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fam. Let's welcome Frankie Quinonez to Me Too Daily.
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Are you are you feeling it?
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Alright, I like this.
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I like this. So really quick before we get to the
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interview,, I wanna play a little quick game with
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you based on the title of your,
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special. Oh, alright,
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cool. So I'm gonna give you some scenarios and you say
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react damn, that's crazy,
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or damn, that's crazy.
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Exactly. Alright, so first I'll go to this bringing buzz
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balls to the carne asada.
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Oh damn, that's crazy,
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The tias and my primas get crazy on those buzz balls,
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homie, and then fights break out.
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It just kills the vibe.
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Let's keep, there's gonna be kids there,
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homie. There doesn't need to be buzz balls and children.
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It's just, you know,
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they don't need to see that those type of activities.
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I feel that. Alright,
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so that's crazy. And we got sneaking in a whole ass
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mule. To the movies,
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right with these prices and this economy,
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like, yeah, and you know,
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you don't wanna eat food that's at the movies,
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and I mean, you know,
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a little hot dog here is OK,
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but you know I'm bringing some tacos on me or you know
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bring a little burrito in it's nice and tight,
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how about talking to comedians when they're on stage,
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like the audience addressing you.
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that's crazy. I mean,
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you know, heckling is one thing like,
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cool, a little back and forth,
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you know, you're supposed the etiquette of a show,
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you sit there, you're watching a show,
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that's crazy. I feel that.
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And last but not least,
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Irish goodbyes. Oh yeah,
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yeah, I feel like being Latino,
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like a lot of like our parents like,
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hey, say bye to everybody,
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and then that takes freaking,
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it feels like it makes like makes it feel like the party's
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ending and I don't wanna be,
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I don't wanna add to that like,
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oh, Frankie's leaving,
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Da da da, just like sneak out.
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You guys enjoy the rest of the night,
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you know that's true.
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I'd rather keep it all mysterical like where did he go?
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that's valid. That's valid.
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again, so you have a new special called Damn that's Crazy
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on Hulu. It's streaming now.
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What can you tell the people at home about it?
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Oh yeah man, lives up to the name,
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my homegirl Ali Wong directed it,
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produced it. It's been a long time coming.
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I've been doing stand up a long time and this is
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my first one hour special,
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I'm real proud of it,
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You share some very personal stories on stage,
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man. Like we got open again.
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Like I feel like we're in that era now,
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at least or this generation of Latinos like,
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you know what, like this hurt me,
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whatever like we don't ball it up anymore and so what was
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the hardest part of those stories like to open up about on
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you know, I talk about things I never thought I'd talk
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about on stage, but it felt good,
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you know, selfishly is like therapeutic for me,
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oh man, I don't wanna get too heavy and da da
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da. But then my friend,
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you know, Ali was like.
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first of all, she's like you made it funny,
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and then second, I think it's important that you talk about
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these things. It's like you said,
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especially in our community,
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the men, especially,
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no, don't talk about your feelings.
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You just keep it right there,
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yeah, even though you have all the issues,
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you know, just like,
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hey homie, it's OK to talk about it,
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you know it's not a sign of weakness.
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It's actually a sign that of strength,
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you know, you're trying to help yourself,
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yeah, we like to laugh at our pain a little bit
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but yeah, I got to you then you can say
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like damn, he's right.
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You have those like little moments you're like,
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I feel that. And one thing that you touched on that
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I mean you touch a lot of things obviously
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but the kids having kids,
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your family, they're very vocal about you're not having kids that
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all these years later.
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So what like do you wanna have kids eventually or like I'm
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but I don't wanna put that pressure on.
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my mom is like at first she was like,
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no, get do it right,
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me I'll get married,
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you know, I have a kid.
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Now she's like she don't care.
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She's, I don't care.
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Get a hood rat pregnant.
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Just bring me that baby.
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I'm like a hood rat like damn like I don't wanna live
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that life, you know,
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because again you're, you're Theo,
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you're, you're like a godfather Nino,
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So yeah I mean that that's one of the pros is you
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know you get to get to leave homey or they go home
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you know so I get to be the cool Nino like hey
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like whatever, you know,
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buy them toys, kick it with them,
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and then when they start acting crazy I'm like,
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oh like hey I have a thing because yeah I have a
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show right now so hey I love you.
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how did you come back to the special my mom
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and dad were there at the taping and my sister.
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And yeah they've learned to be a part of it.
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This has been a long road,
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you know, so they kind of they've seen me on stage
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for a while and they know that I'm not like nothing is
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you know what I mean so it's cool they're supportive,
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which is which is cool,
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yeah, and you talk about your characters growing up like what
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made you laugh as a kid,
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like what kind of comedians or what shows specifically like inspired you
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besides your family? Yeah,
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everything we used to watch A Living Color,
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there was a show called.
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Culture Clash that came out that was kind of our people and
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then you know at my grandma's house we'd watch,
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Chavo Chaulin Chespiriitu, and,
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you know, old Cantiflas movies I watch with my grandpa.
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Those were all pretty,
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pretty,, inspirational,
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my mom and dad are diehard stand up fans,
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so I watched a lot of stand up specials growing up when
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they were dating, you know,
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they would go to the Comedy Store,
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Laug Factor, Hollywood Improv.
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you know, they get to see me perform there but,
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but yeah, that comedy was always on in the house and
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it inspired me from a young age because especially,
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you know, stand up just the person,
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the mic and the crowd like what do you got and you
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just see these fools lighting it up.
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you know, so that's awesome.
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The special just came out on Hulu.
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are you gonna be on the road soon or working
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on new material or yeah,
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I'm just workshopping. New material in town.
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I'm gonna take a long,
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waited vacation for a little bit,
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in the top of next year in January I'm kicking off the
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the good vibes only tour and then,
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yeah, hopefully be in your city soon.
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But yeah, that's what's up.
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So,, plug your socials so people can keep up
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just at Frankie Quinones,
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if you can't spell that,
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you can just Google a comedian Frank.
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It'll help you and it'll come up with the little wormy well
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thee the quinones and then yeah cholo fit creeper.com.
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YouTube and watch Creeper's Crib live from my grandpa's garage
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It's a new little YouTube show I got going and please
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you know, watch this fool on Hulu and please watch
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Damn That's Crazy directed by my homegirl Ali W's my first one
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hour special. That's what's up.
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Damn, that's Crazy out on Hulu now.
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thank you, thank you.
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