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#78 | Lito Cortez, Anthony Diaz, Alex Arredondo | Bull Session 10/14/24 · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_06: What's going on?
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_06: Just back at it again.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_06: How do you do it?
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_06: It's been a minute.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_06: I'm nervous right now.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_06: So we got them to my right.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_06: Alex Aredundable.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_06: The Volo podcast.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_06: Alex Vundable and also El Vungle Burger Barbecue.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_06: Over here we got uh Anthony Diaz, host of the uh 50 States of Terror podcast where they talk about cryptids.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_06: Over here to my uh left, Lito Cortez.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_06: Cortez comedy.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna coin that phrase, bro.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, I'm I haven't even used that yet, so go for it.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_06: Excellent drummer.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_06: This guy's always in the pocket, man.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_06: You gotta get this guy some drumsticks.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_06: He's always in the pocket as a drummer.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_06: We were in the band uh earlier in our lives, so it was pretty cool.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_06: What's going on, fellas?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Chilling another day, man.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, we're just having a crazy conversation before we went live.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_05: So y'all talking about cryptids and supernatural and stuff like that?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the paranormal, yeah, over his hometown.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Good lord, dude.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's some scary shit.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_06: Do you have uh like any uh cryptid uh named uh like on your menu?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_06: Like the Chupacabra burger or something?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's that that's a good idea, though.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_06: Right on.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_06: So what's been going on in uh like I guess in the city, I guess.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_06: Uh I'm thinking about wood roads that got sold or they got closed down or whatever.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_06: Everybody's putting their sign up there.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_06: You had your sign up there?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: What is it?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's Eddie's.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, Eddie's?
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, somebody else came in and and I guess redid the whole thing.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, right.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea why it closed down though.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: I've never been there before.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_06: Another sports bar?
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm I'm assuming it looks like it looks like a billiards.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_04: You got a bunch of pool tables in there now.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, right, and a ton of dartboards, which because some people were saying that uh they were it was bad business and they were rude and stuff.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's true or not.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, rumors get started in corpus.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: And then I heard I think customers are bad in the corpus.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_04: I think customer service in corpus is rough to begin with, right?
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, like anywhere.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_04: Like even not in my place, man.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_04: But I'm telling you, if it's not if it's not locally owned, right?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, uh right.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_04: In any any big business that comes into town, yeah, it deals with a like really bad customer service.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I try to take care of all my people, man.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: I you know, real respectful with everybody, and you know, we just you know take care of everybody, man.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Got to bro, that's who pays our bills.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's no change.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I think it's the most part because like uh they know they're gonna get a check at the end of the day, so they're just like uh whatever.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it really don't care.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_04: And it's it's a big franchise.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_04: I went to one in Houston and it was nice too.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, a Woodrow's and I was like, Man, it's a nice year.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow, yeah.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_04: So it's like it they're doing they're doing well everywhere else, but um God bless Corpus Christie, right?
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_04: God bless CC, baby.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: The other rumor is is they raised the rent so high so they could get out.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I heard.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh so I don't know if it's true.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: But everything's going up though.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: I heard that I kind of heard that too.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: I I heard that because they they're tearing down the old mall, and the property value was gonna skyrocket, and then they're gonna charge so much money more on that establishment.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: They just they just took off.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but how do you raise the rent and then something similar comes right back right in?
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, like, oh, this is fine, you know what I mean?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: But I they were gonna do condos there, yeah, condos, like indoor condos, like I don't know, like uh I think they modeled it after uh uh Chinese or Japanese style, where it's just an enclosure and then you just live you live inside.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_04: Don't say Japanese, bro, because I'll I'll move in real quick.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_04: I'm on day like 120 of Japanese and Duolingo.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I was in uh I live in Okinawa for three years.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I loved Okinawa.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_04: We should make out so I can get it.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_04: No, I dude, I'm I'm like all into it, bro.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_04: We're going, we're going not next year but the following year in spring.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_06: So how did you get into that?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_06: Did you just like like well one day I'm gonna learn this or what?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_04: Just well, yeah.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I of course you can go in YouTube, right?
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_04: And you go down a rabbit hole of anything and everything.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_04: So I started with uh, of course, cars and then food and then bakeries.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_04: So we watch how they show up at three o'clock in the morning, mom and pop bakers, and they break bake everything.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_04: And they well, my wife got my wife into it, yeah.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and then just the culture in general and how they like they're real respectful.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody like is real, like they're tidy, everything's nice and clean.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's real pretty, dude.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_04: It's crazy, it's real pretty.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_04: It's a nice country, and it's huge, it's a huge country, and the infrastructure is like set up perfect.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_04: If you want to go from one side of the country to the other side, you can take it on a on a train.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_04: Like you can go anywhere in in a country on a train.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_06: And what style of government do they have over there in Japan?
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I think it's an Asian style.
• 4:23
  unknown: Sorry.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_06: That's all I know.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_06: Dude, so what's what's the comedy scene?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_06: What's the comedy scene like like in corpus?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_06: In corpus?
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's different.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's it's growing, right?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_04: So I I tell everybody there's a there's a difference in the comedy scene, it's pre-COVID and then after COVID, right?
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_04: So after COVID, there was like a boom in the comedy scene, which is cool, which and I I think those are all the young guys, or the I guess the new guys only doing it for a few years.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_04: But like I started, I think right after Andy.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, yeah, which is crazy because when I met Andy, he's like we knew each other because not anyways.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_04: So I started with Andy and that was and that was like 10-12 years ago.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_06: So it's changed after COVID.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_06: Do you think that uh because there's a lot of comedy podcasts now?
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_06: There's a lot, I mean there's a lot of everything podcasts, right?
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, that's true.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_04: So I mean it's I think if anybody can get their if you can get your voice out there and promote and be silly, and you can get followers, I mean that's the name of the game, right?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, like the way I see it is like there's so many, there's so many comics in town, they're not my competition.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_04: Like nobody's comp there's no there's no competition in comedy.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_04: I I maybe used to think that when I was young or when I first started, but now it's like um I just want to build a build a I don't even want to say followers.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, just just I want to I want to build a group of people that enjoy coming to see my shows, the shows that because I produce my own shows, right?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_04: I host my own shows, and most of your stuff is clean comedy, isn't it?
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm the only clean comic in town.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes it'll be like a Thursday night, and I'll let it rip and have a couple slips and then ask for forgiveness afterwards, right?
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_04: But just out of my own frustrations getting it out, right?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_04: But for the most part, all my material is clean.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I imagine it's not like the comedy store.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've seen I've seen documentaries about the comedy store and how like uh there was it was because it was ran by Polly Shore and there's some bad blood between like Joe Rogan and other comics, yeah, like years and years and years comics stealing jokes and and things like that.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it was not like that here in courts.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, I mean everything's clicky, right?
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_04: So some people mesh mesh well with others, other people don't, other people don't, and then people get in their feelings, but yeah, and then there comes there comes this I've seen it, I try not to be a part of it.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_04: I do my own thing.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, um, anybody that I live with, uh I'll I'll book them, I'll put them on my shows, and if I don't feel like they fit like what I'm what I'm looking for, yeah, like in my productions, I just I I find someone else.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_04: And usually I book guys from out of town because the the shows that I do um they're all clean for the most part.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, when I went to Mesquite for the first time to the comedy night the other day, you were there, we were there.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_06: Uh you could feel that kind of I don't know, just from the outside looking in, like there's tension between the different groups, like you can tell there's different groups.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, every everything's clicky, right?
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I'm sure in the food, I can oh, yeah, food business, man.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's crazy, bro.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's embarrassing.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: People fighting over nothing, like, dude, like people can't eat at your restaurant every fucking day.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, it's just it's just insane, bro.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it just I see if you have good food, you have good food.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: If not, then well shit.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: You think that stems from jealousy?
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, bro.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Shit.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: When I first started, I had people call the health department on me, the comp troller.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: What fucking yeah, I've uh when I first started my food, that's why I got the food truck thing.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: They're even worse, bro.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I've seen one food truck guy goes, Oh, we don't have that in our community, man.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: Bullshit, bro.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: First day I had my truck, some dude came up to me and started dropping all these rules, and well, you don't have this, you don't have that.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: So you with the health department or what?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, uh, because they passed me.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, they did.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, okay.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, Well, who you with?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if it was a gang, bro, I haven't been hit up like that here.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, who you with?
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't say that, he just said, Who you with?
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, What do you mean?
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Well, there's I'm with burgers, man.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there's two different uh communities.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you if you're with our community, you can't do events with that community.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: If you're with us, you know, like this, this, and that, and blah blah blah.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Hey, bro, I said, I just want to sell food and go home.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, we don't like those kind of people.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: I was tripped out, bro.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_04: And then just dude, did he like vanish in the thin air?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_04: You never see.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Nah, he he uh he just went to his little truck, whatever, and then you know, we sold we sold what we sold, we left, whatever, and then came back, saw him again.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: He started being kind of cool with us, whatever.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: But like I told him, man, I said, Y'all are only doing that to keep tabs on each other, that's all.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because come on, bro, what's you know what?
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna you gotta kick down everybody at the end of the day or something?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's it's just ridiculous, man.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if that's just here.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't hear I hear I I have friends in like in the Austin area, San Antonio area, Dallas area.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't hear anything about like bad blood between business.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's because it's so big, who cares?
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's what that's exactly what cares.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: Corpus, it's it's good size, but there's still there's plenty of there's plenty for everybody here, bro.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: People are gonna eat every day, man.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_04: You know, that's that's exactly what I was gonna say.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_04: I think Corpus is just such a small market.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I mean, it's if you put a pin in the middle of Corpus, it's what less than 10 miles, right?
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_04: From and from SPID and Weber, uh, and then make it 10 mile radius.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_04: It's oh city smaller than that.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_06: But if you put that pin there, everybody will know like that same day that is there, yeah, yeah.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_06: You know, that's small.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_04: And that's that's the thing with comedy, right?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: It's like after COVID, all these guys started producing their own shows, which is cool, but then you have like five produced shows on on a self-produced shows on a weekend, which is fine if you have your crap, right?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_04: Um, if but at the end of the day, dude, if you're funny, you're funny, yeah, yeah, right.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_04: If you're funny, people are gonna show up.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_04: And if you're funny, people are gonna tell other people, hey, this dude's actually really funny.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_04: Now, if they're your cup of tea or not, that's a different story, right?
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: And you shouldn't be hated for your talent, man.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't understand.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't be hated for your talent, you should be even embraced and looked up to.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: You should be uh like a leader in that shit, not oh, I hate this guy now because he's better than me.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_04: Oh man, you made me feel good saying that, looking in my eyes.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, man.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing with my restaurant, bro.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: Man, corpus has net I haven't seen Corpus do anything different in the past five, ten years within food.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you go to Takaria, everybody has the same taco stuff.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: You go to barbecue joint, everybody has the same stuff, which is fine, whatever you that's cool, right?
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: When I did mine, I wanted to do something different, so I came up with all these crazy combinations of food.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm starting to see everybody starting to copy me and stuff, you know what I mean?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Which I don't say nothing.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody says oh, you should take it as flattery, but it's still kind of a little thorn in my side, like, hey, like what the fuck, cool?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why you gotta take it off?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why you gotta bite off of me for like yeah, be creative, come up with your own, you know.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what is what is that?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: What is that saying?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, mockery is the highest form of flattery or whatever.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so do you do videos as well?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Do you do like short side skits?
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_04: Man, when I started, I would I was right, yeah, but I feel like I was reaching, uh, like I would like okay, this week I'm gonna post three videos, and this one's gonna be this and this one's gonna be that.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_04: And I mean, I got some likes, right?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_04: But I I felt like I was just pushing too hard and being too corny, and it wasn't organic, right?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_04: So now if if something comes to me and I just pick up my phone and do it, like it it'll work, right?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_04: Or if I have an idea that I really want to do, and man, I get ideas all the time, right?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_04: Like I had an idea the other day for uh Saturday, I had an idea for Valentine's Day, and I'm like, why are you thinking of Valentine's Day?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_04: But I know it would work if it was Valentine's Day.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_04: But earlier when I started, I would have done it right then and there.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and then like pushing and trying to so I used to, I really don't anymore.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_04: I just I feel like a lot of people are pushing, and some of them, I mean, they fake it till they make it, right?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_04: But I thought that's what I'm trying to do.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to be funny on stage and whatever else falls in line, like I'm not gonna reach for it anymore.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_06: How's it going?
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_06: Uh Recycle Corn Podcast, Ben DeLeon and Kaylee in the chat.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate you guys posting posting is hard, man.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_06: You have to, especially if you're busy, you got a job and just all kinds of stuff going on, you got a family.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_06: The production, the editing too, man.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, especially if you like want it to look nice, which I mean I'm not the best like editor in the world, but I I kind of have an idea of what I want it to look like.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_04: So that takes even even longer, right?
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I think that so like so AI is here, right?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_06: We got chat GPT, these questions come from there.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_06: You got groc on X.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_06: Screw all that.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_06: And but like you like for him for him, like making stuff AI is not really affecting that.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_06: I guess the ideas, but how does it affect y'all's does it affect y'all's industry?
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_06: What were we gonna say?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're an author, right?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like Yeah, I I hate it.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot stand yeah, it's because it's being it okay.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we talked about this last time too.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I understand uh the concept of it like formulating an idea for you, uh, but then you're you're uh diminishing creativity and you're you're basically just having a uh a a bot that takes information from other authors and other uh creators and making it for you with with with no sense of of what how how your creativity or how your like like thought process would have came up with that.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_07: Right.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and yeah, you can take it and you can make it your own, but then at that at that time, that at that at the time where you're reading it and editing it, it's like it's no longer yours.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so I mean I I I can't stand AI.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I like the concept.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: It steals too it steals it steals a lot of information and a lot of creativity from other really talented people.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: It it does, dude.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_06: It's only like a select few of creatives will actually make it or have that you know money coming from that industry, you know what I mean?
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_06: Because it it's it's like back in like in the days before they had uh like the royals would would compensate musicians to go and play in their palace or whatever.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_06: That's how they would, you know, the musicians would actually make money.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_06: Now you just flip on the radio, you don't even pay nothing.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_06: To for that music, it's it's so so easy for those for it to be created.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_06: And what about the people that are creating it, you know?
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they have they have AI generated music programs now.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: You can just tell tell it to do a brand new, a brand new hip hop song by Tupac and Biggie.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it'll just pop one out for you.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_06: You could just upload it to your stream account or whatever, dude.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: And like uh what really set me over the top of like my my stance on AI is when there was an artist who won a competition you using AI generated artwork.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously, and won a competition against actual artists.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, and the the competition was free, it was free medium, so like oil painting, cartoonists, illustrators, whatever.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: But a dude did a a uh computer generated AI image and submitted it with and he his claim was that my creativity was telling the computer what to do.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was his creativity process.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then with the image popped out, submitted it, and won.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, and he won he won money from it.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: It is man, it and like it's and I just got done writing, I just got done writing a chapter for one of my stories, and it took forever to do because like you sit down, you know, you're you're you got off of work or something, and you're trying to create something, being creative, the creative juices for you.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: And you can't think what's gonna happen to the character, and you're like, what's gonna happen?
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: And you sit in there with a with a with one word, and all you have is one word, but like that's that's the that's the writing process, man.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and the bronze needs to make it, man.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sadly.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: But like, I don't understand how anybody can do anything like that, and then looking themselves in the mirror and be like, Oh yeah, I deserve this stuff, you know what I mean?
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's cheating, bro.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they got paid.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_06: So so NASA has uh emeritus program, yeah, and SpaceX is pushing for exploration forward.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_06: Are we on the verge of a new space race?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_06: What do y'all think about that?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_06: What could the next few decades hold for humanity's place in space?
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you saw the recent rocket that got caught by the the tower.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_04: The tower, yeah, by the arms.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then did you see the new um the space suits that they put out?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: And they did the spacewalk on a on a on a commercial they were not even astronauts, they're com they're like billionaires or whatever.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: And they went in, they went into the atmosphere, the space.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Opened opened the uh the whatever, the canister the or the vessel, and and tested the suits.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: Just went outside, came back in, closed the thing, and came back to Earth.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, dude, we're living in the future.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: We're living in a sci-fi movie, dude.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, no, I mean Space Force, right?
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_04: I always say that Space Force, Space Force.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_04: It's I think it's a it's more of a a digital like front, right?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_04: So satellites, and then eventually it's gonna turn into uh unidentified or not unidentified, but unmanned aerial, whatever, uh drones, all that fun stuff.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_04: So I think whoever's at the top of that food chain is really gonna be running things.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_04: So it's just if it's not us, if it's not Elon, uh if so I guess thank God he's on our side, right?
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_04: If not, those out the those South Africans will be full.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_04: But no, yeah, I think I mean it's I I I think that's where it's gonna happen, right?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_04: Because if they cut our communication systems, then then what?
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_04: We're back to Stone Age.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_04: And then then you'll have to no more winning contests through AI, right?
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_04: No more doing anything from the internet.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_04: You have to hands and and feet and yeah.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: You ever wish things could switch back?
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like to the old days with no technology and I mean I like it for the weekend, right?
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_04: And you go camping, like to unwind and stuff like that.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking like for good, could you think you live like that with no technology?
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: Man, it's it's a certain extent, right?
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_04: I think we'd have to go back, right?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_04: Whatever I'm good at, I'll trade you for whatever you're good at.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_04: So whether if you're making corners the barter system, yeah, the barter system.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_04: You're if you're good at growing corn and I'm good at growing cattle or whatever the case is, uh, you're good at fishing.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_04: That's why I'm glad we live here in South Texas.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_04: It's like if if yeah, if if the if the food system goes bad or the grocery store shut down, you grab your pole and go fishing in the middle of the night.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_06: Well, what if they put that salinization, whatever they put that, that'll kill that that life out there, we wouldn't be able to fish.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, the desalination plant.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, what if they did that?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_06: We wouldn't be able to fish out there.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, how we all think about that.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_04: How much salt are they gonna pull out of the out of the bay?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_04: That's what I'm saying.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no idea.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_04: Like, and they also said that they're pulling from like miles out or further out, right?
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_04: They're gonna create a create a tunnel or a tube or a pipeline to pull from like I guess the the deep water.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I saw them saying that the other day.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_04: So, but man, you know how much salt is in that water out there?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_04: South South Texas is honestly great for barter, I will say.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: But you're talking about like no technology, right?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: No lights, no, no formula.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: Just say just stuff like that.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about like like you know, with the whole internet stuff and the whole all that, you know, like modern day with the cell phones and all that.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, say we went back to like back in the days, you know what I mean?
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: So like 1970.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, say 1970.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, that's not that far.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_06: Corvette still.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that makes me think about like books and the importance of like if so books would become important because that was a way to like learn stuff, like say there wasn't technology, you know what I mean?
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_06: You read to learn stuff, like the book of Eli.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_06: That's what I think about.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_06: You see, I've seen that movie where you know he takes the Bible to to this uh this island or whatever, and have they have all this civilization kind of restored.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_06: Um, I don't know, it just makes me think about the importance of like uh books and stuff like that.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but I I don't mean I don't really don't a lot of us don't have the knowledge, man, like to to learn how to live like without the technology that we've that we have.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_06: I think we've become dependent on it.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's why you get you get people who you know that that knows how to do something.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, simple things, though.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's like the backup camera I got on my truck.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: If I get in a truck that doesn't have one, it's all of a sudden it's a it's a problem there.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's stupid, but you forget how to do it.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I can, but it's like, man, my camera footing don't want to work, and I gotta figure it out myself now.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: You take a second, okay.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: My mirror, okay, mirror, mirror, mirror.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's let's do it.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got nervous right now when I paralleled part because it's like, man, this camera better work because if not, it's just it's just crazy, man, that we depend on technology too much.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I I still clown with technology.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_04: Like I have a backup camera, it's huge, it's like that big, right?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_04: The screen, and I'll reverse and I'll give it enough gas to where I know I I slam on the on the brake, it feels like I hit someone.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_04: So I'll still do it, bro.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_04: Even if they're technology, I'm reversing, and I'll have all the kids in the van and I slam on the slam on the brakes, and everybody's like, and my wife's like, oh my god.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_06: So crazy, man.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate you guys for coming out.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_06: So, what do you you got?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, you were talking about uh SPMs coming out or something like that?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's what they said.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's being released.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, I don't know when, but what do you think about him being released?
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh South of Mexican?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they say he's gonna be released.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he was already out.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh maybe.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they nobody has said yet.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I guess he had his parole date October 6th or something like that.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Supposed to get out.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Damn, there is there is a time in my life where that all I listened to was just freaking SPM.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, me too when I was young.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's long ass time.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: But you're you're from you're not from Texas originally.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: No, I was born in Texas, but I grew up on the East Coast, but like, but like it doesn't matter how far away from the barrio that that uh we go, it always just kind of just travels with.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: SPM stealing is hard.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it just kind of pops up.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Even I'll be I'll be in the middle.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: I was I think I was a teenager, I think it was like 13 or 14 years old.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: I was in the middle of North.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Carolina dude in in high school.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: And like I would go and my friends and I would go somewhere and then I would hear the hano music.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, what the fuck?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Go and cheer shit.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: People from from like close to my hometown in Poteet and Durrington or Pleasanton.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Well, what are you doing here?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you know, I wasn't I'm in the military, dude.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm I'm just I'm here to be stationed here.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's holy crap, man.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: My heritage over here.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's like the charity candidate just like get up and start walking over there.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's like some triggers in the back of my mind as a freaking sleeper cell agent or some shit.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I gotta go over there.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_06: Right on, bro.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_06: Like the quintanitas that I would go to remind that they would play that music all the time, right?
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_06: The the Tejano music, and I find myself listening to it on the radio, like when I'm driving and stuff.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_06: Totally can release it.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_06: Peaceful now, right?
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_06: Now that you're older, yeah.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: I mean I don't know.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_03: Right?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_03: Now it's like whatever it is, right?
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah, that's good.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_06: When I was younger, it's nothing but heavy music, bro.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_06: Just heavy.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, when a good Tahana song comes on, I was like, oh, that's it indeed.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_04: It's home right there.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get me wrong, I really do, I really do like real heavy, heavy metal.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: But like, I don't know, there's something about like waking up and you're spot to you know do chores or something, you put up you put on little Joe or Ramona Gana comes on.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_04: The accordion's the only instrument that really sounds like it's crying.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like happy and sad crying.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_03: And if you think about it, like Ottahan songs are just sad, dude.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_03: Like somebody, some dude crying about something, but it's like believing him.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I mean, one of the songs is like I'm I'm in gonna go to heaven and find a special corner.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_04: Like, like it's like, dude, like he's he's like he's feeling it, dude.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_04: And then all you grown macho men are like, yeah.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_06: How's it going, Francesca?
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you for joining the podcast, mama, love you, Kaylee.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_06: Uh books are important.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_06: Anthony is set on the books, right on.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so you have uh RP, what is it, RPG, roleplay?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_06: Something something coming going on?
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: If I could take a little time, I'm gonna promote my um uh my convention that we're putting on in Austin, Texas.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's called T-Fest, it's a board game and uh TTRPG convention.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's one of its kind for South, well, for centralized Texas, and for people who don't know, like um all the nerds out there who go to like Jen Conn and Gary Khan.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're gonna have that here in Texas in Austin.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm one of the uh of the directors.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um we just we just signed um Jeff D and Diesel, who are two prominent names in the art community, who've done uh art for Dungeons and Dragons since the 1970s a lot.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they they they're on board, they're gonna have a table, they're gonna showcase their art, people gonna be able to go over there and buy pieces of original art from them.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, it's it's it's super exciting, extremely stressful.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like like I I started playing these games back when I was a teenager, and I got into it again when I got out of the military, and I was trying to find a way to like uh like battle like depression and shit like that.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: And games like this really helps because it keeps your mind active.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and it's it just spews creativity.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, it's August of next year, 2025, and for more information, y'all can go to tfest.org.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_06: T F-E-S-T.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, tfes t dot org.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_06: Nice.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: Is there a certain game that you that you play or is it like I I I like um Pathfinder, Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, which is a horror-based game.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh as far as board games, like uh Lords of Waterdeep is one of my favorites, Battlestar Galactica is another one of my favorites.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_06: Um, that's a real thing, yeah.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, like large, complicated role sets, and that is just it's themed base.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: So, like a lot of horror ones like Dracula, Ark uh Arkham Horror, um horror, I mean um portrayal at at uh Hill House.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Great games, man.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's not one of those games you think about where you're playing like uh Scrabble or Monopoly.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is like this is meant for like a session.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: You have four to five players and you're and you're doing like three-hour games, and it's and like you're just it's there and you're uh diving into it with like just it could be lore, it could be uh like game designs.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's just it's an amazing experience, and we're having all that in Austin next year.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, nice.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_06: It's actually a flugerville.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_06: It is, yeah, Flugerville, yeah.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_06: I know that name because I broke down in Flugerville one time, bro.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_06: Where in the Flugerville am I?
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's hilarious as hell, man.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: You'll go like South Austin, then Flugerville, and then uh north and north Austin.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_04: Do you ever get like so deep in those games that you like dream about it?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_04: Wow, crazy.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's how much question that's how much I'm a nerd, um, like in the writing side of it, the creativity side.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: Because like we would get we would be done for a session, and I'll be DMing a game, like this the Pathfinder or whatever.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: And then the characters did this, like they almost died of the situation.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, maybe like there was like an an an intense battle, and all of them almost died, right?
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes I'll go to sleep and they're like and and picture all the characters, like what happens if they did die, you know, like who's gonna come back, or is does their does their family come and rejoin the party?
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then yeah, like there's there's been times where I've I've gotten so into a story where I I've drifted about it that night that night.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_06: As a comedian, like you have to think about all kinds of topics, right?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, dude, I think about everything.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_04: I like I that's why I asked because I I was dreaming about jokes.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_04: Uh because I had the I had the gig Saturday, uh that fundraiser I did.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_04: Um, but I was dreaming about jokes on Friday, right?
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_04: Friday night going into Saturday, Saturday.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_04: Like you actually stand up and like oh okay.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_04: Um I can't explain it.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, but I was like telling jokes, but they but it wasn't anything like I deal, like I I talk about, it was none of that stuff.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_04: It was me telling it was me.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_04: I was like a a Filipino guy making fun of Filipino people.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_04: But I was like, why am I doing and then I woke up and I'm like, why am I dreaming of that?
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_04: But it I I think it's just the the process, like the joke process, right?
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_04: Like telling jokes or imitating somebody, and I think that I was so deep into thought and like trying to prepare for Saturday that even though my material has nothing to do with what I was dreaming, I think the process just like eating me alive.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_04: And then, like, but get back to your question.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_04: I think about all the perspectives, right?
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_04: Like I tell a joke about myself, I think about what my wife thinks or or sees from her perspective, um, what my kids see from their perspective, what the neighbor sees from his perspective, what my dog sees from their perspective, like or a joke, you think that's one joke from all these different things.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_04: So I I try to like if I'm at a grocery store or whatever, where wherever the scenery is, right?
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_04: If I'm telling a joke, usually most of my stuff is based on something that's happened to me, something that I that I feel or that I that I can explain.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_04: Um and I'll just try to try to I'll I'll I'll set bullet points, right?
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_04: And then I'll I'll brainstorm, right?
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_04: So I'll put the subject and then each person and then what what they can see or feel from it, and then I'll take the best ones from it and then run with it.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_04: And the only way to tell what what the best ones are is just to go on stage and use it.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and if you get a laugh, then I'll be okay that that kind of worked.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_04: And this perspective didn't work, that other perspective didn't work.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_04: How how does your type five differ from like your your full set?
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_04: Uh a type five is something that I know works for you, right?
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, for that works for sure.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_04: Like I can go into any room and I know okay, this this type five, it's it's got setup punch, a little bit of story or some fill-in time in between.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and then I if I want to, right?
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_04: But like a type five, I know it like um you know what type five is?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_05: No, what is that?
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_04: Type five, oh no, you're yeah, type five is just like a type five minutes.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_04: Like you go in and you start from beginning to end, and it's it's laugh.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_04: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_04: And even the very last line is a laugh.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_04: Like my type five would probably be um I think I have a joke about being in a blended family, right?
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_04: And then I I talk about me as a dad, and then I go through um my daughter, my my my my youngest, right?
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, uh my youngest.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to give away any punch lines, but I'm not gonna give away punch lines, right?
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: So it's all right, you're on, go ahead.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so I'll I'll go through my youngest, and then I'll talk about my oldest, which is my stepson, and then my son from a previous relationship, and my daughter six months, my stepdaughter six months apart, right?
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_04: So they're like the same age.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_04: So that's kind of they're in the same age group, but they're totally different.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_04: He's one way, she's totally opposite, right?
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_04: And then at the end, I'll like kind of bring it home together and bring it all together to bring him.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but it's it's got boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, like five minutes of straight, like just I guess it's it's not a story because I'm telling, well, there's a story in it.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_04: So do you write or or do you memorize?
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's a little bit of both.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_04: So I do bullet points for my bits.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_04: So I'll I'll do like my first bit will be I have like two minutes on pronouns.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_04: So I'll do like pronouns and then blended family, and then I have another um joke.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it's about bedtime with my life.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it's blankets, and so I'll I'll write everything down.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_04: Um but in between, like when I when I first write it, I will write the concept and then I'll go on stage and play with it.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_04: So it it kind of it's not fully developed at the very beginning, and then I'll record it and I'll listen to it, and then I'll I'll kind of put it verbatim.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_04: Like I'll write it all out completely.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_04: But if it if I know I have 10, 15, 20 minutes, I'll just go up there, I'll do the bit, but whatever, whatever gets a pop, like I'll I'll I'll lean into it, right?
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_04: I'll I'll hit the gas on that one spot, and then I'll jump back into back into the verbatim, right?
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, comedy's hard.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard, dude.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: I I can't I can't write comedy.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to do that.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: I can do that.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: I could probably I tried.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I have tried, believe me.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: I've tried.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like I look at it, I I I would look at my my joke that I wrote because it falls in line with the story.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at it, and I'm like, I am not funny.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like I need to stick what I'm good at, and that's like horror and and fantasy sci-fi stuff, man.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do I can't do comedy.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_06: How did you how did you know you wanted to do comedy?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_04: Like, did you know like okay, that I'm gonna this is when I'm gonna I'm gonna start doing it, or I just said I'm gonna try it, and I tried it, and my first open mic, I did alright.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_04: And the other guys that have been there doing it for like two or three years, in my head, I'm like, dude, they ate it.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_04: Oh like they ate a wow really, they ate a shit sandwich, excuse my language, but that's what they ate.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_04: And they've been doing it for longer than just Yeah, they've been doing it for a couple years, and I'm like, man, it's like oh man, I'm I I know I can do this, but then you get in your head, right?
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_04: Then you and I I I see it with everybody that starts off, right?
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_04: And they they may not realize it now, or they may not realize it at all, but you'll start and you'll have this honeymoon phase of comedy.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_04: Might be six months, might be three months, might be a year, right?
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_04: Where you're just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and you're killing it.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_04: You're killing it.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_04: You love it, and these bits work and everything's like going well, yeah.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_04: And then you get to a year and it just like you kind of flatline.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_04: It happened to me, right?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_04: It just flat the same material, same material I knew worked.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's just I didn't I didn't love it anymore, right?
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_04: Like for me, I didn't love it anymore.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_04: And then I would get little laughs, but they weren't big laughs.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_04: But then I was also telling them like telling them like they like they weren't funny anymore to me, because it doesn't get funny anymore to you.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow, but yeah, so I tried it, I I fell in love.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_04: I I got bit by the bug, the comedy bug.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_04: I went back the next week and I ate it.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_04: And then that's dude, there's no worse feeling than that.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, like because it's like I'm going and I'm going home, I'm going under the bed, like the whole city saw this.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_04: Like I can't walk out in public.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but once you get like that that took me, dude, like a year to get over eating, like not that one, but every time you'd eat it, like, yeah, that was rough.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_04: Man, that was rough.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_04: Every time it really hurt, and then after a year, I'm like, nobody saw it.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_04: Like, just work on that material.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_04: Because I knew, right, as a clean comic, I have to go up and I have to do stuff that works, or I have to make it work.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_04: Because I could drop an F bomb, or I could drop this, or drop that, and everybody's gonna laugh.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_04: But if if I stay clean and try to stick to the material and the writing or the storyline or the premise, and it hits, then like, okay, this is gonna work.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_04: But you have to like you have to go up the next week and do the same five minutes, yeah.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_04: And then cut the fat and then go up the next week.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, back in the day before COVID, there was only one spot to do to do open mic.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, wow.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_04: Now they're doing open mic tonight.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_04: I think there's one tomorrow at Panacea, there's one uh Wednesday at uh Prohibition, uh, there's Mesquite's open mic, and then I know there's a Sunday open mic.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_04: So now you can get up like five times a week.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_06: How do the the the co the co-producing comics like deal with like satire like uh regarding like political issues?
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_06: Do they talk about stuff like locally?
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_06: Um have you ever touched that area?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_04: Or no, no, no, do you like avoid it or no?
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_04: I I try to stick to what I know I'm good at because I don't want to waste time.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_04: Like if I feel like playing around, I'll go up and play around with something.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_04: But if I'm just having fun, then I'll go up and play around, right?
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_04: Like I don't care.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just here, I need to get the wiggles out.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not gonna work on material.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just gonna poke on the crowd and I guess I'm I'm quick, right?
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_04: Like, right.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, that's my only defense mechanism, five foot one.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_04: So whenever somebody would come at me, I just have to cut them down with words, dude.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm like, I'm quick.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_04: So if if if I need to, if I host, I can I can jab, do this, do that.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_04: But when it comes to like I'm not serious about political comedy.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think anybody is in town.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_04: Like I do one joke, and that uh and it's it's just a it's just an icebreaker, right?
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_04: No, I'll say it here, but I I um I I do like uh like an inventory of the crowd's like we got any ladies in the house, let me make some noise.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_04: Of course, the ladies always go, woo.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_04: They sound like sexual ghosts.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_07: Like, woo.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_04: And then the the fellas is like, hey, we got any we got any fellas in the house.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm doing roll call, right?
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_04: And the fellas are always like usually they bark, like, oh settle down rapists.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_04: Because that I mean that's the that's the guys are like woo-woo, like they all try to do something manly.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_04: And then I said, uh, we got any Republicans in the house?
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_04: And then we're gonna get loud.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, We got any Democrats in the house, let me see you put your uh what did I say, let me see you put your uh voters registration card in the air and wave, wave them around like you just don't care.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_04: And I said, Yeah, and I get a laugh, and then it once it gets quiet, I go, I say, both of them, like both of your voted registration, yeah.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_04: And I do it just to get everybody's attention, right?
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_04: And once I once once you start calling people loud, like everybody sits up and stands up, right?
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_04: And I did that one time, and um there's a lady there, and she's like, That's a lie, it didn't happen.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_04: She starts yelling at me, and I'm like, chill out, miss, I only got five minutes.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like, chill out, and she's like, But it didn't happen.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_04: I was part of yes, the voting, whatever here, and she's like, That didn't happen.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I know, like, I know it's like, and then uh her her boyfriend or her friend at the time, or the guy she was with, like, leans over and he's like, dude, be quiet.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_04: Like, he was just kidding.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_04: So, like, yeah, yeah, like it's I'm uh I'm doing it to get a goof.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_04: I only say it to get a goof, right?
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I I say a lot of things just to get a laugh.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_04: I don't mean them, like I don't care, and I said it just to get a laugh, and it got a laugh, it gets a big laugh, right?
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_04: In the whole in the whole room, and she came up to me afterward and she's like, Look, I just want to say sorry.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, I don't care, like I'm not serious, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's just a joke, and it's it's always it's always the white lady, it's always dude.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_03: And I told her, it's always you people, yeah.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's like it's always you white lady.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_04: She's uh she was real sweet.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_04: She apologized.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, hey, I just want to let you know, I'm not serious, like I don't care.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_04: I just wanted to get a laugh and get everybody's attention.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: Not shanky with their Hillary Clinton uh letter opening.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_04: She got sh, but it's just like some people you just say words like certain words, and man, dude, it yeah, you can't really sing nothing.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_04: No, man.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, you can if you if you have that, and I had that sometimes I have that I don't give a damn attitude.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_04: And so I went in, and but it's a dumb line, it's a line that just gets people mad and makes people laugh.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_04: What was that?
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_04: That that uh voter registration card.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_06: So it just makes people laugh, and or it makes people mad, and it does it's like it does the job, like it could be yeah, that's that's what you're there for.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_04: It touches the subject, so but that's like the only political thing I do, other than that, I just complain about my life and my kid and the prices of groceries on behalf of white women.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sorry, uh no need to apologize.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_05: That's Katie, that's funny.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_05: That's my wife.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, yeah.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_06: So would you would you consider hosting a comedy net at your place?
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_06: Well, yours is the outdoors.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_00: I have.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_06: You have oh yeah, he had he had Mario.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: He's a good friend of mine, man.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: He'd say, Hey man, let me do a uh for your grand opening, whatever I'll go out there and stuff.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: And he did, he came down and dated.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we had a good time, man.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's actually really, really, really good, man.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he's he's got a lot of popularity last few years with his his uh he does like commentary on fights.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's just oh no kidding.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he does like hood commentary on you see a fight on Facebook that's got like millions of views.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_04: Wait, I think I've seen him, yeah.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_04: You probably have dude.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_04: Wow, yeah.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_04: He's got he's gotten some even even Rogan shared one of his comments.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_04: Oh no, it was so funny that Rogan shared it.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, damn.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Mario's good dude, man.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: We're we keep in contact.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: I talked to him at least once a month.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: I sent him a text, hey man, you doing good, or he'll send me text, hey you doing good, you know.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we might do a second year anniversary of him coming down and doing it out there.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_06: Oh no, yeah, was it a good turnout?
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, we had quite a bit of people come out there, man.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_06: Talking about uh do you think, man, do you think people should have an ID to vote?
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, it's like it's happening like in California where you don't need an ID to vote.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_04: Well, you need an ID to check out a book at the library.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_06: Like, this is kind of weird.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think you kind of have to, right?
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I get show that you're a citizen.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: I know I know I I have I get my voter registration to my house, but like, do I show my ID when I vote?
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think I uh no, I do.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: You do I did last time.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you're supposed to you're supposed you're supposed to be like, hey, this is this is me.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_05: There it is, this is me.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm voting.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't even know, dude.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: I lost my right to vote.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, no kidding, bro.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they they took away my voting because you because my felonies and stuff.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_00: What I can't I can't own a gun for the rest of my life and I can't vote for the rest of my life.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_04: For the rest of your life, bro?
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: The rest of my life.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_04: If you could have one back, which one would you take?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_04: The gun.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: I knew the answer.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to see a snake said.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: I can't defend myself with a car.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm gaming or what?
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_00: I will protect my family with this vote.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: I told my wife and she makes fun of me about it.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: I tell her, you know what?
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: If Trump becomes president, I'm gonna write that fool a letter once a week to pardon me, man.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's you know, it's bro.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can't take my kids hunting, I can't show them how to shoot, I can't, I can't protect myself.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, if say someone will break into my house with a gun, and if I shoot the guy, I can I won't be charged for killing the guy, but they'll charge me for felon possession of fire.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_03: They get you a slingshot in everyone.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_03: Dennis the menace up in that mug.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like Indiana Jones with the whip.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: All that bad though you get shot.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, my little better guy those bow and arrows.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: No, hell, hell yeah.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_01: Bush had his bedroom with the big ass bastard sword.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, big old Conan sword.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's that's another thing I was gonna say, man.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine if we went back in time, bro, where they took away guns and everything, and motherfuckers had to use a sword to fight.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think a lot of people would be talking shit back?
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, imagine that, bro.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and everybody's picked to pull out a gun and shoot somebody real quick, but imagine if you had to have skills to fight with a sword.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_04: I think the two community would rule the world, that's for sure.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, man, dude's gonna shoot from my legs, I'm gonna chop his head off with the sword.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_06: You talking about what style of fighting would you prefer?
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_06: Uh breakdance fighting.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_03: It's the coolest.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: I would say like a mixed, mixed martial arts, man.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: I would I've always liked that one style valetulo.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: Because it was kickboxing, boxing, wrestling, jujitsu all into one style of fighting.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_06: It just do you think like the UFC is has is like kind of like WrestleMania?
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: You think it's rigged?
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_06: And yeah.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's hard to say, bro.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: Nah, that's hard to say.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't yeah, it's that's hard.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: There's there may be there may be like one or two.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: Where you can kind of maybe prove that one of a fight just was a little rigged.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like either either from like the the judge's scorecard or from the way a fighter just gives up.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't fight.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_04: Just because they're both in their underwear doesn't mean it's fake.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I know it's not fake, but I'm just saying like they like they know this one guy's gonna win, so they put him against all these other guys he's probably gonna beat.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_06: So they pay this him as the star.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_06: Are you talking about WWE or UFC?
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there's been a couple of times where the actual fighter drops and they bring in like just some dude.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, hey, we need a fighter.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_01: Can you have anybody in your camp that wants to fight and we'll and we'll pay you?
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: And the dude's just like, Yeah, sure.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna get my ass kicked, but I'm gonna get 50 grand.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_04: But there you know, there's that one chance that he lands them right in the temple or right in the side of the face or chokes him out and he wins, and then he's like, dude, this guy beat the number two guy, the number one guy, yeah, came out of nowhere.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_06: So and then so that happens, and then Dana gets all pissed, like, man, that was the start.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_06: They just you just whooped him or whatever.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_06: No, I think so now they try to give I mean that guy another chance or whatever.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_01: No, I think Dana wouldn't I think Dana wouldn't mind.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_01: Dana was like, This is this is a vent.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: I get publicity for the next like two weeks after this, yeah, and then double the money for the rematch, yeah.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly, so it makes more money, yeah.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, but what what what fighting style would you would you pick?
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta go back to sightseeing.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_06: Man, I don't know.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_06: Nothing about uh mixed martial arts.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, but that's like more than one fighting style.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, well, I guess your stand-up game, your ground game, yeah, you know what I mean, your defense game.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's a whole bunch of different things, you know what I mean.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_06: So when you were when you were in, like, did you learn how to fight when you were in there or like out?
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_06: Like, how did you both man?
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Both?
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, both.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't know, it's different, man.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_06: It's different, yeah, yeah.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I would I would admit you know, I learned how to if someone's coming at me with a knife to take my shirt off and wrap it around my arm block, you know what I mean?
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_02: So it's that's my favorite part about cholo fights.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_02: When they take their shirts off.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_04: Then then MMA has another meaning.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's it's a it's not uh acronym, it's you sound it out and you see Cholo's fight, it's like mmmed Mexican arts.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what's that?
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Judo?
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Judo know I got a knife?
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_04: Judo know I got a knife.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_04: It always sucks when I watch I watch like when you see five videos, right?
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_04: And the guys take off their shirt and the loser has to put on his shirt all sad.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: All beat up.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, all beat up and bloody.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, but you know what?
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_00: I got more respect for a guy that threw down even though he lost, and so you know, versus a guy that'll pull out a gun or a knife or jump somebody, you know what I mean?
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you lose, oh well, you know what I mean?
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like a fight's a fight.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, anything can happen in a fight, you know what I mean.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_00: I seen a pussy ass dude whoop a bad motherfucker's I'm like, God damn, like, you know, hey, you slip, you fall, you did something wrong, had a bad day, like it just it happens, man.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there there is a there is a definite definite time in my life.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh young, stupid freaking kid, man.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: A bunch of fights that should never have ever happened.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_01: But like nowadays, you can't you can't even you can't even like go confront somebody who's who's obviously acting a fool in in fear that a said person might have a f a freaking sidearm on them.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_06: It's almost like the that's why I call the cops.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_06: It's almost like community.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, for us like to be able to tell like somebody that's a younger person like hey, maybe you shouldn't do that.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_06: But you can't do that.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_06: I mean it's it's like you can, but if you like you're saying, you're risking them like having a gun or just telling you off.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_06: So everybody, who do you think you are?
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody's got a gun.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, that's what you gotta look at.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody's gotta go.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, hell yeah.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'd rather get shot than stabbed though.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_00: For real.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'd rather get shot than stabbed.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_06: Have you been stabbed?
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh man full.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_06: What's that?
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_06: So you learn like actual physical combat training in in the Marines?
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_01: So like the the the beginning, the beginning portion of like your your hand-to-hand combat training ends at boot camp, and you can continue on to learn to learn more or whatever.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_01: And you're required to go to certain courses if you become like a like a corporal, whatever.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I was a corporal, so I I went to uh hand-to-hand combat school for like a couple of weeks or whatever for corpus course, and it was it was uh it was all right, but I but I did martial arts since I was like 13 because I was really into it.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like when I first saw uh Bruce Lee in the movie, I saw Into the Dragon, like when I was a kid, I was like, Man, I want to learn how to do this.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: This is fantastic amazing.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I got into like Jackie Chan movies, I got into old uh Japanese, Japanese uh samurai movies, ninjutsu movies, and then like I started like stop talking like that, and then like get excited over here.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: And when I was in Japan for those three years, I was I I took uh Okina Shanru.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: Well uh from you remember the movie The Karate Kid and uh at he's doing the crane movement.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the the guy who invented that was one of the the She Hans over at the school I was I was going to go.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_01: And but my friend was uh he was he was already in Okinawa Shru and Aaron Aaron Sanders, really cool guy, and he taught me a bunch of shit, and that's that's why I really got into it.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: And like I've done I've done like uh Budu Tai Jitsu, I've done Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: The hardest by far is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, man.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's the hardest shit so hard.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_01: There's distinct there's distinctions between the oh yeah, wow, really absolutely because Brazilian jiu-jitsu that's tiring.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: It is.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, I thought I thought I was in decent shape while it I was in the Marine Corps, like and in the Marines.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_01: In the Marines, you are required to have a certain height, weight, standard, and be athletic to a point where you can like fireman carry a 200 plus pound guy so you can run across the combat field.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I was rolling around with some was just some random dude at a at a gym for bajilin jujitsu, and I was dead tired.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, like 10 seconds in.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_01: Just I was like, dude, I'm I'm dead.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: This guy's gonna kill me.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_04: I just I did jujitsu for three months, and did that girl kick my butt every day.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_04: It was bad.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, quit.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_04: I took it the girl or the or the 13-year-old boy they put me against.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_00: So did I, man.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: I went when I was young and I went to Paragon with Aurelio, yeah.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_00: And uh some little I was maybe like what my early 20s, and it was this kid that was like 15 years old, he fucking tapped me out.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, what the hell, man?
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_04: I saw that kid at Walmart and I told my wife, let's walk the other way.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_01: Now but in the Marines, it's it's it's combat orientated, man.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: So like you're learning how to do sto do things in full combat gear.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: So like you have your flag Kevlar and you have your K-bar.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like if your weapon falls short, you use that as your as your blunt object and things like that.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_01: But like, but as far as as far as like martial arts, it's like yeah, Business is Jesus.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's no joke, dude.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: No joke.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_06: Then, of course, there's ancient art of uh Taekai Dose and different styles like chorino.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: Potato.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, what do you said about the old black powder muzzle loading guns, whatever?
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_06: Hey, those old black powder muzzle loading guns aren't considered firearms, but uh to be able to use it without fear of legal problems.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: You can't, bro.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: Anything with the firing projectile, I can't own it.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, but dude, imagine, dude.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: Baby gun?
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: Nah, well, firing, firing, like with guns out.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but imagine someone breaking your house, dude, and three or four guys in here where they're trying to get your money like a blunder boat, you know what I mean?
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: They gotta get you a boat, man.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: You say over there.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on, I'm not done yet.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on, fool.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: You shoot one time, I'll shoot one time.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_00: Fucking and it's not a rifle either.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_01: So some of the stealing and shit.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: It don't go off when you pull it.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on, I gotta start all over again.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_00: Shit.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_01: Redo, redo.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_01: Nah, dude.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's when you start doing repeating crossbows in your house.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_00: Just have like 10 of them set around the house.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_00: You run and grab one.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_04: Just get that nerf gun like uh American Gladiator just.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, have you ever watched the documentary on that?
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's wild.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_00: It is crazy, man.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's poor people, man.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_00: They went through a lot of shit, man.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just for our 10-year-old entertainment.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_04: We were like, yeah, it's low.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_03: There was no stunts.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_00: They were actually fucking out there, like hitting the real deal shit.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_00: 10-year-old, turbo.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_00: It was nitro.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_00: Please.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: Please.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: Please.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_00: They look like the characters from uh you ever seen uh dodgeball that uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh what was her name?
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh um Ben Stiller's Creep.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what was a woman's name?
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_01: There was there was one in I forgot her name.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: Man, but I was in love that Russian chick with the big eyebrows.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_06: Wow, man, I appreciate you guys coming on the show.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_06: Is there anything I want to touch on?
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_06: Not really.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_04: Can you imagine if they made gladiators now?
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, what just a bunch of transgender women, just sorry.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_05: No, Andy was on here.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_05: Andy was on here.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, Andy goes hard.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, he was talking about aliens in the Marvel movie.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_06: He's like, they're aliens.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_06: You don't have to make them strips.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_06: They're already weird.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was I was on for that one, and that was hilarious.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_06: Andy's a wild boy.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_06: I love Andy.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, he's cool, dude.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_06: Deftone.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_06: I think Deptones like introduced us from another friend of ours.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_06: We were listening to it in his car, like just driving around.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_04: All the Deftones had came out, they're like, Wait, where?
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like my first.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_01: I think that I think that was my second concert ever been to.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: No, really, the Deftone show.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was in San Antonio.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's a second garden theater.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Incubus, yeah, Incubus opened up for him.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_01: It was I think I think it was Taproot, Incubus, and then Deftones.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was a second garden theater.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_06: 90s, bro.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_01: It was a dope show.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember half that show, man.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_06: Wow.
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I think I saw the Deftones twice.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_06: Uh I saw them twice.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_06: I saw him here, and then uh in San Antonio.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_06: I think they were playing like with Metallica, Limb Biscuit, and some other bands or whatever.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_01: I heard them after uh a hoax game.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_01: They were playing over at uh concrete, and after the hooks game, their their show just started.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I'll at the time I had a truck.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I just like I just sat at the truck and listened to the show, man.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody bugged, nobody bothered me.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_01: Even the even the the um the attendants, uh parking lot attendants of the hoax game, they were like, Yeah, you're cool.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_04: I knew I knew I knew some guys that would sit in the cemetery across the street and just listen to concerts from inside the cemetery.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's crazy.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_06: Did y'all know there's like an old school military cemetery here?
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_06: Like it's one of the oldest ones, like in America, in I guess in America or something.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like a like the veteran cemetery?
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_06: Uh yeah, some no, it's like uh it's right there north side.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_04: Well, that's the one I'm talking about.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_04: That's the one in the Well, that's the only cemetery that's up there, like behind that uh it's like the the Union, the train station.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, yes.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know what it is.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's like supposedly some historic cemetery.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, next to the Union Pacific station that's out there?
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, oh okay.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_04: You know what it is because um I think my daughter went on a field trip there, and they had like World War II, like yeah, some of the stones are like like broken.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_06: Somebody did a documentary on on YouTube and they said that some of the stones are like messed up.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_06: So did you see those Tesla cars that can detect gold?
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, have you seen the the new Tesla robots?
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, creepy.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_01: You saw them, right?
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, once once I saw that came out, and I'm convinced like Elon's the Antichrist.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_04: Because they he wants everybody to like him, so the people that believe in Christ are like Elon's our guy, and now he's like, let's just push more robots.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_04: He's like, Yeah, Elon's our guy, yeah.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, here, just take over.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_06: Do you think he's supporting Trump because he's because he's trying to push stuff like that?
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_06: Do you know what I'm saying?
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_06: Like, because I mean I think that I think that like could because if Trump gets in, there's regul there's regulations that are lifted, and he's obvious uh Elon is obviously owns these uh big huge companies where he's does stuff, you know what I mean?
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_06: So do you think he's like doing that to help continue to push his AI or whatever he's trying to do?
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I mean, that's that's just politics.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_04: That's just what people do all the time.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_04: I think he's closer to one side than he is to the other.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_04: So he's oh okay.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_04: If I'm closer to this side, I might as well lean because he's gonna hook me up anyways.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, so he's so you think he's actually doing for I think I think it might be might be both, right?
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_04: Personal gain and political stance.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_04: Oh crazy.
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, there's there's like people have uh like just random uh represents uh representatives of different like large companies uh handing out gifts to you know the political figures anyway, just to swing votes their way.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_06: So I mean that as it doesn't as a part of not part of how the I guess politics is.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_06: I love gifts.
• 57:28
  unknown: Yeah.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_01: I think last time, yes.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_01: Last time we we asked for a sponsorship from AGB, like H B, H G B, hey, sponsor the show.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like we're we're we're locals.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's a pack of coupons for shit you don't even need.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yellow gonna give you coupons for formula and cat food.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, just a couple shopping bags, you know, screen bags in TikTok's name we pray.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_05: She says in TikTok's name we pray.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_04: Wow, in TikTok's name we pray.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_04: Follow us hook you up with a stack of combo local coupons and buddy books.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_06: Man, those those sparkling waters, I would love to get those from HCB.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_06: Those 1802s?
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_06: No, yeah, yeah, whatever they are.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_06: Uh they got the line mango that like we're hooked on those at my house instead of the Topo Chico.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_06: Get a chip flavor, she says.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_06: Coupons to the Mexican, Mexican restaurant aisle or the Mexican uh seasoning aisle.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dude, that's one hard, hard thing to get when you're being a creator is getting sponsorships.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is so hard.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like doing doing the convention and you're and you're writing to different companies, and you're like, hey, we're gonna put this thing on, support us, support us, support us, and you and you and you fill out these forms and you write emails and you cold call companies, like big people in in the gaming industry, and trying to get them on board, and then just super hard to get the sponsors.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_01: And our shows like this, man, I would love to have a big thing, man.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_06: We have to show them numbers, don't you?
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_06: Like, you have to have like a like this is how many viewers or listeners that listen every month or every week, yeah.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_06: And like kind of like package it and like this is the who will listen to your show, your whatever.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_06: You were a sponsor on my show, right?
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, do you think like you got customers from that?
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, I really don't get that many viewers, I don't think, but I don't know.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_00: I never asked you how you checked your numbers.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm about to say, have you checked your numbers, dude?
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_04: You're like because I I mean I had a podcast for like six months, right?
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_04: And I could see the numbers, and the fact that I had like 2,000 listens and they were coming in from all all over the world.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, what in the world?
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_04: Like Germany, Italy, yeah.
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, there were a handful, but it was still like holy smokes.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I average I average about like 90 to 100 listens per per episode release, and like only three of them are for corp are from corpus, and the majority are from like Italy or Germany or Australia and Canada.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know, I don't I don't know how that I don't know how it it pushes their algorithm to listen to the show.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it's it's just there.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm pretty sure if we can get numbers up to corpus, man, I'm pretty pretty sure you know people would knock on our on our doors, but yeah, it's pretty pretty hard.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_06: And your your podcast is relatively new, right?
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, the bolo podcast.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've really been doing it probably about a month and a half, maybe, maybe a month.
• 1:00:22
  SPEAKER_06: And you interview like uh, I guess ex people that were in prison.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_00: Anything that has to do with the bad life, man.
• 1:00:27
  SPEAKER_00: Anybody that's you know struggled, like you know, we had a guy that did 13 years, he got out, and he did eight of them in SEG, and another guy he gave his life to God, and you know, he was in a very, very bad path.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, just just different life stories, stuff that really does happen, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a guy recently on there, he uh he did 32 years in state prisons in California.
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  SPEAKER_00: Damn, yeah, dude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he was some hardcore shit, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He uh he's been through a lot in his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, now he's you know he got pardoned, he's out, he's uh he lives here in Corpus and you know he's writing a book and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a real real cool guy, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Real good guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just about people just been through bad lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a correction officer coming in, he's gonna come masked up, he don't want nobody to see his identity, whatever, and he's gonna talk about stuff that goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be on both sides, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be like like, you know, I got a police officer coming in, I got a uh and retired FBI agent's gonna come in.
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  SPEAKER_07: Okay, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got another guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm hoping to get him on, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna say his name, but uh he just got zon uh exonerated.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did 25 years for murder he didn't even do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Damn, yeah, and uh dude, what they gave him like to compensate him, it wasn't shit, bro.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is he so?
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  SPEAKER_02: Is he doing any of that?
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  SPEAKER_00: He already did, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: He didn't he didn't hardly get shit out of it, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, and uh, but damn 25 years for murder he didn't do, and it was falsified uh evidence that they had turned into shit.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, how did he prove his innocence?
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  SPEAKER_00: I have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't get that far.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess you're gonna talk about it.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but uh he has to get permission first.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's uh talking with CBS and them and all them because they're gonna do a book and possibly a movie about you know what happened and stuff, like a documentary movie or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: CBS?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so he doesn't know if he doesn't know if he can talk about it yet.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_00: If they're gonna allow him to, he's gonna find out this weekend and get with me.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to get him next Monday.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_01: Is it uh is it video or is it just audio?
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's here.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's here, it's here, dude.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's got it on YouTube and Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's dope, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've got a lot of good positive response from there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get a lot of viewers and stuff because I guess because it's you know, it's you know, shit that goes on in that life, and a lot of people, you know, they're into that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, I hope I hope you make it big, dude.
• 1:02:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I hope you make it big because that's that's hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that's badass.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's hard.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_01: One, one, it's diff it's really difficult to put to put like uh your face and your voice out like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then number two, like this is this isn't like Austin or LA or you know, Dallas, big old city, where you you know you you you can start a show and then somebody can look at it and then want to like further produce it or yeah, or give you money to do it to do what you want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dude, I've had people already offer all kinds of stuff and I haven't taken nothing yet because like, hold on, man, let me grow it a little bit bigger, you know.
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I had people already offer me money.
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_00: I've had guys that uh make commercials for me without even me asking for it.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_00: They made some pretty good commercials for it, whatever.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_00: And and I get it's crazy, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I had people come to my restaurant talking to me about it, talking about yeah, you know, making it into something bigger and all that, and I'm kind of like, uh, I don't know, man.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on, let me let me get a better feel of this, what I'm doing.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm new to this, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_00: But it's it's picking up pretty good, man.
• 1:03:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_01: How long you been doing it?
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh about a probably about like a month, but I have maybe like seven, eight episodes in already.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_01: What's it called?
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the volo.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_00: The volo?
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like the kickback spot.
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll uh I'll definitely I'll definitely support you, man.
• 1:03:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'll definitely support you.
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_04: There's there's a lane for everything.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_04: I'll talk to everybody.
• 1:03:46
  SPEAKER_04: Man, just find your lane, stick in it.
• 1:03:49
  SPEAKER_04: It's good.
• 1:03:49
  SPEAKER_04: People people will come.
• 1:03:50
  SPEAKER_00: I wish people would do that with everything.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, stay in your lane, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do what you're good at, you know, don't do it because you think it's cool and because everybody likes it, like just you know, do you, you know.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's why I got into writing.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_01: I got I got back into writing because I was I was super into it, and then the towers fell, and I joined the military, and college wasn't uh it wasn't for me, and then got out, jobs, hated my job, then and then you know, uh depression hit because I want to go back to the military, they wouldn't take me in, and then now I'm I'm sitting, I'm sitting pretty good.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_01: But like when it comes to writing, it was something that I that I thought that I was actually decent at.
• 1:04:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that's why I'm I'm getting it back up.
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been doing I've been doing the show for like three and a half years now.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's still hasn't popped off, but but because of that, I started I started Alpha Line Productions, which which houses all of my shows.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_01: So so eventually, hopefully, hopefully, when somebody comes in and says, Hey, I like that story, you know, I'm gonna send this to Netflix.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe, maybe they can they can do something with it, and then like I'll start signing signing my own checks.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I have an idea for uh like a show series I want to write, write about, but I don't know how to write it.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking for somebody that can write it.
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_00: It has a lot to do with a lot of people I know in my life, a lot of you know it's it's it's a trip, bro.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's all about you know, it's about a bunch of bad stuff.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like raw shit that a lot of people don't like to talk about, or things that really do happen that people you know turn their face and don't want to know about that life.
• 1:05:22
  SPEAKER_00: That show that I want to write, it's it's pretty, it's pretty deep, man.
• 1:05:25
  SPEAKER_00: I wrote what I you know just out of mind, my mind, whatever, but I don't know.
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not smart enough to go there and put you know, do everything correctly and write everything out and all that stuff.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_01: So you you wrote a script for a for a pilot?
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_00: I guess not a script, but just like what from what I know, I wrote what just came out of my head.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_04: There's an app you can get that that'll it'll put everything in a screenplay format.
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and I don't see, I don't know how to what what you can do is just a little this because I wrote a couple smalls, small films, and I did them in screenplay form, right?
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so you you go on YouTube and just put like pulp fiction screenplay reading.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_04: So it'll show you the movie and you read the screenplay along with it.
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_04: So it it it sets the scene like X or interior, Diner Shot, uh John Travolta's character and and uh Samuel L.
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_04: Jackson's character are arguing about this, and then it has the dialogue literally word for word, like line, line, line, line, and it shows you how to put everything.
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_04: Oh then you download that app and you can and it it formats everything.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_04: No shit.
• 1:06:26
  SPEAKER_04: You're making me want to up my game.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't worked.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_00: I wrote it and I started doing it whenever I I caught COVID a couple years ago, and I was just stuck in a room and I told my hey, give me a pen and paper, and I just started writing.
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_00: I did maybe about 40-50 pages running back just so and I wasn't not even halfway done, you know.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, hell yeah.
• 1:06:43
  SPEAKER_04: What I've seen them do, or of course, like I mean I I I watch and research.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, there you go.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, there you go.
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  SPEAKER_04: Script reader pro script reader pro.
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  SPEAKER_06: All right, y'all.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_06: Sorry about that.
• 1:06:51
  SPEAKER_06: The computer crashed right here with the Wi Fi went out, or whatever happened.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_06: But uh, thanks a lot, you guys, for joining.
• 1:06:55
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks for coming on the show, Lito.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you for having me, bro.
• 1:06:58
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate it, Anthony Diaz.
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah, thank you, man.
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me, bro.
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_06: All right, you guys, stay tuned for the next episode.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_06: Appreciate you guys for watching.