Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Corpus Christi Originals back at it again. Corpus Christi Originals. Real quick. Shout out to Drift Corpus for sponsoring CC Horror Club for hooking it up for. What was it? Tag two people.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: What was it? Yeah, Tag two people. Get on here, comment and follow all you cool people. And yeah, get a 40 credit to CCO.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Appreciate y'all. Yeah, every little bit helps you all to keep this podcast going. So thanks a lot for that. Also for giving stars on Facebook last time. Who we got Mark Anthony Leos and Richard Solis. Thanks for the stars on Facebook. That little bit helps out. Today we got horror and comedy going on. You guys want to introduce yourselves?
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Okay, I'll go. Corpus Christi Goth girl or CC Official Corpus Christi Horror Club supporting the community. That's me. Ronnie Martinez is my name and spitting horror movies is my game, honestly.
Oh, yeah, you're next.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Next.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Hey, what's up? I'm Roland. Let's hang out.
[00:01:04] Speaker D: Yeah. And I'm Ana Ramirez, some local standup comedian and number one sales lady.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah, number one sales lady. I saw that. So you're. You actually a sales person or.
[00:01:13] Speaker D: I am. I'm a. I work in advertising currently. So I'm the number one sales lady of anything and everything in Corpus Christi. Before I used to sell cars, so I was the number one sales lady cars. And that's where I created my little hashtag brand lad.
[00:01:29] Speaker C: Now you're in your madman.
[00:01:30] Speaker D: Now. I know. I do advertising for multiple dealerships and other products and stuff.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: Where did you work at? I used to be. I used to be a car salesman.
[00:01:39] Speaker D: Oh, really? I started off at Mike Shaw Toyota, and I worked with Mike Shaw for probably four years, and then I moved over to Ed Hicks and stayed with Nissan for four years. Really?
[00:01:49] Speaker B: I must have missed you. I used to. Yeah. Bob Conyers. Okay.
[00:01:53] Speaker D: Yes, I do know Bob. Yes.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: I used to be the Internet sales.
[00:01:56] Speaker D: Oh, wonderful. Yeah.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Internet. Yeah. Oh, actually sold to two set to Suzette from.
I said, well, because they moved me over to Mercedes and I was her Internet salesman. And they're like, she's going to be selling me the car.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: Okay. Internet sells like.
[00:02:09] Speaker D: Like they, like the leads come in so people will submit, like, hey, I'm interested in this car. She will answer it and set an appointment for you to come in and purchase it.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah, with a salesperson. Like, if she was a salesperson, I'd be like, hey, I'm going to give it to her.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Nice. What's going on? Master of Newts and Anthony Diaz.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: That's my son right there.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Thanks a lot, you guys.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: Drop.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: Drop a question or comment for these guys. Got two comedians and a horror specialist.
[00:02:33] Speaker C: Let's go.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: And Roland didn't mention something? Roland's part of the Sports with Roland podcast.
[00:02:39] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm the. I'm host of Sports with Rollins. That's a. That's a fun show.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So you talk about sports where they don't talk about.
[00:02:48] Speaker C: No, I don't know anything about sports.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Well, I used to be a boxer too, so. Dude, like. Okay, yeah, 49. Okay.
[00:02:56] Speaker C: I mean, I've seen space.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Like, don't be scared. But no, I like the 49ers. So. Cowboys fans, I'm sorry. Or. Well, not sorry. I'll suck anyway, so I'm gonna get all the hate down.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I like your. I like that. How consistent you are with your uploading your podcast. Do you do.
[00:03:15] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Do you shoot for, like, the same day every week?
[00:03:17] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we record the same day every. Every. Every Sports Sunday.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: Right on.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: And then, of course, Andy. We had Andy on here, dude. And he's. And he's right.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: I always.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: I love his intros, bro.
[00:03:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He always tries to come up with a new bit every time Roland doesn't.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Know what boxing is, says Blake Trevino.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: I'll box you right now, dude. Let's go.
I'll show you what.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: I know boxing.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: I'll teach it before he gets out there.
[00:03:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: So is there any correlation between horror and comedy?
[00:03:51] Speaker D: I think so. I feel like all horror movies have some part where it's like a funny part or something to kind of alleviate the mood before they give you the big scare. So I feel like they go hand in hand. Yeah.
[00:04:03] Speaker C: An American World in London. That's a funny, scary movie.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: Hey, nice.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: I mean, I thought terrifying was hilarious, but I love gore, and I'm just like, seriously.
[00:04:13] Speaker D: Sometimes the gory ones are the fun ones.
Splashes with blood or whatever.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: It's always pulling out the intestines, and you're like, girl's still alive.
[00:04:23] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:04:24] Speaker C: Have you guys seen that? That Y2K movie?
[00:04:27] Speaker B: I don't think so. The one on Netflix? Was it Netflix?
[00:04:29] Speaker C: No, it just came out of theaters.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Oh, the. The gore in that one is really fun.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Y2K.
[00:04:35] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, you know, what if the robots did take over?
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:04:41] Speaker C: It's a good movie. Not playing select theaters.
824.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: They need a CH for that pro.
[00:04:51] Speaker C: Yeah, they need. They.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: So what's it, what's, what's it like for y'all being a standup comics in Corpus?
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Yeah, that's good.
[00:04:59] Speaker C: Oh, man, it's. It's pretty fun. You see like how big Corpus actually is compared to like other like small town cities like Alice or other place.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Or.
[00:05:17] Speaker C: Or how small it is compared to like Houston.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[00:05:21] Speaker D: We're kind of like in the middle of that, you know, so we have a little bit of the best of both world of that in comedy.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Dude, I gotta give comics I like props because I. When it was coveted and I was delivering pizzas, I was listening to my friends who were comics up in New York and Steven Rogers and Andrew Chabone and they're up and coming comics up there and they're just talking. They. They run a panic attacking podcast. And so I was having a lot of anxiety during that kind obviously, and they would just keep me motivated and keep me happy. But then they would do little comedy sets, right? And just seeing process and doing it like it was and they would talk about that and of course having anxiety and being a, being a comic. Like, yeah, are you kidding? How you getting on stage?
[00:06:06] Speaker D: I actually started right after the pandemic because the pandemic scared me so much. My work husband had passed away from medic.
[00:06:19] Speaker C: I wasn't joking.
[00:06:22] Speaker D: Different things. And I was like, it's. If I can do this thing now and be serious about it, I'm. It's never going to happen. Like, time has run out. And so ever since then, I really just like pedal to the metal.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:06:35] Speaker D: Hit the gas on the comedy because of the pandemic.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Do y'all have like a process? Because I know each comic has a different process of.
[00:06:41] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely. I, I don't have it there. It's in the car, but pretty much where most people in Corpus Christi put their Bible, which is the dashboard of their car.
Comedy books, little notebook, right? So, like I won't get another notebook until I've filled one. So I'm currently on this year's one. So I have four. And like I try to go through one a year and fill it page to page with jokes.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: How long have you been doing?
[00:07:14] Speaker D: Since the pandemic. October 2020. Got the date was when I finally like, I had done it two or three years prior to that, but I was working in the car dealership and like the hours were crazy at. I were there till 9pm every night.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:07:30] Speaker D: It was tiring and different things. And I had maybe tried it once or twice, but it didn't stick because of all, like, you know, always trying to, like, on the grind, selling cars. And so finally when the pandemic happened, I was like, you know what? I don't even care.
They can fire me. I'm the number one. Sal lady didn't fire me. I ended up quitting.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: But.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: It all worked out.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: What's going on? Monarch 361. And it's Ray on YouTube. Thanks a lot, you guys, for joining Blake the video. Thank you on Facebook. Appreciate you. Yeah, Blake was actually talking about some controversial. I don't know if y'all want to get into that on the Elvago's podcast.
[00:08:18] Speaker D: Controversy.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Talk about it, you know.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: You were on there, weren't you?
No. Well, if y'all don't want to get to. That's fine.
[00:08:27] Speaker C: I mean, no, I don't know what it is.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: I mean, tell me down here.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: Well, I mean, just. I guess it's like any scene, you know what I mean? Come. Come comics or extend up comics. There's. There's like. How do you say, like a groups, you know, oh, clicks, clicks and stuff like that. And then his comments were guarding. By the way, his comments were regarding certain venues in town.
Like, this venue is this way towards these types of. These comments.
[00:08:54] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, for sure.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: You said. I'm saying, how. How do you. I mean, how do you approach that?
[00:08:58] Speaker C: That's here. That's in San Antonio. That's in here. It's everywhere. Yeah, yeah. One of the highlights of being in comedy is reading about the drama that's happening in state.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:12] Speaker D: Or YouTube channels that are dedicated directly to drama happening in comedy scenes like Austin probably right now is, I'm sure.
[00:09:22] Speaker A: Wow. Yeah.
[00:09:23] Speaker D: Yeah. But I think for Corpus, even though we do have our differences and things like that, we still keep it very cordial. We still all work together, regardless of that stuff. I think sometimes some comics are holding on to some old feelings and things that may have happened way in the past that don't really pertain to, like, the current generation of comics like me and stuff. So it just.
It really just depends on who you talk to and things like that. I try to keep it as cordial as possible and try to give everyone an opportunity, you know, because I am involved with mesquite, I do. I work the door at the shows. I host the shows. I do the art walk comedy show right here downtown. I try to make sure that I, you know, have a good rotation of openers and try to give everybody at least one chance to come in and Open and do the things and also bring other comics from San Antonio or Laredo or the Valley or whatever and come in and do showcases so that we could see the other comics from the other scenes as well. So it's a constant rotation to stay on top of and things like that. And it's just. We just got to keep moving forward.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: And forget the past doing all that stuff, I guess, like hosting and doing all that stuff. Is that part of the. I guess part of the play for stand up comics in. In Corpus, like to. To do that, to be able to do that, or does it matter too?
[00:10:46] Speaker D: I don't think that matters.
[00:10:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I. I think so. You know, being a good hosting makes you a better stand up, so.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: All right. Get in front of the crowd. Get anxiety.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:56] Speaker D: Practice. Yeah. Anytime you're on the stage, definitely you're gonna, you know, gain some more, you know, knowledge points. But that's the whole thing is everybody wants the stage time.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:06] Speaker D: And that's the thing.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: I'll pay you this much.
[00:11:21] Speaker D: Off putting to some people. It might, you know, because I am such a. Yeah, you need to get on with me too, because I, you know, I'm probably not the funniest one and I'm probably not the hardest working one, but I'm going to give it try. I came from Mexican immigrant families. I'm the anchor baby of my family and I don't know anything else besides.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Go, go, go.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: Right on.
[00:11:46] Speaker D: I'm going to break.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: I was like, is Anna really gonna come?
[00:11:55] Speaker D: We'll build it again.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: So what are you running for politics?
[00:12:02] Speaker D: Please message me.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: I vote for you.
[00:12:06] Speaker D: No.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: So.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: So did you guys should have gotten her that tea?
[00:12:11] Speaker A: Dude.
[00:12:16] Speaker D: Like pure caffeine and sugar.
That's why I got it.
[00:12:22] Speaker B: That's hilarious.
[00:12:22] Speaker D: Because I honestly wanted a Red Bull.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: But. Yeah, I'll have your favorite, like, comedy person.
[00:12:27] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
You know why I started doing it when Norm MacDonald died. Norm, dude, like, two weeks later, that's when I was like, okay.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: I don't know why I was, like, in love with normal.
[00:12:39] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Absolutely, dude from Billy Madison.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:44] Speaker C: He was on, like, all of the Adam Sandler. Yeah.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Think about me, bro. I'm always. I'm late.
I thought that was somebody else who's.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: Gonna break the news about O.J.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: About.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Oh, Betty White.
[00:13:13] Speaker D: Yeah.
I mean, of course, of course I love my Joan Rivers and like that, you know, kind of like. But I mean, Maria Branford is one of my very favorites. Kathleen Madigan is someone who I want to Model like, her career instead of comedy and how she has things going on right now is kind of like the dream of what I want to capture.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Right.
[00:13:36] Speaker D: And of course, April Macy, love her. She's a such a fun person and really, really sweet and nice and, you know, so many. There's so many wonderful female comics out there that are just amazing, but really, come on, really. Joan Rivers, you know, is just one of those legendary ones.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Everything. Every time I think about a female comedians, I always think about that. I don't know why south park, when I'm on this episode or under podcast Cartman, he's like, women are funny, guys. Women are funny. Did you ever watch that south park episode? No. He's like, trying to tell her he's got a girlfriend. He's like, women are funny.
[00:14:10] Speaker D: Like, women gotta watch it.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah, okay. Say something funny.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: What were you saying? You didn't want to bring South?
[00:14:18] Speaker B: I brought up south park last time.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: I'm like, nobody knew who it was or.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I think one guy, the other.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: Hi, Francesca. Thanks for joining the podcast, Mama. I love you, friends.
[00:14:37] Speaker D: Awesome.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: Thank you. Before I left the house, she's like, oh, I like your videos, daddy.
How do you like, not like, love that.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: See, Blake knows what I'm talking about.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: Yeah, this is a great episode. Thanks a lot, Blake. Appreciate you, man.
I liked your episode on Elvago's. He had a lot. He had a lot of. I thought so. He was just a lot of. His perspective on the comedy scene was pretty. Something I hadn't heard before, so it's pretty cool. I actually got a question for you, bro, from Anonymous.
[00:15:05] Speaker C: Oh, Anonymous.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Are they coming to kill us?
That type of an.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: This is regarding heb.
[00:15:15] Speaker D: What.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: What kind of reaction do you have when you see hot girls at each in HEB and try to get through that question from.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: I say hello, ma'am.
Fine evening. What happened today, isn't it?
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Specify which HEB because there's different hot girls at different HEBs. I got friends to work at HEB and I would see, like, kind of like the ghetto girls at the Port and Tarleton one in there, but they were hot. I'm just like, yeah, girls, what's up with that?
[00:15:49] Speaker A: You have a bit on that about guys, right? Like, like, like the. Where the.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: Man at heb?
[00:15:59] Speaker D: Yes.
The joke is, you know, you know, I'm gonna get off the dating apps and just go into the HEB because if I want a good kisser, well, go over to the toothpaste aisle if I need to pay a bill. Or something like that. I'll go to the pharmacy, see if I can find me a sugar dad.
[00:16:14] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:16:16] Speaker D: I know. I don't want a dirt bag, so I'm gonna stay away from the gardening section.
[00:16:20] Speaker C: It's a good place to pick up partners.
[00:16:24] Speaker D: Yeah, if I want a dad bod, I'm gonna hang out by the brisket.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: He knows how to cook, too.
He has a barbecue pit if any.
[00:16:36] Speaker C: Brisket dads want to hit Ivana.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: All right.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: Drop your number down there.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I try to get a bo to fight a guy. I just found women. And, yeah, I have to say, they did a lot better job than any guy could have ever done. I mean, I don't mean sex.
[00:16:53] Speaker D: Probably has better chances than Home Depot on Spid.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: I did not think about that.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:59] Speaker D: Requirements are papers.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: All right.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:17:07] Speaker D: Chances are good.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Sorry, guys. I'm, like, tired. I'm trying. I'm really actually winging this episode. I had a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, for sure.
[00:17:17] Speaker B: Oh, can I bring up a horror movie?
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Yeah, go.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead. I'll be your backup over here.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: So you want some cocaine, dude?
[00:17:22] Speaker A: No.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Push it to the limit. After the show. I'm.
Did y'all watch the Substance?
[00:17:33] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:17:34] Speaker D: Recently or ever.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: The Substance? Not the Substance, the.
Well, sorry, I didn't. I'm still working on a sinus infection, so I sound a little same. Oh, my God.
[00:17:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: But no, the Substance. Did you watch it?
[00:17:49] Speaker C: Dude, I watched it in theaters.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Did you? Yeah, me at amd, because I think that was the only place.
[00:17:54] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it went to Draft House for a little bit. Yeah, yeah. For a very little, tiny bit.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: That movie. I suggest everyone see that. It was like. I guess it was an underground movie. I don't know. They didn't promote it. I didn't watch it. Not until, like, I saw people on Facebook posted, hey, go watch the Substance. I was like, what the hell? No. I looked at it and said, debbie Moore. Debbie Warren.
What's his name?
[00:18:19] Speaker C: Oh, Dennis Quaid.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Dennis Quaid.
[00:18:21] Speaker C: Dennis Quake was also in the movie Reagan that just came out. So we're in a Dennis Quaido songs right now.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Are we okay?
Not mad about that, because I did. I listened to him play, actually, a picture of him and me at Austin. I was in Austin, and he was. He got on stage, start playing his guitar, and afterwards, it's like, take a picture. Oh, man, that was awesome. But, yeah, it talks about or kind of. It's. It's. I guess it's kind of Going off the whole Ozempic thing, people way they look. And Debbie Moore, you know, they offer her just like this kind of injection. A spoiler alert.
[00:18:58] Speaker D: I did watch the south park episode about or movie about the Oz epic and that was hilarious, but kind of like.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: But the ending is kind of like.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Whoa, it's a body horror classic now.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Because now it's so like, it's. Everybody that's watched it is like, like promoting it for them and they're just.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: Like, it is pretty crazy what ends up happening.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't want to give the ending away, but it was just like, no, check it out.
[00:19:22] Speaker C: Stop playing a select theater.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a girl on Instagram that I found that literally did the costume that cosplayed the ending.
[00:19:31] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: She did the whole horror and that's cool. And she did that for Halloween and I. I mean, if y'all look it up, the substance.
[00:19:39] Speaker C: Yeah, just watch the movie.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Just take our word for it.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah, watch it because you'll have something to talk about with your friends.
[00:19:47] Speaker C: And yeah, I got nominated for a few Golden Globes, so that'd be crazy. If it ends up like winning a bunch of Oscars for real, that'd be nuts.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Especially since it was like only in, you know, that one amc and then what, Jack? Yeah, like, yeah, it wasn't even big.
[00:20:03] Speaker C: Like, but just word of mouth. Everyone's like, yo, see that up movie?
[00:20:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that one. What's up, Marco? Thanks a lot. South Park Ozempic episode is firing.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: That's my bestie with the same birthday.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Right on. So how. So how's important. How important is social media for you guys as Adam Comics.
[00:20:24] Speaker C: Oh, man, it sucks, dude.
[00:20:26] Speaker D: Constant. And like, you can't just go on one social media platform. Whatever you post on Instagram, Facebook, it's gotta go on Tick tock. It's gotta go on Snapchat. You gotta go everywhere. Only fans included.
[00:20:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I gotta promote on. I gotta promote on Grindr. It sucks.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:44] Speaker D: Tinder. Just to promote comedy. And I've pissed off so many.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: Show.
[00:20:53] Speaker D: You need to pay $10.
[00:20:57] Speaker C: If you want to see the rest of the show, baby.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Meet and greet.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Hey, what's up, Alex? And Facebook, thanks. Thanks for joining the podcast. Yeah, yeah. So. So what's the end goal? What's the end goal?
[00:21:11] Speaker C: First?
[00:21:11] Speaker A: I mean, is it different for everybody? For stand up comics? Like, yeah, I guess.
[00:21:16] Speaker C: Some people won't be on Saturday Night Live. Some people wanna Netflix show. Yeah. Some people want to be on Letterman.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Doing it, doing it.
[00:21:28] Speaker D: Full time until I die in the grave, pretty much. I want to be on the road. I want to be like that.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: Does it give you a high? Let's give you guys a high. Oh, yeah.
[00:21:35] Speaker D: Like, anytime, Especially when there's, like a tight room, the drugs do too. The. Where the labs can be really trapped on a low ceiling in a dark room and they all laugh at the same time and make this huge pop when everybody goes at the same time. It pops. It like, almost like shoots. You like, wow, poof. Like that. It feels so good. Like, euphoric almost.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: How did you find yourself getting over the, like, the nerves whenever you're.
[00:22:02] Speaker D: Well, I went to Miller High School, center of Communic Communication Technology, Performing Visual Arts. So I've always been a performer and I've always been an entertainer and love entertaining people and those kinds of things. So it was just a matter of channeling my high school self.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:21] Speaker D: And just being like, you've done this millions of times for more people, so just do it like that. I do get nervous after, though. Like, after I get off the stage, I am like, oh, no, you're. You didn't say this and you didn't.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: Do that and you're over.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: And you need critiquing yourself.
[00:22:38] Speaker D: Yes, like that. And I need a little vodka shot to get me down.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: That's crazy. But what happens whenever it's like silence?
[00:22:51] Speaker D: What happens when it's like silence, like.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: They'Re not getting your bits or like.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: I lowkey kind of love it? I think, because I think it's really funny that they're all there to laugh and I made them all not laugh.
[00:23:12] Speaker D: Well, there's. That's pretty good bit, you know, like, there's times that we go into an open mic and we're performing literally in front of only other comedians. So they're really not paying attention to you at all. At all, you know? So my goal when I first started, we had went to an open mic at the Elbow Room, San Antonio. Shout out Cousin Berto.
Literally, it's all comedians, and they're all in the back of the room. The front is all empty. And the whole time when I went up there, I was like, my goal is to get the people at the bar to stop ordering drinks, the pool table to stop playing pool, and for these comics to pick their head up off the. Off their notebooks. And I was able to accomplish that goal. I didn't get any laughs, but I got them to pay attention.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: You gotta work even harder.
[00:23:57] Speaker D: And so that's the Whole thing is like, if I can get the bar to stop ordering drinks and the people to pick their head up off the thing, then I done it. They don't have to necessarily laugh, but they. As long as they gave me their attention, it's good enough.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's nice.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Is it easier, Is it easier in front of out of town crowds as opposed to local crowds?
[00:24:19] Speaker C: Yeah, because they don't know your stuff.
So you can play all the hits. You can tell, you can tell them jokes that other people have made up. You tell them Ronnie Danderfield jokes. They don't.
[00:24:30] Speaker D: Don't do that though.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Do you think, like, facial hair plays a role, like in your, like, I guess as a stand up comedy?
[00:24:39] Speaker D: Yeah, every morning.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: Practice. It's good.
[00:24:45] Speaker C: I don't think so. No, No, I don't. I don't know. Oh, I don't think so.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I was listening to. I think it was a workshop with Ralphie May and he was, he was. His thing was like to be clean shaven and like not wear a hat and.
[00:24:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I talk about the.
[00:25:00] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm not supposed. Standup comedy in shorts. Can't do standup comedy in the daytime. Really things.
[00:25:09] Speaker C: But we know a guy who does it in Daisy Dukes and he rocks it.
[00:25:12] Speaker D: Like, dude, I've worn shorts and, and stuff as well, but like, no chas. You know, things like that.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: But dude, I saw a girl that was like, dressed like. I seriously thought she. I saw her sitting in the table in front of me. I thought she was a stripper, cuz she had stripper heels and like a stripper outfit. Then she went up there as a, like a comedian. I was like, oh, but she wasn't funny.
Also, bro, your.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Your Lincoln park one was. Dude, that. That one got me good.
[00:25:45] Speaker C: Oh yeah, that was a good one.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: Did y'all hear? Did I Barely learning about the comics here on purpose because I was like, I was watching my friends out in New York. I was listening to them and their people and I barely started getting into liking comedy because I didn't even. I wasn't a comedy. My brother's more of a person that likes comedy. I never thought I was like, oh, we're just gonna sit there and listen to somebody, like, tell jokes or whatever. But then I started like, I was like, dude, no, this stuff is kind of good. I was like, this is the. So I'm starting. I actually, that was the. My second comedy show that I went to over there at Lazy beach and Corinne the artist.
[00:26:19] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, Corinne. Love Corinne.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah. I Met her at the painting with a twist.
[00:26:24] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: And I was painting with her, and then she's like, oh, yeah, but I'm gonna comedian as well. And somebody had posted about it the show, and I was like, let me go watch her. So her. And I. I forgot the other girl's name, but she were there. They were just like, they're.
[00:26:37] Speaker D: They're awesome. The Candy or Jen.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: I. I remember s saying I'm. I might look like, who's that chick that shot Sel?
[00:26:49] Speaker D: Danielle?
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. So. And I mean, she was her were fire. So I was just like, hey, I'm trying to find more, but every time my friend invites me, Joe Hilliard, he always invites me to always have something bad going on.
But I'm trying to work around it. Next year, I can see more comedy shows. So I can see all comedy.
[00:27:09] Speaker D: Yeah. That's why I want more tourism, you know, because corpus. You know, it's a grind getting you guys to come out to the comedy shows. Please, for the love of God.
[00:27:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Like, I was. I actually put, like, a heartfelt, like, request out there on my social media saying, hey, what do we got to do? What do we as a community got to do that people that do stuff, like comedians, me as events, you with your podcast. What do we gotta do for y'all to see? But I think literally, Instagram, Facebook, they're not sharing our stuff because people are not seeing our stuff till, like, weeks or days later.
[00:27:47] Speaker D: Like, I honestly don't see a lot.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: Of stuff until they want you to promote your stuff.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's ridiculous because, I mean, they.
[00:27:53] Speaker D: Want you to pay so many. Facebook will allow you to see 0.15% of your friends for free. So 0.15% of whatever amount. So, like, let's say you have 3,000 followers. That's probably 30 people that will be exposed to your thing that day for free. After that, they're going to charge you for the rest.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: Unless there's engagement.
[00:28:13] Speaker D: Like, unless they naturally go to your page, like, and want to go and see what you're doing. Unless they naturally organically go to your page to see you, then they're not.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, no, literally, I have, like, a list of, like, people that I try to, like, remember. Like, okay, they need more promotion because I saw them post the other day that these people aren't like, I know. The coffee. The coffee. Look. I mean, it's a Harry Potter coffee shop. Come on, guys.
Yeah, she started opening up late, and she was just like, hey, it's been slow and stuff like that. Luckily, the community came through once she made that request. And actually, I had some people say, hey, why don't you try this, this, and this? So I'm going to try and incorporate that next year. But it's just been a struggle for not just me. So many other people have talked about how hard it is to get that engagement, to get people out there. I mean, it's just a simple share. If you have and you can follow your people, like, you can make them your favorite favorites.
[00:29:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, I think people. The more people need to, like, if they're your friends.
[00:29:10] Speaker D: Hey, I had a family member one time, like, you never invite me, and I'm like, look, mijito, do you know how much you would break my heart if I went out of my way to make sure to look for you or your. Actually, your wife? Because you don't have Facebook. So I have to look for your wife, send her the flyer for this particular show and ask you to please, please, please come in, and then you don't come. Yeah, that would break my heart so much. Versus you just say, we're off on a Friday. Go to my profile.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: Oh, it's not that hard.
[00:29:38] Speaker D: Jackie. I'm Jackie to my family. You know, she's playing here today. Go there. Yeah, like that.
[00:29:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Blake, I was talking about. Yeah. The. The different rules of, like, comedy and stuff, how much it really applies. Marcos Renee on YouTube says, Pay money for ads. Yeah.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: Marco says it counts.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: It just. It's just, like, it makes me think about the importance of actually just getting out and going instead of. Because we're on social media all the time.
[00:30:07] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, for artwork. What helps me is that the art walk is going on. So I will literally print flyers, walk up to people personally and ask them to come to the show. So I do have to, like, do some profiling. Like, I don't want. I'm not going to approach a family with young children. But if it's like a date night or a girls night out or things like that. A gaggle of guys, a gaggle of gays. Hey, come on. Come on in. Here's a flyer.
And usually most of them that I personally walk up to like that, and if they don't have anything going on, they. They come through, you know? But the art walk really helps because the streets are packed.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah. They have nowhere.
[00:30:51] Speaker D: What's wonderful, I'm really able to bark up the. The crowd versus, you know, like, a night like tonight where I think Only the bus had, like, a crowd of people over there, and they were already there for, like, some sort of event, right?
[00:31:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:05] Speaker A: It's so strange. There's a bunch of events every. All spread out, and it seems like there's only so many people for so many events, you know, so it's the money spread everywhere.
[00:31:16] Speaker D: You know, I occasionally uber drive and I remember, like, the Creed concert, right. I was Uber driving. I dropped off some people, but literally the city completely was desolate for the time that the. That the Creed.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: But they can't come see.
[00:31:32] Speaker D: You know, like, Like, I picked up a guy from Twin Peaks here. Yeah.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: I put on free shows and it's still difficult to get people to come. Says Aaron Caranza.
[00:31:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
Yes, Aaron does. You know, he's got the.
[00:31:49] Speaker A: If you guys are on Facebook, tag two people. Or if you're on YouTube, tag two people for a chance to get $40 store credit.
[00:31:55] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: Stickers. And I gave it to my star. A couple of my. A couple of them to my star. Thank you. Check out.
Give you a stick sticker.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, you were. You were salty because. What were you saying? Because people could go see cre.
[00:32:11] Speaker B: They thing. It's like, they. They people. I'm not trying to be salty, but I'll be salty. That. Yeah, they. They see like, all these, like, big name people or whatever, and it's like, yeah, they could put on a show, but yeah, they should. They come to my show on November 2nd when it was fire.
[00:32:27] Speaker D: Exactly. That's how I feel, too. They're like, oh, you're a comedian. Do you know Fluffy?
[00:32:32] Speaker B: Like, yeah, we all hang together.
[00:32:35] Speaker D: Text him right now.
Like, you know what he said?
[00:32:39] Speaker B: He said, come to my show next time.
[00:32:41] Speaker D: People will message me like, oh, hey, I got tickets to go see whatever comic over here at American Bank Center. But they've never. They've never, like, shared like, hey, I'm gonna come to your show. But they share me that they're going to that show over there that paid 50.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm kind of. I'm guilty of that, like, doing that. It isn't until I really, like, started this podcast and the brand, I think that's another thing.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Yeah, people don't. Not until they're doing stuff like this. They realize how much community matters, how much it means. Like, it doesn't even mean that you would have to. You can't. You can't go out. You got kids or something like that. But share your friend stuff, dude. Like, share it. Like, the best thing I've noticed to do that I have a group of friends is that we'll go and comment on each other's, like, post, because it'll move it up the line.
[00:33:27] Speaker D: Yeah. And it creates a little bit of. Yeah.
[00:33:29] Speaker B: Yes. So that's been a thing that we're just like, hey, go, go. Talk about.
[00:33:33] Speaker C: If you can find a way to cheat it, though. You could do that one time. The only time I've ever put on a comedy show, there was a. A Dallas Cowboys game right before at the bar. It was a.
[00:33:44] Speaker A: Hey, nice.
[00:33:46] Speaker C: CC Wells, which was formerly Zeros.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:33:50] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, that was a cool place. But yeah, so we had a crowd there.
[00:33:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Zero.
[00:33:56] Speaker C: Because they just didn't want to get up from the Cowboys game.
[00:33:58] Speaker D: You were at.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: You were at Riches recently, weren't you?
[00:34:00] Speaker D: You.
[00:34:00] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, I did that. What was that?
[00:34:02] Speaker A: Like?
[00:34:04] Speaker C: I was cool. That was front of the pod. Mario Salazar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a. Yeah, it was all right. It would have been cool if there was more people, but I had a. I had a good time. The. The five or six audience members seem to like me, so.
[00:34:19] Speaker A: Right, right, right.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: That's what that.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: What's going on? Eli, thanks for joining Facebook. Tag two people.
[00:34:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:34:30] Speaker C: Well, I got one Saturday.
[00:34:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:32] Speaker C: With Joe Hilliard. Let's go.
[00:34:34] Speaker A: Where's it at? Where's it at?
[00:34:35] Speaker B: The.
[00:34:35] Speaker C: The Jazz Room.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right here.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: That's a new place that opened up.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: It's on airs near Six Points by the old Nuevo Cafe.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: What time?
[00:34:44] Speaker C: Yeah, two shows. 7:30 and 9:30.
[00:34:47] Speaker D: Yeah. Oh, and then every Thursday we have, like, you know, now we have a little open mic walk sort of every Thursday. So you'll be able to go to Prohibition and then come over to Mesquite.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:34:59] Speaker D: And then return over there. And so you'll be able to get three shows in a night.
[00:35:03] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:35:04] Speaker D: Yeah, actually, shows, they're open mics.
[00:35:07] Speaker B: Right. For real?
[00:35:08] Speaker A: Monarch361 on YouTube says, I'd rather see comedy than Creed.
[00:35:13] Speaker C: You and me both, brother.
[00:35:16] Speaker B: He's the one that sends me all the comedy stuff, and I'm like, all right, I watch it later.
Wait, no, I'm gonna go back and watch it.
[00:35:22] Speaker C: Here's some comedy stuff. This band, Creed, they think they're real music.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: Was there any. Any other music? Do y'all know any musicians in town or. Oh, you used to play, right?
[00:35:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
House of Rock, they're always. There's always fun people there.
[00:35:43] Speaker D: Yeah, we go to the exchange a lot, especially after we're done with open mic. So we get to hang out with all the musicians that come through at the exchange. So there could be Deborah Scott Brown. There could be Raul Ayala. There could be, you know, the. The guys that run the, like, ha. Thanking them.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: They actually have a podcast out of there, right?
[00:36:04] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. So they. We're pretty much always commingling there because that's where we hang out after.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
Figuring it out.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And then not unless you talk to somebody you hear word about. And it's just like, I didn't even see that on Facebook. Like what? Like, that's why I'm trying to follow as many people as I can. And unfortunately, my. The algorithm, of course, only shows me who I've liked or whatever, so I have to search people because I think I just started following you. So I was like, now I can share your stuff.
[00:36:37] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:38] Speaker B: I don't know if you're on Facebook, but. Because I have more followers on Facebook.
[00:36:40] Speaker D: He's incognito on Facebook.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: Aaron Corenza says Friday, Downtown Lazy Beach, 8:30 on Facebook. On Facebook, Blake Trevino says follow his page. New comedy shows coming soon. Big things are coming. All right. Sounds good. Yeah. The Corpus community is. It's. We're out here, and I don't like that we get like a bad rep. You know what I mean? Especially from people out of town. Oh, you're from Corpus. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah, get that kind of one bad.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: Thing happened and it's like, oh, it's a Corpus thing.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
And it's like, even. And sometimes you get a sense of pride too, like. And so I'm still kick your ass. Yeah.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: Up.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had those drifter guys. The drift. Corpus was on here, and they were talking about drifting and how they had that accident where that lady fell out of the car and she was doing. Spinning right there.
And then it basically, it. It makes them look. It reflects on them, and they do it like, you know, the right way and stuff like that.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: So sad, though. That's.
[00:37:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:49] Speaker B: But I mean, it's every. I mean, everywhere except Canada is like some is gonna go down. So every city, every.
There's always. There's no state in America that hasn't had go down that's bad. Like, just because we're Anywhere you have people.
[00:38:04] Speaker D: Yeah, anywhere you have people.
Anywhere you can.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: Like. Well, you're from Corpus. Like, you. You have. You. You're supposed to support.
[00:38:15] Speaker D: I don't know. I've gotten the opposite. Like there was a time that I lived in the Valley and I was told, oh well you're Corpus. So you don't know. You know, you don't know what it's like to really struggle and you don't.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: Movie till I was like 15 in a theater baby.
[00:38:33] Speaker A: With or even have a phone, right? I got cell phone, dude.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: Oh well no, well I was.
But no like landline for Catholic school. So they had no money for anything else. Cuz my dad was a. A welder and my mom was a stay at home mom. I honestly, I have no money. No idea how they paid for three kids to go through Catholic school.
[00:38:54] Speaker A: No idea.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: Drug money? I don't know. Yeah, but they did. But we didn't have money for anything else. We couldn't go out. We never went out to eat. We never went to. Like I said, I never went to an actual theater till I was older. Until. Unless I was with my friends. Yeah.
So yeah, I. I know what it's. I lived on Lanier by you know, heirs and stuff.
[00:39:14] Speaker D: So I had a very modern mom.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: Where this person from.
[00:39:17] Speaker D: What.
[00:39:17] Speaker C: What was this person from the Valley. Well, don't get mad cuz.
D.
[00:39:26] Speaker D: But you know like in the. Before the Valley is what it is now. Before it was very small town feel down there. And so they would come to Corpus to shop back in the day because you know, so they thought Corpus was like this whole thing like a. But now that completely changed. Like now we don't barely have.
But like in the 90s it was a different thing. But yeah, I mean I had a very modern mother. She was, you know, single mom, worked really, really hard, had a barber shop. And so while I. Well if CCISD wasn't taking care of me, you know, from up until 5pm where she had to come and pick me up. On the weekend. Yeah, on the weekend she would literally drop me and my friend off at the mall or let us go to the Trade center and that was the baby.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: That's all you.
[00:40:19] Speaker D: Be right here at this ramp by 5pm.
[00:40:25] Speaker A: But Monarch 361. Yeah, there is a page. It's called Corpus Christi standup comedy scene.
[00:40:34] Speaker D: Also361 yeah.
[00:40:36] Speaker A: He's asking is there a Facebook page that announces nothing but comedy shows in Corpus? Monarch361 says on YouTube.
[00:40:44] Speaker D: 361 yes.
[00:40:45] Speaker A: Cory Standup comedy scene. They. I post on there whenever I have comics on here and I do click clips I posted on there and I don't know whoever runs appreciate you guys for Letting me run that clip on the. On the page.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:40:59] Speaker D: What is it, Roman? 361?
[00:41:01] Speaker C: Yeah, just Corpus Christi comedy.
[00:41:03] Speaker D: Corpus Christi comedy is the page.
[00:41:05] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Run by. Run by a friend of the pod, Ronnie. He's a cool guy.
[00:41:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:41:09] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:41:10] Speaker C: Yeah, sorry, I'm making so many friends on here.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: It's like you say, oh, he's a friend of the family. He sound like the Godfather, bro.
[00:41:21] Speaker D: Yeah, well, because I'm the little logo. He has 361 comedy on there. But yeah, the page is called 361 Comedy. So right now we have 727 followers. We're hoping that after this it will increase. Let's get to the thousand. Come on, Corpus.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Nice.
Well, we got a shot. A fired shot here by Marcus Rene on YouTube. Says our beach is better than the Valley's beach because it's closer to home.
[00:41:49] Speaker D: We could walk down the street. They have to drive in hour.
[00:41:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Oh, that's.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: I had a Rachel Caballero on. She was talking about the beaches being privatized. What do I think about that? What do y'all think? If they. What do y'all think?
[00:42:03] Speaker D: Texas is known for having the most amount of non privatized beaches every other state has. So like they've pretty much are all gone. Like Florida, Georgia, California. And so that's one thing that we really have to hold on to as not just Corpus Christians, but as Texans like that. That's a prideful thing to come visit our state. You can totally just walk on the beach.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Is that the leader statue?
[00:42:30] Speaker A: Is it?
[00:42:30] Speaker C: No.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: Well, like, is that. I don't know. I don't know. Getting into politics, I guess. Is that a Republican thing or a Democrat thing or. Because to privatize a beach, like what the city's gonna sell it off? I mean.
[00:42:43] Speaker D: Yeah, like a hotel chain would own a chunk of the like waterfronts or rights to the waterfront.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:42:50] Speaker D: So that would be from the. The general land office of Texas.
[00:42:54] Speaker A: Oh, crazy.
[00:42:55] Speaker D: So yes, that would be probably. I'm going to say this a Republican thing.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Oh, I try to make some money.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: It sucks that you have to like group it, right? Like, oh, this side or that side?
[00:43:07] Speaker D: Yeah, it's a thing. And. And then it's also kind of like one of those, like I'm afraid to say.
[00:43:12] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. You know, I don't want to do business.
[00:43:15] Speaker D: I don't want to take a side or whatever.
[00:43:18] Speaker B: Joe Hiller, get him on the show.
Comedy and politics.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Blake Ser says get Joe. Go Joe Hiller on the show. Yeah, Andy. Andy. Actually, he requested. I not requested, but suggested Joe Hitler, too. So he's.
[00:43:31] Speaker B: I did his podcast.
[00:43:31] Speaker A: You probably see him. You too, Blake. Man, I got to get you on here, too. Also, monarch361. Appreciate you on YouTube. Thanks a lot, you guys. Yeah, we were talking earlier, too. How about voting and stuff like that and vote for the mayor? Do you want to talk about that stuff?
[00:43:46] Speaker B: I.
[00:43:46] Speaker D: Sure. Let's vote for Mayor Paulette Guardo. I feel like she's done a video. Very, very good job with the city. I mean, I. I pretty much live downtown, and I work downtown. Every morning, I see the janitors of downtown Corpus Christi picking up our trash, watering the beautiful plants and things. I was sweeping. Literally sweeping the streets and everything. And I tell them, mijito, thank you so much, every morning. Because our city, like, you know, for the longest time, we did have sort of like Corpus. You know, like, people would come visit and be like, oh, Laura's kind of ghetto. But lately it hasn't been that way. Like, look how beautiful it looks downtown. And then how we have, like, you know, the food tr. Area and everything like that. And of course, there is a lot of construction, but if once you see the road and it's done, like Staples, for example, it's all done with the beautiful concrete street, it's, like, awesome. You know, my friend's street got redone, and they put sod. They put, you know, evened out the sidewalks. What's happening for her?
[00:44:47] Speaker A: They are into some freaky stuff.
[00:44:54] Speaker D: Hair and a fat ass. What kind of freaky stuff?
[00:44:57] Speaker A: Like, Marcus says they don't privatize beaches. Remember when they closed the beaches during COVID and everyone went crazy? Says Marcus Renee on YouTube. Yeah, Paul was talking about that, too. Like, that would be crazy if they privatized.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: What? Explain. I need, like, to explain.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: Go ahead. And we got a request here, Blake. Explain what freaky stuff is.
[00:45:25] Speaker C: Well, when a man loves a woman and 12 midges at the same time.
[00:45:28] Speaker B: I mean, like, BDSM. What are we, Swingers? What are we? What's going on here?
[00:45:37] Speaker A: So, hey, so the anonymous voter that says that you're into movies. What kind of. What kind of movies are you into? Or do you have any favorites?
[00:45:45] Speaker C: You want? All of them? I love. I love all movies. I hate all movies. I love all movies.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: Big C over there was talking about your hat. Blood.
[00:45:55] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Blood Meridian. Yeah, yeah, that's my favorite book. But, yeah, movies. I went to. I went to school for movies. That's What? I got my degree in.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: I, I, Yeah, I like them school for that in San Antonio.
[00:46:10] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:46:10] Speaker C: At Visa.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: Wow. That's kind of cool. So they need to talk about movies that whole time in class. I mean, that's going to be awesome to watch.
[00:46:19] Speaker C: Yeah. It was the only time at school, like I didn't have to buy books because I. I'm just watching movies. I get it.
[00:46:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:26] Speaker B: Rolling can read. I'm sorry.
[00:46:28] Speaker C: Oh, damn. Blake's just mad because he can't.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: That's Miguel.
[00:46:33] Speaker C: Righto.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Is that him?
[00:46:35] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:46:37] Speaker C: Enemy of the pod.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: What say?
[00:46:41] Speaker B: He said enemy of the Pod.
[00:46:42] Speaker C: Like enemy of the pod make a po.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: He's going to be sleeping with the fishes soon.
[00:46:50] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:46:50] Speaker B: We're from Corpus. You know how we do this?
[00:46:52] Speaker A: Well, he's got, he's got something going on too. I see him on Facebook. He's got. Was it.
[00:46:56] Speaker D: He's got the lab at the topology. Like, I mean, probably all of our favorite like open mic because he does little challenges. Like, you know, like after you've done your set, you pull a thing, pull up, prompt or something out of a bucket. And that's really fun because he does kind of like push, you know, like.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: He'S like educating comics too. Yeah, seems like it.
[00:47:17] Speaker D: Yeah. Well, because he is an educator himself.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool.
[00:47:20] Speaker D: Yeah, he is an educator himself. He teaches.
[00:47:23] Speaker C: He's who I started doing comedy with.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: Really?
[00:47:26] Speaker C: Cuz he used to do. Me and him have been friends since like sixth grade and then I moved away to San Antonio forever and then just came back and I knew that he had did like improv comedy and I thought that was the same thing as standup.
[00:47:39] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:47:40] Speaker C: So I was like, hey, dude, you do comedy? Let's do standup now.
[00:47:43] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:47:44] Speaker C: And he was like, okay.
[00:47:46] Speaker A: It's cool how there's different types of.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: Stand up.
[00:47:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And those are, they're totally different worlds. Improv and, and stand up. Yeah, stand up is great. And improv is what it's.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: You're if you're still standing up though, Right. I'm trying to understand like improv is. You're still standing up, right?
[00:48:05] Speaker C: Improv.
[00:48:06] Speaker D: More of a group.
[00:48:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:07] Speaker C: And you're trying to like keep it going along. It's like yes and yes.
[00:48:11] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: You don't know that.
[00:48:12] Speaker A: So responses from.
[00:48:13] Speaker D: So like in standup comedy you probably already have a set that you are or like topics or something that you're going to go over. But in improv you're given like a prompt and Then you kind of build it together. What was that? What show?
[00:48:25] Speaker B: Go with that comedian who now does the Price is Right. What's his name?
[00:48:29] Speaker D: Drew.
[00:48:30] Speaker B: Oh, did he do that?
[00:48:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:32] Speaker C: Whose line is it?
[00:48:33] Speaker B: Who's that? That was a funny show, what improv is.
[00:48:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:48:38] Speaker A: I thought he only read manifestos, like, on Facebook.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: Are we going to talk about that?
[00:48:46] Speaker A: My comedy is so much cleaner compared to Roland's hellish material. Say, oh, that's a shot. Roll by me. Get on Facebook.
[00:48:53] Speaker C: He says, nah, I get all my dirty jokes from him. They're all.
He's. He's telling me everything. Bluetooth headset up there.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Are y'all dirty or cle.
[00:49:03] Speaker D: Do not bring your children to my show.
I am very, I would say, like the Bob Saget of Corpus. Like, I feel like I try to keep all nice and clean during the.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: Day while I'm at work.
[00:49:21] Speaker D: You know, the daytime image and the nighttime image. Two different images, for sure.
[00:49:26] Speaker A: Do you feel like you have to, you know, what comedy, like, maybe for. For certain audiences or.
[00:49:31] Speaker D: Yeah, you do. There is a process of, you know, when you get there, like, who am I in front of? What are. How are they? You know, and because even once you get started too, you feel like they're going to be this way, but they end up being that way. So you do. Especially if you have kids in the crowd. Because, like at Mesquite, for example, example, it is a restaurant. So sometimes people do bring their children or whatever. I always warn them before they walk in, like, hey, yeah, I understand you've got your kid with you, but we're gonna be using this language and stuff like that. And usually the parents are like, oh, they've heard words or whatever.
[00:50:05] Speaker C: I told them we're on the way.
[00:50:06] Speaker D: Over here where it's like, no, no. And. And some, some parents are, are thank us. Like, oh, well, thank you for warning us. You know, we'll, you know, go somewhere else and come back another time without them. Them or something like that.
But yeah, I do some. I have had to sort of change things up a little bit. If the kids are in a certain, like 12 year old or something where they kind of might know or talk about. Yeah. But if they're young enough, usually like, if they're like little, little kid, you put the tablet or whatever in front of them. As soon as adults start talking, they zone out.
And mom and dad are all here.
I have had a situation one time where a parent wanted me to roast or wanted us to roast their kids.
No, I'm not going to roast your. Would you have done that? Would you have done that?
[00:50:58] Speaker B: Oh my. I'm.
[00:51:00] Speaker C: No, I'm not. I'm not a roast guy. Not really. But I mean, I would have tried for sure.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: They would have grown up, be like, this lady roasted me when I was.
[00:51:08] Speaker D: I roasted her and I roasted her and I got on her, you know. Know. Well, because I, I do love. I. I got that from working at the car dealership. You know, being in the sales tower. There would be times where my. My manager would call me into the office specifically to roast somebody. Like if a salesman came in with an earring in his. Or something with a diamond in his ears, I got my hair roasted, that kind of thing, you know. So I really like it. Like, we did Tina's roast for her birthday and that was so much fun. I prepared, man, I bad for the.
[00:51:40] Speaker A: Episode I had with her because I kept on asking her like, about. About what did. I was asking her? Oh, when was the. The. The open com. Whenever she did her show or whatever.
[00:51:49] Speaker D: Oh yeah, I kept on asking her out last Tuesday.
[00:51:53] Speaker A: She got pissed.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: I was like, one more time.
[00:51:57] Speaker A: I'm sorry, Tina. I'm so sorry. We got to run that back. We got to run that back. Appreciate you.
[00:52:02] Speaker D: Let's run that back. It's yes, every last Tuesday. Yeah, but I think that's changed now. Is it to Wednesdays? I think it switched to the last Wednesday. Now, I don. Know.
Can you clarify or Wendell?
But I mean, I have the open mic over at Mesquite that happens every single Thursday at 8:30. And then down here are there the downtown Mesquite right here around the corner. That's every Thursday at 8:30. The commit. The comics come in, sign up at 8:30. They each get five minutes. The open mic starts at 9. 00pm and then if you go to. To ww mesquite street live.com, then you'll be able to see like, or get your tickets for like the Art Walk comedy show or any of the other big headliner comics that we're gonna have coming in. Like Ali Sadiq is coming through to Mesquite at the south side.
[00:52:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:54] Speaker D: We have Nate Jackson. And then for my birthday, we're gonna get Jackie Fabulous, who I love from America's Got Talent. So it's your birthday. My birthday is February 27th and. And then Jackie Fabus will be here February 14th. So that'll be a really good show. Have like a Galentine's Day crowd of all chicks just slapping hell yeah.
[00:53:15] Speaker C: During Black History Month.
[00:53:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: Perfect.
[00:53:20] Speaker D: That we have.
[00:53:21] Speaker A: So I imagine, like, different local comics are like, kind of want to get on those spots.
[00:53:25] Speaker D: Want to get on those spots to open yet to open.
[00:53:28] Speaker A: Right. To get that time and experience and stuff like that. Oh, Tina is in the. She is.
[00:53:32] Speaker D: There she is.
[00:53:33] Speaker C: She's always watching. She said always.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: All good. Thanks for the support. You're welcome.
[00:53:38] Speaker D: I'm surprised she hasn't chimed in before. Thank you.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: Roast my mother on the daily sis. Master of the new.
[00:53:44] Speaker B: And he's not lying. He me all the freaking time. I'm like, dude, serious?
So you have a complex.
[00:53:51] Speaker A: You guys got an event or something going on? You want to do a promo? Just look at the camera. Y'all ready for that?
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Y'all go, Oh, I think I just did, actually.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: We'll reuse that one.
[00:54:03] Speaker B: That's fine.
[00:54:04] Speaker A: Dog it.
[00:54:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:54:06] Speaker A: All right. Thanks for coming. So you got something. Something coming up?
[00:54:10] Speaker C: Yeah, Saturday, Saturday, Jazz Room, and then the 21st, I'll be at the. What's it called? Red Room. Red Rabbit.
[00:54:22] Speaker A: Red Rabbit.
[00:54:23] Speaker B: Oh, the Red Rabbit.
[00:54:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that place. That's gonna be cool. And then sports with Roland every week.
[00:54:29] Speaker A: Sports. Sports with Rolling podcast.
[00:54:32] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: Did we ever get the dog's name, dude? Oh, your dog is always on there. I can hear the leash and stuff like that.
[00:54:38] Speaker D: What is Mary?
[00:54:40] Speaker C: Yeah, that's Mary's.
[00:54:41] Speaker D: Is Mary's dog.
[00:54:43] Speaker C: That's Mary's dog. She's the. She's a co host on the show.
[00:54:46] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:54:46] Speaker C: And that's her little menace.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: Oh, that's nice.
[00:54:50] Speaker C: He's always everything up, dude.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
And then. Yeah. So it's Sports Rolling where y don't talk about sports.
[00:54:59] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I don't know. I don't know anything about sports.
[00:55:01] Speaker B: I want to talk about sports.
[00:55:03] Speaker C: Not here.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: So do you have any fav.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: Team?
[00:55:06] Speaker A: Any favorite teams? Are you. Have you been watching sports lately? You have any?
[00:55:10] Speaker B: I mean, like I said, I'm a 49ers fan, but that's only because, like, my dad and I, he got. He. When I was younger, he's like, hey, let's. Let's bet on football. And I'm like, what? I'm like a little kid, like. And he's like, what team do you like? And I was like, oh, no. So then I started watching football with him. Of course he was a Cowboys fan. So I ended up picking the 49ers. And I was just. That's how I became still a 49ers fan. I am. So. I'm a Joe Montana fan. I have Joe Montana tattooed on my ankle. So the goat. Nobody argue with me on that. And Tom Landry, 49ers and the Chiefs, basically because he played for both teams. So who do you do say it's.
[00:55:45] Speaker D: A Tom Landry coat?
Football. I. I pick it, you know, based on how they look and what their uniforms look like, because it's a fantasy.
[00:56:00] Speaker B: I love the way you said that.
[00:56:01] Speaker A: Tina La Pacino on Facebook says the Annex Comedy Collective Open Mic Wednesday, December.
[00:56:06] Speaker D: 18That'S a fun place coming up.
[00:56:11] Speaker B: I think they said 7:30, right? Jazz room.
[00:56:14] Speaker C: Oh, 7:30 and 9:30. Playboy 2.
[00:56:18] Speaker D: Really? That's a. That's a really good spot for comedy because it's a little tight room, like the. I'm one of those rules people. Like, I know Blake was all, like, girls, whatever, but I like low ceilings and no windows, and I want darkness, and I want the only light to be on kind of.
I like a little room up here upstairs at Mesquite for that same reason, you know? But the jazz room is this little, you know, lightning in the bottle kind of place, like, where you can almost, like, sport right in on the crowd, which is amazing, you know, and when.
[00:56:55] Speaker C: Everyone'S on the splash zone, it's good.
[00:56:57] Speaker D: Yeah. You know, I hate it when there's no splash zone.
[00:57:01] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:57:01] Speaker D: So, yeah, I want low ceiling, I want darkness, and I want a tiny room, and I want everybody sitting on.
[00:57:07] Speaker B: Traveling to room.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: So. So you kind of follow those guidelines like you?
[00:57:11] Speaker B: I do.
[00:57:11] Speaker D: I am a rituals person. I think it's like, the very rituals person.
[00:57:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:17] Speaker D: Yeah, for sure.
[00:57:18] Speaker A: What would you do if they weren't there?
[00:57:19] Speaker D: I mean, but it's not. I. I've done comedy in sandals, and I've done comedy in shorts, but the times that I have done comedy in the daytime, it doesn't quite land as good. You know what I mean?
[00:57:30] Speaker B: So there's rules for everything, you know?
[00:57:32] Speaker D: But when it's. When all of the metrics are all met perfectly, then it's just magic. It just oozes out.
[00:57:41] Speaker C: Depends on the. Depends on the thing, on what's going on.
There was one time, me and Anna and Tina, who's watching, like, somewhere in the room, I'm sure we did a. A baby shower. That was.
[00:57:53] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:57:53] Speaker C: That was fun.
[00:57:54] Speaker B: Comedy. Baby shower.
[00:57:56] Speaker D: Baby shower. Yeah.
[00:57:57] Speaker C: I was like, let's roast this stupid baby. I'm down. Let's go.
[00:58:04] Speaker D: Hire us for your Christmas parties. I mean, I. I'll do your funeral.
[00:58:08] Speaker C: Let's go.
[00:58:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:09] Speaker D: We performed in garages. We perform. Performed at baby showers. We've performed at, you know, whatever. Bat mitzvah's funeral. Whatever you need. We charge 50 the hour for a.
[00:58:21] Speaker A: Low price.
[00:58:24] Speaker D: But we will show up.
Yes.
[00:58:30] Speaker A: Do you want to plug something?
[00:58:31] Speaker B: Right? I do have a few things to plug. Yeah. So the hauntings of Boogeyman. They're my homies. They're out and a Farm Road 666. Their haunted house.
[00:58:41] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:58:41] Speaker B: Yes, They're. I love them because they're all inclusive. I went to their haunted house in October, and there's this guy in, like, a wheelchair, and he's scaring the out of me because it's like this really. It's literally in a haunted area. It's haunted. They sent me, like, a video clip of, like, someone speaking in the background. It was not that.
And it's so freaking scary. Yeah, it's. I love that place. And it's a family that does it. A family that scares together, stays together. And so. But. And then they had a vip. So afterwards they cooked brisket. It. We sat around, talked about stuff and. And I didn't realize the guy in the wheelchair was actually in a wheelchair. So it's like, how many places do you go? There's a haunted house that is inclusive of people that, you know are in a wheelchair but could still be in a haunted house. Scaring the out of you.
[00:59:23] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:59:23] Speaker B: So I thought that was like. So I was like, dude, you were badass.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: You scared me.
[00:59:27] Speaker B: I always take my friends. I'm like, you want to go? You're down. So I'm going to be doing that. It's all weekend. The hauntings of Boogeyman. You can find them on Instagram and on Facebook. They're. I have them on my page that is going to all weekend. So Friday. What am I doing Friday?
[00:59:43] Speaker D: The be.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: I'm like.
[00:59:47] Speaker D: And I'm kidding. We don't.
[00:59:50] Speaker A: As we wrap up. You got any questions? Leave them out there. Blake, the reno is talking about acoustics. Room size, more acoustics thing. Not a rules thing. I'm talking about daytime rules shorts. That's. Oh, dumb rules. I say I need to go away. Yeah, I guess there's the people that.
[01:00:06] Speaker D: Yeah, maybe I don't much.
[01:00:09] Speaker B: Oh, sorry.
[01:00:10] Speaker D: Places.
[01:00:11] Speaker B: Can I. Yeah, yeah, of course. Okay. So Saturday is going to be.
My friend, Nikki Butterfly. She's having an event 12 to 6. I'll be performing at the shop at 1:00. Yeah. Outside of the store. She have a whole set up of vendors. I'll be performing with my homie, you know, Robin Valentine. Last cement. Our new girl, Rebecca, a booty kill. She has a. She's a new performer. We'll be doing our set. There's going to be dj, there's going to be Creatures Coffee is going to be there. A whole bunch of other vendors as well. The Hidden Door on Friday, they're going to have hexmas at 11:45. That's going to be a dope show.
[01:00:47] Speaker D: Hidden Door is always a blast.
[01:00:48] Speaker C: Yeah, we've done comedy there before. They love me there.
What's up, boys?
[01:00:55] Speaker D: They love rolling at the Hidden.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: So hard.
[01:00:59] Speaker D: Yes. There. Stiff drink. Yeah.
[01:01:02] Speaker B: What drink? You're like. I'm like, hey.
And then they have the karaoke Friday, man. Let me tell you.
[01:01:08] Speaker D: Oh, they have karaoke on Fridays.
[01:01:10] Speaker B: Friday, Saturday.
Oh, my God. But Saturday night, 9:00 starting at Studio B. A mix of punk, drag performers in live metal and punk bands. 18 plus, $10 at the door.
My homies there, Carolina Reaper Blast Robin once again will be performing as well. There's a whole. Sorry, I can't name them all. They're awesome performers. I. I got to perform with them. They're awesome. So that's what's happening this weekend. So please go and support community and support, like, you know.
[01:01:40] Speaker D: Yes.
[01:01:40] Speaker B: Yeah, go.
They go to your show and then later go to, man. So.
[01:01:47] Speaker D: Because that's the way, you know, like kind of like in the 90s or in the early 2000s, you would go to like do like a little hop of, you know, bar hop or whatever, show hop and things like that.
[01:01:57] Speaker B: And.
[01:01:57] Speaker D: And we. I think ever since COVID that has really died down and bring that back.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: So interesting how that changed, like everything for a lot of people. Yeah, Covid just hit and nobody expected it. You know, a lot of people lost their jobs.
[01:02:13] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:02:13] Speaker A: I was fortunate to be able to keep my job to the. To the pandemic.
[01:02:17] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:02:17] Speaker A: I'm a truck driver, so.
[01:02:18] Speaker B: Oh, that's what my brother.
[01:02:19] Speaker D: Yeah. You were essential. I was essential, too. At Ed Hicks. I had nothing changed. For me, everything stayed the exact same.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: Seriously. Wow.
[01:02:27] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:02:27] Speaker A: People still buying cars.
[01:02:28] Speaker D: Yes, still buying cars. And we were all still employed and we all still somehow made a paycheck. I don't even know how, because we were all just kind of going through the motion. I didn't know at the time, but yeah.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. I was working at a marketing dental office and they laid us off and I was like. But I was 1099, so I wasn't getting the. The money or whatever. Like, why don't you be a delivery driver with me? And I was like, oh, wow.
[01:02:53] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:02:53] Speaker B: First time in a food industry. Pizza Hut. Me, my kid are like, oh, this is Baller. They're taking like 20 and stuff. You know what pizza. I was like, that's what's up.
[01:03:03] Speaker D: Definitely. Shout out to Charlie Hicks. I know you're a friend of the podcast, but he really. All the other dealerships were firing laying off people in mass. And Ed Hicks was not at all at any of the dealerships.
[01:03:16] Speaker B: His dad's office. And we would just tell his dad was Gloria.
[01:03:20] Speaker D: Gloria, the sweetheart always has chocolate in her bag. And Debbie is amazing.
Shout out to Higs, front of pod. I know you're watching.
[01:03:31] Speaker A: Well, right? Am I? I think Maya back there, the producer, he's a musician. You got any shows coming out, Maya, you want to promote? No, not really. He doesn't. He don't like to be.
Yeah. Shout out to my brother Maya back there and produce sound studios for making this look nice Friday upstairs at the Hidden Door or for karaoke. Anna is a blast. Says Blake Dino.
[01:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah, so he knows.
[01:03:54] Speaker D: Thank you, Blake. Well, Blake and I go way back. We've known each other before. We were stand up comed kids and stuff like that. Oh, we've been friends for a really, really long time.
[01:04:02] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[01:04:02] Speaker D: Lovely. Yeah.
[01:04:03] Speaker A: Right on. Yeah. Any final thoughts you guys? Guys want to share?
[01:04:08] Speaker D: I think community, I think that has been like the theme of this whole thing is bringing the community together, supporting each other and what we do and everything like that and. And loving each other for who we are and what we do.
[01:04:19] Speaker B: I think it's very important. Like, if you don't never done gonna a comedy show, go to a comedy show drag performance, go.
[01:04:28] Speaker A: How important do y'all think it is?
[01:04:30] Speaker D: Drag queens?
[01:04:31] Speaker B: We do.
[01:04:32] Speaker A: How important do y'all think it is to like, be involved in, I guess like po politics or voting and the city. This what the city of Corpus Christi is.
[01:04:42] Speaker D: My whole thing is, man, I pay taxes. I pay property taxes in the city of Corpus Christi. So I care because where your money goes, they charge me up real, real, real good, you know? So I. I care. I. I care. If I didn't maybe if I didn't pay these property taxes and I didn't have what I have and everything like that, I wouldn't have anything to protect.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:05:04] Speaker D: Or especially because I do so much in the community. I am out here entertaining these people and I want to have tourism. I want people to Come and see Corpus and like it and want to return to our town.
[01:05:17] Speaker A: Right?
[01:05:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very important. I think it's very important. And I don't try to like, talk about it too much because I try to make. I want to make people laugh as well. And let's go watch horror movies and stuff like that. But yeah, a lot of it. Like, I don't know if you've ever seen the Boys.
[01:05:32] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[01:05:33] Speaker B: Boy show. That's very political show. But it's gory as like. It's. It's like superheroes.
[01:05:38] Speaker C: But Homeland is one of my favorite comedians.
[01:05:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
What did I just learn?
But it's like they talk about how like superheroes in a political climate is in a sense and it's that how it just. I don't know, it hits. But it's. It's very, very gory and graphic. So anybody hasn't seen that, seen that.
[01:06:01] Speaker C: Show Boys now playing at select theaters?
[01:06:06] Speaker A: That's like the.
[01:06:08] Speaker B: The goth moms actually have a group of goth moms. We go see horror movies together. We're all dressed in black.
[01:06:12] Speaker A: Oh y like Marvel and stuff like that.
[01:06:15] Speaker B: Oh, I watch everything. And they pretty much do too. Yeah, we watch a.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: What do y'all think about? So what do y'all think about Word that word Marvel Purple's headed now being that Disney owns it. We brought that up with another.
[01:06:25] Speaker B: I don't know too much of the politics on that kind of stuff, but.
[01:06:28] Speaker A: But yeah, I think Disney has been.
[01:06:29] Speaker D: The same here because they always add a very like. More like a sort of polish that makes it not as edgy.
[01:06:36] Speaker B: It's like Rocky Horror is now Disney. So Frankenf is a Disney princess.
[01:06:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:06:41] Speaker D: What?
[01:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Frankenfurter. Well, the Rocky Horror Picture show is Disney now, believe it or not, because it is all the ditzy channel.
[01:06:49] Speaker A: Are they still making is rookie. Are they still making shows about Rocket or is just.
[01:06:53] Speaker B: Oh yeah. I mean Aurora Arts every year.
The sauce one was intense. Like. Yeah. Shout out to Dylan Rios who did. The producer was producer with his group of people. There's a whole bunch of people and they just killed it this last time.
[01:07:05] Speaker D: Like the rights to Rocky Horror Picture show are owned by Disney.
[01:07:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Disney took it down.
[01:07:11] Speaker D: I love that movie.
[01:07:13] Speaker A: Stop it.
[01:07:14] Speaker D: And I can't watch too.
[01:07:16] Speaker B: He wants me to go to Ronnie.
[01:07:17] Speaker A: To go see Wicked.
[01:07:18] Speaker B: Says I'm not an Ariana fan. Man, I'm sorry. That chick pissed me off. She did some to Elvira and I just cannot.
[01:07:24] Speaker C: I heard that movie was Wicked awesome.
[01:07:28] Speaker A: Great podcast. Thanks a lot, Marcos, for mentioning the podcast on YouTube. Appreciate that.
[01:07:33] Speaker B: Y'all go see for Marcos, because I love him.
[01:07:35] Speaker A: What do y'all think about the podcast? Did y'all like this episode? Did y'all like.
[01:07:39] Speaker B: It's awesome.
[01:07:40] Speaker D: Thank you so much for inviting. Inviting me and Roland, you know, to come and do a little thing, because I feel like I'm not as cool as the other comics, so, you know, like, Tina is so cool, and Blake and everybody that. And I'm like this.
[01:07:54] Speaker C: She's one name away from saying me. I know it.
[01:07:56] Speaker D: And I'm very, like, this. I don't know.
I don't know, like, weird person. I've never been a cool person, and I feel now I am.
[01:08:08] Speaker B: Should make a sticker above.
[01:08:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:11] Speaker C: Ready to pick comedy. This is it.
[01:08:15] Speaker B: I made it.
No. Thank you for like, having us and just, like, talking. This stuff is, like, awesome. I think it helps a lot of people that do listen. Just getting different inputs and stuff and learn about different shows. Different. Different movies.
[01:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:33] Speaker B: Right on. I think that's. That's. That's awesome because I think a lot of people that do know us or whatever, just, like, I want to say look up to us, but since they're our friends or whatever, they're just like, hey, they talk about this. Or, hey, they like this, and it's just like, hey, I never knew that about them or something. Something new comes out.
[01:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Or my friend telling me more Mother epic. My son, y'all.
[01:08:55] Speaker A: Y'all. Y'all stuff is fire. Says Blake. Thanks a lot, Blake. Appreciate that, man. That's awesome.
[01:08:59] Speaker B: Wait, does Blake have, like, a comedian? Because.
[01:09:02] Speaker D: But y'all have, like.
[01:09:03] Speaker B: Because I've been, like, friendly. I don't know if you friended me and you were.
[01:09:06] Speaker D: There's probably, like, 30 different comics in corpus right now.
[01:09:10] Speaker B: Okay, I didn't know.
[01:09:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:09:13] Speaker B: Because I don't know if you like me on my private page, and I'm very, like, selective on my private pages because I don't know who these people are that are talking to me. So if you send me.
[01:09:20] Speaker A: I'm sorry if I tag you on.
[01:09:22] Speaker B: A lot, and I'm watching for these people.
So I'm just like, why are you messing? Because, like, literally my personal page is like, don't message me unless you're dying. And Because I'm just like, I don't filters out the people I do know.
I'm not trying to be a jerk. It's just, like, if I don't know you personally, I Never went met to you. I. I don't know who I'm talking to, so. Because I've had some creepers, so I.
[01:09:46] Speaker D: Don'T know the comedians, we have, like, multiple chats going. So our phones are always like, bling, bling, bling. Because whether we're talking to each other in our scene or we're like in a group chat, for example, for an event like this or a show or something. So we are always have. But do y'all have.
[01:10:01] Speaker B: Okay, so you're rolling spam a lot. Is that okay? I don't know. But you said Regina George is on here. That I was laughing.
[01:10:08] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that.
[01:10:09] Speaker A: That's. That's awesome.
[01:10:12] Speaker D: George is the same. I'm Ana J. Ramirez across every single thing.
[01:10:15] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:10:19] Speaker D: You can do hashtag number one sells lady. And you'll find everything.
[01:10:23] Speaker B: Blake have, like his own too.
[01:10:25] Speaker D: Yeah, like right there. Blake.
[01:10:26] Speaker B: What is that?
[01:10:27] Speaker A: Like a personality?
[01:10:28] Speaker D: So what happened was I had went on this vacation to Turkey. I have a friend that lived in Turkey, and I just somehow this Turkish vacation fell on my lap.
[01:10:39] Speaker B: Cool.
[01:10:39] Speaker D: I had the money, and it was cheap, so I got it. And so I go visit my friend, and we go to this sort of like a coffee shop. And in the. In the time that we were there having a drink and eating, they sort of changed the coffee shop into a nightclub. And I was like, what's going on? He's like, oh, it's about to turn into nightclub mode, you know, so we have to finish up and eating because they're going to take our table. And then I noticed that the place was called tag, and it was like hash tag. And so anybody that would post on Facebook, put tag on there, the pictures would come up like, the way they are here.
[01:11:10] Speaker B: A very.
[01:11:11] Speaker D: I was like, that is such a great idea. So when I came came back, I was. I. That idea kind of stayed with me. And then I was working in the oil field, and after that, when I got laid off in the oil field, I went into car sales, and it kind of stuck with me. And I was like, I need to use that somehow. And I created number one sales ladies so that I can post pictures of my customers and post pictures of the sales and things or whatever. So now it's just like, anything I'm promoting number one sales lady or anything I'm doing number one sales. I have it on my business card. Number one sales lady. I have it on my name tag. Number one sales lady.
Everything everywhere. So, yeah, like.
[01:11:49] Speaker B: Everywhere.
[01:11:50] Speaker D: It's like, official number one sales lady. And so the goal is to create. Create an army of number one sales ladies. I love it. All around the world, you know, whether you're the number one sales lady of real estate, insurance, shoes, jewelry.
[01:12:05] Speaker A: Your Spanish is awesome too.
[01:12:09] Speaker D: Not in English and you have to.
[01:12:12] Speaker A: Hit the button on the microphone.
[01:12:14] Speaker D: I learned to speak English at the Head Start at Lulac Apartments in Molina. That's where I picked it up because I was.
[01:12:20] Speaker B: Yes. Wow.
[01:12:23] Speaker A: Your parents didn't teach you. That's how you learned it?
[01:12:25] Speaker D: My par. My mom.
[01:12:26] Speaker B: No. You were one of those too? Yeah, yeah. Like, they. They argued in Spanish so I wouldn't know, but I'm like, catch the words. Yeah.
[01:12:32] Speaker D: No, I wouldn't be able to talk to my grandma and grandpa when I was a kid or my mom currently.
[01:12:37] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:12:37] Speaker D: Or anyone in my family too, you know, because we. They all speak. But now it's getting like, more English has creeped in with the younger generation. But from my generation on, like, now we all spoke Spanish.
[01:12:48] Speaker A: Oh, right.
[01:12:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I did. Well, I didn't learn bad things. And then I rebelled in high school. I was like, I'm not going to take Spanish. I'm taking sign language or Japanese.
[01:12:58] Speaker D: I took Spanish.
[01:12:59] Speaker B: No.
[01:12:59] Speaker D: I could get the easy.
[01:13:03] Speaker B: And then I go to college and they're just like, you got to take.
[01:13:06] Speaker D: I took Spanish so I could get the EAS 8, but it was the last class and I would get tired and I.
[01:13:13] Speaker A: Got a B. I got a B.
[01:13:15] Speaker B: Do you speak?
[01:13:16] Speaker D: In my defense, I was dyslexic in high school.
[01:13:17] Speaker A: Hey, thanks a lot, Miguelito. On he say shout out Corpus Christo for supporting us Mid Fitness.
[01:13:23] Speaker D: That's right.
[01:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Do you speak Spanish?
[01:13:27] Speaker C: Nope.
[01:13:28] Speaker D: Only in.
[01:13:38] Speaker A: I understand it more than I speak it. So.
[01:13:40] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:13:41] Speaker B: That's.
[01:13:42] Speaker D: That's my favorite when I have a crowd that I know I can do a little Spanglish, a little Johnny Canalis Spanglish. I really love that. Then I can really, like, do. Because, like, a lot of the style of the way I write comedy is in the. Because I grew up with like, polop Polo and like these Mexican, Spanish speaking, Spanish language comedians and they have a certain way to do comedy and it's more storytelling kind of thing. So I was like, how can I use that format and translate it and make it all in English and still do the same thing? And that's kind of how did an.
[01:14:15] Speaker A: Easy transition to do that, like, I guess shifted from.
[01:14:18] Speaker D: I mean, I don't write in Spanish. I write in English, but like, the Style of. The format of it. The joke is are. I try to.
[01:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm always trying to understand, like, comedian, like, how. How you guys go, like, typically really do what you do. You know what I mean?
[01:14:34] Speaker D: So most of the time, from.
[01:14:36] Speaker C: It's from person to person to person.
[01:14:38] Speaker D: Like, I'll be driving in the car, and I'll see something, and it'll just boom. And if I don't stop and pull over right then and there and write it down and put it in my little joke book, it's gone. So I literally have to either repeat it to myself until I can park or. Or stop it and write it down, because if I don't, then it's like, it's gone.
[01:14:58] Speaker B: It's mainly, like, personal experience, though, with personal experiences for comedians. Right.
[01:15:02] Speaker D: It's just like, yeah, it's real.
[01:15:03] Speaker B: Talk about your life.
[01:15:04] Speaker D: That's one thing, too. Like.
[01:15:06] Speaker C: Well, that depends on the person.
[01:15:07] Speaker D: People are always afraid in the front. They're like, I don't want to sit in the front. They're gonna make fun of us. I don't want to sit in the front. They're gonna. They're gonna, you know, roast us or whatever. And it's like, dude, my standup comedy is not about you. I just met you today. My is about me.
[01:15:22] Speaker B: Right.
[01:15:22] Speaker D: So I need you to sit down, relax, get into my shoes for a little bit, because I'm gonna show you how your trauma has nothing to do with me, but maybe you can laugh about mine and feel better about yours. That's really what it is, because a.
[01:15:34] Speaker B: Lot of us share a lot of the same experiences. Yeah.
[01:15:37] Speaker D: I mean, it's really. It's like, a relief to know, like, oh, it's not just me. It's not just me. And I can laugh about it because this person just made a joke about, I don't know, having a big old puss or whatever.
[01:15:49] Speaker C: That's my joke, by the way.
[01:15:53] Speaker B: It's like, we all have one, you know?
[01:15:58] Speaker A: Do y'all have favorite. Favorite comics in town?
[01:16:01] Speaker D: Roland is my favorite comic.
[01:16:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:16:03] Speaker C: Also.
[01:16:08] Speaker D: I love all of them.
[01:16:09] Speaker A: Who does, like. Like, dark humor or, like, I guess. Well, I've been learning about the different types of, like, comedy or whatever.
[01:16:16] Speaker B: I would say.
[01:16:16] Speaker D: Roland, Tina.
[01:16:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:16:19] Speaker A: So how would you describe dark.
[01:16:20] Speaker C: Dark humor or, you know, it's funny? I don't. I don't try to, like, be like that. I just try to be funny, you know? But I just happen to, like.
[01:16:30] Speaker B: It just comes out morbid.
[01:16:31] Speaker C: I. I just like talking About. I just like talking about the Holocaust, 911.
Yeah, I can't help it. Yeah.
[01:16:41] Speaker A: So it's the person that. That kind of makes that genre instead of the genre making the person.
[01:16:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I think so. If you're. If you're a good writer. I think so.
[01:16:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:16:50] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[01:16:50] Speaker B: Are there any clean comics here, Corpus? Yeah, we have Leo.
[01:16:53] Speaker D: Leo Cortez. He does very clean and stuff like that. Oh, my kitchen door. I have a collection there.
[01:17:02] Speaker B: Thank you.
[01:17:03] Speaker D: Stickers.
[01:17:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I got some stickers here.
[01:17:06] Speaker D: It's official. Corpus Christi original Tasties.
[01:17:23] Speaker A: If you need the four by. If you need the four inchers, I got those.
[01:17:31] Speaker B: I have like, these raccoon stickers. Whenever I'm like, you do?
[01:17:33] Speaker D: I think I still have something on my refrigerator that you gave us. You had. You were somewhere that we were all at and you passed out, I think your business cards and stuff and. Or some kind of like, Corpus Christi Horror, like, club with, like, a little toy. And I have it on my refrigerator still. I look at it all the time. I was like, she.
[01:17:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:17:57] Speaker D: You know. But I guess we haven't crossed paths again since then.
[01:18:00] Speaker B: Why.
[01:18:00] Speaker A: Why raccoons? Did you just came upon those stickers?
[01:18:08] Speaker D: I don't know. Dig.
[01:18:11] Speaker B: I typed in raccoon, cuz I. And then like, these came out for like a dollar and I was.
I got these in kitty cats.
But you don't know how. Like, it's crazy. I was in Houston the other day and I was. Some girl was her birthday next, sitting next to me at the cafe, and they were just singing her happy birthday. And all I had was like, I had these stickers and I was like, I don't have anything for your birthday, but I have raccoon stickers. And she's like, raccoon stickers?
It's just stickers, okay? Stickers make people happy. So.
So ye. I just. I just.
[01:18:48] Speaker D: Yeah. There was one time I was delivering door dash to some place in Gregory, and it was like, fancy, like, seafood from, I don't know, that Poseidon place or whatever. And literally, I think I delivered it to a family of raccoons. They were like, waiting for me. They're like the J. Because y'all are over here standing up, going.
[01:19:13] Speaker B: Like, y'all did good. They make that weird noise.
[01:19:15] Speaker D: They like.
I don't know how they talk.
[01:19:18] Speaker B: Dr. The best man, my friend Stephanie Huffman. She's a wildlife rehabilit. Rehabilitator or whatever. And she has like a post that she like, saves because she saved a bird that fell out of a tree one time and ever since then, boom. Yeah, we became friends. And then I see all her post about the raccoons that she saves and everything. They're so cute. They are wild. You know what I'm.
[01:19:41] Speaker D: They were going through the trash over.
[01:19:42] Speaker B: There at those having a fe.
[01:19:45] Speaker D: They have you no fees.
[01:19:46] Speaker B: Crazy. Thank you.
[01:19:47] Speaker A: What do y'all think about the new bridge coming almost being finished?
[01:19:51] Speaker B: O. Are we going to get that or.
[01:19:52] Speaker C: GTA 6 first another way because I'm like trash pandas.
[01:19:57] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:19:59] Speaker A: What's going on? Nikki Lovin YouTube. Thanks for joining.
[01:20:01] Speaker B: A butterfly right there.
[01:20:02] Speaker A: Hey, what's going on? Thank you for joining.
[01:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah, her store is like the like goth person's dream or I mean, alter alternative clothing dream. It's not just girls, it's guys too. And you know, you just like my. I got my friend, she's a little. She think she's older, but she. I mean, she is older, but she's like, I can't be wearing this stuff. Well, we had a goth yoga at the Cost of men wellness center. And she's like, well, where do I go? So she goes to Nikki shop. She comes like, dressed up and like all this like, goth. Like more goth than me. And I'm like, girl, like. But yeah, she loves Nikki's story. Has like the coolest stickers too. And then I think she has like, crafty creations. They do little. She does a crochet cereal. Not serial killer, but.
[01:20:44] Speaker D: Oh, like monos.
[01:20:45] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Like Jason Bo, but they're crocheted. Does her little like. Like little machetes like that glass? She does like her. Her like glass necklaces and stuff like that. So she has other. Other people that are in her store that do our vendors.
[01:21:01] Speaker A: I forgot you mentioned she wanted to be. There's so many people that like.
[01:21:04] Speaker D: So in her store she has local like artisans sell things that they make in there.
[01:21:10] Speaker B: Yes. Right now I think that I know of is. Oh, and then she has some other person that does candles and lotions and stuff like that.
[01:21:17] Speaker D: So I've tried to walk into that store, but it's always been the dayt is not the time.
[01:21:23] Speaker B: Right. Yeah, go at 10am no, it go at night.
[01:21:27] Speaker A: Right?
[01:21:28] Speaker B: Nikki, like, go at night. It's chill. She's got her horror movies playing. You can turn on your dresses and whatever. And it's just like she has her. So. Oh, she has this. Her kid, Lucian dad Dud's like the best sales. He's gonna be.
[01:21:40] Speaker D: He's gonna be number one Salesman. That guy.
[01:21:42] Speaker B: Oh my God. I go in there and he's like, can I'm tying all the shoes. He's all, can I take your shoes? He's a. The four year old like putting my shoes to the side. He's like getting my dresses and all this stuff. And I was like, just, I'll take it off. It off after pay.
[01:21:55] Speaker D: At this point, he's the number one sales kid.
And Nikki, number one sells lady of goth clothes. You see, it's an army of number one sales ladies. We're going to take over the world.
[01:22:05] Speaker B: We need to have an event just on number one. Women of everything.
[01:22:08] Speaker D: No. Number two.
[01:22:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:22:12] Speaker A: Who's that bridge, mon. Monarch361 says she's going around the. The bridge.
Master of Newt says shout out to Oso Parkway raccoons. I know the ones from. Was it the Indian Point Pier?
There's. There's a bunch. There was a bunch out there.
[01:22:28] Speaker B: How do you say glass? Her name is Lisette. See, I didn't know this because I was calling her Lissetti last for the longest time and then I figured Lissette is her for her name. So the set is her glass. Yeah.
[01:22:40] Speaker D: Since we're talking about names, can I bring up something?
Oh my God.
[01:22:51] Speaker B: How much B. I mean, I mean, does he have visitors now?
[01:22:59] Speaker D: Did he really do it? I mean, I think McDonald just did.
[01:23:02] Speaker B: He was with you and me, right, the other night.
[01:23:07] Speaker D: He was at the comedy show. He was sitting next to her at the comedy show. He was there.
[01:23:11] Speaker B: You did not shoot stickers. I saw him. Yeah, fingerprint on the stickers. But what's the name that you're talking?
[01:23:17] Speaker D: Yeah, so. Cuz we were talking about names, right? So what's. This is going to be embarrassing. What's your name?
I'm horrible with names. And then so you're always posted as Corpus Christi Originals. But I'm like, rolling, what's the name of the host? Rolling, what's the name of the host?
[01:23:34] Speaker C: That's my dude right there.
[01:23:38] Speaker B: She's off that dude. Yeah, she's on.
[01:23:41] Speaker A: It's gonna stay anonymous.
[01:23:45] Speaker D: And I'm like, I'm not going to comment.
[01:23:52] Speaker A: My name is Jesus.
[01:23:56] Speaker D: And so we're probably in the Same yearbook for 2002 then.
[01:24:01] Speaker A: Wow, look at that. I never took. I didn't take my senior year picture. No, I'm in the, the. The group where we. Where everybody like made the 2000 big long one. Yeah, that's the one.
[01:24:15] Speaker B: You went to Miller. Yeah, Miller was thug back in the day. Well, when I grew, I mean, it.
[01:24:20] Speaker D: Was pretty nerdy when I went there.
[01:24:22] Speaker A: I went to Windfield Middle School.
[01:24:24] Speaker D: It was computer labs and code writing. I learned how to edit, video, shoot, video, everything, all at Miller High School. I did the news. I was in mariachi orchestra, color guard with the marching band, Spanish honor society. And I was also a sister city Corpus Christi recipient. So, yes, I was on top of it. I love that.
[01:24:45] Speaker A: Who's your favorite teacher?
[01:24:47] Speaker D: My favorite teacher. Shout out to Mr. Kank.
I was always part of the Mountain Dew club. If you got an A on your chemistry test, you would get a Mountain Dew and a Nutter Butter.
[01:25:01] Speaker B: Are you there? Yes.
[01:25:02] Speaker D: And I was the only senior he let skip. All the other ones were like, no, everybody has to show up at Anna's. Only one.
[01:25:09] Speaker B: He would let me get away with anything.
[01:25:10] Speaker D: But I was always make sure to get an A. Like, for sure.
[01:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Roland, I were mentioning West Doso, like, Westoso, where you learn music, but you don't learn how to read music.
[01:25:20] Speaker C: Yeah, you learn music, but not really.
[01:25:23] Speaker A: Kind of halfway learn music, but yeah. Yeah.
[01:25:26] Speaker B: I was supposed to graduate from Ray High School, but that senior year, I went to the wrong party. And there was a gang shooting at one of the parties that my friend got shot, literally while we were running, because they were shooting in front of the. The house. So we were literally leaving.
[01:25:39] Speaker D: Oh, my God.
[01:25:40] Speaker B: We were running. Like, once we heard the shots, we started running in my truck. And then my friend's like, my brother got hit. And I was like, say what? And then, like, we threw him in the back of the truck. They're like, my mom's down the street. I was like, we got to take the hospital. She's like, no, my mom's down the street. I'm like, we got to take the hospital.
[01:25:53] Speaker A: I want to mention something, and I think your brother, they. He. They said, you wearing Golden Gloves.
[01:25:57] Speaker D: Oh, wow.
[01:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought, I'm just kidding.
[01:26:01] Speaker A: The box. She was.
[01:26:02] Speaker D: That's so cool.
[01:26:03] Speaker B: I used to. Yeah. Because I think we talked about last podcast that my dad fought George Forbin back in the day, and I fought.
[01:26:12] Speaker C: One of his girls once.
[01:26:14] Speaker B: And you're still alive.
[01:26:15] Speaker C: I'm proud of you.
[01:26:19] Speaker B: But, yeah, so my ex husband back in the day wanted to be a boxer like my dad, and I was just like, okay, whatever. So I would. I would go to, like, the. The boxing gym with him with my little two Pomeranian minions, all like the cute little wife. And yeah, they're all, like, trying to spar and getting bloody because he he has no septum or whatever was wrong, so he would bleed everywhere every time he would spark.
[01:26:41] Speaker D: Oh.
[01:26:41] Speaker B: Because you're gonna get hit 100 of the time you're in boxy.
Yeah. I saw girls fighting, and I was just like, I can do this, too. And my daddy did it. I can do it. So.
So, yeah, I was just like. Kept the Pomeranians at home. I started doing it. My. My ex husband stopped doing it. I kept doing it. I ended up going to Golden Gloves. And she had a school, too. I had my own boxing gym with my own girls that I took to Golden Gloves as well. Cool. And so, yeah, the only reason I joined Crunch is because they have a boxing bag.
I will not go to a gym. But they have, and I haven't got them, so.
[01:27:15] Speaker A: That's so cool.
[01:27:16] Speaker C: Favorite boxing movie?
[01:27:18] Speaker B: Well, I. It'll always be Rocky because me and my dad. My dad was, like, burned in a propane tank accident.
[01:27:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:27:25] Speaker B: Power equipment. Long time ago. Ago. And so his partner died, but, like, my dad stuck it through. And so I remember being at Memorial Hospital in the burn unit, and my dad. Me and my. I'm trying to get my dad motivation. I'm like, come on, Rocky. We can do it. We watch Rocky movies together. I'm like, come on, dad. You can. You can do that. And he said that's what helped him get it through was, like, remembering that the movie and symphony and stuff like that.
[01:27:48] Speaker D: So how do you guys feel that they, like, tore down the hospital? Like, I feel like I had so many childhood memories at that Memorial hospital. Like, so many members of my family were born. Born there.
[01:27:59] Speaker A: That Corpus. Like, we're kind of known for tearing down historical stuff.
[01:28:02] Speaker D: Right? It feels like a little bit. Except for this whatever courthouse. The courthouse that is like, that. We never did nothing with it.
[01:28:10] Speaker B: Have y'all ever gone in it?
[01:28:12] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:28:13] Speaker D: Beautiful inside the main lobby with all the marble and it's like that big. It's gorgeous. Like, we really should be utilizing that space for anything. Texas history or whatever.
[01:28:25] Speaker B: Yeah, something.
[01:28:26] Speaker D: And no, it's.
[01:28:27] Speaker B: It's like, it's. I mean, or at least, like, downsize it. Like, maybe not take away the. The whole thing.
[01:28:32] Speaker D: Like, monetize the back and keep the front facade.
[01:28:35] Speaker B: So, like. Yeah, once you go in there, especially at night.
But it's beautiful because you're just like, wow, look at the floor. Look at the. The pillars, everything. It's like they still have this stuff there going into those, like, mini, like, prison chambers.
[01:28:48] Speaker D: And the little, like, prisoner, like, drawings that were in There. And we saw some in there.
[01:28:52] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:28:53] Speaker B: Yeah. No, and then my kid had me go all the way to the top, and my kids, like, jumping on the roof, and I'm, like, on crack or something. So. Yeah, no, it was a. It was an intense time. But, yeah, don't. Don't arrest me for that.
[01:29:07] Speaker D: But not for real city. Do something. Because it does pique a lot of curiosity, especially as young people. And so that's when I went in, like, I think we were in middle school or high school when we, like, broke into there during the day, and, like, some homeless person was like, yeah, you go through that door.
But that's what we were doing.
[01:29:24] Speaker A: Stop bothering me.
[01:29:27] Speaker D: Very helpful. The homeless people were like tour guides. You know, that's how you go through here. And they pretty much left us alone. But, you know, they're like, if you move this panel, you can go in or whatever, and. And it was an awesome experience.
[01:29:39] Speaker B: Almost like the Buttercrust. Did y'all ever do the Buttercrust?
[01:29:41] Speaker D: Oh, the buttercrust.
[01:29:42] Speaker A: Oh, man, I remember the.
The smell was awesome.
[01:29:46] Speaker B: Oh, God, man. For those of y'all don't even know. Oh, the col. That's where I fought. I fought at the. The col. Oh, that's.
[01:29:53] Speaker D: My grandpa built that. Like, that's what brought our whole family to Corpus was the Coliseum. He had gotten the job to do that.
[01:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's a. Yeah, I did, too.
[01:30:04] Speaker D: I think I was. We were the last graduation 03 to.
[01:30:07] Speaker B: Come out of that d. That Coliseum was. That was awesome. There's so many memories there. Yeah, I think. Yeah, you're right.
[01:30:12] Speaker D: They.
[01:30:13] Speaker A: The courthouse is the only thing left. I mean, well, the bridge. But it's going to be gone soon.
[01:30:17] Speaker D: They sold that to another country, so it's going to be somewhere in the world.
[01:30:21] Speaker B: Wait, the bridge.
[01:30:22] Speaker D: The harbor bridge. Yes. They, like. It's like a mobile home. They're just going to pick it up and move it.
[01:30:27] Speaker C: What's going on tour?
[01:30:32] Speaker B: I don't. I want to wait a couple years.
Like, I don't want to go over it yet.
[01:30:36] Speaker D: Well, wait, like, a couple people first.
I remember one time we were at a Hooks game, and Tina was like, oh, my God, look at that worker. He's all the way up there. Would you go and work up there? And I was like, yeah. She's like, would you?
[01:30:52] Speaker C: What?
[01:30:53] Speaker D: You're not scared? I was like, yeah, I'll be scared, but I'll work on it.
[01:30:58] Speaker B: They better be paying me good.
[01:30:59] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, I. I can't wait And I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. It'll be scary driving over.
[01:31:04] Speaker A: Is there like a walk on the side?
[01:31:07] Speaker D: I remember the original plans. There were supposed to be like, even like a park in the middle, but I don't think.
[01:31:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that.
[01:31:14] Speaker D: But I don't were able to, like, do that. I don't think there is going to be a way that I do kind of want to walk over the harbor bridge before they tear it down. So if anybody wants to do that with me, shout out to city of Corpse Christie if y'all want to walk.
[01:31:27] Speaker C: Over the whole city.
[01:31:31] Speaker D: Kidding. No, we're all walking over the bridge.
[01:31:36] Speaker B: Everybody unite. Everybody that remember we're doing it. So we all carry flags. Okay.
[01:31:42] Speaker A: Remember our producers falling asleep back here?
[01:31:46] Speaker B: Sorry we're not buddy enough for you.
[01:31:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Is it. Is it. So they're. They're building the bridge because bigger ships are coming in.
[01:31:56] Speaker D: Yeah. So bigger, wider tanker ships can come through the port and we can reap the benefits of that, hopefully. So that should bring more logistics jobs, more truck driver jobs, more like that. Because we'll be able to get more shipping containers and more different things from around the world. World through our.
[01:32:15] Speaker A: So it's a good thing.
[01:32:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And my kid just brought up the carousel. Everybody, everybody go to the carousel.
[01:32:21] Speaker C: Oh, I remember that on YouTube says.
[01:32:24] Speaker A: Took the carousel from us.
[01:32:25] Speaker B: Now that old mall, that's where I got my first job at the other.
[01:32:28] Speaker D: Now it's a fountain, right? Like. Or no, it's like the cookie place. I don't know.
[01:32:32] Speaker B: But that bomb.
[01:32:33] Speaker C: Yeah, it was.
[01:32:34] Speaker B: And then the theater upstairs.
[01:32:35] Speaker D: Remember that?
[01:32:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[01:32:37] Speaker C: The Tilt the Dollar.
[01:32:40] Speaker D: But I saw like, Batman, the Michael Keaton Batman so many times at that movie theater next to Tilt. And I remember my mom being so tired from work, and I'd be like, mom, wake up.
This is where she asked for the salt.
[01:32:56] Speaker A: Seen gleaming the cube. You seen that one? It's a. It's a skateboard movie with Christian Slater. I remember seeing Ask Now.
[01:33:04] Speaker C: Christian Slater.
[01:33:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:33:07] Speaker B: Is it old? Old one. An older.
[01:33:09] Speaker A: It's like 80? I didn't want to say 80s.
[01:33:11] Speaker B: What is it grinding?
[01:33:12] Speaker A: No, glim in the cube.
[01:33:14] Speaker B: Was it at that movie theater or what we saw?
[01:33:17] Speaker D: And then, like, where that jump or whatever thing. That was a theater. And I remember we saw Titanic. Me and my friend. Or me and my friend J. We saw Titanic probably three times there. That was like our first porno.
[01:33:31] Speaker B: You're like, you know what?
[01:33:32] Speaker D: They're exposure.
Yeah. But you know what? I want. I. I want one of those black tiles from the Dollar Movie because it's all exposed, you know, they're tearing it. Wish there was a way that I could go and just save one of those tiles.
[01:33:48] Speaker B: I know. See, you're right, because I. I was. I was too young. I'm sure y'all were younger and didn't think about, like, oh, this is going to be a memory, you know, in the future. So. Yeah, that's what sucks. Yeah.
[01:33:58] Speaker D: So, you know, my mom was a modern mom, and she would. She taught me how to sneak into the movie theater.
Like, this is how you're going to do this? I'm buying one ticket, and you just walk right behind me. But we're going to stay for three.
[01:34:16] Speaker C: That was the best purse.
[01:34:19] Speaker D: Like chicken.
[01:34:21] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[01:34:24] Speaker C: The Dollar Theater was a great babysitter. I love the Dollar Theater.
[01:34:30] Speaker B: No, when we went to the. When I used to go to the Dollar Theater, bro.
[01:34:36] Speaker D: And that's because my mom was sneaking to the Dollar.
[01:34:40] Speaker B: You got to say, hey, the popcorns were cheaper.
Pop carded drinks. We're still trying to price, so.
[01:34:47] Speaker C: So that guy in the Valley who thought we didn't struggle.
[01:34:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:34:58] Speaker D: Look at the concession stand.
[01:35:00] Speaker B: You know, the carnival games, right, that y'all would play? Put a quarter in or whatever. Oh, yeah, Remember, because not now they have all the fancy carnival, but back in the old school, you would do, like, a little old. Yeah.
[01:35:09] Speaker D: Oh, my God. Remember when Peter Piper was on airs and it was like that old dark one that was really cool. When we had my birthday party there, and my Grandpa Jose had given me a hundred dollar bill and I put it in the corner that same birthday. I remember my cake had, like, roses on it. And my uncle, he was like, spill the.
[01:35:38] Speaker B: No.
[01:35:41] Speaker D: Wait, that was all in the same birthday. But I remember putting that $100 bill.
[01:35:45] Speaker B: In there, and it was like.
[01:35:46] Speaker D: Like Vegas.
[01:35:50] Speaker A: Never ending.
[01:35:51] Speaker B: My mom was pissed.
Whenever we used to go to the gays. You know what my dad would do? He'd be like, tell the people. So, hey, my daughter's a little special needs person. Literally, like, I was like, huh, dad? See, she doesn't understand.
[01:36:10] Speaker D: Till I got older.
[01:36:10] Speaker B: And I was like, wait a minute.
[01:36:13] Speaker D: And then my brother.
[01:36:14] Speaker B: My brother used to say I was adopted all the time. Was like, I was traumatized.
And I went to Catholic school, so that didn't help.
[01:36:23] Speaker C: Me and my brother and sister, we. We took the thing from the Simpsons and she would start crying and, like, ask for her mom, and you could just push her in the front gets you to all the front of the lines.
[01:36:33] Speaker B: Do y'all have any brothers and sisters?
[01:36:34] Speaker D: Yeah, I have a stepbrother, yes.
[01:36:37] Speaker B: Did y'all traumatize any of your siblings? I got traumatized, yeah.
[01:36:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I. My. My older brother, he's year apart from me, so we were kind of like bugging each other all the time, so. Yeah. But. And he. It's weird because he's his. The way he is, and I'm the way I am.
[01:36:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:36:55] Speaker A: And it's like every now and then we. We'll be brothers, but then the rest of the time, like. All right, you, your spots over there. My spots over here, dude.
[01:37:04] Speaker B: My brother. I heard stories about my brothers where my brother. Because my older brother is. He's the middle brother. My older brother is, like, really sensitive or like, he would. At Catholic school, he would eat with the nuns, not in the cafeteria, because he would get grossed out by the kids with their, you know, their snot coming out of their nose, and he would throw up. So every time. So the nuns are like, no, you're going to go eat with me so you don't throw up anymore. But my brother supposedly. I don't know if he could confirm this at a roach in front of my brother.
[01:37:32] Speaker D: Oh, God.
[01:37:34] Speaker B: And my brother was like, riding to the motor or not as much his bike. And then my younger brother got a stick.
[01:37:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's a good point. Marcus Rene. YouTube. Can you imagine walking on the new bridge from crosstown to North Beach? Yeah. That is a long walk.
[01:37:49] Speaker B: Okay. How many people get lost? Still got. Are still getting lost driving from here to there. I always take the wrong one to.
[01:37:58] Speaker D: To get used to, like, the whole redirection. There was. I think I did drive over to normal North Beach a couple.
[01:38:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:38:03] Speaker D: I try to come down until I finally figured out a new route. And I'm like, now I got it.
But, man, there would be times where I'm like, oh, yeah, you're trapped. You're trapped. You're going.
[01:38:14] Speaker B: No point on me getting anywhere early because from here to there, because I'm gonna get lost. I always get lost.
[01:38:20] Speaker D: Now that I work downtown, I think I have a pretty good layout, especially Uber driving. I've been doing that all this year.
[01:38:26] Speaker B: Oh, you gotta have. Really?
[01:38:27] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:38:28] Speaker D: So now I really have extremely good knowledge of the streets. And it's a lot of fun.
[01:38:32] Speaker B: Yeah. It's kind of like being a delivery driver. You end up like.
[01:38:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:38:35] Speaker B: Learning where to go.
[01:38:36] Speaker A: You work like, you.
[01:38:38] Speaker D: I work Uber at night time. Yeah. So I do my normal job during the day and then I Uber at night.
[01:38:46] Speaker A: Wow, that's great.
[01:38:47] Speaker D: I was door dashing for a while, but like I had been wanting to do, actually. I feel like you make more money on doordash than Uber and there's less goings on, you know, because it's not like the human aspect of it.
[01:39:01] Speaker B: Right.
[01:39:01] Speaker D: But driving Uber is very rewarding in Corpus. You know, you pick up a lot of older people and conversations and I really feel like sometimes God gets to work his miracles through me just as being an Uber driver.
[01:39:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:39:17] Speaker D: And you get to really have a sense of the city of who's in here and everything. We got a lot of old people and I think we need. Yeah, we need to young it up a little bit and stuff. But we're. We'll get, get there and it's a lot of fun. I did have a little old man fall fall down out of my car.
[01:39:32] Speaker A: Oh no.
[01:39:34] Speaker D: Ever since then, I haven't turned it on again.
It was his fault. He was like, mihita, before you drop me off, can we get a Coke at. And he wanted it from Wendy's because they were a dollar. But I was trying not to do that. So I skipped that route to tried not to that he's like, oh, plus you didn't go that way. But we could go right here.
[01:39:58] Speaker B: McDonald's.
[01:40:00] Speaker A: Oh, no, not to worry.
[01:40:03] Speaker D: He's like, we have a backup plan.
So I went ahead and bought his book.
[01:40:10] Speaker B: All the people are like that. They just like, they. No. Don't think you can trick me out of this. I'll find another like a little kid.
[01:40:18] Speaker D: You know, like, you know your mom used to do like around the block to not see the McDonald's or whatever.
[01:40:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, no, I remember those s. Yeah. They just always find back it's. My dad used to be like that.
[01:40:28] Speaker D: Yeah. And that's what he did to me.
[01:40:30] Speaker B: So we.
[01:40:31] Speaker D: I was like, okay. He was like, but they're not a dollar. And I was okay. So I paid for the sodas.
[01:40:37] Speaker B: Glad all along I didn't have my dog.
[01:40:45] Speaker A: Smarter than what.
[01:40:48] Speaker D: Man?
[01:40:49] Speaker B: You think that they're not thinking. But then they're thinking.
My dad always had like the snappy remarks and always knew stuff. And I'm just cuz he was like, know that Takadas charge you extra if you pay. Pay with credit card. Was like, what? And I was like, no, a dad. They can't do that legally. I looked it up and I talked to them and they're like, yes, they charge Extra if you use credit card, not cash.
[01:41:08] Speaker D: And I was like, yeah, I think it's their.
[01:41:10] Speaker A: Their machine or whatever.
[01:41:11] Speaker D: Yeah, certain places. Cuz they do get charged a fee. But you know who is a Corpus Christi original? My grandpa Jose. The one that gave me the 100 bucks.
He actually like 102.
[01:41:22] Speaker B: Whoa.
[01:41:23] Speaker D: Next year he'll be 103 till here.
[01:41:26] Speaker A: See, I've been. He.
[01:41:27] Speaker D: He built all of like Molina, basically with his bare hands. Is really cool. You know who you should get on the podcast? Who I love so much. I don't know if y'all ever go to lunch here at the Whataburger downtown. Ms. Terry. Ms. Terry is 83 years old and she cleans the tables and brings. And I have to keep her busy because she'll be like, mijita, do you want to refill me? I'm like, Ms. Terry, I need a ketchup and I need three napkins and two. Because she gets excited. She wants to do stuff. You know, she wants to be busy and she's like there with the tables and she always takes the time to come and talk and everything. But Ms. Terry is amazing. Maybe not. Yolanda Salar.
[01:42:06] Speaker A: Marcus Renee on YouTube, y'all discuss Yolanda Sal.
[01:42:10] Speaker D: I think we want to keep produce studios as is.
[01:42:13] Speaker B: And we don't want.
[01:42:15] Speaker D: We don't want any ride.
There's a lot of nice things in here. We'd like to keep it the way it is.
[01:42:21] Speaker B: There's a nice transformer that might not be here.
[01:42:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I like her. You're like, oh, it's mine now.
[01:42:29] Speaker D: Because.
[01:42:30] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:42:30] Speaker D: Yeah. No Yolanda. I feel bad for her.
Not really, though, cuz she killed.
[01:42:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:42:37] Speaker D: So, I mean, I can't get over it. Yeah, I can't get over it.
[01:42:41] Speaker B: I remember that. I remember.
[01:42:41] Speaker D: I remember when Selena died, I lived in Molina and I would go to her house. They had to put up that fence around because of me. I was literally there all the time.
[01:42:49] Speaker B: I was in BE when that happened. I was. I remember walking to Walmart. Everybody's buying her CDs and everything. I already had her stuff, obviously. Yeah, we used to listen to her stuff. But I was just like, what? And they're just like, selena died.
[01:42:59] Speaker D: I was, yeah.
[01:43:00] Speaker B: What the.
[01:43:00] Speaker D: What do y'all think about the Johnny Canales drama? I love Johnny Canales. Let's go. And I dressed up as Johnny. I dressed up as Johnny Canales for Halloween.
[01:43:08] Speaker B: And I love it.
[01:43:10] Speaker D: And I love it. And I recently got a little Johnny Canales artifact from one of my co. Workers. And I love that. But you know, he. He was married to Nora and he has his daughters with Nora and everything like that. Nora Canales, his wife, who pretty much took care of him all the way until this very last days.
But this woman has come out from the 90s and said that she was originally married to him and they did not get a divorce. So this marriage to Nora is not a valid one because he never divorced the other one. So she is. She filed a motion, I think today or yesterday that. To freeze all assets so that Nora cannot sell off any properties or move any bank money or anything like that. And this. And I just like, okay, dude, this was like 93. And you're bringing this up now after they've built so much and have daughters and all this stuff. And then she took care of Johnny on his deathbed.
[01:44:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:44:06] Speaker D: You know, they.
[01:44:08] Speaker B: That's. That's crazy.
[01:44:09] Speaker A: Unbelievable.
[01:44:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
That's real life drama.
[01:44:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:44:12] Speaker B: I didn't know. I guess. So this barely happened.
[01:44:16] Speaker D: Barely happened because he just passed away not too long ago. Yeah. And as soon as he passed away, probably a month later, she's like, nope.
[01:44:24] Speaker A: There was actually an. There was another thing in the news. An officer was like framed like a kid or something like.
[01:44:29] Speaker C: Oh yeah, I heard about that.
[01:44:31] Speaker B: I saw that Hamlin Middle School planet a weed vape.
[01:44:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:44:35] Speaker B: Yeah. I was talking to my friend about that the other day.
[01:44:37] Speaker C: Dude, that kid must have been up to some hardcore if they had to frame him. What the.
[01:44:42] Speaker B: They did like three other kids too, supposedly.
[01:44:44] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:44:45] Speaker B: So there's like a whole investigation was.
[01:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:44:47] Speaker B: Cuz they were talking about all the other kids.
[01:44:48] Speaker D: They were.
Our security guard at Miller High School was super cool. He was Batman.
He would have a Batman like belt thing and he. On Halloween he would dress up as Batman. Full blown. I don't know. Miller High School was kind of like going to Glee and everything. Like Anastasia Davis went to high school with me and would be in full drag in the hallways.
Not a problem. I remember she dressed up as Marilyn Monroe for. Or a sock hop dancer. Favorites dance or something. And every football player, basketball player, baseball player was lining up to get a picture. Like because she had all the va va voom and the dress and doing all the Anastasia Davis things that she does.
[01:45:34] Speaker B: Amazing question.
What is. What do y'all think about the whole drag thing coming up as like they has to be 18 plus or so and so because they feel the drags are being impressionable on kids. What are Yalls thoughts on that? I mean, I work very I wouldn't say very close, but I do support the drag community. Obviously, I've worked with them as well.
I don't see it's performance art. I don't see them coming up to kids. I don't see them, like, I don't think we're. It's gonna impression. And of course, if you're taking your kid, I think kids, that's on you.
[01:46:09] Speaker D: You know, when it's. The kid's gonna be gay, like, you know.
[01:46:12] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean, it's more of like, oh, the, the, the jag queens are like, making them, you know, gay or making them, you know, look at this, like, sexual stuff because they're dressed like this or.
[01:46:22] Speaker D: I don't know if y'all follow RuPaul's Drag Race, but there's a drag queen on there named Georges, and Georges is from San Antonio. Yeah, Very Mexican upbringing, very macho dad, everything like that. But there's pictures and videos of George's as a five year old, like, you know, strutting and dancing and flipping and doing all of the things there's. It's just undeniable that that little kid was going to be a drag queen when he grew up. Like, there was just no way to deny that.
[01:46:50] Speaker B: What do you guys think, as guys, like, is it. Do you, Are you. Do you feel that, like a drag show would be impressionable on, like, I don't know, like I said, I think.
[01:46:59] Speaker D: I always feel like gonna be a standup comedian since birth.
[01:47:02] Speaker A: Like, literally, I'm, I'm really like, honestly, I'm against the grain. Like, on a lot of this stuff. I'm more like of on like the consumer conservative side of it. I mean, it's like that, that's. I'll just. I try not to bring it up that much.
[01:47:17] Speaker B: It's like 18 and older, though. Do you feel that? Like, it's safe. I mean, space.
[01:47:21] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. Because at that point you can make your own decisions. You know what I mean? You're kind of, you know.
[01:47:26] Speaker B: But as for, like the parents that.
[01:47:27] Speaker A: Bring kids, if the parents take their kids, then that. That's on there. It's on the parents.
[01:47:32] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:47:32] Speaker B: Usually that's how it was. Like, no, no. Drag show was like, hey, I want to cater to a kid. It's mainly adult themed, which has always been the deal. So it's just like, why are they getting the hate? Because you want to bring your kid to the show. Like, it's just common.
[01:47:49] Speaker D: I think it's like they started coming up when drag Queen started going into the libraries and reading to the kids in full drag. And that was a thing that was happening and that kind of stuff.
I think that's where that kind of got stupid.
[01:48:02] Speaker B: Well, to me, I felt like it's art. They're. They're dressed up as a character, which is like, even a straight person can dress up as a character. Yeah, it's just like Disney. Just a drag queen.
[01:48:10] Speaker D: There's the drag queen and the kid. There's no way. I mean, George's would used to, like, sneak into clubs and different things. I remember Anastasia. I remember the. When House of Rock was Violet. Club Violet.
[01:48:21] Speaker B: Oh, Velvet.
[01:48:22] Speaker D: Velvet. Velvet. Sorry, Velvet.
[01:48:24] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[01:48:25] Speaker D: I remember being there at 18 with the M on the hands and seeing, you know, Anastasia becoming Anastasia before my eyes. That was magical.
[01:48:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And it's just for me, because being talking with them and the. The younger ones, I have even talked to some that their parents don't know they're doing drag. They don't. And I'm like, how are you speaking out? I'm like, oh. And you're like, yeah, okay.
[01:48:49] Speaker C: You literally my drag outfit actually very well.
[01:48:54] Speaker B: But yeah, I'm just like, you know, I. I feel like also for the drag performers, I just don't have that support from their family because they're scared that their family's going to be against them. And I'm just like. And I've seen their performances and it's nothing sexual. It's just them doing a performance act. And it looks like it's amazing, the. The detail. And, like, there's one performer bas. He. He puts a. He's a jag king. And drag, you know, as we see, it's. It's a female dressed as a man. And, you know, we call him a he because it's, you know, that's his Jack King. And he's got this whole mask that he put, like the saw mask that he created himself, and he put incorporates that in his whole act, and it's just awesome. Arsenic just went to the Austin. Jack Festival supporter. I mean, represented Corpus Christi. He was at the Pride, you know, event, and he went out in a full van vampire costume, doing a whole vampire act. And at the end, he had smoke coming out of his back in his face, literally doing the act of him dying or whatever.
[01:50:00] Speaker D: And it's.
[01:50:00] Speaker B: That's where I see. It's like, it's performance art where it's like, I don't see it. I mean, a kid. Kids were there. It's just like that Is like something they should see is like, hey, I can maybe not be a drag king or queen, but to, to put that kind of knowledge into possibly being like an artist somehow somewhere, just like if they can do this, maybe I can do that.
[01:50:19] Speaker D: And it's just, I mean, I don't have any kids, so I have no way to like say or anything, but I mean, just like how I would treat my kitty cat. Boundaries.
[01:50:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:50:29] Speaker D: And different things. Like that's just a normal upbringing to everyone. There's time where I can love on you and there's times where we have boundaries and there's times where as your parent, I decided no on this communication you have to, you know, do because you're my kid until you go and pay your own bills. I, I'm 39 and I pay my own bills and my mom still puts boundaries on me about if you're Hispanic.
[01:50:53] Speaker B: Parent is still alive, you are still their kid.
[01:50:56] Speaker D: They still whoop you and they'll still do all the different things. I mean, but I have no say so on that kind of subject as far as kids are concerned. Because I don't have any of my own and I've never wanted any.
[01:51:07] Speaker B: See, yeah, that's where I would have said like I would have drawn like a battery as a mother. I would have been like, okay, my kid is not ready to see that. I would not take my kid to that.
I just feel like, you know, the whole hate on the whole drag community over it. Like it was there, the ones that did it, it's just like, dude, they're not actively. Most dragons and, and gay people don't even.
[01:51:26] Speaker A: Like, it's. It's like in like you can just flip it and be like, well like the Christians, they're forcing it on the, on true. You know what I mean? You could, it's like any, anything can be perverted. Like, you know what I mean? If it's like you're saying it's art.
[01:51:41] Speaker C: And I do mean anything.
[01:51:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:51:43] Speaker A: It can be like kind of taken to the extreme or whatever, I guess you could say.
[01:51:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Because actually my first horror movie was a religious film.
I was. I don't know, my parents took me to some retreat and.
[01:51:56] Speaker C: Was it the devils?
[01:51:58] Speaker B: What?
[01:51:58] Speaker C: Was it the devils?
[01:51:59] Speaker B: The devils?
[01:52:00] Speaker C: Yeah. The Ken Burn. Not Ken Burn.
[01:52:03] Speaker B: I don't. It was like. It was about the apocalypse, right. And there was blood in the river and everything thing. And I'm just like scared. Like it scared me more than the Exorcist movie did when I was a little kid. And I was just like, mom, am I going to die?
[01:52:16] Speaker A: Like, the one that really tripped me out was the Chainsaw Massacre, the original one.
[01:52:20] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, that's a perfect movie. By the way, they did not show.
[01:52:24] Speaker B: That Texas treat right there.
[01:52:26] Speaker D: Nothing better, you know.
[01:52:28] Speaker C: You know what scared me? The. The ter. The shitty remake that came out in, like, 2003 with Jessica Beal.
[01:52:33] Speaker A: It's like, over. They over, like, overdid it or something, right?
[01:52:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. No, it's not. It's not a great movie, but that's the movie that scared me the most as a kid.
[01:52:40] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[01:52:41] Speaker B: That.
[01:52:41] Speaker C: That terrible one. And then I saw the original, and then I was like, oh, God, this is so much better.
[01:52:46] Speaker B: Feel like I get it now.
[01:52:47] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:52:47] Speaker B: I like Rob Zombie's take on certain horror films.
[01:52:51] Speaker D: Yeah, Rob Zombie's a lot of fun.
[01:52:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Even though he cast his wife on everything.
But, you know, it is what it is. His wife is his movie.
[01:52:59] Speaker A: I remember he's like, no, you're gonna stay down here.
[01:53:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, no, I. I like this kind, like, psychological thr. Silence of the Lambs.
[01:53:08] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:53:09] Speaker B: Stuff like that.
[01:53:10] Speaker A: So was it the. The Dragon or something like that was.
[01:53:13] Speaker B: Like the Secret Red Dragon.
[01:53:15] Speaker A: Yeah, that one. Yeah. Yeah, I just seen that one recently.
[01:53:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:53:19] Speaker C: Did you like it? I haven't seen this. I was a kid.
[01:53:20] Speaker A: No, it's all right.
[01:53:22] Speaker C: All right.
[01:53:22] Speaker B: The book is better. Like, I read the books. The books are better, so. I mean, like, at least you usually are, so.
[01:53:28] Speaker C: But.
[01:53:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I have a. There's a book club my friend Ashley and Maria have together, and they had us read about the murders in.
Oh, shoot. Over there in Mexico. Where they killed that college students. Yeah, well, that one college kid from. From here. San Marcos, I think, or something like that.
[01:53:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:53:48] Speaker B: And we were reading about it. That was pretty graphic. And they actually made a movie on Netflix about it.
[01:53:52] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[01:53:52] Speaker B: Yeah, because it was like a. A satanic cult this guy put together. And he was also a drug dealer, and he killed, like, they found, like, all these.
[01:53:59] Speaker D: Yes. They need offerings. Yeah, they have to do offerings.
[01:54:03] Speaker B: But then he was married.
[01:54:04] Speaker D: And I've actually been to an entire shrine devoted to that. The Santissima Muerte. And it was, like, weird because it's like a double shrine in Reynosa. One half of the mountain is all in the color white. And the shrine is for this bus that had a car accident. And when the bus had the accident, everybody went missing. And all they found was the steering wheel with the hands of the driver on there, Right. One of those Mexican myth legends. But then you turn the corner and go around the other side of the mountain, and then it becomes darkness. And it's like all santisima muerta shrines where people, like drug dealers and stuff come and bring offerings so that they can pray for safe passage.
[01:54:47] Speaker B: Right? Yeah, yeah. It's crazy.
[01:54:48] Speaker D: It's crazy.
[01:54:49] Speaker B: Like, the whole religious aspect on certain, like evil, you know, not evil. Stuff like that. Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
[01:54:56] Speaker A: We'll wrap it. We got to wrap it up, guys. Coming up on two hours. Thanks for coming on the show. Anything you want to share before we go?
[01:55:03] Speaker D: Yeah, definitely. Always make sure you go to ww misskeetstreetlive.com to keep up with all of the up and coming comics and shows, comedy shows that we have coming on, like, big. From big national touring headliners to, you know, just Texas only lot headliners and things like that. And come to our open mics every Thursday. Come to the downtown area. We now have, like three different open mics that you can come and see all of just the Corpus Christi locals because we have about 30 of us in the scene. And this is where you would be able to get a taste of not only our comedy and corpus, but we do get visitors from Laredo and San Antonio and the Valley and stuff that come and visit because they're like only an hour or two hours away. So definitely always come out every single Thursday to any of those. And then Tina's got the comedy collective coming up on the 18th at the Annex. Definitely come and see that. And just follow me. Anna J. Ramirez on all socials to keep up with all of the comedy show flyers, who's coming in town, what would it. What we're doing, and all of that kind of stuff. That'd be great. Thank you.
[01:56:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I've been talking a lot about sports with Roland. Fun show. I've talked about a lot about the show I got coming up Saturday at the Jazz Room.
I also need to promote Long John Silvers. I feel like they need our help.
That's all I got.
[01:56:24] Speaker B: Long John Silver is. That's what's up. Okay.
I like going there. And they're chicken. They're Hush Puppies.
So are you dead? I'm sorry, Do I go down CC Goth Girl or the CC Horror Club on Instagram for me or the official Corpus Christi Horror Club on Facebook? Tik tok is ccgoth girl and Instagram or no YouTube eventually will happen.
Also haunted the Boogeyman. If you want to go to a haunted Christmas thing. That's this weekend, the Hidden door. A little 1145 Hexmas drag performers. 18 plus or 21 plus possibly.
[01:57:04] Speaker D: So like the drag queens performing, are they gonna be like gothy dude?
[01:57:08] Speaker B: Yes, because they got.
Yeah, they got like the intense performers that, you know, they go hard. They're just like. I mean, no, don't get me wrong, I don't mind a beautiful drag queen.
[01:57:18] Speaker D: Glamour, but we also want to see.
[01:57:20] Speaker B: Oh yeah, I know it's Hexmas. So it is completely like horror got style. So. And then Saturday, of course, suicidal butterfly event 12 to 6 will be for me and my friends will be performing at 1, then at 9:00 a, studio B, Black Lagoon, drag, DJ, stuff like that. And of course your show.
Awesome. And Salem.
[01:57:44] Speaker A: Thanks a lot. Thanks.
[01:57:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. 1145 the hidden door. Friday then, I guess. Yeah, the man reckon web is. Is a Salem.
[01:57:53] Speaker A: So thank you everybody on Facebook and YouTube for being in the chat. Also thanks. Thanks a lot you guys for watching the show. Next week we got the almighty public zoo talking about Corpus Christi hip hop culture. So stay tuned for that next week and put a flyer out there. Shout out to Drift Corpus for sponsoring these past couple weeks. Also for CC Horror Club for courtesy of the $40 store credit if you tagged anybody on there. If not, we'll pick a winner from the Facebook comments. But thanks a lot you guys. Stay tuned for some more episodes. Have a good one. Bye.
