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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to the ChewDoo

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Podcast YouTube Live! We are back! And I know

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what you're saying. Who is the beautiful young

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lady sitting next to you? This is my niece, Ella

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Rose. Hi! She came down to visit us. You saw

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the last episode. We had her and her friend in

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here talking about tech to tech. So she's coming

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here. She said, I want to be in the podcast one

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time. But as a co -host for today's episode.

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Yeah, just for today's episode. So don't get

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carried away, guys. Don't get carried away. Maybe

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she'll come back again later on. But we have

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a special guest with us today and I can't wait

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to get to it. Unfortunately, Chu's not here today,

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but he will be here next week on Tuesday when

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we interview Stephanie Madolny, voice actor for

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Kid Goku. She will be video interviewed next

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week on Tuesday at 7 30 p .m. But let's get going.

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Ready? Yes, I'm ready. Let's rock and roll. On

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a special occasion first of all because we're

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going live on youtube and it's been a while now

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that we got Associated as being a actual channel

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now. It's freaking awesome. Uh, but uh today

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in the podcast gentleman He's been on the podcast

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twice. It'll be his third time a good friend

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of the podcast. Mr Abel González del Toro in

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the podcast was what's up people? Hey guys for

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my third time that's right every time I get And

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I mean it's glad to have you back again once

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again our podcast man, yeah, we have Jump from

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podcast studio the studio, but I think we officially

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got our home here and we've got a good equipment

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right now we actually Are running live on what

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we're gonna do for those guys that you guys are

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watching on Facebook Make sure you're tuned into

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the YouTube channel because we won't be going

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Facebook live anymore It's gonna be YouTube live

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now. So we have a home set ready to go, but that's

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real We'll talk more about that later on down

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the line down the podcast, but able it's uh,

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let's rewind back little history of you. I know

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there might be some new people watching right

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now that want to know everything about you. So

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let's start from the top and let's get to know

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you all over again. Introduce yourself from the

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very beginning. Let's go. My name is Abel Gonzales

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de Toro. That's my stage name. I do some acting,

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some writing, some producing. And so I created

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a company called Axiom Films. When you listen

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to these pundits about writing and film and stuff,

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they say, find your voice. So you find your voice,

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and you'll have a message, and then you'll get

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noticed. Well, being a minority, being in a demographic

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that doesn't matter to a lot of people, not only

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do you have to be your voice, you also have to

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be your marketer. Not only do you have to be

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your marketer, you have to be your financier.

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So what I did was I... I took a step back from

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the actual filmmaking to learn how to produce.

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I invested my own money into hiring a manager,

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hiring a line producer, and learning the steps

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that it takes to be a union signatory. That means

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basically I'm a certified employer for any movie

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star out there that I can bring down and get

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into a deal with. So what makes a movie popular?

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Now we're talking about algorithms and thumbnails.

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Because, let's face it, we're not going to get

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a movie into a theater. So our first step as

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independent filmmakers is to get on a streaming

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platform. We can get on 2B, on Amazon, or Hulu.

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But what drives traffic to a title is its thumbnail

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and the algorithm. So first of all, you've got

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to get recognizable names in that thumbnail.

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And the recognizable names are all union actors.

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And so that's where that idea came from. Let

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me learn the business. I went out to LA to meet

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showrunners and producers, like entrance film

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festivals. That's where the idea came to make

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a movie that has at least three known Hollywood

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actors in the valley with a complete cast of

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production team and supporting actors. that are

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in the valley that will get paid my mission is

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to make an industry in the valley where actors

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and production people writers musicians because

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music is so much as much a part of a movie as

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the writing Think that is true. Look up how many

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times Rolling Stones have been used in a movie.

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Led Zeppelin, you know. All those songs, you

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hear them over and over again. And they dictate

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the theme and the pacing of the movie. So I got

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a kid that's willing to score my movie, plays

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several instruments, writes and reads sheet music.

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But he's never done anything professional Okay,

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I got you, you know, there's no outlet for him

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You know, so I said I'm gonna teach you not that

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I know but we'll figure it out together how to

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score my movie with a violin I wanted to have

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this kind of Similar to no country for old men

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I haven't seen it but I have seen it. and they

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give him a scholarship plus a bribe to play.

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He's a five -star recruit. He comes to this fictional

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little town. A blue chipper pretty much, yeah.

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A blue chipper? Yeah. And he comes to this town

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where they've never won anything. And they want

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to win. And they got the money, but it's not

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per se legal money, you know? Is this kind of

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prior to, I mean, I hate to bring old news or

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bad news or anything, but this is prior to back

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when... and this is going way back to Hurricane

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Katrina at one time where a lot of these players

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were from Louisiana transferred to San Antonio

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and there was actual coaches that were trying

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to get some of these players to come to their

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schools as blue like the way you're saying blue

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chip players did you go in that kind of format

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yeah it was way before the NIL deal the NIL basically

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that's college players get paid now They can

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be on a video game, they can get an endorsement

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deal. Some of these players make more money with

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the NIL deals. There's one quarterback in Michigan

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I think he's holding off for $10 million. And

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rookies, Shadour Sanders signed a deal today

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for four years for $4 .6 million. And he probably

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made $20 million in NIL. But it's the next step

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for him, so he has to take it. so in this story

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the guy takes the money to come down here and

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a couple of them and it's got bagman and this

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crooked cartel family that's behind in the woodworks

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in the weeds but we're actually not gonna use

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the word cartel because it turns a lot of people

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off I'm a business man if it comes down to making

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a movie and not I would rather take the word

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out It's basically what some politicians called

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the way they depicted the valley in the news

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or in politics that you know that there's drug

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dealers on every corner and child trafficking

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everywhere. The bad ombres. You know who I'm

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talking about. We're not saying things. But we're

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gonna give them a thing. In this fictional world,

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that stuff happens all the time. And this guy

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gets involved in it. But before he gets his back

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against the wall, He really enjoys that. He's

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from a small farm town in America. And he enjoys,

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you know, the ladies and the parties and all

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that. He runs out of money and he asks for more.

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So he has to do something for that family that

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gets him in trouble. He gets kicked off the team.

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And then flash forward 20 years later, he's a

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washed up personal trainer and... Like I said

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it kind of goes back to the whole thing we were

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talking about the hurricane Katrina thing and

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a lot of families move from Louisiana to the

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Houston area to the Dallas San Antonio Austin

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area Just to get their kids back to school, but

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some of these coaches I mean this is through

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what I've read and that's what I've seen you

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know you know that I read the paper and so like

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that that some coaches were caught blue chipping

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some of these kids into their into their district

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so they can use them as I guess secret weapons

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commonplace to have people you see it in high

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school there's some coaches that they they hint

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to a kid that they could possibly make that team

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and the parents will pick up and move into that

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yes yeah it happens a lot of state you know here

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we don't have that kind of thing because nobody

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wants it no offense in soccer and baseball our

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frame I say ours because baseball teams do really

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well, soccer teams do really well, you know.

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We have an 80 -halves softball team from last

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year. Yeah, state champions. State champions

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ended up on ESPN and sometimes I put on that

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YouTube thing when I'm down and I need to get

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motivated because why not us? I don't know any

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of them personally. Yeah. I was born here in

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Wisconsin. Right. Yeah. But I lived in Cachosa.

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I went to school there. But to see those ladies

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and they didn't get their graduation on the field

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the week before, the day before, and they missed

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out on all of that stuff. Yeah. They were in

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state. That's the thing. Well, two years before.

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And I still remember that game I was watching

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I was watching bits and pieces that game I had

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coach Strowman on the podcast He said he was

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there and he had gotten a phone call from the

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UIL Office you know, this is the last inning,

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you know the score was like nine to three or

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I don't know what the score was something like

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that and they started to go start getting the

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girls ready line them up so we can give them

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their second place trophy blah blah blah it's

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like okay then all of a sudden you saw one run

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come in and then another one and another then

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the bases were loaded I mean what there's got

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to be somebody out there out in the valley right

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now trying to put piece this together because

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to be in the bottom of the line of what he needed

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was Already two outs. I mean one out, two outs.

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The bases are loaded, you're up to bat. The first

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pitch comes in, poof, gone. Grand slam, the game

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is over. A shock. It was cinematic. It was beautiful.

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It was beautiful. People were jumping on fences

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into the yard. It was crazy, man. What we're

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talking about, before we go any further, before

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we're talking about, as far as you being a screenwriter

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and a director itself, as far as study from scratch

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because i like you asked me if i got any schooling

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for this for a podcast i go no basically was

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a musician and just just fell in fell into my

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lap and started doing it for yourself did you

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you did you want to go to school with this or

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you say you know what i'm just going for it i've

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always wanted to be a writer and i have a fascination

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with books but i also have this attention deficit

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disorder okay so if i start reading a book i'll

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start creating the ending instead of reading

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the book. And I'll flip through four or five

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pages, and I'll have to go back and read it again.

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I go, that never happened in the book. My version's

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better. Let me write it down. And I've always

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dreamed big. I've been a daydreamer. I would

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get in trouble at school for not paying attention.

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But dude put a standardized test in front of

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me. I had scored in the 98th percentile. And

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the nerds back in school would say, how did you

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do that? You can't even spell. It's because my

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brain thinks different. I can't sit down and

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learn the way you guys do. I was always fidgeting,

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and they didn't know what it was back then. You

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know what I mean? And so I went to college, and

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I took composition one. I said, this is where

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I was writing my first. screenplay in 1996 and

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going to college and taking comp one and I got

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my my essay back from the teacher and there was

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35 mistakes for basic grammar like commas and

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apostrophes and she wrote in the top she's like

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wait why can't you learn how to use a comma but

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this is very imaginative but you read it right

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you read it She literally said it in front of

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class she came in frustrated one day and she

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said there's a guy Has the potential to be a

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great writer, but it's like he didn't go to school

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and i and i've always said i've always needed

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a scribe to tell hey you know like like how the

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pharaohs just say let it be written let it be

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said i just command you write it down it's your

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job to write it down for me so you need you so

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what you're saying right now is you need somebody

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walking with you at a pretty much 90 90 percent

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of the day write this down i know here's my secretary

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wrote this script right I wrote this script.

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I've been writing it in my head for years. I

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was a personal trainer before I put all this

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weight on. And I had an idea, I would go to Guadalajara

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every year and I'd work out from there. And I'd

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see the ladies and I was like, these ladies are

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beautiful. They won't even look at guys. They

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must have a husband, you know, boyfriends or

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whatever. They're just there to do their workout.

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And I said, imagine if a thug and... or whatever

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got into his head that the trainer was messing

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around with his wife, whether it was true or

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not. What would he do to that guy? And so I've

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been writing this story in my mind for years.

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And she was asking me, what kind of movies are

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those? Oh, they're pretty graphic. They're pretty

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graphic. I've done movies for other people. The

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movies that I've written are crime dogs. My favorite

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movies are... The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz,

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and you know the third one always changes sometimes

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it's pulp fiction and sometimes it's like casino

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you know depending on how I feel but what it

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is that I write about is morality you know the

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of man's moral compass when I say man I don't

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mean man you know you've seen that movie with

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There's something that we will do to get ahead

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and there's things that we won't do but yet People

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will justify breaking the law if it's for their

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family if it's to get ahead if it's to Like maybe

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get grandma that surgery she needs pretty much

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like survival of the fittest So that's my fascination

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like the surprise is one of my favorite all -time

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favorite shows and it's a tale of morality it's

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like this guy would do he tried to kill his own

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mother he tried to do a lot of things family

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members weren't safe because he had to the business

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was first you know the family's second his immediate

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family was second And so that's the kind of stories

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that I write about. Unfortunately, we live in

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a very impoverished area, and you'll see people

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do things that they shouldn't. And you know who

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I'm talking about. Without saying any names.

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you know you see it on the news all the time

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and you see a house in the middle of foreign

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country that's got five foreign cars and stuff

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and nobody wants to die here you know what i

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mean but that's that's my fascination is how

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can a man talk himself into that he could easily

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talk himself into being good but what makes you

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say you know what if i go to prison Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? Have you been stalking

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me now? Have you been stalking me now? Have you

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been stalking me now? What a person or a society

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would do to get over on somebody else. I won't

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lie to you man. I really got into watching my

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wife and I actually sat through the whole actually

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I did because I just kept going without her watching

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it. But I got into land man. And another one

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I just finished was Tulsa King. Tells me I'm

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like damn these are great series He was a sheriff

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on there. He did hell or high water. He did a

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lot of stuff that's morally ambiguous. I hope

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I used that word right. But, you know, it's real

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easy in this political climate to blame people.

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it's human nature right right i'm pretty sure

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you have republican and democratic fans and we

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it's like they divided us by who's just and who's

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not right this party says well these are all

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free -loading criminals and the other party says

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well they're a bunch of rich uh people that are

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just using everybody else so like it's the same

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thing it's a person's Desire to survive Famous

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is not what you think it is. It's like, it made

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me think. I was like, I don't want to be famous.

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I want to tell stories. Right. You know, I want

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to live comfortably doing something that I love.

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And I want to help others do the same. There's

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a lot of talent in this town. In this town alone,

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there's a lot of talent. The Woollen and Westico

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Festival is right down the road. You know, they

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just had their April shows. Man, next year, you

00:22:02.460 --> 00:22:04.519
guys gotta participate. You gotta bring them

00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.859
on. My buddy, Alango Martinez, he runs that.

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He is like a fespion. He's gonna be in my movie.

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He went to school for acting. He knows Shakespeare

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inside and out. I always get this wrong, but

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there's like a degree. Like, it's a doctorate

00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:28.900
in the arts. FMLA, FMA, or FDA, I don't know.

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You're constipated. Wrong field! No, but yeah,

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it's like a doctorate in the arts. And this guy

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has that for acting. Unless I was drinking. This

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guy is wrong. That's what you say, Lake! Yeah,

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and I was like, he's so talented, man. He's my

00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.819
buddy, you know. We just connected. I've only

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known him for two years. I've done a lot of things.

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Like six or seven plays. And the thing with plays...

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that's different than film because i know joshua

00:23:04.259 --> 00:23:06.480
was talking about his first documentary took

00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:08.740
him two years to make that's why people give

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up two years to get the satisfaction and the

00:23:12.819 --> 00:23:15.420
accolades of somebody watching it right let's

00:23:15.420 --> 00:23:17.759
be honest that's why you make a film for somebody

00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:20.779
to watch exactly then for somebody to like it

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then eventually for somebody to It's all good,

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man. I do it too. and say you do eight performances

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that day, and you can make it different every

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time. Every single day? I'm telling you a funny

00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:57.640
story. Well, it's funny to me. And it's funny,

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and it's funny now. All right, all right. But

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it wasn't funny in the past. Funny in the past.

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Yeah, I got you. I love those, Sherry. Well,

00:24:03.660 --> 00:24:06.359
I was the male lead for the Park Community Theater.

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Shout out to Fedor Mafia, my acting coach. There

00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:12.599
you go. He's at the Park Community Theater. And

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so I didn't know anything about acting. I took

00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:21.980
a class about writing and my teacher asked me,

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hey man, I saw you do other classes for like

00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:30.019
nailing a cold read and a rehearsal and all that.

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I go, I'm gonna audition, I think I'm gonna do

00:24:32.420 --> 00:24:34.759
it man. I saw it on Facebook, I wanna audition.

00:24:35.059 --> 00:24:37.700
He goes, come by Thursday, sit in on the audition

00:24:37.700 --> 00:24:41.779
in class and we'll show you how to go into an

00:24:41.779 --> 00:24:44.119
audition. it's cold read that means you don't

00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:46.759
get to rehearse the lines before they tell you

00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:50.759
here's the paper here's your direction this is

00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:52.880
what you're trying to achieve in the scene oh

00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.420
crap okay boom you gotta do it and so my first

00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:59.619
time audition for the far community theater they

00:24:59.619 --> 00:25:02.680
gave me a role in the room and he said not to

00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:13.640
tell anybody I saw my parents come see me and

00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:17.579
my parents had never been like really against

00:25:17.579 --> 00:25:20.859
the theater movie thing but they've always been

00:25:20.859 --> 00:25:25.079
very supportive you know and an article came

00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:27.460
out in the paper and my dad clipped it and put

00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:30.359
it there in a scrapbook and stuff but to watch

00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:36.119
them watch me perform and it was amazing so they

00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:40.160
gave me When your parents watched you oh, you

00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:43.200
know, i'm gonna put the camera on here When your

00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.420
parents watched you on stage and you did your

00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:49.839
performance did they I mean did they like Sit

00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:52.140
up like yeah, that's this is me already like

00:25:52.140 --> 00:25:56.440
that Was that like my mom did my dad's very stern

00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:00.779
and quiet. Okay, like now that we're older, um,

00:26:00.859 --> 00:26:04.579
you know, I we talk and we'll chill out The last

00:26:04.579 --> 00:26:07.319
four days, we've worked on, he had a little shop

00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:09.579
behind his house and I'll go over and have a

00:26:09.579 --> 00:26:11.220
beer with him. He's working on some stuff with

00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:13.920
me. I have a barbecue pit, a smoker. Well, they

00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:16.640
do all kinds of, you know, odds and ends. And

00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:24.200
he's just, he cracked a little smile, but that

00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.099
one was a very family oriented thing. So I got

00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:30.579
Oscar to lead a role in a very dark drama called

00:26:30.579 --> 00:26:34.470
Come Back Little Shiva. okay so it's about a

00:26:34.470 --> 00:26:38.069
doctor an alcoholic doctor in the 50s that loses

00:26:38.069 --> 00:26:42.970
everything and he has to take in a tenant to

00:26:42.970 --> 00:26:45.730
pay the bill he's got an extra room and it's

00:26:45.730 --> 00:26:49.609
a beautiful college co -ed and he just starts

00:26:49.609 --> 00:26:52.930
thinking man my wife's just it's all her fault

00:26:52.930 --> 00:26:55.309
you know she never had a kid for me she never

00:26:55.309 --> 00:26:58.769
supported me okay she's not there for me emotionally

00:26:58.769 --> 00:27:02.539
the dog was shiba The dog ran away. That's how

00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:05.660
bad this woman was. You know? So the name of

00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:08.259
the play is Come Back Little Sheba. She's always

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:11.799
in the road with her curlers in her hair. And

00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:16.660
this guy's trying to stay clean. And he sees

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:19.099
this college boy and he just gets an idea. It's

00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:21.240
like, man, if I could start all over again with

00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:24.319
a beautiful girl like this. You know how old

00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:49.559
men think? They think they put the... Yes, I

00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:55.970
have heard. watching this thing unfold and the

00:27:55.970 --> 00:27:58.390
milkman's hitting on my wife and she gets a kick

00:27:58.390 --> 00:28:00.549
out of it and then the co -ed's bringing these

00:28:00.549 --> 00:28:03.529
guys into the into the house and I'm losing my

00:28:03.529 --> 00:28:06.809
mind it's like why does everybody not like help

00:28:06.809 --> 00:28:10.369
me right like I'm losing my stuff here and so

00:28:10.369 --> 00:28:16.750
one day the college co -ed's fiance comes to

00:28:16.750 --> 00:28:19.970
town or he proposes to her and he's gonna take

00:28:19.970 --> 00:28:22.130
her away and marry her and they're gonna have

00:28:22.130 --> 00:28:26.089
this picturesque life with a white picket face

00:28:26.089 --> 00:28:28.569
because right the guy made it now she doesn't

00:28:28.569 --> 00:28:32.329
gotta go to school and sets me off my character

00:28:32.329 --> 00:28:34.890
on a bender and i don't come back for like two

00:28:34.890 --> 00:28:37.690
days and i don't come back i'm still wearing

00:28:37.690 --> 00:28:40.910
the same clothes from two days ago and my breakfast

00:28:40.910 --> 00:28:44.250
is on the table and i might as well have a wife

00:28:44.250 --> 00:28:46.930
be around because that lady would open her mouth

00:28:46.930 --> 00:28:49.430
and i you know it would just set him off right

00:28:49.430 --> 00:28:51.769
right and so she comes and she gets in the stage

00:28:51.769 --> 00:28:55.730
and she goes why'd you do it And I slammed the

00:28:55.730 --> 00:28:59.089
plates and flipped the table over. And they're

00:28:59.089 --> 00:29:01.869
still mad at me about that. They're like, I just

00:29:01.869 --> 00:29:04.710
really got into character. Yeah, it was our last

00:29:04.710 --> 00:29:07.089
performance. Chicken went flying everywhere and

00:29:07.089 --> 00:29:11.930
stuff. And the crew and the cast would feed off

00:29:11.930 --> 00:29:14.369
that energy. And they're like, next time, do

00:29:14.369 --> 00:29:17.109
this. And I'm like, don't tell me you worry about

00:29:17.109 --> 00:29:19.170
your old cast. Right, let me do it. I got something

00:29:19.170 --> 00:29:20.990
in the back of my mind. What would the table

00:29:20.990 --> 00:29:24.440
flip? Well, I wouldn't like. I wouldn't let them

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.819
in, you know? So they pulled a prank on me. There's

00:29:27.819 --> 00:29:30.160
a scene where I flip over the table, I throw

00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.319
the food and I go to the cabinet and I pull out

00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:36.359
a hatchet and I run around trying to kill her.

00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.960
It's very dark. Right, right, right. And they

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:43.380
hid the hatchet and put a big old 357 Magna plastic

00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:46.900
like that. I'm like, that's why it's not there.

00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:52.549
I look and it's not there. And I had to improvise.

00:29:52.670 --> 00:29:55.490
I'm going to get you. You heifer. Because that

00:29:55.490 --> 00:29:58.250
was part of it. I looked back and I saw it. And

00:29:58.250 --> 00:30:00.109
I had to reach in again. I got a charlie horse

00:30:00.109 --> 00:30:03.390
in my thing. And I was like, oh, man. It was

00:30:03.390 --> 00:30:05.390
real. The pain was real. Because I pulled my

00:30:05.390 --> 00:30:07.529
shoulder trying to get that thing out. I run

00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:10.029
around. And she subdues me because I'm still

00:30:10.029 --> 00:30:12.569
drunk. Right. Because my A &A sponsor had to

00:30:12.569 --> 00:30:15.109
take me away. And then they bring me back. And

00:30:15.109 --> 00:30:17.869
the cycle starts all over again. Right. But I'm

00:30:17.869 --> 00:30:21.180
telling these guys because. Just cuz some of

00:30:21.180 --> 00:30:24.059
you guys need to understand storytelling, you

00:30:24.059 --> 00:30:26.579
know, if I had a gun I wouldn't need to chase

00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:48.970
it exactly Sitting down. Oh, yeah, you know me

00:30:48.970 --> 00:30:53.230
good show. They go take me back to my sixth grade

00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:57.549
year theater arts they were having a talent show

00:30:57.549 --> 00:31:00.369
and the art teacher who said Told me and a buddy

00:31:00.369 --> 00:31:02.789
of mine. I want you guys to host a show. They

00:31:02.789 --> 00:31:05.230
go. Yeah, sure You know, we've got a little bit

00:31:05.230 --> 00:31:07.450
of comedy. Whatever. We're kids. We don't know

00:31:07.450 --> 00:31:10.289
what comedy is man. But anyways In the middle

00:31:10.289 --> 00:31:13.730
of the program the actual uh, the teacher goes

00:31:13.730 --> 00:31:16.559
my dear teacher. I want you to sing you don't

00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:19.880
want you to go up and sing in front of you know

00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:21.880
the people that are going to be there okay well

00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.480
the auditorium big auditorium a lot of people

00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.299
came thinking a lot of people everybody it filled

00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:28.420
up there's people standing in the back they always

00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:30.480
come to the town i know they always go to the

00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:34.319
town show award ceremonies nobody comes the town

00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.700
shows yes so um so i'm i'm standing there And

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:42.559
they announced me, they go, now up, Mr. Mark

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.819
Velasquez is gonna sing Richie Valance, Oh Donna.

00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:48.980
So I'm like up there in front of the mic from

00:31:48.980 --> 00:31:53.019
way to sing. And I see my parents, bro. I see

00:31:53.019 --> 00:31:54.839
my parents in the back row. This is what they

00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:59.299
do. They sink down to the bottom of their seats.

00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:03.200
I'm all like, are you for real? Oh, we're going

00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:06.240
there. So I do my singing performance. I get

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:12.079
a standing O. and then you see them really really

00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:19.099
yeah exactly dude so like you know what never

00:32:19.099 --> 00:32:22.019
again they're about to walk out and then they

00:32:22.019 --> 00:32:25.099
heard you they're remaking a bomba you know that

00:32:25.099 --> 00:32:29.039
i heard about that it's a couple of uh producers

00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.099
from the valley they just did a rosario just

00:32:33.099 --> 00:33:03.470
came on last Okay, okay, yeah Similar to what

00:33:03.470 --> 00:33:05.309
I want to do, you know, but what I want to do

00:33:05.309 --> 00:33:11.150
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a remodel Great guys. They've been doing a lot

00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:23.559
of great stuff. I should not just here in the

00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:28.360
valley, but up north of Texas Last I heard they

00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.380
are working on some subdivisions over in mission

00:34:31.380 --> 00:34:34.179
at the moment if I'm not mistaken and They're

00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:36.679
doing wonders right now. So keep them in mind

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00:35:40.650 --> 00:35:43.949
called like memes or gifts or little icons and

00:35:43.949 --> 00:35:45.570
all that good stuff. You know, you know, this

00:35:45.570 --> 00:35:48.989
is why I have her here. To get the Gen Z audience.

00:35:49.110 --> 00:35:52.250
You see, look at that. I know you're saying bring

00:35:52.250 --> 00:35:55.909
her again, bring her again. But yeah, I'm just

00:35:55.909 --> 00:35:58.170
glad everything's working out right now for the

00:35:58.170 --> 00:36:00.250
pod, man. Everything's going great. And that's

00:36:00.250 --> 00:36:01.750
thanks to everybody who watched the show. Thank

00:36:01.750 --> 00:36:05.369
you so much. But coming back to Mr. Gonzalez

00:36:05.369 --> 00:36:09.250
Del Toro here. We were talking about we said

00:36:09.250 --> 00:36:10.929
we started from scratch enough in the very beginning

00:36:10.929 --> 00:36:13.269
you want to do all that great stuff But you say

00:36:13.269 --> 00:36:15.550
it's harder down here in the valley. There's

00:36:15.550 --> 00:36:17.489
a thing we called you. What was that word to

00:36:17.489 --> 00:37:07.730
use? That's that movie on There's a lot of stories

00:37:07.730 --> 00:37:11.449
that get watched. White watch. Our history isn't

00:37:11.449 --> 00:37:13.730
told. I don't know if you've heard the trend

00:37:13.730 --> 00:37:18.690
on Instagram or what's coming up is that the

00:37:18.690 --> 00:37:24.170
African American community is questioning where

00:37:24.170 --> 00:37:28.630
were the Mexican Americans during the civil rights

00:37:28.630 --> 00:37:32.230
movement. They're saying that we sat it out.

00:37:32.789 --> 00:37:37.920
We didn't sit it out. areas where nobody cared.

00:37:38.139 --> 00:37:41.820
We had civil rights leaders, you know, we had

00:37:41.820 --> 00:37:44.579
walkouts or segregated schools. My mom was in

00:37:44.579 --> 00:37:47.139
New Jersey when they had the segregation. It's

00:37:47.139 --> 00:37:52.119
very small instances where the national spotlight

00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.619
hit down here. You know, you have the unions

00:37:55.619 --> 00:37:58.780
and that goes back to what the stuff that Joshua

00:37:58.780 --> 00:38:01.429
was talking about last week about And he's going

00:38:01.429 --> 00:38:03.469
on and talking about on his Facebook about the

00:38:03.469 --> 00:38:07.050
contamination everywhere. Well, why do you think

00:38:07.050 --> 00:38:10.050
there's so much contamination? It's because we're

00:38:10.050 --> 00:38:12.769
surrounded by agriculture. And my dad tells me

00:38:12.769 --> 00:38:15.150
all the time, it's like, you shouldn't be fishing

00:38:15.150 --> 00:38:17.829
in those ditches because that's a runoff. And

00:38:17.829 --> 00:38:20.469
what goes in that, it's all pesticides and chemicals,

00:38:21.110 --> 00:38:24.809
you know? And I was thinking about what to say

00:38:24.809 --> 00:38:26.889
about that because I was listening to last week's

00:38:26.889 --> 00:38:29.780
episode. and all this stuff that's in the fish

00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:32.619
and all these things in this environment and

00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:36.239
on cue a crop duster you could hear it I live

00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:40.179
in Montana bro keep going yeah go I hear you

00:38:40.179 --> 00:38:44.360
and they fly over the town to circle around and

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.340
if the right and if the wind hits you just right

00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:50.760
you'll get that into your house exactly you know

00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.019
and then people wonder why we get cancer at a

00:38:53.019 --> 00:38:55.320
higher rate yeah you know exactly there should

00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:59.559
be a moratorium or a Certain no -fly zone around

00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.500
community, right? You know, if you can do it

00:39:01.500 --> 00:39:03.179
out there, that's fine You know, there's all

00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:06.400
that space but there's some of these subdivisions

00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.440
that have a Field right next to it and there's

00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:11.579
no rules against spraying that field, right?

00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:14.300
I mean they'll even like duck under the telephone

00:39:14.300 --> 00:39:19.960
poles Yes, I've seen that you know, I've seen

00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.639
that there's a story there was an article yesterday

00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:27.000
a national article about arsenic in our rice

00:39:27.660 --> 00:39:31.139
The really the best thing about this age is information

00:39:31.139 --> 00:39:33.699
and that's also the worst thing because we just

00:39:33.699 --> 00:39:39.320
dismiss it we go right through it where is the

00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:43.639
the disgust and the anger that there's Arsenic

00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:46.320
in our rice on shelves and who do we hold accountable?

00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.059
You know, we would just let that pass right,

00:39:50.059 --> 00:39:57.880
you know our waters bad Our meals are bad, too.

00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:04.659
This country used to plant a lot of vegetables

00:40:04.659 --> 00:40:09.019
and fruit. But unfortunately, you have to pump

00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:12.980
them full of pesticides just to get something

00:40:12.980 --> 00:40:17.380
out of it. I did a lot of agriculture when I

00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:23.579
was a kid. My uncle, when he passed away, he

00:40:23.579 --> 00:40:26.559
had... cancer in his back and all that stuff.

00:40:27.179 --> 00:40:29.239
And we did a lot. We worked out a lot of pesticides.

00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:32.619
You know, so it's in the back of my mind. I had

00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:35.840
a colonoscopy last two weeks ago. They found

00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.800
pre -cancerous polyps in my intestines. Wow.

00:40:39.019 --> 00:40:41.880
You know, if nobody's looking, you're not going

00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:45.079
to find anything. I went through that because

00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:48.940
I had a lot of gastric problems. And so they

00:40:48.940 --> 00:40:52.010
also found some stuff in my throat. and i'm like

00:40:52.010 --> 00:40:54.469
man i would be looking at my bag or maybe looking

00:40:54.469 --> 00:40:57.070
at my cells there's other stuff we're gonna find

00:40:57.070 --> 00:40:59.929
out right right right right what's out there

00:40:59.929 --> 00:41:02.949
right what was your last meal what did you have

00:41:02.949 --> 00:41:06.489
what was the last thing that you had a corn dog

00:41:06.489 --> 00:41:09.829
bro that's what i had it's so convenient yeah

00:41:09.829 --> 00:41:14.030
it's so convenient before i became a filmmaker

00:41:14.030 --> 00:41:18.070
i was in the night field and i was I was constantly

00:41:18.070 --> 00:41:20.769
on the road from one clinic to the other. And

00:41:20.769 --> 00:41:25.710
I got to 335 pounds. I was eating corn dogs and

00:41:25.710 --> 00:41:30.590
burritos, whatever I could get. Pop in two burritos

00:41:30.590 --> 00:41:35.289
and corn dogs. And then when I started bodybuilding

00:41:35.289 --> 00:41:36.750
and training, I would go to the store and look

00:41:36.750 --> 00:41:39.389
around for something that was healthy. It would

00:41:39.389 --> 00:41:42.690
be a bag of almonds or whatever and a bottle

00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:47.019
of water. You go to buy a salad. You're paying

00:41:47.019 --> 00:41:49.559
three times more than a burger. This is what

00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:51.880
I understand. It's true what you're saying about

00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.119
all these fast food restaurants. You start with

00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:56.420
a fast food restaurant, you go out there, all

00:41:56.420 --> 00:41:58.960
right, you get a whole meal combo for under 10

00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.260
bucks, nine bucks maybe, whatever. If you're

00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:03.679
getting a whole combo meal with something, it's

00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:04.719
a greasy food. They brought back all you can

00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:09.219
eat apple juice for $15 .99 with chilies or whatever

00:42:09.219 --> 00:42:12.420
it is. We're going after the podcast. Look it

00:42:12.420 --> 00:42:16.170
up, look it up. It's like... Two or three items,

00:42:16.170 --> 00:42:19.210
but it's all you can eat for $15 .99. Really?

00:42:19.489 --> 00:42:21.110
But you're trying to tell me they can't serve

00:42:21.110 --> 00:42:24.489
you a salad? One salad to make it, you know?

00:42:24.750 --> 00:42:28.309
So I went from 330 pounds to a bodybuilder, and

00:42:28.309 --> 00:42:31.449
I went down to 4 % body fat. Wow. I had a car

00:42:31.449 --> 00:42:33.750
accident, I was hit by a drum driver, and then

00:42:33.750 --> 00:42:37.369
I gained all the weight back. And then that's

00:42:37.369 --> 00:42:40.610
when the problems started. Seven herniated discs,

00:42:40.789 --> 00:42:44.760
high blood pressure, you know, even, even. anxiety

00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:48.139
and depression. We don't talk about that in our

00:42:48.139 --> 00:42:50.340
community. I think in the Hispanic community,

00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.039
I think we should be talking about top therapy.

00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:57.400
My daughter went to school for psychology and

00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:04.599
I reach that and I talk to somebody. Talk to

00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:08.940
a counselor. Don't just mask it, don't play with

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:11.679
your health. Right. It's something that we could

00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:14.460
all do. Yeah, and like I was saying, like you

00:43:14.460 --> 00:43:16.219
go to these restaurants, fast food restaurants,

00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:18.059
you get these combos, whatever, like we just

00:43:18.059 --> 00:43:20.820
said, you know what? I'm done with this. I'm

00:43:20.820 --> 00:43:22.059
going to go, I'm going to try to eat healthy.

00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:24.139
I'm going to go out and get myself all the healthy

00:43:24.139 --> 00:43:27.139
food that I need to get at home. You end up wasting

00:43:27.139 --> 00:43:29.739
close to one hundred and something dollars just

00:43:29.739 --> 00:43:32.559
to get something healthy. You get alone. You

00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:35.840
go to a restaurant. You try to eat healthier

00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:38.300
there too. It's like the healthy food is more

00:43:38.300 --> 00:43:41.719
expensive than the damn junk food. You'll be

00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:44.599
at the grocery store three times a week because

00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:46.699
you'll run out of something if you're trying

00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:51.219
to cook at home. I did four bodybuilding shows.

00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:58.739
One in one. But I had to do six meals a day for

00:43:58.739 --> 00:44:02.260
16 weeks straight. I had to cook them myself.

00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:05.360
I had to eat it, prepare it. and I would run

00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.360
out of chicken or fish or whatever and it would

00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.059
go back to the, you know, to the grocery store.

00:44:10.539 --> 00:44:14.380
And it was so expensive. I could have spent a

00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:17.139
fraction of that on burritos and whatever and

00:44:17.139 --> 00:44:21.340
I had a, I was 4 % body fat with abs and everything

00:44:21.340 --> 00:44:24.460
else ripped. Yeah, I've seen, I've seen the pictures.

00:44:24.619 --> 00:44:26.480
You go to his Facebook page, you see the fat.

00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:29.159
They're like, they're like, they're like the,

00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:31.079
that is probably Super Bowl. They're only on

00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:35.789
VHS. I'm a huge Cowboys fan, and that's the joke

00:44:35.789 --> 00:44:39.230
that everybody tells me. Uh -oh. Uh -oh. No!

00:44:40.510 --> 00:44:45.110
49ers. You're cooked. When was the last time

00:44:45.110 --> 00:44:48.170
you all made it? Let's just drop the subject

00:44:48.170 --> 00:44:52.289
right here. Hold on. Hold on. You guys won the

00:44:52.289 --> 00:44:55.309
Super Bowl the year before we did, so you're

00:44:55.309 --> 00:44:57.710
a Super Bowl older than us. There you go. But

00:44:57.710 --> 00:44:59.889
the thing is, you're going to find out what salary

00:44:59.889 --> 00:45:10.760
cap hell is. You just paid... You're gonna feel

00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:12.619
what the cowboys are feeling right now with that

00:45:12.619 --> 00:46:03.090
first Right Okay tell my story or something.

00:46:03.110 --> 00:46:05.769
It was put on by a theater group and every week

00:46:05.769 --> 00:46:11.289
we'd meet and we'd write our own short film.

00:46:12.150 --> 00:46:13.949
You could do whatever you wanted. You could do

00:46:13.949 --> 00:46:16.550
a claymation, stop motion animation, you could

00:46:16.550 --> 00:46:18.329
do drawing, whatever, but you had to tell a story

00:46:18.329 --> 00:46:21.949
with words and another medium. And so I said,

00:46:22.030 --> 00:46:24.349
I wanna make a film. So I went in there, there

00:46:24.349 --> 00:46:25.909
was a mixer, and I was telling everybody about

00:46:25.909 --> 00:46:28.409
a crime drama, The Next Godfather, and all that.

00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:33.039
But then I told him a real story, a true story.

00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:36.719
I have a collection of odd jobs that will curl

00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:42.519
your skin. I was a grave digger. A grave digger

00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:50.519
for a funeral home. We dug a grave in Blue Town

00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:54.179
one night on Halloween Eve. And we started finding

00:46:54.179 --> 00:46:59.590
bones in the dirt. So obviously... The cemetery

00:46:59.590 --> 00:47:03.449
got overrun with weeds, and so the farmer just

00:47:03.449 --> 00:47:06.510
plowed it. And all those old graves from the

00:47:06.510 --> 00:47:09.190
olden times, they just resold them. But they

00:47:09.190 --> 00:47:13.030
didn't know. Because it's a small town. The paperwork

00:47:13.030 --> 00:47:16.010
wasn't as thorough. They didn't have computers.

00:47:17.409 --> 00:47:20.650
So some of my buddies said, this is a hand bone,

00:47:20.809 --> 00:47:25.670
man. This is a carpal. Here's a medical. And

00:47:25.670 --> 00:47:27.949
let's go back. Let's come back tomorrow morning.

00:47:28.190 --> 00:47:29.869
And so we have to come back in the morning. The

00:47:29.869 --> 00:47:32.170
funeral is almost on its way. And we finished

00:47:32.170 --> 00:47:36.550
the grave right before that. And so one day,

00:47:36.550 --> 00:47:40.190
one day we get a call and they used to live with

00:47:40.190 --> 00:47:43.570
my neighbors and work for them. When I had my

00:47:43.570 --> 00:47:47.829
bad boy, uh, um, era. I got kicked out of the

00:47:47.829 --> 00:47:52.469
house and I went out on my own. I ended up two.

00:47:52.510 --> 00:48:53.159
House is down Funeral Oh that you could possibly

00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:56.800
imagine. He had a reputation for being a caring

00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:03.579
individual. So, anybody ends up in the river

00:49:03.579 --> 00:49:06.179
or somewhere they find a body they can't identify,

00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:09.579
it's called the jungle. You all know that. But

00:49:09.579 --> 00:49:12.099
the county only pays a certain amount of money

00:49:12.099 --> 00:49:16.420
to process that money or to put it in the grave

00:49:16.420 --> 00:49:19.619
and mark that grave. So any funeral owner will

00:49:19.619 --> 00:49:24.360
lose money on the jungle. because there's paperwork

00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:27.360
and there's you have to get a plot and all this

00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.500
stuff and so they knew that Mr. Calasos would

00:49:30.500 --> 00:49:34.380
take it because he couldn't just couldn't bear

00:49:34.380 --> 00:49:37.579
the thought of somebody not knowing where the

00:49:37.579 --> 00:49:40.699
family member was he would always help so this

00:49:40.699 --> 00:49:44.619
funeral home asked Mr. Calasos if we would take

00:49:44.619 --> 00:49:50.699
care of this process and we went to pick up Me

00:49:50.699 --> 00:49:53.800
and my friend, Willie, and Hyman, we were in

00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:56.179
my house and we picked up his body. It was a

00:49:56.179 --> 00:49:59.699
floater from the room, Randy. No documentation.

00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.579
He was, like, banging in the curtain. He had,

00:50:04.579 --> 00:50:09.079
like, scars all over and stuff. And he had this

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:13.239
body, like, really bad, inhumane. And my buddy,

00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.719
Willie, he was, you know, oh, this is not how

00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:19.219
you work. You know, you're thinking of this person.

00:50:20.650 --> 00:50:25.110
as uh line item on your budget right do the work

00:50:25.110 --> 00:50:28.449
do it the right way and the benefits will come

00:50:28.449 --> 00:50:33.710
so we go and and he makes them give us a casket

00:50:33.710 --> 00:50:44.010
for you yeah they give us a casket like a traveling

00:50:44.010 --> 00:50:45.949
casket you're the ones that we put on the plane

00:50:45.949 --> 00:51:16.269
and we bring them home and So I wrote a narrative

00:51:16.269 --> 00:51:19.489
of what would compel a human to risk his life

00:51:19.489 --> 00:51:23.679
for a better life. Nobody will ever know what

00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:26.599
happened. Exactly. They're doing research. It's

00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:29.619
not just here. It's every border town. Right.

00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.860
From Pijuana to Monterey. You know, there's instances.

00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.519
There's some instances like in Arizona where

00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:42.159
they have hundreds of graves that nobody knows

00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.000
who they are. Yeah. And they have like lockers

00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.719
with their belongings and people will go there

00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:49.840
and look through the stuff to see if they can

00:51:49.840 --> 00:52:12.019
identify this person. There's always something

00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:21.480
it was no closure at the beginning was called

00:52:21.480 --> 00:52:24.840
closure because i needed closure at the end of

00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:28.079
the character and so in the story there's a girl

00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.159
she's also looking for a boyfriend and he has

00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:38.300
one little uh bracelet that he never took off

00:52:38.300 --> 00:52:46.380
and so this my character calls the the diplomat

00:52:48.469 --> 00:52:50.969
Mexican consulate. Right. Right. Tells them,

00:52:50.969 --> 00:52:52.809
you know, goes out of the port and found the

00:52:52.809 --> 00:52:55.610
jungle is where you wait in, you know, ballpark

00:52:55.610 --> 00:52:58.730
and you have this red, red, red bracelet. And

00:52:58.730 --> 00:53:02.389
so she's looking for that. And some worker at

00:53:02.389 --> 00:53:04.610
the consulate puts two and two together and puts

00:53:04.610 --> 00:53:07.730
my character and the wife together. And I show

00:53:07.730 --> 00:53:10.429
her where he's buried so that she can know where

00:53:10.429 --> 00:53:14.929
he was. Closer. And so I told that story at that

00:53:14.929 --> 00:53:19.289
mixer at the school. and i had 30 people listening

00:53:19.289 --> 00:53:21.190
to that because it was well right now you got

00:53:21.190 --> 00:53:27.030
me intrigued i really want to see the story and

00:53:27.030 --> 00:53:30.690
so and so like i was like man i want to make

00:53:30.690 --> 00:53:33.429
my crime drama it's so bad and nobody wants to

00:53:33.429 --> 00:53:37.769
hear it but like the story is great and that's

00:53:37.769 --> 00:53:41.670
what acting is when it looks real that's when

00:53:41.670 --> 00:53:45.130
it's like legit right you know it's believable

00:53:45.309 --> 00:53:49.909
you know and so i want to have a mix of truth

00:53:49.909 --> 00:53:54.929
and fiction the bad guys in this movie the strong

00:53:54.929 --> 00:53:59.969
side that is dark past yeah they they they were

00:53:59.969 --> 00:54:03.750
bootleggers back in the day there's an era in

00:54:03.750 --> 00:54:06.150
the valley called the hour of blood i don't know

00:54:06.150 --> 00:54:07.849
if you've heard it no it's the first time from

00:54:07.849 --> 00:54:13.280
1910 to 1920 the texas rangers mandate and this

00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:19.719
is not me making it up in austin at the museum

00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:21.860
there's articles about it there's all this stuff

00:54:21.860 --> 00:54:27.900
about it they were sent down here to to take

00:54:27.900 --> 00:54:31.260
land from from mexican farmers yeah yeah you

00:54:31.260 --> 00:54:34.420
know uh they violated the treaty that they signed

00:54:34.420 --> 00:54:38.989
when They gave up the Alamo, the San Antonio,

00:54:38.989 --> 00:54:42.070
the Mexican Revolution on us. They signed the

00:54:42.070 --> 00:54:45.070
treaty saying, we give up, we're going back to

00:54:45.070 --> 00:54:48.269
Mexico, you won Texas, but what we want, Mexico

00:54:48.269 --> 00:54:51.269
said this in the treaty, we don't want anybody

00:54:51.269 --> 00:54:55.489
who stays in Texas to be treated badly because

00:54:55.489 --> 00:54:59.920
of their Mexican disdain. the san juan hotel

00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:03.039
house plexus rangers yes there's a big controversy

00:55:03.039 --> 00:55:04.559
about it because they want to preserve it they

00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:07.000
want to put some money into it but that's where

00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.400
the head of the plexus rangers live yeah and

00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:12.059
they hung people in the corner yes they did yes

00:55:12.059 --> 00:55:16.159
there's a book uh mr howell from mercedes i don't

00:55:16.159 --> 00:55:18.639
remember his first name you wrote a book called

00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.199
your land of your life and on the cover there's

00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:25.880
three cabecinos farmers in that couch getting

00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:31.449
hung by the plexus rangers In my movie, this

00:55:31.449 --> 00:55:33.969
family, they betray all of their community, all

00:55:33.969 --> 00:55:36.869
their neighbors, basically help these people

00:55:36.869 --> 00:55:40.650
take lands from them. And in the story, that's

00:55:40.650 --> 00:55:42.829
why they're cursed. That's why they'll never

00:55:42.829 --> 00:55:45.590
succeed. They're tainted. It's like stepping

00:55:45.590 --> 00:55:49.530
on an Indian burial ground. You're never gonna,

00:55:49.630 --> 00:55:53.369
it's gonna stay with you. And so that's what

00:55:53.369 --> 00:55:56.650
I wanted to do. Put a little truth into my movies.

00:55:56.909 --> 00:56:00.849
but still be an escape you know this is a story

00:56:00.849 --> 00:56:04.429
about a hero all that stuff is all his trials

00:56:04.429 --> 00:56:06.909
and tribulations that he's got to get through

00:56:06.909 --> 00:56:10.510
to get to the other side to win you know the

00:56:10.510 --> 00:56:13.530
story's snake but some of the you know some of

00:56:13.530 --> 00:56:19.329
the circumstances are real um that's crazy man

00:56:19.329 --> 00:56:22.349
i mean i i i do know what you're talking about

00:56:22.349 --> 00:56:25.110
as far as that itself about the whole ranger

00:56:25.110 --> 00:56:27.880
thing Coming to a special... Is that the first

00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:30.820
time I talk about this on the air? Or in public?

00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:38.239
I wrote a feature film called Los Tequileros.

00:56:39.380 --> 00:56:43.380
You're a value prohibition story. And it won

00:56:43.380 --> 00:56:46.119
a picture festival. A competition, a script competition.

00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:50.199
And it's just a period piece. It's gonna be high

00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:54.980
budget. Just to have... the wardrobe the cars

00:56:54.980 --> 00:57:04.380
it's like um the intouchables meets um right

00:57:04.380 --> 00:57:07.539
right right right right but this hit this city

00:57:07.539 --> 00:57:18.639
has a history uh i was on a roll and i forgot

00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:50.469
the name of the town I would have there would

00:57:50.469 --> 00:57:52.280
have been a mic drop moment and they say that

00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:55.539
that's where Al Capone's people would go across

00:57:55.539 --> 00:57:59.340
and make their deals for group legs and my great

00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:02.500
-grandmother she said that my great -grandfather

00:58:02.500 --> 00:58:04.719
my grandma said my great -grandfather used to

00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:06.940
ride with my children and that they would group

00:58:06.940 --> 00:58:09.699
leg back in the day here in Westico before Westico

00:58:09.699 --> 00:58:12.280
was incorporated she would walk from farm to

00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:24.280
farm with buckets Got the FBI watching now, buddy

00:58:44.590 --> 00:58:49.590
Pancho Villa, Al Capone, the Texas Rangers. In

00:58:49.590 --> 00:58:53.909
a story that could be compelling, to tell a different

00:58:53.909 --> 00:58:58.610
version of what you've heard. Art history books

00:58:58.610 --> 00:59:02.309
don't talk about a lot of that. They tell us

00:59:02.309 --> 00:59:06.429
what they want to tell us. And now with the death

00:59:06.429 --> 00:59:10.289
of DPI, we might not tell it. Yeah, I hear you

00:59:10.289 --> 00:59:14.500
man. There's so much stuff going on. in the world

00:59:14.500 --> 00:59:17.860
bro and especially in our own backyard it's it's

00:59:17.860 --> 00:59:22.739
it's hard to even uh not live with the fact that

00:59:22.739 --> 00:59:24.760
it's happening itself you know what i mean if

00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:27.420
that makes any sense yeah and the thing is that

00:59:27.420 --> 00:59:30.119
in the school system growing up you don't know

00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:35.360
they used to tell us not to speak Spanish because

00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:38.840
and our parents would not be involved in our

00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:40.940
schools because they were out there working my

00:59:40.940 --> 00:59:44.130
mom worked full time and went to night school.

00:59:44.769 --> 00:59:47.010
My dad worked in the field, he was field mechanic

00:59:47.010 --> 00:59:50.630
for agriculture, and he worked 50 hours a week.

00:59:51.250 --> 00:59:55.690
We were all four boys living at home. We saw

00:59:55.690 --> 00:59:57.989
our parents for an hour right before we went

00:59:57.989 --> 01:00:00.889
to bed. So the TV and the school system raised

01:00:00.889 --> 01:00:03.440
us. And the school system will tell us not to

01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:05.860
speak Spanish if we didn't have to, because they

01:00:05.860 --> 01:00:09.659
could put you in a different class called ESL.

01:00:10.260 --> 01:00:12.599
English as your second language, and you would

01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:16.840
be left behind. Your curriculum was just English

01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:19.679
stuff, and you would get left behind. So the

01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:23.219
teachers encourage us not to talk Spanish. Don't

01:00:23.219 --> 01:00:26.820
use slang, because you're gonna stick with now,

01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:31.590
it's like we're no sound kids. And I don't know

01:00:31.590 --> 01:00:36.449
if you know who Maritza and La Cencia is. They

01:00:36.449 --> 01:00:41.309
were here about a year ago. They got, what's

01:00:41.309 --> 01:00:45.750
that word you guys use, shut down, not shut down,

01:00:45.989 --> 01:00:47.789
but they boycotted, what's that popular word?

01:00:47.949 --> 01:00:53.170
I don't know. Ella? It's a word that means cancel.

01:01:11.599 --> 01:01:49.230
Yeah, yeah But it's a system that tells us and

01:01:49.230 --> 01:01:52.750
she was funky but these kids were left out there

01:01:52.750 --> 01:01:55.550
with no manager no parent at all they're all

01:01:55.550 --> 01:01:59.969
minors and they just ate them up yeah i think

01:01:59.969 --> 01:02:01.989
it's harder even like not social media such a

01:02:01.989 --> 01:02:11.849
big thing they tried to cancel uh because one

01:02:11.849 --> 01:02:14.929
of the grandparents was you know posting election

01:02:14.929 --> 01:02:20.760
results and i don't I think everybody has their

01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:23.679
opinion. Why are you trying to cancel a group

01:02:23.679 --> 01:02:27.659
or a person, an artist, but you have family members

01:02:27.659 --> 01:02:29.940
that are on both sides of the political spectrum.

01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:33.420
You can cancel your cousin. I'm on a group chat

01:02:33.420 --> 01:02:37.659
with a 30 year old. It's a group chat, a high

01:02:37.659 --> 01:02:40.329
school reunion, a 30 year group. Okay, we met

01:02:40.329 --> 01:02:43.949
for the 30th and we created this group half for

01:02:43.949 --> 01:02:46.110
Republicans and half for Democrats. Right. I

01:02:46.110 --> 01:02:48.769
don't shut them out. I try to educate and try

01:02:48.769 --> 01:02:50.989
to communicate. Right. But that's what we don't

01:02:50.989 --> 01:02:53.369
do anymore. No. It's like this side versus that

01:02:53.369 --> 01:02:56.670
side. It's like you're 49 and I'm a cowboy and

01:02:56.670 --> 01:02:58.230
you don't want to hear my side. I don't want

01:02:58.230 --> 01:03:00.309
to hear your side. Yeah. But that's dangerous

01:03:00.309 --> 01:03:02.849
because this is politics. Yeah. This is our livelihood.

01:03:02.909 --> 01:03:05.750
This is our future. This is everything that we

01:03:05.750 --> 01:03:19.059
as American citizens came to. And that's the

01:03:19.059 --> 01:03:20.800
same thing I was telling Josh in the last episode

01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:22.880
it's weird man because through the years growing

01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.619
up when I never saw the news I never was into

01:03:25.619 --> 01:03:27.639
the political thing and and then when you get

01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:32.860
into your mid 40s early 40s you're like What's

01:03:32.860 --> 01:03:36.360
going on? What's going on? You know, I never

01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:38.880
used to watch this stuff And now I'm like knee

01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:44.460
deep in it. I'm like why? I was always fascinated

01:03:44.460 --> 01:03:46.920
with that. Do you remember Oliver North? Yeah.

01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:49.599
Do you remember what that was about? The whole

01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:53.059
thing though. It was about gold and guns. Okay.

01:03:53.500 --> 01:03:56.480
They got caught. The American government, the

01:03:56.480 --> 01:04:00.559
army branch, and the CIA got caught bringing

01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:04.909
guns. setting guns for drugs in the Iran -Contra

01:04:04.909 --> 01:04:07.309
affair. Iran and the Contras have nothing to

01:04:07.309 --> 01:04:09.670
do with themselves. Iran's in the Middle East,

01:04:09.989 --> 01:04:12.909
the Contras in South America. But this is an

01:04:12.909 --> 01:04:17.369
initiative, and that's why a lot of popular urban

01:04:17.369 --> 01:04:22.389
artists call them that. They say that the streets

01:04:22.389 --> 01:04:25.630
are flooded with cocaine in the Middle East because

01:04:25.630 --> 01:04:27.989
they needed to get rid of it. Right. You know?

01:04:28.329 --> 01:04:30.889
Oliver North took the stand and he said he didn't

01:04:30.889 --> 01:04:34.510
know anything, but Pablo Escobar was involved.

01:04:34.530 --> 01:04:38.130
If you watch the shows now, even the cartoon

01:04:38.130 --> 01:04:42.309
Archer, you have episodes, entire episodes of

01:04:42.309 --> 01:04:47.090
how the government got caught with guns and drugs.

01:04:47.949 --> 01:04:51.449
So how are you going to tell me not to do, you

01:04:51.449 --> 01:04:54.809
asked me to ask for what's the pledge of allegiance

01:04:54.809 --> 01:04:57.869
say? Freedom and liberty? But then when I want

01:04:57.869 --> 01:05:00.889
it, As an adult, you say I can't have it, you

01:05:00.889 --> 01:05:04.170
like lie to me. Right, yeah, I hear you. You

01:05:04.170 --> 01:05:09.250
can't ask for free healthcare to get, you know,

01:05:09.289 --> 01:05:13.750
a president can accept private money. You know,

01:05:14.269 --> 01:05:16.030
if you're gonna cut, you have to give it up.

01:05:17.389 --> 01:05:20.329
Well, we're an hour and five minutes in. We're

01:05:20.329 --> 01:05:21.849
already towards the end of the podcast. Let's

01:05:21.849 --> 01:05:23.269
talk politics, but let's talk something that's

01:05:23.269 --> 01:05:26.929
in our wheelhouse. There's a legislation, it

01:05:26.929 --> 01:05:30.809
passed the House, 22 that brings incentives to

01:05:30.809 --> 01:05:38.070
film. So every Bosnian film community that has

01:05:38.070 --> 01:05:43.510
this incentive is ruling. Louisiana, Georgia,

01:05:44.010 --> 01:05:48.369
all these states that give filmmakers back a

01:05:48.369 --> 01:05:52.170
piece of what they spent and they're actually

01:05:52.170 --> 01:05:56.269
halfway there to passing into Texas. So if we

01:05:56.269 --> 01:06:26.929
were to do that, Okay, I think so, yeah and they

01:06:26.929 --> 01:06:29.730
repaid it and they're talking about how texas

01:06:29.730 --> 01:06:32.110
gonna be the next holiday yeah they mentioned

01:06:32.110 --> 01:06:36.409
mccallan in the video you know you watch a movie

01:06:36.409 --> 01:06:40.110
and they talk about mccallan and some line producer

01:06:40.110 --> 01:06:42.449
and they say why are we gonna fly 30 people to

01:06:42.449 --> 01:06:44.889
mccallan if all we can do all we gotta do is

01:06:44.889 --> 01:06:47.789
slap a name on the bus you know you did that

01:06:47.789 --> 01:06:51.010
in sicario yeah totally there in mccallan right

01:06:51.010 --> 01:06:54.489
but you can see the border wall yeah that's like

01:06:54.489 --> 01:06:57.349
wait a minute There was a movie for Brownsville

01:06:57.349 --> 01:06:59.849
or somewhere else and there's mountains in the

01:06:59.849 --> 01:07:04.889
golf course. That's a line item and a decision

01:07:04.889 --> 01:07:06.989
like that can save you tens of thousands of dollars.

01:07:08.130 --> 01:07:11.889
Every day that you hire an actor with XYZ amount

01:07:11.889 --> 01:07:15.489
of money and every day he has to spend to get

01:07:15.489 --> 01:07:18.349
there is one day and every day he has to spend

01:07:18.349 --> 01:07:21.469
to get back is one day. So you hire a guy at

01:07:21.469 --> 01:07:24.829
$5 ,000 a day and he's working two days. That's

01:07:24.829 --> 01:07:29.139
20 grand. Because he's got to fly here, and that's

01:07:29.139 --> 01:07:32.460
one day. And if you don't pay him, you can tell

01:07:32.460 --> 01:07:36.300
the union. And the union issues. So we have to

01:07:36.300 --> 01:07:38.800
make it more effective to make film in the United

01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:43.559
States than about Texas. So that line to me is

01:07:43.559 --> 01:07:47.320
to say, well, we can really tell an awesome story.

01:07:48.380 --> 01:07:51.340
And it's cost effective to bring a crew of 20

01:07:51.340 --> 01:07:54.659
to Hive. And we can outsource to regular people

01:07:54.659 --> 01:07:58.099
down there like Citrus Vigil. Shout out to Stitches

01:07:58.099 --> 01:08:02.500
Digital and Isaac. We're creating a motion picture

01:08:02.500 --> 01:08:10.199
subcommittee. We're trying to look for a group

01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:13.139
who's developing this group to lure investors,

01:08:13.460 --> 01:08:16.380
to get people more involved in filmmaking, to

01:08:16.380 --> 01:08:18.659
scale up business. There's a lot of investors

01:08:18.659 --> 01:08:25.579
here. New car washes pop up every day. There's

01:08:25.579 --> 01:08:28.100
restaurants. Restaurants have some of the worst

01:08:28.100 --> 01:08:30.640
profitability margins out there that these particular

01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:33.399
restaurants have. And in three months, four months,

01:08:33.939 --> 01:08:36.760
you see that restaurant, you know it's gone.

01:08:37.739 --> 01:08:40.800
They could invest in a movie. That's true. And

01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:44.119
invest in that movie, invest in your community,

01:08:44.659 --> 01:08:47.100
and then see residuals for the life of that movie

01:08:47.100 --> 01:08:49.520
and put it to work. We're not here to make a

01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:52.300
movie to sell it to somebody. We're here to make

01:08:52.300 --> 01:08:58.000
a movie to own the rights to it. I got you. I

01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:26.689
got you. Not so much. I can see that. Cause like

01:09:26.689 --> 01:09:29.250
you're fake and blah blah. So Rick Ross came

01:09:29.250 --> 01:09:32.630
back and said, who wants your masters? I'll buy

01:09:32.630 --> 01:09:37.649
your masters. You know? That's how you become

01:09:37.649 --> 01:09:43.270
awesome. By owning it. Imagine if your YouTube,

01:09:43.430 --> 01:09:47.449
when your YouTube show gets really popular, and

01:09:47.449 --> 01:09:53.149
somebody owned 90 % of it. So we're trying to

01:09:53.149 --> 01:09:56.020
put ourselves in the first. I'm gonna own. I

01:09:56.020 --> 01:09:58.699
wrote contracts. I have two movies that are already

01:09:58.699 --> 01:10:01.479
in production. I wrote contracts and I hired

01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:06.260
these people and they signed that 80 % of the

01:10:06.260 --> 01:10:10.119
merchandising for the horror movie is mine. Before

01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:13.000
we even shoot it, you know, any investor knows

01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:17.659
if there's a dog, a toy, whatever. Because the

01:10:17.659 --> 01:10:20.500
horror movie, the one that's after this movie,

01:10:21.159 --> 01:10:24.920
is huge. It's got 20 Hollywood actors in it.

01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.119
I can say this because I have a letter of intent.

01:10:29.739 --> 01:10:32.939
A letter of intent is basically a marketing tool.

01:10:33.100 --> 01:10:36.420
I can go out and try to find money and say who

01:10:36.420 --> 01:10:39.479
is in the show, right? And who's gonna be in

01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:42.439
the movie. So my monster for the horror movie

01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:45.579
has been in Smile. He's been in Guillermo Del

01:10:45.579 --> 01:10:49.100
Toro's Cabinet of Mysteries or Curiosities. I

01:10:49.100 --> 01:10:53.140
always get that one. He signed to a huge movie.

01:10:53.260 --> 01:10:54.840
I can't say the name of the movie because it's

01:10:54.840 --> 01:10:57.979
not happening. Okay, but I can basically show

01:10:57.979 --> 01:11:01.460
an investor that letter have 20 letters like

01:11:01.460 --> 01:11:13.579
that I'll pay myself a little bit to make I'm

01:11:13.579 --> 01:11:19.500
after the horror niche the horror genre. I mean

01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:28.140
the writer Orlando he had the idea to put the

01:11:28.140 --> 01:11:33.000
movie inside a lunchbox for all the 80s geeks

01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:37.420
you know a lunchbox you sold me you freaking

01:11:37.420 --> 01:11:39.399
sold me of the movie you open it and the DVD

01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:43.060
is inside that's badass you know yeah so so that's

01:11:43.060 --> 01:11:45.760
what that's what we've been trying to do is keep

01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:48.560
that royalty right you know there's movies made

01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:50.119
in the valley all the time but you don't know

01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:54.930
them because they come in and do them here you

01:11:54.930 --> 01:11:58.250
know like um that netflix christmas movie we

01:11:58.250 --> 01:12:00.130
won't say which one yeah because i don't remember

01:12:00.130 --> 01:12:04.069
yeah i know what you're talking about the one

01:12:04.069 --> 01:12:06.909
with louis fonci uh they're trying to sell it

01:12:06.909 --> 01:12:10.770
in can that was at your brother's you know um

01:12:10.770 --> 01:12:13.609
those are steps to get into where we want to

01:12:13.609 --> 01:12:16.529
be you know so that's what i'm telling you the

01:12:16.529 --> 01:12:22.760
industry right like we want to give you We come

01:12:22.760 --> 01:12:26.539
across that I mean shoot us that area for they're

01:12:26.539 --> 01:12:36.520
doing the position for that Okay, I Know I was

01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:39.300
I was telling chew I go hey man Abel said that

01:12:39.300 --> 01:12:41.699
he might have a part for us and Supposedly you

01:12:41.699 --> 01:12:44.079
just gotta all you just show up with your leg.

01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:45.460
You'll be all right You have to be actually be

01:12:45.460 --> 01:12:47.779
on the film. It's just gonna be me. I'm the one

01:12:47.779 --> 01:12:50.260
that has the line You just bring the leg and

01:12:50.260 --> 01:12:54.859
pretend you're there. So not a big deal. So in

01:12:54.859 --> 01:12:58.960
the strong side, we're going full board with

01:12:58.960 --> 01:13:02.779
it. There's going to be TV coverage of this huge

01:13:02.779 --> 01:13:05.140
athlete signing. Like we're going to have cameras

01:13:05.140 --> 01:13:07.699
at the signing day. It's going to be a big deal.

01:13:08.039 --> 01:13:11.520
And it will be the sports top version of ESPN.

01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:14.279
and you're all excited and talking about and

01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:16.239
it's a way to move the story forward because

01:13:16.239 --> 01:13:19.380
what's the big deal he's just a guy no but this

01:13:19.380 --> 01:13:22.579
never happens you never get a five -star blue

01:13:22.579 --> 01:13:25.359
chip in a small town like this exactly you know

01:13:25.359 --> 01:13:28.640
and there's two more of them because this is

01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:30.899
you know these are reinforcements and maybe we're

01:13:30.899 --> 01:13:33.420
turning the corner and it's kind of like our

01:13:33.420 --> 01:13:35.560
imitating life because that's where we are at

01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:41.119
in the the ETRGV Vaqueros yep finally had their

01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:44.180
they hosted the tournament they got bounced out

01:13:44.180 --> 01:13:47.060
of the tournament but when was the last time

01:13:47.060 --> 01:13:51.439
that they hosted a tournament in edinburgh for

01:13:51.439 --> 01:13:54.479
a national conference yeah yeah they can still

01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:57.020
get into the college world series i think if

01:13:57.020 --> 01:14:00.460
the committee says they won 23 games they might

01:14:00.460 --> 01:14:02.979
get an invite right right right i'm not 100 sure

01:14:02.979 --> 01:14:08.060
that's how it works yeah but i love to watch

01:14:08.060 --> 01:14:13.609
you know the underdogs pretty much the underdog

01:14:13.609 --> 01:14:18.250
story because and it's so cool that like they're

01:14:18.250 --> 01:14:20.750
like when they break the huddle and they do the

01:14:20.750 --> 01:14:23.890
thing like yeah they see valley boys it's so

01:14:23.890 --> 01:14:37.350
weird you're not even from here Why do I get

01:14:37.350 --> 01:15:09.340
political? The colored eyes and the nose. I don't

01:15:09.340 --> 01:15:12.239
have the traditional Mexican -American features.

01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:14.159
There's some Mexican -Americans that can't grow

01:15:14.159 --> 01:15:17.100
a full beard. They'll look very indigenous and

01:15:17.100 --> 01:15:19.319
stuff. And it's like, you're just all over the

01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:20.760
place. You've got the dark skin, the colored

01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:23.000
eyes, and you don't speak Spanish. I go, I speak

01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:26.140
Spanish. I'm speaking English to you. I don't

01:15:26.140 --> 01:15:29.020
think I have an accent. I have an accent in Spanish.

01:15:29.300 --> 01:15:31.800
You know? I'm virtual. That's what the word is,

01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:51.850
right? Yes, it is. I go to Mexico to where my

01:15:51.850 --> 01:16:06.479
family is from I don't fit in. They shoved a

01:16:06.479 --> 01:16:08.359
bunch of cameras in their face and they're like

01:16:08.359 --> 01:16:12.020
the chicken nugget kid look it up That's what

01:16:12.020 --> 01:16:14.899
they call them. They make memes and they put

01:16:14.899 --> 01:16:17.859
AI over their voices. They're super talented.

01:16:18.100 --> 01:16:20.960
They have a song with Rupa from Daan. It's really

01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:30.359
good. I love it, you know. I would go to my house.

01:16:31.380 --> 01:16:34.420
My dad used to have a house in Guadalajara. And

01:16:34.420 --> 01:16:36.920
we go there and I hated the food over there,

01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:40.380
man. I hated tortas ahogadas and where's the

01:16:40.380 --> 01:16:42.859
breakfast, man? Like, where's the bacon and eggs?

01:16:43.180 --> 01:16:45.199
I love the cute tacos. They don't have Americano

01:16:45.199 --> 01:16:47.420
cheese in their body. They have cute tacos. They

01:16:47.420 --> 01:16:49.720
don't eat flour tortillas in Mexico. No, they

01:16:49.720 --> 01:16:52.300
don't. They don't eat breakfast. They eat like

01:16:52.300 --> 01:16:55.539
coffee and a pan dulce and then they have a lunch

01:16:55.539 --> 01:16:57.340
and a merienda and then dinner's like at seven

01:16:57.340 --> 01:16:59.659
o 'clock on the street. They go to eat tacos

01:16:59.659 --> 01:17:03.029
in the street. I'm like, that's, that's too late.

01:17:03.130 --> 01:17:06.090
I'm gonna leave. I need like, my aunt would make

01:17:06.090 --> 01:17:08.189
me, she would go to the store. You're right.

01:17:08.489 --> 01:17:10.689
And buy eggs. And she, cause she would come and

01:17:10.689 --> 01:17:12.890
go. Right. She lived here half alive and half

01:17:12.890 --> 01:17:14.810
there. Right. Right now she's in Chicago. Okay.

01:17:14.810 --> 01:17:17.510
So she gets it. Right. She would like placate

01:17:17.510 --> 01:17:20.029
to us. And then we started learning like, oh

01:17:20.029 --> 01:17:23.229
shit, this is like, you know, different. Now

01:17:23.229 --> 01:17:26.149
I love chilaquiles. Now I love... all the good

01:17:26.149 --> 01:17:30.229
stuff, you know? But I grew up on like potato

01:17:30.229 --> 01:17:33.109
and egg. There you go. And we never had weenie

01:17:33.109 --> 01:17:35.029
in the egg because we're so poor. Like weenies

01:17:35.029 --> 01:17:37.970
were for hot dogs. Right. You don't cut up a

01:17:37.970 --> 01:17:41.310
weenie to make it into the egg. You know, use

01:17:41.310 --> 01:17:43.270
potato for that. You're right. Use for that.

01:17:44.029 --> 01:17:45.649
The hot dog, we're going to grill it for you

01:17:45.649 --> 01:17:48.489
with fajitas like a yenesgabón. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:48.630 --> 01:17:50.489
We don't put that in the egg, but a lot of people

01:17:50.489 --> 01:17:55.079
do. That's cool. now that i go because we go

01:17:55.079 --> 01:17:59.520
every year we go every year and we're still the

01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:03.079
fortunes but now we have an appreciation right

01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:07.920
um my cousin got married as a child you know

01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:12.800
okay with the whole get up and his wife they

01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:15.060
met in folkloreco dance and they're part of the

01:18:15.060 --> 01:18:19.579
guinness book of world records biggest folkloreco

01:18:19.579 --> 01:18:22.520
ensemble ever put together like thousand people

01:18:22.680 --> 01:18:27.319
So they got married in Guadalajara, right in

01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:29.180
the middle of Guadalajara. And then they went

01:18:29.180 --> 01:18:33.699
to the, I guess the conference center where they

01:18:33.699 --> 01:18:36.939
have the actual violet and they performed for

01:18:36.939 --> 01:18:40.340
us. She got dressed into a forgorico outfit and

01:18:40.340 --> 01:18:42.939
she did like eight numbers with the mariachis.

01:18:43.140 --> 01:18:45.659
Doing traditional Mexican, the hat dance and

01:18:45.659 --> 01:18:48.119
all that stuff. And I filmed it all, I have it,

01:18:48.140 --> 01:18:52.850
I'll put it up on YouTube someday. But it's like,

01:18:52.850 --> 01:19:21.810
yeah, this is like And then when he was old enough,

01:19:21.810 --> 01:19:26.770
he went to Wisconsin to work in the smoke. We

01:19:26.770 --> 01:19:30.510
didn't know this until last week. We're learning

01:19:30.510 --> 01:19:32.250
stuff about my dad, because I'm telling you,

01:19:32.250 --> 01:19:35.689
now he has time to chill out. He's retired. He

01:19:35.689 --> 01:19:39.569
had an accident with a raw iron. It hit on his

01:19:39.569 --> 01:19:42.789
head. He woke up in the hospital and stuff, and

01:19:42.789 --> 01:19:44.550
we didn't even know until last week. We were

01:19:44.550 --> 01:19:46.470
looking at my brother, like, where did this come

01:19:46.470 --> 01:19:50.180
from? We ran into a couple of cold wounds. I'm

01:19:50.180 --> 01:19:53.060
writing a story about my dad and his brothers,

01:19:53.060 --> 01:19:56.819
there's three of them, in the hills of Jalisco,

01:19:57.340 --> 01:20:00.659
saying, hey man, we're American citizens. Let's

01:20:00.659 --> 01:20:04.420
just go get jobs, when I was planning a wedding,

01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:07.300
you know, whatever. So I'm writing a story of

01:20:07.300 --> 01:20:09.840
when I play about how they decided to come here

01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:12.739
and change my life. I went back to that little

01:20:12.739 --> 01:20:16.000
ranchito three years ago. In the middle of tequila

01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:20.800
country, it's beautiful land. It's... Nice and

01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:50.819
fresh the dirt You know, I'm doing something

01:20:50.819 --> 01:20:52.680
with that. Because what else would I do, you

01:20:52.680 --> 01:20:56.420
know? I love to cook. And so in that story, it

01:20:56.420 --> 01:21:00.760
goes from what really happened, my dad leaving

01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:05.100
Jalisco to pursue a better life. And what happens

01:21:05.100 --> 01:21:08.380
when he decides not to? And he's working in Mexico,

01:21:08.539 --> 01:21:12.359
and I grow up in Mexico, and you know, all the

01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:15.199
things that I could choose to be or not. Bringing

01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:21.920
us back to the morality type. You're going I'm

01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:30.060
already about an hour 21 Now but uh as far as

01:21:30.060 --> 01:21:32.180
anything else man first first one I don't have

01:21:32.180 --> 01:21:33.380
to wrap this up already. It's already coming

01:21:33.380 --> 01:21:39.420
over the past an hour, but uh as far as the movie's

01:21:39.420 --> 01:21:41.500
concerned, uh, the we're calling what is called

01:21:41.500 --> 01:21:44.039
the strong side strong side when is when is uh,

01:21:44.060 --> 01:21:45.720
can you give us a little bit of an update when

01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:48.489
this is coming out and uh and all that your social

01:21:48.489 --> 01:21:50.590
media that they can look for. Axiom Films on

01:21:50.590 --> 01:21:54.909
Facebook, Axiom, it's a new page. It's a little

01:21:54.909 --> 01:21:56.770
hard to find right now because I just put it

01:21:56.770 --> 01:22:00.289
up about two weeks ago. We're gonna start, we're

01:22:00.289 --> 01:22:03.449
gonna shoot in late September. Okay. The process

01:22:03.449 --> 01:22:07.609
to get authorized takes two months. Then you

01:22:07.609 --> 01:22:11.189
have to have a percentage of the money in an

01:22:11.189 --> 01:22:15.710
escrow to get it authorized. So May, June, July

01:22:15.710 --> 01:22:20.220
is fundraising time. August and late September.

01:22:20.380 --> 01:22:22.939
August is like pre -production and then late

01:22:22.939 --> 01:22:25.720
September we're gonna shoot. That's what the

01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:28.520
goal is. And they can find this on your Facebook

01:22:28.520 --> 01:22:30.899
page if they want to follow? Axiom films will

01:22:30.899 --> 01:22:33.579
have all the details. How they can get involved,

01:22:33.819 --> 01:22:37.899
how they can get the sides. That's a professional

01:22:37.899 --> 01:22:42.239
term. When they say, did you get the sides? It's

01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:45.710
your pages. Just what you're gonna read for your

01:22:45.710 --> 01:22:47.449
audition. You're talking too gordito, I'm thinking

01:22:47.449 --> 01:22:50.869
food. I'm educating you. You're talking too gordito.

01:22:51.529 --> 01:22:54.489
I said, did you get your sides? I'm like, I'm

01:22:54.489 --> 01:22:59.550
more of an entree guy. And I know, ooh, the script,

01:22:59.850 --> 01:23:01.789
the pieces of script, they're called sides. Oh,

01:23:01.909 --> 01:23:04.149
okay, my bad. No, but if we're going to lunch,

01:23:04.289 --> 01:23:07.670
right? I wanna match potatoes with that. Guys,

01:23:07.869 --> 01:23:10.109
if you see the art of the film right now, I got

01:23:10.109 --> 01:23:13.560
a... Mr. Gonzales del Toro's coup card right

01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:16.039
there. Click on that QR code. That'll take you

01:23:16.039 --> 01:23:18.520
straight to him. All the good stuff that he's

01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:20.079
coming across and what you do in the future,

01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:24.100
man. One audition, that's where you're going

01:23:24.100 --> 01:23:25.600
to find the information. There you go, guys.

01:23:26.100 --> 01:23:30.380
Audition, how you can get... I don't know. You

01:23:30.380 --> 01:23:32.659
ever wanted to be in a movie and you want to

01:23:32.659 --> 01:23:35.899
learn how to do the behind the scenes stuff?

01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:40.289
That's where you're going to learn. First things

01:23:40.289 --> 01:23:42.649
first, I want to say thank you, man, for coming

01:23:42.649 --> 01:23:45.470
out, having some fun with me. It's like every

01:23:45.470 --> 01:23:48.270
time I have them on the pod, the times that I've

01:23:48.270 --> 01:23:49.850
had them, the first time, the second time, the

01:23:49.850 --> 01:23:52.729
third time, it's like storytelling. You know,

01:23:52.729 --> 01:23:54.369
I feel like a kindergartener seen on the rug.

01:23:54.630 --> 01:23:56.609
I was getting lost in the storytelling about

01:23:56.609 --> 01:23:59.029
it. I was like... If I could just translate it

01:23:59.029 --> 01:24:01.649
to film, I think I could, you know, make a movie

01:24:01.649 --> 01:24:04.109
out of it. But that's been a challenge. I had

01:24:04.109 --> 01:24:08.220
to learn cameras, microphones. Editing, honestly,

01:24:08.220 --> 01:24:10.899
I don't wanna do that, man. I just wanna write

01:24:10.899 --> 01:24:15.319
a story. But I do, I have to end up editing,

01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:18.000
color grading. I've been director of photography

01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:21.199
for other movies that were in your mind. I've

01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:24.260
been second camera man for documentaries and

01:24:24.260 --> 01:24:26.720
doing all this stuff. But all I wanna do is tell

01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:30.399
my story. Like I said before, I wanna say thank

01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:32.659
you for coming out, man. I appreciate you coming

01:24:32.659 --> 01:24:37.060
out. Maybe when this movie is already out, I'd

01:24:37.060 --> 01:24:39.039
love to have you come back and talk about it,

01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:42.260
and hopefully things work out. It'll come out

01:24:42.260 --> 01:24:46.779
on your movie as the ESPN announcer. You know,

01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:48.859
I could grow my hair with a throw or something,

01:24:49.260 --> 01:24:50.920
so I could look really freaky on the film. There's

01:24:50.920 --> 01:24:53.680
an ESPN announcer just got signed yesterday from

01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:56.300
Edinburgh. Really? Yeah, she's doing all of the

01:24:56.300 --> 01:25:00.300
online betting stuff. she's very very very skilled

01:25:00.300 --> 01:25:06.939
and she's a bookie she probably did the she's

01:25:06.939 --> 01:25:16.119
not going to that is that going that good i am

01:25:16.119 --> 01:25:20.000
being uh monetized right now no she's she's it's

01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:22.500
legal betting is legal you know and she does

01:25:22.500 --> 01:25:25.699
all that like all the staff stuff i want to look

01:25:25.699 --> 01:25:28.460
her up man i find out all the know what numbers

01:25:28.460 --> 01:25:30.800
to use and what numbers not to use for that coming

01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:33.279
up football season don't be afraid man because

01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:39.800
they do it it's called the line and then maybe

01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:41.899
she can come on and she'll have a cowboy hat

01:25:41.899 --> 01:25:44.420
on oh there you go i'll make sure she comes on

01:25:44.420 --> 01:25:47.960
and she'll have a niner hat on all right that'll

01:25:47.960 --> 01:25:49.939
be interesting no thank you again i appreciate

01:25:49.939 --> 01:25:52.420
you so much man for just ladies gentlemen that

01:25:52.420 --> 01:25:54.539
is the podcast tonight an hour and 25 minutes

01:25:54.859 --> 01:25:58.000
hey you wanted you wanted some uh media we got

01:25:58.000 --> 01:26:00.300
some media for you i want to say thank you to

01:26:00.300 --> 01:26:03.420
miss ella rose over here look at fashioning the

01:26:03.420 --> 01:26:04.960
caps and everything for us and everything buy

01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:07.260
some merchandise guys you look as cool as us

01:26:07.260 --> 01:26:09.899
there you go now and uh good luck be careful

01:26:09.899 --> 01:26:12.260
on your way back to texas tech i hope when you

01:26:12.260 --> 01:26:14.399
come back again we have another great guest so

01:26:14.399 --> 01:26:16.619
you can enjoy yourself again because i know she

01:26:16.619 --> 01:26:20.100
is going forward to become in germinalism journalism

01:26:22.140 --> 01:26:25.260
Bad, bad person to teach. Anyways, journalism,

01:26:25.520 --> 01:26:27.359
and I hope everything goes well for you when

01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:29.640
you go back to tech. And say hi to all your friends

01:26:29.640 --> 01:26:31.420
from us down here in the Valley, especially Miss

01:26:31.420 --> 01:26:35.279
Katie. Hi, Katie! She loves the food down here.

01:26:35.760 --> 01:26:38.899
But we will be back again with you guys next

01:26:38.899 --> 01:26:44.000
week. Tuesday at 7 .30 p .m. with Stephanie Madolby,

01:26:44.300 --> 01:26:47.880
Miss Kid Goku herself. I got a lot of questions,

01:26:48.100 --> 01:26:50.220
because now she's on the new episodes. So that

01:26:50.220 --> 01:26:53.079
should be a lot of fun to watch. If you catch

01:26:53.079 --> 01:26:56.020
the live, you'll watch it live free. If not,

01:26:56.500 --> 01:26:58.420
then you gotta be a member to watch it when it's

01:26:58.420 --> 01:27:00.659
already recorded, guys. Other than that, man,

01:27:00.760 --> 01:27:10.779
any last words? Bye. Bye. We'll see you next

01:27:10.779 --> 01:27:13.560
week, guys. Ladies and gentlemen, peace out.