From Bodegas To Ringtones: Growing Up Latino In The 2000s

We rewind to the 2000s through Latino New York: bodegas, block parties, long white tees, and the nights reggaeton turned small rooms into sweat-soaked dance floors. From AOL and MySpace coding to beepers, Nextel chirps, and flyer hustles, we map how a decade shaped our taste, work, and tribe.

Transcript

Late-Night Return And Setup

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I think the mic should be working. It should be. It is working. The intro is about to drop. Damn, damn, damn. Oh yeah. We are back. We are back. We are back. We are back, people.

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Where I got that from?

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I want to say uh Hangover, bro. Hangover, yeah. We are back. We are back. Yes, we are. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. Welcome back to episode number two, season two. We've been MIA. Yes, we have been. And we apologize. You know, we gotta work.

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That's right.

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We're running a restaurant, which has been pretty solid. My boy here will has been killing it with the mixology.

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Thank you, sir. Thank you.

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Shout out to you, my boy.

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Respect. You know, thank you.

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Uh so yeah, we have been MIA, but you know what? We're back and we gotta, I think we finally found a home where we can record comfortably. Uh it is late. We're actually recording late. This is our first episode where we're recording on the later side.

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After hours.

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After hours. So yeah, tune in, man. I'm excited. With

Why We Went MIA

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today's topic is uh what are we talking about today?

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You're talking about the uh Latinos raised in uh the 2000s. The 2000s.

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Or just the 2000s.

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Just the 2000s, I mean, you know.

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By the way, this is your boy uh Deneer Rincone and my homie over here, uh William Garcia.

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Yo, yo, yo, yo. What's Gumi Hente? Welcome back. This is another episode, you know how it is small talk with Compa. Man. It's time to vibe, brother. It's time to vibe. Let's go. Let's make this happen.

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So obviously, we've been MIA. What have we been doing, my brother? What have you been doing? Talk to the people. MIA facts. We've been quick.

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Yeah, we've been, we've been uh, it's not like we wanted to, it's just that it's a lot of things going on. Um, nothing that we want to share in count in in the podcast just because it's just about work. Yeah, it's pretty boring. It's pretty boring. It's not really something like we need to like, you know, specify. I think you already knew. Uh, but I I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that's being patient. There was a couple of people that uh wanna just like letting me know, like, hey man, we're season two coming out. We're really like really stoked about it, and we really want to hear more about you. So that was really exciting and really appreciate you all. Yeah, so yeah, that's basically it. Honestly, we're you know, we're not really it's not that we uh we don't want to record, just that we've been busy.

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Yeah, I mean it's uh we we've been running a restaurant that's been thank thank goodness uh relatively busy,

Setting Tonight’s Theme: The 2000s

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and it's a blessing, honestly. It's a really blessing in the sky that we've been uh busy in one of the most busiest states in the country.

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Busiest block, West Village.

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We don't it don't play here, capital of the world, New York City.

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Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

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Anyway, so what are we drinking? We are not drinking actually. I am drinking uh club soda.

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And I'm drinking a ginger ale lame.

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What a bunch of squares.

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But yeah, but let's talk about the 2000s. I mean, you know, it's definitely like something that that I I uh I actually like the fact that that you want to talk about this uh this topic.

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This is a good topic, you know. This is when uh this is when some of these uh you know, a lot of things a lot of things came out in the 2000s. It was a good era.

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So bring back a lot of memories, you know, talking about like bodegas and um black parties. So remember parties. Remember those parties we used to do when um our boy DJ Bless was uh Jane. So those are kind of like we were the promoters, yeah. Shout out to DJ Bless. What up, my boy? Oh, you're doing good, man. Um, and just like you know, just cutting the shits with the like with our boys, just you know, even random stuff.

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Even though we were out and about, I gotta say, I I never felt like we were like like we were balling.

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But you know what? But I felt like, yeah, we weren't balling, but in our minds we thought we were. You know what I mean? Like we were like in our block, and I we felt like we never needed to take a vacation or

Block Life, Fashion, And Feeling Rich

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anything like that. The block was the vacation. Well, yeah, exactly. We're like, we never like left the hood. That's what I think. I mean, you know, because it was just fun. It was fun. You know, we had we had the bodegas, like I was mentioning before. We had, you know, we play ball in the courts, then we get ready, go home, you know, have some quick dinner. And you know what was the fun part about that? Is that we knew we were gonna go to a party, so we get ready, you know what I mean?

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You know, checking out where the uh the what was the brand back in the day? The Fubu? The Fubu or the Eniche Pele Pele. Pele Pele, the Averyx jacket in the winter. Oh, if you had one. Oh, you had one.

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Yeah, we had that. We had the you had the Avracks with your fucking um baggy ass jeans and long white T. Oh man. Oh, remember when we used to rock those long ass jerseys? All those long white shirts. I do, yeah. Like different cookies. You know what?

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That was an era though. That was a hip-hop era.

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That was a hip-hop era.

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Uh 50 Cent. All those also the Fat Joe. Fat Joe. Uh all the ATL people that had on those long ass. They had those long ass jerseys. They also had those long ass chains. Yeah. Those were good times, man. That was good. Uh good music. Music was out. Yeah, man. Did you ever and you in that era, did you ever rock anything like fake? Like fake Jordans or fake anything? I think I'll be honest. They were out there, boy.

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They were out there. I think the only fake thing I was wearing was my my earring.

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Like a stud?

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Yeah, I got a big ass diamond in my and I thought it was like it was shining. Yeah. But that was fake. I never wear a fake gold though. Or fake chains. That that that had to be real because it was just, I don't know. I just didn't wear any fake. But nah, other than that, I was pretty. Or any fake designer? Nah. Nah, right? Nah. Yo, I grew up with my I grew up with my cousins in Brooklyn, and those motherfuckers were like, nah, you never wear fake shit, man. You remember that brand that had the like those Walt Disney characters? I forgot the brand. You remember? Iceberg. There you go. Damn. Yeah, you remember that? Yeah, you went way back. Yo, that was yo, that was what I was rocking back then. That was a really good clothes, right?

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I bet you somebody would rock it right now and probably look mad fly.

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Hey, whoever did, yo, we could bring that back. Word. Nah, we old heads though. But what about you, man? Like in the 2000s, what bor were you grow up?

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Like, well, I was we I grew up in mostly uh Corona, Queens. A little bit in uh in Astoria. Actually, the Astoria was the the the four but it was a little more in the late 90s, but in the 2000s, I was definitely more in Corona. Okay. Getting in trouble playing handball, yeah, going out late. You know, my my d my cousin was uh um Osonidero, so we used to we used to leave the states and go to Connecticut or Jersey to to play uh like gigs out there. Okay, and then I would yelled at by my mom.

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Yeah.

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Like, what the fuck are you doing in Connecticut? And you know, I'm like, you know, just and then La Chinga came a spit out.

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Right, right.

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Not La Chinga, but she was tight. My mom was tight.

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I'm telling you, man, mother now mother nowadays are are different from where how we grew up. Bro. It was just like we didn't get away with shit. We didn't get away with shit.

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Especially like, I don't know, and I know you have to remember this. Like, when y'all were doing your homework and your mom or your dad was sitting next to you, and and you were trying to do some map problem, and you didn't get that map problem right. Yo, they weren't expected chingadaso.

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They weren't patient, man. Nah, but they were looking at you like yo, hurry up.

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You know why though? Because they come home and they tired. Last thing they want to do is fucking help you with homework. But that's how it was, though.

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh apprends or apprendes a punta de chingadasos.

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For real, man.

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That's a big saying.

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That was the big saying. It was just like chingadasos after chingadasos. And then it was like, and I was it's not that I was a dumb person. It

Queens Roots, Flyers, And DJ Beginnings

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was I think the fear of them just sitting there, it's just your head was just blank. Like we knew the answers, but as soon as they sat down, it was just like we're the dumbest kids on earth. Seriously. That mother had that like look in her eye. That's that's what I think I had to fear. Just looking at her, just staring at me. That that really like you better get this right. Yeah. Fuck, man.

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They ever she ever send you uh to bed without eating, without dinner? Nah, she always fed me. She always fed, yeah.

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They always fed me. Yeah, they always fed us. Yeah. Yeah, they weren't that mean.

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No, but yeah, that was me. Uh we we were out DJ partying, DJing with my cousin.

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Yeah.

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Uh, what else?

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Uh, so so were you the were you the type that you could just go to the to the cumbias? To the Sonidero?

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I I mean I used way back when I used to give out flyers. Um actually, yeah, in the early 2000s. I started I was giving out flyers for uh for uh a Masura. You know that nightclub in Jamaica? I never heard of that. So it was a Jamaica, it was a club in Jamaica called Amasura. It was mainly like a Latin bass. Okay. Uh Latin DJs, Latin bands. Oh, so it wasn't strictly the Mexican music. No, no, no. It was it was everything. It was more like hip-hop, a lot a lot of Dominican, a lot of a lot of salsa. Okay. Actually, now that I remember, my brother used to promote a lot of that stuff, and then that's how I got affiliated with uh there's this restaurant on Corona called La Cabana.

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Yeah.

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Which, if you haven't gone, bro, that's a good Dominican food right there. Anyway, they used to do uh shows in the story in uh in that in that club, and I don't know how I just think I just walked in there and I needed a job, and I started giving out flyers right there in Junction Boulevard in Roosevelt. And he's like, you gotta give out these 2,000 flyers. And you were helping your brother out like that? No, my brother wasn't with them.

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Okay.

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Oh, so you were helping the actual promoters from at that time it was uh DJ Camelo when he was first starting, uh DJ Envy, because DJ Envy from Coop from Queens. Who else is out there? Uh just a bunch of DJs that are now like, you know, superstar DJs.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

Yeah, so you really was like close to like music, yes, yeah. At a young age.

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Yeah, for sure. Uh but you know what? I was so young that I didn't, I wasn't allowed to go into the into the clubs because you know you had to be like 18 and over. You didn't even have the connection. They would just you, nah. I did, but he didn't he he played it legit. Play it safe. Yeah. Yeah. Uh so he was just like, I was just the mule giving out the giving out flyers on Junction Boulevard. And what I did though, I was like, damn, this is like 2,000 flyers. Where the fuck am who's gonna take these shit? I just walked around the blocks and I just stuck them in the mirrors of the cars.

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Yeah. I bet you ain't the first person of the last.

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That was fun though. Yeah. Like, yeah, it was, I mean, it was a little job, and he didn't pay me shit, but you know, whatever, a little money, little money. That's why I never felt like I was a baller.

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But just you know, being around, you know, people that that were doing what you you know wanted to do, or at least, you know, it was fun doing it. I mean for sure.

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I also didn't even have a cell phone, so I had a beeper.

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You remember back then in 2000, what was that, the the chirp chirp, the next tells? Oh my god.

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Yo, if you know about Next Hell, then you know you're from New York.

Beepers, Nextel, And Early Texting

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Then you know you're from New York. That's for the new.

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Which one did you have?

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Huh?

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Which one did you have?

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All of them, but you did? Yeah, the one that the one that was the best.

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It must be nice to be rich.

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Well, it wasn't that I was rich. It was just like, yo, back in the day, man, you know, I mean, you know this. When we were working in the restaurants, it was just like we used to make as a busboy, man. I was making almost a G.

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Damn.

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You know what I'm saying? So at what age was this? How old were you? Fuck, I was like, shit, 2000.

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So you're talking about And you were like 24, maybe 24, 25, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. That was pretty. Nah, I didn't I didn't. I was working at uh at a grocery store.

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Oh shit.

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Yeah, I didn't I didn't make much. Real New York right there. Yeah, you got her. Uh the graveyard shift. Shit. From what was it, from seven, I think seven to seven.

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But those were like the fun shifts for like a young kid.

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Slaving.

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Like you had, but you had no no no boss, you know what I mean? Or did you? You know, like because normally in the graveyard, yeah, you had like someone that maybe wasn't manager, but like really didn't care.

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I was happy I was I had to like most of the time I would be sleeping. Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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And I would try my best to like fill the job, like finish the job, but fuck that shit. These motherfuckers weren't paying me the shit.

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I know, I know. It's a it's a it's a it's a shift that nobody wants, and yeah, it's not really a good pay. But anyway, going to the 2000s, like what what type of music were you like really into? Like, you know, because you know, back in those days, I mean, reggaeton, that was the golden years. Like, that they just blew up. So I know you were definitely on that. But like, talk to me about like besides reggaeton and hip hop, what was the other type of music that people don't that people would wouldn't think you were here, that you were like on it.

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Uh probably I was I was a big fan of um still, I still am a big fan of like Los Temeradios. Sorry. Uh Grupo Brindis. Uh-huh. Uh I love Rindis. That kind of music. Like what is that called? Like balada? It is so. But you bro, you know, you you know you listened to that too when you were in the in that era too. Your mom was probably playing that. Okay, so let me rephrase the question.

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You were hearing music that you weren't afraid of people knowing that you're not. Nah, fuck that shit. See, I used to hear those, but low-key. I don't know why. No. I used to do it like low-key. Like I should be I should hear like Los Temerarios and like brindis and liberacion. But not like out loud.

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Yeah.

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But Toda Mujer es romantico.

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See, we know. I was, I mean, I I I I love that music. I also, like Norteños was also very a big mix in my in my in my household. But besides that, it was always mainly cumbia, bachata, reggae, um, hip-hop, and then eventually reggae tongue came

Bodega Bites And Cheap Eats

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in the mix. Yeah. And obviously RB for the ladies. Yeah, of course. You can't. What about you? What were you what did you listen to besides the major, major genres?

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I was into that, yo. You're gonna you're gonna laugh at me. I wonder. I was so into that techno shit.

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Son.

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Bro, I don't know what it was, man. It was probably, I don't know. It was just something about that. It was just it was pumping me up, man. I used to hear that when I was just like in the shower, or you know, back then I used to go to the gym. I used to, you know, pump those type of music, which is kind of like high vibe and energy type of thing.

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Damn.

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That was a thing that I used to hear a lot.

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Did I know this about you? I don't think I did.

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Uh but yeah, that that was my thing, honestly. Uh, but yeah, then I I I was on reggaeton. Who wasn't on reggaeton in that time? It was just it just blew up. Uh we used I used to play a lot of PlayStation, and I used to play that that um that the football, the uh FIFA. Yeah, yeah. And there was so so there was a FIFA 2004. I'm pretty sure for all the FIFA fans. Oh, see we told that one. They used to have this song, and I'm not gonna like sing it in because it sounds powerful.

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No, it's just it's just it's sing it and add some harmony to it.

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It's the beat. I don't know the beat. It goes, that techno. I think that's what's like for me, it was just like that's why I went on a techno run. I dig it. I did it. Yeah, my boy Spencer. Shout out to him, man. He was he was he was on it too. That's hilarious to this day. That's funny.

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Um so yeah, so we did you have a beeper or a cell phone? You had a cell phone, you said I had the Next Tel and the flip shit.

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The T-Mobile um the StarTech? Nah, the uh the the psychic. There you go. The psychic. Yeah, that shit was bad. That was fire though.

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That shit was brolic too. That shit was mad big.

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I used to love that shit.

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Yeah, that was the beginning of texting.

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Yeah, it was. The beginning of texting.

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So you never had a beeper when you were younger?

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Oh, but that's the 90s, no?

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See? Must be nice to be rich.

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That's the yeah, yeah. It was funny too, because like I used to have a beeper.

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And you know what? It was mad cheap too. It was like $6.99.

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But did you ask for the beeper or did you just or they gave it to you? Because they

AOL, LimeWire, And MySpace Code

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gave him a beeper.

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Nah, I think it was it was when the beepers came into play. And I'm like, damn, I want one of those shits. And I want I wanted one of those colorful ones. Yeah, clear. Small ones, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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I remember those. That's what I had. I had the I had the light blue ones, clear ones. Oh, I had the red one. Yeah, the red one had the blue one.

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And they used to, we used to message. Yeah. Like I had a lady at the time. I used to message her, like, I love you and shit.

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Hello.

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Fucking yeah.

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Well, I never asked for a beeper. The truth be told, I got the beeper because my father bought himself a beeper, and then he like, listen, I gotta, you know, stay in touch with you. Yeah so he bought me, he bought me a beeper.

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You better call me back when you better call me back.

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You better call me back. And you know, back then when he had those celllies, we had the freaking 25 cents um uh telephone booths in NYC. Oh, yeah. I missed those, man. Those were those were those were solid. I think they took all of them down. Whoever could find them. There might be a few left.

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I think there's one left in in the city. Probably. I think I think so. I could be wrong. Anyway, take a picture. Um uh food of choice when you were that age. I have a list. Cup noodles, our Cheetos, Eggro. Yep, or uh or uh um Come? Uh the fucking uh Chinese food, the chicken wings with French fries.

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Yeah. You gotta understand, man. For the people that are listening to us right now, you're probably like, these motherfuckers, I don't know what the fuck they eat.

SPEAKER_02 17:29

Yeah, what the fuck are they talking about?

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Man, we we yo we We're basically telling you how old we are. Yeah, that was one. But yo, the food that I used to eat, bro. Yo, you remember they used to make the hot dogs, but they used to like cook it real well. And then we didn't have those hot dog buns. So we used to get the wonder bread. And we used to take the wonder bread and yo, fuck. Bum bimbo? But yeah, those taste delicious, though. I used to eat like two or three of those. We had the hamburgers, but we didn't have the hamburger buns. So again, we used the freaking wonder bread. I'm telling you, man. Those were the good times. Those were the good times. Come on, come on, pushes were mad tasty.

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So, what about when you were like out and about and like what would where would you what would you go? What was your go-to uh meal?

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Meal? When you had like uh a little bit of money. When I had a little bit of money, man, I for me it was an Applebee's. Damn. Yeah, man. You know that movie theater right there in uh in Astoria, bro. You know what I'm saying? Right next to that strip club on Riviera. Ooh.

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This man said Applebee's. What was my what was me? I think you see the no me it was like again, we we I used to go to I used to go a lot to Chinese, Chinese food. Yeah, Chinese food. I used to eat uh I used to have an egg roll, yeah, a bag of french fries, okay, and make sure you put ketchup and hot sauce in those french fries. Yes, sir. And maybe a pork fry rice, a small one. Oof. No onions, leave the uh the bean sprouts, please.

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Yeah, I used to get a half chicken with french fries, ketchup and hot sauce, a must. And um, yeah, that was my thing. And the egg roll.

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But at home, I always used to love uh something basic like white rice and like fried hot dog. Oh and and maybe some ketchup, if so.

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I used to have that poor Mexican food. Like what? The the hot dogs with the egg.

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Hot dogs with the egg.

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Oh, see, wait, see my mom used to make the but that was like

Promoting Parties And Packed Clubs

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a breakfast thing, though. But yeah, that's delicious. That was that was it. I'll still eat that right now. Hell yeah. With wonder bread.

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With one with wonder with wonder bread.

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If you were Mexican, there was a wonder bread in your house.

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There was definitely pan bimbo in your house for sure.

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Yeah, for sure. Because we use that for anything.

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All right, so talk to me about the technology at that era. What did you have? A computer?

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Yeah, I got that AOL. Just old. That was old, man. I used to love it. Lime wire? Lime wire, man. Did you know how to use it? Yeah, man. I used the Neptunes, wasn't it? Oh, Napster. Napster, sorry. Bro.

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That shit was a shit though.

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But what do you think about it? Think about this though. I'm thinking. When it came to technology, man, it was a wonderful time. I felt like it was.

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We're millennials.

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We saw we're we saw it.

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We saw when we were in the 90s, didn't have shit, and we were just hanging out in the street.

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In the phone with a cord.

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Long ass cord, too.

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We're lucky we stretch it out from the living room to the kitchen.

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What else? We saw the beepers, we saw the next tells, we saw the beginning of the social media.

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It was like an evolution, man. It was great.

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Like the millennials is the fucking best.

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It was a great, it was fun times.

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I thought I think so.

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Yeah.

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I think we lived an amazing life. We saw we saw everything unfold. But yeah, back to the line wire and shit. That shit was awful. I think we might have had one computer growing up, and my genius ass, I uh decided to download music and then it just fucked everything up.

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It wasn't prepared for it. It was too much memory, man. Not even. I had those big ass like uh speakers, speakers, and then I had this big ass computer monitor in front. Yeah, that for sure.

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Matt Heavy too.

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Yeah, it was Dell.

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Dell?

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Yeah. It was fucking huge. With a fucking CPU, freaking big ass keyboard. I don't understand why. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

And our computers is a massive. I mean, they're right here in the palm of our hand.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

You remember we used to do on uh we used to go to AOL A S L. A S L. You remember that?

SPEAKER_02 21:32

No, I don't ask what was that?

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Age, sex, location. Santa. Nah, I don't remember that. Yeah, remember we used to go chat with your I don't know, we used to meet some people in like in a chat room and then you know, with weird ass like usernames, and then you know, we just talk and then you know, we were like, hey, what's your age, sex, and where's your location? What's your name? What's your sign? Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Do you remember your house home number? My apartment number? Yeah, like your landline. Yeah. I bet 2R? No, my miss the uh your landline. What do you mean? The the phone.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Like the the actual telephone number?

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Yeah, yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Crazy.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

I still do. You do? I guess it's uh

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SPEAKER_02 22:20

718-205 1452. You just actually you probably just you think I made that up?

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Gave out a number.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

No, that's uh uh and then I also remember my first uh my first address. 24 24 2604 93rd Street. Nah, I don't remember mine.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

I remember the street though, but not not the number that's crazy, bro. You got a good memory.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

You got a good memory.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Apparently not.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Yeah, and then we and then we watched uh we watched everything on phone. You know what? We also missed in the in the that that we haven't brought up. Yeah. The great times of ringtones. Remember the ringtones?

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Oh, those amazing times. Because we correct me my wrong, but but we wish we should do we were able to like cut and edit our ringtones.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

That shit was crazy.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

From uh well at that time it was what iTunes uh um iTunes, I think, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Yeah, yeah, it was iTunes.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Or you could have just bought them from Apple Music for what, like 99 cents or something?

SPEAKER_01 23:20

That was good.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Yeah, ringtones were in the 2000s.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

What about the ones when um uh we used to uh we used to have voicemails and we used to like record a music in the background and then we used to be like, hey, this is Will, call me.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Yeah, I definitely do.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Yo, that was funny. You let you let like a little drop first, and then you and you like like you put like a themid out of your song? No. I can't wait to then you fade out, you'll be like, This is Will. Just give me a call.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

Don't you have something like that right now?

SPEAKER_01 23:56

I don't know. My shit is mad professional now.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

What does it say?

SPEAKER_01 24:00

It says uh you're uh you reach Will, please leave a name and message, you know.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

Yeah, this is the this was the ringtone of the of the of that time. Go.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Bro, this shit was everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

I was everywhere, bro.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

Youngsters, if you listening, make sure you make sure you download this ringtone.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

For real.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

This is why I'm hot. Yep. This is why I'm hot. All right, let me clip that because I don't want to get sued. Anyway, that was it. That was a good time, though. Ringtone. That was dope. That was dope. It was fun. That's what I thought. It was fun. It was the again, it was the beginning of the transition of uh from ringtone to text messaging and then social media. Remember MySpace? Oh did you have a MySpace? My Space was fire though.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

My man Tom and his MySpace.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Tom, he was my friend.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Yep, he was my friend too. It was everybody's friend. It was everybody's friend. That shit was, dude, I couldn't stop not being in MySpace.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

I know. Did you have a layout?

SPEAKER_01 24:57

I had the layout. It was cool because remember they used

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SPEAKER_01 25:00

to give you like this like opening creative part where you could just like download any any like theme.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

And then you could put it on your layout. Yeah. I mean, it was fun, man.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

You know what though? Now that I think of it, I remember us creating those layouts, but those shits were like coded. So we were coding and we didn't even know it. Because remember, you had to copy and paste the code.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Ah, yeah, yeah. Kind of like hiding the links. Yeah, exactly. So we were doing that without even noticing. Look at this.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Those fucking geniuses. Thank you, Tom, for teaching us how to code without even us knowing.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

That was fun.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

Uh, and then that was also the time of AOL.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Um, but we talked about that. AOL, AOL.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

It had like versions. You know, it had the beginning and then kind of.

SPEAKER_02 25:45

I feel like every time I went to AOL, it gave me some kind of fucking virus.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Ah, yeah. I mean, it came with the it came with the territory. Yeah. A lot of people were on, bro.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

Matthew. Yeah, that was the beginning. And then obviously came what came after MySpace? Uh Facebook. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

The Zuckerberg. Facebook just changed the whole world.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

Yeah. Mark, if you want to give us money, we'll take it. We'll gladly take your money. Nah, forget the money. Just come to our show, man.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Talk. Just talk. Talk to us. We'll see. You see? But Facebook was really something special. Um, but you know, I feel like Facebook was kind of like it's the like it's like it wasn't 2000s. I think more like MySpace was like more of that. Yeah, MySpace was the yeah. Yeah. And I think remember we used to put like pictures and then remember you had your top five, six friends? Yeah. And then they used to be like hating on you, like, yo, why am I not on your top? And then it's like Matt Fice for no reason.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Yo, relax.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Oh, chill, bro.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Like, you're not on my top because you're not.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

People used to get in trouble, right? Like, yo, who girls that? Like, why? Why the girls there, like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

I wish, you know what? I wish I would have taken a picture of my yeah, and still like have it here with me to this day.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

See who was my top five.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Dude, uh man, I should take a picture too, man.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Was I in your top five?

unknown 27:04

Probably.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

But I didn't think I know. I didn't know. Oh, yeah, I did. We did.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Because we were making those promotions for DJ Bless.

Pool Halls, Bowling, And Baggy Fits

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Right, right, right, right. You know, we were making parties and everything. Yo, I'm like, I know we're jumping back and forth, but like, yo, those parties we used to do, man, they were crazy.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Yeah, let's talk about those parties briefly. Man, so myself and and my compoter over here, we used to promote uh parties for my DJ, my friend, our friend, mutual friend DJ Bless. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

And I and another DJs that were like in the world. Oh, right, right.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Wasn't the other homie a a DJ too? Big guy.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

Yeah, I forgot the name, man. Um clearly we don't we don't. But yeah, it was a really long time, but honestly, we were promoting for our boy. Yeah. Um, and yeah, man, we had to do it. You know what? Yeah, that was successful. So we were successful because we used to like why did we stop? Shit, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

I don't know. Because every party that we did, that shit was lit. Banger, banger. We use the word lit still. We used we used to, yo, we used to have like like girls call us and yo, you make another party? Because like they were like really excited about it. It was fun, man.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

I like I felt like I was like that big time promoter, even though I probably wasn't, but bro, this the size of the of the venue was the size of this restaurant.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Exactly. And we used to look we used to buy our own alcohol. Yeah, we used to bartends, be security. I mean, yo, we good times. We had a dream. Yeah. We should have kept on going.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

We should have kept on going. We probably would have been in Vegas right now. For real. Yeah, because those shit, those shits were, again, those shits were fire. They were always mad heads in there. Right?

SPEAKER_01 28:33

Yeah, because we didn't we're not making this up now. Nah, because we didn't have a big, like, we didn't have the the economy to make it that big. But we were working independently. We were working independently. Like we What do you mean economy? What do you mean by that? Like someone to back us up to have a better, you know, promotion. Well, that was we should do our own promotion, we should give it out, we should do our own thing. Yeah. Did we do we do flyers too? We did flyers and everything. And then DJ Bless got big, and then

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SPEAKER_01 29:00

he started going to those big promotions. Yeah. You know? So then there we weren't really doing anything. We were just like the the VIP. He's just going to the clubs and just fuck around. Fucking chilling right now.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

Those were good times.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Those were the good times because you just go in, fucking have for free.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

That was another thing that we got to talk about the 2000s with the clubs. The clubs, man. Yo, the clubs were fucking many youngsters.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Yo, yeah, ready.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

Yeah, not ready. Talk to them, Comba. What do you think about the clubs back in the day?

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Yeah, the club back in the days, man. It was just like there was always a good time. It was a good time, but it was madness. Do you remember that lines, man?

unknown 29:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

I don't know if I can wait anymore for like I think that's the problem right now. People don't want to wait. People don't want to wait, man. If you don't want to wait, man, you gotta go with like nine girls. Well, you gotta create your own, you promote your own club, your own party. Yeah, you go. That's I guess that's why we were promoting our own parties, man, because we just wanted to have fun and make some money. Remember uh Club Tamal? Yo, who does not remember Club Tamal? So many. So many fights. Again, but it was fun though. It was fun.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

I felt like, you know, when we were doing these this little uh promotion thing, I feel like we got a lot of a lot of heat, a lot of hate from people that were outside of our borough.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Absolutely. You know what I mean? Like people wrong because honestly, I think we were the worst. We were one of the first ones to do it, like independently, type of thing. And I think that because of that, there were other people after us that really took it to a whole different level.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

I'm not gonna name names, but there were people that I know that were working for us, and then they kind of like they branched out, they they understood it real quick and branched out because they knew shit, I could do it even better than they were. You know, they did a thing, you know. Good for them, you're right. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

No hate, no hate.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

No hate, man. No hate on that. They're doing their thing. Yeah, we were making some money, right? Oh, yeah, we were making good money. There wasn't a time that we didn't lose money, except for that day and freaking you remember that big ass fight that we had? Well, we didn't have a fight, it was uh people that were just out of control.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

The one on uh on Queens Boulevard. Yo Queens Boulevard? No, no, no, no, no, not Queens Boulevard. On Long Island City, correct, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was fucking bad. Oh, that shit was bad, bro. Bad, bro. It was just it was just went out of control at the end. Did we have security?

SPEAKER_02 31:20

We did have security. We were the security. Oh, we were the security, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

Yeah, it was just too much people, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

That was the first big event. I do remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:30

That was the greatest and worst. Yeah, greatest because it was one of the biggest parties and we made money. But the worst part was that at the end it turned out bad.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

You know what? And again, I again I go back to saying that it was people from like out of the uh from a different borough. Different boroughs.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

There's people that went from Brooklyn and Bronx, and I think those were the two. Yeah, just clash. That's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

Yeah, but it was good. That was a good fucking party. 2000 era for us for um being promoters for like a what was it, like a year?

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Yeah, a year, and then we kind of branched out. A couple of our like our people promoted for bigger companies, and which was fine because we used to like use them to get in. Yeah. So I mean, it was a lot of promotions back then. Yeah, a lot. Because reggae was huge.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

This brings me up to the next uh yeah, next topic is when the mute the music of reggaetone came in.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Blew up like storm, man. Okay, I couldn't believe it. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Like that shit was that Daddy Yankee, man, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

Don't it was uh Dago, Tito, Tito the Bambino, uh Wiscina Yandell, you know, all those people.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

Remember this song?

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Hector the Father. You know? Ooh, there you go. It's one of the classics. Like that shit was Yep, it was everywhere. If if you you knew when this song hit the hit the hit the hit the clubs, automatic dance floor, man. Everyone was in, man. You're talking about pure sweatness, pure sweatness is fucking sweat everywhere. Sweat everywhere, man. It was just one of the greatest times, man. We have so many hits, man. So many hits. You hear that in the clubs, you hear it in the cars, you hear like don't so many plays. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:19

Yeah, the the reggaetong era, it's it's a deeper conversation and longer conversation, but it was um it was amazing. I thought I had a good time.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Uh yeah, it was it just it just brings good memories. I think it was something that uh us as Latinos, we needed at.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

A lot of people say that the reggaeton era is not is not good. Like reggaetong in general is not.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Uh who's gonna smack the shadow.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Clearly they're wrong because Bad Bunny is one of the biggest uh uh what is it, music artists in the in the world. Exactly. Shout out to Bad Bunny Tony. Shout out to Bad Bunny, man.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Super Bowl, Super Bowl, whatever number we are in. Absolutely, man. The man is doing his thing, man. I remember when he came out on his underground. I mean, like when nobody didn't. Trap music? Yeah, yeah. The man, the man was special. So shout out to Bad Bunny, he's gonna kill it on the show. I can't wait. I'm excited. You got three, four months to learn Spanish, PT.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

So make sure you learn some Spanish. And if you don't want to listen to it, just change the channel. Yeah, that's it. That's it, man.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

You need to be. You gotta be angry. Boom, change it 15 minutes and come back, watch the game.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

What's it like? Yeah, 15 minutes, 20. Yeah. Anyway, Bad Bunny, change the game. Uh, but yeah, they get thrown 2000 area was fucking amazing for me. I had a fucking amazing time. I'm sure you did too.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

I had so many drunk times too, but they were fun. They were fun.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

Damn, we used to drink a lot, bro.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Yeah, that's another thing we should do in 2000. We should drink a lot. A lot, a lot. You remember freaking um the mixture of uh Hennessy and Hypnotic? Yes, sir. What was it? Uh the Hulk. Incredible Hulk? The Incredible Hulk. Jesus Christ. For the people out there that don't know what Incredible Hulk is.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

No, it was uh it was Alize Alize.

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Sorry, yeah. No, it was Hypnotic. Was it Hypnotic? Yeah, that blue. It was blue. Well, well, Alize had another like a color blue, too.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Because some of that Alize.

SPEAKER_01 35:10

That shit was the worst. For real, man. I wonder if I would drink it now. Yo, let me ask you a question. What was your number one, like what your go-to like drink when you hit the club? When you hit the club, you go at the bar. What's your drink?

SPEAKER_02 35:21

I'm gonna keep it a bug. Yeah. Fucking Long Island iced tea. Ooh. Why, why? Because that shit will fuck you up. Yep, real quick. Drink some iced tea.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Especially when you when you didn't go to the pregame. Because that's what the normally what we do. Before we go to a club, we pregame. Because we want to get fucked up. Because these fucking cocktails were like that was a lot of money. I mean, yeah. It's still a lot of money. Oh yeah. Yo, my drink was um uh Jack and Coke.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

Jack and Coke.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Yep. Yeah. Boom.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

Or um, you know, at that time I didn't drink beer. Uh I was uh no, you're right, Jack and Coke. Or uh tequila and shots of tequila.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Oh, that vodka cranberry shit. No, no, no. Uh Sex on the Beach. On the beach? Yeah, that was good. Those were good. Yeah, yeah. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

For the ladies. Oh yeah. Uh yeah, because we didn't drink uh at me, I didn't I didn't drink as much tequila uh beer as I'm as I do now.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Nah, beer. I don't know why beers, I never I never connected beers with like in the club. I don't like beers live in the club. I only drank beers when we used to have skinzanas and shit.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Because that's all they had.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

But they had to fucking put it on the table already.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

Mountains, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Yeah. Fuck it. And you had a tequila, always a tequila at the table. You'd be like, yo, for the VIPs.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

What was your bottle of choice? Like when you weren't at the club, what were you drinking? The bottle of choice? Great goose. In your like in your with the group?

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Yeah, with the group.

SPEAKER_02 36:47

I remember one time with my cousins, we used to drink. We used to put drink uh E and J. Oh, that's right. I was just thinking about that.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

Wait, wait, wait. The question was the bottle that you had like like at the club or just in general? No, no, no. In general, like if you're chilling on the block. Chilling on the block, that's a different story. Yeah, yeah. We're chilling on the block, it's Hennessy, bro. Hennessy. That was my thing, bro. That was the yo, me and my cousin. Yeah, Hennessy.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

We didn't like Hennessy like that. We like, I guess it was the same thing because E and J is uh is brandy.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

Well, that's well, and cognac. Hennessy and EJ kind of was not that far of a difference.

SPEAKER_02 37:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

So the E and J was kind of the replacement, like because the Hennessy bottles were a little expensive. So fuck that. The E and J bottle was cheaper and fucking even bigger. And it did the work. It did the work.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Bro, I remember one time me and my cousin we drank a bottle of EJ and we were fucking hammered. Word. Like I'll never forget that. Yeah. Because what else? What did we do? We just got fucked up. Yeah. And it was like we woke up the next day and we went straight to the fucking restaurant to get pancita. Oh. That would cure it. Yeah. What I know we did something fucked up, but I can't remember it right now. It'll come back. Uh but yeah. What about uh and did you drink anything else? Besides Hennessy? Yeah, when you were like chilling on the block besides honey, did you ever drink any like malt liquor?

SPEAKER_01 38:13

It was with the nah, it was just uh honey or tequila, and then you never drank that cheap shit, like the um COVID? Nah, I used to drink that banana one. You remember that shit? That shit will fuck you up, though. That banana something 99 proof. 99 proof. Was that 2000? Oh, 99 bananas. Boom. 99 bananas. Yo, everybody out there, y'all know what 99 bananas is all about. Come on. Come on. What about um for loco? Uh beer for loco. Yeah, I actually do that with the boys. Four locos, uh um Cold 45. That was my thing.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

Yeah. No, mine was uh Saint Eyes. That's my shit. Buck 25 shit fuck you up.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

Drink two of those.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

I heard about those shits, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

I can't remember how I got my hands on it, but that was still was I 21? No, I wasn't 21 yet.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Did you drink hurricanes?

unknown 39:04

Nah.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

Nah, pretty cool. That fuck you up too. Yeah. Fire. Anyway, uh, what about uh our podcast is 18 up, guys. So it's after dark. That's true. That's true. Who were your uh Yeah, man, you know, for everybody that knows me, I love baseball, man. So my hero back in those days was freaking um I'm probably gonna go a little deeper because it wasn't in the 2000s, but it was um Ken Griffey Jr. Ken Griffey. Damn, speaking about Seattle, they just lost, man. That was sad. That was crazy, man. But what a game, what a series. What a series. Yeah, yeah. Ken Griffey was like my hero. Derek Jeter. Those two. True. Yeah. Champions.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

I didn't have one. Uh favorite hangout spot.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

Favorite hangout spot. Wow. Bro, you know what? I used to love hanging out with my boys playing pool. That was my favorite, man. Right? Yeah. Coming out. You used to be there with us, man. We used to love it.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

We actually have a great picture of us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

Uh yeah, in the in the and when we see everything the story. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Yeah, I remember. I remember. Where uh we were rocking the remember those NASCAR jackets?

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Yeah. Those jackets were full. I don't care what anybody's. My guy blessed used to wear that yellow one with the MMs every single day, bro. Sorry, um Armando, but it was just the funniest.

SPEAKER_02 40:27

Yo, Armando, you gotta come on the pod.

SPEAKER_01 40:29

Yeah, he's definitely coming. He really, I already talked to him.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

Yeah. But yeah, we used to have those jackets on, man, the A-Rice, uh, the um those uh those uh colorful ones. So yeah. Yeah, it was a good, yeah, it was a good memory that time. But yeah, that's what I like to do. My hangout spot was like the pool hall or bowling.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

Bowling. Yeah, yeah, bowling. Oh shit. Speaking of bowling, remember that one time we went to that bowling alley in Jamaica and we almost got into that big ass fight with the you know. Yeah, I know. With the what are they bloods, I think?

SPEAKER_01 41:01

I think they were bloods, man. Yeah, it was but we didn't give a fuck, man.

SPEAKER_02 41:04

Nah. But that's well, we were deep. We were deep, too. 12 days.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

They got scared. They they saw us, they saw us, they were like, yo.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

Well, we fight, bro.

SPEAKER_01 41:12

We fight.

SPEAKER_02 41:13

Uh we gonna fight. Yeah. I got some uh random questions for you. Me?

SPEAKER_01 41:18

Oh shit. All right, wasn't ready for that, but let's do this.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

Uh Kool-Aid or Tang?

SPEAKER_01 41:26

Gotta go with Tang, my guy. Really? Yeah, man. I was now I wasn't a big fan of Kool-Aid. Were you? I love Kool-Aid. Really? Yeah. The red joint? The red joint? Just deaf, but I love tang, man. I love orange. Like every I drink orange Fanta. Fanta. So yeah, so Nintendo or Sega?

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Sega. Sega. True.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

Classic. Did your mommy ever used to make you iron your clothes?

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Absolutely. And I never used to do it, and I smacked the shit out of me because she used to hate me leaving the house or wrinkle. So she was she used to smack the shit.

SPEAKER_02 42:01

She did it for your own good, though. Yeah. She'll smack the shit out of me, but she'll do it. What was the funniest thing that you could remember as growing up in the 2000s?

SPEAKER_01 42:10

My just wearing those fucking long ass shirts, man. And those baggy ass pants. I don't know the fuck what's wrong with us.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

But you know what? That's what's on the style right now. I know, man. Not the baggy shirts, the baggy pants.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

Like, I was supposed to be wearing a large shirt or even medium, and I was wearing a fucking double X. 3X. 3X. Picture this with fucking bandanas and like other uh other types of like I don't know. The jeans were like 38, and I'm supposed to be wearing 34. Yeah. That was fun. That was big. That was huge.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Yeah. Uh I used to have uh, what was it? My things were always the white T's. Yeah. I had white T's for days.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

Which was my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

The white T Did you buy a lot of white T's. Or wherever something was like, I was the type of dude, like I used to buy white T's, and I don't know what it was that I just wear it like once or twice, then I throw it out, and I buy another. Yeah. I knew I never watched it. Oh, I see. You know what I mean? Um I was just like wasting money.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

They were so they were uh they were cheap, so I yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

Yeah. We're just staring at one of our colleagues that is like, you know, working. So we're probably in his way.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

But either way, we're still doing it. Favorite TV show in the 2000s that you enjoyed watching.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

In the a TV show in the 2000s that I used to love watch. I used to watch Jersey Shore. That shit was fun.

SPEAKER_02 43:36

Was that 2000? It was. It was, yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

Jersey Shore was good. Wow, it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 43:41

Stop. What's your favorite TV novela?

SPEAKER_01 43:45

Uh, TV novelas?

SPEAKER_02 43:48

Damn.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

Was Muchachitas in the 2000s? Because that was my favorite. No, no, it was 90s? Alright, so let's go a little more further than. Oh, yeah, Bayla Comigo, that was a good one.

SPEAKER_02 44:04

With a BB Gaitan. She was in that, right?

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Yeah, she was. I don't know what's mine, man. Damn, the 2000s? I don't know. I really don't know. I used to like the one with uh The Sigua Mando.

SPEAKER_02 44:19

The Sigua Mando.

SPEAKER_01 44:21

Yeah. With uh Juan Gabi, that song. That one.

SPEAKER_02 44:26

Yeah, it was a good one, man. My boy Will loves to sing. Yeah. What else? Anything else that we're missing? Um did you have a plug for sneakers?

SPEAKER_01 44:37

But I didn't, I like I was never a collectible type of guy that used to collect sneakers. I know a couple of friends that used to collect Jordans all the time. Um but how about you? Nah, I not really.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

No. I started collecting sneakers like late. Yeah? Yeah, but I do love sneakers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

Sneakers is a shit, but yeah, yeah. It's uh, you know. But uh I think that um this this uh this like this topic is one of the topics that I'm really excited that we were able to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

Um I mean there's so much we could we could go on and on.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

We don't want to bore people exactly. So, you know, if there's anything that we miss, you know, we I'm sure we missed a lot. Yeah. I'm I'm pretty sure that we missed a lot. I'm pretty sure that we'll that we'll have another episode on this topic because I think it's uh it's a topic that's gonna be a good thing. We'll bring we'll bring we'll bring people in to be continue. Um but anyway, man. Guys, thank you so much for listening to us. It was a pleasure uh to be able to uh share the mic with my boy Danny here. Um thank you, sir. Let's be able to restaurant. Like I like he said, you know, we found the like we found a home here, and moving forward, we're gonna be, you know, uh creating more content.

SPEAKER_02 45:50

So yeah, we're gonna get uh we're gonna get ourselves some cameras on.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Yeah, absolutely. It'll be fun times, man. So thank you so much, guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can't wait for this journey to start. I'm so excited. Danny closes out.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

Yes, sir. We're gonna rock this out. Season two, episode two. Tune in. What a great, great intro. Really?