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#59 | Cris Olvera (Basic Cable Productions) · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: What's going on now?
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SPEAKER_00: Corpus Christi Originals back at it again.
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SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the produce uh sound studios downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh we have uh Chris Olivetta with us.
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SPEAKER_00: What's going on, Chris?
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SPEAKER_02: What's up, man?
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SPEAKER_02: How you doing?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, alright, man.
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SPEAKER_00: Glad you could make it, bro.
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SPEAKER_00: Glad to make it official.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they make it official.
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SPEAKER_02: I just wanted to make sure it didn't look awkward.
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SPEAKER_02: That's not good, dude.
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SPEAKER_02: It's not good.
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SPEAKER_02: Did it look awkward?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Good.
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SPEAKER_02: On purpose.
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SPEAKER_02: That's on brand.
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SPEAKER_02: It's awkward.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's completely fine.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool, man.
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SPEAKER_00: So a lot of us know you from your yikes uh series on YouTube.
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SPEAKER_00: That would be cool if a lot of y'all knew me from there.
0:34
SPEAKER_00: That'd be really cool.
0:36
SPEAKER_00: It was dope.
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SPEAKER_00: I had seen it for the first time.
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SPEAKER_00: I saw the whole thing.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you did?
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SPEAKER_00: The whole thing, bro.
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SPEAKER_00: Cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, so and it's it's it's amazing to me how like it's spread out from different years, you know what I mean?
0:48
SPEAKER_00: So when you started, when you started like the first video, did you know you were gonna get to number 10?
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SPEAKER_02: Or I really well, you know what's funny, the shows actually was slated for eight eight episodes.
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SPEAKER_02: We did the first episode and we were saying, like, let's see if people want it.
1:01
SPEAKER_02: And then co-creators Ryan Monroy and Ricky Martinez, uh, because those guys really just wanted to make something.
1:09
SPEAKER_02: I don't think they really cared what they were making, they just wanted to make something in a video format online.
1:14
SPEAKER_02: And then I'm the one that I really blew it up into becoming a whole narrative, like episodic series.
1:20
SPEAKER_02: Like, I was like, well, like we have all this time, we're like, you know, it's COVID, we're all doing nothing.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, let's do something, let's figure something out.
1:28
SPEAKER_02: And I kind of took the ball and kept running.
1:31
SPEAKER_02: And um, but yeah, after like the like second first or second episode, I was like, I have an eight-episode idea, and they were all like, Cool, let's do it.
1:41
SPEAKER_02: Wow, and I was like, let's do it.
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SPEAKER_02: And they were all fully supportive.
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SPEAKER_02: And Ryan like helped with edits and everything, and Ricky really mostly the actor, but he started editing towards the end.
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SPEAKER_02: But um, yeah, uh, the reason it's 10 episodes, because the eighth episode was always planned to be like pretty long.
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SPEAKER_02: We didn't know how long, uh, but whenever it was written out, it was an hour and a half in the script.
2:02
SPEAKER_02: Whoa, which is a feature film, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: And we were like, whoa.
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SPEAKER_02: And we shot as a feature film, we screened it as a feature film, but then when we realized that episode seven, which was an hour long, did not have a lot of good play on YouTube.
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SPEAKER_02: Like it took forever for it to get to a thousand.
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SPEAKER_00: That was like my one of my favorite.
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SPEAKER_00: That's like one of my favorite episodes.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02: I appreciate it.
2:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no kidding.
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SPEAKER_02: And but like it just took forever people to watch it, so we were like, let's break it up into three parts for the last episode.
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SPEAKER_02: And so that's how it became 10.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, but what's funny is that like those last three episodes have like the worst views out of all of our episodes.
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SPEAKER_02: So it was like, did it even matter?
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SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't even know.
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SPEAKER_02: Views, whatever.
2:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we didn't really care about views, it just looks pretty, you know.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: People are like, oh, cool, you have over blah blah blah, XYZ.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's amazing to me, man.
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SPEAKER_00: Like how you can create it from beginning to end.
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SPEAKER_00: It takes so long to do, it takes a lot of work, you know what I mean?
2:53
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, and then I liked how you would show the credits at the end of the first one.
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SPEAKER_00: You look at that one compared to the one at the end.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, tons of people like it's so crazy.
3:04
SPEAKER_00: How did you feel when people started getting into your getting into the project?
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SPEAKER_02: It was awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: It's literally the best feeling because I feel like what our show was was to it was an experiment, it was it was really like everybody has their own project, but it legitimately felt like a science project for school because we were like, let's try to do these things and try to combine these genres together, these characters, uh, the comedy, the drama, the romance, you know, all these different emotions.
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SPEAKER_02: And um whenever you have people that are your friends or you know, featured creators that are like, we love what you're doing, we want to help out, we want to buy you a boom, we want to um, you know, sponsor your lunch, we want to do these things.
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SPEAKER_02: We're like, whoa, this is awesome because this is exactly what a project should be.
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SPEAKER_02: This is like us, this is our network now, and we're all willing to help each other.
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SPEAKER_02: So that was the best part, was really just meeting all these people, getting all their support.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was really the main goal of the show to begin with.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, though, man.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: I can't I can't stop looking at your beard, bro.
4:04
SPEAKER_00: You got like the diamond shape right here.
4:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
4:07
SPEAKER_00: Looking good, man.
4:08
SPEAKER_02: I just got it, I just got a cut today.
4:10
SPEAKER_02: I just got it trimmed a little bit.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and I was due for the mustache.
4:14
SPEAKER_00: I had to get that out of I can't have it, you know.
4:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
4:18
SPEAKER_02: My barber does amazing.
4:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he works at he he has he's got the super cuts on Saratoga.
4:24
SPEAKER_02: I know you're saying super cuts, it's not a mom and pop.
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SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no.
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SPEAKER_02: This guy's amazing.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: This guy is incredible.
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SPEAKER_02: Roger's the best.
4:30
SPEAKER_02: He keeps telling me to go to Outback.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know why.
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SPEAKER_00: But in anyways, it's not important at all.
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SPEAKER_00: He's great.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: So speaking of Outback, man, I wanted you to invite you uh uh for dinner, man, on Saturday.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: You doing anything on Saturday?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm graduating.
4:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on, bro.
4:46
SPEAKER_02: Was that your was that your lean into that?
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SPEAKER_02: It was good job, good job, appreciate it.
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SPEAKER_00: No, yeah, so you're graduating uh from AM.
4:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right?
4:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and islanders, yeah, dude.
4:57
SPEAKER_00: Shaka's up.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, shaka's up, bro.
5:00
SPEAKER_00: I got my uh bachelor of uh music from there.
5:03
SPEAKER_02: Oh, awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: We're islanders, bro.
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SPEAKER_02: Sick, yeah.
5:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
5:07
SPEAKER_00: And you were telling me before that you you you did you went at it uh to pay for it on your way.
5:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was amazing.
5:16
SPEAKER_02: That's amazing, dude.
5:17
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
5:18
SPEAKER_02: I I went through Del Mar first and then I graduated from there.
5:21
SPEAKER_03: Uh huh.
5:21
SPEAKER_02: And I got my associates so it could be cheaper before I went to the full position into you know, Islander getting the the bachelor's.
5:29
SPEAKER_02: Um but yeah, when I went to the island, I was like, oh, this is too much money.
5:33
SPEAKER_02: I gotta do financial aid, I gotta do all these things to do all these grants.
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SPEAKER_02: There was a point going to the island where I was struggling.
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SPEAKER_02: Like I was literally living paycheck to paycheck because of how hard it was um to just pay for tuition.
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SPEAKER_02: And then um actually my friend Johnny Hotcakes, John Garcia, the lawyer, he's the one that gave me advice on how to get grants, and then after that, it's been like incredible.
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SPEAKER_02: Like amazing how many, you know, um grants are out there for students, it's just free money.
6:00
SPEAKER_02: And a lot of people think they can't afford school, but like there's so many different avenues uh to help you with that.
6:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so did you like you you were so okay.
6:10
SPEAKER_00: Why did you stray away from debt?
6:11
SPEAKER_00: I always talk about come to the money subject uh for some reason because I think it's important for our sus for our society.
6:17
SPEAKER_00: And I just wanted to maybe touch on that a little bit more.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: So you is is there a reason why you decided to avoid the loans?
6:23
SPEAKER_00: Because we were saying, like, well, go ahead and get student loans, you know what I mean?
6:27
SPEAKER_00: Just is there a reason why?
6:28
SPEAKER_00: Have you always Because people treat it like it's nothing and it's everything?
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SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, if you're gonna like it's it's such a weird conversation, but like I know that my family dealt with debt, you know, over the years, and it's always something that like this resentful piece of information that felt like you know they they kind of avoided and or at least like at least the conversation of it, but I would just hear about situations happening with family members having problems with paying back money and doing these type of things.
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SPEAKER_02: So whenever I talked to um my family about going to school, um not to say that they were completely hands-off because I know my dad was definitely like, I'll help you out if you if you need it, but there was like other people in the family that were definitely like, we don't really want to pay for school anymore, you know.
7:12
SPEAKER_02: And I kind of realized, like, you know, I think I should just pay for this myself because I'd I'd rather not make everybody what if I don't finish school?
7:20
SPEAKER_02: What if I don't like school at all?
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SPEAKER_02: And they had to throw away so much money.
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SPEAKER_02: So I was like, I'm just gonna put my money where my mouth is and I'm gonna pay for it myself.
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SPEAKER_02: And um it was hard because I definitely like just going to Del Mar, like my first job out of high school, which I think is a lot of people's, is like working out Whataburger, like it's like the Texas Rite of Passage to work out Whataburger, at least at one point.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and the money sucked.
7:43
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, Well, money's like really everything sucks, huh?
7:46
SPEAKER_02: And everything's like, yeah, like there's no better jobs in the city, like this is what you got for your age.
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SPEAKER_02: And I was like, all right, and um luckily my friend Trent Schaefer, his dad, um his dad was amazing, his dad was great, and um he was really supportive, and he fig he knew about my college situation and he offered to pay for my first uh year of school.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: Your dad, your dad, or no, my friend's dad.
8:13
SPEAKER_02: Wow, my friend's dad like really liked just how we talked our conversations, and he was like, I'll help you pay for it.
8:19
SPEAKER_02: Like, no way, and he wrote the first two semesters' checks.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, amazing, and I was like, Thank you so much, and it really helped me get my get my my foot off the ground to at least start saving money for the rest of the semesters.
8:31
SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah, I I really would not have been able to go to school if it wasn't for him.
8:36
SPEAKER_00: Amazing, yeah.
8:37
SPEAKER_00: And now we were talking earlier, like, how how can you give something to somebody where they can't give back to you at that point in time?
8:44
SPEAKER_00: And that that right there is it's a blessing because you couldn't you couldn't have gave him that kind of money at that point in time in return.
8:51
SPEAKER_02: No, no, and he was really supportive.
8:53
SPEAKER_02: Like, he even he helped with uh film once that I made like he actually let me use one of his old uh crazy trucks for for this period piece film, and then I got the truck stranded on Harbor Bridge.
9:04
SPEAKER_02: Oh shoot, they had to close down traffic, they closed it, yeah, because like I was like like knowing I was just going crazy on the gas or something.
9:11
SPEAKER_02: I didn't know it was that sensitive, and it just like stalled out on the harbor bridge.
9:15
SPEAKER_02: They had to have cops like barricade both sides of the bridge so there'd be no car crashes, and it was just like insane.
9:21
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, I'm so sorry.
9:23
SPEAKER_02: Like I love you.
9:25
SPEAKER_02: I it was so embarrassing.
9:26
SPEAKER_02: I was like, I love you and everything you've done for me.
9:28
SPEAKER_02: I thank you so much.
9:29
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, It's okay.
9:31
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if that truck's okay.
9:33
SPEAKER_02: Um he was so nice in ways that people have never really been that nice to me, at least like you know, financially.
9:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, but yeah, like and I always ask him, like, how can I pay you back?
9:45
SPEAKER_02: Like, I'll pay you back whenever he's like, No, don't pay me back.
9:47
SPEAKER_02: Just like wow, just focus on school and stuff.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, it's amazing.
9:52
SPEAKER_00: We got the pink plantain on YouTube chat.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
9:56
SPEAKER_02: What are they saying?
9:58
SPEAKER_02: They're saying Chris.
10:00
SPEAKER_01: I don't know who I am anymore.
10:03
SPEAKER_01: Chris.
10:05
SPEAKER_02: I'm so drunk.
10:06
SPEAKER_01: I'm so drunk.
10:08
SPEAKER_00: Drake.
10:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I fought I found out because I was uh joking with Dusty.
10:12
SPEAKER_00: I was telling him that I was the Pink Plantain, but I just recently watched uh Dusty Crates and I found out who it actually was.
10:19
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, cool.
10:21
SPEAKER_00: So I thought that was cool.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: It was a pretty good build-up.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's interesting.
10:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm glad to see her return.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, glad to see her return.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the pink plantain.
10:33
SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's a brand new channel, or she changed it.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: It's like she should put a trademark logo at the end of it.
10:38
SPEAKER_00: Right on.
10:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you mentioned grants, man.
10:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh, so you you have a grant, right?
10:43
SPEAKER_00: Did I see something on that?
10:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
10:45
SPEAKER_00: I created a grant.
10:45
SPEAKER_02: Actually, I was talking about the Maya earlier.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: We created a grant for people between the age of 16 and 22, which I found to be one of the most difficult ages to like get support for filmmaking.
10:57
SPEAKER_02: Um, at least in the city, you know, and I wanted to give really small, like, hundred dollar grants for people to at least have food onset.
11:05
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
11:06
SPEAKER_02: Um, just for young filmmakers.
11:08
SPEAKER_02: That's who I wanted to really focus on.
11:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh, weirdly enough, no one has submitted to it, which I was I was really hoping it would have been.
11:14
SPEAKER_00: I don't think a lot of people know about it.
11:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't think enough people know about it.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: I I'm trying to find a way where we can plug it a little bit more.
11:19
SPEAKER_00: I mean, people people don't know about the grants like for college or nothing like that.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: Like, how did you find out about it?
11:24
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
11:24
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had to have my friend tell me about it directly.
11:27
SPEAKER_02: And he had to he told me like who to talk to and how to get it done.
11:30
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, it that was weird.
11:32
SPEAKER_02: I was like, I didn't know that all this existed for so long.
11:35
SPEAKER_02: Like my life probably would have been a hundred times easier if had this many grants.
11:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then you hosted you uh helped produce one of the shows a while back, and you were saying that you can like scare them into paying you or what?
11:47
SPEAKER_00: Bullied them.
11:47
SPEAKER_00: You can bully them into it.
11:49
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you can just go over there and like tell them your story, like tell if it's really that hard for you, which was it was pretty hard for me at the time, you can just let them know and kind of breathe down their necks.
11:58
SPEAKER_02: Like, actually, this last grant that I received for school, like it was like a pretty good sum.
12:02
SPEAKER_02: It was gonna be over like 1500, and it was like two months before now.
12:07
SPEAKER_02: And I had to pay that.
12:08
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, dude, like I don't have that.
12:10
SPEAKER_02: Like, what am I supposed to do?
12:12
SPEAKER_02: So I went to go talk to somebody over the phone, and they were like, Yeah, there's no grants available, it's too late in the semester.
12:17
SPEAKER_02: And then I went in and I talked to somebody and it was like, Yeah, it's too late the semester.
12:21
SPEAKER_02: Like, why and they asked me, like, why haven't you taken out loans or done anything like that?
12:25
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, I just like I'm not prepared to do that.
12:28
SPEAKER_02: I don't like to borrow money.
12:29
SPEAKER_02: I just well, usually I just tell them, like, I'm not at the financial place to do that right now.
12:34
SPEAKER_02: I don't feel comfortable doing that.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
12:36
SPEAKER_02: And I'm just straightforward with them, and usually they're pretty okay with it.
12:39
SPEAKER_02: But they're like, No, you should like take the loans, like, just take the loans.
12:41
SPEAKER_02: And they're like, we can't give you more money until you take the loans.
12:43
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Oh, okay, well, no, I'm okay.
12:47
SPEAKER_02: And um then I think it was like uh a week after that.
12:52
SPEAKER_02: I got Dean's list and I got the director's list for like communications majors.
12:56
SPEAKER_02: I got like both of those, and they told me to go pick it up from an office, and I went to go pick it up on campus, and I went directly to a different financial advisor, and I was like, I have this.
13:05
SPEAKER_02: Does this change anything?
13:07
SPEAKER_02: Oh, damn.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: And they were like, Well, let's see.
13:09
SPEAKER_02: And they looked, and like almost immediately, she was like, There's a grant that can help you out.
13:12
SPEAKER_02: I was like, Thank you so much.
13:14
SPEAKER_02: Like, wow, I really can't afford to do all these, you know, to to be in debt or to pay for school.
13:19
SPEAKER_02: So this grant's really gonna help me.
13:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
13:21
SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, I know I'm probably gonna have to be dipping and probably getting some loans for grad school if I decide to go.
13:27
SPEAKER_02: I really just don't know yet.
13:28
SPEAKER_02: But grad school, that's gonna be crazy.
13:30
SPEAKER_02: That's gonna be so expensive.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: So especially in in a different, like if you go to a different state that probably charges extra just cuz you know.
13:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, out of state tuition is insane.
13:41
SPEAKER_02: There's not a lot of industry.
13:42
SPEAKER_02: I mean, there's some industry in in Texas for film for sure, like in Austin or in Dallas or something, but I I prefer to kind of get my feet wet somewhere else or you know, yeah, like LA or Georgia or even New York.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do you do you watch um I think it's HBO Max at all?
14:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
14:01
SPEAKER_00: They had this this one uh TV show.
14:03
SPEAKER_00: Did you watch it about film or something like that?
14:05
SPEAKER_00: Is it Project Greenlight?
14:07
SPEAKER_00: No, it's it's they're actually talking about film, like what what makes a movie whatever, you know what I mean?
14:13
SPEAKER_00: It goes through comedy, it goes through love, it goes through hate, you know, all kinds of it's very interesting.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: Huh?
14:18
SPEAKER_02: I wonder what it is.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's about film, like it's about the the making of film and stuff like that.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: I thought it was interesting.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: Like, like for instance, um like Romeo and Juliet, like a famous love story or whatever, and the guy's like one of them ends up dying at the end, you know what I mean?
14:34
SPEAKER_00: And that's what makes it a good love story or memorable because one of the power of film, yeah, yeah, that one.
14:41
SPEAKER_00: The power, yeah.
14:42
SPEAKER_02: I've never heard of it.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was pretty cool.
14:44
SPEAKER_00: I and I watched it too because I knew we were having an interview.
14:46
SPEAKER_00: I was like, let me watch this, maybe try.
14:48
SPEAKER_02: Is there like real directors on there?
14:50
SPEAKER_00: There's there's a guy, he's a he's a professor uh for like years, uh uh from uh a California university or something like that.
14:58
SPEAKER_00: But he's been a professor for so many years and he's basically teaching what he teaches there.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: Howard Suber.
15:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, what did he say?
15:05
SPEAKER_02: Howard Suber.
15:06
SPEAKER_02: Howard Suber.
15:07
SPEAKER_02: Good name.
15:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh no, never heard of it, but I'll look into it for sure.
15:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, no, it was cool.
15:11
SPEAKER_00: So, man, so dude, how how do you get into do doing this?
15:15
SPEAKER_00: Like doing film or how how do you how did you originally start?
15:19
SPEAKER_02: You know, what what piqued your interest or it was actually my friend Jacob, my freaking my friend Jacob Salazar, because we got really we were really into SNL in high school.
15:28
SPEAKER_02: We like loved SNL.
15:29
SPEAKER_02: We would like do bits and do impressions and do all these things in high school and we talked about doing skits and then we talked about making films.
15:37
SPEAKER_02: So we made like one short film together, and it was about like a dog and uh for UIL.
15:43
SPEAKER_02: It didn't really get far, but I mean it was it was fun to make and it made me want to do it more.
15:48
SPEAKER_02: And um uh yeah, ever since then I always just wanted to keep making stuff.
15:53
SPEAKER_02: Like him and I talked about making a TV series back then where it was called like like uh Chris and Jacob versus the block party or something, and that was supposed to be like Hunger Games, but with teenagers and rich kids, and like it was gonna be this like really gory thing, and it would have been really fun to make in high school to see you know what I mean.
16:13
SPEAKER_02: Like that'd be so fun to watch what we would have done then because we would have had to like make so many things, like make blood, and like it was really dumb.
16:21
SPEAKER_00: It's like it's like you have a it's like for me as a musician, you have a band and you play like in front of you know your school, like it it's I I understand where you're coming from.
16:29
SPEAKER_00: I kind of understand where you're coming from with that.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: And then like even on the yikes, like the first film, bro.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: When they start, I think it was the first one where they do the the Star Wars, yeah.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: And I was and I started laughing again.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh my god, I'm actually laughing.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: What's going on here?
16:43
SPEAKER_00: You're enjoying it, yes.
16:44
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's exactly it's handmade.
16:46
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you see the passion in it, like no matter what, like from our thing to a high schooler to elementary school kid making clamation.
16:53
SPEAKER_02: It's like it's cool, yeah.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, man, like I don't know if it's because I'm I'm I'm a corpus Christie person.
17:00
SPEAKER_00: When I approached it at first, I was like, ah, it's just a corpus filmmaker.
17:04
SPEAKER_00: What do they know?
17:05
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
17:05
SPEAKER_00: They're from corpus.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: That's honestly how, but then I was like, you know what, let me give it a shot because I'm I'm trying not to be that way, you know what I mean?
17:12
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to give it a chance, you know.
17:14
SPEAKER_02: We all live in our own bubble, yeah.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so but no, I actually got into it.
17:18
SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, this is cool.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: And then uh I started looking at the the actors, you guys are all Hispanic or Mexican or whatever you call it, you know what I mean?
17:27
SPEAKER_00: And there's not a lot of that in mainstream stuff that I usually see.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: So it was kind of relatable in that sense, you know.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: Is that something that you shoot for in as a filmmaker?
17:36
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's our demographic.
17:38
SPEAKER_02: I mean, usually is like that's who we're surrounded by is so many, you know, or a giant pot of chapo beans over here.
17:44
SPEAKER_02: Like we're all just like we're just a bunch of Mexicans, yeah.
17:47
SPEAKER_02: You know, there's some white folk around for sure, and there's some black folk and everything, and and a lot of different races around in the melting pot, which is Corpus, but at least around us more directly, um, where a lot of our Hispanic friends and a lot of the heritage and traditions here in town.
18:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, so yeah, and you know, it's even funny because we like dip into a few things of like other aspects of like culture and inside the show, but um a majority of it really just is confined to having Hispanic actors and having that as well.
18:16
SPEAKER_02: Cause you're right, it's just not everywhere.
18:17
SPEAKER_02: Like you don't see that a lot.
18:19
SPEAKER_02: Um I actually had like this friend of mine recently said, like, you know, they were that they were producing a film and they were like, Yeah, it's really cool because it's about Mexicans and they're not like gangbangers or whatever.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, they're actually real people.
18:35
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, you know, I mean, I understand that, but there's there is films where there were not gangbangers.
18:41
SPEAKER_02: There is stories where we're not you know, these people you just haven't seen them.
18:46
SPEAKER_02: I think that's also the truth.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't think like we're reinventing the wheel by casting all Hispanic people.
18:50
SPEAKER_02: There's so many stories out of Mexico City, out of Spain, out of like uh Colombia, out of out of so many different Latin countries that show Hispanics in different lights that are not mainstream here, you know.
19:02
SPEAKER_02: But they exist and it's like it's a shame that they're they're also underseen in a way, you know.
19:06
SPEAKER_02: So to kind of add to that is fun.
19:08
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's cool to have more representation 100%.
19:11
SPEAKER_02: But like I hope people know like these films exist.
19:14
SPEAKER_02: Like they're not what the American media has for us, you know.
19:18
SPEAKER_02: There's so much more out there.
19:19
SPEAKER_00: So that's so do you imagine that being a challenge to I guess get your your name out there or your film out there?
19:26
SPEAKER_00: I mean, quite possibly.
19:28
SPEAKER_02: Um I know there's like a professor of mine that he tried to like sell a lot of like Hispanic stories to Paramount or other studios, and I know he didn't have a great time working on that.
19:40
SPEAKER_02: So I mean I can imagine it being pretty hard, but there's still pockets, you know, like we're still a pretty big uh makeup of the American public.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: So I mean, you know, the want, the needs there, bad bunnies going crazy, you know what I mean?
19:53
SPEAKER_02: Like there's so many different people in entertainment that are Hispanic or or Latin that uh there's no reason for us to not have our own, you know.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I don't I I I I don't want to necessarily say that that we purposefully make it like that, it just is like that for us.
20:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely not done on purpose, like whatsoever.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just like it's the culture that we live in, and we this is just what we are, what we know, this is how we're doing it, you know what I mean?
20:23
SPEAKER_00: And some people may see it as like, oh, look at those Mexicans over there trying to be like this or whatever or whatever.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
20:29
SPEAKER_00: You can get into that argument.
20:31
SPEAKER_02: I mean, also that like there's not a lot of Spanish speaking on our show at all.
20:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, exactly.
20:35
SPEAKER_02: There isn't like a lot of there's a lot of, I mean, we might use some verbiage or some, you know, we have a whole episode that's really about like Nacho Libre to some extent.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was and that and that episode is funny because it's us kind of embracing like how uh radical the the view of Mexicans are, you know, but it's kind of subtle, like we're not trying to like put in people's faces.
20:54
SPEAKER_02: There's like one reference of someone being like, isn't that movie racist?
20:57
SPEAKER_02: And it's like, dude, shut up.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: Like, this is awesome.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
21:01
SPEAKER_02: It's like this is it's it's is it problematic?
21:04
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: But it's also like this is also one of the coolest interpretations of like the Mexican experience, like such a funny, dumb little movie.
21:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and um, I mean, we welcome that.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: I think we're also pretty easy on that humor.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: I love I love the I love the music that you use too, like through the series.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh a lot of it is like pop, pop, I don't know if it's pop music, but and it's just good, it's just cool stuff.
21:26
SPEAKER_02: A lot of copyrighted music, yeah, yeah.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: No, yeah.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: And then even uh the producer back there, he's got it, he's got some stuff in there too.
21:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Maya has the first song in the show.
21:37
SPEAKER_02: Seriously, yeah, he does.
21:38
SPEAKER_02: Well, no way, yeah.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: The crib, so whenever they we do that cribs uh ripoff in the first episode, okay, and they're walking through and giving a tour of their apartment.
21:46
SPEAKER_02: Maya did the song.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: I asked Maya, I was like, Can you make like a fast beat for us?
21:49
SPEAKER_00: You made it on the fly, bro?
21:51
SPEAKER_00: Did he make I made like five?
21:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:55
SPEAKER_02: We looked at all of them and I was like, I'll do this one.
21:57
SPEAKER_02: Oh, no way, that's awesome, bro.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Maya is a very early contributor.
22:01
SPEAKER_02: And every single episode that came out, and Maya wasn't living in town.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: Maya was always like the first person to call me.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
22:07
SPEAKER_02: To be like, that episode was great.
22:09
SPEAKER_02: Like that was like he had like something to say about the episode.
22:12
SPEAKER_02: Like always gave feedback and it was crazy.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: So isn't that cool to have that kind of like support like from your Yeah, 100%.
22:19
SPEAKER_02: And I I mean I've known Maya since Delmar.
22:22
SPEAKER_02: That's how we met.
22:23
SPEAKER_02: I was having a class together.
22:24
SPEAKER_02: And you know, he'd work on our sets, and I've gotten him a couple jobs.
22:33
SPEAKER_02: I always bring him to like every workplace.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: What do you tell man?
22:41
SPEAKER_00: I was just like, Do you want to work here?
22:42
SPEAKER_02: Because I want to hang out with you more.
22:44
SPEAKER_02: So uh take him there, and then he kept on popping up here, and then we got him a job in the shop, and it was just yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to my uh my my ex uh bandmate singer slash drummer.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: One of my first jobs was with him, dude.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: We didn't get nothing done.
23:00
SPEAKER_02: I mean, half of Maya and I are working here.
23:02
SPEAKER_02: Well, luckily the job inside the bodega is so easy.
23:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right.
23:05
SPEAKER_02: But it's like we're just talking and like that's all we do.
23:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, dude, hell yeah, dude.
23:10
SPEAKER_02: Like, I can't wait to be an old man and just be in a barber shop.
23:12
SPEAKER_02: Like I will both be getting our our our uh what is it, Gen X haircuts or something?
23:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Rita How's it going, Francesca?
23:22
SPEAKER_00: Mama, thank you for joining the show.
23:23
SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: My daughter, she's always she always makes makes sure she's on there, and then I say hi to her.
23:29
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's awesome, man.
23:31
SPEAKER_00: So so you got so you started working here at produce, right?
23:33
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you've been here for a while.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: I remember we were trying to 2021.
23:37
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I believe, yeah.
23:39
SPEAKER_02: Um, because of yikes.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
23:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I noticed that that Dusty and a lot of the produce was was getting involved in the film, dude.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: That was awesome.
23:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's always been great uh to have them have their support and stuff.
23:51
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, because we Carlos Farial, who owns produce Barco and Gallery, he was our producer from day one, and he was friends with Ryan, uh the main actor and our and our main editor, producer.
24:02
SPEAKER_02: Um he was good friends with him.
24:05
SPEAKER_02: He started letting us use his equipment.
24:06
SPEAKER_02: We had him as like a producer credit, and he was a big champion for the show.
24:09
SPEAKER_02: He was like, do the full show, like make the full series.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: Like the they got the owner for produce or barco barco, okay.
24:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
24:15
SPEAKER_02: He was the one that was big on that.
24:17
SPEAKER_02: And then whenever we did episode five, and we ended up using the space inside there before it was a bodega, before it was even a store.
24:24
SPEAKER_02: Like, we used that as the anime shop.
24:26
SPEAKER_02: That was a big anime shop.
24:28
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, yeah, and uh they weren't even open yet.
24:30
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
24:31
SPEAKER_02: They like just built it, I believe I believe, and then he let us they he talked to Dusty, they let us use that.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then next thing you know, Dusty saw the episode, he really liked it.
24:40
SPEAKER_02: And it was really funny because it was a really weird point in my life whenever like Dusty and I started being friends and started working together.
24:46
SPEAKER_02: Um, because we had one meeting to talk about a show which never has never been released that we shot, but it was about him like um talking to producers and listening to their um their sample picks of from albums and him remixing it into a whole mix or something.
25:03
SPEAKER_02: It was it was a cool concept for a show.
25:04
SPEAKER_02: We just never got to finish it.
25:05
SPEAKER_02: And um whenever we talked to um whenever I met him and we like set up that meeting, my mom passed away.
25:13
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, so I told him like, hey, let's reschedule this to like two weeks or something.
25:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:19
SPEAKER_02: And I came back and I was like, definitely not in the best mental state, but I was like, let's have this meeting, let's talk about this, you know.
25:24
SPEAKER_02: And we talked about it, and I told him about my mom, and he was like, My mom died the same way, like sclerosis of the liver, you know, and like I was like, Whoa, and like we had a lot we connected a lot, you know what I mean?
25:36
SPEAKER_02: And like it was cool because I mean, um, I kind of needed that at that time, you know.
25:40
SPEAKER_02: So ever since then, I've always been with Dusty and uh working with him, and he's been a great person to work under.
25:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's a role model.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what's up.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: I I can't remember which episode, but but your character in there, like it's kind of goes over his story, and then you posted on yeah, yeah, that was with my mom, yeah.
25:57
SPEAKER_02: And uh, because all of us kind of have a personal antidote that's inside the show that's kind of real.
26:01
SPEAKER_02: Wow, like Ryan's whole story arc is extremely real, of like kind of his breakup and everything, like wow, you know, and uh Ricky as well told me some something he'd like to cover in the show.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: I was like, cool, I'll fold it into the series and crazy, and then we folded his whole sequence and his whole thing with uh his love interest.
26:19
SPEAKER_02: And I didn't really want a love interest, I didn't want to carry any of those.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: And I mean, a lot of my relationships that I've had in the past like was already within the show, but through those characters, like different moments that I've had were through those characters.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: Wow, amazing.
26:32
SPEAKER_02: And but I just blended it with their stories, so I can kind of in some way I was hiding behind their stories to kind of say what I wanted to say.
26:38
SPEAKER_02: Oh, wow, see, and then when it came to my thing, you know, I wanted to have some kind of central thing for my character, and um, but I never really got there yet in the writing process.
26:47
SPEAKER_02: I was like, man, I really want to figure something out, and I did want to talk about my mom because my mom and I always had a very conflicting relationship, and she passed away, and I was like, shit, I don't know if I should do that anymore.
26:58
SPEAKER_02: But then I realized that was kind of the only way I'd be able to like talk about her or talk about the subject.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
27:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, so I did it, and then that was like really like one of the last things I was able to do to kind of be and my mom actually does like she did love the show.
27:13
SPEAKER_02: She really liked the show.
27:14
SPEAKER_02: She really hated all the other things I made.
27:16
SPEAKER_02: She really liked yikes, like strangely enough.
27:20
SPEAKER_02: So y'all's relationship was kind of weird.
27:21
SPEAKER_02: I mean it was weird, yeah.
27:22
SPEAKER_02: It was it was it was a strange relationship, you know.
27:24
SPEAKER_02: Um she um her and my dad divorced and um uh whenever I was like in uh middle school, like like fifth or sixth grade, and they were they weren't very healthy, they were very unhealthy.
27:38
SPEAKER_02: Like all the kids were like ecstatic that they were divorcing.
27:41
SPEAKER_02: We were like, this is awesome, this is great.
27:42
SPEAKER_02: Like life's gonna be so much easier.
27:44
SPEAKER_02: It really wasn't.
27:44
SPEAKER_02: But I mean it was good that they weren't gonna hurt each other anymore and or do anything.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: And um whenever that got to be separated, you know, um my my mom would just drank, you know, on and off.
27:58
SPEAKER_02: And it was a hard life for her, you know.
28:01
SPEAKER_02: I don't think she got I don't think she got everything she wanted.
28:04
SPEAKER_02: And um it was just it was a tough blow for her, like a divorce.
28:08
SPEAKER_00: And do you have uh uh brothers and sisters from the same mom and dad?
28:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
28:12
SPEAKER_02: I have uh two brothers.
28:14
SPEAKER_02: Um one older, one younger.
28:18
SPEAKER_02: The older one is in Houston now.
28:19
SPEAKER_02: He just uh he's a lawyer for the DA.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
28:22
SPEAKER_02: Um and then my sister just had her third baby.
28:25
SPEAKER_02: Um she's doing great.
28:27
SPEAKER_02: Um my younger brother's living with my dad.
28:31
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, they're great.
28:32
SPEAKER_02: They're also I fell bad because I I didn't include them inside the show.
28:35
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
28:36
SPEAKER_02: But I also knew that if I included them, it would have been like so long of an episode.
28:40
SPEAKER_02: Include all my family members and all of these people, and like so I was like, I'm just gonna really focus it on my mom and dad, like focus on that relationship, you know.
28:48
SPEAKER_02: So whenever I made that episode with the animation, um, I really wanted to be animated.
28:54
SPEAKER_02: I didn't want it to feel real, like it was like me.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: I wanted to feel like we were seeing like just an animated version of me and the world around it was was real because that's kind of how I think the character feels.
29:05
SPEAKER_02: Like, I think my character feels that way inside the show.
29:07
SPEAKER_02: Like he's always doing stupid shit, like all the fucking time.
29:09
SPEAKER_02: So I wanted to make sure the character felt like kind of out of the reality of the situation, that at the end we kind of like sew it back together.
29:17
SPEAKER_02: But um, but yeah, like the actors, like Alex uh Alex Choppo played my mom, she was great.
29:24
SPEAKER_02: She actually said that she related to a good part of that storyline, which I think made it easier.
29:29
SPEAKER_02: And uh the guy who played my dad, um uh Martin Marty McPies in his first film role.
29:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
29:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh have you had him on here?
29:39
SPEAKER_02: No, he'd be great to have on.
29:41
SPEAKER_02: All right, he's a great, yeah, yeah, he's great at talking.
29:43
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, uh, he played my dad and he's never really done that before, but he was he was great, he was awesome.
29:49
SPEAKER_02: But they really helped make that experience very easy.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, that I I didn't know that I needed that animation until I until I watched it.
29:58
SPEAKER_00: In that I was like, oh wow, this is pretty cool to know this about that character, his background, which I don't know if it is, but it seemed like that to me.
30:07
SPEAKER_00: And uh, and at the same time, too, it seemed like a lot of people can relate to that.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: You know, like in our society.
30:15
SPEAKER_00: I mean, my parents were divorced, you know what I mean?
30:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh my mom left my dad at a very young age.
30:20
SPEAKER_00: I was maybe two or three years old or something like that.
30:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but uh, but yeah, that was it was it it needed to be, it seemed for me, I was like, oh, that was that was pretty cool that they put that in there about his character.
30:31
SPEAKER_00: So that was awesome, man.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: And I'm pretty sure you maybe more of your story will be in in your future films.
30:37
SPEAKER_00: Do you have any uh future endeavors?
30:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, you know, it's funny.
30:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, well, at least about I really appreciate what you said about the animated sequence because it meant a lot to me.
30:45
SPEAKER_02: It was like a lot to point out, and yeah, it was supposed to be completely related to that character, like to have I really wanted him to have some kind of like darker backstory besides all the relationship stuff, kind of to ground the story to be like we have all these like stupid romantics inside the story, and then we have one person that's like kind of dealing with oh no, you know, and I I mean and I definitely like put it up to 11 on like all this all the grief and stuff he was dealing with, yeah, inside the show.
31:11
SPEAKER_02: So it was fun to see um to that become like materialized.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: No, it was cool, like it was like it was like it was placed in a good spot for me because like it I didn't know, like I said, I didn't know that I needed that about that character up until that point.
31:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I was like, dude, Ryan should and I remember like thinking about it, I was like, Ryan should like yell at him.
31:32
SPEAKER_02: Oh and then the audience is like that wasn't nice, and then we see his entire tragic palogy, and they're all like, oh, he definitely shouldn't have yelled at him.
31:42
SPEAKER_02: It would have been more epic if you were like I think just explaining it to my girlfriend Andrea, and she like cried, she was like, Why would you do this?
31:51
SPEAKER_00: I was like, I it's just so and it's kind of funny, and the story behind the the animating too is crazy.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, animating it was terrible.
32:00
SPEAKER_02: Uh there's a small documentary that my friend Levi made about that episode.
32:06
SPEAKER_02: And how like the night before our first premiere, uh all the animation was set, and I somehow deleted all the animation.
32:13
SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: So I had to delete it for the first.
32:16
SPEAKER_02: So there was that ending did not exist for the first screening.
32:18
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
32:19
SPEAKER_02: And it wasn't until our second screening at Alamo where we put on the animated ending.
32:23
SPEAKER_02: So it just kind of ended with the door closing and him telling him to like shut the fuck up, and then it just ended.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: No.
32:28
SPEAKER_02: And uh crazy.
32:30
SPEAKER_02: Oh, sorry.
32:31
SPEAKER_02: So your question about future projects.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Are you saying about Hold on, we got uh Pink Plantain, can't believe he yelled at you in his bathroom.
32:39
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
32:41
SPEAKER_02: The audience definitely was like that.
32:42
SPEAKER_02: They were definitely I can't do that seriously.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, it's awesome.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, future endeavors.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: I was thinking about the the Adam Draft House.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: Man, that's pretty cool to have your film.
32:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, stuff, yeah.
32:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Fedez and uh his wife um Mati, I believe.
33:01
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, they're great.
33:03
SPEAKER_02: That's a great couple, and their film festival uh stuff is fantastic.
33:07
SPEAKER_02: Well, do they have one here in town or yeah, it's a film festival they do yearly called the South Texas Underground Film Festival.
33:12
SPEAKER_00: Wow, dude.
33:13
SPEAKER_02: And um a lot of eccentric characters are there, and they always have some pretty interesting, cool films to show.
33:20
SPEAKER_02: Um, them and like Heidi Havda too with uh CC70, which is like the seven-day film competition.
33:25
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: Um, there is a lot of film popping up popping up and around.
33:30
SPEAKER_02: Because I know you had um Chris, right?
33:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Chris.
33:32
SPEAKER_02: Chris here.
33:33
SPEAKER_02: Chris is great.
33:34
SPEAKER_02: Um, even and he had films there too.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, even just posting uh and and then uh inviting you as a collaborator on the post on my Instagram saying they were gonna interview you.
33:45
SPEAKER_00: Several other people that have production companies too were liking the video.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: I was like, dang, look at all these people doing production in the city.
33:53
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing to me uh um to see that that that's going on.
33:58
SPEAKER_00: And I know uh Maya back there was into it a lot too.
34:02
SPEAKER_00: So that's cool, man.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh wow, we were talking about gear earlier, future endeavors.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: So you got a future are you uh planning on something after yikes or what what are your final thoughts on yikes?
34:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh final thoughts on yikes is that it was a great project to like bring together with the community.
34:19
SPEAKER_02: It definitely was a community project.
34:21
SPEAKER_02: Um, I can't stress that enough that we made it with and for the community.
34:27
SPEAKER_02: There's so many jokes in there that are only for Corpus Christi.
34:30
SPEAKER_02: There's so many references in there that are only made for people that live in certain areas of town.
34:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
34:35
SPEAKER_02: There's so many little bits, like, and um, we're really happy that people gave us the freedom and the work to do it.
34:42
SPEAKER_02: Like, we had so much free labor, you know what I mean?
34:44
SPEAKER_02: Like, we didn't get paid, they didn't get paid.
34:47
SPEAKER_02: People are just there to like be passionate work on it.
34:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, what's good about that is that it creates a network.
34:51
SPEAKER_02: So whenever we have more projects in the future, hopefully we can get a budget and we can start paying these people that have been putting their time in.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: Wow, amazing.
34:58
SPEAKER_02: And what's good about Yikes is now we have 10 episodes to show people that we can make things and they're not gonna look almost terrible.
35:06
SPEAKER_02: And we've learned from mistakes and we know what we're doing.
35:09
SPEAKER_02: And hopefully with that portfolio, it's gonna help push us into like bigger projects.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, amazing.
35:14
SPEAKER_00: I was thinking that I was so thinking that you have a portfolio to show because obviously you're passionate about this, you got a your degree in it, and you obviously want to continue on.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: So that's amazing.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, so you you mentioned networking.
35:26
SPEAKER_00: How do you find yourself next?
35:28
SPEAKER_00: I was watching uh, what was I watching?
35:30
SPEAKER_00: People's places things.
35:32
SPEAKER_00: You had like one episode.
35:33
SPEAKER_01: Oh, one episode, Ricky and I, Andrea.
35:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh I you're okay.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna mention something on that, but but uh what I was gonna say.
35:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you you were talking to this the the one of the guys at the China, China uh market, China food market or something like that.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: But you were networking with him, right?
35:50
SPEAKER_00: Or whatever, and something like but that that brought up the topic of networking.
35:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I mean how how how important is that to you?
35:56
SPEAKER_00: Huge part.
35:57
SPEAKER_00: Huge.
35:58
SPEAKER_00: How did you learn that?
35:59
SPEAKER_00: Like um the internet.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
36:03
SPEAKER_02: I I think I was before before I realized I wanted, I feel like I was like training myself to do film before I even decided I wanted to make films.
36:11
SPEAKER_00: Wow, interesting.
36:11
SPEAKER_02: Because I would like I would have my friends like torrent so many movies for me.
36:16
SPEAKER_02: I wanted to watch like all these movies that were important.
36:19
SPEAKER_02: Wow, and I wanted to understand why they were popular.
36:21
SPEAKER_02: I was like, I like them, but I what's the science of making a popular movie?
36:24
SPEAKER_02: Like this budget.
36:25
SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh, it's the actors, it's the effects, it's this, it's that.
36:29
SPEAKER_02: And um I was just realizing like how they got this done and how this director that made a really small movie made a really big movie after.
36:37
SPEAKER_02: Like, how does that make sense?
36:38
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
36:39
SPEAKER_02: And it's the network that they were using, the spider web of of conversation they kept on having with people that put them into making a small movie called like, for example, like Safety Not Guaranteed, um with uh Jake Johnson, I think Gobby Plaza or whatever, the guy's next movie Jurassic World.
36:59
SPEAKER_02: Big big reboot continuation of an important franchise.
37:04
SPEAKER_02: Like, how do you do that?
37:05
SPEAKER_02: You know?
37:06
SPEAKER_02: And it's the network, it's who you know.
37:07
SPEAKER_02: It's like those people that are see who's watching you, you know what I mean?
37:11
SPEAKER_02: Like that kind of network is important.
37:12
SPEAKER_02: And I think whenever I go to like film festivals now, like that's my main thing.
37:15
SPEAKER_02: It's like I need to talk to people, get to know them, I want to be friends with them.
37:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:21
SPEAKER_02: And genuinely, it's not like because I want to get something out of you.
37:24
SPEAKER_02: Um, it really comes to the point where it's like, what do you I want to know things.
37:28
SPEAKER_02: I want to be, I want to understand how you know we're more than likely in the same area.
37:35
SPEAKER_02: How are we gonna be able to help each other?
37:37
SPEAKER_02: And I just want to understand your craft because I don't genuinely like I don't need you to help me get a six, seven-figure deal for a movie.
37:45
SPEAKER_02: I just I just want to know how you do your thing.
37:48
SPEAKER_02: And um yeah, there's a lot of festivals I've gone to just to talk to people and meet them, and I don't even care if I watch their movies, I just want to know who they are and it's amazing how they did it, because um that's all it is, just an education, just learning.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's amazing how you lear learn that at a young age too.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: Cause like I was older, like a lot of I'm late to a lot of stuff, bro.
38:06
SPEAKER_00: I I I think it's just how my brain is.
38:09
SPEAKER_00: But it's amazing to how a younger person can can figure that out at a young age.
38:13
SPEAKER_00: And I we we had a conversation a while back too, like how because you're uh millennial.
38:18
SPEAKER_00: Are you millennial or genuine?
38:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh what am I uh my uh Gen Z.
38:23
SPEAKER_02: Gen Z.
38:23
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, my yeah, millennial, Gen Z, whatever.
38:26
SPEAKER_00: But how you guys get a bad rap, you know what I mean?
38:28
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, they're this or they're that.
38:30
SPEAKER_00: But no, you're obviously a hard worker and you're a young dude that knows stuff and you're trying to make it and get somewhere.
38:37
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
38:38
SPEAKER_00: It kind of trumps that idea, like, oh, they're they're good for nothing, or whatever the opinions are.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: What do you think about that?
38:44
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think uh I definitely understand how people can get caught up with that and how we're kind of uh lazy.
38:53
SPEAKER_02: But this is the good thing.
38:54
SPEAKER_02: Whenever a new generation shows up, we don't matter anymore.
38:57
SPEAKER_02: So everybody's saying that about is it Gen X after us?
39:00
SPEAKER_00: I have no idea.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: Gen Z, I don't know, Y Z, whatever it is.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm a millennial, so I really don't know.
39:06
SPEAKER_02: But now everybody's saying that about the generation after us, and I mean it's gonna keep going.
39:10
SPEAKER_02: So overall, I mean, like, I don't think there's anything wrong with their generation.
39:14
SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of hard workers, a lot of people trying to get stuff done.
39:16
SPEAKER_02: I think people are just a little too connected to the news and what they perceive as the outside force of workers and workmanship and yeah, right on.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: We've got TikTok, we got Instagram, we got all kinds of social media or whatever out there.
39:32
SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
39:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, oh dude, real quick.
39:34
SPEAKER_00: So I will we remember I was mentioning peaceful people places things because of your your out your it uh when your comments I'm not gonna take my kids to McDonald's PlayPlace anymore.
39:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, that was so crazy.
39:50
SPEAKER_02: I will say this, it builds character.
39:54
SPEAKER_02: If anything, it builds character.
39:57
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, it's a necessary evil.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, that was a cool episode because uh Maya kept on changing the the it was a cool concept where you changed it.
40:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Maya came up with that kind of fast.
40:10
SPEAKER_02: Um I know Maya probably still wants to do another episode sometime soon, right?
40:15
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I can probably get Ricky.
40:18
SPEAKER_02: We'll probably do it and ask Andre to come back and we should get Roel in there too.
40:22
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if Roel would be good at improv.
40:26
SPEAKER_02: I think he would be.
40:27
SPEAKER_00: Cool, man.
40:28
SPEAKER_00: Wow, so yeah, you're awesome, dude.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Man, just hoping for the best for you, man.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: So you so what are some uh let me see?
40:36
SPEAKER_00: I had some favorite directors.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, any favorite directors or favorite films, filmmakers, anything along that line?
40:49
SPEAKER_02: Um, I love Spike Lee.
40:51
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
40:51
SPEAKER_02: I love Spike Lee, uh like Malcolm X and Oh wow.
40:54
SPEAKER_02: I just saw Summer of Sam for the first time.
40:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh have you heard of that movie?
40:58
SPEAKER_02: No, it's about the son of Sam serial killer from uh uh Brooklyn, and he was killing people, and like he said that like Satan was asking him to kill people and that it was like possessing dogs and telling him to do that.
41:10
SPEAKER_02: But what's cool about the movie is that it's fully in the uh the perspective of all the people living in the city, not really the killer.
41:18
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
41:19
SPEAKER_02: It's all about them reacting to it and how they're starting to not trust each other because of the situation, but it's in this turning point of like American culture where like punk is becoming a big deal, like the conservative values are slowly fading away, and like you're just seeing people not being able to be ready for this change, as well as like not being able to trust each other more.
41:40
SPEAKER_02: So the movie's like two hours and a half, uh sort of long movie, but I watched it and it was awesome.
41:47
SPEAKER_02: Um sorry.
41:49
SPEAKER_02: Anytime I have an opportunity to talk about that movie.
41:50
SPEAKER_00: Nah, go ahead, bro.
41:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, that's that movie was so good.
41:53
SPEAKER_00: Was Spikely in it?
41:54
SPEAKER_00: Was he was he here?
41:55
SPEAKER_00: He was in it.
41:55
SPEAKER_02: He was young, he was not super young, like because it was like 99 he made it, I believe.
42:01
SPEAKER_02: Um 96 or 99, something like that.
42:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, a lot of comparisons to Boogie Nights.
42:08
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you've ever seen Boogie Nights.
42:09
SPEAKER_00: Once I've seen it like once, maybe twice a while when when it actually came out.
42:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's kind of a crazy thing to watch casually.
42:17
SPEAKER_02: I watch it quite casually.
42:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh I just have to make sure I know I think I watched it casually here once.
42:22
SPEAKER_02: And then Dusty came in, he was like, dude, there's like families coming into it.
42:26
SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm so sorry.
42:27
SPEAKER_02: Like, didn't mean the show porn.
42:29
SPEAKER_02: I just want to see Philip Seymour Hoffman cry near Firebird.
42:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's one of my favorite actors.
42:37
SPEAKER_02: Um also Paul Thomas Anderson.
42:39
SPEAKER_02: I love Paul Thomas Anderson.
42:40
SPEAKER_02: Which one's who uh he's from the from the 90s era or uh yeah, so he made Boogie Nights and then he made like Punch Trunk Love, okay.
42:47
SPEAKER_02: There will be Blood, uh Licorice Pizza more recently.
42:50
SPEAKER_02: I really like that movie.
42:51
SPEAKER_02: But um Bro.
42:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I really like Brian De Palma, who made Scarface.
42:56
SPEAKER_02: Okay, and he made um Phantom of the Paradise, Dress to Kill, Blowout.
43:01
SPEAKER_02: Blowout's one of my favorite movies.
43:03
SPEAKER_02: Whoa.
43:04
SPEAKER_02: And uh Cronenberg, David Cronenberg, he does a lot of body gore.
43:07
SPEAKER_02: The body gore he like creates crazy, gory, bloody things.
43:13
SPEAKER_02: Like he's known for doing like the best like head explosion in a movie.
43:16
SPEAKER_02: Oh no.
43:17
SPEAKER_02: Where like they actually got a fake head on a dummy and they got like a 12-age shotgun and like shot it in the back just so you can see it explode.
43:23
SPEAKER_02: Like it's just crazy, like all the effects and stuff.
43:26
SPEAKER_02: Like but it's funny because I feel like none of these things really sound too much like like what you probably saw in the Yikes, but it's my favorite stuff.
43:34
SPEAKER_02: It's crazy.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: That's cool though, man.
43:35
SPEAKER_00: It's cool to hear about your inspirations, man.
43:37
SPEAKER_00: A lot of all that stuff you mentioned.
43:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
43:38
SPEAKER_00: None of that stuff, right?
43:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's yeah, that's and I and I don't I I don't say that like the average movie person does, like it's you have to be like in it.
43:46
SPEAKER_02: You have to be kind of locked in.
43:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:48
SPEAKER_02: Um maybe in an an unhealthy amount.
43:52
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
43:52
SPEAKER_02: But and I have friends that support this horrible habit.
43:55
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
43:56
SPEAKER_02: Because I go to the movie theaters like it's church, you know what I mean?
43:59
SPEAKER_00: Like I have to go.
44:00
SPEAKER_02: No kidding.
44:01
SPEAKER_02: Like it's it's important.
44:02
SPEAKER_00: So so it doesn't matter who's in it or what just watch it just to watch it.
44:05
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you I mean, usually it's important to know who's in it, but I just need to be in a theater, you know.
44:09
SPEAKER_02: I mean, especially if they're reshowing something, like, you know, uh Big Lebowski or something.
44:15
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, I'm trying to think of a movie I saw in theaters.
44:18
SPEAKER_02: Oh, bringing out the dead.
44:19
SPEAKER_02: That's a Martin Scorsese film.
44:21
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
44:21
SPEAKER_02: Uh did not critically wasn't taken very well.
44:25
SPEAKER_02: No one really talks about it either, but like they showed it in theaters a couple weeks ago, and I was like, I have to go see that in theaters.
44:30
SPEAKER_00: Wow, so crazy, man.
44:32
SPEAKER_02: And uh great use of Johnny Thunders in the soundtrack, great soundtrack.
44:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
44:36
SPEAKER_00: So so when you when you first watch a film, do you watch it like to watch it or do you like critique?
44:41
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm imagining you learned a lot of stuff in your schooling or whatever.
44:45
SPEAKER_00: No, no, not really.
44:46
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I don't think school really I got you.
44:49
SPEAKER_02: Not to say like a better than you bro, but there wasn't a lot of school that made me go, huh?
44:55
SPEAKER_02: Like a lot of it was me being like, can't wait to finish this.
44:59
SPEAKER_02: Um like did you take like film like film classes or yeah, yeah.
45:03
SPEAKER_02: I took like production classes, and then I took like one movie criticism class.
45:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like theory, like theory, yeah, theory, film criticism, and stuff like that.
45:11
SPEAKER_02: I think the one at Del Mar was way better than the one on the island, I'm not gonna lie.
45:15
SPEAKER_02: Uh that one I just got a lot more out of.
45:18
SPEAKER_02: The film criticism on the island was really cool, but I think the only reason I say that is because I didn't know as much when I was at Delmar.
45:27
SPEAKER_02: Oh and Delmar like opened up my mind.
45:29
SPEAKER_02: So I felt like by the time I got to the island, I was like, oh, I've seen a majority of these.
45:32
SPEAKER_02: Ah, okay.
45:33
SPEAKER_02: But um, the professor was cool, and I think all their stuff was yeah, they brought in some really cool details about the history, like that stuff I was talking about of like the networking and films, and understand like I love I'm a nerd for understanding, like to know that um, you know, maybe this film bankrupted Hollywood and it made us fully like there used to be a lot of original movies in like the 70s and 80s that were coming out, and the reason why is because they kept on making really huge gambles of spending way too much money on movies, and it ended up like killing studios completely.
46:09
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
46:09
SPEAKER_02: So by doing that, these other studios are like we have to figure out what to do now.
46:13
SPEAKER_02: So they were like, let's spend less money and make more movies and see what audience is like.
46:19
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
46:20
SPEAKER_02: And we're almost getting to the turning point currently where that might happen again.
46:24
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
46:24
SPEAKER_02: Because they're spending way too much money on way too many movies.
46:28
SPEAKER_02: They they're doing that now?
46:29
SPEAKER_02: Currently, yeah.
46:30
SPEAKER_02: Like there's no reason to be spending like 200 million dollars on films that don't feature an explosion.
46:35
SPEAKER_00: So they weren't doing that, but now they're redoing it again.
46:38
SPEAKER_02: It's almost like history is repeating itself at the moment.
46:40
SPEAKER_02: Like, there's a movie I love that just came out called Challengers.
46:43
SPEAKER_02: Loved it.
46:44
SPEAKER_02: It cost$50 million?
46:48
SPEAKER_02: No reason to spend that much money on that movie.
46:50
SPEAKER_02: I love that movie.
46:52
SPEAKER_02: I adored it.
46:52
SPEAKER_02: I'm happy it was 50 million, but genuinely, I would think from a business standpoint, I don't think there should be I don't know why it would be that much money.
47:00
SPEAKER_02: And because of projects not exactly like challengers, but more of like the big Marvel films, you know, that are making because what they have like C uh was it CGI?
47:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, CGI, but actors are really expensive, right?
47:12
SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
47:13
SPEAKER_02: That's really the main thing, is like they're spending so much money on actors, like I can't even imagine what some of those salaries are.
47:19
SPEAKER_02: But um I feel like they're just giving so much money to certain people that it's kind of bringing so much down on the production there's they're spending way too much.
47:28
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
47:28
SPEAKER_02: So they're gonna have to get smaller soon, or they're gonna bankrupt themselves.
47:32
SPEAKER_02: So unless you they get lucky and get another Barbie, you know, but not every movie's Barbie.
47:38
SPEAKER_00: So so it's not necessarily the more you pay, the better the film is gonna be.
47:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, usually that's how it should work, but as of currently, it's just you know, that's so weird.
47:51
SPEAKER_02: Robert Downey Jr.'s in this movie, boom, that's like 20 million already out.
47:55
SPEAKER_02: I don't know how much he's getting paid, but he's getting paid a lot.
47:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh probably not 20 million, but yeah.
48:00
SPEAKER_02: But stuff like that I learned from like the island, and I was like, this is awesome.
48:03
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
48:04
SPEAKER_02: Okay, this is epic.
48:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was just like all these things uh that I kind of learned through the island or learned to Delmar, like it was cool because it feels like it helps the current strategy of how to make a movie.
48:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh, right out, right out.
48:15
SPEAKER_00: Wow, so speaking of making a movie, so how how important is uh we're talking about gear earlier, how important is that for I guess for I guess what you're doing?
48:24
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I used to not find it very important.
48:26
SPEAKER_02: I was like make a movie on anything, but now that I'm we're past the ice and stuff, uh it's like it's everything.
48:34
SPEAKER_02: Like you have to shoot on a certain camera, shoot on a certain like use certain types of lighting that's popular right now.
48:41
SPEAKER_02: Um but luckily we have a lot of friends that have supported us over the years and they have a lot of that equipment.
48:48
SPEAKER_02: Like I shot more recently with a red, and that's a pretty big state-of-the-art camera that they use for like films on Netflix and stuff like that.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
48:57
SPEAKER_02: That was my first time working with one of those.
48:59
SPEAKER_02: Amazing.
48:59
SPEAKER_02: It was a pretty big rig, like pretty it was like a big setup because So how was how different was it from from your previous?
49:06
SPEAKER_00: Like, is it is that that much?
49:07
SPEAKER_00: Very different, very different.
49:09
SPEAKER_02: Because I mean, so with yikes, like I'll I even have my camera like here in the room.
49:12
SPEAKER_02: Like it was like an XT4.
49:14
SPEAKER_02: And that one, it's like I can shine a light up to the ceiling and like raise it up the intensity, I can let that light bounce back off from the ceiling and hit you, and it's gonna look natural.
49:24
SPEAKER_02: You're gonna be like, wow, this is crazy, you know?
49:26
SPEAKER_02: But bringing a red, bringing an Ari cam, you like Ariflex anything.
49:32
SPEAKER_02: We need a Screm.
49:33
SPEAKER_02: We need a 650 Ari bulb.
49:36
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna need these really big cameras, we need like negatives, we need all these different the more expensive the camera, the the longer it's gonna take for you to set up.
49:43
SPEAKER_02: And um and that's the most and right now that's just people want that's what they want to see.
49:47
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's like I was telling you the every frame is a painting.
49:51
SPEAKER_02: Yes, you know what I mean.
49:52
SPEAKER_02: Like that's how important it has to be, like to get all the lighting and stuff.
49:55
SPEAKER_02: So equipment's a huge deal right now.
49:57
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
49:57
SPEAKER_00: So so I guess so it um I guess as uh filmmaking evolves and the people that watch it that's what they want to see.
50:05
SPEAKER_00: Is that why you you continue to up your your your gear because of what the end the end user is gonna see?
50:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, and also just talking to friends and stuff like that, seeing what they're doing and seeing how maybe ahead they can be and in their fields, and it's like seeing what they're I'm like, oh that's standard.
50:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's standard.
50:22
SPEAKER_02: That's the network that helps you with that to know it's like yeah, as a standard thing, you have to kind of rise to the occasion because it can be as good as you want it to be.
50:30
SPEAKER_02: They might not buy it on your XT4, on your Fuja, on your Canon.
50:34
SPEAKER_02: You might need to get a red or something.
50:37
SPEAKER_02: Black black magics aren't bad.
50:38
SPEAKER_02: This camera is a black magic, that's a pretty good camera.
50:42
SPEAKER_02: It's not Netflix approved, but Netflix approved?
50:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, there's a whole list.
50:47
SPEAKER_02: Are you serious?
50:47
SPEAKER_02: Netflix has a chart of the cameras they approved that they will accept.
50:52
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?
50:53
SPEAKER_00: So you what do you mean accept?
50:54
SPEAKER_02: Like you can submit your films.
50:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you can submit your films, I believe, or you can like pitch it to them, or whenever they go to a festival, they're like, I like your movie, what is a shot on?
51:01
SPEAKER_02: It's like no way, and this.
51:02
SPEAKER_02: And they'll be like, I don't know if you have enough of a full frame lens that will be able to be streamed and not lose its quality.
51:11
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
51:12
SPEAKER_02: That's also a bigger thing.
51:13
SPEAKER_02: Like how many megapixels are able to be in your digital camera?
51:16
SPEAKER_02: We're not talking even film right now, like we're not even talking the film strips because everyone's doing digital.
51:20
SPEAKER_00: Nobody's doing film anymore.
51:22
SPEAKER_00: Not really.
51:22
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'd love to shoot on film.
51:24
SPEAKER_02: I think it'd be fantastic, but that's not what people are usually doing anymore.
51:28
SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, you have to edit and splice and all that other stuff too.
51:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um I want to try this out someday, but um have you you know that movie Dune?
51:38
SPEAKER_02: Those those films?
51:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw the first one, the the newer one.
51:41
SPEAKER_00: I hadn't seen the old one.
51:42
SPEAKER_02: I heard.
51:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so the new one, great.
51:44
SPEAKER_02: They shot that on digital, they shot that completely on digital cameras, and then when they were done with the edit, they rescanned it onto film, and then they rescanned that back into digital.
51:55
SPEAKER_02: What?
51:56
SPEAKER_02: Because people want that digital feel, they love how digital looks.
51:59
SPEAKER_00: So why I don't understand why they would put it on film first and or put it on film and then go back.
52:04
SPEAKER_02: Because they put it on digital and then they put it on film and then they put it back on digital.
52:08
SPEAKER_02: Why they put it on film in the first place so they can go back to the look of film is very different, like the way light projects through a film cell is different uh rather than your digital camera capturing it.
52:20
SPEAKER_00: Whoa.
52:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, and it's uh I I mean the difference, some people find it very stark, some people don't find there to be a difference at all.
52:27
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
52:27
SPEAKER_02: Um, I like how it looks, just it feels physical, it feels tangible.
52:31
SPEAKER_02: It's kind of like how people don't want DVDs anymore, but they want vinyl records.
52:35
SPEAKER_02: Like, doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
52:38
SPEAKER_02: Um but like you want a vinyl record because it's physical, like you're holding it, you feel like you own it.
52:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's how people want to feel about a film.
52:46
SPEAKER_02: So whenever they're watching a movie and it's like done on film, like it feels real, it feels like you're there with it.
52:51
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes a digital camera can't like break through that for certain filmmakers.
52:56
SPEAKER_02: Um but yeah, but shooting on digital is so much cheaper than shooting on film.
53:01
SPEAKER_00: So Dune, so Dune did that.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: They went film, uh they did record it digitally, went to film, and then went back to digital.
53:08
SPEAKER_00: And you're saying that I mean that's an interesting okay.
53:12
SPEAKER_00: So it's a modern concept.
53:13
SPEAKER_02: It's a mod it's an extremely new concept.
53:16
SPEAKER_02: Um I don't really think it's been done before.
53:19
SPEAKER_02: Wow but like that's how much people want to be involved, or like you know, tech in general, like how many people are trying to cut corners to get to what they need.
53:28
SPEAKER_02: So tech is everything.
53:29
SPEAKER_00: Wow, crazy.
53:30
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome, man.
53:32
SPEAKER_00: Man, with 53 minutes in the middle.
53:33
SPEAKER_00: I know, that felt fast.
53:34
SPEAKER_00: What's going on here?
53:36
SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
53:37
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna see if I touched on everything I had.
53:39
SPEAKER_00: Um you got you have anything you want to share?
53:44
SPEAKER_02: Um, not really.
53:45
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I have a film coming up pretty soon that we're gonna be shooting.
53:49
SPEAKER_02: I'm still working on the script right now.
53:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I have uh my producers are already in with it and I already have some crew members signed on as well.
53:58
SPEAKER_02: Just got uh signed on.
53:59
SPEAKER_02: Like they have contracts.
54:00
SPEAKER_02: But um that are on board.
54:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you gotta use the terminology, bro.
54:04
SPEAKER_02: They're on board to make it with me, but uh, we need to start finding cast.
54:08
SPEAKER_02: But that one's fun.
54:09
SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be a short film, it's like I think 14-15 pages long.
54:13
SPEAKER_02: Um it's for uh festivals.
54:16
SPEAKER_02: Um it's about a few friends that um their friend gets assaulted by a police officer and they have to figure out what to do with the video.
54:26
SPEAKER_02: Oh shoot.
54:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
54:29
SPEAKER_00: Not very fun.
54:30
SPEAKER_00: Well, something crazy that's happened on the set before.
54:33
SPEAKER_00: Something crazy that's happened on that.
54:34
SPEAKER_00: Something crazy or something that's like like uh what was it?
54:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh one of the worst things or one of the best things.
54:41
SPEAKER_02: One of the worst, okay, one of the best slash worst things that happened was in episode seven when Ricky and Ryan are yelling at each other.
54:48
SPEAKER_02: It was a scene where they were just finished yelling and they told me to get the fuck out.
54:51
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, okay, I just tried to help.
54:53
SPEAKER_02: And I got the doorway, the camera's following me.
54:55
SPEAKER_02: Police officers.
54:57
SPEAKER_02: Police officers are waiting for me outside.
54:59
SPEAKER_02: Are you serious?
55:00
SPEAKER_02: And they were like, we got a noise complaint.
55:01
SPEAKER_00: Oh shoot.
55:05
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, This is awesome.
55:09
SPEAKER_02: This is the pin.
55:11
SPEAKER_02: I don't even think I think I was going to the door and I heard like a cop knock, and I was like, and they were like, hi, we've been hearing complaints.
55:18
SPEAKER_02: I was like, This is so hilarious.
55:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh, let's cut the cameras.
55:21
SPEAKER_02: So sorry.
55:22
SPEAKER_02: Um, we're filming something right now.
55:25
SPEAKER_00: Like, I had to like get us out of there, but like that that one guy who's fixing his car, and the and the parrots inside, like pretending, and then the cops show up and they they heard like like the parrot like saying like uh like something to where like somebody's getting murdered or something in there.
55:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, something like that.
55:42
SPEAKER_02: Like that's how it felt.
55:43
SPEAKER_02: People thought they were like were killing each other or something, they were just like yelling at each other, and uh which is crazy because I mean Maya lived at that apartment complex too, and there was way worse things happening at that complex constantly.
55:57
SPEAKER_02: So for them to come for us, we're like, really?
55:59
SPEAKER_02: Like, this is cops are weird.
56:01
SPEAKER_02: That was so weird.
56:02
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, you're you're picking on us when there's a whole world out there.
56:06
SPEAKER_02: Literally, yeah.
56:07
SPEAKER_02: I see like horrible things happen every day, like on the streets, and then they're just like it was going, these two bros can't handle each other.
56:15
SPEAKER_02: We gotta call the cops, we gotta get there immediately.
56:18
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
56:19
SPEAKER_02: Was it was the eviction pile a real thing?
56:22
SPEAKER_02: Eviction pile was a real thing.
56:23
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's that was the immediate thing that I was interested in whenever I went to that apartment complex.
56:27
SPEAKER_02: I saw the eviction pile and I was like, that's so messed up.
56:30
SPEAKER_02: I want to make a story about that.
56:32
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, and I mean, I think also that person that was evicted, they like left town, they like jumped town or something.
56:38
SPEAKER_02: So like crazy that uh that was kind of like whatever was there was kind of already there.
56:44
SPEAKER_02: And uh I think that person was like on their own, or I really don't know.
56:49
SPEAKER_02: Maybe one day they'll watch Yikes and be like, my couch! Were the lightsabers really in there?
56:55
SPEAKER_02: No, no, that was just I always wanted this like that was just a Star Wars connection.
56:59
SPEAKER_02: And those are my niece and nephews, by the way.
57:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
57:01
SPEAKER_02: Two kids.
57:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay, okay.
57:02
SPEAKER_02: That's my niece and nephew, and then they come back in episode five.
57:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then I get to have my storyline with them, which is insane.
57:09
SPEAKER_02: No, you know what's funny, actually.
57:10
SPEAKER_02: My just a little bit, just a little story.
57:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
57:14
SPEAKER_02: My brother introduced me to like a new girlfriend of his a while back, and um, you know, I was like, hi, nice to meet you, Chris.
57:23
SPEAKER_02: Like, and she's like, Yeah, well, she gave me her name, whatever.
57:26
SPEAKER_02: She's like, I was like, How are you doing?
57:27
SPEAKER_02: She's like, Good.
57:28
SPEAKER_02: This is Christmas Day, by the way.
57:29
SPEAKER_02: And she's like, I'm just curious, why'd you film like a sex scene in front of your niece and nephew for your show yikes?
57:36
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Whoa, I just met you.
57:40
SPEAKER_02: Oh, crazy.
57:41
SPEAKER_02: Well, first off, those things were shot on separate days, and it wasn't a sex scene, like there that didn't happen like nothing happened.
57:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had to break down to her, like crazy filmmaking doesn't like all happen in the same place.
57:56
SPEAKER_02: It's like you can film that on separate days, like they're never in the same like lens of camera.
58:03
SPEAKER_02: And she was like, Okay, interesting.
58:06
SPEAKER_02: I was like, interesting, it's Christmas.
58:08
SPEAKER_02: I just met you, you've already judged me so much already.
58:12
SPEAKER_02: Like, no happy holidays, no happy holidays.
58:15
SPEAKER_02: Like, I heard a lot about you.
58:16
SPEAKER_02: She's like, I've been judging you from afar, and I can't wait to finally talk to you and call you a weird ass.
58:25
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
58:26
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
58:27
SPEAKER_02: See, you think Plantain was talking about marketing costs too, about movies.
58:30
SPEAKER_02: Madam Webb was made for 80 million.
58:33
SPEAKER_02: Also, mark so she she's saying marketing.
58:36
SPEAKER_02: A movie, if it's 80 million, for example, marketing is usually the same amount of the budget as a film.
58:41
SPEAKER_02: Are you serious?
58:42
SPEAKER_02: So it's 160.
58:43
SPEAKER_02: Double?
58:44
SPEAKER_02: Damn.
58:45
SPEAKER_02: There's movies being made now for half a million.
58:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh half a billion.
58:49
SPEAKER_02: So so it's actually just a billion.
58:53
SPEAKER_00: And so they don't even so some of uh most of them, I guess, are not making that money back now.
58:58
SPEAKER_02: I mean that's so crazy, bro.
59:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, a good majority of them do not make their money back.
59:03
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
59:04
SPEAKER_00: What's that movie just came out?
59:05
SPEAKER_00: Fall Guy?
59:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:08
SPEAKER_02: Damn.
59:09
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
59:10
SPEAKER_00: So uh you do uh pop-ups at Studio B.
59:12
SPEAKER_00: What's the deal there?
59:13
SPEAKER_00: What's the motivation behind that?
59:14
SPEAKER_02: I just like making food.
59:16
SPEAKER_02: I keep it low-key, or I try to keep it low-key, but um I also post about it, so I guess I don't keep it low-key.
59:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you do.
59:25
SPEAKER_02: I'm pretty bad at keeping it low-key.
59:27
SPEAKER_02: I just like making food.
59:28
SPEAKER_02: I used to make it with my dad, so but I'm flipping burgers.
59:30
SPEAKER_02: I just made some Bon Mies the other day.
59:33
SPEAKER_02: I I mean I brought some to the studio today, and people liked them.
59:37
SPEAKER_02: I'm drilling that up next time, and I'll be doing it for Maya's uh Basehaven show.
59:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, nice.
59:43
SPEAKER_00: And that's gonna be at Studio B?
59:44
SPEAKER_00: When is that?
59:45
SPEAKER_00: Studio B, yeah.
59:46
SPEAKER_00: I don't know the date.
59:48
SPEAKER_00: So it used it was formerly the NASA, right?
59:51
SPEAKER_00: Was it the NASA?
59:52
SPEAKER_00: And then it turned into Studio B.
59:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw an article at Delmar or something like that.
59:57
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
59:57
SPEAKER_00: So Basic Cable Productions is the name of your production company.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay, what's the what's the story behind that?
1:00:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh Basic Cable Productions was uh inspired by Conan O'Brien's show on TBS.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_02: Whenever he moved over to TBS, he called his new band the Basic Cable Band.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_02: And I did not know what to call my production company, so I called it the basic basic cable productions.
1:00:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh, nice.
1:00:22
SPEAKER_02: And I never changed it.
1:00:22
SPEAKER_00: Never changed it.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_02: People always like it.
1:00:24
SPEAKER_02: And I I've kind of grown out of the name already, but people really like it, so I keep it.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_02: Are you gonna change it are you gonna change it?
1:00:30
SPEAKER_02: I'd like to.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_02: I wanted to at some point.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_02: I'm too into it now.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_02: I'm too too too deep.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_02: I made it.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_02: It's too deep.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_02: You can't go back.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_02: I can't go back now.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, bro.
1:00:39
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome, man.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_02: Thanks for coming on the show.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me on.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I told you I was gonna flip it and ask you questions.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was like, wait, I was like, what happened?
1:00:47
SPEAKER_02: I talked so I'm so sorry for talking so much.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_00: It was a good conversation, nothing else.
1:00:52
SPEAKER_00: How'd you feel how'd you feel about the where where the podcast went?
1:00:55
SPEAKER_00: The episode went today.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just just it got deeper at times.
1:00:59
SPEAKER_02: I didn't expect it to, so that was cool.
1:01:00
SPEAKER_02: Um, I thought this was great.
1:01:02
SPEAKER_02: Um felt like I was in therapy to some extent, not gonna lie.
1:01:06
SPEAKER_02: Uh just talk about a lot of stuff that was on my mind.
1:01:09
SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think it's helpful or not helpful?
1:01:11
SPEAKER_00: Or what do you think?
1:01:12
SPEAKER_00: Helpful.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, helpful.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
1:01:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, you did a great job keeping it doing.
1:01:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I appreciate it, man.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_00: I always like to get feedback from people because people tell me they're like, Oh, I like what you're doing.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_00: As far as it goes, I'm like, what am I doing?
1:01:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, help me out here.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_00: Give me some feedback.
1:01:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that's cool to hear that, man.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
1:01:29
SPEAKER_00: And then uh obviously I asked uh a few people what to ask you, yeah, which I hope they don't mind me asking uh you that stuff.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_00: So Pink Plantain.
1:01:39
SPEAKER_00: I'll be holding it down in Twitch, appreciate you.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_02: Probably just Pink Plantain.
1:01:42
SPEAKER_02: Probably just ask Pink Plantain.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it's all good.
1:01:44
SPEAKER_02: Oliver, she probably gave you a lot of good uh nothing too deep.
1:01:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
1:01:50
SPEAKER_00: So and I was like, okay, there's she probably gonna tell him that I asked or whatever.
1:01:55
SPEAKER_02: She asked immediately.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_02: Okay, he's good.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_02: She's like, what do you want me to what should I tell him?
1:01:59
SPEAKER_00: I was like, I don't think he wants you to know that he's that I I don't think he wants me to know that you're asking that he's asking you, but it rarely it doesn't, it doesn't if you're yeah, it happens like you can like I tell my wife like everything, and somebody tells me, Oh no, tell your wife.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_00: Are you serious?
1:02:18
SPEAKER_00: But pink plantain is the best.
1:02:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_00: Dare I say, I love her.
1:02:22
SPEAKER_00: Pink plantain.
1:02:23
SPEAKER_00: What is what what's is this story behind that name?
1:02:27
SPEAKER_00: Plantain.
1:02:28
SPEAKER_00: She loves plantains.
1:02:29
SPEAKER_00: Plantain is like uh uh for fan for people that don't know this.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_02: Pink plantain is my girlfriend, Andrea Puyo, fantastic filmmaker.
1:02:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she loves plantains.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_02: Um, on our first date, I bought a bunch of plantains, I made a bouquet of plantains.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_02: Oh, cool.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_00: I brought it to her with flowers.
1:02:47
SPEAKER_00: Dope.
1:02:48
SPEAKER_00: Bro, what's up?
1:02:50
SPEAKER_00: Plantains, do they the little bananas or bigger bananas?
1:02:55
SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah, they're all stupid.
1:02:57
SPEAKER_02: Not H E B, not H E B H E B should have them usually because we're so you know, South Texas are so much Mexicans and so many different Latinos from different areas, so seriously.
1:03:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, Colombia, El Salvador, uh Ecuador, uh, Costa Rica, Cuba.
1:03:13
SPEAKER_02: Like there's a lot of people.
1:03:15
SPEAKER_00: Costa Rica, yeah, hell yeah.
1:03:16
SPEAKER_00: It's awesome, bro.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_00: Well, there's nothing else you is there anything else you'd like to share?
1:03:20
SPEAKER_00: I keep asking you.
1:03:21
SPEAKER_00: No, you're good.
1:03:22
SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm good.
1:03:23
SPEAKER_00: I think this was fantastic.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_00: I'd this is great, man.
1:03:25
SPEAKER_00: Awesome, man.
1:03:26
SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for coming on.
1:03:27
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for the show.
1:03:27
SPEAKER_00: Uh how do we find you?
1:03:28
SPEAKER_00: Basic cable productions.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_02: Basic cable productions, uh, basic cable productions on Instagram, or you can follow me, Chris Internets, no h C-R-I-S-I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T-S.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_02: Chris Internet's.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_02: I wish you had a ding sound so I can like get that right.
1:03:44
SPEAKER_02: Um, Chris Internet's on Instagram.
1:03:46
SPEAKER_02: Just go to Instagram.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_02: I'm much better, I'm much easier to talk to on Instagram, even though I don't have my notifications on.
1:03:50
SPEAKER_02: I'll still find a way to talk to you.
1:03:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right on.
1:03:52
SPEAKER_00: What's up, Chris and Facebook?
1:03:53
SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you joining in.
1:03:55
SPEAKER_00: Another projection company out there.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh, yeah, and then I'll check out Yikes on uh the series, Yikes series on YouTube.
1:04:01
SPEAKER_00: If you have not checked out, uh, you don't want to miss it.
1:04:04
SPEAKER_00: It's pretty cool.
1:04:05
SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of South Texas culture in there.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh if you can get past the the corpus itis of like, oh, this is the core, whatever.
1:04:12
SPEAKER_00: Just get past that and watch it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's good.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, appreciate you guys.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_00: Stay tuned for the next few shows.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, I got some people lined up.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, my schedule is full up until July.
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SPEAKER_00: So, one one a week, we got some more people coming on here.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, appreciate you guys for joining.
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SPEAKER_00: Stay tuned for the next episodes.
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SPEAKER_00: Y'all have a good one.
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SPEAKER_00: Bye.