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Valley Boys Stand Up

June 21, 2024
Comedian Concrete describes growing up in the Valley, his gentrified hood, if PC culture is really ruining comedy, and how dating has changed.
Show transcript
00:00
What is up guys?
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We are out here in the valley of Burbank.
00:03
Is that even right?
00:03
No, I don't know.
00:04
But we had GML is going to have a new strategy.
00:07
Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think this is gonna work
00:09
I, I don't know about all these camera phones you
00:10
guys got here. We,
00:12
we asked them to say it's cool.
00:14
Is that what they said?
00:15
But yeah, we share the parking lot and we're actually right
00:17
now we're in meditation.
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I teach over here at the kids martial arts class so we
00:21
can hear you guys talking like the whole time talking about like
00:23
sandwiches and stuff. So I ain't gonna work.
00:25
Oh, we don't want any trouble,
00:26
man. I,
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I'm sure you don't want any trouble.
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I don't want any trouble either.
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You know how fast I am.
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Well, we, we'll stop recording and that's cool.
00:34
Yeah, that'd be cool if you do stop recording because I'm
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in the, you know,
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we got your permit right here.
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I'm gonna accept this donation.
00:44
So you gave me $1.
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So that means you have exactly 10 minutes.
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So do what you gotta do and get the hell out of
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here. Thank you,
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Sensei. Yeah, that's the last thing you wanna do.
00:51
Actually, we don't do that.
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We don't actually do this.
00:53
Oh, sorry Sensei.
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That's, that's Chinese and we're,
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we're from Thailand. So.
00:57
Oh, yeah. Yeah,
01:00
that's pretty racist for you.
01:01
You know what? I got another permit right here.
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All right, you guys can use the parking lot too if
01:07
you guys wanna come and use my and then use the thing
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too and I'll, I'll get the kids to do something.
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If you guys want,
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they do like backs and shit,
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they'll do whatever the fuck you want.
01:15
Those fucking kids. A little Mexicans,
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dude, they'll do whatever buddy for this much,
01:19
bro. They, they'll fucking build you a restaurant like this
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dude, man. You guys have a good freaking day,
01:24
bro. All right.
01:26
Well, that was nice.
01:27
That was, that was,
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that was what is up y'all?
01:30
We're out here with concrete.
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What's up Gs in Burbank and a 18 in the house.
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A one a baby.
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Let's go. So I heard you love the spot.
01:39
You can put us on some new stuff.
01:40
This is one of my favorite spots in the,
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in, in the,
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in the valley, bro.
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It's sub sandwiches.
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You can't go wrong.
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It's either or you would never go to another submarine spot ever
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again. When talking,
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it's fucking go. Let's go ladies first.
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Oh Thank you. Thank you,
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cash only, bro.
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So don't be bringing in your hopes and dreams in here because
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it ain't gonna work,
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bring cash mula greenbacks,
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dead presidents. And you gonna see.
02:06
Look at that. Look at that.
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Shoot that, shoot that.
02:09
I get that at subway stop.
02:15
Oh my God. The size of that.
02:21
All right, cool.
02:22
So we got our sandwiches here.
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Let's dig in a little bit.
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You see that little baby in it.
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Look at this. It's a roundhouse kick to the mouth when
02:35
you eat that, bro.
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Let me tell you right now.
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Look at that. Cheers,
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cheers, cheers on sandwiches.
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Oh my God. OK,
02:46
this is good. So going on your comedy,
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what do you think about people being too sensitive nowadays?
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I do, I do my jokes.
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I don't think my fan base tends to be that,
02:55
you know, your take on things like I'm just kidding,
02:58
dude. You know,
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like, and, and you know that I,
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I think ultimately that whatever I say it comes from a good
03:04
place, I'm not really trying to bash on anybody.
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You know, people need to understand that us as comedians,
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we sometimes will take a dark issue and make fun of it
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to get out of it to step away from it.
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Obviously, there's, you can't laugh about everything,
03:16
right? You push a little bit,
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you can push a little bit and if you really want to
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go in the deep end and really go out there,
03:23
then it better be funny.
03:24
I've seen some crazy shit in shows that happened with the,
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the people watching and the comedians has anything like that ever happened
03:31
to you, like,
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or no, any kings carrying that on.
03:34
You Pasadena, Texas,
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I go on and some dude's like,
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hey, you fucking bitch straight up like,
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and I'm in my like,
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hey, what's up guys?
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How you guys doing tonight?
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We're all the beautiful couples out.
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You're a bitch. I'm like,
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and I was like,
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hey, man, sit down,
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man. He's like,
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no, fuck that.
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I'm sitting down me and you gotta talk right now.
03:56
Fuck the show. Fuck these people.
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I need to talk to you right now,
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man, to man.
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And I'm like, and dude,
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at that point I have blocks.
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I'm like, what's up,
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bro? What's your issue,
04:06
bro? What's your issue?
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Nah. Fuck that.
04:08
You blocked my cousin black and everybody's like what?
04:13
He's like, yeah,
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you fucking blocked my cousin and the cousin.
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He's right there like this.
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The cousin was so embarrassed.
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The dude's girl was so embarrassed.
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She was like, oh my God.
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And I was like,
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well, I was like,
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hey, why did I block you?
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Did you say something stupid to me or like,
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you know, did you cross the line?
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And he was like,
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no, I didn't say anything and the cousin looks over and
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he's like, what's going on and then they start arguing and
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I was like, ok,
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so then I'm letting them do their thing and I get back
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to my show. Why Concrete?
04:40
Why, how do you say that name?
04:42
I used to be called Beretta when I was rapping.
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Was it red? So they used to call me Beretta.
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Oh Beretta as like the gun.
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So he was a rapper.
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I was a rapper.
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Yeah. Insert rap song right now.
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Let my mind go.
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Let me my best friend.
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He was my height man,
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my manager, he passed away in 2008 and I kinda wanted
04:59
to leave rap and I wanted to leave it all.
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And I was, I'm done with this.
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I needed to grow as a person.
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His death really helped me grow as a person.
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And when I decided to come back out into like the world
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and back into entertainment,
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I decided to change my name concrete because just like concrete.
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When you lay it,
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it takes time for it to harden and become a solid foundation
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So now that I am concrete I can build from here
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baby, you can't knock it down.
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So it's not the coolest name in the world,
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but it means something to me.
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And the reason we heard today is because of my best friend
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This used to be our restaurant.
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We used to come here all the time.
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So full circle, full circle baby.
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Now we're here with you guys.
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Yes. Your characters though.
05:40
Are they based on real people?
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I don't think I've ever been diagnosed.
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I think I have multiple personalities because there's times where I feel
05:49
like Chuck deals, there's times where I feel like,
05:53
you know, Dorothy Explorer,
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you know, I just,
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it's crazy man. Like the fact that I get to do
05:58
this and just play G I Joe every day and have fun
06:00
and just record and stuff like that just,
06:02
you know, but all the characters are stuff that just comes
06:06
to the mind and whatever I think is funny,
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you know, I try not to follow,
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say like social media trends.
06:12
I just tend to do me,
06:13
bro, you know.
06:14
Well, man, I wanna eat a sandwich.
06:16
So just wrap this up.
06:18
Where can people find you on social?
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Are you touring soon?
06:21
Yes, I'm actually on tour.
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You can catch all the stuff on my social media page
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at Concrete Live on Instagram.
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That's where I have my link and B you got some check
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out the shows there,
06:29
man. I'll be in Texas.
06:30
I'm going back to Texas.
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I'm doing Raleigh, North Carolina.
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I'm doing Atlanta. We're going to Washington DC.
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We're doing Portland and his shit sells out guys.
06:39
I tried to get tickets for I think your Covina show and
06:41
it like, I think I hit you up too and they
06:43
were sold out. But oh my God,
06:45
like it sells out and if not hit,
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I hit up Marty,
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my manager, he has usually has 10 in his back pocket
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Shout out to the crew at GML is here.
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I think that's a good man.