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#14 | Dale Stephán · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_03: What's going on now?
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SPEAKER_03: It's with Cops Christie Originals.
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SPEAKER_03: In this podcast episode, we have the pleasure of having as our guest uh Dale Stefan.
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SPEAKER_03: Dale is the husband of the leading ladies of Cops Christy podcast, Brittany Mute.
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SPEAKER_03: Dale's awesome dude.
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SPEAKER_03: He likes uh music movies, he's in to advertise it and marketing on social media, and he's a husband and a family man.
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SPEAKER_03: So check this out if you're interested.
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SPEAKER_03: Continue listening to the podcast.
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SPEAKER_03: All right, uh, welcome to the show, Dale.
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SPEAKER_03: Thanks for having me, man.
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SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So your Britney Mute, your wife, she she was like, You gotta get uh you gotta get Dell on the show.
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SPEAKER_03: So we got you on the show.
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SPEAKER_03: How you feel about it?
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SPEAKER_00: It's good, I'm excited, I'm excited for you.
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SPEAKER_00: I I've only probably been on like one or two podcasts, so it's pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_03: Cool, man, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: And your wife does podcasts all the time.
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SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, she does.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh, leading ladies of corpse tristy.
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SPEAKER_03: That's right.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, check it out, guys, if you haven't.
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SPEAKER_00: Since 2018.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's been going on for like four four years, going on five years now.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So did were you like pushing her?
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SPEAKER_03: Hey, you should uh click.
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SPEAKER_03: Did she come up with the idea and then you were like, hey, uh that was 100% all her.
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SPEAKER_00: The the the podcast is like 100% her.
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SPEAKER_00: That has been like her passion project.
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SPEAKER_00: That has been her like very personal thing that that she wanted to do.
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SPEAKER_00: She wanted to give a shout out to all the different people of Corpus Christi doing something, and the coastal bin, too.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like not limited to Corpus Christie, it's called leading ladies corpus Christie, but it really covers a lot of South Texas, and it and it's grown so much.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's not you know, it's not all female guests.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like we found out through like looking at the data, there's a lot of it's split down the middle of listeners, it's men and women like equally, and uh, so she has like she has dudes come on now.
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SPEAKER_00: Like well, she's had dudes come on, but it's like it's like people you know asking, hey yeah, can I come on?
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SPEAKER_00: She's like, Yeah, sure.
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SPEAKER_00: She doesn't have to turn anybody down, so it's pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_00: It's pretty dude.
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SPEAKER_03: That's very interesting, man.
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SPEAKER_03: It's and it's like uh it's like it's a cool little niche.
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SPEAKER_03: I want to say niche, I don't know if that's a cliche term, but that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_03: That's cool, man.
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SPEAKER_03: So you helped her, you helped her along with that.
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SPEAKER_03: Do you help edit the video at the edit the videos and all that stuff, or do you get involved in all that?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I help her with that.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, I mean, like I said, it's it's it's her thing though.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I don't want to take it away from her.
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SPEAKER_00: It's it's very much her, you know, she has an idea, and you know, I you know, give my like, oh yeah, this this is cool, and you know, help her get it going, um and stuff like that, you know, get more memory in the server for the different episodes going up.
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SPEAKER_03: That's cool, man.
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SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was asking you about the condenser mics that you would or are the mics, and you were like, condenser mics.
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SPEAKER_03: I was like, Oh, okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Dynamic, dynamic, dynamic, there you go.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, they they help with they have that broadcast noise, they're very good, but you have to talk straight into them, you don't, it goes a little wacko.
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SPEAKER_03: That's crazy.
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SPEAKER_03: So, are you into that type of stuff?
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SPEAKER_03: Like, uh, I guess like sound quality.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean, I obviously uh yeah, I I I like things.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh like I was I'm really into movies, and I was really into movie production, and I had we one year we got all this gear to make like little home productions, like little little short films, like whatever we wanted to do, and also to compete in like CC70, and I also wanted to do like some freelance work, and we did it, we did it all, and uh, you know, we did a couple of films for CC70.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I have this right here because I was in a podcast the other day.
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SPEAKER_00: It's one of the things we got.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a light kit, and we got some mics, but the first set of mics we got were absolute ass, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: Like just we had a shotgun mic and um a crappy dynamic mic that was like 12 bucks, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh I didn't get I didn't get better stuff till till later on.
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SPEAKER_00: You learn a little bit more.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and especially when you're editing these things and you see how everything comes out, you'll see what works better.
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SPEAKER_00: So that after a while we definitely upgraded a few things for the better.
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SPEAKER_00: So got your tripod, uh, better lens for for like shooting video and that sort of thing.
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SPEAKER_03: So dude, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_03: So you're into movies, obviously, man.
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SPEAKER_03: That's so how did you get into that type of stuff?
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SPEAKER_03: Movies, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Movies and production and all that other stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, all that well, I got into like production and shooting video because I I liked movies.
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SPEAKER_00: I like stories, I like all sorts of stories.
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SPEAKER_00: It's why I'm in what I'm in now.
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SPEAKER_00: Like it's a different way to tell a story.
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SPEAKER_00: I got in the news, it's just you know, all my movies, all the books behind me.
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SPEAKER_00: Um the it's a huge part of my life and how I've made like a lot of decisions.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh like just right now, we watched the movie watching since you know I've been a kid.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh any any way you can tell a story is great.
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SPEAKER_03: So, dude, that's awesome, man.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so it's you said you're telling a story with what you so what do you do for your for your for your career job, I guess.
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SPEAKER_00: Right now, I'm in uh I'm in advertising and marketing, and I do a lot of organic content.
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SPEAKER_00: Organic meaning we're not paying to put it in your face.
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SPEAKER_00: Like it is we're gonna put this blog online, we're gonna send you this email if you signed up for it.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh we're gonna create organic social posts that you can see because you follow the page, not because we paid for it to show up on your newsfeed on Instagram or or Facebook.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm on very much the organic side, just creating the content for organic purposes.
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SPEAKER_03: So, do you handle like more than I mean how many accounts do you handle?
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SPEAKER_00: A lot.
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SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's crazy, bro.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I can see how that can be a full-time job because you got to get on you got to get to understand uh each one of them individually, I guess, you know what they're trying to do.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's there's like I had probably have about like four clients where every week I'm doing something for them, and others who pop up like a month or every other month.
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SPEAKER_00: So it like really just like depends.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, there's one client I have, I've built an email out once a quarter, and I just did one for them like last week, but there's theirs will take some time, they're they're a little bit different, and um, so it's everybody has a different voice, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Dude, for sure.
6:02
SPEAKER_03: That's what I'm saying.
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SPEAKER_03: It I could imagine.
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SPEAKER_03: So you do that full time, you do that from home.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, how's that different from an actual job?
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SPEAKER_03: Like clocking in, clocking out, I guess you could say.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, this is pretty much uh it it's one some it's easier in a lot of ways.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, as soon as you know, I'm ready to get to work in the morning, I get to work.
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SPEAKER_00: So, like if I wake up in the morning, um, I can jump on the computer at 6 15 and like look at some things, get stuff in order, uh, maybe like knock out like a thing or start something, and then I get ready for the day, get my wife and son ready for the day, you know, lunches, breakfast, drop kid off at you know, daycare wife goes to work, and then I'm back home, picking it right back up.
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SPEAKER_03: Crazy, man.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: And then it's like, okay, work's done.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I'm done at like 5 30.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't have to be on the traffic on a cross town expressway to get back home.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: Another 30-45 minutes.
7:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying, oh, here I am, right here.
7:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, are you from Corpus originally?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, I was born in Kingsville and I lived in Bishop, but I pretty much spent the most of my life here.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, nice, okay.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Bishop, they got a plan out there.
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SPEAKER_03: So that's pretty good.
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SPEAKER_03: Celanese, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Celanese, my uh my stepmom worked there, man, for years, maybe like 20 years or something.
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SPEAKER_00: My dad worked there, my grandpa worked there, my aunt worked there.
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SPEAKER_03: Crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: I think my uncle worked there too.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh wow, that's nice, man.
7:28
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Crosstown Expressway, SPID, all that stuff.
7:33
SPEAKER_03: Uh so yeah, so what's uh let me ask you, uh, is social media good for us or bad for us?
7:39
SPEAKER_03: Uh why do you think so?
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SPEAKER_03: Why do you think not?
7:42
SPEAKER_00: Man, you know, I'm going to candy bars are excellent, right?
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SPEAKER_00: They taste good.
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SPEAKER_00: But too much of it sucks.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, you could jack up if you get diabetes, gain weight.
8:04
SPEAKER_00: That's social media.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, you gotta use it the right way, you gotta take it in little doses, and and yeah, I mean it helps businesses out.
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SPEAKER_00: It's definitely helped a lot of businesses out.
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SPEAKER_00: It helps people stay connected, and that's why it's super great, but it's also super addicting for people.
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SPEAKER_00: It also can give the a false look at how things are to people, especially with like I mean, if you've noticed now, I don't know if you've noticed, um, Instagram has changed things up a lot, uh to where you know, a cell phone picture that might not even have like a good framing or anything, it's doing better than a super professional picture.
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SPEAKER_00: That's because they're really trying to make it to where the more authentic organic image that anybody could do right comes across the feed more.
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SPEAKER_00: Like this is how that stuff works.
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SPEAKER_03: That's so weird.
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SPEAKER_03: They're trying to make it organic, and they're they're making it less than that because they're trying to make it organic.
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SPEAKER_00: They're trying, yeah, they're trying to make it, you know, so everybody can relate to it.
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SPEAKER_03: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't relate to the rock working out in a gym for sure, bro.
9:13
SPEAKER_00: But I see, you know, if you see a picture of my friend working out in the gym, I could relate to that.
9:18
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome, man.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's like the YouTube, because I uploaded YouTube videos, uh guitar videos like a long time ago, and there was one that got a lot of views, and I was like, Man, that one sucked.
9:28
SPEAKER_03: Well, how come this one didn't get views?
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SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_03: So it's kind of like whatever you throw out there, people what people are gonna like, they're gonna like.
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SPEAKER_03: And that's the only way that you can figure it out is if you put it out there.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is a lot of trial and error.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, I'm not I mean, for work, I definitely want posts to perform well.
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SPEAKER_00: I definitely want stuff to to look good, so there's a happy balance of you know, making sure this is gonna get seen by people and people are gonna relate to it versus you know something else.
10:01
SPEAKER_00: No, like my personal page, uh, you know, yeah, it's whoever sees it sees it.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: This is just for me to look back on one day, uh, for my kid to look back on one day or for my family, somewhere else to see.
10:14
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so how do you how do you gauge that in term of like mystery?
10:17
SPEAKER_03: Do you look at it like that?
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SPEAKER_03: Or it's just no, this is just me.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh it's just me.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's mostly me.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: I don't have my name on there though.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh uh on Instagram anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: On Facebook, my my whole name's there.
10:29
SPEAKER_00: You can Delrace Defon.
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SPEAKER_00: There it is.
10:31
SPEAKER_03: You can yeah, what's this?
10:32
SPEAKER_03: What's the story behind the name?
10:33
SPEAKER_03: That's I I was interested in the name.
10:34
SPEAKER_03: My name or on Instagram?
10:36
SPEAKER_03: The one on Instagram, yeah.
10:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Hops Mesquite.
10:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, I was super I hated Instagram when it first came out because of I like the icon.
10:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I thought the name was awesome.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a great name, Instagram.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's really cool.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: That's really retro-looking, like Polaroid cameras, your logo.
10:57
SPEAKER_00: That's badass.
10:58
SPEAKER_00: But then I got on there and it's filled with fucking filters, man.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: Just filter picture, filtered picture.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: But this is bad.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: Look, people were obsessed with this like super saturated grainy filter in the beginning, and I and I hated it.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: I was like, ugh, you know what I mean?
11:15
SPEAKER_00: So you so you said uh so it right out right in the beginning, I didn't like it because of that.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I came around to it, you know, uh had a lot of friends, you know, hey, yeah, just do it.
11:27
SPEAKER_00: You know, you take a lot of pictures, you can post your pictures on there.
11:29
SPEAKER_00: And then my wife had it, and I was like, you know, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna focus on beer and barbecue.
11:36
SPEAKER_00: There was a good window in my life where I was kind of a beer snob, and I bar we barbecued like crazy.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm talking like every day, yeah.
11:44
SPEAKER_00: There was that that pit was getting lit, like nice, and we were doing something.
11:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, I was okay, I'm just gonna focus on beer and barbecue.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: Well, shortly after that, uh we're gonna become parents and it changed.
11:56
SPEAKER_00: Change, bro.
11:57
SPEAKER_00: That's unchanged, bro.
11:59
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm gonna that's gonna be used for some mouth, but I still haven't I still haven't put my full name there.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh and now recently there was an update in the past few months where it doesn't even say your your uh your IG tag in a message, it says your name now.
12:16
SPEAKER_03: Oh, crazy.
12:17
SPEAKER_00: And so as a joke, I had somewhere you know who I am.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: Uh I think like in a bio or my name that wasn't displayed.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: Hey, why does your why did you change your tag, your IG username to you know who I am?
12:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you know, and then like all of a sudden it came back to me, oh, like forever ago.
12:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I had plugged somewhere.
12:40
SPEAKER_00: So I just want to change it back to hops mesquite.
12:42
SPEAKER_00: You can see hops mesquite.
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SPEAKER_00: The hops beer mesquite.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: I only use mesquite firewood for everything.
12:48
SPEAKER_03: Um I was gonna ask, are you 100% mesquite or you use propane?
12:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm pretty much 100% mesquite.
12:53
SPEAKER_00: Um it might smell like some brushes burning, but it's just me.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you can smell for like a day or a day or something.
13:02
SPEAKER_00: If I'm gonna use if if I'm gonna barbecue, I want to taste the smoke, and I I know how I I feel like I can do it for me.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: Anyone can do what they want.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: You want to do post oak, you want to do apple, you want to do pecan, you want to do peach.
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SPEAKER_00: Do whatever you want, whatever you want to do, do.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: There's really no wrong way, but there is, but there's really no wrong way to barbecue.
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SPEAKER_00: And I like to use mesquite.
13:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, I can honestly say I might be a little biased, but I have had people eat my food.
13:29
SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm using.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm using mesquite.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh no, mesquite's trash wood.
13:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, we're fucking eating it, bro.
13:37
SPEAKER_00: You're eating trash wood, sorry.
13:42
SPEAKER_03: Bro, I to be honest, I wouldn't even be able to tell the difference, bro.
13:46
SPEAKER_03: I'm just like, hey, that's a good steak, that's good ribs.
13:48
SPEAKER_03: It's all good here.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's uh it's seasonings, and and you know, you gotta be careful with the smoke.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: I don't use uh lighter fluid in anything.
13:58
SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
13:58
SPEAKER_00: How do you get started?
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SPEAKER_00: Paper and I use a charcoal chimney, or I just you know make a little mound with some paper spray with olive oil in the middle and light it on fire and put the wood over it.
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SPEAKER_03: Nice, cool, that's a good way.
14:14
SPEAKER_03: So do you get your meat from a certain place, or how do you how do you handle that?
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh I get my meat from all over.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm you know, Moody's and Staple Street, Moody's meeting market at Staple Street.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: I've always been some good go-tos, uh, H E B Sam's Club.
14:29
SPEAKER_03: Cool, man.
14:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm not like I try to support local as much as possible.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: So like if there's something like I'm getting ready to go to a uh I gotta do a work trip this week.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: And um I always stay with a friend of mine.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take them to some like Moody's Fajitas.
14:44
SPEAKER_00: They they like Moody's Fajitas.
14:46
SPEAKER_03: Oh, nice.
14:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh the Staple Street has a lot of good things too, chicken steaks, stuff like that.
14:53
SPEAKER_00: You know, it it's it's fun to support local.
14:55
SPEAKER_00: We're really big on that.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: And I want to say that's one of the positive changes we made when the pandemic started.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: It was just focusing more on um buying local.
15:08
SPEAKER_01: Right.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh, like I'm wearing a shirt, it's Texas made.
15:12
SPEAKER_00: This is Texas brand.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: Um I have like three of your shirts, one of your hats.
15:19
SPEAKER_00: Brittany's got so much local swag, it's it's crazy.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're all these are locally done.
15:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
15:28
SPEAKER_00: We know we go to farmers market when we can, we go hit up local restaurants when we can.
15:33
SPEAKER_00: Just that's one of the things that we because you know, during that time, people really needed some revenue as much as they could, you know.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: And so we're like, hey, we're just let's let's do that, you know, let's go do what we can do to help people out.
15:51
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: It's like yeah, and we already we we did, like, don't wrong, we did.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: It was always we always had a really local mindset, but I would say like during the pandemic, like let's really stay as local as possible, and uh yeah, so sweet.
16:06
SPEAKER_03: Dude, that's what's up, man.
16:08
SPEAKER_03: It's like you have to understand that you have to understand that to be able to do it because sometimes we don't there's people are oblivious to that, like as far as supporting local, how it helps the economy, you know what I mean?
16:20
SPEAKER_03: It's like you have to understand that to be able to do that.
16:22
SPEAKER_00: No, I mean, not only does it help the the the family business that you're going to, it also like those little like sales titellers come right back to us, you know what I mean?
16:34
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, why not, right?
16:36
SPEAKER_00: That's why tourism is very important to our city, and we as residents need to accept that.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: We're at the beach.
16:47
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's like I you grew up, I grew up, I'm guilty.
16:50
SPEAKER_03: I grew up, ah, corpus sucks.
16:52
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
16:53
SPEAKER_03: We just you know, people have that mentality.
16:56
SPEAKER_03: I had that mentality, and it's like it like I said, like you have to understand that to do it, you know what I mean?
17:03
SPEAKER_03: Otherwise, you're just like ah, whatever, you you know, and it sucks to have that attitude, I think.
17:09
SPEAKER_03: Uh and when I when I created the brand, Corpus Christi Originals, it it really opened my eyes even more to to what we have down here, yeah.
17:19
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
17:19
SPEAKER_03: Uh the the pop-ups, what your wife is doing for the city, and it it and I it surprised me to to see how many people want to represent Corpus, you know.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it it's you know, there's a lot of good stuff here.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: We have the best tacos.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: You can't get around that.
17:41
SPEAKER_00: Anytime I see some Bendejo in San Antonio, put where can you find the best tacos in San Antonio?
17:46
SPEAKER_00: You gotta drive two hours south, buddy.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: Um, we have really we have a lot of really good food, not just Mexican food, we have a lot of really good, really good food.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: We got steakhouses, we have little bars, we have you know bands that people love.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of great artists here.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: We have been on like the food truck local art train since before it was like a big, big thing.
18:11
SPEAKER_03: Crazy, bro.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of stuff here in Corpus Christie.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I say we, I'm talking about the city, right?
18:16
SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, think about when you were a kid, where'd you see food trucks at?
18:21
SPEAKER_00: All over the place, man.
18:23
SPEAKER_00: You know, my grandmother lived in Hiawaffa and just driving down Baldwin to go to her house.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: There's food trucks all over the place.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, and I mean to me, that's just always been food and art have always been a big thing in this city.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: Beach, fishing, hunting, you know, there's a lot of great things here.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: I'd I'd love to like you know, be a part of you know, letting people know about this city.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I always talk really good about it when I go to work.
18:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, my my my company's in Austin.
18:54
SPEAKER_00: I go to the office in Austin, I'll wear a corpus Chrissie shirt every single time.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, nice kids there who used to live here, and they think it's funny, like it's pretty crazy how much you want to rep that city.
19:05
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's you know, you see people go to Austin, they're like, Oh, Austin, you know, yeah, yeah.
19:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Tony, it's great, it's corresponding anyway.
19:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh, so yeah, I mean, I I like it, I love it.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: It's it's a great city.
19:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, it is a good city, man.
19:21
SPEAKER_03: It and I was telling uh Brittany in the podcast, like it'd be cool if we actually own land here, you know.
19:26
SPEAKER_03: People that live here owned it, you know, which a lot of us are through our our homes, homes and stuff.
19:33
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, anyway.
19:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's cool, bro.
19:37
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh, let me see.
19:38
SPEAKER_03: What's the best rock song of all time?
19:42
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, man.
19:44
SPEAKER_00: What are you listening to now?
19:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm listening to the same music I've been listening to for the past like 10 years.
19:50
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
19:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh I listened to a lot of let's see, like this week, I listened to some Black Sabbath, uh, listened to this band called Turnover.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: I listened to Fallout Boy.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: I listened to some Linda Ronstadt.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: I listened to what's that song by hold on, I have my I have my playlist up right here.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: There's an old song by Linessa Williams called Save the Best for Last.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: What is this from?
20:28
SPEAKER_00: Don't play, don't play.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: It's from an album from 91, bro.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: 910 music.
20:37
SPEAKER_03: Bro, I'm sorry, man.
20:38
SPEAKER_03: Excuse me for a second.
20:39
SPEAKER_03: My wife's trying to hold on.
20:41
SPEAKER_03: Sorry, bro.
20:41
SPEAKER_03: My my wife, my daughter had to come back inside and pee.
20:44
SPEAKER_03: They left for a little bit.
20:48
SPEAKER_03: There she is.
20:48
SPEAKER_03: She wanted to say hi.
20:50
SPEAKER_02: You want to say hi, mama?
20:58
SPEAKER_00: There's a well, there's a lot of music.
21:01
SPEAKER_00: Like when it comes to heart, like we're talking about rock.
21:03
SPEAKER_00: Um, Metallica's put out a lot of really good songs, and when it comes to the Ride the Lightning album, Call of Cthulhu.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: If I could play that, I think that'd be really cool just to play one song.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's cool.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: So they play their instrumental tracks amaze me.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, you had Orion on Master of Puppets, you had Call of Cthulhu on Ride the Lightning, and even on their first album, Kill them all, they had the the anesthesia pulling teeth.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: That was mainly bass.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: It was still really cool.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: And all three of those songs, man, those are really cool.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: You know, and those those uh those three albums, I mean, even in Justice for All, which Live Us to Die, that's great.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: And Cliff Burton's still had a hand in writing that, so that's also really cool that they went ahead and like you know, recorded that and and you know, gave him the credit for it.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: But they're though they put out some really good music, and those are that's a band that I listened to like my whole life.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: A lot of music I listened to my whole life.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: I can't even remember everything like off the top of my head.
22:05
SPEAKER_03: How'd you get it?
22:06
SPEAKER_03: How'd you how'd you learn to like listen to different I guess different styles of music?
22:12
SPEAKER_00: So um my my parents had uh they're real careful about what they let me listen to.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: So for the longest time, the only thing that my dad would let me listen to that wasn't like church music was oldies.
22:29
SPEAKER_04: Crazy.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: So I can't that's how I learned about a lot of like old bands like Pink Floyd, you know, classic art stuff.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: But then that led to you know, like Black Sabbath, led to Ozzy Osbourne, led to Metallica, led to stuff like that.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and so like there was no way I was gonna get around that.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: Whatever my cousins listen to, like, do you remember Scarface from like 90s?
22:50
SPEAKER_00: The album he's a Houston rapper.
22:54
SPEAKER_00: There's an album called The Diary.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: Let me check.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Diary.
23:03
SPEAKER_00: It came out in '94.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: I was right.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: But who who wrote who did that one?
23:08
SPEAKER_00: Scarface.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: He was a Houston rapper.
23:10
SPEAKER_03: Oh, crazy!
23:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and man, it's vulgar, but listening to it as an adult, and and you know, being, yeah, as a kid, you're like, oh wow, he said, you know, all this stuff.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: But now as an adult, you go, you go hear it, because I'll play it every now and then.
23:23
SPEAKER_00: I was you know, just rather over here writing, like, you know, best things to do while you're at the beach, right?
23:29
SPEAKER_00: But uh you listen to it, you're like, oh man, this is just what you know he experienced while living in Houston, and it's a very real lifestyle for a lot of people.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: It's very authentic because you know, like he went through all this stuff.
23:43
SPEAKER_03: Wow, so you like that type of stuff where it's like real, like that.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I guess I like I I think stuff that you know can actually like pull emotion out of you, like is really cool.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: That's why I like movies, that's why I like reading stories.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, why I like the business I'm in, you know, it gets a bad rep.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people consider it kid consider it to be a certain way, but like, well, I'm just showing you how great something is, and I'm reminding you of how that brand business will make you feel.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Just reminding you that you know you you love this and go check it out every now and then.
24:19
SPEAKER_00: It's just a reminder, that's all it is.
24:22
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome, bro.
24:23
SPEAKER_03: It's like more than it's more than just superficial, it seems because it's people's emotions are involved, people are involved.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: So there's a good part probably between like I said, you know, watch a lot of movies.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: I had two tapes I went back and forth on growing up.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: It was and they're both recorded.
24:42
SPEAKER_00: One was Batman, Michael Keaton, the Joker, the first Batman.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: It's before Batman Forever even.
24:48
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Batman Returns even came out, right?
24:50
SPEAKER_00: The other tape that was recorded for me was New Kids on the Block concert crazy at one of the Disneys World or Land.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, one of them.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, both of them were flooded with commercials from 8990.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: Wow, and it was awesome, not made like that anymore, and those commercials stuck with me to this day because each of those commercials tell a story.
25:14
SPEAKER_00: A story was being told in those commercials, and to this day, like especially around Halloween, Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: I'll go watch these one-hour Halloween compilations from commercials of the 90s.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: Crazy, yeah, it's just stories being told.
25:37
SPEAKER_03: Like for your job, then dude, that's interesting, man.
25:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, dude.
25:43
SPEAKER_03: 80s Batman was freaking awesome.
25:44
SPEAKER_03: I remember seeing it in theaters, yeah.
25:47
SPEAKER_03: Uh 89, I think, or something, right?
25:51
SPEAKER_03: I don't remember.
25:52
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: So my parents, my grandparents.
25:55
SPEAKER_03: Nice.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: This is from pre-90.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: My grandparents got me this in Mexico.
26:02
SPEAKER_03: Wow, bro.
26:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I keep it.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: I keep I have a a lot of the stuff like you'll see around me.
26:07
SPEAKER_00: I didn't I didn't buy any of it.
26:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you didn't buy any of it.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: People give me toys to this day, man.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, I was playing this little predator earlier.
26:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I didn't buy it.
26:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and that's funny because I asked Brittany, I was like, Well, uh, I see all those books back there.
26:23
SPEAKER_03: She's like, Oh, these are this is all Dale stuff.
26:26
SPEAKER_00: It's that's a that's a mix of our stuff.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: Like these this is this is all her right here.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: That's pretty much I'm right here.
26:35
SPEAKER_02: I have paperbacks.
26:37
SPEAKER_02: Oh, she got you on the she got you on the bottom shelf.
26:39
SPEAKER_02: No, I put it on the bottom because it fit.
26:41
SPEAKER_02: Those those those those hardbacks are huge.
26:44
SPEAKER_00: Yes, um, this this is uh that's out of print that's fire in the sky.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: Did you ever watch that movie?
26:51
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, dude.
26:52
SPEAKER_03: Hey, heck yeah.
26:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, dude.
26:55
SPEAKER_03: I when I first watched it as a kid, I was like, what the heck?
26:58
SPEAKER_03: And then I just watched it recently because I had it on, I think, Amazon Prime.
27:02
SPEAKER_03: I was like, oh, okay, this is what it is, you know.
27:06
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that's cool, that's cool, bro.
27:10
SPEAKER_03: Uh what's a movie or TV show you're ashamed to admit you watched?
27:18
SPEAKER_00: I'm really ashamed to admit I watch anything.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: Uh give me something you would think I'd be ashamed to watch, and we'll see if I watch it.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you how I feel.
27:27
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
27:27
SPEAKER_03: It was just a random question.
27:28
SPEAKER_03: I don't yeah, to be honest, I really don't watch TV.
27:32
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I like movies rather than shows, TV shows, because TV shows take too long.
27:37
SPEAKER_03: I that's just my what I think.
27:39
SPEAKER_03: I mean, but I am watching Mr.
27:43
SPEAKER_03: Robot um on Amazon.
27:46
SPEAKER_03: That's a good one.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: I never ready to finish that one.
27:48
SPEAKER_00: That's a good one.
27:49
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool, man.
27:51
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
27:52
SPEAKER_03: Um, top top three favorite producers, or not producers, but directors.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodriguez.
28:08
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to nail down the third, man.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh James Cram Cameron's done a lot for me.
28:13
SPEAKER_00: Martin Scorsese's done a lot for me.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh Catherine Bigelow has put a lot of good stuff.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Sophia Coppola's play a lot of good stuff.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's there's it's hard to nail down three.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?
28:25
SPEAKER_03: What yeah, what do you mean by like done a lot for you?
28:28
SPEAKER_00: Like their movies, like I it all comes back to like uh pulling out an emotion from you.
28:32
SPEAKER_00: Like, have you ever seen uh Steven Spielberg takes a cake on that though, like Empire of the Sun.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
28:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh what I like about Steven Spielberg is he'll and he'll make a very heartfelt, heart-wrenching uh emotional movie, and he'll make Jurassic Park, which does the same thing, but it's obviously funny because Schindler's List and Jurassic Park came out within like a year of each other, I think.
29:06
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, that's interesting, bro.
29:09
SPEAKER_00: He's really good at uh doing that 93, and then Schindler's List, 93, yeah.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: And he he's kept that up.
29:19
SPEAKER_00: So you have ET, you have Empire of the Sun, you have Amistad, you have Saving Pirate Orion, and you have like something fun that he did.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: Like um, what did he do?
29:32
SPEAKER_00: He did the Tin Tin movie, I believe.
29:36
SPEAKER_03: It was like animated or some kind of animated.
29:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I want to make sure he did it because I know Robert Zemekis was also messing around or stuff like that.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: Well, either way, he knows how to do fun and he knows how to do emotional too.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Munich and World of the Worlds came out in the same year.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: In the summer, you had World of Worlds, in the winter you had Munich.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: You had a very like blockbustery, fun movie.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: Of course, there's some like you know, moments of peril in there that made you wonder, but all in all, it's a blockbuster movie.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: That really happened, Munich.
30:16
SPEAKER_03: Crazy.
30:17
SPEAKER_03: So the diversity, so the diversity that he can create in his films is big.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's also just really you know, they're magical moments, you know.
30:26
SPEAKER_00: You have the Indiana Jones trilogy.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: I didn't say the fourth one because we don't we don't talk about that one.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: You know, yeah, man.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: He he knows how to make people feel now.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Some people might not like him, and that's fine.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: It's fantastic.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: I like the new Batman movie, and a lot of people didn't like it.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: It's okay to not like something that someone else likes.
30:55
SPEAKER_00: Go like what you like, it's great.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I watch shit movies too.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Like I watch The Fast and the Furious at least once a year.
31:01
SPEAKER_03: Crazy, bro.
31:02
SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
31:03
SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, I I didn't I didn't learn how to just appreciate a movie, like because one time I was at my aunt's house and we watched like it was like a I don't know, it was like a crappy movie, I don't remember what it was, but she was like, Oh, this and this about it.
31:16
SPEAKER_03: I was like, Oh, yeah, I did notice that about that, you know what I mean?
31:19
SPEAKER_03: So just be able to keep an old like an open mind about what you're watching, yeah, it's pretty is pretty cool.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, movies are interesting.
31:29
SPEAKER_00: I can only think of one movie that I actually walked out of and will never watch again, other than that.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, like I said, I can only think of there's maybe maybe there's something that'll come up and be like, Oh, yeah, I'm not gonna watch that again.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: But there's one movie I walked out of.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: It was white right when my wife and I first started dating.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go see Miami Vice, the movie.
31:49
SPEAKER_03: Oh crazy.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: I walked out.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: We walked, we're like, oh I think they were on a boat, and I was just like, I'm fucking done with this movie.
32:03
SPEAKER_03: So that that boat moment was like, nah, let's go.
32:06
SPEAKER_03: That was like the and she's like, Yeah, and we left.
32:15
SPEAKER_00: I liked the Miami Vice show.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: I used to watch the reruns all the time.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: I just that move uh fucking hated the movie.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: That's weird, bro.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: So why I liked everybody in there, Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: What what was it about?
32:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, what what was it about?
32:29
SPEAKER_00: I mean the director, Michael Mann, awesome, he did heat, but that movie, I just was watching it and I was like, damn.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: And uh I kind of got the same vibe from my wife, and we're just we're boyfriend, girlfriend at the time, but uh I was like, hey, she's like, oh yeah, yeah.
32:53
SPEAKER_03: So how'd you how'd y'all meet, man?
32:54
SPEAKER_03: Y'all met in high school?
32:56
SPEAKER_00: I had just graduated high school, she was already in college.
33:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, she I worked at Hollywood Video, and she came in there to return a movie that her mom had rented that they already owned.
33:10
SPEAKER_00: So I did that exchange and I saw her and was just completely like, damn, that was it.
33:16
SPEAKER_00: For a whole year, I had to wait before we actually started dating.
33:24
SPEAKER_02: That's cool, bro.
33:25
SPEAKER_02: Hollywood video, man.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: Damn.
33:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had to wait for a whole year, like, and like it it was insane.
33:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, I just think about her, you know, oh, you know, like yeah, bro.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome, man.
33:37
SPEAKER_00: We knew some of the same people, and then eventually summer came around again and she was down, and we went to go see the omen, the remake, which was ass, you know, uh about maybe two weeks after that.
33:59
SPEAKER_00: We just hung out one night, we drove from 11 o'clock at night till seven the next morning almost.
34:06
SPEAKER_00: Crazy, and that was it.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, cool.
34:11
SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
34:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, found it.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: I think I was even eight, nine.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: What's that night?
34:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was nineteen.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: Wow, eighteen.
34:18
SPEAKER_00: We started dating when I was nineteen, and then we had the longest engagement in the world because we wanted to get all this stuff done first before we got married.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: Wanted to finish school, wanted to do this, wanted to have a job, like everything had all that in order, and then we got married.
34:35
SPEAKER_03: Damn, bro, that's awesome, bro.
34:37
SPEAKER_03: Now you guys have the little saint.
34:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's that's all that's beautiful, man.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: 2006 to now, 16 years.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: It's awesome, bro.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: For 17 years.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: I met her July 7th, 2005.
35:00
SPEAKER_03: Nice.
35:00
SPEAKER_03: Remember the day, bro.
35:01
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
35:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so the little guy, what kind of hell does he give y'all or does he not give y'all hell?
35:08
SPEAKER_00: You know, he is like a cool little four-year-old.
35:14
SPEAKER_00: He amazes me a lot.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: A lot, and he's obedient like 99% of the time.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, one of the challenges right now, I would say during during the pandemic, when I was working, like, I'd get home sometimes like after 10 to 11.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was a weird, it was a weird work schedule during the pandemic.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: I was going to work sometimes as early as six o'clock, and then get home super late, and he would wake up and I'd be like dead tired, and we'd like fall asleep on the couch or fall asleep in bed.
35:45
SPEAKER_00: And like now, just trying to get him to stay in his room.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: I get up midnight, 2 a.m.
35:54
SPEAKER_00: Hey, yeah, I'm like, go back to your room.
35:58
SPEAKER_00: He's huge, man.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: He's like four foot, 60 pounds.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: We got him a full-size bed to go lay in it.
36:11
SPEAKER_00: So I was a freshman in high school.
36:15
SPEAKER_02: That's funny, bro.
36:17
SPEAKER_02: I like that one video.
36:18
SPEAKER_02: That one video you're like, ah, and he wakes up, yeah, and you're like, that's for that's for last night.
36:24
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
36:29
SPEAKER_02: That's funny, bro.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: Grow up kid, but yeah, I would say that's probably like if he gave us hell, it's that shit right there.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: It'd never be the same.
36:42
SPEAKER_00: You'll never get the same amount of sleep you used to get.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: No, because I mean he slept in his room fine forever.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, 2020 pandemic, but I made a meme.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'll have to send it to you, but I made a have you ever seen the movie Hereditary?
37:01
SPEAKER_04: No.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: Great fucking movie.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, uh, I don't want to spoil it for you, but I made a meme based on that movie saying, you know, my good night's sleep and my kid.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
37:13
SPEAKER_00: And so it shows something that totally annihilated someone in that movie.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: So when you see the movie, you when you'll get the meme, but that's when that was the week when he started doing that bullshit of waking up.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: That's funny, bro.
37:31
SPEAKER_00: And then, like, there though there was a time where it's like, oh, he's been, you know, two months sleeping fine in this fucking room, and then all of a sudden he's getting up and doing the shit again.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: And for a while, for a good while, he was sleeping until about four or five, and that was fine.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, good.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm waking up in an hour anyway.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: It's fine.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm still rested.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: But you know, I play video games with my buddies at night, and he's waking up and says, Oh, hey dad, you know, farts in my face and lays down.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: My buddies, like, go to bed.
38:10
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's funny, bro.
38:11
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, give him Benadryl.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, it doesn't do anything now because he does have allergies, but you give him Benadryl, he's fucking hyper.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: About two hours before he goes to bed.
38:24
SPEAKER_00: Because he's hyper his ass.
38:25
SPEAKER_00: You give him four rails of coke, he's all over the place.
38:33
SPEAKER_00: I heard him say that in the movies.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: I never did it.
38:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, wink right.
38:38
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, my wife's like, yeah, I'll give him some NyQuil.
38:40
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, What?
38:40
SPEAKER_03: NyQuil?
38:41
SPEAKER_03: They never did that.
38:42
SPEAKER_03: I mean, they never did it in my household, but apparently they did it in her household.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: No, he he he unfortunately has like so like I like I like right before we did this, I put that shit in my eyes because I had bad I I have bad allergies.
38:55
SPEAKER_00: My eyes feel like Satan's spitting in them every day.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: He gets that too.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, when he starts getting real congested, like like he'll start sneezing like 50 times in a row, and I'll do that too.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: I'll give him Benage, but if it's too close to bedtime, it's like oh fuck, dude, just shooting myself in the head right now because I'm gonna have to give him some liquid coke.
39:19
SPEAKER_02: Put in the bed.
39:20
SPEAKER_03: Wow, bro.
39:21
SPEAKER_03: What's one parenting trend that society is totally getting wrong?
39:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna comment on that.
39:31
SPEAKER_03: All right, yeah.
39:33
SPEAKER_00: No, that's that's I mean, I it's not my spot to tell people how to parent or comment on their parenting in this live area.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right, right.
39:43
SPEAKER_00: He'll speak back up on me one day.
39:46
SPEAKER_00: This is what he said 10 years ago on this podcast.
39:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh well, you know, fucking parents are man.
39:55
SPEAKER_00: I mean, everybody's known what they can do to to raise their kid how they feel is right.
40:00
SPEAKER_00: Um, I learned a lot from my parents.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: I was fortunate enough to have my my grandparents around and you know, help out there.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: Um both my dad and my grandpa taught me how to you know work hard and work right, and uh, you know, that was gonna be given to you.
40:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, both my my grandmother and my grandmother very nurturing, very helpful.
40:22
SPEAKER_00: I learned a lot how to cook with both of them, and everybody had something they taught me, and uh I was able to develop my parenting from that.
40:34
SPEAKER_00: Now, whatever my parents taught me went out the window when they became grandparents, because I don't know where I mean they all of a sudden they got money from McDonald's every day.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's just it's so strange how they just turn into big softies with grandkids.
40:54
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a very interesting, bro.
40:57
SPEAKER_03: It's like you won't uh it's like we won't understand it until we get there.
41:01
SPEAKER_03: Would you rather would you rather meet would you rather want to meet your great-great great grandson or great-great-great grandfather?
41:11
SPEAKER_00: I want to see the grandson.
41:13
SPEAKER_00: I want to see what I haven't learned about.
41:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you gotta keep your eyes on the future.
41:18
SPEAKER_00: Past happened.
41:19
SPEAKER_00: You know, people can tell me about the past, you know.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: My grandpa could tell me about his grandfather, his dad, my mom could tell me about this.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: No one's gonna be able to tell me about you know my great-great-great-great grandson.
41:31
SPEAKER_00: I want to see what's up.
41:33
SPEAKER_03: Interesting, bro.
41:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
41:36
SPEAKER_03: So you get into you get into like futuristic stuff, like what you what where you think this, where you think society's will be.
41:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh man, you know, I'm gonna contradict myself because I said focus on the future, but also live in the now.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: Try to be present.
41:52
SPEAKER_00: I mean, who knows what's gonna happen.
41:55
SPEAKER_00: You know, you watch Back to the Future part two.
41:58
SPEAKER_00: 2015 looked way different than from what 2015 actually was.
42:04
SPEAKER_01: Right.
42:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't, you know what I mean?
42:07
SPEAKER_00: So I just kind of just like live in the now, focus on the now, get stuff done for now, and just you know, kind of see what happens with the future, go with the flow.
42:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, that doesn't mean don't plan, that doesn't mean like try to have goals or expectations, but I mean, I don't know where we're gonna be five years from now.
42:28
SPEAKER_03: Do you feel like do you feel like decisions will uh determine what the future will be will hold?
42:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely, man.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: I mean, knowing what we know now compared to what we did two years ago, things could have been a lot different.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, people could still have their businesses, their lives.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: I mean, things could have been so different, and but that's life though, you learn.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: Guarantee you, we ever have to experience anything like what we experienced again, they're not gonna handle it though.
43:05
SPEAKER_00: I mean, actually, they already changed how they handle it.
43:09
SPEAKER_03: Like we adapt, like as uh we know we change uh now, like you said, so that I don't know, I guess maybe so that it it won't happen again, or if it does happen, you know what I mean?
43:22
SPEAKER_00: Or you know what to do when it does happen again.
43:24
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure, bro.
43:26
SPEAKER_03: Cool, man.
43:28
SPEAKER_03: I appreciate you coming on the show, Dell.
43:29
SPEAKER_03: You want to share anything else?
43:32
SPEAKER_00: No, thanks for having me.
43:33
SPEAKER_00: I I appreciate it.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for everyone who listens.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: Order a shirt because they're they're good, they fit big dudes, which I always appreciate.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh like yeah, it's hard to find clothes that fit, right?
43:46
SPEAKER_00: You know right on.
43:48
SPEAKER_03: Which one do you have?
43:48
SPEAKER_03: Is it the all style?
43:50
SPEAKER_03: I have the like the brand.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: Right, what I'm wearing right now?
43:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, the one that you bought from us, the the tag, is it all style?
44:00
SPEAKER_03: Or Gildan?
44:01
SPEAKER_03: Gildan.
44:02
SPEAKER_03: The Gildan one?
44:04
SPEAKER_00: Gilded XL.
44:06
SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of times I'll get a 3XL and it's like this, it fits snug in my shoulders.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, it's a giant bell.
44:14
SPEAKER_00: Whereas like a 2XL might fit my lower torso better, but it's like tight as hell here.
44:21
SPEAKER_00: Like this shirt, it fits me well.
44:23
SPEAKER_00: Your shirts, they fit me well.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: Um, but there's a lot of shirts out there that just won't, they won't, they won't fit.
44:30
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was telling, I was telling Brittany because uh I'm a big dude, I wear 3x myself, and I was like, uh I was gonna try different brands like Pro 5 and uh, you know, of course our style and then the Gilding to see which ones fit because I don't like when they shrink either.
44:46
SPEAKER_03: You know, I'm kind of tall and they shrink, and it's like you know, and we waste the sh you waste the shirt.
44:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's some really cool shirts out there that fit perfect up here, but then they cut off like at my belly button.
44:56
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, shit.
44:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, all you had to do is add like another three inches, yeah.
45:01
SPEAKER_00: Exactly, bro.
45:02
SPEAKER_00: You fit a week ago, yeah.
45:06
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man, exactly, bro.
45:07
SPEAKER_03: It's awesome.
45:08
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well no, we appreciate the business too, man.
45:10
SPEAKER_03: You bought stickers, you can bought shirts.
45:12
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome, man.
45:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I like it.
45:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, it's also really cool to see everybody's taking corpus christi, how the how they want to do it.
45:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, we have made in Corpus Christi, we have this, you know, fresco puts out some shirts.
45:26
SPEAKER_00: All the tattoo shops have a shirt.
45:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's just really cool to see everyone's take on it.
45:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'd like to have a take on it one day.
45:33
SPEAKER_00: I think I shared that with you.
45:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna say, man, I'd like to I like to see when it comes out.
45:38
SPEAKER_00: I like I like like to me, all that like retrow wave stuff reminds me of the city.
45:46
SPEAKER_00: Um I'll have to send it to you, but there's an old K triple I promo that's pretty much signing off saying, Hey, you know, good night, Corpus Christie, right?
45:57
SPEAKER_00: Like it used to back in the day.
45:58
SPEAKER_00: Old school used to actually shut off for a bit.
46:02
SPEAKER_00: Um and they play uh that song by Drake, I think it's called Lights, when the lights go down in the city, and the sun shines on the bay.
46:15
SPEAKER_00: That song to me, even though it's about I think it's about San Francisco, that song's purely corpus.
46:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do tell you aesthetic around that time, you know, the way everything was designed, you know, fonts, everything, whether it be like the cool trendy thing or even the classic sign for a store, everything just looked really good.
46:36
SPEAKER_00: Cool, I feel, you know, and I that song reminds me of the city.
46:40
SPEAKER_00: The way everything looks in that video reminds me of the city.
46:44
SPEAKER_02: Wow, bro.
46:45
SPEAKER_00: I think it's it was perfectly done.
46:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, that dude still works at KH Fly, he's a cool guy.
46:53
SPEAKER_03: That's what's up, bro.
46:54
SPEAKER_03: It's like people have different memories of the city.
46:58
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man, that's awesome.
46:59
SPEAKER_03: And it's pretty cool.
47:00
SPEAKER_03: I hope my brand does that for people, you know.
47:03
SPEAKER_03: It's more purpose, it's more like purpose-driven for me instead of just like oh, I mean, I like design, I like the designs and all that stuff.
47:10
SPEAKER_03: Like, I want to put a post like, Hey, what does the brand, what does this brand mean to you?
47:14
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
47:15
SPEAKER_00: Do a story poll.
47:16
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, good idea.
47:18
SPEAKER_03: What is that exactly?
47:19
SPEAKER_03: So, how how how do you post that with like one of those?
47:22
SPEAKER_00: So, you you can create um your story with video or with a picture, and you add your little poll sticker in there.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: And now with an update that came out February, you can have more than two choices, and I think you can even have a fill-in option.
47:40
SPEAKER_03: Oh, nice, heck yeah, dude.
47:43
SPEAKER_00: You can use the question sticker, right?
47:45
SPEAKER_00: And then have them and then share the responses in and post after.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: People love that shit.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh, look, there's me.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: There's my answer.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: People are obsessing themselves, everybody is.
47:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hey, do you like that idea the uh about like tagging somebody for like a giveaway?
48:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a great idea.
48:03
SPEAKER_00: People love being tagged, yeah, for sure.
48:06
SPEAKER_03: Man, that's cool, bro.
48:07
SPEAKER_03: I gotta talk to you about some more some more about that stuff.
48:09
SPEAKER_03: It's really helpful.
48:10
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, I mean, I think like I like your take.
48:16
SPEAKER_00: Like when you look at your logo and stuff, the corpus crucival is not whatever uh graphic you have it with, but you have like this old English Corpus Christi, it's like reminiscent of the color times, it's reminiscent of like kind of like a Chicano lifestyle, and it's also just like something everybody can relate to, you know, and then you have this nice little cursive originals, like it mixes it up, and I think it's really good, I think it flows well, and then you just share like your little graphic with it, and it's good.
48:46
SPEAKER_03: Cool, man.
48:47
SPEAKER_03: I appreciate that.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: I love the brain wave, you know what I mean?
48:51
SPEAKER_00: And then you have my my uh my son took the sticker, I don't want him to.
48:56
SPEAKER_00: I liked it, but the hat like that.
48:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, it's classic.
49:01
SPEAKER_00: Like, how many kids have you seen at Sunrise Mall fucking around public like that?
49:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, bro.
49:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, same shit, dude.
49:08
SPEAKER_00: Like, there's all these little things about the city that you know it had it had the city has a feel, yeah.
49:15
SPEAKER_00: And I think people I think you have you're on to a good thing and how to like bring that across.
49:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it's important when you talk about the city to have that feel come across, you know, when you're trying to get people to come here.
49:27
SPEAKER_00: People are coming here, they're not gonna stop coming here, but we want to also like bring new people here, you know what I mean.
49:33
SPEAKER_00: Um there's no reason why people should only come here to fish for a tournament.
49:39
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
49:40
SPEAKER_00: Like we should see droves of people coming in fishing.
49:45
SPEAKER_00: We should see a bunch of people come out here to come eat some food, you know what I mean?
49:49
SPEAKER_00: Like look at our look at our brewery scene.
49:52
SPEAKER_00: We've got Lazy Beach, Rebel, Lorelei, Noasis.
49:57
SPEAKER_00: Look how quickly that's growing.
49:59
SPEAKER_00: Lazy Beach like paved that way, like they got that shit started for us.
50:03
SPEAKER_00: And so it's really cool to see everything coming up.
50:07
SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh we have Aerodrome out in the bluff area by NAS.
50:15
SPEAKER_00: Got a distillery there.
50:17
SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's so much here to do, there's so much here to love.
50:22
SPEAKER_00: It really is a little hidden gem of Texas.
50:27
SPEAKER_00: It is, and it's like a cliche thing they're saying hidden gem, but it is and the Gulf Coast is filled with little treasures, and I think we're the giant the the biggest gemstone you can find in the box.
50:37
SPEAKER_03: It's crazy, bro.
50:39
SPEAKER_00: We're not as large as like Galveston Houston area, but it's a little spot, you can find a beach house and Rock Port Portoranzas corpus.
50:50
SPEAKER_00: You can find a little hotel, little condo somewhere to enjoy the beach, and you could on a little food journey, you can go on a little beer thing, you can go so many different things here.
51:01
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, bro.
51:01
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
51:02
SPEAKER_03: That's very appreciative, man.
51:04
SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
51:05
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, yeah, I keep trying to say goodbye, man.
51:08
SPEAKER_03: Okay, we gotta get going.
51:09
SPEAKER_03: I appreciate you coming on for furrow.
51:11
SPEAKER_03: Uh, tell the family we said hi, and uh, yeah, we'll we're gonna be posting this up.
51:15
SPEAKER_00: So totally, thanks for having me.
51:16
SPEAKER_00: I really appreciate it.
51:18
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, bro.
51:19
SPEAKER_00: Keep doing what you do, man.
51:20
SPEAKER_00: I like I like it.
51:21
SPEAKER_03: Thanks, man.
51:21
SPEAKER_03: I appreciate that.
51:22
SPEAKER_03: You have a good day, Dale.
51:23
SPEAKER_00: You take it easy.
51:24
SPEAKER_03: All right, y'all.
51:25
SPEAKER_03: That was Del Stefan.
51:26
SPEAKER_03: Um, I'll leave some links in the description so you can find them online.
51:30
SPEAKER_03: You can follow his page.
51:31
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