Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Corpus Christi Originals back at it again, coming to you live from the Produce Streamlab Studios. We got Maih doing production, Xain Sanchez as our co host, lead guitar, and our guest, Rene Ramos.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: What's going on, guys? Yeah, thanks for coming to the show. Yeah, man. About time, man.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Shit. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. So I put a post, right? And you're like, I'm down because I opened it back up again. Yeah. So what's up? You wanted to come on or.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Let's go, man. Whatever you all want to talk about, man.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Let's go. Yeah. That's awesome, man. So I appreciate you purchasing from the brand that I have.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I love your shit.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: Appreciate it. You purchased, like, several times. Yeah, I was like, dude, hell, yeah. It always feels good to have, like, a repeat customer or whatever.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Always, dude, always. Awesome.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: So are you from Corpus originally? Yeah, born and raised.
You went to Miller, you mentioned, right?
[00:00:52] Speaker B: I went to Ray Ann Miller.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Oh, same here, dude. So you graduated from Miller?
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Yeah, 95.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Okay. Wow, that's awesome. Was you 2000 and something? I'm like 2007 now.
[00:01:06] Speaker C: I think so.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Damn. I'm 2001.
[00:01:08] Speaker C: I graduated, like half a year early, so it's like, I don't remember.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: You're still a baby, though.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Graduate from Miller.
We're talking earlier, you started playing soccer or you played soccer at Miller or at Ray?
[00:01:24] Speaker B: I played at Ray.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: At Ray. Okay, and how long you been doing that? So you've been playing soccer for a long time?
[00:01:30] Speaker B: I've been 40 years.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: 40 years or 40 years?
[00:01:32] Speaker B: 40 years.
[00:01:33] Speaker C: What position you play?
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Center attack and midfield.
[00:01:35] Speaker A: Yeah, center attack and midfield. So that's like right in the middle.
[00:01:39] Speaker C: Of all the action, they move the most, man.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:01:42] Speaker C: That's the runners.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: We can sit here and talk about formations and all that all day. I'll talk you out of death.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: It's all good, man. I really don't know too much about soccer. I didn't play soccer. I mean, I kicked it around or.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Whatever, but I started when I was six, so my dad threw me in. He was like, hey, you're not going to sit your ass around at home all fucking summer, so we're going to get you in. That's how I started. No, because I started with Santa Fe soccer league, and then he coached me, like, a few years, and then he started his own soccer league on west central soccer league.
Actually, the field used to be on the same property where the men's Sunday leagues team is at. So we had a field there, and then after that I was getting older. I had different coaches and whatever else, and that's how I started, and I just kept going.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: So your pops was into soccer even before?
[00:02:41] Speaker B: No, he didn't know a fucking thing about the game.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: So he's just like, you need to do something.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: He wasn't like football.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Like football? Yeah, he likes football, but he was never into the coaching stuff. He didn't know the ins and outs and whatever else. The thing was, when the team that I was on before he started coaching, the guy quit, and then he just kind of took over and he volunteered and that's how that went.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: Wow, that's awesome, man. Are your parents from Corbus? Yeah.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Oh, no. My dad's from Hebronville and my mom is from the radar.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: Yo, I got family in Hebronville too, man.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: All my cousins from my dad's side.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: They'Re all over there. They probably know the Hernandez out there, I'm pretty sure. Ramiro and Roxanne and all them.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: Yeah, when he was born there, he took off when he was like 17 to the air force. Oh, straight out of high school, I think.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Were you in the military at all? No. Hell, no.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: Is there a reason you just didn't.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Want to be in there?
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Not only. I don't like anybody telling me what the fuck to do, I got a problem with that.
Just, I just couldn't do, dude.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: Wow, man. Yeah. I think I would say I was kind of the same way, too. Like, why are you telling me this for?
[00:04:02] Speaker B: It's a funny story. Because when I was at Miller, I first got to Miller, I left Ray, because Ray was a whole fucking shit show when I was there.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: It was dominated by white all there. And if you were brown, like we are, they would consider you Mexican, so they would give you shit.
The story about that, I left. I fought the principal's kid that was there.
He was on our team, and I was a freshman that was playing varsity that year. So me and him, me and his kid always had shit, and he always talked shit to me. I talked shit back to him. Came out one fucking day using. The season was about to kind of end, and we were practicing.
He gave me shit and I let it go. He kept it going, and we fought. Principals kicking me was going to expel me and leave him alone.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:04] Speaker B: So he called my dad. My dad went over there, the whole big thing, and then ended up over.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Wow. Did you still live in the raised district when he was. Okay.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Okay, yeah.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Why?
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Miller was the reason why my best friend's dad, he was assistant principal, so he got me in there.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: Wow. Yeah, I can see how rigged. I wonder if it's worse now as opposed to.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: No, back then, we're talking like 91, 90. I mean, 92, 93.
So this is back in the day. Day, dude, you remember the pooh?
[00:05:36] Speaker A: The principal was.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: I think it was Bill Hambrick back then.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: Okay. I can't remember the principal.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: And Mr. Scott was a fucking assistant principal.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: Motherfucker would always throw me in. Iss.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: Was it still on the two.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: Story or the building on the third floor? I think Iss was on third.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: When it was outside, like, above the mechanic or the woodworking. I can't remember which wood, but it was on the outside.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: The school's changed a lot.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it's been growing a lot, too.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So when I got to Miller.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: We.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: Were hanging around just people I kind of met, and this guy was like, hey, join the military. This and this. I'm like, what?
I was like, no, dude. And he would try to talk to me about just why this and this. And I was like, yeah, no, dude. Flat out, no way. No. And he was like, well, just take the test. No.
[00:06:33] Speaker C: Not even.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: How many times do you want me to tell you this, man? I'm like, no. And he would like, more use lockers. You put that little leaflets in my fucking locker. Stuff in my God damn. But never got into that.
My dad military. My grandfather's military. My uncle's military.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: Seriously.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: My brother's military. They all like, air force, army. I think that was it.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah. We got Alex Arizondo in the chat. He said that vato is fake.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: Shut.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: I see y'all digging that.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: I love that dude, man.
I literally met him up through you, dude.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: Seriously. Wow.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Yeah, me and him were just always just talking shit.
Talking love, man. I love that dude, man.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to Alex at the.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Go. I still need to go.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yes, go. Oh, my God.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: And I keep telling myself, I'm on that side of town on Sundays because of our games. I got to make it over there. And then at the other game, I just want to go home just tired.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: Even if you don't get all fat, because they make it fancy, bro. But even if you don't do all that, just get like, I got a brisket sandwich, bro. Good. My daughter was like, yeah, it, bro.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: I heard a lot of people talk about it. I just need to make a trip out there.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Yeah, make a trip out there, bro.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: So, on the west side. Are you on the west side now? You live on the west side? Now?
[00:08:03] Speaker B: No, I live, like 15 minutes away from here.
[00:08:05] Speaker A: Oh, from here? Okay. Yeah, right next to coal park, buddy. Yeah, I live down there on 6th street near six point. Sound vibes?
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Oh, Joe.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: Shit. Yeah, Elizabeth.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Oh, shit. I live right there.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: Probably shouldn't have said that.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: I live on that. Right in that area.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Oh, sweet. Yeah. Heck, yeah, man. So did you go to college after high school, or what would you do after that?
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Never went to college. Damn.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Were you considering it or you're just like, nah, I forget that, dude.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: You don't know how much I fucking hated school.
But even from elementary to junior high, because junior high, that was my years where my size, me and my height, I was getting picked on. I was getting bullied, getting all that shit there at Baker. And then when I got into high school, it's kind of where I kind of branched out. But I fucking hated school. I hated the homework. I hated the studying. I hated all of it. I could not stand it. But, I mean, what the hell was I going to do? I had no choice. I had to go. But, yeah, I couldn't deal with it, dude. And it was bad.
I was fucking up, like, bad.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: So is it because of the way you were being treated?
[00:09:20] Speaker B: No, it's just one of those things. It's just like, school was not going to be my thing.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:09:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I hated school so much that I graduated half a year early because I wanted to get out of there.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it was bad, dude. It was like, to a point where I just hated doing any of it. Yeah, I loved being out there with my friends and all and kicking it out there, but just being anywhere in that shit, it was fucking crazy. But my junior high years was fucking crazy, dude, because I got into crazy shit there.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: And I was young, dude, and I was very timid.
I didn't have any of the way I am now, but back then, dude, I was getting picked on. I was just once fun on the fucking bully that was always doing shit, dude.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I got you.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: Until I lost my shit on him.
[00:10:11] Speaker A: Did you start playing because you're into music, right? Did you start playing music in middle school?
[00:10:15] Speaker B: I was in middle school, yeah.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: So were you using that as an outlet?
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. Because even when. You mean, I'm a 76, baby. So I didn't get into music music until I was already into junior high. So back then, it was like fucking like Sabbath. It was like the Bon Jovi's. It was the fucking rats. Poisons. Wingers.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: Eighty s. Eighty s?
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Metal, rock. Yeah.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: Kind of like stuff like that. Going into the stuff like that. That's where my shit was at. Or like all the shit that coming out of, like, I 95 back then. Like all the pop shit. Like stuff like that.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: So you're listening to other types of genres. Wow.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: That's how I kind of got into music, much less. And then when I was in 8th grade, I started playing drums.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Okay. Actual, like snare drum or.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: No drums. Drum set. Yeah.
My friend, well, he's my neighbor that lived right across the street from my dad, Felix Gonzalez.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: His uncles had a garage there. They would always take the Hano band there to go fucking practice. One day he would come to my house. He's like, hey, they called me Nene back then. He's like, come play drums. I was what? Like, I don't know how to play. He said, just come. Just kind of. Kind of follow. And he was a guitar player. So there I went and that's how I started.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Wow, the Hana music.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: No, we always start playing rock.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: So did y'all remember any covers that you did?
[00:11:46] Speaker B: I don't think we even did covers. It was just me learning, dude. Like learning how to play to get my feet coordinated with the fucking kick and snare and my high hat. It took me a little while, dude, but once I got it, dude, I got it. So that's how I kind of started.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: And then meshing with the other members and stuff like that.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Yeah, because we had a fucking CBC. It was like a CB 700 rid kit that he was using. But he was so wicked and weird to get the bass drum tied to the fucking snare so it wouldn't slide anywhere.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Oh, it's cool. Yeah.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: That'S how I kind of learned how to play. And then as more I got older, I was just kind of, like getting into that. But I was more into a lot of electronic music.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: And that's kind of where in high school I started DJing and it was one of my good friends, Joel Perez.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: Nice. So DJing, like at clubs or.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: It was just djing. We couldn't get into clubs, but we were djing, like quitsigneras, weddings, parties and stuff like that. So that's how we started DJing. And that took off faster than actually playing anything, any instrument.
Because once we get into high go. I was already kind of familiar with Miller because every time they had something, it was always with the school.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Right?
[00:13:05] Speaker B: So we did fucking house parties. We did every Miller dance that we evolved from the four years. Even when I was at Ray, it was like the dances they had at Ray, I mean, at Miller, that's what we did after football games. That's where we're at in the fucking gym. Or even during the football games, we're on the sidelines. But we rocked everything, dude. That's how we did it, dude.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: So you still djing today? Yeah.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: Really?
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Wow.
Where do you dj at?
[00:13:38] Speaker B: I don't go anywhere.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Okay. So you're just basically solo? Yeah, solo mission.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, I got mixes coming out of my ass on my external hard drives. Yeah, I have literally mixes that I did almost ten years ago that are still there.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: Yeah, so that's one of the things I'm kind of, like, starting putting out once I get everything together and I want to put it on all together in this whole thing mixed with my videography and everything. Just all in one shot. Yeah, that way it all comes out that way. It's not just the artist, it's not just this. It's interesting.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: So, videography, what are you going to be doing with that? As far as. I guess you're going to put the music to it?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah, no, put music to it. Just whatever inspires me, man. I love being out there, dude. Sometimes just like on a Saturday evening. Sorry, on a Saturday evening, just cruise the streets, take your camera out there.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: Sorry.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah, and just record whatever.
Record the sounds, record the cars.
Just walk down just like if you're coming down through here, just kind of walk through the area where it's kind of crowded. Just catch that.
Nothing too long, but not something that's going to fucking bore you to death, but something that's kind of like get the aesthetics of the city. Just whatever you can grab. That's usually what I like to do.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: That's kind of cool. It's kind of like lo fi, I'm thinking of.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it's kind of like lo fi shit.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's awesome, man.
It seems like you use that just to keep your creative mind going.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely, dude. Because even with stuff I've done with other people, it's just like, a friend of mine he was going through, he's a marine, he's one of my best friends from high school, and he almost took his life, like, almost like five years ago.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Oh, no kidding.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And he just one day just kind of got himself out of this rut, and I was like, bro, so let me follow you. He's like, what do you mean, let me follow you? He's like, what do you mean? Like about my work. I was like, I don't care. Whatever you're doing for the fucking day, just let me follow you. He's like, stalker shit. I was like, no, motherfucker. I'm going to take my cameras and I'm going to follow you. Just whatever you do in your daily and your day, or whatever you got to do for that day, let me follow you. He's like, all right. That's kind of fucking weird, but all right. So that's what I did. And I made a little five minute thing, and I put it on his page, and he said, tease out that that's a trip. And he was like, cinematic style, 4k. Just kind of catching little stuff, little conversations we're having. But also, the most important part of that video is that he was sitting in his truck. He was talking to himself.
He was just in this low place. I didn't know how to get him out of it. Now listen to him. And I had my mic on, and I kind of left my. I had it on my phone. I left it just recording the video. Recording. The video was recording straight up. So it's kind of like the way this is right here. I had a mic going to it, and he was just recording, and he was just in a bad place, dude.
And I was like, shit. So just that little video out of made that. He saw it. He was like, I need to get myself out of that. I was like, yeah, you do. I was like, I don't know how to help you, but whatever you need, I got you. So now he's living better.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: That's good.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: He's got his girls with him, so he's better off where he's in a good place. Or I could kind of, like, not have to worry about him. But I check in on a lot.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: Wow, man.
Do you see that in your life? Have you ever been like that? Yeah.
What helped bring you out, bring you from that? Are you still there?
[00:17:45] Speaker B: No, I'm not there, but I have my spells. And I guess it happened when I was in the midst of high school, because, like, my brother, he's seven years older than I am. My sister, she's like, five years, but we were never close. So while I was going through my teen years, whatever you want to call it, getting into that, when I was getting into high school, they were already gone, so they were already in college. They were doing that thing. They were living their life and whatever else in there I was. So I became like that fucking kind of like that black sheep kid, you know what I'm saying? That one that was always fucking up, always doing shit.
But everybody's like, oh, he's doing this for this. I was like, you don't know where I'm at right now. So it was like that kind of in high school where I was just in that dome where I felt like I couldn't get out of it. So music just kind of helped me evolve from that, and people would see what I was going through. They would see how bad I was, but at the same time, they couldn't do anything about it because they didn't know what was wrong.
So instead of asking, say, hey, are you good? They were just kind of, like, kicking me in when I was down. So I got out of high school, I was good.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: I was.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: Up until I was, like, 25 is where I hit bottom for me. And I literally got to a point where I didn't want to be alive. I got to a point where it was because of my ex.
She had taken my firstborn that I haven't seen since. He was like, one, not even one.
I was there, and I was just in that hole, and I drank myself to death. And at the process, I felt like the world owed me something. I felt like the world owed me something, because why was this kind of shit happening to me? You know what I'm saying? I didn't understand it. I didn't get it. So along that way, I hurt people just to feel something. I did some fucked up shit just to feel something, that I was someone important. But instead of people asking me if I was all right, they were just watching me do this shit.
And then when I went down, completely, when I went down, it was like, this motherfucker did this, this motherfucker did that. Blah, blah, blah. It was like taking shots. And at that point, I did, like, three months in jail in San Antonio for my child support.
And then when I came back, that's when I was already hearing about all this shit. So people that I consider friends or family, they were nothing.
So it took me down that, you know, but if it wasn't for my kids, was it for my wife, I would probably be stuck in that place now. It's been so long, it's kind of like, I get my spells, but no one really understands that.
It's not just something that I kind of went through.
It was everything.
Because I'm add, so my mind wonders. I'm always doing, that's why I do so much shit, is because I need that. Because if I'm sitting there doing one thing, I'll fucking kill myself. I'll fucking lose my shit.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:22] Speaker C: You find yourself doing a lot of stuff just to keep your mind busy?
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah, literally.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Really?
[00:21:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Either it's gaming or it's fucking texting people, or it's music. If it's recording video, it's talking to people. I'm doing a lot just to keep my mind going, because if I end up back in that hole, I don't know if I'm going to ever get out of that.
I had five good friends from high school that I literally grew up with from junior high and even some in elementary, and three of them are gone.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: They off themselves because after high school, we all split apart.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah. No more community.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
But we all kept up with each other as much as we could. And we get on three way. Everybody's calling everybody. Hey, what's going on? How y'all doing? Blah, blah, blah. And there was guys.
They were bad. The two guys that were. I think there were. One was the Marines and one was army. They did the whole shit over there. They never came back the same.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Oh, my.
Philip. Philip Perez says people like to watch you self destruct.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: Self destructing.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:42] Speaker C: I can feel that.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Wow, man. Well, I'm glad you're out of that, bro.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, man. If it wasn't for any of my music or any of that, man, I'd lose my entire shit.
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Because I've been there. But see, the thing, that's a lot of things that no one knows. No one knew anything about that, about.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: What you were going through.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: Yeah, they just assumed that it was for something else.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: What do you mean?
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Like, it was like if I was doing it for attention or some shit.
[00:23:11] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: But it wasn't. I was going through a lot of shit, and I never told anybody because I don't want my problems to be burned up on anybody. So along with that way, I needed to feel some sort of way. And in that process, I was hurting people just for my own personal gain, because I needed to feel like I belonged somewhere.
And even then, everybody says you should find yourself when you're in high school. I didn't find anything.
I hated to be at school. I hated to do any of it. I didn't want to do any of it, but I didn't have that growing up with my brother or my sister, kind of like, to help me go through that process.
My mom was. I love her to death, but she was like, you got to do this. You're pushing me and pushing me and pushing me. The more she pushed me, the more I literally wanted nothing to do with following in anybody's footsteps. I wanted to do my own shit, and doing my own shit was to do what people didn't like to do or go off on a different path to find myself in something else.
And I knew I was going to fall in my face. I knew I was going to fail. But without that path that I made for myself, I wouldn't be where I'm at, right?
[00:24:36] Speaker A: I'm also add.
And I think for a lot of years, up until getting married, I had difficulty communicating with people or communicating. A lot of times I would just freaking.
It bottled up to the point where I'll just hit something or whatever. It wasn't until I got married that I started actually voicing how I was feeling. Did you find yourself on that road as far as communicating? Yeah.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Communicating back then was hard because, like I said, if I tried to say what I'm going through, it was always, like, for something, so they wouldn't understand. They wouldn't understand. Even if I tried to talk to my mom, she wasn't understanding that she wasn't getting where I was coming from, okay? And she would help me with my schoolwork, she would help me try to get my grades. And it was like, I cannot do this bullshit. I don't want to do it. And I stayed on that, and it was like, you got to do this. You're not going to do this. It's like, leave me alone. But every time I tried to explain this to her, it was like it wasn't getting through. So the only people I had to talk to were my friends. And they kind of understood. But also, at the same time, they were doing their own thing. They were fixing and graduating. They were fixing into college. They were doing this and going to do that. And there I was. At that moment, I just didn't know when the hell I was going to be at. So I was chasing my dream to be a professional soccer player. I was chasing my dream. And to them, it was like, there's no future in that.
Maybe not. I'm going to do it anyways, right? Music I want to do this, I want to do that there's no featuring that. Maybe not. Let me find out on my own let me grind out what I'm going to do if I fall on my face let me fall on my face but even with that, like I said, I went through that spell where kind of let me do it. But then it was like I didn't have a lot of people to talk to about it.
I went through a lot of shit. And no one will ever know how deep I was and how bad I was about to fall.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: So it wasn't up until when I was like 26, 27 when I met my wife. And it was like she listened to what I had to say. She listened to where I was at and got me out of that.
And it's like this post I made her is like, with you, I'm everything. Without you, I'm nothing. But together, we're stronger. So when I met her, it was like she was this force was very blunt, very just like against the grain type thing. I was very in my own shit. I was in my emotions, I was too emotional, I was too sensitive. Anything fucking hurt me. And she's like, me, get the fuck out of that. And then the more she was telling me, you are better than where you were to where you are now, you're better than that.
Get up and fucking move on. So with that, people that we consider friends or family, I don't talk to anymore.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:28:04] Speaker B: And I cut people off left and right.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Because I don't got time for shit like that. You're going to be one of my friends. You be your friend, be your brother, be down, whatever, but don't talk shit. Don't make stupid ass comments.
Because I call people like that. I call them shadows because they're fucking fate.
They want you there because of something, but they want to take shots at you. Like, oh, that triggers you? That triggers you. Or this and this. It's like, really, dude, how old are you again?
And I've done it where half the people that I used to talk to and kind of fuck with, I don't talk to them anymore.
Probably because of my fault one of them. But when I came back from jail, I apologize to all of them. I send messages, sorry. I go, I don't expect you to forgive me. I don't expect you to be friends with me. I don't give a shit. I just have to tell you I'm sorry. What you want to do with that is what you want to do with that. After that, I don't care.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Because at that moment, it was like, I'm done doing this shit. Now I'm going to fucking not even worry about it. So after that, I literally got out of the music scene. I got out of all of it, and I stayed to myself.
That's been. Literally been the best thing for me.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah, that's awesome, man. We were talking about that in the last podcast, like, forgiving people, and you can forgive them, but that doesn't mean you still have to be their friend.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly like you said.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Yeah, whatever you want to do with it, you can do with it. And then from there, you can choose to either be around them more or not.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly, dude. You have the choice.
[00:29:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: So, I mean, that's why I tell my two boys, my son, you're going to meet a lot of friends in high school. The ones are going to be real cool with you, the ones are going to be down for you at all costs. And then you're going to have the ones who are just like the jokers. They want to say shit. They want to get you in trouble, all the crap. And seeing them grow up, through elementary, through junior high to high school, it reminded me of me the way I was. And I was like, wow. And I remember telling my oldest son, I go, fuck your friends, dude. Your friends are not your friends until they got your back in a fucking shithole. You know what I'm saying?
When you need their fucking help, like when you're going, something's going down. If they're there for you, then they're your fucking friends. If they're not there, fuck them. But the thing is, he got picked on when he was in elementary, too, so I felt that. And then now with my youngest son, he's going to be 16 in April, and he's going through the same shit, but he's more like me because we all have add, but he's that shy, timid.
He's a follower.
And he's always talking to my friends. I'm in class. That's why I'm failing. And I was like, bro, really? You're going to sit there and fucking tell me you're failing because of your friends?
I was a fuck your friends, dude. Do your friends care about you at all? Do they care that you're doing this and doing that? And he's like, what do they have the not? And he's like, well, I don't know.
I was like, if they were willing to get you into trouble and let you go down for the shit, that they could get this and stupid shit. I was like, they let you go down for it, and they didn't take the responsibility for it. Those are not your fucking friends. But he's learning because he doesn't want to be without friends. He wants to have people around him that he can go because he doesn't know how to talk to people they don't know both on how to talk to. Hey, what's going on, dude, what's going know? He doesn't, they don't know how to do that. Well, now, my oldest one does, but my youngest one, he just wants to have friends.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Yeah, right on, man. That's good. This guy, Philip Pettis, he said he can relate to what you're saying, man.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: I appreciate that, man. Yeah, I know Philip.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. When I see your TikToks, it's like, dude, this guy wants people to know this stuff, you know what I mean?
[00:32:21] Speaker B: Well, because the thing is that I've gotten messages on there and they're like, people are asking me, hey, how do you do this? Or what would you do in this? But this is not shit I just talk about just because I'm fucking bored. This is the shit I've been through, right? And I can relate to a lot of it, you know what I'm saying? And I've seen my friends go through it. Shit, I've had friends fucking kill themselves because they're going through a bad one of them. Like I said, he came, but he wasn't the same dude. His motherfucker was, this guy, and I won't say his name, but he was so bad that he got back, he lived in Oregon.
And one day he just left.
He left the house, he left his truck, he left his keys, that's his phone, everything. But he took his backpack, I guess his army back or whatever the hell it was, and he was gone.
No one saw him, no one knew where he was at. This motherfucker was perched up in some fucking hill or whatever. They were trying to find him. And he had like a GPS tag, and that's how they found him. And when they were trying to get him, he jumped off the fucking cliff. Oh, that's how fucking he was gone, dude. And he wasn't going by his name, his real name, he was going by his call name, whatever his call name was, and he was gone. I was like, what the fuck, dude?
And he literally just, they said, I remember talking to his mom, he's like, he's on. My husband saw him and dead eye looked at him, jumped off.
[00:34:01] Speaker A: Whoa, wow. So I was like, he's a veteran, right? You said, yeah, we were talking to one guy, Eric Knowles.
He's like, by the time we finish this podcast, veteran will be lost from suicide. Yeah.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: And I don't know anything about military. I don't know how the code is and shit like that, but this guy was literally, I fucking groped this dude. And I'm like, what the fuck, dude? And I was like, how do you respond to that shit? Yeah, but then you come and fucking. When you talk to the family, it's like this dude was in a world.
His mind was back at war, or wherever he was at his mind, like, he flipped his switch. He was done.
And I was like, how does that fucking work?
What goes through. Then you're just kind of doing your everyday thing, or you're at home and all of a sudden something just like that, and you're just like a whole different other fucking person.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
That's one of the reasons why you shared a lot of the stuff that you share. Yeah, it's amazing. And you talk about relationships, too, and then you're talking about today. I think it was today or yesterday, about the scapegoat or whatever.
That's the child that usually.
[00:35:18] Speaker B: Yeah, the black sheet.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah, the black sheet. There you go. Yeah, not the scapegoat.
Yeah. That's cool, man. I'm glad you're doing that stuff, dude. Sometimes I want to talk about stuff like that, too, as well, because that's how I am. That's awesome. And then you're mentioning depression and mental health, so I'm glad we touched on that. It's awesome, man. So what do you want to go to next? Let me see. So you got out of, what was it, college or whatever?
[00:35:45] Speaker C: High school.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: High school. Oh, you mentioned you wanted to be a soccer player, like, professional. So you still do something involved in soccer? Yeah. Here these days, yeah.
And I noticed on your Instagram you put a lot of posts of your team, right. It's your team, right?
[00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Empire football club.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Empire football club. All right. Yeah. I didn't even realize there was tweet teams, like, in corpus at all. I don't follow soccer. I don't know a lot about it. I know Zane always.
[00:36:15] Speaker C: I know a little bit about a little bit.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
Every time I go to his house, bro, on Sundays, they got the soccer game. The soccer game is always barbecue. They're just dudes.
[00:36:27] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. That's how we roll.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: And they get into it, too.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, dude.
In Corpus, we have this men's Sunday league team. League. Everybody wants to go play on Sundays. It's like 40 teams out there.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: 40 teams, bro.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: Yeah, they just play each other.
[00:36:46] Speaker A: No kidding? Yeah. Wow, that's a lot.
Ten to a team or right now.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: We'Re in second division. There's like, 14 teams in our division.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: And there's, like, maybe, like another 13, maybe 14 teams in the other division.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: So how many players on the team. Is it ten?
[00:37:02] Speaker B: You can have up to 25 or up to 30.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Damn. That many people? That many people.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: Well, you have that many people because not everybody.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: I mean, like that many people.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: Oh, no, because you said 40 teams. Eleven b. Eleven.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: Well, you said 40 teams, though.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: Yeah, no, eleven v. Eleven. You know what I'm saying? They're on one field and play 90 minutes.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: Yeah, 90 minutes. Okay. And then is that the one where whenever the clock stops, the game stops or something like that? Like if you make a goal or whatever after, I don't know, that's overtime with the thing.
[00:37:43] Speaker C: Yeah, you're good, man.
[00:37:46] Speaker A: How long ago did you start your.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: Team or this team originated to be where we're at? It's been about three years, but it originally started with the footsaw that we were doing.
[00:37:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: So it actually started like seven years ago.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: But we didn't have a name. That's kind of like we're just changing the way everybody is playing and then what we're doing with footsaw, that's on concrete or street and as opposed to a grass field.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Right.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: So we were doing that, and then finally one of the players from the corporate street shockers that I used to coach or assistant, he's like, hey, dude, we got to do this. Started doing that. We started doing footsall, and then all of a sudden he just go to the field and I was like, cool, I'm down. So I came up with a name, and then there it was. So myself, Daniel Martinez, Mark White, Lewis Smith all came together and we kind of like, created this whole fucking thing that we're like. We're like owners. I'm a coach. Daniel is a player and he's a coach. Mark White, he's strength and conditioning coach. He does a lot of college shit.
[00:39:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
[00:39:02] Speaker B: So he's really good with all that. And Louis Smith is a homeboy from be. He used to be coach for the christie, the women's team at the university here.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Okay, the islanders. Yeah.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: Well, I don't know if he was a coach back then, but that's where I met him. And he played on my Sunday league team also. And so me and him, we hit it off. He's just become one of my good friends, and he jumped on and kind of like this whole fucking monster has been growing, dude. And it's just like I always tell them we're just changing the culture of the game. And that means not what we do, but also just the spirit of soccer. Football here, along with the other teams, that are coming in to play. You know what I'm saying? We're just trying to just evolve the game more.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: Evolve the game? What do you mean? Like, more teams.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: More teams, more fans, man. Because everybody has this whole shit like, oh, I fucking hate soccer. Or it's not a real game because you're just kicking the ball into a fucking goal. What the fuck do you think football is, dude?
[00:40:14] Speaker C: I hated soccer until I.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: Or what do you think?
[00:40:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: What do you think basketball is? Like? You're throwing the ball into a hoop like, the fuck out of here.
[00:40:22] Speaker C: I had to explain this to somebody one day where they're like, oh, football. They score all these points, right? And I'm like, they really don't. You get six points for a touchdown and one for a field goal. That's one goal.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: The thing is you can go 90 minutes up to 120 minutes or not 120, but extra time or whatever and score one fucking goal.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: But it's all how you do it, you know what I'm saying? How you train your team, how you get everybody together, strategize formations, all that good shit.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: It would be more exciting, soccer. That's why they do get all rowdy when they do score a goal, because you could only get one out of.
[00:41:03] Speaker B: The whole freaking game.
[00:41:04] Speaker A: You know what I mean?
[00:41:05] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. And that's the thing. That's the beauty of the game.
In Europe and South America, Mexico, it's wild, it's loud.
You see these fucking stadiums that pack almost like 90,000 a game.
[00:41:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:22] Speaker C: I get a lot of hate because I prefer soccer over a lot of american sports.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:41:26] Speaker C: I just think it's more enjoyable to watch.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
Like you said, on Sunday mornings. Sunday mornings I'm tuned in to try to fucking watch Liverpool versus something, or I'm just trying to watch the game and I will sit there. If I can't watch the game live, they always throw the replays on it and I'm there. My wife's like, what you do all day? I was like, fucking watch football.
That's in the morning. And then if my team plays on that Sunday afternoon, I go out there, we'll go watch my guys play, screw my fucking head off and do all that shit. But, I mean, if you know the game, then if you're really involved with it. Yeah, it's a beautiful game, man.
[00:42:10] Speaker C: What league do you like watching the most?
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Premier.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: Really?
[00:42:13] Speaker B: Yeah. My shit. I mean, I try to watch, though. Liverpool.
[00:42:18] Speaker A: Really?
[00:42:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. All day, dude. I'll take Liverpool over anybody, dude, so.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: Is it soccer or football?
[00:42:25] Speaker B: Football.
[00:42:26] Speaker C: That's football.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Americans and their fucking culture. Bullshit. Fucking call it soccer, but it's football, man.
Even I ref for the district here and all the five a of worries and I'll go out there, man, and I'm just involved in the game. I'll be running around and I'm checking out these game. I'm like, damn, he fucking could have that. Goddamn.
But it is funny. It's like I'll be out there and I'll try to tell the players, hey, man, you got to post up like this. You got to block them out like that and they're okay. Yes or yes. Now go tell the coach. It's like, hey, the only reason they're doing this, because they're doing this. And who are you?
I'm nobody, man. Obviously you know what the hell I'm talking about. But whatever, dude. Fuck out of.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: Know.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: But. But we knew the game, dude. I mean, as much as I'm involved, I've been involved with, it's like, it's something you just do, dude.
When I'm gaming, I'm literally on FIFA.
[00:43:30] Speaker A: Really?
[00:43:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:31] Speaker A: Like FIFA on the Xbox?
[00:43:33] Speaker B: No, on PC.
[00:43:34] Speaker A: PC. Oh, you got another PC guy.
There's the PC console argument. Did you play console before? Yeah. Why'd you switch over?
[00:43:46] Speaker B: What was yours? Xbox. No, why did you switch over?
[00:43:49] Speaker C: Oh, I switched over when it went from 360. So, like, after the 360 was dead and you're like, oh, you can go, I just bought a PC.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: No, why did you switch over? No reason.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: Because there wasn't really. Well, Halo was my game. Halo was my game. I played Halo two and then I got into Halo three. And then after Halo three it was OdSt, right? But then after that it. It was like nothing. And everybody was playing Call of Duty, but I didn't really like Call of Duty. Oh, yeah, you could say because I'm a scrubber or whatever. And they're like, oh, you're not good. But it's just because I didn't like the gameplay. So I just went straight to PC and I started playing like League of Legends and World of Warcraft.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't even know when I switched over, but I remember I bought a PC from fucking Renaissance.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:44:31] Speaker B: Motherfuckers.
[00:44:34] Speaker C: Probably have like two gigs every.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: Fucking week or two weeks out my door.
They wouldn't go away, dude. They're like the fucking cop. They fucking stayed there 20 minutes.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: They're capped out.
[00:44:46] Speaker C: Or they're like.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: That'S where I got my first PC from. And I still have that shit. And that's how I game on, dude. And I bought it and I got the FIFA and I was able to find these dudes who mod it, who mod the game.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Okay?
[00:45:08] Speaker B: So I was like, that was it, dude. Once I was able to, they shed mods, different gameplay, dude, every day, dude, I would sit there. I don't stay on there for hours, but I would get on there. I would play like four games. Four games. I get off it and do something else. Come back to it that night, play another four games. And I just try to finish, dude. But yeah, I did. That's when I fucking moved to PC, dude. But not only that, I did that. I played Call of duty. I played a couple of stuff, but that's my main.
It sets me in, dude.
I would tell a friend of mine, it's like, you don't understand to be out there for even. It's on the touchline, on the sideline. And you're just coaching, you're just watching the game and you're out there for like 2 hours was 90 minutes. You're just out there. And my mind goes, nothing fucks me. Nothing fucks with me. Whatever I'm going through or I'm thinking about or whatever fucking bill I'm paying or my life's going to get cut off or what the fuck, I'm free out there. Nothing fucking matters. Even when I played, even when I played, I was in my own fucking world. And I love that. And even when I coach, man, I love that, man. I'm out there. I'm just watching. It just makes me happy. Even if we fucking lose, I fucking, yeah, I'm out there, dude. That's where a lot of. I'll start recording out there or recorded the games. Record some of the little highlights. You get a drone, man, I want to buy $1,000.
Just saying.
I kept telling myself, I was like, when we get her in kitchen, I don't buy a fucking drone. I looked at the price, never mind.
[00:46:53] Speaker C: Dude, for a good one.
[00:46:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: And they're like, oh, you should go buy these fucking. I don't know what this was like 300. They look like fucking toys, dude.
[00:47:00] Speaker C: Yeah, get a good one.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: And then a friend of mine came over. He came to my house. He's all, dude, he's all talking about this fucking drone. It was windy that day. Fucker took off, dude. I was like, I'm going inside.
I was like, dude. It's like, nah, dude.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:16] Speaker B: So, yeah, man. But 40 years in the game, dude. Yeah. And I want to be 50 in a couple of years.
[00:47:21] Speaker A: Oh, come on.
[00:47:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: Wow. You got anything planned for retirement?
No, not really.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: I think one of my happiest days, man, is when my kids fucking have their kids of their own. Call me grandpa. That's going to be one of my other best days. I'm waiting for that.
[00:47:39] Speaker A: They say that's a good place to be.
[00:47:42] Speaker C: Our pastor says that if he could have had grandkids first, he would have had them first.
[00:47:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
I listen to Dave Ramsey. You listen to Dave Ramsey. Anyway, he says, if I would have knew grandbabies were this fun, I would have been nicer to their parents.
[00:47:59] Speaker B: Right.
Yeah.
When I see my dad and my mom's, and when they have my nephews, my niece and all my other nieces, and they're out there, man, when they were little, just watching my dad smile, man, that's one of the best things, dude, to see it. And I'm like, man, I can't wait for that fucking day to happen. And I get to see my own grandkids.
[00:48:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I like to see my dad smiling with my kids. Yeah. It's cool to see that. Cool to see that. Yeah. So, yeah. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
[00:48:32] Speaker B: I have one brother. One sister.
[00:48:33] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. It's kind of like us. We don't have any sisters, though.
[00:48:38] Speaker C: I have a sister.
[00:48:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: Close to each other.
[00:48:42] Speaker C: Me and my sister a little bit.
[00:48:44] Speaker B: Yeah. It's funny with me and my brother.
He's seven years apart.
He's like the life of the party and everything he does, man. I love that dude. But I didn't get to grow up with him like that.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: The age difference. Yeah.
[00:49:01] Speaker B: He was already doing his own shit, singing with my sister.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:04] Speaker B: So that's why I was like, you're the youngest.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
[00:49:07] Speaker C: I grew up when we were with my cousin, because we were really close in. Like, we hung out way more.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: That's kind of like when you and my cousin Eddie from Laredo. Okay, man, that dude. Me and that dude, every fucking summer, every holiday, we were out. Like, even for summers, my parents would take me to Laredo for the summer, and we spend it out there.
[00:49:28] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:49:28] Speaker B: And he was like. I was me, him and my other cousin Charlie and my cousin Vanessa.
Every summer, dude, it was like a big fucking party for two and a half months before I had to come back. But that was my shit.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: I'm sorry, bro, but the drivers in Laredo are crazy.
[00:49:46] Speaker B: I haven't been there I haven't been there in forever, dude.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm a truck driver, and I had to go deliver some propane. Oh, my God. I don't know if it was just rush hour or whatever.
[00:49:58] Speaker B: What time of the day did you go?
[00:50:00] Speaker A: It was probably rush hour. It was like 02:00 or something like that, but, yeah, Laredo is something different out there. That's cool, man. You still got family out there?
[00:50:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. My other cousin Charlie's out there, but I think my cousin Vanessa's out there.
My thea.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: Are you in touch with your cousins at.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't talk to them, like, every fucking day. But you used to, right?
[00:50:27] Speaker A: That's the way it just kind of gets like that, right?
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: Get your own family. Yeah.
[00:50:36] Speaker B: My brother and sister. Now I love them to death, dude. But we don't talk that much, and they're, like, less than ten minutes away from me.
It's not because of the age of. I think, just think we don't have a lot of common.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow.
[00:50:56] Speaker B: So when we get togethers we're going to have for the cowboy games and stuff like that, we talk. That's kind of like where you kind of like cowboys. Yeah, I'm not a fan. I'm not, like, a huge, huge fan.
[00:51:09] Speaker A: Where I got the fucking.
[00:51:10] Speaker B: I got the fucking cowboy hat on the jersey.
Get mad and throw them a fucking beard. I'm not that kind of.
This is the way I said I was like, everybody's like, everybody would like, you know when I'm talking about the cowboys and we're watching with my dad and like, oh, you're a cowboy fan? I'm like, whatever, dude. And he's like, oh, how they say this year, your year? I was like, motherfucker. Hasn't been a year since 95, dog.
I was like, every time they go into playoffs, they get ended up losing. So I was like, I'm not even worried about it at this point. This is going to be fucking 80 by the time that shit fucking happened.
I was like, fuck all that, dude.
[00:51:51] Speaker C: But that's the only time you all really get together just to hang out for games.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: Yeah, games or, like, Easter coming up and just stuff like that, dude. But my parents are getting older, but even with my mom and dad, I don't talk to them that much either. I keep up with them as much as I can, but I'm the type of person that I try to keep up with everybody. But I got into this thing where it's like, if you don't check up on me. Why don't I'm going to check up on you type thing. Not with my parents, but with anybody else. So it kind of goes and coincides with my brother, my sisters. If you can't keep up with me, keeping text me here and there.
[00:52:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:37] Speaker B: It'S like a big thing, you know what I'm saying? If they called me and something happened to them. Hey, Abraham, I need you to come. I'm there, dude.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:44] Speaker B: Got to tell me twice. But I think it's not just age difference. It's just that even when I was younger, when they were having house parties at my parents house, or when my brother met his wife, they would go to the beach or whatever. It's like, you can take your little brother. That was me. The little fucking nasty ass brother had to drag along to fucking so that way I wouldn't feel bad or what the fuck ever. Just to fucking take me to go do something that was me. And I think after something, like, it was just a disconnect from them at that point. But even when my sister, she went through a lot of different stuff, and I was there for her, we would talk, and then there it was again.
It's not like. It's like a negative thing. It's nothing like where it's, oh, I don't like them or whatever.
[00:53:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I got you.
[00:53:41] Speaker B: It's just that we're brothers and sisters. I love them, but I'm doing my shit. They got a lot of things going on with my nieces, with her, and then my brother. All his boys. Well, his two boys are my nephews. They're up in college station. Well, one's in college station and one's San Marcos. And then my niece got married.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: They're studying up there in.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So even though they're doing so, they're empty nesters, so they're out doing their shit.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: Right on.
[00:54:10] Speaker B: They have more power to them. As long as they're fucking happy and they're good, I'm great. As long as that's happening, dude, it's.
[00:54:18] Speaker A: Like your wife is the only one that you really communicate with.
[00:54:21] Speaker B: Yeah, my mom's got mad at me the other day. She's the only. You only call us when you need something. You only call us when it's not that, man. It's just like, what do you want me to tell you?
I don't know what to tell you. I'm bad at communicating with shit like that. But at the same time, it all spans from the way I grew up.
You ever seen those parents that are just hella nosy about shit? Why'd you do this? Why'd you do that? Or they go through your room and raffles and stuff?
Yeah, it's like that.
[00:54:57] Speaker C: Did you all listen to the same music or. No, not even close.
[00:55:00] Speaker A: No, seriously.
[00:55:02] Speaker B: Actually, my brother got me into kind of, like, rock music a little bit, but I kind of grew into what I am listening to now just by finding shit. So now I'm like. I listen. Literally, dude, I shit you not like a wig.
I'm cooking barbecue at the house. Or I'll play nothing but 90s, dude. Eighty s and ninety s. What did.
[00:55:26] Speaker A: You listen to on the way over here? You want to share?
[00:55:28] Speaker B: Yeah, bro.
[00:55:30] Speaker A: What about you, Zane?
[00:55:32] Speaker C: It's upon a burning body right now.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: I was listening to 36 crazy fists. Oh, remember them? No.
[00:55:42] Speaker A: Got to send it to me.
[00:55:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember them.
They had some bangers.
[00:55:46] Speaker A: I forgot about that. Ben, which platform do you use to Spotify? Spotify? Yeah. What about you, Zane? You use Spotify? Apple music. Apple. Okay.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: You're the devil.
[00:56:00] Speaker C: I've had an iPhone since, like, the six.
[00:56:03] Speaker B: Like, this is one of my favorite songs.
[00:56:09] Speaker A: I don't think I've heard.
[00:56:11] Speaker B: This is, like, one of my favorite songs.
Wait till the vocals. Chicken dude. You get a chip on his vocals, dude.
I was like, what in the hell?
[00:56:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it reminds me of, like.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: What'S.
[00:56:31] Speaker C: The name of that band?
[00:56:32] Speaker A: Dang.
[00:56:34] Speaker B: Right there?
[00:56:36] Speaker C: Cohen? Cambria.
[00:56:37] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, that's what I was. But these motherfuckers are from Alaska, dude.
[00:56:41] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:56:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that was him.
[00:56:44] Speaker C: What's the name?
[00:56:45] Speaker B: 36.
[00:56:46] Speaker C: Because this is the only song I know.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: Yes, dude.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Dude. Yeah.
[00:56:52] Speaker B: That's like the only song I know.
[00:56:54] Speaker C: From them because I listened to that album when I was in high school.
[00:56:56] Speaker B: Yeah, dude.
Bro, there was a fucking bitterness. Was it bitterness of star? Yeah, this one was one of them, dude, that I was like, I lost my shit with.
[00:57:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:57:13] Speaker B: When I heard this, dude.
[00:57:17] Speaker A: I was.
[00:57:18] Speaker B: Like, I want to get heavier with this. And it was cool with these guys, dude. And then after that, dude, the heavier and heavier I got.
But I always turn back to my new metal.
[00:57:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:33] Speaker B: My limb biscuit, my El Nino, fucking old soul fly.
[00:57:38] Speaker A: Slipknot. You like Slipknot?
[00:57:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Old stuff.
[00:57:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:42] Speaker C: First two albums are, like, goaded.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
Like my brother in law, dude. Oh, dude, that motherfucker can wear slipknot. Everything. That motherfucker, dude, he loves slipknot.
[00:57:53] Speaker A: Your brother in law?
[00:57:54] Speaker B: Yeah, my brother in law. My wife's brother.
[00:57:56] Speaker A: He loves slipknot.
[00:57:57] Speaker B: Every fucking Christmas or his birthday, we're out looking because, I mean, he's like, I'm going to get him a shirt. And I was like, another slipknot shirt. I mean, how many motherfuckers.
Yeah, but we buy him that, dude.
Favorite album from Slipknot was Iowa.
[00:58:18] Speaker C: Mine was probably the self titled.
[00:58:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that one.
[00:58:21] Speaker A: I call it the sick album.
[00:58:23] Speaker B: Yeah, that one was good. But iOS one was my favorite.
[00:58:25] Speaker C: I was good.
[00:58:28] Speaker B: Other than that, my playlist are pretty much anything, dude, everywhere, dude.
Was it New Year's? Like three years ago, I was making this playlist and I started adding this random shit.
And I'm not a big tahano fan. I'm not. But my dad.
My dad was a big Maz. Okay, Maz fucking dude. And he listened to or like the hometown boys or got to see your brothers or some weird shit. And I'm like. And there was only one song that I remember playing as a DJ with my friend and it was at soy coma soy.
And I was like, damn, dude. I thought the guy were fucking you, dude. And I didn't listen to the Selena's or any of that shit. So I was like, that's a song, dude. So we will put it on. So one day I'm sitting there and my kid is. My little one's out there and we're jamming.
He was listening to one of his songs and what's that? Someone.
I can't remember the damn name. Anyways, he was jamming it, dude. He was all, like, just bouncing off the wall and he was sitting in. All of a sudden he goes, from what I'm listening to into that.
And he was like, the hell is that, dad? I'm like, what? And I'm sitting there and I'm like, attempt to dance, dude. I'm like sitting there like.
But it was like, dude, my playlists are everywhere, dude. I have, like, playlists of everything. Yeah, that's my shit.
[01:00:07] Speaker A: We always ask the Heb question, which heb do you shop at? Or which heb do you avoid or Walmart? We brought up that Walmart.
[01:00:17] Speaker B: Any Walmart I avoid is the fucking Greenwood one. I just think how fucking dated that shit is, dude.
I think it was a couple weeks ago, we went to go eat at the roadhouse and we decided to go to fucking.
After we ate, we had to go to fucking Walmart because we're going to go bowl, right? And I was go to fucking Walmart. We walked in there, I was like, what the fuck?
[01:00:40] Speaker C: You took a time machine.
[01:00:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:43] Speaker B: I was like, what happened to the fucking. The floors, dude? I was like, wow. I was like, never again, dude. And then the only whole void is the one on.
[01:00:59] Speaker C: Dude.
[01:00:59] Speaker A: It's funny because Ed, from the last one, he's like, we go to that.
[01:01:04] Speaker C: I hate going there. I really do. But I only go there because they have the good mexican stuff there.
[01:01:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the seasoning.
[01:01:11] Speaker C: They have an area for stuff that they don't have in any of the other ones.
[01:01:15] Speaker B: The one on Castorias now, the one in Gullahar.
[01:01:19] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:01:19] Speaker B: That has shit like that.
[01:01:21] Speaker C: I'm going to start going there.
[01:01:22] Speaker B: That's close.
[01:01:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: And then the.
Listen, it's like a Walmart right there. We live like five minutes away.
[01:01:29] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:01:29] Speaker B: And we were shopping there for food. And they have that one sex, whole sex to do Mexican. And my wife was like, well, that's fucked up. And I was like, what the hell? She's like, how come they don't have these anywhere else? I was like, yeah, it's like wherever.
[01:01:46] Speaker C: The culture is dominated, wherever the market is for that.
[01:01:51] Speaker B: And the one we shop at, HB, is right there on Roberts.
[01:01:55] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: It's right around the corner.
[01:01:57] Speaker A: That's past.
[01:02:01] Speaker B: Robertson Elameter.
[01:02:02] Speaker A: Okay, that's further than one the Texan trail, right?
[01:02:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's way out there.
[01:02:06] Speaker C: Way down there.
[01:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's next to the barn. And then there's a mexican restaurant. And then there's a car wash still there.
[01:02:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. I know the circle K is not there anymore.
[01:02:19] Speaker C: That little area right there is like an area that nobody ever drives through anymore. Like Alameda Robert.
[01:02:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, dude, there's no reason to go there. Nobody goes through there. Yeah. Did they?
[01:02:30] Speaker A: Hollywood video used to be there.
[01:02:32] Speaker B: You remember that?
[01:02:33] Speaker C: Yeah, they used to have the games on that.
[01:02:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I was always there.
[01:02:37] Speaker C: Sorry. Skewering.
[01:02:38] Speaker B: And the blockbuster, dude, bro, was there blockbuster around there?
[01:02:43] Speaker A: I don't know if it was there.
[01:02:44] Speaker C: But I remember that Hollywood video blockbuster.
[01:02:48] Speaker B: Was right across the street from out from the one, the walmart on Staples right here. Oh, yeah, it was right there.
[01:02:55] Speaker C: Then it was a cc's pizza for a.
[01:02:57] Speaker B: That's where. That's where it was.
[01:02:58] Speaker A: Cc's. Is there none in.
[01:03:01] Speaker C: It's on the airline.
[01:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's right next to that. Lowe's and Rudy's.
I used to eat there a lot, dude. But then you wouldn't even know it's fucking open, dude. Because when you pass by, it's all fucking. Like none of the lights work, dude, seriously.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: I was like, what are the cars doing there? Let's check in the. Holy shit.
[01:03:17] Speaker A: Oh, check in the box. Yeah, man. Coming to a close. Is there anything else you want to share, man?
[01:03:23] Speaker C: Share whatever you got, brother.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's like social, Facebook, Instagram.
[01:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah, sure.
[01:03:30] Speaker B: Renee Ramos on Facebook. On Facebook and Instagram. Empire football club on TikTok.
[01:03:36] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:03:37] Speaker B: I got a lot of shit coming probably in the next couple of weeks with a lot of my videography, a lot of my graphic design, music.
Finally going to take the step in actually fucking doing something with it because I literally have music just sitting there. Put it out, and I'm finally ready to put it out. And new stuff I got ready to come out. I just need to lay some other vocals down on you. But other than that, dude, it's just a mix of metal mixed with my DJ mixes, DJ tracks. I want to put all. A lot of the videos that I've done that I had never put out anywhere. Put those up. A lot of designs I've done. Haven't done anything with put those up.
It's going to be called Teddy Smith, so it's going to be live, man, like we were talking about earlier before this thing started to keep my mind busy. So that's going to be one of the best ways for me to keep be. When you start seeing stuff pop up, when you start getting invites to, like, this page, that's going to be mine.
I'm always down to do shit, dude.
[01:04:50] Speaker A: Cool, man.
[01:04:51] Speaker B: I appreciate you coming to having me on here, man.
[01:04:53] Speaker A: Yeah, no, thanks for coming on, man. And we appreciate you purchasing from the brand. That's awesome, man.
[01:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, definitely, dude. You got to give me a hoodie, though.
[01:05:02] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. We'll get you one.
[01:05:04] Speaker B: I'm always ready to get one like that, dude, because this one here. Yeah, that one. Not besides that one, but those produce. Yeah, no, but there was one that we were talking about that had the side. Yeah.
And there was one that I bought that was like a retro one. The shirt. Yeah, and I wore that, too. Or not wear that to the gym or I wear anywhere, dude.
[01:05:25] Speaker A: And people like video, and you shot it. That was awesome.
[01:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. I'm always putting it out there, dude.
[01:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you.
[01:05:30] Speaker B: That was good, man. Hell yeah, man.
[01:05:32] Speaker A: That's cool.
[01:05:32] Speaker B: Definitely.
[01:05:33] Speaker A: Well, thanks a lot, you guys, for watching the Corpus Christian originals podcast. Stay tuned. Next couple of times, we're going to have Droopy M, Matt Kantu and Johnny Martinez, owner of on Point Barbershop, in the next three episodes. So stay tuned. For that. Shout out to Maya. The producer in the back is Zane. Renee, thanks for coming by. You guys have a good one. Absolutely.
