good for those rooms, that’s when you’re going downhill. …always stay hungry."
  — Gabriel Iglesias [58:51]

• Clubs keep comedians honest; in arenas, “it’s always gonna sound good.”

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12. Fairs, Casinos, and Hard Gigs

[73:37–75:58]

• Fairs and casinos pay surprisingly well, but bring unique challenges (daylight, kids, unpredictable audiences).
• Gabriel enjoys being the “king of the fairs”—15,000 people at some gigs.

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13. Comedy Geography and Community

[80:14–81:29]

• Fluffy asks about East vs. West Coast styles; Mark and Joe riff about LA and NYC legacies.
• Gabriel: “I feel very special that you guys can’t really name anybody [from LA].”

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14. Closing Banter

[81:29–end]

• Rapid-fire plugs, schedule talk, and playful region jabs.
• Fluffy on paying less California tax soon (“soon enough!”).
• Good vibes all around as everyone wraps up.

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Notable Quotes

• "The more you post, the worse the relationship is." — Mark Normand [01:55]
• "If you give someone a loophole, they're gonna abuse it." — Mark Normand [13:19]
• "All it takes is one bad tweet and you're deuces." — Gabriel Iglesias [18:08]
• "You go from Albuquerque to Maui and you're like, oh, my God." — Gabriel Iglesias [53:04], on perspective
• "The hardest thing to do is to sacrifice your ego for the sake of trying something new." — Gabriel Iglesias [60:59]

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Tone & Energy

The hosts and guests keep things light, irreverent, and playful—constantly riffing and one-upping each other's stories. Gabriel reflects on milestones with gratitude and humility, while also showing a calculated approach to his career and comedy craft. The camaraderie between the comics underscores their shared experiences and mutual respect, even while trading jabs and self-deprecating asides.

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Top Memorable Moments & Quotes (with Timestamps)

• [07:08] Gabriel on out-selling the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
• [10:31] “It'll be on my tombstone...Dodger Stadium.” — Gabriel Iglesias
• [13:32] "If you give someone a loophole, they're gonna abuse it.” — Mark Normand
• [34:20] "She said Volkswagens and Rolexes...they're only going to go up." — Gabriel Iglesias
• [43:09] "I hate work. I want to have fun. I'd rather go out on stage and just start venting." — Gabriel Iglesias
• [60:59] "The hardest thing to do is to sacrifice your ego for the sake of trying something new." — Gabriel Iglesias

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Episode Run-Down by Timestamps

| Segment | Topics | Timestamp | | --- | --- | --- | | Introductions, chihuahua, privacy | Pets, publicity, relationships | 00:06–01:28 | | Discussing marriage, social media | Relationship overcompensation | 01:28–03:09 | | Early club struggles | Benefit shows, tough crowds | 03:36–05:11 | | Performing for massive audiences | Dodger Stadium shows | 06:57–10:42 | | Achieving stadium goals, what's next | Buying clubs, mentoring | 13:34–16:47 | | Staying relevant in comedy | TV shows, relevant or not | 18:16–20:16 | | Touring worldwide | Middle East, Japan, culture shock | 20:40–22:23 | | VW collection | Cars as investment, nostalgia | 31:13–34:08 | | Comedy writing process | Clubs vs. arenas, notes/scripts | 41:03–46:07 | | Touring (bus, hotels/condos) | Bus customization, gross comedy condo stories | 64:52–73:10 | | Clubs vs. arenas | Staying hungry, real rooms | 58:51–59:55 | | Fairs and casinos | Family-friendly gigs, big outdoor crowds | 73:37–75:58 | | Comedy regions, legacy | NYC vs LA styles | 80:14–81:29 | | Plugs and close | Future dates, banter | 81:29–end |

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For New Listeners

This episode is a treasure trove for anyone curious about the realities of "making it" in stand-up—balancing huge career moments and the grind of the club scene, the craft of joke-writing, and what it's like behind the scenes with some of the biggest names in comedy. It's especially recommended if you enjoy candid war stories, off-the-cuff jokes, and honest discussions about the drive (and anxieties) that keep comics striving, even after selling out stadiums.

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Summary compiled from the full episode transcript; light on ads, heavy on comedy and insight. Enjoy!

Transcript

[Mark Normand]

How cute.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

This.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

Holy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

This is. This is Roka. This right here is Roka. If you're gonna just start petting it from the back.

[Mark Normand]

I know about the back. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Get up, Lexi.

[Mark Normand]

Sniff, sniff. She's scared.

[Joe Coy]

Why? Why a chihuahua?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I've always had a chihuahua. So, like, when I was 12 years old, my first dog ever was a chihuahua. And then I got a couple, you know, after that, and I've just. I was 12 years old. I've always had a Chihuahua.

[Mark Normand]

And you both love Taco Bell.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nice. Yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

It's funny if you're over 40, right, Yakiro? I'm over 40. There you go.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But yeah, she's just. Look, I just.

[Mark Normand]

That's great.

[Joe Coy]

That would be great if he actually ate her right now.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nice.

[Mark Normand]

Here you go.

[Joe Coy]

Just the most violent opening to the episode. Yeah, that's a cute dog.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. Oh, you think she bites? You ought to see what the white girl does. Oh, that's my girlfriend. I haven't. I've never been able to publicly put that out there. Like any relationship. I've never been. And I've never been public. I've never put posted photos of who I'm dating. I always kept it really private because I figured, ah, if I put it out there, then they're gonna. People are gonna start reaching out.

[Mark Normand]

I get it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I told her, get ready, cuz, you know, I put it out there. So.

[Joe Coy]

Wow, this is your first public.

[Mark Normand]

First public. Hey, public honking.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

First public.

[Mark Normand]

Well, white women love the public. They go, hey, you gotta post about me. Hey, you gotta put me out when it's our anniversary. And you go, you gotta ruin my.

[Joe Coy]

Well, the worst one is when. The worst one is when you're in the toxic relationship and they're still mad you're not posting. And you're like, we're gonna break up any day. And you still post. And then you're. You're miserable. You know who you are. You know those groups, those friends who are like the bad marriage? They're. They're like my. My honey bear. And you're like, you cheated on her.

[Mark Normand]

The more you post, the worse the relationship is. I've noticed, you know, the guy's like, I love her so much. And a week later they're done.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know what? Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Over compensation.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I got. I got some friends that are doing that right now.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, I got her roses. Oh, this. Oh, mi amor, my love. And I'm just like, oh, God, this is so just gross.

[Joe Coy]

Are you crazy with gifts? No, I think that's a good sign.

[Mark Normand]

That is.

[Joe Coy]

I think too many gifts is. Is scary.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I feel like you're trying to overcompensate for something.

[Joe Coy]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

My time is the biggest gift here.

[Mark Normand]

Here.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

My time is the biggest.

[Joe Coy]

Your presence is.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because I could be doing some, you know, other things, but right. If I'm there, I care.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Make it rhyme. If it rhymes, it's good, right?

[Mark Normand]

I don't buy my wife. Then we're having a. We're a hit.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, there you go. I got interesting stat here. Based on people professing their love, Best actress winners are 63% more likely to have their marriage end within four years.

[Mark Normand]

Really?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, man.

[Mark Normand]

Did you move it on up.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Sacrifice. Drop that dead weight.

[Joe Coy]

Well, maybe also, you're just. You're probably just working a lot too.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, that's true.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah. Things are different.

[Mark Normand]

But I think they're thinking, hey, I'm hot shit now. I got.

[Joe Coy]

You said Best Actress, not Best Actress winners.

[Mark Normand]

I believe it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Maybe the dude can't handle upgrade, right?

[Mark Normand]

Always trying to upgrade.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I was trying to upgrade.

[Mark Normand]

That's why women get hotter. And then they dump their fat piece of. And then they go get some hot hunky guy. All right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, there we go.

[Joe Coy]

Some of those dudes get like, you ever feel a breakup coming on? You're like, I better hit the gym.

[Mark Normand]

No, no.

[Joe Coy]

You know, I get right. That dog.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, right.

[Joe Coy]

Dog's like, preach, preach. No. Sometimes you feel it coming on. You're like, I got to get ready to be single again because.

[Mark Normand]

So I did a. I did a gig in. You ever done Mark Ridley's comedy Castle Classic in Royal Oak, Michigan?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, it's great club. But they. I couldn't sell tickets back then, so it was like, they'd give away, like, a charity would come in and do it. So you'd have, like, Thursday be women's women, battered women night or whatever.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, you guys better laugh.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, right. Days in the back of my hand. But one night I had service dog graduation night. So it was just a bunch of people with their dogs at the show.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You had an entire audience with people

[Mark Normand]

with dogs, full of dogs. And so I'd be like, bombing, you know, so I'd be like. So I was at the grocery store the other day. Hey. And, you know, I was getting some grated cheese for my pizza. Hey. And I was like, God damn it. Because you can't. You can't tell the dog to shut the fuck up.

[Joe Coy]

You take your keys out. You're like, come on, Give me something.

[Mark Normand]

Treats out at some point.

[Joe Coy]

That happened to me once, though, back. Way back in the day, Comedy zone in Warwick, Rhode island, in a movie theater piece of shit club. But the whole crowd was breast cancer survivors. Best crowd of my life.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, okay.

[Joe Coy]

They've been through hell. They've seen, so they wanted to laugh. So I was like, I've never killed this hard in my life.

[Mark Normand]

That's a good point.

[Joe Coy]

I think people who have been through real shit, like, no one's writing a fucking. No one's gonna. Karen comment card you.

[Mark Normand]

No in that crowd.

[Joe Coy]

Right.

[Mark Normand]

I laugh my tits off, But no, I'm with you. I did benefit show, like, for addicts, drug addicts and whatnot. They're the best crowds because they've just. They've been through it all.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And it's like, how are you going to offend someone? Like the. The things I used to do for. To get high? Like, really? Like, really, I'm going to offend you?

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know, and. And I. I think that's awesome, though, that you did a show like that for. For breast cancer survivors.

[Joe Coy]

It was awesome.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know, once you go through chemo and stuff like that, it's like nothing's going to phase you.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nothing's going to. You're just happy to be alive.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And I think more people need to appreciate life.

[Mark Normand]

And I know cop audiences are pretty good too, because they see dead bodies, they go shootouts and all this.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

All the things they say. Come on.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, that too.

[Joe Coy]

You get some PBA cards that night? Oh, they always want to be like, give me one of these. I'm just like, all right, I got a few of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

What is that?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Show this to. If you get stopped, just show. Show this to.

[Mark Normand]

I think I got one. I don't know. Hey, man.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But I got balling over here. Look at that.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, a spot.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I love that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I'm a hooker. I think I got a pb.

[Joe Coy]

If I wasn't a comic, I'd never have cash on me, ever.

[Mark Normand]

It's all comedy. Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

It's just those seller spots.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I'm impressed with the amount of cards you carry. Yeah, I stopped carrying a wallet a long time ago. I just use my little. The little tiny wallet that goes on the back of the magnetic.

[Mark Normand]

That goes on the back of the.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So three cards. That's all I got.

[Mark Normand]

There it is. PBA 23. Do they expire?

[Joe Coy]

I think, after a year. After a year, yeah. That's brutal. You gotta get one every year. You gotta tim Good old Tim.

[Mark Normand]

All right. All right. Yeah. You got the wallet on the phone? Yeah. Oh, that's good stuff.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The one where it's just, you know, it's.

[Mark Normand]

It's the.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's on the back of the phone. Oh, man.

[Mark Normand]

But no cash.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No. Well, yeah, I keep cash on me, actually. No, I don't have any cash on me right now.

[Mark Normand]

But you need some usually.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nice.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. But you're like. You got to be a trillionaire at this point.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, stop it.

[Joe Coy]

I mean, two shows at Dodger Stadium.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I'm doing all right for myself.

[Joe Coy]

How crazy? So you did a show at Dodger Stadium and then you add it, a second show.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yes.

[Joe Coy]

That's got to feel insane.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It was very much insane. So I was selling more tickets than the Dodgers at the time, and now they're killing it. So, you know, now. Now they're killing it with Otani and the rest of the team. Back to back champion. So, Yeah, I feel like I was. I was the catalyst for that. Yeah, I. I kicked it off.

[Mark Normand]

Damn. Wow, that is cool, man. So where do you stand, like, at home plate? How do you. How does that work?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know, I've seen many concerts at Dodger Stadium, and they're all. They're. The stage is set up in the outfield. It's set up over by the bleachers. And so you're roughly. You're sitting probably right around, what, second base? So the seats come all the way out and stuff like that. They try not to have. They try not to have seats actually on the bases and stuff like that because they don't want to mess up the mountain. They have, like, a thing they put on the floor.

[Mark Normand]

There it is.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They put a thing on the floor so it kind of. It protects the grass.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Coy]

How is the show, though? Because I feel like comedy outdoors always kind of sucks.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know, as somebody who does a lot of fairs, you're always dealing with the elements. You're always dealing with, oh, you got planes and helicopters. Helicopters. You got bugs. You got the weather. Sometimes it's humid, sometimes it's raining.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Sometimes, you know, And I've had to perform through all of that. The scary one is when it's raining, and I'm like, I probably shouldn't be out here.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And they're like, we can't get our deposit back. And I'm like, no, I'm out there freaking kicking water like Tay Tay. Right. But luckily. Yeah, that's a real picture. I know it looks.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But that was.

[Mark Normand]

Man, that is Unbelievable. Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

If I had a Tinder, that'd be my picture right there. Oh, yeah, that'd be it.

[Joe Coy]

This is.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

This guy.

[Mark Normand]

Damn. Imagine that. All those people laughing, coming back at you.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's a beautiful, beautiful, incredible feeling, you know? And I thought that I was gonna have to adjust the show, because anytime you perform for a big crowd, you always, you know, you. You slow down a little bit to allow for the timing and everything. But in a situation like that, it was almost like a comedy club because the sound was so good. They had. They. They call. I think they call them delayed towers out in the crowd. So they were. Everybody was getting it immediately, so it wasn't like a thing.

[Mark Normand]

That's incredible. And did they do any baseball?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Okay. And I. I was terrified at first because it's like, I've done the intro at Dodger Stadium. I've done the. You know, and now it's time for Dodger baseball. And you would hear it, and it would sound, now, now, time. You know, And I'm like, oh, God, I hope it doesn't sound like that.

[Joe Coy]

Were you the first comic to do a ballpark? I know. Bird did Fenway, right?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yes. I was the first one to do Dodger Stadium. Bill Burr did his a few months later.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You beat him. No. Yeah. Yeah. That's a. That's a. That's a. Right there, you know.

[Mark Normand]

Totally. Totally.

[Joe Coy]

And that's your team, too, the Dodgers.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Dodgers. Yes.

[Joe Coy]

That's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

That's amazing.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So to do a show that size at home was freaking awesome.

[Joe Coy]

Do they give you any cool swag as, like, a little gift?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I get perks.

[Mark Normand]

I get perks.

[Joe Coy]

What kind of perks?

[Mark Normand]

Any.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Any of the swag that I. I, you know, I. I make my own merch, so I can make whatever I want. But, you know, whether it's a bat or something signed and stuff like that, you know, show up on a special day, it's like, ooh, but look at the box seat. I haven't really. I asked for anything. You know, I think if you ask for it, they'll give you more. But there was no, like, well, now we want to present you with this and present you with that.

[Mark Normand]

But you don't get tickets for life. And, I mean, you should be able to just walk in the stadium.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I'm pretty sure if I asked to go, you know, again, I think it's just if I make a call, but I haven't.

[Mark Normand]

Okay, that's.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And I don't want to be that guy either. Hey, you know who I am.

[Mark Normand]

Right. Yeah. You know.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know what I did here, right? No.

[Mark Normand]

No. Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I'm just happy that it happened and I can talk about it and it's. It's, you know, there forever. It'll be on my tombstone. So when I'm. When I'm, you know. You know, born this day, died this day. And on the bottom, Dodger Stadium.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe Coy]

That's. That's your number one. You think so far?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Biggest show?

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, just achievement.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Just achievement. Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

I love those. Hollywood.

[Mark Normand]

What's that?

[Joe Coy]

Hollywood Cemetery.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The Hollywood Cemetery, you know what I'm

[Joe Coy]

talking about, where they have, like, Mel Blanc.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They'll have movie night stuff like that,

[Joe Coy]

but they have, like, Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny. And on his tombstone it says, that's all, folks.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That is the best. That is the best.

[Joe Coy]

You can't top that tombstone.

[Mark Normand]

That's great.

[Joe Coy]

Wasn't.

[Mark Normand]

Was it.

[Joe Coy]

It's either Carlin or Dangerfield. I gotta look it up.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Was.

[Joe Coy]

He was here just a minute ago. Ooh, that's a great tombstone.

[Mark Normand]

I can't remember who it was.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It was like, Jack Parr.

[Joe Coy]

Might be. He won't be right back.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, that's great. I like that. Maybe mine will be a. You're dead to me.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

Sorry.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It'll just be the dog.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Joe Coy]

Rough.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. That was a hell of a show. That was really bad, that dog show. Brutal. And then I had a lady heckle me and I said, ma', am, you're less well behaved than a dog. And that. That did. Well,

[Joe Coy]

you, ma', am, are the true.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Joe Coy]

Silence.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So if it was a graduation for dogs that, you know, like, it. Was it like obedience school or. Dogs. Well, shouldn't they have not barked then? I know that's part of the deal.

[Mark Normand]

You know, you'd think. But I think I was bombing so bad that they were like, yeah, you were being heckled by a dog. Yeah, exactly.

[Joe Coy]

The dog's like, I'm on the clock. But this is ridiculous.

[Mark Normand]

This is horrible.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nothing worse than getting heckled by a dog with a vest, Right?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. And can't pet it either.

[Joe Coy]

The working dog.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nowadays, all dogs are service dogs. I feel like everybody's, you know, it's a scam. Look, if.

[Joe Coy]

If you have a note, you can

[Mark Normand]

get your dog, the blind guy, all right? Go nuts. But this guy's got a dachshund on a plane, like, get out of here. The dog's yappier than everyone here. The dog's giving me Anxiety. I don't buy it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I've heard about people having different animals, too. Like a peacock.

[Mark Normand]

I heard a peacock.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Peacock. And I'm like, okay, that's different.

[Joe Coy]

There's a woman in my neighborh. She's got a bird on her shoulder. And you could tell she's doing it for attention because there's like. You'll be at the coffee shop outside, you're trying to work, just zone out, and she's got this bird screaming, and everyone's just looking at her like, you know what you're doing?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah. But she just does it, you know, it's fun. You walk past her, you don't even say anything because she was dying for you to say something. And you just go, nope.

[Joe Coy]

I got up. And that's her icebreaker, right?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's her icebreaker, exactly.

[Joe Coy]

I once played for an audience full of birds.

[Mark Normand]

Birds.

[Joe Coy]

And

[Mark Normand]

look at that. Look at that. There's an ostrich, a horse, a peacock. This is ridiculous. It's kind of like a weed card. If you let somebody. A pig. If you let somebody. That's me and my wife. If you let somebody bring. Or if you let somebody cut corners, they're gonna do it. Basically, if you. If you give someone a loophole, they're gonna abuse it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's always going to be the case.

[Mark Normand]

That's the term.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. Take a mile.

[Mark Normand]

Now we're getting somewhere. So now what do you do from. Where do you go from Dodger Stadium? Are you back in arenas?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So after Dodger Stadium happened, I actually contemplated retiring because I'm like, I just jumped the shark. What am I supposed to do now? Like, this is the craziest goal. And after you do it, it's like, okay, like, what am I supposed to do now? So it's like, all right. I still had a. An obligation to do another special. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm gonna go back on the road and just, you know, go back to the routine.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah. What's your process? Do you go smaller venues to build back up or what do you do?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

A lot of times I do like going back to clubs. And that's what I did these last couple months that I was getting ready for Sofi. I just wanted to get. Get in as many. That. That was the new goal, by the way.

[Mark Normand]

So amazing.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

My. In order for me to get excited about wanting to go out and. And tour and just build up a new set, I needed to set a goal. And so that's when I approached Joe Coy about The idea about teaming up and said, hey, man, come on, man, look, this is where we're at in our career. And I, I did the math. I said, okay, you sell out these many shows, this is how many tickets, how many tickets I sell. This is the biggest market we have. You know, all the boxes were just like, if we do this, it can't fail. Just based on the math alone. It cannot fail. And you know, I was right. And you're doing it and we're doing it. So we're doing it next week, next Saturday, SOFI Stadium. So that is that, that on Sunday I'm going to find myself in that same situation. Now what are we supposed to do?

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, it's funny because you achieve your goal and then you're just like, like, do I just kill myself? What do I do now?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

My thing is that I just always. I never want to be a shell of myself. I never want to fade. That is my biggest fear. I do not want to fade. If anything, I'd rather end on a high note, of course. And that's the way you should go out. Go out on a high note, Go out Seinfeld style.

[Joe Coy]

But what would you do if you retired? Like, what, what's your days looking like if you retire?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I would find other things to get into that I might not be as passionate about it. Whether it's voice acting or acting or, you know, maybe radio. Maybe I'll start my own PODC podcast. There's so many different veins I can go into. And so it's just, you know, believe it or not, I've been approached.

[Mark Normand]

Really?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah, I've been approached. I've been up. Yes.

[Joe Coy]

Who's talking to you?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I've been. It's not a matter of a company, but I've been offered money to do things.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa. From Fluffy to Fluffer.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Well, you know, that'll be the name of the book.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I could write a book.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I, I definitely want to be involved in comedy some, in some fashion. I thought about buying a. Multiple times. I came close to buying the Ice House recently. Very close. Came really close to it. And unfortunately it just, it did not pan out. The owner, Johnny Bus, from the Bus family. The Lakers.

[Mark Normand]

Yep.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

We had worked something out where it's like, okay, this is the, you know, this is what they want. I agreed to it. I came up in the conversation because it was two, two, two people or companies in the running. It was this company. I want to say it's a stand up something in New York. Out here.

[Mark Normand]

There's A club.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There's a club that's got a chain,

[Mark Normand]

New York Comedy Club.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Something Stand Up. Oh, they have multiple locations.

[Joe Coy]

New York comedy.

[Mark Normand]

I think it's New York comedy. They. They bought Stand Up New York.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I think that's.

[Mark Normand]

So there's three of them and there's one in Connecticut now.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So there was a club out here that was in the running for it and then they approached me because they knew I had a history with the club.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And they figured with, you know, where I'm at right now, this, it might make sense because. Because they know I'll take care of it. I'll continue the legacy. I'll make sure that I cherish it and take good care of it. Cuz that's where I started.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And once we agreed on it, everything was all set to. We're supposed to take a meeting and what happens? They sell the Lakers for $9 billion and all of a sudden my phone stops ringing. Stops ringing. No more emails, no more replies. That's it. It went away.

[Joe Coy]

So it's a lot of money.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of money.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

If I become a billionaire, there's a lot of people I'm gonna stop talking to.

[Mark Normand]

Just FYI.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I think they know who they are. But yeah, so that was the last one. So I think either I'm gonna get into owning a club or, you know, mentoring. Man, there's a lot of comics out there that, hey, man, I could help you out. I don't. I'm not gonna do it for the money. It's just to stay in the game. But yeah, at a certain point I'm like, man, how much longer can I do this at this level without falling off?

[Mark Normand]

But the fact that you're conscious of it is a good of guys are like, I'll be huge forever.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, that's not. No, that's unrealistic, man. And I'm very much. All it takes is one bad tweet and you're deuces. You know what I mean? So.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, but your crowd's what, pretty Hispanic?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's a little bit more than that.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, you know, don't get me wrong, like majority.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's if we're talking la, California, absolutely, yeah. Texas, same thing. But yeah, you got to figure I go to freaking 30 plus countries where they don't even know what a Mexican is until I get there, so.

[Mark Normand]

Well, if you got Joe Coy with the Filipino crowd, you got a Mexican crowd. That's the hardest working crowd in America, right?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, it's Jolly B. Meets King Taco. One night only, man. You gotta come see that show.

[Mark Normand]

Jolly B. I figured I'd beat you

[Gabriel Iglesias]

to it because I knew you.

[Mark Normand]

We were warming up to it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I see it coming.

[Mark Normand]

I didn't know it was Filipino. That's great. But, yeah, that's incredible. But, yeah, you got to stay in the game. Like, I remember I used to open for Seinfeld, and he was. I was like, hey, Khabis and Cars. I love that show. He goes, thank God for that show or I wouldn't be relevant. And I'm like, like, your TV show's on forever. Forever, forever. And he. But that's how he thinks. He's like, I got a new show. Thank God.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I'm.

[Mark Normand]

I'm back in the.

[Joe Coy]

Young people don't know Seinfeld. I mean, sometimes these shows come on Netflix and, like, oh, what? I don't know this, but.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Or they don't know that he's a comic because that, you know, the show's big. He's an actor in this situation.

[Joe Coy]

Right, right.

[Mark Normand]

It's crazy how clueless people are now to. To new to old stuff.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And it's insane, considering that information is right at your fingertips. You can find out anything in two seconds.

[Mark Normand]

And we know back in the days,

[Gabriel Iglesias]

like, you had a thesaurus or a freaking encyclopedia. You had to really newspaper.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You had to really work for the info.

[Mark Normand]

Right. That's true.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

We watch a. You know, an HBO special that would come up every six, seven months.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I know.

[Joe Coy]

They felt actually special.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because it was you know, once or twice a year. Whereas, like, now it's like, all right, every Tuesday, here's a new comic.

[Joe Coy]

There's probably, do you think, over under 4,000 comedy specials a year? What do you think? There's many.

[Mark Normand]

So, yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You figure between Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and. Yeah. Oh. Especially on YouTube.

[Mark Normand]

You changed the game anyways. No gatekeeper. You just throw something up there. Mm. And call it a special, which is great.

[Joe Coy]

But then now it's like, there's so much shit. They were like, oh, my God. It's just like, more and more and more, and it's like, where do you land? I get annoyed when there's, like, I gotta download, like, Peacock for, like, fucking. For one sports event.

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[Joe Coy]

There's so many different things, you know, but that's true. That's where we're at now.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that is annoying. But how many specials you got now?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

This next one will be number 10.

[Joe Coy]

Where else have you been in the world where you're just like, this is crazy. Like, what other parts of the world? You've been everywhere, right?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

All over the Middle east, definitely was always an experience, and I'm just like, wow. Okay. Like, my first time in the Middle east was in Jordan. I did a man Jordan. I went there with Russell Peters. Russell. I credit him a lot because he's one of the guys in. Inspired me to start traveling more outside of the U.S. him and Dunham, they were the first ones to really start going and doing that. But as far as culture shock, for me, I think maybe Japan. Japan was very like, oh, okay, it's different here now. That was for military. I did a USO tour there, but I was there for a week, and I got to just see how people live there, and I'm like, wow, it's a culture shock. You know, when you're loud, that's a form of disrespect there. So silence is literally golden in Japan.

[Joe Coy]

Good place to break up with a woman.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Nice, right? Just real quiet. Super clean country. Yeah, incredibly clean. I thought Singapore was really clean. Japan is spotless. Like, they don't even have homeless people.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I talked about how I said, I think they kill them there. I think. I think if you're unemployed for a week, it's like. And then freaking sushi, and then there's no waste there.

[Mark Normand]

I believe it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Many places. I mean, I'm trying to think. The one that really stood out to me, definitely Saudi Arabia was just one for, you know, for the books.

[Mark Normand]

But you go in Iran still.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I've not been to Iran.

[Mark Normand]

All right. It's the cheap right now.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Right now you could probably get a good deal.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I have a lot of friends that went to South Africa. I want to go to South Africa. That's one of the countries that I haven't been to yet, but I've been to over 25.

[Mark Normand]

I did my honeymoon in South Africa was amazing, but I've never been to Japan. That's. That's next on my list.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Japan has been on my bucket list for a very long time. So that happened recently. It was a lot of fun.

[Mark Normand]

Damn. You know, they got a birth problem over there.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

What do you mean?

[Mark Normand]

Like, they're another. Birth rate is through the floor. No one's fucking.

[Joe Coy]

And China through the roof.

[Mark Normand]

Is that right?

[Joe Coy]

They got a big population in China.

[Mark Normand]

It's overcrowded. Yeah. Through the loof. How about that?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Where they make Viagra? I don't know. Who knows?

[Mark Normand]

They make a lot of stuff over there.

[Joe Coy]

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[Joe Coy]

Oh my God. I learned it from you.

[Mark Normand]

Oh no.

[Joe Coy]

Chinese fuck like this.

[Mark Normand]

I don't know why. I think that's me.

[Joe Coy]

No, I said it's prior.

[Mark Normand]

I know. I don't think I told you that.

[Joe Coy]

Oh my God.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, sorry.

[Joe Coy]

You definitely didn't do that act out.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's. That was pretty good.

[Mark Normand]

Whatever happened, I felt it. Tequila. By the way, I was. I was hoping to taste tequila.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Joe, did we get the tequila? I got you.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, he's got it. Okay. Sorry, sorry. I didn't mean to call you out. Just. I want to try it. Just give me a little neat. Just little shot splash. Oh, you already had it. There we go. What do you call it?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Po. Po, this is your tequila. This is my tequila.

[Joe Coy]

We have a whiskey and you have.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I've been. I've been approached. This is the bottle right there you go. Since you guys are all about it, let's look at check it out right here. I'll show the different cameras right here. So on the bottle, Po is the name I came up with the Name. I designed the. The label on a napkin. And then the real artist took over and did the. That these two dogs were dogs that I had before, and they're no longer with us, so I wanted to honor them on the bottle because they were there when I drank a lot. So basically, I was approached multiple times over the years to do a tequila, because I do drink, but it just didn't feel right because, you know, you

[Mark Normand]

like what you like. Yeah, you like what you like.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And why deviate from that? And plus, you know, fans are going to know, and, man, he's full of. He doesn't really drink that. And so it's kind of like, yeah, I'm good. But in this case, I was involved from day one. So it wasn't like someone just said, here's the bottle. You want to freaking, you know, put your name behind it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I was literally involved with the entire creation of it. So the name, the design, the tasting, all the tasting was so much fun.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because I told them what I. What I liked, and they're like, well, we. I guess we could try to make something like that. And they showed up to my place with, like, 30 bottles, and the whole day was just dedicated to testing and tasting the tequila.

[Mark Normand]

That's exciting.

[Joe Coy]

We had one of those after. On an old episode, I guess, whiskey, and it turned into, like, March Madness style. Like, all right, you two now have to go head to head. You know, it's fun.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

We got after it, so that was a good time. And, you know, totally involved with the. With the company Next Century Spirits. They've. They've taken exceptional care of me. Really, really good people to work with. And so we feel really good about. About it.

[Mark Normand]

This is damn good tequila. So I like. What does po mean? So sorry.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They said, well, Gabriel, you know, we think that, you know, all these different people with tequilas out there, we got the Rock, Kevin Hart, and multiple people with their tequilas. But they're like, culturally, we think there should be a Mexican that has his own tequila.

[Mark Normand]

That's fair.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And I'm like, you know, I. I agree. And they're like, well, you're from Mexico. You should have one. I said, I'm not from Mexico. I said, okay. Was born in the U.S. my family's from Mexico. And so that's the story where it's like, it's a Mexican American tequila. So it's like the best of both worlds.

[Mark Normand]

It's legal.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's the story right there. It's like, it's. It's both nice. I I heard that.

[Mark Normand]

I like it. Goes good with ice. Oh my God. Joking. I'm a comedian. This is damn good.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That was funny.

[Joe Coy]

Have they. Have they pulled up to your show outside? Ice or no?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know what? To my knowledge, I. I don't. I don't know. I don't know.

[Mark Normand]

Ah, those calls didn't go through.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I guess it sucks what's going on, man, but I'm trying not to be too vocal. You don't want no matter what you say, someone's gonna disagree with it.

[Mark Normand]

That's true. I Hear, hear. So we do this thing. I got Tourette's. Sorry. What?

[Joe Coy]

I was gonna say we do this thing on the show called working on any bits where you like test it out or talk about bitch you're working on with these guys and see if.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There you go.

[Joe Coy]

I think it was they fuck fast. Wuka I fucked up. I literally have a tape of you telling me that.

[Mark Normand]

Is that right?

[Joe Coy]

Anyway, so you working on any bits? I mean, I don't know. Let me check.

[Mark Normand]

You gotta prep us.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah. You don't fucking. When did you become the setup guy? What the hell's happening here? We're never ready for this shit.

[Mark Normand]

Wait, I had a question. Now I know I went blank.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You threw them all off.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, do you still have your VW collection?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

That is a hell of a collection.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

30. 30 buses.

[Mark Normand]

30 buses. Wait, what? Yeah, he collects the old VW, the cool 70s ones.

[Joe Coy]

Where do you. Where do you stock all these?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I have a building in Long Beach.

[Joe Coy]

Holy.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, there's him with Leno.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. There you go.

[Mark Normand]

30 of them.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Leno's been in my place a few times. He's actually the one that inspired the car collection collecting. I. I did an episode. There you go.

[Mark Normand]

Jesus. It just keeps going. Wow. That wow.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, that was a fish tank.

[Mark Normand]

The.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The TV show Tanked came over and they. They built a fish tank out of a Volkswagen. It was pretty cool. So the goal is to just make an entire Volkswagen museum there. And it's already set up. So when I'm. When I'm dead and gone, that's. That'll be a place where people can visit and.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because anytime I do tours there, people are like, oh my God, all these Volkswagens. And no, I don't drive them.

[Mark Normand]

Them all.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, from time to time I'll take one out, but at the end of the day that they're still 50 year old cars. So, you know, you're not very reliable.

[Mark Normand]

Sure. Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But if you scuff a rim it's like, it's not like a hubcap.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. You got to replace.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I mean, it really, it's, it's expensive.

[Mark Normand]

But so what. What is it about this car that hits you?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It was my first car and when I was hanging out with Leno for one of the episodes, his guys that are the ones responsible for getting him his cars, they said, said, well, if there's anything you're. You're looking for, let us know. We're good at finding cars.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And at the time, I had gotten my ex girlfriend back her first car. Not the actual car, but her first car was like a Trans Am and they found one that looked just like it. So I got her the car and they're like, if you think of anything else you want. I go, well, maybe I want to get my first car. I go, and then I gave him the year and model of a Volkswagen bus. And like that. They found it, they brought it. And I, I'm like, oh, wow. And they're like, well, if you want anything else, let us know. And I said, well, if you come across anything else you think I might like, you let me know. And we played that game for two years and next thing you know, the building was full of cars.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And I wound up making friends with, with a gentleman who does restorations and his, his, you know, his, his thing is Volkswagen buses. And so he's done the restorations on all the buses. All those buses are pristine.

[Mark Normand]

They're beautiful.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They're. They're beautiful.

[Joe Coy]

So do you ever drive them out or. No know.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Very rare. Cuz, man, I'm telling you, as soon as you scrape one or something, you just, you feel it and it's, it's so painful. Like, oh, it's just cuz, you know how long it took to get them that way.

[Joe Coy]

Right?

[Mark Normand]

So.

[Joe Coy]

So it's like more of like a museum.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. Which is why you see the artwork on the walls. I commissioned an artist to come in and paint these. These, you know, really nice, beautiful paintings and. It's nice. It really is.

[Mark Normand]

What do you think? I mean, look, I'm going into my accounting brain, but what do you think that total worth is on all these puppies? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No, I'll tell you. You know, my accountant told me, she says, you can keep buying these cars, they're only going to go up in value.

[Mark Normand]

Okay?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

She goes, you don't do cocaine. So Go for it. Yeah, that was, that was the direct quote. You don't do cocaine, so go for it.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

She said Volkswagens and Rolexes, you can buy as many cuz they're only going to go up.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Joe Coy]

What? Yeah. What?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

What million.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, mama.

[Joe Coy]

That's all right.

[Mark Normand]

See if you have that one tweet come out, then you can sell a few of these puppies.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's your par ever hits the fan, they're gonna be a sale.

[Mark Normand]

Damn. Oh yeah, that's a lot of. He's getting triggered as a Jewish guy. That's a lot of VW here, but.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, sorry about that, bro.

[Joe Coy]

We got over.

[Mark Normand]

We showed my pizza oven once. He flipped, but yeah, that is, that's beautiful. Beautiful. You and Leno, Seinfeld, you always have a hangar of cars.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. So Leno's not really the biggest fan of the, the bus. Yeah. And Seinfeld, he's more of the Porsche guy. Sure, he's the Porsche guy. And you know, I'm, I'm the bus guy. So that's, that's my thing.

[Mark Normand]

That's cool.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And that kind of fits all your

[Joe Coy]

vibes, you know, it's in this chill.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So if I do take one out, it's, you know, it's not like, oh my God, you know, a lot of people, whenever, you know, putting gas in one of those, people come up and they'll tell a story. Oh, my uncle or my dad had one of. Oh, I remember we drove the. There's always a fun story attached.

[Joe Coy]

That's you listening to one of their stories. There's a dog there too.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, the dog made it. He's sleeping too.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh yeah, you can see it.

[Mark Normand]

That's Joe Coy going, well, I'm gonna open. I'll do 20.

[Joe Coy]

Oh yeah. How do you figure that out? Who opens and who, who closes that one? Well, have you talked about it?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, absolutely. So in that situation with Sofi talking about, okay, who's gonna open, who's gonna close, I have no, no issue with, with being the opener. And I think it's a responsibility that I, I should take on because when I did Dodger Stadium, I broke curfew. I went way over. Oh, so I know what that's like.

[Joe Coy]

So I figured that cost you money. Quarter million because you wanted to go long.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Cuz I did go long. Not because I wanted to. I didn't know that that's what they were gonna find me. I think if somebody was have been on the side of the stage and been like, Gabe You're. You're the reason they can afford Otani. You might want to cut it off, cuz I. I've done shows before.

[Joe Coy]

It's like three VWs, dude. What the hell?

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I've done shows here in New York at Radio City, and there's another venue. I forget the name of it, but I remember they. It was a thing where if you hit curfew at midnight, the. The. I think it was like 25k every like 30 minutes or something like that. And Union One here in New York does not mess around.

[Joe Coy]

Chappelle owes them $8 million right now.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, I've. I remember I was on stage and my tour manager at the time runs out and he yells, gabe, you got less than a minute to get off the stage or they're gonna fine you $25,000. And I had a clock on the floor and I just remember looking and I'm like. I'm seeing the dial and I'm like, holy shit. And the whole crowd heard, it's like. So I said, thank you, good night. And I just. He goes, run off the stage because you legally have to be off the stage by midnight or they tax your ass.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, this. This happened to me in Philly. I think the guy screwed me because he's like, you got to be off stage by 11. If you're on a stage at 1101, that's your ass. We're gonna find you 500 bucks every 30 seconds or whatever. So I was like, all right, no problem. We wrap the show up, I say, bye, thank you, everybody, I'm leaving. And the guy goes, can you do a photo with all the staff and all the grips? And I said, what? Sure, yeah, it's 1056, 1058, whatever it was. But I was like, he has to do the photo. So if you want to do a photo, we can do a photo. And we did the photo with all the guys in. You know, get. Get the guys in the front low, the guys in the back tall. Here we go, we got it. And he goes, oh, 1102. Gotta find you. Swear to God. No way. I know.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

We did a sketch sucker into that.

[Mark Normand]

And I thought, it sounds like I told a guy and it was in the union. He's like, that's the oldest trick in the book. You fell for that. I go, he has to do.

[Joe Coy]

That's not real, dude.

[Mark Normand]

Tr. He was there.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Coy]

500 bucks. How much did they find you?

[Mark Normand]

500 bucks. Oh, but for like a minute and a half. But yeah. He screwed me. Philly. That was at the Miller Theater. I still remember it.

[Joe Coy]

Damn. So glad no one asked me for a picture at that time.

[Mark Normand]

Don't do it. Keep your eye on the clock.

[Joe Coy]

I remember Mark told his manager, he was like. And his manager was like, it's just 500 bucks. And he was like, then you fucking pay it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's true.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So to answer your question, I'm. I'm going to go first on this one.

[Joe Coy]

Nice.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I'm going to go first on this one. And you know what, Joe, do you

[Joe Coy]

have another opener or is it just you two?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

We plan on having some special guests, and then, you know, we're going to do like a pre show. So let's say the show starts at 7, the pre show start at 6, and that's where we put in the homies. You know what I mean? Like his normal openers, my normal openers, to give him a chance to just, you know, warm up the crowd. And we're going to encourage the audience to get there sooner than later because it's not like a club where you could fill it in, you know, 30 minutes.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It takes a long time for people to park, walk from the car.

[Mark Normand]

Sure.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

To the door, check in, scan your ticket, go through security.

[Joe Coy]

Oh, yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Find your seat.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I mean, get a soda, go to the bathroom. I mean, it takes a while.

[Mark Normand]

So let the.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

We're encouraging them to get there super early because there's also going to be another concert happening right up the road at Intuit Dome and at the Forum next door.

[Joe Coy]

Who are you going against?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I think it's. Is it Peso pluma?

[Mark Normand]

Oh, no.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. There's somebody that's. It's somebody that's going to sell out for sure.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. That might eat some of your people.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So. So I, again, I got no problem going first on this one. It's not an ego thing. The two of us are good friends, and we just feel like, hey, man, a show like this is something. Something that has never been done, needs to be done. And, you know, I agree.

[Mark Normand]

And going first is, like, a little more fun.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

I can chill. You, you're up there, you're having a cocktail, you're like, exactly.

[Mark Normand]

Enjoy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, but in my situation, I either got to deal with people still coming in and sunlight.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, you know. Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So there's. There is. There's pros and cons to both slots,

[Mark Normand]

but can't you have the openers eat that? Sunlight eat that People coming in and, you know, that's what an opener is.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And originally the plan was we were each going to do 90 minutes, so to make it three hours, in which

[Joe Coy]

case you definitely want to go first.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, well, that probably would have been a. You know, we. We would have been cutting it really close on that one. So we had a conversation and he's like, dude, we should really keep it closer to an hour. This way we keep the people still excited, more engaged. And I'm like, I get it, let's do it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's fair.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So that gives us a little bit of an extra buffer, just in case, you know, I go a little bit over or Joe goes a little bit over.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But I already know, like, if I. If I do go over, I'll. I'll own it and I'll cover whatever that is.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

If I do that. But I don't want to do that because I just, you know, I've been working on my set for the last couple months and I've only been doing clubs, so I went back to just straight up improvs and Levy and, you

[Mark Normand]

know, funny bones, heliums.

[Joe Coy]

It's great though, man. It gets you tight. It cuts the fat.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It does, yes. Because on average with the regular shows, I'm doing three shows a week doing the arenas, going back to the clubs, I can do six shows.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly. You get the reps. And it's hard to work out in an arena. Obviously, you know, the clubs, you can tweak the jokes a little better, I think.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. The arena, there's a certain expectation, and if you're trying out at the arena, they're like, I don't know. At the club, they're forgiving.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They're more buzzed.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So there's, there's.

[Joe Coy]

I do want to see a hipster comic in an arena. Like, what else?

[Mark Normand]

Notes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I hate that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Are you seeing that thing? Like, a lot of comedy shows are going viral. The guys that are just pull out their phone and read their jokes on the phone.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, no.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And I'm just like, I don't love that.

[Joe Coy]

It better be a new material night. Yeah, we do new material night.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I feel like those jokes aren't even, like, it's not real bits. It's more like jokey joke.

[Joe Coy]

Oh, like tweets or something.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, like, yeah, hacky shit.

[Mark Normand]

Right now, how the hell did you come up with a 25 minute story that. I've never had a 25 minute bit in my life.

[Joe Coy]

When you do a bit that is that long, do you write it out or do you just keep talking and you do know the beats and where it's gonna end?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I've never written anything out. I cannot just sit and it's too structured for me.

[Joe Coy]

You don't have like emails or word docs or anything?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No. So what I do is all my shows are recorded audio. Audio. Every single show. And one of my openers, who's. He's really good at structuring. And he helps me out whenever I do specials. He'll break down the stuff, sets time codes so that when we go into editing, we present the. You know, the editor with. These are how long the bits are. These are the time codes we want to take time off of, you know, so that the. He's really structured. And I appreciate that. But me, I can't do it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I can't sit and write up. Okay, here's the premise. And you know, they teach the whole. And you do the circle and then you do the line, and then you're building on this premise. I just can't do it because it's work and I fucking hate work. I hate work. I want to have fun. I'd rather go out on stage and just start venting and telling stories and whatever gets the laugh.

[Mark Normand]

Cool.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I keep whatever doesn't get the laugh. That's where I start trimming. I go back and listen. All right, there's this a minute gap where there's no laughter. That's too long. We got to shorten that. So, yeah, cut to the chase, right? And so I've done that over the years. You will not find a single notebook, a single thing where I wrote anything up that's.

[Mark Normand]

I will use.

[Joe Coy]

That is crazy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I have a really good memory on stage. Off stage, I can't find my keys. And so it's crazy that I can, I can work like that. I will use bullet points. So like, let's say I'm doing the Tonight Show. All right, there's cue card or whatever. I, I appreciate the bullet points.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know what I mean? And also too, when you're doing a set like that, you're. You're taking your, you're not doing your normal routine that you do every night. So you, you already know it. You flow. When you, you're doing a Tonight show, you gotta. Okay, we're taking this four minute piece right here. And here we go. This, this is this long. This is this long. This is this long. And go. And then you gotta hope that the audience either is with you or not too much with you. Where they give you too much applause where you're like, you're taking away my couch time. Stop clapping. You know, you just want to do your thing. But I cannot sit and write stuff out. So when I have comedy friends that go, hey, man, let's sit and write, I go, yeah, No, I don't. I don't do that. When I was in high school, I was on the speech team. Same thing. Like, I. I would just go up and talk. That was my thing. I go up and talk, and whatever. Whatever worked, worked, and whatever didn't work. All right, we'll just scrap that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But that's where I got my bones was in school on the speech team, just getting up. Be comfortable talking in front of people. Get comfortable with silence. Comfortable with just people staring at you. And once I started doing stand up, it was just like, okay, yeah, we're good.

[Mark Normand]

I just can't. I can't remember everything. I have to look at my paper before I go on, just to be like, okay, oh, don't forget the dog joke. Don't forget the shoe joke. Don't forget the couch joke. But if I go up there, I'll

[Joe Coy]

go, I still write a sentence for sure.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Well, what I miss also, too, like,

[Gabriel Iglesias]

the stories that I'm telling, I tell stories that things that happen. So it's a memory thing. I'm like, and then I did this, and then I did this, and then I did this. So it's like, it's based on a

[Joe Coy]

true story, but it blows my mind that you can't. But even if it's a true story, it blows my mind that you don't. Like, there's like a beat that I would have to write out, just saying how I would do it. I was like, I would need to write out a beat, you know, in a word doc, or in a notepad and be like, this is where I say the joke this way. This is this laugh. This is when I do a set list. It's almost. At first, it's like every laugh, and then it kind of. I'm like, I got it. And then it becomes more like every, like, topic. It kind of becomes smaller. But it starts with, like, this is every laugh when I'm building, you know?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Coy]

But maybe that's fucking insane.

[Mark Normand]

I know. Bill Burr, same way. Doesn't write anything down. He just goes.

[Joe Coy]

I think Jim Jeffries, same way, too.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Joe Coy]

Cause he would tell me, it's like. He said, it's like, my story's 25 minutes. How could I write it down. I was like, man, yeah. I would at least start with. But you know where you're going. Like when you tell a long story, you know, know what the ending is usually right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

If, If I were to write something down. If, for me, it almost feels like it's. It's a script. And whenever I act and I gotta follow a script, I have a real tough time memorizing my lines. It's just. It's like, ah. Because I'm not enjoying it. Yeah, I'm not enjoying it. And so I sit down with someone and then we just go over the lines over and over and over. And I'm like, I hate this.

[Mark Normand]

I hate.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So the idea of having to do that with, with my set, with my material, it's like, I don't feel like it's going to come out the same way. It's going to be very mechanical with the delivery. Like, you know, every show, if you. I've listened to multiple shows and the wording changes. The delivery does change. Every single time I do it. There's a high, there's a low. I forget to do a. A minute in there somewhere and it's like, oh, I forgot to do it. Like, I missed this part right here.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because I'll have my guy who goes, hey, about. By the way, you forgot this whole chunk. Like, oh, hey, it still worked. So.

[Joe Coy]

But isn't the party. You missed that chunk? I think, like, that's, that's why I'm shocked you don't write it down. Because I think I'd be like, oh, I forgot. There's always one word I forget. I'm like, I should have said this word instead of that word.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The only time I get stressed out about it is when I'm doing a special. That's why I refuse to do a special live. I will never do live because I don't need that stress.

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And if you mess up, it just like, really. So always do two for me. I always do two. And the first one, I'll flub a few things. That second one, I'm always down. Yeah, yeah, totally always dialed in on that second one. And then for any reason, like, one time I was. When I did that special, I was telling you about Aloha Fluffy, where I talked about the story about the Middle East. I was, I was going through like a bad cold. And you can hear it. You can hear my nasal. Like, I was. Was just messed up. I probably had, like, forget what my temperature was. But I was struggling and I did forget a Big piece. And that's the only time I had to go back and pull from the first show. Oh, wow. And then insert it. And then when you watch the whole thing, you're like, you could. You could hear it. You don't see it because the editor was so good. But you can hear the difference in my voice where. The. Where I'm good. But then it cut back to the night before, and all of a sudden you hear the. And then, you know, the voice change. You can hear. Hear it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah. Anything like that. Like, if I have a couple too many drinks, I feel that slur coming. I'm like, oh, stuck. Yeah. Like, it gets in my head. Or if I'm stuffed up, I get to my head. Anything. Anything that with my voice kills me.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. But as far as notes go, only during specials. That's when I. I feel the need. Okay, let's go over some stuff and just kind of like, all right.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

Feels good writing out a set list before special. Because you're like, that's the last time I have to do it with this.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I definitely.

[Joe Coy]

Something nice about.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Once it's out there, then it's just like, let it fade.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And then I start incorporating new material on top of that old stuff. And then you just kind of phase it out.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly. That's a great feeling. Yeah. Especially that one joke. You're like, I never really even liked that joke. I'm so glad I could drop that

[Gabriel Iglesias]

one to support whatever the next bit. Like, there's bits that I hate, but it sets something.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So that I can call back later and slam it.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly, Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You to need that.

[Mark Normand]

Totally. It's like a little boost for the new bit.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, the movies have that, too. You're like, what the hell is this scene? Then you're like, oh, right. I mean, sometimes you got to do that, man.

[Mark Normand]

I find this was, I guess, in Hawaii.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There we go.

[Mark Normand]

Aloha fuffy. I. I do not do well in Hawaii because I think they're. I feel like the crowd's like, I live in Hawaii. I don't need to laugh at your. I already got it made.

[Joe Coy]

I do think there's some truth about when your life is too easy. Like, there's something about, like, laughing and, like, a city like this, everyone's just, like, in a fucking mood and pissed and, like, yeah, I need a laugh. I'm like, there's built up tension in Hawaii when you're. That, like, you don't laugh your hardest on vacation.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Joe Coy]

Like, their life Is, like, peaceful. I feel like. I don't know, maybe there's. This is crazy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It is such a chill vibe there.

[Joe Coy]

But think about Chicago.

[Mark Normand]

Great crowd.

[Joe Coy]

There's like a fucking intensity that.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But there's drama there. There's stuff you can address.

[Joe Coy]

Boston, sf. The city's a fucking mess. THEY LAUGH.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, Buffalo.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, Buffalo, Seattle. There's a fucking needle on a foot. But you go in that room, they're gonna be fucking laughing.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. So the fact you killed here is a testament to your.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Stand up, it is a good time. And they have their own issues and problems. You just have to do the research to find out.

[Joe Coy]

Like, I. I saw the Descendants with Clooney. Nice.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I did one joke there that. That got a huge laugh. Laugh and a huge groan at the same time.

[Mark Normand]

I love that.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And basically I was talking about how Maui fires. No, no, not. Not even that. Not even that.

[Joe Coy]

Or like, why are we laughing at this?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No, I guess it was at the time that had just been an earthquake here in California. And so I was talking about the earthquake and how it was on the news and stuff like that. And I says, yeah, so I'm talking to my friend about the earthquake in California. Go, did you hear about it? And he goes, nah, brother, I didn't hear about it. I go, you didn't hear about our natural disaster? He goes, nah, brother, we have our own natural disaster here on the island. I go, well, you have earthquakes. He goes, no, brother, worse Micronesians. And I guess there's a. There was a thing where the government was blowing up Micronesia. They gave him a bunch of money, said, go ahead and move to Hawaii. And so they got. They got. That was their version of Hurricane Katrina, where all the people from Louisiana came into Texas. And so it's kind of like the same. The same thing. People were displaced and they came in. Got it, you know, crime and all kinds of other stuff. So. So it was a huge laugh because we're like, ah. But then people are like, oh, you're saying bad things about the people.

[Joe Coy]

That is our life.

[Mark Normand]

So it was, you know, what the hell's a Micronesian? I've never even heard of that.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There you go. Google that one right there.

[Mark Normand]

Is that a. Is that a country?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. Oh, geez, it's pretty. But yeah, America kind of went in there and started messing it up. So that's why they give them a bunch of like, hey, here's some money. Move to Hawaii. Forget about this. And.

[Mark Normand]

Got it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, it's off by Australia. All right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Damn but, yeah, so that joke got a big.

[Mark Normand]

That's it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And then you can hear the groans in there, too.

[Mark Normand]

And I'm like, ooh, a couple Micronesia in the crowd.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It is. It is possible to offend Hawaiians.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. Although suicide. Suicide rate is quite high in Hawaii.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Is this.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Believe it or not.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No kidding.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. You know why? Because if you live in Hawaii and you're depressed, you're like, well, I got nowhere to go from. From here. You know what I mean? Like, this is it. This is the happiest place on Earth. And I can't be happy. I can't be happy here. I'm.

[Joe Coy]

I had a friend who just went to Hawaii. Like, fell in love instantly. It's beautiful. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Something about It's a special place.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I think you need perspective in life. And if all you've ever known is Hawaii, then you don't look at it the same way where somebody that, like, lived in, I don't know, Albuquerque. And you're like. You go from Albuquerque to, you know, to, you know.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Maui. And you're like, oh, my God.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

If all you've ever known is the ocean and the palm trees and the beautiful sand and the beaches.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There's no way for you to do the.

[Mark Normand]

Where do you go from there? It's only down. Yeah, I. I went to Maui, did some shows. Unbelievably beautiful. The air, it's not hot, it's not cold. It's just perfect. The air tastes good. It's wet. But the locals there are the toughest people I've ever met in my life. I saw a fist fight between a white guy and a Hawaiian guy guy. Best fight I've ever seen. Throwing each other through windows and crazy. And we all jumped off a cliff. Just, you know, a couple of honkies get away. Yeah. Just being silly. Jumping in the water. And then you walk out in the sand, go back up the mountain and jump off the cliff again. The local guys would climb the cliff. I'm talking wet rock climbing. And then they would do, like, eight backflips off. And we were like, ah, good to meet you, you know? And I was, like, scared to jump off. I had floaties on.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I'm not a bumper about that.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, really?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That sounds like something my manager, who's in the room right now, would do. He would jump off of some like that.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, it was like that. Like, nothing crazy.

[Joe Coy]

That sounds like a.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

He stepped out.

[Joe Coy]

It's gonna be paralyzed.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

A sea urchin.

[Joe Coy]

That's A great. That's a great reality show on NBC.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Damn.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The thing was like, that long, and it broke off in his foot.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, he's a gangster, dude.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

He left it. He didn't even go to the doctor. Okay.

[Mark Normand]

So I don't know if you want

[Gabriel Iglesias]

to call that beat tough or just, like, dude avoidance. Yeah. So he still went out and partied and we hung out, and I think a week later he had it pulled out of his foot.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But he stepped on one of those right there.

[Mark Normand]

Yikes. That's long. That's a. More than a micronesia.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, that is a little bit longer.

[Mark Normand]

Look at that vagina, though. Jesus. That's a. That's a quite a bush, but. Yeah. My God. Well, that seems like hell. I would not want to step on one of those, but.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. Ain't jumping off a cliff or a rock or nothing. Just, you know, I'm not. Not much for the sand.

[Joe Coy]

Are you an outdoorsy guy?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No, I mean, if I'm in a car or some Polaris or something fun like. You know what I mean? But I don't like going to the beach. I.

[Joe Coy]

What's. What on the road is like your thing if you're. If you're traveling. How do you do it? Booze?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. My kind of guy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

What's your. What's your. Besides tequila, what do you drink?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Whatever it is that somebody's handing me, I'll drink anything.

[Joe Coy]

So are you like a. What kind of bar guy are you?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

As far as you like.

[Joe Coy]

You like a tavern? You like a dive? You like. I love lounge.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I love a dive.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, me too.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

When the wood floor has that layer of film on it, you're like, oh, this? Yeah. Yeah. Some stuff happened here. They have a jukebox or one of

[Joe Coy]

those pool tables with the quarters.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah, yeah. If you see that. That pool table with the quarters.

[Mark Normand]

Love it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

All the balls come out.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's great. There's money, like, cat dollar bills on the wall or panties.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Pictures or something.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's great. That's a small little hole in the. I love a wall.

[Joe Coy]

Fake IDs on it, too.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, that's a good one, too. Don't let this guy in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With stickers everywhere. That's a big one.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I don't like clubs anymore. Like a nightclub. The music's too loud. You can't talk. I'm just like.

[Joe Coy]

They're taking away our only ability as comedians.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

How's it going? You got to just text the group. Yeah, it's the worst.

[Mark Normand]

You lose your voice in there.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I, I, I prefer a nice.

[Joe Coy]

I like a bartender that looks like

[Mark Normand]

that, like a 1-6-6. That guy's name is Sea Urchin. This is some good tequila. It's going down easy. There something, some.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

A place that plays like 70s classic rock music.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, that's, that's what I like.

[Mark Normand]

So wait, did, Where'd you grow up? Did I miss that?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Long Beach.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, Long Beach. Okay. Wow. Long beach is cool.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. But I mean, for the last, God, what, 20 years now, I've lived everywhere. So it's like. Yeah. Done all 50 states and then just always on the road. So now I spend time between California and Texas. That's where I have two houses. I have one there.

[Joe Coy]

We're in Texas.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

New Braunfels. So it's in between Austin and San Antonio. So if I want to go mothership, I go north. If I want to go lol, I go south.

[Mark Normand]

There you go. I just did lol. It's a great room, great time. San Diego is underrated comedy town.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah, I always. Sorry.

[Mark Normand]

San Antonio it is.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They just added a new underrated Mexican food. I want to say it's called the Mic Drop. They just added a club called a Mic Drop.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, really?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And they built a club in the old Comedy Condo building.

[Mark Normand]

What?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because I remember I used to perform. Perform at the River Center Comedy Club. And then.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They wouldn't put you at a hotel. They put you at the Comedy Condo and the Comedy Condo.

[Joe Coy]

How bad were the condos?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It wasn't that bad.

[Joe Coy]

This one was good. Most of them were bad.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The carpets are like just like eight different colors.

[Joe Coy]

Did they change the sheets? Did Joe derosa Jack off in this bed last weekend? Who knows?

[Mark Normand]

I know. It smells like Kirk Fox in here.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I love how specific you were with those names, but yeah, they, they built a comedy club in the basement. Basement. And it's called a Mic Drop. It's a sick club. The room holds maybe 150 people. They got a sick little bar and it's just, it's really, really cool. Oh, I just opened it maybe two months ago.

[Mark Normand]

Wait, is it in a. It's in a hotel.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's inside the old building.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, that.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The Comedy Condo was.

[Mark Normand]

I think I popped in there after LOL shows and it was. Yeah, it was great. It's a low ceiling. Yes. Yeah, that was killer. Yeah, I thought it was called the Riot. Maybe. I have to go.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No, no, no, you're right.

[Mark Normand]

You're right. The Ride.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Sorry, sorry, I haven't played the mic drop, but big shout out to mic. You know why I thought mic drop? Because I have a mic drop in San Diego.

[Mark Normand]

And I said, san Diego, I. You up. All right, there you go. The riot.

[Joe Coy]

All the. All these great comedy towns, too.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's another. Another great. That's the club. There it is.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There it is.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah. Great little room down there. The riot.

[Joe Coy]

I'm gonna hit it up when I'm

[Mark Normand]

worth popping in on.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And they have. They have one in Houston there, and I think there's another place they have a riot.

[Joe Coy]

I like. These still pop into the little rooms. Man, that's good.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know what I think? Once you feel like you' good for those rooms, that's when you're going downhill. So always stay hungry if you can and. And try to work yourself right.

[Joe Coy]

I mean, you gotta. Gotta eat it with the new somewhere.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Joe Coy]

And you got. And also, it feels good to. Feels good to.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Small room like that. It's. It's the most real, honest room because if your material is good, you're gonna know. And if it's not, it's. It's one of those. It's a reality check. Because in an arena, it's always gonna sound good. It's all. Yeah, yeah. It's a. It's always gonna sound like that at a comedy club in front of freaking 80 people. You're go, that joke is good.

[Mark Normand]

Ain't that true?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. So it feels good to pop in like that. And. And, you know, I'm excited to still do it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Hell yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And it's so funny because, like, the manager after comes up to me goes, listen, we only got a. Like, I could pay you, like, like 200. And like. Like, bro, I'm. Don't try to pay me.

[Mark Normand]

Keep it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

He's trying to pay me money. I go, dude, just. I'll drink more of your alcohol than what you're about to give me right now.

[Mark Normand]

Totally. I mean, I took the money.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I appreciate that. You know, they'll try to break me off. You know, I'm like, I'm doing okay.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

You know what those rooms feel like? You ever hear those stories about the sorority girls where they make you take your clothes off and they highlight all your wrong areas? Whoa.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I didn't know that game.

[Joe Coy]

It feels like they're doing that with your actual crowd. Yeah. You're like, that sucks. This sucks. And you're like, oh, shit. I feel like, okay, right, right. I was at New jokes the other Night at the Cellar, and you're just like, it's great. You get a couple new things going. But it's funny, you know when you're, like, gearing up for a special and you're killing, and you feel like. You're like, who gives a shit, Right? I don't fucking like this anymore. Who cares? I'm sick of this. And then you go on the first few times with new shit, and you get, like, two new jokes to hit the rest of the sets a wash, and you actually feel good.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You feel good because you know that those bits. You got two new ones.

[Joe Coy]

I got two new ones.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Joe Coy]

That was. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Because the win is that you can still write. You know, it's killing with old. You already proved it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

You know, but when you write a new one, you're like, all right, I still.

[Joe Coy]

And, you know, you're in editing mode, so you're like, I know this works. I just gotta cut out the. The weak parts. But the new. You're rebuilding.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The hardest thing to do is to sacrifice your ego for the sake of trying something new.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Because most of the time, you just want to go in and you want the high of the laugh and the kill and.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But to take that, you know, like, pull back and then go, all right, we're just gonna try this new thing and see how it goes.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And not intentionally kill.

[Joe Coy]

Right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's a hard one, because you're. You're risking it to try to build this new thing.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know, a lot of times, guys don't want to break away. They want to stay comfortable.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And by the way, the Cellar, I finally got to perform there. I. I've only performed there one time, and that was very recently. I had always wanted to perform at the Cellar, but I could never get in. What? I swear to you, I could never physically. Oh, I was waiting anyway. I could never. I could never believe him. Get up on that stage. Because for some reason, I had no issues getting up at Caroline's. No issue getting up at Goth. When was this?

[Joe Coy]

And they wouldn't put you up.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Stand Up, New York. I could just never get into the club.

[Joe Coy]

What it was was this, like, 20 years ago.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's been. Not 20 years ago. It's been for, like, forever that I've tried going up, and I could never get in. Wow. And so I did a set at Gotham a few months back, and my tour manager made a phone. I found out that one of the guys on my show was gonna go over there, and I go, oh, really? You're going over there? And so I had. I asked my tour manager to reach out to the club to see if maybe there was a possibility hanging out or even getting up for a spot. And they said yes. And I guess when I got there, it's like it was so clustered with comics. You're right in the hallway and I. Somebody got bumped. Somebody got bumped. And then I went up there and I did. I did my 10 minutes and I heard somebody talking about, why is he here taking away sets?

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And when I went up there, I was. I was a few in. And so I said, for all the comics in the back talking shit about, what is this guy doing here taking sets away from these comics? I said, understand now. I had to bust my ass for over freaking 20 years to finally get this opportunity to perform here once. So right now know now that I'm. I'm marking my one time appearance here at the Cellar. I go, so, like it or not, I had to work for this.

[Joe Coy]

I go, what are we. What is he talking about? We didn't hear the comments.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I understand. It's a fight I was having with myself, only with myself. And, and it was one dude who

[Mark Normand]

probably just like, I shouldn't have said that, said nothing.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But then afterwards, the, the. The staff invited us upstairs to the restaurant and they took care of us like kings and we just had such a great time. And.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, that shouldn't be your time there.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It felt awesome. And I'm there tonight if you want to hang. I was very happy to finally.

[Mark Normand]

You got in set at the Cellar. Hell, yeah.

[Joe Coy]

I think you always feel that there's always like one club that's kind of your blind area, you know, like, we, we. We always felt that way about the Comedy Store in la, but it's like, you know, it's. It's a foreign thing to you. We didn't come up there.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That place goes through its phases, so it's like it's. Sometimes it's toxic, sometimes it's like, all right, it's more corporate. And right now I feel like it's in a place where it's really, really good. I want to say, is it Rose who runs the Comedy Store?

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. She's incredibly awesome. She's just been nothing but, like.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Anytime you want to come by, just, you know, you just. Very welcoming and just had a baby and. Yes. Oh, she finally did.

[Mark Normand]

A baby girl when I saw her,

[Gabriel Iglesias]

yeah, A couple months ago.

[Mark Normand]

Mazel tov, Rose.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Congratulations, Rose.

[Mark Normand]

There you go. But, yeah, but, yeah, she's cool.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Comedy Store was not a place that I ever enjoyed going until recently. Recently.

[Mark Normand]

There you go. Look at that. So where were you? A laugh factory improv guy?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No, I was on the road.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, okay. There you go.

[Joe Coy]

So you didn't work in town, you were just burnt out?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I was always. I'm gone. Once I started getting work, I'm. I'm gone. I'm. I'm going anywhere. I'm going to Dayton, Ohio. I'm going to freaking, you know, Mississippi. I'm going anywhere.

[Mark Normand]

I love it. Are you a tour bus guy? Are you a flight guy? Both.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So. So I'll fly. Let's say if I'm in Long Beach, I'll fly out of Long beach to wherever the bus is at, and then for the next three days, we're on the bus, and on the last day, we fly either to Texas or to.

[Joe Coy]

Do you sleep on the bus or no?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yes. I prefer the bus. I had the bus customized for me. And what are some fluffy things here for the guys that get it? They're bunks, but I got. I got the big room in the back.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe Coy]

What if. What, like, what did you soup up that are like. That's like, totally you.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Let me see. I have a. On the tour bus, I have a full size toilet. So I don't have one of those RV toilets with the foot pump where the. The thing kind of.

[Joe Coy]

You can take a. On this tour bus.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I do.

[Mark Normand]

Good for you.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I do.

[Joe Coy]

That is crazy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's the number one rule.

[Joe Coy]

Luxurious part of it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The number one rule is you don't. On the bus. Of course.

[Mark Normand]

Totally tell him that.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

But when you own it on a bus.

[Joe Coy]

No, that was a green room.

[Mark Normand]

Sorry, my bad.

[Joe Coy]

No. When I did the tour bus, my camera guy. Pounding hot chicken in Nashville, and I said, be careful on a tour bus tonight. And he's like, I got this. He had three hot chickens. I was like, all right, dude. Fucking hot box is the. The. I'm like, dude, the guy's got to throw it away. You got it. You got to tell him to pull over.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I made him right now. I know what you mean.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Tell everybody what hot boxing is.

[Joe Coy]

I mean, you put it in a.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No. Hot bag.

[Joe Coy]

Hot bag. Sorry.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Hot box is when you get high in the car.

[Joe Coy]

He hot bagged it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Hot bag.

[Joe Coy]

When you on the toilet but in a garbage bag and disgusting.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You line the. The. The toilet. You put a trash bag in the toilet and then just line it and you sit on the.

[Mark Normand]

I've never Heard on my driver.

[Joe Coy]

I said. I said, anyone else ever hot bag you? And he's like, don't get me started on Sagura.

[Mark Normand]

Oh.

[Joe Coy]

I was like, tom.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I had a few guys hot bag out on the bus, but I do not hot bag my bus.

[Joe Coy]

It's nasty.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So my bus before.

[Joe Coy]

Where does the go? It just goes under the. Where does it go? Like in.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It goes on. There's a whole tank and everything. And so my. My. Dave, whenever we hit a truck stop or something, you know, fill up the bus with water with the tank and then drain whatever's in.

[Joe Coy]

There's a siphon out.

[Mark Normand]

Poop. No.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Well, you know what I mean. It's a whole system. You just lock it in and sucks it out and puts in the new stuff. So, yeah, it's. It's pretty easy. As far as customizing my bathroom on the tour bus is. Is like a full size bathroom. I have a massive bathroom on my bus. My shower is huge. You can extend your arms all the way the way out. I have a shower, a bench, and everything. It's badass. Yeah. So I basically took out space from the closet because I don't have a huge wardrobe. I just got to buy all my, you know, shirts. I just have, you know, and I only need three shirts for the weekend, so I don't really need that much closet space. So I use the closet space to build out my big shower. And then I have the. The bathroom, the toilet, and a huge sink, mirrors and stuff. So, yeah, it's pretty pimp.

[Mark Normand]

Damn.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Axl Rose had my bus before I did.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[Joe Coy]

Damn.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I, like, every time I get on the bus, I'm like, yeah, some evil shit happened.

[Joe Coy]

Put a flashlight up to that fucking.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There used to be a pole in the front lounge from the bus that would. The ceiling would slide to the side, and then a pole would come down. And then you'd lock the pole down into this little pole, and it was like an acrylic pole that had water in it and glitter.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, fun.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And. Yeah, like a stripper pole. Yeah, basically it's a stripper pole. And then there was. There's mirrors in the corners where it would reflect a laser beam. So the. The line would just create this laser show on. On the front lounge.

[Mark Normand]

Now, here's the question. What has more jizz in it? That bus or a comedy condo?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Comedy condo.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, you're probably right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Comedy condo.

[Joe Coy]

And it's sad jizz, too.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Solo jizz tour bus jizz.

[Joe Coy]

Solo jizz tour bus jizz is Party jizz.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. Tour bus. That's cool.

[Joe Coy]

Sages.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. When you cross the street at that sad condo in Cleveland.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, Every single one, dude. So many memories, even the happy ones. It was a sadness to them. I don't like when there's no one. You can be like, hey, dude, the fucking thermostats broke. And they're like, yeah, I'm a fucking. I'm a waiter. I don't give a shit.

[Mark Normand]

Right?

[Joe Coy]

That's like your contact at the club. They're like, yeah, I don't know how it works.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. And, you know, it's even sadder. When I was broke, I would eat the comedy club condo food because they would always have a guy left food in there. And I would eat all of it, bro. Because I was so broke. I was like, oh, there's a free.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That. That there is the cure for Covid.

[Mark Normand]

Get that in your system.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Get that up in you.

[Mark Normand]

Well, it'd be like a box of powdered mashed potatoes. I was like, I'm making that. And it was from, like, you know, Bill Maher, you know, at 88 or something. And I would eat it. I was like, I don't have to go buy a food. This is great. Old waffles. That'd be like a bag of, like, chiquitos or something. I'd eat all that.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There'd always be something left over.

[Mark Normand]

Always Nasty peanut butter.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That's the. That's true. Gambling. There's, you know, I mean, if it

[Mark Normand]

was, like, milk in there, but do

[Gabriel Iglesias]

we do this or.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, there's a couple hot Pockets in there. All that.

[Joe Coy]

You look at the schedule, you're like, what? Got this. You didn't even stock the fridge.

[Mark Normand]

Right, right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And they always tell you, never touch the mayonnaise. Oh, never, never touch the mayonnaise.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, no, that's. That's sad jizz right there. Mayonnaise.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Like, yeah. Pauly Shore was just here. You never want to follow the Pauly Shore weekend. No.

[Mark Normand]

Ever. One time I did an improv in Miami. They were like, don't sit on that couch seat. And I was like, what? Why not? They're like, he jizzed on that one. So sit on the two. And I'm like, you can't get a new jizzed. He jizzed on the couch.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Was he aiming for someone or.

[Mark Normand]

I think he was getting blown. It was like. Or something. And they were like, don't sit on that cushion. So I was like, all right. So every. Every show, I had to sit off on the edge of the couch like this.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

God, he's just looking at it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, well, he's in the juice.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You're pointing at it. But, buddy. Hey, buddy.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Joe Coy]

That is nasty.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, he had. He had to run that. That Paulie.

[Joe Coy]

God damn. You got to not jizz on a cushion.

[Mark Normand]

And how about get a new cushion?

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, get. That's really the truth. Yeah, you got to get a new hot bag.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

The couch.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly. So, yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So the bus is pimped out.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe Coy]

That's pretty sick.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I sleep on the bus. I prefer to stay on the. That. Plus, I got my girl, I got my dog. So it's just. It makes it easier. We don't got to worry about the hotel, cuz staying at the hotel with. With the dog is. Yeah, she hears everything, and everything is

[Joe Coy]

a. Oh, but she's okay with the motion.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

She's on the bus. It's different because it's just. It's consistent noise. Anytime you have consistent noise, she's all good. But if it's a new sound or any little, you know, like what? Let's see. I'm surprised she didn't do off right now.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, usually they think the door. Oh, okay. Okay. There you go.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, but normally that would. That would be a. That would be a thing right there.

[Mark Normand]

Not a good sign for the episode. We're knocking dogs out here.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa. Okay, so that's a good idea.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

All right, so in the front lounge, the bus had a toilet seat with the pump, like the RV pump. I had it taken out, and I figured there's no girls on the bus, so I said, let's put in a urinal. And they're like, the. The bus company was like, that's. No one's ever done that. And I'm like, well, it's about to be done, so let's put one in, make it a waterless one. Because I have a waterless urinal at my building, and so I'm breaking records

[Joe Coy]

at stadiums and with urinals, dude, you

[Gabriel Iglesias]

know how cool it is every time a guy sees the urinal? They're like, there's a urinal right here. I go, yeah. Whoa. It's a dude bus. And so, you know, and my girl, she used my bathroom in the bathroom.

[Joe Coy]

And there's a glory hole, dude. All dudes, all the time.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

That'd be funny to put a Glo holding the door.

[Joe Coy]

Like, why do you do this?

[Mark Normand]

You never know. You get a low one for Brad Williams.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, God. But, yeah, So I had a urinal Put in. And now they. I got a second bus, and they put one in that urinal or they put a urinal on that bus too. And I heard other people found out about the urinal, and now that's becoming a thing.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, good.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I feel like I've pioneered the urinal tour bus thing.

[Mark Normand]

That's br. It's. It's more efficient than a toilet, by far.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's easier to clean.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, exactly.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Easier to clean. So much easier to aim, too, when you're going for 70 miles an hour.

[Joe Coy]

Throw some ice in there.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Joe Coy]

Love when there's some ice in here.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Oh, that's the best.

[Joe Coy]

You zap it out. It's fun.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You melt it. Nothing like hearing the smell. Not the smell, but the. The sound of the ice. Just.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. You feel like a superhero. Invaders or something killing isis. Yeah. Well, where are you gonna be? You back on tour? What's the story?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Well, let's see. Next week. Well, this weekend I'm going to. Tomorrow I'm going to Canada. I got two dates in Canada, then off to Montana, I think I'm doing a fair.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And then next week, I got two days in Bakersfield. Then so far, stadium hell.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And then after that, I take off a week, and then we're back on tour.

[Mark Normand]

I love it. And.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And the.

[Mark Normand]

Does the fair pay well?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Fairs pay incredibly well, and we think

[Joe Coy]

you threw an affair for the love of the game.

[Mark Normand]

Well, that's what I was confused. A bunch of toothless yokels. You think, hey, you're gonna. You're not gonna make any money. But you're. You're a big.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Fairs and casinos, they. Yes, they pay very, very well.

[Mark Normand]

Good to know.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I don't think a lot of comedians are able to do fairs, which is why I think there's also a better pay for that because you got family friendly. There's kids in the crowd. There's. There's old, you know, older people in the crowd. So they want you to have a show that's friendly to.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

And. Yeah, you'll. You know, we'll. We'll have 10,000 to 15,000 people at a fair. Wow. Yeah, they. The pay is really, really good.

[Mark Normand]

Okay. Good to know.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

For a while, I wanted to just be the king of the fairs because it was just. There's so many.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, there's.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Every state's got their. You know, you could stay busy all year just doing fairs.

[Mark Normand]

Damn.

[Joe Coy]

Damn.

[Mark Normand]

That's. That's cool. I had no. Nate did a lot of f. But,

[Gabriel Iglesias]

you know, it's It's a thing where you're outside. You got to deal with the elements. Sometimes there's people running around, there's kids running around. Sometimes you got to start during the day. Nothing worse than trying to be funny during the. I don't feel like you're as funny when there's sun out. Definitely not when it's in your face.

[Mark Normand]

Brutal.

[Joe Coy]

I mean, outdoors and day is a. Is a tough combo.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Joe Coy]

That's two strikes against.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. But when you're out there and you're just kind of.

[Mark Normand]

You're doing this one o and we're sweating.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You start off, your set starts off with sunlight and you finish and it's night time.

[Mark Normand]

Weird. That's crazy.

[Joe Coy]

But they.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They take really good care. But you know, you just got to be flexible with it because it's not going to be a comfortable gig. Casinos are a lot more comfortable.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You're inside. You know, everyone there is over 21. The fair. You got kids, you got kids.

[Mark Normand]

You got to follow the goat race. You know, there's always something weird, bobbing for something, whatever. Yeah, yeah. The hate.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You had to be squeaky clean at casinos and then they changed that rule because who goes to a casino like, you know, who loses their ass and says all shucks?

[Mark Normand]

You know what I mean?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Like you got. Come on. You got to on that one. So.

[Mark Normand]

And you're still clean. That's impressive.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I will cuss course of an hour, I'll drop maybe three F bombs. But it's like, that's impressive. It's you know, not even a tick because some comics do it as a tick where just every other word but they're very specifically one well placed. Yeah, I don't, you know, I'm very, very selective with the. The cussing.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. I remember Bill Cosby himself, he says once it gets like a three minute applause break because it just. It's so powerful.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah. And it's even bigger when you don't do it. So when you save it up and all of a sudden it comes out, it's like.

[Joe Coy]

Oh, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly, exactly.

[Joe Coy]

Kind of like his roofies really thick.

[Mark Normand]

All right, well, what else you got? Sad. Where was. We got you. We got you.

[Joe Coy]

Yeah, I did just got May 7th.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

First of all, I'm impressed you guys can read that. I'm like, look. I'm like, yeah, I know what I'm looking at. But I can't see the Inglewood, Raleigh.

[Mark Normand]

It's almost State farm arenas.

[Joe Coy]

Look at this. These are wild.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Wow.

[Mark Normand]

Moody center in Austin. Geez. Louise, Corpus Christi. Oh, those are over. Sorry. Beaumont, Texas. Wow.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

No, none of those have happened yet.

[Joe Coy]

Okay, that's May.

[Mark Normand]

Sorry. Oh, Oakland, Sacramento, a couple nights in Vegas, Tucson. You ever think you'll ever do the Sphere?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I had that conversation already, and it doesn't make sense. The Sphere is probably the most expensive place to perform just because of, like, you know, you got to create the content to fill the screens. It's not like a regular thing where you just turn on a camera.

[Joe Coy]

It's a music place.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's. It's more. Definitely more music or. Or film. Like, I went to go watch wizard of Oz there. It was insane. They had to format it and, and, and create, you know, around the original content. You can see it. They digitally created to expand the. The vision of whatever that is. So let's say you're looking at that.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They digitally duplicated what you see on the screen to fill out this whole area.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, my Lord.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So it looks. Looks awesome. And what they add is like, let's say during the tornado, there's giant fans that turn on.

[Joe Coy]

There's.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

There's a confetti that they blow into the crowd. And when the trees are shaking, apples actually fall. Like, they have a thing where apples fall.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

They're like the little, like. Like little Styrofoam, but it's cool. And it says wizard of Oz.

[Mark Normand]

That's amazing.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It was. It was a lot of fun. And they. They shortened the film by a little bit, but, you know, they cut to the chase on. It was a good time. I've seen multiple shows there and, and for music, it definitely makes sense. The Eagles and Backstreet Boys were my two favorite concerts there. Joe Coy and I talked about doing the Sphere, and I go, it doesn't make sense, dude. The visually, you know, talking and comedy just. It's not going to fit.

[Joe Coy]

It takes away from it.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It takes away from.

[Joe Coy]

Minimalist is better for standup.

[Mark Normand]

True.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So. So no. So we will not be. I will not be anyway doing it.

[Mark Normand]

All right. But you can put the VW buses up or something.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

You know, I. I remember talking to AJ From Backstreet Boys. They had to do so many shows before they even broke even. Oh, and then you're making money. So to do one or two shows would not make sense because it's just so expensive. Yeah, like Dana White taking UFC in there. They. They didn't. They didn't make money being there one night. You know, you really. I mean, maybe from the pay per view and stuff that. But you're not gonna. You're not gonna get that from. From being in that building.

[Mark Normand]

That's a bummer.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

It's. It's not a good building. Building for that. Definitely music. I'm planning on going. Seeing. I already got the suite for Metallica, so I'm gonna see Metallica.

[Joe Coy]

I was there for wizard of Oz and I was just so sick. I had to rest up for the show. I was like. I wanted to go so badly because I heard. I heard. It's unreal.

[Mark Normand]

I saw Two Girls, One cup there. It was phenomenal. I mean, dropping on you. It was crazy.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Don't look up.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, just don't look up.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Trust me on this one.

[Joe Coy]

Just.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Just stay focused.

[Mark Normand]

All right? That show is the. All right. Yeah. So we're gonna be all over you. You know where to find us.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Yeah, you know where to find us.

[Mark Normand]

Get some bodega cat.

[Joe Coy]

Punch up dot live and slash Mark Norman. Punch up live. Sam.

[Mark Normand]

Thank you.

[Joe Coy]

Look at these together. This looks good together.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Seen that movie?

[Mark Normand]

Interracial.

[Joe Coy]

Look at that. That's fun.

[Mark Normand]

That's good stuff. That's a fun night right there.

[Joe Coy]

All right, great to meet you.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Appreciate you guys. This is really nice to finally meet you.

[Mark Normand]

It's an honor. You're.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I honestly thought you guys lived out in la.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, no, we're funny.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Okay, really quick. Really, really quick. Do you guys feel like there's been a thing over the years where it's like almost like rappers with comics, like east coast, West Coast.

[Mark Normand]

There's a lot of great way.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I. I don't mean like the fighting as more. More of like a certain style.

[Mark Normand]

Like, definitely a style. I think LA is bigger. You got like a Sebastian and guys like that, where. I think New York is more David Patel, you know, more jokey, more written. That would be my assessment. But both, you know, they got. You got Jezoneck over there, you got Bill Burr over there, you got. You got a lot of great comics.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Bill Burst from out here, though.

[Mark Normand]

That's true. I was trying to throw you a bone there.

[Joe Coy]

Sebastian's from Chicago.

[Mark Normand]

All right, well, you got nothing out there, but. No, no, of course, you know, isn't.

[Joe Coy]

So.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

I've always felt. I've always felt like, who's actually from here? Like, I know I'm from out there, but.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, you're from there.

[Joe Coy]

Most LA people are not from there.

[Mark Normand]

Adam Corolla is from from la. Yeah, yeah. Who else?

[Gabriel Iglesias]

See what I mean?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah. But we got George Carlin, Woody Allen, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Seinfeld Yeah, they're all from New York. Davitel, Amy Schumer.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

So I feel very special that you guys can't really name anybody, but.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, sorry. Wait, so you're the LA guy. You gotta hold. You gotta hold it down. Well, you're the Dodgers.

[Joe Coy]

The Dodgers guy solidifies you as. That's true.

[Mark Normand]

Now, let me ask you, when you pay taxes, I hope you're playing paying Texas taxes.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Soon enough.

[Mark Normand]

Soon enough.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Soon enough.

[Mark Normand]

Don't let him take your shirt off.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Work way too hard.

[Joe Coy]

It's a lot of you. UWS right there.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Uhhuh.

[Joe Coy]

Vws.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Vws.

[Joe Coy]

Man, I really. I really don't know cars. I don't drive. I don't even drive. Uws. Oh, trying to stick the.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Got a bunch of unwanted. Yeah, that says uw a bunch of.

[Joe Coy]

My dad used to call me.

[Mark Normand]

There we go. All right. We might be drunk. We'll see later. Thank you, Fluffy. Thank you to the dog.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

Sunday's the day for my next offender. A bit of piva wreck. You know, the beer Jew's close. I've had a little too much burping. And Norman's talking shit about the fucking poke.

[Mark Normand]

And I get down in the same

[Gabriel Iglesias]

way up on the roof like the cops coming. And naked Samuel feeling dangerous. I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans. This woman doesn't look like I remember her.

[Mark Normand]

And I get down in the same way.

[Gabriel Iglesias]

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