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#60 | Ridin' High Podcast - Part 3 · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_01: Corpus Christie Originals back at it again, coming to you live from the produced uh sound studio downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we got you know who it is, the Ride and Hype podcast with us.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on, fellas?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're good, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're good.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, so introduce introduce yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got Jupyne.
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  SPEAKER_04: What's the good boy Jupian, man?
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  SPEAKER_04: We're here.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
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  SPEAKER_04: DJ Lil King.
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  SPEAKER_04: Boy Freak, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what's going on, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate y'all for joining the podcast, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so what so how'd y'all feel when I invited y'all on the show?
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  SPEAKER_06: Excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Actually, I was talking with you, King, right?
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh man, honest opinion, I kind of figured you wanted us on there to talk about the other stuff.
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  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_06: That's all good though.
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  SPEAKER_06: But like I said, I ain't I ain't really worried about all that stuff no more.
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  SPEAKER_06: It's in the past for me.
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  SPEAKER_06: I don't really dwell on stuff too much.
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  SPEAKER_06: Like, I'm what I'm the type like I'll I'll I I could have DJ'd for fucking 50 cents yesterday, and today is a new day.
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  SPEAKER_06: I it's it's in the past already.
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  SPEAKER_06: Like, that's how I am.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_06: Shit.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it seemed like you got to a point where like, you know what, just screw this.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say something about this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what's up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and you mentioned too, like, not not giving them some more uh some more sh some more light, you know what I mean?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Which is yeah, that's awesome, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so you guys, you guys have the podcast going for a while, and every time I always get notifications, bro, like uh on for Twitch and for YouTube.
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  SPEAKER_01: And every time I not every time, most times I click on it and check it out for a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, man, I really like what you're doing over there at the Ragnarok Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to call it a network, bro.
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  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate you, appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_06: Basically, that's what we're trying to build.
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  SPEAKER_06: Basically, like a network shit.
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  SPEAKER_05: Is that the waste seven days a week?
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  SPEAKER_06: Seven days a week.
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  SPEAKER_06: Hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, getting it going.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that that was that the initial intent when you first started it?
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  SPEAKER_06: Nah, the actual initial intent is man.
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  SPEAKER_06: I'm actually, as they would say, I'm barely starting to get back to the roots of what the actual podcast was supposed to be.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_06: And that was the interviewing like the OGs, the pioneers, like the legends of this Corpus Christie, like music scene, rap scene, and even just like like bar owners and promoters.
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  SPEAKER_06: I ain't really got no no promoters on there.
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we didn't have people from the radio, we didn't have some.
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  SPEAKER_05: I don't know, Havo's kind of a promoter.
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: Well, like we've already had like different artists from the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s.
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  SPEAKER_06: So we just trying to uh we trying to put the puzzle together.
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  SPEAKER_06: It's it ain't no books out there, it ain't no video on the history of corpus rap or nothing like that.
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  SPEAKER_06: So I'm just trying to at this point trying to do what I can to try to piece it all together so there can be some type of not to say manual, but some type of like a blueprint of of what it was.
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  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_06: Documentation, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: That's the correct word.
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  SPEAKER_04: We're building the corpus Bible, man.
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  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_04: On some real shit.
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  SPEAKER_05: Really, you can piece together, like especially these last few weeks that we've done, um, and put together a big chunk of like at least the 90s alone.
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  SPEAKER_05: Like, that's and and that's for people who care to know.
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  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_05: Like we just want to make sure it's there for you to know.
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  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, but the original intent was just I didn't have like when I first started, it wasn't like let's start with seven shows.
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  SPEAKER_06: It was just basically I just started with the one show and then the news came second, and after the news, I can't I think I can't remember what came second, with the third.
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  SPEAKER_06: It may have been uh sports and then I think uh Droopy and then we did Scoob and then actually and this is a story I want to tell too, the Rotten Hot Concert Series.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_06: Let's get into the origins of the Rotten Hot Concert Series because somebody just the other day told me that I need to tell this story because it's like a uh a good story.
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  SPEAKER_06: Actually, uh Kai Servan and the NBH homies, they had came on the podcast and we had did a Let's Chop.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, forgot we got Let's Chop It Up too.
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  SPEAKER_06: They had came on and did a Let's Chop It Up.
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  SPEAKER_06: We did like a 30, 45 minute episode of them where they were just talking about the origins of their rap career and basically how they had felt that they had been blackballed amongst like the corpus music scene.
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  SPEAKER_06: No venues would be letting them perform or nothing like that.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_06: Like y'all had been reaching out to different people trying to get on shows and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_06: People have been shutting y'all down.
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  SPEAKER_06: So they basically told us that.
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  SPEAKER_06: So we created the Rod and High concert series.
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  SPEAKER_06: Actually, it was just supposed to be a one-off.
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  SPEAKER_06: It was just we created the Ride and High concert series for NBAs, and it was basically just supposed to be one show and that was it.
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  SPEAKER_06: And then we did the one show, and it just basically like we got a good good feedback on that one.
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  SPEAKER_06: And the next week we I don't know, I don't even think we lied.
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  SPEAKER_06: Somebody said somebody I don't can't remember somebody in the crew who it was, but somebody said, Man, I want to do one of these too.
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  SPEAKER_06: And I was like, already, and we've just been kept it going from there.
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  SPEAKER_06: Shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that was me, bro.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember who I think it probably was you, shit, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, shout out to Bino in the comments, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, dude, I'm so sorry, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get you on, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you for being there, uh, for uh uh being patient with me, being patient with us.
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  SPEAKER_05: Hey, who better to fill in for you though, Bino?
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  SPEAKER_05: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_05: You know we got you, though.
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  SPEAKER_01: You guys definitely in a filler, man.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: Well for Bino, we still for Bino, we will be every day, bro.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I'm saying?
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_05: I'm a boy, man.
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  SPEAKER_05: I love being every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right on, right on.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, straight up.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome how you how you come upon that idea for the concert series, uh, just from that, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you're just like, okay, let's continue doing this.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's amazing to me.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's like kind of like uh you st like in business, like you stumble upon things without even intentionally, you know, thinking about doing it.
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  SPEAKER_06: I call it throwing a whole bunch of stuff on the wall and just seeing what sticks.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Has it always been like that for you?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been sticky, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: For sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like like even before the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like as a person, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: For sure, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_06: For sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so and then uh so you started DJing like in the 90s, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or something like that?
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  SPEAKER_06: Started DJing in the year 2000, maybe 1999, but like, yeah, probably like 1999, 2000, somewhere within that frame.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I and I found it interesting that you said uh not to be a DJ like at a club, but you wanted to make mixes.
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: And not only mixes, but uh screwed and chop mixes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_06: So basically it's for me and my friends to listen to.
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  SPEAKER_06: It wasn't even nothing like let's make these a sale.
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  SPEAKER_06: This was just so me and my friends could ride around and listen to while we cruised around the city smoking and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, and so you still were you selling your stuff at your at the plug and in the trade center?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: Okay, we used to uh man, we would like press up CDs.
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  SPEAKER_06: I would be it's crazy because uh at this point I was like pressing up the CDs myself.
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  SPEAKER_06: When I say pressing up myself, like I still press them up.
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  SPEAKER_06: I guess there's that's two different ways of people think when I say pressing up CDs myself.
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  SPEAKER_06: Like one way is I could send it off to a company and they press everything up, and to people, to other people, that's still me pressing it up.
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  SPEAKER_06: But whenever I say me pressing it up, that's me sitting at home, burning the CD, putting the label on the CD, putting all the covers in the CD, in the CD things, putting the CD in there, closing it, and putting a shrink wrap on there.
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  SPEAKER_06: And whenever we have to the plug days, man, I would be doing that.
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  SPEAKER_06: We would open on Friday, Friday like at noon, man.
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  SPEAKER_06: I'll be up Thursday night to like five, six o'clock in the morning on uh Friday just to make sure it because I would post like on Facebook and like do like the sponsorships and new release coming this Friday, and then everybody would be expecting it.
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  SPEAKER_06: So I would be sitting there, man, dying, just making sure I had enough copies to sell the next day whenever we opened up.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_06: Hell yeah.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Man, and I found out you worked at Keywit.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: I never would have thought that.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, hell yeah.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_06: That was like one of them like had to do what I had to do type shit.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_06: That was right right after like the plug had kind of like folded, and that's whenever I had to do what I had to do to take care of my phone.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that was after the plug, yeah.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_06: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then so so uh while you were doing that, you were trying to save up some money or whatever to get your podcast started.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_06: No, actually, it was it wasn't even the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_06: Whenever I was gonna at Keywidd, I was trying to save up money so I could uh I whenever I left the plug, I had a whenever I had the plug, I had a business partner.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_06: So my whole thing was now that I got the game to do it, I'm gonna do it by myself next time.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_06: So my whole thing was to work at Keywit and save up money to open another storefront.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_06: But I worked at Kiwid, I saved up enough money, and I probably could have opened the storefront, but at that point, at that point in time, I ain't gonna lie, I wasn't really too confident in myself.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_06: Man, I remember paying uh shout out to Rick, uh elevator screen printer.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_06: He pressed up my first ever batch of Rod and High shirts, man.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_06: I remember I think I paid him like five, six hundred dollars to press up some t-shirts.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_06: And man, I remember like that night I paid him, I'm sitting there thinking, like, damn, bro, like, did I just throw away money?
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_06: Are people even gonna buy this?
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_06: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_06: Like, they know me for the plug.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_06: Nobody knows me for riding high.
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  SPEAKER_06: Like, damn, shit.
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  SPEAKER_06: Like, am I making a mistake?
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_06: And man, I got that first batch of shirts, and man, that that very first day, I want to say that first batch I got was probably like a 50 batch or a hundred.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_06: I can't remember what it was, but man, that very first day I probably sold like 30 shirts.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_06: And it was people hitting me up that I didn't even know that was messaging me on Facebook and Instagram.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_06: Man, can you come drop off two shirts to me?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_06: Can you come drop off three shirts to me?
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_06: And I was like, man, hella people that I didn't even know, and I was like, man, that that told me that I was doing something right, man.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_06: I was heading in the right direction.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_06: And I never got to the point where I opened up another storefront, but the Rod and Hot Brands was there and it's still there to this day.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: So why why so why a podcast like uh I mean, because you actually had the store, but why why a podcast?
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well, was that becoming popular in your eyes?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or I mean why that avenue?
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_06: Because uh That was years later though.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that was like let me see.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_06: Man, the uh the the the podcast actually started.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_06: I was uh I want to say this was in and I hadn't even started a podcast yet.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_06: In 2019, me and my homeboy Adrian shout out SGC Holder.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_06: We had gone to Houston to do a uh a Sloan Chop mixtape with uh one of DJ Screw's friends, Lil Randy, who DJ who DJ still to this day.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_06: And whenever we were there, whenever we were on the way over there before we left, like Adrian wanted to interview Randy and ask Randy like some questions, and I was like, Well shit, let's just film that shit.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_06: So whenever we got there, we did the mixtape, and after we did the mixtape, we actually interviewed him.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_06: I had like some questions like on my phone, and we actually interviewed him, and that interview was just straight raw, like there wasn't no microphones or nothing.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_06: It was just us sitting the mic on a tripad.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_06: It was like a Vlad style interview.
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  SPEAKER_06: He was on one side of the camera, we were on the other side, yeah, and we were both going back and forth asking them questions and just straight raw audio.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_06: So that was probably like that wasn't even a rod and high, but that was probably like my first time ever like interviewing somebody.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so that basically started that was in 2019.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_05: Nah, you got that timeline mixed up then.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I'm talking about like as far as like a uh like on my own.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_05: Still riding high.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_05: What?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_05: Still riding high in Black Ladies Presents with the Cave.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, man.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_05: I forget about that.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_05: But that wasn't I can still sit right next to him, he can still forget about it.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_06: That that wasn't, I guess I don't really look at that as a rot as a Rod and Hot podcast.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_06: That was more of like the Rotten High clothing brand, and that was like an entity of that the clothing brand.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_06: I give you that.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_05: I give you that and even though definitely Rod and High though.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, definitely Rod and High.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that shit's but I guess back then I didn't even look at Rotten High as like having an umbrella, which is we do clothes and hey, we are using Rod and High as part of uh the cave to do interviews.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, going back to I guess that was 2016, whenever we were doing like the cave episodes and stuff like that.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_06: We were interviewing like a lot of local people and stuff like that.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_06: But as far as like the Rod and High podcast, I want to say the first interview I did too, official under the Rod and High podcast, I interviewed my my dog Ken too.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_06: He's not here today.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_06: He's the host of the Rod and High Sports.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_06: I interviewed him, and that was back in 2019 also because he was there whenever we did that interview with uh little Randy.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_06: So whenever he ended up coming to Corpus, I was like, hey, we interviewed Randy.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_06: That shit wasn't really too hard.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_06: Shit, like, let me interview you, type shit.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_06: He was like, already.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_06: So he sat down in another raw interview.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_06: It was just straight raw.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_06: And then I interviewed Meta.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all know Meta?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_06: Uh he's he's down with the produce crew.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know if he still is, but he's he's he's just we used to all hang around here back in the day.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_06: And he's DJs at Flanagans.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to Meta 2019.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_06: I interviewed him and it was just another raw interview.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_06: And I just I had those interviews, but I just didn't feel comfortable enough to like put them out.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_06: So I just basically like sat on it.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_06: Quality or it was no, it was good, but it's just like it.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_06: I was I was confused on how I wanted to do interviews.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_06: Like if one day I would want to sit in front of the camera with next to the person.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_06: The next day I would think, man, I just want to sit behind the scenes.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_06: So I didn't really know in mind exactly what I wanted to do.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_06: So whenever after just sitting down and watching a whole bunch of different podcasts on YouTube, I just kind of threw them all together and came up with my own version.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_06: Nice.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_06: And I like I wanted to do like the Vlad style, like behind the camera, but I was like, nah, I want I want to be in front of the camera.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_06: Like I don't want to do it behind the camera, I want to be in front of the camera.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_06: Nice, yeah.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's up, man.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: What's the what's the story behind the name riding high?
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_06: Man, I came up with the riding high name.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, I think I just explained this a couple of days ago, too, to at the on the How about G show.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_06: I came up with the riding high name, and whenever I was working that key with actually the riding high, it was to me, it meant something that was like universal.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_06: Like you could be riding down Ocean Drive smoking and you're riding high.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_06: You could be riding in a big truck that's lifted and you're literally riding high.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_06: Or you could just, like I say, get it would be Friday, you just got paid, and you could be riding in a shitty ass car, but you still riding high because you're feeling good.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_04: So to me it meant your best shit, right?
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, to me, I I picked that name because it meant to me it meant what you wanted to mean.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_06: So that's why I picked that name.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_06: That's cool.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: So do you think that's it, that's important for your audience, like to have their own perspective?
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so it means exactly what you want it to mean.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_06: If you want riding high, to mean that you riding down uh down the street, riding through your neighborhood, and y'all hella high as fuck, then y'all riding high, you know what I'm saying?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, whatever you want it to mean.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: And man, you have multiple shows.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so how do you think the relaxed uh high energy for how do you think the format helps or uh resonates with your audience?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Because you guys are smoking all the time.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: I've been to your your spot and y'all got y'all's own little thing going on.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how do you think that resonates with your audience?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's called a rotten hot podcast for a reason.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_05: I feel like they might be disappointed in us right now because we're not smoking honestly, straight up, straight up.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_05: So if you say something right now, we can make our audience very happy.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_05: And us, and you if you like, yeah.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, no.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_05: Everybody about to be happy, yeah.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_05: Of course, go give us the word, bro.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're gonna be able to do it.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because I see him on there, and he's always like he's doing something with his hands.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, damn, is he gonna be all right?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, yeah, hell yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_06: If I was sober doing it, I probably wouldn't be all off the probably would be all shit.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_06: He needs some energy, yeah, yeah.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think I think it really works though, man, because all of our all of our audience, man, they smoke weed, bro.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_04: I think that's what that's what makes it work, man.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_06: And even there's a lot of people that don't smoke that still enjoy us, too.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_06: I think a lot of a lot of people watch because a lot of people watch us, and I see sometimes with the comments, man.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_06: I can't smoke, but man, y'all hit it for me or something like that.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_06: So I think a lot of people just like to sit there and watch watch people indulge and stuff like that.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, like I love watching the weed videos on YouTube and stuff like that.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_06: Hell, I ain't sitting there smoking, I'm watching Burner and them all doing all in uh grow houses and all that stuff.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_06: So to me, it's all that's just cool.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's because we had uh recent guests who had like uh followers of their own, and some of them have to be happen to be doctors.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_05: So, you know, they don't smoke, but they thought it was cool, you know, the whole idea of us smoking and shit.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_05: So that's that's pretty far that it's it's accepted, whether you smoke or not, you know what I mean?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_05: You accept us as we are, so yeah.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: I can relate to that.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because what uh when I first started watching, like I don't smoke, you know what I mean?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: And but just watching y'all and listening to y'all, I could relate because y'all are from my this city, my city that I live in as well.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: And just hearing y'all talk about like topics that are related, it's like, oh, this is pretty cool.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I find myself laughing and being entertained with it, you know what I mean?
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh really.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, I I can totally relate to that, man.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: So how how do you pick your your topics or uh guests for each each podcast uh on your I guess on your network?
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_06: Uh with the uh with the with the news, with the topics, we usually try to get like the hot topics within the week.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_06: We usually don't try to go over like like a week's time.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_06: So the thing is something happened like two weeks ago, like we try to cover stuff like what happened within like the past week.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_06: So that's why we try to shoot a news episode like every week.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_06: So that way we could just stick to that week's topic.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_06: We're not covering stuff that happened last month and stuff two months ago.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_06: Every now and then we'll throw something in there that may have happened last month or two, three weeks ago, but more more less we try to stick to the topics that have happened within that week so people will know exactly what we're talking about.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_06: They don't for we live in a time frame, I feel like, where people's attention span is so short, yeah, that if you let two, three weeks go every day.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_06: That if you let if you let too much time go, that then people are gonna already forget about that happen.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_06: Because I only remember what happened two weeks ago on on social media, straight.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so like so.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_06: Do you find yourself like looking through Facebook all the time or like uh uh news news sources, Instagram, uh TikTok, shit like that?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah, all different news, wherever wherever there's uh news being shared to everything, shit.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_06: KII, KR, you know what I'm saying?
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_06: Wherever you find some news.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_06: Give me some box, give me some ABC.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_06: I think Apple Apple has like the Apple news, you know what I'm saying?
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, all that shit.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_06: And with the guests, each each host usually gets their own their own guests.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_06: If it's like a problem with them getting a guest or something, I'll try to help out, freak or try to help out and get some guests.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_06: But usually each host gets their own guests.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_06: Nice, yeah.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's up, and then so you got let me see.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think I had it uh, so you got Right High News, Chop It Up, Concert Series, Off the Cush.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, off the Kush, shout out school sports, right now.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_04: Are you still doing yours?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I'm gonna come back and do it, man.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_04: But I don't know if I'm gonna I don't know if I'm gonna do the conspiracy theories anymore, man.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_04: People kind of trip out on that, you know what I mean?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_04: Like, no, because like uh for real, man, people trip out on that, man.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_04: When you start talking about some crazy stuff, they kind of look at me kind of like, damn, like I don't know.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_05: But that's the point of it though.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_05: Like if y'all go back and y'all watch the one that we had with Alex, Droop was doing one that was talking about the was it the Anunnaki or something like that.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_05: We were on like a little a short version of the Anunnaki explanation, and uh Alex was like tripping out that how close it was to like the religion that maybe he grew up learning type of shit, and he's like, I don't know what to believe anymore.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_05: So it works, it works, you know what I mean?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_05: Like, so I I I don't think you should change that part up.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, man.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_04: We might come back.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_04: We might we might do one this weekend, man.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so how do you so how do you go about like uh picking the people to host those, you know, those shows, or do you just stumble upon those shows or hear a Drupal B idea?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_06: Every everybody came up with their with their own show, and they came to me straight up with the idea, and and it was basically on me to approve or not, but I haven't really disapproved no shows besides freaks.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_05: And I've come with like 10 of them, bro.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_05: I've come with like 10 of them.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_05: Let's not even front.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_05: Every single one is like, nah, that's not for me, freak, but you can go and do that on the black leaders and I'll support you.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, shit, bro.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_05: I I guess you know what I mean, but uh it is what it is.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I definitely have nothing.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_06: But Freak got something coming too.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_06: He's he's coming around finally, man.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_06: He got something coming, man.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_06: We just gotta figure out what it's gonna be.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_05: Nah, we just gotta figure out what he's okay with.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_05: So I'm gonna stay forever behind this.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_05: This is the one of the few times you're gonna catch me in front of the camera.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_05: So yeah, he wants some spotlight today.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, come on.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh, what are some what are some memorable uh conversations or moments y'all had on the show or any one of the shows?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_05: Gatekeepers, yeah.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_06: On like the news one, yeah, like the gatekeepers.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_06: That's one we always we ain't talked about in a while, but when we kind of first started, it was always coming up.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_05: While we're having other interviews with other people, they'll say that word and we'll look at each other like let's think where he's about to go with this shit.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_05: Because the idea of a gatekeeper to me, I don't think it exists in corpus because there's nothing here that we can't do for ourselves.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_05: Like, no disrespect to anybody doing this podcast, but nowadays all you need is this.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's it.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_05: And you got a podcast, like you know, so it's just that simple.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_05: So I don't think any there's any gatekeepers here, but that's where my conversation on that part goes.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_06: And that's like with like anything, I guess, like with the music stuff.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_06: Like, people don't want to let you on a show shit.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_06: Throw your own show, you know what I'm saying?
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_06: Luckily, they didn't have to go that route, you know what I'm saying.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_06: We they even though we only did something virtual, it was still giving them uh credibility, man.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_06: And giving them a uh a shot to do to the opportunity, a shot to do their thing, you know what I'm saying?
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_06: They did that, they did way more shows.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_06: They way more shows after that.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_06: How many of y'all done got under y'all's belt since since that first one?
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_06: Five.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: Already five, and that's just in this year.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Already so how do you how do you feel about that for for you?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like honestly, it's crazy.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of like it's kind of like a movie how everything just played out, like how I just hit them up and like nobody in Corpus really knew of us, you know what I mean?
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: And then she just like turned around and now like every time I'm out somewhere with them, like everybody just goes to the mediation out, like and then from doing no shows to bring it to like up front and then the city type shit.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_06: Doing the San Antonio show with the whole sold-out crowd and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_05: So when we did uh was it the store drive thing, man?
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_05: Alex brought it and brought them in there, let them do the little thing on the 105.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, facts.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_05: Step to the back and let them get their shine on.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_05: I think they locked in with Trace after that, right?
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_05: Got the music played.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, I heard a song on the radio a couple of weeks ago, man.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_06: I was like, man, that's what's up.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_05: It costs you nothing to hook somebody up, man.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, why you decide to do that?
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because not a lot of people will do that.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, why?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, because I just feel like that's how it should be.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_05: Like any play that I got, if I can pass it to him, I'm gonna I tried to pass him something the other day and he kind of like passed it back.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, this ain't no pitch back, I'm giving it to you.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_05: Like, what?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_05: Go run the ball, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_05: But it is what it is.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, from time to time, he's done that for me actually just weeks ago, passing me a photography gig, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_05: And that, you know, whatever went with that, but yeah, that's uh It costs you nothing to pass that play to somebody else, man.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_05: We all winning like that.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_05: Like, like seeing Kai do their thing at the radio station, like it was a proud moment.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't know but Kai, but maybe about a month at that time.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_05: Period.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_05: So, you know, when when I saw that they had that hunger and drive for it, like I'm like, shit.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_05: And I'm passing it to the right person.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not wasting this play on somebody.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_05: So and hopefully, you know, everything you do doesn't be wasted on anybody, but you know, it's all a lesson learned either way.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Do you do you feel do you feel like you're that uh you you guys are like at an older stage of the game than some of the younger guys?
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_05: Fuck yeah.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_05: I am, I'm 40, bro.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Does it feel weird at that point?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_05: Or I mean it's just no, but you know what?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_05: I I used to think that growing up because people are like, you can't be this age and be a rapper, but nobody tells that shit to a country artist.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_05: Nobody's worried about the Hano artist being 50 or 20 or 15, you know what I mean?
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_05: They just let them play because it's about music.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_05: That's what it's been like for me, because this is the world that we grew up in.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_05: We grew up in this culture, you can't take that away from me.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_05: Like, you know what I mean?
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_05: Like that's just all part of my life.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_04: You can't put an age limit on your culture, bro.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_05: At all.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_05: Or on music.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_05: So I mean, all that shit just goes with it, bro.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_05: I feel like that's just common sense and that same thing.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what's man.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: So when you started the the podcast, you you you mentioned in one podcast I was listening to that you're you're the type of person you're waiting until you get all the equipment and all that stuff before you get started.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so now you got all the stuff, you got couches, you got all kinds of man.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: I seen that sign that one dude gave y'all.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, that's dope.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to our pinky birds.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_06: Hell yeah.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man, that's dope.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: So uh behind the scenes, what are some of the challenges, the challenges that you have now as opposed to back then with your production or or what are some of the challenges you faced in producing and maintaining uh your podcast, uh, especially given the unique theme of each show?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_06: Man, honestly, the only challenge that I really feel like I faced is is like nervousness.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_06: Well, not reasonable.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_06: But you can say like sometimes we'll have like faulty mic courts and stuff like that.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_06: But the only challenge I feel like is like whenever we do a uh like a concert series and an interview in the same day, then I have to switch stuff around.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_06: Uh-or, which a lot of people don't know, man.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna just be straight up.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_06: Every time I get ready to interview somebody and it's like a one-on-one interview and it's just me doing it, man.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_06: I'll be nervous as hell.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_06: Like people don't know that they just sit there, probably sitting because I I try to keep like a calm demeanor, so you probably don't see it, watch it, man.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_06: I'll be before the interviews start, I'd be nervous as hell.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_06: Probably into like after a minute or two, that's when I'm like, okay, like it's it starts feeling natural now, but count the blunts.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, from now on, y'all pay attention.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_05: Count the blunts, depending on how many he smoke is how nervous he was.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_05: He's all now I'm gonna pay attention to smoke the ounce.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_05: This motherfucker done ran me nervous.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna say that DQ one, I was super nervous for that DQ one, and then after I got done with it, man, a lot of people hit me up and they were like, Man, that was like the best one you did.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_06: That was like a real good interview.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_06: And I was like, bro, I was like super nervous the whole damn interview, but shit.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_06: I guess I guess I did good.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, y'all made y'all made me hella nervous when I first when I saw all y'all sit down.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh shit, I'm freaking nervous, right?
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: I already know how I go, bro.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_06: Straight up, I know how it go.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_05: I feel like, see, like this this seems like somewhere I'd be more nervous, you know what I mean?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: Like growing from all these lights and big cameras.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_05: And I wasn't nervous when we came here.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_06: Like this just feels like it don't feel like back at home.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_06: Me, yeah.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_06: Me being a guest is like that's that's like normal for me.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_06: And I guess like I'm getting used to like the on the other part.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_06: Because I just watch so many podcasts on YouTube and stuff like that that I'm seeing like both ends of the spectrum.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_06: I'm like, man, a guest ain't really that hard.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_06: You just gotta answer questions.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_06: It's the dude that's host that got to come up with you got to really do some real journalism type work, you know what I'm saying?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: Do you find how do you find yourself like preparing for an interview?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_06: It just depends on who I'm interviewing.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_06: Some interviews I'll uh go back and do like a lot of homework depending on how long or what what type of uh what type of because a lot of people, a lot of local artists, it's hard to like go and on YouTube and yeah and type in their name and can get a whole bio on them.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_06: So I find myself a lot of times asking other people about them, or like you frequent saying earlier, man, within these past few weeks, we've gathered up so much information through all the other interviews that we're done that we're basically asking questions that have been thrown to us.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, such and such did this uh in 1995.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, we heard from such and such in 1995 you did this.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_06: Can you explain like that?
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, it's just all like coming full circle at this point.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we get like several sides to the same story to the same concert, to the same show, you know what I mean?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_05: Like other people verifying like celebrity status type things, and and what was it?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: So don't like re don't redo whatever somebody else did.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_06: With the game, with yeah, yeah, with the uh the the uh was yeah, the game story.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, homeboy.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_06: We had two different versions of the game story.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_06: They tell stories about the game coming to corpus and the homies from Greenwood basically having to check the game, and we heard two different versions of that one, which both lined up to be the exact same thing, just heard it from two different people.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: Bino on Facebook, man.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Appreciate my interview, DJ Lil King, Ramona Sparza, Droopy, Droopy Martinez.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Already, Marinez, Marinez, uh custom shoes coming on coming for the table.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh got both y'all podcasts.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate y'all.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man, appreciate you.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_05: Alrighty, yeah, and and to be.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_05: He brings us uh with a uh custom theme song.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, like from scratch, bro.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_05: Like in every year is like top the year before, which is fucking crazy because he keeps pushing them out like nothing.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_05: So yeah, shout out to him.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_05: He's definitely a man with many hats, as they say.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: He's grinding too, bro.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: His story is awesome.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I I found out uh he actually shot uh shot me a message, and then when I was preparing, I watched y'all's entire interview with him, dude.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, dude, his story is awesome.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: His like his uh his custom cleats uh story didn't come until like an hour and and 30 minutes.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, because he's been so and so much in the scene beforehand, which was amazing to me.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_06: Well, see, when I do like the personal interviews, when I do like my interviews, the Rod and How with DJ Lil King interviews, I try to like if they're a rapper, like let's because that's when I watch interviews, that's how I want to I want to uh see the person being interviewed.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_06: If you rap, like rap is just a part of your story, bro.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_06: Like you ain't you weren't rapping out the wound, fam.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_06: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_06: Like we'll get to the rap.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_06: Let's know what let's know about you growing up.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_06: And I just feel like if you're coming on a podcast, you should be willing to talk about stuff like that, unless you're just going on the promo run.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, if you're going on a podcast to do a life story, and I always tell people too, like, because a lot of people be like, hey, what are we gonna talk about?
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_06: But we're gonna do a life story.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_06: Like, if there's anything you don't want to talk about, just let me know.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_06: But I tell people like that's why a lot of the interviews that I do, man, they're always like two or three hours because I don't just jump straight into what their occupation is, what what their uh whatever they do, like the rap, if you're graphic design or whatever you do, like you say, uh we had DJ Joe on there from the Bomb Records, he owned the record stores, and man, we learned about his life way before he even opened a record store.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and he was like a key point to a lot of people, local artist-wise, because he was where you could have your shit sold.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_05: So he was like in the same sense, like kind of what King looked up to growing up, was like shit.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_05: I could do that too, type of thing.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_05: You know, maybe not intentionally, but it was in the brain working, like, damn, this is dope.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_05: I want to do this type of shit, which is I mean it really is.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_05: You get to sell music and listen to music or fucking DVDs or bootleg DVDs.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_05: That's my heaven right there.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_05: We're gonna we bootlegging everything in this bitch.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_05: We got the real and the fake behind the curtain.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, let's keep it real, man.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_05: Fuck all that shit.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_06: So, yeah, we never sold no bootlegs at the plug, man.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_06: Well, shout out DJ Joe, though.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_06: That's my dude, man.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, for sure, man.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_06: By that time, yeah.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_06: DJ Joe had already gone down, so yeah, we're gonna be.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_05: He's come through for us like on multiple occasions too.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_05: Like, we didn't have any sound going, uh, I think it was at uh oh, we needed more sound at the is it the tour drive?
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, or whatever it was at the block.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_05: Um, he just pulls up with speakers out of nowhere and just I'll be back for them later.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_05: I swear they're still sitting in Alex's garage to this day, and it's been like since November, bro.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_05: Like he's not even worried about them.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_05: So shout out DJ Joe for just like, you know, straight off the love, man.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_05: That love for the game is is the same kind of play passing thing I'm talking about, bro.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_05: Like he ain't asked for nothing, not worried about nothing, but he knows at the same time when he makes that call, we're gonna answer.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, and and y'all are it's and y'all are gravitating toward the the hip-hop scene or the rap scene or whatever.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I don't know what you call it, because that's what y'all are into, right?
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that it?
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I would I would I would say that, but we've had like we've done like food places.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_06: We went to the most comida, you know what I'm saying?
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_06: We had Rick on there, he fed us before.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_06: Then we did uh I want to say it was like our 50th news episode.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_06: We did it live at a smoke shop, and Rick brought us more food over there too, and everything.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_03: So I think that's how we had that one podcast I did with the dude who was a boxing uh trainer.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_03: Remember?
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_03: And then we had a good one.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_06: We had uh a dude on there, uh Gidry, I can't remember his first name, but he had wrote a book and he was on there promoting his book.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_06: We ran through his life story and stuff like that.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah D Gidry, shout out D.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_06: Gidry, man.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out Lil' E, man.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_06: I see you, man.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate it.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Who's that?
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Eric Earl, yeah.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out my dog, my dog Lil' E, man.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_05: What's good with it?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out Babbo, aka Roach, aka Scoop Dope's producer, Calcaster Cole from the 956.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_05: I see you, baby block leaders for life.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_05: So that's that's actually a dude where where when I was doing graphics, he was doing super dope graphics for the valley.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_05: And instead of like competing with this fool, I was like, bro, why don't you come slide with me?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_05: I'll cover whatever cost it costs for you to be a graphic designer.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_05: Like, you know, I'll get you some cards and all that shit.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_05: You just gotta stamp the block leader symbol on that motherfucker.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_05: He's that deal, bro.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_05: Took that shit and ran.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_05: He's one of the nicest fucking artists I've fucking dealt with.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Is that that's your brand?
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Block Bleaders, yeah.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so homie, homie, uh, shout out my boy uh David Gomez.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_05: He came up with this shit about 2010.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_05: And uh, we wanted to start as a graphic design doing videos and stuff like that.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_05: And he gave us the name.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, he's he's all because we block bleeders, we bleed blocks, and da-da-da-da, and and you know, off of the zero thing and everything.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_05: So over the years I've gotten shit about it, like you're not you're not really block bleeding because block bleeders go out there and sell crack.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, well, I thought the idea is it is I bleed the block.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_05: I bleed the block for a different kind of rock now.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_05: Like, this is me taking a picture or doing some videos or even taking you to a studio to record.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_05: Whatever.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_05: I'm still bleeding the block in a different way.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: But it's a stupid question.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: What does that mean?
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_05: Uh that's what I'm saying.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_05: Like to actually uh pump the block as in hustling on the block.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_05: They have a hustle, they have a grind.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_05: Like, so we're gonna bleed the block dry from whatever the block has to give.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_05: So I'm gonna soak up whatever that block has, which it uh, you know, in the videos and photography in the beginning, the graphics was how we were approaching it.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_05: Like, we were everywhere.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_05: They were paying us to go down to the valley all the way up to like San Antonio and Houston, you know, room and board type shit, and uh recording rap battles and stuff like that in the beginning, uh doing graphics, flyers, all that shit.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_05: And yeah, it took uh it took a few of us to get that shit done.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_05: One of my homies who started out with me now works at Channel 3, and he's like the main producer of like something like this, you know what I mean?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_05: Like for the news, actually.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_05: So uh yeah, shout out to him, shout out Tony Compos, shout out Adam Compos, all of them.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: Can you share some behind the scenes stories or moments that stand out to you?
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: On the podcast?
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: The podcast, wherever, I mean the concert series, or I know you guys do uh smoke walk or just something behind the scenes that uh that stand out to you.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_06: Oh man, uh some of the freestyle sessions that we used to have, like before we would actually cut the camera on, like for the news, like we've like we would just be sitting in there like have everything ready, but we wouldn't be live yet, and I'll just be having like the computer on, like playing beats, and everybody would just be like freestyling and stuff like that.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_06: I think some of those actually got like posted to like YouTube and I mean not YouTube on Facebook and stuff like that.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know if they hit like the feed.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_06: I think they were I know someone were posted to stories and stuff like that.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_06: What else?
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_06: Let me see.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_05: I think uh for us doing the cave shit was always uh with uh Mama Deusa.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out Mama Deusa.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_05: We had uh like a little assistant who would help us out.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_05: And she's not a little assistant, she's a G, like a motherfucker.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out to her.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_05: Uh but uh she would help.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_05: We had so many people wanting to be on the show at that time that we had to have somebody help us and schedule and shit like that, because we both had whatever was going on outside of that show.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_05: That uh, you know, we had people coming in kind of like you do, I guess, like from an eight to nine hour and then a nine to ten and whatever the hell.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_05: But we were doing like what 30-minute segments at the time, so maybe like three or four interviews a night.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and this is all done out of my crib, so people are like walking along the side of my house and coming into the back.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_05: They're sitting in the backyard while we're doing an interview, and she's out there like, hey, y'all are next, they're about to be done about five minutes.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_05: Like when we just straight, it's not a professional studio or nothing, but a lot of behind the scenes work for that shit was like worth it, right?
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_05: Because we were overwhelmed with that shit.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_06: Whenever they did, whenever they did the NBH uh concert series, too.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_06: That was that was a real good day, too.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_06: Shit, that was a real good look.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_06: I was I was like really proud of them, you know what I'm saying?
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_06: For like being able to perform and they had like a whole bunch of people tune in, you had y'all's families all tune in and everything and shit like that.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_06: Like, that was real dope too.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_05: That was Rich's birthday too, right?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_05: Didn't he come with the cake that night?
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_03: I can't remember.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_05: That's the night you met him.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_03: No, that was uh the first night when we did the uh when we did the interview.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_03: And then like behind the scenes from that night, uh Rich is just playing all his beats, and now I was like, These beats are fire, where they from?
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_03: And then they're y'all pointed at Rich, and then he was like, You want some or what?
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_03: I'll send them to you.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, hell yeah, I want them.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out King Rich.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_05: That was actually his birthday night, and he showed up with his own birthday cake.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_05: So I think uh we took a couple of slices and left the rest for the house.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_05: But yeah, uh, it was instant connection for him and Kai because Kai was feeling his beats and shit, and I'm like, shit, that's his homie right here.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_05: So before we even left the room or left that fucking sentence, like we'd already put the fucking beats in his inbox.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_01: So nice, man.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_05: And then shit, honestly, before the week later, this food dropped a song just to match it already.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_05: Like, like, yeah, it was it was fast work, it was a good relationship started.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta invite it, man.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_04: I gotta invite it.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, whenever I started the news, like I kind of like handpicked the people that I wanted to do the news.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_06: I ain't gonna say hand pick because I I guess I would say I made a post saying who wanted to be on the news and and asking if there was like some hungry individuals that were down to do a podcast, and I had a bunch of people hit me up.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_06: So I guess I kind of did hand pick the people that are actually on here.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: So, how do you how did you go about that process?
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, do you do you kind of look at their background?
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_06: Like what would make- I just figure what what can this person bring to the table because everybody wanted to do a podcast.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_06: Hell, you supply the equipment, who doesn't want to do a podcast?
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_06: Like, shit, like so.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_06: I just kind of like got people who had what they considered in today's terms who had motion going on, who had stuff going on, who weren't just stagnant, who were doing stuff on their own without a podcast.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_06: Like they were gonna be making moves regardless if they're on a podcast or not.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_06: That's kind of like what I went for.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: So is so one of the trite criteria is for them to be able to smoke some butt, or what?
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Nah, nah.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_06: It made it better.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: It made it better.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_05: I was gonna say, we got a couple of hosts right now that are not smoking correctly.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_05: So you know that's cool.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh 956 has love for corpus.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_05: Uh says the yeah, that's that's Cal Castor Calco.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, right.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_05: He's one of the battle rappers from the valley.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: Is that somebody on Twitch?
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, what's up, Corpus in the house from Cancun, Mexico?
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_05: Who is that?
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't know.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_05: Who's watching us while they're on vacation?
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out Diesel King.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_05: All right, yeah, whoever you are.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_05: What's that?
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_04: That's a good look right there.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_05: Diesel King 15.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_05: Diesel King 15.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_05: State your real name.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_01: No, it in the your y'all's y'all's, I like y'all's podcasts.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: It helps out too, because I have obviously had people that you've had on yours, and it helps out too because I I watched the interview to to to help me prepare for the interview, like with you with uh Kai or even Droopy.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's awesome that we're doing it.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: And I and another reason I want to have y'all on is because it's like it's it's a community that we have, and I want y'all to know like I'm part of the community too, and I I don't want there to be any like, you know what I mean, beef or whatever, which I mean there's a lot of that going on.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: We don't need more of that.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_05: And podcast B?
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, podcast B, I mean, I don't know.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: Not not just podcasts.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, who else is out there?
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_05: Like, let me know.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_05: Because I feel like we kind of we kind of like neck and neck right now.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_05: So you know what I mean?
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_05: Like, you guys are killing it, bro.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_05: Who these you killing it, bro?
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_05: Did you come on how did the uh whatchamacallit best of the best thing go after all?
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: Man, you know what?
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even I don't even know who put my name in there, bro.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't even won it.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, and I don't to be even before that, dude.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, nah, I don't even care about that, dude.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_05: It's a good thing to be nominated for, though.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, even if you didn't care for that.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was very humbled by it.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: I even made a post about it, dude, and I was like, damn, this is crazy.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I don't I guess I'm honored, you know what I mean?
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: If if I do win, next time I'm gonna put y'all's name in there.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: When is the name in there?
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_05: When is it announced?
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_05: Nah, if it was it shit, we didn't make it.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: We got nominated by the street like that, man.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: So why not?
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like do you feel like there's uh discrimination?
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_04: I just don't I just don't think it's the right word.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think people see us as discussion.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, no, no, no.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_04: Me personally, man, I really don't think that people see us as really professional like that because the way that we the way that we operate, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_04: Because we're smoking, we're talking shit, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes we get off the sometimes we get off the topic, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_04: It's just I don't I don't so my me personally, bro, I just don't feel like people really see it like that.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_04: Like yours is a little more structured than ours, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_04: We kind of freestyle most of the time, bro.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_05: I say our viewers don't vote, that's what it is.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, our viewers are not voters, they're not online clicking these extra links to go and vote shit.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, everybody that's on Instagram, they they worry about that type of stuff, and y'all in y'all's fan base is most seems like it's mostly on Facebook, yeah.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, for dance sure.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_06: Damn, yeah, the majority of our audiences for dance sure Facebook people, yeah.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then y'all start y'all do uh the shorts and all that other stuff.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: Did you do you handle all that stuff?
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_05: I do some dupe does the majority of the meme maker.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, I'm the meme king, baby.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: This is a Rod and High exclusive, bro.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_04: I put all that together, man.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_04: Hell yeah.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what's up, man.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh man, so what's what's going on?
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: So you have these different things, uh, different podcasts within the network.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'll call it a network.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what's in the future for Right and High?
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_06: In the future, we're definitely gonna have a music review show.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_06: That's probably like what's next on the agenda.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_06: I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily say next, it's next on my agenda.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_06: We probably have some more shows that maybe could possibly be coming before that, but definitely next on my agenda is is a music review show where send us your music, we're gonna have a panel of people there listening to the music, and we're gonna tell you if your shit's jamming, if your shit's jamming or if it's trash.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we gotta smash it or trash or something like that.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, still banging the sling, bang it or slang, bang it or sling.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_05: That was something from the some years back with the same concept.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_05: That's the good thing about a lot of this shit with the technology.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_05: We get to come around to some of these ideas we weren't able to properly execute.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, wow.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_05: Because we were doing Facebook Live when Facebook Live started.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so that was like, what the fuck is this shit?
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_05: Like when people were watching us do it for the first time, they were like, I didn't even know you could go live.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_05: Horrible quality and shit.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_05: Everything, nothing was up for the city.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and this is just straight off your phone.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_05: This isn't even like you know, restream type of quality type of shit back then.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_05: But mind you, that was 2016.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: So the technology helped you to do those ideas that you did have when you be prior to having it.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_05: It's easier, it's easier, yeah.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_05: It's easier to come across.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_05: Like now everything is a lot of it's uh push of a button type shit.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_05: You know, compared to actually know how shit works.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_05: Like you can put a filter on something now.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_05: Before you had to know how to create that look of a filter, you know, like now.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_04: It's just like you had to go in there manually and try to mess with this.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_04: Everything's just right there, man.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_05: You know, bump it or dump it.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_05: That's what's getting bump it or dump it.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_05: I like that.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_05: It sounds funny, but I like that.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_06: But yeah, Daddy Cree probably gonna come.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_06: We're just waiting.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_06: Daddy Cree's show's coming soon.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_06: We're waiting on uh actually his logo to get made.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_06: And once Daddy Cree gets his uh logo made, uh Man Look, the podcast uh by Daddy Cree will be coming soon.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_06: We got DQ's show with DQ's corner.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_06: That's coming soon.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_06: We got we actually filmed one episode.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_06: She just wasn't too comfortable with with it.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_06: So we're gonna go back and do it again and we're gonna get it right.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_04: So we got a couple of shows coming to the uh me and King were actually talking about doing like uh a music video thing over here.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_04: Remember, I remember watching uh I don't know if you ever you were into rap, right?
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_04: Remember watching the basement, man?
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_04: Rap City Rapid.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: Sounds familiar, yeah.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_04: Where they do the freestyle thing and all the other stuff, and they play videos and stuff like that.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_04: Me and King were actually talking about doing a show like that, man.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_04: Bringing bringing something like that back, man.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_04: So I don't know, man.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_04: Y'all be on the lookout for that, man.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_04: I think it's about time to put it out.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, really?
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_04: Hell yeah.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: Man, so how do you find yourself continuing to do this stuff, even though like uh Drupe was mentioning how people they they look at it it a certain way, but how do you can find yourself continuing to just keep going in spite?
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: Of that orange, man.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_06: Just over the past two days, uh three days after all that bullshit went down, man.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_06: I've had like 30 people literally text me, call me, saying, Man, y'all continue what y'all doing, man.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all keep up what y'all doing, man.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_06: Like, and now I've also had people saying, Man, don't even respond.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_06: Just y'all just keep doing what y'all do it.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_06: I've had people say, Man, yeah, y'all did what y'all did was the right thing, man.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all keep pushing.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_06: So I've and this is people that don't even uh that I don't even really talk to on a on a on a daily basis.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_04: Some people, man.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, hell yeah.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_06: And some people like, man, shout out to OG Terry Amy.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_06: He's like one of the dudes here who's known for always having like a clean, clean cars and shit.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_06: He's like one of the slab kings of corpus, I would say, man.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_06: Terry Amy messaged me on the Rod and Hot page like a couple of weeks ago.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_06: He was like, Man, young brother, y'all doing a damn thing over there.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_06: Keep it up.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_06: And I'm like, I didn't even know you we existed to you.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_06: And that was real dope too.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_06: Shit.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_06: Hell yeah.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out Terry Amy, man.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, wow, that's awesome.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: So was it originally a video podcast?
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh or did y'all do audio first?
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_06: Or no, it was originally, it was originally a video and yeah, hell yeah.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's dope.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: You got yours on Spotify?
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got it.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_00: How come you are y'all putting your shoot so much?
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_06: Like, I just like it, we it I need an assistant.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, not really that.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_06: It just needs to be categorized into different things instead of it just being seven shows under one thing.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_06: I think you had sent me that link of that one thing where you could separate them and put them into the code.com.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you pay one, you pay one fee and you could have multiple podcasts.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_01: And you can name the network under each podcast.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_01: So you can do right now network and it'll show it on each one of them.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_01: And if you go on Spotify to whichever one, you can click on the network and it'll show all the other ones.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: Alrighty.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_01: I still got the link to that in my inbox.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna check that one out.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man, for sure.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because I definitely I listen to Spotify.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: I listen to podcasts, and I wish y'all were on there.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, damn, how come they're not on here?
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I always gotta watch it.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_06: There's some on there that's just real.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, we haven't updated in probably like, man, probably like nine months.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_06: So there's there's some on there, it just hasn't been updated in a long time.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_05: That's because somebody recently asked me.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_05: I sent you.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I forwarded them that message because so many people reach out to each of us separately.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_05: So I I feel like we all forwarding messages to King, like, what do you want to do?
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_05: You know, what do you want to do?
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_05: This is you know what so-and-so is telling me.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: So how does that feel?
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: You get all the messages, King.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_01: Overwhelmed sometimes.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_06: He needed a it's just like the thing that uh the overwhelms me is everybody uh always has uh uh, and these are not just the uh the in-house hosts, like a lot of people from the outside too always be like, Man, you should interview this person, you should interview this person, you should interview this person, you should interview this person.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_06: And it's like I remember watching, shout out to Donnie Houston, he's a podcast, he does a podcast out of Houston, and he was interviewing like all my favorite like Houston legends.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_06: So we're literally in his comments just like you should get him next, you should get him next, you should get him next, you should get him next.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_06: And whenever I start doing a podcast, it's like, well, damn, I see why it ain't just as easy as you should get him next, you should get him next.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_06: Like, you gotta do homework on this person, you know what I'm saying?
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_06: You gotta know a little bit about this person.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_06: You can't just really drive, bring somebody in and don't know shit about them and just start like freestyling some shit.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_06: And do I do freestyle like some interviews, but if even if I do freestyle the interviews, I still know some some direction that I'm headed.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_06: I'm not just bringing somebody blind in that I have no idea of their story.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_06: So that's that's how I kind of keep it with a little bit of structure.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_01: And you can't really open up your calendar either, pick days because oh my god, that'd be crazy.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, shout out to the people on TikTok, Cantu's in there, uh Garza, uh Texas uh Havo G.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out Havo G.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_05: Havo G was the first one to uh what do you want to call that?
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_06: Actually, it was Slice Pizza.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_06: Slice.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_05: I can't, I can't, I can't knock Sergio Kansas, it was as G's, but yeah, okay.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_06: No, he did a cash donation.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_06: Slice did a cash, he did a$50 cash donation.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_06: Well, grass is cash around here.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_06: So straight up, uh uh shout out to Slice Pizza and shout out to Havo G for damn show too with the Matador Media Productions, and shout out to Benoit with that uh Ben Stang and Cuz and also can't forget Paul.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_06: He came through with the sign, too.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to Inkyplug.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_05: So whoever's next, the expectations are higher than the motherfucker.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, come on.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_05: That's what's up.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_01: How is being based in Corpus Christi influenced your content and connection with your audience?
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_06: Man, it's kind of like at first I was kind of torn between it because I didn't want just another corpus podcast, like I really didn't.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_06: So I feel like at this point I'm kind of like embracing like the corpus thing because it's like basically if if I'm not getting interviews from people that are coming from out of town, then it just basically is just us on doing the news, you know what I'm saying?
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_06: Like that.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_06: But we have to interview the people that we have around us until I have a budget to get people to come down here from Houston or Dallas or wherever, you know what I'm saying, to get a big name rapper down here.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_06: We're gonna have to work with what we got.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_06: So at this point, we I ain't gonna just say we're working what we got because I'm enjoying doing this, I'm enjoying learning all these stories and learning because I'm all I've always been like a uh I ain't gonna say a hip hop, a hip-hop historian.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_06: I've always considered myself like a like a Houston hip-hop historian.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_06: So now I'm kind of becoming, I ain't gonna even put myself in the category yet, but I'm starting to learn a lot of the corpus rap history.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_06: So I ain't gonna call myself a corpus rap historian because you can't ask me what happened, this, what happened?
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_06: I don't I don't really know, but I'm I'm learning as as we're going.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_06: I'll take that ground.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, yeah, I like man.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_01: What happened at the two live group show?
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_05: Well, are we talking about that?
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_05: Are we talking about the after party?
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_05: Is this the after party?
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_05: I just forgot that there actually was one.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_05: That's funny you said that.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_05: Who was that?
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_05: That was Viconero.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Vic and Eric.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, they got the afterstory, so yeah.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: I like that you're it's not corpus.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_01: I like that the brand is not corpus based, but but y'all are in corpus, yeah.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_01: Because it it has the opportunity to go past corpus.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we do have viewers like from all outside of corpus, so like we got viewers from yeah, Houston, San Antonio.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to San Antonio, man.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_06: I got a lot, we get a lot of love from people in San Antonio.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_06: Some people were just tuned in from San Antonio just a minute ago.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to San Antonio, uh, Kingsville, Texas, man.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_06: I've been messing with a lot of the rat the young and up-and-coming rappers from coming out of Kingsville.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_06: They're not even from Kingsville, they're from all over Texas.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_06: They just go to school at Kingsville, and that's through Coservin.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_01: I can't Wappo, right?
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_01: Wappo nothing, King Wow.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_06: And I've been fucking with them little youngsters real tough.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_06: They they excite me, man.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_06: Ain't gonna lie, it excites me more to work with the younger up-and-coming ones than it does to work with the ones that's just been stagnant for the past 15 years.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they're more they're more energetic, man.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_04: They're more like, oh damn, this is really going on.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_04: They appreciate shit.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's interesting because you think it would be opposite.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_04: Nah, these old niggas feel the entitled, man.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_06: That's so crazy, man.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_04: I've been doing this for years, and I deserve this.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all created the Rod High podcast for me.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like you had, like, oh, they haven't put in the work or whatever.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's so crazy, man.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, how how do you how do you engage with your listeners and the local community?
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_01: Any particular events or interactions that have been impactful?
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_06: We've done the smoke walk events.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_06: I want to say we've done like three so far.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_06: We went and did uh we went on the radio too.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_06: They actually they premiered a song on the radio, uh, Kai and Can 2, Take a Flight.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all peeped that out on all uh streaming platforms produced by King Rich.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_06: Uh we also did like the uh the uh the toy drives that they were that we were having at the had a toy drive at the block.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_06: We had a uh what else I think uh back to school drive uh giveaway at the at the block, you know what I'm saying?
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_06: So doing events and stuff like that.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_05: Every year, every August, the week before uh school starts.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like you have to do events to keep it going, or it's just something that you like to do?
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_06: You don't really have to, like it's just something like I'm the type I like to give back to the to the community.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_06: Like I like to give back to like the the the local rappers who I see trying.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_06: The ones who I if you just sit in there and you ain't really trying, but you just expect people to just do stuff for you, nah, we we can't help you.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_06: But if if you try if you give in an effort, I'm the type if if you putting in the effort, like let's let's try to help you go a little bit further than what you maybe been got so far.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_06: That's the way I look at it as.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_06: That's how I looked at it.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_06: Like, whenever they were saying they couldn't get, I'm like, well shit, we'll we'll put y'all on the on the podcast on the uh concert series, and we'll get we'll share some of our follows with y'all, and pretty sure I gonna have some people that's tune in.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_06: That's probably hopefully they'll subscribe to our page, you know what I'm saying?
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_06: Like I like to do, I like to do mutual stuff.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_06: Let's let's do stuff that benefits both both sides.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_06: If it's just gonna benefit one side, no, I ain't I ain't with that.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_01: Damn, you have to be discerning, like you have to be able to decide that.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's it's interesting, man.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_01: That that outlook that you have on what on helping people.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_01: It makes me think about like your were your folks like that, were your parents like that?
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_01: Is that where you learn that from?
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_06: Nah, actually, I probably learned that uh and this people probably went.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_06: I learned that like in I wouldn't even say in like TDC because I went to TDC in 2011, but I probably learned a lot of that stuff like in the halfway house.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_06: Like the halfway house, like it was to me, it was a blessing that I didn't I didn't come straight home.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_06: I had to go to a halfway house and with going to a halfway house, they're gonna teach you structure.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_06: A halfway house is 90 days, and during that 90 days, the first 10 days you gotta sit there, then you gotta get a job, you gotta do all that.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_06: And it's just structure, and it's all about like basically like not letting the person that's fucking not not letting the community fall.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_06: So, because right a halfway house is called a community, yeah.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_06: So everybody has to do their part in that community to make sure this community doesn't fall.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_06: So you got people all leaning on each other's back to keep this, to keep this, just keep this, just keep this community up.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: I like that, man.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: We have to and you have to help each other in order for the community to continue to thrive.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, man.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_01: And when somebody's not wanting the com wanting to be able to do that, yeah, exactly.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_01: They're looking at themselves only and not looking at it in that perspective, you know what I mean?
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_01: And that and when they continue to do that, the community goes, yeah, part of the community goes down, you know.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so was it uh what kind of feedback do you have have you received from your audience and how has it shaped your shows?
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_06: Man, the feedback has been real good.
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_06: Only really place I see is like some negative stuff is on TikTok, and I don't really be on TikTok, so I don't really know how that works, but that's like I went when we first started one of the comments that still sticks in my head to this day is they just give anybody a podcast.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_02: You're leaving out you're leaving out the main part of that number.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_05: But tell the first part of that story.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_05: Why did they say that the comments that let us remind you then?
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_04: Because Daddy Creed said something along the lines, man, that uh she that Gangsta Boo didn't die glorious death.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_04: We need to stop trying to uh praise her for that, yeah, praise her for that because she died over drug overdose or whatever, you know what I mean?
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_04: And so people took offense to that, and so they started dogging on the podcast.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_05: It was it was funny to hear at the time.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_06: I just I just read that like an old black lady's voice.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_06: They could give anybody a podcast.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_06: That's what I read it whenever I saw the comment, and that shit just stuck with me.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh Bino, he said you uh you helped me get more followers with my business, been staying custom, so I appreciate the opportunity.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_06: Already.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, everybody, Abe Franco on uh TikTok, appreciate you.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_01: Leo on TikTok, appreciate you guys for joining.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_01: Man, who was on Twitch?
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_05: Where what happened to the Twitch?
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_05: Who was the Twitch person?
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_05: Did they reveal themselves?
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_01: Is he on there, Maya?
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_06: It's all good.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_06: No, he still got that mask on, right?
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's what's up, bro.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you guys.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_05: How you been since the last time we seen you over there?
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_01: I've been good, man.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh busy.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's been good.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: I've been busy.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_01: I've been trying to get uh at least one person in every week or a group or whatever.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_05: So like at least three or four past that number.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, at when I first when I started in here, I was trying to do like at least two a week.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then I just and then finally kind of just slowed down for me.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I obviously have to like pay for this spot here.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I gotta I gotta you know handle my finances a little better with dealing with that.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's cool, man.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's cool talking to a bunch of different people and it helps.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_05: You can talk to all walks of life.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, for sure, man.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I I what was one of your favorite guests, man?
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_01: My favorite guest?
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are cool here, man.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are a group.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's cool having like a lot of people because it keeps the conversation going, you know what I mean?
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_06: I like I like interviewing groups myself.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_06: Like, I think interviewing groups is dope.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and like I I'm learning as I go too.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, sometimes I prepare this.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_01: Is from Chat GPT, bro.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I just work for you.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's working, it's working.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't use it all the time, but I I do I have been using it a lot.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh not only for this, but for the other things that I'm doing, like uh uh uh coming up with descriptions for like the YouTube videos or the Facebook uh whatever.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'll just type in, you know, make a whatever for this, and that helps out a lot.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, I use AI to make the clips.
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, really?
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that that's very helpful.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I pay it.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and finances is a real big thing for me, like just having to being able to set aside certainly.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_06: No, this podcast shit ain't cheap.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_06: People don't understand it.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_06: Like that's why you need to pay me, man.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_06: Man, I had so many people tell the call and be telling me.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_06: And I ain't gonna even go into it.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_06: It's gotta come back, man.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_06: It's gotta come up somehow.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_06: I ain't gonna even say this person's name, bro.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_06: But shout out to homie.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_06: He called me and said, bruh, people coming in your house using your AC, sitting on your couches, smoking your smoking your weed, using your good microphones, uh, using your good interfaces, and y'all sitting there making them look pretty with the good cameras, they on the big screen TV, they on TV looking good, they ain't on TV looking uh fuzzy, they on TV looking good.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, he said, bro, they should be paying you a hundred dollars.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_06: That's what homeboy told me straight up.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly, bro.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and if somebody wants to come on, come on the show, or or if I pay somebody to come on my show, yeah, if I pay somebody to come on my show, it bet they better have a huge influence online to help my show.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_01: Grow.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_01: You know, to to help my show grow because eventually I would like to be monetized, I would like to have sponsors because I mean it all is coming out of pocket, bro.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's all coming out of pocket.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: So eventually I want to get to that point to where I have sponsors or you know, however, however, my podcast can be funded so I can continue doing it.
• 58:44
  SPEAKER_06: Hell yeah.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_06: And and I think you so you could get bigger, so you could get bigger guests, you know what I'm saying?
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_06: A budget, so where you could pay$1,500 for a guest, where you can pay$5,000 for a guest, you know what I'm saying?
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_06: Like you we all want to get to that level, shit.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I feel like if my daughters weren't graduating this weekend, bro, I'd drop you a hundred dollars just to pass that bucket around, bro.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_05: Well, see, dude, thought is there.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_05: Let's look, my pockets ain't there.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_06: He dropped a hundred dollars on us too.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to the corpus Christian renewals.
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_06: They dropped a hundred dollars on us too a while back.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_06: Oh shit, yeah.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I I man, I just wish I personally, my thoughts are I just wish our community had a better handle on money so that way we could, you know what I'm saying, give to other other uh you know, creators in the town that are doing stuff, like just having that extra hundred dollars to be able to bless y'all's podcast.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: I had it.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_01: Bam, there you go.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_01: Because I was responsible with money up until that point.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_01: You see what I'm saying?
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_05: So we fucked it up for you.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_01: So you guys messed it up.
• 59:47
  SPEAKER_01: I could have no just yeah, no, I'm just saying, man.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I always come back to that that topic, the topic of money and handling money well, so that way you can continue to bless your community, and that's that that that's where I'm coming from with that.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_06: And see, that's why I feel like the events that we do, like the uh, because a lot of people have told me, man, you should be charging people to do the Rod and Hot concert series, man.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_06: We ain't never charged nobody a dollar to do a concert series.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_06: And even with the smoke walk events we do, man, we don't charge a dollar for for none of that stuff.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_06: The very first one we did, we had like free hot dogs and what we had free we have free hot dogs and burgers or something out there.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_06: We gave away free food.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, all that, man.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, shout out QBR, man.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_05: QBR uh definitely hooked us up with a spot to be able to do whatever we want out there.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, where where are they located?
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_00: QBR?
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_05: 523, 523 Taylor Street, yeah, right across from the Color Times.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, nice, nice.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_05: So every first Friday of the month, I ain't gonna lie, we've kind of been piggybacking off the hard walk, and uh, you know, no offense to them, but we do our own little thing, and you know, as long as it's all kosher, we good.
• 1:00:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what's up, man.
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, yeah, that's what's up.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh man, how long how long we been going, Maya?
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate y'all being here.
• 1:00:57
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all y'all want to share anything?
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_05: We got we're going by the hour.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_05: You need another hour to go.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we good, we good shit.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_06: Man, y'all make sure you follow the Rodin High Podcast.
• 1:01:05
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all make sure y'all tune into all the shows that we do.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_06: Rod and High News on Monday, off the cushion with Scoob Dose on Tuesday, Rodin'h Sports on Wednesday, on Thursdays.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_06: We usually do the Rodin'hot concert series, but man, they could pop up any day, man.
• 1:01:18
  SPEAKER_06: Honestly, shit.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_06: Fridays, we usually keep it open.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_06: Uh we don't really do nothing on Saturdays and Sundays, but during the week, man, it's always we always got something going on.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_06: And you never know when a Dutch chop it up or a Rod and Hot concert series may pop up.
• 1:01:30
  SPEAKER_06: Shit.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_06: Make sure you make like, subscribe, follow.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_06: All that and click on the thing to where whenever we do go live, it pops up on your on your thing.
• 1:01:39
  SPEAKER_06: Like every next year.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, hell yeah.
• 1:01:42
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all make sure y'all do that, man.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to all of our hosts that ain't here.
• 1:01:45
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to ScoobDoe, shout out to Joe Brock, shout out to Can 2, shout out to John Bell, shout out to Daddy Crease, who else?
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_06: Arson Arson Banks.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to all y'all.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to his son.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to his son, hit man Hokum, though.
• 1:01:57
  SPEAKER_04: He's doing his best thing right now.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:01:59
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out to what's dope about this shit, and I will give King this because he said he did handpick everybody.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_05: Everybody here has got the potential and does stand on their own.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_05: So it's a collective of people who are already established doing something on their own.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_05: Like, you know, so the idea that we have that I have for everybody is that we should each be able to support each other.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_05: Like the way we're all here, like this, we ain't got enough room for the rest of us.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_05: So from time to time, you might catch a whole different cast.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_06: And I think that's dope too.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_05: Hell yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_05: And plus, we got people like shout out Jake Salinas in the background, you know, that uh, you know, he jumped in on uh past Monday and he's looking to do some stuff too.
• 1:02:38
  SPEAKER_05: So he might be on there tomorrow night, I believe, if he's down for it.
• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_05: Um, but you know, we've had a few faces, like we had uh, what's his name?
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_05: Um The Whisper Gods.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_06: Uh shout out to Felix, my dude Gold Soul, man.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_06: He hit me up.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_06: Actually, he wants to come back on.
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna I'm gonna reach out back to you.
• 1:02:54
  SPEAKER_06: I saw you in my inbox, uh Felix.
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_06: I got you, man.
• 1:02:57
  SPEAKER_05: So we've had people just kind of here and there, you know, um coming in and giving us their little it's good to, like you said, to hear different people's oh yeah, you know, thoughts, state of minds, and all kinds of shit.
• 1:03:08
  SPEAKER_06: Our dog tone Cadillo said he got a donation for you.
• 1:03:10
  SPEAKER_06: He says hit him up in the inbox, man.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_06: He says I got a I got I got Corpus Christi Originals a donation for having Rod and Hot Podcast on your podcast.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, thank you, Tony.
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate you, man.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, sir.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out QB, man.
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_05: QB is one of the things.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, shout out QB too, man.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate you.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_05: You know who QB is?
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_05: No.
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_05: QB made a beat for 50 cents a long time ago.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_05: Oh wow, he made a dog, bro.
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_04: He's good people, though.
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_05: And he's got actually a catalog of different artists that he's done.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Q QB.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_05: QB the problem.
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_05: Matter of fact, QB, book you an interview right now.
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_06: Me and QB, we used to rap on karaoke machines in high school.
• 1:03:42
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, nice.
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_06: Am I lying, QB?
• 1:03:46
  SPEAKER_01: You showing your age yet, bro.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_01: Showing your age.
• 1:03:49
  SPEAKER_04: Also, also, man, look, man, I just I just I just I'm pushing my single out, man.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_04: Sound like it's hated, man.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_04: I just sent it to all the radio stations over here.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:03:55
  SPEAKER_04: I sent it to all the DJs.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_04: I hit it.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_04: I sent it to DJ Fame.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_04: I send it to Bobby Stump, I send it to everybody, uh John Bell, uh, everybody got it, man.
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_04: So y'all paid.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, we're about to shoot the video over here in a little bit, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:04:07
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, man, y'all be on the lookout for that, man.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what's up, what's up, man?
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate it.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh shoot, what was I gonna say?
• 1:04:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, y'all have so y'all have something coming up, y'all have the artwork, right?
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_01: Smoke walk.
• 1:04:17
  SPEAKER_01: Smoke walk, there you go.
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, which is like our version of the art walk at running running uh concurrently with the art walk.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_01: Right on, man.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_06: We're at 523 Taylor Street, right across from the Corpus Christi Collar Times building.
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_01: Right on, man.
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_06: And this month we're gonna have performances.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_06: Last month we had like some uh punk rock bands.
• 1:04:36
  SPEAKER_06: This month we're gonna have some performances, some rap performances.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_06: We may have some food out there.
• 1:04:41
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, we're gonna try to showcase some live art this this month, too.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_06: Try to have some uh different artists, not uh we're gonna probably have some live graffiti painting too, but we're gonna try to get some artists who like do art to come showcase their art and maybe try to set it if they want to set it or just to come showcase it if they want to showcase it.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, shout out Alex Skates, man.
• 1:04:58
  SPEAKER_05: He's been holding it down with that graffiti, he's been like on fast forward with that shit too.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_05: Because uh he's everywhere.
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_05: Like, all you gotta do is follow him, and you'll see him tagging up everything everywhere in every city.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_05: Like for real.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, rest in peace now, Alex.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_05: Rest in peace to his homie tank, man.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_05: His homie tank passed away, and he's been uh you know, making sure he's not forgotten, making sure he's not forgotten at all, you know.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_05: So you gotta make sure you keep track of them people, man.
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_05: Them people that have been gone and passed away, you can't let them be forgotten, especially if you're the last one that remembers them.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_05: Make sure you tell the world, man.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_05: So for sure, for sure.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_01: Shut up, man.
• 1:05:39
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you guys coming on.
• 1:05:40
  SPEAKER_05: Y'all have anything else y'all need to share?
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_05: What y'all want to share?
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_05: I was trying to find the we on fire information.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_05: We might as well start cracking because this after this.
• 1:05:48
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all, y'all stay tuned.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_06: We got we on fire weekend.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_06: We're just gonna leave it at that.
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_06: We got we on fire weekend, the weekend of August 7th.
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_06: We're gonna have uh the actually the smoke walk will be on Friday, the basketball game will be on Saturday, and the uh giveaway will be on Sunday.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_06: So y'all stay tuned for that.
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_06: Once we fly in the flyer, we'll post it in the comments.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_06: Let's see.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_05: This is just packages.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_05: We're gonna have different kinds of packages.
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so if you want to be a sponsor uh for our actual uh We on Fire game, our school supplies basketball game, we got a$300 package, we got a$200 package, and we got a$100 package and a$50 package.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_06: So we got packages for all budgets, and we'll post the flyer in the comments as soon as we go off.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_01: And this is what is the the we on fire that's a security basketball game.
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, okay, we have to collect school supplies.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_05: We basically use our we use our culture influence to bring school supplies in so that way we can give it to the kids that need it.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_05: And every year we've grown like crazy each year.
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_05: And it's just us, it's just me, him, and shout out Big Bell, the kid.
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, there's been a few supporters that have been with us since the beginning, but you know, as far as the actual foundation of it, me, Bell, and King, we holding it down and we're on four.
• 1:06:58
  SPEAKER_05: We're on year four already.
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_05: So people who doubted us, we've been on the radio, we've been on the news every year.
• 1:07:04
  SPEAKER_05: Every year.
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_05: We don't need not one of us work at that.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_05: Well, Bell does now, but even before that, we were already getting that kind of publicity because uh what we're doing, people understand.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_05: And there's not very many of us in our culture that are doing it like this.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_05: So we invite anybody who is in our culture to come with us and collab to get this done.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_05: And you know, yeah, shout out to everybody.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_05: We on fire four coming August.
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah 2K4.
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sponsors, any sponsors out there?
• 1:07:31
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get it going.
• 1:07:31
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you guys, man.
• 1:07:32
  SPEAKER_01: For sure.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's what's up.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_01: If nothing else, man, we'll say see you later.
• 1:07:37
  SPEAKER_01: Alrighty.
• 1:07:37
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all make sure you follow Rod and I Podcast, man.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_06: At Rod Not Podcast on all platforms, coming to Spotify and uh Apple Podcasts soon, even though we're already there, we'll have the updated episodes up there real soon.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_04: Episodes, man.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_04: That's it.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:52
  SPEAKER_06: Right and high podcast.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to Corpus Christi Originals for having us for the show, bro.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you guys for joining.
• 1:07:58
  SPEAKER_01: Stay tuned for the next uh few uh podcasts.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_01: We got some people lined up.
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but yeah, Right and High Podcast, go follow them, check them out.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you guys.
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all have a good one.
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.