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EP117: Jesus Hilario H | Corpus Christi Originals · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_00: Copus Christie Originals back at it again.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Solo episode today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be interviewing myself.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh shout out to the coffee mug, which is this beautiful spot that I'm at right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the private upstairs area for the Copus Christie Originals.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks a lot to Susanna out there.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Try the Headwig.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm drinking the Hedwig today.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you like white white mocha, this is just this is my jam right here.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Also, the cinnamon crumble.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: This thing is bomb.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: I already bit into it.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Get it warm.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: They warmed it up for me.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: She said, Would you like it warmed up?
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, please.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, so interviewing myself.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh real quick, I wanted to shout out this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the topic that I'm talking about at the moment, actually, let me get to the interview questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Jesus Hiladio.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the host of the Corps Christian Originals podcast.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's actually a network now.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: We got two other podcasts, and just that's who I am, Corpse Christie Originals, Jesus Arenandes.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Hilario Arenandes, if you want my full name.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: But let me get these questions out for you guys.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: So initial initially coming into the shop.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've been here before.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I love Harry Potter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like I've seen all the movies.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: I've only read like the first book, but I like the theme that's in here, it's really cool.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's really cool.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the music that they have is chill, like it's it reminds me of me, like in the 90s.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: It reminds me of 90s and stuff like that.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there was people here enjoying themselves, it was amazing.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: They have a table with you know business cards, and I was like, oh cool.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: I might be I might want to interview some of these people, so that was pretty cool.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: I also met the person that sells the decaf.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh his name is uh Travis for Roots and Spores Coffee.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm already networking just coming into this place.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's amazing aside from the coffee uh and the and the the muffin here.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: I still want to take a bite of that, but I don't want to uh I'll take a bite off camera.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, let me take a bite.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: This is nice.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta take another one.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Cheers.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: So it reminds me, it reminds me of my the last episode I had with Susanna, uh episode 108, where she was mentioning that coffee it's uh it brings people together.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a culture, it's a culture, whole cultural vibe, and it's so true.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like I just coming in here, okay.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Before coming in here, I went next door to see if the neighbor wanted to be interviewed because my the per my guest cancelled, right?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, let me see if I can try to get somebody last minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were busy and this, whatever, whatever have you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that's networking.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were like, follow us, I follow you, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Came in the place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Barista was very, very nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: She asked me what I wanted, I already knew what I wanted.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and um, in the meantime, the person that dropped off their decaf, you know, the person that sells their decaf, Travis, with roots and spores and coffee, he recognized me.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he was looking at me initially, and then the second time I glanced at him, he was like looking at me like he recognized me.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Oh, okay.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have to remember that I'm a public public figure and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So check test mic test.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so going over the that is pretty cool, but being able to network just coming into this place is awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vibe is nice, like music is going in the background.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll share some photos to my to the Instagram so you can see get a feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: But thanks a lot, Susanna.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, with cuff the coffee mug located here on uh on spid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me get the address real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh forgive me, I'm very unprofessional.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh but I want you, I want you guys to see that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's perfect, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see, but that's not an excuse, you know what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, so the coffee mug, check them out, located 4535 South Padre Island Drive, suite 14, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78411.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Harry Potter theme, got the headwig, and a cinnamon crumble muffin.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Check them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, yeah, so real quick, let me get into the quick let me get into these interview questions for about myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then a little later I'll answer some questions about uh some questions that you had guys that asked me on on social media.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first thing is the brand and the mission.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the original definition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what exactly makes someone or something a corpus christi original?
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Is it a birthright or is it earned through the hustle?
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: Very tough question.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the cool thing about my my brand name is that it can mean anything.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: It could mean it could mean uh you're actually from Corpus Christi and you're in you're originally from here.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: It could mean both.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: It could mean that you are a a hustler, like hustling in the in in the sense that you're making money.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm from the opinion of honest hustle, legal hustle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, although I I have been I've had experience with family members that are from that culture too, and and I recognize that hustle as well.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: But as far as the Corpus Christi originals goes, we're talking about honest working people, the the the backbone of the city that is actually making a difference behind the scenes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because like aside from social media and all the all the shiny spotlight that a lot of companies that have, this is for the originals that are unseen, the the unheard voices.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's who I'm considering originals.
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  SPEAKER_00: People that are that are unseen, that go, that live their life in this city, raising the next generation, um, raising them to do good, honest work, raising them to be creatives, uh, that's those are the originals that I'm that that I try to represent.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's that there.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: The next question, why behold for the network first hit, what was the specific gap in the local media scene that needed to be filled?
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Corpus Christi Originals is now a network.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: I have two podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: One there's other originals like me, there's other corpus Christian originals that are like me that need to be that are creatives as well.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: They want to do what I'm doing, which is fine.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: I want people to know with the network that we can have a community of creators doing the same stuff, interviewing people.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Check out Lito Cortez, he's part of the core the the network.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: He has a of the podcast called Respond If You Please.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had the idea.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Hey, you want to be on the network?
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: He said yes.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, he's interviewing people just like me.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: No problem.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: Ben De Leon of the Unchuck Yourself podcast.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: He is a um, he he talks, he is a self is like a motivational podcast.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to get this muffler on here, you guys, because there's I forgot that there's people that might be coming in here.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, sorry, that uh there we go.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it has a muffler for like background noise and stuff like that.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: Ben Delion of the Unchalk Yourself podcast, he's on the network as well.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why I wanted to have them on the network is because I think they're cool people and I think that they're creatives, they're originals like me, and I wanted them on the network.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: Simple, you know what I mean.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: The second part of that question was uh what was the specific gap in the local media scene that needed to be filled?
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: The specific gap to me I felt was the people that are being unheard.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because social media it'll just show you the most, like it'll show you the popular people.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm thinking about, right?
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: In in school, who's the popular people?
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: Usually the loudest ones, usually the ones that dress nice, this, this, that, yada yada.
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  SPEAKER_00: People like me that who are not at the forefront of that.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: When I first started using Instagram, I thought of it as oh, this is just another way to be rejected by the cool crowd.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm fortunate enough with my upbringing to be able to say, Who cares about all that?
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: Do your thing.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: I learned how to play guitar a long time ago.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, being a creative is just something that you you've got to be a part of the public, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like a lot of those people that are unseen are aren't on the media.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: And the ones that are seen on the media, usually their opinion is usually the loudest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whenever it's the loudest, people don't really have a lot of options.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: So if I'm coming on and bringing people that are unseen or unheard, having their opinion, then other people then people have options, different options, like oh shoot, I didn't know that that opinion existed.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um so that's that there.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: The Friday night original live stream.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: So here's another question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the unfiltered shift.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Friday night original live streams are a different beast.
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  SPEAKER_00: What why was it time to move away from the polished interviews into raw real-time community audits?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the excuse me.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: I had to take a drink and a bite real quick to think about that question.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: So the Friday night original live stream is man, this light is beautiful.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: This window is beautiful, guys.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let me show you this window real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so the Friday night original, the idea came from live streaming and being upfront and personal with the people with my audience.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because a lot uh I'm starting to notice that a lot of my audience members want to get to know me as a person, like who's the host?
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: People have questions about me.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: And the Friday Night Original is an opportunity for y'all to get to know me a little bit more, uh, as well as my opinion on things.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: So, and I'm it's it's brand new, and I'm finding that that live is just another medium to reach people with with the network.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you get to talk to them directly, you get to know them by name, you know what I mean.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Eventually, people begin to trust begin to trust me and trust my my my my my brand, you know what I mean?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because at the end of the day, I'm trying to figure out how to make this a business, you know, and business businesses thrive and strive on uh relationships, relationships with people, and uh yeah, that's that's that that's mainly one of one of the reasons why I started the live.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure I got more thoughts on that.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's just sometimes I'm put on the spot and I have to figure out what to what to say and stuff like that.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the entrepreneurial lens, next question.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: From a business owner's perspective, what is the biggest misconception people have about the corpus Christi hustle?
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: From a business owner's perspective, what is the biggest misconception people have about the corpus Christie hustle?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um I want to say that a lot of people think that the hustle is only seen on social media.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: When I was learning how to play guitar, there was many a night, many a day, many of hours spent in the practice room, no cameras around.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's the Corpus Christi hustle that a lot of people don't see.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: And the misconception is that it's only shown on social media.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so and like some people, I noticed too that some people don't want to get interviewed, you know what I mean?
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: Some people don't want to get interviewed because they just don't want to share, they don't want to share themselves, which is fine because I think in social media nowadays we feel like we need to share everything, but at the same time, the misconception can be that a lot of the hustle goes unseen.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the hustle is not at the forefront, it's not seen.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, although I fear I I'm hearing that a trend now, or maybe even like the realization now for businesses, is to show the hustle, show the behind the scenes that way people can know you a little bit more.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that there.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: Next thing the talent drain.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: Why stay in Corpus?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: We see a lot of creative people leave for bigger cities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why am I doubling down on this city and this community?
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: This is where I'm at at the moment.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: I never really I mean, I considered moving out of town a couple times.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: I actually moved out for a college, I lived in Tulsa for a couple years, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: But for the most part, this is where I'm at.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and I see like in in like like family members and people I know a lot of times they feel like they need to move out to start over.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: They they feel like they need to move out to start over, and my thoughts are like I I've tried that too.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: I've tried like running away from my problems and stuff like that, and it just you can there's gonna be problems where you go, anywhere you go, there's always gonna be problems.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: So, one like I need to I need this is where I'm at.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here in Corpus Christi, I'm from here.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: I I have my understanding of Corpus Christi, other people have their understanding of Corpus Christi, and start where I'm at.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, when I first started a a brand, a clothing brand called the Corpus Christi Originals.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: It started as a brand, it didn't start as a podcast or network like that.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: And before starting that brand, I was I was thinking like, how do I make a successful brand?
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Where do I start?
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I listened to two creatives online, Big Brando and uh uh what's the other guy, Apparel Success, both of those guys, and both of their advice was start in your city.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you can if you can influence your local city, then you can grow bigger to Texas, to to South Texas, to United States, whatever, whatever.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, okay, let me try that.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: So that was the idea, like, okay, well, let me start locally, and let me tell you, when I did that, I didn't realize what I was getting into and what I would find, which was awesome people in this city.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: I never would have thought, like, oh wow, these people are awesome.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because because I had always had a negative uh view of Corpus, and I was one of those where it was just like, yeah, uh, we need to leave the city because there's nothing to do, whatever type of mentality.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: But since starting the brand, like it had opened up my eyes that there's to my local surroundings.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: So start where I'm like the idea of starting where you're at so that you can reach more, I think is more important than trying to go upstakes and start somewhere else.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like if you can if you can influence the people that are around you, then you can expand your network to those uh that are outside of your your sphere.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Cool part two the creative process again.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: We're here at the coffee mug.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna memorize that address for sure.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: 4535, South Padre Island Drive, suite 14, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78411.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Check them out, coffee mug.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm drinking the Hedwig.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is this is me stalling for my next uh my next section of questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cinnamon crumble.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: So let me get these next questions here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The creative grind.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Focus music, trucking, and 13 uh stand-up mic journey.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I just recently started stand-up comedy.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in 15 mics at the moment, 15 open mics in a stand-up comedy.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: What is the biggest difference between the guy who walked onto the stage at the first one versus the guy standing there?
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now, huge difference.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the very first open mic is totally different than open mic number 15 because I'm learning a lot about it.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like with the first open mic, I had some idea.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is this is the main thing I want to mention.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: This is the main thing that comes to mind.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: When I first started open mic, I used AI to help me write the jokes.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: When I got to about like mic 13, mic 12, I was just like, this AI stuff ain't working, bro.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: I thought it would help me with my jokes, and I tried and I it I it felt robotic, like it felt like I was it was it felt like it was a crutch.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: I was using AI as a crutch to help me write jokes.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was using AI to help me get around the work, uh, which I think is something that we can get stuck in, like using trying to use AI to solve our all of our problems, you know what I mean.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm more comfortable on the last three open mics where I didn't use AI, I just went up, just use what joke, what ideas I had in my mind, and just what just went off.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: It just went off.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you're just going up to pluck with your guitar, okay.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: This is what I know.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: Pluck, pluck, pluck.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing, and it was more freeing because it gave me a confidence that I had that I because I feel like that with the AI gave me confidence, but it was false confidence.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: So then when I went without it, I was I felt my personal, my own confidence come through, and that's that's the biggest the biggest difference um that I can say with that.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the bombing lesson.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: What was the hardest I've ever bombed in these first 13 mics?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh why was the actual what was why was that actually better from my growth than a standing ovation?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so when you bomb that means bomb means that you feel like you did a bad job uh on stage.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: The when I felt like I bombed, I like opened my third number three.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: First two were I was fine with.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: The second one, the third one, I was like, dude.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: It I I didn't I didn't want to I it was it made me feel small, it made me feel like I didn't know what I was doing.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, at that time I was using the AI a lot and it was it was a crutch.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like maybe now that I'm looking at it that people notice that and and it's embarrassing.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: People noticed it and it's embarrassing.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: Another way to bomb, and I'm thinking musically, is say you have a performance and you haven't practiced for that performance.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: You go on stage, it's gonna show.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna show that you haven't practiced.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: The audience is not, it's I mean it when you and when you feel like you you haven't practiced, you have this level of conf your confidence goes down, and the people can tell.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I be more prepared is probably something that I learned from that.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: And don't just go off of a whim.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, every now and then just go and try to throw something out there, see what sticks, but at the same time, try not to be unprepared.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: The windshield think tank, spending hours hauling hazmat on the road provides a lot of solitude.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: How much of the podcast strategy or comedy sets are actually written while behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler?
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm so I'm a truck driver by day, uh creative by night.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: No, like I'm always creative.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Lee, like even on the road, I can't like and I'm ADD, ADHD.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: I can't stop thinking like my brain is goes 100 miles an hour like all the time.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, I could do this, I could do that.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm wanting to start like a hundred projects and like knowing myself later on after those hundred projects, I'll stop I'll I'll Be like, why did I start this project in the first place?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because it won't get finished.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm constantly using uh listening to books.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's another that's the one thing I've been doing lately.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh listening to stand-up comedy comedians, um just getting smart listening to podcasts.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: I use a lot of that time.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I to be honest, like you would think that a truck driver listens to music a lot.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really listen to music a lot, I listen more to like audiobooks, podcasts, uh, and things, things of that nature.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't talk to a lot of people, so there is a lot of hours on the road, and one thing that so I'm creative during the day in thinking and writing stuff down, having ideas.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: I get to post on my on my downtime, so uh that helps, but yeah, it's it's always a part of the process just being a being a truck driver.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Music as a blueprint.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: How does a background in classical guitar and music theory actually make someone a better podcaster or editor?
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a rhythm to a good interview?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Man, back my background in classical guitar.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Take a buy this picture.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Classic being being a trained classical guitarist in college is is huge.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: I learned how to read music.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: I spent hours on on my craft, on learning the guitar.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um I spent hours learning the guitar.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Man, that's a good question, man.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: How does the background in classical guitar and music theory actually make someone better?
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Podcaster or editor?
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a rhythm or to a good interview?
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I noticed that whenever I would perform classical guitar, I had to listen to the audience.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was it's one part of performing.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: You listen to the audience.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um are they liking what you're playing?
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Can you hang on the note longer?
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Are they really listening or are they chattering?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so being able to listen, I think, is huge.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that like analyzing music too, like analyzing music and listening to it.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: You you listen more than once, like you listen for the the the the timbre, the rhythm, you listen for the uh the harmonial structure.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: There's you listen to the more than one thing, and I noticed that whenever I'm not sure if this has to do with I mean music like music theory, like I don't know.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: I've been I can't that's a tough question, man.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I've always been like an analytical person, like trying to figure out how stuff works.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um so sorry, excuse me excuse me, sorry about that guys.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um I haven't really thought about it too much.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I guess the takeaway from that is just being able to listen, being able to hear the person that's across from me, and listening to their song.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I could look think of a person's conversation as their song, the flow of the song.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh oh, this is this this is the bridge right here.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is interesting.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me more about the bridge, tell me more about the chorus.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: The chorus could be like the recurring theme of like their their story, like they're always re referring back to it.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: Could be uh grit, you know, they're always talking about oh, when I was younger, this always going back to this, you know what I mean?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's a rec that's a chorus, a versus uh something that's kind of common, sounds the same, but it's in between the course, but it's a different sound, you know what I mean.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: I you could think of it in terms of that.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can get real geeky on music if you want me to.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh next next thing on part three, which is the creative grind, uh, talking about the gym, creativity, connection.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I spend a lot of time, not a lot of time, I don't know why AI comes up with this.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: I spend time sometimes, usually like at least once a week with kettlebells and metabolic training.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, does the physical discipline of the gym translate to the mental discipline needed to edit a two-hour podcast?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, I mean I'm getting older, I'm I'm in my 40s, and being physically fit and mentally fit is huge because I'm married and I have kids.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: So there was a time there when I stopped working out like altogether, and I would be like, oh nah, I'll be alright.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be alright.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: But now I'm just like I can't I can't keep doing that because my I can my I could my mind could tell like I can tell my mind like nah your body's fine, you'll you'll be fine in the next couple years.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: You look look like you still look good in the mirror, this and this and that, but that I was only tricking myself.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I had to tell myself, like, look, you need to go at least once a week, two, three times a week is better.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um sorry looking at my camera here.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um But I I I want to say that I learned discipline uh in physical physical things like since I was young.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: My dad always had us in sports, so it was always go to practice, play the game, go to practice, play the game, like for years.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: So it's discipline that I learned from that my dad had instilled in me, right, from growing up.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um and when I do edits, like I don't edit the full the full version of the podcast, I just edit clips to put them on social media, and that takes time.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like I find myself having to try to find time for that, and I try to do it like during during my work breaks or when I have breaks in work because when I get home, I've got a wife and kids that need my time.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: They need me there.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: My my son needs my time, my daughter needs my time.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I find a lot of my editing hours happening before everybody wakes up in the morning or after everybody goes to sleep, and it's like that's that's the only time that I really have to edit stuff.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I have to like it's just like getting up, it's just like getting up early for the gym in the morning.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um like you set your alarm at before everybody gets up, go to the gym, go work out, and then like I can even feel myself too, like going, like say I haven't I haven't been in a week, I could tell I can feel myself like I need to go because it's affecting my mental state and and my physical body is deteriorating faster.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and when my mind isn't right, I take it out on every I take it out on everybody, including myself, and and and the repercussions and the the the collateral damage is my kids and my wife, like and it's affecting them because of me failing to take care of myself physic physically, uh and and that that's that's saying nothing about like actual the way I eat, you know what I mean?
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean I that's something that I definitely need to continue to work on.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: But as far as having discipline to editing stuff, a lot of times I get behind because I've got so many things going on, but I at least I try to be like, okay, I made I can think of it like okay, well, this week I did five posts, cool, that's better than nothing, you know what I mean?
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can get real down on myself, I can work so hard, hard, hard, hard, and then not sit back and enjoy the fruit of what I've done.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: So moving on to moving on to the next portion, you guys.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the personal front and future.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: The balancing act between the CDL, the network, the comedy, and being a husband, father.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: How do you decide what gets your triple A energy every day?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I really I can't really tell you that I have a set a set thing priority list, but I'm but I can tell you that I'm constantly thinking of the things that are important to me.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so I guess I just take it as it comes, you know what I mean?
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like spending time with my kids, doing homework with my daughter, my son, taking them to the park.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and I feel like I'm covering all those bases, but my Achilles heel, I guess you can say, is being too hard on myself, thinking that I'm not doing enough, thinking that I'm a bad husband or a bad father, and not realizing how much how far I've come and how much I do care about those things and put them at the forefront of where they where they need to go in my in my life.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: I wish I could tell you that I'm more disciplined in that stuff or that I'm more on top of it.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: I've never been like I've never been like schedule like like every day.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the type of I'll forget the schedule, like I forget to leave the you know what I mean.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it's just how my brain is wired, like and I don't you I don't want to use that as an excuse either, like it's just I've learned how to excuse me live being the type of person that I am, and I think I'm pretty successful, you know what I mean.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: I finances are good, family's good, I mean it everything's in its in its right place, you know.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I tried to focus on the positive.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Next thing the 12-year perspective.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: What's the secret to keeping the home front solid while chasing these original dreams and being out on the open mic late nights?
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the secret is is covering all your bases, knowing what time that you have.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there's some nights we'll I'll I'll check the I'll check the rhythm of the room, the the atmosphere of the room.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: If I feel like my my parent, my wife or my kids are like, okay, daddy, go over there, then I'll go to open mic, or I'll go work on my stuff, I'll go work outside, whatever.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um I just kind of gauge it and I ask, like I ask my my my wife, like babe, do you think this?
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think that?
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: Or I feel it, or I have like discernment, like how to when to it when to do what.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's see, what else?
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: The gear talk.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: What's actually in the bag today?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: Why did I choose this specific camera or mic for the coffee shop session?
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: And what's the one piece of gear that changed everything for the network?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm using the Sony ZV E10 with a Sigma 16mm 1.4 aperture.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: I use this camera because look, it's blurry in the background.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: You can see the the beautiful coffee mug pillows here, the beautiful coffee mug in the background, and it's focusing on my face.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's a beautiful camera, like this is a beautiful setup.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: So the camera is definitely a game changer.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm also using the DJI Mic Mic Mini, uh, and that's a huge game changer.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, both like all of this, I invested in it because I knew it would be a game changer.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: Because if I just use my phone with regular audio, yeah, it'll get the job done.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, I care about my craft and I want it to look good.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's like when you care more care when you care about how look how things are coming off to people, that's when you start.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, maybe I should invest in like my shoes.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm wearing old school shoes, like they I need some new shoes, and a lot of times my wife would be like, Babe, how come you're not wearing your new shoes?
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, I just want to pick my old shoes, you know what I mean?
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: But but she's looking at the aesthetic aspect, like they maybe you should be a little bit more presentable, whatever, whatever.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: And she's and she's usually right, she's always right.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to say that out loud or nothing, but no, she's she's awesome, man.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, uh that's the stuff that I'm using.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: 2026 roadmap.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: What's uh the big hairy audience audacious?
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: What's the big hairy audacious goal for the network by the end of this year?
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: Who is one of the guests that hasn't uh said yes yet?
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um the network.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just I guess I don't want to answer that.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to tell you guys the future.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't know the future.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but no man.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: Just uh I don't know, it's just it's just something I want to continue doing because I'm a creative and this is what I like.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: I keep looking at the screen right here.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm you guys are right here, and the screen's over here.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: But but I just want to it's just one of the things that I want to continue to do for 2026.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say that.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and and there's no sign of stopping at all.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's the main audacious hairy goal, just to continue to do it for the rest of the year.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, last part before I go, rapid fire.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um corpus.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: So last part before I go for that.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let me take one last bite of this muffin.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Roots and Spores Coffee.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: Get a hold of Travis over there.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for some de some good decaf coffee, they got what's at what you want.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Hedwig.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Just want to make sure we shout out the coffee mug for being so awesome today.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, last part before we go.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: Rapid fire.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: Shoreline Drive or Ocean Drive?
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: Ocean Drive.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: What is it?
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: Chaperot.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: What street is that with all the lights?
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: All day, every day.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: Breakfast tacos, flour, or corn?
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: Flour, bro.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Water crisis, infrastructure fix, or just keep boiling.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh this is probably a long answer.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: On the water crisis, like, I just want for us to have a stable future in sight, and I don't want us to be in crisis all the time.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I want.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: So, whoever's in power, figure it out.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: Figure this out, man.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: We need we need to be solid for 10 at least 10 years.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_00: We need to be solid for 10 years.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking, and I'm talking from the unheard voices, the people that are not heard at city council all the time, the people actually working hard.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_00: We need, I mean, we you guys are up there for a reason.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: Do your job.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's basically what we need stable, but do it like do what you gotta do.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh performing comedy, mesquite street or house of rock.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: The artisan on Tuesdays, uh, and mesquite street, they're both good spots.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't been to the house of rock yet.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: Best place for a post-set meal in the city.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: Post set.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: So after okay, oh, the best place for to eat after a comedy set.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: There's not really a lot of options.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's mostly chains.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_00: You I'm thinking about like mom and maybe like there's a jalisco on port.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think it stays open late.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not too sure of too many open late, but I usually go to fast food.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to say their names or nothing.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: Podcast guest, a local politician or a local street legend.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: The unheard voices, man.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: The unheard voices that that nobody hears.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: That people I like when people say, Oh wow, I've never heard of that person.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty cool.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: Podcast.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, so I like when they notice recognize a person that they don't recognize, and they actually heard what they had to say.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's a huge goal right there.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so that's my solo episode, you guys.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the coffee mug for this, and uh hopefully we get another guest in here with us to chat too.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um that that that uh um that can wanna that doesn't cancel or reschedule or whatever, but uh yeah, that's this is awesome to hear you guys.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks a lot, you guys, for listening, for watching.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: Check out the pictures I sent uh for today.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: I took pictures of the place, putting it on Instagram.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: You can follow us at corpuschristians.com.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's currently getting a revamp to where everything is gonna be on there.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: The the merch, the different podcasts, everything's gonna be in that one central location.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, thanks a lot, you guys.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all have a good one.
• 38:56
  unknown: Bye.