#78 | Lito Cortez, Anthony Diaz, Alex Arredondo | Bull Session 10/14/24

[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Cooper, Christian, back at it again. [00:00:02] Speaker B: How you doing? [00:00:03] Speaker A: It's been a while. It's been a minute. I'm nervous right now. [00:00:05] Speaker B: So. [00:00:08] Speaker A: We got, uh. We got on to my right, Alex Aridondo, the Volo podcast, Alexando Aridondo, and also Elvago Burger and barbecue. Over here, we got Anthony Diaz, host of the 50 states interior podcast, where they talk about cryptids. Over here to my left, Lito Cortez. Cortez comedy. I'm gonna coin that phrase, bro. [00:00:31] Speaker C: Oh, I haven't even used that yet, so go for it. [00:00:34] Speaker A: Excellent drummer. This guy's always in the pocket, man. You gotta get this guy some drumsticks. He's always in the pocket as a drummer. We were in a band earlier in our life, so it was pretty cool. What's going on, fellas? [00:00:44] Speaker D: Chillin now. [00:00:46] Speaker B: We're just having a crazy conversation before. [00:00:50] Speaker A: So y'all talking about cryptids and supernatural and stuff like that? [00:00:53] Speaker B: Well, the paranormal, yeah. Over his hometown. Good lord, dude. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Do you have a, like, any cryptid name to, like, on your menu? Like chupacabra, the burger man. [00:01:06] Speaker D: That's. That's a good idea, though. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Right on. So what's been going on in, like, I guess, in the city? I guess I'm thinking about Woodrow. They got sold or they got closed down or whatever. Everybody's putting their sign up there now. [00:01:17] Speaker C: It's. [00:01:18] Speaker A: You had your sign up there. What is it now? [00:01:20] Speaker B: It's Eddie's. [00:01:20] Speaker A: Oh, Eddie's. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:21] Speaker C: Somebody else came in, and I. I guess redid the whole thing. [00:01:24] Speaker A: Oh, right. [00:01:25] Speaker B: I have no idea why it closed down. I've never been there before. [00:01:27] Speaker A: Another sports bar. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm assuming it looks. [00:01:30] Speaker C: It looks like a billiards. They got a bunch of pool tables in there now. [00:01:34] Speaker D: Ton of dartboards, which somebody were saying that they were. It was bad business and they were rude and stuff. I don't know if this true. Rumors get started in corporate, I think custom. [00:01:45] Speaker C: Sorry. My bad. I think customer service in corpus is rough to begin with. Right. [00:01:49] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:01:49] Speaker C: Like, anywhere. [00:01:50] Speaker D: Like, out of my place, man. [00:01:51] Speaker C: But I'm saying if it's not locally owned. Right. [00:01:54] Speaker A: Right. [00:01:55] Speaker C: In any. Any big business that comes into town. [00:01:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:01:57] Speaker C: It deals with, like, really bad customer service. [00:02:00] Speaker D: I try to take care of all my people, and I real respectful with everybody and, you know, just, you know, take care of everybody, man. Got to grow that. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Who pays our bills most part, because, like, they know they're gonna get a check at the end of the day, so they're just like, I. Whatever. Yeah. [00:02:15] Speaker B: And it's. [00:02:15] Speaker C: It's a big franchise. I went to one in Houston, and it was nice to woodrows, and I was like, man, it's a nice year. [00:02:19] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:02:20] Speaker C: Yeah. So it's like, it. They doing. They're doing well everywhere else, but God bless corpus christi, right? [00:02:25] Speaker A: God bless cc, baby. [00:02:27] Speaker D: The other rumor is they raised the rent so high so they could get out. That's what I heard. [00:02:32] Speaker C: Oh. [00:02:32] Speaker D: So I don't know if it's true. [00:02:33] Speaker A: But everything's going up, though. [00:02:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I kind of heard that, too. I heard that because they're tearing down the old mall and the property value was going to skyrocket, and then they were going to charge so much money more on that establishment, they just took off. [00:02:48] Speaker C: Yeah. How do you raise the rent? And then something similar comes right back right in, like. Oh, this fine. [00:02:53] Speaker D: You know, I mean, you're gonna do condos there? [00:02:56] Speaker B: Yeah, condos. [00:02:56] Speaker D: Condos. [00:02:57] Speaker B: The indoor condos. Like, I don't know. Like, I think they modeled it after chinese or japanese style, where it's just an enclosure and you just live inside. [00:03:08] Speaker C: Don't say Japanese, bro. Cuz I'll move in real quick. [00:03:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Konichiwa. Konbanoa. I'm on day, like, 120 of Japanese and Duolingo, so now I was in. [00:03:21] Speaker B: I live in Okinawa for three years. Oh, I loved Okinawa. [00:03:24] Speaker C: We should make out so I can get. No, I. Dude, I'm, like, all into it, bro. We're going. We're going. Not next year, but the following year in spring, bro. Yeah. [00:03:34] Speaker A: So how did you get into that? Did you just, like. Like, one day I'm gonna learn this or what? Just. [00:03:38] Speaker C: Well, yeah, I mean, I. Of course you can go YouTube, right? And you go down a rabbit hole of anything. So I started with, of course, cars and then food and then bakeries. So we watch how they show up at 03:00 in the morning, mom and pop bakers. And they break bake everything, and they. Well, my wife got my wife into it. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:56] Speaker C: And then just the culture in general and how they, like, they're real respectful. Everybody, like, is real. Like, they're tidy. Everything's nice and clean. [00:04:04] Speaker B: It's pretty, dude. [00:04:05] Speaker C: It's crazy. [00:04:06] Speaker B: It's real pretty. [00:04:07] Speaker C: It's nice, and it's huge. It's a huge country, and the infrastructure is, like, set up perfect. If you want to go from one side of the country to the other side of. You can take it on a. On a train, go anywhere in a country on a train. [00:04:18] Speaker A: And what style government do they have over there in Japan? [00:04:21] Speaker C: I think it's an asian style. Sorry. That's all I know, dude. [00:04:26] Speaker A: So what's. What's the comedies? What's the comedy scene? Like? Like, in corpus. [00:04:30] Speaker C: In Corpus? [00:04:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. [00:04:31] Speaker C: It's. It's. It's growing, right? So I tell everybody there's a. There's a difference in the comedy scene. It's pre Covid, and then after Covid. Right? So after Covid, there was, like, a boom in the comedy scene, which is cool. Which. And I think those are all the young guys or that, I guess the new guys only doing it for a few years. But, like, I started, I think, right after Andy, which is crazy, because when I met Andy, he's like, we knew each other. [00:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:57] Speaker C: But not. Anyways, so I started with Andy, and I was. And I was, like, 1012 years ago. [00:05:03] Speaker A: So it's changed after Covid. Do you think that because there's a lot of comedy podcasts now. [00:05:09] Speaker C: There's a lot. I mean, there's a lot of everything podcasts. [00:05:10] Speaker D: Right. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's true. [00:05:12] Speaker C: So, I mean, it's. I think if anybody can get there, if you can get your voice out there and promote and be silly, and you can get followers. I mean, that's the name of the game, right? [00:05:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:22] Speaker C: I mean, the way I see it is, like, there's so many. There's so many comics in town. They're not my competition. Like, nobody's comp. There's no competition in comedy. I maybe used to think that when I was young or when I first started, but now it's like, just want to build a. Build a. I don't even want to say followers. Yeah, yeah. Just. Just. I want to. I want to build a group of people that enjoy coming to see my shows. The shows it. Because I produce my own shows. Right. I host my own shows. [00:05:52] Speaker A: And most of his clean comedy isn't. [00:05:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:05:54] Speaker C: I'm the only clean comic in town. Sometimes it'll be like, a Thursday night, and I'll let it rip and have a couple slip and then ask for forgiveness afterwards. Right. But just. Just out of my own frustrations getting it out. Right. But for the most part, all my material is clean. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I imagine it's not like the comedy store. I've seen. I've seen documentaries about the comedy store and how, like, there it was because it was ran by Polly Shore, and there's some bad blood between, like, Joe Rogan and other comics yeah. Like years and years and years. Comics stealing jokes and things like that. I don't think. It was not like that here in cold. [00:06:27] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I mean, everything's clicky, right? So some people mesh. Mesh well with others. Other people's don't. Other people don't. And then people get in their feelings, but. Yeah. And then there come. There comes this. I've seen it. I try not to be a part of it. I do my own thing. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:43] Speaker C: Anybody that I. Booth, I'll book them. I'll put them on my shows, and if I don't feel like they fit, like, what I'm. What I'm looking for. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:51] Speaker C: Like, in my productions, I just find someone else. And usually I put guys from out of town because the shows that I do, they're all clean for the most part. [00:07:01] Speaker A: Yeah. When I went to mesquite for the first time to the comedy night the other day. You were there. We were there. You could feel that kind of. I don't. Just from the outside looking in, like, there's tension between the different groups. Like. [00:07:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Tell there's different groups. [00:07:13] Speaker C: I mean, everything's clicky. [00:07:14] Speaker D: Right. [00:07:15] Speaker C: I mean, I'm sure in the food. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Business, man. [00:07:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:24] Speaker D: People fighting over nothing. Like, dude, like, people can't eat at your restaurant every fucking day. You know what I mean? [00:07:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:30] Speaker D: You know, it's just. It's just insane, bro. You know, it just. I see. If you have good food, you have good food. If not, then, well, shit. [00:07:37] Speaker B: You think that stems from jealousy? [00:07:39] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, bro. When I first started, I had people call the health department on me, the comptroller, what can. Yeah, I. When I first started, motherfu. That's why I got the food truck thing. They're even worse, bro. I've seen one food truck guy goes, oh, we don't have that. Our community, man. Bullshit, bro. First day I had my truck, some dude came up to me, started dropping all these rules, and, well, you don't have this. You know how that. So you what? The health department or whatever it was that because they passed me. Oh, they did? Okay. Okay. He goes, well, who you with? Like, if it was a gang, where I haven't been hit up like that. He's like, who you is? What do you mean? Like, well, there's. [00:08:14] Speaker B: I'm with burgers. [00:08:15] Speaker D: Like, there's two different communities. If you. If you're with our community, you can't do events with that community if you're with us, you know, like this. And that's a. Hey, bro, I said, I just want to self wouldn't go home. Oh, yeah, we don't like those kind of people. [00:08:32] Speaker C: Did he, like, vanish in a thin air? You never saw? [00:08:35] Speaker D: He just went to his little truck, whatever. And then, you know, we sold. We sold what we sold, we left, whatever, and came back some again. He started being kind of cool with us, whatever. But like, I told him and I said, y'all are only doing that to keep tabs on each other. That's all. Because. Come on, bro. What? You know what? You're gonna. You gotta kick down everybody at the. [00:08:51] Speaker C: End of the day or something. [00:08:52] Speaker D: Like, it's. It's just ridiculous, man. [00:08:54] Speaker B: I wonder if that's just here. I don't hear. I hear I have friends. And, like, in the Austin area, San Antonio area, Dallas area. I don't hear anything about, like, bad blood between business. [00:09:05] Speaker D: I think it's because it's so big. Who cares? Yeah, I mean, that's what. [00:09:08] Speaker C: That's exactly. [00:09:09] Speaker D: Corpus. It's. It's good size, but there's still. There's plenty of. For everybody here. You know what I mean? People can eat every day, man. [00:09:16] Speaker C: You know, that's exactly what I was gonna say. I think Corpus is just such a small market. [00:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:19] Speaker C: I mean, it's. If you put a pin in the middle of corpus and it's, what, less than 10 miles from. And from Spid and Weber, and then make it ten mile radius city smaller. [00:09:29] Speaker A: Than there, everybody will know, like, that same day. That is there. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's. [00:09:34] Speaker C: And that's. That's the thing where comedy, right? It's like, after Covid, all these guys started producing their own shows, which is cool. But then you have like five produce shows on a self produce shows on a weekend, which is fine if you have your crap, right? But at the end of the day, dude, if you're funny, you're funny. [00:09:51] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:09:51] Speaker C: Right. If you're funny, people are gonna show up. And if you're funny, people are gonna tell other people, hey, this dude's actually really funny. Now they're your cup of tea or not. That's a different story. Right. [00:09:59] Speaker D: And you shouldn't be hated for your talent, man. You know? I mean, I just don't understand, you know? [00:10:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:02] Speaker D: Shouldn't be hated for your talent. Should be embraced and looked up to, you know, me should like a leader in that shit. Not, oh, I hate this guy now. Cuz he's better than me. [00:10:10] Speaker C: Oh, man, you made me feel good saying that. Looking in my eyes. [00:10:16] Speaker D: Same thing with my restaurant, bro. Man, corpus has net. I haven't seen corpus do anything different in the past 510 years. Within food, you know, you go, Takiri, everybody has the same taco stuff. You go to barbecue joint, everybody has the same stuff, which is fine, whatever. That's cool, right? When I did mine, I want to do something different. So I came up with all these crazy combinations of food. Now I'm starting to see everybody starting to copy me and stuff, you know, I mean, which I don't say nothing. Everybody says, oh, you should take it as flattery. But it's still kind of a little thorn in my side. Like, hey, like, what the fuck? Who. Like, why you got my idea, bro? You know what I mean? Like, why you got a bite off of me for? Like, yeah, be creative. Come up with your own, you know? [00:10:51] Speaker B: What? What is that? Was I saying, like, mockery is the highest form of flattery or whatever. So, do you do videos as well? Do you do, like, shorts are skin? [00:10:59] Speaker C: When I started, I would. I was right. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:01] Speaker C: But I felt like I was reaching, right? Like, I would, like, okay, this week, I'm gonna post three videos, and this one's gonna be this, and this one's gonna be that. And I got some likes, right? But I felt like I was just pushing too hard and being too corny, and it wasn't organic, right? So now if something comes to me and I just pick up my phone and do it, like, it'll work, right? Or if I have an idea that I really want to do. And, man, I get ideas all the time, right? Like, I had an idea the other day for, uh, Saturday and an idea for Valentine's Day, and I'm like, why are you thinking of Valentine's Day? But I know it would work if it was Valentine's Day. But earlier when I started, I would have done it right then and there. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:40] Speaker C: And been, like, pushing and try to. So I used to. I really don't anymore. I. I just. I feel like a lot of people are pushing, and some of them, I mean, they fake it till they make it, right, but I'll try it. I'm trying to. I'm trying to be funny on stage, and whatever else falls in line, like, I'm not gonna reach for it. [00:12:01] Speaker A: How's it going? Recycled corn podcast. Ben de Leon and Kaylee in the chat. Appreciate you guys. Posting is hard, man, especially if you're busy. You got a job and just all kinds of stuff going on. [00:12:12] Speaker C: You got a family, the production, the editing, too. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:15] Speaker C: Especially if you, like, want it to look nice. Which, I mean, I'm not the best, like, editor in the world, but I kind of have an idea of what I want it to look like. So that takes even, even longer, right? [00:12:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that. So, like. So AI is here, right? We got Chad GPT. These questions come from there. You got Grok on X. Screw all that. And. But, like, you, like, for him. For him, like, making stuff, AI is not really affecting that, I guess, the ideas. But how does it affect y'all's? Does it affect y'all's industry? What are we gonna say? Oh, you're an author, right? [00:12:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I hate it. I cannot stand. Yeah, because it's being. Okay, we talked about this last time, too. Like, I understand the concept of it. Like, formulating an idea for you, but then you're. You're diminishing creativity, and you're. You're basically just having a. A bot that takes information from other authors and other creators and making it for you with. With no sense of what. How. How your creativity or how your, like, thought process would have came up with that. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Right. [00:13:24] Speaker B: You know? And, yeah, you can take it and you can make it your own, but then at that, at that time. At that. At the time where you're reading it and editing, and it's like, it's no longer yours, you know? So I. I can't stand a. I don't. I want the concept. It steals to. It steals. It steals a lot of information and a lot of creativity from other really talented people. It does, dude. [00:13:48] Speaker A: It's only like, a select few of creatives will actually make it or have that, you know, money coming from that industry, you know what I mean? Because it's like, back in, like, in the days before they had, like, the royals would compensate musicians to go and play in their palace or whatever, right? That's how they would. You know, the musicians would actually make money. Now you just flip on the radio. You don't even pay nothing. You know what I mean? To. For that music. It's so, so easy for those. For it to be created. What about the people that are creating it, you know? [00:14:19] Speaker B: Well, they have. They have a generated music program now. You can just tell. Tell it to do a brand new, a brand new hip hop song by Tupac and Biggie. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:29] Speaker B: And it'll just pop one out for you. You know, I'm saying, you could just. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Upload it to your stream account or whatever, dude. [00:14:34] Speaker B: And, like, what would really set me over the top of, like, my stance on AI is when there was an artist who won a competition, you using AI, generated artwork. [00:14:46] Speaker C: Seriously. [00:14:46] Speaker B: And won a competition against actual artists. Wow. And the competition was free. It was free medium. So, like, oil painting, cartoonists, illustrators, whatever. But I do. Did a computer generated AI image and submitted it with, and he. His claim was that my creativity was telling the computer what to do. That was, that was his creativity process. And then with the image popped out, submitted it, won. You want. He won money from it. It is, man, it. And I guess. But, and I just got done writing, just got done running a chapter for one of my stories, and it took forever to do because, like, you sit down, you know, you're, he got off of work or something, and you're trying to create something. [00:15:32] Speaker C: Being creative, the creative juices, and you. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Can'T think what's gonna happen to the character, and you're like, what's going to happen? You sit in there with a, with a. With one word, and all you have is one word. But, like, that's. That's. That's the writing process, man. You know? Yeah. [00:15:48] Speaker D: Sad. [00:15:49] Speaker A: Yeah, man. [00:15:50] Speaker D: But, like, I don't understand how anybody can do anything like that and then look at themselves in the mirror and be like, oh, yeah, I deserve this. You know what I mean? It's cheating, bro. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Well, they got paid, so. [00:16:00] Speaker A: So NASA has emeritus program, and SpaceX is pushing for exploration forward. Are we on the verge of a new space race? What do y'all think about that? What could the next few decades hold for humanity's place in space? [00:16:16] Speaker B: Well, you saw the recent rocket. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:19] Speaker B: That guy caught by the tower. [00:16:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:22] Speaker C: By the arms. Yeah. [00:16:23] Speaker B: And then did you see the new spacesuits that they put out? And they did the spacewalk on a, on a commerce. They were not even astronauts. They're. They're like, billionaires or whatever. And they went, they went into the atmosphere, the space. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Wow. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Open. Open the. Whatever, the canister or the vessel, and. And tested the suits, just went outside, came back and closed the thing. It came back to Earth. Like, do we live in the future? Really looking at the Sci-Fi movie? Do. [00:16:56] Speaker C: I mean. No, I mean, space Force, right? I always say that space work, Space Force. It's. I think it's a, it's more of a digital, like, front, right? So satellites. And then eventually it's gonna turn into unidentified or not unidentified, but unmanned aerial, whatever, drones, all that fun stuff. So I think whoever's at the top of that food chain is really gonna be running. So it's just, if it's not us, it's not Elon. If so, I mean, I guess thank God he's on our side, right? If not those out, that South Africans would be at the top of the. But no, yeah, I think. I mean, it's. I I think that's where it's gonna happen, right? Because if they cut our communication systems, and then what? We're back to stone age. And then daniel have to. No more winning contest through AI, right? No more doing anything from the Internet. You have to hands and feet. Yeah. [00:17:52] Speaker D: You ever wish things can switch back, like, to the old days with no technology and, I mean, I like it. [00:17:58] Speaker C: For the weekend, right. And you go camping, like, to unwind and stuff like that. [00:18:01] Speaker D: I'm like, for good. Could you think you live like that. [00:18:03] Speaker C: With no technology, man? It's. It's certain extent. Right? I think we'd have to go back, right? Whatever I'm good at, I'll trade you for whatever you're good at. [00:18:10] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker C: So whether. If you're making corn, the water system. Yeah. The bar. [00:18:14] Speaker B: Okay. [00:18:15] Speaker C: Here. If you're good at growing corn and I'm good at growing cattle or whatever, the case is, you're good at fishing. That's why I'm glad we live here in south Texas. Yeah. If the. If the food system goes bad or the grocery store shut down, you grab your pole and go fishing in the middle of night. [00:18:30] Speaker A: What if they put that salinization, whatever they put that. That'll kill that. That life out there, we wouldn't be able to fish. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Or the desalination plan. [00:18:37] Speaker A: Yeah. If they did that, we wouldn't be able to fish out there. I mean, how would I think about that? [00:18:41] Speaker C: How much salt are they gonna pull out of the. Out of the bay? [00:18:43] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:18:44] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah. No idea. [00:18:46] Speaker C: Like, and they also said that they're pulling from, like, miles out or further out, right. They're gonna create a. Create a tunnel or a tube or a pipeline to pull from, like, I guess, the deep waters. Yeah, I saw them saying that the other day, so. But, man, you know how much salt is in that water out there? [00:19:02] Speaker A: South Texas is honestly great for barter, I will say. [00:19:05] Speaker B: But you're talking about, like, no technology, right? No lights, no. No formula, just say. [00:19:12] Speaker D: Just stuff like that. I'm talking about, like, like, you know, with the whole Internet stuff and whole. All that, you know, like, modern day with the cell phones and all that. Like, say we went back to, like, back in the days. You know what I mean? [00:19:22] Speaker B: So, like, 1970. [00:19:24] Speaker D: Yeah. Say, 1970. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:26] Speaker C: That's not that far. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah. That makes me think about, like, books and the importance of, like, it. So books will become important because that was a way to, like, learn stuff. Like, say there wasn't technology. You know what I mean? You read to learn stuff. Like the book of Eli. That's what I think about. You see, I've seen that movie where, you know, he takes the Bible to. To this, uh, this island or whatever and have all this civilization kind of restored. Um, I don't know. It just makes me think about the importance of, like, uh, books and stuff like that. Yeah. But I don't mean. I don't really don't. A lot of us don't have the knowledge, man. Like, to learn how to live, like, without the technology that we. That we have. I think we've become dependent on it. [00:20:08] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:20:09] Speaker B: That's why you get. You get people who, you know, that knows how to do something. [00:20:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:20:18] Speaker D: If I get in a truck doesn't have one, this all of a sudden. So it's a problem. [00:20:22] Speaker C: It's like, yeah. [00:20:25] Speaker D: And I can. But it's like, man, my camera footing don't want to work. I got to figure it out myself. [00:20:29] Speaker B: Now you take a second. Okay. My mirror. Okay. Mirror, mirror, mirror. All right, let's. [00:20:36] Speaker D: I got nervous right now when I parallel part just. It is crazy, man, that we depend on technology too much. [00:20:45] Speaker C: Yeah. I still clown with technology. Like, I have a backup camera. It's huge. It's like, that big, right, the screen. And I'll reverse, and I'll give it enough gas to where I know. I. I slam on the brake. It feels like I hit some. Even if there's technology, I'm reversing. And I have all the kids in the van, and I slam on the brakes, and everybody's like. And my wife's like, oh, my God. [00:21:06] Speaker A: So crazy, man. Appreciate you guys for coming out. So, what do you got? Oh, you were talking about spms coming out or something like that. [00:21:11] Speaker D: That's what they say. He's being released. [00:21:13] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:21:13] Speaker D: I don't know when, but what do. [00:21:14] Speaker A: You think about him being released? [00:21:17] Speaker B: South Park Mexican. [00:21:18] Speaker D: Yeah, they say he's gonna be released. [00:21:19] Speaker B: I thought he was already out. [00:21:20] Speaker D: I may. Well, they. Nobody has said yet. I guess he had his parole date October 6 or something. Supposed to get out. [00:21:27] Speaker B: Damn. There. There is a time in my life where that all I listened to was just freaking SPN. [00:21:33] Speaker D: Yeah, me too. When I was young. [00:21:36] Speaker A: But you're from. You're not from Texas originally. [00:21:39] Speaker B: No, I was born in Texas. I grew up on the east coast. But, like. But, like, it doesn't matter how far away from the barrio that we go, it always just kind of just travels with PM. [00:21:49] Speaker C: Stealing is hard. [00:21:52] Speaker B: It just kind of pops up, even. I'll be. I'll be in the middle. I was. I think I was a teenager. I think it was like, 13 or 14 years old. I was the middle of North Carolina, dude. And in high school, and, like, I would go in, my friends and I would go somewhere, and then I would hear the hano music and I what the go and cherished people from. From, like, close to my hometown and Potee and journey or Pleasanton. [00:22:15] Speaker C: Oh, wow. [00:22:15] Speaker B: And they're like, what are you doing here? Oh, I was. I'm in the military, dude. Like, I'm just. I'm here being stationed here. Oh, that's. Holy crap. [00:22:24] Speaker A: I hear my heritage over here. [00:22:31] Speaker B: It's like the man charity candidate. Just like, get up and start walking over there. Like, some triggers in the back of my mind as a freaking sleeper cell agent or some shit. Like, oh, I gotta go over there, right? [00:22:41] Speaker A: Um, bro, like, the Quintanettas that I would go to remind that they would play that music all the time, right? The Tejano music. And I find myself listening to it on the radio, like, when I'm driving and stuff. [00:22:52] Speaker C: Totally can release peaceful now, right now that you're old? Yeah, I mean, right now it's like, bump, bump, bump or whatever it is, right? Oh, yeah, that's good. [00:23:04] Speaker A: When I was younger, it's nothing but heavy music, bro. [00:23:06] Speaker C: Just like, yeah. When a good hunt song comes on, I was like, oh, that's it indeed. It's home right there. Yeah. [00:23:12] Speaker B: Don't get me wrong. I really do. I really do. Like, real heavy, heavy metal, but, like, I don't know, there's someone about, like, waking up and you're spot to, you know, do chores or something. You put your foot on little Joe Ramona Yada comes on. All right. [00:23:28] Speaker C: I think it's good. The accordion is the only instrument that really sounds like it's crying. Like, happy and sad crying. And if you think about it, like, octen hano songs are just sad, dude. Some dude crying about something. I mean. I mean, one of the songs is like, I'm gonna go to heaven and find a special corner. Like, like, it's like, dude. Like, he's. He's like, he's feeling it, dude. And then all you grown macho man are like, yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker A: How's it going? Francesca, thank you for joining the podcast. Mama, I love you. Kaylee. Books are important. Anthony is set on the books. Right on. Yeah. So you have a rp. What is it? Rpg? Role play? Something going on? [00:24:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:24:15] Speaker B: If I could take a little time, I'm gonna promote my convention that we're putting on in Austin, Texas. It's called T fest. It's a board game and TTRPG convention. It's one of its kind for south. Well, for centralized Texas and for people who don't know, like, all the nerds out there who go to, like, Jen Khan and Gary Khan. We're gonna have that here in Texas, in Austin. And I'm one of the other directors. We just. We just signed Jeff D. And Diesel, who are two prominent names in the art community who've done art for dozens of dragons since 1970s. I think they're on board. They're gonna have a table. They're gonna showcase their art. People gonna be able to go there and buy pieces of original art from them? Yeah, it's. It's super exciting, extremely stressful. But it's like. Like, I started playing these games back when I was a teenager, and I got into it again when I got out of the military, and I was trying to find a way to, like. Like, battle. Like, depression and shit like that. And games like this really helps because it keeps your mind active. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Right on. [00:25:27] Speaker B: You know, and it's. It's just spews creativity and. Yeah. It's August of next year, 2025. And for more information, y'all can go to tfest.org. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Tf est. [00:25:39] Speaker B: Yep. Tfest.org. [00:25:42] Speaker A: Nice. Is there a certain game that you. That you play, or is it like. [00:25:45] Speaker B: I. I like Pathfinder dozens and dragons call Cthulhu, which is a horror based game. As far as board games, like, lords of Waterdeep is one of my favorite. Battlestar Galactica is another one of my favorites. [00:25:59] Speaker A: That's a real thing? [00:26:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell, yeah. [00:26:00] Speaker A: Wow. [00:26:01] Speaker B: Like, large, complicated sets. And that is just. It's themed based. So, like, a lot of horror ones, like Dracula, arc, Arkham horror. [00:26:10] Speaker C: Horror. [00:26:11] Speaker B: I mean, um, betrayal at a hill house. Great games, man. It's like. It's not one of those games you think about where you're playing, like, scrabble or monopoly. This is like. This is meant for, like, a session. You have four to five players, and you're doing, like, three hour games, and it's. And, like, you're just. It's there, and you're diving into it with, like, this. It could be lore. It could be like game designs. It's just. It's an amazing experience, and we're having all that in Austin next year. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Oh, nice. It's actually in Pflugerville. [00:26:46] Speaker B: It is, yeah. [00:26:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I know that name because I broke down in Pflugerville one time. [00:26:52] Speaker C: We're in the Pflugerville. [00:26:55] Speaker B: It's hilarious. Oh, man. You'll go South Austin, then flug north and North Austin. [00:27:01] Speaker C: Do you ever get, like, so deep in those games that you, like, dream about it? [00:27:05] Speaker B: Oh, wow. That's how much. That's how much I'm a nerd. Like, in the writing side of it, the creativity side, because, like, we would get. We would be done for a session and I'll be dming a game like this, the Pathfinder or whatever. And then the characters did this, like they almost died of the situation. Like, maybe like there was like an intense battle and all of them almost died, right. And sometimes I'll go to sleep and picture all the characters, like, what happens if they did die? You know, like, who's gonna come back? Or does their. Does their family come and rejoin the party then? Yeah. There's been times where I've gotten so into a story where I drift about it that. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Yeah, as a comedian, like, you have to think about all kinds of topics, right? [00:27:53] Speaker C: Oh, dude, I think about everything. I like it. That's why I asked. Cuz I. I was dreaming about jokes because I had that. I had the gig Saturday, that fundraiser I did. But I was dreaming about jokes on Friday, right? Friday night going into Saturday. Saturday. [00:28:06] Speaker A: Like, you actually stand up and like. [00:28:08] Speaker C: No, I can't explain it. [00:28:12] Speaker A: Okay. [00:28:12] Speaker C: But I was like, telling jokes, but they. But it wasn't anything. Like, I dealt. Like I talked about was none of that stuff. It was me telling. It was me. I was like a filipino guy making fun of filipino people. But I was like, why am I doing that? I woke up and I'm like, why am I dreaming of that? But I think it's just the process. Like the joke process, right? Like telling jokes or imitating somebody. And I think that I was so deep into thought, like, trying to prepare for Saturday, that even though my material has nothing to do with what I was dreaming, I think the process just like, eating me in life and then, like. But get back to your question. I think about all the perspectives, right? Like, I tell a joke about myself, I think about what my wife thinks her sees from her perspective, what my kids see from their perspective, what the neighbor sees from his perspective. What my dog sees from their perspective, like, or one joke. [00:29:07] Speaker A: You think that's one joke from all these different. [00:29:09] Speaker C: Yeah. So I try to, like, if I'm at a grocery store or whatever the scenery is, right. I'm telling a joke. Usually most of my stuff is based on something that's happened to me, something that I feel or that I can explain. And I'll just try to. Try to. I'll set bullet points. Right. And then I'll. I'll brainstorm. Right. So I'll put the subject. And then I. Each person. And then what. What they can see or feel from it, and then I'll take the best ones from it and then run with it. And the only way to tell what. What the best ones are is just to go on stage and use it. [00:29:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:43] Speaker C: And if you get a laugh, then. Okay. Okay. That kind of worked. And this perspective didn't work. That other perspective didn't work. [00:29:49] Speaker B: How does your tight five differ from, like, your. Your full set? [00:29:53] Speaker C: Uh, a type five is something that I know works for you. Right? Yeah, that works, for sure. Like, I can go into any room and I know. Okay, this. This type five, it's got setup, punch, a little bit of story, or some fill in time in between. And then if I want to write to make it longer, but, like, a type five, I know it. Like. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Do you know what type five is? [00:30:20] Speaker A: No. What is that? [00:30:21] Speaker B: Type five? [00:30:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Type five is just, like, a type five minutes. You go in, and you start from beginning and to end, and it's. It's laugh. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And even the very last line is laugh. Like, my type five would probably be. I think I have a joke about being in a blended family. Right. And then I talk about me as dad, and then I go through my daughter. My. My. My youngest, right? Yeah, my youngest. I don't want to give away any punchline. Sorry. [00:30:56] Speaker B: You're on. Good. [00:30:58] Speaker C: I'll go through my youngest, and then I'll talk about my oldest, which is my stepson, and then my son from previous relationship. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [00:31:07] Speaker C: And my daughter is six months of my stepdaughter. Six months apart. Right. So they're, like, the same age. So it's kind of. They're in the same age group, but they're totally different. He's one way, she's totally opposite. Right. And then at the end, I'll, like, kind of bring it home together and bring it all together. Very good. Yeah. But it's. It's got boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like, five minutes is straight. Like, just. I guess it's. It's not a story because I'm telling. Well, there's a story in it. [00:31:33] Speaker B: So do you write or do you memorize? [00:31:36] Speaker C: Um, it's a little bit of both. [00:31:38] Speaker D: Right. [00:31:38] Speaker C: So I do bullet points for my bits. So I'll. I'll do, like. Like, my first bit will be. I have, like, two minutes on pronouns. [00:31:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:47] Speaker C: So I'll do, like, pronouns, and then blended family. And then I have another joke. It's about bedtime with my wife. Yeah, it's blankets. And so I'll write everything down, but in between, like, when I first write it, I will write the concept, and then I'll go on stage and play with it. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Okay. [00:32:08] Speaker C: Right. So it kind of. It's not fully developed at the very beginning. And then I'll record it and I'll listen to it, and then I'll kind of put it verbatim. Like, I'll write it all out completely, but if it. If I know I have 10, 15, 20 minutes, I'll just go up there, I'll do the bit, but whatever. Whatever gets a pop. Like, I'll lean into it. I'll hit the gas on that one spot, and then I'll jump back into. Back into the verbatim. Right? [00:32:36] Speaker B: Dude, comedy is hard. [00:32:37] Speaker C: It's hard, dude. [00:32:38] Speaker B: I can't. I can't write comedy. [00:32:40] Speaker C: It's. [00:32:41] Speaker B: Right. I could probably. I tried. [00:32:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I have tried. [00:32:43] Speaker B: Believe me, I've tried. Like, I look at it, I would look at my. My joke that I wrote because it falls in line with the story. I'm looking at it, and I'm like, I am not funny. Like, I need to stick what I'm good at. And that's, like, horror and fantasy Sci-Fi stuff, man. I can't do comedy. [00:33:02] Speaker A: How did you. How did you know you wanted to do comedy? Like, did you know, like, okay, this is what. I'm gonna start doing it. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Or I just said I'm gonna try it, and I tried it. And my first open mic, I did. All right? And the other guys that have been there doing it for like, two, three years, in my head, I'm like, dude, they ate it. Like, they ate it. Really? They ate a shit sandwich. Excuse my language, but that's what they ate for longer than just. Yeah, they've been doing it for a couple years. And I'm like, man, it's like, oh, man, I'm. I know I can do this. But then you get in your head, right? And you and I. I see it with everybody that starts off right, and they. They may not realize it now and. Or they may not realize it at all, but you'll start and you'll have this honeymoon phase of comedy. Might be six months, might be three months, might be a year, right. Where you're just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You're killing it. You're killing it. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:51] Speaker C: And these bits work, and everything's, like, going well. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:54] Speaker C: And then you get to a year, and it just. You kind of flatline. It happened to me, right. It just flat. Like the same material, same here. I do worked. It's just I didn't. I didn't love it anymore. Right? Like, for me, I didn't love it anymore. And then I. I would get little ass, but they weren't big laughs. But then I was also telling them, like, telling them, like, they, like, they weren't funny anymore to me because it doesn't get funny anymore to you. [00:34:19] Speaker A: Oh. [00:34:19] Speaker C: But, yeah. So I tried it. I fell in love. I got bit by the bug, the comedy bug. I went back the next week, and I ate it. And then that's. Dude, there's no worse feeling. [00:34:31] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:34:31] Speaker C: Because it's like, I'm going and I'm going home. I'm going under the bed. Like, the whole city saw this. I can't walk out of public. Once you, like, that took me, dude, like, a year to get over eating. Like, not that one, but every time you'd eat it, like, man, that was rough. Man, that was rough. Every time, it really hurt. And then after a year, I'm like, nobody saw it. Like, just work on that material. Because I knew, right, as a clean comic, I have to go up and I have to do stuff that works, or I have to make it work because I could drop an f bomb or I could drop this or drop that, and everybody's going to laugh. But if I stay clean, try to stick to the material and the writing or the storyline or the premise, and it hits, then, like, okay, this is gonna work. Wow. But you have to, like, you have to go up the next week and do the same. Five minutes. [00:35:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:21] Speaker C: And then cut the fat and then go up the next week. [00:35:23] Speaker A: Oh. [00:35:24] Speaker C: Back in the day before COVID there was only one spot to do. To do open mic. Now they're doing open mic tonight. I think there's one tomorrow at Panacea. There's one Wednesday at a prohibition. There's mesquites open mic. And then I know there's a Sunday open mic. So now you can get up, like, five times a week. [00:35:43] Speaker A: How did the cooper security comics, like, deal with satire, like, regarding, like, political issues? Do they talk about stuff, like, locally? Um, have you ever touched that area or. [00:35:57] Speaker C: No. No. [00:35:58] Speaker A: Like, avoid it or. [00:35:59] Speaker C: No, I I try to stick to what I know I'm good at because I don't want to waste time. Like, if I feel like playing around, I'll go up and play around with something, but if I'm just having fun, then I'll go up and play around, right? Like, I don't care. I'm just here. I need to get the wiggles out. I'm not gonna work on material. I'm just gonna poke on the crowd. And I'm quick, right? I mean, that's my only defense mechanism, five foot one. So whenever somebody would come at me, I just cut it down with words. I'm like, I'm quick. So if, if I need to, by host, I can, I can jab, do this, do that. But when it comes to, like, I'm not serious about political comedy, I don't think anybody is in town. Like, I do one joke and that, and it's just, it's just an icebreaker. Right? Now, I'll sit here. But I I do, like, like, an inventory of the crowd. Like, we got any ladies in the house? Let me make some noise. Of course, ladies always go, they sound like sexual ghosts. And then the fellas like, hey, we got any, we got any fellows in the house? I'm doing roll call, right? And the fellas are always like, usually they bark, oh, settle down, rapists. Because, I mean, it's, that's, the guys are like, they all try to do something manly. And then I said, uh, we got any republicans in the house? And they go home and get loud. I was like, you got any democrats in the house? Let me see you put your, uh, what? I say, let me see you put your voters registration card in the air and wave, wave them around like you just don't care. I said, yeah, I get a laugh, and then it, once it gets quiet, I go, I say, both of them, like, both of your voted registration. And I do it just to get everybody's attention, right? And once I, once, once you start calling people out, like, everybody sits up and stands up, right? And I did that one time, and there's a lady there, and she's like, that's a lie. It didn't happen. She starts yelling at me, and I'm like, chill out, miss. Only got five minutes. Like, chill out. And she's like, but it didn't happen. I was part of the voting whatever here. And she's like, that didn't happen. I'm like, I know. Like, I know. It's like. And then, uh, her boyfriend or her friend at the time, or the guy she was with, like, leans over, he's like, dude, be quiet. Like, he was just kidding. So, like, yeah, yeah. Like, it's. I'm doing it to get a goo. [00:38:21] Speaker B: Has a giant bottle. [00:38:25] Speaker C: I only say it to get a goof. Right? Like, I said a lot of things just to get a laugh. I don't mean them. Like, I don't care. And I said it just to get a laugh. And it got a laugh. It gets a big laugh right in the whole room. And she came up to me afterward, and she's like, look, I just want to say sorry. I was like, I don't care. Like, I'm not serious. [00:38:44] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:38:44] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just a joke. And it's always, it's always the white lady. It's always dude. And I told him, it's always you people. Yes. Like, it's always you white ladies. She was real sweet. She apologized. I'm like, hey, I just want, you know, I'm not serious. Like, I don't care. I just wanted to get a laugh and get everybody's attention. [00:39:04] Speaker D: Shanky with their. Hillary Clinton. [00:39:05] Speaker C: Yeah, she got. But it's just, like, some people, you just say words. Like, certain words and. Man, dude. [00:39:13] Speaker D: Yeah. You can't really sing nothing. [00:39:15] Speaker C: No, I mean, you can if you. If you have that. And I had that sometimes I have that. I don't give a damn attitude. And I went in and. But it's a dumb line. It's a blind. It just gets people mad and makes people laugh. [00:39:27] Speaker A: What was that? [00:39:28] Speaker C: That voter registration car. So it just makes people laugh and. Or it makes people mad, and it does. [00:39:34] Speaker A: It's like, it does the job. [00:39:35] Speaker C: Like, yeah, it touches the subject, so. But that's, like, the only political thing I do other than that, I just complain about my life. I'm like, the prices of groceries on. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Behalf of white women. I'm sorry. [00:39:53] Speaker B: That's funny. That's my wife. [00:39:57] Speaker A: So would you. Would you consider hosting a comedy net at your place? Well, yours is outdoors. [00:40:02] Speaker D: I have. [00:40:02] Speaker A: You have. [00:40:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:40:04] Speaker D: Mario Salazar. He's a good friend of mine, man. He's a man. Let me do a. For your grand opening. Whatever. I'll go out there and stuff. And he did. He came down and did. [00:40:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:13] Speaker D: We had a good time, man. [00:40:14] Speaker C: Dude. [00:40:15] Speaker D: Yeah. He's actually really, really good, man. [00:40:18] Speaker C: Yeah, he's got a lot of popularity last few years, which is. He does, like, commentary on fights. [00:40:24] Speaker D: Yeah, that's just. [00:40:27] Speaker C: Like, hood commentary. It's got, like, millions of views. [00:40:32] Speaker A: Wait, I think I've seen him. [00:40:33] Speaker C: Yeah, you probably have, dude. Wow. Yeah, he's gotten. He's gotten some. Even. Even Rogan shared one of his comments. Really? So funny that Rogan chaired it. [00:40:41] Speaker D: Damn good dude, man. We keep in contact. Talk to him least once a month. I sent him a text, hey, man, you're doing good. Or he'll send me text, hey, you doing good, you know? Yeah. Might do a second year anniversary of him coming down and doing it out there. [00:40:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Was it a good turnout? [00:40:56] Speaker D: Yeah, man. We had quite a bit of people come out there, man. Yeah. [00:41:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Talking about, do you think, man, do you think people should have an id to vote? I mean, it's like. It's happening, like, in California where you don't need an id, the vote. [00:41:09] Speaker C: Well, you need an id to check out a book at the library. [00:41:14] Speaker A: Like, this is kind of weird. [00:41:16] Speaker B: I mean, I think you kind of have to, right? Yeah, I mean, I get. [00:41:20] Speaker A: You show that you're a citizen. [00:41:21] Speaker C: I know. [00:41:21] Speaker B: I know. I have. I get my voter registration to my house, but, like, do I show my. [00:41:27] Speaker D: Id when I vote? [00:41:28] Speaker B: I think I know I do. You do? [00:41:30] Speaker A: I did last time. [00:41:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:31] Speaker B: You're supposed to suppose, hey, this is me. [00:41:33] Speaker A: This is me. Yeah, I'm voting. [00:41:38] Speaker D: I wouldn't even know. Do I lost my right to vote? [00:41:40] Speaker A: Oh, no kidding. [00:41:41] Speaker D: Yeah, they took away my voting because my felonies and stuff. I can't own a gun for the rest of my life. And I can't vote for the rest of my life. [00:41:49] Speaker A: For the rest of your life. [00:41:50] Speaker C: If you could have one back, which one would you take? I knew the answer. I just wanted to see his face. [00:42:02] Speaker D: I can't defend myself with a card. What the fuck? I'm gambit or what? [00:42:07] Speaker C: I will protect my family with this vote. [00:42:09] Speaker D: Yeah, I told my wife and she makes fun of me about it. I tell her, you know what? If Trump becomes president, I'll write that full letter once a week to pardon me, man, because it's, you know, it sucks, bro. I can't take my kids hunting. I can't show them how to shoot. I can't protect myself. Like, you know, if, say, someone to break into my house with the gun and if I shoot the guy, I can. I won't be charged for killing the guy, but they'll charge me for felon possession of fire and get you a. [00:42:36] Speaker C: Slingshot in every room. [00:42:40] Speaker B: Shit, man. [00:42:41] Speaker C: Dennis the menace up in that mug. [00:42:42] Speaker D: You can do some damage with that shit. [00:42:44] Speaker B: But, like, Indiana Jones with the whip. [00:42:48] Speaker D: All that Bailey, when you get shot. Yeah. [00:42:55] Speaker A: Those bow and arrows. [00:42:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Put out his bedroom with the big ass bastard sword. [00:43:00] Speaker D: Yeah, big. Oh, Conan sword. Yeah, that's another thing I would say, man. Imagine we went back in time, bro, where they took away guns and everything and mothers had to use a sword to fight. Do you think a lot of people be talking shit back? You know, imagine that, bro. You know, everybody's quick to pull out a gun and shoot somebody real quick. But imagine if you have to have skills to fight with the sword. [00:43:19] Speaker C: I think the two community would rule the world, that's for sure, man. [00:43:23] Speaker D: You just gonna shoot for my legs? I'm gonna chop his head off with the sword. Who you talking about? [00:43:27] Speaker A: What style fighting would you prefer? [00:43:30] Speaker C: Break dance fighting. It's the coolest. [00:43:36] Speaker D: I would say, like, a mixed mixed martial arts man. I would. I've always liked that one style. Valid tool, because it was kickboxing, boxing, wrestling, jujitsu all into one style of fighting, you know? I mean, it just like, the UFC. [00:43:47] Speaker A: Is like, kind of like wrestlemania. [00:43:50] Speaker D: You think it's rigged and. Yeah, that's hard to say. [00:43:54] Speaker B: No. [00:43:56] Speaker D: Yes. That's. [00:43:57] Speaker C: There. [00:43:57] Speaker B: There may be. There may be, like, one or two instances to where you can kind of maybe prove that one of a fight just was a little rigged. [00:44:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Like, either. Either from, like, the. The judges scorecard or fright. The way a fighter just. Just gives up. It doesn't. Doesn't fight. [00:44:15] Speaker C: Just because they're both in their underwear doesn't mean it's fake. [00:44:19] Speaker A: Well, I know it's not fake, but I'm just saying, like, they, like, they know this one guy's gonna win, so they put him against all these other guys he's probably gonna beat. So they pay this him as the star. [00:44:31] Speaker C: Are you talking about wwe or. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Well, there. There's been a couple times to where the actual fighter drops, and they bring in, like, just some dude say, hey, we need a fighter. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Have anybody in your camp that wants to fight and, well, and we'll pay you and the dude just like, yeah, sure, I'm gonna get my ass kicked, but I'm gonna get 50 grand. [00:44:50] Speaker C: But there's that one chance that he lands them right in the temple or right in the side of the face or chokes him out, and he was. And then he's like, do this guy beat the number two guy? Number one guy? [00:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:00] Speaker C: Out of nowhere. [00:45:01] Speaker A: So. And then. So that happens. And then Dana gets all pissed, like, man, that was the star. They just. You should whoop them or whatever. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Nothing. [00:45:07] Speaker A: So now they try to give it. I mean, that guy another chance, or. [00:45:10] Speaker B: No, I think Dana wouldn't. I think Dana wouldn't mind. Dinner was like, this is. This is a fin. I get publicity for the next, like, two weeks after this. [00:45:17] Speaker D: And double the money for the rematch. Yeah, exactly. So it makes more money. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Yeah, but what fighting style would you. Would you pick? You gotta go back to, man, I don't. [00:45:28] Speaker A: Nothing but mixed martial arts. I mean, but that's, like, more than one fighting style. [00:45:32] Speaker B: I mean. [00:45:32] Speaker A: Well, I guess. [00:45:33] Speaker D: Well, you got to know your stand up game, your ground game. [00:45:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:38] Speaker D: You know, I mean, your defense game, it's a whole bunch of different things. [00:45:41] Speaker A: You know, when you were. When you were in, like, did you learn how to fight when you were in there or, like, outd? Like, how do you. [00:45:46] Speaker D: Yeah, both. Well, I don't know. It's different, man. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Different. [00:45:52] Speaker D: You know, I learned how to. If someone's coming at me with a knife to take my shirt off and wrap it around arm block. You know what I mean? [00:45:58] Speaker C: So that's my favorite part about cholo fights. [00:46:00] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:46:01] Speaker C: When they take their shirts on. [00:46:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:46:06] Speaker C: Then MMA has another meaning. It's. It's a. It's not acronym, it's a. You sounded out and you see Chola spy, it's like, mmm. [00:46:20] Speaker D: Was that judo? Judo. Know I got a knife. [00:46:23] Speaker B: Judo. [00:46:24] Speaker C: It always sucks. I watch, like, when you see five videos, right? And the guys take off their shirt and the loser has to put on his shirt all sad. [00:46:32] Speaker D: I'll be there. [00:46:33] Speaker C: I'll be up and bloody, maybe, you. [00:46:35] Speaker D: Know, I got more respect for a guy that threw down even though he lost. And so, you know, versus a guy that pull out a gun or knife or I jump somebody, you know? I mean, if you lose. Oh, well, you know what I mean? Like, the fights. A fight, yeah. Anything can happen in the fight, you know. I mean, I seen a pussy ass dude whoop a bad motherfuckers. I'm like, God damn. Like, you know, hey, you slippy fall. You did something wrong. Had a bad day. Like, it just happens, man. [00:46:58] Speaker B: Yeah, there. There is a. There is a definite, definite time in my life. Young, stupid freaking kid, man. A bunch of fights that should never have ever happened. [00:47:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:07] Speaker B: But, like, nowadays, you can't. You can't even. You can't even, like, go confront somebody who's, who's obviously acting a fool in fear that said person might have a freaking sidearm, you know? [00:47:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:24] Speaker C: It's almost like that's why I call the cops. [00:47:25] Speaker A: It's almost like to be able to tell, like, somebody that's a younger person and, hey, maybe you shouldn't do that. [00:47:35] Speaker C: You know what I mean? [00:47:35] Speaker A: But you can't do that. I mean, it's, it's like you can, but if you'd like, you're saying you're risking them, like, having a gun or just telling you off. [00:47:43] Speaker C: Everybody. [00:47:43] Speaker A: Who do you think you are? [00:47:44] Speaker C: Everybody's got a gun. [00:47:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:46] Speaker C: That's what you gotta look at. Everybody's got a gun. [00:47:48] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. Oh, yeah. [00:47:49] Speaker D: I'd rather get shot than stabbed, though. [00:47:52] Speaker B: Goof. [00:47:53] Speaker D: For real. Like, I'd rather get shot than stabbed. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Have you been stabbed? [00:47:56] Speaker D: Uh, manful. [00:48:00] Speaker A: What's that? So you learn, like, actual physical combat training in the Marinesen? [00:48:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so, like, the, the beginning, the beginning portion of, like, your, your hand to hand combat training ends at boot camp. And you could continue on to learn, to learn more or whatever. And you're required to go to certain courses if you become like a, like a corporal, whatever. And I was a corporal, so I, I went to hand in hand combat school for like, a couple of weeks or whatever, for corpus course, and it was, it was, it was all right. But I, but I did martial arts since I was like, like 13 because I was really into it. Like, when I first saw Bruce Lee in the movie, I saw into the dragon. Like, when I was a kid, I was like, man, I want to learn how to do this. This is fans amazing. And I got into, like, Jackie chan movies. I got into old japanese japanese samurai movies, ninjutsu movies. [00:48:56] Speaker C: And then, like, I started, like, stop talking like that. [00:49:02] Speaker B: And when I was in Japan for those three years, I was, I took okinawan Shonroo from. You remember the movie the karate kid? And he's doing the crane movement. Well, like, the guy who invented that was one of the, the Shihan's over at the school. I was, I was going to go and. But my friend was, he was, he was already in Okinawa. [00:49:23] Speaker C: Shirt. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Aaron. Aaron Sanders. Really cool guy. And, and he taught me a bunch of shit. And that's, that's why I really got into it. And, like, I've done, I've done, like, buddha tai jitsu. I've done brazilian jujitsu. The hardest by far is brazilian jiu. Jitsu, man, that's the hardest shit. It's so hard. [00:49:41] Speaker A: There's distinction. There's distinctions between the. [00:49:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, wow. Absolutely. Because that's tiring. It is. I mean, yeah, I thought. I thought I was in decent shape while I was in the Marine Corps. Like, and in the Marines. Marines you are required to have a certain height, weight standard, and be athletic to a point where you can, like, fireman, carry a 200 plus pound guy so you can run across the combat field. [00:50:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:08] Speaker B: And I was rolling around with some. Was just some random dude at a gym for Bridgeland jiu jitsu. And I was dead tired. [00:50:15] Speaker D: Wow. [00:50:15] Speaker B: Like 10 seconds in, just. I was like, dude, I'm dead. Kill me. [00:50:22] Speaker C: I did. I did jiu jitsu for three months. And, oh, dude, that girl kicked my butt every day. [00:50:27] Speaker B: It was bad. [00:50:29] Speaker C: The girl or the 13 year old boy? They took me. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:50:32] Speaker D: So did I, man. I went when I was young and I went to Paragon with Aurelio. [00:50:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:37] Speaker D: And some little. I was maybe like, what, my early twenties? And there was this kid, it was like 15 years old, he fucking tapped me out. [00:50:45] Speaker C: I was like, what the hell? I saw that kid at Walmart and I told my wife, let's walk the other way. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Now. But in the marines is combat orientation, man. So, like, you're learning how to do. Do things in full combat gear. So, like, you have your flat Kevlar and you have your k bar. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Like, if your weapon falls short, you use that as your. As your blunt object and things like that. But like. But as far as. As far as, like, martial arts, it's like, yeah, business, you. That's no joke, dude. Yeah, no joke. [00:51:15] Speaker A: Then, of course, there's ancient art of tie kai do different styles, like chorizo. [00:51:23] Speaker D: Hey, what he said about the old black powder muzzle loading guns. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:51:27] Speaker A: Hey, those old black powder muzzle loading guns aren't considered firearms. [00:51:30] Speaker D: But to be able to use it. [00:51:32] Speaker A: Without fear of legal problems, you can't. [00:51:33] Speaker D: Bro, anything with the firing projectile. I can't own it? No, but do the magic, dude. Bb gun? Nah. Well, firing. Firing, like what? Gunpowder. Okay, okay, but imagine someone breaking your house, dude, and three or four guys, and you're trying to have a blunderbuss. You know what I mean? [00:51:54] Speaker C: We gotta get you a bow dog. [00:51:56] Speaker B: You say over there? Hold on, I'm not done yet. [00:51:58] Speaker D: Hold on, fool. You shoot one time, I shoot one time. [00:52:01] Speaker A: Fuck. [00:52:03] Speaker B: And it's not a rifle to either, so. [00:52:07] Speaker D: It don't go off when you pull it. Hold on, I gotta start all over. [00:52:11] Speaker C: Shit. [00:52:12] Speaker A: Redo. [00:52:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:16] Speaker B: That's when you start doing repeating crossbows in your house. [00:52:19] Speaker D: Just have, like, ten of them sit around the house. You run, grab one. [00:52:24] Speaker C: Just get that nerf gun. Like american gladiators. [00:52:28] Speaker D: Hey, have you ever watched the documentary on that? Yeah. That's why this crazy, man. Poor people, man. They went through a lot of shit. [00:52:35] Speaker C: Man, just for our ten year old entertainment, we're like, yeah. Like, hurting themselves and, like, breaking their necks. [00:52:45] Speaker D: There was no stunts. They were actually fucking out there. Like, the real deal. Shit. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Play. [00:52:59] Speaker D: They look like the characters from. You ever seen a dodgeball that. [00:53:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:05] Speaker D: Ben Stiller's crew. [00:53:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:08] Speaker B: What's a woman's name? There's. There is one, man, but I was in love. [00:53:15] Speaker D: That russian chick with the big eyebrows. [00:53:21] Speaker A: Wow, man. Appreciate you guys coming on the show. Is there anything I want to touch on? Not really. [00:53:29] Speaker C: Can you imagine if they made gladiators now? [00:53:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:53:31] Speaker A: What? [00:53:32] Speaker C: Just a bunch of transgender women? Just. Sorry. [00:53:39] Speaker A: Andy was on here. [00:53:40] Speaker C: Oh, and he goes hard. [00:53:42] Speaker A: He was talking about aliens in the marvel. [00:53:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:44] Speaker A: He's like, they're aliens. You don't have to make. They're already weird. [00:53:51] Speaker B: I. I was. I was on for that one. That was hilarious. [00:53:55] Speaker C: Yeah, and he's a wild boy. I love Andy. [00:53:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he's cool, dude. Deftone. I think Deftones, like, introduced us from another friend of ours. We were listening to it in this car, like, just driving around. [00:54:06] Speaker C: All the Deftones had came out. Like, where? [00:54:08] Speaker B: Like, my first, I think. I think that was my second concert ever been to. [00:54:12] Speaker A: No, really? [00:54:12] Speaker B: The Deftone show. It was a San Antonio. It's a second garden theater. And I think Incubus. Yeah, Incubus opened up for. It was. I think. I think it was taproot, incubus, and then Deftones. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Wow. [00:54:23] Speaker B: It was a southern garden theater. [00:54:25] Speaker A: Nineties, bro. [00:54:25] Speaker B: It was a dope show. I don't remember half that show, man. Wow. [00:54:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I saw the Deftones. I saw him twice. I saw him here and then in San Antonio. I think they were playing, like, with Metallica, limp Bizkit, and some other bands or whatever. [00:54:40] Speaker B: I heard them after a hooks game they're playing over at concrete. And after the hooks came, their. Their show just started. [00:54:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:49] Speaker B: So at the time, I had a truck, so I just, like. I just sat at the truck and listened to the show. Nobody blocked. Nobody bothered me. Even the. Even the attendance parking lot tenants of the hooks game. [00:55:02] Speaker C: They were like, yeah, I knew some guys that would sit in the cemetery across the street. And just listen to concerts from inside the cemetery. See the stage from there, too. Yeah, it's crazy. [00:55:12] Speaker A: Did y'all know there's like an old school military cemetery? Like it's one of the oldest ones, like in America and I guess in America or something. [00:55:20] Speaker B: What do you mean? Like, like the veteran? [00:55:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:23] Speaker A: Yes. No, it's like, it's right there. North side. [00:55:26] Speaker C: Well, that's the one I'm talking about. [00:55:27] Speaker A: That's when. [00:55:27] Speaker C: Well, that's the only cemetery that's up there. Like behind that. It's like the, the union train station. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Okay. [00:55:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know what it is. [00:55:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like supposedly some historic. [00:55:36] Speaker C: I don't know that. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Oh, next, the Pacific station. [00:55:40] Speaker C: Yeah. You know what it is because, um, I think my daughter went on a field trip there and they had like World War two. [00:55:47] Speaker A: Like, yeah, some of the stones are like, like broken. Somebody did a documentary on, on YouTube and they said that some of the stones are like messed up. [00:55:54] Speaker C: So. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Did you see those cars that can detect. [00:55:59] Speaker B: Have you seen the new Tesla robots? [00:56:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:03] Speaker D: Oh, creepy. [00:56:04] Speaker B: You saw them, right? [00:56:05] Speaker C: Yeah, once, once I saw that came out, I'm convinced like, like Elon's the Antichrist because he wants everybody to like him. So the people that believe in Christ are like, Elon's our guy. And now he's like, let's just push more robots. Like, yeah, Elon's our guy. Yeah. Okay, here, just take over. [00:56:22] Speaker A: Do you think he's supporting Trump because he's, because he's trying to push stuff like that? You know what I'm saying? Like, cuz I mean, I think that, I think that like, because if TRUmp gets In, there's regulate, there's regulations that are lifted and he's obviously, Elon is obviously owns these big, huge companies where he does stuff. You know what I mean? So do you think he's like doing that to help continue to push his AI or whatever he's trying to do? [00:56:48] Speaker B: Well, I mean, that's, that's just politics. That's just what people do. [00:56:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I was gonna say I think he's closer to one side than he is to the other. So if I'm close to this side, I might as well lean because he's gonna hook me up anyways. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Oh, so he, so he think he's actually doing for. [00:57:01] Speaker C: I think, I think it might be, be, might be both, right. Personal gain and political stance. [00:57:07] Speaker B: I mean, you know, there's, there's like people have, uh, like just random represents representatives of different, like large companies handing out gifts to, you know, the political figures anyway, just swinging votes their way. So, I mean, it doesn't. [00:57:23] Speaker A: As a part of, not part of how the, I guess is I love gifts. [00:57:30] Speaker C: I think last time, yes, last time. [00:57:33] Speaker B: We asked for a sponsorship from AGB HGB. Hey, sponsor the show like we're locals. [00:57:40] Speaker C: They sent you a pack of coupons. [00:57:42] Speaker B: For shit you don't even need. [00:57:48] Speaker D: To give you. Coupon formula and cat food. [00:57:50] Speaker A: Yeah, couple shopping bags. You load bags in tick tock's name. We pray to. [00:57:55] Speaker B: It takes. [00:57:57] Speaker A: Wow. [00:57:57] Speaker B: It takes followers. [00:58:01] Speaker C: Hook you up with a stack of combo loco coupons and buddy books. [00:58:05] Speaker A: Man, those, those sparkling waters. I would love to get those from. [00:58:08] Speaker B: H E b does 1802. [00:58:09] Speaker A: Yeah, no, yeah, whatever they are, they got the line mango that, like, I would hooked on those at my house. Instead of the topo chico. Get a chip flavor. She says coupons to the mexican, mexican restaurant aisle or the mexican seasoning aisle. [00:58:28] Speaker B: That's one hard thing to get when you're being a creator is getting sponsorships. Yeah, it is so hard. Like doing, doing the convention and you're in your writing to different companies and you're like, hey, we're going to put this thing on. Support us, support us, support us. And you, and you fill out these forms and you write emails and you cold call companies like big people in, in the gaming industry and trying to get them on board and just super hard to get the sponsors and our shows like this, man, I would love to have a big. [00:59:03] Speaker A: We have to show them numbers, don't you? Like, you have to have like a, like, this is how many viewers or listeners that listen every month or every week. Yeah, and like, kind of like, package it and like, this is who will listen to your show? Your whatever. You were a sponsor on my show, right? [00:59:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:18] Speaker A: Do you think, like, you got customers from. I mean, I really don't get that many viewers. I don't think. [00:59:23] Speaker D: But I don't know. I never asked. [00:59:26] Speaker B: Yeah, but say, have you checked your numbers, dude? You're like. [00:59:29] Speaker C: Because, I mean, I had a podcast for like six months, right? And I could see the numbers and the fact that I had like 2000 listens and they were coming up from all, all over the world. I'm like, what in the world? Like Germany, Italy. Yeah, I mean, there were a handful, but it was still a, like, holy smokes. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I average, I average about like 90 to 100 listens per per episode release. And like, only three of them are for core are from corpus and the majority are from, like, Italy. Or Germany, Australia, Canada, like, I don't know. [00:59:59] Speaker C: I don't know how that. [01:00:00] Speaker B: I don't know how it pushes their algorithm to listen to the show. Yeah, well, it's just there. I'm pretty sure if we can get numbers up the corpus, man. I'm pretty sure, you know, people are knocking on our doors, but, yeah, it's pretty. Pretty hard. [01:00:14] Speaker A: And your podcast is relatively new, right? Yeah, the Volo podcast. [01:00:18] Speaker D: Yeah, we've really been doing it. Probably about a month and a half, maybe. Maybe a month. [01:00:22] Speaker A: And you interview, like, I guess, x people that were in prison. [01:00:26] Speaker D: Anything that has to do with the bad life, man. Anybody that's, you know, struggled. Like, you know, we had a guy that did 13 years. He got out, and he did eight of them, and saying, and another guy, he gave his life to God, and, you know, he was in a very, very bad path, and, you know, just. Just different life stories, stuff that really does happen, man. I had a guy recently on there. He, uh. He did 32 years in state prisons in California. [01:00:50] Speaker B: Damn. [01:00:51] Speaker D: Yeah, dude. Like, he was hardcore shit, man. He. He's been through a lot in his life, you know. Now he's. You know, he got pardon. He's out. He's a. He lives here in corpus, and, you know, he's writing a book and stuff. He's a real, real cool guy, man. Real good guy. [01:01:04] Speaker B: Wow. [01:01:04] Speaker D: It's just about people just been through bad lives. I have a correction officer coming in to. He's gonna come masked up. He. Don't. Nobody see his identity, whatever. And he's gonna talk about stuff. It's gonna be on both sides, bro. You know what I mean? It's gonna be like. Like, you know, I got a police officer coming in. I got a retired FBI agents gonna come in. Yeah, I got another guy I'm hoping to get him on. You know, I'm not gonna say his name, but he just got exonerated. He did 25 years for murder he didn't even do. Yeah, yeah. And do what they gave him, like, to compensate him. It wouldn't shit, bro. [01:01:35] Speaker C: Is he soon? Is he doing that here? [01:01:37] Speaker D: And he did Rohit, and he didn't hardly get shit out of it, man. You know what I mean? [01:01:40] Speaker A: Wow. [01:01:41] Speaker D: And. But down 25 years for murder he didn't do, and it was falsified evidence that they had turned. [01:01:46] Speaker C: Yeah. How did he prove his innocence? [01:01:48] Speaker D: I have no idea. We didn't get that, I guess you're gonna talk. Yeah, but he has to get permission first. He's talking with CB's and them and all them because they're gonna do a book and possibly a movie about, you know, what happened and stuff like a documentary movie or something like that. [01:02:01] Speaker B: CB's. [01:02:02] Speaker D: Yeah. So he doesn't know if. He doesn't know if he can talk about it yet. If they're gonna allow him to. He's gonna find out this weekend and get with me. I'm trying to get him next Monday. [01:02:10] Speaker B: Is it a. Is it video or is it just audio? [01:02:13] Speaker D: It's here. Oh, it's here. It's here, dude. [01:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah, that's dope, man. [01:02:20] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [01:02:20] Speaker D: We've got a lot of good positive response from there. We get a lot of viewers and stuff because I guess, cuz it's, you know, it's, you know, shit that goes on in that life and a lot of people. [01:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:29] Speaker D: You know, they're into that, man, I. [01:02:31] Speaker B: Hope you make it big, dude. Yeah, I hope you make it big because that's. That's hard. That's. That's badass. That's hard. [01:02:36] Speaker D: One. [01:02:37] Speaker B: One is. It's really difficult to put. To put like your face and your voice out like that. [01:02:42] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:02:43] Speaker B: And then number two, like this is. This isn't like Austin or La or, you know, Dallas. Big old city where, you know, you. You can start a show and then somebody can look at it and then watch to like further produce it or. Yeah, or give you money to do it. To do what you want to do. [01:03:00] Speaker D: Dude, I've had people already offer all kinds of stuff and I haven't took it nothing yet because they hold on, man. And me grow a little bit bigger, you know, mad people already offer me money. I've had guys that make commercials for me without even me asking for it. They made some pretty good commercials for whatever. And. And I get. It's crazy, bro. I had people come to my restaurant talk to me about it. Talking about, yeah, you know, making into something bigger and all that. And I'm kind of like, I don't know, man. Hold on. Let me maybe get a better feel of this, what I'm doing. I'm new to this, you know what I mean? But it's picking up pretty good, man. [01:03:28] Speaker B: That's awesome. How long you been doing it? [01:03:30] Speaker D: But I'm probably about like a month when I have maybe like seven, eight episodes in. [01:03:35] Speaker C: Really? [01:03:36] Speaker D: It wasn't called the volume. [01:03:37] Speaker B: The Volo. [01:03:38] Speaker D: Yeah. Say the kickback spot. Yeah. [01:03:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:40] Speaker B: All right. I'll definitely. I'll definitely support you, man. I'll definitely support you. [01:03:44] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:03:45] Speaker C: There's a lane for everything. That's not everybody, man. Just find your lane. Stick in the. It's good people. [01:03:49] Speaker B: People will come. [01:03:50] Speaker D: I wish people would do that with everything. [01:03:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:52] Speaker D: You know, stay in your lane. You know what I mean? Do what you're good at, you know, don't do it because you think it's cool and because everybody likes it. Like, just, you know. Do you, you know? [01:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why I got into writing. [01:04:01] Speaker D: I got. [01:04:01] Speaker B: I got back into writing because I was. I was super into it. And then the towers fell and I joined the military, and college wasn't. It wasn't for me. And then got out jobs. Hated my job then. And then, you know, depression hit because I want to go back to the military. They wouldn't take me in. And then now I'm sitting. I'm sitting pretty good. But, like, when it comes to writing, it was something that I. That I thought that I was actually decent at. [01:04:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:04:28] Speaker B: So that's why I'm getting back up. And I've been doing. I've been doing the show for, like, three and a half years now. Yeah, it's still hasn't popped off, but. But because of that, I started. I started alpha line productions, which. Which houses all of my shows. So. So eventually, hopefully. Hopefully when somebody comes in and says, hey, I like that story, you know, I'm gonna send this to Netflix, maybe. Maybe they could do something with it, and then, like, I'll start signing. Signing my own checks. [01:04:57] Speaker D: I. I have an idea for, like, a show series. I want to write. Write about. I don't know how to write you. I'm looking for somebody that can write. It has a lot to do with a lot of people I know in my life. A lot of, you know, it's. It's. It's a trip, bro. It's all about, you know, it's about a bunch of bad stuff. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:13] Speaker D: It's like raw shit that a lot of people don't like to talk about or things that it really do happen that people, you know, turn their face and don't want to know about. That life, that show that I want to write, it's. It's pretty. It's pretty deep, man. I wrote what I, you know, just out of mind, whatever, but I don't know. I'm not smart enough to go there and put, you know, do everything correctly and write everything out and all that stuff. [01:05:34] Speaker B: So you wrote a script for. For a pilot? [01:05:37] Speaker D: I guess. Not a script, but just like, what? From what I know, I wrote what just came out of my head. [01:05:42] Speaker C: There's an app you can get that'll. It'll put everything in a screenplay format. Yeah. [01:05:47] Speaker D: And I don't see. I don't know. [01:05:48] Speaker C: I know. So what you can do is just. Because I wrote a couple of smalls, small films, and I did them in screenplay form. Right? [01:05:55] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:05:56] Speaker C: So you go on YouTube and just put, like, pulp fiction screenplay reading. So it'll show you the movie and you read the screenplay along with it. So it. It sets the scene like X or I. Interior diner shot, John Travolta's character and. And Samuel L. Jackson's character are arguing about this. And then it has the dialogue literally word for word, like line, line. And it shows you how to put everything. Then you download that app and you can edit it, formats everything. [01:06:25] Speaker D: No. Yeah, I wrote and I started doing it whenever I got. I caught code a couple years ago, and I was just stuck in a room, and that's my way. Give me a pen and paper. And I just started writing. I did maybe about 40, 50 pages running back just. And I wasn't not even halfway done, you know? [01:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell yeah. [01:06:43] Speaker C: What I've seen them do. Or of course, like, may not I watch and research. Yeah, there you go. [01:06:48] Speaker B: There you go. [01:06:50] Speaker A: Sorry about that. The computer crash right here with a Wi Fi went out or whatever happened. But thanks a lot, you guys, for joining. Thanks for coming on the show. Lito. [01:06:57] Speaker C: Thank you for having me. [01:06:57] Speaker A: But I appreciate Anthony Diaz. Hell, yeah. [01:06:59] Speaker B: Thank you, man. [01:07:00] Speaker D: Thanks for having me, bro. [01:07:01] Speaker A: All right, you guys stay tuned for the next episode. Appreciate you guys for watching.