Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Going on y'all Corpus Christi Originals back at it again. Coming to you live from the Produce Sound Studio, downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. And we got you know who it is, the Ridin' High Podcast with us. What's going on, fellas?
[00:00:09] Speaker B: What's good, man?
[00:00:10] Speaker C: What's good?
[00:00:11] Speaker A: All right, so introduce. Introduce yourselves. We got Droopy M.
[00:00:14] Speaker C: What's it? Good boy. Droopy M, man, we'll.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: King boy freak, man.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Yeah. What's going on? Y'all appreciate y'all for joining the podcast, man. So. So how'd y'all feel when I invited y'all on the show?
Actually, I was talking with you, King, right?
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. Honest opinion. I kind of figured you wanted us on there to talk about the other stuff, you know what I'm saying?
[00:00:39] Speaker A: That's all good, though.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: But like I said, I ain't. I ain't really worried about all that stuff no more. It's in the past for me. I don't really dwell on stuff too much. Like, I'm the type. Like, I could have djed for fucking 50 cent yesterday and today is a new day. It's in the past already. Like, that's how I am. Shit.
[00:00:56] Speaker A: Yeah. It seemed like you got to a point where like, you know what? Just screw this. I'm going to say something about this. Yeah, it's around, right?
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: That's what's up. Yeah, you mentioned to, like, not. Not giving them some more. Some more. Some more light. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. So you guys, you guys have had the podcast going for a while. And every time I was getting notifications, bro, like on for Twitch and for YouTube. And every time I. Not every time. Most times I click on it and check it out for a little bit. But yeah, man, I really like what you're doing over there at the Brad knife podcast. I want to call it a network, bro.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Appreciate you. Appreciate. That's what we trying to build, basically. Like a network.
[00:01:31] Speaker D: Shit.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: Is that. It was, sir, what do you say?
[00:01:36] Speaker D: Seven days a week?
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah, getting it going. So that, that was that the initial intent when you first started it?
[00:01:42] Speaker B: Now, the actual initial intent is, man, I'm actually, as they would say, I'm barely starting to get back to the roots of what the actual podcast was supposed to be. And I was interviewing, like, the ogs, the pioneers, like, the legends of this corpus Christi, like, music scene, rap scene, and even just like. Like bar owners and promoters. I ain't really got no. No promoters on there yet. We didn't have people from the radio. We didn't have some.
[00:02:06] Speaker D: I don't know how those kind of promoter.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. You have on there. Yeah. Like, we've already had, like, different artists from the eighties, the nineties, the two thousands. So we just trying to. We trying to put the puzzle together. It ain't no books out there. It ain't no video on the history of corpus rap or nothing like that. So I'm just trying to, at this point, trying to do what I can to try to piece it all together so there can be some type of.
Not to say manual, but some type of blueprint. Like a blueprint of what it was.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Documentation.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Documentation. Yeah, that's the correct word.
[00:02:39] Speaker C: Shit, man. We're building the corpus Bible, man.
[00:02:44] Speaker D: Really, you can piece together, like, especially these last few weeks that we've done and put together a big chunk of, like, at least the nineties alone. Like, that's. And that's for people who care to know, you know? I mean, like, we just want to make sure it's there for you to know.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but the original intent was just. I didn't have, like, when I first started, it wasn't like, let's start with seven shows. It was just basically, I just started with the one show, and then the news came second. And after the news, I can't. I think. I can't remember where it came second. What, third? It may have been the sports and then sports. Then I think droopy. And then we did Scoob. And then actually, and this is a story I want to tell too, the Rod and high concert series. Let's get into the origins of the Rod and concert series. Cause somebody just the other day told me that I need to tell this story because it's like a good story, actually. Kai Servan and the NBH homies, they had came on the podcast and we had did a let's chop it. Oh, forgot. We got let's chop it up too. They had came on and did a let's chop it up. We did like, a 30, 45 minutes episode where they was just talking about the origins of their rap career and basically how they had felt that they had been blackballed amongst, like, the corpus music scene. No venues would be letting them perform or nothing like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, y'all had been reaching out to different people, trying to get on shows and stuff like that. People have been shutting y'all down. So they basically told us that. So we created the ride and high concert series. Actually, it was just supposed to be a one off. It was just. We created the Rod and high concert series for NBA, and it was basically just supposed to be one show, and that was it. And then we did the one show and it just basically, like, we got a good, good feedback on that one. And the next week, we. I don't even think we lie to somebody, say somebody. I can't remember somebody in the crew who it was, but somebody said, man, I want to do one of these, too. And I was like, already? And we just been kept in it, going from there. Shit.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Hell yeah, bro.
[00:04:33] Speaker C: I think that was me, bro.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: I think it probably was you. Shit, for sure.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to bino in the comments, man. Hey, dude, I'm so sorry, man. We're gonna get you on, man. Appreciate you for being there for, uh, being patient with me, being patient with us.
[00:04:49] Speaker D: Hey, who better to fill in for you, though, be. No, you know. You know, we got you, dog.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: You guys definitely ain't a filler, man.
[00:04:59] Speaker C: I love being.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Right on.
[00:05:01] Speaker D: Yeah, straight up.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: It's awesome how you. How you come upon that idea for the concert series? Uh, just from that, you know what I mean? And then you're just like, okay, let's continue doing this. That's amazing to me. It's like, kind of like a. You should, like, in business, like, you stumble upon things without even intentionally, you know, thinking about doing it.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: I called it throwing a whole bunch of stuff on the wall and just seeing what.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Has it always been like that for you?
[00:05:26] Speaker D: It's been stick.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah, for shows, like, like, even before.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: Yeah. So. And then. So you started djing, like, in the nineties, right? Or something like that.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Started djing in the year 2000, maybe 1999, but, like, yeah, probably like 1999, 2000. Somewhere within that frame.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: And I found it interesting that you set out not to be a dj, like, at a club, but you wanted to make mixes. Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: And not only mixes, but screwed and chopped mixes.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. So basically, for me and my friends to listen to, it wasn't even nothing. Like, let's make these a sale. This was just so me and my friends could ride around and listen to while we cruised around the city smoking and stuff like that.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: And so were you selling your stuff at the plug and in the trade center?
[00:06:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we used to, uh. Man, we would, like, press up cd. I would be as crazy because, uh, at this point, I was, like, pressing up the cds myself. When I say pressing up myself, like, I still press them up. I guess there's two different ways of people think. When I say pressing up cds myself, like, one way is I could send it off to a company and they press everything up. And to people, to other people, that's still me pressing it up. But whenever I say me pressing it up, that's me sitting at home burning the cd, putting the label on the cd, putting all the covers in the cd, in the cd things, putting the cd in there, closing it, and putting a shrink wrap on there. And whenever we have to. The plug days, man, I would be doing that. We would open on Friday. Friday, like at noon, man, I'll be up Thursday night to, like, 506:00 in the morning on Friday, just to make sure. Cause I would post, like, on Facebook and, like, do, like, the sponsorships and new release coming this Friday, and then everybody would be expecting it. So I would be sitting there, man, dying, just making sure I had enough copies to sell the next day whenever we opened up.
[00:07:10] Speaker D: Hell yeah, man.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: And I found out you worked at Keyword.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. That was like, one of them, like, had to do what I had to do, type shit, saying that was right. Right after, like, the plug had kind of, like, folded, and that's whenever I had to do what I had to do.
Yeah, that was after the plug. Yeah.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Wow. And then. So, so while you were doing that, you were trying to save up some money or whatever to get your podcast started?
[00:07:36] Speaker B: No, actually, it wasn't even a podcast. Whenever I was at keyword, I was trying to save up money so I could.
Whenever I left the plug, I had. Whenever I had the plug, I had a business partner. So my whole thing was, now that I got the game to do it, I'm gonna do it by myself next time. So my whole thing was to work at Keyword and save up money to open another storefront. Oh, I worked at Keyword. I saved up enough money, and I probably could have opened the storefront, but at that point, at that point in time, hang a lot. Wasn't really too confident in myself, man. I remember paying shout out to rick elevated screen printing. He pressed up my first ever batch of rod and high shirts. Man, I remember. I think I paid him, like, five, $600 to press up some t shirts. And, man, I remember, like, that night, I paid him. I'm sitting there thinking like, damn, bro. Like, did I just throw away money? Are people even gonna buy this? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, they know me for the plug. Nobody knows me for riding high, like, damn shit. Like, am I making a mistake? You know what I'm saying? And, man, I got that first batch of shirts. And man, that very first day, I wanna say that first batch I got was probably like a 50 batch or a hundred. I can't remember what it was. But, man, that very first day, I probably sold like 30 shirts.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: And it was people hitting me up that I didn't even know that was messaging me on Facebook and Instagram, man, can you come drop off two shirts to me? Can you come drop off three shirts to me? And I was like, man, hella people that I didn't even know. And I was like, man, that told me that I was doing something right, man, I was heading the right direction. And I never got to the point where I opened up another storefront. But the rod and high brands was there and it's still there to this day.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: So what? So why a podcast? Like, I mean, because you obviously had the store, but what. Why a podcast? Was that becoming popular in your eyes or. I mean, why that avenue?
[00:09:10] Speaker B: Because there's years later though. Yeah, that was like, let me see, man, the podcast actually started. I was.
I want to say this was in. And I hadn't even started a podcast yet. In 2019, me and my homeboy Adrian shout out SGC holden. We had went to Houston to do a slowdown chop mixtape with one of DJ screw's friends, Lil Randy, who DJ's still to this day. And whenever we were there, whenever we were on the way over there before we left, like, Adrian wanted to interview Randy and ask Randy, like some questions and I was like, well, shit, let's just film that shit. So whenever we got there, we did the mixtape, and after we did the mixtape, we actually interviewed him. I had like some questions, like, on my phone and we actually interviewed him. And that interview was just straight raw. Like, there wasn't no microphones or nothing. It was just us sitting the mic on a tripod. It was like a Vlad style interview. He was on one side of the camera, we were on the other side, and we were both going back and forth asking him questions and just straight raw audio. So that was probably like, that wasn't even a rotten hobbit. That was probably like my first time ever, like, interviewing somebody.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: So that basically started. That was in 2019.
[00:10:17] Speaker D: Nah, you got that timeline mixed up then.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: What I'm talking about, like, as far as, like on my own still right now.
[00:10:24] Speaker D: What? Still riding high in black leaders presents?
[00:10:27] Speaker B: What? The cave? Yeah, man, I forget about that.
But that wasn't I can still sit.
[00:10:32] Speaker D: Right next to him and you can still forget about it.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: That wasn't. I guess I don't really look at that as a rotten high podcast. You know what I'm saying? That was more of like, the rod and high clothing brand. And that was like an entity of that, the clothing brand. I give you that. You know what I'm saying?
[00:10:45] Speaker D: Like, I give you that.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: And even though.
[00:10:47] Speaker D: Definitely riding high, though. Yeah, yeah, definitely riding high and high. Umbrella, that shit.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: But I guess back then I didn't even look at Rotten High as like, having an umbrella, which is we do clothes and we are using rotten High as part of the cave to do interviews. So, yeah, going back to, I guess that was 2016, whenever we were doing, like, the cave episodes and stuff like that, we would interview, like, a lot of local people and stuff like that. But as far as, like, the Rod and high podcast, I wanna say the first interview I did too, official under the Rod and high podcast, I interviewed my dog Kentu. He's not here today. He's the host of the Rotten High sports. I interviewed him. And that was back in 2019 also. Cause he was there whenever we did that interview with little Randy. So whenever he ended up coming to Corpus, I was like, hey, we interviewed Randy. That shit wasn't really too hard shit. Like, let me interview you type shit. He was like, so he sat down in another raw interview. It was just straight raw. And then I interviewed Meta. Y'all know Meta?
He's. He's down with the produce crew. I don't know if he still is, but he's. He's just. We saw hang around here back in the day, and he's DJ's at Flanagan's shout out to Meta 2019. I interviewed him and it was just another raw interview. And I just. I had those interviews, but I just didn't feel comfortable enough to, like, put them out. So I just basically, like, sat on.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Audio quality quality or.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: No, it was good. But it's just like, I was confused on how I wanted to do interviews. Like, if one day I would want to sit in front of the camera, what's next to the person, the next day I would think, man, I just want to sit behind the scenes. So I didn't really know in mind exactly what I wanted to do. So whenever, after just sitting down and watching a whole bunch of different podcasts on YouTube, I just kind of threw them all together and came up with my own version.
[00:12:22] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: And I wanted to do like the Vlad style, like behind the camera. But I was like, no, I want to be in front of the camera. I don't want to do it behind the camera. I want to be in front of the camera.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what's up, man. What's. So what's the story behind the name riding High?
[00:12:35] Speaker B: Man? I came up with the riding high name. I think I just explained this a couple of days ago, too, on the how about G show, I came up with the Ryan high name. And whenever I was working at keyword, actually, the rod and high, it was, to me, it meant something that was, like, universal. Like, you could be riding down Ocean drive, smoking, and you riding high. You could be riding in a big truck that's lifted and you're literally riding high. Or you could just, like I say, get. It would be Friday. You just got paid inch. You could be riding a shitty ass car, but you still riding hot, cuz. You feeling good, you know?
[00:13:05] Speaker C: To me, it mean a bit she.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: Yeah, to me, I picked that name because it meant, to me, it meant what you wanted to mean, so that's why I picked that name.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: That's cool. Do you think that's it that's important for your audience, like, to have their own perspective?
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So it means exactly what you wanted to me. If you want riding, how to mean that you riding down, down the street, riding through your neighborhood, and y'all hella high as fuck, then y'all riding high. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, whatever you want it to mean.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome, man. And, man, you have multiple shows. So how do you think the relaxed, high energy for. How do you think the format helps or resonates with your audience? Because you guys are smoking all the time. I've been to your spiral, and y'all got y'all's own little thing going on.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: How do you think that resonates with your audience?
[00:13:49] Speaker B: Well, it's called a rotten hot podcast for a reason.
[00:13:53] Speaker D: I feel like they might be disappointed in us right now because we're not.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: Honestly. Straight up, straight up.
[00:14:00] Speaker D: If you say something right now, we can make our audience very happy and us and you, if you like.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: Yeah. No, no, no.
[00:14:08] Speaker D: Everybody about to be happy.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: Yeah, of course.
[00:14:10] Speaker D: Give us the word, bro.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: And I was like, man.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Because I see him on there and he's always like, he's doing something with his hands. I'm like, is he gonna be all right?
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. If I was sober doing it, I probably wouldn't be all off the probably would be all shit.
[00:14:25] Speaker D: He needs some energy.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it really works though.
[00:14:28] Speaker C: Man, because all of our, all of our audience, man, they smoke weed, bro.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
And even there's a lot of people that don't smoke that still enjoy us, too, you know, I'm saying, I think a lot of, a lot of people watch because a lot of people watch us. And I see sometimes where they call me, man, I can't smoke. But, man, y'all, y'all hit it for me or something. So I think a lot of people just like to sit there and watch, watch people indulge and stuff like that.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: Like, I love watching the weed videos on YouTube and stuff like that. Hell, I ain't sitting there smoking. I'm watching burning them all doing all in grow houses and all that stuff. So to me, it's all that shit's cool.
[00:15:01] Speaker D: Yeah, that's because we had a recent guest who had, like, followers of their own, and some of them have to be, happened to be doctors. So, you know, they don't smoke, but they thought it was cool, you know, the whole idea of us smoking and shit. So that's, that's pretty far that it's accepted whether you smoke or not, you know, you accept us as we are.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: So, yeah, I can relate to that. Cuz when I first started watching, like, I don't smoke, you know what I mean? And. But just watching y'all and listening to y'all, I could relate because y'all are from my, this city, my, that I live in as well. And just hearing y'all talk about, like, topics that are related, it's like, oh, this is pretty cool. And I find myself laughing and being entertained with it. You know what I mean?
[00:15:38] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:15:39] Speaker A: So, I mean, I can totally relate to that, man. So how do you pick your topics or guests for each, each podcast on your, I guess on your network.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: With the news, with the topics? We usually try to get the hot topics within the week. We usually don't try to go over a week's time. So the thing, something happened, like two weeks ago. We try to cover stuff like what happened within the past week. So that's why we try to shoot a news episode every week. So that way we could just stick to that week's topic. We're not covering stuff that happened last month and stuff two months ago. Every now and then we'll throw something in there that may have happened last month or two, three weeks ago, but more, more, less. We try to stick to the topics that have happened within that week. So people will know exactly what we're talking about. They don't. We live in a time frame, I feel like, where people's attention span is so short that if you let them three weeks go every day, that if you let. If you let too much time go, that then people gonna already forget about that happening. I only remember what happened two weeks ago.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Social media, straight.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Yes. Like, so do you find yourself, like, looking through Facebook all the time or.
[00:16:45] Speaker B: Like, new sources, Instagram, TikTok, shit. Like, oh, yeah, all different, new.
[00:16:52] Speaker D: Wherever.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Wherever there's news being shared to everything. Shit. K, triple ik, art. You know, I'm saying, wherever. You just find some news.
[00:17:00] Speaker D: Give me some fox, give me some ABC.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: I think Apple. Apple has, like, the Apple news. You know, I'm saying.
[00:17:04] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: And with the guests, each. Each host usually gets their own. Their own guests. If it's, like, a problem with them getting a guest or something, I'll try to help out. Freako. Try to help out and get some guests, but usually each host gets their own guests.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah, that's what's up. And then. So you got. Let me see. I think I had it. So you got ride hot news, chop it up, concert series off the cush.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Are you still doing yours?
[00:17:35] Speaker C: I'm gonna come back and do a man, but I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna do the conspiracy theories in the war, man. People kind of trip out on that, you know?
Because, like, for real, man, people trip out on that, man. When you start talking about some crazy stuff, though, they kind of look at me kind of like, damn, I don't know.
[00:17:51] Speaker D: That's the point of it, though. If y'all go back and y'all watch the one that we had with Alex, Drew was doing one that was talking about the. Was it the anunnaki or something like that. We're on, like, a little. A short version of the Anunnaki explanation. And, uh, Alex was, like, tripping out that how close it was to, like, the religion that maybe he grew up learning type of shit, and he's like, I don't know what to believe anymore.
It worked. You know what I mean? Like, so I don't think you should change that part up.
[00:18:19] Speaker C: Yeah, no, man. We might come back. We might do one this weekend.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Yeah. So. So how do you. So how do you go about, like, picking the people to host those, you know, those shows? Or do you just stumble upon those shows or hear a droop of, man, every.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Everybody came up with their, with their own show. And they came to me straight up with the idea and it was basically on me to approve or not. But I haven't really disapproved no shows besides freaks.
[00:18:48] Speaker D: Hey, and there's like, and I've come with like ten of them, bro. I've come with like ten of them. Let's not even front.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Every single one is like, nah, that's.
[00:18:57] Speaker D: Not for me, freak. But you could go and do that on black leaders and I'll support you. I'm like, shit, bro, I guess you know what I mean? But it is what it is. Like, I definitely have not, but freak.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Got something coming to. He's, he's coming around finally, man. He got something coming, man. We just got to figure out what it's going to be.
[00:19:14] Speaker D: Nah, we just got to figure out what he's okay with.
So I'm going to stay forever behind this. This is one of the few times you don't catch me in front of the camera.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: So, yeah, he wants the spotlight today.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: So what are some, what are some memorable conversations or moments y'all had on the show or any one of the shows?
[00:19:35] Speaker D: Gatekeepers.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Yeah, unlike the news one. Yeah, like the gatekeepers. That's when we always, we ain't talked about in a while, but when we kind of started, it was always coming.
[00:19:43] Speaker D: Up while we're having other interviews with other people, they'll say that word and we'll look at each other like, yeah, let's see where he's about to go with this. You know what I mean? Cuz the idea of a gatekeeper, to me, I don't think it exists in corpus because there's nothing here that we can't do for ourselves, you know what I mean? Like, no disrespect to anybody doing this podcast, but nowadays all you need is this. Yeah, that's it. And you got a podcast, like, you know, so it's just that simple. So I don't think there's any gatekeepers here, but that's where my conversation on that part goes.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: That's like with like anything, I guess, like with the music stuff. Like people don't want to let you on a show. Shit, throw your own show, you know, saying, luckily they didn't have to go that route. You don't say we, they, even though we only did something virtual, it was still giving them credibility, man, and giving them a shot to do opportunity and shot to do their thing, you know, they could share. Once they did that, they did way more show. They way more shows after that. How many got under y'all's bill since. Since that first one? Five already. That's just in this year already.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: So how do you. How do you feel about that for. For you? Like, honestly, that opportunity crazy.
[00:20:46] Speaker D: It's kind of like. It's kind of like movie. How everything just played out. Like, how I just hit them up and, like, nobody in Corbin's really knew of us, you know? And then shit just, like, turned around. And now, like, every time I'm out somewhere with them, like, everybody just those NBA snow, like.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: And then from doing those shows, bring.
[00:21:03] Speaker D: It to, like, a front and then the city type shit.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: No, doing the San Antonio show with the whole sold out crowd and stuff like that, you know, saying so.
[00:21:11] Speaker D: Sure. When we did the. Was it the tour drive thing? Me and Alex brought it. Brought them in there, let them do a little thing on the 105 step to the back, and let them get their shine on. I think they locked in with trace after that, right? Music played?
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I heard a song on the radio a couple of weeks ago, man. That's what's up.
[00:21:30] Speaker D: It cost you nothing to hook somebody up, man.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Well, why you decide to do that? Cuz not a lot of people will do that.
[00:21:35] Speaker D: I mean, why?
[00:21:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:36] Speaker D: Cuz I just feel like that's how it should be. Like, any play that I got, if I can pass it to him, I'm a bad. I tried to pass him some the other day, and he kind of, like, passed it back. I'm like, this ain't no pitch back. I'm giving it to you. Like, what? Go run the ball. You know what I'm saying? But it is what it is from time to time. He's done that for me, actually, just weeks ago, passing me a photography gig. You know what I'm saying? That, you know, whatever went with that. But that's. It costs you nothing to pass that play to somebody else, man. We all went in like that. Like, seeing Kai do their thing at the radio station. Like, it was a proud moment. I didn't know, but Kai. But maybe about a month at that time period.
So, you know, when. When I saw that they had that hunger and drive for it, like, I'm like, shit, then I'm passing it to the right person. You know what I mean? I'm not wasting this play on somebody.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:24] Speaker D: And hopefully, you know, everything you do doesn't be wasted on anybody, but, you know, it's all lesson learned either way.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Do you feel like you're. That you. You guys are like, at an older stage of the game than some of the younger guys.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: Fuck, yeah.
[00:22:38] Speaker D: I am. I'm 40, bro. Yeah.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Does it feel. Does it feel weird at that point, or. I mean.
[00:22:43] Speaker D: No, but you know what? I used to think that growing up, because.
Because people are like, you can't be this age and be a rapper. But nobody tells that shit to a country artist. Nobody's worried about the Hano artists being 50 or 20 or 15. You know what I mean? They just let them play because it's about music. That's what it's been like for me, because this is the world that we grew up in. We grew up in this culture. You can't take that away from me. Like, you know, I mean, like.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: At.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: All or on music. Yeah, yeah.
[00:23:12] Speaker D: So, I mean, all that shit just goes with it, bro. I feel like that's just common sense and that same.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Yeah, man. That's awesome. So when you started the. The podcast, you. You mentioned in one podcast I was listening to that you're. You're the type of person. You were waiting until you get all the equipment and all that stuff get started.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: So now you got all the stuff. You got couches. You got all kinds, man. I seen that sign that one dude gave you.
[00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's dope.
Yeah.
Yeah, man. That's dope. So, behind the scenes, what are some of the challenges, the challenges that you have now, as opposed to back then with your production, or what are some of the challenges you faced in producing and maintaining your podcast, especially given the unique theme of each show?
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Man, honestly, the only challenge that I really feel like I faced is, like, nervousness.
[00:24:02] Speaker D: I thought you were gonna say equipment.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Well, not really. Yeah, but you can see, like, sometimes we have, like, faulty mic horse and stuff like that. But the only chance I feel like, is, like, whenever we do it, like a. Like a concert series and an interview in the same day, then I have to switch stuff around or. Which a lot of people don't know, man. I'm gonna just be straight up. Every time I get ready to interview somebody, it's like a one on one interview, and it's just me doing it, man. I'll be nervous as hell.
People don't know that. They just sit there, probably sit up, because I. I try to keep, like, a calm demeanor, so you probably don't see it. Watch it, man. I'll be. Before the bit of you start, I'd be nervous as hell. Probably, like, after a minute or two, that's when I'm like, okay, like, it started feeling natural now, but count the blunts.
[00:24:39] Speaker D: From now on, y'all pay attention. Count the blunts. Depending on how many he smokes, how nervous he was.
He's all. Now I'm gonna pay attention.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Shit.
[00:24:49] Speaker D: Smoked an ounce. Done ran me nervous.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: I'm gonna say that DQ one. I was super nervous for that DQ one. And then after I got done with it, man, a lot of people hit me up, and they were like, man, that was, like, the best one you did. That was, like, a real good interview. And I was like, bro, I was, like, super nervous the whole damn interview. But, shit, I guess I did good.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: Yeah, y'all may. Y'all made me hella nervous. When I. When I saw all y'all sit down, I was like, oh, shit, I'm freaking nervous, right?
[00:25:15] Speaker B: I already know how I go, bro, straight up. I know how it goes.
[00:25:18] Speaker D: I feel like, see, like, this. This seems like somewhere I'd be more nervous. You know what I mean? Like.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: And I wasn't nervous when we came here. Like this. This feels like, you know, it don't.
[00:25:28] Speaker D: Feel like, I guess, back at home.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah, me being a guest is like, that's. That's, like, normal for me. And I guess, like, I'm getting used to, like, the. On the other part because I just watched so many podcasts on YouTube and stuff like that that I'm seeing, like, both ends of the spectrum. I'm like, man, a guest ain't really that hard. You just got to answer questions.
It's the dude that's hosted that got to come up with. You got to really do some real journalism type work.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: How do you find yourself, like, preparing for an interview?
[00:25:56] Speaker B: It just depends on who I'm interviewing. Some interviews, I go back and do, like, a lot of homework, depending on how long or what type of. What type of. Because a lot of people, a lot of local artists, it's hard to, like, going on YouTube and. Yeah, and type in their name and can get a whole bio on them. So I find myself a lot of times asking other people about them or, like, frequent saying, early man. Within these past few weeks, we've gathered up so much information through all the other interviews that we're doing that we're basically asking questions that have been thrown to us. Oh, such and such did this in 1995. So, yeah, we heard from such such in 1995. You did this. Can you explain? Like that? So, yeah, it's just all, like, coming full circle at this point.
[00:26:36] Speaker D: Yeah, we get, like, several sides to the same story, same concert, the same show. You know what I mean? Like, other people verifying, like, celebrity status type things. And what was it?
[00:26:46] Speaker A: So don't, like, don't redo whatever somebody else at the game with.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, with the, uh. Was. Yeah, the game story. Yeah, homeboy. We had two different versions of the game story. They told stories about the game coming to Corpus and the homies from Greenwood basically having to check the game. And we heard two different versions of that one, which both lined up to be the exact same thing. Just heard it from two different people, b.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: No. On Facebook, man. Appreciate you. He says, appreciate my interview. DJ Lil King, Ramon Esparza. Droopy. Droopy Martinez already.
[00:27:14] Speaker D: Marines, marines, marines.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Custom shoes coming off. Coming for the table. I got both the off podcast. Appreciate y'all. Yeah, man. Appreciate you already. Yeah.
[00:27:24] Speaker D: And the real one, bro, you know. You know, has come through every year for us. Aside from all this on our fucking we on fire basketball game that we do, he brings us with a custom theme song. Oh, yeah, from scratch, bro. Like in every year is like top the year before, which is fucking crazy, cuz he keeps pushing them out like nothing. So, yeah, shout out to him. He's definitely a man with many hats, as they say.
[00:27:51] Speaker A: He's grinding too, bro. His story is awesome. And I found out he actually shot. Shot me a message and then I was preparing. I watched y'all's entire interview with him. Dude. Oh, my God, dude, his story is awesome. His, like, his custom cleats store didn't come until like an hour and 30 minutes because he's been so much in the scene. Yeah, beforehand, which was amazing to see.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: When I do, like, the personal interviews, when I do, like, my interviews, the riding, how with DJ Lil King interviews, how to, like, if they're a rapper. Like, let's. Because that's when I watch interviews. That's how I want to. I want to see the person being interviewed. If you rap, like, rap is just a part of your story, bro. Like, you weren't rapping out the womb, fam. Like, you know what I'm saying?
We'll get to the rap. Let's know. Let's know about you growing up. And I just feel like if you're coming on a podcast, you should be willing to talk about stuff like that. Unless you're just going on a promo run, if you're going on a podcast to do a life story. And I always tell people too, like, because a lot of people be like, hey, what are we gonna talk about? But we're gonna do a life story. Like, if there's anything you don't want to talk about, just let me know.
But I tell people, like, that's why a lot of the interviews that I do, man, they're always like two or 3 hours. Because I don't just jump straight into what their occupation is, what. What their. Whatever they do. Like the rap if your graphic design or whatever you do. Like you say, we had DJ Joe on there from the bomb records. He owned record stores. And, man, we learned about his life way before he even opened a record store. Yeah.
[00:29:14] Speaker D: And he was like a key point to a lot of people, local artist wise, because he was where you could have your shit sold.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:20] Speaker D: You know what I mean? So he was like in the same sense, like kind of what king looked up to growing up was like, shit, I could do that too type of thing. You know, maybe not intentionally, but it was in the brain working like, damn, this is dope. I want to do this type of shit. Which is it, man? Really is. You get to sell music and listen to music or fucking dvd's or bootleg dvd's. That's my heaven right there. We bootlegging everything in this bitch. We got the real and the fake behind the curtain.
Let's keep it real, man. Fuck all that shit.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: So, yeah, we never saw legs at the plug, man.
[00:29:53] Speaker D: Well, shut up.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: DJ Joe, though, that's my dude, man, for show. By that time, yeah, DJ Joe had already went down. So, yeah, we come through for us.
[00:30:01] Speaker D: Like on multiple occasions too. Like, we didn't have any sound going. I think it was that, oh, we needed more sound at the tour drive. Yeah, or whatever it was in the block. Um, he just pulls up with speakers out of nowhere and just, I'll be back for them later. I swear. They're still sitting in Alex's garage to this day. Been like since November, bro. Like, he not even worried about him. So shout out DJ Joe for just like, you know, straight off the love, man. That love for the game is, is the same kind of play passing thing I'm talking about, bro. Like, he ain't asked for nothing, not worried about nothing. But he knows at the same time when he makes that call, we gonna answer.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, and y'all are. It's. And y'all are gravitating toward the hip hop scene or the rap scene or whatever. I don't know what you call it because that's what y'all are into, right? Is that it?
[00:30:47] Speaker B: Well, I would say that, but we've had like, we've done, like, food places we went to the most commit, you know, saying we had Rick on there. He fed us before. Then we did. I want to say it was like our 50th news episode. We did it live at a smoke shop. And Rick brought us more food over there, too, and everything. So.
[00:31:07] Speaker D: I guess I did with the dude who was a boxing trainer, remember?
[00:31:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, we had a good one. We had a dude on there, Guidry. I can't remember his first name, but he had wrote a book, and he was on there promoting his book. We ran through his life story and stuff like that.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: D. Guidry. Shout out, D. Gidry man. Shout out, lil e man. I see you, man.
[00:31:27] Speaker A: Appreciate it. Who's Eric?
[00:31:30] Speaker B: My dog lil e man was good with it.
[00:31:32] Speaker D: Shut up, babo aka Roach, aka scoop dose producer Calcaster co from the 956. I see, baby. Block leaders for life. So that's. That's actually a dude where.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: Where.
[00:31:44] Speaker D: When I was doing graphics, he was doing super dope graphics for the valley. And instead of, like, competing with this fool, I was like, bro, won't you come slide with me? I'll cover whatever costs it costs for you to be a graphic designer. Like, you know, I get you some cards and all that shit. You just got to stamp the block leader symbol on that mother. He said, deal, bro. Took that shit and ran. He's one of the nicest fucking artists I fucking dealt with.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Is that your brand?
[00:32:09] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. So, homie, homie, shout out. My boy, David Gomez, he came up with this shit about 2010, and we wanted to start as a graphic design, doing videos and stuff like that. And he gave us the name. He's out because we block bleeders. We bleed blocks and, you know, off of the zero thing and everything. So over the years, I've gotten shit about it. Like, you not. You're not really block bleeding because black will go out there and sell crack. I'm like, well, I thought the idea is I bleed the block. I believe the block for a different kind of rock now. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is me taking a picture or doing some videos or even taking it to a studio to record, whatever. I'm still bleeding the block in a different way.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: But it's stupid question. What does that mean?
[00:32:51] Speaker D: That's what I'm saying. Like, to actually pump the block, as in hustling on the block. They have a hustle to have a grind.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:32:59] Speaker D: You know what I mean? Like, so we're gonna bleed the block dry from whatever the block has to give. So I'm gonna soak up whatever that block has which it, you know, in the videos and photography. In the beginning, the graphics was. Was how we were approaching it. Like, we're everywhere. They were paying us to go down to the valley, all the way up to, like, san Antonio and Houston, you know, room and board type shit and recording rap battles and stuff like that in the beginning, doing graphics, flyers, all that shit. And, yeah, it took a shit. Took a few of us to get that shit done. One of my homies who started out with me now works at Channel three, and he's, like, the main producer of, like, something like this. You know what I mean? Like, for the news, actually. So, yeah, shout out to him. Shout out Tony Campo. Shut out Adam Campos.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: Autumn, can you share some behind the scenes stories or moments that stand out.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: To you on the podcast?
[00:33:50] Speaker A: Podcast, wherever. I mean, concert series or. I know you guys do smoke, walk, or just something behind the scenes that. That stand out to you?
[00:33:59] Speaker B: Oh, man.
Some of the freestyle sessions that we used to have, like, before we would actually cut the camera on, like, for the news, like, we've. Like, we would just be sitting in there, like, have everything ready, but we wouldn't be live yet. And I'll just be having, like, the computer on, like, playing beats, and everybody would just be, like, freestyling and stuff like that. I think some of those actually got, like, posted to, like, YouTube and. I mean, on YouTube, on Facebook and stuff like that. I don't know if they hit, like, the feed. I think they. I know someone were posted to stories and stuff like that. What else? Let me see.
[00:34:28] Speaker D: I think for us, doing the cave shit was always with mama Deuces. Shout out Mama Doosa. We had a, like, a little assistant who would help us out, and she's not a little assistant. She's g. Like a motherfucker. Shout out to her, but she would help it. We had so many people wanting to be on the show at that time that we had to have somebody help us and schedule and shit like that, because we both had whatever was going on outside of that show that, you know, we had people coming in kind of like you do, I guess, like, from an eight to nine hour and then nine to ten and whatever the hell. But we were doing, like, what, 30 minutes segments at the time, so maybe, like, three or four interviews a night.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:07] Speaker D: And this is all done out of my crib. So people are, like, walking along the side of my house and coming into the back. They sitting in the backyard while we're doing an interview, and she's out there like, hey, y'all are next. They're about to be done about five minutes. Like, when it's just straight. It's not a professional studio or nothing, but a lot of behind the scenes work for that shit was, like, worth it, you know what I mean? Because we were overwhelmed with that shit.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: Whenever they did. Whenever they did the NBH concert series, too, that was. That was a real good day to shit. That was a real good.
I was, like, really proud of them, you know, I'm saying, for, like, being able to perform, and they had, like, a whole bunch of people tuning. Our families all tune in and everything and shit like that. Like, that was real dope, too.
[00:35:47] Speaker D: That was Rich's birthday, too, right? Didn't he come with the cake that night?
[00:35:51] Speaker B: I can't remember.
[00:35:53] Speaker D: That's the night you met him? No, that was the first night when we did the. When we did the interview. That's right. And then, like, behind the scenes from that night, Rich is just playing all his beats. And now I was like, these beats are fire. Who they from? And then they're. Y'all pointed at Rich, and then he was like, you want some or what? I'll send them to. I was like, hell yeah, I want them. Shout out, king Rich. That was actually his birthday night, and he showed up with his own birthday cake.
We took a couple of slices and left the rest for the house. But, yeah, it was instant connection for him and Kai because Kai was feeling his beats and shit. And I'm like, shit, that's homie right here. So before we even left the room or left that fucking sentence, like, we'd already put the fucking beats in his inbox.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Nice, man.
[00:36:35] Speaker D: And then, shit, honestly, before, the week later, this fool dropped a song just to match it already. Like, yeah, it was. It was fast work. It was a good relationship.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: How did you get introduced to the Rhett and high podcast?
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Yeah, whenever I started the news, like, I kind of, like, handpicked the people that I wanted to do the news.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Right?
[00:36:55] Speaker B: I'm gonna say handpicked, cuz I guess I would say I made a post saying who wanted to be on the news and asking if there was, like, some hungry individuals that were down to do a podcast. And I had a bunch of people hit me up. So I guess I kind of did handpick the people that are actually on here.
[00:37:10] Speaker A: So how do you. How did you go about that process? I mean, do you. Do you kind of look at their background like, what?
[00:37:15] Speaker B: I just figured, what. What can this person bring to the table? Because everybody wanted to do a podcast. Hell, you supply the equipment. Who doesn't want to do it? That podcast? You know what I'm saying? Like, shit. Like. So I just kind of, like, got people who had what they considered in today's terms, who had motion going on, who had stuff going on, who were just stagnant, who were doing stuff on their own without a podcast. You know, I'm saying, like, they were going to be making moves regardless if they're on a podcast or not. Kind of like what I went for.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Amazing. So. So one of the tried criteria is for them to be able to smoke some butter.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: No, it made it better. It made it better.
[00:37:52] Speaker D: I was gonna say, we got a couple of hosts right now that are not smoking.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:55] Speaker D: So, you know, that's cool.
956 has love for Corpus says, yeah, that's Calcasta Calco. He's one of the battle rappers from the valley. They used to be part of the battle rap battle. King.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: Got somebody on twitch. Wow. What's up? Corpus? In the house from Cancun, Mexico.
[00:38:12] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Who was it?
[00:38:14] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:38:15] Speaker D: Who's watching us while they on vacation?
[00:38:22] Speaker C: That's a good look right there.
[00:38:24] Speaker D: King 15. State your real name.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. No, in the. Y'all. Y'all. I like your podcast. It helps out, too, because I've obviously had people that you've had on yours, and it helps out, too, because I watched the interview to help me prepare for the interview, like, with you, with Kai, or even droopy. So it's awesome that we're doing it. And another reason I want to have you on is because it's like, it's a community that we have, and I want you all to know, like, I'm part of the community, too, and I don't want there to be any, like, you know, I mean, beef or whatever, which, I mean, there's a lot of that going on. We don't need more of that.
[00:39:04] Speaker D: Some podcast beef.
[00:39:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, podcast be. I mean, I don't know. Not. Not just podcast.
[00:39:11] Speaker D: Okay. Who else is out there? Like, let me know.
We kind of, like, neck and neck right now. You know the man.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Like, you guys are killing it, bro.
[00:39:19] Speaker D: You killing it, bro. Did you.
[00:39:21] Speaker A: Come on.
[00:39:21] Speaker D: How did the whatchamacallit, best of the best thing, go after all, man?
[00:39:25] Speaker A: You know what? I didn't even. I don't even know who put my name in there. I wasn't.
I don't know, and I don't. To be. Even before that, dude, I was like, not. I don't even care about that dude.
[00:39:34] Speaker D: It's a good thing to be nominated for, though. I mean, even if I was, I.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: Was very humble by it. I even made a post about a dude, and I was like, damn, this is crazy. So I guess I'm honored. You know what I mean? If I do win next time, I'm gonna put y'all's name in.
[00:39:49] Speaker D: When is it announced? Nah, if it was, we got nominated by. We got nominated by the streets, so why not?
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Do you feel like. Do you feel like there's a discrimination?
[00:40:06] Speaker C: I really don't think that people see us as really professional like that, because the way that we. The way that we operate, you know, saying, because we're smoking, we're trying to sheet, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes we get off the sometimes we don't topic. You know, I'm saying, it's just. I don't outsold my. Me personally, bro. I just don't feel like people really see it like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, because yours is a little more structured than ours, you know, saying we kind of freestyle most of the time.
[00:40:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:27] Speaker C: You know what I'm saying?
[00:40:28] Speaker D: I say our viewers don't vote. That's what it is.
[00:40:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:32] Speaker D: Our viewers are not voters. They're not online, clicking these extra links to go invoke shit.
[00:40:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Everybody that's on Instagram, they. They worry about that type of stuff. And y'all, you know, fan base is most. Seems like it's mostly on Facebook.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. For down. Sure. Damn near the majority of our audiences for dancer Facebook people.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And then. And then y'all start. Y'all do the shorts and all that other stuff. Did you do you handle all that stuff?
[00:40:53] Speaker D: I do some juke does a majority.
[00:40:59] Speaker C: I'm the meme king.
[00:41:03] Speaker A: This is a riding high exclusive.
[00:41:06] Speaker C: I put all that together.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So what's. What's going on? So you have these different things, different podcasts within the network. I'll call it a network. What's in the future for riding? Hi.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: In the future, we're definitely gonna have a music review show that's probably, like, what's next on the agenda? I wouldn't. I wouldn't necessarily say next is next on my agenda. We probably have some more shows that maybe could possibly be coming before that, but definitely next on my agenda is. Is a music review show where. Send us your music. We're gonna have a panel people there listening to the music, and we'll tell you if your shit's jamming, if your shit's jamming, or if it's trash.
We got Masha to trash. Something like that.
[00:41:47] Speaker D: Yeah, banging. The slang bang it or slang banging or slinging. That was something from some years back with the same concept. It's the good thing about a lot of this shit. With the technology, we get to come around to some of these ideas we weren't able to properly execute.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:42:02] Speaker D: Because we were doing Facebook live when Facebook Live started, you know, that was like, what the fuck is this shit? Like when people were watching us do it for the first time, they were like, I didn't even know you could go live.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: Horrible quality.
[00:42:11] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Everything.
[00:42:12] Speaker D: Nothing was up free.
And this is just straight off your phone. This isn't even, like, you know, restream type of quality type of. Of shit back then. But mind you, that was 2016.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: So the technology helped you to do those ideas that you did have when you. Prior to having it.
[00:42:28] Speaker D: It's easier.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: It's easier.
[00:42:30] Speaker D: Yeah, it's easier to come across, like, now everything is a lot of it's a push of a button type shit, you know, compared to actually know how shit works. Like, you can put a filter on something now. Before, you had to know how to create that look of a filter, you know, now it's just like you had.
[00:42:44] Speaker C: To go in there manually and try to mess with this.
Yeah, everything's just right there, man.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: You know, bump it or dump it.
[00:42:50] Speaker D: That's what gets bumper to.
I like that. It sounds funny, but I like that.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: But yeah. Daddy Cree probably gonna come with. Just wait. Daddy Kree shows coming soon. We're waiting on actually his logo to get made. And once Daddy Kree gets his logo made, man, look, the podcast by Daddy Cree will be coming soon. We got DQ's show with DQ's corner. That's coming soon. We actually filmed one episode. She just went too comfortable with. With it. So we're gonna go back and do it again, and we're gonna get it right. So we got a couple of shows coming to the network actually talking about.
[00:43:24] Speaker C: Doing like a music video thing over here. Member watching? Oh, I don't know if you ever you were into rapper. We're watching the basement, man.
[00:43:32] Speaker B: Rap city.
[00:43:34] Speaker C: Yeah, where they do the freestyle thing and all the other stuff. And they play videos and stuff like that. Me and King were actually talking about doing a show like that, man. Bringing something like that back, man. You know, saying so I don't know, man. I'll be on the lookout for that, man. I think it's about time already.
[00:43:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:46] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So how do you find yourself continuing to do this stuff, even though, like, droopy was mentioning how people, they. They look at it at a certain way, but how do you find yourself continuing? Just keep going in spite of that?
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Or, man, just over the past two days, three days, after all that bullshit went down, man, I've had, like, 30 people literally text me, call me, saying, man, y'all continue what y'all doing, man, y'all keep up what y'all doing, man. Like, and now I've also had people saying, man, don't even respond. Just, y'all just keep doing what y'all do. It. I've had people say, bad, yeah, y'all did. What y'all did was the right thing, man. Y'all keep pushing. So, I mean, this is people that don't even. That I don't even really talk to on a daily basis? Some people, yeah. Hell yeah. And some people, like, man, shout out to OG Terry Amy. He's like, one of the dudes here who's known for always having, like, a clean, clean cars and shit. He's like one of the slab kings of corpus, I would say. Man, Terry Amy messaged me on the rod and high page, like, a couple of weeks ago. He was like, man, young brother, y'all doing a damn thing over there. Keep it up. And I'm like, I didn't even know you. We existed to you, you know?
And that was real dope, too. Shit. Hell yeah. Shut up, Terry Amy, man.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. That's awesome. Was it originally a video podcast, or did y'all do audio first, or.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: No, it was originally. It was originally a video. Oh, yeah.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: Yeah. That's dope. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: How come are y'all so much, like, I just like it.
[00:45:12] Speaker D: We need an assistant.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Not really that. It just needs to be categorized into different things, instead of it just being seven shows under one thing. I think you had sent me that link of that one thing where you could separate them.
[00:45:23] Speaker A: Yeah, Castle cast the one I use, castos.com.
you pay one, you pay one fee, and you can have multiple podcasts, and you can name the network under each podcast. So you can write on network, and it'll show it on each one of them. And if you go on Spotify to whichever one, you can click on the network, and it'll show all the other already.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: I still got the link to that in my. Inbox yeah, I'm gonna check that one out.
[00:45:46] Speaker A: Yeah, man, for sure. Yeah, cuz I definitely. I listen to Spotify, I listen to podcasts, and I wish y'all were on there. I was like, how come they're not on here? So I always gotta watch.
[00:45:54] Speaker B: There's some on there. They're just real. Oh, I haven't updated it probably, like, man, probably like nine months. So there's some on there. It just hasn't been updated in a long time.
[00:46:01] Speaker D: That's cause somebody recently asked me, I sent you. I forwarded them that message because so many people reach out through each of us separately, you know, I feel like we all forward and messages the king. Like, what do you want to do? You know, what do you want to do? This is what so and so is telling me.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: So how does that feel? You get all the messages, king overwhelmed.
[00:46:19] Speaker D: Sometimes.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: It'S just like, the thing that overwhelms me is everybody always has, and these are not just the in households. Like a lot of people from the outside to always be like, man, you should interview this person. You should interview this person. You should interview this person. You should interview this person. And it's like, I remember, watch out to Donnie Houston. He's a podcast. He does a podcast out of Houston, and he was interviewing, like, all my favorite, like, Houston Legends. So we're literally in his comments, just like, you should get him next. You should get him next. You should get him next. You should get him next. And whenever I start doing a podcast, it's like, well, damn, I see why it ain't just as easy as, you should get him next. You should get him next. Like, you gotta do homework on this person. You know what I'm saying? You gotta know a little bit about this person. You can't just really drive, bring somebody in and don't know shit about them and just story, like, freestyling some shit. And do. I do freestyle, like, some interviews, but if. Even if I do freestyle the interviews, I still know some. Some direction that I'm headed. I'm not just bringing somebody blind in that I have no idea of their story. So that's. That's how I kind of keep it. With a little bit of structure.
[00:47:21] Speaker A: You can't really open up your calendar either pick days, because. Oh, my God, that'd be crazy.
[00:47:25] Speaker D: Mm hmm.
[00:47:26] Speaker A: Shout out to the people on TikTok. Cantu's in there. Garza, Texas.
[00:47:31] Speaker D: Havog shut our. Havog was the first one to. What do you want to call it?
[00:47:37] Speaker B: Actually, it was sliced pizza. Sliced. I can't, I can't, I can't.
No, he did a cash donation.
He did a $50 cash donation.
[00:47:47] Speaker D: Grass is cash around here.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: So straight up shout out to slice pizza. And shout out to habo g for down show, too, with the matador media productions.
And also, can't forget Paul. He came through with the sign, too, you know what I'm saying? Shout out, inky plug.
[00:48:04] Speaker D: So whoever's next, the expectations are higher than the mother.
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Oh, come on. That's.
[00:48:08] Speaker D: What.
[00:48:09] Speaker A: How is being based in corpus christi influence your content and connection with your audience?
[00:48:14] Speaker B: Man, it's kind of like, at first, I was kind of torn between it because I didn't want just another corpus podcast. Like, I really didn't. So, like, at this point, I'm kind of, like, embracing, like, the corpus thing because it's like, basically, if I'm not getting interviews from people that are coming from out of town, then it just basically is just us doing the news. You know what I'm saying? Like that. But we have to interview the people that we have around us. Until I have a budget to get people to come down here from Houston or Dallas or wherever. No, I'm saying to get a big name rapper down here, we got to work with what we got. So at this point, we ain't going to say we work on what we got, because I'm enjoying doing this. I'm enjoying learning all these stories in learning, because I'm all. I've always been like a hip hop. A hip hop historian. I've always considered myself like a. Like a Houston hip hop historian. So now I'm kind of becoming. I ain't gonna even put myself in the category yet, but I'm starting to learn a lot of the corpus rap history, so I ain't gonna call myself a corpus rap historian because you can't ask me what happened this. What happened? You know what I'm saying? I don't really know, but I'm learning as we're going.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
[00:49:16] Speaker D: I'll take that crown.
[00:49:17] Speaker A: Yeah, no, yeah.
[00:49:18] Speaker B: Like, man, what happened at the two live group show?
[00:49:23] Speaker D: Are we talking about the after party?
Is that after party?
[00:49:28] Speaker B: I just.
[00:49:29] Speaker D: There actually was one. That's funny you said that. Who was it?
They got the after story, so.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that. I like that you're. It's not corpus. I like that the brand is not corpus based, but. But y'all are in corpus.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:45] Speaker A: Because it. It has the opportunity to go past cor.
[00:49:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we do have viewers like, from all outside of Corpus. So, like, we got viewers from. Yeah, Houston, San Antonio. Shout out to San Antonio, man. I got a lot. We get a lot of love from people in San Antonio. Some people were just tuned in from San Antonio just a minute ago. Shout out, San Antonio. Kingsville, Texas. Man, I've been messing with a lot of the young and up and coming rappers from coming out of Kingsville. They're not even from Kingsville. They're from all over Texas. They just go to school at Kingsville, and that's through cost serving. I can't wapel, right.
I've been fucking with them little youngsters real tough. They excite me, man. Ain't gonna lie. It excites me more to work with the younger, up and coming ones than it does to work with the ones that's just been stagnant for the past.
[00:50:27] Speaker C: Younger ones are more appreciative, man.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: And, yeah, they're more.
[00:50:31] Speaker C: They're more energetic, man. You know what I'm saying? They're more like, oh, damn, this is really going on.
[00:50:34] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying? They appreciate shit.
[00:50:37] Speaker A: That's interesting because you think it would be opposite.
[00:50:39] Speaker B: Nah, these old niggas feel entitled, man.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: That's so crazy.
[00:50:44] Speaker C: I've been doing this for years. I deserve this nigga.
[00:50:46] Speaker B: Y'all created the Rod high podcast for me.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: Like, you had, like, oh, they hadn't put in the work or whatever. Yeah, that's so crazy, man. So how do you. How do you engage with your listeners and the local community? Any particular events or interactions that have been impactful?
[00:51:05] Speaker B: We've done the smoke walk events. I want to say we've done, like, three so far.
We went and did. We went on the radio, too. They actually, they premiered a song on the radio. Kai and Cantu take a flight. Y'all peeped out on all streaming platforms.
[00:51:19] Speaker D: Produced by King Rich.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: We also did, like, the toy drive that they. That we were having at the. Had a toy drive at the block. We had a.
What else?
Back to school giveaway at the block, you know, I'm saying? So doing events and stuff like that.
[00:51:35] Speaker D: Every year, every August, the week before school starts, do you feel like you.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: Have to do events to keep it going, or it's just something that you like to do?
[00:51:42] Speaker B: You don't really have to, like. It's just something that I'm the type. I like to give back to the. To the community. Like, I like to give back to, like, the. The local rappers who I see trying. The ones who I. If you just sitting there and you ain't really trying, but you just expect people to just do stuff for you. Now, you can't help you, but if. If you. If you give an effort, I'm the type of. If you put in effort, like, let's. Let's try to help you go a little bit further than what you maybe been then got so far, you know, I'm saying, that's the way I look at it is.
That's how I looked at, like, whenever they were saying they couldn't get. I'm like, well, shit, we'll put y'all on the. On the podcast, on the concert series, and we'll get. We'll share some of our follows with y'all. And you're pretty sure I gonna have some people that's tuned in that's probably. Hopefully they'll subscribe to our page. You know, I'm saying, like, I like to do. I like to do mutual stuff. This. Let's do stuff that benefits both. Both sides. If it's just gonna benefit one side, now I'm with it.
[00:52:35] Speaker A: And you have to be discerning, like, you have to be able to decide.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: That's interesting, man. That outlook that you have on helping people, it makes you think about, like, your. Were your folks like that? Were your parents like that? Is that where you learned that from?
[00:52:49] Speaker B: No, actually, I probably learned that. And this people probably. I learned that, like, I wouldn't even say in, like, TDC because I went to TDC in 2011, but I probably learned a lot of that stuff. Like, in the halfway house. Like, the halfway house. Like, this was, to me, it was a blessing that I didn't come straight home. I had to go to a halfway house. And with going to a halfway house, they gonna teach you structure. A halfway house is 90 days. And during that 90 days, the first ten days, you got to sit there, then you got to get a job. You got to do all that. And it's just structure, and it's all about, like, basically, like, not letting the person that's fucking not. Not letting the community fall. So, because, right. Halfway house is called a community.
[00:53:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:28] Speaker B: So everybody has to do their part in that community to make sure this community don't fall. So you got people all leaning on each other's back to keep this. To keep this. Just keep this. Just keep this community up.
[00:53:39] Speaker A: I like that. I like that, man. We have. Then you have to help each other in order for the community.
[00:53:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:43] Speaker A: Continue to thrive.
[00:53:44] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:53:45] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, man. And when somebody's not wanting to, wanting to, they're looking out for them. They're looking at themselves only and not looking at it in that perspective, you know what I mean? And that, and when they continue to do that, the community goes. Yeah, part of the community goes down, you know?
So was, what kind of feedback do you have? Have you received from your audience and how has it shaped your shows?
[00:54:15] Speaker B: Man, the feedback has been real good. Only really place I see, it's like some negative stuff is on TikTok, and I don't really be on tick tock, so I don't really know how that works. But that's like, I wonder when we first started. One of the comments that still sticks in my head to this day is they just give anybody a podcast.
[00:54:34] Speaker D: You're leaving out the.
Tell the first part of that story. Why did they say the comments?
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Stuck with?
[00:54:48] Speaker D: Let us remind you that because daddy.
[00:54:50] Speaker C: Cree says something along the lines, man, that she, that gangsta boo didn't die glorious death. We need to stop trying to praise her for that. Praise her for that because she died over drugs or whatever.
[00:55:01] Speaker D: So they took offense.
[00:55:03] Speaker C: People took offense to that, and so they started dogging on the podcast.
[00:55:07] Speaker A: Come on, bro.
[00:55:10] Speaker D: It was funny to hear at the time.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: I just, I just read that like an old black lady's voice. They didn't give anybody a podcast.
That's what I read it whenever I saw the comment, and that shit is stuck with me.
[00:55:22] Speaker A: Nice.
You know, he said you, you helped me get more followers with my business. Been staying custom, so I appreciate the opportunity already, everybody. Abe Franco on tick tock. Appreciate you. Leo on tick tock. Appreciate you guys for joining.
[00:55:37] Speaker D: Man was on twitch. What happened to the twitch person that they reveal themselves?
[00:55:42] Speaker A: I don't know. Is he on there?
[00:55:42] Speaker B: Maya, it's all good. Nice.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: I got that mask on, man. That's what's up, bro.
[00:55:48] Speaker D: Yeah, you guys are you been since the last time we seen you over there?
[00:55:51] Speaker A: I've been good, man.
[00:55:53] Speaker D: Busy.
[00:55:53] Speaker A: It's been good. I've been busy. I've been trying to get at least one person in every week or a.
[00:55:59] Speaker D: Group or whatever, like at least three or four past that number.
[00:56:03] Speaker A: Yeah, well, at, when I first, when I started in here, I was trying to do like, at least two a week. Then I. And then finally kind of just slowed down for me.
Obviously, I have to, like, pay for this spot, so I got a, I gotta, you know, handle my finances a little better. We're dealing with that, but, yeah, it's cool, man. It's cool talking to a bunch of different people and you talking to all walks of life. Oh, yeah, for sure, man.
[00:56:28] Speaker C: What was one of your favorite guests, man?
[00:56:30] Speaker A: My favorite guest?
[00:56:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:33] Speaker A: You guys are cool here, man. You guys are a group. It's cool having, like, a lot of people because it keeps the conversation going.
[00:56:40] Speaker D: You know, I like.
[00:56:42] Speaker B: I like interviewing groups myself. Like, I think interviewing groups is dope.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
And, like, I'm learning as I go to, like, sometimes I prepare. This is from chat DPT, bro. So I just.
[00:56:54] Speaker D: How does that work for you?
[00:56:55] Speaker A: It's working. It's working. I mean, I don't use it all the time, but I do. I have been using it a lot, not only for this, but for other things that I'm doing. Like, I coming up with descriptions for, like the YouTube videos or the Facebook, whatever. I'll just type in, you know, make whatever for this. And that helps out a lot.
Yeah, I use AI to make the clips.
That's very helpful as I pay it. And finances is a real big thing for me, like, just having. Being able to set aside certain.
[00:57:26] Speaker B: No, this podcast shit ain't cheap. People don't understand it. Like, that's why need to pay me, man. I had so many people tell the call of duty and I gotta come back somehow.
I ain't gonna even say this person's name, bro, but shout out to homie. He called me and said, bro, people coming in your house, using your ac, sitting on your couches and yo good microphones, using your good interfaces, and y'all sitting there making them look pretty with the good cameras, they on the big screen tv. They on tv looking good. They ain't on tv looking fuzzy. They on tv looking good. Yeah, he said, bro, they should be paying you a $100.
[00:58:05] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:58:06] Speaker B: That's what homeboy told me straight up.
[00:58:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly, bro. Like, and if somebody wants to come on, come on the show, or. Or if I pay somebody to come on my show, yeah, if I pay somebody to come on my show, it. But they better have a huge influence online to help my show grow, you know, to help my show grow. Because eventually I would like to be monetized. I would like to have sponsors because, I mean, all is coming out of pocket, bro. Yeah, it's all coming out of pocket. So eventually I want to get to that point to where I have sponsors or, you know, however my podcast can be funded so I can continue doing it. Yeah, you know what I mean? And I think also you could get.
[00:58:47] Speaker B: Bigger, so you could get bigger guests, you know? Exactly a budget. So where you could pay $1500 for a guest, where you pay $5,000 for a guess, you know, I'm saying, like, we all want to get to that level. Shit.
[00:58:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:58] Speaker D: I feel like if my daughters weren't graduating this weekend, bro, I dropped you a $100. Just pass that bucket around. Well, see do thought is there. Let's my pockets ain't.
[00:59:10] Speaker B: Shout out to corpus Christi renewals. They dropped $100 on us to a while back.
[00:59:14] Speaker D: Oh, shit.
[00:59:14] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[00:59:15] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah, I. Man, I just wish, personally, my thoughts are, I just wish our community had a better handle on money so that way we could.
[00:59:26] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:59:27] Speaker A: You know, I'm saying give to other. Other, you know, creators in town that are doing stuff like just having that extra hundred dollars to be able to bless y'all's podcast. I had it. Bam. There you go. You know what I mean? Because I was responsible with money up until that point.
You see what I'm saying?
[00:59:44] Speaker D: So we fucked it up for you.
[00:59:46] Speaker A: You guys messed it up.
Yeah, no, I'm just saying, man. And I always come back to that. That topic, the topic of money and handling money well, so that way you can continue to bless your community. And that's it. That's where I'm coming from with that.
[00:59:59] Speaker B: And see, that's why I feel like the events that we do like the cause. A lot of people have told me, man, you should be charging people to do the ride and hot concert series, man, we ain't never charged nobody a dollar to do a concert series. And even with the smoke walk events we do, man, we don't charge a dollar for none of that stuff on sick. The very first one we did, we had, like, free hot dogs, and we had free hot dogs or burgers or something out there gave away free food.
[01:00:21] Speaker C: Chicken.
[01:00:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:24] Speaker D: Shout out, QBR, man. Q definitely hooked us up with this spot to be able to do whatever we want out there.
[01:00:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:30] Speaker A: Where are they located, QBR?
[01:00:32] Speaker D: 523. 523 Taylor street.
[01:00:35] Speaker B: Right across from the color time.
[01:00:36] Speaker D: Yes.
[01:00:36] Speaker A: Oh, nice, nice.
[01:00:38] Speaker D: So every first Friday of the month, I ain't gonna lie, we kind of been piggybacking off dart walk, you know, no offense to them, but we do our own little thing, and, you know, as long as it's all kosher, we good.
[01:00:48] Speaker A: Yeah. So, man, you know. Yeah, that's what's up, man. How long. How long have been going, man?
Appreciate y'all being here. Y'all. Y'all want to share anything we got?
[01:00:59] Speaker D: We're going about hour and then hour to go, man.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: Y'all make sure you follow the rod and I podcast. Y'all make sure y'all tune into all the shows that we do. Ryan High news on Monday, off the cush with Scoop dose on Tuesday. Riding on sports on Wednesday. On Thursdays, we usually do the ride concert series. But, man, they could pop up any day, man. Honestly. Shit, Fridays, we usually keep it open.
We already do not know Saturdays and Sundays, but during the week, man, it's always. We always got something going on and you never know when it. Let's chop it up or ride high concert series may pop up shit.
Make sure you make, like, subscribe, follow all and click on the theme to where whenever we do go live, it pops up on your own, your thing, like, yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, I do that, man. Shout out to all of our hosts that ain't here. Shout out to school doe. Shout out to Joe Brock. Shout out to can too. Shout out to John Bell. Shout out to daddy crease banks. Shout out to all y'all.
[01:01:55] Speaker C: Shout to a son hit man holcomb. His best thing right now, you know.
[01:01:58] Speaker D: Saying, what's dope about this shit? And I will give keen this because he said he did handpick everybody. Everybody here has got the potential and does stand on their own.
[01:02:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:08] Speaker D: So it's a collective of people who are already established doing something on their own. Like, you know. So the idea that we have, that I have for everybody is that we should each be able to support each other. Like, the way we're all here like this, we ain't got enough room for the rest of us, you know.
So from time to time, you might catch a whole different cast.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. And I think that's dope, too.
[01:02:30] Speaker D: And plus, we got people like shout out Jake Salinas in the background, you know that. You know, he jumped in on past Monday, and he's looking to do some stuff, too. So he might be on there tomorrow night, I believe, if he's down for it.
But, you know, we've had a few faces, like, we had. What's the name? The whisper gods.
[01:02:48] Speaker B: Oh, shout out to Felix, my dude. Go, soul, man. He's hitting me up, actually. He wants to come back on. I'm gonna reach out back to you. I saw you in my inbox, Felix. I got you, man.
[01:02:57] Speaker D: So we've had people just kind of here and there, you know, coming in and giving us their little. It's good. Like you said, they hear different people's.
[01:03:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[01:03:05] Speaker D: You know, thoughts state of minds and all kinds of shit.
[01:03:08] Speaker B: Our dog, tone cardio said he got a donation for you. Says hit him up in the inbox, man. He says I gotta.
I got Corpus Christi originals. A donation for having rod, not podcasts on your podcast. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate you, man.
[01:03:20] Speaker A: Yes, sir.
[01:03:21] Speaker D: Thank you. Shout out, QB, man.
[01:03:22] Speaker B: QB is one of the QB, too, man. Appreciate.
[01:03:24] Speaker D: You know who QB is?
[01:03:26] Speaker A: No.
[01:03:26] Speaker D: QB made a beat for 50 cent long time ago.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[01:03:29] Speaker C: He made another.
[01:03:31] Speaker D: And he's got actually, a catalog of different artists that he's done. Yeah, QB. QB the problem, matter of fact, QB, book you an interview right now.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: Me and QB, we used to rap on karaoke machines in high school.
[01:03:42] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[01:03:44] Speaker B: Am I lying, QB?
[01:03:47] Speaker A: He's showing you age there, bro.
[01:03:49] Speaker C: Also, man, look, man, I just.
[01:03:51] Speaker B: I just.
[01:03:51] Speaker C: I'm pushing my single out, man. Sound like it's hating, man. I just send us all the radio stations over here, you know, send us into all the DJ's. I hate. I sent the DJ fame. I sent it to Bobby stumped. I sent it to everybody dub, John Bell. Everybody got it, man. You know, saying, so y'all paid. We better shoot the video here a little bit.
[01:04:06] Speaker B: You know, I'm saying so.
Yeah.
[01:04:08] Speaker C: May I be on the lookout for that, man.
[01:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah. What's up, sub man? Appreciate it. Shoot. What was I gonna say? Oh, y'all have. So you have something coming up. You have art walk, right?
[01:04:16] Speaker B: Smoke. Wow.
[01:04:17] Speaker A: Smoke walk. There you go.
[01:04:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is like our version of the art wall at Ron, running concurrently with the art wall.
[01:04:25] Speaker A: Right on.
[01:04:26] Speaker B: Five to three Taylor street, right across from the Corpus Christi collar towns building.
[01:04:31] Speaker A: Right on.
[01:04:31] Speaker B: And this month we're gonna have performances. Last month we had, like, some punk rock bands. This month we're gonna have some performances, some rap performances. We may have some food out there. Oh, we're gonna try to showcase some live art this. This month to try to have some different artists. Not when it probably has some live graffiti painted, too. But we're gonna try to get some artists who, like, do arts as come showcase their art and maybe try to set it if they want to set it or just to come showcase it if they want to showcase it.
[01:04:57] Speaker D: Yeah. Shout out Alex Gates, man, he's been holding it down with that graffiti. He'd been like, on fast forward with that shit, too, because he's everywhere. Like, all you gotta do is follow him and you'll see him tagging up everything everywhere in every city.
Rest in peace to his homie tank, man. His homie tank passed away and he been, you know, making sure he's not forgotten making sure he's not forgotten at all, you know? So you got to make sure you keep track of them people, man. People. They've been gone and passed away. You can't let them be forgotten, especially if you're the last one that remembers. And make sure you tell the world, man. So show, man.
[01:05:38] Speaker A: Appreciate you guys coming on. Y'all have anything else y'all need to share? We all want to share.
[01:05:42] Speaker D: I was trying to find a we on fire information. We might as well start cracking, cuz this after this.
[01:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Y'all stay tuned. We got we on fire weekend. We just gonna leave it at that. We got we on fire weekend. The weekend, August 7. We're gonna have the. Actually, the smoke walk will be on Friday, the basketball game will be on Saturday, and the giveaway will be on Sunday. So y'all stay tuned for that. Once we find the flyer, we'll post it in the comments.
Let me see.
[01:06:10] Speaker D: This is just packages. We're gonna have different kind of packages.
[01:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So if you want to be a sponsor for our actual we on fire game, our school supplies basketball game, we got a $300 package, we got a $200 package, and we got a $100 package and a $50 package. So we got packages for all budgets. And we'll post a flyer in the comments soon as we go off.
[01:06:29] Speaker A: And this is, what is the we on fire?
[01:06:31] Speaker D: That's security basketball.
[01:06:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, so supplies.
[01:06:35] Speaker D: We basically use our. We use our culture influence to bring school supplies in so that way we can give it to the kids that need it. And every year, we've grown like crazy each year. And it's just us. It's just me, him, and shout out Big Bell to kid. There's been a few supporters that have been with us since the beginning, but, you know, as far as the actual foundation of it, me, Bell, and King, we holding it down. And we're on four. We're on year four already. So people who doubted us, we've been on the radio, we've been on the news every year. Every year. We don't need. Not one of us work at that. Well, Bell does now, but even before that, we were already getting that kind of publicity because what we're doing, people understand, and there's not very many of us in our culture that are doing it like this. So we invite anybody who is in our culture to come with us and collab to get this done. And, you know.
[01:07:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:07:26] Speaker D: Shout out to everybody, we on fire for coming August.
[01:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:28] Speaker D: Two k four.
[01:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Sponsors? Any sponsors out there? Let's get it going. Appreciate you guys, man. Show, man. That's what's up. If nothing else, man, we'll say see you later already.
[01:07:37] Speaker B: Y'all make sure follow podcast, man. It ride, not podcast, on all platforms. Coming to Spotify and podcast soon, even though we already there. We'll have the updated episodes up there real soon.
[01:07:50] Speaker C: Yeah, episodes.
[01:07:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Right.
[01:07:52] Speaker B: And high podcast a corpus Christi originals for having us.
[01:07:56] Speaker A: Yes, sir. Appreciate you guys for joining. Stay tuned for the next few podcasts. We got some people lined up, but, yeah, Brighton hype podcast. Go follow them. Check them out. Appreciate you guys. Y'all have a good one. Peace.
