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Hey guys, we are here with Venezuelan comedian Francisco Ramos at
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a Mara cafe and I heard it's the best f on spot
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man. So let's find out we gotta get in there because
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people get, we gotta get a table.
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Oh, so have you been here before Francisco?
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Yes, this is a very special place.
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This is where they go to place to go get Venezuelan food
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and especially if you're in Pasadena.
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See, I'm wondering what,
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Because some of these things I've never heard of me.
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the most popular dish is arepas bay,
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I think arepa Rena Peia is very popular which is like chicken
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with avocado and mayonnaise.
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It's really good. I have to try it.
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I'm excited to try it.
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Kenya are also very famous in Venezuela because that's,
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it's like a mozzarella stick,
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but 100% much better.
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It's baked. The cheese is based like everybody.
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You can have sauces and you can dip it or you can
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It's delicious. So yeah,
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I got this. Oh my God.
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the game, don't your girl?
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You know that's good.
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That's all that's us.
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Oh, thank you so sweet.
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And try to eat it like this.
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You can use it like that and like a sandwich you can
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man. I'm not even saying it just to be polite like
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it's really good. 00,
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hey, that was a good bit.
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I love cheese. Yeah,
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me too. My dad used,
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we used to stop at like a cheese food truck in Venezuela
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and then like to take home.
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So, like, and you could always have the samples.
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So I was a little kid.
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I mean, I'm lactose now but I don't care.
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Mhm. What was the biggest culture shock?
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Like after moving from Venezuela?
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Remember, like, for example,
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one thing going to the supermarket and seeing how full it was
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I remember going like,
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wow, so many types of milks.
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And I remember walking around and it was like,
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and like cold and like,
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it would be ac and you were like,
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you got married? You married?
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I'm married, I guess.
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Well, I've been here since I was 12 more American than
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Venezuela man. Marrying into a family.
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I guess she's from North Carolina.
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So, like, I remember and we met,
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when get out was out.
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So, like, so I remember when they she's like
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hey, you wanna come visit my family?
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I was like, are they gonna have any tea or like
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that? But it was complete opposite.
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They're great and they're very,
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you know, like loving and very,
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you know, nice to me and like,
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they made me feel welcome since the beginning.
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I mean, and one thing that I,
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I think obviously one of the reasons that we're together is because
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she's also very family oriented.
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I mean, as Latino like it,
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that's, that's all we have.
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Yeah, that's what we do in terms of everything is with
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the family. So the fact that she's also very family oriented
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that's, that was like a huge pa you were part
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of the Netflix, the Joke Festival.
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It was awesome because my first time that it gave me a
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show, luckily I sold out at the Hollywood Improv and it
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was good to be just part of it also to hang because
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festivals with comedy is the best.
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Things are hanging out in the Hollywood palladium.
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They like set up a whole thing where like would you hang
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out with all the comedians?
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So you see comedians that are,
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are in New York our internationally.
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So it's cool to see that.
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Do you cook Venezuelan food like yourself or if so like what's
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like your go to dish?
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I think Arepas definitely.
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It's like, I make him,
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you know, like in my,
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very easy to make you,
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you can buy the flour at any Latino restaurant because my dad
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he used to like make it like the where you put it
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like in a, like in a griddle and like,
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you know, cook it like the,
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the, the old school way.
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So I still do it like that.
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I at home all the time.
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So the special is called Venezuelan American.
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So right now it's on youtube,
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basically a good snapshot of who I am,
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you know, and what I like to talk about,
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you don't have to be kind of like Latino to understand what
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I'm talking about. But if you're,
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but also you're still learning about the Latino culture throughout my eyes
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being Venezuelan from getting married about to get married from like relationships
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We wanted to talk to you about what's going on
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why is it important for people to know like what's happening over
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there right now? Well,
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I think it's super important because obviously there's a lot of
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misconceptions and fake news about what's really,
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you know, what's happening and what's really happening is basic is
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the will of the people wasn't respected.
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You know, it's just you know,
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there was, it's an obvious election that was lost and the
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government doesn't wanna give it away,
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doesn't wanna give their power and like,
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and, and, and there's now just injustice.
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So, yeah, I think people just need to be educated
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and spread the news.
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Keep sharing the news because now there's a lot of especially
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the government right now,
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they're kind of censoring a lot of the stuff.
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People cannot share. Special Venezuela,
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what's going on? So I think our special,
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you know, Venezuelan people about anybody else share what's happening as
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So people are still aware of us,
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you know what's going on.
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this is great. This is such a great conversation.
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Thanks for having me.
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