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EP135: Brand Origins, Keeping a Clean Platform & The Road to Laughsgiving | Jesús Hilario Hernandez (Solo) · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: What's going on, y'all?
• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: I got a solo episode here.
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: I've been meaning to put an episode out.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry for missing last week.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Here's this week solo episode.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: I went on vacation last week, missed out.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry about that.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, I got some stuff brewing up today.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: This uh upcoming week, November 20th.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: I got Laughs Giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Corpus Christi Originals presents.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: As you know, I've been a part of the local comedy scene uh recently.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that's part of uh obviously the brand Corpus Christi Reginals is part of is part of me.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: So obviously, if I'm into comedy, I'm gonna start be doing comedy shows.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's just how it goes.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: But I appreciate you guys for following.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: So this solo episode is gonna be around the spark and origin of Corpus Christi Originals and the whole thing that I'm doing, the core vision and 2027 goals, lessons from the road and on the mic, uh, behind the scenes and uh laughs giving that I'm putting on.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so yeah, so if you're interested, keep listening.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: If not, click away.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you guys.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: So the first one is um block one spark spark in origin.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: The first question came from Renee Ramos.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: I put a post out there doing a solo episode.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: What should I ask?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Or what should I talk about?
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: And his question is, Why are you so chulo?
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, bro.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I don't know.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm not like asked that question a lot, but thank you for the compliment.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it, bro.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate it.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Much appreciation.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Next question comes from Jaslyn Bedez.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, she asked, uh, what pushed you to start the show?
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of you may know the sh uh the origins behind the Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: It came from starting a brand called Corpus Christi Originals.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Here's one of the hoodies.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: I would make hoodies, t-shirts, and stuff like that.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to generate content for the Instagram page, Facebook page for Corpus Christi Originals.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I figured one of the ways to do that was to do a long form podcast and then cut that into clips to generate content for the brand Corpus Christi Originals.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where it started.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then eventually I started to like doing like doing the podcast and talking to people, and I wanted to do more of it, so it just kind of became its own entity.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: I still sell hats and t-shirts and stuff like that, kind of as a byproduct of the podcast now.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like the podcast is the main platform now instead of just the brand, if that makes sense.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what was what was my original vision for Corpus Christi Originals when I first kicked it off?
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was okay, so the reason behind the brand, Corpus Christi Originals, was I wanted to do it's it's simple.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to start a side hustle and I didn't know where to start.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: I tried some other brands that were kind of just odd name stuff, and then I fell upon okay, create a brand for the city and try to reach the people that are closest to me and sell to those people, and that's that's where it came from.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it and it gained traction.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, okay, if you build a brand for the city, you can get sales, you know what I mean?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: So that's how that kind of morphed into that little thing right there.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, why was it so important to build an uncompromised clean platform here in the coastal band instead of just chasing standard noise?
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think that question is more asking about like how come you don't how come I don't follow all the gossip and stuff like that.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because I think gossip is bad for our society.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think it kind of deteriorates our society.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: I would rather have something that does that's clean and doesn't talk about gossip or bad things and stuff like that, and share that to people and to help our society grow uh in a positive direction instead of the negativity because we all know there's negativity out there, there's negative posts, there's pages dedicated to negative talk about our city, and I don't want to be a part of that.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: They are they're already doing it.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: Why not do something else that's contrary to that?
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, second block is the core vision of 2027 goals.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Shea Davenport asked uh what I want to see come from the podcast across five different lenses.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so the first lens she uh Shay was asking about was self-wise.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: What do I want to come out of the podcast?
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Self-wise, how do I balance the grueling hours on the road hauling hazmat with absolute discipline required to required to write, produce, and create every single week?
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate that, Chat GPT.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: No, um it dude, my life is messy.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my brain is messy.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm on I'm ADD, and you can imagine what that can be like having a podcast, having kids, having a family, having a job.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that is a huge uh tax on my mind.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like all of that is um what I want to get out of self-wise is just keep being able to create and do the stuff that I'm interested in doing.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm interested in doing this.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: I like doing this, and I think that's one of the things that that keeps me wanting to go forward.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: I've always been a creative person.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: I learned how to play guitar at the age of like 13 years old.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of I took a few lessons and then I kind of self-taught myself using Tab from there.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my degree is my associate degree is in music, um, particularly uh music education, and then my bachelor's degree is in music uh with the with the principal instrument being classical guitar.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've always liked to draw stuff, doodle.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's that creative part of me is it's it's always a creative, it's always been a part of me, and I appreciate my parents for letting me to explore those avenues while still learning how to work.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because I played sports too.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: My dad put me in sports since like eight years old: baseball, football, tennis, track, swimming, like all these different sports my dad put us in since we were younger.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: So those disciplines have been carried over to my podcast, to my brand, to being a social media manager.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like it there's a lot that goes on in it.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: So self-wise, I just want to continue to be myself and and people be cool with it, you know.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: My my audience be cool with it, you know.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, let's see.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: Community-wise, what do I want to get out of Corpus Christi Originals community-wise?
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what do I actually want to see come from?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Highlighting hardworking local folks without getting dragged down by the bad faith noise.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: For sure, that's what I want to do.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I I love it when people will tell me, hey, I never would have heard of this person if it's not been for your podcast.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's it right there.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's like one of the goals, that's like a praise, like, oh my gosh, that's it's so cool because I'm just like, wow, cool, you're listening, you know what I mean?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: It that it shows me that that that it's working what I'm doing, and that's what I'm trying to do.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: I I want to I want to share people that have been working in the city for years and going under the radar, nobody sees them, and then finally they get a spotlight and people see them, they're like, oh shoot, who is this person?
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: And then that and then the person that's being highlighted, they're getting that praise, you know what I mean?
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: They're getting that praise that they might not have gotten elsewhere for working hard in the trenches, you know what I'm saying?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: So it feels good that those people are being highlighted on my platform.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, community-wise, what I want to get out of the Corpus Christi Originals podcast or the Corpus Christi Originals Network is just I want for a community to work together, to work alongside each other.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: And me being in the comedy, local comedy scene, I'm I'm understanding just my scene, what it's like, you know, working with people, working alongside people, and I can imagine what it could be like with another person in another industry, say the food industry, what it might be like for them.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I just want for our community to grow together and find those like-minded people, you know what I mean?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because there's still gonna be people that are that don't understand that they may not agree with my philosophy, and I'm wanting us to find our our people with with corpus Christi Originals.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: I want this to be like a tribe, you know what I mean?
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: How they say I know it's kind of cliche.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: I want it to be like a tribe of people that are like-minded and have the same type of mindset as me, the person going into the corpus Christi Originals.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Family-wise, that's a good question, Shay.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what do I want to get out of uh Corpus Christi Originals?
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: Family-wise, how do I protect my time as a husband and a father while chasing those creative goals?
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: The way I protect my time is sometimes I just my family reminds me.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: My wife will remind me.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: I love my wife to death.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like she's like, I'll be like, I'm gonna go to a comedy show, I'm gonna go to open mic, and she gotta remind me, you've been doing it for like a past few months, you know, stay spend some time with us, you know what I mean?
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's uh you have to set aside like it, you like you look at it in a year and be like, okay, I'm gonna set this much time to this, and then this much time to this.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: So you have to prioritize and be able to do that.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it's hard for me because I don't know how many scheduling books I've bought and just they just kind of went like away because my mind, the way my mind is uh it's hard to schedule something, and I have to remember to schedule it, and it's it's just uh it's an ongoing task.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: So family-wise, what do I I I want to be able to continue to be a husband and a father because it's important to my my wife and my kids, and when I when I get to the point, like I and I don't and I know myself too to where I get to the point where like, okay, you need to step back a little bit from this and spend time with your family, you know what I mean?
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Or I'll try to work, like I'll try to do everything at work while I'm at work, and then when I come home, it's family time, and even that's hard because I have to like switch my mind to family mode and and do that.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: So it's an ongoing uh thing that I'm that I'm working on as a person.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, I do love my family, and you know what I mean?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I see in other entrepreneurs that I interview, like they have families too, and some of them it works, it's working for them.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: They've been doing it for years at a time, and somehow their their business or whatever they've been working on, their kids have seen it, and their kids are inspired by it.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: We and I may like think like that.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the I'm a bad person for for working on my stuff, you know what I mean, away from my kids or or family.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: But uh in the end, they'll I feel like they'll they'll see it in the long run, if that makes sense.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so last thing from Shay's question, uh, meaning, what I want to what do I want to get out of the Corpus Christi originals success and fun wise?
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: What does a genuine win look like for this network moving forward?
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um a genuine win.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say it's like small wins every day, like every day, like small wins, like on clips that I could put on social media, or somebody recognizes me in public and appreciates what I'm doing.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like those little things they help sometimes because sometimes I feel like what am I doing?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, is this helpful?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: Do people are people actually watching?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: I get imposter syndrome type of thing.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so I guess a genuine win is just somebody could recognize me and say, Hey, I appreciate what you're doing with the podcast.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Something like that.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Or I heard about this person on your podcast.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for sharing this.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Just that genuine compliment is is is something that is a genuine, genuine win for me.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, last question on the core vision uh and 2027 goals is from Tina La Cochina.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out, Tina, appreciate you.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: She says, What are you uh what are your 2027 goals?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Looking ahead, what are your what I'm looking ahead?
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: What are my core milestones for next year as both a podcaster and a creator?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: 27 goals.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: Ah I don't know, man.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: To be honest, I really don't look too far ahead.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really look too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's around me.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because if I I don't know, it's just I want to appreciate what's around me, and I try and I don't.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's not that I don't try to look far ahead.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's weird because I feel like I look at it like every like every day is a day, and I this is what I need to work on.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: What's on my plate today?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: I need to finish it.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I that's how I look at it.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um so 27 goals.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: I okay, so I can look at it like how many episodes I want to reach.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: I want to reach 200 episodes.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: I've already reached Mama, can you keep it down?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: I already I already want to reach um I want to reach 200 episodes because I've already got to 100 episodes.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: So that could be like a 27 2027 goal.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then two another another thing that I want to do is the comedy shows that I've been doing for Corpus Christity Originals.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: I want to do let's say next year, one more show.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: That would be my third show.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what else?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: Followers.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: I want to gain followers on Instagram, uh, TikTok, and Facebook.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: More followers.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: I want to grow my YouTube channel.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh followers, I want to grow my YouTube view count, um, more podcast download downloads.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now that I'm thinking about long-term goals, now I'm like, okay, this is what I would like to like to do.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: So more podcast downloads, maybe possibly some sponsors that would like to sponsor the show.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh other businesses that are open to me do putting on shows at their establishment, uh, whether it be comedy shows or um being able to record in their establishment for future episodes, because the podcast has been on the road now.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, maybe, maybe some other other other goals.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: I I do have some other goals too, but I don't like to share them publicly um because I feel like it stifles that that creativity and wanting to keep it going.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: So, some some goals I'll share with you guys, and some I won't.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: So, stay tuned to see what happens if you're interested.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: If you're part of the tribe, Corpus Christi Originals, stay tuned.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: You're probably you're gonna like it if you like it already.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you guys.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: All right, block three, here we go.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: Lessons from the road and the mic.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: As you know, I'm a truck driver, I'm on the road during the day most times, so I got a lot of time to think.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: It says uh here's the first question What goes through my mind during a four-hour haul on US 59 while listening to Epic Fantasy or studying comedy specials?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: And how does that isolation shape the way I create content?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: Man, my mind is going non-stop.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's like, dude, I don't know.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: I just I don't know how my mind like doesn't explode because I'm thinking so much, like, oh, I could do this, I could do that.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um, one of the things that like calms my mind, I've been listening to a lot of books lately on on Spotify.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: My wife uh got uh the premium account for Spotify, so there's a lot of audio hours that I can listen to stuff.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I just got into like listening to fantasy books like uh like The Silmarillion by Jay uh Tolkien, Tolkien, or whatever however you pronounce it.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh also other books that I listen to.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: I listen to the Bible.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: I try to listen to that first thing in the morning.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: I listen listen to the book of Proverbs.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's a huge book on you know, it's a huge book on uh Jewish wisdom about you know, because the the Proverbs it's from the Bible, it's like Jewish wisdom, whenever you're talking about money, talking about how to deal with people, how to deal with gossip, how to, you know, do how to live life.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: I love the book of Proverbs, and a lot of the way I am is comes from that, like in dealing with people, uh dealing with people at work.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: So that's another that's one of the books that I that I listen to.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um how does this isolation shape the way I create content?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: It just I'm I mean, so talking about isolation, I've always been an isolated person since I was since I was a kid because I'm socially awkward.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um like I'll say stuff, just I used to just blurt stuff out loud, and people were like, dude, what's the deal?
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Or I'll just shout out the obvious and people be like, dude, you know what I mean?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's so since that being isolated, I being isolated from my peers socially, I've learned how to be okay being alone in isolation.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I learned how to I learned how to play guitar.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of my chops from playing guitar came from being alone by myself in a practice room, at home, whatever.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so I'm used to that isolation, and now I use it because I know that I can get better in that ice in those in those isolated moments.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: I can become a better social media person and just listening to books on how to run social media, books on how to speak, books on comedy.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, it's kind of like the job that I have is is like kind of like a godsend because I deal with people probably like like an out like a combined two hours out of the entire day or one hour out of the entire day.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: The rest of it is driving or waiting to get unloaded or loaded.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: Those times I can read books, I can work on jokes, I can uh I could be on my my computer while I'm waiting.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I can use the internet and put put clips out.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I use it as it's kind of like like a godsend.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, thank you for this isolated moments that I do have.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, I like to be social every now and then.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll get out like like going to the comedy shows.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'd be social a little bit, you know what I mean?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's why I like this podcast too, because I had I can have one hour a week with a person just asking them questions and just feeding off their mind.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because that's another way that I love to get information is from people.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like I like listening to other podcasts that I'm interested in.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: So having a podcast is pretty cool in that I can get information and having and so having that isolation throughout the whole day or the whole week and being able to talk to somebody for an hour about their about whatever they want to talk about is gold.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's cool for me.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, looking back across my over 135 episodes and sitting down with all these local creators, business owners, and comedians, what is the style, common thread shared by everyone in Corpus Christi who is actually moving the needle?
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: The common thread between everybody that's actually moving the needle.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: The common thread that I see is that a lot of them are behind the scenes.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: They're not flashy.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm specifically thinking of the last couple of episodes with uh Holly Weaver from uh Coffee Waves and uh Casey from House of Rock.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: These people they're behind the scenes to where people who know them say good stuff about them.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: And they just they just work at it.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: They work, they it's like they they put they when they started, they're like, this is what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna do it.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: And 20 years later, they're looking back like, you know what I mean?
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing to see about them.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: So it's amazing to see that about them.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, let's see what else.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: A common shared common thread that by everyone in Corpus Christi who is actually moving the needle.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: They're behind the scenes, they they figure out, they find.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Here's an interesting thing they figure out a way or ways to keep going.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they change with the times.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh times change, there's trends, you know what I mean?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: And being able to morph and shift and to shift your business to to go with the times, that's that's amazing.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it seems like a lot of most of them do do that here in Corpus.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: You change with the times, you change with periods, um, to be able like for like the internet, the rise of the internet.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Now you gotta have a website, you gotta be able to order online.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Before it's like you don't need that, you just need word of mouth, or you know what I mean?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's you change with the times, and that's what I see that these people doing that are actually moving the needle.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it may not seem that they're actually it may not seem like they're actually moving the needle to some people because the needle moves very slow throughout the years.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's not just boom, happens like that.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's not overnight.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like that's with these people that are actually moving the needle, that it doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen right away.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: It takes time, it takes effort, it takes work, blood, sweat, tears.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: This is what it takes to actually move the needle.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I like being around and talking to people like that because it gives me hope.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like just I just gotta keep moving the needle, I gotta keep uh changing with the times, doing what I gotta do, you know.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, like for instance, podcasting, you should be just audio.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now I know I have to have video because everybody's all watching video, you know what I mean?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: I still have an audio version of it, but everybody's on video now.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like for me as a podcaster, I have to shift to learn how to do video.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: I have to shift to learn how to make clips from a video to put it on social media.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's it's it's a never-changing thing, and I see that those things are common among people in corpus who are actually moving the needle.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's see.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Why is refusing?
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: So another last question on the lesson on the road and the mic.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Why is refusing to take sides or turn the network into a public bulletin board the hardest and most important rule of keeping an independent platform alive?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to avoid.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: So so why is refusing to take sides or turn the network into a public bulletin board the hardest and most important rule of keeping an independent platform alive?
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where this question came from.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: This came from I've tried to generate some questions, honestly.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: I just put it through AI.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where this came from.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: But I okay, so what I can say about this, what I do is I don't let everybody that wants to post on my community page for Corpus Christi Originals.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't let everybody that wants to post on there, I don't let them post on there.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: The people that I do want to post on there, I put them on there.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's just my personal preference.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's all it is.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I choose to, then I choose to.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: And the hard thing about it is that people will see that and be like, he doesn't want to help everybody, he just wants to help some people.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's not that I I want to help people that want to be helped, bro.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want people that don't want to be helped, honestly.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't want to be helped, then I'm not gonna help you.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna spend that unnecessary, I'm not gonna spend that energy to try to help you if you don't want to be helped.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: Because then because I'm gonna be carrying trying carrying you the whole way.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want that.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've been in those types of relationships.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to carry somebody who doesn't want to be carried, just leave them there.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's dead weight.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: But the people that want I feel like want to be helped and that want support, I'm gonna support them.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: And my my social filter comes into play.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: I have to try to figure out who is the person that actually wants to be helped because you have people that will fake and be like act like they want help, but they really don't want help.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: You see what I'm saying?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: So me as a person with ADHD, I have to filter people through my brain, and sometimes it takes a while.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it takes a while.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes somebody might see a person be like, oh, they're the sweetest person in the world, and I'm looking at them like that person?
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: So having to filter all that stuff is just a part of my brand.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm not supporting everybody, I'm not I'm not supporting everybody.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's just how it is.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't like it, sorry.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, not sorry.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, not sorry.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sorry for it because if I make my platform into what everybody wants, where am I in that?
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm on the ground being trampled.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to be on the ground being trampled.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be the person that runs my organization, that runs my network.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Some people could say, oh, well, he's narcissistic.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's mine, bro.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's not you, it's not somebody else's that I'm trying to control.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's mine.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: I created this from the ground up.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's not narcissistic at all.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's being responsible.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I I'm very passionate about this because I feel like people will come at me and wanting to be on the platform, and I'll look at their profile, I'll look at their digital footprint, and I'll look, I'll be like, dude, I really don't want you in front of my audience, to be honest.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to protect my audience, I'm trying to protect myself.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Why do I want this on the camera?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like when I do do that, there's a lot of haters, and then also there's a lot of people that are appreciators.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm leaning toward the people that appreciate what I do.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: And the naysayers, I just gotta just they just gotta, they're just gonna talk.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's nothing I can really do about it.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: I can't go and try to police that, you know.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: I can't social, I can't go and try to social police people that that that are doing their thing.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's I mean, that's just a part of life, part of society.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the people that I've interviewed on here, they they probably experience that too, but they're still striving.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: They're still moving the needle.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: So why showing up for um why is refusing to take sides um your your turn?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I I wouldn't say that I'm refusing to take side.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know how to describe it.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm taking my side.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: That this the person that created the platform, me, I'm taking the side that I want to take.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: And if it's not your side, it's not your side.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: You I'm pretty sure you can find another platform that is your side, or you're already following one, whatever the case might be.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, forgive my forgive my indulgences on this one, you guys.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Block number four, here we go.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Last one behind the scenes and laughs giving.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: What's the biggest misconception people have about stepping up to an open mic versus actually producing, booking, and paying comics fairly on a live showcase?
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm putting on a show November 20th.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Corpus Christi Originals presents Laughs Giving, get your laughs in before Thanksgiving.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Josh Cabaza, uh Trey Armijo, Pedro Franco, and myself hosting and doing a little time.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: So the biggest misconception people have uh stepping onto open mic versus actually producing, booking, paying comics fairly on a live showcase.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: Open mic, somebody's already provided.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: So open mic, somebody's already provided the stage for you.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: All you gotta do is go up there and perform.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and and if if you're performing, most you gotta worry about is your set.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta work on your craft and just go up there and and give it out.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let people hear what you've been working on.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: As opposed to booking a show, producing, booking, and paying comics for a live showcase.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's like you you gotta talk, you gotta you gotta call it, figure out who's gonna be on the show, if they're good.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you got to get recommendations.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's just so much that goes on to putting on a show.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: This is my second show so far.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: I am but by no means an expert at this.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: A lot, in fact, a lot of the the advice that I got for booking my first two shows, I got from another friend of mine, um uh Lito Cortes.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: He puts on, he's been putting on clean, like he has the longest standing clean showcase in Corpus Christi, Texas.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I was getting a lot of my chops that I got for putting producing these shows, I got from him.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: I was asking for his advice uh in what to do.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: And the first show, it was good.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: Second show, it's gonna be even better.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know what I mean?
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: So um it's a it's a lot more footwork booking, it's a lot more talking to people, a lot of uh not listening to the naysayers or people like talking, talking trash about your showcase or whatever, paying the comics, you gotta sell tickets, figure out how to sell tickets.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: Do you sell them online?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: Do you sell them in person?
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's just a lot of stuff that goes into it instead of just stepping onto an open mic, and all that, on top of that, you gotta work on your craft at the same time.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm hosting uh you know the comics, the show, my first hosting experience.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: It was it wasn't very good.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm just working and getting better at it, so it's an ongoing thing.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what went into putting together the lineup for our for my for our uh what went into putting together the lineup for the Corpus Christi Originals Laughs Giving show at Mesquite Street Comedy Club?
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh well, first I had to get a venue, and uh I'm thankful to uh Besquite Street Comedy Club, Mesquite Street Pizza, downtown Corpus Christi, Texas for allowing me to produce another show that is to be performed upstairs at their comedy club.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Very, very grateful for them.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to get a venue, and once I had a venue squared away, had a date squared away, then I had to find the comics, figure out it and see if they're available to do some time, how what they charge, what their rate is, um, how much time could they do?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: Could they do November 20th?
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: And once I got the comics squared away, I I know for sure I wanted to get somebody from out of town um to do some good work, and then of course, some uh local, a local comic that that hasn't been on the showcase or the show for Corpus Christi Originals and give them a shot, somebody that's good.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we landed on Trey Armijo.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: He had a lot uh some uh some good recommendations, so we put him on the on the show, and then we had another comic from out of town who the headliner brought in, uh which which was cool, just to give him some give him a shot, give him some some some time.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: I had another local comic uh I wanted to have on, but he he's gonna be on the future soon, but I had to kind of figure out I had to I had to kind of bump him off.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't want to.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted him on the show, another local guy, but hopefully next time around.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: But I I it worked out to where I was like, okay, this is what I had to do.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: I had to cut.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to cut a comic.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's another that's one of the things that that comes in.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: You just gotta you gotta do, you gotta make decisions that are hard for you.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what else?
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: Once I had the comics, then I was like, okay, I got the comics, I got the time, I got the lineup.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Now I need to create a ticket link on Eventbrite.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um uh and and sell tickets through there.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I had so then I had to create an event link to sell tickets online.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I created that.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: I had to you have to develop some a bio for each comic.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: I had to make uh make a flyer, a banner.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like this took a lot of time, guys.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I create my own flyers, I create my own social media, everything.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like once I had so then I had the comics, then I create the ticket link, then I create an event on Facebook, and then I had to share it on social media that we're having an event.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: So at this point, I'm just kind of like, okay, now I need to share more stuff about the event up until the event, which is part of the reason why um I'm kind of making this solo podcast too, so I can talk about uh Corpuscity Originals Lapsgiving, November 20th, and share, possibly share some of these clips and uh people get people into the show.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, that's that's that there.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's thanks to Mesquite Street Comedy Club for allowing me to produce another show up there, man.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: My own show, it's corporate scripture original show.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: Just then they're letting me use their stage, their their their um, their space.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate that.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um uh why is showing up for live local rooms supporting independent showcases so crucial for keeping the local scene alive?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm gonna say this and people are probably gonna get mad at me.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: People in my scene.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: I want to support good comedy, good stand-up comedy.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: I don't wanna support trash comedy, bro.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: I want to support stuff that is good.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um that being said, supporting good comedy and independent showcases and local rooms gets more eyeballs onto our scene.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: That's part of the reason why I'm doing my own showcase because I want it to be good value.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: Next time the next showcase comes around, people will be saying, like, oh, this comedy show was actually good.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: There was good comedians, it was quality stuff.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: We were able to purchase drinks, we were able to buy food.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: You want to go to that show, you want to go to Corpus Christi Original Showcase.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I think we need to support the reason why we need to support those local comedy-independent showcases, local shows because we can keep doing more of it.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: We can keep generating revenue for the scene, for the show, uh, the showrunner, for the the comic, for the show person putting on the showcase, for the venue.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it brings dollars in, bro.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: At the end of the day, where's the money going?
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: We want money to go in our pockets, right?
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: And how much better does it feel when you're paying for a product that is actually good?
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're you feel like I actually, yes, I pay good money for this.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, people say I pay good money for this.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: They want it to be a good product.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I think we need to support stuff that is actually good.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm gonna get a lot of flack by that.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and it's like I and it's a it's hard too because what if what if the business that is starting, they're not good, and and I feel like that's part of the reason when you're putting on a comedy show, you put the headliner as the one that's like had the most experience, who is good at it, been good at it for years, put them at the top, put them at the headliner, right?
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then then you got the one that has a little bit less experience, but just as good, a little bit less experience, and then the one that's at the bottom, the five-minute comic, put that as the starting comic that's just learning, you know what I mean.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: That way you're helping the ones at the bottom, and you're helping the ones at the top, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: Put put them together, put them together, put them, you smash them in between each other, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you got a sandwich, you got olives in there, you don't like olives, but the olives are good for you, whatever.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: You still gotta, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, just put it all together, bro.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but and put put the good comic as the headliner, you know, and um so and that and that way you you're you're getting all levels of experience on your show or on your platform or whatever, what have you.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I think it's important why showing up to and and showing up, showing up to also to a local showcase or a local room for comedy, actual laughter is kind of a laughter helps a person that's actually working on their craft, laughter helps them to develop their bits, to develop their their jokes.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if the crowd is not laughing, and and paid audiences are different from audiences that don't pay because paid audience they want to laugh, they they're paying to go and laugh.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: So when you have when you're in front of a paid crowd, those laughs help the comic to get better.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: If they're actually working on their craft, they're it's helping them to write better jokes, you know what I mean.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's the idea.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on, puppy.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's ideal.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's helping them to write their jokes better, and that's the idea for actual comics that are working on their craft, you know what I mean?
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's how it works or supposed to work in comedy.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because you have shows that are they may not be as good.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just hearing this on the grape along the grapevine, you know what I mean?
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: I um and I can see how shows can be good if people think that open mics are shows, because open mics are not shows, they're actually places where comics are supposed to go to uh practice their craft, and then once they get on a paid show, then they present what they've been working on at the open mics to get actual laughs.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so, anyways, I sometimes when I talk a lot, you guys, I just get into places where I can get in trouble.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, that's that's my uh my my solo episode, you guys.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: Check out the comedy show that we got going on November 20th, Mesquite Street Comedy Club, 617 Mesquite Street.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, doors open at uh 7 p.m.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: Show starts at 8 p.m.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: Josh Cabaza from this from San Antonio, who's uh who is also in the Austin area, putting in work out there.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Trey Armijo, local favorite, check him out, you guys.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then we got uh Pedro Franco, the first Brazilian on the Kill Tony show ever.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: He's coming out here, check him out, he's gonna do 15 minutes, and then of course, myself, I'm hosting the show, and I'll be doing a little bit of time at the beginning.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it's gonna be amazing, you guys.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: Check it out.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: Mesquite Street Comedy Club.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: They got they got food, they got drinks.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: Get your food and your drinks, support the bartender.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be a great night, anyways.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks a lot, you guys.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to uh Premier Hearing Solutions of South Texas.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yvonne over there has got your hearing needs on lock.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, hit her up.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, thanks a lot, you guys.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.