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Off The Record: Getting to Know Comedian Jesus Sepulveda

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0:00 we need to we need a flirt yeah yeah we can't ████ on the first date you know that's let's build it up you know but that's not you Joe I do it the opposite yeah your first date coming back your salad tossed on the first day oh gotcha this guy's uh you know there's like swipe right for most people it's just like spread right [Music] about to be careful boys with a lot of ladies here and more importantly we've got a new guest Mr Jesus so I saw you recently on a genius brain with the David Good Old David and you mentioned that you actually used to watch when David was on a better show called just kidding news yeah oh yeah dude shots fired and I like it yes dude

0:51 yeah when he used to be funny you know what I mean in the show and I was like oh he was killing in this show once he left I'm like oh what's going on all of a sudden you get so serious and he's just like yeah I don't ████ understand that's why he dropped the comedy there's no David So comedy it's just Dave is so serious man like if it's so serious all these people on YouTube are like oh because you're beefing I knew it I knew it everything they wanted I love that ████ yeah I did I know yeah so you used to watch the show yeah I used to watch the show a lot dude I actually have a it's so funny dude but we actually got booked I do Stand Comedy so you got bugged no way we did this college uh show right when you guys were like like like popping like right when everything was like yeah because you were doing like a band or something like that you were dressed up like uh is that the one in Long Beach yes and Long Beach yes for the ████ Long Beach oh ████

1:43 yeah because we had a we had a Vietnamese funk band Yes yes what corny dudes doing you know I don't know did they big time you yeah oh big time Big Time well and you know what because I think you were nervous I think you were nervous no dude and I was just like all right don't you love how us Vietnamese people share our culture and that's not appropriation at all yeah hey you go be successful when you'll be successful we were called the uncles and the refugees wait who's in your band we formed the band two weeks before we ████ decided to do this show no way that's why we were nervous we just the whole time I thought you were an ████ he's in his own head dude yeah he was in his own head yeah just made a song we were trying to memorize the song still because you know like when you're that age you don't you don't work hard

2:34 yeah yeah you're just showing up yeah you probably practiced 30 minutes a week oh yeah yes yes that was so that was us right so we procrastinated and then the day before the show we're like ████ I still don't know the lyrics bro no way and then I barely learned how to play guitar like everything was last minute oh no dude I could tell you trust me I could tell bars no rhythm there at all and we had our uh there was a Vietnamese in the group his name is Tony and I think he was the keyboardist oh yeah nice or was he the based no no and I don't know if Jackson was there but he had a black guy okay I think so I'm not sure dude yeah I think so you're allowed to do the funk part yeah yeah yeah no that was the funk part of the show yeah right he was the only guy that was really playing yeah that's the street cred yeah they're like we can call ourselves Vietnamese ████

3:25 because we got I don't know what his role is but the black guy yeah he was like you know how the an orchestra you have the instructor to get back and beat the black guy with the back and beat you know he was keeping him on Pace right he's a Metro he was the Rhythm yeah I wouldn't know no you had the voice that you mimicked um like uh yeah I mean I could do this I I don't even remember what the song was and I don't you because like you know when you cram for a test you bust it real quick right and then you forgot some words oh yeah and and you forget what you did I really would if if I remembered I don't remember what it was but you did great though I'm shocked everybody loved it that's crazy yeah dude yeah it was not I remember because I remember you guys were like popping on YouTube and that was like uh right when you guys were like I'm like starting a hit because

4:16 like we that was just kidding films days when we first started doing sketches yeah back when you guys were cool with David and stuff you know that was like the The Click was tight you know what I mean that must have been 2008. everything's fragmented that must have been 2008 I was I was a college student 2009 2009 when I think I that happened but eight or nine yeah yeah okay yeah that was crazy dude that's a minute ago wow and I remember seeing you guys and I'm like everybody loved it everybody went crazy they the character whatever and I Remember on YouTube I looked like what the ████ and I'm just like oh I get it I see what you guys are doing here oh that's cool you're like how's this s█████ ass yeah he's gonna hate me as a comedian no as a comedian I was hating because I was like YouTubers oh ████ they're not real Comics they came up as Comics that was what I was angry about the fact that

5:06 they announced the voice as Comics I'm like ████ these guys they're not Comics yeah they called us a comic and we come out as a band Yes a Vietnamese wait Joe was that your first and last performance we did too after that we started getting booked as a pet who did the parties and stuff and stuff like what do you call it the not the Palladium the um the oh ████ it's the outdoor right here modern part though oh it's a monitor Park one yeah the amphitheater the amphitheater yeah Amphitheater with the modern Park Amphitheater not the LA one it sounds ████ cool please tell me you guys had merch for your band no we did we just we just sold the JK merge but I'm telling you this band started and disappeared like that though

5:57 yeah but I think we have a performance online though if you want to see it at the amphitheater it's called the uncles and the refugees I think that was really funny the girls in the refugee but it was funny you guys did pull it off though you guys were funny and then you were like riffing and talking to girls in the front and then telling them how you're you're disappointing your mom because you're doing the twerking and this and he's like yelling at her and I was like oh these guys are really funny I was originally there it is doing a charity a charity concert to support the this sgb to support this thing you found it dude I finally we finally did the black guys that was a different this this was probably our second show so the first one

6:49 for sure yeah that was you right yeah that was me with the guitar yeah wow you guys got a pretty good crowd yeah and I'm the uncle Chen [Music] hey guy get rid of the instruments because I'm not hearing no music it's mostly talk there's music he just he was about to play it no I'm glad he turned it off though trust me music's not that great dude I don't even remember the comedy was good he did the right thing when the music came on turn that ████ off right right away dude no but it was it was definitely funny though this is

7:39 before you're yeah you're a part of JK yeah yeah way before yeah you know I think you guys are like the ogs of that like of a click blowing up on YouTube and making like money on YouTube and doing that because like now people are doing it yeah you know but you guys were like the first ones that started like having a crew and becoming and starting your own like company you know what I mean yeah is not easy I wish someone else did it before so we could just follow their footsteps but then we made so many mistakes so many mistakes now you think back you're like damn what is like the dumbest expense that you did you're like why did I we paid how much where do I start dude but the one that like really haunts you you're like I can't believe I wasted that much money on something so stupid I think we wasted about uh you're just staring at them hard well I don't know if it's a waste because it

8:29 was a business there was a business expense but we basically spent close to 700 Grand on a on an office space a hundred grand 700 Grand on the office space and then a set but I mean like it's for the business holy ████ and at the time we were thinking about it because half of them were like yeah you guys are thinking like I said 100 you could have just gave me eight thousand eighty thousands son of a ████ they would have been in my backyard only she was a part of that era we're all new WoW but that that time we had like four five channels we wanted to be our own network we wanted to expand we wanted to go bigger so we were building the foundation to do that yeah but not in a smart way because like that you we could have just bought a house with that money and turned that into that's what I would

9:19 do it now if I could do that over again I would split that money up into several homes and turn them into different offices I was gonna I was gonna say dude sell that ████ when I don't need it no more yeah that's a pretty big mistake because the office yeah you know this is like this is like eye-opening it's crazy dude like for for being Asian you're a terrible businessman I never got into business for business like I got into all of this for fun so then everything was to support that dude that pisses me so that pissed me off so much when people just make so much money I didn't even ████ I didn't know yeah I've got so much freaking money right now and I'm over here

10:09 Starving Artists like I'm trying to do my best I get my own [Laughter] sure why not even after expanding and having the set like people hated it really oh that's even worse why did they hate it so it was too much of a glow up you know is that what it was look at this look at where we come from that's why we still film here well like I think back then too like now everyone has professional sets but back then people liked the closeness on YouTube yeah the rawness oh so you guys you guys think it was just too early I think it was too early but also I get where the fans were coming from at the time because they didn't see the process so that's the difference is like when you see other YouTubes YouTubers do the globe they don't just like go ladies and gentlemen and unveil the curtain say voila like

11:00 like they would see the building they see like why we did it this way and then like they understand it they're a part of the journey and then they go oh okay we were we were for the ride I got you yeah and I and I think that's where we ████ up as like well we know this as a YouTuber we know the the journey is the most they want to be included but then we just were like let's surprise them it's gonna be so sick he did not want to be surprised they were like what the ████ is this you look like a TV show I don't want you to ████ be I watch TV if I want to watch TV yeah yeah foreplay brother play dude she was winning raw doctor you're like so that that time it's a good way to say it you know what I mean yeah exactly how I always go back with sex it's like that's a strategy ████ the foreplay they like cut that part out of the business dog we need to we need a flirt yeah yeah we can't ████ on the first date you know

11:51 that's let's build it up you know but that's not you Joe I do it the opposite yeah you're a first date coming back your uh salad toss on the first day oh gotcha this guy's uh you know there's like swipe right for most people this is like spread right I even saying about me today we're here to get to know Jesus I'm just trying to give him contests we gotta you know this we're getting to know each other this is flirting yeah we go way back this is flirty yeah right that's how we flirt we've known each other since 2009. it makes it interesting he bought me coffee you're doing the right thing dude yeah I might give it up by the end of the show yo look at that I'm introducing him to the Vietnamese culture which is not mine the hardest bread I've ever tasted with the Vietnamese sandwiches like God damn is that's the French people oh is that what it is that's the French people I lost like three hard on us I don't cut your upper lip but it's fine once you get used to it you're good because you just

12:42 turn it upside down it's a roughly hard side on yourself I want to ask you so that moment right when you saw this ████ group of ████ goofballs yes like were you like what kind of show am I on yeah no I was like yeah did you like think less of yourself were you like I can't believe I'm sure I was legit I was just like oh these guys are not gonna make it because it was just ridiculous it was all over the place and like they're trying to be jackass I don't know what's going on you know hatering a little bit and then and then you guys ████ ended up just like blowing the ████ out and I'm like oh I guess I was completely wrong you guys are like super ████ who booked you for that one it was uh it was I remember a friend of mine his name was a comic uh comedian called Eli Nicholas I remember he was the one that like hit me up and was like yo you want to come to a spot and I was like sure so I got on and I've

13:32 never seen a bunch of agents and I'm like well I have a lot of Latino material so I don't know how this is gonna work but but we're all from L.A so yeah so that's the thing that's all in my head I'm like oh it's not gonna work but it's like yeah Latino material no but I just talked about my family we all ████ relate to like that ████ you know cheap dad you know getting mad whooping my ass we all know what's up that does get home if you're immigrant parents they expect a lot from you you know like she had to wash rocks so that's pretty ████ up the what the what the what watch what listen I don't want to talk about it oh man I can just see the depression in your eyes what's going on talk about it last time she shared Anthony's ████ all over her no Diddy uh I took a ████ on her chest is what he's saying hey yo I don't want to talk about that show me ████ liar because you have Clips or what you know what's funny uh when I

14:22 first saw you on the call she uh or not on call she when uh Bart said that you were coming I didn't know if it was Jesus of course I knew that Jesus could joke was coming and it had to be you you looked at the guy that would make the Jesus joke for sure look it up that's my only material I don't know but start like him you know foreplay with me dude all right and then you hit me with this I do like this jacket though yeah I will say I honestly did you like this jacket this is really good dude that's my foreplay how about you guys ah ████ I jacked his hipster at a ████ coffee shop dude that's a fact he left it yeah and I was just like ████ him mine now guys come on dude if he's got a story yeah for sure that guy wasn't using it right I'm like this guy's all ████ ████ on this jacket you gotta clean it up put some J's on it you know this guy was ████ with flip-flops why people are

15:13 doing weird things right why people dress up so weird I know white people right are you like it are you like full white or are you just like no I got I got some choices in me oh you guys okay you want a bus you know oh that's what's up category yeah how do you become thirty percent that's actually 31.2 no this is check it yeah how does that work this is this has been a reoccurring lie that people keep thinking that's so true I'm you know I'm just gonna did you say the first that's because the editor keeps on cutting out that part of the explanation and and then do that again here I'll make it easier for you 31.2 Chinese wow you believe it I don't but it's fine whatever helps you uh blend in with the Asian crowd what kind of Ages

16:03 I don't know what kind of Aging yes he's 31.2 his ears are throwing me off I'm like what's going on is that a disease what the ████ is happening is that throwing me off they're called cauliflower ears yo that's what it is it's a type of Chinese [Laughter] martial arts and like go get away from bullies and ████ like you just have that face that you got picked on a lot oh nailed it nailed it you know he nailed it what does his face say what does his face dude he looked like he was the stoner of the group he knows the good drugs he knows everybody who's selling drugs he was that kid that would just be like he no he nailed it bro nailed it to Julia you're like the quiet girl who doesn't like people but like is he like the

16:53 white girl I don't like people but I like to be around people but then only on your time and then you leave when they were like you're over like I'm over it that's it wow do you think that's true Julian yeah that feels so opposite but that's a relationship that's for sure well I think at least that's how Asian girls treat me you know what I mean they ████ all right now do Anthony hey man it's not about me no he went to everybody bro you got to come hosting I'm asking questions this is me judging people now dude I don't know this guy because you're Jesus right we're right that's pretty good all right but what's your take on him he's like he's like the cool nerd you know he's a nerd but he's cool do you think that's true I'm just saying like are you ████ he can get into some nerdy ████ and we'll all be like oh we're lost dude I think he'll like switch it up with some like dope ████ like oh that's what I'm talking about dude don't talk about ████ cryptocurrency if I can talk about some real ████ ████ and all that ████ holy ████ yeah that's that's

17:44 spot-on do you watch the show yeah well I have to watch the show my favorite videos I do watch yourself so yeah I've been I've been studying you guys for years that's why he nailed it dude he doesn't watch the ████ show dude not religiously but yes but what kind of Asian I don't know dude yeah I don't know the just guess I don't know which one it will a fan no no just say anything okay can you use your like language and let's I'll see uh English is the English language I'm That Kind of Asian bro oh you're the ████ the uh the Asian that people you know all these ages hate this Asian because you don't speak to you that one they really do we're jealous of this I want to say Filipino just because you have a lot of people you look Latino a little bit you know yeah you look like a little cholo I didn't ████ uh ancestry.com and I'm 99 Chinese you're

18:36 just damn and one person not satisfying at all he says Chinese is like oh that's basic I feel like to me when I hear Chinese I'm like ah yeah that's not interesting it's kind of a letdown isn't it too many of them because it's like to me it's like everybody's it's the go-to everybody oh you're Chinese Chinese we all like you know we all told Asians they're Chinese so it's like it's so basically Vietnamese I'm like what is that what do you mean 30 99 31.2 so where where are your parents from uh they're from Mexico too hardcore Mexico what part like Sonora I don't even know if you don't know I know Mexico bro isn't that where that cartel is yeah yeah yeah I like that he likes that is cartel that is definitely cartel you know what's so funny like cartel is so like normal yeah that to me I just like yeah they're out there you got like

19:26 cousins in there oh yeah people got kidnapped my family some people got kidnapped yeah some of them get killed but that's real ████ though isn't it yeah but you know that's what I'm saying I'm just like and my mom will like tell me on the phone like if it was natural hey to your cousin yeah he got kidnapped again again okay okay again by the way again and I'm like what happens though I can't move ████ ████ move what happens you know what happens they ████ cross the border when they get into too much ████ they cross it they come here they start a family and just like in are in the kitchen cooking and thinking about their life oh I remember I ████ got kidnapped three times while they're making your burrito in the morning that's what happens the guy making your burrito is the guy who he has cartel stories for days wow they're blending in with all of us they kidnap and then they they ask for money or what do they do or they're just like I'ma kidnap you come fishing with me because I need some friends you know what it is

20:16 I'm sure that's what it is one thing about the cartel they love ████ fishing the fishing in Mexico is excellent dude is it really hell yeah people go there for fishing Mexico yeah dude so you got some cartel stories you got some ah dude you got some family member stories do you see them yeah not yet I had a you know what's funny when I was younger I was really into like my friends for like really into like cartel music and stuff with the abandoned stuff that'll play so I would go invited to these parties and I remember I got like held hostage for like at least I don't know how many hours it was it was like all I I got there at ████ noon and I didn't leave until three o'clock the next day that's a good way to tell your parents if you're out at a party mom you wouldn't I was I was awesome

21:11 the thing is that they hire bands to go after the club they'll hire a band to play and they just party all ████ you know Mexicans we ████ party you know and they party all night they just have a live band in the living room while they're just ████ talking and it was fun but then they start doing so much coke they get paranoid then the paranoia kicks in and then he starts going like he has cameras everywhere he's like hey and they can shut the door ain't no one leaving the house and I'm just like what well I I gotta go I I gotta go school tomorrow my family has a cleaning business and we have to start right at seven and my dad's gonna be pissed you know so they have he didn't want anybody to leave he was paranoid he thought somebody was coming after him you keep looking at the windows and then he brought his guns out and I remember going like what is happening like I am not how old are you when this happened I was like 20 or 19. oh ████ yeah dude I was like I'm here

22:02 for the band like I'm not a part of I love the live music yeah you guys are telling stories and just like huh you're gonna tell me these stories about people dying and getting heads chopped out and I'm like dude I want to go home like I don't want to be in this party no more and then it was so funny like we all it was so funny dude it was literally the next day right I saw the sun come up it was fun dude the crazy dude that that was the craziest thing that happened because I remember there's one moment this guy comes in bleeding all over his face just bleeding and I'm like did some cartel ████ happen that's where my mind's going all paranoid so you've got on my head I'm thinking he got shot he got stabbed now this guy was taking a piss on the side of the house and his ████ dog this pit bull just jumped up and bit oh man and just and then I runs inside and he's bleeding and I'm just pretty crazy it is

22:52 ████ crazy but it I'm telling you all that happened that day I thought I was gonna die I was like what is happening this is too much and then you partied with them the night after yeah right yes and then you came back well at least they fed you pretty good I was like and there was music all they had was coke they did not have food I was just like dude I don't want them I'm already ████ scared I'm dude I'm dancing crying like I don't want to go home even the girls were not like wanting to put out now they're like dude we're ████ scared and I'm like ████ there's nothing for anybody here yeah dude we're all trying to just leave the way we left was that he went upstairs to go like put everything away and then one of the guys opened the door and then everybody just what happened just took off and we're like well I got into the cars and we ████ left that's so ████ scary it was ████ scary and I think he's in jail now I I think I think

23:45 he's in jail now but that's Arizona baby that's Arizona oh that's not in Mexico no that's your that's it that's in the states wow yeah that was in the states Arizona he's like oh cartel party totally different story yeah no dude they're they're real dude they're out that's wild yeah and tune in for more cartel stories right when you come right back foreign

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