Latest / Corpus Christi Originals Podcast / EP95: Lito Cortez + BIG Network Announcement (Comedy, Aliens & Christianity)
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- 0:00SPEAKER_08: What's going on, y'all?
- 0:00SPEAKER_08: Welcome back to the uh Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
- 0:03SPEAKER_08: I'm your host, uh Michael Pena.
- 0:04SPEAKER_08: I mean Hestuti Ladio.
- 0:09SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so I uh sorry real quick I heard word from you guys that I look like Michael Pena.
- 0:13SPEAKER_08: We appreciate you guys.
- 0:14SPEAKER_08: Uh so we got this live episode with uh Lito Cortez, a comedian from Corpus Christi with unique perspective on humor, creativity, faith, and some uh life's some of life's bigger mysteries.
- 0:25SPEAKER_08: Uh we're gonna dive into his journey, his thoughts on aliens, faith, and the supernatural and the creative process.
- 0:30SPEAKER_08: And later we're gonna talk about uh so some some exciting news that we got uh for the Corpus Christi originals, uh Corpus Christi Originals.
- 0:37SPEAKER_08: But thanks a lot.
- 0:38SPEAKER_08: Thanks for being here, Lito.
- 0:40SPEAKER_08: I'm excited to be here, bro.
- 0:41SPEAKER_06: It's been a while, it's been a minute.
- 0:43SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's been uh I think like uh 20 episodes.
- 0:47SPEAKER_08: Right on, right on.
- 0:48SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you know, I was thinking of doing stand-up and I was like, man, who how how do I make fun of myself?
- 0:52SPEAKER_08: Because I know most stand-ups do that, right?
- 0:54SPEAKER_08: Because right, is that the thing?
- 0:56SPEAKER_06: I mean, that's it, that's an easy dead giveaway.
- 0:58SPEAKER_06: Like I tell I like to tell young guys who ask.
- 1:02SPEAKER_06: I don't give out advice anymore unless it's asked now.
- 1:05SPEAKER_06: But you walk up on stage, and if nobody knows your name, they're not gonna remember your name by the end of the night.
- 1:10SPEAKER_06: But the first thing they can relate with is what you look like.
- 1:12SPEAKER_06: How you look, yeah.
- 1:13SPEAKER_06: Like, so I'll walk up on stage and I'm like, hey, I'm glad to be here, guys.
- 1:16SPEAKER_06: Like it's it's been an amazing night.
- 1:18SPEAKER_06: Like uh, I got a new outfit.
- 1:20SPEAKER_06: Like, okay, yeah, nobody cares, right?
- 1:22SPEAKER_06: And then they're like, Yeah, um, it's uh super expensive, my hat.
- 1:25SPEAKER_06: Like, you you're not gonna like believe how much I paid for this hat at Build a Bear Workshop.
- 1:31SPEAKER_06: People people laugh because I'm five foot nothing.
- 1:34SPEAKER_04: Oh, crazy, bro.
- 1:35SPEAKER_04: They're like, Oh, it's a little hat.
- 1:36SPEAKER_04: It's because he's little.
- 1:39SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I was like, if I if I go, I'm probably gonna use the micropena thing because people know who he is.
- 1:43SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you'd have you just have to add a funny adjective before that, and then crazy, bro.
- 1:48SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so it'd be like people say I look like a uh South Texas chill of Michael Pena or whatever.
- 1:55SPEAKER_06: Oh, crazy.
- 1:56SPEAKER_06: Michael Pena if you forgot to shave or dude.
- 1:58SPEAKER_08: How did you how did you find how'd you figure that out?
- 2:00SPEAKER_06: Like to use an adjective before you I mean air adjectives they describe so if you do the do the the grammar math, it's like okay, well, let me describe it in a funny way.
- 2:11SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, because comedy is just silly words, words explain like so, like uh I was listening to a podcast today, and they were talking about things that don't mix, and one guy says oil and water, and another guy says Pepsi and milk.
- 2:26SPEAKER_06: And it's like, oh yeah, those are two different things, but one's coming from a like a logical perspective, and the other one's coming from like a comedian's per perspective.
- 2:34SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 2:35SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so it's just playing on words.
- 2:37SPEAKER_06: Figure out how to use words if you have to figure out that.
- 2:40SPEAKER_06: That's that's the that's the trigger, right?
- 2:42SPEAKER_06: Comedy is a comedy is the emotion caused by words that I forgot how they say it, but emotion caused by words that manifest a sound and a feeling.
- 2:57SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 2:57SPEAKER_06: So the sound is of course laughing and the feeling is joy.
- 3:01SPEAKER_08: Wow.
- 3:02SPEAKER_08: So yeah, that's pretty So most of it is like so does most of it have to be like truthful for it to be funny?
- 3:07SPEAKER_08: Uh you know what I'm saying?
- 3:09SPEAKER_08: Or it doesn't have to.
- 3:10SPEAKER_06: I mean, you can you can have some creative writers out there.
- 3:12SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah.
- 3:13SPEAKER_06: I mean, there's all kinds of it's and that's the crazy thing about about comedy, right?
- 3:17SPEAKER_06: It's like if there's a comedian on stage and you might might be dying laughing, and I look and I'm and I'm listening, and it's it's it's it's a no-go for me, right?
- 3:27SPEAKER_06: Comedy's super subjective.
- 3:28SPEAKER_06: So even though um I'm on stage and I'm I found that uh it's easier for me to be on stage until jokes about personal life, right?
- 3:42SPEAKER_06: And when it's more stories than it is anything, yeah, right, and how I relate to things, or um I do a lot of like visualization, right?
- 3:50SPEAKER_06: Like I'll see something in a room and I'll I'll poke fun of it.
- 3:52SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and we're all thinking it, it's just nobody's saying that.
- 3:55SPEAKER_06: Nobody's saying it.
- 3:55SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 3:56SPEAKER_06: So so and then obviously how you say it too makes it funny, also something that we can relate to, like even like in in life, right?
- 4:03SPEAKER_06: Like something that's happening to me, and I'll I'll ask like four people, hey, do you do this?
- 4:08SPEAKER_06: And they're like, Yeah, I do that.
- 4:10SPEAKER_06: Hey, do you do this?
- 4:11SPEAKER_06: Like, yeah, I do that.
- 4:12SPEAKER_06: And then I ask the next person.
- 4:14SPEAKER_06: If I get three people like in a row, I'm like, okay, cool.
- 4:17SPEAKER_06: Wow, but people that are like my age, people that are yeah, like have your audience, yeah.
- 4:22SPEAKER_08: My audience, I guess, yeah, like my demographic, I guess.
- 4:24SPEAKER_08: Well, that's cool.
- 4:25SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so so that I guess so.
- 4:27SPEAKER_08: How did you get started?
- 4:27SPEAKER_08: I guess well, the first thing we'll talk about is uh getting like getting to know you and your journey.
- 4:31SPEAKER_08: So, how how did your journey begin?
- 4:34SPEAKER_08: Uh, was there a defining moment that you're like, I gotta, I'm gonna start doing this?
- 4:38SPEAKER_06: Um man, I've always wanted to do it, right?
- 4:41SPEAKER_06: I've always tried to be the class count clown, and it's been a blessing and a curse, yeah, right.
- 4:46SPEAKER_06: And then I've always thought of something I could say to to crack the room or make somebody laugh.
- 4:50SPEAKER_06: And like I said, blessing and a curse.
- 4:52SPEAKER_06: Sometimes it's good, and you like you're like, yeah, look at me, guys.
- 4:56SPEAKER_06: Or even if it's like uh I'll make a joke and nobody laughs, it's like, all right, I'm not gonna try that one again.
- 5:01SPEAKER_06: Yeah, like this is not the room for me.
- 5:03SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
- 5:03SPEAKER_06: But if I get one person to laugh, I'll just turn and look and go.
- 5:07SPEAKER_06: And then I'll turn back around.
- 5:10SPEAKER_06: And as long as I get one person to laugh, yeah, like a one person at a room of 30, yeah, bro.
- 5:15SPEAKER_06: That's that's that's three percent.
- 5:16SPEAKER_06: That's a win, right there.
- 5:17SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's a win.
- 5:18SPEAKER_06: If I can get three percent in one room, yeah, like that's good.
- 5:21SPEAKER_06: And if I can get three percent in corpus, yeah, hey, dude, that's wow.
- 5:25SPEAKER_06: What that's 30, 30,000, 3,000?
- 5:27SPEAKER_08: Mm-hmm.
- 5:28SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 5:28SPEAKER_06: So if I can get three percent, if I can get three percent of of Texas, it's like, oh okay, hey, yeah, that's wow, that's amazing, man.
- 5:34SPEAKER_06: But it's just it's man, it's it's it's just getting out there.
- 5:37SPEAKER_06: But yeah, no, I've always had the itch, like the bug, right?
- 5:40SPEAKER_06: And like that is to make people laugh.
- 5:42SPEAKER_06: And I like the reaction I get, like make people laugh, and also like scaring people.
- 5:46SPEAKER_06: That's the best.
- 5:47SPEAKER_06: No way.
- 5:48SPEAKER_06: When you would just like jump out from somewhere, oh yeah, scare somebody, right?
- 5:51SPEAKER_06: Yeah, play a good prank on them.
- 5:53SPEAKER_06: Um, but no, I mean, I've I've always enjoyed that, and then one day one day, man, it's been like I don't even remember, it's a long time, it's been like 13 years.
- 6:01SPEAKER_06: Yeah, um I saw a flyer for open mic, and I I told my wife, I was like, Let's go, I'm gonna do it.
- 6:08SPEAKER_06: Wow, yeah, and she's like, You're crazy.
- 6:11SPEAKER_06: I'm like, okay, let's try it.
- 6:13SPEAKER_06: And I went up and I had stories that I I wanted to tell, and I told those stories, and they weren't funny.
- 6:20SPEAKER_06: Like I think I overprepared, but the stuff I said like off the head, like got chuckles, like got laughs.
- 6:27SPEAKER_06: Wow, which it was like, Oh, okay.
- 6:29SPEAKER_06: Like, I did get laughs, I just didn't do it right.
- 6:32SPEAKER_06: And then once that happened, I get everybody says it right, all the comics, I got bit by the bug.
- 6:38SPEAKER_06: And once you get bit by the bug, it's like, oh, that's it.
- 6:41SPEAKER_06: That's your that's that's everything you think of.
- 6:44SPEAKER_06: Like, if you're gonna go back on stage, because some people do it and then never go back on stage.
- 6:48SPEAKER_06: Yeah, if you plan on going back on stage, that's all you're thinking about.
- 6:51SPEAKER_06: You're like, situation happens with somebody at work, you're like, Can I use this on stage?
- 6:56SPEAKER_06: Situation happens with somebody with your wife, like, can I use this on stage?
- 6:59SPEAKER_06: Situation happens with something at the grocery store, can I use this on stage?
- 7:02SPEAKER_06: And it's like it just consumes you.
- 7:04SPEAKER_06: Constantly developing material, it becomes a a a man, like a bad girlfriend that you're not supposed to like think about all day long.
- 7:13SPEAKER_06: Like it really does, but does it get you in trouble?
- 7:15SPEAKER_06: Like with your with your marriage, like oh dude, at the beginning, every comic, it's everything's funny, and you try to be silly a hundred percent, yeah.
- 7:22SPEAKER_06: And I mean, so like I'm sure my family gets annoyed, right?
- 7:25SPEAKER_06: I know my wife gets annoyed, but after uh after so many years, now I like if I'm joking with my wife, it has to be really good.
- 7:34SPEAKER_06: Oh wow, because that low-hanging fruit, like it's it's like not gonna work, so it has to be like a deep cut, wow, like something that she sees and I see, and then I bring it up or I say it, and she like dies laughing.
- 7:48SPEAKER_06: Wow, but anything cheesy or corny, like me, like just being silly, like low-hanging fruit, yeah.
- 7:54SPEAKER_06: She like just stop, try harder.
- 7:56SPEAKER_06: Yeah, this isn't a time for jokes.
- 8:00SPEAKER_06: It's always a time for jokes, right?
- 8:02SPEAKER_06: If it hits, if it hits, it hits.
- 8:05SPEAKER_06: But so if you go up and you you do well, I did, I mean, I did all right.
- 8:09SPEAKER_06: I can honestly say that there were other comedians there who I don't even think they're in town anymore, um, that didn't do so well.
- 8:16SPEAKER_06: And I'm like, well, they've been doing it for a while.
- 8:19SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and I just like this is my first time.
- 8:22SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 8:22SPEAKER_06: Um, okay, like I I I feel good about this.
- 8:26SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 8:26SPEAKER_06: And since then I was like, all right, let's go back, let's go back.
- 8:29SPEAKER_06: Well at the beginning, it was like, let's go back, let's go back.
- 8:31SPEAKER_08: Crazy.
- 8:31SPEAKER_06: And I went back the next week and dude just totally ate it.
- 8:35SPEAKER_06: Yo, I just ate like a third sandwich.
- 8:37SPEAKER_06: The second time?
- 8:37SPEAKER_06: The second time.
- 8:38SPEAKER_08: The second time around.
- 8:38SPEAKER_06: Well, second time.
- 8:39SPEAKER_06: I just bombed, dude.
- 8:41SPEAKER_08: Dude, how did you not?
- 8:41SPEAKER_08: Okay, yeah.
- 8:42SPEAKER_08: So how did you not like want to quit?
- 8:44SPEAKER_08: Because some people, even the first time, they're like, nah, I'm done with this.
- 8:47SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you know what I mean?
- 8:48SPEAKER_06: No, you were like, Yeah, I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna do it again, I'm gonna do it again, I'm gonna do it again.
- 8:53SPEAKER_06: And then you it it this happens with everybody.
- 8:57SPEAKER_06: I see it all the time.
- 8:58SPEAKER_06: You start new, the comedians start new, and for the year, they're like strong, like going good.
- 9:02SPEAKER_06: And then they get to like a year, a year and a half, and then they just hit this mental block.
- 9:07SPEAKER_06: And it's just like the same jokes they started with that were working, like they don't hit, right?
- 9:12SPEAKER_06: Weird.
- 9:13SPEAKER_06: And I don't know if it's because when you start saying those jokes, like there's a like a like a like a creativeness that's that's like uh how do you say it?
- 9:22SPEAKER_06: Like you're doing oh, you're excited about telling these jokes, right?
- 9:25SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and then after you've been doing them for a year, uh that makes sense.
- 9:29SPEAKER_06: You're you're you're sitting back on those jokes and you're like, yeah, I know this works, so I'm gonna say it and not tell the joke.
- 9:35SPEAKER_06: So the delivery changes the delivery and the attitude overall, right?
- 9:39SPEAKER_06: The attitude changes towards the joke, right?
- 9:42SPEAKER_06: So then, and then so I hit that, I hit, I hit that wall, dude.
- 9:45SPEAKER_06: And I think everybody hits that.
- 9:47SPEAKER_06: So you hit it yourself.
- 9:47SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, I hit the wall like hard.
- 9:49SPEAKER_06: Oh shoot.
- 9:49SPEAKER_06: And even like I got to the point to where I would bomb so hard.
- 9:53SPEAKER_06: Yeah, um, I would stand there, or I would I would want to deactivate my socials.
- 9:59SPEAKER_06: I want to do everything like just crawl under a rock and be like, all right, it's good for me.
- 10:04SPEAKER_06: Like, wow, nice knowing you guys, I'm never gonna be social again.
- 10:07SPEAKER_06: But you have to remember one of the comics coming through town, he's like, How do you feel?
- 10:12SPEAKER_06: I was like, That was horrible.
- 10:13SPEAKER_06: He goes, Yeah.
- 10:13SPEAKER_06: He goes, Don't worry, see all these people here.
- 10:16SPEAKER_06: I said, Yeah.
- 10:16SPEAKER_06: He's like, You think they'll be back next week?
- 10:19SPEAKER_06: Like, they won't.
- 10:20SPEAKER_06: Like some of them might, but you'll have new people.
- 10:23SPEAKER_06: Oh, interesting.
- 10:23SPEAKER_06: You have new people to tell those jokes to.
- 10:25SPEAKER_06: So go back, rearrange those jokes, add some, add some funny in there, cut the fat, then come back and do it again.
- 10:34SPEAKER_06: Wow, and then do it again and make it better, do it again, do it again.
- 10:36SPEAKER_06: Wow, yeah.
- 10:37SPEAKER_06: So you gotta practice your craft.
- 10:38SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you gotta practice.
- 10:39SPEAKER_06: And I got I even got to the point to where I had it scripted, right?
- 10:42SPEAKER_06: Like, say this, then do this, say this, then do this.
- 10:45SPEAKER_06: And it worked at the beginning, but then like three, four months into it, that same joke, it was so scripted it felt fake, it felt robotic.
- 10:53SPEAKER_06: So what, like don't be over prepared, but don't be underprepared?
- 10:57SPEAKER_06: Yes, right.
- 10:58SPEAKER_06: So now, and so I do bullet points like here's my joke.
- 11:01SPEAKER_06: I know this is the beginning, I know this is the end.
- 11:03SPEAKER_06: Um, if something hits, or I can think of something off the top of the head, uh, I'm gonna say it.
- 11:09SPEAKER_06: If it hits, I'm gonna like hit the gas a little bit, and then I'm gonna go back and finish the joke, right?
- 11:14SPEAKER_06: So I'm gonna play with it.
- 11:16SPEAKER_06: But I'm not gonna like I know this is my point is to tell you I started here and then this is look at where I ended.
- 11:24SPEAKER_06: Like, that's the that's my focal point of the of the joke.
- 11:27SPEAKER_08: Wow, that's amazing, man.
- 11:28SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's yeah, it's it's I mean, and some some guys just get up there and and wing it.
- 11:33SPEAKER_06: And I've gone up there sometimes, open mic, and just be like, all right, let's let's play around.
- 11:36SPEAKER_06: What are we doing?
- 11:37SPEAKER_06: And I'll just talk about like whatever, and just to see if the funny bone works.
- 11:42SPEAKER_06: Yeah, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
- 11:44SPEAKER_08: You know what, man?
- 11:44SPEAKER_08: I was listening to a clinic with Ralphie May, and he was uh he had this kind of I don't know if y'all have this attitude, but like uh he was saying it's like if you're just here like doing it as a hobby, he's like, get out the way, basically because you're taking their time, you're taking their time.
- 11:59SPEAKER_08: Yeah, the the the serious guys that want to, you know what I mean.
- 12:02SPEAKER_08: So is there that type of like attitude, I guess, with you or with other comics?
- 12:07SPEAKER_08: Do you see?
- 12:07SPEAKER_06: Like, how do you affect that?
- 12:09SPEAKER_06: I don't think so.
- 12:10SPEAKER_06: I mean, back in the day, right?
- 12:11SPEAKER_06: And I always say back in the day because I think there was a shift in in culture, um, pre-COVID and post-COVID.
- 12:19SPEAKER_06: So pre-COVID, it was like, if you're not gonna be serious about it, like stay out of the way.
- 12:24SPEAKER_06: Oh, kind of something like that, right?
- 12:26SPEAKER_06: Yes, yes, yes.
- 12:26SPEAKER_06: Like you have to be all in.
- 12:28SPEAKER_06: And now post-COVID, it's like, oh, you can be funny on.
- 12:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you can be funny on you can like just like I know guys, I see guys on Facebook and Instagram that have a hundred thousand followers just by saying something silly, like just by posting something silly, crazy, like words, like actual, like like so wow, so the landscape has changed.
- 12:46SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so the landscape has changed.
- 12:47SPEAKER_06: Now, I mean, if you want to do it as a full-time job, like of course that's something different, right?
- 12:52SPEAKER_06: You either have to go viral or you have to be able excuse me, or you have to be able to do an hour off the top of your head like nothing, right?
- 13:00SPEAKER_06: Or an hour 20, right?
- 13:02SPEAKER_06: In in every room in the US and make it work.
- 13:04SPEAKER_06: Holy smoke.
- 13:05SPEAKER_06: Whether it's material or just going with the flow, just using your funny bone and knocking it out.
- 13:09SPEAKER_06: So it's I mean, it's uh it's a crazy game, right?
- 13:12SPEAKER_06: Wow, but if you're if you're if you go viral and you can monetize it and you can make two, three grand a month.
- 13:18SPEAKER_06: I mean, I know somebody that was making like 1500 bucks popping pimples on TikTok, popping their own pimples on TikTok.
- 13:25SPEAKER_06: And I'm just like, dude, what happened?
- 13:27SPEAKER_06: Like, oh, they went to the dermatologist and okay, the river dried up.
- 13:33SPEAKER_06: So it's like, it's like you can you can make the money, right?
- 13:37SPEAKER_06: Like you can you can make it happen.
- 13:39SPEAKER_06: But like also, I always say this too, right?
- 13:42SPEAKER_06: And this is just the old man in me.
- 13:43SPEAKER_06: Uh, if the internet goes down, oh if you're why you lose your Wi-Fi, like, can you convert that into a live performance?
- 13:50SPEAKER_06: And at the end of the day, people want to reach out to you and touch you, right?
- 13:54SPEAKER_06: People want to see like people they'll listen to you every single day, right?
- 13:56SPEAKER_06: And they'll watch all your reels and do all your stuff if they like you, right?
- 14:00SPEAKER_06: But if you're coming to their town, like how much?
- 14:03SPEAKER_06: 40 bucks, 50 bucks?
- 14:05SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I want to do it to be be in the same room with them, right?
- 14:07SPEAKER_06: Oh, hey, we're doing a meet and greet for everybody, right?
- 14:10SPEAKER_06: Meet and greet, 50 bucks, and all you have to do is wait in line, shake your hand, take a picture.
- 14:14SPEAKER_06: Yeah, let's do it.
- 14:15SPEAKER_06: So if your internet dies, like can you convert that to a stage?
- 14:19SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's that's some some may be able to, some might some maybe.
- 14:23SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean, some some and some have and some haven't, which is crazy.
- 14:27SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 14:27SPEAKER_06: Um, before we dig any deeper, uh I know we got a lot to talk about.
- 14:30SPEAKER_06: Go for it.
- 14:30SPEAKER_06: November 7th, we are doing uh comedy benefit for an organization called uh Stand Up for Her.
- 14:36SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be at the USS Lexington.
- 14:38SPEAKER_06: I didn't even send it to you, but um, I want to get that get that out of the way.
- 14:42SPEAKER_06: But yeah, it's at the USS Lexington.
- 14:43SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be me and Bob Smiley.
- 14:45SPEAKER_06: Bob Smiley is a clean comedian, he's been around for 25 years.
- 14:48SPEAKER_06: He's a legit dude, he's a lot of fun.
- 14:51SPEAKER_06: So it's a it's a benefit for uh organization called Um For Her Ministries.
- 14:56SPEAKER_06: And they uh what they do is they help uh women get off the streets.
- 15:00SPEAKER_06: And what they've also been getting into just by uh I guess um by the way of the Lord, uh, is they if a kid goes missing, like you see this kid is missing, or this kid got kidnapped or whatever, um, they've been dabbling into that and helping kids, helping parents find those lost kids that have gone missing.
- 15:20SPEAKER_06: So yeah, that's Friday, November uh the 7th at the USS Lexington.
- 15:26SPEAKER_06: So I'll post the picture in the comments and yeah, we'll clip we'll definitely clip that portion also.
- 15:30SPEAKER_06: Man, that's awesome.
- 15:31SPEAKER_06: That's amazing, dude.
- 15:31SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
- 15:32SPEAKER_06: This is the third one we've done.
- 15:33SPEAKER_06: So we're gonna and uh congrats, man.
- 15:36SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's it's gonna help um the building, they have a facility, it's undisclosed.
- 15:41SPEAKER_06: And um is it here in town?
- 15:43SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's here in town.
- 15:44SPEAKER_06: No way, wow.
- 15:45SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so it helps fight uh human trafficking, helps girls get off the street, and then now they've been helping uh parents, individuals find find the kids.
- 15:55SPEAKER_06: But also, it also like I'm sure they do pro they have programs set up to where um they put women in houses and give them like the opportunity to get rehabilitated and get back on their feet and jobs and all that fun stuff too.
- 16:09SPEAKER_06: So, yeah.
- 16:09SPEAKER_06: So I'm opening up that show.
- 16:11SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be a good one.
- 16:12SPEAKER_06: Uh on the USS Lected too.
- 16:14SPEAKER_08: Oh, that's nice.
- 16:15SPEAKER_08: Like, yeah, that's nice.
- 16:16SPEAKER_08: You've you ever been on like have you ever done a show out there?
- 16:18SPEAKER_08: I have, but not oh no, no, I've got there.
- 16:21SPEAKER_08: Yeah, oh wow, that's cool.
- 16:22SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be it's gonna be I'm trying to think of some jokes when thinking about like how we're raising money for uh like these women in this battleship.
- 16:32SPEAKER_06: Oh, really?
- 16:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's awesome.
- 16:33SPEAKER_06: I'm trying to think of jokes.
- 16:34SPEAKER_06: Man, it's hard, dude.
- 16:36SPEAKER_06: I don't have any I don't have any battleship material.
- 16:39SPEAKER_08: So like like yeah, speaking of that, real quick.
- 16:42SPEAKER_08: So do y'all do you comedians like research because I watch like Theo Vaughn, right?
- 16:46SPEAKER_08: Yeah, and it seems like they research all kinds of stuff, bro.
- 16:50SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean I mean I'm sure I'm sure a lot of them do, right?
- 16:55SPEAKER_06: There's a bunch of history majors, right?
- 16:56SPEAKER_06: There are a bunch of history guys that yeah, like I mean, you look at Shane Gillis's last special, his biggest his closer was a joke on George Washington, right?
- 17:05SPEAKER_06: And how he went to George Washington, the plantation George Washington owned, um in in in that special, right?
- 17:12SPEAKER_06: So it's like, yeah, these these guys are they study history, but also like Shane is a guy who knows history.
- 17:18SPEAKER_06: So what you know is what's gonna spew out of you, bro.
- 17:21SPEAKER_06: Right, right, right.
- 17:22SPEAKER_06: That's what you're gonna be more familiar with, and that's what's gonna be like funny, right?
- 17:25SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that's cool, man.
- 17:26SPEAKER_08: Wow.
- 17:27SPEAKER_08: So we just that was that was a cool brief.
- 17:29SPEAKER_08: The next section we're talking about aliens, bro.
- 17:31SPEAKER_08: I do I didn't know you were into aliens and stuff like that.
- 17:34SPEAKER_06: I people say people ask me like, like, why do you like why do you believe?
- 17:41SPEAKER_06: I was like, because it's fun.
- 17:43SPEAKER_06: Like, why do you not believe?
- 17:44SPEAKER_06: Like, right.
- 17:45SPEAKER_06: Number one, like I've been to some national parks in in in the US, and you just sit there and you look around, you stand on top of this mountain, and you're just like you look down and you see a bus passing by, and the bus is like smaller than an ant.
- 17:59SPEAKER_06: You can just see a little gray speck.
- 18:01SPEAKER_06: And then I think I thought I would think to myself, like, dude, we're so small compared just to the earth.
- 18:06SPEAKER_06: Wow, that's amazing.
- 18:07SPEAKER_06: Like here in Corpus, it's just flat.
- 18:09SPEAKER_06: The only hills you see are the only hills you see are the landfills, right?
- 18:12SPEAKER_06: You're driving to San Antonio, it's boring.
- 18:14SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you drive into San Antonio, it's the most boring drive ever.
- 18:18SPEAKER_06: But if you get out and you see some of like uh Utah and Denver and all that stuff, and you see these like amazing hills and and mountaintops and all that stuff, and you sit back and you you analyze and you're just like, dude, we are so small.
- 18:31SPEAKER_06: Well, even at night, even you're staring at the stars, like here in Corpus, you mean you you can see stars when you're at the beach.
- 18:36SPEAKER_06: At the beach, but when you're when you're 60 miles out of Grand Canyon and there's no city lights anywhere, and you just look up at the stars and you're just like all right, that's pretty wild.
- 18:48SPEAKER_06: And you see every single speck.
- 18:50SPEAKER_06: And to me, it's just like there's no way that there's no way that um we're the only ones in this uh universe.
- 18:57SPEAKER_08: Wow, I don't know.
- 18:58SPEAKER_08: I'm a skeptical, bro.
- 18:59SPEAKER_08: Like so have they been here before?
- 19:02SPEAKER_08: Do you think there's some here?
- 19:04SPEAKER_08: You know what I mean?
- 19:04SPEAKER_06: I think there were some before us, and I think there's gonna be some after us.
- 19:08SPEAKER_06: But I don't know if they're humans, like a humanoid type, or if they're spirits, or if they're like sentient, like if they're like artificial intelligence.
- 19:20SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 19:20SPEAKER_06: Right?
- 19:21SPEAKER_06: So um there's a documentary that I watch and I tell everybody, you gotta watch this one.
- 19:25SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah.
- 19:25SPEAKER_06: And it's called uh Point of Contact.
- 19:27SPEAKER_06: I don't know who the director is, I forgot who it is, but it's called Point of Contact, and it's about a uh a spaceship in Brazil that crash and lands, and they go back and the guy the guy sits on a street corner and he holds up a sign and it in Brazilian it says, Do you know about the craft?
- 19:50SPEAKER_06: or something like that.
- 19:51SPEAKER_06: Like, do you like like a generic question, right?
- 19:54SPEAKER_06: And then he puts the date or whatever, but everybody knows what he's talking about.
- 19:57SPEAKER_06: So it'd be like somebody sitting at the Selena Statue and says, Do you have a memory of Selena?
- 20:01SPEAKER_06: And everybody walks up, it's like, Oh yeah, when I was a little girl.
- 20:04SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 20:04SPEAKER_06: So he does that with the with the sign at the street corner at the at the like the most popular spot in the city, and all these people start coming.
- 20:11SPEAKER_06: Oh, well, my aunt or my uncle, oh wow, and this person and that person, and somebody walks up and they're like, Oh, this is the family you need to talk to.
- 20:18SPEAKER_06: And then so they go and talk to the family, and then it's three young girls, and then the three young girls say, Oh, and this and this, and he starts pulling all the records.
- 20:26SPEAKER_06: And close your ears if you don't want to hear a spoiler alert.
- 20:30SPEAKER_06: But uh, spoiler alert.
- 20:32SPEAKER_06: Um apparently in the in the documentary, what happens is that a spaceship crashes, and two aliens walk out, and one is like hiding from everybody, and the other one's like injured, and they pick him up and they take him to a hospital.
- 20:51SPEAKER_06: Um, the two there's two cops that took him to the hospital, and um within 24-48 hours, the cop who picked him up, he he contacted some type of like uh skin virus or some type of infection, and like they couldn't save him and he died because he got like aliens' blood on him.
- 21:09SPEAKER_06: Well, yeah, and then the other guy like disappeared, like he disappeared, and they end up finding him and they they like try to question him, and he holds guns to their face, and like not guns to their face, but he like tells them don't come over here, like stay away.
- 21:23SPEAKER_06: I don't want to talk about it.
- 21:24SPEAKER_06: I know what y'all are here for, I don't want to talk about it.
- 21:26SPEAKER_06: So it's like and it's it it it was like 30 years ago, like in the 90s, early 2000s.
- 21:31SPEAKER_06: So um, just just you see this guy who's like, No, I do not want to talk about this, like it's ruined my life.
- 21:39SPEAKER_06: Wow, yeah, and they interview a bunch of other people.
- 21:41SPEAKER_06: Um, but it's pretty wild.
- 21:42SPEAKER_06: It's called crazy, yeah.
- 21:43SPEAKER_06: It's called point of contact.
- 21:45SPEAKER_08: Hey, what's going on, babe?
- 21:46SPEAKER_08: Thanks a lot.
- 21:47SPEAKER_08: That's my wife right there.
- 21:48SPEAKER_08: You're doing a good job, babe.
- 21:49SPEAKER_08: Thank you, appreciate it.
- 21:50SPEAKER_08: Thanks for the threads, also.
- 21:52SPEAKER_08: Got a new shirt finally.
- 21:53SPEAKER_08: You guys probably know this.
- 21:55SPEAKER_08: Man, hey, Mike, can you play that video?
- 21:57SPEAKER_06: There's a video of corpus, right?
- 21:58SPEAKER_06: Yes, it's the corpus, dude.
- 22:00SPEAKER_06: I don't know who I ripped it from, and I apologize, but I ripped it off of somebody's page.
- 22:03SPEAKER_06: But you can see it.
- 22:04SPEAKER_06: If you look on top, that's the I guess one shoreline plaza, right?
- 22:07SPEAKER_06: Or the tower.
- 22:08SPEAKER_06: Three three three news coming in, baby.
- 22:11SPEAKER_06: And it says September 11th.
- 22:12SPEAKER_06: That was uh 2020, September 11th.
- 22:15SPEAKER_06: I I look back.
- 22:16SPEAKER_07: So I might play everything.
- 22:18SPEAKER_06: This is like a okay, go ahead.
- 22:20SPEAKER_06: So if you look on the top, this is like stormy, right?
- 22:27SPEAKER_06: Oh, okay, it goes in the fill.
- 22:28SPEAKER_06: But then how it takes off in the opposite way.
- 22:31SPEAKER_06: And then it goes up.
- 22:32SPEAKER_06: And it goes sideways and like flies.
- 22:35SPEAKER_06: So, bro, like it's not a bird.
- 22:39SPEAKER_06: It's not a helicopter.
- 22:41SPEAKER_06: It's not a thing, bro.
- 22:43SPEAKER_08: One of those things behind you, bro.
- 22:45SPEAKER_08: Really, really give them.
- 22:51SPEAKER_06: So it goes down and then flies across.
- 22:54SPEAKER_08: Well, it looks like it disappears almost.
- 22:56SPEAKER_06: Yeah, almost further in the middle.
- 22:57SPEAKER_06: Yeah, one of them disappears.
- 22:58SPEAKER_06: One of them, there's three of them.
- 23:00SPEAKER_06: One of them disappears, and the other two take a month like on a moment to get it.
- 23:06SPEAKER_06: One, two.
- 23:09SPEAKER_06: So what I'm thinking is these aliens are flying.
- 23:11SPEAKER_06: They hit my lightning.
- 23:13SPEAKER_06: Oh crap, we gotta hit it.
- 23:14SPEAKER_06: Falls down.
- 23:15SPEAKER_06: Okay, like, hey, kill yourself.
- 23:17SPEAKER_06: All right, let's go.
- 23:18SPEAKER_06: They're like challenge.
- 23:23SPEAKER_06: So, dude, that's and that's in our backyard.
- 23:26SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 23:26SPEAKER_06: So at first I was like, okay, alien's cool.
- 23:28SPEAKER_06: Yeah, let's watch these documentaries, let's do all this stuff.
- 23:31SPEAKER_06: So I watch it and then I see that, and man, I I apologize to whoever I ripped that from.
- 23:36SPEAKER_06: But I ripped it and it was getting no traction.
- 23:39SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 23:39SPEAKER_06: Um, and then I put it on my page and it still got no traction.
- 23:43SPEAKER_06: Oh man, here we are.
- 23:46SPEAKER_06: But I think about it like all the time, dude.
- 23:48SPEAKER_06: Anytime someone's like, Aliens are real, I go to my Instagram.
- 23:51SPEAKER_06: I'm like, well, here you go.
- 23:52SPEAKER_06: Oh nice, buddy.
- 23:55SPEAKER_06: So yeah, dude, I don't.
- 23:56SPEAKER_06: I mean, can you explain that?
- 23:58SPEAKER_06: What was it?
- 23:59SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 24:00SPEAKER_05: I mean, have you ever seen that, that's pretty wild?
- 24:04SPEAKER_06: That's pretty wild.
- 24:06SPEAKER_06: See, even the the guy on the producer, got the producer down here, man on the on the keys.
- 24:10SPEAKER_08: On the keys back there, he said it was wild.
- 24:12SPEAKER_06: So he's a believer now.
- 24:13SPEAKER_08: He's a believer now.
- 24:14SPEAKER_08: How does humor play into talking about man?
- 24:17SPEAKER_08: That's crazy, bro.
- 24:18SPEAKER_08: So aliens, and can you play that other mad?
- 24:21SPEAKER_08: I found this clip on TikTok.
- 24:23SPEAKER_08: Uh this guy right here.
- 24:26SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 24:27SPEAKER_08: He um he goes to the city council and he wants to talk about extraterrestrial.
- 24:31SPEAKER_08: Let's play play it real quick, Ma.
- 24:33SPEAKER_08: Um, I don't know.
- 24:35SPEAKER_08: He they say he goes in there often and he tries to talk about it, and then they they always cut him off.
- 24:39SPEAKER_08: So hopefully we could get him on here to voice in the pitch.
- 24:44SPEAKER_02: Mayor objection that's not a matter related to city pitch.
- 24:48SPEAKER_02: This mayor and council also look weak and petty when they're gonna be able to do it.
- 24:52SPEAKER_08: And then there's another person that came out that she's talking about.
- 24:58SPEAKER_07: I noticed the silver orbs flying over New Jersey.
- 25:02SPEAKER_07: Yeah, he's talking about New Jersey.
- 25:04SPEAKER_06: So he's talking about I observed silver orbs in New Jersey.
- 25:07SPEAKER_06: Like what in New Jersey?
- 25:12SPEAKER_06: Uh Mr.
- 25:12SPEAKER_06: Greyhaired man.
- 25:14SPEAKER_07: I have a video that's gonna broke.
- 25:17SPEAKER_07: Uh there's gonna be open contact instead.
- 25:21SPEAKER_07: There's open contact.
- 25:22SPEAKER_10: The idea of open contact, but not a good idea.
- 25:24SPEAKER_10: I think it's got a correct one too.
- 25:30SPEAKER_08: And then she mentions the religious groups that come in and they give them all this time to talk and stuff.
- 25:35SPEAKER_08: Oh but this poor dude comes in and they cut him off.
- 25:37SPEAKER_08: Now, this is it's just not relevant.
- 25:38SPEAKER_02: The rule requiring a comment to be about city is subjective, inefficient, and unevenly applied.
- 25:44SPEAKER_05: I did not sign up at four o'clock.
- 25:46SPEAKER_05: Will I be allowed to they cut off his mic?
- 25:49SPEAKER_06: That sounds like me and open mic.
- 25:50SPEAKER_06: I did not sign up.
- 25:55SPEAKER_06: You can stop it by yeah, but look, dude.
- 25:57SPEAKER_08: I mean, you were talking about this here in our backyard, and there's a dude.
- 26:00SPEAKER_08: No, dude, goes everywhere, talks about it.
- 26:01SPEAKER_06: I know I need to meet with that guy and be like, look, looky, looky, look what I got for you, buddy.
- 26:05SPEAKER_08: Hey, so did so it's like the aliens only speak like uh Spanish or Brazilian, they don't really speak English.
- 26:14SPEAKER_06: Dude, there's another story that's pretty wild.
- 26:16SPEAKER_06: And I wish I would have I would have sent the video, but I'll I'll send you the video so people can post it.
- 26:20SPEAKER_06: And it's it's a guy who's operating an airplane and he goes unconscious and he's like flying like near like say the distance, it's in Mexico, I think.
- 26:29SPEAKER_06: The distances from San like from here to San Antonio, right?
- 26:33SPEAKER_06: And he's flying around, like say San Antonio, and then uh he wakes up and his gas, his gas needle hasn't moved, and he's already he's like at the bay.
- 26:41SPEAKER_06: So if he were like it's equivalent of flying in San Antonio and he wakes up in Corpus and then he hears like on his uh headset traffic air traffic control, like calling him, like, hey, are you all right?
- 26:50SPEAKER_06: And he goes, What happened?
- 26:52SPEAKER_06: Like, I'm I'm fine, but how did I get near the bay?
- 26:55SPEAKER_06: Yeah, this is all in Spanish, just and crazy.
- 26:57SPEAKER_06: And they're like, and they start telling him all this stuff that he's been saying, and it's basically like an alien took over his body and like was sending out warnings.
- 27:05SPEAKER_06: And this is like in the 80s, and this was a guy who was like who just got his pilot license, so they were like, You can't jack up if you just get your pilot license right because then they'll take it.
- 27:15SPEAKER_06: So that was his number one dream was to become a pilot, and then all this happened, and then like he's like got depressed because this number one, this thing happened, and because the thing he wanted to do, he couldn't do it anymore because they were like they like banned him for life from flying because of what he said.
- 27:29SPEAKER_06: They're like, This guy's a nut, crazy, but he claims that it wasn't him and he blacked out.
- 27:33SPEAKER_06: And wow, yeah.
- 27:34SPEAKER_06: I'll send I'll send you that video and we can post it somewhere.
- 27:36SPEAKER_06: But yeah, it's pretty it's it's a crazy story.
- 27:39SPEAKER_08: Wow, that is crazy.
- 27:40SPEAKER_08: Yeah, we passed through Roswell, everything's green over there.
- 27:42SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I dude, even yeah, I passed through Roswell at like one o'clock in the morning.
- 27:47SPEAKER_04: And I dude, I was so scared.
- 27:50SPEAKER_04: I had my hat backwards.
- 27:51SPEAKER_06: I was looking at the windshield like this, driving, and I was like, just make it to the hotel, just make it to the hotel, just make it to the hotel.
- 27:58SPEAKER_06: Bro, that that was the scariest like drive ever.
- 28:01SPEAKER_06: And it, I mean, there was nothing to be afraid of.
- 28:03SPEAKER_06: It was literally like one, two o'clock in the morning.
- 28:05SPEAKER_06: Oh, gee.
- 28:06SPEAKER_06: So yeah, that was that was nuts.
- 28:08SPEAKER_08: Wow.
- 28:08SPEAKER_08: From the mysteries out of space to the mysteries that touch our lives on earth.
- 28:12SPEAKER_08: So faith in the supernatural.
- 28:14SPEAKER_08: So you're like, what would you say you're a Christian or believer, or how how would you categorize yourself?
- 28:19SPEAKER_08: And like, how does that play into like aliens and stuff like that?
- 28:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah, well, no, I mean, I I I I am a believer, right?
- 28:26SPEAKER_06: I I believe that Jesus died and rose again on the third day and all that jazz.
- 28:30SPEAKER_06: Um so yeah, man.
- 28:33SPEAKER_06: I mean, it's just it's something that uh uh not a lot, well, I'm not gonna say not a lot of people, but I don't hear a lot of people saying, but um Christianity is a faith-based experience or experience-based faith, right?
- 28:45SPEAKER_06: So if you don't experience the love of Jesus or a miracle or something miraculous, like you're never going to.
- 28:51SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 28:52SPEAKER_06: Not I'm not saying you're never going to, right?
- 28:54SPEAKER_06: Because there's other avenues that um you could come to Christ, but um even Jesus himself, right?
- 29:00SPEAKER_06: When he when he did all the signs and wonders, like nobody believed in him.
- 29:03SPEAKER_06: He just walked, he's just gonna walk the streets and be like, Hey, yo, what's up?
- 29:06SPEAKER_06: I'm the son of God.
- 29:06SPEAKER_06: And they're like, what if Jesus was an alien?
- 29:09SPEAKER_06: Nah man, I can't say that.
- 29:10SPEAKER_06: Jesus can't say that.
- 29:11SPEAKER_06: I mean, what is alien, right?
- 29:13SPEAKER_06: At the end of the day.
- 29:14SPEAKER_06: What is an alien?
- 29:15SPEAKER_08: Well, you know, I mean, I so I so the alien could be because they use alien in the Bible, but it's more like uh like a foreigner, somebody that's outside of yeah, outside of their realm.
- 29:26SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah.
- 29:27SPEAKER_06: So Jesus was a uh God in the flesh, right?
- 29:30SPEAKER_06: So I mean, what is God, right?
- 29:33SPEAKER_06: Is God the like the almighty alien?
- 29:36SPEAKER_06: I mean, I'm not saying God is an alien, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 29:38SPEAKER_06: I'm saying he is the source of of everything, right?
- 29:41SPEAKER_06: Everything that that we like we can't we can't explain, right?
- 29:44SPEAKER_06: Like um crazy, yeah, like it all the unexplainable, like what is out there, like that uh that to me that's God.
- 29:53SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and um no, but like I said, um Christianity is a experience-based faith, and the more you experience him, the more you you realize and you open your eyes to oh, okay.
- 30:04SPEAKER_06: And I'm not saying, oh, I'm a I'm a Christian, I'm I'm better then, or nothing bad happens to me.
- 30:09SPEAKER_06: No, it's the opposite, right?
- 30:10SPEAKER_06: I just know that okay, um, I fall back on the Lord, right?
- 30:14SPEAKER_06: And it's like, okay, where where am I struggling?
- 30:17SPEAKER_06: Stop, listen, pray, meditate, exercise.
- 30:21SPEAKER_06: I believe exercise is like number the the like one of the number one ways to get your your mind, body, and soul, right?
- 30:29SPEAKER_06: Um but if you're not doing all those things, like how can you hear from the Lord, right?
- 30:34SPEAKER_06: Because I I feel that we were put on this earth not to sit at a computer and uh look up parts all day.
- 30:40SPEAKER_06: I mean, that's what I do for a living, so that's why I'm saying that look up parts all day for 18 wheelers, right?
- 30:45SPEAKER_06: Like we're supposed to be out in the field, tending the garden, uh working with our hands, uh creating, um enjoying life, right?
- 30:54SPEAKER_06: Like we're supposed to be out there.
- 30:55SPEAKER_06: So if we're not exhausting ourselves uh physically, I think mentally we end up exhausted.
- 31:01SPEAKER_06: So yeah.
- 31:01SPEAKER_06: So then so then even though we might pray and we might do all these other things, our our mind's still going a hundred miles an hour, right?
- 31:09SPEAKER_06: Because we haven't we haven't exhausted our body and it's it's like one works with with the other.
- 31:14SPEAKER_06: That's that's honestly what I feel, and that's that's what helps me, right?
- 31:17SPEAKER_06: But like I said, um I'm I'm a believer and I've experienced some stuff that it's like, okay, that can only be God, right?
- 31:25SPEAKER_06: Like if I hear a voice telling me, hey, go ask this person this, this, and that, right?
- 31:31SPEAKER_06: And I think, okay, this is weird.
- 31:33SPEAKER_06: Let me go ask him.
- 31:34SPEAKER_06: And I'll ask them, and then be like, yeah, I'm actually dealing with X, Y, and Z, and I don't know what to do.
- 31:38SPEAKER_06: And then next thing you know, they're just pouring their heart out.
- 31:41SPEAKER_06: Like, what I do about this, my kids this, or my job this, and my job that.
- 31:45SPEAKER_06: And it's like, all right, well, um, I believe that the Lord has put Christians in in to be, well, the Bible says it too, right?
- 31:55SPEAKER_06: We're supposed to be the light in the dark places, right?
- 31:57SPEAKER_06: So everywhere I go, like I could encounter somebody that needs that needs like not to be saved, but an uplifting word, right?
- 32:04SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 32:04SPEAKER_06: Or to be like an encouragement, right?
- 32:06SPEAKER_06: I mean, am I perfect?
- 32:07SPEAKER_06: Do I do it all the time?
- 32:08SPEAKER_06: No.
- 32:08SPEAKER_06: Am I grumpy?
- 32:09SPEAKER_06: Sometimes I'm grumpy, sometimes I'm rude.
- 32:11SPEAKER_06: Am I sarcastic?
- 32:13SPEAKER_06: I'm very sarcastic.
- 32:14SPEAKER_06: I think it's hilarious to be sarcastic to people.
- 32:16SPEAKER_06: But as a Christian, it's like, yo, dude, like maybe you need to like pull back and chill, right?
- 32:22SPEAKER_06: So every room I walk into, um I try my best to be um be that light and just be happy and bring joy into the world, right?
- 32:30SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 32:31SPEAKER_08: Definitely.
- 32:32SPEAKER_08: So, yeah, talking about that being joyful and stuff like that.
- 32:36SPEAKER_08: Of course, you're a comedian and then Christian.
- 32:39SPEAKER_08: Do do the two clash?
- 32:41SPEAKER_08: Because you because around town you're known as the clean comic, right?
- 32:43SPEAKER_06: Yes, no, yeah, yeah.
- 32:44SPEAKER_06: So around town I am known as a clean comic.
- 32:47SPEAKER_06: Um, I'm also known at one of the old heads.
- 32:50SPEAKER_06: That's what I got told the other day.
- 32:52SPEAKER_06: Yeah, right.
- 32:52SPEAKER_06: Oh, no good.
- 32:54SPEAKER_06: They tell you that?
- 32:55SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 32:55SPEAKER_06: Oh true.
- 32:56SPEAKER_06: Um, but how did that make you feel?
- 32:58SPEAKER_06: It is what it is.
- 32:59SPEAKER_06: It's what it is, yeah.
- 33:00SPEAKER_06: Words don't hurt me.
- 33:01SPEAKER_06: You can't hide from me right now.
- 33:02SPEAKER_07: Words don't hurt me.
- 33:05SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 33:05SPEAKER_06: No, no, no.
- 33:06SPEAKER_06: I mean, it is what it is.
- 33:07SPEAKER_06: Like, I am a clean comic, right?
- 33:08SPEAKER_06: And I've I've strived since the very beginning to uh to to be clean, right?
- 33:13SPEAKER_06: And to to um, I'm a Christian who's a comedian, right?
- 33:17SPEAKER_06: I'm not a like a Christian comic, right?
- 33:20SPEAKER_08: So okay, okay.
- 33:21SPEAKER_08: So is it because of your Christianity that you're you decide to do clean?
- 33:25SPEAKER_08: Because I've heard like it like you can't do a clean set, you can't do a dirty set in like a clean environment.
- 33:31SPEAKER_08: Correct.
- 33:31SPEAKER_08: Right?
- 33:32SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 33:32SPEAKER_08: So if you learn how to do clean, if then you can do any any environment.
- 33:37SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 33:37SPEAKER_06: But no, I mean I I think like I think um, yeah, it it does have a it does have a lot to do with me being a Christian, right?
- 33:46SPEAKER_06: I don't want to get up on stage and talk like a like a like I'm ignorant or like I'm dumb.
- 33:51SPEAKER_06: I'm not saying dirty comics or ignorant or dumb.
- 33:53SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 33:54SPEAKER_06: Excuse me.
- 33:54SPEAKER_06: But I don't want to talk, I don't want to talk about dirty stuff.
- 33:57SPEAKER_06: That it's just so it's part of you who you are as a Yeah, if I can't, if I can't if I can't say something in the meeting room, right, where uh it's either gonna make or break me, I don't want to say that that on stage, right?
- 34:11SPEAKER_06: Like I don't wanna I don't wanna portray something that I'm not, right?
- 34:14SPEAKER_06: And do I curse every now and then?
- 34:16SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I curse every now and I get frustrated.
- 34:17SPEAKER_06: Have I gone on stage and cursed every now and then?
- 34:19SPEAKER_06: Yeah, sometimes I I need to let the bugs up, right?
- 34:22SPEAKER_06: Like I need to get my frustrations on.
- 34:24SPEAKER_06: It's therapeutic.
- 34:25SPEAKER_06: Interesting.
- 34:25SPEAKER_06: But um I'm not gonna do a whole set where I'm just talking ugly and dirty.
- 34:31SPEAKER_06: And if um if you do that, it is what it is.
- 34:35SPEAKER_06: That's just all on you.
- 34:36SPEAKER_06: And it doesn't make you any less of a Christian or doesn't mean that you love the Lord less or you're you're less than, like, I mean, that's right to each their own.
- 34:43SPEAKER_08: Well, that's awesome.
- 34:44SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that's interesting.
- 34:45SPEAKER_08: Um, so have you experienced something uh that you would call supernatural?
- 34:50SPEAKER_08: Well, you you mentioned that earlier, like you just seeing God in different in different ways.
- 34:55SPEAKER_08: Yeah, um, so like in your life, um do you like live like live to see to want to see supernatural things?
- 35:05SPEAKER_08: Or do you just you just as as it comes, you know what I'm saying?
- 35:08SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean, I guess the more familiar you get with with with um spirituality and and Christ and um the supernatural.
- 35:17SPEAKER_06: I mean, if you look at it, it becomes a like just a normal everyday thing, right?
- 35:23SPEAKER_06: And with me, I mean, it's hard to say that out loud because not out loud, but in public, because then people think you're crazy.
- 35:29SPEAKER_06: Well what do you mean?
- 35:30SPEAKER_06: What do you mean?
- 35:30SPEAKER_06: To say that, oh yeah, I believe in supernatural and I see it every day.
- 35:33SPEAKER_06: Okay, okay, okay.
- 35:34SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
- 35:34SPEAKER_06: That sounds crazy, right?
- 35:35SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it does.
- 35:36SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 35:36SPEAKER_06: So, but I mean, if you read the Bible, right?
- 35:39SPEAKER_06: Jesus, Jesus um died and then he rose on the on the third day, but he spent 40 days walking the earth, right?
- 35:47SPEAKER_06: Uh huh.
- 35:47SPEAKER_06: So he didn't ascend until the 40th day, right?
- 35:50SPEAKER_06: And then when he did ascend, he said, I'm going into heaven, but I'm leaving my spirit here.
- 35:54SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 35:54SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 35:55SPEAKER_06: So if um if you if you read that and you believe it, um and you're a Christian, like when did the spirit leave?
- 36:03SPEAKER_06: Like when did the spirit of the Lord, like the supernatural, leave?
- 36:07SPEAKER_06: And it it hasn't left, right?
- 36:09SPEAKER_06: Like, so I believe that if you fully um like uh ask the Lord to um to basically possess your heart, mind, and your soul, that uh a little bit of that comes out like in your daily walk, or it's supposed to at least.
- 36:23SPEAKER_06: Right, right, right.
- 36:24SPEAKER_06: If you're if you're like living to your your full potential.
- 36:27SPEAKER_06: Interesting, bro.
- 36:28SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 36:29SPEAKER_06: So like signs and wonders and miracles and all that stuff.
- 36:31SPEAKER_06: I've seen miracles, like I've seen miracles at church.
- 36:33SPEAKER_06: Like I've seen um a guy have an issue with his leg and they they pray for him, and literally his his feet, his legs grow like his legs were or one was like two inches longer than the other one, and then just miraculously, like the foot, like just literally comes back and realigns with the other foot.
- 36:51SPEAKER_06: And it's like something wild that you never see.
- 36:54SPEAKER_06: And I was actually like, I mean, it was bad, it was probably a sin, but I I got jealous because then I got I went home and I laid in the bed, and I'm like, all right, Lord.
- 37:03SPEAKER_04: I could use a little help here.
- 37:07SPEAKER_04: Waiting on my miracle, seeing what you can do, right?
- 37:12SPEAKER_04: Like I've seen you stretch legs.
- 37:14SPEAKER_04: What about these two?
- 37:15SPEAKER_04: Daddy, you're daddy.
- 37:16SPEAKER_04: How tall are you, bro?
- 37:17SPEAKER_04: You're how tall are you, bro?
- 37:18SPEAKER_06: Bro, on a good day, I'm 5'2, 5'3.
- 37:22SPEAKER_06: But on a bad day, no socks, I'm shorter than my kids.
- 37:27SPEAKER_06: Damn.
- 37:29SPEAKER_06: Yeah, man.
- 37:30SPEAKER_06: No, I've seen some I've seen some wild stuff in church, like the good and the bad.
- 37:33SPEAKER_06: And it's like I tell people, like, when people are like, oh, I don't get it, right?
- 37:38SPEAKER_06: Well, I mean, if you anybody's seen um what's that show on Netflix with the kids?
- 37:45SPEAKER_06: Stranger Things.
- 37:46SPEAKER_06: Okay, okay.
- 37:47SPEAKER_06: So you see stranger things, right?
- 37:48SPEAKER_06: And they have a real world and they have an upside down, right?
- 37:51SPEAKER_06: So I would picture the upside down is sort of like the supernatural world.
- 37:56SPEAKER_06: Oh, wow.
- 37:56SPEAKER_06: So it's here, it's happening around us, and good flows in and out of it, right?
- 38:01SPEAKER_06: Dude, that's so crazy to think about.
- 38:03SPEAKER_06: And I'm pretty sure the aliens come in and out of supernatural.
- 38:05SPEAKER_06: Oh, I'm I'm not pretty sure, but that's dude.
- 38:09SPEAKER_06: Like, wow.
- 38:10SPEAKER_06: It's hard not to, not to for me not to say yes or no, right?
- 38:14SPEAKER_06: Wow, like so I'm gonna say maybe maybe it could happen.
- 38:19SPEAKER_06: Why?
- 38:19SPEAKER_08: Because it's fun.
- 38:20SPEAKER_08: Because it's fun, it's fun.
- 38:22SPEAKER_08: Bring it in the bring it into the conversation, yeah.
- 38:24SPEAKER_06: It's fun, dude.
- 38:25SPEAKER_06: But yeah, no, I mean I I I try my best to like I guess uh show Jesus and everything I do.
- 38:33SPEAKER_06: Man, could I do better?
- 38:34SPEAKER_06: I mean, we're all we all could, right?
- 38:37SPEAKER_06: Like, I'm here, yeah.
- 38:39SPEAKER_06: So everybody knows.
- 38:41SPEAKER_06: I mean, it's God first on all my stuff, so yeah.
- 38:44SPEAKER_08: That's cool, man.
- 38:45SPEAKER_08: Well, I I it's almost like you have to live it out like that.
- 38:48SPEAKER_08: I mean, I don't come out and say it because I don't want to be seen as a quote unquote hypocrite.
- 38:56SPEAKER_08: I want my life to show it.
- 38:59SPEAKER_08: Yeah, to where people are like, why is he like this?
- 39:01SPEAKER_08: Yeah, which people never really ask that, but I can tell that they're kind of like this is kind of strange, you know?
- 39:08SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it's not the nor it's just not secular, I guess you can say it's not uh he's the way he's the way he's approaching stuff or whatever.
- 39:15SPEAKER_08: He doesn't cuss or whatever, you know, all this stuff, so that's how it is.
- 39:19SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean I'm just I'm the same way, but I also like I have friends that are drug dealers, like I have friends that are thieves, robbers, right?
- 39:26SPEAKER_06: And I love them just as much as I love my friends that are pastors or worship leaders or all the above.
- 39:33SPEAKER_06: And yeah, you I mean, honestly, you I've had people come to my shows and it's two totally opposite opposite sides of of I guess uh the good and the bad, right?
- 39:42SPEAKER_06: And yeah, I say good and bad, but that's that's because that's how the world, um that's how the world sees things, right?
- 39:47SPEAKER_08: Well, see see like talking about supernatural, because supernatural could be good and bad.
- 39:51SPEAKER_06: I mean I know I honestly believe supernatural can be good.
- 39:54SPEAKER_06: I mean, it is, right?
- 39:55SPEAKER_06: So you have it's like saying um people believe in witches, right?
- 40:00SPEAKER_06: They believe in witchcraft, right?
- 40:01SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 40:01SPEAKER_06: And they'll tell you the same thing.
- 40:02SPEAKER_06: Well, I've seen it, right?
- 40:03SPEAKER_06: Oh right, and I've seen this happen or that happen.
- 40:06SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you see, yeah, so they they're operating on a level, on a on a spiritual level that that is dabbling in in something else, right?
- 40:15SPEAKER_06: So are they are they spiritual?
- 40:18SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 40:18SPEAKER_06: Are they tuned to the wrong frequency?
- 40:20SPEAKER_06: I believe so, yeah.
- 40:21SPEAKER_06: Oh and it it it it'll torment them.
- 40:24SPEAKER_06: I believe it'll torment them for a long time.
- 40:26SPEAKER_06: Whoa.
- 40:26SPEAKER_06: Until they come to Christ, right?
- 40:28SPEAKER_06: Or they just live with it and and stick with it.
- 40:30SPEAKER_06: Oh man, that's yeah, so it's it's it's it's too it's too one or the other?
- 40:36SPEAKER_06: It's well, I mean, you could dabble in both, right?
- 40:38SPEAKER_06: I mean, you could be fighting your demons every single day, right?
- 40:42SPEAKER_06: And even in the Bible, there's a there's a there's a man, I was gonna look up the verse, but there's a lady who says, um she's talking about Jesus, and she says he she basically says he is the Lord and this is what's gonna happen.
- 40:54SPEAKER_06: And nobody knows what she's talking about.
- 40:55SPEAKER_06: I I'll I'll find it.
- 40:56SPEAKER_06: Like I meant to find it earlier, but she's basically speaking things that that are not up, so she's basically prophesying, and she was she was right, but she's a witch, so how can she prophesy if she doesn't know the Lord?
- 41:09SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
- 41:11SPEAKER_06: Wow, so yeah, no, it's wild, bro.
- 41:13SPEAKER_06: So that's what I believe.
- 41:14SPEAKER_06: I mean, if you don't believe it, that's cool, right?
- 41:15SPEAKER_08: Right, yeah, yeah.
- 41:16SPEAKER_08: If you want to believe, see that's see that's the thing.
- 41:18SPEAKER_08: One of the things I really want to talk about is because there are people then in the Christian world or whatever that uh scold you or say bad things about, you know what I mean?
- 41:30SPEAKER_08: Like if you don't believe this, then this.
- 41:32SPEAKER_08: You know what I mean?
- 41:32SPEAKER_08: But I I don't think God meant for us to be like that.
- 41:36SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you know, uh, like for instance, my what I have here on my platform.
- 41:40SPEAKER_08: You know how how I am and what I believe and stuff like that.
- 41:42SPEAKER_08: And I've had all kinds of people in here.
- 41:44SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you know what I mean?
- 41:45SPEAKER_08: And to give them to still let them be heard, even though I they believe something different than I am, that I do.
- 41:51SPEAKER_08: And I want that to be sh shown and seen uh by the listeners, like it's it's okay, you can still talk to somebody and still believe this.
- 41:59SPEAKER_08: Yeah, but this is what I believe.
- 42:00SPEAKER_08: Yeah, right.
- 42:01SPEAKER_06: Yeah, no, no, no, I agree.
- 42:03SPEAKER_06: I mean, that's the same at the end of the day.
- 42:05SPEAKER_06: If if if I can't win a soul that you can win a soul, what what's the difference, right?
- 42:09SPEAKER_06: Like if you can love on somebody and then and then they they realize, like, hey, what's why are you so chill?
- 42:14SPEAKER_06: Why are you so always in a good mood?
- 42:16SPEAKER_06: Why are you all so monotone?
- 42:17SPEAKER_06: Why aren't you ever stressed?
- 42:18SPEAKER_06: I'm like, well, oh, I have peace.
- 42:21SPEAKER_06: Why do you have peace?
- 42:22SPEAKER_06: What brings you peace?
- 42:23SPEAKER_06: Well, uh, I I'm a Christian, right?
- 42:26SPEAKER_06: I read my Bible, I do this, I do that, right?
- 42:28SPEAKER_06: And I've had people like tell me and my family that like, how come you and your wife have such a good relationship?
- 42:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah, dude, for real.
- 42:34SPEAKER_06: And it's like, well, because I see my wife as Jesus sees my wife, right?
- 42:40SPEAKER_06: So I mean, sometimes I want to jump in the flesh as a thing, yeah.
- 42:47SPEAKER_06: In the Christian scene.
- 42:47SPEAKER_06: No, but I mean at the end of the day, it's like it's not right for me to talk to my wife like that if I know that that's the woman that God has given me.
- 42:55SPEAKER_08: Oh man.
- 42:55SPEAKER_06: And she's she sees it the same way, or she better.
- 42:59SPEAKER_08: Yeah, no, dude.
- 43:00SPEAKER_08: I I was talking about things on my personal podcast about that.
- 43:03SPEAKER_08: Like, how come couples don't stay together for a long time?
- 43:06SPEAKER_08: Our society's so crazy, but I the conclusion is there's there's a good and a bad.
- 43:12SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 43:12SPEAKER_06: There's an enemy, there's a yeah, and a lot of the times things don't things don't uh something I've heard said over and over, things don't go wrong, they start wrong.
- 43:21SPEAKER_09: Right?
- 43:22SPEAKER_06: So if you don't sit down and know who exactly who you are as a person, and your spouse doesn't sit down and know exactly who they are as a person, what they believe in, and where they're at financially or spiritually, like so you're starting off in love, right?
- 43:35SPEAKER_06: Because you fall for someone and then that's all you want to do, and that's all it's the only person you want to be with.
- 43:39SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 43:40SPEAKER_06: But then once reality sets in and the bills come, whoa, and the drama comes, then you and the frustration comes, and it's like, oh, I'm a whole nother person.
- 43:49SPEAKER_08: Oh, wow.
- 43:50SPEAKER_06: Yeah, because being married is fun, right?
- 43:53SPEAKER_06: But that first day when you live with somebody, it's like, yo, who's this weirdo brushing their brushing their teeth with With the wrong side of the toothbrush.
- 44:02SPEAKER_06: Like, oh my God, why you brush your tongue so hard, my guy?
- 44:06SPEAKER_08: You know what I mean?
- 44:07SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 44:08SPEAKER_08: So blended humor and hope uh feeds into right something that we deal with the creative process.
- 44:14SPEAKER_08: So you wanted to mention the creative process?
- 44:16SPEAKER_08: Oh, dude.
- 44:17SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 44:18SPEAKER_08: Did you did you want to talk about anything specific?
- 44:20SPEAKER_06: Uh no, no.
- 44:21SPEAKER_06: I mean, just just I wanted to get I want to pick your brain.
- 44:24SPEAKER_06: Oh, really?
- 44:25SPEAKER_06: Because you're this is what episode 95?
- 44:27SPEAKER_08: Oh, damn, come on.
- 44:28SPEAKER_06: So episode 95 and what keeps your juices going, right?
- 44:31SPEAKER_06: Like and I think I know what it is because I've known you for what do you think it is?
- 44:35SPEAKER_06: I've known you for 20 something years.
- 44:37SPEAKER_06: People don't realize that, but we've known each other for yeah, we don't talk about it, but we've known each other for 22 years, 20 years, 25 years, maybe?
- 44:45SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I don't know, man.
- 44:46SPEAKER_06: I can't think that far back.
- 44:47SPEAKER_06: 2000s.
- 44:48SPEAKER_06: 2000s, yeah.
- 44:49SPEAKER_06: I would say early 2000s.
- 44:50SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 44:51SPEAKER_06: So 21, 24, 25 years.
- 44:54SPEAKER_06: But anyways, yeah.
- 44:55SPEAKER_06: So I mean, but I've seen you grow, right?
- 44:57SPEAKER_06: And I've seen you um get all these, um, all your degrees and go through school and oh it out and and process and then do the step out in faith.
- 45:06SPEAKER_06: And you did the line, you did the the your shirt company, oh yeah.
- 45:10SPEAKER_06: And but all that's creative, right?
- 45:11SPEAKER_06: And then with your degrees, you were being creative with with music.
- 45:15SPEAKER_06: Um, and then now you're doing now you're here, right?
- 45:17SPEAKER_06: And you're on episode 95, which is how long is that?
- 45:20SPEAKER_06: How many years is that?
- 45:21SPEAKER_06: It's two years at least.
- 45:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so the end the end of COVID, yeah, probably.
- 45:24SPEAKER_06: Oh, that's five years in.
- 45:26SPEAKER_06: It was the end of COVID, I mean 21, 22.
- 45:29SPEAKER_08: No, no, actually, it was a little bit further, maybe 20, 2023.
- 45:32SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 45:33SPEAKER_06: And I think I think we're the same, but I think we're where we're different is like we both enjoy when we we create something and we like we're done.
- 45:40SPEAKER_06: Like, here's a finished product.
- 45:42SPEAKER_06: Here's a finished product, right?
- 45:43SPEAKER_06: Look at it, enjoy it, everyone.
- 45:45SPEAKER_06: Or don't enjoy it.
- 45:46SPEAKER_06: I don't care.
- 45:46SPEAKER_06: But I made this, like yes, our creativeness, right?
- 45:49SPEAKER_06: But I think that I've seen you and I think you like how like putting like putting the gears together, right?
- 45:56SPEAKER_06: Like putting a transmission together and then watching it all.
- 45:59SPEAKER_06: Like I think you I from what I've seen, I've seen you like to put the pieces together and make it work, and then be like, okay, this works.
- 46:07SPEAKER_06: Now let's fine-tune it.
- 46:09SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so I don't know if that's definitely no, definitely.
- 46:12SPEAKER_08: I like to put it together and then see that it works, and then I like to show other people look.
- 46:16SPEAKER_08: Check it out.
- 46:16SPEAKER_08: Look at how it works.
- 46:17SPEAKER_07: Yeah, somebody wanted my rock.
- 46:19SPEAKER_07: Some people, dude, my son collects rocks, bro.
- 46:21SPEAKER_07: I stack these rocks.
- 46:22SPEAKER_07: Oh my god, look at my stack of rocks, yeah.
- 46:26SPEAKER_08: But I want to show it, you know what I mean?
- 46:27SPEAKER_08: Some people were interested, some people were like, dude, what are you talking about?
- 46:30SPEAKER_08: No, but some people aren't.
- 46:31SPEAKER_08: I mean, but yeah, definitely the creative process, and I've always I've always been a creative person, and I've always been like a kind of like an introverted person, right?
- 46:39SPEAKER_08: And and the creativity helps me come out of my show because I have to show it to somebody eventually.
- 46:44SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you know what I mean?
- 46:45SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so definitely the I feel the I feel the same way.
- 46:48SPEAKER_06: I feel like if I'm not creating or I'm not doing something, like I'm dying inside, like I'll get depressed.
- 46:53SPEAKER_06: So I don't know if you feel that way too, but it's crazy because I'm not some famous comedian, actor, writer, right?
- 46:59SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 47:00SPEAKER_06: I mean, I can write, like believe me, I've read I've read screenplays.
- 47:04SPEAKER_08: Yeah, like I've read the whole screenplay.
- 47:05SPEAKER_08: Well, no, dude, you wanted to write.
- 47:07SPEAKER_08: Didn't you want to write like a like a movie or something?
- 47:09SPEAKER_08: Didn't you mention that last time?
- 47:11SPEAKER_06: I've written a few scenes, but I've read I've read like scripts like pulp fiction and stuff like that.
- 47:15SPEAKER_06: So it's dude, once you start digging into that area, it's like holy smokes, this is legit.
- 47:19SPEAKER_06: And I'm sure now that with AI, if you just tell it what to do and what you need, it can pop out a script like that.
- 47:24SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 47:25SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so it's just I mean, but yeah, no, I want to, like I've been wanting to.
- 47:30SPEAKER_06: Um I just need to find the time and really press into it, right?
- 47:33SPEAKER_06: And then present it to to people who I know, like, okay, I think this will fit yes, this demographic, or give it to somebody who knows what what what they can do with it.
- 47:42SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, for sure.
- 47:43SPEAKER_08: Man, we got an announcement, you guys.
- 47:44SPEAKER_08: We're gonna pronounce that in a few minutes.
- 47:46SPEAKER_05: But yeah, definitely 47 minutes, Jesus.
- 47:48SPEAKER_08: Yeah, uh I'm all short over here.
- 47:52SPEAKER_08: Yeah, the creative process, man.
- 47:53SPEAKER_08: Definitely.
- 47:54SPEAKER_08: I mean, I I think I've got to a point one time where I was just working, I didn't have any instruments in the house.
- 47:59SPEAKER_08: I was just working, coming home, like really not being creative.
- 48:04SPEAKER_08: And then I was just like thinking, like, man, I gotta need a guitar so I can pluck.
- 48:09SPEAKER_08: You know what I'm saying?
- 48:10SPEAKER_08: Get those creative Does it help you think like when you're when I'm playing?
- 48:14SPEAKER_08: Yes, I mean it calms my mind because I have all like it's like running or exercising, you know.
- 48:20SPEAKER_08: You gotta your mind is just in turmoil, and and then you sort of get to a point where like I need to exercise my body, like you said, because if you're not exhausted, then then there's nowhere for that nervous energy to go.
- 48:31SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you know, so definitely it helps me to to like relax and calm and stuff like that.
- 48:36SPEAKER_08: Yeah, definitely.
- 48:37SPEAKER_08: And then and then I don't know, it's like when I come in here and do this, and then I'm thinking, like, man, uh am I really successful if it's not being monetized, you know.
- 48:48SPEAKER_08: Then I start thinking in the terms of that, you know what I mean?
- 48:50SPEAKER_08: And then it's like, well, I mean, I don't know.
- 48:52SPEAKER_08: I'm still creating some still, I'm still going and and having the pro I've had sponsors.
- 48:57SPEAKER_08: I have I've had a couple of sponsors that you know that wanted to sponsor, you know.
- 49:02SPEAKER_08: So that's kind of like, oh, okay.
- 49:04SPEAKER_08: Some people actually want to.
- 49:06SPEAKER_08: So so with this new announcement that we're doing, it's kind of like it's morphing into a b a bigger idea.
- 49:13SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
- 49:14SPEAKER_08: Uh, which is good.
- 49:15SPEAKER_08: So I guess we announce it right now.
- 49:16SPEAKER_08: What do you think?
- 49:17SPEAKER_06: Uh yeah, I would cover everything else, no?
- 49:19SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah.
- 49:20SPEAKER_08: So the creative process.
- 49:22SPEAKER_08: So I'm having a baby, ice kid.
- 49:24SPEAKER_06: Do you want to play?
- 49:25SPEAKER_06: Do you want to play the video?
- 49:26SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean, yeah, whichever way you want to do it.
- 49:28SPEAKER_06: Yeah, man.
- 49:28SPEAKER_06: I'm I'm excited.
- 49:29SPEAKER_06: Like it's it's something that um yeah, you can just run the video.
- 49:34SPEAKER_06: Let it rip.
- 49:34SPEAKER_08: Run the video, bro.
- 49:35SPEAKER_08: Let it rip.
- 49:37SPEAKER_08: Well, I guess I'll just announce it real quick.
- 49:40SPEAKER_08: So my friend here, Leto, actually, real quick before I say that, go ahead.
- 49:48SPEAKER_08: So the the Corpus Curity Originals, it's no longer, it's gonna be like a network, right?
- 49:54SPEAKER_08: To where I'm I'm gonna have other creatives under the Corpus Curity under originals umbrella.
- 50:00SPEAKER_08: And my friend Leto here, we got he's got a video that he's gonna play to announce what he's gonna be doing for the Corpus Curity Originals Network.
- 50:10SPEAKER_08: I haven't even seen this.
- 50:11SPEAKER_08: No.
- 50:15SPEAKER_08: Did you m so you made it with uh go for it, bro?
- 50:19SPEAKER_00: Greetings, visitors.
- 50:22SPEAKER_00: This is the inaugural transmission of Respond, if you please, a new podcast broadcasting live from the Produce Media Studios.
- 50:30SPEAKER_00: The directive is simple.
- 50:32SPEAKER_01: To analyze, catalog, and attempt to comprehend the perplexing, paradoxical, and often hilarious specimens collected from the third planet of the soul system, what the locals affect we call Earth.
- 50:45SPEAKER_01: Our primary subject for this cycle is the curious life form designated leading.
- 50:49SPEAKER_01: Subject leado is a fascinating confluence of cultural markers.
- 50:53SPEAKER_01: A Christian is a follower of the fascinatingly complex spiritual function of the significant leaders, and a comedian a life form of his primary function.
- 51:00SPEAKER_01: Is to introduce involuntary, progressive excavations appear for the purpose of social funding.
- 51:05SPEAKER_01: It is our mission to deconstruct how these two seemingly disparate operating systems coexist within a single terrestrial unit.
- 51:10SPEAKER_01: What we call faith and what they call jokes.
- 51:13SPEAKER_01: Show that us as we attend to laugh at the truly illogical and to ultimately understand the peculiar earthly art of finding joy and meaning in the face of universal absurdity.
- 51:22SPEAKER_03: Prepare to have your perception of reality mildly rearranged.
- 51:25SPEAKER_03: Let the cosmic analysis begin.
- 51:30SPEAKER_06: Respond if you please.
- 51:31SPEAKER_06: Yeah, there it is.
- 51:32SPEAKER_06: Respond if you please.
- 51:33SPEAKER_06: So that's a podcast about nonsense.
- 51:36SPEAKER_06: Just nonsense in my head.
- 51:37SPEAKER_06: So yeah.
- 51:38SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 51:38SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 51:39SPEAKER_08: So he's gonna be heading the he's gonna be a part of this, uh, be the host of this podcast.
- 51:44SPEAKER_08: Respond if you please under the Corpus Christi Originals Network.
- 51:47SPEAKER_08: I've also got another stud uh doing the podcast for um, it's called the uh Unchuck Yourself.
- 51:55SPEAKER_08: There's another podcast under the network.
- 51:57SPEAKER_08: So it's basically because whenever I was doing the podcast, and actually another announcement, real quick, I I'm stuck at announcing.
- 52:04SPEAKER_08: There's a book that I'm coming out with uh after a hundred episodes.
- 52:08SPEAKER_08: This is the draft right here.
- 52:10SPEAKER_08: I put a lot of my thoughts on paper and I'm trying to I'm figuring out where this thing is going from where it started to where it's at.
- 52:17SPEAKER_08: Uh so this is basically it covers like the journey, how to start a podcast, you know, all the different ins and outs, all kinds of stuff, man.
- 52:25SPEAKER_08: The journey, um, running a podcast, struggling with growth, building a community.
- 52:29SPEAKER_08: I mean, there's all kinds of stuff in here.
- 52:31SPEAKER_08: But when I did this, I was like, dude, I need to make this into a network.
- 52:36SPEAKER_08: And then, okay, I need to have other podcasters in in the in town that are interested in doing what I'm doing, but in their own area.
- 52:43SPEAKER_08: Like Lito here is a comedian.
- 52:45SPEAKER_08: This is his area of expertise, and you know, having that podcast.
- 52:48SPEAKER_08: And then I got another one uh with Ben De Leon from the Unchuck Yourself, who he does a self-help, which I think is part of the community that what our community needs for the Corpus Christi Originals, because certain people like it, and some people some people don't might not like it, but there's a group of people that enjoy it.
- 53:06SPEAKER_08: And I think that people need comedy, they need self-help.
- 53:09SPEAKER_08: I've got another guy in line who wants to do like interview style, like me.
- 53:13SPEAKER_08: So basically, other creatives like us to have us under the the you know the corpus Christi Originals, you know, thing, you know, what what this is.
- 53:22SPEAKER_08: Um, so that's the announcement, guys.
- 53:23SPEAKER_08: Sorry about that.
- 53:24SPEAKER_08: Sorry if it was a little bumpy, but no, it's just perfect.
- 53:27SPEAKER_06: No, I'm excited, bro.
- 53:28SPEAKER_06: I mean, I just I know it's something we mentioned a long time ago, and we kind of like push back and forth about the ideas, but um for you to pull me on, um it means a lot, man.
- 53:38SPEAKER_06: I mean, I'm like it's something I've always wanted to do.
- 53:40SPEAKER_06: I feel like I have a unique perspective on a lot of things, right?
- 53:43SPEAKER_06: And I don't have a voice.
- 53:44SPEAKER_06: And I I think this, I mean, I have a voice, right?
- 53:46SPEAKER_06: I'm just not not letting it out as much as like I'd like uh publicly, right?
- 53:51SPEAKER_06: Um, and I think also thinking comedy, it's gonna help me like narrow in like my verbiage and my words and and different perspectives that I can play with on stage.
- 54:01SPEAKER_06: So I I it's gonna I think it's gonna be good for me.
- 54:03SPEAKER_06: And then um I'm gonna be updating comedy stuff on there too.
- 54:06SPEAKER_06: And anything else, like it's it's gonna be fun.
- 54:08SPEAKER_06: We're gonna do clips, we're gonna show alien clips like that, right?
- 54:12SPEAKER_06: And we're gonna talk about supernatural, we're gonna talk about basically everything we talked about today, right?
- 54:16SPEAKER_06: Um life stuff, like marriage, kids, wow, cool, um, work, all that fun stuff.
- 54:21SPEAKER_06: Wow, that's good.
- 54:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah, whatever, whatever we can come up with, whatever we can find.
- 54:24SPEAKER_06: Uh wanna do some interesting stuff, maybe throw some skits in there, do some skits or uh take some calls, right?
- 54:30SPEAKER_06: I think some live calls will be legit.
- 54:32SPEAKER_06: Hey, nice.
- 54:33SPEAKER_06: Or also, or also even some uh like read comments, reply to comments on like on air, right?
- 54:39SPEAKER_06: Just not not um as we're doing it, but like as like as per episode, like reading comments from the last episode, right?
- 54:46SPEAKER_06: Give people shout outs.
- 54:48SPEAKER_06: Um but yeah, no, no.
- 54:49SPEAKER_06: I mean, I I I had a podcast a while back, I mean, right before COVID, actually.
- 54:54SPEAKER_06: It's been a while, and it it it was doing all right.
- 54:56SPEAKER_06: It just we just stopped doing it.
- 54:59SPEAKER_06: Um but when you presented this to me, I'm like, yeah, dude, that's wrong with it.
- 55:02SPEAKER_06: Wow, that's awesome.
- 55:03SPEAKER_06: And like I was, I mean, we I was kind of telling you before off the air, uh uh anything creatively, I really haven't like uh pressed it, right?
- 55:10SPEAKER_06: Um, so I'll I'll do comedy when like here and there.
- 55:13SPEAKER_06: I don't I don't get on stage as many times as I can.
- 55:18SPEAKER_06: Uh which shout out to the guys in town, all the comedians.
- 55:22SPEAKER_06: Um, they all run a great room.
- 55:24SPEAKER_06: Joe Hilliard, uh Miguelito, my Mexican counterpart.
- 55:28SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I gotta I've been meaning to get him on.
- 55:30SPEAKER_06: Yeah, he runs a he runs a great room that he's started by himself.
- 55:32SPEAKER_06: And so cool.
- 55:33SPEAKER_06: And I still haven't done it because I'm an old man and it's hard for me, hard for me to leave the house.
- 55:38SPEAKER_06: But uh it's a great, it seems like, man, a really great room.
- 55:41SPEAKER_06: All everybody shows up.
- 55:42SPEAKER_06: And then of course, everything Joe Hilliard's doing, and of course, Mesquite Street and all the guys there and everything that they're doing.
- 55:48SPEAKER_06: Um, you can get on stage a lot, right?
- 55:50SPEAKER_06: You can get on stage as as almost every day of the week.
- 55:54SPEAKER_06: Um, but I just unfortunately for me right now I can't, so I don't push it as much as I I I'd like just because I I don't want to trade laughs for time with with the kids right now.
- 56:05SPEAKER_06: But the creative outlet as making jokes and talking about life on a on a podcast, I think I can I can do that once or twice a month and and and still engage in with people and let them know that I'm here and that so that when it is time for me um or I do step back on the stage more often, um people know who I am, right?
- 56:24SPEAKER_06: I mean I have a pretty good following now, right?
- 56:27SPEAKER_06: I I I can I can sell a hundred tickets, which I'm happy to say, like it's yeah, that's so when you say when you said success, when you say success, I heard you're like, what's a success rate?
- 56:37SPEAKER_06: Like where do you where do you where do you like where's your success level?
- 56:41SPEAKER_06: And you said monetizing, right?
- 56:43SPEAKER_06: And I think success is once people listen to you and they listen to you regularly, and you have um people coming back, or like for me, I can sell a hundred tickets for a clean show if it's promoted, right?
- 56:56SPEAKER_06: And I have a good comic.
- 56:57SPEAKER_06: Um that's that's that's a measure of success, right?
- 57:01SPEAKER_06: Like that's a that's a piece of it.
- 57:02SPEAKER_06: Like, of course, there are levels to success, right?
- 57:04SPEAKER_06: But right, right.
- 57:05SPEAKER_06: For anybody and I mean, just in locally to have any sort of success, it's it's it's good, man.
- 57:11SPEAKER_06: I mean, yeah, like you have to take our W's, right?
- 57:14SPEAKER_06: Like count our wins and our blessings and and really like sit back and soak it in.
- 57:18SPEAKER_06: So I don't want to remind you, like, hey man, soak it in, dude.
- 57:20SPEAKER_06: You're at 95.
- 57:21SPEAKER_06: Yeah, man.
- 57:22SPEAKER_06: Look at all the views and and all the followers, and it's like, hey, you got a you got a good you have an audience, like yeah.
- 57:28SPEAKER_08: Yeah, and and too, like bringing people under the tent.
- 57:32SPEAKER_08: I I wanted uh it's not so much about that the person that's coming in, it's about the community that we're building.
- 57:38SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 57:38SPEAKER_08: What they're listening to.
- 57:40SPEAKER_08: That's that's ultimately the the the end goal, is what they're listening to, how they how we can make society better.
- 57:48SPEAKER_08: That's one of my main things.
- 57:49SPEAKER_08: Like because I I of my faith, my my journey is into this.
- 57:54SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 57:55SPEAKER_08: I don't I'm not loud about it, but it is into it, you know what I mean?
- 58:00SPEAKER_08: Uh and so whenever I'm whatever I'm building and creating, I want it to be grounded, grounded in that.
- 58:06SPEAKER_08: Yeah, for sure.
- 58:07SPEAKER_06: I think it and I really think it has.
- 58:08SPEAKER_06: Like you have a you have a a platform where that invites everybody in and lets them be themselves and and speak speak uh like from the heart or speak on on the topics they truly care about and what they're passionate about.
- 58:20SPEAKER_06: So I think that that's helped out a lot.
- 58:22SPEAKER_06: I've learned a lot about my community from here, dude.
- 58:24SPEAKER_06: I didn't know are you serious?
- 58:25SPEAKER_06: I know half of the things that that serious people come in, come in and talk about.
- 58:29SPEAKER_06: It's pretty wild, man.
- 58:30SPEAKER_08: I mean, yeah.
- 58:30SPEAKER_08: Welcome aboard, dude.
- 58:32SPEAKER_07: Oh man.
- 58:33SPEAKER_08: Glad to have you, man.
- 58:34SPEAKER_08: So I guess we'll announce the first episode after after some sometime soon.
- 58:38SPEAKER_08: Um whenever you get your first episode going or whatever.
- 58:41SPEAKER_08: When do I get it?
- 58:42SPEAKER_08: When do when's the tattoo?
- 58:43SPEAKER_08: Do I need to get a tattoo or something?
- 58:44SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
- 58:46SPEAKER_08: We're gonna get you the golden sticks, bro.
- 58:49SPEAKER_08: This dude's a drummer, man.
- 58:50SPEAKER_08: You're also a drummer, dude.
- 58:51SPEAKER_08: Um you can't you can't let that go go.
- 58:53SPEAKER_08: I'm all right.
- 58:54SPEAKER_08: Yeah, he's a drummer, he's in the pocket for sure, man.
- 58:57SPEAKER_08: That's where I fit because I'm so short.
- 58:59SPEAKER_08: Hey, yeah, but thanks a lot, you guys, for joining.
- 59:02SPEAKER_08: Uh man, is there anything else you want to share, Lito?
- 59:04SPEAKER_08: I know you meant before we go.
- 59:06SPEAKER_08: No, I mean, just just November 7th.
- 59:07SPEAKER_06: I think that's all I have now.
- 59:08SPEAKER_06: Uh uh be on the lookout.
- 59:10SPEAKER_06: All the socials are up for respond if you please.
- 59:13SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 59:13SPEAKER_06: So it's rip dot podcast.
- 59:16SPEAKER_06: Or yeah.
- 59:17SPEAKER_06: So you just go on Instagram and Facebook and yeah, I don't know if there's YouTube.
- 59:22SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so so it's riyp.podcast.
- 59:25SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 59:25SPEAKER_08: Instagram, TikTok, uh, YouTube, Facebook.
- 59:29SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so it's all there.
- 59:30SPEAKER_08: It's all there, it's already there.
- 59:32SPEAKER_08: We got the inaugural transmission as episode zero.
- 59:34SPEAKER_08: There you go.
- 59:35SPEAKER_08: I had to put that up on no, no, yeah, you have to get it on Spotify, right?
- 59:39SPEAKER_06: To get them to get it approved.
- 59:40SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and it is gonna be a clean, clean podcast.
- 59:42SPEAKER_06: That's what I'm aiming for.
- 59:43SPEAKER_06: So I'm excited about that.
- 59:44SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we're I'm gonna try and be funny.
- 59:46SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna try and be funny about it, but it is gonna be.
- 59:48SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so what kind of conversations do you hope to spark?
- 59:51SPEAKER_06: Just basically the same thing we're talking about today, right?
- 59:53SPEAKER_06: Nice.
- 59:53SPEAKER_06: So one episode might be all aliens, right?
- 59:55SPEAKER_06: And one episode might be might be something about spiritual, right?
- 59:59SPEAKER_06: One episode might be just about life.
- 1:00:01SPEAKER_06: Cool.
- 1:00:01SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna try and try my best to, of course, the harder you try to be funny, the the less it happens, right?
- 1:00:07SPEAKER_06: So I'm just gonna be me.
- 1:00:08SPEAKER_06: Be yourself, yeah, be me, and hopefully, like people laugh and people listen.
- 1:00:12SPEAKER_06: But I I I believe, I mean, people will listen.
- 1:00:14SPEAKER_06: Like, if you put something out there, I mean somebody's gonna listen.
- 1:00:17SPEAKER_08: Nice, right?
- 1:00:18SPEAKER_06: And they might like it or they might not like it, but cool.
- 1:00:20SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be out there, we'll figure it out.
- 1:00:21SPEAKER_08: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:00:22SPEAKER_08: I'm I'm hoping to throw it out there, get our community to listen to it as well, definitely, which is basically what we're doing.
- 1:00:27SPEAKER_08: Hopefully, I don't get fired after episode one.
- 1:00:29SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
- 1:00:31SPEAKER_08: Well, Tom, I'm excited, bro.
- 1:00:33SPEAKER_08: Thank you.
- 1:00:33SPEAKER_08: I appreciate it.
- 1:00:34SPEAKER_08: Yes, sir.
- 1:00:34SPEAKER_08: Thanks a lot, Lito.
- 1:00:35SPEAKER_08: Uh, shout out to my back there, producer producing this uh beautiful podcast for us.
- 1:00:40SPEAKER_08: Um, so yeah, thanks a lot, you guys.
- 1:00:41SPEAKER_08: Follow us on social media.
- 1:00:42SPEAKER_08: I'll put links in the description everywhere.
- 1:00:44SPEAKER_08: Stay tuned for the next podcast.
- 1:00:45SPEAKER_08: Uh, I can't remember who's coming on next, but um I'll put I'll check it out on the social media, Corpuscurity Originals podcast.
- 1:00:52SPEAKER_08: You can find us on there for updates and stuff like that.
- 1:00:54SPEAKER_08: Thanks a lot, you guys.
- 1:00:55SPEAKER_08: Have a good one.