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#83 | Pete Treviño, Megan Chapa, and Jenny Lee Hernandez · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_06: What's going on now?
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  SPEAKER_06: Cope Scripture Originals back at it again.
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  SPEAKER_06: Real quick shout out to the producer Meyer back there.
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  SPEAKER_06: His birthday is in a few days.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_06: Happy birthday, little bro.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_06: Happy birthday.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_06: Also got my uh anniversary coming up, baby.
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  SPEAKER_06: I love you.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_06: Happy anniversary is coming up soon.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_06: Uh today we got community service uh talking about um community service music and I guess just different stuff with um Pete, Megan, and Jenny.
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  SPEAKER_06: Jenny Lee, you guys want to introduce yourselves?
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Megan Choppa.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_06: Megan Choppa?
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  SPEAKER_01: Jenny Lee Hernandez.
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  SPEAKER_06: All right.
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  SPEAKER_06: Pete Trevino.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_06: Alright, cool.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_06: So you guys, so Jenny reached out, and you mentioned that you you wanted her to reach out, right?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_06: That's how it's and so it all started like that, and she was like, hey, should get this guy Pete on here.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_06: He's got, you know, he he he pulls up with his trailer and he cooks a bunch of you know stuff for the people.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_06: So what's that about?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Man, like I said, you know, it was uh it was something that I had, you know, my first encounter of ever trying to do something is you know when I lost my dad in 2010.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, uh we obviously we we came together to do a fundraiser for my dad.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: And um it went well, you know, with with being able to do it with my with my mom and my brothers, and you know, and then just realized that, you know, didn't have the support that everybody said that they they had for me at the time, you know, family, friends, and you know, so when that day came, you know what I mean was kind of just me, my mom, and my brothers, and we made it happen.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: And something told me, I was like, man, I said I can't be the only one that gets lied to like this, you know.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I mean, you know, with all the bad that happens to corpus that people like to focus on, I said, let me try something.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was in 2010, and here we are, 2025, and it's been it's been a blow and go ever since.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_06: Man, it's it's it's interesting that you mentioned that about like family members and stuff like that.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_06: I talk about that like on my personal channel, as far as like family members just being the way that they are that they are.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_06: You think that it's only people that are outside your family, but then you learn like, oh shoot, they're inside my family, you know.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it it's it it's I believe in that saying sometimes families that that uh blood thicker than water, like yeah.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_06: It's like you're raised like that, right?
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_06: And you're like, dude, what's going on?
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  SPEAKER_06: You know, I thought it was like this, but it's not, you know.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, I've I've I've I've met so many people over the years that that have to this day from 2010 that still support anything that I get involved in.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then everyone, so my whole goal was like, okay, if we sit there and we call Corpus Christi, you know, the city of Christ, but we need to act like it.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: We need to not just worry about the violence that happens here.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: That seems to be the main focus.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: So my whole thing was being bringing the community together.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how can what can we do?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I didn't even think that the movement would happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: I was just like, I'm gonna try.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I can do is try.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, man, it was it was a blessing in disguise because it just it just happened and it just kept going and going.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, got to the point where some of us uh real close friends started doing stuff for the homeless.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: We did uh one year we even did a um uh was a fundraiser for uh for giving the homeless haircuts, right?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we did um like care packages for the women, you know what I mean, kids.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's homeless kids out here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a lot of people don't, you know, they think it's just adults.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: I know there's there's homeless kids out here too.
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  SPEAKER_00: That so it was just you know, and everything just started floating, and then all of a sudden, year after year, it just gotten bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I started doing it, people was like, you know, like, hey man, you know what I mean?
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: We want to help you, we you know, we want to pay you.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it was never anything about trying to make money off of it or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just wanted to bring the community together, bring people together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if we like I said, if we're gonna call Corpus Christi the the you know, the city of Christ, we need to, we need to act like it, you know what I mean, and and support.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you what, man, I I mean, like I said, I'm from Houston, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was born and raised in Houston.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in the corpus in 1995.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, started my family here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've worked all across the United States in the oil and gas business, and I've never, I probably will never encounter another city when it comes to support, community support, yeah, that that that that come together to make things happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when it does, man, it's just so beautiful, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you see, you know, people from all from everywhere, you know what I mean?
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we've we've we've done some where, you know, the mayor, you know, shout out to Paulette, like she's she's helps out 100%.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've done, you know, for the fire chief of corpus, you know what I mean?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like just and then just meeting people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when they ask me, like, well, Pete, how can we repay you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, well, you repay me by when you see that we're getting ready to do something, you pay it forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's how you keep the positive and you keep going.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when it gets put out there, people are like, oh, you know, Pete and his team are doing something, you know what I mean, or Jenny's doing something, or Megan's doing something.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: They know that it's it's solid, it's legit, there's no foul play of anything going on because we are about the community to make sure that we help out.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_06: Right on, man.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_06: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_06: So, and so you guys, how so y'all know Pete.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_06: How do you how do you how did y'all get introduced to Pete?
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: So I met Pete um through a tragedy of a friend of ours, uh, reached out to him for Arih Reese.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: She unfortunately uh lost her life through um domestic violence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's been 18 months now, and so um Pete was, I don't know who reached out to Pete in order for the fundraiser.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so we just came together.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: I've known the family for 25 years, and um, that's how we met each other.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_06: That's cool.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_06: So and so uh you're right, Ruisa was talking about earlier before Air that it's a domestic violence uh uh situation and that it's not just among adults, it's among teenagers also.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
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  SPEAKER_06: Do you want to touch on that?
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: We do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I had the opportunity to speak with her grandmother today.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and um I don't think enough people realize, you know, what is really going on amongst the teenagers right now.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like it was when we were growing up, just it's just a whole different, you know, ball game out there now.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and what happens, I believe, is that a lot of kids don't speak up, you know, so they're suffering silently as the family did not know, you know, the type of individual this person was that, you know, took her life.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I think that that is so um amongst a lot of teenagers right now that are suffering, you know, um, behind closed doors, you know, maybe just the fear of, you know, not wanting to put it out there.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but right as an example of, you know, she was a very, you know, bright, intelligent young girl.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, to just lose her life so senselessly, um, you know, unfortunately.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but through her life, we we we were able to come together, Pete, Megan, and I, you know, and so to be able to shine that light still, you know, uh through her memory, you know, so she's still, you know, very much alive in everybody's hearts, you know, and even bringing us here together, it's she's the one that brought us together.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_06: So that's cool.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: So so do y'all think that it has an impact what y'all are doing?
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, I guess, as far as bringing this to light?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_06: Do you know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_06: We would hope so.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, cool.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_06: And and uh, and we were talking earlier before, Eric, you have your mu your music kind of touches on that stuff too, right?
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  SPEAKER_06: As far as like domestic violence, violence and stuff like that.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_06: I do.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_06: Uh do you think it's but do y'all think it's prominent like in our culture?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_06: You think it's in every culture?
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_02: I mean I think it's in every culture.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, uh, there's a lot of women that just don't speak up.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_02: I have fam a lot of family members that to this day don't speak up, you know.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_06: We don't say nothing, you know what I mean?
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_06: That boggles my mind.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_06: Like either we say something and nobody listens.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: It's a lot of manipulation.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, it's it a lot of it is manipulated, you know, situations and things like that.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_06: What's going on, Mike?
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_06: Uh and Donald in the YouTube chat.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks a lot, you guys, for joining.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you, everybody on TikTok.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_06: Check it out, check out the live video on YouTube.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, yeah, so so uh let's see.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_06: So I guess we'll go through each one of y'all, Jenny.
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  SPEAKER_06: So what was the turning point for you to engage deeply in community work?
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, I've always done it, um, as long as I can remember.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and but I've always been behind the scenes.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just that type of person I you know that um I give, but you know, never in the forefront of any of anything.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm the one who always helps orchestrate and you know put any any and everything together, you know.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so um I think it I think you're just born with it.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's not anything you could teach somebody.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's you just have that heart.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so I can remember being a little girl and always having that, you know, desire, you know, to help.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so being able to meet like-minded people such as Pete and Megan is just so beautiful because there's no questions asked.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're just gonna put the work in, you know, regardless of what it takes, because we all have full-time jobs, you know, we have families.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so, but I don't think there's anything more rewarding in life than being able to give the, you know, and help people that cannot help themselves at that time, at that very moment, you know, and unfortunately, we meet families in the middle of a crisis.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: And so to be able to provide that support, um, because we're complete strangers, you know, and so it really I think um helps to instill in people that there's still really good people in this world, you know, that we can come together because it's not just you'd be surprised how many people are just behind the scenes that that come through and help, you know.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: We've been very fortunate, like Pete said, you know, he put something together, you know, and people are gonna support, you know, we put it out there, people will support because they know the cause, you know, and and the the meaning that it is behind, you know, because you never know when it's gonna be you or you know, it could be your family that needs help, you know.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: So um to be able to orchestrate such things as you know, Pete does, the magnitude that it is, um, you know, it's just it's just a really beautiful thing.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I I believe that, you know, we're just born with it.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody's born with that desire to help and that heart, you know, to give and just be selfless.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's really what it comes down to.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because there's there's no, you know, exchange of money, you know, it's it's just pure heart.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's really what it is.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_06: Right on, right on.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_06: Uh and so I guess how how does your so you guys are in the oil field, right?
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all were mentioning that earlier.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_06: So how does your work in the oil field intersect with community service?
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um, it's it's it up it's deeply talked about in in in my neck of the woods.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm I'm on the gas side of things, and you know what I mean.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: So we I have a lot of time where I sit, you know, because a lot of my coworkers they ask questions like, hey Pete Man, we're always we're always seeing you on TV, man.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: You're always, you know, cool, you know, you know, and then you know, you know, they've seen the you know the awards that Corpse Christie has given me, you know what I mean?
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um He's a Kara the K R I S angel.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: April last year, man.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: I uh unexpectedly I got presented with the Kara 6 angel uh angel ward.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, which anybody who knows me will tell you like I was one of the ones that didn't say that I was always behind the scenes until a few years back, this old lady that I met that showed up at a benefit, and she's like, How come you don't ever do interviews?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: How come you don't never go on the communities?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Well, that's not what that's not what I do this for.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Well, you know, some of us don't have TikTok and Facebook and uh uh, you know, stuff like that.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Some of us still watch TV.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: When she said that, it I was like, Wow, she has a very valid point.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: So she's like, Some of us like to help that don't have that type of access to social media.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I started, you know, we get more, and then just just before the the the uh in April when I got that award, back in September, I got the Hispanic Heritage Award.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, for you know, and they did that, and of course, you know, everybody knows I was the one that went out there to Eubaldi when everything happened.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's just kind of where things just started taking a bigger toll.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: And like, you know, to the point where you know I used to do it all by myself and start until I started meeting people that had the same type of heart that I did.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, because I said, you know, my work full-time job, but if I say I'm gonna do something, I do it no matter if I have to cancel something.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: If I said I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: And anybody that knows, they know me.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we've been the three of us have done where you know, we've we've had a very successful fundraiser, and the family's like, hey, this is for y'all.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: And like, we don't accept money at all.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: We've done, we've done some pretty big, big, big, big, big fundraisers where big money was was raised, and the family's like, hey, this is for y'all.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, how you pay me is when you see that we're gonna do something else.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you buy a loaf of bread.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's paying it forward.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's you paying homage, like, hey man, you know, these this team of people help me.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I want to help out now.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, like I said, you know, like like right now, though, I told you, you know what I mean?
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm doing one, like Jenny said just a while ago.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: You never know when you when it's you that needs the help.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: And as everybody that that knows, like I'm actually doing one for my brother right now, yeah, who's been battling stage four colon cancer for four and a half years, you know.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: And we got the phone call that, you know, he doesn't have very much time, you know.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, you know, it's time for me to step up and for for my little brother and make this.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: So when I reached out to Jenny, I reached out to Megan, they're like, and the whole community, because everybody that's that's that's showing up is just people that I've met along the way, the journey, you know what I mean?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: And they continue, they've been supporting me for years, you know what I mean?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just it's a beautiful thing.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: So we talk about it a lot at work in the Old and Gas because they're you know that is your second brotherhood and sisterhood because we spend so much time together, right?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: So it's you know, it gets talked about all you know a lot.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a big thing because even my company that I work for, when they see that I'm doing stuff, they that hey Pete, we're we're here, you're doing something like that.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Hey man, here's a monetary donation.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Here's something you know, you know, we want to buy this and this and that.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: So my the company I work for is very heavily involved in you know helping community and doing stuff like that as well.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, right on.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_06: So like there could be people out there that are like, uh, yeah, they're they're doing this, all this stuff, uh, but they're doing it because of this.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_06: They're trying to get something out of it, right?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_06: How do you how do you find yourself like dealing with that type of negativity from the community?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Well, see the good the the the thing about that is that I can say for myself and maybe as well as Jenny Reagan, we haven't seen that type of negativity.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't, you know what I'm saying?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like because they know what type of person she is, they know what type of person she is, they know what type of person I am.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: So it's never like, oh, they want something.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, there's people watching right now that that have supported us, that have tried to give us money.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, this is not what we do it for.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's either like like Jay said, it's either you have a heart for it or you don't.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: And not everybody has the same magnitude of a heart, you know what I'm saying, to help.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because like I said, I I'll drop whatever if I say I'm gonna do it no matter if if I was gonna take my kids to Fiesta, Texas.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: If I committed to something, I can't back out of it.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: And if and if if it's rare that I ever do, that's what the team's for, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can reach out to the team and they're like, hey Pete, we got you.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just help us put a planet all together, put everybody in place.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Pete and his team are the guys that stick outside.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: These are the ladies, and everybody else stay inside putting everything together.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: So at one point it was, you know, I mean, you know, it was it was just me and my wife that was doing it by ourselves.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then when we just started picking people, there, you know, they started having the same heart.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was just like, oh wow, you know, Megan, Megan and her family, her dad, her mom, brothers and sisters, they there, no questions at Jenny.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: She'll call, like, hey people, well, what do you need?
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going out of town, but here, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'll go do this, I'll go do that.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we I haven't really encountered any type of negativity like that.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, they're just doing it for clout, or they're they're doing it because they want something.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I've I I can honestly say I've never encountered anything like that because we're always like, you know, we did one for a good friend of ours that was the fire chief here that you know passed away a couple months ago that was very, very dear to me and Megan.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Right, you know what I mean?
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: It was a big part of of some events that we did for him.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I mean?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's not just the poor people that people say in the hood that you know don't have life insurance.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this was a fire chief that has saved so many lives putting fires out.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like we had when we did the fundraiser for him, we had people coming up, they're like, Man, you know, Mark Solid saved my house 15 years ago.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: You mean you know, we want to donate to him.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: You we want to do this, and so that stuff like that.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: So that negative stuff, I mean, if if if it is out there, it doesn't come direct.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_06: Right, right, right, right.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_06: How's it going, Francesca?
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you for joining the podcast, mama.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_06: That's my daughter.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_06: Hello, uh, yeah.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_06: So it's mentioned, it's interesting you mentioned life insurance.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, do you think that's something that that our community doesn't know a lot about?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_06: And maybe it's like we should know, so bro, but to be prepared, you know what I'm saying?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: Just had this conversation last night because a good friend of mine uh works for New York Life.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: Been with him a long time.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: I got my insurance policies through him.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Pete, I'd like to go to one of your fundraising and benefits and talk to families.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I know not everybody's money's different.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, maybe you can't get a hundred thousand dollar insurance policy, but there's something that you can put in place for your family.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought it was a great idea.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: I was a man, I said, because it's not always just about that that insurance guy trying to make money off that we need that.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: We're not taught right, you know, as Hispanics, Mexicans, to understand that.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't understand what life insurance was.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm 46 years old.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: It was was up to like seven years ago when I really like, oh wow, we need that.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, how do I how do I prepare my family?
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: How do I prepare my kids?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, for generational wealth and you know, stuff like that, you know.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: So um I speak about it a lot because of you know, you know, my friend that that that that I have done business with on you know, life insurance and stuff, and I try to educate people like get it.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, some of the policies are ten dollars a month.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even if it's you know, just whatever you can do, because you can't just think about yourself.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: And that's one thing that I finally learned is understanding like now that I sat down with him and you know, he he put stuff in perspective and not just being a salesman trying to sell me something, like he broke down on a personal level of things that made sense to me.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, credit and life insurance is one thing that doesn't come in the Hispanic culture.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, our parents, my my parents didn't know what that was.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they didn't know what credit was.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: So when I turned 18, I got my first target card for 500 bucks.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh my credit cards.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, not realizing that that was gonna haunt me in the years to come.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right, yeah, exactly.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: So now that I'm older, I'm like, like I I cherish credit.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like I take care of it like it's you know, gold, you know, platinum, like I take very good care of it.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, and and I think I mean we we need to shed light on that.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: We need to, yeah.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you have it, you need to educate it onto your families and friends and people that you know, I mean, because if you can go buy a 12 pack of beer that costs 20 bucks, that's when a bus can get you life insurance.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and then there's there's like there's two, there's different camps too.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_06: Like, do you do whole life?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_06: You do short time.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_06: So there's so much of different ones.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, I'm very educated in through New York life.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: I have a great agent, but you know, the moment my kids are born, um, as soon as that social security number comes in, they're they're insured because people don't realize that that is a easy way to set your kids up for the future.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so if you're investing, because it's an investment that we're putting into our children, you know, at birth and putting in like even$50 a month, you know, by the time they're 18 and you have a universal policy, you know, they're able to get$50,000,$80,000, you know, easy, you know, depending it on the market.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: But I think it's just a lack of education, you know, not only um in the Hispanic culture, but all the way around.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, people are not educated enough to know you know how cost efficient life insurance is.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then it really saves the burden on the families because it is a huge burden when you know somebody passes and there is no life insurance.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so yeah, I think it really needs to be shed the light on that, you know.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And that was the biggest, so that was the other turning point of why I wanted to do this whole community thing years ago, is because not everybody can afford life insurance and it's not no no bad on them, you know what I mean?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, uh people always like, oh well, you know, they could have made better decisions.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it's you're right.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's about the same time, you know what I mean.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: You we're not here to pass judgment on how somebody's life is.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if we're gonna sit there, we're gonna say that we're gonna do community work, we're gonna have we're gonna be there for the, you know, not just the culture, just people.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because we've done benefits for all cultures, all cultures across the board.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so uh that was the other down, the upside of was like, okay, not everybody can afford life insurance.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they're trying, they they, you know, they got jobs, they just cannot meet the means of paying 50 bucks a month or 20 bucks a month because that 20 bucks to them is like giving away a million dollars.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: So that's just got me into just like, well, hey, you know what I mean?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: When the families, you know, they lose a loved one, kids, and I hate to say this, and they're they they both could contest to this.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I buried more kids than I ever want to think about, ever want to think about.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, from not just horrible dads, horrible mothers, you know what I'm saying, you know, grandmothers, like you know, from all across the the walks of it, you know what I mean.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: So it's been it's it it it's it's an emotional thing that you know, because we get attached, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: We get attached to these families because you know, they they look at us like you know, like you guys saved my family, you saved us, you know.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, we just want to be there, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, in this time you shouldn't have to think about no parent wants to bury a child.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: So when you know, when you got somebody that's willing to do the right thing, you know what I mean, and help, that's a less burden.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so you're not sitting there, you know, Grieving and then trying to plan what kind of casket do I need.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do we have enough money?
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Do we have this?
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, so it's it's Yeah.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_06: It's like when you have when you have like a pot like uh something in place to be able to pay for the death of a loved one, the the family can have can grieve instead of worried about like, oh, we gotta figure out how to pay for this.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_06: And then not and then like not even be in debt for the casket or the grave later on, you know what I mean?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_06: That's so I think that having uh having something in place for when that time comes is important for us, you know.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_06: And that's that's one thing that I push.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_06: I and I and I'm I'm a I'm a term life guy, I'm not a whole life guy.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_06: Um, because I think that whole life is is it's worse than term.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_06: It's it's not as good because they take more of your money, you know what I mean?
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_06: And I don't think it's good.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_06: I like term.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_06: That's just my my thing.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_06: But yeah, definitely.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_06: Even like even like that.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, I I mean, I I don't know.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_06: Um term term life is better because I think that any anything that's like other than term, uh the first money that you put up front, it goes to the agent, it goes to them, and then when you die, you say you do pass away or whatever, and then it that all that money that supposedly you're putting in a savings account, you it's gone.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_06: When that whole time you could have put that extra money to like a four or one uh Roth IRA.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_06: And then that case, whenever you do pass away, that money goes to your kids, it doesn't go nowhere, you know.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_06: So if you have term, term is just it's just basically it it re it's gonna replace your income when you're gone.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_06: So you if you have 10 times of what you make, say$500,000 or whatever, you pass away, that money is supposed to replace your income for your when you're gone, you know.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_06: Your your your your kids and your wife, you're getting that whatever you made a year, you know, your your family gets that while you're while you're gone.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_06: That's basically what it's for.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_06: And I wouldn't use it as an investment vehicle because that's what you have like a Roth IRA for, and you get to choose your investments in that.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_06: Um, and I think that our culture needs that because, like, like you're saying, like these benefits that you're putting on, you meet all kinds of people that don't know what's going on.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_06: And it's like, dude, man, I've and you want to do something about it, right?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_06: You're like, man, how do I get people to know this?
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_06: Because when the time like this happens, families pass away, or a little girl passes away, uh, they're they're covered, you know what I mean?
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_06: That the family can grieve, they can pay for court fees or whatever they have to pay for from that that that monies.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_06: That's that's what it's there for, I think.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_06: And like we just we just had a kid too, and our kid is covered also with on like who I don't think you were mentioning it, but get one for them, you know.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_06: They pass away, you know.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_06: At least they're they're covered if something passes away.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_06: It's just it's just like basically you're planning ahead.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_06: We're planning ahead, and then I another main thing too is like budgeting, like right.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_06: Nobody budgets, like it's an ugly word.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_06: It's like a bad word.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_06: But once you do that, once you do the budget, you're like, okay, now I see where my money is going.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_06: I see how much money I do have to be able to put to retirement, kids college, uh, you know, for short short-term savings or whatever you want to do with the money.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_06: So I just think being mindful of finances uh in our culture is important because we make a lot of money in in a year.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, we're in the oil field, you know what I mean?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_06: We we make enough money to be able to pay for our lifestyle now and to be able to pay for our kids' lifestyle later.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_06: And we're just and and then and two, we get scared because it's like we're we're we think that money is bad or we think that it's evil.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, you you know what I mean?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_06: Because we grew up in that culture, like, oh, he's got a lot of money, he he can pay for it, you know what I mean?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_06: Just that mentality that people have that we have, you know what I mean?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_06: And I'm guilty of it too.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_06: It's just like we have to be responsible with the things that we have, responsible with the things that we're given.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so uh I want sorry, thanks for letting me talk about that.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, I'm real passionate about that stuff.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_06: So um, moving on to Big Bertha, who's your barbecue pit.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_06: And you got this during the Yvaldi crisis?
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so um I happen to be working, I was in Salmon, Idaho, working over there in uh in a coal mine, and uh didn't have very much service out there, so I hadn't really been on social media.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm come home after four months, and you know, people are calling me, they're like, hey, I know you're gonna go.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, like, what are y'all talking about?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, ain't heard?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, heard what?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what I haven't been on my my social media account or Facebook or nothing.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: Then I get on Facebook and then call me back.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I get on, and of course I I see the the news feed, the flood.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, and I'm just like, I was like, what in the world?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I had a weekend planned for my daughter because I said I hadn't seen her in four months.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: So we were gonna go to San Antonio, Fiesta, Texas, you know what I mean?
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the zoo, it was a weekend dedicated to her.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, everybody's blowing me up, and I was just like, you know, we'll see, you know what I'm saying?
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let me mean well when I was the next day, uh Mrs.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper, which is Mr.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper's uh wife, reached out to me about a barbecue pit that she had.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I had seen it on Market Square, but I was just like, it's you know, it's a little out of my budget, you know what I mean?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, she can't, she reached out, and I was like, you know what?
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: She's reaching out, let me at least go see it.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I went to go see it, and of course, man, it's every any any real barbecue guy you see pit like that.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh well.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: So when I see her, I was like, oh my god, like how massive she is.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because I saw the pictures that she had on Marcus Care, I was like, damn, she's big.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then like I said, she's Big Bertha's is there, you have to see her to really acknowledge her mass, right?
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: She's 27 feet long, she's 56-inch pipe, she's got eight doors and eight.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's funny how you refer to it as like the lady.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's totally right.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, like I said, you know, shout out to my brother Terry Amy because he's the one that gave her the name.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: So he's like, Man, that's Big Bertha.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_03: Just run with it.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we did, and you know, um, you know, I started started making phone calls.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: I made a post.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the post went viral.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as I put it out there that, hey, I'm gonna go, yeah, you know, I I had just backed up birth into the into my house.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_06: Wow.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then I put it out there, post went viral.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: I started getting calls from uh the the um the the the secretaries from Thomas J.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Henry, wow, doctors, people.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, everywhere they're like, hey, Pete, like you got an open account at Sam's, go get whatever you need.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: You got an open account at at uh uh H E B, go get whatever you need.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, and so we ended up leaving the next well, let me back up a little bit.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: So when I put it all together, I was like, hey, I got a team, I'll send the team out there, they'll go do it.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then my my daughter, which was she was like seven at the time, she's like, nah, dad, it's good, we gotta go help the kids.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: So she chose not for me to take her to go, which was a weekend for her, and was like, nah, that we gotta go help the kids.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: So that's how I know what I'm doing out here is impacting her because she's I mean, they both know her.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: She's she she she she's over there right now helping.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_02: She's packing up the onions and everything right now.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: So we did that, and next thing you know, dude, like we I went with so many 16-foot trailers full of food.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was only supposed to go for one day.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_03: No wow.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: We ended up being there three days and cooked over 6,000 lake quarters.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, and it was just like I said, it was a nightmare, man.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, I like I said, you know, I got to meet some of the families.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I met the guy that killed the kid.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that was very, you know, very, very, very touching for me because that man is gonna be haunted for the rest of his life because he was an ex um Border Patrol agent.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: He was getting a haircut when he found out.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he was the one that ran ran past all the police, went over here and he did what he did.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: So my thing was I was just like, man, this you know, you know, talking with him, he was just like, he's a you know, I've seen a lot of stuff as a border patrol agent, you know, seen dead bodies, seen kids, you know.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: He said, But my training never prepared me for what I saw in that classroom.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying, and he he just broke down, you know.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, I'm I mean, I'm 46 years old now, now I can cry.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: Before you could have never caught me crying, you know what I mean?
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: But so you know, we just said we'll uh we embraced and you know, we talked, and I met some of the families, and so we like I said we went out there, man.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: I was you know, it was only supposed to be one day, you know what I mean?
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, me, um uh my brother Terry Amy, shout out to Terry Amy, and uh um and then my big brother Earl Dotson.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: Earl Dotson played for the Green Bay Packers for 10 years, right?
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: So he he was he was he's a big inspiration on how that helps me behind the scenes of stuff, you know.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but always a supporter.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um he knows I'm a big cowboy fan, so we can't get into it a lot, but you know, he you know, no questions asked.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we ended up, you know, help uh helping out a lot of the family there.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh one one family in particular, I ended up just kind of adopting like a big brother, you know, because one of the kids I found out ended up being like a hero and broke through the window and got his classmates out of the room before his room got shot up.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: So to this day, I'm I'm very close to them.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm forever entitled to Tuyivale.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um we ended up uh when they had their their march three months later, I went over there and we cooked 3,500 brisket and sausage tacos.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um then I went for the one-year anniversary, and then I went for the second year anniversary.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't get to do this one, but I sent some guys out there to go.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: So every year, like I'm I'm dedicated to making sure that I go and I support um whatever whatever they got going in memory of the kids and the teachers that so and then since then like Bertha has just been on a mission.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like I mean, I mean, every Saturday and Sunday of all last year, well the past three years has been Bertha doing something, you know.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: So she's kind of made a name for herself.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: People stop when they see her.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Normally you'll catch her on Sutherlands.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's usually what we do a lot of the Sutherlands.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: So when they see her, they're like, oh, Pete's over there.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they pull up and they don't even ask no questions.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: They just they pull up and support.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: So she, you know what I mean?
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, shout out to Big Bertha.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: She's doing what she does.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she's gonna continue, you know.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've I've been offered money for people to buy her.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: I just I don't have the heart to do it because my whole goal was to have something that I can just always use for the community at all times.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: So um she's she's doing what she did.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: She don't she isn't let nobody down, man.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: She's she's um she's a good girl.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: So you had like a GoFundMe?
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Did it get fixed?
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we're we're still working.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're still working on on getting her fixed.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I think maybe I kind of went a little too early because it was you know holidays and people, you know what I mean?
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: So um we're still we're still working on getting her fixed.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um she'll she'll be ready to go here in the next couple months where she's gonna be, you know what I mean, like ready to to rock and roll and continue however many more years that she needs to be yeah uh uh going.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: But like I said, man, if y'all see her, man, y'all stop.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: People when you know, I've taken her out of I've taken her out of town and done, you know, I've done benefits out of town, you know.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, so um, you know, people they'll they'll stop.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, you might take a picture.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: So people know her more than they know me.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because they see, because I said you see a big old bar, you don't just see something, you don't see something like Bertha just rowing around on a trailer.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: Normally you there's big pits here that people have, they're but they're stationary, right?
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: And saying, you know, Bertha's on a you know, two-wheel axe.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then she got a big old bell.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: So when the guy that put the Mr.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper, when he put the bell, he put the bell for the kids.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: So when the food was ready, he let the kids ring the bell.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, cool.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: So when I got it, I was ready to take the bell off because it's annoying.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, I knew I knew what that bell meant to him to put for the kids.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: So and my daughter said if I did that, she would disown me.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I was I don't know.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: But but yeah, I mean, you know, I you know, I you know, I could go on with a list of people that inspired me to do this.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they know who they are, I don't have to mention them, but they've you know, or just over years have just you know put faith in me that just built my confidence of just never wanting to tell somebody no, like especially when it came to kids.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like I don't have a heart to tell a kid no.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't have it.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and so that's why when it's even when I, you know, I'm out of state working, you know, I mean, they call it, hey, well, I don't know how to do this.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say, oh, okay.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: Then I'll I'll start a group chat, me, Megan, and Jenny, like, hey girls, uh, we gotta get you know, time to work, you know what I mean?
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and you know, and they're there, you know what I'm saying?
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, they're there no matter what.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Even if they can't be there present, they're helping me get donations, they're helping me, you know what I'm saying, doing stuff.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's just a circle, man.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just we just always want to keep the positive just there, you know what I mean?
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I've had people that I, you know, 10 years ago that you know, when we was going to clubs, you know, we would have never interacted.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: And now they're some of my biggest supporters.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like, so it's just like, you know, we're grown now.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: You mean some of us are pushing 50, we're almost 50.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't, you know what I mean?
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's do something so the kids see the role.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: And so they'd be like, well, so we've we've had kids, you know, I mean, her kids are very involved as well.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: They come, so I've had, you know, Carol kids from Carol High School, King, they'll they'll call because we do uh um for Carol High School, we we we help with their booster for their turkey leg sale.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Big Bertha goes out there and cooks for them.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so and then kids want to get involved and want to help, and that's our movement, right?
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we want these kids to see, like no going out there and breaking into her house or breaking into her car, and you know, stuff like that.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, let's show them something positive.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: They're only gonna do what's in front of them.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: And you you you give any kid, if you don't have them, if you don't give them direction, they're gonna run wild.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I mean?
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm I'm a father of five girls.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to be extra tough, you know what I'm saying?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, my oldest is 28, so you know what I mean.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: I had to, I almost had to treat them like young boys, you know, to let them understand, like, you know, you know, you're not gonna be like these girls that you see out here doing, you know, stuff like, you know, so now my girls are heavily involved in yeah, you know what I mean, what we do in the community and helping, you know, stuff like that.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, as I said, Megan's kids out of uh hers, Jenny's, you know, baby will be there soon.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, no, my girl is, you know, and that's the thing is like what Pete's saying, um, you know, kids are a product of their environment.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so unfortunately, some kids don't come from good environments, but it for the ones that do, it's important that we instill that in our children to know that it's better to give than to receive, you know.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, my, you know, on a personal level, you know, just my family, my son, you know, um, we do a lot of for the homeless community, you know, and so uh every holiday we're out there, you know, Christmas, we're out there, you know, finding, you know, just it's just the community that is forgotten a lot, you know, and but I always I have the heart for them because it's somebody's sister, mother, brother, you know, so that's out there just lost, you know, and so um the kids see that, you know, and they they end up developing that same, those core values of the importance in life.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it's really not to attain things, but it's to give, you know, to just to give and help others, you know, especially people who cannot help themselves or even give back, you know.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so our kids do emulate us, they really do.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's good.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_06: That's good stuff there.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_06: Uh certified elite.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you for joining the YouTube chat.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, yeah, man.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_06: Um, there's a lot of stuff, good stuff y'all talked on.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, like you be you like your girl, your daughter being involved and giving and uh helping support the community.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_06: That's that's that's good for them, I think, to to build that muscle, you know what I mean?
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, she she it's just like today's.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like dad, can I sell popcorn and pickles every day?
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if she sells 20 bucks worth that that's just something that she feels, I did that for my uncle.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you know, and then now she's just like, Well, dad, since you bought me my popcorn, I could do this for other when you do benefits.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: I can have my little booth on.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: So now she's just she's getting a taste of that, and it's just being instilled in her, and you know, she's learning, you know, and now she's like, Dad, uh, we need we were just talking before we came over here.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Dad, like, uh, when are we gonna do something for the homeless?
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I know Jenny always does stuff, you know what I'm saying?
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: Megan has done stuff, and I got other friends that have done stuff when you know that.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay, well, maybe the five or six of us need to get together and come up with a game plan that that that that way we could we could do something.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's because it is a lost community that people forget about because they're like, oh, well, they're homeless because they chose to be.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's so.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe so.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: I said, but they're still human beings.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that my mom always said is that, you know, and I feel like I got a lot of my wanting help from my mom.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: My mom was a special needs teacher.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: So you learned it from your parents, like your soul.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: So my mom, but my mom was always my mom didn't care what you were.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my mom lived on Mary Street, bro.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's you know, that's a high prostitute area.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: My mom never judged them.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: My mom would barbecue outside and make sure they had a plate.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: If they needed women products, my mom gave it to them.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: So they took care of my mom through there, through, through, through marriage for a long time.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: So they never judged her.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: My mom was like, you don't judge them.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's somebody's daughter.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: You don't know what they're going through.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: It could be you one time.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we always just grew up with my mom said that you don't judge somebody's downfall.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you don't know what they what they did to get there.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they're trying to get out of it, maybe they're not, but they're not there to judge you, just make sure.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: And my mom just always felt like you should never turn anybody away from a meal.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: If you have it and you have the means to help somebody eat, yeah, then I mean, don't look at them and just watch and be like, oh yeah, you know, I'm eating a double meat.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, oh, he should have listened in school.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's that's that's not the attitude down, you know what I mean?
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because you don't know what it took for him to get to that point.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, maybe he lost his whole family, and then you know what I mean, the mental state of just, you know, I mean, I don't have nowhere to go.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes talking with them, like you you learn a lot from them.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I've talked to some of them, you know, and I've tried to, you know, I've I've got friends that own construction companies that, hey man, you know what I mean?
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: You guys don't need a couple, I mean, there's a couple guys right here, man.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean that you know, they want to work, they're not just not asking.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when they would be right there at the at the um, where's the lobes and fishes?
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: They had like the ministry, the metro ministries, and they would, you know, you could pick some up.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: Those are like the hardest workers I think I've ever hired to do any kind of work.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's really amazing that you know, a lot of people, there's just the stigma, you know, around that, but how much they actually take care of each other because, you know, or like they know, like they'd see me pulling up every Sunday.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: So it's funny because I started feeding the homeless this way, you know.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: I I would buy meal preps, like expensive meal preps, and then I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna follow this diet.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so the food would be there right in my fridge.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, why can't let this food go to waste?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I'd warm it up and go feed.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then I had the opportunity to meet the owner of La Playa on Saratoga, and he would give me all the leftovers at the end of the night.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so I would just go out there personally, you know, and and and go and feed, you know.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so just kind of go from there.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_01: But they take care of each other, you know.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, hey, my friend is down there, you know, coming.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: Can you please give me a plate for them?
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_01: Or, you know, and so um it it's it's it's a good thing, honestly.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_02: That's what we do actually after every benefit that we have.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_02: Any leftovers that we have, leftover burgers, brisket, whatever we have, we we start making plates.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_00: If nobody takes anything, like we'll always be like, hey Jenny, just want to take some.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_02: We need some for the family, whatever.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: Let's just make sandwiches for taking.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: We make sandwiches, and that's the first thing we do.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_02: We load them all up into the trucks and we go all downtown, around town, especially airs.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_02: That there's a lot of airs going down that lane.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: And it's it's like she said, they're they're already waiting and they're like, Well, my friend's right there.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_02: Can can I'm gonna can you give them one too?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_02: We're like, Yeah, yeah, tell them to come by, you know?
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's I really I I really feel for the homeless people, you know what I mean?
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and we do eventually need to plan something all together and and do something big for them as well, you know.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: We do a lot for well, it's just like you know what I mean like I said, like I I've I've I've been in a lot of states, cities all across the world.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: I've never seen anything how people come together like corpus, man.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's you know what I mean?
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's it's it's amazing just to see that people don't even know each other.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and if you did, you know, I mean maybe you had beef with that person ten years ago, but just the fact that we can all come together right here, we can cook, we're we're sitting there next to each other making sandwiches, planning all the stuff like that, and that and then at the end of everything, like April, I appreciate that, man.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the embracing, you know what I mean?
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just like it's crazy.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's really you have to be there when that community is powerful.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: You you have to be there seeing it so that you can understand that like wow, okay, I see, I see the the the the unity, the the unity of of uh what community is supposed to stand for.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's supposed to stand, you know, we all come together and you know make something beautiful uh without listening to the news media and seeing all the hate, you know, the you know, the people getting killed and you know, senseless acts of violence.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, you know, I she she brought up the these young kids, you know what I mean?
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: They're you know they're going through domestic violence and you know being overlooked, you know what I mean?
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, for sure, definitely.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, uh man, that's a lot of stuff.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_06: Whenever I like uh it makes me think about like uh doing something for somebody else.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_06: I always like look at it from a lens of like, how can I help that person to where they can't help me in that way?
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: You want to know there's one celebrity, bro.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: And when I say his name, you're gonna be like, oh, I see him.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: There's one there's one celebrity that I learned something from like 12 years ago.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: And when he said that, it just made the perfect sense of why I started, you know, Shaquille O'Neal.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_00: When he said that, he says, every day he wakes up, he blesses somebody.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: He'll go to Walmart if he sees kids like that, he buys them whatever they want.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: And not because he's trying to like anybody that's followed him knows that that's just his character.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like He genuinely loves loves to help kids.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: So when he said that like that, when when when I heard him say that 12 years ago, you know, 14, I was like, wow.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even if it's just one person, you know, you just bought somebody a meal.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: Not because you want to be there on the ground, like, oh, look what I did for this person.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: No, just just genuinely doing it.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's that 10 10 times fold.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: Where, you know, you know, you you get your blessings from it, you know what I mean, without with with without thinking that, oh, you know, I'm gonna get something in return.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's right.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: We've all been, I mean, you know, where we've had families be like, hey, you know, you know, here's three thousand dollars.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_00: Man, we raise a lot.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't need your money.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: And this isn't, you know, just stay tuned for different feelings when you do it, you know.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_02: And and um like every time I've done these, I could, I could be having the worst week ever, you know, and and not feeling well.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_02: I have my own health issues, you know.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_02: And one thing I hear all the time from my family and my friends are like, girl, I don't know how you do it.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_02: How do you have the energy?
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have the energy, by the way.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_02: So it's just one of those things that it's something that, you know, it's like all my pain, all the work, they go away because I'm helping this family at this time.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like I put all my stuff aside because in this moment, that's what's making me feel full.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_02: And and it's something that I I'll continue to do over and over and over again.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_02: It makes me, it fulfills me, you know.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_06: Do you ever get to the point where you're where it's like you okay, yeah, that's good.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_06: You do that.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_06: Do you ever get to the point where it's like, okay, I need to chill for a minute because it, you know, no, no, but I I mean we get asked a lot.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we we get asked that a lot, but you know what?
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_06: Because you can get to the point where it's like, wait, I'm I'm not even focused.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_06: I haven't even focused on myself, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_06: Like to the point where like, oh should be a good thing.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_06: And and that's what I'm saying.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_02: Literally, because they don't they know what I go through on a daily or anything, right?
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_02: And so they freak out my friends, especially my neighbors, like, huh?
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_02: I see you on the go.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't know how you do it.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even know how I do it, you know.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, I tell them it's because I'm doing for somebody else.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_02: And and I feel like when I'm doing for others, it's like all my it's like I can wait.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, but I'm here, I'm present for them, you know, and I like I said, I'll do it over and over again uh until I can't walk anymore, you know what I mean?
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: And there's a lot of times I'm in pain out there, but I'm still doing it.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, no, I'm gonna be like a lot to it one day.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, some of my family are like, you'll stop eventually.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you what I tell people when they tell me, like, bro, are you ever gonna rest?
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I rest when the good Lord takes me.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's just something so empowering, honestly.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_01: I I've I've had, you know, the opportunity to do a lot of great things in life, yes, you know, and and to experience a lot of things, thank God.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_01: But nothing comes close to that feeling of being able to just be present for people, you know, and just really loving on people right where they're at, you know, because again, we we encounter people usually at their lowest, you know, and so to be able just to be that person for them, you know, um, it's just such a beautiful thing.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even describe that over.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm always so emotional, you know, when when it comes to that, like a big cry baby, you know, like literally because even during oh yeah, you know, it's just something that it's just in you.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's like a life, it's it's a lifestyle.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_06: It is I mean, you develop a lifestyle and it's like you want to keep doing it for somebody.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_06: It's part of your life, it's part of who you are.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I always tell people that this is one of the things that I said when uh when the head gave me the uh Hispanic Heritage Award.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_00: So when they interview me, they're you know, the guy tells me he's like, What what what keeps you saying yes?
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_00: So there's only one thing that keeps me saying yes is man upstairs.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_00: I said, so when when when I encounter a family, it's almost like a text message.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like I feel like he said, okay, Pete, I done showed you what's out there.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_00: And one thing you don't do is deny the man upstairs, right?
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can give you can be denied your access to the pearly gate.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I always look at it like okay, I'm this person crossed my path, he got sent here for a reason.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_00: So who am I to tell him that I can't do it?
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_00: So it took my family, even even my daughters, because they were like, Dad, you never spend time with us, and you gotta understand, you gotta understand what I'm trying to stand for.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_00: And saying once you do that, then you'd be like, Okay, now I understand why dad's doing this.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: And now they do, like they completely understand.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_00: So now now their involvement is is coming in outside.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, well, you know, if dad stands up for it, like we're gonna stand up for it too.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what I say.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's just in you know, empowering your children to do the right thing and show them, like, you know, you don't just have to be because how how much time do we really spend when we're just at the house and we're just like we're not doing nothing.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: Man, look at that.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_00: You can go help somebody.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_00: You go help somebody, you know, and that's why I said Shaquille O'Neill.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: When he said that, it just that can hit me hard.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm sorry, because he's like, he goes, every day I wake up, I have to bless somebody.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be, you know, giving them a hundred thousand dollars, but you know, that kid right there, you see that kid, he's looking at a bike.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: He probably never had a bike in his life.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_00: Giving that kid that bike, you know, will will spark something.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Tupac said a person, don't worry.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_00: I may not be the the the the brain that that changes the world, but I I might be able to spark somebody that that could change the world.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that that's though those are empowering words.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_06: And I don't think you have to have money to do that either.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_06: No, like that's what I'm saying.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_06: Like, how can like you look at it like okay, how can I bless this person to where they can't give it back to me?
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_06: Like they can't like say it's an old person trying to lift up something heavy.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_06: I'm a young person, I can do it for them.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_06: They may be able to, you know what I mean, but you know what I'm saying?
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_06: So it doesn't have you don't have to do it with you don't have to have money to be able to be able to do that.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's just your time, honestly.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_01: Even if you had, you know, time and and it's the power of social media now, you know.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: Even if you can't give, you know, and any because there's a lot of people, you know, going through it, right?
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_01: Just come up with um, just share.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_01: Even if you share, you know, the post, it really goes a long way.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_01: But social media, you know, is the platforms, if we use them correctly, it's a it's a great thing.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's free of it.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it is, it really is, you know, and so people that it can destroy you, yeah.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it really can.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_06: That's bro, that's a thing.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_06: Something that's good, like it can become bad.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_00: So bad, yeah.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_06: So bad.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like a uh buddy of mine, you know, you know, and one one thing that I've always felt that Corpus lacks is small businesses uniting because they're always hate on each other.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh well, he he started this, he knew how I started that doing that five years ago.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: I saw this meme on Facebook one time, right?
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: Is that when you go down a bread aisle, how many bread companies do you see?
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: See a lot.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: They see some of them from 25 cents a loaf, three dollars a loaf, six dollars a loaf, and they're all making money.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_00: So why would you take the time of day to sit there and hate on somebody that can't?
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_00: I said you didn't invent anything.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think anybody said that, oh, I invented that.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: No, you didn't.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: You took an idea from somebody else and you tweaked it.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_06: Do you think that do you think it's because we have like a sort of a small city or a small community that absolutely so everybody's fighting for fighting for the money basically that they can make.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like I always told some of my friends, I was like, Do you serve all 300,000 people that live in corporates?
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_00: So why are you gonna hate on the person that's trying to do the same thing you're doing?
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you're that offended, then step your game up.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_00: Step your game up and be like, okay, how can I be better?
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because at the end of the day, business is a competition.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: I have to be better than anybody else so that my business succeeds.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_00: So, and that goes for the food industry, oil and gas industry, right?
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, podcasting, like everything.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what's gonna make what sets you apart?
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what's gonna set you different that's gonna be like, man, I I like these other podcasts, but I want to go over there.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: This dude, the way he touches on subjects, nobody brings the type of energy he does.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's across the board, you know what I'm saying?
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: From corporate level to the smallest people, right?
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying, like, you know, what sets you apart that people are gonna want to pay attention, right?
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like, you know, with with with with corporates, it's just like, you know, everybody's wanting to do the same thing and do it alike instead of trying to be different and you know, and not worry about how he's you know, service, you know, servicing, you know, 10,000 people.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, figure out how you can get 20,000 people.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_00: So take that energy over there and not worry about him, let him or her do her thing and you elevate, you know, elevate yourself, you know, right?
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's a competition.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, so basically so you're saying like basically just let them do them.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_06: You go do you basically.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_06: There's a lot of good people here, man.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, well, not only that, well, it I think, see, I have a different stance on that because you know, I mean, we've been in business 26 years, right?
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_01: So um, and so the other companies that do what I do, transportation, right?
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, it's so it becomes to me, there's no competition because the only thing I'm trying to do do is improve my own process, right?
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_01: My own organization and improving that way.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, I like to lock arms with like-minded companies, with companies that do what I do, um, especially, you know, so I'm in the transportation business, you know, and so the people who haul for the same um company I'll I haul for, I personally make it a point to befriend them because we're in the same industry.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're all trying to just make a living.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_01: And so we lock arms.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_01: That means that we could share off of each other what's working for you, what's not working for you.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, what about new policies and procedures?
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, with everything changing, you know, um, with DOT all the time, you know, it's important that we stay abreast of all the new laws.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know what?
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_01: You would have to really sit there all day.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_01: But if you have, you know, your resources with the other companies, you know, then then you can, you know, just unite.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: But a lot of people have that mentality of it's a competition thing.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_01: There's enough for everybody to go around from.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_01: There literally is but you have to be on that level.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_01: So when you realize where somebody's coming from, if they, you know, you you could take it like, oh, whether hating or, you know, but really it's because sometimes people come from nothing and build, you know, and they put everything into it.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so they may see it as a competition only because, you know, they've they've pulled themselves out of a grave, you know.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_01: But I think if we are just more educated and and mature, for lack of a better word, you know, to say, like, no, you're not my competition.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_01: We're in the same industry, but let's help.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_01: Let's help one another, you know.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_01: And not everybody has that attitude, but I do, yeah, you know, because that's the only way you succeed and grow.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_00: I always said the and evolve.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: The the toughest business to deal with people who hate is food business.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's very hard because yeah.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_03: I I've heard some stories.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_00: Bro, like you know, and and I don't never comment on other people's stuff that they do, whether they have issues with somebody when they ask me.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even go.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you can go on my social media and I've never like bashed a place because of bad business, right?
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I always say it like this I'll go eat anywhere and I don't mind paying whatever it costs.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_00: First time I go eat, maybe you just had a bad day.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give it a second try.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_00: There's no third chance with me because I'm like, okay, so it's already twice.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just not gonna keep donating to you.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm not gonna go on social media and be like, oh, don't ever go eat at this try.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because at the end of the day, they're a small business that's trying to make a living for themselves.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, but if you came and asked me, AP, what do you think about so-and-so?
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'll never eat there.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_00: And if you ask me, I'm gonna tell you why my experience.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, now you probably could have gone and be like, Man, it was the best I ever had.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, your palates aren't my my palates.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I went three times twice.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_00: I won't go donate a third time.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_00: I just not gonna go and bash them, you know, at their lowest because maybe they went through something and it's just it because food you have to be consistent for seven days.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_00: You can't you can't be different on Sunday, and you were, you know what I'm saying?
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_00: You decided to be one way Monday through Saturday, and you're like, Oh, let me change something up on Sunday.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_00: People that know food and be like, you did something different and it's not good.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, guess what happened?
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like a corporate.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how many times have we all complained about McDonald's?
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_00: Go and leave something like, oh, man, please chatter.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, guess what?
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_00: Two days later, you're back at McDonald's.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_00: But that's a corporate level, they can take those type of hits, right?
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_00: A small business cane.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: So when you go and you you you you you insult the place for them trying to make something that that that tarnishes them because I said social media would destroy them.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, they you can go destroy McDonald's, they're still gonna make a billion dollars, and you're still gonna go back in three or four days and go get you some chicken nuggets.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_00: But if you go and you bash a local sandwich store, you know, barbecue store, whatever like that, that that that's devastating.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_00: Because it is a small, you know what I mean?
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_00: You don't know what they're what, you know what I mean.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they could have been in business for 25 years, but barely making it, you know what I mean?
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, it's still that's still their business.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I always, you know, I mean, you know, people call me all the time, like, hey Pete, you know what I mean, you know, you're you're real big up into barbecue work man.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: What's your tip on this?
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Look, I'll I can only tell you what works for me.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna ever tell you that, oh, I invented this.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, I did what I took a formula from somebody else and twisted my own and created something that I felt that works for Pete.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's how Pete cooks.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so you you're like the the they're like a brand basically, right?
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was like for food or whatever.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_00: But I always tell people they're like, Well, I created, I said, so did you make the salt?
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_00: Did you make the pepper?
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: Did you grow your own foods?
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_00: Did you make your own bread?
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_00: Did you kill your own cow?
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_00: Did you do all this stuff?
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_00: Then no, then it's it's not yours.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's not yours.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_00: You took a brand from somebody else and you twisted yours and you created something that works for you, which is there's nothing wrong with that.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody in this world takes from somebody, you know what I'm saying?
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, because people can sit there like, oh, well, you don't go back to the first person who ever created a podcast.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so now you're gonna bash everybody that started the podcast.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_03: Right, exactly.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_00: No, because you know what I'm saying, you know, everybody's different.
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's like negative, that's negative energy, man.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_06: It's just and it's just uh uh D Joe Djoli uh Ponsmons.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks for joining the chat and YouTube.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you know, some people just energy.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_00: There's no need for it.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_00: So we're getting older, we're not younger.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're when we were younger, we gravitated to the negativity.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_00: We we thrived no more.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_01: We're too old for you.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even like, you know what I mean?
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_06: Like I said, so what so what like what caused y'all to change?
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_06: Was it a certain moment in your life, or did you just like like how did you become to like I don't want to I I want to be like this now instead of like this, you know what I mean?
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what they say, right?
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_00: The older you get, the wiser you get.
• 58:39
  unknown: Right.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's been the same thing.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_00: I remember my dad telling me, like I said, when you get older, you'll get wiser.
• 58:44
  SPEAKER_00: Right now you're just cavesulous, you know what I mean?
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it's true, right?
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you when you get older, you know, like I couldn't tell you the last time I've been to a club, a bar, I just don't go.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: I did that.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, I went to all these crazy bars when we used to come up and down people's street and all stuff in the 90s, you know what I mean, the early 2000s.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_00: But it's just, you know, it's not the same.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_00: You got these, um, you know, I mean, you got these young people that just don't know how to act anymore.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so it makes you almost feel uncomfortable to even go and have a good time or take your family out and do something.
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's not, it's just not worth it anymore.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_00: So my turning point was just how can Pete be a better person?
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_00: How can I, how can I elevate myself that way that if somebody sees me, they were like, man, Pete, you know what I mean?
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_00: I was walking the same path you were walking, and man, and I saw what you did.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_00: So if it worked for you, I want to see if it works for me.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_00: Oh well.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, bro, join the team.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, let's do it.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's let's let's let's change together.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like instead of pushing you away and maybe you're going through something, you know what I'm saying, that could lead to something bad.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_00: Why don't you come over, man?
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you, I mean, I've I've I've cried with more men than I've ever cried in my life.
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_00: Because at one point I just had this mentality, like, oh man, I don't want everybody to see me cry.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and you know this.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_00: Now, man, but I I got guys, I I got men that they'll call me like, man, bro, I'm just I'm going through what's up, pull up, let's talk about it.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, you want to cry?
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_00: Let's cry.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, because that's a prideless thing, like being able to turn the pride.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I was up and any any real man that can sit there and say, Oh, I was never priviless, he's a lie.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_00: And we all we've all held this, oh, I got too much pride to ask for help or do this.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_00: If if if I feel like I'm at that place, I think I know enough people that if I had to make that I could do it without being judged.
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think that's the thing, what I said before, you know, um it's hard for people just to be transparent and just to be uh authentic.
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_01: Simply also, you know, so we said social media is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing.
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's a lot of influence on certain ways that people feel they have to be.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so um I believe that wholeheartedly, you know, like um it really can go either way, and sometimes it does put a really negative effect to where people feel like they suffer in silence for the fear of being judged or rejected, you know.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so a lot of you know, I read this quote that says, we all have chapters in our lives that we don't like to read out loud.
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_01: And even that that kind of it it it bothered me for the fact that, well, why don't we read those chapters out loud?
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_01: Because we're the fear of being judged, you know, that that we go through life, but life happens, you know.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's not always peaches and cream, you know.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and for us to be vulnerable enough to share that, I believe that's where healing takes place.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, for other like, you know, for people going through the same thing to know, like, oh wow, you're going through it too.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_06: Well, not only that, like say say sometimes you do share it, but then that person betrays your you know what I'm saying.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_06: So maybe we don't know who to trust to be able to talk to about it.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_06: That's another thing, too.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_06: And then social media, like you got people looking a certain way, they they have it all together or whatever, and then you try to talk to them, and you don't know if that person is gonna, you know, be genuine, yeah, and care.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because there's there's a lot of people who don't care or respect, but then there's a lot of people that that you know genuinely do.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I'm just saying that that could be a reason.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_06: That could be like a reason, yeah.
• 1:02:18
  SPEAKER_01: For sure, for sure.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, this is cool, this is a cool conversation.
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_06: I'm glad there's people like you in the city, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_06: Because there's a lot of negativity in in our city, and even people from outside the city that see it and they're like, Oh, you're from Corpus, that's like a crappy place to be, or whatever, you know.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, definitely.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_06: So just to know that this is here and that hopefully people can watch and be like, oh, this is out there, you know, instead of just bad stuff that's out there and just you being an influence to your kids and just all the stuff you're talking about, it makes me think about, and I touch on this every now and then, like about the importance of fathers in the community, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_06: Having a father around that can play a big, uh, huge I can have a huge impact in our society in our community.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I always said it like this, right?
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a father is just as good as a mother, like you need both, like you know what I'm saying, because I said I got five girls, and I don't think I could have excelled with them without their mother's present, right?
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's just like a young boy.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a woman can't a woman can't raise a man to teach him how to be a man.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_00: He's there has to be some type of father figure, something to to teach him how to be a man.
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just like I I mean, I didn't know what to do with my girls, you know what I mean, and teaching them how to be a woman.
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know, right, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_00: Because I grew up in the sense that like moms take care of girls, dads take care of boys.
• 1:03:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:03:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it it it it was it was hard for me, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I just you know, it it it it I learned in even doing this community work, man, made me be a better father.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's it it it opened up my eyes to see a lot, right?
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because at any given moment, as many kids that I've had to bury, at any moment, it could be one of my kids.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_00: Just going to the grocery store.
• 1:04:07
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be that they're going through any type of domestic violence, it should be going to the grocery store.
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and you know, get T-boned or you know, get caught in crossfire from road rage or whatever, you know.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's that's an awesome point that you guys bring up.
• 1:04:22
  SPEAKER_06: We got an hour for so let me see.
• 1:04:24
  SPEAKER_06: I lost track where I was at here.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_06: This is a good conversation.
• 1:04:27
  SPEAKER_06: Um uh let's see, personal challenges, uh, share a personal story of overcoming adversity.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_06: Talking about personal challenges and personal challenges and resilience.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_06: I guess we shared about that stuff already, kind of it's awesome.
• 1:04:41
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, looking forward, future plans.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_06: Uh what's one thing you're you're looking forward to this year?
• 1:04:48
  SPEAKER_00: Just keep the positive going.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_00: Keep the I mean, and it's something we all three talk about a lot.
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you know, keeping the same regimen of of knowing that the community can can trust us, can actually come together and come together, and you know, there's there's no negativity, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the it's just a beautiful thing.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_00: And it's one of the things that you you have to show up at one of the events, and when you look at it, and I always tell people I said, when you went when when you come there, don't walk up, just sit back and just look.
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_00: Just just just look at everything and just see, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, what what what do you see when you walk up to you know a benefit that's you know, for whatever reason, it's uh you know, we're doing one.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_00: And tell me how you feel after you walk away from that.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can tell you what what what I do, I do this when we got everything going good, and you know, even when we're packed sometimes, I just step back and I look and I'm just like, man, this is beautiful.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, like you know, and then I look at that man, we created this, like we brought all these this many people together that probably hate each other.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, you see the embracing, you see the hug and you know, conversations, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then with those conversations, we're hearing like, hey.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't want to tell you, you know, lose my mom.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's a conversation.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's like, hey, uh, you know, do you think I'm like, bro, yeah, I got a team with people.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, let's make it happen.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_00: Or, you know, you know, my daughter's going through, you know what I mean, you know, leukemia.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_00: She's going through loop like all kinds of I'm I get calls daily, messages like just crazy, crazy for, you know, you know, and we try to make we try to make it for, you know what I mean, you know, everybody, you know what I mean?
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_00: But at the end of the day, there's only there's only one day.
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_00: There's you know, it's only two days in a weekend that you can do things when you got like 30 people.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I hate to say sometimes we have, you know, we're getting to the point where it's just like, okay, how are we gonna do this?
• 1:06:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because they're all critical.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's all critical.
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to tell you.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to say no.
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean, what do you mean?
• 1:06:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, let's, you know, let's just say hypothetically, like right now, I'm talking to you right now, and there's a listener that's listening, and it just reaches out to me with, hey, uh, December 25th, I want to do, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we know my wife, we're in the same conversation, somebody messages her and tells her the same thing.
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I got something for December 25th.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_00: Then it's happened that same thing, and it's happened where we're all like, Yeah, okay, so what do we do?
• 1:07:12
  SPEAKER_02: So we usually will split.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_00: No, but we've had to, and I've done this where I've done and cooked for three benefits at one time.
• 1:07:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, and I've had like five barbecue pits plus birthday out there because I gave my word that we're gonna do it.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_00: So they're like, Pete, why are you guys?
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Well, that's for a benefit that's on the other side of corpus.
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so and birthday for here.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like that where we're uh, you know, we've done three benefits at one time, and it you know, and it goes back to like when we said if you don't have the heart for it, it's gonna eat you alive.
• 1:07:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're gonna be like, This is too much.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_00: I it's it's breaking me.
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, you want you to take a step back, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:07:49
  SPEAKER_00: And and and get compose yourself.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Because I could do this all day long.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like I've I've trained myself now, and I was like that in the beginning.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was stressed out, like my god, because people always tell you, hey Pete, I'm gonna pull up, I'll help you.
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_00: When the time comes, nobody shows up.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_00: And now it's just like now, now, now we get, I don't want to say too much help because there's no such thing as too much help, but next you know, but now we can we can breathe a lot.
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_06: Is it because you like you've made a name for yourself up to that point?
• 1:08:19
  SPEAKER_06: Then they're like, okay, let me help.
• 1:08:20
  SPEAKER_06: You think that's possibly what it is?
• 1:08:22
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's also the people that want to just they just pay pay for it, you know, that come and they just want to be more.
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um there's not a day that he sees that I post something that I'm gonna do something that he doesn't call me.
• 1:08:34
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Pete, what do you need?
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_00: The grandmother.
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hey Pete, what do you need?
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know, and then for uh uh Mark Solis, the the firefighters, the firefighter that we did.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, those guys always call.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they just call and it's just like, man, it's it's or you would show it.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like I I love it.
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_00: It it it it it warms my heart.
• 1:08:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_00: That you know, people feel safe knowing that there's people that are really doing positive things, you know what I mean, and we stick to it.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not like we do it good on this month and we do it, like we're consistent on how we organize, you know.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_00: People think like, oh it can't be that hard to organize them.
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_00: Do one, let me know how it works out.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, there's a lot of moving parts, stressful, a lot of moving parts.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's very stressful.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_00: So we got to the point now where you know we let the women inside and it messed out with a barber.
• 1:09:22
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't do that before before Megan and everybody would come up, like it was it was me having to be inside, making sure everything's being directly.
• 1:09:31
  SPEAKER_00: So now I pawn it all up on all the women to show up.
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's like the kitchen, right?
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_00: You don't get in a woman's kitchen when they get when they're cooking.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody does, we tell them to get out.
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm out here, Barbara.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all tell me what you mean, you know, when it's time to make some more sausage or pull some more pork or cut some briskets or whatever, you know what I mean?
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_01: So and so going back to Ariah, I wanted to say so, um, it's Jimmy's birthday tomorrow, Ariah's dad.
• 1:09:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so shout out to Jimmy.
• 1:09:57
  SPEAKER_01: Happy birthday to him.
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um he really is, and so this was his only child.
• 1:10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, and so um tomorrow, um, you know, our hearts will be with him, you know, thoughts and yeah.
• 1:10:14
  SPEAKER_04: So oh DJ nice, yeah.
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks a lot.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_06: Uh DJ certified lead.
• 1:10:21
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we mentioned Peach GoFundMe earlier.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_06: So do you have a page for that still?
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it's it's still open.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um okay.
• 1:10:28
  SPEAKER_06: Where do we do where can we find the page?
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_06: Is it it's on your personal page?
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's on my page.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's been it's it's been shared a lot.
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's been shared a lot.
• 1:10:37
  SPEAKER_00: So you know what I mean.
• 1:10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um so it's there.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, man, you know what I mean.
• 1:10:41
  SPEAKER_00: She's you know, she's she's gonna get fixed the way she needs to get fixed to keep continue, man.
• 1:10:46
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, and like I said, I've had people from out of state, you know, they're like, hey man, you know, we want to buy her.
• 1:10:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I can't.
• 1:10:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not in the market.
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, I say, of course anybody would like a big lump of money like that sitting in their bank account that but that type of money is not gonna move what I what the purpose of what she's for.
• 1:11:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:11:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, you know, and you know, and then I I got asked a question yesterday.
• 1:11:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, for Lord forbid something happens to you.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_00: Where does Bertha go?
• 1:11:16
  SPEAKER_00: I said Bertha's gonna go where she needs to go.
• 1:11:18
  SPEAKER_00: She's gonna continue to do she's she's gonna continue doing, you know what I mean.
• 1:11:22
  SPEAKER_00: What was she doing?
• 1:11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to my boy Ryan Reese, because without him, he's he's he's he's me when I'm not here and he's having to do other cooking.
• 1:11:31
  SPEAKER_00: So we're cooking tonight for tomorrow, and then we're gonna be again cooking for another benefit for Sunday.
• 1:11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
• 1:11:38
  SPEAKER_00: So Bertha's back to back, she's never gonna be turned off.
• 1:11:41
  SPEAKER_00: She's gonna be cooking like crazy.
• 1:11:43
  SPEAKER_00: So shout out to my boy Ryan.
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_06: So what do y'all do?
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all sell uh y'all sell plates, I guess?
• 1:11:47
  SPEAKER_06: So what's on the what's on the plate?
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all making me hungry.
• 1:11:50
  SPEAKER_06: Well, tomorrow.
• 1:11:50
  SPEAKER_00: So tomorrow that we got uh tomorrow and Sunday or tomorrow and Sunday the pool pork and sausage, chips, and the drink.
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_00: So it's different every time y'all just depends what the thing is.
• 1:11:58
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a backstory to this.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_00: So when I first started got Bertha, it was all about doing lake quarters, right?
• 1:12:03
  SPEAKER_00: So Bertha can hold roughly about 800 lake quarters at one time.
• 1:12:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a lot of work when you're dealing with that many lake orders, right?
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I changed things up and I started when people would call me, they're like, Hey, I want to do lake quarter benefit.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, cool.
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then I was like, hey, uh, what do you think about pool pork?
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, Oh, I love pool pork.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I said, Well, look, if you're buying everything, let me tell you how much cheaper it's gonna be, versus buying you know, 36 cases or 50 cases of lake orders because we were doing it.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_02: On top of that, we gotta get donations for rice, beans, and that's the most potato salad, you know.
• 1:12:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's a headache.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it's messy.
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's messy.
• 1:12:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I one day I was just like, no.
• 1:12:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm gonna every time they call and tell me they want to do lake orders, I'm gonna talk them out of it because it's you know, i it it's a lot of work.
• 1:12:55
  SPEAKER_00: But if they if you know if that's what they want, we'll do it.
• 1:12:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, hey, you know, what do you think about pulled pork?
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_01: You can't even do brisket anymore, right?
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_00: With the prices, you know, we there are no briskets in the right.
• 1:13:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna get$12 for a plate.
• 1:13:08
  SPEAKER_02: We haven't done one on all the time.
• 1:13:09
  SPEAKER_00: And you can get$12 for the same pulled pork with sausage, chips, and a drink.
• 1:13:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh with less work.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_00: Less work.
• 1:13:15
  SPEAKER_00: So they're like, oh, so every time we do one now, it's pulled pork.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because I've, you know, you know, I've I'm a pulled pork person.
• 1:13:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'll take pulled pork over brisket any day.
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_00: Any day.
• 1:13:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I always, you know, you know, I mean, everybody's everybody's a king in their way on how they cook, but when it comes to pulled pork, you know, I mean, I'm making, you know, I mean, seven, eight hundred pounds of it every time when it does a benefit.
• 1:13:38
  SPEAKER_01: And your chicken's good too, though.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it just depends on whatever like's going on in the in the economy, because right now pork is at an all-time high.
• 1:13:50
  SPEAKER_00: All-time high.
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_00: And it's never been like that.
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 1:13:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:13:53
  SPEAKER_00: And late quarters kind of has you know, it's you know, plateaus where it's at, you know what I mean?
• 1:13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:13:58
  SPEAKER_00: You get like 30 bucks a box, you know, there's roughly like 45 pieces in the box.
• 1:14:02
  SPEAKER_04: In the box, yeah.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but it's just the work versus just putting a pork butt in a barbecue pit.
• 1:14:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like you put them, put them on there and just waiting, and all you're doing is shredding it.
• 1:14:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Chicken, you gotta make sure you got the internal tip.
• 1:14:14
  SPEAKER_06: The back is bigger than the actual leg quarter, right?
• 1:14:18
  SPEAKER_06: So the the pork, it's uh just I mean, they called it a Boston buttons.
• 1:14:21
  SPEAKER_06: It's like the same size as the so it's a little bit bigger than the chicken.
• 1:14:25
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, so it's so you can fit less.
• 1:14:27
  SPEAKER_06: That's what I'm saying.
• 1:14:28
  SPEAKER_06: You fit less on the on the pit as opposed to just a leg quarter.
• 1:14:31
  SPEAKER_02: But it feeds more.
• 1:14:32
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it feeds more.
• 1:14:33
  SPEAKER_06: No, that yeah, no, I'm just saying the I'm seeing trying to see how the workload is.
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, like you gotta season the chicken all the chicken, yeah.
• 1:14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Season all you got to do.
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Someone's like playing Tetris.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_00: You ever playing Tetris?
• 1:14:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's how you gotta stack these leg quarters in there so that you get enough of them in one tray.
• 1:14:49
  SPEAKER_00: So Bertha's got eight trays, so she's got eight doors, and it's she's double racked.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Holy smokes, yeah.
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:14:55
  SPEAKER_00: So like I said, she she she holds, you know.
• 1:14:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's a lot of work.
• 1:14:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the sides, the bread, you know, the bags, the the pickles, and so there's a lot of moving parts to it, you know, uh doing a benefit in general, but more so when it was.
• 1:15:09
  SPEAKER_00: And what what what I liked about meeting Jenny and uh uh Megan and you know so many other people that helped was just like they were doing it, and then when it we when when it got to the point where they were seeing the magnitude of their like and not like this ain't even the biggest one we're gonna do, like get bigger, you know what I mean?
• 1:15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like it it's it's it's just a blessing, you know.
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, just seeing and just just seeing that the family doesn't have to think about one thing while they're grieving.
• 1:15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wants to go sit down in front of a funeral homeboy's like, yeah, I want to pick the casket, I want the pink, and uh and then it gets emotional, and then they're like, you know, I mean, nobody wants that.
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_00: So that was just always my thing, like, you know what I mean?
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_00: How can we take just a little bit of pain away from them?
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean, and be like, okay, yeah, you know, you don't have to worry about the money part.
• 1:15:54
  SPEAKER_00: We got you.
• 1:15:55
  SPEAKER_00: And saying, you know, this is this is what you know, this is what we're gonna do.
• 1:15:58
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, I mean, we've done some where you know we've we've we've raised, you know, fifty thousand dollars.
• 1:16:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, thirty thousand, twenty.
• 1:16:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like, you know, I mean, and it's it's just a blessing to be able to know that you know, these young kids, um, and like I'll go back to what I said, I've buried more kids than I ever want to think about.
• 1:16:18
  SPEAKER_00: But the fact that how beautiful they were made to rest is just like I I I can't explain the feeling I get when I see it because normally when I do a benefit, if I'm not close to that family already, I kind of just cut my ties.
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_00: They know they can reach out to me, yeah, and I still follow on Facebook and I see.
• 1:16:37
  SPEAKER_00: And some of them, man, it's just like all right, all right.
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_00: There's one that is just I I I can't get over this.
• 1:16:42
  SPEAKER_00: I can't, you know what I mean?
• 1:16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because I talk with the dad.
• 1:16:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, you know, we're always on text message, we're always the grandmother, they follow me on Facebook, and they're always there to help me with what she's Rita Allen.
• 1:16:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's the grandmother right now that on there.
• 1:16:55
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Rita.
• 1:16:56
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, Rita Allen on YouTube says, Thank you, Pete, Megan, and Jenny for sharing your eyes' story and wishing Jimmy a happy birthday.
• 1:17:02
  SPEAKER_06: Love you guys.
• 1:17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and like I said, Jimmy, I mean, he's a wonderful, wonderful guy.
• 1:17:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Very passionate about you know his daughter, you know what I mean.
• 1:17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, in in that manner, you know, especially.
• 1:17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't think it's something you will ever get over, ever.
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_01: The life is altered forever.
• 1:17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so it's a beautiful thing that she's who brought us together, you know, um, brought us together that you know we can do what we do, you know.
• 1:17:36
  SPEAKER_01: We did it on a on a personal level and to be able to unite, you know.
• 1:17:40
  SPEAKER_01: So tomorrow we need to show up for Pete, you know.
• 1:17:44
  SPEAKER_01: So for his brother.
• 1:17:46
  SPEAKER_01: So uh don't let the weather scare you, whoever's listening.
• 1:17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Where are y'all gonna be posted up at?
• 1:17:50
  SPEAKER_00: At the BFW on airs, right across right next to Rent A Tire across the street from the Pizza Hut.
• 1:17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:17:55
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely want to give them a shout-out every time we have a benefit.
• 1:17:58
  SPEAKER_02: My dad is actually part of the BFW there.
• 1:18:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the DFW, okay, yeah.
• 1:18:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, 20 minutes.
• 1:18:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's been since since I met that man.
• 1:18:05
  SPEAKER_00: Every time I call him, I'm like, hey Pops, I'll call him Pops, right?
• 1:18:08
  SPEAKER_00: His name's Alfredo, but I call him Pops.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hey Pops, I need to use it.
• 1:18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, just give me a date.
• 1:18:13
  SPEAKER_00: There's no questions asked.
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's it would and then when he found out, you know, because he follows me on Facebook.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_00: So when we when he knew this was my little brother, that's you know what I mean.
• 1:18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because I said I, you know what I mean.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I knew eventually, you know what I'm saying, this day would come where I'd have to do this, you know what I mean.
• 1:18:26
  SPEAKER_00: So this me doing this, and then you know, my other brothers flew down to be a part of this, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:18:32
  SPEAKER_00: So and they're meeting people that are telling her, like, man, you don't know what your brother means to the city.
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like I can't I can't put into words, you know what what your brother means to the city and what what he does.
• 1:18:42
  SPEAKER_00: So now that I'm having to do this, my brother, that's very close to, you know what I mean, you know, not no longer being here is just like it's a personal level for me, you know, real emotional for me because now I'm cooking now I'm cooking with emotion.
• 1:18:57
  SPEAKER_00: Versus when we know when I'm doing a benefit for somebody else, it it's not emotional, like it's you know what I'm saying, it's just something that I feel that has to be done.
• 1:19:04
  SPEAKER_00: So now, you know, like Jenny said, like, you know, some of my friends are like, Pete, now now it's time for us to show up for you.
• 1:19:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Y'all do, y'all just don't realize that you do.
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like anytime I do something, like it's it's you guys show up.
• 1:19:15
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, you know, like my buddy showed up earlier.
• 1:19:17
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah, he says, but you know, this is for you, yeah, and for your little brother, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he's been battling stage four colon cancer for going on five years now, and you know, and that's another thing that you know I was to, you know, us us men, man, we need to keep ourselves checked, man.
• 1:19:31
  SPEAKER_00: We need to go get checked because you know, I know we're we're you know, my mom calls us cabezudos, you know what I mean?
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because we're like, I don't need to go to the doctor.
• 1:19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I mean?
• 1:19:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, living starts with health.
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, living starts with health, you know what I mean?
• 1:19:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you I mean and and we're creatures of habit, we're gonna mess up.
• 1:19:46
  SPEAKER_00: We, you know, we're like, I'm gonna go get a torta real quick.
• 1:19:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's good because you got all these people here that make great food.
• 1:19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody's out there selling high protein sandwiches.
• 1:19:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, so because you look at that, you're like, and that kind of thing.
• 1:20:04
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think anybody sells them like we might lose on that one.
• 1:20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the beginning of every year, because everybody's on that new year, new day, you know, type of deal.
• 1:20:16
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, yeah, everybody, like I said, we'll be there from 11 to sell out tomorrow.
• 1:20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, you know, always thank you to you know, Megan and Jenny for always having my back and just knowing what this one means to me.
• 1:20:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, this is very personal for me uh and my family.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I mean I'm grateful to be able to just see you know everybody tomorrow show up.
• 1:20:36
  SPEAKER_00: And if I said you're gonna get that pop, I promise you, I'll put my pulled pork against anybody's, you know what I mean?
• 1:20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like I've been on business when it comes to pulled pork.
• 1:20:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's yeah, um, yeah, uh, you know what I mean?
• 1:20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because I, you know, I'm cooking in the large magnitude of it, right?
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so it's you know, I'm cooking almost 800 pounds tomorrow.
• 1:20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, it's hard.
• 1:20:53
  SPEAKER_00: And shout out to shout out to all the barbecues out there that that that that do the same thing I do.
• 1:20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because there's there's there's there's a lot of men and women that that that do it on their terms, and not so much on the magnitude of what we do.
• 1:21:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I always win when I see other people doing it, I salute them, I go pull up, I donate.
• 1:21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know what I mean?
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_00: I I help out, I'll go buy plates, or I'll tell them, hey man, you know, charge me for 50 plates, man, just give them away for the next 50 people that show up, right?
• 1:21:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and that that's another thing that I do with my small business friends that have food trucks.
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_00: I go there and I'm just saying man, you know, they might have a slow day and say, hey man, hey, my cash app for 50 bucks, next five plates, just donate.
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_00: So just go on your live.
• 1:21:34
  SPEAKER_00: Go on your live and just be like, hey man, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, somebody paid four or five plates, first five people to show up.
• 1:21:39
  SPEAKER_00: They say you know you got people just they're like, oh, and then they may not have known about your food, but they saw the opportunity to get something for free.
• 1:21:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:21:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then it just goes forward.
• 1:21:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I do that with you know, I mean, a few of my friends that I know that really work hard and got really good food, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you know, there's there's a lot of people coming.
• 1:21:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's what the corpus has.
• 1:21:59
  SPEAKER_00: You can't go down one street and somebody don't hey, somebody's selling food.
• 1:22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody selling you're gonna get so anybody, you know what I mean, that's that's out there that don't got nothing to do, just drive down staple, drive down neighborheart.
• 1:22:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:22:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's a food truck out there.
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Costoris, custodoris everywhere, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:22:14
  SPEAKER_02: My neighbor has a food truck, so I want to what's the book?
• 1:22:18
  SPEAKER_02: Gina's cuisina.
• 1:22:19
  SPEAKER_02: So she uh Lumpia Pancit and Lumpia.
• 1:22:22
  SPEAKER_00: If you want if if you want Pancit and you want Lumpia's, yeah, that what color is the truck?
• 1:22:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's actually it's uh red and black.
• 1:22:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:22:37
  SPEAKER_02: She usually parks at the Moravian.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, yeah.
• 1:22:40
  SPEAKER_00: And she's Filipino, so she's not like a Mexican blue Filipinas.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, and I love love you, Gina.
• 1:22:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, her.
• 1:22:47
  SPEAKER_00: She I got looked onto it because of Megan.
• 1:22:49
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, because we were always going to what's that?
• 1:22:51
  SPEAKER_00: What's that place in Flour Bluff?
• 1:22:52
  SPEAKER_00: The Filipino Hub.
• 1:22:53
  SPEAKER_01: The Olympia Hell.
• 1:22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wants to go all the way to Flower Bluff.
• 1:22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, no, nothing unstable.
• 1:22:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then I saw, then I thought so I hit, hey, Megan, who's that?
• 1:23:02
  SPEAKER_00: She said, I mean, she's a real good friend.
• 1:23:03
  SPEAKER_00: She's my neighbor.
• 1:23:04
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, hey, so then now she knows who I am.
• 1:23:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'll just message her like, hey, put a tray and uh a dozen Olympias to the side.
• 1:23:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'll pull up and I'll go eat man because it's phenomenal.
• 1:23:13
  SPEAKER_02: By the way, I think I send a lot of business to a lot of family homes, you know, because I snap all my food.
• 1:23:20
  SPEAKER_02: Everyone that knows me knows I snap everything I eat.
• 1:23:22
  SPEAKER_02: So every time I snap them, oh man, that looks good.
• 1:23:25
  SPEAKER_02: Where'd you get it from?
• 1:23:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I put in, they sure do.
• 1:23:27
  SPEAKER_02: They go.
• 1:23:28
  SPEAKER_02: Joseph's lunchbox.
• 1:23:29
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm very, I'm very big on supporting local businesses, you know, the small local businesses.
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you and you know what?
• 1:23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, it's the owners of the local businesses that really show up.
• 1:23:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you know, that we're able to count on, that, you know, again are behind the scenes that donate, you know, that's cool.
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_01: And that that, you know, give right back into the community, but choose not to be, you know, in that light.
• 1:23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, to say, you know, it's like I that's why I've always kind of done things behind the scenes because my treasures are in heaven, you know.
• 1:23:58
  SPEAKER_01: I like to be able to put it out there, you know.
• 1:24:01
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, you need to stop being behind the people need to know who you are and say, because you do a wonderful thing, like yeah, you do a lot that people need to know why you do it so that you know, I mean it's not like you're trying to look for the blessings.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_00: I said, because it took that old lady for her to tell me, like, she goes, how how how how do I help you if I don't know how to get hold of you?
• 1:24:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have Facebook, I don't have Twitter, I don't have but it's literally the smaller businesses.
• 1:24:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like I have a good friend of mine, Juan Valdez.
• 1:24:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he is amazing.
• 1:24:29
  SPEAKER_01: He actually donated, yes, JC.
• 1:24:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he literally when JC donates every single time, every single time.
• 1:24:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, literally, even to the one that uh I mean, and and not and not a hundred dollars, you're talking like two thousand dollars, you know, cash up.
• 1:24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, if you're believing in this cause, he's I do too.
• 1:24:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so he is a great, great person.
• 1:24:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, shout out to JC.
• 1:24:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we're watching this with you know other business owners that you know are blessed and give right back into the community.
• 1:25:00
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Eric Anthou.
• 1:25:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um, he's he's been a part of quite a quite a bit of um the benefits we've done.
• 1:25:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then one more time.
• 1:25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to my boy Ryan Reese, man.
• 1:25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Because that without that dude, you know, it was a blessing meeting him because he he was being he was able to form a heart like mine, and just and I feel like when I'm not here, he's representing me very well.
• 1:25:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and and and he's there.
• 1:25:23
  SPEAKER_00: He never says no when I tell him, hey bro, I'm I'm working.
• 1:25:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we got this family set.
• 1:25:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, just tell me where to go.
• 1:25:29
  SPEAKER_00: He's the only one that has keys to Bertha to unlock her.
• 1:25:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right on.
• 1:25:32
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody else, you know, they're like, APL.
• 1:25:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was because was it difficult to find to find a person like that?
• 1:25:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
• 1:25:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because it is, right?
• 1:25:41
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can ask anybody, and you know, you've had you know barbecue guys on your podcast before.
• 1:25:46
  SPEAKER_00: When when you're used to cooking a certain way, it's hard to trust somebody to cook like you.
• 1:25:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's very hard.
• 1:25:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:25:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and then to follow the same steps.
• 1:25:54
  SPEAKER_00: And man, you know, sometimes I ask him, Abra, can you cook a pork book for me?
• 1:25:59
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, You want to eat mine?
• 1:26:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'll I'll taught you how to cook it.
• 1:26:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so I trust you.
• 1:26:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:26:04
  SPEAKER_00: I trust you.
• 1:26:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, and like I said, he just he he doesn't know how to say no selfless.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Ryan, like he's he's he's awesome.
• 1:26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, you know, he's the only one that has a set of keys to Big Bertha.
• 1:26:13
  SPEAKER_00: When he you want to pick her, he'd be like, Abraham, I'm gonna pick Big Bertha and go get her.
• 1:26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, go get her.
• 1:26:18
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, and I said, Shout out to Big Bertha, man.
• 1:26:20
  SPEAKER_00: She's doing her thing.
• 1:26:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:26:21
  SPEAKER_00: She's gonna continue, you know, uh uh doing what she was meant to do, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because Mr.
• 1:26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper, that's he did this just on a different scale because he always did it for the church.
• 1:26:32
  SPEAKER_00: So so when he built you know Big Bertha, he he built it because of the church that him and his wife and family were involved with.
• 1:26:38
  SPEAKER_00: So, and that's why he put the bell.
• 1:26:41
  SPEAKER_00: You mean for the kids to be able to ring it.
• 1:26:42
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I felt that you know, I mean, you know, when his wife was like, You remind me so much of my husband, you because you know he doesn't know how to say no.
• 1:26:51
  SPEAKER_00: He was always helping kids and stuff like that.
• 1:26:52
  SPEAKER_00: So when she gave me the price that I was gonna pay for it, I was just like, What?
• 1:26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yes.
• 1:27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're gonna, this is my dream.
• 1:27:03
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just looking at it, you'd be like, if you don't have a pit, you're like, Man, I wish I had a pit like that.
• 1:27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because when I saw other people's pit, I admired.
• 1:27:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, one day, one day I'm gonna get me one like that.
• 1:27:12
  SPEAKER_00: And that blessing just came and it came at the perfect time because the next day we went to Ubalde.
• 1:27:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like literally, that's actually how we actually met.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_02: Like, actually got in contact, right?
• 1:27:22
  SPEAKER_02: Because he when Ubalde happened, my he saw my post because my friend uh Steven Garcia is actually he lost his daughter in the Uvalde shooting.
• 1:27:32
  SPEAKER_02: So Ellie Ellie Garcia.
• 1:27:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and so he reached out to me, he was like, Hey, I saw you know that your friend, you know, is his daughter was one of the victims, and I want to go cook for them and all this stuff.
• 1:27:44
  SPEAKER_02: And and so I told him, Well, reach out to him, like his name's Steven Garcia, like because he was planning on going out there.
• 1:27:50
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't get to go.
• 1:27:50
  SPEAKER_00: I met all the families, man.
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you one thing, it's it's it's horrible.
• 1:27:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like just driving into that driving into your father, man, just gave me this this horrible.
• 1:28:00
  SPEAKER_00: Horrible feeling.
• 1:28:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like you know, it was it it's it because Yvonne is so small, it's a it's a small, small community, and everybody knows everybody.
• 1:28:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I got to meet all the families, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:28:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the the the the teachers and all the kids.
• 1:28:14
  SPEAKER_00: So um and then you know I had made a video you know dedicated to kids and it was uh on my TikTok and that that that video went viral like over a million views, like you know, because I got like up and personal you know with with the families and you know, you know, and and and the teachers you know and stuff like that.
• 1:28:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then just going and seeing like man, it's just even going now, like it's it it feels so fresh, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:28:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like it just feels so fresh and stuff like that.
• 1:28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like kids you know had to endure that, you know what I mean?
• 1:28:46
  SPEAKER_00: They just have to go through that.
• 1:28:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:28:47
  SPEAKER_00: It just you know, it just makes you think like what were they thinking before you know this idiot went in there and just unloaded, you know what I mean?
• 1:28:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know, nine-year-old kids, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:28:57
  SPEAKER_00: Nine-year-old kids couldn't couldn't defend themselves, couldn't do nothing, you know, and so you know that's something that you know, like I said, I'm I'm never I'll always support and go and do anything that they ask, you know what I mean, when it comes to helping me.
• 1:29:10
  SPEAKER_06: That's awesome, man.
• 1:29:11
  SPEAKER_06: Well, thank you guys for coming on the podcast.
• 1:29:14
  SPEAKER_06: Is there anything else you guys want to share?
• 1:29:16
  SPEAKER_02: Just uh if you're um out and about tomorrow, make sure to go uh VFW 2397.
• 1:29:26
  SPEAKER_06: Where's the where where's our camera, Mike?
• 1:29:27
  SPEAKER_06: My this one right here?
• 1:29:31
  SPEAKER_06: Look into that the the bottom camera, the bottom camera.
• 1:29:34
  SPEAKER_06: And and and promote it through that camera so we can reconnect.
• 1:29:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yeah.
• 1:29:39
  SPEAKER_02: So um uh inviting everyone out tomorrow, uh the VFW post-2397 on 4441 Ayer Street.
• 1:29:49
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we're gonna be doing the benefit for his brother, uh, for Pete's brother.
• 1:29:53
  SPEAKER_02: And then also Sunday, we're doing one at the Texas Nugget.
• 1:29:57
  SPEAKER_02: And that is for uh a known DJ here, actually, DJ Ray Ray.
• 1:30:01
  SPEAKER_02: So he's known in the Tehano community and things like that as well.
• 1:30:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so we want to thank uh Eric Ganthu for uh being able to lend us the place to have the benefit there as well.
• 1:30:12
  SPEAKER_02: So just make sure to go by.
• 1:30:15
  unknown: Yes.
• 1:30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, come come take a picture with Big Bertha.
• 1:30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Come through, come through.
• 1:30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you guys.
• 1:30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Man, that's awesome.
• 1:30:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you for having us.
• 1:30:21
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I love what y'all are doing in the community.
• 1:30:23
  SPEAKER_06: It's awesome.
• 1:30:23
  SPEAKER_06: And just uh talking about this as far as uh like being an influence, like that's huge because I mean it it's here, it's here in Corpus, but we don't see it's not in the limelight, you know.
• 1:30:34
  SPEAKER_06: Uh and I think that just talking about it is is helpful.
• 1:30:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I I'd like to give you I'd like to give you your flowers, man, because I said I I I went through your when when when I found out about your thing real quick, I reached out to Jenny, I was like, hey, message this guy.
• 1:30:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:30:49
  SPEAKER_00: And find out what it's gonna take, right?
• 1:30:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:30:51
  SPEAKER_00: Because I've I'm I went through your clips and I just like the professionalism of the way the way the way your videos are edited, the way the conversations, like you know what I'm saying, like you're you're you're you're having conversations that I feel that are on the level like a Joe Rogan.
• 1:31:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh cool, you know what I mean, other big podcasts, because you know, you're you're allowing your your guests to speak without you giving them hey, well, I gave you this list of things to talk about, you know what I mean, instead of just you know letting like hey, my freestyle.
• 1:31:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, tell me about Pete, tell me about Jenny, tell me about Megan.
• 1:31:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, versus you know, I got this card right here.
• 1:31:29
  SPEAKER_00: I need you to go off this card right here.
• 1:31:31
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a lot that I've seen that you know, they're like, hey, well, I'm gonna send you this list.
• 1:31:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm gonna send you this list, and you know, this is what we're gonna talk about.
• 1:31:38
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, well, is it about you or me?
• 1:31:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:31:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, because if it's about me, then let me speak from the heart.
• 1:31:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to telegraph anything that has been pre-written or talk about anything that's pre-written, like you know, saying like let's let's let's let's really talk about what community means or cool, you know, stuff like that.
• 1:31:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, shout out to Corpus Christi Originals for having us, man.
• 1:31:58
  SPEAKER_05: You know, yes, thank you very much.
• 1:32:00
  SPEAKER_00: You you got our prayers and hope that it takes you to the next level of everything, man.
• 1:32:03
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate it, man.
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks a lot.
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I really like the and I was what listening to Joe Rogan earlier, and I told my wife, I was like, because people said that I'm like the corpus of Joe Rogan of Corpus or whatever.
• 1:32:13
  SPEAKER_06: Absolutely, and I'm like, what?
• 1:32:14
  SPEAKER_06: And then I was listening to it today.
• 1:32:16
  SPEAKER_06: He was talking to Mark Zuckerberg, and I was like, damn, I am kind of like Joe Rogan.
• 1:32:22
  SPEAKER_03: I just should feel that way.
• 1:32:23
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, dude.
• 1:32:24
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, I like for people to share their story like without like give it give them a a a fair shake, you know what I mean?
• 1:32:30
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know how you call it or whatever.
• 1:32:32
  SPEAKER_06: It could be people on here, oh you can have that person on there, or you can have I'm like, why not?
• 1:32:37
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
• 1:32:38
  SPEAKER_06: I'm I and I'm like that even outside of the podcast.
• 1:32:40
  SPEAKER_06: I'll just give somebody a fair it could because I I think I learned this from my dad, and my dad taught my my grandmother taught my dad, like when you first meet somebody, just be respectful to them because you never know that if they're gonna cross your path again later.
• 1:32:56
  SPEAKER_06: And that I think that I carry that with me along in this this this podcast.
• 1:33:01
  SPEAKER_06: And another another thing, like I read the Bible and stuff, there's a verse in there that talks about that uh a wise person, like he draw, he draws out the he draws the person's thoughts out to to to light, you know what I mean?
• 1:33:16
  SPEAKER_06: And that's one another thing that I kind of like try to do with with one of what I'm doing here, you know what I mean?
• 1:33:21
  SPEAKER_06: Like all the stuff you're talking about, sure, it's it's something that comes out, and I think that it's helpful for us, for the people listening.
• 1:33:29
  SPEAKER_06: Absolutely.
• 1:33:30
  SPEAKER_06: So it's kind of it's kind of like you like that influence that that you're trying to do with what you're doing, that's kind of this along the same lines that I'm that I'm doing.
• 1:33:39
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, thanks a lot for that.
• 1:33:40
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate it.
• 1:33:41
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, no, man.
• 1:33:42
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, thank you for having us.
• 1:33:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's the privilege and honor to be here and share what we do.
• 1:33:47
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks a lot, everybody in the chat.
• 1:33:49
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, if there's nothing else y'all want to share, do y'all want to share maybe like how do we find you guys?
• 1:33:54
  SPEAKER_06: So or I'll put us, I'll put some links to y'all's profiles and stuff like that underneath on the description.
• 1:33:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and uh um Burst has got a birthday, Big Bertha got an Instagram.
• 1:34:03
  SPEAKER_00: So you guys look, I'll send you the link, man.
• 1:34:04
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all go look y'all follow her.
• 1:34:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'll post all you know pictures and videos of what you know the benefits that we do and stuff like that.
• 1:34:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll send you a little bit.
• 1:34:18
  SPEAKER_00: At Big Birthday.
• 1:34:19
  SPEAKER_00: You'll see a picture of her.
• 1:34:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:34:20
  SPEAKER_00: You'll you'll you'll be able to see.
• 1:34:21
  SPEAKER_00: I mean her profile.
• 1:34:22
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I'm gonna go follow that one.
• 1:34:23
  SPEAKER_06: I think if I'm not following, I'll go follow that one.
• 1:34:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, but she's and my my buddy in Dallas is the one that told me to say, bro, he says, Why are you not letting her get her flowers?
• 1:34:31
  SPEAKER_00: I said, What are you talking about?
• 1:34:32
  SPEAKER_00: He's just like, give her her own page.
• 1:34:35
  SPEAKER_06: Dude, it's dude on TikTok.
• 1:34:37
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, you put it on TikTok, bro.
• 1:34:39
  SPEAKER_06: You know how many people doing barbecue on TikTok?
• 1:34:41
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 1:34:42
  SPEAKER_00: I just got to that point.
• 1:34:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I got a I got a decent following on you know what I mean on TikTok.
• 1:34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I mean, uh, I'm I'm slowly getting into where you know I'm just starting dedicating that to her, you know what I mean?
• 1:34:52
  SPEAKER_06: And it's tough too, because you have all these things, all these social medias you gotta like take care of and stuff like that.
• 1:34:57
  SPEAKER_02: It's hard.
• 1:34:58
  SPEAKER_06: So it's like, damn, I gotta do one for every single one, and then there's more coming out of it.
• 1:35:04
  SPEAKER_06: Can't can't keep track of all this stuff.
• 1:35:06
  SPEAKER_06: But yeah, so follow Big Bertha's page.
• 1:35:08
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, we didn't talk about your music, your music or anything like that.
• 1:35:11
  SPEAKER_06: Um, do you uh so do we follow you on Megan?
• 1:35:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh uh my music page is Megan Choppa music.
• 1:35:18
  SPEAKER_06: And then Jenny Lee.
• 1:35:19
  SPEAKER_06: Jenny Lee had her uh what you had your uh 75, what was it, or something like that?
• 1:35:24
  SPEAKER_01: 75 hard.
• 1:35:25
  SPEAKER_01: 75 hard.
• 1:35:26
  SPEAKER_01: I finished I finished the 75 hard on December 31st, but I'm currently on day 10 of phase one.
• 1:35:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I've taken it 85 days.
• 1:35:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go eight 105 days through.
• 1:35:37
  SPEAKER_01: So um yeah, shout out super, super uh proud of you.
• 1:35:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not an easy thing, but it's definitely you know one of those things.
• 1:35:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's walk away from you, especially when you're a driver.
• 1:35:50
  SPEAKER_06: I'm a driver, bro.
• 1:35:52
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I saw it at the truck stop.
• 1:35:54
  SPEAKER_06: Ah, do I get an apple and an orange or do I get one of these pizza, two, two slices for for eight bucks or whatever?
• 1:36:00
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
• 1:36:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, nowadays they're the same price.
• 1:36:02
  SPEAKER_06: So I like to go for the pizza.
• 1:36:06
  SPEAKER_06: Exactly.
• 1:36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very proud of you, Jimmy.
• 1:36:08
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:36:09
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not a weight challenge, it's it's actually a mental challenge, it's a mental toughness challenge of you know, so the only way you fail is if you choose not to complete your daily task.
• 1:36:20
  SPEAKER_01: So for instance, I think what what keeps me honest with yourself?
• 1:36:23
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 1:36:23
  SPEAKER_01: So you have to have integrity is what it comes down to, right?
• 1:36:26
  SPEAKER_01: So integrity is not taught, you know, you either have it or you don't.
• 1:36:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so for instance, if you know, we're required to drink a gallon of water a day.
• 1:36:33
  SPEAKER_01: If you drink 127 ounces, you failed.
• 1:36:36
  SPEAKER_01: You go back to day one.
• 1:36:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, back to day, you know, back to day one.
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, I've spent many nights, uh, mornings, you know, four o'clock in the morning awake, you know, still getting my tasks done, you know.
• 1:36:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and but there's no failing is not an option.
• 1:36:52
  SPEAKER_01: Failing is not an option, you know.
• 1:36:53
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm gonna do something like we said, it's wholeheartedly.
• 1:36:56
  SPEAKER_01: So I've put everything into this, um, but to better myself, you know, to pull myself out.
• 1:37:01
  SPEAKER_01: It just makes you be on your A game.
• 1:37:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so this year, you know, not playing small, doing a lot of great things, you know, collaborating together, hopefully, to do something big for uh the homeless community and just being better in general, ourselves to be better people, you know, for ourselves, number one, our families and the people who depend on us.
• 1:37:22
  SPEAKER_06: Right on, amen to that.
• 1:37:25
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks for sharing.
• 1:37:25
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks for thanks a lot, you guys.
• 1:37:27
  SPEAKER_06: This is like their third goodbye.
• 1:37:28
  SPEAKER_06: This is yeah, this is the customary South Texas.
• 1:37:33
  SPEAKER_02: You just like us.
• 1:37:35
  SPEAKER_00: Well, hopefully, hopefully soon we'll we'll be back again, man.
• 1:37:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, we'll have we'll have more things to talk about.
• 1:37:42
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks a lot, you guys, for joining the podcast.
• 1:37:44
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, stay tuned for uh the next episode, which we're probably I'm doing I drop down to once a month.
• 1:37:49
  SPEAKER_06: So uh next month there'll be somebody on here.
• 1:37:52
  SPEAKER_06: If you have any suggestions, shout them out.
• 1:37:54
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• 1:37:58
  SPEAKER_06: Leave it uh, it'll be uh on YouTube if you want to rewatch it.
• 1:38:01
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• 1:38:04
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• 1:38:07
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• 1:38:08
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• 1:38:10
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• 1:38:16
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• 1:38:24
  SPEAKER_06: But uh, thanks a lot, you guys.
• 1:38:25
  SPEAKER_06: Have a good one.
• 1:38:25
  SPEAKER_06: Bye.
• 1:38:26
  SPEAKER_06: Maya, shout out to Maya back there, our producer, for making this look nice on here.
• 1:38:29
  SPEAKER_06: And uh see y'all later.
• 1:38:31
  SPEAKER_06: Bye.
• 1:38:31
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.