What's Up Fool? Podcast

SPOILER ALERT SHOW! Well... it's the first episode of 2016 and our guest canceled AGAIN! This is the 2nd time we've booked him and he canceled... but he's funny so we're willing to try it one more time in a couple weeks. It had better be worth it. Anyway, it ends up being me and Rodrigo with me trying to give my ghetto explanation of Star Wars (and yes there are spoilers) and the Big Short and a b...

Happy new year!! Here at home with the wife, the manager, the podcast producer Lesa Esparza. Looking back over the last year. We get to know Lesa a little better - aside from producing the podcast and running my day to day business. We're also kind of announcing that we're going to spin off another podcast on the side with just the two of us and sometimes having guests... help us think of a name f...

Merry Christmas! Just me and Rodrigo in the studio, taking calls. Shout out to our international friends Cleo from the Netherlands (@Talk2Cleo) and Glenn from Ireland (@GlennCarlin). And thanks to everyone else who shared their Christmas stories. Please take 5 seconds to rate or review the podcast on itunes and if you like it subscribe! Thanks for listening! LINKS Cleo - Follow Cleo & check ou...

Bobby Lee and I go way back. We pretty much started comedy around the same time - him in San Diego and me in L.A. He's a Comedy Store fixture and after several years on Mad TV and almost 20 years of stand-up, he's got a solid headlining career. Bobby can be off the wall on stage but today we see a more vulnerable side as he tells some stories from his early years of comedy and his childhood. Pleas...

Larry "Bubbles" Brown is our guest today... Hilarious comic from the Bay Area/San Francisco area. He came up during the Robin Williams era of the Bay comedy scene in the 80s. He's worked with Dana Carvey, Dave Attell, me of course, and we all know that Larry is THE best whenever we work in the Bay. Nicknamed "Bubbles" by comedian Paula Poundstone as a sarcastic nod to his chronically depressed per...

Comedian Jeffrey Keller (@MyMomsWhite on Twitter) joins us today on the show. I've known Jeffrey for a long time from back in the day when I was still doing open mics all over L.A. Jeffrey had an interesting background before comedy - a white mom who "boosted" and worked with L.A. mobsters and a black father who played in the L.A. jazz circuit. Jeffrey also had a brief career in the NFL on the Atl...

One of the members of Las Cafeteras gave me their CD about a year ago. I kept it in my car without listening to it because, let's face it, people give me a lot of free shitty CDs… but I wish I had listened to this one sooner. I finally played it a few months ago and something about it touched me. The music was beautiful and the message behind it was something I hadn't heard in music before. A grou...

*(Guest co-co-host from the Living the Dream Podcast - Beto Duran sits in with us for this episode) Around the same time NWA was coming "straight outta Compton", there was another kid coming straight outta Southgate California by way of Cuba… hitting the charts with a new sound and blazing the trails for future Latin hip hop artists. Mellow Man Ace, AKA Ulpiano Reyes, blew up with a bilingual hit...

Well… we were stood up by our guest today so we ended up doing a podcast by ourselves (while watching our producer freak out about the guest). It's all good, we were thinking of doing it once a month anyway. We just sit and talk about everything from smelling good to roommates to religion, and as usual, to our most common subject - drugs. We'll be back next week with a guest! Please take 5 seconds...

If you ever ask me who helped me get started in my comedy career, one of the first people I'll probably mention is comedian Johnny Sanchez. Johnny has been on MadTV (you might remember the Little Joker character that went viral) and had comedy specials, but this guy has worked for years on the comedy show grind and was a solid L.A. based comic he guided me to the Comedy Store's open mic to get sta...

My friend Elon Gold is a funny comedian, great at impressions, and he's also one of the first writers to put me in something because he liked my comedy. On today's episode, Elon breaks down the business of comedy and television, writing and acting, choosing the right impressions and the myth of rich Jews. Please take 5 seconds to rate or review the podcast on itunes and if you like it subscribe! T...

I've run into comedian Dwayne Perkins a lot over the years. He's a really cool, laid back, funny guy who has worked his ass off in the comedy world for a long time. Dwayne has kept working consistently because he's funny and he's one of the few comics who just naturally work clean. He's also constantly writing and working on different projects balanced with life on the road. We talk about stand-up...

It's been said that we need more Latino representation behind the camera in Hollywood. Today we talk to 3 directors (Joey Medina, Tom Sanchez and Christian Sesma) who are self-made and still growing in their careers. They have worked their asses off to make films they are passionate about. And only one of them has actually been to film school. If you ever wanted to know the ins and outs of the ind...

Part of me feels like putting an extra warning label on this episode… Meet Jason Rouse, a hard core, balls-out comic considered by some to be "the G.G. Allin of comedy". Listen to what it's like to have headlined around the world for many years but still struggle to find a place in the U.S. And just when you think the episode is over, we dig deep into a pretty heavy discussion about drugs and addi...

Ever wonder what it's like to become famous almost instantly? Just a few months after starting comedy, Anjelah Johnson had that experience when her joke about a Vietnamese nail salon went viral with the perfect storm of YouTube, email and MySpace. Listen to her story of what it was like being thrown into a headliner's position when she didn't have enough material, rising to the occasion and learni...

Felicia Michaels is a pioneer in comedy. People like Amy Shumer and Sarah Silverman have her to thank for pushing the envelope when she was starting in comedy. Yes, she was not the first, but in mainstream comedy in the 80s it was very rare - a female comic who talked about the same things men were talking about. So it's appropriate that she's our 69th episode! Felicia started out as a stripper an...

Today we have an awesome guest, a legend in the NBA and a renaissance man - Mr. John "Spider" Salley. From the Pistons to the Bulls to the Lakers - championships on 3 different teams - to TV and movies and now a personal quest for health and wellness. Oh yeah, he's also a vegan and an animal activist. He's a funny guy, too. Also, a mini-ambush of Rodrigo with dating advice (sort of). Please take 5...

Kick back and listen to us talk with a very funny comedian, Kevin Shea. He opened for me in San Jose last week and I thought it would be good for you guys to hear his stories. This mild-mannered, soft-spoken comedian might surprise you with some of the things he's been through in his life. One of the few comedians I know who can hold an audience's attention while doing his whole stage act sitting...

Rodrigo is back from Mexico so we got caught up. We finally got to sit down with the great Tom Green! Hilarious, weird, and a super kind, honest human being. He's still Canadian at heart no matter how long he's lived in Los Angeles. Listen to how he has come full circle in his career by going back to the basics of his very first cable access show but updated with the latest interactive technology....

Forgive Jamie's microphone. He was talking with lots of acting out so he moves it a lot. Also, after 36 years in Los Angeles, he still has a thick Iranian accent. I've known Jamie Masada, the owner of the Laugh Factory for about 17 years. This is the man who told me that he didn't see me making it for another 6 years and crushed my dreams early in my stand-up career. He's done it to a lot of peopl...

We did another call-in show today. Just me and Rodrigo. I kind of like these shows without a guest because I get to get a lot of stuff off my chest and then people who get mad at what I say just start to go away and I'm left with the hardcore fans who get me. We also try discussing Straight Outta Compton with some of the callers. Like it or not, leave a review or give it a rating, whatever. Send m...

Okay, kids, try to keep up! Today we have comedian Jimmy Shubert - been in the game since the heyday of the Comedy Store and Sam Kinison. He's worked his ass off since he was a young kid doing magic shows. Throughout the ups and downs of comedy and Hollywood, he has stuck with it and is now enjoying a resurgence of attention after landing in the top 10 of Last Comic Standing last year and Dave Att...

When I invited comedian Joey Medina to do my podcast, I figured I wouldn't learn anything new about him after knowing him for almost 20 years… man, was I wrong. Listen to the man of a thousand careers who ended up as a Latin King of Comedy. Funny guy, lots of stories, a hustler, you know, the kind of guest we love. Please take 5 seconds to rate or review the podcast on itunes and if you like it su...

Our guest had an emergency and had to reschedule sooooo Rodrigo and I just ended up talking a LOT of shit. Enjoy. Please take 5 seconds to rate or review the podcast on itunes and if you like it subscribe! Thanks for listening! LINKS Felipe Esparza: FACEBOOK: www. Facebook.com/FelipeEsparzaFanPage TWITTER: @FunnyFelipe INSTAGRAM: @FelipeEsparzaComedian www.felipesworld.com Rodrigo Torres: TWITTER:...

Comedian Brian Babylon joins us today. This fool just got to L.A. about a month ago from Chicago and started hustling the minute he stepped off the plane. He already has a regular n ight at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood and a job producing and doing media for Hannibal Buress' new Comedy Central show "Why?". Hear what it's like for a new comic to start all over again but on another level in a stra...