Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Originals. Back at it again with Elvago bargers and barbecue, Alex Aredondo and his Celestina. Celestina Aledondo joining us for part two. Last time Alex came in, he wanted to come back again, so we brought him back and.
Yeah, what's going on? Welcome to the show.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: Thank you, man. Thanks for having us back.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So how did y'all's business do last time y'all were on the podcast, man?
[00:00:23] Speaker B: It did really, really good, man. I guess it helped out a lot, man. We've been getting a lot of people coming in telling us that they've seen the podcast, they wanted to try it out, whatever, and got a bunch of new clients and stuff to come eat the food. And it's been really good, man. We've been selling out every day and it's been really good.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: That's good. Have you been having to help out more?
[00:00:43] Speaker C: Yeah, since, yeah, it's been real busy.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. That's a good thing. And my page got a bunch of new followers because you were sharing a lot of our stuff and I appreciate that.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we have a big following, man. It's been growing every day, man. Just every time I look at Facebook, I have like 20 or 30 notifications and there's people following and people commenting and stuff. We've been doing some giveaways and stuff for food and stuff, little games and stuff.
They're going pretty good, man. I'm happy that everything's been going good.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: So you all recently had a giveaway and there was some commenters. They wanted some free food, but they weren't getting it. What do you all think about that?
[00:01:16] Speaker C: Oh, man, people are nuts.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: Yeah, they get all mad and stuff and start talking shit and stuff.
[00:01:24] Speaker C: And it's like, oh, he even screen recorded trying to say like, this guy's name is not even anywhere in the comments.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: It's like, dude, I ain't got no reason to lie, man. If I'm giving some away, I'm just doing it. I'm just being kind, you know what I mean?
Just get the page going and get people to know of the food. It gives a chance to people that never tried the food before to go over there and try it, you know what I mean? Most of the people that win are people that never even had it before.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah. What was I going to say?
So what were they complaining about because you missed? Well, what were they saying?
[00:01:55] Speaker B: This one guy was all like saying that that guy that won never even commented. So I went, I screenshot it because, okay, the way it works is when I say last comment wins, right? But I have the time in my head on when it ends. So whoever comments, whatever, I'm not going to tell the time because no one's going to comment on there until the last minute. So I just let it roll like that. And I was trying to be nice, and I just put on another post. I put a 1140 that it's going to be the cut off time, whatever. So people started commenting on that one, thinking it's that post, whatever, but it wasn't what's for the other one. So people stopped commenting on the other post. And then this one guy commented right at like 1142, I think it was. He was the closest one. So he won and people got mad or like, oh, no, that's bullshit.
I won. I was there at this time, and then. So I screenshot, put it on there, and one guy got all crazy if I would get suck my dick and this. Here we go.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: Don't do that. Right?
[00:02:50] Speaker B: I was already hot, dude. I was like, oh, my God.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: So you knew he was already going to. Yeah.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: I was like, man, this guy does not know who he's telling this to.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: And I don't like to be like that no more. But it's just like, just the old triggers, man.
It just runs me hot. And I get all mad and all worked up and stuff, and then my brother and my son are there, they're like, oh, man, fuck that guy and whip his ass and this. And I'm like, man, dude, I can't be doing stuff like that no more. You know what I mean? Yeah, just old habits, man. The guy, he apologized, whatever. And I was like, all right, cool. I don't even care. You know what I mean?
It makes me not want to do it no more because people get mad, dude. They don't win. They get all pissed off and start saying, this is mad.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I was doing everybody.
[00:03:36] Speaker C: If they want it so bad, come and pay for it. You're just mad because you're not getting it for free.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: That's corpus, man.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: That's corpus, bro.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: Got to love it.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: I think it's like anybody that if you say free, you invite a whole load of new people.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: Thanksgiving, we did a free turkey giveaway, whatever. Like cook plates.
It was turkey dressing, gravy, green beans, corn and ham. Yeah, we're trying to do 300 plates. We ended up doing 289 plates, I think it was or 287. We gave them away free. Just free for.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Why did you all do that?
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Just to do something just to be nice. You know what I mean?
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Just because, like, give.
[00:04:19] Speaker C: Yeah, just give to the community.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: There's a lot of people that don't have thanksgiving.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:24] Speaker C: Like, they don't celebrate with their families or, like, older people. They don't have anybody to cook from stuff like that.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: We did eleven turkeys, and I think it was like seven hams. And it was a lot of food, man. We spent whole day cooking whatever, you know what I mean? It was a lot of work, man.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: So if somebody would have complained about that, you'd have been like, dude, no.
[00:04:44] Speaker C: I had somebody complain about it.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Some guy got on there and he was all, that's a fucking lie. He was all like. There was only maybe like 20 people in line or 30 people. I'm like, what the fuck? There was like a shitload of people. You know what I mean?
We're the ones that cook it. I know what went out.
[00:04:59] Speaker C: Yeah. So he was trying to say that there wasn't that many people, but then he was complaining that he didn't get to get any food because we ran out. So explain that.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: Explain it if you're watching. Explain it. Yeah. No, man.
And it seems like you all are giving it from here, you know what I mean? And you're doing that and people are still criticizing you. It's like, I can't ever win.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah, no, you can't, bro. You can't, man.
[00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah. You can't ever win with those type of people. So, man, that's good that you all give that. Are you all planning to do that this year or every year or maybe something? Every year, man.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: We probably do it anyway, man. We're going to do something for Christmas. But what happened during Christmas?
For the Calaveras Christmas party, we cooked for 300 people for that, so we couldn't do anything. It was already pre booked at the time, and we're busy, but we were planning to do something for Thanksgiving and Christmas, like do a giveaway and stuff just to be nice.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good.
I think it's good for the person that's doing it.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:06:02] Speaker A: It's good for business. Of course. It seems like that's the byproduct of you actually doing it.
[00:06:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: I was doing giveaways, too, and I give stuff away here and there. My giveaways were like, tag one person. You know what I mean? That way it's easy for them to just tag another person and hopefully get more on the social media front. You know what I mean? But that's awesome that you guys are giving, and I think God sees that. I want to say that I don't talk a lot about God a lot, but it seems like. And I think there's people that don't talk about God a lot, but they'll see that and be like, it's a blessing.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good karma, bro. You know what I mean? It's like, what you put out is what you get back. I've always believed that because, man, I remember one time I got some money from somebody I shouldn't have got. You know what I mean? I took it, whatever, and right on the dot, it was like $7,000, right? And years later, we did our income tax, and we're supposed to get $7,000. It was like the exact same amount, dude.
I got it taken away from child support the exact same amount, man. So it was like karma, you know what I mean? It's like, oh, right. When I needed it, it's just like the universe came and got it back. Like, now you got to pay this back, man. You did wrong.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: Do you still pay that stuff, or do you still. Yeah, no, man.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: I've been done with that for.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: How'd you feel when he was doing that stuff? Oh, my God.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Can't imagine, bro. It stuck, man, every year, man, because I was real behind and stuff. And, man. Dude, it was rough, man.
I was working 45 hours a week, 50 hours a week, coming home with $110 check, dude. After child support, every week, I would tattoo, man. So every time after work, I would go and tattoo. When I was Alan Samuels, I tattooed all the managers, the service advisors, and I did it on a payment plan.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: You know what I mean?
[00:07:57] Speaker B: So every Friday, I would go collect from everybody. I know everybody gets paid at 02:00. So I make my rounds. Amen. You owe me that money. I only got 50. I'll take it, man.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: You know what I mean? And that's how we survived when I was younger, you know what I mean? Because. Got to make some money, got to hustle. Child support was killing me, bro.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Do you mind me asking how much it was, how much you were paying?
[00:08:16] Speaker B: It was like almost 1100 a month.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah, that's talking to another guy.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: And it was around there, and that's without the Medicaid. The Medicaid was an extra $75.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: You got to pay that, too, okay.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Because she had them on Medicaid. My ex wife had them on Medicaid. So it was $75 each?
Yeah, dude.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Wow. So you guys been together for 20 years, you said?
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Yeah, almost 20.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: This year makes 20.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Yeah. How do you all feel about that?
[00:08:40] Speaker C: Good.
Proud.
Not very many people, especially our age, she lasts this long.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: We were the couple that nobody thought was going to make it, though, you.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: Know what I mean?
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Wow. Pretty much, you know what I mean? We had a lot of people try to break us up and stuff and say this and say that, but we've always been together, man.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: How did you find yourself getting past those people?
[00:09:00] Speaker B: I just love each other, bro, you know what I mean? I can't be without her, you know what I mean?
I go to bed, she's there. I wake up, she's there, you know what I mean? I go to the shower, hey, babe, I need this, bring me this. Or you know what I mean? She's always there with me, like a.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Companion, a friend and real companion, you.
[00:09:17] Speaker B: Know what I mean? We're always together.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: Yeah, we're each other's best friends.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool. You were mentioning that Celestina doesn't like to get out much, which I can relate because my wife's the same.
The. She doesn't go and get out unless she has to.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: She's the same way.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Babe, if you're watching, I love you. Thank you for listening, but that's that. And it sounds like you're behind him and what he's doing. When he told me about like, oh, I sold the house. And you're like, how did you respond to that?
When he said, hey, we're going to start a restaurant, I sold the house. How did that happen?
[00:09:55] Speaker C: At first I was nervous, but I was excited for it. I was excited for a change. We needed a change.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: Bad man. We went through this little depressed stage, whatever, where there was not that much money coming in the house no more. And during that time we had filed bankruptcy, I was paying $3,600 a month just on bankruptcy, you know what I mean? So paying that and then being stuck, cornered, always trying to pay that 3600 was just the bankruptcy. That wasn't even bills and everything else, that was just the bankruptcy, you know what I mean?
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: So I had to cough up at least five grand a month, you know what I mean, to live. It was rough, man.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: You must have been nervous, like really nervous.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it was bad, man. And I just told her one day to say, you know what, let's just sell the house, man. I say we open up a restaurant. I said, I know it's going to do good. Let's just do it, man. Yeah, detailing was slowing down and it was just getting bad, man.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: Yeah. So do you find yourself managing your money better now or how do you.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: All do not spend like I used to, man? I've been kind of beanching with the money and stuff.
It's hard, man.
All the money. We buy stuff for the restaurant every day and meat is going up, the briskets are growing up, going up even higher and stuff. And I'm probably going to have to go increase my prices a little bit in the next month or two. I don't want to because I might lose people. People get mad. They're like, oh, man, it was this much last time, but it's out of my control. The meat goes up. If I keep the same prices, I'm not going to be open much longer. You know what I mean?
[00:11:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I think people that don't own a business or not have an entrepreneur Mindset, they don't understand that. They just understand what's coming out of their pocket, which we can understand too, because we got a pocket as well. When we pay for stuff. Like I'm a truck driver, I eat at truck stops or whatever like that. And the price, they just friggin it's expensive. Oh, my gosh.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Jasper, the trucks, man.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Diesel.
Yeah. Wow. So, man, you guys are doing awesome. You see, you had a lot of business from our last podcast, which is awesome. And you guys have so many followers, it just amazes me.
And you all are on the west side of corpus in the hood.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: We get packed, dude, it's crazy, man. During lunch, man, it's 12:00 and there's a realign outside, you know what I mean?
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Really? Wow.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: There's a realign and my phone's going off like every other 10 seconds. Like boom, someone's called and place an order, place an order, place an order. And then there's tickets all lined up everywhere. And then we're trying to get everything done. She's helping me and my other son's making battering the french fries. My brother, they're cutting the brisket and we're just moving. My other daughter's taking the orders and stuff. So it's just like, it's just moving and moving.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Is there stuff in line for the future?
Are you trying to get a bigger place?
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Yes, I do.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: That's what you're trying to do.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: I really don't like to talk about things that don't happen yet because that's.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: A good thing, you know what I mean?
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah, because it doesn't happen when you tell a lot of people, I've learned it. It doesn't go like that.
[00:12:58] Speaker C: But yes, we have.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Yes, I got a chance to do, like, a bunch of stuff that's going to benefit, you know what I mean? Like people from Corpus and us also.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah, my wife was talking about that earlier.
She said, whenever you tell somebody or show somebody what you're going to do, don't tell everybody, just tell your.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: It's because the negative energy that people give off road. And it's true. It's true, man. A lot of people may think it's stupid, but it's very true.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Yeah, they'll try to bring you down and like, no, don't do that. Or whatever, man. That was very profound because I would just put it out there, you know what I mean?
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I used to do that all the time. I used to announce stuff before it happened, and it never happens, man. Like I said, when I opened up the restaurant at the trade center, I didn't tell nobody. I didn't even tell her. It was last minute, babe.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Saturday we opened a restaurant.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Yeah, we're open a restaurant with her. She was mad at first. She's like, what the hell made you want to do that? I said, I don't even know, but.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: Is that what happened to Latina? Yeah.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: I'm glad I did, though. I'm glad I did.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good, man. Yeah, that's awesome. I got these card questions here when I feel like I don't have any more stuff to talk about. So here we go. Let's see what we got here. What's something ridiculous you think or do when you're grumpy?
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Me? I don't know. Catch an attitude with her. Like, when I'm in a bad mood and she comes and tries to talk to me, and I just like, snap. And I don't even know why I do it, you know what I mean? And I feel bad afterwards. And then her, once she gets mad, she's mad. You know what I mean?
[00:14:28] Speaker A: I'm like, yeah, here we go.
[00:14:29] Speaker C: Mad. Like the whole day, my whole day is ruined.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: And he won't know.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: No, he knows.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: He knows, okay.
[00:14:36] Speaker C: Everybody knows.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: And I try to go say things are like, hey, babe, are you hungry or something? Like, no, I'm not hungry.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: You try to figure out how to change it, right? Because it's such a bad feeling.
Would you agree to that? Yeah.
Would you rather know the day you're going to die or the way you're going to die?
[00:14:58] Speaker C: Neither.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: I'd rather know the day.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: Really?
[00:15:03] Speaker C: I'd probably rather know the way.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:15:06] Speaker C: I don't know. I have this thing where I feel like I'm going to die in a car accident, and I hope I don't, but for some reason, I've always thought.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: That two different answers. The day.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, the day that way, so I can know what I can do before that day.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Interesting.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:22] Speaker A: Wow.
Two sets of fears, I guess. You.
Which famous person would be the most fun to ask these questions to?
I don't know.
[00:15:41] Speaker C: Somebody funny.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Next question.
What's something you're avoiding right now?
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Paying taxes.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: I just feel it's like. It's a waste. Like, hey, man, you didn't put in on this. You didn't work it. Why the fuck I got to give my money to you? You know what I mean? It just gets me. You know what I mean? And it's not no 200, $300, it's a couple of. It's just like, man, it just eats at me, man. It's like, you didn't come to work. You don't wake up. You don't slave making all this food. You don't do anything. Just, we want our money now. You know what I mean? Like, they're your pimp or something.
[00:16:20] Speaker A: I didn't know that. They guesstimate on how much you're going to owe.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Yeah, they do that if you don't pay. They guesstimate, man. They'll guesstimate it. Like I was saying, man, we were closed for two months because when we left the trade center and then we went to the new spot, and I talked to them, and I told them I was closed those two months, and they guesstimated, man. It was like $2,300. And I told them, okay, fine, I'll bring you the proof, whatever. And then two days later, all my accounts and everything was frozen, dude.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Frozen, bro. Like, wow, I can't believe they would take it out of your account, because you said the meat guy called.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Hey, yeah. They're like, hey, man, your thing came back.
Shot it back, whatever. It wasn't paid. I was like, what is it, man? I got, like, double of what that is. I called the bank, whatever, and they said, oh, there's a note from the comptroller said, call them.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: And I was like, oh, you motherfucker.
You were hot about it, too.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: And then I was mad. I was all like, God damn it.
There always got to be something, man.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Do you try to calm him down whenever he gets like that?
Sometimes there's a point of no return.
[00:17:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
Nothing I say or do is going to make anything better. So I'll just be mad about it, too, I guess.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: We'll share.
So that's good that they reimbursed. Did they reimburse you?
[00:17:40] Speaker B: Well, the new quarter already came up, so it just went to that. They still owe me $500 for the bond for the food truck that I never even really used.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Wow.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Yeah. They charged me a $500 bond. I asked for it back or to get credit for it. They told me no, that I won't get back to another year.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: And you told me that food truck you had with the sushi dia truck?
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it was that one before. It was super small. It was like a starter thing. And like I said, I hated it, bro, for what I was trying to do. It was just too much, man.
[00:18:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I can imagine.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: It was just too compact for me, and I just didn't want to do it.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So you all have, what, teenagers? Is it mostly teenagers? And you have two in school, right? Yeah. How do you all deal with those that are in school? Is it different from when they were younger?
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I noticed that I raised my oldest ones different from my younger ones. I was more strict with my older kids than I was with my younger ones.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Why did it change?
[00:18:36] Speaker B: I don't know, man. I guess because I got older, I got more lenient, I guess. I'm not real mean, like way I was when I was young. I was real mean, man. And my kids weren't allowed to laugh, joke around and act like kids. I was a dick, man.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: Is there ever times where you're like, you tell us your wife, right? Is there ever times when you tell your wife, hey, you handle this one. I think you would be better at it, or. You know what I mean? Is there not a line but a role that you like?
[00:19:07] Speaker B: Hey, you'd probably be better with the girls. Yeah. You know what I mean? Especially the little one. Man, she's spoiled, so I let her deal with it until I get mad or something, I say something. But the youngest one, she's the type that I just got to tell her something and she'll start crying, you know what I mean? She's a daddy's.
[00:19:28] Speaker C: It's different coming from dad.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:30] Speaker C: That's what happened to make him change. She was born and she made him. That was his weakness.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it was, man. She was, man, I ain't going to lie. Yeah.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: So are you ever like, dad's going to come in here and tell you something like, do you warn him?
[00:19:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:48] Speaker A: No. What did she say, though?
[00:19:49] Speaker B: What does Leila say?
It's dad. I can do whatever I want. Or she knows. She knows.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: She knows. Yeah, she knows.
[00:19:56] Speaker C: But if it's something serious. Yeah, it's something serious, then they know.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: Do you think they make decisions, like, even knowing that the consequences.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: They still do it?
[00:20:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, for sure.
[00:20:12] Speaker A: The curiosity will get them. Wow. What's something you've always wanted to try but never will because of the consequences?
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Jumping out of plane without a parachute. With a parachute, man, it depends on the circumstances.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: If I wanted to kill myself, then no parachute dub.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's scary, bro.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: But I would never do it. I'm a coward. I couldn't kill myself.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: I couldn't do it.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: Do you watch scary movies?
[00:20:42] Speaker B: Do you all watch scary all the time? We watch scary movies more than anything.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: No way. Yeah. What's the latest that you all seen?
[00:20:48] Speaker B: It's been a while.
[00:20:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I know.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: I can't even remember because you all are working so much.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: You all are doing.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: I don't have a life, dude. This Monday, I got to cook for a family member. Her cousin, his mom passed away, and I got to cook for them for the reception, whatever. So this Monday, I'm going to be busy, and then I got to detail cars. Monday also.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: Oh, you're doing that, too? Yeah. Wow.
[00:21:12] Speaker B: I got some clients that know, like, lifetime clients for me, and I don't want to let them down. You know what I mean? I have cars. I do. For Mr. Finley here in Corpus. He has the Corpus Christi old car museum, and he got some beautiful cars, man. I'm talking about.
He has one car that's worth maybe, like, 700,000. They have lambos and old school Ferraris and Corvetes.
This dude does work with Jay Leno and stuff, you know what I mean? He got some top of the line cars, and I take care of them for him. Every time he buys a new car, they restore it. I go in there and I do all the paint sealants on there, buff them, make them look brand new again and stuff. So I don't want to let him down, man. He's a good friend of mine.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: That's good. More cash to put in the business as well. Yeah, that's good, man. Do you mind if I keep reading the question? Because I'm still trying to find some stuff.
What are we currently in the golden age of?
[00:22:14] Speaker B: I think the world's dying. Stupid people I really think the world's dying. Like, the whole era of respect and really caring about somebody. Like, couples don't even last no more because everybody's always cheating on each other and doing this and doing that. No one's loyal anymore. Kids are so disrespectful. Like, all our ways, they're dying, you know what I mean?
The new ways is just different, man. I don't like it. Yeah, you know what I mean? The way they talk to each other.
I had to get on my son's ass a while back. He kept calling me bro. I hate that shit. I'm like, I ain't your fucking bro. I'm your dad. You don't talk to me like that, man.
It's just shit like that. You know what I mean?
It's just the whole respect thing, dude. It's not the way it used to be.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely, man. And more stupid people, like you say, lack of.
[00:23:05] Speaker C: Have you ever seen that movie idiocracy?
[00:23:08] Speaker A: No.
[00:23:09] Speaker C: Okay. That's how I feel like the world is going.
I can't even explain it to you. You just have to.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: In the movie where this guy, they were supposed to freeze him and he was supposed to so many years, whatever, but they left him. Yeah, they left him. And it was like so many years later, then he pops up and everybody's all stupid. Like they're know, throw it off and it's a crazy movie, dude. But that's what it's looking like, man.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure, man. We were talking about AI earlier. My wife and I like how people use Chat GPT to get all their information or whatever, and I listen to other conversations like online, and the word creativity comes up with that because people are using AI to write a paper or do their math problems or whatever. So the creativity from the society is going to kind of dwindle, you know what I mean?
But the ones that do use AI for the good purpose, they're still going to maintain the creativity, but use AI for their business, for their benefit or whatever.
You guys, for being together for so long, for 20 years, that's amazing.
And I think that that's rare nowadays. And it's sad.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Yeah. But we still love each other, like, to death, you know what I mean? We still act like we're boyfriend and girlfriend, you know what I mean? We go out together, we do dinner dates, we do things together all the time.
You know what I mean? It's different.
[00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And when you try to bring that up, too with people today, some of them are like, nah, it should be like this or I should do that. I can do this, I can do that. Whatever. It's like. Yeah, you can, but there's consequences to that.
Whatever lifestyle they're trying to do. So that's awesome. That's good stuff there. What life hack have you discovered that the world needs to know?
[00:25:19] Speaker B: Spend more time with your kids, man. So they grow up to be better people.
I think that's a big part in life, man. Like teach your kids how to love and respect and to do something with their lives, man. A lot of parents don't even care. They just let their kids run wild and do whatever they want. And I don't think that's a good thing for the kid to grow up because it's like that saying, you know what I mean?
How does this goes?
Undisciplined kids, they're not trainable, they're not unteachable. They're unteachable.
And I think that's a big thing. I noticed whenever I had my business, I would hire a bunch of young guys, whatever, and they would never work out, man. They want high pay, they're lazy, they're always on their phones. They don't do the job right. They always want to borrow money. And then it's just bad, man. There's no work ethic, you know what I mean? People don't show their kids how to do things anymore, and it's overtaken the world on how that is.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we're all on our computers and stuff like that. And it seems like our kids are growing up just to know that, you know what I mean?
Because I remember my dad, he was carpenter. He would hang doors, install doors. He would teach us that stuff when we were younger, you know what I mean? Mow the lawn, cut the lawn, just do stuff, you know what I mean? Which I think is what we still need to be teaching our kids.
I put a post the other day about parent like, kids need their parents.
They need both parents too.
I don't know if it's true, but there's a statistic when both parents are together in the same household, that their kids are better, they're better off for society.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: All our kids are doing good. My oldest, whatever, I agree with that. My oldest, she's in the Navy, mother's son, he works with me and he does other stuff. Mother daughter, she's going to college, whatever, to be a dental hygienist. Mother daughter, she's a good worker too, you know what I mean? And then I got mother son and mother, they're still in school, you know what I mean? So we'll see how they're going to turn out.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: Do you get involved in their.
Because, you know, they're going to probably date or be married sooner or whatever.
Do you talk to them about that? How do you approach that?
[00:27:39] Speaker B: Well, we've been lucky with that. We haven't had no problems so far, you know what I mean?
Like I said, my oldest daughter, she don't live around here, so I'm really not too much in her life. Whatever. Mother son, he's with his girlfriend, they do good together. And then mother daughter Marisa, her boyfriend, Gilbert, he's a real good guy, man. He's smart, he has his head straight. He's going to college, too, and he's a good kid, so I can't really complain, you know what I mean? I can't really say anything to him. He treats my daughter right, you know what I mean? So I like him. I love the guy, you know what I mean? He's a good guy.
[00:28:09] Speaker A: So if he was not a good.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: Guy, he wouldn't be around.
I don't play that shit, man. For real. When it comes to my kids, if I see something messed up, it ain't going to happen in my house, you know what I mean? It's not going to happen.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: See, our kids need that. I think that our kids need that type of father. Like, no, you're not going to do that.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: He comes around talking all hood and this, this and that. You got to go.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: You go.
What do you think about Celestina?
[00:28:38] Speaker B: I agree, because I'm not going to be dealing with, I want grandkids, you know what I mean? I always tell my older kids, hey, man, when you're going to have kids, whatever. And they're like, no, not yet, dad.
I'm glad that they're smart enough that they want to be able to afford to raise their own kids and not have us raise them. I think that's. I can't wait, man.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to say you're waiting for that reward of grandchildren.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going to spoil the shit out of them, you know what I mean? Hopefully by then my business takes off. I'm doing real good. So they're going to be extra spoiled.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Nice, dude.
I love that when people talk about that, like, the future of their business and who's going to have it. Because my wife and I were really into money. Not money, not being responsible with our money to where we're going to have some stuff left over for our kids, you know what I mean? And I think it's important to teach them. Look, this is stuff. We're going to give this to you all.
We're going to teach you what you should and should not do with it. You know what I mean? Yeah. Do you all do that with you all? Are you all thinking in that?
[00:29:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we are, but we don't have it yet to do that, so. You know what I mean? Just like, I want my kids to work for what they have. Like my son, when he was working with me at the trade center, you know what I mean? In summertime, whatever, I had him washing dishes and had people like, man, you got your own son, you're the boss. You got your son washing dishes. He's going to start at the bottom, man. You know what I mean? I want him to be able to start from the bottom and learn everything, you know what I mean? So when he gets older, it wasn't given to him, you know what I mean? Like, he did everything he could to learn the business. Because I worked at dealerships where the sons and stuff worked there. They're fucking spoiled, dude. They treat people like shit because they never worked for it. Their parents passed it down to them. They didn't work for it. So they don't know what it is to struggle, so they treat their workers like shit. They treat them like slaves, you know, I what mean? They talk to them fucked up because they don't know how it is. They got head up here, like, where they're better than everybody else. I don't want my kids to be like that. I want them to be able to care for other people, you know what I mean? To an extent, though. You know what I mean? Because people take advantage of you. But I'm talking about just the whole respect thing. That's what I want for my kids.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I think respect is given when it comes to teaching your kids. It goes a long way, too. Manners, courtesy goes a long way. And then we're teaching our daughter, like, money comes from work. Yeah, you work, you make money.
We're not a family that asks, not asks, because it's okay to ask, but like beg for money or we need to work for our money. This is where money comes from. So I think that's a good thing. Even though we're going to give them that inheritance or whatever, they still understand the value of working for money. So hopefully when they do receive it, they're like, mom and dad worked their butts off to give this to us. You know what I mean? So I think it's important to speak to our kids about that stuff.
We got Tina wick in the chat room. She says hello.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: Yeah, she's a customer of mine. She's real nice.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: Oh, she goes by. She goes by. Okay. She said, the world is dying because of Trump.
That's funny. Kenneth Hunter, clmf.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
It's a chico looking motherfucker.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: Okay.
Fucking kid.
That's awesome. Yeah.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: He's a funny guy, man. I miss Ken. He's a good guy, man.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Yeah. He's not in town anymore. He used to be in town.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: No, I think he's still in town, man. We used to work together at Alan Samuels. He was a Sellman. One time I passed by in a brand new Corvette, and I tell him, hey, man, how do I look? He goes, like, you stole the motherfucker.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yvette Luna says pumpkin.
Awesome.
Yeah.
When I saw you with your tattoos and stuff, I was like, this dude owns Elvago Burger. Pretty cool.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I do. A lot of people are probably. They're shocked, that know did something different. I want to be known for something different. I want to be known like, oh, man, this dude was a fuck up. You know what I mean? Gang member and shit. Piece of shit. You know what I mean? I don't want to be known.
[00:32:54] Speaker C: You're going to be on the chronica for something good.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Yeah, the chronica.
You follow the chronica? It's always bad stuff.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: It's going to be, guy dies from beating Ovago burger.
Guy was found with fries, half eaten in his mouth.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: So we were talking about the names of your.
How do you come up with those names? Or what would you like to share about that?
[00:33:21] Speaker B: Well, it was kind of an accident, dude. When I was at the trade center, there was this lady across from us. She was real nice. Her name was. Name was Linda. She was real nice. She would tell me, hey. She goes, you need to do a cup. She was like, with the brisket and stuff in there. I was like, man, I don't want to do that, right? But every weekend, I'm telling you, do the cup. So one day I bought the cup, and I did it where? I was like, here. Here's your pinch of cup.
And she goes, man, that'd be a good name. I said, you know what?
[00:33:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: So that's how the names kind of started. Whatever. We call the pincha cup, whatever. Because of that. And then what else? We have the Fermunda cheeseburger because it has a lot of cheese from under cheese.
And I told her I was going to do it. She goes, don't do that.
[00:34:01] Speaker A: She was like, that's kind of disgusting in my mind. I'm like, but it was a good burger, though.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: I have a burrito called the cocino because it has a lot of stuff in it. It has salami, pepperoni, brisket cheese.
It's a real good burrito. And then we have another one. It's a pulled pork sandwich. That was funny, dude. A lot of people don't even want to pronounce.
[00:34:26] Speaker C: They don't want to order it.
[00:34:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it's called Bella mela porky.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: They don't want to order it because.
[00:34:32] Speaker C: Yeah, they want to ask for it. I don't want to say that.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: And then now I got a new burger that came out. It's called the turdzilla.
[00:34:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, dude, that one looks good.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good.
Yeah, it's a greasy ass burger, man. It's really good.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: Do you all compete with, like, tattoos, like. Like, as far as getting them or, like, show?
[00:34:53] Speaker B: No.
I used to tattoo for a long time, right? And she always wanted me to tattoo her, and I didn't want to, but I said, fine, I'll start tattooing or whatever. Everybody in her family thought that she was doing it because I was making her something.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: You know what I mean?
[00:35:06] Speaker B: I'm like, man, she's the one that wants them. You know what I mean?
[00:35:12] Speaker A: How many has he done for you?
[00:35:13] Speaker B: Or is it all of them?
[00:35:14] Speaker A: All of them. Wow.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: All of them?
[00:35:16] Speaker A: Yeah. And I was asking earlier, I was like, did it inspire you to get the face tatoos with him? And you're like, nah, we're pretty much the same. That's cool.
[00:35:24] Speaker C: So I guess when I got interested was when Kat von d first came around. So that's how I ended up with these stars on the side, and then I liked it, and I just kept going from there.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I always wanted to be covered since I was a kid, man.
[00:35:36] Speaker A: Seriously?
[00:35:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I always wanted to be covered.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: So did you grow up with people that had a lot of tattoos?
[00:35:41] Speaker B: Well, I was always into the Cali style, all the cholos and stuff, you know what I mean? Because I had a bunch of cousins, older cousins from my mom's side, and I had a bunch of friends and stuff.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: And they're from California.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I have a few cousins over there, and I have a bunch of homeboys and stuff. And the people I got associated and the gang stuff, whatever was from California and stuff. So I've always been around that. And that's just the style I grabbed since I was a little kid and living the cholo life and stuff.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I gravitated toward that, too. It's not around, like, Texas. It's different.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's way different.
[00:36:15] Speaker A: The cars, like, I love. What is the old caddies with the rims with this little small rider.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: I've always loved that since I was a little kid, man.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: I love that stuff. I've always wanted a car, too, but they're expensive. I'm like, damn.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: I had them when I was young, man. One of my best cars. I had a 65 Bel Air, man. It had daytons on there. It had hydraulics and stuff on there. And I missed that car, man. But I had got locked up and stuff, and I needed money for court and stuff.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: You sold it? Yeah.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: I regret it, man. I don't even remember, man. It was a long time ago. I regretted letting that car go, man. I still dream that I drive the damn car. Are you serious? Yeah. And I wake up and it eats at me, man, like, God, I should have never got rid of my car, man. I miss it. I could have gave it to one of my sons or something. I regret it so bad.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: Last time you saw, it looked totally different, right?
[00:37:02] Speaker B: Yeah, man. They fucked it.
[00:37:03] Speaker A: They changed it up.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: I heard that it's been ripped and totaled. But the dude lifted it. He put like 20 sixes on it. Lifted it up like those donks and shit. Oh, my God.
I don't know.
[00:37:19] Speaker A: You like the way those look? No, right? Oh, my God. I mean, the guys in Houston, they have those long.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: The Swangers?
[00:37:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Even that's still kind of.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: I don't care.
It's just not my style, you know? What? You know?
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I see you wearing a strength cartel shirt.
[00:37:35] Speaker B: Yeah, man. I used to look better when I used to work out.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: No, it's all good. I bring that up because there's some dudes in town. They're doing some stuff. Yeah, iron compound. I had them on. They were going to have some kind of competition with them. I was like, oh, that's pretty sweet, man.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: I was powerlifting until Covid happened.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: Seriously?
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I was doing pretty good at it, man. I was getting pretty strong. And then Covid came and I stopped. And then I got sick. And then I just never went back to the gym. And I lost all motivation for it, man.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: I just don't want to do nothing. So you work pretty much with him? Yeah, that's it.
And then your kids work with you all. Your kids work with you all. Well, that's awesome. What was I going to say? So were you lifting, like, a lot of weight?
[00:38:20] Speaker B: Were you doing well? My Mac benching was the one I wanted to get the most. The highest I did was 455. And in deadlift, I did like 605, I think was a lot. Squat. I suck. I think it was like 515. 520.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: Were you doing, like, chemical? Were you putting stuff in? Because they were talking to me last time, the iron compound.
[00:38:39] Speaker B: When I was younger, I did. When I was younger, I took steroids and stuff and shit like that, whatever. And as I got older, I really didn't want to no more because the body changes.
[00:38:47] Speaker C: Not at the time that you were lifting all this heavy weight you weren't on.
[00:38:50] Speaker A: No, I wasn't.
[00:38:51] Speaker C: That was all him.
[00:38:52] Speaker A: Chinga, dude, lifting trucks.
[00:38:56] Speaker B: I was getting pretty strong, man. I guess because I was shorter, you know what I mean? It was easy for me to.
[00:39:01] Speaker A: There's not long enough distance to go down and come back.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: That's what a lot of bigger guys tell me, to talk shit. Oh, yeah, because you ain't got that.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: Far up some of her. Look how big you are.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: Look how short I am, man. Mad because I live more than you.
[00:39:13] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. I had another guy, too. He's a short black dude. He would do, like, squat that much? About that much. And they would tell him the same thing. Oh, you're just short.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: I was trying to get to bench at least 500. That was my goal for a long time, man. But when I hit 455, I was pretty confident, so I was trying to go heavier. And in my spotter, I had one guy on each side, and when we unracked it, whatever, one guy let go, one guy held on. So the weight shifted, and I tore my bicep a little bit. Man, that was painful, man, that was painful. The muscle or the bicep?
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Tore muscle.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Like, I could go on my bicep and you can feel like a piece in the inside move around.
It was bad.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: That's nasty.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: Oh, I'm glad I didn't completely tore it. My other friend did.
He was trying to hit as much as I could, well, deadlift, and he tore his bicep, man. It looks gross, man. It's like that small. His bicep, it just rolled up.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: So you were in jail and stuff like that? You worked out in there, I assumed. Yeah. Are the workouts different as opposed to.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: It's all body workouts.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I figured.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: Yeah, burpees and stuff like that.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: Because there's not a lot of weights. Okay, I got you. So you got to get creative and figure out which.
[00:40:26] Speaker B: A friend of mine that just got out a couple of years ago, he was pretty cut up, man, doing pull ups and push ups and burpees, and then I got him into power lifting. Now he's fat.
[00:40:36] Speaker A: Yeah, now he's fat.
Power lifting makes us fat because we get to eat more.
[00:40:42] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it makes you want to eat more, right?
It's like different muscle fibers. Whenever you're trying to be a bodybuilder, your muscles are different. You know what I mean? It's not like whenever you're powerlifting, you eat a lot, you get thicker, you get swollen. You know what I mean? You get big, you have to have weight to push weight, and you do less reps.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: Right. Instead of like a whole bunch because your muscles will get smaller in that case.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: No, they won't get smaller. It's just different, dude, you know what I mean? It's like you're training your tendons and all that to pick up heavier weight.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: Crazy. You lift weights? Did you lift weights at all?
[00:41:15] Speaker C: Not like he did. There was a point in time when I was dedicated to the gym.
[00:41:19] Speaker A: Oh, seriously? Cool.
[00:41:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:41:21] Speaker A: Was it a gym here in town?
[00:41:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I was going to freedom fitness.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Freedom.
[00:41:25] Speaker C: Going somewhere else, but I was just going to freeze.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: Which one were you going to? Free and piss?
[00:41:28] Speaker B: No, it was pure energy. Now it's rocks in Portland.
[00:41:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:41:31] Speaker B: But I love that gym, man. It was all free weights, man. Everything was free. And then they had like a bunch of strong man stuff outside and stuff. So it was more old school, like 1980s weights, man. It was all dead weight. There was hardly no cable machines there. It's still there. It's still like that. I think that was the best gym.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: So you prefer the free weights instead of the machines? Fuck, yeah. So you use the machines, would you say?
[00:41:55] Speaker C: I guess I kind of like more of like body workouts because when I was going to the gym, I was trying to lose weight.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: Oh, got you. He was just trying to get stronger, get stronger mobility. It seems like if you do, like, free weights or whatever, assuming that you do the correct movements or whatever, it helps your body long term, I think. Yeah, because the machines are just stationary.
It doesn't move with your body. Like, it just stays in one position. Yeah, that's cool. So freedom fitness, we go to planet fitness, the new one right there on every heart. You don't like planet fitness.
They don't have a deadlift bar at all.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: They don't have nothing there, man. It's all cardio, pretty much.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: I do kettlebells, so. I do kettlebells, and I do full body for metabolism boosting. And also just to keep my.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. It's good. Just a habit of everybody making fun of it.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:50] Speaker B: You can't be loud in there. You can't. Heavy weight. They got that lunk alarm and stuff.
It's crazy. You know what I mean? It's just funny. And then I heard they give away free pizza and basils and stuff.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Don't be making fun of plan fitness gold, bro.
[00:43:04] Speaker C: That's why we signed up.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Did it for the pizza.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: Yeah, right. They're giving away pizza at the gym. Right. That's funny. What do we got? 643. You have anything else you all want to share?
No. You want to come in on here?
Their son is over there. He's watching, so appreciate you being here.
I usually ask the Heb question.
So which Heb do you avoid for some reason?
[00:43:35] Speaker B: I don't like the one in Moore Plaza.
I don't know why. I just don't like that Heb. I don't like going over there. I don't like going inside there. I don't know what it is. I just don't like that heb for some reason.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: Do you think it's the people or the layout?
[00:43:47] Speaker B: I don't know what it is, dude. I just don't like it. Yeah, I avoid that one. I'll go to any other one. That one in Alameda? I don't like the Alameda.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: Alameda? Which one?
[00:43:54] Speaker B: Robert?
I think so.
[00:43:58] Speaker A: The one that I go to. Right. Just.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: I don't know. This is the layout, I guess. I don't know where nothing's at or. I don't know.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: I just don't like still shop. You do. You shop at Heb?
[00:44:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:44:10] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't like going to port and Tarleton.
[00:44:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's where you run into people.
[00:44:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: The whole time. While you're there, get shot outside.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: Be on the chronica.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: Shout out to Chronica. So they're always talking about ricks, right? There's always, like, a rick somewhere.
[00:44:31] Speaker C: Looks like he pre plans it, though, because nobody even knows what's going on. He's the first one there before the cops even show up.
He's just, like, on stakeout somewhere, waiting for something to happen.
[00:44:42] Speaker A: He probably pays like people. Hey, go have a wreck over here.
Chronica, we don't know who you are, but.
Oh, man, let me see. I'm kind of running out of ideas here.
Let me see.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: Whose phone numbers do you have memorized, man? The one I remember is my sister's because she's had it for so long, man. The last time I had got locked up and they give you your free call, man, I couldn't call nobody because I didn't know everything's on the phone. And I was like, man, I was like, who the fuck then can I call? And I was like, man, my sister. And that's the only number I remember. Yeah, that's the only one. She's had it for like 20 years.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: Do you think Yolanda Saldivar is going.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: To get paroled, man? If she does, someone's going to take her out.
[00:45:36] Speaker C: Yeah. She's not going to last long.
[00:45:37] Speaker B: She ain't going to last long. There's some hardcore tahanos, bro, you know what I mean? They'll fucking die for Selena.
[00:45:42] Speaker A: They want her in there. They don't want her to come out.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: Yeah. It's going to be crazy, man.
[00:45:47] Speaker A: Wow, man. Oh, shoot.
Let's see. What's the last text message you sent? And would you read it out loud?
[00:45:56] Speaker B: Oh, it's to you.
[00:45:57] Speaker A: It's to me. Right?
[00:45:58] Speaker B: I'm here, bro.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: That was me and I think mine was. Are you inside?
[00:46:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: That was so right.
That's funny.
What does your handwriting say about you, man?
[00:46:15] Speaker B: Looks like a little kid in mine. Yeah, I got bad hand. Well, my hands are fucked up, dude. For all these years of tattooing and fighting and shit.
I got arthritis, I guess, serrating, man. My hands are really messed up.
[00:46:27] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:46:27] Speaker B: So when I write, I just do it in a hurry, like, oh, it looks like a doctor wrote a prescription.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: Do you do cursive or do you do cursive?
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:46:34] Speaker B: Because it's faster.
I feel like I'm stupid. Just doing one letter at a time, you know what I mean? I just like real quick, mommy, let's go.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Let's get it done.
If your car could write a note to you and leave it for you in the morning, what would it say?
[00:46:51] Speaker B: I hate you.
[00:46:54] Speaker A: You don't treat it well?
[00:46:56] Speaker B: No.
We just got this truck that we have right now because when we got off the bankruptcy, whatever. They took our vehicles, dude.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: Seriously?
[00:47:06] Speaker B: Yeah, they did.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: Because they repoed them.
[00:47:09] Speaker B: Yeah, because they wanted the home money up front. Because the bankruptcy, whatever. When you pay the bankruptcy, they're paying your stuff. So the car was already supposed to be paid off like a year ago. So whenever we got off the bankruptcy, when we sold the house and just said, we're not going to do this no more, they're like, hey, you either pay us, I think it was like 13, 14,000 for one. The other one was like 10,000. Either pay us right now or we'll take your vehicle. No payment plan, no nothing. We're going to take your car unless you pay it off. So we just went and just got whatever we could get, you know what I mean? And it wasn't, like, our choice. It's a good truck, don't get me wrong, but we just ended up with it, what we have. So it's nothing, like, fancy what I'm used to driving. There's nothing nice.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: Did you think, this ain't going to work? We need to get a vehicle right away.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: Yeah, we had to get a vehicle right away, bro. They're already coming for the ride, you know what I mean, man?
[00:48:02] Speaker C: And right now we're sharing the one vehicle, so it's hard.
[00:48:05] Speaker B: We're used to having two, three vehicles, you know what I mean? For years when we're doing good, we had everything.
One year, I bought maybe like five cars, you know what I mean? They were all brand new cars and shit. And now it's like starting all over, man, from scratch.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's got to be tough.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: And then because the bankruptcy, our credit is fucked from that. So, you know what I mean? We just got to pay everything cash. And I'm just going to do everything a little bit smarter this time, man.
[00:48:30] Speaker A: And you said that happened to you like, five different times where you lose everything?
[00:48:33] Speaker B: Yeah, five times, dude, I lost everything, bro.
One time when we were younger, man. Dude, I thought I was in a movie, dude.
I was supposed to open up a tattoo shop in San Antonio. This guy was supposed to be my business partner, was a friend of mine. And, dude, we signed our house over to a friend of ours, whatever, right? Because we were going to live there. We were going to move to San Antonio, open up a shop out. I quit my job and everything, and the last minute the dude backed out. Like he just said, oh, no, we're not going to be able to do it. I mean, the day we were supposed to move, he just found out that he did get the loan for the money, and they use it on something else they didn't want to, you know what I mean? So we got screwed. We had to start all over, dude, like, everything. And it was rough, bro.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: It was rough. How do you find yourself being able to stick with him through all that?
[00:49:25] Speaker C: Shit happens. Stuff happens.
It wasn't his fault. None of anything that's ever happened was his fault. And he always makes shit happen. He always makes things happen for us. So, I mean, I was just like, well, it happened. What can we do?
[00:49:41] Speaker B: She's never had to make me get up and go to work. She's never had to make me like, oh, you need to do this, or, oh, you need to take this job. She's never had to do that. I always got my ass up and got out there and did something. Even if it was shitty jobs or whatever, I took whatever I could get. It's hard, bro. I got six felonies, bro. My back's messed up. I'm covered in tattoos. Like, I didn't graduate, so it's like, you know what I mean? I always had to try some way to make things work out for us, for our family. It's been rough, man.
[00:50:07] Speaker A: Yeah, that's difficult, I would say. And that's like, cheers plot to you because women, some women would just, I'm gone.
[00:50:20] Speaker B: Yeah. No, she stuck with me, bro. When we didn't have nothing, we were living at people's houses and shit, you know what I mean? When we were younger and stuff, it was bad, bro. It was hard, man. It wasn't because I couldn't do it. It's just I was trying to do things the right way, and then it's harder. The child support and everything, like, man, it was killing me, bro.
[00:50:37] Speaker A: How did you feel when Celestina stayed with you through all that stuff?
[00:50:42] Speaker B: Well, during that time, dude, like I said, I was a different person, man. I was a fucking asshole, bro. I had a fucked up mentality. I was just like, this is a hardcore person. I didn't laugh, I didn't joke around. You know what?
Real. I was different, dude. You know what I mean? So I was grateful she was there, but I guess I didn't really take that into consideration at that time until now.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: How do you feel about it now?
[00:51:04] Speaker B: It makes me love her even more.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:51:07] Speaker C: That's like the base of it all, that we love each other. I know he loves me and he knows I love him.
[00:51:16] Speaker A: You think that love is like, when you say love, a lot of people think feeling like, you know what I mean? Like roses and daisies or whatever you want to call it.
Is that how you think about it, or do you think about it? How do you think about that?
[00:51:31] Speaker B: I think love is all sacrificing, like, giving yourself up for that person that you love, you know what I mean? Like, you do anything for that person. People don't do that no more, bro. They think about themselves, they worry about themselves. You know what I mean? Like, I do anything for my wife and my kids. Like, anything.
I think that's how it should be. You know what I mean? Like, men don't think like that no more. And I think that's sad. They rather bell on their kids and their wife because they feel uncomfortable going to work. They don't want to do this, they don't want to do that. It's too much.
I hate whenever, for instance, I know this one guy, he wasn't working, he wasn't doing shit, living at his mom's house, whatever. And he's fucking 40 some years old, don't want to do anything. He got offered a for $15. Oh, I ain't taking that. I'm worth more than that, dude. You ain't doing shit sitting at home. You got your daughter there. You don't want to do anything, but you don't want to take this job because you're not good enough. It's not good enough for you. You know what I mean? To me, that's just an excuse of just being lazy, bro.
Everybody's just getting lazy, man. They don't want to do anything.
We were talking about this the other day. I was telling her, you know what?
I started seeing more money, starting to come in now with the restaurant, things are getting a little bit better and stuff. And I told her, you know what? This is a big example of there's no fucking excuses in life. Because like I said, I got six felonies, bro. My back's fucked up. I can't really do hard labor. I'm covered in tatoos. I didn't graduate. If I go over there to ask for all that, I don't have none of that stuff. And I still figure out a way to make it happen because, you know what I mean? Got to, man.
[00:53:03] Speaker C: But it also helps that he has that work ethic since he was little, because that's why even though he looks the way he looks and his background, people give him the chance because they see that he's going to back up what he says he can do.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: So that's important for you and your relationship for him to have, I guess, the Ghanas or the will to keep going.
[00:53:28] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely.
[00:53:29] Speaker A: So that makes a difference.
[00:53:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
I'm glad that he's around to show that for. Especially my daughters, too, so that they know that their man has to be like that, too. They're not going to be their dudes at home, and they got to go work to support their dude.
[00:53:46] Speaker B: I got two sisters like that, bro. You know what I mean? That their dudes, they ain't worth the shit, bro. They don't work. They don't do shit. My parents always paying their bills and stuff, and it's fucking embarrassing, man. You know what I mean?
I don't talk to them. I don't like them because I don't feel like they're not men to me. You know what I mean? You don't take care of your family. You know what I mean? You're just there while she goes to work. Come on, man.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:14] Speaker B: That's pretty empathetic.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Yeah, man. I think our society, we need men for society, basically. You know what I mean? For society to get better, I guess, because it seems like the standard is going higher and higher and higher, but it's like, dude, no, it doesn't have to be up here. And I think it's like that because social media. Oh, I got this. I have that. You know what I mean? And it's not even that, you know what I mean? So expectation is being set higher, and it's like, no, think about grandma or grandma and grandpa.
14 kids, you know what I mean? Been together for 60 years until they died. Like, what happened to that?
I think that the expectation is a lot of it is false expectation because of the false reality that social media shows us or tv television or what have you.
So that's another reason why I wanted to have both of you all on here to maybe touch on this area, because you all have been together for so many years. I mean, look at this. You all have struggled. He's lost it five times, and you're still with him through the good and through the bad. It's like, we need more of that in our society.
So thank you guys for coming on. I appreciate y'all, sir. Appreciate y'all. We've got, like, five minutes left. I'm trying to see if there's anybody here on the Teresa Anderson.
[00:55:45] Speaker B: Oh, it's my cousin.
[00:55:47] Speaker A: Alex is the hardest worker I know. No lie, man. Is there anything else y'all want to share? I really appreciate y'all coming on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My wife, Christina.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: It's okay, bro.
[00:55:58] Speaker A: Didn't come. She said she was. It was my fault.
[00:56:00] Speaker B: I dropped the ball, kind of know. Same thing with her know she wasn't going to.
[00:56:06] Speaker C: Yeah. I was back and forth like, I want to, but I don't want to.
I was worried that I'm going to look like an unsupportive wife if I don't go.
[00:56:16] Speaker A: Wow, man.
Telling my wife, too. And she's probably just that type of. That type of woman.
[00:56:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I told him, I said, I'll go, but can I sit over there off to the side? Just tell him, don't ask me no questions.
[00:56:31] Speaker B: Hopefully one day we'll be able to have a real good wedding, you know what I mean? We never had a big wedding or anything. We got married. We just went to the courthouse. That was it.
We got in a big old fight the day before.
Yeah, we got in a big old argument. Cops were called and stuff. And the next day we got married.
[00:56:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's sort of similar to my wife and I. We argued about something, we were upset with each other, and then the next day we got married.
But there's nothing wrong with that if you ain't got the money to get married, you know what I mean? Just get something small. Courthouse, whatever.
[00:57:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what we did. We just went to the courthouse and just got married like that.
[00:57:10] Speaker A: That's awesome. Yeah, that's cool. And your main name was? Do you want to share your Maidra gera? Okay. And then.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome, man.
I hope your business continues to thrive, man.
[00:57:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I hope so, too, man. I think it is. We got really good food, man, and it's something different, so I think it's going to do pretty good.
[00:57:30] Speaker C: We've just been getting a lot more people. We get people that you'd see them and, you know, these people don't come to the hood often.
[00:57:38] Speaker B: We had a family of like ten people show up the other day and they look like real high class people. Wow.
[00:57:44] Speaker A: Crazy.
[00:57:45] Speaker B: It was pretty cool, man.
[00:57:46] Speaker A: That's cool. That's a cool feeling.
[00:57:47] Speaker B: They were happy.
[00:57:49] Speaker C: Yeah, they left good reviews and everything. Wow.
[00:57:51] Speaker B: What was cool is they had family from out of town and that's where they took them. Their family came from out of town. They took them to our restaurants, man.
[00:57:57] Speaker A: That's awesome. I was wondering about that, too. If you get people that aren't from the hood.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: Yeah, we get a lot of different people over there, man. It's pretty cool. It's getting better, man. It's going to do.
[00:58:06] Speaker A: Yeah, leave them a review, too, guys, if you can. A good review. If you think it's good, whatever. So you all recently had your first bad review. I wanted to bring that.
[00:58:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. I kind of feel bad for the lady because I really thought it was just a bullshit review because people hate and stuff, whatever. And she said my brisket was dry.
[00:58:25] Speaker A: And I was, the fuck?
[00:58:26] Speaker B: Brisket ain't fucking dry. And so I screenshot and posted or whatever, and a lot of people got on there. They were making fun of her, but there was no picture of her, and it wasn't her exact name, so nobody knew who it was, you know what I mean? I thought it was just whatever. And she got on there, she was pissed.
[00:58:40] Speaker A: You know what I mean?
[00:58:40] Speaker B: Wow.
But I know it sounds stupid, whatever, but it just got to me because three years, bro, nothing but five star reviews. Just five, five, five and everything. And then I get that one and knock down my. I open up Google, whatever. And I said, what the 4.9?
[00:58:58] Speaker A: What the hell?
Who the hell did this to me?
[00:59:01] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:59:01] Speaker A: They're lying.
[00:59:04] Speaker B: I was just mad, bro.
I just have to be perfect with this, man. You know what I mean? I want this to be just, like, the best thing there is.
[00:59:12] Speaker A: That's a good mindset to have, I think good business.
[00:59:14] Speaker B: I don't take nothing less than, you know what I mean? It has to be good. And like I said, man, if I ever messed up, man, I always tell people, just bring it back. I'll give your money back or we'll fix it. You know what I mean? Everything could be fixable. That's a post that I made, you know what I mean? Because a lot of people go to Waterburger, McDonald's, they go to these chain restaurants. They fuck up their food all the time. They still keep going back, you know what I mean?
[00:59:35] Speaker C: They get their food cold, tastes like shit, and you still keep going back.
[00:59:39] Speaker B: Yeah. All the mom and pop places like me, whatever, we deserve the same.
We deserve the same, bro. You know what I mean? We shouldn't be bashed because it's different, dude. When we get bashed, it's worse because everybody's looking, you know what I mean? Especially your haters and stuff. They feed into that, and it makes you look bad.
[01:00:00] Speaker A: Yeah. When I saw that you were on Facebook a lot more than. Or you're on TikTok, too. But, like, Facebook, there's a lot of them on Facebook, you know what I mean? That are really haters. Somebody posted a picture of Yolanda Saldivar, that recent picture of her, and it said when people don't get free food.
[01:00:18] Speaker B: From.
[01:00:21] Speaker A: You take the good with the bad. You know what? That's what I was saying, too.
It's almost like when you get a bad review, you know that it's growing and more people are learning about it, which is, I guess you can look at it like that, too, you know what I mean? Instead of just looking at the stats. But yeah, that does make sense that it does affect small businesses.
[01:00:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it does.
[01:00:43] Speaker A: Because like you're saying the bigger businesses, they get, sorry, service, they still go back.
But yeah, man, leave them a good review, guys. Appreciate you all. Yeah, that's it. I don't think we have any more comments here.
There was one question. I remember I did a post. The guy was like, does he smoke? That was one of the questions that the guy put in.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: I think I come up with the stuff, man.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: Need some inspiration.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: I have a mind that just keeps going and going and going. If I got to pay bills, I'm just thinking, how am I going to pay this? How am I going to do this? I smoke so I can go to sleep. You know what I mean?
[01:01:21] Speaker A: Relax.
[01:01:21] Speaker B: Yeah, like that. I can have a good night's sleep. I wake up in the morning, start fresh, not I'll be up morning just thinking about racing and stress and kids and I got to pay this. How am I going to pay that?
[01:01:33] Speaker A: Do you ever calm him down from all that? Because, you know, my wife is like that with me. I'm always racing. My mind's racing. She's like, dude, just freaking chill. Do you ever have to do that? Yeah, of course. That's like a given in marriage, I think, compliment each other in that sense where I'm pretty sure you calm her down, too. Like whenever she's flipping up.
[01:01:57] Speaker C: He makes it worse.
[01:01:58] Speaker A: Yeah, he makes it worse. He tries to fix it, but he makes it worse.
[01:02:01] Speaker B: Like throwing gasoline.
[01:02:02] Speaker A: Fuck it. We go burn together some propane on that. Sucking. Yeah, that's cool, man.
[01:02:09] Speaker B: It used to be worse when we were younger, man. We were real toxic when we were younger. You know what I mean? But I liked it.
[01:02:17] Speaker A: Oh, man. Can I bring up the story how you all met? Yeah. So he said that he told you. Hey, come here. Yeah, how did you feel about that?
[01:02:27] Speaker C: Hey, you come here. But see, I didn't even know. I was walking off, and my friend, she was like the one that said, pumpkin. She's like, pumpkin, he's calling you. And I turned around.
So then I go and talk to him, and it just went from there.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: I got her number, and then she says, when I called, her. I asked for Cecilia.
[01:02:46] Speaker C: He did.
[01:02:47] Speaker B: No, I did.
[01:02:47] Speaker C: He did.
[01:02:48] Speaker B: No idea.
[01:02:48] Speaker A: She ain't got to live that down, bro.
[01:02:51] Speaker C: And the reason I swear by it is because when he asked me for my number, I'm watching him put it in his phone and he asked me for my name. And I'm like, he's not going to know how to spell my name. And he spelled it. He didn't even ask me. He spelled it right. So I'm like, okay, he knows what my name is. So when he called and asked for a different name.
[01:03:07] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[01:03:10] Speaker A: She'S paying attention, bro.
[01:03:13] Speaker B: I swear. I really don't remember. Every time she talks about that, I'm like, I didn't happen. No way.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:03:19] Speaker C: I remember.
[01:03:20] Speaker A: You remember vividly. I said, you ain't going to live that down.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:26] Speaker A: That's awesome, man. You guys are awesome. Thanks for coming on.
Do you have anything else you all want to share?
[01:03:32] Speaker B: No, I think that's it.
[01:03:34] Speaker A: Thanks for coming on. So you guys find Elvago, 47 one Baretta in the hood. West Point. Where is it off of? It's off of West Point, right?
[01:03:43] Speaker B: Yes, off West Point.
[01:03:44] Speaker A: Off of West Point. Check them out. Try the new. What's the new burger?
[01:03:47] Speaker B: Turdzilla.
[01:03:48] Speaker A: The Turdzilla. Yo, I'm going to try that one next, but, yeah, thanks you guys, for coming on. Alex and Celestine and, yeah, appreciate you guys. Stay tuned for the next couple of podcasts. I got Big Joe, influencer from TikTok and my budy of mine, Ed Faust, work buddy of mine, next time on the next two shows. So appreciate you guys. Have a good one.
