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Today, our guest is Richard Via, hilarious stand-up comedian here in L.A.

He's from Compton, California originally, and he's here to tell us about his insane childhood.

At the time, I knew it was not okay because they told us, don't say anything as a three-year-old.

This guy ran a crack house with his father when he was eight years old.

You heard that right.

From 8 to 13, he ran a dope spot in Compton with his family, including his mother and his five brothers.

My mom would cook it.

My uncle would let everybody in the hood know what we're at, and then my dad oversees the whole thing.

Wild, insane stories that could only come out of a place like Los Angeles. In Compton, now there's a crackhead with a goat. And so now they're negotiating and I'm like, Dad, I don't want a goat. It's Kayate. The goat is pregnant. We're going to get a deal. He tells us about going to school, kindergarten with wads of cash in his pocket. They said, hey, we caught your kid with 300 bucks. My dad thought I was snitching. My dad thought they got us. He eventually grew up, got out of that life, started doing stand-up comedy, and blew up. Even he's standing, don't let him go. Like we can start again. We'll meet you another one.

Let's go.

I didn't even like it.

He also talks about getting canceled by the entire country of Mexico.

You can hear that on Patreon.

Go over to patreon.com slash The Connect Show.

I talked to Tom Segura about it.

He was upset at the comic that banned me and started

Blacklisty. This guy has an incredible story of crime to redemption. Now he's just one of the best

stand-up comedians working. This was one of my favorite episodes, truly. You guys are watching

The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. Let's get into it. As a nine-year-old, the eight- nine year old, the things I heard from grown men, grown women, it makes you lose respect for humanity and itself. You go, these are my peers. These are the people I'm supposed to respect. That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank. It's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. All right, Orale, S..A. Richard Villa. What's up, man? You are the first comedian we've had on this podcast. Are you kidding? After almost a year. No. Wow. Just criminals and thugs and the garbage of the earth. And you said, let's bring a comic. Thank you for trashing everybody that's been on this show. I'm joking. Listen, I've seen the show.

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