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but anyways guys episode two We're halfway there
do you like like Bon Jovi says we're halfway
there at 300 and when we get to 300 it's gonna
be Game over for him. Maybe not for me Bro don't
make promises you can't keep all right But anyways
guys last week's episode with the Freddy Honda
was a great episode I did manage to go out to
get inked up actually on Saturday, and I was
going to do it on a Friday, but unfortunately
couldn't do it. But on Saturday I went early
in the morning and it got done. Big shout out
to Mr. Freddy Honda, man. Look at that. Another
piece of art, dude. It looks amazing. I can't
wait to see it when it's fully healed up. It
felt amazing. I'm sure it did. But enough about
what's going on with the weekend. We got a special
guest with us today on the podcast. We have Aaron
Lopez, Mr. Sonny in the podcast with us today.
What's going on? Oh my goodness. Here we go,
man. We've been waiting for this one for a while,
man. I know the last time we talked, it was like,
we're talking about that right now on the way
in. Like in May. Yeah, we were trying to get
you in here. Like, you know what? Reach out to
me. I want to get on a podcast and go, well,
yeah, we'll get you on, man. Let's go. And I
know it was back in May when we did the appointment,
because I know he wanted a little earlier. I'm
like, well, bro, you got to wait till late June.
Right now it's booked until, like, what? September
9th? Yeah, now it's booked until September. Oh,
man. We got a lot of fun things happening in
the next couple of weeks. But welcome to the
Juneau podcast, bro. Glad to be here, man. In
case we didn't mention that right off the jump,
we should be here, bro. My bad. My bad. Yeah,
bro, I mean, uh, we're talking about being interviewed.
You've been interviewed before, but as you said,
this is your first time going live. First time
live interview. Oh, my gosh. See how it goes.
We'll see how it goes. Did it just get sexy?
Yes, it did. But anyways, guys, we want to get
down to an end agree with Aaron here. I got to
say, before I can go on, I have to say I'm sorry,
dude. I got to say this. A -A Ron, it's been
in my head all week. I hear it all the time.
That's what you've been saving up for, dude.
I've been saving up for A .A. Ron in the podcast.
Driving all the way over here. A .A. Ron. A .A.
Ron. A .A. Ron. A .A. Ron. A .A. Ron. A .A. Ron.
A .A. Ron. A .A. Ron. A .A. Ron. A .A. Ron. A
.A. Ron. What are you doing here? What the hell
are you doing? Tell us a little bit about yourself,
man. Go ahead. It's all you. Yeah, man. So, uh,
my name's Sonny. They call me Sonny. That's my
artist name. Um, grew up here in, uh, Mercedes,
Texas. Born here in Westico. Born and raised
here in Westico. Moved to Mercedes back in like
2000 maybe. I was probably like six years old.
Uh, but living in Mercedes since then, um, about
my music. I started my music, uh, back in high
school, man. Back in... 2011 I think like my
end of my junior years when I started getting
into the music I actually wasn't a actually wasn't
like a Like a band first really we're doing like
death deathcore type. Oh So I don't know if you're
familiar with I bring me the horizon so I was
like I would try to imitate Oliver Sykes screams
It's what I started doing I was going towards
the music side and then I was in the band for
a while and we just never really got into like
the the whole practicing all the time, you know,
everybody was always doing their own thing. So
like man, I want to keep doing music, you know,
like venture off into the music. But I mean how
so I was just one day one of my homeboys invited
me to a studio there at his house and just got
in there. Got in there. Yeah, man. The Achilles
heel of any of any band is Practice yeah It would
be like Once a week and it's never it's never
really worked out man right now. Yeah, I don't
think any of those guys make music anymore to
be honest So go growing up here grew up here
born here in West go grew up in now you said
a Mercedes s day what I mean, what were your
intentions of going to the music business as
far as I know the rock thing didn't work out
but how did you lean into the into the hip -hop
scene so like I said uh one of my friends just
invited me to the studio one time we just started
freestyling just bullshitting you know just whatever
doing whatever and he told me I was pretty good
so I was like oh might as well keep trying it
I just started getting into it man I actually
um performed for the first time at my high school
in front of everybody, man. So that was kind
of nerve -racking during the pep rally. Oh, dude.
Those are the best ones. So after I did that,
I kind of started getting a little bit of a name,
and people started liking the music. So I just
continued to do it, man. I mean, I love it, man.
It's like an escape for me. When it's pretty
cool. Yeah, I mean one of my questions I asked
I like to ask a lot of a lot of hip -hop artists
that when you write your music Lyrically lyrically
the beats I know come come along. Well, actually
the beats actually come out kind of kind of come
up first but it's kind of I mean it just depends
because sometimes I'll Like the way I so I I
like to put my notes in my phone so when I could
literally be anywhere and I'll hear something
and I like I'll just Something snaps into my
head and I jot it down, right? And then I'll
hear a beat later and then I'm like, oh this
goes perfect with that, right? So it's something
it just depends sometimes I like sometimes I'll
hear a beat first and then I'm like old badass
like I could write something to this Was it a
lot of deep some of your music past experiences
or anything? I mean, what were your who were
your go -to guys? I mean when you started doing
when I first started doing music man, I I looked
up to I still do is little Wayne man I've always
liked the punchlines, you know the This like
the things you got to kind of like think outside
the box like right away. What is he really? Oh,
he has double meaning to that, you know double
entendres, right? So yeah, I've always looked
up to that type of that's kind of like the type
of music I try to make you know, right snappy
punchlines, you know clever clever little punchline
stuff like that and you've been doing this for
How about how many years or 12 years probably
back in? See, I like twenty twenty eleven twenty
twelve. Yeah about twelve thirteen years. Okay,
dang I mean, I was on and off, but it just didn't
start popping off till like, I want to say maybe
like last year, the year before us when I started
like, I think after COVID is when I really started
to, I had a lot of people, COVID hit and everybody
just came out. It was like a, honestly, it was
like a reset, bro. Well, everyone had time to
like actually, you know, do that thing, find
themselves, have that time with themselves. After
COVID, yeah, everything kind of changed. I became
a barber. there you go there you go something
too you know something that just came out of
nowhere man it was covid just kind of changed
everything for everybody i guess you felt that
call to cut people's hair so yeah so yeah man
i was i was actually just uh in and out of jobs
at the time because of covid you know right right
so i was just like man i need to find something
that i could like fall back on you know that's
gonna never hits the fan right right i have something
that i'm not like hey i gotta clock in and clock
out or you know i mean i actually can be my own
boss and And yeah, man, I called the barber school,
showed up and went at it. You already got your
first comment here. Shout out to Sonny. Man,
we just dropped a new truck today or track. It's
all the major street platforms. Ice tray, man.
We just dropped that. It's an Austrian platform.
He corrected himself. He put crack. Yeah, man.
That's awesome, man. That's awesome. I'm not
going to be able to let that go. New truck. What's
this? You got to drop a new truck. Where's that
truck? I want that truck. Four by fours? What
do we got? We got lower to the ground. I love
Ranger. I love Ranger, bro. I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know. Y 'all, man. So you're doing
the hip hop thing and all that. uh you say you
got 13 well 12 13 years under your belt already
pretty much now take us back a scenario or a
true scenario when you uh got on the stage for
the first time i know you said you first you
did it first in your high school first time they
go in high school high schools you know i those
count i'm not gonna lie to you those count yeah
but the ones that really count is when you're
out in open in the open public so those are the
ones i mean it's crazy yeah go ahead It was probably
like right after high school. I was like 18.
We performed at Invidia's. You remember where
Invidia's was at? Used to be Valley Girls over
here. As soon as I say that, I rap. So we performed
there, man. Long story short, I'm performing
on stage. Crowd's feeling my vibe. And I went
Texas Trail and some guy was in the crowd. I
guess he thought I was throwing my yuko. Uh -oh.
Uh -oh. So he started some shit, man. Oh, wow.
Long story short, fucking chairs were flying
and everything. Oh, dude. People were getting
tased and taking naps. Yeah, that was it. That
was a performance to remember, man. Alright,
who bought the bayou? Bad experience. Yeah, that
was a bad experience. Damn. That was pretty crazy.
Dude, man. That's crazy. But I kept performing,
you know, I finished my songs, I kept performing,
finished the songs, and people got tased and
got taken out. But it is what it is. It is what
it is. It was an awesome concert, man. The show
must go on. Best ever. Best ever. I shit myself.
Oh shit, dude. Bucket sand. Bucket sand, man,
pretty much. Pretty much, man. So you're doing
the gig and everybody has their moments on stage.
When you started, when you take your first care,
firstly, well, this official public gig that
you had, I mean, sometimes the worst experience,
they were the best experience because you were
kind of... You kind of learn from them real quick.
I'm not performing at strip clubs. You know,
and now that you've moved on from that, I mean,
are there certain venues that you say these are
memorable venues that I've done in the past couple
years? So the last one I just did was, the last
memorable one was at Claydon's, man, this spring
break. It was pretty crazy. Actually, Freddy
Hondo was out there too that same day. We hit
the stage like. Right after each other. But yeah,
man, the crowd was crowd was awesome. You know,
people really interacted with me. Right, right.
Clayton's always has an amazing vibe. It was
packed, man. I believe that Clayton's before,
but not at this at this level. You know, this
spring break was pretty, pretty intense. During
the item and it's it's it's crazy, bro. I mean,
it used to be though, back in the day, it would
get even crazier. You know, like 2016, that era
that was right. Crazy solo. Aw, no boobies? Nah,
that was boobies. It was Mardi Gras all over
again. It was a good show. Like I said, that
was a good interaction with the crowd. I got
the whole crowd to say Poodle 956 with me. Got
the whole crowd screaming. Being in those concerts,
being in a venue like that, there's always the
artist at the end of the night that closes out,
which is the main artist, the main attraction.
did you happen to get uh sometimes they stick
around and they like to listen to the to the
local talent we did the day show so i didn't
get to stay for the night show but that night
it was actually uh was uh jeezing that night
oh okay all right all right i didn't get to stay
that night because i like i said we performed
during the day which was like like around three
or four and then they right yeah i wasn't trying
to stay i wasn't trying to stay out there man
it was it was pretty hot and i was dressed i
wasn't wearing no oh shoot i was like yeah i
was like i gotta get out of here man it's hot
man they told me coming in tux man what the hell
i had to keep the image man right right right
right now i mean now that you've done that you've
i think when you play when you perform a spring
break that's like a kind of already looking through
the window from the outside in already you know
again again a view of what a large crowd looks
like. Yeah, a large crowd. Now, when you're up
there, take us by, take us step by step. When
you're up there for this event, you go out there,
you see the crowd out there. Honestly, man, when
I get on stage, I feel like everything just goes
blank, dude. What's your prep pretty much before
you head out there? Smoke. You know, I just calm
the nerves down. I mean, that's something I do
on the daily, you know, but yeah, just calm the
nerves down. And I mean, I'm not Aaron out there,
I'm Sonny, you know? So I just switched the whole
body. So I took theater arts in high school,
man. So I remember when we're in theater arts,
they always told us, don't focus on anybody,
because that's when you're going to freak out.
You lose yourself, yeah. So you got to just kind
of like, I kind of just look into the crowd.
Shades help, you know? Shades help when you're
out there. Yes, they do. Yeah, just kind of just.
go with the flow man go with the flow you also
have to like kind of project yourself to the
yeah i go with the flow so i kind of see like
how the crowd's interacting with me like that
that day i had i had merch so i was throwing
shirts and i was there you go there you go i
think somebody even threw i look back in the
footage somebody threw a fucking a hot dog we
got the drone we got the drone footage eat something
it was some guy from way in the back Shout out
to Glizzy's. Through the Glizzy out, man. That's
crazy. That's crazy, man. Like I said, when you
perform in an island at the island or those kind
of venues, there's always a crowd and it gets
crazy. You get so many people, I mean, they go
nuts. They're out there partying all day, man.
Yes, exactly. Nine o 'clock starts, nine in the
morning, eight in the morning, that's it. Let's
go. We're going to be the whole week here. Let's
just... go, you know, and that's been shit that's
been happening for years and years. Coca -Cola
Beach, man. I want to talk longer than that.
For a long time and you know, performing in the
island and that in that atmosphere, you know,
like I said, it's like looking from the outside
in because you're getting a clear view of what
it looks like when if or somewhat you go out
to a bigger venue and you know, you're in front
of not just hundreds, but thousands of people
out there, you know, and to see that, you know,
put that on your resume. That's definitely amazing.
It's amazing. It's amazing, man. So now you're
doing these tracks. Have you got any albums out
right now as we speak? Albums? No, man. So one
thing that I learned with my engineers and people
that I've just made music with in the past is
I haven't put an album out yet just because Like
I feel like I'm not at that level to like to
have someone sit through a whole album You know,
they you got to really fuck with that person,
right? I've just been dropping singles, you know
videos right now. That's pretty much my main
My main thing right now right now I'm focusing
right now on videos because I have I think I
dropped about 12 songs to date from the beginning
of the year So I want to try to Get videos out
for each one, you know Yeah, if you guys if you
guys watch the uh, the actual commercial I put
out for for this episode the music playing in
the background is actually Yeah, that's that's
sunny sunny is actually playing on the background
And when I was listening to i'm like wow, I think
that's a nice little beat to it That's the video
we did for so I actually we made a video for
spring bag I made a like a music video So it
kind of like it shows a little bit of behind
the scenes and what went down out there So that's
pretty cool, man. I got another person here,
this is Onda Beats. Saying saludos. What's going
on, man? My boy Chronicle, man. We actually have
a sound out together. He's a producer, man. He
made a beat for me. Custom beat. I don't know
if you've heard the Coco Rayal song? I don't
know. Yes. So we did a little remix to that.
It's called Coco Tumbao. Really? Yeah, it's pretty
cool, man. Made the beat custom, man. Chronicle
on the beat, shout out Chronicle, man. Makes
beats right in front of you. Real custom beats.
Let me throw you a little history here. uh so
you can just now that you mentioned that um i
married into a family uh my my wife's uh father
uh was a drummer in a fame in a band back in
the 50s uh called uh eddie i think it was called
eddie garza su grupo and uh Little did I know
When I'm in my wife, I was a guitar player, you
know I didn't know my future swagger was that
he's a drummer and then I started digging on
what he played music he played kind of music
he likes Turns out to be and this is a go my
wife. I go don't say nothing No, I'm gonna say
it cuz I'm I'm proud to be part of that big part
of something like that They are the original
writers or yeah, original writers of El Cocorrayao.
And it's when you hear before Drew and Milla
bought the rights to it, you hear it, you like,
you freak out like, wow, and I go, wow, that's,
that's my suegro playing the drums in the background,
man. Awesome, awesome, awesome player. But yeah,
just a little history that you go, hey, yeah,
to know that, bro. Yeah. And they were all, I
think, I think he told me they recorded it in
I think he said in McKellen. I think that's what
he said or somewhere or in Elsa. I'm not sure
where, but that's what it first got. recorded
so that's what's awesome and I get a chance and
I find a little clip of them playing the original
song I'll post it I'll post it I'll send it to
you so you can hear it you're gonna freak out
like what the hell it's it's an awesome man just
mind -blowing you know and I tell my my suero
all the time so I don't I promise you I'm gonna
find you that album and give it to you man find
it I'm gonna find it for you so I can give it
to you so you can have it because unfortunately
there was a huge Crosswinds where they live,
they live in Grajano, Texas, a small little town
south of Sheridan. Crosswinds came out and destroyed
a little story ship where they had all their
stuff. So everything got lost. So I'm hoping
to find that. In particular album for him as
I can give it to him by one of these days hopefully
praying But yeah, man, that's just a little little
history for you guys. You know, yeah, I got be
saying that's dope Oh, look your fair your fair
buddy, uh Hasito saying where can we listen to
your stuff? So you'll find me on all streaming
platforms. It's sunny the way it's built on I
guess it's on the screen. I get you right there
Any streaming platform Spotify Apple music YouTube,
Amazon Music, whatever you use. If you want to
go and check out also his Facebook page. Yes,
you go to my Facebook. My Facebook page has all
my links on there. Go check that out, man. Check
that out. Concerts, man. I mean, being an artist
that you say you are, doing your thing and everything,
I know the best part of being a musician or an
artist, you got to go to gigs. You got to go
to venues. You have to. See and get ideas. Checking
out the not checking out the competition, but
checking out. What am I doing? To improve what
you know, you know when I do small shows man
I see it like I mean I still give it my all cuz
I see like as practice, you know, right? I mean
either you never know who's in the crowd at the
same time Exactly. Yeah shows coming up. I have
a Next month. We're having like Independence
Day So, uh, they're in harleysian. Yeah, it's
the fifth the fifth. Okay on saturday All right.
All right. Uh, but yeah, it's gonna be like a
little independence day. Uh shout out jordan
scott. He's the one that put it together There
you go. Yeah, it's gonna be a dope event. There's
a pretty good lineup of artists that are gonna
be there Yeah, man, it's gonna be pretty fun.
What are you gonna say too? No, nothing. I was
just I was just wondering to myself like uh what
did if any of the competition that he's heard
is like you know kind of blown him away by how
much he liked it or you know just the sound that
they were making I get a lot of I get a lot of
love from these other artists out here man uh
you know I haven't really gotten any bad feedback
you know but I mean yeah most most most of us
out here you know that are out at these shows
you know we support each other you know right
that's how it should be you know that's how it
should be that's that's how i'd hope it would
be yeah yeah i mean there is some that don't
support but i mean that's i mean that's just
how it is yeah it's yeah that is how it is with
anything it's so hardened about in the rgb i
mean it's with everything man you can't you can't
do anything out here because everybody's always
Great musicians come in here and their music
is top -notch man. You're like damn, dude Why
why isn't he having gotten, you know heard down
here, you know, they know who they are But it's
always that one bad apples now Anybody can do
that, bro. Anybody can do that But if I've learned
anything and I talked to my brother a lot on
what he's doing with with his buddy they down
here, it's it's hard but moving up Going out
of this out of the 956 up north We're not really
up north but Corbis Christie's San Antonio Austin
even out of the state of Texas. It's like a Whole
different vibe. No, everybody wants a piece of
you. Everybody's like so I performed out in Dallas
I want to say last month. Yeah last month performed
out in Dallas man, and the crowd is I mean the
like the people come together man it's crazy
right there's so many people everybody gets together
and and everybody's hanging out with each other
right right right everybody's networking you
know so it's it's very very different down here
very very different Jacinto, Jacinto's throwing
ideas for you for your next videos that put you
in a bikini and get them uh into uh one or two
of your videos and that's a crowd pleaser I'm
showing you right here I don't see a contract
problem. Not saying, not saying that you won't
do it. Go ahead. I'll take my leg off right now.
Easy. Here's another thing. That's the problem
with the Rasa, not the Valley. You have one trying
to succeed and you have five or ten other trying
to keep up with them. That's so sad. You heard
him, dude. Somebody threw a glissy up on him.
That was great. I know somebody was just... wars
have started that way whoever you are when you
threw that i know what you're doing i can i can
already see the news sad news today in south
prior and somebody got hit in the eye with a
hot dog and a hot dog war began military soldiers
had to come down with mustard ketchup onions
local gang members came in with hot dog buns
yeah dude it's crazy bro uh instead so you know
if i could just interrupt like uh what what you're
saying about like moving up like in a way that
that's a blessing too because you know that people
want to hear your sound i i hate to keep bringing
it up but for a while they're like we had people
like in new york requesting the information about
a lot of the musicians that we had on the podcast
yeah that's all it is man it's just like I feel
like we're just in a bubble down here, man Like
we just we just don't want to let him like hey,
we're all like crabs in a bucket down here. Yes
Yes, like we're all gonna be down here. You're
gonna be down here with us. Yeah We did have
that connection with a big shout out to first
night. Yeah, I've been he's doing Empowerment
videos now on YouTube. You can catch them on
Sunday Sunday mornings He had a he had a good
thing going as far as a radio station up there.
He had his own pirate radio kind of yeah Yeah,
yeah, he had his own private radio thing and
a lot of local Artists artists were able to jump
on that platform. They were being heard in Seattle,
New York LA Florida, you know wherever he could
branch out to and a lot of people got play Playbacks
on their stuff and they were noticed, you know,
so it's It's like I said before it's hard To
you gonna have you gonna you gotta want it. You
gotta want you gotta want it No matter what no
matter if any anybody tried like you say craps
in the bucket you get pulled down Lose a leg
go. No, no I'm trying real hard Don't try to
really but yeah, no, I get what you're saying,
you know, just you know, do what you gotta do
Like I said before, you know talking to my little
brother he says the action up north it's crazy
For an RGB artist to you know, take a chance
To jump out of the valley and head up north and
try to get hurt. You'd be surprised right there.
You guys It was my first time like I just I took
my wife and my kids and they stayed at the hotel
and I literally just went to the show by myself
man so it was it was pretty nerve -racking too
yeah it is I don't know I don't know anybody
out here you know exactly yeah exactly but the
acceptance that you got yeah it was I got the
acceptance exactly and that's the thing that's
the thing you know and now we I mean not to bring
down the beautiful rgb itself but there's some
artists that are just impeccably good. They're
great artists. There's a lot of untapped talent.
It's like an untapped keg. Nobody would know,
no leave that one. Leave that for later. Leave
it for later. We don't want to touch that. That's
the hard stuff. That's for the casting couch.
This beer is far too delicious and refreshing.
What are you doing? Yeah, you see, Haji said,
yeah, chew, lose the leg. All right, let's get
in person. Where's my packet of hot dogs? I had
some frank footers flying through the podcast
for a couple of minutes, bro. But, uh. When the
fakes are right. Yeah, pop the sand with mustard.
But yeah, dude, it's like I said, like a crab
with buckets, man, you try, you try so hard to
get out of here, but people, or try to make something
big for yourself and people just. top it on top
of that or you know it would be it would be a
beautiful thing like i said the the community
itself as far as artists i mean i've been seeing
more and more now with uh with first of all a
lot more now uh you know it's it's calmed down
quite a bit in the uh talking to Jacinto himself,
the wrestling industry down here, I mean, you
see - Oh yeah, I've been seeing that, yeah. It's
been blossoming, man. I mean, the way they go
back, hey man, I have a show this week, boom,
they go, they have a show, it's like back and
forth, back and forth. They're all working together.
It's growing, it's growing. And a shout out to,
big shout out to Nikki Fuego, man. She's doing
amazing. She's a local girl that just graduated
from high school, and she's still soaring, man.
She got to Florida. She was able to wrestle in
front of a bunch of legends out there. Got to
talk to legendary talent that gave her advice.
That's something like yourself when you go out
to these big venues, like when you went to Dallas.
You were up there. Was there anybody out there
that tried to give you a little bit of advice?
Like I said, we are all networking. I got some
connections with some DJs out there. I'm tapped
in now, so whenever I want to go back to Dallas,
I have. They wanted me to do a podcast out there
too now and that's bad You know, I have I have
something to do now if I go back out there, right?
Right connections and that's the thing you already
had the one to do some features and stuff like
that, too That was actually so those actually
people from all over man. I actually met an artist
from st Louis He drove all the way from st. Louis
to Dallas for that show Wow, so, you know, I
got to get connected with him and you know, we
got our our exchange our social medias and you
know and Now we're connected in St. Louis. That's
the thing, you need to network. A lot of people
don't understand that networking's a key point.
You try to network down here, you can network
all you want down here. It's gonna stay here
though. It's never gonna get pulled out. You
need to take a chance and say, hey, you know
what, I'm gonna try and network with somebody
from... From LA. I want to try and network with
somebody from New York. Look for somebody in
Ohio, somebody in Washington. It could be a small
little town somewhere out there, yeah. Reach
out. It doesn't hurt to do that because, I mean,
you never know. You reach out and you collab
on something, it becomes something huge. You
never know. Because that's the way art is. I
mean, you tell me a rock band who are not...
All of them, but some of them are from the same
city. Most of them come from small towns. Yeah,
from different cities. Yeah, different states,
you know, and that's the way it works. You know,
you reach out and you find people that are on
the same page with you. Yeah, you know what I
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I hope it it blossoms even more than what you
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right there. So we're back with Amy. Oh my gosh,
so man Tell us a little bit. What are your hobbies,
man? What do you like to do? On your spare time
when you're not riding. I know you say you have
a wife and a kid You know, I know spending time
family time is a number one thing. Yeah, of course
man a family first always uh, so I have my wife
and my I have my little boy and my stepdaughter.
My little boy just turned three, actually. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Celebrated
his birthday. There you go. So I like to skateboard.
Really? Yeah, man. I've been skating actually
since I was like 10, man. There you go. Nice.
Have you tried that park that's over there? I
think it was in Ed Couch or something like that?
I haven't gone to it, man. It looks pretty cool,
though. I haven't. So that's, I'm going to say
like three weeks ago, I... fucked myself up at
the lafayette skate park so i wasn't able to
walk for like three weeks yeah it hurts now man
it hurts a lot more now when you're older it
hurts a lot the key point the key point eric
just walk it off yeah walk it off rub some hot
water on there it'll be fine key point did you
tape it did you video it i did it damn it i did
it man oh yeah i rolled my ankle pretty bad man
it was pretty good oh my gosh dude i've seen
videos bro i've seen so many videos of people
riding skateboards they get Hurt never remember
that show scarred back in the day. Yes. Yes,
dude Oh my god, that show is bad, bro. I've seen
I was crazy to watch but you still want to watch
it Dude, that's messed up. I want to go try that
Come on I like watching I like watching shows
like that bro like stuff that you know skateboarding
to me when I used to growing up and I thought
it was kind of it was cool watching then the
roller blade thing came in and You know cuz there's
a lot of skating rings back in the day in my
day, you know, there's still there's a couple
Yeah, there's there's like couple left. But uh
Skateboarding was something that I saw a lot
of my friends would do in high school sometimes,
you know You got those guys that would skate
to their class or they would skate home You know
skateboard home and stuff like that. And you
know, I like bro, that's seems kind of cool but
i know i fall flat on my ass if i try to rock
that shit so i mean so you started at a young
age with that yeah i started skateboarding yeah
back when i was like probably like eight or nine
man i was young wow what made you want to start
skateboarding so my sister's ex -husband actually
was a skater back in the day so tony hawke i
saw him doing it one time and yeah man i just
kind of got into it and Yeah. Oh, look at this,
Eric. Got another answer from Jacinto. He's a
skater hit you with the board. Wow, bro. Jacinto
loves you. I'm blocking you, Jacinto. All right.
That was a third strike. Joke's on you. I control
the board. Oh, we'll see about that. Keep sending
him, Jacinto. Keep sending him. But I am calling
your money. So you're doing the skateboard thing
is I mean did they did he take you under his
wing and start showing you the ropes to it? Not
really man. He just so he just kind of showed
me like He showed me how to do it Ali and just
from there I kind of like Really just picked
it up really back in a day. There was no there
was no like phones so it was all I would always
get those magazines man like trans world magazine
yeah so I would always get those I would always
that was the first thing I would do man I would
go to HB and my mom would do her shopping and
I would run to the magazine and just be looking
at those so you're the kid over there messing
up the magazine You know what I really don't
think they do anymore well, no they I mean going
down the Walmart or something Walmart right by
the by the electronics they have they have the
they have the walls That's gonna that's gonna
stop a 15 year old to go back there But yeah,
dude, I'm really HB still has them. I think when
you're walking ready to pay They have a couple
of them, but it's like just a little bit, not
as much as used to be. I think you need to go
to like the Barnes and Nobles now to actually
go there. Because I mean, the magazine thing
back in the day, I would pick up Guitar World.
I would open it up and check out the tabs. You
know, I'll play the song and all that. And I
would do that. You know, that was fun back in
the day, dude, to learn these. Find your favorite
pick of the month. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That
or swing by and look for the swimsuit issue.
from Sports Illustrator. Yeah, that's right.
Guitars wearing bikinis. It was so hot. Dude,
that's an idea. Pandid, pandid. Pandid right
now. But yeah, dude. So I mean, besides skateboarding,
what else do you like to do your time off? I
like to say I'm an amateur streamer. I like to
play Fortnite. Oh, OK. Dude I'm a gamer myself
and everybody I could never get the idea of fortnight
I Guess it's just I'm getting older and I can't
do the whole shoot shoot build build build shoot
build build some People on their minds crazy.
I don't think it's that anymore dude. I think
it's just shoot shoot now is it more so they
have they have two modes you can use the zero
build and build i like to do the build mode because
i mean it kind of saves your ass sometimes oh
okay it saves your ass sometimes i see and jajito
says that's the way chu lost his eye go to bed
already it's eight o 'clock yeah dude i mean
i'm a gamer myself i like the game a lot uh what's
one besides for now what was one of your favorite
games to play like growing up or growing up man
I remember GTA man GTA Vice City That's that
I think that's one game I'm really looking forward
to the new GTA If anybody's a GTA fan 5 that
play right now, I hate you There's so many little
glitches now, oh yeah, it takes like an hour
to load up into a game Yeah, and not only that
you're playing online with your buddies, you
know, you're doing mission and there's always
you know This it's a closed mission. There's
always somebody that comes in and just messes
it the whole I don't know where you're just...
You're like, what the hell happened? Yeah, Twisted
Metal is also another good y 'all. Twisted Metal
was the bomb back in the day. Yeah, it was, dude.
We used to play a lot. I think you used to play
with us online when we used to play GTA back
in the day. We would do heists and everything
and then all of a sudden... Heist failed. What
happened? Joe's internet dropped again. Why do
we keep inviting him? I'm not sure you were playing
with us that night. We were doing a heist. We
had to steal that Air Force jet and bring it
out to the southern lands of out there in some
beach. Oh, you got to land it in some other airport,
land strip, whatever. Before row before Joe quiz
and myself us four were playing it right and
we stole the jet We made it. We finally made
it. My brother was fighting back. Oh, yeah, we're
celebrating We're jumping up and down and we
go. Okay, dude landed So he's coming down really
slow he's landing it and we think it's already
landed and then all of a sudden you see him eject
What the hell? He simply goes... Blows up. We
all die. Dude, we... Don't stop laughing. We
wasted three and a half hours to get this stupid
jet. We finally get it. And you let it and you
eject at the end. Are you kidding me? Bro, that
was the joke. It was like the funniest shit ever,
dude. And then we would just get bored and just
shoot each other. You know? It's just one of
those games. I'm really into GTA, but I really
like Ghost Recon. I try to get into the Call
of Duty games. It's just a little too... I don't
know they're trying to be like fortnight now
exactly as i'm saying you would kind of you would
kind of think people that play fortnight would
like to play something like call of duty on top
of that you know it's uh call of duty is kind
of close to what fortnight is and fortnight is
kind of close to what yeah pretty much pretty
much the same thing yeah so these days and when
you do you stream online also when you stream
on twitch man oh how's that going i have like
29 followers Kind of a thing that my Ro and I
have been talking about for the last couple of
days. But tell us how your streaming is. Tell
us a little bit about that. How can we follow
you there? So you can just follow. It's the same
thing pretty much. Sunny NWO. That's pretty much
my handle on and do you compete with other people
that are on there or so? No, I just I mean I
just dream and I play for tonight, man You got
a closed server, it's just your your your friends
your media. Yeah, I mean it's open. I mean Yeah,
you're following me. It'll pop out on your feet
My wife's the sweaty one man, she's the one that's
It's pretty good. So I got her into it. It's
crazy. I got her into the game. Yeah, and now
she's better than me It's crazy Yeah, man, and
then sometimes you're like just like leave me
and I'm like dude help me You know what the sad
thing is you say that my son when we start playing
ghost recon, I think it's the The one where they're
fighting the cartel on the other side wild wild
lands on the wild lands and I brought, I saw
my son, I go, you wanna play? Mikko, he goes,
I don't know, Dad, come on, play. You know, play
with me, all right, cool. He goes, all right,
I'll play. So he started playing and then I would
get on, he would continue playing. So after a
while, you know, he would play on his own and
online and you know, he would meet up with some
people online, what so have you. And about a
week rolls by, you know, whatever. And I'll jump
online with him, play for a little while. Hey,
let's play. He goes, okay, Dad, I'm playing right
now. I go, with who? With a bunch of people with,
we have a, how do you tell, it's a small little
platoon. I'm like, okay, all right, interesting,
all right. So I jump in and it's three guys,
three guys. Three guys, you can hear them talking.
It was like, all right, we're gonna go like this,
blah, blah, blah, blah. I jump in, who's this?
And then my boy goes, that's my dad. He goes,
oh, you're Lone Wolf's dad. I go, Lone Wolf?
Who the hell is Lone Wolf? Lone Wolf. They go,
oh, that's what we call your son, Lone Wolf.
I go, what do you mean? Oh, you'll see in a minute.
Like, all right, whatever. So I'm like, all right,
what do you want me to do? Just hang back. You
got a sniper? I got a sniper rifle. I'll hang
back. I'm pretty good with it. OK, hang back.
We're going to go right mid. And Lone Wolf, he
goes, yeah, do your thing. I do your thing, and
I'm checking. Bro, he goes into a little village,
dude. AWOL Rambo, dude. Killing everything inside.
I'm all like, oh my god. I go, yeah, he does
this every time, man. Your boy's a bomb. I go,
damn. This is only in one week. This kid picked
up. And I'm talking to these guys in their ass.
And where you from? One of them's from Dallas.
The other one's from Houston. The other one's
from, I think he said Florida. And he goes, OK,
oh, that's cool, man. He goes, yeah, your son
has some talent, man. We're actually ex -Marines.
I'm all like, what? Is your son ever planned
to install But yeah, dude, it's it's it's crazy
cuz I feel you man you show you show somebody
how to play a game and they just What the hell?
She's probably got time to be sweet about it
too, right? Yeah, but she's staying home life,
so she has to play. She has the upper hand on
me. I'm out here working like a sucker and you're
at home. And you're a high -core streamer. That's
what I told her, man. If you start streaming,
you'll probably get some followers. Yeah, and
she doesn't have to say anything. She can keep
the mic off and just go. And just go. That's
interesting, yeah. I totally hear you. She's
probably passing in the followers too, man. It
is what it is. Don't worry about it. Oh, baby,
you can stop worrying why I'm making enough money
for both of us now. Stay home, take care of kids,
let mommy do the work, bro. God damn it, we need
the faster internet. This is bullshit. No shit,
we need faster internet. That's crazy, man. Yeah,
I feel you do. When you give a little, people
just... Sometimes you just take it and run man.
Yeah, and that's awesome. That's awesome that
she's got that little hobby, bro That's doing
that stuff and I know it's a having kids in your
life is a total different aspect it's a it's
a game trying to play with the kids because my
three -year -old man he's getting into everything
right now really really yeah man i don't know
how many baby gates i've gone through dude just
stay out of the way man just give the kids to
the house we call david copperfield The deadbolt,
dude, so it's like, oh shoot. Oh my god. He's
three? Yeah, dude, you would just hear, and then
I have the doorbell camera, so you just hear
him running off and after, running behind him.
Just like a couple weeks ago we're at the outlets
and we had him in the stroller He was walking,
he literally flipped the stroller over, and he
was walking and dragging the stroller, dragging
it behind him like, Karla, dude! That, that,
my friend, is an alpha. That's an alpha right
there. You want me to get on the stroller that
bad, man? I'll just let you out. Get me off of
this humongent! Where are you going? Go buy myself
a six pack. Where are those nudie magazines you
were talking about? Give me a cigarette. Jesus,
man. Oh, wow. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I noticed that
in some of the younger generation. It's just
like, wow, man, they're like so funny. My client's
kids are... something else i'm a barber okay
yeah yeah yeah i'm pretty sure you get stories
out of them i one of my four -year -old clients
called uh called his mom a big back oh my gosh
right in front of oh my gosh i'm on the big back
and i was like yo yo wait wait a minute hold
up hold the phone what's going on these kids
have no filter man no filter please tell me he
heard his dad say that this is a dull and true
babysit that kid will take them apart that's
true That's true. I'm gonna make the phone go,
uh, Aaron? Yeah, yeah. How you doing, man? Chu
from Chu New Podcast. I know you want me to babysit.
Your kid took off with both of my legs. And my
butt. One of them shouldn't even have come up.
I need a deep explanation of how your kid does
this. I need to know how... That boy's gonna
be a locksmith when he grows up. Oh yeah, so
he's a... he's crazy too man so i got him a little
skateboard too and he's he's already trying to
like stand on it and trying to like he wants
to follow everything you do dude yeah he's trying
to do everything i do man that's awesome man
because i mean kids at that age at a young age
they uh they want to be just like dad they want
to do what dad's doing he's also my biggest fan
man whenever i play my music videos he's just
there bumping and instead it's badass i had that
for a while i had that for a while now my son
listen to my stuff he goes dad that's cringe
Why are you why you always yelling why you always
laughing your stuff is cringed at Yeah, pretty
much that's an everyday thing But anyways man
51 minutes to the podcast man. We're talking
about games and kids It's just I mean like I
said before it is because we're talking to begin
the podcast We were like you ever ever done a
podcast for a snow been interviewed a live equal.
Oh, I mean basically what we do We want to get
to know you do you want to know who you are how
you grew up and you know, the the your uh, Your
many years behind the scenes exactly, you know
We want to want to want to break down that fourth
wall pretty much, you know To see who that person
is because that's what it takes sometimes when
you want to get to know an artist You know, yeah,
they can be out there performing and do all that.
It was okay. He's Say he's a great artist or
he's mediocre or whatever, you know And you get
to come to a show like this and listen to their
story I mean, oh shit He's kind of just like
a pretty cool guy. He's kind of like me. He's
just trying to do what he can do. I'm just a
regular guy at the end of the day, just trying
to follow my dreams, man. That's all it is. That's
one thing. You follow your dreams. Keeping going
with it, too. Doing that, I think that's everybody's
passion, to follow their dreams, to finally catch
up to what they want to do. Oh, yeah, man. I
think about it sometimes because I see people
my age that didn't follow their dreams, and they
look miserable, man. A lot of people I see that
didn't. didn't follow their dreams or they had
to stop or for whatever reason yeah because i
mean they they see they probably see like well
what if i had i'm still doing you're still doing
it and you're doing all right and you know they
wondered like well what what what if what if
yeah yeah that's what always what i never want
to go back and say what if man that's yeah exactly
that's pretty much all you know i don't want
to go back and man what would happen if i did
it you know right well let's talk this this let's
bring that that conversation up if the date does
come where you're you're one single it only takes
one even if you can be a one -hit wonder it takes
one that one hits you get the call are you You
get to that moment What is it that you feel that
you'll be able to process? I mean what what?
What's the next step? Mean like I said, I don't
know I just kind of I mean I take it every day
the way I Take it every day like it could happen.
So I mean, I mean that happens it happens, you
know, I'm just I don't know what I would do immediately,
but I Know I know it's like it could happen.
So, you know, I'm always expecting it. I guess
yeah saying no It feels like it's right there.
Yeah, it feels like it's just so close one day
like I mean just like one day to the next like
like I mean I haven't made it yet but one day
the next my Instagram started fucking blowing
up and I started getting paid on Facebook you
know so it's just like yeah it just happens literally
one day to the next you know it doesn't happen
overnight but I hope it happens it happens overnight
but it doesn't happen overnight I don't know
if that makes sense you gotta work your way to
it you know you still gotta work for it but it's
just one day it's just gonna I mean yeah I just
never know and then we're talking about that
right now as far as like you know as far as social
media wise Ro and I were, well, Ro came up with
the idea. He showed me, he sent me a chart and
we're going over it and we're like, this guy
goes, bro, if you can, if you don't have that
many subscribers, you don't have that many followers,
that's fine. If you can get at least 50 people,
50 people, let's see, 50 people that are dedicated
to your Facebook page, to your TikTok, to your
Instagram or whatsoever, YouTube, and they're
constantly. watching, watching, watching, liking,
watching, following everything you do. I mean,
I was looking at the scales of that. You're looking
at by at least, and I'm not messing with you,
you can look it up yourself. You're looking at
by at least 25 to 30 ,000 a month. Easy. I go,
damn, that's kinda close to what I make in a
frickin' year. And it's the truth. It's just
that you gotta want it. You gotta be dedicated
to it. You gotta go out there and... look for
it, you gotta, it's all, it's all... It's all
a numbers game. Exactly, it's a numbers game.
It's a numbers game. The more you put out, the
more you get in. Exactly. That's all it is. Well,
I've said something similar too, like I've said,
you know, kind of jokingly that if every single
one of our followers and subscribers sent us
a dollar, you know, we'd have like five dollars.
And that's every month. And that made the strip
for this week. We have five dollars like hell.
We have a whole ass Benjamin. Yes. That's a small
order of fries for me and you to have tonight.
That's a big potato. Well, I mean, we're coming
up to 56, so we're gonna start wrapping up in
a couple of minutes, man. Upcoming, you said
you had some upcoming venues coming up? Yeah,
so, yeah, July 5th, we'll be at Luna Sky Lounge
over there in Harlingen, Texas. Jordan Scott
put that one together. And then I have, just
like I said, a bunch of videos, man. I kind of
did, so the whole beginning of the year to...
I did a lot of shows, man. I did like a little,
I made myself like a little mini tour kind of
because I was in McAllen, I was in Brownsville,
I went to Fort Worth, Dallas. So I had a bunch
of shows, you know, and kind of... Mini tour,
mini tour Texas, pretty much. Mini tour, yeah,
mini tour Texas. So now I just want to, like
I said, I want to focus on the videos because
I dropped a lot of songs. Now I just want to
put visuals to the videos, you know, into the
music. So that way, you know, visuals always
kind of give you a little better aspect of what...
you're trying to try to put out, you know? I
got you, yeah. Yeah, so I tried, I don't know
if y 'all saw the Trav Brady video, but that
video was probably one of my best videos I've
ever put out. I was watching Bits and Pieces,
but I was such in a hurry to put the commercial
together. I... Kind of scammed through a little
bit of looking at it and go, hey, it looks real
professional. Oh, yeah, we did. That was by the
Marga of Seattle. Oh, big shout out to Marga,
man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we did that video,
man. That video, I mean, I put some thought and
effort into that video, man. Down to the outfits,
to everything. Right, right, right. It was pretty
fun. right yeah man so uh social medias that
we can follow i know i posted up the qr code
and everything but more stuff pretty much at
sonny nwo on every platform instagram uh i think
facebook it's sonny nwo with the six at the end
but mainly i mean each platform you can literally
search me on google search sonny on google and
everything comes up yeah yeah i've used that
line so many times you know just type our name
just type our name on google on google and we
pop out like a freaking sore weed on a summer
day Oh, man, there they are. Damn it. Not again.
Not again. Well, first I want to say is thank
you so much for coming to Chew New Podcast, man.
Thanks for having me. All I can say is that,
man, just keep doing what, excuse me, keep doing
what you're doing. I mean, keep pushing forward.
Every day, man, every day. If the hip hop thing
don't work. My nice rock Mama got you on four.
We're on a four -night I'm done. It's your turn
jump on that video game console. Let's go Now
you're all in there saying hit you know, he's
not gonna hit you dude. Golly. It's not gonna
happen. I see no Jesus He really has it out for
you tonight, bro Where's Nicky? I thought we
were friends, Nicky. Help a brother out. But
no, but all power to you, man. Keep doing what
you do and keep pushing out hits. If there's
any like your upcoming venues, make sure you
shoot them out to us. We'll put them on our on
our TuneIn podcast, our Facebook page and our
Instagram. We'll try to promote you as much as
we can, man. Any last words you want to say to
the fans out there? Not much, man. Just... So
y 'all stay tuned for what's coming next. TDK,
by the way, shout out TDK. We just got a new
location at the outlet. So y 'all want to come
check out our shoes, get a haircut. Y 'all know
where to find me. OK. And yeah, man, that's pretty
much it. Much love. Appreciate y 'all for having
me out tonight, you know. TDK, I think I want
to go out there and kind of see what's happening.
Look at the way, look at the way you look at
me, dude. Look at the way you look at me. He's
like, he's like a dollar sign. Come on, mother.
Come on, you son of a bitch. Come to my house,
cut all that shit out. Give him the TikTok broccolis.
He goes, fill out that beer, get it, get it.
Let's go. Let me get the Sharpie out. Turn your
back. But now man, thank you so much, but I appreciate
you coming out man, and nothing but love to you,
man Hopefully everything works out in the end
and you get nothing but success along your journey,
bro God bless man. That is our episode for tonight
an hour round the money to an hour, right? So
I mean it was a great episode a big shout out
to anyone Aaron Lopez, man. Sonny, man. Great
guest on the podcast today. We should have a
lot of fun posting different stuff. I know last
week we posted up the B -roll for Freddy Honda.
And I was the Ewok and I had you as the Wookie.
I just hope we don't get hit with anything. George
Lucas has bigger problems. Don't worry about
it. By the way, I used, I'm gonna let you know,
I used AI for that and I described it to a T,
a little short teddy bearer that is a warrior
fighting in space against space pirates. And
that's what it gave me. And I did the same thing
to yours, dude. Okay, whatever. I'm thinking
about my Twitch career right now. Which you're
not on anymore because it kicked out. I will
be back spicy avocado 69 will return Ladies and
gentlemen, that is our podcast for that next
week 730. We have a cheese man on here It's gonna
be an industry one. I don't know who's gonna
show up to the pod or it's gonna be a video interview
But there's a lot of questions and I know a lot
of viewers are gonna be watching that next week
Jimmy if you want we can we can put you behind
a sheet band as well We'll do whatever we got
to do man. Don't worry about it. We do have a
ghost. We do have a ghost I do believe in ghosts.
I do. Oh, I got one more here Fernando Guilian
saying hell. Yes, Sonny Got them badass jams.
All right. Here we go, man But uh guys tune in
next week 7 30 p .m We have another great episode
for you. What's the next week on seven? Wait,
sorry next week tuesday It's on a tuesday. Oh,
man. I think I got you know what? Let me check
I'm trying i'm trying I gotta lean over a little
bit to get it straight. No, I was right june
It's first, which lands on a Tuesday. July 1st.
Where am I? Where am I today? Jesus. October
1st next week, everybody. October the 1st. And
we're in January. January 26th. No, July 1st,
we will have that episode live on. Facebook like
we did today. Thank you so much for inviting
us back to Facebook live and our YouTube is still
running also for those who want to subscribe
and watch this episode Thank you so much guys.
Next week's episode is gonna be great. Chu any
last words? Keep an eye on value musicians dude.
They just keep popping up. It's been a fun ride,
you know gained a note Hopefully get more, you
know, later on in the year as it goes. Yep. And
hopefully we continue to bring up more. And I
hope Sonny answers our phone calls when we call
it, dude. I'm tired of these musicians dropping
us, dude. You better answer our phone calls,
man. Who the hell calling me? Man, hang up the
phone, baby. Get back on Fortnite. Anyways, man,
thank you so much for watching the episode. Sign
us out, Chu. I'm Chu. And I'm Wu. We'll see you
next week, Tuesday, 7 .30 p .m. Ladies and gays,
peace out. Bye, everybody.