ICBTB Podcast: Friendship, Roast Culture, and Real Talk
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😂 Growing up in friend groups where thick skin is a requirement
🏀 Tall guy problems, short king jokes, and the genetics lottery
🎤 From Six Flags performances to 11-year relationship goals
🏠 Mattress-on-the-floor days and awkward family moments
🌆 Bay Area vs. SoCal living, Sacramento nightlife, and mermaids at Dive Bar
💬 Why showing up for your friends matters more than perfect communication
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Transcript
You gotta grow up with thick skin because you guys are just roasting each other, right?
Speaker B:Dude, tell me about it.
Speaker B:I think we've all made each other cry, like, five times.
Speaker A:If you didn't make your homie cry, are you guys even homies, right?
Speaker C:Certified crash out, right?
Speaker B:Me and Gabe almost fought.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I'm a certified crash out.
Speaker D:I know, I know.
Speaker D:This guy will be like, I think.
Speaker E:Everybody knows what they're doing.
Speaker D:You guys, you guys.
Speaker D:You guys ain't talked to me in, like, three weeks, but didn't you feel good?
Speaker A:Hey, dude, I applaud you, though, for being vocal about your feelings, because I'm definitely that type of person.
Speaker A:I'll be like, man, I haven't talked to my homeboys in a minute.
Speaker A:Are they mad at me?
Speaker B:Oh, hell no.
Speaker B:I hit the group chat.
Speaker B:Be like, why nobody with me right now?
Speaker C:What's up, y'?
Speaker A:All?
Speaker E:We are back with another episode of Unquestionable, the podcast.
Speaker E:And we were here with the boy Christian from It Can Be that bad.
Speaker D:The podcast.
Speaker A:Oh, what's up?
Speaker D:Thanks for having me.
Speaker A:We got it.
Speaker B:Thanks for coming out today, bro.
Speaker F:Appreciate.
Speaker A:You guys invited me to a mansion.
Speaker A:Your.
Speaker A:Your viewers can't see it, but you guys, we're in Beverly Hills right now.
Speaker C:It's just a little clubhouse.
Speaker A:It looks dope, though.
Speaker A:I mean, I feel like royalty here.
Speaker C:Appreciate and appreciate you for saving us from the mishap, man.
Speaker C:Aaron, you got to come clean to the people.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:What happened, bro?
Speaker D:For the people that don't know me and Chris, make the show go round.
Speaker D:If it wasn't for us, like, it would not be possible.
Speaker D:I'm not going to lie to you guys.
Speaker B:Long story short, Aaron forgot the mics he brought.
Speaker F:And a little mishap, but.
Speaker D:Accountability, because usually when something goes bad on somebody else's end, everything, the blame gets thrown everywhere else.
Speaker D:So I'm taking full accountability.
Speaker D:I did have a technical mishap.
Speaker D:I forgot the mics, and our boy.
Speaker C:Christian came in clutch.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker D:We gonna talk about this guy's outfit.
Speaker D:He wore it three times ago in the outfit.
Speaker A:Check out season one.
Speaker B:Everybody in the comments said, wear it again.
Speaker D:This guy wore this hoodie.
Speaker C:I wore it once.
Speaker C:Once.
Speaker D:Season two, episode three.
Speaker D:Check it out.
Speaker A:You were.
Speaker E:I wasn't supposed to be.
Speaker A:Dude, is anyone safe on this podcast?
Speaker C:Not even the guest.
Speaker A:Dude, I'm an outfit repeater.
Speaker A:If I was, like, a regular, so am I.
Speaker B:And then they.
Speaker B:They be on me like, hey, you.
Speaker C:Wore that three episodes ago.
Speaker B:Five episodes ago.
Speaker D: I'm like that hat he got in: Speaker D:So there's that.
Speaker A:You know, you have good memory, dude.
Speaker D:Dude, it's just.
Speaker D:It's like, come on, bro.
Speaker D:Get your swag up.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker D:Straight up.
Speaker B:Aaron's talking in his shirt.
Speaker B:Straight out of H and M, right?
Speaker C:Ban.
Speaker D:It's from Banana Republic.
Speaker B:It's on the $10.
Speaker D:He can't afford it.
Speaker D:No, no, he's lying, dude.
Speaker A:I used to work at H and M. I know those shirts, too.
Speaker D:It's Banana Republic, dude.
Speaker A:You don't know.
Speaker A:No, I'm kidding.
Speaker D:Check the tag.
Speaker A:Watch right now.
Speaker D:H and M is the good store, though.
Speaker D:Shout out H and M on.
Speaker A:It's a good store when you wear the shirt once, but once you throw that thing into a dryer, it turn some crop top.
Speaker A:Yeah, man, I loved H. I still.
Speaker B:Do love H and M. I used to shop there throughout.
Speaker B:Yeah, dude, but like how you're saying you wear one shirt and then you wear it and you're just like, did I gain weight or.
Speaker A:Well, they're made for tiny Swedish men.
Speaker A:That's why.
Speaker D:Swedish men, huh?
Speaker A:Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker A:It's a Swedish company.
Speaker A:That's why.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:What is up with.
Speaker D:Who is the Swedish?
Speaker D:Where's Swedish?
Speaker A:Swedish from my Sweden.
Speaker D:Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Where else?
Speaker A:But they're tinier there.
Speaker A:You would think that Filipinos are smaller.
Speaker A:I mean, just look at every single Filipino basketball player they don't surpass.
Speaker A:Five, five.
Speaker B:Maybe hooping.
Speaker D:You know, I don't know any.
Speaker A:Yeah, they don't exist.
Speaker A:That's why they just crazy.
Speaker A:They just go into boxing, man.
Speaker A:Pacquiao.
Speaker A:Hey, shout out the boy.
Speaker A:Manny.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker E:There's a couple in the NBA.
Speaker E:Jordan.
Speaker E:Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker D:Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker D:Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker D:Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker D:Six, three.
Speaker D:This guy's talking about the shorties.
Speaker E:I know, but still, I'm talking about Jalen Green, too.
Speaker E:Jalen Green, too.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Filipino.
Speaker E:Notable Filipino.
Speaker A:Are they full Filipino, though?
Speaker F:No.
Speaker A:Yeah, they are mixed.
Speaker D:He's talking about full baloney.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:No, I mean, I'm living proof I'm part Filipino, but so little.
Speaker B:And I guess, okay, inside came out and I didn't become that.
Speaker D:Where do you think you're part Filipino?
Speaker B:My grandma's Filipino.
Speaker D:I met your grandma.
Speaker C:You know this.
Speaker A:How tall.
Speaker A:How tall are you?
Speaker B:Six, two.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker D:That was an accident.
Speaker A:Damn, dude.
Speaker B:I'm the milkman's baby.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:My dad's five, seven.
Speaker B:Shout out mad dog out there.
Speaker A:When did you get a growth spurt.
Speaker A:Was it, like, in high school?
Speaker B:I think probably about.
Speaker B:So I was probably, like, dumbass or, like 5, 6, 5, 7.
Speaker B:All the way up until eighth grade, and then eighth grade, I shot up to, like, 5, 10.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Probably sophomore year.
Speaker B:I think I sprouted up to at least six foot.
Speaker A:Fuck, dude.
Speaker A:I'm still waiting for my growth.
Speaker A:My brother, 6:1, and so when I was growing up, I saw him grow up, right?
Speaker A:And I was like, I'm gonna be that tall?
Speaker B:You're like, damn, I gotta get.
Speaker A:Dude.
Speaker A:But no, I just gained weight instead, and I just.
Speaker A:I was 255 pounds in, like, high school, man.
Speaker A:Yeah, I was a thickie.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Well, damn, you lost a lot of weight, bro.
Speaker A:Thanks, man.
Speaker A:Yeah, good.
Speaker A:I appreciate it.
Speaker A:That's what my first breakup did.
Speaker A:It was just like.
Speaker B:It tends to do that.
Speaker B:It tends.
Speaker B:You gotta work on yourself.
Speaker F:After you went straight to the gym.
Speaker A:Yeah, I was.
Speaker A:I was running miles and miles and miles, and I was just like, damn, if she doesn't want me when I'm fat, she's gonna want me when I.
Speaker A:When I'm looking good, I look good.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:She still didn't want me.
Speaker A:It's cool.
Speaker C:By the time I look good, I didn't want her either.
Speaker C:I don't want her either.
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker A:But it's cool.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm happy.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm tall for a Filipino, so I'm cool.
Speaker A:I'm cool with that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I'm about to say you're not as short as Kev over here.
Speaker A:He looks taller than me.
Speaker A:I think I'm the smallest person in this building, right?
Speaker E:I mean, you're probably airtight.
Speaker D:That's crazy.
Speaker C:Definitely not taller than you.
Speaker B:Now, the backstory is, Kevin's dad is tall as.
Speaker C:And his little brother is about as tall as me.
Speaker F:His dad's, like six' seven.
Speaker F:Like his dad, six' five, and he.
Speaker B:Got the short end of the stick.
Speaker A:The genetic pool is up, man.
Speaker B:You never know what you're getting.
Speaker A:Doesn't make any sense, man.
Speaker A:My brother got, like, all of the.
Speaker A:All of the hunter gatherer genetics, dude, And I got none of it.
Speaker A:And that's why, like, I feel like when God made me, he was just like, ah, his basket weaver.
Speaker A:He's gonna pick berries.
Speaker A:We'll just make him good at karaoke.
Speaker D:He's gonna be fine.
Speaker D:He knows how to whip that fucking cord around.
Speaker A:I complain when there's no mic stand.
Speaker D:You know, it's funny.
Speaker D:My best friend is Filipino.
Speaker D:As well, and I always send him just the funniest Filipino memes.
Speaker D:And it's always like karaoke.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker D:Jumping into the jeep.
Speaker D:Jeeps.
Speaker A:Jumping into them is a crazy thing.
Speaker D:And he loves it.
Speaker D:He loves seeing those memes because it reminds him of the homeland.
Speaker D:Oh, dude, that's one thing.
Speaker D:I just, you know, I try to show love.
Speaker D:You know, we're.
Speaker A:We're a funny people, dude.
Speaker A:We're funny, like species Filipinos.
Speaker A:We're always happy.
Speaker D:It's crazy.
Speaker D:You guys speak Spanish and English and as.
Speaker D:I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker D:You guys speak very much.
Speaker D:Dialect is what it is, right?
Speaker A:Conquistadors.
Speaker A:That's why.
Speaker D:Because there's Spanish, there's English, and then there's that other.
Speaker D:What?
Speaker D:You know?
Speaker E:Do you know what language Filipinos speak?
Speaker D:No, I don't.
Speaker D:That's what it is.
Speaker D:They speak Tagalan.
Speaker A:That's the.
Speaker F:That's the big.
Speaker A:That's the universal Filipino language.
Speaker A:And there's also like sub genres or like other dialects.
Speaker D:And where does the Spanish come from?
Speaker D:How does that happen?
Speaker A:Ah, man.
Speaker A:I mean, they came.
Speaker D:I need the history behind it.
Speaker A:They came from Spain on a boat, on ships, and just came to the motherland.
Speaker A:They were just like, we own you now.
Speaker B:Like, this is our spot now.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:Just the same that they did to Mexico.
Speaker D:Homies.
Speaker D:Dad speak Spanish.
Speaker D:And he was talking Spanish to me.
Speaker D:And I was like, how you know that?
Speaker D:You know what I mean?
Speaker D:Who?
Speaker D:The boy, Noel.
Speaker D:Uncle Ray.
Speaker D:He speaks Spanish and it spooked me out.
Speaker D:And he was talking me crazy.
Speaker D:I was like, what?
Speaker D:How do you know this?
Speaker B:It's funny, though, because our boy, he's a light skinned.
Speaker B:His dad's a light skinned.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, he's Filipino.
Speaker B:Look at him.
Speaker B:And you just think, like, he's like, of Asian descent.
Speaker B:But then he starts talking.
Speaker B:Oh, this guy's Filipino.
Speaker D:And he knows like four different languages.
Speaker D:And I'm like, what?
Speaker A:Dude, I want to be a racially ambiguous Filipino, right?
Speaker B:Like, I don't want you to know what I am by looking at me.
Speaker A:Dude.
Speaker A:Everyone knows what I am when they see me from a mile away, man.
Speaker A:I think it's just how flat my face is.
Speaker B:Hey, at least.
Speaker B:At least.
Speaker B:I mean, hey, there's pluses and the minuses, I guess.
Speaker B:Everybody always mistakes me for the wrong ethnicity.
Speaker A:What do they think you are?
Speaker D:What do you think he is actually?
Speaker A:Before.
Speaker B:Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker A:You look like one of my homies.
Speaker A:That is.
Speaker A:What is he?
Speaker A:He is.
Speaker A:I think he's Pakistani.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay, I get a lot of Pakistani.
Speaker B:I get a lot of, like, Middle Eastern.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Rarely Filipino.
Speaker B:A lot of people, they'll either assume I'm, like, someone straight off the border, like, I only even speak English.
Speaker B:Or they'll go to, like, Middle Eastern, Pakistani, but Native American, Mexican and Filipino.
Speaker A:Damn, dude.
Speaker A:Yeah, you got a whole slurry of things.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:I wish I was that.
Speaker A:When I was in middle school, a lot of people thought I was Indian because I. Yeah, I think.
Speaker A:I don't know if I give that off.
Speaker A:It could be my skin tone.
Speaker A:But, yeah, an Indian.
Speaker A:There was an Indian kid that walked up to me the.
Speaker A:At the basketball courts.
Speaker A:Because I was new.
Speaker A:No, I just moved from Pittsburgh to Benicia, and I was just.
Speaker A:You know, I didn't have any friends because I was the new kid.
Speaker A:And there was this Indian kid that walked up to me, and I was like, oh, shit, I'm gonna make a new friend today.
Speaker A:And he said, hey, what part of India are you from?
Speaker D:That's crazy.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I was just like, I'm not.
Speaker A:I'm from here.
Speaker A:I'm Filipino.
Speaker A:That's funny.
Speaker B:I have a similar story at my local 7 11.
Speaker B:When I first moved back to Sac from being out here at East Bay, me and my homies had an apartment, and then we had, like, the local 7 11.
Speaker B:There was the homie there named Love as it was.
Speaker B:Name tag said Love.
Speaker B:The first time I walked in there, we were just hella drunk, probably, like, barred out off of Xanax or some.
Speaker B:And this fool just starts talking to me in, like, Pakistani or whatever their language is.
Speaker B:And then I'm just, like, so torn back, and I'm just like.
Speaker B:I'm looking at his name.
Speaker B:I'm like, love, what are you talking about?
Speaker B:He's like, oh, my bad, bro.
Speaker C:He's like, I thought.
Speaker B:I thought you.
Speaker B:You spoke my language.
Speaker B:And I was like, respectfully, I appreciate that.
Speaker A:How long did you let it go on for?
Speaker A:Like, four minutes?
Speaker B:Like, Yeah, a good minute.
Speaker B:Because I was so gone, bro, that I didn't know.
Speaker C:I was just like this.
Speaker B:I was like, oh, she's talking to me.
Speaker A:Damn, these bars are hard.
Speaker C:Because.
Speaker B:Hey, okay, with all due respect, a lot of times they'd be like, on the phone or something.
Speaker C:They're talking to someone in the back of the.
Speaker B:So I'm like, sitting, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, no.
Speaker B:I just need a pizza, bro.
Speaker A:It's 2am.
Speaker B:That'S as down bad as you could be when you go to 7:11.
Speaker B:At 2am and you're getting a little $7 pizza.
Speaker D:I'll tell you what, when I was a young and dude, I used to get this 711 hot dogs.
Speaker B:I've been there, done that.
Speaker A:That's the move.
Speaker A:Oh man, the taquito.
Speaker A:Every time I look at the taquitos, I feel like my cholesterol goes, no.
Speaker D:The tequilas are diabolical, dude.
Speaker D:Those will put you in a coma for.
Speaker A:For sure.
Speaker A:Yeah, but that coma is kind of worth it, ain't it?
Speaker B:I'm about to say you get five of those johns, you're satisfied, you're full.
Speaker B:Next morning though, your stomach's going to be.
Speaker A:Hey, yeah, dude.
Speaker A:What you said what?
Speaker A:Most of you guys are 27, right?
Speaker D:27.
Speaker B:You guys are Aaron's 35.
Speaker C:You guys feeling.
Speaker A:You guys feeling the late 20s?
Speaker B:Yeah, dude, I feel.
Speaker B:I was just saying right before you walked in.
Speaker B:So it's this thing I was asking Chris, I was like, is it a tall guy thing or what?
Speaker B:I was like.
Speaker B:Because a lot of people have been telling this dude, they didn't really understanding me.
Speaker B:So for me now, recently was my thing is, no matter how I'm sitting, if I'm sitting down or even if I put my leg up or something, like on my knee, the second I get up, my hip is so tight and I.
Speaker B:It's not like I like crippled, but I feel like just falling down type shit.
Speaker B:Like I gotta stretch it out for a second.
Speaker B:Then I get a couple steps and I'm like, okay, I'm loose now.
Speaker F:I could walk.
Speaker A:Oh, dude, me and my lady, whenever we drop something, we're starting to sound like bubble wrap, dude.
Speaker B:Cracking everywhere.
Speaker A:Always popping and cracking.
Speaker A:Like I for sure got back issues because I'm like top heavy.
Speaker A:I got like a big ass chest and like no lower half.
Speaker A:And so my posture is always up.
Speaker A:So I always just try to get my.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:This is the thing.
Speaker A:So I'm dating like a 4 foot 11 Asian girl, like a Filipino.
Speaker A:So it's just like I have like a masseuse at home, right?
Speaker A:So she uses her little geisha feet to just walk on my back and like crack that thing.
Speaker A:Highly recommend getting yourself.
Speaker C:That sounds nice.
Speaker A:That sounds a pocket Asian lady.
Speaker A:Yeah, get yourselves one of them, dude.
Speaker A:We met at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
Speaker A:We both worked there.
Speaker B:No way.
Speaker A:I was a singer and she was a dancer.
Speaker A:I was a singer and she was a dancer.
Speaker B:Let's run it back to the Filipino karaoke.
Speaker A:I feel like a lot of Filipinos.
Speaker B:Have the capability to sing if not, sing.
Speaker B:Really well, before that, but before that.
Speaker A:Kind of my thing.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm like a singer.
Speaker A:That was my first passion.
Speaker D:Where were you singing?
Speaker D:At Six Flags.
Speaker D:Your character.
Speaker F:Like, what?
Speaker C:Like, what are you, Disneyland?
Speaker D:Say, why are you singing that?
Speaker D:Six Flags right now.
Speaker D:What are you singing at Six Flag?
Speaker A:We got hired for the holiday season, so I was in, like, a Santa suit singing I'll Be Home for Christmas or.
Speaker D:So you sing?
Speaker D:Sing, dude.
Speaker A:Like, you.
Speaker A:I mean, I was.
Speaker A:It's kind of.
Speaker C:Seen the videos.
Speaker D:It's a.
Speaker A:It's like a path of.
Speaker A:What do you call it?
Speaker A:A rite of passage, you know, doing karaoke.
Speaker A:And so that's what I learned.
Speaker A:And so, like, I mean, that was like my first.
Speaker A:My first passion was singing.
Speaker A:And so I was just like, right out of college, I was like, how am I gonna make some money other than H M?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I started working at.
Speaker D:He's acting smooshy right now.
Speaker A:I still got some H and M clothes, dude.
Speaker A:I ain't tripping about that.
Speaker D:But she shops there too.
Speaker D:I ain't gonna lie to you on that one.
Speaker D:He has a babe shirt.
Speaker D:He wore that four times already.
Speaker D:That old as It's a fire shirt?
Speaker A:I wish I had it.
Speaker C:No, you don't.
Speaker A:But she was a dancer.
Speaker A:She was like a hip hop dancer.
Speaker A:And so I. I met her there, and it's like the most fairy tale story ever type thing, so that's awesome, bro.
Speaker B:How long have you guys been together?
Speaker A:11 years, man.
Speaker B:Oh, congratulations to that, bro.
Speaker D:That is.
Speaker D:Congratulations.
Speaker C:You can't say it's a fairy.
Speaker D:So this is your person right here.
Speaker A:It's my person?
Speaker D:Hell yeah.
Speaker A:What were you going to say?
Speaker C:You can't say it's a fairy tale.
Speaker F:Story and not explain.
Speaker C:Give us the clip.
Speaker F:Come on.
Speaker C:What happened?
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:It was one of the worst things where I had seen her dancing, and I was like, man, this girl's cute.
Speaker D:Whoa.
Speaker D:Yeah, but.
Speaker A:And I'd recently just lost all my weight, right?
Speaker A:So I didn't have that confidence yet.
Speaker A:So I was like, I'm not gonna talk to this girl.
Speaker A:So I didn't talk to her.
Speaker A:But during that same rehearsal, I had to go up and sing.
Speaker A:And so I sang I'll Be Home for Christmas because that's what I was assigned to do.
Speaker A:And supposedly.
Speaker A:And I don't want to toot my own horn here, but, like, her and this other tiny Filipino girl, they were like.
Speaker A:They both thought I was good looking.
Speaker A:And then my girl.
Speaker D:Oh, you had options.
Speaker A:Well, in girl code, she called dibs.
Speaker A:My lady called dibs like 14 years ago.
Speaker D:And were you feeling the friend or no?
Speaker A:The friend was.
Speaker A:That's a crazy question.
Speaker C:That's a crazy question.
Speaker A:You know the girl, I mean, her friend is like, you know, her face is symmetrical, her eyes are where they need to be.
Speaker A:She's like, you know, if.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:In another life, maybe not what.
Speaker A:I was saying at all, but anything I say is kind of a lose, lose situation.
Speaker C:We'll cut it from it.
Speaker A:I ain't tripping.
Speaker A:I ain't tripping.
Speaker A:I was feeling her platonically.
Speaker A:There we go.
Speaker C:But yeah, anyway, good friend.
Speaker D:Question.
Speaker A:That's a great question, dude.
Speaker A:But yeah, I mean we just had a mutual friend at Six Flags that kind of exchanged our numbers.
Speaker A:Like she, he gave her my number.
Speaker A:And dude, it was so foreign to me.
Speaker A:I never felt a girl liking me first.
Speaker A:Do you guys know what that you guys were all just quiet.
Speaker B:My boy Kev gibberish.
Speaker D:Because Kev gets bitches.
Speaker B:He can relate to that a little bit.
Speaker B:Cuz back in the day Kev was, was a little shorter.
Speaker B:He didn't hit his growth spurt yet.
Speaker B:He was a little more heavier set.
Speaker B:But when we graduated high school, this fool hit like a 180 and just slim and ripped the out and he started getting hella hoes.
Speaker A:Oh dude, I mean look at that.
Speaker A:Look at that smiling, that face.
Speaker A:He looks like he's up to no good.
Speaker B:It's funny cuz we was talking about this the other day, me and him and Aaron, rough running.
Speaker B:Cuz he used to have the.
Speaker B:My boy Kevin went through a ponytail phase and he, he had a ponytail for the longest.
Speaker B:And I told Aaron, I said once he hit that ponytail phase, he didn't.
Speaker A:Want to let go.
Speaker B:Because as soon as he hit that phase, nobody was rifle was like yoked up in the gym and everything.
Speaker B:And he was getting Southern California.
Speaker C:That was why he was getting hoes.
Speaker A:Did you understand what was going on when that shift happened?
Speaker E:I mean, yeah, of course.
Speaker E:It's just like a different mentality.
Speaker E:Like also too.
Speaker E:It's like when you lived another.
Speaker E:Like we lived in Northern California and then moving to Southern California, it's just like nobody knows you out there, so it kind of gives you an extra added confidence.
Speaker A:You got a new start is what it was.
Speaker A:That's pretty much because I'm like born and raised in the Bay Area and I never left, right.
Speaker A:I like, I moved from Pittsburgh to, to.
Speaker A:I went to school in Benicia, now I live in Vallejo.
Speaker A:So I don't even know what it's like to start a new life.
Speaker E:I need a new, new restart.
Speaker E:Either move somewhere or move somewhere out there again.
Speaker A:Do you like the Bay Area?
Speaker E:I love the Bay Area.
Speaker E:The bear is cool.
Speaker F:I love the bay, dude.
Speaker E:Yeah, dude, I know that Southern California moves.
Speaker E:Everything's a lot faster out there.
Speaker E:A lot more stuff to do.
Speaker E:I mean, there's tough to do the Bay Area.
Speaker E:And don't get me wrong, there's multiple things in the Bay Area, but Southern California just always been like second home.
Speaker B:I've been opposite end of the spectrum.
Speaker B:I choose to bay every time.
Speaker B:If you ask me where I want to start a family, have my kids and raise them.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What part of the bay would you do that?
Speaker B:Honestly?
Speaker B:Right here in Oakland?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker B:I'd be down right here in Oakland.
Speaker B:And if not Oakland, maybe somewhere surrounding.
Speaker B:Maybe like Daly City, San Francisco.
Speaker B:Surrounding the.
Speaker A:The city surrounding the Filipinos.
Speaker A:I see.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker D:Yeah, he's Filipino.
Speaker C:He wants to be with his people.
Speaker A:I mean, Sack is cool too, because I mean, Sack has like a different feel.
Speaker A:Like sometimes I'm in that mood where I'm itching for like.
Speaker A:And you might judge me downtown Sack.
Speaker A:I'm like, all right, I'm kind of down for the doco right now.
Speaker C:I love it.
Speaker C:I love going back.
Speaker F:I'm not going to lie.
Speaker B:It came up a lot because, I mean, you asked me about when I had my fake ID at night 19 and we're going out, what was like dive bar, Zebra bar.
Speaker B:I mean, they were.
Speaker B:They were popping like for a little 19 year old in the bar.
Speaker B:But like now, right now, it's actually pretty.
Speaker B:Pretty hot right now.
Speaker B:There's a lot of fun stuff to do.
Speaker A:It's been a minute since I've gone.
Speaker A:I just remember dive bar.
Speaker A:Dive bar was probably one of the first joints that and mangoes.
Speaker D:Diabolical.
Speaker D:For sure.
Speaker B:Dive bar was the spot to be on a Saturday night.
Speaker A:Dude, I didn't know if I was just so drunk the first time I went there, but I was like, there are mermaids, dude.
Speaker C:And that was the little part.
Speaker D:Did you do that?
Speaker A:Am I looking at.
Speaker F:It's supposedly in that new Sacramento movie with Michael Cera.
Speaker A:No, it's not for real.
Speaker C:Dive barely hit dive bar and showed the mermaids.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:So if you're not from Sacramento and you want to see what we're talking about.
Speaker E:It came out already.
Speaker B:I think it did.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:I didn't mean.
Speaker D:What's it called?
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker F:Sacramento.
Speaker E:It's called Sacramento.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:And it's Michael.
Speaker D:The Tiana Taylor movie.
Speaker D:That movie dropped yet or not yet?
Speaker B:Coming soon.
Speaker B:Coming soon.
Speaker D:Coming soon.
Speaker D:That one, too, is in Sacramento.
Speaker D:Did you know that?
Speaker D:Tiana Taylor.
Speaker B:And it's in Golden Lodi in Stockton.
Speaker A:Oh, she's from.
Speaker A:She's from golf.
Speaker D:No, she's not.
Speaker F:No, it just was shot at a baseball park in G. Oh, I see.
Speaker F:Small little town right outside of.
Speaker F:Yeah, El Grove in Sacramento.
Speaker B:Grew up and went to.
Speaker A:Oh, dude, I'm familiar with gall types.
Speaker A:I mean, there's like, some people got properties where they might as well have a ranch.
Speaker A:You know, there's like, a lot of open space, man.
Speaker F:Yeah, no, definitely.
Speaker A:G is nice.
Speaker A:I mean, Sack is cool, too.
Speaker A:You all got an Ikea that I dig a lot.
Speaker B:Here's the spot, though.
Speaker B:Am I right?
Speaker B:Like, you can go in there and get lost for hours and not buy a goddamn thing.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude, Afterwards.
Speaker C:What's up with that?
Speaker D:And you can still get lunch afterwards.
Speaker C:You know, with a good hot dog.
Speaker D:And you can get your steps in.
Speaker D:Get your steps in and then get yourself a little lunch.
Speaker A:The thing about IKEA that makes me really sad is that I see all this, like, you know, they kind of curate this bedroom or this office or this living room in such a perfect fashion where you kind of envision your life there.
Speaker A:And you're envisioning it for, like, a good five minutes, and then you snap back to reality and you're just like, I have none of this.
Speaker B:Yeah, I don't own any of this.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:You go.
Speaker C:And you're like, this bed looks so sick, but you're looking into, like, a minimalistic room that looks so nice.
Speaker C:And you take it back to your cluttered little room, and it looks out of place and too big.
Speaker C:And you're just like, I got bamboozled.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:Did you guys ever live in those days where you just had a mattress on the floor type thing?
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Those are my favorite days.
Speaker C:The box spring with the mattress on top.
Speaker C:Dude.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:Your bed didn't shake, your next door neighbor didn't hear you.
Speaker D:That's good.
Speaker D:And then.
Speaker B:And then when the girls come over, you'd be like, I promise, my bed just broke.
Speaker B:I'm on.
Speaker A:No one's on the way.
Speaker B:You're not gonna even.
Speaker A:Bed frame's on the way.
Speaker B:Don't worry about it.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker D:I had the bed frame, but I didn't have the.
Speaker D:The sticks in the middle.
Speaker A:So the.
Speaker D:The mattress on the floor with the frame still.
Speaker D:It's like a race car bed without the race car.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:So there was no shaking.
Speaker F:No.
Speaker A:That is like, a main factor that you need when shopping for a bed.
Speaker D:You're the type of shit that goes.
Speaker A:To, like.
Speaker B:Let me look at the reviews.
Speaker A:You go to the mattress store and you're, like, pushing on it.
Speaker A:I'll take this one.
Speaker D:It can be solo and it could be doubles.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm.
Speaker D:I'm trying either.
Speaker D:Or.
Speaker A:Or you could go get a mattress and you get a bed frame that's extra loud so that you can know.
Speaker A:You can let the neighbors know that you are.
Speaker D:I'll tell you what.
Speaker D:I'll tell you what.
Speaker D:Just put your.
Speaker D:If you keep the magic.
Speaker D:If you keep the mattress on the ground, you just drag it to the middle of the room and you.
Speaker D:It ain't.
Speaker D:It ain't nothing to it.
Speaker A:So with my first girlfriend.
Speaker D:Use her skin.
Speaker A:With my first girlfriend, I had one of those situations at my mom's house.
Speaker D:Where do you miss her?
Speaker C:Shut up.
Speaker A:Let him finish.
Speaker D:I was with somebody for a long year.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker A:Did you ever envision a future with her?
Speaker B:He's trying to leave your PR train, bro.
Speaker A:With her.
Speaker A:I had one of those situations where it was a mattress on the floor.
Speaker D:It was your mattress or was it hers?
Speaker A:It was my mattress in my mom's spot.
Speaker A:And I thought since we.
Speaker A:Everyone's every boy is.
Speaker A:We have this dumb boy theory where, like, okay, there's no bed frame, so you can't hear the shaking.
Speaker A:If you turn the fan on, you could be louder if you could.
Speaker A:If you turn the fan on with the TV on, you could be as loud as you want.
Speaker A:No, dude, that is not the case.
Speaker A:You ain't never built a house for nine months.
Speaker A:Like, that's how long we dated.
Speaker A:I thought, you know, the room was soundproof with the TV on and the fan blasting.
Speaker A:And after we broke up, I. I found out later on that.
Speaker A:So, like, down the hall from my bedroom, my family's very Catholic, and we had this altar with the Santo Nino on there and where my dad would pray there every single day in the house.
Speaker A:He said that every single day while he was praying the rosary, he would hear me and my ex just going out.
Speaker B:Hey, how embarrassing was that?
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker B:Cause you're so confident the whole time that you sit here just like, wait, what time?
Speaker D:What time?
Speaker D:What time did you think, like, it was safe to just get jiggy?
Speaker A: my dad went to bed at, like,: Speaker A:So come 11pm I was like.
Speaker D:And then come 11pm he's just praying probably, dude.
Speaker A:So I don't know if he was embarrassed or what if he secretly was like.
Speaker C:That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker C:Not to be weird, but is he lucky, my boy?
Speaker C:Is he low key w mans for letting it be?
Speaker A:Because he never told me.
Speaker A:He never talked me about it.
Speaker B:Like, my dog, you live.
Speaker D:Are you like the only, only son or.
Speaker A:No, I got.
Speaker A:I have a older brother.
Speaker D:And did your older brother get action or, or, or what's going on around.
Speaker A:He got more action than I did.
Speaker A:Like I said he was.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker D:It was probably nothing.
Speaker D:He was just like, okay, my next one.
Speaker A:He was probably worried about me.
Speaker A:Cuz I told you I grew up fat.
Speaker A:And I think since I grew up fat, I had a lot of friends that were girls and I was able to bring them home.
Speaker A:And usually responsible parents supposed to be like, hey, leave the door open.
Speaker A:Like leave it cracked open.
Speaker A:No, they just let me close that shit.
Speaker B:Do what you want.
Speaker A:Yeah, because they probably didn't think I was doing anything because I was just a fat boy.
Speaker D:And little did they know you had game the whole time, huh?
Speaker D:That's what it was, dude.
Speaker D:They thought, oh, my son, not him.
Speaker D:And then, hey, balls in his court, you know.
Speaker C:Are you terrible?
Speaker D:Yes, sir.
Speaker C:No, that's crazy.
Speaker B:I mean, I've gone through similar stuff.
Speaker D:I remember my youth.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I think it's about the same way I was feeling the same type of shit.
Speaker B:Like, oh, I'm golden too.
Speaker B:Nobody ever heard anything.
Speaker B:I think somewhere along the line my mom brought up one thing and I'm just like.
Speaker B:I'm like, oh, no way.
Speaker B:I'm like, damn, this is like the seventh girl I brought home.
Speaker C:What the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker A:I feel like, you know, if it is a problem, they'll say something.
Speaker A:Something.
Speaker A:Someone will say something.
Speaker B:I'm like, if you.
Speaker B:If it's that serious.
Speaker B:If it's.
Speaker F:If it's too.
Speaker B:If it's not enough to where you can still turn up TV and you'll be fine.
Speaker B:You're going watching movie room.
Speaker B:I think we're good.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:If it's past 15 volume, you got a problem.
Speaker C:You count the, the.
Speaker A:The number that it's on.
Speaker C:That's crazy.
Speaker D:Damn, dude.
Speaker D:If she louder than the gun show, it's something else.
Speaker A:You know, this is a good time.
Speaker A:I feel like I'm just kicking it with the homies.
Speaker A:You guys just.
Speaker B:Really is though, man.
Speaker B:I mean, and this is the type.
Speaker F:Of stuff that we.
Speaker B:That I really appreciate is like this was about The.
Speaker F:The.
Speaker B:Not only the energy, but the vibe and just, like, the ease of it just being so comfortable enough to just talk.
Speaker B:I mean, yeah, that's the beauty of everything.
Speaker A:No, you guys definitely come off as that friend group where you got to grow up with thick skin because you guys just roasting each other, right?
Speaker B:Tell me about it.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker B:I think we've all made each other cry, like, five times.
Speaker A:Well, that's how you, like, strengthen the friendship, right?
Speaker A:If you didn't make your homie cry.
Speaker A:Are you guys even homies?
Speaker D:Right?
Speaker D:Right?
Speaker C:Dude, no, for real.
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker F:But Mars or fight.
Speaker C:Yeah, certified crash out right there.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I'm a certified crash out.
Speaker D:I know, I know.
Speaker D:This guy will be like, I think.
Speaker E:Everybody knows you guys.
Speaker D:You guys.
Speaker D:You guys ain't talked to me in, like, three weeks.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker D:But didn't you feel good?
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Hey, dude.
Speaker A:I applaud you, though, for being vocal about your feelings, because I'm definitely that type of person.
Speaker A:I'll be like, man, I haven't talked to my homeboys in a minute.
Speaker A:Are they mad at me?
Speaker B:Oh, hell no.
Speaker B:I hit the group chat.
Speaker B:Be like, why nobody with me right now?
Speaker B:I've been asking five texts, and nobody responds.
Speaker C:Bro, if he calls you, you don't answer.
Speaker C:He's not stopping until you turn your phone.
Speaker B:I'm the type of friend.
Speaker B:So if it's like, if I'm drinking, I'm buzzed up and it's like.
Speaker B: Like: Speaker B:And I call you once, ready for.
Speaker D:Work the next day.
Speaker B:If I call you once, you'll answer, but you responded to my text 30 minutes ago.
Speaker B:I'm gonna call you 15 more times.
Speaker C:That's the type of friend I am.
Speaker A:But, you know, on the other side of the coin, though, that means that you're the type of friend that if someone.
Speaker A:If one of these boys needed you, you're there.
Speaker B:See, that's me.
Speaker B:And I wish I had those guys around me.
Speaker B:You call me.
Speaker B:I'm picking up every time.
Speaker B:I like.
Speaker B:I like talking to my friends.
Speaker A:Who's the worst texter in the group?
Speaker F:I don't know.
Speaker D:Probably this guy Kevin.
Speaker B:He won't.
Speaker B:He won't respond to the group chat.
Speaker C:He doesn't even read it.
Speaker D:I will say this.
Speaker D:He's probably the worst, but he's the funniest, I'll tell you that.
Speaker D:It really makes up.
Speaker C:Literally.
Speaker E:Literally, Wednesday through third or Wednesday through Fridays.
Speaker E:Like, I don't be on my phone because I'll be in surgery, so won't.
Speaker C:Even look at it.
Speaker C:Do not disturb.
Speaker D:He's getting active.
Speaker A:Dude, you're doing important stuff.
Speaker D:Exactly.
Speaker D:So sometimes I get mad at him too, like, oh, you know what?
Speaker D:He's saving lives, dude.
Speaker A:I said before this, my Asian parents would be proud of you.
Speaker A:They'll adopt you yesterday, you know.
Speaker E:Shout out to all the Asian parents out there, man.
Speaker D:Shout them out right now.
Speaker A:All of them.
Speaker D:All of them.
Speaker B:So what do you do for outside of the podcast, dude?
Speaker A:I mean, if it's not podcasting, I hang with the lady, man.
Speaker A:Like, with being as busy with the podcast, I have to make sure that I got balance with life, right?
Speaker A:So I do have my nine to job.
Speaker A:I work a graveyard shift in biotech, which just slowly kills me.
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:When I had little Russell on, he told me that your 9 to 5 is your first investor, which is like something that I keep in the back of my mind.
Speaker D:Right?
Speaker A:Like so with whatever you're doing.
Speaker D:We take pride in our nine to fives, bro.
Speaker D:Because without that, we would not be here right now.
Speaker D:Same talking to you, you know.
Speaker A:Hell yeah.
Speaker A:And then having your nine to fives keep you like relatable, you know, like we are everyday working men type of thing.
Speaker A:And that is a good foundation, especially in this line of passion where you guys are, you guys are talking to people, you guys are relating to people, you guys are interviewing people and Yeah, I mean, like, that's what.
Speaker A:Obviously we would all love to make enough money from our passions to like be able to quit our shit.
Speaker D:But eventually, baby, eventually, dude.
Speaker B:Now like you said, it keeps us grounded to reality.
Speaker B:I feel like reminds you that it's like, hey, every day is a hustle, Every day is a grind.
Speaker D:Yeah, everybody has their own house on grind.
Speaker B:And if this is a passion, then we're in it for the passion of it, not just to make a quick.
Speaker F:Buck out of it.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:No, and it comes off that way too.
Speaker D:We're having fun doing this.
Speaker A:Well, on top of the fun, it looks like it's quality too.
Speaker A:And it sounds like it's called choice, you know?
Speaker C:I appreciate that.
Speaker B:No, thank you, bro.
Speaker B:That means a lot.
Speaker F:Yeah, we, you know, we really, we take pride in the fact that we're able to do this.
Speaker F:But like, like you said, we're able to like, kind of apply the same stuff from our nine to fives, you know, like the consistency, the discipline, the responsibilities and just upkeeping parts.
Speaker F:Because like he said, it's fun.
Speaker F:But it's not all just fun.
Speaker F:It's also part of it is, you know, upkeeping, and part of it is, yeah, like you said.
Speaker D:Actually, I got a good question for you from being from a podcast of us for how.
Speaker D:How, like, coming from a podcast of one, did you ever have thoughts?
Speaker D:Because you did come from two coming to one now, how do you feel the thoughts of coming from a podcast to 2 to 1, how did it change and how do you feel about it now?
Speaker A:Pros and cons.
Speaker A:And like, it changed drastically.
Speaker A:You know, I started off with my homie shout out to Alejandro.
Speaker A:He's still one of my best friends to this day.
Speaker A:But the dynamic changes when you do a podcast with your homie.
Speaker A:You're shooting the shit, you're getting mad at each other, you're repeating conversations.
Speaker A:But it has that buddy, it has that fly on the wall feel for listeners that I've heard before.
Speaker A:But once it changed to just me and having rotating guests, the dynamic changes into more.
Speaker A:It could be more interviewy or.
Speaker A:But what I try to do differently is that regardless if you're someone that I'm meeting for the first time, rather than just asking the conventional questions, I try to converse normally.
Speaker A:I try to, like, just shoot the shit.
Speaker A:Ask you, like, what's your favorite thing to do?
Speaker A:Like, what are things?
Speaker A:Like connect on, like, nostalgia.
Speaker A:And that is kind of, I think would be my specialty is that I kind of bring out the personality behind the rapper that no one ever gets to see type of thing, you know?
Speaker A:Yeah, obviously there's space to ask about their artistry and whatnot, and that's beautiful, too.
Speaker A:But I think some of my favorite episodes are the ones we're like, oh, man, I forgot to even ask you about your latest project type of thing, just because we've been hitting it off.
Speaker B:Just talking so much.
Speaker B:That's a good point to bring up.
Speaker B:You make me want to ask how, as a kid, were you always, like.
Speaker B:Like outgoing, talkative, or like, how did that come about?
Speaker B:What made you into that?
Speaker B:Or was it kind of like just a transformation?
Speaker A:I think it was a transformation.
Speaker A:I think in many ways I was introverted.
Speaker A:I think I growing up in an Asian household where a lot of my.
Speaker A:What I felt was success needed to come from, like, academics.
Speaker A:And that's what my brother was.
Speaker A:He was, like, valedictorian at his high school.
Speaker A:And so I always felt that my parents really treasured that aspect about him, and that kind of made me find other ways to seek attention.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So, like, that way I Became more performative.
Speaker A:I started singing more because my dad loved it when I sang.
Speaker A:I started telling jokes in front of the family and reciting stand up comedy jokes from our favorite stand up comics in front of the family at family parties.
Speaker A:And I think that's what made me start talking more.
Speaker A:And then I was still pretty shy up until I moved to Benicia in the seventh grade.
Speaker A:And then I started.
Speaker A:I joined the improv team in high school.
Speaker A:And that's the thing that I believe really transformed me into becoming like a shyer kid into who I am now.
Speaker A:Because with improv, that kind of thing has to.
Speaker A:It teaches you to just remove all filters.
Speaker A:It teaches you confidence.
Speaker A:I joke around saying, like, that's the improv is the reason why I have any ounce of game.
Speaker A:Because, like, I had to think on the fly before that.
Speaker A:I was like, not confident, but, like, you know, the whole part of confidence and being like a confident speaker and doing something like a podcast is like, you got to get rid of a filter and just be confident in who you are and just whatever comes out of your mouth is the thing that comes out, man.
Speaker B:So when you say that, I. I honestly is.
Speaker B:One of the biggest things I regret from high school days is I don't know if it was called improv, but it was like that.
Speaker B:I forget what the class is called, but it's like that.
Speaker F:Drama.
Speaker B:Drama, Yeah.
Speaker B:I regret not taking drama, even though, like, I think I thought about it so many times.
Speaker B:Hell, people told me, but I mean, lo and behold, who would have known that we were on fucking camera like every other week?
Speaker B:Like I'm saying.
Speaker B:Yeah, but it's a.
Speaker B:Like how you're saying.
Speaker B:It's a fucking great skill to have.
Speaker B:And I don't think I really started being vocal publicly like that until maybe our freshman year in college when we took communications.
Speaker B:And you're just having a talk in front of everybody, like random ass shit or your project essay.
Speaker A:It's a true skill, man.
Speaker A:They say what?
Speaker A:Public speaking is the number one fear in the entire world.
Speaker A:And death is the second rated fear, which is crazy.
Speaker A:People would rather die than speak in front of a crowd, right?
Speaker A:And you guys are doing it in front of a camera all the time.
Speaker C:It was rough.
Speaker C:If you watch some of those early episodes, a couple shots of Henny will help you.
Speaker F:I feel that our whole first.
Speaker F:Not our whole first season, but the first few episodes, we were for sure drinking before because it was like we were awkward as.
Speaker B:Yeah, if you watch episodes that don't air, we'll we're releasing the.
Speaker B:The unreleased tapes one day.
Speaker B:Just shits and giggles.
Speaker B:But we're so weird.
Speaker B:Like, just like.
Speaker B:I mean, you could obviously.
Speaker D:Not me.
Speaker B:Yeah, he was.
Speaker B:Because we're loose right now.
Speaker B:You get used to it.
Speaker B:You talk.
Speaker B:But then, like, before we even used it, we're all just, like, looking at the camera.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker F:That'S all I'd say.
Speaker C:Like, weird.
Speaker F:It just felt like we were more like.
Speaker F:And like, with More trying to overly articulate ourselves or overthink certain things.
Speaker F:Whereas here now, like, you could see we're just very on the fly with it.
Speaker F:Like, we just.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:And when it was.
Speaker D:At first, it was just us four, two just talking to each other.
Speaker D:So, like, how weird is that?
Speaker D:So we're awkward with each other.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:So because we talk to each other every day, what am I supposed to ask exactly?
Speaker D:Like, so what'd you do today?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:How about the weather?
Speaker A:That's how it starts out, Right?
Speaker D:And then it got supernatural to where we just were talking and talking about what we were trying to talk.
Speaker D:The topics that we had.
Speaker D:Because, you know, the way we structured it to the first season, we.
Speaker D:We came with topics, and we each had our own thing to talk about, so we got better at it, for sure.
Speaker D:Like, we got on our own to get behind the mic, you know?
Speaker D:And now with season two, like, it's just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So we came a long way to.
Speaker D:Just, you know, getting behind the mic for sure.
Speaker A:Well, dude, you got to.
Speaker A:Anyone with whatever they're doing, you have to put in the work.
Speaker A:You got to trip and fall a few times before you become great at it, dude.
Speaker D:And even like that.
Speaker B:Go ahead.
Speaker F:I was just going to ask, do you feel the same way looking back at some of your early days?
Speaker C:Because I look back, and you've been doing it for years.
Speaker C:Like, many years.
Speaker C:Like, we're just.
Speaker F:I mean, we've been doing it for years.
Speaker F:We've just been live for a little under a year, so we're not even close to that, and we feel that way.
Speaker F:So I. I wonder how you could.
Speaker A:Feel in the beginning when it was just me and my homie.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:It definitely felt like we were putting on a character because we knew that people were gonna listen, because we knew that people were hopefully gonna listen.
Speaker A:And so I remember that I felt that I had, like, a podcasting voice as opposed to just, like, being Christian right.
Speaker A:At first.
Speaker A:And I felt that it was forced and sometimes I still hear it to this day because I'm still curating a show.
Speaker A:Like, the show has to go on.
Speaker A:I still have to think of the next question.
Speaker A:I still have to do research, depending on the guest.
Speaker A:But once you do it, once I.
Speaker A:Cause I've done it for a long time that I've realized that not everything's gonna be perfect.
Speaker A:I can't always be on.
Speaker A:I'm gonna have some off days where I don't get enough sleep or I'm like, delirious, and it's just gonna be what it is.
Speaker A:And I think once I kind of took a backseat in understanding that it became more natural.
Speaker A:And it's the same thing with trying to be funny too, dude.
Speaker A:I noticed myself trying to forcing jokes.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:My funniest episodes are the ones where I thought to myself afterwards, I was just like, I'd even feel funny that day, or I was even trying that day.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker A:And that's where the beauty comes out.
Speaker F:No, for sure.
Speaker F:I felt that a lot.
Speaker F:Whether it's been clips or episodes, certain ones that you just feel like, not as confident about, your performance ends up doing way better.
Speaker F:And you're just like, maybe I just gotta.
Speaker F:You know, we talked about that with Danny.
Speaker F:Like, maybe I just gotta just throw it out there.
Speaker C:You know, you gotta let them be the judge ultimately, because you'll.
Speaker F:You'll.
Speaker F:You'll be over critical of yourself every time.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker D:That's the thing about me.
Speaker D:I just let it out there, you know?
Speaker D:I mean, I don't give a damn.
Speaker C:Six shots of any, and I'm good.
Speaker D:Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker D:I gotta expose you.
Speaker A:Nah.
Speaker B:But one thing I do want to ask.
Speaker B:I mean, like you said, you've been doing it for a while, and what was one of the points where it was like, obviously you started getting into like this performative kind of character.
Speaker B:What was like that.
Speaker B:That point where you're like, okay, this is really something I think I want to pursue.
Speaker A:I think once I started to get DMs and messages of people saying, hey, man, I was having a rough week.
Speaker A:I listen to your podcast every single week, and it's my favorite part of the week.
Speaker A:I wait for this day, for the episode to drop, and it really just makes me forget about all my troubles.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And also when it started becoming myself and interviewing guests, something that keeps me going is truly seeing how happy it makes some of these people that come through to my studio.
Speaker A:Because, yeah, sometimes I'll get guests that are pretty big and you know, I've had LaRussell and Neff and like, some really big names in the Bay Area, which is so dope.
Speaker A:But sometimes my favorite guests are the ones that feel like underrated artists that don't get enough love or the opportunity to be able to sit down in a chair in front of a mic and showcase their personality or talk about their art.
Speaker A:And seeing their real time reaction, like right after I stopped hitting record, and they're just like, that was the most fun shit I've ever done.
Speaker A:Or even better yet, them hitting me up later or me running into them at an event and them saying, hey, because of your podcast, I was given this opportunity.
Speaker A:These people, like, I had.
Speaker A:I had this girl on my podcast.
Speaker A:Her name is Jade Dela Cruz.
Speaker A:She's a dope singer from Vallejo.
Speaker A:And because of our podcast together, she got cast in a short film.
Speaker A:You know, like, stuff like that is dope.
Speaker F:That's awesome.
Speaker A:Or like, producers find.
Speaker A:I have.
Speaker A:There are some producers that listen to my podcast and they find dope artists to collaborate with through my podcast, and I'm just like, well.
Speaker A:And then they send me the, the track that they made together and I'm just like, what, dude?
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm like, It's like I'm rapper, producer, hit.
Speaker A:And I'm like, how the.
Speaker C:Did I give the boy there a R credits?
Speaker A:Sure, dude.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah, but it's, it's all truly a humbling experience because, like, I'm at the end of it all.
Speaker A:Like, if it, if I'm feeling that dopamine rush just through conversation, like I'm feeling right now, then I'm like, damn, yeah, I'm doing my job.
Speaker F:No, that's awesome.
Speaker B:That's the best part about it.
Speaker F:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker F:And connecting with people that you, you know, look up to for what they do in their own right is part of the best part of doing something like this, you know, and just being able to hear how passionately they're able to talk about something or also be able to pick their brain because, you know, everybody's, you know, although we do similar things, we.
Speaker F:We probably, like, we were talking about even equipment and everything, Everything operates differently.
Speaker F:These conversations are.
Speaker D:People pick people's brains differently, you know?
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker A:We could always learn from each other.
Speaker A:I get excited about this because, like, with us doing similar, you know, we're both, we're all podcasters.
Speaker A:There's a Venn diagram there where, like, we're.
Speaker A:Even though we are essentially strangers to each other, there is a baseline similarity that we could connect on.
Speaker F:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:And that there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, like, that's what makes this so dope, you know, that's why this is.
Speaker A:It feels like it's flowing pretty easy.
Speaker F:No, definitely.
Speaker F:And to take it back a little farther, like, when was the first moment you realized you could do something, something like this?
Speaker A:I think there was a time where me and my homie Alejandro, after we stopped doing the whole bad Movie podcast and we started interviewing guests and kind like co interviewing.
Speaker A:There was.
Speaker A:There were times where he would tell me, and you know, I take his opinion to heart because he's one of my best friends, that he would tell me like, hey, man, like, your interviewing skills are getting really good.
Speaker A:And I'm like, wow.
Speaker A:Like, I just.
Speaker A:I'm just a curious guy.
Speaker A:I'm just like a. I don't know, I'm just like a regular dude that's curious about the person that's sitting across from me.
Speaker A:But when he said something like that, where he said like, hey, your interviewing skills are getting really good, that's like, okay, then this is a new skill I identified.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:New.
Speaker A:What do you call it?
Speaker A:A new move Unlocked.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so I started to hone in on that and then, I don't know, it got more fun and more easy too, to kind of flow in between.
Speaker A:And you guys do it too.
Speaker A:The flow in.
Speaker A:In between conversation and interview and like weaving in and out of that.
Speaker A:That's what like a good podcaster, in my opinion is.
Speaker A:And yeah, I've heard your guys episodes with guests and you guys have done that, and you guys do it well.
Speaker F:Definitely.
Speaker F:I appreciate that, bro.
Speaker A:Appreciate that.
Speaker E:And honestly, you know, just one.
Speaker E:One thing, me personally, I know you've been doing it for so long.
Speaker E:Like, what's probably one of your most.
Speaker E:I know it's kind of cliche to say what's your most fav.
Speaker E:But what's probably one interview that you probably gained some, like a piece.
Speaker E:Piece of information that probably stuck with you for this whole entire time that you could probably, you know, reiterate.
Speaker A:Oh, man, there are so many.
Speaker A:Dude, there are so many.
Speaker A:I mean, one interview I did was with Hokage Simon, who is dope.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Pianist.
Speaker A:And his interview is important to me because we talk about his cancer journey.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And the.
Speaker A:What something getting a second chance at life does to a very talented person and makes them appreciate, like an artist that.
Speaker A:That is so inspired by almost losing something like their life and then getting it all back and what they do with that artistry because of that is so inspiring.
Speaker A:So that was beautiful.
Speaker A:There's this other singer.
Speaker A:Her name is Tyler Lauren.
Speaker A:She's my favorite female singer in the Bay Area right now.
Speaker A:She is so talented with her conversation.
Speaker A:It's one of those episodes where I'm just like, damn, I forgot to even ask you about your music, because I feel like we've just been homies for the longest time.
Speaker A:But then when we do talk about her art, we reach those pockets where it's truly sentimental, and I could see how much it means to her.
Speaker A:There's a clip that I posted where we highlight just, like, there's a bunch of scientists out there.
Speaker A:There's a bunch of, like, engineers out there, but there will never be another Tyler Loren.
Speaker A:Like, we will have people that can create the next piece of technology.
Speaker A:We'll figure it out.
Speaker A:But no one will ever write a Tyler Lauren song the way that you do.
Speaker A:And I can see how much that conversation really impacted her.
Speaker A:And, like, you know, like.
Speaker A:And I'm just like, fuck, yeah, this is why I do it.
Speaker A:And, like, I. I hope that that put a smile on her face, like, days later to think about it or watch that clip.
Speaker A:But, like, you know what we're doing here, boys?
Speaker A:Dude, we're.
Speaker A:Whether we know it or not, we're kind of changing lives a little bit.
Speaker D:This is dope.
Speaker F:It's so cool, and I appreciate that.
Speaker F:No, because I watched that one.
Speaker F:That Tyler one was dope.
Speaker F:I watched that one back when.
Speaker F:Like, when it came out.
Speaker F:Pretty recent.
Speaker F:Yeah, it had came out, and I saw it and scrolled across it, and it felt so natural.
Speaker F:And then as I've watched more of your podcasts, I've noticed the same thing.
Speaker F:And you talk about weaving in and out of interviewing and just relating at the same time.
Speaker F:How do you do it?
Speaker F:So, like, seamlessly, in a sense, because it seems like it's just pretty natural, in a.
Speaker F:In a sense, for you.
Speaker F:Do you catch yourself sometimes overthinking and.
Speaker C:Thinking about that next question while they're still talking, or do.
Speaker C:Do you catch yourself in the moment every week?
Speaker F:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Good question, man.
Speaker A:Great question.
Speaker A:I do catch myself sometimes, because sometimes I get so lost in the conversation of whatever we're talking about that I think, oh, shit, I have to think of the next thing I want to talk about, or I do.
Speaker A:I need to make sure that I ask this question because I'm genuinely curious about what this person does in this facet.
Speaker A:I need to ask that.
Speaker A:But sometimes when the conversation's so Good.
Speaker A:I forget, man.
Speaker A:But I don't even care if I didn't get to ask that question, because it doesn't even matter, man.
Speaker A:It doesn't even matter.
Speaker A:I think what I've listened to podcasts where the.
Speaker A:The subject matter wasn't necessarily the bread and butter, but like just the.
Speaker A:The chemistry and the vibes, right?
Speaker A:And sometimes I. I want to duplicate that, and I hope I succeed at that.
Speaker F:No, you definitely do, bro.
Speaker F:It seems like super.
Speaker F:Just natural and just like, you know, just bouncing off each other and it just feels like, you know, you kind of like you said just to fly on the wall.
Speaker F:Just listening to two passionate people, you know, usually very curious about one another.
Speaker F:That's what I've noticed.
Speaker F:They're asking questions back often times, and you guys are.
Speaker F:You make it a really back and forth experience, which I find really dope, because sometimes I catch myself, even in interviews where we're just like kind of.
Speaker C:Coming at him with questions.
Speaker C:I'm like, let's the person, you know, the personality come out, like, type thing.
Speaker F:Because you want that banter.
Speaker A:And it's the tennis match, dude.
Speaker A:Even, like with you four, I feel like they're kind of playing it, dude.
Speaker A:And it's fun.
Speaker D:It is.
Speaker A:But I think, if I could say one more, I think my.
Speaker A:The most important moment of my podcasting career, and I've talked about this once before, but I do want to talk about it again.
Speaker A:But the most important thing I've done with my cameras and mic and microphones and my equipment is one of my best friends.
Speaker A:Like, two years ago, his mom was going through cancer, and he had asked me, knowing my skill set and what I do with my podcast.
Speaker A:He asked me like, hey, man, can you bring your equipment to my house?
Speaker A:And can you just interview my mom about her life?
Speaker D:That's gangster.
Speaker A:So I did it.
Speaker A:I set up three cameras.
Speaker A:I had two microphones.
Speaker A:I had three microphones.
Speaker A:He was in episode two.
Speaker A:And we got to learn about her life.
Speaker A:We got to learn about her life from the Philippines all the way up into coming into America and raising all of her children.
Speaker A:And it was beautiful to do that because she sadly passed away.
Speaker A:Now he tells me, dude, some people only have text messages or voicemails from their deceased loved ones.
Speaker A:But I have a full two hour conversation with my mom recorded for eternity.
Speaker A:And you did that.
Speaker A:And he tells me that he listens to it every now and then when he misses her that hard and that he thanks me.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:And I didn't record that for.
Speaker A:For Me, I didn't record that for any clout.
Speaker A:The videos unlisted.
Speaker A:You cannot find it on YouTube, only if you have the link for him and his family.
Speaker A:And he tells me that when, when times get hard, that he listens to that and it just makes him feel like he's with his mom.
Speaker A:And I think that is single handedly the most important thing I've ever done.
Speaker A:That's beautiful with my podcast and with this skill set.
Speaker A:So if there's anything I take with me, it's that moment.
Speaker B:No, that's awesome.
Speaker F:I gave it goosebumps, bro.
Speaker B:That's awesome.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:With that being said though, like, for our viewers, what is something like, for that you want our viewers to know, like, what is the message that you have for your podcast?
Speaker D:Like, when viewers come to your podcast, where's the message that you have to offer them, you know?
Speaker A:Oh, man.
Speaker A:It's in the title itself, dude, it can't be that bad.
Speaker A:Nothing can be that bad.
Speaker A:Everything's hard.
Speaker A:The people that persist and become successful or whatever you want in life, really, the mantra of it is just if you keep going, if you keep doing the damn thing and do it well, then you're gonna get something out of it.
Speaker A:There's a lot of people, for example, podcasters that buy the equipment, shoot two episodes and they're just like, nah, it's not for me.
Speaker A:You know, I had to go through the trials and tribulations and fuck up a bunch of times to get to where I'm at now.
Speaker A:And it's not, it's nowhere near where I want to be.
Speaker A:But am I proud to take a step back and take a look at the whole damn thing and be like, yeah, I did that.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And if there's any, like, listeners or creatives tuning in on this episode and, or for your listeners that want to start their own thing, do it.
Speaker A:And when you do it, fall in love with it.
Speaker A:And when you fall in love with it, understand that with love comes some hate.
Speaker A:You're going to fucking hate what you make.
Speaker A:You're going to hate yourself a little bit, but that's because you love it that much.
Speaker D:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Fuck, man.
Speaker F:Like, you love keeps you coming back.
Speaker A:Keeps you coming back.
Speaker A:Dude, you get up almost.
Speaker A:You got to be obsessed with it too.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's like boxing, bro.
Speaker C:You got to be okay with getting hit and fall down and just get back up.
Speaker C:It's, it's people, we, we talk about.
Speaker F:It for all the beauty and all the fun that it is, but also, you know, Sometimes we'll try to touch on it, but it's.
Speaker F:It's not all.
Speaker F:Not all that glitters and gold.
Speaker C:It is tough.
Speaker C:It is.
Speaker D:You got to be delusional to it almost, like, because it's fucking.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker D:It's a mental game.
Speaker D:It's a physical game.
Speaker D:Like, it's tough as a.
Speaker A:Like, I say that all the time, dude.
Speaker D:And for the starters that are coming about, like, it's not going to be a breeze.
Speaker D:It is tough.
Speaker D:You're going to have to put some money out of your pocket into this.
Speaker D:You'll be like, God damn, I going to get this back.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:Does it stop?
Speaker C:You're going to have guests that don't.
Speaker F:Show up or guests that you don't have.
Speaker F:Play with your emotions.
Speaker C:You're going to have this, that, the other.
Speaker F:You're going to have technical difficulties today.
Speaker F:Our editor didn't send us the.
Speaker D:But with everything you're trying to do, it's a learning curve, and it's all part of the process.
Speaker D:And as long as you can just keep going and take the punch with it, it's gonna work out, you know, and when you.
Speaker D:When you can feel it in the air, that it's gonna work out, that's when, like, the beauty is really, like, there.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker D:Because when you can feel it in the air, like, oh, yeah, you know what?
Speaker D:I'm tired as a motherfucker, but I can smell it.
Speaker D:I could feel it.
Speaker D:It's coming.
Speaker D:We on the way.
Speaker D:It's a beautiful feeling, you know?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like Chris said, man, fall in love with it.
Speaker B:And I think that's what all of us here can say we.
Speaker B:We feel in our craft is that we fell in love with.
Speaker B:That's what keeps us coming back.
Speaker D:And with anything you're trying to do with anything is.
Speaker D:I'm not talking about the podcast with anything.
Speaker D:When you feel it and you know it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker D:So just keep at it.
Speaker D:Keep grinding.
Speaker D:It don't matter is it's tough for everybody.
Speaker D:But whatever you're trying to do, I.
Speaker A:Think you guys are on the precipice of something, though.
Speaker A:I think you guys are.
Speaker A:You guys are doing it, and you guys are doing it right.
Speaker A:It looks good.
Speaker A:The thumbnails look great.
Speaker A:That animation intro in the beginning allows me as someone that I believe my product is quality.
Speaker A:From.
Speaker A:From that perspective, I can notice that you guys are quality, too.
Speaker A:Keep that up.
Speaker A:And for.
Speaker A:For as short as you guys been doing this thing, I'm like, it's dope to be sitting right here.
Speaker F:No, I appreciate that, bro.
Speaker E:I really do have you right here too, man.
Speaker D:Just try to be the motivation to like the average Joe's, because that's all we are.
Speaker D:Yeah, dude, we're just trying to be the motivation to the average Joe's to like, you can do whatever the you want to do.
Speaker A:Oh, dude.
Speaker A:And you guys are so relatable too.
Speaker A:Like, not only can you guys have these conversations, but like, I mean, I think one of the first episodes I listened to of your guys's was just a few episodes ago.
Speaker A:It was like the Red Flags episode.
Speaker A:Funny man.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then I did.
Speaker D:That's just us right here at Starbucks just talking like that.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:See, people don't realize, but we, we.
Speaker F:Well, I think we said it in the episode, but we got ghosted by a guest that was a big guest that we were gonna have.
Speaker F:Our biggest yet, I think.
Speaker F:And we got ghosted, unfortunately, and we kind of had to on the fly.
Speaker C:Like just, you know, come up with questions, make it happen within those like 30 minutes that we were setting up.
Speaker F:So we just wrote some questions down and sat down and just.
Speaker C:Yeah, like you said, that's all.
Speaker A:The show must go on, dude, because you guys were in LA for that, right?
Speaker A:You guys had like a studio space.
Speaker A:He was like, all right, well, we got the.
Speaker A:We got the space.
Speaker A:We gotta just.
Speaker F:I was pissed as.
Speaker B:Because I had to drive out there dolo these fools all mobbed together.
Speaker B:So I'm like.
Speaker B:I drove out here all by myself after a long day at work.
Speaker B:I was to flake on us.
Speaker A:It's cool.
Speaker A:You got some cool clips out of it, cuz you were saying some many things.
Speaker A:But that's the beauty of it, man.
Speaker C:It was fun, bro.
Speaker A:No, you guys are.
Speaker A:You guys are killing it.
Speaker A:Like, it's cool.
Speaker A:Like, once again, it's just like.
Speaker A:I feel like we're.
Speaker A:We just got out of class or something and we're just kicking it at the crib, talking about whatever.
Speaker A:I feel like we're about to like bust open the yearbook and like, look at all the, like.
Speaker B:You remember her?
Speaker D:Yeah, this guy.
Speaker A:Her number.
Speaker A:I got her number.
Speaker D:I got her.
Speaker A:Her number.
Speaker A:I got her.
Speaker B:I didn't get hers, but I know she wanted to give it to me.
Speaker D:That's how it be anywhere, though.
Speaker D:Like when you just get a group of guys together, you guys just be talking.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying, like, it's easy.
Speaker D:That's one thing too I want to bring up too.
Speaker D:Isn't it crazy how guys can just get along so well, but females, they just can.
Speaker D:They cannot.
Speaker D:What is the story on that?
Speaker A:Dude, I think we're simple.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker D:Why is that what it.
Speaker B:Because we're relatable.
Speaker D:Me and my.
Speaker D:I don't.
Speaker D:I don't have a significant other, but like, when my boys and their girls get together with their boys and their girls get together, it's always something with the girls, right?
Speaker D:Like shorty.
Speaker D:Don't like shorty or whatever it may be.
Speaker D:But the homies, the boys are just chitchatting.
Speaker D:It's their first time meeting and they having a grand old time.
Speaker D:Huh.
Speaker C:Well, I would say is.
Speaker C:I think the most simplistic difference is I think like, us as men, we.
Speaker F:Look for like what we have in common.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:I feel like women sometimes look for what's different out of each other.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:Like, she's like this.
Speaker C:No, she's like that.
Speaker C:Where as us, we're like, oh, you like the keys?
Speaker C:But I love the key.
Speaker C:Let's talk about it.
Speaker D:Like, it's crazy though, because come on, you guys know for a fact it happens like that.
Speaker D:You know, it happens.
Speaker A:Like, it truly is like that, man.
Speaker A:I just bonded with the co worker because we were just like, war zone.
Speaker A:And he was like, war zone.
Speaker D:It's your first time meeting Cat, right?
Speaker D:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker D:It's like a primal Whatever.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Are yours just Perkins?
Speaker A:But the thing with.
Speaker A:With girls, I believe even though there are more layers and they're more complex, when they do find those ride or dies, they're glued together.
Speaker C:They were then like.
Speaker F:Yeah, yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker A:It's like.
Speaker A:But when they fight, they fight.
Speaker A:When dudes beef a little bit, either we're silent about it, forget about it, and we're cool again, or we talk about it real quick and then we're just back to like, war zone.
Speaker D:War zone.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Big old letting it cool off where his girls.
Speaker C:Like, the explosion happens.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:Oh, man.
Speaker B:Like, she wore the same shoes as you call.
Speaker D:They're cool shoes.
Speaker D:I get it.
Speaker D:They're cool shoes.
Speaker F:Oh, dude.
Speaker A:Like, yeah.
Speaker A:When my girl vents to me, I'm just like.
Speaker A:I didn't realize it was that complex.
Speaker C:Just commend that all by just that observation.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:I mean, I. I do watch Trash Reality with her, so I kind of understand, like, how she loves Trash Reality.
Speaker A:Dude, what you watching, man?
Speaker A:So you're watching Love island in solidarity.
Speaker D:I love Love island, but this season, I just refuse to watch it.
Speaker C:His.
Speaker C:His favorite quote is, I left my heart in season six.
Speaker D:Okay?
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker D:I'm not gonna lie, dude.
Speaker D:I did.
Speaker D:And then this season, I tried, started watching, and then the contestants are just like, they're not about love, dude.
Speaker D:They're not about love, dude.
Speaker D:I'd love to see out there, because that's what they was on right now.
Speaker D:It was on boochie time.
Speaker D:They was on booty time.
Speaker C:Imagine him.
Speaker C:He'd be heartbroken by three girls in the first day.
Speaker B:Three hours in, he'd be ready to leave.
Speaker C:He said, you like me, dude?
Speaker D:Well, why she pulling in for a chat, bro?
Speaker D:What's up with that?
Speaker A:That ain't right.
Speaker C:Oh, dude.
Speaker A:In the span of 10 minutes, pulls three girls in for a chat.
Speaker C:Hey, I with y'.
Speaker D:All.
Speaker D:I'll with y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker D:Hell yeah.
Speaker D:My boy Quesito, he better go.
Speaker D:Season eight, he said, do it.
Speaker A:A new bombshell has entered the.
Speaker C:Can you imagine one of these fools on Love Island?
Speaker C:They don't cut it first.
Speaker C:First week, they see some of our podcast footage.
Speaker A:Dude, they were yanking some of these contestants out because of something they said from five years ago.
Speaker D:I wouldn't keep up on it, but, like, yeah, I did see, like, the controversy of.
Speaker D:Of some contestants and how they had some lingering around.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's why I never want to get that famous.
Speaker D:That famous.
Speaker B:I want to get famous enough to our work.
Speaker A:But do you think your tweets are.
Speaker D:Still out there like that or deleted them all.
Speaker B:Dude, I'd love to see Kev on Facebook somewhere.
Speaker A:You know, Kev like that dude.
Speaker A:I mean, just from what I've gathered from this podcast, it'd be hilarious to just, like, have one of those, like, interviews.
Speaker D:I don't even know this.
Speaker D:This dude is hilarious.
Speaker B:Kev would have thrived on the this guy.
Speaker D:When we can, this guy's gonna have his own reality show.
Speaker D:Like, that's what we're thriving for.
Speaker E:I don't know if these guys are talking about.
Speaker B:That's the beauty of it.
Speaker B:He doesn't even see it.
Speaker D:He doesn't realize the genius behind his hilariousness.
Speaker D:Like, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker C:Day we were talking about shooting a podcast.
Speaker C:Aaron says, hey, pull up a thousand at noon.
Speaker C:And Kev's like, Fisher pulls up at, like, 1:30.
Speaker C:And then Aaron's like, dude, we told you to pull up at.
Speaker C:Dude.
Speaker C:He said, noon isn't a specific time.
Speaker D:I could have said noon 30.
Speaker D: That means: Speaker C:He said that.
Speaker C:He was like, well, noon 30.
Speaker C:Noon 45.
Speaker D:What?
Speaker A:That is crazy.
Speaker D:I don't know what type of where you grew up.
Speaker A:Said 12pm then you would have been like, I'm there.
Speaker E:We're like, I need a time for everything.
Speaker E:Like, if I don't have a time, like, I will show up late.
Speaker D: Yeah, you can tell him: Speaker D:He's gonna show up at 4:30.
Speaker C:So I'll tell you.
Speaker E: I'll be there: Speaker D:Listen, listen, listen.
Speaker D:He's getting married.
Speaker D:Like, he has to walk down the altar at 1:30.
Speaker D:His.
Speaker D:He's barely shaving his beard at 1:30.
Speaker C:We had the guests waiting on him and everything.
Speaker C:And then he answers, what was the episode?
Speaker C:We're like, bro, we're waiting on you.
Speaker D:6:30.
Speaker D:And then they're like, originally we said 6:35.
Speaker D:Things change when you run a business.
Speaker D:You need to check the group chat because changes.
Speaker D:So changed to 1:30.
Speaker D:And he was still on 6:30 time.
Speaker A:You got to do individual texts is the thing.
Speaker A:Because you know, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna protect.
Speaker D:He's not gonna lie to you.
Speaker D:He has our group chat on Silencio.
Speaker A:I got you group chats on silence.
Speaker B:He's spamming that.
Speaker D:So the only time he replies is if we're like, we're gonna go to in and out or go get some tacos.
Speaker D:That's the only time he replies.
Speaker E:I reply about the podcast available to.
Speaker D:Reply any other time.
Speaker A:Dude, I got some boys that'll try to make plans with me on Instagram.
Speaker A:Message.
Speaker A:Like, what do we.
Speaker D:Okay, tell them what are we doing?
Speaker D:Tell them to get a grip.
Speaker D:That's exactly what they get a grip.
Speaker C:Instagram message is crazy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:For like one of my boys, you know?
Speaker D:Like, how old is these cats right now?
Speaker A:They're 32 as well.
Speaker D:Just call me, bro.
Speaker C:Give me a call.
Speaker D:Yeah, get your life together.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then he'll proceed to.
Speaker A:He'll be.
Speaker A:So it'll be one message that says, says, hey, what time on Saturday?
Speaker A:And then he'll proceed to send me five reels.
Speaker A:And so that gets lost up there.
Speaker A:And so I'm just like, I'd never answer them.
Speaker A:And he'll text me.
Speaker D:Be like, you cut this guy out of your life.
Speaker D:Does he not have a phone?
Speaker D:Does he text you?
Speaker A:No, I think he just.
Speaker D:Any form of communication.
Speaker D:He has an iPad with wi Fi off his baby mamas.
Speaker D:That's what it is.
Speaker A:I'll take pigeon carriers.
Speaker A:Instead, man, he ran.
Speaker A:Take us back to those days.
Speaker B:Give me some heartfelt written emotions on a piece of like part.
Speaker D:Dude, I was on the fifth grade.
Speaker C:I forgot cursive.
Speaker A:You said you forgot cursive.
Speaker D:I still, I write incursive to this day.
Speaker C:It takes me.
Speaker A:I doodle in cursive like when I'm at work, dude.
Speaker A:But the whole point of cursive was to save time.
Speaker A:Cuz you don't lift your pen off the paper as you're writing.
Speaker D:Third grade teacher baddie.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker D:Come on, come on.
Speaker D:Why you guys laughing?
Speaker D:Hey, when I was in the third grade, I knew.
Speaker D:I love them baes.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:But for real though, she taught me cursive and to this day, I still got it.
Speaker A:You seem like one of them third graders.
Speaker A:That was like flossy.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Yes, exactly.
Speaker A:Give me some skin.
Speaker D:That was exactly me, bro.
Speaker B:He was the one doing that.
Speaker B:And he had like the size shirt too small, the belly was sticking out.
Speaker C:He's like protruding like this guy, a couple silver teeth.
Speaker D:Oh, damn.
Speaker D:Don't disrespect my parents like that.
Speaker D:I had great dental care, bro.
Speaker A:Dude, the silver teeth was the original grill, you know?
Speaker A:That was me though.
Speaker D:This guy got too dark in the summers, bro.
Speaker D:He had to wear a hoodie.
Speaker D:So who's laughing now?
Speaker D:Black top, straight up.
Speaker B:I'd be when I was younger, I think so my parents, we didn't have a pool.
Speaker B:But one summer my dad bought me the little four foot like blow up pool.
Speaker B:No, I'm saying that had to like kick me out of the house and send me to like the homies house so they could clean that because I was in there every day until.
Speaker B:That was great.
Speaker D:The pool?
Speaker B:No, the pool, bro.
Speaker B:And it was like the blow up one.
Speaker B:So it doesn't have like a filter on it or anything.
Speaker B:So you just have the little chlorine thing in there.
Speaker B:So I'm in there every day.
Speaker B:Just after, as soon as I get home from school, I'm telling my friends, come over.
Speaker B:It's like five deep long shavings in anything, dude.
Speaker B:So much grass, dirt, it's all green.
Speaker A:You didn't care at all.
Speaker A:You're just like body of water.
Speaker B:I'm in there.
Speaker B:My parents literally had to be like, hey, go hang out with your cousins today.
Speaker B:Or like, hey, come pick him up and take him out of here.
Speaker B:I come back, the pool is spotless.
Speaker D:You don't know how to swim.
Speaker D:But he's in the pool right now.
Speaker B:So I'm a great swimmer.
Speaker B:I'm Michael Phelps of my generation.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I didn't ever learn how to swim.
Speaker A:And I spent to this day birthdays in water world.
Speaker D:To this day.
Speaker A:I mean, I could get from point A to point B, but stick me in one spot.
Speaker A:I'm gonna.
Speaker A:I'm going down.
Speaker A:I can't tread like that.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Because I just spent too many days in the lazy river in water world.
Speaker B:I think me, I took, like, two.
Speaker B:Me and my sister took, like, two actual real swim lessons.
Speaker B:But then, like, I quit going because I was complaining.
Speaker B:So I was like, I just want to swim.
Speaker B:I was like, they're trying to tell me to backstroke and float on my belt.
Speaker D:I did, like, the whole summer.
Speaker D:Certificate.
Speaker D:I got the whole certificate and everything.
Speaker B:But I've always loved the.
Speaker A:They got certificates for, like, hey, my son knows how to swim.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah.
Speaker D:I'm qualified to save a life.
Speaker C:He was on a roll in swimming class.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, dude, That's a thing.
Speaker A:I mean, the certificate is.
Speaker B:He's not qualified to say no life.
Speaker C:He got gator of the month.
Speaker B:He got the smallest trophy they could have.
Speaker D:They're just mad.
Speaker D:They look good in a Speedo like I did.
Speaker C:I'm glad my parents D me in swim class looking like a fool.
Speaker D:That's why you don't know how to swim to this day.
Speaker C:I do, though.
Speaker C:We had a pool in my house.
Speaker D:That's why when I was drowning, you couldn't save me.
Speaker C:I didn't want to.
Speaker D:And that's why your mama's chicken was dry.
Speaker C:That's why I don't care that you hurt your elbow.
Speaker A:What a crazy jab, dude.
Speaker A:Someone's mother's cooking is crazy.
Speaker D:You know what's crazy is Leanne watches.
Speaker C:This too, so she.
Speaker B:Your cooking is amazing.
Speaker B:Piece of.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker D:And she took me to Thanksgiving.
Speaker C:Most loyal followers every day.
Speaker D:She took me to Thanksgiving, like, two years in a row, and the food was immaculate.
Speaker D:She took me to her Thanksgiving two years.
Speaker C:But you just said it was dry.
Speaker D:That was a joke.
Speaker B:Hey, the silence says everything.
Speaker D:That was a joke.
Speaker D:Intentional joke that I. I take back wholeheartedly.
Speaker F:No, we ain't tripping.
Speaker A:Damn, that rolled out for too quick.
Speaker A:That's why your mama's chicken is dry is crazy.
Speaker A:Those are fighting words.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Turn off the episode now.
Speaker C:Dude, save your life this week.
Speaker A:My mom still calls my podcast a blog, and I don't know what the that means.
Speaker B:Shout out to Chris's mom.
Speaker B:Because my mom doesn't watch it.
Speaker B:She knows what we do.
Speaker B:I love my mom mother, but I. I just think she doesn't want to see me talking all the.
Speaker C:That I'd be talking.
Speaker C:She already got to hear you talking?
Speaker D:When?
Speaker D:At home.
Speaker B:I'm about to say I'd be acting like this at home.
Speaker B:She gets enough of me, I'll tell you what.
Speaker A:But she just knows it's recorded for eternity now.
Speaker B:That's why I'll just wake up any random day and hear you talking like this.
Speaker A:She doesn't need to turn on YouTube for that.
Speaker D:I got funny stories about this guy and his mom.
Speaker D:Actually, I'm gonna lie.
Speaker B:Let's hear one.
Speaker D:This guy got drunk as one night.
Speaker D:Like I'm sleeping in one room down the hall, and this fool walks down the wrong side of the hall.
Speaker D:The bathroom is literally around the corner from him.
Speaker D:He walks the wrong way down the hall and he couldn't find the bathroom.
Speaker D:So he panicked and just pull his wee wee out and starts leaking it into the hallway.
Speaker D:And I wake up to like a fountain.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:I'm like, what the.
Speaker D:What's going on?
Speaker D:And then all of a sudden I hear his mom, boy, what are you doing?
Speaker D:And he's like.
Speaker D:And she like grabs him and like walks him to the bathroom.
Speaker D:By then he's done.
Speaker D:You know, he's done.
Speaker D:So he's in the bathroom and then she gotta go get the mob and clean this up.
Speaker D:And I'm in.
Speaker D:I'm in the other room just like, oh, he done up now.
Speaker D:I'm over here though.
Speaker D:I'm sleeping.
Speaker D:I ain't going out there.
Speaker B:I'm done.
Speaker D:And I was like, damn, he had a good night though.
Speaker D:Mama, I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker B:Hey, I don't remember.
Speaker B:I don't remember doing the actual.
Speaker B:But shout out to.
Speaker B:Was that probably like two years ago, St. Patty's Day?
Speaker D:It was a wild night.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:And it was funny.
Speaker D:And I was like, damn, he leaked down his.
Speaker D:In his hallway.
Speaker B:That's not even the worst of it.
Speaker B:I think at one time when I was younger, young before I was even 21, I came back to sack.
Speaker B:I don't know who I was with or where I went, but we went out and got fucked up.
Speaker B:And I come back and then they had to pull me off the toilet.
Speaker B:I was butt ass naked.
Speaker B:Like, I thought I had to shit.
Speaker B:I wasn't doing nothing but sleeping on the toilet.
Speaker D:Just sitting there.
Speaker C:Slapped my ass and told me to wake the fuck up and pull my clothes on.
Speaker C:And I'm like, jesus, you were at Your house?
Speaker D:You're at an a house.
Speaker B:I was at my sister's old house.
Speaker A:You guys want to hear a crazy story here, dog?
Speaker A:Come on, spit it out, man.
Speaker A:When I was in high school and I first started drinking, we were drinking like either Captain Morgan or Smirnoff.
Speaker D:Damn.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was real bad.
Speaker D:Is that a vodka?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Oh, that sounds like some I said.
Speaker F:When I only had 16 for a handle.
Speaker C:Costco.
Speaker C:Costco.
Speaker C:Captain Morgan was my dude.
Speaker A:Yeah, everyone was drinking Captain Morgan.
Speaker B:Shout to out out to the.
Speaker B:The Food for Less on Hesperian Boulevard.
Speaker B:I was stealing bottles all day from.
Speaker A:Whoa.
Speaker D:Really?
Speaker B:I swear.
Speaker A:Oh, you're getting it for free at least.
Speaker D:Hey, if that case is still open, we have them right here.
Speaker A:Hey, I mean, if it wasn't four locos, it was either, like, it was gonna be Hennessy with the family, or if it was just me and the homies, it was gonna be Mickey's or Smirnoff or Captain Morgan.
Speaker A:And we would black out at my parents house and sometimes or we'd go to a party and I'd get dropped off blackout drunk, dude.
Speaker A:And I'm kind of scared to share this story, but damn, dude.
Speaker A:Well, I'm here already.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:There was this one time I didn't have a TV in my bedroom, but we had a tv, like downstairs.
Speaker A:And man, this is gonna be weird.
Speaker A:Context.
Speaker A:My mom has a doll room, right?
Speaker D:A doll room.
Speaker A:Because it's this whole thing where she grew up in the Philippines without any dolls.
Speaker D:And she got Isabelle down there.
Speaker D:What's her name?
Speaker B:Annabelle.
Speaker A:Yeah, she collected all these dolls, right.
Speaker A:When she moved to the States.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker A:And so she has one entire room dedicated to, like, dolls.
Speaker A:And there was a TV downstairs.
Speaker A:I didn't have a tv.
Speaker A:And we had digital cable there, and with digital cable comes hbo.
Speaker A:And I was blackout drunk.
Speaker A:I barely even remember this.
Speaker A:Anyway, all I remember was me waking up the next morning, sitting in front of the TV on a chair that I'd pulled out booty ass naked.
Speaker D:Oh, no.
Speaker D:Hey, hold on.
Speaker D:It's okay.
Speaker D:I got some wild stories.
Speaker A:And from what I could recollect is that I tried doing my.
Speaker A:I tried watching porn, doing my thing, and I fell in asleep mid tug.
Speaker C:Woke up like this.
Speaker A:I woke up like this.
Speaker D:I woke up like, what?
Speaker A:What the.
Speaker A:I was like, hopefully no one walked in and no one did.
Speaker C:So that you know, here's another secret you d keeping for me.
Speaker C:My dad walked in, he went straight to the pray.
Speaker D:He was like.
Speaker A:My question is like, why was that booty ass naked, though.
Speaker D:U.S. trade.
Speaker D:No, no.
Speaker D:There was no why.
Speaker C:Can I just unzip the whole.
Speaker C:You were dedicated.
Speaker A:I was dedicated, dude.
Speaker A:I wanted to get comfy, I guess.
Speaker D:And he was about to let a load off is what he was trying to do.
Speaker A:Jesus.
Speaker D:Yeah, man, I got a crazy story, too.
Speaker C:Crazy, crazy story.
Speaker D:Oh, I got too many of them.
Speaker D:I can't.
Speaker D:You don't want to hear.
Speaker C:It's all right, bro.
Speaker E:Our digital footprint is already bad enough, dude.
Speaker A:So what about.
Speaker B:You heard about that T app?
Speaker B:T viral app?
Speaker B:It's like, t dating advice for women?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:And so it's a.
Speaker B:It's an app where they post pictures of men and anonymously.
Speaker B:Women will be out there saying their opinion or their experience with this man.
Speaker B:Like, oh, he's a cheater.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker B:He's domestically violent.
Speaker B:He's a manipulator.
Speaker B:All this crazy, right?
Speaker B:So this shit's going viral right now.
Speaker B:Why did Kevin have all of us just, like, on what's going on?
Speaker B:Because one of our homegirls hit him.
Speaker B:Was like, yeah, you guys are all on this app.
Speaker B:And they're.
Speaker D:And so what happened with that?
Speaker B:Like, they're speaking.
Speaker B:We're not on it.
Speaker C:Yo.
Speaker D:It didn't happen after.
Speaker D:She was just pulling our chain.
Speaker B:She ended up pulling our chain.
Speaker F:But.
Speaker D:Back in the real.
Speaker B:They had the gang sweat and, like, damn, we're about to get hit with the RICO case right now.
Speaker D:Not me.
Speaker D:I don't talk crazy like that.
Speaker A:My girl was telling me I didn't know about that app.
Speaker A:I guess they had turned into an app because she was telling me that there would be Facebook pages, and that's.
Speaker B:Where it originated from, that people are on Facebook sharing their stories with these guys are like, just putting fair warnings out there.
Speaker B:But now it's like a whole app.
Speaker B:You gotta verify that you're a woman.
Speaker B:You have to.
Speaker E:You can only use it if you're a woman.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's confidential, and it's really.
Speaker B:And the purpose of it is to help women date safer or.
Speaker A:That makes sense.
Speaker F:Can't do none of that.
Speaker F:You can't, like, share it on FaceTime or nothing.
Speaker F:It's like, private like that and things like this.
Speaker F:Like, basically, if you're talking to a girl for the first time, you just.
Speaker C:Put a picture of her.
Speaker C:It was like, so they're kind of.
Speaker D:Just exposing what's up with this girl.
Speaker C:And the guys just came and con commented her whole past.
Speaker C:They're able to put a green flag or a red flag on the picture.
Speaker C:Wow, dude, it's a lot of scorned women on that app, I'll tell you.
Speaker A:Yeah, I can believe it.
Speaker A:No, and I understand the purpose.
Speaker A:Like damn date safer.
Speaker A:But I could imagine that there'd be like one guy that just up once and then ruin it for everybody.
Speaker A:Yeah, I just.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:But also on the opposite end of the spectrum, like you said, it's safer for women.
Speaker B:Like who?
Speaker B:For all.
Speaker B:You know, like there's.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Even like, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And then, yeah, people can actually get a.
Speaker D:And isn't it weird too?
Speaker D:Like in today's day and age with dating, like you got to really, really worry about that.
Speaker D:Like that's crazy.
Speaker D:Like back in the day, you never just meet a nice guy and go.
Speaker A:Out for a little.
Speaker B:And he ended up on depending be Ted Bundy.
Speaker B:Like you never.
Speaker A:Oh, isn't that crazy?
Speaker B:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker B:Like he was a good looking guy.
Speaker B:People thought he was just some average Joe, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:And then little he's cut him up the next day.
Speaker D:But then you're like, what's up with that?
Speaker D:Like that's like the risk of taking of dating.
Speaker D:But it's like, why are there some weirdos out there?
Speaker A:Like what's going on nowadays?
Speaker F:I think it's not that there's now weirdos.
Speaker F:I think that now we have access to seeing how many weirdos there are.
Speaker B:You don't hear about that so often.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker F:You know, with less access, less phones, less Internet, everything.
Speaker F:We're not seeing everything now.
Speaker C:You, you got AMBER alert.
Speaker C: d gym teacher was arrested in: Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:Like I saw, I saw a church leader in like our town that was on the.
Speaker D:Really?
Speaker C:Yeah, the website or whatever.
Speaker C:And I was like, I used to go to church and see this guy.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:That's insane.
Speaker A:Dude.
Speaker A:Why are people weird, dude?
Speaker A:I mean like people I don't know.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker A:It's like why do you gotta like.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:First of all.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Shout out to that app.
Speaker A:I mean like date, date safer and all that stuff.
Speaker A:Just to clarify, I was just like, are there people, are there guys on there?
Speaker A:Where?
Speaker D:Like, I guess it's only for women.
Speaker A:Like, only women.
Speaker F:But don't get me wrong, no, there are guys that will get straight slandered just because they hurt a girl.
Speaker F:Girl's feelings or something.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then they have a bunch of.
Speaker F:Friend Groups coming and just saying stuff about his genitalia or this, that.
Speaker F:No, you will have both cases.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's what I was wondering.
Speaker A:What I was talking about earlier is like.
Speaker A:Yeah, just because.
Speaker A:Yeah, if he had just a regular bicker mint with his girlfriend and like it ended badly.
Speaker A:No, but nothing wrong was done.
Speaker A:He could get slandered pretty easily.
Speaker F:It's the same thing you see on Twitter, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker F:Sometimes you see it and it goes viral for the right reason and then you find out sometimes something goes viral and then the guy has a repost and the video shows the context and.
Speaker F:And you know girls at that point there's always two sides to each story.
Speaker F:It's not one safe all.
Speaker F:But like he said, I mean for the, for the betterment of things, it's really good if people use it the right way.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker F:But there are trolls and people in this world that don't.
Speaker D:And that was necessarily always.
Speaker B:There comes people who misuse and.
Speaker B:And take troll.
Speaker C:But if you.
Speaker F:Sucks though because then it takes less.
Speaker F:It takes less attention away from like the.
Speaker F:That actually.
Speaker D:Exactly.
Speaker D:If you're using it for the right usage of like making sure this guy don't get to you.
Speaker D:Like if he's a scumbag or whatever it may be.
Speaker D:Like yeah, make sure this guy don't get around and you over or whatever it may be.
Speaker B:But people are going crazy.
Speaker B:Like there's hella videos of dudes crashing out.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Because they're mad because people are talking about the other.
Speaker B:Such a liar.
Speaker B:And like at the.
Speaker D:The viral.
Speaker B:Like okay.
Speaker B:The context.
Speaker C:Like you're only making people believe that.
Speaker B:Whatever they're saying on there is true.
Speaker F:But like who knows?
Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker B:Maybe you're right and you're just score like you're wrong.
Speaker B:You're in the wrong place, wrong time, wrong people talking about you.
Speaker B:But wow, it's crazy.
Speaker B:It's been taking the Internet by storm.
Speaker B:They said it's got.
Speaker B:I barely started seeing it maybe like a few weeks ago, but they're already saying there's like over 2 million users on it.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Insane.
Speaker A:Dude, this day and age is crazy with technology.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:Because you're right back in the day, like let's say if there was a weirdo, that weirdo could do something weird to a woman and then just kind.
Speaker F:Of dip out states and nobody would have ever known.
Speaker A:Yeah, he does the same thing.
Speaker B:Fake name.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker A:See, I mean yeah, pro.
Speaker A:I mean pros and cons with everything.
Speaker F:Double edged sword.
Speaker F:But that's everything right, with social media, with everything Internet, everything we have access to right now, you can utilize it for good or for bad, and you're.
Speaker F:It's up to you.
Speaker F:I remember on our Splash interview, he said something about, like, you can make positive decisions or you can make negative decisions.
Speaker F:Just know that making that 10,000 times, you're gonna have an outcome, whether it's positive or negative, it's going to be based off of what you decide to do.
Speaker F:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:It's our decision at the end of the day, right?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:Well, we utilize it for, like, intentionally.
Speaker F:We'll probably get it for the right intention, you know, but there are some people out here that just use the Internet to lure people in or to do ruin people's lives or to do this and to do that.
Speaker F:And that's not.
Speaker F:Not okay either.
Speaker A:Scary times we live in, man.
Speaker A:There's some keyboard warriors out there.
Speaker A:There's some trolls out there on the Internet that just are ready to ruin a reputation or just talk some mad shit about someone doing what they love and that it's just so much power as opposed to back in the day.
Speaker A:I mean, shit, like, if you wanted to do something, you could just go out and do it and whoever could criticize you actually saw what you did, right?
Speaker F:No, for sure.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker F:So, yeah, it's crazy times.
Speaker F:But, like, speaking of the Internet, let's get a little bit back into the podcast in a little bit.
Speaker F:I wanted to ask you, like, how has it been, like, navigating, you know, doing something like this?
Speaker F:We've definitely had situations already where, you know, we get showered with love and.
Speaker C:We'Ve had situations where we get showered with hate, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker F:And having to navigate not only the consistency behind it, but also everything that comes with it, negative and positive.
Speaker F:Like, how's that been for you?
Speaker F:And like, learning along the way with anything.
Speaker A:I. I mean, because I'm like, baseline kind of sensitive, right?
Speaker A:Where if I could see any level of negative criticism about my craft and I'll, like, take it to heart.
Speaker A:Like, I've definitely, like, seen some.
Speaker A:Because I've had some clips kind of pop off, right?
Speaker A:And with those clips, a lot of clips pop off because you're starting a conversation.
Speaker A:You know, you guys have a few clips that have, like, gone pretty virals.
Speaker A:You guys have read the comics or comments and seen some shit, right?
Speaker F:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Not everything's going to be positive, but you kind of just get.
Speaker A:I just had to get through it, dude.
Speaker A:And it's like that cliche thing of how some people say with success comes haters.
Speaker F:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Like you don't you, you know, you don't know if you're doing great without the haters.
Speaker A:Like, it, it comes with it.
Speaker B:You're doing something right if people are hating on it.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker B:That means enough people are watching to hate what you're doing.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker B:Russia.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Is something I just heard recently.
Speaker A:All exposure is good exposure.
Speaker A:Any kind of exposure is good exposure.
Speaker B:Such thing as bad publicity.
Speaker B:No, I'm a firm believer in that.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:I mean, as long as you're a good person, like, because, you know, yeah, we're joking around.
Speaker A:We shoot the shit.
Speaker A:Anyone can take anything out of context, but I know that I'm a decent human and that what I'm trying to say on a public platform is, is.
Speaker A:Is for what I think is the betterment of, of everything.
Speaker A:But if someone doesn't with my.
Speaker A:Then.
Speaker A:All right, peace.
Speaker A:Bye.
Speaker A:You know, you turn.
Speaker A:Turn the video.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you had enough time.
Speaker A:Thank you for the.
Speaker A:Thanks.
Speaker A:You're helping the algorithm, right?
Speaker F:That's what I was going to point out is.
Speaker F:It's almost, it's almost like double sided, just like we were talking about earlier.
Speaker F:But you think about it, like, if.
Speaker C:People are commenting a lot, that tends to mean the video is doing well, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:So it's like you're partly happy, but then you're also, like you said, a little sensitive of like the critique, the critique you're getting.
Speaker F:And it's like, ultimately what you're fighting for anyway is just a bunch of people to give their take on your product anyway.
Speaker F:That's really the end goal of what you want.
Speaker F:So you might as well get used to it now.
Speaker F:Like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker F:That's kind of what I tell myself.
Speaker C:I'll look at something like, what do these dumb guys know about this?
Speaker C:I'm just like, I'll get mad.
Speaker C:Like, what do you.
Speaker C:You got to watch the whole two minutes.
Speaker C:We're not talking about this literally.
Speaker C:But then, then, you know, you also.
Speaker F:Have to realize, like, you know, if this blows up, I'm gonna get a million people to comment something that.
Speaker F:Because they're not gonna do their research, nobody cites their sources.
Speaker F:No.
Speaker F:Nowadays, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker F:So you might as well just be okay with whatever their first impression is.
Speaker C:And hope the second impression changes their mind.
Speaker A:That's all it is.
Speaker A:And when you balance it all out, I, I know that I got people that really with my shit because I hear it, I see the comments, I see the messages, and that's what I have to lean on as opposed to the one comment from some dude from Alabama that owns a goat.
Speaker A:And it's just like, I don't like what you said about I don't think the Bay Area is the, you know, I don't give a fuck, dude.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker A:So why would I let that ruin my day?
Speaker A:Yeah, dude, it just comes with it.
Speaker F:That's dope, bro.
Speaker F:That's dope.
Speaker F:And honestly, a huge part of your podcast is the comedy side.
Speaker F:I want to touch a little bit more into that.
Speaker A:Of course you do.
Speaker F:Stand up as.
Speaker F:I want to hear kind of the origins of that and, like, you know where you're going with that.
Speaker F:What's coming next, like, what we could look up, look forward to everything of that nature as well.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:Comedy has always been a part of me.
Speaker A:I told you guys that I used to do it for, like, my family at family parties, but in a more organized sense.
Speaker A:I did improv in high school, started doing improv shows in high school than I did in college.
Speaker A:And more recently, I got into standup.
Speaker A:I used to do standup in.
Speaker A: n, like, January, February of: Speaker A:And once I was getting into the swing of things, the world shut down.
Speaker A:And I was just like, all right, I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Speaker A:And then last year, I had this stand up comic, his name is Guile, and he throws a bunch of shows in the Bay Area.
Speaker A:And he knew me from when he used to watch my improv shows back when I was in college.
Speaker A:And so he tapped in with me and he was just like, yo, man, you should get into comedy.
Speaker A:And I was just like, nah, man.
Speaker A:And he was just like, it's low stakes.
Speaker A:What could you lose?
Speaker A:So he was throwing this show at this dive bar in Vacaville, and I started doing comedy there for like five people, six people, maybe 10 people.
Speaker A:And half of them are, like, drunk and, like, heckling.
Speaker A:But it was so much fucking fun, dude.
Speaker A:I didn't realize how fun it was to just get up on stage, talk about your thoughts, kind of workshop.
Speaker A:It's kind of like going to the gym.
Speaker A:You go there, you're weak at first, but then the second time you go, you notice how much stronger you are and how much funnier you are that second time around.
Speaker A:And you're learning with singing and podcasting.
Speaker A:Since I've been doing that for so long, the Growth, it's kind of.
Speaker A:It's not as traceable, but with something as new as standup comedy.
Speaker A:And you feel that joke that didn't work last week hit this week, you're just like, yeah, dude, I leveled up today.
Speaker A:And so I got kind of addicted.
Speaker A:Back to what I was saying before, when you pursue, like, a passion, you gotta be kind of obsessed.
Speaker A:You gotta hate it.
Speaker A:I was hating myself when a joke didn't land, or why didn't this work out?
Speaker A:Or I missed this punchline.
Speaker A:So I got obsessed.
Speaker A:I went back home, I started writing.
Speaker A:I went.
Speaker A:I did another show the next week, and that shit hit way harder.
Speaker A:And that's how I knew progress was happening.
Speaker A:And, yeah, dude, I. I get addicted to it.
Speaker A:I'm nervous to do it, but I.
Speaker A:When I'm nervous about something, that just means I care that much, dude.
Speaker A:Yeah, because nervous, those chemicals are the same chemicals that are released when you're excited.
Speaker A:So it just means I'm really excited.
Speaker D:For the fact that you're doing it.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude, I got a show tomorrow here in Oakland.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So that's my next thing.
Speaker A:And then I'll be doing, like, the Sacramento punchline.
Speaker D:Dude.
Speaker B:When we'll come and make some.
Speaker A:Some.
Speaker C:Oh, for real?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:You guys should definitely come through.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's gonna be, like, in October.
Speaker A:October 12th.
Speaker A:It's on a Sunday.
Speaker B:After this, we'll lock it in for sure.
Speaker B:But that's.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, dude, come through.
Speaker A:Yeah, the lineup's gonna be dope.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'll probably have, like, we went that.
Speaker D:One time or where did we go?
Speaker E:Punchline.
Speaker F:Yeah, no, we went to the Laugh Factory.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, they got there.
Speaker F:The punchline is the one we went to when E. Ethan did it.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker B:Waiting it to.
Speaker F:No, definitely.
Speaker A:But yeah, yeah, since you guys are just already Exact.
Speaker B:Dude, come through.
Speaker A:I'll be posting stuff about it.
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker A:And, like, that's a pretty cool venue.
Speaker A:But I think what blows my mind is that stand up is something that I had X'd out of my list a long time ago.
Speaker A:Like, I don't think I could ever do this.
Speaker A:I'd rather do improv.
Speaker D:No, you're not gonna come back to it type of thing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But then, you know, I met.
Speaker A:I met Guile, and he kind of just.
Speaker A:Just forced me to do it.
Speaker A:And I fell in love with it, man.
Speaker A:And, like, I don't know what it turns into, but it can't hurt.
Speaker A:It's definitely helping for right now.
Speaker D:You're having fun with it.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker D:That's like, the best you can have for it, you know, once it starts becoming, like, you know, not fun, it's like, do I even want to continue this?
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, and there comes a needle with these things.
Speaker A:You need a level of self awareness and understanding.
Speaker A:Like, okay, I don't love this anymore.
Speaker A:But like I said before, like, even when I hate it, I love it.
Speaker A:And so for as long as you.
Speaker D:Hate it to the point where you.
Speaker D:You want to come back stronger from it, you know?
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker D:As like, anything comes, like, anything you're trying new, like, you're gonna hate it at first, but it's the fact that you want to progress from where you're at right now to be at least able to say, like, okay, well, I learned this and this and this.
Speaker D:And to say, like, I understood the game of it.
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it's only helped my podcasting, you know, it just makes me sharper, just makes me wittier.
Speaker A:It makes me try a little harder, I don't know, with comedy.
Speaker F:And we'll be giving you good guests, too, probably through just networking.
Speaker A:Oh, dude.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because in the opposite fashion, actually, podcasting has given me more opportunities to do standup.
Speaker A:Not necessarily the other way around, but it's pretty fucking cool, dude.
Speaker F:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker F:Who would you say you pulled, like.
Speaker B:Inspiration from in terms of comedy?
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker A:There's this.
Speaker A:This Filipino cat.
Speaker A:His name is Rex Navarretti, and he was the guy that I listened to all throughout elementary school and how I started being kind of this funny guy, because I would always do his Filipino accent.
Speaker A:I would do that for all all my white friends, because white people are just like me.
Speaker A:Do the accent, do the accent.
Speaker A:And I would do it for my family, and they'd be like, yeah, we sound like that.
Speaker A:And yeah, I think he is baseline, one of my inspirations to keep it going.
Speaker A:And now, like, I'm.
Speaker A:It's a whole slurry of different comics that I dig.
Speaker A:Shane Gillis is funny, as I don't have his.
Speaker A:His same style at all, but I definitely pull from him.
Speaker A:I do think Andrew Schultz is hilarious.
Speaker A:I do like his storytelling.
Speaker A:Not everyone likes him, but I do enjoy him as a storyteller.
Speaker A:But there's a whole bunch of other comics, man.
Speaker F:No, he's dope.
Speaker F:Those are the guys I think are hilarious.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:Yeah, definitely dope.
Speaker A:Who do you guys like?
Speaker F:I like, like.
Speaker F:Yeah, I like Shane Gillis a lot.
Speaker F:I mean, I like early Kevin Hart.
Speaker B:Like, that Early Kevin Hart was, you know, he was more related dude.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Before he got hella stinking rich.
Speaker A:So now he has like nothing to relate to the audience with.
Speaker F:Like when I was a young kid, I like Joe Coy a lot.
Speaker F:Yeah, I liked.
Speaker F:Who else did I like?
Speaker F:Bless you, Dave Chappelle.
Speaker F:Always been a big day.
Speaker B:I was a big Chris Rock guy.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Masters.
Speaker D:Hilarious.
Speaker B:Murphy bro.
Speaker D:Like Bernie Mac dude.
Speaker D:To this day.
Speaker A:Rest in peace, Joe Coy.
Speaker D:To this day.
Speaker F:Those old specials tend to be like.
Speaker C:My favorite, you know, or the Cat Williams specials back.
Speaker C:Oh.
Speaker A:When he's like in a whole outfit and everything.
Speaker D:Beyond beyond stand up comedy.
Speaker D:Like who's your favorite like actor, comedian that you like to see?
Speaker D:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker D:Like, who's one that you.
Speaker D:Oh, dude, besides their stand up, you know, their stand up is killer.
Speaker D:But like, who did you love to see?
Speaker D:Like in the movie movies?
Speaker D:Like when it came to comedians, I.
Speaker A:Loved the Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, that whole camp of funny people, you know, James Franco.
Speaker B:Like James Franco, dude.
Speaker A:Because I don't know if you've seen their outtakes, but half of their script.
Speaker A:Yeah, they have a skeleton of a script, but they improvise a lot of the jokes and they just take the best ones.
Speaker A:So I don't know if you've ever seen bloopers from Superbad.
Speaker A:Superbad is one of my favorite comedy movies to this day.
Speaker B:That's what I miss about, about movies like that, of that era.
Speaker B:Like nowadays you don't see too many improv takes like that.
Speaker B:Like you're saying they'll do 30 takes and it's like, okay, what's the funniest.
Speaker F:One we could use was a big one.
Speaker C:Who do that?
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker D:King of it, dude.
Speaker A:Outtakes from Anchorman.
Speaker D:I've never actually seen Anchorman.
Speaker A:Dude, you gotta watch at least the first one, man.
Speaker D:And I think that's like the only Will Ferrell movie I haven't seen.
Speaker D:I don't know what it is about that movie that I never.
Speaker A:If you don't watch the movie, at least watch the bloopers where he's making Paul Rudd laugh.
Speaker D:You know, I can't imagine all those.
Speaker A:Actors in general, you watch all of.
Speaker C:His, even like Traffic Thunder, all that.
Speaker A:Tropic thunder was crazy.
Speaker C:What's the movie where he's.
Speaker C:He's playing basketball, even semi pro, where it's like, you could tell some of that, like they didn't write that.
Speaker C:That had to be on the spot.
Speaker D:You know the thing about it too, I saw Vince Vaughn, he was in an interview and he explained it to how they don't make, they don't make those comedy, they don't make comedy like that anymore.
Speaker D:Because when it comes to selling the movie to these big studios, there's like a blueprint to what comedy is nowadays.
Speaker D:To where what it is and how it has to be.
Speaker D:To where you can't have the Wedding Crashers again.
Speaker D:You can't have none of that shit again.
Speaker D:Because these studios ain't buying it.
Speaker D:You know, they got to play it safe and play it the right way.
Speaker A:Woke culture man.
Speaker D:Exactly.
Speaker D:And to where Vince Vaughn said like they're not making that no more.
Speaker B:Back then you could make a 20 million dollar movie and go and have and, and make a good amount of money off of it.
Speaker B:Nowadays these big ass studios, you're going and spending like at least $400 million for a budget.
Speaker B:Yeah dude, you're gonna have to at least see 800 million to break even.
Speaker B:Like you know.
Speaker D:And what he said too in that interview was what's coming, what's going to come back is the whole cult era of the DVD style.
Speaker D:Remember how like like Waterboard didn't do crazy in the box office but on DVD it killed.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker F:Like Friday.
Speaker D:That's what he's saying is like that's how comedy is going to come back.
Speaker D:It's going to come back with the Netflixes posting their video, other movies or whatever not in theaters.
Speaker D:It's going to be on whatever these platforms are able to perform the movies that these you know, productions are coming out.
Speaker B:That's how I know all of these movies.
Speaker B:It wasn't because I was watching them in the movie there is because my parents had the vhs.
Speaker D:Exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:The DVD we didn't have cable.
Speaker B:So I'm sitting there every summer and I'm like oh you ain't seen this movie, let's watch it real quick.
Speaker D:But it's crazy too how like the cult following of the those DVDs like.
Speaker B:Killed like cuz you didn't have Shout out Big lots.
Speaker D:Exactly.
Speaker B:Shout out who else sold hella movies like Walmart backing.
Speaker D:Yeah, all of them.
Speaker F:That's why I love like Shane Gillis and Andrew Schultz so much.
Speaker F:Is like Andrew Schultz how he, he, they wanted him to cut a part of his joke so he didn't.
Speaker F:He sold it straight to the people and ended up making millions off just going direct with his special to the people or Shane G. You look at tires.
Speaker F:He self funded that and then, and then brought that to, to different Production companies, because a lot of people aren't like he said, it's, it wasn't a finished product.
Speaker F:They had a roughed out sketch show that they had already put together and basically like, you know, they got a bunch of comedies to sign off on it and want to be, I mean comedians to sign off on it and want to be a part of it.
Speaker F:But you know, they self funded that and then they signed, got it for a second season and brought in people like Vince Vaughn and shit.
Speaker F:And they even talk about how Vince Vaughn was, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker F:Improving bars and stuff.
Speaker D:He was, you know that like he didn't have a script, he came in and did his thing.
Speaker F:That's what Shane Gillis does.
Speaker F:So you're seeing like that's coming back where people are kind of, you know, that just goes to show how comedy's coming back.
Speaker F:Sketch comedy is coming back a little bit.
Speaker F:You're seeing Gillian Kees and stuff like Dave Chappelle show and things like that, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's coming back in different forms and it's beautiful.
Speaker A:Especially if it's a self funded project.
Speaker A:And what he casted his friends, man.
Speaker A:Can you imagine if you four were able to make enough dough from this podcast and just made a movie, bro, it'd be insane.
Speaker A:Where there was really just a skeleton of a storyline.
Speaker A:And the rest of the work is.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Just try to make Chris laugh.
Speaker F:Yeah, do what you gotta do.
Speaker A:Yeah, try to make Kev laugh, you know, and like just say, as long as you're getting this point across, just try to make each other laugh.
Speaker A:Because that translates well on screen.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:And that's what they did.
Speaker F:They said they wrote exaggerated versions of.
Speaker C:Themselves so they could just play off each other because they know how.
Speaker F:The same way we know how to.
Speaker C:Like pick at each other, make certain jokes that like are going to hit each other.
Speaker C:You know, it's like if you write.
Speaker F:That and exaggerate that and then obviously improv and just pay off the chemistry, it just comes out.
Speaker F:So it comes out so perfect and like, like he said, we're missing, we've been missing that in comedy.
Speaker F:Now everything's a Kevin Hart movie.
Speaker B:Bring it back.
Speaker F:Whereas I love Kevin Hart, but some of those.
Speaker C:We love you.
Speaker C:I'm a fan.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's just like, I think for a time period there was really just comedies that were coming out that were just, just Kevin Hart and the Rock type movies.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Or any studio would buy it.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Any studio wanted anything that represented central intelligence.
Speaker A:One or two Right where it was like, okay, buddy cop movie where there's.
Speaker A:This makes sense.
Speaker A:This will make us money.
Speaker A:These are two A listers that we could get on screen where they.
Speaker A:But they cannot improv.
Speaker A:They cannot improvise.
Speaker A:Because if.
Speaker A:Now it was a risk.
Speaker A:If they're throwing Jonah Hill and, like, Seth Rogen on the screen, what are they.
Speaker A:They can say, right, with.
Speaker A:With the.
Speaker A:How this day and age is rolling.
Speaker D:And then that goes to show, too.
Speaker D:Like, Seth Rogen, he went like Netflix, too, with a lot of his movies after, like, Pineapple Express and all that, you know, like, he went Netflix production with it.
Speaker D:What was that last movie that he did with the Dave Franco that.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker D:No, no, no.
Speaker A:The Disaster Artist.
Speaker D:No, no, no.
Speaker D:That was a good one too, though.
Speaker A:That was funny as hell.
Speaker D:But no, the one that he did with Dave Franco, they were like the central Intelligence almost, but they were the.
Speaker A:Oh, Jim Franco.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, that was.
Speaker C:That came out.
Speaker C:But Dictator, the dictator.
Speaker D:But it got shot on Netflix because Sony remember the whole.
Speaker D:You remember about all that?
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:Because the whole productions, like, Sony didn't.
Speaker A:Want to drop it, so that's why.
Speaker D:They went Netflix on it.
Speaker D:Yeah, they dropped it on Netflix.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I remember when that movie came out, it pissed off a lot of people.
Speaker A:It pissed off North Korea went south.
Speaker D:Like, everybody was just like, okay, yeah.
Speaker B:We'Re not trying to start.
Speaker B:We can't just drop anything because you.
Speaker D:Have Seth Rogen and then you got the Wayne's brothers too, who are dropping explicit.
Speaker D:And it's like, well, where's comedy gonna go if you just trying to block everything and hide everything?
Speaker F:You know, it is definitely way different landscape, and I think it's.
Speaker F:I don't know.
Speaker F:I think it's changing a little bit.
Speaker C:But I kind of think it's gonna still trend that way.
Speaker C:Like, they're already setting it up.
Speaker C:I could see it.
Speaker C:Like, they're gonna put out a buddy film with Drewy and Kai said that or something.
Speaker C:Like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:It's already written, you know?
Speaker C:You know it's gonna happen.
Speaker C:It's like, there.
Speaker C:Some of this stuff is just.
Speaker C:Just like.
Speaker C:Like you said, people already have chemistry and maybe they can't improv.
Speaker F:But where did.
Speaker D:Where did the Martin Lawrences go?
Speaker D:Like, where did all those guys go?
Speaker D:Like, do we have that.
Speaker D:Are those guys here?
Speaker D:Are they coming old?
Speaker E:They're just getting old.
Speaker D:Not even that.
Speaker D:Like, do we have those comedic actors nowadays?
Speaker D:Like, do we have that?
Speaker D:There's not too many out that's what I'm saying.
Speaker D:Like, like they're getting old, clearly, Cap, they're getting.
Speaker A:Well, if they're not making, where are.
Speaker D:The new, where are the new up and comers at?
Speaker D:Like, where is that got to come up?
Speaker D:Where are they at?
Speaker A:They have to come up.
Speaker A:And if they're not, if there's not going to be any new actors, businesses, corporations know that they can make money off of nostalgia and sequels.
Speaker A:That's why we're getting.
Speaker A:We got coming to America.
Speaker A:That's why we got new bad boys.
Speaker A:That's why we got the new house parties.
Speaker A:Because, like, we're all gonna flock to these familiar things.
Speaker A:Doesn't mean that it's good.
Speaker A:But everyone is down to watch Karate Kid now that they're pairing Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chandler.
Speaker A:Just like, what does the same universe.
Speaker F:And then they're just like, they're just kind of scalping a bunch of content creators or famous athletes or famous rappers or something and throwing them in and casting them in movies and just putting them out rather than actually back in the day when you would get, you know, comedians and a lot of comedians would rise with their acting careers like the Dane Cooks and a lot of them.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker F:You'd see their stand up, go with their movie career.
Speaker F:And now it's like you just seen a bunch of twists with like content.
Speaker C:Creators on TV show, you know.
Speaker A:Well, cause we live in a society where you could become anything regardless of where you start off, just get that fame.
Speaker A:We've seen it with the Paul Brothers, we're seeing it with Drew Ski.
Speaker A:Like people are starting off on different forms of, on different platforms of digital media and then getting to an A list, right?
Speaker A:Where did fucking Kai Sanat come from?
Speaker A:Where did Drewski come?
Speaker A:Like they kind of had like an exponential spike in the their career.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But yeah, you're right, we're not.
Speaker A:No, we're no longer getting the Dane Cooks who are getting these movies like Employee of the Month or Good Luck, Chuck.
Speaker D:I was a good one.
Speaker F:Well, if you name like this, you name like the big up and coming comedians back in the day, they would have all been on these top movies and stuff, right?
Speaker F:Like all of them as if they were trending upwards.
Speaker F:Right now you have a bunch of them, whether it be Matt Rice and all these other guys, guys that you're just seeing all over, like you said, Andrew Schultz, a lot of that.
Speaker F:And it's like, I guess Schultz has been in a lot of movies, but I'M just.
Speaker C:You're not seeing as many, like, main character, like a, you know, early Dave Chappelle.
Speaker C:And like, some of those movies are early.
Speaker F:Like, we talked about Dane Cooks or.
Speaker F:Yeah, just anybody.
Speaker F:Like Carlos Menci.
Speaker F:A lot of those guys.
Speaker F:Joe Rogan was even on TV shows.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker F:Like, a lot of these guys were in film and on TV shows.
Speaker F:And now you're seeing more of it trended to like, like, whoever.
Speaker C:Whoever.
Speaker F:Whoever's popular, not the people who are writing.
Speaker A:Well, a lot of different or a lot of unconventional ways for people to get popular now.
Speaker A:It was either, yeah, you're right.
Speaker A:Stand up gets you a movie deal, or you go join snl.
Speaker A:And if you're popular on snl, then you do an SNL movie where it's based off of a sketch, right?
Speaker A:Like Night at the Roxbury or Superstar, et cetera.
Speaker A:And now it's just like, whatever, dude.
Speaker A:Like, one of you guys could post a Tick Tock tomorrow, just throw an ass or something and then you guys will get a movie deal or some shit.
Speaker C:You know, you've seen people go viral overnight and they get booked for rolling loud in their performance shows that they just got viral yesterday.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Tick Tock song could pop off and then you're gonna be on.
Speaker A:You're gonna be on outside lands next to here and.
Speaker F:And they're going to see a shitty.
Speaker C:Performance because you're not ready for it.
Speaker C:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:And that's what it feels like sometimes is you're bringing in these guys to act.
Speaker C:It is like, good try.
Speaker C:Like, you know, I kind of felt like that when Lil Yachty was in.
Speaker C:In the How High too, or whatever.
Speaker A:Well, yeah, I didn't see that or.
Speaker D:LeBron in that one movie.
Speaker C:Oh, LeBron in every movie.
Speaker A:Every movie leaves, dude.
Speaker A:LeBron was in the latest house party.
Speaker C:Yeah, he's like, my house.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:What are you guys doing?
Speaker C:House?
Speaker A:And they.
Speaker A:They play basketball at the end.
Speaker A:We'll play for.
Speaker C:Yeah, he had to act like he'd really not call the cops if he lost.
Speaker C:The whole thing was stupid.
Speaker D:That was cool.
Speaker D:He had.
Speaker D:Who was it?
Speaker D:Juvenile or who was it?
Speaker C:Juvenile?
Speaker A:No, no, it was Kid Cudi that was in there.
Speaker C:But he's talking about juvenile performance.
Speaker C:The music cut out.
Speaker A:Yeah, dude.
Speaker F:Man, that was a fire.
Speaker C:It had a lot of cool little drops in it.
Speaker C:Or like, look at cool little.
Speaker C:What do they call it?
Speaker C:Easter eggs.
Speaker A:Easter eggs, yeah.
Speaker F:But, yeah, LeBron needs to give up.
Speaker A:He's good.
Speaker A:He Said where he's at, man.
Speaker C:Stay with podcasting.
Speaker C:We love hearing you talk about basketball.
Speaker D:Stick with the Laker.
Speaker A:Oh, he did Space Jam as well.
Speaker A:I didn't watch that just because I knew for you.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I wanted to save my time, man.
Speaker B:I was excited to watch.
Speaker B:Me and this will watch.
Speaker B:We were so high, and I was just like, dude, what the.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Being high didn't help.
Speaker B:It didn't help at all.
Speaker B:I thought it was going to be so good.
Speaker B:Nostalgic, funny.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:It was like cringers.
Speaker A:Oh, wait, I got a hot take.
Speaker A:Do you guys remember Space Jam 1?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:They had no business making Lola Bunny, so.
Speaker C:Fine.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker C:Everybody's first crush.
Speaker A:I was just.
Speaker B:Yeah, dude, how is she that fine?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:How could she put her bunny ears in a slick back ponytail?
Speaker A:Like, why is this doing something to my adolescent brain right now?
Speaker C:She blew it up.
Speaker C:She's like, yeah.
Speaker C:I'm like, no, bro, hell no.
Speaker C:Time to lock.
Speaker B:Too young for it to be feeling.
Speaker C:This way, I tell you what.
Speaker D:Is that not what she looked like in the cartoon?
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't think so.
Speaker A:No, I think they definitely desexualized her.
Speaker B:Next world culture for sure.
Speaker B:Because that.
Speaker B:That's a big topic that a lot.
Speaker F:Of people relate to.
Speaker A:Oh, dude.
Speaker C:They're desexualizing everything, though.
Speaker C:You see the most recent Fantastic Four makes me miss Jessica Alba so much.
Speaker A:No, because Vanessa Kirby's not as sexualized.
Speaker F:Well, yeah.
Speaker C:I just also think it's nothing compared, like, Jessica Alba.
Speaker C:Jessica Alba.
Speaker C:To me, Jessica Alba was bad.
Speaker D:Jessica Alba with that.
Speaker A:Jessica Alba could ruin my life tomorrow.
Speaker A:Tomorrow.
Speaker C:Have y' all been seeing the tweets about Pedro Pascal being, like, his anxious touch?
Speaker C:Like, when he feels anxious, he just be, like, rubbing on married women and stuff.
Speaker C:What's your take on.
Speaker A:A girl showed me that, and she said, oh, no, look at him.
Speaker A:He's anxious.
Speaker A:I'm like, don't.
Speaker C:Imagine if one of your hobbies or not even a hobby, a girl's hobby.
Speaker C:Somebody did that to your girl.
Speaker C:It just was like, oh, it's an anxious touch.
Speaker C:I'd be like, well, anxious touch, Kevin, or something.
Speaker C:Dude.
Speaker A:If I was anxious, if I was getting, like, a bout of anxiety, and I was just, like, just even touching the shoulder of a friend.
Speaker A:That's a girl.
Speaker A:My girl would be like that.
Speaker A:That's not anxiety.
Speaker A:You're just.
Speaker C:He goes in and kisses people and stuff.
Speaker C:I'm like, damn, that's too crazy.
Speaker F:What about.
Speaker B:What about the push that Hollywood has had on Pedro Pascal, this past, like, year, you guys noticed that?
Speaker A:Yeah, ever since last of us, he's been exact.
Speaker B:Ever since last, he's been in fucking every goddamn.
Speaker B:Not only comic book, nerd fandom, but just like, every poster I see, every commercial, every new movie that's coming out, Pedro Pascal is front center.
Speaker C:I feel like Hollywood does that, though.
Speaker F:Sydney Sweeney had the same thing where it's just like, you know, oh, people.
Speaker C:Like them shove it in their face.
Speaker A:They know it's going to make money.
Speaker A:This is a sellable.
Speaker D:They.
Speaker A:Actors in Hollywood are products.
Speaker A:How appealing is this product?
Speaker A:Sydney Sweeney is an appealing product because of her personality.
Speaker A:And that's.
Speaker A:That's why we.
Speaker A:We want to see her on screen.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But then, same thing with Pedro Pascal.
Speaker A:It's all these, like.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I know my girl likes it because she feels that after seeing him, as in the last of us, she felt like, oh, he could protect me.
Speaker A:Like, any.
Speaker A:Any girl that sees that has, like, an ounce of, like, daddy issues could see that Pedro Pascal and can take on that role, man.
Speaker A:Yeah, he called himself a daddy in an interview.
Speaker A:He was like, he knows what he's doing.
Speaker C:He knows what he's doing.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yes, exactly.
Speaker A:So it makes sense to me.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's Hollywood.
Speaker A:I. I agree.
Speaker C:If you guys don't know what we're saying.
Speaker C:We're saying we want to see Seth.
Speaker F:Rogan back, not Pet Pascal.
Speaker B:Dude, I love the Fantastic Four movie, but, hey, Pedro Pascal, like, Hollywood, dial it back.
Speaker B:I don't want to see him every goddamn movie.
Speaker B:Goddamn, dude.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:Yeah, he's in everything, man.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:He's in that Oakland movie, dude.
Speaker B:He's been like, the past 10 big movies that I've released in the past year.
Speaker C:Yeah, we got a.
Speaker A:We got a.
Speaker E:See the boy Christian in the.
Speaker E:Stand up the.
Speaker E:October.
Speaker E:Come October.
Speaker E:We're there, bro.
Speaker A:Dude, please come through, man.
Speaker B:We're there.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't know how long my set is, but the guy throwing it, his name's Artie.
Speaker A:He said the more people I bring, the longer of a set he's going to give me.
Speaker F:You got five on the list right now.
Speaker F:On the list.
Speaker A:Beautiful, man.
Speaker A:Hell, yeah.
Speaker D:Cool.
Speaker D:Seven, eight, maybe.
Speaker F:Yeah, maybe we just bring a game out.
Speaker C:No, bro.
Speaker F:But before we wrap it up and everything, we want to one piece of advice to leave with not only our listeners, but your supporters or some.
Speaker F:Somebody who's obviously, you know, trying to do something maybe like you're doing or maybe just something at all.
Speaker F:What's one piece of advice that stuck with you and you'd like to pass.
Speaker A:Along, man, Just keep doing it, keep loving it.
Speaker A:And there's going to be moments of huge sacrifice.
Speaker A:You're going to have to sacrifice your time.
Speaker A:You're going to have to sacrifice your time with loved ones.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But to become great at anything, you have to sacrifice a little bit of something.
Speaker A:But with that being said, there's also balance, too.
Speaker A:I recently just had a conversation earlier today where it's healthy to do nothing, right?
Speaker A:Because I get caught up in these bouts of where I'm always on the go and I feel this creative guilt when I'm not doing something productive.
Speaker A:But this person just told me that, like, hey, it's fine to just recharge a little bit, because if you spread yourself too thin, you're not gonna be great at anything.
Speaker A:And so, yeah, do what you love, man.
Speaker A:Fuck shit up.
Speaker F:Definitely, bro.
Speaker F:And outside of the.
Speaker F:Outside of the stand up in October, what else could we look forward to coming from Christian Baltazar?
Speaker F:And it can't be that bad.
Speaker A:Ah, dude, just look forward to more podcasts, more dope guests drop in.
Speaker A:I have, like, 10 unedited episodes that I gotta get to editing, and I don't know how feasible this is, but I do want to eventually throw some sort of live.
Speaker A:It can't be that bad where it'd be me kind of interviewing an artist for maybe three to five minutes, and then they perform a set in front of a live audience, and then I do a whole set of artists doing that type of thing.
Speaker A:So, no, that's maybe like a live talk show with performances.
Speaker A:Still figuring it out.
Speaker F:But yeah, yeah, let us know.
Speaker F:We definitely got to be there if you do that.
Speaker F:I definitely want to be there, dude.
Speaker A:And let's collaborate in the future, dude.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Let's get an episode of ICBTB with all y' all on it.
Speaker F:No, definitely, definitely.
Speaker F:Even if we gotta, you know, shoot here or something, or if we want to shoot elsewhere if we could fit there, whatever the case is, and we definitely gotta have you come back and do a part 2.
Speaker A:Would love to do that.
Speaker A:And whatever you guys need from me in this journey, you guys know my skill set.
Speaker A:If you guys ever need to borrow equipment or have me come through, I'd be happy to, you know, to lend over some equipment because you guys are running a tight ship here.
Speaker A:And it looks good, it sounds good, and this was a blast.
Speaker A:So you guys keep doing it.
Speaker A:Keep fucking shit up.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker F:Appreciate you all.
Speaker F:I can say is ditto, bro.
Speaker F:Your shit is so great, you know, Inspires me every time I take a look at it and every time I watch one of your episodes.
Speaker F:So just keep going, bro.
Speaker F:Can't wait to see what.
Speaker F:What other guests you got for us and.
Speaker F:And can't wait to see what other inspiration you got for us, bro.
Speaker F:For real?
Speaker D:Hell yeah.
Speaker A:Thanks, man.
Speaker A:Thank you all for having me.
Speaker A:Appreciate it.
Speaker F:No problem.
Speaker E:Don't forget to shout yourself out and where people can find you.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:It's my camera right here.
Speaker F:Yes, sir.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:What's up?
Speaker A:It's Christian Baltazar here from It Can't Be that Bad podcast.
Speaker A:You can follow the podcast at ICBTB podcast.
Speaker A:And yeah, check it out on all platforms.
Speaker A:YouTube.
Speaker A:I got video on Spotify as well.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And check out the clips.
Speaker A:I've worked really hard with editing this.
Speaker A:I'm a one man team, so I put my blood, sweat and tears into these things.
Speaker A:So, like, subscribe and follow and, you know, if you just, if you want to just chop it up, shoot me a message.
Speaker A:I'm a nice guy.
Speaker F:No, definitely appreciate you, bro.
Speaker F:And if you guys haven't already, you know the deal, like comment, subscribe, and then tune in again next week.
Speaker D:Yes, sir.
Speaker F:Peace.
Speaker A:Have a good one, Sam.
