YBZ THE PODCAST Ep 51 - "El Jefe"

On this episode of YBZ, we sit down with Randy “El Jefe” Aguirre—the man behind some of the biggest moves on Gate 2 Street—alongside his right hand man, Andy 🔥

From coming to Okinawa to building it up, Randy breaks down the mindset, the vision, and the grind that turned an idea into a growing Latin District. We’re talking El Barrio, El Padrino, Chicano Park… 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:18

How many? Ah man I know some of that shit I didn't even know what the fuck.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Uh six? Six? Yeah, because I closed Bero Bero. I sold it uh that last year. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_05 0:37

Because it's uh three, one, two, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Tequila Padrino Tequila Padrino, Barrio, Chicano Park, and uh uh Ryu Conspirates. Okay, that's still the thing.

SPEAKER_06 0:52

Ryu Conspirates. That's that's that's the one that's weird.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

So that is uh liquor company. Oh, it's a company. Yeah, it's uh uh I got uh some uh we make our own uh awa mori. Awamori. Really?

SPEAKER_06 1:03

Yeah oh shit why the hell we ain't got a bottle of that? Shit. Why the hell we ain't got a bottle of that thing? Damn.

SPEAKER_05 1:14

Bring your head over here, man. I totally forgot about that.

SPEAKER_06 1:19

As long as it's yours, it can be on camera. Shit, it's yours.

SPEAKER_04 1:23

Damn.

SPEAKER_05 1:31

Yeah, because we're gonna be able to do that. All right, y'all.

SPEAKER_06 1:32

So for those who don't know, he went to go get a bottle today. So we're gonna start the show immediately after he goes and gets these bottles.

SPEAKER_05 1:51

It just makes me nervous it's floating like that.

SPEAKER_06 2:11

Shit. See? Now that is what I'm talking about. Had I had a known that, it would have been sick. Alright, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. We'll talk about that later. Alright, let me open the show. That was a good one, motherfucker. I ain't do this. Anything else you wanna you you got that need to go out here on this table? Shit. Let me do the thing.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

You understand? This is your boy Jay.

SPEAKER_06 2:59

This is YBZ the podcast. Like I said, it's just me doing this right now. Shout out to the day ones, you feel me? Like, share, and subscribe, you understand? This and all other podcasts will be on YouTube and also we are on all streaming platforms. So if you didn't know, this interview will be on uh Spotify and Apple. So, yeah I'm saying so. If you want to watch it, you can listen to it. Alright. Anywho, before I get started, let me give a shout out to Mike Mooseby and Stay Good. That was a great interview. You can check that out on YouTube and on Apple and on Spotify and anywhere you get your podcast. Please go check that out. Like I said, one more time to stay good. Alright? Anywho, we got a very special guest today. We're here in uh El Petrino Cigar Bar. Right? We're in El Petrino Cigar Bar. Uh I got one Randy El one Randy El Hefe himself. And one Andy, the right-hand man, you understand? Thank y'all for doing this. Much appreciated. Yeah, it's a good idea. Pleasure to be here. Pleasure to be here. It's a nice spot, man. And I'm so glad to get an opportunity to film here. Uh we just gonna get into it because I'm just rambling and whatnot, and because I'm still tripping about the bottles that you took. You didn't tell me you had the bottles. For real, for real. So, uh Randy. I'm saying it right, right? Yes, sir. Okay. For those who don't know you, right? Well, first thing, I'm like I said, I'm all over the place. My bad. I'm I'm scatter brain today. Listen, the reason we uh we got decided to film here today is because if you did not know, like I said, El Petrino, Chicano Park, and El Barrio is this whole big corner that this man owns out here on gate two. And it's very impressive. And that's the type of people I want to talk to. He's a moving and a shaker out here to have this whole block on lock, you understand, or at least half a block. I don't know. I can't do square feet and all that bullshit. But you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm saying? So that's why I wanted to come here because this is fucking impressive. I think I said that uh when I came to talk to you about it the first time. This this this is fucking impressive. This is this is impressive. I remember this block. I think what Club Red was.

SPEAKER_05 5:19

This was uh Club Red. Right. I remember when Kentucky Fried Chicken was over here. Really? Yes, you taking it back, bro.

SPEAKER_06 5:27

You taking it back, bro. For real. So I want people to get to know the person who did all of this. You understand? That's why I'm here, and so let's get into it. For those who do not know you, as much or as little as you want to tell, let's talk about uh shit. We can start as far in the beginning as you want. We can talk about how you got here, or just just tell everybody about yourself.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Um yeah, uh well, it it all started in a cloudy night back in 1974. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 6:04

Trying to tell me a superman order.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

No, uh um, I got here the first time Tokinawa was uh 26 years ago. Okay. And uh as an active duty marine, and it was uh a great um opportunity to come to a different country, you know, as a young guy. And I came over here and it was my first time out of the between the United States and Mexico. Okay, okay. And uh I got here and uh I love the the vibe, I love the the island, and I always wanted to come back. Right. You know, I made it my uh my goal to eventually come back, right? You know, but uh before that, you know, like if you're interested in where I'm from, uh it's kind of weird because I was born in Texas, but I was raised in Mexico.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

You know, uh right on the border. I'm from uh Laredo, Texas, Mobile Tamaulipas, which is right on the border down uh on Texas, Texas Mexican border. Um then I moved uh to Chicago, spent uh uh some time in Chicago and enlisted in the Marine Corps.

SPEAKER_06 7:10

Okay, so from so from Chicago, that's when you joined the Marine Corps. Yes, sir. This was your first duty station, second duty station, third?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

This was actually my first duty station. Your first duty station? So my my job in the Marine Corps was uh avionics. Okay. So aviation. And my school is my school was a year and a half. So by the time I got here to Okinawa, I was already in my second year in the Marine Corps. So uh got here in 2000, 2000.

SPEAKER_06 7:38

Oh, that's about actually what year was that?

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Yes. Okay, okay. That's back in the past.

SPEAKER_06 7:43

We're around about the same time I did. All right, all right.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

I was here from uh 2000 to 2005. Okay. And then I went to uh Cherry Point, North Carolina, and then I went to uh I came back over here in 2008 and left in 2011.

SPEAKER_06 7:57

All right. Damn, they love saying your ass over here, bro. Did you come directly to Okinawa? Did you go like mainland somewhere? No, no, straight to Okinawa. Okinawa. Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

I was on Fatima. Uh-huh. All right. Then uh 2011 I went to uh Myanmar, San Diego. Then I came back over here in Sasibela in 2016.

SPEAKER_06 8:17

So Hell shit, let me tell you a curveball since he's sitting over there. When did when you made his ass? Was it the first time a long time ago?

SPEAKER_05 8:24

Was it the first time you were over here? So I'm not sure like what year exactly, but uh I used to work at uh Latin dance club uh Salcetinas in Naha and he used to frequent there, and I knew him and his friends, so that's how we ended up connecting. And we just spent uh that wasn't the old me, man.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

That wasn't the only one.

SPEAKER_05 8:41

That was the old him. I don't I could tell you some stories, but uh old stories you want to share. I don't know if I can share the no, I'm just kidding. No, I'll I will say this. Um, yeah. When I seen him there, I knew there was a fight which was gonna happen. That's why I would ask the staff, like, yo, is he drinking? Yep. And I'm like, fuck. Well, there goes the night.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

That was a young, a young motivator, you know. So shit. That's what uh that's that that's what Marines trained for. That's why. But wait, that was it? No, but uh, yeah, I came back in uh 2016 and uh I didn't do nothing actually for two years.

SPEAKER_06 9:26

So what made you decide that you know I'm finna just start open shit? Like what was the first what the first business?

SPEAKER_00 9:31

So the first time I got here back in 2000 and uh like 25 26 years ago, right? Um me being Mexican, I love Mexican food. Okay. And back then, if you remember, there was only two places that had Mexican food. That was uh obligatos on 58 and Casalima.

SPEAKER_06 9:51

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

Casalima right here at 330.

SPEAKER_06 9:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

There were the the two Mexican spots, you know, for Mexican food. And uh everything else was uh like King Taco, you know, um taco rice, Okinaw tacos, which is really good food, but it's not Mexican, you know. So what I would do is I would uh I was like either cook at the barracks, you know, or cook at uh uh at my uh apartment, you know, because I had to get my my Mexican food.

SPEAKER_06 10:16

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

And um so I always thought I'm like, man, they need something here for us. By the time I got here, that's when the salsa uh scene started hitting Okinawa. Salsa scene started hitting Okinawa, the salsa, la bachata, the merengue. That's when uh Julio opened uh um Salsa Tina, the first Salsa Tina Hiro opened Latin Soul, you know, that the salsa community started forming here in Okinawa. Okay, so but me being Mexican, salsa is not my thing. Gotcha, you know. I love salsa, I love bachata, I love bachata, and merengue, you know, but it's not my thing, you know. I can so I need I wanted some corridos, you know, some Mexican uh music, you know, corridos, cumbias, texanos, uh, you know, Mexican stuff. And there was nothing here. So I always had this idea, hey, I want to do something here, you know, for not only for me, but for a lot of Mexicans like me, because you know, like in uh in the Marine Corps, especially in the Marine Corps, there's a lot of us. Yes. A lot of Mexicans right there. I'll have to say, like, probably like two out of every five is is Mexican. Yes, you know, yes. And uh we all like get together and I mean we needed a spot. Right. So that became an idea, actually. It started that idea as a just as an idea like back in 2003, 2004, when I met my wife. So when I met my wife, she took me to uh she said, Hey, I'm gonna take you to a Mexican place. I'm like, oh, let's go. She took me to King Taco. So I'm like, I mean Were you disappointed, man? Oh, actually, I was like, wow, this is really good. Okay, okay, okay. You know, because I I really I'm a foodie, I love food. I feel you. But I'm like, this is not Mexican.

SPEAKER_06 12:03

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, I I some some kind of like let down a little bit, like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

So I started cooking for her, and like, hey man, this is different. This tacos are different, like, yeah, this is Mexican tacos. Then uh when we finally got married and we went to uh I was able to take her to uh Nuevo Laredo, to where I'm from, to Mexico, and we're walking down the street and we have the the tacos stand, the elote, the lote man, you know, and she's like, what is this? So she's also fell in love with the Mexican food.

SPEAKER_06 12:29

I was just about to say, yeah, she must have.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Yes, she fell in love with Mexican food and she's like, Oh, this is Mexican, right? Yeah. So we started just talking about it, like, hey, I want to do that. We want to do something like this in Okinawa, you know, so but it was just an idea, you know, just something like, and then time goes on. Uh we went to Cherry Point, then requested orders back over here. Okay. When I came back in 2008, there's still nothing Mexican. You know, there's nothing, uh, no uh Mexican music, no uh nothing. Right. You know, like every once in a while in the salsa club, they would play like two or three Mexican songs, but we cacorridos, you know. But that was it. You know, like eh, it is what it is, you know. So when we left to uh North Carolina, I mean uh to uh Miramar and we went to San Diego, and my wife and I, our idea started growing a little bit more like, oh man, we we should do this, we should do this. But it was just still an idea, right? You know, and uh we went to uh Miramar, and I mean that's pretty much Mexico, right? If you go uh down uh Barrio Logan, everything down is is Mexico, so we love it. And uh we used to go to this place called uh Gonzalez Market, they have everything Mexico, and my wife started cooking, getting more into the Mexican culture into the Mexican food. My wife has a um, not because she's my wife, but she has a uh a touch for the food, you know?

SPEAKER_06 13:59

She's a chef or just no, she just loves food. Okay, gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

And it works out really good, man, because she likes to cook and I like to eat. Right so it's amazing. Perfect match. It's amazing. Perfect match, gotcha. So uh, like around 2013, my um my mom came uh from uh from home. She came to stay with us in San Diego, and my mom and my wife would always cook, you know. So I was the happiest man in the world because I would go to work and then for lunch at something different every day, you know. Chilequiles, chile rellenos, mole, you know, you name it. So my my uh my wife started cooking with my mom and started getting the the same sazone, you know, the same flavor. So he was great. So uh we stayed there till 2016. Okay. I did uh early retirement from the Marine Corps and I came back as a civilian. Okay. Now, unfortunately, for those two years, three years, for three years, I was uh in a different state of mind, you know, because uh when I was in the Marine Corps in 2012, I was in uh in Afghanistan. And some shit happened that, believe it or not, messes with people's heads, you know. So that kind of like disrupted my uh my mentality completely and everything. One of the reasons I decided to retire early. So when I came back over here, I was in a very I don't have to say like a very dark uh era, you know. And I had uh I didn't reach out to anybody, I was just trying to stay on my own. I didn't tell nobody, I was just on my own, you know. My bed was my best friend, you know. I feel you. And I was uh just isolated, you know. I just wanted to keep by myself. But then at the same time, I felt like hey, I need to do something to to bring me back, you know, like uh a purpose, you know. That's when we started URI. I don't know if you remember uh the the Okay, now I U Rite It was like Uber Uber, the Ghetto Uber? I I think I remember that.

SPEAKER_05 16:14

Oh, yeah, but there were a few different ones.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

There was uh Well the first one we started was URI. You ride, and there was some other and then uh other people of you uh uh started doing uh uh different different groups, you know.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

Yeah, same shit, just a different name.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

And it worked great, and that's when me and him connected again, you know, because I called him like yo bro, you you you're out uh to do this? I'm like, what is it? Like, hey, it's like like Uber, but on our own. And you're like, what? Right. I'm like, yeah, man, we we use Facebook, you know, we we we use social media. So we started connecting again, and I started like socializing a little bit more. And uh then in 2018, I uh I started selling uh tacos with my friend Oscar.

SPEAKER_03 17:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

So Oscar, Oscar Sacqueria, shout out to my friend Oscar and his wife. So we started selling uh I started selling tacos with him, and it was a hit, you know. And uh every every festival we we used to do, they would sell out, you know. It was his uh his business, but I was I would help him come out. Right. And uh then booth, food truck? No, no, it was a booth. A booth, okay.

SPEAKER_05 17:27

Like the MCCS events.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Every festival on the basis, like Kinster Fest, uh Fatema Flightland Fest, you know, uh Foster, all those fests. And um, so I started uh with them again doing it, and I'm like, man, I realized how the the grill actually helped me like uh mentally, you know, like grounded me. Gave you a purpose. Gave me a purpose, you know. And every time I felt like uh like out of control, I would start grilling and I would come down. You know, like no. At that time I was going, I was going to uh see the wizard like every month, and then he started, I had to go see the wizard every week. And I was uh highly medicated at that time, you know, but then uh the uh one of the times I was with a wizard, he's the one that uh told me, like, hey, the only time that you don't want to burn the world is when you talk about food. Right, right. You know, that's the only time that you you you feel like you get you can smile because when you talk about cooking, when you talk about food, when you talk about he's like, why don't you start doing that?

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

And that gave me back that that same idea, like, we had an idea of opening a restaurant. Right. And uh I went back home, I remember, and I told my wife, hey, what's up with uh with a Mexican restaurant? And she was like, well, if you're up to it, let's one thing about my wife, then uh he can tell you about this. And uh she's 100% supportive. Crazy ideas I have, she's like, uh, but she'll go for it. And it works out perfect because I am not the logical guy, I'm not uh the guy that thinks things uh thinks through. I'm very like, let's do it. Yes, but she is the logical one, she's the one, like, okay, we're gonna do this, but we're gonna do it like this, like this, like this. And I'm like, oh shit, it makes sense, you know. Shit, shout out to wifey, man.

SPEAKER_06 19:27

Everybody needs a real one like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Yeah, she's my right to die. Right or die. And uh, so my first our first venture was tequila bar and grill. Okay. Was tequila bar and grill in what uh 2019?

SPEAKER_05 19:44

Right before COVID.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

2019.

SPEAKER_06 19:47

So at this time, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, because I gotta get him talk.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

I'll get to I'll get to that right right here. So at that time, at that time, that's when I reached out to him again. Okay, he was working at Sasatinas for like 10, 9 years, you know. And he's like, you know what? I'm done bartending, I don't want to work at the bar no more.

SPEAKER_05 20:07

I was done.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

I was Andy, but I need somebody. He's like, oh man. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 20:16

By this time, did he know you were back in oaking?

SPEAKER_00 20:19

We were already working together with you right. Okay, okay, okay. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 20:23

So this is after the U right.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

But he had he didn't want nothing to do with the bars.

SPEAKER_05 20:27

Uh I was done. You were done. I was done with the nightlife. You were out of the nightlife. Yes. I didn't I had retired from bartending, and then he starts telling me his idea, and he's like, Well, you know, I told him no right off the bat. I was like, no, I don't want to do it. He's like, well, can I show you the place? I'm just about to say, change your mind. So he shows me the place, and when I see it, I'm like, I see the potential. Right. And then I asked him, what's the latest I get off? He's like, 12, 1. I was like, all right, fuck it, let's do it. Right, okay, okay. And then uh, so I you know, I helped him come up with the cocktail menu, and uh, but his biggest thing was it was tequila bar and grill. I didn't know anything about tequila.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

No, no, no. The first thing he's like, fuck, I hate tequila.

SPEAKER_05 21:11

I don't like tequila. Let's see.

SPEAKER_06 21:15

I didn't I didn't know.

SPEAKER_05 21:16

All I knew was Jose Cuervo, Saza, got you, Patron. Gotcha, you know, and he won't drink a whole product. Okay, I got you, I got you. Go ahead. But so after he ended up opening, I would hear him talking about tequila, and you know, his his whole spiel on tequila was just like got me interested. And then little by little he started try this one, try this one. Now I love tequila. Good tequila. Yeah, tequila. That's a difference, that's a difference. That's like has to be the good a good sipper.

SPEAKER_06 21:46

All right, so we got we're at the barn grill point. All right, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

So we started uh tequila bar and grill with Andy, my wife, me, and my wife's friend. Gotcha. And uh that's it. He was uh the guy at the bar, my wife's friend was the the the cashier, and my wife was the cooks. Okay that's it.

SPEAKER_06 22:09

And how long did you do that before you before we get to where we at right now? How long was that? Oh man. Three four years.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Three years? I'll say yeah, like uh three years. So this is the thing about that. So we started in July 2019. Remember what happened in March 2020? COVID hit okay now. Okay, okay. So when COVID hit, it was like six months after we opened. And COVID hit, and it was like a disaster for everybody. You know, because a lot of uh bars close, a lot of restaurants close, a lot of uh businesses closed, you know. And it was one of those things like you gotta adapt. Yeah, adapt. So luckily for us, you know, we're like, what can we do? What can we do? Because we cannot just give up, you know? Right. So we decided to do something different than nobody was doing before. So before, uh the first thing we started doing was selling the taco platters, remember? Yes. Wholesale instead of one item at a time.

SPEAKER_06 23:16

Ah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

So we started doing taco platters, you know, a platter of 10 tacos or a platter of 20 tacos. You know, instead of buying two tacos, you buy 20. Right, you know. And we started doing delivery.

SPEAKER_06 23:26

Okay, so you were Uber Eat before Uber eating. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Everything through Facebook. Everything through Facebook. And uh, so that kept us in business. Gotcha. You know, because uh he would go to Kinster, I would go to Foster, he would go to Kadena, and I go to uh Hansen, I go to Schwab. We hit all the bases. Okay. The majority of our customers uh are military. Gotcha. And they would call they would uh send us uh uh an order, you know, like 80 tacos, 100 tackles, this, like you go that way, I go this way. Right, right. And so our our kitchen was still producing, you know, even though Corona was hit, uh hit, and uh they made us uh uh close the shutter because we couldn't have uh customers in, right, but we could deliver. Yes. So that helped us a lot. Okay.

unknown 24:14

All right.

SPEAKER_06 24:14

And you did that for the all through COVID or whatever. Yes. Did you shut it down or did you keep it going after COVID? Uh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

We we kept going, we never stopped.

SPEAKER_06 24:22

Never oh so is it is the business still going now?

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah. Oh, for real? Yeah, tequila bar and grill right here in Gate 2.

SPEAKER_06 24:27

Yeah, I've I done ate some of your uh something at all.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

We've been strong ever since uh is it six years, eight months now? Six years, eight months.

SPEAKER_06 24:34

Yeah, going on seven years. Yeah, they talk about fire, man.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

I've I've had some, I've had some, so I I passed some tequila out of your park too. It's pretty good. So before uh we go in like so how long you been here?

SPEAKER_05 24:45

In Okinawa? Yeah. Oh man, don't I have to say? I was a military brat, and I've been here since '94. Damn. Yeah. And I just uh I just kind of stayed. This eventually became home, you know. Long story short, right out of high school, had my son, you know, and as long as he was here, I made sure I was here to help raise him and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06 25:08

Okay, all right, all right. That's what's up. Okay, so now let's get to where we are right now. How did this get started? Oh man. What block did you conquer first? Because you over here playing fucking Monopoly and shit. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 25:23

Was it the escape room or was it yeah, the escape room was next.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

In 2021. Gotcha. No, 2020. I opened uh uh with uh one of my partners for uh the escape room. Shout out to Sean. His uh escape room. Escape room. Oh, an escape room. Escape room, yes. Okay. Uh we have two escape rooms, uh two locations, one here in gate two. Fuck out of here. Yeah. For real? Yeah. We have uh a location right here in gate two. It's uh a pirate thing. It's a pirate, it's uh actually a pirate ship built inside the building. Uh-huh. And we have another location in Rikham on the fifth floor.

SPEAKER_06 26:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Okay, escape. That's uh, we got two rooms over there. Is that yours? Yeah. Fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_06 26:10

I didn't see that shit. That's you? Oh shit, we should have filmed in there. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

Yeah, we in Rikem, we got uh two rooms, uh, which is one is a bank heist, and the other one is uh demolition abduction, which is like a scary one.

SPEAKER_06 26:24

How many people frequent that thing? How many people go?

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Oh, a lot. Really? A lot. It's very popular with uh how many cut you off.

SPEAKER_06 26:30

What made you decide? What what when when did your brain decide to go? I'm gonna make it this game.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Oh that that's all Sean. That's all Sean. So Sean, shout out to Sean. Uh-huh. He's the owner of party bar. Okay, okay, okay. And uh that's all his his uh his fault.

SPEAKER_06 26:44

So you just what like just winning financially with him?

SPEAKER_00 26:46

So we became friends when I opened a um uh tequila bar and he came back from uh the states, right? Right, right. He came back from the states, and we automatically uh became friends, and we uh we we started hanging out and everything. And then he goes, Hey, have you ever done a skate room? Like, the fuck is that a skate room? I'm like, what is that? So he was a recruiter in the states, right? Right uh before he got over here. Right because he was in the Marine Corps too. Okay, and uh he's like, bro, when I was in the recruiting, we did uh he did like a hundred over a hundred skate rooms, right? And I'm like, so he explained to me what it was. I'm like, I don't know what it is. So he's like, you know what? Fuck it. We're gonna go to uh Tokyo. Okay. So me and him, we went uh on a weekend to Tokyo to do nothing but skate rooms. That's that that was our our whole goal. And we started doing skate rooms, and I realized what it was. It's a it's uh it's a game, you know, like you use your brain to figure things out. And I love the adrenaline feel when like when you figure something out, you're like, wow. Yeah, I'm a genius.

SPEAKER_06 27:55

Oh shit. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

We uh we decided because uh and uh that's we went out that weekend we went out clubbing, me and him, and we got tore up. The next morning, I don't know how, but we uh when during our drunkenness, we had made sketches for uh for our own skate room. Okay, and that's when pirates came alive.

SPEAKER_06 28:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

So it's uh it's a combination of uh his mind, my mind, and alcohol. Got it. So he he got he got me into uh the escape room, uh skate room world, you know, and then I got my kids and I got my my family, and they love escape room now. Every time we travel, we try to do skate rounds too. Okay, that's tight.

unknown 28:40

See?

SPEAKER_00 28:41

That was uh that was a great adventure. We still have uh the escape room now is uh we have one in on Region Gate 2, right across from uh Tequila Bar and Grill. Really? And the other one is on uh right on fifth floor. Okay, all right. It's very popular with Japanese and uh I'm about to say I'm pretty sure they fucking be in there. We get a lot, actually, believe it or not, we get a lot of tourists. Uh a lot of uh like uh Chinese from Taiwan, we get a lot of Koreans, we get a lot of mainland people that come over because they see uh on uh what's it called? Uh like Yelp or whatever it is, yeah, yeah, yeah. All those uh things, yeah. They they go and uh and make reservations and it's really good.

SPEAKER_06 29:19

And you did it yet?

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Oh yeah, yeah. I've I've done the um the pirates one and I did the construction escape, um, which I failed.

SPEAKER_06 29:30

What's the time limit on them? Like how long? One hour. Yeah, I was gonna say an hour. So you got one hour to try to get out. So within well, of course you're gonna they're gonna you're gonna let them out, but we got one hour to get out or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

So we don't let them out, we take their souls.

SPEAKER_05 29:44

Yeah, I haven't done the bank heists yet. I want to do that.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

The bank heist is fun.

SPEAKER_06 29:48

Hey y'all go check that out. See, you learn something new on YBZ. You learn escape room. What the fuck, man? Anyway, let's now I'm I'm not clamoring to do one, but I find that fucking fascinating. It is because I I would have thought that would have been the last thing that would came out your mouth is the skate room. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:06

But they also got you got different levels, right?

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Yeah, we got different levels of uh, you know, from beginners to experts, you know. And uh I love skate rooms for uh a few reasons. One, it's not it's uh, it's really good for uh to bring people together because you need to work together. Right. Teamwork, team building, yeah. Teamwork makes the dream work. You know, if you don't work together, you don't get out. Right. You know, so we we've seen people from people who fall in love to people break up from there.

SPEAKER_06 30:35

I was about to say, have you seen has anybody broke down and started climbing? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:41

We've seen everything, you know. Um like uh we uh we get we get a lot of uh uh birthday parties for uh kids, like because uh no matter the age, right? You can do it.

SPEAKER_06 30:50

I'm just about to act with the aid limit, so no matter what.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

No, no matter we get a lot of uh like uh like uh teenagers and uh also a lot a lot of like uh 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds they love skate rooms and it's really good, it's really really interesting.

SPEAKER_06 31:04

That's fire. All right, all right, all right, so let's get to here.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

That was our my second adventure. And then uh then we opened uh uh a small little isakaya called Berobero. Okay, and that one we used to do uh like two highs and things like that. Uh and then uh when we open Bargo? Oh 20 uh 2022.

SPEAKER_05 31:31

Yeah, we're still a tequila bar.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

So when when we when uh at the tequila bar, right? Like uh if anybody been to tequila bar, you know, you know that it's not that big, you know. So what people would do is, you know, one thing like before anything, a lot of people ask me, like, how can you like how can you be so successful in everything? It's not me, it's people. It's people that uh that uh uh that support us, people that that uh that uh in other terms fuck with us, yeah. Yeah, heavily and uh so what used to happen in tequila is um people will come and drink, uh eat and drink, and then we'll then we'll move the tables to the side and start dancing right there, right? You know, but it's not that big. So it was like we couldn't uh accommodate accommodate a lot of people. So I always wanted to get uh a place for that place my music, yeah, you know, Mexican music. Like I said, you know, nothing uh uh uh against uh what's it called? Salsa bars, but salsa bars is salsa bachata merengue. Right. And if you want to go dance, I love uh bailando, uh, you know, uh Larin So, right, you know, um well Salsatina's not there no more, but those were the places to go dance. Right, right. But I wanted a place to go wild, to have fun, you know, to let our Mexican grito, you know, you know. So when my friend Rodrigo decided to uh sell uh Red Kitchen, because that's what was Red Kitchen. Red Kitchen, yep. And uh what was uh the the home of the greasy burger, the big ass burger. So when he decided to sell it, and he came over and talked to me and like, yeah, man, let's do it. Right. And the original plan was to move tequila over here, right? You know, but then we decided to open it as a bar with uh with a DJ. Okay, and all of our customers from Tequila made it what it is now, you know, because they started, they would go over there, uh eat, a couple of shots, a couple of drinks, oh let's go party, and they come over here and dance. So from the get-go, we started getting really, really busy. Really busy, you know, and you know how it is, the crowd follows the crowd. Right. Follows the crowd. At that time in 2022, um 7 was uh pretty lit. Uh party bar was pretty lit. You know, at that time was when uh the the the way people would do it, they would start in party bar, you know, that was the early spot. Yeah, you know, they would drink there there, and then they would start making their way over here. You know, yeah. So by the time I opened uh Barrio, everybody would end up over here. You know, and it just went crazy after that. And uh then eventually, so I um have always liked cigars, and I don't smoke uh cigarettes, but I like cigars. Right, right, right. And I wanted I always wanted a a place like this, you know, I can chill, I can relax, you know, like uh more older people, yeah. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 34:51

Some grown shit. I guess.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

So same thing when uh when Chuck decided to sell this place, you know, uh I jumped on it. I'm like, hey, I made him an offer, he said yes. And this was uh so this building was at that time when I bought it, when I got it, was uh what is it? Galaxy galaxy, remember?

SPEAKER_05 35:15

Yeah, that big ass spaceship it was galaxy. I almost forgot about it until you brought it up.

SPEAKER_00 35:28

Everybody knew this uh this uh place for the big spaceship, the big rocket. Uh at first I remember I wanted to paint the rocket red and call it the red rocket, you know.

SPEAKER_05 35:39

Yeah, it was uh so we have a group chat, and he started sort of like, what's the names? And then he threw in red rocket, and I was like, I'm glad you were here. I'm glad you told him now.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

He goes like, bro, really told him not. But um, yeah, uh that was uh back in 2025 last year. All right, and uh I decided to uh name the the bottom Chicano Park and put a uh uh like you ever been to uh San Diego?

SPEAKER_03 36:11

No.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

So San Diego and Logan Heights, they have a uh Barry Logan, they have a uh a park called Chicano Park. Okay. And I used to love that place because every Sunday all the lowriders go there, you know? Right, okay, it's badass. Like if you ever go to San Diego, go to Chicano Park. Uh on the Sundays, it gets so nice because uh you get it's old school, you know. All the old school people come in with uh with uh the lowriders and all the people with music, and it just feels good, you know? And I wanted to bring that a little bit over here, and uh what better than a mural, you know, so that's why I painted the mural right here. Yeah, and uh then my next project was gonna be this El Padrino. So a place where we can come and chill.

SPEAKER_06 36:59

Right.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

We'll go crazy, crazy, and then okay, let's relax.

SPEAKER_06 37:03

Relax, yeah, yeah. That's cold, that's cold. Uh shit.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Let's talk about these damn bottles that this is uh uh also a uh joint venture uh with my uh with my friend Sean. Gotcha. And uh so this what it is is uh this act these bottles are actually been uh patterned that they've been patterned in in um in Japan. You know, everything's been trademarked and everything. So all those bottles are uh uh hand-blown, and the awamori is uh provided by uh Chinsato Sujo, the the oldest Okinawa Awamori distillery this year. They've been here since uh 1823.

SPEAKER_06 37:50

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

So the the bottle is ours, but the the the awa mori is from them. Gotcha. So we have uh like a partnership and we sell this in uh online, we sell them in uh the uh several um uh liquor stores. So they've been they've been going strong.

SPEAKER_06 38:07

The bottle the bottle uh itself, can you buy that separate from the Alamore you got? Oh, so you can just so you just get the bottle itself and put whatever you want.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

One beautiful thing about this bottles is this you can use it, drink it, and after you drink it, you can uh use it for whatever else. Whatever, yeah. You can uh it's like it's that uh what's it called? Decatur decoration. No, uh my trunk my translator is it's off right now. So you can use it after for whatever, you know. A lot of people use it for uh you can use it for cooking oil, you can use it for water, you can use it. That's a word I cannot say. That's a word I cannot say, man. Shit.

SPEAKER_06 38:52

The bottles of fire, man.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

Yeah, they are there and so the reason the concept uh behind this, you know, me and Sean were talking about that, is we wanted to do uh like a unique souvenir. A unique souvenir that uh uh for Okinawa, you know, and what better than a floating island? If you notice in the middle, that's Okinawa.

SPEAKER_04 39:14

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:15

So, and after that, you know, like after you drink the Awamori, because nothing says more Okinawa than Awamori. Right, right, then you can use it for whatever, yeah. But yeah, we uh we sell them uh uh empty as well, too.

SPEAKER_06 39:27

Okay, all right. Well, hey, y'all come get one of these damn bottles or come is is the alimori good? I can't drink an alarm later, but goddamn.

SPEAKER_00 39:35

It's actually really, really good. It's uh very smooth.

SPEAKER_06 39:41

Andy, how many of these you then took to the head?

SPEAKER_05 39:44

Oh no, no. Tequila, tequila bottles, yes, but not the awamorty. No, because uh tequila, you feel yourself getting drunk. Our morty just kind of creeps up. That creeps up. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 39:54

That should sneak up on your ass for real, for real. All right, all right. Well shit, your journey has been up and down all over the goddamn place, and you really shocked me. Shocked me a little bit, a lot, goddamn. Uh it's been good though.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Yeah? Yeah, it's been ups and downs, but uh, you know, everything's been really good. You know, like I said, you know, like I cannot take credit for anything myself because uh like Andy, he's uh he's always since day one, he's been my my right-hand man. Everything like from business to personal to shit. Um I'm about to throw the towel, you know. I call him, you know, like yo, we have a really good uh relationship. Yeah, you know, no homo.

SPEAKER_06 40:37

No, it's a little bit. You see somebody like that in your corner, man, all the time. Yeah, dead ass, dead ass.

SPEAKER_00 40:44

Definitely, you know, like uh I've been uh I've been lucky. I've been lucky to have uh good people around me. Yes, you know, and uh that's uh that's the number one thing, people for me, like uh anybody that knows me, you know, I don't value money, I don't value materialist uh material stuff, nothing I don't care about anything like that. I do care about people because uh people is everything for me, you know, because uh people have uh been there uh at my lowest and my highest, you know. And without people, like for nothing.

SPEAKER_06 41:13

Yeah, deadass. Nah, you speaking some real shit. For real. That's gospel right there. So here I got a question for you. Uh and we're gonna close it out after this. For those who want to follow in your footsteps, what would you tell them? What advice would you give somebody who wants to be an entrepreneur such as like yourself? What would you tell them? Especially out here in Okinawa or in Japan in general. What would you tell them?

SPEAKER_00 41:46

So the number one thing I would tell uh I tell everybody the same thing is do it. Do it. The number one killer of dreams is fear. Yeah. And the what if. Oh man, what if this happens? What if you never know until you try.

SPEAKER_06 42:01

Until you try.

SPEAKER_00 42:01

Until you try. You know, don't regret it. Yeah, you know, because the only regret in life is the the what if. Like, what if I would have done this? What if I if you have something that uh you really want to do, do it, you know? Now, obviously, business in Okinawa is different than uh uh in other places, you know. Okinawa is a small island, you know, it's small and big, so it's small in size, but big in people.

SPEAKER_06 42:26

Big in people, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

You know, we have uh what is it? The last was it 1.6 million people here in Okinawa? Like uh uh military itself, we're like 60,000, 70,000 strong, you know, like that's not including all the tourists that come in, you know, that's not including all the mainland people that come in. So there are so many people, so much people here, you know. And to be successful successful in any business, you don't even need the 1%, you need a fraction of the 1%, right? You know, so a lot of people uh some people have uh come over and ask me, like, what do you think about this? Number one thing about uh business, especially on gay two, is this as long as you bring something different to the table, that is what's gonna hit. You know, yeah. Look at look at the crowd, look at the demand, look at uh what uh what's needed. Yes, you know, because I mean I hate to say it, a lot of people, oh I'm gonna open a bar and uh I'm gonna uh I'm gonna do this, this, this, and it's gonna hit. But if you open a bar that it's already um mimicking somebody else, there's nothing new. Yeah, you know, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:37

Nah, you hit it on the head, man. You hit it on the head with two things you said the whole Okinawa is small, but Okinawa is big. That's facts on top of facts. And I wish a lot of people would realize that Okinawa, while the island itself is small, it is big on people. Yes. You understand? And that you just need a piece of that, a percentage, just one. Two, one, to come fuck with you before you, you know what I'm saying? So you, them, them true gems you giving out, y'all better pay attention to what that man just fucking said, man. That's that's real shit, though. That's the realest shit I ever fucking heard.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

You know, uh growing up, you know, like uh, so I'm from uh uh Nuevo Laredo, Maulipas, Laredo, Texas, the the the border, right? And if you ever if you know anything about uh like how um Mexico in the United States is, the border is one of the worst places in the world. All right, because especially Nuevo Laredo, where I'm from, so I explained to this to everybody, you know, we're different than anybody, everybody else. Why? Because we have a very important corridor called the I-35. The I-35 is very famous for good things and bad things. You know, it's good for great business and good for illegal business, you know. Now, one thing uh you uh you uh I learned from there is work together. Always work together, you know. If you see anybody else a competition, you already lost. Right, you know, because I don't like he can tell you, anybody can tell you, I don't see anybody's competition. You know, the only one I need to uh uh improve is myself. It's my I I focus on me, I don't focus on whatever everybody's doing, hey, more power to you. You know what I mean? But uh one thing about Okinawa is, and I've been trying to uh uh like get everybody on the same page, you know, help each other, help each other, support each other. I mean, if you if you follow me on social media, you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you'll see I go to other uh Mexican restaurants and I give a shout-out to them, you know. I go to other bars and I give a shout-out to them. I I go uh uh when I travel to uh a mainland or Korea or whatever, I go to different bars and the same thing. I don't I don't keep it to to uh it's only me. No, it's everybody, right? You know what I mean? Help each other out, support each other out, and everybody gets uh um everybody uh gets paid pretty much.

SPEAKER_06 46:03

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I wish more people would uh take that lesson into consideration when they start doing stuff out here, but we live in a me generation, you know what I'm saying? So we especially these times right now where everybody is it's all about me. What can I get out of it, you know? So it's very refreshing to hear you say that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 46:24

Yeah, the whiff'em is big here. The whiff'em what is there for me, right? Yeah, yeah, it's uh and you know, I tell uh I uh I have three kids, right? My son is 21, my daughter is 19, and my little one is uh 15. And I always tell my kids one thing, man. And this is how I live my life, and that's why uh for me it's very simple. So when I do something, I don't do it in uh uh expecting anything in return. Right. There's a reason for that. There's a reason for that. I learned from a uh really young age the worst thing, the worst feeling in the world is disappointment. And you get disappointment by one simple thing, by uh doing one simple thing, expecting it. Expecting oh, I help you, I expect you to help me back. Guess what? He doesn't have the mentality if you're gonna help somebody, help because you can't, right? And you want to. Don't expect nothing back. If you get something in return, great. If you don't get nothing in return, it is what it is. Move on. You know, and that's uh one of the biggest things here people expect. Yeah, you know, don't expect nothing from anybody, you know. Just do what you gotta do, and that's it. Right.

SPEAKER_06 47:40

Yeah, my mom and my granny used to tell me that, man. I I when growing up or whatever, and they used to, you know, buy me buy me stuff or whatever, you know, we do this out of the kindness of our hearts. Yes. You know what I'm saying? We ain't I'm not doing this expecting you to do something in return for me, you know. Now I know it sounds funny, you know, because it's coming from my grandmother, but that's kind of like one of the things she instilled in me. You know what I'm saying? When you're doing something, if you're not, if you don't do it out of the kindness of your heart, then don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't fucking do it. Don't don't fucking exactly word. That's uh big gems, big gems.

SPEAKER_00 48:14

You know, the the the the wisest people are the oldest people, man. You know, I love to talk to old people. And why? Because they have some wise fucking words. Yeah, and you'll be like, wow. So my grandma used to uh I uh I grew up with uh mostly with my grandfather and my grandmother to the past, right? And my grandma used to uh I mean my grandmother was mean, you know, but I mean she was old school, but she was but she taught me a lot of things. Firm. I mean she was very firm, yeah, very firm. Yeah, and that's like hey, don't speak out of turn. Right. You're if the adults are talking, yeah, shut the fuck up. Shut up, you know. And if you fuck up, she didn't have to say nothing. She would be like this, like the stare, right?

SPEAKER_06 48:54

Oh shit, you know, unspoken words, got you.

SPEAKER_00 48:57

But one thing I I always remember about her, she would always say this El Sol sale para todos. You know what that means in Spanish is the sun comes out for everybody. You know, if if I uh if I help you, you know, shine, I'm shining.

SPEAKER_06 49:13

I'm shining, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

You know what I mean? We helping each other shine. Hell yeah. That's how it goes. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 49:19

That's that's big fucking facts. God damn. I ain't know you finna say all that shit. God damn. You're about, right? No, because he's speaking some real shit, man. And and it's it's it's very good to hear you say that. You know what I'm saying? Not just, you know, we having a conversation like that, but I think our the people that's watching and listening, uh some of the some of the younger heads probably need to hear that shit. You know what I'm saying? So um shit. That's yeah. You you good to go. Any shout outs you want to give? Anybody you want to shout out, you know, your your camera right there, camera right here in the front, the main camera. That camera? Yeah, either one of them two cameras, looking to them, talk. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 49:59

I mean, there's so many people, man. Like I said, there's so many people that uh I owe everything to because uh without people, I'm nothing. Yeah, you know, you know, but uh obviously, you know, the number one uh shout out is my wife. Yeah, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:12

I want to shout her out there. Shout out to my wifey, you feel me? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

She's uh my ride or die, man. And she's my uh my rock, she's my support, and and without her, I wouldn't be able to do anything, you know, because uh she not only guides me, but she controls me, to say, you know, stop me the uh when uh when I get too crazy, and you know, lift me up when I get too down, you know. So the number one shout out for her, you know, and obviously my my uh right-hand man right here, you know, because uh from the get-go, he's been with me, and we everything, everything we do, you know. Hey Andy, what do you think about this? And sometimes like, nah, bro, oh shit, that's true, you know. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 50:48

You know, I'm I'm not a yes man. I'm not afraid to tell you. No, no, I feel a good friend should not be a fucking yes man. You understand me? A good friend should be able to give that advice that you probably don't want to hear. You understand? So we keep it real though. Yeah, I think that's a good thing. We go back and forth. I heard part of the captain. I would say we keep each other grounded. We keep each other grounded and we have a really good relationship.

SPEAKER_06 51:10

Alright, man.

SPEAKER_05 51:11

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

He he keeps it real, man. He doesn't tell me like what I want to hear, he tells me what what he fucking feels, and sometimes, actually, a lot of times, he's right because I don't I don't know everything, you know. I'm not and I'm uh one of those people that if you come to me with uh with a with an idea, you come to me with a concern, you come, I listen. Right. I listen because I'm like, oh shit, I didn't see it that way. You know what I mean? And because sometimes we get focused on, oh, I want this, I want this, I want this, but that's the wrong thing to do, you know. And then you need somebody like him, somebody like my wife, somebody like other people that I that uh uh I go to, you know, and they'll be like, oh, what about this? Oh shit, I didn't think about that shit, you know. So it it's a a big um collaboration of uh of minds, you know. So but uh big shout out to uh uh man, I got so many people. I mean shit. Now go ahead, man.

SPEAKER_06 52:03

We we got we try to go ahead, man.

SPEAKER_00 52:05

My uh what one uh uh a big shout out to my uh one of my uh not blood son, but he's one of my like my son. I love this guy like he was my kid. I know him till since he was 18, Ray. Ray uh uh he uh he's the owner of Kick's Bus. Okay. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_06 52:24

All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

I fuck with him, man. Bro, that dude, I love that dude because from the beginning, from the beginning, he is um, how can I put it? His head, his mind is more uh more advanced than his age. Okay. Oh, definitely. You know what I mean? He's always thinking ahead. He's always thinking like he's always like uh uh uh thinking about the future. You know what I mean? Like, how can I do it? How what uh how am I gonna do this and all that? You know, he's always uh ever since we met him in uh in uh he was 18 when he got to Ireland, he's been here for six years. And uh he, I mean, that's like that's not like my son, you know. Right. He has two kids, which uh I adore, they're my grandbabies. By the time, hey, but by the way, Thursday we have uh uh they come into the house and I have a present for for them. But uh yeah, so many, so many people, man. So many people that have lift me up uh here on gate two. On gate two, uh so many people, you know, that uh they welcome me and uh they uh they've I don't have any problems with anybody, you know. And uh and sometimes we had some uh some issues, you know, with but I'm that type of guy that uh if I have an issue with you, I go straight to you. Yeah, and we confront it and we squash it, and that's it. You know, we move forward. You know, uh here uh uh I don't know if you know uh Rod. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Me Rodney.

SPEAKER_06 53:51

Shout out to Rod, man. One time.

SPEAKER_00 53:52

Yeah, he he's one of my boys. He's uh he's uh another one, he's always on my corner, 100% support both ways. You know, uh Chaos, Calvin, same thing. You know, me and him, we uh we always uh get along, you know, Red. I mean, there's so many people here that uh that uh has uh has helped me, you know, one way or another to to do what I can. You know, I mean we uh we have a really good uh relationship, you know. So, but I mean there's so many people I I can I I couldn't be on the list, you know. But uh yeah, big shout out to everybody, man. Got you.

SPEAKER_05 54:30

Andy, you got something? Uh no, I mean, I was uh just here along for the ride. I was really interested in how this you know podcasting works, you know. I mean, shit. Well, we here now, man. I mean, you know, I I I don't need to say anything, y'all know who you are.

SPEAKER_06 54:46

Nah, I I feel you. I mean, because uh it it it sounded to me like you're a big part of his story, you know. Oh yeah, man. Oh, definitely. So it's only right that you that you would be here, and I'm pretty sure he done probably said this shit to you in your face, you know what I'm saying? So now he's saying it to your face in front of these cameras, and a whole bunch of people go here, you know.

SPEAKER_05 55:07

So being away from my family, like with my uh my parents being in the States, you know, uh, and being with Randy and his family, I really feel like part of their family, you know. Even his kids, you know, they're like the nieces and nephews that I've always wanted.

SPEAKER_06 55:23

I feel you.

unknown 55:24

I feel you.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

Man, Okinawa is uh it's uh it's a different animal, man. And I think it's it's all what you make of it, you know. It's what you make of it. But uh the number one thing is uh people, man. Once you get people and you get people on your side, and uh, you know, man, nothing stops you. Yeah, nothing stops you because uh you have uh I've been we've been so lucky that we get a lot of support from uh a lot of people, you know, like a lot of people that uh that uh come over and you know one way or another they they fuck with us, yeah. You know, and it's great.

SPEAKER_06 55:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:59

Shit.

SPEAKER_06 56:00

That's that's that's the way right there, man. People, man. People make this shit work, and it's obviously working for you. You told me about a goddamn escape room. I had no motherfucker. You gotta try it. You gotta try it. I'm half tempted, man, but I'm I'm still black at the end of the day, goddamn. I guess that sounds like some scary movie shit to me. But hey, if it if it if y'all like it, I love it, goddammit. Shit. This is your boy Jay. This is YB Leader Podcast. I got one Randy L F a one Andy over there. You feel me? Like, share, and subscribe, and as always, easy people.

SPEAKER_00 56:39

Nice, nice, nice, nice. That's fun.