Edgar Ortiz

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Welcome to the deep diving in the speakeasy podcast with your hosts, Justin Reno and Bart Avery.
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And we are back again here in the uh proverbial speakeasy.
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It's a beautiful uh it's always a beautiful atmosphere and day and or night.
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It feels very nice in here.
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Yeah, it's it the weather's perfect, the temperature's perfect, the uh um yeah, it's like we're just away from all the hustle and bustle in the world and it's not a hundred degrees inside here, so it's not a hundred degrees inside.
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And man, I'm super excited about our guest um that we've got with us today who's just lighting up his cigars, right, Edgar?
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What up, yep, just lighting up.
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What up, man?
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Actually, mine went out.
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I gotta redo it here.
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So um we usually ask that question before we start, but uh Edgar couldn't wait.
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So we always say cigar, no cigar.
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Edgar, as soon as he got here, he goes, Can you can I have a cigar right now, please?
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So that's why we did that.
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And then um we are gonna uh offer you an adult beverage.
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Uh what uh you met Buzz when you came in.
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Buzz our two double left-handed uh bartender.
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Hey Buzz.
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Buzz, what's going on?
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He's trying to wave at us with both left hands.
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All right, we're gonna be funny, man.
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So uh what what can we what can Buzz get you?
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Uh he got me a glass of uh what am I drinking?
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Pinot.
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I'll take uh whiskey whiskey on the rocks or on the rocks, please.
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Yeah, and uh Justin, what can you get you, man?
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You know I always keep to the standard of bravery for you.
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Fat boy the fat boys, yeah.
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And they are one of our standards.
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They are one of our sponsors.
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That's why I gotta keep drinking them while they are a sponsor.
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I don't want to piss them off.
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You don't piss them off.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So um today we have with us Mr.
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Edgar Ortiz.
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And Edgar and I have, I think, been friends now for about eight, nine, seven, eight, nine years.
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Something like that, yeah.
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Something like that, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And we're not gonna talk about it, but didn't we just go to Hawaii?
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Oh, yes we did.
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Yes, we did.
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How was that?
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Oh, it's horrible.
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It's an ugly place.
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What was that guy always telling us about uh that Emilio guy?
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He was saying it was Oh, it's junk.
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It's junk, yeah.
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Every day you wake up and yeah, so yeah, don't go visit.
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If you if you got anywhere to go, go to somewhere else.
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I'll scratch it off my list.
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Yeah, Death Valley.
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Never been, but I'll scratch it off my list.
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Um I was saying a lot of times when we were there, I'd wake up in the morning and look out and say, Man, if I could if I was in Lake LA right now, I'd be super happy.
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But you know, if if this is you know, the plane ride home is is you know, to change your plights is a little tricky, so I had to just stick it out for a few days.
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Dirtier the water the better.
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But we had a good time, and I think that was your very first time in Maui, and I can't remember Hawaii too.
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Yeah, first time in Hawaii, first time on Maui, of course.
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So it was it was beautiful.
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Yeah, it was beautiful.
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So we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna uh give you a few minutes here to just talk a little bit about kind of uh just a brief synopsis on you know what you started with in your life and where you are today, and then we're gonna drill down after that.
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So uh yeah, like you don't have to start when like you were a baby.
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Like you don't have to go that far.
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Back when I had a pacifier in my mouth.
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Before my first steps.
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Were you wearing Pampers or what what's the other brand?
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Loves.
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I was a Huggies.
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There's loves.
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There is loves.
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L-U-V-S.
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I know my diapers.
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Let's let's take it way back.
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Well, that I mean, this is uh an amazing speakeasy.
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Thank you, Buzz, for the drink.
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This is cheers, cheers to you, Buzz.
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Cheers, Buzz.
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Yeah, we love you, buddy.
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Let's kick it off with a quick swig here.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Okay, let's have a swig.
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I love it.
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I'm glad you're relaxed and everything.
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Oh, anyway.
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Yeah.
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So I mean, my story is pretty straightforward.
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I mean, I came from the Antelope Valley.
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Well, I my parents actually moved to the Antelope Valley when I was two years old.
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So my my memory of Burbank was very, very minimal.
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Um Antelope Valley's been my home for some amount of time now.
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Uh went to one of the most prestigious high schools in the Antelope Valley, Antelope Valley High School.
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Oh yeah.
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Good spot to go to school.
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I think it was uh you know, I got I got uh pretty tough there, I'd say.
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So um we learned how to fight.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Learned how to take a punch for sure.
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How many fights were you in?
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Probably about three or four during that time.
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So I I think I I did pretty good.
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Alright, right, yeah.
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I mean, you're still here, so that's still.
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But uh it was it was uh it was a fun school to go to, you know.
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There was there was uh you couldn't wear colored shoelaces, you couldn't do wear certain clothes at the time, so it was kind of changing, you know.
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You get a lot of that LA um uh gangbanging violence coming down this way.
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We call them the the rejects from LA.
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So where the gangs would send all their people that couldn't cut it in LA, they'd end up out here.
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Uh but uh I did not know that was a thing.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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What year did you go to AB?
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Uh I graduated in 05.
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So it was like oh yeah, 2000 2001 to 2005.
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Okay.
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So that you know it was uh good school.
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Good school.
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But yeah.
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After high school, I d I packed my bags, I worked for a little bit, and then I moved to Sacramento.
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Sacramento as a 17, 18-year-old kid.
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I just jumped in my car and took off.
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So all my family was still here, and uh, I had a friend that lived out there in Sacktown, and I just went over there and hopped couches with him, and we shit.
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I stayed out there for about eight years, it was cool.
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By the way, cussing is allowed here, just FYI.
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Stick to four-letter words, four-letter swear words.
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Whatever whatever fits the uh you know, the feeling that you have, like, you know.
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I've tried to make it through here without the F bomb F bomb, but it always comes out somehow.
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Sneaks its way into the bottom.
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I really do try though.
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Yeah.
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I'm trying to be conscious of how many times I swear.
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I'm I'm I'm usually pretty good.
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We could do like a counter, like that'd be cool.
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Yeah, and just see how many fucks you find out that you dropped in one episode.
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That'd be kind of cool.
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Do you try to not cuss in front of your kids, especially some of the younger ones?
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I try really hard, but the baby is now three years old and she's saying, Oh shit.
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No.
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She drops her little uh Barbie doll and still goes, Oh shit.
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I'm like, oh my god.
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That's great.
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That's uh my brother in law, my my niece.
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Uh uh she would grow up listening to him playing Call of Duty, and for some weird reason, his favorite thing to say when he would get like killed or whatever is Mother Bitch.
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He would just shout that.
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She started saying that while she was watching him play, and I'm like, oh see, that was all you, dude.
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Wow, you're the one that did that.
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That's great.
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Wait till she says, Mother Bitch, I need a sandwich.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's so moving along here.
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So Sacramento, and then Yep.
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So Sacramento, I lived there for a bit, worked at some different jobs out there, lived in downtown Sacramento, and had the most amazing time.
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Sacramento's got an incredible culture.
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They have I discovered this when I had a neighbor who was lesbian, and we became good friends.
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We eventually adopted each other.
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She became my sister, I was I was her brother.
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And she would take me to all these gay bars, me being a straight guy.
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I was like, whatever, you know, I can I'm comfortable in my sexuality.
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And the the the gay parties are awesome.
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Yeah we always had a good time.
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We went to this uh bar they had what they called welfare Wednesday, where it was like a dollar shots, and you could just get liquored up for ten bucks.
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Yeah.
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It was insane.
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So uh the the street was all covered in rainbow flags, and I'll say some of the some of the best times I ever had as a young adult were over there at the good old gay bars.
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So it was it was good.
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It was good.
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Yeah, hell yeah.
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But um then Sacramento, we um where I uh was working.
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Eventually I just kind of got tired of it and I wanted to get come back to Lancaster.
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I ended up using all my vacation time to come visit the Antelope Valley, and I thought, yeah, I'm tired of vacationing to the Antelope Valley, so let me just move back there and I can vacation elsewhere because I still had family out here.
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So one year I just got this crazy idea to do a cross country bike trip, and that's pretty much how I left Sacramento was with this big awesome trip.
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Yeah, we're gonna get into that uh at the end because uh part of our show is tell us five very either deep, dark secrets or just interesting facts about yourself that maybe your wife doesn't even know.
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And uh that was one of them.
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And uh yeah.
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Which hey, if that got you out of the city, I mean it worked, right?
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Yeah.
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Crazy, man.
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But Sacramento was good growing, um, you know, p hanging out by the rivers, uh, you know, it was it was like a constant party over there.
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And I was, you know, 19, 20, 21.
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Um, I was actually growing hops out there too in Sacramento.
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So it was you know the hop, you know, you know that I found this out is the uh the hop plant is um uh in the member the family member cannabis.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I don't know, you know, who who got crazier the first.
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You know, was it the hop plant that makes the beer or is it the marijuana that gets uh you know I think they was getting the Indian stone back.
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Yeah, I think they were the first ones that start smoking the peace pipe or whatever the hell that was.
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The devil's lettuce, yep.
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But you were you were in the hop business for a while.
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That's cool.
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I was, I was.
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What would you do with the hops?
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So funny, we're talking about cannabis and hops.
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I was actually trying to figure out how to graft a cannabis plant onto a hops plant.
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Hops plant, and is this safe space to talk about a little bit of uh cultivation?
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Yeah, sure.
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Yeah, of course.
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Well the the other the other thing, uh Edgar, is that's another part of one of your five things that you're kind of getting into, and now it makes sense to me that you're that's your way your mind's working.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Okay, go ahead, sorry.
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Yeah, so so the hops plant is a perennial.
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Are you familiar with this?
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I should be, but okay.
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Yep, so hops plant is a perennial, which means that the root system stays in the ground year after year.
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Marijuana is an annual.
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So that means every year the marijuana seeds uh you know go to go to sprout, turn to flower, and then eventually die off.
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So the goal between grafting a marijuana plant onto a hops vine is imagine you have a 10-year-old hops root system, which is massive.
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It's gonna be about the size of you know ten square feet roughly, 10, 20 square feet.
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And you can put a hops plant onto that graft.
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How big do you think that hops that I'm sorry, you can put a marijuana plant onto that graft, how big do you think that marijuana plant is gonna be in one season?
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Pretty freaking huge.
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I mean, yeah, but I would assume that it would be because of the root system tapping into or what?
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Because of the root system that it's tapping into.
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So I was never able to fully perfect it, but it was on my bucket list of one of the things I wanted to accomplish.
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I should we cut this out of the thing?
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Because to me, people are gonna run out and start doing this.
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They should.
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They should.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I want I want somebody to do it because I'm not gonna do it anymore.
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Okay.
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Maybe maybe they'll name, maybe if it becomes super famous, they'll name it after you, you know.
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If you were kind of the inventor of it.
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That'd be nice.
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That'd be nice.
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That'd be cool.
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It'd be like the guy that, you know, when you name a star that you first see, that'd be nice.
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The Ortiz hybridization.
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That'd be cool.
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It's got a nice risk.
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I thought there was a twinkle in your eye there.
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I really hit with you.
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Right?
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You know that song Everybody Must Get Stung.
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Everybody must get Ortized.
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Or teased.
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I like it.
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Right?
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The teased art.
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Yeah, I like that.
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I'm a fan of this.
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Yeah, we're just we're just creating stuff on them.
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That's great.
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But it was cool.
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It was a cool experiment.
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Um there was people that tried to do it in the past, they wanted to get they did the opposite.
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They tried to get marijuana roots to sprout hops and then make the hops have THC, but plants don't really work that way.
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So cool shit.
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Okay, that's cool.
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Now jump jump ahead another three or four years, and now you're what in your mid-twenties or something.
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Yep.
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Fast forward mid-20s, um working at a car dealership here.
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I was actually managing a used car lot, which was a ton of fun.
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Wow, you did that too?
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Okay.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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That was good.
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Because that's that's really kind of out there a little bit being doing the carb thing.
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It was it was salesy for sure.
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It was very salesy.
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It was like uh, you know, the Camacho sales.
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So it was uh, you know, buy here, pay here type deals, uh 26% interest rates.
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Uh we were selling them all day.
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Uh some crazy stuff.
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We'd get cars that had like bullet holes and old brownish stains in there.
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So it's uh little edgy.
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Gus is a friend of mine, by the way, so I don't I don't want him to sue us over something here.
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So you're just making all this stuff up, right?
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This didn't happen at Camacho Auto Score.
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This was a totally different location.
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This is one of his competitors that was doing the bullet hole thing.
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Well, yes.
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Okay, thanks.
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Do you hear that, Gus?
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We're trying to get Gus as a sponsor of this podcast, so I just want to Oh, good.
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Starting that relationship off well.
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Okay, so bullet holes and uh 26% interest rate.
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And brown stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was fun times.
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All right, now we're no mage 30 ish.
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Yeah.
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What are you you're 60, 65 now, right?
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About 62.
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62.
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Oh, you can get social security now, I think.
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Almost.
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Almost.
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Yeah.
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Well, like 80%.
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Yeah, okay.
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That's good.
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Good enough to live in New Hampshire, probably.
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Uh fast forward to 30-ish.
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Uh I opened an insurance office.
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Got tired of bullet holes in cars and thought, you know, why not insure them instead?
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So got into the insurance business and here we are today hanging out with you fine folks in the the most beautiful, speakeasy world in the world.
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Wherever we are, yeah.
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Somewhere here.
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Yeah.
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Somewhere.
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We do we do disclose it is in Southern California, but we're not sure where it is exactly.
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We had we did we blindfold you?
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I I was blindfolded.
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Yeah, that's what I thought.
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It was a dark SVV that picked him up?
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Yeah.
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A lot of guys with with suits and sunglasses on and stuff, you know.
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One leather glove and dark ray bands.
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Yeah.
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And Buzz, how does Buzz get here?
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Does he know where he is?
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Buzz.
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You you have a room set up for him.
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He lives here.
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He's never allowed to leave.
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I didn't know that.
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Yeah.
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You didn't know that you keep him here.
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I have a big house.
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I don't know, man.
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Buzz does it.
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I don't know so many people that live here, man.
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Buzz doesn't even know what time of the day it is right now.
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Look at that.
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No, he doesn't know.
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Slightly close to kidnapping, but alright.
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So, okay, the name of your uh insurance company business is Edgar O'T's agency.
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It's a farmer's insurance for the right.
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Now, how did you come up with that name?
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Well, way back when I was about to You could have called it Bullet Hole Agency.
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That would have been kind of cool.
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Like, you know, you get bullet holes in your car, I can I can cover that.
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I can fix that for free.
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Bullets and Brown insurance agency.
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Yeah.
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No, it was um it took a lot of work.
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It took a lot of time to figure out that name.
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Uh when you open a farmer's insurance branch, they just kind of slap your name onto it.
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So I just kind of followed that model.
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So it was good.
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It worked.
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It worked.
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Makes it easy to remember for me.
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And in all honesty, uh, and we'll get into this a little bit more um as we go on here, but um, yeah, ever s I think ever since I've pretty much known you, you've been uh you've been in that business, and uh you're highly respected in this community.
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And we'll get into that too, because one of the reasons I wanted to have you on this podcast is because um you know my family and I have been out here for quite some time and we we know who the people are in this community that really give back to the community.
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And I've seen so many examples where and that's you, buddy.
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That is a hundred percent you.
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Oh, thank you.
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And and you're just you know, people know who you are.
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I don't you know, everybody has enemies, you know.
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Sometimes people are just jealous, but I I don't know anybody that that that has a bad word to say about you.
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I just think everybody loves you and they see what you do, and it's a big damn deal.
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And uh that's that's the number one reason I wanted to have you on this podcast and what you do.
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And we'll get into that some of that stuff too.
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And it's like some of the especially the the five facts, the some of the stuff you you put in there.
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I I couldn't believe what you were doing.
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Um, you know, you've helped us out quite a few times, you know.
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I mean, you've donated uh like water bottles, you know, they have your uh logo and and stuff on it, and uh you're the first guy just to step up and say, I want to help.
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I appreciate it.
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Appreciate it.
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I like that's one of the good parts of the business is getting being able to give back.
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So hopefully people still want to do business with me after they hear some uh some of these interesting facts or crazy stories, but we'll we'll see.
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I think you're gonna get more customers out of this, to be honest with you.
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We can relate with that guy getting liquored up on a welfare Wednesday there.
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Welfare Wednesday.
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Oh, is today Wednesday?
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I didn't know that.
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Is today Wednesday?
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No, I don't know what day it is.
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It could be Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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It's not Wednesday, actually.
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No.
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It's Christmas Eve, right?
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What is that?
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Yeah, I'm supposed to be wrapping presents right now, actually.
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Yeah.
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Presents, yeah.
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For oh, that's another thing we're gonna talk about is yeah, he's got a lot of kids.
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Uh oh.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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That he knows about.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, there could be You never know.
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Probably zero out there that I don't know about.
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Jeez.
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Well no, I I I think it's good to give back to the community.
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I I I did I do find that when you give, you tend to receive a lot more.
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I mean it's it's I don't know if it's like uh without getting too religious, I don't know if it's just the way the universe works, but it's it creates kind of this magnetism that stuff ends up coming back to you the more you can put out.
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And so I I truly believe that, and that's one of the things that we you know, I I constantly try to do.
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I encourage my team to do is find opportunities, get back um and also teach others so that way you learn more when you're out there teaching people.
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I think that's just solid rules to live by.
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Oh yeah.
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My wife Sandra, who's um very religious, and you know, I am too.
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Um she always likes to say God's watching and God's watching, you know.
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I mean, you do stuff and it's like, wow, amazing.
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Absolutely.
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So the community's watching too.
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So the community watches, and they and honestly, the community needs it.
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Uh the community always needs yeah, the community always needs uh people like you.
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So appreciate it.
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Um what are we gonna come back with?
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Uh we're gonna be diving into a lot of the stuff that he does do for the community.
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We're gonna be uh we're gonna be picking at that.
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Um and we're gonna get a little bit more of a background with you.
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We're not we're not just gonna just leave it at like, oh, you just got you were doing insurance and then that was it.
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We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna dive a little bit deeper.
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Uh we're gonna be right back after this quick message.
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00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.039
Ortiz.
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We were talking uh briefly about his uh his comeuppins here and uh what he was doing um when he got to uh the Antelope Valley.
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Now we want to touch on uh we kind of led into it before uh we went into the break uh about uh community and the stuff that you do for the uh Antelope Valley.
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Um why don't you go ahead and kick us off with some of the stuff uh that you are involved in out here?
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Uh you have a plethora of nonprofits that you are a part of um that's helping a lot of people out here.
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Why don't you go ahead and jump into some of these?
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Yeah, awesome.
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Um the Kawanas Club is one of the major clubs that we're that I'm a part of.
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Uh Koanas uh is a group that donates money back to different kids' organizations.
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Or every every city has their own specific thing that they that they do.
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Our Kwanas Club, Kwanas of Lancasters specifically, is more of a fundraising club.
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So what they do is they get a bunch of business people together, we find cool ideas to raise money, and then we turn around and donate that money to kids, uh nonprofits or organizations that we think should get that money.
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Uh it's very easy.
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The the group of uh business owners that are there do not have like a huge set of requirements to qualify for getting grants from them.
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As long as what you're doing makes sense and benefits the kids in some type of way, they're usually pretty eager eager to give out.
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They don't want to hold on to that money for the project.
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Right, yeah.
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So that one's uh we we've been able to give back to um different organizations that help with like uh foster care, that are providing laptops for um you know uh women that are trying to transition out of uh potentially bad situations.
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Uh they've helped raise money for even uh kids feeding kids and donating to the livestock auctions and very various other uh organizations throughout the AV that they donate money to.
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So that that one's a big one.
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Near and dear to my heart.
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Kids I think could use all the support they can get.
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I truly believe it takes a village uh to raise kids, and so being able to give back to the community is awesome that way.
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Um I'm also part of the we've done I've donated to URNF Foundation.
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That's another foundation that's near and dear to my heart.
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Um you know they I have had a few friends that have committed suicide over the years, and um it's it's it's terrible, you know, to see to be to be the ones, you know, seeing that where it was something that could have either they could have been approached or they could have been talked to, you know, if if only you could see a crystal ball of what you know what a buddy of yours is gonna do in the next you know year or so, I think all all of us would reach out and try to stop it.
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So URNF foundation does amazing things to open the door, give you safe space to kind of vent some of those um you know troubles that people are carrying around and living with on a day-to-day basis.
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So I think you know the work that they're doing is outstanding very much so.
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And it's and it's primarily Jackie.
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Yeah, Jackie is I mean she's she's pretty much a hundred percent of it.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And she's just nonstop, you know.
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It was her son that committed suicide and uh kind of started that whole ball rolling with what she does.
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But yeah.
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Yeah, Jackie Jackie's got such a big heart and you know, all the all the love that she wishes she could pour into her son, but she's pouring it out into the community to try and help other people.
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I think that's yeah, she's got goosebumps as you said that.
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It's just like yeah.
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She's her the passion in her life now is is to remember her son and to and to try to take a negative and turn it into a positive as best she can.
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And that's the way I look at it.
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So absolutely, and prevent and prevent other situations like that if she can.
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I mean, even if she can help one life, that's yeah, one life.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's one life.
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No, I agree.
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I agree.
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Um and then you know, I'm also part of God, there's so many organizations we give money to.
00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:23.759
So I don't know how you you have time to sell insurance, dude.
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Yeah, dude.
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I'm telling you, it's a huge list that you are a part of of just all of these organizations that you are that you have your hand in.
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It's it's incredible.
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Let me let me say this too, is there's a lot of insurance companies out here.
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A lot of people know you know who the brokers are or whatnot.
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Sure.
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:42.240
You can call yourself a broker, right?
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Or yeah, yeah, insurance.
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Well, I'm a farmer's agent, but you're an agent broker.
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Yeah.
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And you know, I mean it it it it does make sense from a marketing standpoint, you know, to do what you do to promote your business, but I get the sense that you don't do it for that reason necessarily.
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And you know, I mean, if that was the thing, if that's the way you get customers to sign up with you with your insurance, everybody'd be doing it.
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:16.319
And I don't I there's there's a few other people out there, but nobody on a level that you do it.
00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:17.119
Well, thank you.
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:19.279
And I I just think that am I am I right?
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I mean, it's just like I I just don't see too many people that are that involved with helping the community like you are.
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And it just pays off, I'm sure, in spades, as far as people say, like, oh my gosh.
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:42.319
Well, I I think it comes down to you wouldn't the one of the first like handfuls of people that you would think of not partaking in you know organizations like this.
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The first thing you're gonna think of is oh, an insurance agent is gonna, you know, go out there and try to help the community.
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Oh, that you go and you try to get insurance and it's this whole like you know, spiel, and everybody doesn't think that it's all like, you know, whatever, they're just trying to get my money or whatever.
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But no, like there is a rarity of people that actually care and give a damn about other people, and it's nice to see someone like you uh who is in that position and is actually putting boots to the ground and doing you know, giving back to the community like this.
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It's incredible to see.
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Thank you.
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Absolutely incredible to see.
00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:22.319
Yeah, there's just not a lot.
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There's not a lot, yeah.
00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:25.519
Yeah, very small percentage.
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Well, uh, I I give to anywhere I can because those those things are near and dear to my heart.
00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:40.160
So uh I like being able to take people's you know hard-earned money that they pay their insurance premiums with that that they hate paying insurance premiums with.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:41.519
Sure, who loves doing that?
00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:43.039
Nobody likes paying for insurance.
00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:44.240
No, nobody likes paying for insurance.
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It's not fun.
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:51.359
No, but honestly, being able to get in some of that revenue and then turn around and give it back to the community is a really, really good feeling.
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:51.920
Yeah.
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And you know, I I believe in the organizations that we give money to.
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One of one of the other major ones that we contribute to is the A V sheriff or I'm sorry, A V boosters.
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:17.839
And, you know, just seeing the appreciation that's on the law enforcement's uh officers' faces when we do give them stuff, you know, things as simple as uh spit masks that I feel like they should have in their cars.
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:23.680
The boosters have been able to fund it, and these officers are just so grateful for it.
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:30.640
Yeah, you know, they we've we've helped them with tasers and helped them with all kinds of different things for training and keeping them safe.
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:38.640
Things that you know I wish the government organizations would be able to sponsor, you know, provide, but it's nice to be able to help fill that gap.
00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:39.680
Fill that gap.
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:48.160
Are there any organizations that you're not a part of that you're looking into possibly becoming a part of?
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:54.640
Yeah, so uh Children's Center is one that I want to contribute more towards.
00:29:54.799 --> 00:30:01.519
My wife, who's also uh with me at the agency, is now helping with their Heart Sounds gala.
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:03.759
So she's trying to raise funds for them.
00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:06.720
Again, another incredible organization.
00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:14.160
Children's Center does amazing things for the kids in the community, and I think that's you know an organization we should all support.
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:27.279
Um other ones that I think I'd like to give back to is um right now, like this is it okay to date it like with the B-52 uh incident.
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:30.240
You know, I think that's another you know tragedy.
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:44.160
Yeah, yeah, we we just real quick, uh yeah, that that that touched so many people in this valley when those eight eight brave men lost their lives on that B-52 and just crashed at Edwards.
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:49.680
And yeah, so if we can find a way to give back to them, that'll be that'll be awesome.
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:51.359
Yeah, the families.
00:30:51.680 --> 00:31:05.839
Yeah, and I guarantee you we've already seen this on on news reports that uh not to get into into the weeds on this, but uh you know, some of these family members, I mean, they're you know, it was all guy, it was eight men that died.
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.400
So I think a lot of them had wives and kids.
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:14.720
And now these wives are like, um I'm a housewife, I'm raising the kids, I don't I don't have a job.
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:15.119
Yeah.
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:17.359
That's that's my that's that was my whole life.
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.160
That's my income.
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:20.400
That's what pays the mortgage and stuff, you know.
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:21.359
What are they gonna do?
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:22.079
That's scary.
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:22.720
That's a scary.
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:29.359
And I hope, I hope, I hope there's somebody out there that's gonna step up and you know, I know they're the GoFundMe thing and stuff.
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:40.079
But that's that just blows my mind that you your mind goes straight towards that, which is a huge thing in our com it's one of the biggest tragedies in our community ever.
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:40.880
Yeah.
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:43.039
And uh yeah, good for you, man.
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:43.839
Oh, thank you.
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:44.400
Thank you.
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:46.880
How many times have you said thank you tonight?
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:48.799
I think it's or this afternoon, or whatever.
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:50.400
20, 25 is what I counted.
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:52.720
We do this at two o'clock in the morning, actually, FYI.
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.359
Uh we're gonna go hit Denny's after this.
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:55.759
Yeah.
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:56.319
I'm hungry.
00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:57.440
It's for an early breakfast.
00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:58.880
Grand Slam, baby, let's go.
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:00.079
Double Grand Slam, baby.
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:00.960
Double grand slam.
00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:01.599
Oh, you know what?
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:04.079
Okay, see, no, we're not deep diving enough into it.
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.279
What's your favorite breakfast?
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:07.119
What's your favorite breakfast?
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.000
You like breakfast?
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:08.880
Are you a breakfast guy?
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:09.759
I do like breakfast.
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.000
So when you were Maui, were you eating breakfast every morning?
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:12.720
Oh, hell yeah.
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:13.279
Who were you?
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:13.519
Yeah.
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:17.279
Uh papaya with uh yogurt, blueberries, granola.
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:22.400
If I could have that every day for the rest of my life, I'd probably with some bacon and avocado on the side.
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.279
But where you were eating it and looking out, it was junk.
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:26.079
The view was junk.
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:27.759
Oh, the few the view is horrid.
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:28.720
Yeah.
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:30.319
Don't go there.
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:30.799
Don't go there.
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:34.799
Are you uh are you just a strictly breakfast in the morning guy, or do you like it at night?
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:35.599
Like I do.
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.319
So I'm a huge fan of breakfast at night.
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:39.440
I gotta come over to your house.
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:40.319
I love breakfast too.
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:41.440
You gotta try it at night.
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:45.119
I will fucking make pancakes and the F-bomb comes out.
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.519
The F-bomb comes out when you're talking about breakfast.
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:48.640
I I'm sorry.
00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:51.359
I'm very passionate about breakfast at night.
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.880
What what is your breakfast go to at night?
00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:58.799
Does it change from the morning?
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:00.160
Sometimes.
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.480
So I do I have made uh like pancakes and stuff at night.
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.759
Um I like the fact that Edgar's interviewing you now.
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:08.640
I know, right?
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:13.200
Um But I am I am a sucker for making a full-on breakfast sandwich.
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:14.880
That's one of my favorite things to do.
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:15.359
Nice.
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.599
Because I'm getting I'm getting all of that in one.
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:18.079
Yeah.
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:19.920
Are either of you guys a grits person?
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:28.880
Because I before I got into my weird keto diet thing, which I don't I can't do grits, but I used to I used to love to make grits, man, with lots and lots of butter, man.
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:30.240
I don't think I've ever made grits.
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.480
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think I've had proper grits.
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:34.400
Oh, you gotta have proper grits, man.
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:36.559
I mean, it's I'm telling you, it's a life-changing experience.
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:38.319
Malto meal is one that I haven't.
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:41.359
You're a Malto meal guy?
00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:44.720
I would I would question what the hell is in Malto Meal.
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.920
I if it's got more than two ingredients, I wouldn't eat it.
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.720
It's probably got like 500 ingredients.
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:51.279
I'm not sure.
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:54.960
Well, go back that goes back to like the matrix when they were eating tasty wheat.
00:33:56.559 --> 00:33:57.839
What is tasty wheat?
00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.680
It's probably maltomil.
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:01.519
It's probably yeah.
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:03.599
Oh man.
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:05.920
How do we get up on this tangent?
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:06.880
I don't even know, man.
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.440
Maltomeal will come back up later in this conversation.
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:10.000
Will it?
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:10.960
Maltomeal?
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:11.280
Okay.
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:16.719
We'll we'll put up a poll for people if they uh if they like maltomeal or tasty wheat.
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:17.360
There you go.
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:17.920
Let's hear it.
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.559
Let's hear it.
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:21.679
You're gonna you're just gonna see one vote for tasty wheat.
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:22.639
It's gonna be Neo.
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.599
Yeah, right.
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:25.440
That's awesome.
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.719
That's awesome.
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:31.199
Um so I I I was born in Sacramento.
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:38.480
Um, and I just recently went back uh there because I didn't know about the city really at all.
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:44.559
Uh I mean, I was a little tiny infant baby child when I was there, so I don't remember anything.
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:48.559
And going back, like I'm getting like the history of the city when you lived there.
00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:49.840
Have you gone back recently?
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:51.440
No, I haven't gone back recently.
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.960
They say it's a little rougher.
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:54.880
You can get your window smashed quite a few times.
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:55.440
Sure.
00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:57.119
For sure, for sure.
00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.559
How how was like living in Sacramento?
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:03.519
Like I know you were there for like, you know, eight years roughly.
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.880
Yeah, something like um how was it living there?
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.000
Like it was amazing.
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:20.079
Yeah, it was it was so it was such a cool town because there'd be farmers markets, there'd be like antique fairs, there'd be car shows, there'd be, you know, um basketball games.
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:24.239
It was just a such a crazy eclectic mix of people there.
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:27.760
And it was a a great place to be.
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:32.880
There was incredible Mexican food, incredible seafood, incredible everything.
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:42.239
And and the trees, they call it the city of trees because they have more trees per capita than any other city besides, I believe, Paris, right now.
00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:44.880
So it is super green.
00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:49.119
When you take a plane there and you land, look down, and it's just trees everywhere.
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:50.880
And and a lot of politicians.
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:51.920
And a lot of politicians.
00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:53.920
Yeah, peeing it peeing on the trees, probably.
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.360
You don't see them through the trees.
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:56.320
I don't see them.
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:58.880
So so you said farm, you went a farmer's market.
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:00.800
It wasn't a state farm market, was it?
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:04.639
I've been to the state fair, which was farmers.
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:05.599
Oh, no.
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:12.480
He did a stupid insurance joke to you and it went over my head because I'm a farmer's insurance agent, not a state farm agent.
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:14.159
He was so you could tell he was so.
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:20.800
I thought maybe that's you know, you go to the farmers market, you go on the farmer's market, you're like, Yeah, do I want to be a geico guy?
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.400
Do I want to be farmers?
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:23.199
Yes.
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:25.599
Surprised he didn't even do the jingle.
00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:29.039
They don't sell hummus at that farmers market.
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:31.360
So you won't find me there.
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:32.400
Jeez.
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:34.639
Would you would you go back?
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:36.000
Would I go back now?
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:36.960
To Sacramento?
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:37.199
Yeah.
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:50.159
Well, yeah, because I went I went uh a few weeks ago, and um, yeah, from what I heard, the city has very much changed from what it was back in like 80s, 90s, and then to to now.
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.039
Um but yeah, I would go back.
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:54.880
It's pretty cool, huh?
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:57.519
Yeah, like there's a lot of great stuff out there.
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:02.480
Uh we stayed in like old Sacramento, and it was it was incredible.
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:05.280
Um it was weird because it was a bunch of Red on the River, right?
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:05.920
Red on the River.
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:06.880
It's beautiful there, yeah.
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:07.440
Beautiful.
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.119
Um Cobblestone Road.
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:21.280
Yeah, and then there was uh there's a bunch of people that apparently at like 5 30, 6 o'clock, all the young kids come out um and they have like a car parade around that little space.
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:22.159
Nice.
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:32.320
And I guess like a lot of the businesses like despise this and hate it, but it's like I don't know, it's kind of bringing people like it's kind of bringing people to like the bars that are out there.
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:34.960
The bars are pretty cool out there, I gotta say.
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:39.840
Did you see the paddle boat there right off right off the river in Old Town uh Sacramento?
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:41.440
So they have a paddle boat.
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:42.880
Big big massive thing though.
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.000
The haunted one?
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:44.239
Yeah.
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:45.119
That's where we stayed.
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:45.920
Oh, heck yeah.
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:46.400
Yeah.
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:48.320
Uh it stays yeah, stayed there.
00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.559
And it you slant to the left.
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:51.119
Nice.
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:52.800
It's it's it's leaning to the left.
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:53.920
Is it for sure.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:55.199
Oh it's wild.
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:55.840
It's wild.
00:37:56.079 --> 00:38:03.039
So I would I would jump off of the the edge there into the river, and then I'd have to scramble my way back up.
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:08.639
It was one of my fun things to do just to kind of freak people out that were just visiting the state capitol.
00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:14.000
I would just run by kind of screaming something, and then I just jump in the river, and they'd be like, What where did I go?
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:14.719
That's great.
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:15.519
It's cool.
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:27.840
So my other question for you is uh is where did your kind of desire to give back to your to your communities, like where did that really start?
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:36.800
Like, did did that start when it was out here, or did it start when like maybe you saw something in Sacramento when you were there before you came back to the AV?
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.000
So that one actu that one actually started when I was really young.
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:44.480
It was it was um ingrained in me as a kid.
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:47.920
My dad used to my dad and my mom would donate a lot to St.
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:56.719
Vincent de Paul, which is a uh nonprofit that provides food for the homeless and helps with homeless services out here in the Antelope Valley.
00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.639
They've been here, I'm sorry, they've out there in the Anlow Valley, they've been out there for a long time.
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:17.760
So um we would go to Sacred Heart Church and we would collect baskets for feeding the homeless and or the needy, and then every Thanksgiving we'd put together these baskets and go out and distribute them to the community.
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:29.440
So seeing my dad, he would take us all, we'd all give back, and that kind of taught us that you know the the charity and the benefit of helping people around you.
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:30.719
And how old were you?
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.719
I was shh I must have been seven years old when we started doing that.
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:39.760
So and that was up to the So you're seeing that at seven and going, wow, it's kind of nice.
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:40.960
I think it just stuck.
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:42.639
Yeah, it just kind of stuck.
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:58.800
And so, yeah, seeing people's reaction when they're getting a bag of food that they don't know where their next meal is coming from, and now you're dropping off turkey, canned ham, sure, uh, you know, a bunch of vegetables, and just seeing that glow on their face kind of got ingrained deep in my my psyche somewhere.
00:39:59.039 --> 00:39:59.760
Yeah, that's good.
00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:00.159
I like that.
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.760
Yeah, that's that's where it was born from.
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.519
Shout out to Pops, Papa Ortiz, mama or teas.
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:06.719
Papa Ortiz.
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:07.760
I love it.
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:09.360
That's awesome.
00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:12.880
Uh man, I'm just like I'm enjoying it.
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:14.239
You're like in awe right now.
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:18.960
Well, I uh I'm I'm waiting for Edgar to ask me some questions, you know, because he's he's hitting you up, man.
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:20.400
It's like we've this is our first time.
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:22.239
He only asked me a breakfast question, Bart.
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:23.440
Don't get it.
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:24.400
Don't get jealous.
00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:27.519
It was one breakfast question.
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:29.760
Ask him a question, even it out, even it out.
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.159
Bart is the most interesting guy in the world.
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:34.159
I will I will say that.
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:39.199
I mean, I I tell stories about Bart, and I pretend like that was Edgar that did it.
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.599
You tell you tell your kids horror stories when you're trying to put them asleep about Bart, or is that what it is?
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:44.159
That's right.
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:44.559
That's right.
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.840
My my baby will say, Give me a story, Dad, so I can fall asleep.
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:49.920
And I'll say, Once upon a time, I was a pilot.
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:50.719
Oh my god.
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:51.840
Don't do it, don't do that.
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:58.559
Well, suppose supposedly Justin, my friend Justin here wants to put me on as a guest one day.
00:40:59.119 --> 00:40:59.760
What's gonna happen?
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:01.920
I got a couple stories I could tell.
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:03.679
You got some incredible stories, yeah.
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.039
I'm looking around here.
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:05.840
Anyway, yeah.
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:07.199
But it's all about you tonight.
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.400
So did you today?
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:09.039
Whatever it is.
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:11.119
Let's just get this one out here out in the open.
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:13.039
What did you smuggle to Maui recently?
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:15.440
Uh oh my god, that's a good one, actually.
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.679
Okay, I know we're we're gonna wrap the segment up.
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:18.480
You're good.
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:20.480
I'll tell you what, let's uh that's a good one.
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.599
We're gonna wrap this up, and when we come back, I'm gonna answer that question.
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:32.159
And that will be the last time that you ask one of us a question, because we're supposed to be deep diving on your ass, not vice versa.
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:34.079
Oh, we got a bunch of questions coming up for you.
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:35.119
We got some questions up.
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:39.199
So stay tuned to find out what Bart took to Maui.
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:42.400
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And we are we're back.
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:53.519
We're back here.
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We are back.
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Um so uh Edgar asked me a question um just before we went out on the last segment there about what we what I brought to Maui.
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:17.920
So it turns out Edgar and I are big fans of Tommy's, original Tommy's chili cheeseburgers, started by Tommy, and uh his name is Kolak's.
00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.360
I always pronounce Kolex, but I'm getting that wrong because I heard it pronounced the right way.
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:23.519
Tommy Colex or something like that.
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:26.800
And uh anyway, so yeah, Beverly and Rampart.
00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:32.320
That was the very original Tommy's, and I love Tommy's, and now I found out they should be our sponsor, man.
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:43.119
Let's get them because I'm yeah, right, because I'm telling you, man, they they have this special that's always out there, and and so occasionally they'll do their 32 ounce chili thing, and I'll go buy this.
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:44.960
Sounds crazy, but I'll go buy ten of them.
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:50.960
And they sell them for like four ninety nine a piece when they're on special, and I'll freeze them and they're great.
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:56.320
So uh Edgar's like, wouldn't it be cool if we had some Tommy's chili out in Maui?
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:59.760
And I guarantee you, we're the only people in the whole state of Hawaii.
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:04.239
Guaranteed eating Tommy's chili for breakfast on our eggs.
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:06.079
So uh yeah, I froze it.
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:15.519
I brought it over frozen when it got to, you know, when I took it out of my suitcase, it was still nice and cold, so it wasn't, you know, damaged or you know You didn't have a chili suitcase.
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:16.719
No.
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:22.559
Yeah, when I went through custom or not customs, when I went through the TSA thing, they go, You got any Tommy's chili in there?
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:24.239
No, he didn't ask me that question.
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:29.119
Had he asked me that question, I would have had to, I guess, slide slide him a pint.
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:30.320
Yeah, something like that.
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.000
So no, we were eating Tommy's chili.
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:33.519
Slide him a pint with our chili.
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:35.199
Like, all right, fucker here.
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:35.679
Here.
00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:36.880
All right, can I go through?
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:38.880
Got a pay-to-play.
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:46.800
Yeah, I mean you take you take my lighter, you take my my wife brings her knife accidentally, and you take the knife, and now you want my chili?
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:47.920
I don't think so.
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:49.760
That's that's where I draw the line.
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:51.360
Is that the chili thing now?
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:52.960
It's like, uh, what's uh anyway.
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:59.119
So we're we're this is a this is the last segment is I think a very fun part because that's our favorite segment of the show.
00:44:59.280 --> 00:44:59.679
Is it our favorite?
00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:01.039
I think it's our favorite segment of the show.
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.920
Because we're almost done and we can go home and it's not like that.
00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:07.440
It's it's this is this is still this is still deep diving.
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:08.480
This is still doing it.
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:12.079
By the way, Buzz, I need a can you give me a I'm switching a gin.
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:13.280
Are you guys good?
00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:14.320
I'm good, thank you.
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:15.039
You good, okay.
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:15.760
I'm golden.
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:16.320
Golden.
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:23.519
So we're gonna so we ask Edgar for five interesting things about his life that nobody would know about, probably.
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I get I get to read the first one, and this blew my mind when I when I found out when I did the mileage check on this.
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:54.239
So Edgar says that, you know, um his family would go on these road trips and they would drive all the way through Mexico, all the way down to Central America to visit family members in down in Guatemala, and he said he did that three times in his lifetime, and take a guess how far that is driving wise from the Antelope Valley.
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:56.559
I think I think it's about thirty six hundred miles each of them.
00:45:56.800 --> 00:45:58.239
Okay, I came up with a little over three.
00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:58.559
Yeah.
00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.039
Okay, let's just call it thirty, six hundred miles.
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:04.639
Yeah, so that's about ten thousand miles to that's crazy.
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:05.519
It's crazy.
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:06.800
No, no, that's one way.
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.000
No, I'm saying one way.
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:09.199
No, it's uh it well.
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:10.719
No, you're right.
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:11.280
You're right, you're right.
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:12.000
No, that's one way.
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:13.119
So you you know you drive down.
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Yeah, it's crazy.
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:17.760
I guess my question is what in what vehicle did you do this in?
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:26.079
Because that had to have been good old Chevy Astro van purchased at Rally Chevrolet.
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:29.599
Now we're plugging Rally Chevrolet.
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:30.480
They're no longer here.
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:33.679
Did they have bullet holes in some of their cars?
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:34.559
I don't think so.
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:35.360
I don't think so.
00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:35.920
Okay.
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:39.360
Now you know, rest in peace to the Chevy Astros.
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:40.960
Those were a pretty cool second.
00:46:41.440 --> 00:46:42.079
I had one.
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:43.440
They were sick, weren't they?
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:44.320
Oh, they were sick.
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:45.679
Yeah, yeah, I love it.
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:47.280
Yeah, they were sick, bro.
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:48.880
I would sleep in the back seat.
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I would sleep on the on the bottom uh in the third row.
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:53.760
I would just sleep in the cut there.
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.159
Your dad would drive, your dad would just drive the whole.
00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:57.519
He was a trooper.
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.920
I don't know what he I mean like 500 miles a day or something or something crazy.
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:10.000
I think one day he pulled all the way a trip clear through Tech or clear into Texas over like twenty something hours of just nonstop driving.
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:11.119
It was it was nuts.
00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:17.519
Well, stop for gas, but I mean Oh, it wasn't it was not an electric uh Astro Van.
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:18.000
No.
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:21.440
Oh, he couldn't have he didn't but want to buy that model at the time.
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:21.760
Okay.
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:26.000
Mileage was only 20 miles per charge, so yeah, exactly.
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:34.800
But no, those were gnarly trips, and and then we would stop at like all these little uh interesting towns in Mexico.
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We pulled up to this hotel one time and the whole sky was just gray with locusts just all over the hotel.
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It was a crazy scene.
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And we just ran into the hotel room, and then I I don't know what my dad was going through at the time, but it was it was kind of crazy to just pack up your family and take them through.
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:58.320
Did something dark and ominous happen on that day that there was a sky filled with locusts?
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.960
Not not there, probably somewhere else.
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:04.480
It's insane.
00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:06.159
Yeah, it's it was kind of creepy.
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.480
Um so we have another we have another interesting fact that you have here.
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:14.960
Um that you originally were studying to be a botanist.
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So you were gonna be Matt Damon from The Martian, and your dream was to build hydroponic systems to put in space.
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That that was one of my childhood dreams.
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:39.039
So I started building hydroponic systems dream, he said, of building hydroponic systems to put in outer space.
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:40.159
It was crazy.
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:46.239
I started doing Buzz, did you ever have things like he's shaking his head, no?
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:47.440
He didn't do that when he was a kid.
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:48.320
He doesn't have dreams.
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:49.039
I don't know who does that.
00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:51.039
Buzz, what's your last name, actually?
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:52.639
He doesn't have a last name.
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:53.679
We're not he's not allowed to have.
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:54.559
He's like seal.
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:56.639
Aldrin the third.
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:01.760
But no, that that was uh an interesting hobby.
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:08.400
My mom thought I was growing pot in her garage, but I was actually just cloning and perfecting the art of hydroponics.
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:14.400
But you were you were considering growing pot at some point, but maybe not back then when you were a little kid.
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:17.119
But that's yeah, that may have been the inspiration.
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:17.599
Yeah.
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:19.280
Um I'll plead the fifth on that.
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:20.400
So this that's fine.
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:24.800
This is this is something that I'm really proud of you too that you you've done in your life.
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:32.000
So you said as when you were a teenager, for whatever reason you made a decision that you were not gonna have offspring.
00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:36.320
There would be no further Edgar's in this world.
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But uh you did want to be a father.
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:39.920
I did.
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:46.880
And you found and you found this beautiful woman who I gotta spend some time with out there in paradise.
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:48.880
Well, no, it wasn't paradise, it was junk.
00:49:48.960 --> 00:49:49.599
I keep forgetting that.
00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:52.159
And her name is Veronica.
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:53.199
No way.
00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:53.519
Yeah.
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:55.679
And she had she had his name.
00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:56.480
I know.
00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:57.440
You know her.
00:49:57.840 --> 00:49:58.159
I know.
00:49:58.239 --> 00:49:58.880
I know Veronica.
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:00.719
Veronica seems to be a very popular name.
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:02.000
Very popular name now, yeah.
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:05.039
And so anyway, so uh she had two children.
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:09.119
Yeah, and you married her, and and those became your adopted children.
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:13.360
But then down the road you adopted three more children.
00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:14.239
Yeah, yeah.
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:15.599
Tell us a little bit about that.
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:22.320
That's I mean, not a lot of that's a get getting back to the whole giving back in life and charitable stuff.
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:28.320
I mean, to adopt that many children is cr is it's not crazy, but it's it's a beautiful thing, man.
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:29.039
It's beautiful.
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:30.000
It's kind of crazy.
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:30.800
It's kind of crazy.
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:44.159
It's a lot it's a lot of work, but I don't know what inspired me when I was uh a teenager, but something just kind of stuck in my head that I would try to give a child a good life that's out there that needs it.
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:53.199
There's plenty of kids that don't have fathers growing up, and I was lucky enough to have mine around, and I thought how cool would it be to be able to offer this to somebody else?
00:50:53.360 --> 00:51:22.079
And so um may have been the punk rock music I was listening to growing up in high school that kind of inspired me to pursue that direction, but I stuck to it, and you know, I met my wife, my two boys knew me as dad up until about two years ago when I finally disclosed to them that as as they were getting taller, they slowly crept up past my height, and so I figured at one point they would wonder why they're so tall and dad's so short.
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:23.679
So And you're six seven.
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:24.480
Yeah, yeah.
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:25.840
So they're they're giants.
00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:26.400
Really?
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:30.880
Six seven, six eight.
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:31.119
Yeah.
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:34.960
So we broke the news to them, and they're they took it really well.
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:40.480
Bottom sushi, took them on a little picnic, and uh they've been outstanding.
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:44.159
They they asked one of their questions they asked me was, so that means we're not gonna lose our hair?
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:46.559
And I said, No, your biological dad also is bald.
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:49.599
So generation.
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:56.239
You didn't strike out there, but and then the girls have been an incredible blessing in our lives.
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:14.400
Um You know, I wish obviously they wish and I wish that their parents um would have been able to to kind of overcome some of the vices they're facing, but they've now been fully engulfed into our lifestyle, and I think it's it's been it's been amazing.
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:18.320
I mean these these three girls are just such incredible people.
00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:22.559
My daughter, we we've we fully adopted uh the youngest one.
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:27.599
The other two we were gonna hold off to because they were old enough to know their parents.
00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:34.000
And we wanted to give them the decision to eventually decide whether they wanted to go back or not.
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:48.159
And soon after we completed the adoption on the baby, the oldest child says, Well, you adopted my little sister, now you have to adopt us because you're not separate separating the three of us.
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:56.000
And when she said that to my wife, I would just I was uh moved by it.
00:52:56.159 --> 00:53:03.760
You know, for a seven-year-old to think like that is is is um I don't even have a good word for it.
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:05.199
It's inspiring.
00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.440
Yeah, she's she's mature for age.
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:14.880
Unfortunately, she's seeing a lot of things that she shouldn't have, and you know, all we're doing is just trying to help help coach her through some of those things.
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:16.079
Yeah, that's all you can do.
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:18.239
Like, you know, show the right path.
00:53:18.639 --> 00:53:19.199
Show the right path.
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:19.760
Yeah.
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:23.280
We're applying role play technology or role play strategies with them.
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:29.599
It's it's been I don't I don't want to parenting, I think, is at the end of the day, it's an experiment.
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:33.039
I mean, there's there's a playbook out there, but nobody reads it.
00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:33.599
Yep.
00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:37.840
But it's it's an experiment, and we're all just doing the best we can.
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:42.480
And yeah, I I try to do the best for them.
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:43.679
So that's oh yeah.
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:44.159
Yeah.
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:45.199
Love that.
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:46.000
Love that.
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:59.760
Um so the next fact that you sent was uh something that you started to get into earlier uh about your your huge bicycle trip that you took.
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.239
Uh so this was back in 2012?
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:03.280
Correct?
00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:04.320
Yep, 2012.
00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:11.440
Uh you did a you did a solo cross-country bicycle ride from Sacramento to Seattle.
00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:14.000
And further.
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:17.440
So let me clarify there.
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:23.039
The trip from Sacramento to Seattle, I took a train, so maybe I mistyped that.
00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:27.280
But um from there I may have misread that.
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:30.480
Blame me, blame me.
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:36.800
I took a train from Sacramento to Seattle, Washington, and then that kicked off the bicycle.
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:37.920
That's what kicked it off.
00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:38.239
Okay.
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:44.880
I had a coworker that was super into bikes, and I was riding a lot at the time.
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:50.480
Uh, you know, Sacramento is a big bicycle town, and it's very easy to get around anywhere on a bike.
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:52.000
It beats driving.
00:54:52.320 --> 00:55:03.199
And that trip, I initially planned to go all the way to New York, and that seemed a little too ambitious for my wallet at the time.
00:55:03.679 --> 00:55:05.280
And I was like, I don't know how the hell I'm gonna fund this.
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.559
By the way, how old were you when you were doing this?
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:10.880
So that was 2012.
00:55:11.199 --> 00:55:16.559
I was Oh, now you're gonna now now everybody's gonna know how old you are.
00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:17.920
They can do math.
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:18.960
Maybe.
00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:20.079
We'll see.
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:21.599
I was uh shit.
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:22.480
How old was I?
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:23.199
10?
00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.960
That was 10, 43.
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:28.079
23, okay.
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:28.719
Yep.
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:30.239
24.
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:31.760
Somewhere around there.
00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:32.800
Twenty four, twenty-three years old.
00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:33.760
Twenty-three, twenty-four, change.
00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:34.559
We'll accept that.
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:35.119
Same shit.
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:36.079
Same shit.
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:38.960
But that trip was incredible.
00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:42.079
It was it was the most amazing trip I've ever been on.
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:48.559
I think the western coast of the United States is some of the most beautiful country I've ever I've ever seen.
00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:51.440
I mean, some of the most beautiful views are right here on the west coast.
00:55:51.760 --> 00:56:05.519
How long did did this trip take when you well, I don't know if you said this, but you went all the way from basically the most northwestern part of uh the continental United States all the way down to Tijuana, Mexico.
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:07.280
Did you actually cross the border?
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:07.760
I did.
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:08.239
I did.
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:11.440
My my tire went flat as soon as I crossed the border.
00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:12.320
Of course it did.
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:13.360
There's nails and stuff down there.
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:14.880
Oh, it just said fuck it, I'm done.
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:15.760
And and just popped.
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:18.159
Are we gonna go further down if it hadn't popped?
00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:18.639
Maybe.
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:19.440
Oh my god.
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:23.840
I was thinking about Rosarito, but as soon as I went through, it was it was over.
00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:25.119
36 days.
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:29.760
Okay, 36 days, and then like where would you sleep at night?
00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:31.360
Sometimes on the side of the road.
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.519
Uh like a s you had a sleeping bag or something.
00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:41.840
Yeah, so I had this$100 bike I bought at a swap meet, and then I even even back in 2012, a hundred dollar bike's not much of a bike.
00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:42.239
I don't think.
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:43.920
No, it's not much of a bike.
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:45.280
That that poor thing.
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:46.880
I put a rack on it.
00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:48.880
I had a sleeping bag, I had a tent.
00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:50.159
You had a tent?
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:50.559
Yeah.
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:54.480
I had a little one-person tent that I got from uh uh REI.
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:56.000
And$50 cash?
00:56:56.159 --> 00:56:59.679
Probably a hundred bucks, but and a box of maltomeal in there, too.
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.480
Maltomeal, oh my god, here we go.
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:04.639
Maltomeal and peanut butter.
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:07.280
You must have a lot of lost a lot of weight on that trip, dude.
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:08.559
I was thin as hell.
00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:14.079
So I started off with a little extra weight and I ended with probably 0% body fat after I was done.
00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:14.559
Oh my god.
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:20.800
Was Forrest Gump a very big inspiration to you because of that little run thing you do?
00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:23.679
Instead of running, I'm gonna do it on a bike.
00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:24.400
Maybe.
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:25.440
Maybe maybe.
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:26.079
Who knows?
00:57:26.239 --> 00:57:26.559
Yeah.
00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:30.320
Maybe you watch it one day and went, maybe I should just ride a bike.
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:31.840
Maybe that just stuck in there.
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:32.400
Yeah.
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:34.159
Running's kind of a chore.
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:40.400
I I think ever since yeah, ever since that bike trip, I was like, I'm not I'm not running anywhere, I'll I'll bike somewhere.
00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:40.880
Yeah.
00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:44.400
Uh this is so this is so that's a crazy trek.
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:46.960
This is so uh incredible.
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:48.719
Nobody does stuff like this, right?
00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:53.840
And you you had no relationship in your life, you had no girlfriend at that point, you just it was just you pretty much.
00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:54.880
Yep, just me.
00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:59.760
And you just decided, did you tell your parents or your friends like I'm just gonna do this?
00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:01.519
And they're like, what the hell are you thinking?
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:02.239
Yeah, yeah.
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:05.119
So I told quite a few business owners that I knew at the time.
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:12.880
I was actually initially I was trying to do it to raise funds for um a bicycle nonprofit that I was doing.
00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:17.920
We raised a whole$200, so it didn't really fund anything.
00:58:18.159 --> 00:58:20.639
But my marketing team wasn't that good at the time.
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:22.239
But I did let my family know.
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:24.480
I checked in with them consistently.
00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:35.039
There's actually a YouTube video which is kind of cringy to watch, but there's actually a few YouTube videos out there uh somewhere with me narrating this trip and like different things we would see.
00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:40.480
Well, well, you know, we have we have like what what he we're up to 50,000 listeners now or something like that.
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:41.360
51,000.
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:42.320
51,000.
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:46.880
So if somebody I guarantee you somebody's gonna want to look this up on on YouTube.
00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:49.679
So what what words would you type in to find it?
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000
The dude who cycled the Pacific Coast.
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:53.679
Okay, you type that in, it's gonna pop up.
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:54.400
It's gonna pop up.
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:55.519
Yeah, yeah.
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:56.800
Oh my god, I gotta watch that.
00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:57.360
We'll find it.
00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:58.079
Yeah, we'll find it.
00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:05.119
And I was I was powered a lot by um fireball whiskey, malto meal, peanut butter, those are like my staples.
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:05.760
So yeah.
00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:15.679
Anytime I'd see this huge 3,000-foot mountain coming up, I would shoot two shots of fireball whiskey, I'd put my head down, and just start trekking.
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:19.199
Which I think Breakfast of Champions, right there.
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:19.840
Oh, yeah.
00:59:21.119 --> 00:59:28.800
Man, I tell you what, if I if we we could spend an hour just talking about that, but unfortunately we have 30 seconds left.
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:29.760
No, just kidding.
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:33.440
So let's just skip to the last one, and then we're gonna do what we call last call.
00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:37.199
So this is another this is the one that really warms my heart.
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:43.679
So you say that you used to operate a nonprofit called Recycle Your Bicycle, and that was 100% your idea.
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:45.280
You came up with that, obviously.
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:45.519
Yeah.
00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:46.800
I know your mind.
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:52.559
And then you would collect used bikes that kids could ride, you know, those smaller bikes probably.
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:57.679
You'd refurbish them, and you just give them out to kids in the community.
00:59:57.760 --> 01:00:02.639
And what kid doesn't want to have their own bike, especially if you know their parents can't afford to buy them a bike.
01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:10.000
And then you said you gave out uh over 200 bike or close to 200 bikes over the years you did this.
01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:10.880
Talk about that.
01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:16.079
Yeah, um that was uh a fun a fun project.
01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:21.199
Uh um you know, seeing the glow on the kids' faces when they received their bikes.
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:28.320
I recall one kid in particular, he showed up a little late to our giveaway, so all we had were girls' bikes left.
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:29.519
Well, girl colors, right?
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:31.360
Pink, purple, that kind of stuff.
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:36.480
And he just jumped right on the bike and he was excited to take it.
01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:41.679
And his sister came in, she was probably six years old, seven years old.
01:00:41.760 --> 01:00:43.519
He must have been probably four.
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:47.760
And she said, Oh, don't worry, I'll teach you how to ride on this bike.
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:48.639
This is your bike.
01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:54.480
And they just walked off, and it was the most touching thing to see just these two siblings interacting with each other.
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:55.440
That's awesome.
01:00:55.760 --> 01:01:06.159
And what inspired that was I just wanted to get kids out into the community without there's there's a lot of kids out there that aren't attracted to team sports.
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:17.199
And me growing up as a skateboarder, I was attracted to you know being on the streets in in that type of fashion, you know, skating, riding bikes, rollerblading, things like that.
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:20.000
Just kind of like the alternative types of sports.
01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:25.039
And I wanted to make sure those kids still had an opportunity to get out even if they couldn't afford it.
01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:37.840
I I remember how important it was for me growing up and you know, playing skate with my friends, uh staying out until you know the lights would go out or the streetlights go off, just trying different jumps out there.
01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:45.440
And I wanted to make sure kids still had a chance to be kids while they you know before society kind of got their grips, their grip on it.
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:54.320
So um we would take in used bikes that were broken or rotting inside of somebody's garage, and there's a plethora of them out there.
01:01:54.480 --> 01:02:02.880
If you put an ad out right now for who's got a old used or old kids bike that they're not using, you'll probably collect a hundred bikes in less than a week.
01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:08.159
And I would just find don't uh sponsors to fund some of the repairs.
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:19.760
Most of the time it's crazy, most of the time the repairs would cost more than just buying another bike for them, but it was it was the act of of service that was also beneficial for the organization.
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:32.719
And uh to me, that's at at your young age when you were doing this, that's maybe the thing that kind of was the impetus for the the rest of your life that you've been so involved in charitable stuff, I think, you know, right?
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:33.760
I mean Yeah, yeah.
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:34.800
That's a big one.
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:36.639
I mean, who comes up with ideas like that?
01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:38.079
It's it's genius.
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:44.159
But it it's such a simple thing, and it's and it's like that's what kids want when they're when they're young and it's all I wanted.
01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:45.119
I just wanted a bike.
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:46.480
Yeah, I wanted to get a big one.
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:50.719
So Fairest Song was bicycle.
01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:53.920
It is time.
01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:55.039
It is that time.
01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:59.119
It is time for the finale of the show here, folks.
01:02:59.280 --> 01:03:00.960
Uh this is the last call.
01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:04.960
So this is uh this is gonna be a little 10 uh 10 questionnaire here.
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:19.760
Um kind of kind of quick fast responses um to get a little bit more uh information about you, but it's uh it's a little, you know, a bunch of different things here that we're gonna ask you.
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:22.719
We're gonna this is where we really embarrass your ass.
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:23.119
Yeah.
01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:24.000
Let's go, baby.
01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:24.320
Alright.
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:25.519
You wanna you want me to kick it off?
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:26.239
You want to kick it off?
01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:26.719
I'll go.
01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:27.039
Alright.
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:29.280
Uh what is your go-to cocktail?
01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:30.079
Ooh.
01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:34.719
You know, old fashioned tends to be the go-to right now.
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:35.199
Yeah.
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:37.280
The original, not the Wisconsin?
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:38.079
The original.
01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:38.559
Good.
01:03:38.639 --> 01:03:39.280
Good answer.
01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:40.480
I I would agree with that.
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:41.920
That that would be my answer too.
01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.880
Um, what's your favorite sport to watch on TV?
01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:50.880
And I know it's soccer season right now, but I do love soccer, but honestly, Dodger Baseball is one of my favorite sports to watch.
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:51.760
Dodger baseball.
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:59.599
You know, uh, by the way, our uh one of our sponsors, Bravery Brewing, they uh they play all the uh all the home games, yeah.
01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:00.159
Pretty much.
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:01.280
It's a good place to watch.
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:01.599
Yeah.
01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:02.320
I agree.
01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:04.559
It's a little it's a little crazy out there sometimes, you know.
01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:05.199
Sometimes.
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:05.440
Yeah.
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:07.599
Unruly passengers.
01:04:07.920 --> 01:04:09.840
Well they're they're tame.
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:15.280
Um if you could have a drink with any historical figure, dead or alive, who would it be?
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.800
I don't think I'm equipped for it, but Jim Morrison would kind of be to have it.
01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:22.400
That that guy pandering to him?
01:04:22.559 --> 01:04:22.639
No.
01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:23.360
You know what I mean?
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:24.880
Pandering to him right now?
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:32.159
I grew up on the doors, and so to have a that drink would probably turn into a whole psychedelic trip, but just hanging out with Jim Morrison.
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:38.320
Show me your emails right now and prove that you didn't get an email from parton so we can talk about it.
01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:40.880
That was spontaneous, I promise you.
01:04:41.119 --> 01:04:45.119
I used to title myself American Poet number two, so wow.
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:54.480
We got uh I'll tell you what, off off off uh when we're done with this podcast, I gotta hit you up on that one, man, because uh I've actually spoken to two of the the original doors.
01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:59.280
Um I won't go into it, but um, of course, Jim Morrison died July 3rd.
01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.639
We're coming up on his anniversary, 1971, he was 27 years old.
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:04.559
Yeah, but man, you're right.
01:05:04.639 --> 01:05:10.400
That would that would have been a guy if you just would have bumped into him, he pro and he probably would have sat there and talked to you for an hour.
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:11.039
Oh, for sure.
01:05:11.119 --> 01:05:11.760
About nothing too.
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:13.039
About nothing, man.
01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:17.360
That's that is might this might lead into the next question part.
01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:18.880
I feel like it might.
01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:20.880
It just might be my turn.
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:21.280
Yeah.
01:05:22.159 --> 01:05:25.440
Actually, actually, I I think he's gonna go a different direction here, but we'll see.
01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:25.760
We'll see.
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:26.320
Yeah, yeah.
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:29.280
So who is your favorite musical artist?
01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:32.159
Oh, my favorite band, let's Led Zeppelin.
01:05:32.239 --> 01:05:33.920
They powered me through that entire trip.
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:38.239
So okay, you got me on that one too, because that would that's my too.
01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:40.880
I think Led Zeppelin's the greatest rock butt band of all time.
01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:41.840
The greatest rock band.
01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:44.559
People say like it's all these other things, like, no, I'm sorry.
01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:46.480
Sorry, Gudgar, you say you don't pander.
01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:47.920
I'm impressed, man, so far.
01:05:48.079 --> 01:05:49.360
We haven't embarrassed his ass yet.
01:05:49.519 --> 01:05:50.159
Do we embarrass him?
01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:52.079
Yeah, we it it the later.
01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:58.239
If I could find the little iPod that I took on that trip, you'll see it's all Led Zeppelin discography, is all I could put on there.
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:01.119
He's probably got Some Taylor Swift somewhere.
01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:01.760
Alright.
01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:06.559
What's your favorite place to travel to go for a weekend getaway?
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:08.639
I'm really liking Tahoe a lot.
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:10.000
Tahoe is awesome.
01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:11.840
By the way, of course it's not Maui.
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:13.519
Yeah, no, it's all right.
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:14.320
Yeah, no, no.
01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:15.039
That's not great.
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:17.840
That's not number 20 or 25 or 30 or something.
01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:19.519
You can't spend a weekend in Maui.
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:21.360
You gotta do a whole week out there.
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:22.000
So where is it?
01:06:22.079 --> 01:06:22.559
Tahoe?
01:06:22.719 --> 01:06:23.760
Tahoe is up there.
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:26.320
Actually, June Lake is really up there.
01:06:26.719 --> 01:06:27.039
Yeah.
01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:27.840
Yeah.
01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:29.440
This is our favorite.
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:30.800
I think this is our favorite one.
01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:31.440
We like to ask.
01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:34.000
Yeah, I love I love this one.
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:40.000
Okay, so if you were to host a speakeasy, which you never know.
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:41.360
You will, I think.
01:06:41.599 --> 01:06:42.159
Someday.
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:47.280
What would be the secret password to get into the speakeasy?
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:49.599
Yeah, there you go.
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:51.440
Now we're gonna embarrass your ass.
01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:54.719
And it's not gonna be your wife's name or something.
01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:57.840
So my what's the secret password you can do?
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:02.639
My initial answer was gonna be my password for all my computers, which I don't want to give that.
01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:06.000
Yeah, like let's keep that one separate.
01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:06.639
Yeah, yeah.
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:07.840
Let's not let's not do that one.
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:11.199
What's your social security number and your credit card numbers, by the way?
01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:11.760
We need that too.
01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:13.920
Yeah, whatever.
01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:16.880
Uh secret password.
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:18.639
Hmm.
01:07:19.519 --> 01:07:20.239
I don't know.
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:21.920
Okay, it's a good one.
01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:22.159
I don't know.
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:23.920
We can accept that, right?
01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:25.440
Yeah, I don't know.
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:27.039
As his secret password.
01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:31.840
Um if you could instantly master any skill, what would it be?
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:34.079
Instantly master.
01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:36.079
Just snap of the finger, boom.
01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:38.559
Jiu-jitsu is one thing that I really want to do.
01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:39.119
Okay.
01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:39.440
Yeah.
01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:40.719
Jiu Jitsu.
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:41.199
Hmm.
01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:42.079
I like it.
01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:43.679
Yeah, I think that'd be fun.
01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:46.719
All right, and then we singer of Tool knows how to do jujitsu.
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:47.199
Oh, really?
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:47.840
Does he really?
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:48.159
Yeah.
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:49.519
Maynard?
01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:51.119
Freaking Maynard?
01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:52.000
Judo flip.
01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:55.760
Yeah, he judo flipped some dude that came on stage during a concert once.
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:56.480
Heck yeah.
01:07:56.960 --> 01:07:59.599
Like he went up there and he looked, he's like, give me a hug, and he goes, Nope.
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:03.920
And he judo flipped him and then put him in a rear naked choke and then kept singing.
01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:04.880
Oh my god.
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:05.760
Look the video up.
01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:06.239
That's wild.
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:06.960
That's online?
01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:07.280
Yeah.
01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:07.840
It's wild.
01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:08.880
Yeah, Maynard did that.
01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:09.679
Oh my god.
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:12.239
He's an actual trained jiu-jitsu martial artist.
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:13.760
And he's not, he's not a real big guy.
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:16.880
No, he's very, very toothpicky.
01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:17.520
Oh my god.
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:22.399
That's a cool way to get choked out, is listening to tool, you know, in your ear while you're getting choked out.
01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:23.520
On stage while getting choked out.
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:24.399
Going to sleep, yeah.
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:26.239
Yeah, that's a nice way to go to sleep.
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:27.439
Look up that video.
01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:34.239
Um so what's something on your bucket list that you're uh determined to cross off?
01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:46.239
So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to hit it, but I do want to do a seven-day horseback riding trip somewhere.
01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:48.880
Preferably up the Pacific Crest Trail.
01:08:49.119 --> 01:09:00.960
I've been taking horseback riding lessons just trying to see if I can become one with the animal, but they're stubborn as hell, and I don't I don't know if I'm ever gonna get it done, but that's that's on my list.
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:08.159
Something about it sounds real old western, real like um I don't know, natural.
01:09:08.479 --> 01:09:09.119
Sounds kinda cool.
01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:10.319
You don't need the lessons.
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Just watch any Kevin Costner or Kurt Russell movie in which it's a Western, and you'll learn how to ride a horse.
01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:17.039
Hell yeah.
01:09:17.199 --> 01:09:21.039
They're the they're the perfect people that ride horses in any movie that you watch.
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Nice.
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I'll watch them again.
01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:22.720
Guaranteed.
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Hands down.
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Let's do it.
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Alright.
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Uh what's the best concert you've ever been to?
01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:31.600
Best concert, shoot.
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Who have I been to that I really like?
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:42.319
You know, one day we're gonna ask our guest this question, and he's gonna go, or she's never been to a concert.
01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:43.920
Yeah, it's it's gonna happen.
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I'm almost guaranteeding it's a good one.
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:47.920
Well, how many concerts have you been to, maybe, in your life?
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You're you're very young.
01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:50.800
You're we we already figured that out.
01:09:50.880 --> 01:09:52.800
You're what are you, 22 or 23?
01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:53.680
Yeah, 24.
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24.
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:55.279
Yeah.
01:09:55.520 --> 01:09:58.159
Um gosh, I'm drawing a blank.
01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:00.079
Tennessee's he sings Tennessee whistle.
01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:00.880
Oh, the Tennessee Wisconsin.
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:01.439
Chris Stapleton.
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:02.159
Chris Stapleton.
01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:03.199
Oh, yeah, you saw him.
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:12.640
So I wasn't a big country fan until I married my Veronica, and now Chris Stapleton is actually seeing him live is pretty impressive.
01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:15.359
Like he is true, a true artist.
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:17.039
Yeah, and his voice is crazy.
01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:23.039
Oh man, and live, he is just as good, if not better, than he is in the studio, which most artists are not.
01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:23.760
That's true.
01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:25.840
Where did you see him in a couple of things?
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We saw no, it was at this location heading towards San Bernardino.
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:33.920
I forgot what the name of that uh Fairplex is there.
01:10:34.159 --> 01:10:35.760
It's not Pomona Fairplex.
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:38.560
Um San Bernardino something.
01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:39.279
Yeah, yeah.
01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:41.119
But it was it was an impressive concert.
01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:41.680
Okay.
01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:48.720
I and by the way, um going back a little bit, if you ask me that question, I actually I'm old enough.
01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:49.600
Don't say it.
01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:50.800
I saw Led Zeppelin.
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Don't say it.
01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:55.920
I saw Led Zeppelin at the forum in 1977 in there.
01:10:56.319 --> 01:10:56.960
It's such a flex.
01:10:57.439 --> 01:10:58.960
The song remains the flex.
01:10:59.359 --> 01:10:59.600
I know.
01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:00.640
I always have to bring that up.
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:03.119
You're big time d right now.
01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:05.279
You were born during a really good time in New York.
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:09.520
Oh, if you love rock and roll music going back to the 60s, you're right about that, man.
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:11.199
And it's sad, they're all dying.
01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:12.960
All these guys are are passing away.
01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:14.560
It's like, except for Keith Richards.
01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:15.760
He'll he'll live forever.
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:16.239
Oh my god.
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:17.520
He'll live us all.
01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:21.279
My great-great-great That's as far as I'll go.
01:11:21.359 --> 01:11:26.239
My great-great-great-grandchildren will appreciate him when they see him live.
01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:26.640
Yeah.
01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:27.840
Oh he'll still be alive.
01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:28.720
He's still gonna be there.
01:11:28.800 --> 01:11:29.520
Yeah, Keith Richards.
01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:30.159
He'll never die.
01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:30.640
He'll never die.
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:34.159
When the world ends, it's gonna be cockroaches and then Keith Richards right there.
01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:34.720
Singing to him.
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:35.920
Do I get the last one?
01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:37.119
You get the last one?
01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:37.680
Okay.
01:11:37.920 --> 01:11:41.039
This this is a this is a tough one, so think about it.
01:11:41.199 --> 01:11:43.920
And you can't get you gotta you gotta give us an answer on this one.
01:11:44.079 --> 01:11:50.560
So what's what's the best piece of advice that you I think this is gonna be an easy question for you.
01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:56.239
What's the best piece of advice you've ever received from someone that obviously you respect?
01:11:57.359 --> 01:12:05.439
Um the best piece of advice control of the controllables is one of the best pieces of advice I've received.
01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:15.760
It's it's about just being able to take ownership and control over the things that you actually have power over and not worrying so much about the ones that you don't.
01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:17.520
I love that, man.
01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:18.880
That's that's that's beautiful.
01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:19.840
Yeah.
01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:22.479
Do you know did somebody give that to you or you just you just picked that up?
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:24.319
Yeah, no, somebody gave it to me.
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:24.479
Yeah.
01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:24.800
Yeah.
01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:25.520
Do you want to share that?
01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:35.760
Insurance sales lab, they're uh a team of guys, they're in their 20s, uh 22, 23 years old, I think, and these guys are killing it in the insurance industry.
01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:36.479
Hell yeah.
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:38.960
But they're um they're teachers.
01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:43.279
And you know, me being older, I still, you know, I still learn.
01:12:43.359 --> 01:12:44.399
I'm always a student.
01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:45.600
So beautiful.
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:46.079
Hell yeah.
01:12:46.319 --> 01:12:46.880
I love it.
01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:47.760
Alright, man.
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:48.720
Well that's that's it.
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:50.479
That was painless, right?
01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:51.920
That was super easy.
01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:53.680
You still look chill as hell.
01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:54.640
Super chill.
01:12:56.159 --> 01:12:57.600
There's something in this cigar, I'll tell you that.
01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:00.239
Yeah, well, we we can't disclose that information either.
01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:00.960
Alright, guys.
01:13:01.039 --> 01:13:05.680
Um the last thing though, we're gonna give him uh Oh yeah, you are right.
01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:06.720
Bart.
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:07.920
See, this is why we keep you around.
01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:08.880
This is why we keep you around.
01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:12.399
Um the final the final thing that we do here.
01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:15.439
Um what's the name of our podcast again?
01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:17.199
Deep diving in the speakeasy.
01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:19.119
Yeah, deep diving in the speakeasy.
01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:23.840
Um this this last bit is going to be for you.
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:35.439
So you you can take a minute, minute and a half, however long you need, um to plug something, promote something, something that's going on in your life that you want to share, that you want to get off your chest.
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:38.000
This is your moment, your time to shine.
01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:41.359
Uh, whatever you want, tell the masses what you got.
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:42.000
Yeah.
01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:47.119
Um, you know, I think supporting your local businesses is so is so big.
01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:55.439
Uh we here we have a local soccer organization, Avialta, and I think it's such a privilege to be able to have a team like that.
01:13:55.600 --> 01:14:04.800
Um too many times I'll see on Facebook where everybody sees like a mom and pop restaurant or mom and pop shop shut down, and think, oh, it's so sad that they shut down.
01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:10.239
But in reality, all it took was a little bit of support early on from different people in the community.
01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:14.239
And I truly believe you gotta give back to those people.
01:14:14.399 --> 01:14:20.960
When you're donating your time and money to major corporations, that money doesn't stimulate your local economy.
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:30.319
So I highly encourage everybody to give their local businesses a shot, maybe two shots, even if they mess up a little bit, you know, have s give them some grace.
01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:35.439
You know, keep going back, visiting them, and helping them succeed.
01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:39.600
These are people they're gonna in turn give back to their community, hopefully.
01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:40.399
Hopefully.
01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:43.119
Um big plug for them.
01:14:43.279 --> 01:14:45.520
Uh Avi Alta is an amazing organization.
01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:49.680
I think you know, we gotta support them, we gotta show up, show up, enjoy their games.
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:56.640
Uh there's a lot of good people that have put that project together, and I think I want to see it grow into something massive.
01:14:57.279 --> 01:15:04.800
Also, um the different organizations that we support, the Children's Center of the A V is another one that needs constant support.
01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:14.000
Um you know, any type of youth youth-based organizations, they could definitely use uh the people's support and help.
01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:26.079
Uh there's a ton of kids out there that are struggling, that have been through horrific situations, and I think it's our job as adults and future leaders to help when we can.
01:15:26.319 --> 01:15:27.680
So those are the big ones.
01:15:27.840 --> 01:15:29.680
I um who else?
01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:31.760
Anything else you can think of?
01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:32.960
Bart, who would you support?
01:15:34.319 --> 01:15:47.119
I love the A Avi Alta thing because I I want to see them succeed, and you know, it's their second season and they're uh they're still trying to fill the seats and and uh I don't want to see this thing fail.
01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:57.119
I want I want people to just keep coming out and it's so exciting, even if you've never seen a soccer game, uh you get out to that stadium and the tickets are not very much.
01:15:57.199 --> 01:16:02.079
I mean twenty, thirty bucks and stuff, and you just go out there and just have a good time.
01:16:02.159 --> 01:16:04.399
I mean, what does the Dodger game cost?
01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:08.000
Yeah, besides parking and driving all the way down to Dodgers Stadium.
01:16:08.079 --> 01:16:16.079
Maybe not, you know, I'm just not picking on the Dodgers, but I'm just saying it's like you can go get entertained for a borderline two and a half hours.
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:17.359
Less than a hundred bucks.
01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:17.680
Yeah.
01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:20.800
Oh, for a family of four or well, yeah.
01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:22.399
Unless you start jumping.
01:16:22.560 --> 01:16:24.319
And our and our boys are showing out this year too.
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:24.800
Year two.
01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:26.800
They moved from 14th to fourth.
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:31.279
So they're currently, if it ended right now, they're in the playoffs, and they're third in power rankings.
01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:36.560
Yeah, they're kicking ass right now, and it's time to go go out there and show them support.
01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:41.760
So no, we love we I I'm very good friends with the owners and uh and the management there.
01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:46.319
Andy, what a great we're gonna have actually we want to have uh John.
01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:53.920
I want to get John who's one of the owners and uh and coach right here just to talk about it because um it it's a big story in this valley.
01:16:54.000 --> 01:17:01.520
I mean uh and and and the other thing I'll say about Avi Alta, and I'm sorry that I'm hogging um your time here, uh Edgar.
01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:02.239
Oh, go for it.
01:17:02.319 --> 01:17:02.640
Go for it.
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:24.239
But these guys play in this some of these soccer fields, they travel all around the United States to play these their games and stuff, and they s they go to these uh soccer fields and they're they're pitches, they call them, and they're like converted baseball fields or football fields or whatever, and they don't even look like they spent so much money putting that field to make it perfect.
01:17:24.399 --> 01:17:28.960
And and that's a that's a big plus too, but um I appreciate you you bringing that up.
01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:34.560
Yeah, one of the big things we do with our agencies, we give out forty tickets to every single game.
01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:35.680
You do, you guys do.
01:17:35.840 --> 01:17:36.479
Oh, hell yeah.
01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:36.800
Hell yeah.
01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:38.319
Oh, that's that's awesome too, man.
01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:39.279
I mean it's like yeah.
01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:45.680
We team up with sport teams and we get them out there, the the kids, the parents, all of them go out and have a good time.
01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:59.920
And truly, I think it's something that's near and dear to my heart, and I want them to go out and and be able to enjoy the everything that's near and dear to your heart, I love, because you're you're you're good at everything that you do with your with your heart.
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:07.920
Um I'm sure your beautiful wife, Veronica, is gonna listen to this podcast, so why don't you finish up by just saying something to your wife?
01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:17.119
Yeah, my my wife is the most amazing, uh loving, and she'll get this joke, kind person that I know.
01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.159
And she's got truly a heart of gold.
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:29.760
If it wasn't for the endless support and love that I get from her and that she gives to our family, um, we wouldn't be nearly as successful as we are.
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:31.920
So, baby, you're amazing.
01:18:32.079 --> 01:18:34.800
Um I I can't appreciate you enough.
01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:41.920
And a lot of times words just don't don't do it justice, so that's why I do my best to show you every single day how much I appreciate you.
01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:42.960
I love that.
01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:43.680
You know what?
01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:45.920
On that note, I think that's a beautiful end.
01:18:46.560 --> 01:18:47.600
That's a beautiful end right there, right?
01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:48.159
Would you agree?
01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:49.680
Absolutely end.
01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:50.640
I'm so happy.
01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:57.520
Uh, I can't wait for people to listen to this podcast because I I think it's there's something really special that happened here tonight in Speakeasy.
01:18:57.600 --> 01:18:58.000
So yeah.
01:18:58.239 --> 01:18:59.039
Very much so.
01:18:59.279 --> 01:19:01.840
Guys, um, this was Edgar Ortiz.
01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:11.600
Uh, thank you so much uh for sitting down with us, uh talking talking to us about your life and and all the incredible work that you do out here in the Antelope Valley.
01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:15.680
Uh, we very, very, very much appreciate you uh coming on and spending time with us, man.
01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:16.479
Appreciate you.
01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:17.039
Thank you so much.
01:19:17.199 --> 01:19:17.760
Thank you, Bart.
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:18.560
Thank you, Justin.
01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:19.359
Absolutely.
01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:20.159
All right, guys.
01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:26.319
Hey, get on that Instagram, follow Deep Diving on the Speakeasy, uh Deep Diving in the Speakeasy uh on Instagram.
01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:29.119
Uh we will always let you know when the new episodes are dropping.
01:19:29.279 --> 01:19:34.079
We'll also be posting uh pictures of uh our recording sessions.
01:19:34.239 --> 01:19:39.680
Um tell your friends, tell your family, tell people you don't like uh to listen to the show.
01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:40.319
We don't care.
01:19:40.399 --> 01:19:41.279
Bring them on.
01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:44.239
Uh another one in the bag, episode four.
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Thank you guys.