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We provide the citizens
and visitors of Boulder County

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with efficient and effective
public safety services.

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And then we deliver those services

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with character, competence and open communication.

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The other part about it is like the rules I have

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for people that I'm responsible for,

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like my three commander
expectations for night shift is

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one is the old Patrick Swayze "Road House" rules,

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be nice,

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be nice until it's time to not be nice.

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If you have to use force or something like that,

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it's not a, there's not gonna be a question.

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You'll know when it's appropriate to flip the switch.

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Rule number two, take care of the men and women

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to your left and right.

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I mean, and that's not just the officers

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who were on the shift, deputies working with you.

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That's everybody.

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That could be my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister,

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just like it could be yours.

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So we need to take care of those people.

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What's the right thing to do in the situation

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we're dealing with?

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And rule number three is don't get yourself so far in

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that I can't get you out.

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And all that means is if you
don't know what you're doing,

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stop and ask a question.

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There's no dumb question.

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And I've been doing this for a long time,

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but I still don't know everything

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and things are constantly changing

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and I'm not on the road all the time,

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so there's things I have to
teach myself to relearn again.

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When I went to the academy,

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nobody told me, like when you come outta the academy,

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you're excited.

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You know, new cop coming outta the wrapper.

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I call 'em when they graduate the academy,

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I call 'em coming outta the wrapper.

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They're new, they're brand-new
and shiny, they're excited.

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Some kids drinking underage, they take off running.

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You're like, woo.

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Yeah, baby, woo.

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But when you've been on the
department as long as I've been,

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you gotta weigh the risk versus the reward.

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If you ever see me running after somebody,

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hit that son of a bitch with your car.

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That's a homicide suspect.

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I hate drunk women, man.

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They're always lying to me like,

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"Officer, you're so good looking."

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I'm like, really?

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No.

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Are you a dirty officer?

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My mother, you may not understand, man.

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She is the Mexican Wolverine.

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Oh, here, bear, bear, bear, bear.

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You think I'm sweating now?

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You should have seen me 45
minutes into hot power yoga.

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More importantly, I didn't realize is

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if I get a contact high,

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I become Mexican Tickle Me Elmo.

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He'd be like, "Ma'am, why don't you do me a favor?

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Shut your freaking yapper."

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He's like, "Mijo, you need some backup?"

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When people find out that I'm not only a cop

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but a standup comedian,

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I think their first reaction
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when I come off stage.

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They ask me, "Are you really a cop?"

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And a lot of 'em will say,

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"You know, I've never met a funny cop."

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And if you think about that, that's true

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because who really thinks of a cop being funny

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when you get pulled over on the side of the road,

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or when we go to calls?

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Nobody calls 911 because something is going great.

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It's only when chaos has erupted

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that the cops get called.

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Kinda units respond to a vehicle on fire.

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What do I hear right after they dispatch that?

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Dispatch, can you advise a
description on the vehicle?

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It's the one that's on fire.

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You don't think about that until you watch

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a police officer on stage doing standup comedy

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and they see you in an entirely different light.

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I was an Explorer for seven years, 14 to 21.

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I was a National Youth Rep in '94 and '96.

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I wanna thank all the advisors for being advisors

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because when I was an Explorer,

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I tested my advisor's patience.

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Did I have a propensity to do things as an Explorer

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that I probably shouldn't have?

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Yes.

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These types of Explorers that
I'm gonna talk about right now

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exist in every post.

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If you don't recognize them, it's probably you.

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I just wanted to be involved.

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I wanted to be a cop more than anything.

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I was inspired by "CHiPs",

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Ponch and Jon.

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So you know, when I got into the role,

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we were allowed to carry handcuffs.

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You know, I took the opportunity

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and of course it got me in trouble.

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The first time I met Vinnie, Vincenzo,

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the Vince man.

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Well,

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I am happy to tell you

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the greatest little secret in the world.

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The millisecond that Vinnie started his career

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in law enforcement was at the back door

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of the Lafayette Police Department

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where he showed up for
his very first law enforcement

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Police Explorer meeting.

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Vinnie knew everything before it had been taught.

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And he was extremely energetic.

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He wanted to do everything.

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He wanted to be right in the mix from the get-go.

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And had a hard time persuading him

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that maybe he didn't know everything.

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This is one of my favorite Explorers,

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and he's at every single post,

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Inspector Gadget Explorer.

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You're like, what is that
Explorer, what is that Explorer?

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He's got like 16 keepers on his belts.

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Three flashlights, 16 tactical knives.

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12 tourniquets, he looks like Batman,

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you know what I'm saying?

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If you asked him, "You got shark spray?"

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You got shark spray.

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Of course I got shark spray.

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He carried more equipment than I would have.

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He filled up my whole back seat.

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He had a full first aid kit, you know,

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it was, you know, it was a complete set first aid kit.

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Then he had all his personal
equipment in another big bag

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and it would fill up the whole back seat

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when we got started.

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As an Explorer, he made sure

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that his uniform was proper,

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his equipment was proper,

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and that he was there on time

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and he was going to be a part of things and learn.

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But he wanted to be involved, right?

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Which means sometimes he'd
push the envelope a little bit.

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They gave me a nickname, Captain V.

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Now I wasn't an actual captain, right?

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I just thought that I was more than I was, all right?

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I was the cap, I was the Explorer

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that would show up and be like,

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"Captain V on scene, no problem too big,

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no problem too small."

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You're parking cars at the fairgrounds.

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We'd be driving around, it was pretty slow,

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very little radio traffic.

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And I'd look over and I'd start seeing, you know,

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his eyes were starting to get heavy

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and you can start seeing him kind of drift.

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And pretty soon he'd just kind of fall asleep

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and his head was,

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and I could hear him breathing deep.

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And then what I always do is I'd slam on the brakes

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and I'd go, "Ah", and put my arm out.

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And he'd go, "Ah, what, what, what?"

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Whenever he rode along, you could always, you know,

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trace his menu because he would leave

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the residue stuffed underneath the passenger seat

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in the car.

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And a couple days later you'd find Taco Bell wrappers

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and a cup and a pop can,

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he's like marking his territory.

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See the difference between you and I though is

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when you go to Taco Bell,

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you order like one thing, right?

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You order like one order.

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What, I mean, you pick one of the numbers one through 10

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or one through 12, whatever it is, right?

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Not me.

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I pull in, especially when I'm
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I'm like, "We would like 12 tacos."

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"Some of the guys back at the office

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would like a couple Crunchwraps."

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Sir, how many drinks can we get for your order?

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One diet Pepsi.

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People that know Vinnie, he's hefty

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and he loved his Taco Bell.

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And you know, before two o'clock,

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I think it was two o'clock on Graves,

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Taco Bell would close down,

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we'd have to make our run to Taco Bell.

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Yes, when I was in my teenage years,

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I liked Taco Bell, okay?

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You tell me a kid today that doesn't like Taco Bell.

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All right, it's not gonna happen.

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So the day that I went to hot power yoga,

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I stopped at Taco Bell and got my usual.

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And I sat in the parking lot crushing tacos

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and sucking down Fire packet after Fire packet.

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We'd do the drive-through and we'd go to Taco Bell.

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And it was one of those things that normal people got

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you know, the little bag like that.

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Well, they had a big bag.

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I don't know, it was like a catering bag or whatever.

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75 minutes into the class,

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yet again, I'm coming out of downward dog

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and everybody in the room hears.

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When I ride with Rick though,

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the Taco Bell Boulder at Baseline Broadway

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would always close at about
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So at some point, riding the graveyards with him,

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we'd have to go through and get a six pack

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or a 12 pack of tacos.

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Do you all know what a Jake brake sounds like

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when it lets loose?

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Everybody was running for the room.

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But yeah, I have to have, make a Taco Bell run

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and I love the hot sauce and yeah, what about it?

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That's who I am.

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That's who I was.

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Thank you.

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I come from a non-traditional Mexican family.

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There are only four of us in this family.

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Family has always been the
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My immediate family is paramount

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in that I live, breathe and eat my family.

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It's just important.

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It's the way I was raised.

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It was what was beat into my head as a kid.

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Family first, above all else.

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It was a wonderful feeling for me

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to be married and have my,

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I think the biggest thrill is
when I knew she was pregnant

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and having my children.

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That was a big thrill because
I knew I was gonna have kids.

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You know, I didn't wanna leave all my millions

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to somebody else, you know?

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My father passed away in January of 1999

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after a long battle of cancer.

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I remember being in middle school

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or junior high is what they called it back then

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and my dad was going through lymphoma.

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My father is everything who I am today.

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The ability to talk to people,

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to relate to people, to build rapport,

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that was all established as a young kid with him

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because he was such a hustler.

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My dad wasn't afforded the education,

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nor was my mom that I was able to receive.

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My brother and I were the
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and that to them was the pinnacle for them.

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My life, what I've did,

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I like to see my kids really come by

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and do what I've did.

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You know, be good boys and good to their kids

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and good to their wives

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and show a good life and be hustlers, though.

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Always make money and try to bring money in.

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My dad and mom always said, "Don't be stealing.

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Don't be doing, you know, bad stuff."

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My brother, he never did any of that

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and I never did any of that.

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They just kept us straight

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and they were all the way through high school

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and everything.

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My mom is a huge influence, but my father,

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I never talk about him on stage.

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I just don't know that I'm ready there yet.

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But one day that's gonna happen

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'cause he was so powerful in my life.

273
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And I think the hardest thing for Vinnie Montez,

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if I'm being completely honest,

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is you ascend through things.

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You reach accomplishments in your life

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and there's nothing better than sharing that

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with your family or your, or people you're close to.

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Oh yeah, I had a lot of thrill with my kids

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and I remember Vince at a young age,

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he wanted to go out and play the drums, you know?

282
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And when my kids were small

283
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they always went up to sing with me

284
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when I sang with a band

285
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because it just give them such a thrill.

286
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But they both have a lot of music in 'em, you know?

287
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And my dad was always hustling and striving

288
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and I think he would be very happy to see

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where I ended up in my career professionally,

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in law enforcement,

291
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but even just as much how this
comedy has worked out for me.

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'Cause I think he was a natural-born entertainer.

293
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He was a singer and he performed with bands

294
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and he just always made people
feel good about themselves.

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Cooking, eating,

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traveling whenever we can get away

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and taking care of our two sons,

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which is all that we can

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give of ourselves to

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because we love them very much.

301
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In the Mexican culture, the
mom is very well respected

302
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and my mom, you know,

303
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I poke fun at her on stage

304
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because I call her the Mexican Wolverine

305
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only because she was so tough growing up.

306
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My mother, you may not understand, man,

307
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she is the Mexican Wolverine.

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When I grew up, man, she is the toughest woman

309
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I have ever met in my entire life, right?

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I was very firm, always.

311
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My 69-year-old mother is the ringleader of the family.

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Five foot tall, less than 100 pounds,

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just pure lightning in her veins, right?

314
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When I was a kid I could come home

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from a compound fracture,
right, with a compound fracture.

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She'd immediately revert back to the last time

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.

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See mijo, and God punishes without a belt.

319
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My mom is a lot more laid back today,

320
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but she still has the attributes that I know in her.

321
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She's, you know, she wants to be right,

322
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which, same me with me, I like to be right,

323
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but I portray her in the way I see her

324
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when I was growing up much younger, you know?

325
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Like when I would get outta line

326
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and you know, there'd be a slipper or a chancla coming,

327
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flying across the room at us 'cause we were fighting.

328
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My mom would check us down,

329
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my brother would be breaking left, she'd wait for me,

330
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I'd dive down behind the coffee table,

331
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she'd pump fake,

332
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wait till I come back up, right upside the head.

333
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My parents brought me that way.

334
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They brought me up very strict.

335
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My father was a minister

336
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and he always taught us right from wrong

337
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and he always did and tried to be the best to us.

338
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Her impact on my life is huge,

339
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I think 'cause of the structure I was given

340
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and watching her, I've even said on stage,

341
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I think sometimes she wanted to be a cop.

342
00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:53.958
I find myself in that role in my real life job

343
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where I am, you know, sometimes correcting people

344
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or holding people accountable or you know,

345
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stopping them from doing something bad.

346
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I love when he talks about his mom

347
00:15:03.630 --> 00:15:05.928
being on scene when he talks about his ride-alongs.

348
00:15:05.970 --> 00:15:09.318
And mom shows up and he goes up on a car

349
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and a guy starts cursing at him or whatever

350
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and mom kind of sees us from the back

351
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and she grabs the PA and she goes.

352
00:15:16.510 --> 00:15:18.028
Mijo, you need some backup?

353
00:15:18.070 --> 00:15:20.763
And all of a sudden he hears from back behind him.

354
00:15:21.638 --> 00:15:22.878
"Mijo, you need backup?"

355
00:15:22.920 --> 00:15:23.988
The last time she rode along,

356
00:15:24.030 --> 00:15:26.439
she got way too involved in the situation.

357
00:15:28.680 --> 00:15:29.688
Drunk guy was pushing around

358
00:15:29.730 --> 00:15:31.278
a bunch of kids at the park, right?

359
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I get there, I'm like,

360
00:15:32.153 --> 00:15:34.248
"Look dude, no ticket, no jail.

361
00:15:34.290 --> 00:15:35.628
Let's go to De Dutch, what do you say?"

362
00:15:35.670 --> 00:15:39.469
He says, "Let me tell you something, fat boy."

363
00:15:40.344 --> 00:15:42.858
"I'll kick your butt, fat boy."

364
00:15:42.900 --> 00:15:45.121
My mother hears this from the patrol car.

365
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Grabs the PA, "Mijo, you need some backup?"

366
00:15:49.890 --> 00:15:51.768
Growing up at, in this elementary school

367
00:15:51.810 --> 00:15:54.198
at Foothill Elementary in Boulder,

368
00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.478
we were at a recess and this
kid was kind of picking on me

369
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and pushed me

370
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and literally my mom came out of the van

371
00:16:00.150 --> 00:16:03.018
where she was watching the recess to see her kid,

372
00:16:03.060 --> 00:16:04.428
if her kid was okay,

373
00:16:04.470 --> 00:16:07.418
came onto the playground and
actually pushed this kid down.

374
00:16:07.460 --> 00:16:10.368
In this world today, my mom would've got in trouble.

375
00:16:10.410 --> 00:16:12.408
But like that was my mom.

376
00:16:12.450 --> 00:16:14.350
Like, she had our back no matter what.

377
00:16:16.260 --> 00:16:17.718
And then this guy loses his mind.

378
00:16:17.760 --> 00:16:19.968
He's like, "Hey, you tell that old Mexican hag

379
00:16:20.010 --> 00:16:21.472
to shut her mouth."

380
00:16:24.832 --> 00:16:26.412
I know, I got out of the way.

381
00:16:26.454 --> 00:16:27.245
I got out of the way.

382
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I stepped to the side.

383
00:16:32.250 --> 00:16:33.588
Because I knew what was coming down.

384
00:16:33.630 --> 00:16:35.568
My mom was like, "

385
00:16:35.610 --> 00:16:37.061
what the fuck?"

386
00:16:38.757 --> 00:16:40.338
But she called for her own backup.

387
00:16:40.380 --> 00:16:43.398
She didn't need me, she did not need me.

388
00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.017
She was like.

389
00:16:52.260 --> 00:16:54.318
Mexicans from all over Colorado

390
00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:55.315
were headed to the scene.

391
00:16:59.749 --> 00:17:01.368
I was probably 16 years old

392
00:17:01.410 --> 00:17:03.648
and I was with one of our lieutenants

393
00:17:03.690 --> 00:17:06.258
and we were going, we were following a canine track.

394
00:17:06.300 --> 00:17:07.133
There's a

395
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very modest, you know, like four foot, five foot fence.

396
00:17:12.625 --> 00:17:15.378
The dog clears the fence, following the track.

397
00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:18.198
Scott clears the fence, following the track.

398
00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.658
I hopped the fence, following the track

399
00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:23.328
expecting that Vinnie was going to be behind me.

400
00:17:23.370 --> 00:17:25.636
And for some reason I couldn't get over this wall.

401
00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:30.018
So I thought I'd get a running start,

402
00:17:30.060 --> 00:17:31.668
but like I really don't have a vertical.

403
00:17:31.710 --> 00:17:34.578
I always say, you know, my vertical's like 40.

404
00:17:34.620 --> 00:17:36.228
And people are like, you have a 40 inch vertical?

405
00:17:36.270 --> 00:17:37.520
I'm like, no centimeters.

406
00:17:39.060 --> 00:17:42.033
And then I hear, thump, thump, thump, boom.

407
00:17:43.309 --> 00:17:45.325
It's like, it's like Vinnie?

408
00:17:45.367 --> 00:17:46.908
All they could see was the top of my head

409
00:17:46.950 --> 00:17:49.537
running at this wall, da, da, da, da, boom.

410
00:17:50.604 --> 00:17:52.111
Da, da, da, da, boom.

411
00:17:52.153 --> 00:17:55.278
And all I hear from the other side is

412
00:17:55.320 --> 00:17:56.669
ah, ah,

413
00:17:56.711 --> 00:17:58.128
ah, ah.

414
00:17:58.170 --> 00:18:00.318
And then there's just some random person

415
00:18:00.360 --> 00:18:02.158
that sounds like Count Chocula

416
00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:03.318
in the middle of the neighborhood.

417
00:18:03.360 --> 00:18:04.635
Ah,

418
00:18:04.677 --> 00:18:05.658
ah, ah.

419
00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:08.050
And he can just hear me laughing, ha, ha, ha.

420
00:18:09.180 --> 00:18:12.973
And alls he can hear is this noise going ha, ha, ha, ha.

421
00:18:14.580 --> 00:18:15.768
And he looks over and it's Phil.

422
00:18:15.810 --> 00:18:16.938
At that moment, I was like,

423
00:18:16.980 --> 00:18:18.888
there's no way in hell that I'm Mexican

424
00:18:18.930 --> 00:18:20.693
because if it was any kind of wall

425
00:18:20.735 --> 00:18:22.361
I should be able to go over it.

426
00:18:24.150 --> 00:18:26.808
One night I was riding along with a deputy

427
00:18:26.850 --> 00:18:28.338
by the name of Dan Johnson

428
00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:31.878
and Dan always had the wherewithal to, you know,

429
00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:33.618
tap me in the chest, punch me in the chest

430
00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:35.418
just to make sure I was wearing that vest.

431
00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:38.388
And one night he punched me in the chest

432
00:18:38.430 --> 00:18:40.638
and he felt something underneath it.

433
00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:42.408
And what I had done is taken a boot knife

434
00:18:42.450 --> 00:18:44.118
and put it on the inside of my vest.

435
00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:44.988
He gave me an option.

436
00:18:45.030 --> 00:18:47.778
He's like, "Look, you don't",

437
00:18:47.820 --> 00:18:48.888
if you don't do this again,

438
00:18:48.930 --> 00:18:50.388
like it's not gonna be that big of a deal.

439
00:18:50.430 --> 00:18:51.528
Just don't ever do it again.

440
00:18:51.570 --> 00:18:53.298
Or you could tell your advisor what happened

441
00:18:53.340 --> 00:18:56.415
"and take the consequences that come with it."

442
00:18:56.457 --> 00:18:58.278
And so I chose the latter.

443
00:18:58.320 --> 00:18:59.568
This is the Explorer that I was.

444
00:18:59.610 --> 00:19:00.588
Every post has one of these,

445
00:19:00.630 --> 00:19:01.893
the know-it-all Explorer.

446
00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.278
I remember trying to call Phil
to see what was gonna happen

447
00:19:07.320 --> 00:19:08.785
over the weekend and he was like,

448
00:19:08.827 --> 00:19:11.898
"I'll see you and talk to you when I'm back in the office."

449
00:19:11.940 --> 00:19:16.188
And Phil talks very deep and very matter of fact,

450
00:19:16.230 --> 00:19:17.898
the rules are the rules.

451
00:19:17.940 --> 00:19:21.048
So I confronted Vinnie
about it and he acknowledged it.

452
00:19:21.090 --> 00:19:21.918
You know, he was wrong.

453
00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:22.848
He knew he was wrong,

454
00:19:22.890 --> 00:19:25.248
he was not supposed to be carrying the knife.

455
00:19:25.290 --> 00:19:27.408
I said, "Well, this is a policy violation,

456
00:19:27.450 --> 00:19:28.668
I'll give you an option."

457
00:19:28.710 --> 00:19:31.938
Said, "One, you can either resign from the program

458
00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:35.028
or two, I'll cite you for carrying a concealed weapon

459
00:19:35.070 --> 00:19:37.368
and you deal with the consequences."

460
00:19:37.410 --> 00:19:39.557
And I didn't hesitate for a second.

461
00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:41.448
I was like, "I will stay. I will get charged."

462
00:19:41.490 --> 00:19:44.028
Because I wanted to be a cop more than anything else.

463
00:19:44.070 --> 00:19:46.668
And this was a very hard lesson to learn

464
00:19:46.710 --> 00:19:47.658
at a young age.

465
00:19:47.700 --> 00:19:50.148
He's just devastated that I was going to arrest him.

466
00:19:50.190 --> 00:19:53.118
I said, "I'll just issue you a misdemeanor summons

467
00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:54.018
and you'll have to deal with

468
00:19:54.060 --> 00:19:55.548
the District Attorney's office."

469
00:19:55.590 --> 00:19:58.248
Well, without Vinnie's knowledge,

470
00:19:58.290 --> 00:20:01.548
of course I contacted the
Deputy DA that was in charge

471
00:20:01.590 --> 00:20:03.648
and kind of smoothed the waters.

472
00:20:03.690 --> 00:20:06.858
The Deputy DA, I'll never forget, was Amy Okubo

473
00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:08.778
and there was all these other people around

474
00:20:08.820 --> 00:20:10.938
and I've never been so embarrassed in my entire life

475
00:20:10.980 --> 00:20:12.918
'cause she is reading me the riot act,

476
00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:14.898
which I didn't realize Phil was facilitating

477
00:20:14.940 --> 00:20:17.748
and pulling the puppet strings behind the scenes.

478
00:20:17.790 --> 00:20:20.418
I believe he was given like a deferred prosecution

479
00:20:20.460 --> 00:20:21.318
or something.

480
00:20:21.360 --> 00:20:22.908
And he ultimately completed that

481
00:20:22.950 --> 00:20:25.248
and was returned to the good graces of the program.

482
00:20:25.290 --> 00:20:27.588
But I don't think he's ever quite forgiven me

483
00:20:27.630 --> 00:20:29.718
for having arrested him.

484
00:20:29.760 --> 00:20:31.968
I did learn a lesson in accountability

485
00:20:32.010 --> 00:20:34.038
and it made me who I am today.

486
00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:36.078
But a lot of people, I just wanna say for the record,

487
00:20:36.120 --> 00:20:37.908
Phil, a lot of people didn't agree

488
00:20:37.950 --> 00:20:39.408
with necessarily how you handled that.

489
00:20:39.450 --> 00:20:41.118
I've told you that.

490
00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.658
But being the stocky, chubby kid

491
00:20:44.700 --> 00:20:46.968
and coming from the background that I came from,

492
00:20:47.010 --> 00:20:49.763
I just, I think I just put myself out there more.

493
00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:57.888
And I said, "You know, we could do a haunted house."

494
00:20:57.930 --> 00:20:59.988
He proposed this Halloween haunted house

495
00:21:00.030 --> 00:21:01.608
several months in advance

496
00:21:01.650 --> 00:21:05.328
and Vinnie was always great with big ideas,

497
00:21:05.370 --> 00:21:07.188
sometimes a little short on execution.

498
00:21:07.230 --> 00:21:09.624
I said, "I'm not too sure about this."

499
00:21:09.666 --> 00:21:11.508
And he said, "No, no, I'll take care of everything.

500
00:21:11.550 --> 00:21:12.648
I'll get all the volunteers,

501
00:21:12.690 --> 00:21:15.828
I'll get all the materials solicited and donated

502
00:21:15.870 --> 00:21:17.388
and it'll be a great event."

503
00:21:17.430 --> 00:21:18.948
We just started building the foundation.

504
00:21:18.990 --> 00:21:20.508
I started getting people together

505
00:21:20.550 --> 00:21:22.638
and organizing volunteers to act.

506
00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.038
And we built the haunted house around a DUI theme

507
00:21:25.080 --> 00:21:27.885
so that it was a learning lesson for people.

508
00:21:32.176 --> 00:21:35.676
He got probably well over 100 volunteers

509
00:21:36.600 --> 00:21:38.268
among his friends, associates,

510
00:21:38.310 --> 00:21:41.508
campus contacts at the university.

511
00:21:41.550 --> 00:21:42.978
He arranged for entertainment.

512
00:21:43.020 --> 00:21:46.308
He got area businesses to step in

513
00:21:46.350 --> 00:21:49.248
and provide kind of a trick or treat street

514
00:21:49.290 --> 00:21:51.498
where kids could come and safely collect treats

515
00:21:51.540 --> 00:21:53.268
and still enjoy the haunted house.

516
00:21:53.310 --> 00:21:54.798
It turned out to be really great.

517
00:21:54.840 --> 00:21:56.328
And one of the things Phil,

518
00:21:56.370 --> 00:21:57.858
being the steadfast,

519
00:21:57.900 --> 00:21:59.298
like he is that data guy.

520
00:21:59.340 --> 00:22:00.948
Like he's like, "Let's check out the data

521
00:22:00.990 --> 00:22:02.298
because we need data.

522
00:22:02.340 --> 00:22:04.998
You know we wanna make sure
everything's in the square box."

523
00:22:05.040 --> 00:22:05.831
I'm not that guy.

524
00:22:05.873 --> 00:22:06.828
I'm the visionary.

525
00:22:06.870 --> 00:22:08.298
You say, "Hey, this can't be done."

526
00:22:08.340 --> 00:22:09.678
I'll be like, "No, it can be done."

527
00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:13.908
Over the two nights, I think we netted over $2,800

528
00:22:13.950 --> 00:22:15.768
that he was subsequently able to donate

529
00:22:15.810 --> 00:22:17.598
to the children's hospital in Denver.

530
00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:19.668
I really admire Phil

531
00:22:19.710 --> 00:22:22.488
showing the grit to trust me enough

532
00:22:22.530 --> 00:22:24.198
to let us complete the project.

533
00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:26.328
And everybody had a good time

534
00:22:26.370 --> 00:22:28.428
and it was great for the community.

535
00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:29.538
My name is Vinnie Montez.

536
00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:30.738
I have mad love and respect

537
00:22:30.780 --> 00:22:32.028
for everybody that's in this room,

538
00:22:32.070 --> 00:22:33.528
the advisors and the Explorers.

539
00:22:33.570 --> 00:22:35.148
I started as one of you.

540
00:22:35.190 --> 00:22:37.488
I wish each and every one of you success

541
00:22:37.530 --> 00:22:39.513
and a great, healthy career.

542
00:22:46.733 --> 00:22:47.524
If you know anything about me

543
00:22:47.566 --> 00:22:49.368
or you've ever been around me as a cop,

544
00:22:49.410 --> 00:22:51.018
if something's gonna go wrong

545
00:22:51.060 --> 00:22:52.488
or if there's going to be trouble,

546
00:22:52.530 --> 00:22:55.008
I'm gonna be right in the middle of it.

547
00:22:55.050 --> 00:22:56.538
And they affectionately refer to me at work

548
00:22:56.580 --> 00:22:58.220
as the shit magnet.

549
00:23:00.420 --> 00:23:02.178
I'm that person in law enforcement.

550
00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:03.438
Like, if it's gonna happen,

551
00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:06.288
I will be on duty or I will be the one that runs into it.

552
00:23:06.330 --> 00:23:08.088
You'll hear what cops say, "Put on the blinders."

553
00:23:08.130 --> 00:23:10.188
You know you're going to or from work, whatever,

554
00:23:10.230 --> 00:23:11.238
you're done for the day.

555
00:23:11.280 --> 00:23:12.888
And I am not that guy.

556
00:23:12.930 --> 00:23:14.478
If there's something that's happening in front of me,

557
00:23:14.520 --> 00:23:15.618
I'll deal with it.

558
00:23:15.660 --> 00:23:17.268
I also don't have to go look for it.

559
00:23:17.310 --> 00:23:19.188
It's common where I've gone out to lunch,

560
00:23:19.230 --> 00:23:21.438
we're clearing, walking outta the restaurant

561
00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:23.478
and there is a guy picking up a lady

562
00:23:23.520 --> 00:23:25.728
trying to take her away with him

563
00:23:25.770 --> 00:23:27.258
in a domestic violence situation.

564
00:23:27.300 --> 00:23:29.663
Next thing you know, we're running after these people.

565
00:23:33.600 --> 00:23:35.808
What's made me successful on the job I think is

566
00:23:35.850 --> 00:23:37.750
my ability to communicate with people.

567
00:23:39.429 --> 00:23:40.458
I think I get that from my dad

568
00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:42.798
and I've just honed that crafted art

569
00:23:42.840 --> 00:23:45.168
over the last 25 years.

570
00:23:45.210 --> 00:23:46.218
I could talk to anybody.

571
00:23:46.260 --> 00:23:48.648
I was a negotiator for our agency at one point in time.

572
00:23:48.690 --> 00:23:50.538
And I believe the ability to relate to people,

573
00:23:50.580 --> 00:23:53.268
establish rapport quickly and find a commonality,

574
00:23:53.310 --> 00:23:55.158
what am I gonna be able to communicate with somebody

575
00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.468
that's gonna make them feel at ease and comfortable?

576
00:23:57.510 --> 00:23:58.788
And so I think that's one of the things

577
00:23:58.830 --> 00:24:00.768
I can quickly, readily identify in people.

578
00:24:00.810 --> 00:24:03.738
And it's made me successful throughout my career.

579
00:24:03.780 --> 00:24:06.738
Vinnie's energy is very enthusiastic.

580
00:24:06.780 --> 00:24:07.788
Everything that he does,

581
00:24:07.830 --> 00:24:10.308
he wants to accomplish in a very big way.

582
00:24:10.350 --> 00:24:12.318
He knows what he wants

583
00:24:12.360 --> 00:24:14.208
and then he goes all the way in,

584
00:24:14.250 --> 00:24:15.948
feet first into the deep end,

585
00:24:15.990 --> 00:24:18.378
and he'll just keep charging until he is successful.

586
00:24:18.420 --> 00:24:19.760
He's just that guy.

587
00:24:19.802 --> 00:24:22.668
When you call and you need something, he's there.

588
00:24:22.710 --> 00:24:24.648
Vinnie is an absolute ball of energy.

589
00:24:24.690 --> 00:24:26.538
If you think Energizer Bunny,

590
00:24:26.580 --> 00:24:29.658
I guess he'd be kinda like the Energizer Kodiak bear.

591
00:24:29.700 --> 00:24:31.158
He's very serious.

592
00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:34.728
He is the consummate professional cop.

593
00:24:34.770 --> 00:24:35.920
His generosity

594
00:24:37.020 --> 00:24:41.898
continually amazes me and
surprises me and pleases me.

595
00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:43.608
As a person, great friend,

596
00:24:43.650 --> 00:24:46.608
trust him with my life on calls, right?

597
00:24:46.650 --> 00:24:48.138
But he will do anything for you.

598
00:24:48.180 --> 00:24:49.488
Don't ever be afraid of failure.

599
00:24:49.530 --> 00:24:51.828
Don't ever be afraid of you making a mistake

600
00:24:51.870 --> 00:24:53.058
'cause I'm telling you right now,

601
00:24:53.100 --> 00:24:54.318
this guy in front of you has made

602
00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:56.148
so many over the course of his life.

603
00:24:56.190 --> 00:24:57.558
But yet here I am still today

604
00:24:57.600 --> 00:24:59.688
and the only reason I think I am still here today is

605
00:24:59.730 --> 00:25:01.998
because every time I took a step back,

606
00:25:02.040 --> 00:25:04.338
I just push harder to get past that mistake,

607
00:25:04.380 --> 00:25:05.171
learn from it,

608
00:25:05.213 --> 00:25:06.888
take everything I possibly could learn from it

609
00:25:06.930 --> 00:25:08.380
and just keep moving forward.

610
00:25:17.610 --> 00:25:19.638
Millennial cops man, they're
trying to put on everything.

611
00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:21.989
They got 36 pairs of handcuffs.

612
00:25:23.520 --> 00:25:24.498
They got ear pieces,

613
00:25:24.540 --> 00:25:26.868
they got like all kinds of extra tactical gear

614
00:25:26.910 --> 00:25:29.268
that they might need to deal with the scene.

615
00:25:29.310 --> 00:25:31.548
We would use

616
00:25:31.590 --> 00:25:34.788
micro cassette recorders to dictate

617
00:25:34.830 --> 00:25:36.918
the narratives of our reports.

618
00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.598
Vinnie took a different vent

619
00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:41.088
and making the most efficient use of his time,

620
00:25:41.130 --> 00:25:44.028
he took his recorder with him into the bathroom.

621
00:25:44.070 --> 00:25:45.828
You son of a bitch.

622
00:25:45.870 --> 00:25:48.978
And while he was contemplating other things,

623
00:25:49.020 --> 00:25:51.318
he would tape the narrative to his report.

624
00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:55.848
Well, when he submitted the tape to the typing pool,

625
00:25:55.890 --> 00:25:57.588
they quickly determined

626
00:25:57.630 --> 00:25:59.808
that he wasn't sitting at his desk

627
00:25:59.850 --> 00:26:02.538
based upon all the other ambient sounds.

628
00:26:02.580 --> 00:26:03.695
Listen up, Millennials.

629
00:26:03.737 --> 00:26:04.883
Let me just tell you this.

630
00:26:06.150 --> 00:26:09.536
The day you start to sneak
in emojis into your reports.

631
00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.123
That's when I'm gonna drive away.

632
00:26:15.030 --> 00:26:16.215
I'm gonna be reading reports.

633
00:26:16.257 --> 00:26:18.978
I'm like, what in the hell is this?

634
00:26:19.020 --> 00:26:20.328
What are you talking about Sarge?

635
00:26:20.370 --> 00:26:22.218
It's a drunk emoji, drunk emoji,

636
00:26:22.260 --> 00:26:23.884
vomit emoji.

637
00:26:30.990 --> 00:26:33.768
Made it to the jail, poop emoji, poop emoji.

638
00:26:33.810 --> 00:26:37.038
Overnight his fellow
detectives took his office cubicle

639
00:26:37.080 --> 00:26:38.568
and turned it into a bathroom.

640
00:26:38.610 --> 00:26:39.798
They brought in a commode,

641
00:26:39.840 --> 00:26:41.628
they brought in toilet brushes,

642
00:26:41.670 --> 00:26:44.658
they brought in toilet paper, towels, the works

643
00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:46.308
and decorated his office for him

644
00:26:46.350 --> 00:26:47.748
so that he would feel more at home

645
00:26:47.790 --> 00:26:50.118
the next time that he was
going to have to tape a report.

646
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.588
Ah, ah,

647
00:26:51.630 --> 00:26:52.893
ah, ah.

648
00:26:53.820 --> 00:26:54.998
Yeah, thanks Phil.

649
00:27:31.449 --> 00:27:32.282
Mm.

650
00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:35.415
Food is a really big deal to me.

651
00:27:35.457 --> 00:27:36.455
And the reason it's a big deal is

652
00:27:36.497 --> 00:27:39.018
'cause it's part of my family and my heritage.

653
00:27:39.060 --> 00:27:42.558
Growing up with chili verde and a pork green chili

654
00:27:42.600 --> 00:27:45.018
and just the things that I grew up loving

655
00:27:45.060 --> 00:27:46.301
that my family would make.

656
00:27:46.343 --> 00:27:48.168
I like to eat a lot of good food, right?

657
00:27:48.210 --> 00:27:50.208
My mom's always like, "Mijo, you like to eat too much,

658
00:27:50.250 --> 00:27:52.000
you need to eat a little bit less."

659
00:27:53.670 --> 00:27:55.165
But in the very next breath she's like,

660
00:27:55.207 --> 00:27:55.998
"Come over tonight,

661
00:27:56.040 --> 00:27:57.908
we're gonna have enchiladas, sopaipillas."

662
00:27:59.850 --> 00:28:02.058
Growing up in Boulder, it was very unique for me.

663
00:28:02.100 --> 00:28:04.938
I remember going to one of
my very first friend's houses

664
00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:06.978
and I think the thing that I found was really weird is

665
00:28:07.020 --> 00:28:10.038
I was introduced to the
concept of the actual vegetable

666
00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:10.968
in its raw form.

667
00:28:11.010 --> 00:28:12.528
Like, 'cause people in Boulder, Colorado,

668
00:28:12.570 --> 00:28:13.788
they eat really healthy.

669
00:28:13.830 --> 00:28:16.008
For me to see a lot of vegetables on the plate

670
00:28:16.050 --> 00:28:18.048
and not have like the normal beans

671
00:28:18.090 --> 00:28:19.458
and rice and tortillas,

672
00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:21.198
that was unique to me.

673
00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.688
Vinnie can pack away food,

674
00:28:23.730 --> 00:28:26.538
all these activities, crime
prevention, community events,

675
00:28:26.580 --> 00:28:29.898
which puts us in front of food all the time.

676
00:28:29.940 --> 00:28:31.818
I knew when I ordered from Sonic,

677
00:28:31.860 --> 00:28:35.025
Vinnie would require two,
everybody else would get one.

678
00:28:35.067 --> 00:28:38.715
And this was a pattern that went on reputationally

679
00:28:38.757 --> 00:28:40.818
for years and decades.

680
00:28:40.860 --> 00:28:42.480
Nothing's changed.

681
00:28:42.522 --> 00:28:43.428
Nothing's changed.

682
00:28:43.470 --> 00:28:45.108
I like ice cream,

683
00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:47.523
especially in an ice cream cone.

684
00:28:49.230 --> 00:28:50.508
When you're in full uniform,

685
00:28:50.550 --> 00:28:51.768
you're a big guy like me,

686
00:28:51.810 --> 00:28:52.907
weigh about 200 hundred and.

687
00:28:54.065 --> 00:28:54.856
Pounds.

688
00:28:57.210 --> 00:28:59.958
It's rough, you can't walk
into your local ice cream parlor

689
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.800
and be like, "Hey, gimme a triple decker cone."

690
00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:05.688
He'd order one meal and then he'd be done

691
00:29:05.730 --> 00:29:06.888
and he'd order another meal.

692
00:29:06.930 --> 00:29:07.818
2:00 or 3:00 in the morning

693
00:29:07.860 --> 00:29:09.408
and he's ordering pizza and chicken wings.

694
00:29:09.450 --> 00:29:12.048
But what you can do if you're Vinnie Montez is

695
00:29:12.090 --> 00:29:14.928
you could go to your local McDonald's

696
00:29:14.970 --> 00:29:16.973
and go through the drive-through.

697
00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:19.578
So I snuck to the McDonald's

698
00:29:19.620 --> 00:29:21.498
and I went through the drive-through

699
00:29:21.540 --> 00:29:23.568
and I paid for my ice cream cone.

700
00:29:23.610 --> 00:29:25.218
And I pulled up to the window

701
00:29:25.260 --> 00:29:26.808
and as I looked through the window

702
00:29:26.850 --> 00:29:29.508
there was a dude inside making my ice cream cone,

703
00:29:29.550 --> 00:29:31.008
you know, swirly,

704
00:29:31.050 --> 00:29:32.328
swirly,

705
00:29:32.370 --> 00:29:33.161
swirly.

706
00:29:33.203 --> 00:29:34.608
And I'm outside the car,

707
00:29:34.650 --> 00:29:35.868
higher,

708
00:29:35.910 --> 00:29:37.158
higher,

709
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.991
higher.

710
00:29:38.033 --> 00:29:40.483
And he looked at me and he's like, "Yeah,

711
00:29:40.525 --> 00:29:41.838
yeah."

712
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:44.298
Go out to dinner with Vinnie at a restaurant,

713
00:29:44.340 --> 00:29:47.328
you'd, we'd all order, we'd all have a great time.

714
00:29:47.370 --> 00:29:48.525
You'd feel like things were wrapping up

715
00:29:48.567 --> 00:29:50.418
and all of a sudden Vinnie would call the waiter

716
00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:54.408
or the waitress over and
order an entire additional meal.

717
00:29:54.450 --> 00:29:55.728
You just kind of played along with it

718
00:29:55.770 --> 00:29:57.288
and Vinnie would have a second meal.

719
00:29:57.330 --> 00:29:59.605
So eventually I kind of teased Vinnie and I said,

720
00:29:59.647 --> 00:30:02.478
"Hey Vinnie, I've got the perfect diet plan for you.

721
00:30:02.520 --> 00:30:05.238
It's one meal per meal."

722
00:30:05.280 --> 00:30:08.688
We got this going on and I look ahead,

723
00:30:08.730 --> 00:30:10.678
the entrance to McDonald's,

724
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:13.313
and I see a guy collapse to the ground

725
00:30:14.350 --> 00:30:16.450
and my heart sunk.

726
00:30:16.492 --> 00:30:18.409
Because I was like, no.

727
00:30:20.937 --> 00:30:23.559
But I pulled forward and I did my job

728
00:30:23.601 --> 00:30:24.798
and I got out and I started rendering,

729
00:30:24.840 --> 00:30:27.521
hey, what I haven't told you is where I work.

730
00:30:27.563 --> 00:30:30.468
I'm not just a supervisor, I'm a commander.

731
00:30:30.510 --> 00:30:33.618
And when a commander calls
out with a situation like this,

732
00:30:33.660 --> 00:30:36.798
everybody's gotta come and see what's going on.

733
00:30:36.840 --> 00:30:40.158
So some of my younger deputies
with their recruit showed up,

734
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:43.248
the city heard what was going on and showed up.

735
00:30:43.290 --> 00:30:46.104
The university heard what was going on and showed up.

736
00:30:47.473 --> 00:30:50.442
A fire truck with like 75 guys showed up.

737
00:30:51.900 --> 00:30:55.038
I've got a couple dozen
people huddled around one dude

738
00:30:55.080 --> 00:30:57.708
for a very minor medical issue.

739
00:30:57.750 --> 00:31:00.138
And as I look across the huddle,

740
00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:02.748
I'll be damned if I didn't see the dude

741
00:31:02.790 --> 00:31:04.713
that was making my ice cream cone.

742
00:31:05.610 --> 00:31:07.876
And he holds it up in the air and he is like.

743
00:31:10.673 --> 00:31:13.308
The funny story is going to Taco Bell's dinner time,

744
00:31:13.350 --> 00:31:16.188
which I think it was 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning.

745
00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:19.068
We pull through Taco Bell and you know,

746
00:31:19.110 --> 00:31:21.798
going back to the food stories and he would order,

747
00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:24.539
I mean, he would order for a family at Taco Bell.

748
00:31:24.581 --> 00:31:27.190
♪ Some people want Taco John's ♪

749
00:31:27.232 --> 00:31:30.607
♪ And other people want Del Taco ♪

750
00:31:30.649 --> 00:31:33.652
♪ But everything means nothing ♪

751
00:31:33.694 --> 00:31:36.988
♪ If I ain't got Taco Bell ♪

752
00:31:37.030 --> 00:31:37.821
♪ Yeah ♪

753
00:31:37.863 --> 00:31:40.950
Has some interaction with the teller.

754
00:31:40.992 --> 00:31:43.218
Oh no, I like a stronger coffee, espresso.

755
00:31:43.260 --> 00:31:44.628
You have a espresso?

756
00:31:44.670 --> 00:31:46.818
Oh yes, we can get you an Americano.

757
00:31:46.860 --> 00:31:50.058
Oh yes, I like Americano for like big strong bear.

758
00:31:50.100 --> 00:31:51.798
It's never just ordering.

759
00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:53.508
He always has to be messing with somebody

760
00:31:53.550 --> 00:31:54.903
or making somebody's day.

761
00:31:56.040 --> 00:31:58.300
Citizens had their phones out.

762
00:31:59.175 --> 00:32:01.221
Body cameras were rolling.

763
00:32:03.348 --> 00:32:05.851
And I felt like the world was closing in on me.

764
00:32:06.726 --> 00:32:09.003
So I took that ice cream cone and I was like.

765
00:32:16.627 --> 00:32:18.654
Best ice cream cone I've ever had.

766
00:32:20.790 --> 00:32:24.078
Vinnie calls us cake-eating civilians, actually.

767
00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:27.768
I think in a sense we're kind of the naive,

768
00:32:27.810 --> 00:32:31.128
non-police officers in his life in a lot of ways.

769
00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:33.168
He doesn't have all cop friends,

770
00:32:33.210 --> 00:32:35.460
but like we are very much like, you know,

771
00:32:36.300 --> 00:32:37.398
in his inner circle role

772
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.340
and he's constantly like telling
us what we're unaware of.

773
00:32:41.280 --> 00:32:42.468
I hate the Subaru driver.

774
00:32:42.510 --> 00:32:43.567
Why?

775
00:32:43.609 --> 00:32:45.708
Because you're always
blocking the fast lane, that's it.

776
00:32:45.750 --> 00:32:46.728
It was one of those things

777
00:32:46.770 --> 00:32:48.648
that maybe living vicariously through him,

778
00:32:48.690 --> 00:32:52.098
called him this law enforcement nerd.

779
00:32:52.140 --> 00:32:53.508
We actually had this situation

780
00:32:53.550 --> 00:32:56.238
that it was a riotous situation where I worked

781
00:32:56.280 --> 00:32:58.278
and people were getting all like crazy,

782
00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:01.278
you know, and yelling and
screaming and blah, blah, blah.

783
00:33:01.320 --> 00:33:04.788
I push his buttons as, you know, up to a certain level

784
00:33:04.830 --> 00:33:06.048
and then I know when to back off

785
00:33:06.090 --> 00:33:07.938
because he still has that training still.

786
00:33:07.980 --> 00:33:10.638
Although he might be shorter than me,

787
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:12.918
I know he has still got moves and stuff like that.

788
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:14.298
And they're like, "We're gonna call out the riot team,

789
00:33:14.340 --> 00:33:15.588
we're gonna get the riot team out here.

790
00:33:15.630 --> 00:33:17.178
We're gonna shoot 'em with a bunch of pepper balls."

791
00:33:17.220 --> 00:33:18.588
I'm like what the heck are you gonna shoot 'em

792
00:33:18.630 --> 00:33:20.208
with pepper balls for?

793
00:33:20.250 --> 00:33:23.055
Just a bunch of Subaru drivers,
why are you gonna do that?

794
00:33:23.930 --> 00:33:25.983
It's a good waste of pepper balls.

795
00:33:28.170 --> 00:33:29.568
Shoot 'em with gluten balls,

796
00:33:29.610 --> 00:33:30.740
that'll take care of the problem.

797
00:33:39.528 --> 00:33:41.748
He is funny, he's a good person to be around.

798
00:33:41.790 --> 00:33:45.888
He is very relaxed and just very genuine,

799
00:33:45.930 --> 00:33:47.088
I guess I would say.

800
00:33:47.130 --> 00:33:48.408
Like, you know who you're gonna get.

801
00:33:48.450 --> 00:33:50.118
And then he reciprocates that

802
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.398
in terms of he just is who he is

803
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.888
and then he's just fine with whoever the person

804
00:33:54.930 --> 00:33:56.478
that he's with is.

805
00:33:56.520 --> 00:33:59.388
And he respects that and
gives people their individuality

806
00:33:59.430 --> 00:34:01.278
and their freedom to be whoever they wanna be.

807
00:34:01.320 --> 00:34:03.528
So I really appreciate that about him

808
00:34:03.570 --> 00:34:04.548
and I think that that's the thing

809
00:34:04.590 --> 00:34:07.038
that kind of attracts me to him the most.

810
00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:09.078
Catrina and I are like night and day.

811
00:34:09.120 --> 00:34:12.908
I'm very outgoing, I love to be around people.

812
00:34:12.950 --> 00:34:15.258
He can come up to anybody and start talking to them

813
00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:16.848
and have a conversation with them

814
00:34:16.890 --> 00:34:18.078
and I think he really enjoys

815
00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:20.118
engaging with the community in that way.

816
00:34:20.160 --> 00:34:22.668
She would like to be in a room

817
00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:24.588
potentially most of the time by herself,

818
00:34:24.630 --> 00:34:25.968
reading a book for hours

819
00:34:26.010 --> 00:34:28.368
and she is very happy doing that.

820
00:34:28.410 --> 00:34:31.398
I'm like the stereotypical girl in the relationship

821
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:32.273
because

822
00:34:33.660 --> 00:34:34.848
I don't know why I'm just telling you,

823
00:34:34.890 --> 00:34:36.348
like I'm the one that likes to ask

824
00:34:36.390 --> 00:34:37.848
a lot of questions and stuff.

825
00:34:37.890 --> 00:34:39.618
Like, we'll be watching "Law & Order"

826
00:34:39.660 --> 00:34:41.335
and I'm the typical cop where I'm like,

827
00:34:41.377 --> 00:34:43.548
"This is crazy, you can't do that without a warrant."

828
00:34:43.590 --> 00:34:46.188
Catrina does not find my brand of comedy

829
00:34:46.230 --> 00:34:48.514
to be funny whatsoever.

830
00:34:48.556 --> 00:34:52.188
So Vinnie and I don't like the same kind of comedy,

831
00:34:52.230 --> 00:34:53.021
for sure.

832
00:34:53.063 --> 00:34:53.928
I mean I think he's funny

833
00:34:53.970 --> 00:34:56.418
and I think that he does a
really good job at what he does,

834
00:34:56.460 --> 00:34:57.888
but at the same time,

835
00:34:57.930 --> 00:34:59.925
like that's not the kind of comedy that I like.

836
00:34:59.967 --> 00:35:02.058
And I'll ask her questions like, "What are they doing?

837
00:35:02.100 --> 00:35:02.958
Why are they doing that?

838
00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:03.791
What's going on?"

839
00:35:03.833 --> 00:35:04.624
She's like, "I don't know.

840
00:35:04.666 --> 00:35:06.031
How about we both watch."

841
00:35:07.387 --> 00:35:08.778
"And we'll figure it out together.

842
00:35:08.820 --> 00:35:09.611
What do you say?"

843
00:35:09.653 --> 00:35:13.038
I know when I could actually make her laugh that

844
00:35:13.080 --> 00:35:15.048
that is gonna be solid gold.

845
00:35:15.090 --> 00:35:17.118
Because if it bridges the gap

846
00:35:17.160 --> 00:35:19.848
of what I find funny and then what she finds funny,

847
00:35:19.890 --> 00:35:21.798
then it's gonna have a universal appeal.

848
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:23.688
I was raised in a very traditional Mexican family.

849
00:35:23.730 --> 00:35:25.818
There was a lot of affection and love there

850
00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:28.668
and, but my better half, man,

851
00:35:28.710 --> 00:35:30.108
she doesn't like to say that back to me

852
00:35:30.150 --> 00:35:31.938
when she's at work because she's very professional.

853
00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:33.048
She's a lawyer.

854
00:35:33.090 --> 00:35:36.813
And so I get her on the phone and I'm like, "I love you."

855
00:35:39.313 --> 00:35:40.904
And she's like, "Uh-huh".

856
00:35:43.950 --> 00:35:44.741
And I'm like, "Do you have somebody

857
00:35:44.783 --> 00:35:45.678
in your office right now?"

858
00:35:45.720 --> 00:35:46.970
And she's like, "Uh-huh".

859
00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:49.608
And so like as loud as I could be

860
00:35:49.650 --> 00:35:51.348
so I hope that people in the office building,

861
00:35:51.390 --> 00:35:52.940
all they hear is, "I love you."

862
00:35:57.510 --> 00:35:59.228
And she's like, "I'm going now."

863
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.268
One Halloween night I'm driving down the Boulevard

864
00:36:02.310 --> 00:36:05.268
and I see a lady dressed up like a white cotton ball

865
00:36:05.310 --> 00:36:06.363
on the corner.

866
00:36:07.290 --> 00:36:09.648
And I was like, "What the hell is this?"

867
00:36:09.690 --> 00:36:11.620
So I rolled up on her like I do.

868
00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:20.105
You guys like the siren noise or what?

869
00:36:20.980 --> 00:36:22.398
Right next to my driver's window,

870
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:24.768
like three feet away from me is this girl,

871
00:36:24.810 --> 00:36:28.053
nice looking girl, takes care of herself.

872
00:36:29.040 --> 00:36:30.978
She looks like she's wearing a cotton ball

873
00:36:31.020 --> 00:36:31.908
'cause it's just like, you know,

874
00:36:31.950 --> 00:36:34.833
from the neck to the upper thigh.

875
00:36:35.700 --> 00:36:38.268
And I'm like, my window's down 'cause it was nice out.

876
00:36:38.310 --> 00:36:41.748
And I look at her and I go, "What is this costume?"

877
00:36:41.790 --> 00:36:45.618
And she's like, "I'm a loofah and you're a dirty cop."

878
00:36:45.660 --> 00:36:47.448
What would that interaction look like

879
00:36:47.490 --> 00:36:51.768
with a police officer who
starts talking to this person?

880
00:36:51.810 --> 00:36:53.555
So I rolled up on her, I'm like.

881
00:36:55.017 --> 00:36:56.535
And I'm like, "What are you?"

882
00:36:56.577 --> 00:36:57.791
And she's like, "Me?"

883
00:36:57.833 --> 00:37:01.158
And I'm like, "Yeah you, what are you?"

884
00:37:01.200 --> 00:37:04.324
She's like, "I am a loofah."

885
00:37:12.253 --> 00:37:14.958
"Are you a dirty officer?"

886
00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:23.094
Maybe.

887
00:37:23.969 --> 00:37:24.918
She starts rubbing her costume

888
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:26.538
all over the side of my car.

889
00:37:26.580 --> 00:37:28.098
She goes around to the front of the car

890
00:37:28.140 --> 00:37:30.498
and I was like, "What the fuck?"

891
00:37:30.540 --> 00:37:34.968
So I turn on my spotlight
and I'm like trying to do like a,

892
00:37:35.010 --> 00:37:36.528
like a strobe light with it,

893
00:37:36.570 --> 00:37:39.168
like flashing it around and I turned on my overheads

894
00:37:39.210 --> 00:37:41.088
and everybody that's in the crosswalk

895
00:37:41.130 --> 00:37:43.608
and on either side of the street, they're like "Ah."

896
00:37:43.650 --> 00:37:44.958
And she's up in the front of my car

897
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.208
just rubbing all over the front bumper

898
00:37:47.250 --> 00:37:48.438
and she starts dancing.

899
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.458
So I grabbed the PA,

900
00:37:49.500 --> 00:37:51.318
I turned on all the strobe lights in my cop car

901
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.488
and I'm all.

902
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:57.468
It's like, ah, shit, gonna make some money.

903
00:37:57.510 --> 00:37:58.848
I told Vinnie that story

904
00:37:58.890 --> 00:38:01.848
and he turns it into one of his comedy jokes.

905
00:38:01.890 --> 00:38:03.948
But he was telling it so often,

906
00:38:03.990 --> 00:38:06.461
he started to believe that it was about him

907
00:38:06.503 --> 00:38:07.465
'cause we were talking about it and he's like,

908
00:38:07.507 --> 00:38:09.342
"Yeah when I saw her and this, that,"

909
00:38:09.384 --> 00:38:12.608
and I'm like, wait, you think this happened to you?

910
00:38:12.650 --> 00:38:13.848
I, that was a story that happened to me.

911
00:38:13.890 --> 00:38:15.198
I told you about it.

912
00:38:15.240 --> 00:38:16.128
And he's like, "What?"

913
00:38:16.170 --> 00:38:19.758
That is an example of just taking all these things

914
00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:21.168
that you see here

915
00:38:21.210 --> 00:38:23.448
and your friends' experiences,

916
00:38:23.490 --> 00:38:24.618
Sam in particular,

917
00:38:24.660 --> 00:38:26.928
and then morphing just that original experience

918
00:38:26.970 --> 00:38:28.608
that you had with the contact with a loofah

919
00:38:28.650 --> 00:38:30.798
and morphing it into an entire bit

920
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:32.118
that brings the audience into it

921
00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:35.508
and culminates in a very nice
reveal at the end to you know,

922
00:38:35.550 --> 00:38:37.203
release that built-up energy.

923
00:38:44.091 --> 00:38:45.168
You know as police officers,

924
00:38:45.210 --> 00:38:48.010
probably the one thing that you may not know is

925
00:38:48.930 --> 00:38:50.688
coming up in law enforcement,

926
00:38:50.730 --> 00:38:52.878
talking about your mental health was taboo.

927
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.281
I allowed the job to consume me 100%.

928
00:38:55.323 --> 00:39:00.323
From the time that I first
became a deputy until 2010-ish,

929
00:39:00.990 --> 00:39:02.838
I was Vinnie Montez the cop.

930
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:04.518
My sole identity was my job.

931
00:39:04.560 --> 00:39:08.598
I had spent my entire adolescence
learning about the craft,

932
00:39:08.640 --> 00:39:09.828
wanting to be in the craft

933
00:39:09.870 --> 00:39:10.998
of being a law enforcement officer

934
00:39:11.040 --> 00:39:11.868
and then doing it.

935
00:39:11.910 --> 00:39:13.518
I'd see him pace around at night

936
00:39:13.560 --> 00:39:15.288
'cause the job in his mind,

937
00:39:15.330 --> 00:39:18.543
he living it in his mind, like what he sees.

938
00:39:19.590 --> 00:39:21.048
It can't be healthy.

939
00:39:21.090 --> 00:39:22.788
Now the trade-offs are

940
00:39:22.830 --> 00:39:25.788
you can absolutely be wonderful in doing that job,

941
00:39:25.830 --> 00:39:27.858
but if there's no balance in your life,

942
00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:30.948
you're gonna end up experiencing

943
00:39:30.990 --> 00:39:32.328
the negative outcomes from that.

944
00:39:32.370 --> 00:39:33.441
I'm very proud to tell you

945
00:39:33.483 --> 00:39:35.898
that I don't care what people say

946
00:39:35.940 --> 00:39:38.178
when I say I've got mental health problems.

947
00:39:38.220 --> 00:39:39.348
I cope with those things.

948
00:39:39.390 --> 00:39:42.288
It doesn't mean I'm any worse than I was before.

949
00:39:42.330 --> 00:39:45.198
It's just an acknowledgment of the struggles

950
00:39:45.240 --> 00:39:47.178
that I've dealt with during my career.

951
00:39:47.220 --> 00:39:50.268
I don't know that at the time I would've recognized it.

952
00:39:50.310 --> 00:39:54.138
It was probably more now in
hindsight as he talks about it.

953
00:39:54.180 --> 00:39:56.328
So I think it was probably just as he started

954
00:39:56.370 --> 00:39:57.423
to talk about it.

955
00:40:08.490 --> 00:40:09.918
Sorry.

956
00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:11.958
Some of the incidents he's talked about,

957
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.508
you could tell that we're
really having an impact on him.

958
00:40:14.550 --> 00:40:17.208
I'm so proud of him for like finding that niche,

959
00:40:17.250 --> 00:40:19.128
like realizing in his self

960
00:40:19.170 --> 00:40:22.428
like what is going on and being open about it.

961
00:40:22.470 --> 00:40:25.068
There's always been a stigma
about mental health, period.

962
00:40:25.110 --> 00:40:27.078
What I probably didn't realize is

963
00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:29.028
as much until recently is

964
00:40:29.070 --> 00:40:32.208
there's even more a stigma and a reluctance

965
00:40:32.250 --> 00:40:35.013
to open up about it when you're a police officer.

966
00:40:37.500 --> 00:40:39.530
Yeah, just as he started to talk about it,

967
00:40:39.572 --> 00:40:41.072
then I noticed it.

968
00:40:43.950 --> 00:40:45.498
I think when you see stuff like that,

969
00:40:45.540 --> 00:40:46.908
you have to have an outlet

970
00:40:46.950 --> 00:40:48.618
and if you don't have an outlet,

971
00:40:48.660 --> 00:40:49.998
that stuff will chew you up.

972
00:40:50.040 --> 00:40:53.088
All of that stacked up on all of us

973
00:40:53.130 --> 00:40:55.038
and we all have different things that we use

974
00:40:55.080 --> 00:40:56.688
to kind of deal with that.

975
00:40:56.730 --> 00:40:58.518
He landed on comedy.

976
00:40:58.560 --> 00:41:03.198
Eventually, you know, I just
started slowly sharing things

977
00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:05.988
and felt comfortable where I didn't care

978
00:41:06.030 --> 00:41:08.118
if people knew I was going to counseling.

979
00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:10.575
And now today, fast forward to 2023

980
00:41:10.617 --> 00:41:12.348
and especially over the last, I don't know,

981
00:41:12.390 --> 00:41:14.208
five, six, seven years,

982
00:41:14.250 --> 00:41:15.498
I don't care who knows.

983
00:41:15.540 --> 00:41:17.298
If you're struggling, there's people to your left

984
00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:19.158
and to your right who want to help you.

985
00:41:19.200 --> 00:41:21.438
And if I can spend just a couple seconds on a stage

986
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:22.938
sharing that during my show,

987
00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:25.449
well then that's the way it's gonna be, family, all right?

988
00:41:32.730 --> 00:41:35.388
People really enjoy his message.

989
00:41:35.430 --> 00:41:38.388
People really enjoy his comedy in a very big way.

990
00:41:38.430 --> 00:41:40.248
And then at the same time,

991
00:41:40.290 --> 00:41:43.338
he's addressing this elephant in the room

992
00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:45.528
in the law enforcement
industry around mental health.

993
00:41:45.570 --> 00:41:48.858
You don't want to be this superman, superwoman crap

994
00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:50.238
and trying to keep everything in.

995
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:51.708
So he makes people realize,

996
00:41:51.750 --> 00:41:55.518
hey, it's okay to have some hard times

997
00:41:55.560 --> 00:41:58.338
and needing help to discuss these things

998
00:41:58.380 --> 00:42:00.978
because it's about your own personal health too.

999
00:42:01.020 --> 00:42:02.358
I don't think I ever really had

1000
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:06.078
one acute instance where I felt like wow,

1001
00:42:06.120 --> 00:42:08.508
this one really affected my mental health.

1002
00:42:08.550 --> 00:42:10.308
But I saw a lot of things

1003
00:42:10.350 --> 00:42:11.928
when I was a very young person

1004
00:42:11.970 --> 00:42:15.408
that nobody was ever checking on me about.

1005
00:42:15.450 --> 00:42:18.228
Several years ago when I
was a field training officer,

1006
00:42:18.270 --> 00:42:20.950
my recruit and I were dispatched up to the mountains

1007
00:42:21.870 --> 00:42:24.558
where a guy pulled over on the side of the road,

1008
00:42:24.600 --> 00:42:26.268
got out of his car,

1009
00:42:26.310 --> 00:42:27.828
sat in the passenger seat,

1010
00:42:27.870 --> 00:42:30.138
put a double barrel shotgun to his chin

1011
00:42:30.180 --> 00:42:31.458
and pulled the trigger.

1012
00:42:31.500 --> 00:42:34.578
You start seeing things and hearing things

1013
00:42:34.620 --> 00:42:36.888
and you're actually the one in the call

1014
00:42:36.930 --> 00:42:39.048
dealing with the circumstances.

1015
00:42:39.090 --> 00:42:41.718
And like we've talked about earlier, I'm a shit magnet.

1016
00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:43.460
So I mean, everything comes to me.

1017
00:42:44.490 --> 00:42:46.773
Nothing was left from here up.

1018
00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:49.758
So the detective gets there

1019
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.038
because we have to identify the decedent,

1020
00:42:52.080 --> 00:42:53.778
the person who passed away,

1021
00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:55.413
it's what we have to do.

1022
00:42:56.310 --> 00:42:58.458
He starts to root around his pockets,

1023
00:42:58.500 --> 00:43:00.168
finds the gentleman's wallet,

1024
00:43:00.210 --> 00:43:01.788
pulls it out,

1025
00:43:01.830 --> 00:43:05.868
reaches in, grabs his driver's license, pulls that out,

1026
00:43:05.910 --> 00:43:07.885
puts his thumb over the guy's head and says,

1027
00:43:07.927 --> 00:43:10.098
"Do you think this is our guy right here?"

1028
00:43:16.050 --> 00:43:17.320
That dark humor

1029
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:20.358
comes from a lot of pain

1030
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:21.858
and not just me,

1031
00:43:21.900 --> 00:43:24.288
but all the men and women

1032
00:43:24.330 --> 00:43:26.688
who've ever served in this uniform.

1033
00:43:26.730 --> 00:43:28.188
That's how we survive.

1034
00:43:28.230 --> 00:43:30.797
And humor is our way of coping with things.

1035
00:43:30.839 --> 00:43:35.839
♪ He woke up the same way ♪

1036
00:43:35.914 --> 00:43:39.585
♪ He done a million times ♪

1037
00:43:39.627 --> 00:43:42.628
♪ Grabbed a cup of coffee, hugged his kids ♪

1038
00:43:42.670 --> 00:43:44.898
♪ And he kissed his wife goodbye ♪

1039
00:43:44.940 --> 00:43:47.028
And we finally write this song

1040
00:43:47.070 --> 00:43:51.708
and it talks about a cop going to work,

1041
00:43:51.750 --> 00:43:53.373
leaving his family behind,

1042
00:43:54.780 --> 00:43:56.808
making the ultimate sacrifice.

1043
00:43:56.850 --> 00:43:58.548
We had no idea where we were going.

1044
00:43:58.590 --> 00:44:00.498
I started finally just playing some chords

1045
00:44:00.540 --> 00:44:01.788
and he's like, "Okay."

1046
00:44:01.830 --> 00:44:05.388
You know, he liked that and I'd figured a few things out

1047
00:44:05.430 --> 00:44:06.708
after a couple of sessions

1048
00:44:06.750 --> 00:44:08.598
and started getting the idea of the song,

1049
00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:09.888
the story that we are writing

1050
00:44:09.930 --> 00:44:13.338
about this officer that basically
doesn't come home one day

1051
00:44:13.380 --> 00:44:16.668
and then kind of the big
fanfare that happens after that.

1052
00:44:16.710 --> 00:44:18.138
Just the struggles that officers go through

1053
00:44:18.180 --> 00:44:19.248
and then how family feels

1054
00:44:19.290 --> 00:44:21.018
and how communities feel it.

1055
00:44:21.060 --> 00:44:23.170
♪ No hesitation ♪

1056
00:44:23.212 --> 00:44:28.212
♪ He knew what he had to do ♪

1057
00:44:28.425 --> 00:44:31.283
♪ Lord, keep my family safe ♪

1058
00:44:31.325 --> 00:44:35.767
♪ This, I pray to you ♪

1059
00:44:35.809 --> 00:44:40.809
♪ He chose a life that others don't understand ♪

1060
00:44:43.060 --> 00:44:48.060
♪ A heart of a warrior but a simple man ♪

1061
00:44:48.183 --> 00:44:50.898
"The Blue Line" to me is just means

1062
00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:55.278
this sliver of society being law enforcement is

1063
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:56.928
what stands between good and evil.

1064
00:44:56.970 --> 00:45:00.618
We are the buffer between
the good guys and the bad guys.

1065
00:45:00.660 --> 00:45:03.438
It was more about the message in the song

1066
00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:05.298
that Vinnie and I worked on with those lyrics,

1067
00:45:05.340 --> 00:45:07.848
just to try to say how can we,

1068
00:45:07.890 --> 00:45:09.828
how do we put something out there

1069
00:45:09.870 --> 00:45:12.348
for guys that do this every day

1070
00:45:12.390 --> 00:45:13.181
that it's gonna hit.

1071
00:45:13.223 --> 00:45:14.014
They're gonna understand.

1072
00:45:14.056 --> 00:45:15.095
They're gonna know that.

1073
00:45:15.137 --> 00:45:19.058
♪ They came to say their goodbyes ♪

1074
00:45:19.100 --> 00:45:21.648
♪ A brotherhood, a family ♪

1075
00:45:21.690 --> 00:45:24.683
♪ Doing their best trying not to cry ♪

1076
00:45:24.725 --> 00:45:29.725
♪ Preacher said a few words ♪

1077
00:45:29.818 --> 00:45:33.658
♪ Life doesn't always seem fair ♪

1078
00:45:33.700 --> 00:45:36.659
♪ They handed her a folded flag ♪

1079
00:45:36.701 --> 00:45:40.638
♪ And they bowed their heads in prayer ♪

1080
00:45:40.680 --> 00:45:43.398
It stands as a tribute to the men and women

1081
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:45.378
who've made the ultimate sacrifice

1082
00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:48.948
and their families who miss them

1083
00:45:48.990 --> 00:45:49.823
and

1084
00:45:51.270 --> 00:45:52.713
are saddened by their loss.

1085
00:45:54.095 --> 00:45:59.095
♪ Saying, "Daddy don't worry" ♪

1086
00:45:59.434 --> 00:46:03.479
♪ "Everything'll be fine" ♪

1087
00:46:03.521 --> 00:46:05.816
♪ "Know that I'll always love you" ♪

1088
00:46:05.858 --> 00:46:10.358
♪ "And I'm gonna hold that blue line" ♪

1089
00:46:11.430 --> 00:46:14.958
Vinnie actually reached out to me through email

1090
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.268
I believe late 2017.

1091
00:46:17.310 --> 00:46:19.158
He said, "I think you and I have a common goal

1092
00:46:19.200 --> 00:46:20.448
on humanizing the badge"

1093
00:46:20.490 --> 00:46:22.591
and that portrayal of a, you know,

1094
00:46:22.633 --> 00:46:24.408
a human being on social media.

1095
00:46:24.450 --> 00:46:26.418
'Cause a lot of times there's a lot of interactions

1096
00:46:26.460 --> 00:46:27.918
with cops and people kind of forget

1097
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:30.258
that there's a heart and you know,

1098
00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:32.568
feelings behind that uniform in that badge.

1099
00:46:32.610 --> 00:46:35.513
Dude, I gotta pass the time, dude, I'm gonna fall asleep.

1100
00:46:36.390 --> 00:46:37.223
Three

1101
00:46:38.580 --> 00:46:39.413
two, one.

1102
00:46:41.324 --> 00:46:42.738
You almost broke the window.

1103
00:46:42.780 --> 00:46:43.638
We had difficulty getting

1104
00:46:43.680 --> 00:46:46.758
the streaker under control Downtown.

1105
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:48.300
We had a lot of units move in.

1106
00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:51.413
That dude was packing, I'll tell you that.

1107
00:46:56.453 --> 00:46:58.369
.

1108
00:46:58.411 --> 00:47:02.078
This guy over here, what's this guy doing?

1109
00:47:06.390 --> 00:47:08.238
We wanted to raise money for a little girl

1110
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:10.698
who had Diamond-Blackfan anemia

1111
00:47:10.740 --> 00:47:13.518
and while she was searching for her, a donor,

1112
00:47:13.560 --> 00:47:16.578
she ended up finding donors for other kids like her.

1113
00:47:16.620 --> 00:47:20.958
And it blossomed into a
nonprofit called Hallie's Heroes.

1114
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:22.818
Officer Daniels befriended her

1115
00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:24.385
and he met me and he's like,

1116
00:47:24.427 --> 00:47:26.178
"You wanna do a standup comedy show?"

1117
00:47:26.220 --> 00:47:29.118
And then we got involved
with this larger than life lady

1118
00:47:29.160 --> 00:47:31.338
by the name of Chelsea Lynn

1119
00:47:31.380 --> 00:47:33.858
who goes by the stage name of Trailer Trash Tammy.

1120
00:47:33.900 --> 00:47:36.258
A couple comedians, Vinnie and I included,

1121
00:47:36.300 --> 00:47:38.568
decided to host a comedy show

1122
00:47:38.610 --> 00:47:40.158
out at Texas Motor Speedway.

1123
00:47:40.200 --> 00:47:41.268
But the night before,

1124
00:47:41.310 --> 00:47:44.118
one of Hallie's Heroes board members hosted

1125
00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:46.368
a barbecue for us

1126
00:47:46.410 --> 00:47:47.838
and they had a swimming pool.

1127
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:50.868
Listen, you want some excitement in your life,

1128
00:47:50.910 --> 00:47:55.758
donate three damn dollars to see Daniels put this on.

1129
00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:58.008
Let me help demonstrate.

1130
00:47:58.050 --> 00:48:00.978
Mm-hmm, that's what it's gonna look like right there.

1131
00:48:01.020 --> 00:48:03.078
And I had plans

1132
00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:06.408
to raise some money on a Facebook fundraiser

1133
00:48:06.450 --> 00:48:08.358
the night before to make some extra money

1134
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:09.588
for Hallie's nonprofit.

1135
00:48:09.630 --> 00:48:13.998
And so I got a women's one-piece swimming suit

1136
00:48:14.040 --> 00:48:16.555
and we went live from this barbecue and I said,

1137
00:48:16.597 --> 00:48:19.308
"Hey, if we raise $5,000,

1138
00:48:19.350 --> 00:48:22.638
I'll wear this one-piece swimming suit on stage

1139
00:48:22.680 --> 00:48:23.628
tomorrow at the show."

1140
00:48:23.670 --> 00:48:25.758
Officer Daniels says if we're able to raise

1141
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.828
on the livestream X amount of money,

1142
00:48:27.870 --> 00:48:30.528
he will wear this onesie bathing suit

1143
00:48:30.570 --> 00:48:33.978
which has pictures of him
and Trailer Trash Tammy on it

1144
00:48:34.020 --> 00:48:35.508
and he will jump into the pool.

1145
00:48:35.550 --> 00:48:37.328
And so we hit that right away.

1146
00:48:37.370 --> 00:48:38.808
Oh my God.

1147
00:48:39.683 --> 00:48:40.555
We're gonna go do that.

1148
00:48:42.150 --> 00:48:45.018
We got 12.6, 12,600 people watching.

1149
00:48:45.060 --> 00:48:48.078
Guys, keep donating 'cause if we get to 10 K,

1150
00:48:48.120 --> 00:48:50.566
he's going on stage tomorrow like this.

1151
00:48:51.441 --> 00:48:52.232
We're at 6,000? - And listen,

1152
00:48:52.274 --> 00:48:53.868
I would love to make fun of his bulge on stage,

1153
00:48:53.910 --> 00:48:55.098
so let's make this happen.

1154
00:48:55.140 --> 00:48:58.488
We kept getting donations in the comments

1155
00:48:58.530 --> 00:48:59.321
on this livestream.

1156
00:48:59.363 --> 00:49:01.728
There was about 10,000
people watching this livestream.

1157
00:49:01.770 --> 00:49:03.108
They said if we raise 10,000,

1158
00:49:03.150 --> 00:49:04.878
you gotta put it on right now and jump in the pool.

1159
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:08.088
I'm like all right, no problem.

1160
00:49:08.130 --> 00:49:09.498
So we hit 10 K,

1161
00:49:09.540 --> 00:49:11.898
I throw it on, I jump in the pool.

1162
00:49:11.940 --> 00:49:14.268
Well, while I'm swimming out of the pool,

1163
00:49:14.310 --> 00:49:15.101
the comments are like,

1164
00:49:15.143 --> 00:49:16.848
"We're gonna go for 15 K

1165
00:49:16.890 --> 00:49:18.438
and we want Vinnie to put it on,"

1166
00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:20.298
the same swimsuit that I just had on.

1167
00:49:20.340 --> 00:49:21.678
Somebody comes up with the idea of like,

1168
00:49:21.720 --> 00:49:25.758
hey, let's see if Vinnie will
put on the onesie bathing suit

1169
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:28.113
and if we hit this mark,

1170
00:49:29.340 --> 00:49:31.440
we will have him jump in the pool as well.

1171
00:49:32.310 --> 00:49:34.398
You want some Latino heat?

1172
00:49:35.370 --> 00:49:36.948
I ain't afraid, man.

1173
00:49:36.990 --> 00:49:38.718
Bald guy in the suit. - You want me?

1174
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:40.288
You want to see me in a suit?

1175
00:49:40.330 --> 00:49:42.721
Go put one on, take it off.

1176
00:49:42.763 --> 00:49:45.119
I ain't afraid, man, I'll put on a suit.

1177
00:49:45.161 --> 00:49:47.318
You get to 10,000, I'll put on the suit.

1178
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:49.608
Well I'm, I don't have the body

1179
00:49:49.650 --> 00:49:52.098
for a one-piece female bathing suit, okay?

1180
00:49:52.140 --> 00:49:53.238
That's just not my thing.

1181
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.135
And, but I'm also not gonna be like,

1182
00:49:55.177 --> 00:49:56.688
"Oh no, I'm not gonna do it,"

1183
00:49:56.730 --> 00:49:59.063
'cause we're trying to help out for a good cause.

1184
00:50:13.761 --> 00:50:14.552
They're like, "Go put it on."

1185
00:50:14.594 --> 00:50:16.668
So I go into the bathroom

1186
00:50:16.710 --> 00:50:18.558
and I put on this one-piece bathing suit

1187
00:50:18.600 --> 00:50:23.178
and I am embarrassed because
like my package is showing

1188
00:50:23.220 --> 00:50:25.128
and I didn't want to be like looked at

1189
00:50:25.170 --> 00:50:27.198
as a small package or anything.

1190
00:50:27.240 --> 00:50:30.393
So I take this decorative hand towel off of,

1191
00:50:31.470 --> 00:50:32.988
I take this decorative hand towel

1192
00:50:33.030 --> 00:50:35.508
and I roll it up and I stick it in the crotch area

1193
00:50:35.550 --> 00:50:37.728
of this bathing suit

1194
00:50:37.770 --> 00:50:39.618
and I come walking out and everybody's like,

1195
00:50:39.660 --> 00:50:40.676
what in,

1196
00:50:40.718 --> 00:50:43.467
because I got this giant junk package going now.

1197
00:50:46.066 --> 00:50:48.013
this package right here.

1198
00:50:48.055 --> 00:50:49.473
I'm going in the pool.

1199
00:50:49.515 --> 00:50:52.213
It's the most beautiful bulge I've ever seen in my life.

1200
00:50:52.255 --> 00:50:53.351
It's the most beautiful thing

1201
00:50:53.393 --> 00:50:55.194
I've ever seen in my life.

1202
00:50:59.128 --> 00:51:00.497
He's gonna get in the pool.

1203
00:51:00.539 --> 00:51:01.539
We got 10 K.

1204
00:51:05.127 --> 00:51:06.340
And he came out

1205
00:51:07.230 --> 00:51:08.500
with a very large

1206
00:51:09.810 --> 00:51:11.658
bulge in the swimsuit,

1207
00:51:11.700 --> 00:51:13.368
but it was not,

1208
00:51:13.410 --> 00:51:16.338
it was not what you'd think it was.

1209
00:51:16.380 --> 00:51:17.268
We didn't know what it was

1210
00:51:17.310 --> 00:51:18.348
until the next day

1211
00:51:18.390 --> 00:51:20.898
when we found out it was a decorative hand towel

1212
00:51:20.940 --> 00:51:23.478
from the host bathroom

1213
00:51:23.520 --> 00:51:25.788
and that he decided to stuff down his pants

1214
00:51:25.830 --> 00:51:29.298
so nobody could see his private parts, I guess.

1215
00:51:29.340 --> 00:51:30.648
But I guess he wrung it out

1216
00:51:30.690 --> 00:51:33.078
and hung it back up where he found it.

1217
00:51:33.120 --> 00:51:34.788
So the homeowner found it and let us all know

1218
00:51:34.830 --> 00:51:36.213
that she found the towel.

1219
00:51:37.521 --> 00:51:39.254
I was gonna wring it out.

1220
00:51:40.892 --> 00:51:42.601
And I put it back on the rack.

1221
00:51:45.069 --> 00:51:45.902
I swear.

1222
00:51:46.990 --> 00:51:48.648
So I get out and now I'm soaking wet

1223
00:51:48.690 --> 00:51:50.268
and I gotta go towel off and dry.

1224
00:51:50.310 --> 00:51:53.838
I take this drenched towel for my crotch area

1225
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:57.858
and I wring it out in the sink.

1226
00:51:57.900 --> 00:51:59.568
Now here's the dilemma, right?

1227
00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:00.648
I'm drying myself,

1228
00:52:00.690 --> 00:52:02.208
this has now been touching my junk

1229
00:52:02.250 --> 00:52:04.368
and I'm like what do I do with this towel?

1230
00:52:04.410 --> 00:52:05.748
I hadn't planned this far ahead,

1231
00:52:05.790 --> 00:52:07.578
I had not planned this far ahead.

1232
00:52:07.620 --> 00:52:10.668
So the very next night is the show

1233
00:52:10.710 --> 00:52:12.288
at Texas Motor Speedway

1234
00:52:12.330 --> 00:52:15.018
and the lady who owns this hand towel

1235
00:52:15.060 --> 00:52:18.318
later finds the hand towel in the bathroom

1236
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:19.758
is stiff as a board.

1237
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:21.715
And she sits next to me and she's like,

1238
00:52:21.757 --> 00:52:23.895
"Vinnie, do you know what I found?"

1239
00:52:23.937 --> 00:52:25.165
And I'm sitting there for a second like,

1240
00:52:25.207 --> 00:52:26.538
"What did you find?"

1241
00:52:26.580 --> 00:52:29.033
And she's like, "Hand towel."

1242
00:52:29.075 --> 00:52:30.198
And I'm like hand,

1243
00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:32.343
oh the hand towel.

1244
00:52:48.870 --> 00:52:50.808
Everybody that starts in standup

1245
00:52:50.850 --> 00:52:52.308
starts at open mics.

1246
00:52:52.350 --> 00:52:54.528
Here at Comedy Works, they literally start

1247
00:52:54.570 --> 00:52:56.598
on their first time with two minutes

1248
00:52:56.640 --> 00:52:58.578
and within our New Talent program,

1249
00:52:58.620 --> 00:53:01.728
they grow to three, four or five minute sets.

1250
00:53:01.770 --> 00:53:04.938
It can be a slow ascension depending on who they are,

1251
00:53:04.980 --> 00:53:05.958
but we have a system

1252
00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:07.878
that they can plug into and they can grow.

1253
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:10.578
So when you first get into Comedy Works New Talent,

1254
00:53:10.620 --> 00:53:12.228
you sign up forever, get two minutes,

1255
00:53:12.270 --> 00:53:13.998
then you, if they think you're doing well,

1256
00:53:14.040 --> 00:53:15.708
they move you to three minutes, four minutes

1257
00:53:15.750 --> 00:53:18.168
and one day you hope you get to the Almost Famous list,

1258
00:53:18.210 --> 00:53:19.158
which means you get to open up

1259
00:53:19.200 --> 00:53:20.808
for all the great comic acts

1260
00:53:20.850 --> 00:53:22.368
that come through the Comedy Works,

1261
00:53:22.410 --> 00:53:24.828
and eventually you hope to make the Final Roster,

1262
00:53:24.870 --> 00:53:26.868
which actually means you're
a headliner at Comedy Works.

1263
00:53:26.910 --> 00:53:30.168
We have 500 or more people

1264
00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:32.688
working our New Talent system.

1265
00:53:32.730 --> 00:53:36.828
We have almost 200 people every week signing up.

1266
00:53:36.870 --> 00:53:39.408
So there's a lot of people in there

1267
00:53:39.450 --> 00:53:40.283
and

1268
00:53:41.970 --> 00:53:44.298
not many make it far.

1269
00:53:44.340 --> 00:53:47.328
My first open mic was absolutely disastrous

1270
00:53:47.370 --> 00:53:48.468
from my point of view.

1271
00:53:48.510 --> 00:53:50.268
Looking back on it, you know,

1272
00:53:50.310 --> 00:53:52.578
almost 15 years ago I watched recently

1273
00:53:52.620 --> 00:53:55.518
the video of me performing with the hairbrush,

1274
00:53:55.560 --> 00:53:58.068
which I never probably want to ever see that again.

1275
00:53:58.110 --> 00:53:59.538
He was trying things out.

1276
00:53:59.580 --> 00:54:01.848
So I mean this was, what, 2007?

1277
00:54:01.890 --> 00:54:04.248
And yeah, just recording on a cell phone or a camera

1278
00:54:04.290 --> 00:54:05.628
or something like that.

1279
00:54:05.670 --> 00:54:07.458
He would come in and he'd have his hairbrush,

1280
00:54:07.500 --> 00:54:10.608
like very stereotypical, practicing in on it.

1281
00:54:10.650 --> 00:54:12.348
Growing up was difficult with my mom in Boulder, man,

1282
00:54:12.390 --> 00:54:13.758
she, different outlook on life

1283
00:54:13.800 --> 00:54:16.128
than most other people there.

1284
00:54:16.170 --> 00:54:19.818
Growing up, you know, if
my little friend Billy Buttawipo

1285
00:54:19.860 --> 00:54:21.048
would scrape his knee,

1286
00:54:21.090 --> 00:54:22.818
go running home to his mom,

1287
00:54:22.860 --> 00:54:24.165
she'd be like, "Oh Billy, it's okay.

1288
00:54:24.207 --> 00:54:25.598
Let me kiss that for you."

1289
00:54:25.640 --> 00:54:28.638
He just was trying to work on his stage presence

1290
00:54:28.680 --> 00:54:31.458
and how he was gonna speak and tell his jokes.

1291
00:54:31.500 --> 00:54:34.365
I could come home with a
compound fracture in my left eye

1292
00:54:34.407 --> 00:54:36.588
and she'd immediately revert back to last time

1293
00:54:36.630 --> 00:54:37.855
I mouthed off,

1294
00:54:37.897 --> 00:54:39.258
"Mijo, see what happens

1295
00:54:39.300 --> 00:54:40.878
and God punishes without a belt."

1296
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:45.292
You know, that mindset that this is what I'm gonna do,

1297
00:54:45.334 --> 00:54:46.188
this is what I want.

1298
00:54:46.230 --> 00:54:49.788
You have to have some talent
to be in the NBA, shall we say.

1299
00:54:49.830 --> 00:54:52.368
And this looks like maybe, oh well I can do that.

1300
00:54:52.410 --> 00:54:54.676
I think a lot of people think that.

1301
00:54:54.718 --> 00:54:57.320
What's up, in the house today?

1302
00:54:58.695 --> 00:55:00.908
I'm from the North Side, North Boulder.

1303
00:55:03.330 --> 00:55:05.066
Anybody here from North Boulder?

1304
00:55:06.421 --> 00:55:07.212
Growing up in Boulder, man,

1305
00:55:07.254 --> 00:55:09.468
there's a lot of cultural differences.

1306
00:55:09.510 --> 00:55:10.878
You know, growing up little,

1307
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:13.488
my friend, little Billy Buttawipo
got a scrape on his knee.

1308
00:55:13.530 --> 00:55:15.175
He'd run home to his mom and he'd be like,

1309
00:55:15.217 --> 00:55:17.688
"Oh, mom," and his mom be like, "Oh Billy, it's okay,

1310
00:55:17.730 --> 00:55:18.978
your knee, blah, blah blah.

1311
00:55:19.020 --> 00:55:20.118
"Let me help you out."

1312
00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:23.148
I go home to my mom with a
compound fracture to my left eye.

1313
00:55:23.190 --> 00:55:24.648
She'd be like remembering the last time

1314
00:55:24.690 --> 00:55:25.548
I mouthed off to her.

1315
00:55:25.590 --> 00:55:29.674
She'd be like, "Mijo, and God punishes without a belt, see?"

1316
00:55:33.240 --> 00:55:35.508
I listened to what actually happened on stage

1317
00:55:35.550 --> 00:55:39.288
and there was some similarities
to what I had practiced,

1318
00:55:39.330 --> 00:55:41.388
but then I kind of like totally derailed

1319
00:55:41.430 --> 00:55:42.768
and it was only two minutes.

1320
00:55:42.810 --> 00:55:44.928
You know, they only give you
two minutes to show your stuff.

1321
00:55:44.970 --> 00:55:46.438
And he said, "I just did what you said."

1322
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:48.228
And I don't give that much advice.

1323
00:55:48.270 --> 00:55:51.948
It's just this is the system,
you need to work the system.

1324
00:55:51.990 --> 00:55:55.098
Be here, sign up, bring your best.

1325
00:55:55.140 --> 00:55:56.358
When you work this stage,

1326
00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:59.778
you need to bring your A game, always.

1327
00:55:59.820 --> 00:56:01.218
Please welcome to the stage

1328
00:56:01.260 --> 00:56:03.438
a large and loud Latino,

1329
00:56:03.480 --> 00:56:05.296
Vinnie Montez.

1330
00:56:15.330 --> 00:56:16.591
What's up?

1331
00:56:19.720 --> 00:56:21.528
.

1332
00:56:21.570 --> 00:56:23.747
All right, without people, what's up, kitchen?

1333
00:56:24.990 --> 00:56:26.568
Always got back-up, baby.

1334
00:56:26.610 --> 00:56:29.988
He did all those biker bars and all those other gigs.

1335
00:56:30.030 --> 00:56:31.788
Anything that he could,

1336
00:56:31.830 --> 00:56:34.338
that he could work and do his schedule,

1337
00:56:34.380 --> 00:56:37.398
he did that and that makes all the difference.

1338
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:39.498
He just had the mindset.

1339
00:56:39.540 --> 00:56:41.898
I don't have a traditional Latino job.

1340
00:56:41.940 --> 00:56:44.043
I'm a police officer, sincerely.

1341
00:56:44.996 --> 00:56:46.497
As you can tell.

1342
00:56:49.290 --> 00:56:50.808
He kind of has mass appeal

1343
00:56:50.850 --> 00:56:52.548
and the fact that he is so likable

1344
00:56:52.590 --> 00:56:54.438
and that he's so approachable

1345
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:57.108
and he's very approachable off stage as well.

1346
00:56:57.150 --> 00:56:59.568
And he's just got that

1347
00:56:59.610 --> 00:57:01.389
I like to hang with that guy.

1348
00:57:01.431 --> 00:57:04.195
So I'm in Target and I hear,

1349
00:57:04.237 --> 00:57:07.347
"Code yellow to electronics,
code yellow to electronics."

1350
00:57:08.220 --> 00:57:09.505
So I go up to the dude with the microphone like,

1351
00:57:09.547 --> 00:57:11.928
"Hey bro, what's the code yellow?"

1352
00:57:11.970 --> 00:57:15.133
He's like, "We got a Mexican in electronics."

1353
00:57:25.953 --> 00:57:26.794
What?

1354
00:57:27.872 --> 00:57:29.808
I think what stuck out about Vinnie

1355
00:57:29.850 --> 00:57:31.998
as opposed to some of those other comedians is

1356
00:57:32.040 --> 00:57:34.638
that he has an amazing stage presence.

1357
00:57:34.680 --> 00:57:37.368
And so he could say something that's maybe funny

1358
00:57:37.410 --> 00:57:38.748
or not so funny,

1359
00:57:38.790 --> 00:57:41.178
but his stage presence just really makes the joke

1360
00:57:41.220 --> 00:57:43.728
and all of his act-outs and his facial expressions.

1361
00:57:43.770 --> 00:57:46.368
I met Vinnie Montez

1362
00:57:46.410 --> 00:57:48.408
at Comedy Works, it had to be.

1363
00:57:48.450 --> 00:57:49.578
I love going on Spirit.

1364
00:57:49.620 --> 00:57:51.588
Spirit, it's like the Medicaid of the sky,

1365
00:57:51.630 --> 00:57:52.698
you know what I mean?

1366
00:57:52.740 --> 00:57:54.798
Like, I'm surprised they don't take food stamps

1367
00:57:54.840 --> 00:57:56.858
for snacks on Spirit.

1368
00:57:57.733 --> 00:57:58.524
You know how fun that would be?

1369
00:57:58.566 --> 00:57:59.357
You board a Spirit flight

1370
00:57:59.399 --> 00:58:01.278
and there's just a sign on the outside of the plane,

1371
00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:03.266
it's like we accept EBT, you're like.

1372
00:58:04.243 --> 00:58:05.148
Oh shit, rules.

1373
00:58:05.190 --> 00:58:06.768
You know, back then we're doing new talent nights

1374
00:58:06.810 --> 00:58:08.688
and we're doing open mics and stuff like that.

1375
00:58:08.730 --> 00:58:10.908
And so I met him just like I met

1376
00:58:10.950 --> 00:58:12.048
everybody else in the scene.

1377
00:58:12.090 --> 00:58:13.338
He was driving down from Boulder.

1378
00:58:13.380 --> 00:58:14.688
I was driving down from Boulder.

1379
00:58:14.730 --> 00:58:16.098
The thing about the Comedy Works is

1380
00:58:16.140 --> 00:58:17.238
like on New Talent night,

1381
00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:19.128
there's like 15 or 20 comics

1382
00:58:19.170 --> 00:58:21.558
and so it takes a while to get to know everybody.

1383
00:58:21.600 --> 00:58:22.998
I did a show here last night

1384
00:58:23.040 --> 00:58:25.758
and some lady asked if my hair was natural.

1385
00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:27.138
And I'm like, "Where the hell would you go

1386
00:58:27.180 --> 00:58:28.767
to get your hair done like this, you know?"

1387
00:58:30.240 --> 00:58:32.284
She said, "PetSmart".

1388
00:58:34.680 --> 00:58:35.928
That stung a little bit.

1389
00:58:35.970 --> 00:58:36.945
I remember seeing Vinnie

1390
00:58:36.987 --> 00:58:39.348
and he talked about being a sheriff and stuff,

1391
00:58:39.390 --> 00:58:41.868
and the thing about it is, I'm a comic first.

1392
00:58:41.910 --> 00:58:43.128
Like I wasn't like,

1393
00:58:43.170 --> 00:58:45.468
what the hell is this cop trying to do, do comedy?

1394
00:58:45.510 --> 00:58:46.301
I mean I just,

1395
00:58:46.343 --> 00:58:48.618
I always think there's room for everybody

1396
00:58:48.660 --> 00:58:49.451
in the business.

1397
00:58:49.493 --> 00:58:51.698
The people I came up with who were really close to me

1398
00:58:51.740 --> 00:58:54.828
in comedy, John Novosad, a.k.a. Hippie Man back in the day,

1399
00:58:54.870 --> 00:58:56.478
Brent Gill was one of the guys that I came up with

1400
00:58:56.520 --> 00:58:57.828
using my New Talent class,

1401
00:58:57.870 --> 00:58:59.298
coming up through Comedy Works.

1402
00:58:59.340 --> 00:59:02.298
These guys were really instrumental

1403
00:59:02.340 --> 00:59:03.828
in a group that I bonded with.

1404
00:59:03.870 --> 00:59:04.818
You just gotta do it.

1405
00:59:04.860 --> 00:59:06.078
You're gonna fail,

1406
00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:07.488
you're gonna get knocked down

1407
00:59:07.530 --> 00:59:09.048
and you're gonna have some of the highest nights

1408
00:59:09.090 --> 00:59:11.778
of your life of just, I smashed tonight

1409
00:59:11.820 --> 00:59:14.178
and this is the greatest feeling I've ever had.

1410
00:59:14.220 --> 00:59:16.068
Lots of times, Vinnie would gimme a ride

1411
00:59:16.110 --> 00:59:17.268
to and from these shows.

1412
00:59:17.310 --> 00:59:20.778
So we became friends then and he would pick my brain,

1413
00:59:20.820 --> 00:59:22.158
but I would also pick his brain.

1414
00:59:22.200 --> 00:59:24.055
Like just today in the car he goes,

1415
00:59:24.097 --> 00:59:27.528
"You know, I don't know if I should be giving you advice."

1416
00:59:27.570 --> 00:59:28.878
And I'm like, "Of course you should.

1417
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:29.958
You know, why not?"

1418
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.488
Because if I knew the answers to this business,

1419
00:59:34.530 --> 00:59:36.078
we'd be doing this interview

1420
00:59:36.120 --> 00:59:38.628
in my beach house in Malibu.

1421
00:59:38.670 --> 00:59:40.728
But fast forward now these later years,

1422
00:59:40.770 --> 00:59:42.855
we now have these big 420 events

1423
00:59:42.897 --> 00:59:44.838
and they needed some extra police officers

1424
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:47.118
to work the 420 event.

1425
00:59:47.160 --> 00:59:50.388
And I felt like I was qualified to work the event

1426
00:59:50.430 --> 00:59:52.681
because I like Doritos just like they do.

1427
00:59:52.723 --> 00:59:53.514
You know what I'm saying?

1428
00:59:54.389 --> 00:59:55.788
One of the ones I like to talk about that process,

1429
00:59:55.830 --> 00:59:57.498
'cause it just took forever,

1430
00:59:57.540 --> 00:59:59.358
was finding the right way to get into

1431
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:00.948
420 Tickle Me Elmo.

1432
01:00:00.990 --> 01:00:02.808
So I get there to work the event,

1433
01:00:02.850 --> 01:00:04.728
it's three o'clock in the afternoon,

1434
01:00:04.770 --> 01:00:08.268
there's already 10,000 people on the field

1435
01:00:08.310 --> 01:00:11.028
and it is just a cloud of smoke.

1436
01:00:11.070 --> 01:00:13.158
How you say a word in comedy

1437
01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:14.808
or how you phrase something

1438
01:00:14.850 --> 01:00:17.718
is just as equally as important as what you say.

1439
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:19.818
So now when I do that bit, I'm like,

1440
01:00:19.860 --> 01:00:23.298
when I realize I get a contact high,

1441
01:00:23.340 --> 01:00:27.018
I become Mexican Tickle Me Elmo.

1442
01:00:27.060 --> 01:00:32.060
That Mexican Tickle Me Elmo,
that cadence right there is

1443
01:00:32.190 --> 01:00:33.798
so important

1444
01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:37.218
to let the audience take in
everything that I'm saying.

1445
01:00:37.260 --> 01:00:41.298
What I didn't realize is if I get a contact high,

1446
01:00:41.340 --> 01:00:44.275
I become Mexican Tickle Me Elmo.

1447
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:50.238
Even before 420, the hour of 4:20 hit,

1448
01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:51.555
I mean everybody was blazing, right?

1449
01:00:51.597 --> 01:00:55.281
And I mean, some of these blunts were like this big.

1450
01:00:55.323 --> 01:00:58.158
I can see that Vinnie, you know,

1451
01:00:58.200 --> 01:01:00.288
being a foot and a half, you know, below everybody

1452
01:01:00.330 --> 01:01:02.298
'cause he's so short,

1453
01:01:02.340 --> 01:01:04.248
just getting shotgunned with weed smoke

1454
01:01:04.290 --> 01:01:06.168
as he is going in and you know,

1455
01:01:06.210 --> 01:01:08.928
that Tickle Me Elmo reference is just so funny.

1456
01:01:08.970 --> 01:01:11.838
You're breathing the same
air everybody else is breathing.

1457
01:01:11.880 --> 01:01:13.638
And I'm like, there is no way

1458
01:01:13.680 --> 01:01:16.068
that I am not breathing this in at some point

1459
01:01:16.110 --> 01:01:18.738
or the rest of the officers that are working here.

1460
01:01:18.780 --> 01:01:21.648
Apparently, I was in the crowd for too long.

1461
01:01:22.523 --> 01:01:24.775
And dispatch start calling me on the radio

1462
01:01:24.817 --> 01:01:27.117
"Vinnie, can we get a status on you in there?"

1463
01:01:41.037 --> 01:01:43.848
But that inspired me to think like how could I take

1464
01:01:43.890 --> 01:01:46.968
this experience from my perspective as a cop

1465
01:01:47.010 --> 01:01:48.528
and relay that to an audience

1466
01:01:48.570 --> 01:01:51.798
so that they can enjoy what I'm envisioning

1467
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:53.973
being crazy from my perspective.

1468
01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:57.640
Vinnie, can we get a status on you in there?

1469
01:02:02.670 --> 01:02:05.735
How do I show that I'm this high cop, you know?

1470
01:02:05.777 --> 01:02:08.808
'Cause the facial expression's
not gonna work by itself,

1471
01:02:08.850 --> 01:02:11.508
like it does at the beginning of the act out.

1472
01:02:11.550 --> 01:02:13.023
But like you need more.

1473
01:02:15.826 --> 01:02:16.617
.

1474
01:02:21.540 --> 01:02:22.901
Dispatch go home.

1475
01:02:27.912 --> 01:02:29.298
Woo.

1476
01:02:33.330 --> 01:02:36.931
Anybody here know who Chris Farley is?

1477
01:02:39.750 --> 01:02:41.178
I wanna bring that guy back to life,

1478
01:02:41.220 --> 01:02:42.888
he's one of my inspirations,

1479
01:02:42.930 --> 01:02:45.438
but take him out on patrol with me.

1480
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:47.478
We got a lot of Karens in this country right now.

1481
01:02:47.520 --> 01:02:48.978
Karens, you know what I'm saying?

1482
01:02:49.020 --> 01:02:50.628
And I can't stand it when people are mean

1483
01:02:50.670 --> 01:02:53.598
to servers or customer service personnel.

1484
01:02:53.640 --> 01:02:56.148
And I saw this lady outta
control one time on this call.

1485
01:02:56.190 --> 01:02:58.428
She was yelling at the Costco customer service.

1486
01:02:58.470 --> 01:02:59.748
She's like, "You're gonna take this back

1487
01:02:59.790 --> 01:03:01.188
and I don't care what you have to do.

1488
01:03:01.230 --> 01:03:02.021
I'm important."

1489
01:03:02.063 --> 01:03:03.528
You know, I'm like, oh my God.

1490
01:03:03.570 --> 01:03:05.238
I think when people find out I'm a police officer,

1491
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:06.648
depending on the setting,

1492
01:03:06.690 --> 01:03:08.448
they are skeptical

1493
01:03:08.490 --> 01:03:11.418
because especially when
I'm first coming out on stage

1494
01:03:11.460 --> 01:03:12.888
and I reveal I'm a police officer,

1495
01:03:12.930 --> 01:03:14.328
I think people are right away like, okay,

1496
01:03:14.370 --> 01:03:15.228
what does he have to say?

1497
01:03:15.270 --> 01:03:17.095
I'd love to walk in with Chris Farley and be like,

1498
01:03:17.137 --> 01:03:18.288
"You want to take this one Chris?"

1499
01:03:18.330 --> 01:03:20.015
He'd be like, "I got it."

1500
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:22.195
He'd walk up and he'd be like,

1501
01:03:22.237 --> 01:03:23.448
"Ma'am, I need your attention."

1502
01:03:23.490 --> 01:03:24.948
She'd turn around, what is your name?

1503
01:03:24.990 --> 01:03:26.268
I know who your supervisor is.

1504
01:03:26.310 --> 01:03:27.558
Gimme your number, are you detaining me?

1505
01:03:27.600 --> 01:03:30.018
He'd be like, "Ma'am, I need you, do me a favor.

1506
01:03:30.060 --> 01:03:32.361
Shut your freaking yapper."

1507
01:03:34.020 --> 01:03:36.108
And then after I tell some of the stories

1508
01:03:36.150 --> 01:03:39.138
and I make it kind of personal and I make people laugh,

1509
01:03:39.180 --> 01:03:40.458
it's hard to be mad at somebody

1510
01:03:40.500 --> 01:03:42.078
when you're laughing at them,

1511
01:03:42.120 --> 01:03:43.848
and or with them.

1512
01:03:43.890 --> 01:03:45.738
So I think that breaks down a barrier right away

1513
01:03:45.780 --> 01:03:48.085
and establishes rapport and communication.

1514
01:03:48.127 --> 01:03:50.778
Failure to comply will result in the failure of you

1515
01:03:50.820 --> 01:03:53.598
that understanding that by the end of the night

1516
01:03:53.640 --> 01:03:56.425
you're gonna be living in a van down by the river.

1517
01:03:57.929 --> 01:04:00.678
Yeah, I think that these stories he has from his job

1518
01:04:00.720 --> 01:04:01.750
are so

1519
01:04:03.210 --> 01:04:05.598
novel to a bunch of audiences.

1520
01:04:05.640 --> 01:04:08.148
I think that they hear cop and they think,

1521
01:04:08.190 --> 01:04:09.168
all right, I don't, like,

1522
01:04:09.210 --> 01:04:10.398
I don't know if I like this guy.

1523
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:11.418
And then you hear these stories,

1524
01:04:11.460 --> 01:04:12.948
you're like, oh, this is actually,

1525
01:04:12.990 --> 01:04:13.848
this is kind of funny.

1526
01:04:13.890 --> 01:04:16.938
Standup comedy has been an absolute blessing to me.

1527
01:04:16.980 --> 01:04:19.098
I think it's not only balanced me out,

1528
01:04:19.140 --> 01:04:20.988
but it lets me and reminds me all the people

1529
01:04:21.030 --> 01:04:22.068
that I get to interact with,

1530
01:04:22.110 --> 01:04:23.988
like the comedians that I see on a regular basis

1531
01:04:24.030 --> 01:04:25.308
who are not cops.

1532
01:04:25.350 --> 01:04:27.918
It keeps me grounded in who's actually out there

1533
01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:28.751
in the world.

1534
01:04:28.793 --> 01:04:30.294
When I heard he was a cop, I was like, well,

1535
01:04:30.336 --> 01:04:34.038
I gotta steer clear of him.

1536
01:04:34.080 --> 01:04:35.590
I don't wanna be around him.

1537
01:04:35.632 --> 01:04:36.738
You know, I don't wanna get in trouble.

1538
01:04:36.780 --> 01:04:38.688
If you, I don't mean to laugh,

1539
01:04:38.730 --> 01:04:39.918
but if you get a good look at me,

1540
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:41.958
I'm not necessarily anti-police,

1541
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.288
but you know, when, a guy who looks like me,

1542
01:04:45.330 --> 01:04:47.268
when I see a police officer,

1543
01:04:47.310 --> 01:04:48.468
I'm a little nervous.

1544
01:04:48.510 --> 01:04:51.315
We used to smoke weed at the creek by Comedy Works

1545
01:04:51.357 --> 01:04:53.778
and it prior to the shows,

1546
01:04:53.820 --> 01:04:55.578
not me and Vinnie, but the comics.

1547
01:04:55.620 --> 01:04:57.048
And I would be like, "Vinnie, we're going to the creek.

1548
01:04:57.090 --> 01:04:57.918
You wanna come?"

1549
01:04:57.960 --> 01:04:59.268
And just because it's,

1550
01:04:59.310 --> 01:05:02.328
it was always fun to hear how he would say no this time.

1551
01:05:02.370 --> 01:05:04.128
As I got to know Vinnie,

1552
01:05:04.170 --> 01:05:05.138
and again, I wasn't like,

1553
01:05:05.180 --> 01:05:06.858
oh this guy's a cop doing comedy.

1554
01:05:06.900 --> 01:05:08.445
I just was like, hey, this guy's funny

1555
01:05:08.487 --> 01:05:10.180
and he's a police officer

1556
01:05:10.222 --> 01:05:11.013
and like I say, I'm a comic.

1557
01:05:11.055 --> 01:05:13.938
So then I was like, man, this is a good niche for him.

1558
01:05:13.980 --> 01:05:16.878
And so then you know, Vinnie, as he started to work

1559
01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:17.988
around the country,

1560
01:05:18.030 --> 01:05:19.158
booked me to go with him.

1561
01:05:19.200 --> 01:05:22.668
And what it did for me was really show

1562
01:05:22.710 --> 01:05:26.238
the human aspect of police officers.

1563
01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:28.848
And it really did humanize it for me to go

1564
01:05:28.890 --> 01:05:30.468
you know, these are people.

1565
01:05:30.510 --> 01:05:31.968
I guess the easiest way I could put it

1566
01:05:32.010 --> 01:05:33.318
in relation to my comedy is

1567
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:35.628
just letting people know when they see me up there

1568
01:05:35.670 --> 01:05:37.038
as a standup comedian

1569
01:05:37.080 --> 01:05:38.238
and they lose sight of the fact

1570
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:40.128
that I'm actually a police officer on the street

1571
01:05:40.170 --> 01:05:41.238
and I'm not enforcing laws,

1572
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:43.698
but I'm out there making people laugh,

1573
01:05:43.740 --> 01:05:46.036
they get to see that human side of me.

1574
01:05:47.610 --> 01:05:48.948
I don't know if you guys saw this online,

1575
01:05:48.990 --> 01:05:50.718
but a lady called 911

1576
01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:55.760
because her boyfriend
refused to load the dishwasher.

1577
01:05:56.652 --> 01:05:57.798
Dude, I would've loved to get that call.

1578
01:05:57.840 --> 01:05:59.898
But under the auspices I show up,

1579
01:05:59.940 --> 01:06:01.593
your ass is singing a song.

1580
01:06:02.610 --> 01:06:03.401
I'd have rolled up and I'd be like,

1581
01:06:03.443 --> 01:06:04.234
"What's going on?"

1582
01:06:04.276 --> 01:06:05.866
She's like, "This son of a bitch, he doesn't even know

1583
01:06:05.908 --> 01:06:08.178
how to take a single dish outta the sink

1584
01:06:08.220 --> 01:06:10.128
and put it in the dishwasher."

1585
01:06:11.003 --> 01:06:12.348
They get to see what I have to offer

1586
01:06:12.390 --> 01:06:14.058
that's not just Vinnie the cop.

1587
01:06:14.100 --> 01:06:16.908
They get to see what I offer
as Vinnie the standup comedian

1588
01:06:16.950 --> 01:06:18.678
and Vinnie as the human being.

1589
01:06:18.720 --> 01:06:20.508
And if I could just shed some light on that

1590
01:06:20.550 --> 01:06:22.908
and let people see that human side of me,

1591
01:06:22.950 --> 01:06:24.498
then I think it gives 'em the opportunity

1592
01:06:24.540 --> 01:06:25.331
to want to see

1593
01:06:25.373 --> 01:06:27.018
the other side of other law enforcement officers

1594
01:06:27.060 --> 01:06:28.068
around the country.

1595
01:06:28.110 --> 01:06:29.988
She'd be like, "I'm sick of this shit, I'm outta here."

1596
01:06:30.030 --> 01:06:31.075
She go out the door and I'd be like,

1597
01:06:31.117 --> 01:06:32.328
"Dude, you gotta bring her back,

1598
01:06:32.370 --> 01:06:33.348
but you gotta sing it out."

1599
01:06:33.390 --> 01:06:34.458
He'd be like, "What?"

1600
01:06:34.500 --> 01:06:35.388
I'd be like, "Hit it."

1601
01:06:35.430 --> 01:06:36.669
He'd have to be like

1602
01:06:36.711 --> 01:06:39.496
♪ I know you want leave me ♪

1603
01:06:39.538 --> 01:06:43.260
♪ But I refuse to let you go ♪

1604
01:06:43.302 --> 01:06:44.802
♪ If I have to beg ♪

1605
01:06:44.844 --> 01:06:47.270
♪ Plead for your sympathy ♪

1606
01:06:47.312 --> 01:06:49.140
♪ I don't mind ♪

1607
01:06:49.182 --> 01:06:51.394
♪ 'Cause you mean that much to me ♪

1608
01:06:51.436 --> 01:06:53.864
♪ Ain't too proud to beg ♪

1609
01:06:57.150 --> 01:06:58.788
But you know, the ladies are not gonna be outdone.

1610
01:06:58.830 --> 01:07:00.985
She's gonna come right back through the door.

1611
01:07:01.027 --> 01:07:02.074
♪ Tell me what you want ♪

1612
01:07:02.116 --> 01:07:03.113
♪ What you really, really want ♪

1613
01:07:09.227 --> 01:07:11.598
I told my wife, you know, am I asleep or am I alive,

1614
01:07:11.640 --> 01:07:13.578
you better pinch me 'cause I can't believe

1615
01:07:13.620 --> 01:07:15.528
that Vince is doing all this.

1616
01:07:15.570 --> 01:07:16.361
And I seen that.

1617
01:07:16.403 --> 01:07:17.448
That's something that I've seen

1618
01:07:17.490 --> 01:07:19.848
that nobody will ever take away from me.

1619
01:07:19.890 --> 01:07:21.888
The stuff that my boy has been able to do.

1620
01:07:21.930 --> 01:07:24.348
And I know he got that from my genes

1621
01:07:24.390 --> 01:07:26.568
and I know that 'cause I had the drive.

1622
01:07:26.610 --> 01:07:28.188
So he has a drive

1623
01:07:28.230 --> 01:07:30.738
and that's why he's gonna be successful in what he does.

1624
01:07:30.780 --> 01:07:35.780
My father is probably the
inspiration for giving back.

1625
01:07:36.690 --> 01:07:38.088
My dad would always help people out.

1626
01:07:38.130 --> 01:07:39.948
And I think that's what created a lot of loyalty

1627
01:07:39.990 --> 01:07:41.418
from his friends to him,

1628
01:07:41.460 --> 01:07:44.448
is because in any situation
where his friends needed help,

1629
01:07:44.490 --> 01:07:45.468
he was there for them.

1630
01:07:45.510 --> 01:07:47.478
And so I aspire to do the same thing

1631
01:07:47.520 --> 01:07:49.878
because like I said earlier

1632
01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:50.868
in other times,

1633
01:07:50.910 --> 01:07:52.638
you can't do anything in life

1634
01:07:52.680 --> 01:07:54.828
without relationships and people.

1635
01:07:54.870 --> 01:07:56.125
My mom would always say,

1636
01:07:56.167 --> 01:07:58.548
"If you ever do something for somebody else,

1637
01:07:58.590 --> 01:08:00.018
never remember it.

1638
01:08:00.060 --> 01:08:01.758
But if somebody else does something for you,

1639
01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:03.018
never forget it."

1640
01:08:03.060 --> 01:08:04.308
When you've done something for somebody,

1641
01:08:04.350 --> 01:08:05.838
let it be water under the bridge.

1642
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:08.238
Don't expect anything back in return.

1643
01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:10.028
I look at all the things that I've been able to do

1644
01:08:10.070 --> 01:08:11.988
in my life.

1645
01:08:12.030 --> 01:08:14.418
Phil West didn't have to take the time

1646
01:08:14.460 --> 01:08:18.888
to read all my college essays
for the most part and help me,

1647
01:08:18.930 --> 01:08:19.878
but he did.

1648
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:22.128
Wendy Curtis didn't have to take a chance on me

1649
01:08:22.170 --> 01:08:24.558
and promote me to the Almost Famous list

1650
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:27.438
and then make me a club comic on the rotation there.

1651
01:08:27.480 --> 01:08:29.178
People didn't have to take those opportunities

1652
01:08:29.220 --> 01:08:30.618
to give me breaks in my life.

1653
01:08:30.660 --> 01:08:31.938
Talent can only get you so far.

1654
01:08:31.980 --> 01:08:35.058
But generosity, people giving you opportunity,

1655
01:08:35.100 --> 01:08:39.468
I believe that you are no better than what you give.

1656
01:08:39.510 --> 01:08:41.290
So I think that

1657
01:08:42.690 --> 01:08:45.978
it comes from my father, for sure, my mother.

1658
01:08:46.020 --> 01:08:48.558
It's just something that makes me feel really good

1659
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:50.268
as a human being inside

1660
01:08:50.310 --> 01:08:52.158
to be able to help other people.

1661
01:08:52.200 --> 01:08:54.050
And that's as simply as I can say it.

1662
01:09:05.670 --> 01:09:06.858
But if you would, Las Vegas,

1663
01:09:06.900 --> 01:09:08.598
let's have a good time tonight

1664
01:09:08.640 --> 01:09:11.118
and let's give a very warm Vegas welcome

1665
01:09:11.160 --> 01:09:12.978
to the very funny Vinnie Montez,

1666
01:09:13.020 --> 01:09:14.893
everybody here he is, Vinnie.

1667
01:09:16.620 --> 01:09:18.528
Vinnie has tough ladies in his life.

1668
01:09:18.570 --> 01:09:20.568
Those stories, I mean they're very funny.

1669
01:09:20.610 --> 01:09:22.818
The story about him and Catrina

1670
01:09:22.860 --> 01:09:26.058
and what they suspected
was an intruder in their house.

1671
01:09:26.100 --> 01:09:27.618
I don't even know what to say

1672
01:09:27.660 --> 01:09:29.748
because I just don't believe
that it actually happened.

1673
01:09:29.790 --> 01:09:31.338
She says this never happened,

1674
01:09:31.380 --> 01:09:34.218
which I want to throw the flag up on that

1675
01:09:34.260 --> 01:09:35.838
and say that's a complete lie.

1676
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:39.423
Three o'clock in the morning one night, we're sleeping.

1677
01:09:40.590 --> 01:09:42.100
I get up to go to the bathroom

1678
01:09:43.440 --> 01:09:44.688
and I head down to the bathroom

1679
01:09:44.730 --> 01:09:46.788
and I don't turn on a single light in the house.

1680
01:09:46.830 --> 01:09:47.748
Why?

1681
01:09:47.790 --> 01:09:49.428
Because I'm a professional.

1682
01:09:49.470 --> 01:09:51.558
They hear something, they hear a noise downstairs

1683
01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:55.068
and he knows that criminality is afoot.

1684
01:09:55.110 --> 01:09:56.748
And I handle my business in the bathroom

1685
01:09:56.790 --> 01:09:58.878
and I start making my way back to bed

1686
01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:01.908
when from downstairs, I hear a crash.

1687
01:10:01.950 --> 01:10:02.853
Kaboom.

1688
01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:05.770
So I stop and I listen

1689
01:10:06.690 --> 01:10:10.716
because there is criminal activity afoot.

1690
01:10:11.591 --> 01:10:15.768
The cop in him is, you know, ready to kick some ass.

1691
01:10:15.810 --> 01:10:18.504
And his girlfriend asks him,

1692
01:10:18.546 --> 01:10:20.808
"You know, did you hear that noise?"

1693
01:10:20.850 --> 01:10:22.053
Did you just shush me?

1694
01:10:23.267 --> 01:10:27.918
Because I think any woman would react similarly.

1695
01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:29.065
And from the bed I hear,

1696
01:10:29.107 --> 01:10:29.940
"Babe,"

1697
01:10:31.620 --> 01:10:32.453
babe,

1698
01:10:34.440 --> 01:10:36.138
didn't you hear that?

1699
01:10:36.180 --> 01:10:36.978
Babe?

1700
01:10:37.020 --> 01:10:39.648
"Did you hear that?"

1701
01:10:39.690 --> 01:10:43.124
To which I replied, "Shh."

1702
01:10:51.174 --> 01:10:54.468
And about 10 seconds of silence went by.

1703
01:10:54.510 --> 01:10:55.863
And then I heard,

1704
01:10:58.765 --> 01:11:01.434
"Did you just shush me?"

1705
01:11:04.860 --> 01:11:08.928
She acknowledges that by asking me if I heard that.

1706
01:11:08.970 --> 01:11:12.138
And in response, you know, I did.

1707
01:11:12.180 --> 01:11:14.598
I was like, shh, I did shush her.

1708
01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:17.868
And that did create some contention.

1709
01:11:17.910 --> 01:11:19.908
Is that something I would say?

1710
01:11:19.950 --> 01:11:20.741
Probably.

1711
01:11:20.783 --> 01:11:23.358
And that's when she came out of her shell.

1712
01:11:23.400 --> 01:11:24.558
And I couldn't see her face.

1713
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:25.818
But she's like, "Let me tell you something,

1714
01:11:25.860 --> 01:11:28.169
you son of bitch, my father didn't raise no woman to be."

1715
01:11:31.073 --> 01:11:33.498
And I was like, oh my God, what is going on right now?

1716
01:11:33.540 --> 01:11:36.130
And I backed up and I shut the door to the bedroom

1717
01:11:37.080 --> 01:11:39.768
and I went downstairs 'cause
I had business to take care of.

1718
01:11:39.810 --> 01:11:41.328
And I was looking for the burglar

1719
01:11:41.370 --> 01:11:43.428
and I was searching the house.

1720
01:11:43.470 --> 01:11:44.748
And I'm gonna be honest with you, family,

1721
01:11:44.790 --> 01:11:45.858
if I would've found that burglar,

1722
01:11:45.900 --> 01:11:47.628
I'd have been like, "Excuse me, sir."

1723
01:11:47.670 --> 01:11:48.513
Yes,

1724
01:11:49.470 --> 01:11:51.155
"upstairs, first door on the left."

1725
01:11:52.860 --> 01:11:54.318
There was no burglar in the house.

1726
01:11:54.360 --> 01:11:56.838
But the thing about it is I find it odd

1727
01:11:56.880 --> 01:11:59.328
that she says that this didn't happen

1728
01:11:59.370 --> 01:12:03.948
because this was completely
inspired by that interaction.

1729
01:12:03.990 --> 01:12:06.768
I just don't remember the exact specific instance

1730
01:12:06.810 --> 01:12:07.998
that he is referring to.

1731
01:12:08.040 --> 01:12:09.678
And I'm sure that he exaggerated.

1732
01:12:09.720 --> 01:12:11.778
I probably just said something

1733
01:12:11.820 --> 01:12:13.638
and then it turned into like this big joke.

1734
01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:14.838
Maybe she was half asleep.

1735
01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:16.428
I don't know, Catrina, what was going on.

1736
01:12:16.470 --> 01:12:18.648
But that absolutely happened.

1737
01:12:18.690 --> 01:12:20.628
I'll take a polygraph if I need to.

1738
01:12:20.670 --> 01:12:23.238
Whatever it has turned
into, people find it hilarious.

1739
01:12:23.280 --> 01:12:25.098
People in my family think it's hilarious.

1740
01:12:25.140 --> 01:12:26.568
They're like, that is totally you.

1741
01:12:26.610 --> 01:12:27.918
So I deny that it happened,

1742
01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:30.051
but I guess history will tell.

1743
01:12:30.093 --> 01:12:31.698
What do they say about SWAT people?

1744
01:12:31.740 --> 01:12:32.928
Either you're SWAT.

1745
01:12:32.970 --> 01:12:34.745
Or you're not.

1746
01:12:36.717 --> 01:12:38.283
No, I saw you fuckers in here.

1747
01:12:39.158 --> 01:12:39.991
I know.

1748
01:12:40.950 --> 01:12:43.828
You're not gonna make me break my toughness tonight.

1749
01:12:45.990 --> 01:12:48.018
Certainly the bear in the house story is

1750
01:12:48.060 --> 01:12:49.518
one of my favorites.

1751
01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:51.885
Sam, Captain America is like, "I got this",

1752
01:12:51.927 --> 01:12:53.478
and he's already got the shotgun.

1753
01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:56.568
He's running in there and it's like, "Here, bear, bear."

1754
01:12:56.610 --> 01:12:59.668
How the SWAT operator is going, "Here, bear, bear, bear."

1755
01:12:59.710 --> 01:13:01.409
Here, bear, bear, bear.

1756
01:13:01.451 --> 01:13:04.308
I'm not gonna do impressions, that's for sure.

1757
01:13:04.350 --> 01:13:06.858
Sam is the quintessential SWAT guy.

1758
01:13:06.900 --> 01:13:10.698
He is, he did 20 years and then he was done.

1759
01:13:10.740 --> 01:13:11.573
You know,

1760
01:13:13.066 --> 01:13:14.598
and I start going to an act out right away

1761
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:16.188
'cause I think about how I see him

1762
01:13:16.230 --> 01:13:17.868
when I portray him on stage.

1763
01:13:17.910 --> 01:13:20.658
One of my favorite calls
I've ever had in my entire life,

1764
01:13:20.700 --> 01:13:23.598
not because of the call wasn't serious and dangerous,

1765
01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:25.848
but because who got to go on the call with me.

1766
01:13:25.890 --> 01:13:27.318
This lady called 911 one night.

1767
01:13:27.360 --> 01:13:29.958
She's like, "There's a bear in my kitchen,

1768
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:31.965
there's a bear in my kitchen."

1769
01:13:32.840 --> 01:13:34.038
We were on night shift together

1770
01:13:34.080 --> 01:13:36.438
and he was my sergeant

1771
01:13:36.480 --> 01:13:38.388
and I was a district deputy at the time.

1772
01:13:38.430 --> 01:13:39.528
And we get this call

1773
01:13:39.570 --> 01:13:42.728
because a bear went into somebody's house.

1774
01:13:42.770 --> 01:13:44.328
To make matters worse,

1775
01:13:44.370 --> 01:13:45.588
that night I was riding doubles

1776
01:13:45.630 --> 01:13:48.078
and I was paired up with one of the SWAT guys,

1777
01:13:48.120 --> 01:13:49.128
and his name is Sam.

1778
01:13:49.170 --> 01:13:50.208
He comes outta the station.

1779
01:13:50.250 --> 01:13:51.874
He's like, "Yeah, bro."

1780
01:13:53.977 --> 01:13:56.577
"Let's go get the bear, bro, let's go get the bear."

1781
01:13:58.590 --> 01:14:00.918
You know the SWATers, they
can't talk without doing this.

1782
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.280
Hey bro, we're gonna go in on the side.

1783
01:14:05.790 --> 01:14:09.648
And the lady is, you know, letting dispatch know

1784
01:14:09.690 --> 01:14:10.935
that she's freaking out in the house

1785
01:14:10.977 --> 01:14:13.338
and we get up there and I was honestly like,

1786
01:14:13.380 --> 01:14:14.942
that's my fucking problem?

1787
01:14:16.500 --> 01:14:17.748
I mean, if it was a brown bear,

1788
01:14:17.790 --> 01:14:19.968
at least I could communicate, you know what I'm saying?

1789
01:14:31.470 --> 01:14:33.408
Well, sometimes I think it's kind of cool, you know?

1790
01:14:33.450 --> 01:14:36.738
'Cause at one point in his version of the story,

1791
01:14:36.780 --> 01:14:39.618
he calls, you know, the SWAT guy

1792
01:14:39.660 --> 01:14:41.418
that likes to work out with the blonde hair

1793
01:14:41.460 --> 01:14:42.251
and the blue eyes.

1794
01:14:42.293 --> 01:14:43.578
And I don't have either.

1795
01:14:43.620 --> 01:14:46.098
Well, I got blue eyes, but I don't have any hair anymore.

1796
01:14:46.140 --> 01:14:47.688
And he refers to me as Captain America.

1797
01:14:47.730 --> 01:14:50.868
And I'm like, yeah, that's right, I'm Captain America.

1798
01:14:50.910 --> 01:14:53.852
So Captain America and I
are gonna get this fucking bear.

1799
01:14:56.520 --> 01:14:58.368
And we're driving up the canyon and I'm driving,

1800
01:14:58.410 --> 01:15:00.510
I'm the one, 10 and two, baby, 10 and two,

1801
01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:04.428
and I leave him in charge of the siren.

1802
01:15:04.470 --> 01:15:08.850
And this dumbass plays one siren the entire run, one.

1803
01:15:09.810 --> 01:15:11.298
And it's the one that I hate the most.

1804
01:15:11.340 --> 01:15:12.773
The one that goes.

1805
01:15:17.691 --> 01:15:19.698
I hate that siren, why?

1806
01:15:19.740 --> 01:15:21.048
Because all I can think about every time

1807
01:15:21.090 --> 01:15:25.068
I hear that siren is dumbass, dumbass.

1808
01:15:25.110 --> 01:15:27.798
And we go in and we go out into the hallway.

1809
01:15:27.840 --> 01:15:28.998
Close the door, I hear click, click.

1810
01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:30.438
And then I realized, oh shit,

1811
01:15:30.480 --> 01:15:33.438
we just locked ourself in a hallway

1812
01:15:33.480 --> 01:15:35.208
at the end of the hallway, you know,

1813
01:15:35.250 --> 01:15:36.558
which is about this wide.

1814
01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:38.298
So we're essentially in a kill box,

1815
01:15:38.340 --> 01:15:40.248
and we're in a bear kill box.

1816
01:15:40.290 --> 01:15:42.228
And I'm armed with a beanbag shotgun.

1817
01:15:42.270 --> 01:15:44.493
He goes running into the house,

1818
01:15:45.360 --> 01:15:47.058
and this is the next thing that I hear.

1819
01:15:47.100 --> 01:15:49.098
I am not making this up.

1820
01:15:49.140 --> 01:15:52.405
This is the very next thing I
hear coming from the house.

1821
01:15:52.447 --> 01:15:55.302
"Hear bear, bear, bear, bear, bear."

1822
01:15:58.237 --> 01:16:00.357
"Hey, bear where you at, bear?"

1823
01:16:03.067 --> 01:16:05.295
"Who's a good little bear?"

1824
01:16:06.170 --> 01:16:10.158
And Sam, of all the times that
we're supposed to be serious.

1825
01:16:10.200 --> 01:16:12.108
If the bear's got a way to get out,

1826
01:16:12.150 --> 01:16:14.118
as long as we're not between the path where he came in

1827
01:16:14.160 --> 01:16:15.318
and where he is,

1828
01:16:15.360 --> 01:16:16.593
he'll run away.

1829
01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:18.670
So I started going

1830
01:16:19.927 --> 01:16:23.028
"Here, bear, hear, bear bear,

1831
01:16:23.070 --> 01:16:24.858
who's a good bear?"

1832
01:16:24.900 --> 01:16:27.176
This pendejo's in there like Elmer Fudd.

1833
01:16:29.490 --> 01:16:30.858
I wanna find a bear.

1834
01:16:30.900 --> 01:16:33.135
I wanna find a bear.

1835
01:16:33.177 --> 01:16:34.518
He, I'm like, what is he doing in there?

1836
01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:36.168
Searching the house all tactically,

1837
01:16:36.210 --> 01:16:38.238
pieing the corners around the kitchen.

1838
01:16:38.280 --> 01:16:39.438
He sees the bear.

1839
01:16:39.480 --> 01:16:42.023
He's gonna come face to face with a bear

1840
01:16:42.065 --> 01:16:42.856
and be like.

1841
01:16:44.076 --> 01:16:46.028
"Hey, Boo Boo, got a picnic basket?"

1842
01:16:47.580 --> 01:16:48.528
But then when he gets to the part

1843
01:16:48.570 --> 01:16:49.361
where we're in the hallway

1844
01:16:49.403 --> 01:16:51.978
and I'm like trying to let the bear know we're coming,

1845
01:16:52.020 --> 01:16:54.767
he does an Elmer Fudd version of me where he is like.

1846
01:16:56.797 --> 01:16:57.588
"Here bear."

1847
01:16:57.630 --> 01:16:58.728
And you know, like, what do you,

1848
01:16:58.770 --> 01:16:59.658
what is he gonna do?

1849
01:16:59.700 --> 01:17:02.268
Have a, when he, if he finds the bear,

1850
01:17:02.310 --> 01:17:04.158
hey, you got a pick-a-nick basket?

1851
01:17:04.200 --> 01:17:06.228
And I'm like fuck, you know?

1852
01:17:06.270 --> 01:17:09.558
Well, I don't like that caricature of me

1853
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:12.078
where I'm Elmer Fudd with a stupid hat.

1854
01:17:12.120 --> 01:17:13.968
Well, thank God the bear wasn't in the house

1855
01:17:14.010 --> 01:17:15.078
when we cleared it.

1856
01:17:15.120 --> 01:17:17.478
Well, I should say when Sam cleared it all by himself.

1857
01:17:18.600 --> 01:17:20.448
I was outside with my body camera rolling

1858
01:17:20.490 --> 01:17:22.848
thinking I was about to make $10,000.

1859
01:17:22.890 --> 01:17:24.768
I didn't have to shoot any beanbags at it.

1860
01:17:24.810 --> 01:17:26.148
We didn't get tore up.

1861
01:17:26.190 --> 01:17:27.348
Her kitchen did.

1862
01:17:27.390 --> 01:17:28.758
So you're probably wondering
what happened to the bear.

1863
01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:29.988
After the scene was safe,

1864
01:17:30.030 --> 01:17:31.280
that's when I went inside

1865
01:17:33.150 --> 01:17:34.308
and I went into the kitchen area

1866
01:17:34.350 --> 01:17:35.418
and I started searching

1867
01:17:35.460 --> 01:17:37.878
and I started using my deductive reasoning skills

1868
01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:39.963
to deduce what had transpired.

1869
01:17:42.990 --> 01:17:44.358
And along the cabinetry area,

1870
01:17:44.400 --> 01:17:47.703
I saw there were tufts of fur scattered about.

1871
01:17:49.050 --> 01:17:50.448
And what I deduced was

1872
01:17:50.490 --> 01:17:53.358
the bear got into the chip cabinet,

1873
01:17:53.400 --> 01:17:56.080
ate an entire bag of kale chips

1874
01:17:57.030 --> 01:17:58.248
shit himself,

1875
01:17:58.290 --> 01:17:59.644
and ran out the back door.

1876
01:18:00.519 --> 01:18:02.418
And so later on when I started doing standup comedy,

1877
01:18:02.460 --> 01:18:04.368
I'm like, there has to be a bit about this,

1878
01:18:04.410 --> 01:18:05.418
how I could portray it.

1879
01:18:05.460 --> 01:18:07.308
So I always portray it like he's, you know,

1880
01:18:07.350 --> 01:18:10.398
Captain America and I talk
about him running the siren.

1881
01:18:10.440 --> 01:18:14.118
And I just take that whole story and morph it.

1882
01:18:14.160 --> 01:18:14.988
I'm honored to be in the room

1883
01:18:15.030 --> 01:18:16.698
because there's a lot of people
here who have lived through

1884
01:18:16.740 --> 01:18:19.128
some hardships through the things that we do, see,

1885
01:18:19.170 --> 01:18:21.078
taste, smell and have to experience.

1886
01:18:21.120 --> 01:18:22.428
Cops are just like everybody else.

1887
01:18:22.470 --> 01:18:24.708
They're human beings first.

1888
01:18:24.750 --> 01:18:27.648
And they do a job and a function within society

1889
01:18:27.690 --> 01:18:30.468
that puts 'em in bad situations.

1890
01:18:30.510 --> 01:18:32.298
Thank you very much for what you do.

1891
01:18:32.340 --> 01:18:34.278
Thank you very much for what you've done.

1892
01:18:34.320 --> 01:18:36.498
And thank you for being part of this profession.

1893
01:18:36.540 --> 01:18:38.508
If I could have my storybook ending,

1894
01:18:38.550 --> 01:18:41.058
we would come to peace with understanding

1895
01:18:41.100 --> 01:18:44.538
abroad, around the world and in this country

1896
01:18:44.580 --> 01:18:46.698
that being a police officer is not easy.

1897
01:18:46.740 --> 01:18:49.308
It's a especially difficult task

1898
01:18:49.350 --> 01:18:51.558
that we ask people to do in this world today.

1899
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:54.528
The reason I got into comedy in 2007,

1900
01:18:54.570 --> 01:18:56.478
because I wanted to help my mental health, right?

1901
01:18:56.520 --> 01:18:57.708
We are police officers.

1902
01:18:57.750 --> 01:18:59.718
That's the career you guys are going for.

1903
01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:01.368
Take care of your mental health.

1904
01:19:01.410 --> 01:19:03.708
The outreach that I've already started

1905
01:19:03.750 --> 01:19:06.528
through my comedy to reduce the stigma

1906
01:19:06.570 --> 01:19:09.138
surrounding mental health and law enforcement,

1907
01:19:09.180 --> 01:19:10.668
but not just only law enforcement,

1908
01:19:10.710 --> 01:19:11.868
all first responders,

1909
01:19:11.910 --> 01:19:14.478
so that people are not afraid to say

1910
01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:16.788
when they're struggling.

1911
01:19:16.830 --> 01:19:18.108
512, code two.

1912
01:19:18.150 --> 01:19:21.708
I'd like to leave the sheriff's
office in good standing.

1913
01:19:21.750 --> 01:19:24.348
I want to transition into a full-time career

1914
01:19:24.390 --> 01:19:25.478
of standup comedy.

1915
01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:27.258
It is where it's at for me.

1916
01:19:27.300 --> 01:19:29.748
I want to have a Netflix special

1917
01:19:29.790 --> 01:19:31.968
and I will accomplish that goal, God willing.

1918
01:19:32.010 --> 01:19:34.788
I have a goal for myself in the next couple years here,

1919
01:19:34.830 --> 01:19:36.888
is to get back into that fighting weight condition.

1920
01:19:36.930 --> 01:19:38.238
It's always adding something else.

1921
01:19:38.280 --> 01:19:40.548
But I think if I want to have a longevity

1922
01:19:40.590 --> 01:19:41.748
in standup comedy,

1923
01:19:41.790 --> 01:19:44.388
I think I'm gonna need to
really address that part of it.

1924
01:19:44.430 --> 01:19:47.180
And maybe my time at Taco Bell is gonna come to an end.

1925
01:19:48.840 --> 01:19:50.448
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Vinnie Montez.

1926
01:19:50.490 --> 01:19:51.882
It's been a pleasure to be here with you tonight.

1927
01:19:52.757 --> 01:19:53.673
Vinnie Montez, it's been a pleasure to be here tonight.

1928
01:19:54.824 --> 01:19:56.778
So my thanks to all of you guys, have a good night.

1929
01:19:56.820 --> 01:19:59.641
Arvada, Colorado, I'm Vinnie Montez.

1930
01:19:59.683 --> 01:20:02.028
Las Vegas, Nevada, thank you guys very much.

1931
01:20:02.070 --> 01:20:03.870
God bless each and every one of you.

1932
01:20:07.983 --> 01:20:09.556
♪ Well, I am white ♪

1933
01:20:09.598 --> 01:20:11.484
♪ And I'm from ♪

1934
01:20:11.526 --> 01:20:13.109
♪ I'm from the country ♪

1935
01:20:13.151 --> 01:20:15.071
♪ And I'm from Downtown ♪

1936
01:20:15.113 --> 01:20:16.612
♪ I eat bacon ♪

1937
01:20:16.654 --> 01:20:18.571
♪ And I eat beans ♪

1938
01:20:18.613 --> 01:20:20.114
♪ I drink whiskey ♪

1939
01:20:20.156 --> 01:20:22.286
♪ And I drink tea ♪

1940
01:20:23.733 --> 01:20:25.188
♪ I like his shoes ♪

1941
01:20:25.230 --> 01:20:26.418
That was a part of it too.

1942
01:20:26.460 --> 01:20:29.305
What? - God.

1943
01:20:29.347 --> 01:20:32.238
♪ I called my tractor Juan ♪

1944
01:20:32.280 --> 01:20:33.243
Not John Deere?

1945
01:20:34.548 --> 01:20:36.385
Tequila.

1946
01:20:36.427 --> 01:20:37.625
I drink tequila, okay, go ahead.

1947
01:20:37.667 --> 01:20:39.181
♪ I'm white ♪

1948
01:20:39.223 --> 01:20:40.397
♪ And I'm brown ♪

1949
01:20:40.439 --> 01:20:42.391
♪ I'm from the country ♪

1950
01:20:42.433 --> 01:20:44.311
♪ And I'm from Downtown ♪

1951
01:20:44.353 --> 01:20:45.922
♪ I eat bacon ♪

1952
01:20:45.964 --> 01:20:47.568
♪ And I eat beans ♪

1953
01:20:47.610 --> 01:20:48.618
Oh, you know what it was, dude, it was the opposite.

1954
01:20:48.660 --> 01:20:50.148
You singing beets or beans?

1955
01:20:50.190 --> 01:20:50.981
No beans.

1956
01:20:51.023 --> 01:20:52.528
And we were singing the opposite.

1957
01:20:52.570 --> 01:20:54.234
♪ I drive a low rider ♪

1958
01:20:54.276 --> 01:20:56.538
♪ I drive four by four ♪

1959
01:20:56.580 --> 01:20:57.498
That's still not Ford.

1960
01:20:57.540 --> 01:20:58.580
I drive.

1961
01:21:00.682 --> 01:21:03.108
Well, a low rider's not a make of a car.

1962
01:21:03.150 --> 01:21:04.788
Oh, okay, well, oh that's right.

1963
01:21:04.830 --> 01:21:05.808
Oh, that's right, okay.

1964
01:21:05.850 --> 01:21:07.127
Hit it.

1965
01:21:07.169 --> 01:21:08.999
♪ I drive a Chevy ♪

1966
01:21:09.041 --> 01:21:10.597
♪ I drive a Ford ♪

1967
01:21:10.639 --> 01:21:12.127
♪ I like low riders ♪

1968
01:21:12.169 --> 01:21:13.428
♪ I love four by fours ♪

1969
01:21:13.470 --> 01:21:15.078
That's it.

1970
01:21:15.120 --> 01:21:16.400
Was that it?

1971
01:21:16.442 --> 01:21:18.301
♪ Well, I'm white ♪

1972
01:21:18.343 --> 01:21:19.724
♪ And I'm brown ♪

1973
01:21:19.766 --> 01:21:21.428
♪ I'm from the country ♪

1974
01:21:21.470 --> 01:21:23.222
♪ And I'm from downtown ♪

1975
01:21:23.264 --> 01:21:24.849
♪ I eat bacon ♪

1976
01:21:24.891 --> 01:21:27.750
♪ I eat beans ♪

1977
01:21:27.792 --> 01:21:29.979
♪ You like tortillas ♪

1978
01:21:30.021 --> 01:21:31.674
♪ You love cheese ♪