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George Lopez Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: next guest is a comedy legend. I could only put
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Speaker 1: it like that. He is a legend. I had a
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Speaker 1: good fortune of meeting him several times when I managed
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey and he made a surprise visit on stage
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Speaker 1: when I was producing b Teach Common Views, so I
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Speaker 1: know him well. He makes his Netflix original comedy special
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Speaker 1: premiere with We'll Do It for Half. I saw it
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Speaker 1: twice as brilliantly funny. He's an entrepreneur with restaurants, based
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Speaker 1: on authentic Mexican cuisine from his grandmother's traditional recipes. He
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Speaker 1: has toured with some of my favorite comedians like Adie Griffin,
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Speaker 1: DL Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer, and mostly importantly, he
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Speaker 1: is a trailblazer when he's starting his self produced ABC sitcom,
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Speaker 1: he stand up comedy specials examins race, ethnic relations, and
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Speaker 1: especially the Mexican American culture. Please welcome to money making Conversations,
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Speaker 1: my man, George Lopez, how are you serve? Hey, my man?
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Speaker 1: You know, uh, I saw the specially send me a
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Speaker 1: little link so I can see it earlier. Is I
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Speaker 1: want to make sure I saw it before I interviewed you?
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Speaker 1: And uh, how do you just George? Okay, first of all,
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Speaker 1: when somebody calls you a comedy legend, what is that?
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Speaker 1: How do you feel when somebody says that about you?
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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, it's it's so if they were
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Speaker 1: if there were doctors, you know, there's so many different
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Speaker 1: doctors and different and different variety of fields, you know,
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Speaker 1: so someone would say, you know, he's the scientists, he's
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Speaker 1: the biotex science, he's a heart doctor, he's a brain surgeony.
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Speaker 1: This guy's a dentist. This guy's a general practitioner O B. G.
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Speaker 1: Y N you know, oncologist. So I looked at myself
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Speaker 1: as almost a bit of a multi faceted doctor. You know.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that on this sporty one year
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Speaker 1: journey that I did. You know, I grew up very alone.
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Speaker 1: I grew up without a male figure. I never knew
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Speaker 1: my father, I didn't know my mother. My grandparents were
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Speaker 1: very removed from me. And you know, there was just
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Speaker 1: something growing up that made me feel like I was
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Speaker 1: different than everybody else, not better, just different. And I
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Speaker 1: couldn't put my finger on it, but it was that
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Speaker 1: feeling of being different or having a better instinct than
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Speaker 1: everybody that surrounded me that made me do something that
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Speaker 1: was probably the most terrifying thing anybody could ever do,
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Speaker 1: and do it for years without ever seen any improvement.
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Speaker 1: So legend in the mind of of of the people,
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Speaker 1: but just somebody who you know, worked hard to create
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Speaker 1: a different narrative than the narrative that I saw. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you some being a former standard comic, did
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Speaker 1: deaf comedy jam did all the all the comedy specials myself.
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Speaker 1: I've been blessed like that. So when I saw your special,
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Speaker 1: and I've seen your specials in the in the past
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Speaker 1: where one of your funny, but all your specials are funny.
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Speaker 1: One of them that really made me laugh with when
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Speaker 1: you I think Cedric Entertainer was backstage and when you
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Speaker 1: ended the show you crawled through your your name to
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Speaker 1: get off stage. Man, that laughed so hard on now
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Speaker 1: with Joe Herge, What was running through your mind? That
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Speaker 1: was funny? Dude, Well, you know we that that one
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Speaker 1: we did live at the Kennedy Center. I was there
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Speaker 1: for Eddie Murphy's march Wain and then as I stood
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Speaker 1: there and I got a couple of jokes off and
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Speaker 1: I got a huge response. I thought, you know, if
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my HBO special, they wanted to do it,
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Speaker 1: and a load of way you couldn't find a theater,
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Speaker 1: but that being there at any place, I thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: I like this room. It's a perfect size, it's a
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Speaker 1: great place. You know. Politically, where we were with the
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Speaker 1: wall and then everybody was a shade of having the
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Speaker 1: American flag upside down because upside down means distress. And
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Speaker 1: as we had a meeting months before the production, because
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Speaker 1: I had to start to build the set. We were
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Speaker 1: under an agreement that the director, Troy Miller, who's an
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Speaker 1: incredible director, to the rest of the development crazy stuff
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Speaker 1: that we told him that we weren't going to put
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Speaker 1: the flag upside down, but he said, hell, no, man,
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Speaker 1: We're putting the flag upside down. So it wasn't until
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Speaker 1: I got there that day to rehearse that we noticed
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Speaker 1: that the flag was upside down. And then he said, hey, gee,
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Speaker 1: you know at the end of your show, you should
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Speaker 1: crawl under the wall here said man that as I
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Speaker 1: said my under that, he goes, yeah, just sit and
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Speaker 1: and I did it. Man, Man, I laughed so I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't grab my wife had played that back to look
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Speaker 1: at this food. He he crawled under his name under
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Speaker 1: the wall, and then backstage said it was laughing bad.
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Speaker 1: That was just that's what we're talking about. Legendary stuff, man,
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Speaker 1: because that's a stand up. You know. I know the
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Speaker 1: pressure it takes to be able to go on stage
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Speaker 1: be original. And when I look at you when I
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Speaker 1: watched this special, man, this is my this is what
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Speaker 1: I say about stand up. When I look at a special,
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Speaker 1: I go wow. I would never thought of that joke.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't never thought that joke, and that would that's
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Speaker 1: your special man and in its own Netflix, and it's
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Speaker 1: your very first one on them Netflix, and we'll do
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Speaker 1: it for half and and just tell us about the
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Speaker 1: whole process of getting it over to Netflix and and
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Speaker 1: taping it in San Francisco. Well, you know, let me say,
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Speaker 1: let me say this before you, because you just stand up.
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Speaker 1: So one thing I think inherited and everyone is some
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Speaker 1: people everybody has a sense of humor, whether they take
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Speaker 1: themselves too serious or they need to lighten up, or
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Speaker 1: they're dry. One of the things about about comedy and
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Speaker 1: comedian is is even the odds of even getting a
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Speaker 1: little bit of light shown on you is so nearly impossible.
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Speaker 1: But you know, there's so many guys that I saw
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Speaker 1: growing up, and that I saw in the clubs in
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Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties, in the last twenty years that
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Speaker 1: were so good, that we're so clever, that we're great writers,
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Speaker 1: and whatever fortune, whatever fate, didn't let anything shine on
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Speaker 1: those guys. And as as much as the world needs drafter,
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Speaker 1: there's a whole group of comedians who are incredibly funny
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Speaker 1: that no one will ever hear of That's why whatever
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Speaker 1: you do, do it because you love it. Because you
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Speaker 1: know there's no guarantee that you're not gonna be one
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Speaker 1: of those cats that gets any love. But if you
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Speaker 1: feel good about what you do, then that's already becoming
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Speaker 1: a success. You know successes and like everybody knows your name,
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Speaker 1: people see you. Yeah, that that that's great. But the
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Speaker 1: one thing is that you never loosen You're never loosening
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Speaker 1: your grip on something that you can't really get a
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Speaker 1: grip on. Like I think you work harder when you
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Speaker 1: get a little love and you start to do theaters
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Speaker 1: and you start to do arena and you start to
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Speaker 1: meet the people that you started to to meet on
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Speaker 1: the way up. I've seen a lot of guys stayed out,
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Speaker 1: but I always worked the hardest when I had my show,
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Speaker 1: when I had my taught show, when I had the specials.
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Speaker 1: So it's just been something that I've never been able
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Speaker 1: to relinquish. So going to San Francisco and go into
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Speaker 1: the war field and knowing the history of it, knowing
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Speaker 1: that Jimmy Henders played their Janni's Joplin Santana Ravana as
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Speaker 1: it gas your bed. Everybody that's anybody's been in there,
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Speaker 1: and you know you can do it anywhere, but when
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Speaker 1: you do it in a place that has historical significant
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Speaker 1: going to be Apollo. Chris Spencer asked me to do
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Speaker 1: this thing at the Apollo, and going there it may
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Speaker 1: not mean anything to anybody else. That's not for me
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Speaker 1: to decide. But what it meant to me to be
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Speaker 1: on stage with the Apollo, to ryal the road through
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Speaker 1: to go do Radio City is beyond you know, anybody's
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Speaker 1: true imagination or level of appreciation. I'm just I'm just
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Speaker 1: kind of honored to be able to do the things
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Speaker 1: that I've always wanted to do. And and and thank
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Speaker 1: you for explaining that, because I remember I was producing
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Speaker 1: bats Comic View and you may not even remember this,
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Speaker 1: and j Anthony Brown was hosting that that run or
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Speaker 1: Betis Comic View and you came and uh, and we
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Speaker 1: were trying to get you to go on stage. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: it's not my thing. It's not my thing, you know,
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Speaker 1: as y'all. I'm just here to watch and just wish
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Speaker 1: everybody good luck. And I remember we got you to
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Speaker 1: go on stage and you walked on stage, we introduced
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Speaker 1: you and the whole room of black people stood up
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Speaker 1: and gave you a standard ovation. And that to me,
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Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you're always famous with your group,
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Speaker 1: you know, like you know, like Jeff's felt he famous
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Speaker 1: with his crowd, and you know, and you you established
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Speaker 1: your brand of just being a funny guy. But in
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Speaker 1: my mind, the mex American culture was your what's your
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Speaker 1: what's your home run? And when I walked when I
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Speaker 1: saw you walk out that George, and these black people
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Speaker 1: stood off because you know, black people just like Hispanics,
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Speaker 1: you know, they don't they don't give it up or
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Speaker 1: unless they respect it, okay. And when they walked out
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Speaker 1: there and gave you a standard ovation, man, I went,
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Speaker 1: this dude got it, man, he got something extra going
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Speaker 1: on in his life. And I just I just That's
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Speaker 1: why I call you a legend, man, because when you
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Speaker 1: crossed all these different lanes man with respect, that's beautiful, dude,
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Speaker 1: that's beautiful. You know. You know I was my grandmother
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Speaker 1: raised me, and my grandmother was in my act. I
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Speaker 1: would say, you know, my grandmother was was racially insensitive,
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Speaker 1: like like your grandmother's like everybody's grandmother's especially insensitive. So
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Speaker 1: part of my material is about her relationship with African
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Speaker 1: American people and then coming to the door not opening
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Speaker 1: the door her relationship with black people, saying you know what,
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Speaker 1: like I said, I said, my first girlfriend, there's a
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Speaker 1: there's a true story, and it hurts and it's still
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Speaker 1: funny to this day. Like when I was in the
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Speaker 1: seventh grade, there was this girl that looked like get
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Speaker 1: Christie Love. She was in seventh grade. Her name was
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Speaker 1: Christina Husky, fro, light skin, tall, beautiful, and she liked
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Speaker 1: me and all my friends gave me a hard time
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Speaker 1: and I would walk with her the class and I
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Speaker 1: you know, I dug her and she was cool. She
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Speaker 1: lived on the other side of the street from where
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Speaker 1: I lived, the main street, and one day I was
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Speaker 1: walking home with her and my grandmother. I guess must
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Speaker 1: have got off work early and saw me and roll
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Speaker 1: like a shot get home, you know, And she flipped out.
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Speaker 1: black girl so all I know about no? I said, why,
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Speaker 1: why why is it your concern? She those, because I
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Speaker 1: don't like them. And if you do, they're gonna see
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Speaker 1: me with you, and they're gonna think I like him,
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Speaker 1: Dot Ai. Now I'm talking to George Lopez, the brilliant
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Speaker 1: George Lopez. He has a Netflix special that's coming out
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Speaker 1: of June Tuesday, June thirty. It's called We'll Do It
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Speaker 1: for Half. We'll Do It for Half. When I started
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Speaker 1: your interview, George, I told you I'll watch your special twice. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and this is why I watch this. But first of all,
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. And then I remember, you know, as
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Speaker 1: we all were in the beginning, we just won't get
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Speaker 1: a stage, so we tell some jokes so we can
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Speaker 1: be funny. That's the goal, Just to be funny. Go
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Speaker 1: from an opener to a middle act to a headline,
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Speaker 1: to get that get that first class ticket and you
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Speaker 1: you traveling, and all that good stuff and anything else
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Speaker 1: it comes along is a blessing. Okay, that's stuff that's
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Speaker 1: the life of a stand up of the average stand
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Speaker 1: up comic in this country right now. Now, then I
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Speaker 1: with your website and I saw your brand I saw restaurants,
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Speaker 1: I saw blue halls, I saw your foundation, I saw
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen face mask. I so we can't breathe T
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Speaker 1: shirts and so so now when I and I said that,
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Speaker 1: then I looked at your special again and I put
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Speaker 1: into perspective all that weight that you're now carrying on
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Speaker 1: stage with you now when you're performing. So in the beginning,
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Speaker 1: you didn't carry all that weight. Employees and COVID ninteen
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. All that's going on stage with
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Speaker 1: you now, and that's a lot of people don't understand that.
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Speaker 1: To be funny man under that amount of global understanding.
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Speaker 1: Gave me a truly different perspective and appreciated your comment
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Speaker 1: even more when I saw it the second time. You
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Speaker 1: understand where I'm coming from, absolutely, you know, um uh,
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Speaker 1: I think everybody liked me when my show started. You know,
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Speaker 1: my show wasn't a huge shit, but it did a
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty episodes. It did, you know, five and
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Speaker 1: a half years on ABC, which I had company, But
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Speaker 1: that was the family show with an edge. But I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now that I lost a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, including people when I started to vocalize and
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Speaker 1: I started to have my opinion on issues, but also
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Speaker 1: at the Grammys in two thousand and eight February two
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Speaker 1: thousand and eight. The election was in November of eight.
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Speaker 1: Chris Rock called me on a Monday after the Grammys.
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Speaker 1: Had said, can I give Barack Obama your telephone number
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Speaker 1: because he wants to ask you, you know, something about
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Speaker 1: your support Hillary Clinton's office had sent a facts to
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Speaker 1: the office, very impersonal, and I said sure. So I'm
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Speaker 1: watching the CNN at one fifty two Barack Obama's campaign
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Speaker 1: the Senator and it's a one fifty five and he's leaving.
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Speaker 1: And I said, there's no way that this guy is
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Speaker 1: gonna call me at two o'clock. If I'm watching CNN
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Speaker 1: and he's leaving an event, there's no way call call
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Speaker 1: at two third or three two o'clock phone rings low, Uh,
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Speaker 1: George Ota, Yes, hold for the Senator. Jared's Barack Obama. Ala, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I saw the TV. Yeah, I said. He said, listen,
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Speaker 1: I don't know where you are politically, but you know,
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Speaker 1: you know vote means a lot to me. I think
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Speaker 1: the communities have a lot in common. I said, listen, man,
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Speaker 1: you know I will help you. And then I did
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Speaker 1: what maybe was the most difficult thing to do in Texas.
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Speaker 1: In South Texas is I would go to these theaters
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Speaker 1: and people would be lined up to see me twice
18:46
Speaker 1: in an afternoon. I will talk about half an hour
18:49
Speaker 1: to be a political the mayor, and they'd be some
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Speaker 1: political speeches, and I would go to a half hour,
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Speaker 1: maybe four or five minutes, and then I would say
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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna support Barack Obama. And they would boo
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Speaker 1: and they would yell and they would hiss, and I
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Speaker 1: would be like, listen, listen, listen this, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: hang out a second. They would walk out on me,
19:09
Speaker 1: and then I kept on the message. I stayed and
19:12
Speaker 1: I started to say, listen, you have a vote for
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Speaker 1: somebody just because she's not African American. And that's how
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Speaker 1: you go by the same dayer every time because your
19:21
Speaker 1: dad brought it, bought it by the same soup, because
19:24
Speaker 1: your mom bought it. I said, there's choices, and we
19:26
Speaker 1: shouldn't just follow it. Man. It was the most difficult
19:31
Speaker 1: to have your own people turn on you for your
19:35
Speaker 1: political stance of getting someone to who's different, who's African American.
19:41
Speaker 1: A lot of there's a lot of racial division between
19:43
Speaker 1: our cultures as well, and they just they just didn't
19:47
Speaker 1: get it until I kept doing it and he started
19:50
Speaker 1: to do it. But at one time in New Mexico,
19:52
Speaker 1: we had a rally out there by you of them
19:55
Speaker 1: and they tore the gates down trying to get in
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Speaker 1: and they expected twenty thou people. That's fifty thousand people
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Speaker 1: out there. Wow, you know they're they're learning. It's amazing thing.
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Speaker 1: And when I'm talking to you, I'm talking to I'm
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Speaker 1: almost talking to a historian. Okay. And that's a compliment
20:11
Speaker 1: right there, because when you said, for forty one years
20:14
Speaker 1: of comedy, man, because we are people people don't understand
20:17
Speaker 1: by common community is good comedians. We really just document
20:20
Speaker 1: things and then we twist them on stage. But we
20:22
Speaker 1: really are telling the truth in a way. If you
20:25
Speaker 1: just really broke down what we're saying, we just making
20:27
Speaker 1: just make it, make it funny because we made real
20:29
Speaker 1: sharp or left or right turns, and that's where the
20:31
Speaker 1: humor comes from. But we're really just telling you the truth.
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Speaker 1: And when I when I look at COVID nineteen, if
20:36
Speaker 1: you don't mind me talking about right quick, it's affecting
20:39
Speaker 1: the Hispanic community or Latino community and the Black community
20:43
Speaker 1: is being devastated by the COVID nineteen. And then I
20:45
Speaker 1: went on the website and I was so happy to
20:47
Speaker 1: see that you are doing your part providing COVID nineteen
20:51
Speaker 1: face masks. How did you get into that and what
20:53
Speaker 1: motivated you to participate at that level? Well, first of all,
20:57
Speaker 1: you know what not and and let's not even going
21:00
Speaker 1: to talk about medical and our medical conditions. So I
21:04
Speaker 1: had a kidney transplant in two thousand five from when
21:07
Speaker 1: I was married by my wife and gave it to me.
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Speaker 1: But this was stuff that should have been detected when
21:12
Speaker 1: I was a child. I went to bed, you know,
21:14
Speaker 1: kids went the bed, you know, and instead of saying
21:17
Speaker 1: that maybe there's something wrong, because there was something wrong,
21:20
Speaker 1: I just didn't do it because I drank so much
21:21
Speaker 1: water I couldn't keep it in. And I mean I
21:23
Speaker 1: had a narrow year. I was born early. I went undetected.
21:28
Speaker 1: I could have had both my original kidneys. If I
21:30
Speaker 1: had come from a culture where when somebody went to bed,
21:34
Speaker 1: you take him to the doctor. If I would have
21:36
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21:38
Speaker 1: or something, I could have saved myself. So so the
21:41
Speaker 1: fact that we ignore situations of our health until clearly
21:45
Speaker 1: we can't get out of bed. I knew something was wrong.
21:48
Speaker 1: So so with COVID and and and uh compromise immune system,
21:53
Speaker 1: and knowing that that it could spread the family, and
21:56
Speaker 1: that it's invisible then and that you had to take
21:58
Speaker 1: it serious. It was a no brainer, man, to to
22:01
Speaker 1: get involved in the mass, to donate money to charity,
22:04
Speaker 1: to try to get people the mass as well. But also,
22:07
Speaker 1: you know, let's talk about D L. Hubley, who uh,
22:10
Speaker 1: go ahead, uh a symptomatic, So you look at pre
22:15
Speaker 1: existing conditions. But also I said this, you know, and
22:18
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him about this, but I just
22:20
Speaker 1: feel like, as as you never want to fall out
22:24
Speaker 1: on stage, you never want to fall out anywhere. Could
22:26
Speaker 1: have been driving, could have been anywhere. That may have
22:29
Speaker 1: been the best thing for him personally, because if it
22:33
Speaker 1: had happened in the hotel room, he probably would have thought,
22:36
Speaker 1: I'm fatigued, I didn't eat, I've been traveling and and
22:39
Speaker 1: and look past the COVID until maybe it was further
22:44
Speaker 1: along and now it was more serious. So he raises
22:48
Speaker 1: the fact that he set out in Nashville a larger
22:52
Speaker 1: issue is that maybe we shouldn't be rushing back to
22:55
Speaker 1: the clubs as comedians and as an audience because this
22:59
Speaker 1: is a real, real, real thing, and as hard as
23:02
Speaker 1: it is to get by because a lot of us
23:04
Speaker 1: don't have disposed income, you only have one life, and
23:07
Speaker 1: that's the life that you need to protect. I was
23:09
Speaker 1: right talking to George Lopez. Is comedy special examines race
23:13
Speaker 1: ethnic relations, especially they have Mexican American culture. Anything different
23:17
Speaker 1: than this special of this air and on Netflix up
23:19
Speaker 1: on June, George Lopez, you know, just being incredibly funny.
23:23
Speaker 1: You're being funny in that, dude, you and I want
23:25
Speaker 1: to take you too special. You do one in English
23:27
Speaker 1: and you do one in Spanish. You know that, right?
23:30
Speaker 1: That's true? Yeah, So I think I think creating the
23:33
Speaker 1: narrative of the uncle that was like going to the
23:36
Speaker 1: doctor gangurine and Australia disease and our disease, creating a
23:40
Speaker 1: also ego also, you know, using wanting to know where
23:45
Speaker 1: all the flu comes from, uh, wanting to win other
23:50
Speaker 1: people's business. All this whole thing about Karen's and all
23:53
Speaker 1: these people, if they have one thing consistently is they're
23:57
Speaker 1: all older white women. Because everybody else has found a
24:01
Speaker 1: way to mind your own business. When I was married,
24:04
Speaker 1: I was very to a woman that if she saw
24:06
Speaker 1: a kid without a parent and the parent was sitting
24:10
Speaker 1: down two feet away, She's like, you shouldn't let your
24:12
Speaker 1: kid unattended, I said, and you're gonna get knocked out,
24:15
Speaker 1: you know, in funding your own business. So we as
24:17
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24:21
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24:23
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24:26
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24:29
Speaker 1: or sees anybody of color in a convenience store and
24:32
Speaker 1: you're starting to throw uh and word around, you started
24:35
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24:48
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24:52
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24:55
Speaker 1: that later, go back to your taking flop like a
25:00
Speaker 1: like a heavy bag. Yes, yes, yes, well man, I
25:04
Speaker 1: appreciate you, George Lopez. Man, uh, I just wanted to
25:07
Speaker 1: talk to you man on this on my show, and
25:09
Speaker 1: uh kind of come from a different and this is
25:13
Speaker 1: the fastest whatever I think it's Yeah, it really is.
25:17
Speaker 1: It's like twenty three minutes right now. But I just
25:19
Speaker 1: want to let you know just a lot. When people
25:20
Speaker 1: come on money, make a conversation. Man, I have no agenda,
25:23
Speaker 1: but your greatness need to be discussed. I just want
25:25
Speaker 1: to let people hear a little bit of you. You
25:28
Speaker 1: because there's a man behind those jokes. Let me say that.
25:32
Speaker 1: Let me say that, you know, the restaurants and the
25:34
Speaker 1: beer and all that stuff came to me as an opportunity.
25:36
Speaker 1: You know. If there's one thing that we have is
25:38
Speaker 1: we have an imaginative mind. You can be an inventor
25:42
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25:44
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25:47
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25:49
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25:53
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25:56
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26:00
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26:07
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26:10
Speaker 1: say I have this great idea for something that's true,
26:13
Speaker 1: that's very true, that's very few George Lopez, I don't
26:16
Speaker 1: want to hold you, my man. Thank you for taking
26:18
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