Interview with Q Reyes on comedy, animation, and Puerto Rico

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Corbin I was gonna say Rich Kaufman A hybrid between Rich and Simon Rich Corbin Yo what's up everybody My man Simon He fucking homified on us He's going back up to Seattle Cause his life was Very Very optimist here And he decided to go back He had everything going for him And he had to leave it because He needed some depression He needed to challenge himself He needed some depression That's right That's right And tonight we got a very special guest My boy right here I've been Oh shit man Where could I start with you man We're always texting For like For years Nigga you and I text for years right Yo where you at You in New York Yo where you at in LA Yo where you at in New York Yo where you at in LA Let's hook up Let's hook up Meanwhile You are fucking producing Fucking directing On the Academy Awards Fucking red carpet You're here You're there Every fucking way I haven't seen you in forever My man Q Reyes What's up baby What's up What's going on What's going on I like your status I like 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later I have to drive That's just for show I don't wanna get pulled over You know That's just for show What's up man Man just trying to Just be like you man Just Trying to make a dollar Out of 15 cents I'm trying to make a dollar Out of being in debt You know what I mean Like that's Well then you're doing good Well you know You wanna take your jacket off And shit And stay for a while Well is that what It's hotter than this motherfucker Is that what the people want Are the people asking for this I think the people They're texting me right now Yeah they're texting me right now I'm sorry sir Do you want me to do it slow Or quick Well no what it is You need a jacket to To be on the show Button down A blue shirt And a wool jacket It's hot in this motherfucker By the end of this It won't be that hot But watch Look I'm gonna start with this And for For every question One button comes down That's it It's every question Hope you got a lot of them There you go Now you look a bit more comfortable Well yeah you know I just got You know rushed in here You know I try to go to the meetings When I go to meetings Like looking Looking like Like you got Like you got a bank account Exactly Because if not They think you're gonna rob them You know what I mean Especially with me Oh well they don't Take you serious I mean I'm with you brother I'm with you You know what I mean I used to But you're moving up You're moving up I'm trying You know I came to that realization That I had to kind of Make a change in my ways When I realized That I was stuck In the same place You know like You get treated like you act So if you act You know like You get treated like you're dressed You know what I mean Exactly yeah If you act like an assistant You're gonna be treated Like an assistant Right But a lot of it Is looking the part So if you look the part Then it doesn't matter What you do People might think Wow You work in banking But meanwhile You just sharpen pencils At an agency They don't know Exactly You know what I mean Exactly You fake it till you make it You know you keep going Let's tell Let's tell the NPRians Out there in internet land Who we're talking about here You know You and I met You and I met on On Well we met With my boy Ruperto Yeah Ruperto was doing a show In town Ruperto Vanderpool Woo That's my nigga right there Ruperto That's another story Right there Yeah Big up to Ruperto Yeah Ruperto Vanderpool Man That motherfucker Dominican baby Yo that's another story Right now At this particular junction Yeah You know what I mean But he was in town RupertoVanderpool.com If you want to know Who he is Google him Go to his website A very very funny Black Tino comedian Yeah Yeah Like me I'm a little chocolatey No you're a Black Tino You're a Black Tino You're a Black Tino First of all You're Puerto Rican I'm Puerto Rican I'm half Dominican Half Dominican Half Puerto Rican Well you were born In Puerto Rico Puerto Rico though right? I was born in Puerto Rico Born and raised Where were you born in Puerto Rico? In San Juan In San Juan Then I lived everywhere Ponce Everywhere Where in San Juan? Just like San Juan San Tulce San Tulce Villa Palmeras It's right up in the north Okay yeah San Tulce You know everybody here In California It's more like Hey so you're from Puerto Rico? Like what part of New York is that? Right Exactly Is that uptown Or is that downtown? Exactly Yeah Well they're partly right In asking that question Because Puerto Rico Is partly uptown El Barrio And some part of it Is a little part of it Is the Lower East Side Because But that's a very little part Because they've kicked You know most Latinos Out of there Wherever Put it this way Wherever you see projects In New York City That's where Puerto Rico is Okay But you know It's a difference Between Puerto Ricans And New Yoricans It's a big difference Absolutely You know like I'm a Puerto Rican You know in New York You were born in Puerto Rico Yeah exactly And in New York New Yoricans are really aggressive You know what I mean? They're like They'll kick your ass Any minute Right Where Puerto Ricans We kind of lay back In Puerto And PR definitely Yeah like But not so much now man I mean Puerto Rico If you look at economically Is in bankruptcy Like in a worse In worse shape Than Detroit And meaning That the means To make a living In Puerto Rico Has been outweighed By the lack of jobs Right? Yeah The source That sounded retarded The source of making Of producing Right? Companies Agricultural whatever has been outweighed by the the the the means to make a living that's what I meant employment it's just completely fucked up and as a result Puerto Rico has the highest crime rate per capita then I think I think it's on the top fucking five if not in the top the number one spot in the United States per capita even though it's not a it's even though it's not a new it's not a state and because of the drugs that are being I mean the rampant drug use and drug sales in Puerto Rico has made Puerto Rico not so relaxed not so chill but but but what you're saying is usually Caribbean folk are very laid back they're cool people yeah in that aspect like for example I think what what's happened with Puerto Rico is that you know it's hard to to really compete with India or China and as far as labor so we really don't have that manpower right to support like our right to support like our economy our economy is huge as part of the United States we use the dollars so we you know Puerto Rico has stopped producing anything yeah like anything except JLo they produce JLo well no I mean they produce they produce and they have chemical plants in PR you got DuPont Union carbide you got those fucking things and and what they produce whatever chemical byproducts they produce get shipped back to the United States or smoked or smoked some people do smoke well that's another story but but but they get shipped back to the United States and those companies get federal tax breaks that's why they're there right and then any kind of products that have to pharmaceutical products have to be shipped back to Puerto Rico and they have to be they have to pay a tax on it so it's cost more fucking money to get a pair I a bottle of eyedrops that's made in Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico that makes sense to you it makes sense you know because that's the pineapple and sugar industry in Hawaii exactly exactly delicious that's delicious in the store there but the tax breaks are not there taxation sugar on the pineapple he said delicious delicious he's a pineapple and sugar to a fucking speck he's like delicious you know what's the problem really beyond Puerto Rico is really you know democracy is fucked up you know like democracy has been outdated for hundreds of years and it's time for us you know in a new age to come up with a new way to govern ourselves and then you say that oh you're a socialist that's like I don't even believe so I don't I don't even like socialism or any other isms I mean anything that's existing right now is not working so I think what we need to do is new minds need to come up with a new way to govern you know and it's not me doesn't me now dad is like we we leave what we have it means instead of trying to improve it and do like a ten million amendments to fix something that's not working let's start from scratch let's do you know let's let's think about what over yeah let me the slate clean the slate and this is something good why people got to get the fuck out in the United States like United States no they need a prioritizing People got to get the fuck out of the United States. The United States. No, they need to prioritize. You need to strip down the old guard and prioritize what needs to be fixed. The United States belongs to Mexico and some of the indigenous people. Like, throw everybody out. Let's start from scratch. That's what you're saying? I think the first thing is borders are bullshit. That's something that people came up with. It's the world. Fear. Yeah, but it's the world, right? And we're all human beings, but now we're like, oh, they're Africans. So they're over there. They're starving. They're starving. We're all starving. Right. You know, and then. Well, we're all starving for something, for sure. If it's not nourishment, it's spiritual growth or emotional growth or something. Everyone, we're all lacking something, right? Yeah, I mean, not only that, but then we try to fulfill it. Like, by sending a check to Africa, but then we step over a homeless guy in the front step to go mail that check that's going to go who knows where. Right, right. You could just give that man some help. Not necessarily money. You can help the person next to you. That's a, dude, dude. The old adage. Yeah. You know. That's a whole. Oh, motherfucking. Here, here. That's what's the problem in Puerto Rico. You know what I mean? Oh, Puerto Rico. Bro, Puerto Rico is fucked up. Okay. Puerto Rico is fucked up. First of all, first of all, Puerto Rico is on welfare. Puerto Rico has been on welfare since the turn of the century. Since the United States of America, the federal government went into Puerto Rico back in the fucking 20s or whatever to use Puerto Rico as a, you know, a bumper guard in case America was attacked. By Cuba or whatever the fuck. Right. We had two naval bases there. We have one in Culebra. We have one in Vieques. Right. Puerto Rico has been on the federal, the United States federal government's nipple for all these years. And what happens with anyone who gets weaned on fucking welfare juice, what happens is you're not giving, you know, someone a means to make their own life. Right. You, you, you, you make them dependent on something and then you make them helpless. Right. Right. In other words, you need me, Q, and I'm going to make sure you know you need me for the rest of your life. That's it. Not here, Q. Have some water. Right. And then, you know, let me show you where the well is. Right. And whenever you want some water, check it out. You may have to walk five miles, but the water's over there. You can have it as much as you want. You don't need to come to me to get it. You follow? And so, so that's, I mean, that's what, so that's one thing about Puerto Rico. Then you have the, the, the, the, the split off of the mentality of Puerto Ricans. You have the people who are for the federal government and you have people who are for the colonization of Puerto Rico. Right. So you have the pro statehood fucks and you got the fuck the pro statehood. We need to go back to the colony, which right there, you're, you're, you're, you're having an archaic argument because if you, if you, this is for you guys. If you realize that you don't have any means to be self-supporting, how the fuck are you going to go back to being independent? Independent from what? What are you going to create? Yeah. I mean, I mean, in order to have an economy, you have to have something that you make. You have to have some sort of service. You have to have something that you're selling, right? You have something. They're not, they don't make, I mean, they have a very small coffee production there now. They use, it used to be fucking coffee. It used to be pineapple. It used to be sugar, sugar. Puerto Rico was one of the most biggest suppliers. Of sugar, you know, in this part of the world for years. And now they just make it out of corn. For hundreds of years. Okay. Sugar cane, forget it. But anyway, we, we can go on and on and on about that. But you know, to, to address what you're saying, Q, um, things are changing a little bit. People are becoming more aware. People, for instance, people are becoming, uh, fed up with a lot of bullshit that's going on. Now we've talked about this, uh, talked about this on the show. Whereas. Uh, you know, racial, uh, uh, uh, riots and all that. People are becoming somewhat aware. And I think that that's a start, you know, because in order for you to effectuate change or whatever, you have to get to a point where you're like, that's it. I had enough. And I think there's hope for that. Like you said, there's hope for that. It starts, but it starts, I think it's like, I like to step out of the hole we're in and look from the outside. And it's really, we've been sold a dream, an American dream. Okay. You buy a house, you buy a car. And then now you have to work all your life to put it in place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you have to pay for those things. That's slavery. That's slavery without having to beat you. Now you're beating yourself up because you got to go to work to some job you hate. That's slavery. Because we all part of that slavery system. Of course. Because you, you bought into perfect example, a very small version of that is, so you buy a house, I'm a homeowner, but then you realize that are you happier owning a house than you were when you were living in the projects? That's just a question. So you can go back way the fuck back then. And, and the answer is not, there's no. It's not right or wrong answer. It depends on who you are as a person, where you're at. Do you really own it? Well, that's another story. When the government comes and say, we want to build a shopping mall here. Yeah. But that's another story. Yeah. And here, let's go back even further. Right. Go back to what is that you really want out of life, right? What makes you happy? What, what makes you happy Q, right? I mean, these are just rhetorical questions, but most people wind up, you know, following the bouncing ball. You're talking about like, you know, the reality. The reality of things. Like I have a house. If the government comes in and said they want to buy all those fucking houses for like $5 each down the strip of Laurel Grove where I'm at, they can do it and they can make five more lanes on the one-on-one freeway. It's right there already. Of course we already know that. I mean, so what, so exactly. So all the work that you're doing in order to pay for this, right. Is really at the end of the day, like not even yours. You know what I mean? Because if you don't pay your taxes, they also take it away. Of course. So it's kind of like, and we, we've been taught. Since we were growing up, that's like, oh, this is what you have to do as American. You grow up and you get a house and you get a car and then you get a good job. You work at UPS and then you get a. Man, I'm happy. What you gotta do it. You gotta stay at a school. Okay. You are staying at a school. You stop at fucking around with the co with the cocaine. Okay. Then when you stop fucking around with the cocaine, okay. Then you pay attention in school, you graduate. Okay. And you get a GED. Okay. Fuck the high school diploma. That costs too fucking much. Okay. You get a GED and then you get a job at McDonald's. Okay. They got good benefits. Okay. And free hamburgers. Okay. You bring some hamburgers to the house and we all live happily ever after. Okay. Papiki. That's another thing. Education. You can go to my, my, my YouTube channel. I have blogs there about education is bullshit. That's the biggest gang system there is. Because it's like, if you're not part of the educated crowd, if you don't got that degree, you ain't shit and you can't come up with us. I get it. You can't even, you can't even get an interview. You might be the best person for the job, but fuck you. Cause you didn't go to this school. I get it. I get it. Well, you'll break it down to this. A Harvard educate, a Harvard curriculum, let's say, right. One of the, one of the top Ivy league schools in America. If you look at the curriculum there, that curriculum should be the basic curriculum for any university that should not ha you should not have to go to a specific, uh, Ivy league college to get that standard of education. That should be the standard across the board. Okay. Whether you can afford it or not. But what you just said is a, is a, is a social. The way of fucking putting the have nots in their fucking places. Sure. The spix and niggers can go to college. Just keep them in fucking community colleges and fuck them. We'll give them, we'll give them an opportunity to get to a four year college and then they're specialized for your college. I know. You know, the thing is I agree with seven years to be like, like, like a mechanic or like seven years to work at Starbucks. You know, you go to school this year's you end up in the same place that if you didn't go to school, right. You know, most of the people that made billions don't even have a class. Yeah. college education. Branson, he got an airline. He's not even a pilot. So he don't have a college education. That tells you it's like... But we're brainwashed. Education is key. Yeah, the key for you to be stressed out. If you want to live for your parents... A lot of these dudes... I mean, education is just another way for you to become in debt. Seriously, look how expensive education is. You get out of four years, $200,000, $300,000 because they tell you you have to get a certain degree or a certain... Education should be a place where you, as a young adult, a young man, a young woman, could go and try to quench your thirst for knowledge. Because you don't know what your purpose in life is. Quench your thirst for knowledge and maybe gain some experience and some knowledge in this area and you go, huh, you know what? I'm good at math. Maybe I'll fucking become a scientist. Whatever, whatever. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. did that happen? Well, I grew up everywhere. I was actually, I grew up. So you're a real spick. You got fucking transported everywhere. Was your father or your mother in some sort of leg of the armed services? No, I lived in Puerto Rico until I was about 10. Then I moved to Orlando. My mom got a divorce and moved over there with my grandma. Then I joined the Navy. Got a divorce and moved to Orlando. Yeah, that's little San Juan. Right now, yeah. There's more Puerto Ricans in Orlando than in New York, my capital. So then from there, I joined the Navy when I was 17. Ended up in Chicago for boot camp and my training over there. Then I ended up in an aircraft carrier off San Francisco. So you joined the Navy to fucking basically go to Chicago and wind up in San Francisco. And I read you DJ'd on the aircraft carrier. And that's all you did. They had like old, old music. They would have like one hip hop joint. I wanted to play more hip hop. So it would be like, I would play that song after every other song. I think it was like Wu-Tang Cream. And it was like over and over again. But people love it. So you'd play rock and roll, all sorts of shit, country, and then you'd play Cream again. And then you'd bookend it. Exactly. That's actually how I got into comedy because it was so boring. Actually, I would work 20 hours a day and then I would go do my radio show after that. 20 hours a day in the Navy, whatever your job was. Yeah, I was an airman. How long were you in the Navy? Was it three years? So airman. Airman is, if you're in an aircraft carrier, you basically signal aircraft to land and take off, that type of stuff? Yeah, well that's the traffic control. I would be like, once they land, they pass it over to me and then I would let them know that their cable was retracted and to go ahead and... Make sure you put a chalk on the fucking wheel and shit like that. Yeah, yeah. You know, we just did like the after. Yo, yo, Q, where's that chalk? Yo, I put that shit underneath the fucking plane wheel. Yo, that chalk's not there, man. Actually, it's crazy because when I was there, you know, the ships weren't integrated. So it was about 8,000 men in one ship. It was a city. Like, they had two post offices. They had everything. But it gets tense in there after you've been there a few months out to sea and you haven't seen a woman, you know, like in about three months. It starts getting tense because you're either gonna do a couple of things. You're gonna start looking at men's asses. Well, yeah. There's no gays in the military. But we're gonna send a bunch of men in the middle of the ocean. No, no, no, hombres. It's not gay. They've created more gay individuals than... If you look at a man's ass, that's not gay. It's not gay. Or if you touch it, that might be your, you're like on your way to being gay. Hey, Bill's ass kind of looks like my girl's ass. You know, if I close my eyes, that ass pussy's looking pretty good. Yeah, let me ask you something. If it's dark, right, and there's no one there, and someone's sucking your dick, is it gay? If it turns out to be, then you don't know. Are you trying to justify some shit? Okay, I'm just saying, experiment. It's an experiment. It's not gay if you're just trying something out. Let me pull you back. It's not gay if it's in a three-way, okay? With the honey in the middle, it's okay. That's a song. Never mind that. Fuck all that. That's a song. Forget all that. For all y'all out there, you know about the three-way, the golden rule, okay? That's a song, okay? As long as the ball's not touched, that's my rule. Your ball's over there, my ball's over here. Don't cross the sword. Adam Sandberg, is that his name? Andy, Andy, the three-way, the golden rule, who did that? What's his name? Justin Timberlake and Adam... Who was the first guy? Adam? What's the golden shower rule? Thank you, and Lady Gaga. The golden shower rule. No, no, no. It's called the golden shower rule. How long were you on that boat, man? Jesus Christ. You got it? Hold on a second. Hold on a second. You'll play it. You'll play a little bit. Hold on. This went from black. This went down. Jenny's going to play for us. But in the meantime, so how'd you get into comedy, though? To comedy? So basically, as I was doing the show, I noticed that I would be saying funny things on the mic, and then people would come up to me later like, yo, that's so funny. Yeah, exactly. So I was like, okay, I'm going to try this out. But I always was scared. Then I met somebody that was doing stand-up after I left the Navy, and he was like, come on, please do it. Come to the punchline, or come to wherever the hell. Basically. But I went to Oakland to a place. Oh, there it is. Yeah, baby. This is shit. Yeah. Uh-huh. This one, they used to talk in the song. Back in that ass. Yeah. You don't know this song? I don't know it, but I'm making love to this tonight. Your mom says hi. Jinx. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a Capricorn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Summertime in the city, and everybody's having sex. You know, I just got a page from a girl that I met last week at the playlist. Shoot source. I also have a cutie to call who loves the way I knock on her boots. Well, it's time to back. Let's handle that. It's who to say. Six hours. We'll meet back there in Red Road. My last show. Roll up to her crib with some bottles and change. Up off the bus with the alizé. Now hold up, player. What you diggity doing here? I should diggity ask you the same. Let's just say. Hey, boys, what want you both? I hope that you think that's cool. You want to say words? I know most guys won't freak together when she forgot about the golden rule. I hope it's okay when it's in a three-way. It's not gay when it's in a three-way. It's not gay when it's in a three-way. We're the honey in the middle. There's some leaves. I just scooped that. But you got to go. What you got to do is go to YouTube and put three-way the golden rule. Shit is hilarious. It was a skit on Saturday Night Live. I saw that shit. I nearly peed my pants. I nearly peed and shit my pants at the same time. It was so fucking hilarious. That sounds hilarious. Dude. It's like a sketch. It's a sketch. I didn't hear this on the radio. No, but it's a fucking video. It's a song. It's a straight-up bona fide song. Anyway, so you did stand-up comedy. The reason I'm saying is because you and I met and you were producing or you were one of the producers on, at the time it was CTV, but it's Nuvo TV now, right? Nuvo TV, yeah. Nuvo TV bought out CTV or it was the same thing or was that always for Nuvo TV? They just kind of rebranded. Got it. And then Jennifer Lopez came in. So CTV rebranded as Nuvo TV and Jennifer Lopez came on board and started. Yeah, she's a creative something. Creative director. Yeah. She's like, Oprah's got a network. I want one. Yeah, that's pretty. Well, shit. Mark Anthony's going to be in town tomorrow. I'm going to go see him. I'll tell him you said hi. Yeah, tell him I said what's up. I'm going to tell him you said what's up. Tell him I said what's up. He's in the cover of Man's Fitness. Is he? Come on. Come on. Mark Anthony in the cover of Man's Fitness. I have to look at it. That's sarcasm right there. Like, come on. That doesn't make me want to go to the gym. I cancel my membership. That makes you want to get some ribs and shit and some cornbread. That's the current state, though. I mean, I hear you. A.M. Subway is like, is 50. You know? Well, yeah, but look. He's not fit. Google that picture of Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony's in the cover of Man's Fitness. He's a skinny motherfucker. Mark Anthony is. Actually, you're slim. You were a little heavier back then. Like, when you first started doing stand-up, you were a little chunkier. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've gone up and down. You know, I don't have a problem really losing it. It's just gaining it if you eat a lot, right? Yeah. Because I don't. It's like when you stop. Maybe when you're in a relationship, I think you gain weight. Has that been the case? Like, you've been in a relationship, and then you just, like, let your guard down? Yeah. You're like, you're in a relationship. You love me for me. Yo, yo, you get in a relationship. Everything's going good. You let your guard down. A big, fat steak goes up your ass. Feet. And you fucking explode in the fucking glorious state of being called in-loveness when you fucking gain another four or five inches on your waistline. Exactly. That type of shit. Exactly. I feel you. Then she leaves you for that. Then you cry. Then you cry. And then you go back and lose weight. And then you can't eat. And then you can't eat. Right? You're not a man. I'm sorry to tell you. You're not a real man. You're not a real man until you've had your fucking heart and your balls broken by a girl. When you're like, you know, you haven't eaten in three fucking days and your boy's like, yo, dude, you're getting skinny. Have something to eat. No, man. I don't have an appetite, man. You know, I just keep thinking about her. That's all I keep doing. No, but I'm a little different. I'll say something like, you'll be like, oh, man, what's up? Are you okay? Man, fuck that bitch. Right? But I go home and just cry. But deep down inside, you're crying. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck that bitch. There's a lot of hoes out here. Yeah, yeah. I'm out at the club. Yeah, yeah. Then you go home and you're like. And texting her like, hey, what's up? And you're like, man, that used to be her washcloth. I haven't washed in a long time. The pillow still smells like her. You know what I mean, yo? That'll fuck up a guy, man. It will. That will fuck a dude up. It will. It's hard. It's heartbreaking. That'll fuck you up, man. You sleep with a woman for so many years or however many years or however many months, the pillow, like you acquire this scent and it's just like, you can't live without it. Yeah. And plus, and then you're afraid, not for you, but she might be with somebody else. Oh, forget it. That's the Latino shit. Is she with somebody else right now? Yo, when you get to a point in your life, though, when you get beat down, you lose so much weight, you're like, fuck it. I don't mind sharing you. Whatever. Just let me see you a couple of days a week. Yeah. So hold on a second. So you did stand up. I saw your stand up. I saw your BET. That shit was funny, dude. That was some funny shit. How long ago was that? Wow. That was 2000, early 2000. Wow. I remember. Yeah, that was Atlanta. That's how long ago I started doing fucking stand up and then stopped and then went back and then stopped and went back. It's ridiculous how many times. But that's funny. You look like you're fucking 19 years old there. Yeah, I was like 23 around there. Wow. And that was, you know, like I was really coming up in stand up. Like I was doing it a lot. Yeah. And then what happened? Why did you stop doing stand up? I actually started doing a movie, producing a movie. And it was my own movie. I had the actor sleeping over at my house. So it took all of my time. It took me three months to edit it myself. Right. And it kind of took me out of that groove. That groove, yeah. But then I discovered producing, you know, and then I was like, oh, man, this is. You have fucking, you have potential. I mean, I mean, you have potential. I mean, that was, that was, I mean, seriously, at 23, I saw, you know, the George Foreman grill. That's hilarious. You did, you did the, the guy, you know, getting a job. Yo, you hiring, which, which actually you're also, you're also, you've done a couple of animations. One of them, Counterfeit, the neighborhood dude, right? The neighborhood guy. Yeah, with Russell Simmons. Yeah. So you did that. That's hilarious. I'm going to play a little bit of that. She was hilarious. That cracked me up. Oh, that shit cracked me up. Hold on a second. Hold on. What up? What up? I heard you're hiring and shit. We're evaluating potential employees for an opening in our accounting department. How did you hear about this position? I keep my ear on the street. You know what I mean? Okay. Who called you in for this interview? Man, you be asking a lot of questions, man. I'm sorry. I didn't catch your name. Well, you didn't catch it because I didn't throw it. You know what I mean? Call me Counterfeit. Counterfeit. Is this your legal name? Man, I ain't trying to give you no information, man. I don't want you motherfuckers trying to find me later and shit. So tell me about your experience. I've been with a few hoes here and there. Know what I mean? I be getting busy. Ha, ha, ha. Hoes be on the deals, Nick. Not your sexual experience. Your work experience. Oh, that. Ah. You know, I had this job one time. Well, you know how motherfuckers be, man. Cash register go missing so they try to blame it on the black man. So did they find the cash register? They found it in my house, but it's like I told them, that'll prove shit. Ha, ha, ha. So, so I watched that. You have another thing, another fucking animation, Caesar and Chewy, The Adventures of Caesar and Chewy. So tell me about those things, how'd they come up? So, I mean, you, you did stand up. If y'all want to check out Q's stand-up, it's on his website, QReyes.com. Q is K-E-U. That's your real name? That ain't my real name. Well, how the fuck, why would you fucking come up with a name that's like, not only is it odd, but then you spell it fucking like, like, like a fucking hip-hop rap artist. Shit. It went through a lot of transitions. How do you come up with that shit? A lot of transitions. It's a lot of transitions. You got, all right, all right, all right. That's three ways. That's three ways you can write Q. The letter Q, the fucking Q as in Q-Ball, C-U-E, and then you come up with K-E-U. I've seen them all. Well, you know, before, you know, my name, my name, my stage name was Quincy. Is that your real name, Quincy? No, no. My real name is Furman, right? But, yeah, but in, in, that's an old fucking spick Dominican name right there. It is Furman. You know how I stand up? You can't, you can't say, ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together. Come into the stage. Fermin Reyes. They're like, what? Exactly. You, you gotta be like, they won't, they won't remember you. So I was, I gotta shorten it up. Then I saw a lot of Quincy's were successful. You know, there was Quincy Jones. Oh, you were trying to do, you were trying to do like, there's a TV show, Quincy. Right. Quincy, there's Quincy, California. So I was like, yeah, that's not famous, but it's a city. It's a city. I was like, it's Quincy, Massachusetts. Yeah. Oh, that's what I was thinking. Maybe that's the city. Massachusetts. It's somewhere in the United States. But, so I was like, well, everybody started calling me Q. So I was like, okay, well, I'm going to use the letter Q, but then it was confusing. Is it a Q, a little Q? So I was like, well, let me really come up with a Q name. Right. And then also, you know, that was it. Got it. Got it. That's cool. And I didn't want anybody to find it. So if you go, you know, KU, if you Google me right now, I'm going to come up. The first one. Yeah. Yeah. Because there's no other fucking, that's, I mean, that's, that's, that's very smart. Even before you knew about fucking, uh, HTML, uh, meta tags and all that shit. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's kind of, so I'm going to change my fucking name to Z, Z, E, Z, E, Rodriguez, Z, Z, E, Z, E, A, like the C, but with a Z. That's a popular letter. You got to use something like, like, like, like, uh, Y. No, like, like, um, let me see. K. No, that's, I got, I got the K. Yeah. Yeah. K so, but you can, you just think about it. The first few letters, A, B, C, D, you know, there's a fish letter. That's, that's too much work for me, man. So, so tell me about these, these animations, because I dig them, which by the way, I sent you a fucking script two times. I was, I was talking about this to my man on the way down here, because I watch your animations. I'm like, dude, I gotta make, I gotta, I gotta produce this, this animation because it's, it's, it's fucking, it's tight. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then, you know, this is, this is East 100th street. You know, no, exactly. Exactly. That's, that's the issue right now. If you notice on TV, who's producing the animation, it's probably like two, three companies. Right. That they trust to produce the animation. So everybody has to go through those companies if you want to get on. Right. I've been fighting against that. Right. Forever. I'm like, you know what? I don't need them. There's so many talented people working, the Starbucks that can draw. Right. That went to school for animation. Right. That they'll never get a chance. Right. Cause Seth MacFarlane, but why can't you, fuck Seth MacFarlane. Why can't you create your own content like you did this way? And you're saying that once you create the content, it's very difficult to sell and distribute. Is that what you're saying? It's difficult to distribute. It's also very time consuming because I don't have the budget. Right. So I'm, I have to do it in a lot of different ways. Uh huh. And, and you know, no one's really going to give me the budget cause they'd rather give it to Seth. Well, Seth MacFarlane would do it. Right. So it's like, we really have a hard time getting that opportunity. And not necessarily because it's Latino or whatever. No, no, no. It's just, it's a tight, it's a, dude, the entertainment business is fucking tight. You know, if you're a woman or if you're a woman of color, if you're a person of color, we don't need, that's another fucking show. You know what I mean? That's another show. I mean, it's, it's difficult. It's difficult to break in. So anything. So what I, what I've been doing is I've, I've assembled a team of like, you know, they're like my friends and they're animators. Dope. I mean, these dudes can like produce. How long are these? These animations are, one of them is four minutes. The other ones, they're about three to four minutes each, right? Do you have more episodes than the ones that you have on here? Where are these? The, the, the counterfeit episodes. That's, that was a production for Russell Simmons. Actually, Russell Simmons produces, you pitched it to Russell and then, and we developed it together. So where, where was this airing? This was airing, it's still airing on ADD, which is all deaf digital. They're his, his YouTube channel. And actually, okay, we work like literally, we work, we actually have to tame that character down, you know, because he, we did, he, you know, it was very controversial. Yeah. I, I could imagine for cartoons, because when you're dealing with cartoons, then you're opening up the, the arena for little kids. Cause cartoons means that it's safe for little kids. Kids will watch it. And if kids are watching stuff with adult content, then it's questionable. Then it's like, right? Yeah. Well, the counterfeit, it started with, you know, he's, he's, he's really someone that hates white people. That's really what it's about. But we have to, we have to tame that down. Right. Advertisers are all white. So we have to tame it down. But the fact of the matter is that counterfeit, even though he acts crazy, he's really bringing up some real issues. I get it. I get it. So, but, so how did you, how did you sell this to Russell? To Russell? Actually, how did that happen? I was referred, I, long story. I, I, I don't know how I hooked up with Brett Ratner from the X-Men movies. Oh, so you hooked up with Brett. With Brett. He's a man. I'm like one degree removed from Brett. I know. I know his mom. Really? Yeah. Also, Marsha. Wait for him outside. Yeah. He'd be there sooner or later. Yeah. So then, you'd be right, right outside his mom's house. How did that happen? How did that happen? So basically, so he put me on to, he has his own company. Brett. And then he put me on, yeah, Brett Ratner. So he put me on to his TV executive. How did you meet him? You know, I sent him a random email. I really did. I said, you know what? This motherfucker is going to understand my, my thing. Right. So he did. He loved it. He loves, he's very chewy. What was the email? I was like, Hey, yo son, what's popping? Yo, you hiring? No, I basically told him, look, I'm, you know, I'm a, I'm a producer here in Los Angeles. I'm doing these animations. I'm looking for a way to distribute them. He loved it. He's like, I'm going to put you on to my TV person. So you sent him a sample of it? The sample of it. Like a link to your YouTube or, or Vimeo or whatever. Exactly. So then he put me on to his TV person. TV person's like, you know what? Right now they're doing a lot of live stuff. So it's like, but I'm gonna put you on to Russell Simmons because he's looking for content. Interesting. Then I went with Russell and it was a very long process. Interesting. I was meeting with Russell like face to face and talking about this character. Actually, he wanted Cesar and Chewie. Right. But, you know, there's a lot of politics behind it. It's like, well, it's already been seen somewhere else. We want to get something fresh. And so I came up with a new character along with the animator up for this, Afonso Amy. It's like, that's my boy. So we, we just, he actually lives in the Bay area and we can just be like, Hey, yo, make him like this, make him like that, put, make him scratch his ass and he'll just draw it. Exactly. He's like crazy. Like he can draw like a whole animated thing in like a night. Really? You know what I mean? Because he's that passionate and he's that good at it. Dude, dude, dude, you know what I want to do, man? Seriously, all jokes aside, that, that script that I gave you, East 100th Street, because you, you know, I don't think Puerto Ricans or the East Coast Latinos is represented, have been, is represented or has been represented since fucking Chico and the man. And, you know, you're talking about, they're not going to give that, allow you to have that content on TV for, for a sitcom, a live sitcom, or, you know, a non animated sitcom. Forget it. Your chances are fucking a million to none. You know what I mean? At least an animation. If you produce an animation, a series, at least, you know, however many episodes, you know, 10 episodes and you have it on lock. Fuck it. It's yours. You made it. It's easier to sell. But you know what? It's not, it's not, you know, because that's what I used to think. And that's why I spent so much time in the animation because I thought, wait, this is, you know, there's no one doing this. There's no competition. But when you come down to it, uh, it, it's just, it's just actually a harder sale than the live stuff. And is it really? It is. So why can't you just create your own fucking network on online? That's what I'm working on right now. And actually I just have a video right now that went viral where I'm taking standup comedy clips and I'm animated them. And I did one with, uh, Angela Johnson called, uh, the nail salon. It's like a really funny, I know Angela. Yeah. So I, I took her joke and just animated that and it went crazy. Well, that's because, that's because Angela Johnson's fucking video went viral from the get go. That, that, that bit, I, I, I performed with Angela, uh, the, during the Latino, uh, laugh festival back in 2000 fucking six, you know what I mean? Yeah. 2007, whatever the fuck that was. And her shit went viral. And as a result of that, she got on mad TV. So, you know, it's, but see, but the thing about that is like the, the animated version, actually, I'm this, this weekend, probably next week, I'm going to pull out the new one that I have. It's that George Lopez joke. And that's going to, it's going to animate it. Now you get permission from these guys to do it or you're just animating it? I ask them, damn, I don't do it formally because you know, it's kind of like a parody. How do you ask them? I literally tell them, I've sold Angela. I was in her video, uh, no girlfriend. Right. Um, she did a music video here. So I, I saw her on the set. I said, look, you know, I want to do this animation thing. You saw her on set. She's nice. Angela's totally cool. She was cool. I didn't think that she believed me. You know what I mean? The way that we talk is she, I think she thought I was, you know, I was just bullshitting like probably a million people do. So then I put the animation up and it started getting hits and she shared it. And that's really what really got it. It probably has a lot more views than a lot of the original videos. Right, right, right, right, right. Oh, really? Yeah. So because there's a lot of cross. I mean, that's, that's smart. That's smart. We got to talk about that shit. We got to talk about that shit. So real quick, tell me about, um, how did Latino 101 come about? So Latino 101, I was doing Caesar and Chewie over at LATV and, uh, Jason. You were doing that animation already? Already. Well, they, they actually, they did buy that, that it was a music video show and it was just little clips. Right. Got it. Got it. So, uh, uh, one of the writers, Jason Neves, he's like, Hey man, we should do a show. And then, uh, we, it's like a Latino 101, basically that. Yeah. And we, we did it in his apartment. We got together and we got our friends and we got a little bootleg camera, did a bootleg. And that was you and, and, and, and Jason and Jason. That's it. You and Jason are the producers. And then you sold this to CTV. Yeah. What helped, what helped is at the time I, um, I'm, I had a manager, Giselle Fernandez. Yes. Where she really, she was one of the founders, the people that put money for, for the channel CTV to be up. Originally. So when she walked in with me, it was kind of like, you know, I had a shoe in, you know what I mean? Plus I already, I was coming from like an Imahina Award nomination for Caesar and Chewie. And we were beating MTV in the ratings over at LATV. So that's amazing, man. So Caesar and Chewie was like, uh, like there was a, a, a music video, a show. And in between the music, music videos, there were little animation clips. Exactly. And we were having fun at the video. And that's what kind of like Latino 101 is. Latino 101 is like one of those VH1, whatever the hell shows where, you know, they're talking about something historically and then they'll have a comedian enact something or, you know, it could have been way better, you know? And I think, I thought it was good. I mean, it was very good, but I think the, the, you know, the network was really afraid because they'd never done anything like it. So we would, we got, you know, a lot of censorship that maybe wasn't necessary to kind of, to me, you know, I would have rather be like really edgy. You know what I mean? Like my, my thing is edgy. For example, right now I'm working with LATV now. Right. And I'm handling, um, all of what it is, their digital platform, you know, so we're working on building that and that's creating really, really good opportunities for, you know, uh, uh, we're starting a blog, the LATV blog. Right. Where, you know, you were telling me about. Exactly. Well, your column actually is going to come up tomorrow morning. Okay. Tell me about this. Tell me about this column and tell me about this LATV blog. Yeah. It's blog.latv.com. Blog.latv.com. And then what, what happens there is, is I'm getting everybody to know people like you, a lot of talented people and getting them together into one place, almost making like, like a Huffington post from scratch. But we're going to, we are going to touch politics and all of that, but we're not, I want this to be like a really diverse and really honest, like not geared, not political. Like, well, you can't say that because it's going to hurt this. It's like, you say what you want. And all of us, if we all come together, your audience is going to find mine. Mine's going to find yours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then we, I think we can really grow into something because the Latinos, we have a really big problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like unifying and coming together to do things together. It's like, if I see you coming up, you know, it's like, oh, well, fuck Nester. Oh, he, he, he, he, you know, instead of going, yo, I support him because, you know, that's my man. Yeah. It's never happened like that. You know, and it's like, I want to change that. And now that I'm in a position where I can maybe create some opportunities, I'm bringing everybody with me. It's like, come on, let's, let's make this work. If we can make this work, then we're going to have the influence, you know, and that's what we have to influence. And we don't need that one part. And then we, we can produce an animation and get, you know, 10 million views. Creating, creating your own destiny, so to speak. I like that. That's one thing I like about you from the moment I met you is that you're interesting dude, man, because I mean, you don't have any ends and, but yeah, you've created these, these, these avenues where you have flourished into all these different mediums. You know what I mean? That's fucking, that's, that's, that's something, bro. Thanks. I have a plan B. So this is all I got. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yo, that's, yo, that's something brother. You know, there's a million motherfuckers trying to do one of the things that you do. Yeah. And you know, but what I've noticed that with that is like, for example, in Latino, in Latinos, we don't really have like leaders. You know, we don't have, even, even if they're whack leaders, we don't have Jesse Jackson's or, or Al Sharpton's. Right. We don't have that kind of leadership. So really we, we always, that's why we always fighting with each other because it's, we don't have like a goal. It's like, yeah, we want immigration, but he wants to do it that way. He wants to do the other way. So fuck it. Well, then we don't get immigration. We got like, we're Latino Republicans, which is like, yo, for, for every Latino that moves forward, you have 13 Latino Republicans that will shoot you down. Remember whack them all. We can, we can, we can. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. So, so, so blog.latv.com. So what's the column that I'm going to be doing? What's, what's yours is going to be. Well, it's a Nestorius public radio stories. Yeah. The Nestorius, the Nestorius public radio. And then it's about you, but what you're doing here. Right. So it just, it just gives you another. I'm going to upload an episode with a description. The episode that we're, that we're uploading for tomorrow is a Nestorius public radio episode three, which is Tides. What the hell was it? The Tides. Selling Tide for crack. No, no, no, but the name of the episode is called the Tides figging or some other fucking shit. Tides fracking and fingering. No, anyway, it's about Tide. It's about how Tide, the, the detergent, has been sold as a street commodity because it's so good that a lot of people love it. And they, they have a very committed consumer base and they've pumped millions of dollars into the product to, you know, to keep you there, but it costs a lot of money. So, you know, crack dealers and drug addicts have found a way to steal it. And if it costs $10 on the shelf, they can steal it to, you know, a store. They'll sell them fucking 50 bottles at $5. That's fucking, you know, do the math. 50, 50 times $5. And there's your some crack money. The person buys it at fives and sell it, you know, makes a $10 profit or something like that. So it's a very interesting article for sure. So I'm going to look forward to, to, to, to seeing that. We had a whole other shit to talk about on today's show, but, you know, we just, we just went all over the place and you know what? I went with it. You know what I'm saying? You let go. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. We let go. We let go. We let go. We let go. We let go. We let go. We let go. We were going to talk about, um, we were going to talk, we were going to talk about, you got one minute to talk about this shit. Do it. Do it. Do it. No, we're going to talk about the knee defender in this, in this, in this, uh, this, this situation that happened where United Airlines flight had to be, uh, diverted because some fucking six foot tall motherfucker puts this device, this device on the tray table back, uh, called the knee defender and prevents the seat in front of him from reclining. And a big fucking argument ensued. The woman in front threw water in his face. They got into an argument and the plate had to be, uh, landed. I'm going to, we'll, we'll, we'll talk about that shit next time. Uh, uh, before we go, I definitely want to give a big rest in peace. We're going to talk about Joan Rivers, uh, big rest in peace to Joan Rivers. She just passed today at 81, uh, pioneering woman, uh, in the, in the comedy, uh, fucking thoroughbred man. You, you couldn't knock her down, man. You know, you may have loved her. You may have not loved her. You may have hated her, whatever the fuck you got to give the woman props. She fucking stayed, went down, got upstage. She was like, pop, fuck you. Pop. She just kept coming up. So big up to Joan Rivers, man. You rest in peace. God bless you, baby. You know what I'm saying? Make them smile. Can we talk? Yo, check us out next week. Thursday, public New York, the story is public radio. iTunes, you know the deal. Facebook forward slash.com. That story is public radio. Q, Q Reyes.com. What else? That's, that's it. Find me there. Blog. L a t v.com. Q Reyes.com. K E U R E Y E S.com. Check it out, man. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. I ain't doing nothing but talking shit. Y'all gotta like, you know, encourage me the whole way along. Ow. I ain't doing nothing but talking shit. Y'all gotta like, you know, encourage me.