Broke Boyz From Fresno
Hey everyone it's Martin from the Broke Boyz From Fresno Podcast, my goal here is to entertain, inspire, and uplift our community. I'm all about keeping it real, sharing my daily struggles, and motivating others who might be going through the same. Join me as we navigates life’s challenges, supports one another, and builds a stronger, more connected community together.
Broke Boyz From Fresno
How Faith, Timing, And Grit Turned A Small-Town Idea Into A Platform
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We trade stories with Lou about faith, timing, and the grind it takes to build a podcast that actually helps people. From corrections work to covering 559 athletes, Lou shows how purpose, patience, and community can turn a small idea into a platform.
• origin of Inside the Pod with Lou and early vision
• giving voice to officers, ex-inmates, and overlooked stories
• shift to high school, college sports, and fight coverage
• the unseen work behind podcasting and setup
• DIY editing with CapCut and iPhone workflows
• why originality beats copying trends
• faith, humility, and near rock-bottom lessons
• community collabs with car culture and charity events
• building a team and managing capacity
• recognition moments and quiet supporters
• shared mission to spotlight the 559 and its talent
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Intro Music by Rockstar Turtle- Broke Boyz (999)
Christmas Intro Song by Nico
Meet Lou And Set The Tone
SPEAKER_04What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of The Broke Boys. I'm Martin.
SPEAKER_03I'm DJ.
SPEAKER_04And today we got a special guest. Please introduce yourself to everybody.
SPEAKER_03What's up, guys? Uh, Louis Gonzalez, aka Inside the Podwalloo with Inside the Podwaloo Podcast.
SPEAKER_04Perfect. Thank you for being out here, man. Thank you for coming. I know it's a long drive.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, it wasn't too bad today. Uh I was at work, so okay. And then I had a couple things that we just aligned and uh we're here, you know? Yeah, so it's cool.
SPEAKER_04Well, before we continue this episode, let's go ahead and let's roll that intro.
SPEAKER_00We done broke from the way on the midges understood. We always winning like we could fly, we butterfly up to the sky. No way you're catching us good.
SPEAKER_04And I'm gonna respect that. So please, whatever you want.
Faith, Gratitude, And Partner Shoutouts
SPEAKER_03Awesome, awesome. Well, I my phone's there, so I'm not gonna do today's Bible verse, but usually I get the daily Bible verse from the Bible app. So everyone out there, if uh it gives random verses, and I think it's a way if you don't read the Bible, you can kind of get that verse, right?
SPEAKER_01Right, right.
SPEAKER_03But I'll go with my uh my go-to on the podcast is Isaiah 6022. Uh, when the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen. And I believe our timing is good today. So we're here on the podcast, and hopefully it goes good, man. It's the first time being a guest, and uh I'm honored. Thank you guys for having me here.
SPEAKER_04Oh, we're honored to have you, bro. And uh thank you again for having me on your platform. I loved it. Um, and it's just such a wonderful experience, man. You're such a nice person, a humble, humbling person, and uh I I do respect everything that you do and all the work that you do. Uh, it doesn't go unnoticed. I see everything that you've been doing, all the hard work, and you know, you you're just a beast, bro. You're you're doing it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, thank you, bro. I appreciate that. At first, I gotta give all the glory and praise of my uh my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for sure. But uh inside the pod with Lou wouldn't be what it is today or the podcast for sure without my wife, Alissa. So I gotta give her a shout-out. Huge shout out. Editor, wife, uh, chief, head of the household, you know, everything. So I just gotta give her a shout out to my children and and all the supporters, bro, that have helped us out and just followed us. And it's been uh it's been an honor, you know. It's been a great, great, uh big blessing, you know. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_05It takes a team to make the dream work, right? For sure, for sure.
Origin Story Of Inside The Pod With Lou
SPEAKER_03I can tell you guys that, dude, right now, I'll be honest. Like, you when you get your partner and you know like you're you're you're good, bro. And it does take a strong woman and it takes a team, like you said it yourself, it takes a team to win, you know. And uh I think that's why Inside the Pod with Lou is in 2026. We just a lot of great things hopefully coming, you know.
SPEAKER_05Right. And speaking about Inside the Pod with Lou, when did you actually first start the podcast?
SPEAKER_03So it's kind of funny, bro. Like uh Inside the Pod with Lou kind of was first thought of in 2019.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I was uh working prior in my prior life. I used I was a correction officer and I was working in the county jail and I was working on a floor one day, and I, you know, everyone always says, bro, how are you gonna have a podcast? You talk too much, you know? And it's funny because now I'm the guest, you know, I can talk, right? Right, and so um I just was like, hey, I want to talk about, you know, at the time I wanted to present stories of uh the mindset of an officer, you know. I grew up in a small town, bro. Mendota, I talk about all the time. I live in Farball right now. Um shout out to everyone out there too. Everyone knows Farball as Josh Allen country. Yeah, and so I feel like us being from a small area, we only know certain things. So when I got exposed to that life, bro, it was just complete shock, right? Yeah. So, anyways, I wanted to talk about it and I wanted people to understand, like, hey, you're from a small town, you're Mexican, you're this, you're that. And uh I wanted to bring on not only officers, I wanted to bring on cops, I wanted to bring on detectives, yeah, but then I wanted to bring on the inmate population. I wanted to bring on people that have been on that side, and I wanted to spin it more of like in a positive way, you know, right?
SPEAKER_05Right, right, right.
Platform Vision: Voices On Both Sides
SPEAKER_03I wanted to kind of like I told you guys prior, I won't really say the name, but you guys we talked about it off camera. Yeah, I wanted to bring that person on, and I wanted to really highlight the fact that hey, you got in trouble, but look what you're doing now, and it's positive, you know. Yeah, and then obviously in the world we're in, not talking bad about anybody out there, it's just a lot of politics, a lot of politics involved and things, you know. So we gotta be very careful, be very mindful.
SPEAKER_05Right. I think it is very important to at least shine a light and allow people who have been uh incarcerated and things of that sort to at least have a voice. Um, the struggles that they go through after you know getting out, yeah, you know, trying to prove their innocence.
SPEAKER_04Some some people just and some people can't figure it out, can't figure out how to leave the life to find something better. And like you said, that guest would have been a great representation because he switched something negative into a positive.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. Yeah, and like I said, you just back to my favorite Bible verse, you know. Yeah, I believe now, like what's gonna come to me is gonna just gonna come to me. I don't have to go out and force it, I don't have to go out and you know, reach for it. It's just gonna come and it's gonna come at in the right time. And obviously, as we get into this podcast more, I kind of give that testimony of like talking about the timing and faith, trust. I mean, there's a lot that kind of you know that was why I kind of reached out to you initially because I was like, hey, you know what? And people were like, well, put it on your platform. But it's like, I think that's what me and you initially when we talk and hadn't met you yet. So I met Broke Boy, not broke boy. Right, and so then I was like, hey, um, we we just discussed trying to help each other out, you know, and we're all new to the community, right? And this is a small community, you know, like influencers one, but especially podcasters, man. Like, yeah, I think people have a perception of what we do, yeah, and they don't really know respectfully, respectfully, respectfully, but it's a lot, bro. It takes a lot to do a podcast, you know. Yeah, yeah. This is the fun part. No, you can see the easiest part.
SPEAKER_04This is the easiest part, man. And I know you saw setting up and doing all this stuff.
SPEAKER_03I got I felt I'm gonna be honest, I was like, it feels good to just kind of not have to worry about that, you know.
SPEAKER_05You don't gotta set up shop this time, it's all done for you. That's right, that's right.
The Work Behind Podcasting
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, we get it, we understand, and like I told you too, I come from that perspective of like I understand what you're doing, and sometimes the frustration and your work does not go unseen, bro. Like, it shows everything that comes like with hardship and trying to figure things out, always end up in a beautiful result. And I see the beautiful result. Yeah, no, so I completely understand with the stress, I understand with the hard work and and trying to figure things out, and you're doing it, man. So uh completely blessed seeing everything that you have accomplished. So take me back to the beginning. What was the initial start of like I'm gonna buy the equipment, I'm gonna do it, I'm I'm just gonna full-fledged jump into it.
SPEAKER_03All right, so funny thing is like I was working at the time at Good Guys uh at Tyranado, and I wasn't the manager yet, I was uh just the service advisor, bro. So back to God's timing, right? I'll give you guys a little bit prior. So, like I had left the sheriff department December 22, trying to figure things out. Uh, went through the 2023 just like really just having no idea what to do, like kind of just like trying to figure it out because you had 10 plus years of doing a certain thing. And so 2023, I went back to a place called Tomatech. It's a it's a tomato plant out there in our area. A lot of people work there. Uh nothing against Tomatec at all. It's a great job, could be a great career. But I just hadn't been there since college, you know. And I went back in there and it didn't work, you know. So then I went on unemployment and then unemployment ran out, and then I got a call from a buddy of mine. And mind you, I worked 10 plus years in law enforcement. So I never done sales, but back to talking. A buddy of mine saw that, hey, you have potential to probably, but I knew nothing about cars, bro.
SPEAKER_01Right.
Career Detours And God’s Timing
Finding The Niche: Sports And The 559
SPEAKER_03And so I went to good guys, Tyrannau, started off as a service advisor, promoted to super uh assistant manager. Now I'm the manager. Long story short about all this, I ended up going back to good guys last week. So if you guys need tires, you guys need have oil car service needs, I gotta throw that out there. Good guys tyrannol off a hundred and brawly, yeah, 6784 North Brawley, but um and a little promo right there. But uh it's okay. I uh started back there, bro. And so long story short, the manager prior was starting to do like videos on TikTok, and they were like motivational. And then this is when like the lives started getting live, like people go on live and um they were barely getting there, you know. They weren't the battles yet, and they weren't as crazy. It was just like people were just going on, they were just talking into the camera, yeah. And so my buddy started doing videos and then he started going doing lives. And then one day he's like, Okay, I want to do a uh a conversation with you. And I was like, I would be cool to do it, but like we don't like, yeah, we talk about God or we have our conversations, but it's not it's different because your audience is different, your message is different to your audience, right? Right. I'm not saying the message was not good or bad, it's just me coming in it didn't really align back to alignment, you know. And so long story short, he kind of like I remember talking about wanting to do inside the pub blue for a long time. And then, but I just couldn't get in front of a camera. I was just like, you know, and so I started doing little like skits, yeah. And it's funny because I started doing like skits about my past career. I was in law enforcement, so I did some like skits about that, uh, motivational, you know, like just and then from there I was like, I want to do a podcast. And then I was like, but I gotta think of a name. And then I did a I did a fast, bro. So they you know how they did the um for the Catholics and not about religion, but they do the what is it? Um the uh the lint, the lint. Yeah, and so you give it up for 40 days, yeah. And so at the time, I never hear God's voice audibly, or sorry, the word uh you know audio. And um, it's just I felt something in my just in me just be like, hey, give it up. And I I'm more like if you would go off of like the religion, yeah, more like Christian, you know. And so I was like, you know what, I'm gonna do it. I I gave up um social media, and my mind you I'm just kind of growing and getting to push it there, and I was like, the videos are, you know, they're not getting crazy views, but they were you know, they're getting attraction, yeah. And people started like, hey, when you're gonna do the podcast, we can do the podcast. And then thought of the name inside the Pawaloo. I was gonna initially do it in my garage, bro. Like I had the little mics that we were talking short on earlier, and I think those are from TikTok, so they weren't even as like and I wasn't doing it in the garage, I was gonna have like a little backdrop, right? And my wife's like, You're not gonna do it in the garage. Like, so then I feel kind of bad. So sorry to her and my sister. I took over their uh their room. They had like a they had like a little, so they have a business, I'm gonna give them a shout out to Bougie Mamas, right? Uh if you have hats or any needs for your shirts, and I started taking over their room, bro, and then you've been there and just kind of turned into what it's turned into. Yeah, and then initially, like when you talk about how inside the powulos were created, like I wanted to bring everybody on, bro. Like I wanted to make it like, but then it's too much. Like when you try to get everybody, yeah. So like you once people start saying yes, because initially, like, okay, I wanted to do law enforcement, right? So you reach out to certain if you're active law enforcement respectfully, you're not gonna come on, bro. Yeah, it's very, very not saying it's not gonna happen because some people have, yeah, but it's very less likely. Yeah, yeah. And and and the thing is, I think when people think of a podcast like we're sitting here, they think they're gonna be asked something that's gonna be out of the ordinary. Right. And like I when I told you guys, just run the podcast. Like, yeah, yeah, I usually set it up different when we do mine, but I was like, you know, I've never been a guest on it. I'm not gonna dictate how it goes, I'm just gonna go and be myself and whatever. And so I think when people are coming on, they're thinking, well, what is he gonna ask? And as a law enforcement officer, bro, you're always gonna be like not 100% comfortable when you're being something told something you don't know what's going to be. And so I feel like it just wasn't ever. So I was reaching out to everybody. Hey, you wanna come on? Hey, you wanna come on? Hey, you wanna come on? Right, and then now we kind of found our niche. We do more sports, so like high school sports, college sports, um, the fight game. So we do a shout out to 559 fights, uh, we do um boxing when they it does it, wrestling. We we've got a CIF pass, so we covered, like I said, the different sports. We started with football. Right now we're in the wrestling and basketball season, and then we're gonna cover the baseball. So that's kind of how the it's going. But into the Pablo Luz just started as I wanted to do what we're doing right here and just kind of have a conversation, you know. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_04And it formed and it built and it created and it just continues to like evolve.
SPEAKER_03Like, yeah, you really don't. I mean, talking on yours, and we when we dropped yours, you know, good about timing, we talked about how broke boys became broke boys, you know, and look where you started to where you guys are at. So I just give you you guys your flowers, bro. Like, we haven't even hit a year, right? April's gonna be a year, yeah, technically, and I was trying you guys.
SPEAKER_04You've accomplished way more than what I did in the world. Really, July, bro.
SPEAKER_03If you think about it, but really as podcasting, April. But you guys have been three years doing this now, bro. And and and the consistency that it does take. And I think like I talked about once again, respectfully, people don't know what it takes to get a podcast out, bro. You just get one episode.
SPEAKER_05Not only that, but people don't know what it takes to keep yourself grounded when trying to get to where you want to be at, right? Trying to figure out okay, what it what is successful in running a podcast? What is that goal that you're trying to reach? And I mean, it's hard, it's hard enough.
Consistency, Originality, And Not Copying
SPEAKER_04It's hard, and you know what? Like, I don't, again, I don't mean to talk shit. Um, but it's hard when you get people that are like, oh, I want to do a podcast, oh, I want to do this, I want to do that. And you're just there, like, yeah, like I'll entertain the conversation. Yeah, and you tell them they're like, Well, how do you do it? How do you do this? How do you do that? And you know, I'm pleasant enough to be like explaining it and I'll do it, and then sometimes they'll be like, Can I go, you know, and see like behind the behind the scenes how you do it, how you do it. I want to do it, like how you do it. And you know, I tell them, like, hey, respectfully, like, I love what I do and I would love to show you, but because of like the guests, the situation with the studio, like, I don't think it would be appropriate for me to bring you on. And then they start turning, like, wow, you big shot now.
SPEAKER_05Like, I think another thing is too, is like it's not how somebody else does it. Be original, because the moment you start something and you try and create something based off what somebody already else has, it's not gonna feel right, it's not gonna feel genuine, it's not gonna feel authentic, and it's gonna it'll be obvious. Like, I don't know if you saw, but uh some YouTube creators are trying to kind of rub off of what um Mr. Beast was doing on his YouTube videos, yeah. And so they were trying to do it, and people were like, Well, why isn't Mr. Beast trying to cancel them? Like, why is it? And he's like, I'll let them do it because at the end of the day, people know who I am, they see the influence, I'll let it happen. But I just feel like save yourself the time and the hassle and just make something genuine for you. Make something, make an audience of your own because you're gonna be more proud of it when you start it out.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, and I tell everybody, it's like what I'm doing, I'm still learning. I don't have it perfected, I don't have nothing. Yeah, but I also learned from a lot of my mistakes. I would learn from a lot of you know, hey, I there would be times where we'd be full recording an episode and the audio isn't even recording. Or we have everything recording and then the camera dies or something like that. But that's like again, you have to learn from the mistakes to in order to evolve and gain all that. Right. And um, there's some people that are nice and be like, oh, okay, like let it be. And there's other people like, but like you learn from your mistakes, so let me not let me learn from the stuff that you didn't do so that way I'd avoid it. Yeah, and it's just like it's not has nothing to do with that, it's just that you have to figure it out on your own. Yeah, it's kind of like how everybody kind of did it. And there's ways that I can help you, right, but I can't give you a complete playbook because even if I give it to you, right? What if it doesn't work?
SPEAKER_05The mama bird got to kick the bird the baby bird out the nest to learn to fly, but that's just how it is. That's just how it is. Did you ever have an experience like that where somebody where somebody was like, oh bro, how do you do it? Like wanting to learn the insides of it.
Learning Through Painful Production Mistakes
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, no, bro. I'm telling you, like I get I get told I have certain people that like I call like a like a board, right? Yeah, yeah. So you have the one friend that calls and is gonna tell you this, like they want to give you all the constructive criticism, right? But without knowing what it takes to be constructive, you know, like what put gets put into it. Yeah, and so I try to take it in now, like I listen, but honestly, between us, bro, like I really like don't listen to nobody that doesn't is not walking our footsteps because they don't understand anyway. It's a waste of conversation. My father, respectfully, uh I love my father, you know. He's old school, he's not gonna understand. Like, he just wants you to work the 40 hours a week, right? The two the two weeks you're gonna get paid, you know, a consistent check, you know, like support your family. Do this as a hobby. And don't get me wrong, like I think right now this is what it is. It's like it's a really fun hobby. Yeah, but I personally think that if you really put uh your blood, sweat, and tears and you believe in something, like and you know you're right with God and your alignment's there, dude, and your heart is pure, right? Back to the pureness, is that it'll align when the time is right. Exactly. It's not you don't have to do nothing. Like I told you before, I really mean that it's new though. Yeah, like what's gonna come to me is gonna come to me. That's not don't think that that just oh hey, he's talking. That took time to really understand what that meant.
SPEAKER_05Do you think it stemmed from you trying to force things to happen on your own timing and then you just got humbled at one point?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so like, okay, so back to kind of why I wanted to do the podcast, right? I so I I ended up going to good guys, but I just ended up going back though, but six months ago, let's go, let's go back to July, right? I ended up leaving good guys, bro.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_03So everyone's like, What? What are you doing? You know, like what are you thinking? Right. And what they didn't get at the time was I had a boss that I just didn't get along with. We just didn't click. And I was more stressed than I wasn't. Yeah. And at the time the podcast was we didn't know what it was, but we uh were under the impression that we possibly had like a sponsorship thing going. Right. And so we thought if I once again I put all these numbers in my head and my timing on my plans, right? So I was like, oh, if they they gave this person or this company or this organization this, they're gonna give us this. Right. And so I started putting the numbers in my head that were not real. And so when you talk about like faith or timing and all that, about I assumed that at the time I was thinking, like, did I just do this on my own and make this decision? And I I wasn't really thinking or hearing God or feeling that God was gonna have me.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03And I really thought, like, man, like you are delusional, you are crazy, you are what they say you are, right? And then boom, like the six months hit, bro, and then I got a call to go back to good guys. So then I was like, once again, not my timing, right? Not my plan, right, not my, you know, it's all the Lord's, bro. And so that because I I'm telling you guys right now, bro, so everyone out there can understand this, like when it comes to faith, like I literally took God let me have six months of me thinking that I actually didn't hear him.
SPEAKER_00Right.
DIY Editing With CapCut And Phone Video
SPEAKER_03Because I was like, oh, it's just me then. Yeah, because I literally gave up a career, basically, a good paying job, bro. And then hitting the streets, I'm telling you right now, I understand the struggle. Yes, I truly can sit here and tell you if I'm talking to a person and we're having a podcast, and they're like, nah, bro, I'm this. I'm like, I understand. They're like, no, you don't, like, I understand. And then you're like, no, you don't. I understand. At one point, bro, this is how much God humbled me. We were in the welfare line, pretty much. We were trying to get uh assistance, so food stamps, right, and the government, you know, the money back.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_03So then you I growing up in the field that I grew up in, bro, like nothing about parties, but let's just go about personalities, right? I was part of a personality that was gonna probably put that person down that's on assistance, right? And I be and so people that you know me prior, I probably would have been that person putting that person down. Yeah, yeah. And so now you're in the eyes of that person that had needs the help, and you're hearing the conversation, but when you talk about God putting you in a certain situation, he he really like isolated me. And so I didn't have time to hear the the them the judgment about what I was doing, right? Right, and it was like more when I did have a conversation, I I I thought like does God really want me to be on assistance? Right, because I want to chase a podcast that I think I want, and right, and then like I said, just it I was literally to my last moment, bro. I was gonna take a$17 an hour job, which is not bad if you make that, but at the time, well, we need to be at income-wise for the more our mortgage and our bills. I just need to make a certain amount of money.
SPEAKER_05And when good guys came, it was just like, okay, yeah, this is it was a it was a free trial of letting you think you had it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, and it was like I said, it just really felt like man, God's timing is perfect, you gotta have faith, you gotta trust, yeah, and everything will align the way it's supposed to, you know, like this podcast, where we're going in the future. Like I said, I don't have a fighting background, right? But yet I'm heavily involved in the fight game, right? Yeah, and yeah, respect to everyone out there in the fight game, you know. Like I said, shout out 559 fights, uh, shout out to Big Dog Bare Knuckle, shout out to like all the coaches, all the gyms, you know, like all the wrestlers, all the all the athletes, you know, like it's them truly that has made inside the pod with Louis even be relevant, you know, because at the end of the day, like we're covering them, bro. Yeah, like and I think I trip out because wrestling in the valley is we have Buchanan's number one in the nation, not even the state, bro, the nation. And that's right here in our backyard, right? And no one's really covering them, right? And it's kind of like I don't know why.
SPEAKER_05It kind of makes it feel like this is the reason why a lot of growing uh talent and skill set doesn't get amplified the way it needs to be. So being that podcast to be able to do that to showcase it, yeah, being the forefront of it all, that's amazing, man. I mean, same to you guys, dude. You guys had Ralph on, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, from The Voice. I mean, I'm gonna be honest, I not no, nothing against Ralph. But I probably wouldn't have found out who he was unless the support started really pouring in in the valley.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And then I was like, oh shoot, this guy can really sing. And he mean he was he went all the way and almost did it. But at the end of the day, you know, I bet you the lessons he learned along, you know, is probably you know priceless, right?
Car Culture, Community, And Collabs
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, 1000%. He met Jerry Dyer uh just recently. Oh, I just saw that, yeah. Yeah, and he got his own day, right? That's that's amazing. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_03And I think people like Ralph, like like yourself, like like us, like these athletes that we cover, the people you guys interview, the talent, uh, you don't know who's gonna make it, bro. Yeah, you don't really don't know who's gonna be what one day, or even if they didn't, like they're still putting their effort in to do it. And I think that as I growing, like you don't understand people's career changes at the age of 39.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I think that's like this a statistic. Like your career is gonna change at 39. Well, mine came at 33. At the time, I just didn't know it was gonna be. I mean, I still don't really know. I mean, I just went back to good guys, right? But right, I mean, it's it's gonna be this, man. Like, that's you gotta just know that. Like, at the end of the day, it may not be our time here, but if you're really truly following the Lord, right? I once again, this is what I love about God is like He, the minute you're about to give up, He just gives you something enough to be like, look it, I'm here. Yep, yeah, like just trust me. Yeah, and so I feel like 2026 is gonna be good, you know? Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
SPEAKER_05I hope so, man. I'm looking forward to it for you. That's an amazing thing. And having a podcast in the the Central Valley, just growing up in the 559, the podcast wasn't popular. I mean, what other let's think about it like this what other podcast did you know of in 2023 here in the Central Valley?
SPEAKER_04None? I couldn't think of it.
Charity Ideas And Local Giving
SPEAKER_05Can't even think of it. Can't even think of it. Now you are the creator and the host of one of the most known podcasts here on the 559. Yeah, and you're showcasing people who need that voice, who need that platform, who are like, hey, bro, I just want to be seen. I've been doing baseball all my life, like, I just want to get out there. All I need is somebody to see the skill that I got. You might be the reason somebody hits the NFL. You might be the reason somebody hits the NBA. And that's that's priceless alone. And think about what's gonna happen. What kind of uh legacy you leave after the fact in 20, 15, 10 years, when an athlete comes over and be like, or during an interview, they might even be on an interview with Joe Rogan at some point and be like, nah, man, I remember this dude named Lou. Louie had a podcast where I was growing up from, and he actually like spotlighted me during one of my early games, and it helped me get to this point now. It's gotta pay off, bro.
SPEAKER_04And it's a at the end of the day, it's a blueprint. I always talk about it that it's a blueprint that you're leaving behind. Uh, because then somebody can be five years from now and be like, damn, I was on the app, I was on this podcast. Look, they go back to it and they are able to re-watch and re-see it. And uh whether they become pro or whether they don't become nothing, you know. But to say that that is something etched in their history book as well, where they can tell their kids to be like, I used to be an artist, I used to do this.
SPEAKER_05I got an interview. Look at the interview, look at this, yeah, yeah. It's crazy.
Humility, Trials, And Near Rock Bottom
SPEAKER_03I think that's that's that's exactly what it is. Like you said, I think uh when people think of me, hopefully in 10, 15 years, it's that hey man, that guy um he talked about Jesus, you know. Like he he he because if they knew me before, bro, you would have met me four years ago compared to the person I am today. Like you're gonna know like that God is real, you know, like and he's there for you. And I just think my message would be like as big as we grow, as long as I can sit there and I can say that I give everyone a little Jesus piece, I got I owe you one. I gave you one, though, right? Yeah, I still have it. And um, I just feel like it's not about me, bro. Like, it's about me who I cover and it's about me spreading his, his, his, you know, his glory, not me. You know, anything it's all for him. And I think when you like you said, it's real raw and authentic. And when you generally meet people, like when we meet off camera and we're talking to people, like I feel like I'm the same guy on camera than I am off. Like, I'm not you're not gonna get something that's not what it is, but I think it's because I had to go through what I had to go through. Yes, you know, because I I wasn't the nicest person prior, right? You know, and I don't believe in karma, bro, as a Christian, but I believe in you reap what you sow. Yes, yes, yeah. So if you're gonna reap bad or be bad, more than likely bad what's gonna come. Yeah, you know, you're gonna be good or you're good to people in the right time, the good will come to you, exactly, and then your harvest will be repped good, you know.
SPEAKER_04So I feel like a good deed never goes unpunished, right?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but don't do it expecting, exactly, don't be good expecting, yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, for sure. Because then it's like now you're just being selfish.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it wasn't wholeheartedly, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But the I liked what you said earlier, you brought up the real raw and authentic and about podcasts. So I had a funny thing about you guys had Isaiah Washington on, right? Yes, yeah, and we're talking about lives earlier from TikTok, right? And the cool thing is, like, I ended up landing Isaiah through a TikTok live. You know, so shout out to Isaiah. I know he's in Texas right now. Yeah, but uh we miss you, Isaiah. Come back here. He came on and always repping Fresno, and I liked that I had never had a comedian on. And I was like, okay, I'm tapping into wrestling, you know, I'm tapping into the fight game. I'm we're doing our thing that's not really pushing the valley, but I I and it's funny, I've always wanted to say, like, hey, I'm gonna go to Hollywood and hit the comedian, the clubs. Yeah, I'm like, if we could have it here in the valley and hit, you know, a spot, like, why not promote the so any comedians out there, like you know, yeah, come on here on um on Broke Boys and speaking of hit up inside the Powalu.
SPEAKER_05Did you see um the comedian that was here just yesterday at the Trevor Wallace? Trevor Wallace came out here, and not only him, but who was the other dude?
SPEAKER_03Gary Owen. Gary Owen.
SPEAKER_05They were at cockies, they were dude. Blew my mind. I see the post yesterday.
SPEAKER_04Well, Mike Mike from Warner's, he was he he told us, like, yeah, like I'm they're gonna have a brother.
SPEAKER_05Completely flew over my head. Yeah, and I was like, is that true? I was like, wait a minute. Do you guys knew that was gonna happen?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Bro, and you guys didn't bro, I didn't I didn't know. I forgot.
SPEAKER_04Oh no, I can't like I wanted to, but there's no way that I was gonna be able to make it. But but you could have had the opportunity to be there, yeah.
SPEAKER_05But it just goes to show the thing that you're looking for to bring the comedy clubs here instead of reaching out to like Mike is doing that, bro.
SPEAKER_04Mike is incredible, he's a great dude and he deserves like a lot of respect.
SPEAKER_03I mean, that's you guys had him on the pod? Not yet. No, not yet, not yet.
SPEAKER_04Um he's the the the supervisor, right? Of of all Warners or something like that. Yeah, he he was responsible to to oversee a lot of the things.
Purpose Over Clout And Spreading Faith
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but he's a very genuine guy. The same way that we pretty much have the same conversations with you is how we talk with Mike, and uh he's given us opportunities that oh my god, man. Anyways, no, but back real quick to Isaiah though.
SPEAKER_03We talked about Isaiah and there. Um I didn't watch, I don't watch podcasts, bro. Yeah, like I don't watch any podcast, yeah. Which is crazy with Isaiah. That's crazy, and it threw me off with him. Really? Because I was thinking about like, because he he had told me, like, I don't really wanna, he had done back to back. He's like, I really don't want to talk about what I just talked about, but I'm down, it's your show, like let's do it. Yeah, and I was like, no, no, no, we could I'll watch the broke boys one and I'll try and chime off, and then I didn't I didn't feel like I was myself because I was like trying to already talk to me. And so I thought the conversation still flowed good, but I just thought this is why I don't watch podcasts. Right. But I mean, I I want to eventually expand my knowledge because I don't know any podcasters really, bro. Besides Joe, I mean Joe Rogue even um the Call Her Daddy podcast, because my wife watches it. Right. But I mean, like the big ones, but the ones that are like just that are doing their thing, by the way. Like everyone does their thing. Like what I learned about podcasts is if you can get it out and you push them out, especially weekly. I think you guys were one time doing two twice a week. Yeah, doing twice a week. It was it was bro, that's like props, bro. Like, thank you.
SPEAKER_04It's not easy to get up, like that's why I say and that's what it was, is that I'm just it the people that know me know that I'm so driven. Yeah, no matter what. It doesn't, it doesn't matter. Like my mentality, my mental discipline is set like set in stone. It's stubborn at some point too. Um, but I'm just so driven. And I that's just I guess my ambition was is like, okay, I see everybody posting once a week, once a month, what's something different? Twice a week. And then I started being more strategic with like, okay, if I post it on Sundays, you know, people are gonna listen to it on Monday, Tuesday off, they're listening to something else. Wednesday, they listen to something else, boom, I'm gonna drop on Thursday. Yeah, that way everybody's able to listen. And that's just how I went strategically thinking over and over again of a lot of things, is uh and I wanted to showcase and put out as many as many episodes as I can. Um and again, it just goes back to the that mental discipline that I had was like fuck, we would be filming what like four episodes a weekend sometimes.
Recognition Moments And Audience Quietly Watching
SPEAKER_05It would be back to back to back. Like I remember we were in the studio literally all day, just episode after episode after episode. And like you just had guests and get you know, like we had just time frame, just yeah, we had what was the most we had in one day? Was it three?
SPEAKER_04Is it three?
SPEAKER_05I think it was three in one single day. And I mean the editing process, I I couldn't. I'm sorry, brother. I don't know how you did it, but that was tough. Edit your own videos, yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's like right there. I'm gonna tell you guys right now, that's hard.
SPEAKER_05It takes a lot, especially when the episodes are not just 30 minutes, 45, an hour, an hour and a half. Um, it did having to find dead zones, spaces you gotta fill in. Oh my goodness, it's it's rough. How did you learn how to edit though?
SPEAKER_04All by myself? Yeah, he didn't.
SPEAKER_03I literally just YouTube.
SPEAKER_04No, I literally sat there and I was just like, all right, I didn't I didn't have money for a movie at a movie, yeah. Add a movie or something like that. I didn't have money for Adobe player or premiere. So I was just like, well, what's the one thing? And then Capcut, uh, it was free. So I downloaded on my desktop, and then that's when I really sat there and I was just like, I need to figure this out. Right. I've been doing audio for so long, I need to switch over to video. Um, and that's when I was really like a pushing and adamant and trying to figure it out. And uh again, that goes back to my mentor because I was sitting there and I sat there for like eight hours looking at this fucking screen, trying to figure out how to edit, had no idea. Finally, once I figured it out, and I was like, okay, this is how you do this, this is how you do this. My first edit took me like an entire day to f to figure it out. Yeah, after the second one, it took less. After the third one, much less. And then now I'm like I can edit like nothing. Yeah, and it goes back to just practicing, figuring it out on your own. Um, if there was ways, like I wish I could research and do, you know, how I'm gonna look on TikTok, you know, how people do it, because then you know everything's on TikTok. You can figure out how to edit, you can figure out how to do all these special effects, and um it makes it easier. And uh literally just your teacher is your phone. Yeah, you can find anything on your phone.
Guest Dynamics And Letting Conversations Flow
SPEAKER_05Honestly, the only way I learned how to edit videos was just trial and error. Because at first I didn't even start on I didn't even start on the video. So, like if you watch almost any of the promo videos that we have, like not the recent ones, those ones he's been editing, but like promo videos for never trusted that we've made uh promo videos for like the car stuff that I do, a lot of that is edited by me. Now, my editing style is different from his. He does the long-term episode editing. I do like the short-term, like maybe 20-second long, 30-second long videos just for promos and stuff. But uh, I started up using Instagram editor like way back when they first started implementing music into it. Um, and it would take me forever. I remember those days, bro. I'd be sitting in my car after filming, and I'm sitting here trying to put these clips together, my phone gets hot, and it starts lagging.
SPEAKER_04His phone would start overheating, and it was hot. It was hot.
SPEAKER_05It was hot. And I would I would have to get out of the app, plug my phone into the charger, let it sit for a little bit, and be like, all right, I got the blueprint. Now I just gotta go in, do it quick, and then fine-tune it, and I would post it and it would be good. And then he actually influenced me to get into Cap Cut because he was just like, bro, like Instagram doesn't really have all everything that you need. Like, CapCut has more in-depth editing like skills that you can use. And so I was like, bro, but like I don't I don't want to use Cap Cut, like I'm loyal to my Instagram editor, and I finally did it. I listened, and it helps. Every time I make an edit now, I I still implement Instagram. I do both of it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I do both as well.
SPEAKER_05I switch back and forth because unfortunately, ever since the TikTok ban, it kind of updated and all that kind of thing. And then messed up being able to import TikTok audio. So, but no, editing, it's it's a it's a hard process. Anyone who's into podcasting or videography or anything like that, like they know what it takes to sit down in front of that that computer screen.
Saying No, Capacity, And Building A Team
SPEAKER_04Even an influencer, bro. Like to sit there for hours and trying to figure out an edit. Like, I give props to anybody that that does anything with social media because I know what it takes, I know how long it is, and then sometimes like you get so fixated on like fuck, like I don't like how this sounds. Let me tweak it, or I don't like how I looked at this one. I'm telling you, and you get so critical and like you overanalyze everything, yeah. I get it. Um my best advice for that is just post it. Yeah, even if it's not perfect, just post it anyway. Because again, you're just learning as you go. And that's just how I do it now.
SPEAKER_03You guys do it now. I just post the wrestling matches that we do. Yeah, I still gotta post like because my store sucks on um the connection. So like I gotta only post three videos today. That's all. When I get home tonight, that's what I'll probably do. Like, just post the rest of them. But they're just like shot from an iPhone camera. Like, yeah, and that's why you're getting that you're getting it, you know?
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna be honest with you, all the content I've ever shot for like any car video that I've made was all on my iPhone. Yeah, the promo videos that I've made all on the iPhone. It did at the end of the day, bro. If you got a 4K camera, you're good.
SPEAKER_03Crazy part is if you end up doing a car meet, you're gonna end up doing it in my my parking lot.
SPEAKER_05Um listen, Akari, if you boys are watching this video, host another meet at that shop. It's so crazy how small the world is because you working at that good guy's, and I never knew you, but my guys that are a part of Akari ended up hosting meets there, and it's down the street from my job now. So crazy how that plays a part.
SPEAKER_03I forgot the guy's name, but he reaches out a lot. He used to reach out about twice and he asked to borrow the parking lot, you know. So we like that it's this respectful.
Gratitude For The Crew And Supporters
SPEAKER_05Like, yeah. It the thing about the car culture here in Fresno, well, I can't speak for everybody, but for the majority of the groups that are still out there trying to do it, we're very respectful. We don't just go over and try and take over your parking lot just to be like, oh, we're gonna host a car meet over here and throw your address online. Most of the car meets that you see being posted right now are genuinely being given access. People are like collaborating with businesses and being like, listen, I got a huge car club that can bring attention and customers to your business. I was just gonna say, like, hey, let's just let's just work something together. And we don't we don't ask for money, we don't cooperate in terms of like trying to set up business deals. It's just hey, if you allow us to give us a spot to host these car meets at, so that way we don't have to worry about police coming in and kicking us out. We're not being a nuisance, we're not revving, we're not being extra loud. Shoot, there's been times we get vendors out there, pop-up food vendors that actually are trying to make money, they come to the events. The place that we got the parking lot from is getting business from us and the food vendors that pulled up. So it's a win-win all the way around. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Uh a lot of people in the car scene or a lot of people outside of that.
SPEAKER_03Like doing like an event, huh? Yeah, we've you know what would be kind of cool, like if we did like a customer thing at the shop, yeah, and you guys did the um car, yeah, and then we can do like vendors, yeah, and we could charge them to use the parking lot. Yeah, and then maybe we could donate that money to like a like a charity or something.
SPEAKER_05What's crazy is the first podcast that my car club is the first car club to have a podcast down here in Essential Valley.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Um, and that's exactly what it was for. We went to Sanger West High School and we ended up doing a car meet for the volleyball team, and we actually donated a lot of that money to well, all the money to the school.
SPEAKER_03We can do is like what's cool is we can um put like a bunch of the school names in a hat and then we could draw it on a live, and then whatever we make on the meet, whatever we make on it, we can donate to uh a school or an athlete. Yeah, and it'll be from Broke Boys and Inside the Power Loop. That'd be tight, man. Let us know. We'll see.
SPEAKER_04We got that.
SPEAKER_03Maybe oh, good guys as well. Good guys as well. Shout out to good guys, you know. But I think that's a good idea, man. I I just chimed off of you, but I was like, because I'm like, I gotta do something too. Yeah, like I gotta get promo right now to good guys.
SPEAKER_05It's always good to give back to the community. My car club's done stuff for Valley Children's over at Walmart and Club several times. Um, we're really more oriented towards giving back to the kids, man. Um, same thing with just anybody like that we've worked with. I don't think, I don't think there's a single like entity that we've worked with, that a big entity that we worked with, that wasn't giving back.
SPEAKER_02Right.
Shared Mission In The Central Valley
SPEAKER_05Um, and that's just that's just what I love about the community. That's what I love about Fresno is the fact that even though we've got a platform for ourselves, we're not trying to be all like Mr. Hollywood, like, oh, I'm too big for y'all, I'm too good for y'all. A lot of us are humble, a lot of us understand, like, well, we came from places that wasn't the greatest. We understand what it's like trying to grind and make a name for yourself. So I'll give you my platform to do what you need to, and we can make ends meet together.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely. And that's why I think we we got so many opportunities because we stayed being ourselves. We didn't let egos drive us, we didn't let none of that shit affect anything that we want to accomplish and anything that we want to do, um, which is key importance why we still want to showcase our city and not leave and and showcase these artists, showcase everybody. Doesn't matter if they have 10 followers or 10,000 followers, right? Everybody's all the same to us.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_03What we do is for, like I said, back to alignment and what we're doing, who we're doing it for, uh, when it comes to the youth, you know, like it's for me, it's uh just something that I I felt like I'm barely putting the pieces together. But I went from one area where you're already in trouble, and not saying there's no hope, yeah, but you're there, you you you know, freaking flyer, yeah, whatever. I'm not saying you can't change, once again, right? But it's like, why can't we just catch them when they're young and we can teach them? Right. And everyone has different experiences, you know. And the influencers you interact with, it just when you generally meet the good ones, you know, like not saying there's I'm saying I have been fortunate to say I haven't met anyone bad, right? I've just heard stories, but you meet the bad ones and the good ones, and if when you meet the good ones, it's like you could really do something big, you know, you can really align. Like, yeah, um, Fresno's a lot of talent, dude. And there's also a lot of poverty, you know, there's also a lot of people that need help. And I think there's people don't want to speak up, you know, they don't want to talk about it, you know. That's why I felt like I wanted to come on and let people know, like, I've been there, bro. Like, God has put me through every type of trial you can imagine.
SPEAKER_01Right.
Final Lessons, Socials, And Sign-Off
SPEAKER_03And then you could easily ask about me, like, I don't, I mean, you've been in my home. I'm I'm I'm humble. I mean, it's a nice home though. I've been blessed. It's nothing to do with me. And it's like, that's why when I went through the suffering, it's like, look where I'm suffering at. Right, right. Like, I would go and do my I God had me on this, I would do walks, like religiously, bro. Sometimes twice a day, right? Just to clear my mind. Because mind you, I'm not working. Yeah, and I'm not used to not working. Yeah, I've worked most of my life, you know. I can't say that there's some in between, but I'm usually working, and not only like eight hours, but I'm talking 12, 16 hours, you know? So I gotta like, this is racing, bro. So I'm going on these walks, and then I start meeting these different people, and I feel like everything was for a reason, everything was for purpose. And it started really putting me in perspective in the last six months, too. It was like, well, what is the purpose of this podcast? Right, you know, is it is it for me to be a famous influencer? Right. Is it for me to make a lot of money? Right, or is it for me to really make a difference and really say that hey, I really care and I really want to help.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_03Because I want to.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03But then it's like, am I taking credit for me or am I giving it to and it's like, how are you doing it? And I think I would, when I was going through the bottom and I'd have conversations, bro, great conversations with people. I wish I could just record, right? And it's like I'm in the garage telling these great conversations is what I'm like now. I feel like that's I'm like, I'm hot right now, right? And it's like and I'm telling these guys, like, bro, like, this is what we gotta do, this is this, this is that. And it's like, but we're not we can say that when you're at the bottom, though. Yeah, when you have nothing, yeah. Because you're like, what else can we but hope, bro? And I think the thing is the Lord never let me hit rock bottom, right? Because rock bottom to me is having nothing, bro. Right, yeah, like if even if you have your faith, you still have that, right? You could be homeless with no money, no nothing. But I never had that, but God put me close to where I smelled it, right? And I'm like, okay, I don't like that smell, and I don't like that feeling, you know. And I think one of the most underrated blessings there can be, bro, is to be in a home that's paid for. We're talking about your light, your water, your your internet, you know, your phone bills, like, and you got food. Yeah, and the luxury and the blessing, the extra, the gratitude are just is you can take your kids to have a burger at McDonald's, bro.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03And I think like coming from the way I was raised, I was very spoiled, bro. My my grandparents and you know, my family always had me spoiled, you know. So I can't sit here and say, oh, I struggle because of you know, I I chose that six months to be where I was at. So when people talk to me, they're like, I don't want to hear your story. Like, you chose, you know, you were at a good job and you left a good job, and like you chose this.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03You know, and so it's like it's hard to argue when at the moment you're going through something, you feel like you're being Better person, or right you're being put through these t tests that you would have never had that mindset or that I guess capability to think that way.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03And God allowed me to do it. And I did it with the people I needed to do it with. And certain people in this season showed me their color. So I think when you we do get where we're gonna go or whatever what's for us is that you know who to mess with and who not to, you know. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I think that's what we talked about last time too, is like uh because I told you the beginning of the journey and how hard it was and figuring things out on my own. Um which it which sucks, you know, that you have to select yourself with the people that you want. But when you surround yourself with people that believe in you and you surround with people that really more uplift you and inspire you to do better, then you start elevating on your own as well.
SPEAKER_03No, yeah, 100%. It's not back to timing, back to alignment, back to what you're doing. I mean, you may think what you're doing right now is something that maybe God's like, no, I have something bigger.
SPEAKER_05You know, it's funny you say that. Um I've received that same message or that same wake-up call or reminder, however you want to call it, several times. If I gave you my resume right now, you'd be like, bro, where are you going? Where's the next pit stop? I I've I received that calling, like, no, this is a pit stop for right now. You've got bigger things to accomplish, and it keeps happening. It's not something that I choose to do, it's not something where I'm just like like I don't get tired of where I work at. It's more or less just if I know I have more potential and I know I can do more, I'm gonna I'm gonna reach that by means of it. And I mean it's easy to get caught up in a day and a life of just working a nine to five just constantly. It's easy to just be like, eh, I'll be comfortable right here. But every now and then I get woken up like, hey, time's ticking. You got more potential, keep going, keep moving. This isn't your this isn't the last stop, keep going. And that's that's I've reached it just in this past week, which is again timing is crazy. This past week is when I got that wake-up call again, and so now I'm it's not crazy, bro.
SPEAKER_03It's a lot of alignment, everything happens for a reason.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and I'm glad, I'm grateful for it because it happens at the perfect time. I had a long, like, two-hour conversation with my mom. Me and my mom don't really talk as much as we used to, and I'm close to my mother, like that. I'll kill for that woman. Um, but we had a long, two-hour long conversation, and it just kind of opened everything up and it made me view like, oh, okay, this is what's going on. Okay, so God's telling knocking at that door again, telling me, hey bro, it's time again, let's go. So it's crazy timing again.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no. I want to ask you something. Well, both of you guys, yeah. When you're on a podcast and you have the guest, and you're because you were on mine as a guest, was it hard for you not to like want to ask questions to me? Yeah. Because I I I wanted to pick it, I wanted to pick that apart so much, dude. But I'm like, it's not your show, bro. You're just the guest.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna be honest with you, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's hard, it's hard because you're sitting there and you're just like, you want to take control of it, and then you're like, hold on, this isn't my this is.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna be honest with you, and I have to catch myself sometimes because I'm like, hey, it's not my episode. I gotta get, I gotta refocus it back there. But I think that's what makes it genuine again. Yeah, is just remembering like this is a conversation, somebody might not even be watching, they're just listening to it. Yeah, 100%. And they can relate to something that Martin says that maybe we haven't spoken about or we don't relate to. I just let the conversation flow the way it's supposed to.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, I like it to be real raw and authentic. Yeah. Sometimes, like I said, I could go on a rant and it's like, but then I start hearing yours and I start hearing yours. And it's like, okay, maybe I just is my time. But so it's like it's just you're getting caught up in the conversation. But I yeah, no, back to real fast, I want to touch on like of who we meet. Like it, I think that comes down to today. Like, we both kind of were like, yeah, like whatever's gonna come to us too. Like, I think when you're out there trying to like make it happen, that's where you can make the mistake. Yeah, because now, like I think my mistake initially was trying to get everybody on, but maybe everyone wasn't gonna align with me. Right, you know, maybe the conversation wasn't gonna be what it is, and doesn't mean I don't want to work with them. It's like it's I'm just been blessed to say we are busy, you know. We have I went from thinking we have no guest to we just have a lot of options, and I feel like it's a blessing, you know, to say, hey, I have options to do. And I got in the habit of asking everybody, like, hey, we need to get you on a podcast. Hey, we need to get you on a podcast, and then you get enough, yeah. So then you get called out, right? You're like, hey, what's up with that podcast? And you're like, but I think that's why I'm cleared things up on the on here on your show. It's like it's not that we don't want to, I think it's just once the infrastructure can get a little bit more um let's say flowing, you know, the way you know you have like I was telling what I tell you today. I go, I need me a partner, kind of. I need me someone that's there to, you know, you got a team, you know, back to team. You know, we talked about it right now. It's me and my wife, definitely. But if to add that extra to where it's you know, we're sturdy. Yeah, right now we're trying to hold each other up. So it's like, you know.
SPEAKER_04And it takes time, bro. Like, I think uh I think I'm blessed for the people that are helping me for sure. Because this takes a minute. I'm super blessed that Caesar comes out and he helps me and he's uh he's amazing. He's amazing. Shout out to Caesar, man. Shout you out, shout out to Between Pops.
SPEAKER_03I'm looking forward to uh seeing the clip, my boy.
SPEAKER_04He's fucking amazing, man. And I I respect him and I give him the utmost. And uh and honestly, like you know, with everybody that I've had, Chango, um Ivan and Juan, DJ, of course, and DJ's friend Isaac. Um again, uh there's a lot of people that are key factors that um without any of their support and any of their help, I wouldn't be here. Right. And uh it takes uh it takes uh a lot of people to help run a ship. It can be by itself.
SPEAKER_03Takes a village, takes a village.
SPEAKER_05Takes a village, man. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, you gave shoutouts, bro. Now I have to give so I gotta give a shout out to one of our editors, Matt. Uh, shout you out, Matt. Thank you. I appreciate you. Uh all the you do. And just everyone that's been rocking with inside the Powalu, bro. Like I know a lot of people that there's a lot of you guys behind the scenes, and they don't want to be mentioned, you know, because they just want to say that they're part of the journey. So does she know who you are and I really appreciate you? And like I said, just the people that subscribe, Bill, listen, and actually want to hear us. And it just it really feels great that we're we're able to bring the 559 and bring it out to you know, now we're hidden states. Yeah, because we did Doc B, we get we did a kid in Colorado, bro. I got people from following me from you know, there you go. And they're like, What's this? What's that? It's kind of cool. Like, I want to get the one thing that I will say is and it's kind of a funny story, but it's like we were at a restaurant, uh, In N Out Burger, and uh one of the guys is like, Hey, you're that guy. And I just was like, he's like, Yeah, you podcasted with Coach Jenkins. So shout out to Coach Jenkins, the new coach at Samuel King Memorial. And then I told I was funny, I said my wife, I was like, hey, like, let's hide on the corner, like I'm popular. You know, I'm just joking. But it just felt cool, like to finally like hey, get recognized, like okay, wow, we're really doing something, you know.
SPEAKER_04That's part of your blessing that you've been creating, man.
SPEAKER_05Making a difference, man.
SPEAKER_03I mean, you guys probably get hit up quite often, right?
SPEAKER_05I don't, yeah, I don't, not really. Every now and then. He gets more than I do.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there's there's and I love that. I love that feeling. That's what I said.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna be honest with you. And just to piggyback off of the shout-outs, shout out to those who don't really speak up about watching the episodes, but they watch it anyways.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Um, recently I had a childhood friend of mine that reached out and let me know, like, hey, like, I'm proud of you, like, you've been doing your thing. I've been watching your moves. Like, it's it's amazing seeing you grow and all the different aspects of life that you have been showing and and showcasing. And I was like, You've been watching me this whole time? Like it it blew my mind because I was just like, dude, there's people out there that won't say a word that you would not anticipate. There's somebody out there watching this on their on their TV screen in their living room right now. Somebody's eating canes in their bedroom at three-finger combo, bob style, watching this episode. Raising canes, please. Shout out you, bro. Shout out you for real. And uh, I just feel like without the audience, we wouldn't really be anything.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely. I'm blessed for every single one of the subscribers, everybody who's supported the channel since it first started. Um, everybody from Spotify, the Spotify family, I appreciate you guys. Um asked to take a picture, ask to record. Please. Uh, there's nothing wrong with it. Please, but when you come up to me, you're just like that's like the most awkward interaction. Then you don't even say hi, like, bro. I'll tell you about that story. Yeah, please, bro, because I gotta hear that. I'm not gonna blast it, but nah, nah, nah, for sure. We'll keep it respectful. Nothing wrong with it. I'm not gonna charge you, I'm not gonna dick about it either. Um, but it's just funny. It's it's funny when you catch them too and they're from the distance and they're just like, look what I see over here. But it's a blessing, and it's uh it's such an honor to have you on. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having me. Um before we go ahead and we wrap this episode up, is there anything else that you would like to tell everybody watching?
SPEAKER_03No, just once again, like uh shout out to you guys. Thank you for having me. Uh, first time being a guest on a podcast. Uh, you guys are doing your thing. Broke boys at Fresno uh first discovered you in the summer. You did the the Lake interview, and we were doing our season two debut with coach um uh Tom Herman. And so shout out to him. We were out there in Bass Lake, and that's when I was like, oh shoot. And then you were on the road. Well, that's when I had at the time we were we're having we kind of had like a little, like kind of a team in a way. You know, shout out to Matt again. He went out there, set everything up. That's how I know setup is crazy. And um we saw you guys doing your thing, bro. And I started watching you, we started following each other, and then started seeing what you guys were doing, the the scene you guys were kind of creating. And it's like I said, it's not necessarily what we're doing, but it's that we're trying to do the same thing. Yeah, it's not you know, we're trying to support the you know, you're you got the music and you got the influencers, you're at events, you guys are still you doing the thing this summer uh for Christmas. You guys did your thing. I mean, that was you know a blessing in disguise, right? And what I I told you, maybe next year if time aligns and back to alignment inside the Powdoo could probably do something with you guys this coming up here for sure. And um, but it's like we're doing similar things for the community, you know. And I think that's the big thing here is that like I said, if you guys have a dream, have the faith, you know, don't give up consistency, don't let people tell you that you can't do something. Um, and it's not easy. It's I think the one thing I always tell people is it's it's easy to say hard to do. You know, it's I can say a lot, but what am I doing? You know, and I think that was the one thing that when I had to mature in this time and take accountability for things, is like I can say a lot, but am I gonna do it? Right, you know, uh I'm here, it's we we worked. Yeah, I got out at five, you know, came here, waited. Yep, not really, you know, it doesn't matter where the area is at, but you know, kind of like I said, back to the mindset. Yeah, things are always gonna be okay, you know, and not familiar with things, right? But yeah, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna be open, start talking to the owner of next door, right? Right, making connections little by little, the networking, you know. But yeah, no, thank you guys once again, man. That's it's this experience was amazing. Felt good being on the opposite side. It was hard, yeah, not to piggyback off the questions, and especially being in the middle, like you know, right. But it was it was cool, bro. So thank you guys for having me. Thank you. Nice meeting you, and then likewise meeting the homie in the back right here. It's been cool. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Thank you guys. Well, thank you guys for staying tuned for another episode. Please go ahead and and follow him on all platforms. Please plug in all your social medias.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Inside the Pod with Lou, uh, pretty much on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify. So uh we do have Inside the Pod, we'll do podcasts on uh Instagram, and that's kind of a funny story later, but we just find us right there and give us a follow and go from there.
SPEAKER_04Perfect. Well, thank you guys for staying tuned. We love you. Much love. Peace.
SPEAKER_05Cool, bro. Good conversation, bro. Good conversation. So appreciate it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, thank you, man. Thank you.
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