Little Talks - Jose Sarduy - PopCultX

[Music] hello everyone welcome to another edition of little talks with pop cult x i'm your co-host daniel along with gabriel we are joined today by a fabulous comedian um veteran um and he's just gonna be a rising star i i can feel it um his name is jose sardui welcome to the show jose hey guys fabulous comedian i like it yes fabulous community i'm normally just dressed i dress you know nice but fabulous like i didn't mean hey i didn't know you rocked that blue shirt in the in the dry bar video clip that i saw so yeah i didn't know i had raised raised my game up to fabulous so you have to let all your buddies in the air force know you're fabulous enough that's right that's right he's in that word all the time now well thank you so much for joining us i i've been really looking forward to having you on the show and to be able to talk to you uh you know comedian uh entertainer actor all of the above so i i can't wait to get talking to you thank you very much i'm i'm happy to be here i watch some of your podcasts i do my do my homework for everything i'm on so i watched uh uh i watched some of the youtube i didn't actually listen to just the peer podcast but i did watch uh maybe two or three of your youtube videos to see what the flavor of the show was before i said yes and i liked it so cool here i am oh there's a couple dorky guys talking about pop culture well i mean some of your pop culture knowledge is above my head um i think you were talking about it's like a type of movie and um like genre of uh i think you had a you had a comic book writer on yeah it's the movies and and some of the stuff that you were talking about i was like me too don't worry go to art school [Laughter] too much time in a comic book stores sorry oh yeah no problem for our listeners jose our viewers um give us a brief bio of who you are maybe they haven't had the honor privilege to hear any of your stand up or hear about you and this is their first time so give us your you know your cliff note bio of of who jose sardui is all right um i was born in cuba to um a political prisoner father and um my mom who uh essentially paid the price of being married to a political prisoner we uh tried to get out of cuba and they said you can't leave we're kicking you out so we got deported from cuba it's such a bitter boyfriend tactic thanks cuba um came to the u.s when i was three years old and uh grew up in a bunch of places um predominantly u.s but i lived in rochester new york and puerto rico and miami florida but other than that that's all i where i lived grew up there um i always wanted to be an astronaut and so looked into what being an astronaut took you know and so took really good grades so i became a good student i mean i was a good student before that but i really focused and uh actually my discipline grades those ones that went up because you had to because i was like oh i gotta join the military i gotta follow orders i'll have to learn to do that and um and then i did actually get picked to go to the air force academy i got selected by a congressman and both of my senators the congressman took it though because he was cuban so he's like this one's mine no i went to the united states air force academy i got a degree in aeronautical engineering just barely that's what i discovered at the air force academy i have bad i had bad time management skills uh and i was bright i wasn't smart um i met smart people and i was like yeah i'm not on myself anymore um graduated there i was already a pilot i became a glider pilot at the air force academy and uh so all my on track to being an astronaut i was an instructor and that's actually kind of where i picked up one love that i didn't know about which was teaching so um became a flight teacher i went to pilot training became an air force aviator didn't get fighters um and so the track direct to you know being a shuttle commander was thwarted but i kept trying and uh flew cargo planes for some years and then i went back to training command and uh have been teaching ever since there um and somewhere along the way when i kind of lost hope uh to become an astronaut i mean i always had hope i had a good life and you know with my family so uh career hope right okay um i figured out i could tell jokes like i'd always loved stand-up but i was a very inside joke teller so it's like one of those people that's really funny at parties that wasn't me i was not funny at parties i was funny at like sitting at a dinner with people that knew me and were at an event that we all went to then but to strangers or at a you know no i i told other people's jokes well with timing because i i watched so much stand up but i was really unfunny so not the person that would say oh i should become a comedian i would never even dawn on me and then i figured out and then i made some people laugh and i was like what was that and i looked into what becoming a stand-up was and uh it was really hard and i love hard things i mean i'm a immigrant that got deported from his home country come on bring it bring on the hearts so um so started looking into what it took and everything i found out about it was more difficult than the last thing and i was like oh yeah i'm in right so made a plan did some research on what it took on what it took to write i wrote my jokes i tried it i was incredibly unfunny but i got one chuckle from three hardened new york comedians and that started me on this path and then it was just supposed to be a side job while i still tried to become an astronaut through all the the secondary ways of doing it and then even then uh if i didn't make astronaut at least i wanted to try and still make fighter pilot in some way and then i had a big year in 2007 2008 and i had to make a choice to either apply for the spy plane the u2 because that was the next path i was going to take oh wow yeah so almost in orbit right um and you wear you wear a spacesuit so that i was like that's good enough close enough as soon as i found out there was a spacesuit they were like oh you know what you can do you can like inflate the suit and bring your arms in and you know scratch your nuts and i was like [Laughter] people already ruined something so cool um and so i i i made the choice because i i got a bunch of opportunities you know i i cbs had me audition for the lead in a sitcom and i made uh so i made the choice to go do comedy full-time i got a job with the reserve unit doing the teaching job as a flight instructor for the air force part time still do that um so i got to do two things i love you know i have two careers that i love um and i'm very grateful that i had all the opportunities and all the life experiences to do it um and get to where i am right now and it's just it's pretty great always always trying to climb the next level right always making those high but achievable goals but uh i'm i'm already i've already achieved like what i set out to do i wanted to okay i'm not being an astronaut be a pilot and uh i'm gonna be a comedian that tours and does jokes and i already achieved that stuff so now it's like well i gotta pick a bigger goal right so eventually i mean if things go well it will be world domination but i i mean we're a lot of steps from that nice so we went from training to be an astronaut obviously i'm sure your parents were extremely proud of you you know like son of immigrant you know coming to this country and you really having really high aspirations and then you know obviously you must have told your parents like i want to be a comedian now how did that go over with them it's odd because my family doesn't attach pride in me um to actually what i do it's really more just like as long as i'm trying right as long as i'm trying like my mom i remember very clearly we used to have to i don't know you guys are my age we had the phone on the wall remember he had to take the phone off so we got phone calls on sundays and so i called my mom and i got my first f like i've never gotten enough i gotta and it wasn't even a good f you know like 69.9 percent i got a 32 on a test i i basically got the grade for my writing my name correctly i just the worst score on anything i'd ever done it was in chemistry i just i as we say in the military when we're in mixed company i i thought the fit was going to hit the shan all right um and i'm i'm sitting next to my mother and the other person in the phone the phone next it wasn't a booth they just had a phone we set we could hear each other's conversation it wasn't a problem right exactly no prison gets privacy man your privacy um so the i tell my mom and i don't know what to expect and uh what had just happened next to me was the kid had told his dad that he got like a c on a test and i could hear his dad yelling you do not come home to us a failure like i could hear it like he had to pull it away from your ear so i was like i think we're having the same moment you and me bobby so uh so i i called my mom and i said i got an f on a chemistry test and my mom was like come home just come home it's okay i was like too supportive [Laughter] too supportive yeah so it's like that they're when they found out like oh yes chased your dream you know [Laughter] that's cool i i you know i think the one thing she doesn't like is she thinks i'm making fun of her um which is uh it's the opposite right like you know in in american culture when you roast someone the very funniest roasts the ones that aren't like you know like put-downs but like the really classic roast jokes are for the people you really love right people you admire and you you make fun of and a lot of the stuff it kind of it's i think it's funny that my mom gets upset about the jokes about her because she did them like i don't he's not like one of those people right so there's people that are funny but don't know they're funny and so when you when you tell when you say what they say you're actually mocking them my mother did those things and said those things to be funny she's a very educated woman i know that she knows how to say wifi but she calls me when you come to the house you can use high five all over the house like [Laughter] she knows that's wrong she did that to make me laugh right and so i'm just using i'm using her jokes in a lot of the stories um and people like the reaction that people have to my mother really lets her know that oh he's not mocking me he's honoring me because people want to meet me and they they want to thank me for creating this kid or whatever though yeah that's awesome do you so my family's very proud my dad was like confused like you're leaving the air force like no i'm gonna be in the reserves and you could see that that went right over his head i don't know that word right it was either direct like uh unflinching support or confusion that's what it costs [Laughter] do you notice um a shift now that you're doing more comedy and you're getting more well-known for your comedy of friends or family members being like whoa watch what you say around jose or else it's going to end up on stage do you notice anything like that happening no my family's we have a bit of a i think we have a bit of a showman gene because i think they all try to get on the show okay uh my my pilot training students definitely like be careful don't say anything dumb you will end up in sardui's show you'll be watching comedy century be like oh that's me my pilot training students definitely have that concern right on um for your comedy though who who who was like your inspiration that you looked um when you said you were studying to how to be a stand-up comedian is there any like particular comedians that you focused on they said hey i want to be like that guy or that guy makes me laugh so much i want to go down that same path no what i was studying was um i'm i'm an engineer i get an engineer brain even if i was a mediocre engineer it's still an engineer right um and so it was just looking at the process so how do you construct a joke how do you tell a joke right because i would just sit and enjoy it and retell it but i never analyzed uh what is the setup what is the punch line what you know how does it how do you construct one if you have an idea for a joke how do you build one right and so that's what i looked and i just looked at everybody that i already loved so all the comedians that i admired and um and that made me laugh i went back and looked at and even the ones that don't make me laugh but i know are highly skilled and are very funny like i can i can separate someone that doesn't make me laugh i don't immediately say well they're not funny right they're not fun to me but um i am a connoisseur of the art so even if i would go to a comedy club and i wasn't laughing i was admiring their ability and you know and kind of like watching the the audience laugh and enjoying being a part of it although it's hard to find a comedian that doesn't make me laugh but a famous example would be ellen degeneres right ellen's very talent she was a very talented stand-up great writer great performer people loved her she killed didn't ever really get me to laugh very hard but i know she's funny and so she was one of people that i you know that i looked at for analysis but the big ones for me um were carlin pryor and you know it's unfortunate now but cosby um i mean he's a monster but dude could write a joke right um so i i looked at their stylings but everybody that i that i liked i learned from right so i learned from from seinfeld right if you watch a seinfeld set you could probably if you're watching for an hour and a half you could count on one hand the um's right it's just very precise uh fell in love with brian regan uh who's my favorite comedian of all time i actually have to meet him and whatnot um and for him it's it's very you know it's funny the his comedy is very funny but also the his ability to write in something that's not his regular voice right he he curses in person and he talks about adult subjects but on stage he's a family act and that was a choice he made and that's very like wow how do you do that right um but tons of people like i watched rogan i like joe rogan stuff um you know eddie murphy obviously uh who you know was kind of a um you know if you watch richard pryor you kind of see eddie murphy's evolution of him yeah but then prior was an evolution of cosby you know you see the where the roots are to how some comedians get good um but tons of people you know and then there were a lot of comedians that i watched that were maybe not stand up like carol burnett is one of my heroes right lucille ball and you watch how they made people laugh and um and so i kind of took everything from everybody um and every comedian i i would watch i mean i did this back when cds were a thing remember cds um i would go to best buy i went to a store a brick and mortar store this is going to be an old timey message they find in a in a digital bottle uh i would go to best buy and i would go to the comedy cd section and just buy one i didn't know so i would just buy four or five i've never heard this person i've never even heard of this person and then i would listen to them and sometimes i became a fan and sometimes i think oh well i don't want to be that you know so that process of learning and picking up i still do today working with other comedians i watch their styles i learn from them i learn maybe a new a new innovative way to do things and then i i always kind of push myself to still go do open mics when obviously before there was a killer virus um i would go to open mics and i would watch the young comedians the young up and comers and see if they had figured out something new right and i'm always trying to figure out something new so uh to answer your question in the longest way possible i learned from everybody uh that i watch and those were my big my big references growing up were carlin pryor and cosby nice so i'm curious when you are building your brand or you know your persona as it were did did you determine like okay i'm gonna be i'm closer to the family like general audience am i gonna go really blue or do you just like not spur of the moment but does it depend on the venue and you can you feel comfortable in both or do you have a natural inclination to kind of lean towards one or the other um so there's there's um there's a process to building i think your stand-up um so it's it's like a three-step process so first you got to get your legs which is you go up on stage and you you either you fail or you succeed but you've got to learn to fail so people are not laughing and you keep going right you don't let it break you yeah uh so getting your legs right so you don't lose your you know your knees don't knock or you don't collapse on stage uh it's metaphorical some people actually do curl like collapse but um yeah you just you learn to fail right so that's getting your legs then you get your voice so it's it's a place that's either a character or persona right so uh the early stand up by say adam sandler was a character right he played it i don't think that's him i've met him in person and it it seemed like two different people but his early stage persona was a person right and he just that's where he from that voice it was easier to create jokes to be funny yeah um and so i found my legs early because i'd want some scholarships so i'd already been through like the the stage fright and i'd done some drama and some tv so i was already like getting over the nervousness of being in front of people that was not the problem but getting the voice was the hard part right because you how do you write a joke how do you create a joke what do you talk about and so i just i i spit bald man i threw everything at the wall to try and find my voice and find what was funny um and then your voice and being funny that's the the next step and then the third step is learning how to write so actually get putting all those together and writing jokes from your voice um and obviously you know already willing to fail and so you do them you don't do them in chronological order that you're doing all three at the same time but the thing that you conquer first is using your legs the thing you conquer second is your voice and then the thing you conquer third is usually learning to write effectively and efficiently so that was the process for me uh when i first started once i got to a place where talking about what i talked about at the age of 27 right what does a 27 year old talk about sex dating right um and my family and air force were fairly family-friendly so the sex stuff was the only stuff that i'd leave out if i did clean shows because i started doing clean shows right away because military was like we want you for christmas parties i was like okay well i have three minutes of comedy um and so i it all kind of happened what i've always liked about mike the the way my development and comedy went is they it all kind of happened simultaneously i didn't get one thing you know i wasn't like this clean comedian like prior and then one day i just said f it i'm i'm well i'm joke's the way i want to tell it i've been doing it in every way from the beginning and have been able to do diverse audiences and diverse crowds from the you know the the crazy you know not blues brothers but chicken wire but pretty crazy bar chose where you gotta metaphorically grab the audience by the collar and go pay attention to these jokes right and all the way to the pristine theater filled with people that are there that really want to laugh and and paid big money to see a good show um and so i learned all of those along the way and so now i can tailor the act also i have a lot of material so i have about three hours of stuff and so i can tailor the material and i've written about 90 90 100 minutes of it clean so i mean i don't always do it clean some of the jokes i like better in their dirty form or blue form yeah but sometimes i write a clean version and i go i like this version better right so it depends right and so i can i can take the actin and kind of move it to whoever i'm telling it to right if i'm doing uh you know i do children shows on carnival cruise line oh nice i i do a lot of my jokes that i'm just moving around a lot and right a lot of the goofier stuff i do that for children i do a clean fa a clean adult show so that's adults no no profanity and no dirty stuff right or no no sexual stuff all of it being innuendo so no graphic content so i can tailor it that way and then i can do a completely balls out i mean obvious metaphorically uh i've not done the eating i've had friends that have done um nudist colonies and stuff uh so i i take the act to wherever it needs to go for the audience that that requests it and uh we've created a very simple rating system um my management team and and stuff knows about it and so when they sell it to people that they do it that way um i used to i used to sell cleanliness like for more money yeah like okay this is my show one hour this is when i was first headlining and i had i had maybe maybe you know 100 uh maybe not a hundred i had about 70 minutes and so i was like okay 60 minutes dirty rated r show that will be 500 and then i was like pg-13 40 minutes and that will be 700 and then i was like pg show 25 minutes 1 000 that's how i used to sell myself before i got management was like that's not that's not how you do it it's not the way you're such a smart guy jose that's dumb when you were mentioning you know sort of editing yourself or or not necessarily editing but just choosing different wording for the type of show it made me think about what some older comedians have recently said about younger audiences not being able to like take a joke or really being overly sensitive and being the death of comedy and and i disagree i think that funny is funny and like young people are still like i think there's a lot of hilarious comedians that are coming out that are really young that are like cutting edge and hilarious how has you what has your experience been if you feel that younger generations in the crowd like are not getting your sense of humor or like they're a little too woke or do you feel that it's a little over dramatic on jerry's part i think it's just old people yeah um the comedians that were hip once are now old and if you look back through history it's always like this this generation coming up every generation has said that every group of old people like this generation sucks like just how do you not see you're doing that old trope it's just so crazy i've done shows for like religious organizations like they cannot take a joke on some subjects okay like this is not a new thing okay um lenny bruce used to get arrested for talking about his penis like like there used to be real like power right they use the cops to silence people now it's just like i don't like it that you make you punch down on a group that's weaker than you i'm i don't think that's funny and i think it's harmful and if they're here they're hurt by it right i think the generation today is just much more conscientious of other people and maybe they go overboard sometimes uh but honestly i would rather that than you know voices being silenced using the cops you know i i really like where you know the the cancel culture idea people like what do you think a canceled culture i'm like it's great people are getting cancelled the cancelled that deserve it you know you said something awful uh they never you see those people they never go well maybe what i said was awful they never think of it that way yeah they immediately get defensive and say ah they're too woke and the sjws and it's like i don't i'm not gonna break down what you said and how dumb it is um and why you deserve it but you know i've said a couple examples on podcasts before um and it's just like it's not real it's it's very much uh very rarely is someone like unfairly not even taken down just called out yeah and i think my favorite part is that the people that used to cancel people like really cancel them using the government and using the you know the the arm of the state to silence voices they didn't like uh those are the people being silenced now those are the opinions right that are being silenced and they're being silenced by something that they praise like market capitalism so people say stuff that's awful and then businesses go you're bad for business i love it i love it oh i love when that happens i'm glad to hear that yeah young people today man they're just coming up today as a young person it's just the things that the things that were available to previous generations they don't have that you know how much a college education puts you into debt nowadays oh yeah i mean you know how hard it is to get a a job that you can stay in for 20 years and start a family and retire from you know that's it doesn't exist anymore all these things that these people like don't seem to remember they had as advantages are not there anymore and they're like this generation is lazy yeah you know your generation lazy we gotta grow out of that as human beings we seriously gotta be like this generation is pretty good they got some new challenges things i never went through you know i always try to give them as much compliment as i can i don't have kids so i know my nieces and nephews are going to have to take care of me one point so yeah i give them props as much as i can they're awesome they've yeah more than any other generation before then i always try to i always try to reframe it because i i work in the air force it's a very conservative uh old man's club where i work um and so they'll start it like kids today they just they can't have a a conversation with someone in person i was like yeah but they're pretty amazing they can have like seven conversations at the same time online and keep threads i mean their ability to multitask is ridiculous they should probably also work on one-to-one face-to-face conversations but then again that's everybody yeah do you remember all the awkward people we grew up with they what what what did the older generation say this generation just they don't even look in the air when they talk to you like [Laughter] that's what they said about you old man we're fighting becoming those old man we're really really fighting it yeah we're gonna be those old men that um maybe like the job young people yeah keep it up that's the goal is to be the the cool old man the cool kid yeah the supportive you know the supportable i'm not gonna get a ponytail but otherwise i was just thinking about the ponytail right now yeah definitely no don't do it daddy it's coming why not [Laughter] how much would you say you you really lean in to your cuban roots for your comedy or just for any of your creative endeavors is it um as much as it fits me uh i don't i don't know i think i'm a little bit detached um i left i left home at 18 and uh i kind of became a nomad um and so i love my family and we're very close but i'm not i don't know if i'm taking the right road there if i need to be more connected with family and you know learn all their birthdays and call you know call all the young cousins on you know i don't that was never me growing up um like my mom did that and then she would be like say happy birthday to your to your theater everybody you know like but i never i never was that connected to the big family um and i don't know i'm i'm thinking of maybe adjusting that as i get older um because in person we're all very close we're very connected right when we're apart you know i i do my thing they do their thing um and i don't know i'm really i'm currently reassessing that if i want to be like fingers in all in for family as i get older or if i'm just going to keep this kind of um kind of nomad life uh i don't know i'm actually in the process of analyzing myself and seeing what's the actually the most psychologically healthy way to move forward with that so because here's the reason here's the reason why nomad life was was good for me is you don't miss people all the time like you miss them when you think about them when they come up in your mind when you talk to them uh from a distance but when i was attached to my family really closely when i wasn't near them i i miss them like it it hurt and it kind of weighs on you right the longer you are away from them it it wears on you psychologically so i kind of created this compartmentalization of emotion and feeling um so that when i see a text from my mom like my mom you know and i'm very excited but uh you know and the thing about my mom is she's in a lot of my jokes so i think about her all the time um but when i'm not doing jokes i'm not constantly worried about what's wrong i'm doing right now is you know okay at the house by herself um and so that worked for me for a lot of years so i don't know i don't know where i'm gonna go i i may shift as my parents get older and be much more that worrywart uh you know and finally get all the gray hairs to come in so we'll see i'm glad to hear that i'm not the only latino son that doesn't send spend every sunday at their mom's house for dinner and i i thought i was just a bastard for not seeing my mom now i feel like okay i see i'm not that bad i will tell you the one time my mom hung up on me like old school um [Music] i was at the air force academy and it was a call on sunday and my mom was trying to put it all together like what was this career what was it gonna you know what was it gonna be like it's like so she was like in spanish she's like so tell me how this is gonna go i said well i'll be here for four years i'll graduate i'll hopefully go to pilot training so from here i'll go to one of the bases for pilot training i'll then get a job as a pilot so i will hopefully go some base they may be all over the world i'll spend a few years there and then i move base to base to base getting jobs raising rank eventually i'll go to nasa you know and nasa's in houston so i'll probably go down to texas and you know live there or cape canaveral but you can kind of live anywhere as an astronaut you just gotta you know go to those places um and still be in the air force part-time um but that's you know basically how it i'm planning for it to go and my mom was really quiet for a second she's like and and in spanish she's like what about us meaning the family and i go right i'll visit you guys on like holidays and stuff and she hung up [Laughter] because i think she had this vision of like after college i was gonna come back to miami and buy a house you know a drive away from the house so that they can see me regularly and then get a job and start a family and all that and i threw a wrench in that picture and she's like uh i don't think so so yes it's uh we're oddities yeah yeah that was one of my my favorite most awkward times is like going out with like you know my adult friends like 28 30 and then them seeing me call and they're like oh what are you doing like i'm calling my dad to let him know i'm okay they're like what i'm like yeah i'm almost 30 and i have to call my dad to let him know i'm okay they don't get it you know white americans don't understand the connection and the guilt and power that latino parents have over their children that yeah i mean i fought it for a long time man i really i fought it until my mid-20s and then i just i just kind of said okay like mom can you drive me to the bar they would get me to miami beach i would be in the back seat i kissed my mom and my dad thank you i would text her i'm like i'm getting attacked at like four in the morning i'm getting a taxi i'll be home in a little bit she wouldn't answer but she would get up the next day and be like okay i will say you know i'll make you breakfast you know i just kind of like embraced it like okay they just they they that's part of how they show love so absolutely but it's when you don't have that when you're like wait a minute they didn't call me back it's been three days and then used to then it like the flip goes and you're like oh my god i've been ignoring my dad and now he fell and he can't reach the phone and that's right that's right the guilt the guilt of your latino heritage and your culture and things like that do as a comedian or someone that's in the spotlight now do you feel pressure to represent that identity in a positive light or is it just like okay my my goal is to be funny it's not to you know represent a whole culture um i never i never took it as my mantle to represent my culture i mean i did um and i remember at the air force academy i was probably the first cuban most of them met there and i was like this is not the don't let does not don't thank you no cubans now okay i grew up wanting to be bruce wayne not ricky ricardo okay it's very different um so i didn't i didn't ever try to represent my culture i i was very much um a chameleon because i grew up when we were when i was little we we moved a lot and uh i think before i was 10 maybe no before i was 18 i think we moved like 13 times so i had to go to new schools and meet new kids and uh and so i was kind of annoying in that way i was like hi how you guys doing what are you guys playing hopscotch hops that's a good game you guys look like you're pretty good at how can i play hopscotch like slow down weirdo too friendly for a new person um and so i i was able to integrate with most groups which i which i kind of was in doubt in junior high because i was kind of a nerd um and in drama and the young astronauts club and the math team right just like stuff like ooh those panties are coming off girl right but then i went out for the wrestling team as the first sport i played and i was able to integrate into that group as well and i kind of do it the same way now that i did it then i just quietly joined the group i listen i i get the feel for the room what's everybody saying and then i join in um people like you're so quiet i'm like i'm studying you [ __ ] [Laughter] and then i will know exactly how to make you laugh and i'm coming in hard you know for sure [Laughter] oh man um so you're you're gen x like us so and we we are a pop culture podcast is there any sort of um pop culture movies or comic books video games anything like that that you just like dive into that you really enjoy doing that you can just lose lose all track of time in um it's it's pretty interesting man i was very much a like a follower of pop culture i think until comedy really took off um so i i was started touring pretty aggressively in like 2010 and 11. i was touring before that but i wasn't like it wasn't full-time i wasn't living in my car for three weeks at a time and i just kind of dropped pop like the i kind of paid attention to it almost like i didn't want to lose my geek card so i watched the movies that came but it's really interesting like i i stopped really caring um intently about stuff uh except for a couple franchises right like star wars star trek superheroes maybe uh anything ghostbusters my favorite movie ever so i was a ghostbusters nut um and then like space stuff right like that kind of thing like i love the expanse oh gotta plug in my thing i want this to die um saved it i don't even know if he lost me [Laughter] so i stopped it was it was an interesting shift right because it was also with sports like when i reached an age when i was older than all the players i did not give a [ __ ] about that sport anymore i just didn't i didn't follow it i used to know like who was coming up from college and who was in the draft none of that mattered to me anymore it was the same thing with pop culture like um i still i watch it you know from a distance but it's like it's like sports if i see it on tv i go oh athleticism like it's that kind of it's a novelty at this point okay but anything prior to that point i still i still know all that stuff about right so i i know star wars stuff pretty well and star trek stuff pretty well um you know and obviously ghostbusters but uh i don't i don't know much the superhero genre i'm very much the old school superheroes and any time they try to make a new one i'm always like [Laughter] why is iron man the main hero he's an [ __ ] why is that yes why is that guy crying when after he said i'm iron man and he died why is that grown man crying he's the [ __ ] character like he's the asshole's kind of like sub-hero he's not really a hero like if captain america died i get it that guy's a beautiful man and inside just i'm just not not as attached to it as i used to be i'm more like um you know it's i'm very much i'm outside analyzing of that um an outsider analyzing things almost like a person making a nature documentary [Laughter] i don't think he understands the character i don't think snyder understands the character of superman because snyder he doesn't have a good moral compass because he's you know he's a follower of ein rand like that's the kind of way that i analyze on our pop culture now it's very very it's very much like i got abducted by aliens and they dropped me back and i'm just learning humanity again oh is this oh i see i have i have lots of moments like that going on twitter and you know seeing people run at the mouth and you're like where am i is this real light is nicki minaj really talking about her cousin's friends giant balls from getting the vaccine and is that really being talked about on msnbc and fox news now like this is news well it's because of what um what makes you a newsworthy person and it's all about money yeah did you make money that's how we stratify everything and so there are scientists who are experts in their field who don't make a lot of money and people could not give two shits what they say on a subject but nicki minaj has made lots of money selling music records suddenly what she says it's like you have to address it because she reaches so many people and some people don't get news from the news so you want to address it you have to address it because of how we stratify our world it's who made the most money it's not always the best system just fyi i i agree speaking of social media again is do you take advantage of like tick tock and instagram and twitter or are you like no you're more like the club you know traditional comedy venues um or you know do you think that that's just like not the tool for you or are you investing in those kind of things uh i do what needs to be done so set a goal the goal is to sell out theaters and go on tour and release a new album every one to two years nice that's the that's the end game goal to do that you have to sell tickets to sell tickets you have to be in the public eye so television movies social media it's a reality you got to do it so i started doing it poorly uh in the myspace era and my species holy crap i was like this is awful i would not do this if i wasn't entertainment i would quit this thing immediately like i confused sprint once this is how before entertainment i went into the sprint place and i said i want a phone that cannot text cannot receive text i just want it to use it as a phone the lady was like this is 2002. lady was like i i don't even know what you're saying i i need to get i'm going to go get my manager the the thing we finally figured out was the phone that when i get text messages it would give me an update and saying that you need to log into this website to check your messages so i would have to pay internet to go check messages that's old school i said i said okay that's good enough because i will not check those messages i will just not do it like i text you like i don't get texts and they're like what like i was like i don't i'm not gonna be a part of that world and then i became i went into entertainment i was like okay here we go let's just learn how to do this right and i never got good at it i was never good i'm still not good i just i have a social media manager so okay she handles it and she's like make a video today okay i got it make sure it's you know it's vertical and and uh you know put on your earbuds so it's got good audio and ah that one was in the wind what's wrong with you talking about social media and your upcoming gigs and goals and you getting yourself out there where can our listeners find you um so again social media someone else does it for me so please if you are a lady or a dude and you find me attractive please realize there are other people reading those messages [Laughter] fyi to the world [Laughter] i gotta hear the story that makes this this disclaimer come about um i just get text messages from my social media managers these [ __ ] be thirsty like i i had to learn what that meant and uh like well did you offer them a soda so uh you can find me on jose sardui.com that has links to all the things um j-o-s-e-s-a-r-d-u-y dot com um and this is uh i sell this shirt uh i show i sold it at live shows i used to have i have a i think there's no link to it on my website on uh my my store and people have found that link and have kept ordering stuff from my website i don't even have a store and i keep getting orders online like how are they rooting [Laughter] so i'm just like you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna send you i'm not gonna send the money back i'm gonna send you the product because you found a way to matrix me [Laughter] into getting to my store which is supposed to be turned on anyway uh joseco.com does not have a store yet it will have a store and you can buy merchandise on there um on social media it's at jose sardui um my facebook fan page is at flying funny um and i think there's a there's a dash in between flying and funny it's a web series that we're trying to sell as a tv show where i i take up comedians in a little aerobatic airplane we do loop-de-loops you know it's uh comedian cars getting coffee we replace the cars with airplanes and the coffee with screaming um uh none of them have gotten to use a barf bag i've had enough experience flying air force students i know that if there's gonna be puke it's gonna be 35 minutes in so i keep the flights almost almost everybody that's ridden a roller coaster can make it 35 minutes it's after 35 minutes that you are rolling the dice baby so uh so you can catch me i'm on twitter i'm on instagram i am not on tick-tock because i heard it's a chinese conspiracy no i'm kidding um i will join when it becomes like okay you have to right i didn't join instagram until you basically had to uh so it's kind of the same thing um but any social media network that comes out i'll be on it um the the twitter is not very interesting right i i'm not a twitter excellent but uh we do put a lot of time into the instagram and facebook stuff so you can keep up with keep up with my life uh through those through those mediums um and then you can also when you go on the website you can join the mailing list and periodically i send out like hey big show coming up or tv appearance or something like that so you can join my um my mailing list that way as well so that's how you can get a hold of me um i have a youtube channel that i'm trying to develop uh and stream say you know new jokes that i'm working on uh to an audience and then i game stream so i play space games and stuff like that so there's a couple places to catch me and it's always just look up jose sardui j-o-s-e s-a-r-d-u-y right on i forgot to ask you but are you based in los angeles as of right now i am yeah yeah okay so we can people can keep an eye out for any maybe upcoming gigs that you might have in los angeles uh yes once we get i think when we get back to just regular shows uh i work a bunch of the clubs out here um i was a regular a couple bookers ago so maybe i'm still regular i don't know i get i get on shows out here every so often so nice okay can people go see or buy tickets for your comedy shows on your on the cruise lines or is it just for the cruise line guests because i saw that you were going to be in san diego i think in november um i do have a san diego show in november once the details come up for that i'll have that ready that's a on land show uh i have a cruise ship that goes i have a cruise ship that goes out of san diego um as well and that one you gotta be on the cruise ship so uh i try to i try to differentiate all that stuff on the website you can look all that stuff up there as well hey maybe you want to go to you know the mexican riviera and maybe additionally you get to see okay all right see one jose then see many jose's in new mexico yes see if there's a difference see if there's i'm guessing there will be but a little bit a little bit i'm the european jose that is the central american jose [Laughter] the more evil heritage is ready glad you said it not me i did i did a new show and uh we were gonna do a morning interview uh here in la and just before the show we were just talking and they're like you know most people think jose's are brown you know like what do you say to people when they say well how is that you're a light-skinned jose and i was like uh well if you look at history there's there was a lot of rape and the newscasters laugh like backstage and i go can i tell that one on the air like no no no no no no no no they can catch that history lesson when they go to college no morning rape topics on good morning america no don't don't point out the the flaws of the european colonialism yeah well thank you so much for for joining us on the podcast jose it was a pleasure having you hilarious i recommend everyone that listens to this podcast all of our listeners to check you out on your website um definitely once we get more information about your san diego show i will be um letting everyone know about that putting it on our social media and inviting people you mentioned at the beginning dry bar my dr i didn't even use the thing that's getting me on your show right so 3.5 million views so far is what i saw um i think the full special yeah i think if you break up all the clips that they've released on different social media it's up to about eight eight or nine million wow views of all of them collectively um but yeah that that was a big thing it was recorded in uh in utah in provo utah um very very mormon like you had to tailor that show i mean they've got a version of clean that you're just like are there three pages of notes on this okay um uh but it was it's it's a comedy special you can watch with family anybody can watch it very proud of how it came out and um it's it's gotten a lot of views so that's another way that you can watch me um if you want the specific family family-friendly version when i start selling my cds again i do not have a clean cd please don't freak out there are some very dirty jokes i've gotten people like what is this i saw you on the dry bar like all right i would love to see the video reaction though of like a nice mormon family all his like child brides and sister wives and they're like yes we're gonna finally hear that delightful young man like a family drive we're going to disneyland let's pop in and they just gotta pull over and cry that would be funny to see yeah one of the daughters was like i'm going to be a sex worker now we couldn't even see the whale's penis but we could visualize it [Laughter] yes i will say just one briefly about the dry bar i hadn't laughed that much about a fart joke since i was probably in elementary school oh thank you thank you for that you're welcome you're welcome i did that joke of my 20th year college reunion and everybody was like who was it who was your roommate and i said his name on stage and every like everybody said they were in their mind when they were hearing the joke like who is this person this has got to be real and then i said his name on stage and the table we were sitting erupted like we know it was him we knew his stinky ass all right that's awesome if that's not a perfect moment to end the podcast i don't know what exactly was the drive-by special on a fart joke and the podcast that's gonna be my thing i'm just gonna finish everything every show i do with a good fart joke nice thank you again jose we really appreciate your time we really appreciate you coming on and talking to us about your process and everything that makes you tick and we look forward to seeing so much more from you thank you thank you i appreciate it i'm excited to see what you put on the green screen oh it's just going to be a guy farting just two butt cheeks right here the crack coming down that's gonna be the whole show just two butt cheeks [Laughter] that is what it will be actually it'll be a surprise okay good it's good i'm excited we'll see [Music]

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Length: 59min 53sec (3593 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 29 2021