WEBVTT 00:00:02.450 --> 00:00:05.589 Welcome to the show. We're diving into the world 00:00:05.589 --> 00:00:08.830 of local talent, artists, wrestlers, and businesses. 00:00:09.589 --> 00:00:18.190 Let's get started. What's going on guys welcome 00:00:18.190 --> 00:00:20.670 back to the junior podcast I am alone today, 00:00:20.710 --> 00:00:22.570 but not alone in the studio. I got some great 00:00:22.570 --> 00:00:25.230 guests with us today First I want to say thank 00:00:25.230 --> 00:00:26.929 you to everybody tuning in last week a great 00:00:26.929 --> 00:00:31.670 show with Los party perros del Valle tag team 00:00:31.670 --> 00:00:35.829 wrestling unfortunately, I did release a Huge 00:00:35.829 --> 00:00:38.009 message to them because they kind of broke my 00:00:38.009 --> 00:00:41.750 heart a little bit guys they went off and Well, 00:00:41.750 --> 00:00:43.649 there was some backstabbing going on the background. 00:00:43.670 --> 00:00:47.420 So I had to release the beast, I guess. But other 00:00:47.420 --> 00:00:49.939 than that, we got some interesting news today 00:00:49.939 --> 00:00:52.280 after the podcast, a big announcement for season 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:54.899 seven. We finally came to the conclusion of what 00:00:54.899 --> 00:00:57.520 we're going to do for next season, a total twist 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.159 on the podcast. So it might be a little bit more 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:03.759 fun for a lot of people and maybe bring up some 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:05.140 more interest on more people that want to get 00:01:05.140 --> 00:01:07.319 more involved on what's going on here in the 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.879 RGB. But other than that, guys, back to what's 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:17.239 going on today. Episode 259. Oh, my gosh. Oh, 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.079 easier said than done, right? You hear those 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.599 wonderful voices in the background today on the 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:28.969 podcast, guys. I got three gentlemen out of a, 00:01:29.069 --> 00:01:32.230 how many people are in this group? 200. Oh, 200 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:36.069 people. Everybody plays guitar, one bass, one 00:01:36.069 --> 00:01:38.310 drum, and one vinyl player, and one keyboard. 00:01:39.569 --> 00:01:43.489 No, but they've been on a podcast before with 00:01:43.489 --> 00:01:47.189 my little brother with Quez on Cafe Chisme. They 00:01:47.189 --> 00:01:49.250 know what to expect there, but I give them some 00:01:49.250 --> 00:01:51.170 ground rules, guys, when they came in here. So 00:01:51.170 --> 00:01:56.480 they have to play nice today. Now, we're going 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.540 to go ahead and talk about how everything started 00:01:58.540 --> 00:01:59.859 with them, where they're from, who they are, 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.780 and everything. But long overdue introduction, 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.700 guys. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to welcome 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:13.000 Grupo Mero Valle. Look alive, guys. Look alive. 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.139 And the manager sitting next to me, she's going 00:02:15.139 --> 00:02:19.289 to be on camera. Awesome. No, hey guys, welcome 00:02:19.289 --> 00:02:21.550 to the two new podcast guys. Thank you Thank 00:02:21.550 --> 00:02:23.610 you. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Thank you so 00:02:23.610 --> 00:02:26.830 much for having us I do want to say before we 00:02:26.830 --> 00:02:29.069 start. I want to start by complimenting you. 00:02:29.069 --> 00:02:31.169 I did notice that you have very nice hair, dude 00:02:31.169 --> 00:02:34.610 You know, he's wearing a hat now, but when we 00:02:34.610 --> 00:02:36.530 got here he wasn't out and I freaked out I'm 00:02:36.530 --> 00:02:39.750 like that guy that you're gonna miss in his eyes 00:02:39.750 --> 00:02:49.479 My hair starting to look bad But that's good 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:51.659 man, I think a man with good hair says a lot 00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:54.000 man. Hey man, turning 50 in a couple of more 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.919 weeks. Grandfather when he passed away, a full 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:58.639 set of hair, I was blessed. I did that right 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.979 now. There you go. Can't say much request. Sorry, 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:06.960 but. No guys, like I said, thank you for coming 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:08.500 out to the pod man, having a little fun with 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:11.340 us here today. First of all, let's start from. 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:15.280 right to left, your left, my right. Name, instrument, 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.340 and where you're from? I'm Alex Medina, I'm the 00:03:18.340 --> 00:03:20.919 drummer and I am from Mission, Texas. There you 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.439 go. I'm Baby D, I do raps and play the wheel 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:29.300 and I'm from Mission. There you go. You're angry, 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:33.500 right? Jesse Segovia, lead vocalist. There you 00:03:33.500 --> 00:03:35.300 go, there you go. It's always the lead vocalist 00:03:35.300 --> 00:03:39.240 that has the giggles. The ones that that's the 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:41.620 one basically on the mic all the time. So pretty 00:03:41.620 --> 00:03:46.180 much passes gas. Everybody's here Everybody gets 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:49.460 to see my booty That's what the girls come pay 00:03:49.460 --> 00:03:57.060 for buddy Your burps a lot for sure that's that's 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:01.469 one of his main things through which hole It 00:04:01.469 --> 00:04:04.009 depends what I eat before singing. Hey bro, this 00:04:04.009 --> 00:04:07.270 is a bass bro. This is a bass. You're helping 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:09.349 your bass player out. Don't worry about it. I 00:04:09.349 --> 00:04:11.289 take advantage of when Alex is hitting the woodblock 00:04:11.289 --> 00:04:17.699 super loud. That's his way of saying shut up 00:04:17.699 --> 00:04:19.620 Alex, you're too loud. Don't let all the secrets 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:21.399 out, guys. I know what it is to have those secrets 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:24.199 to be the musician. Don't do that. You see, it 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.019 got louder. Someone's farting. Someone's farting. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.819 Someone is farting. You go, hey Alex, cover me. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:36.079 Give me a low D. Anyways guys, so tell me a little 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.439 bit about how did we start off with this group? 00:04:39.620 --> 00:04:41.759 I mean, how did you guys eventually come together 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.939 and make this band, I mean, I've heard bits and 00:04:45.939 --> 00:04:47.959 pieces of some of the stuff you write, you play. 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:51.060 I did make the commercial for that. I'm sorry 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:53.360 if I made you guys dance in sync. That was pretty 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.699 cool, actually. That's the best we've ever done. 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.819 I wish we actually danced like that in real life. 00:04:59.500 --> 00:05:01.800 So yeah, that's pretty cool. We're actually in 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.360 tempo. But no, tell me a little bit how you guys 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.040 got together, guys, and how you met and you know. 00:05:08.250 --> 00:05:10.069 Go ahead, whoever wants to start first. I'll 00:05:10.069 --> 00:05:12.129 go first. Well, it's actually a pretty cool story, 00:05:12.629 --> 00:05:15.569 man. It all started because, well, of course, 00:05:15.689 --> 00:05:17.769 me and Jesse and, of course, Baby D, we have 00:05:17.769 --> 00:05:21.470 a background music from years back. But not too 00:05:21.470 --> 00:05:24.370 long ago, Jesse was actually doing his solo career 00:05:24.370 --> 00:05:28.569 as a singer. He was trying to take off. And I 00:05:28.569 --> 00:05:31.170 coincidentally wanted to start a podcast. Oh, 00:05:31.170 --> 00:05:32.829 there you go. Yeah, we actually which is what 00:05:32.829 --> 00:05:35.250 we actually have right now. All right. It's the. 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:38.699 And so Jesse wanted me to help him out on the 00:05:38.699 --> 00:05:40.879 drums, like just as a, you know, sitting drummer. 00:05:40.980 --> 00:05:43.319 So I started doing that and I told him, okay, 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:44.980 I'll do it, but help me out with the podcast. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.120 I've always wanted to start one and you have 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.019 the studio, you have the know -how, help me out. 00:05:50.220 --> 00:05:53.839 So we started helping out mutually and that grew 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.660 into us. or actually him kind of realizing, you 00:05:57.660 --> 00:05:59.100 know what, I don't really want to do the solo 00:05:59.100 --> 00:06:01.500 thing, I want to do a band. So he's, you know, 00:06:01.579 --> 00:06:03.579 we had a little talk and it was just one of those 00:06:03.579 --> 00:06:06.360 moments where we just clicked as far as I mean, 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:14.600 it's always about music, man. Yeah. I get it, 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:17.040 I get it. He gets you with the hair thing and 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.779 then he's like, okay, relax, now I can go. I'll 00:06:19.779 --> 00:06:22.560 go for the kill now. That's how you get me. I 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.819 mean, anything that has to do with good hair 00:06:24.819 --> 00:06:28.560 and I'm there, man. Okay, let's change the subject 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:35.680 From there it went to let's let's try it out, 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:37.100 you know, let's let's have a little rehearsal 00:06:37.100 --> 00:06:40.540 and we invited just some buddies just up It wasn't 00:06:40.540 --> 00:06:42.480 meant to be a serious thing for the band, right? 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.600 Let's let's jam out and see what happens and 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.379 the guys that came over they end up liking it 00:06:46.379 --> 00:06:47.839 and they're like Hey, we're in if you guys are 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.560 gonna put this together. We'll do it and from 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.199 there that was about what about a year and a 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:55.860 half ago pretty much and ever since you know 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.120 From that point, we said, okay, well, let's just 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.579 do weddings and quinceañeras. Let's not get into 00:07:00.579 --> 00:07:05.560 the mess of studio. And then two weeks later, 00:07:05.699 --> 00:07:08.399 we were in the studio. So that's how that works. 00:07:09.339 --> 00:07:12.279 And now we're fortunate to, we're going already 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:16.660 on our sixth. Sixth. Sixth. Sixth. Bro, I'm just 00:07:16.660 --> 00:07:18.500 waiting for our single number six. I'm sorry. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:20.480 I'm just waiting for the moment where his English 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:25.199 is done. This is about to happen. I got prepaid 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.360 English like you pay 20 bucks at Walmart and 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.740 he gives you like 30 minutes of English and it's 00:07:29.740 --> 00:07:33.899 over. I've heard of that before, bro. Look, honestly, 00:07:34.100 --> 00:07:35.879 if we do the interview in Spanish, it's much 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:38.959 better for me, bro. But it doesn't matter, we'll 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:50.009 do it as it is. That's pretty much the story, 00:07:50.389 --> 00:07:53.089 man. I think the hardest part for us was coming 00:07:53.089 --> 00:07:55.550 up with the name. We juggled a bunch of names. 00:07:56.250 --> 00:08:00.350 I think at one point we had a couple of weird 00:08:00.350 --> 00:08:13.810 names. I don't know if Jesse, since Metawayo 00:08:13.810 --> 00:08:15.790 was Jesse's idea, I think I should let him share 00:08:15.790 --> 00:08:19.250 the story on that. You don't mind if I move on? 00:08:19.250 --> 00:08:23.730 No, go ahead. It's all good. So yeah, pretty 00:08:23.730 --> 00:08:27.410 much we were at a practice, a late practice session, 00:08:27.990 --> 00:08:30.410 and you know, we're like, okay, we got the band 00:08:30.410 --> 00:08:33.090 together, let's come up with a name. And the 00:08:33.090 --> 00:08:36.009 first thing that pops into my mind is Grupo Frontera. 00:08:36.250 --> 00:08:39.269 Why? Because they're representing the frontage. 00:08:40.750 --> 00:08:43.789 But Frontera could be a Frontera from anywhere. 00:08:44.730 --> 00:08:49.250 So I'm thinking to myself, and Los MV pops in 00:08:49.250 --> 00:08:54.090 my mind. Los MV right? Mero Valle. It's a bold 00:08:54.090 --> 00:08:56.889 statement. It's pretty much representing... who 00:08:56.889 --> 00:08:59.929 we are, where we're from. And it's not only that, 00:09:00.129 --> 00:09:03.029 but we see it with conviction, with, you know, 00:09:03.230 --> 00:09:06.029 we're proud to be from the Valley, so it's not 00:09:06.029 --> 00:09:08.990 just a Grupo from the Valley, del Mero Valle. 00:09:09.169 --> 00:09:11.330 So Grupo Mero Valle, and that's how, you know... 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:14.019 It clicked, and you know, surprisingly, Alex 00:09:14.019 --> 00:09:17.820 liked it. I never liked shit, that's why. No, 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:20.259 no, I like to say we're night and day. Sometimes 00:09:20.259 --> 00:09:21.860 I'm night, sometimes it's day and vice versa, 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:23.500 right? It's just how it works. It's good to have 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:25.639 a yin and yang in the bread. Exactly, exactly. 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:27.559 But it's crazy because at the end of the day, 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.320 it kind of brings balance because one thing we 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.299 both do have in common is we compromise a lot. 00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:35.580 Right. I mean, we have totally different ideas, 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:37.779 but we'll try to both be like, okay, well, where 00:09:37.779 --> 00:09:39.820 can I meet you halfway and where can you meet 00:09:39.820 --> 00:09:42.519 me halfway? And that has definitely complimented 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:46.740 the commitment to this band and it's been good. 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:49.240 And then Brenda comes in the picture and makes 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:53.139 things even harder. Easier but harder, right? 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.419 I'm kidding. But yeah, that's how we pretty much 00:09:56.419 --> 00:09:59.759 came up with the name. It's just like, how can 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.519 we do that? By mentioning the name in it. We 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:04.279 didn't want to include the 956 in it because 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.840 that ain't choteado. Everybody uses 956 for everything 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:11.230 in a ghetto way and I'm sorry to say it. Metal 00:10:11.230 --> 00:10:13.769 eye, you know, and it's clicked and then maybe 00:10:13.769 --> 00:10:16.809 they started working a an artwork and yeah, I 00:10:16.809 --> 00:10:26.029 remember that night when they called me What 00:10:26.029 --> 00:10:28.649 do you what do you think about this nail like 00:10:28.649 --> 00:10:30.490 man if you're gonna represent the valley I mean, 00:10:30.490 --> 00:10:32.990 that's perfect. Yeah, I started working on the 00:10:32.990 --> 00:10:37.639 on the logo I do have to, I want to mention that 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.559 Baby D takes care of all our, anything has to 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:43.399 do with the artwork images and stuff. He's been 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.220 doing it for years. He has actually his own business 00:10:46.220 --> 00:10:49.960 where he does graphic designing, promotions for 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.220 businesses. So he, I mean, it was a perfect, 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.840 aside from the music side that he brings to the 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.519 band, he also helps out with that. So I mean, 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:00.519 you know, we all try to compliment the band somehow, 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.409 you know, with whatever skill we have. We try 00:11:03.409 --> 00:11:06.710 to make it as, what's that word you use? F -Y 00:11:06.710 --> 00:11:11.350 -I or what? DIY. DIY, do it yourself. We try 00:11:11.350 --> 00:11:12.950 to do it ourselves as much as we can. It's because 00:11:12.950 --> 00:11:19.009 it's the Home Depot way. Do more. That's a fancy 00:11:19.009 --> 00:11:22.210 way of saying we're broke, okay? Yeah, pretty 00:11:22.210 --> 00:11:25.470 much. We can't afford to pay anybody, so. Hey 00:11:25.470 --> 00:11:28.409 man, whatever works, bro. I might hit you up 00:11:28.409 --> 00:11:30.730 towards the end of the season, the season of 00:11:30.730 --> 00:11:32.590 this year, because we're going to change our 00:11:32.590 --> 00:11:34.450 emblem again for something that's coming up. 00:11:35.049 --> 00:11:38.309 So yeah, I will reach out to you for sure. So 00:11:38.309 --> 00:11:40.509 you guys come up with a band, the rest of the 00:11:40.509 --> 00:11:43.730 members, was this just people that you knew or 00:11:43.730 --> 00:11:45.950 along the way you started having auditions? I 00:11:45.950 --> 00:11:48.519 mean, was it you first three that started? start 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.200 the whole thing first, or is it unity? We've 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.919 had a mix of, there's been a few that have come, 00:11:57.659 --> 00:12:01.720 they come and went. I mean, nothing wrong with 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.940 anybody not wanting to be a part of it. If it's 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:06.419 not for you, it's not for you. And we've always 00:12:06.419 --> 00:12:08.580 tried to be as clear as possible. I mean, here 00:12:08.580 --> 00:12:11.139 with Metal Valle, all we really ask for is... 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:13.419 I mean, while we're here, either rehearsing or 00:12:13.419 --> 00:12:15.840 performing, just give it 100%. You know, you 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.379 don't have to be the best musician in the world. 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:19.340 But as long as you're, you know, committed to 00:12:19.340 --> 00:12:21.139 what we're doing, that's all we really ask for. 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:22.860 And there's been cases where that's, you know, 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:25.139 we haven't really met eye to eye with some members 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:28.019 and we've parted ways. But for the most part, 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.139 everybody's that that's become a part of metal 00:12:30.139 --> 00:12:32.779 by has stuck around. And I feel very confident 00:12:32.779 --> 00:12:35.399 that the team that we have at the moment, I mean, 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.519 we're we're really good, man. It's like an engine. 00:12:37.740 --> 00:12:39.919 It's a very fine tuned engine to where everybody's 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.389 on the same page. and it works out. That's awesome. 00:12:42.870 --> 00:12:44.850 So as many, when you guys started off, like I 00:12:44.850 --> 00:12:47.149 said, you want to do weddings, quinceañeras, 00:12:47.409 --> 00:12:49.470 and virtual reunions and all that stuff, but 00:12:49.470 --> 00:12:51.779 it just went... You said, you know what, we're 00:12:51.779 --> 00:12:54.279 just going straight to the studio. Yeah, I think 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:56.279 it's weird how that happened because, I mean, 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.740 as you know, everything is social media now and 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:01.899 I like to say YouTube is your business card for 00:13:01.899 --> 00:13:03.960 musicians. You don't have anything on YouTube, 00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:05.919 you're nobody, I'm sorry. Yeah, exactly. It don't 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.899 matter how much talent you have, which we don't, 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:09.519 right, but at least we have stuff out there. 00:13:09.539 --> 00:13:13.340 Oh wow, you got stuff out there, bro. But yeah, 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:15.879 you know, it's like... let's just record something, 00:13:15.899 --> 00:13:18.860 why not? And from one came the other, and the 00:13:18.860 --> 00:13:21.559 other, and now we're working on our sixth, possibly 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:23.600 even seventh, and then we got like five songs 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.059 lined up or something like that. I don't even 00:13:26.059 --> 00:13:28.940 know where to begin anymore. And I'd like to 00:13:28.940 --> 00:13:31.960 add a little bit to that, Jesse, also that our 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:33.820 friends, people have known us for a long time 00:13:33.820 --> 00:13:36.559 that know what we've done in the music industry. 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.299 They kind of set the bar high for us, because 00:13:39.299 --> 00:13:41.019 as soon as they found out that we were putting 00:13:41.019 --> 00:13:43.139 a band together, they automatically assumed, 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:44.799 oh, you guys you're gonna do that again, like 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.580 where you're gonna go record and tour and stuff 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:48.580 like that. Because that's stuff that me and Jesse 00:13:48.580 --> 00:13:50.700 and Baby D of course have done as well in the 00:13:50.700 --> 00:13:53.799 past. So it was kind of hard to say, no, well, 00:13:53.860 --> 00:13:55.840 we just wanna chill here, you know, like. you 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.220 know we actually it was the same thing you know 00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:00.080 when people started saying that so that's when 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.059 me and him started saying you know why not let's 00:14:02.059 --> 00:14:03.639 let's just go into the studio do something see 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:06.200 what happens right and i mean it's it's what 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:07.960 we know how to do i mean that's that's what we 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.779 know how to do it and like jesse says we live 00:14:09.779 --> 00:14:12.700 in times where you have to put yourself out there 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:14.720 online and what better way than to do it into 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.679 something you know professionally done we know 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.759 how to do it so why not i don't want to ask i'm 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.039 not i'm not gonna i'm not putting you on the 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:29.129 spot but Explain to me the name. Baby D. Baby 00:14:29.129 --> 00:14:32.570 D? Yes. Okay, when I started, actually... Because 00:14:32.570 --> 00:14:36.309 the only thing that I'm seeing right now is Friday 00:14:36.309 --> 00:14:38.590 and I'm seeing... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got 00:14:38.590 --> 00:14:45.350 some of those twinkies. Cookie, cookie. That's 00:14:45.350 --> 00:14:48.730 a new one. That's a new one. You want to mess 00:14:48.730 --> 00:14:56.350 with Baby D. No, the name came because actually 00:14:56.350 --> 00:15:00.590 I was the little one on the boy band that I used 00:15:00.590 --> 00:15:03.370 to play with. Okay. It's called La Pura Neta. 00:15:03.549 --> 00:15:05.649 Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, I was the... I thought 00:15:05.649 --> 00:15:07.809 you were saying it back to your voice. I thought 00:15:07.809 --> 00:15:08.990 you were saying it back to your voice. Hey, bro, 00:15:09.169 --> 00:15:12.529 it's something, bro. See, I was the youngest 00:15:12.529 --> 00:15:15.450 one. Ah, okay. And my real name is Danny. Danny. 00:15:15.450 --> 00:15:17.970 Okay. So that's why they call me Baby. Baby, 00:15:18.049 --> 00:15:20.789 okay. So you just... They just call me that name 00:15:20.789 --> 00:15:23.049 just like that. I mean, I don't mind. I can keep 00:15:23.049 --> 00:15:25.549 my name, Danny, or whatever it is. You cannot 00:15:25.549 --> 00:15:27.750 use that name, the real name. You have to be 00:15:27.750 --> 00:15:31.029 creative, you have to create this image and another 00:15:31.029 --> 00:15:34.590 nickname and this and that so they can recognize. 00:15:34.590 --> 00:15:36.990 I'm surprised they didn't call you P .W .D. No, 00:15:37.250 --> 00:15:41.429 we don't want that. That's the reason why they 00:15:41.429 --> 00:15:44.009 got me that name. P .W .D. As long as you don't 00:15:44.009 --> 00:15:45.769 have somebody that's joking, no more locked doors, 00:15:45.870 --> 00:15:50.649 no more locked doors. We're good. Yeah, Baby 00:15:50.649 --> 00:15:53.389 D comes from the La Pura Neta camp. If you ever 00:15:53.389 --> 00:15:55.629 heard of them, they were the crew that, if you 00:15:55.629 --> 00:15:57.909 ever heard Chocolata from Cumbia Kings, if you 00:15:57.909 --> 00:16:00.669 remember, by Peewee, there's a little section 00:16:00.669 --> 00:16:03.090 in the middle of the song, there's like a rap 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:06.049 section, and it's La Pura Neta, the crew where 00:16:06.049 --> 00:16:08.389 he was at, they're the ones that... that the 00:16:08.389 --> 00:16:11.590 flow there was producing them at the time. So, 00:16:11.629 --> 00:16:13.629 I mean, Baby D's been around, man. That's actually 00:16:13.629 --> 00:16:15.950 how I met him, actually. When he was part of 00:16:15.950 --> 00:16:18.990 that team, we met up in Monterrey, and that was, 00:16:19.129 --> 00:16:21.750 what, 25 years ago? And ever since, I mean, we've 00:16:21.750 --> 00:16:23.850 been in touch, and we finally had the opportunity. 00:16:24.769 --> 00:16:26.870 You know, when me and Jesse were putting this 00:16:26.870 --> 00:16:29.570 crew together, we wanted to give it that fresh, 00:16:29.769 --> 00:16:35.210 urban style as well. I didn't get asked. Yeah, 00:16:35.370 --> 00:16:39.419 it was my idea. and he's like, hey, I'm your 00:16:39.419 --> 00:16:42.019 new hype man, okay. And what's your name, Baby 00:16:42.019 --> 00:16:44.600 D? Oh, you don't mess with Baby D. You don't 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:51.320 mess with Baby D. And that's a good way to transition 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:52.899 to something else that I want to ask, because 00:16:52.899 --> 00:16:54.740 I did watch a couple of podcasts that you guys 00:16:54.740 --> 00:16:56.840 were on, and I believe it was, you're the drummer, 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:59.559 correct? Yeah, that's right. I believe it was 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.340 with, shout out to Delta, Delta, was it Delta? 00:17:04.020 --> 00:17:06.119 Was it that one? I can't remember which the podcast 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.099 was. One of you guys, I think it was through 00:17:08.099 --> 00:17:09.720 that one. One of you guys was supposing that 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.940 that was that? No? It's someone else? It was 00:17:11.940 --> 00:17:14.599 not the Tejano Legend one? Yeah. That's the one, 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.039 remember? The one at the studio. It was an online 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.200 interview, right? Right. Oh, through TikTok? 00:17:20.579 --> 00:17:23.299 Yeah. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I saw that. Tell me a 00:17:23.299 --> 00:17:26.059 little bit about that. How did that come up to, 00:17:26.059 --> 00:17:28.900 you know, how'd you get into a light to that? 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:31.039 How did you get the interview for that? for you 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.519 mean to the do the actual podcast. I think they 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.980 reached out through TikTok. OK, we've actually 00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:37.880 been following each other because of our podcast 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.079 as well. And, you know, they reached out. And 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:42.819 first of all, to congratulate us, I think at 00:17:42.819 --> 00:17:44.680 the time we had interviewed somebody, I can't 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.019 remember who it was, somebody who sings Tejano 00:17:47.019 --> 00:17:49.579 or we were talking about him or something. We 00:17:49.579 --> 00:17:53.380 were talking about that. We got Jay Perez. Oh, 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:55.839 my gosh. Are you serious? Well, we didn't have 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:58.559 we didn't have him on the podcast, but he he 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.369 he commented on one. That's awesome. One of our 00:18:01.369 --> 00:18:04.150 clips. That's awesome. And from there, that kind 00:18:04.150 --> 00:18:06.710 of went a little viral. And since being that 00:18:06.710 --> 00:18:09.089 they're a Tejano podcast, they were kind of interested 00:18:09.089 --> 00:18:11.569 in who we were, what we were doing. And I'm sorry, 00:18:11.690 --> 00:18:13.049 I didn't even jump in to ask. The name of the 00:18:13.049 --> 00:18:15.609 podcast you guys were doing is? That was Legends. 00:18:15.809 --> 00:18:19.009 Legends podcast. Oh, OK. OK, OK, OK. Latin Legends. 00:18:19.990 --> 00:18:23.130 Yes, yes, OK. Yeah. And I mean, it was a pretty 00:18:23.130 --> 00:18:26.150 good chat, man. From the interviews that he's 00:18:26.150 --> 00:18:29.769 done before, we were kind of like the first Because 00:18:29.769 --> 00:18:32.529 we're not precisely Tejano. We're kind of Grupero, 00:18:32.690 --> 00:18:36.130 Norteño, Tejano. It's a mix of music, what we 00:18:36.130 --> 00:18:39.049 do. So it was kind of cool to be in a different, 00:18:39.430 --> 00:18:41.450 like they say, to be out of our comfort zone, 00:18:41.450 --> 00:18:43.349 you know, with a totally different genre. But 00:18:43.349 --> 00:18:44.970 we managed pretty good. I mean, it was a pretty 00:18:44.970 --> 00:18:47.569 good chat. I mean, I think everybody pretty much 00:18:47.569 --> 00:18:49.630 enjoyed it. And you say that you're all low. 00:18:49.950 --> 00:18:52.349 Those are the good bands, though, man. I mean, 00:18:52.430 --> 00:18:54.430 not to toot my own horn here, but playing in 00:18:54.430 --> 00:18:57.630 the band I used to play with, we all had different 00:18:57.630 --> 00:19:01.269 styles. I was a blues. My buddy was a heavy metalist. 00:19:01.490 --> 00:19:04.309 The drummer was a tech. He liked drumming techno 00:19:04.309 --> 00:19:07.670 -wise. The bass player was more of a jazz, metal, 00:19:07.829 --> 00:19:10.109 blues, rock. And then you had a singer that was 00:19:10.109 --> 00:19:13.670 into YouTube, Tapeche mode, all these. It was 00:19:13.670 --> 00:19:15.410 just a mixture and the music is beautiful. I 00:19:15.410 --> 00:19:18.769 can only imagine. I mean, so much. When you bring 00:19:18.769 --> 00:19:20.809 more to the pot, it's like a big pot of menudo, 00:19:21.049 --> 00:19:23.369 man. And I mean, it's kind of like, what the 00:19:23.369 --> 00:19:25.049 hell's going on? But when you get a flavor of 00:19:25.049 --> 00:19:27.940 it, you're like, God. Yeah. Well, the weird thing 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:30.019 about that is, you know, for the most part, of 00:19:30.019 --> 00:19:32.079 course, we do have our original music, but for 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.640 the most part, it's covers. You know, we play 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:35.980 at events, we play covers. But what's interesting 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:39.359 about it is that since all the musicians in this 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.059 band come from different backgrounds, as much 00:19:42.059 --> 00:19:44.490 as we want to try to cover... to make them sound 00:19:44.490 --> 00:19:46.529 like the original they sound different yeah in 00:19:46.529 --> 00:19:49.089 a good way yeah so that's always i mean it's 00:19:49.089 --> 00:19:50.910 always fun to play with that you know because 00:19:50.910 --> 00:19:54.069 i mean it at first it kind of freaked us out 00:19:54.069 --> 00:19:55.970 but we noticed that it made us stand out you 00:19:55.970 --> 00:19:58.690 know from the rest of the other bands we kind 00:19:58.690 --> 00:20:03.420 of had a like a little internal battle like I 00:20:03.420 --> 00:20:05.619 guess you can call it that where it's like man 00:20:05.619 --> 00:20:08.839 it's cuz it's it's we gotta in a way respect 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.160 what the original song sounds like right yeah 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.720 but you know the people that we have like to 00:20:14.649 --> 00:20:18.230 use, incorporate their own essence. And it just 00:20:18.230 --> 00:20:20.049 gives it a different flavor. So we got to the 00:20:20.049 --> 00:20:21.289 point where, you know what, let's just let it 00:20:21.289 --> 00:20:24.750 be. And it's what's happening right now. Absolutely. 00:20:26.150 --> 00:20:27.970 That's the beautiful thing about it. I mean, 00:20:27.990 --> 00:20:30.710 I know you can go and hear the original anytime 00:20:30.710 --> 00:20:32.529 you want, but when you get that original and 00:20:32.529 --> 00:20:35.319 you work on it. and you turn it to your style, 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:37.539 it goes, oh man, I've heard the original, but 00:20:37.539 --> 00:20:40.619 have you heard it like this? That's what's awesome, 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:42.980 bro, when you change it and you make it yours. 00:20:43.299 --> 00:20:48.980 It doesn't belong to you, but the style. And 00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:53.319 a good example, just like Johnny Cash, there's 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:56.220 Hurt. It was written by Nine Inch Nails. You 00:20:56.220 --> 00:20:57.539 hear it for the first time, you're like, okay, 00:20:57.579 --> 00:21:00.019 it sounds kind of, but then Cash gets it and 00:21:00.019 --> 00:21:02.920 changes it, and you're like, damn. That sounds, 00:21:03.259 --> 00:21:05.640 I like this rendition, it was like this. And 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.599 same thing with Prince, he wrote Nothing Compares 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.519 to You, and Shani O 'Connor got it, and she made 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.319 it hers. Perfect example of Obama. Yeah, that's 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:17.819 been so much, that's been renovated so much, 00:21:17.900 --> 00:21:21.359 bro, from the traditional mariachi style to the 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:23.220 newer style, and then you have it more of a rock 00:21:23.220 --> 00:21:26.279 style, and it's changed, it's evolved through 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.390 the years. That's what's so awesome, man. Let's 00:21:30.390 --> 00:21:34.829 talk about gigs. You got to give me, give me 00:21:34.829 --> 00:21:37.490 one gig, one gig. You have to give me, I'm pretty 00:21:37.490 --> 00:21:39.240 sure there's quite a few because... You're like, 00:21:39.779 --> 00:21:41.660 I've been in that position before. Well, we've 00:21:41.660 --> 00:21:44.519 only played like three times, so there's one 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:48.420 of the three then. Not a lot of options, but 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:50.740 hey, we'll try. Time to put people on the spot. 00:21:52.299 --> 00:21:55.920 If only our manager could do more. Instead, she's 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.880 selling houses. Hey, hey, bro. That's going to 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.859 pay for the torpos, bro. Okay, well let's let's 00:22:03.859 --> 00:22:06.000 jump off jump off the gig thing. Let's go to 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.779 the studio No, I want to go to the studio because 00:22:09.779 --> 00:22:12.539 studio as a whole Stores and studios are totally 00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:15.460 different to what live gigs are absolutely when 00:22:15.460 --> 00:22:17.940 you're doing these songs the originals or the 00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:22.079 remakes of Covers which song to you personally 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:25.740 was like damn it. I Yeah, I'm done with this 00:22:25.740 --> 00:22:27.799 song. Let's just get it all with let's get through 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:31.099 it. Yeah, I'll play it again when we go live 00:22:31.099 --> 00:22:34.380 okay what song in particular like ours though 00:22:34.380 --> 00:22:35.960 the covers we've done covers that you've done 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:41.119 or an original use like You know, I actually 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:43.140 felt that with one, but we never actually put 00:22:43.140 --> 00:22:47.799 it out, which was Amor No Me Ignores. It's recorded, 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.720 we just never put it out for some reason because 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:52.720 we've had other songs that got priority. But 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:55.259 for some reason, for me in particular, I mean, 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:57.000 and that song was my idea, right? I'm the one 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.220 that put it on the table. But for some reason 00:22:59.220 --> 00:23:00.839 when I was like - Baby's like, yeah, that's the 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:04.420 reason why you didn't put it out. Exactly. But 00:23:04.420 --> 00:23:09.519 it was a real drag, dude. And it's a very rare 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:11.359 thing for me. I mean, for the most part, I always, 00:23:11.460 --> 00:23:13.460 even if I don't like the song, like I'll find 00:23:13.460 --> 00:23:15.400 something like a little edge or something to 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:17.440 get me. And for some reason that song was just 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.559 not. I guess it was just the overall sound of 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.700 it. I was just not enjoying it. Okay. Okay, so 00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:24.279 I was kind of praying man I hope we don't put 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:26.359 this one out and I guess that's why it never 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:28.700 came on and then again And the thing is that 00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:32.220 you're so used to playing in the 72 74 BPM Yeah, 00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:34.680 which was what voluminous used to play in yeah, 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:38.039 and this song is right up the you know that alley, 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:42.920 but at the same time It's so easy to lose your 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:47.309 tempo when the song is so slow. Yeah, so Greg, 00:23:47.829 --> 00:23:50.490 our keyboardist, he was also our studio engineer. 00:23:50.789 --> 00:23:54.670 He was the one tracking all this. He's very like, 00:23:54.970 --> 00:23:57.890 boom, and up, and again, and again. He's that 00:23:57.890 --> 00:24:02.049 type where he has that patience and that persistence, 00:24:02.190 --> 00:24:03.710 and you can just see it in Alice where he was 00:24:03.710 --> 00:24:06.569 just like, ugh. Remember Richie Valance and La 00:24:06.569 --> 00:24:08.769 Mama where they're making them do it over and 00:24:08.769 --> 00:24:13.670 over? That was me, that was me. And then I was 00:24:13.670 --> 00:24:15.210 the Bob. We were like, they all sounded the same 00:24:15.210 --> 00:24:20.509 to me. But it was crazy because that shit happens 00:24:20.509 --> 00:24:22.849 when you were recording Nunca Voy a Olvidarte, 00:24:22.890 --> 00:24:25.589 right? Oh yeah. He's over and over and over. 00:24:25.690 --> 00:24:28.009 Vocals is a whole, oh man. I just want to say 00:24:28.009 --> 00:24:31.309 real quick, Bob is a badass. Bob Morales. He 00:24:31.309 --> 00:24:33.069 was a badass, man. I loved him in that movie. 00:24:34.609 --> 00:24:38.450 I mean, for the singer, I mean, as being... instrument 00:24:38.450 --> 00:24:40.509 players you know you do your spot you do your 00:24:40.509 --> 00:24:42.089 skeleton and you come back you fill them clean 00:24:42.089 --> 00:24:45.069 them up and then yeah you're done not as you're 00:24:45.069 --> 00:24:46.529 singing backup not as you're doing something 00:24:46.529 --> 00:24:51.069 else but the singer i think personally and i 00:24:51.069 --> 00:24:53.329 don't mean to say like you know oh it is what 00:24:53.329 --> 00:24:56.509 it is but they they get put in the spot yeah 00:24:56.509 --> 00:24:59.609 they get put because they have to hit every single 00:24:59.609 --> 00:25:03.089 note on point and the singer that i had was in 00:25:03.089 --> 00:25:05.910 the group the producer was just like he said 00:25:05.910 --> 00:25:09.130 no again no again higher do a little bit lower 00:25:09.130 --> 00:25:11.809 that octave was off to the point where he made 00:25:11.809 --> 00:25:15.349 him bleed all of his vocals yeah that's how good 00:25:15.349 --> 00:25:18.529 the guy came out raw jam and it was a tough recording 00:25:18.529 --> 00:25:20.970 like that is what i'm saying that's why when 00:25:20.970 --> 00:25:23.230 i see that i'm like when you say you're the vocalist 00:25:23.230 --> 00:25:25.990 and your studio is like bro if you have not bled 00:25:25.990 --> 00:25:28.710 yet from your vocal yeah you should thank your 00:25:28.710 --> 00:25:33.789 prayers that this guy knows what he's doing Oh 00:25:33.789 --> 00:25:35.250 great, I'll give him an idea. Sweet, let's go 00:25:35.250 --> 00:25:38.690 ahead and see if we can do that. I will never 00:25:38.690 --> 00:25:40.210 get there, man. I don't care who I'm recording 00:25:40.210 --> 00:25:43.430 for. If I know I can't at that moment, it's going 00:25:43.430 --> 00:25:46.470 to stop because I'm not going to mess up my vocal 00:25:46.470 --> 00:25:49.990 chords for anybody. But yeah, it's tough, man. 00:25:50.430 --> 00:25:52.549 Same thing happened with me with Greg. Same story. 00:25:52.690 --> 00:25:54.269 We're recording the song and it's one of the 00:25:54.269 --> 00:25:57.730 highest pitched songs that we have. and he had 00:25:57.730 --> 00:25:59.789 me you know like and there's times where you 00:25:59.789 --> 00:26:02.109 hit the notes but maybe you're too far back or 00:26:02.109 --> 00:26:04.910 you got too close or anything just because of 00:26:04.910 --> 00:26:08.250 that you got to do it again and and it's but 00:26:08.250 --> 00:26:10.900 i love it man That's what we're here for. It's 00:26:10.900 --> 00:26:13.160 a challenge. For the most part, we do have a 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:16.819 lot of fun. We record in Jesse's studio where 00:26:16.819 --> 00:26:18.799 we actually do the podcast. It's also a home 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:22.359 studio. It's our studio, man. For the most part, 00:26:22.579 --> 00:26:24.779 we go in there and we spend six, seven, eight 00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:26.880 hours. That's awesome. It doesn't feel like eight 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:29.619 hours, man. We come out of there. You're doing 00:26:29.619 --> 00:26:32.339 something you love. There's just something about 00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:36.289 the creative. process that's fun to us the juices 00:26:36.289 --> 00:26:40.710 So yeah, we were always looking forward to we 00:26:40.710 --> 00:26:46.349 haven't done it in a while we've been really 00:26:46.349 --> 00:26:50.089 busy trying We're always lately it seems like 00:26:50.089 --> 00:26:51.829 we're always Brenda's keeping us busy with you 00:26:51.829 --> 00:26:55.470 know interviews and doing radio stuff and So 00:26:55.470 --> 00:26:58.049 we've been kind of focusing on that aspect of 00:26:58.049 --> 00:26:59.990 it, but we definitely need to get back in the 00:26:59.990 --> 00:27:02.470 studio because Like Jesse said, the industry 00:27:02.470 --> 00:27:05.029 has changed so much to where every month you 00:27:05.029 --> 00:27:07.529 got to be putting something out. So, you know, 00:27:07.730 --> 00:27:11.210 it's kind of a drag. We hear people saying, yeah, 00:27:11.369 --> 00:27:13.609 one song a month. And then we're interviewing 00:27:13.609 --> 00:27:15.470 some guy Elvis Ayala and he's like, yeah, man, 00:27:15.490 --> 00:27:18.309 I try to put in like at least two every two weeks. 00:27:18.569 --> 00:27:20.569 We're like, damn, you just made things harder. 00:27:20.789 --> 00:27:23.329 Like, come on, one song every two weeks is insane. 00:27:23.650 --> 00:27:26.069 For me personally, it sucks because I'm the type 00:27:26.069 --> 00:27:28.470 of person that if I hear a song that I like, 00:27:28.690 --> 00:27:31.970 I'll hear it for. Long time right and I feel 00:27:31.970 --> 00:27:34.029 like nowadays like people are barely starting 00:27:34.029 --> 00:27:35.670 to get into your song and then you throw something 00:27:35.670 --> 00:27:37.910 else Yeah, I got you and you take the attention 00:27:37.910 --> 00:27:40.130 away from hey, you know that other song could 00:27:40.130 --> 00:27:45.250 have potential to be like a You know, yeah Yeah, 00:27:46.549 --> 00:27:48.730 cuz I think there's a psychological aspect to 00:27:48.730 --> 00:27:52.240 it to where you know before you artists would 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.640 put out 12 songs per year and you had 12 or yeah, 00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:59.019 he had 12 songs or a whole year to get those 00:27:59.019 --> 00:28:01.200 songs into people's conscience, you know, and 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:02.940 to really listen to it and appreciate it. And 00:28:02.940 --> 00:28:04.880 I don't think that it's very rare that that happens 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:07.779 now. I mean, compared to what it was back in 00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:11.140 the day in the late 90s, early 2000s, the hustle 00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:15.160 was the hustle. You're in a band, you're in a 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.759 band, you're in a group, everybody got at least 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:20.380 a small little EP with like three songs. And 00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:22.099 where would they send you? To the frickin' mall. 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.000 They'd say, all right, go out there and try to 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.200 sell these or give them away, pass out flyers 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:27.660 that were gonna be, you know, over here. And 00:28:27.660 --> 00:28:29.940 that was the hustle, bro. You had to hustle. 00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:32.000 You had to go out there and do that. We didn't 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.880 have all this great technology where you have 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.579 a phone and you can post it on Facebook, post 00:28:36.579 --> 00:28:38.720 it on Instagram, on your OnlyFans. Well, at least 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:43.299 I do. The hair, the hair, the hair. It's the 00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:45.359 hair bro. You caught me bro, it's the hair bro. 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.640 I knew it, I knew it. It's uh, oohhair .com only. 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:54.500 Donate $50 every week. No, uh, no, but it was 00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:56.859 the hustle. And it's totally different. And I 00:28:56.859 --> 00:28:59.619 see a lot of the younger, younger generation 00:28:59.619 --> 00:29:01.299 that say, yeah, man, I just released like four 00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:04.470 songs on Spotify. Oh, I did this. I go, bro, 00:29:04.569 --> 00:29:07.210 you don't know how easy you got it, bro. I mean, 00:29:07.250 --> 00:29:08.730 you don't realize the hustle, how hard it is. 00:29:08.730 --> 00:29:11.089 Right now, you say easy. It's a double -edged 00:29:11.089 --> 00:29:13.049 sword, man. Man, I'm gonna tell you why. I just, 00:29:13.269 --> 00:29:16.930 I sent these guys a video, a YouTube video to 00:29:16.930 --> 00:29:21.029 the group page earlier today. We're not only 00:29:21.029 --> 00:29:23.670 dealing with so many bands now, we're now dealing 00:29:23.670 --> 00:29:28.569 with AI. Oh, yeah. And these people, I don't 00:29:28.569 --> 00:29:30.670 know who they are. They're creating profiles. 00:29:31.150 --> 00:29:34.599 They're making... Cumbia Beats, completely produced 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:38.519 Cumbia Beats, and they're putting AI voices of 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:42.319 famous people, collaborations, and they're uploading 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.460 to YouTube. In an instant, they get 100 ,000 00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:49.319 views, 200 ,000 views on an anonymous YouTube 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.220 account, and us that are putting sweat, blood, 00:29:52.299 --> 00:29:54.839 and tears into it hours and hours and hours. 00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:57.980 can barely make it to a K views in a whole month. 00:29:58.099 --> 00:30:00.740 Bro, you're preaching to the choir. You're preaching 00:30:00.740 --> 00:30:03.180 to the choir. It's just gonna get worse, man. 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:04.319 That's what I'm saying. It's a double -edged 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.460 sword because now we're dealing with AI. Yeah. 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.539 Who knows how good or bad that might get. And 00:30:10.539 --> 00:30:12.680 it's a great thing you bring up that topic because, 00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:15.319 I mean, I've always talked to a lot of musicians 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:17.099 or artists that come in here and ask, what do 00:30:17.099 --> 00:30:19.279 you think about AI? Some are for it. He goes, 00:30:19.380 --> 00:30:21.440 hey, man, there's some times where I'm writing 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:24.480 something and I put those lyrics in AI form. 00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:26.660 I go hey man try to give me a beat for this because 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:29.460 I can't think right what what kind of beat do 00:30:29.460 --> 00:30:31.480 you want I wanted to sound like this this this 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:33.339 boom makes the beat shit there it is yeah let 00:30:33.339 --> 00:30:35.579 me know sometimes they put a beat they have a 00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:37.059 beat but I have no lyrics I'm trying to write 00:30:37.059 --> 00:30:39.819 about this boom it does it you know I can understand 00:30:39.819 --> 00:30:42.460 it helping you but the way you say it is like 00:30:42.460 --> 00:30:45.200 okay they got this person they made up the lyrics 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.109 they made up the the beat And the vocal, they 00:30:49.109 --> 00:30:51.190 change it to a famous person's vocal with someone 00:30:51.190 --> 00:30:53.990 else singing back up. And then, like I said, 00:30:54.069 --> 00:30:56.150 they make fake profile and boom, they're making 00:30:56.150 --> 00:30:58.910 money. Precisely the one I sent them was Frontera 00:30:58.910 --> 00:31:01.349 with Daddy Yankee. That's never happened. First 00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:04.589 of all, Daddy Yankee became Christian, I don't 00:31:04.589 --> 00:31:07.289 know how long ago. I doubted he would go back 00:31:07.289 --> 00:31:10.529 to record with Frontera. But, and then you hear 00:31:10.529 --> 00:31:12.609 it, and you can kind of hear Bayo's voice in 00:31:12.609 --> 00:31:14.910 there. But you can never make up Daddy Yankee's 00:31:14.910 --> 00:31:17.009 voice. No, you can't. It just doesn't sound right 00:31:17.009 --> 00:31:20.140 to me. It's not authentic. But, because... They 00:31:20.140 --> 00:31:22.839 put both their pictures on the thumbnail and 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:25.380 they threw it out there and people started clicking 00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:29.319 on it Yeah, yeah, and they're they're banking 00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.380 We're the ones doing the honest work, right? 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.700 It's still not monetize the real musicians trying 00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:37.180 to be in the studio trying to put note per note 00:31:37.180 --> 00:31:39.079 sound Where's the bridge? Where's the bleed? 00:31:39.220 --> 00:31:40.819 Here's where we should stop. Here's what we should 00:31:40.819 --> 00:31:43.740 come back in Yeah, this is a triple note for 00:31:43.740 --> 00:31:46.460 note for beat to beat and if you're listening 00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:48.319 or watching like what? the hell are you talking 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:50.799 about? You have to know, if you know, you know. 00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:54.019 And I totally agree with you, there's a lot of 00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:58.500 people who do that. But AI has come in and out, 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:02.799 for me, I'm putting myself out there, but AI 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.920 has helped my, as far as like, and this is probably 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.680 gonna poke a stick at you, some of the graphic 00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:10.519 designs. I go on there, this is what I'm looking 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:11.740 for, this is what I'm trying to do, I need you 00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:13.920 to do move this, move that, at an angle, and 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.299 for me it's like, oh dude. This is awesome, I 00:32:16.299 --> 00:32:19.319 got it done, let's release it. When it comes 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:22.240 to somebody who goes to school, learns to do 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.220 it, you know, step by step, and you know, shit, 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.539 I know how to do this, let me show you how you 00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:27.900 do it. And I go, bro, I just finished it in five 00:32:27.900 --> 00:32:29.940 minutes. It's gonna take you four days, three 00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:32.099 days, two days, maybe a day, I finished it in 00:32:32.099 --> 00:32:33.119 a day. Like that trend where the people were 00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:35.420 making cartoons of their own pictures, you know? 00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:38.220 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. I've 00:32:38.220 --> 00:32:39.619 done a couple of those. I've done the puppet 00:32:39.619 --> 00:32:42.519 thing and all that stuff. And I do it, and I 00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:44.480 look at it, I think I'm, you know what, I'm good, 00:32:44.500 --> 00:32:47.130 but. I have a buddy of mine also who's a big 00:32:47.130 --> 00:32:50.109 -time artist, and I do stuff like, oh bro, that's 00:32:50.109 --> 00:32:53.549 just messed up, bro. But see, it's valid when, 00:32:53.609 --> 00:32:55.869 we've done it. We've done it with Modo Zombie, 00:32:56.289 --> 00:32:58.910 right? We threw out a single collaboration with 00:32:58.910 --> 00:33:02.710 Los Marrománticos, and I went in AI, and I simply 00:33:02.710 --> 00:33:05.769 typed in, give me a zombie with a Volkswagen 00:33:05.769 --> 00:33:09.410 combi in the background. Oh wow. And it busted 00:33:09.410 --> 00:33:12.119 it out, right? So what did I do? First of all, 00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:14.579 I made sure Alex was okay with it. And then he's 00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:15.900 like, yeah, man, let's go. Let's run with it. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.039 We send it to baby D and he does his magic over. 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.519 So it's a bit of both worlds. It has some honesty 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:24.039 in it too, you know what I mean? No, I hear you, 00:33:24.059 --> 00:33:26.039 I hear you. But I mean, that's how I feel like. 00:33:26.490 --> 00:33:28.829 That's how people should be using AI. Not just 00:33:28.829 --> 00:33:30.950 literally making everything for you and you get 00:33:30.950 --> 00:33:32.470 all the credit for it. That's not fair, man. 00:33:32.910 --> 00:33:34.970 Totally agree with what you're saying, man. Hey, 00:33:35.069 --> 00:33:37.309 we are 33 minutes into the podcast. Like I say, 00:33:37.509 --> 00:33:40.089 we fly on these episodes, man. Not my little 00:33:40.089 --> 00:33:43.609 brother where they go like two hours. But no, 00:33:43.690 --> 00:33:45.549 ours goes for about an hour, hour, 10, hour, 00:33:45.609 --> 00:33:48.579 15. 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I mean, well, you know 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:34.860 what before we get into that we said you said 00:37:34.860 --> 00:37:39.500 you do have gigs you say Okay, I mean give me 00:37:39.500 --> 00:37:41.440 one of the best gigs that you guys done where 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:44.320 it's just like the one that's the bar They say 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:46.599 this one's the bar and that we we want to be 00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:48.739 better We have to be better than what we performed 00:37:48.739 --> 00:37:51.440 on this gig. What is the best gig y 'all had? 00:37:52.489 --> 00:37:54.809 Well, I would definitely say and I'm sure these 00:37:54.809 --> 00:37:57.050 guys are gonna agree that it'd be our release 00:37:57.050 --> 00:38:00.090 Party for our latest single which was posiciones. 00:38:00.289 --> 00:38:03.349 That was what two weeks ago, right? We had it 00:38:03.349 --> 00:38:07.070 there at a taboo bar and grill and now you could 00:38:07.070 --> 00:38:10.320 just feel the vibe man when we finished our first 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:12.239 set they actually played the video on the big 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.139 screens and they presented it and you could just 00:38:15.139 --> 00:38:17.119 feel the vibe man the crowd was loving it they 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:19.340 were really uh you know getting down to the video 00:38:19.340 --> 00:38:21.519 and the song you know it means a lot because 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.900 you know we put our heart and sweat into it and 00:38:23.900 --> 00:38:25.699 to see the reaction of the people i mean it's 00:38:25.699 --> 00:38:28.619 it's always good sold out and it was a sold out 00:38:28.619 --> 00:38:30.860 night so that made it even better yeah we sold 00:38:30.860 --> 00:38:34.380 we sold out the the club wow so yeah i think 00:38:34.380 --> 00:38:36.780 that ranks on our you've done that twice tough 00:38:36.780 --> 00:38:39.360 right yeah That same place? Yeah, we've sold 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:42.179 out twice. Okay, well yeah, but that night was 00:38:42.179 --> 00:38:45.340 special because it was our single. I think the 00:38:45.340 --> 00:38:47.420 Rio Grande gig was pretty cool too. And then 00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:49.360 we played the song live for the first time there 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:51.500 too. Actually that was a big challenge for him 00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:53.900 because I remember. Why? Because that was the 00:38:53.900 --> 00:39:02.019 very first time we played that live. We got a 00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:09.460 bunch of instruments like salsa, tropical, cumbia, 00:39:10.219 --> 00:39:12.949 everything bro. For me, it was a big challenge. 00:39:13.190 --> 00:39:15.010 We were a little nervous because we rehearsed 00:39:15.010 --> 00:39:16.789 the day before, right? Friday? Was it Friday? 00:39:18.530 --> 00:39:21.730 I'll be honest, it didn't sound that good. It 00:39:21.730 --> 00:39:24.329 wasn't tight yet. You know, when you rehearse 00:39:24.329 --> 00:39:27.670 a song enough times. Actually, I think that tightness 00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:30.210 comes from playing it live a few times. We never 00:39:30.210 --> 00:39:32.010 played it live. It was just there at rehearsal. 00:39:32.389 --> 00:39:36.650 This happened right about 1 .50 a .m. So everybody 00:39:36.650 --> 00:39:44.460 was drunk. It sounded bad. It makes perfect sense 00:39:44.460 --> 00:39:53.699 now sponsored by 800 bush The more you drink 00:39:53.699 --> 00:39:59.260 the better we sound So you got that one as a 00:39:59.260 --> 00:40:03.539 release party now the total opposite Which is 00:40:03.539 --> 00:40:06.179 the one that you're like, dude The last one we 00:40:06.179 --> 00:40:10.500 were there Wow Yes and no, I think I'd go with 00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:12.400 that time we played at that park in Mission, 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.139 the Placita. And then on top of that we didn't 00:40:16.139 --> 00:40:25.880 get paid. We did, but you know the... And if 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:27.699 you hear the voice right there, that is the manager 00:40:27.699 --> 00:40:31.739 holding her ground saying, you got paid. You 00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:40.690 got paid just to give you cash on the spot. So 00:40:40.690 --> 00:40:42.889 that would be the word why would it be the like 00:40:42.889 --> 00:40:46.969 the worst one guys? I mean sounds crappy bro. 00:40:46.969 --> 00:40:49.929 Yeah, it was hot. It was outside, you know like 00:40:49.929 --> 00:41:05.159 that I mean it wasn't at 1 p .m. But you I was 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:08.579 like, man, it was my turn, man. It was my time 00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:10.920 to shine. Yeah. You remember that time? Yeah, 00:41:11.159 --> 00:41:12.639 yeah, yeah. They don't even have it. They had 00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.380 so much room. At least turn on my mic so we can 00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:16.539 say bye to the people. You can say bye to the 00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:20.639 crowd. Go, go, go. I'm going to say go, go. All 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:27.519 right, baby. I tricked them. I mean that's the 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.280 kind of element that either makes gigs fun or 00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.000 that make them suck because you never know what's 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.739 going to happen you know and you got to know 00:41:33.739 --> 00:41:36.099 how to improvise you know sometimes we've been 00:41:36.099 --> 00:41:38.440 in situations where everything shuts off and 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:40.440 there's nothing but the accordion the drums and 00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:42.820 the percussion and the voice so we just you know 00:41:42.820 --> 00:41:44.659 as long as the crowd is engaging with that we 00:41:44.659 --> 00:41:47.059 keep going. You see and that's a great icebreaker 00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:52.480 for you when you're about to go out. It's a great 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:57.789 icebreaker man. engaged with the people, or they 00:41:57.789 --> 00:41:59.730 could just all stare at you like, what the hell's 00:41:59.730 --> 00:42:03.989 going on? Like I said, you just gotta improvise 00:42:03.989 --> 00:42:06.710 and make the best out of it. And then being the 00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:09.590 vocal itself, you're the master MCs up there, 00:42:09.829 --> 00:42:12.090 man. You're the one that has to keep yapping. 00:42:12.630 --> 00:42:16.030 You gotta keep yapping. Who's the yapper on stage? 00:42:16.590 --> 00:42:20.579 Well, ironically, it's me. You're hiding, you're 00:42:20.579 --> 00:42:38.889 hiding behind! mean I don't I would prefer for 00:42:38.889 --> 00:42:40.550 it not to be me honestly I would rather it be 00:42:40.550 --> 00:42:43.250 Jesse and I always tell him it bro like you know 00:42:43.250 --> 00:42:45.710 we engage more with the crowd you know you you're 00:42:45.710 --> 00:42:47.530 you're the guy up there you know and singer is 00:42:47.530 --> 00:43:00.480 come on just down on bro but it was Don't get 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:02.260 me wrong, even though I'm not the first one to 00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:05.679 jump on the mic, I'm always on that prep mode 00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:07.920 because there's sometimes that Alex is doing 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.380 something, or he's talking to another band member, 00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:12.820 hey, this song is next, or whatever. And all 00:43:12.820 --> 00:43:14.679 of a sudden, I'll just hear like, I'm not just 00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:19.980 saying. I'm like, oh, OK. The coordinators is 00:43:19.980 --> 00:43:22.199 trying to get the change of coordinates or something. 00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:25.659 We need to talk, and we can get everybody's attention. 00:43:26.190 --> 00:43:28.369 You need to talk to him? But I don't have the 00:43:28.369 --> 00:43:31.590 mic. I was at the front. Oh, OK. We'll make sure 00:43:31.590 --> 00:43:33.389 you get your mic. But this is Jesse on the mic. 00:43:33.389 --> 00:43:34.670 I don't have a wireless mic. What up, bro? No, 00:43:34.889 --> 00:43:37.389 no. How we got the wireless? I don't know. But 00:43:37.389 --> 00:43:38.989 just so you know, this is Jesse on the mic, the 00:43:38.989 --> 00:43:42.329 animator. OK, vamos a continuar con la próxima 00:43:42.329 --> 00:43:49.409 canción. Muchas gracias. And that's how you feed 00:43:49.409 --> 00:43:53.739 me, bro. You know this. I get it. If I haven't 00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:55.760 eaten, I won't even talk. I won't even sing. 00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:03.380 I want my tacos, bro. Aside from a drummer, I've 00:44:03.380 --> 00:44:06.539 been a DJ for a long time. And I used to DJ at 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:09.320 clubs, all types of clubs. And our biggest enemy 00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:12.139 was dead air. Management always got on our case. 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:14.940 Hey, no matter what, I want either music or you 00:44:14.940 --> 00:44:19.039 talking on the mic. But that dead air, I see 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.460 less dollar signs when that happens. Number one 00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:23.420 rule. That's the number one rule. Podcasting 00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:26.380 or like you said DJ nori on stage. Yeah, they 00:44:26.380 --> 00:44:30.599 can't be not even two seconds a day It's the 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.860 stair contest like yeah, you know a lot of you 00:44:32.860 --> 00:44:36.079 kill the fire You're asking what their dead air 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:49.300 is is it's um, it's a fart that I do That's Dead 00:44:49.300 --> 00:44:52.619 Air, ladies and gentlemen. So, we try our books. 00:44:54.099 --> 00:44:57.940 But yeah, that's what, I mean, when we're on 00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:00.800 stage, I've never actually had this talk with 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.039 them, but it's crazy that I'm doing it on a podcast, 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:06.260 but yeah, the Dead Air rule, we should never 00:45:06.260 --> 00:45:08.400 do it, man. Yeah, it's a number one rule, man, 00:45:08.460 --> 00:45:10.880 especially in a podcast, or like I said, a live 00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:13.880 studio audience, especially, number one. But 00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:16.880 guys, we know that October's right around the 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:22.619 corner. Halloween is getting very close. There 00:45:22.619 --> 00:45:25.320 is a big thing going on here in the RGV and I'm 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:26.460 gonna bring this up and people are like, why 00:45:26.460 --> 00:45:27.840 are you talking about this? I'm gonna bring it 00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:34.599 up. There is a special guest in the RGV in McAllen. 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.679 They are selling tickets two for 20 right now 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.880 and then when the time is for the show to start, 00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:44.280 it's gonna be $30 at the door per person and 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:45.579 you're all wondering, what the hell is he talking 00:45:45.579 --> 00:45:50.440 about? Well, Annabelle is in the Rio Grande Valley 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:55.420 and in Texas for show starting October I believe 00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:59.239 it's the seventh or the fifth she is available 00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:02.579 for viewing and people are a little nervous because 00:46:02.579 --> 00:46:04.659 you're in the valley bro there's always that 00:46:04.659 --> 00:46:17.460 one local is because I want to grab her So that's 00:46:17.460 --> 00:46:21.039 the actual doll from the based on the movie raggedy 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:25.199 and all the actual doll that is Supposedly I 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:28.559 like to do the quote Supposedly possessed all 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:31.840 right, so that is gonna be for viewing in the 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:34.960 RGB. We didn't didn't Some dude just died from 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.960 moving her from one place to another. The building 00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:43.320 got burned. The building was burned. But that's 00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:46.420 original from the warrant? It's the actual original. 00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:55.230 Yeah, that's everybody's reaction. That's capitalism 00:46:55.230 --> 00:46:59.389 at its worst, man. I think that doll coming down 00:46:59.389 --> 00:47:23.880 here, I think she scared herself. That's the 00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:28.159 big thing happening in Halloween coming up in 00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.920 early October. What are your thoughts, man? Are 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:34.840 you willing to take the chance to buy a ticket 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:38.260 to go see this thing? Absolutely. Yeah, I'm down. 00:47:38.780 --> 00:47:43.360 I love a good thrill. We're having a concert 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:50.019 on November 8th. You know? Good, yeah. You don't 00:47:50.019 --> 00:47:52.679 want to jinx it? Alright, jinx it! Maybe, well 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.239 she is going to be there until the last, the 00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:57.179 first week of October. We can dance with the 00:47:57.179 --> 00:48:01.639 dog. Don't tempt it bro, it might happen. No, 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:03.800 I just want to take this time to let everybody 00:48:03.800 --> 00:48:05.840 know that we're going to be in concert on November 00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:09.230 8th. We got downtown McAllen's in El Rey. Oh, 00:48:09.230 --> 00:48:11.489 there you go. There you go. And the tickets are 00:48:11.489 --> 00:48:14.110 already on sale. You're invited. Oh, I'm invited. 00:48:14.409 --> 00:48:16.769 Sweet. Do I take the one they get free with me 00:48:16.769 --> 00:48:19.030 too? No, I'm just joking. The dog's not gonna 00:48:19.030 --> 00:48:21.409 be there. No, no. Trust me, this dog won't let 00:48:21.409 --> 00:48:27.550 me come close to Chu. No, and I know they had 00:48:27.550 --> 00:48:32.670 asked me earlier where the name Chu and U came 00:48:32.670 --> 00:48:35.409 from. Yeah, I was wondering about that. Okay, 00:48:35.489 --> 00:48:40.579 well. sit back and get comfortable because it's 00:48:40.579 --> 00:48:43.119 gonna be a long ride no it's a short ride and 00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:45.659 i'm actually gonna give you the actually the 00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:48.639 the story itself this happened oh shoot i would 00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:53.380 have to say back in 2000 in the year 2000 uh 00:48:53.380 --> 00:48:59.539 2000 thank you uh 2005 -06 uh the wife and i 00:48:59.539 --> 00:49:02.539 had just uh got married in uh in 99 so yeah it 00:49:02.539 --> 00:49:05.380 was about six years into our marriage And a buddy 00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:07.719 of mine, which is our buddies next door, one 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:11.639 of my buddies, Anne Chu himself, had gone out 00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.360 downtown McAllen, 17th Street, went to go have 00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:21.039 a good time. Well, they got pulled over by the 00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.420 great city of McAllen and took them in because 00:49:24.420 --> 00:49:28.460 they weren't driving, but they were intoxicated. 00:49:28.849 --> 00:49:31.469 So they took him in, I guess for public intoxication 00:49:31.469 --> 00:49:34.550 or whatever. Took him in, then my buddy calls 00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:36.429 me the following morning. Hey, man, can you do 00:49:36.429 --> 00:49:38.449 me a favor? He goes, what's up, man, can you 00:49:38.449 --> 00:49:40.730 come pick me up? I'm like, yeah, dude, I can 00:49:40.730 --> 00:49:42.969 go pull you out. So I'm thinking, you know, down 00:49:42.969 --> 00:49:44.670 the street or, you know, a couple of blocks over, 00:49:44.730 --> 00:49:47.670 his car broke down. He goes, no, I'm an accountant 00:49:47.670 --> 00:49:50.349 PD. What the hell happened? He goes, yeah, we 00:49:50.349 --> 00:49:51.829 got arrested last night. We got thrown in the 00:49:51.829 --> 00:49:53.969 tent. I'm like, oh, shit. In the drunk tank? 00:49:54.050 --> 00:49:56.010 He goes, yeah, in the drunk tank. Okay, no problem, 00:49:56.090 --> 00:49:57.739 man, I'll go pick you up, man. Tell the wife, 00:49:57.820 --> 00:49:59.420 hey, we're gonna go pick up so and so. Okay, 00:49:59.539 --> 00:50:02.079 well let's go. We gotta do, we gotta do. So we 00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:05.300 go, we get there. I get off the car. I'm looking. 00:50:05.619 --> 00:50:07.179 Can't find my buddy. Call him up on the phone. 00:50:07.300 --> 00:50:08.860 Hey man, where you at? Oh, my mom already picked 00:50:08.860 --> 00:50:12.300 me up, bruh. I go, I'm here to pick you up. Where 00:50:12.300 --> 00:50:14.539 you at? She picked me up already. I'm already 00:50:14.539 --> 00:50:17.460 home. But do me a favor, pick up Balde. Balde 00:50:17.460 --> 00:50:20.320 is a chew. I was like, okay, I'll pick up Bladen 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.659 up. What is he looking like? Oh, you won't miss 00:50:22.659 --> 00:50:24.699 him, dude. The tall son of a bitch, you won't 00:50:24.699 --> 00:50:27.960 miss him. I'm like, okay, whatever. So I'm looking 00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:29.880 around and I see this tall guy walking at me. 00:50:29.980 --> 00:50:33.460 He's about, she was about six, five, six, six. 00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:36.199 He's tall, tall, something, tall guy. Chewbacca 00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:38.300 tall. Yeah, so there you go. You're going towards 00:50:38.300 --> 00:50:41.860 it. So I see him. I'm like, God damn, dude, you're 00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:47.019 a hug. I'll be looking fucking Wookie. He's looking 00:50:47.019 --> 00:50:49.119 at me, go shut the fuck up, Ewok, and take me 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:53.019 home. So that's how we got Chu and Oo. Oo is 00:50:53.019 --> 00:50:56.119 short for Ewok. So he's the Chewbacca, I'm the 00:50:56.119 --> 00:51:01.139 freaking Ewok. Makes sense. Makes a lot of sense. 00:51:02.179 --> 00:51:06.440 We would talk a lot on Xbox Live, but we'd constantly 00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:09.480 game, but I never knew who he was until that 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.920 day. So yeah, man, so now he's... He's part of 00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:14.920 the show and everything and I'm glad he's not 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:22.260 here. No, he's a great guy, great guy. So, I 00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:25.900 was going to say something else. Don't ever talk 00:51:25.900 --> 00:51:30.940 about this. Don't distract me. No, I do want 00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:34.119 to send it if you allow me a shout out to Freddy 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:36.780 Honda you mentioned him right now sponsor He's 00:51:36.780 --> 00:51:40.440 actually gonna be gonna be on our podcast A couple 00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:43.300 of months right he set up ready. So yeah We're 00:51:43.300 --> 00:51:45.659 expecting that to be a really good chat. I've 00:51:45.659 --> 00:51:47.500 been following his content. It's pretty cool, 00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.280 man I always have a good laugh when he's uploading 00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:54.420 his videos and stuff. Thank you that kid The 00:51:54.420 --> 00:51:57.139 last time they were here The last time we interviewed 00:51:57.139 --> 00:52:00.639 him and his wife and himself, they were telling 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.219 me that when they first started, they would go 00:52:03.219 --> 00:52:05.199 live a lot before they started releasing all 00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:08.380 their content. And I would always jump out and 00:52:08.380 --> 00:52:10.099 go, dude, you guys gotta do content, man. You 00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:12.219 guys are freaking funny. He goes, you think we 00:52:12.219 --> 00:52:13.539 should? He goes, dude, you should, man. You should 00:52:13.539 --> 00:52:14.920 have your own podcast. I don't know why you guys 00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:18.019 don't do like a Freddie and wife or whatever 00:52:18.019 --> 00:52:19.780 you wanna call it, Honda and wife or whatever. 00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:21.860 You should. He goes, yeah, we'll think about 00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:24.119 it, okay. And as soon as I get off the line with 00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:27.809 him, like about... three days later he starts 00:52:27.809 --> 00:52:30.329 popping up content lifter and they're freaking 00:52:30.329 --> 00:52:32.510 hilarious yeah i'm like wow and so he told he 00:52:32.510 --> 00:52:35.469 was telling me thanks to you man thanks to you 00:52:35.469 --> 00:52:37.289 we're we're making it like content and we're 00:52:37.289 --> 00:52:38.889 you know we're doing what we're doing and we're 00:52:38.889 --> 00:52:44.429 doing well i go where's my 10 % bro where's my 00:52:44.429 --> 00:52:46.449 10 % and then he goes you can come and get a 00:52:46.449 --> 00:52:48.530 tattoo i got your 10 % there sweet i'll be there 00:52:48.530 --> 00:52:52.199 next week He's a sponsor to the show man, he's 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.920 a great guy bro. Seeing that guy grow up through 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.039 the years. When we first had our first podcast 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:01.199 in southwest of Co, a little bit further south. 00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:04.460 Same, we've been on Texan Boulevard for the last, 00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:08.099 what are we going on, seven years already. Dude, 00:53:08.340 --> 00:53:11.139 it's been a ride. It's been a ride watching so 00:53:11.139 --> 00:53:13.219 much talent coming through that door, through 00:53:13.219 --> 00:53:16.019 the other door. We had the other podcasts, just 00:53:16.019 --> 00:53:18.760 nothing but talent. And it's sad that, you know, 00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:20.900 Being in the valley, and I'm going to say this 00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:23.440 because I'm a feather musician to you guys, it's 00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:28.900 tough. For you guys, I know that what I was saying, 00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.699 I'm going to say Tejano music, the Tropical and 00:53:31.699 --> 00:53:33.559 Merengue, all that good stuff that you guys play, 00:53:34.460 --> 00:53:38.440 it's smooth waters. It seems to me, on my end, 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:40.159 dude, you got the smooth waters going your way, 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:42.139 because everybody likes listening to it. You 00:53:42.139 --> 00:53:44.320 can play it at a quinceanera, you can play it 00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:46.420 at a wedding, you can play it at a barbecue. 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:49.059 People will go and they get up in the dance. 00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:53.599 Being in a rock band, being a hip hop guy, the 00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:57.320 waters are rough. And a lot of these hip hop 00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:59.840 guys that I tell them, being in hip hop itself, 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.699 you gotta jump out. You gotta go north. and it's 00:54:03.699 --> 00:54:07.099 hard like here in the valley actually for a latino 00:54:07.099 --> 00:54:10.119 like it's not into one attention you know what 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:18.760 i'm saying yeah they can't see you because uh 00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:20.599 he was he was more into the car scenes that's 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:23.079 the reason why he got a panda yeah yeah no and 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:25.559 we used to do car meets over there his shop when 00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:29.239 he was over there the 23rd and uh nolana okay 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:34.030 okay okay okay yeah The cigar bar. Cigar bar, 00:54:34.150 --> 00:54:36.449 yeah. I know exactly what that is. A couple of 00:54:36.449 --> 00:54:39.030 years ago. Yeah. See, and I see that. I'm like, 00:54:39.110 --> 00:54:44.309 bro, it's, to be an artist, a musician, down 00:54:44.309 --> 00:54:47.750 here, it's a rough ride. It's a fight. I mean, 00:54:47.809 --> 00:54:50.389 not only is it a fight for the community, but 00:54:50.389 --> 00:54:53.250 it's also a fight because you have other... Bands 00:54:53.250 --> 00:54:55.250 that are trying to do the same thing. Yeah, you 00:54:55.250 --> 00:54:57.610 know, and it's a comp a constant competition 00:54:57.610 --> 00:55:00.230 You know and you always have that there's always 00:55:00.230 --> 00:55:01.969 that one group of the number Don't listen to 00:55:01.969 --> 00:55:03.469 those guys. Well, we're better than them. We're 00:55:03.469 --> 00:55:08.190 not man. Yeah The problem is that it's not even 00:55:08.190 --> 00:55:11.010 about talent anymore man and you can have any 00:55:11.010 --> 00:55:14.329 any dude that's just cow looking and does weird 00:55:14.329 --> 00:55:16.150 stuff and people will follow that guy because 00:55:17.369 --> 00:55:19.050 Yeah, but it's weird what you were mentioning 00:55:19.050 --> 00:55:21.309 right now about the support from the crowd like 00:55:21.309 --> 00:55:23.550 actually getting the crowd to listen You know 00:55:23.550 --> 00:55:26.750 not too long ago I was in California and I had 00:55:26.750 --> 00:55:29.510 a little time to go chill at a bar And it was 00:55:29.510 --> 00:55:31.309 just you know your mom and pop bar You don't 00:55:31.309 --> 00:55:32.809 think nothing fancy and there was a they had 00:55:32.809 --> 00:55:34.690 like a little corner stage with the rock band 00:55:34.690 --> 00:55:37.630 playing And you had at least I counted at least 00:55:37.630 --> 00:55:39.989 15 people like just stood up from their tables 00:55:39.989 --> 00:55:41.829 Or where they were sitting at and they were just 00:55:41.829 --> 00:55:43.789 standing in front of the band like supporting 00:55:43.789 --> 00:55:46.170 Like they play a jam that they like you know 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:49.619 to California or some classic rock song and they 00:55:49.619 --> 00:55:51.820 were jamming to it and I think that's something 00:55:51.820 --> 00:55:55.079 very rare here in the valley where as far as 00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:57.500 the rock scene for people to support like that 00:55:57.500 --> 00:56:05.639 you know so yeah it's a tough crowd man it is 00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:08.800 it is a very tough job like I said before I mean 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:11.239 I've told a lot of our schools bro if you can 00:56:11.239 --> 00:56:13.639 make it here you can make it anywhere Because 00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:17.440 I mean, the valley's like the Apollo. The valley's 00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:19.739 like the Apollo. You know, they can love you 00:56:19.739 --> 00:56:25.119 and then they can kill you. Exactly, dude, exactly, 00:56:25.300 --> 00:56:29.000 exactly. It's all nothing but love. Supposedly 00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:33.039 to them, but but guys I love you, but I'll cancel 00:56:33.039 --> 00:56:36.000 you at any moment Exactly right? No for sure. 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:38.940 No kidding, bro So you guys have a performance 00:56:38.940 --> 00:56:41.159 and you said in November November 8 November 00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:44.079 8. It's our very own concert We were organized 00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.219 it and I really want to take the time to thank 00:56:46.219 --> 00:56:48.659 our manager Brenda Blanco who is doing miracles, 00:56:48.860 --> 00:56:51.889 man She's the one out there, you know, dealing 00:56:51.889 --> 00:56:53.969 with the sponsorship, with the venue and all 00:56:53.969 --> 00:56:55.349 that stuff. And of course, we're doing our part 00:56:55.349 --> 00:56:58.710 as well. But it's a challenge, man. It's a challenge 00:56:58.710 --> 00:57:00.849 because at the end of the day, we just want to 00:57:00.849 --> 00:57:02.730 make sure that we get it out there so we have 00:57:02.730 --> 00:57:05.389 a crowd that night, you know, and try to at least 00:57:05.389 --> 00:57:08.630 break even. It looks promising as of right now. 00:57:08.630 --> 00:57:10.550 We're getting a lot of support, especially in 00:57:10.550 --> 00:57:13.230 the Mission, McAllen area. But we also would 00:57:13.230 --> 00:57:15.289 like to invite everybody out here, man, the Westicle, 00:57:15.969 --> 00:57:19.900 the, you know, La Feria, Harlingen area. People 00:57:19.900 --> 00:57:22.500 that know in downtown McAllen, Cinel Rey is a 00:57:22.500 --> 00:57:26.760 historical venue. So we thought it'd be the perfect 00:57:26.760 --> 00:57:29.480 place to do our first official concert. It'll 00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:31.539 be like a showcase of everything we've been doing 00:57:31.539 --> 00:57:33.739 since last year. So it's going to be fun, man. 00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:35.960 We're going to have our brother WC and Quiz out 00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:39.360 there as well that night. They're going to be 00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:43.500 jamming with us as well as a Grupo Riesco 956. 00:57:43.699 --> 00:58:15.119 And we got one more band as well. 5 o 'clock 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:18.059 there we go right there if you guys click on 00:58:18.059 --> 00:58:20.079 that it'll take you directly to their facebook 00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:22.840 page show you all the upcoming events that's 00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:26.199 going on uh what to look for and uh you know 00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:29.000 anything that's uh behind the scenes that's going 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:30.380 on because i've seen a couple of their content 00:58:30.380 --> 00:58:33.059 there it's pretty good stuff and you see uh baby 00:58:33.059 --> 00:58:35.260 d uh you know jumping around say hey i'm over 00:58:35.260 --> 00:58:40.429 here too No, but watch a baby D hacked that thing 00:58:40.429 --> 00:58:55.369 and it's his that his it's his only fans No guys 00:58:55.369 --> 00:58:58.550 first things first, I want to say we're 58 minutes 00:58:58.550 --> 00:59:03.110 into the pod. We are rolling here you guys I 00:59:03.110 --> 00:59:06.150 admire you guys man that you go out as far as 00:59:06.150 --> 00:59:09.139 so many in this group itself, what's the total? 00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:13.519 There's eight of us. To hold a band together 00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.019 with that many people, that many musicians, man, 00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:19.159 I know it's, I'm not saying it's difficult, but 00:59:19.159 --> 00:59:21.940 it takes dedication to do that, you know, and 00:59:21.940 --> 00:59:24.599 that's what's so beautiful about it. All I can 00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:27.460 say, you guys are doing great work. Continue 00:59:27.460 --> 00:59:31.639 doing what you're doing, man. Let your heart 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:33.159 lead you where your heart leads man when you 00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:36.139 far as your music wise I know we're we're in 00:59:36.139 --> 00:59:38.820 a deficit right now as far as AI people throwing 00:59:38.820 --> 00:59:42.059 stuff out there and people making art out there 00:59:42.059 --> 00:59:43.960 that you know that other people really work hard 00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:46.619 for You know, but keep doing what you're doing 00:59:46.619 --> 00:59:49.260 because in the long run, you know The the nice 00:59:49.260 --> 00:59:51.539 guy wins every single time the one that works 00:59:51.539 --> 00:59:58.559 the hardest I'll tell you Mark we're really blessed 00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:00.860 that as you know as big as the band is like Jesse 01:00:00.860 --> 01:00:03.059 said there's eight of us but it's a band where 01:00:03.059 --> 01:00:05.219 everybody that's here wants to be here yeah so 01:00:05.219 --> 01:00:07.880 that that's a big plus and we're just happy to 01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:10.179 keep chugging forward and and you know putting 01:00:10.179 --> 01:00:12.579 out new music and there's much more metal wide 01:00:12.579 --> 01:00:14.699 to come right man well I'm looking forward to 01:00:14.699 --> 01:00:16.099 it man I'm really looking forward good luck to 01:00:16.099 --> 01:00:17.639 you guys man and continue doing what you're doing 01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:21.340 I know I had a I'm gonna leave the camera forward 01:00:21.340 --> 01:00:24.619 because I want to I'm selling a baby D right 01:00:24.619 --> 01:00:26.559 now that I'm probably gonna use help later on 01:00:26.809 --> 01:00:29.650 at the end of the season. Season six, we're going 01:00:29.650 --> 01:00:34.809 to season seven. Chu and I decided to make a 01:00:34.809 --> 01:00:41.769 quick left turn on season seven. We've noticed 01:00:41.769 --> 01:00:44.590 that, not to say we're done with local talent, 01:00:44.730 --> 01:00:46.389 because that's never gonna end. We're always 01:00:46.389 --> 01:00:48.449 gonna have the open door for those guys. Whoever 01:00:48.449 --> 01:00:51.650 wants to come in and talk or say, hey, I can 01:00:51.650 --> 01:00:52.989 have them coming out. Is there a way you can 01:00:52.989 --> 01:00:54.829 fit me in? We will fit you in for the episodes. 01:00:56.360 --> 01:01:01.000 We are taking a left turn for all you wrestling 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:04.920 fans coming up for season 7. We are going to 01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:09.059 go directly towards the wrestling field. We have 01:01:09.059 --> 01:01:12.800 already talked to New Breed. We've talked to 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:15.960 Combat Colt and also with our great friend at 01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:19.219 Kakahuate who works with three bad productions. 01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:23.900 We talked to them so each week and maybe the 01:01:23.900 --> 01:01:26.019 last week we'll have somebody local talent come 01:01:26.019 --> 01:01:29.139 in but we are going to be turning into a small 01:01:29.139 --> 01:01:32.440 wrestling podcast for season seven so it's going 01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:34.280 to be an interesting ride i know everybody likes 01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:37.840 the fact that chu gets hit all the time so that's 01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:41.480 the reason we're doing it no no but uh a lot 01:01:41.480 --> 01:01:42.920 of people the manager says that sounds like a 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:47.980 great concept no but it's it's something that 01:01:47.949 --> 01:01:50.630 We've noticed that the crowd really tunes into 01:01:50.630 --> 01:01:53.550 a lot. I know football season is starting. Right 01:01:53.550 --> 01:01:55.829 now, those Cowboys don't even know what the score 01:01:55.829 --> 01:01:57.829 is because I don't have the authority to ask 01:01:57.829 --> 01:02:02.130 unless I ask the NFL for that information. But, 01:02:02.150 --> 01:02:04.969 you know, the next couple of weeks or months 01:02:04.969 --> 01:02:07.010 is going to be kind of rough because Thursday 01:02:07.010 --> 01:02:09.389 nights we always, always live at 730 and we're 01:02:09.389 --> 01:02:12.019 competing with. Thursday Night Football. So that's 01:02:12.019 --> 01:02:14.760 gonna be tough. So if those three people that 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:16.239 are watching or four people that have tuned in, 01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:18.639 I understand because majority, everybody's watching, 01:02:18.739 --> 01:02:20.780 especially when you're from Texas, you're watching 01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:23.659 the Cowboy game right now. And that's fine. I 01:02:23.659 --> 01:02:25.699 know we'll get all of you later on tonight or 01:02:25.699 --> 01:02:29.199 tomorrow morning. But I mean, this was one of 01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:31.239 the great episodes. This is the reason why I 01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:33.590 like doing this podcast to me. people like you 01:02:33.590 --> 01:02:35.090 guys, man, that are out there doing the hard 01:02:35.090 --> 01:02:37.630 work to put out great music, entertaining the 01:02:37.630 --> 01:02:42.269 RGV, representing the RGV. And I just hope someone 01:02:42.269 --> 01:02:45.690 northern from here hears this or watches this 01:02:45.690 --> 01:02:48.789 podcast or hears the audio on Spotify and say, 01:02:48.929 --> 01:02:51.000 hey, man. Let's tune into these guys, see what 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:53.460 they got. And eventually you get picked up and 01:02:53.460 --> 01:02:55.900 say, you know what, we're going on tour. Sometimes 01:02:55.900 --> 01:02:57.920 that's all it takes, man. That's all it takes. 01:02:57.980 --> 01:03:00.780 We are ready. And by that same token, we also 01:03:00.780 --> 01:03:03.199 want to invite our viewers to, if you've never 01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:05.619 heard of us, if you've never checked our music, 01:03:05.940 --> 01:03:08.760 it's everywhere. It's on Spotify, YouTube, Apple 01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:11.639 Music. Just look us up as Grupo Mero Valle and 01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:15.159 you'll see our original recordings. And we hope 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:17.960 you enjoy, man. And also, I want to let you guys 01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:20.610 know that We also have a podcast that's also 01:03:20.610 --> 01:03:23.349 named like the band, Esta Grupo Mero Valle, and 01:03:23.349 --> 01:03:25.789 then there's Mero Valle podcast which are directly 01:03:25.789 --> 01:03:29.070 linked together. We try to use the podcast as 01:03:29.070 --> 01:03:31.730 much as possible to kind of like a platform to 01:03:31.730 --> 01:03:34.010 promote our music and like you say, to also have 01:03:34.010 --> 01:03:37.449 the opportunity to talk to other artists. And 01:03:37.449 --> 01:03:39.489 instead of having that vibe where it's all about 01:03:39.489 --> 01:03:41.550 us, it's a vibe of, hey, you know, that's us, 01:03:41.570 --> 01:03:43.489 but there's also more talent here in the valley. 01:03:44.869 --> 01:03:47.110 And like they say in Spanish, pensamos que la 01:03:47.110 --> 01:03:49.820 union hace la fuerza. so we definitely want to 01:03:49.820 --> 01:03:53.039 keep everybody you know be on good terms with 01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:54.719 everybody and you never know you know one day 01:03:54.719 --> 01:03:56.300 you're on top but the other guy might be on top 01:03:56.300 --> 01:03:58.960 later and nos echamos la mano that's how it works 01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:00.679 that's how it works my social media is where 01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:02.500 they can follow you personally for anything you 01:04:02.500 --> 01:04:04.739 want to Talks out there, where can they look 01:04:04.739 --> 01:04:07.639 you up? Everywhere, it's Grupo Medo Valle, Facebook, 01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:10.519 Instagram, TikTok. You were asking about the 01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:15.559 band or us personally? It's a personal fan. I'm 01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:20.579 Alex Medina on all platforms. Baby D2 King. Jesse 01:04:20.579 --> 01:04:23.860 Segovia. Guys, you want to follow their routine 01:04:23.860 --> 01:04:25.960 live and then also follow the band? Find out 01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:27.860 what's going on, what is Alex eating in the morning, 01:04:28.340 --> 01:04:30.480 what is Baby E eating Twinkies, and what is that? 01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:33.840 And what drum rolls do we have for next week? 01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:37.940 Nah man, thank you so much guys, I appreciate 01:04:37.940 --> 01:04:40.800 each one of you. Especially the manager who reached 01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:43.219 out, I know Quest told me, hey uh... When do 01:04:43.219 --> 01:04:45.340 you have time? I will make time for them and 01:04:45.340 --> 01:04:49.559 then we just find a date. It had to be coming 01:04:49.559 --> 01:04:52.000 soon so I got you guys on. We really appreciate 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:54.559 it man. Thank you. It was a good ride man. You 01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:57.039 guys make great music and continue doing it man. 01:04:57.789 --> 01:05:00.429 Like I said, without music, there is no, there's 01:05:00.429 --> 01:05:02.789 no, it would be boring. Life would be boring. 01:05:02.869 --> 01:05:04.829 There was no music though, honestly. I'll tell 01:05:04.829 --> 01:05:06.789 you one thing, Mark, it's always fun to do an 01:05:06.789 --> 01:05:08.690 interview with a fellow musician. You know, I 01:05:08.690 --> 01:05:12.010 feel like the, the, the chemistry is more genuine, 01:05:12.010 --> 01:05:13.610 you know, because I can say something and you 01:05:13.610 --> 01:05:17.929 know what I'm talking about. We understand each 01:05:17.929 --> 01:05:20.190 other. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, especially when 01:05:20.190 --> 01:05:21.889 it comes to the struggles, you know, and then 01:05:21.889 --> 01:05:24.230 the things that happen on stage, I know you can 01:05:24.230 --> 01:05:26.250 definitely identify. So that's always fun to 01:05:26.250 --> 01:05:28.539 have that feedback. So thank you so much for 01:05:28.539 --> 01:05:29.780 having this morning. Thank you for coming out 01:05:29.780 --> 01:05:31.880 man, I appreciate you guys man. Ladies and gentlemen, 01:05:31.940 --> 01:05:35.940 that is a podcast for the night, episode 259. 01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:39.440 Oh my god, this is the hair he was talking about 01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:52.090 bro. I tell you man, he's got good hair. Cut 01:05:52.090 --> 01:06:21.719 your hair, man! But other than that, thank you 01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:25.019 so much to Grupo Mero Valle for coming on to 01:06:25.019 --> 01:06:28.079 the podcast. Like I said, thank God Chew wasn't 01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:29.900 here because he probably would have taken off 01:06:29.900 --> 01:06:34.039 his leg. That freaked out the guys last week, 01:06:34.059 --> 01:06:36.179 by the way. But other than that, guys, thank 01:06:36.179 --> 01:06:38.500 you so much for coming to the podcast. Take care, 01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:40.980 God bless. May everything work out for you guys 01:06:40.980 --> 01:06:42.860 all the way through the rest of the year. We 01:06:42.860 --> 01:06:45.539 will see you next week, 730, once again, Chew 01:06:45.539 --> 01:06:48.500 new podcast. And like always, guys, lay your 01:06:48.500 --> 01:06:50.969 skaters. Peace out. Eso, y nosotros somos el 01:06:50.969 --> 01:06:53.530 grupo Mero Ballet!