Mexican Roofer Stereotype
5:15Tommy calls Eduardo pretending to be a neighbor who assumes all Hispanic people fix roofs and asks him to repair a leak.
Transcript
142 linesHello?
Hello, I'm trying to reach Eduardo.
Uh Eduardo.
Eduardo, how you doing, man?
Uh I'm one of your neighbors, man.
I'm actually like two streets over.
Uh I I wanted to see if you could come around here, man, and help me out, man.
I got a leak in my roof.
Are you able to come around the corner real quick and see about fixing my roof?
Who who's this?
Hey yeah, this Sammy, man.
I live like two streets over from you.
You you're Eduardo, right?
Yes, is it Florida?
Okay, hey, I I need you to I got a leak in my roof, man.
I want to see if you can come around here and and take a look at me in your roof.
I'm gonna charge me.
What does that have to do with me?
I no, no, I I got a leak in it.
I it doesn't have anything to do with you, but I wanted to see if you could come around here and fix it for me.
How did you get my number, man?
What I mean, where where do you think?
Uh I'm I would fix your roof.
I I got your number from one of the neighbors, but you you you you're um you you you you're Hispanic, right?
Yeah, uh no, I'm I'm I'm Hispanic.
Well, I'm not from Hispania, I'm Mexican if that's what you're asking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well I'm American, Mexican American I mean This is the you trying to be funny or what what what are you talking about?
Why do I gotta go fix your roof?
I mean what's the way you're gonna do it?
Don't don't all Mexican people know how to do roofs?
You know what, man?
Don't talk to me like that.
I'm an educated Mexican.
I mean you work nightmare.
Who the f do you do?
Who who the f do you think you can call me because think that all Mexican fixed roofs and listen here.
I'm not a roofer.
I work at a bank, okay?
You understand that?
No, I I understand you work at a bank, but from my understanding, all Hispanic people, I mean what do you what do you what do you do with the bank?
I mean you lay you do you lay tile at a bank?
What do you what do you do with the bank?
Listen, you ignorant.
I work at a bank, I'm a loan officer.
I am a dangerous I'm a Mexican with good credit, okay?
I'm a dangerous Mexican.
You're with the wrong person.
Are you that stupid?
Huh?
What is the matter with you?
Who who gave you my number?
Where do you live?
You can't be one of my neighbors.
I haven't seen a retarded person walking around my neighborhood lately.
I'm two streets over from you, man.
I'm I'm somehow like I said, I got a r uh a leak in my roof and somebody gave me your number.
I thought all Hispanic people knew how to fix roots.
Oh, really?
Maybe if I go cut your grass like a fig in a stereotype of all Huh?
Would that be cool?
Why don't you come over to my house?
I'll tell you what.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, man, you you you you taking this, you're taking this the wrong way.
I'm trying to get you some work, man.
I'm trying to what you all I really wanted to see if you could come over here and fix the leak.
You know what I'm saying?
That's that's really all I wanted to do.
And I heard, you know, that most Hispanic people, you know, all y'all supposed to know how to do roof.
I mean, okay, let me ask you this.
Can you can you cut y'all can you cut my yard?
Are you are you f<unk>ing kidding me, man?
You stupid.
I work at a bank.
I've got a degree.
You didn't hear me.
You're one of them ignorant that don't listen to anything.
I live in a nice neighborhood, man.
What do you do you sell drugs to live in this neighborhood?
You piece of Look at this.
You're making me degrade myself by just talking to you.
I don't do tile, I don't do construction, I don't fix rules, I'm not a mechanic.
I don't do yards, okay?
Do you steal?
I there's nothing wrong with being a construction worker for laying brick or doing pile or doing roofing.
There's nothing wrong with that, man.
I got a lot of rescue.
I've done those jobs myself, but I educated myself.
Now I've got a degree and I work at a bank as a loan off.
Don't you f with me?
Don't you ever call me again.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, I need English, man.
I need English.
English.
What what what what are you saying, man?
What are you saying?
Hey man, don't don't don't be upset because I speak two fing languages and you speak one.
Oh you can probably speak pig Latin or something like that.
You know this you know what, man?
I don't even I don't even like to talk like this.
I work at a bank.
I gotta deal with customers every day.
And I deal with ignorance.
I'm in like s I deal with ignorant on a daily basis like you.
You think I play with you?
Huh?
Man, I grew up on the West side.
You need to you need to watch your phone, okay?
Hey man, let me let me let me ask you this though.
Do you know Julio?
Do you do do you know Julio's Yeah, I know Julio's f that that's my cousin, man.
What what does he have to do with this?
Okay, okay.
Julio is the one that told me to call you.
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show, man.
Your cousin just got me the prank phone call you.
No, man.
I nah, dude.
No, man.
That's
and what
yeah, man, yeah.
I listen to that show, man.
Y'all got me
man.
I was ready to be a real message on the hood, man.
Golly.
You all right, man?
You got me, man.
Uh I was gonna go back to be like my cousin.
Woo, boy.
Hey man, I got one more thing to ask you, Eduardo.
What is the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land?
Man, Steve Harvey in the morning.
Morning, man.
He got me.
Hey, Tommy, come on.
Oh man, before you go, man.
Tell your boy Steve to work for State Chad's with those fish, man.
Hey, the homeboy from the hood would love that, man.
It'd be one of the homeboys, man.