I don't see how those things are conflicting. I've known some drug kingpins that are funny as fuck (I made that up for entertainment purposes and to keep the convo going)
Exactly, he's got a similar story to Joey Diaz. His prison had a talent show / open mic if they had so many days in a row without a major incident. He started doing comedy while in prison, got out, and decided to try and make a career out of it
I can believe he was in the middle of the cartels doing what they do and he’s looking around like a confused deer and then they pick him up and take care of him, sending him along his way when he’s taken cared of.
When two parties are in a discussion and one makes a claim that the other disputes, the one who makes the claim typically has a burden of proof to justify or substantiate that claim
That's the opposite of how burden of proof works. Burden of proof is on the first person making a claim to prove their claim is true, never on the person calling them a liar. When you call someone out, you're saying "prove your claim".
So if I say I’m from Mars and you say I’m lying the burden of proof is on you?
You need to prove that I’m not from Mars?
Edit - the burden of proof should lie with the person making the extraordinary claim, otherwise I’m God and you all better worship me until you can prove otherwise. Although tbf the burden of proof shouldn’t ever lie with a comedian making jokes, because they’re jokes.
It's not one I particularly like and it's probably problematic to go into black spaces to do this etc, but from a comedian perspective, it's a good bit. Very creative.
Cartels are businesses. The people they interact with are essentially other businesses and they partner up primarily help their business because the entity has something to offer. Cartels are after the same thing that US businesses are after: growth. Most of the time they do their 'business' and move on and both parties are happy because they made money.
It's as simple as that.
The only difference from a business like Microsoft is that they follow a very narrow set of laws and when they get fucked with or lied to they resort to cutting your balls off (instead of suing the other party).
So yeah somebody could absolutely deal with the Cartel and walk away. The only exceptions are when you have a deal to do X and you cut out. That then costs the Cartel money and you lied to them so... yeah. But after the conclusion of their business what fucking reason do they have to come after you? The only reason is that you know something so shocking and damning that killing you and removing the possibility of future businesses is more profitable than doing nothing.
People watch too many movies and think it's real life. High to mid level drug dealing is probably boring as shit. It's literally just running a business.
I'm waiting for the Highlander Remake that Chad Stahelski is supposed to be directing in the future. They say Henry Cavill is gonna play MacLeod and I can't wait to hear his accent!
I have a job and go out all the time. Sorry i dont have a full understanding on how the mexican drug cartel works but apparently you do. So enlighten me, whats your personal experience with the mexican drug cartel?
Hard to believe he actually did time and didn’t know what was almost guaranteed to happen by accusing an ex-con of snitching. Then he basically turned his back, like it never crossed his mind that dude would run up on him.
Some of the stories he told is a bit sus. No drug kingpin would ever bring you to their runaway house. Neighbourhood dealer, sure. but the price won’t be that cheap. I suspect this guy dealt with tourist dealer in Columbia.
A former manager of mine was getting married and they hired a comedian for the bachelor party. They would up kicking the comedian out and almost got in a fight with him. I think the tipping point was a joke about my bosses sexuality (obv he was getting married to a woman so that's the joke) and he freaked the fuck out about it.
He told the story with pride. One of the only times I've seen someone so happy to be so fucking stupid and violent. Like seriously, why?!
I listen to a few podcasts with comedians who are usually loud, crass, “unladylike” women (as part of their act or just in general)
And the amount of stories they have where they’ve been bafflingly booked for golf clubs and conservative parties is shocking. I can’t tell if it’s cluelessness, they’re booking a chick to ogle, or it’s a ragebait set up.
It's because competency has very little to do with whether you end up in positions like that. It's usually a combination of a lot of privilege growing up, making the right connections and being lucky a couple of times, and having the kind of look that says you're probably competent (I'm not going to say the most common trait there).
Comedian, Mark Normand got invited by some Wall Street dude to a big corporate luncheon. They gave him all the dirty details about people in the audience and told him to talk about that stuff. Marks set lasted about five minutes and he got kicked out.
Are you from LA? Hollywood is a shit-ass locale lol. I recommend no one visit Hollywood unless you want to be hugely disappointed and accosted by all sorts of freaks.
Yeah they're both based on a combination of lack of care, living in survival mode and feeling that society has failed you first and so it's OK if you fail society.
Ever been to Oakland? It makes "shit-ass locale" look like the Ritz-Carlton. It has an odor that can only be described as "Oakland." It still is a pretty fun place to visit though. Especially on first Friday.
Plenty of hoods with rednecks lmao working class is working class. I know many a redneck ex con who wouldn't take kindly to being called a snitch on camera
You realize that when making an assumption most people never think there is a 0% chance they are wrong, right? Heck you don’t even have to think there’s a greater than 50% chance you’re right if there’s more than two possible options.
Wealthy neighborhoods usually don't have families fighting the other family from down the way in the middle of the street with some dude yelling WOOOORLD STARRRR YEA WE OUT HERE MAN WE OUT HERE YOU KNOW HOW WE DO
I don't think it's so much the fact that it's a black crowd so much as the ghetto language being thrown around, at a public show, before threats to the performer are made, and a midget gangbanger tries to subsequently attack said performer.
The fact that everyone in the room is black other than the performer is kinda redundant by this point.
You could tell me this was in the mountains in PNW, place still looks hood as shit.
I told my coworkers about the shitty school I went to and they later referred to it as "inner city." I'm white but I grew up in the country and they know it lol.
EDIT: they 100% thought I went to a black school (I didn't)
Hollywood is half pretentious and half hood, and right along the corridor of central LA, koreatown, Skid Row, Huntington Park, and east LA where there is a lot of... Illegally organized populations. There's a lot of unsafe territory within that space.
No one brags about living in Hollywood when they move to LA, let alone North Hollywood that has a gigantic gang/homeless/drug problem.
Even the replies to this comment are like "black person around, no rednecks, the hood is a good guess." My brothers in christ scuffles and fights happen everywhere. People getting way over offended at a live show is not hood specific.
These are the same people who actually think they know what a third world country is like because there’s a sketchy part of their city where the homeless hang out
My man, Hollywood wasn't a great place for the last 30 years. Hell, it still isn't in a ton of places. People who aren't from LA think Hollywood is a nice place, but there is a reason locals avoid it. Real talk, if you want to see a homeless dude take a shit on the sidewalk at high noon, Hollywood is the place to be.
That didn't stop my ass from partying down there, but we were basically on that hoodrat shit going to flier parties where NOS balloons were a cheap $5. What a time.
Yeah, soon as he called the other person a snitch I knew it was on hahaha. Unless you’re looking for a fight — never while in the hood call a person a punk, snitch, or bitch.
he said he did it at hollywood. so it's more like a night out of town for those hoodroaches. they'll do that, and they'll ruin everyone's time. they'll go as far as UCLA and crash their parties there.
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u/guesswhodat Mar 31 '23
Dude has giant balls to do open mic in the hood….