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#72 | Big Bell Da Kidd · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: What's going on, y'all?
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SPEAKER_01: Copus Christie Originals back at it again.
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SPEAKER_01: I appreciate you guys for joining.
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SPEAKER_01: Today we have uh John Bell Big Bell, the kid from Hot Z95.
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SPEAKER_01: What's going on, man?
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SPEAKER_01: What it do?
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SPEAKER_01: What it do?
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SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: Glad you coming on the show, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Nah, thank you for having me.
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SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
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SPEAKER_00: I really do.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: You're welcome, man.
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SPEAKER_01: You're welcome.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh Z95.
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SPEAKER_01: I I really don't listen to the radio, to be honest.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh everybody says that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Everybody says that.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, but just listening to your interview, like with uh DJ King from the Hot Right and High podcast, and he was saying that you do the Friday nights, and he's getting he's getting excited about it because it reminds him of you know the old school when we did use to listen to the radio, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_01: How do you uh you know speaking of that, how do you feel about that?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, do you do you think people actually listen to the radio movies?
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SPEAKER_00: Or every uh for the longest of time, everybody I tell that um that I work on the radio, that's the first thing they say.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't listen to the radio.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't listen to the radio, or maybe I listen to the radio for like two minutes and then I I turn my Bluetooth on.
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SPEAKER_00: But for those that actually do listen to the radio, I just you know, I just feel thankful because you know what I'm saying, like because without them, like I don't have a job, you know what I'm saying?
1:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's it's important, it's important like to support local because we're not like on iHeart or anything like that, we're local, you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So just like in the same way people want um want you to support local businesses, like we need y'all to support local radio, yeah.
1:21
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So for those people that that that do listen, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's good.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so the so by listens, uh so I guess the network counts the listens that y'all get.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they they count they count the listens by like every like 30 seconds, right?
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So like we have maybe like 500 third 500 listeners for every 30 seconds type stuff, and you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: And it is it's just um the way we keep them is like you know, being entertaining, being funny, you know, being comical, being relatable, and stuff like that, and also playing some good music, you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes like uh the music selection may be terrible, but the the personalities are wonderful, you know what I'm saying?
2:05
SPEAKER_00: But we have a great mixture of both, you like good personalities and great music.
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SPEAKER_00: So that helps that helps people when they want to tune in, you know, keep tuning in.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, for sure.
2:15
SPEAKER_01: That makes sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh it kind of compensates for the other like personalities, actual, factual, yeah.
2:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, and then so like and Z95's been around for years, man.
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SPEAKER_00: Like at least 40.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, at least 40.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, reminds me of like see, I'm more of like a CO101 dude when I do listen, and they've been around for years too, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And you see C radio stations come and go, right, right, right.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, and it always makes me wonder like, how come they're still around?
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SPEAKER_01: I guess they change with the times and the music and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, that's just like with everybody else, too.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, you gotta change with the time.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't what worked for you last year may not work for you next year, or what may not work for you now.
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SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, so you just you just gotta be open to change, you know what I'm saying, and not deviate from where your true values come from.
3:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So you can change, but just don't get away from who you are.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think Z95 has done a great job of that over the years, you know, keeping true to who they are and what they bring to the city as far as like radio music and stuff like that, radio talent and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_00: So they they do a good job of not just um but staying in their lane, but also changing with the times.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh do you do you get to pick your own music like on your spot?
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SPEAKER_01: Because you got what is it, the Friday night?
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SPEAKER_01: Friday night pregame show.
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SPEAKER_01: Friday night pregame show.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you pick your own music?
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SPEAKER_00: No, I actually I don't I don't get to pick my own, I don't.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the um that's that's the beauty in it.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't get to pick my own music, but um my my PD, he he lays out a wonderful track list for me and and and and keeps everybody uh engaged.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so not only not only am I playing like songs from today, um I'm playing throwback songs.
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SPEAKER_00: I got I got a little bit of R and B in there, I got a little bit of reggaeton in my mix.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So no, I I actually don't get to choose my own music, but um um my PD makes sure that he sprinkles a little bit of everything there, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: PD, uh what is PD?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh PD program director for those who don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the program director.
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SPEAKER_00: That who chooses the music, you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So like when when people be like, Well, why the same song plays over and over?
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SPEAKER_00: The PD has something to do with that, and it's more to just like oh, the song is just playing over and over again.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it comes down to business, like when when you hear the songs play over.
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SPEAKER_01: You would think like the record labels would actually kind of talk to them and be like, hey, this this is the music we got coming out or whatever, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they they they actually do.
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SPEAKER_00: I've I've been in a few of those meetings where okay, well, we got this song we we're gonna push maybe next week.
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SPEAKER_00: So be on the lookout for your emails for for for such and such artists, and we're gonna have it have this song be featured like next week.
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SPEAKER_00: So we need y'all to start getting it in rotation.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So the record labels do like do reach out and you know, you know, have us kind of have a say song what was being played.
5:10
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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SPEAKER_01: How do you how do y'all go about having uh local music played?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh well see that's the thing.
5:15
SPEAKER_00: Um that's the thing.
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SPEAKER_00: But when I got when I started, I I never when I started at Z95, like of course I went, I I didn't, you know, just automatically have my show.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I had to go through the I had to go through the motion.
5:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: But um part of me going through the motion was creating my own show, Home Cooking, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Which featured local artists um from around the area, or from Corpus, Victoria to San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, wherever.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, just as long as they weren't like majorly doing something and they were just local or you know, just on that verge of blowing up type stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they they sent me their music, and um, you know, I went through it.
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SPEAKER_00: Me and me and Mollywap or me and DJ Dynamite will we'll go through them and then we'll pick the 10 like hottest songs that we think are radio ready.
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SPEAKER_00: And by radio ready, I mean like they came in clean, they came in mixed and mastered, they came in in MP3 format, they came in with uh an artist name and a title on on the song.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're just not looking at track one, yeah, artist name, track one.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So um everybody we we had a criteria to follow when it came to to picking music.
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SPEAKER_00: So that was that was the original home cooking, and that that um that was number one for maybe about two two years running.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay yeah, just just local music being played from 9 to 9.30 every Friday.
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SPEAKER_00: And so maybe I want to say maybe at the end of 2023, yeah, I I kind of got away from like playing a whole track list of music um just just because it was it became a lot of work trying to not only tell tell these artists how to send their music, but for them to even send their music.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, um, so once we got first of all, um uh we me and Molly Wapper, me and DJ Dynamite uh and me and Kribby collectively have about 25 episodes of of the original home cooking.
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SPEAKER_00: Cool, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So that that was a blessing.
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SPEAKER_00: Like they we would make a new episode like every three weeks.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So 25 of them times three, you know what I'm saying?
7:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, I could tell you you got a passion for it, man.
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SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're graduating soon, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Radio and television?
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SPEAKER_00: No, um, I started doing radio and television when I was going to Del Mar, but when I switched to AM, they they made me take uh I I couldn't do radio and television.
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SPEAKER_00: At the time when I went, their radio and like their media, their media, um, their media section wasn't as prominent as it is today.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So when I went, I had to, I had to major in like communications.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
8:17
SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: So luckily, luckily with meeting with uh with advisors and and and and coaches at academic coaches and stuff like that, I was able to not not continue going down the wrong path as far as like going for my uh bachelor's in media.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I needed to get it in production instead of communications.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so um I'm graduating this Saturday um with my bachelor's in uh media production.
8:49
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
8:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, congrats, man.
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SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
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SPEAKER_00: Hard work, yeah.
8:54
SPEAKER_01: Hard work, definitely, yeah.
8:55
SPEAKER_01: For sure.
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SPEAKER_01: We're uh I'm an alumni from there as well.
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SPEAKER_01: I got a bachelor in music.
8:59
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's what's up, yeah, yeah, for sure.
9:01
SPEAKER_01: So I could yeah, it is.
9:08
SPEAKER_01: So did you did you start okay?
9:11
SPEAKER_01: We're talking earlier.
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SPEAKER_01: You said you started in the radio first, you started doing the radio thing first, like at Z95, and then you got your you you started doing college, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And well, yeah.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: I okay, so I uh I'm I'm about to show my age here.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: I started I graduate I started I graduated high school in 2006.
9:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I started going to college at Del Mar in 2007, right?
9:34
SPEAKER_00: So I've been through ups, downs, left, rights.
9:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, ABBA starts, I've been through all of that, you know what I'm saying?
9:43
SPEAKER_00: And and to finally um to finally be at the end of the road is just like it's crazy.
9:51
SPEAKER_00: But um I wouldn't change, I wouldn't change the journey at all, you know.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: Um but yeah, it it's it's just it's just crazy.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: Um so just and it's something that I never even like thought about for myself, you know, as a kid fresh out of high school, like you don't you don't really care about college.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: Like you, you know, but luckily my father was in the service and um he became a hundred percent disabled.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: And so uh through that I was able to go to school and they were paying me.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: So that was that was my incentive to go to school was to get that check.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: But you know, you young, you when you fresh out of school, you get a thousand dollars a month just for doing nothing, like you you gonna do nothing, right?
10:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I didn't understand, I didn't understand the importance of like going to class, making sure my grades was good, making sure that I was in attendance, you know what I'm saying?
10:46
SPEAKER_00: And so once that was taken away, like I had to really sit down and think about like damn, like for real, like I did that for real.
10:55
SPEAKER_01: It's funny how we say, like, yeah, yeah, it's not about money, but when something like that happens, you're like, uh maybe maybe it is important, you know.
11:02
SPEAKER_01: Right.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: Not not not that you worship it or nothing, but it's just an important part of our life.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it it it definitely helps.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: Having having that money definitely helps.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: But like I said, I was I was I was young and dumb, like um just just okay, well, I know for sure, like yeah, I know for sure on on this day that I'm getting this amount of money coming in just from being in school, right?
11:27
SPEAKER_00: So once that was taken away, and once I had to, you know, um run run into a few obstacles, like damn, I I really had to sit down and think, like, okay, well, they're making me do this for a reason.
11:39
SPEAKER_00: Right, you know what I'm saying?
11:40
SPEAKER_00: They they making me stick to these guidelines for a reason.
11:43
SPEAKER_00: What what is these reasons?
11:45
SPEAKER_00: And and on Saturday, the reasons are reasons.
11:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm getting ready to walk that stage just because of that.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: So once that did you get student loans?
11:53
SPEAKER_00: Is that nah?
11:54
SPEAKER_00: Uh luckily I've been I've been good enough to get Pell Grants and and and and this last um this last semester, my summer classes, I was able to get a scholarship.
12:04
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, luckily I I I did not have to drop a dime on on any schooling throughout my career.
12:11
SPEAKER_00: So that is one thing that I am like super blessed about.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, and I will praise, like I did not have to drop a dime.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and they like as soon as I got off of academic probation and suspension, like my financial aid was back good in good standing.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: So that was I was back getting paid.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't every month like it, like it was, but every semester, like you know, you got a payment coming in August, and you know you got a payment coming in January.
12:38
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
12:39
SPEAKER_01: Yep, yeah.
12:40
SPEAKER_01: If you can go to if you can go to college without getting loans, dude, dang.
12:43
SPEAKER_01: For real, for real.
12:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dude.
12:45
SPEAKER_01: So and like it the high there's a high percentage of people that don't even finish.
12:48
SPEAKER_00: For real, and they still got loans, and they still got them loans, yeah.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and then one thing that I advocate for is if you do go to college, get something that's gonna be marketable when you finish.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: Right.
12:58
SPEAKER_01: You know, uh, don't just do something that somebody's gonna get a job when you finish, for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Right, yeah, for sure, for sure.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: And and and and like what I be trying to tell kids when I go out and and and talk, I try to tell them like, you know, college is really not for everybody, you know.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, that's okay.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: You not everybody has to go to college, you know what I'm saying?
13:19
SPEAKER_00: Like you can go to school to go learn a trade or something like that.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: And I feel like I should have I should have gone to school to go learn how to do a trade, but I just love this music stuff so much.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: Like I didn't even, I wasn't even thinking about that.
13:32
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's not even my plan B was to go to, I mean, my plan B was to be a electrician or a plumber or something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
13:40
SPEAKER_00: But I love this music shit so much, like to me, there is no plan B.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: So like I I've been I've been focused, I've been focused like on finishing school so that way I can level up in life, yeah, level up and and and and to do what I want to do.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: Right.
13:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it seems like there's no uh what's up, Matt on YouTube, appreciate you, man.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh it seems like there's there's not I mean I mean there's only so many like uh I guess DJs on the on the on the radio.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
14:08
SPEAKER_01: Kind of like like musicians, only so many musicians make it or whatever.
14:12
SPEAKER_01: So like I guess having a backup plan is is a good thing, you know, in case it doesn't fall through.
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SPEAKER_01: For real, it is.
14:19
SPEAKER_01: It seems like some people like they put all of their focus, like, I'm gonna be an art, I'm gonna make it, you know what I mean?
14:25
SPEAKER_01: Which is I'm not trying to smash on anybody's dreams, it's just like, but there still is a chance that you might not make it, you know what I'm saying?
14:33
SPEAKER_01: Thanks.
14:34
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not trying to smash anybody's hopes or nothing.
14:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm just saying, like, there's a high percentage of people that do make it.
14:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, a small percentage of people that do make it and a small pits percentage of people that don't, you know.
14:44
SPEAKER_01: So you gotta be gotta be kind of realistic in that sense.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you you definitely have to be realistic, but at the end of the day, at the end of the day, like if you want something that bad, you will go through hell and back to make sure that you get to where you want to go in order to achieve that, you know.
15:05
SPEAKER_00: So like I like I said, for me, like I I I did originally have a plan B, but once I figured like this is what I really want to do, this is this is like me putting my foot down to the ground for this, I I threw my plan B out the dough.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, right on I threw my plan B out the dough and just started focusing like on on on learning how to be a better radio personality, learning how to be a better MC, learning how to market myself as far as like a like a business person, you know what I'm saying?
15:34
SPEAKER_00: So um, like I said, because this music, this, this, this radio shit for me is this plan A.
15:41
SPEAKER_00: Is this plan A or that's cool?
15:43
SPEAKER_01: You know, that's awesome.
15:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so Matt asks, he asked a good question.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: He says, any advice for anyone who wants to get into radio?
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, my my advice to get in radio would be practice.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: Because even when you even when you think you you're good, like you will have a critique.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: So uh like somebody will tell you something different.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: So you just gotta you just gotta always be practicing.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: You are you gotta be open to to to learning stuff.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: You gotta be open for um what's the word I'm looking for?
16:19
SPEAKER_00: Uh constructive criticism, not like micromanaging, but constructive criticism, right?
16:24
SPEAKER_00: You have to be open to that.
16:26
SPEAKER_00: Like sometimes some like the listeners are rude.
16:29
SPEAKER_00: They will let you, they will let you know.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: Like they will straight up tell you, hey dude, you suck.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: Oh, hey dude, quit stuttering, hey dude, shut up, hey dude, quit.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: They will tell you, you know what I'm saying?
16:40
SPEAKER_00: So you gotta kind of you gotta kinda have thick skin.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: You gotta, you gotta kind of like take constructive criticism.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: You just you just you just have to be ready.
16:49
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
16:49
SPEAKER_00: Like you have to be ready for whatever.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Be ready for the good stuff, be ready for the bad stuff, and just practice.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: That's all I can say is just practice.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: Practice like your your voice, like uh, what do you mean?
16:59
SPEAKER_00: Like practice just talking, talking about practice having conversations, like what I what I would do with I used to have real bad stage fright before I started doing all this MCing and and stuff like that.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and how I got over my stage fright is I would I would practice in the mirror, practice talking shit in the mirror.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I just practice talking in the mirror.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: Like I have a brush and I'll act like the brush is my microphone, and I'll be like, oh, it's somebody's birthday, or what are we doing?
17:29
SPEAKER_00: We selling, you know what I'm saying?
17:31
SPEAKER_00: I just practice, and then as far as like being a radio, um, you just really gotta know like your music, you gotta know your your audience, um, you gotta know your artist.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: So what I would do is it's like, you know, just I would create like a little playlist, like a like a YouTube playlist, and have it run.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: Like have it run, set it up to where it's like um instead of it cold stopping every stop, have it blend together.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: So that way you can, you know, you can catch the end of one song, talk into it, and transition to another song.
18:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
18:06
SPEAKER_00: So you just you just gotta you just gotta know who you're talking to, what you're talking about.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: The more knowledgeable you sound, the more people will gravitate to you, the more confident you sound on the radio, the more people will gravitate to you.
18:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, the more I I I find it like people people find it funny when you crack jokes.
18:26
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes people people do like it when you mess up because it um it shows it shows like you're not just like recording lives and just recording them.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: Like it shows like you're actually a human being, yeah, and you actually make mistakes.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
18:42
SPEAKER_00: So you just you just gotta find your voice, um, practice, practice, practice.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: That's all I can say.
18:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what you mentioned there's kind of like a brand, like they like your brand, they like you as a person.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: And it's like you say they like to see you stumble because it helps you to help you realize that you're a person.
18:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, man.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome.
19:00
SPEAKER_01: So do you do you have any any uh like I guess do you call yourself a DJ or an MC?
19:05
SPEAKER_00: I call myself an MC, coalition MC, matter of fact.
19:07
SPEAKER_00: Oh what's that?
19:08
SPEAKER_00: Coalition MC the coalition, it's really a D big DJ group, one of the biggest DJ groups in in uh the country.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: Started over 15 years ago in Atlanta with uh DJ Funky and DJ Big X.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, so we got chapters from the Bay Area all the way to the DMV.
19:27
SPEAKER_00: Um and how I got in how I got involved with the coalition is uh I mean DJ Fame were going around doing a lot of lot of work and in um in Corpus and the surrounding areas.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: And uh one day out the blue, one day out the blue, fame was like, hey, I'm about to put together this this this this showcase and I'm gonna bring ARs, I'm gonna bring DJs, and and we're just gonna put on put on for Corpus.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: So um I was like, all right, cool.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: And he ended up doing it.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: We brought down um we brought down um DJ3 and DJ uh Big Hef, who's an AR for for I want to say Dev Jam.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: He's an AR for Dev Dev Jam.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: So we were able to get them down here.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Um and we had a showcase over at the Nest, um, had a whole bunch of different artists.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: Fame was up there DJing, um, bringing up the artists and stuff like that.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: So when they came, that's how we were able to build that relationship, and they saw fame going crazy, so they added him to the coalition.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: They added they added fame to the coalition.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: So um one year during his birthday, he ended up bringing the DJs back, but he brought them back in full force.
20:49
SPEAKER_00: And um it was like a whole weekend of thing.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: Friday night, it was like an RB night, Saturday night was like a turn up night, then Sunday was a show, another showcase, and you know, we got to network with the DJs, the media teams, and stuff like that.
21:03
SPEAKER_00: And um, I was lucky enough to host the the Saturday night, the Saturday night party and host some of the the the showcase on Sunday.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so that next year when they came back and we did it again with uh with uh with Fame Fest, they they ended they ended up you know putting me in because um they saw the work that I was putting in with with fame and and stuff like that.
21:27
SPEAKER_00: So um I I've been a coalition that and I didn't even know they had coalition MCs.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah so you know um so I've been in the I've been in a coalition about maybe two years already, going on two years, and um I've been I've been um lucky enough to go to some of their anniversaries.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: I've been to Atlanta, Oklahoma City.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: Um they got a chapter in Houston.
21:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm always in Houston doing stuff.
21:53
SPEAKER_00: You said you haven't been to San Antonio yet.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: No, I haven't been to San Antonio.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: That's the only place I've done shows in Dallas, I've done shows in Houston.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Austin, but just never San Antonio.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: And San Antonio's right there.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
22:05
SPEAKER_00: Like I really do want to go to I really do want to go MC some shit in San Antonio.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: They got a market out there.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they do.
22:11
SPEAKER_00: They definitely do got a market out there.
22:12
SPEAKER_00: And I know I know a great I know some I know some MCs out there.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: I know some DJs out there.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: I just really haven't connected with them.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: But um once, because I I've I've really been just focusing on finishing school.
22:25
SPEAKER_00: But once, once I'm done, like Saturday, yeah, um, I'm I'm I'm tapping in with everybody.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's awesome, man.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: Is there somebody is there an MC or a DJ that you look up to or that you like follow?
22:36
SPEAKER_01: Like, man, that dude's he's got it.
22:37
SPEAKER_01: You know, you know what I mean?
22:38
SPEAKER_01: Like a mentor, or not a mentor, but uh somebody that like that inspired me.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
22:43
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, I get what you're saying.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: So so for me, when it comes to like radio people, like my biggest inspiration.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: There you go, inspiration.
22:53
SPEAKER_00: My my biggest inspiration would probably be Sway.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: Like Sway has been in the game for forever.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, and he maybe a few years ago just got indicted to the to the uh Radio Hall of Fame.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: No, okay, wow, which is big, you know what I'm saying?
23:10
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I've I've watched Sway since he was doing shit at MTV, and just kind of like how he was able to be a staple in the game and um stay true to who he is and and and be around all of that stuff and still like be as humble as he is.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: Um that's just how that's what I'm just drawn to.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: I listen to his show every morning, you know what I'm saying?
23:34
SPEAKER_00: Like Sway in the morning, him, Heather being Tracy.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: I listen, I listen to to them.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: Um and then also Big Boy.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh I listen to a lot of Breakfast Club.
23:44
SPEAKER_00: So it's it's a lot of like radio people that I that I tend to and try to take pieces from them and then try to add it to myself.
23:52
SPEAKER_00: But as far as like MCs, um uh this MC that I watched the most, at least while I was here starting starting my um starting my own MC journey would be uh would be DJ Dragon and DJ, I mean and MC Silk, the Cronkaholics.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: Them two were my biggest, my biggest inspiration.
24:13
SPEAKER_00: So rest in peace, DJ Dragon.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: Um Silk used to always be um 100 with me.
24:21
SPEAKER_00: Like he'll when I told him I started uh when I when I started to do this MC shit, like he'll you know, give me the mic and you know let me test my shit and then you know um give me some game, tell me how to do this, how and how to do this, and stuff like that, what I should be doing, what I should be saying, how I should be saying it, stuff like that.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: So I just took I just took that and and just watched until um until he decided to move to to move.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: And when he moved, like I felt like I it was only right for me to take the torches, yeah as being the city's MC, you know?
24:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
24:54
SPEAKER_01: You mentioned like uh Sway.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: Like I imagine he started on radio and eventually he was on MTV, and then kind of the stuff he does now, it's kind of like a podcast radio slash whatever, but you got that going on too.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: What is uh say by uh say by Big Bell the Kid?
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: So um, so yeah, I I I have my own YouTube channel.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: I was doing interviews and stuff like that.
25:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um say by Big Bell the Kid.
25:16
SPEAKER_00: Um we were we were low, we were showcasing like local artists, um, business owners, um, authors, artists.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and we we we interviewed pretty much everybody.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: We pretty we interview pretty much everybody.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: So shout out to my shout out to my guy Freak.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, because we were we was we would be at his house every week, especially during the pandemic.
25:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah oh man, we had people lined up in his house.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
25:43
SPEAKER_00: Like, and and and not once did his did did uh did did his wife trip.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: So shout out to not only Freak, but his his his wife and his kids for opening up their home, even though we were in the garage, but still opening up their home to uh to to allow us to to to to build that podcast up like that.
26:01
SPEAKER_00: That that was just a journey.
26:03
SPEAKER_00: And before even before then, me and Freak um were doing was doing third coast Sundays before podcasting was even podcasted.
26:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's awesome.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, like I've in uh uh uh in my journey, I've had a lot of like radio and music because I used to be an artist, I used to be a rapper, yeah.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, you know.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: So um I've seen some of your battle videos.
26:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, we're not gonna talk about that.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna talk about that.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh yeah, does he know this is on you?
26:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I know.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: I trust me, I I know.
26:34
SPEAKER_00: I hear about it at least once a year.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: I hear about those battles.
26:37
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Indy, shout out to my boy Indy.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: But um anyway, yeah, I used to do music.
26:44
SPEAKER_00: So um when I started doing radio, it was real important for me to be that person from the radio to come check out these local artists because when I was doing music, there was nobody, nobody coming to the shows.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: Nobody, no, nobody from the radio, no representation from the radio was was what was coming out.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: So um, I felt like when I got in position that I would be that person, and I I think I filled that role quite lovely.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's cool, man.
27:15
SPEAKER_01: It seems like you kind of you're you're everywhere.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: Like the guys from Night Creatures, I don't know, Night Creature Productions.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: They they mentioned that well, I actually saw you in one of their posts.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: I was like, he's with night.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: Did you do like something with them recently?
27:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, okay, so so so like I said, um, one of my classes I had to take.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Um, we had to make a movie.
27:39
SPEAKER_00: We had to we had to do a movie.
27:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow, right?
27:41
SPEAKER_00: And so one of the actors, Mario, matter of fact, he was in our movie.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh, cool.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was in our movie.
27:48
SPEAKER_00: Shout out Inside My Heart.
27:49
SPEAKER_00: You know, we we just had a film screening over at uh at Alamo the other day, yeah.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: Like the the movie, the movie's about two years old already, a year, two years old, and it's and it's starting to pick up traction.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Mauricio.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Where did we watch that one?
28:02
SPEAKER_00: Is it on YouTube?
28:03
SPEAKER_00: No, it's not on YouTube, it's really not published because we're we we've been putting it in festivals, and one of the rules of of putting your film in a festival is like you can't like have it viewed publicly.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: But it's gotta be an exclusive.
28:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's gotta be an exclusive.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Like you can't have it on YouTube and then try to put it in the festivals.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: So that's why that's why um that's why we really haven't put it in on put it up online for people to watch because we're we're trying to make sure that we stay within the guidelines of keeping it in the film festival.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Maybe, maybe next year we might we might we might uh take them out, take it out the festival and put it up.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
28:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's cool.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: Are you thinking are you thinking of doing stuff at it, that stuff in the future?
28:43
SPEAKER_00: Um I actually I actually was getting ready to um I was getting ready to be a producer on a film with Mauricio.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it was called Baller or I Wanna Be a Baller or something like that.
28:56
SPEAKER_00: Um last year he was he was you know, I had went through the production meet like because the the film that I produced, I mean the film that I was a part of in school, I was a producer for it.
29:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: So I I like being in that role.
29:09
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to be in front of the camera, I don't want to be behind the camera, I don't want to hold the mic.
29:13
SPEAKER_00: I let me just if you need if y'all need anything, actors, crew members, if y'all need anything, let me know and I'll go get that shit.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: I got the resources, I got the the the time, the the way to go get it.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: Just let me go do that.
29:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: So that's basically what my role was on Inside My Heart was just a producer.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: So I was gonna produce, I was gonna be in a producer on on that baller film with Mauricio.
29:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but um, unfortunately, I had suffered an injury, like I ruptured my patellar tendon.
29:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I saw something like that on your Facebook.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: I ruptured my patellar tendon and I had to have surgery and I had to sit down.
29:50
SPEAKER_00: And during during the the shooting, the production, so I really, I really couldn't be a part of the project, but by the by the grace of God, like they still they still gave me producer credits on the movie because because they knew what I they know what I can do as as far as like getting shit done.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
30:08
SPEAKER_01: Right on, man.
30:09
SPEAKER_01: You mentioned uh A B A B A whatever whatever are you do you still game?
30:13
SPEAKER_01: Man, what?
30:14
SPEAKER_01: Are you are you are you okay hold on?
30:15
SPEAKER_01: This question comes up often.
30:17
SPEAKER_01: Uh are you a PC guy?
30:19
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
30:20
SPEAKER_00: I'm a I'm a I'm a PlayStation guy.
30:21
SPEAKER_00: PlayStation, okay.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: PlayStation guy.
30:23
SPEAKER_00: I can't I can't do that.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: Have you tried doing PC before?
30:25
SPEAKER_00: I tried, I tried doing PC.
30:27
SPEAKER_00: One of my friends is a gamer and he's a he has a PC and I I tried.
30:31
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's too it's too complicated to be.
30:34
SPEAKER_00: It's different, right?
30:34
SPEAKER_00: Because you can't differ.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm used to, I mean uh I mean I guess if you're holding a controller, that's kind of like typing two.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, we could put Nintendo, yeah.
30:43
SPEAKER_00: You can yeah, hit A.
30:44
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't want to have to look for semicolon to turn left.
30:49
SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't want to, I don't want to have to do that.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, I just want to press, I just want to press box and and and and get it over with, you know?
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Like I know where box, triangle, circle, and square is at.
31:00
SPEAKER_00: I know where all of them is at, like easily.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: So on a PC, that's that's you gotta search for that.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm not I'm not a typing genius.
31:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, gotcha.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: So like the only thing that I want to use a PC for is is actual searching the internet.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right on, dude.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome, man.
31:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
31:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that question goes up a lot.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: The PC is yeah, like nah, I'm you what do you what games do you play mostly?
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Or me mostly, I mostly play Madden, I mostly play 2K.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm really waiting on, I'm a nerd, so I I I like anime and stuff like that.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: So I'm really waiting on this Dragon Ball Z sparkling Zone.
31:37
SPEAKER_00: Nice, yeah.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: So um I'm I'm waiting for that.
31:40
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's probably one of the best from the from the trailers that I've seen.
31:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's probably one of the best Dragon Ball games that's yeah that's came out.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm really ready for that.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, I'm I'm such a nerd.
31:54
SPEAKER_00: That's all good.
31:55
SPEAKER_00: Do you get into uh One Piece?
31:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, I did, but I I didn't really like it.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, I may need to try it again.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's there's a couple guys that came on.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: They they like Matt Cantu, he's a big uh Dragon Ball Z guy, and One Piece he and then my my uh my other brother he had a shirt one piece.
32:12
SPEAKER_01: I I just figure it's like uh for anime lovers or whatever that they're I don't know.
32:17
SPEAKER_00: It it I I may have to get back into it, but from from what I seen, it just didn't yeah, it just didn't do it for me.
32:25
SPEAKER_00: And I try to why I it it's a lot of anime that just really doesn't do it for me, but I still like give it a chance.
32:31
SPEAKER_00: Um that's cool, yeah.
32:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's it's crazy.
32:34
SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
32:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's it.
32:36
SPEAKER_01: We were talking about anime.
32:38
SPEAKER_01: Toss the man.
32:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so is that is that what you do mostly on your free time uh when you're when you're not doing your thing?
32:43
SPEAKER_01: Because it seems like you're a busy guy, man.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: Uh are you busy?
32:46
SPEAKER_01: Would you say that?
32:47
SPEAKER_00: What I'm always doing, I'm always doing something.
32:50
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so can you tell can you tell people like uh like the the amount of work that it takes to do like the stuff you're doing, or you know what I mean?
32:59
SPEAKER_01: Literally because it's not easy, bro.
33:01
SPEAKER_00: Like it's not working, it's not it's not easy at all.
33:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, first of all, like I got a seven-year-old daughter that's very smart, very energetic, that takes a lot of my time.
33:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
33:15
SPEAKER_00: Um so when I'm not when I'm not dealing with, I mean, I don't want to say dealing, because that made me sound like a bad parent.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: When I'm not when I'm not with my daughter, like I just like to, I kind of like to just shut the world out.
33:28
SPEAKER_00: Cause I'm I'm I'm around a lot of stimulation all day, like music.
33:34
SPEAKER_00: I also referee on the side, um, uh MC.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: So it's just sometimes it becomes a lot.
33:40
SPEAKER_00: So what I do in my free time, you know, I just you know, just like to sit in silence, yeah, listen to some music, some RB, uh, you know, put one in the air type shit, you know, uh just just kind of relax.
33:53
SPEAKER_00: You reset.
33:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, kind of reset.
33:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and and kind of reset, recalibrate, um, balance myself out, yeah, and and and and make sure that I don't I'm not feeling like burnt out from this.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
34:06
SPEAKER_00: Because it it can it can become a burnout.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: But for me, I love this shit so much.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it's it's it it the only way it'd be a burnout for me is if like I'm constantly from 7 a.m.
34:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean from 7 p.m.
34:19
SPEAKER_00: to 7 a.m.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: Monday through Sunday, only making like$20 a night type shit.
34:25
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, but um as as long as I'm as long as I love what I do, like it never feels like a burden or um uh a choice for me.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: Like it's second nature for when I like I don't know if you've been to any uh concerts lately at at concrete, I mean at concrete or at the American Bank Center, but doing those shows takes a whole lot of energy.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: A whole lot of energy.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: A whole lot like it's levels for people think, oh well, you can just get on the mic and and and and talk.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: No, it's it's it's it's levels from from MCing in a bar to mce in a club to mce in an arena to mce in a uh a festival, like all of that takes different energies, and you have to be good at everything.
35:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you have to be because you you are the liaison between the artist and the blankness.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: Wow, crazy.
35:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's how you gotta look at it.
35:24
SPEAKER_01: How do you find yourself reading a crowd like in those different situations?
35:27
SPEAKER_00: Is it something that you develop like Yeah, it's something that you develop like over time.
35:33
SPEAKER_00: The more the more comfortable you are, um, you'll learn like the crowd.
35:39
SPEAKER_00: And it's really more about the DJ, too, because I like to feed off of the DJ.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: So if the DJ is going crazy, I'm gonna go crazy with him.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: And if the DJ's kind of like, uh, then I have to step my game up in order to balance the fact out that the DJ is not, yeah, but I'd rather the DJ be more than what I am, so that way I have to catch him and not him catch me.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if that makes sense.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: Could you could you do that?
36:07
SPEAKER_01: Could you do that like at say like at a country show or a different type of show?
36:12
SPEAKER_01: Or do you have to be connected to the music in that sense?
36:15
SPEAKER_00: Um you can, you can, but you just have to use a different tone.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: Like you can't you can't talk to a country crowd like you talk to a hip-hop cloud crowd.
36:27
SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah.
36:28
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
36:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got you, yeah.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, but you can definitely give them that same energy.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: You get what I'm saying?
36:35
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: Like you can definitely give them that same energy, but you can't talk to them the same way that you would talk to a hip-hop crowd, you know?
36:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so you kind of use the the same aspects like like they're there for music, like one, like the the common aspects you can still be able to kind of finagle your way.
36:52
SPEAKER_01: Right.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: We're here to have a good time.
36:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, somebody in the crowd celebrating a birthday, somebody in the crowd celebrating something.
36:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
37:00
SPEAKER_00: Um uh especially down south, bro.
37:04
SPEAKER_00: We got a celebration for everything.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: Somebody, um somebody could be celebrating.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: You got a birthday today, bro.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
37:12
SPEAKER_00: So I'm celebrating my birthday.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
37:14
SPEAKER_00: So every it it it it doesn't matter, you just have to watch your your your verbiage whenever depending on because I didn't hosted, I didn't host the country shows, I didn't hosted rock shows, yeah, rap shows, wow, that's awesome, um, fashion shows, and the energy is always the same.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just the way I bring the energy is different.
37:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you get what I'm saying?
37:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: We were talking earlier too, and you you were uh kind of D who's at Matt Gun.
37:42
SPEAKER_01: I still want to start a mosh pit at the George Strait concert.
37:46
SPEAKER_00: That would be something that would be crazy.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: George would probably be on stage like what at my show.
37:54
SPEAKER_01: Hey Matt, have you seen that one uh metal show?
37:57
SPEAKER_01: Like these guys are playing this card card game, like at the at the at the back, they're playing cards on the floor.
38:02
SPEAKER_01: It's crazy, but it's like a metal show, they're playing cards in the back.
38:04
SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
38:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, man.
38:06
SPEAKER_01: So we were talking earlier that you were uh, I guess, DJing for at East you were you DJ for the Islanders, right?
38:13
SPEAKER_01: Well, not someone DJ just MC'd and you know was kind of the voice.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: And then eventually the you started you were DJing for like the Astro basketball team because you started in the cafeteria, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so and then and then the topic of networking came up.
38:26
SPEAKER_01: How important is that or for for you for your line of work and what you do?
38:30
SPEAKER_00: Well, first of all, networking, it don't matter what you do.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: You can be baking cookies.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: Networking is important.
38:37
SPEAKER_00: Like you have to be willing to go out there and go put yourself out there.
38:41
SPEAKER_00: You have to be willing to go put your rub elbows with with some of these big wigs.
38:45
SPEAKER_00: You have to be able to get over that.
38:47
SPEAKER_00: That's why a lot of people, a lot of people don't um have the success that they want because they're afraid to get out there.
38:55
SPEAKER_00: Oh well, well, what if they don't like my stuff?
38:57
SPEAKER_00: Or what if they don't like this?
38:58
SPEAKER_00: Or what if they don't like that?
39:00
SPEAKER_00: Bro, they're gonna like it.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're gonna like it.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: As long as you, as long as you come out there, present yourself in a in a genuine way, like you go out there and mingle, and they especially if if they keep seeing you, if they keep seeing your face, you know what I'm saying?
39:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if they keep seeing your face, they gonna they gonna gravitate to you.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: How how does that how does that uh I guess affect your the way you use social media?
39:26
SPEAKER_01: Do you think that that that that that's the type of networking that you use personally?
39:30
SPEAKER_01: Oh you know what I mean?
39:32
SPEAKER_01: So you see like because you see them you like you see your face, you know what I mean?
39:35
SPEAKER_00: You you they they see you all the time, and I see in your videos too where you're like you're like even doing the radio show at the same time when you're doing so yeah, I feel like network um networking and using social media as a platform, I I feel like it does go kind of hand in hand because nowadays, nowadays, whenever you apply um anything media-based, they're gonna ask you what is your social media following?
40:01
SPEAKER_00: What is your TikTok followers look like?
40:02
SPEAKER_00: What does your Instagram followers look like?
40:04
SPEAKER_00: What does your Facebook look like?
40:06
SPEAKER_00: They're going to ask you.
40:07
SPEAKER_00: So nowadays, um in my line of work, as far as like being an entertainer, being being being somebody like that, having having like a I guess what an I guess an influencer, I guess you can say.
40:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, that's the first question people always ask me.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: Well, what is your Instagram?
40:26
SPEAKER_00: Wow, how many followers do you have?
40:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, well, what are you doing on Instagram type shit?
40:31
SPEAKER_00: Like personality wise, yeah, personality-wise.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
40:34
SPEAKER_00: So, in a sense, your social media has become the new resume.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was gonna say that.
40:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like a resume, yeah.
40:40
SPEAKER_00: It's like a resume in a sense.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: So, like, okay, well, uh I hosted a IMC the uh a crowd of five, six thousand people.
40:48
SPEAKER_00: You lying.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: It's on my Instagram.
40:50
SPEAKER_00: No, come on, you know what I'm saying?
40:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I got the video with the artist here, yeah, doing interviews, you know what I'm saying?
40:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and what they gonna say, oh, that ain't you.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Another video.
40:59
SPEAKER_00: Well, here's you know what?
41:00
SPEAKER_00: Let me get it on my TikTok.
41:02
SPEAKER_00: Let me get it on my X or Twitter.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
41:06
SPEAKER_00: Like he's not my phone case.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
41:09
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
41:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:11
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so in a sense, they need proof of they they they need that proof, and and and nowadays we didn't got away from back in my day, you needed a resume, you everything was filled out on paper, yeah, everything was phone books, everything was all of that shit.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: Now you can just go on your phone and and and and back up the shit that you done.
41:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
41:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, you were saying, do you think so in in regarding networking?
41:36
SPEAKER_01: I guess, I guess it's you kind of need that for all line of work.
41:40
SPEAKER_01: Yes, would you say?
41:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, it don't matter what you do, you can sell Kool-Aid packs.
41:46
SPEAKER_00: You you gotta get out there because nobody, nobody will know who you are if you don't get out there.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, of course, sharing, sharing, like sharing um products on on social media, that's cool.
41:58
SPEAKER_00: But if you're not putting the face behind your product, yeah, then you know what I'm saying?
42:05
SPEAKER_00: Like people want to see what they're supporting, people want to see what they're getting themselves into.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
42:11
SPEAKER_00: Even if the product thing ain't great, they just want to see somebody that they can relate to, somebody that that that that they feel like they know.
42:18
SPEAKER_01: So it's not you think it's necessary for okay, so somebody's selling something or whatever, you think it's important for them to show the the the person that's making them or to get to know that person?
42:28
SPEAKER_01: Does that help a brand?
42:29
SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
42:29
SPEAKER_00: Well, I I feel like I feel like well, whoever's whoever's in charge, like I it does.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: I mean, for me, of course, if I was running a business, of course, I would want to showcase everybody uh from the fucking the top of the line CEO to the bottom of the barrel janitor.
42:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, everybody with me gonna get some shine.
42:47
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
42:48
SPEAKER_00: But uh different strokes for different folks.
42:51
SPEAKER_00: Um but I don't I don't as long as somebody like if there's somebody who's willing to speak up for the brand, it doesn't matter if it's the owner, the CEO, or whoever's making this shit.
43:04
SPEAKER_00: It it as long as somebody is willing to be the face of the product and be a genuine face for the product, then then that that's will you will make either make or break you.
43:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right on, man.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so as far as giving people some shine, man, why do you do that?
43:20
SPEAKER_01: Because some people wouldn't want to give the like the janitor or whatever shine, they just want to give the one that's in the spotlight all the always, you know what I mean?
43:27
SPEAKER_01: Like the shine.
43:29
SPEAKER_01: Have you always been like that?
43:30
SPEAKER_00: Do you like using dirty toilets?
43:32
SPEAKER_00: No, no, okay, then so so you know what I'm saying?
43:35
SPEAKER_00: Like, do you do you do you want to walk into a uh a building and that shit is dirty everywhere?
43:41
SPEAKER_00: Like, you ain't gonna want to do no business.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: So that's why you gotta you gotta the janitor is like credit where credit is due.
43:46
SPEAKER_00: You gotta give credit where credit is due because if the janitor don't come in and clean up that mess, you can fuck around and lose out on a business deal because somebody don't like the way the the trash is overflowed or something like that.
43:58
SPEAKER_00: You know, people people people think we Yeah.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
44:01
SPEAKER_00: So you gotta give everybody shine.
44:05
SPEAKER_00: If you want your business or whatever to succeed, you have everybody has to get shine.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: It can't one person can't be bigger than the next.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
44:12
SPEAKER_00: That's just the way I am.
44:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it's like a business move, I guess, and a per a personal choice.
44:17
SPEAKER_01: Personal choice.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: Personal choice.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
44:20
SPEAKER_01: For me, I feel like I feel like.
44:22
SPEAKER_01: But who taught you that?
44:22
SPEAKER_01: Like, how did you learn that?
44:24
SPEAKER_01: Was your dad like that?
44:24
SPEAKER_00: Or my my mom and my grandpa were like that.
44:28
SPEAKER_00: They they um they always wanted to make sure that everybody got shine, that everybody was looked over.
44:34
SPEAKER_00: They always used to tell me, take my my grandpa always was big on treating people with respect, no matter if they got twenty thousand dollars in their pocket or twenty cents in their pocket.
44:45
SPEAKER_00: Treat everybody with respect because you don't know, you don't know what they're going through, and you don't know what it took for them to be in the in the position that they are.
44:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
44:56
SPEAKER_00: And if you're not, if you're not equally nice to everybody, then whatever you have can be stripped away because of like the way you move and your intentions and stuff like that.
45:07
SPEAKER_00: You know, so I was always taught to just to give everybody respect, even the people that done you wrong.
45:13
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
45:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, I I I don't have no no ill will towards nobody.
45:17
SPEAKER_00: I want everybody to win.
45:18
SPEAKER_00: I want everybody to eat.
45:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was gonna say, like, when you when you respect somebody, obviously somebody will take it for granted and they'll try to take advantage of it.
45:26
SPEAKER_01: How do you find yourself like like dealing with that or getting past that or still being able to respect them from a distance, you know what I mean?
45:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, that just that's just a testament of of being who I am, like being strong with myself.
45:40
SPEAKER_00: Like at the end of the day, at the end of the day, um you can show somebody so much respect that they may lose respect for you, but that won't change who I am.
45:52
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
45:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, that won't make me um deviate away from who I am because I've I'm already knowing in my head, like this is how I want to move and this is how I want to do stuff.
46:07
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't ever want to be called a snake.
46:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't ever want to be called like somebody who doesn't do business right.
46:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
46:15
SPEAKER_00: Even if somebody does do me wrong, like I still want to make sure that the business is handled straight and properly because like um my dad told me you got two things before he rested before he passed away, you got arrested.
46:26
SPEAKER_00: So before he took before he passed, he always used to tell me you got two things in this world, your balls and your word.
46:31
SPEAKER_00: And if your balls ain't good, your word ain't good.
46:34
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
46:36
SPEAKER_00: So I I always try to make sure that like everything that I do, like if I say I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: If I say I wanna uh get with something or support something, I'm gonna do it.
46:46
SPEAKER_01: So that that's just that's just yeah, it's just like it seems like you yeah, you build your character and do stuff like that.
46:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: Your person becomes solidified facts uh among you know people new people that you meet, you know.
46:59
SPEAKER_01: I mean it's as you grow as a freshman, man.
47:02
SPEAKER_00: Facts, and that and and and and even in the same sense.
47:05
SPEAKER_00: So like you'll have like 10, 10, 15 people be like, oh well, Bell is Bell is a stand-up guy, yeah.
47:13
SPEAKER_00: He handles all of this shit.
47:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh he he you know what I'm saying?
47:16
SPEAKER_00: He yeah, he's not a shaky person, like when he he stands on business, right?
47:20
SPEAKER_00: And then you'll have that one well that'll come around, uh yeah, well, whatever.
47:25
SPEAKER_00: So, like, you know what I'm saying?
47:26
SPEAKER_00: Like that 10 already outweigh that one.
47:29
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
47:30
SPEAKER_00: So, like, nobody's gonna believe that one, you know what I'm saying?
47:33
SPEAKER_00: So that's why I just I just try to not change who I am.
47:36
SPEAKER_00: Um, and and it it has been some people that have like either talked shit about me or uh done me wrong, burned me, yeah, uh stolen money from me, not paid me for events and shit.
47:48
SPEAKER_00: Like it's been people that done that, yeah.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: But I still look out.
47:52
SPEAKER_00: I still like I may not fuck with you, Todd.
47:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but like I'm I I still I'm still tapping in with you.
47:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
48:00
SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna it's not it's not gonna make me lose sleep about it.
48:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
48:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I think it's uh I know I think it's somewhere in the bottom, like you fall so many times every time that gets up.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: The righteous guy, he he always gets up, no matter how many times he falls down, he's gonna get up.
48:14
SPEAKER_01: Facts.
48:14
SPEAKER_01: And just like it because it's hard for it's like and that's like where you're saying earlier, like some people they don't want to they don't want to network because they're oh I'm afraid of this, maybe something happened to them in the past, and that kind of like hold holds space exactly, man's space in their head, yeah, for sure, man.
48:31
SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks, man.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: We got four to five minutes.
48:33
SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you coming on, man.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: Is there anything you want to share?
48:36
SPEAKER_00: Um uh for real, I just want to say thank you.
48:40
SPEAKER_00: First of all, thank you, Corpus Christi Originals, for having me on the show.
48:44
SPEAKER_00: Um I it we definitely gotta have an I definitely gotta come back.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: And any if y'all need anything from me, holla at me.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: Y'all got some events coming up.
48:53
SPEAKER_00: Appreciate y'all.
48:54
SPEAKER_00: Y'all you you need an MC, holla at me, man.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm here.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm I I love working with um with everybody on on events and stuff like that.
49:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, second of all, make sure y'all catch that Friday night pregame every Friday night between 7 and 11 p.m.
49:11
SPEAKER_00: on Hazi95.
49:12
SPEAKER_00: Y'all can tap in, um, listen into the Hazi95 app, which is free, and it also has a traffic traffic report and a weather report.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: So you get three apps for the price of free.
49:23
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
49:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a so the Z95 app?
49:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
49:26
SPEAKER_00: We got an app, or you can listen live at Hazen95.com, or of course, um, if you in your car 95.5 FM.
49:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
49:34
SPEAKER_00: Um preset it.
49:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, preset.
49:37
SPEAKER_00: That should be number one preset.
49:39
SPEAKER_00: You dig uh let me I'll give a little rundown of the show.
49:43
SPEAKER_00: From seven to eight, I'm playing people's shout-outs, so I'll have people either call in or text, text our phone line, and then um we'll we'll we'll run their shout-outs like that.
49:54
SPEAKER_00: From eight to like 8:30, I'm doing the hot eight at eight, the hottest eight songs of the week.
49:59
SPEAKER_00: We're counting them down from eight to one.
50:01
SPEAKER_00: And then um the ninth person who gives me a call and recites the the songs in the artist, yeah, I'll hook them up with a with a little gift uh gift pack last week's winter one, some Hurricane Alley tickets.
50:15
SPEAKER_00: I done gave away some Chris Brown tickets.
50:17
SPEAKER_00: I I done gave away some future tickets.
50:19
SPEAKER_00: So you just never know.
50:21
SPEAKER_00: And then at nine o'clock, from nine to like nine fifteen, I have a local artist come through from the look for the home cooking it.
50:29
SPEAKER_00: So instead of playing long music, I only got one artist now, and I'm interviewing that artist, and then we'll play their music.
50:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes the listeners would will most of the time I tell the listeners to call, be like, hey, tell me if it's hot or not.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: And the artists will either stay and you know, wait for their results, or they'll either go after the interview.
50:50
SPEAKER_00: And then after the home cooking segment, we'll have a DJ come on.
50:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I got DJs from all across the country either coming in live or sending in mixes.
51:02
SPEAKER_00: And um during their mix, we'll have people call in.
51:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, I'm at the nest, I'm at the shop bar, I'm at 515, and you dig, and um we'll we'll pull up to wherever the party at and um you know kind of kind of make sure that we we tap in with everybody.
51:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, so y'all make sure y'all be on the lookout.
51:21
SPEAKER_00: Um, we also just got a sponsorship.
51:22
SPEAKER_00: So shout out to my sponsor, the Dacri Shack 2.
51:26
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51:33
SPEAKER_00: Make sure y'all go get y'all a daiquiri.
51:35
SPEAKER_00: They got the refillable cups, they got the fish bowls they also got food, they got the wings, so y'all make sure y'all start y'all Friday night pregame with the Daiquiry Shack.
51:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, nice.
51:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, uh so before we go, can you uh the call regarding the callers?
51:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh can you share like a memorable story or particular memorable caller or listener?
51:55
SPEAKER_00: Oh reaction.
51:56
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: Um I had an artist, I had an artist come in from Corpus.
52:05
SPEAKER_00: I uh I can't remember his name.
52:08
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, he was in the he was in the station and um he was talking about how he was collabing, how he collabed with uh with D Baby, the artist D Baby.
52:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
52:19
SPEAKER_00: And maybe maybe 10 minutes after him saying that he worked with D Baby, somebody from Rod, the Robstown jail, the Robbstown jail, and this was like at 10 o'clock at night, you know what I'm saying?
52:33
SPEAKER_00: Somebody from Robstown jail called up to the station just to just to talk about the D Baby situation.
52:39
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
52:40
SPEAKER_00: I was like, how did you sneak out to get the phone?
52:46
SPEAKER_00: I thought they cut that shit up at like nine o'clock, bro.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: That was I didn't even think about nothing else.
52:52
SPEAKER_00: I just thought, like, damn, it's past your bedtime, and you still go through hoops to cut your car.
52:58
SPEAKER_00: You had to go through you had to jump through these hoops to uh to to to make this call, bro.
53:02
SPEAKER_00: I respect it.
53:04
SPEAKER_00: I respect it.
53:05
SPEAKER_00: I wonder how many soups homie had to like glide the guard or something.
53:12
SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, that's that's probably one of the wildest, wildest stories that I have, like as far as like callers just calling in and thank god it wasn't live.
53:22
SPEAKER_00: Thank God I wasn't live taking that call.
53:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: Thank God I was not live.
53:28
SPEAKER_00: I probably would not be talking about the radio if if that if that conversation had been live.
53:38
SPEAKER_01: Is there any behind the scenes stories?
53:40
SPEAKER_01: Uh like I guess I guess anywhere, because you do a lot of stuff.
53:44
SPEAKER_01: I do, I do a lot of stuff.
53:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
53:46
SPEAKER_01: Um how about like at a show, like at um like at when you're MC in a show or something like that.
53:52
SPEAKER_01: Is there any behind the scenes stories that are memorable?
53:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
53:57
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that people would find interesting or amusing.
54:01
SPEAKER_00: Um I really I even though even though that I am the MC, like they still, they still don't um they still don't want people getting close to the artist.
54:17
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
54:18
SPEAKER_00: So like I they really don't let us go like too far backstage.
54:25
SPEAKER_00: They don't let us go too close to their dressing rooms and shit like that.
54:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
54:29
SPEAKER_00: So we really have to like just catch them when they either going on stage or getting off stage.
54:34
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
54:34
SPEAKER_00: But I be so caught up in in work, like I can't even break my character to go to go, you know, to go try to grab grab a picture or anything like that.
54:46
SPEAKER_00: Um but I really don't have any like cr crazy stories, just you know, people just um I I I think I may have saved uh the ludicrous concert, if that counts.
55:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
55:03
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so if you want to hear about that, um so they brought an artist on and he was rapping.
55:11
SPEAKER_00: They brought two artists on.
55:12
SPEAKER_00: They st they were rapping.
55:13
SPEAKER_00: First artist got off, second artist got on, and they were rapping.
55:17
SPEAKER_00: And then as soon as the second artist got off, opening act, a comedian came on.
55:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow, which was weird because I yeah, which was weird, and I was like, a comedian?
55:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so the comedian went on for about I don't know, 10-15 minutes, and he was terrible, terrible, terrible, like it was it was so bad, it was so bad.
55:42
SPEAKER_00: People were texting me, um, dming me.
55:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
55:45
SPEAKER_00: Why is he on stage?
55:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh man, why is he on stage?
55:48
SPEAKER_00: He's not even funny, he's not even funny.
55:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, bro, I have nothing to do with the I have nothing to do with the setup of the show.
55:56
SPEAKER_00: I'm just here to to MC it.
55:58
SPEAKER_00: So as soon as he's soon as he done, like I think the people were cheering for him to get off of the stage.
56:05
SPEAKER_00: So when he got off of the stage, like the energy was so flat, like the energy was just so flat after the and you can tell because um you can you can you can kind of get a fix of of of what everybody's energy is.
56:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and as soon as he got off and I got on stage before the music came on, like you can tell the the the energy was flat.
56:29
SPEAKER_00: So um I told my DJ, I say let's play, let's play this one song, and we gonna we gonna bring this bit back.
56:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
56:37
SPEAKER_00: DJ starts scratching.
56:38
SPEAKER_00: I said, Don't don't play it off the rip.
56:40
SPEAKER_00: I said, let me go out there, yeah, let me talk, let me do my thing.
56:43
SPEAKER_00: Be back here scratching though, scratch, yeah, but don't play nothing.
56:47
SPEAKER_00: So I'm back there talking, getting everybody hyped, getting the hype.
56:51
SPEAKER_00: Then the music drops, and everybody's back.
56:54
SPEAKER_00: Everybody's back lit.
56:55
SPEAKER_00: Everybody's back lit.
56:57
SPEAKER_00: So um that that's probably like one of the best things that I've that I've got to done, that got to do as far as like being in the MC space was just you know, kind of bring it that's what I'm saying.
57:09
SPEAKER_00: It takes energy, it takes a lot of energy to do what I do.
57:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's cool, man.
57:14
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
57:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, John, thanks.
57:15
SPEAKER_01: Uh thanks for coming on, man.
57:17
SPEAKER_01: Man, thank y'all for having me.
57:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, I can go all day with yeah, I can go all day.
57:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we got it, we've got to wrap it up.
57:23
SPEAKER_01: I got another uh another podcast after this one, man.
57:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay, but yeah, thanks for coming on.
57:27
SPEAKER_01: Is there anything you want to share before we go?
57:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, y'all make sure y'all follow me across all social media platforms at the kid 36100 D-A-K-I-D-D 36100.
57:38
SPEAKER_00: And um, I'll see y'all Saturday because I'm cutting up on Saturday.
57:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm in my cabin gown all day long.
57:46
SPEAKER_00: Y'all gonna get tired of me.
57:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to tell y'all.
57:49
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm with it all day.
57:50
SPEAKER_00: Like um, I'm at the end of the finish line.
57:53
SPEAKER_00: It's it's graduate, it's graduate season right now, so um, I'm just ready.
57:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go dirt.
57:59
SPEAKER_01: Go dirs, shock us up, bro.
58:00
SPEAKER_00: Go dirs, shock is up for show.
58:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
58:04
SPEAKER_00: Shout out and shout out to um the rest of the class of summer 2024.
58:08
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
58:09
SPEAKER_00: Um, I know a lot of people graduating on Saturday too.
58:12
SPEAKER_00: So um, not only me, but shout out to the whole Islander class of 2024.
58:18
SPEAKER_00: Shockers up, yeah, all day.
58:20
SPEAKER_01: You guys did it.
58:20
SPEAKER_01: You guys did it.
58:21
SPEAKER_01: Y'all made it, man.
58:22
SPEAKER_01: That's an amazing feat.
58:23
SPEAKER_01: That's an amazing feat, right there.
58:24
SPEAKER_01: Straight up.
58:25
SPEAKER_01: And blessings on your road after this, man.
58:27
SPEAKER_01: Finding a job, doing everything, doing whatever you want to do, whatever you're trying to do, man.
58:31
SPEAKER_01: Blessings to you.
58:32
SPEAKER_01: I appreciate it.
58:32
SPEAKER_01: Everybody, yeah.
58:33
SPEAKER_01: Everybody else, uh, stay tuned for the next uh podcast.
58:35
SPEAKER_01: We got El Vago at South Texas Mainnet's gonna be on the yeah, try them out.
58:39
SPEAKER_01: Have you tried them out?
58:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I live like literally around the corner from El Vago, so I'm I'm there for sure a lot.
58:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I seen you do uh you uh you did the chicken.
58:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had a chicken burger.
58:48
SPEAKER_00: That was that chicken burger was fire, and then fries.
58:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh, have you had it?
58:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, them fries, boy, them fries is different.
58:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, for sure.
58:56
SPEAKER_00: The way he battered all the time.
58:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, them fries is different, man.
58:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
58:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, hit them up, hit them up.
59:00
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna be on next.
59:01
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59:11
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59:13
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59:15
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59:16
SPEAKER_01: Have a good one.
59:16
SPEAKER_01: Bye.