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EP125 - Wendell Williams: "I’ll See You When I’m Looking At You" · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_03: What's going on, yeah?
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SPEAKER_03: Susie Ladio Randis back here, back at it again.
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SPEAKER_03: Corporate security originals podcast.
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SPEAKER_03: Today we got Wendell Williams.
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SPEAKER_03: What's up, Window?
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SPEAKER_00: How are we doing?
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SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
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SPEAKER_00: Brother, appreciate you, man.
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SPEAKER_00: This is really cool.
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SPEAKER_00: I was so like it was really laid back, not crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_00: I like this atmosphere.
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SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
0:15
SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_03: Shout out to the artisan.
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SPEAKER_03: We're here at the artist in uh I'm not sure the the address, but I put it on the somewhere on the page or yeah, 218 North Shafarrell.
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SPEAKER_03: There we go.
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SPEAKER_03: That's what's up.
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SPEAKER_03: 218 North Shafarel.
0:26
SPEAKER_03: Wendell Williams cut the pass on that one.
0:28
SPEAKER_03: Appreciate you, bro.
0:29
SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, so we obviously have no know you through the comedy scene.
0:34
SPEAKER_03: Right.
0:34
SPEAKER_03: And even before that, like I think you were commenting on my stuff, on the stuff on Facebook and stuff like that, which was pretty cool.
0:41
SPEAKER_03: Uh so and then I met you, I was like, Oh yeah, I gotta get him on.
0:44
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
0:45
SPEAKER_03: Just to get some of that, get some of that old school knowledge on here.
0:48
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
0:48
SPEAKER_00: A little bit, you know, and thinking about me, I only talk about what I have actually experienced.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, and and my time on this earth has been something else.
0:59
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just enjoying it.
1:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm a homer here.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: You know, this is I call Corpus Christi my house.
1:04
SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: You know, being born and raised here in Corpus Christi, Texas, and I'm just loving every minute of it, you know, and and I appreciate you, man.
1:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, for putting me on.
1:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm enjoying this right now because it's really laid back.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm in a good mood.
1:17
SPEAKER_03: No, really cool.
1:18
SPEAKER_03: Nice, man.
1:19
SPEAKER_03: I wish I would have got us a drink before we started, man.
1:21
SPEAKER_03: Well, that's all right.
1:24
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:24
SPEAKER_03: Uh and then obviously when I do when I think of you now at this moment, I'm thinking of Hill Hillcrest, because you told me you grew up in that neighborhood.
1:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:31
SPEAKER_03: Uh I still live there.
1:33
SPEAKER_00: I still reside there.
1:33
SPEAKER_03: Still live there.
1:34
SPEAKER_03: There's another there was somebody commented on our stuff, like that you should get somebody from Hillcrest, and then you're like, I'm from Hillcrest.
1:39
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:40
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, uh I guess with our viewers here, obviously there's a lot of stuff going on with Hillcrest at the moment.
1:47
SPEAKER_00: Well, there has been going on when actually, you know, the first 18 years of my life was right here.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: You know, I graduated from Miller in 1974.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: And foreign fan is for years back then, from 1960 to 1973, before there was uh uh Flint Hills, Valero and Sidgo.
2:06
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
2:06
SPEAKER_00: That was Southwestern Refinery, Hess Oil Company, PP and G in American smelting.
2:13
SPEAKER_00: And he always had that sapphiric smell of like rotten egg every day.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: And it came over every day, man.
2:21
SPEAKER_00: It was really bad.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: People had respiratory problems, and they had a tank that leaked for 13 years.
2:28
SPEAKER_00: And they really didn't tell anybody, and right now with the water crisis, how they in the desolate plant, they tell them, oh, we don't want to kill the fish and the brine, it's gonna mess up.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: Well, they didn't care about the fruit of life that was actually going on in Hill Coast.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: Oh, true.
2:42
SPEAKER_00: When I mean the fruit of life, I'm talking like palm trees.
2:46
SPEAKER_00: In my own backyard, I you know had an orange tree, grapefruit tree, tangerine tree, plomegranate tree, peach tree, low quat tree, even had honeysuckles with hummingbirds and the bumblebees would come to pollinate, and it was a really good site.
3:04
SPEAKER_00: But now, when they killed that out, and when I say they, I'm talking about the refineries.
3:10
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
3:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, it wasn't uh the the citizens of Corpus or the residents of Hillcrest.
3:16
SPEAKER_00: And when I came back in 2004, they wanted to say that we want to turn Hillcrest into uh HIP.
3:23
SPEAKER_00: You know, there was an industrial park.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: And it would have been good.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: It could have been Hillcrest, you know, made it Hill, Hillcrest Industrial Park.
3:31
SPEAKER_00: They didn't do it, they fell off.
3:32
SPEAKER_00: Why?
3:32
SPEAKER_00: Because they didn't want to give up that money.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: Now, I haven't said that in the early 60s before there was Google or email.
3:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, they sent residents uh uh letters out to them out to the white residents, you need to move out because the land has been contaminated.
3:48
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
3:48
SPEAKER_00: They didn't do that to the blacks and the Mexicans that were there.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: And some people who knew they stayed.
3:53
SPEAKER_00: And when things came about and made it bad for everybody, and it was just a little bit too late.
4:00
SPEAKER_00: And people that was in charge that had the money didn't want to, you know, everybody wants to pay, but they don't want to play.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: You know, meaning that they don't want to give for you to move out to somewhere to get a better foundation, it would become a blessing.
4:13
SPEAKER_00: So things have just gotten worse, and now it's just like sugarcoating.
4:17
SPEAKER_00: Why you want to try to build a pool there on north side here, and you have a water crisis now?
4:23
SPEAKER_00: This could have been all avoided decades ago.
4:25
SPEAKER_00: See?
4:26
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
4:27
SPEAKER_00: And I know a lot of people from this and this and that, they could do it, they just don't want to spend the money because that's what I got.
4:33
SPEAKER_00: I've been in situations because Dick Bowers, he's one of the, I'm gonna put his name out there because he said it from the commissioners.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: He stated that Hillcrist is a wasteland.
4:44
SPEAKER_00: Well, who turned it into a wasteland?
4:47
SPEAKER_00: Because I remember the days I live on Stemlin, 1400 block of stem.
4:50
SPEAKER_00: Say, I would travel north all the way to Row, you're going to the other side of the basin, right next to the Coast Guard station.
4:56
SPEAKER_00: You could fish, man, catching drum, flounder, sheep head, you know, croaker, trout, and even little ribbon fish.
5:05
SPEAKER_00: And then after I would catch my little three or four, I go ahead and start wanting to get the big blue crafts.
5:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh, so then they stop that out.
5:13
SPEAKER_00: Oh, we don't want you to fish because of the oil spills.
5:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: And so things are really crazy, you know, about how things are today.
5:21
SPEAKER_00: They don't want to tell you the truth because they don't want to pay.
5:25
SPEAKER_00: They talk about, oh, it's a need-to-know basis.
5:28
SPEAKER_00: And it's sad how things are.
5:30
SPEAKER_00: That's the reason why they're having shortcomings today.
5:33
SPEAKER_00: What was the first thing they said when they was said they were going to build this new cable suspension heart bridge?
5:38
SPEAKER_00: It was going to bring in more larger vessels for petroleum and cargo.
5:43
SPEAKER_02: Right.
5:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, okay, okay, when when has that been happening since then?
5:46
SPEAKER_00: How much money has gone on?
5:48
SPEAKER_00: If you were already doing so many million barrels a day, what are you doing right now?
5:53
SPEAKER_00: They're not going to tell you the numbers.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: No.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: Because they said it would cost too much money.
5:57
SPEAKER_00: Why do you think North Beach hasn't been billed up?
6:01
SPEAKER_00: Because the sludge that's on that side, if they can't do anything, it will cost a lot of money.
6:06
SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, messed it up, clean it up.
6:09
SPEAKER_00: That's how I look at it, man.
6:11
SPEAKER_00: I'm serious.
6:11
SPEAKER_00: But they don't want to listen to that.
6:13
SPEAKER_00: And it's sad how things are these days.
6:16
SPEAKER_00: So, hey, stand by for Heavy Rose.
6:18
SPEAKER_00: They didn't care.
6:19
SPEAKER_00: Why should I care?
6:20
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just telling the chief, I'm not mad about anything.
6:23
SPEAKER_03: I'm just being very honest.
6:24
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
6:25
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
6:26
SPEAKER_03: No, for sure.
6:26
SPEAKER_03: It makes me think about, well, what's gonna well, where are the where are the residents from there going to go?
6:33
SPEAKER_03: It seems like I'm I'm thinking like, what is what are the Hillcrest residents like holding on to the city?
6:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, living footy to this.
6:40
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
6:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes, and now at one time you had over 430 some odd uh homeowners in Hillcrest at one time.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: Now I know it's under, you know, a hundred.
6:51
SPEAKER_00: And then that's including Northside.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: Those probably have property, not actually own anything.
6:56
SPEAKER_00: You got the Elliott Grant homes.
6:58
SPEAKER_00: People don't own those homes.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: You know, and that goes to somebody.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: You got the those little rooms in Square Tom homes, Hells Acres, that's in that area, and that's it.
7:08
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
7:09
SPEAKER_00: You know?
7:10
SPEAKER_00: And it's sad because when I first moved back, I tried to tell my mom, I said, Mom, you and your kin folks have been in this area for 50 years plus, build a coalition, get your black lawyer, let's go to the details.
7:24
SPEAKER_00: I help you with it.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: Because once they put them stipulations on you, it's nothing you can do.
7:28
SPEAKER_00: Well, they didn't hear what I had to say.
7:32
SPEAKER_00: And so it is what it has to come.
7:34
SPEAKER_00: People ask me, what number you want?
7:36
SPEAKER_00: I want$2.25 million tax-free.
7:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, because where else can you go to try to get assurement?
7:44
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's too much.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: I don't want market value.
7:47
SPEAKER_00: We are in 2026.
7:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
7:49
SPEAKER_00: And so it doesn't matter what you think.
7:51
SPEAKER_00: You already know how much money you're gonna make.
7:53
SPEAKER_00: That's that's real blessing to people.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: But since you don't want to give blessings, you're gonna have shortcomings.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: And that's what's going on right now.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: You know, because they always say, what, we're gonna run out of water in 2027?
8:06
SPEAKER_00: That's what they say.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: I don't know who's calculating the water.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
8:11
SPEAKER_00: You're taxing people because if they over a certain amount a month now, you're taxing them.
8:16
SPEAKER_00: Right.
8:17
SPEAKER_00: And you charge them up to$500 per day for violation.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
8:23
SPEAKER_00: You know, it doesn't, and and it's crazy.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: It's already with the streets, but once again, everybody wanna play, but not everybody wanna pay.
8:32
SPEAKER_00: And that's how it is.
8:33
SPEAKER_03: So so, okay, so you guys are asking for fair, for fairness, I guess you can say.
8:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, uh, yes.
8:39
SPEAKER_00: Yes, fairness, and just do the right thing because it's really hard just to try to get up and move.
8:44
SPEAKER_00: Nothing is brand new.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: I I'm I wish I need re repairs to my foundation.
8:50
SPEAKER_00: You know, and it is not that it's cheap.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: It just like for me personally, as for I know people are gonna flip out on this, but I've already caught 811.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: You know what 811 is.
9:01
SPEAKER_00: That's where we gotta dig in the back because I'm not gonna go out and get no plot man or no cemetery, because I don't know those people in there.
9:08
SPEAKER_00: Oh, sure.
9:08
SPEAKER_00: You know, so my point being here.
9:10
SPEAKER_00: Is that I'll just bury me in the back.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: Dig a hole.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: Dig up somebody's animals or something, bro.
9:15
SPEAKER_00: It's just crazy, man.
9:16
SPEAKER_00: It's just crazy.
9:18
SPEAKER_03: Man, that's wild.
9:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
9:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've always been interested in what's going on.
9:22
SPEAKER_03: I I talked to some guy on the bus a while back, like a few months ago.
9:25
SPEAKER_03: He's like, Hill credits used to be like cops wouldn't even want to go in there.
9:29
SPEAKER_03: And I was like, Jen, that's that's what that's pretty wild.
9:32
SPEAKER_03: That's like 90s stuff.
9:33
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
9:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's understandable.
9:35
SPEAKER_00: I used to drive a cab.
9:36
SPEAKER_00: When I got out the military cab, I got in the cab business, transportation business.
9:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, with Trinky Tab back in the day, we had Northside running, and a lot of things were going on just over the city.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: And Corpus Christi isn't that big.
9:49
SPEAKER_00: You actually drive around it in 25 to 30 minutes, you know, in a big circle.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: It's just a big loop.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: The only thing that saves you got that, well, is it still is it still the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America now?
10:01
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: But just to go out and things that's been happening on the island, where the North Padre is the last underdeveloped, you know, beach in the United States.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: Seriously.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: And that's crazy wow, because I've been other places really nice.
10:18
SPEAKER_00: Now, South Padre Island is cool.
10:20
SPEAKER_00: And they didn't let the kids have a good here, man, they're gonna get you.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: You know, and so a lot of things that they have done to make it good and to make it bad.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, it's heartfelt when you know things will happen, but once again, if you don't have numbers and people and you don't have the resources as and money, it's nothing you can really do.
10:39
SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
10:40
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's crazy.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
10:43
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
10:44
SPEAKER_03: So you we m I was and I'm just thinking, like, where were you guys gonna go?
10:49
SPEAKER_03: Like, if do you think do you think they're they're actually gonna build stuff out there and eventually y'all will go to the room?
10:54
SPEAKER_00: The only thing they're trying to build now is that little softball field that they're trying to do right before you get to uh uh on the west side of the new bridge, and they're trying to put like a old bring back the T-Series pool.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: Because Maina, you know, actually they have the uh little projects with molded and and things that they had in lead that was batch.
11:20
SPEAKER_00: Oh you knew these things.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh you know, you can knock it down and build it back up.
11:24
SPEAKER_00: They want to try to call Texas, once you go to Texas Riviera.
11:28
SPEAKER_00: This, well, you now see that little river, it's nothing that's gonna go on there.
11:32
SPEAKER_00: They're not doing anything really.
11:34
SPEAKER_00: They said it's for the community.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: What community?
11:36
SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and say you want to build your 170-room hotel down and put some nice little restaurants and what they call the area of downtown, the seed district, sports, entertainment, and arts district.
11:49
SPEAKER_00: Right.
11:49
SPEAKER_00: But it's to me like sugarcating and y'all just screwing off money, man.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: You could have put that money in, gave the people, and let us all move out, you know, graciously.
11:59
SPEAKER_00: It was a buyout thing, you know.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: But it was more like voluntary.
12:04
SPEAKER_00: Unless you was in intimate domain where the bridges come right over your property, what they had to do, then you had to go.
12:10
SPEAKER_00: Other than that, no.
12:11
SPEAKER_00: Because HUD, the CD Corpus Christi, Porter Corpus Christi, and uh uh they all make money in the state.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: They all made money.
12:20
SPEAKER_00: Not everybody made money.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: People who did voluntary move out, they didn't get the deal that they thought they was going to get.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, sure.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: And it's sad, it's sad.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: So people are upset, and all these meetings, to me, it's like protocol.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: We have these meetings and say, well, we did let them know.
12:36
SPEAKER_00: But they don't have the numbers to offset anything.
12:39
SPEAKER_02: And that's it.
12:40
SPEAKER_00: Because somebody's been pocketing money.
12:42
SPEAKER_00: Because if uh a company that's been paying that make billions of dollars or hundreds and millions of dollars, and they don't pay any taxes for 10 to 15 to 20 years, where's that money going?
12:55
SPEAKER_00: That's a kickback.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: You know, more offshore bank accounts have risen within dramatically within the last three years than anything.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: You gotta we gotta put five bands, which is five thousand dollars minimal into an offshore bank account.
13:11
SPEAKER_00: So I know it's some people, even corporate screws, have caught them an offshore bank account.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: So please, you know, I'm I'm trying to be disrespectful, I'm just telling the truth.
13:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
13:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's crazy, man.
13:22
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is uh and you grew up like in in what'd you say, the 60s, like even in the past.
13:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was born at 55.
13:28
SPEAKER_00: I was born in 55, so things come up.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: I see a lot of things that accumulate too.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: And and at level five, level two when it was age, that's when I started, like people say woke, started experience things that's going on.
13:42
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: You know, what was going on, what was happening, and I would ask questions.
13:47
SPEAKER_00: My dad was an Army Korean War veteran.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: He was a Mason.
13:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh United Steel Worker, union working guy.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: And his side hustling was uh a poster.
13:57
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
13:58
SPEAKER_00: He did a postry.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: There's some people that's there on Ocean Drive sitting on my dad's stuff right now.
14:02
SPEAKER_02: Oh, wow.
14:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so that's a good thing.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: My mom was a seamstress.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: And so I came from that family because I was adopted.
14:10
SPEAKER_00: I I wasn't, you know, I don't never met my biological parents or mom, what have you.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: But the people that God put in my life helped me.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: That's the reason why I am the way today.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: But I didn't find out until in 2012, man, and that I was adopted.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: But my mother told me that my dad took it to his grave in '99.
14:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, he took it to his grave.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: I know he wants to tell me sometimes.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: My mom told me in 2018.
14:36
SPEAKER_00: I mean, 2012, excuse me, she passed in 2018.
14:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: And so I just took it as a grain of salt, man.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: And and it's really crazy.
14:44
SPEAKER_00: And see, people who knew back then, I had a friend of mine in the class, mate.
14:48
SPEAKER_00: He says, Man, I knew.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: But if I had to tell you, oh the guy's whooping, I say, Well, that's one whooping you should have to.
14:55
SPEAKER_00: You know, now I don't mess with, I really don't play with him today, because it's kind of, you know.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: I I'm I'm not I'm not a wishy-washy person, man.
15:03
SPEAKER_00: I just like to tell the truth and let's move on about it.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying I've always told the truth, but I know a lot catch up with you really quick.
15:11
SPEAKER_03: Oh my God, dude.
15:12
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
15:12
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
15:13
SPEAKER_03: So it's crazy.
15:14
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you you and then you mentioned like Jim Crow, like you experienced all that stuff.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: Oh, all of the, and I can understand why some people said that integration really hurt.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: Because you look at the schools when they like Solomon Cove and Booker T.
15:28
SPEAKER_00: Washington were no longer here.
15:29
SPEAKER_00: Crosby Elementary is sad about that.
15:33
SPEAKER_00: That's the elementary school I went to.
15:34
SPEAKER_00: They need to tear that down in Hillcrest area.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Why are they holding on to that?
15:39
SPEAKER_00: That's an eyesore.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: It's just like the county courthouse.
15:41
SPEAKER_00: That's a the old county courthouse.
15:43
SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
15:44
SPEAKER_00: That's an eyesore.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: You know, and it's like, what are you doing with it?
15:47
SPEAKER_00: And some people got money tied up.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: Please.
15:52
SPEAKER_01: Please.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: It's just too much of the rhetoric of putting the blame game on somebody else.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: You know how things are.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: So it's really sad, man.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: It's nothing I can really do but speak my voice and opinion about it.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: And just like now, Mary, I ain't got nothing against you, but you just stated that, you know, you're trying to get back federal dollars.
16:12
SPEAKER_00: What happened to the federal dollars you had?
16:15
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
16:16
SPEAKER_00: So I'm trying to get back.
16:18
SPEAKER_00: Shouldn't have made that statement.
16:19
SPEAKER_00: Should have had somebody to proofread her stuff.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
16:22
SPEAKER_00: Well, Ms.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh the Mayor.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh, the mayor was.
16:25
SPEAKER_00: The mayor today.
16:26
SPEAKER_00: She stated that she's in the in the process of getting back federal dollars for the city of Corpus.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: Getting back.
16:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, getting back.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: It's right there.
16:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, getting back.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, what happened to the dollars that you did have?
16:39
SPEAKER_00: We already did have.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: Right.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
16:41
SPEAKER_00: That's crazy, isn't it?
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: She made that statement, and I'm calling her out on it.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: I have nothing against her.
16:48
SPEAKER_00: It's that, you know, you're a female that got caught up in a man's world, them good old boys.
16:53
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's it, them good old boys' world, man, you know.
16:57
SPEAKER_00: And things are really crazy.
16:59
SPEAKER_00: And I know I'm gonna go off the subject a little bit.
17:01
SPEAKER_00: No, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: But I want you to know in 2015, man, I got hit by a car.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: Glory changed in 2015, June 15th.
17:09
SPEAKER_00: That's why?
17:10
SPEAKER_00: June 15th, 2015.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: I got hit at Ayres and McCarvo, man.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: I was going across the street.
17:18
SPEAKER_00: I had the right away.
17:20
SPEAKER_00: This guy was traveling southbound on airs.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: Went in the northbound lane, missed all those cars at the light, and right right there, Rosie Tamales right there.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: Tattooed me, man.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: And that was crazy.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: And that actually changed my life.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: It did.
17:36
SPEAKER_00: It did.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh, more ways than one.
17:39
SPEAKER_00: And because at that time when I got hit, four other people had got hit by D U I or D W I, and they all they passed away.
17:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm like one out of five.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: So I'm very blessed and grateful and thankful every day.
17:53
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: When I post that, that's what I mean by that.
17:56
SPEAKER_03: Wow, man.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's kind of things.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: I was in the hospital and rehab for 40 days and 40 nights.
18:03
SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: 40 days and 40 nights, man.
18:05
SPEAKER_00: I had an out of body experience.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: A lot of things that happened.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: I just makes who I am today.
18:12
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:13
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, is that part of the reason why you got into comedy or Yeah, well, in in 2017, I got into it.
18:20
SPEAKER_00: I always did a lot of writing.
18:21
SPEAKER_00: I've always liked comedy and things like that.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: Cause I've been with the Corpus Christi Hooks for three to fourteenth season.
18:29
SPEAKER_00: And it's two places that you should go to that that help you out.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: And one is the ballpark, that's my sanctuary.
18:39
SPEAKER_00: Comedy, it inspires me.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: And I love music, that's who's the beast of me.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: So that's my mindset on things right now.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: And it it helps me a lot for what I do.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: And even at my level, which is AIDS, I have no animosity against anybody.
18:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna tell the truth.
18:56
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people lack that.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: And I can see how things are today with music, how things are, and people get so crazy, young people going crazy or crazier.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: They chaotic, because you asked me how to feel about a lot of the young comedians.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: A lot of them do good.
19:10
SPEAKER_00: They need a little help.
19:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, and just try to talk to them, let them know, hey, you can do what you want to do.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm still here.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: And even though it's a different time and different era, I understand that.
19:20
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: And it's crazy.
19:22
unknown: Yeah.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: Crazy wild is all like to say.
19:24
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, crazy wild, bro, for sure.
19:26
SPEAKER_03: And it seems like you draw from a lot of your experience when coming up with jokes and stuff.
19:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
19:33
SPEAKER_03: And truth.
19:33
SPEAKER_03: Like I.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: I look at it as, you know, being I try to be a storyteller.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: I first base it off as the acronym man.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: Meaning I like to take letters and words that have somewhat of a negative attitude and put a positive twist.
19:46
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay, okay, yeah.
19:47
SPEAKER_00: That's where I came up with that.
19:49
SPEAKER_00: And just uh to make me feel good, because I always do something I want to do.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm not a follower.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm more of a leader and I'll lead by example.
19:57
SPEAKER_00: And but I learn something new every day, at least I want to.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: And it just holds true about how life is, man.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: I'm not a hater.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm I don't believe in that, you know, because H A T E and I put another E at the end.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: That's a hideous attitude towards everybody and everything.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: I don't make time for that because that's creates stress.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: And I sleep good at night, man.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: I tell you.
20:23
SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't do it at night, man.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: Things how I see how things are.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: And you know, I have three kids, nine grandkids, two great grandkids.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm blessed in so many ways.
20:34
SPEAKER_00: And reuniting with my kids back 20 plus years ago, so that has helped me overcome a lot of obstacles in my life.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, and I was bitter, and I've never had, let's say, I've had various jobs.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm like a jack of many trades, but I am definitely the master of manure.
20:55
SPEAKER_00: And I am, man.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: And I don't mind, it's all good.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: You know, well, I don't want to hate on them.
20:59
SPEAKER_00: I want to learn and see what you got.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: Can you teach me?
21:01
SPEAKER_00: I can teach you.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:03
SPEAKER_00: And you're writing my stand-up, a lot of things.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: I haven't even broke the surface on some things about on the comedy level.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Um tomorrow night, you know, at Mosquite Shading with Children up, I'm downtown.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: And Friday night at the Lazy Beach with some really cool peaks.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: You know, Bobby Pinya, Mark Petas, uh Tim Boudreaux, Skip Pettit, Anna Jay Ramidez.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: You're talking about DEI.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: That's all of that's gonna be right there Friday night.
21:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: You know, and it's a lot of other things.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna Ralph Barbosa be in town Friday night.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: Uh the Willow venue out in Parkman with uh Shaqy Jack, and at the Nino, they're kicking it off.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: So it's all about doing what you're doing.
21:45
SPEAKER_00: We're doing our thing down here, bro.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, dope.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Tina Makina's been been bossing it up, and people been feeding off to that, and that's just the way it is.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: And and I love it.
21:58
SPEAKER_00: And uh, I give a I'm gonna give a shout out to Javi Luna, man.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: He's the one.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: You know, I really like his game, him, Sean Miller, and the gome so probably my favorite comedians that I like.
22:10
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: You know, because really, if you make me laugh, you're funny.
22:13
SPEAKER_00: That's how I look at it.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: Of course.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: You know, and I look at other things going on in the females.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: I encourage more females to come out and chop it up.
22:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, Ralph Debarra, Ana J, Corinne the Artist, Mary the Gamer.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: And it it holds Jindel Rio.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: So just come out and do you.
22:32
SPEAKER_00: And the people that are starting in the game, just slow your roll up.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: Don't expect nothing overnight.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: You know, and if you can stick your hand in your toilet and turn it into gold or whatever it is, you know, and drink from that, then you're good.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: Other than that, don't worry about so much.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: Oh, woe is me.
22:49
SPEAKER_00: Woe is you.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, bro.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's that's good.
22:53
SPEAKER_00: You look at a lot of things first, your family, man.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: You have kids, right?
22:56
SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: And and you want to try to do the best you can for them and your wife, you know, because a lot of times I talk on that process about family and religion, how things are.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: It's what you deal with every day.
23:11
SPEAKER_00: What you deal with every day.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: And that's what's going to make you become a better person.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: Always have that open mind, being humble, realizing you can learn something new every day, man.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: And if you think you know it all, okay then.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: Go go change that life there on the Harvard Ridge.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: Let me know how that turns out.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: Or better, yeah, this is my favorite saying now.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and suck a doorknob and use it for a butt plug.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: Hey, man, it's kind of hey, I'm gonna go.
23:40
SPEAKER_03: Hey, yeah, how do you feel about uh clean comedy?
23:42
SPEAKER_03: Because I know a lot of stuff, your stuff is your stuff, you know what I mean?
23:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, I I like I like clean.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: I can do clean, I've done clean.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, I can do it.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: Just let me know what the atmosphere do we whatever you want.
23:52
SPEAKER_00: I just go read the room.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, I look at it personally now.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: I've been like, well, you're in the good old boy, all white crowd.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: I'm the only black sheep in there.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: And I got them rolling and laughing.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: That's my phone.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's right.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's how I look at it.
24:09
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh, you just do you, man.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: I got clean.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: If you want clean, and people say, like anything else, what that's gonna cost you.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: I got clean and people that do really good.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: Nate Vargas, he is really clean.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: Leto Cortez here, Trey Amigo, some guys that got that clean.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh whatever the room calls for, I got you.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: And you know, like I tell, I'm not from Missouri, but I can show you better.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: I can tell you, give me that chance.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: People ask how much time you got, how much time you want to give it.
24:35
SPEAKER_02: Oh, well.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: Okay?
24:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: And that's it.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: I'm, you know, I am a confident person.
24:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm an older guy, man.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: And I try my best not to sweat the load.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: I stay in my lane on cruise control.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: And my turn signals do work.
24:51
SPEAKER_00: You know, you asked me earlier from the dating scene.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: No, no, I I do interviews now.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: I do interviews, man.
24:59
SPEAKER_00: What's the difference with the difference is I don't, we I can't go down there and get you out of the spot.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: We go hang out on Shoreline and have that, or or get a cold winter or dressed up corona and have a good conversation.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: Why I want to take you to the Texas Republic for it, you know?
25:17
SPEAKER_00: And cook.
25:17
SPEAKER_00: Can you cook?
25:18
SPEAKER_00: Oh shoot.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: Now, it's a lot of things I love and need and want from a woman, but cooking is not one of them.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's an added plus.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: You know, just be respectful.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: I'm very respectful to women, you know.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: I ain't no simp.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: I can tell I'm not a simp.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: No, so I'm not a simp, man.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: And just about respect, man, personally to me.
25:38
SPEAKER_00: And then if women, you know, kind of, you know, red flags, if you're talking about red flags, green flags, well, don't bring no flags, man.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: Just come be yourself.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: When I don't want you to do it allowed to me.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: Because when I peek game on that, I'm God.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Because to me, if you do something once, you will not hesitate to do it again.
25:57
SPEAKER_00: So why should I take that chance?
25:59
SPEAKER_00: Take the chance.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: Take that chance, man.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: It's up to you.
26:02
SPEAKER_00: Life is full of chances, bro.
26:03
SPEAKER_03: Wow, bro.
26:04
SPEAKER_03: Man, that's a lot of wisdom right there, Wendell.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, I look at it that at times my dad really helped me because when I was growing up, he always told me you had one strike against you, and that was the color of your skin.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know what he meant until I got in the real world and saw how people that were non-black, but they wouldn't even call my name.
26:26
SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't use the N word.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm not a big fan of the N-word.
26:30
SPEAKER_00: You see me, I don't use the N-word if I stand up, but I got an acronym for it though.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: And I try to take that negative vibe.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: It's just like the V-I-T-C-H.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: I know women.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: And I when I ran this by my mom the first time, I ran it by there.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: She's like, her eyes, we're like, because that means a female dog on this corpus.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: No, that's beautiful, intelligent, tenacious, trauma, and this woman.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: Take that and flip that negative stuff.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: And uh I I can't, I'm not gonna give you my acronym for witch.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't hear him.
27:03
SPEAKER_00: They don't shut you down.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: But uh, but think about that for memory if y'all ever hear that.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: W-I-T-C-H.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: But my point is try to take a negative vibe and put a positive twist on it.
27:14
SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, that's good.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: And for those who say, well, let me hear your acronym for the N-word.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm naughty, I'm innovative, I have a gift.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: I got the gab.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: I'm entertaining, and I'm definitely a romantic.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm that N-word with the hard ER.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: Wow, bro.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: Okay, y'all deal now with people because now I'm coming out with colonizers.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: That's the C with the hard ER.
27:36
SPEAKER_00: Colonizers is coming soon.
27:39
SPEAKER_00: Stand by.
27:40
SPEAKER_00: Some people don't like that.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: I looked it up to say, oh, that's so derogatory.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh well, deal with it accordingly.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: Don't get in your fingers.
27:49
SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of things I haven't liked in life.
27:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's right.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: The C with the hard ER.
27:55
SPEAKER_00: Colonizer.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Like Budweiser.
27:59
SPEAKER_00: Why not?
28:00
SPEAKER_00: Let's make fun.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: You want a joke?
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Let's joke.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: You got the Jogey joke?
28:03
SPEAKER_00: Can you take my jokey joke?
28:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: Because I have very few jokes, man.
28:08
SPEAKER_00: But what I do have is a duffel bag full of acronyms and comebacks.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: Oh, shoot.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: It's just like you've been when they have the helk room sometime at the House of Rock.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
28:18
SPEAKER_03: I heard of it.
28:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, um, just like last night when people, I don't want nobody helking nobody.
28:26
SPEAKER_00: I told them, hey, start off with me, helkle me.
28:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, this isn't the helper room.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: And can you really get helkle?
28:33
SPEAKER_00: Some people can't really take it.
28:35
SPEAKER_00: And then all the thing is, bring it to me.
28:37
SPEAKER_00: Let's bring it.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: Let's get it on out.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, say what's on your mind, get it off your chest.
28:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, where it is without stepping or what they call crashing out now, stepping out of carriage, or like you want to fight because somebody upset you with what they say.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean I'm going to give you the password for the N-word, you know, because I got colonizer now.
28:57
SPEAKER_00: So we're going to see how that works out, you know, and the recent, you know, period, the months to come, man.
29:04
SPEAKER_00: And I want you to know I do have a book I'm working on.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: It ought to be coming out in the fiscal year of 2027.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: Called life.
29:13
SPEAKER_03: You say the fiscal year?
29:14
SPEAKER_00: Fiscal year of 2027.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: You caught on to that.
29:18
SPEAKER_00: You know, called life.
29:19
SPEAKER_00: L-I-F-E.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: L-I-F.
29:21
SPEAKER_00: Living in future expectations.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: Now, when your expectations have been met or have been met, then it turns into, I call requirements.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: Some people have boundaries and morals.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: I got requirements.
29:35
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I'm an L-I-F-E or I'm a lifer.
29:37
SPEAKER_00: Nah, cool.
29:38
SPEAKER_00: And I just keep it like that.
29:40
SPEAKER_00: To me, it's simple, man.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: So I try to keep things simple as much as possible.
29:44
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:45
SPEAKER_03: So, man, it seems like people, because hold, I'm I want to ask your age, but I don't want to be.
29:50
SPEAKER_00: No.
29:51
SPEAKER_00: Well, I was born in 55, so do the math.
29:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so like people like from that age, like they chill, bro.
29:58
SPEAKER_03: Like, well, I mean basically, yeah.
30:00
SPEAKER_03: And it seems like maybe because y'all have gone through so much life, you're like, you know what I mean?
30:06
SPEAKER_00: You live your life, you see a lot of things come up, and you know, I I've been blessed to travel early in my life.
30:12
SPEAKER_00: I've traveled six continents.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: 44 out of the 50 come to the United States.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: Some places I've been to more than three times, and some places I never, never, never, ever, ever want to go back to again.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: I got reasons for that, and I'm gonna leave you at that.
30:27
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to buy and read my book when it comes out in the fifth year of 2027, man.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: Let's see what happens.
30:34
SPEAKER_03: Bye, folks.
30:35
SPEAKER_03: 2027 fiscal year.
30:37
SPEAKER_03: Don't forget that one.
30:38
SPEAKER_03: The fiscal year, yeah.
30:39
SPEAKER_03: That's right.
30:39
SPEAKER_03: That's what does he mean by that?
30:41
SPEAKER_03: Google it, go.
30:42
SPEAKER_03: Google that.
30:43
SPEAKER_03: I'm wanted to Google it right now, trying to figure it out.
30:46
SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
30:47
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
30:48
SPEAKER_03: Uh, thanks for coming on the show.
30:49
SPEAKER_03: So uh you have and I you were you did a couple of things at like shows at Mesquite, like you opened up for Nate Jackson, right?
30:56
SPEAKER_03: Nate Jackson.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I hosted that Nate Jackson.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: Oh, he, you know, I I've been a couple of times, and I just like he works the crowd fantastic.
31:05
SPEAKER_00: And people that come there has Trenton Cotton, who does really good for him, that is his feature or opener.
31:12
SPEAKER_00: And he brings, he's a really good young man, you know, out of Seattle, man.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: And I like his friends, I like his art.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: He's doing really good.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: And I like comedians, man.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: I can say he knows how to, you know, rip people up, man.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: And and it's a thing, too, when they have some shows that, oh, I don't want to sit close to the stage.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, you're ticking saying you gotta sit here.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what to tell you.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: Because he's gonna pick on you.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's gonna get you.
31:37
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna look at you, be careful what you wear.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: Anytime you hear Nate Jackson come to town, and you better make sure you zooted and booted are looking really good because he's gonna get you.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna get you.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: Ali Shadig will be here, I think, on the 23rd, but I'm not mistaken.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's really cool.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: I like him.
31:54
SPEAKER_00: Uh I I like a lot of Brad Williams is coming through here, the little person.
31:59
SPEAKER_00: Man, that's my little cousin, man.
32:01
SPEAKER_00: My little white cousin being hooked up.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like him.
32:03
SPEAKER_03: I notice you bring your camera sometimes in video television.
32:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I do.
32:07
SPEAKER_00: And I have uh uh Jeremy Wells, he's breaking down a lot of formula and I posted some.
32:12
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
32:12
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: I've seen it.
32:14
SPEAKER_00: Both of my clips, and that really has helped me because I get to watch myself.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: And I'm my own, I'm oh wow.
32:21
SPEAKER_00: If I don't like it, I'll delete it, you know, because not so you're using it mostly for for content?
32:27
SPEAKER_00: I use it for content and I put out there how I feel, oh yeah, that's a good one.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: I'll leave it out.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: I'll let it run with, you know, I'm not, I just have a little bit of Instagram, a lot of Facebook, and so man, you gotta get on TikTok, and uh, you know, I'm old, man.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: I you know, all the excess and time, the things you gotta do, that's just me.
32:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm good in my place.
32:46
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
32:46
SPEAKER_00: And that's how I look at it.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: And other young people that constantly own it, you know, and that's good.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: That's that's what social media is, because to me, social media is the gateway, the feedback.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: What you post just might get sped on.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
33:04
SPEAKER_00: People are gonna let you know.
33:05
SPEAKER_00: To make you feel happy, man, or sad.
33:07
SPEAKER_00: Deal with it accordingly, man.
33:09
SPEAKER_00: Don't get into your feelings, man.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, or try not to anyway.
33:13
SPEAKER_00: I I know some people can't help it, but yeah, that's understandable.
33:16
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's what's up.
33:18
SPEAKER_03: That's pretty cool.
33:19
SPEAKER_03: I was thinking about something, uh, yeah, recording your set and then putting it out there.
33:24
SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, you're comfortable where you're at.
33:26
SPEAKER_03: You don't have to start a TikTok.
33:28
SPEAKER_03: And some people like some people, Facebook is fine.
33:31
SPEAKER_03: Some people don't even have social media.
33:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
33:33
SPEAKER_03: You feel like they don't need it, you know?
33:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and that's good.
33:35
SPEAKER_00: And and that's some people, no, I don't have social media, and some people probably have had it, but they don't like it.
33:40
SPEAKER_00: Because you hear some people attack people on there, and and it's really bad when they got cyberbullying.
33:46
SPEAKER_00: And I've had where I make a comment on something that might be a little tension, and people, well, you know, they say things, I just go ahead and delete it.
33:55
SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about that.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: And then I you know, I go to their profile who make that and I look at it, man.
34:00
SPEAKER_00: You're not even you don't have a picture, you don't have no not saying anything.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: Delete, block.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: Why not block?
34:06
SPEAKER_00: Well, why why I gotta have you on here talking about stuff and you don't even have your face on it.
34:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
34:13
SPEAKER_00: So that that's kinda that's kind of lame to me, but you gotta, like I say, deal with it accordingly, man.
34:19
unknown: Yeah.
34:19
SPEAKER_00: Get into your feelings, it's okay.
34:21
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so being that you you're born in the 50s, man, like how do you do how do you look at it?
34:30
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
34:31
SPEAKER_03: Like later on.
34:32
SPEAKER_03: Do you do that or you just uh I see your posts like you put like today's the door the Lord made Yeah?
34:39
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, damn, that's you know, I look at it, this is not a drill.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, for another truly blessed, grateful, and thankful day.
34:46
SPEAKER_00: That comes when I got hit ten years ago with the car.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: Because it, you know, I could have been gone, man.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: I could have been in a wheelchair, I could have been a prayer for lead.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: You know, a worst case scenario, death.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: So I look at that as a you gotta stay humble for what it's worth.
35:02
SPEAKER_00: Then all the effort.
35:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm going through a lot of pain, and God told me it was gonna happen.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: And he said, You're gonna go through this, but you get over it.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: He said, I got faith in you.
35:11
SPEAKER_00: And so that's how my faith is is very strong about a lot of things.
35:15
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's not negative, it's always positive.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: I understand, nothing's gonna go your way.
35:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: Just gotta have patience.
35:22
SPEAKER_00: And young people, you gotta have patience.
35:24
SPEAKER_03: Like, I take that as like it, it's not always gonna go your way.
35:27
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes sometimes it will, sometimes, but you have to be prepared either way.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, either way.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: You either way, you think it's going good and bam.
35:34
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yep.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: You know, something can come up.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what it is, man.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: It can be something that you think is very minute, but it has happened.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, or it can trigger people, or people have something to say.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Everybody look at it, you know, Hazel's.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: As human beings, we all have a opinion.
35:53
SPEAKER_00: And we all have a butthole.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: And at times it's gonna stink, man.
35:57
SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna have to deal with that too.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: So it's really crazy wild right now.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:03
SPEAKER_03: For sure, man, it makes you think about humanity.
36:06
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
36:06
SPEAKER_03: Community in humanity.
36:09
SPEAKER_03: Uh like kind of like we're having community right now, just talking.
36:14
SPEAKER_03: And just the important the importance of having that in wherever you're at.
36:18
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
36:19
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
36:20
SPEAKER_03: Because it it could not be there or like we can be on this so much.
36:24
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
36:24
SPEAKER_03: Where we're not doing this.
36:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:27
SPEAKER_00: And the thing about it is when you come with uh things, how you feel honestly about anything, because to me, as a person, you feel it's worthwhile to bring somebody on your podcast to talk about how they feel.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: And then you ref offer that into whatever things that you do in your everyday life with your family, with your co-workers, and anything here, the artists, and for things that you join, people you go out and about, things you gotta do, and that's just how it is, right?
36:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
36:55
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
36:56
SPEAKER_03: For sure, Wendell.
36:57
SPEAKER_03: Man, does uh is there anything you would like to share before uh before we wrap it up in a few minutes?
37:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, all I want is just for people to just to be themselves, be true and real with yourself, man.
37:08
SPEAKER_00: You know, I I like for people to be more understanding.
37:11
SPEAKER_00: You can't help everybody.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: Everybody is not your friend either.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you gotta really squeeze that over because the way I look at it, I think it's safe to say that we all have family, friends, and lovers that have passed away.
37:27
SPEAKER_00: And in my personal experience, they haven't come back to tell me anything different about anything.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: No.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: So you gotta keep doing what you're doing without disrespecting people.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: Now, if somebody disrespect you, disrespect them back or walk away.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's best for us to leave things alone.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm a firm believer, man, that you know, karma is a bitch.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: Death is her sister.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: And I found out over about a decade ago I'm their adopted brother, so I put things in perspective.
37:56
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm not gonna hate on you unless you try to hate on me.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: That's it, man.
38:01
SPEAKER_00: And and I just appreciate this time and effort, and I'm really good with this.
38:06
SPEAKER_00: And I hope people that that listen to your podcast and feel filled about a lot of things, because at this point I tell my kids and grandkids, I don't have your DNA, you have mine.
38:20
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing they could say.
38:23
SPEAKER_00: And as in in retrospect, uh, I don't have any aunts or uncles.
38:29
SPEAKER_00: Blood.
38:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, I have people that are like family, friends, you put them in your life and stuff like that, but no blood.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: I and I just leave it at that.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: It does, I'm not bitter about it, just telling the truth.
38:41
SPEAKER_00: I try to be, but heck, some things you gotta let go, man.
38:44
SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
38:45
SPEAKER_03: You gotta let it go.
38:46
SPEAKER_03: Gotta live life, man.
38:47
SPEAKER_03: It's gonna go on.
38:48
SPEAKER_00: It like it's like it'll it'll go whether you like it or not.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's it.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna continue to go, whether you're not, brother.
38:54
SPEAKER_00: So why you wanna be trying to be mean and hateful because somebody did I granted somebody did you wrong, you want to do somebody wrong, but that in the long run, it's not gonna benefit you because it's always in the back of your mind, messing with you, messing with you, messing with you.
39:07
SPEAKER_00: You know, you have all that sense and and that that that bitterness in yourself and it builds up, wishing it caused stress with you know blood pressure.
39:16
SPEAKER_03: I'm thinking like you can you can't take that on stage, can you?
39:20
SPEAKER_00: Or can you?
39:21
SPEAKER_00: You can, you can, but be ready for the repercussions.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: But you can do that.
39:26
SPEAKER_00: You know, you can take that out, but it's how you put it out.
39:31
SPEAKER_00: It's how you put it out and how people perceive you.
39:34
SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, if people don't relate to what you're saying or they're not feeling you, then you're gonna get a very negative response.
39:40
SPEAKER_00: And that's the thing about it.
39:42
SPEAKER_00: Because to me, come you want people to laugh, you want them to understand.
39:46
SPEAKER_00: That's it, or make them think.
39:48
SPEAKER_00: I want you to laugh and think about what I said.
39:51
SPEAKER_00: And then at the end, when people come up to me, hey man, I like your acronym, or that's really good.
39:55
SPEAKER_00: I like that.
39:56
SPEAKER_00: And it it helps me.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: Now I try to go back.
39:58
SPEAKER_00: I write, I write, I write, I write every day, man.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: I put things and I just put them in my memory back as much as I can, because there's so much stuff, okay.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: I gotta lose marbles now.
40:10
SPEAKER_03: Oh, shoot.
40:11
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:12
SPEAKER_03: It's crazy, bro.
40:13
SPEAKER_03: Man, Wendell, thanks a lot for coming on the show, man.
40:15
SPEAKER_03: We're trying to just wrap it up before they open up.
40:17
SPEAKER_03: Uh no problem.
40:18
SPEAKER_03: So you got shows coming up?
40:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, I'm just doing open mic tomorrow night, MSK Street, downtown.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: The MSK Street, then Friday night, Lazy Beach, right here downtown.
40:29
SPEAKER_00: Uh 8 p.m.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: It starts.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: Bobby Pinha is the host.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: We got uh Andre Ramidez, he's the feature.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: You got Skip Pettit, you got Tim Boudreaux, uh, you got Mark Mark Peters, I did say him.
40:44
SPEAKER_00: And there's somebody I'm missing.
40:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
40:47
SPEAKER_00: No, that's it.
40:48
SPEAKER_00: All of them.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's gonna be there.
40:50
SPEAKER_00: It's a good DEI, you know, diverse, equity and inclusion.
40:53
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have a good time, nice cold bears, and people say, Oh, I'm gonna come see you, I'm gonna come see you.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll see you when I'm looking at you.
41:01
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I like it when you say that, bro.
41:02
SPEAKER_03: It's awesome, man.
41:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a good vibe out there.
41:04
SPEAKER_03: I I went out there that it's it's a nice vibe.
41:06
SPEAKER_03: I really like it out there.
41:07
SPEAKER_03: It is.
41:08
SPEAKER_03: Anyways, thanks a lot, you guys.
41:09
SPEAKER_03: Thanks to the artisan for letting us uh use this their joint for uh this recording here.
41:14
SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, yeah, go follow Window.
41:16
SPEAKER_03: How do you follow you, Wendell?
41:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh just just on uh Facebook, Instagram, Facebook, little Instagram, Window Williams13 on Instagram, and just Facebook.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: You just see my face and you know, miss the window.
41:28
SPEAKER_00: That's my handle on stage, and just go from there.
41:31
SPEAKER_00: Much love.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: I'll see you when I'm looking at you.
41:33
SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
41:34
SPEAKER_03: Shout out.
41:34
SPEAKER_03: See y'all later.
41:35
SPEAKER_03: Y'all have a good one.
41:36
SPEAKER_03: Peace.