Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'? All? Susie, Larry Hernandez. Back to back again with the Corpus Christi Originals podcast. Today we bring the most talented, interesting, and hard working people from the city, Corpus Christi. I'm your host, Jesus Hilario. Today we have a special one for you. Joining me is a rising star in the Corpus Christi comedy scene, comedian, content creator, and the host of the growing podcast that do talks, Chris Longoria. We're talking comedy podcasting, Corpus culture, upcoming live shows and.
And later on in the episode, we'll be joined by Ronnie Fryer to talk about the toy drive they got going on the in. In December, right?
[00:00:36] Speaker B: December 6th.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: December 6th. Welcome to the show, man.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: Man, thank you for having me. I've been wanting to be on this for about 90 something episodes.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: No way.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to be here. Uh, it's not. When you asked me to be on it, I was like. I responded almost immediately with like, yes or whatever. I was excited, man. Thanks for having me, bro.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Since I met you at the. You're welcome. Since I had you at the comedy club, Mesquite Street.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: Open mic. I met you there. I had you. Actually. You bought merch from me.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: Yeah, Years ago.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember that.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: About two years ago.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember that. And then you. You clipped the picture pick with you wearing it in Laredo or somewhere down there.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: The Valley.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: The Valley.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: Valley, yeah. In Harlingen at the Rock and Key.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah, man, that. That was cool.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: So I tagged y' all in and everything, shared it. I was like, oh, shoot. Yeah.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Did you hear. So did you hear about us through Hobby Luna? Because we gave Jav Luna some.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Yes. I know he had the. The multicolored flower shirt dude, he wore.
[00:01:31] Speaker A: That is special, man.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't want to say that's the first I saw, cuz I think the one that I. Another one that I saw is the one that I eventually bought, which was the skull with the Texas.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's a popular one.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So I think that's the first one I saw, but yeah, it was Javi that I saw wearing it. Yeah, that's dope. And then I saw. I just saw the logo and I was like, yo, that's sick. And then I saw that it was y' all and it was Corvus Christie Originals. I. I definitely want it.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: So that's cool, bro.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: So for the longest time before I had my bonsa started getting bigger, I was wearing that shirt anytime I did an out of town gig just to rep Corpus in. Out of town. I think another one that I tagged y' all in. I did San Antonio. I did a reggae bar up there, and I was wearing the CC original shirt there as well, so. And it was cool because the stage had, like mirrors behind us and they got a cool picture where you see the front logo, but in the mirror you see the back logo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I love Yalls merch, man. I need a. I need to get some more of it. Because on the podcast, I want to wear my friends. Like any of my friends that are doing anything, if they have merch, I want to wear it on the podcast, man.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: That's cool. Yeah. So you Jav Luna, Andy. I hooked up Andy with the shirt. He bought a cap. He said a lot of people said some stuff on it.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Oh, I saw the Corpus cap.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: A little cap.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw that. That's the first thing I saw.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: I saw that before I saw the shirt. So.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's. That's what's up, man. And yeah, so you're. Yes. Real quick, the shout out. I want to shout out. Jav Luna.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Yeah, man.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: Just recently was on your dad dude talks podcast.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: The most Recent episode.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Episode 7.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah, the most recent episode.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: I want to call him Chaplain Luna.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: He studied theology, right?
[00:03:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: And Chaplain Luna. Because he's dropping all these gems, bro. On that podcast episode.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: A lot of times it. I never really deemed it a comedy podcast, but of course I'm a comedian and everybody I've had is comedians.
But there are times where, like, we just naturally say stuff that's funny.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: And like with Javi there, I was like, I want to pick his brain this whole time. And then we went to break. He's like, yo, bro, when are we gonna get funny? I was like, my bad, bro. I just. It's cool to be able to pick your brain and everything because he was dropping some really good knowledge.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: So shout out to Javi. Thank you for coming on the podcast. Ronnie was there as well.
Javi made a comment about Ronnie. He goes, this is the quietest I've ever heard. Ronnie. Because Ronnie, same thing. Like, Jav was just dropping so much knowledge on it that both those are just like soaking it in. Like, cuz we're still young in the game. I'm only two years and a couple months in. Yeah, Ronnie's a year and a half in.
Approaching two years. So you said two years.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: You're two years in.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: I'm two years in so being able to hear Javi talk about his experience and he's over a decade in the game. It's.
It's. It's like, we. We don't have school for comedy. So whenever you get somebody that's like a quote unquote teacher that's been in the game and that's been tested through all of it, it's real awesome to be able to hear their stories and learn from it. You know what I mean? So shout out to Avi if you want to check out the episode, episode seven, you can look up Chris Longoria comedy on YouTube.
It's the that Dude Talks podcast and it's episode seven with Javi Luna and with. And Ronnie Fryer. We called it a universal takeover because Javier has his own production that he calls Universal.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: So don't forget Uncle Sam, bro.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: My boy, man. Shout out to Uncle Sam. He's a huge part of the podcast. He's my.
He's my pseudo. See, people, we have this running gag that Ronnie is not my co host.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: But he's come out. He's been a guest so many times that he, at this point should be.
But Sam's already like a pseudo co host because he's my audio guy and he'll. If he's not on the podcast, he'll drop like a. He has a mic off camera and he'll talk and everything. So he's kind of my pseudo co host. But shout out to Uncle Sam, man. He's done a lot for the podcast.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah, just. Just hearing, like, you talk about him, and I was listening to, like, the Slow Rose podcast. We're talking about him. It sounds like that dude's got some chops, man.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Man. And it's so funny because for the longest time, he was the most, like, reserved, quiet one and, like, he'll. He'll talk, but, like, you get him branched away from the whole group and you hear him drop a gem, it's like, wow, that Sam came up. Yeah, Sam crazy. He and Corinne were part of the Rose Battle that.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: That Joe Hillier's doing at the House of Rock. And dude, that. That their roast battle, Karen won. But to this day, I think it's the best battle that they've had during that tournament. So.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: So cool, man.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Yeah, but he's got some chops, man. He's got some chops.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what's up, dude. Man. So I guess we'll. We can get in a little bit into your story, man.
So how did you first get started in comedy, man.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Y' all want to get sad?
It's.
I've always loved comedy since I was a little kid. Shout out to my parents, man. My parents probably shouldn't have been showing me what I was watching when I was a kid. Oh. The first comedy I ever saw was the.
The Kings of Comedy, the Cedric the Entertainer, Steve.
[00:06:58] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Bernie Mac and D.L. hughley. The DVD.
My parents were 19 or 20 when they had me, so they were young.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: My dad. My dad's dad wasn't in the picture, so like they were kids raising a kid. So I got. I was forced. A lot of movies that.
That are like my favorite bands, my favorite movies, my favorite comedy was because my parents showed me it. So I've. I've loved comedy since I was a little kid and I've always gone to comedy shows and everything, but my grandfather was.
Was my, like my best friend. And we lost him.
We lost them three years ago. And it was hard, man. It was hard.
Me and him were thick as thieves and everything. And when I lost him, I kind of like lost myself and got in like a real dark hole and real deep depression everything.
Didn't want to leave the house. The only time I ever left the house was to go to work and then come back home. And I started noticing, like, the only time that I felt like myself in normal was if I went to a concert or went to a comedy show or watched a comedy special. That's the only time, like, I was feeling like myself again.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: So I started writing my own material. Anytime I started feeling down. Like, I just started writing stuff. Just started writing stuff.
During the pandemic, I got Covid and I quarantined for. Whenever they're doing the quarantine and everything.
They, they.
I have a Oculus VR headset and they have a virtual reality comedy clubs. Whoa. And I just stumbled across it, got real high one day and crazy, bro.
I was like, you know what? I've been writing this material. Let me try it. And nobody knows what I look like. Nobody knows who I am. They just know my username. So I went up there and tried it and got some laughs and stuff and never pursued it again.
But whenever I went through my thing and everything, started writing a lot of material and then reached out to Mario Salazar. Yeah.
And he did a private gig a couple years ago at my parents house for my mom's 50th birthday. He brought Javi and Steve Steven Sosa from Paredo Shout out to them. And back then he. This is Before I even thought about doing comedy, they show up. And he goes, hey, do y' all have a host for the show? I was like, oh, the two guys, you brought them? And he's like, no, no, we. We need a host. I was like, well, it's just my family.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: I can roast my family. I know how to roast my family. So I went up there and hosted, and that was the first time I ever did, quote, unquote, comedy. Wow. And that was years ago. That's when my grandfather was still alive.
So I reached out to me and Mario became close friends after that. We're both. We both love wrestling. We always talked about that. Like, and then I reached out to him and said, hey, man, I think I. I think I want to start doing comedy.
Do you have any advice for me? And he wrote a long paragraph.
He said that I was naturally funny because he saw me. The way I rose to my family, there was something there. He goes, I'm happy that you're pursuing this. And then he told me, hit open mics, this and that. He goes, actually, what are you doing on July 15th? And this was a couple years ago. And I go, I have the. I work the day, but I could get off early. While I was going on. He goes, if you're really serious about pursuing this, I have a. I'm doing a show at Mesquite street in Corpus. I'll give you a three to five minute set. Baptism by fire.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: Holy smokes.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: And I was like, okay, cool.
Let's do it. Oh. I said, actually, give me a minute to think about it. Do you mind. Do you mind if I re. If. If I get back to you? And he goes, yeah, of course. And not even 30, like, 15 minutes later, I was like, yes, I'm gonna do this.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Dang.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: So the day of the show, still never hit an open mic to this period. Never been on stage at this point.
Went to the open mic. I went to the show.
This is at the Mesquite south side, when it was still around.
And.
When I'm heading to the show, Mario goes, hey, man, just want to give you a heads up. We're only expecting 60 people. And in my mind, it's like, Holy crap, there's 60 people.
We go upstairs in the green room, and my buddy reaches out to me, and he goes, hey, man, is this show sold out?
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: And I was like, no, they only sold 60 tickets. And he goes, I say, I think at this point, he has to come to the doors. And he goes, no, dude, I'M at the venue. They said it sold out.
So I look, I look at my phone, then I look up and I look at them and I go, guys, like, they said, it's sold out. I said, what? And I stick my. We go and look, sure enough, 275 or 280 people.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: My first experience ever performing was there.
Had an anxiety attack right before.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Oh, shoot.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: And then went up there and once I got that first lap, I immediately got addicted to it and fell in love with it and haven't stopped since.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Dang.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: Stopped since. It's been an amazing, amazing ride so far. And thank you so much to Mario Salazar because. Oh, yeah, I would have. This. This wouldn't be. This would have never happened without Mario.
So thank you to Mario for that shout out.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Mario Salasa.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Yeah, man. That's my boy. Into this day. We just did. He invited me to do his birthday show in South Padre Island. That's the East La Grande Resort. Raymond Orta's room down there.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: I just did a Mario's birthday show down there and. Wow, that was. That was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun. It was me, Mario and Raymond Orta on that one, so. Wow, man, that was fun.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: That's awesome, dude. Yeah, man. So, hey, so you grew up in corporate. What school? High school did you go to, man? King High School.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: I went. Okay. So I went to Collegiate High School for a year and six weeks and then went to King. Okay. Graduated from King 2011.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: King High School, bro.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: So. So I was thinking Ray, for some.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: Reason, man, I don't always think Ray Moody or Miller.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Yeah. You play. So you played football over there at King or.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: I played for a little bit, but I got like.
It was a weird transition because the year and six weeks that I was at collegiate, that was two football seasons.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: That I missed. So I tried getting into it, and whenever I was getting back into it and everything, I broke my toe.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: Dropped a 60 pound weight on one and snapped. It came back and then messed up my ankle came back. I kept getting hurt every time I came back. So I was like. At a certain point, I was like, you know what? Screw it, I'm. I'm done. Oh, man. Golly.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: So. Oh, so you had that first, I guess your first official show there with Mario, right?
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Mario Charles Allen and Sonia Trevino. Oh, man.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Dude. Golly. What was that like? Holy smokes, dude. So you knew for sure after that? I'm just gonna keep. I'm gonna keep doing this. Like, was there Ever a point where you're like, maybe not. You know what I mean, as you were beginning. Because sometimes people get that, you know what I mean?
[00:14:40] Speaker B: I.
My mom couldn't go to that show because she was babysitting my nephew. My dad was at that show. My dad.
I love my dad, man. He.
He's my biggest, biggest supporter. Watches every freaking episode of the podcast. He goes to almost every. Every show that he can go to. He.
So he was there, and I remember Javi was at the show.
Mario gave me a big hug. Javi gave me a big hug because me and Javi became. Were already cool at this point. And then my dad gives me a big hug, and he's tearing up.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: So then I go to the green room and, like, I call my mom and, like, I cry. I.
I strike. It's just ball. I'm crying. I'm like.
Because the adrenaline. This is the first time I had that adrenaline rush and everything, so. But no, I. I knew immediately that this is.
This is what I want, what I wanted to pursue.
[00:15:38] Speaker A: Oh, man. That's awesome, dude.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it was.
I've never done hard drugs, but I feel like this is what people say. Like, what people say heroin is like. They say it's like an over. Over intensifying feeling. The first time. That's what.
The first time getting off the stage felt like. The first time I made somebody laugh, it was like, I need this in my life. Oh, wow. I.
I say that comedy saved my life because it got that dark.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: Whenever you were super depressed, you were doing that. Oh. Like you said.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And then once I. Once I started doing this, like, got out of that whole deal.
Got.
Don't ever. I'm very rarely at home now.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: As opposed to where I was always wanting to be at home and, like, met a group of amazing friends, some of. Some of my closest friends now because of this. So, yeah. I say I fell in love with it and it saved my life. So.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. So you. Do you feel.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: That's why. That's why I put everything into it. That's why I put everything into it, because it. It saved my life. I. It deserves for me to put my all into it. You know what I mean?
[00:16:42] Speaker A: Yeah, man. For sure, man. That's awesome. Yeah. It makes me think about your podcast, which is what we're talking about next, man.
It seems like you got your comedy thing going, and you're just like, okay, I'm doing this, and I know I'm gonna keep doing this. And it's like, you Seem. It feels like you seem like. It seems like you have. You feel like you have to add more things to keep that going. Is that. Is that another reason why you revived the pot?
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Because you had this podcast years ago, and the reason it stopped is because my grandfather passed. Oh, that's why I stopped.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: That's why you stopped doing it.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: That's why I stopped doing it, yeah. Yeah.
The last episode I released of the first iteration of it, I released it literally right when I was leaving to go to Vegas for a trip.
Came back from Vegas, found out that my grandpa was real sick, and then I just like, at that point I started. I knew. I knew. So I started already, like spiraling. So I was like, I. That's what stopped me from doing it.
But what the podcast is now is what I always dreamed of the podcast being. Because before it was audio only, I wanted to do video. But I knew that something like this had, like, I had to invest in, like, getting a studio or finding a studio. And I didn't know this existed until, like, here recently.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: So thank you to Caitlin from the Annex. Caitlin Shook, where we record the record. Re. Record the podcast. The Annex, right down. Right down the road.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: That dude talks is the podcast that.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: Dud Talks podcast we recorded at the Annex.
She provided a space for us to record. And once she. Once I got the green light from her, I told. I asked Sam, cuz Sam started doing the audio at Migalito. Another comedian mic.
He has a mic at Topology.
I saw Sam doing the audio there and he was doing a really good job with that. And I asked him, hey, will you be the audio guy on my podcast? And once he said yes, once I got the location, we hit the ground running. So it's. It's. It's been fun, man.
[00:18:45] Speaker A: D. I like your podcast.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: I do. I listen to. I try to listen to every episode, but I at least hear like, like 30 minutes of. Of one of them. Like that last one with Jav Luna. I'm on already. I'm already on the second play of that one.
But yeah, it's pretty cool that there's other comedian podcasts right in town. I know the slow rose, Slow rose there.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: The other sports was rolling. The other lady, Danielle.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: So baby mama.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: Yeah, baby mama drama. I can't remember what it's called. Diaries. I think sports are rolling. But yours, man, dude, definitely can see potential in it for sure.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: Thank you. Yeah, man, that means a lot, especially with, like, you've been having yours going for almost 100 episodes. Now hearing you say that, that means a lot because. Yeah, I, that's another thing I wanted to say to you is thank you for constantly reaching out and letting me know, like, hey, man, you're giving me props on what I'm doing. So that, that tells me a lot.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, you could tell. Yeah, too. Like, I think it's encouraging for people that are just starting out because it seems like you're like, I know I need to do something. I'm gonna do this and I'm just gonna do it.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: Right. Yeah.
[00:19:51] Speaker A: And you're figuring it out along the way, which is a lot of how life works. Would you say that?
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I was at a weird point where if I didn't start doing it, I was never gonna start doing it.
So I was like, let me, I need to figure out how to do the video and audio right. And I was like, no, you know what? Let me do the first episode. And I think it took to like the third episode to where I finally got it. It's still not 100, but now it's like, it's a lot. It's, it's a lot better than where the first episode was. Yeah. So.
And I take a lot of pride in what I do. I take a lot of pride whether it's like normal life situations like being an uncle being, or with comedy, delivering packages.
The podcast, my comedy with everything. I try to like, I take a lot of pride in what I do. I didn't want to half ass any of it. And with the podcast, it's. The next thing I want to figure out is lighting. Because I'm so dark and I'm in that corner. I'm in the dark corner. So I, I, the next thing I want to figure out is the lighting. But I have a lot of goals with this podcast.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure, man. When I, So I was doing zoom first. Zoom meetings.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: The first episode in here, bro. Once I did the, like, the first set of clips and put it on social media, I was getting all kinds of like a feedback. People I never heard from in a minute.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: Hey, dude, what you got? A podcast. Wow. You made it this. And I'm like, what are you talking about, dude? All I did was go into a studio.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: You know, pay, pay the fee for it. And that was it. And they're thinking, I'm like, like, I made it or whatever. But so my, the perception is like the presence, the package, all that stuff makes, it makes a difference. You know what I mean? So you noticing that and changing it along the way. That's big, dude.
[00:21:41] Speaker B: And I was. I was under the impression for the longest time that for a podcast to look good, it has to be multi camera.
Because like yours, yours is multi cam and I really like that a lot. The Joe Rogan experience. Experience multicam.
I want. There's a lot of podcasts that I watch that are multicam, but I'm a real big fan of Shane Gillis, the comedian, and Matt McCusker. They have a podcast called the Man Shane Secret Podcast.
The top two biggest comedian comedy podcasts in the nation.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: And they have always been a single shot podcast. When I first started listening to it, I was audio only. And then I started watching it, I was like, yo, they figured this out with just a single shot.
I don't need to do a. That's another thing that kind of like discouraged me because I. Doing editing single shot alone is already a lot.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: And then editing multicam, I was like, that kind of stopped me from doing video for the longest time too.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: But then once I found out, hey, it can look you. There's a way to do it with the single shot and it doesn't look bad.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: And it. I was like, okay, this actually looks really cool.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, not only that, like, what's. What's bringing people to my long form is the clips. Yeah.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: I needed.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: I. You know what I mean?
But so, yeah, like, you can have these single. You say your whole entire thing is single shot. You got these clips flipping from one part of the image to another part of the image. If there's two people, three people, whatever.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Which is on there, on the clips. Right. And then if they like it, then, oh, episode seven, that do talks. Boom. YouTube. Then there's the whole full version.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: You know what I mean? And then it's single shot. If they're really interested in.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Listen to. I need to figure all of that out more. I need to look more into that because, yeah, the way y' all do yalls clips, it's. It's awesome.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Appreciate it, man. I mean, I'll drop some gems. I do it myself.
[00:23:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: I use Opus clip. Okay.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: But I don't depend solely on it. Like, I still have to go through there and sift through which clips I want to put out. So there's still work you have to put into it.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Don't like, don't rely heavily on the AI or whatever, but it. It generates the captions. I can put the logo on the corner. I can figure out which. Which clips I want to put out there and. And send them out there, you know. But that's what's getting people to the long form version of the podcast.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, I definitely need to do that because I was screen recording and then cutting it and then putting just like widescreen videos. Yeah. Yeah, dude, this doesn't look good. Yeah. But so, yeah, I need to look into Opus clip. I've heard some good stuff about it too.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, that's cool, bro. So you got the. That dude talks podcast?
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Sir, yes, sir.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: So. So real quick on that. The la. I guess the last couple things I asked.
So what's the. So what's the main goal with. With your podcast? What's the main thing objective?
[00:24:45] Speaker B: I guess so.
I have really big goals with this.
I love the annex and I love that being the home for the podcast. But I don't want it to always be the permanent home once, hopefully. If of course, it's a big dream. But when it does start generating revenue, if it does generate enough, I do want to get my own studio so I can. So I can freely paint it, decorate it or whatever. Do.
Do me. You know what I mean? Have. Have my. Have me.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: In this. Because like my merch. It's me. Yes. Like everything that like, I want it to be me.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: So I eventually want to get to that.
I want to eventually, once they start doing shows again down here, because for whatever reason, shows have been on a hiatus down here.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: Comedy shows.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
I want to start getting like the bigger names, especially if they're gonna do multi days.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: That's a good.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: Ask them. Especially if they're gonna do a Sunday show.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: But hey, I film on Sunday early in the day, especially if I get the opportunity to open for them.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: Because I do get blessed with opportunities like that every so often. Shout out to Anna for ram on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If they like what I do on stage, if they see what I do on stage and they like it and then we get to hang out after and they get a liking to me.
It doesn't hurt to throw. Throw out and ask, hey, if you're not doing anything during the day, do you want to film my podcast? So I eventually want to start getting the bigger names on it as well. Javi being the first one. Yeah.
The headliner of the show that I'm going to do, he already agreed to do to do the podcast. I'm doing a show this Sunday in Aransas Pass and there's a couple guys that have been on Kill Tony that I'm doing the show with. They've already agreed to do the podcast.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: Yeah, man.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: And I also have a lot of friends that are wrestlers. I have friends that are in WWE and. Aw. And then also friends that are, like.
That are in the independence right now that I want to get on the podcast.
So I just have a lot. A lot of.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: That's cool, man.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah. I also want to. I want to have the people that inspired me as well, because I wasn't just inspired by comedy. Like, my. One of my closest friends, Sammy Guevara, he's a wrestler that wrestles for aew.
I. I saw him doing, like, the equivalent of what I'm doing now in wrestling. Yeah. Doing the independence, doing the small rooms.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: And then now he's wrestling in front of tens of thousands of people, so. Oh, man. He was one of the inspirations. I used to be the camera guy for his vlog, so seeing him. Seeing him inspired me. And, like. Yeah, I want to get everybody inspired me either to do the podcast or, like, have something to do with it. So.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, that's cool, man.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: And the cool thing about him, he's. He's on, like, a big platform. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on his Instagram. He wears my merch on his videos, on his content. Videos.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: So, yeah, I've seen it. I was like, yo, what the heck? So that's really cool.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: Wow, man.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Shout out to Sammy Guevara, man. I love you so much for that.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: Yo, dude. I can see so many opportunities from this, man.
That's super dope, dude.
[00:28:03] Speaker B: And I know I have. I have a lot of friends that are musicians, too, and everything. So. Yeah, I. That's where, like, yeah, it is.
I'm a comedian. Of course it's cool that people think it's a comedy podcast, but I'm not.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: I'm not always gonna have just comedians. I'm gonna have, like. I'm. I have some of my homies that, like, are just the homies that I travel with, because I travel and go just have them on there and shoot.
[00:28:24] Speaker A: The shit and, like, you know, and I really don't see it as. As I want to say, I don't see it as competition because you're different. You're. I'm not you. You're not me.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: You know what I mean? You have your story.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Your.
[00:28:37] Speaker A: The way you do podcasting is different from my. The way I do podcasting. And some people won't see it that way they'll see you as like, oh, he's, he's.
I don't want him on my show because he has a podcast like mine. You know what I mean? That's the whole reason why I want you on here because, you know, they grow each other.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: That's the thing about like, that's the thing where competition is.
Or the people that are super competitive. I get it. I'm super competitive. Of course I want to be the. One of the best comedians out there. I want to have one of the best podcasts out there. I'm competitive. But at the same time, don't let the competitive nature stop you from doing stuff because yeah, people that don't know I exist are watching this right now and are going to. And people that don't know, like my people that I have on social media that may not know.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: Right.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: That about your podcast, like where mutually. People are learning about both of us at the same time. And that's how it should be, dude. That's how it should be. That's purpose should be.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: Right.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: And that's where like people, like people have a weird mindset with that. And I'm all about, yo, let's all love each other and let's all grow together. Let's all like, we're. There's so much talent in corpus, not just in comedy, but music and every film making. There's so much talent down here that if everybody was open to like working with each other.
[00:29:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: Corpus itself would grow. Right, right, right, right. In the entertainment side of it for sure. Man. But you have so many people that hate each other.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: In the background and everything. And like, it's just every time somebody is going up, it starts getting brought down. It's. And it's in every industry. And you see it, you see, that's.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: Why I think it's important to draw. Draw a line if you need to like set a boundary.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: Cuz some people.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: Excuse me.
[00:30:18] Speaker A: I feel like some people like feel not obligated but like entitled to come on my podcast.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: And I've had re people reach out. Remember I send you that video that one person, you know what I mean, that felt a certain way about my podcast, wanted to come on or whatever. But I know now coming to 100 episodes, I need to start setting boundaries and be like, maybe I don't want them on my platform because I have a mission, I have a vision. This is where I want my podcast to go, which is basically uplifting people. Uplifting people like yourself.
[00:30:48] Speaker B: And then it's so hard to, like, you don't want to be the bad guy and, like, tell somebody.
You don't want to tell somebody.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: Like, you could sit up, just pull that chair, just move it to the side, that yellow one.
[00:31:01] Speaker B: Or you feel like the bad guy telling them that they're not.
Like, yeah, I feel weird. Like, I feel weird that if I don't ask somebody. But still, you have to. You have to set the boundary, because you can't be the nice guy to everybody at the same time.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: Right.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: I'm.
We're gonna get to it at.
At a certain point, but I'm. I'm gonna start putting shows on, and I'm friends with most of the comedians.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Right. Right.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: But I'm not gonna put all my friends on there.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Exactly, bro.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: And how. Like, how do I tell my closest friends, hey, you don't fit on this show or maybe the next show. It's like, I don't want to be the bad guy. But at the same time, like, you're saying you have to say that.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: I don't think.
[00:31:42] Speaker B: You can't have every. Yeah. You can't have everybody.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Well, you're not necessarily the bad guy either. You're just. You're. You're standing for what you. You want.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: You know what I mean? And you're just setting a boundary. That's all it is, bro. And, like, even in our culture. How's it going, Ronnie?
[00:31:56] Speaker B: Right.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Yes, sir, Ronnie. All right. Yeah. So we got Ronnie off to the side, guys. He's going to come in in a minute, talk about their toy drive they got going on. But, yeah, like, our culture, we kind of grow up to where you got to help family out.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Regardless. You know what I mean? But even still at that, dude, people can get abused. Little kids can get abused. You know what I mean? If you.
It can get real to. To that point, but it's like, we need to grow up and learn that we can. We can set boundaries, even if. Even if it's our family.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: Like, I had to set a br. Yeah, I had to. I had to set a strong boundary with my. My.
My biological mother who came into my life as a teenager. I didn't know her. I had a stepmom, which is my actual mom, until I was, you know, a late teenager.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: My mom. My real. My real mom started coming around, let us do whatever we wanted. We went to go live with mom. My real mom. My dad didn't like it. I could see why. You know, she let us do what. Whatever Whatever.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:49] Speaker A: But eventually it was bad for me because it got to the point where she wasn't respecting my boundaries for so many years. And it came to a point when I had kids, like, I had to be like, wait, mom, there's a boundary here with my kids. And it. She didn't care that was there. And I noticed that that had been going on for years. Yeah. It's like, dude, could. That could have stopped a long time ago, you know, man, you could have all these. All these regrets or whatever.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: But the. The setting that boundary, setting those boundaries for. Especially for people that are closest to you. It's important, dude. Yeah, it's important for what you're trying to.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: And that's. And that's the thing with it. Like, I have huge goals with this. I don't know how. Where it's gonna go.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: Right.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: But I know who has been in my life.
My, like, who's. What. Who the genuine love is coming from. You know what I mean? And I've had. I. I've had, like, people already be weird, and it's weird.
[00:33:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: Like, so, like, one of these dudes that I went to high school with that I haven't talked to since high school, that I went to high school with for a year.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:52] Speaker B: He hit me up and he's like, yo, bro, I see you doing big things. Like, bro, you don't see what. What's going on. No, you don't. He's like, I see you doing big things. Yada, yada, don't forget me. I was like, bro, I don't even know who you are now. We haven't talked in 15 years. What are you talking about?
So, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's. You're right. You do have to set those balance.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: To come out of the woodwork. And it sucks too, because you feel like you're. You're almost vulnerable in the spotlight to where everybody's still watching. You got trolls, bro. Like, me. I mean, it's like. But you still have to. But I think maintain and go.
[00:34:24] Speaker B: I think that's the cool thing about, like, the little cheat code with comedians is if people troll, we can lean into it.
I mean, a lot of my jokes, if anybody. For the people that haven't seen me, a lot of the joke. A lot of my jokes, I'm the butt of the joke.
[00:34:39] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: I'm making fun of myself. So it's like, yo, if you're going to troll me.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: I'm just going to use that to my.
Turn that into.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: Oh, dude, that's smart.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Or if it's, like, something real good and I think it's funny. Shoot, I'm gonna use that in my set.
[00:34:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: I'm like, yo, somebody did. Yeah.
[00:34:53] Speaker A: Oh, that's crazy. I didn't even think of it like that.
[00:34:56] Speaker B: Say whatever you want. Okay, so do you feel like you have to use it in the mind? I turn it into something good?
[00:35:00] Speaker A: Do you feel like you have to crack on yourself, like, through, like, your entire set or.
[00:35:05] Speaker B: No. So with me, there's different brands of comedy and whatnot, and there are a lot of people do that, that do, like, current events and stuff, and I don't do a whole bunch of current event jokes. Like, I'll do one or another. Yeah. Once in a blue moon. But I feel like current event comedy lends its hand to the potential of, oh, XYZ happened this week.
Oh, these two people in two different cities are thinking of the same event.
Oh, their jokes sound very similar to each other. Oh, did they steal it from this? But it's like, well, yeah, there's only so much you could say about an event.
So.
[00:35:47] Speaker A: So, like, so there.
[00:35:48] Speaker B: I've seen a lot of times they're like, oh, so and so stole this joke from so and so. It's like, I get on the surface where it looks like that, but when you think about it, it's like, oh, there's only so much you could talk about in advance. So I. A lot of my jokes, it's like, personal stuff that I went through because I know nobody else went through my exact situation.
[00:36:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:07] Speaker B: So nobody can say that I stole my joke from anybody.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: That's crazy, bro.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: Because it's my life.
[00:36:13] Speaker A: Right.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: I did. Like, I have a whole joke about my mom giving me a whole bunch of crazy nicknames throughout my whole life. And every single nickname is a true nickname that she called me throughout, like, at different stages of my life.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:36:27] Speaker B: And I know 1 million percent that's my joke, because my mom said every single one of those things when I grew. You know what I mean? So.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:36:36] Speaker B: Do I feel like it's necessary for me to rag on myself? No. But it's easy to.
Is easy to make fun of myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I. I grew up with myself. Like, I've known. I've known myself for 33 years. You know what I mean?
[00:36:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:47] Speaker B: So I have a lot of stuff to work with with that.
But a lot of the stuff that I. That I say, it's. It's that people were that bullies were saying to me that, like, you know what I'm gonna turn it into? I'm gonna turn it up and use it in my favor now. You know what I mean?
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: I have a joke where I say that the kids in the hallway were making fun of me because I have big titties now. I do. I play. I play it out. Wow. And, like, so now I lean into it. So do I find, like, it's necessary to do it? No, but there's a lot of stuff that I went through in my life that I can play with.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: And you get a lot of laughs out of it. I mean.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because I think it's a lot.
A lot of people went through their own.
They. A lot of people, like, went through their own or hell, bullies are in the crowd. You know what I mean? So I get the duality of the people that went through.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:43] Speaker B: Oh.
I went through the same thing that he went through, but he's able to make fun of it.
[00:37:48] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:37:48] Speaker B: So he's able to be vulnerable with. Vulnerable with it. So it's easy to laugh with it. Or the bullies that were doing that same are just on the surface level. Ha. That's funny. The fat guy's doing funny.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: Making fun of himself.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: Because the bully doesn't want. They don't want to be the. The center of it. They don't want to be the ones that look bad or whatever. They want you to look bad.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
But I'm. I do a little bit of everything too. But a lot of it is self deprecation. But a lot of it, I. I'm starting to grow more and more to.
[00:38:18] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:38:18] Speaker B: Evolve to different stuff as well, so.
[00:38:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I guess you learn that as you go.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
Still figuring this out. I don't know what the I'm doing with this.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: I don't know what I'm doing in comedy crazy. But I'm still. I'm still learning.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: Well, it seems like you try to soak up, like, from other comedians, like, you know what I mean? How do you do this, how you do that? Whatever.
[00:38:36] Speaker B: I.
I want this to be my life. I want to make something out of this. I'm obsessed with this.
[00:38:43] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:38:44] Speaker B: I'm obsessed with this. I love this.
I was a fan of comedy before I ever did comedy, so I was already watching specials all the time. Now I study specials.
[00:38:55] Speaker A: Oh, dope.
[00:38:56] Speaker B: I hate.
I love it, but I hate it at the same time because, like, when I go to A comedy show. I can't watch it as a fan anymore because, like, when a comedian says a joke crazy, I can't just be like, oh, that was a great joke. I'm like, oh, the crowd is laughing because he said this. Is this. When he said this, they reacted this way. When he said this, they reacted this way. Like, now I'm just. I. I feel like. I'm like, I. I don't know. Like, I just see comedy weird, Weird. Now that I do it, I. It's. It's fun. It's cool. I just wish I could enjoy.
I could enjoy going to shows the way I used to.
Now I'm just a student of the game. I'm. I soak up everything that's awesome, dude. Or when I see somebody bomb, I'm like, that didn't work. So don't do that.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Don't try.
[00:39:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:48] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: I'm constantly learning, man. Especially, like, I. My set, sure, it may have, like, the same jokes, but I try to do different elements to the same joke. Like, I try to change it up. Word change wording, change verbiage, change facial expressions. I like to change it up every so often.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: Do you study, like, vocabulary?
[00:40:08] Speaker B: Like, I need to. I want.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: He was talking about how, like, describing. Was it. I can't remember that word. Well, something that describes something or other.
But that. But that's kind of like comedy too, where you describe certain things and you describe it in a funny way.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:25] Speaker A: That's helpful with your. Yeah, I guess with your act or whatever.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: I need to. I need to do more of that.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: Do you. Do you feel like, like, comedians do that? Like, I guess established comedian or.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: I don't know. I know in the rap game Eminem did that, where he read the. He read the dictionary multiple times. Crazy. So I know certainly it makes sense, right, to maybe.
[00:40:51] Speaker A: To maybe help your act somehow, like, to learn. Learn that stuff.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: Yeah. So we're like a sentence sounds super elementary. And if you just, like, change one word of it, it's. Make it punches it up a little bit, like.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: Yeah, okay. So I was listening to y' all's episode with the javiluna again, episode seven. He was saying y' all were talking about tree trimmers. Yeah, like tree trimmer. Just those two words together. TT free trimmer. Like, that sounds funny. Yeah, to me. And then. And then Ronnie mentioned something about they pay, right. And then they. Then they call the Mexican dudes to actually do the work.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: He said he would be the face of the company. And then point to me that Looks funny.
Yeah, no, there's, there's.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: Now we got. He's got to introduce the show. Do you want to bring Ron, do you want to bring Ronnie on?
[00:41:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
So we are gonna introduce. We are gonna talk about a show. I'm gon bring on one of my frequent flyers on the that dude Talks podcast. Not my co host, Mr. Ronnie Friar.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: Yeah, Ronnie's gonna be talking about some upcoming. Upcoming show that they have and was it December?
[00:41:57] Speaker B: December 6th.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: December 6th. Okay. Well, before that, you have another show, don't you? On November 23rd.
[00:42:03] Speaker B: This Sunday.
[00:42:04] Speaker A: This Sunday.
What's going on there?
[00:42:06] Speaker B: Aransas Pass.
Actually, let me pull that up. It's an Aransas Pass. It's going to be at the CM Lanes bowling alley.
Jake Coulter, he is a comedian.
His family lives in Aransas Pass. He's in Austin, Texas.
His family owns that bowling alley.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:42:27] Speaker B: So he put on a show over there a couple months ago. I got the opportunity to host it. It was a real fun show.
I got the flyer right here.
Yeah. This Sunday, November 23rd, it's gonna be. I'm gonna be hosting that one. It's gonna be Jake Coulter from Kill Tony. Roland Alanis, the homie, Uncle Sam, my audio engineer on the podcast, Eric Blake. I'm not sure who that is. Andy Gomez.
[00:42:54] Speaker C: Who.
[00:42:55] Speaker B: Everybody knows who Andy Gomez is.
Carlos Lopez, who's also been on Kill Tony and is also going to be the host on the. Oh, he's going to be the guest on that dude talks.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: Nice. Nice.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Carlos Lopez, we have Tommy Rain, who's. Who's a comedian from Austin, I believe, and Colin Sledge, who is a Kill Tony golden ticket winner.
That's gonna be the bubba loves you 3rd Annual Bowling Tournament, SCM Lanes in Aransas Pass.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: So it's in Aransas Pass this Sunday.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: This Sunday.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's nice.
[00:43:26] Speaker B: I'm excited for that one. I'm excited for that one. We're gonna. That's on Sunday. We usually film on Sundays, the podcast. So we're gonna film the podcast at the bowling alley.
[00:43:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:36] Speaker A: Support local. You guys support local comedy, comedians, stuff or Costa Ben Communions, I guess you could say.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: But over here we got Ronnie Friar. Nice to meet you, man.
It's nice to meet you, man.
[00:43:48] Speaker B: Nice to meet you, dude.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: What's up, Ronnie?
[00:43:50] Speaker C: What's going on, man?
Enjoying it out here. Now's the time to be a Texan, man. It's beautiful outside. It finally feels great.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:59] Speaker C: I walked over here from the artist in this A lot further than I anticipated. I was out of breath when I got here.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: Did you get the sign up?
Yeah. Actually, for anybody that's watching right now, if you're not doing anything, there's going to be an open mic at the artisan. Shout out to Tina La Cochina. She's hosting that one at the artisan, right in the next 15 minutes. So if you're out and about in downtown, go check that out because I'm gonna be trying some jokes. But, yeah, we got a show that we are getting ready for December 6th. I'm really excited. I'm really excited about the show because it's the first show that I. I'm producing. Oh, Ronnie. I say that Veroni's done a majority of the legwork.
It's gonna be the that Dude Talks presents the Naughty List comedy show. Hold on real quick.
[00:44:45] Speaker A: Elephant in the room, bro. Are you his co host or not?
[00:44:53] Speaker B: So my. My.
My thing is we already have the logo. It's already called that Dude Talks About. It's not those Dudes Talk. It's gonna be too hard to change this cap.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Yeah, show it to him. Show it to him real quick. Yeah, I'm the camera right here.
Nice.
That's dope, bro.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: And then it has my Chris Longoria comedy right there. Damn, y' all saw my government hair.
[00:45:21] Speaker A: Hey, tree trim it. Tree trimming.
[00:45:25] Speaker B: Yeah. December 6th, man. I'm real excited for it.
Somebody says, hi, Daddy.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: That's my wife. My wife. That's my daughter.
What's up, mama? Thank you for watching the show.
[00:45:34] Speaker C: I was going to say this chat is locked.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: So. So. All right, so it's a. It's a toy drive.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's going on with Toys for Tots, man? You want. Ronnie's the one that got the toy portion together for it.
Have him explain that part.
[00:45:49] Speaker C: So we're putting this. This free show together, right? Davey Jackson. Last time he came down, man, we did a show at the House of Rock.
[00:45:57] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:45:57] Speaker C: And packed it out, man.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: We backed it up.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. The dude, hilarious, man.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: He's. He did. He's done kill Tony six times already.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Davy Jones.
Sorry, Baby Jackson.
[00:46:10] Speaker B: Very funny dude, man.
Yeah. So it was a free show, but Ronnie had the great idea of.
When he brought up this idea. I don't.
I jumped on board immediately. Yeah, man. Of doing a toy job.
[00:46:23] Speaker A: Good idea.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:46:25] Speaker C: Give back for the community, you know? I mean, this is the first time in my life, you know, I don't know about anyone else, but, like, I can actually now I have something I can give back with. Right. I feel like, you know, Cool. No one's going to donate t toys. Before I was doing this, you know.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: Right, man.
[00:46:41] Speaker C: Playing Call of Duty and jerking off. And then I started doing comedy. Now we're going to, you know.
[00:46:46] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool. So, like, did you. Had you been involved with the. To any type of Troy toy drive beforehand or.
[00:46:51] Speaker B: No, no, no.
[00:46:53] Speaker C: It's just like I've got. I've got a son, you know, and like, I'm involved with church and everything. So, you know, I participate every. Every Christmas and.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:47:01] Speaker C: Angel thing. So it's just like, how can we give back, you know? And I mean, if we're. We're gonna be doing this amazing show for free anyway, and it's just like, let's. Let's make some kids Christmases, you know?
[00:47:12] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So we pivoted from being a free show to a. Each person that's coming in. Hey, man. One unwrap Christmas gift, one unwrap toy. And we're gonna donate all the toys to the toys for tots.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: Two birds with one stone, man. That's awesome, dude.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: I'm real excited about it.
My. The company I used to work for, about the only thing that is good about them, the only one thing that's good about them is they. They.
They used to do a gives back at the end of the year and we would donate money and we would each. We would all as a group go buy gifts and everything. And the looks on those kids faces because we would personally go donate it.
We. I. That warmed my heart. And I'm no longer with that company anymore. And I kind of felt like I was. I. I was with that company for eight years, so. Eight years I was able to do that and get that warm feeling. And when Ronnie. I was already like, damn, I'm not doing anything this year.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of.
[00:48:12] Speaker B: I kind of feel like Grinch.
[00:48:13] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:48:13] Speaker B: So when Ronnie brought this idea to do the toy drive, I was like, Dude, 1 million. Let's do that.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So what's the hardest part of organizing this?
Organizing comedians for a chariot charity event.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: So, Davey, I'm paying out of pocket.
So if anybody would like to sponsor the show, we are actually looking for sponsors.
I paid for Davey out of pocket, and I'm paying for his hotel out of pocket as well.
[00:48:39] Speaker A: Whoa, dude, that's. That's. That's big right there, man.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: I want to grow the podcast and I want the show to be good.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Hey, bro.
Put your money where your mouth is, bro.
[00:48:49] Speaker B: But, yeah, Ronnie and Sam, what we're going to do as well is we're going to try to do a tip jar at the show.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: We're going to do giveaways. If we get enough sponsors, if people don't want to monetarily sponsor, if anybody. If they want to do, like, gift cards to their business, like local business and whatnot, we're going to do g giveaways.
If you buy. If you donate a toy, not only are you going to get it into the show, you're going to get a raffle ticket for some of those giveaways, but if you throw a tip in the tip jar to pay the comedians, you're gonna get two extra raffle tickets as well. So we're gonna make it a fun night, man. We're gonna make it a fun night.
Do you want to talk about sponsors or anything?
[00:49:33] Speaker C: Sponsors?
Yeah, I mean, we're. We're currently are looking for sponsors for the show. We're gonna do cash or donations just because this is. It's gonna be a big show. I mean, it's big for the community.
[00:49:48] Speaker B: It's. We're.
[00:49:48] Speaker C: We got a great venue at the Ann.
[00:49:51] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:49:52] Speaker C: Davey Jackson's going to bring the. The heat. So.
[00:49:55] Speaker A: And this is. This show, is it. The show's at the Annex. This is one at the Annex. Okay, okay. I'm thinking the one. Okay.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: 312 South Shepherd.
[00:50:03] Speaker A: Wow, wow, wow, wow.
[00:50:04] Speaker B: At the Annex.
[00:50:04] Speaker A: Okay, cool. What's it. So they got a stage there already? They have. I haven't been there.
[00:50:08] Speaker B: Oh, Ronnie and Tom with an H. Another comedian friend of ours, they built the stage, so we're going to be bringing that. We're going to use that.
[00:50:16] Speaker A: Yes, sir.
[00:50:17] Speaker B: We do an open mic at the Annex every third.
[00:50:22] Speaker C: It's tomorrow.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: It's tomorrow.
Tomorrow. Every third Wednesday of the month, we do a comedy open mic there. So they have a PA already.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: Sounds very. It sounds really good. So nice. Yeah, we're gonna do it there. We're gonna do it there.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: What? So what's it like? Okay, so what's it like, I guess, doing open mic there?
Do you feel like the stage is cool crowd? The crowd like the setup? I guess. Because you know how some places it's hard to get the crowd's attention, and I hear y' all talking about riches sometimes. How.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you know, I mean, they.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: Had to play pool, and it's hard to get there.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: Afraid to talk about that. Yeah.
Thank you for listening to the Podcast you did.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: I mean, dude, like, I mean, I don't know. I feel like it needs to be brought to light, especially for the comedy scene, the local comedy scene, if.
To have better experiences, but. But still, like, even having those experiences.
[00:51:11] Speaker B: My thing is, sure, it's a bad experience for us, but it's a terrible experience for the fans. Like, my. My dad's a huge supporter and he's a huge comedy fan.
He goes to as many of the shows as that he can. He won't go to a richer show after the one that he went to because of the experience that he had. He's like, bro, I. I didn't even enjoy the show. He said, every time I heard the. The.
The somebody break, I turned around. Like, somebody breaks playing pool.
[00:51:41] Speaker A: It's like, okay, back to that thing of drawing a boundary, drawing a line, what you're willing to do or not, not willing to do. So you guys got a stage for that? You guys built a stage, bringing it out. Y' all got lighting and stuff like.
[00:51:51] Speaker C: That on the stage.
[00:51:52] Speaker A: Oh, let's go, dude. One got the chairs, how the chair is going to be set up and all that stuff.
[00:51:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:51:57] Speaker C: We have an idea of redoing the room just for the show.
[00:52:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:01] Speaker C: And I think the owners are on board, so, yeah, we're gonna make it to where it's friendly for comedy. Yeah. So, yeah.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:08] Speaker C: And then good news is when it gets packed out, if you don't show up early enough, there's plenty of room outside.
[00:52:13] Speaker B: In the patio.
[00:52:14] Speaker C: On the patio. And you can hear everything as well.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: So.
[00:52:17] Speaker A: Steve Bernal, Comedy is blowing up.
[00:52:19] Speaker B: Actually, I do wanna. I do wanna make a comment to that. It does say Corpus is. Comedy is blowing up a bit in Corpus. I'm loving it.
Yes. One million percent. I'm very, very, very, very proud of all the freaking comedians in Corpus, man, because.
[00:52:36] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:52:36] Speaker B: Everybody is bringing it. Nice. We just did a show at Tanks Pizza in San Antonio.
Shout out to Ryan. He's a comedian out of San Antonio, that put that together. Yeah, it was an all Corpus show.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: And he said that there's regulars that go to that show that said that from beginning to end. That was the funniest show that they had been to at that venue. And it was nothing but Corpus comedians on it. So Corpus has been all the. All the comedians.
Well, majority of the comedians.
[00:53:07] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right.
[00:53:08] Speaker B: They've been grinding and busting their ass and writing a lot of material and writing quality material. It's like that iron sharpens iron.
[00:53:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:53:15] Speaker B: A Lot of you can see the quality in. In these comedians jokes.
Everybody's growing, man, and everybody's hungry, and I love to freaking see it. If you haven't gone to a show, especially a local show in Corpus Christi, come out to December 6th at the Annex or go out to any show, man, because we've all been busting our butt, man. We've all been busting our butt, and everybody's taking pride in what they're doing.
[00:53:39] Speaker A: That's awesome, man.
[00:53:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Shout out to Steve Bernal for that comment, because that is 100 true.
Corpus is growing out here.
[00:53:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:48] Speaker B: Apparently, right before I started, or not so long before I started, there was only a handful of comedians. And it's gotten to the point where any given open mic list, there's 22, 23.
[00:53:58] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. So. So two questions, like, how do you feel about the old schoolers in from Corpus? And then how you feel like, do you feel like it's so many comedians to where you don't have enough time to practice your craft? You know what I mean? How do you feel about those. Those things?
[00:54:15] Speaker B: So old schoolers, Javi and Danielle are absolutely amazing. They've treated me. They welcome me with open arms. Not Danil at first.
Welcome anybody with open arms at first, but she's my. She's my comedy thea, man, I love Danielle. I love Javi. They've been great.
Tina. Tina's great. She's real good to talk to.
There are some old school that pop in every so often. Like, David Zimmerman's one of them. He's very funny. He's great.
Shoot.
Damn, I forgot his name.
There's some. They're just. There's some old heads that pop in every so often that are really cool and stuff, but cool as far as.
Are there too many comedians?
No.
And yes.
Just because there are some mics that have a cat and.
And are hard.
[00:55:16] Speaker A: It's kind of hard to say it publicly, too, right? Because, like, damn.
[00:55:19] Speaker B: No, you know, I'm mad that the past two months I haven't made it on Joe Hilliard's mic. Ye. Hey.
No, but I get it. He.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: He.
[00:55:27] Speaker B: He has a really good process. It's capped at, I think, 10 or eight, especially with the roast battle right now going on. And he does random draw. It's like literally, he does a spinner and everything.
It. It is what it is. It's a luck of the draw. And that's where it comes in. Where. Oh, crap. If there were only X amount of people, all of us would have gotten On. But it's a good problem to have. I think it's a good problem to have because like I said, everybody is. Iron sharpens iron. And oh, XYZ is getting better. I need to get better.
[00:55:56] Speaker A: Oh, damn.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: Like, you don't want to be left behind. You don't want to. Because all of us, yeah, we're all. It's a fun group, but all of us are still wanting to get booked.
[00:56:04] Speaker A: Right.
[00:56:04] Speaker B: And if somebody else is doing better than you, they're gonna get booked.
[00:56:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is your first show. Do you feel like you. You had to start putting on your own shows? Like, is that the. The play for a lot of local. What do you think, Ronnie? For a lot of local comedians.
[00:56:20] Speaker C: When I first got on the scene, I started putting on my. Yeah, six months in.
[00:56:25] Speaker A: Because, like, you feel like that's the play or.
[00:56:27] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
[00:56:28] Speaker A: I just.
[00:56:28] Speaker C: I wanted stage time. And I know, you know, sometimes you're not going to be giving it, you know, so sometimes, you know, I put on my own show because I've seen other people putting on shows. So it's just like, I can do it, you know, I'm. I'm capable.
And, you know, you learn from, like, Danielle, she. She basically put me under her wing when I first started producing shows. So she taught me the ropes on you. Pay your people, treat your comics good, you know, not to have like 10, 000 people on the lineups, because people, you know, profit, it's a real thing, man.
[00:57:02] Speaker B: And I think we did the opposite with our show. I think we have too little comics on it. Well, I mean, we may. I think we are going to add one more comedian to it.
I guess you're right. Having too many.
[00:57:15] Speaker C: It's sometimes less is more. You know, it. Whenever you have less people, like, instead of, you know, every eight minutes, we change someone out. Now we're going to give you 15 minutes with one person. So now you can invest time and get to know their style. And then, you know, then once you get done with them, bring out someone new. Yeah, you know, just like two or three of those versus, like, oh, now we got to start over for another roller coaster ride sometimes.
[00:57:41] Speaker A: How often do you feel like you need to do shows, like, throughout the year?
[00:57:46] Speaker B: Me, I want to see how this one goes. But another thing with shows is if you do a quality show, and my shows aren't always going to be at the Annex, and they're not always going to be free if you. I want to set the standard with this first one of quality. And once I want all of my shows to be a quality one, it eventually starts being a money generating thing.
[00:58:11] Speaker A: People expect quality next time around.
[00:58:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So if I'm going to be putting money into it, it's eventually going to come back. So that's another reason to do it as well.
[00:58:21] Speaker A: That's cool, man.
[00:58:22] Speaker B: My thing with that is if I'm going to book, like, Davey's a bigger name, if I want to book a bigger name, like, if I want somebody to see my material and you don't ever really get a chance to see them, that's another way for them to see your material is, well, I'm going to book them on the show and I'm going to be on it, so they're going to see me.
Yep. So wait, what are you.
[00:58:43] Speaker A: What are you saying? I lost you. I'm sorry. I zoned out there for a minute. So what'd you say?
[00:58:47] Speaker B: No. So putting on shows gives you an opportunity to, like, control the lineup, and you don't get an opportunity to work with like these comedians.
That's an opportunity to book them on your show and they see to work with those comedians.
[00:59:02] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:59:02] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:59:03] Speaker A: Kind of like a network test that thing for.
[00:59:05] Speaker B: Sure, sure.
[00:59:06] Speaker C: I mean, producing the shows and then being on the show sometimes can be a catch 22.
Like, for me, sometimes the stress of running and producing the show.
[00:59:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:17] Speaker C: Will take its toll whenever you're doing your actual set because. Oh, she's so worried about all the moving pieces instead of just, oh, my. 10, 15 minutes.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: And that's what I'm gonna figure out because I'm not. So I'm gonna be putting the show together, but I'm also gonna host it.
[00:59:32] Speaker A: Right.
[00:59:33] Speaker B: Let's start the show off.
I'm gonna have to keep track of everybody's time.
[00:59:37] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:59:38] Speaker B: Like, I think Everybody's gonna do 15 minutes on the show. So I'm gonna have to be timing them.
[00:59:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:43] Speaker B: Then I'm gonna have to light them. Oh, I have to go back up, say something about them, and then bring the next one. And so this. I probably shouldn't have hosted the first show that I'm putting on. And I probably should have let somebody else do it.
[00:59:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:56] Speaker B: But I'm a psychopath, so.
[00:59:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I do that sometimes. Yeah. That's good, man.
[01:00:02] Speaker B: I love hosting. Hosting is very fun.
[01:00:04] Speaker A: Okay. Do you feel like that's the play too, as a. As a local comedian? Like, you know what I mean? Like, hosting. Because it seems like there's you have Anna, Joe Hilliard. Who else? Tina? I just. I follow you guys on social media.
Yeah.
[01:00:18] Speaker C: I think. I think hosting is the move if you want to further your comedy career, because now you're getting up the whole night. You know, you're not just doing five, 10 minutes here. And now you're responsible for the crowd.
You're not worried about the comments as a host, you worry about the crowd having a good. Oh, so now it changes your. Your mentality. Instead of. It's like, screw the comics if they're not doing good for the. Like, worry about. We're worried about the crowd having fun.
[01:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
You kind of have to, like, you are.
You kind of have to be the one that has a finger on the pulse the whole time. And like, oh, shoot, the pulse is dying out. They're dying. I need to do something to bring them alive. So, like, you are constantly having to check the pulse of the show the whole time, dude. And I think it's a fun thing to have.
[01:01:05] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:01:05] Speaker B: It's a fun responsibility.
[01:01:07] Speaker C: The host is, like, should be the. The first or second funniest comedian on that lineup because they're. They're up there the whole night.
[01:01:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:01:16] Speaker C: I've had an experience where, you know, I didn't do so well. And the host, man, he freaking boom. Brought the room back.
[01:01:23] Speaker A: Whoa.
[01:01:23] Speaker C: And that's so important because sometimes a good host, if someone has a poor performance, the show's done.
[01:01:30] Speaker A: Oh.
[01:01:30] Speaker C: Like, it's done. The crowd's out of it, you know.
[01:01:33] Speaker A: So I guess the host will. So the host would try to make it a little bit softer for the next comedian, make it even more soft. The.
[01:01:40] Speaker B: The host's main job is to make it easier for all the comics. The last thing you want is for the host to bomb at the beginning and make it an uphill battle for everybody else.
[01:01:52] Speaker A: Oh, damn.
[01:01:53] Speaker B: The host has to start it off hot just so it's super easy for everybody else.
[01:01:58] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:01:58] Speaker B: Just so it's a great show after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And I. That's one of the things, like, I love hosting, and I've gotten the opportunity to do a lot more hosting, but for the longest time, Ronnie was the only one. When he was putting shows on, he was the only one booking me to host.
[01:02:13] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:02:13] Speaker B: And because of Ronnie, I got to got that practice more and more, and so I think that's one of my strong suits is hosting now. Wow. That's cool, man. I love hosting.
[01:02:21] Speaker A: Really. Wow.
[01:02:23] Speaker B: It's so much fun. Wow.
[01:02:24] Speaker A: So, like, these different Venues and stuff like that.
I guess. How do they respond to. Because obviously there's a bunch of. So far. Like topology, the Artesian.
[01:02:35] Speaker B: Right.
[01:02:36] Speaker A: You just talked about earlier.
Mesquite street, the Annex. Like, I. I guess they're responding good to. To the comedy scene.
[01:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: Like it brings.
[01:02:44] Speaker B: I can only speak to them because that's who I deal with.
[01:02:48] Speaker A: Is there something. Is there a reason why. I mean, everything else. Everything else showed up already or what?
[01:02:53] Speaker B: The thing with the Annex is we're truly blessed with an amazing owner. Caitlyn is. She loves comedy. She's just a comedy fan.
There's one time that me and Uncle Sam were in Austin signing up for Kill Tony, and while we were waiting, we saw Caitlyn walking in.
She had tickets to the show.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: Crazy.
[01:03:13] Speaker B: She goes to multiple. She's a huge comedy fan. So she decided to start up the. Her. She did the open. She does the open mic there out of. I think just the. For the love of the game. So.
[01:03:24] Speaker A: Wow. Man.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: I just got really lucky with being able to deal with somebody that's amazing like that.
[01:03:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:03:30] Speaker B: It does the monthly mic there. So Tina deals with. With.
With Caitlyn as well. And Caitlyn's amazing when it comes to comedy.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, too. Your podcast is there too. Yeah. It seems like she understands the importance of that as well.
[01:03:43] Speaker B: She'll just randomly pop on and just do something funny. We filmed something that I think it's gonna be a mini episode promoting the show.
[01:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:03:52] Speaker B: And it was me, Ronnie and Caitlyn. And we're. All three of us are talking about it. I'm gonna release that.
[01:03:58] Speaker A: Wow, man. Dude, that's awesome, dude.
[01:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah, man.
[01:04:01] Speaker A: Thanks for coming on the show, you guys. Is there anything I want to share?
We are coming up on an hour, man.
[01:04:06] Speaker B: Oh, that one by quick.
[01:04:08] Speaker A: That's good. Like to hear that.
[01:04:09] Speaker B: I run into that with. With my podcast too. We're like, oh, crap.
[01:04:12] Speaker A: We're already.
[01:04:13] Speaker B: We're already at this amount of time.
[01:04:15] Speaker A: It's good.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: That's a good thing.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. I think so too.
Come over prepared. I didn't touch on everything.
[01:04:21] Speaker B: Oh.
[01:04:22] Speaker A: And it's. Yeah, dude. And it's just going free like to come back. Hey. For sure.
[01:04:26] Speaker B: Finally for having me, man. I. I'm very bad. I'm very weird about. Like you told me, man. You should have asked. I.
Yeah, this. That whole closed mouths don't get fed. I'm very weird about. I feel like I'm begging if I ask. I feel weird about it. But thank. I'M glad. I thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you for all the love that you've been showing the podcast, too.
That means a lot.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:04:48] Speaker B: Last couple of things. December 6th, come out to the show at the Annex here.
[01:04:54] Speaker A: You want to do a promo to the camera?
[01:04:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
December 6th, come out to the Annex. That dude Talks presents the Naughty List comedy show. It's gonna be myself, Uncle Sam, Ronnie Friar, and our. We're also gonna have a special guest. We'll see who that is here soon. And then our. Our headliner, Mr. Davey Jackson.
Bring one toy per person. That's all we ask. And then come out for a fun night, man.
[01:05:22] Speaker A: Thank you, Steve. Stephen Brown on Facebook says thank you for all the dedication to the craft. I will continue to support when I'm off. Thanks, guys.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: Oh, can I plug my social media? Yeah. Follow me at Chris Longoria comedy on all social medias. Instagram, tick tock. And if you want to watch the podcast, Chris from gloria comedy on YouTube.
[01:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
Chiming in. What's up?
Don't lie. Chris Longoria felt every minute of those two hours, man.
[01:05:52] Speaker B: Javi, maybe I enjoyed the conversation more than you did, but it flew for me.
Sucks to suck.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: Hey. Hey, Javi. Hey, Javi, real quick. I was calling you Chaplain Luna for all the gems you were dropping on that podcast, bro.
Man, appreciate the. The. That you giving these. These guys these gems, man.
[01:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that hobby episode felt like five minutes to me.
Felt like five hours for him.
[01:06:17] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Dude, Hobby's doing some stuff, man. Yeah, dude, talk about somebody's been in the game.
[01:06:23] Speaker B: Remedy, man. That's my boy. That dude inspires me so freaking much, man. Inspires me so much.
[01:06:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he was. It was episode number one for us, man.
Man, Episode number one. Bad audio and everything. He came on, I was like, dude, come on. On.
But yeah, and then he repped our. Our T shirt at his special at the. You know, that was. That was Dopey's.
[01:06:45] Speaker B: He. He texted.
[01:06:46] Speaker A: He texted me. He's like, hey, dude, you got any merch people wanting to buy because he was wearing that shirt. So that was. That was huge for. For a big hobby. We got. We got to take care of the big dudes out here, man.
[01:06:54] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:06:55] Speaker A: For real. Got to show some big body love out here. Absolutely. It's awesome, man. Ronnie, you got any. You want to plug your socials or anything before we check out?
[01:07:01] Speaker B: I got.
[01:07:02] Speaker C: OMG, Ronnie 69 across social media.
I do want to plug in corpus christi comedy.com if you're looking for any Open mics, all the shows in the area, and local comedians where they're going. We post all that. You know, we're trying to grow the scene.
[01:07:18] Speaker A: Oh, that's you.
[01:07:19] Speaker C: Yes, sir, that's me.
[01:07:20] Speaker A: Nice, bro.
[01:07:21] Speaker C: The third. The guy that's been roasting the crap out of some people.
Yeah, yeah, so we. We run that. So that way, you know, it's easy. If you're a fan of comedy, you know, you can just go to their Facebook search bar. You go to corpus christicomedy.com and it's so easy to find.
[01:07:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:37] Speaker C: You know what's going on in the area?
[01:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Real quick. And then we got an HEB question here. We have to ask almost everybody here. Yeah. Which HEB do you guys shop at? Or which HEB do y' all avoid?
[01:07:47] Speaker B: Growing up, when I was a little kid was Port in Tarleton. Then it became HEB plus on the south side.
And then recently it was the HEB on Weber. But everybody should avoid the HEB on Leopard.
Unless you. Unless you want a extracurricular activity in the parking lot. But I got. I got freaking proposition one time on Leopard when I was working.
It was crazy. Best gum job I ever had in my life.
[01:08:21] Speaker A: Oh, shoot. Dang.
[01:08:25] Speaker C: I avoid Saratoga. HEB plus on Saratoga. Hate that one, man. I feel like I get road rage in there because everyone's on their phone.
[01:08:33] Speaker B: And it's like, yeah, yeah, I go to the one in the bluff, man. It's.
[01:08:36] Speaker A: It's.
[01:08:37] Speaker C: There's never anyone there. It's like. It's nice, man. Oh, you know, the. The summertime. But besides that, man, it's easy.
[01:08:44] Speaker B: Nice, man. What's yours?
[01:08:47] Speaker A: State? No, Alameda and Texan.
[01:08:50] Speaker C: Oh, that one's nice, dude.
[01:08:52] Speaker A: Which one do I avoid?
Alameda and Robert.
[01:08:55] Speaker B: Robert, yeah, the one down there.
[01:08:57] Speaker A: A lot of people like that one. I don't know why I'm just like.
[01:08:59] Speaker C: Oh, that's the one I'm confusing with the real ones.
[01:09:02] Speaker A: Remember Port Airs heb?
[01:09:04] Speaker B: Yeah. The one that is the Goodwill now.
[01:09:07] Speaker A: Oh, okay, okay, okay.
[01:09:08] Speaker B: Goodwill station now.
[01:09:09] Speaker A: Oh, shoot. Port Ayers, man. There's a bunch that, like, are not here anymore, right?
[01:09:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: So crazy.
[01:09:16] Speaker B: Walmart used to be on Everheart. Remember that?
[01:09:19] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:09:19] Speaker B: Back in the day. That's not a Sam's Club right there.
[01:09:22] Speaker A: The one I remember is Baldwin and Morgan.
Baldwin and Morgan kind of near the Grandma Gordita's taco. I think it's Joe Garza.
[01:09:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:09:31] Speaker A: You remember?
[01:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I went to Lozano Elementary.
[01:09:34] Speaker A: Okay, okay. I Went to Savannah elementary.
[01:09:36] Speaker B: Doesn't exist anymore.
[01:09:37] Speaker A: No, it doesn't.
[01:09:38] Speaker C: What? No.
[01:09:39] Speaker B: Demolished.
[01:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Anyways, man, thanks a lot of you guys for coming on the show. You guys support local comedy, man.
If you're. They're doing it. Got an open mic tonight. I don't know. I think sign ups already passed. It was at 7pm or something like that.
[01:09:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it just started. So if you're downtown, you can still make it out there.
[01:09:56] Speaker A: Still make it out there, man. Is there anything you guys want to share before we go? This is a Mexican goodbye. We say goodbye and then keep talking. Say goodbye and then keep talking.
[01:10:04] Speaker B: Actually, one last thing about the show.
It's also brought to you by not only that dude talks, but it's brought to you by corpus christycomedy.com and select standup.com.
[01:10:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:10:13] Speaker B: Which is Ronnie's business.
[01:10:15] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool, man. I like that page. I follow that page often. And in fact, when I'm looking for open mics, because I've been wanting to try, bro. I don't know.
[01:10:22] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:10:23] Speaker A: Just try my hand at it and then go Cops Christie comedy to look. Because y' all have that calendar.
[01:10:27] Speaker C: Yeah, thank you.
[01:10:29] Speaker A: That has all the dates.
[01:10:30] Speaker C: Yeah, don't be scared, man.
[01:10:32] Speaker B: Come on.
[01:10:32] Speaker A: And it's so. And it so happens every time I check, bro. Y' all don't have one. I'm like, damn, I'm off today. Y' all don't have one today. You know, I mean, and I. I try to call around. I call a few people, like, hey, is there anything going on? Or I look around, but I don't know. I stick to myself a lot. I stick to my family. Yeah, this is the. I don't like to socialize, but I created a hobby where I socialize.
[01:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, that's the bad part is, like, I. I don'. Have kids yet, but I have a niece and nephew. And, man, it's. I've missed.
I don't know what I would do if I had a family, because I've missed so much of their stuff them already. It's like, damn. It's crazy.
[01:11:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:11:09] Speaker B: Damn. Hobby's going.
[01:11:10] Speaker A: Hobby Lord is an abandoned charter school. Oh. Oh, yeah, dude.
[01:11:16] Speaker B: Y.
[01:11:17] Speaker A: No, wait.
[01:11:17] Speaker B: I used to say it was a school of science hobby.
[01:11:20] Speaker A: No, it's not, dude. It used to be.
[01:11:22] Speaker B: It's a storage facility.
[01:11:22] Speaker A: It's a storage facility now. Yeah, dude, Albertson's on Del Mar now. Oh, yeah.
[01:11:28] Speaker B: You know what's crazy? You know how they have.
[01:11:30] Speaker A: The hobby is going off in Here.
[01:11:31] Speaker B: What's up?
[01:11:31] Speaker A: Hobby.
[01:11:32] Speaker B: You know how they have. Is it cake, right?
[01:11:34] Speaker A: What's that?
[01:11:35] Speaker B: Is it cake? Where they turn any. They can make. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Make anything look like a cake, look like anything. Freaking.
Now they're doing that with storage facilities. They're turning anything into a storage facility. Freaking.
There's brass laws that used to be right there on Staples. They turned that into a storage facility. They turned the old, old Scientology school that used to be Heb.
[01:11:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:11:59] Speaker B: Into the freaking storage facility.
[01:12:01] Speaker A: Dang, man. Do y' all get into Corpus politics or anything like that?
[01:12:04] Speaker B: Nah, not really.
[01:12:05] Speaker C: I just do what I want.
[01:12:08] Speaker A: So the. All because some comics, it seems like they. You. You guys avoid politics, right? Is that because of your trade? Like, what y' all are doing, or.
[01:12:15] Speaker B: I mean, my thing is, I got very, very, very great advice from Gabriel Iglesias from Fluffy.
He wasn't giving it to me. He was giving it to my friend.
[01:12:27] Speaker A: No way.
[01:12:29] Speaker B: The wrestler. I was just a bad standard for it. But he said something that he.
Three things he always avoids. Up until recently, he started showing his colors on one of them. But the three things he always avoided talking about was religion, politics, and sports. Because why are you gonna lose fans for talking. Oh, if you talk about politics, let's say you're a Democrat and you talk about Republicans. You just lost half of your fans.
[01:12:56] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:12:57] Speaker B: Just because he made a comment if you're a Astros fan or if you're a Dodgers fan, you say you're a Dodgers fan. You lost X amount of.
[01:13:07] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:13:08] Speaker B: You know, if you're bashing this religion.
[01:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:13:11] Speaker B: Well, their followers aren't gonna. Why are you gonna.
[01:13:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:13:15] Speaker B: Lose all of that just for the hell of it?
So that's why I try my best to avoid any political at all.
My mom is the opposite. She's very vocal about it. Yeah, I let her do all the political talking. Yeah.
[01:13:30] Speaker A: What about you? You run, dude.
[01:13:31] Speaker C: Cowboys fan? I go to church and I voted for Trump.
[01:13:34] Speaker B: What?
[01:13:34] Speaker A: Get some.
[01:13:35] Speaker B: Hey.
[01:13:39] Speaker C: Oh, it was either that or some guy that doesn't know where he's at.
[01:13:42] Speaker A: Oh, shoot.
[01:13:42] Speaker B: That's funny.
[01:13:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Buttercrust. Rest in peace, man.
[01:13:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's the storage facility now, too.
They're turning anything and everything.
[01:13:53] Speaker A: What? The courthouse. They're going to turn the courthouses.
[01:13:56] Speaker B: They almost turned my grandma's house into a storage facility.
[01:14:00] Speaker C: It's the new spirit Halloween.
[01:14:02] Speaker B: It's the new.
They're going to do a spirit Halloween storage facility hybrid.
This has been fun.
[01:14:13] Speaker A: Yeah, bro. So what's up with See to the next episode. You got somebody. Oh, aren't you gonna have the comic? That comic for your next episode?
[01:14:20] Speaker B: So the one that I'm releasing on Monday is gonna be Corinne, the artist who's been.
[01:14:26] Speaker A: Dude, she's been killing. Yeah.
[01:14:28] Speaker B: In the roast battle. Shout out Corinne the artist is gonna be Corinne the artist and Batman. Ben, man. Yeah, shout out to Ben, man. It was currently artist and Ben man on that one. Then we did the mini.
[01:14:43] Speaker A: Ray ray. Lia says this. That's it.
[01:14:46] Speaker B: That's it. That's it.
[01:14:48] Speaker A: No longer a Ronnie fan.
[01:14:51] Speaker B: That was one of his two fans.
Shout out to my dad. I told you, my dad is my biggest supporter, man. Shout out to my dad for watching.
Yeah. Wow. What were we. What. What did you ask?
[01:15:03] Speaker A: Sh. I forgot we were talking about Corinne. Corinne. Oh, yeah.
[01:15:07] Speaker B: Corinne's been killing, man. It was her and Ben, man. And then we filmed that mini episode that has. Has the owner of the Annex, Caitlyn Shook and Ronnie. And then the one that we're filming this Sunday is gonna have Kill Tony's Carlos Lopez. And I'm gonna try to get. No promises. I'm gonna try to get Kill Tony golden ticket winner Colin Sledge on it as well.
[01:15:27] Speaker A: Oh, man. Yeah, that's awesome, bro.
[01:15:29] Speaker B: But if you want to watch it, you know, follow my YouTube, follow my Instagram, and then keep up with it.
[01:15:34] Speaker A: So, yeah, so we. So we find you the pot. That dude talks podcast on the Chris Longoria comedy on YouTube.
It's not fair that the only thing you can turn a storage facility into is a meth lab.
Says hobby Luna.
[01:15:51] Speaker B: The chat is live.
Yeah, he's here with us, dude.
[01:15:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I got to get him back on because I've had him on the first.
[01:16:00] Speaker B: First episode, and then never since then.
[01:16:02] Speaker A: No. Why? I had.
I have my reasons.
Well, he caught. He called. He's like, hey, we got Chingo coming in. He's looking for podcasts to get on. So he got on with that. I actually invited him on because Chingo had already did a bunch of podcasts solo by himself. I was like, let me bring some other guys with him. Some different. You know what I mean? And how we do know he was still dropping gems on there, too, bro. Chaplain Luna, I'm telling you, man.
But yeah, thanks a lot, you guys, for coming on the show.
If nothing else, hopefully it doesn't for.
[01:16:35] Speaker B: Me to come back on, man.
[01:16:36] Speaker A: Part two, bro.
[01:16:38] Speaker B: Right.
[01:16:39] Speaker A: Oh, man. Well, thanks a lot, you guys, for. For listening to the show. If you're still listening. If you're still here. Follow us on Corpus Christi Originals podcast anywhere.
[01:16:46] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[01:16:49] Speaker A: We got a comment from Javona real quick. It says if Corinne doesn't win the roast battle, they're gonna turn her into a storm.
Dude, I just know, man, it's gonna.
[01:17:01] Speaker B: Be bad that all the clips are just us reading Javi the number one episode.
[01:17:06] Speaker A: Again, thank you, Javi.
Yeah, man. Thanks. Hobby for. For chiming in, man. And, you guys, I'm trying to say. We're trying to say goodbye. This is a Mexican goodbye. I'm telling y', all, man.
[01:17:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:17:20] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Well, allegedly, he's gonna be in San Antonio.
[01:17:24] Speaker B: Allegedly is.
[01:17:25] Speaker A: Allegedly.
Yeah, but that's all good, man.
[01:17:29] Speaker B: I don't know where that. Where that came from, that joke came from. He's just been getting. He's been getting booked a lot in San Antonio and not in court.
[01:17:39] Speaker A: Well, it seems like. So. So Austin is like the. Is like the hub now for comedy, right? It seems like San Antonio.
Well, San Antonio is not too far from. It's like an hour ago.
[01:17:48] Speaker B: Oh, no. San Antonio is getting a cool little renaissance.
[01:17:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:17:51] Speaker B: Right now because they opened the Woodlawn Theater.
[01:17:53] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:17:54] Speaker B: And then they just opened Riot.
[01:17:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:17:56] Speaker B: Comedy club on the Riverwalk. Yeah, man. Yeah. Santa's got some. They've got a lot. Right.
[01:18:02] Speaker A: Well, not only that, Javi Luna was mentioning. Good night, Luna. Appreciate you, man. He was mentioning on yall podcast that.
That he wants audiences that he doesn't know to hear his comedy. So it's almost like that's what you have to. You got to go to different audiences to hear your.
[01:18:17] Speaker B: Your comedy and stuff. A lot of what we do is we'll hit up a different markets, open mics so they'll hear us, and then that's how we started getting booked out of town, dude.
[01:18:27] Speaker A: Yeah, dude.
[01:18:28] Speaker B: Mike. And they liked us.
[01:18:30] Speaker A: Wow, man.
[01:18:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:18:31] Speaker A: So you got to be good. Definitely.
[01:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:18:34] Speaker A: Would you say that? I mean, you got to be good. You have to have your craft. Has to be.
[01:18:37] Speaker B: Not everybody believes that, but yeah.
What?
I'm just kidding.
I'm gonna have people questioning who I'm talking.
[01:18:45] Speaker A: God damn. You see, bro?
You see? You can't say nothing.
[01:18:49] Speaker B: Just throw away comments. You can't say nothing, bro. I'm a comedian. These are jokes.
Jokes.
Let's cut this off before I get myself in.
[01:19:00] Speaker A: All right, we'll see you later, guys. Tomorrow we got Ben Deon, the host of the Unshuck Yourself podcast, the newest addition to the Corpus Christi Originals Podcast Network.
He's going to be on tomorrow we're going to be talking about what he does on his podcast and just a little bit about what he's going through. I mean, going with what he's got a podcast, what he's got going on. Yeah. Leto also the respond, if you please, podcast. He's got an episode coming soon, but he's another local comedian. Check out Support Local Comedy, you guys.
Whenever you hear about these shows, check out their events and stuff like that. Support Local. But thanks a lot, you guys. Catch you on the next one.
