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Behind the Beats Exploring Bakersfield's Creative Scene
Ever wondered how the underground music scene thrives beyond the mainstream spotlight? Join us as we sit down with the fantastic team from Bakersfield Underground, affectionately known as BUG, to unpack the world of podcasting, creativity, and the camaraderie of shared passions. We exchange stories of our journey, navigating platforms like YouTube and Spotify, and bond over unique gifts like mystery bags of unexpected drinks and a Jack White vinyl. From skits featuring comedians to the artistry of DJs, this episode is a tribute to the vibrant community and the stories that connect us all.
Explore the roots of BUG as we reminisce about the wild tales from the road with co-host SR1 and the band El Tiempo. Our conversation takes a deep dive into the soul of the underground music scene, highlighting artists like The Roots, Black Thought, and Lupe Fiasco, whose genius often goes unnoticed by mainstream audiences. We share personal stories of battle rappers, the nuances of crafting skits, and the dedicated pursuit of artistic dreams beyond the glitz of Los Angeles, right here in Bakersfield.
Discover the DJ world through hilarious post-show adventures and the vibrant underground scene that's blossoming in Bakersfield. From the playful chaos of In-N-Out orders to the evolving creative paths of friends like Cadillac, this episode is filled with laughter, insights, and a celebration of the bonds formed over music and late-night snacks. Plus, catch the latest on our podcast's reach across social media and our new YouTube channel, ensuring you stay connected to all the exciting content we have in store.
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All right, y'all. The most dope episode is back. We have Bug. What is Bug? Bakersfield Underground, Bakersfield Underground the.
Speaker 2:Bug the Bug, the podcast. Hell yeah, that's the podcast. Now the YouTube channel now too. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:How many episodes you got going so far up, man legally?
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, you know, we got man. We got about over 10 episodes that have been recorded. Um, I'm working on the editing stage right now. I'm adding graphics to it, and then youtube has all these copyrights you know what I mean. You gotta be careful you know what I mean. So, um, um, I've been debating over going on video spotify all right, because they allow a little bit more, and stuff, kind of like joe rogan and shit. You know what I mean? Yeah, um, but youtube is just where everybody's.
Speaker 1:I want to make it convenient for everybody you know, every major platform, hell yeah, it's got to go everywhere, no limitation, I don't want to limit myself anywhere. Yeah, yeah, everywhere.
Speaker 2:There's no excuses because you never know, man. But hey, gordy, I want to thank you for for having us, you know, come to your, to your show, and I've been listening. I've listened to all your episodes and stuff and it's an honor to be on the show over here, man.
Speaker 1:Hey, we appreciate it. It's the most dope. Yeah, it's a big thing for another podcast to want to join up and podcast with another podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, let's podcast together. Damn it, it's all love man.
Speaker 1:Hey, we're going to podcast together, Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, that's what's up, man, you know, and once again I want to thank you and stuff you know for this opportunity for us to come over here and speak to your audience and stuff you know what I mean Absolutely, and just let them know what else is going on over here in Bakersfield, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's going to be an exciting one today.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that man. We brought two gifts over here.
Speaker 1:Is it a gift that keeps on giving? It's a gift that keeps on giving. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So we like to spread the love over here and stuff. And number one we are known for our mystery bag. Okay, it has its own theme and not a lot of people have survived it. Okay, so if you will do us the honor of grabbing the first one, we don't have no idea what's in there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you can't even look in there, you can't even look in there.
Speaker 2:You're just going to have to crack it open. You know what I mean. If you can do us the honor we're going to crack that sucker open. Yeah, yeah, yeah, make eye contact. You got to make eye contact.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 5:You want to make sure that, hell yeah, that's the.
Speaker 2:Pacifico that's the big boy bottle right there. That's gonna put hair on your chest right there.
Speaker 1:I thought y'all got me some OE or something.
Speaker 4:I was like oh man, you got me drinking malt liquor up in this. I'm putting it in a bag with you.
Speaker 2:What you got in there, bigfoot.
Speaker 5:Oh look at that.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. Camo man, they really hey, they really.
Speaker 2:man Howard's Beanie, Mark Big, shout out, you know, for providers of the mystery bag?
Speaker 1:What does camo taste?
Speaker 4:like man. Oh man what you get over there.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, what is it?
Speaker 5:Mikey, mikey Fine.
Speaker 2:Mickey's.
Speaker 5:Mickey's, mickey's he did get the Molly he did.
Speaker 2:And, broski, they know you over there, dog.
Speaker 4:He got a 211.
Speaker 2:Steel Reserve 211.
Speaker 1:All right, man, hell yeah, you might got the best one. Man, junior, you're actually going to drink?
Speaker 2:You're on the job, broski, you're actually going to drink. What's Junior got man oh all right now that we got the, the first gift, already going all right, um over here at the bug, I noticed that you have a vinyl player back there. Oh, absolutely, I've been watching the videos and stuff.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So over here at the Bug, as a thank you for having us on your show, we brought you this vinyl record. Go ahead, I hope you don't have this one. I heard you were recently collecting vinyl.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I don't know if you have. I hope you don't have this one.
Speaker 1:I hope you don't have this one.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Do you have this album? I do not, okay, all right, so this comes with an explanation. Okay, is this?
Speaker 1:the one that comes from the inside out and the outside in.
Speaker 5:I watched the interview on Jimmy Fallon. I think yeah.
Speaker 1:Now you have it, it's a special very very special. This guy is so eccentric about his LPs.
Speaker 2:Jack White he put so much work into the actual physical record I heard about this man I'm, I'm happy I'm not the only one that knows. I'm not crazy.
Speaker 5:I told these guys, I'm not crazy, I got this album, bro.
Speaker 2:That's the only, the only copy I'm able to get here and stuff, and I'm still looking for my copy. But you know what I mean. We wanted to give you that because not not only is that album, it's a. It's a really good album. The music in there is good, but all the technology that went into it you know what I mean on the vinyl I see you got your your record player over there and stuff, so, man, you can go ahead and enjoy that.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean? And and yeah, it has a whole, the whole setup. So you already know. I don't have to, man, I can't prepare with a long ass speech. I was gonna explain the whole album.
Speaker 1:shit, I'm going to edit this file back.
Speaker 5:A minute, man, let's go ahead.
Speaker 1:And continue and tell us all about this vinyl man. You just saved me half an hour right there, dog.
Speaker 5:Man, he had that speech ready. I was like listen to this speech. I was like dang, that's a long ass speech and he was going into detail about that. Record the ins and outs, okay, damn. I could learn something about this record. Now, I know a lot about it.
Speaker 2:I said damn, I was like, okay, then you're like shut up already. Yeah, shut up. But yeah, man, big thank you. Thank you for having us over here on the show. We really do appreciate it and stuff. You know what I mean. We like collaborating with a lot of other shows out here as well. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But this is exciting right here, man. It's awesome to be with like-minded man, Like-minded people. It's just you know about the industry, entertainment, the culture, everything, man, Comedy, Just people on the same wavelength, if you will, yeah there you go.
Speaker 2:I got my. Pacifico there you go All right Salud he's already down.
Speaker 4:I don't know about this logo.
Speaker 1:The Queen Bee over here is not immune to this game, oh okay, what did you get over there.
Speaker 2:What'd you get?
Speaker 5:She's already feeling it? Oh yeah, she's already feeling it.
Speaker 2:Hey, we saved the best for the queen of the house right here, you know, there you go.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's funny. You know, man, I don't know about this four loco man, you'll be all right.
Speaker 1:What's camo? Taste like man.
Speaker 4:What's it taste like?
Speaker 5:Camo, camo there you go boy, enjoy the ride man, it just don't got no menthol flavor, you know no.
Speaker 2:It's hard to hear that man. You got a couple hours to go ahead and finish that dude.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you do.
Speaker 2:That's all right. Oh man, that's hilarious man.
Speaker 5:So yeah, what do you want to talk about, man?
Speaker 2:I'm up for anything. Whatever you want to ask us, man, I'll even ask you questions.
Speaker 1:I'm interested in the bug the bug.
Speaker 5:Can I introduce myself?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got three other people here, man.
Speaker 2:Can you introduce me, make me feel special. Like always, I don't introduce myself either, I just go for it.
Speaker 5:Go ahead, weatherman, get in on us. Man, don't introduce me, cadillac the Weatherman.
Speaker 1:Cadillac the Weatherman, cadillac the Weatherman's joining us. Hey, give him a round of applause Cadillac.
Speaker 2:Cadillac, cadillac yeah. There you go there you go.
Speaker 5:Cadillac, Got the Weatherman Cadillac in the building. Keep all them people out of here. Man Get out of here, let's go.
Speaker 2:Oh man, we got the weatherman Cadillac over here. You know what I mean. We got Junior the bug-tographer in the house. What's up, guys? We got Bigfoot over here.
Speaker 1:Pew, pew, pew. Where is that air horn? At there you go. Come on, dude.
Speaker 2:I'm known as the biggity bomb.
Speaker 1:You know, and we're all hosts here at the Bakersfield Underground the bug podcast and stuff so the bug podcast we talked about it vaguely when we first started talking and about how you guys got started and it was more of a. You were on the road, you were on the road and you had stories that you thought, hey, you know what this shit would be hilarious to some other people. Oh yeah, so you wanted to bring that out.
Speaker 2:What I was able to tell. You know the stories that I was able to. You know what I mean. I mean, in our show we talk about anything, right, and it's uncensored. So, yeah, I do get into those details of what I see around me and everything. Because you know, um, when we first had the idea of the bug right, it was a shout out to sr1 it was him and I were on the road with el tiempo or our broski's el tiempo, and stuff, and we were just on the road constantly. You know what I mean. And we will be having these conversations, having drinks, just like what we're doing right now, and stuff. And we were just on the road constantly. You know what I mean. And we will be having these conversations, having drinks, just like what we're doing right now, and stuff. And we just ran into situations on the road meeting different bands you know, what I mean.
Speaker 2:They got their own stories and stuff and just watching what is around me and stuff, it was like. It was like a cartoon bro, you know what I mean. And I wanted to like I people should, I think people will be entertained by these kind of stories and stuff, you know what I mean. And it just became this idea what can we call it? Right, what can we call it, you know? And once again SR1 was like hey, man, I've had this idea about the bug. I said, the bug, what does that mean? Right, he's like Bakersfield Underground. I said, oh shit, that shit sounds dope.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean so that's how it all came about, man. And then it just became this monster, now that it's just raw, uncensored now. Now we're going on video now you know what I mean. But that was the basis, how it all got started. It started with two people, you know what I mean. And and yeah, big shout out to sr1, the whole tiempo crew, because when I first came with the idea.
Speaker 2:Hey man, like I'm a talker, as you can see, we were talking before you even hit record, you know. So I always bring that energy, you know what I mean. And and they were like I had the guys from il tiempo. You know what I mean. They, they supported me every step of the way. They, since day one, they were like, hey, man, we like where you're coming from, because, remember, I shot their videos. You know, I hung out with them constantly, man and um, they were like hey, man, whatever you want to do, we'll back you up. They even even the intro to our song is an unreleased il tiempo track. Okay, you know what I mean. So, man, big shout out.
Speaker 2:Mike z scott, dustin sr1. You know what I mean. Because they, they support that. So I'm always rocking their gear, man, because then the banditos are always with me and stuff. You know what I mean. How are they doing nowadays, man? They're you know what. Once we get off air, I'm gonna show you some unreleased stuff, okay because they're in the lab right now, man people been asking, and it takes time to write music the way that they do.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. So right now they're in the lab. Right now there's a couple of tracks that have been recorded and stuff and I'm like, fuck, I cannot wait for the world to listen to this man.
Speaker 1:They've been doing good what's your story on the, the underground portion of bug right bakersfield underground underground? What does that mean to you, um, and what makes something underground? Uh great question, great question.
Speaker 2:Underground, you know what. So when I moved out here to Bakersfield right, I've been here for going on 11 years, right so I came from LA San Fernando area and stuff, where I used to always listen to all kinds of music, right, but the artists that I like you never hear them on radio yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm like wait, when can I get the backstory, etc. I like to man, I've always been. I like to break down albums, lyrics, all that. I've always been like that, you know. So, moving here to baker's field, um, traveling with otiempo, once again, I met a lot of artists out here and I'm like man, how come I never hear them? They have interesting stories, man. Like you know, all these, all these artists, the majority of them, have fucked up you know, that's where the best music come from pain to play.
Speaker 5:Yeah, hey, man, me too. You know what?
Speaker 2:I'll throw myself out there but, um, I never heard them on radio. I said, hey, have you guys ever done any interviews? Nah, they won't give me the time or day because maybe, um, their stories are are maybe too tragic for radio you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:they don't sell. They're not me, they're not for the media, for them, yeah, so I'm like man.
Speaker 2:No, fuck that dude like me, speaking to all these artists, I'm like man. Come, let me open a platform to bring everybody in here, the people that the radio stations won't play, sure, right? So, without knocking anybody on the radio stations, I I've been there before. I've been. I knock them, brother, do it.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're going to go there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:But no, no, no, in all honesty, I've had the privilege of shooting music videos out here and going to the radio stations out here, and so I, I, I try to, I try to to open. Maybe you could say so that we can start working together and stuff, putting my show out there and stuff, but nobody wanted to work with us.
Speaker 2:So I get it now. I get why other artists they don't get the opportunity. But with me it's like not only do they get the opportunity in our show, but I listen to their music. All right, you know what I mean at our show, but I listen to their music. All right, you know what I mean. So there's nothing like an artist coming to our show and I tell them hey, on this track of this album you say this. And they're like oh shit, yeah, like you do listen to it, yeah, you listen, You're not you didn't just say hey, right now we're going to play.
Speaker 1:You know, weatherman Cadillac. Hey, you know.
Speaker 2:Weatherman.
Speaker 1:Cadillac it reminds me of White man Can Jump.
Speaker 2:Yeah, woody Harrelson's talking to Wesley Snipes.
Speaker 1:He's like you hear it. Are you listening to it? Which one do you do? Do you hear it or are you listening to it? Yeah, yeah, he's like I hear it, you don't hear Jimmy. You can't hear Jimmy.
Speaker 2:There you go of respect the time and the effort for every artist that they put, because it's time and money that goes into this, and these are like strong emotions too. You don't have to go go into these tracks so for somebody to pay to give you the time and the day to listen to your one track about maybe something personal that you went through back in the day.
Speaker 2:10 years, five years later, he's bringing these lyrics, yeah so you know, I think that's where our show started growing. It was word of mouth, you know what I mean, because people started saying, hey, man, this guy listens to our songs. He'll give me no time limit in bringing us in, he'll listen to the whole catalog. I don't just listen to their new album, I go back, I dig deep into SoundCloud. You know what I mean mean, because a lot of artists start off at soundcloud and stuff. So there's tracks that that I, that they don't even know I've listened to, and because we have, we have contacts now. So I'm like, hey, have you ever worked with it? Oh yeah, I got this track that never made it to air. I'm like, well, send it to me so and then I will bring that up during the interview. They're like oh shit, how the fuck do you know about this track? Yeah, you know what I mean. I thought it was buried somewhere, but now you know we give it new life. You know what I mean. So that that's how the show started.
Speaker 2:Um, but the question was underground. What do I consider underground? There's a lot of artists out here. There's a lot of talented artists out here. Man, give me three. Uh, one of them that you mentioned was stephanie soul was one of them. Another one, marlon Mackie dude. He has some spectacular music out there. I recently started working with Laddie Patterson, dude, and she has an album that's coming out. That is fucking dope dude, really. We just recently. And a more known artist is Mike Dilla from Death Row Records. We just interviewed him and stuff.
Speaker 5:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:And the story and advice that he had for all the up-and-comers as well.
Speaker 5:Uh one my favorite rapper, locus luciano. You know, he just has, he just has an album that just released.
Speaker 2:You know, I got a crazy story he's an animated character man I like.
Speaker 1:I like his mannerisms and everything, so fucking talented.
Speaker 2:He just has a new album out, you know. They just released yesterday or today or something like that.
Speaker 2:I can't wait for him to come in and we could break that down yeah but um, there's so much talent out here, man, you know, like, there's a rock band that disassociates that were out here, you know what I mean. They kick ass. There's fractures, one of my like, they're like goth metal, you know what I mean. They're from england empire, all right, you know we've interviewed them and stuff, and um, there's just so many people out there you know what I mean, not just here at bakersfield but everywhere. And once again, like they, they don't get too much play on the radio and stuff. You know what I mean. But they come to our show and once again we break down their music, lyrics and stuff. You know we ask them all the questions and stuff that they can't really talk about on radio. Sure, once again, with all due respect, but fuck it right it right, it is what it is.
Speaker 1:We're fucking unfiltered here. Yeah, you come to our platform.
Speaker 2:You got no time limit. We could talk about whatever the fuck you want.
Speaker 5:Yep, absolutely, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And I think that that's what I consider underground man. Give an opportunity to people that don't have that opportunity.
Speaker 5:Open some new doors.
Speaker 1:And also give them a safe place to be who they are and express, know what they really feel a judgment-free zone, somebody that appreciates the art and the struggle and artistry and the things that go behind the scenes that a lot of people don't see and realize.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah. So that's how you can understand the artist, what he's going through and what he's understanding, what he, what he or she doing what is, what do you feel like?
Speaker 1:is, uh, the threshold for underground? Where is the threshold for underground? Where is the threshold to you, in your opinion, the weatherman?
Speaker 5:Threshold.
Speaker 1:So when do you become not underground? As soon as you sign to a label or as soon as you get a hit on the radio, when are you not underground anymore?
Speaker 4:Basically. That's when it is Basically. When you sign with a label, alright, and when you get that hit song, when the label pick you up yeah so that's when you ain't.
Speaker 2:I mean that could be one right there. You know what I mean, cause nowadays, like I mean, the music industry has changed it has changed a lot within the last couple of years and stuff. You know what I mean where people are recording from their own home now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. So what is considered a major label now? Exactly Like a distributor or something like that, or like where are we at now?
Speaker 4:right, because Everybody right now getting distribution deals. They're not signing the contracts no more. All right, they want distribution deals smarter business wise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right yeah, you know what I mean. So we we've had artists come in that have, uh, signed record deals and stuff, but they got screwed over because, x, you know, abc, right, but um, and then they started doing it from their house and they got a record, you know, they invested a little bit of money in their equipment and stuff and boom, they just started selling right then. And there you know what I mean. So, um, yeah, that's a good question, but what do you consider? Like, at what point are you considered mainstream? Do you want to call it?
Speaker 1:So for me in particular, like you said, some of your favorite artists are quote unquote, underground right. They don't get played on the radio. One of my favorite groups of all time is the Roots. Yeah, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Roots.
Speaker 1:And who I think is one of the greatest lyricists or rappers of all time, is Black Thought. Bam, there you go, yeah, but but who knows black thought exactly? You can't go around bakersfield saying, hey, I'm listening to black thought like you're listening to 50 cent or ice cube, yeah they don't know who black thought is. Yeah, you know, lupe fiasco that's another one, lyricist right there. Yeah, all of these guys, uh, pharaoh munch damn, there you go yeah there's so many of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot of them, but you know, I just because it's a different, I guess they're coming at it. I'm sorry. I think the way the music is right now is more like um pop yeah, it is drake. Yeah, like drake kendrick. He says nothing in his songs, but the chorus is probably popping right, yeah, yeah. So yeah, like like lyrics, like like a true lyricist. Yeah, nobody, they don't get the, they don't get to shine like I feel they deserve Somebody that has something to say.
Speaker 1:While back, I remember a guy named After oh yeah, big shout out.
Speaker 2:He's a broski of the bug. After yeah, tell me about After man, after he is so talented, battle rapper spits right from the head Right off the top of the dome Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to tell you a story about after. Okay, go. So we've had him on the show before, right, and after was one of those. He was one of the first people that supported our show. He came on the show. We were nobody, we were recording in the backyard with one microphone. We're sharing the microphone after, say, hey, man, I got you guys, so I got to spend some time several times, uh, with after.
Speaker 2:But there was this one time, right, he was at my pad, right, and we're just chilling right there. We're already done recording this off the air and him and I was just. Everybody was left because they were drunk or high one of the two, but him and I were the only survivors, right? You know what I mean. So we're, we're kicking it, bro, we're just chilling right there, you know. And and I asked him hey, hey, after, like, how does your mind work when it comes down to this battle rapping, because not everybody can do it. No, like, where does your mind go? Right, because he can look at you and he would just start spinning about your shoes, your jacket, your tattoos. You know what I mean? You're bald, whatever the fuck. Right, yeah, and he broke it down to me, bro. Now he gave me some of that on the interview that I did with him, right, yeah, but it wasn't like one-on-one.
Speaker 2:Give you everything, all the deep info and I'm like dude, like my mind, cannot comprehend that.
Speaker 5:It doesn't think that quick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a process right there.
Speaker 2:But it's like he's such a fucking cool guy too you know what I mean and hanging out with him and everything and getting to know him after a little bit better and stuff. It was like, fuck, dude, you can kind of see where he pulls all right from life where he gets from.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, man, but it would.
Speaker 2:It would take, it would take for you to sit down with him and really have him open up to you to really you know what I mean. Like but, yeah, such a talent man shout out after man broski from the bug.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's see um. Tell me about the skits, brother. Tell me about the skits that you guys got going. I want to know about the skits man, so you know who's writing them. Where is the, the creative process coming from, where is the inspiration coming from, and how are you guys throwing that together?
Speaker 2:so do you want to answer that? Do you want me to go for it and you just elaborate? Okay, all right so so the skit started with. On the show on the bug, you hear my voice all the time. I don't have a radio voice, broski like I don't, you know what I mean, like I just talk, you know, and he does, he's being modest, thank you guys.
Speaker 2:But no, like I feel like I have the weakest fucking voice, you know what mean. So you hear my voice all the time, right, all the time. So I said, hey, man, I grew up listening to radio since I was little, right, it's a long story, but I didn't have my parents around, I just had radio. So I would listen to um, you know big boy in the morning and stuff.
Speaker 5:Cause, you know.
Speaker 1:I valley and stuff. Um, back back then it was k earth 101. You had good radio. Yeah, we had some really good radio and stuff. You know what I mean. So a fence to beggarsville, I don't give a fuck. They had good radio down, yeah. Yeah, it was different.
Speaker 2:But hopefully you know we could change things around. It's never too late. So, um, I enjoyed little skits here and there. You know what I mean, like the phone tabs from big boys neighborhood. You know what I mean. Like little skits like that, that kind of give you a break from listening to my voice. You know what I mean. So when cadillac came in, I said, hey, man, I could use you like I can. I can write for you and create this character, right? So the weatherman cadillac skit started happening. Now the weatherman cadillac takes place back in the 60s and 70s, all right, so back when it was man. I wish I was born during that time because it was so free.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So the Weatherman skids Cadillac and I, we actually write the skids. We get together all week and we brainstorm and we start just knocking it out and breaking it down and just really getting getting trimming the fat out of like the whole the whole writing to the point, yeah and making it funny and stuff.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. So it took us a while to get it, but it was just him and I having fun in the beginning and it became a storyline and then just people started just just uh, picking up on it. Now, people would listen to the show just to listen to the Weatherman Cadillac skits you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So I feel like it's some Anchorman shit man.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean yeah, yeah, you can put it like that. I mean it's just like we just come together and just Mainly, it'd be me out coming here. Hey, what you think about if I say this right now. Say this no, mainly it'd be me out calling him. Hey, what you think about if I say this right now. Say this no, that ain't right, that ain't right. Come back again, come back again. How about this? Then he said no, that ain't right. I said all right, all right, that's pretty nice. He said yeah.
Speaker 1:He said who the fuck is this? Why you tearing my shit apart? Now I'm just looking at it and I'm just dang.
Speaker 5:You, hurt my damn feelings, but I can't tell him. So I'm like, okay, all right, fuck it, I'm going to suck this shit up here. So, man, so one thing, we just came together and it's like we went from sentence to sentence and this thing came together, okay, and this thing it came good. I thought it was going to turn out bad. Alright, I did. I thought it was going to turn out bad, but he can't make it to the stage. It surprised you?
Speaker 2:yeah, it surprised me. Look, man, I'm notorious for being an asshole to work with. Yeah, I'll be the first man I admit to it.
Speaker 5:I admit to it, bro. But yeah, you know what I mean I am. You'll catch off guard, yeah. But because?
Speaker 2:because once again, I believe in our product and what we are capable. I believe that I have a team right here that we haven't been able to unlock their full capacity yet, but we're getting there yeah, you know what I mean. So man cadillac is the nicest fucking guy because he brings me maybe 10 drafts of one skit and I turn all of them down.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, and then, and tell them about the recording sessions, because you know how long do we last for a two, three, five-minute skit? How long do we last About two hours? Yeah, Two and a half.
Speaker 1:I have them say the same line 20 times, like you're in the recording studio and he's trying to hit a Mariah Carey E-note way up high.
Speaker 5:I'm putting it like this. Put it like this, put it like this. He's trying to get me hit a Whitney Houston note. Damn right, I can't hit that note, but he's going to make me try. But you get it, but I get it though, but you get it.
Speaker 1:You get the direction, you know the direction.
Speaker 2:Yeah, again it's a long process. People don't understand how long it takes to do a five-minute skit. Five minutes is a long time for two people to be talking, right? Because on that skit the Weatherman skit is the Weatherman Cadillac and Chip Spinnegan, which is his partner his co-anchor right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and who is?
Speaker 2:Skip, it's unknown, it's unknown.
Speaker 5:Oh, so I got the good question. Yeah, I cannot reveal that identity.
Speaker 2:Right now we're going to protect Chip, but you know, yeah, it does take a long time. The Weatherman skit is one of them, and the other skit that we had was PG&E MOB. Oh man, now I'm pretty sure you can relate to that. You're looking at me already like, no, you ain't going there, fuck PG&E, pg&e, their bills we got solar, baby, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:But before you had solar PG&E e, they robbed the fuck out of people here. Man, yeah, like so I said, man, I'm tired of it, I'm tired to see my bill this fucking high.
Speaker 1:I live by myself. You know I'm hardly ever home and I'm not home.
Speaker 2:I'm hardly ever home, you know I only have my fish tank, you know on, you know. So yeah, I like these goddamn candles. Yeah, I know I went candles dude so I wanted to do something that where I can hit them right, where I can hit them without making a big deal right. So we did this skit P-G-N-E-M-O-B, because they're the mob, they rob they are yeah. So I have somebody Shout out to Iceberg. He plays the PG&E representative.
Speaker 1:And he has like a mafia voice.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean he put the cotton balls in and oh, he does all that, bro, like iceberg is a comedian, so he's, uh, that's what he does. You know what I mean? Yeah, so I'm, I'm the customer that gets fed up, and you get to hear me just go all out you know what? I mean. So it's one of those fun skids that people can relate to, until I ran into somebody that works for pg and they're not too happy with you, my uncle works for him, but okay, he paints everything blue.
Speaker 1:That's all he does, okay.
Speaker 2:So so there you go, no but it was funny because the person that does work for pg and e. They're like hey, I heard that pg and e skit. I said all right, cool man, I'm gonna. How do you feel about that? He's like you know, I work for that company, right.
Speaker 1:I said okay.
Speaker 2:He's like good shit.
Speaker 1:You're like. You don't know which way he's going to go yeah you know, you know I work for them right.
Speaker 2:I'll fuck you up, but you know we have these fun skits and stuff like that that have taken off and stuff, and eventually I do want to turn those into like cartoons and stuff where I could upload, maybe like on Instagram or Facebook or something like that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:What is you guys' typical episode format look like?
Speaker 2:Oh, you want me to give you the secret? Huh.
Speaker 1:I need the secret sauce.
Speaker 2:baby, I'll give you the secret sauce right now. You know what I mean. Our show pretty much is broken down into what is it? Three sections, right? The first half is dedicated more towards us. You know what I mean Getting to know us, whatever we have to say. We give the weekly weird news, so I give out the crazy news that I hear online and shit.
Speaker 1:And it's always in Florida. Yeah, yeah, so you know already. Yeah.
Speaker 2:A lot of the news comes from Florida and stuff. But we do that. I give all the announcements because I do have artists that send me their schedule and they're like, hey, can you announce that I'm going to be over here at jared's pizza or I'm going to be. You know, like, I noticed that you're going to have a party here, not in a couple of weeks, right, yeah, you know what is the party well, this saturday I'll be at off the rails, it's uh island.
Speaker 1:To the streets it's just going to be uh island vibes. Oh, reggae, reggaeton, afro beats, nice, hey, off the rails.
Speaker 2:Big shout out to them. They're doing big things over there, yeah. Becca and her husband over there are doing great things over there. Very nice people too. Man Very generous.
Speaker 1:They remind me of you guys on the sense that they allow people to come in that might not have the stage of the Fox Theater and some of these other places. It's the same idea that I get from them, that I get with you guys as the bar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, the book. Yeah, yeah, that's great people. Like I said, we actually recorded there. Uh, not too long ago for the toy drive, we took the show. They're alive oh nice, they gave us the opportunity to say do whatever you want.
Speaker 1:I said all right, you know, did you guys? You guys chill back at the couches. Yeah, that's where we were at.
Speaker 2:We interviewed everybody that was there performing and stuff. You know what I mean. So, yeah, we did. We, we've done a lot. You know what I mean. So I forgot the original question and stuff of. Uh, what you asked is what was the question again your, your, your outline.
Speaker 2:Oh, the outline, yeah, yeah uh, the first half is dedicated to, uh, whatever we have going on and also artists that that, um, that, give me their schedule. You know I go ahead, I give them a plug and stuff and I dedicate some time to our sponsors too, are the second half of the show is dedicated to the artist.
Speaker 2:Whoever's coming in our guest okay and uh, in between, uh, the first half and the second half, I give commercial time for our sponsors. Or, um, like we have lottie production, shout out tae young, you know he has a lottie production. Is a new company out here that we can go record, you know, music, uh podcast. So, um, he sent me an episode, he sent me a commercial, an audio commercial. He said if I would play, I said sure, I'll play it on every single episode and stuff. So you know that would they can get some customers out there too. On the second half, when the guest comes in the way that I don't like to call them interviews, I like to call them just kicking back, just like we're doing right now?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, session, we're chilling, yeah, just getting to know each other depending on, because we we don't just do music, we do, uh, business people as well. But if I have a music artist, we get their story. First I get their story and then I break down, I go through the whole catalog. So all week I have MC et cetera right or DJ et cetera right On my headphones. All week I write down their lyrics, whatever song really does have a story. Then the second half of that, the port of that episode I'm sorry of that interview, goes towards like um, talking about their music and stuff all right, you know they plug away, they got their stories and etc.
Speaker 2:Because you know, have you ever heard of a? I'm pretty sure there's a song that you heard and you're, like man, I wonder where this dude or this girl was going through during the song oh yeah, isn yeah. Isn't it cool to get the actual story. That's a real story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, and sometimes it has nothing nowhere near what you thought was going on, You're like oh man, I was taken into a dark ass place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. So we've had the pleasure of having lots of artists, you know, come in and once again, right, you know. So I write their lyrics down, I read it back to them. They're like, oh shit, this fucker actually read it yeah, yeah, so we.
Speaker 1:So when you said at two minutes and 15 seconds, what did you mean?
Speaker 2:by that exactly, would you?
Speaker 2:like to call that person out and I yeah, you know what I have done that I have done that, yeah, and you know, like I said, uh, the interview just takes on a whole situation, but I am able to to really get these artists to open up. All right, you know they've done several interviews before they come to me. So what, what can I do to stand my interview out than the rest of them? Right, and I think we've accomplished that several times and stuff with our interviews and stuff. You know what I mean. So, yeah, that's what pretty much our show is about, and I always ended with the song that they were going to premiere and stuff.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah so that's pretty much it. It's a lot of work, man. How is that down there? Man, how you doing down there with that brother?
Speaker 4:I should have wrote up a blunt.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure he won't even pass it. Hey, who do you guys find that you guys take inspiration from? So you know running your podcast, doing your segment, doing your skit, you know jotting things down, all the photography, all the art, all the music. Each one of you guys, you know who's somebody that you kind of try to model after as a successful figure, if you will, in your portion of the show.
Speaker 4:See, I'm from Los Angeles, bro, and you know big boy Pop 106 and everything coming up as a DJ and everything like that. I actually had to sit down, man, and learn from my brother and try to be under him.
Speaker 3:DJ.
Speaker 4:Hustle, hustle TV. Okay, so I sat under him man trying to you know.
Speaker 1:Absorb what you can, yeah.
Speaker 4:So for me to learn and get better than basically get with these guys, it basically, man, it turned me like a whole 360, bro, you're a whole, completely different person, man. Yes, bro, it's like now they about to figure out damn Bigfoot you crazy.
Speaker 1:So you were like disguised as an introvert, and now you're becoming an extrovert.
Speaker 4:Basically I'm coming as a whole comedian.
Speaker 2:This is the most I've ever heard him speak hey, he's comfortable because we already knew each other. So, yeah, he's at home now. Man, we're all. He finally came out of the woods.
Speaker 4:I did, bro, you forgot. All right, all right, I got locked up in the woods.
Speaker 5:I'm giving my background um. I'm from georgia, uh georgia yes georg.
Speaker 5:So, no, georgia is like I was a loner. I ain't ready too much to deal with people. I like dealing by myself, doing things by myself. So as I got older I tried to learn new things. Still, I still would hesitate with that. So when I got kids, you know kids started making me. I would hesitate with that. So when I got kids no kids, kids started making me, you know, learn more. But when I had my daughter, she the one pushes me to keep, keep going. So when I came out here to California I'm still no closet person, didn't really deal with nobody. But you know, as I started working and I met with Henry I think he kind of like brought it out of you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, pushing it out of me to be a better person. Kelly, you can do it, you can be a better person.
Speaker 1:So that's where, right now, that's where it's leading to right now, he pushed me to be a better person that's what real love and brotherhood is, is when we can talk to each other and we can let each other know hey, you're fucking up, man, you're slipping. I know you're capable, I know you can do better. Let's push for this, set some goals, line some things out. Yeah, man.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and that's why I be telling them all the time. I say, hey, fuck up, Let me know Straight.
Speaker 2:I said hey, if I fuck up, let me know Straighten me out, let me know.
Speaker 5:Let me know if I'm fucking up. Tell me right now, kelly, you fucking up? All right, cool, I take this in and I suck it in. I'm going to try to do better. As a matter of fact, I ain't going to try, I am going to do better. So that's my story, all right.
Speaker 3:How about you, brother? I wasn't born here. I was born in the Philippines and you know I was raised by my aunt. My parents left me to my aunt when I was one and I didn't actually meet my parents until I was almost 10.
Speaker 1:Wow, were they just not in the best position to raise you or raise a kid at the time?
Speaker 3:To be honest, like my mom, here we go, here we go, baby. God damn, this shit just went down right now. These motherfuckers are sad dog.
Speaker 2:Fuck.
Speaker 3:From what I understand, like my mom was not getting along with my grandma, my dad's mom, and by the time she's had it she ended up telling my dad I'm gone, I'm leaving. So she came to the United States with her parents and shortly after that my dad followed her, and so I got left behind when I was one. And anyway, from that I just realized the value in trying to preserve things like memories yeah like a lot of my pictures. They're gone. You know what?
Speaker 5:I mean.
Speaker 3:So, also at that time, I felt like I was always alone, like in my own world, that, like, I found expression through art and I felt so connected to art that like, anyway, I ended up pursuing it later on, to art that like, anyway, I ended up pursuing it later on. And, uh, you know, I've dabbled in different types of art and, like, I found that, like, photography encompasses all the things that I could do. Yeah, then you know, like I could paint and stuff and like photograph people in front of it, but I just feel like, um, preserving things, you know, like it's important to me. So, anyway, when I found these guys, um, my dream, my lifelong dream that my parents didn't let me do, was stripper too. I don't think the world would let me do that either.
Speaker 4:Deuce Bigelow, I know dude. Makers feel Jiggalo, I'll be your bodyguard. Man, no trick.
Speaker 3:My dream was to actually work for the movie industry. I love the movies man. I watch movies all the time. Every day I would watch one thing.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:I wanted to build sets, wanted to uh work the film I wanted to do like like camera and lighting and behind the scenes, yeah, yeah but now that I'm older and waited too long to pursue my dream? Yeah like this guy came into the picture and I just feel like dude, I'm getting the dream that I wanted, like something I would have to move to, la to, to pursue like in in this type of industry. Um, but it's all here it's in bakersfield.
Speaker 1:It's in bakersfield. Yeah, we have it in bakersfield, of all places, we got it.
Speaker 3:I know. So that's the beauty of it, and I feel like the more we let people know that we exist, the more we would have pride in our own things. I don't need to go to LA to find this Correct, and that's why I was blessed with these guys man, and you don't have to go to la to find it.
Speaker 1:even if it didn't exist here, you can create it yeah right, exactly, we can create it. Oh yeah, the bug podcast didn't exist at one point and it got created because there was a void, there was a need, there was a vision by somebody that said, hey, we, we need this kind of thing in bakersfield for the underground. Yeah, right, yeah yeah, for real.
Speaker 2:Can you believe? These motherfuckers said, it was me, I'm looking motivated y'all. They don't talk to me like that, bro.
Speaker 1:I've never heard this in my life, bro. This is a real emotional podcast right now, brother.
Speaker 2:What kind of joy did you give them, bro.
Speaker 4:Hey, you know what's crazy? Yeah, dude, see, look, I've been in Bakersfield for a while, bro, and I used to sell CDs at Kmart back in the day and dealing with these guys and everything and interviewing the artists and stuff. When I see them and it's funny, bro, because they be like what you doing over here, oh, I'm the DJ, oh you, the DJ, who used to be at Kmart Seller City, bro, it'd be funny to me because that's where I started. I used to start at Kmart, howard's, dee, dee's, stuff like that back in the day and seeing these artists who we interview. Then they look at me like, oh yeah, I know exactly who you is. Man coming up, bro, it's crazy being known now.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's something like whoa, how has your guys' lives changed, even if it's modest, even if we're modest and we're humble about ourselves right, we can be cocky. We're doing fucking great. We got streamers. We're doing great Everything else. I'm a Bakersfield celebrity now, right, but in all honesty, where do you feel like it's taking you guys?
Speaker 2:Can I answer the original question, though?
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, who? Inspired?
Speaker 2:me, these sad fucking sexist shit over here.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Bringing the show down. You know we're going to edit that shit out dog, you're going to edit it out.
Speaker 5:Man, I love you, man.
Speaker 2:But okay, I was inspired by two people. All right, One of them is going through a lot of shit right now, but I'm going to say it anyways, okay, so Vince McMahon, all right. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because of the Entertainment side of it, from nothing to yeah, yeah he built this thing, you know, and shout out those Muchos.
Speaker 2:Knows exactly what I'm talking about? Vince McMahon. He's all about Entertainment, no matter what, at what cost. Yes, you know what I mean. As soon as we hit the record button, boom, we're on. We're here to entertain All of our. These guys already know very well. They get the speech from me on the ride over here throughout the day. We have to be entertaining because I want to make sure that whoever is dedicating that time to us, we can go ahead and get them out of this funk that's going on in the world right now and, for at least two, three hours, be entertaining. You know what I mean. That's what I like to do. You know what I mean. When I listen to your show, I'm entertained by all these dj stories and stuff. You know what I mean. So that's what I want to bring. So vincent man is one of them. The other one is howard stern. Oh, you know what I mean. Like howard stern, heavy hitter yeah from new york.
Speaker 2:He, um, he was, he would. He was all I would listen to when he was uh in radio here in la right. Yeah, then he went to serious radio and I got a fucking subscription, because that's where all the skits came from. That's about just hey, being yourself. I remember when I first started recording, I would use a different voice and I had a homeboy. He was like dude, just fucking be yourself.
Speaker 2:Why are you trying to be this other person? I'm like I don't know man, I don't know where I'm at. I was a little bit lost, I was trying to figure it out. Right, he's like just be yourself, and that's what I tell everybody else just be yourself, man, because everybody has a character right. Yeah, uh, those two were very inspirational. I listened to a lot of talk radio growing up. You know what I mean. Like like bigfoot said, uh, big boy radio rig these in the morning art lebeau like bro.
Speaker 2:Back then, before there was all this um, mp3s or you know what I mean streaming, there was radio, yeah, so I had a walkman back in the day. Now I grew up in the ghetto brother in san fernando and pacoyma, and my school was in northridge, which is like a good hour and a half, and I used to take the school the city bus. That was a three hour in the morning, bro, and then in the afternoons the only thing that I it was during my, uh, junior high years, so my parents were always working. I hardly saw my parents.
Speaker 2:They were always working, but you know they did the best that they could right and yeah, look how I turned out.
Speaker 4:You know, look at me.
Speaker 2:But I used to have that three-hour bus ride. The only thing I had was my radio. Yeah, so back then and I'm pretty sure you can relate to this Back then, if a country song played and you didn't like country guess what you had to listen to it. Oh yeah, you didn't have a choice. Yeah, because you couldn't skip.
Speaker 1:What reception were you going to have? Yeah, you couldn't skip.
Speaker 2:And then the next song was probably Tupac right, california love, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then the next one was probably no Doubt you, magic Kingdom. You know what I mean. You're like, all right, but the more you listen to it, the more you're like oh shit, I'm fucking digging this shit. What the fuck is Gwen Stefani talking about? You know what I mean? Green Day Fucking.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Then I went to war.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean I would listen to every single. I had no choice. All that stuck with me you. So I talk with everybody, whether you're an R&B singer. We've had country singers on and some punk rock artists too. You know what I mean Some goth rock too.
Speaker 1:You don't discriminate.
Speaker 5:There's no discrimination. You're underground. You're underground, there is.
Speaker 1:There's one underground and all of us are in it. Yeah, there you go, all of us are in it.
Speaker 5:That's a good way of putting it. I've had djs on too, which you know you got to come on our show next. You know what I mean, because every dj has her own style.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. So, and I know there's there's a lot of stories out there, you know, and those muchos actually he came on our show very early on.
Speaker 1:I seen the first couple episodes yeah, yeah, he was very five, or yeah very early on.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. So yeah, he would talk about djing and stuff and it's a whole other beast man and I hear you talking about that during your show too. You know, every episode you bring a different dj on. Yeah, I love, I love the way everybody has a different style, right everybody, everybody, yeah, but not to okay, so I answered your question. I'm gonna ask you something real quick, because I'm dying to ask you how do you feel you're? How long have you been a dj for?
Speaker 1:three whole years. Three, three whole years. So you're brand new.
Speaker 2:You're brand new? Yeah, all right. So back in the day you had two vinyl records playing, and to blend both sounds right by ear, that's fucking insane, yeah, by ear. Did they used to have to use that chalk? Was it chalk or what was it to mark?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, they put a sticker.
Speaker 2:They chalk. Was it chalk or what was it to mark? Yeah, well, they put a sticker. They'll put whatever on the on the lp. Yeah, and lps, as you know, they they fuck up real easy. Yeah, you know what I mean. So to capture that one second of a sound on a whole vinyl album and mix it into?
Speaker 1:this track. There was an art, a great art, to it carrying all those vinyl fucking records. Yeah, all the crates I, being that I'm only three in, I've been completely digital this whole time yeah, yeah funnily enough, I've also reverted all the way back to having my own 1200s and my s9 and going back to vinyl, because I'm, I'm, I'm appreciative of the art, I like the art itself and unless you go all the way back to the beginning, down to the foundation and you start with that foundation you're never going to.
Speaker 1:I don't think you're ever going to fully have the respect of any other DJ Fully, have the respect you know. We can play music for people and they don't know whether we, you know shoes in the dryer and mess up or it's perfect, and they don't know if we're mixing in the right key or in and out of a different key. People just want to hear their joints. They just want to hear their joints.
Speaker 2:So much goes into it though. I respect all DJs because, once again, I pay attention to all that stuff. You know what I mean. And for you to go out there pretty much, if there's no DJ in a party, there is no party, correct? You know what I mean. And I feel like a lot of you DJs out here. I've had several DJs on the show and I tell them the same thing man, I respect the fuck out of you guys. I can't do what you guys do.
Speaker 1:I try to be a DJ. I tried. I fell. Miserably, bro, miserably, really, I failed. Oh, no man, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:We can get you on track, yeah yeah, yeah, hell yeah, I'm with it, man, I'm with it. But I went back and I searched the history of DJing and everything.
Speaker 5:And it's like man.
Speaker 1:It's just incredible what they were able to do back then they created instruments, turntables into musical instruments, things that you can manipulate and play and and and alter and completely, completely changed a song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, one sound bit, one drum pattern at a time that's fucking incredible, man, yeah you know what I mean. Once things went digitally, I think that things did change. You know, I was still, you know, I was paying attention to all that during parties, when there were cd players.
Speaker 2:Now, you got two cds spinning at the same time and it became a little bit easier. I believe it became a little bit easier absolutely. Now it's more digital. You got computers now and everything that that could do the majority of the work, but it still takes that talent to blend those beats per minutes and stuff like that. You know what I mean and there's an artistry to it.
Speaker 1:There's, there's a flair, right a flair. Every dj has their own flair, their own style, their own special sauce, their own seasoning, if you will. Every dj has their own, and that's where you're not going to get ai or anything else on a computer to release a d Now is AI going to get involved?
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely. Oh yeah, are they going to have a computer playing music and a camera facing the crowd to see, quote unquote, read the crowd? Yeah, absolutely, and they're going to know what song to put on next to get more people out to the dance floor, and it's going to be very, very intelligent.
Speaker 3:It's just not going to have Gy b's flair.
Speaker 2:Bam, there you go or og redeems flair or anybody else's flair in their special real touch they put on it for real and to keep that rhythm, that you know, that atmosphere going it ain't, it ain't fucking easy man yeah it ain't easy, because you know you got, while you're playing your, your set right. You already got your mixes or you're mixing their live. You got these motherfuckers coming up to you. Hey man, I want you to play suavemente right now. Oh yeah you know how am I gonna mix that to flea whoop mac like, how am I gonna mix it up, bro?
Speaker 2:like, give me, give me a chance to work my way to work. My hey big for you. You lick the fuck out of this joint bro, he wet it up man.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he does that all the time. Oh man, I'm not going to pass that one. But anyways, man, I didn't lick it.
Speaker 2:It's wax fool. I don't know man, but keep that shit over there. Damn, fuck you. But yeah, you know what I mean. I find it fascinating. You know what I mean? The hard stuff I respect the fuck out of it. Thank you man, I respect the fuck out of you guys because it ain't easy, man. It ain't easy to keep a three, four hour party going and still have that energy.
Speaker 1:It's not. And and the worst thing is, club djs are pretty easy, right. You're gonna play hip-hop, you're gonna play top. You're gonna play pop, you're gonna play. You know all the bangers right, all the radio the hits and stuff the hits, it's when you have to get into weddings. When you have to get into, you know how many different age ranges are there at a wedding Anywhere from five years old to 80 years old.
Speaker 2:For real, that's true.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, the five-year-old don't want to hear what the 80-year-old wants to hear, and they don't want to hear what the 40 year old wants to hear. So it's, it's. It's like a symphony, if you will Like. All I can equate it to is a symphony, and there's crescendos and there's, you know, you fall off and you know you play three or four pop songs and then you mix it into a Fleetwood Mac song and then you mix that into ABBA and then you mix that into Old MacDonald had a farm.
Speaker 4:I did Abba, and then you mix that into Old McDonald's.
Speaker 1:You had to play Old. Mcdonald's on a farm, I did. I made some little girls night and day. You're badass.
Speaker 2:What kind of beat was that dog?
Speaker 1:Y'all had to clap along. They did, the crowd clapped and everything.
Speaker 5:It was country dog I bet, everybody was just looking at.
Speaker 1:The people that weren't in on it. They looked at you like what the fuck did you?
Speaker 2:just smoke something, something so, speaking of that right, have you ever played a song where everybody was like what the fuck? Where you're like, hey, I shouldn't have played that shit, dude. Oh, I know, early on, when you first started, I did, I did, I did it first started, I did, I did, I did it recently, brother. Oh, recently.
Speaker 1:I did it recently man, I did, I did, I did. I did it real recently, like a couple weeks ago man, what song was it?
Speaker 2:And tell me about that story. Man, what part Mac Miller? All right, because you're big on Mac Miller, I'm a huge Mac fan. I see that, yeah, I'm a life and death.
Speaker 1:Mac man, I think it was either Knock Knock or Donald Trump.
Speaker 2:All right, you were in Latino Party, or what the fuck.
Speaker 1:And we were at the. Bakersfield Condors Was you up there with.
Speaker 4:Dose.
Speaker 1:Was you up there with Dose? No, Dose was up there the week after me or something man.
Speaker 5:I was up. Richie Rich is the Condors DJ man. It's Richie Rich.
Speaker 1:Richie Rich told me he said hey, man, not only do you have to watch curse words in songs you know we have to have clean music for all of these families but you've got to watch the message of the song and what they're saying about eating boxes. Yes, you fucked that up I didn't do it on purpose. So basically you're just winning one ear out the other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kind of man and I hit that mac miller song and it started out great man, real real, uh, real real energy and everybody was liking it and he was getting, he was flowing right. And then he said something about licking the box or eating the box wait a minute I had to. I had to stem out the vocal real quick and mix something else okay.
Speaker 2:So did you not know the lyrics? Or I didn't know, just in the mood I didn't know the lyrics.
Speaker 1:I don't have those ones memorized. That is hilarious dude.
Speaker 2:I had a situation similar to that right now. I was there helping the dj because, again, I know a bunch of songs. Yeah, I said, hey, man, we're at a spanish quinceanera right so the dj that was there right, he was the one that was hired there he starts playing this song right from aventura. Right, aventura is a bachata band, right, okay, you might know about them, so, but out of all their hits, he plays the one song that has to do with with um. It's a sensitive subject about a little girl.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I look at him yeah there, you go there you go dude, yeah, you go dude, yeah. Like how the fuck are you going to play out of all the songs? That was deep, that's a deep song, yeah.
Speaker 5:But okay, so you know about.
Speaker 2:Aventura, yeah, out of all the songs. Yeah, solo por un beso. Yes, right, mi amigo, ya yo. You know what I mean? Out of all the songs. Stop, he played that one fucking song and it was like a deep cut track, right, and I'm like bro, what are you doing? And he's like yeah, man, this is the mix. I'm like no fool, it's not.
Speaker 3:This is not the one.
Speaker 2:You know what? Sometimes I'm like that with Gordon because I know Spanish music. He does a lot of Quinceañeras and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And I'm like not that one Delete. And then I have to tell them hey, you can't play Ramona Yala yet, just wait.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just wait. I got to play it at the end of the night. There's a certain yeah once they get a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, vicente Fernandez, you know what I mean. Like, yeah, volver, volver, yeah, so there's like all right, so there's like a yeah, there's a whole rhythm, there's a rhythm, you know? Hey, you should be thankful, bro.
Speaker 1:I am, you should be thankful. Hey, I have done so many successful Hispanic events since those men with her in my ear helping me. She's like yeah, do that one. I'm like, okay, I've heard you talk about that on the show too. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've heard you talk about that on the show too. Yeah, because it's a different crowd and once again, a lot of dude. Big shout out to all the DJs out there. You know what?
Speaker 5:I mean Because there is different crowds, man.
Speaker 2:You just don't know what they're into. Sometimes it's a mixed crowd. You know what I mean. So it's just, man, it's wild bro. It's an experience, man, being a DJ out there for a little bit, a little bit of time, that I got to do it. You know what I mean. Nobody hired me after that. I think you can jump back in, man, I'm pretty sure I could. That wasn't my event. I was there helping, damn it. I was off guard.
Speaker 1:I wasn't prepared man, I can hold that one.
Speaker 2:I corrected the error, man, but nah, dude, much power to you guys, man, because it ain't easy, it ain guys need to learn or know and mix that in with other genres as well and keep the party going. And you got drunk people in there like play this track. You know I mean, it's a difficult situation. You know what I mean. But hey, you got people that there's. There's people out there like myself that do admire what you guys do. Man, much respect to you guys hey, hey, shout out.
Speaker 1:Hey, all my djs are getting in free to that rooftop event.
Speaker 5:The bug will be there.
Speaker 1:The bug gets in free Bug gets in free VIP.
Speaker 2:Can I do a set? Yeah, you can drop one. We got the VIP parking in there. There you go, there you go. We got the free parking right Because we're already parked at the second floor. You guys are on the third floor, yeah.
Speaker 1:We actually have. Uh, my boy syed got me the the. You know he's the, the manager there, whatnot yeah he gave it to me for sundays that's gonna be dope. He said you know as much as I want basically. So we'll see if it, if it pops off and we'll give it a few goes and it will I want families out there.
Speaker 2:We got yeah, we got a photo booth out there.
Speaker 1:We got a jumper out there for kids we're're going to have stuff and, yeah, parking on the first couple floors.
Speaker 2:The third floor is blocked off obviously yeah, yeah, yeah For the event and stuff For the families and the event and everything else. Yeah, you'll be able to see our studio. It's like the window right there. We're on the third floor so you'll be able to see it.
Speaker 1:We were over there. It's the weekend, it's last weekend. Yeah, yeah, sunday, sunday, yeah, we went by Sunday at about 3 pm, went and talked to Syed, wrapped up some stuff with him, made sure everything's on the good. We went upstairs and I just got into drones. I'm flying drones.
Speaker 2:All right, it takes a little bit of practice. I want to do drone photography?
Speaker 1:I want to get aerial shots just beautiful things that you want to be able to get. Yeah, I see you have your fucking iPhone. Is it small rig, or which one is it? Yeah, it's a small rig. I got the same setup right there, dude. Yeah, that's all her man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a really good setup right there, by the way I feel like. I'm at home.
Speaker 1:We got the same stuff, that's when you know it's real man, when you're at somebody else's home, but it's still home there you go DJI.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know exactly what that one is. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, anyways, man, I'm flying around, man and I'm getting this real nice cinematic footage. Man just slowly around the parking garage, the light is right and I'm watching it. I'm on the north end, so I'm watching it near your guys' office, right?
Speaker 2:And it's flying and I'm watching it on the phone and I'm getting this cinematic and side of the brick wall down onto the Eurekios parking Right on the roof. Right there it's like a dome roof. Yeah, I crashed it. We'll be able to get you your drone back. I got it. Oh, you got it already. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I went and talked to the manager, Maria.
Speaker 2:I don't know who the owner is.
Speaker 1:The Haberfeld, yeah, yeah I went and talked to her and the maintenance guy got it for me on Monday and luckily there was only a couple of little dings on it or whatever. So I'm good to go, man, that's how it happens.
Speaker 2:Drones is not easy in the beginning for you to get the feel of it. You know what I mean, so I get it. Man, I used to have a drone and stuff but I stopped recording in drones so I just sold it. But, man, I got a lot of practice in any. It's a whole other art.
Speaker 1:It's the whole x, y, z axis. Yeah you got a whole nother axis that you're. You're messing with man. That's why them helicopter pilots be messing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah out of that, out of that 30 minutes that you record. If you can get 10 seconds smooths 10 seconds.
Speaker 1:10 seconds you're happy, right, and then you're just editing, piecing together man man, I'm glad somebody feels my pain.
Speaker 2:Man, hell yeah, I've had to do several drone shots too. I'm like I just need 10 seconds, man, yeah, so when the sun shines perfectly and you got that perfect lighting right. You gotta have that nd filter in your drone. Yeah, if you have that and you get that perfect 10 seconds, you're like, fuck, yeah, I'm going home now go ahead.
Speaker 5:It's like fishing. So when you crashed it did you almost cry or have a heart attack, like it was your child or something.
Speaker 1:I had a rough time with it, brother, I had a rough time with it cause, right, right prior to me crashing the drone, I dropped the iPhone and broke it.
Speaker 2:Are you using that as your monitor? Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, because I'm going to get them goggles for it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's expensive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to do it right, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:We try to do things right, you know.
Speaker 3:Oh, of course, of course.
Speaker 1:But yeah, right prior to that I had broken iPhone screen. Obviously. But yeah, right prior to that I had broken iPhone screen and it's an old iPhone, it's like an iPhone 8 or whatever.
Speaker 2:But it was pretty cool. It was cool, it worked, it was perfect.
Speaker 1:I could be on my phone and still have the drone phone going. Yeah, man, I had a rough day that day, man.
Speaker 2:Damn man. That's like 300 bucks, 400 bucks, right there, it's not like you don't want to get into detail with it.
Speaker 5:It's like it hit you pretty hard.
Speaker 1:Oh man. Yeah, you know it got easier, man. This one's good. Normally I'm the positive one. Normally I'm positive about everything. I find the good in everything you give me the worst situation and I will find something good because of it, man, because I don't like the negativity, I don't like the bad, so it's rare that I'm negative and I I got down a little bit so then this one comes in and picks me up right. So it's like hey yeah, it'll be fine, you'll get it monday and yeah, I got it monday.
Speaker 2:It's only 400. Yeah, that's yeah, yeah, that's the thing, it's the yeah yeah, but hey, but if you don't go through that, you're never gonna learn. That's what I told. Her's the yeah, yeah, but hey, but if you don't go through that, you're never going to learn.
Speaker 1:That's what I told her. You know what I mean. I said this is the cost of drone education.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I fucked up my drone several times until I was like all right, a brick wall stop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't go through there. It's not invisible man, it's not going to work.
Speaker 2:It's not a, but that's the fun part about, you know, doing projects like that video. I do a lot of video editing. You know what I mean. I shoot also. You know what I mean. So it's fun, you know. But once it becomes a job, it's like oh shit, you know, like I don't want to do this. It's like I do that 24 7, even on my regular job, on my 15 minute breaks that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:I'm editing videos, yeah, like it just never stops, because now, once you get to the point where people want to see what you got, now they're expecting you, it's an obligation.
Speaker 1:You are obligated to keep delivering. Now they're on episode 15. They want 16. Now You're obligated Bro-ski.
Speaker 2:I've gotten messages hey man, where's episode 94 at? We know you recorded it because it's already out. Where's the video out? I'm like damn motherfuckers, like it takes time. Yeah, it takes time, especially when you want to do like, when you want to put out the best, some production value yes, production value graphics you need I'm huge on album covers, broski, like I'm huge on that, so I want to have the album cover.
Speaker 2:As we're talking about a certain track, right? Yeah, because, like I said, I'm big on that, but motherfuckers can't wait yo, they just want me to put it out. It is hard, you know what I mean. It's hard, but I'm still having fun with it. I don't know about you, you know what I mean if you're still having fun with recording djing. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I love it, I love it, man. I have so much fun doing this and the funny thing is we'll get 60 listeners on this episode, or 100 listeners, or whatever it may be. Yeah, that's fucking dope man and I'm like look, that's 100 people from across the world and you get your analytics and everything from the sites and it says somebody from India listened somebody from. Sweden listened and I'm on the sites and it says somebody from india listen, somebody in sweden listen. I'm like jesus christ. How you find somebody from bakersfield?
Speaker 2:california talking about dj stuff and you're in sweden right, yeah, when you see that one percent sweden, you're like, oh shit, like somebody heard my show. Yeah, again, it's not easy to to put on a show. Yeah, because not everything that comes out of your mouth is entertaining or important or funny or it's not always butter that's where editing comes into play, right, yeah, but you try your best and stuff.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, and that's. You know what I mean. Like, I respect that, yeah. So we, we, we have been going to different podcasts and stuff, and here's one of the things that I want to say. You guys don't know about this. You're gonna hear this for the first time, bro gordy. I feel like a fucking asshole, because when I send you the message, I'm gonna put myself on blast, right?
Speaker 5:now, when I originally, when I originally sent you the message where where we're about coming on to your show.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I made the fucking dumbest comment. I said hey, you know we've been kicked out of shows before.
Speaker 5:No, no, but hold on, hold, on hold on Hold on.
Speaker 2:I immediately felt like a fucking asshole.
Speaker 1:But how did I respond, man?
Speaker 2:No, no, you were so cool about it. But I was trying to be cool, man. I was trying to be that you know what Holy shit you better watch out. You know what I mean. But, man, I felt like to be that you know what Holy shit you better watch out. You know what I mean, but man, I felt like a fucking idiot. Right after I sent that message because I was like man, why the fuck did?
Speaker 1:I say that, hey, like I said, always positive man. You were, even if you were negative, you handled it well. I was like cool, yeah, he handled it, so let's get kicked out of somewhere man.
Speaker 2:But you said, hey, let's not waste time on stuff that we're not going to use. I said, man, you're cool as fuck. I felt that and I apologize for that. I was trying to play Mr Cool, you know what I mean. But then when I hit, send right away.
Speaker 1:I said why the fuck did I do that? Why did I do that? Now you guys are in my living room, man.
Speaker 2:But we still made it here.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Hell yeah, bro, I don't got a studio like y'all. Man, we're in my living room. No, no, nothing like that. You know what? No, no.
Speaker 2:Okay, which leads me to your next question. Right, how are we dealing with you said success? Is that what was the question? Yeah, you know what I? I have several stories of what has changed since then.
Speaker 5:I don't see myself changing, I just see myself. Oh, fuck you, dude, you fuck you, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4:Hey Dad, it's okay Dad, it's okay Dad. Do I need to show him?
Speaker 2:your supermodel video, professional photo shoot, video that you put out. Ooh, you wouldn't Okay.
Speaker 5:You wouldn't, okay, you wouldn't Ooh, you wouldn't. No, you ain't talking about ooh over there, ooh.
Speaker 2:Mr Brandy, I'm going to cut over there. When I met Cadillac, he was the quietest. You know what I mean. He is such a fucking nice guy man. He was shy. He was shy. He barely even spoke, yeah, Barely even spoke. The nicest fucking, which he still is. You know what I mean? He's my brother man. I love this guy. So he reached a certain level where he started showing up late to the shows, right?
Speaker 1:Oh, celebrity shit, okay, okay, all right, I said okay man, Life happens right. Life happens right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, life happens man.
Speaker 2:Then he wants a photo shoot. Okay, not a bug photo shoot, a weatherman, cadillac photo shoot okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, a solo project.
Speaker 2:Yeah, solo project right.
Speaker 1:He's Justin Timberlake and you guys.
Speaker 2:Oh fuck yeah, why you rubbing it in, you just making it worse.
Speaker 5:You just making it worse All of a sudden.
Speaker 2:He's using the bugtographer in a closed set For his personal advancement.
Speaker 1:For his personal Very good, yeah, very good. I like the way he put that His personal advancement, okay, yeah, that's all right, I got you next bud.
Speaker 2:I got you next video of behind the scenes of the photo shoot. There's a documentary out there.
Speaker 1:Doubled up on it, I wish we could watch it right here.
Speaker 2:I got the footage. It's a black and white artistic video, right. That video blows up. Blows up A thousand streams right away, bro, Within six, seven hours, a thousand streams. And he forgot about his boys and all of a sudden so go ahead.
Speaker 5:I'm going to say this.
Speaker 2:You ain't.
Speaker 5:The mic is yours. I'm going to just say this right here you ain't shit and you ain't shit, shit, right now.
Speaker 2:Go ahead and answer the question, bro. Go ahead, man.
Speaker 5:I'm at letter. I don't understand. You got to answer me the question again. Do I need to pull the?
Speaker 2:video out. No, how have you handled?
Speaker 1:success.
Speaker 3:I was there Was it badass.
Speaker 2:I'll show you. We can put it on the big screen. Ah Lee, what are you doing all that?
Speaker 1:Man ask her what it is man how? Are dealing with that success.
Speaker 5:Come on, I'm still humble, ain't that the chain? Motherfucker came with a haircut.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden he had a fade. He went ahead and he was trimming his beard. Bro, I've never seen this man like this, bro. He was well manicured, he had a mustache from French. He still do Mustache. You can hear us talking about that on the show. We're like wait a minute. Who the fuck is this? It's Carl Winslow. He came in with a mustache bro. It's not even a mustache, bro, moustache. It changed him. It changed him bro.
Speaker 5:Hey, how about this? How about we get on another topic? Hey, Bitfoo, we're on you right now. Yeah, you changed.
Speaker 2:He's been handling success very well, you know.
Speaker 1:Hey, very well, you know. Hey. Hey, he's humbling up, he's in my house, I'm good with you, brother.
Speaker 2:I had to drive him off the driver today, dog hey designated oh yeah, he's. How are y'all doing with?
Speaker 1:them uh, mystery drinks man, I'm like more than halfway halfway there man, hell yeah, I'm halfway done.
Speaker 5:Oh man, so we we recently.
Speaker 2:We recently got invited, okay. So. So the more success comes, the more doors open, right, yeah, doors that you never knew even existed here in town, yeah, okay. So I briefly got into it on my show and stuff, how I got invited to a place where you needed a password to get in. Oh, I'm like wait a minute, like like a speakeasy thing without it. I'm not gonna mention any names, but you know you need a password to get in. Yeah, I'm like what the fuck, dude? I'm just, I'm just here to do some some, some work. Yeah, they wouldn't let me in, you know. So there was some. I had to call somebody who knew, somebody who sent me the password, who gave them the okay to open the door to this event. I said, oh shit, we just recently got invited to a and this has nothing to do with that we got invited to a album release party, but this was like people that you only see on TV and shit Real famous.
Speaker 2:I'm like, wait a minute, people in the business, right. I'm like, and people were coming, the business, right. I'm like, and people were coming up to me, hey, the biggity bomb, what's up? I'm like, how the fuck do you know me? Yeah, dude, so that event, you know what? Uh, it was a lovely event. Yeah, I never thought in my life that I would even be invited, yet alone be recognized. Yeah, you know what I mean. And, once again, I always throw the test out there. How do you know me? Like, tell me an episode, what did you like? And right away they would tell me what it was what hooked them?
Speaker 1:that's, that's the one that hooks them, that's the one that they're gonna tell you the one that hooked them so, so all right.
Speaker 2:So how do I deal with that? I'm still like I I don't believe it. I can't believe it, right, because to me the grind still continues. It just doesn't stop. There's just so much still, I feel, still to do Many levels to go. Yeah, many levels to go, so where I'm at is nothing compared to other people, but where I'm at right now with it is more compared to people that haven't done anything.
Speaker 1:It's more compared to people that haven't done anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go. So I took that extra step. Right, I gave it that extra. You know what I mean. But I will say that I am happy that I get to share this with my broskies over here. You know what I mean, that it ain't just me by myself. How fun will it be being successful by yourself, but it'll be cool to come up with all your broskies you know what I mean and watching them enjoy every single bit of it, where we could have been doing nothing, just chilling, not doing shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, but right now there's a buzz going on with with the show and more doors are opening. You know what I mean. We just got to be careful more with how we deal with the business side of it.
Speaker 1:Do you have anything up and coming that you might not necessarily be able to divulge?
Speaker 2:For the last year. Okay, so our show has been nominated twice for Best Podcast of the Year. We haven't won it yet, right? But it's still an honor, right? Just to be nominated for that and stuff. You know what I mean. And just being surrounded. For the past year a lot has been going on, you know what I mean when the business side of it is coming into play now, sure.
Speaker 1:And I'm learning as I go. You have to make business decisions now. Yes, not just yes, not just artistry decisions, but now you have to make business decisions.
Speaker 2:And it's not. You know, we're always having fun doing the show, but when it comes down to the business side of it, Now a lot of these guys right here like they're not there for that, because that's where I come in, right, yeah, you can't. You got to be careful. What you sign, just because it sounds great, doesn't mean that it's everything that you want, sure, or is beneficial to the time and effort that you're putting into it, or your long-term success.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it is very important for me to own everything that I do. It's very important. You know, we recently had a TV deal you know what I mean which I'm still meeting, you know, meeting with still out there, but it's hard, you know.
Speaker 2:I kind of spoke to you about it and you know. You know how I feel about these things. There's been many opportunities, you know. God bless, right, we've been blessed, right, um, but I don't jump in on just anything. I don don't, you know, because you have to make sure, like you said, that you know what it is that you're signing. It might sound good what they're telling you, but will they come through with it, yeah, and will you sign your rights away?
Speaker 1:too. And what protections do you have? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I would tell anybody I've been asked this question off camera and stuff like what advice would you give? Listen to what they say, but don't just sign off.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just kind of bring it home with you, sleep on it for a couple of days, if you're, if you get that good feeling, you know in a couple of days Look it over again, you know like, but don't just sign away your stuff, because I put in so much into our projects for somebody to just come in and just take it like that.
Speaker 1:Take it from you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And not be able to say or do anything about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that would make you sicker than losing a drone. Right, yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 3:But I won't cry, but you know, know that's a dji drug.
Speaker 2:But yeah, you know, I would tell anybody. You know what I mean. It's, it's, it's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. And how do I handle it, man? I just handle it day by day. There is a lot of situations that I've been dealing with for the past year. That, um, I never thought I was ever gonna reach those limits, but I am having fun while that being said. I don't want to be, I don't want to be too negative. I would just say be be aware of what's out there, um, but at the same time, have fun, man, if you can do it with your friends, especially if you got your broskies along with you man have fun with it, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if, if now at the level we're at right now, whenever I do see a new podcast pop up, I hit them up. Yeah, I hit them up right away, because nobody did that for me. Oh yeah, yeah, I've been turned down so many times before. Now the same people are asking to be on the show now, so it's kind of like um, how do you feel about that? Depending on the situation, because there's some people or some shows, I should say that maybe it wasn't their decision. They weren't the decision makers, sure.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 2:Or I've only had one person who I felt came at it in a negative way yeah you know what I mean, yeah, and when you get that feeling, it's like I'm not confrontational. You know what I mean. Whatever I move on. Sure, but when they came back and wanted to work with me, I I went ahead and on different projects, you know, I was respectfully I declined yeah.
Speaker 2:But you know they never found out why or anything like that. But now me personally dealing with all that situation. Now, whenever I do see a podcast coming up, I hit them up right away. Yeah, like, hey, man, can we come on your show, you know? Or do you want to come on our show? Yeah, do you want to run a commercial ad for your show? On my show I got a lot of people already listening. I'll be more than happy to help out, because I don't want to be that person. That what was done to me. I don't want to pass it to anybody else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it sucks, man. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:It sucks, but if you let it beat you down nah, fuck that. Yeah, you just got to keep going, keep going, but just don't do that. I feel, yeah, and that's why I feel that we've been successful. Because of that, yeah, you know what I mean. So, like I said, it's an honor to be over here with you right now because I want to help you elevate. You know what I mean, yeah, and maybe we can get some listeners, you know what I mean, from the DJ community or et cetera.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure it's just. That's the way that I've been dealing with. It's been tough, you know, throughout the years, but you know we're still having fun with it and everything. I hope I didn't take too much time. No, not at all. Y'all motherfuckers still here yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm still here. All right, we're going to wrap this up with some rapid fire questions.
Speaker 5:Uh-oh favorite local music venue in Bakersfield Jerry's Pizza. Do you guys have anything to add? I got some love for it.
Speaker 2:I don't have anything so, besides the party that you're throwing you know what I mean which I'm pretty sure is gonna be very fucking dope, you know what I mean. I like venues where you're up and close with the person intimate because you kind of feel the music a little bit more. You know what I mean. You get to talk to the artists as well. Jerry Pizza is a good one.
Speaker 5:But I feel like Off the Rails is one of the ones that are popping right now.
Speaker 2:Right, that's a really good one. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm going to pick Off the Rails.
Speaker 2:Off the Rails is the one that's popping right now. Big shout out to them, shout out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, best local place to eat after you guys are done recording.
Speaker 2:A late night recording session.
Speaker 1:Lunches.
Speaker 4:Denny's are in and out.
Speaker 1:Look, Munchies boxes yeah.
Speaker 5:Eat a Munchie box or a Taco Bell.
Speaker 2:All right. So the reason why he's saying that and looking at me is because he is my designated driver after our shows. Oh, because it gets real in our shows, man, you know what I mean. So I'm surprised I could even continue on with the interviewing. Stuff, right. So, man, god bless Cadillac. Stuff, right. So, man, god bless cadillac. He drives me to jack in the crack taco bell like spicy crispy chicken sandwich large with cheese oh man with a coke.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm hungry now, or or?
Speaker 2:a taco bell. You know what I mean. Like I'll get that. You know burrito. You know cadillacs put up with a lot of my bullshit, but yeah, that's my spot. Jack in the box or taco bell I know a lot of my bullshit, but yeah, that's my spot. Jack in the Box or Taco Bell I know a lot of people don't fuck with Taco.
Speaker 1:Bell, we go to La Villa a lot too. La Villa's a good one.
Speaker 3:La Villa's a good one. There's a lot of places that are open late.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly, so you kind of have to go to those fat food joints.
Speaker 1:Yeah, past midnight it's Jack in the Box Taco Bell and La Via.
Speaker 5:Vamonos.
Speaker 4:We're going to three.
Speaker 5:Yeah, there you go. Don't tell him that, don't tell him that he's going to have me going there.
Speaker 1:We're good. We got food, brother.
Speaker 5:We're good, no no, no, no, I ain't talking about for this, I'm talking about for the next, later on down the line Between now and then he.
Speaker 2:What about you guys Favorite food?
Speaker 3:El Puesto Shout out to my friend Chris.
Speaker 2:El Puesto. Huh yeah, Shout out, Chris. I have like three locations.
Speaker 3:Now, what kind of food is that? Mexican food?
Speaker 2:Mexican food.
Speaker 3:All right, All right yeah but, dude, like there's a twist to his recipes. It's very he tweaks. Actually he tested it on us, like when we were growing up Wow, actually he tested it on us when we were growing up he would try different things for tacos. You're regular Mexican food, but there's a twist to it. It's a little bit more fancy. They're popping, they got live bands and stuff.
Speaker 4:That's it.
Speaker 3:They have three locations there's one in California, there's even one in Delano, their original spot in, I think, panama.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, by the old Walmart on White Lane.
Speaker 4:Oh, that one. Oh, okay, where?
Speaker 3:Sharky's used to be. What about you, Bigfoot Whaty's used?
Speaker 4:to be yeah.
Speaker 3:Check them out. What about you?
Speaker 2:Bigfoot, what do you like to eat after All of them?
Speaker 5:Man, we've gone out after the show.
Speaker 2:I like y'all that one time when we took shrooms and we couldn't get out of the studio, what did we go eat after Fuck?
Speaker 4:I don't even want to talk about that one why you got to bring that Jack in the Box Is that what it was?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was Jack. We've done Panda Express 2, huh, when it was just like give me everything I want.
Speaker 5:Three orange chickens, yeah, all at different temperatures, Nah uh-uh, not with all the meat they sent me to. What is that we got? They sent me to.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 4:we got done with the podcast.
Speaker 5:We got done oh, now you wanna now.
Speaker 2:You wanna talk about now and then bro I was so low okay so this goes back to what we were talking about Stephanie Soul. We had her on our show.
Speaker 4:Right, cool as fuck dude. So shout out to Madam. You know, madam Michael, shout out, she's one of our sponsors for our fungal and all that stuff, our mushrooms.
Speaker 2:But anyways, we're having a blast, we're smoking and everything right. And then at the end of the show we were so smoked out that we had a little huddle outside the pad right and we're like what do you guys want to eat? And she's like in and out. I said that's a fucking great idea. So we're all in a little huddle outside right. Cadillac's the only one I kind of like man. God bless him, he don't really smoke, he don't really drink too much, so he's the sober guy. So I gave him my card, right, and we all started placing our orders at the same time, right, and I had stephanie. Stephanie was looking sexy as hell, man, and I'm looking at her. I'm like, yeah, man, I'll have whatever you have girl she knows, she knows man what.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, that sounds great. So kind of like you go, right, you go, you come back. Like an hour later and he comes back. It looked like he was moving out he had all all these boxes right on top of boxes and he placed it on the center of the table and we're all like zombies fucking trying to.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Trying to sort through it. Nah, dude, he just threw the fries all in the middle. It was like a big old mountain of fries. And we're over here, grubby dude I mean they're trying to holler at fucking Stephanie's all you know what I mean and we're in there eating the fries and everything, burgers, all types of stuff. It was a fun time, man, but In-N-Out was a good one, right there.
Speaker 5:And I didn't even mess up the orders.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did it actually, I got everything. I got everything.
Speaker 5:There was like seven or eight orders Dr Mule shaves fries I got all of it. You pumped the ketchup and everything. I got all of it.
Speaker 2:Everything they needed. Yeah, when I saw my bill the next day, I was like damn.
Speaker 5:What happened I?
Speaker 2:know man All right, last one guys.
Speaker 1:One word. One word to describe Bakersfield's underground scene.
Speaker 4:Bullshit Untapped.
Speaker 2:Untapped. Untapped.
Speaker 5:I'll say still growing, all right.
Speaker 3:That's two words Growing, growing, growing. I got it. That's the weatherman talk.
Speaker 4:You see how I had to turn around to the TV and say bullshit.
Speaker 3:Damn. I say fun.
Speaker 1:Fun. Yeah, alright, fun and untapped. Yeah, and growing.
Speaker 3:It's fun and easy and bullshit. Yeah, bro. Yeah, I mean when you listen to the way everybody talks, everybody's just having a good time. Yeah, at the end of the day, pretty much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:And it's cool talks, everybody's just having a good time yeah, yeah, at the end of the day, pretty much yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And it's cool because we have a lot of, like, untapped talent out there. You know what I mean. We've got artists that have just released their first single. All right, they come on the show and just to hear the the, the energy that they come with. You know what I mean. That's cool because they can spread that throughout. You know what I mean and I've seen, you know, people like hood baby.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean like he came on, he was just like youngster, yeah, but the the way that he came in with that energy and now to see him doing these big ass fucking things, it's like fuck all right, it's fucking hella dope, and he's putting all his boys up there too. It's not just him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So that's dope.
Speaker 2:He took everybody with him, unlike some people yeah, you know what I mean, so I think that's cool. You know what? Know what I mean. I brought my homeboy my broskies are here with me. You know what I mean Fucking cat.
Speaker 5:Fucking photo shit. He just won't leave me alone.
Speaker 2:He even paid the rights to LL Cool J's song. You know what I mean LL Cool J on his music video. Dog, I like some people. I like some people on the other side of the table.
Speaker 5:Hey man, after 10 years later on, you ain't going to let this go.
Speaker 2:Nah, hell nah Hell, nah Hell nah. That video exists dog.
Speaker 4:I remember when you kicked me out too.
Speaker 5:Oh, you want to talk about that.
Speaker 2:That's the whole of the situation you want to talk about that. We've already been here long enough already. We're in a different podcast, when he got part two, part two.
Speaker 3:We're in a different podcast guys. All right, good show, all right, y'all.
Speaker 1:Closing. Where can everybody find you guys? Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:You can find us at the Bug Podcast on Instagram and TikTok. Facebook goes by my name, but if you type in Bakersfield Underground it'll definitely take you there. Our YouTube channel just started. I have several videos out there. I'll probably be posting about two or three videos a week, which is a lot for our interviews that we've had before, all our previous interviews, along with the new ones and stuff. So this week we have radio personality Kev King. He's coming in on this week and stuff. So, yeah, on YouTube is the Bakersfield Underground podcast and once again, facebook, tiktok. We're on all that shit man, the at the Bug podcast and stuff.
Speaker 5:All right, and you hear a lie with the weatherman. Oh wow, dude, I had to throw that in there. I had to throw it in there.
Speaker 1:Where can they find the weatherman at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, put it in your account, doc, give them your government name.
Speaker 5:I can't do that right now. What's my? Is it Carnell that's?
Speaker 4:very close. Wow, that's very close what you doing.
Speaker 5:He did his research? Yeah, he did, because man.
Speaker 2:I'm scared. That was very close.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that was close, real close. Oh man, that's how I trapped my head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even I looked at him like oh shit man my heart just hit the bottom of my ass. We each have our own personal accounts and stuff, but you can find all that on thebakersfieldundergroundcom the website.
Speaker 5:We have a website.
Speaker 2:We have all types of shit out there, man, yeah, but at the book podcast you'll take you to all the link tree and everything like that man.
Speaker 1:All right, guys, we.
