Super Steve Flores is a K-Roq alumni, creator of the world famous Michelada Rumble, and Co-Host of The West Coast Poplock Podcast.
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Ever find yourself chuckling at the transformation of your once simple family dinners into tech-dominated feasts? Super Steve Flores and I sure do, and we're unpacking the hilarity of adult life, from the evolution of napping and caffeine highs to K-Roq's legendary influence on the music world. Glide through the cultural shift brought by social media, affecting everything from comedy to live experiences, and join us as we cruise down memory lane, examining the way our family tables—and the conversations around them—have changed with the times.
As we crack open the chapters of our lives, we reveal how the pursuit of our passions, from bar brawls to Baja races, has been intertwined with personal growth. Fear has been both an obstacle and a catalyst in our stories—mine leading from declaring dreams in childhood to living them out at K-Roq. We also delve into the art of forging genuine bonds, the magic in remembering names, and the occasional dance with social awkwardness. It's all part of the intricate social jungle we navigate daily, and we're here to share the treasure map of connections that have enriched our journey.
Wrap up the experience with us as we muse on the intricacies of artistic expression and the power of a well-told story, whether it's through the skewed lens of a biopic or the imagined world of superpowers. With a light-hearted sprinkle, we reflect on the phenomena of binge-watching culture and the sentimental ties to our favorite TV series. Plus, don't miss a peek into our own artistic endeavors and the creative aspirations that keep our souls buzzing. It's not just a chat; it's a heart-to-heart on how the stories we love, the dreams we chase, and the people we meet can define the very essence of our lives.
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhxTYU8kUs
King without a Throne
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tdoz0W9gr3ubetdW4ThZ8?si=9a95947f58bf416e
Super Steve Flores is a K-Roq alumni, creator of the world famous Michelada Rumble, and Co-Host of The West Coast Poplock Podcast.
https://micheladarumble.com/
https://www.instagram.com/supersteveflores/
https://www.instagram.com/micheladarumble/
https://www.instagram.com/westcoastpoplockpodcast/
Ever find yourself chuckling at the transformation of your once simple family dinners into tech-dominated feasts? Super Steve Flores and I sure do, and we're unpacking the hilarity of adult life, from the evolution of napping and caffeine highs to K-Roq's legendary influence on the music world. Glide through the cultural shift brought by social media, affecting everything from comedy to live experiences, and join us as we cruise down memory lane, examining the way our family tables—and the conversations around them—have changed with the times.
As we crack open the chapters of our lives, we reveal how the pursuit of our passions, from bar brawls to Baja races, has been intertwined with personal growth. Fear has been both an obstacle and a catalyst in our stories—mine leading from declaring dreams in childhood to living them out at K-Roq. We also delve into the art of forging genuine bonds, the magic in remembering names, and the occasional dance with social awkwardness. It's all part of the intricate social jungle we navigate daily, and we're here to share the treasure map of connections that have enriched our journey.
Wrap up the experience with us as we muse on the intricacies of artistic expression and the power of a well-told story, whether it's through the skewed lens of a biopic or the imagined world of superpowers. With a light-hearted sprinkle, we reflect on the phenomena of binge-watching culture and the sentimental ties to our favorite TV series. Plus, don't miss a peek into our own artistic endeavors and the creative aspirations that keep our souls buzzing. It's not just a chat; it's a heart-to-heart on how the stories we love, the dreams we chase, and the people we meet can define the very essence of our lives.
My Grito Industries
mygrito.net
Subscribe to The Mindbuzz Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYj7eDCsV3YPzxv7VRKZKg
Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @themindbuzz https://www.instagram.com/themindbuzz/ to keep up with our hosts, guests, and upcoming events!
See you on the next one!
"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhxTYU8kUs
King without a Throne
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tdoz0W9gr3ubetdW4ThZ8?si=9a95947f58bf416e
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Speaker 1:Hi, I'm sorry, I wanted to be like hi, everybody.
Speaker 3:Bring the energy, sorry.
Speaker 1:I took like a. It shouldn't even be categorized as a nap.
Speaker 3:It's not. You took like a mini. I slept for like two and a half hours Mini siesta. I wish I can get one of those in 15, 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:That'd be categorized.
Speaker 3:You're practicing for tonight. It was your practice sleep before the main sleep yeah. It was pretty loud too, because I had my headphones on over here in the living room working on some stuff and I still heard it. Is that how I am in the morning?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you don't hear it at all. I heard it Okay. You can sleep through it.
Speaker 3:I can. I could normally sleep through anything, but we're not going to talk about that. Today we have a wonderful guest that we will get into, but first let's get to my Grito weekly Amber what's going?
Speaker 1:on. Yeah so Bad hombres will be performing at the Sardine in San Pedro on January 13th. Ear ringers will be performing at the Haven in Pomona on January 19th. 3lh will be at the Tiki Bar in the OC on January 26th. La Rosa Noir will be at the empty bottle in Chicago on January 28th. The paranoias and profesor galactico will be performing at the Paramount on January 27th. Rundown Creeps recently released this new music video that you can find on YouTube or the link in their Instagram bio. Also, the paranoias will be releasing their new music video shortly, so stay tuned for that and for more details on all of these shows. Go to the artist's Instagram page, and don't forget to visit mygritonet to purchase your vinyl right now.
Speaker 3:Boom, there it is, and January 19th I will be performing live at the Comedy Chateau, in the main room, I believe starts at 7.30. Get your tickets go to Gilbilly Delic on Instagram. Click the link and use promo code GILL and that skill. So performing live North Hollywood Comedy Chateau. Come and hang out. We got a lot of great comics.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 3:Cool, awesome, and, without further ado, let's get into today's special guest of the evening, super Steve Flores. What is up, sir?
Speaker 2:You guys seem like nappers. Did you nap as a kid?
Speaker 3:A little bit. Yeah, I never got into naps, bro, never, never, really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like Billy's house next door and I was like, hey, is Billy there. He's napping, napping, what is that? What?
Speaker 3:the fuck naps? I didn't get into napping, probably when I first got my office job. When I got my first office job as a kid, you didn't nap.
Speaker 2:No, oh okay, yeah, To me it was weird. I think it was more like your parents wanted to get you out of their hair, so they were like hey, go take a nap.
Speaker 3:As a kid, I think, because there were so many people in the house, there was nowhere to nap. There was nowhere to nap because some uncle would be on some couch or somebody would be in my bed.
Speaker 2:Somebody would also be napping.
Speaker 3:Exactly, Exactly. I was like I'm waiting for my turn, but my turn came at like 10 at night.
Speaker 2:Yeah 10 at night even.
Speaker 3:Yeah, damn yeah, there's too many people and plus it was loud too. Like how was I going to be able to nap during the day? Right, because naps are during the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can sleep with noise. I can sleep with noise Really. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:I can.
Speaker 2:And I can sleep after a coffee too.
Speaker 3:Mmm.
Speaker 2:Like drink a coffee, go to bed. Have you always been like that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel like I've only gotten like that as I've gotten older now oh, you got me old bro.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying no, I'm just trying to put it in perspective. No, you just called me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Any called you sir, Right in the beginning. Any called you sir older.
Speaker 2:No, I've always been that way. I think the only coffee that really and coffee really didn't do anything to me, I just liked the flavor. But the one coffee I think I had when my boy Huah worked at K-Rock was it was this Asian coffee. What?
Speaker 1:was it Thai.
Speaker 2:No, the Vietnamese coffee. Oh my God.
Speaker 3:That got you lit.
Speaker 2:Dude, because we had already had like a couple cups of just regular coffee. And then someone's like hey, what's your guys' Vietnamese coffee? Try it out. Blah, blah, blah, and I just drank it like if it was just a regular coffee, just downed it and I was like, oh damn, this is not regular coffee. So Vietnamese coffee is not regular coffee.
Speaker 1:What do you usually get? Because I'm looking at your coffee right now and that looks like lechita.
Speaker 2:It's heavy cream on this one.
Speaker 1:And shots of espresso. Nah, just regular coffee, just coffee with heavy cream. Yeah, because Vietnamese coffee is what they do to their coffee, is they? It's kind of like a cold brew, so they let it. I don't want to say ferment, but they let it sit overnight so that the potency in the coffee gets stronger. So that's why, like, a small cup of Vietnamese coffee versus a small cup of regular coffee are never going to be exact the same.
Speaker 2:That things like crack it was. It was cracky and got me cracked and that's the last time I ever had that Like I'm not messing with it no more.
Speaker 3:Probably had like Narcan in it.
Speaker 2:I don't know what it had, bro, but it had me going.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then last time we were here we talked a little bit about K-Rock and they went bankrupt bro.
Speaker 3:What.
Speaker 2:The company that owns K-Rock and K-Earth and all those they follow for bankrupt. So I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2:Whoa I didn't read deep into it, you know, into the article Mario81, he's the one that hit me up with that.
Speaker 3:He's like hey, shout out.
Speaker 2:And I was like, wow, I mean I'm sure someone's going to buy them. Yeah, I mean like they've been around since like 74.
Speaker 3:So what happens when you go, when a company goes bankrupt, they they close down their doors or like huh I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because there's a lot of companies that go bankrupt and they don't leave. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So going, going bankrupt doesn't necessarily mean that you're-.
Speaker 3:You're just saying hey, I don't have any more money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so all the debt that you've accumulated when you, once you, go bankrupt? You're saying hey, I can't pay for this anymore. So you claim bankruptcy and then I mean, obviously, like your credit goes to shit, everything else is you're taking the responsibility that from here on out, you're pretty much like not responsible, right. But yeah, once you go bankrupt a lot of companies, they file for bankruptcy, a lot of big companies. They get that debt off their shoulders and then they just keep going under, either like a different, like not a different name but, you know, like like just a different corporation within it or anything like that.
Speaker 1:So going bankrupt doesn't mean it's totally phased out, it just means their debt is Only in.
Speaker 2:America right? Yeah, I'm shitty with money, but you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So there's not gonna. Yeah, so now that they go bankrupt, does it become like people get to buy it, like buy the rights to it and stuff?
Speaker 2:I don't even. I don't even know if they're selling it. I just know they went bankrupt. But if they do sell it, I mean, that's where it started. You know, that's where it all began was like a mom and pop radio station, mom and pop style.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that mom and pops owned it but, with that mom and pop style where it's like owned locally. These people came from San Francisco. They started the radio station here and then you get to play what you want. You know what I'm saying? That's how it started. Maybe it's just going back to what it was. You know That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3:Going back to what it was meaning you play what you want. Oh, play what you want.
Speaker 2:What you want, people. I mean Jed DeFish broke Purple Rain here in LA or was one of the first radios. I don't want to say he broke it. He was one of the first radio stations to play it and it was on K-Rock. He really liked Purple Rain and he played it.
Speaker 3:And when was this like? When?
Speaker 2:Oh man, this was the Pasadena time, when they were in Pasadena under the church, I think, or something like that, in the basement of the church.
Speaker 3:It used to be in a basement, in a church basement.
Speaker 2:And then went to Burbank and then went to Culver City.
Speaker 3:So many. The evolution of K-Rock.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's supposed to be a documentary that was supposed to come out already.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lightning and Jay Tillis. He was the mastermind behind it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you figure a well-known brand in Los Angeles and Southern California Staple, Staple Exactly. You think that they would have a documentary about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but see that's so LA, though right Waiting for someone else to do it about the station instead of them doing it, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But no, but Jay, I think he took the reins. I remember one Acusta Christmas there was a room where he was just pulling in as many of the acts and artists and stuff and people that were actually hanging out. This was at the Gibson, if I can remember correctly. At the Gibson yeah, I think it was at the Gibson when it was still there and he was bringing in all the bands and whoever was hanging out outside. I mean back in the day, I mean you had like I mean Hollywood celebrities would be hanging out, right, and then they would be hanging out with other people like other big bands, you know.
Speaker 3:I see them coming back. They just need to have, like, a good revival of the brand. No, no, you don't think so?
Speaker 2:No, because.
Speaker 3:Unless it changes totally to something else. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean Mexican, of course, right, yeah, no, I think it's going to stay. At least, I'm hoping it stays. But to come back, to come back to what it was, it can't.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know what I'm saying Like everything's changed. You're a comedian, Comedy's changed.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:You know I mean, yes, you can say things, but you can't say what you were able to before.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, jokes are written differently now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it's the phones, I think it's just like the culture has shifted a little bit. But also, taken things out of context, I think posting and people recording you at a comedy show it gets there. I think social media has changed it in a good way and then also in a bad way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, In many ways I was talking to my friend on the way up here about those aliens in Miami.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like, okay, so many cameras, so many phones, they record movies on these phones now and nobody got any video of an alien. Come on, bro, really yeah. So yeah, you're right, sometimes it's for the better, sometimes it's not, it just depends. But you're right. You're up there doing a joke, working a joke out, the phone's recording you and they're posting it and it takes away. That here's my thing. When I go to a concert, even now, I'll take a photo. You know what I'm saying. I'll go up, I'll take a photo of the marquee, meet my girl, whatever that's it. I'll put the phone away because I want to enjoy the moment. I don't want to be seeing the concert through my phone. And then, let's be honest, what are you going to do with that video?
Speaker 3:You're not going to watch it again bro.
Speaker 2:You're not, you're just in your phone now. You have 8,000 videos in there. You have 566, whatever photos. You're not going to do shit with none of it. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you have 16,000 photos of different cats. And what are you going to do with this little clip of concert post-it? Just say, hey, I was at this concert, that's it.
Speaker 2:They're not even a little clip. There's people recording almost the whole fucking concert and then looking at it through their phone and you're like, really, dude, how are you enjoying that?
Speaker 3:You're not even in the moment You're not in the moment You're not engaged. A lot of the comedy clubs in Austin that I've seen that they've said some of Dave Chappelle's specials. They even say it, that they lock up everybody's phone during the show just for that particular reason. I think Dave Chappelle I think a few weeks ago he was doing a show in Florida or something like that, and he walked off stage when he noticed somebody in the crowd was recording him and he walked off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's your art. You're working on something you haven't got it there yet. You know what I'm saying? And he's a. I don't want to say he's allowing you, but there's a special moment when you're there and he's working it out, and then when you see the finished product, you're like oh dude, I was there when he was just getting it.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And I mean that's with your fans. You know what I'm saying. That's how it's going to be too Like. Oh, I remember back in the day when I saw him at the Chateau on the 19th.
Speaker 3:I remember when he bombed at the Chateau.
Speaker 2:But you know, that's what it is. And then now it's like, oh dude, that shit's funny as fuck. I saw the growth and I saw where he took that joke and how he worked it out as opposed to like seeing clips and like it burns it, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's another thing, too that I hear a lot is people are taking down their clips from Instagram because part of comedy is the element of surprise. If you already know somebody set up and their punches, it takes the magic out of working. That joke again.
Speaker 2:I remember when the internet first came around, and I mean it maybe was even not when the internet first came around. I can't remember what it was. I think it was maybe when they were saying like, oh, the the your phones or your computer, whatever is listening to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And remember that one story that came out where the guy was looking at rings to propose to his girlfriend and it got ruined because he it started showing a lot of ads of that you know to to. You know to buy something and she was like well, are you going to buy me a ring or whatever it was like? And that's what I think it does it's like, it's like the, would you just?
Speaker 3:say that yeah, the element of surprise is taken out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then this year like ah, fuck, you know, because I went to go see George Lopez at the Gibson and then the following year he did the same jokes. I went backstage and they King Taco, bro it was. I already knew what he was going to say oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then, you know, they took us off from Gay Rock. They all took all of us and I had gone the year prior and all the jokes were, you know, pretty much the same. And then I was like, ah, it's cool, but you know what? King Taco's calling me bro, and then all the King.
Speaker 2:Taco went back there. Me and my cousin Paul went back there and we were just hammering tacos and by the time everyone came back they're like, hey, let me get some tacos. And the guy's like, God, we're done. I still feel so over there, yeah.
Speaker 1:And my dad always says because my dad doesn't have social media, but he always says he's like, he says it like in Spanish, he's like uno no puede andar a gusto, because of the fear of someone recording them. Right, so you can't be comfortable, be yourself, be silly, because then everyone's recording you. And then oh so, and so you know, oh, we saw you, you know people from the ranchos like oh, we saw you dancing, oh we saw you this, we saw you that. And it's true, sometimes our phones, we use them without even thinking, like yeah oh, this is really funny.
Speaker 1:Let me post it of someone else.
Speaker 3:It's a good thing, it's a good thing in a bad thing. Sorry to step in there, but it's a good thing in bad thing because, yeah, people are recording other people if they're doing something that they think is wrong, but it's also good to to have that. Well, I don't know. That's not good either. I was like I'm thinking the fear of somebody recording you should stop you from doing something bad.
Speaker 2:Now people are going to do bad shit, no matter what. I think where I thought you were going with. It was like memories. You know, I don't have my parents anymore. They passed away oh yeah, so those things can become memories and you have a video of them or something you know. I have quite a few voicemails and my mom left me and these should pass away already like four years and I still haven't listened to them, but I have them, really, really. You haven't listened to them so, but I have them there and it's all the same for the most part.
Speaker 2:You know I love you, be careful, oh hey they show unread on your phone. Yeah, yeah so, but they're all those kinds of like you know, hey you know, take care of yourself. You know my head concoilado, but whatever you know, you know in one way, yeah, it's cool because you get, you know the video and the memories, but then at the same time, like you're saying, people don't want to let loose because now am I going to get embarrassed. Who's?
Speaker 2:going to find out who's going to tell. You know what I mean, and I've had people say that too, like hey, if you guys are going to be recording now, I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to sing, I'm not going to do this, you know, and it does. It takes away from the fun of just hanging out and I love, like you go to, you go anywhere. Right now I'm everyone's on their phones and stuff.
Speaker 2:I like a good conversation where I like to get hang out and, you know, have a couple of drinks and chill and just like let's talk, like you know.
Speaker 3:I agree. Amber and I went to a pizza place that it's. It had a sign on the wall and it says no Wi-Fi connect with the people in front of you. I thought that was like the greatest sign in the world, as I'm taking a picture of it.
Speaker 2:But again, there's pros and cons, and the pros are that you have information on your fingertips, you can watch the mind buzz, you can watch podcasts, you can listen to music, you can watch videos. It connects people around the world. So there are those things you know, but at the same time, I think we need to learn and balance, and I think that's where we haven't really learned to do is balance it out and really be able to enjoy, you know, just life in itself.
Speaker 3:It's like a new toy right Like how long has smartphones been around? Over a decade, but they keep. The technology keeps on advancing, advancing, so it keeps us wanting more and more and more.
Speaker 1:But I think I think that's where it's like. I've been kind of having this feeling of like I'm bored with my phone. Already, you know, in the past, like year, where I'm okay to put my phone down, I get bored of being on it. Like it's just like it's something where I don't feel maybe because I'm not into technology, where I'm using all these new things and stuff like that but it is becoming. It's becoming I don't want to use a word dangerous, but it's becoming a problem, because I notice like and I'm like I'm gonna throw us out there but I notice now like if we put our phones down during dinner or something, we're quiet and we're like you know what, and on my head I'm thinking like why aren't we conversating?
Speaker 3:I'm quiet because you cook really good and I want to enjoy my food.
Speaker 1:No, I, other than that, no, but. But I noticed, but not even like just you and I like even family wise, or we go somewhere and it's like like not that we don't know how to conversate anymore. But I think we're losing that aspect of of conversation, of bringing up topics, of continuing to conversate with each other, because we, instead of having to have interactions with people, we come into our phone and we have our interactions through our phone, you know, and it's, it's, I don't know. To me it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3:I think, for for both of us. I guess it depends on what type of situation you were like growing up. Like me, growing up, I never sat at the table with my parents and my siblings. That just was never the case at all, and all I had was not even a phone, maybe a WWE toy that I played with when I was watching TV or eating. So it's different too, even going to your family's house and eating it's.
Speaker 1:You're like what do I do with myself? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:I don't wanna see. It's weird, but it's just. I'm not used to that type of environment. What about you? Did your family have?
Speaker 2:that dynamic. My mom was a stay-at-home mom, we had dinner and my dad came home. We all sat down. You know what I mean. So yeah, we had dinners and stuff like that. And now, you're right, I miss that. You're like damn, you like what happened to that time? We would sit down and maybe nothing was said, but you were hanging out with your people your parents, your sisters, whoever. Yeah, a lot of people don't do that.
Speaker 3:And then there's people that still do I mean, you know.
Speaker 2:And then it just changed. Like you were saying, you had a WWF doll, now it's a tablet.
Speaker 3:It was an action figure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now it's a tablet. Now you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So it's a tablet. It wasn't a doll Steve, it was an action figure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have all of them, bro. I collect them. I'm a Huckamaniac, bro.
Speaker 3:I want a belt, dude. I asked Amber for a belt for Christmas and I didn't get it.
Speaker 1:It's like they're expensive, bro. They're like $500.
Speaker 3:Dude, I almost, I'm telling you almost. I think we had this conversation months ago. I was so close, I had it in the basket. I think I was gonna get the big gold belt or I was gonna get the. I'm a 90s kid, I'm a ruthless aggression era and also, what was the era before that? The attitude era? So it's Stone Cold, Mankind Kane. The rock was pretty big, but I was gonna get one of those belts. I was so close, dude, so close. They have the afterpay that you can do that. I almost did, but I just I didn't. I was gonna purchase it before going on your guys' show because I wanted to bring it. I wanted to bring the belt to and show it on the podcast.
Speaker 2:You should have, you should have, I should have. You're only once man, yeah Um no, I like it. No, you're only once.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna consult with you every big purchase that I need.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna call you up, but look, bro, you can buy it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Why not yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean like you're living this life, bro, and then there's something that you always wanted and you didn't get it.
Speaker 3:Why I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get it now. Why?
Speaker 2:Like to me, then if I want something, I'm getting it. Dude, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, if I have to work an extra hour or if I have to sell an extra ticket for a rumble, whatever, I'm not gonna go without the things that I want. But remember, I don't know of your second, third generation. All right, my parents gave up their dreams for me to dream. You know what I'm saying. And if your dream is to have that damn belt on your fucking waist or over your shoulder, get that damn belt, because our parents didn't have those kind of toys. Bro, my dad was born here. He was born in Orange County and they had a dairy farm. He got up and did chores, went to school, came home and did chores. You know what I'm doing? I'm getting that WWE F-ball, throwing it over my shoulder because my dad did chores. Yeah, he worked his ass off so that I can get the education and be able to afford things that I wanted.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to have the choice to even have something.
Speaker 2:To even have a choice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the choice that. Yeah, exactly what did you pull up? What is this, I'm sorry. What were you?
Speaker 2:gonna say no, no, no, I was just trying to look over to whatever that.
Speaker 3:What did you?
Speaker 2:pull up?
Speaker 1:No, I was gonna it circling back with our initial. So about the bankruptcy? So the company that owns them owns 200 other like broadcasting things. So they filed for chapter 11. So chapter 11 isn't to an all the entire like you can't get rid of your entire debt, but it does 80% of your debt. So they were $1.9 billion into debt, so it's going to. It's going to. So chapter 11 is going to reduce 80% of that, leaving them only $350 million in debt. But they're gonna continue. So it says no operational impacts are expected for the filing.
Speaker 3:That's a lot of money. Why did they file with Texas? Is it a Texas company?
Speaker 1:It's probably from there, whoever owns it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you never know. I mean I got there and it was like infinity and then it went to CBS and then it just kept. You know, everyone just buy them out.
Speaker 3:So what was it exactly? So it was just like a brand or operation.
Speaker 2:Well, no, like. So big corporations come in and they're like, oh, what can make us money? And at that time radio was a thing. So, oh, okay, I'm gonna gobble up all the radio stations that I can. Oh you know what I'm saying, so they got they had at that time, it was AMP, k-rock, Jack FM, k-rock, one new station, I can't remember, off KFI, maybe I can't remember which one, it was K-Earth 101, the Wave, and then a Christian station and something else. And so you know, I mean you, just you know.
Speaker 3:You just start buying them off. Yeah, they have money.
Speaker 2:So they it's just what can I get, what can I make money off of? And then when it's when I'm done with it, then I get rid of it, and then someone else comes in and things.
Speaker 1:I can do the same thing.
Speaker 2:So that we would, we would we would, we would.
Speaker 1:So this one's called Odyssey, so it moved to Odyssey.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they own 200 stations across the US.
Speaker 2:Wow, I didn't even know there was that many stations left.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying 200 stations. Well cause a lot of things are like internet stations now, right Like. Yeah, I know there was a couple of stations that don't even have people like working it.
Speaker 2:There's one guy that goes in and checks the computers and makes sure that the whatever, whatever program it's going is going. You know.
Speaker 3:It's all AI generated, no no, no, not AI.
Speaker 2:Oh, just like pre-recorded, pre-recorded and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was looking for jobs recently, I want to say like a month ago, and one of those it was like oh, make money on your, you know, on your time, if you like radio, if you like broadcasting, and it was. It was that it was like an internet radio and there was like certain stations that I can pick and choose to what time slots that I can do, and it was just this whole thing. And they're asking a lot for like no money at all. You see what I'm saying. Like they're like you have to be on air at this time like six days a week, and I can't give my time for that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess you don't like radio enough.
Speaker 3:I don't know, maybe not. I like podcasting.
Speaker 2:It's different now, like you spoke last time, you said it's different.
Speaker 3:But even podcasts, too, are being bought out by like. The big one is Spotify. If you're big enough and you're pulling in millions of downloads, spotify is going to want a piece of that.
Speaker 2:Well, look at club Shae, Shae, shannon, dude, I mean, that's like that one episode.
Speaker 3:Check it. Check it, See what they're at right now.
Speaker 2:Yesterday it was at 45 million.
Speaker 3:Okay, so there was another million. We started listening to it on what? Tuesday or Wednesday, and it was at 44.
Speaker 1:44 million.
Speaker 3:Okay, eight days ago. Oh, it was posted eight days ago. 44 million views in eight days.
Speaker 2:I think Joe Rogan's is 54 million or 55. One episode that he has, but it was over a few years, you know. I can only imagine, dude.
Speaker 3:This is eight days.
Speaker 2:And you have to understand not only this, though, the 44 million this has, but every other person that's talking about it showing clips like if you counted all those two, cause it's about this, it's not about anything else. They're talking about this, so how many more views is it overall gave?
Speaker 3:Yeah, all the clips and all the people talking about it. Kat Williams. Like within the first five minutes I started swinging. Did you watch?
Speaker 2:the interview. Oh yeah, I watched it twice.
Speaker 3:Really, I haven't finished it yet. I watched it twice, I think it was I sleep to it at night, yeah.
Speaker 2:I put it on my teeth and I'll get up and I'll be like, oh shit, I don't remember that. And then I fall asleep and I'm like, yeah, it's funny, I love shit talking.
Speaker 3:I love it when someone comes out and just talks shit.
Speaker 2:But he's not even talking shit. You know what I mean? He's getting something off his chest, yeah, you know. And then I like to see what the response is. And there hasn't really been any. No one's saying no, I didn't do that. They're just like oh, kat's just angry, or he's this or he's that.
Speaker 3:That's most of it Like from Kevin Hart. His retorts to Kat are just we're successful because we showed up to work and we didn't drink it. And then even Kat Williams is saying that that's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's never been a drug addict, he's never been any of those things he says.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I mean, I don't know, I don't know those cats, but you know what? Though? That's everything, though that's comedy, that's movies. There's all these little clicks, bro, you know it exists and you're not part of their clique. Make your own clique, and he has. He's done his own thing Very successful.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, on his own level.
Speaker 3:Why do you think there's so many clicks? Is it just the natural, communal, human thing to do? To?
Speaker 2:We are so into here, we're so insecure with ourselves, bro, that we need somebody to. We need to hang out with people that think you're cool, you know what I'm saying, that justify your being, or whatever. You know what I'm saying, like. So I'm hanging out with these people because they like me, they like who I am, they support what I do or what have you. You know what I mean. And oh, fuck those guys. Those guys are haters, whatever. You know, I don't know. I guess that's why I look at it, but yeah, I try not to click up with anybody like that, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, why.
Speaker 2:Before.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what? I've said this quite a few times. I might've said it here Last time my life has been a fairy tale, bro. The whole thing Like except for my parents passing away, I mean the experiences, the people that I've met, the opportunities that I've had, just like a fairy tale, dude. I mean, I've worked as a mechanic at Cook Tractors.
Speaker 2:I used to work at a magazine called Dirt Pilot. I worked at, I mean, multiple different jobs, but multiple different people and stuff, you know, and I allowed myself to be open to those individuals and I learned something from everybody. You know, I got a really good friend, Jason Bermudis, hung out with all these white boys from Brea and I got into my first bar fight with them. You know it was crazy. Some cholos came in, they were all high on like coke or some shit I can't remember what it was and all of a sudden one of our guys on our side flew over the pool table and just like smash, this guy goes into it like back in the day where he could fight and it was okay, and then, like that part of my life just ends and then I go into something else, you know. Then I started working at Dirt Pilot Magazine with my boy, Chuck, and Boiler Room Creative Group, and now I'm an editor of this magazine and we're going to the Baja 1000 and we're just different experiences. And then that ends. And then now I'm on K-Rock and then that goes for 18 years and I'm part of the Kevin and B Morni show, still on the heyday, and I do overnight, and then blah, blah, blah, and then that ends and I'll meet you.
Speaker 2:A lot of Rumble and West Coast Pop-Log, and you know what I'm saying, because I didn't allow myself to click up and to only be one thing. I allowed myself to stay open and to want to experience things. I think the want to experience stuff and go out there. I mean, I was a VJ for LATV Live, you know what I'm saying. Like I never thought I would do that. That was never in my dreams to become. It just happened because I was willing to go outside of my box or my comfort zone, or whatever you want to call it, you know. So yeah, dude, I think that's what we need to do more. It's just allow ourselves to live and to enjoy our lives, bro, and no matter what it is, everything is, I don't know, it's all connected in some crazy way, man.
Speaker 3:What do you think that it is that keeps somebody from jumping out of their comfort zone?
Speaker 2:Fear, yeah, fear. Fear for failure, fear, rejection, what look? I mean I know you're very happily, you know dating right now, but back in the day I bet you there was girls that liked you, but because of the fear, you didn't know whether she did or didn't you were like oh man, maybe I don't know, nah, she's too cute.
Speaker 2:What if she says no, that opportunity went to the side, and it happened to me too. I mean, you know years later. Oh you know what? I thought you were pretty cool, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, it's like fuck, I didn't, even, I didn't even know, you know, he was too afraid to do the rejection or what?
Speaker 3:happened, you know.
Speaker 2:And I think that's what it is in everything Not willing to take that swing and not believing in yourself. I think, more than anything, I think not believing in yourself. I had somebody very that believed in me, so much that it helped me believe in me. You know, my mom, no matter what, she was, like God, you can do what you want, like, and she always used to tell me that. You know, and that's why I said earlier, like they gave up their dreams for us to dream, and she did. You know, we had a conversation and she was like, yeah, I gave up my dream so you could dream. And I was like wow, so you can't let that go to waste. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, you can't, you can't let those things go to waste, you can't let their sacrifices go to waste. But at the same time, you have to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself, and then you're gonna fail, bro, we all fail.
Speaker 2:You know I'm gonna diet again bro I've lost about 20 pounds to the cake, good man. But I failed, dieting multiple times, man, this isn't the first time I've lost like over a thousand pounds, I would say over my lifetime, of just getting on weight, this and that. You know what I'm saying Losing, trying to lose weight. But you continue to try because you will be successful. You know what I mean. You just have to find your way.
Speaker 1:Do you think that, like, because you're saying like, you know, I live this like dream life, right, and do you think that people need to have like, is it? I don't know how to articulate what I'm trying to say, but do you think that having, like, everyone can have a dream life, right, or a life that they say like this is the life that, like, satisfies me and everything? Do you think it's not? I mean obviously, yeah, the opportunities you've gotten, but do you think it's also perspective, like the way that you view life and you view your opportunities and everything, cause someone can have an amazing life, right, that I think is amazing and they're miserable, right, and it's perspective, like they're just not happy in whatever they are, but to me I'm like, oh, they're living like a dream. So do you think that also having that perspective and that mindset of just being grateful and open to everything is kind of the key to it?
Speaker 2:or no, definitely. You have to be open, you have to have that mindset and no matter where you're at, you're somewhere where someone else wants to be. You know what I mean? Even just having a job. How many people don't have jobs? How many people don't have? They can't buy themselves a Starbucks or what have you, and you just bought two and threw one away I'm not saying that in the petty way, but like you can, because you were willing to go out there and get it done. But yeah, perspective is very, very important. Perspective is very important, and just you know. And if you're not happy, then let's change it.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean Really changed, really changed. The only reason I never really lost weight was because it was never a hindrance and it was never a roadblock in my life at any point. You know, when I was in high school I hung out with the cool kids man On my home, with Chief though, andres, alvie, tommy, david, like all these, all these cool ass kids. You know, back then I hung out with the cool guys man K-Rock bro, I wasn't. I didn't care if I'm big, because I don't see what you see.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. I don't see the big guy in front of you. I see Steve, who's outgoing, who likes to hang out, who likes to party, who likes to have a great time, who likes to make sure you're having a great time. You know what I mean. My great time is you having a great time. That's what makes it for me. I'm an entertainer. That's what I do. I make sure that you walk away going. I fuck, I had a fucking blast yesterday with this guy.
Speaker 3:This shit was dope.
Speaker 2:That's what I, that's my mindset. So you know it was never a roadblock with girls or with friends, or, you know, careers or whatever. So it was never something that I was like oh man, you know People use things as crutches or people use things as excuses, and it never was, cause I and I think that was also came from my mom being at home and being my cheerleader and always pushing and always telling me like you know you can do this and me, at a young age, understanding their sacrifice you know what I'm saying and the sacrifice that they made, you know, for us, for our opportunities.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was your reminder to keep going and not stopping, not letting something stop you from reaching whatever you want. Right, so you have that focus. You had something that you wanted to do. You focused on it and kept on going and didn't let anything stop you.
Speaker 2:No, I just took my life and I and what I did with personally, I just enjoyed every aspect of it. I enjoyed the moment, I enjoyed what I was doing at that time, and then all those other things because of my positive energy and the attraction of what I wanted and the manifestation of how I wanted my life to be those things start falling in.
Speaker 2:They start, you become a magnet, right, you know how do I meet Lightning from K-Rock? I'm working on a dirt pilot, I'm having fun. He sees me, he's like man, I like this guy Doesn't know that I went to radio school. Then finds out. And then he's like oh shit. And then he calls my boy, chuck, on his cell phone and goes hey, this is one of the other bricks, though you know, the chirps, the chirps man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the chirps.
Speaker 2:He's like hey, is Steve with you? Hey, we wanna bring him on, let's do an interview tomorrow morning on K-Rock. And I got the job, bro, he introduced me at Superstay, he gave me the name that day. So it's just attracting it and you can. You attract what you want. You want positive, you want great, you gotta feel that, you gotta think that and that's what you're gonna get. You know what I'm saying. For a very long time this is gonna hurt some people, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2:Relationship wise, I was always attracting the wrong type of relationship for myself, always attracting the wrong type. You know what I'm saying People that were maybe not ready for relationships, or I don't wanna say have baggage, but had like extreme circumstances that happened in their lives, or people that are broken and stuff like that. You know, and as soon as I started changing my mindset and my wants, that's when someone came into my life that I was like, wow, this is what I've been looking for, because it's what you put in your head and that's what you look for in life. So you make the choices whether you make them up, right, you know, or you make them mentally and you attract what you do. And that's my homeboy, luis. We call him Maze. Luis is an artist, great artist, and he's into like manifestation and that kind of stuff, and he always told me cause I talked to him and he'd be like you know, bro, you're attracting what you want. When you change your want, you'll attract something different.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 3:The law of attraction.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but in anything. In anything, bro, in anything. You know, I was a kid and I said I was gonna be on K-Rock.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was a junior high. I told my boy, andres Rios, we were hanging out out in front of the house and I was like, hey, bro, I'm gonna be on K-Rock. He's like, yeah, they just called me babies. Back then it was party crews, party crews, latin law. And he's like, yeah, come on, babies, whatever. Whatever. He called me the first night that I was on overnights. I answered the phone. He's like what's up, why you? Didn't, I'm like bro I told you, man, and he was like holy shit. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it was something that you really want. So when you ask for things that you really want and you really want them with your heart, with your mind, with your spirit, with your soul, when you really want it, man, you can get it. You know, all those other little things oh, I want a million bucks, no, whatever, yeah, other little things, when you really want something, though, when you really want something, putting that energy out right, yes and also doing the work to get there too. Look, I'm not gonna lie bro.
Speaker 2:It wasn't work for me, it just happened. Well, I don't know, maybe that's just the way I feel.
Speaker 3:I think that's just your perspective of it. Yeah, it could look like work to somebody else that's looking on, like me, for instance, I'm thinking okay, steve had this dream right and he had to do a little bit of work to get there. Maybe work is the wrong word to use that.
Speaker 2:It was just a journey, man, Right your journey.
Speaker 3:You still have to do things to land where you are.
Speaker 2:And I accepted my journey. I accepted my journey and no matter how long it took or no matter what route it took, I accepted my journey.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I got there and fuck. And it's crazy because Johnny, you had him last week. Johnny was like we were talking and I think it was one of our first episodes when we were trying to create the West Coast Pop-Lock podcast. I was sort of interviewing him, we were practicing and stuff, and I'm like, so what makes you think you can do stand-up? That's one of the hardest things to do in all the show business. Stand-up is one of the hardest things. And he's like I know someone that did the impossible, so that makes the impossible possible. I was like, oh fuck, that's crazy, bro, who is this? He goes to you. It was you.
Speaker 2:A kid from Orange County, mexican big ass dude, ended up being on the number one morning show in Los Angeles maybe the country, because, remember, now we have cars here and audiences are bigger for radio than in New York. And when I and he goes, and when I met you and I saw it, I was like what the fuck? This whole thing hit it. You made the impossible possible. And that's crazy Because up until that point I never realized it. It never was really like it had never, it had never really hit me like that. And when he said that I was like holy shit, because even now I still keep and continue to live this fairytale of a life, and so I'm not stopping and looking and thinking like, oh fuck, I live my dream, but I live my dream, bro. How many people get to live their dreams?
Speaker 3:Not many.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then beyond their dreams.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like I said, I was a VJ on LATV Live, bro, that was, I went there to judge because they were looking for a new VJ. So I was on the panel judging and stuff. And then after we recorded the episode, they're like, hey, you want to be a VJ? I was like I don't know what the fuck, boom, that was it, I was on. And then, yeah, bro, so I got to do that. I mean, it's just again, it's just been amazing.
Speaker 3:Now I'm on the mind buzz Like come on, bro, it can't get any better than that At each significant stage or significant part in your journey. Did you think, okay, I'm here, I'm a VJ on this, that's it. Like I'm like there's no way I can get any better than this, and then it gets better than that? Did you ever think that, oh, this is okay, this is at the highest, this is the highest thing that I'm doing, you know?
Speaker 2:Not personally, because it depends on what you consider the highest thing Right, exactly. And then radio. Wise, it ain't going to get no higher than K-Rock bro.
Speaker 3:Right, that's true. There is nothing higher, that's true.
Speaker 2:You know, straight up, there's nothing higher than the world famous K-Rock. Whether they sell it, whether they keep it, whether there's bankrupt, whether there's not, whether the music has changed or whatever, it's still there.
Speaker 3:In.
Speaker 2:Southern.
Speaker 3:California. That was the biggest thing. K-rock.
Speaker 2:I mean you go to the Santa Fe Supreme Swamp Meat. They sell CDs that say K-Rock flashbacks, k-rock music. Djs put on their cards oh, I play K-Rock music, I play K-Rock flashbacks, I play K-Rock style music. You know what I mean. Yeah, there's nothing bigger. And then to do something that I wasn't expecting to do, and be a DJ. And then, you know, go from that and then all of a sudden create Michela Rumble, the first ever Michela Festival, and to see all these other people create them because they saw mine or they came to mine. You know what I'm saying. So, yeah, man, creating and continue to create. And then now I mean I don't want to sound cheesy, but now finding a partner in life, it just depends on what you consider those high points in your journey.
Speaker 3:Oh, there's all kinds of high points.
Speaker 2:And for everyone it's different. For some people it's having children, for some people it's having their own business.
Speaker 3:I guess it just depends on the like what are you valuing in your journey? Friendships, Right.
Speaker 2:Friendships. I still talk to some of the people that I used to you know and remembering. See, that's what I'm saying about the phones, like when you're in the phone and that's all you're doing, you're not creating that friendship, you're not creating that moment. So when I'm done, when my life's done, I would have had friendships and memories and just look back and say you know what I enjoyed every moment of my life, whether it was with these people here or these people here or those people there. I enjoyed it and I enjoyed every moment, every second. I there's a lot of people that I always say when they have jobs, quote unquote I'll have to go to work.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's my, that's my coworker. I hate that word, bro, because we spend the most time with each other than you do sometimes with your own family when you have a job.
Speaker 2:And I'm there and I want to create a friendship. I'm there, we're working together, man, you know what I'm saying. So I want to create a friendship and then some of those people become friends and those become experiences, because you're, because at a job, especially like a nine to five, there's different types of people there. It's not just the circle that you've created. You know my neighborhood or my friends from high school or this. No, these are people you've never met. You don't know anything about them. Now you're becoming friends and you're experiencing things, and I think that's what's allowed me to, to, to expand and to, and to go ahead and and to experience new things. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause you allow yourself to go out there and go like, oh hey, what's up, what's your name? Oh, my name is Jason. Oh, nice to meet you, bro. And there are all these white boys from Brea and I started hanging out with them. You know, going fishing. He introduced me to rage against the machine.
Speaker 1:I never listened to that stuff.
Speaker 2:I was from a neighborhood and, and you know, we were listening to Roger and Zapp, we were listening to all these funk and when I started hanging out with my boy, jason Bermudez, he's like, oh, have you heard of this band? I'm like, huh, let me check it out. Oh shit, I've got into rage. Huge, bro, huge. Because of that cat. He got me into Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the best live band ever. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Unfortunately that people will never be able to see him anymore. The best band ever.
Speaker 3:So I guess being open to people like being vulnerable to to others, people showing you like new things and you enjoying those new things.
Speaker 1:But it's super true because I mean, I, I tell you, go like for us, like with the journey, with like the business, for me, the, the thing that I've enjoyed the most are the people that I have met and the people that I can say these are my friends. Oh, I, I, you know, I met this person because of this or, you know, this happened because of this, and now we're friends and now we're and it's, it's a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:Like everything that you said is is a hundred percent the way that I feel about like life and and and meeting people. I think sometimes we shy away from people again because we think we're going to get rejected or we don't have anything to talk about or or whatever the the thing is that we're playing in our brain but sometimes people really surprise you on how much you know you can actually form a connection or even if, let's say, they're not your best friend but there's someone that you can keep close. That in case something you know I don't know like something, you need something, or they know something that you don't or like and I don't know. To me, I think. But again, that stems from. For me, that stems from my family, from being so close knit and from having my parents show me the value of of family and and and having people because I have friends, that I've had friends. I mean, I have friends since I met the first day of kindergarten and there's still my friends till this day. Like you know, I value my friendships and my connections and I think that that that'll never get taken away from you if you continue to nurture it, if you continue to.
Speaker 1:You know and and I think everything that you said was like spot on, 100%, but also your energy, who you are as a person, like you were saying, like you know, like you never saw things in your life or with you that impeded you from from doing anything. To you was just your life, and I think that people feed on energy like that. People feed and see, look at this guy, he has good energy, he's happy, he's this, he's that. I want to go and talk to him, I want to approach him, I want to be in his circle, I want to be, you know, because I feel like that's happened to me in my life where I've had strangers come up to me and say hey, I just wanted to say hi, or I just want to introduce myself. You know, you seem like you're having such a great time and and I just want to say hi, and I think that that also is key to meeting these people and creating all these you know, friendships or whatever we call them, but that's I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I just I just want to have fun, I want to get to know who you are. You know what I'm saying and I think that's helped me out with creating friends and and keeping friends, because you, you show interest in them, and I think that's the one thing people I think from my experience, it's people want people that show interest in them. You want to feel important, you want to feel interesting to somebody. You want somebody to be like hey, go tell me more about your comedy or tell me more about this. You know what I mean? And I think that's where we don't, because sometimes we lack the ability to listen or to be interested in someone else as opposed to just thinking about me. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And we know. No, you have to. That's a give and take. As much as that individual is interested in learning about you, you should be as interested to learn about them.
Speaker 3:That's one concept that I have. Do you like books? Do you read books? Listen to books. How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie oh my God, dude, it has so much of. Basically, it's about relationships and building relationships. One of the concepts in there that I remember is remembering other people's names. When other people hear their names coming out of somebody else and just the feeling that they remembered you is huge to a person. I think the opening tagline on that chapter was somebody's name is the sound of honey or something. I'm butchering it, but it was something along the lines of if you are interested in that other person, that's, it's gold. They're going to remember you just from that, Just for somebody's name. Just remembering somebody's name is huge.
Speaker 2:There's so many people.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:So many people, even like in Orange County, la, wherever there's so many fucking people. So if you can remember me and I stood out to you maybe I didn't even stand out to you that much, but just because you said my name, I have the feeling that I did so. Now it's like oh shit, what's up? Bro? I've used that as a way to meet people. I was supposed to do chicks or something. What's your girlfriend's name? And she's like oh, my friend Brandy. That's how I met my friend Brandy Really good friend, always been a friend and she was in the restroom and her friend was like hanging out and like, hey, what's your friend's name? So, brandy, I'm like all right, and I stood back in the cut. She came out and I'm like what's up, brandy? And she's like oh, what's up? And I'm like you don't remember me, brandy? And she's she's, because you said I was saying her name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's like oh, I must know this for you know, and then we all hung out and it was cool and we've been amazing friends ever since. Yeah, it works. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It works that even break that shell, even though sometimes it could be an uncomfortable to approach somebody. It's hard, especially now when people are. You know, what's really awkward is knowing somebody online and you guys are in the same room, quiet, not talking to each other. That is weird. It happens a lot Now that I'm doing like these open mics and going to different places here and there following each other. It's kind of it's kind of awkward at first Because you guys connect online, right, and then we don't talk to each other. So it's like, okay, who's going to? Who's going to get up first? Who's going to say hi first?
Speaker 2:Because you can't say it through text, because you're texting, you're not really speaking Exactly. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, so you know it gets hard. It's like oh, how the fuck am I going to talk to this? Well, I've never talked to him.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've never done his text. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3:I've seen a chat where there's we send flyers of open mics, comedy shows, and it's I don't I don't even know how many people are in this thread. I've met. I've been in the thread for, I want to say, two weeks and I went out to the standup comedy club on their open mic last or this this Tuesday, and I met somebody. We were sitting at the same table, we were just going back and forth. Oh, he was good, like, oh, like, good set. You know small talk, talking. You know like, where can I find you? On Instagram, tiktok, so we, we can, we connected, right. But it wasn't until like a day after I was going through that thread. The guy that I was sitting across from me was in that thread and I felt horrible, I felt really bad. I don't know, maybe he didn't know that I was in the thread, same situation, right, but it just I felt weird and I thought about it and I was like what the like?
Speaker 2:I'm not paying attention, you're, you're just, you're just not paying attention to that At the same time, if the thread's pretty pretty large, right Like 20 people on there that's a little hard, you know you don't know who and you don't have the name. It's just numbers.
Speaker 3:Right. But but you made the effort to talk to someone and next time you see him you know you'll remember, yeah, I'm going to see it, and I was going to address it like, because he posted like a, like a poster, hey, I'm going to be at this location at that, and I was like, oh man, like I, I seem like I met this guy in real life and I felt I felt bad, like I felt really horrible about the whole situation.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't, and don't try to reach out on that thread because I'll be a little stocky-ish.
Speaker 3:And I was going to say. I was like hey, bro, you remember me, I was, I was sitting with you, my bad.
Speaker 2:Next time you see him you'll be like, hey, you know what you're on that thread, right?
Speaker 3:Boom yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you're going to have a comedy buddy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was. It was that was a strange, that just happened this week and that was a strange type of interaction.
Speaker 2:How was the continental room?
Speaker 3:It was cool.
Speaker 2:That's my stomping ground right there.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm a good friend of mine and yeah, I've had her on the podcast before she came on to do she does a lot of dating apps she does a lot of dating apps. So we had her on talking about dating and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:She's funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so then now and then. So it just not recently, but after that episode I think like a month or two has when I noticed that she started doing comedy and then I've just seen her go and go and that matter of fact she invited me tonight they're doing it as well, she had a show at the continental room. Yeah, she's like, hey, come through. I'm like I'm going to be on the, I'm going to be on the mind bus, like next time I'll go next time. But how was it? How was it?
Speaker 3:It was cool, the room was good. She gave me 10 minutes. I think I was the second comic 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:That's a long time, right.
Speaker 3:I was just like I was a third comic. 10 minutes is probably the longest I've done in a book show. I've done. I've done open mics like 15 minutes, but that's just messing with the crowd. Yeah, the 10 minutes it was it was different.
Speaker 2:What's a good, what's a good timeframe, cause I'm here. I remember on on our podcast when you guys did the, the, the competition, it was like three minutes, that's see, that was good I like that. Oh, you like that, okay, I like that. Why? That's why you won.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like that because it's also in your writing too.
Speaker 3:Like, if you don't have, if it takes you four minutes to set up a punch line, it it's hard for you, but if you know, if you're quick with your jokes, I think that's maybe cause I that's how I write. I write set up, punch, move on, set up, punch, move on. And I've tried to do longer jokes, like my jokes at 30 seconds to a minute, and I think that's why I maybe that's why it did so good, because it was there was this thing called a LPM laughs per minute and it's a. That's exactly what it is. If your laughs per minute and three minutes or like 50, like, of course, it's going to seem like you did really good. However, having 10 minutes with that strategy is is very hard. It was.
Speaker 3:The 10 minutes was difficult for me. I think I did two minutes of nothing prepared but just going off, going off the room. The holidays just passed. I tried to ask the crowd about their holidays, which was terrible. I'm never going to do that again. And also I did open it up with you know, talking about myself. Pretty much I won't what like roasting myself on stage in front of the crowd which they loved it, and then I kind of it dragged, because that's not how I write. I kind of put fluff. There was some, there was some punchlines that I tried to work to make that joke longer. I just it was a hit and miss because I've never done 10 minutes before, but it was a learning curve.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, I mean, that's what it's about. Yeah, who are some of the comics that you like, that got you into it, that really you're like, oh, fuck yeah.
Speaker 3:Ronnie Dangerfield.
Speaker 2:Oh, ronnie Dangerfield, yeah.
Speaker 3:Wow, yeah, I think that's why I like that style.
Speaker 2:And I like that.
Speaker 3:that no respect, dude Mitch Hedberg.
Speaker 2:Have you read? Have you read Ronnie Dangerfield's?
Speaker 3:I want to. I heard his his interview on Howard Stern. Oh my God it was. It was amazing. I look for it on Xav Audible and I do a lot of audio books.
Speaker 2:Oh, you can read.
Speaker 3:I can't read, so I have to listen to it. And it's not on there, so I have to get the actual book.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I have to buy the book and actually read, which is pretty. That's good that I can do that. Yeah, I can hear him read it to me. It'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:Aren't there like apps so that you can scan it the whole thing and then I could read?
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 2:I know you could read, but some people like to listen to it, like you don't want to drive in or whatever you?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure that there's a. Yeah, there's an app out there that does that. I forgot what it's called, but there's definitely an app out there. I haven't.
Speaker 1:If anyone knows how to create an app, hit us up.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, amber has a great idea for an app. We won't talk about it, we just thought about it. Yeah, but if you're an app developer, we need you. But to go back to that, yeah, rodney Dangerfield, I heard his book, not heard his book, but I heard him talk about his book and that one story of him being in the neighborhood and how his mom treated him and all these different things. He would go to somebody, some man's house, and sit on his lap and he didn't know really what. That was just his upbringing in general and I was like whoa, like I can really resonate with him because my upbringing was not all that great. And just to hear him talk about it and using that as his comedy which you've heard my stuff before it's a lot. It's about my family, yeah, and that just I have to read it. Like I have to order the book because it's such a hearing about his book coming from him is amazing. But yeah, rodney Dangerfield is one of my favorite comics.
Speaker 3:Yeah 100% yeah, mitch Hedberg, steven Wright, all those one-liner comics, and then, of course, you have all the other comics. But yeah, those are right now. Those are my three favorite right now.
Speaker 2:All right, no Latino comics at all. It's I like to leave it as far as the I'd add to the comics that are now like Latino comics that I've just that I've heard I think for the best part is one of the one of the better guys.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just pretty funny.
Speaker 3:I don't, I don't know what it is, I just I yeah and it's weird to say this I resonate with, like the older, older stuff. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:I think it's because there's that not lost in translation, but a lot of the Latino comics Mix in Spanish or things that maybe their, their first generation parent did and things like that. So I think it's it's harder for you to like maybe I don't know, I'm not gonna say get it, but, like you said, resonate with it.
Speaker 3:I do like Joey Medina, joe Medina's. I remember watching land Kings of comedy was when I wasn't supposed to. I remember, I Remember sitting in that living room it was me, my mom, few other family, and they put it on and right from the start, like she, I got upset because my mom wanted to shut it off and I was like, no, just please let me watch it. She was telling me to go to bed. I was like no, let me watch it. And none of these jokes I didn't get. But seeing a comic that looked like me, that that was talking about Mexican stuff or Latino stuff, was it, was. It was different for me because it gave me the, the, the idea of like that much, that must be so fucking cool, just to go on stage and make people laugh, like that was awesome. And then, plus, cheech hosted that, that special, and he was, he's, like, my all-time heroes. If anything, cheech and Chong are, are that's, those are my comedy heroes. If we're talking about Latino comics, it's Cheech and Chong, 100% out the gate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they're dope but that's the thing, dude I. It's like all the older stuff. For some reason it just my dad would give me the records too, and He'd let me watch all the movies.
Speaker 2:So and you know what, sometimes that helps out too, because you're not doing the the same thing that these guys are doing, and I think personally that older comedy is just broader comedy right because Because the truth as far as is more like to heavy saturated Latino and all these other guys are heavy saturated Latino.
Speaker 2:I think when you can be a comedian and it doesn't have any kind of boundary as in Race or you know, and like white people can laugh at it, black people can laugh at it, asians can laugh at it, I think that's where you get. Those are the big time comics. Yeah those are the guys that are, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is the chappels. Yeah, and it's tough too, because some of my good stuff that I think are good is Is is geared towards like knowing what an of frienda is, or knowing the concept of day of the dead, or knowing who Selena Quintanilla is, like it's.
Speaker 2:That's hard but I think, I don't know. I think that that's becoming more or it became more Mainstream. Yeah, you know at least now right now yeah. Disneyland is doing day of the dead, so like you don't get more mainstream to Disney.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know so, and a frienda too. It's hard like I have. I've Frienda joking if you don't know. Like what the hell? Like food on top of like what is this guy talking about?
Speaker 2:But hey, you know, yeah, that'll be straighter for your Latin people and if not, someone can whisper in their ear and be like, oh, this is what it means.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Google it. But yeah, dude it's, it's definitely a journey.
Speaker 2:That's a journey, man. Everything is, even our podcast. You know, we weren't gonna do it. And then Johnny was like down bro, let's, let's, let's, let's do this, bro, and it's been cool, you know. And we're not doing it because we're getting paid.
Speaker 2:Yeah you know we're doing it because we like it, we like to sit down and we'd like to have our friends on and and talk, and, and, and, and. That's the thing I always like to have. A lot of people that I know and that I've, you know, I've I've crossed pathways in my path, paths with in my life, and I and I enjoy their stories and and what they've done and what they're doing and bring them on and, you know, go from there, you know yeah from my friend who's a mechanic to my friends who used to work at.
Speaker 2:You know Warp Tour and you know Whatever. You know this Leo, who was a genius, a gene. He worked at Keck and he created. He put I Think it's fly wings on a different other insect and made it like yeah, it's like he's got a genius bro.
Speaker 2:There's other shit that he's created that he told us off air, like he created a virus that goes in and they injected in you or what have you, so that I can go into your body and fix, fix whatever's wrong with you and in your, in your DNA. The only thing, though, is that they don't know what happens when you take out or you fix that piece. The butterfly effect Like. What are you affecting beyond that? Whoa, yeah, it's just too great, it's too much putting.
Speaker 3:We're all the putting flies on what now?
Speaker 2:fly wings on like another insect. You know, yeah, I have a joke because here's crazy, he worked that Keck. He's always a cake for he's a scientist over there, but he would always come to K-Rock and he would be. He did that was it called. There's a process where you go and you have to make sure that all of the Commercials are being, you know, played and everything that you know. So he was in charge of those of that. So he would come after hours. He would do that and that was his second job. You know, scientists, I mean they don't make them, I mean at least I don't think they do for him to be there. I guess they didn't. But anyways, he had told us a story about him, like you know, putting fly wings on a flea, that's what.
Speaker 2:But I would always be like you know, leo, he put fly wings on a cat and they just started getting crazy, that wings on a Rat or whatever and people were like, and he would be like dude, come on man, leave me alone, because I would introduce him to that. Oh, this is genius. He's never shit himself and he put Quote-unquote wings on this. You know what I mean. So this is genius.
Speaker 3:That's freaking wild yeah. Yeah what like? What other animals would be totally like. We don't need wings on like a rat, you don't need. Those fuckers can jump. You know that they can jump from tree to tree, like the evolution has treat Rats very well.
Speaker 2:I think whatever animal has wings, that's cool. We don't need to add wings or anything. You know what I mean if they don't have wings already for a reason.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or creating viruses. That's, that's wild. How do you, how do you begin to tell people oh yeah, I can make a virus.
Speaker 2:Well, I think they took a certain virus and broke it down so that it wasn't contagious in any way. It had anything of that nature, but it was a virus that it can go into you. I he explained it, man, it was crazy, and it was the vessel to go in and be able to Correct Something within your, with within your, within your, your DNA. But the only thing that they were afraid of not afraid of, but the only thing that they had an answer to this point was they didn't know what's gonna happen when you fix that, what else are you? What are you doing? Because you're changing something, is changing something else. It's not just like, oh, it's fixed, that's it. No, like you've done this, what is happening after that? Oh, so it was crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 2:He's he's uh, he's uh yeah he's very interesting, a very interesting Interview. I've been trying to get it back on the back on the show, but I know he's pretty busy right now doing some stuff.
Speaker 3:So creating other things after saving the world. Saving the world putting wings on animals that don't need wings.
Speaker 2:Wings wrong, but they'd have to be huge and carry me, so I don't know if I want those. They'd be to like cumbersome, like oh shit, let me get these wings underneath the door.
Speaker 3:You'd be an X-men Super. You be really super steep floors if you can fly, dude.
Speaker 2:Oh, that'd be crazy. That'd be crazy. Oh, but I'd be a mutant though. What do you know me like? There's no X-men now, so just be a mutant. I'd be at the alley in Orange County, fair Pay and see the mutant.
Speaker 3:Man with wings, super Steve floors with wings.
Speaker 2:Superfly.
Speaker 3:It'll be super fly. Steve floors at that point, dude eating wings eating wings eating chicken.
Speaker 1:Would that be your superpower, if you could have one flying?
Speaker 2:Now, I don't even know what it would be. I don't know me. You know what? Maybe invisible, being invisible.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what Cuz you can get in and out anywhere wrong? You don't have to fly, you can get somewhere, and you can. Just I can be in this room, uh-huh, and you can be anywhere.
Speaker 1:I always felt like invisible is creepy but if you're invisible, do other people.
Speaker 3:Can other people fill you, like Always? Think about that if you're, if you're invisible, or Can other people like fill you or fill the temperature in the room?
Speaker 2:You know what they can because you used to see it. One like They'll throw the sand on him or something, and yeah and he feels the pain. So yeah, you have to be yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:And then super strength. Like you know, here's the thing with superpowers every superhero, their superpowers have Hurt them in some way. True, you know, I'm saying like I'm too strong, I can't, I can't hug you, I'm gonna crush your bones. Oh, I can't. You know, I'm saying so like it's never. Yeah, it's cool, but there's always somewhere down the line, there's always something that is just like I can't do this, I can't, I can't take my, my glasses off because I'm gonna my razor coming out of my eyes, I'm gonna go right through your head, yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 1:I would choose, like, teleportation. I Don't want to be able to go somewhere real quick and come back.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but now you can't go without guilt, so he's just dry. You're gonna wait for him for two hours in LA wait for me.
Speaker 3:Go there and take pictures and then come back. Yeah, but are you? Can you bring stuff with?
Speaker 2:I was about to say Can I, can I go get like an order?
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, can you go get?
Speaker 1:our order, whatever I hold in my hands.
Speaker 3:Go to Chicago. I want to try a deep dish pepperoni pizza. Go to Chicago real quick.
Speaker 2:See, that's the only way it works, if you can bring something back like that yeah is it? What's the one thing you hate? Like you hate uber eats, but you don't want to get up and get it right. So now, if you can go like, oh yeah, go get for us or even being invisible.
Speaker 3:Is it just your body that's invisible? Can you just be like, say you're, you're here right now and you're like, okay, I'm gonna be invisible, and then your clothes just fall and you're naked somewhere? That'd be suck, that suck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get cold. You get cold movies usually, like when they're stealing something, that it becomes invisible with them know what their clothes or no?
Speaker 3:huh, Because then you see like a floating object and yeah, you see a floating like a bag of money.
Speaker 1:Exactly that's that's what it is. Maybe I can't teleport with stuff the invisible man.
Speaker 3:The remake that one is I Like. Did you have you seen it? No the original one. No, not the original one. That the latest one.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:It's such a good movie, dude, it's it. They made it like, yeah, it's a horror, but it was really suspenseful. If you're looking to watch something really good, it's the invisible man, you would say really good. I thought it was really good you didn't. You didn't think so not really good.
Speaker 1:Like, like, oh, like you need to go home and watch it is.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 1:AP. I thought it was good.
Speaker 3:What's a good movie to you. Oh, don't put me on the spot now, I just said well, our, our range of what's good and what's not is totally often You're right. I thought it was really good.
Speaker 2:It's less amount to the movie theater. That's all a bomb Bye day.
Speaker 3:No way like a remake, like they brought it back.
Speaker 1:Oh, we watched the iron claw. The iron claw was pretty good.
Speaker 3:I'm playing. Were you one of them that watch the iron claw cuz? I know we talked about it.
Speaker 2:I hadn't watched it. That's, I was trying to get everybody to be quiet but the conversation had already formed. And I'm not into too much into those kind of like biopics like that that don't tell the full story or pick and choose what they want to say this is not, you know, especially when you know the story, like I hate and I don't hate, I don't really hate anything.
Speaker 2:I don't like like prequels, I don't know, I don't know Dark Vader, I would know how he became like later. Right, I keep telling the story like why go back?
Speaker 3:It's a one, two and three of Star Wars. You don't like.
Speaker 2:They weren't important enough to make the first time, why did we go back and make them?
Speaker 3:Okay. See, and I didn't that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that about the iron claw until after, cuz I went to watch it with Gil, right, I didn't know enough, so to me everything was brand new. So I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, when you, when you. That's why, when I go to the movies, I go to watch something just to be entertained at that moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah like I don't do the series of like the ring, where there's like Downing, know how many movies are out of it. Or Harry Potter, where there's like a bunch of movies and a bunch of books and and Star Wars now, where there's like the cartoon and then there's this other thing and then you have to book like no Bro, I want to be entertained for two hours, hour and a half, whatever it is and that's it.
Speaker 3:So you don't like prequels, sequels, none of that.
Speaker 2:No, not that I don't like them. I'm just saying like I'm not gonna invest Outside work. These two hours are yours. Yeah, entertain me. I'm paying you to entertain me. I'm gonna get my popcorn, I'm gonna get my movie nachos and I'm gonna watch this. I'm have a good time. I'm gonna be entertained. I'm gonna be taken to a new world or wherever. Whatever it is that you're doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah but that's it oh yeah, and, and more than likely, it's likely books, the books, because I I've read like a book and then, and then, years later, the movie comes out and it's never the same. Yeah, it's never.
Speaker 2:Well, the books have more detail. Yeah, there's 200, 300 pages in the book and you can get into a lot of detail and you can't do that in a movie.
Speaker 1:You know that's what sucks, but again, you know I mean yeah and, and that's where I thought about the like the iron clock, because, again, I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know, like you know. I got there and I just sat down, but as I was watching the movie, I I have this really bad habit of like Anytime I'm watching movie I don't I Google stuff.
Speaker 3:It's my fault. I think I did that too because of the podcast.
Speaker 1:No, no, I used to do it before.
Speaker 3:I used to.
Speaker 1:Deep dive into, like where you know who made it, where we film it, things like that.
Speaker 3:You're a nerd.
Speaker 1:So I am, I am a nerd, so I went in and I googled something and then it told me Right, there was X amount of Siblings, and then I was like wait what? And I'm all counting them like on the screen and I'm like this doesn't make sense and then I even like went over to get. I was like and and like he just not. Not that he brushed me off, but he was just like Like, oh no, no and then she didn't know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, but he did. And then when we got home we started watching like YouTube, like those ones that give you, like Like the real, like the full story, and I was like I fucking knew it like and like that sucks that they didn't include him in the movie.
Speaker 3:How did do you feel that watching the movie skewed your perception of that story of the iron claw and the Eric the Von Erick's?
Speaker 1:what do you mean? Skewed it in like?
Speaker 3:like Watching it on watching a Senate, the cinematic version of a story and then listening to it. Do you think it like? Changed your your views watching it first or or vice versa?
Speaker 1:No, no, I think. I mean, I think it's a pretty impactful story. I think that there was a lot of tragedy in their family and a lot of tragedy in their life. I think the story, the movie, did a good job, but it didn't do enough. And then I know that also, like now, like which kind of sucks? Well, I mean, I don't know if it sucks or not, but everybody's like all the dads a monster, the dads a monster, the dad is, the dad did that. And then even his own son is, like you know, has come out to say like my dad wasn't a monster, like we loved him, we still love him and the things that happened to our family, like. So I kind of think of that too in that perspective of like Dang, the movie really made him out to look like he was like the main, main villain.
Speaker 1:I don't know. It did a lot of Things for the actual story but skewed it, maybe not, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that that also happened in that movie Walk, the line of Johnny Cash and I guess his original wife. The kids had come out afterwards and we're like man, they've made our mom look really like mean and you know, but he did her dirty, you know, I mean. Yeah, I think movies can do that. And then they and that's the thing about like media, movies and whatever they put out a narrative that sometimes is hard to change, because people that's the first thing people you know Know about, you have ever seen about you. So now it's just like how do you change that?
Speaker 1:And and then again. And it's the only narrative.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let themselves know true because a lot of people won't go home and do the research, research or look it up, you know, into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, I just want to be entertained right.
Speaker 3:What about even the doors?
Speaker 1:Okay, it's okay too, you know definitely even the doors biopic with Val Kilmer.
Speaker 3:No, you're gonna watch that. It's really good.
Speaker 3:No, it's a really good movie but but the Val, the Jim Morrison that Val Kilmer played in that movie was just super over the top, like even Robbie Krieger and John Denz more. The bandmates talk about that movie and they say it was just totally not Jim. They focused more on the party animal Jim. They said Jim was a poet like this guy was an artist. He wasn't Messed up it in the movie. He's like 95% of the time he's either on a drug or he's drinking or he's just completely plastered and yeah, movies will do that. Now if you watch that movie without knowing the doors or listening to the music, you're gonna think that right off the bat Jim Morrison the rock star was. He just saying really good and he was an alcoholic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I guess that narratives that come out and they just suck, you know so like that. But again, that's why, that's why personally I just go Two hours, hour and a half, whatever it may be, entertain, go home and we're good you know, do you like remakes?
Speaker 3:What if they remade La Bamba? How would that make you feel?
Speaker 2:I don't do remakes. No no, because it's not gonna be as good, especially, especially if the original was good. Then it's like man, you, you're really, I mean, you really have to do a really really good job To remake it. But no, I'm not into remakes.
Speaker 3:We're in the land of remakes right now.
Speaker 2:Because, because, remember, people don't want to risk anything, they don't want to risk their money and they know that that movie originally made a lot of money and it's gonna At least have the interest of some people to go and see it. So you already have a built-in audience, a little bit of a built-in audience, and hopefully it's good, and then now you get more people wanting to go see it.
Speaker 3:Did you watch the new Elvis one? No, the recent one. No that one was just.
Speaker 2:I've heard a lot of crazy Like it was good, some people that it wasn't. You know, it just depends. I mean like, yeah, nah, I'm more into like action movies. You know, like action movies For the most part any good action movies recently. No, you know what, the equalizer, the newer one that come out. I've seen it and it was just. It wasn't as good as the original one. I think this one just got straight to the killing and no story. I think it was just really like quick to just want to.
Speaker 3:Show you action and stimulate you.
Speaker 2:It's the same with John Wick. Like that shit was crazy. It was like right off the bat nonstop, nonstop yeah and and I mean, we know he's a shitty actor, but like, give me something. Give me something like and it's crazy, like every gun had like 150,000 rounds in it and they're shooting sideways and curving it and they're and you know their suits are blocking every other. You know bullet and I don't know that was a wild one.
Speaker 3:I think I did a binge Watch. I can't watch movies with more than two films in the series because I just go wow, if I like a series, I'll binge on the whole thing. I'm horrible with that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm horrible with that too, like when, when? Which was the one with the dragons? Was it go? Oh, the HBO one dragon Game of Thrones. It was already in the last season. I started watching from season one and during the last season, just to catch up, I Was been watching the shit on my TV, on my phone.
Speaker 3:Just to catch up. How many seasons do they have? That was the eighth one, right and you watched all of them over it, over the Timespan.
Speaker 2:Month oh wow, yeah, I watched a lot.
Speaker 1:That's, but that's a great show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then also with the Breaking Bad.
Speaker 3:I didn't oh, I did that too, dude.
Speaker 2:But see, that's a shitty part, because you already, they're already on season four. He's still alive, so he's not dying. All these situations that he's put himself in, yeah, yeah, it's out of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, like you already know, yeah, that's why I hate prequels I already know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I already know.
Speaker 3:The Breaking Bad one was I didn't I didn't really. I think it was during the pandemic and I wanted to pick a Show that you I because I I don't do that like I wanted to pick a series. I'm not a series person. On television movies, yes, film yes, but on TV series. Breaking Bad was one of the first ones, which was freaking awesome. I didn't watch all the, the Call Saul and and all the other stuff because I just feel like that story didn't need it. Yeah, but I also watched what was the, the murder one. I'm trying to drawing a blank right now. Oh, you know which one I'm talking about. Right, Dexter.
Speaker 2:Dexter, that was another one for me, dexter have like a season, maybe two at the best. That was it really. It just became the same thing over and over it. Just you know what I mean. Some, some, even like, even like walking dead, like, come on man, I stopped walking dead too.
Speaker 3:It? How many times can you show zombies Trying to?
Speaker 2:kill somebody. Why, honestly, I watched Four episodes of walking dead and I was done. Really, I'm like this is garbage.
Speaker 1:I stopped when they started running.
Speaker 3:Cuz the zombies cuz yeah.
Speaker 1:So I watched a couple seasons and you can see the transition and like like I mean I'm sure budget wise, right when they first started and have the budget they had like mid you know way. But the, the zombies, like started evolving like makeup wise and then now their ability to do things like like you know zombies kind of drag you know they're slower, they're supposed to be dead and by like season three they were like running and jumping buildings and like, and I'm like but there's dip.
Speaker 3:There's different versions of zombies, like the zombies and Dave the dead, or yeah, but they didn't start out on the dead, I mean yeah, you don't start like that.
Speaker 2:I get it, but these are the walking dead zombies that you're trying to recreate just because people are dropping off, so now they have to recreate it to make it interesting.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I'm wrong. Just stop it already.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's it, and even dude, even the, the dexter that they brought back for the they disregard in season Eight. They disregarded a whole season and brought him back and brought his son back down. It was okay, but I did not just keep the ending how it was.
Speaker 2:That was messed up, anarchy. You know me. When they went to Ireland, it was over, that's it.
Speaker 3:They went to Ireland.
Speaker 2:Like, like the font said, they jumped the shark bro.
Speaker 3:They went to Ireland. That's funny. How many seasons does that have? That's not quite a few for them to go to Ireland.
Speaker 2:That's crazy because the Sun got kidnapped.
Speaker 3:They built a? Did they have like a chapter in?
Speaker 2:there's traffic. That's one thing about biker gangs. So they have chapters around the world right. So yeah, they had one, that one in Ireland in Ireland and this kid got kidnapped. I don't even remember, because as soon as it happened, oh, this is, this is done.
Speaker 1:I'm just spin off to that was the Mayans run, yeah, which is still out, yeah they're still making seasons of that.
Speaker 3:We saw the, the actor in that one. What's his name? Oh?
Speaker 1:Yeah remember he was on the panel a girl I went to high school with is on the show.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:There, you go creating, creating Opportunities we gotta get you on the show. Yeah, I'm down. Have ever acted before or Played a small role or anything like that in Hollywood.
Speaker 2:No, not in Hollywood. Well, I mean, I've done like short films and stuff like that, but not nothing. We were as K-Rock crew. We were on some like Can remember the name of the movie, but it was like at a skate park or something and they had put up, they created a skate park and they had our tent there and stuff. So we were on set for like a week and it was me and this one guy because you had to be the same people, you know. I mean, this guy, rich we call him richie box truck and man they fed you so good. And then we weren't even expecting because we were still getting paid from K-Rock to be there, you know, because it was branding. And Then we got this check in the mail. I was like, oh shit, you know, from the pseudo, because they had to pay you and yeah. So that was pretty cool. But I mean we, there was no speaking or nothing and we were just background.
Speaker 3:Would you do it's save somebody. Hey, I'm remaking La Bamba right and I got this perfect part for you. Would you do it? I Was just trying to see Super Steve in a film.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I don't think the bomb is a film.
Speaker 3:What would be your idea movie? That that you would be in American me bro. Oh, if they brought out, if they remade American me no remakes.
Speaker 2:Well, how would they do that?
Speaker 3:now I'm just saying like if you know, okay, yeah, got you if there was a movie because blood and blood, I think, has gotten like the majority of the fame.
Speaker 2:Now you know I'm out of those two. Blood in, blood out. Did we talk?
Speaker 3:about this the last time? I don't think so. I feel like, or I feel like this is a conversation we asked each other blood in, blood out, or American?
Speaker 2:me, but I think I think blood in, blood out is like more like cartoonish, more hokey. The characters are more cartoony. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3:pop by yeah.
Speaker 2:So I mean it's cool and it has its cult following, but it's the toxic Avenger of, of like gangster movies. You know what I mean. For those of you know, toxic Avengers, I don't know who that is. Yeah, it's like a, like a B movie.
Speaker 3:Oh. No series have you ever watched Boulevard nights?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Have you seen that one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, puppet from Um American me. He's also in Boulevard nights and this guy's an actor, mexican actor, and he'll be at the Santa Fe screen swat me, samming headshots, photos and then the DVDs and autographing on there. Oh, really, yeah, the San Francisco swat me. Man, don't sleep on it, it's, it's, it has its like it's hood fame. Hmm, it's hood famous. When I got my name put up on the marquee there, I Think that was one of my highlights, bro, to be honest with you really, cuz I've been going there since I was a kid.
Speaker 2:Well, no, that's cool, no it was like me, dad, I swat me. I guess, and you can still pull up with your car and watch driving movies, and Then it'd be a swap meet on Saturday and Sunday during the day. Now it became Santa Fe screen. Swat me, but I mean, you know, par Rodriguez has a line when he was talking about he goes hey man, I'll tell jokes in the back of my truck at the San Francisco. Swat me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like, it has, everyone knows it, man, like hood, hood people you know, saying yeah, that's like a Chicano, chicano, like, like, like.
Speaker 1:I almost died there one time At the center.
Speaker 2:See, so there my fingers up.
Speaker 1:No, I got allergic reaction to a chicharrones, or whether no, I'm allergic to squash, to calabasas. Oh dang and we were gonna go see a band, my friends and I, and they picked me up from my house and my dad was this one.
Speaker 1:Like my allergies first kind of came up, so we didn't really know like cross-contamination things like that, you know. And my dad was grilling steaks and he's like, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna grill the calabas on this side and the steak on this side, so you'll be fine. But he was using the same tongs.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, flip it. So he gave me my steak, cut it up and then gave it to me to take on my way to the Santa face spring swap me. So by the time I got there I was like sweating cold and I'm like this is weird. And then I started walking and I was like huffing and puffing and out of breath and then I was like yeah, something's not right. And then I threw up in the trash can and then I was like I'm having a allergic reaction.
Speaker 2:I thought she was insane. I had a border dog there, no I had a michi had one of those tostados. You know that they caught you channel, but it's just. I was with all the queritos on it and I started puking.
Speaker 1:I wish it was something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you just you just sniffed a vegetable and you almost died.
Speaker 1:No, I ate the steak. I had vegetable juice on there.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's just the vegetable juice Smelling it was a different time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was at the. Queen Mary.
Speaker 2:Oh, you smell, you smell vegetables and almost died.
Speaker 1:Wow, it was a steam. So they were. It was like a Mediterranean Like stand. We were at the Queen Mary the when they do it like Halloween and we had just gotten there and there was a. We were waiting in line to get into a maze and One of the stands next to it had these like like industrial, like grills. So they were all they were grilling on. There was zucchini and the steam and everything it got into. I was breathing it in. I didn't know that that's what they were grilling there, so I was like breathing it in. It was coming into my face everything. And then that was it those okenies yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't even get to enjoy the frickin, I didn't even go on one Maze, nothing.
Speaker 2:Did you leave right? Where did you stay?
Speaker 1:No, I I started, so I started feeling sick again the way that that I told you like that. That's kind of my symptoms. And then my sister rushed me to like the medical area and then I have an EpiPen, but I didn't have it on me that time, so my mom had to drive over and get me and then, yeah, everybody stayed and I left. I was a weenie at home, oh dang Fuck zucchini's wrong.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, no, come-up out chicken. Earlier today we had Chinese food and she's like remember nothing with Kalebasa. I can't get a cutting, was it? Come-pout chicken as color was in it?
Speaker 1:Yeah what's the key needs to. I can't have kidneys or apples, but did you look either?
Speaker 3:No, apples do. Surprisingly, there's a lot of products out there and apple to have apple because it's a natural sweetener.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know that. And in this place by my house, a I Pulse place, they have some of the best zucchini's. I used to eat zucchini fry like right fried zucchini, some of the best you know you ever had them from farmer boys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have those, those are yeah they're half of that. Okay, I'm a boy's is too big, mmm Okay.
Speaker 2:They're half of that. I feel a nice crust on them.
Speaker 3:I feel like a lot of Fried zucchini places that serve fries. You can, they're huge.
Speaker 2:No, this place has a perfect size. Yeah, perfect size.
Speaker 1:They probably cut them in half. Yeah, perfect, probably I used to eat all of the apples of kidneys my uncle used to work at.
Speaker 3:No, Chris's burger in.
Speaker 1:Bell and it was kind of famous in that area, like you know, and he used to live with us for a few years and he used to work at the burgers spot. So every time he would come out of work he would come home and he would bring back like whatever they had left, supposedly him I know it wasn't.
Speaker 1:He just always made us fresh batches and then brought him back, brought him home but he used to bring us like a box and it was like full of fries and Full of like zucchini is, and he used to travel on the bus and he's just like hold the box, the whole bus, like bow, all the way to Paramount and it was still get there and they were still like fresh and crunchy and we would eat them at like 11 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1:So I would eat them like all the time and then when I turned 18.
Speaker 3:That's when my allergies hit, hit and I was like To him with the bullet, yeah you probably ate so much that your body was like how can we get this woman not to consume so many zucchinis anymore?
Speaker 2:But isn't it always cool to have that hookup like that. You know saying yeah homey that work like. We had a friend of mine that worked at McDonald's and he would always, when he got off a shift, a bag full of nuggets in the bag, full of fries. Oh dude, here guys. Yeah, it's just when you're like younger.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's cool you don't have that much cash, right, you know?
Speaker 2:and you're like, oh, I could spend this money on something else now, or we can put it together and get a 40, you know I had that a friend of mine in high school.
Speaker 3:We were both seniors. I went to a different school at that time, but we grew up with each other and he was working at Taco Bell and he would hook it up with Taco Bell and more sauce too.
Speaker 2:More sauce.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can't get any better than looking it up with a hot sauce dude.
Speaker 1:My neighbor used to work at frontones right there in Downey and she used to Bring back they used to like with the dough that was left over, like scraps of the dough. They would roll them in sugar and cinnamon and make like little dough puffs. Oh, she would bring that, and then she put me on which I had never had before. Until there they deep fry the pepperonis, oh, yeah so they put them in the deep fryer and then you dip them in ranch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pepperoni chips pepperoni chips. There's a place called out of this part out of the park, Pizza. I think it's in Anaheim and they did you that the deep-fried pepperoni chips.
Speaker 1:They're so good so good so good.
Speaker 3:So what's going on in the world of?
Speaker 2:Just living it right now, bro nothing of Michelada rumble. Michelada rumble.
Speaker 3:We're coming back so right, the beginning of the year. Now what's the, what's the schedule like for Michelada rumble?
Speaker 2:I think we're gonna come back in May. May will be our first one. We're trying to put in one beforehand, but we got a few coming this year. I got a couple other little things I'm trying to work on event-wise. But that's really about it, man. You know, just doing that right now, trying to do more art. You know, I was in a la voya and in the last year and not necessarily just do like Art with them, but like just maybe even do my own shows and stuff. Did you do this?
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm, that's my. This is wonderful, this is Wonderful. Go back to it. Put it on the screen. It is Really good, dude. I like it.
Speaker 2:I always like to Think outside the box when I do art, so, and I don't like to stick just to painting, you know. So I like to do different, like I did one. I mean, it's in there somewhere, maybe super far down, but there's a form of art, japanese art, which is where they do, um, what's it called a Flower arrangement. So I did one for, for an art show of mine.
Speaker 1:I didn't know they call it.
Speaker 3:They call it something, right, yeah look it up to see what they call it. Did everybody else do the casket coffins like?
Speaker 2:that. So he gives you. He gives you that the piece of wood. So he it's all caskets. So I mean, there was some amazing art. Oh man, there was some beautiful stuff.
Speaker 3:I like that one, because it it there's history behind what you did. It's called death of a community right, there's history behind it and then just, it was just an overall Great piece because not just the, the art on top of it, but you're using their letters Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, if you wanna, I did one, I did a piece and it's a, it's a flower, and then it's, it's it. So it shows everything from the birth To the blossoming to dying, and then on the bottom of it it was dead. So I did that at an art show. So I always try to find like different, different, just different. You know styles of art and stuff. So Before I even tried, I watched the documentary on it, mm-hmm, just to really grasp it as much as I could of. We can't grasp it just off of a documentary, but I try to grasp it and really go for it. But do?
Speaker 3:I didn't know you're a yeah, our teased brother.
Speaker 2:I've been doing it for a while. Yeah, yeah, painting. I mean I'll start off painting. Of course we all start painting and then just went from there. But actually photography was my first love. I wanted to become a photographer as a young man. There it is right there. You passed it right there, bam.
Speaker 1:Oh, right here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Whoa.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it shows that the life, it shows life within that arrangement. Yeah, so it says a little the little bud, the bloom, the dying, and then on the bottom, there at there, that little piece is actually the dead Leaves are those coffee beans and? It's a little thing and it's had black rocks in there, just to really emphasize that itself, as opposed to ikiban of the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
Speaker 3:It's more than simply putting Flowers in a container. It is a discipline, art form in which the arrangement is a living thing, where nature and humanity are brought together. That's tied in, damn dude. Do you have any other Art galleries coming up?
Speaker 2:No, that's I'm trying to.
Speaker 3:Do more of that do more of it. You know, get in there and do some more stuff like what capacity we when you, when you say like throwing more art shows, I used to do our shows. I used to do our shows at different locations and look.
Speaker 2:Everything I've ever done like art shows. I used to do comedy shows too. I did a bit your laugh. I did two, three of them. Let's do some dude. Do you know Sherry Kohler? No she's huge no okay she's Korean actress.
Speaker 2:My stage was the first stage she was on. The way it came about. Is that K-Rock? I had this crew of people that I worked with and this guy was like, oh, I want to, I want to do a, want to be a stand-up comedian. Always, always chirping my girl. I got sick of listening to him. So I went to some of my friends Josh and Ramon said, hey, can I do a comedy show here? They're like yeah, bro, I just slide one forward. And this is when they were still existing. They go. Josh was like here's the date, you can do what you want.
Speaker 2:I Went, I created shirts With their names on it. I got a DJ. I had every single one of them Give me a song that they wanted to come out to. I hosted it. I mean, I made this shit like legit Because I always believe if you can, you should, and I had the means, so why not share that with other people? So my boy Ray, at the time I was like I didn't even tell him. I got everything set up and I said here's the date, here's the time, bring it. Damn tired hearing you, my boy, maddie boy.
Speaker 2:I want to hear you on stage a friend of mine named Matt Maddie boy, we call him Artist. Oh, I want to do an art show. I want to do an art show. I went to my boy G. I saidG the major warehouse on the art show. Cool, steve. I said it all up, matt, here's your first art show, bro.
Speaker 2:I Did a piece, you know, I got a bunch of people to come out, we had DJ the whole line and Then we started doing that. We had a collective called art soup and we just started doing a bunch of different shows. Man, it was cool, it was fun. But I always did things because I see people that might not have the means, and not just like financially, but like just knowing people you know, or or being able to have opportunities because, like I said, my boy had a warehouse. So I was. We did our first art show, my friends over here running bar, and we were able to do a couple different, you know, comedy shows. So when you have that at your disposal but you're not using it, you're wasting it, man, you know? Yeah, I agree, why not make someone else's dreams come true?
Speaker 3:I agree, dude, you're my hero, steve, you're my hero.
Speaker 2:No, let me be an example. Let me be an example. You're a great example though. Let me be an example. I'm your own hero, bro, You're okay?
Speaker 3:you know, I'm saying appreciate that yeah you're on here, man.
Speaker 2:You got it. You're living it. Man. You want that contest? Look at you after you win that contest, bro. All I do is see you everywhere I.
Speaker 3:And I'm not saying that contest made, you know, I know.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying like after that, but that that win In fueled. I think that's what it was, maybe but I'm just saying like I see you here, I see you there, and then when I saw you at my friend Stephanie shows, like what you know, I'm saying yeah, like I've just seen you, and that's what it takes, man. Yeah that's what it takes.
Speaker 2:It's a great outside, outside of your comfort zone, outside of your box, outside of your area, and Just go out there and do what you love to do, around the people that love what you do.
Speaker 3:There you go, quoted right there. That's it, man, mike drop, mike, drop super Steve floors. Thanks for coming out and doing the podcast. Man, tell us where we can find you and we have coming up at super see float is on Instagram.
Speaker 2:That's about it. You know what I'm saying, check me out there and that usually you know shows what I'm about to do or what I'm doing. And then I had me chill out. A rumble Um nature, that rumble calm for our shows that are beginning to be coming up and at the West Coast, pop Lock Podcast there we go.
Speaker 3:All the links to super Steve floors Stuff will be down in the show description. If you're listening to it on Spotify, everything is clickable, and if you are watching on YouTube, go down to the show description and click everything. Remember I'm doing a show January 19th. Come out, support North Hollywood. The link is in the show description. Amber, do we have anything else?
Speaker 1:No, not yet.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of cool events coming up for February. I am super excited. We're working very hard to bring some awesome stuff to the community, to this podcast, to to everything. So, uh, watch out for it, keep watching, keep watching, keep listening. We appreciate your support. What was that? Keep your calendars open, keep your calendars open because we are coming for you. Calendar people, I'm your calendar girl 2020 one month are you 20 August 2025? I want to. I want to do a calendar bikini possibly, possibly.
Speaker 3:That's the only way to do one bikini bikini. Yeah, dude, we got. We got to talk about cuz I, we got to do something. I love art shows. I love throwing stuff. We got to work together on, on creating something. Let's do it super awesome dude. I feel that if you don't see a lot of what you want to be, you want to see, do it right. That's it. What else we got, dude, that's fun, appreciate it. Thank you, thanks, man, appreciate it, peace.