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#8 | Priscilla Capetillo · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_03: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_03: His 2 with Corpse 2 Originals.
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  SPEAKER_03: In this podcast episode, we have the pleasure of having as our guest Priscilla Capatillo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Priscilla is uh well known for her uh visits to marketplaces and supporting local.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if this is something that you're interested in listening to, stay tuned.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the show, Priscilla.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, thank you so much for having me.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, how's it feel being on the podcast with us?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm nervous, but I like to talk, so I I think I'll be okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I am nervous.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the first time I've ever done something like this, so we'll see how it goes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, how did you feel when we first when we initially invited you on the show?
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt honored.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow, boring old me, like little old me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, sure, that'd be great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, of course, you know, and I'm sure we'll get into it later, but um, with my profession, I had to get permission, make sure everything was okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, here we are a couple months later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no kidding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really, really appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, so what do you do if you don't mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I actually worked for the um the government.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a federal probation officer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've been doing that about a year and a half.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, prior to coming onto the federal system, I worked for the state um for TDCJ, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and I was a parole officer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I did that for almost 11 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that I learned a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never a dull moment, never a boring moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um always, you know, never boring.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh so so I assume you have to have like some kind of like degree or something to enter into that field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I know they usually require, even with my job now, um, require a bachelor's degree of of any sort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my degree is in criminal justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have a bachelor's degree.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got that in 2008.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I I don't have a master's degree.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know in my field it's kind of it kind of depends where you work.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could benefit you, it could not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm sure in the future if I ever come up for a promotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: If somebody has a master's degree, I'm sure they'll, you know, get it over me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um at this point, I haven't gotten one, maybe in the future.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, man, it's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: So criminal justice, was that was that in your initial pathway uh in your education?
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  SPEAKER_03: It was.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually wanted to become an attorney.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, so I I didn't, I know with some people's journey through college, they switch majors, they kind of see what's out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, how are you supposed to know what you want to do when you're 17, 18 years old, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: But um I I wanted to be an attorney actually until my last year of of college.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I actually studied, took the LSAT, did all that, and then I worked with attorneys and I was like, I don't think this is for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I want the debt, I don't know if I, you know, want the stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I realized it wasn't for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never thought I would do this job though.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's so crazy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh so so you you you assumed that you had to take out some debt and before to continue that.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you're like, nah, that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, three years of law school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I'm sure it's it's pricey.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: So did you have any student any loans for uh for your bachelor's degree?
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually got a loan my very last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I started out at Del Mar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I started out at Del Mar.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did um, I think about two years there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I paid my way when I was at Del Mar.
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  SPEAKER_00: At one time I worked three jobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I was like, I'm gonna try to pay as much as I can.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I was never really pushed to get education.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like my parents are not bad people, you know, but they were just kind of like, do whatever, like whatever you want to do, like we'll support you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I kind of had to do it on my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so when I saw an advisor and I realized like how much school was, the books, and I'm like, well, I think I could do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I could do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I tried to pay as much as I could, as far as I could, and then towards the last semester, I'm like, okay, like I need help, you know, at the university level, so of course it's more expensive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, well worth it though.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: Man, so that's that's a major work ethic for sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Three jobs.
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  SPEAKER_03: Were you going full-time at the same time?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was, and one of my jobs was full-time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was actually a bank teller.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I I think anybody who's in college, like, that is such a good college job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I loved it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go in, you're out by like uh 6 15, 6 30, you lock up your money, you put it away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the bank I worked at was I worked in like the drive-thru.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they would be like, Yeah, you can bring your homework if we're slow, you can do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're not in front of you, so it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was that was very helpful.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, wow, awesome, awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: So were there like misconceptions of people that you would see at the bank like have so much money or something?
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because my wife used to work, my wife used to work at one, and she's like, Man, there used to be this guy, he looked poor, and he had a whole bunch of money.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you do you see that at all?
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in my job now, like you literally cannot, like, I do not judge, like um, but yeah, I mean, we would see so many like business owners, you know, people who would come through and it's like, dang, they're doing really well, you know, stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But of course, we it's confidential, we keep it to ourselves, but you know, we're silently like, dang.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh so I was I was uh researching on YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_03: I always research on YouTube, and I was researching parole officer, and I came along this channel where they were giving parole officers like a like a bad rep.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you get did you get that at all when you were oh for sure, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've at Walmart I've been called names.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I yeah, I mean I've yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's so why I mean do you do you mind talking?
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you mind mind me asking like why why is that like why why would people do that to the parole officer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I think because like we're like the bad guy, you know, like we locked up your family member.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did, you know, and yeah, I mean we're doing our job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um it's not you know a click of a button and then somebody goes to jail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we have to be able to prove, you know, why this person is being um put in jail.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's expensive, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to be able to prove um to it with parole, we would deal with a board.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's a little bit different.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't do like core judges, anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ours is through a board.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so whenever somebody, like, let's say somebody's on parole, they pick up a violation, um, we go through a hearing process and there's a board representative there.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not on my side, they're not on the parolee side, they represent the board and they want, they're gonna make the determination if that person is gonna get out, that person's gonna stay in, if they're gonna go back to prison, if they're gonna go to like a sanctioned facility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you know, we have to be able to say, this is what happened, and here's my proof.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, word words from your mouth mean nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, if it's not documented, it didn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just my motto, even now with my job, you know, and that's something I learned.
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  SPEAKER_00: I became a proloster in 2010.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I had, you know, no, I I did like an internship in college, totally different.
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  SPEAKER_00: I worked with the city attorney's office, so it was different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I didn't know anything about, you know, the system, prison.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I had some family members, you know, that, you know, back in the day that was you know, it's all stuff from the outside.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's different when you're actually working in the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I learned a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and that was one of the things one of the first um mentors I had told me like if it's not documented, it didn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you need to make sure you document everything.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no kidding.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, what are some of the things that you learned?
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, was it is it like personal stuff that you learned about yourself?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or I mean um probably both.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, more just like how to first of all, I'm not to judge.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's a big thing with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes people come in and they're like, I know I'm a bad, I look like a bad person, or like I'm the black sheep of my family, like I wasn't raised like this, and I'm like, hey, I'm not judging you at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we all make mistakes, some of us just don't get caught, you know, like nobody's perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm here to help you get through this and to get you to where you don't end up back here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I learned a lot of um compassion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I know that's like like I said, we're the bad guys, so it's hard, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So not and this is not everybody, this is my experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, everybody is different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm more, I would say it's weird because I'm not really a patient person, but when it comes to work, I'm one of the more patient people.
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  SPEAKER_00: If somebody's reaching out to me because they're going through something, I will make time for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that means I have to work late, if that means like, oh, I had lunch plans, but I guess I'm not going to lunch, like I'm I'm gonna do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna help you um to get through this and to learn, you know, how to cope with things, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not perfect, like I have problems too, but it's so crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like as a parole officer, probation officer, it's like you're also like a counselor, um, sometimes like a babysitter, like some, you know, it's like you hold all different kinds of jobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, just because there's so much that can come up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can write a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I have seen and heard so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it, we always used to say that at when I worked for parole, like we should we can get together and write like a prize an opening.
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  SPEAKER_03: Y'all should, you should, for real.
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  SPEAKER_03: You should, for real.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I mean, it's just taught me a lot how to work and deal with different kinds of people, like, because it's not just the person we're dealing with, we're dealing with their families, their kids, you know, we're dealing with them um having mental health issues, um, drug addicts, you know, when they're on drugs, they're a totally different person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and you know, it's kind of a thankless job, but there are those, you know, moments where somebody tells you, like, I appreciate you, or thank you for doing that, or you know, so that that's awesome when it happens.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like you you actually put in the extra effort, and when somebody notices that uh it's helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait, I mean, I try.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, you know, there's no resources or it's funding, you know, stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It there are some, you know, um sometimes there's some challenges.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so so it is uh so it is like a like not like a private j company job, it's it's like a public job, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's a state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um parole was a state agency and now I work for a federal for the federal government system.
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  SPEAKER_03: So for the actual government, okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so the state of Texas, you work for the state of Texas and now you work for so now for the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, and that's as a probation officer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you made the shift after 11 years?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was it was almost 11 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like a few months short of 11 years, but yeah, it was it was a tough transition.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but were you were you like in it like okay, I'm gonna do this for 10 years?
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, did you think that way, or was it just uh I mean, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, towards towards when I was gonna hit my 10 years, I started thinking like I think I want to do something different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and I know for somebody from the outside looking in, it's kind of like, well, that's like the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it it's the same population that I work with, but but it is different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like now, you know, um the federal system, it is a lot more strict, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um it's more we I do have to go to court now, which is something that I struggle with and I probably always will.
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  SPEAKER_00: The judges, they can ask you anything they want.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you have to be if you think you're prepared, prepare some more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so it's just something, you know, the judges just don't um come down on on the clients.
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  SPEAKER_00: They come down on everybody, like you need to know your stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know, I am a I consider myself a preparer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I I'm like uh I make a to-do list, like I'm one of those kind of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's what works for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, so I try to be as prepared as possible, and that's all we can do, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't know something, say I don't know, don't don't lie or try to make up something because that's just gonna get you in more trouble.
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  SPEAKER_03: Golly, that's a lot.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so you're like preferred, like like prepared, like uh paperwork-wise, like uh you have you have to know like the I guess you have to know the laws that are behind whatever they're trying to do or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_03: How's that work?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um knowing like for me, because I do so in the federal probation system, um, there's different jobs within there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my job is supervision.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I actually supervise um clients out in the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a pretty large area that I supervise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so on my end, it's more of like knowing the history of my clients, like knowing have they been sent back before?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do they have a drug history?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do they have mental health issues?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do they have family support?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, however, on the other side, um, there's another job, you know, within my field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, they do like the pre-sentence writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they're the ones who investigate, send in a report to the judge and basically um are there for sentencing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they have to be a little bit more familiar with like the laws and guidelines, with um how much time you know somebody might potentially get sentenced.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my job is more, you know, dealing with the clients, going to their houses, going to their works, calling their family, knowing about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I I do try to get to know them and I do care.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I I do, I'm not just asking them to be nosy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there are some things I have I have to ask because I have to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I, you know, if they tell me, you know, my my son's been going through this or I've been going through this, my son, well, you know, what can we do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, is there anything I can help you with that so we can work through this?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, because in the end, all of these things are gonna affect you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to make sure you get through this um, you know, as easy as possible and successfully complete this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I never want to see you again because that means you're going on with your life and you know, yeah, and getting past this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: So how how do you get how so obviously you get like emotionally you can get emotionally involved and like at the end of the day or week or whenever something is over, like how do you how do you deal with that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Like it's hard.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: It it yeah, I really and I know not like I said, not everybody's like me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm you know, I'm I work a certain way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it is hard, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes at the end of the day, I'm like worried about somebody from the happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had clients, you know, die on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had people, you know, older clients die of old age.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had people overdose, I've had people murdered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it, it's it's really sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, no matter what, I always, you know, it's sad because you know, some of the people come out on the news or they come out on Facebook, and just reading the comments, it's like, well, that's what he gets because he was a drug addict, or that's what it's like, you know what, that's somebody's like dad, that's somebody's son.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I I have to like turn it off.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like scroll because I'm like, you don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's and I think it's also like um because I was raised, like my dad was an alcoholic when you know, growing up.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I I've seen somebody deal with addiction.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna be sober for 12 years this year, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm very proud of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he it's I guess it's also different because I've um seen it firsthand, you know, addiction and um it's not it's not that easy, like yeah, well, he deserved it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a drug addict, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But did anybody help him?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did he want to get help?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did he go through a rehab?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like right, and you know, and sometimes they they don't want help, and sometimes you know, and that's you can't help somebody who doesn't want it, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if they are willing to, like, I'm willing to help you as much as I can, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, wow, that's good.
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  SPEAKER_03: Man, congrats to your pops on 12 years, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gosh, thank you.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So proud of him.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you saw a major change.
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  SPEAKER_03: You saw both wow, what was that like?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was at first, it was like unbelievable.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow, okay.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, hmm, is he?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this was yeah, I mean, I was in my 20s.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, I'd seen it before, like, let's see if he sticks with it, you know.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, like he said himself, like, I am tired of this.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, uh, and he says it himself, you know, I it was me.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I had to make the change.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: I had to know, like, I'm done with this.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, no matter how many times, you know, I hurt somebody or I went to jail, or it it doesn't matter.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I needed to do it.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I understand that.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: Although I haven't, you know, battled with that myself.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I believe it does help me to work with people who are struggling.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and of course, I can't be too personal in my job and like sit there and tell them my story or my dad's story because it's not my story to tell.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: But um, it's like I I understand, like, you know, and and that's what I I kind of try to tell them.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if they're dealing with something like that, I'm like, think of those around you.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you're not going through this alone.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you're also affecting your kids, like your your dad.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've had people get out from being locked up and they're like, I lost both of my parents, and I didn't even get to say bye.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they I was in the system.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, okay, well, what are you gonna do that way that doesn't happen with your other family members?
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are we gonna do to keep you out so you don't have to feel that pain again?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, yeah.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: So do y'all do y'all help them like find resources for that stuff?
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_03: Or uh can you or is it like just suggestions at that point?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um we it it depends.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, some of them have, you know, certain conditions.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, therefore, we can help with, you know, um the funding towards it.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: We do have some resources um locally that we can send them to that we can use.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's there's quite a bit, you know, some some good stuff.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, sometimes there's a wait time, um, but we understand, I mean, not everything's gonna be, you know, when we want it.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it kind of teaches all of us patience.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if they really want, if they really want the help, you know, it's there and we can help as much as we can.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, like I say, in the end, it's gonna be up to you.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: I can't be with you 24 hours a day.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: So it's gonna be like, what are you gonna do on on your own time, you know?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um I run into that sometimes because clients, you know, they call my phone, they text me on the weekends, and I'm like, hey, like I don't have an exciting life, but I do have a life outside of here.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: So sometimes I'll respond, sometimes I won't.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: And they're usually like, I'm sorry, like I I should have thought about it, or I wanted to make sure I didn't forget.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, that's fine.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Just know that like I'm not gonna respond to you right away.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man, God, it's gotta be tough.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know me on the weekends, I'm at the local market.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I was gonna bring that up.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: So you're so you're you're not known for all this stuff that we're talking about locally, I don't think.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: So you're you're on IG a lot, on Instagram a lot, and you're always going to the local, you're always supporting local.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: What's up with that?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that is like my favorite thing to do.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've been going to markets for a while, actually.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just I just like it, you know.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: I work hard for my money, and I I want to give my money to the community, like if I can, you know.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, I'm not gonna say I don't shop at Target and I don't go on Amazon like I do.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if there's something, especially with gifts, like um I every time I give my friends gifts, they know like, oh, it's gonna be from somebody local.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I already know it's gonna be a lot of my friends are like, oh, I know I'm getting earrings.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: They already know that like I'm all about the earrings.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so I try to do that.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: I try to say, like, oh, like um, this is from this local maker, and then they'll be like, oh, cool, I'm gonna see what else they sell, and just try to get the word out, just because that money goes back into our community.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: And like, I I love Corpus.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I of course when I was in college, I don't think I mentioned it, but I went to college in San Antonio.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I didn't really love Corpus until I moved away.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I actually miss it.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like, but what's up with that?
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I miss the smelly water.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: You miss it when you leave, or I did.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and people would be like, Oh, you're from the coast, and like it would sound all like tropical, and I'm like, That's not what you think, but but you know, that's what how they know it over there.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, everybody, oh, you're from the coast, and I'm like, Yeah, I I yeah, the green.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Smelly water.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, it's it's home.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was born and raised here.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: So um, so it's home and I I love it.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: I love supporting local businesses.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: If it's not something that I'm into, I'll think like who can I buy that for?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I have um a lot of close friends, I have a group of you know, my best friends, and I'll try to like support everybody or as much as I can.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: And like, like I said, even if it's not for me, I'll be like, oh, so and so will like that.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: Let me get it for her, or you know, right, just to try.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like you're supporting you, you want you love the city, and that's one way that you can support the city by putting money back into it.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I'm not creative.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: I tell the local makers, I'm like, I am not creative, I can never do the things you do.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all are awesome.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so my way of supporting is just to get the word out.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I share on Instagram.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'll buy if I buy something, I'll share it.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, buying gifts because I I will never be able to create cool stuff like that.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, that's pretty cool.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, so we yeah, you were the one of the first persons that we gave uh that I gave uh shirt to.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: And you're like, shoot, yeah, come on.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_03: So we met somewhere, and then I gave you, and then ever since then, you've always been like like shouting us, shouting us out, you know, and I'm like, Yeah, that why why are you doing that?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so that's pretty cool.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: I really we really appreciate that.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: I remember when you reached out to me and I'm like, Well, I want to pay him, like I feel bad.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And um, and I think we met at like Cole's parking lot, and like I know for other people that might be weird, but like I'm used to going to people's houses, their works, like everywhere.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, yeah, I'll meet you, it's cool.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, um, and then I, you know, I turned around and I bought like I bought my best friend the a shirt.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: I bought my dad the cap, he loves the cap.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, and I just kind of try to spread the word, and I appreciate you know, I appreciate you with that merch.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, yeah, you're welcome.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_03: So your dad, your dad likes uh rush a lot.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_03: So is that one of the reasons why you you got into like heavy music when you were younger?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely, yeah, yeah.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my dad's favorite band is Rush.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he actually so my favorite all-time band is Pantera.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody who knows me knows that.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um I actually have them tattooed on my body, they're the only band I have tattooed on me.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I always say they're the only band worthy.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, so I actually first heard Pantera because of my dad.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um he had the Cowboys from Hell um CD.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: And during, I think it was about early high school, I lived with my dad actually.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um so he was kind of like, yeah, just do whatever.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, don't, you know, I trust you, like you're a good kid.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was never bad.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't like, you know, the perfect child, but um he's like, it's cool.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like he never like he was like, listen to the music, like it's not gonna make you.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, some people are like, oh my god, like don't listen to that music, it's gonna make you bad.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: I listened to Marilyn Manson, I listen to all that, but yeah, Rush, um, um Black Sabbath.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: He took me to see Black Sabbath when I was uh 13.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, yeah, it was one of my first con I've been going to concerts since I was 12, but that was one of my first ones, Pantera and Black Sabbath.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Nice when I went with him, and we saw Black Sabbath a couple years ago.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: They had the the end tour or whatever.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we went and we saw Kiss and it's it's something we share, you know, it's it's cool.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like it makes me think of because I have my my daughter, she's six, and like yeah, so it makes me think of like how much I will be an influence on her and the stuff that she'll like, you know.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh for sure, yeah.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_03: So that's awesome.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, um, so you grew up in corpus.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_03: Which uh which schools did you go to?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I went to Prescott Elementary, it's no longer there.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: I went to Cunningham Middle School, which is also not there.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think they like moved, they moved it or something.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: The building's still there, but it's something else.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then I was supposed to go to Moody, but I moved with my dad um when high school was starting.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I went to Ray.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I I kind of wanted to go to Ray.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it was cool.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I really liked it.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I just went to those three schools.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: I never you know switched or anything.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um late in high school, I actually moved with my mom.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: She was living in Robstown, but I was already gonna be a senior and I was working already.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I had my own car, so I was like, Do I have to go to Robstown?
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm I'm okay, like going to Ray.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: So she's like, if you want to drive every day, that's fine.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so I just stuck with those schools.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: I remember my first day at Ray.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: I got lost.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know anybody, and I was not used to such a huge school, right?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I got lost, and then somebody was like, It's just a T.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's literally a T.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: The hallway is a T.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh, yeah, and now that I think of it, I don't even know how I got lost.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_03: It was literally like Yeah, so like the the the top, the third floor is a is the T.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_03: And then the more it gets it gets to the bottom, it starts stretching out.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm like, that's so embarrassing, but I I mean I think it was that, and then nerves, of course.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: I was nervous, I didn't know anybody, yeah.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah, and I remember like I used to wear like the black, and I was like into like the the metal music and stuff, and I still am, but um, I remember my first day of school, there was like a gangster guy, and he's like, Oh, look at Marilyn Manson looking hot over here, and I was like, I'm lost, like, leave me alone.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: It was so fun.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, What?
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, I just thought of that.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: That was hilarious.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, no, I went to yeah, that's awesome.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: Man, I went to Ray for like three years, so I I remember what it was like over there.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, it was and I played sports, so and uh it was always sports, you know, go to school, sports, and then go home.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_03: Like I would never hang out at school or nothing like that, so that's like all I knew for those three years.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what sports did you play?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: I played football, uh, a little bit mostly football, but track field, uh, and that was just those two.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_03: That was it.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, cool.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: I was in, I wasn't I'm even to this day, I'm not I always say I'm not athletically inclined.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like um, I I was in band and then I was on the dance team my last year, but um, but yeah, I was in band in middle school and cool, what you played the clarinet.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, right, yeah, that's a tough one.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it magically disappeared.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know what happened to it to this day.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, did somebody pawn it in my house or what happened to it?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: I guess.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it was it was fun.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the football games and stuff were were always fun, pep rallies, and yeah, for sure.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was a pretty big school, yeah.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_03: It is pretty big, and I like it because there's uh it's a mix of uh different cultures in one.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_03: So you kind of you if you go there, you kind of learn the different because it's kind of like a rich neighborhood on one side of Ray, and on the other side it's not so rich, you know, and you get both of those merged in one, so you get to learn both.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: I was definitely on the not so rich side.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: We'll just say that.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_03: And then and then we group together, like, okay, you know, you're over there, and you're over like after school, what direction are you walking?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: Or are you getting in your own car and leaving?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, which I did have a car, but it's only because I I worked.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, nice.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: So you pay for your you bought your own car?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: I bought my own car in high school, yeah.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: I I um I worked at Peter Piper Pizza, it's not there no more, it's where uh Dick Sporting Goods is now.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, um, there was my so my brother works in Puerto Ranches, he still works there to this day, he's probably been about 20 years, um, or more more than 20 years.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: But there was like a couple trying to get rid of uh 89 red Pontiac Firebird, and they wanted$500 for it.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: And they just wanted to get rid of it.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so my brother, my dad called me right away.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, hey, we know you're looking for a car.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like this couple, this older couple just wants to get rid of it.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you can bring 500 bucks, they'll sell it to you.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Hell yeah.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: So and that car was it was so good to me.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, they had like the lights that would go up in front, and I remember one of them would get stuck, so I put a screw.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I had like two screws, I would call it Frankenstein, um, to leave the light up.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: So it was like winky.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I mean, after like I was on the dance team, like I said, so sometimes we would have pep rallies and then we'd have like a little break before we had to go and get ready to like go to the football game.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: So me and my friends would load up in my car and go eat, you know, in your high school, you like Mexican food.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: You can eat whatever, like I wouldn't get sick or gain weight.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh different now.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: But um, we would load up.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say I fit like seven or eight people in there one time.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: We went to the tacadilla, and yeah, we were like going over the bump and it was like scrapey because it was so much weight.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um good times, good times.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I ended up selling it.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: It lasted me uh a good maybe like five years, and I ended up selling it.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think I sold it for like a thousand, so it lasted me all the time, and I made profit.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but totally different from the car you have now, huh?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I have a Toyota.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was a lot well when you got the the first one, it was old, was it old, right?
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so it wasn't new, yeah.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's true, yeah.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's true.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um at that point, yeah, I was probably like 13 years old, and the car I drive now is like about two or three years old.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm thankful.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_03: Nice, yeah.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: More reliable, yeah.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_03: Reliable.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_03: My car, uh, like I when I got out of high school, it was two, no, three different colors.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_03: So, like the the back was like blue, the front was white, and the inside was red.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: But hey, it got you where you needed to go, right?
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it sure did.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_03: It had a tape player, it had a tape player.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_03: That's how old the thing was.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: I think mine did too.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: I had like the adapter where you can put yeah, exactly.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: I had that CD or something.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you put you hook it up to the headphones of the CD player, and that's how that's how it'll get the sound.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_03: Man, so it makes me think about this.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I am, I don't know, I am like older, I'm 37, so yeah.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: So people might be watching like listening to this and they're like, What?
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_03: Like she's ancient.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, it's all good.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we probably went, we probably went to this.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm 30, 38.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_03: No, 39.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: I graduated in 03.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, I think 01.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_03: I can't remember these things.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know why.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_03: It's like things I just can't remember.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's weird.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: I forget sometimes too.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like, whenever all the questions, like, when did you graduate college?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: When did you do this?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hold on, like one at a time.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, let me get my resume.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_03: It has it on there, but I can't tell you off the top of my head.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, that's smart.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Carry your resume, take a picture of it and put it on your phone.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, the things we have to do when we get older, right?
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was thinking about it.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, man, because there's a comedian, she calls herself an elder millennial.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_03: Like one of the older wow, I I yeah, like one of the older older millennials, because when you think of millennials, you think of like 20s, I guess, and 25 or whatever.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_03: But we're still part of the millennial spectrum, I guess, because we're born in a certain year or something.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, so we would be that the elder millennials.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_03: The elder millennial.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_03: That's funny.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_03: Cool, yeah.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_03: So, um, yeah, I think let me see.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to look at my notes here.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, do you remember when Pantera was uh they were at Craig's Record Factory doing a signing?
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: You remember I do remember that, and it's on um I wasn't there, but I have uh Pantera, it's called the Pantera 3.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: The I had the VHS, that's how long ago I got it.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: I got it in school, but I have the the Blu-rays now, and it shows like a little it shows all about their tour and backstage.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's cool, it's like three hours long.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: But one of the little clips is from Craig's Record Chaptery, and yep, I remember, but yeah, I wasn't there, and they actually came to Corpus.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I want to say in 01, and I also missed that one.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think I had to work or something.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, but I did get to see them, like I said, in um 1999.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_03: I think I seen it.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, one time.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's good.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_03: Shoot.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you've seen them multiple times, right?
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man, probably like four or five times.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: It was like awesome.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was what they were one of the favorites.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_03: I like the Deft Tones.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_03: I know you like the Deft Tones also.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen them five times about five times.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I've been with them ever since like the original.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I wasn't like I heard the original album, the first one.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think it was original, the adrenaline.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: Adrenaline, yeah.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: That was the best one.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that's the first one, and ever since then, I'm like, dude, everything is deft tones, everything.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: And Chino Moreno has like uh multiple bands.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: He has one called Palms with Crosses.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: They both came to um well separately.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: They came to Brewster's, and I saw it's like a different vibe, you know.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's mellow.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: He seems like he likes to come to Corpus a lot.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_03: Uh even whether it's with right, whether it's with deaf.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's I'm not complaining.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I love it.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're one of my favorites.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: I I've seen them probably about five times.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, about five times.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen corn about five times too.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: Slipknot.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've been to hundreds of concerts, so that's like my favorite.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's one of my other favorite things to do.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, so are you going you have any concerts that you're going to soon?
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: I oh, it's funny.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: I have one from September of 2020 that's been getting um rescheduled because of COVID, and that's Rammstein, that German metal band.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's supposed to happen in September of this year.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's in San Antonio.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um and it actually worked out because when they have, I think initially it was like on a Wednesday, and I'm like, I'm gonna have to get a room.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I've tried the whole going to a concert driving back after.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm too old for that.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like I don't drink or anything like that.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I just get sleepy, like I can't do it.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but now this year it's the date that they moved it to, it's on a Saturday.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_02: So that'll be good.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: At least I won't have to because I've done it, go to concert, drive home, and go to work the next day.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: Too old for that.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I remember I was uh I went to a concert with my folks a long time ago, and it was in I think it was in Austin or somewhere, but we couldn't find a place to sleep to stay.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, because we were trying we they were trying to drive back.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_03: I I think they were trying to drive back after the concert, and we ended up sleeping in the suburban, like at some parking lot because we couldn't find a place to sleep.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's concert life right there, yeah.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right, yeah, because you hadn't planned on staying, so you you didn't schedule a room.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I've I thought of it.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: I went one to one in Austin a couple years ago, and I was already yawning at the concert.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh, I have to drive home after this.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: I put I was with my friend, she fell asleep.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, We're not gonna wake her up, of course.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: After she's like, You should have woke me up.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: But um, I opened the windows, I was chewing gum, I was like trying, I was like, never again, and it was machine head, so it was a pretty wild show, but I was like, I'm too, I'm too tired and too old for this.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, right on, man.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, I appreciate you coming on the show.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um I appreciate it.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, maybe it gives the people a chance to know kind of who you are because they see you at markets a lot and stuff, you know.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I have to be, you know, private.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: I uh about because of my job.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, like I said, I got permission to come on here, so I feel more comfortable talking about it.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: But as far as like posting, you know, stuff, uh you'll never see me really talk about maybe I'll say like at work or working, but right I'll never be too, you know, just because it it's it's confidential.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to get in trouble as a last name.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I value my job.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so grateful um, you know, for everything I've learned along the way.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: And um, so I appreciate you understanding whenever you ask me.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, it's not that I don't want to be on, I just need to make sure it's okay.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I appreciate you uh being patient with me and you know letting me come on.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I'm just like a regular person, so I'm not like a business owner, I'm not a musician, but that that's what's great, you know.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for what you do because I know I feel like you you're trying to get it out there to have you know different people on on your show.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I heard one of your recent episodes you said you wanted to have a homeless person.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're still part of the community, like you said.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they everybody has a story to tell.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_00: So um, so thank you for for what you're doing.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's awesome.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, awesome.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I didn't because when when I'm talking to you now, you're not a business owner, o's owner like a lot of people, but you're definitely a hard worker.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_03: And I and through the way you what you're talking about, people can tell.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_03: You know, and so that's that's something that you know that we can relate to too.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like, hey, we're hard workers down here.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was raised by a single mom, and yeah, I've never seen otherwise.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she's she worked her whole life.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: There was even a time where she was going to school, working, taking care of me and my brother.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's all I know, you know what I mean?
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: So it's uh it's just work ethic was like really big.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: My mom's like, you have to, you know, get a job, go to do something, like don't depend on anybody else, like do something for yourself.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because that that's in the end, like that's all we have.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_03: Right, yeah, for sure.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not a parent, I don't I don't have kids, um, so I know it'd be different, but that that's just you know, not for me, but um I'm not against it.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like that's not you know me right now.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: So um so hard work is very important to me.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it it seems like that's a commonality too among our families down here is that parents are separated or divorced, you know.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_03: We grew up like that.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_03: Excuse me.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that's uh that's that's definitely something that's uh common, and we can still make something of ourselves even though we grew up that way.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: For sure, yeah, for sure.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like nothing's perfect, nobody's perfect, it's all in what you do, you know, for for yourself.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's you know, I'm not I'm not about that, like poor me, poor me, you know.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, uh you know, everybody has a story, like I said, and it's it's how we cope with what happens to us and how we move forward and try to just do the best we can to give ourselves you know the life we deserve.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure, man.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's awesome.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so yeah, no, appreciate it.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_03: Appreciate you coming on.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to wrap up.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_03: My wife's gonna be here in a minute with the kids, and it's gonna get loud.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: Tell her I said hi.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, oh uh, tell your uh your honey we said hi too.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was like a shirt for me.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, hell yeah.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah, shoot.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thank you for sending that.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_03: You're welcome, you're welcome.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for posting the picture.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: That was awesome.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thanks again for having me.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_03: You're welcome, you're welcome.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you do you want to share anything before we go?
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, no, pretty.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my Instagram, I think you have it listed there, but I'm under silly priscilly.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm just a regular girl, so you can follow me if you want.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not super excited, it's not super interesting, but um yeah, I try to support local and just kind of share, share, share.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: And that's pretty much it.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_03: You're welcome, you're welcome.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_03: We'll talk to you later.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_03: Bye.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_03: All right, y'all.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_03: That was Priscilla Priscilla Capatillo and I having a conversation for this episode of uh Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, if you want to help uh you can follow her, I'll leave a link in the description.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_03: You can find her on Instagram and follow and just kind of be up to date what she's doing.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_03: Also, if you want to support the channel, check out corpuscristials.com.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_03: We have some merch there uh to support the city with.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, to represent the city with.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_03: And uh yeah, we appreciate y'all.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_03: Bye.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_04: I drive 65,000 miles in my bus each year.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_04: If people do what I know, I have to be safe.