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Little Chi Podcast
EP 5 - Nunca Dejes De Soñar ft. Eduardo Jimenez
This episode celebrates nostalgia and family connections as we reminisce about our childhood summers in Mexico and our recent trip to Disney. We explore the joy of family vacations, Eduardo’s journey in the culinary world, and the importance of balancing personal aspirations with familial expectations.
• Reflecting on the holiday season and family gatherings
• Adventure stories from childhood in Mexico
• Contrasting experiences of vacations at Disneyland versus Santiago
• Eduardo’s culinary journey at Byway Brewery and his growth
• Discussing the importance of friendships and personal dreams
• Setting goals for the new year while honoring family traditions
What is up? You guys, it is your boy, fernando, and welcome back to Little Shy Podcast. First of all, I want to hope you guys all had a Merry Christmas, you guys had a Happy New Year and, once again, thank you to every single one of you guys listening. It does feel really really good to be back.
Speaker 1:I decided to take these couple of weeks off due to the holiday, due to me being on vacation, family being in from out of town, vacation, family being in from out of town and besides that, honestly, the feedback on the podcast has been incredible, even though it's been two weeks since I haven't uploaded an episode. So it just feels really good to have people reaching out to me saying that they're excited to listen to another episode and they're ready for Little Shy to be back. So, before I start this episode, I just want to remind you guys to subscribe to Little Shy Podcast on Apple and on Spotify. Make sure you have your notifications on so that when I upload a new episode, you guys get notified whenever there's a new episode. With that being said, today I have a very special guest, someone very close to me, someone I see every single day of my life I have car enthusiast CEO of Byway Brewery, chef Eduardo Jimenez. What, upuardo jimenez? What up, guys, what up, what up, what up?
Speaker 2:legally I'm not the ceo. I was gonna clarify.
Speaker 1:I was gonna be like actually, guys, it's just a joke, it's just a joke my brother, this is my brother, for those of you guys who don't know also. So my brother's instagram bio is ceo of byway brewery. Um, but legally legally, legally binding.
Speaker 2:I am not the ceo of byway all right, bro.
Speaker 1:So we just got back from vacation. The holidays are over, it's time to get back into the zone. So, first of all, how was your holiday weekend? Christmas, new year's, all that stuff?
Speaker 2:christmas was good. Um, I don't know, there was like that fucking virus going around. So you know I got a little sick yeah, a lot of people were sick. Yeah, I I don't know what it was. I thought I got food poisoning, okay. But like I was sick, my girlfriend was sick, okay and no, but overall I thought it was.
Speaker 1:I thought it was a good time it was a pretty chill christmas, cool, cool yeah, and I think that, uh, for me personally it I didn't really. I was never really like in the spirit, it didn't really feel like Christmas. Although we were in Disney, everything was Christmas themed. Maybe it felt like Christmas a little bit, but not a lot.
Speaker 2:It felt like fake Christmas. Yeah, love Kia did right yeah.
Speaker 1:So something that I want to get into is our Disney trip. So we went to Disney for winter break. We were there for a week, we went to all the parks and we had a really good time. There was, I believe, 11 of us, and at one point there was 12 because Juan joined us. So something that I want to talk about is pretty much when we were younger, we always went to Mexico every single summer, every single summer. They would send us to Mexico for like a week two.
Speaker 2:No, not even a week, bro, it was like a week two. No, not even a week, like a month, like a month or two months.
Speaker 1:We got like we were like free so let's talk about, let's tell everybody, first of all, like I said, you're my younger brother. Yeah, although you're my younger brother, you're like my big brother because you're taller than me, you're more, you're stronger than me. You got longer hair than me, all right, so let's tell everybody our experiences of what mexico was like when we were little um Longer hair than me.
Speaker 1:Todo más largo que yo güey. Todo más largo que yo güey. All right, so let's tell everybody our experiences of what Mexico was like when we were little. For me, and to clarify, santiago Pazquero Durango.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fuck, yeah, shout out, vdn. No, but I think when we were kids in Mexico, kind of how I felt, it felt like there was just like a more sense of freedom because like not that we could do whatever we want, but we pretty much did whatever we want literally, because we would be out on the street acting like we knew, like like we were fucking there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, we were fucking north as fuck, yeah, and we would hang out with like our cousin friend juan, yeah, and like that was always fun because we would get into trouble. We would fucking be everywhere and anywhere, yeah, but like we wouldn't like do anything like super bad, we'd just be kids, you know yeah, which I think is, I think, like, like you said, we had freedom.
Speaker 2:So, although here in the summer, like it's, people go outside, they play, but, bro, we were roaming the streets of santiago like yeah, going everywhere without even knowing, kind of, where we were yeah, we were just like in the rio and shit that dirty ass fucking water bro and then if we ever got like hungry, we just go to like this corner store, we would buy some chips yeah, but then that shit was so cheap too, and you just like fucking like five pesos for a bag of chips.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and shit changed yeah, and then we also got into some mischief out there. Um, I got a couple stories for you guys. So my grandpa's house, it's like a like a two-level house and then on the upstairs he has like a big balcony. So one story is that we used to me, my brother, when we had to go to the bathroom we used to go to the very top of the balcony and we would just stand and we would just pee. We would just let that pee go.
Speaker 2:Boom, just a fountain of piss.
Speaker 1:We got people walking like, hey what the fuck? Pinches, chamacos que están haciendo? Oh, my grandma was pissed, that's so dope though low, that's so dope though.
Speaker 2:Low key bro, yeah, but I mean like you see in a movie, yeah, it was, but that was like. That's like that sense of freedom where you're just like, oh, like I can do whatever the fuck I want, exactly, and then, uh, another. Another story is like we used to buy fireworks oh yeah.
Speaker 1:All the fireworks is like one of the good memories that we have fireworks in mexico.
Speaker 2:It looks like they just hit different. It's like there's one time my grandma was like hey, ve despierto tu abuelito con un cohete Bro. I threw that shit in his room.
Speaker 1:That shit banged loud as hell Boom Boom Echoed and shit Type shit.
Speaker 2:And my girl was like chingo, que niso.
Speaker 1:Eso, you're over here, like era yo abuelito.
Speaker 2:I was like yo abuelito, yo abuelito.
Speaker 1:He's like what's up? Baby. That's funny as hell. And then another thing that I remember is that they used to sell like little baby chicks.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, Like in the corners and stuff like that. Oh man, and to make them fun, this is like I was a kid.
Speaker 1:We didn't know anything, oh boy. But they used to sell little pollitos and they would spray paint them. So you can buy pink ones, green ones, blue ones, whatever color you wanted, oh boy. So then they would buy us some to have pets for our trip, as we were there they were just there, like I said something about that balcony, they spray paint them. Yeah, they were blue, they were born blue.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just like as a kid, you never really like looked too deep into that, like, oh, this motherfucker's blue Era el blue y de pollitos.
Speaker 1:We would go to the top of the balcony and we would just boom. Throw that baby chick to see that it could fly bro, and it did not. It did not. It did not.
Speaker 2:I felt bad afterwards, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember one of yours, I think it was yours. They all, bro, they all died, they died. You wanted to bring it back in the maleta, so you put him. I don't know if you remember that, yeah, I do. And then, guys speaking, we would always take the bus.
Speaker 2:Fuck the bus, bro. Fuck taking the bus to fucking Mexico.
Speaker 1:So that shit is ass. We used to take the bus and he used to take about three days to get there. So one time, my brother on our way back from mexico, on our way back from mexico, pretty much, once you get to the border you get off of the bus, you go through tsa or border patrol, customs, whatever it is that you go through border patrol.
Speaker 1:We go through that and then they have to check you all that stuff, to check your luggage and everything. So it's like maybe July or August we're coming back from Mexico.
Speaker 2:Hot as fuck.
Speaker 1:Summer vacation is over Hot as fuck and then I remember we have to get off the bus and go through everything that we gotta go through.
Speaker 2:We had to go on another bus.
Speaker 1:And then my mom starts Freaking the fuck out.
Speaker 2:Was my with us. I thought it was just Abuelita. That was when you were lost. I thought that was Abuelita. No, that was when I was there. Yeah, Are you?
Speaker 1:sure yeah, my brother got lost at the border.
Speaker 2:I didn't get lost. Well, he got lost for us for a second. Yeah, he got lost for you.
Speaker 1:So my mom was freaking out. It was hot as hell. We couldn't find, or someone just robbed you at the border. I don't know how long it lasted, for we were little, but I remember my mom was going crazy. An hour being lost at the border is crazy. But anyway, since it was so hot, this man was found in the bus chilling. He never got off the bus. They told me not to get off the bus. The dude never got off the bus.
Speaker 2:And we were about to leave too, and I told the bus driver I'm like yo, I'm waiting for my fucking grandma, bro, chill out. And then I remember Another thing my grandma, she had, like these, these bag of hot Cheetos and she was like Don't eat them, they're too hot.
Speaker 1:And I was just like but.
Speaker 2:So, I opened. I opened the bag, I started eating them and I was like, oh, these are good as hell, right. And then my grandma got on the bus and she found me okay, and she's like eduardo donde estabas and I was like aqui, abuelita victory, I'm like mira me comi.
Speaker 1:Las papitas no estaban enchilosas this dude straight chilling and everybody's freaking the out because he's lost I wasn't lost, though.
Speaker 2:No, you weren't you were lost. I was about to be yeah, yeah, um, I about to be like they were about to make a story out of me. You know, bajo la misma luna, bajo la misma luna, the original, the original one.
Speaker 1:But thinking back about these vacations, I think it's really cool because although, because what I like, what I say is that the Disney trip that we just recently took for us was like our first ever family trip. Like, obviously, like we said when we were younger, like our dad would send us to mexico with our mom because he had to work, um, so we would be mexico for like a month, two months, and, although not that it wasn't a vacation, but I'm pretty sure like our, uh, our friends and other kids at our schools, they would go to like florida, they would go to la new york, you know, like they went on vacation and for us traveling was being with
Speaker 2:family just going to mexico which I'm with our like extended family exactly which I would not trade for the world like growing up going to mexico every single summer that was the shit. That was. That was better than disney.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like they should kids nowadays should go to Mexico? Because, if you think about it, kids nowadays they're just tablet kids and in Mexico there's one limited Wi-Fi. You can go out there.
Speaker 2:Dude, remember, we used to play with cars In the fucking dirt we used to make fucking caves and shit we used to make caves.
Speaker 1:We used to make our own tracks in the dirt.
Speaker 2:We used to make fucking bridges.
Speaker 1:Exactly, we were architects exactly and kids in mexico are built different. They are they are.
Speaker 2:I have respect to them because you know, like, even, even still, you know they had not, that they don't have the technology that we do, but, um, you know they're, they're a lot more humble you know, extremely more humble than kids over here. That's why, yeah, um, I'm like damn, we're cooked as a society over here, because it's just like you know. I mean, we all grew up like me and you. We grew up on nintendo 64, ps2, ps1, things like ps3, no game boy nintendo color game boy, things like that, smaller games.
Speaker 2:But like you know, we knew when to like you know when to turn it off. When to turn it off? Sometimes I'd be playing that Grand Theft Auto, san Andreas. I still know the cheat codes R1, r2, l1, r2, left down, right up left down, right up.
Speaker 1:That was that weapons cheat.
Speaker 2:That was for Vice City. Right, that was for Vice City and San Andreas. Okay.
Speaker 1:I never played San Andreas, I just played Vice.
Speaker 2:City I love San Andreas. Vice City was the shit, yeah, um.
Speaker 1:So now, like since we went on vacation, like with the family, what was that experience like for you? Like I said, finally going on a real vacation with the family, because one, like I said, it was easier to travel because, like when we were younger if you think about it, like our dad had, would have had to pay for everything, yeah so now what we did, now that we're older, is like, hey, we took care of each other's flights.
Speaker 2:Hotel tickets and everybody, just we kind of just kind of split. Yeah, yeah, um, to be honest, it was overwhelming sometimes, since there was so many people yeah and and that's, and that's fine, you know, it's just kind of like you you're with people and you know you're trying to make the most out of the experience because you know just like disney is already overwhelming as it is, especially going to three parks, going to disney springs and things like that, and you kind of just like kind of want to take it all in.
Speaker 2:But you already have like 10 other people to take it all in with you. Um, I thought it was, I thought it was cool, uh, hollywood studios was dope, yeah, things like that. But overall the experience was just like, kind of like. Sometimes I just needed to like break away.
Speaker 1:No, I know exactly what you're talking about, Because traveling with 11 people like I- said it's exhausting. There's kids, there's older people, there's adults and, like our dad, would get kind of bored sometimes and all you had to do was give my dad a beer and he he was chill. It's like como que the beer would like lo revivia. You know it's like you know beer and he would be like okay, I'm happy again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think I think overall he had a good time. I think I was more so worried about that because, yeah, I know he like, I know he's like me as soon as like we're done, doing something, we're just like all right, I'm bored literally, let's get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, we would be waiting in line. I could. You could tell he didn't like waiting in line and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:No, he told me that too later on. He was just like the one thing I fucking hate was waiting in the lines. I'm like I didn't mind. I'm like, no, I didn't mind it either. It went by quick. Being with Ma was fine, but you know how Ma could be Mexican moms, bro, we got to tell the sandwich story.
Speaker 1:You got to tell the sandwich story. All right, one thing If you know Mexicans in Disney, tienes que empacar un lonche. You got to take the sandwiches, the tortas con jalapenos. So before we went to Disney, we started making the sandwiches. We had like a line we had one person was putting the bread, one person was putting the jamon, the queso Que no falten los chiles. We get to Disney with our sandwiches and then Okay, so we made the sandwiches right. And then my mom made atun and tuna salad for those of you guys who don't know what that is.
Speaker 2:tuna salad, tuna salad. She put it in a bag like the worst fucking bag she could find and we had so many bags and she put like it in a bag with a fucking hole and she got like this styrofoam bowl this dude's just just going off and she put it in the bag, wrapped it up, put it in my backpack under the or like above the sandwiches. I'm just, you know, carrying it in my backpack, no big deal.
Speaker 1:Time to eat the sandwiches?
Speaker 2:Where were we at Animal Kingdom?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We pulled up to Animal Kingdom Next thing. You know, someone asked for a sandwich. I'm like I bet it was me. Yeah, it was you. It was you, motherfucker. I opened, I opened my backpack and I just what the fuck?
Speaker 1:because I remember I grabbed the sandwich and then I had like some stuff dripping on me yeah, and then I was like, oh, what the heck. I thought it was like just the mayonesa and I go. No, bro, this the stench like as soon as I opened the fucking backpack.
Speaker 2:I'm like okay, it just better be like the tuna, just like kind of seeping out and then like I reach for it and I'm just like this bag is wet, yep, that tuna salad leaked all over his backpack.
Speaker 1:You were pissed, bro.
Speaker 2:I was dude, I was pissed. You were like I'm going to throw this shit away. I was just like what the fuck? And I got a little loud, you know just, and, but like, and then I kind of like check my surroundings, like oh shit, yeah, I got my disney exactly I was like a bunch of kids so I kind of like you know, I calmed down, I wasn't gonna make a fucking, I wasn't gonna make a scene either way.
Speaker 2:But I'm not gonna make a scene at disney, yeah, you know, because I'm god forbid. I'm gonna get fucking kicked out and never be able to come back, and I was like I love animal kingdom, that's like my favorite park so, like we said before we move on to the next topic, um, I do want to ask you a couple of questions.
Speaker 1:So, out of all the disney parks magic kingdom, animal kingdom, hollywood studios and epcot what is your favorite park?
Speaker 2:um, it fluctuates because I thought we were gonna go to epcot this time around, yeah, which is I think I would have liked that, but I mean, it's fine, it's not a big deal. Um, animal kingdom, for sure, because of the avatar ride. If you've never gone on the avatar ride, it's an experience, badass. It will change your fucking life literally like, holy shit, crazy disney was cooking when they made that ride, yeah, but that's like that's the one thing I was looking forward to, besides like shout out Gideon's cookies, yeah, no, animal Kingdom and Epcot. Hollywood Studios was okay. I expected a little bit more out of Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 1:You know, it's because you didn't go on the Star Wars ride. You had to.
Speaker 2:I wanted to go on the star wars, badass yeah I, I mean I, I was glad I got to see the millennium falcon you know that was cool and kylo ren his little, yeah, bitch ass I'm sure that was a cool experience for you no, it was, it was. It was cool, just kind of like being in that kind of like area, yeah, um things like that.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize that the avengers were actually in, la, yeah it's an la thing and so like I was, like you know but we can do that, like next year I was gonna say if I'm in la, I'll, I'll go. For sure, see the avengers and shit yeah, um, next question I got for you is, um, if you have the answer to this, uh, what is your your favorite disney movie?
Speaker 2:favorite disney movie, just like classics man, it could be any disney anything if you have one, I do I do I do bambi, okay, hey, I'm stuck between like two. I'm gonna go Lion King because like that's just a fucking classic. You know, actually it's three Lion King, tarzan and Toy Story. Dude, tarzan is golden just because of what's his name. Oh my god, why am I blanking right?
Speaker 1:now tarzan the the soundtrack oh yeah, phil collins, phil collins, oh my god. And then?
Speaker 2:hans zimmer uh that is, is it hans zimmer or hans zim? Uh, he does soundtracks for like a lot of like disney stuff or just like major things like that.
Speaker 1:He's old you know the the lion king intro. Yeah, we should see who does it best between me and you.
Speaker 2:No, just kidding it's, it's 8 30 in the morning, guys. We're actually we're doing this podcast super, super early.
Speaker 1:Everybody's still asleep. We've been up because we had to get ready, because we're gonna be on camera, like all right. So that was that. Now I got something else for you. Before we get into the topic and dive deep into it, I got three little questions for you. It's just this or that.
Speaker 2:Okay, you ready yeah.
Speaker 1:Super simple, so we're going to go. Since you work at a brewery, I thought the first one was kind of cool. Do you prefer beer or cocktails?
Speaker 2:okay, for sure, tacos de asada or tacos de pastor. Tacos every time kanye west or luis miguel fuck you. I'm gonna give an intricate answer for this. I think I already know the answer like natural making songs, I mean no no, just for you personally, for me personally who do you like more?
Speaker 1:I it's. It's hard to personally, for me personally. Who do you like more?
Speaker 2:I it's. It's hard to say, just because I kind of just like, over the past couple years I became more of like louis miguel fan you're in your louis me era I am. I really am, uh, in the aspect of loving, not not being because louis it's. It's crazy how, like my favorite artists are like assholes true, it's, it's so funny because I know louise miguel is kind of like an asshole yeah um, I'm gonna give it to my boy, the goat, kanye west, you got to I mean you got to I.
Speaker 2:I have to like you know he's he's been in your life longer okay, disclaimer I don't agree with he's what he says at all. Just gonna put that out there, like he's. He's kind of insane. Yeah, um, I love, I love his music. His is like first like six albums, like just how do you just like consecutively make great albums over and over and?
Speaker 1:over and over and over again. Same with luis miguel.
Speaker 2:Same with luis miguel, even though he's like romances one romances, two romances.
Speaker 2:Otra vez, yeah, um, but I think I got like that, uh, like so, when I listen to music, not to like them too much of that question uh, when I listen to music, I like I like to listen to quality and like I like to listen to like the effort that was made for songs and that that, like that is very prominent with kanye west, that's very prominent with luis miguel, and I think they're like two sides of the same coin in that aspect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because like similar but different, exactly so, when I listen to luis miguel, I get the same feeling that I get when I listen to kanye west okay because when I started listening to kanye west, like the first album I heard from kanye west was 80s and Heartbreaks, which is a phenomenal album, and that was because I think you had that song fucking because you had the songs on LimeWire.
Speaker 1:Shout out.
Speaker 2:LimeWire. We need to bring back piracy. We need to bring back piracy guys. Come on, we got to level up I ain't paying $10 for fucking Spotify premium. No more bro.
Speaker 1:For real bro.
Speaker 2:I'm not paying fucking for netflix, hbo max, nada, shout out, shout out communism, um, no, but like, um, just kind of like. When I hear music like that, it like really kind of like takes me back where it's like you know, I I remember being and and living in merrillville and just like kind of driving, and and then our dad when I my dad had a yeah, exactly, and then um being in being in my dad's truck, like when we had his tahoe, yeah, the tahoe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that shit was the love lockdown.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember just just hearing that shit and I'm just like when I first heard it. I'm like like what the fuck is this?
Speaker 1:I was like levitating, I was just like whoa like music can do that.
Speaker 2:I and then, like I kind of like started getting more into that, like as I kind of progressed, as like yeah no, and then I started getting into like modern rap and it's just like logic and shit. Like that logic, new logic, and we get it.
Speaker 1:You're biracial dude I've been listening to a lot of 50 cent lately, bro. Yeah, dude, 50 cent is the shit 50 cent is a menace.
Speaker 2:He goes hard, bro, he's a fucking menace, literally he goes hard I love him. He's great yeah um.
Speaker 1:So I do want to dive into the topic of of luis miguel, because that's something that we share. So, although like we're brothers and I'm your older brother, yeah, we have I feel like we have more differences than similarities, but at the same time, we do have a lot. We have the same sense of humor. People say we have the same laugh. We do and then, uh, and I thought it was super cool because I started liking Luis Miguel maybe about two years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you kind of followed. So I want to ask you how did you become a fan of Luis Miguel? How did that happen? Because for me it was like I kind of just saw a TikTok and it said Escucha el mejor album mexicano de todo el mundo. And it was like luis miguel. And then I started watching the show. And then, when I started watching the show, I started falling in love with the story and with the music of luis miguel and from there I just kept listening and listening, and listening.
Speaker 2:So I want to hear how you became a luis miguel fan well, for starters, you put me on, obviously, hell yeah, don't forget bro. But I don't know, it was just like kind of like an instance where, like I, I started listening to like kind of like more and more because, um, just like, I just put it on spotify and then I think I was um and also there's more than because, when you say luis miguel, everybody's always thinking like his first thing. That's like he was.
Speaker 1:He was that's like he was like 18 when he was 17 when he put that shit and if you think about it, bro, like that's not even, that's probably not even top five of our favorite songs.
Speaker 2:That is not like five, that's like pop.
Speaker 1:That's not even like luis miguel that we love yeah, that's like.
Speaker 2:Uh, no, that's, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:It's just pop.
Speaker 2:One of the songs that kind of like, really really kind of like got me like deep into it was I'm on his albums right now. Well, first of all, it was the album funny enough that came out in 1997, the year I was born. I know I'm onk.
Speaker 1:I'm onk, bro. I'm turning 30 this year. You're getting up there, bro. I was born, I know I'm onk. I'm onk bro. I'm turning 30 this year. You getting up there bro. Yeah we Ya me duele la espalda cuando me levanté. My fucking back was hurting dog.
Speaker 2:Romances 1997. That one was a great album. When I heard Sabor a Mi, that intro, yeah, I wonder if I can play it.
Speaker 1:you think I can play it?
Speaker 2:I, you won't get copyrighted hard as fuck I'm gonna play.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna play it for you guys, just like a quick snippet. So what I mean?
Speaker 2:it hits it with the no oh wait, no, that wasn't the damn wrong song are you thinking I know what you're talking about, though? Yeah, but either way I mean. So what I mean? A Mi, Sabor a Mi? Still that shit hits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for me my favorite song is from the album Romance, and that one came out in 1991, and it starts off like this Y no Olvida, oh my God, bro fucking levitating. No, it's called no Me Platiques, mas oh, that was the first one, no Me.
Speaker 2:Platiques Mas I think that song that I was talking about was inolvidable. It was this one. No, no, no, that's the song that starts off like that. So it was romances 1991. I love that song. So when I heard that song I was just kind of like that one. Yeah, I was just like yo like that one. Yeah, I was just like yo like, because I give credit to my dad too. So like I started to get into more like. Spanish music, spanish music, mexican music. I don't fuck with Spain like that, shut up.
Speaker 1:Mexican music. Mexican music.
Speaker 2:Mexican music. Don't yell at me, man, I'm your older brother.
Speaker 1:I'm not yelling at you man. Mexican music. No me grites wey, Yo soy tu hermano mayor. No, te estoy gritando wey, Nomás porque piensas que estás más alto que yo. Que tú me pinche, dominas, wey Sí.
Speaker 2:Anyways, I credit my dad too. You know, the GOAT, the GOAT, the GOAT Borre.
Speaker 1:La Borre, wey, la Borre La.
Speaker 2:Leona 2.0. He would listen to, like a lot of like, los Tigres del Norte.
Speaker 1:Los Tigres del Norte Conjuntos Primavera Los.
Speaker 2:Temerarios, but one of the ones that really stuck out to me, like when I was a kid and like I didn't really bat an eye. Obviously I was a kid, but like I still remember it was like Joan Sebastian hell yeah, joan.
Speaker 1:Sebastian, I need to get more into him because I just know, I just know his classics yeah but like those songs, good songs about love.
Speaker 2:He was obviously a player too, yeah, but like you know, like uh I hear that shit, I hear that shit and I'm just like fuck, like you really, you really saying that, bro? Yeah, I think that I think that's like sometimes like One of my regrets of not getting into, like the music earlier because, yeah, we got it. We got into it pretty late, yeah, and I, I, I told you I know his concerts are expensive but, like you know, I want to go see you with me and not to say that he's like fucking old as shit but like he's, he's a go, he's for real getting up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I Would have loved to see John Sebastian I in concert and same thing with with vicente. You know vicente has really great songs, too, that like not not even like his classics. You know, just like other songs that just like people really don't even like listen to, like that obviously like people who are newly getting into it, or just people just know the class. They listen to the classics, but yeah, something about when you're listening to music.
Speaker 1:Guys like, like I said, like I love lisa miguel in an aspect where I probably know every single one of his songs when you listen to an artist, listen to everything. Yeah, if you like him, it's for a reason, so he probably has really good music. Listen to the whole album. I like to listen to albums.
Speaker 2:I like don't just listen to the top five songs that are on apple, listen to everything you know so, especially with that, with music, so like when I first started working at byway, uh, kind of like a couple years, you know we we have you know bluetooth like a speaker there, so I'd be playing my songs.
Speaker 2:And then people would get like annoyed that I played kanye west and be like oh man, kanye again. And he's like he sucks. And I'm just like okay, how much, how many songs have you heard from him? He's like well, I only heard like a couple. I'm like that's not it that's not enough.
Speaker 2:They just know stronger yeah, and I was just like you haven't heard this album, this album, no, exactly. And then they finally, like you know, I started to like kind of get people more into that. And then people were just like yo, like kanye was like really fun, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like I know yeah yeah, you gotta tell me so you mentioned byway right now. Yeah, um, and I want to get into that topic yeah so for those of you guys who don't know, byway is a brewery and a restaurant in hammond, indiana. It's been open for carson drive. Baby, it's been open for how long? Uh, almost 10 years yeah, it's been open for almost 10 years 2016 we opened.
Speaker 2:Uh, I started in late 2016. They opened like february. Yeah, um, it's byway has grown a lot.
Speaker 1:It has and I think it's really cool because I started in late 2016. They opened in February. Byway has grown a lot it has, and I think it's really cool because since Byway has grown you have grown, I have grown, yeah. So first, before we get into the topic of Byway itself, I want to talk about what before, like after high school. When you were a senior in high school, bro, what did you want to do? I absolutely had no fucking clue.
Speaker 2:You had. What did you want to do? I absolutely had no fucking clue. You had no clue what you wanted to do. I had no clue. I was a lost cause.
Speaker 1:What did you do so you graduated?
Speaker 2:I graduated.
Speaker 1:Let's just say the school year ended in June. The school year ended in June.
Speaker 2:What did?
Speaker 1:you do from June to Be a hooligan. You were just chilling, right, you were just chilling right, I was just chilling. You didn't have a job.
Speaker 2:No, I did where.
Speaker 1:Bye, no before by way, because when did you start by way? Junior year? Oh, you started in high school dude.
Speaker 2:I graduated in 2017.
Speaker 1:I didn't know, you started in high school. Yeah, oh shit so oh, no, I started.
Speaker 2:No, I started early senior year. Okay, so you started working in at byway your senior year yeah, okay, because I didn't have a job up until that time. Gotcha, that was my first job, that's fine.
Speaker 1:That's fine. So you were a senior in high school and then you're working at Byway. So then, after you graduated, after high school ended, you just kept working at Byway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I was dishwashing and I was just kind of like you know, it was a little difficult because you know, like you're out of high school and you're just like, fuck, what am I going to do? And it's just like college never really kind of spoke to me. And I give credit to my chef, brian, who really kind of just like came up to me and was just like hey, like you know, we're going to start doing salads and things like this and just like desserts. I'm like do you want to be a part of that? And I was like, yeah, I'll give it a chance.
Speaker 1:Cause the, the, the. The kitchen is broke down into like the dishwashers, and then there's like the people who make just like salads and sandwiches, and then there's people who make like the more complex.
Speaker 2:It's going to explain that it branches off to dishwashing, so like that off to dishwashing, so like that's like kind of like put out in the corner, yeah, and then on the line it goes uh cold, which is salads, flatbreads, desserts, um, and then kind of in the middle is saute. So we just make everything from saute. We make uh pastas, we make we also make a beef sandwich and things like that. We make uh stir fry and then you go over to griddle and we make like you know, just your typical burgers, and then we make the og, which is a classic, and then you know fries, anything that comes off that we got a blt, things like that. Uh, poutine, if you haven't had it, shout out canada. Um, it's just like things like that, you know, and then we kind of like finally got it down yeah and it's, it's, it's definitely like it's stressful you know, uh, but I love it.
Speaker 1:It's controlled stress, yeah so let me ask you this real quick um I I know. So what is? I know I said chef eduardo in the beginning. Yeah, do, what makes? Do you have the? Are you a chef? Are you? What is your title?
Speaker 2:let me ask you this my title like at byway, yeah, or just like in general you at byway or in general? Uh, I would just want to say like I'm like the lead line cook. You know, I'm a chef. I think people view me as a chef so let me so like there really isn't like a chef at byway what makes someone a chef.
Speaker 2:What makes someone a chef? I mean it is the title, but it's also like kind of just what makes a chef. I really don't know. Like I really haven't gotten there when like when people call you chef.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at work sometimes yeah so they call you chef. What about outside of work? Would you be like I'm a chef?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, obviously I am a chef, I know. I don't want to say I know it all, because I don't yeah of course, um, but you know I got. I got friends that just refer to me as chef.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because, like I said, I mean me, like I'm a choreographer, yeah, but no one gave me that title.
Speaker 2:I didn't go to school for that title, it just kind of comes with it.
Speaker 1:you know, I feel like I earned the title choreographer, so is that kind of how it is in the kitchen. Do you just earn the? Or does anyone just say I'm a chef? Because there's a lot of people who do say they are chefs.
Speaker 2:Anyone can say they're a chef. But when you're working in a restaurant in a traditional restaurant, since we're not really like traditional um you, you gotta like climb the ladder. There's like chef de cuisine, chef de party, uh, things like that, and then there's just like executive chef. It took all those way, all those way, um, but things like that in like a more natural environment okay, so you are chef eduardo jimenez.
Speaker 1:I am a chef essentially. Essentially, yes, you are, yes, I am it took me.
Speaker 2:It took me like a while to kind of like recognize that yeah of course, because you know I've almost been doing this for 10 years too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because like I said, not only let's break it down. This is I do think that you deserve the title chef because, like I said, it's let's break it down. This is. I do think that you deserve the title chef because, like I said, it's not just and I'm not throwing shade at applebee's. I'm not throwing shade, this is just an example applebee's tgi's. When you go to a restaurant like that, there's people who kind of just cook and they kind of just do the same thing all the time. You know they just cook what's on the menu, but you, on the other hand, what you do is not only do you cook, but you also manage everything in the back of the kitchen.
Speaker 1:I don't know, exactly what your duties are, but I know you manage the kitchen. You also are a big part of creating specials, Because Byway what they're known for is they have specials. They can be weekly, monthly, but they have something different, something out of the ordinary that they do and it attracts people to come in.
Speaker 2:So you're in charge of that stuff too yeah, but I mean it's not just me, you know it's, it's three other people. I mean we got we got james, who's the kitchen manager. He's the one who actually, you know, takes care of like, just like, scheduling.
Speaker 2:Uh, he does the order, he does a lot he does he's, he's up, and then we have kyle, who's assistant kitchen manager, and then, you know, he just helps out james. I mean, we all just help each other out. Yeah, there really is no like. Oh well, you know, like, kind of like, we're gonna do it like this because I wanted to do like no it's.
Speaker 1:It's an open kind of like talk you share yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:We share ideas and things like that, and you know I dude james, fucking love that guy because, um, because byway is not like a corporate restaurant, it's like family owned.
Speaker 1:So if you have an idea, you could throw it out and they can make it happen. You know, that's the good thing about it, because it's like small but big at the same time yeah, exactly because I mean we do.
Speaker 2:We do outside events, we do events in-house and we just like katie's got a food truck recently truck. Yeah, we have had that food truck for almost three years. Yeah, you guys do festivals, festivals.
Speaker 1:You do pierogi fest private parties, all types of stuff yeah, um, like I said, so you guys do specials when it comes to kind of like a big holiday. If it's like a mother's day brunch, valentine's day, um all that stuff. In the summer you guys do like cookouts and stuff like that. So what are some specials that are coming up on byway?
Speaker 2:right now we have uh sopes what made you do that?
Speaker 2:I don't know. It's kind of just like we've been making tacos, so we have monthly specials. We have tacos, tacos, wings and a sandwich, but now we switched it up. So now we have a flatbread of the month, we have sopes and we still have a sandwich which is just like a meatball sub. Okay, that's cool, but it has like pepper, onion, bacon mix, things like that, and the sopes are just carnitas and then the flatbread is kind of just like, like, almost like think of like a nacho on a pizza.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, that sounds fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is. It's just like frijoles, yeah, chicken tinga, and just like three cheeses pico things like that.
Speaker 1:That sounds fire. I think one thing that Byway is known for is for their Valentine's Day dinner. So I know that's coming up.
Speaker 2:It's going to be coming up soon, so could you explain that a little bit? To us so normally every year we do like a like a five to six course meal. I I believe we're doing six this time.
Speaker 1:I I gotta double check um, so you gotta make a reservation for this yes, exactly you gotta make a reservation for this. It's on valentine's day, and what are some of the things that are on this? These courses, are you allowed to know? Is it a surprise, or what's that like?
Speaker 2:no, that's out right now.
Speaker 1:Let me uh, fall in lunch yeah, I'm gonna show you guys some pictures. Also, you guys can check out the instagram page of all these things that my brother has done. I think it's super cool because he's done a lot of things from like mexican fusion and with his own twist, um, so go ahead.
Speaker 2:So we are going to be having a grazing table which is prosciutto, pepperoni, salami, olives, things like that A little charcuterie board?
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little charcuterie board.
Speaker 2:And then the first course is going to be a pesto and balsamic burrata. Second course is shaved Brussels salad orange honey, vinaigrette, prosciutto, parmesan, toasted garlic breadcrumbs. Third course is going to be a handmade ravioli, actually that we're doing.
Speaker 1:You're making the pasta.
Speaker 2:I'm not making the pasta, I'm taking care of other stuff. Kyle is in charge of that. Oh nice, ravioli filled with egg yolk and ricotta, herb-infused creamy parmesan with parsley oil. And then the fourth course is going to be a pork, osso, bucco, tomato sauce, roasted garlic, mashed potatoes, asparagus, parsley. And the fifth course is going to be a tiramisu.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, so it's five courses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, five courses.
Speaker 1:So if you guys are looking for somewhere to go, I highly recommend that you guys make a reservation at Byway. It's super cool. Like I said, it's Valentine's Day. Everybody's all dressed up. I feel up, um, I feel like half of the people listening they probably didn't understand a word you said, because you said stuff like burrata, currata, chukaraka, like a you know what I'm saying, like they probably don't know what that is, but, guys, when it comes to food, I highly recommend that you just try all different types of food, because absolutely stop.
Speaker 1:I love chicken fingers I love food, bro, and I think it's cool that you cook and I taste it bro although you should cook more at home, because you don't cook a lot at home.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to cook more at home. You already know how mine is. She's yeah, you know, I do. You are the one who doesn't. I'm about to call you out right now. Hey, don't call me a podcast.
Speaker 1:This man does not clean up after himself in the kitchen I I want to tell a story of the very first time I ever saw you cooking so I know the story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course, of course you know where you experienced that.
Speaker 1:You were there. Um.
Speaker 1:So one thing is that our, our parents, they, they really support our dreams of my brother, listen, listen of my brother being wanting to be being a chef, of me being a choreographer and content creator, they really do support us. But at the same time I think naturally they're kind of just like we want you guys to pick something that's going to benefit you, where you have like benefits and all that stuff. Um. So I do understand that part, um, and my mom always kind of tells my brother like hey, you know you got to get out of the kitchen, do something that's going to benefit you and this and that.
Speaker 1:And when you very first started working in the kitchen I know you started like just, you know, with the whole like cutting things, like really, really dope and cooking and all that stuff, you talked about your love and your passion and you could see it. Because when you talk about it you could see it, because when you talk about it, you could see your love for the kitchen. Um. So I worked at byway for a summer and I remember the very first day that I went in there I was just like a, I was a host, I would just take food out the very first time I walked into that restaurant.
Speaker 1:Let me backtrack a little bit. So in the family you were known when you were little as like the troublemaker el travieso, the kid who was always up and down.
Speaker 2:Let me interrupt real quick. I was the OG ADHD motherfucker and everyone had a problem with that when I was growing up, sorry y'all. So I was the problem child. Fuck you, jake Paul, I'm the problem childall. So I was the problem child. Fuck you, jake Paul, I'm the problem child. Anyways, you were the problem child. I was the problem child, because I was misunderstood and I had ADHD and I would let that shit run loose and I would always get in trouble for that. Yeah, but now but anyway, all of a sudden, everyone got ADHD.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden, everyone got ADHD. Yo también lo. And everyone got adhd all all of a sudden. Everyone got adhd all of a sudden. It's cool to have adhd.
Speaker 1:Just saying it's not an easy life. Back to my story, um. So I was excited to see you in your craft, you know. So when I walked into the kitchen, boom I. I opened the door and all I see is you literally cooking.
Speaker 2:You were cooking bro you had the saucepan.
Speaker 1:You were going fire going up and I'm like, holy shit, that's my brother and his craft, I swear to you. I got a little tear in my eye. I was like wow. And then I started to see you work and you were in the zone no distraction, people were taking orders and stuff like that. So for me it was like you know what, although everybody saw my brother as a problem child, as a troublemaker, mischievous kid, when you're in the kitchen doing what you love completely different person You're focused, you're I was going to say adequate, but I I don't even know that's the right fucking word. I was just gonna say some cool word you're focused, you're in the zone and you're doing what you do. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you fucking love it and you're not that.
Speaker 2:You're a different person, but you're not that troublemaker anymore and I think it's super cool because you're in the zone loving it well, I had, I had to find that fine line yeah you know I, I had to because when I first started in the kitchen, I mean, you know I, I had that focus, but I was also like still, uh, kind of like bouncing around where I was just kind of like getting distracted and I was, um, being kind of like a goofball. Too many times I was more of a goofball than I was acting like a cook exactly, and I was just not creating problems at first because, you know, I left byway for like a year and I went to go work at a different restaurant because I just wanted to like kind of experience something else. But when I left byway, unfortunately I burned a bridge and that's like a regret that I kind of like have. What do you?
Speaker 1:mean you burned a bridge.
Speaker 2:I basically, when I left Byway, I wasn't, I didn't leave on the best terms. Oh, that's crazy, because that's crazy. Because I think I was like how old was I? I think I was like 20, 21. And I was still acting like Like a kid.
Speaker 2:Like a kid. And then when I finally got to that other restaurant, I didn't have a choice but to like, kind of like buckle down. I mean it wasn't like the fanciest restaurant, but I got to learn a lot, I got to work with people and, like I kind of got put in a situation where I was just like, oh, like I kind of missed my crew, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I went to go talk to byway again about coming back and for for like a little bit they didn't want me back.
Speaker 2:And then I kind of started talking more to my chef and I was kind of like talk to my manager, phil, shout out Phil, and I kind of just like told him like look, I want to, I want to come back and I want to prove myself.
Speaker 2:I want to come back and I want to show you guys that I'm like serious about this and I'm, you know, I'm not going to be like saying like all these, like kind of like you know, fucked up shit and things like that, or just like kind of like messing up the line, like I got focus and I think, um, when I came back, all eyes were on me and then when I finally came back, you know I, I locked in, you know I I put the difference between lalo and I became ed, yeah, um, yeah, and to me that that was that's something that I carry with me, because my, my manager, phil, he tells me like when we talk he's just like dude, you've grown so much from this point because, like when we hired you back, I was so scared that it was going to be like a situation where, yeah, you're just like you know you're fired because you were a fucking kid I was, but like now you know, I, I know how to balance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can, I can have fun and still be serious, but when it's time to get serious, like there's just like okay, like everyone better stop fucking around, yeah, because literally like you're even like that with me because you know, like me being your older brother, like we joke around a lot and then sometimes, like if I ever pass the line or if I trigger something, you're just like bro, fucking stop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know because, and then that that's like you know that, because service is service and that just like kind of comes back to like working in a kitchen, um, anything I say or do in service, if you get like not upset, not to sound like an asshole, but I'm gonna, if I say something to you during service, don't ever take it personally, take it with a grain of salt. Yeah, like I'm I'm in the shits, you know. Yeah, like I need things to get moving. Yeah, and I don't need people like being stupid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why, that's why I'm like pretty direct yeah when it comes to that thing. So you left byway for a little bit and then let me ask you this um, this was not actually the first time that you left Byway, because you actually left Byway again recently For like three days. You left Byway recently to basically what you were going to do is you were going to leave your dream and focus on a completely new career. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 2:So I got the opportunity to work with my dad. Well, I didn't work with my dad, but where my dad works and I was working as a carpenter for like two days.
Speaker 1:So let's give a little backtrack on what our dad does. So our dad is a union carpenter worker. He makes and this is not to no para presumir, just to he works his ass off, but he makes good money, amazing benefits and pretty much anybody. Any man who likes labor our age would dream for a job like that because of the opportunity. It's great if you have a family, it's great for yourself, it's just a great job with amazing benefits in the long run. So my dad working there, I have all our uncles work there. You know we're blessed to have a family that has, you know, really good jobs yeah, we're blessed to have a fan our family who works there and has really good jobs, um we could pretty much it.
Speaker 1:Pretty much, if you know someone you can get in it's not just like anybody, not anymore, not for you, sorry but pretty much it's not just like everybody gets in, like you have to know somebody, and yeah, so my parents were. My dad was always like if you guys ever want to join the construction, you guys can just let me know and we can make it happen.
Speaker 2:Look so, first of all, if you do these hard labor jobs, I just want to say you are all built different if you actually do it right. Like I said, my dad, um, I love my dad. You know, I to me, my dad is he's. He's one of my idols, he is my idol, I should say, and I've always idolized his work ethic and that's like something that I carried on in the kitchen, where I'm just like I this is gonna sound really bad, but if I ever get tired, I'm just like no, I'm not allowed to get tired. You know who is tired? My dad? Oh shit, that's who's tired. I'm not tired, literally. So I, I have to push myself, and that that's what it ultimately comes down to in a kitchen. You have to push yourself, but that's not to get too off topic. Um, so, so you joined the construction company. I joined the construction company first for two days.
Speaker 2:You only lasted two days I only lasted two days, because I was in there and it was complete hell, not because the work was hard, not because of that, but it was just like I, I did it and like I just felt like this giant wave of depression. Maybe it was because, like I left my crew and I missed my crew and I missed my kitchen, because I was doing something completely new. But you know, this is just like a me thing when I know I don't want to do something, I'm not, I'm not gonna fucking do it. You know, for for good reason, yeah, but you know, like I stick to my guns, you know, and doing that for two days, I mean I, I, not that, I was just like you know, I'm not gonna get the job done, I'm not gonna do this job. No, for those two days I did what they told me to do, I did what they needed me to do, they wanted me to put.
Speaker 2:I did what they needed me to do. They wanted me to put insulation I put insulation. They wanted me to pick up fucking nails. I picked up the nails.
Speaker 1:Whatever they told you to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever they told me to do I did. I never complained once. Only when I got out I was just like fuck. I was just like I don't want to be doing this. So then I got out, I called my manager and I was just like hey, I was like this shit isn't working out Because I was already going to kind of like work sometimes at Byway, just kind of like here and there. So I technically didn't like quit.
Speaker 1:But your full time was going to be construction, correct?
Speaker 2:And I called him and I was like, hey, um, this shit isn't working out. I'm just gonna. Is it cool if I come back? And he was just like yeah, absolutely, he's like you know.
Speaker 1:He's like yeah, please come back but did you explain yourself to him or just like that?
Speaker 2:yeah I did and um, he was pretty much like yeah, well, you know, if you don't like it, you don't like it yeah he's like it's good that you tested the waters yeah you know, and I want to kind of like keep doing that you know yeah because in in the next couple months I'll be working some somewhere else, kind of like part-time yeah kind of just like because I I crave more knowledge right now.
Speaker 2:I'm like in the, I'm in the age right now where I should be doing like a little bit more, you should, um. So I feel like I need a teacher again, because I had two great teachers, chef brian, for starters, you know he. He really taught me what I needed to know, like the first-hand basics and just like kind of like how to focus up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And just kind of like how to be serious, and I'll always appreciate him. He's always going to be someone who I'll always thank when I talk about cooking Because he's showed you everything. He's pretty much showed me everything, almost everything that he knew. Essentially, he said Chef Brian and who else? And Chef Saul Okay, chef Saul is who I worked with at Emilio's when I was there and he kind of showed me like a side of like, and this is where I kind of got the balance right. He showed me a side where you can still have fun Of course.
Speaker 2:Working the line.
Speaker 1:Especially Mexicans, bro. They be having fucking fun in the kitchen, dude. Hell yeah man.
Speaker 2:And that's what I wanted to take away. I still want to have fun Like if I'm being. I can still be serious and I can still make fun of you, you know.
Speaker 1:Literally.
Speaker 2:And I'll take that tone because I watched Saul work. He just flowed. And then I told myself, when I come back I want to be like that. Yeah that's good, and I wanted to flow and I started flowing and I feel like I want to do more in the kitchen. So I kind of like asked him I'm like yo, would you be down to have me work with you again? And he was like, yeah, absolutely. So I'm going to be doing that.
Speaker 1:So I think that's cool, that that way he can see like so you had, like your chef, brian, who taught you some things. He had Saul who taught you another thing and now, like Saul, hasn't seen you work in a while. So I think it's cool how he's going to see your evolution also think it's cool.
Speaker 2:He's gonna see your evolution also and then also you're gonna be evolving. Yeah, exactly, and I'm I'm really good friends with his son. Yeah, and his name is also brian um, I worked with him. He worked with me at byway, oh really, and he he was like kind of like how you told me when you first saw me, he was just like we talked after work and things like that.
Speaker 2:He's like dude, like you're so different, I could see the passion in you, right yeah, he was like you're so different, like you're actually like, just like you lock it down, like you you flip that switch. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying, bro.
Speaker 1:Like you know it's not like you're just, you're not just cooking in the kitchen no, I'm not you're fucking cooking. You know what I'm saying. Like you're cooking dog, like for real like it's, it's in the, it's in the blood, it's in the it is there's love in what you do yeah, and I I think like we come from a family that cooks really good.
Speaker 2:Ma cooks really good, our grandma cooked really good. Grandpa cooks. When he does this, like he throws down yeah, we'll be throwing down, bro. I mean, I'll be trying to throw down here and there I make some good hot dogs I make some good hot dogs.
Speaker 1:You try, so you.
Speaker 2:You did, and you know what sometimes you have to leave what you love in order to understand how much you really love it and that that's kind of what happened, because I was just like holy shit, like why am I gonna fucking give this up and that's and that's, and that's what I try to explain it to ma. Yeah, and, like you know, I know she wants like what's best for me, but at the end of the day it's like it's my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know it's like, and then you leave her and you're like oh man, I miss her. And then you come back and you realize how much you actually love her. I never had that happen, I'm just kidding, it's like that.
Speaker 2:It's like that um but but yeah, I mean that's, that's the main thing about it, you know, it's just like I know what I want, yeah, and, like you said, I'm terrible with that, that kind of thing hey, but you gotta chase it bro I got to and I, you know, I, I, even when those two days I even texted you. I'm like dude, this is not what I wanted.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um let me ask you this um holiday right now 27, 27, yeah look, I'll be forgetting. I'll be forgetting how old you are. Sometimes, bro, you're 27 years old, uh-huh, freshly turned 27, yep, do you have any new year's resolutions?
Speaker 2:yeah or no. Well, I mean that is it getting old? No, I, I do. I just want to get back into fitness again. I want to get training again. I want to do this. Past year I was just doing weights. I really was skipping cardio.
Speaker 1:Let me mention this Although you like to cook, you're also really into fitness also.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been getting more into fitness this past couple years, so have I, so have I. I want to start doing more cardio, um, things like that, just like, kind of like, just kind of like get the blood flowing, because I can lift weights all day okay and that and that's fine, but, like you know, cardio is pretty important too so you got fitness in your, uh, new year's resolutions.
Speaker 1:Anything else?
Speaker 2:eating a little healthier you know eating healthy I've been cutting so I don't really eat fried foods that much.
Speaker 1:So kind of like fitness, staying active, your health.
Speaker 2:It's funny because every day I work. Damn near every single time I work, I have a kale salad with chicken. Nice bro, that's good, that's really good actually. Shout out the cranberry kale salad at Byway.
Speaker 1:If you don't like kale, you'll like this Guys, you guys, after listening to this episode, you have to go to Byway and when you go, tag Little Shy Podcast. Are those kind of the only New Year's resolutions you have?
Speaker 2:And just kind of just keep doing what I've been doing. I've been on a good track of just kind of like taking care of myself. I've been a big advocate on doing that. I'm just going to keep doing what I need to do. It's not a New Year's resolution, it's more like a thing I want to do. First of all, I'm sorry Mom and Dad, I'm getting a tattoo this year. That's cool, you can do it. That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1:You do what you want, man you send it. Yeah, yo mando aquí, manda mis huevos. Before this episode ends, I do just want to hit a small little topic, and it's goals, yeah, goals. So you being 27 years old, bro, yeah, I know that right now, pretty much what it looks like is that you're going to continue in the kitchen, you're going to continue into in the kitchen, you're going to continue cooking. So I think that I think that there there's still more.
Speaker 1:So, although you're at, you're at the top of byway status, I think you need to come up with some short-term girl goals to see what else you can do yeah you know, because, like I said, for me I feel like I've hit my choreography goals and now I've got to think of something else, for example, some of my short-term goals for this New Year's resolution. For this New Year's, for me it hits different because I turn 30.
Speaker 2:Damn.
Speaker 1:I turn 30 in June. For me, it hits different. For me, my short-term goals are one I'm working on my finances, yeah, saving more, spending less, working for the future, and I know I said this out. There is that I. I really I do want to move in a year. I want to move, so I want to. I want to, like you, got to make sacrifices so that I'm able to, because I feel like there's more opportunities in you know what I'm saying like there's more opportunities in in miami compared to, like munster, indiana, you know, yeah, um, so that's something that I'm working on my health, my fitness, um, just being more active, and then just kind of like breaking, breaking the comfort, comfort stuff yeah, and then that that's kind of like something I've always been um an advocate for is just like coming out of your comfort zone yeah and uh, if it wasn't already evident like I'm, I'm a lot more different than everyone in our family, because I'm just like see where it is different to see.
Speaker 2:You'll say more, more on the aspect of like, of uh, like I said, I'm to do what I want to do, not in the aspect of I'm going to do all this bad shit. No, I'm going to take control of my life. I know there's that stigma when it comes to being Latino or just kind of like foreign parents and things like that, where they want to try to control your life Not to say that my parents want to control everything in my life, but at some point they did.
Speaker 1:But it was for a good reason. What it was. They want what's best, exactly, but they, you know they try to like, steer you and mold you. Yeah, but sometimes you have to break the mold and make your own mold yeah, I have.
Speaker 2:I have to be who I am. I want to be myself, you know, because, like um, maybe I'm not the person who they, who I want to be or who they want me to be, but I'm becoming the person I want to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, literally, bro. That's honestly, although our parents gave us everything that we have asked for and they raised us. At the end of the day, you have to do, as long as you respect your parents, you love your parents, you still got to do you.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and that's kind of what it comes down to yeah, yeah, um.
Speaker 1:So yeah, like I said, uh, because I know you said you're gonna keep doing what you're doing, but I feel like you can keep doing what you're doing, but push a little bit, you know and that's why, like I'm like, like you said, breaking out of comfort zone, I'm gonna go work somewhere else yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna start learning more's going to be uncomfortable, and that's what cooking is.
Speaker 2:You're not going to get it on the first try sometimes, and if you do, then you know awesome. It's a lot of trial and error and I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not perfect, but I have to strive for perfection 100%.
Speaker 1:I think what would be really cool is that, as the podcast continues to grow, I think I would love to have a little shy event here at the house. That'd be cool. We got a brand new porch, we got two grills, we got the sound system we can have DJ.
Speaker 1:Speaks here. I think it'd be cool to do a little shy event and we could have you be a part of maybe create an item for the menu. I was going to say I want to do more since we have, and we could have you be a part of maybe create an item for the menu.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. No, yeah, I was going to say I want to do more. Since we have, like you said, the porch, I want to do more outside things. I want to invite my friends over, like, hey, I'm going to be grilling, I'm going to be doing this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Come on over, I'll be working the grill.
Speaker 1:You guys just sit back time. I want to cook for you guys. Yeah, that'll be super, super dope, things like that. Um so, before we leave out, um anything that people could expect from byway soon just a lot more specials.
Speaker 2:We're getting a lot more creative. We're kind of just like buckling down on the creativeness of like, kind of like getting, uh, new and approachable items as time progresses, not to say that we haven't, but, like you know, just kind of like we're going to be doing a lot more, yeah, and we're trying to like kind of lock down specials so that we're not like falling behind on that kind of.
Speaker 1:Thing um, and we're just going to try to keep growing as a kitchen yeah and that's what it's going to be yeah, and then make sure you make your reservation for valentine's day also. Like I said, you won't regret it. And if you guys check it out, just make sure you tag Little Shy Podcast Just to see that you've gone Anything that people can expect from you personally. Hopefully getting swoller Aye babe, where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 2:People can find me on social media. Oh man, I don't even know my own tag.
Speaker 1:Dude don't even know his Instagram, bro.
Speaker 2:dude don't even know his instagram bro, j-i-m-e-n-e. Underscore z33 got you what's the z33 sample?
Speaker 1:z33 is the chassis code for the nissan 350z maybe next time that you're on the episode we got to talk more about like the car stuff and like your trip to japan and all that stuff yeah because you did a lot of stuff I kind of just wanted to focus on like the whole byway and cooking thing.
Speaker 1:But, guys, thank you so much for listening. Lalo, thank you for taking time out of your day to be on the podcast. I know it was a long way for you, a long drive. You just had to walk downstairs to the studio.
Speaker 2:I just had to literally walk downstairs.
Speaker 1:So, guys, make sure you, like I said, turn your post notifications on on Apple and Spotify so that you can get notified. We got a Little Shy podcast episode every single Monday. Your boy is back. I got some crazy, super dope, exciting news for you guys.
Speaker 2:Mario Lopez is going to be on the podcast now. I wish no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Your boy got invited to Podcast Fest in Orlando Florida, all inclusive. I ain't paying for shit. I'm super excited I'll be in Orlando Florida in next week actually.
Speaker 2:So I'm super excited.
Speaker 1:It's just like this podcast just started and it's already been growing so much. I feel the love. Thank you guys so much for the love. Thank you guys so much for listening. Until next time.
Speaker 2:Peace out Girl Scout.