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S2E3 - Ghosstek (Part 2)

• Edlin • Season 2 • Episode 3

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In this episode, we continue the chisme with Ghosstek and talk about Groove N' Give, the power of music, culture, mental health, and going after your dreams and passions. Many funny gems and relatable references as well! Tune in and let me know what you think! 


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Edlin 

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SPEAKER_02

Your musical career got how you got into barbering. Um, and I guess uh yeah, maybe just um we can talk more about Groove and Give. Uh-huh. Like what is your your mission? What's your objective with that? I know you briefly touched upon it. And then maybe just like I think you said you had something to share about it. You have like some exciting news that you wanted to share.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. So I partnered up with the YMCA. Um specifically the Montebello Commerce YMCA. Yeah. I had a meeting with them, and they're working on having their to-user um parking lot to host an event. And um, I met with this man, this uh their director, John, and this other uh I don't know if it's assistant or another director, her name's Claudia, and we kind of just spoke about it. And you know what? Uh I was telling my girlfriend, like, I really love when you meet with people that have the same passion as you because it's so like fun. And they especially when they they're open-minded and already have a good personality and they love what they do, or they just like helping people, everyone's like excited, everyone's excited, everyone's like, oh, like you know, like we're let's do this, let's help the community. Because I say I've been across people that lack one thing or the other. Like, some people it's for them, it's just a job. So, like, yeah, they're gonna work and they're gonna help you, but they don't want to they they're like it's that's their position. So they're not really passionate about what they're doing, it's just their work. Right. Or some people are passionate, but unfortunately they lack the skills and the energy to like provide that the what is it like um provide it um I guess the help or like be able to give you like those resources because they're not good at it. But um yeah, it was it was really awesome, and they I guess they're already gonna do something with uh a car club that's gonna have uh an event there. And he's like, Yeah, we can put put you on onto this. And I'm like, this is cool. So I'm thinking car show, and which is perfect. That's such that's a big when it comes to classic cars, she straight up chicano, chicana vibe right there, like you know, like right there, all the fools. Oh my god, all the fools, they they they love their classic cars, it shit. Um still a lot of car clubs up here. Yeah, they be cruising on Woody Boulevard every Sunday, every Sunday. I honestly like please please whoever's listening to this, don't don't hate me, but I hate that it's every Sunday, and I'm gonna tell you why. It's kind of like the longer you keep something from someone, the more they're gonna appreciate it and want to. Like it is not gonna oversaturate the car show um culture, like the cruising culture. So they did this like monthly or or like um per like um per quarter of the year. It's gonna get people to be like, hell yeah, like it's time to cruise. Like they're gonna want it. Like if it's just con the if it's constantly there, it kind of oversaturates it. And it and like of course it's gonna be the people that are passionate about it, but you also want outside people to appreciate it. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just easily there, um, it's it's too easy to access when it comes to stuff like that. Like, um, it it kind of like people get over it. The k the locals get over it. I hear so many people complain about it. The locals are over it already. I'm like, damn, dude, like you should like check out the history about cruising, like you know, the cruising was illegal for a minute, you know? Like, I think it's kind of cool that these these fools can finally take out their ramflas and cruise down the street by listening to Renton Wood on some like hello-speakers, and you know, they got everyone in there cruising, and that's cool because like for a long time it was illegal, but now they're they're having fun with it. But it's been getting pretty wild. I spoken to some people, it's been causing like traffic issues, and it's kind of like um I it's kind of like uh when people are given an opportunity and they take advantage of it, they overdid it. So now the city's the city's like fighting back by having cops raided and sheriffs like go in, and it's like bro, we don't you don't you don't want we don't need all that like you know it's it's it's gonna it's gonna um they're gonna try to cause an issue and we want to avoid that with the with the with the culture like because me personally I do not trust cities or cops a little too much and uh yeah it's kind of hard sometimes, yeah. But I think it's really cool that um they they're gonna work us like work with the cars like uh club and I'm thinking like yeah we can turn this into a a cultural event. I could it could be a whole thing whole thing, how these how these fools showcase their cars, show them off, park them. People can take pictures, look at them, admire them, and then have like vendors, um or like food, clothes, arts, whatever vendors there, and maybe set up a stage or set up a DJ booth and just have music playing and represent culture, show people a sub, bring a community, and also spread awareness about what's going on and like what we're doing, and use that as a way to collect uh supplies for the kids that we're trying to help. So they're aiming for mid to late June. Um I really gotta get in touch with um Claudia and start start pretty much brainstorming and getting things done. So it's cool that I I officially lock that in. There they're it's I I like the the Y. I I've I've always knew that the Y has been very um for the community based on what I remember. Because I I used to go to the Y by Euclid and Whittier um next to Kip um Um in Boyle Heights, and there's like a lot of community things they do. I don't know too much research. I know like there's always like the dark side of something, right? Like I don't know if they had a scandal or something, right? But based off what I know now, and from what I remember, they they're super for the community, they they help out their members. Um they even he even told me that there's a family that lives in a sedan and they're homeless and they let them use their showers. The shower. Yeah, and he says, like it's pretty cool. Yeah, and he said at that location in particular, registered members, and probably the ones that opened up about it, right? Um, 20 families were affected by the ice rates, and they also have families that are still trying to recover from the recent fires that happened um last year?

SPEAKER_03

The Altadena fires.

SPEAKER_01

Altadena and the past, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, and I tell them 20 families, and that's just one why. Like how many um YMCs are out there? Yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, right. And it's like how many families were pretty much like transparent about them being affected because I know some of them are so scared, they're just trying to remain anonymous as possible.

SPEAKER_02

People are scared, yeah. And especially if you're unhoused, you want to remain, especially like in more in out of the main like downtown or inner cities, right? Especially like if you're talking about getting into suburbs, which I guess you talk about Montebello, right? They're more of a suburb, a bit of a suburban feel um city. They because they're persecuted persecuted so much by police, kicked out, they want to remain like as possible, yeah. And so they don't really openly share. Yeah. Or like they know, you know, it's like it's so it's really hard, and that's why like when it comes to like the the uh the homeless count. Uh huh. When you're counting folks, it's really hard to count them because they're they're not openly sharing one. They don't like you know, like if you talk about like tenses, yeah. It's very it's skewed, it's it's that's just kind of like hidden. And if you add a layer of being undocumented, that's an extra layer of they don't want to be anywhere near the grid.

SPEAKER_01

Even though that it's supposed to be like anonymous and all that stuff, and like it's supposed to protect their identity, they're still scared. But shoot, especially with everything going on, maybe you can't even trust the census anymore because like what is it with like who like some some people were gonna like give date data to like ICE and stuff? And I was like, What? Like, are you serious? I forgot what exactly what it was, that'll have to like look up. But I know there were some situations where like certain data companies or or something were gonna give information to ICE and pretty much like talk about the like give them the information on undocumented people that are registered with them. So I was like, Yeah, and so I don't blame them. Um people are just trying to remain safe and protected. Um when I spoke to Trilla, I didn't even mention to them that like they're like they're like, how do you want to like distribute this? Like, do you want to have an event and distribute it? That you want to give it to the families personally, and I told them, look, yeah, I just want to host these events. Um excuse me. Um I want to host these events. Um and like we when you give me a number, it's gonna help me organize the distribution because I am working with other um nonprofits or or like um foundations, and I could organize them and give you like these totes or boxes full of supplies I can do in it. It's your offices. And I could help with this distribution, but like I said, I do want to protect those families because I I wouldn't want to put them in a place like to just even if it's an event for them and it's gonna and it's for them to collect, like I I don't trust anybody, you know? It's gonna be an easy hunting ground for these like monsters to come and like pick up families if it goes too public. And um, I think it's best that we just um deliver it to their houses. And they're like, okay, like we have a team that does that, and were you gonna want pictures or press or whatever? I'm like, yeah, we can take pictures of the event, and then they kind of said, like, yeah, if we just don't we're not gonna take pictures of the family, it's to protect their identity. I'm like, yeah, that's that's fine. Like that, that's totally like I totally understand. Like I'm not gonna argue with you. I was thinking the same thing. Just like pictures to show what we're doing, and you know, post it on and and just like you know, like the only press I want from this is just to spread awareness and hope get someone's attention that would be interested in getting involved and helping. I don't care about clout, I don't care about getting my name out there, um, which is why I like last year, like I DJ'd at the events, but the only reason why I DJ's because I had a couple DJs uh back out. But originally I didn't I didn't I didn't want to DJ. I don't want to DJ. I don't want to put like my name on the flyer and be like, oh, this food's just trying to DJ. I'm like, nah. One of them was actually scared because it turned out he was undocumented. He didn't want to go out. I didn't even know that. Yeah, I had one DJ that was undocumented, I'm like, it's totally fine. And then I had another DJ and he backed out last minute because he had to go into work. So I was like, okay, cool, like I'll just spin. But it's real. Yeah, but luckily I actually I made a a sign-up sheet this year, and I got people that signed up. I have a link public, and I looked and I was like, holy shit. You have a good lineup coming up? I have a pretty decent lineup of like people that just want to get involved. It's it's so amazing when you like tell people you're you're you pitch them what you're doing. It's not even an idea anymore, it's something we're doing. And they're like, their face lights up and like I want to get involved. And then I tell them the the last the last part of the I guess of my ideas, and I tell them, like, you know what? Thank you for getting wanting to get involved, but just know it's volunteered based because we're still small, you know, we don't have like a big budget. It's all literally community. It's a group of people that got involved and we're throwing this together, and they're like, That's fine. I just want to help the community. I'm down to DJ and play for an event like that. That's totally cool. I was like, oh, okay, that's that's really awesome. And uh I I'm gonna remember that. I'm gonna appreciate that. If I ever like if the foundation ever gets big and we have like a good budget to like throw like a festival or a street fair, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna pay them. I'm definitely gonna pay them. Or or whatever they want. Like, you know, maybe if they want to volunteer, like I got you. Here's a tax write-off, or something. Here's like a I I was telling a customer, like, if if we start to get our name out there and start to become a bigger foundation to do bigger change in the community, um, anyone that gets involved, if they help us make an impact, I want to personally give them like a like a trophy, but it's gonna be like a platinum record in a frame saying that like a form of thank you, a token of gratitude. A token of gratitude, and it's like a plat like a custom um platinum record. Uh that would be a good thing. That would that is super dope. I think that'll be like an awesome thing because our whole our whole um image, I would say, I don't know if that's correct, that is it's all it's all music and culture. Music and culture. And we're just using that as a way to like uh connect people and um and like get them together to like help out the community.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and um this year we're also gonna do two extra things we're gonna add. Well, last year it was strictly house music, but I'm actually gonna switch it up. So we're gonna have an event. One of just so it won't it's gonna help bring more crowds in. It's gonna help with oversaturation. And um, I want to obviously have a house night, but I also want to add like oh, a new wave 80s night, a cumbia salsa night, a freestyle hip-hop night. You know what I'm saying? Oh my god, that's exciting. So we can get people from like different like uh cultural or like I guess like style demographs, right? People that like specific style of music, they're they're gonna come, they're gonna want to come sport, they're gonna want to dance, whatever. And then like it's gonna cater to multiple people. But on top of that, I know musicians and bands, so like I want to host a concert or we're gonna get a concert going. And then since Miguel Lugo's a comedian, we're gonna have a laugh and give event where we're gonna host a comedy nightclub, and admission is gonna be like a uh an item that a donation, and we'll get in, we'll get you in, sit down, have a drink, laugh, and enjoy the night. Like, we're gonna bring more stuff, more entertainment, and we're gonna we're gonna laugh, we're gonna dance, we're gonna group for a cause, you know? And we're just nothing but good vibes. And I tell people that music's such a music and and it's such a powerful drug that and it's such a powerful instrument, tool, or whatever you see it as a of therapy because Absolutely Music is so powerful we can control your emotions. We don't realize that. You're listening to a sad song, you can be in the happiest relationship ever, but you put on your headphones, you listen to a sad song, homie speaking some poetic sad boy or sad girl like stuff, you're gonna be like, damn, I feel you. And you're like you're over here, just like, damn, dude, she like she broke your heart, and then like your gruffin's like right behind you, like you're all happy, like you're outside of the music, you know, yeah, you're in a happy relationship, but it's like the powerful of just like feeling other people's emotions and the music, and you can just change like the temple, the key, the vibe, the lyrics can really shift someone's emotions and feelings about what they're listening to. So a lot of upbeat music, it's very energetic, it's very happy. And um for that I tell I was like I'll talk to people like in that moment when everything's happening in this world, all the all the this terror and like tyranny and and and bullshit, just within that one to five hours of the community being together, feeling good energy, feeling good positivity, like those are that's what I want to to be able to provide. Because everyone's gonna feel good, they're they're gonna enjoy the night, they're gonna enjoy the music, but they're also doing it for a good cause. So you're not just gonna go out and party and pistear, you know? You're gonna go out and pistear and do something good. Like it's it's and it's it's it's a very good feeling. It's a it's a very good rich feeling. So um that that's like the main that's why I feel like it's it's the main thing is like groove. It's the groove of it. It's the that that's music's so powerful, it's really, really powerful. It's also a form of protest, freedom of expression, um, poetry, art, like anything, the it's it's very, very powerful. So anything and everything, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I mean it's healing, it's literally healing. Like I I feel like there's certain certain music, like sound therapy and stuff like that, like certain frequencies, yeah, levels that you can write that are literally like they heal you, they heal your brain. Um uh slaves, like through songs and singing. That's how they they did a lot of the underground railroads.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, of course, yeah, of course, yes.

SPEAKER_02

Right? So, like literally like a mess saving people.

SPEAKER_01

That's how like we got punk rock, you know? They're they're they're fed up with the system, and then we also got hip-hop. Hip-hop was a way for um the black community to kind of get together and like um just get away. Hip hop was like super duper low key before it became mainstream. It was something for it was just for the community. And um they had like I believe wasn't it like DJ Hercule um was it just DJ Hercule? Was it Hercule something? Was like one of the first um turntable lists, and then this was before run DMC? Way before um way before yeah, and then from there, um we got um Um Grandmaster Flash, which pretty much brought in like I believe beat juggling and scratching, and it was such like a just a way for them to get away because this was I believe it was either Harlem or or Brooklyn or the Bronx or one of those cities that it was very, very, very rural. And um they used to just have like these like underground events, hip-hop events, and just get away and dance and vibe. And I'm pretty sure like with all that, you know, like everything that was happening back then, uh you know, the the the the city wasn't in its best shape, but it was just an escape go for them to just get away and just be with their own people because you know there was still like social clash problems, there was still like even when after like segregation became like abolished, you know, pe there there was still like um residue of it. You know they after they got rid of segregation, it didn't fix the issue of being uh black. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. They abolished they they abolished it, but i the world still saw you as a problem for being black. Well so it's like yeah, so that's it was a way for them to just kind of get away. And that's why I said it's really powerful. Eventually at some point, um, because of Rapper's Delight, that one song that was actually stolen. Um yeah, that song, the song, the lyrics were stolen from those under Yeah, they took those lyrics because uh people used to go up and they'll flow and perform. And these guys used to always these these three the guys, I forgot the name of the group, they would go to those events and like listen to these people freestyle. They took the lyrics from those people that freestyled, and then some um some disco or record-owning um artist wanted to bring hip-hop to the mainstream media, so she found these guys, and I believe they worked out a pizzeria, I forgot what the whole story is about. Um and got them on a track, and then they made rappers, I think, yeah, I believe rap the one a hip, a hop, a hip, hip, you know? Right, right, right. And then she brought it into um the mainstream media at the time, brought it onto the radio. But the it and I I believe they were they were the community was pissed off because it was a gatekeeping, a gatekeeped um style of music that was just for them. And there there was there's there's history and there and there's like there's meaning to it. So for them to just find a way to like capitalize off of it and put on the radio, it did piss them off. But it also created an evolution of the music we have today. Like hip hop evolves, it evolved because of that. And um was it um was it rapper's hip? I think so. Cause there um there's another song that um it's like I'm joining some time. Um I can't keep myself from going under uh don't push me, because um yeah. So that's I think I believe that was one of the first songs to rap about political issues that was going around and around that time in New York. That was a political song. Yeah, that was a political song. That that was one of the first ones, and that and just like at that time I felt like it was like easier or just less complex to get music on a record and have a crowd of people um listen to it or like get on the radio because now it's so um controlled and like focused on like it's more business than actual music. So like to be able to do that was like very, very like powerful. So people can listen to these lyrics and be like, holy shit, like this is really happening, or like, yeah, this is happening. This is this is BS. So music's always been very, very powerful. Hit political rap, um, people talk about stories, there's gangsters rap talking, pretty much opening up about like the gang life and what's going on in these like areas. It's like certain cities of like this stuff's really happening. So, some person in an upscale area that lives in a place where they could leave doors unlocked, you know, could would hear them and be like, what the hell? Like this is going, yeah, this is going on. Some people literally were forced to get into this life just based off of survival or also feeling accepted by a society that won't accept them outside. And um the yeah, music music has so much history. I love it. Um, there's so much power to it, and which is why I'm all about it and I'm using it as you know as a way to um give back to the community. Give back. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Thank you. Yeah, I I barbering is like my therapy, it's my other form of art, it's my my day job. Um I I love it, I love the craft of it. Um I I'm I'm obsessed with like classic barbering, sheer work, texturizing and stuff. Like that, that's that's my day thing, and it's also my therapy. But like outside from that, when I'm not cutting hair, my other passion is just music. Music, music, and community, music, community, and the gym. Gym. So gym, yeah. I love cooking and I hate cleaning. This like I really love cooking and I just really hate cleaning.

SPEAKER_02

I'm kind of the opposite, which is funny. I'd rather like wash the dishes clean, uh not do cooking.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, really? I'm just not too good at it. Yeah. I just have to put my headphones on and like listen to a podcast or like music and just like distract myself. Myself with that, and then I can wash and clean. Like that's how I function. If I'm gonna do something, whether I'm gonna work out, whether I'm gonna go wash, like do chores, wash clothes, wash my car, I need to listen to music, and it makes time go smoothly for me. I feel relaxed.

SPEAKER_02

That's my therapy. Honestly, it I mean, growing up, I used to sit right next to you. Remember those big stereo systems that the Sony's that they had in the 80s and stuff? Oh, yeah, yeah. My mom literally had one for years and years.

SPEAKER_01

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, and I would just literally just sit there and just listen to music, play the you know, Power 106, Kiss F whatever radio station.

SPEAKER_01

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02

Um, and and then they had the feature where you can record on the tape. So I would buy blood tapes, record, wait for the song. Uh-huh. Remember those days. You'd rate wait for the song to play so that I can record it and put it on tape.

SPEAKER_01

You know what's funny? Because I'm very like, I know about all that. I've heard many stories and I've I've kind of like would ask questions because I was born in the 90s, late 90s. I'm uh they call it a uh they I saw this article saying they call them Zelennials because you were literally on the border between a millennial and Gen Z. But a lot of the stuff a lot of the stuff from the millennial generation carried on with you because you were heavily influenced by that. And um I was like, okay, cool. I guess technically on paper, I'm statistically a Gen Z. I just don't want to associate with them because I just don't want to. I'm just like, bro, we're just you don't claim Gen Z. I don't claim that type of negativity. No, I'm just kidding. Um and um I I I guess it's also because like how I grew up. Like I I know what dial up well, how dial up uh internet was. And I remember my dad used to limit me on how much like how I could use the internet on the on the family computer, and he would find out if he tried calling us on the home phone and it wouldn't go through. It would make like a static noise or sort of noise. He's like, You're using the damn internet, I told you not to use it, you know. I remember like there was minutes and uh took to call people on the phone, he'd be like, hey, call me like after six, or like, do you have you have the same company? Call me. I remember when like you would accidentally click on the internet button and you had to click and real quick before you got billed like a hundred dollars for opening the web. It was all bad. There was buttons, kids. There was there were buttons, there was no buttons they had it so easy, yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_02

Unlimited, you don't have to worry about like nuts. Like all after six. I thought I can only call you after six.

SPEAKER_01

I told my girlfriend this, and I tell people this too, like, y'all do realize a future generation's gonna be spoiled, and let me tell you why. Do you remember your first car?

unknown

Me?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, do you remember your first car? What kind of car it was? Yeah, what was it? Uh Honda Accord. 97 Honda Accord. 97 Accord. My first car was a 2003 Misty Bishi Lancer with a salvage title and like Frankenstein parts. And I chose told them like I remember back in 2017 there was a patent that any car after 2017 has to, as a safety feature, has to have a backup camera. 2017 cars are about to be 10 years old. So the next generation is gonna have a car that has Bluetooth, GPS, seat warmers, power seats, power windows, and a backup camera and all that stuff. That's their beater. That's their beater. And I'm like, you mofos, you guys are so lucky. And um, yeah, it is wild just to think that like all this advanced technology that was like considered a luxury to even add on. Like I seen old Porsches with like GPSs and push to start, you know? And like now that every car is having it now, it's like a base model will have a push to start or a GPS or Apple Play CarPlay and all that stuff. And I'm like, damn, you guys are lucky. And you had a buyer serial system, yeah. You had a buyer serial system, and now like these fools are like yeah, yeah. That's crazy, yeah. Damn. And like, and everyone out here be I mean, I'll hear everyone be like tinting their windows, so for they don't have to worry about that. They're gonna buy a car that already has tinted windows, some nice rims, or something I'm modded by some like food. Yeah, so I was just like, damn. Um, so right now I still see like 07s, 03s here and there, but they're considered classic cars. I I talk to these, oh Edlin. I get like these like I get like these 15-year-old kids, and they're like, I want to buy a classic car. I'm like, oh, what's a classic to you? I'm thinking like a 1954 Chevy Belair or like a 1951 Plymouth Cranbrook or something like that. And they're like, I want to get a 2003 Honda Civic. What? What?

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, what? Oh, I feel really old right now.

SPEAKER_01

That BTEC, and then you realize, like, like, wait a minute, like, what year were you born? And they're like, oh, they were born in like 2006. Kids that were born in 2006 are gonna turn 21 next year, I believe.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

That's crazy. That blows my mind. I'm like, what? That's a classic R2. Like, my my beater is a classic, like you want my beater. That's that that amazes me. Like, what? Yeah, I want to get one, I want to fix it up, I want to do this and that, yada yada. And I'm just like screaming internally, like, what make me feel old. Uh, 2003 on the Civic. I want to get an SI, a VTEG, whatever. I'm like, what? What did you say when he said that? Huh? I was just like, I I went along with it. I don't want to I was like, oh, that's cool. That that's I if anything, I just got stuck into thought, like, what? Um I was because I've I've I like classic cars. I like um like you know stuff from like the 1920s and the 1970s at least. Um, or like an old like Cadillac or or um I love me like my old American muscle cars, like a classic. I don't like American cars now, but like a nice classic like Ford truck or a Mustang or like a uh I love the Mustang, the classic 60 but like 67 Mustangs, yeah, or like the old like Datson uh 240Z, just the um the before it became the Nissan, yeah. I like the Datson trucks, just like stuff like that. Like the bodies look clean. And I look at cars from like the 80s and the 90s, and I just think like, oh, it's like my grandparents, like my grandparents' cars, or those of my parents had that car. I don't like that. And then for them, it's like, oh, that's a classic right there. I want to get that 2004 freaking uh Toyota Corolla. I'm like, what? Get out of here.

SPEAKER_00

That's just crazy. Already um, yeah, that's that that that was just like you freaking kids, and um, it's also crazy how like in a way um style repeats itself.

SPEAKER_01

Like people are getting mullets, middle parts, letting their hair grow long, um bell bottom, bell bottoms, things are still in, oversight closed, yeah. I'm like, what? And then I I was reading this article that was saying that this is the most um plays and streams this uh you ever heard of the Deftones? Yeah, this is the most plays they've ever had. They've been getting they've been touring a lot more, and it's just because like these kids are getting into like old music, but now because streaming is such uh a big thing, um, and it's it's easier to access like to listen to music than to go like go to the the music store to like or the record store to buy like a CD and get your like your Walkman and stuff. Like it's easy you could easily access music now, whether you're on YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, that um these kids are getting into all this classic music, they're streaming the hell out of it, and it's like those charts are pushing them up, they're pushing these old like older artists up, and it's it's crazy, yeah. And I was like, dang, dude, you don't even know what it was like listening to Chino Moreno in his prime. But he sounds good now, don't get me wrong, but I'm like, you don't get it. Like I I I listened to that that shit when he was really feeling it. That's when he was having heartbreak problems and issues with his girl around that time, and uh, but it it's it's my brother is like into all that. Like he let his hair grow out, yeah. He teases I like he teases it, I think he had like a mod cut for his like baggy clothes. I remember he came up to me, he's like, Hey, uh, you ever heard of uh Ed Hardy? I was like, No, I'm miss. I was like, What do you mean? Like, yeah, like that's been pretty sick like styles. I'm like, You like that? Like, you like that? Like that that's crazy. Like no one liked it when I no, I did not like it. I remember like um a lot of people I saw wear at Ed Hardy, usually it was like paisitas and like paisitas, you know, like and then now it's like these like grunge rocker e-kids, they call them e-kids, um, that are rocking that stuff. They like the the pants with like baggy pants with designs on them, they like shirts with designs. Like over like I'm just like wow, okay, like that's a trip. I mean, you you would have enjoyed shopping at Ross back in like 2009. You like cheap, right? Or like someone like you kids would have loved Mervyn's. Mervins had all that. You hell yeah, yeah. Bring back Mervyn's. Bring back Mervins, bring back Big Lots. Big Lots was my spot. Yeah, furniture for cheap there. They did, yeah. I I remember um Big Lots was just like a I call it like a micro Walmart. They had everything there, but just cheaper. I would get all my essentials or they got dog food, they got like cleaning essentials. You need a pillow grab a fucking pillow, you can walk out with a fabuloso and a pillow, you're good. A good day. Yeah, it's a good day, yeah. And then they closed down, I was like, man, there was one here in Montebello, they closed it down. I remember they were having their blowout sale, and um, I missed out because I was still apartment hunting around that time, but they were like selling furniture for cheap, and all of a sudden my girlfriend was like, babe, we should just like buy it, like buy what they have here now and just like store it. And he's like, No, no, no, like I think I think we're good. So they they closed down like overnight, and now it's a hobby lobby. A hobby lobby? Why are you guys bringing out a hobby lobby over here? Montevel needs more um more like I don't know, they need a bar. The Montebell definitely needs like a bar. It needs more nightlife. They don't really have a bar, huh? No, the only bar I I could think of are like bars inside a place. Like the bowling alley has a bar in there, pescador has a bar in there, and they close like at 1 a.m. But there's no like oh a hole-in one, that's a new one that's on by the in the golf course. But oh out there, yeah, but they they need like a like a venue, like a lively venue that has like different nights, like disco night, gay night, uh house night, Morrisy night, Morrissey night, Morrison will kill it. That's where you gotta go hides for that, bro. Go to like you got um holiday bar, you was it East Side Love, they got all that. Yeah, all the foos, all the foos, the punk foos, they all go there ready to vibe to like alternative music. But you know, like this the city is always trying to find a way to invest into itself and be like all like I don't know, man. They're trying to do all these things, but they they're doing the they're they're not helping. Um they need to do more, they need they need to bring more traffic into the city. Don't just cater to the like obviously you're gonna cater to your community, you're gonna cater to the city, but you also want to make more money by getting people from outside the city to come. Give them a reason to drive. Because everyone I know either drives all the way to Fullerton or they go all the way to downtown LA, or they're gonna go towards like Long Beach, whatever they're looking for, people are gonna drive out to go out. So like in those areas, yeah. Yeah, so give them a reason to come into this city and and and be like, all right, let's go. I never heard anybody go like, oh yeah, we're gonna go to Monte Bell this weekend. Fools be like, oh, we're gonna go to downtown LA, we're gonna go to Las Perlas, we're gonna go to La Cita, or Bar C D MX, or like whatever. You got an um exchange if you want to go catch like an artist play, then you're gonna drive to Hollywood for more stuff. And um, no one's gonna be like, oh yeah, let's go to um Ordonnez. Ain't nobody going to Ordonnez. I don't see nobody going there. I never heard anybody say that. You know, like shit, you got me messed up. Yeah, like they they need to ring more stuff. I know they're gonna open a yard house. That's what I heard. A yard house, Dutch Bros. And um, but they uh they gotta bring something. They should bring an local bar. They should they should also bring an affordable gym out here. Affordable gym? Like an affordable gym. Like like like planet, maybe like a planet fitness. There's no planet. All planets are like about four or five miles away. We got Downey. Um well for context, I live in Islos, but my next door neighbors are Montebello. So I'm really close to Montebello. Oh the so yeah, um I know I I was actually there today.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. So I live in the area.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so that's like so then when I have to go shopping or go do something, uh, the closest thing for me is it's Montebello. Or um, because like I could walk to the restaurants out here, there's a lot of slept-on restaurants on Woody Boulevard. Like, you would just walk by and be like, what is that? And it's like all fenced up with like windows, like with the the window fencing covers, and you're like, you look in and it's like it says open, and you're like, What? And you walk in there, you know, they have a big ass fan blowing on you. It's kind of hot in there. They're watching um news in Spanish, and they come in, like, oh maybe. And they're like, sit down, and like they they already have like like the the servers. A lot of them, most of the times are ladies or senior ass, but they have like that motherly tia hospitality, they take care of you. I feel like they give me a vibe, like they're gonna squish my cheeks and then wipe my my mouth with the napkin, like I miko, mi preciosa, you know, like I get that vibe from them, they're just so sweet, like I'm like, hi tia. And um, I love it, and the food's always great. Like these these are like I call these micro businesses, like they're small, small businesses because I didn't even know they existed, and then you'd be like, Oh, like how long have you had it in there was so? They're like for like 25 years. I'm like, what? What 25 years? 15 years?

SPEAKER_02

Like, you know, honestly. Oh, sorry, yeah. I was gonna say, honestly, I think that East LA, anywhere in the eastern part of LA has the best Mexican food in LA. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. The best in Hollywood, there's nothing that even comes close. Like if you want good Mexican food, you gotta go east.

SPEAKER_01

I I have like my theory for for it, obviously. Um, if you look up like the history of like Boyle Heights, and you could you could find out it you can Google it um on why it's dominantly like Mexican, you're like, oh, I see why. It was like a um what can I say? Um I guess what well in context, maybe like a quick summary. I'm probably not might be like 100% right. So like I'm gonna say this one what I know I believe that they were purposely approving um Hispanic people to go live out there to keep them away from other like like the white population. Like I believe.

SPEAKER_02

Redlining.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Redlining real estate.

SPEAKER_01

Cause it it had um there was housing availability. Um what is it? There's a lack of restrictive covenants. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there was also migration of families fleeing from the Mexican Revolution. It was originally like a Jewish and Japanese community after World War II, but then like the area became like a key landing spot for like uh I know like Mexican immigrants, and like it's like 95% like Latino, and it's it's huge, it's it's it's huge, it's culturally like rich in community. Um it really is.

SPEAKER_02

And it's like I I mean I wish that tourists would know more about it at the same time. I don't, uh huh. But it's it's it you know, when people are like they talk uh side note, but very important when people are like, oh, LA has no culture, LA's so like dense, I go there, I can't really connect. But they're talking about the west side, they're talking about South, they're talking about they don't go east, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

They go to the places are like a lot of transplants and snobs go to. They go to the gentrified areas, you know, like you're literally they they literally like assume that um people from LA are snobbies and like dipshits, and I'm like, bro, they're not even from LA. You're meeting people that are not from us, but they're and I I get I get so mad because I tell my girlfriend, like, dude, these freaking transplants be like, oh we're I'm an Angelino. I'm like, I don't even call myself an Angelino foo. Like, what? Like we're I'm an Angelino, I'm from LA, blah blah blah. I'm like, I'm like, where were you born? Detroit? Get out of here. I'm from Utah. No, the hell? Were you born? You just moved out here because you're an aspiring actor and musician and you're into freaking crystals and kombucha, like go back. Like you're right, like rent and like like housing is getting super expensive. And then um, I tell people like you gotta go, you gotta do a road trip to the hood, man. Like a lot of mamas in the place cooking some fire food and be comfortable, be respectful. If you're just comfortable, you're respectful. You might get some couple people staring at you, you might get elojo, but just be respectful and and talk to them and like be polite. And I swear, like once you break that barrier, that they're they're gonna give you like the best hospitality ever. And they're gonna even even the cholos and rebels, yeah. Even the cholos, they're gonna want to chop it up with you, and they're gonna talk to you and be like, you should try this, and blah blah blah blah. And it's it's great. I mean and and going back, like yeah, there there was a uh redlining, it was around the uh the 1950s. And um I believe yeah, 1950s and 1960s, and there was like freeway constructions that destroy like parts of the neighborhood, but it also like divided neighborhoods, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's concentration, like yeah, they put us yeah, primarily like low-income Latino communities. Um and because like you got all these people that are from like I mean, California is like right next to the border, so you're gonna get all these immigrants that are gonna come here and they're sending like majority of like the the Latino like uh community to like Boyle Heights, they're gonna bring all that to where they're gonna live, and then that's gonna spread out. So you're gonna get fire food from Islos, Boil Heights.

SPEAKER_02

Fire food, and I think it's well a lot a lot of people are are they like it's like central Mexico and southern cuisines, mostly that we see out here.

SPEAKER_01

Oh hell yeah, like every corner. You're gonna see a taquero. You're gonna see a taquero with a plancha somewhere for sure. Outside standing grinding with the freaking tent and all the tables with like their salsas and the arroz and all that stuff, and then you're gonna see corner or like random like hole in the wall at pupuserias. And everywhere you go, the papusa is gonna be fire, like oh my god. And then um you drive out, or you maybe you can Google. I've also seen Peruvian food. And as of now, Peruvian food is really good Peruvian food. Yeah, Peruvian food is like the closest thing I can get to Bolivian food. I have to drive to Anaheim to eat like authentic Bolivian food. I go to this place called Bebas in Anaheim. Ugh. I guess Bolivian restaurant, yeah. Bolivian food. They have like really good salchipapas. Um but I'm obsessed with this dish called Anticuchos.

SPEAKER_02

It's uh I think in Peru they have something.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know, but it's the same they have it's it's the same thing. Um it's pretty much uh cow cowhart on the stick. Like a cowhart kebab, if anything. Um it's my my grandma makes some really, really fire um anticuchos. I think traditionally it's made with cow heart, but there is like some made with like beef and um chicken. And they usually cut it into like squares and they put it on a skewer and they they grill it over like charcoal. And usually it's served with like papa's corn and they make like this um antiqu they call it anticuchera sauce with like um a hi panca, like human vinegar, they put like beer, garlic, and and onion. And uh it's I don't know, it's it's it's really it's really fire. My grandma likes she slow cooks it, like it's gonna it's a whole process. It's like we go to like North Gate Market and then she goes to the the the butcher and she's like oh I need some cow heart and he's like I'll bet and he goes to the back and he brings and he shows her the different cow hearts and my grandma picks like all right which heart's good, all right? Give me the good stuff, go to the back back, and he's like, Oh, okay, Spencer, I'm gonna go to the back real quick. You know, go get the good stuff. Goes to the back, pulls out this other heart, and she's like, That one. And I just looked at my grandma like bro, all of that looked the same to me. And um, oh yeah, all of that looked the same to me. And uh she's like, No, like this one's good, like I promise you. And she she slices it up, she um she takes out like the fat and um um she preps it overnight and then she lets it marinate overnight, and then like I say she wakes up super duper early, she turns on the charcoal grill, slow smokes it all day, and she makes a marinade and she's just constantly brushing the marinade on it every so often just to make it juicy. Because the heart heart can get pretty tough if you overcook it. And as soon as she's done, oh the whole family lines up, and that thing's gonna be gone within minutes. It's like a delicate grass. Yeah, it does like a special only like special occasion she'll make it. At least her, like I think we chose. But I think originally um it originally started in Bel uh Peru, but Bolivian to do make it needed. Oh yeah, Bolivian food is really good. I used to be I used to be in um I guess you can technically call it like Bolivian Flocórico group like for like folk dancing. Um here in LA or did you have to go part of it? A lot of Bolivians live out there in the O. C. That's what I learned. At least like my commons prints. I I don't know many Bolivians out here. Uh I don't know. I don't know. I I I know um Guatemalans, Salvadorians, Ecuadorians, Costa Ricans, uh, of course, like Mexicans. I I know all that out here. And I do stumble across a couple of Peruvians here. Peruvians here and there, but I do not see Bolivians until I go to like Tustan or Anaheim. You might bump into the customer. Yeah. The reason why I say Tustans because I was in this group, they were called the Yatamatsis. It was like um a dance group. They did uh there's multiple types of dances that represent some sort of like history. There's not just one dance, there's multiple different costumes. One of them that represents more of the Incan culture, there's Tinku, which is like their version of like um like native dancing, and they wear like these colorful outfits, and then there's this one I think it's called Capurales, and they wear like these like bowels on their shoes, and it's like a very big like outfit. And then there's like um I don't remember La Morenada, and everything represented something. It was a story, it was a historical story, all intentional, right? It either told a story about like the farmers or it told the stories about like uh based off of folk story, you know. And um a lot of it represented like the slaves, uh and then it represented their their spiritual beliefs and like history, so we gotta learn all that. And and um they will they will have like these like Southern American cultural events or Bolivian events, and they were always out on the Orange County, always out in Orange County. Uh we will always rehearse in Orange County, all these Bolivian foods like that were in the group, Orange County. I was like, this is where you guys all came, that's where you guys are all at? Alright. And that's the only place I could find uh Bolivian food.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe you can you can make something a pop-up or something, a Bolivian food pop-up happen here in LA. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01

One of your events or something. I was like blessed to grow up with my Bolivian culture pretty well, as well as my Mexican culture. It's a pretty well balanced. I know like technically on paper, maybe I'm like considered 75% like um like Mexican and 25% like Bolivian because my grandma's the Bolivian one, my mom's half Mexican, but culturally I grew up with both sides pretty well. So when people ask me, I just feel like I'm Mexican Bolivian. You know, I have uh tattoos, I have a tattoo of a uh Cholita was a traditional like uh Bolivian um worker on my neck, and then I have a tattoo of like a luchador on my arm because I love luchador, and then um I also have a a tattoo of an Incan deity named Supe that's on my chest. So yeah, so like I I I try to like I want like tattoos to kind of represent me culturally, and um, so like I I do take pride in both my Bolivian and uh Mexican culture. I grew up with both of the foods and I grew up with both of the ass beatings. So I know I know what's up. So with my Bolivian grandma, a little bit different. Um she says now she has more of a Mexican accent because all her friends and living in Boyle Heights was majority of them were Mexican, so that's like her Spanish like adjusting. It kind of happens, yeah. It does happen, but she's every so often she has like a little little accent that's a little different, you know, like it comes out a little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

She'll say words, obviously that yeah, and uh not believing what no.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And um then I lived with my grandma, you know, she's from Salvadoranajuato, and with her, it was like every weekend, it was just six in the morning, cumbia's bumping, smacking pots and pans and cooking, and she would feed me like um usually it was like huevos fritos with like tortilla and like leftovers. So if the night before she made like chicharrones con salsa verde, she and like giving a rose and frijoles, she's gonna put that and put a fried egg and a tortilla, and then she'll make me a chocolate. And oh, that was the best. That was the best, like a chocomil like um shake. And I was like, hell yeah, that that was the it was really and then like it was like it was a good morning, and uh yeah, like in her, you know, like we'll go like she'll take me to Placito Vera and we'll go watch like the Aztec dancers and we'll go eat some taquitos and just like it was it was I had the best of both but best of both worlds with both of my grandmas. It was it was it was fun. And then you know my dad's a very like uh pri like culturally prideful person, so like I I got that heavy like like from him yeah from him from him too. He would always talk about Guanajuato and like why it's like important to like love your culture and and be proud for who you are, you know, never have like shame. So he'll tell me you're like he's like you're bolivicano. So what does that mean? He's like you're Bolivian Chicano. I was like, okay, alright, I like that. Bolivicano. Yeah, yeah, that's a cool term. Yeah, so he's like, You're you're part Mexican, you're you know you're part Bolivian, but you're also born in the US, so you're American, and you know what they call um pe uh Mexican like descendants born in the US or ones that moved to the US, the the Mexican people we used to call them Chicano, which was originally a derogatory term to pretty much call the Mexicans that were out here um like a little version of Mexicans or Chico, so they're Chicanos. But eventually they it became an identity because you know, being part of that minority group, no one from the US would accept you as an American, but when you go to Mexico, they won't accept you, or some like well, they won't accept you as a Mexican, so they be created their own identity, and so people say, like, I'm Chicano. And I I experienced that uh firsthand. I went I took I went to Mexico with my girlfriend last year, and one her one of her aunts corrected me and said, You're not Mexican, you're American. You can't don't call yourself Mexican. Well, one of her aunts or her aunt's friend, we're just talking, she's like, Where are you from? I'm like, I'm Mexican. She's like, Where's your dad from? I'm like, Sabatear Guanajuato. She's like, Well, where were you born? And I was like, Oh, I was born in America- America. Well, she's like, Well, you're American, you're not Mexican. I was like, Oh. Well, when I come out here, and I put a census, I'm Hispanic or Brown, like Mexican or whatever, you know. They they won't, I'm not a they won't know. So like society here won't accept you as one of their own, and over there they won't accept you. So I'm like, I'm Chicano, yeah, like yeah, ni de key, and you the ya. So I'm like, well, I guess I'm Chicano. And I emphasize like, you know, you should be proud of that. I that's why like when you look at like my Spotify or bio it says that Ghost Tech is a Chicano music producer from Boyle Heights, California, who represents his culture into his music. And I was like, heck yeah. But I I still represent Mexican culture. I'll wear like a Mexican uh jersey. I have a um when they play in, yeah, yeah. When we're doing the World Cup, I'm Team Mexico. Right there watching Yeah, hell yeah. Watching Memo Chua block those goddamn um balls from like getting a goal and all that. I don't even watch soccer like religiously like that. I'm not a a big sport person, but for some reason when it comes to the World Cup, sheesh, I'm I'm watching that religiously. I'm watching all the games, I'm rooting for for Mexico. Um and I I have a saying that I have a uh I do have this uh baseball jersey, but it's like a custom made Mexico baseball jersey. And um about a year, I would say almost a year ago, around June. Remember how there was protests that were going on uh around the streets, and there was like they were throwing tear gas that it was like peaceful protests that were being like abrupted and a lot, it was it was really crazy, and it was and it was going on because of the ice raids, right? So I had an event and it was it was also to celebrate my birthday, but I had an event at some bar in downtown LA and I was telling my friends like should we cancel it because there's you know like it's gonna be weird trying to throw a party or event while all this is going down, but also like there's like um what do they call it? Um curfew or hand. Oh yeah, handy other curfew. And I was like, you know what? Like um I have an idea. I said, uh, we're gonna get a commission from the bar. I'm gonna give my portion into a nonprofit that's help helping immigrants. That's what I told them. And they said, you know what, us two. We'll just donate whatever we make into uh into uh uh and donate it to uh some sort of nonprofit that's helping um immigrants, yeah. Um and I'm like, you know what, let's change the theme of it. Let's call it Noche Cultura, and we're gonna have everybody come in representing their culture. We're a jersey, we're something. So I got that Mexican jersey, my girlfriend had a Mexico jersey. Uh people were wearing like stuff that were representing like Peru, Ecuador, it was pretty cool, and everyone was up there, and that and that day I was playing nothing, nothing but um Latin EDM music, Latin remixes just all day. And I made this um this this just this genre called Laddin Tech House. I made a a remix of that song Fuck Donald Trump. No way, yeah. I made a remix and I played it and I told everybody like like um y'all know the lyrics is blah blah blah. And I had everybody at that that that that bar or club, everyone screaming, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Donald Trump. And it was just it was crazy, it was it was amazing, it was really crazy. And um, I was just like, Yeah, like if I'm gonna party, I'm gonna party by saying fuck you to Trump and do it for something good. But unfortunately, we got screwed over by the venue and we did not get cashed out, so we couldn't donate. No they um they double booked us with another group and um yeah, they they kind of just didn't give, didn't pay us out. I'm never working with them ever again, but that's why I figured well, you know, gracias a Dios that I was able to connect with Trilla and now I'll just help them one-to-one with this that I'm trying to do. Yeah, like directly. Yeah, directly, just do it myself. Yeah, I was I was really bummed out about that. Um it wasn't our fault, and um, but I just didn't like that. I'm like, yeah, I'm never gonna work with you guys ever again. Now I know I now I know why like I found out like some people used to help them book and all that stuff, and a lot of the people they couldn't keep keep their bookers. I think it's all being ran by like one guy now, and he's he's like sloppy, he doesn't have a team because it's just people are getting like screwed over. Yeah, he's burnt bridges, yeah. Yeah, he's burnt bridges, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna work. And and you know, I've been in the music industry for like my entire life, somehow same way. I've always had my foot in the water, but um I've I've I've dealt with a lot. I dealt with a lot of characters, I dealt a lot with a lot of ego, um gatekeepers, fake people, and just like bullshit. At some point I I quit. I quit. Um mental health did take a really, really big toll on me. I was I was going through a lot. I was um really yeah, yeah. Mental health is important. I went through a lot. Um I went through really, really bad depression. I was really good at suppressing it and not making it public to people, but I was really good at hiding it. And I cut away from music, I I I started um drinking like crazy, like every night. I hated myself, I hated everything. It was there was a lot going on. And um at some point I remember looking at the mirror and I was like, I do not like this. Like what happened? You know? So um I remember just throwing the bottle, I was like, fuck this, like I'm not gonna do this anymore. And um there was a point, yeah, I was addicted to drinking, and I was addicted to taking painkillers, like heavy, heavy painkillers to like numb like my pain and numb whatever I was going through. And at some point I said, screw this, I don't want to do this anymore, like I don't like what I'm becoming. Um, I'm just gonna reinvent myself and become someone better. So I started going to therapy. Um I went to therapy, I got back into fitness, I got back into music, but I kind of said, like, I am gonna come back a thousand times better and m be me. Because I felt like I lost who I was. I lost who I who I were. I became someone completely different. I was easily becoming an influence of my surrounding, and I did not like what I became. I did not like the way I was who I became, how I spoke, and it was a big influence, and I just this isn't me. I remember like this isn't me. I need to find out who I was and who what why like why I was the way I was. So yeah, it all started with finding myself, loving myself, um, dating myself too. And I got back into the music and I figured like you know what? Like, if I'm gonna get back into music, I wanna do it for a good reason. A good reason, and I want to be do things I've always wanted to do. I as there's a young version of me that created a mental uh checklist of dreams, and I I need to check those out. And yeah, you know, I kept the promise to to me. And if he were to see me now, he would be very, very disappointed. So I I'd work that one I had to do. I my m I was able to get my mentality and everything structured to who I really am, and yeah, I've started became more optimistic, less pessimistic, and um it really helps out a lot. Like when shit starts to hit the fan, I just figure out how to just wipe off the shit off my face and just continue on instead of just like mooping in it, you know? Yeah, and yeah, I I've I could people have told me like, hey dude, like you have uh a very like uh good energy resonating off of you. Like I could feel it, it seems like you're doing better. And people say you just genuinely seem really happy. And I was like, Thank you. And they're like, Oh, it's so like crazy to see like all the work you've been doing and all all the stuff you've been doing. And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, this is something I've actually wanted to do, surprisingly. Like this is something that that that's been my calling, and I decided it's time to check out check checklist my my dreams. I've always wanted to start a non-profit, I've always wanted to start my own business. I've um I even said like I've always wanted to own like a Genesis, like a car, so like I'm just gonna buy one, save with the money and buy one. Is that your next car? Genesis. I would say so. Even though the car is kind of like with getting older, I'm like, I'm just gonna get a Genesis. Something I've always wanted. Fuck it, yeah. Do it, just do it, yeah. And then um originally my my my goal, my end goal for the nonprofit, this is kind of like phase one, the start of it. But my end goal is like I would love to open like music facilities in low-income areas that offer music programs for kids. Yes, yeah, love it, yes, but it's just it's because there is like some places like that kind of exist, but they teach you classical instruments. Like, I'm trying to do the technological part of it. I want to teach them how to record, how to produce music, and also offer free studio time because a lot I remember meeting like kids, they all want to be like rappers, there's a lot of bands they want to record, but they don't have the money, they don't know where to go. So I'm like, worry not, keep your grades up, sign up, come in, and um we're gonna record your album, we're gonna record your single professionally, and I'm gonna teach you how to do this and just keep them busy. The same way my mom said she wanted to put me to keep myself put me in business to keep me off the streets. I'm like, I want to do the same. And um, and yeah, like work with other uh musicians to also offer like classical musical, like uh classic instruments um um classes, but mainly mine's the technological part of it. Production and recording. That's like the end go. If I could open like a facility somewhere, of course, my main spot is Bo Heights or Eastlope's main me. I'd love to do that like somewhere like Mariachi Plaza, get like a building there, turn it into like a music studio slash like foundation, and just like offer all that, and then like all those things, and it will be f it'll be awesome. So that's the endpoint. That's amazing. So that's the main thing. So as soon as I get like a million-dollar grant or something, locking in. Locking it. When, yeah, right, when I get it, when I start getting manifesting, manifesting when I start getting and it will happen. It will happen, yeah. Getting all the funding from like the the big fish that that see the vision and want to donate, or big whatever, like let's make it happen. Let's keep let's help these kids. I remember one of my friends invited me to go speak to some fostered kids. And I rem like just talk about talk to them about the music industry and how I got into teaching, production, and all that stuff. And I just spoke, I made a little presentation, and there were some kids that were like, Oh, like listen to my music, listen to my music, listen to my beats, listen to what I made. And it was you know, it it was there it was made in the room, you know, they saved them money for a cheap microphone, and it is what it is, and I'm like, dude, that's really cool. Like, you know, like um a lot of them were um majority of them were actually like either um Hispanic or black. It was a mix of Hispanic and black kids that um that were that were um fostered kids or um um and then um I was like, yeah, like I will I would love to like help them out. Like how can I help you? How can I give you studio time? How can I may get someone get you on a beat, have a producer make you a beat? You know, like and uh that's the goal, just to help kids out, like that, especially too. So that's what you're gonna see like the Grooving Gave logo in the front of a big ass building one day.

SPEAKER_02

It's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01

Walk in, multiple studios, multiple producers that donate their time and and talent and effort, just to offer these like opportunities and resources to the kids that need it. Um there's a saying that says you can't teach you can't teach a dog old tricks, but I mean teach an old dog new tricks. My dyslexia just kicked in. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. And which is why I feel like the youth is important. Because I told my girlfriend, like our generation is the one that's gonna fight, but we're still gonna see we can't convince the people now to think like us. We're not. I I either they're stubborn. The world's fucked and we have to deal with it. But if we can show love and give opportunity to the next generation, then they're gonna create a better society. So I I would rather help the youth and put my energy to the youth. They just need to show love. You just gotta show them love, yeah. So that's give them the resources to succeed, right? Yeah, definitely. To succeed, and they're gonna see someone like us, and they're and we're gonna be an influence in their life. And like, what was this food? What did he do? How did he think? What was his political beliefs? What was whatever that? Like, I like that. Like, same here. I wanna wanna, you know, like cool. He's for the community, I want to be for the community, you know. Anti-tyranny, I wanna be anti-tyranny. That's uh the the gift of being an influence to those that you can help. So that's the end goal right there.

SPEAKER_02

That's amazing, amazing, amazing. Thank you so much. You you definitely brought us through a whole journey. And by the way, I feel like I in my head I was thinking so many. This could be podcasts, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Of course, there's so many topics we can pop up.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. But um, yeah, before we leave, please um people where they can find more information on group and give, on Mr. Fields Hair Studio, just your socials, where can they find you, how can they support?

SPEAKER_01

Uh yeah, so my barb barbering stuff, it's uh Mr. Fields, just like you know, Mr Fields uh hair studio. Um and you can find it on Yelp or go on Instagram. Um for for groove and give, which is again like the word groove, letter and and give, you can just go to groovandgive.com or also uh find us on um Instagram and we'll be posting about like upcoming events and what's going on and what we're doing. And then uh Ghost Tech, which is G-H-O-S-S-T-E-K. I'm also on Instagram, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, title, all that stuff. You can find my music. Or you can go to my SoundCloud or my MixCloud to hear like mixes and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02

I'm definitely gonna go look you up right now on the SoundCloud. I didn't know you were in there.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm on SoundCloud. I upload a lot of the remixes I can't um legally upload because of like copyright. Oh you gotta get you gotta get like um you gotta get rights to use like to sample like a song or remix a song. It's like a whole like interesting gray area with that. So I was like, oh like I could at least upload it onto SoundCloud or YouTube and they can just people can listen to that. But I do have originals. I do have originals on on my um like Spotify and Apple Music and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02

So I'm about to go listen to your music. I have a uh go drive to the valley right now. Oh and uh excited. Bump it. Well, drive safe. Yeah, well one, we have to talk more. I would love to have you back whenever you're able or slash to give updates or promote you know any event of Groovin' Give and any of your stuff.

SPEAKER_01

Of course, of course. That's why go to the website or go to the Instagram, we're gonna be posting on the updates there.

SPEAKER_02

Perfect. And two, we have to talk more because of for fundraising event purposes. I have some stuff coming up that I feel we can kind of like link up with.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I'm down.

SPEAKER_02

Um, we're both for for similar causes, actually, which is really funny. But yeah, we'll talk more about it on the side. Um, but thank you so much, Josh. This is amazing. Thank you. I loved it. Um, great time.

SPEAKER_01

Likewise, likewise.

SPEAKER_02

All right. Well, take care and thanks everyone for listening. And I hope you all really enjoyed it. And we did this just or for you all. Yeah. Bye bye. Okay.