Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts
Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts: Join us as we embark on a heartfelt journey through life, adventure, and business. Hosted by a passionate husband and wife team, we explore the exciting worlds of DJing, MCing, photobooths, and balloon art while delving into the latest current events and pop culture. Each episode offers a unique blend of personal stories, professional insights, and entertaining discussions. Whether you're an entrepreneur, event enthusiast, or simply looking for inspiration, Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts has something special for you. Tune in and let our tales serenade your heart!
Blue Slide Serenade: Tales from Two Hearts
Festive Finds, Culinary Delights, and Football Frights: A Holiday Extravaganza!
Ever noticed how a faux black Christmas tree can become a staple of holiday cheer, or how oversized Santa Sacks can bring endless joy to the little ones? Join us as we unwrap the festive traditions that have shaped our lives and explore the genuine spirit of Christmas amidst the hustle and bustle of the season. Alongside these cherished customs, we also share humorous anecdotes about cultural quirks and holiday traditions that make this time of year truly special.
Navigating through life's ups and downs, we recount a heartfelt neighborhood encounter and a playful discovery of childhood LPs, proving that sometimes memories are the best gifts of all. From embracing new kitchen upgrades like a Vitamix blender to the delicious journey of making panes con pollo, our love for culinary adventures shines through. We also reflect on the bittersweet moments of our lives, from saying goodbye to our beloved Frenchie, Blue, to celebrating Havana Night's success and cherishing family milestones like birthdays and weddings.
The episode wraps up with lighthearted banter and tales of fantasy football fun, reminding us of the camaraderie that sports can bring. Whether reminiscing about a beautiful wedding or laughing over friendly rivalries, the essence of community and togetherness prevails. With warm holiday wishes, we invite you to celebrate these moments of joy and laughter, embracing the whimsical adventures that life offers.
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what's up y'all? This is gordy b, marion b, gordy b and marion B back for our weekly podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's not bad. You know, we got back on track and we're coming out every week or two now. Yeah, we needed to, now that things are a little bit settled down.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Even though every time we turn around, everything gets flipped upside down again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:So we're still trying to still sorting out through stuff, but we got the Christmas stuff out.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I love Christmas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do, I love, love Christmas yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2:Favorite holiday.
Speaker 1:Favorite holiday Christmas.
Speaker 2:Is it Yep? All right.
Speaker 1:I don't know why, but I just love Christmas. I love the colors, I love everything.
Speaker 2:I love fall. Yes, you know I love the colors, the change. I'm not a huge fan of the weather.
Speaker 1:Me neither.
Speaker 2:It really affects me mentally.
Speaker 1:It's just cold.
Speaker 2:It's cold, gloomy, dreary, and it's just not optimal for mental health. I don't believe. No, and then also the time change, yeah, time change sucks too, but anyways, Christmas time it might have been one of my favorite holidays when I was a kid.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, obviously when you're a kid you don't think unless you're really raised really well, you don't really think about giving as much as you you're looking forward to receiving right now it's about giving for me.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Love to give. I give the shirt off my back, I don't, you know, and I actually did that and we'll talk about that later on I actually did that over at Eagle Mountain at the Raider Watch Party. Yeah, but Christmas, yeah, it's still up there, I think, for me.
Speaker 1:It's more for the girls, though.
Speaker 2:Halloween is hard for me to beat. I think it's just fun for some reason Fun to see the costumes, fun to see the kids come around, trick or treat, everything else.
Speaker 1:Do you like Halloween more than Christmas? I might, because I think a lot of people have the wrong idea about Christmas. I mean, yeah, a lot of people do.
Speaker 2:It's not celebrated correctly. I don't think.
Speaker 1:It's not.
Speaker 2:I think it's been materialized For sure. Materialized for sure. It's all about money, material items, um, and people that weigh and rely way too heavily on that, rather than a genuine, well-planned out gift yeah a genuine like.
Speaker 2:Those are my favorite gifts, gifts that somebody is going to get to use on a day in and day out basis yeah not just some fucking random junk that you're going to give somebody and hey, I bought you something and it doesn't really mean anything. I didn't put much thought into it, didn't put much effort into it, I just put money into it yeah and that's just wrong for me. I don't like it yeah, I agree yeah, christmas is beautiful. I love uh, as as a parent now with five daughters and omar, and you know yeah it's a uh.
Speaker 2:It's been a beautiful thing the last two or three years with our girls. And we have these big old, huge. Well, you can't even call them stockings, they're not. They are called Santa Sacks.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh, we are so spoiled around here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll have to put a picture up for you guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I posted one. It's up on Instagram and Facebook of our stockings with their pictures above it. Yeah, yeah, but they have their names on them. They're all customized. There's just huge Santa sacks. It's like 50 stockings in a sack. Yeah, it's ridiculous and we have filled them up before. Yes, mom used to take such a great amount of effort and pride and thought into her stockings.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:My stockings as a young man, a young boy growing up, often rivaled my presence. I feel like yeah. I had amazing shit in my stockings. I didn't, I didn't have any, you didn't have a stocking. Are we going?
Speaker 1:to play a pity party right now. You didn't have Christ, I didn't have any. You didn't have a stocking, are we?
Speaker 2:going to play a pity party right now. You didn't have Christmases and stuff. Growing up I didn't have a stocking.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a stocking, so for me it's like it means a lot that I can do that for the girls.
Speaker 2:So let me ask is that a cultural thing? Does the white community? They do, okay. They do stockings, yeah, all right, because it's not like I'm in a whole bunch of people's houses and notice whether or not they have stockings or not? Oh, you must be Mexican. No, that's a white person's house. They got a stocking hanging up somewhere.
Speaker 1:No, we didn't do stockings.
Speaker 2:So what do we got? We got a black Christmas tree.
Speaker 1:So what do?
Speaker 2:we got, we got a black Christmas tree.
Speaker 1:Yes, we love it. Oh, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2:It's a beautiful Christmas tree? Yes, and it is obviously faux, because there's no such thing as a black Christmas tree.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess somebody could like engineer it like they do poinsettias or whatever, and put dye in the Well, maybe I suppose they could, and you can get a fresh tree with different colors. I don't know if that's how it would work, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Probably way too much effort and work to create a custom.
Speaker 1:I'm just not all about picking up the little pines.
Speaker 2:Oh, the little pine cone or the pine needles. So yeah, I'm just like I don't want to be spending my time vacuuming those up. Yeah, my mom loved um. So there's like different types of trees right, there's like a douglas fir and there's other ones, and my mom kind of liked these charlie brown looking christmas trees, kind of like the bear ones, like you could see more of them right and my mom used to meticulously get that.
Speaker 2:Those silver string things look like I don't know silver strings and a lot of people grab them and they like just toss them at this tree, you know.
Speaker 1:So they just fall on it or whatnot okay, see I I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:My mom one by one, she did not. Swear to God, Swear to God. My mom used to go a tinsel. Is it called tinsel?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so yeah.
Speaker 2:One by one. She used to decorate the Christmas tree with tinsel, one at a time. She didn't grab a handful, she didn't grab two, she didn't grab 20. One singular tinsel at a time. But I mean, you're not much better you have. You have your, your, our tree decorated very meticulously as well. Yeah, we got huge ornaments, we got little ornaments, we got ribbons. We have, did we put the uh mistletoes in there? The little berries, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, they're in there. Oh, I see them now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm very OCD about our tree, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're super festive, super OCD about that. That's one of your yeah like you know. I wouldn't even say OCD, you're just passionate and you love it. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just like my balloons, like I, just yeah yeah, it's like any of our art. You want your art to be presentable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whether you're playing music, whether you're doing balloons, whatever you're doing, whatever you're producing, you want it to be great quality yeah and well, and this year too, I had to decorate the christmas tree all the way around you know the first world problems okay yeah, you had to decorate it all around because you wanted it to be viewed from the street, in the window, by anybody that passes by the house, so that backside had to look presentable yes any other time anybody else's house that's not in front of a. They only decorate like three quarters of it.
Speaker 1:Right, they don't do the very back yeah, but we just have that big old window in the front. Yeah, not going to let it look crappy.
Speaker 2:Oh, it looks beautiful. It looks beautiful.
Speaker 1:It came out great.
Speaker 2:We got the big old jingle bells outside hanging up, huge jingle bells Like three feet wide jingle bell.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just need to get our guy to come and do the lights. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Just need to get our guy to come and do the lights. Yeah, you know what I was thinking about doing the Govees.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:The Govee lights around the house, because we can also program that to provide illumination or glow to the house you know for security and safety features.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's not just limited to Christmas lights, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's cool. But we can do that and we can probably sync it to some music and just blast it out of here, oh yeah. Just lights dancing all over the house.
Speaker 1:That'd be fun.
Speaker 2:Play a bunch of Christmas music real loud outside, speaking of people playing music real loud outside we have this little borracho Borracho.
Speaker 1:Borracho.
Speaker 2:Borracho, like two houses north of us. This little drunk guy, little Hispanic guy, doesn't speak much English. He was drunk as hell. Drunk, drunk, yeah, really drunk. He had a beer in his hand stumbling all over the yard. Yeah, really drunk. He had a beer in his hand, stumbling all over the yard. Well, this guy decided to park his truck in the middle of the street, in the middle, not in a lane, but in the middle of it, Blaring music, you know, cumbias or banda, whatever it was right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hispanic music, which, again, I don't care. I grew up in Arvin.
Speaker 1:I know this music.
Speaker 2:I love the music, but not 11 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:And I guess he's been battling our neighbor across the street for a while. Good old boy across the street goes out there and gets into it with him all the time and I just went up to him. I was like, hey man, what's going on over here? He's like are you all right? He was like no ingles. I was like well, my wife speaks Spanish, man, so I'm still going to ask you if you're all right. I was like look man. I say look, get in your truck, get it parked, turn the music off, close the door, go inside, get some rest. Man, sleep this shit off.
Speaker 2:Whatever you're hurting from, whatever is affecting you you know seasonal depression, you know time of the year, gloominess outside, whatever it is, whatever. Has you drinking and drunk at 11 o'clock at night on a Sunday? Has you drinking and drunk at 11 o'clock at night on a Sunday? Um, and? And parking your truck in the middle of the street with the lights on, with the hazards on, door wide open, sat out there in the middle of the street for like 30 minutes, um, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He, uh, he came over afterwards and uh, shook my hand, apologized yeah, it's not a big deal, man, you know shit happens, you know. Just hey, let's try to correct it and let's try not to get you going to jail. Get your ass in your house and get some rest. Yeah, get it together, man. Pull yourself together, especially if you have kids or anything else. You got little people relying on you. You know, straighten up up man yeah, but we all struggle, everybody does yeah, but you know he listens to gordon oh, man, the neighbor.
Speaker 2:So the neighbor, the good old boy across the street, man, uh, I guess he's been battling with the guy for a while and it happens every so often where he's just blasting his music and pissing the the good old boy across the street off, probably amongst many other neighbors, but the good old boy across the street off probably amongst many other neighbors. But the good old boy across the street's a little more confrontational and aggressive. But anyways, when he came over to shake my hand, the good old boy was over here on my side of the street and he said I apologize, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I apologize. I was like hey, man, it's all right, don't worry about it. And he tried to apologize to the good old boy and the good old boy wasn't having it Like he has had enough. Apparently this has been going on for years and he's just fucking over it.
Speaker 2:And then, is what happened? Is the guy said I'm going to turn it down, I'm done, I'm going to go bed, he said. And the good old boy was like oh, you're going to listen to Gordon. I was like oh, you're going to listen to Gordon. I was like well, is that your concern? Is that the guy took to me a little bit better than he took to you, because my approach was a little bit different than your approach and you know, maybe sugar does attract more bees than honey does than vinegar, or whatever the saying is Like I went over there, I wasn't aggressive or anything. I mean, I guess I'm imposing and I'd look somewhat intimidating, I guess, which is not the goal, obviously. Just people have stigmas about various things bald-headed white guys, there's a stigma. Tattoos on hands and necks and fingers and every other place there's a stigma yeah so people automatically make assumptions about things, whether they're right or wrong.
Speaker 2:Uh, they'll just have to find that out on their own. So, yeah, that was. Uh, that was last night. Um, we also, when we were digging out the christmas stuff, we uh dug out some of Gordon's childhood memories.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I was able to keep quite a few things as a kid and I know my mom helped, right, but I still have quite a few things as a kid. So we get through this box and I actually have LPs. I actually have records that were from 1978. I was born in 1980. I've had these records since 1980, 83, 84, somewhere around there, when I was a young man, young boy, toddler. And it's just a weird thing to come full circle to see LPs that you had 40 years ago and you're doing LPs and DJing and everything else now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a real strange thing. You never know, I guess. But anyways, the other strange coincidence is that most of them were Disney and Mickey Mouse albums, which, if anybody knows anything about Marion, she is one of the biggest Mickey Mouse fans in the world. So another very, very strange coincidence, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like almost somebody's up there pulling strings and you know, some things are just predetermined maybe.
Speaker 1:Who knows?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't speculate on it. I'll find out when I die. I'm not going to tell anybody lies about what's going to happen and what's not going to happen, I have no idea. We'll find out when we die. Though, memento mori, death is inevitable and it should not be feared. It's going to happen to all of us. Well, on a lighter note, because that got dark pretty quick, we started upgrading our kitchen appliances and we got a Vitamix Vitamix yeah, vitamix and a KitchenAid food processor food processor, so a Vitamix blender and a KitchenAid food processor.
Speaker 2:I think the KitchenAid food processor was like 13 cups yeah, and. I think the Vitamix was eight eight cups yeah, somewhere around there, and she already used them. What did you make today?
Speaker 1:I made panes con pollo.
Speaker 2:And apparently she is one of the greatest panes con pollo chefs in the world, according to sources beyond herself.
Speaker 1:You and Omar.
Speaker 2:The whole family loves you. They always want you to make it, and you once owned a sandwich truck.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So you know what you're doing, you know your way around the kitchen, you know your way around utilities and everything else.
Speaker 1:Yes, I do.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, this shit, it was amazing. We still have some. If anybody really is interested, you're welcome to come by. We still have some. If anybody really is interested, you're welcome to come by. Rick, daniel, albert, I don't know Ilflow, dos Muchos, anybody. Whoever you guys want one, come through, we got you. We also have a special order coming in a KitchenAid Evergreen Mixer. Yeah, mixer, it's not a blend, it's a mixer, a mixer. Is that what it's called? Mm-hmm? Yeah, so it's a KitchenAid mixer, just like the ones you think it is, and a little head tilts up and there's a bowl and a you know spoon or spatula or you know things that mix stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, this one is a special edition and it's the color evergreen. It's like a dark green, yeah, like a christmas tree, almost, yeah, evergreen, yep, all right.
Speaker 1:And then it has a wooden, a wooden bowl, oh a wooden bowl and the thing is beautiful it is it's, uh, the way they crafted it, stained it, uh, it's, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:So it's going to be a beautiful piece in our kitchen yes, but if people don't know, I love kitchen stuff. I love kitchen stuff are you trying to lobby for people to send you gifts? I love, love kitchen stuff okay, she loves kitchen stuff, you know. However, to william sonoma, yeah, it has to be top of the line shit she don't love, like Black Decker. Okay, guys.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:You cannot afford her, trust me.
Speaker 1:All clad, all clad.
Speaker 2:All clad KitchenAid. What kind of knives are good knives? We need to get some really, really, really good knives.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we have Cuisinart right now really really good knives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but we have Cuisinart right now and those are pretty good, right? Yeah, they're pretty good. It's a decent brand.
Speaker 1:It's a decent brand.
Speaker 2:I mean it's not Kirkland or something, but I'm sure Kirkland probably. They probably have good knives too, yeah they probably go through a company and you know, resell or whatever, and it's the same shit as. Cuisinart or whoever else. Yeah, all right. Well, the kitchen. Um, we just had a wedding again up in, uh, the nirvana estates. Yes, um, amy and adam nash um, definitely wasn't.
Speaker 1:It gets easier as it cools down except for the cords.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Our cords are hey, I don't know if any other DJs and you know audio video and entertainment people are out there, but these goddamn power cords and stuff get so hard in cold weather, yeah, and it is so hard to wrap them up and twist them and turn them and cable manage them.
Speaker 2:Basically it's ridiculous and yeah, it's, it was freezing, it was cold it was freezing we could not only see our breath, but the people that were on the dance floor. Several of them had steam coming off their heads. Yeah so, which is a good thing, right you? You want to stay warm. You got three options to stay warm right clothes, alcohol and dancing and we had all of those yeah yeah, it was a beautiful wedding.
Speaker 2:We uh, we do the uh, the good old anniversary dance and we start eliminating couples. You know, five to ten years at a time. You know, if you haven't been married five years, please exit, exit the dance floor. Make some noise for yourself. You know, five years is still a great accomplishment and it's always interesting and lovely to see the last couple standing with the bride and groom right. So we got it narrowed down to a couple that had been married 66 years.
Speaker 1:That's amazing.
Speaker 2:And it's a beautiful thing that we not only get to celebrate the Nash's wedding but we also get to celebrate the success of somebody else's marriage and the hope that we can all have that we can see that it's possible to live with somebody, be happy with somebody, adventure with somebody, that you with somebody adventure with somebody. You're forever somebody right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a wonderful thing and I think it's a great thing to do at weddings, because I think the bride and groom can see that, yes, and for me it's like, hey, those are the people I'm going to for advice.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:You've been married 66 years. Hey, I got a question.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:How.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You know, what do you?
Speaker 1:you know I think it takes what like patience. I think lots of patience.
Speaker 2:Patience, forgiveness, empathy, compassion a lot of emotional intangibles.
Speaker 1:I think, yeah, there is.
Speaker 2:I think so, then I don't know. The day before that we were over at Off the Rails.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We went over to Off the Rails for Ilflo's birthday. Happy birthday, ilflo. Love you brother.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday.
Speaker 2:We got to have you over for the most dope podcast. Again, my guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:Even if you don't want to podcast I know you do. But even if you want to just come, chill man, we got to get everybody over here and hang out and just enjoy each other's company and, you know, be with like minded and like like people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it was nice. We uh we left off the rails briefly and we went to go grab some dinner. Yeah, we did, and we ended up where at.
Speaker 1:Mama Roomba's.
Speaker 2:Mama Roomba's. It was my first time there. I'd never been there in my life.
Speaker 1:My second time.
Speaker 2:Obviously as a Bakersfield native and it had been there. It's been there 17 plus years, I think. They said I had never been there and obviously I had been downtown multiple times, several times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you did like that other restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that Two Goats and a Goose in the alley. I think they're extremely, extremely underrated and slept on in Bakersfield.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's a beautiful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a nice little spot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but anyways, what did we order from Mama Roomba's?
Speaker 1:We ordered fried chicken.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what kind of fried chicken was it? Caribbean, caribbean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a Latin something.
Speaker 2:Some kind of twist.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Oh, it was good quality meat, right? Yeah, it wasn't cheap ass chicken strips. They were big hearty. They might might as well just sliced a chicken breast in half or something and that was two chicken strips, right? Uh, breaded nicely, had a nice crunch on the outside, very juicy, moist on the inside it came with like a pineapple sauce on the side sauce or something.
Speaker 1:Okay, it was so good.
Speaker 2:And then we had sweet potato fries and their ketchup has some kind of uh spice in it too. Yes, and that was arguably the spicy part of the entire meal. It was still delicious, though.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, like we couldn't stop eating it.
Speaker 2:No, we ate it all.
Speaker 1:Even though it was spicy, we couldn't stop eating it.
Speaker 2:And then, what was the beef?
Speaker 1:It was like. It was like a beef stew.
Speaker 2:That's all I can say is it's something like a beef stew. It had the consistency of of beef that had been in a crock pot stewing you know all day, but it wasn't like it wasn't beef stew.
Speaker 1:It had a different um it was more like um for me. It kind of reminded me a little bit like the filling for tamales okay like a beef one yeah, yeah but it was.
Speaker 2:It still was a little bit different yeah, yeah, but it was good but it was delicious yeah, it was it felt home yeah, it felt kind of home cooked in there. Yeah um, we went back over to off the rails and hung out for a little bit, but we had to leave because we had the wedding the next day we, we were done, we were tired. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we also went up to Eagle Mountain with Rich and Ricky came with us. They had a Raider watch party up there, so we all met over at Chewy's. There was a couple buses that took a bunch of people from Bakersfield up to Eagle Mountain. We just drove behind Rich and I think it was Gabe and Monks and helped Rich up there and got him all set up and got everything hooked up, connected, ready to go and you got to do your favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 1:I to play, I love to play, I do what was the first machine you jumped on?
Speaker 2:um top dollar top dollar it's a good one it was tough, but it didn't get it and hit it didn't proc uh-uh, we put a hundred in there and it didn't prop well, you can't be just throwing numbers out there and telling people how much you spend at the casino well, that was the first machine but that's even worse because everybody knows that you already threw 101 machine.
Speaker 1:That was the first machine and we were there. For what six hours we were?
Speaker 2:there for a long time. I think we got there at like 9 am yeah and we were there until 5 pm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 9 am to 5 pm. Uh, raider game against the chiefs almost pulled it out, but everybody knows what happened there. Yeah, there was a false start, whistle blew, refs ran onto the field indicating a false start, blowing the whistle and then, of course, in true NFL and Raider fashion, the officials, huddled up off to the side somewhere, figured out what penalty they could change it to. So it would remain a live ball, so that Kansas City could secure their win, because the Raiders were about to beat them.
Speaker 1:That's shitty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's real terrible. The Raiders, I guess, are submitting video to the NFL like it's going to help, right? The NFL already seen it, they know.
Speaker 1:But the.
Speaker 2:Raiders. They have to go through that process. They're sending it off to the NFL to say hey, we have video footage showing the ref signaling offsides. We heard the whistle on the sides, that's a dead ball yeah, and nothing else can happen after that. It's a dead ball, um. But you know they, they like to screw the raiders, but we, we like to screw ourselves too. I'm not even going to be that kind of raider fan, because we do some dumb shit too yeah but anyways, uh got to take a picture with Gorilla Rilla.
Speaker 2:Violator, senior Raider Lil Easy E, dj Yella. Rick went crazy.
Speaker 2:His son is a fan, so Rick got the flyer, had them sign the flyer, rick had him sign his own shirt and Rick had him sign his own hat and then by the end of the evening, when everything was wrapping up, I just you know, I had my Raider jersey on my Max Crosby jersey, day one Rex Crosby jersey, not like all you other clowns that just jumped on the bandwagon and grabbed a Max Crosby jersey because he started producing. No, I had the Max Crosby jersey as a rookie, so y'all can get the hell out of here with all that silly bandwagon shit. Yeah, I got derailed there a little bit. I'm a little bit passionate about all these bandwagon Bakersfield people Hate that shit. So I was like you know what. I took my jersey off and I gave it to ricky.
Speaker 2:I said, ricky man, let's, let's get yellow and little easy to sign this jersey so you can give it to your son who he was going to pick up that night uh for uh, his, his custody or whatever, and uh, it was wonderful, he had a great time. He said one of of the. He really needed it. And you know a lot of people you know. I felt like he needed it, so I was trying to go hang out with him, you know.
Speaker 2:But yeah, rich was there. Rich did his thing, rocked it. He got on the mic, started emceeing. Danny was up there emceeing I think it was Danny Salas or something. He was up there emceeing. Rick got the crowd going too and did a great job.
Speaker 2:I was proud of him. He did a great job. Awesome Yellow hooked right in Easy, little easy, performed. It went great. I was happy for him. We had a loss in the family. We did. We had a pretty big loss for a little guy but uh, we lost our boy blue, our little frenchie. He was, uh, three years old roughly yeah he, uh, he fell ill a few days back. Well, maybe it was a week ago now, I don't know how long it was.
Speaker 1:It's about a week now, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he fell ill. He was a happy little boy, ran all over the place. I don't know if he got into something. Pray for the neighbors that they didn't do something to him, because I will do something back to him, because I will do something back. But yeah, he, he fell ill and got him to the vet, got him shots, antibiotics, whatever else, did everything we could. I laid with him all day. He threw up on me a few times and I just laid there in it, you know, because it wasn't important to me. It was more important that he was comfortable and he felt loved and he knew he wasn't alone. That was what was important to me, because a lot of times dogs will go die on their own, like they don't like to die around humans. They'll go hide somewhere.
Speaker 2:They'll go back behind a building, under a house, whatever else he was trying to do yeah, yeah, I wouldn't let him do it though but he, he pushed, he, he, he fought yeah, he fought really hard and you know he stood up and he was a great dog he was a great little dog yeah little blue blue yeah and then we had uh hav Night, number nine, I think.
Speaker 1:It is Number nine.
Speaker 2:Number nine on the year Havana Night. Another great, great, great event.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean all over, from start to end. It was a great event. We had Chris and Kendall from LA come up and teach some bachata and banda.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:A bachata class and a banda class. Early on the Ritmo Ashe ladies performed. They had a special performance there, lolly and all them girls. Alex, you know photo booth, as usual, dancing. You know karaoke over on the other side with Maria. Yeah, it was great, it was great, it was another another great turnout. We got a lot of footage, lots of pictures, lots of video. It was good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was great memories.
Speaker 2:I found these Mac Miller necklace charms and they are basically almost identical to all of the tattoos that I have on my legs of Mac Miller All the typical Mac Miller-esque tattoos, if you will, and I think those are going to be here tomorrow.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:I think those are going to be here tomorrow. I think they're like two by two, stainless Cuban chains, cuban links, whatever rope chains. I don't remember what they are. I think Rick's going to be over here tomorrow to finish up the door on the studio. We got Omar back there. He's getting all situated, getting everything nice and cozy and comfy in his studio. Oh me, yeah, we got him a bed frame, so the mattress is up off the floor.
Speaker 2:He has his computer desk. We got a little refrigerator going to go in there, a microwave's in there, he has a sink, you know, bathroom and shower and closet and all he needs right now. All he needs right now, yeah, so that's been good as well. We got him networked back there so he has internet and TV and movies and music and everything else too, everything that our house has he has. It's just his house is a small representation of ours. The house is doing well. The yard's coming along, grass is coming in more and more, looking cleaner and cleaner.
Speaker 2:What else do we got going on, babe, Nothing we had someone come and do the knit girls nails on a couple occasions now right yeah I don't know if we talked about it in the last um podcast, but yeah, we had a manicurist, a nail lady, come out here and she did uh, summers, olivia's and sophie's and yours and my nails all the four of your nails and then a few days later maybe a week later, but I think it was a few days the following week we had her come back out because Kai wanted to get her nails done. Avery's not like that. She didn't care about it, she didn't want hers.
Speaker 2:And then you wanted yours redone, filled in a little bit and a color change.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's time to get her out here again, is it?
Speaker 2:yeah, do you need fills? All right, maybe I'll start doing that on the side too no no, I grew up in a nail salon. I grew up in a beauty salon with my mom, which probably explains several issues with myself.
Speaker 2:I probably breathed in way too many perm fumes and acrylic fumes and nail polish remover fumes we're gonna have to talk to mom and dyes and colors and all kinds of shit I probably breathed in over there probably wasn't the best for me, for my respiratory or my nervous system. Probably those chemicals are bad for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but at that time they didn't know that they were bad for you.
Speaker 2:Well, they didn't know that alcohol and cigarettes were bad for you and pregnant women were still using them. I think my mom smoked when I was a boy, when I was a baby. I think she did. I think she'll tell you she did too.
Speaker 1:Really Uh-huh, babe, you can't do that.
Speaker 2:Hey, this is protected by the First Amendment. It's called freedom of speech. If y'all don't like it, tune out, turn this shit off, unsubscribe, don't listen. I don't care For everybody else. That is a real human being and and knows me and and has a sense of humor. You're welcome to stay. But yeah, we had all the nails done. Uh, and we had another wedding before that.
Speaker 1:Um, that was in a backyard in the northwest beautiful, beautiful backyard oh man they take so much pride in their backyard, their backyard is like a little oasis.
Speaker 2:It's like something that we're we're aiming for to do with ours, and you know we don't want to have to take a vacations when we come home. This is our vacation yeah I don't want to feel like I have to or need to. I'm just gonna bail out, you know, whenever we want. But anyways it was the Michelson wedding. The Michelson wedding, it was very nice. They had great barbecue, they had great dinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they did.
Speaker 2:It was I don't. I won't say it was small, but I think he told me 50. Yeah, I think he told me 50.
Speaker 1:Very intimate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, string lights everywhere, lanterns everywhere, you know just that soft yellow light just illuminating the entire backyard.
Speaker 1:It was beautiful.
Speaker 2:Around the pool. They had lights in the pool around the palm trees. I mean they did it right for their backyard. You don't have to spend a ton of money on a wedding no that's not what makes it successful or not successful. I know plenty of people that have spent multi-thousands and yeah they're on their second or third, but that was a that was a beautiful wedding it was absolutely beautiful it was a beautiful Um. I don't think there's much more going on there. Uh, we do have another addition to the family, though.
Speaker 1:We do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got an addition to the family. And what is her name? Roxy Roxy. Roxy is a baby.
Speaker 1:She's a week, rottweiler, maybe two, two months now.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, eight weeks she's eight week rottweiler, maybe two, two months now, oh yeah, eight weeks yeah, she's, uh, eight weeks, two months. You know, I don't like when, when parents do that shit, though, oh they're, they're 17 months old, motherfucker. They're a year and a half man, like 17 months. What are you talking about, man I? Why are we trying to be difficult here? Yeah 17 months, 1700 hours. Look man, yeah, cool you. You. You played military one day, right like it. Just say what time it is like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Yes, I hate that. The military time.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't mind it, I understand it, I know it. It's just by 12, right I? Know it's either the number before 12 or the number after 12. So if it's 1800, then it's 6. If it's 600, then it's 6. You just subtract 12. If it's a number bigger than 12, subtract 12 from it, and that's the time.
Speaker 1:If the clock says 13, 14, 15. If the number is lower than 12, you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 2:That is the time, yeah, yeah, look normal people not in the military, outside of civilians. Our clocks go to 12. Quit being dumb, quit trying to be fancy with yeah, I need to see you at 0800, all right, you're not a sergeant, you're not a corporal, you're fucking civilian, just relax for real but uh, what else do we got going on? We got a christmas party this friday that we uh do every year yes and it's one of our favorite ones it is, even though it's freezing, nuts cold yeah I'm a heated jacket now yeah, we have, we have.
Speaker 2:Good, I might buy a pair of socks we need to buy you some thicker socks I'm gonna buy a pair of socks, some like gore techs or whatever the you know weather socks are for camping or for hunting and stuff. Yeah because my feet freeze. They do Like my feet are numb every night when I'm DJing outside in the freezing cold during this period of time. We have a photo booth on Saturday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have a couple of those coming up.
Speaker 2:Photo booth next Thursday. We have a cheer competition the following Saturday.
Speaker 1:At Anaheim.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then, of course, we have Christmas coming up.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Oh, um, we got the Condors game on December 27th. Okay, I'll be DJing at the Condors game with Rich.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:At least opening up for him. I'm not even going to claim I'm DJing with him Look I'm opening up for him while I'm not even going to claim I'm DJing with him Look I'm opening up for him while people are piling in. You know he just does that for everybody, he, you know.
Speaker 1:He's super nice dude.
Speaker 2:He's very, very thoughtful, he's not worried about anything. He's not worried about anything and he shouldn't be.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:He shouldn't be, but we are running up into about 40 minutes and I think we are about out of uh content for this session. What yeah, we are or do we have anything else we're talking about?
Speaker 1:did we leave anything else?
Speaker 2:out no, I think has anybody tried to fight us recently?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:That's good.
Speaker 1:I don't think so. I think we already talked about it. Yeah, I know A whole lot of bad people out there. There is.
Speaker 2:A whole lot of just bad. I'm good, staying home. I know I don't want to deal with these people.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Oh, fantasy football. Let me talk about this real quick. I'm going to be bragging on myself on some fantasy football level shit. Don't forget to get your iPad. My iPad, I'm just kidding? Oh man Don't get me started with that. Oh, Arnold's definitely going to win today.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, that's game over for them. Jared Judy, six receptions, 167 yards and a TD. Nice, lighten it up. Cleveland is lighting it up with Jemais and Judy. That's good. So Diddy's going to lose. That's going to knock him down to might. I'm moving up to 10-3. He's going down lose, that's going to knock him down to my we're going to. I'm moving up to 10 and three. He's going down to 10 and three. He wins the tiebreaker currently, but if he loses next week and I win next week, I'm in sole first place. So we're going to talk about this fantasy football thing real quick. Arnold invited me and you know I'm I'm friends with Arnold and Ricky and, uh, I'm friends with Arnold and Ricky and Johnny and quite a few of them. So they invited me to fantasy football this year and I haven't played it. I've never played it. So I show up, I just walk in, I bring myself, that's all I need, right? I mean, I didn't take it that goddamn seriously.
Speaker 1:I think it was a $100 buy-in, I think right $100 buy-in and I didn't take it seriously.
Speaker 2:It's like, look, I know football enough, I watch football enough, I know players, I think I can draft a squad.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I get there and all of these fucking nerds have binders, notebooks, laptops, all kinds of shit, and I'm just thinking to myself oh, I'm fucked, I'm not prepared. Yeah, I am not prepared.
Speaker 1:I was not prepared. I didn't know how serious this shit was. You got up from your nap and then took off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did no preparation, no nothing. So I get the last pick of the draft, which means I also get the first pick of the second round, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I got the last pick of the draft. I came up at the rear like the caboose I was last. I mean, nine other players were drafted before I got to start drafting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But then I got to draft two back to back. Uh-huh Right, they got to draft nine. And then I got to draft two back to back. Uh-huh Right, they got to draft nine, and then I got to draft two, and that happened every cycle. Yeah, Throughout all the rounds. So I go through my drafts and I start drafting players and, needless to say, it's turned out pretty good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be in first place, possibly only second, but I'm already clinched the playoffs. I'm already I think I'm guaranteed money at this point. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't care.
Speaker 1:The only reason I did?
Speaker 2:it was to shoot the shit with the guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To get on the on the chat, get on the group chat, talk shit, endure a bunch of Android hate for a while, until they fixed that RCS messaging between Android and iPhone. I was the green bubble boy, or whatever the fuck they call me, man. I hate you iPhone people and I say I hate you iPhone people. Um, while I use a, a, a MacBook air, to DJ, um, I'm just not a fan of their phones. Their computing computing device is fine, I don't care.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Their phones had a real bad taste in my mouth. When, I don't know, I used to have an iPhone 4 or something, right Okay, and I didn't like iTunes or whatever their music management and I didn't like that. I wasn't able to put my own music on there whether it was pirated or not, you know, and Android lets you do that. You can put all the files you want on your Android. You can install apps from other sources besides the play store and you know the app store and stuff you know for private developers that create cool apps, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, they had all these binders and everything else and I wasn't prepared, but I'm almost going into first place right now and playoffs start the week after next.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:Um, and I've just had a lot of fun just talking shit to the guys in the chat. Like I said, that's all I really wanted to do. I just wanted to talk shit. I made fun of them. I lost my first two games. I'm going to be 10 and three today and I lost my first two games. And when I lost my first two games kind of like when I showed up to the draft I was like I'm fucked. I am. This is an embarrassment. I need my man card revoked. I need my man card taken away. This is not okay. I'm a man, I need to win some football games. And then, you know, I went on a seven game win streak or something. Eight game win streak, whatever.
Speaker 1:So if you win for next year, do you get to be first?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get the first pick Nice. And not only do I get all the money, but I get the first pick Nice. So if they think that I did well this year, look out next year.
Speaker 1:Motherfuckers, Right you look out next to your motherfuckers you're in danger.
Speaker 2:Are you gonna do some homework this time? No, I don't need to, I know what the hell's going on?
Speaker 2:get your notebook no, no, no, maybe your laptop, no, but I'm gonna go up there with a poster or something says fucking nerds, yeah, that's fun. So fantasy football is going to be a wrap pretty soon. Arnold's winning right now, which I needed him to win. Help me out a little bit. I got somebody trying to trade me for a player. Right now. I don't think that's happening. The message I just got I'll give you the Bucks D and George Kittle for Mike Evans. I'll give you Caleb Williams too and I don't know if I can do it because my boy, mike Williams, I mean Mike Evans he's a consistent player. He's one of the first players I drafted. I think I drafted Brock Purdy first.
Speaker 2:Brock Purdy was my first pick and I think my following pick after that was possibly Mike Evans, Because a lot of people don't know, but every single season that Mike Evans has been in the NFL he's had over a thousand yards receiving. And that was my goal going into the fantasy football. I just wanted players that would consistently perform week in and week out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they didn't have to have the highest numbers, but I wanted them somewhere up near the top. Consistent, yeah, and that's all. My formula was when I went in and drafted, but it's been a lot of fun. Like I said, I don't care about the $100. I just wanted to, you know, be in the group of the guys and talk shit and hang out, and I think I irritate some of them sometimes.
Speaker 1:That's all right, but I do it on purpose.
Speaker 2:I mean I do it to be funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's alright, but I do it on purpose. I mean I do it to be funny. Yeah, I don't know. I think maybe they take this shit too seriously, and I'm not sure. Okay, we'll see if they listen in on this episode, and I hear about it. Hey Gordon, man, you're talking shit. Man, we're not nerds. Oh yeah, motherfucker you are, I am thinking, but that's about it though I'm just rambling at this point talking about random fantasy football.
Speaker 2:So we are going to hang it up for today. We'll probably see you guys next week. Again, we're trying to get a little bit more frequent, but we also have to have stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have to. We always have stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we definitely have a adventurous, interesting life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't trade it for nothing, though.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:All right, y'all Love you guys. Take care of each other. Happy holidays, merry Christmas, kwanzaa, hanukkah, whatever you celebrate, and if you don't fuck you, I don't care.
Speaker 1:All right.