Latest / The Chris and Mike Show / #148 - Michael Castillo - "Michael Castillo Day"
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- 0:09There you go. What's up, boys and girls?
- 0:11Welcome to Chris Mike Show. It's the Michael Castillo.
- 0:14Day. We're going to dump this going
- 0:18Michael Castillo Day. Yeah, October 28th.
- 0:23It's like tight end day on Sundays of this past Sunday for
- 0:26the NFL, right? October 20th, Michael Castillo
- 0:29Day. Damn straight man.
- 0:42We got to bleed a little longer. I'm going to find him.
- 0:47Chill. The hands don't make it jump.
- 0:54Quite clear. Yeah.
- 1:01What's up, boys and girls? It's Chris and Mike.
- 1:02Show this. This.
- 1:03He's Mike. I'm Chris.
- 1:04This is Michael Castillo. And we are live now on the
- 1:08Twitch and the YouTube and Mike. And I look for you chiming in on
- 1:12the chat this time like. No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:16So if you don't know who Michael Castillo is, you're going to
- 1:19find out on you. But he legit has been falling
- 1:23with like, what seems like forever.
- 1:26He tunes in quite frequently on our live show, so we're super
- 1:29excited to finally have him on the.
- 1:30Show always very positive, which I totally appreciate.
- 1:34Which we love words of. Encouragement and yeah, no,
- 1:36it's, it's awesome. It's welcomed and you were
- 1:39there, like Chris said, literally you're the first
- 1:42frequent follower from the get go.
- 1:43So welcome. It's super cool to have you on
- 1:47here. I'm excited to be here, guys.
- 1:49Now here's here's a question around the gate.
- 1:51Why? Why do you love us?
- 1:52Why do you love us so much? Well, I actually I'll, I'll tell
- 1:56you why. OK, cool.
- 1:58Multiple reasons, really. OK, First of all, your
- 2:01background, I've I've, I've, I've fade to myself a novice
- 2:05musician and for a time I really wanted to kind of pursue that,
- 2:10but it never really went anywhere.
- 2:13And then on top of that, the fact that you guys have talked
- 2:19about recovery, which is very near and dear to me.
- 2:22I'm I I happen to be in recovery.
- 2:24Right on good jobs, How long? Well, if I don't drink before
- 2:31January 1st, 5 years. Oh.
- 2:35You're not going to drink, man. No drinking allowed.
- 2:38Got a good head start? Yes, Sir.
- 2:40Yes, Sir. That's awesome, man.
- 2:42Yeah, I'm very excited, very excited.
- 2:45So you definitely jive with us on the music and the recovery
- 2:52part for sure. Cool.
- 2:53Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely. IA lot of the previous guests
- 2:58I've really enjoyed there was I'm terrible with names.
- 3:03Unfortunately, there was. A gentleman in particular who
- 3:05was it was also from the South. I could tell because I
- 3:09recognized the accident right away, being that I too am also
- 3:14from the South. But he was he, he was a country
- 3:17fella. I think he was living in the
- 3:19mountains and he Dwayne. Played a song for you.
- 3:21Dwayne. Dwayne.
- 3:23Parker Yeah, yeah. Yeah, my truck's on crack.
- 3:26Yeah, yeah, it was hilarious. I loved it.
- 3:30Right. He was awesome, dude.
- 3:32He was. He was.
- 3:33Sitting in the He was sitting in the middle of nowhere today,
- 3:36literally out in Alabama, somewhere town I'd never heard
- 3:40of, just him and his guitar and got his phone set up and he's
- 3:43live streaming on Facebook while I was on a break at work.
- 3:46Oh wow, like you going? I got AI, got a buddy of mine
- 3:50who I used to jam with virtually.
- 3:52Who? Who does that as well?
- 3:54Cool. So from from music wise, because
- 3:57that's how you kind of find your connection with us.
- 3:59What do what do you play? What instrument do you sing?
- 4:02Do you guitar, Drums. Well, I've always faced myself,
- 4:05a singer who plays guitar. It's definitely not the other
- 4:07way around. I've always been a rhythm
- 4:10player, bit of a songwriter and part of time, like I said, you
- 4:15know, it's I kind of had an inflated ego after playing a
- 4:19couple of gigs, had a lot of fun doing that.
- 4:22And after a while I was just like, well, you know, I guess I,
- 4:25I need to kind of slow down and start doing grown up stuff and.
- 4:30I know this sucks. Right, pay the bills.
- 4:31Now you don't have, you don't have an inflated ego, because to
- 4:34be a musician, to stand up on stage, regardless if it's one
- 4:37person or or 10,000, you have to have some type of ego.
- 4:40You just have to. You can't because if you don't,
- 4:42if you don't, you'll have what happened to the original lead
- 4:44singer that Mike had. He won't go on stage, stage.
- 4:48He's he's afraid. It's stage fight.
- 4:50So you have to have something in you to willingly step out and be
- 4:55in front of, you know, like I said, one to 10,000 people
- 4:58because regardless, it's actually more nerve wracking
- 5:01with, you know, 10-15 people than it is with.
- 5:05Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Like, I used to play parties a
- 5:10lot. You know, I get invited to play
- 5:13at parties and actually book gigs for private parties.
- 5:16And, you know, the numbers would range from like, you know, 20-30
- 5:21to 5060. I think the biggest party I
- 5:23played was like 80 people. But the biggest gig I ever did
- 5:27was back in 2016. It was called the Creek Music
- 5:32Revival. I was with a band called MO and
- 5:35the Rusty Tricycle. There's there's a bit of a story
- 5:40behind that name. Well, yeah, I actually like it.
- 5:43I do too. It's, it's, it's, it's like 13
- 5:45naked midgets you can't forget. That was coming back.
- 5:48It's MO and the rusty tricycle. Well, what was funny was is we
- 5:52were kind of me and the guys were kind of rolling around some
- 5:55names and I come up with I thought were really good names
- 5:58and they were like, Nah, Nah, we don't know.
- 6:01No, it's it's not favorable. They they won't like that.
- 6:03I'm like, well, I don't care. I'm not doing it for them.
- 6:06Nice brights. You know, I want something
- 6:09unique to us. Yes.
- 6:12So yeah, unfortunately a couple of names I can't really think of
- 6:16right off the top of my head, but I know later on it's going
- 6:18to come to me. Yeah, because I'm just, you
- 6:21know, getting on up there, as you can see.
- 6:24Yeah. Oh yeah?
- 6:25Well, how old are you? 48 as of Saturday.
- 6:28OK 55505252 OK, I had a recent recent recent.
- 6:35So we're all Gen. Xers.
- 6:37Yeah, well, hell. Yeah, for sure.
- 6:38Yeah, yeah. We're that generation that
- 6:40actually knows what hard work is and knows what we expect is and
- 6:44know that you don't park in handicapped spaces and that you
- 6:46don't fucking move barricades when it says closed Rd. because
- 6:50you follow the rules on certain levels of society you don't
- 6:54make. One of people who can't defend
- 6:56themselves. Right, right.
- 6:58You know, yeah. OK, so I I just thought of it.
- 7:01Alright, so the name that we were, I was trying to pitch it's
- 7:06it's kind of funny to me. It kind of makes you chuckle,
- 7:09but it was the fat rabbit beat down.
- 7:14See, but that's that's dude #1 imagery for that would be
- 7:17fantastic. Right.
- 7:18See, there it goes, right? Away, yeah, image imagery
- 7:21because imaging every image is everything when it comes to
- 7:23music I mean. We had ideas for.
- 7:25T-shirts. Oh yeah, I bet, I bet.
- 7:27Like, there's an image of this, like, cartoon rabbit who's like,
- 7:31got a black eye and missing tooth and right on with a beer
- 7:34in his hand. You know, I thought that that
- 7:37was very typical and it would win over the crowd.
- 7:39But unfortunately my bandmates were like, yeah, that's no, we
- 7:42can't. Eat if your bandmates were
- 7:44wrong, man. I know I agree.
- 7:48Imagine if we would have stuck with Fat Rabbit beat down.
- 7:51We'd probably still be together. OK, so it was.
- 7:55So tell me again what the rabbit was.
- 7:56A fat rabbit? Create a fat rabbit with a black
- 7:59eye. Yeah, fat rabbit with a black
- 8:02eye. Like a missing tooth and then,
- 8:05you know, very stereotypical redneckish look like a wife
- 8:10beater with some holes in it, cigarette hanging out of his
- 8:14mouth. And like Chris is.
- 8:15Multitasking. Oh yeah, Dave, I'm.
- 8:17Going to I'm making a video of what I'm telling.
- 8:20You right, I knew this was coming.
- 8:25Hanging out of his mouth. What kind of guitar do you
- 8:30prefer, Mike? Oh, that's a good one.
- 8:34Yeah, well, initially I liked. I was a huge Fender fan, OK, You
- 8:39know, I love Stratocasters just because they were so versatile.
- 8:42That was the look that drew me to want to play the guitar.
- 8:46That look. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 8:48I mean, Stevie Ray Vaughan was like my hero.
- 8:51Oh, we can get along, absolutely.
- 8:53Hero. That is 1 guitar tone that I
- 8:55could listen to for the rest of my life.
- 8:57You couldn't torture me with that.
- 8:58It would only. I know I'm right there with you.
- 9:01There's so many songs that I just absolutely love that, and I
- 9:04love his vocal style too. And he hated it.
- 9:08He did. That's he did.
- 9:09He did not like singing. Can you imagine anybody else
- 9:12singing those songs? No.
- 9:14Because the emotion pours out of it.
- 9:16He hated his voice. I find that so sad.
- 9:18Yeah, he there was an interview I watched with him where he was
- 9:23actually talking about how much he hated singing and how that
- 9:28like he he described it as hamburger throat.
- 9:31And after doing some shows, I'm like, yeah, I can relate to
- 9:34that. Yeah, definitely.
- 9:35I'm sure Chris can too. OK, What's not to interrupt?
- 9:39What is? I don't know how I want to do
- 9:40this. I want your phone number, Mike.
- 9:42I'll give you my number. I'll give you.
- 9:43I'll give you my number. I'll give you my number.
- 9:45You text me because my numbers aren't on the page.
- 9:46Yeah, don't give his number out. OK, you're ready.
- 9:49Yeah, I want you to text me because I'm going to send you
- 9:52the picture. OK well I'm I'm on my phone now
- 9:55so I have to do it like afterwards but.
- 9:58OK, let. Me see, but I I can't.
- 10:00Wait to see the picture. I sent it to you.
- 10:01I sent it to you, Mike. There's four of them.
- 10:04I don't know if you can see it. There's four of them.
- 10:05Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it. I love it.
- 10:08So you can tell me which one you like and then I'll have it
- 10:12downloaded and send it to you after the show.
- 10:14OK, well. I'm hold on, I can see.
- 10:17Two, you guys keep talking, we can do this.
- 10:21OK, if you. Move it, move it over just a
- 10:23hair to your right. I think it would be your right
- 10:26or no. OK, your left then.
- 10:28OK. Yeah, I'm still not seeing it.
- 10:31OK. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
- 10:33I'll put it on my computer and then I'll share the screen.
- 10:35OK, Magic moments. Yeah, absolutely.
- 10:47I love the fact. Well, I mean, obviously I'm a
- 10:50big techno buff. Right on, hence being the
- 10:53author. But yeah.
- 10:56Yeah, cuz I Yeah. So author of what Buddy?
- 11:00OK, so it's my first book. It's called The Cyber Dance.
- 11:04It is a cyberpunk, science fiction, murder mystery, wild
- 11:11ride kind of thing. Yes.
- 11:13Yeah, and it's the first of a series that I plan on working
- 11:17on. I'm actually working on the
- 11:19second installment now. And if all goes according to
- 11:22plan, I could publish as early as spring next year.
- 11:27We're done. That's awesome.
- 11:29So we're going to make it a point.
- 11:30We're going to make it a point now to remind you that when you
- 11:34are at the point of publishing this, you're going to come on
- 11:37back on the show prior. To.
- 11:39That when you have a publication date, I'll put this on YouTube,
- 11:43I'll put, I'll put this on our Facebook page.
- 11:45So then we can, we can, we can pimp you out to the world.
- 11:49Sweet. Because you know, you watch this
- 11:52enough, you know, that's what we do.
- 11:53We mean Mike and I are Mike and I, but we like having folks on
- 11:57like you that have a life, really cool life resume and have
- 12:02things happening in your in your world.
- 12:04So it's on on Facebook. You're Michael R Castillo,
- 12:07right? Yeah, now that's that's my
- 12:09author page. So yes, yeah.
- 12:12That's what I got, yeah. Here is the logo for.
- 12:17Oh, I love it. I love it.
- 12:19There you go. OK.
- 12:20So the one the one I really like is like for me, it's the the one
- 12:24that's in the bottom right hand corner.
- 12:26I think that one's my favorite. Me too.
- 12:31Yeah. Man, the upper left hand corner,
- 12:33well, they're all bad. The.
- 12:34Upper left. Headquarters like a It's a.
- 12:36Really, I finally figured out how to share it.
- 12:39Nice job, Mike. Good job.
- 12:40Yeah, that looks amazing. So, so that's a new, that's a
- 12:43new app that that that medics created called Meta AI.
- 12:48So so real simple. I you heard me type in what I
- 12:51typed, I said just make me an create an image of a fat rabbit
- 12:55with a black eye dangling cigarette playing guitar in a
- 12:58redneck type outfit. That's it man.
- 13:02That bottom right corner is tight.
- 13:04It is well, well I so the things that like the top left and the
- 13:08bottom right that they have in corner is or have in common is
- 13:11the overalls. Which?
- 13:13Definitely captures that atmosphere.
- 13:15Yeah, so cool. Yeah.
- 13:17I love it. It's amazing, right?
- 13:19It's just it mind boggling what it does man.
- 13:21Well, when I was writing the book, I had to do a lot of
- 13:24research into AI. Yeah.
- 13:27Oh, right on. Because one of the characters is
- 13:30in fact an ASI, an artificial super intelligence.
- 13:34That's cool and. You're speaking my language
- 13:37again. Dude, this, this book, I'm
- 13:40telling you, it's like, well, it's, it's definitely sci-fi.
- 13:43Like if you like Blade Runner. Oh damn.
- 13:45Right, with maybe a, a slight mix of the matrix and maybe,
- 13:54let's see, maybe a hint of Terminator sorta the there's,
- 14:00there's this, this book's for you.
- 14:02There's there's actually. Part and I'll be buying it for
- 14:05sure. You just talked me into it.
- 14:06Oh, well, thank you. Thank you.
- 14:07Very much so when it when you start developing the movie we
- 14:10want. To turn your volume up if you're
- 14:11going to lean back there. I'm sorry if when you start
- 14:14developing the movie, Mike and I want to do the soundtrack.
- 14:16OK. You can help because you're a
- 14:19musician too. So we can, Yeah, we can be the
- 14:22We can be the Fat Rabbit band. Yeah.
- 14:24And turn the soundtrack. Yeah, I just downloaded about
- 14:2727,000 instruments into this computer with the new studio,
- 14:31Yeah. Oh no shit.
- 14:33Yeah, it came with this massive pack of drums and sense and Oh
- 14:38yeah, we can do some crazy stuff.
- 14:39Now that is insane. Yeah, 179 bucks a year.
- 14:42Now you can have like 20,000 instruments in your MacBook Pro
- 14:46where you know what, even 20 years ago that would have cost
- 14:49you millions of dollars, right? Because you would have had to
- 14:52have a studio, you would have had to buy a big board, you
- 14:55would have had to buy all the out Ford gear, you would had to
- 14:58actually build the studio itself, which is incredibly
- 15:01expensive. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
- 15:03I was blown away. Walls and yeah, yeah.
- 15:06So, so I'm gonna, I don't know, this is good.
- 15:08This is gonna put you on a spot. So you look to me like somebody
- 15:10that would kind of kind of sound a little bit raspy, bluesy when
- 15:13you say. Yes, yes.
- 15:15That's, yeah, that's exactly it, yeah.
- 15:17So you've heard me sing because Freeman's our song.
- 15:18One of our songs, yeah. Yeah.
- 15:20So. So we'll have a nice dynamic
- 15:22when we build your soundtrack. That's pretty cool.
- 15:24That was. Fun.
- 15:27I, I tell you what, I'll throw out a recommendation for you
- 15:30because it's probably the only, the only song I'm really proud
- 15:34of. It's also the only video that I
- 15:37that I recorded where I was sober.
- 15:42I mean like stone cold sober. Is it on the name of the song?
- 15:46Is it on YouTube? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 15:48It's on my channel on YouTube, but it's called Meant to Be.
- 15:53I I recorded that in the in my buddy's patio is my best friend
- 16:00out Waycross GA. OK, nice.
- 16:04That sounds like an out of the way place.
- 16:07Well, yeah, but as the name implies, it's Waycross.
- 16:10Georgia Waycross, GA And there it is right there.
- 16:14Yeah, that's it. That's it.
- 16:18They'll probably they'll probably shut us down because
- 16:21YouTube doesn't like us playing music.
- 16:22The. Fucks, I got you.
- 16:25Well, he'll be. Fine.
- 16:26Did you see that? As I said that, Michael looked
- 16:29at me through the video. Did that on purpose.
- 16:32You steal my shit, blow that screen up.
- 16:44I'm trying to. I like your voice, man.
- 16:54Me too. I wrote that 20 years ago.
- 17:00Dude, that's a great melody. Yeah.
- 17:02Thank you. It's actually in the key of E
- 17:07minor, but it's easier to play K foot on the second fret.
- 17:21I can hear all kinds of atmospheric guitars behind that.
- 17:25I can, I can hear backing vocals on that.
- 17:28That's beautiful, yeah. Thank you.
- 17:32I think with this talking over, YouTube may not shut us down.
- 17:35That's why I'm not. That's why I'm not being quiet.
- 17:37I'm still listening to it. It's his music.
- 17:40All he's know we would say it's OK, OK, OK.
- 17:44They'll send him something first, OK?
- 17:50I think about what I could tell you.
- 17:54I think that was eight years ago actually, when I did that video
- 17:59seven or eight years ago. Name hat too.
- 18:08Right, right on. Yeah.
- 18:26Big drums. Yeah.
- 18:28Yeah, Big drums, Yeah. I was very proud of this song,
- 18:33very proud. You should be.
- 18:36It's a good song, man. Thank you, I'm a proud.
- 18:41You scream very much. That takes a lot, Mike.
- 18:45Your screen went black, Michael. Yeah, we can't see it for some
- 18:49reason. There you are.
- 18:51OK. All right.
- 18:52Welcome back to the World Cup. Some some message came up.
- 18:55Sorry. Oh yeah.
- 18:56It's. OK.
- 18:58Oh, that's why. That's why Lemoyne's kept going
- 19:01doing that. Oh yeah, OK.
- 19:04We kept getting messages. Yeah.
- 19:07Dude I'm super impressed man. Thank you.
- 19:10Thank you very much. I love this finger picking part.
- 19:18That's that was my my favorite thing about it.
- 19:23Your accents are right on big drums.
- 19:45I actually I played this at a a a Bar and Grill called LL Creek
- 19:51in Waycross, GA, downtown Waycross.
- 19:54And there were a couple other musicians there who were hanging
- 19:57out and performing and they decided to back me on that song.
- 20:01So there was a little lead action.
- 20:04It was nice. I'll tell you how you know.
- 20:17It's a great song, Mike. How's this?
- 20:20You don't need any of the shit that Chris and I are talking
- 20:23about. It would just make it cooler,
- 20:25right? Yeah, A great song can be played
- 20:28just like this, right? It doesn't need anything else.
- 20:31All that other stuff is just icing on the cake, you know?
- 20:35Yeah, that means a lot. I mean, I like I really.
- 20:40Mean it. I don't hand that out
- 20:42lightheartedly because I love music as much as the rest of us.
- 20:46That's been my whole life. So that's a great song.
- 20:50I would listen to that over and over again.
- 20:52It was it it, It came to me one night.
- 20:55I was dating this girl who ended up being my second wife and I
- 21:03wrote it to impress her. And did it.
- 21:08Yeah, we ended up getting married.
- 21:11I mean, 10 years later we divorced, but you know,
- 21:13whatever. Yeah, I, I, I've written quite a
- 21:19few songs for Nikki, but I already she was already married
- 21:23to me, so she's and stuff. Yeah, OK.
- 21:26You know, like fun fact, I actually performed this song at
- 21:29our wedding. Oh, right on.
- 21:37Always me man, if I be baby I know.
- 21:50Everything would be our man and I to who wants.
- 22:04You to. Be you probably noticed the
- 22:10lights on the umbrella there. That was that was my buddy's
- 22:14idea. That's perfect, man.
- 22:43Man, Mikey's killing it. I mean that man.
- 22:50I'm super impressed. Thank you.
- 22:52Thank you very much. I love hearing new music.
- 22:57That blows me away. You just did it that that.
- 23:01Means a lot, especially coming from you guys, that really means
- 23:05a lot. It always means that much.
- 23:07Coming from another musician, It doesn't.
- 23:09You don't have to watch this. Video I was drunk, yeah.
- 23:12I was drunk as shit in that one. I was trying to catch it before
- 23:15it started. Yeah, there's a lot of
- 23:19unfortunately there's a lot of videos of me rather snuck or
- 23:23but. That one, we're glad there
- 23:25wasn't social media when we were in Nemesis.
- 23:28So yeah, we don't. Those stories stay in the past.
- 23:32Yeah, well, I was, I was fairly like recently divorced when I
- 23:39started to like get back out there music wise because I mean,
- 23:42when we met, I was already playing and and doing stuff.
- 23:46My my ex-wife and and I hung it up when we got together.
- 23:52And then when we split up, I was just like, well, I'm going to go
- 23:54with what I know. And I went back to music and
- 23:58kind of dove head first in and I started, you know, doing gigs
- 24:03and and playing parties and I played that music festival and
- 24:07was it was a wild time. That's one thing I've avoided
- 24:10for that reason alone is just going out and playing live
- 24:14again. I like sitting here and being
- 24:16able to create and do my own thing and I'm getting way more
- 24:19confident and I had it. So we'll definitely be releasing
- 24:21some stuff here way sooner than what we had talked about two
- 24:24years ago. The cool thing about you being
- 24:26on here today, Mikey, is 3 days ago.
- 24:29We started this two years ago, which is a crazy weird thing to
- 24:33oh. Yeah, there it is.
- 24:35Say time wise but. Yeah, that's awesome.
- 24:37So we're we're. So if it's so 3 days from now is
- 24:41our. Is no.
- 24:41Three days ago we started two years ago.
- 24:45October 25th was the first time we actually released an episode.
- 24:49Oh wow, so you guys did it on my birthday.
- 24:51That's cool. Happy birthday.
- 24:53Well, thanks. Geez, so you got your birthday
- 24:56on October 25th and now October 28th is Mikey Castillo Day.
- 25:00Not way. I'm loving it.
- 25:02I mean, I'm loving it. You could just you just.
- 25:04That's it. I meant walk away.
- 25:05Seinfeld. Bye.
- 25:06See you. Yeah.
- 25:07Mic drop. George Costanza, my ladder
- 25:10complete. So fun fact.
- 25:12I love this whole that visual dude you designed.
- 25:16It. Yeah, yeah.
- 25:17I mean, it was AI assisted, but sure.
- 25:19Yeah, I designed it. Kind of like the fat rabbit.
- 25:22I love it. Yes, yeah.
- 25:25So, so we had so so, so you probably were, you probably were
- 25:28on the OR or watching the show or, or watched it with Dennis
- 25:31Campbell, the guy that's been doing AI since he was 20.
- 25:34Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how deep down the rabbit hole
- 25:38have you gone? Because he's 15 years into what?
- 25:40What's what's? Your.
- 25:41What's your? Length of time, All right, So 15
- 25:44years. It definitely kind of blows me
- 25:47out of the water because I didn't start really digging deep
- 25:51until I started to get the idea for the book.
- 25:55And the idea for the book came to me.
- 25:57It was like a couple weeks before Christmas last year.
- 26:01I was sitting on the couch taking care of my nephew and I
- 26:07just thought I, I had this wild, insane idea that's
- 26:11unfortunately, it's not really original, but right.
- 26:14It just, I, I, I thought, man, this will be a cool story.
- 26:17And, and the idea was what would I do if my consciousness were
- 26:22uploaded into cyberspace? What would I do?
- 26:25How would I feel? What you know, what would my
- 26:27experiences be like? What would I see, You know, And
- 26:32the story sort of snowballed from there.
- 26:35OK. And then it turned into a murder
- 26:37mystery. And like one of the characters
- 26:42has DID dissociative identity disorder.
- 26:46That's multiple personality disorder.
- 26:48Oh, right on. She's a lot of fun.
- 26:51OK, absolutely don't give don't give away too many of your
- 26:53carrots because we want people to buy the book.
- 26:55But definitely. Definitely.
- 26:56Yeah, yeah. Definitely dangle, dangle some
- 26:58stuff. So it it, it's intriguing
- 27:00because I like that. I like the character.
- 27:02That's a cool character. So, so the whole premise, not
- 27:04the interruption, but the whole premise is this is if if you're
- 27:07if your entire basically get uploaded into, into into
- 27:11cyberspace. Well, that's how it started.
- 27:15But the story revolves around the the main protan.
- 27:19The main protagonist is a guy named Rains Thomas Michael Rains
- 27:25and. Good name by the way it.
- 27:28Is that's awesome. I love it.
- 27:29Good serial killer name. Yeah, yeah, I thought so.
- 27:32Too I did I. Thought so too.
- 27:35You know, it's funny because like he, like his history
- 27:40revolves around being in like a, a Black Ops type thing where
- 27:47they were called the shadow division.
- 27:49That's that's mentioned in the book.
- 27:52But I'm not going to give too much away.
- 27:55But basically the book starts off where his consciousness is
- 27:59uploaded into cyberspace. OK.
- 28:01And then shit just hits the fan from there.
- 28:05That's I can imagine man, cuz this just from that concept
- 28:08alone I'm, I'm, I'm thinking like, oh, now the now all the
- 28:11dreams can become reality cuz it's cyberspace.
- 28:14Yeah, yeah. And because and because cyber AI
- 28:17doesn't understand fact from fiction yet, right, It's not it
- 28:19doesn't have that method yet as we totally.
- 28:22Lends itself to the movie world. Right, right.
- 28:25As as Dennis, as Dennis talked about, the more we feed AI, the
- 28:29more advanced it's going to get, which, yeah, in the short time
- 28:32we had Dennis on the show to where we're at now, the leaps
- 28:35and bounds that some of the apps that I use are are freaking mind
- 28:40bolling. Because my big thing, like
- 28:41whenever I do some of my videos, I always sign off with until
- 28:44next time. See you.
- 28:45Well, it doesn't it doesn't pick up that inflection.
- 28:48So but the more you feed the machine, the closer it's going
- 28:53to get to eventually in 10 years when I do that, it'll pick it up
- 28:56verbatim. And there's some stuff I've sent
- 28:58Mike he and afterwards I'm going to do that with AI.
- 29:01He's like, what? Because it's just.
- 29:03That's the only reason I knew the second time I listened to it
- 29:06is he does have that tagline and it doesn't pick up that high
- 29:10pitched inflection in his voice ever.
- 29:12Oh, wow. So if you know, if you didn't
- 29:15know Chris, you wouldn't know that it was AI.
- 29:18But knowing him as long as I have, when I listened to it the
- 29:21second time, it creeped me the fuck out because I was like, OK,
- 29:24now there's no emotion that that's like robot Chris, right?
- 29:27Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool, man.
- 29:31Dennis basically said, you know, the more like he said, the more
- 29:35we feed it, the smarter it gets. And everybody keeps saying, you
- 29:38know, it's going to take all these jobs.
- 29:40Yeah, it's going to take a lot of jobs.
- 29:42But he basically had the positive spin on it.
- 29:44It's going to create other jobs. It will it.
- 29:48Will, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, a lot of doors
- 29:51that will open and a lot of people kind of get hung up on
- 29:55the doors that'll close and they just sort of don't allow
- 29:59themselves to see the, the other possibilities, the other side,
- 30:02which is that there will be opportunities that will open.
- 30:06You know, there will be new things available.
- 30:09I, I just, I, I'm, I'm very excited about it, obviously
- 30:14being an inspiration to, to my story.
- 30:18Now, Rain's just getting back to that briefly.
- 30:20Yeah, yeah. He's not what is referred to as
- 30:23the ASI. He's not the artificial super
- 30:26intelligence. And I can I can mention that
- 30:29character Elysian he. Yeah, another name for heaven
- 30:34for those of you who don't. Know.
- 30:35Yeah, exactly, exactly. It's a Greek.
- 30:38If I remember correctly, it's a reference to the Elysian Fields,
- 30:42where I. Was gonna go.
- 30:43Heroes die and that's where they go.
- 30:45Basically similar to Valhalla for Vikings.
- 30:48Yeah, correct. So that's where I got the name
- 30:51from and but Elysian is anything but good.
- 30:56Right. Oh, your character, right.
- 31:00Yes, OK, cool. That's cool.
- 31:01So it's a so it's a OK, I like that.
- 31:03I likethat.com right there. And I can I can give that away
- 31:06because that it it says it on the back of the book the the
- 31:09description. Oh, cool, right now.
- 31:11But yeah, I mean, there's like a hacker collective called Chaos
- 31:15Nation that gets involved in this.
- 31:17And then there's the the chick with DID.
- 31:22Her name's Clara, who has an alternate personality named
- 31:27Angel. There you go.
- 31:28I'm not going to give too much away there.
- 31:30But I have one plain name character, Christos.
- 31:34He's dissing you for Clara. I'm like, Jesus, you got to have
- 31:36one real name in there. Otherwise it gets like all this
- 31:39guy was just trying to go too far outside the box, right?
- 31:42He thinks he's so smart. Like you got to have a Clara, OK
- 31:45or a Karen in there somewhere. I'll give you that.
- 31:47I'll give you that. Please tell me that Clara is
- 31:50kind of like the person who gets everybody else in trouble.
- 31:56No. Oh God, Dang it.
- 31:58No, Clara is actually very mousy.
- 32:02She's she's petite, not social at all.
- 32:08Very reserved. OK, maybe that's what I was
- 32:11picturing, but. Yeah, she's socially awkward.
- 32:14Yeah, OK. She's she's extremely socially
- 32:16awkward. However, her.
- 32:18Alternate. Yeah, her alternate Angel.
- 32:22I'm not going to say she's the opposite, but she's like cold
- 32:27and menacing. Nice look at us go.
- 32:33You'll be a prop. You're like, just like Nikki.
- 32:35Nikki and I finished sentences and shit.
- 32:36It's crazy. Yeah, well, we've done this like
- 32:39what, 100 and 49150? Times and we've known each other
- 32:42for 30 years time I've known my wife.
- 32:44So there you go. Oh wow.
- 32:45Yeah, yeah. That's a tub.
- 32:48I love this whole concept, dude. When did you say this book's
- 32:50coming out? Now the cyberdance is already
- 32:54out. Well, I gotta have this in my
- 32:56life then. Yeah, yeah.
- 32:57It's where do people get it? It's on Amazon.
- 33:01It's also available on Audible and on iTunes.
- 33:05I think I have access to Audible.
- 33:07So on the show and the person who I got narrating is actually
- 33:14a very well, I'd say a somewhat well known social media content
- 33:19creator. OK.
- 33:21She also does narration, so it was an experience working with
- 33:25her. That's really cool that you got.
- 33:27I just, I guess I just realized what you said.
- 33:30That's really cool that you have it narrated on Audible.
- 33:33That's awesome. Yeah, Yeah, I can say that.
- 33:36Well, originally I had toyed around with doing the narration
- 33:42myself, but she offered her services and I thought, OK,
- 33:47well, you know, I've listened to what you can do.
- 33:49Sure, and she did an amazing job, I think.
- 33:53Cool the fact. You're Cyberdance.
- 33:55Is all that matters because you're the one that wrote the
- 33:57book, so that's awesome that you're happy with the outcome.
- 34:00I was, I was, I was quite pleased.
- 34:02She she did a very good job. Yeah, The Cyberdance The Reigns
- 34:06Chronicles, Book 1. Yes.
- 34:08Yeah, I gotta have this in my life.
- 34:09I love this concept. So did you self publish and?
- 34:13Give it away. Did you self publish or did
- 34:15somebody publish it? No, I self published.
- 34:17OK, cool. So it was, you know, it's my
- 34:20first book and it was a very steep learning curve.
- 34:22I learned a lot. So go moving forward with the
- 34:26second book. I mean, I, I'll be honest, I, I,
- 34:29I made some mistakes. Well, who doesn't?
- 34:31Along the way, and I will be. I did.
- 34:35I did do it. So what I've learned through my
- 34:39experiences with publishing this first one only makes me going
- 34:44into the second one better informed and can handle it a
- 34:49whole lot better. Absolutely.
- 34:50Gotcha. Yep.
- 34:52Trust me when I tell you I'm glad our first gig wasn't in
- 34:54front of 2000 people. Oh my God.
- 34:58Oh yeah, that would. Be I I I would have been fine in
- 35:01front of 2000 people, but the previous lead singer wouldn't
- 35:03have. No, yeah.
- 35:05I would have, I would have jumped off the rafters and you
- 35:07know. Yeah, he would have been fine
- 35:08shit and the rest of us would have been fine, but I had.
- 35:11When I was when I was in my first band, we called ourselves
- 35:15Room 101. There's a little little story
- 35:18there too. But anyway, I did not want to
- 35:24sing. I had no inclination whatsoever
- 35:27to sing, didn't even think I could sing.
- 35:31And all I ever did was I auditioned to be a rhythm
- 35:35player, and that's what I was. And then one night we were
- 35:39jamming along and of all the songs that bands play, just for
- 35:45shits and giggles, we decided to entertain ourselves and play
- 35:49Free Bird. You know, it's not it's not one
- 35:51that you play for a crowd because, you know, that's been
- 35:55overdone. But we wanted to kind of
- 35:58experience it for ourselves and see what our take on it was.
- 36:02Right. And we did it.
- 36:04And I was just like, you know what, let me think.
- 36:07I'm just, you know, let's, let's have some fun.
- 36:09Let's have some fun here. We're not doing this in front of
- 36:11anybody. And let's have some fun.
- 36:13So I did, I sang the whole song and I didn't think nothing of it
- 36:19afterwards. About a week later, my lead
- 36:21guitarist gets a hold of me and he's like, hey, Mike, listen,
- 36:25can we, can we have a sit down? And I was like, ah, shit,
- 36:29they're they're kicking me out. They're kicking me out.
- 36:32I just know it. So we, we have our sit down and
- 36:37it was me and me and him and I think one other, one other
- 36:40member, I think it was a bass player.
- 36:42And he goes, listen, I talked with the guys and I was like,
- 36:48I'm going to stop you there. It's cool.
- 36:50Thank you for the opportunity. I've I've enjoyed it, but I, I,
- 36:55you say no more. I've, I've been, I've been down
- 36:57this road before. I've experienced A breakup.
- 37:00It's cool. He's like, was it Paulo?
- 37:02Opposite right? Yeah, yeah.
- 37:04He goes. No, no, no, no.
- 37:05You're getting it wrong. You're jumping the gun here.
- 37:07We want you to be the singer. In fact, we all voted on it.
- 37:10You're our singer now. And I was like, man.
- 37:13Oh. OK, I can understand why you got
- 37:16a great voice. Well, thank you.
- 37:17Thank you. Thank you very much.
- 37:19I heard the same thing from him standing behind me at the Candle
- 37:22Box concert. I was like, that's our new
- 37:24singer right there. Oh yeah.
- 37:25As long as he wants the job, you know?
- 37:27All it took was convincing him, you know I there was no more on
- 37:30twisting. My arms so hard.
- 37:32I heard him. I literally heard him sing for
- 37:3590 minutes. Singing has always been a lot of
- 37:39fun and it's I think it's a, a great way to sort of get your
- 37:45frustrations out there too, you know, because it's, it's an
- 37:49emotional experience for me. It could be for happy Song, It
- 37:53could be, you know, it could be like slow paced or just like a
- 37:59real banger. And I get into it like I really
- 38:01dive into it. Well, and you've heard us talk
- 38:03about our stuff enough that that's, that's how I was too.
- 38:06Because it's, yeah, you, you, not the sound, cliche.
- 38:08But when, when we played, I, I, I, I went up there like it was
- 38:12the last time. I'm going to have the
- 38:13opportunity to play in front of people.
- 38:15Yeah. And the cool thing is, is he
- 38:17became the character of the song of each song he was portraying.
- 38:22You know, there was, there was almost like a visual act that
- 38:25wasn't the same every time, but there were little elements that
- 38:29I came to expect. Right.
- 38:30He's going to do something of a version of whatever here.
- 38:34You know, he's going to sit down on the drum riser as he sings
- 38:37this part, or he's going to, like he said, swing from the
- 38:40rafters. When he gets to this crescendo,
- 38:42right when the drums really start banging or whatever, he'd
- 38:45reach up there and just start swinging from the rafters or
- 38:48some crazy shit like that, you know?
- 38:50Yeah, there were little things you came to.
- 38:52Expect. Absolutely.
- 38:54Him and I would meet at certain moments during a solo or
- 38:57something, you know? And then we would do that.
- 38:59We do my favorite thing, the back lane.
- 39:01Yeah, where where I'd lean back, he'd lean back and he just
- 39:04jamming out with the cell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 39:06yeah. I have nothing to do.
- 39:07So I'm just I'm just sitting there rocking out with Mike and
- 39:09then we kind of push into each other, realize, OK, we're
- 39:11standing up now, you know, we're.
- 39:12Literally at practice one day Mikey, and he says I have one
- 39:16cliche rock star thing that I always wanted to do on stage,
- 39:20but I need your participation. I was like, fuck, whatever you
- 39:25want to do, I'm in, man. Let's do it.
- 39:28Yeah, it was. It was so much fun.
- 39:31It shows the bond when you're on stage with the band and you and
- 39:34you and you were together as long as we were.
- 39:37And I, we probably, I don't know how many times it's practice.
- 39:39Probably at least 100 times before we actually played our
- 39:41first show. And then probably another, you
- 39:43know, 150 points started getting a, a really good following.
- 39:47But those moments are cool because by the time we get to
- 39:50that level and we're filling the place up, we already have that
- 39:54chemistry. You already have that bond.
- 39:56So really, I could look back at Scott if I was singing something
- 39:59'cause they'd let me improv certain parts of songs and I
- 40:03could look at back at Scott and just go like that.
- 40:04Or, you know, hands, whatever the hand gesture I would do and
- 40:08he would know to keep playing that or wrap it up.
- 40:10I do the same thing with Mike. It didn't matter.
- 40:12And it was cool because then the the dynamic of what we did it.
- 40:16It was the same, but there's always a little bit something
- 40:18like you said, that would would kind of just organically happen
- 40:21depending on what the crowd was like, what my mood was like, if
- 40:24how much I was into that that particular song because of the
- 40:26emotion or content that is that that it, you know, was tied to
- 40:30me with. So that's the beautiful thing
- 40:32about being a singer, man. You can control the dynamic of
- 40:34the song and you can control the crowd to a certain extent and
- 40:38take them on that ride like you've heard it, talk about it.
- 40:41We've we would play 3 songs, boom, boom, boom before I'd even
- 40:43say hey to the crowd. Just like, yeah, we'd start the
- 40:46song in your face, in your face, in your face, and then third
- 40:50side like. Woo and the crazy.
- 40:53Thing. Get into it.
- 40:54He's talking about, he's talking about the bond.
- 40:57You know, we just recently had William back on and it it was
- 41:02like talking to him for the first time.
- 41:05The next time all over again, right?
- 41:09Wow. It just there was no, there's no
- 41:12getting to know each other period.
- 41:13It's almost like it's a crazy thing about this podcast.
- 41:16There was no getting to know Mikey, right?
- 41:18We knew Mikey. He's chimed in a million times
- 41:20on the podcast to say, hey, have a great show.
- 41:23Really loving the subject. Here's how I tie into this.
- 41:26You know, we kind of feel like we know you already.
- 41:28That's the same thing. Man, we're going.
- 41:32To call this episode the Michael Castillo at the Michael Castillo
- 41:34Day. Yeah, absolutely.
- 41:36I love it on October 28th. I mean, you know, it's giving me
- 41:39a big head. But like we've been talking
- 41:41about here, man, that, and Chris has said it best, if you've
- 41:45never been on stage with a band for any, and even if you've done
- 41:50it once, you've experienced it once, right?
- 41:52But when you've experienced it hundreds or thousands of times
- 41:55like we have, there's a chemistry that has to be there
- 42:00that can never be recreated with any other friendship or bond.
- 42:04Yeah, it just can't because there's magic in what happens up
- 42:07there. It's yeah, Tom Petty said.
- 42:09It's really the only magic I ever encountered on Earth.
- 42:12It's one of the greatest quotes he ever had.
- 42:14I, I would agree 1000%, absolutely 1000%.
- 42:19And then once you capture it, once you capture it, you it's
- 42:21like, well, I because addiction being what it is, I, I would
- 42:27constantly chase it with every new band.
- 42:29Sure, and sometimes the dynamics wouldn't always be the same.
- 42:33Yep, that is that is the one thing having that addictive
- 42:37personality is that yeah, you just because you can't like this
- 42:41the the moments I had with with and and it goes to the members
- 42:45of the band, right? Because I, I, I was in another
- 42:47band that that was just as successful as, as Nemesis that I
- 42:51just kind of vaguely referred to.
- 42:53But the moments I had with Nemesis on stage are better than
- 42:57the moments they ever had with the council because the, the
- 43:01relationship and the chemistry and the connection we had was so
- 43:06it was so deep rooted because it was, it was everybody's really
- 43:09first band. I had a first band, the garage
- 43:11band, you know, that was just four of us playing in a storage
- 43:13shed. You know, it wasn't, we did.
- 43:16We did a couple backyard parties and a couple open bags.
- 43:19But it wasn't like going to change the world.
- 43:22You know, where's when when he and I met, it was just meant to
- 43:26be. And you just that foundation
- 43:29laid at that at that show, because at the end of the day,
- 43:32musicians have a what? They have a love for music.
- 43:34Absolutely. Because if you don't have a love
- 43:36for music, you're not going to go out and try to create your
- 43:38own music to share that love of music to the world.
- 43:41Right. So it's I agree with you what
- 43:43I'm going with this ADHD squirrel, squirrel, squirrel is
- 43:45I agree with you that it's hard once you have it, it's hard to
- 43:49taste. It's hard to find it again, Yes,
- 43:51because it's not so much being on stage, it's being on.
- 43:54It's who you're on stage with, Yes.
- 43:56And the personalities that you're with and, and like,
- 44:00seriously weak. And you know what?
- 44:01Being on stage, you could fuck up a song.
- 44:03Nobody knows you fucked up a song except my yeah.
- 44:05Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
- 44:06You know, and no one. Would pick it up, but you could.
- 44:09You could only. Hear it?
- 44:10The only time someone's going to know is if you stop.
- 44:13That was always the golden rule. Just don't fucking stop.
- 44:15If you stop, they're going to know right away because they
- 44:18know something happened. There's no more music, right?
- 44:20Just keep. Lying.
- 44:21Once as a mistake, twice as jazz.
- 44:23That was always the joke. I meant to do that.
- 44:29The guy that taught me to play, that was one of his advices.
- 44:31He says if you do something, do it again real quick, like you
- 44:34fucking meant to do it. People think you meant to do it.
- 44:38And it really applies because, like Chris said, they're not
- 44:41musicians. They don't know that music's
- 44:44coming at them. A120140160 beats a minute,
- 44:47right? They it's rock'n'roll.
- 44:49They can barely keep up. Yeah, exactly.
- 44:52Exactly. So you mentioned you play rhythm
- 44:54guitar now we've you've, you've, we've watched this.
- 44:56So, you know, we've had musicians on the basically,
- 44:58rhythm guitar is the unsung hero.
- 45:00Damn right. It's it's what keeps the whole
- 45:03thing together without the rhythm guitar and the bass and
- 45:05the drums. The rhythm section is what makes
- 45:07the band. Yeah.
- 45:08You know, I mean, us singers are, we're the, we're the
- 45:11doorway, right? We have to, we have to, the
- 45:14crowd's got to dig us in order to, to dig them.
- 45:17And you know, and so no. Pressure lead players floating
- 45:20between the beats like a Dick head.
- 45:22You know, he's coming back on the one every now and then, but
- 45:24he's doing weird things in between.
- 45:26You're like anchoring it. Hey, we're right here, buddy.
- 45:29Yeah, yeah, I love. So how long have you?
- 45:32How long have you actually been playing guitar, Michael?
- 45:34Since 1999, so 26 years. Right on.
- 45:38That's cool. Yeah, I got my first guitar.
- 45:41It was a Squire strap. Nice.
- 45:45I remember I bought it at this old music shop downtown
- 45:49Brunswick called Clyde's Discount Music.
- 45:53Clyde's. Clyde's and it was like a family
- 45:56owned business, Clyde's. Discount.
- 45:58Music Chad's Discount Music in downtown Brunswick, it's not
- 46:03there anymore. At least I don't think it is.
- 46:04Sorry. I mean, I don't live in Georgia
- 46:06anymore. I moved to moved from Georgia
- 46:08four years ago. And where do you live?
- 46:10Now Delaware. Delaware.
- 46:13Wow. What the Hell's in Delaware?
- 46:15Took the boy out of. Well, my sister, my sister and I
- 46:19share a house together and my mom is also up here.
- 46:23My mom and my stepfather and we're all.
- 46:27Very close. That's why I'm in the middle of
- 46:28a cornfield, Mikey, because this is where my family is.
- 46:32My sister's right next door and my parents are a couple blocks
- 46:35away. So that's why I moved back here
- 46:36to family. Well, you know, I think by
- 46:39nature, my, my family tends to be nomadic.
- 46:43We, we, we for generations have moved around all over.
- 46:50I've, I've actually just for fun, have got into genealogy and
- 46:55started to research my, my history.
- 46:58All right, because, well, the, the last name is kind of a dead
- 47:01giveaway. You can assume that I'm Hispanic
- 47:05in some kind of way. No, really.
- 47:07Really. Right, right.
- 47:08Really. But you know, Castillo is a very
- 47:10common name. It's is common as.
- 47:12Anderson, I was thinking you're related to Randy Castillo, the
- 47:14drummer for Ozzy Osbourne that passed away years ago from the
- 47:16stomachache. No, no, we're we're not.
- 47:18Damn it man, I had this all. Well, I am.
- 47:22I am in fact a third generation Mexican American.
- 47:26Really. Yes, awesome.
- 47:28Congratulations. Well, thank you.
- 47:31Thank you. I'd like to thank my parents for
- 47:33getting together and my great grandparents and and all that.
- 47:37But yeah, interestingly enough, so the whole reason why I got
- 47:41into it is all of my father's side of the family.
- 47:48Yeah. Was I refer to him as the the
- 47:50Mexican side of the family, OK. Because, well, I mean, they're
- 47:54predominantly Mexican. Sure, OK, It's a good way to
- 47:57refer to him if they. Are.
- 47:58Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm not
- 47:59lying. I'm not lying.
- 48:01But as far as history goes, nobody seemed to know.
- 48:08Or at least nobody would tell me.
- 48:10Or my siblings. Who were like our great great
- 48:15grandparents and and so on and so forth on on the paternal
- 48:19side, you know, from grandfather to great grandfather and so on
- 48:24like. They didn't know who they were
- 48:26or they were just not telling you.
- 48:28I think they didn't. They legitimately didn't know.
- 48:31OK, I thought there was something malicious going on
- 48:34here. No, no, OK, I, I did some
- 48:36digging and back in the late 19th century, even early 19th
- 48:45century record keeping was not very good during that time,
- 48:51especially in in Mexico and in general.
- 48:55Yeah. Yeah.
- 48:56Well, in general, yeah, you're right.
- 48:58Record keeping was not great. Everything was on paper.
- 49:01Yeah, yeah. Well, when it came to like doing
- 49:05census and, and, and that sort of thing, or at least
- 49:08documenting families, it was a, it was only done on a voluntary
- 49:14basis. It wasn't required.
- 49:17And so I was able to trace back as far as I think it was my,
- 49:23let's see, first, second, third great grandfather on my paternal
- 49:29side. OK, paternal lineage.
- 49:31That's as far as I've got. There's no documentation.
- 49:35That's still pretty far. You're talking, what, a couple
- 49:38100 years? At least into the late 18th
- 49:43century. Yeah, yeah.
- 49:45Couple 100 years. Yeah, yeah.
- 49:48Yeah, that's true. And and just Mexico.
- 49:52Yeah, yeah. No, well, that's just, you know,
- 49:55that's, that's that one line. But I found out that there was
- 49:59some Scottish. Oh, right on.
- 50:01You got to have both sides Spanish in there too because
- 50:04Castillo is not a Mexican, it's a Spanish.
- 50:06No, no, no. It's, it's a, it comes from a
- 50:08name that originates from Spain. Sure.
- 50:09OK, so so that's where I was going with that question about
- 50:12Mexico, because then you got the Santa the what is it?
- 50:15The the what the fuck were they? The Santa, The Santa Maria?
- 50:18The. Those are the pilgrims.
- 50:20Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. But.
- 50:22You're talking about the Neenah Pizza and Center?
- 50:24Christopher Columbus. There you go.
- 50:26Yeah, that was Columbus. Yeah, that was that was 15th
- 50:29century, late 15th century, 1492.
- 50:32Sorry. Sorry, sorry.
- 50:33I was, you know, I was trying to put.
- 50:35So now you'd have to go back like, what was it?
- 50:38Hector Cortez, the Spanish conquistadors.
- 50:43Now, I haven't been able to identify anything through that
- 50:47line, but what you know, as like the Mexican people, Mexican
- 50:55culture, that sort of thing originated from the indigenous
- 50:59population who integrated, we'll say, with the Spanish
- 51:04conquistadors. Yes.
- 51:07Which is why they speak Spanish. And Mexico used to go up all the
- 51:12way as far as California is and Nevada and Utah.
- 51:16And so, yeah, when? And Arizona.
- 51:18And Texas. And Arizona and Texas.
- 51:20Absolutely. Yes, Yeah, yeah.
- 51:22We just, you know, Spanish man, before we sucked that right up.
- 51:26Yeah, we just took it from them. Yeah, pretty much.
- 51:29But yeah, I've, I've been, I've gone down some interesting
- 51:32little rabbit holes. I mean, obviously I found out
- 51:34more, more stuff on my mother's side because.
- 51:37I would be curious for you to to find out the Castillo like where
- 51:40that Spanish descent came from now.
- 51:44Well, you know, I'm unfortunately, I hit a brick
- 51:46wall. You know, I got as far as my
- 51:48third great grandfather and that was it.
- 51:50And his name was Crispin, believe it or not.
- 51:53That Crispin. Castillo, OH.
- 51:54Yeah. Spelled CRI with AC or yeah.
- 51:58Yeah, spelled with AC. Not like Crispin Glover.
- 52:01You know who? Crispin Glover.
- 52:02Is right. It's spelled the exact same way.
- 52:04That's awesome. Yeah.
- 52:06I love that name. Yeah, I wonder if they call them
- 52:09crispy for short. No, I probably call them chewy.
- 52:15There you. Go.
- 52:17I'm sure I got a relative named Chewy somewhere.
- 52:19Any, any dark side, any like mobsters and shit, any, any, you
- 52:22know, serial killer. OK.
- 52:25Well, yeah. Killers.
- 52:26Yes. Really.
- 52:28Right on. I'll get to that.
- 52:30I'll get to. OK, OK, cool.
- 52:31But I am in fact related to somebody famous.
- 52:35Right on. Do tell Michael Casteel.
- 52:37Gene Roddenberry. No shit.
- 52:40Really. Yes, Star Trek feels like a
- 52:42second. Or third cousin removed or
- 52:45something like that. Yeah, and Gene Roddenberry.
- 52:47It's on my mother's side of the family.
- 52:50The Roddenberries. Yeah, we're related to the
- 52:53Roddenberries. Yeah, Star Trek, right?
- 52:55Yep, creator Star Trek just. Just because some people won't
- 52:57know. So Roddenberry.
- 52:59Star Trek case They've lived under a rock anytime.
- 53:02Well, but you know, think about it in our world now.
- 53:05Right. It's like.
- 53:06Little man's not gonna know who Star Trek is.
- 53:08Yeah, but I don't expect little man he will in time.
- 53:12That's just one of those things that's so ingrained in our
- 53:14culture. In about 5 years, he's going to
- 53:16know what Star Trek is too. Everybody knows what?
- 53:18Well, all right, so 20 years ago, you could say the name Gene
- 53:21Roddenberry and people knew who that was.
- 53:24But nowadays you say the name Gene Roddenberry and they're
- 53:27like, who? And I'm like, how could you not
- 53:30know, man? This.
- 53:30Creator of Star Trek? Absolutely.
- 53:33But yeah, where I'm, I'm, I am related to him.
- 53:36Cool, who's the killer? I knew.
- 53:39My grandfather, really. How many people did he kill?
- 53:42Crispin 2. Oh, right on.
- 53:44Goodbyes. Good guys, bad guys.
- 53:47No. No idea.
- 53:49No, no, I know. Oh, it was my my grandmother and
- 53:52my great grandmother. Oh, that's not good.
- 53:54No shit. What happened there?
- 53:56That's not good. I don't know all the details but
- 54:00it happened it I think it was April 9th, 1966 in Brunswick,
- 54:07GA. Wow, just bad day.
- 54:12Yep, bad day. This sucks.
- 54:14Yeah. But.
- 54:16I am. I'm coming to discover that
- 54:19there's a lot of stuff like that on that side of the family.
- 54:23Oh, OK, violence. So that's your dad's side?
- 54:26No, that was my mom's side. Your.
- 54:28Mom's side, OK, Your mom's side. So your dad's side is more
- 54:30vanilla. Mom's side is like, we're going
- 54:32to shake the pot up a little bit.
- 54:34We're going to stir the shit. Yeah.
- 54:35OK, Yeah. Although, OK, so yeah, now my
- 54:39father had a very explosive temper.
- 54:42He was Vietnam vet, My grandfather was a World War 2
- 54:47vet. That's his father.
- 54:51And an interesting little story I'll share with you about my
- 54:56grandfather to my entire childhood.
- 54:59First of all, I grew up only knowing one grandparent, him.
- 55:03That's it. Interesting.
- 55:05So the concept of having more than one grandparent was
- 55:09completely foreign to me most of my childhood.
- 55:13OK, I didn't understand how you could have more than one because
- 55:17that's all I grew up with. What do you mean you guys?
- 55:20Too was my grandfather, his name was Agapito Castilla.
- 55:23Oh, that's a cool name. That is.
- 55:24And he went by Pete. And what what made him really
- 55:29interesting is growing up knowing him, he was like a
- 55:32really sweet guy who, like, was very encouraging.
- 55:36Like he wanted me to like, take school seriously.
- 55:39Yeah, quit chasing girls, which I've always had trouble there.
- 55:44Hey, man. Right.
- 55:47And being a singer and musician didn't make it any easier.
- 55:50No, in fact, that got me into poor trouble.
- 55:55But anyway, I digress. So my whole life I I saw this
- 56:00sweet man and never thought anything different until my
- 56:06father started to share stories about him and found out that my
- 56:10grandfather. This ties into the mob comment
- 56:15made earlier. Now I don't know which mob
- 56:20affiliate is involved in this story but my grandfather was.
- 56:25When he got out of the military he did auto body work and
- 56:31sometimes he did independent contracting and would often time
- 56:38be asked to do body repairs that involved things like bullet
- 56:45wounds and such. Are not wounds.
- 56:49I shouldn't say wounds. I know what you mean.
- 56:50Bullet Bullet damage. To the car.
- 56:52To the car, yes. Right and bullet wound to the
- 56:55car. Yeah, bullet wound to the car.
- 56:57And as I understand it, he had done that regularly and whoever
- 57:02the mob person was was so impressed by that kind of hired
- 57:07him on full time. See, I never thought about that
- 57:09angle. Yeah, they had.
- 57:11They had to get all these cars repaired.
- 57:13They can't. Couldn't just take them
- 57:14anywhere. But it's but it's kind of like 2
- 57:17in the John Wicks, right? The first John Wick, when he
- 57:19when he kills all the guys in his house, he has the the crew
- 57:23come over pays him. A couple.
- 57:24That's a couple chunks ago. So that's I mean, that's another
- 57:28side gig for you know, you know, and that guy, I don't know if
- 57:31you realize this, but the guy that the main character that
- 57:33would that ran the crew that cleaned up the shit.
- 57:36Remember the movie The Warriors? Yeah.
- 57:39Warriors come out. That was him, man.
- 57:43Shit, that was him. I don't I forget his name too
- 57:46because he said all these really cool little roles.
- 57:49He's a great character actor. Yeah, my my favorite movie with
- 57:52him was Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis.
- 57:54Absolutely. Oh yeah.
- 57:56I went to the movie theater to see that.
- 57:58I loved that movie. Me too.
- 58:00Of course I'm I'm a huge Christopher Walken fan.
- 58:02Me too. We have that in common as.
- 58:04Well I heard Christopher Walken fan Who?
- 58:06Who is that dude? He's AI mean 7 psychopaths.
- 58:08One of my. Favorite movies?
- 58:09No question. No.
- 58:11Question. That was great, and for a time,
- 58:16I don't know if I told you what I used to do professionally or
- 58:19if I've. Mentioned that at all.
- 58:20Weren't you a pimp? Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 58:23Oh, yeah, absolutely. The hat should tell you it's a
- 58:25good no. I I used to be a nurse.
- 58:30Oh nice. Yeah, worked in a lot of ERS,
- 58:37but you know, my career was diverse.
- 58:39I did a bunch of other things as well.
- 58:41Ended up I think the last nursing job I did was in
- 58:44corrections. We could do a whole podcast on
- 58:48that. Oh yeah.
- 58:50Oh yeah, absolutely. It led to me doing a lot of self
- 58:54reflecting. Sure you know, but really can't.
- 58:58Imagine. There he is.
- 59:00It was, it was an interesting experience, it really was.
- 59:03There he is. That's him.
- 59:05That's. David Patrick Kelly.
- 59:07David Patrick Kelly, that's. Him.
- 59:08Yep. Yeah.
- 59:09They're good. Look at there he is.
- 59:10There's Last man standing dreams, Dreamscape.
- 59:13If you remember Dreamscape. Dreamscape.
- 59:15Great. Dude, yeah, he played.
- 59:17He played the bad guy. Yes he did.
- 59:18So you got the Warriors term Commando Dreamscape.
- 59:21Was that does it say Chris? Dreamscape 1984 is Dreamscape
- 59:25that's a. Great.
- 59:25I went to the theaters. That was Dennis Quaid.
- 59:28Yeah, look at that. Look at that.
- 59:31Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit.
- 59:36Fucking hit. That's what I said.
- 59:37He's a great character actor one.
- 59:39Of my favorite movies. Fucking right.
- 59:40The original. The original.
- 59:42Pro Yes. Yep, adventures of Ford
- 59:44Fairlane, OH. I love that movie.
- 59:46That was a great movie too. John Jereo is John Westclay Hit
- 59:50hit. It's just, I mean, the dude just
- 59:55he's a great character actor. Just all these movies, man.
- 59:57There's very much, though. Beverly Hills Cop hit Yeah.
- 1:00:04Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:00:04So anyway, giving back to the whole Christopher Walken.
- 1:00:09Thing, Right, right, right. Right.
- 1:00:11I idolized him to a point where I started to imitate him.
- 1:00:15For fun, I would do impressions of Christopher Walken.
- 1:00:19I I don't know if I can do it. Come on, come on, come on.
- 1:00:21You got to do it now. You can do it better, neither
- 1:00:23one of us. I'll, I'll, I'll give it a shot,
- 1:00:26but I'll tell you who my inspiration was.
- 1:00:29In order for me to get Christopher Walken down, I
- 1:00:31couldn't just watch Christopher Walken.
- 1:00:34I had to watch people who imitated him, right.
- 1:00:37And the one person who I thought did the absolute best impression
- 1:00:42of Christopher Walken was Kevin Pollak.
- 1:00:45OK, no shit. His impression?
- 1:00:48Of it is good just. For walking is spot.
- 1:00:51On it is good. Because back in his early career
- 1:00:54as a stand up comic, he would do Shatner.
- 1:00:57He'd do walk in and, and, and a couple other people, but Walken
- 1:01:01and Shatner were his two like favorites that he would do cool.
- 1:01:05And so I was just like, you know what, I'm going to watch Pollock
- 1:01:08do Christopher Walken and just do an imitation of that.
- 1:01:12And so that's what I ended up doing.
- 1:01:13And like, I was at the time, I was working in this orthopedic
- 1:01:18office. So I was a orthopedic nurse and
- 1:01:22I was. Torturing.
- 1:01:24Literally torturing my Co workers doing this impression
- 1:01:28daily. They'd be like hey Mike, listen
- 1:01:32we got somebody like no not yet. It's important we take care of
- 1:01:39ourselves first. Definitely that's that's
- 1:01:47probably the best. That's that's that's.
- 1:01:50Fucking awesome. That was really good, dude.
- 1:01:51Yeah. I was.
- 1:01:53I was going to riff. I was going to riff off you with
- 1:01:55my Tony Montana political refugee.
- 1:01:56Oh, man, don't even think it started on Tony Montana.
- 1:01:59But then I used to. Yeah.
- 1:02:01Yeah. We used to watch Scarface for
- 1:02:03fun. Yeah.
- 1:02:04Oh, yeah. And we like back and forth.
- 1:02:06We do lines back and forth. You know that.
- 1:02:08Omar, I never like him. He was synonymous.
- 1:02:11I know he could have got my friend Angel Fernandez.
- 1:02:13Q Mr. Salsa. Oh, yeah.
- 1:02:18Tony. Tony.
- 1:02:19Tony. I got one rule, Tony.
- 1:02:21Don't you ever fuck me, Tony. Right.
- 1:02:23Don't you ever fuck me, Mr. Salsa.
- 1:02:27I never fucked anybody who didn't have to call me.
- 1:02:32And then my favorite all time was her womb is so polluted she
- 1:02:37never give me no babies. Yeah, that is one of the
- 1:02:40greatest lines ever. Let's just talk a moment about
- 1:02:44Michelle Pfeiffer. Yeah, like she's my hall pass.
- 1:02:47Oh. Yeah, it's always been my hall
- 1:02:49pass. She's still fucking a beautiful
- 1:02:51woman. I follow on Instagram.
- 1:02:52She's. Gorgeous.
- 1:02:53She's like she's aging, graceful.
- 1:02:54She's married to oh I forgot I lost his name, but he's.
- 1:02:58She's married to the dude that's behind The Sopranos.
- 1:03:01OK, OK. Oh, David Crane.
- 1:03:03Yes, David Kelly. David Kelly.
- 1:03:07I thought it was David Kelly. Maybe it's David Crane, but
- 1:03:10that's who she's married to. Maybe I'm OK, maybe I'm
- 1:03:12combining two people into one. I do that sometimes.
- 1:03:16I used to have several hall passes like Jennifer Love Hewitt
- 1:03:21was 1 for me. Yeah, David Kelly, David E
- 1:03:24Kelly. He's the guy.
- 1:03:25That was David. E Kelly Yeah, that sounds about
- 1:03:27right. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:03:29David Kelly not. Jennifer loves The Sopranos
- 1:03:32though. Jennifer Love Hewitt, she was in
- 1:03:36We just watched that I know the the, the the remake of I know
- 1:03:40What you did Last summer, the 2. 1025 basically it's supposed to
- 1:03:43pick up after. Well, yeah, I don't know, but we
- 1:03:45were, we were in probably like an hour into it.
- 1:03:47And I looked at Nikki. I'm like, that's Jennifer Love
- 1:03:50Hewitt, man. She got some Jlo hips now.
- 1:03:52Yeah, I don't, I don't. She was this nice little, sweet,
- 1:03:54petite little woman. Now she's got the big old Jlo
- 1:03:56hips. Yeah.
- 1:03:58And and you didn't know that until she until you hit a full
- 1:04:00I'm like, holy shit, Jlo. And it's like, wow, OK,
- 1:04:03menopause hit her hard. No, no, actually I think that
- 1:04:08she has aged like fine wine and looks like like my ideal woman.
- 1:04:14OK. That's me.
- 1:04:16That's me. No, it's a no.
- 1:04:17I just I just because in my head, James Love Hugh is that
- 1:04:20little petite little tiny little thing.
- 1:04:23And so I haven't seen her one forever.
- 1:04:24That's not my, that's not my frame.
- 1:04:26On So I haven't seen her forever.
- 1:04:28So when, yeah. So when she pulled, when we
- 1:04:31figured out that was her, I was like, wow.
- 1:04:34But yeah, it's, you know, I ain't mad at you.
- 1:04:36Just saying to me I. Just don't hate on me, man.
- 1:04:38Stop hating. Yeah, stop hating, man.
- 1:04:42You're bringing me down. Don't bring me kill my vibe.
- 1:04:47I can't. I can't even fake being mad at
- 1:04:49him. It's hard.
- 1:04:52Don't get mad. Well, it just doesn't.
- 1:04:54Happen. Don't get mad.
- 1:04:55Get even. Don't do it.
- 1:04:56Yeah, don't. Do it, Don't do it.
- 1:04:57Don't. Do it.
- 1:04:58We're all going to start doing it.
- 1:04:59Don't do it. I can't do impression, so mine's
- 1:05:02going. To suck, you know, what I want
- 1:05:03to do is I want to memorize the monologue that he does in that
- 1:05:08movie, Man on Fire with Denzel Washington.
- 1:05:10We were just talking. About that this afternoon.
- 1:05:13That's so crazy. How did I shit?
- 1:05:15You not. I stopped by the union hall in
- 1:05:16my bargaining chairman and our recording secretary and the
- 1:05:20first Chef committee men were there, and we were literally
- 1:05:23talking about all these great movies that Denzel Washington
- 1:05:28and Christopher Walken and yeah, who's the other big actor that's
- 1:05:33in that? Let's see, I got to say, well,
- 1:05:37Dakota Fanning, that's an early. That was the other one that Chad
- 1:05:41mentioned, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:05:44But yeah, that's one of my favorite movies.
- 1:05:45I used to own that I got to. Watch it again dude, I can't
- 1:05:48play. I told those guys if Christopher
- 1:05:50Watkins in it, I have 100% seen it because I've seen all his
- 1:05:54movies. But I cannot place that movie,
- 1:05:56so I got to watch it again. There's a movie with Christopher
- 1:05:59Walken. He did it in the 80s.
- 1:06:00If I remember it's it's either early 90s or late 80s where he
- 1:06:04was a vampire. Hold on one second.
- 1:06:05Cannot think of name that movie. Do you know Man on Fire, Chris?
- 1:06:09Do you know the movies they're talking?
- 1:06:10About. Yeah, man.
- 1:06:11Yeah, I think so. Hold on.
- 1:06:13I gotta watch a remake. I I gotta watch this again, I
- 1:06:17just. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:06:20Yeah, that's a great. That's the second time today,
- 1:06:21like literally within an hour and a half I've heard that name,
- 1:06:24that name of that movie. Yeah, yeah, some two.
- 1:06:26It's 2004. It's an alcoholic, despondent
- 1:06:29CIA agent turned bodyguard. Yeah, yeah, It may.
- 1:06:33It may. That was a bad time in my life,
- 1:06:36Mikey. There you go.
- 1:06:37That's why I probably don't remember it.
- 1:06:38I probably watched it, but I literally probably don't
- 1:06:41remember it. Well, I saw it.
- 1:06:43My wife and I just got married and we were expecting our first
- 1:06:47child. And I bought the DVD because,
- 1:06:51you know, back in those days it was DVDs that was the thing to
- 1:06:54get. Yeah, yeah, I used to buy those
- 1:06:57blank ones and then somehow, yeah.
- 1:06:59Somehow portable ones. Somehow a movie would magically
- 1:07:01appear on the other side of that blank.
- 1:07:03I don't know how that happened, but I ended up with hundreds of
- 1:07:06those. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:07:07I didn't have any money back. Then so I I had a pretty
- 1:07:10extensive library of movies that some sort of some somehow
- 1:07:15appeared on blank discs. Yeah, dude.
- 1:07:18I had, I had. I would get the VC.
- 1:07:23Hey, we lost your audio, buddy. I can't hear you.
- 1:07:29I can't hear your voice. It's like you got to shorten
- 1:07:31your mic or something. Or you unplug.
- 1:07:33Yeah, make sure. Your chords plugged in either.
- 1:07:36On your microphone it was when you touched the mic.
- 1:07:42Ah, it came unplugged, ah. There we go.
- 1:07:44See. Singer moment.
- 1:07:46I know my electronics. Oh, no, no.
- 1:07:51When I When I. Was during on a show once I had
- 1:07:53the mic going and knocked the cord from the mic but kept going
- 1:07:59and thought I was doing great. What were you saying?
- 1:08:02I was saying that I, I had that. No, you're fine.
- 1:08:05I said probably, you know, 1000 VHVHS tapes and they all had at
- 1:08:10least three movies on them and I'm talking.
- 1:08:13I remember seeing your collection.
- 1:08:15From 19, yeah, from 1980 on, because I, I was home so much
- 1:08:19with asthma and shit that I would just, you know, we had, we
- 1:08:22had the movie channels and I would put it in a recorder and I
- 1:08:25just, you know, I mean, I fucking had everything you can
- 1:08:27think of. I mean, just just stuff that you
- 1:08:29can't find now. Like there's a couple movies I
- 1:08:32would love to find. That was then.
- 1:08:33This is now one of the Emilio Estevez and flicks.
- 1:08:36Right. He's another one that I like a
- 1:08:39lot of people. It's a love him or hate him as
- 1:08:41an actor, I love that guy as an. Actor I love Emilio Estevez as
- 1:08:44an actor. I think he did an awesome job in
- 1:08:47Young Guns. They're supposed to come out
- 1:08:48with. Their movies.
- 1:08:49They're supposed to be doing another one.
- 1:08:50Young guns was cool because of the like like loved westerns,
- 1:08:54right. So the long riders, if you'd if
- 1:08:55you'd never heard of the long riders, that kind of brought the
- 1:08:58westerns back to the. Forefront.
- 1:08:59I watched it after we talked about it.
- 1:09:01By the way. Great movie, thank you.
- 1:09:03Yes, the Carradine, the, the Carradine brothers, the the
- 1:09:05Quaid brothers, the Keats brothers.
- 1:09:12Fuck. What?
- 1:09:15Shit, David. Yeah, OK, that was right.
- 1:09:17Right. Somebody else.
- 1:09:19Yeah, there's, there's four sets of brothers in it.
- 1:09:21It's amazing. But then young guns, young guns
- 1:09:24did this, did what Long Riders did.
- 1:09:26It brought Westerns back to the forefront.
- 1:09:29Right, with and then music kind of twist, yeah.
- 1:09:32Sick kind of twist a little bit, yeah.
- 1:09:35Yeah, but they're supposedly doing another one.
- 1:09:36They're they're supposedly in production.
- 1:09:37So we'll. But they nailed the timing.
- 1:09:39We were all, what, probably 15 when that movie came out?
- 1:09:43Yeah, well, I was. I was a little younger, but
- 1:09:46yeah. Right.
- 1:09:47Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:09:48I think it was probably like 11 or 12 maybe.
- 1:09:51Still all in that wheelhouse where we're going to go see it
- 1:09:54at the movie theater. And back then, there was no
- 1:09:56Internet, so we actually went to see movies.
- 1:09:58Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:09:59You either did that or you waited two years for it to come
- 1:10:01out at the video store, you know?
- 1:10:03Yeah, yeah. The new Superman dropped on
- 1:10:05freaking Netflix or something like within a month.
- 1:10:09HBO Max. Yeah, like serial Max, it's that
- 1:10:12bad. It's already here.
- 1:10:14No, it's. Great.
- 1:10:15It's just that. Watched.
- 1:10:16It there's so many people that don't go to the movies because
- 1:10:20they have these 80 inch televisions like my well, I
- 1:10:23don't have an 80 inch television, but I do have a 600
- 1:10:25Watt surround sound in my living room.
- 1:10:27So I don't really need to go. You know, I can shake the house
- 1:10:30as well as the movie theater can.
- 1:10:32Yeah. And I love going to the movies.
- 1:10:35But when you're by yourself that then you become the weird dude.
- 1:10:39I, I used to love going to movies, but I can't do it by
- 1:10:42myself. No, I've got the.
- 1:10:44I've got issues with like somewhat social anxiety,
- 1:10:49somewhat agoraphobia. Have always had trouble with
- 1:10:54that. That's what one of the reasons
- 1:10:56why I became a musician is, so I could get.
- 1:10:59Paid to. Nice job I.
- 1:11:00Always say that I have to have my emotional support person in
- 1:11:03whatever situation I'm in, right?
- 1:11:04As long as I have somebody that understands that I am kind of,
- 1:11:08I'm not socially awkward, but like you said, you and I kind of
- 1:11:14have a lot of the same weird similarities.
- 1:11:15So yeah, Chris was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
- 1:11:18I talk to everybody. I don't care if you want to talk
- 1:11:21to me or not. No, I, I had that problem on my
- 1:11:24own, but if I was with another person, like my best friend back
- 1:11:28home, his name's Lynn. And in a lot of my YouTube
- 1:11:32videos, he's the other guy in, in the videos with me, his
- 1:11:37name's Lynn. And that's that's will forever
- 1:11:40be my ride or die. 24 countries would not know who I am if he
- 1:11:44wouldn't have said, if he would have said no, I'm not interested
- 1:11:47in doing a podcast. None of this would be here.
- 1:11:49You would not be talking to me because I was not going to do it
- 1:11:52on my own. I just, I needed that
- 1:11:56extroverted. I've been there, done that.
- 1:11:59I understand how to capture people's attention.
- 1:12:02You know, he kind of brought me out of my shell a lot.
- 1:12:04Just yeah. I have him to thank for that.
- 1:12:07He's like, Dad, just you're talking to me, you know, we're,
- 1:12:09we're not talking to anybody else.
- 1:12:10You're just talking to me. And as soon as you said that,
- 1:12:14like, I became a different person.
- 1:12:15So I don't even think about the fact that.
- 1:12:18Yeah, exactly. I do not think.
- 1:12:20About the fact ever that we're talking to 24 countries or
- 1:12:23however many people are listening on YouTube and Twitch,
- 1:12:25I don't it never. Enters my mind.
- 1:12:28I'm all. Right.
- 1:12:30And Mike puts all these Easter eggs and shit.
- 1:12:31I've never watched us. I've never watched a full
- 1:12:33episode of of our show, but at the same time I never.
- 1:12:37Made two, I have to edit them. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:12:39I never listened back to my shows when I was on the radio.
- 1:12:42I never watched the content we made from that.
- 1:12:44I never, I would watch when we would record our shows.
- 1:12:48I'd watch it more to critique myself than to watch myself
- 1:12:52performing, if that makes sense. So when it comes to all all this
- 1:12:55stuff, it's just, I don't, I don't feel the need to watch it
- 1:12:58because I, I don't, I just don't.
- 1:13:00I mean, there's, you know, there's actors like Donald
- 1:13:01Sutherland never watched himself in a movie ever.
- 1:13:04Like never. Michael Richard never watched
- 1:13:07himself in Seinfeld. Michael Richard never watched
- 1:13:09himself at all in Seinfeld. Not a single.
- 1:13:12Fact. Yeah, like he just because he
- 1:13:14was so insecure. He's such an insecure human
- 1:13:16being, which is bizarre, but one.
- 1:13:19Of the greatest pop culture characters that has ever been
- 1:13:23created in the history of television, I don't care.
- 1:13:25Who we are Cosmo Kramer. Right, and and from a physical
- 1:13:28standpoint of comedy too, like it just, it was next level and
- 1:13:32he just, he just, he always felt he looked stupid.
- 1:13:34So he never watched himself. Oh my God, I don't know why.
- 1:13:36I don't know Donald Sutherland's excuse, but I, I remember
- 1:13:38watching an interview with him on the inside the actors studio
- 1:13:40and and the guy asked him, he's like, no, I've never watched
- 1:13:43myself in anything. I don't want to.
- 1:13:46It's all right as long as it's not pretentious.
- 1:13:49Right, right. Yeah.
- 1:13:52I'd have to hear his explanation, I guess, to make my
- 1:13:55own judgment, but these people that are like, I never watch my
- 1:13:58art. Yeah, fuck you.
- 1:14:00Well, I don't, they didn't say it.
- 1:14:01They don't watch my art. They just don't watch it.
- 1:14:03Like I think both of them had the same kind of reaction to it.
- 1:14:07It's just like they it's just, it's weird to them.
- 1:14:10I understand why you don't go back and listen to this, right?
- 1:14:14We're participants. This is a live and then
- 1:14:18recreated later podcast, right? We've kind of turned it into a 2
- 1:14:22headed animal. There's the live version, which
- 1:14:25a lot of people watch on YouTube and Twitch, and then there's the
- 1:14:28edited version, which is different and it gets released
- 1:14:30later. And but yeah.
- 1:14:34I do watch the. Short experience, I do too.
- 1:14:36You've already experienced it, so why go back?
- 1:14:40Right. It's not like a song, it's not
- 1:14:42like a movie. That's why I'm going to I don't
- 1:14:44go back and listen to the full episode either.
- 1:14:46I hit the highlights as I'm editing it to make sure that the
- 1:14:50audio is right. The video looks good.
- 1:14:52You know, to the best of my ability.
- 1:14:53I don't have so much time, but I think we do a pretty good job of
- 1:14:57producing a quality product. Why would he go back or me and
- 1:15:02listen to what we've already done?
- 1:15:04And it's its entirety, right, Right.
- 1:15:05We're moving on. This is more like a organic
- 1:15:08experience that keeps growing and living as a almost like its
- 1:15:13own entity. We're looking forward to the
- 1:15:15future, right? Who's the next guest?
- 1:15:17What are we going to learn next? What's Friday bring?
- 1:15:20What's Tuesday bring? Right, I got to, I got to build
- 1:15:23a plaque now for Michael Castillo Day, you know?
- 1:15:25Yep, now we yes, we owe a plaque.
- 1:15:27From that's got to be for sure. If I, if you see in that I'm I'm
- 1:15:32just, I'm going to come out of my skin, it's and.
- 1:15:34Then and now for sure dude. When we start when when we open
- 1:15:37our merchandise deal and we're starting to do T-shirts and
- 1:15:40stuff, the Mikey Castillo day, October 28th is going to be a
- 1:15:43T-shirt, I guarantee. Well, listen, if you do that,
- 1:15:45I'll be one of the first people to buy one.
- 1:15:48We're going to make it happen. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:15:51We've been talking about that. We need, we need merch.
- 1:15:53We just haven't done it yet. We're going to make it.
- 1:15:55Well, yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
- 1:15:57As soon as we start sponsors to do the merch for us.
- 1:16:01Yeah. And listen to Bruce Gambino,
- 1:16:03Vela Cheetah, Record Management, Marketing.
- 1:16:06Come on, pick us up. I'm going to throw it out there
- 1:16:08again, if you got if anybody owns a business and they would
- 1:16:11like to send us free swag, we will wear it on the air.
- 1:16:14We will free. I've been wearing the same hat
- 1:16:16for 150 episodes now, and I'm going to continue to shoot,
- 1:16:20support my poor Ash, Chicago Bears until somebody sends me a
- 1:16:24free hat. So, well, there you go.
- 1:16:25There you. Go Speaking of football, because
- 1:16:28we we and we got to wrap this up because we're we're we're you
- 1:16:31know, but Speaking of football, Cam scataboo.
- 1:16:34Do you guys see that shit? I I haven't watched football
- 1:16:38since 1989. Wow.
- 1:16:41Really. Denver Broncos, San Francisco
- 1:16:4349ers. That's the last Super Bowl I
- 1:16:45ever watched. Why is that?
- 1:16:47Because now I'm intrigued. Well, because I it was, I think
- 1:16:52it was right shortly after that, Joe Montana ended up going to
- 1:16:56Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, that pitch.
- 1:16:59And I just lost interest. Interesting.
- 1:17:02Cuz I'd like I, I was just like, all right, so they got that guy,
- 1:17:05what's his name? Sean.
- 1:17:06No, not Sean, but young Steve young Steve Young.
- 1:17:10He was a rookie then and, and, or at least he was like an
- 1:17:13alternate. And I thought, well, you know,
- 1:17:14they'll do fine with him. But I just, I mean, Joe Montana,
- 1:17:19I've been following him, you know?
- 1:17:22Little so I will say this, then you have not missed much.
- 1:17:26No, really, you just missed the downfall of football.
- 1:17:30You got you, got you. You stopped when football was
- 1:17:32still football, man. Yeah.
- 1:17:34Now, when I was in high school, I did.
- 1:17:36I watched more boxing than anything, like on Showtime,
- 1:17:39remember? Yeah.
- 1:17:40Oh yeah, Box, yeah. After hours, yeah.
- 1:17:42Boxing after dark, yeah. Real quick, real quick shout out
- 1:17:45to Jig. Congratulations on your fourth
- 1:17:47win as a professional boxer. Nice way to go, brother.
- 1:17:50All right, so we're going to get.
- 1:17:51You back on the show, Jig? Yeah, we do.
- 1:17:53Oh yeah, yeah, I saw that episode.
- 1:17:55Yeah, that guy was cool. He just had his fourth fight on
- 1:17:57Saturday this past Saturday and he knocked together the fuck out
- 1:18:00again, so way to go jig. Yeah, jigs, a good jigs jig.
- 1:18:05We like to jig for the simple fact that it was.
- 1:18:08Yeah. How you doing man?
- 1:18:09He remember he was so humble dude.
- 1:18:12And then he gets in there and just beat stuff living.
- 1:18:15Destroys the guy just. He's like, that's what I do, you
- 1:18:18know, when I get in there, that's what they're, you know,
- 1:18:20that's what the people came to see and knock them.
- 1:18:22Out that's the switch. That's the switch.
- 1:18:25Like I, I can like here I'm Chris Dunham, I go on stage, I'm
- 1:18:28Iron Dog. That just that you flip that
- 1:18:30switch, all of a sudden the whole different person takes
- 1:18:32over. And it completely, I have to do
- 1:18:35that because I am not the person that got up there at all.
- 1:18:38Yeah. Yeah, that's 180° move for me.
- 1:18:41But once I hear that first chord and I feel that air coming out
- 1:18:45of those speakers, yeah, it just takes over, man.
- 1:18:50I know what to do with that piece of wood, right?
- 1:18:52I can talk to you with that piece of wood way better than I
- 1:18:55could back then, 1,000,000% better than I could talk to you
- 1:18:59face to face, right? I didn't have the vocabulary
- 1:19:02back then. Yeah, Speaking of guitars, he
- 1:19:05ended up talking to the Monkey House guitar guy for like 6
- 1:19:08hours it seemed like after the show he kept talking.
- 1:19:12To you. We talked at 9:00 at night,
- 1:19:14right? So another three hours.
- 1:19:17We did an hour and 5 minute podcast or an hour and 10 minute
- 1:19:20podcast, Yeah. Then yeah, I ended up talking to
- 1:19:23him for at least another 4 hours, right?
- 1:19:25That's insane. That dude's bad ass, man.
- 1:19:27Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just going to take over the
- 1:19:30world, I hope. Let's pimp out Michael Castillo
- 1:19:33so we can find you on the Facebook, which is yes, whoops,
- 1:19:40I'm sorry, that was me. And oh, that was me and Nikki at
- 1:19:42Halloween. I don't know why that's up.
- 1:19:45That's a great, that's a great costume.
- 1:19:47Hey, I made. That.
- 1:19:50That's a still photo, kid you kid you not, that's a still
- 1:19:55photo. That's awesome.
- 1:19:58Michael. I don't.
- 1:20:00Michael Castillo. Are we not friends regularly?
- 1:20:10We might. We must be friends on our on my
- 1:20:12regular page. So I just want to share this
- 1:20:15stuff so people know. Yeah.
- 1:20:17So that's the book, The cyber Dance.
- 1:20:20Yeah. I'm going to get that.
- 1:20:22It's the The Rain Chronicles book one.
- 1:20:24It's on Amazon, Audible. Where else?
- 1:20:29It's Amazon, Audible, and on iTunes.
- 1:20:33That's right, iTunes. So definitely go buy that book
- 1:20:36and then you have another one coming out in January.
- 1:20:39Yeah, well, no, not in January. It's going to be later.
- 1:20:43It'll be as early as spring. But it it just depends on what,
- 1:20:48how quickly I can get things wrapped up and and how long
- 1:20:51it'll take to for the editing process.
- 1:20:54OK, because the publishing is actually quite easy.
- 1:20:57It's the editing process that takes so damn long.
- 1:21:00In order to keep up with our schedule, we're going to need
- 1:21:02you to be done by January. Yeah, that's not happening.
- 1:21:06I'll just say that now. It's not happening.
- 1:21:08I'm just. So do you edit it or do you have
- 1:21:11people editing it for you? Well, I, I do it my own edits
- 1:21:16and then I have a guy who has a background in education, OK, who
- 1:21:24has is also a very close personal friend of mine cool,
- 1:21:29who volunteered his services right on.
- 1:21:32And I gracious gratefully accepted that.
- 1:21:36And he, he what the way he, he comes at it with editing is
- 1:21:44first of all, if he says it sounds corny, he's going to tell
- 1:21:47me it sounds corny. Good.
- 1:21:50And that's what I want. I want that kind of feedback,
- 1:21:53sure. But he is also kind of peppered
- 1:21:56in a few things to help me kind of get some points across.
- 1:22:01So he's helped me maybe reword some things a little bit
- 1:22:04differently. But he knows where I'm coming
- 1:22:07from. He he has an intimate
- 1:22:10understanding of the characters I've developed.
- 1:22:13Right on. That's cool.
- 1:22:15Nice. So Cyber Dance is out right now,
- 1:22:17Audible, Amazon and iTunes, which is cool.
- 1:22:22So your next one's coming out is that book two of the cyber IT?
- 1:22:24Will be book 2. Tentatively it's I've got a
- 1:22:28title, a working title, which I'll I'll give that away.
- 1:22:33It's going to be called the Cyber Child.
- 1:22:36Oh, right on. I like it.
- 1:22:37So. So somebody diddled somebody,
- 1:22:39they had a baby right on. I'm not going to give anything
- 1:22:42on. No, let me read this one for I'm
- 1:22:45going to listen to it on audible, but let me get through
- 1:22:48this one first for sure. But tomorrow at work, I know I'm
- 1:22:51going to start the Cyber Dance by Michael R Castillo, who I
- 1:22:55know is Mikey because I see him on the chat window all.
- 1:22:58The time, yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Well, you know, the.
- 1:23:00All right, so the whole Mikey thing, that's my friends back
- 1:23:03home, call me Mikey. But everybody here in Delaware,
- 1:23:08they. They call me Michael.
- 1:23:10Oh, and like my mother has emphasized, anybody she
- 1:23:14introduces me to as Michael, but all my friends back home will
- 1:23:19forever call me Mikey. Everybody calls me Mike unless
- 1:23:22my mom's mad at me, and then I'll know for sure because then
- 1:23:25I'm model for sure. Yeah, well, if my mom's pissed
- 1:23:28at me, it's Michael Robert. Yeah.
- 1:23:30Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- 1:23:31I heard my middle name when I was a kid, but now even when I
- 1:23:34hear Michael, I know I better pay attention.
- 1:23:37I don't have. I don't have to worry about that
- 1:23:39at all. No, you don't.
- 1:23:41Hey, so this is this is the Kristen Mike show.
- 1:23:44He's Chris. I'm like, this is Michael
- 1:23:45Castillo. It's Michael Castillo day.
- 1:23:47And yeah, Mike knows because we do this with every show.
- 1:23:49If you are feeling depressed or suicidal, go outside and run.
- 1:23:54Go for run, go journal, go scream in a pillow, go workout.
- 1:23:58Do something that changes your mind, changes your mindset.
- 1:24:02Tomorrow is a better day because you're going to be in it.
- 1:24:04Somebody Loves You. Don't leave a hole in their
- 1:24:06heart. If you cannot find somebody to
- 1:24:07talk to you, as I pulled it up right here, 988 Lifeline, you
- 1:24:10can call, text and chat. They're there waiting for you
- 1:24:14right now to talk to them to help you go through your
- 1:24:17struggles. It doesn't matter what you're
- 1:24:19dealing with, they are here to help you.
- 1:24:21So there's the steps for that. So don't be that person that
- 1:24:24leaves a hole in somebody's heart.
- 1:24:26I just actually lost a friend of mine a couple weeks ago who
- 1:24:29decided to play Lollipop with the Revolver.
- 1:24:33It's a drag. He left he he left family.
- 1:24:35He left a wife. He left friends.
- 1:24:38And those are the people that suffer.
- 1:24:40And it sucks. It's, you know, it's not worth
- 1:24:42it. You know, nothing in life is, is
- 1:24:45that difficult that you can't find somebody to help you work
- 1:24:47through it. So.
- 1:24:49Don't be a person, like Chris always says, get a hold of us.
- 1:24:51If you want to hear how far down I was, I'll tell you.
- 1:24:53You don't get it further than that.
- 1:24:55So if we can find our way back, that means there's light for
- 1:24:59everybody. So please, absolutely.
- 1:25:01Absolutely. That's twice.
- 1:25:03And so for the for the for the original.
- 1:25:05Original. No, wait, what?
- 1:25:06It's not the original. What do we call the inaugural
- 1:25:09Michael Castillo Day? I'm Chris Dunham.
- 1:25:11He's Mike Michaels. This is the Christian Mike show.
- 1:25:13Until next time. See you peace.
- 1:25:16Love you brother, love you Michael.
- 1:25:17Take care of these fighters. Finally, guys, you're on the
- 1:25:19show. Thank you so much, Michael.
- 1:25:21That was a blast. Yeah.
- 1:25:23Thanks guys. Really.
- 1:25:44The place where you is. Take a moment, look until you
- 1:26:08see it. The.
- 1:27:28Come down here, we. Haven't found.
- 1:27:34Solely in the exam from fighting, wait for the dead,
- 1:27:40wait for the the wind. You ain't no creature.
- 1:27:48We're playing smile and you should you put it on the
- 1:27:52almighty day. You got a dream.
- 1:27:56Who in your life? The people go in every man.
- 1:28:03Take the trail behind your eyes. Feel the soul revolution now.
- 1:28:09Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:28:20Take a moment. Listen to your tear.
- 1:28:24Fight your family. To you.
- 1:28:26More clear. You gotta, you gotta.
- 1:28:54You gotta, you gotta, you gotta.