Name: Ep 73: Aida Rodriguez w/Kombucha
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 73: Aida Rodriguez w/Kombucha' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-02. Transcript available.

Ep 73: Aida Rodriguez w/Kombucha

Hey folks, here we are. We might be drunk. We're really doing it. Good to have
you. We got a hot
guest, special guest. How the hell are you? I'm good. All right. Good to see
you. It's good to be
called special. Yeah. And not in the other context. Exactly. Exactly. Well, no,
we're excited. I, as I
was saying, I rarely look at the cellar lineup. I was like, oh, you're in town.
This is nice.
Yeah. I know. Ida Rodriguez. We didn't say her name yet. Oh, sorry. My bad. But
yeah. Are you
bi-coastal? Pretty much. But you're mostly L.A. though. When it comes to stand-up,
I am. But I come
here to do my stand-up. Yeah. Yeah. I feel, you know, I bombed last night and
it was at
I heard. At Derek's shirt show. No, I'm just kidding. If you would have, it was
so funny because
who's show? Derek Gaines has a show in Brooklyn. Oh, okay. And I did the show.
Where in Brooklyn?
At the Brooklyn Comedy Club. Oh, that's a tough room. Where is it? It's on Bedford.
Yeah.
In Williamsburg. Oh yeah. Everyone bombs in Williamsburg. No. That's, that's
where you're
supposed to bomb. That's where the cool kids, they don't, they don't do comedy,
but they look
at us. They're like, we see what you're trying to do. Yes. Right. Judge.
Oh, those are the worst people ever. But I had my, I have, I was at the, I did
the cellar
and then I did the fat black and I had two really good sets. Yeah. I was on the
show. You
weren't at the cellar. They were hot. I should have just went, gone back to the
hotel. I should
have ended there. But then I was like, nah, I'm rigged for destruction. Yeah.
So I went
over there and I just had, I had a really bad set. And you know, when you have
a set, a bad set
in a black room, it is intensified, right? Yes. Cause then Derek went on stage
and like
killed me after I just bombed. So it was funny. That's the worst feeling when
you,
I remember I did new year's, uh, in this awful old room called CB's comedy club.
Oh yeah.
Remember it was like the alt to the cellar back in the day. Right. I remember I,
I went on,
I was there with my girl for the time it was like many years ago and I bombed
so hard and I was like,
well, no one's going to get him. It's new year's literally like three words up.
Yamanika
starts crushing. And I was like, it's just me, man. I saw Yamanika the other
night at like a tough room
and she just talked about shit going on. Like not even like written stuff
killed. And I went up and
bombed with like my tight material. Yeah. It happens to the best of us. And you
know what it is?
No, no, this to anybody. Yamanika is one of my really good friends and I adore
her, but the comedy
audiences now are mixed in with like pop culture people who don't know what
standup
is. You know what I mean? So they're like, they go there and they, they think
you're going to dance.
Right. They want to know you got a gimmick. You know what I mean? Are you going
to have a prop or you're
going to bring somebody on stage and roller skates? Like this is comedy now.
Right. I mean, I was just in Miami
improv that they're like too hot. It's all tits. It's all cleavage. It's, it's
all sexy. And I'm
the opposite of sexy. I'm like anxiety, huh? You know? And I, I bite my shorts.
They are hot.
Whenever you see a crowd that's too high, you're like, I'm going to bomb. Yeah.
Yeah. It happens
at Irvine all the time. Oh really? I'm going there. Yeah. And then they go, um,
can you do the skit
about the, like you can do anybody's joke. Like you can do the skit. And I'm
like, no,
I don't do skits. I know it's tough. You've been on the, you go hard in the
road. I have been,
you know, like I go in and out from the road. Cause the road is, it's different
now. It's really
different in terms of like, uh, I was in the, at the punchline and two people,
two tables were asked
to leave cause they were, they were told Sacramento to be quiet and they didn't
want to be quiet.
And so it was funny cause the first table was a table. It was a white guy and
his white girlfriend.
And they were both, um, they were like, you know, acting up, they want talking,
they didn't want to
pay for their drinks. So they get kicked out. And then the Mexican said, hold
my beer. Cause the people,
there was somebody in the audience that was like white privilege. Right. And
then the Mexicans were
like, nah, let me show you that, uh, we bought this light too. Hold my cerveza.
Exactly. They got,
they ended up, uh, getting escorted. It was the, um, the Friday night late show,
of course. The classic.
Yeah, absolutely. That area too. You can kind of hear like motorcycle gangs
going around at night.
You're like, it's weird to be on stage. Oh my God. Oh, you know, it was that
night.
Yeah. And I was like, the sons of anarchy are outside.
Go join them. It was, it was a whole thing in the parking lot.
It's not good. Yeah. That's not a great area.
I hate when you can hear the outside in the club cause it just takes you out of
it immediately.
Yeah. I'm up here cause I'm insecure. You're doing that cause you're insecure.
It's too much. It's too much. Exactly. Yes. Like if I've been jerking off and I
hear my girlfriend in
the other room crying, I'm like, hold on. You're taking me out of it. We're
helping.
We're helping. It's always about you. Yes, exactly. That is a great club though.
I mean,
the other shows are great. No, they were, I mean, all the shows were great.
And you get your people now.
Yes. And the audience was the one that went off on them. I didn't have to say
anything.
I love that. That was the beauty of it all. This guy was like, if you don't
want to be here,
shut the F up. Get out. He was like, don't worry, Ida. We got them. I was like,
oh man,
it was that white on white crime was beautiful. Beautiful. We go hard at each
other. We're scared
to get called racist, but we'll go out at each other. I feel like the road for
a female comic
is just hard. It's just harder. I think it's just. Yeah. In addition to having
to be worried
about rape and murder, you also got to get worried about. I did a show in Corpus
Christi, Texas.
And they put me in like this motel that was next to a truck stop. Oh boy. No
sleep, but.
The Deliverance Inn, they called it. Yeah. Yeah. It was. So this dude that was,
so they had a flyer of the show at the desk, the front desk. Yeah. And this guy
ended up knocking
on my door. He was banging my door down drunk. He was a, uh, a baseball farm
league, baseball player.
The girl in the front desk got scared and told him what room I was in. Cause he
was harassing her.
What? And yes. And he started banging my door down, asking me to bet.
Did you have the deadbolt up? Yeah. I always, always. I put a chair behind the
door. I mean,
I'm paranoid. So that's not paranoid. That's like, you have to, that's crazy.
Yeah. And so then they,
they called the cops and they got him, but it was just, he was just like, I
just wanted to talk to
her. I didn't know him. But that's how weird. Yeah. He was super drunk. Man.
Tough time. See,
if that happens to me, I'm like, come on in, you know, some, some softball lady.
Well, she's probably not into me, but, uh, yeah, no, it's, that is horrible.
Does that happen a lot?
Mm-mm. No, I wouldn't say it happens a lot, but those are things that men
probably don't have to
worry about, you know, I walk home late. I got earbuds in. Yeah. Oh yeah. You
don't do the earbuds.
Not in public. No, you can't even look down on your phone. Damn. I have a
friend who is, uh,
she's actually a person, uh, a public figure. She was in LA walking her dog and
a guy, and she was
bending over to pick up the, um, the dog's poop. And a guy just walked up to
her and started humping
her from the back. What? Damn. She's little, she's small. So there, it's just
out of control,
like right now. Sorry, Ellie Wong. I had no idea. She's little, I assume. Yeah,
no, no, I know. I
know. It's, it's, it's crazy. Um, but yeah, that's why we say like, you know,
Mark and I on the road
every week, but I always think like, I mean, you're, uh, you're a female comic
who does the road
hard, you know, you go hard with it. So I'm like, oh man, that's, I respect
that always.
Cause I know it's, it's a different thing. Yeah. Even when we went to Bermuda,
like.
I remember that. What? You guys dated? No. Oh, sorry. No. Um, we went, we were
at a,
we did a show at Bermuda. Yeah. But the relief was that he was there. So I didn't
have to be by
myself. Right. But like when you go out of the country, I went to Dubai and, um,
I, I had them
changed my flight. I, I was there for 24 hours. I did the show and then I went
back to the airport
and I wanted to leave. Really? Yeah. I didn't feel safe. Well, they got women's
stuff over there.
Yeah. It's a different, different world with the ladies there. Yeah. I remember
there was like
weird dudes in Bermuda too. That was a weird gig. That was a shady gig actually.
I know. I just
remember that now. Holy shit. I forgot we did that. That was like, yeah. Jesus.
It was just,
it's just, and especially when you go, um, overseas, like we went to South
Korea, uh, April Macy and I
were on this tour and this Korean man tried to lock April in his store so he
could beat her.
What? And we had to physically, Julia Lillis and I had to physically. I almost
said why as if there's
any good reason. He was mad at her cause he did. They hate, uh, white women
because it's the epitome of
privilege to them. Right. Because in, in those places, women walk behind the
men still like they're
still. So April wanted to try on some dresses. Mind you, April is shorter than
I am. And any,
if I wanted to try on a dress, he said, he was like, yes. And then when she was
like trying to try
on a dress, he was like, no, you too big. Like, and didn't want her. So she was,
she was, she went,
she went in the dressing room to try on a dress and he was waiting for her. He
took the hook from the
thing and threw it at the door. And I was like, I think it's time to go. Yeah.
Oh my God. And then
when she came out, he tried to lock, he was trying to, we had to physically
grab him. Jeez, Kim Jong.
It's about time these white women, uh, you know, they have, they get everything.
So it's good they
get a little hardship. That's hilarious. I'm trying to bring some levity to the,
because it's all such
dark shit. Yeah. But you've been like, I mean, you've been killing it lately.
You know,
you did the, the Netflix, were you touring because of the Netflix thing?
No, my HBO Max special. Oh, no,
but even with April from the net. Oh, we did that. We started,
no doubt this was a military tour. Oh yeah. Yeah. And you know,
and then, uh, we were going to call the cops and thank God we didn't because we
don't speak
Korean. So he could have said anything. He could have said she was stealing.
Oh my God. You know, it'd have been in that Vince Vaughn movie in jail forever.
Oh shit. Yeah. Like that was his version of midnight express. Right. Remember
that?
Yeah. Yeah. Damn.
But yeah, but you know what? It's still, there's still nothing like the road
when you call yourself
a comedian. You have to, it's, it's a necessary evil. Mark and I were just
talking before we got
here. We love the road. Like I, I really, I'm not on the road this weekend and
I'm bummed. I need,
I want, it's like the only weekend I'm not on the road coming up. And, uh,
I mean, I was just in Rochester, New York with Gary Veeder does a road with me
a lot. And even the
worst part of it, like for whatever reason, I saw Jim Norton at the cellar on
Wednesday,
the night before we went and he goes, you're flying to Rochester. It's the
worst flight ever.
It's like a shaky plane for, for whatever reason, the next day it's, it felt
like we were on a paper
plane. The plane was shaking. We're landing. They ha he doesn't say anything.
They just take back off.
What? Because the wind was so bad. He goes, and then 10 minutes later goes,
I'm sorry about that guys. We'd go different angle. We're literally, we're
freaking out.
Cause there's a woman, by the way, Ga