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#48 | Matt Cantu · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_04: Alright, what's going on y'all?
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SPEAKER_04: Corpus Christi Regionals back at it again, coming to you live from the produce uh Stream Lab Studios, downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh, we got today Matt Contoo.
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SPEAKER_01: What's up, brother?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, dude.
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SPEAKER_04: Glad you're here, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Dude, thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for having me, man.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a this is a huge honor for me.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I really love the fact that I'm on the same podcast as names like my homie Alex Arredondo from El Vago Barbecue, and of course, Michael White, fucking right.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, which by the way, uh, where uh which which camera am I looking at?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, Ayo, Michael White, Mac Gun Thou, bro.
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SPEAKER_01: Just want to say you're an inspiration, brother.
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SPEAKER_01: I love your bars, I love your flow.
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SPEAKER_01: You're the funniest dude in Corpus.
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SPEAKER_01: Granted, I don't know a lot of comedians in Corpus, but you're the funniest one.
0:45
SPEAKER_01: But hey, listen, I want to get you on a track, brother.
0:48
SPEAKER_01: Let's make a new metal track, rap rock, in other words.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's bridge the gap between the hip hop kids here in Corpus and the hardcore scene.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's make it happen.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me know if you're down.
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SPEAKER_01: Hit me up in the DMs.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's do it, brother.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, hell yeah, bro.
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SPEAKER_04: That's awesome, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine that, dude?
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SPEAKER_01: Michael White on our new metal track?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I think we could do it, dude.
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SPEAKER_04: I think he would wreck any track, bro.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, hell yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: If he's heavy or whatever, damn.
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SPEAKER_01: Dude is mad talented.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I think we could really do like uh like you remember when Lincoln Park and Jay-Z did Collision chorus back in the day.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to try to do something like that with him.
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SPEAKER_01: I I think it'll be sick.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that would be.
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SPEAKER_04: And he was mentioning too on the podcast that he uh uh when mumble rappers started coming out, he started listening to different genres of music.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember hearing that I watched his episode.
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SPEAKER_01: That was that was funny.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh real dude, man, for real, man.
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SPEAKER_04: Same same dude in person.
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SPEAKER_04: Man, it's it's awesome to meet people like that, man.
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SPEAKER_04: But so so we introduced, I was introduced to you on TikTok, and I was uh promoting my brand, my my clothing brand or whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you you showed up on my for you page, and I was like, oh damn, like I I love a lot of these designs and the streetwear thing that this dude has going on.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, that's that's very different, it's very unique.
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SPEAKER_01: So like it didn't take long for me to hit that follow button, brother.
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SPEAKER_04: Right on, dude.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, and then I I I guess I follow right back, I can't remember, and then I seen you do, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and then uh and then I got introduced to El Vago also, and then you did a commercial or something, or like a whatever spot going to his uh at the Trade Center.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh like yeah, my buddy El Vago and this and that, and I was like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Cause he yeah, because uh when when that happened, um Alex had actually reached out to me uh because he had followed me on on TikTok as well.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess he saw like I think it was the the the video that I made for um Hi-Ho.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, I did a video on Hi-Ho, which by the way, um I I don't know if it's still the case, but if you look up the address for Hi-Ho, you'll actually see my TikTok video as one of the results.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And it was because I was I was trying to do like uh I'm not a food reviewer by any means, but yeah, I'm a big boy.
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SPEAKER_01: I love to eat.
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SPEAKER_01: So um that's why I like doing the food review videos, because with Hi-Ho, I was like, okay, I got a fan base that's very musical.
3:07
SPEAKER_01: I got a lot of music fans on here.
3:09
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people love Selena, even from other states.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I was like, hey, here's Hi-Ho.
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SPEAKER_01: This was the Quintanilla's, you know, favorite place to eat here in Corpus.
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SPEAKER_01: Check it out.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh, I made like a little bit of a blunder because at the end of the video, I was like, hey, I know I didn't show off any of the food that I ordered, but I was really hungry.
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SPEAKER_01: I know that's kind of the point, but just take my word for it, it's great.
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SPEAKER_01: And sure enough, um, one of my home girls, her name is uh Taylor Rise.
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SPEAKER_01: She's uh oh uh the St.
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SPEAKER_01: Paddy's Day Festival's going on.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, yeah, my friend Taylor Rise, uh, she's from Nagadoches, uh, which is like way up there, like in the Dallas area.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, she literally made a trip all the way down, like just to see the the Selena stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And she had discovered it through like some of my videos too.
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SPEAKER_01: So yeah, Alex had seen that video for Hi-Ho.
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SPEAKER_01: He followed me back, and then he immediately reached out and he was like, Hey dude, can you can you come by to my to my restaurant at the Trade Center and you know do like a food review type of thing?
4:08
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Yeah, dude, I'll I'll do it.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I did it, and then it I think it did like pretty good for him, I would say.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know if he gained like new followers or whatever, but I know a lot of people started um really digging his food.
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SPEAKER_01: And then it got to the point where he opened up the the restaurant off of uh navigation, and he wanted me to go back and review that too.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's what I did.
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SPEAKER_01: I I went back and I that's right when they whipped out the um I believe it's called the Turdzilla, the burger with the three patties, the the brisket and the bacon.
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SPEAKER_01: I devoured the crap out of that thing, brother.
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SPEAKER_01: And that it is so good.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if any if anybody's listening, if you're in corpus and you do not know what to eat, please go to El Vago Burger.
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SPEAKER_01: I guarantee like you're you're gonna you're gonna fall in love with something there.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's a little something for everybody.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, right on.
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SPEAKER_04: Shout out to uh Jason Vilches, TikTok fam, uh Caroline Hughes.
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SPEAKER_04: Hey, they're on YouTube right now.
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SPEAKER_01: They're on YouTube right now.
5:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what's up, y'all?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Caroline is lit, dude.
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SPEAKER_01: Like my my profile picture, the album cover for after hours, anything that's like that's like drawn or painted or whatever, that's that's all her.
5:21
SPEAKER_01: She's my she's my graphic designer.
5:23
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's from uh Camden, Tennessee, so shout out to Tennessee.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: Tennessee.
5:28
SPEAKER_01: Go Titans.
5:30
SPEAKER_04: Are you a cowboy fan or are you uh are you a football fan?
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SPEAKER_01: Or um which theme would you pick?
5:35
SPEAKER_01: I I don't really I don't really follow football that much.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I I do fantasy football here and there, but the only reason why I even mess with fantasy football is because somebody told me that it's literally just Dungeons and Dragons for jocks, and I love playing D D.
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SPEAKER_01: So I was like perfect.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh, but yeah, no, I mean uh uh me as a as a Taylor Swift fan, I mean, I I'm probably gonna go for the Chiefs just because you know Travis Kelsey.
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SPEAKER_01: Um my stepdad, uh, he loves the Eagles, so I know he's an Eagles fan, but my my late grandfather, um, he's always been a diehard Dallas Cowboys fan.
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SPEAKER_01: So R.I.P.
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SPEAKER_01: Jose Delgado.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so I think if I were to choose one, it would probably have to be the Cowboys.
6:16
SPEAKER_01: But when I was in high school, I was all about the Falcons whenever Julio Jones was still playing for them.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh this is gonna sound weird, but the honest to God reason why I even picked the Falcons as my as my favorite team is because they're the only NFL team that has the same color scheme as Shadow the Hedgehog.
6:33
SPEAKER_01: And that's the honest that's the that's the honest to God truth.
6:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
6:38
SPEAKER_01: Shadow's my favorite Sonic character.
6:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, dude, come on, like I got I got the tattoo.
6:42
SPEAKER_01: Are you serious, bro?
6:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I got I got the tattoo right there.
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SPEAKER_04: Hardcore.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dude.
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SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Soup stoked for Sonic 3.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, I I I do not care how much of a man child I'm gonna be, but I I I'm seeing that opening night.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's cool, man.
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SPEAKER_04: So uh so Carolina uses from Tennessee.
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SPEAKER_04: You met her through TikTok as well?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I met her through TikTok also.
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SPEAKER_04: She she said that was a good explanation, DD for jocks.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, DD for jocks, yeah, it's true.
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SPEAKER_01: If you really think about it.
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SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_04: I think I played it like once or twice one season or whatever, but that's cool, man.
7:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: It's it's fun, dude.
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SPEAKER_01: I played it a handful of times with uh some of my buddies back home.
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SPEAKER_01: Shout out to my hometown of San Diego, Texas.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I played with uh my cousin Jacob Morales, and then we played with our homie uh Pedro Ruiz.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh Pedro was actually the um the the dungeon master or whatever they're called.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh he would come up with these like crazy narratives, these insane stories.
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SPEAKER_01: And um my my wife even played with us for a little bit too.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: We we had we had so much fun, but then uh but then covet hit, so we had to like kind of stop doing our D D stuff, and then um we just ended up not playing anymore after that.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh dude.
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SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I had a I had a I had a my character was um he was a bard slash tiefling, and I believe a tiefling is like an elf or something.
8:03
SPEAKER_01: And I bards are cool because bards are are musical, like they they whip out like instruments and stuff.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: So I would bring out like a ukulele and I would like sing my spells or whatever, like that's that's what I would do.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: And um the name of my character um was uh Parvis Kohl's and uh kick can I curse on this thing?
8:25
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, go ahead.
8:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so I I named him Parvis Coles and it's Latin because um if you type in Parvis Coles in Google Translate and you switch it to English, it translates to small penis.
8:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so any anytime that I play an RPG, uh whether it's like um like I was I I got into Jump Force for a minute, which was like um like all the shonen jump characters, like uh like Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto.
8:52
SPEAKER_01: Right uh they were all in this like fighting game together, but Jump Force got like horrible reviews um because like they had like a bunch of problems with it or whatever.
9:01
SPEAKER_01: And it's not a great game by any means, but I had a lot of fun with it.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: And there's a storyline, you create your character, and I name my character Parvis Coles too.
9:10
SPEAKER_01: Nice, and it's any game that I play, whether it's like an RPG or anything where I'm able to create like a character, yeah.
9:16
SPEAKER_01: If I don't feel if I can't just if I can't come up with anything, I usually just throw Parvis Coles.
9:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the go-to.
9:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I got you.
9:23
SPEAKER_01: Or I'll make like a funny name like like last name Hunt, first name Mike, you know, or Jack, last name Hoth.
9:32
SPEAKER_04: Shout out Renee Ramos on Facebook, man.
9:34
SPEAKER_04: And yeah, uh Jason says he's a big Sonic fan as well.
9:38
SPEAKER_04: You mentioned One Piece, man, and uh my uh co-host Zane, he's into One Piece, he wore a One Piece shirt and yeah, I saw that too.
9:45
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and uh the the creator of not One Piece but of Dragon Ball passed away, right?
9:51
SPEAKER_04: Just recently.
9:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he did.
9:52
SPEAKER_04: And how do you feel about that, man?
9:54
SPEAKER_01: Dude, I'm not gonna lie.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: The the day that I found out, uh my wife and I just left the movies.
10:00
SPEAKER_01: Um we're watching Kung Fu Panda 4, which amazing movie by the way.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh yeah, we just got out of watching Kung Fu Panda 4, and I I got a message on my phone, and I think it was my friend Elaine.
10:12
SPEAKER_01: Uh she had messaged me and she was like, dude, Toriyama's dead.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, no fucking way.
10:17
SPEAKER_01: And then I looked at Twitter and I saw the official Dragon Ball um account, and yeah, sure enough, it was it was true.
10:23
SPEAKER_01: I was like reading the statement, and the whole time that I was in the car, I was like, I was like, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
10:28
SPEAKER_01: Holy shit, fuck, fuck.
10:29
SPEAKER_01: And then my wife is like, okay, who died?
10:33
SPEAKER_01: She already knows, yeah, she already knows, like, okay, who died, what what's going on?
10:37
SPEAKER_01: And then I was like, I was like, babe, Akira Toriyama passed away.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, Well, who's who's that?
10:42
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, creator of Dragon Ball, and then she was like, Oh shit, because Dragon Ball is a huge, huge staple in my life.
10:50
SPEAKER_01: Like, uh, aside from aside from the Tony Hawk series and Sonic the Hedgehog, Dragon Ball is probably like the the the number one thing that I'm a fan of in terms of like franchises and whatnot.
11:02
SPEAKER_01: Because I've been I've been watching and playing Dragon Ball since I was like I was five years old.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: So like the whole my whole life uh basically in a in a way kind of revolved around this anime and manga.
11:15
SPEAKER_01: So when I found out that Toriyama passed away, like it just it just it broke my heart, dude.
11:21
SPEAKER_01: Like I cried for a good crazy for a good like 24 hours, man.
11:26
SPEAKER_01: Like it it it really it really broke my heart.
11:28
SPEAKER_01: I have a lot of good memories with that show.
11:31
SPEAKER_01: Um when my grandfather was still alive, he would watch it with me.
11:34
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
11:34
SPEAKER_01: But of course, the whole time he was watching it with me, he was just complaining because all the characters were doing was yelling, which is kind of true.
11:42
SPEAKER_01: Um and he was he was always pissed off because he wanted to watch the game, but ultimately he would cave in and he would let me uh yeah, he would let me um he would let me watch the show.
11:51
SPEAKER_01: And Dragon Ball is also kind of like what introduced me to a lot of bands that would end up becoming some of my favorites, like when when the movies were localized here in America, um, like in in Cooler's Revenge, for example, uh when Goku is turning into a Super Saiyan, change by Deft Tones is playing in the background.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: And dude, like seeing Goku turn into a Super Saiyan with Deft Tones music in the background as a kid, it was euphoric, man.
12:18
SPEAKER_01: It was almost like a religious experience.
12:28
SPEAKER_01: Um Dream Theater.
12:30
SPEAKER_01: That's actually how it was introduced to Dream Theater, also.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: And I think in the Bardock special, they had uh they had uh Superstar by Saliva, nice and like that guitar riff, like dude, yeah, yeah, that was that was hard.
12:45
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's also where like AMVs started becoming a thing too, like anime music videos.
12:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it would be like I don't know if you ever saw them, but it would be like um like uh like Lincoln Park, somewhere I belong, and it would be synced to clips of Dragon Ball Z and Naruto and One Piece and like all these different um it was it was mostly it was mostly anime.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess it's just because like the like for the most part the music was real heavy, real extreme.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you throw that in with these like kick-ass fight scenes from Dragon Ball and Gundam Wing and all these different anime series, like it just kind of it just kind of fits.
13:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's good, man.
13:25
SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
13:26
SPEAKER_04: Andy Vetta, what's up?
13:27
SPEAKER_04: He says, What's up, Matt?
13:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh hey, how's it going, man?
13:30
SPEAKER_01: That's that's my brother-in-law.
13:31
SPEAKER_01: He he plays drums in a band called uh Fallen Fears.
13:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, they just they just dropped their first single, um, I think back in February, February 13th, if I remember correctly.
13:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh no, they're actually based out of Alice.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but they're they're they're starting to do a lot of shows here.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, the song is called Know Your Time.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's very catchy.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, a lot of people say that um it sounds like offspring.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: So if you're into punk rock and stuff like the offspring, you might like that.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: They're also gonna be dropping a new song pretty soon called uh schizophrenia, and I think it's available for pre-order at this at this time.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember exactly when it comes out.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Andy, but I know it's gonna be coming out very soon.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, fallen fears, check them out.
14:13
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and then uh psychedelic fruit says one piece is real is real.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, oh that's that's my friend Elaine.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: That's the one that texted me telling me that Toriyama passed.
14:22
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, yeah, so yeah, she she knows, man.
14:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh huge Dragon Ball guy.
14:27
SPEAKER_04: That's all so uh yeah, so you mentioned uh Pantera and then Dragon Ball.
14:31
SPEAKER_04: So I got I started releasing uh revisiting the Southern Trend Kill album, which has tens on it.
14:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, dude.
14:38
SPEAKER_01: That guitar solo for Floods.
14:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, man.
14:41
SPEAKER_01: Dimebag was a beast.
14:43
SPEAKER_01: Like Dime is easily like one of my, if not the guitar inspiration for me as a guitar player.
14:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like my favorite guitar players growing up were always like uh Dimebag Daryl.
14:54
SPEAKER_01: I love Tony Iomi from Black Sabbath, um, you know, uh Kirk and James, Metallica.
15:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, I really love Scott Ian as well.
15:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm not like a huge, huge anthrax guy by any means, but I'm a really big fan of um SOD.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, do you do you remember those guys?
15:12
SPEAKER_04: What's that?
15:13
SPEAKER_04: That's the acronym for uh Stormtroopers of Death.
15:15
SPEAKER_04: No, no, not really.
15:17
SPEAKER_01: So SOD was basically um like all of Anthrax minus Joey Belladonna.
15:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh they got they got Billy Milano to sing for them.
15:26
SPEAKER_04: Um man, that would sound different.
15:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: It was it was very thrashy, but it was more like crossover thrash.
15:32
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
15:32
SPEAKER_01: Like it leaned more almost toward like the punk rock side of metal.
15:36
SPEAKER_02: Gotcha.
15:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, I guess in a way, kind of like kind of like suicidal tendencies, but like a little more thrash.
15:41
SPEAKER_01: That's what I would kind of describe the music as.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: Like uh SOD is one of my favorite bands.
15:45
SPEAKER_01: They have this record called um uh Speak English or Die.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
15:50
SPEAKER_01: And uh it's like lyrically, it's probably not politically correct by today's standards.
15:56
SPEAKER_01: It's it's just one of those things where it's like, you know, you you either get the joke or you don't.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's a it's a funny album, and there's so many hard riffs on there.
16:05
SPEAKER_01: And the song Milk has a very special place in my heart because it was in the Tony Hawk's underground soundtrack.
16:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:12
SPEAKER_04: That's cool, man.
16:13
SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah, uh what was I to say?
16:15
SPEAKER_04: Oh, so um how do you feel about Pantera reuniting without the brothers?
16:21
SPEAKER_01: So honestly, I mean uh I understand where people's frustrations are with that because you know, without the Abbott brothers, yes, I know there's no Pantera.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: But the the thing that you gotta remember is there's people like me, for example, right?
16:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm 29 years old.
16:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh I grew up with Pantera, but when dime was unfortunately taken from us, that was 2004, right?
16:50
SPEAKER_04: Yes, I can't remember to be honest.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I believe I believe it was 2004.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: I was like nine years old, so there's no way in hell I was gonna be able to see Pantera, much less damage plan.
17:00
SPEAKER_02: Right.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: So there are a lot of people like me that would love to see some form of Pantera live.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: No, whether like that's that's just not a tribute band.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
17:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, I understand where people are like, you know, like the band should have died when you know Diamond Vinny died, they probably shouldn't be doing the thing, whatever, whatever.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: But I mean, the thing is, is like, you know, if you want to go to the show, go to the show.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: If I had the money, I would love to go to the show because that is the closest thing that I'm gonna see to playing Pantera Live.
17:31
SPEAKER_01: I understand that Vinny Paul didn't want that.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: I know he had he wanted no association with Phil.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: I totally get where he's coming from, but I feel like this is something that the fans like truly deserve.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: Um Charlie Benante Vanthrax, amazing fill-in for Vinny Paul.
17:49
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you sometimes if you close your eyes and you listen to like the live footage that they have, it kind of does sound like Vinny is up there still.
17:57
SPEAKER_01: Like, I guess you know, Vinny is just kind of like in a way, kind of like you know, blissing him down from wherever he's at.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, I know Zach, uh he's getting like some form of criticism because I know he's not playing it like Dime would.
18:11
SPEAKER_01: It still sounds like Zach, but the the thing that people don't realize is maybe it's because I'm a guitar player and I look at it differently.
18:17
SPEAKER_01: So the way this works is um you can have Dime's guitar, right?
18:24
SPEAKER_01: You could have the actual um guitar that Dimebag used, his ML, right?
18:30
SPEAKER_01: You could have his guitar, his strings, his pick, his cable, his entire gear, his entire rig.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: You could plug yourself into that with all his settings, everything, but you still will not sound like Dime.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: You're going to sound like you.
18:44
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know exactly what the science is behind it.
18:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's some people that claim that you know your tone comes from your fingers or whatever.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe to an extent that's true, but you you're never going to sound like um like dime.
18:58
SPEAKER_01: Like if I were if I were to get Metallica's rig, if I were to plug into James Hetfield's rig and just start you know playing Master of Puppets or whatever, I'm not gonna sound like James.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna sound like Matt.
19:08
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, right on.
19:08
SPEAKER_04: I agree to that, man, for sure.
19:10
SPEAKER_04: You got your own everybody's thing, hands are different.
19:12
SPEAKER_04: I mean, they might be kind of similar, but your hands are different.
19:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and every everybody everybody picks differently.
19:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, it's it's never gonna sound a hundred percent the same.
19:20
SPEAKER_01: Like, even when I'm in the studio, um, if if my boy Abe Montoya jumps onto the stream, like he could attest to that.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, I'll be retracking, I'll be tracking the same riff like two or three times, and it sounds different every time.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: Because the way that it works in the studio is to get like a like a beefy sound.
19:39
SPEAKER_01: You record two guitar tracks, for the most part, one of them is panned like hard left, the other one part right, hard right, and you have to record them two different times because even if you record it once and it's a good take, if you copy it, it's going to sound weird, it's gonna sound double.
19:57
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why it does that.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, like I said, I don't know the science behind like audio engineering, but it's it's true.
20:05
SPEAKER_01: You have to record your part multiple times.
20:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's that's just how it works.
20:10
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, right on.
20:11
SPEAKER_04: Anna Trevinho Cantu, she's in three blue hearts.
20:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's my uh that's my stepmom.
20:16
SPEAKER_01: What's up?
20:17
SPEAKER_01: Love you, Anna.
20:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and then Alex Arredondo came in.
20:20
SPEAKER_01: Hey, we just shouted you out earlier, bro.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: What's up?
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dude.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: We shouted you out at the beginning of the stream.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, could uh I could really use a brisket burger.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: 4701 by that, check them out.
20:30
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, hopefully y'all ain't uh hopefully all ain't sold out right now because I'm hungry.
20:33
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, oh dude, hell yeah.
20:34
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's cool, man.
20:35
SPEAKER_04: Uh so you uh no you so you were into you're into Dragon Ball Z?
20:41
SPEAKER_04: Like why why did you get into that?
20:43
SPEAKER_04: Uh I guess you were why'd you get into that?
20:46
SPEAKER_01: I got into Dragon Ball at a at a really, really young age.
20:49
SPEAKER_01: Um and I can kind of sort of remember like where I was when it happened.
20:56
SPEAKER_01: Um at the time, uh you know, Pokemania was a thing.
21:00
SPEAKER_01: That was like 1999, 2000.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: That's when Pokemon is it the card game?
21:05
SPEAKER_04: I'm this is for all for me though.
21:07
SPEAKER_01: So Pokemon was an anime, you know, like a cartoon.
21:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I didn't know.
21:11
SPEAKER_01: In other words, yeah.
21:12
SPEAKER_01: So Pokemon was an anime slash video game series slash um you know trading card game.
21:18
SPEAKER_01: Okay, Pokemon got huge here in the West in 1999, 2000, like around that time frame.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: And I was in kindergarten around that time, and I had a friend, they were actually twins, it was Andre and John signs from Alice, Texas.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: And Andre and John, they were like, Nah, dude, Dragon Ball Z is amazing, it's so much better than Pokemon, whatever, whatever.
21:43
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, and they had like a Dragon Ball backpack, and I remember it was I I still remember seeing it, it was Goku on Planet Namek, and he was standing like all like macho and stuff.
21:52
SPEAKER_01: Like it looked like he was ready to to to mess something up.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:55
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, This dude looks kind of cool.
21:57
SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe I'll check the show out, but uh And I was always watching Cartoon Network as a kid, you know, and then one day I tuned into Toonami, and I believe they were on Planet Namic and they were fighting Frieza.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: And it was it was Piccolo, Gohan, Krillin.
22:14
SPEAKER_01: They were all getting their butt kicked by Frieza.
22:17
SPEAKER_01: And that's when my grandpa had changed the channel.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: He was like, he was like, man, I don't want to see this.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, hey, I'm watching that.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, dude, all he's going to do is the good part.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: He's like, dude, all he's going, all he's doing is just going like the whole time.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: And then I'm like, no, no, no, put it back, put it back.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: So he switches it back, and literally it's just Piccolo.
22:35
SPEAKER_01: I shit you not going like trying to power up.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, but when I saw like the actual fighting and everything, it was just so action-packed.
22:44
SPEAKER_01: There was a lot of energy involved, and it was just something that you know, like my five-year-old self got sucked into.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: Um nice.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: But it but the reason why I um why I stuck with it, the reason why I'm still a fan, even as a 29-year-old man, is because you know, to me at least, and I'm pretty sure a lot of Dragon Ball fans will will attest to this, um, Dragon Ball kind of became like a cultural zeitgeist in a way.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, Dragon Ball kind of became more than just an anime or a manga or a video game series.
23:23
SPEAKER_01: It kind of became part of our culture, like even even with like like Latino culture, like Dragon Ball in Mexico is huge in Mexico.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you go to Mexico, you will literally find like taqueras de Goku and stuff like that.
23:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when like uh like when Dragon Ball Super was was popping a couple years ago, the fight between Goku and Jiren, one of the one of the characters on the show, like a lot of uh people in Latin America, they were airing that fight on big old jumbotrons, like in parks and stuff.
23:57
SPEAKER_01: People were lining up, there were crowds seeing this fight.
24:01
SPEAKER_01: They were marketing it like a pay-per-view fight, like wrestling or something.
24:06
SPEAKER_01: It was it's massive in in Mexico.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: It's so massive to the point where there's rumors going around saying that when a new piece of Dragon Ball media hits Mexico, cartel activity slows down significantly by like two days.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's probably you know it's it's probably just a rumor.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: I don't have any sources for that, but it's an actual thing that is that is going like when Toriyama died, there were all these tweets saying that um oh the the cartel is gonna do a ceasefire in honor of Toriyama.
24:38
SPEAKER_01: Because yeah, because that's how huge it is in Mexico.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: Like if you look up the countries, like the top ten countries where Dragon Ball is popular, Latin America is at least like five or seven out of the ten.
24:52
SPEAKER_01: No.
24:52
SPEAKER_01: Um aside from obviously Japan and the United States, but yeah, no, Mexico, it it goes hard.
24:59
SPEAKER_01: For me, like Goku growing up was was my Superman.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
25:05
SPEAKER_01: Like when you're a kid, like people love you know Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and I and I'm a huge Marvel guy, personally.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: Like I I love I love Marvel.
25:14
SPEAKER_01: I've always been like a comic book nerd too.
25:17
SPEAKER_01: But you know, anytime that anybody would ask me, like, hey, what who's your favorite superhero?
25:21
SPEAKER_01: I would just say Goku.
25:22
SPEAKER_01: That was the first thing that would pop up because to me, Dragon Ball, yes, it's a show about fighting, but it's more than just fighting, it's about family, it's about coming together.
25:32
SPEAKER_01: Cool.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: Like the very end of the series when they're fighting Majin Boo, and Goku says, Hey, like, I need you to put your hands in the air, we're doing a spirit bomb, lend me your energy.
25:41
SPEAKER_01: Like, I was I was a kid and I was doing the same thing, and then my little brother was like, What are you doing?
25:46
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Hey, put your freaking hands in the air, man.
25:48
SPEAKER_01: Goku needs us.
25:49
SPEAKER_01: And I I think the reason why Dragon Ball fans are so passionate about this series is because it's kind of like the equivalent of cheering on for your favorite football team.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: Because you know how like Dallas Cowboy fans are very, very dedicated, so much so to the point where Cowboy Nation kind of does get a lot of shit from like NFL the NFL fan base.
26:10
SPEAKER_01: It's the same thing with Dragon Ball, like Dragon Ball Z fans, uh, they do kind of get um a lot of negative reception from the anime community because we're so um invested in this character, like there's always these debates like uh Goku versus this person, like Goku versus Superman, who would win?
26:32
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you talk shit about Goku, Dragon Ball fans will literally come and put you in a headlock, man.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: That's so crazy.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's so weird.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: Like, for me personally, like, you know, I I take a lot of inspiration from Goku because to me, Goku is like through all odds, he could be on a dying planet, he could literally be getting his ass handed to him, but he's still positive and he always comes out on top at the end.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, because of Toriyama, because of Goku, like uh that show kind of helped me mold into the man that you see today.
27:09
SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, like my my family is everything to me.
27:12
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, like my fans, my followers, my friends, yeah.
27:16
SPEAKER_01: I always put other people um before me.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: And in and in a way, that's kind of why I'm why I'm in healthcare as well.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
27:24
SPEAKER_01: Um, just because like, you know, through this Japanese cartoon show that I saw as a kid, um, you know, it it just inspired me to be a better person.
27:34
SPEAKER_01: And it's more than just like, you know, like nerd culture and stuff.
27:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you go to the gym, I guarantee, Mark, I bet you 20 bucks right now.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: If you go to Freedom Fitness, you will probably see at least one or two Dragon Ball shirts because that's another thing that Dragon Ball Z did.
27:50
SPEAKER_01: It inspired gym culture.
27:52
SPEAKER_01: No, like people were working out because they wanted to get beefy like Goku.
27:58
SPEAKER_01: I remember there was a guy that was wearing a shirt that said training hard to beat Goku, and in the parentheses it said, or at least Krillin.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: So that's that's just how it was.
28:07
SPEAKER_01: And even like musicians too, like um a lot of today's rappers they grew up watching Dragon Ball as well.
28:14
SPEAKER_01: So they either sample sounds from the anime or they sample like the like the theme song or whatever, or they add Dragon Ball references to their lyrics.
28:23
SPEAKER_01: Like it's a it's a huge phenomenon that in my opinion is probably gonna be around for like the end of time.
28:31
SPEAKER_01: Like this, like Dragon Ball was our Star Wars, Toriyama was our Stan Lee.
28:37
SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's cool.
28:37
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
28:38
SPEAKER_04: I think it's gonna be a new generation coming.
28:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think pretty cool.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: I think that's what it's gonna be.
28:42
SPEAKER_01: I think it's literally gonna transcend the the sands of time.
28:46
SPEAKER_04: Nice, man.
28:47
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and you uh I think one of your latest posts, I don't remember, I was going through your TikTok, you were saying that I think it was Drake was sampling Sonic or something like that.
28:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
28:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was on crazy.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was on uh it was on More Life.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: Um, the album, the album More Life.
29:03
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh it's it it he it's called a playlist, a playlist by October firm, but it's a it's an album at the end of the day.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the song KMT, uh that contains a sample of His World by Zebrahead, which was the main theme for Sonic 06.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: And the the the the way that they flipped the sample was really cool because they they slowed they slowed the intro down, they chopped it up into sections, and they created a beat out of it, which is like, you know, hey, cool.
29:32
SPEAKER_01: Like I don't think Drake himself sampled it.
29:34
SPEAKER_01: I think that was more so his producer.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it's still cool that it ended up on a Drake track, and there's another song off of um what's the record?
29:43
SPEAKER_01: I think it's called If You're Reading This, it's too late.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, one of the songs on there, I don't remember what it was called, but that contains a Donkey Kong Country sample, too.
29:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yo.
29:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:53
SPEAKER_01: So like a lot of these producers, like they're like you you could sample anything.
29:57
SPEAKER_01: You know, you could sample a TV show theme, you could sample music from a video game, you could sample sounds like um Wishing Well by Juice World.
30:07
SPEAKER_01: He actually sampled the sound that the Dragon Balls make from Dragon Ball Z.
30:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
30:13
SPEAKER_04: Wow, man.
30:14
SPEAKER_04: So yeah, I I I that was a I wanted to introduce your music here, man, because we we've already been 30 minutes in.
30:19
SPEAKER_04: This is an interesting conversation.
30:20
SPEAKER_04: I like to learn about uh Dragon Ball Z and all that stuff, and I'll ask you some questions here in a minute.
30:25
SPEAKER_04: But so you recently had a a the uh song The Aquaines?
30:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did a I did a new metal cover of the uh of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme song, and that's the that's the lead single off of my upcoming After Hours Ep, um, which is basically a collection of five adult swim theme songs.
30:45
SPEAKER_01: And um, I added my own personal flair on them.
30:48
SPEAKER_01: They're they're cover tunes.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: Um but it's not just a straight up like carbon copy of the original.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: A lot of these songs, like I I reworked them um to give it like my own little matte flair per se.
31:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:02
SPEAKER_01: Um certain sections, like you know, like I added I added breakdowns, um, I added like bridges, because a lot of those themes they were only like 18 to 30 seconds long.
31:12
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, yeah.
31:13
SPEAKER_01: So like what the Brack Show covers specifically, um, I extended that bad boy to at least like two minutes.
31:19
SPEAKER_04: Wow, dude, that's gotta be tough.
31:22
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and so figure out what to put in there to make it that long from 18 to 20 seconds, yeah.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: And and the way that I've been approaching these um these songs is like, okay, here's the TV show theme song.
31:35
SPEAKER_01: This is cool, but how do I make it into a kick-ass metal song?
31:39
SPEAKER_01: So with Aqua Teen, it was perfect because the original theme for Aqua Teen Hunger Force that is just a straight up hip-hop track that was done by uh School E D.
31:49
SPEAKER_01: Pioneer.
31:50
SPEAKER_04: Actually, on the actual show?
31:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the actual theme song for the show, um, it was done by School E D, which is an old school uh gangster rapper.
31:58
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
31:58
SPEAKER_01: And it's just a straight up hip-hop song.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, okay, hip-hop, new metal, easy.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: It basically just write itself.
32:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that one that one came very naturally.
32:09
SPEAKER_01: With the Brack show, the original theme song is kind of like um, kind of sounds like a like a 60s or 70s style sitcom.
32:19
SPEAKER_01: And for some reason, I was just like, you know what?
32:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna make this into a metal core song.
32:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because I I I grew up like in high school, I was listening to a lot of like uh like Attack Attack, Asking Alexandria, a day to remember, things of that nature, like a lot of bands that were just doing chugga-chug of stuff at Warp Tour with drop C.
32:37
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, there's that.
32:39
SPEAKER_01: Um the only the only cover on the album that's like basically just very straightforward is just the the C Lab cover.
32:47
SPEAKER_01: But the C Lab cover is also gonna act as like the intro to to the record.
32:51
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
32:52
SPEAKER_04: So how many songs are on there?
32:53
SPEAKER_04: Uh it's five.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: So the first track is C Lab 2021, um, and then it goes into Aqua Tene Hunger Force, then the Brack Show, then the Boondocks.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: Wow, and then we're gonna end the record with uh Space Goes Coast to Coast.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: The show the show that started it all.
33:09
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the main one, but that's so that's the main song.
33:12
SPEAKER_04: So we're gonna hear uh we're gonna hear uh part of that EP now.
33:15
SPEAKER_04: What what are we listening to here?
33:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh I believe I'm gonna I'm gonna show y'all the this is the this is the brack show cover.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: Um this is the first mix.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: So uh let me know what y'all think.
35:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: There we go.
35:23
SPEAKER_04: Wow, dude, that thing's live, bro.
35:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so yeah, that's that's the that's a little sneak peek of the Brac Show cover.
35:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and uh like I said, the version that you hear today, um, it's probably gonna differ slightly from when we officially release it because we're still fine-tuning the mix here and there.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we're probably gonna like beef up the snare a little bit, you know, just fine tweak it, in other words.
35:48
SPEAKER_01: But uh because I feel like I've been um like I wasn't expecting to be working on after hours this long, to tell you the truth.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: I've been working on this project for about a year.
35:59
SPEAKER_01: So to give people a little something extra while they wait for the full thing to come out, um, I will be releasing the Brack Show cover as a single.
36:08
SPEAKER_01: Wow, man.
36:08
SPEAKER_01: Um and uh hopefully uh we're aiming for for April 1st, for April Fool's Day.
36:14
SPEAKER_01: Um so hopefully it'll come out on that day.
36:16
SPEAKER_01: If not, it'll still probably come out around that time.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: So uh be on the lookout around early April for my cover of the Brag Show theme song, and uh it's gonna melt your face off, I swear.
36:25
SPEAKER_04: So, where did we listen to it on spot?
36:27
SPEAKER_04: I know I found you on Spotify.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it'll it'll be everywhere, man.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: It'll be on Spotify, uh, it'll be on YouTube Music, it'll be on Amazon, um, Apple Music, Limewire, Napster.
36:38
SPEAKER_04: You use DistroKid for for that?
36:39
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I use DistroKid, which is cool because DistroKid allows you to do uh cover songs as well.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: Uh you just gotta pay for yeah, you just gotta pay for a cover song license and uh they they take care of it for you.
36:52
SPEAKER_04: Wow, it's amazing, dude.
36:52
SPEAKER_04: How you can just distribute your own music nowadays.
36:55
SPEAKER_04: That's amazing, man.
36:57
SPEAKER_04: Those guitars sound low.
36:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
36:59
SPEAKER_01: How yeah, and you used an eight string on that one, or um no, actually I I used I used a seven string on that one.
37:05
SPEAKER_01: It's in um well, the the the tuning that I recorded it in was actually drop F, but I didn't use the low F.
37:12
SPEAKER_01: In reality, you could probably play it on a six-string guitar if you just tuned down a drop B flat.
37:17
SPEAKER_04: Oh, right on.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so yeah, so technically it was recorded in F, but theoretically speaking, it can be played in drop B flat.
37:25
SPEAKER_04: This is so cool, man.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and if you think those are low, uh wait till you hear uh the boondocks and space ghost because those are in double drop D.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, double drop D.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
37:34
SPEAKER_01: I've been experimenting a lot with A String lately because uh when when we were recording the Aqua Teen cover, uh Abe Montoya of Omega Records in Kingsville, Texas.
37:44
SPEAKER_01: Uh he's a good homie of mine, and he's actually the one producing, mixing, recording, mastering this project.
37:50
SPEAKER_04: Awesome.
37:50
SPEAKER_04: Shout out, man.
37:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, he's he's cool, dude.
37:53
SPEAKER_01: Um, and he's he's the real deal, man.
37:55
SPEAKER_01: Like, I I go into his studio, it's like a little barn type of area, but like you walk inside, he's got an EVH 5150, and he's got like a whole rack, and then he has like a quad cortex.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: Like, this dude's got gear for days, man.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so uh we What did you tell him I want to play on that EV?
38:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's literally what I told him.
38:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think we I think we might have recorded Aqua Teen through the EVH.
38:19
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember off the top of my head, but I I I think we might have captured it on the uh on the on the quad cortext.
38:26
SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, like he's been he's been helping me out significantly through that.
38:30
SPEAKER_01: And uh there's a whole lot of special guests that are gonna be featured on this project too.
38:35
SPEAKER_01: Uh shout out to my buddy Alan Worman.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: Um he plays bass in a new metal band from San Antonio called Agony.
38:41
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
38:41
SPEAKER_01: Um he's playing bass on a couple tracks.
38:43
SPEAKER_01: Um my buddy Josh Freeman from uh he plays in a hardcore band called Mow Down.
38:50
SPEAKER_01: Um he's from up north somewhere, I forgot exactly where, like out of state, but uh he's actually playing bass on the Brack Show.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: So that so the bass that you heard, that was all him.
39:01
SPEAKER_01: Nice and then Cosme Williams of uh formerly of Texas Devil, uh currently in static effect.
39:06
SPEAKER_01: He's playing drums on 90% of the songs, and then uh my friend Layton from um West Virginia, she's actually gonna be playing drums on the uh on the boondocks cover.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, which is uh which is kind of ironic because um I wasn't expecting to get a white girl to play drums for the boondocks, but it just kind of fell into place.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: But no, like she she she really threw it down on there.
39:32
SPEAKER_01: I wanted to give her a shout-out because I've always loved her drumming.
39:35
SPEAKER_01: She goes by groovy ghost notes on like Instagram and TikTok and whatnot.
39:40
SPEAKER_01: And uh she she's got a lot of soul, man.
39:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, and she she she tore it up.
39:45
SPEAKER_01: Like I really love the the drum parts that she wrote for the boondocks.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: It's nice.
39:49
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome, man.
39:49
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just listening to you talk about this, man.
39:52
SPEAKER_04: It shows your uh for me, like it shows your your hustle.
39:55
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, like your has it has it all have you always been like that?
39:58
SPEAKER_04: Even on your TikToks, bro.
39:59
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, like I'm like, dude, this dude re actually you research most of the stuff, don't you?
40:03
SPEAKER_04: Before you do that, we'll see.
40:05
SPEAKER_04: Like that's yeah, that in itself is a hustle, man.
40:07
SPEAKER_04: Have you always been like that?
40:08
SPEAKER_01: I've always been like that.
40:09
SPEAKER_01: Like when I was in school, um, you know, A B C student, um, didn't really get a lot of D's until I got into college.
40:18
SPEAKER_01: But uh hey yo, shout out to Coastal Band College man, D's get degrees.
40:22
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
40:23
SPEAKER_01: Like, but um, but yeah, no, like it was um, but yeah, no, I was I was always I guess like a scholar, you could say that.
40:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh my my mother, um Joanne Garcia, she she's actually a teacher, she's an English teacher.
40:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: So I guess like uh you know, she taught me a lot of stuff growing up.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: My my grandf my late grandfather was real big into education.
40:47
SPEAKER_01: Uh my my father as well, uh he was always like, you know, make sure that you study hard, get good grades, whatever, whatever.
40:55
SPEAKER_01: So I was just always really good at researching things.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: And when I'm really passionate about something, like when I become like a super fan of whatever it is, whether it's a TV show or music or what have you, um I I don't just become a fan of the property.
41:11
SPEAKER_01: I want to know every little thing.
41:13
SPEAKER_01: I want to know, okay, how was this animated, who animated this, who created the show, wow, who uh how was this song recorded, yeah, uh who's who are the band members, you know.
41:22
SPEAKER_01: Deep dive.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I always do deep dives on this stuff, and um I think that's also why I'm able to whip out like so much like fact videos as I call them because um, you know, I've just I just have so much knowledge of you know my favorite things and I just want to be able to share that knowledge with the world.
41:42
SPEAKER_01: Um and I always try to make sure that I if it's something that I'm not like a hundred percent percent sure on, I'll make sure that I do research beforehand so that way I'm not spreading misinformation or or anything like that.
41:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: Um granted, you know, sometimes maybe I do get stuff wrong.
41:56
SPEAKER_01: I mean I'm human, it's gonna happen.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: Um, but a lot of people have reached out and they're like, yo, dude, I learned so much from your from your videos and all this stuff.
42:04
SPEAKER_01: And wow, like that.
42:05
SPEAKER_01: And that that that makes me feel good because you know, if my if my content like moves you in a way, whether it educates you or you you like my music or what have you, um, you know, that makes me feel like I I did my job at the end of the day.
42:20
SPEAKER_01: Um and I've always wanted to to to do something like this.
42:24
SPEAKER_01: I've always been an entertainer at heart.
42:26
SPEAKER_01: I was in plays when I was a kid, like as early as like five years old.
42:31
SPEAKER_01: Um I was in one act play for a year when I was in high school, and I think we actually made it to we didn't make it to state, but I think we made it to like area or something.
42:42
SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
42:42
SPEAKER_01: Um so I was always just doing like you know, like the the entertainment stuff, you know, music.
42:48
SPEAKER_01: The when I was a kid, I I got really into drawing and I wanted to be an animator, I wanted to create my own TV show.
42:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh my my original dream was to either create a create a cartoon show or to become a voice actor.
43:03
SPEAKER_01: Like I wanted to create a a cartoon show and I wanted to pitch it to Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network and see if they were see if they would pick it up.
43:10
SPEAKER_01: But when I was in seventh grade, uh that's when I discovered guitar and I kind of like abandoned the the the the drawing cartoon side of me.
43:19
SPEAKER_01: Right.
43:20
SPEAKER_01: And I went straight into straight into the music stuff, which is why after hours means so much to me, because um I wanted to combine my love of um adult swim and heavy metal.
43:34
SPEAKER_01: I wanted to put those two worlds together.
43:37
SPEAKER_01: And of course, like you know, like adult swim is the perfect thing for that, in my opinion, because you know, we have metalocalypse, which is you know, death clock, brand and small.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: Um so I think it's I think it's just a perfect fit.
43:49
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome, man.
43:50
SPEAKER_04: Uh Bon Marie, shout out.
43:51
SPEAKER_04: She said, Matt Catwoo, Black Hearts and 100%.
43:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's that's my friend Bonnie.
43:57
SPEAKER_01: We uh we actually worked together at the hospital.
43:59
SPEAKER_04: Nice.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: So that's my that's my co-worker right there.
44:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:02
SPEAKER_01: Bonnie's lit, dude.
44:03
SPEAKER_04: So you're so you were able to do the show because you're all you work nights, or was that that's what you were telling before I came on?
44:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, I work, yeah, I work night shift.
44:12
SPEAKER_01: So I mean I would I wouldn't mind doing it in the morning, but yeah, no, 8 p.m.
44:16
SPEAKER_01: This is this is where I thrive.
44:17
SPEAKER_04: So you're yeah, that's cool, man.
44:19
SPEAKER_04: So your your degree is in medical?
44:21
SPEAKER_04: Did you get a degree or how how did you get into I have a that that's a funny story?
44:26
SPEAKER_01: So I actually do have a a college degree.
44:28
SPEAKER_01: I have an associate's degree in computer information technology.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: Oh, nice.
44:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I didn't go into technology, but I guess in a way I'm still using it because I'm like editing videos and whatnot.
44:39
SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
44:39
SPEAKER_01: But um, yeah, no, I I didn't get into IT because I I wanted to get my bachelor's in computer science, but uh I would have had to take like 72 math classes or something.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: And the minute they told me, like, bro, you're gonna have to take Cal 4, and I was like, Yeah, no, screw that.
44:56
SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to change my major to like something else.
44:59
SPEAKER_01: And um around the time I had actually met my wife, who was you know just my girlfriend or whatever at the time, and she was already a nurse, she had already been a nurse for about three years at that point.
45:09
SPEAKER_01: We got together in 2018, so now uh because she's been a nurse since 2016, so she's going on almost 10 years of her career.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: And she was like, Well, why don't you try healthcare?
45:20
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Healthcare is honestly the last thing I want to do.
45:24
SPEAKER_01: But uh, I took a phlebotomy class, uh, that's the people that draw your blood, you know.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: So I took that and I thought that the environment was pretty cool, pretty fun, and it was it to me, it felt like um a lot like um there was no math, so in my opinion, it was easier than technology.
45:42
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, okay, great, I could probably get into this.
45:45
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I worked as a phlebotomist for a little bit.
45:47
SPEAKER_01: Um I worked as a dialysis technician for about two years.
45:52
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I was uh I was I was sticking people that were uh that were on dialysis, and uh that was a lot of uh that was a lot of fun.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: I made a lot of great relationships there, but um, you know, I I left the job for um for for reasons, uh mainly because of management, not gonna lie.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: Um and that was pretty heartbreaking at the time because um when you work dialysis, you work these really long hours and you see these patients pretty much every day.
46:23
SPEAKER_01: You see them more often than you do like your own family.
46:26
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
46:26
SPEAKER_01: So you're not supposed to, but you still kind of like gain a close relationship with with these people, yeah.
46:33
SPEAKER_01: You know, just because they they they kind of act like your family at that point.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it was a little it was a little heartbreaking to to leave dialysis, but um I'm in the uh I'm in the mental health field now.
46:45
SPEAKER_01: Um I work at a psych hospital because uh one of the one of the other things that I'm very passionate about is um mental health.
46:53
SPEAKER_01: Uh when Chester Bennington died in 2017, um that was another death that like really uh took a toll on me, much like a Kiratoriyama from earlier this month.
47:04
SPEAKER_01: Um so Chester was also like my my reason for getting into mental health.
47:10
SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, granted, I I don't really plan on staying in healthcare like forever, you know.
47:16
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I do love the fact that I'm able to make a difference in these people's lives and you know impact them in a positive light.
47:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, man, that's good.
47:25
SPEAKER_04: That's good thinking there, man.
47:27
SPEAKER_04: Wow, it's amazing.
47:28
SPEAKER_04: I I had no idea.
47:29
SPEAKER_04: My my wife is a paramedic, so she's oh man, shout out to her, dude.
47:34
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, hell yeah, dude.
47:35
SPEAKER_04: I can't believe she'd I can't believe that profession doesn't get paid more, just like teachers.
47:39
SPEAKER_01: Oh, don't even get me started on that, brother.
47:42
SPEAKER_01: Don't even get me started on that.
47:43
SPEAKER_04: Let's start it, dude.
47:44
SPEAKER_04: What do you think about it?
47:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, dude, like let me put it to you this way like I don't want to go into the nitty-gritty of like what I get paid or anything like that, but like you know, there are certain professions in in healthcare where you're making just as much as somebody that's starting out at McDonald's, you know, and I got nothing against McDonald's workers.
48:07
SPEAKER_01: I mean, sh I I eat a McDonald's every day.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: It's that's why I'm a big boy.
48:12
SPEAKER_01: But um, you know, I I do feel like uh healthcare workers are very, very underappreciated uh because you know, we we are very hard workers, we're on our feet for 12 to 16 hours a day.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: Um, and we give our entire heart, all of our love, all of our care to these strangers that need way more help than we do.
48:36
SPEAKER_01: So it could get pretty taxing on the body.
48:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, I remember like dialysis for for example, when I was working at the dialysis clinic, I would always come back with like horrible lower back pain because I was just bending over the whole time.
48:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, and then like a lot of nurses that retire, I'm pretty sure like they have problems with their ankles or with their joints because you're just constantly going.
49:01
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, for sure.
49:02
SPEAKER_04: And uh when we were getting out of debt, my wife was working like 48 hour shifts, like yeah, that like and I was and shout out to her man for us.
49:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, shout out to my wife too.
49:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because yeah, it it definitely takes a special special person, special heart to to be in that in that type of profession.
49:24
SPEAKER_01: And um yeah, I mean I I went to uh truth be told, I I went I tried going to nursing school, I tried getting my nursing degree, um, it didn't work out well for me personally, but um you know I still feel like I'm I'm doing great where I'm at.
49:39
SPEAKER_01: Like my job is paying my bills, and it's also you know, funding the entertainment side of me because yeah, because I'm gonna be real with you, homie.
49:46
SPEAKER_01: Like uh for me, like if it ever gets to the point where music and content creation can pay the bills, I'm jumping all in on that.
49:57
SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
49:58
SPEAKER_01: And um, I got kind of happy because I got my I got my first big check from TikTok this month.
50:02
SPEAKER_01: So seriously, bro, that's awesome.
50:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna disclose the exact dollar amount, but but I will but I will tell you this.
50:10
SPEAKER_01: So uh I've been monetizing my stuff since I hit 10,000 followers a couple years ago.
50:17
SPEAKER_01: Um a few a few months back, I did a video talking about uh skate three, the video game.
50:23
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and it got about I think 20,000 views uh within like a couple days or so, which is which is impressive, right?
50:30
SPEAKER_01: And uh I got about 17 bucks from that video.
50:34
SPEAKER_01: So that could kind of give you like a rough estimate of where the where the math is.
50:38
SPEAKER_01: Gotcha.
50:38
SPEAKER_01: And then last month I put out a video that hit almost 400,000 views.
50:44
SPEAKER_01: Wow, and I was telling my wife about it, and I was like, oh, cool, dude.
50:48
SPEAKER_01: I might get I might get 50 bucks.
50:50
SPEAKER_01: I checked my analytics for that video the next day,$250 for one video.
50:56
SPEAKER_01: Nice that happened.
50:58
SPEAKER_04: Wow, yeah, so so uh because I'm on YouTube, I have a personal page, I monetized because I do program I do I'm in the programming too.
51:06
SPEAKER_04: Um so I put some C videos.
51:09
SPEAKER_04: Nice, uh like uh because so the actual because I took programming one at Delmar, and that that after that uh I was using that book and I was solving the problems in that book, putting them online.
51:22
SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's red.
51:23
SPEAKER_04: So different colleges from different parts of the of the United States are looking at my videos to find for the solution for those problems.
51:31
SPEAKER_04: Man, where were you when I was in college?
51:34
SPEAKER_01: I was probably there, bro.
51:36
SPEAKER_01: Probably gonna have my damn bachelor's.
51:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so so I'll so I'm monetized to YouTube.
51:40
SPEAKER_04: I was wondering how how how it works with so you're getting monetized through views on TikTok?
51:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
51:46
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so so and there's like a bunch of different like ways that they factor that thing in, because um they they used to have this thing called the creator fund.
51:56
SPEAKER_01: They they would pay you based on like your uh amount of views or whatever, but they abandoned that particular uh program, they abandoned it because now they whipped out the creativity program beta, but now that is being reworked because now they're as getting out of the beta phase.
52:17
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, but um a lot of people were pissed when the when the creativity program beta came out because now in order to get monetized on TikTok, your videos have to be at least a minute or longer.
52:30
SPEAKER_01: So anything that's less than a minute long, like the short form content, that's not getting monetized anymore, which is sad because in a way that's kind of where um TikTok built the whole platform on.
52:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was short form content, but yeah, so a minute or longer, and um you have to.
52:48
SPEAKER_04: You can put it up here, uh Maya, if you can.
52:50
SPEAKER_04: So what?
52:51
SPEAKER_04: No, sorry.
52:51
SPEAKER_01: Oh, my yeah, no, it's cool.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, uh 10,000 followers um at least, and then I think you have to have like a certain amount of views.
53:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't remember exactly off the top of my head, but um I can tell you that for sure, a minute or longer, and uh in order to even get paid, your video has to hit a thousand views or more.
53:16
SPEAKER_01: So that's another thing that people gotta get um that people kind of have to get used to.
53:21
SPEAKER_01: So that's why, like, I mean, luckily it it it works well for me because all if not most of my videos are at least a minute or longer.
53:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't really do any like short form stuff anymore.
53:31
SPEAKER_01: Just because at least in my experience when I did short form content, it didn't really it didn't really get like the reach that I thought it was gonna.
53:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
53:39
SPEAKER_01: Um with the exception of this one like six-second video that I put out that hit like almost seven million views.
53:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh crazy.
53:46
SPEAKER_01: Which I never got paid for, unfortunately, because that was before I was able to monetize my stuff.
53:52
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that video um didn't get a single cent from that.
53:57
SPEAKER_01: And you you you could probably still find it on my page.
53:59
SPEAKER_01: It's a video of me dropping a candle at Ollie's.
54:02
SPEAKER_01: There's like a sign on the thing that says don't grab candles by the lid, and I'm like, Don't tell me what to do.
54:07
SPEAKER_01: So I pick it up, and then I almost drop the candle, and then I catch it with my phone, so it kind of like it acts like as a jump scare toward the toward the viewer.
54:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, crazy.
54:15
SPEAKER_01: For some reason, that thing got seven million views, and I'm like, dude, I I make all this, all these, all this, these fact videos.
54:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I make music, and that's that's the thing that y'all gravitated toward.
54:26
SPEAKER_01: I fuck you guys, but yeah, but no, but that but honestly, that that video, I don't want to downplay that because that particular video changed my life.
54:34
SPEAKER_01: Like a lot of people started following me from that, and I thought they were just gonna follow me because of that one funny video.
54:41
SPEAKER_01: But no, they actually they actually stayed.
54:43
SPEAKER_01: Like they actually stayed and they were still interacting with like the music side of me, the the whole thing.
54:48
SPEAKER_04: It's like a person, like a personal brand.
54:50
SPEAKER_04: What what was that you had up uh Maya?
54:52
SPEAKER_04: He he put up something about the TikTok bill or something like that.
54:55
SPEAKER_04: Did you know anything about that lately?
54:57
SPEAKER_01: Oh, is that the the the the band the TikTok ban?
55:01
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well what's happening there?
55:02
SPEAKER_04: What do you think about that?
55:04
SPEAKER_01: I had a feeling y'all were gonna ask me that.
55:06
SPEAKER_01: Okay, dude, I I Maya back there, bro.
55:09
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm gonna say this.
55:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say this.
55:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay, you guys ready?
55:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you guys ready?
55:13
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
55:13
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
55:14
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say this.
55:16
SPEAKER_01: If you have more wrinkles on your face than the California fucking raisins, you should not be telling us what we can and can't do on the fucking internet, man.
55:26
SPEAKER_01: So now this TikTok ban thing, it it's it's not new news by any means.
55:34
SPEAKER_01: They've been trying to ban TikTok for the past like three or four years.
55:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
55:37
SPEAKER_01: In my opinion, like, I don't know why Congress decided to expedite this particular bill.
55:43
SPEAKER_01: Like we we got like we have a massive homeless population, especially here in Corpus.
55:48
SPEAKER_01: If you go down like um like Morgan, like Morgan Avenue, like those people could desperately need homes.
55:56
SPEAKER_01: Like, there's um, you know, we have like human trafficking, uh, there's a whole lot of other issues that I feel are more important than a social media app where people just lip sync and torque.
56:08
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, they their whole thing is um TikTok is their partner company is Bite Dance, which is based out of China.
56:17
SPEAKER_01: That's all it comes down to.
56:19
SPEAKER_01: They're afraid that China is getting our info and this, that, and the other.
56:22
SPEAKER_01: They're getting they're stealing our data, what have you.
56:24
SPEAKER_01: But honestly, like I mean, Facebook, Google, Twitter, all these guys, they have our data already.
56:30
SPEAKER_01: And I'm pretty sure like some of those companies, they probably sell our data to like you know, other countries, other sources.
56:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I I do not understand why China specifically is the problem because like um last time I checked, I mean, this was made in China, this was made in China, my chunas were made in China, right?
56:52
SPEAKER_01: So why is this an issue now?
56:53
SPEAKER_01: Like we're we're still doing business with China.
56:56
SPEAKER_01: Why is this application a problem?
56:59
SPEAKER_01: Like, in this is just my opinion, but I think they just don't want us to be talking to people from other countries because I have people that are following me, like from Australia and the UK, like all these different countries, and like a lot of people are getting their news in in real time, uh, because like you know, CNN, Fox News, like they're going to not alter the stories per se.
57:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying that, but they're going to try to like put out a certain narrative, like they're gonna try to tell you what they want you to hear, you know, instead of the truth, per se.
57:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, so like with TikTok, it's people just like filming on their phone and they upload it.
57:42
SPEAKER_01: Like, uh, you know, granted, sometimes people are really good at editing, but some of the like the stuff that you could see, um, for the most part, like it's it's true, it's out there.
57:53
SPEAKER_01: You know, you can't really like backtrack from that once it uh once it once it goes down.
57:58
SPEAKER_01: And another criticism that TikTok faced was when this bill was in Congress, they whipped out this like mass notification with like a little search bar where you could put in your uh zip code, and it gives you like the representative in your area that you could contact and tell them not to ban this thing.
58:15
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
58:16
SPEAKER_01: So they they twisted that around and they were like, you see, like this is how they could um you know alter the algorithm to like show us stuff that's gonna benefit China and whatnot.
58:26
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, dude, y'all are blowing that completely out of proportion because that's not something that TikTok is new to.
58:34
SPEAKER_01: Like, you could literally just go to Google, type in who's your representative, and the search bar will pop up too, like on a government website.
58:42
SPEAKER_01: The only difference was they integrated it into the app at that point in time.
58:47
SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's the only difference.
58:48
SPEAKER_04: Wow, so crazy.
58:49
SPEAKER_04: Poppy Game Chachi said amen to that, which you were saying about the raisin face looking people.
58:54
SPEAKER_04: She's gonna uh uh Poppy Game's gonna be on here.
58:57
SPEAKER_04: She's uh rapper here out of Corpus.
58:59
SPEAKER_04: Uh oh, really?
59:00
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, oh dang.
59:02
SPEAKER_04: But you were so jump on a track with me if you want.
59:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
59:05
SPEAKER_04: Um, so you were mentioning, yeah, that makes me think about how because you advocate for bands that are on, you know, people that are on TikTok, you know what I mean?
59:13
SPEAKER_04: And it reminds me of like how it's it's making its way to where the TV shows aren't the only thing that are being shown to people.
59:22
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
59:23
SPEAKER_04: Now it's what you're doing, what I'm doing, you know what I mean?
59:27
SPEAKER_04: That's the new TV.
59:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
59:29
SPEAKER_01: And and and and truth be told, like, a lot of people have been asking me, like, hey, if TikTok does get banned, like what do you what are you gonna do?
59:36
SPEAKER_01: And honestly, like it it will be very heartbreaking to see TikTok go.
59:42
SPEAKER_01: Because at the end of the day, what they want to do is they're uh Congress is saying that they don't want to ban it, but they really want TikTok to separate from Byte Dance.
59:51
SPEAKER_01: If TikTok does not separate from Byte Dance and sell the company to, I assume, somebody American, then they will ban the application.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh but I will say this if if something does happen to TikTok, nothing, and I mean nothing, not even the government, is gonna prevent me from putting out dope as fuck music and dopest fuck content for my people.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_01: Because those 34,000 followers that I got, they didn't happen overnight.
1:00:20
SPEAKER_01: I had to really work and grind to get them.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but if something does happen, you know, I'm gonna go harden the paint on other platforms.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_01: I still got Instagram, I got YouTube, I got Twitter.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, for some of my followers that are listening, if you're really afraid of the TikTok ban, my username on everything else is exactly the same.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_01: Matt Gun Thhu Music.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_01: If you just do a quick search, you'll you'll find my stuff.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so uh you mind if we keep going, we usually do an hour, but this is an interesting conversation.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_04: Can we keep talking?
1:00:48
SPEAKER_04: Is that okay with you?
1:00:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm fine with that, dude.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_04: So uh that so even like it seems like Instagram and even Facebook are even kind of regulated to where you have to do ads to push your stuff more.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
1:00:59
SPEAKER_01: And that's and that's exactly why I don't really have the reach on Instagram or Facebook that I probably should have when you compare it to to TikTok, because TikTok's algorithm is for me at least, it's more user-friendly, and that's the only platform that I'm able to monetize on because their whole thing is, you know, we're giving power to the creators.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_01: And granted, yeah, I don't get a lot of money from TikTok by any means.
1:01:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm not making six figures off that thing.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_02: Right.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_01: If I was, I wouldn't be in healthcare right now.
1:01:34
SPEAKER_01: But uh no, but but it honestly, truthfully, it does help me out.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_01: Even if I just get like 20 to 50 bucks a month from those guys, like that's 20 to 50 dollars that will prevent me from being overdrafted at the end of the month.
1:01:47
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
1:01:49
SPEAKER_01: Um especially with the way like you know, inflation is going right now and like the cost of living, all that stuff.
1:01:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh TikTok is literally a second source of income for for a lot of these people, like small businesses too, like uh like Alex, for example, you know, like Alex, I'm pretty sure he got a lot of his business from that particular platform.
1:02:10
SPEAKER_01: Um, as is the case with me, as is the case with like you know, restaurants and um like record labels, I'm pretty sure, and just a bunch of different businesses, they all use this um this platform and it's very beneficial, very educational as well.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
1:02:28
SPEAKER_04: So, how do you so how do you create how do you find yourself creating uh a good social platform for yourself?
1:02:37
SPEAKER_01: Um for me, I think what helps me out is just the fact that um I guess you could say that I'm a bit of an attention whore, if you want to call it that.
1:02:46
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm not I'm not I'm not afraid to be in front of the camera, I'm not afraid to talk to strangers, which is why you and I are having the conversation that we are.
1:02:54
SPEAKER_01: Um and I've always been like that.
1:02:56
SPEAKER_01: Um what happened was I mean, when I was a kid, I wasn't like this.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh when I was like in second grade and I had to do like an oral report, I would literally like just shiver with anxiety and I would just start crying.
1:03:08
SPEAKER_01: I literally had to go to my teacher, Miss Farias, at the time, so that way she could like hug me and everything, and she'd be like, No, Miko, it's okay, like you're doing great.
1:03:16
SPEAKER_01: But shout out to Miss Farias from you know St.
1:03:18
SPEAKER_01: Elizabeth School in Alice, Texas, because she kind of helped me like get out of my shell per se.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I became more like charismatic and whatnot.
1:03:27
SPEAKER_01: So um I'm not afraid to be in front of the camera.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_01: And when you put like a face to the content, I feel like that kind of helps you out too.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_01: Because now it's getting to the point where like uh I went to the mall the other day and uh I ran into one of my followers there.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_01: Wow, like he saw me at Spencer's and he's just like, Hey, uh, I followed you on TikTok like two weeks ago.
1:03:46
SPEAKER_01: Like, how you doing?
1:03:47
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Hey, like, you know, that that's rad.
1:03:49
SPEAKER_01: And then uh there's this guy called uh Vil Ate It on TikTok.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_01: He's like a food reviewer, he's based out of Corpus 2.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_01: Nice, and he ran into me at the mall as well.
1:03:58
SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, now it's getting to the point where like people are um like you know recognizing me out in public and everything.
1:04:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh when I went to the Shattered Sun reunion, so many people came up to me.
1:04:10
SPEAKER_01: Like it was it was cool.
1:04:11
SPEAKER_01: Like, um, and like I said, at the end of the day, like if I'm able to move at least one person, like if I have like you know, one fan, like say like they're having a bad day and they see one of my videos and it like cheers them up or something, yeah, or I play like a favorite song of theirs on guitar or whatever.
1:04:27
SPEAKER_01: Like, if I make their day, even if it's just one person, then my job is done.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_04: That's cool, man.
1:04:33
SPEAKER_04: It's awesome.
1:04:34
SPEAKER_04: So what are your so what's uh with some of the future goals that you're I guess trying to trying to do?
1:04:40
SPEAKER_04: It seems like you're that uh you're obviously gonna continue doing this.
1:04:44
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, for sure.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
1:04:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop making content because when I when I play my guitar, when I do music, when um when I make these videos, when I do research, like that's my that's my happy place per se, you know, like music and content creation, that's what keeps me at bay.
1:05:02
SPEAKER_01: Like that's what keeps my mental health in check.
1:05:05
SPEAKER_01: Um there was a time in my life where um I was kind of in a kind of in a dark place, I guess you could say.
1:05:12
SPEAKER_01: Um my I wasn't doing very well financially.
1:05:15
SPEAKER_01: I had to sell like all my instruments at one point.
1:05:18
SPEAKER_01: Um and I was I was very, very depressed because I needed to try to get back on my feet again.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_01: And my my wife, who was like my my girlfriend at the time, uh she was like, you know, like we we we really need to save up and like get you another guitar or whatever because you it it hurts me seeing you like this, you know.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_01: Um I I wasn't suicidal or anything like that, but I was I was very, very sad all the time because I didn't have the thing that was making that was giving me comfort, you know, kind of like a security blanket in a way.
1:05:49
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_01: So um when when I was in high school, this is a true story by the way, my my father gave me a seven string guitar for For Christmas and I played the crap out of that thing all throughout high school.
1:06:04
SPEAKER_01: I did like two or three shows with it when I was still in high school, nice, and I still have it to this day.
1:06:09
SPEAKER_01: But that was one of the guitars that I sold um back in like 2019 when I fell on hard times.
1:06:15
SPEAKER_01: Oh, and I sold it at a pawn shop in Alice, Texas, and my wife's family is from there.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_01: We were already living in Corpus at the time.
1:06:23
SPEAKER_01: A couple months had passed.
1:06:25
SPEAKER_01: We we got back on our feet, you know, and um I was like, I was like, hey babe, you know what?
1:06:30
SPEAKER_01: Let's stop at that pawn shop.
1:06:31
SPEAKER_01: I just want to see if my guitar is still there.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_01: Well, we went there like a year later, my seven string was still hanging on the rack.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh-oh.
1:06:39
SPEAKER_01: It collected a bunch of dust.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_01: One of the knobs was missing, but the value had depreciated so much to the point where I was actually able to buy it back.
1:06:48
SPEAKER_04: Was it an Ibenis?
1:06:49
SPEAKER_01: It was a Scheckter.
1:06:50
SPEAKER_01: Scheckter.
1:06:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a Scheck, it was a Schechter Omen 7.
1:06:53
SPEAKER_01: Oh and um what's fun, the funny thing about that is I think I sold it to them for like 300 bucks and I bought it back for 100.
1:07:00
SPEAKER_01: No, and I went up and I went up to the cashier, I was like, hey, that that was actually my guitar, and I'm buying it back, and she's like, huh?
1:07:06
SPEAKER_01: And then she looked at the history, she's like, Oh yeah, this was your guitar.
1:07:09
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, so I still I still made a profit off of them, and I still got that guitar, I still have that guitar to this day.
1:07:15
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I need to take it to the good people over there at Sound Vibes because I need to kind of revive it a bit.
1:07:20
SPEAKER_01: It's got some ish intonation issues with it, but if it gets to the point where it's completely unplayable, I already told my dad like I want him to sign it, and I was gonna put it like in a like in a shadow box because um that's easily the greatest Christmas present that my dad ever gave me.
1:07:35
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
1:07:36
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I had an Ibenese for my first seven string was an Ibaniz, it's uh Tremor uh Flood Rose.
1:07:42
SPEAKER_04: Oh, damn.
1:07:42
SPEAKER_04: Okay, it was dude.
1:07:44
SPEAKER_04: My parents, then they hooked it up, bro.
1:07:46
SPEAKER_04: Uh we did a gig.
1:07:49
SPEAKER_04: My dumb self didn't even take care.
1:07:52
SPEAKER_04: It got stolen, bro.
1:07:53
SPEAKER_04: Oh stolen, damn.
1:07:58
SPEAKER_04: My heart breaks for you, dude.
1:07:59
SPEAKER_04: Dude, it does.
1:08:00
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, dude.
1:08:01
SPEAKER_04: Oh man, just thinking about it, dude.
1:08:02
SPEAKER_04: The case was smooth, they had like a red velvet, like kind of like this color right here.
1:08:07
SPEAKER_04: Oh man.
1:08:08
SPEAKER_04: Oh man, I was so dumb, dude.
1:08:10
SPEAKER_04: Anyway, that's so that was my first seven string in the day.
1:08:12
SPEAKER_04: But I was thinking about your wife, man, how she she well, she was your girlfriend at the time, but she stuck with you through hard times, bro.
1:08:19
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, she got married and all that's dude.
1:08:21
SPEAKER_01: That's why that's why that's why I married her because you know she she met me at a time where um I wasn't quite the man that I that I am today.
1:08:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, I was in between colleges, I was still trying to figure out like you know what I wanted to do career-wise and everything, but she saw something in me for whatever reason that I guess nobody else saw.
1:08:46
SPEAKER_01: And I felt kind of bad because at the time it kind of felt like I had to like prove myself to her family, you know.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_01: Because they're like, this dude's in between colleges, like you know, he's not working because he's trying to study, you know.
1:08:58
SPEAKER_01: Like it was it was one of those things.
1:09:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh, but I I told him I was like, I was like, no, I mean you you don't understand, you know.
1:09:05
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm from I'm from San Diego, Texas.
1:09:07
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm from naked city.
1:09:10
SPEAKER_01: It's like, yes, I'm from Naked City, sort of like, yeah, I'm from the hood, but I'm not I'm not that kind of guy, you know, like I'm I'm smart, I'm I'm I'm educated, I just I'm just in a rough patch, you know.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_01: That that's all that's all it was.
1:09:24
SPEAKER_01: So when when it got to the point where we were getting like really serious, like that's when you know I started really doing everything that I could like for her, so that way I could prove to them like, you know, your your your daughter or whatever, she she's in good hands.
1:09:41
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, I promise I'm not like some of the other guys that you've probably met.
1:09:46
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
1:09:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, I know they were saying that uh maybe like one of her sisters or whatever had dated some like horrible, horrible people, and I was like, no, I'm I'm not I'm not that guy at all.
1:09:57
SPEAKER_01: And I had told him straight up, I was like, look, you know, I was in an abusive relationship in 2016 with a woman uh who shall forever remain nameless.
1:10:06
SPEAKER_01: And I went through I went through hell with that person.
1:10:08
SPEAKER_01: 2016 was is such a blur because I went through so much stuff with her, and it's not really something that I like to talk about publicly because it's like, oh, you were abused by a girl?
1:10:18
SPEAKER_01: Like you're a big ass man.
1:10:19
SPEAKER_01: Like, why did you let that happen?
1:10:20
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, dude, that's not me.
1:10:21
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't like yeah, she would hit me and everything, but I never once struck back at her.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_01: Wow because I was always told and raised that's how you're raised.
1:10:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, never raise your hand toward a woman, even if shit is hitting the fan for lack of a better term.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's just that's just not the type of person that I am.
1:10:38
SPEAKER_01: And um, you know, it got to the point where, like I said, I told him, like, no, like she's in she's in good hands, and then we started getting more serious, and um we moved to Corpus in 2019, and then in 2020, that's when uh you know, right smack at the beginning of the pandemic, that's when I got the bright idea to propose.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_01: And uh I was actually gonna take her to the water gardens here in town to to propose to her because I've always been in love with the corpus christi area, even when I was a kid.
1:11:09
SPEAKER_01: I would always tell myself, like, hey, like I need I'm going to move to Corpus one day.
1:11:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:11:14
SPEAKER_01: So we had that she gave me that urge to to do it, and she wanted to move too.
1:11:20
SPEAKER_01: So that's how we we got over here.
1:11:22
SPEAKER_04: We so y'all you proposed you weren't living here?
1:11:26
SPEAKER_01: No, we were already living here.
1:11:28
SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
1:11:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but but we both collectively decided that we wanted to move to Corpus because nice.
1:11:32
SPEAKER_01: I've always wanted to move here since I was a kid, and uh, we were actually at uh Quasars arcade one day, and we got out of the arcade, and then my wife was like, you know what, like why don't we just move here?
1:11:44
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, dude, it's been my dream to to move here.
1:11:47
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, we came here October of 2019, and then I think by like March 2020 or so, or April 2020, I forgot when.
1:11:55
SPEAKER_01: That's when I proposed.
1:11:56
SPEAKER_01: Wow, and then uh, but we we actually we actually didn't get married until April of 2023.
1:12:03
SPEAKER_01: So we're we're we're getting ready to get on our uh one-year anniversary.
1:12:06
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, thank you.
1:12:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, shout out to my wife, uh Claire Canthu, because you know, she was the one that really saw me for who I was, like the entertainer and like the music guy, you know, and she's always encouraging me to you know keep making more videos, keep making more music.
1:12:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, whereas like some of the other people that I dated, they were like, you know, you you're wasting your time, like wow, this, that, and the other, you know, like really discouraging stuff.
1:12:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, but she gave me like the the courage to truly be myself and be whoever I wanted to be.
1:12:40
SPEAKER_01: And it's cool because like in past relationships, I always felt like I had to change to fit like the other woman's narrative, if that makes sense.
1:12:52
SPEAKER_01: But with with Claire, I felt like I didn't have to change myself.
1:12:55
SPEAKER_01: Like for once in my life, I felt like, hey, I can actually be a nerd, I can actually you know be a musician, all that stuff.
1:13:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, I would just go on these crazy tangent, like kind of like how I do my TikTok videos, like where I'm just like, hey, did you know about this, that, and the other?
1:13:10
SPEAKER_01: And I I would do that, and then I would stop myself and I'm like, oh wait, sorry, like you probably don't want to hear that.
1:13:15
SPEAKER_01: Like being a nerd, you know?
1:13:16
SPEAKER_01: She's she's like, no, no, no, no.
1:13:18
SPEAKER_01: Like I love it, like it's very interesting.
1:13:19
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, That's cool, okay.
1:13:21
SPEAKER_01: You're cool.
1:13:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, no, yeah.
1:13:24
SPEAKER_01: Shout out, yeah, shout out to Claire.
1:13:26
SPEAKER_01: Like I love that woman to death, man.
1:13:28
SPEAKER_04: It's awesome, man.
1:13:28
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, my wife, my wife got me this shirt.
1:13:31
SPEAKER_04: She's like, You heard you wear this shirt for the podcast because you were wearing hoodies or whatever.
1:13:35
SPEAKER_04: She's like, I was like, Are you sure?
1:13:36
SPEAKER_04: She's like, Yeah, I wear this shirt.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, she's awesome, bro.
1:13:39
SPEAKER_04: My wife's awesome.
1:13:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was trying, I was trying to go to the I went to the mall earlier too, because uh I I bought I bought the hat at the mall, but I I picked up this jersey at um at uh Burlington because for some reason I I guess because I've I've been trying to like work on my image a little bit, and I've been I've been wearing a lot of uh a lot of baseball jerseys lately.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I noticed that.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it I I don't play baseball at all.
1:14:00
SPEAKER_01: But they just yeah, they just they just they just look cool.
1:14:03
SPEAKER_01: So I'm I guess I guess in a way I'm kind of like a opposer when it comes to to baseball.
1:14:07
SPEAKER_01: But uh but yeah, no, like because with with me, like I really love the late 90s, early 2000s, which is where my love of new metal comes from.
1:14:16
SPEAKER_01: So I really want to start investing in like those those flame shirts, you know what I'm talking about from back in the day?
1:14:21
SPEAKER_04: Like silky, they're like kind of silky with like a shit.
1:14:25
SPEAKER_01: I want to get like a neon green flame one and a blue one.
1:14:28
SPEAKER_01: I want to get all these different colors.
1:14:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, and then I want to I want to get like um I don't know what they're called, I guess.
1:14:34
SPEAKER_01: Not not Jenkos, but the I guess like rave pants or whatever, like trip pants, trip pants, that's what they're called.
1:14:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I want to I want to get those and I want to start rocking those on stage, yeah, because like my my musician persona is obviously gonna be a lot different than just like my going out in public persona.
1:14:53
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, people don't people don't realize that you know your your image it might not seem like a very important thing to a lot of bands and a lot of musicians, but it actually it actually does matter in in the long run because that's one of that's what's gonna that's one of the things that's gonna make you stand out from the crowd as opposed to just having kick-ass music because you already got the kick-ass music, especially the scene here in town, like the metal scene, the hip-hop scene.
1:15:21
SPEAKER_01: There's a whole lot of great bands here, amazing talent.
1:15:25
SPEAKER_01: Um and there's some that have the talent and the image, and those are the ones that are like you know, making making the rounds.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_01: Like uh, shout out to like you know the Raul Ayala band?
1:15:36
SPEAKER_01: Sounds familiar, yeah.
1:15:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so Raul Ayala, he was he's this he's this little kid.
1:15:41
SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, yeah.
1:15:44
SPEAKER_01: I think he's like 21.
1:15:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or I think he just turned 21.
1:15:47
SPEAKER_01: Or no, not even.
1:15:48
SPEAKER_01: I think he's like 19.
1:15:49
SPEAKER_01: I think he just graduated high school last year.
1:15:52
SPEAKER_01: He's a guitar player from hell, dude, like mad shredder, uh, immensely talented guy.
1:15:57
SPEAKER_01: And his his backing band, like the the guys that he jams out with, amazing dudes.
1:16:02
SPEAKER_01: Uh Chris Ivory is a guy.
1:16:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't think he's playing with them right now, but I know he was playing with them at one point.
1:16:08
SPEAKER_01: Amazing keyboard player, yeah.
1:16:10
SPEAKER_01: Immensely talented band.
1:16:12
SPEAKER_01: And they they had when I saw them live, they they had a look already.
1:16:15
SPEAKER_01: You know, Chris was coming in with these like nice suits, like like real pressed iron suit and tie type of thing, and just like doing his thing on the key.
1:16:24
SPEAKER_01: And then Raul has like his PRS custom 24, which Raul, I'm still very jealous, man.
1:16:30
SPEAKER_01: I need that in my life.
1:16:31
SPEAKER_01: If you ever sell that bitch, hit your boy up.
1:16:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh yeah, like they just like they they look like a professional band, and they're a bunch of kids.
1:16:41
SPEAKER_01: Um there's another girl, um, her name is Nat Flores, and I think she's young too.
1:16:46
SPEAKER_01: I I think she might even still be in high school.
1:16:48
SPEAKER_01: She's probably like 18 or 19.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_01: She sings in a band called Censored.
1:16:52
SPEAKER_01: I haven't seen them live yet.
1:16:54
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm trying to really make it a point to to see them live pretty soon.
1:16:58
SPEAKER_01: But she's like real, I don't know what she would categorize herself as, but she's like real goth looking.
1:17:05
SPEAKER_01: Like she wears like the like the dark makeup and she has like the like those hats that I guess look like witches' hats or whatever.
1:17:12
SPEAKER_01: And she rocks the trip pants and stuff on stage, and she's like she she looks like like a performer.
1:17:18
SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
1:17:20
SPEAKER_01: And you know, that's what I'm trying to that's what I'm trying to get at.
1:17:24
SPEAKER_04: Like the image is part of the brand of your brand.
1:17:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
1:17:26
SPEAKER_04: Personal brand.
1:17:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like and I I have I have merch too, and one of my most popular shirts is the uh the San Mateo shirt.
1:17:34
SPEAKER_01: Okay, which is kind of like uh like a character like a character that I play.
1:17:39
SPEAKER_01: Uh huh.
1:17:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, you play a character?
1:17:41
SPEAKER_01: Sort of, yeah.
1:17:42
SPEAKER_01: Like it was so the way that originated was San Mateo came about because um at the time my wife and I, we always do couples' costumes for Halloween.
1:17:51
SPEAKER_01: Oh, nice.
1:17:52
SPEAKER_01: So one year I went as Nacho Libre and she dressed up as Encarnacion.
1:17:58
SPEAKER_01: So she had the full nun getup, and one day I was just like, I'm gonna try this thing on because I I grew up Catholic, I went to Catholic school, and uh that's why I always told people, like, when I die, I think I'm immediately gonna go to heaven because I already served my time in hell, which was Catholic school.
1:18:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but but shout out to my Catholic brothers and sisters, man.
1:18:17
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm still I'm still Catholic through and through, even though I'm not necessarily practicing anymore.
1:18:21
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I I put the nun headdress thing on and I threw up these like double peace signs.
1:18:26
SPEAKER_01: I did like a selfie, and the San Mateo thing just came out right after that.
1:18:31
SPEAKER_01: So I was like, you know, maybe I could run with this.
1:18:33
SPEAKER_01: So we we we we turned the image into a PNG and we added like the stained glass background, and I put it on a t-shirt, and on the back it says the patron saint of riffs.
1:18:44
SPEAKER_01: And on the description, I think it says something like uh like wear this shirt when your riffs are trash and they'll become slightly less trash.
1:18:53
SPEAKER_01: And uh and eventually I haven't I haven't done it yet because I've been slacking, but people actually want like prayer candles made of like my face or whatever.
1:19:03
SPEAKER_01: So like I I I'm I I really sell those, bro.
1:19:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I really want to get them made.
1:19:07
SPEAKER_01: I know it, I know it's gonna piss off some people.
1:19:10
SPEAKER_01: I I totally understand that it's not gonna be everybody's cup of tea.
1:19:13
SPEAKER_01: My mom definitely does not like the San Mateo stuff.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_01: Um I I still love you, mom.
1:19:19
SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
1:19:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but uh, but at the end of the day, you know, like hey, like I have I got the San Mateo thing, I got my logo, which is a matagram, which is just the letter M wrapped up like a pentagram.
1:19:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, like I'm I'm not a satanic artist or anything like that.
1:19:33
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's just I I like I like the dark imagery.
1:19:37
SPEAKER_01: And you know, my thing as as a Catholic, a Christian, um, if you have a solid foundation, if you have a solid relationship with God, then you know the enemy shouldn't scare you.
1:19:50
SPEAKER_01: You know, like a lot of people back in the day, like the whole satanic panic thing with like 80s bands like Slayer and all them, they got a lot of crap for their satanic imagery.
1:20:00
SPEAKER_01: They were pushing that agenda onto people, whatever.
1:20:02
SPEAKER_04: But it's like Slayer like purposefully did that just to piss them off.
1:20:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like yeah, exactly.
1:20:06
SPEAKER_01: Tom Mariah had said in an interview, like we just did it to fuck with people.
1:20:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, which is exactly what I'm doing.
1:20:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm just doing it to fuck with people.
1:20:13
SPEAKER_04: So you're saying I'm sorry, you were saying that uh like uh that the that the that they that shouldn't scare you.
1:20:19
SPEAKER_04: So you because you were are you I guess your your your belief system.
1:20:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
1:20:24
SPEAKER_01: Like I have I I I personally feel like I I have a solid relationship with God.
1:20:29
SPEAKER_01: Um I I still pray every night.
1:20:31
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm not a I'm not a Christian artist by any means.
1:20:36
SPEAKER_01: I just so happen to be Christian, you know?
1:20:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:20:39
SPEAKER_01: I just so happen to believe in God.
1:20:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, my my brand, my content, it's not Christian by any means, you know.
1:20:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean, like I I cur I curse on this podcast, like my my music has cursing in it, you know.
1:20:52
SPEAKER_01: Um and then I got like the the the the imagery on the merch or what have you, but the reason why I'm doing it, the reason why I'm running with that is because people like it and I want to give people what they want, you know.
1:21:06
SPEAKER_04: Like if they're you have a market, there's a market that you have, yeah, yeah, exactly.
1:21:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and um, and I have like a bunch of other designs too.
1:21:14
SPEAKER_01: If people don't like that stuff, like we I teamed up with Caroline Hughes, you know, Obscuro Arto on the gram, and uh we came up with this uh like zombified Steamboat Willie t-shirt because Steamboat Willie is in the public domain now.
1:21:28
SPEAKER_01: Cool, and they uh I wanted to do like a like a neon cartoon monster merch because in the warp tour days like 2010, like that era, a lot of metal core bands were doing neon cartoon monster merch.
1:21:41
SPEAKER_01: It would be this like ugly looking monster with like a neon green shirt, and that's what I was trying to replicate.
1:21:47
SPEAKER_01: And I think we I think we got it down to Willie, who's at?
1:21:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, it was the very, very first Mickey Mouse short that came out where where he's like on a boat and he's whistling the yeah, yeah.
1:21:59
SPEAKER_01: So as of January 1st, 2024, he's officially in the public domain, which means that we could do whatever we want, and Disney can't tell us anything right on, man.
1:22:11
SPEAKER_04: Uh Anna Trevino Kantu, thank you for commenting and being participating in the Facebook chat.
1:22:16
SPEAKER_04: She put three baseballs on there.
1:22:18
SPEAKER_04: Jason, also, thank you for participating in the chat, man, and everybody else.
1:22:23
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, man, that's awesome, dude.
1:22:24
SPEAKER_04: Uh, happy for you, and then I just uh I like your TikTok and I hope it keeps growing, man.
1:22:29
SPEAKER_04: And hopefully, I hope one day that you can actually live off of it.
1:22:32
SPEAKER_04: That would be sweet, dude.
1:22:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
1:22:34
SPEAKER_01: I hope, I hope, I hope the same for you too, brother.
1:22:36
SPEAKER_01: Like, uh, I'm a really big fan of your brand and your your street wear.
1:22:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, eventually I do plan on picking up a couple t-shirts and some stickers and stuff.
1:22:44
SPEAKER_01: And you you got hats too, right?
1:22:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I got some hats, yeah.
1:22:47
SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, I'll definitely be picking up that as well.
1:22:50
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome, man.
1:22:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, shout out to Corpus Christi Originals, man.
1:22:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Corpus Christi Originals.
1:22:53
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, Corpus Christi Originals, y'all.
1:22:55
SPEAKER_04: Check out the merch, uh, help us uh help support this podcast, keep it going.
1:22:59
SPEAKER_04: Uh, but yeah, man, uh, so I guess we're wrapping it up here.
1:23:02
SPEAKER_04: How do we find you if we're looking for you online?
1:23:04
SPEAKER_01: So you could find me on pretty much every social media app known to man.
1:23:09
SPEAKER_01: My username is Matt Cantu Music, Matt Ganthu Music.
1:23:14
SPEAKER_01: Uh, TikTok is obviously the platform that I'm most popular on with about 34,000 followers.
1:23:20
SPEAKER_01: Seven of my videos or so have hit a million views or more.
1:23:23
SPEAKER_01: So I definitely recommend you check that out.
1:23:25
SPEAKER_01: But um, definitely do follow me on Instagram, uh, subscribe to my YouTube, follow me on Twitter, all the other socials just in case uh shit hits the fan with TikTok and I gotta start I gotta start doing other stuff.
1:23:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, come on, come on.
1:23:40
SPEAKER_04: All right, man.
1:23:41
SPEAKER_04: Well, thanks a lot, you guys, for watching the show.
1:23:43
SPEAKER_04: Uh stay tuned for the next couple times.
1:23:45
SPEAKER_04: We got uh Druopy M coming up, uh Johnny Martinez, some other people coming up for these uh next couple of podcasts.
1:23:51
SPEAKER_04: Uh shout out to Maya, the producer of the show, and produce Streamlabs Studios here downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
1:23:56
SPEAKER_04: Matt, thank you, man.
1:23:57
SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah, bro.
1:23:58
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, have a good one.
1:23:59
SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah.
1:23:59
SPEAKER_03: Bye.
1:24:00
SPEAKER_01: Let me know when I can come back.
1:24:01
SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.