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#32 | Ridin' High Podcast - Part 1 · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's Houston The Corps Christie Originals.
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  SPEAKER_01: This podcast, we got DJ Lil King and his Ride and High podcast.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: We talk about the origin of the Ride and High podcast or the Ride and High Network, which is awesome.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: We're joined by Cantu, Alex Martinez from Skateboard Universal, Freak Mondo and production.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: DJ Lil King and myself.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'll cut their my guest.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm actually at their spot at the Ride and High spot, which is awesome.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: I went over there, they invited me in, and I asked them if I could do an interview with them.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they could be a guest on my podcast, and they were like, Yeah, let's let's do it.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: So we did it.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, this is what uh came out of that.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: So appreciate you guys having it.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: All right, you guys, you know what it is.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: I got the Riding High Podcast here.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for joining the podcast, you guys.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_07: What's good, what's good.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_07: Hold up, man.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_07: Thanks for letting us be here.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely a pleasure to have you guys on, man.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: I watch you guys' podcasts and it's uh it's very entertaining, man.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, so what's up with your podcast, man?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: How'd you guys get it started?
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, for everybody that don't know me, I'm DJ Lil King and I'm the creator of the Rod and High Podcast.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, I came up with the idea in 2019, and it was just based upon just watching a whole bunch of different podcasts like from all over like YouTube, and I kind of got the ideas of wanting to do something kind of like locally, but I didn't want it to be like on a local scale.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_03: I kind of wanted I kind of wanted this my my original idea was to start it and interview like OG people here in Corpus, like OG rappers, OG rap promoters, OG club owners, like uh people who used to sell big dope back in the day who changed that, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_03: Change their life and stuff like that.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: That was my original plan in 2019.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_03: Whenever I came up with the idea, and whenever I came up with the idea, I got the logo made and everything, and I had no equipment to even do a podcast.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_03: Just little by little, I just kept on buying like equipment.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_03: I started off with the microphones, the stands, and I got like the couches and the chairs and all that, and just put it together.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: And I want to say I it it kind of like I had everything ready to go and ready to do the podcast, and basically it was just me not taking the initiative to do the podcast.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_03: So everybody kept on telling me, like, man, you got all this shit here, you got all this shit here.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: When you gonna do a podcast, when you gonna do a podcast, and I was like, you know what?
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck it.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: I got it off the ground.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_03: I hit up my first guest, my first ever guest was uh Daddy Cree.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and Daddy Cree came through and we did a one-on-one interview.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_03: He told me he ran down his whole life story and everything, so that was gonna be like my plan, but then it was just like so far and few between to get guests to do interviews, and now I'm watching all these different uh YouTube channels of people doing podcasts and stuff, and it's all about just creating content, creating content.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_03: So that's when I decided like, hey, let me do a uh uh a news.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna start the Rod and High News whenever I do uh like news topics.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_03: But instead of me doing the news myself, I wanted to give other influencers and people's people from Corpus a chance to give them a platform to uh tell their story, to talk about their brand while also being on the uh tell their story while also being on the uh what's it called?
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: Like with like the panel, you know what I'm saying?
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_03: While also being on the panel, you know what I'm saying?
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_03: So that's how I started the the Rod and High News, and then I still do the interviews every every now, the one-on-one interviews.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: We still do the one-on-one interviews every now and then.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_03: So from the uh the Rod and High uh podcast, we did the Rod and High News, and then after Rod and High News, I ended up coming up with another show called Let's Chop It Up, where that's just basically just people us here chilling, whatever watching the game, do whatever we're doing.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_03: And it's like, hey, we ain't got no topics, but cut on the camera and let's film, yeah.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_03: That's so we came up with Let's Chop It Up, and then my dude Cantu, he's originally from Corpus Christie.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_03: He was living in college station for the past 10 years.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_03: He came back to Corpus and he he was already watching what we were doing up there in college station.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, I've known him for about 20 years already, and he was like, Hey, I want to do like a sports segment on like the Rodden High Park.
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  SPEAKER_03: Instead of doing like a sports segment, we'll just do like a whole sports show.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, Are you you think you can handle it and do it on your own?
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, Yeah, I got it, I got it.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, It gotta be correct, though.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_03: It can't be like half-assed, it gotta be correct.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_03: He was like, Already.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: So he did all this homework, and that's how we just premiered the Rod and High Sports.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like episode uh three was today, so we we premiered it like three weeks ago.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: So actually, I want to say we came up with the idea, and within like 10 days, we probably or I was probably saying like two weeks, we filmed the first episode of the Rod and High Sports.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_03: Right, we just added the man look, which is Daddy Cree.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_03: We finna add the Droopy M podcast, so it's just like it's like a channel that almost like a network, a network, yeah, yeah.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_03: We're just putting a whole bunch of different stuff under.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yo, man, that's that's awesome.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_05: That boy, that boy done flew through like more than half a year in like six sixty seconds.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, damn, he didn't leave nothing out of what flew through it.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_05: But yeah, basically everything he just said was you know the fastest possible way.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, if y'all if y'all don't see the face of that voice, that's freak in the background.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_02: He's doing the production, but that this is just a little taste of what y'all get on the Right and Hide podcast, man.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh here in Corpus Christie, Texas.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: So all you guys are from Corpus, yeah?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, born and raised, yes, sir.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_02: Born and raised.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_02: All right, all right.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_02: So schools, what high school?
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: What do what do y'all think?
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_02: You can start off down there with Alex.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_06: Originally, I'm from uh Petronila, Petronila, Texas, small town.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out to Badgers, Bishop Badgers.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_06: We went to Bishop, and then my last year I came to Corpus and graduated from Moody High School.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_06: So I still say I'm I went to both.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_06: Shout out Trojans.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_06: My daughters have some Trojans.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I graduated from Moody.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_07: So yeah, it's your boy can too.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_07: If I can, you can too.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_07: Uh man, yeah, born and raised here in Corpus, went to Robert Wilson, went to Galvon, uh South Park Middle School, Hamlin Middle School, then you know, went to Carroll.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: DJ Lil King, man.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: I'm from all over the all over Corpus, except the West, except the north and the east.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_03: I lived all over Corpus, except the west, except the north and the east.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: I lived on the west, I lived on the south.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_03: I went to West Oso uh, not elementary, West Oso Junior High, Castores Elementary.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: Man, I went to like five different CCIS D elementaries, then I finally went to Carl Allen Elementary, which is in the West Oso School Districts, West Oso Junior High, West Oso High School.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_03: Did my sophomore year?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_03: I left West Oso High School and went to Carroll High School.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_03: Nice, man.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_03: So it's Carroll High School class of 2004.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_03: Two Carols.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, freak what you what you man.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_05: We straight from the northwest side to oh come on.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_05: That's M I L L E R Miller, but Miller folks.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_05: Where do y'all go for y'all's big ass games?
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_05: Y'all don't y'all don't do them in y'all's backyard.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_05: Y'all come y'all come to our backyard straight up, but nah, uh, I'm I'm a class of 2002, but uh dropped out in 2000.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_05: So I'm saying shout out to all them graduates, all them people.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, man.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_02: So we got corpus definitely in the building for sure, man.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so your podcast, man, it seems like it comes from a place of creation.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: Would you agree to that?
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because like I said, whenever I decided to do like the news part, see that's like that's kind of like what has almost like taken over.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: It's almost like what we're almost like known for now, is like the new.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_03: I guess I still do the one-on-one interviews here and there, but it's almost like what we're known for now is like almost like the news.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_03: So whenever I decided to do the new shit, my whole thing was to get five people who actually have shit.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_03: And I think it started, yeah.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_03: I think it started off with no six people.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_03: It was uh to get six people because it was four.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_03: You wanted to get like four people and then have two rotate in case people can't make it and stuff.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: So my whole thing was to get six people that actually have shit going on within themselves, you know what I'm saying?
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_03: Not just people who just ain't doing shit, ain't working, ain't doing nothing, just sitting at home, yeah.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_03: You don't rap, you don't do nothing, you just want to just want to be seen type shit.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_03: So I actually I wouldn't necessarily say hand pick, but I would say almost like hand pick because there was a lot of people who asked to be on that didn't get picked, so I would almost say like hand pick the well the original six people that that I picking.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_03: They were all people who I felt like were creative minds and were we could all benefit from each other instead of it being a one-side benefit, it's a vibe for sure.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_03: For sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out Sean, shout out Sean tuned in.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_05: I see y'all.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, shout out Hector Reese.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_05: Y'all make sure y'all go hit up that Reese Kids Moonwalks, you know what I'm saying?
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, you guys appreciate y'all being on the live stream, man.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, for sure, definitely.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: So Cantu's got stuff going on.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_02: Skateboard Universal, right?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, sir.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_06: That's me, skateboard universal, man.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: All right, all right.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_02: So, so most of you guys musicians, would you say?
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like, uh, I'm trying to figure out I'm trying to figure out the music is the source, yeah.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_05: Music is definitely the source.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_05: If it wasn't for music, me and Boston wouldn't have gotten the same room on the same line together.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_05: So, you know, he had his own thing going on.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_05: Music, I'm always tapped in with something going on in the background, just the way I am right now is literally the fucking way you would see me by turning around, nice, not looking at the stage, looking behind it, you know what I'm saying?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_05: So, uh, same thing with Cantu.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_05: Cantu being his homie doing all the music shit like that.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_05: Like they linked up.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_05: Alex just being a straight up supporter of all the people doing the fucking music.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_05: Like, there's times at events that he was there, and I didn't even know him yet.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_05: Like, he actually supported us way back when we was trying to get to Atlanta in like 2015 or 16, something like that.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_05: Came to my crib, bought some brisket sandwiches and everything, like straight up.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_05: So, music music is definitely the fucking source, I believe.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: One of your podcasts, you guys were talking about the music walk, uh, how like how like that fire, right?
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_06: Fire, definitely, definitely a good look for the music scene in corpus, yeah, for sure.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_06: For the hip-hop and rap and all that.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, and then you guys were talking about how the how the hip-hop guys kind of had like a like a I guess like a shady stage, how they did them dirty, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_02: Bro, exactly.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_06: It was broken.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, but yeah, but see, we said that though, but then I clarified later is that that was supported by whoever supported them.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_05: That wasn't given to them by the city.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_05: So that look that the the when we walked up to old dude who was by himself and nobody was watching, that it had the badass fucking you know lights going on with uh Corpus Christie that dude.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, so he had a hell of a fucking stage that was provided by Corpus Christi.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_05: The one that the hip hop stage was provided on was provided by Corpus Christi hip hop.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_05: So that's all I was saying.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_05: That would only be a matter of like, let's say Alex got some uh got a smoke machine, help them out, throw that smoke machine on the stage.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_05: Kantu got some lights, throw them lights on the stage.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_05: All of a sudden, now we up to par with the city, yeah, you know.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_05: So I think that's what the situation was.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I don't think anybody was doing this wrong on the old platform after looking into it further.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_05: But that day though, I will be the first one to say I called that shit out.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, look at this fucking stage and look at the stage Clarissa Cerner's on.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_05: And I was like, shout out to her and everything.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_05: She deserved that stage, but I think these people do too.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure, man.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: Uh uh, there's definitely a market for each genre.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: We all talking about that too on that podcast.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, and I was thinking in my mind, I was like, Well, how how different is that from like maybe like the jazz festival that's been going on for years as opposed to just the music walk that's what second year around or third year around?
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_02: The first ever one.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_05: They've had 13 years of art walk, and this is the first music walk.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because music walk was basically them transforming an art an art walk.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: Instead of having an art walk, they basically transformed the art walk into and called it music walk.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_05: And who was that Texas and duplicate and duplicate?
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_05: I mean duplicate, multiplied however far they reached.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, because it was a bigger everybody was participating in this downtown event, like right, right.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_06: What was it?
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_05: Uh uh, I forgot what it was, but we became official in the state of Texas to do uh music oh nice, nice.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_05: That's like the first step of us talking about it being compared to South by.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was just about to say that.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so South by South So they started out just as Austin, right?
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_02: And then eventually, like just huge acts have been going on.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I don't know.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_02: Does it seem like does it seem like uh corpus to y'all it just like like it wants to grow, but then it doesn't want to grow?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_02: Am I the only one?
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_03: Because it's the youngsters and the people like I would say like in the fucking probably like the 15 to 45, maybe even 50 age range that want to see it grow, but it's those people in the 55 to office, bro.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_03: The city hall don't want to see them old people in the see.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_06: So I'm not the only one that sees all people that are in charge, oh they're stuck in their ways, they're stuck in their ways, and they don't want to see.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_06: Like, I guess I don't know, man.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_06: Just you don't see the way we see it.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it almost sucks because it's like, dude, well, why don't you want it to grow?
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: Why do you want to just keep it right there?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so they're happy with where they're because they still want it to be that retirement, old retirement home instead of becoming that destined the hot destination.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's like even like with cities like Austin, like people in Austin, they hate that people, people that are originally from Austin, like they hate whenever out of towners move to Austin, like they hate that type shit, you know what I'm saying?
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_03: And I kind of feel like that's what it would be here.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we don't want them people moving here like this is our spot type, yeah, yeah.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_03: And then you say corpus to anybody, and they're like, Oh, Selena, Selena, yeah, yeah, right.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: Would y'all agree?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, man.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_02: So, uh, all right.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_03: So, do you guys still create as artists?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_03: I still DJ, I actually have a uh a Facebook, another Facebook page called Screwed Up Community that I uh manage with my dude Adrian, aks aka S U C holding.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_03: We have like 55,000 followers on that page.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_03: I do like live DJ mixes on that one.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_03: I do like personal mixtapes and stuff like that.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_03: We go live like every now and then.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_03: I have like them over like my birthday just past September 23rd.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_03: Freak Man live streamed it.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out DJ Fab.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_03: We had a DJ come through from Kingsville and we did like a whole uh live mix where we were chilling and we live streamed like him doing a mix, me talking on the camera and all that type of stuff.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and dropped it on audio Mac.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, dropped, I dropped it on Audio Mac and everything.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_03: But what I was what I was gonna say too, I don't know if you remember, but back in 2015, I used to have a store, me and my homie B Miller inside the Corpus Christi Trade Center called the Plug Mixtapes and Urban Apparel.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_03: And we used to sell, I used to sell music, yeah.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: And I used to get a lot of local music in there, and I was sell that I was like a we were like an outlet for like local music artists to get to get paid, not just drop your music off and just come back in two weeks.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_03: And hey, we ain't sold not one, so you know what I'm saying.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_03: Like you were actually walking into our store and walking out with money.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: So from like 2015, like so.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_03: So why did you do that?
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: Why'd you decide to do that?
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_03: Because I've always been one to want to see people get paid off their craft.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I hate seeing people do go all in on something and then don't make nothing of it.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I felt like whenever we were doing that at the time, like there weren't no local stores that were doing that.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: Most stores they most local stores at the time, and not to even be throwing no slugs or no or nothing at nobody, but I just feel like most local stores at the time, you would probably have to pay them, yeah, to put your CD in their store.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so our whole thing was we want we wanted to make our rappers feel bigger than what they were.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: So you look at the plug as a pay a place where hey, if I bring my my CD and my shit pressed up right, my t-shirt, my t-shirts pressed up right, like these hats.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: You would have brought us them hats, you would have told us, Hey, I'm selling these for wholesale ten of pop.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_03: We would have bought 10 of them right off top and we'd have flipped them for 20.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like, that's that's what we did.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like, it wouldn't have been like, Hey, we'll leave 10 here and come back in two weeks and let's see.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we because we wanted to take the chance on our hustle, like it's on us if we could sell this, not on the person that we bought this, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_02: From like so for sure, man.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_03: And some shit just all like if we had that in the store, like stuff like that, like that.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: We wouldn't even have to probably have sell that, like, just line five of them up on the you know saying people were gonna, oh, I want to hear them type shit.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: The damn show.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: But I always wanted to see people from from my area get paid off of stuff that they were doing, regardless if it was music, merchandise, or whatever.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Just somebody could.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's just it's so many people doing stuff and going all in and not making a dollar.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_03: So I feel like, and it was almost like you could also you could always you could also say, like, hey, you could go buy my C D in this store.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, I'm Corpus Christie Original.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: You could have just said, like, whenever you just saw earlier, corpus christy originals.com or the plug mixtapes inside the corpus, yeah.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_03: That type of thing, the nine real flex, exactly.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: Even though I didn't, I never looked at it as a flex, but on the outside, like you can look at it like a flex, you know what I'm saying?
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, kind of, yeah, definitely had an idea along those lines, man.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like to having like a shop, corporate Christie Original shop, whatever you want to call it, and have other people selling your merchants, brands, especially brands that are in corporate, yeah, for sure.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely, man, dude.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome for sure.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so let's see.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: How do you guys do you feel like you have to keep up?
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like, as artists, do y'all feel like you have to keep up with the times as far as different types of i guess rap that's coming out or whatever's coming out nowadays?
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_05: That'd be a canto question.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, speak on that.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_07: That's a canto question.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_07: I I say yes, because you know, times are changing.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_07: You can't just not build with what's going on and what's being around and what's new and up and coming and what's taking over.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_07: I mean, what we listen to now is a lot different than what we're listening to.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: What you say, you can't be rapping.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I say, you can't be rapping in 2023, like in 1998.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_07: Like, hi, my name's Dave.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_07: You can speak style.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: Because it sounds old.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: Is that what it is?
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to understand.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_07: You just want to be, you also want to, I mean, you want to do it your own way, you want to be a translator, you want to break through, you want to be different, but you also want to be relatable where people are gonna want to listen to it.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_07: Right, you know, you're gonna you you want to be different in the way we yeah, on the marketing aspect, yeah, but you also want to be talking about the same stuff that everybody's talking about because that's what's gonna get you noticed, that's what's gonna listen.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_07: They're gonna, you know, yes, they're gonna fall into your lyrics, they're gonna relate to your lyrics, and that's how you grow a bond, and that's how you keep a fan.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_07: It'd be like, you know, how you tried how you know the corpus Christi originals are that essence and that vibe that you want to give out.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_07: You want your customer to feel that, right?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_07: Right, and that's why they they they met they fuck with you because they feel that.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_07: Same thing as an artist, you want your fans and the people that support you to feel that same way, but you know, we're we're not the same person we were 10 years ago, everybody changes.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_07: So with music, you have to evolve and change with it as well.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: I get I guess naturally you would you would evolve and change as well because you're also a person and you're also just changing.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_05: And so the personality I would say evolve is different from from keeping up with a trend, though.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, evolve is the right word to use, it's a correct word because evolving and your crap, you don't want to be the same person 10 years ago.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but I feel like you don't also want to follow a trend either because if you're trying to set a trend, you're not following the trend, right?
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_05: You're creating that trend.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: So but what I was gonna say too, I also but evolve is a great word.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like in this era, like it goes almost like with the merchandise shit, like there's plenty of shit that there's plenty of there's plenty of things that I would put on a t-shirt and wear, but it's not necessarily what would sell.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_03: So as I'm gonna ask him a question right quick.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: Is there sometimes where you make where you might necessarily want to make a song like for yourself, but you know that other people ain't gonna feel it, so you change it and make a song for other people that they would feel?
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_07: No, I won't change the lyrics, not necessarily change it, but but like no, I would keep it the same.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_07: I'm it might be a beat that like might be similar to like what everybody else is listening to, but what I'm talking about would be exactly what I am.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, like to hit like the algorithm and all that shit.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, to hit the algorithm and to do everything like that.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_07: I wouldn't change the words or anything, but like you know, maybe like the way the beat drops or the way the tempo is or beats per minute, I would keep that probably with what's in line, but not my actual message and what I'm putting out.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_07: That will stay the same, but that's why I say like it would follow it when I meant I guess follow a trend, would be like this is the type right now.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_07: Like, I guess that that's all the beats that are coming out right now are 120 bpm.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: So I can't go to DJs trying to give them a song that's 70 bpms, like yeah, because you're not gonna say that's crazy, you know.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: Well, so it even gets down to the music style, like like exactly as a DJ, that's that's and you know what, dude?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: I've I've always thought this.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm a musician myself.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: I got a bachelor's in music from uh Tex A and M Corpus Christine.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_02: Oh sure, yeah.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_02: So so when I think of when I think of uh you guys spitting bars, I'm like, dude, I wonder if they ever spit over odd times, odd time rhythms, which I know it won't fly pros probably like in the you know uh the popularity of aspect of it, but just to challenge the actual rapper himself to do like a five-four beat uh measure, five, four, five, four, five, four for sixty measures or whatever, how difficult that would be, you know what I mean?
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, sorry, I'm I'm I'm a nerd when it cut I'm a nerd when it comes to music.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_05: But that's for like I thought you were about to drop a beat.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, he's all just like this.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_07: A lot of people could say like that's like a blue face style, like it's not really on the beat, he's just kind of riding it how he wants to write it, so it's a little different.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_05: So that would be like a silk to shocker back in the day, yeah.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_07: Or um that one, I forget that one guy, but he does like uh he does scam rapping, he talks about scamming.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_07: I know you say and he's really just like talking over the little TJ, yeah.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_07: There you go.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_07: He's like really just talking and stuff, it's not really riding the beat, but that's what he knows.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_07: Like he's all and that's what I would that's what I could say.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: That dude who tells you how to fucking scam in a song, yeah, and it's not yeah, he's like not even rapping, he's just like talking over the beat, but it's like rhyming, like but it's going viral too, right?
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's fun viral.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_05: So how you can't so if that's the trend, do you follow the fucking trend?
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, no.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, I'm I'm asking though.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_07: I'm saying like that, he probably followed off that of a blue face style, like you know what I mean.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_07: Like it's very similar.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_07: He tweaked it and put it to his own.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_03: And what I'm that's what I mean by trend, not exactly like going with the Joneses, but like you see what works on different songs because most hip pop songs are like it's a it's a simple melody, and then you just add a couple things, and what I'm saying too is if that song is fucking a hundred and fucking thirty beats per minute, and that's the fucking hottest song in the fucking clubs right and bars right now, him as a fucking artist that wants to get his song played.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: And maybe he can he and he wants to get it maybe even blended in, make it easier for the DJ.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: Make it to where I could blend if your song blends in with the hot song.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah, you you you really got a chance.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: You really got a chance with this plate.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: If it if it blends in in the jams, oh hell yeah, you really got a chance to get this played.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_07: Hell yeah.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_07: And yeah, yeah, I had there was a couple times where I even did a couple EDM songs.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_07: Like I rapped on some EDM beats just because at certain clubs in College Station and Northgate, I knew the DJ could mix it in.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_07: I can pay him because it would be the beats per minute would match.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_07: Just like I said, it would blend in with it.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_07: So it'd be like they're giving me some love, showing love.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_07: You know, I mean, that's how it has to work, especially if you're aiming for that clubs and bars type scene and what you are.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_07: You want to go with that.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_02: And so you're you consider yourself an independent artist, so you're trying to figure out how to put your music out there to where people are listening to it, and that's one of the ways that you uh, I guess, marketing.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah, that's that was one of the ways, or like I would just learn by myself, just like how could I pick up what would be what's the next thing because you you want and then you want to stay relevant and consistent.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_07: But that yeah, that was how I would look at it.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: Gotcha.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: So what is what are some of the difficulties for you guys that have brands or whatever, uh, to to market on social media, would you say?
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: Or or or support or just just on just on marketing or marketing and social media, it doesn't have to be difficult.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_06: I just think like I'm always like, are they gonna are people gonna like this?
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_06: Like that's I'm real like hard on myself big time, bro.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_06: I don't, yeah.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_06: I don't that's just my problem that I have with myself, is I'm real hard on myself.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_06: Like, I don't know if they're gonna like it.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_06: So I would say that's probably one of my hardest.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you don't know if they'll like a mining thing that fucking just keep saying, that goes back with I was saying, like, what I like is everybody else gonna like it.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, just because I like it just and put it on the shirt, does that mean people are actually gonna buy it?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_06: I always think like shit, I like it, they're gonna like it, but it's not always like that.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but it don't it don't always gotta be like that because I mean, like, you know, I'm pretty sure you sell a shitload of hats and shit, but you know, there's a lot of people out there that probably would still buy your hats too that don't, you know what I mean?
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_07: Like, but they still think about it because knowing you want to turn this into a profit, knowing you wanna you know, yeah, but you also want to stay true to you though, yeah.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_07: It's just to me in nature to second guess yourself.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, for sure.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_06: The things that I can say, like that I've done to like switch things up or like change the style of the shirt, like the same, keep it the same, but change like the location of it, just like not really making a big change, right?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_06: Shit like that.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like so you test up, you have you gotta test it out to see what what hits, basically.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: What you're saying, and it's and what you're saying, uh call you Boston.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: That's fine, Lil King.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_02: So little king, so Lil King, what you're saying, man, and uh, I I think uh what I'm thinking is you're an artist, you gotta create that stuff, it's gotta come out, right?
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so whether you want to, I guess you would put it out like in a in a full album, you know what I mean?
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_02: Because not all of them are gonna be hits.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: You know how you listen to an album and there's some of them they're like, uh, you know, skip here's the here's the one that I like, here's the one that I don't like, or whatever.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but you gotta put it out, you know.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm thinking because you're a creator and and don't just make stuff for the masses on uh freaks point, was it's like, yeah, don't just try to be a trendsetter.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I mean, stay true to you, that shit'll come naturally, yeah, for sure.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_02: So, how do you mark yourself?
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so how do you adjust out that I guess that was along the lines of your target audience?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: And we were talking about hometown, is your hometown your audience?
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_02: What do you guys say there?
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, those are the ones who are gonna give you the love off the rip.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_05: Where you like you said, where's everybody from?
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly, you know what I mean?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_05: So, us we're the initial support, we all come from here.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_05: I got family who fuck with the show off of me, he got family fuck with the show off of him, so all that is support branches out and out and out, and then include our friends in that shit, and then maybe you start getting to San Antonio, maybe you start getting to Houston, yeah, because they take the word with them, yeah, or you just stumble across it, you know what I mean?
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_05: Like off of marketing, so you know, yeah, for sure.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_05: But I think your original fucking support does come from your hometown, your hometown for sure, and not all like it.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_05: You can't get the love without the hate, so the hate comes from the hate comes from the hometown as well.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_05: Because somebody in San Antonio not gonna even know you to hate on you, yeah.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: And we know y'all are watching, so straight up, straight up, uh, yeah, man.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_05: But that's just my opinion on that.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know that.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, it's all good, man.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and when I when I was making that point on the on the reel that I had made, like, yeah, there's some people basically that don't they won't like it, you know what I mean.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_02: But and I do agree, like, they'll take it to their friend and they'll tell their friend whatever, whatever.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_02: That's how that's that's by word of mouth marketing, you know what I mean?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_02: That's like grassroots marketing, gorilla marketing.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like it's it's it's like different with different things, though, because like with your brand, like the corpus christi originals, like your your target audience is obviously corpus Christi, right?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_03: Right, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_03: So with a podcast that's on YouTube, your target audience is you could say you your hometown, or I would say your target audience could be what you're shooting for if we're like he's doing the sports shit, so his target audience isn't necessarily uh a Houston, a corpus, or uh whatever.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_03: His target audience is people that are into sports, right?
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_03: Like, so it's just different ways to look at it.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's good, man.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_02: So which H E B do y'all shop at?
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_05: One by my crib, unfortunately.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_03: My girl prefers the one.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: My girl prefers the one on Robert and Alameda.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_03: I'll call that the white people H E B.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: I prefer the one on Texan and Alameda.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_03: My girl calls that one the ghetto H E B.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: Man, I'll tell I'll take that shit to fucking ghetto Robert.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_05: I'll take that bitch to port.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_05: I used to go to that bitch five years in a row.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_05: I worked right next door, Goodwill.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_05: Every lunch, bro, was fucking whatever the fuck they were cooking in that kitchen.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_07: So it's either the H B on Weber or whatever, yeah.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_05: That's the tragic one.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_05: That's the tragic one.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_05: That's what I'm saying.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_05: Well, that's what we know.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_05: That's my own.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_05: That's original.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's original.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_07: H B is like the first one H B that's a Crescent H B.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_07: You know, that's that's so it's either that's the first one I go to, or if I know it's not gonna be there, I just go down the street and just hit up H B Plus.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, wait, wait.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_07: Okay, so do you live in that in the in that area where we go grew up in uh well grew up in Crestmont, and then my little brother lived back there too.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_07: And then um, yeah, we've always that's just where we're which one do you go to?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_07: The still Robert Robert Alameda.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, okay, okay.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I go I go out over here down the street.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_06: Still, but do I still go there?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_03: Even though there's one right there on Castor?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm like, Well, you literally right.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_05: You said you were he said he was like that.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_05: He's off that intersection, he's off the intersection on Castor's, you know what I'm saying?
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_05: So he's really going out of his way not to go to that one, yeah.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_05: Bro, Weber's even closer than that one that you're trying to do.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_06: Hey, Weber hasn't Weber hasn't changed the way it is since 1990 something.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it is kind of older now.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_06: I know where everything is.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_06: The racks are all yellow.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_06: No, the racks should be white, not yellow.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_05: Bro, that that one on porch is a real deal though.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_05: That one they would have like fucking mariachis and shit on the weekends, bro.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_06: Everybody's like nice, and then that dude who goes and like cooks, hey, you want sample?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know what I'm going in there.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so OG Weber H E B.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_03: I remember when they had the video rental booth in that motherfucker.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_03: They did this shit.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's the one on Leopard.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_03: You remember the one on Leopard little gaming site?
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_03: You remember the one on Leopard?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, right.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_03: You say what free?
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_05: The one on Leopard.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: They had video rental too.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_05: All the way in the back left corner.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know what the fuck it is now.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_05: It's barely even HB.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, hey, the one on Weber, the video department turned into the floral department.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_05: Man, you might be right.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: The video department turned into the floral department, man.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_05: And that's right when you walk in, too.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_05: That's right.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, there's some Corpus Christi originals right here, man.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_05: And when you and when you actually, if you're talking about original, you gotta talk about the one on Baldwin and Morgan.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_05: It's now a school, man.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hey, one time it was Club C uh Yellow Yellow.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: My mom lives right across the street.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, that's funny you say that.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_05: So I performed at the one that he's talking about.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_05: This now Goodwill, the Moon Plaza.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_05: After it was H E B, it became the Moon Plaza, and they started throwing shows out there on a flatbed.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out to Dax Production and uh it was like a cinco that my own or some shit.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_05: We out there in the fucking sun.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_05: Ain't nobody but us and our people in the crowd, yeah, fucking like this, trying not to get sunburnt and shit.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_05: But that was an old ass HEB back in the day, yeah.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_05: But that one in the hood over there on Baldwin and Morgan, homie who grew up there.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out my boy AG, he lived like blocks behind H E B.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_05: They would do food runs in that motherfucker, just run to the house.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_05: Like it wasn't nobody gonna chase you past that fucking parking lot.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_05: And as soon as you left that parking lot, welcome to the hood, motherfucker.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_05: You now are so they wouldn't even chase them and shit.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_05: So shout out to them and that whole block, man.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_02: God damn, all right.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_02: This is the Riding High podcast, guys.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_02: This is what to expect when you go check them out, man.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_02: For sure.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_02: So let me see.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_02: Another thing about Corpus, it's uh let me see boat net.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_02: It could become a spirit Halloween store.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, probably already is.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_03: Man, I heard that that dude they say that he don't want to sell none of them buildings.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm wondering what's gonna happen with all the old boat net locations.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_03: It's almost like I kind of feel like it may gonna be like I don't know, people too familiar with DJ Screw and the screwed up records and tapes, but in 2011, the original screwed up records and tapes off of Cullen.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_03: I'm a real DJ, a real big DJ Screw fan for everybody that don't know.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_03: I'm really influenced by like the DJ Screw screwed up culture and all that stuff.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, then the original building that the Screw Records and Tapes was in was uh an office that was on an office building that was owned by uh Dennis.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_03: So in 2011, basically that dentist said that he needed them out of the building because he was gonna expand his dentistry or whatever, and use their building that screwed up records and tapes was in to expand his dentistry.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_03: So they ended up closing down the screw shop.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_03: It was closed down for a couple of months.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_03: They were scouting locations.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_03: It took everybody was like, Man, the screw shop closed, screw shop ain't never coming back.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_03: That's it, that's it.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_03: And they end up opening a new location like a couple of months later, uh, once they are in late 2011, early 2012.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it's it's 2023.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_03: And if you ride by the original screwdriver records and tapes, it's still just an abandoned building.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like he made them people so that's what you think they're gonna do with uh 10 years.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_03: They both gonna be looking at them like that's that was once bow net.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm surprised they tore the one down on Greenwood.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_05: I was gonna say recently, right?
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_03: Like in the past years, that motherfucker is probably but that's a different owner.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_03: No, they all owned by the same dude.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're all by the same.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, so you're gonna tear that shit down.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_02: So did they close down because what?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like, there's a reason why they closed down.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_02: Do y'all think I think that man just got money?
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it was business.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_05: All the bullshit.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think it was business because I mean you could fucking like uh you know, I used to work right there at the same smoke shop.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_05: This like a block, you know, a building away, and every night you would see cars lined up.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_05: It was not as bad as when they said they were closing, yeah, but fucking at least to that, you know, uh fucking business away.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_03: A line so that they and I may be wrong, but I just feel like that dude had so many, he's made so many investments because I read up on him, he has so many like investments and so much going on.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: I just feel like Bo Nett was at the bottom of the chain as far as his investments and stuff, and he was probably just keeping it open just for for the people for the people, yeah.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_05: So whenever he's probably paying attention to it, whenever he started, like that's how small of investment it was.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and whenever he starts running through all these hula hoops with the health department and all that stuff, it's like not worth it, not even like he was a professor and the day they were.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: No, he was a large donor to AM Corpus.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_03: I thought he was a professor, he may have uh graduated or went to school there or something like that.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_03: But he he was a big donor to AMC the day they're gonna close.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_06: I was getting out of work going back home, and I posted a video.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_06: You might have seen it.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_06: It was of Evil Longory holding up the bone, singing, like uh, what was the song called?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_06: Uh uh Boys and Heart Boys and Man, Boys and Man, hard to say goodbye.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_06: Hell yeah, dude.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_06: The line was packed all the way to McCardo, bro.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so you guys do mutual funds or stocks?
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, mutual funds or single stocks, cash and cash app shoe boxes, mutual funds.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: All right, uh, is a millionaire someone who makes a million a year?
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_05: Are we talking about investment investment?
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just real quick, the last question.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_05: I invested in AMC.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, I invested in AMC when the stock went up, and I didn't sell the day that they went high to like 70 something dollars a share.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_05: And I bought like I don't know, five, six off of three dollars at the time, yeah, and it jumped up.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_05: I wouldn't pay attention for those days, then nothing.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, by the time I paid attention, that bitch was down to like fucking fifteen dollars a share.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I still could have made my money back, but like even right now it's at five dollars.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I'm still I'm under, yeah.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_05: I still own them and I owe money.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_05: Oh you know what I'm saying?
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_05: Like, I I missed out, like when they jumped though, they fucking jumped to like you know, I don't know why I wasn't paying attention, but I was like, Man, we need to go back to the movies.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_03: Like everybody while I'm at while I'm at home watching bootlegs, like I invested like two like 200 into that bitcoin shit, whenever it becomes and now my bitcoin is sitting at 130 apiece.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_03: No, oh total, yeah.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_03: I invested, I put a 200 investment into the bitcoin, and as of today is sitting at 133 dollars.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_03: Did any of y'all do the uh it ain't going down?
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_05: You know what's funny is I would never even risk it on some shit like that.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_05: But for me, yump jumping in the stocks that year that was after the big yeah, after all that, so everything was like a possible whatever, and I was like, Let's run up this MC shit, but got everybody, yeah.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, what were the picture things that people were selling?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_05: The NFTs, bro.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_05: You know, as a graphic designer, I got hit up by two different groups of people that were like, I want you to join and draw a version of this, and da da da.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_05: And I'm just like, ain't gonna pop, then shit ain't gonna pop pop for a minute, yeah.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, but now it's gone.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_02: A little year, man.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_02: So what do y'all do for what y'all's day jobs?
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all have day jobs, yeah.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_05: I work at I work at a smoke shop, so I'm I'm exactly what you see I am.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_05: So all day long I'm selling shit like like it's a trap still, to be honest, because we sell everything from the green to the white to the brown, you know.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_05: I just ain't you they just ain't mixed yet, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_05: So that that's a crazy job to have.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_05: I always I'm gonna put this out there so somebody can take it a run.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_05: I haven't seen a uh smoke shop reality show, and I think something like that would be where I'd have to blur every fifth customer because of what they buy and who they are.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_07: Like that trucking that was like broken lizard or something like that.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_05: The movie company?
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_07: No, yeah, it was the it was a truck.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_07: No, there's a there's a dude, no, there's a repo.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: There's a there's a dude on YouTube Broken Lizard.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_05: I thought that's the dudes who makes uh super troopers.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: No, his shit would be more like there's a dude on YouTube.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_03: His one of those names, he had a store in in uh California, and then he moved it to like Dallas, and it was called like Cam's Kicks.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_03: And basically, it's a YouTube channel based on him buying and selling, him buying, selling, and trading kicks out of his shop, and every day he posts a new episode of what went on the day before.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_05: No, I got you, but I'm saying a smoke shop version exactly.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, because this is uh what you but the people that are coming in to buy from us are sometimes rich as fuck.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_05: People buying shit for a party they're about to throw, and they're just gonna give all this like hundreds of dollars that you gotta put a signage before being filmed for a reality show.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_03: Well, see, that's what I was thinking.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_05: If you don't want to be that person, then that I lose that 200 dentist, you know what I'm saying?
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_05: That's gonna throw a party because he don't want to watch it.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_05: Well, yeah, on the cap skick, some people blur out their face.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_05: We'll see.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but I don't know if there is one out there, I haven't seen one, but that I think that would be dope because the I mean you get stories from people trying to throw a party for people buying fucking CBD and Delta to feel better, you know what I'm saying?
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_05: Because it's also used as that health shit, people ain't just getting high off the shit.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_05: Like it's crazy because I kind of I kind of talk shit with sarcasm to the old customers that buy CBD and THC related items.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_05: Now, I'm like, you know how far ahead we could have been if y'all just voted for this shit when y'all were young, you know what I mean?
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_05: Like that would have changed the whole generations, yeah.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I'm saying?
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_05: Like, we're going through something now that they should have came across, yeah.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_05: And now they're at the doorstep asking for that shit to make them feel better.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, yeah, that's$75.99, Buster.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I'm saying?
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_06: Like, Alex, you want to go ahead and get your day job?
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_06: Uh HVAC commercial tech uh commercial HVAC tech.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_03: Just got a new job, you know what I'm saying?
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_03: Got a promotion, they promotion boy jump up to the Apple World.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_06: Say too much, but I do want to shout them out, bro, because they make a motherfucker feel appreciated.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's what's up for sure.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_06: That's what's up, you know what I'm saying?
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_06: That's what's up, man.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_02: So this is the Ride and High Podcast.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_02: You guys, you can get more of this on their podcast, they just chop it up.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_02: It's funny, man.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_02: All right, so anything else you guys want to share before we take off?
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_03: Man, just follow us on all social media platforms at Ride and Hot Podcast.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_03: You can follow us individually, yeah.
• 39:04
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• 39:10
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, shout out to all the other uh riding hot hosts that ain't here today.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure, yeah, for sure.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out Daddy Cree, Arson, yeah, shout out Big Bell the Kid.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_05: Y'all, y'all know those names.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out Cinco.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_05: Cinco's been on every art walk since he shit took that shit serious and took off running.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_05: So y'all, y'all make sure actually stop by the artwork this Friday for sure and every first Friday of the month because they got this shit going, and and that's the type of thing that needs our support behind it.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_05: So same with this podcast as well.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_05: So salute to you, you know what I mean?
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_05: Like for sure.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um you can follow me on all well, no, not on all platforms.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_03: You can follow me on Facebook, DJ Lil King.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: You can follow me on Instagram underscore DJ Lil King.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_03: And that's basically all I'm on is on Facebook and Instagram.
• 39:55
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• 39:59
  SPEAKER_06: You can find me at uh skateboarding underscore universal on all platforms, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_06: Uh second to the last stop of the tour this weekend.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_06: I'll be in Austin.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_06: So uh homie's throwing an event there.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna go check it out.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_06: And yeah, man.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_02: All right, man.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_02: I really appreciated this, you guys.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for showing for sure.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_07: Kenzu, what he said he said his he gave his head and everything.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I accidentally cut him off and jumped in on there.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, oh well.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_05: Mine's just anything.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_05: Freak, freak mine, freak man, freak man to spaceman.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_05: Tap it all together, you'll find me.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_02: Nice, nice again, man.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you guys so much.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, thank you.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, don't forget uh the Ride and High podcast with Corpus Christi Originals.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_07: Check it out.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_07: Ryan High Sports number three for sure.
• 40:47
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• 40:48
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• 40:48
  SPEAKER_05: We're gonna have to get you in on a Monday, though.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_05: You know, what was just the random topics and shit, the news and nice shit like that.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_02: All right, you guys, thanks for tuning in.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: You guys uh that did tune in, and thanks for uh stay tuned for the next episode later on.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_02: Runha latest.