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#65 | Ronee Martinez [The Official Corpus Christi Horror Club] · 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 back at it again.
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  SPEAKER_03: Coming to you live from the produced sound studios downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh shout out to a Vago Burger and Barbecue located in Molina, 4701, Buddha Drive.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_03: Have you tried them before?
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  SPEAKER_02: No, but I keep wanting to trust me.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I'm gonna get out there, I promise.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm gonna keep sharing their stuff.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_03: So it's uh yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Shout out to them.
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  SPEAKER_03: So appreciate you guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: So today we have uh Ronnie Martinez.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's going on?
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi, what's up?
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  SPEAKER_02: What's up with that?
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  SPEAKER_03: The official Corpus Christi Horror Club.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yeah, yes, owner and operator.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: All right, right.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: Did you did you feel like you had to put the uh the uh official in there because there was other clubs or I did because there was some backlash back in the day, like 10 years ago, where there was other people that were just like, Well, I'm gonna have my own horror club or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay, well, I'm official.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not technically, but wow.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh 10 years ago?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: This has been this has been a thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh it was started with a group of friends of mine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we were just we all loved horror movies.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would do cookouts in my friend's backyard and uh watch horror movies and play games.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh we were like, well, let's make this a club.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we kind of just made a page and stuff, but unfortunately, we all you know got married, moved away.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, uh, kind of broke up.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was just a meme page for a while, for a long while.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and uh yeah, just uh recently that has changed a little bit more.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: So so have the goal, the goals, I guess the goals have changed since you first okay.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, tremendously, tremendously has have changed uh from just memes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I still share my memes.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um but uh now it's more of uh being interactive with people in the community, um sharing um local, you know, podcasts, showing sharing uh people's, you know, burger places and all this stuff, you know, food trucks, events, stuff like that that people can be like, go to a place.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, I want to hear about scary stuff, but I also want to know what's going on in the communities.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, you have your own twisted because there's other people doing that too.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there is and I I have the the CC Goth moms, I guess you could say, like we go and we go watch a scary movie together, which is awesome.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, we're all wearing black.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we have our kids and stuff, it's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um shout out to Ashley and Maria and Kat.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're the ones that you know go with me most of the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but of course, anybody's invited to our I I put it out there if you want to fill up for the movie, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come come by and come with us.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get a bite.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so it's always a horror movie, I assume.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Our first one was sloth, believe it or not.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was that it's a sloth.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, sloth, slotherhouse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was in a um there it was a like a frat house, right?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Or a sorority house, and then this girl gets a sloth.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna spoil it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it gets a little intense at the end.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh there's a sloth involved?
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's it's so B-rated and hilarious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um sloth goes off.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: Might make might want to rethink getting a sloth in the future, but uh yeah, it was a it was an awesome movie.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: We like we enjoyed it.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I so how did you so I had a there was a question from uh Tea by the Sea Cafe.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: She said regarding scary movies and uh haunted stuff, what what convinced you to go to the dark side?
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I have always and I was talking to Chris from Night Creatures about it.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like we talk backstory, like, why do we like this stuff?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: What's wrong with this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um it started from our childhood.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we um girl with Elvira, you know, tells her in the crypt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even though I wasn't supposed to watch it because my parents are die hard Catholics, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't even walk into hot topic.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am a late-in-life goth, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Crazy because I couldn't really wear black and I went to Catholic school all the way up into junior high.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, I couldn't look at that, but I would see it after at night when they go to bed, you know, and I'm like, Tells her in the crypt Friday the 13th series, stuff like that.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then I just saw Freddie Cougar and I was like, man, wow, I really dig this, like this Elvira.
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  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_03: That's so crazy.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I was comic books too.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: I was into comic books nighttime, you know, any kind of Vampirella.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh actually I have her tattoo, which people think it's dark winged duck, but it's Vampirella.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Darkwing Duck for being bad at me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh yeah, so it was basically uh just that just uh me uh loving uh and rice books too, yeah, wanting to be a vampire.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: I am going to be one one day.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, that's basically it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was my childhood, just uh watching stuff at night after my parents went to bed.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: In comic books, vampiral comic books.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's amazing.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_03: And we were talking me and Maya, the producer talking earlier about the different ch types of horror films.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, there's there's all these slasher gore.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I can't, I mean I was telling like the like I think the mystery ones are the the ones that are most scariest.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like a psychological type of thing.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, exactly.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, no, those freak me out.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: And actually, so I don't get really scared.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh, but the paranormal ones kind of freak me out because you just never know.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_04: You never know.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, paranormal, like the paranormal activity movie was kind of like kind of freaked me out.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't scare me too much, but I was like, man, and then the Hellhouse LLC, which uh is a good like haunted house movie, they have like a whole series, uh, which is good.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: But uh my go-to, I guess and I'm sure someone's gonna ask me, what's your favorite horror movie?
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so overall, uh Takeshi Miyake, uh, he's a Japanese horror filmmaker, he's got a whole bunch um Ichi the Killer, which is and I actually have his tattoo of uh his main villain of Kakihara tattooed on my I thought I I I saw a preview, a review of it, and I thought he was uh Ichi.
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  SPEAKER_03: Ichi.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, no, he's Kakihara.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's like the the Yakuza.
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  SPEAKER_01: Probably just as were as bad as as oh yeah, no, this guy is way fucked up.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: And it's a really you know screwed up uh movie.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's just it's always a wild movie.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: It is weird and it's wild and it's gross and it's just like oh my god.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's but I I like that kind of odd thing kind of.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that type is like like in your face, it's like right there.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's not there's no mystery to it.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's like we're gonna throw it to you.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just it's all basically gore and see how we can just like freak up by jaw.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, his mouth opens and then his jaw comes out and he's like, okay, and then he likes to uh the BD, not really BDSM, but he likes the sadistic kind of being tortured and stuff like that.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of just off on another level.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's crazy stuff.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: But my man, if I have to go with American Horror, Freddy Cougar, Nightmare Now Street, that's like my all-time favorite, you know, American horror movie.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I love a man that can make me laugh, you know?
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: He always made me laugh.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_03: So uh and Robert England is just the you know, I think it was like the Is there a debate between him and uh the other any like Jason or whatever?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like Oh, there always is there's always just like, oh, this person has so many kills and this person, you know, does it better, you know, and it's just like somebody will like this, you know, uh horror guy more than this other guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like some will go off about terrifier because he used a gun shooting, he shot that mean I no one no slasher or no horror really uses a gun, yeah to to kill somebody, used a gun, and even I was like, a gun really?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, so I got more, he got more when he sliced that girl in half, and I was like, okay, now we're getting somewhere.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's it's mainly about the kills for me.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like how how Saw Saw, honestly, that would be a close, like a new, newer type of uh horror film.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: I love Saw.
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  SPEAKER_03: So crazy.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, wow.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: I just got the Billy doll actually from Wild Wolf.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Crazy.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's huge.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_03: Ashley Holland uh hello on YouTube.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_02: Ashley, my coworker.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you had one favorite movie that isn't the normal boy band of horror villains, who would it be?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um I mean, I guess I would go back into like the old school horror because Frankenhooker that would always say have you ever seen Frankenhooker B movies or like back in the school 80s and tense.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: Frankenhooker is like hilarious, totally uh off the wall.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um not what you expect, but uh that stuff, you know, uh oh god, Night of the Living Dead, stuff like that.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: Any kind of like old school movies, old school, wow, even Nosferatu, you know, Nosferado, um black and white movies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, those kind of gave you a chill because they were so intricate on how they were going to do it.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: So um I think they put more of emphasis on how we're gonna scare these people instead of like, oh I'm just gonna flash them up, you know, like that.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because nobody gets scared anymore.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I guess it was a different type of like scaring people as because now like they wouldn't have like Ichi like at that time, like you know what I mean?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because it would be like what the heck, you know, people would really freak out.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, no, I totally understand that, yeah.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I I uh it's just so many genres and so much like horror.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_03: What what elements do you think make a horror movie great?
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, well, a good horror movie, um, oh my gosh.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, Korean horror.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: Tell the two sisters.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: Korean, Asian horror, they just know how to like get under your skin.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like Takeshi, he does a there's this um uh one of the uh audition is his uh one of his movies.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: He he puts he has a girl putting spikes in or or needles in the guy's like nails and just thinking about or in the eyes, and it's just like so visceral.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: And you get you get to be like, what do that feel like?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, how do you think of that stuff, right?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like how do you exactly yeah, that kind of like what books are you reading when you um but and but not just that, just the whole backstory of how it came together and how they put it in order.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like I think that's what makes a good horror movie.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: You're waiting to see what is the end game, like what is the real story, because there's always like more to it than just what you see on the you know, oh they just kill somebody.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: How are they gonna kill somebody?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: Why are they killing somebody?
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's just getting to a good plot.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_03: So at the end of that, that Ichi the killer Gigi, not Gigi, but that that Kakihada.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: He committed suicide.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh did he commit suicide?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so he was murdered.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_03: He got it.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he got caught.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: He got it, he got caught.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so uh what horror movie recommendations for newcomers?
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, is that my brother?
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, Ralph Martinez, what's going on?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Um, okay, so uh what's it?
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna ask you if you had brothers.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't even mention your dad.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's my oldest brother.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_02: He's from Harlingen.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_02: My other biker brother, which is uh Roland uh Martinez.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know where he's probably out partying.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_03: So all so all of y'all are from Corpus then?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: All of us are from Corpus, yeah.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: My my this one moved to Harlingen and then my other one's uh um at uh MB Bill or Mineral, Texas.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: So not too far away.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um but so uh oh newcomers, newcomer horror movie?
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like if I'm new, somebody's new to the genre, like what where would you that's hard because it's hard, right?
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: What do you want to watch?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: You want to watch more gore?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: Do you want more to the plot?
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_02: Do you want uh a pretty girl in it?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: Do you I like thrill like I I like say somebody that's in the thrillers, I like thriller movies like uh like crime, like crime thrillers or like you're always guessing, like damn, I wonder what how this happened or how that hit me on the spot and like that's okay.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_03: You're good, you're good, you're good.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man, yeah.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, thanks for coming on the show.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: So you had uh you introduced me to the the horror guys, uh Night Creature, yes.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm in their movie, I know, yeah.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_03: But I put it You actually have an IMDV on there.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: I do, and then now I'm on his website because I'm event coordinator because I try to I'm helping them put events together as well so they can get out there, promote, get money for their new movie, yeah, People Inheritance.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a whole thing.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I have a picture on the website too now.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: So how is that like how is that so far?
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_03: Like uh I guess getting money coming in, you know.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, so this is like the crazy thing.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: So I started getting out, obviously, you know, getting myself out there.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, screw it, let's let me see what's out in corpus.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, Chris and I started talking more, and he's just like, Hey, would you like to try out for a movie?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I was just like, What?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to act, but I guess.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then he's just we're at Starbucks.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I didn't get to do the I I did so many takes at home.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Had my kid on the phone reading the the lines to me, and it didn't even capture any of it.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, and I couldn't send it, so he's like, Meet me at Starbucks, we'll do a thing there.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: So we did it, and he's like, Okay, you know, we'll have you as this um person.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: I played the uh bitchy ticket girl.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and uh um and then it was just from there on, we just like developed a stronger relationship and and a friendship, and I was like, I want to help you with this, and I want your your movie to get off.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't get to audition for this other film, which kind of kind of sucks.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, I think I'll have a bit part as a demon, which is fine.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's more about me like putting them out there, sharing, and which is why I do what I do for all these other like for your podcast, for for social or the local places.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: I share whatever you guys put out there because I know that's gonna get you more views because sometimes I know a lot of people don't have time, they're they have other jobs to do.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: So if I'm sitting there and I'm on my phone, hey, I'm gonna share this person's uh event or I'm gonna share this person's podcast because that's what's gonna build our community, that's what's gonna make it better for all of us, not just me.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_03: Do you like whenever you're doing that?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_03: Do you ever feel like uh like some people are like, oh, she shared their stuff, but she didn't share ourselves.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: I feel so bad when that happens.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'll look back and I'll be like three days ago, oh, this person had this event, and I'm like, I didn't share.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I'm so sorry.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's internal.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think people are mad at me.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: I I think they they know I try my best to put out or share whatever I can.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I tell people, tag me.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you want me to share it, tag me.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm more than happy to like and I think Black Monk Taveranch tags me and you know, a couple other people, or if you put uh at all followers on your your thing, I'll be like, okay, I'm sharing it.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: This this person wants this out there, and and that helps me a lot on getting it out there.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: And some, but sometimes I'll have to like look at or like Google them, or not Google them, but like type their their name in the search bar and see if they have anything coming up because I'm like, okay, I wonder this is not because it doesn't pop up on my feed always.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's cool, that's cool.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then uh so and then we had another question from Lauren McNabb of the McNabb Micro Farm.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: I need to get some of their stuff out.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: It's pretty man, it's good.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_03: I tried it, they gave me uh some samples, it's good.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, try it.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: I saw that on the the the podcast.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you saw it?
• 14:44
  unknown: Is he gonna bring it in?
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna do it.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and we were talking, I was like, Man, I eat tacos in the morning.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, Well, just put some of that on it, and I did exactly that.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, All right.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: Cool, yeah, and it's they're so like you can they can taste the difference, yeah, as opposed to just like H E B salad or whatever and more flavorful, yes, exactly.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_03: You can taste it, crazy flavor, yeah, crazy flavor.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, she she says, uh, what inspires you to keep going, especially in a town where there are a lot of people uh that may be judgmental of anything that isn't mainstream.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, honestly, I just lock out the haters.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone that's just like negative, negative Nancy, stay out of my face.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not I'm not gonna hear it.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like uh that's another thing, is just I know there's uh some stores that you know are or restaurants, it's like, oh, this you know, this place sucked or whatever, the person was mean to me or whatever, and it's just like maybe they're having a bad day.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, give them another chance.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: You don't just I want more positive than there is negative because everybody goes to the negative straight away.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, always it's like, oh, this happened to me, blah blah blah.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're gonna, you know, yelp about it, they're gonna google about it.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: But how about the positive?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I want more people to go out there and share like what what made you happy at this place, you know, instead of just going straight to the negative.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what keeps me going because I want people to sorry, I have hair in my face.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: I want um people to know that you know, give people another chance if you feel that they're they're not that that day they weren't a good day.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe they're they're stressed or something happened.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, don't take it personal at first.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like you never know.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like it sometimes people want to be catered to when they walk into a local business, and it's just like everybody has things going on.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Don't don't don't take it personally.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like again.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_03: We get spoiled with like chain restaurants or yeah, and yeah, there's a lot to say.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: And we got families that are are trying to to do something for the community for themselves and bring something uh to to corpus that has never been done.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, this is a whole thing here, like this doesn't you know happen.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't regular mainstream here in Corpus, but look at you, you're out here kicking ass, dude.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: And you're like I love listening to your podcast because I'm learning stuff, yeah, and getting to know, like, oh my gosh, uh is it Paula from from Sam and Louis?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like military, like oh yeah, no kidding, man.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, are you kidding me?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's like amazing.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Just like knowing women that can do that and do their own thing.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's also another thing, is just like um, you know, women.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: I I I feel women need to be also shown how badass they are.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we're kind of like mini minority queerists and it's just like, oh, you know, this little girl.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: I used to be a boxer.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Don't tell me you I can't do what I can.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_03: Do you feel like someone do you feel like some women are but they're humble about it to where they don't want to sh, you know what I mean?
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like that is another thing, yeah, where it's just like I don't want to put my business out there, I don't want to put myself out there, you know, because I just don't feel it's a so I'm there to say, no, I'm gonna put you out there.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna put you out there because you're badass.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's yeah.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: And uh don't don't, you know, it's okay to be humble, yeah, but whenever I know that your product is good and I, you know, other people need a sharing that the love, I'm gonna put you out there.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I guess that's kind of the best publicity too when somebody else is saying it.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody else of yourself, yeah.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's better when somebody else is sharing it because you know it's real, because they like it for a good reason.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: I like the ghost in Mr.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: Chicken, your brother said.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_04: Oh course he does.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like has it always been like that for you?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like, did you learn that from somebody as far as like being look trying to give somebody a chance and look at the positive instead of the negative?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: How it all started was believe it or not, um, I was having I was in a bad space um after losing my mom, and then of course taking my dad taking care of my dad.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: It was very hard to see them in that process as well.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um being this younger sibling, uh, I was just like, I want somebody to support me the way I want to support other people.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: And uh that's what and then I started watching the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you know Anthony Bourdain's chef.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: The chef, right?
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that travel different places.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: And he he just kind of gave me the inspiration to just like, he's like, Let's get out there, go to a restaurant you've never been to, try it out, have a drink, meet the people, uh, just meet new people.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: And that's that's what I started doing.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: I started literally just going to art walk and going to different places, talking to different vendors, and just starting sharing their stuff.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then somebody said, You know what?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: At this point, you're an influencer because you're you're gonna I was like, I'm a what?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a little old, uh, and I don't know what you're saying.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um but uh so that's basically how it started, just watching his show and uh being like, I want to be like that.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: I want to if I'm not if I can't travel, I'm gonna go and explore my city and see what's out there.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's how like the the lightsabers you got on there.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: So is that so dark side?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: You think that's what she meant by saying dark side?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um this is actually if anybody is watching can name who these lightsabers are, you get like five dollars.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: What's the lettering on top there?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um actually it's okay, so gave it away.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, it's peeling.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Sauce Ventress is a um she was a a uh Jedi.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: She was a Sith, and then she was a bounty hunter, and then she was she passed away, or she died by saving a Jedi, and she uh actually was buried with the Jedi on hers.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_03: Whoa, yeah, yeah.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: So she has a really amazing backstory.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I I yeah, I wish they would make a movie about her.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say, like, it did you find out I mean you must have read about her something.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, I know I've read the books and stuff like that.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: And uh that's where I was like, oh my god, this chick is like and actually it came from like my ex called me Adventress, and I was like, What are you trying to say?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Because she's kind of not very pretty, she's like bald with most white.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's it.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: But of course, that like in the galaxy of Star Wars universe, she's considered the most beautiful, yeah, you know, and the most deadly.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, What are you trying to say?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Yeah, I think I'm a bitch, what's going on?
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: And then when I started reading more about her, I was like, Wow, this chick is actually badass.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, Okay, okay, I'm gonna take I'm gonna take this and like this is gonna be me.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm me, this is me now.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_03: Kind of like when we meet people, like we had these assumptions about them without even knowing them.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: For sure.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: You never know, you never know.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the community.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: I meet people and I'm like, wow, they they create these things.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then I get to meet them and talk to them more.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, you are badass on another level.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I just love you right now.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: What sucks for me is like sometimes I'll hear people talk about them like in a bad in a bad way, and then I go and talk to them, I'm like, damn, they're it's different from what people are saying, and then your mind gets like, damn, who's who do I listen to?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: And listen to the person that you met that day, because maybe, like I said, it was might be a bad day, they met them on a bad day, or there was, you know, there was an issue that they you know, some people don't mesh well.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_04: I got that.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: I I know there's people in a community that don't get along, yeah.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I I I or they just have different views on things.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: But for me, I'm just like, I'm gonna love all y'all until y'all piss me off.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: But which nobody has done.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: I have to say everybody has been really respectful.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone's got their breaking point, though.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I haven't gotten there yet.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: No one's like gotten me to that level, but everybody's been so nice, so supportive.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just like, I'm just gonna share all y'all stuff.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: If y'all don't like each other, I'm sorry, but for me, I'm gonna love y'all.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_03: So uh can you share a memorable experience or feedback from community members?
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh goodness, I mean, just all our okay.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I had um a wonderful event that I put on last year that I was able to put on a celebration with um my kundalini uh yoga teacher, uh Yogi Day, Manny.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um because I go to Kundalini Cases at the uh Coastal Man Wellness Center.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yo, it's it's um donation based.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: So I got there from like I lost my job and I was like, what am I gonna do with my life?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: And these were donation-based.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't have to pay at that time.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: So like I started going very grounding, love it.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then they're just like they they knew I was CC Goth girl.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, would you like to put on a uh celebration, you know, Halloween?
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: So we did last year was huge.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: I had like over 40 vendors.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, and uh we gave away this big old like uh we had all the vendors pitch in, like um this is a whole big basket.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and actually the the Grim Reaper, this guy that was Grim Reaper one, uh was awesome.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: And we had Kaya Vance and his crew, Bobby Glory, uh, you know, yeah spitting dance and stuff, and just like that, and then I just heard the feedback from all the vendors afterwards and that the the community and my friends that were just like that was the shit.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like that it everybody was happy, everybody had a good time.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: And um, and that I think that has to be like my my most like pride.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's my pride and joy and my most memorable because I was just like I do this.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: I was running around like I don't know if I could do this the next time they're like so that was the first time you had put it on the first time I had my event and I was stressed, it was only me, and I should have gotten more, but I did not think and I was running around, I was exhausted, I didn't sleep them that night before because I was so excited, uh, hadn't eaten and I was just like, Okay, guys, please bear with me.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna sit down here on the floor for a minute and just like zone out just for a sec.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was yeah, that was a good event.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: And hopefully we're gonna have it again this uh this year.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna say, uh, so that's the first time putting it on.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_03: Do you feel like you have to do you feel like you have to put like a certain amount of events in within a year, or how do you look at it?
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: Not me, because I think they know my life has been pretty sporadic taking care of my dad.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, so uh, and I I got you know Oscar Wheat, right?
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: He has uh his art artwork that I I promote as well, and he's just like, when are you putting another one on?
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: When are you putting another one on?
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, buddy, I swear to God.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I did like not too long ago, I did one at the Coast Center, Coast Bell Witness Center has been, you know, the greatest.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Bill and them, um, you know, Manny, uh, to to be able to have events there because we we had the um Goth Yoga.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: He did a goth yoga event, and so that was to promote the new evil inheritance movie that's coming out for creatures productions.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: And we had vendors there, and uh it was just that that was uh the latest one that I did.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_02: And then next one is gonna be uh Elements Realms and Beyond, uh Tony and Matt, uh elect electric electric youth uh event, and so they're they just opened up a new business on staples, so it's kind of gonna be like a little grand opening for that's cool.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_03: And y'all just you were just involved uh suicidal butterfly, like they had a pop-up or something just recently.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: I I wasn't like involved, but I dressed up as Latina Elvira Taco.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: They're like, you gotta you gotta come.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: You gotta come.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was like, I'll just and I was all late because I I did I didn't go to bed until like 10 a.m.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: in the morning because I was cleaning my house.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: And I I get in a zone and then I'm like, oh my god, it's 10 in the morning.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_02: Let me, you know, let me take a break.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so I took a nap and took a long nap.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: And then I was like, oh my god, and Nikki was like, Where are you at?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh, I'll be right there.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I met a snake, uh uh snake Snow Cone, and uh uh got to see my vendors and stuff like that.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: I call them my vendors, they're not your vendors, but it's like um but I and I missed creatures coffee, but uh they were there too.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_03: I've been wanting to try them out.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: You have not tried them.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: No, I I'm a I'm a her.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: I I stay, I don't go anywhere.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_03: I need to.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_03: I know I do.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: You need to get them on.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: Please give me a little patience.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's okay.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you get them on here.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: They can bring you the coffee.
• 26:10
  unknown: That'll work.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, they're they're awesome.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm always like uh their merch is is awesome too.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, and it was funny.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_03: I like the vibe they have, yes, like that black old little like and even the the music they put on their posts, it's yeah, it's it's I like it.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm a music lover, and just yeah, it's cool to see everybody's posts on Instagram and stuff.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, isn't that awesome?
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it there's a lot of community support too.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_03: Like, not just you, like there's several other influencers.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I know, right?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they do the same thing, yeah.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_03: So it's it's pretty cool that to know that you guys are out there, so yeah, yeah, I know.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's supporting each other, which is uh uh local Texas Foodie.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh, he puts like the most I just started following her, yeah, yeah.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm like there's there's a whole believe me, there's a whole list of people that I want to get on the podcast.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, you know what I mean.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh my god, there's so many people.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and isn't that amazing about purpose?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: Because I went to Art Walk with a friend of mine.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, shout out to Jesus.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he hangs out with God.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm goth mom, by the way, a few to these little ones.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: They're they're younger than me, obviously.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, let's go to art walk.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: So he's hanging out with and I'm of course saying hi to my vendors and showing him this person and showing me having to meet this person.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Oh my god, I did not know that Corpus was this type of community and had all this stuff.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, it is like you would not believe how many people have so much talent and you know, that are just willing to just drop whatever, like even the career change and just creatures coffee is one of them.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Just went in, did this business and look at they're killing it.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's that's what uh he's like, Wow, this is like amazing.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, Corpus is actually pretty bad at, yeah, for sure.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_03: There's a lot of businesses too.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: Ashley Holland says, uh, Goonies never say is that a Goonies never say dad?
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Never say dad.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be my tattoo.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a big Goonie fan.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: So yes, thank you, Ashley.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: Nice, yeah, no, big uh big Goonies fan.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you were mentioning so like you mentioned losing your job, and you're like, what am I gonna do?
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, isn't that amazing?
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I'm not amazing, but like losing your job can actually make you think like that.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, it changes your whole perspective on life, and it's like, what am I gonna do with my life?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_03: Like, what the heck?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_03: What have I been doing?
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_03: Or you know, I mean it makes me reflect.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_02: Right, because you're you're at this one place, I was there for five years, and then just like they just laid us off out of nowhere, basically.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay, um, yeah, what am I gonna do now?
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_03: What's going on?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, I mean it was all it was almost like COVID once again, you know.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, and it's like uh I worked at Pizza Hut for a little while.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, crazy delivery driver, believe it or not.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_03: That's so wow.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_03: So you're so you you knew you had to do something about like to work something, oh wow.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so my kid was a delivery driver, and they're like, Mom, you want to work with us?
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because we're still working.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're we're the elite out here, you know, nobody cares about us.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh essential workers, as they say.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so yeah, I did that during COVID.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: I worked at Pizza Hut uh and Hamlin Center, and I've made some great friendships uh there, uh, which is like I got to see behind I I never worked in the food industry.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was bills, I was marketing.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: I was like in a new environment.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: I did not know about this stuff, and it was just an eye-opener.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: It was amazing how to see how people were because and then of course it's like, why don't you get a better job?
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's what used to piss me off.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh when people would say, like, well, if you want tips, why don't you get a better job?
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: Damn.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, if everybody got a better job, how are you gonna get your pizza?
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: Because you're not getting off your ass to go get it.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you're not making it on your s on your own.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: You're freaking wanting people to deliver it to you.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_04: Damn.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: So don't even and then these people are work busting their ass.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: Some of them have kids, and you know, trying to find a babysitter just so they can come into work to deliver your pizza, to give you your pizza because you think they deserve or they need a better job because you don't want to tip them.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's bullshit.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, that's where it's just like, and I know I get it.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: Some people can't tip, I get it.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like, but I'm like, I I under I've been there now.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I will like even tip at curbside because I'm like, dude, you can you walked out to give me my my food.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, here's a couple of dollars.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate it.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_03: If you can't afford to tip, go get it yourself.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I say, you know.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, I appreciate I I want to show my appreciation because I've been there, I know how hard, and they're not just to get in their car delivery.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: No, they're helping make the pizza, they're prepping.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's hot in there.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's hot, yeah.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the AC brands, yeah.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: The rain like comes in dripping in, and you know, these corporations they don't care.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: They don't care, they're not taking care of their employees.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: So it's these people trying their hardest to make sure that customer is gonna get what they want and to be like treated like it's your crap, you know, you don't have anything.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's just bullshit to me.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think that the that the majority do you think that like the people that are working those jobs that they're do you think they want, do you think they're like work well, they're probably working it because they have to, they got families and stuff like that, right?
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they grew up a lot of them grew up, like they that was their first job, you know, and so they stuck with it because they're good at it.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: And they they some of them moved up in the company, which was good, but they still get treated like crap.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just like, and then like my kid, they've all my kids always loved pizza.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean they knew their name.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: Who doesn't, right?
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like they would like come to the door and it's like, oh, it's you and so and so when they got hired there, yeah.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_01: So when they got hired there, it's like, oh, it's you, you want to work here now, you're old enough.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: So um uh so they they you know they work their self up on the chain became amino management as well.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's sometimes it's just they want to work in that environment, you know.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: But some are stuck there, you know.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's all they know, and that's all they they don't feel that they they can do another job.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh um, but they're good at what they do there.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean they keep the ship going, and it's people like them that you get that peak good pizza because they've been there for like 10 years.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man, oh man.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_03: I do I do sport local and stuff.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_03: I the dominoes that I do like, which is the one on Staples near Baldwin.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, every time I order there, oh my god, like it, like it's always like good, like you can tell it's not burnt, you know what I mean.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean it's and it it's gotta do something to do with the work ethic and you know what I mean, the culture that they have at that particular store.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they got the right cook.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm not saying that they're all like that.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, they're not all perfect, no.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you mentioned your your dad.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_03: So your dad fought George Foreman at one time, one time in his life.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, Max Martinez.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_02: Max Martinez, yeah, he was a professional boxer here in Corpus.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_02: And uh George Foreman, up and coming, I think that was like his third fight, and the guy that was supposed to be fighting him out in Houston bailed.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_02: And they asked my dad if he wanted to make a few hundred bucks, I guess, you know, back in the day.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_02: And my dad was already retiring, but he's like, why not?
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do this.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, before I was born, obviously, and he goes and he fights George Foreman.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: My George Foreman gloves him in the eye, he gets a detached retina, and it's a knockout after that.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_03: So did you have did you have did you have a choice whether to be be a boxer yourself?
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_02: So this is the thing.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_02: So I have two older brothers, haha, Eddie and Roland, who never were boxers.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my my mother probably.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, are you in the middle?
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_03: Are you in this are you in the middle between baby?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, okay.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_01: But no, uh, my uh uh oh, and there's my my son.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: Master Moot says uh big if true animal.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: So my mother probably would have killed my brothers if they even thought about boxing.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, um, but me, I'm a rebel.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: I was my mom was already older.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: My mom had me when she was 40.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't even supposed to be born.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, yeah.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was like, hello, I'm here.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um the doctor actually said you should get an abortion because my mother was too old at that time to be having it.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe that something was wrong.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, maybe I'm a little mental, but now you know what.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: So um uh so yeah, I was just like, I'm gonna do this.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: I I well, okay, so my ex-husband wanted to box and he talked to my dad about it because my dad knew people.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: So my dad takes him to this uh place, uh put a gallo boxing in this hole in the wall place out by like, oh gosh, Morgan, I don't even know.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: It was just a hole in the wall, seriously.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and uh he starts you know training and stuff like that.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I walk in and I see other girls there.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: Whoa.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, girls are boxing, what's going on?
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_01: So he goes to his first sparring match, he gets hit once, he's bleeding like crazy, like he's just gushing blood.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: He's one of those bleeders, right?
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: So he's just like, no, I'm out, and I'm like, I wanna do it.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I start training uh with the girls there, and I started liking it.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I sparred, got hit horribly bad uh for a sparring session.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I was like, I got back up and I got back, I started kept on doing it.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: I trained for Golden Gloves, went to Golden Gloves.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: Cool, uh, trained my own girls.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they went to Golden Gloves, uh, one as well, and uh and my dad went to my fights, my mom know.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, um, my mom just knew like she she had she could not win that fight with me.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, but yeah, my dad supported me and all that, and you know, even helped me get boxing bags and stuff.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, yeah.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_03: So and so you got into coaching it too.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_03: That's it.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did uh you know uh Ronnie's boxing gym uh that I had out in so you're just passing over like ah Ronnie's boxing gym.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Ronnie's boxing.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, that's gotta be that's big right there.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_02: It was wonderful.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_02: I had it all girls and they were so wonderful, and you know, uh that's why I boxing is such an amazing sport.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it's a hundred percent chance you are going to get hit in the face.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but you can if you come back from that and you you have the skill.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um and I used to spar spar guys, um uh Razor Bobs, Robert Delgado, he has a his guy.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he used to take he used to train with us, Jerry Belmontes, Sal Bel Montes.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, shout out to uh yeah, I used to spar with those guys and they're a little beauty.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_02: Wow and now they're big boys uh with their own family, and uh but yeah, yeah, it was it was an experience, and I have to say I like the boxing community, it's a strong uh here on Corpus, an amazing community.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, really, they support each other, which is great.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's amazing.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, yeah.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_03: Um my my daughter, she's in jujitsu.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_01: Nice, okay.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: But I know she wants to do boxing, kickboxing, whatever, something where she's hitting something, right?
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: And see, I you know I had an ex that did jujitsu, and I was like, What is this whole like why are you grabbing each other?
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like and that's why I was a boxer because I didn't want people grabbing me, I wanted to hit somebody, yeah.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_03: Keep them like yeah, I got you stay away.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I couldn't do kickboxing because the leg thing kind of scares the crap out of me.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so but no, anybody that could do those types of sports, even jujitsu, it's like the ground game.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know that you do it, you go on the ground for a reason, and then you have to get out of these holds and you do it.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I respect all these.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_03: So, what do you think about like uh like as far as get the head, you know, the brain and the head getting hit and all that stuff?
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_03: Do you like it?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_01: It takes a toll, and then there's there there's damage that can, you know, that can happen.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know how my my dad got hit.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I was gonna say, like, did you see that in your in your dad at all?
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: No, like this guy was sharp to the end.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like this guy was just like witty and just on it.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he noticed all the pretty nurses real quick.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_03: That's when you know.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, no, he was always sharp to the end.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I I don't I I do know that there, and that's because he had a pretty long professional boxing uh thing, but um, I think it's just certain people just either get hit in the wrong way or just you know they're just not not able to take it.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't really know the science behind that.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's not it seems like it's hard, but like what you kind of have some padding on the but you're still getting hit.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: But oh yeah, my dad said that George Foreman had the heaviest hands, so hit by a train.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so and you said you said he man, his detached retina, yeah, like very uh minimal sight on his left eye.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: So uh but he that guy drove until he was like 86 actually.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: So and uh they were just like, dude, you need a chill, and they're still driving and stuff like that.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I guess that's where I get my stubbornness from.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, he he was uh he was and I that's where I get where I can talk to people because he loved to talk to really wow that guy he can take him anywhere and he's just talking to like what's your name?
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: Where are you from?
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so what are you doing today?
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know, just like completely just have that, and I guess I can't remember him because I can go to someone and be like, hey, what's up?
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_03: And I can just sit next to someone I don't even know, and it's like, hey, is it is it easy for you to like pick up social cues like when people don't want to talk at all?
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, all right, I'll catch you later.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_03: Later.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_01: You don't like scary movies, I'm out.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sometimes I don't get them and um I'm trying I try to figure out how to get them, you know.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_03: So that's just how my brain is, you know.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_03: So but I do I do find myself like like talking to people whenever I do get like I don't like to be social, but when I do get social, I like it.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's like there's always that that when there's a good connection and somebody has a back and forth that you can you know good banter, or you're like we can talk.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so where do so you're you're the horror club, where where do you see it going?
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I guess in the future.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so more movie meetups, more events are what I'm planning to do.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: And my main thing is I have something in the works which is kind of hidden right now, but so be on the lookout for that.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: But the one thing that I I am trying to get out there is um uh I want to do uh Corpus Christi after midnight.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's kind of like a a uh oh what is that a podcast?
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, which I'll probably turn it into a podcast as well, but um it's a web series where I want to do like a whole um talking about certain murders that happened here in Corpus because Corpus is it wasn't just Selena that got killed around here.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no kidding.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um there's things that have happened here in haunted places here in Corpus, missing people, um, stuff like that because Corpus has a lot of stuff that um that I I would love to talk about uh and you know, either investigate uh why this happened and and also also use it as a platform to check your mental health, check where you're going.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we uh I want to put resources in there.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is where you can go, you know.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: You can go to Amistad Clinic if you don't have you know insurance, coast of you know, there's places out there that you can go to if you need to find a mental health place and you don't have the money.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um that's big in in that in that as far as people getting hurt or murdered.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because I think a lot of people go unchecked and they don't realize that there's a lot of uh and and the stigma is oh, you know, you just and as I as a Hispanic, it's just like oh you're fine, you know, you got our cun that is that we're gonna go.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: Get up, you're fine, just keep going.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: Just like, you know, you just brush it off, especially in the male community.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: Just like guys are tough, you know, you don't need to be checked out.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_01: No, you know, some guy that's the thing is that society sees the men as like, oh, they have to have everything set and do everything right.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: And when they don't get it done right, it's like, oh, you're a bad person, you're not good enough.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's gonna harp on a guy.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like I get because I have a lot of guy friends and they're just like Well, you got brothers too, like you understand.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I know what it's like that it's just like they're humans, everybody's human, and everybody goes through a certain part of their life that you know sometimes you're just not feeling okay.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: And like Emma from Weird Corpus is like she uh, you know, I'll ask her, I'm like, hey, how's it going?
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_02: And she's just like, I'm having an okay day.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you're not having a great day.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_02: She's like, No, sometimes I'm having an okay day, and that's okay.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, you know what?
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: You're right, you know, not all of us are gonna have an amazing day, but you know, so I and I learn off of people like you know, like her, which is a amazing thing.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, that's another thing about this community.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: You learn things from everyone, yeah.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just like amazing.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I like this podcast.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I like to learn stuff in general, and just like you saying, you like it too.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_03: That's good feedback because it's it's working.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_03: That's kind of the reason why I doing it, you know.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's why I do I support local and I go out there and I talk to Bendy because I learn things from if you guys are watching on the video.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: Check out this shirt she's got here.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: I wonder where she got it from.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_03: Corpuscistic originals represent.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah from dark side, yeah.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_03: We got Richie Hernandez.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, what's up, man?
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_02: Richie got me into the paranormal putas.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: If you ever listen to podcasts, okay, okay.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_03: Is that local or no?
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_02: No, uh, they're from Austin.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't just do like Corpus.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's all good.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_02: Anatonia.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: They got I got a little put putria put putra putra trion?
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_02: So paranormal puttas is what they call them.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_02: Freaking hilarious.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Leon Bethany, hilarious women that have a podcast and they talk about um anybody watch Ghost Adventures?
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_02: They're in love with Zach Begins, and I'm in love with Zach Begins.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_01: I used to watch that with my kid all the time, and they just kind of did their laugh.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_01: And they're they go out and they did they went to his uh haunted museum in Las Vegas.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_01: They did a whole show, right?
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_01: They have you laughing.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, and it was and it's actually it sounds like a funny podcast, just the name.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_01: Their name, right?
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: And they're just like, and they're just the most hilarious women ever.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: So and I actually made them Zach Bagan dolls.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I sent shipped it out to him, which is hilarious.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but Richie's the one that got me into that.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_03: Night creature productions, what's going on?
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_03: It's awesome.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's so you're you're the the the thing you were starting, you said it might turn into a podcast as far as uh Yeah, I'm gonna start it with um like I'm gonna do like the little uh videos on TikTok and being like this is you know, talk about this one uh murder that happened here in Corpus and uh this is how it went and this is how it ended, or this is there's still this there was this murder, and we don't know who did it, but they think they know who did it.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know who did it?
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh this kind of thing, and then switch it off or send it off to the full length uh video on YouTube, and then of course get the rest on on um that's pretty cool.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: On a podcast.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I have a dead The Dead podcast with Desi.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: If you ever listen to her, she's awesome.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the Dead Podcast?
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's local.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: She's dead, the dead podcast uh with Desi.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm gonna try and get her uh input on that too because she's been doing it, she's been kicking butt.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I love listening to her podcast uh as well.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_03: When did you get in the podcast?
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_03: How how how long have you been like listening to Podcasts.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: It all started with my my kid, my son.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone uh whoever listened to last podcast on the left, and I was like, What was that?
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: And uh they're like, It's about you know serial killers, and so I was like, Really?
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: So it's actually during uh COVID, and we were while we're doing our our uh our puzzle pieces because we didn't have nothing to do.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um puzzle pieces listening to last podcast on the left, and then I started realizing there's other podcasts out there, oh yeah, and then of course, you know, then I started looking at you know, I don't even know how I found uh the Dead podcast, but I did.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, beer in a movie that I was on.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: Beer in a movie.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, so uh there's yeah, there's amazing local podcasts and you guys, I was just like, hey, there yeah, and I don't know how to find them either.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like Corpuscity Podcast, and there's only like people tell me about them.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's how I find out.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool, yeah.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, 50 states of terror, my boy Anthony.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, uh Kaylee, yeah.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I think people just like and I think yeah, that's how I found about 50 states is because I met Kaylee through a friend, Marcos.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, and then uh, you know, they just like my husband has his podcast.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I was just like, yeah, it's word of mouth, it's word of mouth, and then sharing.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool, yeah.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so so that's what's coming, that's what you're what's going on with the future.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's the thing.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: And one more thing that I think Yeah, go ahead.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, no, I was like to say there's that one more thing that's gonna be possibly happening in the future, and it involves me in costume.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_01: So that's all I was like.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_03: Demon in training, he says.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh for evil inheritance, yeah.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, right on, right on.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, check it out, check it out, you guys.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_03: Evil inheritance for by uh night creature productions.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_01: Donate, please, so we can get that movie going.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_03: How how is that?
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_03: Like, is it difficult for to find like people to donate, like for I guess for that project or whatever?
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_01: Or any type of like, you know, is it just like a local thing or I mean everybody has to Well the economy sucks right now too, right?
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean Yeah, it's finding who who's going to support and stuff and who feels that you're worthy enough for their support type of thing.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_01: And uh but basically that's why we're trying to do like little events, getting out there, promote promote the uh the business and the the production company.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_01: And if people can donate five bucks, hey, that goes a long way, whether it or not.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, because it's just you know it builds.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_03: You know, if everybody just donated like one or five bucks, you know, do you feel like like there's there's more creatives than actual people that consume it?
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like, is it the city?
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think if we had a bigger city, you know what I mean?
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_01: I think because we we trade off also with San Antonio, but uh, you know, there's there's uh you know yeah, well I forgot about that.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like there is a market there too.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_03: Like people that from here they live.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_01: Go there and it's back and forth, back and forth.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um because I think we're in all the little surrounding communities and stuff like that.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I think it's just it's it's just uh uh it just in general.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't really matter where you are, it's just gonna be who's gonna support you and whether they like you to support you, type of thing.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: Right on.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's good enough.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_03: So so you have those things coming up.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh what are some of the I guess did you have any challenges in the early days of starting the club?
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it was more like a friends group, right?
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's more of us just to uh like I said, it started off with memes and then just me sharing what I love to do.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_02: I was putting on my my my page and then people started sharing and liking, and I started going to like events and meeting people, you know, little fetish raves at Studio B.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_01: Meeting all the little gossipers.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_03: Studio B is uh used to be the NASA.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so um is there oh that's right, yes, there is a yeah.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_03: So uh Maya the producer mentioned that there's a rave tonight.
• 47:40
  unknown: I love Base Haven.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Maya, the producer, runs Basehaven.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_03: There's gonna be a rave tonight at Studio B.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_03: That's you, okay.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_03: June, what is it?
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_03: June 22nd, uh 2024, if you're listening later on.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I love that place.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's so it's so grunge and alt.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like and then I love like all the little goth babies that go there.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and then tonight is the uh also the art of drag at the K-Space.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh nice, yeah, which I it's horror, horror, uh it's a horror theme now, yes, which I'm so excited for.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_03: I love they had a horror theme before or I don't think so.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't know what last year was was, I forgot, but it was bad, it was badass last year, and I'm excited for like I totally support the LGBTQIA plus community uh because you know my son is trans, and so uh I you know I support anybody being themselves.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I I support my kid more than anything.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna have a kid actually uh on Wednesday.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be a goth grandmother.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody please let me good vibes and scared of hell.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um you know that baby's gonna be dressed in black.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, oh yeah, we already got all the black everything.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: Trust me, we're we're stuck with that.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um with black, too, right?
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_03: I like, I mean, you know, slimming.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_01: Ain't nothing about it.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_01: Slimmy when people see me out like yesterday.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_01: I went to Lab Rujita's tea tea leaf reading.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: I saw that, yeah.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: I was not in black, but I had a little and uh uh I was like, who am I?
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_01: But the dress was$35, it was nice.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, whatever.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you're gonna be a grandma.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I am guys.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so tonight, so tonight we got that studio B and then case base, also.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh oh man, I hold on.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_03: Before we go, we got we came, we're at 50 minutes, but uh shoot already, one uh cancer survivor?
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_03: Do you want to talk about that?
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so yeah, uh, I think it's about uh 13 years, 12, 13 years ago, it's been a while.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um I I I was having stomach problems, which a lot of people in corpus, believe it or not, have stomach issues.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um even if you're young, get a colonoscopy, get colon screenings.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's very important.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so they didn't know what was wrong with me.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: They kept on pumping me with all these pills.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they thought it was a virus, blah, blah, blah.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_01: So finally I had to go to San Antonio and they're like, you have ulcered up colitis, which is an autoimmune disease that attacks your large intestine.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so uh I had to get you know regular checkups.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm there like 20 something years old, uh in getting colonoscopies with these 80-year-old grandmomies and grandpas, and they're looking at me, and I'm looking at them, and I'm like, hi.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_01: They're just like, she's so young, and I'm like, I know.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and you know, it's very humbling uh having those kind of tests done, but it's needs to be done.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_01: And luckily, when I actually I lived in Houston for a while, uh they found a polyp in my my large intestine and it was cancerous.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and they're like, Well, we can do one or two things.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_01: We can, you know, have you go through chemo, see if it knocks it out.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_04: Oh no.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_01: Or we can take out your large intestine and knock out two birds with one skull.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, wait, what?
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: You can live without a large intestine, like this is a thing.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um and he's like, Yeah, we can do it next week.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay, hold on.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_01: Let me process the fact that you can literally take out my large intestine and still have me survive.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: I am a horror creature at this point.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um literally.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, they did what it's called a J pouch procedure, and they just take out your large intestine, they reattach your small intestine.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_01: I had to have the the pouch, um, the little call colostomy bag for three months while I healed internally.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_01: They went back in, stuffed that back inside.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_01: I was literally like it was so creepy.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh my god.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_01: It was I woke up and I was like, who stabbed me?
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, Hey ma'am, we just literally took out your large intestine.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Well, you want to go back to work now?
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what's going on?
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, I've lived with uh, you know, low low large intestine for that long.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm fairly okay, but I do still have my moments, which is like, you know, I'm just not feeling a hundred percent.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm tired all the time.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, those were the like that's what how you were feeling is that what you I feel now, I still feel it like before I couldn't even go out, basically.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like I couldn't So you knew something was Oh yeah, no, I I couldn't I would lose like 30 pounds in one month.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_01: Crazy and then they would put me on prednisone and then I would gain that.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_03: Did you have like headaches?
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like uh I mean was it just no, it was just stomach problems.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like stomach problems, stomach problems.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, if you have any stomach problems, you just don't know, please go get checked.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: Please go.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: If and if they're not getting your answer here, go somewhere else.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's very important because you don't want it to get to the state that mine went.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: Mine was so severe.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like it was almost like bad.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_01: It was just I was taking 30 pills a day and it wasn't even phasing me.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_01: It was just so bad.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was hard because having a kid uh and trying to take them to school, I sometimes couldn't even take them to school because I was just so just sick.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but now I don't have I'm I'm just now I'm just a little tired more, and then I can't eat certain things sometimes, and it just depends on whether my stomach likes me or not.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but it's not as bad as it was before.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_01: Not even so yeah.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_01: So shout out to cancer survivors.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I can't even say, like, you know, there's people that have like uh have gone through chemo and that's intense.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I I had to I bipop.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean I got my large intestine taken out, but still like I can't even imagine.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_03: That's a pretty big deal, right?
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like that that's me in a nutshell.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's awesome.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_03: Well, thanks for coming on the show.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for having me.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and shout out to all my my the pickers because I'm wearing all their merch.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, anything anything you want to share?
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like uh Sung Sanctuary, Elfines, uh their jewelry, a burr post, um the glass.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_03: You mentioned it earlier.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_02: That's oh my god, this bitch love her style.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_01: Look at this, she this good glass.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is glass, like uh Heather Morbid, morbid creations, you know, this is the actual bone right here.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: She's like actual bone, and then like, oh my gosh, Suicide of Butterfly.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, gifted me with this.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, are you kidding me?
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so yeah, no, uh, I I mean, and and of uh Sinfinity, uh the girls there are so amazing.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_01: Massages, if you need a massage, um, I mean, if you want to know any place to go and who to talk to and where to go, just follow me.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, official Corpus Christie Horror Club, CC Goth Girl.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I try to share.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, if you have a business and you want me to share, tag me.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: Cool, please.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_01: I want to get the word out.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_01: I want people to know.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_03: So Nikki Hernandez, thank you.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_03: She puts hearts on and a night creature says, Nothing known to man can destroy Ronnie.
• 54:24
  unknown: Not yet.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_02: Not yet, because I'll be a vampire one day.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh, so you so how do people find you?
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_03: How how do they tag you to show you?
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh on Facebook, I'm the official Corpus Christi Horror Club.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then on Instagram, I'm also the uh CC Horror Club, and then of course uh CC Goth Girl underneath there.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_01: So and then I got TikTok, uh, which is CC Goth Girl or CC Horror.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, I don't know, one of the two, but by the link.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_03: I think TikTok the at is CC Goth Girl, and then the name is I can't remember.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's linked on my pages.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_03: We'll put the link below.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yes, yes, please.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's cool.
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_03: Well, thanks for coming on.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for coming on the show.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_03: Uh if nothing else, we'll say goodbye.
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much for coming.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for coming through.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, tear your bat.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, oh, you guys, she gave me a little pat right here, and it came in a little package, a little case right here.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_01: Maya got one too with stickers.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_03: And Maya got one too.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_03: And she says I got what did you have to do?
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_01: You have to name it and give it a backstory.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_03: Name it and give it a backstory.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's a challenge.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_03: And then, of course, the stickers of Freddie, or who is it?
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_03: Jason.
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_03: Who is this?
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_03: Who is this here?
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think oh, that's Jason.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_03: Jason, all right.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna put these stickers on my computer somewhere.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_03: But thank you so much for the gift.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, yeah, thanks for shouting us out, purchasing merchandise as well.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_03: Always supporting local.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_03: Gotcha.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_03: You guys stay tuned for the next uh cop uh podcast coming up.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_03: I know I got some people lined up.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_03: El Vago Burger and Barbecue 4701, Banetta Drive, right there in Molina.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_03: Check it out.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_03: My favorite is the El Wapo.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we were there yesterday with El Nino actually went by there and uh Alex hooked him up.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_03: So check it out, you guys.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh otherwise, uh shout out to Maya, the producer, for making this uh making this uh podcast look good, making it sound good, and uh stay tuned.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_03: See you later.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.