It's a cultural gumbo of comedy as we explore DJ Rhett's path, carved through the swamps of social media, to become a beloved figure who isn't afraid to poke fun at himself, pastalaya and everyone in between. From navigating the tricky waters of online criticism to celebrating the quirks of Cajun life, Rhett's parodies reflect a community rich in stories and ripe for laughter. He even gives us a peek into the regional nuances that flavor his comedy. This episode is a slice of Louisiana life, seasoned with the South Louisiana region's distinctive humor and the shared joy of storytelling.
Finally, we pull back the curtain on the local stand-up scene, revealing the grit it takes to make it on stage in the world of Louisiana comedy. DJ Rhett shares the realities comedians face, from the distractions of bar crowds to the rush of nailing a punchline. His experiences echo the broader narrative of artists seeking their spotlight in a state known for its colorful characters, and the conversation leaves us with an appreciation for the craft that goes into every joke, story, and performance. Ready for a heaping helping of laughter, culture, and a few unexpected life lessons? Tune in and let the good times roll with DJ Rhett and the vibrant spirit of Cajun comedy.
AcadianaCasts Presents: DJ Rhett
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Thanks to our sponsor, Cajun Comic Relief! You can check out hilarious Cajun comedians like DJ Rhett at the 33rd Annual Cajun Comic Relief on March 9th, at The Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette, LA.
"AcadianaCasts Presents" is the Flagship Podcast of the ACADIANACASTS NETWORK. Lafayette, LA based host, Carter Simoneaux talks with entertainers, business owners, athletes, chefs, and more - anyone who can help tell the story of Acadiana.
If you want to watch this episode on YouTube, check out our channel!
It's a cultural gumbo of comedy as we explore DJ Rhett's path, carved through the swamps of social media, to become a beloved figure who isn't afraid to poke fun at himself, pastalaya and everyone in between. From navigating the tricky waters of online criticism to celebrating the quirks of Cajun life, Rhett's parodies reflect a community rich in stories and ripe for laughter. He even gives us a peek into the regional nuances that flavor his comedy. This episode is a slice of Louisiana life, seasoned with the South Louisiana region's distinctive humor and the shared joy of storytelling.
Finally, we pull back the curtain on the local stand-up scene, revealing the grit it takes to make it on stage in the world of Louisiana comedy. DJ Rhett shares the realities comedians face, from the distractions of bar crowds to the rush of nailing a punchline. His experiences echo the broader narrative of artists seeking their spotlight in a state known for its colorful characters, and the conversation leaves us with an appreciation for the craft that goes into every joke, story, and performance. Ready for a heaping helping of laughter, culture, and a few unexpected life lessons? Tune in and let the good times roll with DJ Rhett and the vibrant spirit of Cajun comedy.
AcadianaCasts Presents: DJ Rhett
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Thanks to our sponsor, Cajun Comic Relief! You can check out hilarious Cajun comedians like DJ Rhett at the 33rd Annual Cajun Comic Relief on March 9th, at The Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette, LA.
"AcadianaCasts Presents" is the Flagship Podcast of the ACADIANACASTS NETWORK. Lafayette, LA based host, Carter Simoneaux talks with entertainers, business owners, athletes, chefs, and more - anyone who can help tell the story of Acadiana.
If you want to watch this episode on YouTube, check out our channel!
on today's episode of a cadena cast presents. We have the great, hilarious and powerful dj ret. If you live in south a wazian, if you love south a wazian culture and your own social media, you've more than likely seen one of his videos over the few years. He's getting into stand-up comedy now is going to be on the caging comic relief show coming up on march ninth. We're gonna talk about that show a little bit also, you know kind of his journey through this, this media production that he's been doing being from the oil field now to make it silly, is on the internet. It's a great story. He's a great fun guy to talk to you. I'm really excited about this conversation. Before that, I just mentioned Cajun comic relief guys. It's going to be the show of the year here in a cadena. I've got an exciting invitation for you this year, kate this year's Cajun comic reliefs 33rd annual show. It's been going on for over 33 years. It's incredible. I think there was a breakthrough in covid, but just the longevity is amazing. This year we're lighting up the hymen center with a comedy lineup like no other, featuring dj ret, jp Leonard, who is hosting with laugh yet comedy, aj smith, murray conk and Blake abare.
Speaker 2:As a proud to cadena advocate, I'm thrilled to share that this year's laughter fest is not just about bringing joy. It's a powerful mo movement to support love of people's fight against Parkinson's and dementia. Every ticket you purchase helps us get one step closer to making a difference in the lives of those affected by these conditions. It's an underserved population here in cadena and south in south Louisiana as a whole, as a whole. So having services that can help these people is massive and Cajun comic relief is one of the biggest events that we have to help for that this year, join us to laugh till it helps by celebrating our rich Cajun culture and contributing to a cause that touches many hearts. Get your tickets today by visiting Cajun comic relief dot org. That's Cajun comic relief dot org. All right, hit the music yeah do you know that song, tina?
Speaker 3:now. Oh, how can you not have dj'd for years and that's like the number one song down the bar, is it really?
Speaker 2:yeah, I love that, oh yeah yeah, lee Allen Zeno with a buck weed zydeco.
Speaker 2:He's a bass player with the the blue monday all stars, which I don't know. If you know what the blue monday mission is, it's one of love of people's, one of their another initiatives where it started as a way to give back to the aging musician population a lot of these old zydeco Cajun cats. You know they went on the road in an early age, didn't know a damn thing about saving money or treating their music like a business, and so when they get older they got medical costs, it's harder for them to find stage time and you know, dip into the little funds that they had. So we created this, this blue monday jam, to get these guys on stage. You know, give kind of the older population of Lafayette a chance to go listen to monday, listen to blues on a monday, while also empowering the kind of the next generation of musicians and, you know, not make the same mistakes that they did and also just kind of recycling that culture that we love so much.
Speaker 2:But Lee Allen Zeno is the bass player for that house band and he just won his second Grammy with buck weed zydeco, junior nice. So father to son full circle kind of thing he didn't get out in the year with Taylor Swift. No, he just missed out on that one.
Speaker 2:I was hoping that he would have told that, told a spotlight from her we're gonna get into all kind of Cajun culture, your comedy, your videos and whatnot, but real quick, what? What does you take on this whole Taylor Swift NFL phenomenon that's going on this recording this like the weekend before the super boss it's?
Speaker 3:it's all put on it's rigged, I would say you're a saints fan, you gotta say it's all I wouldn't say it's rigged, I would say it's heavily influenced.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm talking about, like kind of like. You know, like the goal, the, the globe trotters, yeah, it's all put on. Wrestling, it's all put on, but they still have to make the moves and they still have to do that same with football. I think it's kind of got a narrative and a story. It just depends on which way the crowd wants it to go. You know, like when rock came back, everybody's like, yeah, rock come back. And then now, two weeks later, you took the dream away from Cody Rhodes and now everybody's like Rocky sucks rock. So it's like you gotta go, whatever the crowd says. You know what I'm saying, you gotta drive it that way.
Speaker 2:So I did see that since she's been going to chief's games, she's brought in about 350 360 million dollars, million yeah, of just indirect revenue to the.
Speaker 3:The NFL like jersey sales just ticket sales around to yes, but it's annoying man, it's kind of and that's what I tell you like why?
Speaker 3:because you see her on screen for two seconds and look, everybody's like, oh yeah, you just got that man. I don't like seeing him. I'm like, no, here's the thing, women like soap operas. Right, what if I put Hulk Hogan in the rock in the soap operas? I'm well, they might like it. I don't know those the lonely women. But what I'm saying is, if I would bring a thing of masculinity to something that's feminine, they'd lose their mind. So it's the same thing. It's like I just want to watch football and I saw a statistic. Well, they only showed Taylor Swift for 14 seconds. Everybody's going crazy, but they talk about it all game.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 3:I'm talking about. It's like it, you can't get away from it. Like one of the things that I've noticed is like that, even the commentators, they're all into it. Like Jim, jim Nancy's, like he's like you know, tony, uh, ever since, uh, patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey came into the league, it's almost been a love story and I'm like brah, you know what I'm talking about. Like they, you, they try to use those, you try anyway to squeeze it in there you know, I know what you're doing.
Speaker 2:You're just trying to piss off the Swifties, to help the Swifties, to help your algorithm and get more people liking watching your videos exactly what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, but it's. It's funny because I mean it really doesn't bother me. But what I do, my brand of comedy. I call it stirring the pot and people get really agitated, like you know. Tomatoes in the gumbo, potato salad on the side, taylor Swift, you know people have an opinion and I love playing on that you know what I'm saying and and eventually something cool might come out of their opinion.
Speaker 3:It might be a joke, a hidden joke in there, you know, and I try to look at both sides and you know some people take it like, oh man, he's really being serious, and other people say that's just his, that's his persona, and that's exactly what it is. I have a take on everything.
Speaker 3:I have an old papal take you know, I'm getting up, I'm pushing 50 and a lot of people don't know that I'm 46 years old, maybe 47. In June it looked great. Yeah, well, thank you and uh, but yeah, my mom, my dad, didn't look this good at 47.
Speaker 2:I'm just gonna say they smoked a lot of cigarettes what was their cigarette of choice?
Speaker 3:my dad was Winston lights and my mom was Virginia sunlight 120s. Because I had to go buy them all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah you probably hated by those Virginia Suns in here some suckers were like as big as a canoe like this.
Speaker 2:You know we had Barry Ancelay on the show last week and I think it probably airs right before your episode, but he, uh he was talking about I was asking about Cajun comedy and like the Cajun storytelling and whatnot. And he was saying I was asking why it it? Uh, people down here love it so much? And he said, well, a lot of the comedy and storytelling with the Cajun culture comes from like taking you down a peg, taking the wind out the sails a little bit does. No one is is sacred, whether it's any sort of leadership, what the power is that be? Whether it's the government, the, the pope, everyone can get it. Yeah, and you and you kind of fall into that.
Speaker 3:I start a pot. I start a pot. You know, it's just and that's one of the things with with social media. It's like you you want engagement, you don't want just a set of eyes at it, you do. But you also want people to buy into what you're talking about and or and or you give them. You give it's like.
Speaker 3:It's like food in the piranha tank. You throw it in there and it's a. They all come and you just watch and you kind of just play the puppet on a string and just mitigate that some kind of way. You know, and then that's what I love to do and then I'll pull jokes out of that. And then you know, just being down to buy and being a DJ, like I was growing up, just soaking up the music, soaking up the Louisiana culture, it just went into this sponge that I call a tet and it just comes out the mouth and I'm like, okay, you know, we'll just see what happens. You know, because I mean, I think the true meaning of comedy is just taking two opposite ends of the spectrum and putting them together and see what happens yeah, so like with my parodies.
Speaker 3:You know, we, we trawl down the bio. That's what we do we. We get on a, we get on a shrimp boat and we trawl. So I've DJed over the years. Free Fallen was a great song and one day I just said we trawl in one day, and then I said let's go into studio and do this. And we did it and boom, it's got like two million views. And boom it, just it.
Speaker 3:Stuff happens, you know, and I think that's what comedy is. That's the brilliance of comedy just comes out of nowhere. You know what I'm saying and I mean I always got, I mean in my car I got a pad on the side of my desk, I got a pad. My phone is full of useless stuff. Like I'll be on the road and I'll just say something in my phone and I'll go back to it later. Because if you don't write it down or you don't do it right there that particular time, it's gone. Yeah, it's going. So a lot of the parodies I write, I write them within 10 to 15 minutes because I'm that, I have that idea and I'm like, okay, it's just, I don't. I don't know what it is, something that takes over me. I'll tell my wife hey look, give me, give me 10, 15 minutes.
Speaker 3:I got to go to the studio right quick and do this well, okay and then, about an hour later, I'll play it for her and she's like when, where did that come from you?
Speaker 3:know I don't know, I don't know where it came from, but it's fun, it's just fun. And it's fun doing that stuff, putting it out there and getting judged good, bad, indifferent, it doesn't matter, because Not everybody's gonna like your stuff, and that just makes me want to get better for everybody. You know, and I Used to let that dark hole of the social media you know the trolls Make me go down that dark hole and want to defend myself every time, but you'll, you'll be there all day long. And then I just decided to use that energy to create something and not not go down the hate path. Just Ignore the hate they're hating because you're doing stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that, like my the. Since I started making content, I haven't done a good job of the engagement engaging part I've just posted, released and then see what happens. And see what happens. Go on to my next thing, right? Um, just, I cared more about the consistency of putting stuff out Rather than the feedback. But with this social media world that we live in, you need the engagement you need to right to develop an audience and Audience needs to feel like you.
Speaker 2:You're there with them. But I think it's that that fear of just getting Getting the brain stirring and circling around the negative comments, right, it's that's. That's kind of halting me from from doing.
Speaker 3:It's human nature, human, I mean. Look, everybody has an opinion, everybody has an opinion. And you know what I'm like. I'll put something out there and they're like not funny. And I'm like okay. And then but ten other people say that's funny. You know so, but you'll read the one not funny and you'll be like well, why isn't that funny? When ten other people told you it's funny, but you ignore that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:It's like you want to find out what's hurting that person, to make them better, you know, to make them understand what you're going through. And then another thing the whole cancel culture thing. I mean, it's like if somebody just gets on there and says, oh Well, I got a friend, that's this and you made fun of that, I'm like Okay, what kind of, what kind of pathetic world you're living into, where you know these are jokes. I wouldn't literally go up to somebody that's either handicap or of a different race or anything and Really hate on them. You know what I'm saying, I think. And then we said this earlier, before we went on there. I really think we're in a spot right now where people are like they're choosing between like what's what's funny and what's not, but also feelings like come on, man, it's like Life is too short, laugh at yourself.
Speaker 3:You know, one of the things I'm watching right now is Toby Keith. I'm not look, toby Keith. I used to like DJ with him. It's like little bless talk, lot more action. In the 90s he started being more patriotic and in the 2000s and stuff like that, then he kind of fell off and then I found out he had cancer and then I just started watching like his last like six months and he was just putting out a message. That Same thing. Like he always used to dig into the negative stuff and when he found out he had stomach cancer and he couldn't do nothing about it, he just tried to like he let go of everything. He had his faith and he's like you know what? I'm gonna just put out what I feel and I don't care what anybody says. You know what I'm saying. I'm a boy.
Speaker 3:So, I do the same thing when it, when I approach a comic thing, if somebody does get been out of shape which maybe happened once or twice, but you're gonna have that in the comedy world hey, did you just have a conversation? When we're off to the Sun, say, hey, this is what I was talking about, whatever. And then after about the two beers, they're like oh, okay.
Speaker 3:Ha ha ha. You know, like whatever, but I've never been heckled. Oh, I've been heckled once, but that was a drunk woman. Yeah, and I, I put, I put her on my lap and put her right back and she never did it again. So never heckle a good comedian because you will get burnt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I heard a massive fan of stand-up comedy and I heard one comic say that like it should be. Like 80% of the audience is laughing, 20% is appalled.
Speaker 3:Right, right it's strange like stand-up comedy. Strange because it's like You're going in a venue. You've paid to come in here to know you're gonna get maybe offended or laugh at some stuff that you probably wouldn't laugh at. A Comedy club is more of like a dark humor type place why, you know, you're preparing yourself to hear some really crazy stuff, you know, and if you're not prepared and you go in there and you pay money and you sit there and you're like you know it's like you look like the idiot, not anybody else in here, you know. And but I mean, like I said, I've had, I had a woman heckle me one time because she's like my husband's always look at his DJ rap video, look at his DJ rap video, look at his DJ. He won't even screw me, he's watching your videos and I was like, damn, you must suck in bed.
Speaker 2:You know like so I make a joke out of it.
Speaker 3:I know like so, and it's just at the end of the night when she saw my comedy routine, she, you know, she was like you know what. I got a different perspective on it. Now, you know, you don't see me. You see me on Facebook snippets. You don't see the fool me.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 3:I'm saying, like I said, you know the Kevin Hart's of the world, the, the feel Vaughn's, the. You know, you just see them on the stage. You never really have a conversation with them. That's why I like feel Vaughn watching his podcast, because you really see that guy. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, and, and that's why I do podcasting to like once a month I don't how often you do this podcast Once a week. Once a week, yeah, so I mean you. The the cool thing about podcasts is you really get to know Stripped down all the BS. Yeah, you get to know that person exactly. Yeah, and I think it's a great inlet to where, hey, that dude does comedy and I watched his podcast. I know where he's coming from, so I'm prepared for whatever stupidness he has to say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I told you I came from a news background and I didn't like this idea of people wearing this button up, tie and suit and and giving pseudo opinions. But you know, under this veil of no, I'm right down the middle, I'm right down the middle and and what it was alluring to me about podcasts is that you can put your biases out there, you can show who you are and the audience can either accept it or not. Not accept it, right, or if they don't like it, but they still might hate, watch it, you know. But at least they know where you're coming from.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm and and that was really attractive to me and when I still wanted to do something journalistic, ask, right in that there's so many fascinating people in South Louisiana and and how the kind of broadcast news works, or even print media, like you have like a word count in print or you have a minute and a half to tell the whole story, right, and and I felt it wasn't long enough, right, and I kind of went against the grain of, you know, this tiny attention span society that we now have it's.
Speaker 3:everybody was based on headlines, that's it.
Speaker 3:That's just a headline and you can. You can drive any narrative you want with a headline, I mean, and still tell the truth, but bend it. You know what I'm talking about. Like you can, you can add adjectives. You could be it just like a car, two person, two people got in a car wreck. Or you can be like white guy runs into a black guy. Like you can really like play on people's emotions and what I try to do on social media is to play on people's emotions enough to know that it's just a joke. It's like I'm stirring the pot. Y'all Like don't take this serious, you know. Like it's like my whole pasta lie a bit.
Speaker 3:I can't stand that shit I just cannot stand it.
Speaker 2:I think you're one of the reasons why people, without even forming an opinion of their own, they just shit on pasta, lie yeah yeah, because you just put it into the. Louisiana zeitgeist.
Speaker 3:Well, that's what, like the whole pasta lie thing was all a subliminal thing. It was always in the back of my mind that's shit's nasty, it's just nasty. And I never really had like a way to say that. You know, and I was like, okay, well, we got hit by a hurricane and two years ago and I just had all kind of people like and God bless, lafayette man, y'all awesome, y'all Lafayette and Lake Charles, y'all reached out to home when we got hit by Ida and y'all just flooded the love Like y'all just would come and with tons of stuff. But a lot of these cooking clubs were making pasta lie, which is, I mean, you know what. We in a dire situation here we'll eat whatever we want.
Speaker 3:I mean we'll eat whatever we want. So I was getting calls and people were like, hey, red, I'm with such and such church, we doing you know, we cooking up 200 pounds of pasta lie and we'd like to bring it to you. And I'm like and this was before the pasta lie joke even came out so I was like, okay, you know like, bring it on over. And I didn't like pasta lie, but you know, bring it to this church, we do it. Okay, cool, boom. A week later, hey Red, we got a cooking crew, we got the 800 pounds of pasta lie, we bring it. I'm like God, okay, like, and I gotta be nice. And I'm like, okay, they got a police station down the road that you know they feeding people over here, you go, bring it over there. Another week later it comes, red, we got a thousand pounds of pasta lie. And I said they got a veterinarian office down the road, they got a bunch of dogs that might want to eat that. So that's where the joke came up. And then then I just went on the side of the road, I was fishing and I just turned my phone on and I just went on a rant like just why I couldn't stand pasta lie.
Speaker 3:We in rice nation, bro, like that's, that's Italian, that's not no man, you gotta put rice in it. Red beans and rice, white beans and rice gumbo. You put rice in it. We, we grow rice over here, you know. It's just that. That's the way we are, and I think what happens is in the joke. The whole joke is like okay, cajun culture's disappearing, right, Our, our, our coastal line is disappearing. If we do nothing about it, we're gonna get infiltrated by non Cajun people. Coastal erosion and pasta.
Speaker 3:You know, what I'm saying. So we've said nothing and we've allowed it in. So now I feel like I have to just put my hat on and say no, you know like I draw the line and so and it's for some reason it popped off and people, just when somebody posts pasta lie or somebody posts they tag me. And I'm like it's brilliant, because when people think pasta lie, they think DJ Red, for some reason, I don't know, and it's like they're like why you got your name associated with pasta lie. I said I don't know, but it's great.
Speaker 2:It's great. It's just awesome, I mean anyway, people can connect to you, that's what a lot of politicians use.
Speaker 3:If you can do use something that's ridiculous, that relates you to that particular product, boom, use it.
Speaker 2:So politicians, comedians same thing. It's the same thing, man.
Speaker 3:Bunch of jokesters, yeah just jokesters, just a bunch of BS.
Speaker 2:So, talking about comedy, yeah, you've been doing standup for about a year now.
Speaker 3:About a year.
Speaker 2:You had some success with these videos. Pop it off, I'm sure it helped you. Maybe sell tickets, like probably started doing DJing again, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Well, I started DJing when I was 15 years old, right. So my family, I'm from Chauvin, louisiana, which is like Jai Popa Louisiana map. If you look at the map Louisiana, I mean it looks like a. I mean that's one of my bits that I do in my comedy show. I take a actual troll like a shrimp boot and I show it and I'm like this is my map because it looks just like Louisiana. And then I'll point out where we at on the map and everything Terrible Imparish is actually about a big toe, like so it's. So I call Terrible Imparish a big toe and there's a running joke in Homa and down there that we're from the swamp, so we have webbed toes.
Speaker 3:You know, that's just that you know over over time, like Waterworld, we were like Kevin Costner. We lose our gills behind our ears. It's like we had webbed toes. That was the joke and so I use that. So in Terrible Imparish, we're the big toe, all right. So that's webbed feet, so you can remember that, all right. And then when you start making your way back this way like New Iberia okay, the whole famous ball haircut. So you see the Chaffelai Basin, that's the ball haircut. It comes right straight up. You can draw along right through it, okay. And then if you pass Lafayette and you go toward Lake Charles, that's the heel. And you got to be hard as a rot because they up against freaking Texas over there and they get hit with two or three hurricanes a year. You got to be strong.
Speaker 2:So what is? What about my starving grounds? What about St Tammany?
Speaker 3:What are we?
Speaker 2:St Tammany is the tow hair.
Speaker 3:Right above the lake, oh, right above the lake. So y'all the river parishes, right. Y'all consider river Florida parishes. Okay, all right. Well, y'all still close enough to New Orleans, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Y'all closer to us than New Orleans. So what I say? There is New Orleans. You know how they got that famous saying. You know our business stinks but it's picking up you know New Orleans actually stinks because nobody picks up the trash over there.
Speaker 3:And the reason being is because when you go to those fairs and you're walking and you're eating, like that, you'll have like some crawfish, monocle, some, you know some, anything good and it falls right on top of your foot. They're like that and they don't pick it up, so that's why it stays all nasty. In New Orleans I call them the river rats. They got a lot of rats that eat right there. Party gravy, oh, party gravy is full on top of the foot right there.
Speaker 2:Oh man. So you're doing stand-up for about a year and you get a call from Cajun Comic Relief right To come be a part of the show. Had you heard of CCR beforehand?
Speaker 3:I've seen some snippets of the show on YouTube. What's the name? Murray? Murray Conn yeah yeah, I've seen him like a long time ago, like 20 something years ago, and I think I think I might've called it something else. What was his name? Ralph? He did the Kyo joke. He's always say Kyo Brunard, or I think that's his last name, ralph Brunard, or something.
Speaker 2:I would know I've only been to one Cajun Comic Relief.
Speaker 3:I'm young, just started getting involved, but anyway, it's so funny because Louisiana has its own brand of comedy. I mean, you got Bayous, you got fishing, you got tourism, you got food, you got all kind of references that you can pull jokes and pull like experiences from you can't do that anywhere else in the United States. So I think that's what the whole vibe of Louisiana and the ring to it and the you know it's just I don't know. It's special down here man it's just special.
Speaker 2:What I love about some of those older Cajun Comics is it's the storytelling stories. But, like, the punchline is often like almost like a dad joke, yeah, yeah, and it slaps you in the face because it's the thing you definitely. Unlike other parts of comedy, it's something that you expect, but you expect the punchline so much that you don't see it coming.
Speaker 3:No, no, that's like one of the jokes I tell and I'll give. I mean, I'll tell one of the jokes that I do my standup comedy. Yeah, burn it. So for my bachelor party. Okay, I mean I've been married for 20 years, okay. So, like I said, 46. So I got married when I was 25. This was 2003 when I got married. So this is pre-Ussher, yeah, okay, usher, yeah, didn't even come out. That came out in 2004, okay. So just to tell you the scene in New Orleans, that's where we went. So I got about six or seven of my guys we all go in the New Orleans and I mean from home out, when you're going I don't know if you've ever passed and you stop at Frank's. Frank's has the best Bloody Marys ever. It's like a pre-stop to go to the Saints game, all right. So we stop over there on our way going to New Orleans, you know, because that's where our bachelor party is Is that on River Road.
Speaker 3:It's on Ohio way 90. Okay, it's on the side. It's a little hole in the wall bar. It's Frank's best Bloody Marys ever.
Speaker 2:Whatever, it's kind of like best cup of coffee you know, whatever I think I've seen it going down 90.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So we go in there and you get your Bloody Mary and everything. Well, they got this guy in there and he's got one leg okay, and he's up there in Crutch's and he's doing karaoke okay. So he's the karaoke guy and he's singing. He's singing God Bless Texas by Little. I'll never forget it. And we just die and laugh at this guy. And then the next song that comes on, he sings Indian Outlaw by Tim McGraw, and we just die and laughin'.
Speaker 3:So we go to the hotel and we're like y'all, we're gonna get so casse, like we're not gonna remember what our Room number is, all this stuff. So one of the guys I was waiting says well, what, what? What floor we on? He says 13 and he says well, that's rhyme somewhere to third Eugene. Everybody said Eugene, remember Eugene, 13, okay, cool. So everybody's like all right, cool.
Speaker 3:So if we get split up and we go to the hotel, whatever, we remember, we're on the 13th floor, at least we got, okay, cool. So we all go, we go to catch me out, we go to here, we get, we get split up, we get. One of us gets in a fight, one of us. I mean it's just ridiculous. It's about three o'clock in the morning. We start off with about ten people we're down to about three left me one of my pot of my best man and one of my other partners, my brother. We walk into. We walk into the hotel. One of my partners is in his face down. He's in the ashtray. Okay, there's, you know, the little silver. He's in the lobby and his face is in the ashtray. He gets it. We wake him up. He's got black soot all over because he's been breathing that cigarette soot in his thing.
Speaker 3:Said dude, what are you doing down here? And he was like, I didn't know what the room was and I was like we said 13 Eugene, he says well, shit. I got on the elevator and I went 13 Eugene, 14 Eugene, 15 Eugene, 16 Eugene. We started dying, laughing. I was like, bro, that's a joke in itself, right there, you know. So he slept in the lobby like this, like this. So I mean, it's just you got to find the jokes. And I think Louisiana just has a lot of those silly Stories and you can pull from that and make a joke out of it. And we tell stories so well, like and I think it's our Accent to like, just you know, like man that down the by accent. I could listen to that all day long Bro.
Speaker 2:You never understand how much it pisses me off sometimes being from Covington and speaking clear and concise, I want, I want people to say huh, yeah.
Speaker 3:Like that, this, this. And I always say that, brother, reason why we talk like, like, so flat, is because we want to save our taste buds. We don't want to scratch them off and we say this Other we'd scrape our taste buds off.
Speaker 2:We gotta say this that the other it's not because you come from a culture of illiterate people.
Speaker 3:No, we smart, we want to start good food. You know that's out of us. I love that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my mom's from a. She's from even south, more south Than you. She's from Port Solfer. Oh, wait down there. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:Really ain't they?
Speaker 3:no more and I tell you, I always refer to that Venice they, they wait on there and you can tell the difference between home of people and Venice people is because their toenails are longer, like they can snatch a frickin speckled trout going upstream with those claws. You know, you know.
Speaker 2:Mom, whenever you watch or listen to this episode, write in the comments if that's true.
Speaker 3:That's true.
Speaker 2:So I want to know you've been all over with. You've been all over with your, your comedy Doing appearances. I want to see DJ we're at. I want to meet DJ red. So you traveled all across Louisiana at this point and whether that was before you blew up on social media or after or in between. Can you give me a few underrated towns in In south Louisiana? Let's see? I went to.
Speaker 3:Walker, louisiana, walker, yeah, walker. Well, how do you panic attack a walker, the? The biggest thing that happened in Walker since I went over there was the, the little girl who danced, and it was the footloo story. Did y'all hear about that? No, so it went viral. A couple of months ago I Did a well, I did a comedy show over there and it was like is there's nothing that happens over there and Walker is just like nothing. And in about two months later there was this girl that she went to a homecoming dance and she was dancing at an after-party.
Speaker 3:And you know how kids are with the social media, they just post stuff or whatever. Well, they ended up posting the video and she was just, she was behind one of her friends. Like you know, I kids are to just get me dancing. I mean nothing really. I mean, yeah, whatever, but she was at a private party, wasn't meant to be posted. When it got posted, the principal saw it and he she was like straight-A student Class president, all this stuff, and he like took everything from a scholarships, everything, and it blew up on social media.
Speaker 2:Well, it is for loose.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is, it's for loose. It basically is well, the principal resigned Walker high school. He resigned he's not Because he got so much social media backlash from it, Stating that man, you know you never danced like that before. You know like it's just. I mean it's even worse on music videos when you see, you know the WAP and all of that stuff.
Speaker 3:So she, she ended up getting everything reinstated, but the principal I mean that's the power of social media though, but that was a cool little town that was on the rate of town, because that I went do the comedy over there and I'm like bro, they are not gonna get anything. I'm saying because it almost Walker. Louisiana is almost like Arkansas, right, once you get on the other side of North I-10. It's a different, it really is a different world. Yeah, I'm still Louisiana, but it's not, and ain't down the bar you know our.
Speaker 3:Lafayette or Lake Charles or you know the bayou parish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my, my New Orleans friends. They referred to where I'm from. Covington is Mississippi, but Covington really is just people who who were sick and tired of New Orleans is bullshit yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're like man I'm getting out of here. I mean I like I like y'all enough to stay by y'all, but I can't be next to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so now. But now, like, like you know that culture is still alive and so they're kind of resurrecting some of these. Like they have like a blue dress run.
Speaker 3:Also the opposite of the red dress.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious, that's one and the Mardi Gras has grown. My dad was telling me last year that, like dude, you should come back to Covington like for Mardi Gras day, like it's used to just be, like the Lions Club.
Speaker 3:We just come through with like coming high, and then I've actually seen some nice parades on on social media Rolled through Covington in Mandoville.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but I grew up going to like Eve and Orpheus in Mandoville.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, there's always yeah, when, when you go when you go to a New Orleans parade and you go somewhere else you like.
Speaker 2:For sure, but but that's how I was. When I moved to Lafayette for the first time, I was like yeah but then I kind of floats. But then I came to love it because like, oh, it's not to deal with all the fucking drama.
Speaker 3:I think the drama yeah shooting getting robbed.
Speaker 2:It's, it's the hustles.
Speaker 3:We used to go to New Orleans all the time. My wife and I we went college right around the time. I mean, I grew up when I was I. I was born in 77, so I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I went to college in the late 90s, so we used to always go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and I remember I think it was 89 we went and we're all in college having a good time, whatever.
Speaker 3:And I mean you got those little, those kids With the little tap, you know. So they had this little black kid. His name was a Derek, and man thought he was the cutest, a five years old, but he's like that, that day's getting it. So I gave him a $20 bill. It's like, hey, man, you know, like here's a tip. And he's like, oh man, thank you. Well, then the next year we went and we just walking down the street and I see him. I said, I told my wife I was like, look, that's Derek, that's not Derek. And we walk up to it because we took a picture with him and I said Derek, he looked at me anyway, the rich white man.
Speaker 3:That's what he said he said the rich white man because I gave him 20 bucks, so I gave him another 20 bucks so we took a picture with him. Well, it Almost became like a like we have to do it every year now. So I have like a span of my little New Orleans tap dance kid, derek. Like we have 16 pictures with that's all growing up, you know, and then I kind of lost touch with them, kind of after it was Katrina.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but there's a. You know talk about content creators like yourself. There's. There's a new guy that I've seen recently All around New Orleans. He's got a real raspy voice. So if you go down to the corner at this time, expect this and, and I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 2:I may have, but you never see his face oh okay, it's always a voiceover, but he did one recently about New Orleans, like Mardi Gras, like hustles, uh-huh, like I street hustlers, like the people who were like, well, I tell you I had that, I bet, I bet, I can guess we get shoes, shoes yeah or people who come and just like give you beads and put it over your head. I got $20. Yeah, get it off, but like there's like sweet tourists who come and they're like, okay, yeah, here you go, I love I can't stand you walking down the street.
Speaker 3:They're like, hey, man, I gotta give you a ticket. I'm like for what? For not partying hard enough. Get, get out of here like Shut up.
Speaker 2:You know it's got to work on some people, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'm like dude. It's actually one time that a guy that came up to me and he was like we went to a Madonna concert in New Orleans, okay, hmm. Anyway, we go there and I'm walking with my friend, I'm walking by my friend, we walk into the hotel because of our wife's forgot something, and this guy pulls up and he's like hey, man, traveling salesman from from Pennsylvania, I forgot my wallet at the. You know that it get a couple of bucks. My buddy pulls out oh, he's believe price I. But no man, he's, he's in trouble. Man, they give him 20 bucks, thanks man.
Speaker 3:God bless y'all man and he was in a suit. I mean he looked legit and I'm like, no, no, no he, he got you About a month later. I mean we always bring our kids to. We like to see the lights and everything for Christmas.
Speaker 2:So celebration in the oak.
Speaker 3:So yeah, so we go out there, yeah so we go out there and we down fault Fulton Street, I think it is, and they got the fake snow or whatever. And we walk and my kids are tired. Whatever, my wife's carrying one, I'm carrying the other, we walking Frickin same dude bro pulls up. Hey man, and I was like you're traveling salesman from the eagle, have a good night. Yeah, only took off. So I was like, oh, I got the stick it to him and I took, I took a picture real quick and I sent it to my friend, said that's the same duty. I spent 20 bucks. So yeah, you got to watch yourself in New Orleans, but they slick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had that. They some good actors. There's a giant industry that comes out every single.
Speaker 3:Oh they may. They make over a hundred grand easy a year doing that stuff. You know cash money. Good luck, uncle Sam. I'd do that if not, if I wasn't recognizable that man as DJ ready sport. Yeah right, I mean a hundred dollars, bro, help me out, I need to write some more jokes.
Speaker 2:That would be a foot. That would be a fun video to see if you can get away with hustling money.
Speaker 3:I had somebody in the bush with with the camera and I'm just like because we'll work for jokes or something like. We'll work for Cajun food oh.
Speaker 2:Well, have you ever, I mean, you've done like every sort of Content there is? I mean, the first one was just the we're the world video, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that was the face swap. Yeah, just a face. A face swap was like so popular back then. You know people with face swapping with babies and it was just a weird look and but have you gotten into Doing any like MOS, like man on the street type interviews? Mmm, no, I mean, I've done some stuff like that before and it's just People are crazy, man, you're right. So I don't, I refuse to. Just I don't want to go up to somebody's a manual, do the interview.
Speaker 2:I know, like the people who do like barman Street Confessions, yeah, I don't know how they do.
Speaker 3:That Like it's like you'll grab, you'll get somebody and they're like, yeah, and it's like they go so wild is like give him a microphone.
Speaker 2:But every now and then you can catch a person like a Popeye. Oh yeah, and it golden viral.
Speaker 3:Whatever happened to Popeye? I think he's in jail. Thank you, so too many glow sticks. Got all kind of shit. Got the glow sticks. I got the. Got your bag. Got the Hawaiian punch man. Everybody won't how that pop. What you need, I got it. I ain't got it. I'm fine, you understand. No, just going back to the comedy thing, I actually fell into it like the stand-up comedy thing. Somebody called me and said hey, rhett, we want you to do some stand-up comedy for us. This was last year. It's a crew of ambrosia from tibetan. They were doing a fundraiser to try to draw up money for the crew and they said do you do stand-up comedy? I said no and they said you want to and I was like, oh, let's try it, and I went in there, did it an hour and a half of stand-up comedy, good.
Speaker 3:Lord I didn't know what I was gonna say, didn't know what I was gonna do, that I was like, okay, I've DJ'd before, I've sung in a band before, I'm not shy getting in front of people. I that doesn't bother me, but what the hell am I gonna say? So Use blackout and talk for an hour. That pretty much like. So I have the meat and potatoes of what I want to say Mm-hmm, but it's almost like it's I'm putting a puzzle together, reacting to how the crowds react. It's a weird.
Speaker 2:So you didn't try hitting like any, like little open mics before going up and that you know I just did it.
Speaker 3:I said you know what I'm either gonna I'm either gonna shit the bed, or I'm gonna I'm gonna hit it.
Speaker 2:How'd you do?
Speaker 3:I did great man. I was like I went up there and everybody was laughing. I did a bit. Uh, I mean I'm getting older, so uh, I have to do uh right around that time. Uh, I was uh asked to do a colonoscopy because I'm getting the ride around that age and I'm like huh.
Speaker 3:So I was like, well, can I do that other thing? Well, the commercial where, uh, the um Kola guard, where you just pretty much shit in the box and send it to them and they're like, yeah, you can do that. So I got a whole comedy bit about that. Because you know, as, as Cajuns, when we are in the woods or when we in, you know, on a fishing boat or wherever, when you got to go, you got to go and we just hang it over the sod and do it. You know. But when you got to do, when you actually have to do it in a box for medical reasons, it's a whole another room.
Speaker 3:Okay, like you got to prep it and it's like gumbo, bro, you playing with your shit. It's like it's crazy.
Speaker 2:I got a whole bit on that.
Speaker 3:And people, just they were like dying because they're all my same age and they're going through it too. You know like, okay, do I make the decision? Do I shit in the bucket or do I get the hose? And I'm like I'm recommended and now get the hose up, yeah. So I'm just telling you all right now drink that stuff, get your colon cleaned out and go just get anesthesia, you'll be all right. You'll be all right. Don't do what I did, because you're tortured for life. You actually have to play with your stuff.
Speaker 2:You can't understand it.
Speaker 3:It's like Play-Doh, bro, Like all right God. And we Cajuns, bro, so we eat some weird stuff, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:It's not a fiber's poop. That's what I'm saying. It's like who who applies for these jobs. You know like I'm going to open the box. You know like the box opener Like what did it? That's shit detail. Yeah, like, do you get a college degree for that? Like you know, like, do you like, all right, I'm the third tester?
Speaker 2:you know like I'm like I don't know, I was be a hell of a thing to put in your resume.
Speaker 3:They got to pay 150 grand for that, because I mean that ain't $30,000. You ain't making me do that.
Speaker 2:That ain't 150 grand. You're a job, bro. I'm telling you that right now. What was the first time you bombed? Honestly, I never bombed it's, I think now answer me this honestly Do you think the reason you haven't bombed outside of you being a hilarious person? You work hard at your craft, do you?
Speaker 3:think I haven't done it enough to bomb to have a bomb yet.
Speaker 2:Well, I was. I was going to say that I probably did.
Speaker 3:I probably did maybe about 10 to 15 stand up.
Speaker 2:So you have this, this kind of like pseudo celebrity celebrity thing where people were just excited to see you and they're more willing to laugh at maybe a right, a poor joke.
Speaker 3:Right, well, like I did, the second time I did a comedy show was at the Stiller the Stiller Company in Houma.
Speaker 3:They do, they do like an open mic type thing. It's a Bayou Terrebonne Distillers. They make their own corn whiskey and every every third Friday of the month they did a comedy show and they said, rhett, you want to do, you want to host it one day. It's kind of like what comic Can I do it? Can I just go up there and do it? Yeah, you can do it. So we had some comics coming from New Orleans and they went up there and they did. They did good, and I went up there and I mean they had some people that did. They know what I'm about. So I guess that's kind of that's kind of that kind of helps. I've been on social media for 20 years, so it's like 2004,. My space is when I started. So it's like people kind of expect and they know what to expect. So it's kind of it's kind of an easy, warm handoff.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Now have I been in locations where I'm like it's hard, like to get a reaction. Yes, like down here in Houma there's I mean down here in Louisiana there's really no like comedy venues, where there's a stage, people sit down with tables and watch. There's bars and if you ever been in a bar in Louisiana, it's basically the bar, pool tables and a couple of just stand up, you know bar stools.
Speaker 2:Maybe a little stage in the corner.
Speaker 3:Right and no stage and I was just at a table. So I was set up and do comedy in like daiquiri shops and stuff like, and it's very hard to get the attention of everybody because people are doing their own things. Like people playing pool, people drinking at the bar. So some people are there.
Speaker 2:They're not buying a ticket to see me.
Speaker 3:They're not buying a ticket to see me. So that in itself is weird, because it's it's hard. I wouldn't say it's bombing, I would just say you're trying to, you're trying to compete with, with the jukebox, you're trying to compete with everything else you know.
Speaker 3:So that's why I, like you know the Cajun comic relief is like you're going there to enjoy a comedy show. They know where they're going there. For a lot of people when they go to a bar, they think they go in there to just have a drink. Oh, by the way, dj Rett's playing here tonight. Oh, who's that? He's a? He's a comedian and a DJ. And then they just sit there and they half-ass listen and they don't, and you got chatter going on and it's just, it's not. You can't get intimate with it, with the crowd. You know what I'm saying. So that would be my only beef with Louisiana comedy scenes. It's like it's hard.
Speaker 3:There's no venues for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've heard like Mark Norman talk about it before. One of the best stand-ups right now in the game, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But he was talking about, like you know, growing up in New Orleans and having to move to New York because you're there is no comedy clubs, because you're competing Right, you're competing with all the other cultural things that we have down here, exactly Festivals, crawford Bowls you know, same-same stuff.
Speaker 3:There's all kinds of stuff down here. Yeah, whatever it is, there's so much entertainment down here that you know something like you know.
Speaker 3:Austin, texas. Who's who they're blowing up on the comedy scene. There's nothing there. So it's like it's like, okay, cool, let's house that. And it's a new brand of comedy too. It's more like I don't want to say raunch, but it's more like reality comedy. I don't know, it's weird. It's weird. It's not like. It's not like skit comedy anymore. It's really like people tell. People tell it like it is from their wicked and dark point of view, and I don't know what it is. I love that stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just love hearing people's different. You're not the only one blowing up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just love hearing that stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, I would love to see you know. I know I'm sure eventually you're going to get there, but go out of Louisiana do like in Austin and see how much you keep some of the local Louisiana flavor with. You know what we all as humans you know the human condition kind of stuff we deal with Right Cytal.
Speaker 3:Right, I mean it's hard, it's like like, not like next week.
Speaker 3:Next Thursday night I'm going to be at the in Biloxi, which is kind of still Louisiana you know, but it's that's the furthest I'm going, so I'm going to try to drop some of my stuff over there and see what happens. And the only way you're going to perfect your art is to go out there and do it. I mean, football players practice for a reason. Everybody practices guitar for a reason. Everybody, you know, y'all practice here. It looks like you're still practicing here to get better. And the only way you're going to get better at standup comedy is to get in front of people and do it. You're going to bomb. You're going to say a joke that you think's funny.
Speaker 3:Nobody else thinks funny. You know and you learn and you pull from all of that stuff and I think I've just done that over the years. It's just a knack and you know a lot of people ask me do you get? Do you get nervous when you go on stage? I've DJed and I've sung in bands enough to. That doesn't bother me. The only nervousness I get is like when I'm starting to talk and I'm like okay, I'm building up the joke. I'm building up, I know it's coming down, boom, and then like, if nobody laughs, it's like oh shit like okay, what I'm going to do you know, and that happens every now and again, but you know, it's just like.
Speaker 3:Look at it this way Wrestling you ever watch wrestling on TV short, it looks real as hell. You ever watched it in real life. Looks fake as hell really in real life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the angles, oh my god.
Speaker 3:It's the camera angles and it's the sound, it's the audio, it's the music, it's the, it's the glitz, the glamour. You feel like they're actually fighting. When you go to the arena and you watch, you like this looks like Pillow fighting, like it's horrible, it looks so bad in night. And I want to say 97. I went see the road to WrestleMania. It was the rock and Tagging up with Kane, oh, and it was Mankind with Stone Cold, steve Austin and they. They wrestled and I'm like this is the Stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life. Like it is. It looks so fake and it's the same way it's like in comedy. You just brush it off because like if they didn't laugh, it wasn't real. You know I'm saying let's say so. You just move on. You just gonna. Same thing with wrestling. If a clothesline didn't look that real, you just move on. You can't stop and say, oh, I meant to do this. You can't, you just got to keep on going with the motion.
Speaker 3:And I think I think the more and more you practice it with anything welding, cooking, whatever you're gonna get better at it. So, like I said, I'm new at it. I haven't officially bombed, but I know it's coming well.
Speaker 2:It seems like you're falling in love with art form and and really enjoying it, so yeah, I'm gonna see where you go.
Speaker 3:Man, like I said, it's just it's.
Speaker 2:This is just the beginning, yeah well, we're getting close to wrapping up here. I can talk to you literally all day.
Speaker 3:I mean too. I can talk all day long. Gotta get you out of here.
Speaker 2:Just real quick. That's. You said Stone Cold. You want to know how I graduated college.
Speaker 3:How's that? Through wrestling, yeah so we in.
Speaker 2:I graduated in broadcasting.
Speaker 3:Well, where you graduated you? Well, okay, what year?
Speaker 2:December of 17.
Speaker 3:Oh you young in. I graduated 2000 from nickel State University. All right with media. I have a me while marketing.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, they had to have it like a capstone final course and with that was a one project you work on all semester and All the other. There's like a couple of groups and they're all working on these, like you know, really passionate documentaries about, you know, race issues or you know, or income issues in Louisiana and you know real serious stuff. I Made a mockumentary about a guy who was addicted to stone-colding beers over his head and he had to have his friends have an intervention for him.
Speaker 1:It was called.
Speaker 2:It was called stone cold intervention and my buddy who was the star of it he I don't think he's touched course light since because he just with so many takes have been smashing beers and trying to just Gargles I was like, ah, I was acting in, get that time, do it again. He had like a little PTSD from the amount of beers I made this dude drink, for I mean, you got free beer out of it.
Speaker 3:That's hilarious. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2:That's. That's the bar to graduate Well.
Speaker 3:I did that stone cold to. It was a. It was a parody. Well, actually it was a funny joke. After the hurricane hit, you got all kind of roofers that come in from out of town.
Speaker 1:They say I could fix your roof, I can fix your roof and they screw everybody.
Speaker 3:So I was pissed and so I made a tick tock with the stone cold, steve Austin, you know the moves. And I was like if the next roofer that comes into this town You're gonna hear this, don't know. And I walked out, I grabbed the beer and I'm like you know, like, don't come in this town and Start. Yes, but yeah, those were, those were the days that the era.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the attitude, attitude era, yeah, so yeah, you call yourself Cajun. You are Cajun more down the bar, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3:But we all Cajuns to some degree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just had Barry honestly on, like I said. But do you ever get discouraged that Lafayette or a cadiana kind of Holds on to that Cajun moniker more and kind of excludes? I'm gonna say intentionally no, I make fun of that, you do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I poke fun at that because One of the things that I do is I refer to the map where Lafayette is. Lafayette is on the ankle. Okay, you have all kind of problems with the ankle. Okay, I know I do. You can twist your ankle, you can roll it, you can spring it, you get. You got all of this stuff going on and you want to know why Lafayette, they get so butt hurt. When somebody from you know from home I says I'm Cajun, or somebody from Lafayette I mean Lake Charles says I'm Cajun, it's because y'all are halfway north of our tin and halfway south of our tin. The sock line which I call I 10 runs right through Lafayette. So no wonder y'all in a bad mood. Half of y'all are north of our tin. You know. It's like y'all you know, and that's why I always say I said they always get butt hurt because y'all on the ankle it rolls. It always got problems.
Speaker 2:So on that, do you put tomatoes? In your gumbo?
Speaker 3:No, no, no, I don't do that, that's it. That's it, that that is a.
Speaker 3:That's actually a Creole thing right and I'll bring that up in my comedy event to not to give to. I got tons of stuff, don't worry. But there's three ways to make gumbo. There's a Creole style, a Cajun style and a New Orleans style. Basically simple, creole is Okra and tomatoes. The reason why they put tomatoes in it is because they got that that like a lichen or something, it breaks down the slime of the okra. Okay, so that's a Creole thing. Cajun is just an onion roux. That's, it's supposed to be just an onion roux. Now, no flower. The flower is a New Orleans thing. They thickened it up. It's more hearty, more presentable.
Speaker 3:If you look at a, if you look at a real down the body of gumbo, it looks like soup. It really looks like soup, because that's what it's meant to be. A Gumbo with flower in it is a stew. We just call it a stew. It's pretty much a stew because thicken it up. And then a Creole one is. They got the tomatoes in it. So the whole, like you put tomatoes in your gumbo occasion, that's a Creole thing. So that's where the joke comes from. So, but a lot of people, you know, in a dirty rice, rice dressing, that's another one that you can just blow people's mind.
Speaker 2:Don't forget, though, that Cajun is a subsidiary of Creole. Yes, it is, it is but you know. It's like I was talking Barry this yeah, I keep bringing him up but like there's these terms that were like older but they've been, they've been formed a different, but like we're using the same term for two different things, it's.
Speaker 3:And look, I'm one of the things in 2004 I said as one of my Resolutions, I'm gonna learn Cajun French fluently and I'm digging in deep to these books. It's. It's crazy because it's all different, no matter where you from. If you from Vermilion, paris, you talk different. Yeah, then Homa, you talk different than Venice port, soulful, it's all their own. It's pretty much you want to know what Cajun is. It's, it's ebonics, french, that's it. Exactly what it is. You, we just put our flavor in it, that's it. You know, sha, you know, like over here, I think they say got a fad. More than we say that, we say almost, yeah, where we from, it's it's the different things, it's just it's all part of the culture. And then I think it's just funny how we all just say no, that's Cajun, that's this, that's French, that's this. We're a melting pot of all kind of different. If you go back in History and look at where we come from Nova Scotia, canada we just we're pretty much a melting pot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean a culture isolated German first.
Speaker 3:Everything you can think of is over here in Louisiana. I think that's why we just we learned how to have fun, because it's like we all mixed up together. You know what I'm saying is, and it just it's good. It's like a big rainbow. You know. We just all go good together. You know it's all happy. You know, maybe not the rainbow.
Speaker 2:That's a different thing. Yeah, yeah that's been co-opted.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you Cajun comic relief for you. We got two shows on Saturday March 9th, Excited for you to be a part of it a clock and seven o'clock. Yep, and Afterwards and we don't want to get in too much of the details on it just now, before we really flesh them out there's gonna be a potty, oh yeah, at the grouse room that you're essentially hosting. Yeah, vip, can you tell me the difference In between that you're set that's gonna be a Cajun comic relief and the set that's gonna be at this party?
Speaker 3:so Cajun comic relief is more like a it's comedy, stand-up comedy. It's jokes, it's a storytelling, basically how I came up the ranks, why I think things are funny and things are not. My little, my little spin on life through the eyes of a down-the-buy, a boy.
Speaker 3:That's it who who came up the ranks DJing, listening to music, and then just it's weird because all my parodies just come from that. It's like it's just my experience, down to buy a and a, me DJing over the years, knowing these good popular songs, and saying you know what, when I was in school, in high school, I used to take songs and I used to learn my multiplication or my chemistry, putting it or to beats, you know, return of the square. You know there's something like that, I know MC square, something like that. I would say stuff like that to remember it and that's how I would study. So I'm like using that again to do my parodies and stuff like that. So I mean I said I got cool, y'all free fall and I just did a gotta-get-bait.
Speaker 3:It's a faith About George Michael and limb biscuit, but it's like I gotta get bait. I'm that's so silly. Oh yeah, it's just ridiculous stuff and I think that's what comedy is. You just take two opposite ends of the spectrum, something like the song George Michael faith and something we do down here we got to get bait when we go fishing. You put that together and well, you gotta get Bet the bet, the bet that you know it's just, it's silly but people like they can, they can relate to it.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. So CCR is gonna be more about kind of like that upbringing.
Speaker 3:It's gonna be that that and then a couple of you know, like I said, I got jokes, I got all kind of stuff, storytelling kind of like, kind of like Shane Gillis the way he does, I mean he's way good, but I'm just talking about like just talking, and you know. And then I got a couple of parodies that a throw in. Like you know, at the toward the end I do my little Uh, coca-tree girl skit.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you ever seen that it's.
Speaker 3:it's my little spin on you know Disney's going woke you know, I'm like I just don't want Disney to go woke. You don't have to go woke down here in Louisiana we're a melting pot. We got a little bit of everything right, so higher a Cajun, so I do my little. It's called coca-tree girl instead of. Okay part of this world you know.
Speaker 2:And then what is your the after party vibe gonna be like?
Speaker 3:after party vibe is just basically DJing and having a good time. I mean, it's not even gonna be me singing or anything. I'm like I'm old school, 90s, 2000 type, you know, like let's just get down and party, you know. Return to the Mac. This how we do it. You know stuff like that. I love the DJ scene how it used to be. It's not like it is now. I mean, you go in a club now everybody's on their phone and they got three people there. You know, because it's so easy to swipe left, swipe up, swipe right and get and get a chick. You know, back when I was growing up you had to go in the club and you had to hey, baby, yeah, you had to, you had to work for it. You know, now you just swipe left.
Speaker 3:Oh you look good, you want it. Okay, yeah, let's bang bitches.
Speaker 2:I'm turning 30 in March, but I knew I was starting to get a little too old to go to the clubs and laugh. Yet whenever I'm, you know, talking with these girls and then some of the younger guy comes up and goes hey girl, can you get your snapchat?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you can't get your snap. Okay, thanks, man, walk away. Is that where it's your game? Oh, for bitches, bad enough. I just be like, you know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't make it now. These poor girls. No, I'm so glad I'm married, I wouldn't make it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's tough out here in these streets. Well, man, I appreciate you coming on the show.
Speaker 3:No problem, man, I talk a lot, you know. Sorry, that's what. Podcast is more the barrier.
Speaker 2:Real quick. Do you have off the top of your dome a Mount Rushmore of Louisiana Musicians, wayne tubes. All right, don Rich.
Speaker 3:Keith Frank. Hmm, and the for a tradition. Anybody from the for it like Ryan, tina, not us to this Tina, not all of them for a tradition. Yeah, yeah, ryan for a. Yeah, ryan for a. Alright. Ryan for a. Don Rich Wayne tubes.
Speaker 3:And Keith Frank, you put Ryan before worn Worn storm yeah, king of swamp up, I know, but I Don't know, I'm more. I'm more of a. I like him, but I'm more that energetic, like you know, just kind of. Yeah, you put me on the spot there, but that's my for. Yeah, I'll stick with that.
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