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#41 | The Recycled Corn Podcast · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_03: What's going on, y'all?
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SPEAKER_03: Corpus Christi Originals Podcast, back at it again with the uh Recycled Corn podcast, and I gotta introduce these guys, make sure I do it correctly.
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SPEAKER_03: We got uh Ben Ben DeLion.
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SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir, and his assistant.
0:15
SPEAKER_02: Wow, wow, negative co-host.
0:20
SPEAKER_05: No, I I like assistant, I like assistant.
0:23
SPEAKER_03: I don't care what you like.
0:24
SPEAKER_03: And we got with Ben DeLeon, we got his assistant, the host with the ghost, Prince of the Paranormal, Duke of the Dead, Sinister Minister, the Dean of the Deceased, the Ghost Daddy himself, Lord Scuba Cabra, aka Lord Scuba Steve.
0:43
SPEAKER_03: Damn right.
0:45
SPEAKER_05: Welcome, guys.
0:46
SPEAKER_05: Thanks for having us, man.
0:47
SPEAKER_05: Hell yeah.
0:48
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
0:48
SPEAKER_05: This is awesome.
0:50
SPEAKER_03: So, how'd y'all feel when I invited you on the show?
0:52
SPEAKER_03: Surprised.
0:53
SPEAKER_02: He uh he he contacted me and he's like, dude, guess what?
0:57
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, what?
0:58
SPEAKER_02: Why are you why are you like squealing like a little girl right now?
1:00
SPEAKER_02: Like he was all giggly.
1:01
SPEAKER_02: I was excited, dude.
1:02
SPEAKER_02: Giggly and bubbly, so don't let him downplay it.
1:05
SPEAKER_02: He was super stoked, and I'm like, all right, cool, let's do it, bro.
1:08
SPEAKER_02: He's like, no, but you don't know.
1:10
SPEAKER_02: It's cool.
1:10
SPEAKER_05: I told you I was a fan.
1:13
SPEAKER_02: He was he was he totally fangirled, and I'm like, calm down, dude.
1:17
SPEAKER_02: It was a masculine fanglow.
1:19
SPEAKER_02: It was such a mark.
1:20
SPEAKER_02: It was not masculine.
1:20
SPEAKER_02: It was a masculine fangirl.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: It was the girliest girl.
1:23
SPEAKER_02: It was a low C.
1:24
SPEAKER_02: I hit a low C.
1:26
SPEAKER_03: So are you his assistant?
1:27
SPEAKER_03: What's the deal?
1:29
SPEAKER_05: Started off started off as assistant.
1:30
SPEAKER_02: No.
1:31
SPEAKER_02: I never started off at his assistant.
1:33
SPEAKER_02: He's just an ass.
1:34
SPEAKER_02: Hope you can cuss on here.
1:36
SPEAKER_02: He's an ass.
1:37
SPEAKER_02: So when we first got started doing this, it started off as a joke.
1:41
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you're my assistant.
1:42
SPEAKER_02: You're my and I and I would always be like, I'm your co-host.
1:45
SPEAKER_02: He'd be like, Yeah, that's what I said, assistant.
1:47
SPEAKER_02: I'm your co-host.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: So it just started off as a joke where we would, you know, throw in like a little comical aspect in the podcast when we were doing the intro and stuff.
1:56
SPEAKER_02: Um and then he just people ran with it.
1:59
SPEAKER_02: People ran with it, and he started make he made me a cup that said world's okayest assistant, had a shirt made that said world's okayest assistant with my shirt with my picture from when I ran beach to bay, and it looked like I was dying.
2:12
SPEAKER_05: Because I'm a gracious boss.
2:14
SPEAKER_05: Whatever.
2:14
SPEAKER_05: You're not my boss.
2:16
SPEAKER_05: And yeah, that's that's gonna go into your report.
2:18
SPEAKER_02: So you can be are you getting paid pretty good?
2:20
SPEAKER_02: No, no, he he's he I tripled your salary.
2:23
SPEAKER_02: He tripled my salary, but you know, triple zero means absolutely nothing.
2:26
SPEAKER_03: So you know, whatever.
2:29
SPEAKER_03: Wow, man, that's awesome.
2:30
SPEAKER_03: I like y'all's chemistry, man.
2:32
SPEAKER_03: And and and when I met y'all when y'all first got here, I was like, oh, they're the exact same on the podcast as they on real life.
2:38
SPEAKER_03: Yep, that's awesome.
2:39
SPEAKER_05: What you see is what you get, yeah, unfortunately.
2:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
2:42
SPEAKER_03: So uh so how did y'all start?
2:45
SPEAKER_03: What did it come up with?
2:46
SPEAKER_05: I mean it started off during the pandemic, and uh, I was listening to another podcast that I like, uh Genius Brain with David So.
2:56
SPEAKER_05: And um I was just like, this dude's just there shooting the shit with his buds, and I'm like, I could do that.
3:02
SPEAKER_05: I got friends, they're cool as hell, and a lot of them are they people don't know their story, and I was just like, you know what, I'm gonna invite people on just so their story can get out.
3:11
SPEAKER_05: Like, like we were talking about earlier about you know leaving a legacy and all that.
3:14
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, uh, these people might not have a chance to do that.
3:17
SPEAKER_05: So I invited people on.
3:18
SPEAKER_05: It's like, okay, well, tell me your story, you know, where you came from, how you, you know, became a musician or artist or whatever, and uh let's put that out there so people can find out, you know, that you're as cool as I know you to be.
3:31
SPEAKER_05: And started off with him as my first guest, and then it we just rolled from there.
3:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was listening to the first episode, and you're like, This is the Recycled Corn podcast, and you're like, should I call it that?
3:40
SPEAKER_03: And he's like, Well, it's already too late.
3:42
SPEAKER_03: You just I couldn't think of all the good names are taken.
3:45
SPEAKER_05: No, I mean, like everything you look of, I don't know who've ever tried to name a podcast recently.
3:50
SPEAKER_05: If you go and type in, you know, let's say you're uh, you know, just a tip, because you just want to give somebody a tip on something how to do if you go to just a tip, it's already taken.
4:01
SPEAKER_05: If you go to, you know, just about anything, and that there's already a podcast called that.
4:07
SPEAKER_05: So there was a joke between me and my wife about you know recycling jokes, because I like to tell a lot of the same stupid jokes over and over again.
4:16
SPEAKER_05: And she was always saying they're so corny.
4:17
SPEAKER_05: And I saw I'd be like, Okay, well, how about I just call it recycle corn this way, you know, it's a little more memorable, I believe, and if wasn't taken.
4:26
SPEAKER_05: But then she was all like, That sounds stupid.
4:29
SPEAKER_05: But then I told Scuba and he's like, I don't mind it.
4:31
SPEAKER_05: And then I was all like, Well, we'll we'll figure it out, you know.
4:34
SPEAKER_05: What once once I hit record, we'll figure it out, and then it just came out, and I was like, you know what?
4:39
SPEAKER_05: I don't mind the sound of it.
4:41
SPEAKER_05: Um, he was cool with it, so I was like, okay, this is what we're running with now.
4:44
SPEAKER_05: So we just kind of dove into the whole concept of it.
4:48
SPEAKER_03: I like that.
4:49
SPEAKER_03: I like that, man.
4:50
SPEAKER_03: Recycled corn.
4:51
SPEAKER_05: It's alright, it came across organic.
4:53
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's already across the airwaves organic.
4:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
4:56
SPEAKER_02: You know, when he brought it up, I was like, oh, that sounds dirty.
4:59
SPEAKER_02: Like recycled corn, because you know, corn doesn't process all the way when you eat it.
5:03
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, that's nasty.
5:05
SPEAKER_02: But once he hit record and we started talking, he's like, Welcome to the recycled corn.
5:09
SPEAKER_02: Well, I don't know if I want to call it that.
5:10
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, it's too late.
5:11
SPEAKER_02: Like that's what that's what you're going with.
5:13
SPEAKER_02: And we honestly, the way I would do my podcast, because I already had podcasts before, you know, I jumped on with him, um, was completely different.
5:22
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, he had the mixer, he had this and that.
5:24
SPEAKER_02: So nothing was fine-tuned yet.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: And what was it?
5:27
SPEAKER_02: Our second episode or third episode was the audio was like almost unbearable.
5:32
SPEAKER_02: You cannot listen to that.
5:33
SPEAKER_02: It's the minister episode, it's still there.
5:35
SPEAKER_02: It's funny because it sounds like an old like 50s radio broadcast sound to it because the levels were just so off.
5:44
SPEAKER_02: And it's funny because we do this whole preacher minister thing throughout the entire episode, and it kind of works, but after that, I was like, dude, I gotta adjust your settings and stuff like that.
5:54
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he came over, he's like, No, let me fix this real quick and all that, and I'm all it sounded so much better.
5:59
SPEAKER_05: Like, I bought this 90 90 mixer on Amazon, and then uh after that episode, I was like, Yeah, I gotta get a better mixer if I'm gonna be taking this podcast thing seriously.
6:09
SPEAKER_05: So I went out and I saved up a little bit of money and and you know invested in it myself, and so now I got a better nothing all Star Trek like we got here.
6:21
SPEAKER_05: But uh, you know, it is decent for for what I got.
6:24
SPEAKER_05: And um the sound quality is just so much night and day, like so much better.
6:29
SPEAKER_05: So I I I consider it worth it.
6:31
SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
6:31
SPEAKER_03: So so you knew you wanted to start a podcast, you already had the equipment, you were just like well, I didn't have the equipment.
6:36
SPEAKER_05: I just I looked it up and I was like, oh, for like$200 I could start a podcast that could potentially could sound good.
6:42
SPEAKER_05: It's just up to me to make it something.
6:45
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
6:45
SPEAKER_05: And um people tell me I'm funny, so I was you know, leaning into that.
6:49
SPEAKER_05: And I thought the questions that I asked on the first interview were unique, that I've never heard anybody ask these questions before.
6:57
SPEAKER_05: So I was like, okay, I'm gonna stick with this kind of format, asking these weird questions, you know, where was your first kiss and stuff like that.
7:04
SPEAKER_05: Um and this way people could get to know more behind the guest, other than just you know, what what everyone asks.
7:14
SPEAKER_03: So it is so it is a like a guest podcast.
7:17
SPEAKER_03: Kind sometimes.
7:18
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes.
7:19
SPEAKER_02: So when when he and I are in the studio, it's just we get in there and we just talk.
7:24
SPEAKER_02: Whatever, you know, whatever's going on in the world or you know, whatever pops in our head.
7:27
SPEAKER_02: There's really no format to the show when he and I are on there together.
7:32
SPEAKER_02: There are episodes that he does by himself that are the interview style, and I don't want to join him on those episodes because I don't want to take away the focus from the guests because I know I can be loud and I know I can be you know not I'm not but I know I know I can you know be this entity that you know kind of pulls the focus away, and I don't want that because I know he likes to do the interview style as well.
8:00
SPEAKER_02: So when he does those, I say those are uh what did I say unofficial or unofficial episodes of Recycled Corn because I wasn't on them.
8:07
SPEAKER_03: So that's cool.
8:08
SPEAKER_03: I like I like that.
8:09
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
8:10
SPEAKER_03: Uh I want to mention Anthony Diaz, shout out for States of Terror.
8:13
SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah.
8:14
SPEAKER_03: Uh that dude's awesome, man.
8:15
SPEAKER_03: That dude's awesome.
8:16
SPEAKER_03: He got a big heart.
8:16
SPEAKER_03: I love that dude.
8:17
SPEAKER_03: He's awesome.
8:17
SPEAKER_03: I don't know him as well as you guys do, but I can tell he's yeah, he's a great dude.
8:21
SPEAKER_05: He's great, yeah.
8:21
SPEAKER_05: He's a great guest.
8:22
SPEAKER_05: Uh we love having him on.
8:24
SPEAKER_05: We were doing it for a while.
8:25
SPEAKER_05: He was coming in every month, but he uh unfortunately had a uh a family tragedy that came up recently, so he's been away and we wish them well, uh wish the family well.
8:35
SPEAKER_05: Um, you know, I I miss I miss having Anthony on, and I I hope we can get back to that as soon as possible.
8:42
SPEAKER_05: Because the dynam, you know, you talk about uh the dynamic between me and scuba.
8:46
SPEAKER_05: Well, me, scuba, and anthony, that's a whole other you know, barrel of monkeys there.
8:50
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, because he's the smart one.
8:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's the guy in the chair.
8:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely.
8:55
SPEAKER_03: It's awesome.
8:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, does he feel I I know he's a veteran, you're a veteran.
8:59
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
8:59
SPEAKER_03: Does the podcasting help you at all uh in terms of uh gets mental health?
9:03
SPEAKER_05: It it does.
9:04
SPEAKER_05: I consider it, and I've said this before, I consider it like a weekly therapy session.
9:08
SPEAKER_05: Um that's why if I don't even release an episode, I'll go and at least record something because it's me getting it off my chest.
9:16
SPEAKER_05: And not that I like like had PTSD or combat, saw combat or anything like that.
9:22
SPEAKER_05: It's just that you know, I I went through some stuff outside of the military that just caused a little bit of you know anxiety and stuff, and it does help.
9:34
SPEAKER_05: And everyone that I've talked to who who does a podcast, they all say the same thing.
9:39
SPEAKER_05: It's it's like a form of therapy.
9:40
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
9:41
SPEAKER_05: So I that's why I recommend to people like if you have an issue like that, try it.
9:48
SPEAKER_05: You never know how how it can.
9:50
SPEAKER_02: It's it benefits you telling your story because somebody else could be going through the same thing that thinks they're alone.
9:58
SPEAKER_02: You know, so I get that aspect, you know, from his point of view.
10:01
SPEAKER_02: And it does, you know, there's people out there that have reached out to us and they're like, hey, so I heard this episode, and yeah, y'all were joking around about whatever, but I'm glad that somebody else knows or is going through that relationship problem or has gone through that same situation and have made it through.
10:19
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I'm not gonna be depressed at all, you know, this this entire time.
10:24
SPEAKER_02: Like there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
10:26
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know.
10:27
SPEAKER_03: And we I would agree that we weren't like that when we were younger.
10:30
SPEAKER_03: Like, how do we get like this all of a sudden?
10:31
SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
10:32
SPEAKER_05: No idea.
10:33
SPEAKER_05: I I I I think life just beats the light out of you, you know, and you have to force it to to stay, you know.
10:43
SPEAKER_05: And if if you look at the the the rate of depression that's going up and all that, I think it has a lot to do, but we just got too much free time on our hands.
10:51
SPEAKER_05: You know, like during the Dust Bowl, people weren't worried about, you know, uh, well, my feelings are hurt about this.
10:57
SPEAKER_05: I like no, I I need to find food to stay alive.
11:00
SPEAKER_05: Like, so we got too much free time on our hands.
11:03
SPEAKER_05: And I'm not saying we should go back to that.
11:05
SPEAKER_05: I'm just saying we need other ways to occupy our minds other than you know, how my life sucks right now.
11:11
SPEAKER_05: Because if you really think about it in this country, especially, we're way better off than you know, a lot of people in the world.
11:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so yeah, it's a lot to be grateful for.
11:20
SPEAKER_03: So much technology too.
11:22
SPEAKER_03: Like uh you were talking about uh phones, uh how we have so much information just in that little Yeah.
11:27
SPEAKER_05: This is a supercomputer in your hands, and you know, we have more technology in this phone than it than it took to get to get us to the moon.
11:34
SPEAKER_05: If we went to the moon, you don't think we went?
11:38
SPEAKER_05: No, don't start.
11:40
SPEAKER_01: I don't think we went.
11:41
SPEAKER_01: Get his tin foil.
11:42
SPEAKER_03: Is that some of the stuff you talk about in your podcast?
11:44
SPEAKER_03: So you got another podcast.
11:45
SPEAKER_02: So I I have a podcast called Somewhat Supernatural, and on that one is where I do have him on sometimes, it's not all the time, but I do like to bring him on just because when I'm not right.
11:55
SPEAKER_02: He likes he likes, you know, the same stuff that I do when it comes to the paranormal.
12:00
SPEAKER_02: Um so I talk about all different kinds of things, you know, cryptids and ghosts and you know, conspiracy theories and things like aliens.
12:09
SPEAKER_02: Anything that you can go down a wormhole, yeah, a rabbit hole, that's what I talk about.
12:16
SPEAKER_02: There's a lot going on about aliens right now.
12:18
SPEAKER_05: I mean, have you seen some of the stuff that's going on?
12:20
SPEAKER_05: So, what's going on there?
12:21
SPEAKER_05: Not really, I mean okay, like like what happened in Miami.
12:24
SPEAKER_05: They're saying that uh at the mall, whatever, that uh uh some aliens just teleported in and started like kind of like glitching, like like they're having trouble staying in our reality and people are freaking out.
12:36
SPEAKER_05: But then the police, like all the police showed up, but they're saying, like, no, no, no, it's just a uh uh a police response to kids popping fireworks in the mall.
12:46
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, yeah, but would they send every police officer over there and they restricted the airspace above the, you know, and the and he was trying to say, like, what are the possibilities of nobody turning on their phone and recording these aliens?
13:01
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, yeah, but one time we were on an investigation and we saw something in the sky, and we had cameras.
13:07
SPEAKER_05: We had cameras in our hands.
13:10
SPEAKER_05: And none of us did, and none of us did.
13:11
SPEAKER_02: And we were so fixated on the these lights that we saw and saw in the sky, and I thought it was Starlink, but that was not what we saw.
13:19
SPEAKER_02: And we were out in the middle of nowhere, you know, off of uh what was it, Chapman Ranch Road or whatever.
13:25
SPEAKER_02: And uh we just saw these lights.
13:27
SPEAKER_02: I thought it was like the sunlight gleaming off of like a power line off in the distance, but then it started to move.
13:33
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, what the hell is that?
13:35
SPEAKER_02: And literally, we're there for a paranormal investigation.
13:37
SPEAKER_02: We have cameras in our hands, yeah, and none of us thought to go boop and record.
13:43
SPEAKER_02: But you know, and that was that was my biggest thing is even if there was kids there or if there was somebody there, if it was aliens, somebody had to it regardless, regardless of the shock that's going on, there's there's shootings and stuff that take place, and people are recording.
14:00
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
14:01
SPEAKER_02: So I just I don't see how nobody put a video out.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: Now here's the thing if they did have video, they confiscated everybody's phones and made them delete the video.
14:12
SPEAKER_02: The only reason I think that is because I was scrolling through, I don't remember if it was TikTok or Facebook or something, and this guy was like, My dad works for the Miami Police Department.
14:23
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna call him and ask him about the aliens.
14:26
SPEAKER_02: He's like, This is legit, I'm not.
14:28
SPEAKER_02: And so he FaceTimes his dad.
14:30
SPEAKER_02: His dad doesn't know that he's recording, and he's like, hey dad, so uh aliens?
14:36
SPEAKER_02: And you know, the dad when he answered the FaceTime, he was like, Oh, hey, what's up, son?
14:39
SPEAKER_02: He's like, so uh aliens, and the dad's like, I can't talk about that.
14:43
SPEAKER_02: Okay, talk about it.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: He's like, Come on, dad, you can tell me.
14:46
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, I can't talk about that.
14:48
SPEAKER_02: He's like, wait, so but tell me, was there aliens?
14:50
SPEAKER_02: He's like, I can't talk about that.
14:53
SPEAKER_02: Like under wraps completely changed.
14:54
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, okay, that could have been faked, but you know, who knows?
14:59
SPEAKER_02: There's something out there.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: There's there's something we don't know.
15:02
SPEAKER_03: I feel like you're you're on the same page as him, you just don't say as much.
15:06
SPEAKER_05: Well, my thing is like I saw a video on TikTok that was taken down where this lady was saying um that she took the coordinates for the ball in Miami and reversed them.
15:17
SPEAKER_05: And it put it in Antarctica or the Arctic or something like that, where they say that there's an alien base.
15:23
SPEAKER_05: Oh so they're saying that whoever was supposed to transport the aliens from one place to another putting the putting the coordinates wrong.
15:30
SPEAKER_05: So they should have been at the base in Antarctica or whatever.
15:34
SPEAKER_05: So I'm all like, I mean, it's too much of a coincidence.
15:38
SPEAKER_05: No, I mean there's been UFO sightings.
15:40
SPEAKER_05: I mean, there's UFO in Renaissance paintings, there's UFOs there.
15:44
SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
15:45
SPEAKER_05: So they've been around for a long time.
15:47
SPEAKER_05: Blacklight satellite, whatever for however, 3,500 years.
15:50
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, black knight.
15:51
SPEAKER_02: The Black Knight satellite.
15:52
SPEAKER_03: What's the deal with the ones in Egypt?
15:53
SPEAKER_03: Is does it have the correlation with aliens?
15:55
SPEAKER_03: Man, Rocky, yeah.
15:57
SPEAKER_02: Of course, dude, there's no way humans built those pyramids.
16:01
SPEAKER_05: And this is how it all starts, right?
16:03
SPEAKER_05: This is how it all starts.
16:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because we've talked about this the whole time.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: But there's there's no way the way they say we built the pyramids happened.
16:11
SPEAKER_02: None.
16:12
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely no way.
16:13
SPEAKER_02: There to move that rock into place and then lift it into place.
16:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
16:21
SPEAKER_03: That's not possible.
16:23
SPEAKER_05: There's a thing called uh um was uh audio uh it's like sound wave levitation, whatever.
16:31
SPEAKER_05: And uh there's a way to uh levitate objects using sound waves.
16:35
SPEAKER_05: And there's actually videos online that you could find of people lifting like pretty good sized rocks.
16:40
SPEAKER_05: They put it on top of a speaker and they turn on the speaker at a certain frequency and it raises that rock up, and they're like, Yeah, look at this.
16:46
SPEAKER_05: And they turn it and just start spinning around.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: So where's that ancient technology been?
16:50
SPEAKER_05: Well, after they got all the I was gonna say, after they got all the gold that they needed, they left.
16:56
SPEAKER_03: They're gone.
16:57
SPEAKER_05: They got what they needed and it took off.
16:58
SPEAKER_05: Where we're the we're the genetically engineered uh workforce, like a hybrid between the apes and their whatever they were.
17:07
SPEAKER_05: Because relatively speaking, you know, uh human showed up maybe like what 200,000 years ago, and they say if you go according to evolution, we should have taken a lot longer to develop than what we did.
17:17
SPEAKER_03: What the heck?
17:18
SPEAKER_05: So well, y'all get deep into that.
17:19
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
17:20
SPEAKER_05: So that's what I'm saying.
17:21
SPEAKER_05: We we could go more and more into it, but you know, it's first off, if I say something wrong, they're gonna tear me apart online, and I get a lot of stuff wrong because the memory just ain't what it used to be.
17:34
SPEAKER_05: Because he's old.
17:36
SPEAKER_05: Well, I'm just 27.
17:39
SPEAKER_03: You've lived a hard 27 years, my friend.
17:42
SPEAKER_03: Well, so PC versus console, which one do you which one do you prefer?
17:46
SPEAKER_05: PC Superior Race.
17:49
SPEAKER_05: Well, depends.
17:50
SPEAKER_05: There's no depends.
17:51
SPEAKER_05: I love my PS5, the VR and everything.
17:55
SPEAKER_02: Like I I can still get good VR on my PC, man.
17:58
SPEAKER_02: My rig is a beast.
17:59
SPEAKER_02: I mean my rig is a beast too.
18:02
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
18:03
SPEAKER_05: But uh I don't know.
18:05
SPEAKER_05: I I I guess because where I work, I work on base, and you know, I work on helicopters, so my my arms aren't what they used to be, as far as you know, like with strength and everything.
18:14
SPEAKER_05: So I can't do too much PC gaming because then my my hands start hurting really bad, or my forearms start hurting really bad.
18:20
SPEAKER_05: So I have to I can only do so much.
18:21
SPEAKER_05: But before all of this happened, I was definitely team PC.
18:25
SPEAKER_02: But here's what I told him because if you noticed, if you didn't see his hands, he's over here playing with the keyboard and mouse.
18:30
SPEAKER_02: No, sir.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: Get yourself a controller.
18:32
SPEAKER_02: Then you might as well play console.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: Like any real American wood.
18:35
SPEAKER_02: You get a controller and you sit there and you play with your controller.
18:37
SPEAKER_02: This Japanese controller, like a real American Japanese controller.
18:40
SPEAKER_03: So might as well play console.
18:41
SPEAKER_03: So you can use a controller for the PC?
18:43
SPEAKER_03: Is that what you're saying?
18:44
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
18:44
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you just Bluetooth it and you can use either your Xbox or your PlayStation controller.
18:48
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
18:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so now you know.
18:50
SPEAKER_02: Nice and knowing it.
18:51
SPEAKER_03: Which games are y'all playing now?
18:53
SPEAKER_05: Oh I'm I'm currently playing Arizona Sunshine 2 on the VR, and that game is freaking awesome.
19:00
SPEAKER_05: It's a zombie shooter, first person, and uh uh you you get a pet dog and everything, and you can throw the ball to the dog, and the dog will fetch it.
19:09
SPEAKER_05: It's it's not just it's not just sounds like something you can do in real life.
19:15
SPEAKER_05: Jeez.
19:16
SPEAKER_01: It's just that let me get online and throw a ball to this dog.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: Yay.
19:24
SPEAKER_02: If you have allergies, so you're more what type so I am more into like uh horror games, anything horror.
19:33
SPEAKER_02: I love you know horror games.
19:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh I just downloaded one called Demonologist, which is kind of uh like a ghost hunting game where you're you you go into this mansion and have to like solve what kind of ghost is there, demons there, whatever.
19:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's terrifying.
19:49
SPEAKER_03: Like quest, like a quest type of game.
19:51
SPEAKER_02: Kind of, um, but it's more of like solving puzzles and stuff, but not really puzzles, but just to find clues to figure out what you know, and there's another game called Phasmophobia, which is a total ghost hunting game, has all the same equipment we use on paranormal investigations, and you have to figure out what type of entity you're dealing with.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: So it's kind of the same style of game, it's just this one's with demons.
20:12
SPEAKER_03: You said download, like is it bootleg or is it uh no no no?
20:15
SPEAKER_02: So uh on Steam, so I don't I don't buy hard copies of games, I download them from Steam, right?
20:22
SPEAKER_02: Which is you know the uh it's a store where you can just buy and you just download it and play it.
20:26
SPEAKER_03: Download it to your console.
20:28
SPEAKER_03: Oh your your console.
20:29
SPEAKER_03: PC, PC.
20:29
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, cool, man.
20:30
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome.
20:31
SPEAKER_03: Uh so you got so you're into you're an actual wrestler, right?
20:36
SPEAKER_02: Yes, well, yes and no.
20:38
SPEAKER_02: So I'm not trained.
20:39
SPEAKER_02: What what happened was this what happened?
20:41
SPEAKER_02: What happened WWE said do not try this at home.
20:44
SPEAKER_02: And we said, you know what, I'm gonna let The Rock do that.
20:47
SPEAKER_02: Challenge over here.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: So uh this buddy of mine had a wrestling belt, he would go to wrestling shows, and people would they would film skits.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, let's take it one step further.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: So we started writing stories, and then we would do the stories, and the title would change hands, and then I said, then we started talking like, well, let's take it one step further.
21:09
SPEAKER_02: Let's start doing a bi-weekly show where we're writing stories and and filming backyard wrestling.
21:15
SPEAKER_02: It didn't have a ring, we would just do it in the grass.
21:18
SPEAKER_02: Created character for myself, and I wasn't supposed to wrestle, I was supposed to be a manager, but I was like, you know what, I'm gonna try it, and it was fun, so I was like, screw it.
21:27
SPEAKER_02: Ended up becoming the biggest heel in our company right now.
21:30
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he says heel, but he's an anti-hero.
21:33
SPEAKER_05: I'm an anti-hero.
21:34
SPEAKER_02: I'm not really a heel.
21:35
SPEAKER_02: I started off as a heel, but now I'm more of an anti-hero.
21:37
SPEAKER_05: People love his character, yeah.
21:39
SPEAKER_05: He's he's a total bad guy, but it's like the Undertaker, you know, like he's he's scary, but the kids love him, you know.
21:45
SPEAKER_02: So it's Yeah, and it was really cool that, you know, because I wear this skeleton mask and I wear all black with the I look like the Grim Reaper essentially when I come out.
21:54
SPEAKER_02: And at one of our shows, this little kid ran up to me and kind of just tugged on my arm.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: On my uh hoodie, and he gave me flowers.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, damn, I'm supposed to be in character right now.
22:07
SPEAKER_02: What do I do?
22:08
SPEAKER_02: And I was totally gonna slam the flowers down and like stomp on them because that's what my character would do, and I just kind of gave him a thumbs up and then just slowly walked away, staring at the flowers to the back, and I was like, Oh I got flowers from a little kid.
22:19
SPEAKER_03: That's fascinating to me how how because some people just do it in their living rooms and stuff, and then y'all actually took it to another level.
22:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so then we what we did after the we call it the grass era, we uh actually started uh wrestling out of a boxing gym in Kingsville, and we were we would rent their boxing ring and put on shows at uh a bar that they have there in Kingsville, and so we would people would go and watch us and we'd come out and do our thing in the ring.
22:51
SPEAKER_02: So then we decided, hey, we're gonna buy our own wrestling ring.
22:55
SPEAKER_02: So now we have our own wrestling ring, it's set up in my buddy's backyard, and we're called All Content Entertainment, and we just like I said, we just write stories and we have an event coming up March 9th.
23:06
SPEAKER_02: Um we're it's our first event in Corpus at the Galvan Ballroom.
23:10
SPEAKER_02: Um so we're we're super excited that we get to go and actually showcase what we're doing.
23:17
SPEAKER_02: And it just started off as a bunch of guys just playing over a belt.
23:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's like they say it's a it's a show by fans for fans.
23:24
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and it's cool.
23:25
SPEAKER_05: I I do commentary on there with my buddy Chris, and it's a lot of fun to watch.
23:31
SPEAKER_05: And now my son's into it too.
23:33
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so he he's there and he's you know, he's he's doing the family proud, you know what I mean?
23:38
SPEAKER_05: So he gets his ass kicked by me every time he's gonna be like 19 or 20 or what?
23:43
SPEAKER_05: How old is he?
23:43
SPEAKER_05: My son is 20 stages, he's short.
23:46
SPEAKER_05: Okay, okay, okay.
23:46
SPEAKER_05: He's a little guy.
23:47
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he gets that from his mom's side.
23:48
SPEAKER_02: But the the thing is so anytime we get new guys, they always because we always make them cut a promo.
23:54
SPEAKER_02: They always go for me.
23:55
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
23:56
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, dude, what the hell?
23:57
SPEAKER_02: Why do you why does everybody always cut promos for me?
24:00
SPEAKER_02: But I'm the heavyweight champion, I'm undefeated.
24:03
SPEAKER_02: Like, so everybody always cuts promos towards me.
24:06
SPEAKER_03: You know, cut promo.
24:07
SPEAKER_03: What is that?
24:08
SPEAKER_03: Meaning where I'm out.
24:09
SPEAKER_03: You you call me out.
24:10
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
24:10
SPEAKER_02: So I say, okay, you're gonna be a wrestler.
24:12
SPEAKER_02: Here's your character, here's what you're gonna do.
24:14
SPEAKER_02: I want you to cut a 30-second promo of you talking crap to Ben, and here's here's why, and go.
24:23
SPEAKER_02: And then you just say what you say, and you know, like kind of like Hulk Hogan used to do in the Macho Man, you know, those those kind of promos.
24:29
SPEAKER_02: Um calling out, calling out the you know, the head dude, the top.
24:33
SPEAKER_02: Everybody wants to talk about it.
24:34
SPEAKER_02: Everybody does that, you know, and I'm not even the main champion.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: Oh, so we have an the all-content champion, which is the main title, and then my belt is the heavyweight championship, which is you know, it's right there too.
24:44
SPEAKER_02: Maybe the peak champion.
24:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that type of thing.
24:47
SPEAKER_05: I mean, if you're gonna call somebody out, call out the head guy.
24:49
SPEAKER_05: I mean, because he's the most popular one in the company.
24:52
SPEAKER_05: Most people don't know, you know, who Stryker is, they know Lord Draven.
24:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know, so why not call out the guy who's putting the asses in seats and bringing in the most views, you know?
25:05
SPEAKER_02: So it's just it's just fun.
25:06
SPEAKER_02: And you know, now we're trying to lead it into a different direction where you know, because we do it for free.
25:13
SPEAKER_02: We don't, you know, we pay out of pocket, like for for the ballroom, and we do accept sponsors and stuff.
25:18
SPEAKER_02: Anybody wants to sponsor the show, we throw, you know, we'll make them a commercial and stuff and throw it on the shows.
25:23
SPEAKER_02: Because like I said, we do do the bi-weekly show, um, and then we you know promote them all year long at the events, everything.
25:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:30
SPEAKER_02: Um, but everything's out of pocket, you know.
25:32
SPEAKER_02: We we we pay for the venue.
25:34
SPEAKER_02: Uh this time around, what's different about this show is we have actual wrestlers coming in and participating in the main event.
25:42
SPEAKER_02: So we got four guys from local wrestling up in Houston.
25:45
SPEAKER_02: They're gonna come down and be it has nothing to do with our stories or anything like that, but just to show, you know, show that hey, we're bringing in talent.
25:54
SPEAKER_02: Some other talent out there.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: So that's awesome.
25:57
SPEAKER_02: But it's fun, it's fun.
25:58
SPEAKER_02: Like I said, I just want to I want to leave a crazy legacy.
26:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I want to do, I want to do all these things that just leave this crazy digital footprint for my future generations to be like, damn.
26:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
26:08
SPEAKER_02: So if y'all want to come check it out, come check it out.
26:11
SPEAKER_02: March 9th, the Galvan Bowl.
26:13
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, definitely, man.
26:14
SPEAKER_03: And then so you're talking about you had a broken rib, though?
26:17
SPEAKER_03: Man, okay, so what's you got a copper tunnel, right?
26:21
SPEAKER_03: You got copper tunnel?
26:21
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and he's got a broken rib.
26:23
SPEAKER_05: Hey, but but but I I also have uh uh uh uh what do you call that?
26:27
SPEAKER_05: Uh a cut finger.
26:29
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:30
SPEAKER_05: So so you know, so in a start of GoFundMe, yeah.
26:34
SPEAKER_02: In our October event, uh I had him, you know, I was the main event or whatever, and the guy I was going up against, we had everything planned out.
26:44
SPEAKER_02: So his move, his finishing move was the stunner.
26:46
SPEAKER_02: Well, my character is a supernatural character.
26:48
SPEAKER_02: So I have I have two titles.
26:50
SPEAKER_02: I have the heavyweight title, and then I have what's called the underworld title.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: And the underworld title is kind of like the undertaker's urn.
26:56
SPEAKER_02: The undertaker got his power from the urn, I get my title or my power from the under the underworld title.
27:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
27:02
SPEAKER_02: So as long as the title's around, you're not gonna hurt me.
27:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you can hit me as hard as you want, and yeah, it's gonna stun me a little bit, but you're not you're not gonna hurt me.
27:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so the way the story was supposed to go is one of the guys that was part of my team defected from my team.
27:20
SPEAKER_02: He came out, took the belt, and said, You're not shit without this, and took off to the back.
27:25
SPEAKER_02: So then, you know, it was all planned, but the tide of the match would change and show that I'm not this unstoppable force.
27:32
SPEAKER_02: I'm not anything without that belt.
27:35
SPEAKER_02: So, mind you, every match that I've had up until this point, I've had either the Thorn title, which was the precursor to the Underworld title.
27:45
SPEAKER_02: Um, I either had that title or the the underworld title there.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: And so I feel like I kind of it's kind of like a thing, like I have to have it there because if it's not there, I'm gonna get hurt.
27:56
SPEAKER_02: So when Grim, the character that took the belt, took it to the back, Mac started beating my ass, and I was selling everything.
28:05
SPEAKER_02: So he was gonna stun me, and we were doing a casket match.
28:07
SPEAKER_02: So the point of the match is you have to get your opponent into the casket that's outside of the ring.
28:12
SPEAKER_02: So we had this whole thing planned.
28:15
SPEAKER_02: He was gonna stun me.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: I was gonna sell the stunner, he was gonna roll me out of the ring, we were gonna get back in the ring.
28:20
SPEAKER_02: There was all this whole thing we were gonna do.
28:23
SPEAKER_02: Well, when he went to do the stunner, you're supposed to let go of your opponent's head before you hit the ground so that they can throw themselves back.
28:30
SPEAKER_02: He didn't let go of my head.
28:31
SPEAKER_02: So when he brought me down, my rib hit his shoulder, and I had jumped to sell the hell out of it.
28:38
SPEAKER_02: So I jumped up when he went up, and I all my weight goes down right on my rib, and I felt it instantly.
28:44
SPEAKER_02: And so I fall to the ground, and it looks brutal.
28:47
SPEAKER_02: Like it, I sold the hell out of it, but it was real, it was real pain that I was in.
28:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and so we're laying there, I'm like, You broke my rib.
28:54
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, What?
28:54
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, You broke my rib, just get me out of the ring.
28:57
SPEAKER_02: So he rolls me out the ring, and there's a part where when I get rolled out and my feet hit, I fall to the ground and I whimper.
29:05
SPEAKER_02: But that wasn't fake, that was real, like that pain that hurt.
29:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
29:10
SPEAKER_02: So then another guy that was on my team came out back with the underworld title.
29:14
SPEAKER_02: So then the tide changes again.
29:15
SPEAKER_02: I get revamped, I start whooping his ass.
29:18
SPEAKER_02: But I'm like, we've got to finish it now.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna fucking curb stomp you into the cement and throw you into the casket.
29:24
SPEAKER_02: And then I was gone until the event that we had in December.
29:28
SPEAKER_05: Well, it's funny though, because in the group chat for uh recycled corn, um, me and my buddy were talking about uh what we were gonna eat for dinner, and I was all like, Yeah, I'm thinking about getting some cracked ribs.
29:41
SPEAKER_05: And he's like, Wow, that sounds really good.
29:43
SPEAKER_05: It was just like you dick.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, yeah.
29:46
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, but so so even though it's scripted and even though you know everything's predetermined, you can still get hurt.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we had to do this last event that you know tried to do a move, and he had practiced it and practiced it and done great every time, but he pulled it off in the ring, and the guy's shoe came up and hit him in the face, and he tore his nostril, his nostril, like the cartilage right here, and yeah, just sort of just had a slice right in his nose.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: And so, like I said, we we don't get paid for this, you know.
30:17
SPEAKER_02: We just go and do it for fun, and yeah, it is fun.
30:20
SPEAKER_02: But I'm getting old, you know.
30:21
SPEAKER_03: We gotta get we gotta get y'all on the podcast.
30:23
SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah.
30:24
SPEAKER_03: That'd be awesome.
30:25
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, be awesome.
30:25
SPEAKER_03: We're talking about scripted, so you you script uh the podcast?
30:28
SPEAKER_05: Sometimes.
30:29
SPEAKER_05: Oh uh so some segments are scripted, but in I I'm in scripted ends as though maybe there's like one or two lines that I want there to be said, and then after that he's free to do whatever he wants until the next part that I want him to say.
30:46
SPEAKER_05: Because I I have a specific direction that I'm trying to lead us down, and if I don't follow this particular path, then it just we go all over the place.
30:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and sometimes I don't mind that happening, but let's say I'm setting up for a joke or I'm setting up for like a wifey sauce bit, yeah, or something like that, then I need it to go a certain way.
31:06
SPEAKER_05: So I those times are very, very rare that I'll like script it out.
31:12
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but like I mean, writing scripts, like I've written scripts for his supernatural show, I've you know written things for other people's uh stuff, but um, you know, well, not for Anthony because he can he's a writer, he's like a professional writer.
31:27
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
31:27
SPEAKER_05: You know, he I I I used uh Chat GPT to write something one time, just like a just like a quick thing.
31:33
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and he got so offended.
31:35
SPEAKER_02: Oh no way, wow!
31:36
SPEAKER_05: I was like, I'm sorry.
31:38
SPEAKER_02: I wrote a whole two-part episode of Someone Supernatural on Chat GPT on exorcisms just because I wanted to see if it would give factual information and everything was legit.
31:50
SPEAKER_02: Nice, and it it it you know put it perfectly in.
31:53
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, dude, we can get two episodes out of this, like let's do it.
31:56
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
31:57
SPEAKER_02: And it just works easy for me because I know what I want to look up, but I just don't want to do the research for it.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm lazy like that sometimes.
32:11
SPEAKER_03: So I guess the AI could be good and it could be bad.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: It can be bad in a sense, as especially if like you try to write a paper for school or something, you know.
32:20
SPEAKER_02: I feel like that, in that sense, it's kind of dumbing down our our you know, our kids and stuff because they're not stupid.
32:28
SPEAKER_02: They know they can just go in and type in, write me a paper about this and this.
32:32
SPEAKER_02: There's no way that the teacher's gonna be able to tell.
32:34
SPEAKER_05: Or if you're trying to copy somebody's writing style or their artistic style, or if they're trying to, you know, do uh uh what's the the most recent thing, like deep fakes, whatever, where they put you know, naked pictures, but they'll put like Taylor Swift's face on someone else's body and make it look like whatever.
32:51
SPEAKER_05: So stuff like that.
32:52
SPEAKER_05: That's where AI kind of like, you know, it's it's not great, but they said with Anthony, he's he's a purist in that you know his passion is writing.
33:01
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so it'd be like telling a musician, you know, like I don't need you anymore because I got this computer that can do the same thing you can do, and there's no soul to it, you know.
33:11
SPEAKER_05: So I I get where he's coming from, but at the same time I get where he's coming from because sometimes like man, I I need to do an episode.
33:17
SPEAKER_05: I got like 15 minutes before Scuba gets here.
33:19
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, let me go to Chat GPT and hey, write me a script for blah blah blah.
33:23
SPEAKER_05: And then all right, perfect.
33:25
SPEAKER_05: I'll copy paste.
33:26
SPEAKER_03: Okay, that's cool.
33:28
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome.
33:28
SPEAKER_03: So you so you don't just so like did you start doing the scripts like at the very beginning, or like when did you decide you needed one?
33:36
SPEAKER_05: Or it it was it was kind of in the middle.
33:39
SPEAKER_05: We're still trying to figure out our our uh voice, you know, and um the the scripts at first were were more substantiative, I guess.
33:52
SPEAKER_05: But then the more I learned about Scuba and how our rapport is, those scripts started getting less and less and less to where now the only thing that I have scripted is my opening and the closing, and that's because there's certain things that I want to say at the beginning, certain things I want to say at the end.
34:08
SPEAKER_05: And basically I just want to for make sure that I say the the tagline, you know, the podcast about nothing and everything, and at the end to uh make sure that I don't forget any of the socials or the uh email address, whatever.
34:21
SPEAKER_03: See how did you fall on the it's uh about everything get nothing or well because people would say, What's your podcast about?
34:28
SPEAKER_05: When I tell them, Oh yeah, I got my own podcast.
34:30
SPEAKER_05: Really?
34:30
SPEAKER_05: What's it about?
34:32
SPEAKER_05: It's really about nothing.
34:33
SPEAKER_05: I was like, but we talk about everything.
34:35
SPEAKER_05: So I was all like, huh.
34:37
SPEAKER_05: We're like Seinfeld, but podcast form.
34:39
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
34:40
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, I never thought about that.
34:43
SPEAKER_05: I never really watched Seinfeld though.
34:45
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was thinking that too for like for my podcast.
34:48
SPEAKER_03: I think it came from that.
34:49
SPEAKER_03: Like, I was like, uh, we're originals, like we're nobody yet, we're everybody.
34:54
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
34:55
SPEAKER_01: I like that.
34:55
SPEAKER_01: That's deep.
34:56
SPEAKER_02: But isn't that deep though?
34:57
SPEAKER_02: Isn't that anonymous?
34:59
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
35:00
SPEAKER_01: It's like good.
35:01
SPEAKER_01: It sounds good, though.
35:02
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I like it.
35:03
SPEAKER_05: I'm I'm not gonna say right next to you know next to you know that picture that Melody told me.
35:10
SPEAKER_01: Oh no, it's gonna be all over the internet.
35:12
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it'd be like if you really zoom in on it.
35:17
SPEAKER_01: She was so embarrassed wrote that video.
35:19
SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
35:20
SPEAKER_01: Shout out to her, man.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: She's gonna be so mad that you brought that up.
35:24
SPEAKER_01: So mad at you.
35:25
SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about it.
35:28
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome, man.
35:29
SPEAKER_03: That's that's pretty cool.
35:30
SPEAKER_03: So you so you plan to have it have it for going for a good while.
35:34
SPEAKER_05: We're like 78 episodes in.
35:38
SPEAKER_05: So if you think about it, like the early episodes were over, some of them were over two, three hours.
35:43
SPEAKER_05: Um so man, we've been doing this for over almost over a hundred hours, I guess you could say, of content that I've put out, which is really kind of sad if you think about it.
35:56
SPEAKER_05: I'm so thankful of only doing it for like 50 hours.
35:59
SPEAKER_05: Because it's I've been gone for so long and I haven't even put out that much.
36:04
SPEAKER_05: I I know I'm very inconsistent, you know.
36:06
SPEAKER_05: Uh life happens with us, and you know, sometimes we we can't put out an episode, and I'm just like, man, I thought I would have more by now.
36:14
SPEAKER_05: I know by for a hundredth episode, I do want to do probably a live episode um where we can take questions and stuff like that.
36:22
SPEAKER_05: We're probably gonna do it at Molly's.
36:23
SPEAKER_05: Nice.
36:24
SPEAKER_05: Uh, just because you know yeah, because I worked there.
36:30
SPEAKER_05: But uh uh yeah, like use me.
36:33
SPEAKER_01: Use this.
36:37
SPEAKER_02: If you don't know what that's from, it's from Blood In Blood Out.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
36:41
SPEAKER_03: Uh man, you were talking about uh Molly's house.
36:44
SPEAKER_03: Somebody got shot over there.
36:45
SPEAKER_03: That's crazy, bro.
36:46
SPEAKER_03: Like, and then and then you were like, man, I can't believe we went business as usual the next day.
36:51
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's crazy.
36:52
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know, then I well if you let it get to you, then the bad guys win.
36:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, and that's that's the thing, is is the as sad as the situation is, and it was a total fucked up situation.
37:05
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's we can sit there and let it linger and let it take over our lives, which I did.
37:12
SPEAKER_02: I did.
37:12
SPEAKER_02: I I suffered, I still do, can't be around around like loud noises, like if some somebody drops something and makes a loud bang, like my PTSD kicks in.
37:21
SPEAKER_02: You know, still to this day, and this was back in 2019, 2020, whenever it happened.
37:26
SPEAKER_02: It just it's it's fucked up, and it took a long time for me to go back into the bar.
37:30
SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm kind of glad COVID happened because it gave me a time to actually mentally prepare to go back in there, you know what I mean?
37:37
SPEAKER_02: But you know, it things happen, it doesn't matter where you're at, you know.
37:41
SPEAKER_02: You could be at Walmart, you could be downtown, you you know, look at what happened at the the parade for the Chiefs.
37:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, you're you're just there having a good time and some dickwad comes in and just screws everything up, you know.
37:54
SPEAKER_02: But if you let the bad guys win, then you're not doing your part of living, you know.
38:02
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
38:03
SPEAKER_03: Good way to look at it, man.
38:04
SPEAKER_03: So you guys got the recliners now.
38:06
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
38:07
SPEAKER_05: So good to sleep in.
38:08
SPEAKER_05: It was such a good investment.
38:09
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, like people fall asleep if I fall asleep during the podcast.
38:13
SPEAKER_05: That would be funny.
38:13
SPEAKER_05: I was so mired.
38:14
SPEAKER_05: I was so I get it though.
38:16
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I get it.
38:17
SPEAKER_05: You he he had a long, a long uh week or a weekend, and then the the long week leading up to that recording of that episode.
38:25
SPEAKER_05: But I was all like, dude, it's an hour, you know.
38:28
SPEAKER_05: Like, but I like I said, I get it.
38:30
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I was pissed in the moment, but it, but you know, hindsight, I'm all like, yeah, he has every right.
38:36
SPEAKER_05: But I was still talking.
38:37
SPEAKER_05: I was every yeah, you actually fell asleep, bro?
38:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think Anthony was on the next one.
38:43
SPEAKER_02: Anthony was on the next one.
38:46
SPEAKER_05: Anthony and I were keeping the conversation going, and I was in there.
38:52
SPEAKER_02: I was tired, bro.
38:53
SPEAKER_02: I had to be bored.
38:54
SPEAKER_02: Leave me alone.
38:55
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, oh man, yeah, for sure.
38:57
SPEAKER_03: Lose sleep on that one.
38:58
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you're making your way, you're slowly making your way to the video podcast or what?
39:02
SPEAKER_05: Eventually.
39:03
SPEAKER_05: Um, but like I said, I don't know too many people who want to see this in high def.
39:08
SPEAKER_01: I have to see it all the time, so I have to see it.
39:10
SPEAKER_01: We need to share it to take off your glasses.
39:12
SPEAKER_01: It's not fair.
39:14
SPEAKER_01: It's not fair.
39:15
SPEAKER_05: I don't know about my wife's like, you know, but but you're handsome, I'm all like, I know.
39:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I know.
39:20
SPEAKER_05: Still, I have insecurities.
39:22
SPEAKER_02: You're the kind of handsome that all abolitas tell, you know, right their grandkids.
39:28
SPEAKER_01: I thank you.
39:34
SPEAKER_01: And they feed us the most, right?
39:35
SPEAKER_01: Right.
39:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
39:37
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
39:38
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so what were you talking about?
39:39
SPEAKER_03: Something that made me go think about like uh the parenting post I was talking about.
39:44
SPEAKER_03: You guys are both parents, right?
39:46
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
39:46
SPEAKER_03: How do y'all feel about that?
39:48
SPEAKER_03: Like uh, because I was talking about how um we need our children need their parents.
39:53
SPEAKER_05: Oh, definitely.
39:54
SPEAKER_05: I uh growing well, should I say when my kids are growing up, I I know I wasn't there for them the way I should have been.
40:04
SPEAKER_05: Um I was involved with a partner who wasn't healthy for me in that regard.
40:10
SPEAKER_05: And um stepping away, I was all like I finally got a chance to to to think about what had happened and the wedge that she drove in between me and my family.
40:21
SPEAKER_05: And I was all like, man, I can I can't believe I let this happen.
40:24
SPEAKER_05: So I've been, you know, slowly rebuilding that relationship and that trust in my kids.
40:31
SPEAKER_05: And now I'm all like, man, like you know, I I will literally be be brought to tears sometimes when I think like, man, I wasn't there for my daughter's, you know, big moments or my son's moments or whatever, because I let this woman, you know, infect my head the way she did.
40:50
SPEAKER_05: But you know, as long as I'm alive, there's always tomorrow.
40:56
SPEAKER_05: So like I said, I'm building those things back, but I can advise people because I have been the bad parent, you know.
41:06
SPEAKER_05: And that's why when I see the way he is with his kids, I'm all like, man, that's the man that I should have been.
41:12
SPEAKER_05: And that's why I respect him so much, you know.
41:14
SPEAKER_05: I see the way he's being choked up right now.
41:21
SPEAKER_05: Don't compliment me after you've been talking shit this whole time.
41:25
SPEAKER_05: That's our whole that's that's our thing.
41:27
SPEAKER_05: That's our thing.
41:30
SPEAKER_05: I um like I said, a lot of my friends are really good parents.
41:34
SPEAKER_05: And I'm like, I wish these guys were around when I needed those peers to guide me, you know.
41:45
SPEAKER_05: I don't have a great relationship with my brothers.
41:51
SPEAKER_05: And it affects you.
41:53
SPEAKER_03: Was your dad around?
41:55
SPEAKER_05: Not my real dad.
41:57
SPEAKER_05: Stepdad.
41:58
SPEAKER_05: Stepdad, yeah, he did his best, but you know, that's what you're saying.
42:02
SPEAKER_05: The importance of parents, right?
42:05
SPEAKER_05: He was a parent, but that wasn't what I wanted at the time.
42:10
SPEAKER_05: I needed it my real dad.
42:12
SPEAKER_05: He was there.
42:13
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
42:14
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, my mom left.
42:16
SPEAKER_03: My brother and I with my dad.
42:18
SPEAKER_03: We were I was maybe like two or three years old.
42:21
SPEAKER_03: Out of sight.
42:23
SPEAKER_03: Never saw her until I was a teenager.
42:25
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
42:26
SPEAKER_03: My stepmom and my dad raised us when we were younger.
42:31
SPEAKER_03: Uh and I made some stupid decisions later in life.
42:35
SPEAKER_03: Went to live with my mom.
42:37
SPEAKER_03: My dad was pissed.
42:38
SPEAKER_03: I I didn't know until later.
42:40
SPEAKER_03: I'm 40 41 now, and I have my own kids, and I want them to have a relationship with my dad and my stepmom because I see what I saw what they may not have been perfect or whatever, but I saw what they did for us.
42:54
SPEAKER_03: And I was like, and I find myself doing that for my kids.
43:02
SPEAKER_05: You know, there's my bio dad, and there's, you know, my d my dad dad.
43:06
SPEAKER_05: He did he did what he could for us because we made it difficult for him.
43:11
SPEAKER_05: Not because he didn't care.
43:13
SPEAKER_05: You know, and I don't want that to to to be put out there.
43:16
SPEAKER_05: Like he did his best because we were dicks as kids, you know.
43:20
SPEAKER_05: Um my brother, my older brother and I, we we had we knew our father um up for for so many years, whatever.
43:29
SPEAKER_05: So when he left, it was like, well, why are you going?
43:32
SPEAKER_05: Why can't we go with you and all that?
43:34
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
43:34
SPEAKER_05: Because he was always the fun one.
43:35
SPEAKER_05: You know, my mom was a disciplinarian and and the dad was a fun one.
43:39
SPEAKER_05: So when he left, it was like, okay, well, we want to go hang out with with you, you know, we have fun with you.
43:44
SPEAKER_05: But so, like I said, it made it hard for my stepdad.
43:47
SPEAKER_05: But now looking back, I'm like, man, I caught my first fish with him, you know, throwing the ball around, and he taught me how to change the brakes on a car, all these different things.
43:57
SPEAKER_05: And I'm just like, that's why I I don't call my Biodad dad.
44:01
SPEAKER_05: Like this is my dad.
44:02
SPEAKER_05: I won't let anybody like when you if you put a picture of my dad, like not my biodad, but my dad and me right now, we look exactly alike.
44:12
SPEAKER_05: And it's like, how is that possible for not being a big thing?
44:15
SPEAKER_02: Because dogs look like their owners.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: It's a scientific fact.
44:20
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
44:21
SPEAKER_05: I'm just I'm just saying that.
44:23
SPEAKER_05: I I mean, I guess when you I'm licking my nuts and I fall off the fall off the sofa.
44:28
SPEAKER_02: I mean, but you know, and in the same aspect, I get where he's coming from because my stepdad raised me from the time that he met my mom.
44:36
SPEAKER_02: He the story was that he kidnapped me when he when I was a baby.
44:41
SPEAKER_02: My mom was a waitress at a bar.
44:44
SPEAKER_02: He was one of the regulars at the bar.
44:45
SPEAKER_02: She didn't have anybody to babysit me because she was on her own, you know, and I was a one-night stand baby.
44:50
SPEAKER_02: And so he saw me there, gave her his idea, and said, This is where the baby will be at when you get out of work.
44:59
SPEAKER_02: You're not gonna keep him here in this bar.
45:01
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
45:01
SPEAKER_02: You know, and this is back in the 80s.
45:02
SPEAKER_02: I was born in 82.
45:04
SPEAKER_02: So um he took me home, and my grandparents were like, Where did you get a baby from?
45:09
SPEAKER_02: And my grandpa was like, You need to take that baby back, this and that.
45:12
SPEAKER_02: Him and my mom ended up dating.
45:14
SPEAKER_02: My grandparents just loved me.
45:16
SPEAKER_02: Like, I've always been the favorite.
45:18
SPEAKER_02: Like, I never knew my dad was not my dad until my mom just like shattered my world when I was in fifth grade and told me that my real father wanted to meet me.
45:29
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, what do you mean?
45:30
SPEAKER_02: And what the fucked up part about that is, and I still remember this the day before I got mad at my dad, and I said, I wish you weren't my real dad.
45:38
SPEAKER_02: And I swear to God, had those words never came out of my mouth, he would have been my real dad.
45:43
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
45:43
SPEAKER_02: But I feel like I made that happen.
45:45
SPEAKER_02: That stupid little kid at you know, 11 years old.
45:48
SPEAKER_02: Manifesting things, and uh, you know, and even when him and my mom, you know, and it didn't change our relationship, it just made us stronger, you know, and I hung out on the you know the full day with my real father, and then I never saw him again, never heard from him again until I was in high school.
46:05
SPEAKER_02: But even at then it didn't matter.
46:07
SPEAKER_02: He didn't raise me.
46:08
SPEAKER_02: I'm a Vasquez because of my dad.
46:10
SPEAKER_02: You know, when I talk about my dad, my dad died in 2016.
46:14
SPEAKER_02: That's my dad.
46:14
SPEAKER_02: That's the man who made me the man I am today.
46:16
SPEAKER_02: Was he perfect?
46:17
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely not.
46:18
SPEAKER_02: He was an alcoholic, he was on drugs, but I learned what I didn't want to be for my kids.
46:23
SPEAKER_02: He was a great father.
46:25
SPEAKER_02: Was he the best person?
46:26
SPEAKER_02: No.
46:26
SPEAKER_02: But he was a great father.
46:28
SPEAKER_02: He did what he could for us.
46:29
SPEAKER_02: But when him and my mom split up, he just went on this downward spiral that he never recovered from, and he died in 2016.
46:35
SPEAKER_02: You know, uh he had all these things wrong with him, and his drug use didn't help, and you know, it just kind of took him away from us earlier than what he should have been.
46:44
SPEAKER_02: He was only 59 when he died.
46:45
SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, and um so I know my real father, I have him on Facebook.
46:50
SPEAKER_02: I talk to my siblings from his side, you know, but he's not my dad.
46:54
SPEAKER_02: He'll never be my dad.
46:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
46:56
SPEAKER_02: My mom ended up remarrying, and I consider Larry my stepdad.
47:00
SPEAKER_02: He's my stepdad, you know, and I call him dad now because he did a great job of raising my brother and my sister.
47:05
SPEAKER_02: You know, he didn't raise me, my dad raised me, but I respect him for what he did for my mom and my brother and my sister.
47:13
SPEAKER_02: He earned that title.
47:14
SPEAKER_02: He did, he earned that title, you know, and he's he's a great guy.
47:18
SPEAKER_02: And but like I said, my dad was a great father, and I took all of the good that he showed me and I amplified that to my kids.
47:30
SPEAKER_02: You know, and and my kids mean the world to me.
47:32
SPEAKER_02: You know, my oldest son is 22 and my baby's nine months old, you know, and then I have a bunch in between, not a bunch, but you know, there's three in between.
47:40
SPEAKER_02: But I never treated any of them different.
47:44
SPEAKER_02: My my 21-year-old, he's he's my stepson from my previous marriage, but that that's my son.
47:49
SPEAKER_02: He just graduated from AIT today.
47:51
SPEAKER_02: He's in the army.
47:52
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
47:52
SPEAKER_02: And so, you know, we're we're there was a situation, so we gotta find out if he's going to uh ranger school after all or not.
47:58
SPEAKER_02: No, well, cool.
48:00
SPEAKER_02: But fingers crossed, but you know, he he did something that I never thought he would.
48:04
SPEAKER_02: My oldest is, you know, trying to be a mechanic, you know, my 22-year-old son.
48:08
SPEAKER_02: My 19-year-old daughter, it's kind of a fucked up story, but when I first got married to my son's mom, she cheated on me with my best friend.
48:18
SPEAKER_02: And I call that the Vasquez curse because that's what happened to my dad and my mom.
48:21
SPEAKER_02: She cheated on him with his best friend.
48:23
SPEAKER_02: So when she left me, she was already pregnant, didn't know she was pregnant.
48:26
SPEAKER_02: So my ex-best friend raised my daughter, my firstborn daughter.
48:30
SPEAKER_00: Whoa.
48:32
SPEAKER_02: So we don't really have we have a relationship.
48:34
SPEAKER_02: She knows who I am.
48:34
SPEAKER_02: I've always been in her life, but just as her big brother's dad, she knows I'm her father now, whatever, you know.
48:41
SPEAKER_02: Um but she looks my my daughter now, my baby Charlie, looks exactly like she did when she was a baby.
48:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, and she's the one that pointed that out.
48:52
SPEAKER_02: I didn't point that out because I have any baby pictures of her.
48:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
48:54
SPEAKER_02: You know, and then my daughter Sam, she's my world.
48:57
SPEAKER_02: She just graduated high school early.
48:59
SPEAKER_02: Like she's she's my stubborn one, though.
49:01
SPEAKER_02: She's Derka, you know, and I just wanna I wanna be the best dad to them and give them the things that my dad was never able to do.
49:10
SPEAKER_02: I have diabetic like my dad, so I take care of myself as best as I can.
49:14
SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm not out there making stupid decisions like he did because his thing was, well, I'm gonna die anyways.
49:21
SPEAKER_02: Cool, but if you die, you're gonna miss out on all this stuff, you know.
49:26
SPEAKER_02: And I don't I don't want to miss out on anything.
49:27
SPEAKER_02: I want to walk my daughter down the aisle.
49:29
SPEAKER_02: I want to see my son get married, I want to see my new baby girl, you know, grow and see what she becomes in life, you know.
49:36
SPEAKER_02: And granted, I'll be a hito when she's old, but you know, I I just she'll have a good support system, right?
49:43
SPEAKER_02: She will, she will.
49:44
SPEAKER_02: But I just, you know, and even though you have uh you love your parents no matter what, you know, and like I said, my dad was not uh the best person, but he did what he could for us and he was the best father that I could have asked for because even with the bad, yeah, it showed me what I didn't want to be.
50:03
SPEAKER_03: You know?
50:04
SPEAKER_03: Do you do you feel yourself do you feel yourself find yourselves being like hard on yourself?
50:09
SPEAKER_03: Like too hard on yourself?
50:11
SPEAKER_03: Like you know what I mean?
50:12
SPEAKER_05: As as a He has to tell me sometimes like basically smack me around and be like, dude, stop.
50:18
SPEAKER_05: Just chill.
50:19
SPEAKER_05: You know, yeah.
50:20
SPEAKER_05: I'm I'm very I'm my own worst critic when it comes to and and not just when it comes to the podcast, but just in life too.
50:28
SPEAKER_05: Um I'm very hard on myself.
50:30
SPEAKER_05: And I think it's kind of you know my my I don't want to say like perfectionist thing because I've I've learned to kind of go beyond that, but I'm very like if I it's it's kind of like an all or nothing attitude, you know.
50:44
SPEAKER_05: If I don't achieve like the best, like when I was in uh uh in the army, I had to be honored.
50:49
SPEAKER_05: If I did if I wasn't honored, then why why was I even there?
50:54
SPEAKER_05: You know, so it's like I got honor grad and then after that I needed to be squad leader and then you know, um I always want to be the best at everything.
51:02
SPEAKER_05: Like with the podcast, like I said before, I'm always trying to learn.
51:05
SPEAKER_05: I'm always trying to, you know, well, what are what mics is this guy using?
51:09
SPEAKER_05: What mixer, like you know, what video equipment and all this stuff, you know, because I want to be the best, but um, you know, I've I just realized, you know, sometimes the best isn't meant for me.
51:22
SPEAKER_05: You know, if I wait till something is the best before I put it out, it's never gonna be put out.
51:27
SPEAKER_05: So I need to just take it to where as far as I can get it and just put it out there and just be, you know, let it go, be done with it.
51:35
SPEAKER_05: That's why we're talking about that episode where the sound was was awful.
51:40
SPEAKER_05: Um, I haven't listened to that episode again because I'm just like it's horrible.
51:43
SPEAKER_05: It's not the best that I what could have I could have put out.
51:46
SPEAKER_05: Excuse me.
51:47
SPEAKER_05: So I I refuse to acknowledge it.
51:50
SPEAKER_02: I listen to it because it's funny.
51:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I do I go back and I listen to it and I laugh because I'm like, dude, this sucks.
51:56
SPEAKER_02: But like I said, it has like that old time feel like you're listening to it through a tin can.
52:01
SPEAKER_02: Like it's just the audio on it is so bad.
52:04
SPEAKER_02: But I love it because I'm like, dude, it's this is us.
52:09
SPEAKER_02: This this episode is the epitome of the recycled corn pods.
52:13
SPEAKER_02: Like, this is this is where we got started.
52:16
SPEAKER_05: It's like we're trying our best, but sometimes you know, and I'm not hard on myself.
52:21
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I guess I am.
52:22
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes it just I take on so much stuff, and I want to excel at everything that I take on, whether it's the wrestling or the ghost hunting or the podcast or you know, writing scripts and and and doing short films, and you know, I just got cast to be a villain in a video game.
52:42
SPEAKER_02: I can't say anything because the NDA, but I'm gonna be a main villain in a video game that's coming out on PC and like off of TikTok, bro.
52:52
SPEAKER_02: And I thought it was bull.
52:53
SPEAKER_02: Wow, I thought it was bull that they were contacting me to do this.
52:57
SPEAKER_02: I was like, eh, whatever.
52:58
SPEAKER_02: But I had the interview and signed contracts, and you know, and yeah, so I get to play this badass fucking character in this MMO RPG that's coming out on all these awesome systems that I play on.
53:12
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, there's another thing, there's another thing I get to add to my IMDB.
53:15
SPEAKER_02: Like cool, this is awesome.
53:17
SPEAKER_02: And I get to say I know that guy.
53:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
53:20
SPEAKER_03: Nice, nice.
53:21
SPEAKER_03: Um, so the all market, how do you market find yourself marketing the podcast on social media?
53:25
SPEAKER_03: I don't.
53:25
SPEAKER_05: We don't it's all it's all word of mouth.
53:28
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and and one of the reasons is uh I'm broke.
53:31
SPEAKER_05: No, I uh I I I have been approached for like sponsorships and stuff, but the people who've approached me have always said the same thing.
53:39
SPEAKER_05: Oh, I don't want you, you know, I'll do this for you, I'll pay you this money, but don't talk about this anymore.
53:44
SPEAKER_05: Or don't talk about that anymore.
53:45
SPEAKER_03: They've done that to you, yeah.
53:46
SPEAKER_05: Seriously, and I'm just like, uh I don't want to get involved with that, you know.
53:50
SPEAKER_05: Like if somebody's wants to sponsor us, great.
53:54
SPEAKER_05: But I want you, I want you to want us the way we are because we're not gonna change it.
53:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and I oh my god, I would love to be able to do the podcast, you know, as our full-time job.
54:05
SPEAKER_05: You know, I would love to be able to you know take a camera crew and go down to you know Devil's River.
54:12
SPEAKER_05: We've been wanting to go.
54:13
SPEAKER_05: We got invited to go to Devils River in San Antonio uh to go private tour and all that stuff because we're always talking about them.
54:19
SPEAKER_05: We just haven't been able to do it because one, I don't have the equipment, and two, they just find the time to get out there.
54:24
SPEAKER_05: I'm going next weekend.
54:26
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so he's gonna be our uh as as uh assist uh co-host.
54:31
SPEAKER_05: Motherfucker that's his duty, that's his duty.
54:36
SPEAKER_05: Quadruple the salary this time.
54:38
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, next next year.
54:39
SPEAKER_05: We'll talk about it.
54:39
SPEAKER_05: Damn it.
54:40
SPEAKER_02: Never gonna get any money.
54:42
SPEAKER_05: Get us a sponsor.
54:44
SPEAKER_05: If anybody wants a dusty, you want to sponsor.
54:48
SPEAKER_03: Shout out Dusty uh for letting us, man, for letting us know.
54:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this place is beautiful, it's awesome.
54:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
54:53
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to go to your studio no more.
54:55
SPEAKER_02: I know the studio is crap.
54:56
SPEAKER_03: Produce also, producer.
54:58
SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
54:59
SPEAKER_03: They got this hoodie.
55:00
SPEAKER_03: I I love this hoodie.
55:01
SPEAKER_03: Uh man, I like metal bands and I like the logos that they come out with.
55:05
SPEAKER_03: This says produce goods on it.
55:06
SPEAKER_03: They got it now on sale at the shop.
55:09
SPEAKER_03: Check it out, produce goods.
55:10
SPEAKER_03: See, they don't pay me to say that.
55:12
SPEAKER_03: I I just want to support what they're doing here.
55:15
SPEAKER_03: So yeah.
55:15
SPEAKER_02: 20-year-old me would have been able to read that without him telling me what it said.
55:19
SPEAKER_02: Because, you know, 20-year-old me listened to metal, and you know, 41-year-old me going into 42 next week.
55:26
SPEAKER_02: I I got that old man syndrome because I was like, Oh, I see where it's in produce.
55:30
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay, I get it.
55:31
SPEAKER_05: I'm all like, oh, it's a butterfly.
55:32
SPEAKER_05: Oh my god, that's not that kind of thing.
55:37
SPEAKER_03: Nice, man.
55:38
SPEAKER_03: Uh we're coming up on almost an hour.
55:40
SPEAKER_03: We got like five minutes left.
55:42
SPEAKER_03: Uh, is there anything you all want to share?
55:44
SPEAKER_05: Um scuba likes HEB tortillas.
55:49
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
55:50
SPEAKER_02: I they're awesome.
55:52
SPEAKER_02: Butter ones, the butter ones are great.
55:54
SPEAKER_02: Don't don't tortilla shame me, bro.
55:56
SPEAKER_05: Which HEB do you avoid?
55:58
SPEAKER_05: Oh, foo.
56:00
SPEAKER_05: Uh Annaval.
56:01
SPEAKER_05: I was gonna say I tried to go to not go to the one on uh on port unless I have my gun on me.
56:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh shit.
56:07
SPEAKER_02: That's Rasa, bro.
56:09
SPEAKER_02: So Rasa.
56:10
SPEAKER_02: I avoid the Annaval one because I went to Teloso and I hate I okay, as much as I am an extrovert, I hate talking to people that in public.
56:20
SPEAKER_02: Like, especially, you know, people are like, how can you be antisocial but you're a DJ?
56:25
SPEAKER_02: Well, because I'm in my DJ booth, I don't have to go out and talk to people.
56:29
SPEAKER_02: I'm behind the mic.
56:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I just call people up to the stage to sing their karaoke songs, and I play music and make everybody happy.
56:35
SPEAKER_05: I don't really like going and having like speaking speaking of what how how often are you uh recognized in public?
56:43
SPEAKER_02: It dep it depends.
56:45
SPEAKER_02: Like, I not as much as I used to be back in the day.
56:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I've now now I get recognized for different things.
56:53
SPEAKER_02: Now it's like, oh, you're the ghost dude.
56:56
SPEAKER_02: You know, you you know, I've been I've been recognized because of the you know the dark side paranormal stuff.
57:00
SPEAKER_02: Like, and that for me is like the ultimate because it's like, oh, cool, you watch the ghost stuff.
57:05
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I mean?
57:06
SPEAKER_02: Like if somebody's like, oh scuba, cool, I met you at a bar.
57:08
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
57:08
SPEAKER_05: But I've met one person who recognized me from the podcast.
57:12
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
57:12
SPEAKER_05: And they tell me, like, oh, you're you know, from the recycled corner.
57:15
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's me.
57:16
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, scuba's fucking funny.
57:18
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, you know what?
57:22
SPEAKER_02: I take all credit.
57:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
57:25
SPEAKER_05: Hey, but who's the one who hired you?
57:27
SPEAKER_05: Who writes the checks around here?
57:29
SPEAKER_05: Hired myself.
57:30
SPEAKER_05: Nah.
57:32
SPEAKER_05: Take who hired you, wifey sauce.
57:34
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's fair.
57:35
SPEAKER_03: So he likes the H E B tortillas.
57:37
SPEAKER_03: All right.
57:39
SPEAKER_02: It's okay.
57:40
SPEAKER_02: Ben likes Vienna sausages.
57:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, y'all were talking about uh was the tamales that last time, uh, and you were like, I got my mom's tamales.
57:46
SPEAKER_03: If Delhi goes down, I got my mom's.
57:48
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
57:48
SPEAKER_02: Well, and then my grandma taught me how to make her own tamales.
57:52
SPEAKER_02: Like she so I can make the the meat, but I can never get the masa down.
57:57
SPEAKER_02: And so over this Christmas break, I said grandma.
58:00
SPEAKER_02: My grandma's 94 years old.
58:01
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, Wella, I need you to come over, teach me how to make your masa.
58:05
SPEAKER_02: She's like, okay.
58:06
SPEAKER_02: So she came over, taught me how to make it, showed me everything.
58:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I feel like the key to making the tamales taste the way she makes them, she has this old meat grinder that was her great-grandma's.
58:19
SPEAKER_02: So this thing is super old.
58:22
SPEAKER_02: Cast iron, awesome.
58:24
SPEAKER_02: She finally gave it to me.
58:26
SPEAKER_02: I said, hell yeah.
58:27
SPEAKER_02: All sorts of Ebolas on there.
58:29
SPEAKER_02: I made I made my own hamburger meat from like steaks and stuff.
58:33
SPEAKER_02: I sit there and I grind it, dude.
58:34
SPEAKER_02: And it tastes so much better.
58:35
SPEAKER_02: But that cast iron soaks in all that fat.
58:38
SPEAKER_02: All that neighborhoods.
58:40
SPEAKER_03: How the hell did she get to 94, bro?
58:41
SPEAKER_03: That's it.
58:42
SPEAKER_03: Bro, and she's still kicking, bro.
58:43
SPEAKER_02: She's still kicking.
58:44
SPEAKER_02: She's still kicking, yeah.
58:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she's still good.
58:46
SPEAKER_02: And before my daughter was born, she was always like, Oh, I can't wait to go, I can't wait to go.
58:50
SPEAKER_02: She outlived, she's outlived everybody.
58:52
SPEAKER_02: She's she's her and my her sister, who is the youngest child out of, I think there was like eight of them.
58:59
SPEAKER_02: They're the only two left.
59:01
SPEAKER_02: And grandma was second to the oldest, I think, and they've outlived everybody.
59:07
SPEAKER_02: And even, you know, her sister, Maitiya Chaka, she's got kidney cancer right now, so she's not gonna be around much longer.
59:12
SPEAKER_02: Oh man.
59:13
SPEAKER_02: But grandma would still drive if I let her.
59:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:16
SPEAKER_02: And I took her car away.
59:18
SPEAKER_02: I said, absolutely.
59:19
SPEAKER_02: They built them different back then.
59:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
59:21
SPEAKER_03: But did you guys grow up in Corpus?
59:23
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
59:23
SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay.
59:24
SPEAKER_03: Which school, which high schools did y'all go to?
59:25
SPEAKER_03: Moody.
59:26
SPEAKER_03: You went to Telosa, right?
59:27
SPEAKER_03: Moody?
59:28
SPEAKER_03: Oh.
59:29
SPEAKER_03: Uh, I've interviewed a lot of people for Moody, right, Matt.
59:31
SPEAKER_03: That that that Moody crowd, bro, like they're either like it's either yeah, all down here or all up here.
59:38
SPEAKER_05: Exactly, bro.
59:38
SPEAKER_03: And that's exactly what I'm thinking.
59:40
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, man, and the dudes that are on here that have come, I'm like, they're they're doing stuff.
59:44
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
59:44
SPEAKER_03: They're doing something.
59:45
SPEAKER_05: You got to.
59:46
SPEAKER_05: I mean, like, it's either that or just give up, and you know.
59:50
SPEAKER_05: So you you it's like you're saying about examples and stuff.
59:53
SPEAKER_05: It's like if you don't have, you know, you see an example of what you want, you can either go for it or or or uh get bitter because you don't have it.
1:00:02
SPEAKER_05: You know, I chose to to do something.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_05: You know, take a chance bet on myself, you know, take take a chance on me.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_05: And uh I think I'm doing pretty well.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_05: I mean, we're and we're what all these different countries, whatever.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_02: Like last time I checked, we're we're over in Ireland and Germany and uh Philippines and Indonesia, India, like uh UK, and you know, and it's it's a great feeling knowing that there's people in other countries listening to us, like somewhat supernatural charted in Tokyo, yeah or in Japan.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_02: Wow, like and and when the the network that I'm on when they when the boss was like, hey, you're charting.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_02: I was like, there are so many paranormal podcasts, and I was in like the top hundred, and I'm like, how?
1:00:48
SPEAKER_02: Like that's dope.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_02: And it was in in Tokyo, all the episodes are in Japan, you know.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_02: And it was actually it was the episode I did by myself that the charted he wants to say that.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, which host do you yeah, nice, that's cool, and it's cool that you have different guys from different parts of the world.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
1:01:05
SPEAKER_03: Which uh hosting service do you use to push your podcast out?
1:01:09
SPEAKER_05: Uh I just use Spotify for podcasters.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_05: Like yeah, I really like I said other than the uh uh the promo that I do on Facebook and sometimes Instagram and X, I really don't do much.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_05: I I don't invest in it.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_05: Like I said, I want it to if I'm gonna get popular, I want it to be organic.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_05: You know, somebody to find me and be like, we love you the way you are.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_05: You know, here's$100 million, you know.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_05: I want that Joe Rogan, you know, waiting for that.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you need to.
1:01:34
SPEAKER_05: I think, yeah, for sure.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_05: I mean, because we were, you know, I I I I I can be uh um Hi.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I can I can you know get away from the government job.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_03: I'm doing the government job.
1:01:46
SPEAKER_03: So both y'all good government jobs.
1:01:47
SPEAKER_03: Man, I I wish I could talk to you more.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_03: You guys are awesome, been awesome.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_02: Part two.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, part two good idea, part two, but on the recycled corn podcast.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_02: Let's do it.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_03: I want to get Anthony I'm gonna get Anthony on here.
1:02:00
SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, yeah.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_05: I get you all on there.
1:02:02
SPEAKER_05: Like, I got enough, I got enough mics.
1:02:04
SPEAKER_05: It's like part two in this time.
1:02:06
SPEAKER_05: Just don't expect to get any refreshments because he's an a-hole in the city.
1:02:09
SPEAKER_05: No, no, no, no.
1:02:09
SPEAKER_05: I got I got I got I got some sparkling water now.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_05: I discovered the H E B uh uh sparkling oh, what is this mineral water with lime?
1:02:18
SPEAKER_03: We use that one.
1:02:18
SPEAKER_05: Ooh, that's so freaking good.
1:02:20
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_05: At 1870, like next time you come over.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_03: We use that.
1:02:25
SPEAKER_03: We get the one net.
1:02:26
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna fire you from your podcast.
1:02:30
SPEAKER_03: Uh so how do we uh how do we find you on socials?
1:02:33
SPEAKER_02: Is it okay?
1:02:34
SPEAKER_02: So for me, I am Lord underscore scuba cabra on TikTok and Instagram.
1:02:42
SPEAKER_02: Host with the ghosts.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_02: And Instagram, I'm at host with the ghosts, and on Facebook I'm just Lord Steven Scuba Steve Basquez.
1:02:50
SPEAKER_05: Nice.
1:02:50
SPEAKER_05: And me, you can find me on Facebook at I am Bendelone, um, pretty much everywhere.
1:02:57
SPEAKER_05: Um if you want to follow the podcast, Recycle Corn Podcast, on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
1:03:04
SPEAKER_05: Uh, if you want to follow me there, it's like I say I got I got nothing for you.
1:03:08
SPEAKER_05: You know, I I don't do much on X.
1:03:10
SPEAKER_05: And it's like I said last time, as a matter of fact, if you follow me there, unfollow me.
1:03:14
SPEAKER_05: I don't need your numbers.
1:03:15
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I don't need that exposure.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_05: Just uh now I'm kidding.
1:03:19
SPEAKER_05: Follow me though.
1:03:19
SPEAKER_05: Follow me.
1:03:20
SPEAKER_02: I need the I need the exposure.
1:03:22
SPEAKER_02: I need more TikTok followers, please.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm also on TikTok at Iambendilion3 because I forgot my password to my other accounts.
1:03:29
SPEAKER_03: So nice.
1:03:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, nice.
1:03:32
SPEAKER_03: Well, if nothing else, you guys, appreciate y'all coming.
1:03:34
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_03: Thanks for tuning in for the Corpus Christi Originals podcast, you guys.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_03: Uh stay tuned for the next uh episodes.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_03: We got uh 23rd and the first.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_03: Uh the first we got Big Joe, TikTok influencer, and a friend of mine, Ed Faust, that I met at work, so he's just another original like us.
1:03:49
SPEAKER_03: Um but yeah, thank you guys for coming on the show.
1:03:51
SPEAKER_05: Y'all have a good one.
1:03:52
SPEAKER_05: Thank you, my friend.