In this special Saturday episode, I welcome local podcaster and community advocate Ruben Camarillo, host of Now You Know Eagle Pass, for a candid, three-hour, in-studio conversation. We swap origin stories about getting into podcasting, compare studio vs. remote setups, and dive into small-town politics, transparency, and accountability—touching everything from forensic audits, board appointments, and council conduct to why civil dialogue matters. Ruben opens up about the tension that comes with reporting uncomfortable truths, how he balances fairness and facts, and the personal toll it can take. We also get lighter: food talk (Rhodee’s, cottage pie), dad life, Star Trek vs. Star Wars, retro music, gaming, Cub Scouts, leadership, and faith. If you care about civic life in Eagle Pass—or just love a real, unfiltered host-to-host sit-down—this one’s for you.
We close with community notes, veteran support, and how to keep the conversation going. Thanks for spending your Saturday with us—keep talking, keep thinking, and support your local creators and veterans.
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(00:03:25) Cold open: eerie lines and on‑air warmup
(00:04:35) Show kickoff from Asylum Studios in Eagle Pass
(00:05:45) Housekeeping, Saturday setup, guest tease
(00:07:52) Value for value and community engagement asks
(00:09:00) Website, contact, and support calls to action
(00:10:40) Escrow issue, GoFundMe mention, and show flow
(00:11:15) Guest intro: Reuben Camarilloveteran, podcaster, community leader
(00:12:54) First‑time guest jitters, podcasting vs radio
(00:14:15) Hosting vs guesting stories and podcast connections
(00:16:04) Origins in internet radio and the early show vibe
(00:17:02) Debating healthcare and the Constitution anecdote
(00:18:12) Open dialogue, political polarization, and civility
(00:21:39) Impressions and levity: Trump voice and laughs
(00:24:31) Uncomfortable questions: getting to know Reuben
(00:26:17) Nerd side: gaming, anime, comics, Star Trek vs Star Wars
(00:30:01) Wokeness in media, streaming choices, and kids
(00:32:14) Conservatarian identity and small‑r republicanism
(00:33:41) Wind‑down drinks: lemonade, tea, and COVID talk
(00:36:39) Vicks on feet, germs vs cold, and barracks lessons
(00:39:46) From Palm Springs to Texas: Army to Eagle Pass
(00:43:41) Falling for Eagle Pass: food, community, and culture
(00:46:56) Body image banter, dad bods, and confidence
(00:52:55) Listeners, platform comments, and engagement
(00:53:49) Now You Know Eagle Pass: mission and format
(00:55:36) Civics spark, political journey, and youth focus
(00:58:24) Local GOP dynamics, elections, and campaigning
(01:00:54) Messaging vs mudslinging in county races
(01:02:31) Running for city council and election war stories
(01:05:38) Turnout, constitutional amendments, and taxes
(01:07:36) Bridge tolls, spending scrutiny, and small‑town ties
(01:09:34) Independent media, accountability, and neutrality
(01:13:33) Sponsorships, value models, and production costs
(01:15:36) Remote vs in‑studio realities and creator life
(01:17:48) Interviews that shifted outlook and media style
(01:21:38) Public enemy moment: vetting and posting tough stories
(01:25:24) Debate hosting, neutrality push, and runoff heat
(01:27:50) Sign wars, optics, and perceptions of bias
(01:29:24) 57 Music Fest: costs, votes, and forensic review
(01:32:02) Fact‑checking narratives and calling out spin
(01:33:32) Hospital board appointment and due diligence
(01:35:50) Publishing sensitive records and public interest
(01:41:42) Silence from officials, pressure to address ethics
(01:43:35) Cavalcade clip: professionalism and public image
(01:44:52) Threats, fake profiles, and retaliation tactics
(01:47:09) Criticism vs bashing and free press lines
(01:52:24) The burden of telling hard truths
(01:52:54) What27s next for the show: guests, growth, and skits
(01:54:39) Analytics, reach, and monetization hurdles
(01:56:56) Break to hour three and reset
(02:02:22) Hour three open and milestone plans
(02:03:12) Family support, workload, and scheduling realities
(02:04:48) Wife27s Border Patrol career and team dynamics
(02:08:06) Show cadence, segments, and guest plans
(02:12:32) School meals, vendors, and policy constraints
(02:13:25) Crypto tarot show plug and market chat
(02:15:28) Sunday Bible study format and teaching approach
(02:18:37) Ministry background, study discipline, and humility
(02:22:34) Language on air, Cub Scouts, and complaint campaigns
(02:24:29) Targeting affiliations and protecting kids27 programs
(02:26:58) Platforms: Rumble, YouTube, and free speech choices
(02:33:36) Trending formats, gossip panels, and gaming streams
(02:35:43) Dad life: Jacob27s on‑mic talent and nurturing it
(02:37:10) Teaching boys to be men without toxicity
(02:40:28) Biblical leadership, partnership, and responsibility
(02:42:52) Accountability lessons from Army and law enforcement
(02:48:35) Closing stretch: influences and gratitude
(02:52:36) Sponsor read, announcements, and producer credits
(02:58:36) Final thanks, shout outs, and sign‑off banter
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and nothing is PC. Alrighty. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos, and it is great to be with you once again, transmitting live from the asylum studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And we are going to do the very best that we can today to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Folks, welcome to the Joe Ryu Show. It is Saturday, 11/01/2025. We don't do Saturday shows very often, but when we do, we always have a special reason for doing it. Usually, it's with our resident crypto psychic, Marissa Lee, which will be today at 3PM, so make sure you check that out. But, we have other reasons why we're doing this. We have another in studio guest here waiting for us in the wings, but before he comes in, we're gonna do some housekeeping stuff and get that stuff cleared away. But guys, I hope you guys had a great week and, and and I hope you're ready for a Saturday spectacular. We're gonna have a lot of fun here with with our guest. It's gonna be, an interesting conversation. Hey, look. You know what? We're gonna treat him just like any other guest we have. We're gonna give him our uncomfortable questions to start with, and then we're gonna go through some of his background and history, and some of the things that he's done. And then, we're gonna end it out, with some uncomfortable questions to to kind of leave you guys with a good taste. And, I think, we should be good. Let me just turn this off. I forgot to do that.
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Alright. Well, I guess I think this pretty much covered everything. Did I miss anything? I don't think so. Alright. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to, introduce to you Ruben Camarillo. Ruben was born in Palm Springs, California. What's up, guys? What's up? He's, he's built a life grounded in lead in service, leadership, and community. He's a proud US army veteran. Thank you for your service, sir. Thank you. Thank you. He completed his service in 2019. He relocated to Eagle Pass with his then fiancee, Jackie. Professionally, Reuben's, foundation in customer service has been one of the greatest strengths shape shaping his approach to communication, leadership, and advocacy. Today, he serves as a union steward and involved with his community as a member of the Lions Club and a past president of the American Legion. Reuben is also the competition. He's the, creator and host of Now You Know Eagle Pass, a podcast dedicated to transparency, civic engagement, and telling the stories that matter in the community.
He's a proud patriot, devoted father, advocate for men's issues. Reuben's mission is to inform, uplift, empower others through honest conversation and local journalism. Reuben, welcome to Thank you, buddy. The asylum. How you doing, brother? Dude, I'm like
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I'm still like I have that tickle feeling. Oh. You know, like, oh, this is awesome. Like, I really never They have cre they have creams for that, you know. Oh. I can Yeah. We'll we'll We can get you some. Afterwards, we'll we'll get some in. But, no. Like, I've always, I've always wanted to be on a podcast. I think this is my first podcast ever that I've actually been on that's not mine. Like a guest. Yeah. Yeah. And and, like, you know, I've I've been on, like, radio shows and stuff, but, like, they're timed and it's limited and you really don't have anything to, like, you can't really get your whole story out. I know this was timed too, but, like, short.
Yeah. You know? And, no. This is great, man. And weird at the same time.
[00:12:59] Unknown:
It it is different being on the other side of the chair. It it is. I I've I've only done one appearance as a guest on a podcast recently. When I say recently, I've I've done it in the past, but it's been a while. But recently, and it was the it was a very strange surreal feeling, especially especially and it's a great show too. The guy the guy that hosted the show was fantastic. He's somebody I'm I'm gonna actually introduce you to as well. Okay. Doctor. Hal Bradley, great guy. Great guy. He, the the funny thing was and and you know, I I I could tell him this directly too. The funny thing was is that, I was supposed to be the guest and I felt more like the host because he had Oh, yeah. That's right. He had asked me one question and and then it's it my resp my my response to the one question kinda went into a whole thing about himself and his life, which is an incredible story. And I'm I'm really looking forward to when we can get him booked on here. I know his schedule's crazy, so you can hear the rest of that story. But it was amazing story. That Wow. Yeah. I mean, the the things that this guy was involved with was absolutely incredible. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna get you hooked up with his producer. He's a he's a pretty good guy. His name is Pete Turner. He hosts a podcast as well called BIDS.
Don't ask me right now what it stands for because I don't remember. But, but all I remember is BIDS podcast. So, and I think right now he's in England doing shows in England. So which is great, for him. So God bless him. Nice. But,
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other than that, I mean, it's it's a very weird surreal feeling when you're sitting on the other side of it. It is. It's totally weird. And like, and when you say competition, like, I hate that word for some reason. Everybody everybody I know. I know. Everybody loves competition's good. But, like, with me, when I see, like, let's just say I see someone trying to do the same thing I am. Mhmm. I'm like, dude, that's great. Like, okay. Let's elevate. Let's elevate each other. You know? Let's let's advertise each other. Why not? Everybody has their own style of doing things. Just like, the the last podcast with Danny, you guys were talking about barbecue, which, like, made me gain 10 pounds when I was listening.
And I'm just like, yeah. Everybody has their own style and the work speaks for itself. You know what I mean? So and your podcast is great, man. Oh, thank you, man. I'm totally hooked. I appreciate it. I gotta, like, go all the way down and watch every single or, like, listen to every single podcast, man. It's great. Well, I appreciate that. That's good. You know, it it it takes a while to get get off the ground too. I mean, I've I've been doing this since 2016,
[00:15:19] Unknown:
before they really called it podcasting, and they used to call it Internet radio. I hear you. And, so I was up in New York, and it was me and a bunch of friends. And the audience, the regular listeners know the story pretty well already, but for for your audience that might be tuning in, we we had a show, up in New York, and, it was a call in show. It was a lot of fun. We did it just one night a week. It was a live show. It we had a blast with it. And the vibe that we wanted people to walk away with was that they were just hanging out with the guys, you know, just one one actually one person actually made a comment in in in in the in the comment section of the show one night that he he feels like he's hanging out in the backyard with his buddies, having a beer, just talking about bullshit.
You know? Which is exactly what we wanted them to get. And, it it it was it took a long time coming. We did it for about a year, and then I moved here to Eagle Pass, and, so we the technology wasn't really in place yet at that time for to do remote stuff like this. So, we kinda let it go, but, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get these guys back together again and and and do one of these shows. Hell yeah, man. Kinda kinda resurrect the whole thing except this time, Jay, if you're watching, I'm in the center chair. Okay? I'm the captain. There you go, man. I'm controlling the board here, buddy. I'll mute you this time. That's what he used to do. He he used if you didn't like what you were saying, he would mute you. Just boop. Yeah. And you'd be up here talking because you'd still hear yourself in the cans, but but you're not You're not you're not your message isn't getting out. No. It drove me crazy. And, I I know we when we talked on the phone, I mentioned this to you. Here here's the original copy that I I gave to everybody. Oh, dude. Yeah. So, so the the conversation was we were having a a discussion about, government funded healthcare and this is a time when Obamacare was being forced down our throat. Oh. Is it still is? It it still is. Still is. But this is at the beginning. This is when they they, they convene in the in the dead of night and voted on it, you know, when nobody was paying attention.
But, Jay and I got into this debate on the show about, you know, is it is it a human right? Is are you supposed to have government funded health care? Is the government supposed to take care of you from cradle to grave and so on and so forth. And I understood his position. He, you know, he he he had legitimate need, which is fine. I I I have no problem with anybody on government assistance that have a legitimate need for it. It's the generational stuff that just just irritates me to no end. But, I I bought a whole bunch of these and I brought it into the studio and I didn't tell them I had it. And, we got into this argument again, this is like the third Wednesday in a row we got into this argument about it. And I was like, you know what? Here. And I stood up and I threw a copy out of it. And this is before video too, so we weren't even on video yet. Oh, okay. Even better.
So we just I threw it at them and I was like, here, you find where it says in this thing and then I'll shut up and I'll stop complaining. Alright? And, but, it was all in good good fun, you know. Yeah. Of course. We understood each other at the end of the day, and we were buddies. Yeah. And that's I think that's what's wrong with society today is that we don't have enough open dialogue. That's right. You know what I mean? And, unfortunately,
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that the result of that, was with the Charlie Kirk incident. You know? The the people don't like that. Yeah. But but the thing is that the left wants us to listen. They want us to listen to their ideology. And I'm like, okay. Well, let's hear it. But when it's time to listen to the right, you know, to conservatives, it's just no. Yeah. They don't wanna hear it. They don't wanna hear it. So, I mean, you're just like, oh, like, you know, my mother always taught me treat others how you wanna be treated. Exactly. Yeah. So it's just like, I have a lot of liberals. My mom is a hardcore core liberal. You know, I I like to listen to everybody's side. You know what I mean? And and I like to let's have like like Charlie Kirk. I idolize that guy. Let's have a discussion. Yeah. Let's not and and if we agree to disagree, we can still eat at the same table. If you, voted for cackling comma, you can sit at my table. That's fine. I don't care if you hate cackling comma from California. Yeah.
So, like, if you hate Trump, that's fine. I'm not gonna kick you out of my house for that. That's that's that's your thing, man. Yeah. I Agreed. I have my ideologies. You have yours and but we can still have a relationship. Well, that's the problem with the left, like you said, is that
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they'll they'll they'll love, they'll listen to everything you have to say as long as it's in line with what they believe. They don't wanna hear anything else. They don't wanna know anything else. It's either you tow the line or you're the enemy. Right. And That sucks. That's that's really shitty. And that's not that's not what civil discourse is at all. That's not what open discussion is. That's not that's why at the end of my show, I always tell everybody keep talking. You have to keep talking. Keep the dialogue open. And one of the things that Charlie Kirk did that they didn't like was, and I think there were other things involved as well, but, I'm not gonna dip into all that stuff today. Right. Right. Right. But there's I think there's other other things involved as well. But the left did not like that they were being challenged to critically think. Right. You know, the modern education system does not teach our children how to critically think. It teaches them what to think. Exactly. You know, and Yeah. That's scary. Which is it's tragic. Well, look at the result of it now. You're talking government funded education since the nineteen seventies. Look at the generation we are now. Yeah. It's it's disgusting. Yeah. It sucks. There there is absolutely no opportunity for you to exchange ideas. I mean, especially, you watch some of these these these TikTok videos and these Instagram posts and reels, whatever they call them now, and you have, you know, this this older generation is in there as well, you know, and and they're screaming in the camera, they're screaming in your face, they're, you know, that, I saw this one lady was telling a a commentator that she hoped that she got shot like Charlie Kirk did, you know, just just because she has a different viewpoint. And it it's pathetic that this is what it's come down to. And today's far left Democratic party is openly advocating for political violence. Yeah. Openly.
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Yeah. It's it's it's unbelievable. And, like, let's just let's turn the tables. Let's just say let's say I don't know. President Biden got shot. And then if it was us who was parading it around, which there are far right Mhmm. Who are parading it around. Oh my goodness. It would be a headhunt. Oh, for sure. All the right is just evil. The Republicans are evil. Look what they're doing. You know? And it's I mean, come on. You know? We we we all have to unify in some way. You know? You can, you can take something out of Barack Obama's, playbook. Like, you know, this is, this is not the red states of America. This is not the blue states. This is the The United States. You know what I mean? Like, we'll he made sense then. Settle more like Bill Clinton there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm kinda like mixing it up. You know, I could do a good Trump impression too, man. Yeah. Just like I I have to get into character.
Like, Danny Mendoza. What color underwear does he wear? I don't know. That's good. It's probably it's probably gold. I don't like it though. You know? Eagle pass.
[00:22:09] Unknown:
That is good. I like that. That's pretty good. Yeah. I'd have met an Eagle pass or
[00:22:14] Unknown:
weaker than a wet pasta noodle, but we can do something about that. You know? So I gotta get a new one. I love it. That's great. I'm gonna have to get you to do a promo for the show here. Join Jarvis. This is the good, podcast, and you guys like listening to conservatism and listen to it now. I love it. Well, he likes me. I like him too.
[00:22:36] Unknown:
With the, the old show that I did, the the previous show, I actually I I hired somebody to do a a Trump impersonation. And I gave them a script talking about how great the podcast is, and they need to be checking it out, all that stuff. I got it somewhere, but it's a different show name, so I can't use it. But but, but that was that was pretty good. Yeah. It gotta be good. I I try. I try, you know. Sometimes sometimes it'll be off and sometimes it'll be on. It just depends on what I'm talking about. Yeah. I know. And I like to make people laugh. Like, some I think my mom my mom hates Trump, but I would like,
[00:23:06] Unknown:
you know, I would call her and leave her a message. You know? Hello, ma'am. This is your favorite president. This is your son. I know you don't like me. You'd rather be in China, but this is your boy. Call him back. You know? And and she'll just laugh, like laugh so hard. China. Something like that. That is awesome.
[00:23:23] Unknown:
Something like that. That is awesome. It's awesome. Sorry. I'm I'm still I'm still getting over this this cold Yeah. No. No. You're good, man. So I wanna I wanna get into some of the questions that we have for you. I know we kinda jumped right off into the good stuff, right off the bat there, which is great. Which is I love that stuff. I love the impromptu things. And, again, because it it it brings that feeling, hey, we're just regular guys. We're not, you know, I don't think either one of us can turn around and say that we are political experts or anything like that. Right. Yeah. We're just looking at it from our perspective as just people who just are living every single day, dealing with the same struggles every single day. Right. And, we, you know and we can talk about these things. So that's all it is. And that's what I want people to come away with. You know? Just regular guys. We're not anybody special here. Right. Although I am selling autographs for $5 a clip. All funding going towards the escrow shortage. There you go, man. It'll be it'll be worth something someday. Head over to Sticker Mule and get your I Have Rabies t shirt.
There you go. You know? Alright. It's all up there for you. So, so when we have guests on the show, whether in studio or not, we we we always have a couple of questions that we like to ask. Okay. And, if if you've checked out any of the shows previously, you should be prepared for this. So, here it goes. So what is something that most people don't know about you but should?
[00:24:36] Unknown:
Well, Well, apparently, I have a trans lover out there somewhere. Oh, do you? No. Oh, congratulations. That's that's what they're trying to say. Like, I don't know. They got mad at me and, like, the the they they tried to bring up some rumor that I guess I'm I'm into transgenders. And I'm just like, well, if I am into transgenders, how does that impact the community? You know what I mean? Like, so what? I'm comfortable with my sexuality. Alright. Okay. But, no. That was I was joking, but, what do people not know about me? Spoiler alert. There you go. God. I don't know.
You know what? I mean dude I don't I don't know like I don't know what I have to get the jeopardy clocked music I know right? Let's see I don't know man I I really I am terrible talking about myself. About talking I I just like, whenever someone asks me a question, that's the that's the only way you can stump me is if you ask something about me. And did you know that that's very common
[00:25:41] Unknown:
in people who podcast and do shows like this? Really? It's very common. Podcast and and I I saw a study on this not too long ago. I I was talking with, Alex Sanfilippo, who's the CEO, the founder of, PodMatch. And, great guy, by the way. Lot of fun. Super smart guy. But in reality, a lot of podcasters, you know, are easier to do this for them. It's easier to do this for them than to actually have personal interactions and talk to people outside the place. Yeah. If this was Jeopardy, I would lose. I was just like,
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so yeah. I was like, next question. No. I'm trying to think. I guess I can say I love video games. I don't think anybody I don't think I ever tell people that. I am a huge gamer, but I just don't have time. You know what I mean? And I'd love to, like, adapt, especially when you have your dad, and you have a son that's because my parents didn't know what the hell I was doing. Like, what are you watching, Pokemon? I'm like, no. It's Pokemon. You know? And You gotta be correct. Yeah. Like, I'm a huge I'm a huge nerd. There you go. I think I think people don't know that about me too much. Like, I'm a huge nerd. I love Star Wars. I love space. That's true. I love Pokemon, anime, all that stuff. I just don't share that stuff a lot with people because it's, like, you know, it's something I enjoy. And and I know, like, we did a comic book club for the kids, at San Luis Elementary, and they were just like, oh my god. Somebody that gets us. You know? Like like because because everybody in Eagle Pass is all about sports. Yeah. Yeah. I picked up on that very quickly. Yeah. And I'm like, well, no. There are kids that don't play sports, and they like nerdy shit. Like, they like anime, and they like and so they're like, oh my god. They love to draw, be artsy. And then they didn't even know that there was a comic book shop here. I don't know that either. No.
Well, she's a good friend of mine. She she opens every now and then. But, but, yeah, not a lot of people knew about it. And I tried would, like, try to get her to advertise with me. Mhmm. And she's like, no. No. No. I'm just this is just my hobby. You know? And then if any if people find it, they find it. If not, I'm like, no. We gotta get this stuff out. You know? And so, like, I would tell the kids, hey. Go to this comic shop, man. If you guys are into now there's collectible shops out there too. You know? They're they're posting, and we like to be part of the collectible community, which, you know, with the whole Popcon deal Mhmm. That totally fell into it. So, yeah, that it's think about me as I'm a huge nerd. Well, that's okay. Because I I I like I like things like Star Wars. I'm I'm a Star Trek guy. Oh, dude. Nobody likes Star Trek. Why? Like, I'm a Star Trek. I'm a I became a Trekkie too because my dad, like, like, my again, my dad's a secret nerd too. Like, he would introduce me to that. And I'm just I started watching the next I grew up with the Next Gen. Yes. Yeah. I'm a TOS guy. Ah. And,
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I had a very hard time with the the next generation when it when it started up. And I'm still, like, I'll watch it every now and then, but I I am definitely not.
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And especially and especially the expanded universe stuff, I I don't get into any of that stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The non canon stuff. I I don't I don't buy into that stuff. Like, Discovery and all that stuff. Yeah. I never I mean, I I watch it, but I I'm not like a fan. Like, I won't go out of my way to watch it. I love TOS too, by the way. The the original series. How do you not? Yeah. You have to. It's so kitschy. It's like it's I started introducing it to my son, actually. He's and he's only 11. And he's starting to get into all this retro stuff. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. And I never introduced it to him, though. I think he started watching Stranger Things and he started hearing, like, Journey and stuff, and then he hears me listening to it. Yeah. And now he likes to listen to, like, Michael Jackson and all this old, like, Journey, Poison, all these all these Nice. Yeah. And now we're watching Star Trek, and I'm just, now he comes and asks me, dad, like, what's a what's a Klingon? I'm just like, But that's what happens when you go to the bathroom, you don't wipe yourself well enough.
Yes. Yes. I gotta get him that one.
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But yeah. Yeah, man. That's I'm a huge nerd, and yeah. I am a Trekkie. Yeah. I I love the Star Trek stuff. And I'm I'm I'm a Star Wars guy too. I I like Star Wars. But again, I'm I'm an original guy. I I don't like the I don't like the expanded universe stuff. Like, I I won't watch all of these spin offs that came up because the Disney? Like the whole Disney expansion? Yeah. Ever since Disney took it ever since Disney took it over, it's just to me, it's just been, you know, on a bit of a decline. Yeah. And and I know, like, statistically in numbers and all, it says the opposite, but where I think it it turned is because they started inserting all that woke bullshit into it. Right. And, you know, I'm sorry. I I can't I don't I mean, I canceled my Netflix subscription because of that. I I got rid of all that stuff. I I just don't I don't wanna say I don't wanna hear it. I don't care. You just live your life. Do what you wanna do. I I don't care. Just don't force it down my throat. Right. That's all I'm doing. I tell that to everybody who thinks I'm like a like, I know there's people that say I'm I'm a right winger. Pun intended, by the way.
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Yeah. Yeah. People would like, oh, he's a right winger. Don't listen to him. Like, well, dude, I'm an open minded conservative. I again, like, if you wanna be gay, if you wanna be trans, if you wanna be all that stuff, that's fine. If that's what makes you happy Mhmm. Hey, more power to you. But just just don't just don't come and try to tell me that, you know, I gotta do that stuff. Yeah. As a And leave the kids out of it. Yeah. Absolutely. You can let the kids make their own decisions. Exactly. Look, a kid, a a five, six year old cannot determine whether or not they wanna be the opposite of what they were born. Yeah. No. Only if an adult starts putting it in their head. And we we all know the problems that are happening out there in the world with teachers and stuff like that. That's just, you know, it's it's it's just not natural. You know what I mean? There's a comment for you. Oh. Oh. It's my wife. I know.
I'm about to give him my cassettes with paper lyrics. Yep. Uh-huh. Yeah. He does retro stuff.
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Yeah. So I got rid of all that stuff with with all that woke stuff. That's why I won't watch new stuff. I'll I'll stick with the old stuff. And, it's to me, it's just it it's just better anyway. I I think. Especially when you when you watch the older series and you see them just like formulating and and actually building the entire universe at that point, you know, whether it's the Star Trek universe or the Star Wars universe and just building it and building it and building it. It's, you know, and layer upon layer. It's building a brick upon brick. But the,
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but yeah, that woke stuff. I I stay I stay away from it. You know what's funny? Is that in people, the left, the the far left doesn't want you to know this or doesn't want you to see this. That like, I have gay friends. Mhmm. And you wouldn't even know they were gay. Like, you know, you're just like, hey, I'm I'm Joe. Yeah. Well,
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another Joe. Thank you. And I can clarify. And and this is my and this is my husband. Like, woah. I didn't even know you guys were gay. And they and they would even say, you know what? This woke stuff is stupid. Yeah. And I was like, wow. So not not all the LGBTQ community are on board with this and they don't the far left doesn't want you to know. No. It's a very it's a small minority within within it's a small minority within the minority. Yeah. So it's it's it's it's an interesting it's an interesting setup they have. Yeah. The, and yet but I was gonna say was too, and I I lost my thought there was Sorry. No. No. No. No. It's not you. It wasn't your fault. It was as I'm getting older, my memory is becoming more like Swiss cheese. So the, you know, I I don't I am a conservative. Yes. But but I also I I identify as a, as a conservatarian.
Conservatarian. Oh, that's new. So I I I have I I have strong conservative beliefs, but I also have a lot of libertarian leanings in in in certain things. And so that so anybody asked me, so are you a Republican?
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No.
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Republicans are are they're public officials. Right? We're we're con there's a difference between Republicans and conservatives, Democrats and liberals. Absolutely. But I I go further with it. I say, I am if well, I mean, am I a Republican? Well, well, yes. In in a sense that I'm a small r Republican. Yeah. You know, I believe in Republican government. I believe in the Republican form of government. That we are Republicans. And the the, in in electing representatives on your behalf to and and and that we base our society on a set of laws, not mob rule.
Yeah. You know, which is where the Democrats go. So, you know, it it's that's how I kinda define it. But conservatarian is much more of a, I think, a concise way of describing that without getting into all the the grotesque details of it all. Yeah. Yeah. But, alright. Next one. So, what what do you do to help you unwind at the end of the day? What's your go to beverage? What do you like to do?
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Mountain Dew. No. I'm joking. I'm joking. Because I was like, I was listening. Like, everybody is saying Mountain Dew. I was just like, I gotta get Joe with this one. You did. I was gonna Yeah. You're like, nah. I was gonna mute your mic. Dude, Mountain Dew is just the worst. I'm sorry for all of you Mountain Dew lovers, but I I they call it the gamer drink. It's horrible for you. Dude, I look at you look at the sugar content. It's like 70 grams. That's like way more than you're supposed to have in a day, I think. Right? Yeah. Absolutely. And I'm like, ugh. I it should be chamomile tea, but, an ice cold lemonade.
Naturally squeezed lemonade is my wind down drink.
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Not too much sugar either. It's safe. That that's good. I haven't had that one yet. Yeah. Lemonade.
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Lemonade, with ice ice ice cold. And and you know what? There's a place called Tacumbo that we, on El Indio. Mhmm. And they the lemonade is just, ugh, like, so it is it's it's in a, like, a little tub and there's ice in it, and they pour it in in another thing of ice, and it's just cold and it's delicious, not too sweet, not too tart. It's perfect. Nice. Nice. Yeah. We,
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my thing is lately look, I I drink way too much coffee. I'll tell you that honestly. I heard about that. Yeah. Yeah. I went from this the '64 ounce, you know, Yetis to down to, like, two cups a day. But this Okay. But but it's Saturday and and Yeah. Why not? And well, I took cold meds, so I need to wake up. Uh-huh. So so,
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that's why we're drinking this stuff today. Trying to counter the NyQuil? Yeah. Yeah. But,
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but I I've been I've been I kinda dipped back to the green teas, you know. I I when when I got COVID the first time around, when it first came around, with The OG strain? Yeah. Yeah. The the fir that first round that came around in in, I got sick in in June of the first period of time. So June 20. Right? So, How was it? Was it bad? Oh, yeah. Well, you know what? It was a bad flu, is really what it was. But at the time, you know, things like hydroxychloroquine and and all that stuff weren't verboten. Like, you you know, you were allowed to have those things. And my doctor gave it to me and then within, like, by the by the end of the second day on the on the, hydroxychloroquine, I was up and I was doing my thing and it was all that stuff. But, I mean, yeah, I was sick. But but I couldn't drink anything.
Nothing had any flavor whatsoever. And, my wife at the time, she she said, well, you need to drink something. So so she gave me, green tea with with raw honey and fresh lime. Lime.
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My wife's gonna come on to comment on that right now, I bet. Because that's that's the go to. It is. It's it's the best. Vicks two.
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Yeah. You know, may I don't know. Maybe you could explain this to me since since you're you're you're an eagle pass longer than I am and maybe this is I don't know. What is it with putting Vicks on your feet?
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So I had that exact same question and my wife is the one that was so is is still a big believer on it. So apparently, when you put Vicks on your feet, it's drawing heat to, like, your feet to the soles of your feet, and you're sweating down there. So, like, when you put Vicks on your feet and your socks and, baby, if you're watching, you can correct me on on a comment if you want. It it causes your feet to sweat while you're sleeping. So you're technically sweating everything out through your feet and not all over your body. And I still, like, I still don't believe in it. I still I have a hard time with the cold. We have all these fights, like, oh, I tell you what? It's not the cold that gets you sick. And I know I'm, like, devastating all these these traditional Latinos out there that, you know, they they say that the cold is what gets you sick. No. It's germs. Germs get you sick. The cold makes it worse. Correct. So yeah. Thank you, sir.
It's an argument that I've been having for years. I learned that in the army because I was still a big believer about it. And, of course, you have, like, 50 dudes in a bay Mhmm. And everyone starts getting sick. And the drill sergeants would be like, you guys are gonna get sick. Just so you know, be prepared for it. It's because you have 50 guys sleeping in one room, and someone's getting germs. Someone's got germs. Someone spreads something in it, everybody gets sick. It's not the cold, it's it's germs.
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Exactly. Like, I I I and case in point to to go with you, everybody knows, you know, my audience knows that I work in a nursing facility. Okay. And, you're gonna get sick. You know, you're gonna touch something and and and you it happens. You you you touch something. Especially what I do, you know, I'm not always wearing gloves because I can't. Sometimes I need to actually get my hands onto what I'm working with. Right. And, I don't handle residents or patients. I I do I do facility maintenance and life safety. So, you know, you're always working with your hands and sometimes you forget. You you, you know, and it never fails too. You're you're always working with the sloppiest, nastiest stuff. Like, it happened the other day. I was I had to change a drain set. Oh. And, and of course, as soon as I start taking the stuff off, the the nose itches, the eye itches, all that stuff, and you're like I got all this sludge all over my hands, and it's like, you know?
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It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. Yeah. It's inevitable. Like, that's why, like, when COVID hit, like, everyone started wearing, like, wet buckets on their head or something like that. It's like
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dude, just it's gonna happen. You know, when the aliens from three I Atlas finally land, they're they're gonna look back over our data records and they can say, what was wrong with you?
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Like, what the hell is wrong with these people? Why do they, you know, it was just a it's like men in black how they say that we're, you know, Tommy Lee Jones put it gray, like, we're humans are panicky dangerous animals. You know what I mean? And when we panic, we and fear just makes you do just the craziest things. Absolutely. Like putting, freaking, bags on your hands or whatever for when COVID happened or putting, like, the I know someone had, like, a sponge as a mask or something like that. I remember seeing that too. Wild. It's just it's just nonsense.
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Wild. It really is. So, so so let me ask you this. So so you grew up in Palm Springs Yeah. California. And, now how long now how long did you stay in California? And and then what eventually brought you here to Texas? So I was born and raised in, well, I was born in Palm Springs. I was actually raised in
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I've been it's it's a Coachella Valley. It's it's almost like the Rio Grande Valley. Mhmm. You got Cathedral City. You got Palm Springs. You have Coachella. You have Indio. I've lived in all those places. But I was raised in Cathedral City. But were you born in California or you were here? No. I was born in California. Okay. Born and raised. Yeah. Born and raised, with my parents. My parents actually left Texas. So those of you who say that I'm not a Texan, well, you know, my dad was born in Texas. My grandparents are Texan. All my family lives in Texas. My parents just decided to move to California. You know what I mean? Like There you go. So, and they moved to California. We I was raised there till, you know, I moved out at 19.
Met my ex wife, and then got pregnant, joined the army, at 25. Joined the army, did that for about six years, got to was going through a divorce, and I got deployed for the first, the first migrant crisis that we had in 2019 when the caravan was coming. Mhmm. And the national guard was getting into many, smuggling cases. Like, they were aiding a lot of the migrants coming in, and they were getting caught. So president Trump said, you know what? Screw this. I'm gonna send the federal troops over there. Mhmm. And then our I was in actually Fort Lewis McChord in Washington. There for it to be three years, so I love it when it gets cold.
They said, well, we're going to Texas. We're like, oh, shit. Okay. And then, we came down here. My unit was spread out, to Eagle Pass, Catulla. That's where I got stationed in there. That's how I met my my wife. She's a border patrol agent for twenty plus years. Nice. She got some age on me, but, you know, not age is just a number, baby. You know what I mean? We met, and then I was actually got gone through my divorce, so it was pretty it was pretty crazy time. Your first divorce, I'm sure you know. Uh-huh. Yeah. Unfortunately. And especially when you have a spouse that doesn't wanna cooperate with you, who's just it's a nightmare. You know, she pulled me through that. We met and, you know, we after we spent some time together, after deployment was over, it's time to I I didn't have I got custody of my son. Okay.
So I'm a single dad now, and I can't in in the army, if you don't have a family care plan, do you okay. Okay. What do you wanna do? Do you wanna try to find something, or do you wanna stay in the army? I said, you know what? I'm I think it's time. I can't do this job and leave my son and miss all these birthdays and stuff like that, especially when I have nobody out there in Washington to watch him. There's no family out there. Right. I said, I'm gonna oh, and the argument was, that I there's no way I could take care of my son and be in the army. I said, okay. Point taken. I'm gonna get out of the army. So I got out and moved here to Eagle Pass with my my new my new wife. So what what was the transition like coming back to Eagle Pass? It was very weird. I had to learn I mean, my Spanish was nothing. I had, like I mean, yeah. I knew some. Of course. You you know the the the basics. Oh, you do. Yeah. Yeah. You kinda know the basics.
And then I started learning more into this. So, it small living in a small town, I think, is better than living in a big city. Because, you know, when I go to San Antonio, as soon as you take a right on Military Drive, it's ghetto, you know, and all of a sudden you're just like, you're in some place that you didn't think you'd be. Here in Eagle Pass, it's always safe, you know, I I think. You know, there's all kinds of I mean, it's safe at night. I can go on a jog or I can go with Blake or whatever. It's a good little place. I liked it. I I fell in love with it actually because my my wife started showing me all these places to eat, like, roadies.
Oh, I fell in love with roadies, like, before COVID hit. And they're like Roadies are good. I haven't had roadies in a long time.
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My my, my ex, loved roadies. I mean alright. So little digression here, but it has to do with roadies. So so I like to cook. I and I I cook high end quality meals. And I would cook a storm for my ex. I I would I would all these Italian dishes I'm Italian, so I I I make all these Italian dishes, and I would do all of these all of these plates and and and I mean, I'll show you pictures after the show, but but, and and she would she would get the plate, and she would sit there, and she'd be picking at it. I'm like, what's wrong? Don't pick at my food.
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You know?
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Same thing. And and and she's over here picking at it. She was and and something she had said to me when I first met her and I and I and and brought her up to New York was, she would rather have a hot dog or something from roadies than a big fancy meal. And I'm like, I'm like, babe, I I I you have filet mignon sitting in front of you, and you're you're you'd rather have roadies? Are you shitting me?
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That's my wife too, man. I I well, she fell in love with me because of my cooking too. It has to be an eagle pastel. Yeah. Cooking and all kinds of other things. Like, I started making Mexican like, my mom's recipe Mexican rice or Spanish rice, they call it. And, all of a sudden now her cooking just kinda went. Just like, alright. She loves it when I and I have to be in a good mood. You know what I mean? But I've been working so much and, you know, I just got furloughed. So now I'm gonna have now I have so much time to cook now until the government reopens. She loves the rice, man. And I was just like, okay. What else? And I'll I'll make just like you. I'll I think I made what did I make one time?
It's not fancy. I like I like I said, I used to be a cook back in the day Mhmm. And I love, like, I love Gordon Ramsay. Okay. And I got a recipe for shepherd's pie. Well, it's not lamb, so I think it's called, it's not shepherd shepherd's pies with lamb. What's the other word for it for with when you cook it with ground beef? There's another word for it. I I I know what you're talking about, and I'm drawing a blank on it. Yeah. Well, it's it's it's a knock off of shepherd's pie, and she's just like, she'd rather have, like, you know, a taco from, you know, tacos Los Barrados, the the the the the trucks or taco or, taco Morales or, you know, and a hot dog or bacon wrapped hot dog. Yeah. It's an Eagle Pass thing or roadies.
And I fell in love with all that stuff too. So it's just like and not just the food, you know, the the people. You know, people there's a lot of good people in Eagle Pass. There's a lot of bad people in Eagle Pass, but there's a lot of good people that deserve a voice. Cottage pie. Cottage pie. There you go. Cottage pie. I don't like the name. I like I like shepherd's pie better, man. But, yeah. That's I know I'm I'm starting to flip up flip flop. I'm sorry if I do that. No. No. No. Don't don't. Keep keep me on point, man, because I I can go I can start branching out into a different topic. No. No. We're good. Listen. We got a we got a lot of time, and we got a lot of stuff to talk about. So Yeah. Of course. Just ramble, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. Yeah. Yeah. No. I fell in love with Eagle Pass, And I love it when people call me an outsider. That's what that's all they have against me. Mhmm. You're an outsider. You know, what do who is this guy to tell us to give us inspiration or tell us what to do with our community?
And I'm just like, shut up. Like, this is my community. I've lived here for five years. My son goes to school here. I vote here. I have a big strong I have a I like to think I have a strong foothold in this community. I've done a lot of service. This is my community too, man. Yeah. Yeah. So Well, it and it's it's interesting because I haven't had anybody, at least in my face, call me an outsider. Not not yet. They won't do that. They won't call you an outsider in their face. They'll just do it on the keyboard. Ah. Because then and that's how some people are here. A lot of my haters, I'll see them. And and, like, what do you guys what do you what what comes to mind when you're hating on somebody on the Internet? And this is why I think was created.
So that I mean, you know what Oh, yeah. I stay away from it. Yeah. And people wanna just talk shit anonymously. And I think that's so, like are you ashamed of yourself to to to make an anonymous profile and to be just throwing all this crap out instead of doing it with your own profile. That's why I share everything with my profile. And do I get hate for it? Yeah. I do. Like, when I report the news. Right. Yeah. I do. We're gonna come to that shortly.
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Yeah. We we won't go yeah. I won't jump over that one. We'll get into that in a minute shortly. But, And for the folks that are watching, I wanna apologize right now. Our our stream is degrading a little bit. So Uh-oh. I do apologize for that. It's it's an issue with Spectrum. I hate Spectrum. Oh, is it is the the video a little fuzzy? Yeah. I just saw it up on the monitor there. It's gonna it's gonna go like, retro pixelated. Yeah. Exactly. It's sometimes I look like a blob just sitting here. I mean, I know I have to lose weight, but, you know Oh, if you look like a blob, shoot, I'm gonna look like a like Slimer from, from Ghostbusters. Yeah.
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That's another thing. People love to call me fat. I'm just like Have you seen the majority vehicle pass? Yeah. Exactly. I'm like, hello. I'm not the only fat person here. Like, I get when you when I go to JCPenney to buy something my size, they're all out. I have to go to big and tall and that's too big. You know, I'm like, come on now. They I'm like and I'm asking them, don't you guys have some this is Eagle Pass. Where is all the big boy stuff at? And they're like, oh, well, there's a lot of big boys here in Eagle Pass. Sorry. You know, you're too late. I'm so sick. At least they can acknowledge it. That's I know. Right? That's good. I love it. They they call me fat, like, that hurts me. Like, I know I'm fat. I got a dad bod. So what? You know what I mean? So I mean, it's Dad bod's times two. Yeah. Exactly. And Not you. I mean me. Yeah. No. No. No. That's me. I'm, like, times three.
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But, like I like to call myself a four x fat bastard.
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That's a good one, dude. I'm gonna call myself a two x or three x bad bastard. Do you know what I mean? But, like, when I wear something too big, like, it looks it makes me look fatter. Of course. Yeah. Because I I like to wear loose stuff. I don't like to wear, like, something that's fitted. But people say, oh, no. You look my my producer, Veronica, you know, shout out to her. She's been a big help. Would tell me, you look you look good when you have something that's fitted. I'm like, ew, no. Because then you can, like, see everything.
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Yeah. And she's like, you know what? You can see my six pack of rolls.
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Yeah. Rolls here, rolls here, rolls down here. And she's like, you're a man. Don't worry about it. Like, you're, you know
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Yeah. That's what that's what they that's what they say unless that's what the the less they're actually looking for somebody. Then then it's like, you know, the roles aren't good enough. They want they want the perfect, you know, the perfect abs, the washboards, and I don't know. There's a lot of women out here that like gorditos, man. Yeah? They really do. See, aren't you impressed that I knew what that meant? Yeah.
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Yeah. I am. I'm pretty. Yeah. A lot of they like a lot of gorditos out there, man. And and that's just Eagle Pass, you know. And some actually actually not just Eagle Pass, it's everywhere. A lot of I don't know. A lot of younger women like dad bots. You know, and and that and I yeah. Okay. I I could agree with that. I I just,
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you know, it's just it's a vocal minority that that pitch the idea of you have to be perfect, you know. Yeah. You have to have that 0% body fat. You have to have the rips, and you have to have the cuts, and you have to have the washboard. You have to have all that stuff. It's fantasy. It's but yeah. Exactly. It's not real life. Yeah. You know, it's like it's like I I always say, you know, for a guy, you know, when whenever you talk to somebody, it's like, oh, I'm you know, to a girl, she's like, oh, I'm fat, I'm this, I'm that. Hey, listen. Bones are for dogs. Meat is for men. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And my wife too. She'll be like, oh, no. I'm fat. Don't look don't we'll take, like, a million pictures. And she's like, no. I look fat. I'm like, oh, come on now. You know, just I'm hideous. Don't look at me. Yeah. No. You know. Just give her a slap on the ass and there you go, man. There you go. There see, I think a lot of women misunderstand the slap on the ass. You know, guys understand it because, you know, we're we're into sports and all this stuff. It's it's it's a it's a gesture of accomplishment. Right. You know, you did a good thing.
Go for it. You know, That's that's what it is. It's not it's an appreciation. It's a it's a it's an extension of appreciation. It's it's not what you think. It's it's just acceptance. Right. And and and that's true because
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well, and I'm getting very personal here. It's great. I love it. Like We do that here. Yeah. And my my the minute I'll pass by and I don't give her a nice pat on the butt, they'll be like What's wrong? What the hell? Like, well,
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why why didn't you? You know? It's what what what's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? Yeah. Like, did you what's wrong with me? Who are you who else are you talking to? Yeah. Slapping somebody else's ass? Like
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and I'm just like, no. Let me see your phone. Yeah. Get your phone. What's going on? So, yeah, they do appreciate that. Like, you gotta give them a good slap on the ass. You know what I mean? Those who who like it or whatever. It's it's not it's it's an appreciation. It's it's an acknowledgement. So, yeah, once you stop doing that, then they're like, woah. Hold on. Or once you stop touching, you know, wherever, give them a touch or a kiss or whatever. Yeah. They'll be like, woah, what's going on here? And when women think differently. Folks, this this is the Joe Russo,
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on on a Saturday afternoon, talking here with Ruben Camarillo. And, we are, for those who may be confused, we don't normally do this during the course of the day, but this is, this, you know, this is something different that we're doing. We're enjoying this. It's a lot of fun, I think. We're having a great time. I'm glad. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop them down below in the comment section, or, you could, post a comment on in the live chat on Rumble, I don't think on Youboob. I'm set up for that. Fakebook. Yeah. We we're seeing comments come through on Fakebook.
X, I'm not looking at. So, because nobody watches on x. So, so there are plenty of ways to drop a comment to us. If you have any questions for Ruben you'd like to ask, you know, feel free to send them on over. We like to, have have that kind of interaction. So, and don't forget to like, subscribe, and share it with your friends, your family, and your followers. Help us to spread this thing. Help us with the algorithm. Help us get spotted and seen. Alright. A little station identification right there. Absolutely, man. Alright. So let's talk about your show now. Let's get in let's get into that a little bit. Oh, no. Alright. I like that little segue. Right? That was good. Yep. Good transition then. Professional radio. Yep.
Yep. Now, so so your show is Now You Know Eagle Pass. Mhmm. So what what what really inspired you to do that? Where where did that come from? So,
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you know, I've always been into politics when I was since I was a kid, when I was I tell people this. When in high school, senior year, I took, government. Well, I think it was an elective back in the day. Yeah. It had to be. I don't remember.
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And we learned about the constitution. We learned about Which is I'm sorry to interrupt you, but which is which is pathetic. If if it is, it has to be an elective class to take. You should that should be the core study of every child in school is government, civics, how the thing works, how it's supposed to work, not somebody's opinion of how it's supposed to work. Right. I I
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I yield I yield back, sir. Yeah. No. You can inter please. If I if you have to interrupt me, please do so. Yeah. It it it was an elective. I I think. Don't quote me on that. I it was a long time ago, obviously. I'm already 37 years old, and that's when I was 18. Oh, so long. 55. Yeah. You don't look like you're in your fifties, man. And when you said that when I heard you say that, I'm like, no way. In two weeks, I'll be 55. Oh, okay. He's over here complaining about 38, 37. Dude, well, the army does put, like, ten more years on you, man. I feel like I can feel it. Wish I was 37 again.
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Honestly, because because honestly, the 37, I felt like that was the best I ever looked, the best I ever felt. And then after that, it's all been downhill. So I'm sure yeah. I'm sure the older I'll get, I'll start noticing
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it. But, you know, I'll cherish these younger years while I can. Yeah. Absolutely. But, was I yeah. So the I learned we learned all that stuff, the constitution. We learned about government. We learned about, you know, term limits. Wow. What do you know? And, you know, branches of government, leg you know, legislative, judicial, executive, all that stuff. And I was I was infatuated. And ever since then, like, I got into politics. And, like, that was when, believe it or not, I was a liberal back in the day. I was I did
[00:56:04] Unknown:
I was an Obama liker back in the day. I think everybody in Florida I think everybody flirted with insanity at one point in their life.
[00:56:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Right? And it's okay to admit that. You know? It's okay to go through changes and change your mind. Sure. So It's called maturing. It's called growing up. Yeah. Absolutely. And, you know, Obama had that, you know, that attraction to the younger crowd. Mhmm. You know? Hey. Look at me. I'm cool. Vote for me. Marketing. Yeah. Market. You guys talked about marketing with Danny the other time. And then, yeah, absolutely. And and you're gonna get the younger generation on there. And that's the most important thing. And we'll talk about that right now about my podcast, which is trying to get the younger, the younger audience involved because let's just face it. Eagle Pass is old.
There's a lot of old politics, a lot of old stuff still looming around, and the younger generation just kinda bite into it. You know what I mean? So anyways, fell in love with that. Fast forward when I moved to Eagle Pass, I came in right when they were doing mayor elections when Rolando Salinas was running for mayor. You had Monica Cruz running for, for city council and all that good stuff. And I'm just like and I'm looking at all these signs like, wow. I wanna do this one of these days. I wanna run for office and and and help the community and do that. But you know what? I I'm new here, so nobody knows me, so whatever. Started supporting people, and then the county elections came along.
And, of course, I'm like, where's the Republican party at? I was like and then I met, and this one I'm not gonna get too into this story because it's pretty long because I know the Republican party here was split for a little bit. Mhmm. I think it's more united than ever now. But I I met up with some people. My good friend Sandy who is the she's the county chair, Sandy Cesano.
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Oh, really? Yeah. Interesting. Why do you say that? I have I have reached out to her and her office and the County Republicans on four occasions.
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And not a not even a not even a response. Do you have her number? You have her I'll give you her I'll give you her number. We'll talk after you. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That that well, it and I can attest that I can go up to bat for that. Like, they're it's very unorganized. Like, there's no it was for a little bit, and then I guess their office closed down because they didn't have enough money to fund it, and it just kinda
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it just kinda split. Yeah. I wanted to talk to her after the election because I know that, you know, Maverick County in itself, I don't think it flipped completely red, but it it there was a huge increase in in Republican voting, for Donald Trump. And I know that the Republican party in the county did a lot of work to try to get that. Oh, yeah. And I wanted to talk to her about that. Yeah. Well, you you well, here's here's news flash. There's
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there's, like, two different factions of Republicans. There's the county Republican party that's a little bit to the right, and then you have the Tony Gonzalez lovers. Mhmm. You know what I mean? He's in trouble. Yeah. He's yeah. Yeah. And actually I actually met, I'm sorry. I'm going blank. What's her name? His his, his aide and the one that The human torch? Yeah. The human torch. Yeah. I I actually met her, g Regina. And she's a nice lady. You know what I mean? And we've tried to get, Tony on a podcast and never it never happened. And, yeah, the the it was a two separate there's the Tony supporters, and then there's the non Tony supporters who wanted to same censure him and all that other stuff. Right.
And that was a so that's why I left the I was actually volunteering with them to help any Republican candidates. I saw all their signs. I wasn't completely infatuated. I'm like and then I see how they campaigned, and no no disrespect to them, but I saw a lot of flaws. One of my biggest things is if you're gonna be a politician, you have to learn how to speak. And I'm not saying they didn't know how to speak English. I'm just saying that they like, the county judge who ran against Ramsey. I'm sorry, man. Like, I there's just no chance in hell. It was, it was such a waste of time. The guy didn't know how to speak. Mhmm. He couldn't talk. He couldn't talk to the people. He got nervous. And you're running against Ramsey. English come through, man. You need to step it up. And I can say that as as someone who's a voter. Yeah.
And so I would you know, I got really I couldn't understand. I couldn't process. Like, is this how Maverick County politics is? You know, you can get any I mean, that that's great. If you're any Joe Schmo who wants to run, please go for it. But you need to understand that you hate those phrases. Yeah. What which Joe Schmo's. Joe Schmo's. The average Joe The average Joe. Oh, yes. Sorry. Oh, yeah. We gotta find something else for that now. Great. That's gonna be the average Joe. That's gonna be imprinted in my brain. No. Like, you have to be willing to get your message out. You have to instead of, like and I didn't say they did this, but the thing with Maverick County politics is they love to attack each other personally instead of and they spend a lot of time attacking each other that they don't they don't
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get their message out to the people on what they're gonna do good for the community. I agree with you. Yeah. I I I saw a lot of that in the last couple of election cycles that I've been party to and or at least privileged to to see and observe. It's it's Yeah. It's vicious. It it really is. It's it's vicious. Yeah. And so
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fast forward, all those elections got out and I'm like, you know what? I wanna run for city council. I'm gonna do it. And I ran for city council against my good friend, now my good friend, Mario Garcia. Mhmm. I love to have a relate well, and then everybody's gonna be like, oh, woah. He's with Mario Garcia, and he's with the school district. Right now, there's like a war going between the school district and the city. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I've been I've been following the posts on, what was it, on, Maverick Times? Yeah. I was waiting for you to say that. That's another that's another story on that one. Yeah. I know. But I I I don't know much about them. I'd I'm I get updates on Facebook from the group. Yeah. So I just I don't wanna I don't wanna knock anybody on your podcast, but that'll be a that'll be a story maybe behind the scenes going there.
But yeah. No. It's it's constant, war. And you can tell if you're not I'm not saying people are stupid, but if you're just living in everyday life and you see these kind of things, you're like, wow. This is what's going on with the school district. But what they really don't see is that, okay, you have people from the city trying to implement themselves and can and get power inside the ISD. You know what I mean? I called some guy out who went up with the whole the, the threats at Armando Serna. I don't know if you heard about that. Not familiar. Doesn't sound doesn't ring a bell. So there was there was a threat, at the school.
You know, one of many, many threats and all this other stuff that's been going on since since the Uvalde shooting. You know, they had they had kids pranking and and doing that and what everybody was going crazy, panicking, picking up the kids from school. Fast forward, this happens, and, now they're attacking the school. They're attacking the ISD. They're attacking the superintendent. And the superintendent behind us knows I don't agree with a lot of things that he does been in, but we have that mutual respect as we talk. You know what I mean? I've talked to him. I've interviewed him and stuff. He gets it. He's not gonna pound me for that, like, you know, attack me like a lot of some of the city officials are doing right now because I criticize them when I report the truth.
But, yeah, it's, I started seeing that. I called the guy out for you know, he he read something on he tried to be, like, a concerned parent. And now when you're reading something, I get it. Sometimes I gotta read stuff. Mhmm. But, like, what concerned parent who is scared for their kids is thinking about, like, government codes and, oh, we need this and we need this and government codes and and, and then they go to the city and request a city liaison to be part of the ISD. It's a good point. Yeah. Like, who's I'm not gonna be worried about that. I'm gonna be like, hey, shithead. Like, I you you need to do something about this. My kid my kids are part of this school. You guys need to do better.
Even though, in my opinion, this whole kids doing school shooting threats and all that, it starts with the home. Yeah. I agree. You know? What what more can the teachers, the principals, the superintendent do to control this? Not not not a lot. It starts with the parents. The parents gotta be like, hey. Look. What the hell? I didn't teach you to do this. What's going on? Something's gotta be going on at the home. Anyways, I'm sorry. I'm I'm going off topic. No. No. No. That's fine.
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Actually, you're you're kinda leading into another question that I had for you about the show. Yeah. But but that's fine. We'll Continue. Yeah.
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So, anyway, so we'll we'll we'll rewind after all this stuff. I decided, when I when I lost miserably to to Mario Garcia, I started a podcast called Now You Know Eagle Pass. And I'd said a good friend of mine told me, you don't need a title to serve. Mhmm. That's true. And I thought doing this podcast would give at first, it's it's flip flopped a lot. The first, goal was to bring a conservative voice to Eagle Pass. I I think it it's it Eagle Pass is a totally democratic dominated,
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place. It is. Yeah. And so
[01:05:33] Unknown:
there's a but there's a lot of conservatives out here, man. When Trump came over here, dude, Main Street was flooded. Yeah. And like, you can't tell me all the and and like I would try to go like I would try to interview people like, no, no, no. I'm supposed to be at work. Well, the well, the problem is though is that is it just just to give the audience
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a window as to what you're talking about. You know, there's definitely more people here that are of a different political persuasion. You look at the mayoral election. Right? We're we're a town of or city of about what? 35, 40,000 people. Right. And only 3,500 people came out to vote. Yeah. I mean
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Yeah. It's it's and there's another thing that right now, I think the polls just closed for some constitutional amendments. 17 constitutional amendments.
[01:06:18] Unknown:
But the the early voting. Now November 4 is the actual Oh, okay. Person's voting. Yeah. But like, nobody's voted. And just and just on that, I'm glad you mentioned it. Just on that, folks, remember one thing. When you go to the polls and you and you cut cut these are very very important things to be voting on and to consider. Okay? Absolutely. Just remember one thing. If you are reading one of these amendments and it's talking about funding something, remember that the Texas constitution was not written to fund anything. Yep. Alright. Alright. So your default should be automatically no.
Because where's the funding coming from folks? You are already taxed enough, especially here. Yeah. So it's that's why we're in a that's why we're having a problem with our our our escrow right now, because the school district taxes are absolutely ridiculous. Ridiculous. It's the highest tax I have to pay out of all the taxes I pay is the school district tax. Yeah. So, just remember that. The Texas constitution was not written or designed to fund anything.
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So your answer should be no on those. I mean, vote your conscience, do what you gotta do, but keep that in mind. Yeah. And nobody's advertising this. Like, now when it comes to, you know, mayoral elections or county elections, everybody's on their toes ready to go vote. But when it comes to stuff like this, it's very important. Yeah. Super important. And especially, like, you know, again, like you've mentioned, the taxes have been raising. Now we have a city administration that's, you know, raising the tax, raising the, the bridge tolls. Now on this next agenda, which I'll talk about on my podcast later, they wanna spend $60,000 of our tax money to fund an attorney, another attorney for for whatever, just in case. It's It's on there. No joke, man. It's on the agenda for the next city council meeting. I can't wait to see that. Why? And guess what? It's somebody who's related to somebody in the county.
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Interesting. Yeah. You you guys will you'll you'll see all that. But Well, small town politics are always very heavily nepotistic. Oh, absolutely. And it's just the way it is. But the but the thing is that
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And I'm not saying that is a way of just throwing your hands up and walking away from it. I'm just saying that's just the way it is. Right. But that's the problem is people just throw their hands up and walk away from it and they know that. They're like, well, you know, no one's gonna say anything. And that's why I I revamped Now You Know Eagle Pass. Whenever I see, and there are, there are other media entities who and I get it. They gotta make a living. They can't you know, the local local local media's gotta make a living. They gotta have contracts with the city, contracts with the county. And if they say something bad, there goes their contract. Or they if they if they report something that they don't like, you know, there goes their contract. You know what I mean? I don't get paid by those people. I'm get like, your podcast with Danny about giving. Mhmm. I'm all about giving. My mother taught me one thing is to to give. You the more you give, the more you get. You you're gonna get something one of these days.
So I I try to help, open the like, lift the veil for these people for a lot of of us in the community that believe all this BS, that the city or the county throws at them, and they're not liking it. Yeah. You know what I mean? So now I'm vilified. I'm vilified for telling the truth, but it's all factual. That's why I got into journalism. You know? I said, okay. Well, let's let's do something for free, and tell people the truth. So it shifted from Republican politics to, like, now it's totally local. Mhmm. And we try to do good things and and do positive things on the podcast and but we wanna do political analytics. Like, okay. What should the mayor do, for this? What should he be doing? What should city council be voting on? How should they be voting on things?
Why not why not give the people that opinion? And then when they're doing something wrong,
[01:10:10] Unknown:
point it out. Mhmm. Nothing wrong with keeping your leaders accountable and honest in this one. We we need well, they they are public servants. They serve the public. Yeah. So so it's important for you as a member of the public to let your voice be heard and let people know, and let those people that you elected to represent you at government
[01:10:29] Unknown:
know that you're unhappy with something or if they're doing a good job, let them know. Yeah. Absolutely. And I let them know if they're doing a good job, like, I try to like, again, I try to develop a relationship with these people, with city council, with the county judge, and the commissioners, everybody. You know? I want everybody to know that I'm neutral. And because Eagle Pass is so used to having teams just firing at each other. Yeah. You think about, like, the the the colonial wars where they're just in line taking turns, like, involving Little European style of Yeah. Combat. That's what it is. And so, like, here I am in the middle, and they're either perceiving that I'm on this side or I'm on this side. No. I'm not on any on anybody's team. I am I'm for the people. I'm the voice of Eagle Pass. I wanna be the voice of Eagle Pass, and I want to be that person that's taking the hits. Because a lot of people that work for the school district, for the city, for the county, they can't say that stuff because if you go against somebody, guess what? They'll probably get fired or whatnot. It's the truth, and it sucks. Yeah. It's really crappy. So I have a good I have a good job. People like to I love how they like, oh, he's he's just mad because he didn't get a job at the county. That's why he's doing this. Come on, dude. The the job I have is, like, make I make way more money than I would ever do, like, times three than working for the county or the city.
And that's that's for me working hard, and I'm a survivor, man. You know what I mean? So that's why I fund my own podcast. I do what I can to fund everything. I love that I have Veronica, my team, Veronica Pena, my wife. They're my team. You know what I mean? And that's what that's what keeps this going. And one day we'll do sponsors. I've actually tried to get sponsors, and I never took money from them because I it just It's hard. Yeah. It's hard. It's it's not not an easy thing. And,
[01:12:10] Unknown:
you know, we we have a couple of sponsors, but the the sponsors that we we do right now, like, PodHome is a value for value sponsorship because he follows that model. I follow them. That's interesting too. Like, I wanna get into that. Yeah. So so it's yeah. It's a great platform. It it truly is. So, you know, we have an we have an agreement. And then, there's also, you know, we just partnered up with, t and e dot energy. Yeah. And Danny. Danny. And, so, you know, we're looking to see where that goes and how that leads. And what I'd like to do is as far as, like, just to give you some, maybe a suggestion, don't commit to anything long term when you do it. Do do it like a three month deal. Yeah. Because we also have another agreement with another company called Creative Salute, Creative, oh, shoot. I'm thinking Creative Edge. Creative Edge. Okay. Yeah. So Creative Edge is, it's it's a PR firm, based out of Canada.
And, we have an agreement with, as far as, people that they represent, as far as compensation for, for hosting Yeah. Their clientele. And it's nothing huge. It's nothing believe me. Trust me. If it was if it was anything of value, I wouldn't be asking people to help me out with the GoFundMe. Trust me. Oh, yeah. These these podcasts are all valuable. Well, you you put your your time and effort into this. This is a treasure, man. And then I would I would donate for sure. Oh, cool. Appreciate it. Yeah. No. No. Seriously. Send me send me the link. I'll I'll donate now. It's, it's the but when you do something like this and you start off, like you said, you self fund these things. And it's not the easiest thing to get into. No. It's not the easiest thing to start. I'm I'm like I said, I I know I talk about a lot. I I started back in 2016 with Internet radio. You know, I've done a podcast, previous to this one for for three straight years, you know. And now I'm doing this one. It'll be a year actually coming up, November 25. It'll be our one anniversary.
It's not the easiest thing to do. It's cost a lot of money to get started. It really does. I don't care what and like I had people we were talking earlier before the show. I I have people tell me, well, you don't need this and you don't need that, you know, unless you're getting like huge sponsors and you have income coming from you don't buy this, you don't buy that. Yeah. I I get it. But you know what? If I'm gonna be doing this, I'm gonna I'm gonna give it my best. Yeah. Give the give your audience the best quality. Why not? Best quality talk radio we can muster. Yeah.
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Muster without the bluster. There you go. So,
[01:14:34] Unknown:
yeah. But but yeah. You you have to you have to do it. You you have to you have to have a heart for it. And you obviously and and I've checked out a couple of your shows and, you know, I'm I'm definitely be watching more often. And, I'm looking forward to doing to doing more work with you, actually. I am so down for you. I am I because I have to be honest with you, I I I I enjoy this, especially having somebody here because there's a different dynamic to it, you know. It's Yeah. It's a it's a it's a lot more fun, and that's what I'm used to. Because, like, I'm going back to the early days, you know, we had three of us in the studio and, you know, it was hysterical. We do skits and and little pranks on each other during the show and and whatnot. It was Nice. I like that. And it wasn't video either. It was all audio. So, you know, so you had to use your imagination as to what we were doing. You know, know, if we told you we were sitting there with no pants on, you had to think about that for a second, you know. Well, yeah. I wanted to start audio first and, like, I actually wanted to change But you're gonna say you didn't wanna wear pants today. Yeah. Yeah. Well, sometimes I'll be honestly and now people will know this, now you know. Like, when I'm doing remotes, I'll be in my fucking underwear and nobody will know. Something that nobody knew about you but should. There you go. Yes. I do podcast in my underwear sometimes.
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And I I have a shirt on, yes, but I'm not wearing shorts or anything. I'm just in the comfort of my own home just doing it. So there you go Veronica. My my producer is always like, can't wait. It's better to do it in person. I'm just like, yeah, but I like that. No. It's not. Not always. Not always. It has this look. I know we're off track here, but Yeah. But but that's just the way the show goes. So so it's, you know,
[01:15:59] Unknown:
doing in person shows is a good it's a nice thing to do. If you if you have the ability to do it, but it's it's difficult. It's it's hard to say, especially when you're just it's just you. Yeah. You know, you don't have this whole you're you're not you're not, you know, NBC. You don't have a whole team going out there setting up your sound and setting up your lighting. Exactly. You don't have all of that stuff where people are setting up for you. It's hard to do that type of thing. Right. So, you know, to to do something remote is is a lot more cost effective. It's it's easier to do. It's Technology, man. Yeah. Technology is meant to make your life a little bit better, you know. So it makes your life a little better. And, you know, to do the to do the in studio stuff. You know, it's hard to do in studio stuff because like you see, it's a small it's a small studio. It may look bigger on the camera, but it's really not.
And, it's I like it. It gets hot in here quick. It's like right now, it's it's 85 degrees in here. I don't even care, man. Man. It's I mean, it doesn't feel like it. No. It really doesn't. It doesn't feel like it's 85. Yeah. We got a fan, we got fans. I I just realized that the AC was still running. I shut it off. Now you sound better. There you go. You know. But, but it gets warm in here. It gets hot, and it's it's difficult to do. That's why we don't really do it very often. But I think, I think we got something going on here. I think we're gonna do this more often. That's awesome, man. I'm dude, I'm super psyched. Maybe a lot of fun. That. Yeah. It'd be a lot of fun. Are we going back on topic? I was I was just looking to see where I am here.
We're back. I mean, we're still in the podcast thing, I believe. Yeah. Because you already covered we already covered why you did it. We already covered some of the things that you talk about. But actually, here's something for you. Interviews. What interviews have you done that have really, like, surprised you or or changed your perspective on something? Man.
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You ever you ever hear the history of, The Daily Show? I know it's a it's a Democratic show, but, like Yeah. And I've I've look. You gotta know what the enemy thinks. Right? So you gotta sometimes you gotta watch and Yeah. Endure through it and suffer through it. Well, I didn't know that. But before when I I watched it, I thought it was funny. I really didn't I when I was younger, I didn't really see Democrat or Republican.
[01:18:07] Unknown:
Yeah. You didn't pick up the venom. Yeah. No. Because, actually, because back then, it wasn't so venomous. No. You know, now it is. Yeah. Now it is. It it it's it's
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ridiculous how Even the Trevor even the Trevor Noah days, like, I mean, they show that they were good sports. Like, they would make fun of Biden for sniffing people's heads. Right. That was great. I loved it. Like, they're good sports about it. But now it's just far far to the left. And, but you go back to the old days where, not and I think it was even before Jon Stewart. Mhmm. Who was it? It wasn't Chris. It was, oh my god. Who's the guy that plays on 40 year old virgin? I'm getting I'm drawing a blank now. What's his name? Is this a is this like a daisy chain thing between podcasts? Or we just both have brain farts at the same time? Yeah. I think so.
[01:18:57] Unknown:
Because I I I I see I see the guy's head face in my head. I just can't think of his name. Well, the guy that played 40 year old virgin, we'll just call him that. Steve Carrell? Steve Carrell. Yes. Yeah. Steve Carrell. Yes. He,
[01:19:08] Unknown:
he was part of The Daily Show, and the the what really set them off is when they went to they went to go interview John McCain. Mhmm. And, they I think they fooled him somehow thinking that they were just like a groupie group, and they're actually interviewing him and getting him to talk. And he said I can't remember. You guys will have to look at it. He said something, and then they're just like like, that's what made The Daily Show. And John McCain was like, wait a minute. Oh, shit. Like I just got punked. I just got punked. Like, holy crap. And so, like, it's not like that, but I started interviewing politicians here locally wanting to get, to get them to know that they're they're people just like us. They put their pants on one leg at a time. Yep.
And we'd I who did I I think it was our first was, because we didn't start getting into politics. But, we did Eddie Morales. We did Olga Ramos, and that was a hit. Like and they were like, we should do this more often. Mhmm. Get them to come out and just act like normal people because nobody nobody really interviews them. They and I'm sorry to the colleagues out here, for the fellow journalists. Maybe this is something that you can do different. I do notice that some are doing stuff different because I don't like toot my own horn, but we started doing that. Now we sent now we see the change in the media.
People are trying to wear microphones now. You know what I'm like? And now the business journal got a reporter now. Her name is Aileen Hernandez. She, I guess, used to be with KSAT. Now they have a reporter. Oh my god. And it's with every single media, it was shove your camera in their face and have them talk. That's it. And so, like, let's do something different. Let's put my face on there with them so they're not so nervous. I'm there looking like an idiot, and they're looking good and just asking them the right questions. Mhmm. And we know the we know the questions to ask that are not gonna make them feel super uncomfortable. Yes. We gotta ask uncomfortable questions, but not like the questions where, hey. So did you did you do this in high school back in the day? Like, you know what I mean? Like like, no. So that's what kinda got us that that was the the my answer to your question kind of that's what kind of, changed my outlook on stuff. Okay. Let's let's bring let's start talking about politics, in a good way and sometimes in a bad way.
Well and then it went south a little bit when we started telling the truth.
[01:21:34] Unknown:
Well, you know, you know the old saying, you know, once you start taking flack, you know you're over the target. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And and
[01:21:42] Unknown:
the first what really got us going, and it just happened, which is why I'm now public enemy number one, is so I'm dry I'm I'm part of a I do Cub Scouts. Okay. I by the way, Maverick Times, I I've was at war with them for a little bit. It was funny. Like, everybody was like, oh my god. Boom. We we our first elections was the mayoral election with Aaron Valdez and Monica Cruz. Right. We did the first debate. I don't care what people say. We they yes. There was a debate back in the day, but it was crap. And me and Veronica got together, and we did it. We got together with, the owner of the Hyatt. Mhmm. And she says, yeah. We'll give you or the the marketing manager. I was like, yeah. We'll give you a room. We can do it. Let's call them. We called all the candidates up.
It was short time it was short timing because the Business Journal we we had a date, and all of a sudden the Business Journal announced, hey. Here, we have a debate, like, two days before mine. I was like, no. No. No. No. No. This cannot happen. No. So I called them. I called up Monica Cruz. I called up everybody. Hey. Can we do this, like, two days early? And they're like, yeah. Sure. Well, she was like, yeah. Monica was all for it. Aaron was like, oh, okay. Yeah. I'm sure. Casas was like, oh, no. That's too soon. That's too short. I'm like, why? Why is it too soon? Like, you you shouldn't be prepared for this. You shouldn't be ready for it. Like, you know what I mean? And we created the questions. We did it. It was great. We have so many viewers.
I was so stressed out. Like I'm sure you were. Oh, dude. I yeah. I'm stressed out, and I'm like, god. If this sucks, like, I I mean, you know, it that's it was my first debate. And it was so hard to get them all together. And I did it. We did it. And we did it. We got them together. We got it done in a short in a short time. And it was great. It went good. Everybody loved it. However, they didn't share it. Like, the the I got mad at our mayor because I was like, dude, why didn't you share it? He shared the business the the Eagle Pass business drill did when it was I think it was terrible. Mhmm. The the the questions looked fixed, that you couldn't hear them. And he went on Facebook saying, oh, this was, this was an awesome, this was an awesome, debate. It was great. I'm like, wait a minute, fucker. What about mine?
Like, like, I put a lot of effort into that, and I didn't I and and, yeah, I charged them. We we charged them for it. That was our first time we actually charged people for a candidacy kind of things. He told me, no. I loved it. It was great. I said, okay. So why didn't you share it? And I didn't get an answer back. Mhmm. Like, well, we had oh, yeah. I did. He's like, well, we had to analyze it and and take a look at, I don't know, questions. I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? Well, you already had it. So what was was to analyze and Yeah. You know? Yeah. You were there. I like it. Yeah. You were there. People saw it. Why can't you just share it and say, great great debate. I loved it. Awesome. That's it. You acknowledge that? I don't care. I'm happy. Mhmm. You know what I mean? And they didn't they didn't wanna do that. So something was like, alright. Something's wrong here.
And that's when it got ugly. Again, this was our first time actually getting involved with the it was the ugliest election ever.
[01:25:15] Unknown:
Yeah. There were a lot of little little things about this about this election. Especially when it came down to the runoff. And that was Oh. You know, it's it's hard enough to get people to go out and vote in the first place Yeah. Here in Eagle Pass. I mean, do it twice. Again, and I wanted to do something different. I wanted to promote all of them. I wanted to be neutral. I promoted Monica. I promoted Aaron, and I promoted,
[01:25:37] Unknown:
oh god. Here comes the blank again. Jessica Ramon. Mhmm. I and the others, I guess I never got a response from them. Excuse me. So I wanted to play that neutrality. Let's let's promote all of them and get their message across so that people can choose themselves instead of being biased. I told them you guys can put your signs on my lawn. I where I live is where everybody takes a shortcut from Main Street to Bibb. Okay. Everybody goes, and they're gonna see their signs. I said you guys can put signs up. Jessica put a sign up. Monica was the first one to come up and put a big old sign in my lawn. And that was another and then people were like, oh, look. He's just biased, and he he supports Monica because he has a sign in them. And I'm like, no. I told them they all could put signs on my lawn. And then I get a I get a photo from Aaron Valdez. It's a text.
He's like, hey, sir. So is this your house? And it's a picture of my house with Monica's sign on it. I said, yeah. That's my house. And he's like, oh, okay. Well, I see you made an educated vote and, you know, you're you you have your opinion and blah blah blah. I'm like, wait a minute. Hold on. What are you saying? Like, no. I told you you can come put a a sign on my lawn. And you haven't done that yet. Well, you haven't come to pick up my pick it up at my house. I said, I am not going to your house to pick up a sign. No way. That's not how this works. You need to get your ass over here and put a sign on my lawn. There are people who do that. Yeah. That's that's what elections are all about. They go and they take pictures of the sign. Hey. Put it here. We got your vote. Alright. Cool. I gotta go to your house. Like and he's like, oh. Oh, okay. Well, no. I'll go put one. He never put one on. So I was branded as Monica Cruz's personal media.
Right. So it's like and so, like, it was so ugly. You know what I mean? And then finally, fast forward, the the the runoff started happening, and, I guess my relationship with him just kinda went you know? It just Kinda fizzled out? Yeah. It kinda fizzled out, and he never came back to me for another promotion for the runoff. Monica did. I said, okay. Screw it. We'll just promote her exclusively. It's what it is, man. I mean and we did it, and she lost the election by 14 votes. And that ever since then, I said, you know what?
I I was even thinking, you know, no more politics, man. That's it. This is this was the ugliest thing we've ever been through. Like, we weren't even running. Yeah. And we were going through war with other medias because medias would and let's just face it, guys. Like, I'll say it plain and and dry like I say it on my podcast. I didn't the Aaron's campaign was based off of stuff that just wasn't true. They would blame the fifty seven music fest on Monica Cruz when all they they like to manipulate What was the fifty seven Music Fest? Because I'm not I'm not too familiar with it. So the fifty seven Music Fest was was something that took place for Nochez Meixanas, which that was a free event. Okay. That would that's been traditional in the Eagle Pass for years. They have Tejano bands and Mexican bands come over, and, they would it it would be at Shelby Park before all this stuff happened. Okay.
And they they had a new idea. Okay. Well, let's get, like, big time names like, Parker McCollum and some more people. I can't remember off the top of my head. And they wanted to charge people. So you're jumping from a free event to A cover charge. A cover charge. It was expensive. I don't know. I think it was, like, about $400 per ticket. Oh, wow. God. Don't quote me on that. It had to be around there. And then they started lowering it because they weren't getting enough ticket sales Mhmm. To the point where they're giving free they're giving VIP tickets out to people. And what do you know? The people who had the VIP tickets were our public officials. So, like, okay. So not a lot of people showed up. Our local bands were, like, playing for ghosts.
Mhmm. It was terrible. And now you we find out that now our city is 3 point something million dollars in the hole because of that. Wow. Taxpayers had to so now there's forensics, Forensic odics. Yeah. Forensic odics going on, and that's kinda getting swiped under the rug. I think because the city tried to do it like a business. Remember, the city wants to do a free event. They gotta use the taxpayers money. But they wanted to try to make money for the city on this thing. It just didn't work out. Right.
[01:29:57] Unknown:
It probably would have worked if they would have advertised it as
[01:30:00] Unknown:
a paid for event. Yeah. Ex exactly. And and I think that how they did it, they just didn't know what the hell they were doing. Mhmm. And they, so now there's all kinds of suspicious things going on, especially with the promoter and all that. So that's why they're doing the friends that got it. And they blamed it on Monica Cruz. When okay. So there's a and this is why they hated me. I point I I take it personal. I don't when people talk shit about me, I don't take it personal. When they try to fool the community that I live in, I take that personal. Right. I can't just sit back and watch that. So they would post videos of her agree making a motion to, execute negotiations.
When you do that as a council person, you're just, okay. Let's talk about it. Let's negotiate. Let's start the negotiations and go from there. Not, alright. Let's do it. Right. You know? And they tried to make that look like it was her fault. It was she was the reason why the fifty seven Music Fest went through when you had our previous mayor. You had another our councilman Elias Diaz who also voted for it. They're the ones who voted for it, And they blamed it all on her. I'm like, no. It's not how it works, guys. Sorry. And they got mad at that that I was bringing that to light. I gotcha. You know? And and like I said, it wasn't about who I supported. It was about who's full of shit.
And and so that was that's what turned now you know Eagle Pass into, you know, how do I say this? I don't I don't like saying fighting corruption because it's not all corrupt, but you're just bringing things to light. You know? It's it's how we're analyzing things, and there's a lot of people that don't get it, and I I put it out there for them. So that's what kind of fizzled out our our relationship. And so what I gotcha. Now what killed it is when okay. So his her his wife, Stephanie Valdez, got appointed to the hospital board. Mhmm. What do you know? He used to be the chair of the hospital board. Now that chair is vacant, and now she's taken it. What do you think, Hugo Pass? You know? I don't attack people's wives.
However, when I had a meeting with him face to face and when I wanted to try to restore that relationship, all he could think about was that I supported Monica Cruz. And then I'd somewhere along that conversation, I told him, I don't I'm not attacking your wife. I think your wife is she's elegant. She could speak. I think she's good. She's she's done good things for the community, and and she's she's an insurance agent and all that good stuff. However, whoever's idea to put her in the pot put your wife into politics, worst idea ever.
Because now you're open game. You're you're a politician now. You're part of the board. You were appointed. And everybody sees the nepotism in that sort. It's like borderline nepotism.
[01:32:54] Unknown:
So
[01:32:55] Unknown:
So so the so the the members of the board aren't elected. They're appointed by the mayor's office? No. The no. The only reason why she was appointed because his his term wasn't expired yet. So when he got elected for mayor, he had to leave that seat. Okay. So now that's when a seat is open, then they have to appoint somebody until they can have an election. Okay. So so then
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who does the appointing?
[01:33:16] Unknown:
The the board themselves.
[01:33:17] Unknown:
Okay. I gotcha. So
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and there there's a couple people that are favor that favor the mayor.
[01:33:24] Unknown:
And And outside and outside of the appointments for a vacancy, it's it's done by public election? Yes. Okay. So,
[01:33:33] Unknown:
there were 15 other applicants, came down to three or four. Other than miss Valdez herself, there was others that had years in practition. One of them has forty years of pediatrics experience. Another one's a pharmacist. She has PhD. The other one has a PhD as well, and she got it. I didn't think anything of it. We're just like, well, that's just legal past politics, whatever. Fast forward, I'm driving to Cub Scout camp, and my producer sends me these documents. It's like, Ruben, you need to take a look at this. And I'm like, what is this? And it's court documents of she had just gotten, well, this was last year. She got stopped for a DUI, She DWI of a blood cal blood alcohol content of point 15% driving wrong the wrong way in a highway. Wow.
And I'm like, well, this is last year. And she said, well, take a look. They had just she has been on probation for two years, and they just got her an adjudication back in June. So now she has to take these classes. She has to do this and do this before they can just take it off the record. So what my theory is, they wanted to keep that hush-hush. Don't wait until it just falls off and, like, it never happened. So I saw that. I'm like, oh my god. This guy already hates me already. We need to make sure that this is legit. I don't wanna part of being a journalist, you have to make 120%
[01:35:01] Unknown:
sure that this is factual. Yeah. Another another podcaster that I that I listen to regularly or used to listen to regularly, used to say all the time, I don't have to be first, I just have to be right.
[01:35:13] Unknown:
Yeah. So I have people that tell me that. No. You shouldn't have to be first as long as you're right. Because if you try to be first, you're gonna screw up Mhmm. Big time. So I was in the I'm in the truck. I'm trying to do all these speeches to make sure it was her. It was it was a 100% legit that the the the documents we got for us from an attorneys from some attorneys that did some research and sent it to us. For some reason, I don't know. I I did don't tell me the source. I don't wanna know who the source is. We'll do the research for ourself, and we'll become the source.
And, we did. I'm like, damn, it's her. What are we so we voted on it. We're just like, should we post this? Yes. Absolutely. So I'm like, oh, god. Here we go. This is gonna be a roller coaster. So we posted it. Oh my god. We've had positive reactions and, of course, negative from I like to call them the the little birdies. Because some of the in in, in basic training, we had a drill sergeant that would be like, come here birdies. If you don't know something, I'll give you some information. He'll pretend to, like, throw up. Like, you know how, you know, how birds throw up and come and eat little birdies, but so, like, I try to explain why I did it, and they all I guess people, at first, before I explained on a podcast thought that I was just doing it to attack this person, that I was being malicious and vicious, and I just wanted to just to ruin someone's life.
And that's not true. People, it was all about fairness that you had three other people with most experience that don't are not on probation, didn't get the chance because she's the mayor's wife. And so I made that clear to people, and then it got people thinking. And then I got more followers, and then I got more viewers, and then all of a sudden people started paying attention. But at the same time, now I can't have a relationship with these people anymore. Yeah. Well, you know That's shitty, though. It is.
[01:37:05] Unknown:
Unfortunately, you know, there are a lot of people out there who can't differentiate, you know, business and personal. Yeah. That's the easiest way to say it. Yeah. I know. And and that's unfortunate because, you know, look, if you're gonna go into public service, you're you're fair game. You're a target. Absolutely. And, and I don't mean that in a violent way, so No. No. So somebody don't go screaming that I'm talking about violence. Yeah. Yeah. You know how people are. You know, it's you you are you're you're as a public official, as a public representative, you, you know, you you shouldn't have an expected right to privacy as a regular citizen would. Yeah. You know, you are a public figure.
You put yourself out there. These things, you know, it's all fair game. And, I don't think I don't I don't see what you did that was wrong. I don't see I don't think there was, I don't I don't think you did it with a malicious intent in any way. It doesn't seem like that to me anyway. You know, so It was a hard decision to make. It really I thought we had to literally think about after we got the research. And you would have been wrong. I I personally thinking, I I you I I think you would have been wrong to sit on it, you know. I mean, maybe you could have given the heads up, you know, before you did it. I mean, that's I would have probably done something like that. Hey. Look. I got this information. I'm putting it out there. Do you wanna say something about it now before I do? Or
[01:38:26] Unknown:
You know, that was my first thing, but then, like, again, my relationship with them was Already sketchy as shit. Is already sketchy as shit. And, like, I I'm kinda, like, wondering what if I did do that? What would they what would they have said? Would they offer to pay me not to do it?
[01:38:40] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, I I understand it could lead into something like that, but you're but to me, you seem to have integrity, and I don't think you would fall for something like that. No. Absolutely not. And I think, also at the same time, if you think about it like this, if they did do something like that, that's another story right there. You know, and I don't think they would put themselves I I don't think I think they're smart enough not to put themselves in a in a worse situation by doing something like that.
[01:39:05] Unknown:
But then again, I you don't know. Well, I didn't get any phone calls after that. I didn't get any, I mean, yeah, you I got hate from the, you know, the groupies. I like to call them the groupies too. Mhmm. Because here, politics is a popularity contest. The more friends you have, doesn't matter what you did. Yeah. No. It it's not about the issues or ideas. It it's it's about it it is. It's it's like, it's like running for homeschool, for for a homecoming queen and king and all that stuff. Yeah. It doesn't matter what you did. It doesn't matter if you gave somebody a swirly or stuff somebody's head in a trash can. Yeah. You got you you got all kinds of friends to vote for you, and you're good. Yep. And that sucks. And so what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to give people the power to be able to vote for their or to vote whoever they want and and speak out about it. Like, that's what I loved about elections. Like, here, if you wear somebody else's shirt, people gonna look at you like disgusting. Like, if you wear a MAGA hat or something like that. But here in in local yeah. See that? Like, see, and and, like, here, like, I wanted to rock everybody's colors. Like, dude, I love, his his artwork on his shirt. Like, it looks cool. You can represent it wherever you want and then agree and then agree to disagree. But, no, it's like again, it's not like that. It's old European warfare where you're taking turns just shooting each other. Yeah. And and so, like I said, I I didn't get any phone calls after that. I already knew that I mean, I do have insiders, and they're all telling me that everyone's pissed off at me. And I'm just like, well They'll get over it. Yeah. Get over it. No. They're not gonna get over it. It's on them. That's not on you. Yeah. Yeah. They're not gonna get over it. I burned my bridges with them.
I I it wasn't my intention to burn my bridges. Like, it's it's business. None of the other media reported this. Which is interesting in and of itself. Yeah. Nobody. Everybody knows it's the truth. Nobody put it out there. It's just me looking like the asshole. But it's not. It I I at least I don't see it that way. Maybe because I I do this stuff too. But I I, you know, I don't see it that way at all. Like, you you had an opportunity to tell the truth and you told the truth. And that that's that's what's commendable about it. That's all. And and now nobody's saying anything about it. And now I'm like, okay. You're not gonna say anything about it. I'm gonna keep pressuring you till you do. You need to you owe these people an explanation. At least acknowledge it. Yeah. At least acknowledge it. You owe these people an explanation. You owe the you owe the community an explanation as to why someone that's on probation currently on probation. And I know oh, and they did the whole movement with, oh, don't let your past define you. Like, it dude, it's current.
It's not the past. It wasn't I I could if it was ten, fifteen years ago and it was just two drinks and you got caught, okay. Whatever. I wouldn't have even but this was current. They're currently on probation. Three experienced candidates did not get a chance to be on this board. Three people that I two of them I know not one of them I know personally who's a very good person and and I think deserve that seat. Yeah. Give the people an explanation. Say something. Say something, but you're just choosing not to acknowledge it because it's me. So it's just like, no. I'm gonna keep pressuring you. Yeah. I gave it a break because, Halloween and everything, all the kids and stuff, so I just kinda veered off. And then they tried to we had a podcast episode.
Me and Veronica, we jumped on. They all three of them, councilman Diaz, the mayor, and councilwoman Ramon. We the people like to call them the three musketeers because they all vote one way. They went to what's called a Calvagata. It's a it's a horse. It's a they it's like horse rides. Okay. Horse ride. Alright. They did it in Allende Like a cavalcade. Yeah. You call it up. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. They did it in Allende, Coahuila in Mexico. Mhmm. They went to represent the city of Eagle Pass. Me, you, residents, everything. They had the seal on their chest, everything. Well, we saw the video and they and, like, they all look like they've been drinking.
They look come on. We're not stupid. Toasty? Yeah. They look toasty, and they have tumblers in their hand. Like, come on. That's not coffee. That's not water. Come on. Right. Like, come on now. And, like, the mayor couldn't remember his own wife's name, couldn't remember what she did. It could they also had an ISD member there. Like, oh, and you're Christopher Hiller, and and he's just like, EPISD? So, like and then they're stumbling. I'm like and I could see it. I'm like, oh god. So we're like, we have to talk about this. And we put our opinion on it. And we said, okay. Is this professional? I I get it. If you're you wanna do stuff and you wanna party, whatever. Great. Perfect.
But you're wearing you're out there on official business looking like you guys are toasted. How unprofessional is that? You know what I mean? Like, you're you're an I agree with you. And and with It's not a good look at all. Yeah. No. And especially with what's going on with his wife was there too on probation. That's like you're mocking the community. Like, Look. I'm here I am still toasted, and I'm on probation, and I still got to see to to to me, that's what that looks like. You know? And so we talked about it. Like, look. And we didn't we didn't totally destroy them. We just like, okay. What do you guys think about this? And then we get messages from a fake profile on the on the comment section saying, hey. You know, we have stuff on you. We're gonna expose it.
That's where the whole The tranning thing? Having yeah. Me having a trans lover. And, and with my cohost, they tried to say they tried to bring up some child abuse case. And we were just like, ah. So this is what's this is what it comes down to. And then we wrapped up the show not even five minutes after I get a text message, a messenger from our mayor. I posted it. Well, you've seen it, but saying I think I did see it. Yeah. Yeah. That this I don't wanna bring out this person's name because I don't wanna be, like, trying to expose this person. I mean, they can look it up if they want.
This person that has is ready to tell her truth. Be prepared. So I'm thinking, Seth? And so I responded. Well, her truth, not the truth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Her truth. Yeah. And I was like, what are you are you threatening me? Like, what are you threatening me with? And he, like, I guess he looked and was like, like, shit. What did I do? And he put, like, threatening. He responded with threatening like it was no. I said, no. Threatening. Are you threatening me? I think he just threatened me. And then he, like, just gave me a thumbs up and just exited the conversation. Interesting. So right there was his biggest mess up. I posted it. I said, this is what's going on with our mayor.
And after that, silence. And I'm just like, guys, this is what's going on. This is the political vengeance that we need to that we need to escape from. You know what I mean? And like I said, I tried to have relationships with these people. They just know. It it it's all about money. And, you know, I I again, I tell the truth not to be malicious, not because I have anything against these people. I try to like, I'll say something good about Jessica Ramon. And then when she messes up, I'll say something bad about it. Like, I'll or I'll I'll report I'll write an article on it, not like I'm attacking her. Right. When we had a meeting, I don't deny. He was telling me, well, you know, you did cartoons about me. I said, okay. Yeah. They were harmless little cartoons on what what you're being alleged for. He was being alleged for scamming people for solar panels. And so I wrote an article. Hey. Look. This is what's going on. I didn't say he did it. Said this is what's going on. And I wrote little cartoons or I did, like, little AI cartoons of him sweating and everybody's, like, mad at him, and it was funny.
And I said, is did I but yeah. But did I, like, draw a big dick on your forehead or something like that? And he's just, like, didn't say anything. It's like, oh, I'm not people like to say I bash them. Bashing and criticizing are two different things. Absolutely. Yeah. Bashing is when you're calling them stupid or they're like, you're making fun of them. Like, that's That's always one-sided. Yeah. Yeah. And, no, I criticize them. And and you everybody has the right to criticize their leaders as long as it's, you know, it's factual and that they're you're holding your leaders accountable. That's what makes this country great. This isn't Mexico. I always like to say that and they get mad at me when I say, this isn't Mexico where the politics strike fear into their in in the media's eyes. And so that way, they don't say things that they're supposed to. Right. Yeah. This is America.
[01:47:41] Unknown:
So and that's that's where I'm at right now. Wow. That's a lot. Yeah. Well, like, you know, well, couldn't happen to a better guy.
[01:47:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Right? I mean
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No. But I get you. I I we I joke about it, but it's it's it's a serious it's a serious thing. And and you're doing I think you're doing a good job. I I don't think look, you have to you have to you have to go where the story leads. And if that's where the story leads, you follow it. That's it. And you make let let the audience make the make the public draw their own opinions of it. You know, you don't steer them to an opinion. You just lay the facts out, let them come to it themselves. And, you know, unfortunately, you know, a lot of people get into elected office, and I'm not mention I'm not talking about any one specific person. You know, disclosure. I mean, I had I had I had Aaron on the show twice, you know. I personally, I like him. I think he's a, you know, nice guy, and, I think in some things he's doing a great job. There are some there are some things I don't think he's doing enough of.
I don't know who I don't really know anything about Jessica Ramon. I know who she is. I don't really follow. See, my thing isn't I don't I don't follow the politics, the local politics in that way. You know, I I I stick with I have my show, and I I do my thing, you know, mostly with guests. A comment from,
[01:49:00] Unknown:
I see. Yes. You forgot about the veterans investigation. I don't know. I'm not I'm not too sure what she's talking about that. Maybe I did forget about it. I'm sure it'll come to mind. Okay. I I forgot you could see it on your end. Yeah. I could see it on my end. But, and and, again, they try to say, like, I'm now they try to say, I'm in league with our superintendent, who our superintendent who's, you know, all powerful and all this. And I interviewed him for the first time ever because we didn't I mean, I really wasn't a big fan of him. I'm still I can't say I'm a big fan of him. I'm trying to be neutral, and I talk to him now. And then, actually, that's one of the biggest focal points is when the whole incident happened.
He was actually he he said they started a war with each other with the chief of police and how the the they they should have. The chief the the Eagle Pass Police Department is trying to say, well, they should have told us. Eagle Pass ISD is trying to say, well, we thought we were doing the right thing by handling it ourselves, and it became a big old circus thing. I gotcha. And we were the first ones to interview him on that, and we were just, like after he started saying things about chief Amy Gonzalez, we're just, like, like, what was he supposed to say that? Like so and immediately, I had to go talk to the chief and be okay. Let's have an interview on this. And, yeah, again, it's Eagle Pass is so used to okay, Ruben's only saying this because he's on their side.
No. That's not true. Like, I wanna be neutral, and don't make me take sides. I I I I don't wanna take sides. Well, I think I think
[01:50:27] Unknown:
the point of being in the work that we do is not to take sides. Yeah. It's important. I mean, you I mean, if you look at what goes on with the mainstream media, you see what it looks like when you take sides. Yeah. We all know. You know, and that's not that's not what it should be. It should be objective, and we should be looking at these things and reporting on them as as the truth lays out, as the facts state. John Adams said facts are stubborn things, you know. You lay the facts out, and let it let it, let it lay where it fall. You you just gotta let the public make their own decision about it. You keep not steering anybody to it, and that's an and that's important. It takes its toll. It does. I'm sure it does because I'm not like, if anybody is like enjoys doing this kind of thing, you're weird. Like, I don't enjoy Nobody nobody likes being in a position where, you know, you see somebody else in a bad spot. I don't like that. I don't I don't like putting people in a bad spot. I try not to as much as I possibly can. I don't like being put in a bad spot. You know? You're the first one that I'm telling you this. Like, it hurts. It hurt. It hurt for me to do that. I Breaking news here, folks. Yeah. I don't
[01:51:33] Unknown:
I didn't wanna do that. And I my first reaction was no. We probably shouldn't do that because it's it's somebody's wife, and, this is life changing for somebody. Maybe if there's a reason why they didn't want this out there, You know? I I didn't want to. I I don't like it, but the people deserve to know, especially when you're when you're appointing somebody who's going to be running your taxes. It follows in with their bylaws Mhmm. Of ethics and honesty. So now the question is, did the board overlook it? Or is there, like or are there qualification methods just crap and they just didn't they didn't catch it?
Nobody wants to answer the question. Like, they're silent on it. Yeah. So no. Okay. There you go, guys. Breaking news. I I I don't like doing this. I don't. Sucks.
[01:52:29] Unknown:
But you know what? It's unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast.
[01:52:36] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. And whoever smiles and, like, hey. Hey. Yes. Let's put this out there. Like, you needed you need therapy.
[01:52:44] Unknown:
I agree. I I totally totally agree. Yeah. So Alright. So I I got one more question for you about I'm sorry if I about the podcast. No. No. No. No. That's the whole point of the show, bud. Okay. Alright. So what's next for, Now You Know?
[01:52:57] Unknown:
What's next for Now You Know? Well, I don't know. I really don't. Like, we just we've tried so many different things. Like, we tried to do comedy
[01:53:08] Unknown:
because Eagle Pass needs it. Yeah. The one thing about your show that that I find very interesting is that that you actually do skits and you do little little vignettes and things like that, which is great. I mean, not very many podcasts do that. Like, we did that. I don't know if you saw the Friends. Yeah. You you had told me about it on the phone. I had to go find it. So I looked. It got 16,000
[01:53:25] Unknown:
views. Yeah. Which is great. Yeah. And I want and I said, you know what? People need to laugh about it. And and I'm I am like, I hope they're good sports about it. I hope that they'll I know they were few I know some of them were fuming about it. Whoever was telling me that they were okay with it, I don't think so. I think they it made them pissed off. But, like, it wasn't anything vulgar. I was getting phone calls about it, and they were like, why did you do that? And I was like, oh, people need to laugh. Why why not? It was funny. Like, they all vote one way, so I did a friends parody. And and it was funny. It wasn't anything vulgar. Again, I didn't draw dicks on anybody's foreheads or anything like that. I like to make that reference because that's the, you know, that's, like, the classic thing to do when you're making fun of somebody. Exactly. No. And and I let people put their interpretation on it, and it was classic. I liked it. And but as far as what's next, we're just gonna keep podcasting. We're gonna keep, we wanna get more guests on the show. We wanna we kinda wanna go far maybe one day go far beyond Eagle Pass, and just, you know, keep telling the truth, man. Well, see well, in
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your analytics, what do they tell you that your reach is?
[01:54:36] Unknown:
Like, it's why, like, when you click on the dashboard and stuff?
[01:54:39] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Like the the like, so I know I know you're not doing audio feeds yet, but and we're gonna we're gonna work on that. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We're gonna get you set up. Yeah. But, like, for example, like, I know, like, I can click on I can click on my dashboard, at least on the audio side. And I could see that my show is heard in seventy seventy two countries around the world,
[01:55:01] Unknown:
and things like that. So It's gonna be surprising for you to hear, like, I don't know. Well, no. That's fine. You know? I don't look at I looked at all I look is how many followers I have of, like, point 3,700 followers, which is, you know, is that good? For a local podcast? Yeah. That's great. Yeah. I I, you know, I I don't have that. Guess and get this. Here's another breaking news thing. I am getting messages from Facebook saying, hey. Like and I think I've got four four, messages from Facebook saying, hey. Your tax info is not set up yet. Your assets are expiring. And I just because I don't I guess, I'm having an issue right now where I'm trying to, like, set it up, and it's not going to my company, All American Media. Okay.
But, like, I just kinda toss it off. I know people are gonna think I'm crazy for that, but I don't think about the money, dude. Like, honestly and I just okay. I'll get to it eventually. And then before I get to it, there goes more assets. Like, my I just don't get paid for it. Yeah. Yeah. No. I understand. Trying to pave me. My my, some sponsors that I had, I actually lost sponsors because of this whole political thing. And I never like, my thing was, okay. We'll we'll do a contract, and then I'll get to it eventually. We'll do the contract, and you pay me whatever. But until then, I'll advertise you. Mhmm. And I just don't think about the money. I don't. And people, like, think that's so weird. Like, what's what's wrong with this guy? Well, it's different. You know? But you when you're doing these things and you you wanna, you you wanna have a revenue stream because you want the stuff to pay for itself eventually. Right. At least pay for itself. Yeah.
[01:56:24] Unknown:
One day. Someday. Someday. Dare to dream.
[01:56:27] Unknown:
Dare to dream. Well, like, I I actually wanted to do I did a ramen business for a little bit for, like, a day. I heard. And that got taken down because somebody wanted to take me out and thought that it was gonna hurt me and the whole cottage laws thing. And then I'm like, okay. Well, there you go, guys. This is what's happening to me. And I really just kinda brushed it off. I said, I'm not gonna shut up. I'm still gonna keep going because I have a passion. I'm a Japanese enthusiast.
[01:56:52] Unknown:
You know? The way of the warrior, you move forward. You know what I mean? I wanna hear about the ramen. So let's do this. Let's take a quick break here. I've used the restroom. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So Sorry. Let's take a break, and we'll come back with hour number three. Awesome. Awesome. Folks, this is the Joe Russo. Don't forget to like, subscribe, share with your friends, your family, and your followers. Help us to spread this thing around. And it's really important though you hit that like button because that helps the algorithm, helps the show get tracked and found. So, if you're, if you're digging what we're what we're shoveling, send over a a comment. Let us know what you think. Give a like, and, click that support button if you can. Alright. Folks, we'll be back right after this. You stay with us. Alright.
Alrighty. Two hours Wow. In the book. Wow. Welcome back to the Joe Russo. My very special guest, Ruben Camarillo of the Now You Know Eagle Pass podcast. Hour number three. Wow. Craziness. Gonna start getting into this, baby, right now. So we spent a lot of time talking about the show. We talked politics. We were all over the spectrum of things, and I hope you guys have been enjoying the show. Don't forget to hit that like, subscribe, and share with your friends, your family, your followers. This way you'll help us to spread the show around, and it's always important to do that and, and get, you know, more people interested in this stuff. These these conversations are needed conversations. They're and they're not heavy. I mean, got some serious aspects to it, but it's not like Yeah. Yeah. It's a Saturday.
We wanna kinda relax, you know, the Saturday morning shows should be something more fun and relaxed. So we'll we'll go for for a little bit, and then we gotta get ready and turned around for the, for the crypto show with our resident crypto psychic, Marissa Lee, at 3PM central time. So make sure you come on come on back to check that out. We are pushing on episode number 200, folks. We're two we're just a few episodes away from that. Can you believe it? Nice. 200 episodes in in just about a year. So we've been we started the show on 11/25/2025 '24, and, we're coming up on that very quickly. I think we might actually break 200 before the, before the twenty fifth. Before the oh, okay. So, that that's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward to that, and, I'm thinking I gotta reach out to Barry, the the, the owner of Podholme, because Barry was guest number one on episode number one of this show, a year ago. And I think it'd be kinda nice if we, we had him come on back for the number 200 episodes. So I'm gonna see how I reach out to him. I don't know. I just thought about that now. Nice. But, we'll see. We'll see how it all goes. Alright, Ruben. Mhmm. So great conversation today, bro. I really appreciate this. It's a lot of fun. I'm enjoying this. I'm sorry that it's a little stuffy in here right now. I know. It's tough day. I tried to run the AC a little bit before the on the break there, but, It's all good, man. And then, of course, we had the the two lunatics, like, my kids come running in here and Oh, I love them. Had to get them out. That's why I had to restart the, the break music there because Oh. We had to get them out. So it was, it was one of those weird things.
Sorry about that. So now getting to some of your family life, your family values and things like that. And that's I think that's important. We want the audience to get to know who you really are. So, your bio says that your wife, Jackie, serves as served at a border patrol agent. Now she's not active duty anymore. Right? Oh, she's active. Oh, she's still active. Yeah. She's gonna she's gonna go till the wheels fall off, man. Oh, okay. Nice. Very nice. And how long has she been working there?
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I'd say, I think it's about I think she's on year '23 already. '23 or '24? I think so. Don't I mean, she'll probably comment and correct me on that. Yeah. About year '24. Oh, wives are good at that. They they like they like to comment and correct. Oh, yeah. You know, and as long as we're willing just to let them do that and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
[02:05:23] Unknown:
We we know we're right. Yeah. I'm I'm not trying to get you in trouble. You say, I'm not married, so I can say stuff like that. I'm Yeah. I'm good to go. You gotta go home. Well, I'm glad that I have, I have her as, like, my backbone and I love how
[02:05:34] Unknown:
by the way, in just a short tidbit, like, I I work with a lot of females. 25. She said 25. Okay. I work with a lot of females, and it's funny because when you look at, there's a lot of men here in Eagle Pass, sorry, guys, That it's like an insecure thing. I've had I've worked with people. I've worked with someone before, and they, like it's like they wanna be a chief and they try to just kinda overrun you a little bit. But then when you're with females, it's not that they don't challenge you on things. It's like they're your backbone. And they'll tell me, like, Ruben, what do you wanna do? Mhmm. And I'll be like if I'm the type of person that goes, I don't know. What do you wanna do? Then they're just like, I just asked you, dude. Like, what do what do you wanna do? It's like the lion and the lioness. You know what I mean? The lioness I got you.
Takes care of the cubs, the the the pride, they do the hunting, and the the lion is the one that fends off the the other males. But if the lion's weak, you get eaten up. That's that's that's a great analogy. I like that. Yeah. So that's why a lot of females that's why some few, back in the ancient times, like Viking times, females were like great soldiers because they didn't try to they're not gonna try to stab you in the back and try to take supreme of leadership. Well, there unless there there was, like, Kamala Harris. But but but, well, anyways yeah. So they She couldn't lead herself out of a plastic bag. Yeah. But they'll Oh, wait. No. They're not allowed to use plastic in California. So Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. That sucks, man. Yeah. But yeah. No. They they they're good soldiers, man. Yeah. And they will help you, and they will be your pillar. And so that's why I love my producer, Veronica, and, of course, my my wife who,
[02:07:12] Unknown:
has helped me through all of this stuff. And that's something I I appreciate too when I when I, you know, in in talking to you and and hearing the things you say about your wife and and how is that the fact that you both support each other. Yeah. You know, and that that's that's important especially in any relationship. Oh, yeah. It's it's important that you both support each other because you have a you have a calling to serve. Obviously, she has a calling to serve and she's serving our country as, you know, with the border patrol and, you know, and you're doing what you're doing. And and you served your country as in the military and which is again, thank you for for your service again. Appreciate that. Thank you. And, you know, it's, it's important to have that that kind of support and back on me. Especially when you're doing podcasting and doing shows like this, if you don't have if you're married or if you're if you're with somebody dating, you know, in a in a, whatever kind of a relationship you have, if you don't have that support behind you, it it makes it so difficult to do what we do. Yeah. You know, how many how how often do you do your shows?
[02:08:10] Unknown:
Now, we try to do it every Sunday. Okay. So you do a once a week show? Yeah. So before, it was just like whenever we get to it because my hours are totally crazy right now. You know, being a contractor for the government is very demanding. It's I I feel like I'm in the army again. Yeah. So, like, we I I try to accommodate, and then now it's getting to the point where, yeah, we need to do a show every Sunday and and be consistent. And then just give out what's going on in the community, all the past events that are happening, what events aren't gonna happen. Mhmm. And then I'll do, like, a it's called a reality check segment.
I kind of I love judge Jeanine Pirro, how she would do her, like, her opening statement. So I kinda mix that with I'm a big huge wrestling fan, by the way. Like, Centimeters Punk dropping pipe bombs and stuff like that. Like Okay. We save that little segment there, and then we get into the good stuff. And then we talk about, you know, I'll I'll leave my opinion, and then we'll talk about facts. And she yeah. I I love the fact that they've been very supportive on that. Well, that and, seriously, then that's what you need. Like, I I do the show
[02:09:21] Unknown:
anywhere from three to five days a week, you know. And it it's a lot. I know. I'm like, damn, how does he do it? But I don't wanna be at that point. I don't know how I do it, to be honest with you. I I really don't. And there was a point when, when we when we first registered with some of the, services that we use, like pod match and radio guest list and such, where, all of a sudden, it's just like a flurry of stuff, and and I was still feeling my way around with the scheduling aspect of the whole thing. And and my producer, Angela, she's fantastic. You know, she she she picked up on the curve really quick. And, She seems awesome. Oh, she is. She's she's amazing. I I again, like I told you earlier, I don't know how she does it with everything she's involved with. And we call her anonymous Angela. Anonymous Angela? Anonymous Angela. And there's a reason, and I'll I'll get into that in a second. But she, she she's just great. And the when we first started with the, like, pod match and radio guest list and and all those types of services, Man, I and we set up our calendar. I didn't I didn't even think that I had to block out time, you know, so nobody would book.
And went to bed and then woke up the next day literally, this is no exaggeration. I'm not making this up. It was literally went to bed with no bookings and woke up with booked solid from the June all the way through until the September, literally almost every day. Holy shit. And it was like, how the hell am I and and not just one guest, but both because the show might show is two hours, like an hour and a half to two hours, generally. Both hours booked. Wow. You know, so it's like, okay. Well, so I'm doing five nights a week, two guests every night,
[02:11:03] Unknown:
for at least an hour. Okay. Damn. It's like holy cow. Yeah. That's why I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm looking at all these when I'm scrolling through the, the audios, I was like, damn, how does he do it, man? And and you got a good support. I know. I've got great great help. I wanna try to get Veronica on that spectrum too. Like, she's again, she's great. She gets all these ideas, and then we just kinda wing it. Hey. Look. I found somebody who's for Sunday. Next Sunday, we wanna try to get, councilman, Mario Garcia who is a food director Mhmm. For the ISD. And I listened to one of your podcast how about food being close to dog food. And I actually talked to him about it, and he gave me a big old explanation. I said, you know what? We need people to we you need to talk to people. We need to get this out there because people just think that, well, the ISD is just because the superintendent gets paid so much, that's why we have shitty food. No. No. No. It's more than that. The the the Michelle Obama thing where you have to have certain proteins and certain sodium and certain carbs and and then not to mention that Eagle Pass gets, like, the last pick of the litter when it comes to the vendors.
And it's funny because now people that are attacking the ISD are saying that, well, look at Del Rio. They have awesome food. Well, he they just told me that it's because they have their own, like, their own contracted vendor company. So they Okay. They do it themselves. They don't go to outside vendors. They do it themselves. You know, and they Well, that makes sense. Yeah. They order all that food and they pay they pay themselves. You know, they fork out the funds for that. So we're gonna talk about that next week. Hopefully, maybe tomorrow,
[02:12:40] Unknown:
if I can get him on board for tomorrow. Awesome. Yeah. So that's an interesting subject. Yeah. That that is. Because and and I say it somewhat tongue in cheek. It's like a grade above dog food, but it really is. Yeah. When you when you look at it, it's terrible. Now, as far as we go here, it's it's, so I I again, the the Sunday the Saturday shows are just basically originally, they were just every other week. We have our our, you already mentioned it before, our resident crypto psychic comes in, who is great by the way. She is oh, she's amazing. Marissa Lee, hooked up with her through PodMatch, actually. And, we just connected. We just hit it off really well.
And, she so so she what she does is she makes cryptocurrency predictions based off tarot. I gotta get into that. It's it's very interesting. Well, if you wanna stick around for the show, you're welcome. So, she, she she is just amazing with it, and and I wanna say she's she's spot on more than she's off the mark at all. And, anything that she's she's mentioned to me about getting some investment into, it's it's it's always been a plus. I haven't had any problems. The only thing that we're we're kinda struggling with right now is is is her prediction on bull run that was, that she she thought was gonna be coming sometime in, like, September, August, somewhere around there, still hasn't come yet. As a matter of fact, we saw the the crypto market drop, significantly.
It's coming back, but it it did drop significantly for a while. So, I know she's working her way through that stuff, but, but she's great. So we do that every other Saturday. Oh, okay. And, which is today would be the other Saturday. And that's always a good that's always a lot of fun. It's it's not a long show. It's only about an hour, you know, forty five minutes to an hour. Okay. But, so we do that. And then on Sundays, I do a Sunday show. Now the Sunday show is just for me. I I don't do it for I don't do it with guests or anything like that because on Sunday, I teach bible. Okay. So I I do a bible study show on a Sunday, and that that kinda hearkens back to the last show I did, where that was all I did. Just bible study, I did it twice two nights a week, and it's it's a lot of work to do that too because I'm not the sharpest tool in the in the in the box, you know. So it takes Me neither. It takes me it takes me time to to pick up on things, but so it it would take me for for one for one bible study show, it takes me about eight hours of study. Okay. You know, and that's not including the time doing the show.
So, you know, it's it's so it it takes a lot of work, but, and and primarily because I wanna make sure that I'm representing the word of God correctly. Because, you know, you you can handle the word of God, you need to do it Yeah. Correctly. You don't wanna you don't wanna add things in there that Right. No. Yeah. Yeah. So, so that's tomorrow's show. So what and so we started teaching, through what what are called dispensations, which is basically just a period of time and how God deals with man, especially regarding salvation, how you get saved. Alright. So, so we started doing that, and so it's it's been good. I've I've it's been a good study. I've I've not something I haven't taught before. I've taught it quite a few times before, so it's it's comfortable material for me to do. So I'm not spending as much time in prep, it's just kinda like refreshing myself on certain things and maybe updating some of the verses and whatnot if something else pops to mind. So, so that's what I've been doing and it's been it's it's it's
[02:16:04] Unknown:
tiring sometimes. Yeah. I mean, you know, when it comes I can't I'm not gonna pretend like I'm the most religious person in the world. I do believe in God, and I believe in Christ. I just don't practice a lot. Mhmm. But, like, I do I mean, you can't know everything. Mm-mm. Every everybody who's, like, a whether you're a pastor or a priest or whatever. If you're somebody who knows every single verse in the Bible, then good Lord. Like, where do you get from? God bless you, man. But you can see me. Let me rub your head. Yeah. Just so you know, I just work in some of that. Yeah. But if you when you look in in people's Bibles and I hate I hate when I hate drawing on a Bible or highlighting stuff. I just feel like I'm just defiling this thing. It's something so sacred.
Yeah. But you, you know, you
[02:16:46] Unknown:
wanna bookmark those verses when you wanna turn back to it and do some revelation and Oh, you should you should see my I have I have several Bibles. Yeah. You know, and each one is for something specific. Like, I have my preaching Bible, which is the one I use for everything. And if you open that thing up, it's annotated all over the place. I got highlights and underlines and notes and all that stuff all over the place. Yeah. And then I have study bibles. I have I have one study bible that's that I use that's on a more practical everyday, apply it to your life style of teaching.
Yeah. And then I have another study Bible, which is heavy doctrine theology. Okay. So it's and when I say study Bible, I'm talking about I should have brought it in. But, it's you have your text, and then at the bottom of the text, the the person who compiled that material put study notes. Now, things that they've studied over the years and and such. So that's the study bible basically. And it's, I have some great resources. I've had some great teachers over the years. I don't know if if you know about it. I served as an associate pastor of a church up in New York for about little almost two years. Okay. Our senior pastor was sick, very very sick, and so there were times where he couldn't, you know, teach, couldn't preach. And so he asked me if I'd be interested in in taking on that role, and I was like, yeah, as long as the church votes on it, and then it's and it's and it's it's unanimous. It's, you know, if one person says no, then I'm not I don't wanna do it because then, you know, it's just it's I it has to be unanimous.
So, and it what happened? They they voted on it at one of the business meetings. They and they appointed me as an associate pastor. So, yeah. So I got all the paperwork and credentials and and all that stuff, but it doesn't mean anything. It really doesn't. Oh, I see. You know, You're spreading what makes you happy. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Exactly. But but the point is is that, you know, it's it's I'm not any special class of person because I've gone through all that nonsense. I I don't I make mistakes too, and I tell everybody that whenever I teach bible that don't take my word for it. You know, read it, study it yourself. Get your own revelation. Do your own homework on it, do your own research, and if I'm wrong, tell me. Let me know what you think. This way, I wanna learn. I wanna make sure because I know that, you know, based on the study of scripture that when I stand before Christ at judgment, because I picked up that book and I started teaching other people what this book says, I'm gonna be judged at a higher Yeah. Standard than I'm gonna use it. Joe Schmo. Joe Schmo. Yeah.
[02:19:21] Unknown:
I mean, you know, I was always taught that when you read the bible and you get your own you receive your own revelation and you you pray on it, and is this you pray and ask, is this is this the right interpretation that I'm getting from these verses? Yep. And then you just feel it, like, you know, you you feel it if it's right or not. And then you share that happiness with someone else. And they might tell you, well, no. You're wrong about that. I'm like, well, well, that's I'm not telling you that it's right. It's just my personal revelation my revelation. You know what I mean? It's my understanding of the scriptures this. And honestly, I don't you know, I hear all kinds of crazy things when I talk to people sometimes. And it's like they
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you know, I I I go back, I look it up, I study it myself, I pray, I say, alright, Lord, open down my eyes, let me see. Is it am am I missing something? Did I make a mistake somewhere? It's the last thing in the last thing in the world that I could because early on, I'll I'll tell you honestly, early on if my our senior pastor used used to say, when he would call me up to preach, he was like, alright. Now, I'm gonna ask brother Joe to come up and and yell at us for two hours. You know, because I got passionate about it, you know. But and I I would often think too, like, you know, how many how many people that I steer the wrong direction because I didn't understand something properly and and that scares me. And and so that's why when it when those when that thought came to my mind the first time, I was like, well, no. I gotta I gotta really make sure that I'm on point on this. And if I wasn't comfortable doing it, if I wasn't on point with it, I believe me, I would not be doing a bible study episode of the podcast to do it. Yeah. Because you don't you don't know who's who's listening, who's watching, and and, you know, you could trip somebody up and
[02:20:54] Unknown:
Speaking of tripping somebody up, like, we, I I do some cursing on my podcast. Again, I know I've I've listened to some and I think I listened to one of your podcasts where you're like, dude, I'm so I'm I think we were talking about taxes. Yes. You were talking about taxes, and then you're like, I'm so sorry for cursing, man. Like, I I just get into this. And, like, same. Like, I get really I get really passionate. I just start I mean, I'm a veteran. I I've got a potty mouth sometimes. It happens. And then, like, it's our freedom of speech. But, like, what I didn't mention before, what my wife was trying to say about the veterans investigation. So, the guy that I called out about the whole thing with the school board, and he's going up, and it doesn't sound right. Well, he got upset, and they started complaining to the VFW, which is you know the VFW. Right? Yeah. So we have I helped create Cub Scouts and got them as a, what's called a charter organization.
So when you're doing Cub Scouts, you have to have a sponsor, a a charter rep. Otherwise, you guys are, like, if you're working with kids and stuff, you and you go do, like, a camping trip or whatever, guess what? You're responsible for anything that happens. Mhmm. You know, you need a charter organization rep to support. And so I did a I've been noticing ever since that I did cub scouts, people are now talking about it. You you don't hear anything about cub and there's been cub scout packs here for years. And nobody no, media, nothing has ever shared it. And so, like, I get a comp I hear they come and tell me, hey. So we got a complaint about you. I was like, what? It's like, oh, it's from so and so, which was the guy. Two, actually, the guy from the Maverick times because he doesn't like me and this guy.
They both decided to try to, you know, tell them, hey. So you have somebody out here who, is a Cub Scouts commissioner, and he's cursing on his podcast we're complaining about. And they complained to, like, the highest echelon. So they're telling me, like, okay. Now we gotta do an investigation. I was like, but I'm not even a member of the VFW. Like, what's going on here? Like, yeah. But we we still if it goes anywhere, we still have to do something. I'm like, you know, how pathetic is that? Like, you're doing now you're you're doing that, and they're they're promoting another Cub Scout pack, which we separated from because when you're part of a pack and your your charter rep, let's just say, is a Catholic organization, in this case, it is, you can be you can choose you can be picky choosy who your leaders are.
So if you if I say, okay. Well, I don't want I don't want Joe Russo because he's not Catholic. You can do that. There's nothing illegal about it or there's nothing. But we separated from them from that Cub Scout pack because of that. Okay. And then now they're promoting this pack that we left to spite me. Like, they're like, oh, join this pack. I'm not gonna put it out there because I don't wanna put them on blast. Join this pack, you know? And it's we're all the same. You know what I mean? So that's how they're trying to they're trying to cut the legs from under me by doing that. I'm like, you're not hurting me. You're hurting the kids. Yeah. Yeah. And that's pathetic, man. And I call them out for it. And so, like, they instead of getting me for slandering them, they're getting me for they're getting me for cussing on my podcast. And so, like, that's how people are getting tripped up. And I'm like, you know what? If I have to stop cursing on my podcast for the kids, then I'll I'll stop. But I'm not gonna do it for you guys who who are trying to, you know, trying to hurt me. And so that's why I wanted to bring that up because I've she mentioned it and I totally forgot to bring that up. Like, that's that's how they work. They get mad at you for telling the truth and they try to they try to screw with people that you're affiliated with. And I I And they look for any reason to do it too. Yeah. And I take that like I said, I take that personal because you're messing with the people that I have relationships with. You can call me fat. You can, you know, make fun of me, tell me I love transgenders, whatever. But at the same time, when you're talking to people around me, that's that's a no go for me, you know.
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And I just sorry. I had to insert that one in there. No. No. That's good. I'm glad you did because honestly, I I forgot that your that wife mentioned it. So, Yeah. And that that was good. We cleared that up. Well, you told me to put my phone on like, we're gonna put our phones on silent. I just kinda took a peek, and then she she didn't wanna put that on the comments so she texted me. I'm like, ah, that's what she was talking about. So Yeah. No. That that's great. No. I'm I'm glad you brought it up. Because like I said, I I it slipped my mind that she mentioned it in the first place. So Yeah. Yeah. But that's important to get out there too. I mean, look, the you're you're always gonna have somebody that's gonna try to stop you when you're over the like I said before, you know, you start getting flack when you're over the target. Yeah. And it and and so what they do is they'll they'll look for those little add ons, those little tack ons. Anybody in in that worked in law enforcement knows what I'm talking about when I say this. You know, you you get the one violation or the or the one real reason for the stop, and then you start looking for all the other little things that you could just add on to it to make it a bigger thing, so you could blow it up bigger than what it really is. Yeah. You know? So that's that's that's what that is, and you just gotta let it roll. And as far as cursing on on this show, you could say whatever you gotta say, but, you know, I I my show is, like I said, is an anything and everything show. Sacred. Nothing is watered down. Nothing is PC. You say what you gotta say. Get it off your mind. Get it off your chest. Whatever it is. I'll deal with the I'll deal with the little warning stickers they put on. That's being considerate, like, when you said you about the whole cursing, like, maybe I shouldn't curse on this podcast. I don't know. I say it. Look, I I I drop it every now and then too. But, what I find interesting though is, like, Apple Podcasts will put a flag on a particular episode if they detect Oh, crap.
A a curse, you know. Yeah. But it's not but the thing is it's not consistent. It's that's the funny thing, like, I'd like to I went on that rant about taxes and said a few things, and I didn't get any flag or anything like that on on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere really. But I had a guest on the show who who said shit, and I had a flag on Oh, yeah. On Apple Podcasts, you know. So it's it's weird. It's it's very it's very arbitrary, I guess, how they do that. So, so I know we talked about, about your family. We talked about between your wife too and the support that we get, and that's how we got off onto this whole little rabbit trail that we were just on. I didn't mention my son, did I? No. I feel so terrible. I have an 11 year old son.
[02:27:09] Unknown:
I didn't forget about him. I just get so lost in thought whenever I'm talking. This is why, like It's alright. Yes, I have my son. Oh, yeah. I did mention him. I did mention they got custody of him and stuff. Yeah. But you didn't go to details or anything about him? Or No. So he's he's, he's 11 years old. He's a big boy already. I love him to death. My son, Jacob. One of the special things about him, I think he does this better than I do. I think if you look through my my page, he started promoting other people's businesses. And he, like, doesn't need to look at a phone. Mhmm. Doesn't need a script.
He just doesn't and he'll get more views than me because we're gonna get the kids. You know what I mean? And I'm just like, you know, I should be like, you know what? I need to get him off the screen now. No. No. No. He he's he sees what I do. He sees he sees what I do, and he loves it. Like, he wants to be like a YouTuber. He loved, and I tried to stray away from it, Ryan's World, because we know that the parents got the money for making this kid famous. Mhmm. I don't wanna be like that. So I know. I got I got you. Yeah. Yeah. But I tell him, if that's what he loves to do, then I'll let him sit on my he loves to sit at my Rodecaster and start talking. He actually started recording. Good. So I'm like, yeah. He loves that, man. Everyone should have a podcast. Oh, yeah. Exactly. It's therapeutic, man. It is. And, like He truly is. He's gifted. He's very gifted. He's not a sport big boy, but not a sports guy. I was a sports kid when I was his age, and my dad was a huge sports fanatic. And him, he just I let him choose what he wants to do. Like, I tried doing, like, taekwondo, and I tried putting him in flag football, and it's just, you know, just didn't catch. But when he does something like this, like
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That's good though. He loves it, man. Yeah. Promote him. Let's let him do it. Yeah. Just encourage him to do it. Just keep pushing him to do it. So it's, you know, it's not a bad thing to do. I mean, everybody should have a like, I say a half serious half kidding, you know, everybody should have a podcast. Oh, yeah. It's and, actually numbers are, you know, there are over 4,000,000 podcasts out there. Yeah. Only about 400,000 are actually active. Oh, wow. And of the 400,000,
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only about 10,000 are actually They they pick up. Yeah. And it's hard. Like, because it it's now people try to say that podcasting is saturated.
[02:29:27] Unknown:
No. No. I I don't think podcasts are saturated. I think particular subjects in podcasts are saturated. Okay. You know, I that's my opinion. I have nothing to back that up with. I just that's just my thoughts. No. I agree. I agree. You know, I think that, you know, unfortunately, the the the podcast has seemed to do the best right now or like what we talked about, I'm gonna say the name I'm gonna say the word wrong, but, Cheese May podcast. Cheese May. Yeah. Cheese Cheese May. Yeah. That's that's oh, everybody loves Cheese May here. Oh, my god. That's that's unfortunately the the trend. Like, I like, everybody knows. I I I love Rumble. Rumble's a a great, free speech platform to be on. You know, I that's why I stream to Rumble.
And, Rumble's my home. I don't pay much attention to to Youboob or anything like that. I just kinda Youboob. I just kinda leave it. Fake book, you know. That was new for me. Yeah. I just kinda I kinda leave them, like I call Twitter or x. I call it Twix, because nobody knows what to call it anymore. So I just call it Twix.
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Twix?
[02:30:27] Unknown:
X is just x. Plus, what I'm saying, Twitter, x, Twix. Probably Twitter. Yeah. Twix. Yeah. So, you know, but like on YouTube, I don't even promote the YouTube channel. I don't. I don't care about it, to be honest with you. I don't get anything out of it. I think I have like 40 followers on on YouTube. You know, if they follow it, great. Yeah. I follow it. But, you know, I'm not gonna I'm not promoting it. I'm not pushing it because I I have two strikes on on on YouGov already. It's like and all because I was talking about alternative medical therapies, you know, with a former with a former, sponsor of the show. And so that I got a I got a flag for that. And I refused to go through their their sensitivity training for it. So it so they're not gonna remove it until I go through that. So I said, no. Fuck you, man. I'm not doing it. I think YouTube is a thing of the past, man. Like, that was It's a dying platform. That was the in way back in the day. Now there's
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Rumble. You got Twitch. You got x. You got Facebook. You got Instagram. They all share live stuff. See, now it's like you gotta pick one. And the most you get is I think well, you said Rumble's good for you. Right? Yeah. Yeah. For me, Facebook is good. I do wanna try to do more platforms.
[02:31:34] Unknown:
Well, I would recommend you try Rumbles, honestly. Because Rumble Rumble's a good platform and they they don't censor. It's not it's like not like YouTube where where you have to mind your p's and q's. You can't give an opinion without fearing that you're gonna get smacked for it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I mean Shit. I only use YouTube because it it keeps me in the it keeps my library because, like, you know, StreamYard can only hold so much. Yeah. Well, Rumble does the same thing. Oh, okay. They they hold it. And I'll be honest, in full disclosure, everybody knows this already, but you might not. I am a shareholder in Rumble. Oh, okay. So just just to put it out there so nobody says anything, but, I am a shareholder of Rumble. So I I believe in the platform. You know, I I think it's a great I I joined Rumble when I when it first started, and I mean, I didn't I wasn't doing a podcast at the time when Rumble first started. You know, I was kind of in between.
But, Rumble's the place to go, man. And it's a it's a great platform to be part of it. Their their leadership is just so pro first amendment, so pro free speech. Like like France, a couple years ago, tried to get rumble to take down a number of high profile, content creators on off of rumble's platform because of, you know, of, their sensitivity laws and all that stuff. And Rumble said, oh, really? No. We're not taking them down. Hell no. Hell no. And then and of course, you know, they would they threatened them with, with, lawsuits and fines and all that stuff. Rumble said, okay, fine. You know what? We just shut rumble off to you then. Your country doesn't get it anymore. There you go. You know, and that's the way they do it. They're not gonna not gonna take people off their platform. I mean, unless it's something that's super, like, you know, crazy crazy.
You know, there there are some, you know, contingencies in place. Yeah. You know, but but, but as a whole, Rumble's a great platform. I've I've been on for a but, I was saying all that to get back to, you know, what people are talking about mostly, you know, the type of shows that really seem to take off. Rumble does these things where they do they, they highlight shows. So when you when you first go to the Rumble's home to Rumble's homepage, they'll have a show playing, you know. And, you may not be subscribed to it or not, but it's there. It's playing. And I've noticed that a lot of them are these panel shows where you have these, like half dressed women sitting around with a bunch of guys, and they're talking about relationship things, and gossip, and all that stuff. And they have thousands and thousands and thousands of live viewers, and downloads, and plays, and I'm like, listen, I don't wanna sit here with my shirt off.
I mean, if I have to, I, you know, I guess, but, you know, no one's gonna wanna see these.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, it's it's not it's not so attractive anymore. Yeah. Even in my twenties maybe, but, you know, not now. You know? But but unfortunately, that's that seemed to me, anyway, it's just my observation, that seems to be the type of shows that are that are really taking off. That and, like like gaming shows. Like, I don't understand. Because I know you I know you you you play games and and and whatnot, but I don't understand what's the point and the purpose of watching either whether it's on Rumble or YouTube or wherever of watching somebody else playing a video game for hours. Like Twitch?
[02:34:58] Unknown:
Yeah. Like like Like when when people, like, will stream and they're just playing forever and we're just watching like, what's gonna happen? Yeah. Like like I I have no idea. I really don't have time to sit and watch somebody else play. Like, I don't even have time to play myself. Myself. Right. I I I don't get it. I think that the the the purpose of it is to get people to watch how they play. Or, like, maybe if you're doing, like, a story game or, like, a puzzle game or something that's hard, and it's kinda like a spoiler. So you watch people play it and, like, ah, that's how you do it. Oh, those are some hidden things that you found or, you know, those are some Yeah. Tips and tricks. Yeah. No. Cheat codes anymore because that's back in the nineties, I guess. So Yeah. Yeah. Click click click click click click click. Up down square. Up down up down. Yeah.
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I remember doing that in Legends of Zelda. No. Nostalgia.
[02:35:42] Unknown:
I'm so sorry if I threw you off to you. I know we talked about the family life. No. No. No. We're gonna get back to it. I just wanted to grab put throw my son in there because Well, I'm glad you did because I wanted to ask you,
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as a dad, you know, the values that that that you were talking about earlier, you know, how do those values show up in your everyday life? As far as like As being as, you know, describing yourself as, you know, you're a patriot. You know, you're you're you're a proud devoted father. You know, how do those values show up in your everyday life? Well, this also falls into being an advocate for men. Mhmm.
[02:36:15] Unknown:
I think that society wants Did you read my notes? Because because that was my next question. No. No. No. Oh, I'm sorry. Dude, we're, like, totally in sync, man. I know. That's true. No. Well, I'm I'm just, like, kinda, like, kinda just taking a little bit of that authority in here. You know what I mean? So I try to teach my son because let's just face it. When the when the Biden administration was here, it fucked everything up, man. True that. The society now wants weak men. And they confuse masculinity with toxic masculinity, and they they say masculinity is bad and all this shit. So as a dad, you know, you wanna teach your son how to be a man. You know what I mean? That's right. And you wanna have him, you know, learn about these values. Not not stuff that he's not ready for, but as far as doing the right thing, you know, being a man as in, like, okay, facing your fears.
Okay? I mean, that doesn't have to just go directly to men. It can go through women too. But, like, facing your fears, you know, staying true to what you believe in. Mhmm. If you wanna do something and you think you can't do it, don't listen to that. You just do it. And I try to teach him the values of helping people. In this case, when it comes down to people who are different from them, like, I had to have a conversation with him about, Your transgender girlfriend. Yeah. Yeah. And I had to sit here with him a hacean. So, yeah, I'm sorry, but, like, don't tell your don't tell your mama Jackie, but, you know, there's we gotta talk about transgenders. No.
No. No. Well, we can throw that in there. Like, let's just, you know, kids who are disabled or, like, who have down syndrome. Like, I teach him again, this will also fall on with this being at school and, you know, blaming teachers and blaming administration when it starts at the home. So I'm gonna tell him, look, when you see somebody who looks different than you Mhmm. You accept them and you accept that they're different. You don't make fun of them. Mhmm. You don't go and if there's something that you don't understand, you can come and ask me, hey, why does this person look like this or whatnot? And I'll tell you. And I'll give you the don't learn it from someone else. Right. You learn because kids are assholes these days. I'm sorry. They are. And and you you when you learn from other kids, which that falls on the parents who don't teach them right, you're you're not learning the right thing, and you're just putting this now you're now you're feeding into the whole bullying thing. Yeah. And and kids think it's right.
It's not that they're like, in The Karate Kid, like, mister Miyagi says, there's no such thing as a bad student, only a bad teacher. There's no such thing as a bad kid, but there are bad parents. Yeah. I I agree with that. Yeah. So and, like, I try to teach them the value like, again, values of accepting those who are different than you are. It might not be your belief. You know? I'm not telling you to do it, but, you know, you need to accept people for who they are. Yeah. And that's how you make that's how we become men, and we become leaders of the household. You are the and that's what God wants. God wants, God's plan is, to create families Mhmm. And to spread, the the man is the leader in the house.
That doesn't mean that you're controlled now. Women like to now, again, this is what society gets wrong. It's not about controlling your women. I think that's cowardice when you try to strike fear into your your counterpart, your spouse Yeah. For them to respect you. No. You need to prove that you can take the lead. That's what women want. Like, you see two Rams butting heads and you see the female Rams like, okay, who's gonna win? Yeah. You know? And okay, I want that one. You know? That's the one that's gonna protect me. That's the one that's gonna be our leader. And so, like, yeah. You get you earn women's respect by doing that, and they wanna follow you, and they wanna they're protected. And I think a lot of people also,
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misunderstand, because you you mentioned scripture, you know. You know, the husband is the head of the wife and so on and so forth. I think a lot of society culture feminism Yeah. Has drilled into people's head and women's heads especially that, you know, that's misogynistic, that's patriarchy, that's all that stuff. No. No. See, biblically biblically, yes, the husband is the head of the wife, Christ is the head of the family, but that doesn't mean that the wife is subservient to the husband. Exactly. The wife is a partner.
You know, God God said that when he created man and he created woman, he created a help meet for him. Yes. Meet meaning equal for him. Yes. Someone that can be at his side and help him through his responsibilities and however you wanna phrase it. So it's not, you know, you're gonna do what I tell you and that's the end of the story. No. That's not how it works. Right. You know, you have an opinion, I have an opinion, we sit down, we put those ideas together, but ultimately, the final decision falls on the man to make that decision because that's his responsibility. You know, if, like I the way I the way I always did was, you know, if if my wife at the time had a better idea than mine, and I thought, well, you know what? That might work. Well, we'll go with your idea.
But that decision is mine to make. Right. You know? And that's and that's
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that's that's biblically speaking. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's why we have, like, women who, again, when you have men who and I call this a weakness in men, toxic masculinity. Exactly. And then they treat their spouse bad. They beat them or whatever. And then that puts in the woman's head, like, I don't need a man. I don't need a man, you know. And then, you know, they explore other ventures, and then that's when things just get all messed up. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, again, society wants to put it in women's head that men just wanna control everything. That's not true. Again, we go by, like, it was, you know, Adam and Eve. Mhmm. You know, they they were one for each other.
And I love it how Danny put we talk a lot, you know, and, he would put this in a sense where, okay. God didn't scold Eve for having him bite the apple. Mhmm. He scolded Adam. So what the hell dude? Like and she's like, well, no. She gave me the apple. No. No. No. No. No. You're the leader here. It's your fault, man. Like, you should have known better. Yep.
[02:42:42] Unknown:
So that's Everybody everybody plays the blame game. Yeah. And that's exactly what that was. That's the typical blame game, you know. Eve blamed the serpent.
[02:42:50] Unknown:
Adam blamed Eve. God blamed the man. Yeah. Exactly. He didn't blame the snake. He didn't blame Nope. He didn't blame Eve. He blamed it was Adam's fault. And so that's how we and that's again what falls into how I teach my son leadership. You know, you take responsibility. If you wanna be a leader Mhmm. Everything's your fault. In the army Yes. I was a sergeant. I had and CO. I had soldiers. If my soldier went and bought a Mercedes, a brand new private, it's my fault. Why? Because I didn't teach him, hey. Look. Don't go out and buy. I know that the banks are gonna now you're a new soldier, and they want you to get they want you to get a loan, loan, loan, loan, loan. And then you go buy a nice car, and guess what? You're in debt. That's that's on me. If my soldier dies, that's on me. Mhmm. You know what I mean? Everything is your fault, and that's how, like, I try to again, like, part of my podcast is to give everybody inspiration on leadership values. Because right now in Eagle Pass, it's you know somebody, that's how you get a job. Or you get you're a manager because you knew somebody, and then you just totally suck. And you just wanna be a manager just to tell people what to do. No. You need to set the example.
When I was making in in the army, when I would make my soldiers do push
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ups, I'll be doing it with them. You know what I mean? You can't tell me I'm lazy. Here I am. I'm doing it with you. You have to lead by example, number one. And then, you know, heavy is the head that wears the crown. So, you know, if you're gonna if you're gonna be in position of leadership, yes. Everything that happens under your leadership is your responsibility. Yeah. You know, whether you were directly involved or not. It is your responsibility to make sure your ship, your or your platoon, or your your I forget how they break it down in the army. It's been a while. Oh, like, your company, your battalion Yeah. Your brigade. Your squad, whatever. Yeah. You know, all of that, like when I was when I was in working in law enforcement, and I I was a squad leader for for a short period of time, you know, before I before I became a a patrol supervisor.
You know, everything that went on in my squad was my responsibility. If we came up short on numbers, it was my responsibility. Why are they doing why why are these numbers not being met? Why are these patrol hours not being met? What are you doing to cause that to happen? Yeah. You know, so yeah. You're absolutely right. You have you have to take the responsibility for it. And it's about gaining the respect too. Like, my wife's border patrol agent, old patrol,
[02:45:08] Unknown:
been raised in the most toughest environment ever. If I didn't know how to lead or be, you know, be the man that could support her because she's got age on me and stuff too, she I I wouldn't have lasted. Yeah. I wouldn't.
[02:45:22] Unknown:
And another thing people, I think, misunderstand too is like, oh, it just flipped out of my head, what I was gonna say. The, it's respecting as as a as a as a leader, like you said, you wanna be respected. You need to be respected by your people. Right? One of the one of the things that I saw that was really misunderstood was that because and I heard it said, and and this is why I'm saying it. We had a we had a we had a one of our, our our inspectors came because, you know, the rank structure in law enforcement, you know, you have your patrol officers, you have your sergeants and lieutenants, captains, deputy inspector, inspector, chief, deputy chief, and all that stuff. Right? So inspector's pretty high up there.
Inspector came by and he was trying to be motivational, because morale was pretty low Mhmm. In this particular in our particular command. And you know, there was a lot of issues with him because of comment that he made. Because he was he became an inspector without ever coming up through the ranks. He was appointed. And he made a comment that he I don't think he thought anybody heard, but it went through the the entire department like overnight. And that was that he would not be caught dead wearing the uniform that we all wore. And so he went on this, you know, he went on this tour of commands and facilities and so on and so forth to try to save face, you know.
And he came to us, and I was there. I heard the whole conversation. And he says, and his thing was, I don't care if you don't respect me, but you have to respect my position. That's the wrong attitude. Wrong attitude. Right. Because if I don't respect you, I can't respect your position. Or if I can't it it doesn't you can't separate the two. You have to respect the person that's in that position in order for the whole thing to work. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't I don't know, but I think that you you can't separate the two. If you're working in that position, you have to have the respect, not only for your title, but for for you as a person. And for you to come out and say something like, I would never be caught dead wearing that uniform. I mean, that's how do you how do you gain somebody's respect from that? No. Can't. You can't. It's impossible. No.
[02:47:51] Unknown:
It's just almost like, I wouldn't be caught like, I'm a I'm a manager. I used to be manager at AutoZone, and I would clean the bathrooms.
[02:47:59] Unknown:
My son works for AutoZone. Oh, yeah. Oh, cool. Which one? Pennsylvania.
[02:48:02] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Yeah. I I was a manager, and I was like, okay. Look. Like, I would clean the shit out of those bathrooms, and I would tell my employees this is how I want it. I cleaned it this way. This is how this is how we expect to do it. And if I gotta show you again, I'll show you again. But you know what I mean? Like Third time's a charm. Third time's a charm. Yeah. And I the same thing with my son. You know? I teach him this is how I'm gonna clean the shit out of your room. And now this is the way I want it. This is the way you're gonna do it, you know, instead of just sitting on a hammock with lemonade saying, hey. Do this. You know what I mean? Set the example.
[02:48:34] Unknown:
Yeah. I gotcha. I gotcha. So we're gonna we're gonna start to wrap it up because it's, we got five minutes. Believe it or not, these the third hour's gone already. Dude, like, I I feel so bad because I feel like you had more questions for me and I just couldn't. I I do, but it could but that'll be the next show. Okay. Yeah. But, one question I always like to ask though is is, who's somebody that you respect right now and what are they doing that inspires you?
[02:48:56] Unknown:
Who do I respect right now? I have I have to say my father. Always. My dad is a man of, who has made mistakes and who has showed me not to make the same ones. I'll always respect my dad. Always, man. Even though sometimes we we'll we'll be on talking terms and sometimes we won't be, but, like, yeah. He's he's he's still doing what he's doing, working his ass off at, and it's already been becoming 60 already. Yeah. Always, man. Yeah. Outstanding. Outstanding.
[02:49:37] Unknown:
And, well, we already kinda covered where we can find you and all that stuff with your podcast, but why don't you throw it out there again?
[02:49:43] Unknown:
I is it okay if I like to throw some shout outs and stuff like that? Please go ahead. Yeah. Well, you can find us at Now You Know Eagle Pass on Facebook. We have Instagram. We have YouTube, You Boop. I'm gonna call them You Boop and Fakebook and stuff like that just because of you, man. We, like, what we talk about, our values fake book. Yeah. The fake book. We talk about our values, and we talk about politics, you know, try to get you guys informed. Big shout out to my producer, Veronica Pena. She's been great. You know, been by my side for for a while now. Big shout out to the OGs, Valerie Rodriguez. She was one of our producers. She's always welcome to come back.
Of course, last but not least, my wife, you know, a big supporter of mine, doing this. You know, shout out to all those who support, you know, LC's Power Hour, you know, Lisa, Cassandra Kane. Thank you so much for supporting. Oh god. I'm I can't be drawing a blank already. Anita Ramos Ramirez, pageantry. Yeah. Thank you guys so much for your support as well. Yeah. Stick around, and we'll we'll try to be as as consistent as possible. And big shout out to, Joe's thanks, bro. Man, you guys, this is a great podcast. I've been I'm hooked. You know, there's a lot of stuff you can learn, from this man. We've had we've had talks already before. We I think we talked for, like, what, almost two hours. Yeah. And my wife was like, who are you talking? Like, what? You're still talking? I'm like, dude. And I told Danny, like, you got two podcasters together, man, and we're gonna talk for, like, like, forever. Three hours today. Yeah. Three hours already. So I don't know what she did, but you but, yeah, we're we're looking forward to collaborating with you, man. And, absolutely, we don't wanna elevate and not about, and I wanna just reiterate to everybody, like, it's not about competition. Like, if someone wants to do something that's the same as everybody else, it's almost like, you know, Fruity Pebbles and the or was it, like, no, Apple Jacks, and then there's Apple to Apples, like the the knockoff of the Apple Jacks. Yes. Like, they wanted to do the same thing. It's okay. Like, you can, you know, we can still coexist, and there's plenty of there's plenty of audience for everybody. Absolutely. You know? So, yeah, I will definitely I'm a huge fan of the Joe's podcast now. So now I'm gonna be, like, shouting this out every single time. Appreciate it. You know? Outstanding.
Appreciate it. Thank you so much for this. Appreciate it. It's very therapeutic.
[02:51:52] Unknown:
You betcha. And what so where can so where can the audience go to find you, your socials, your show, and all that great stuff? You can find me, Ruben Joshua Camarillo. That's my that's my,
[02:52:01] Unknown:
my personal account. You guys wanna hit me up there. I am gonna I do wanna start using Pod Home Outstanding. So we can start getting a website going, and you can find us at Now You Know Eagle Pass podcast on Facebook, on Youboob. We want we'll try expanding to other platforms as well. We're still growing. Help us grow and share us, you know, we wanna support our small businesses and, of course, inform our community on local politics. Outstanding. Thank you. Outstanding.
[02:52:29] Unknown:
Alright. Ruben, thank you so much for being here with us. Yes, man. Just hang out here for a second. We're gonna wrap this show up and then, and we'll chat on the other side. Awesome, man. Alright. Sure. I'm gonna leave you connected though. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Alright, folks. Pro HVAC, our solutions, leverages over thirty years of ex of expertise to provide premier HVAC sales and repair services specializing in both residential and commercial installations. Pro HVAC's team of skilled technicians is dedicated to providing efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions for your home or business with a focus on quality workmanship, customer satisfaction.
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[02:58:37] Unknown:
No. I mean, thanks again, man. Oh, I forgot to mention thank you to Danny Mendoza for sparking this. Absolutely. You know, he's he's a great guy. He's a he's a little overwhelming for me. He's he needs to cut back on the caffeine. Yeah. He needs to cut back on the caffeine, but he's he's such a great guy, man. Big heart. Yeah. I love him. He's a good guy. Love him to death. So I I just like talk shit about him because he he he loves it. We had like a like a stone cold when we when I was with the Golden Fox. I'm sure we'll talk about that another time. Yes. You know, he we're we did have like a stone cold Vince McMahon thing going where I'm we're just I'm just talking shit about him. He's like he's just loving it. So I love you, Danny. Thank you so much for doing this, man. You're you're awesome. Thank you. Alrighty. Well, alright, folks. That's gonna do it for us. So with all of that said,
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Alright. Well, I guess I think this pretty much covered everything. Did I miss anything? I don't think so. Alright. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to, introduce to you Ruben Camarillo. Ruben was born in Palm Springs, California. What's up, guys? What's up? He's, he's built a life grounded in lead in service, leadership, and community. He's a proud US army veteran. Thank you for your service, sir. Thank you. Thank you. He completed his service in 2019. He relocated to Eagle Pass with his then fiancee, Jackie. Professionally, Reuben's, foundation in customer service has been one of the greatest strengths shape shaping his approach to communication, leadership, and advocacy. Today, he serves as a union steward and involved with his community as a member of the Lions Club and a past president of the American Legion. Reuben is also the competition. He's the, creator and host of Now You Know Eagle Pass, a podcast dedicated to transparency, civic engagement, and telling the stories that matter in the community.
He's a proud patriot, devoted father, advocate for men's issues. Reuben's mission is to inform, uplift, empower others through honest conversation and local journalism. Reuben, welcome to Thank you, buddy. The asylum. How you doing, brother? Dude, I'm like
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I'm still like I have that tickle feeling. Oh. You know, like, oh, this is awesome. Like, I really never They have cre they have creams for that, you know. Oh. I can Yeah. We'll we'll We can get you some. Afterwards, we'll we'll get some in. But, no. Like, I've always, I've always wanted to be on a podcast. I think this is my first podcast ever that I've actually been on that's not mine. Like a guest. Yeah. Yeah. And and, like, you know, I've I've been on, like, radio shows and stuff, but, like, they're timed and it's limited and you really don't have anything to, like, you can't really get your whole story out. I know this was timed too, but, like, short.
Yeah. You know? And, no. This is great, man. And weird at the same time.
[00:12:59] Unknown:
It it is different being on the other side of the chair. It it is. I I've I've only done one appearance as a guest on a podcast recently. When I say recently, I've I've done it in the past, but it's been a while. But recently, and it was the it was a very strange surreal feeling, especially especially and it's a great show too. The guy the guy that hosted the show was fantastic. He's somebody I'm I'm gonna actually introduce you to as well. Okay. Doctor. Hal Bradley, great guy. Great guy. He, the the funny thing was and and you know, I I I could tell him this directly too. The funny thing was is that, I was supposed to be the guest and I felt more like the host because he had Oh, yeah. That's right. He had asked me one question and and then it's it my resp my my response to the one question kinda went into a whole thing about himself and his life, which is an incredible story. And I'm I'm really looking forward to when we can get him booked on here. I know his schedule's crazy, so you can hear the rest of that story. But it was amazing story. That Wow. Yeah. I mean, the the things that this guy was involved with was absolutely incredible. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna get you hooked up with his producer. He's a he's a pretty good guy. His name is Pete Turner. He hosts a podcast as well called BIDS.
Don't ask me right now what it stands for because I don't remember. But, but all I remember is BIDS podcast. So, and I think right now he's in England doing shows in England. So which is great, for him. So God bless him. Nice. But,
[00:14:21] Unknown:
other than that, I mean, it's it's a very weird surreal feeling when you're sitting on the other side of it. It is. It's totally weird. And like, and when you say competition, like, I hate that word for some reason. Everybody everybody I know. I know. Everybody loves competition's good. But, like, with me, when I see, like, let's just say I see someone trying to do the same thing I am. Mhmm. I'm like, dude, that's great. Like, okay. Let's elevate. Let's elevate each other. You know? Let's let's advertise each other. Why not? Everybody has their own style of doing things. Just like, the the last podcast with Danny, you guys were talking about barbecue, which, like, made me gain 10 pounds when I was listening.
And I'm just like, yeah. Everybody has their own style and the work speaks for itself. You know what I mean? So and your podcast is great, man. Oh, thank you, man. I'm totally hooked. I appreciate it. I gotta, like, go all the way down and watch every single or, like, listen to every single podcast, man. It's great. Well, I appreciate that. That's good. You know, it it it takes a while to get get off the ground too. I mean, I've I've been doing this since 2016,
[00:15:19] Unknown:
before they really called it podcasting, and they used to call it Internet radio. I hear you. And, so I was up in New York, and it was me and a bunch of friends. And the audience, the regular listeners know the story pretty well already, but for for your audience that might be tuning in, we we had a show, up in New York, and, it was a call in show. It was a lot of fun. We did it just one night a week. It was a live show. It we had a blast with it. And the vibe that we wanted people to walk away with was that they were just hanging out with the guys, you know, just one one actually one person actually made a comment in in in in the in the comment section of the show one night that he he feels like he's hanging out in the backyard with his buddies, having a beer, just talking about bullshit.
You know? Which is exactly what we wanted them to get. And, it it it was it took a long time coming. We did it for about a year, and then I moved here to Eagle Pass, and, so we the technology wasn't really in place yet at that time for to do remote stuff like this. So, we kinda let it go, but, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get these guys back together again and and and do one of these shows. Hell yeah, man. Kinda kinda resurrect the whole thing except this time, Jay, if you're watching, I'm in the center chair. Okay? I'm the captain. There you go, man. I'm controlling the board here, buddy. I'll mute you this time. That's what he used to do. He he used if you didn't like what you were saying, he would mute you. Just boop. Yeah. And you'd be up here talking because you'd still hear yourself in the cans, but but you're not You're not you're not your message isn't getting out. No. It drove me crazy. And, I I know we when we talked on the phone, I mentioned this to you. Here here's the original copy that I I gave to everybody. Oh, dude. Yeah. So, so the the conversation was we were having a a discussion about, government funded healthcare and this is a time when Obamacare was being forced down our throat. Oh. Is it still is? It it still is. Still is. But this is at the beginning. This is when they they, they convene in the in the dead of night and voted on it, you know, when nobody was paying attention.
But, Jay and I got into this debate on the show about, you know, is it is it a human right? Is are you supposed to have government funded health care? Is the government supposed to take care of you from cradle to grave and so on and so forth. And I understood his position. He, you know, he he he had legitimate need, which is fine. I I I have no problem with anybody on government assistance that have a legitimate need for it. It's the generational stuff that just just irritates me to no end. But, I I bought a whole bunch of these and I brought it into the studio and I didn't tell them I had it. And, we got into this argument again, this is like the third Wednesday in a row we got into this argument about it. And I was like, you know what? Here. And I stood up and I threw a copy out of it. And this is before video too, so we weren't even on video yet. Oh, okay. Even better.
So we just I threw it at them and I was like, here, you find where it says in this thing and then I'll shut up and I'll stop complaining. Alright? And, but, it was all in good good fun, you know. Yeah. Of course. We understood each other at the end of the day, and we were buddies. Yeah. And that's I think that's what's wrong with society today is that we don't have enough open dialogue. That's right. You know what I mean? And, unfortunately,
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that the result of that, was with the Charlie Kirk incident. You know? The the people don't like that. Yeah. But but the thing is that the left wants us to listen. They want us to listen to their ideology. And I'm like, okay. Well, let's hear it. But when it's time to listen to the right, you know, to conservatives, it's just no. Yeah. They don't wanna hear it. They don't wanna hear it. So, I mean, you're just like, oh, like, you know, my mother always taught me treat others how you wanna be treated. Exactly. Yeah. So it's just like, I have a lot of liberals. My mom is a hardcore core liberal. You know, I I like to listen to everybody's side. You know what I mean? And and I like to let's have like like Charlie Kirk. I idolize that guy. Let's have a discussion. Yeah. Let's not and and if we agree to disagree, we can still eat at the same table. If you, voted for cackling comma, you can sit at my table. That's fine. I don't care if you hate cackling comma from California. Yeah.
So, like, if you hate Trump, that's fine. I'm not gonna kick you out of my house for that. That's that's that's your thing, man. Yeah. I Agreed. I have my ideologies. You have yours and but we can still have a relationship. Well, that's the problem with the left, like you said, is that
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they'll they'll they'll love, they'll listen to everything you have to say as long as it's in line with what they believe. They don't wanna hear anything else. They don't wanna know anything else. It's either you tow the line or you're the enemy. Right. And That sucks. That's that's really shitty. And that's not that's not what civil discourse is at all. That's not what open discussion is. That's not that's why at the end of my show, I always tell everybody keep talking. You have to keep talking. Keep the dialogue open. And one of the things that Charlie Kirk did that they didn't like was, and I think there were other things involved as well, but, I'm not gonna dip into all that stuff today. Right. Right. Right. But there's I think there's other other things involved as well. But the left did not like that they were being challenged to critically think. Right. You know, the modern education system does not teach our children how to critically think. It teaches them what to think. Exactly. You know, and Yeah. That's scary. Which is it's tragic. Well, look at the result of it now. You're talking government funded education since the nineteen seventies. Look at the generation we are now. Yeah. It's it's disgusting. Yeah. It sucks. There there is absolutely no opportunity for you to exchange ideas. I mean, especially, you watch some of these these these TikTok videos and these Instagram posts and reels, whatever they call them now, and you have, you know, this this older generation is in there as well, you know, and and they're screaming in the camera, they're screaming in your face, they're, you know, that, I saw this one lady was telling a a commentator that she hoped that she got shot like Charlie Kirk did, you know, just just because she has a different viewpoint. And it it's pathetic that this is what it's come down to. And today's far left Democratic party is openly advocating for political violence. Yeah. Openly.
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Yeah. It's it's it's unbelievable. And, like, let's just let's turn the tables. Let's just say let's say I don't know. President Biden got shot. And then if it was us who was parading it around, which there are far right Mhmm. Who are parading it around. Oh my goodness. It would be a headhunt. Oh, for sure. All the right is just evil. The Republicans are evil. Look what they're doing. You know? And it's I mean, come on. You know? We we we all have to unify in some way. You know? You can, you can take something out of Barack Obama's, playbook. Like, you know, this is, this is not the red states of America. This is not the blue states. This is the The United States. You know what I mean? Like, we'll he made sense then. Settle more like Bill Clinton there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm kinda like mixing it up. You know, I could do a good Trump impression too, man. Yeah. Just like I I have to get into character.
Like, Danny Mendoza. What color underwear does he wear? I don't know. That's good. It's probably it's probably gold. I don't like it though. You know? Eagle pass.
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That is good. I like that. That's pretty good. Yeah. I'd have met an Eagle pass or
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weaker than a wet pasta noodle, but we can do something about that. You know? So I gotta get a new one. I love it. That's great. I'm gonna have to get you to do a promo for the show here. Join Jarvis. This is the good, podcast, and you guys like listening to conservatism and listen to it now. I love it. Well, he likes me. I like him too.
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With the, the old show that I did, the the previous show, I actually I I hired somebody to do a a Trump impersonation. And I gave them a script talking about how great the podcast is, and they need to be checking it out, all that stuff. I got it somewhere, but it's a different show name, so I can't use it. But but, but that was that was pretty good. Yeah. It gotta be good. I I try. I try, you know. Sometimes sometimes it'll be off and sometimes it'll be on. It just depends on what I'm talking about. Yeah. I know. And I like to make people laugh. Like, some I think my mom my mom hates Trump, but I would like,
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you know, I would call her and leave her a message. You know? Hello, ma'am. This is your favorite president. This is your son. I know you don't like me. You'd rather be in China, but this is your boy. Call him back. You know? And and she'll just laugh, like laugh so hard. China. Something like that. That is awesome.
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Something like that. That is awesome. It's awesome. Sorry. I'm I'm still I'm still getting over this this cold Yeah. No. No. You're good, man. So I wanna I wanna get into some of the questions that we have for you. I know we kinda jumped right off into the good stuff, right off the bat there, which is great. Which is I love that stuff. I love the impromptu things. And, again, because it it it brings that feeling, hey, we're just regular guys. We're not, you know, I don't think either one of us can turn around and say that we are political experts or anything like that. Right. Yeah. We're just looking at it from our perspective as just people who just are living every single day, dealing with the same struggles every single day. Right. And, we, you know and we can talk about these things. So that's all it is. And that's what I want people to come away with. You know? Just regular guys. We're not anybody special here. Right. Although I am selling autographs for $5 a clip. All funding going towards the escrow shortage. There you go, man. It'll be it'll be worth something someday. Head over to Sticker Mule and get your I Have Rabies t shirt.
There you go. You know? Alright. It's all up there for you. So, so when we have guests on the show, whether in studio or not, we we we always have a couple of questions that we like to ask. Okay. And, if if you've checked out any of the shows previously, you should be prepared for this. So, here it goes. So what is something that most people don't know about you but should?
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Well, Well, apparently, I have a trans lover out there somewhere. Oh, do you? No. Oh, congratulations. That's that's what they're trying to say. Like, I don't know. They got mad at me and, like, the the they they tried to bring up some rumor that I guess I'm I'm into transgenders. And I'm just like, well, if I am into transgenders, how does that impact the community? You know what I mean? Like, so what? I'm comfortable with my sexuality. Alright. Okay. But, no. That was I was joking, but, what do people not know about me? Spoiler alert. There you go. God. I don't know.
You know what? I mean dude I don't I don't know like I don't know what I have to get the jeopardy clocked music I know right? Let's see I don't know man I I really I am terrible talking about myself. About talking I I just like, whenever someone asks me a question, that's the that's the only way you can stump me is if you ask something about me. And did you know that that's very common
[00:25:41] Unknown:
in people who podcast and do shows like this? Really? It's very common. Podcast and and I I saw a study on this not too long ago. I I was talking with, Alex Sanfilippo, who's the CEO, the founder of, PodMatch. And, great guy, by the way. Lot of fun. Super smart guy. But in reality, a lot of podcasters, you know, are easier to do this for them. It's easier to do this for them than to actually have personal interactions and talk to people outside the place. Yeah. If this was Jeopardy, I would lose. I was just like,
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so yeah. I was like, next question. No. I'm trying to think. I guess I can say I love video games. I don't think anybody I don't think I ever tell people that. I am a huge gamer, but I just don't have time. You know what I mean? And I'd love to, like, adapt, especially when you have your dad, and you have a son that's because my parents didn't know what the hell I was doing. Like, what are you watching, Pokemon? I'm like, no. It's Pokemon. You know? And You gotta be correct. Yeah. Like, I'm a huge I'm a huge nerd. There you go. I think I think people don't know that about me too much. Like, I'm a huge nerd. I love Star Wars. I love space. That's true. I love Pokemon, anime, all that stuff. I just don't share that stuff a lot with people because it's, like, you know, it's something I enjoy. And and I know, like, we did a comic book club for the kids, at San Luis Elementary, and they were just like, oh my god. Somebody that gets us. You know? Like like because because everybody in Eagle Pass is all about sports. Yeah. Yeah. I picked up on that very quickly. Yeah. And I'm like, well, no. There are kids that don't play sports, and they like nerdy shit. Like, they like anime, and they like and so they're like, oh my god. They love to draw, be artsy. And then they didn't even know that there was a comic book shop here. I don't know that either. No.
Well, she's a good friend of mine. She she opens every now and then. But, but, yeah, not a lot of people knew about it. And I tried would, like, try to get her to advertise with me. Mhmm. And she's like, no. No. No. I'm just this is just my hobby. You know? And then if any if people find it, they find it. If not, I'm like, no. We gotta get this stuff out. You know? And so, like, I would tell the kids, hey. Go to this comic shop, man. If you guys are into now there's collectible shops out there too. You know? They're they're posting, and we like to be part of the collectible community, which, you know, with the whole Popcon deal Mhmm. That totally fell into it. So, yeah, that it's think about me as I'm a huge nerd. Well, that's okay. Because I I I like I like things like Star Wars. I'm I'm a Star Trek guy. Oh, dude. Nobody likes Star Trek. Why? Like, I'm a Star Trek. I'm a I became a Trekkie too because my dad, like, like, my again, my dad's a secret nerd too. Like, he would introduce me to that. And I'm just I started watching the next I grew up with the Next Gen. Yes. Yeah. I'm a TOS guy. Ah. And,
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I had a very hard time with the the next generation when it when it started up. And I'm still, like, I'll watch it every now and then, but I I am definitely not.
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And especially and especially the expanded universe stuff, I I don't get into any of that stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The non canon stuff. I I don't I don't buy into that stuff. Like, Discovery and all that stuff. Yeah. I never I mean, I I watch it, but I I'm not like a fan. Like, I won't go out of my way to watch it. I love TOS too, by the way. The the original series. How do you not? Yeah. You have to. It's so kitschy. It's like it's I started introducing it to my son, actually. He's and he's only 11. And he's starting to get into all this retro stuff. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. And I never introduced it to him, though. I think he started watching Stranger Things and he started hearing, like, Journey and stuff, and then he hears me listening to it. Yeah. And now he likes to listen to, like, Michael Jackson and all this old, like, Journey, Poison, all these all these Nice. Yeah. And now we're watching Star Trek, and I'm just, now he comes and asks me, dad, like, what's a what's a Klingon? I'm just like, But that's what happens when you go to the bathroom, you don't wipe yourself well enough.
Yes. Yes. I gotta get him that one.
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But yeah. Yeah, man. That's I'm a huge nerd, and yeah. I am a Trekkie. Yeah. I I love the Star Trek stuff. And I'm I'm I'm a Star Wars guy too. I I like Star Wars. But again, I'm I'm an original guy. I I don't like the I don't like the expanded universe stuff. Like, I I won't watch all of these spin offs that came up because the Disney? Like the whole Disney expansion? Yeah. Ever since Disney took it ever since Disney took it over, it's just to me, it's just been, you know, on a bit of a decline. Yeah. And and I know, like, statistically in numbers and all, it says the opposite, but where I think it it turned is because they started inserting all that woke bullshit into it. Right. And, you know, I'm sorry. I I can't I don't I mean, I canceled my Netflix subscription because of that. I I got rid of all that stuff. I I just don't I don't wanna say I don't wanna hear it. I don't care. You just live your life. Do what you wanna do. I I don't care. Just don't force it down my throat. Right. That's all I'm doing. I tell that to everybody who thinks I'm like a like, I know there's people that say I'm I'm a right winger. Pun intended, by the way.
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Yeah. Yeah. People would like, oh, he's a right winger. Don't listen to him. Like, well, dude, I'm an open minded conservative. I again, like, if you wanna be gay, if you wanna be trans, if you wanna be all that stuff, that's fine. If that's what makes you happy Mhmm. Hey, more power to you. But just just don't just don't come and try to tell me that, you know, I gotta do that stuff. Yeah. As a And leave the kids out of it. Yeah. Absolutely. You can let the kids make their own decisions. Exactly. Look, a kid, a a five, six year old cannot determine whether or not they wanna be the opposite of what they were born. Yeah. No. Only if an adult starts putting it in their head. And we we all know the problems that are happening out there in the world with teachers and stuff like that. That's just, you know, it's it's it's just not natural. You know what I mean? There's a comment for you. Oh. Oh. It's my wife. I know.
I'm about to give him my cassettes with paper lyrics. Yep. Uh-huh. Yeah. He does retro stuff.
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Yeah. So I got rid of all that stuff with with all that woke stuff. That's why I won't watch new stuff. I'll I'll stick with the old stuff. And, it's to me, it's just it it's just better anyway. I I think. Especially when you when you watch the older series and you see them just like formulating and and actually building the entire universe at that point, you know, whether it's the Star Trek universe or the Star Wars universe and just building it and building it and building it. It's, you know, and layer upon layer. It's building a brick upon brick. But the,
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but yeah, that woke stuff. I I stay I stay away from it. You know what's funny? Is that in people, the left, the the far left doesn't want you to know this or doesn't want you to see this. That like, I have gay friends. Mhmm. And you wouldn't even know they were gay. Like, you know, you're just like, hey, I'm I'm Joe. Yeah. Well,
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another Joe. Thank you. And I can clarify. And and this is my and this is my husband. Like, woah. I didn't even know you guys were gay. And they and they would even say, you know what? This woke stuff is stupid. Yeah. And I was like, wow. So not not all the LGBTQ community are on board with this and they don't the far left doesn't want you to know. No. It's a very it's a small minority within within it's a small minority within the minority. Yeah. So it's it's it's it's an interesting it's an interesting setup they have. Yeah. The, and yet but I was gonna say was too, and I I lost my thought there was Sorry. No. No. No. No. It's not you. It wasn't your fault. It was as I'm getting older, my memory is becoming more like Swiss cheese. So the, you know, I I don't I am a conservative. Yes. But but I also I I identify as a, as a conservatarian.
Conservatarian. Oh, that's new. So I I I have I I have strong conservative beliefs, but I also have a lot of libertarian leanings in in in certain things. And so that so anybody asked me, so are you a Republican?
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No.
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Republicans are are they're public officials. Right? We're we're con there's a difference between Republicans and conservatives, Democrats and liberals. Absolutely. But I I go further with it. I say, I am if well, I mean, am I a Republican? Well, well, yes. In in a sense that I'm a small r Republican. Yeah. You know, I believe in Republican government. I believe in the Republican form of government. That we are Republicans. And the the, in in electing representatives on your behalf to and and and that we base our society on a set of laws, not mob rule.
Yeah. You know, which is where the Democrats go. So, you know, it it's that's how I kinda define it. But conservatarian is much more of a, I think, a concise way of describing that without getting into all the the grotesque details of it all. Yeah. Yeah. But, alright. Next one. So, what what do you do to help you unwind at the end of the day? What's your go to beverage? What do you like to do?
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Mountain Dew. No. I'm joking. I'm joking. Because I was like, I was listening. Like, everybody is saying Mountain Dew. I was just like, I gotta get Joe with this one. You did. I was gonna Yeah. You're like, nah. I was gonna mute your mic. Dude, Mountain Dew is just the worst. I'm sorry for all of you Mountain Dew lovers, but I I they call it the gamer drink. It's horrible for you. Dude, I look at you look at the sugar content. It's like 70 grams. That's like way more than you're supposed to have in a day, I think. Right? Yeah. Absolutely. And I'm like, ugh. I it should be chamomile tea, but, an ice cold lemonade.
Naturally squeezed lemonade is my wind down drink.
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Not too much sugar either. It's safe. That that's good. I haven't had that one yet. Yeah. Lemonade.
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Lemonade, with ice ice ice cold. And and you know what? There's a place called Tacumbo that we, on El Indio. Mhmm. And they the lemonade is just, ugh, like, so it is it's it's in a, like, a little tub and there's ice in it, and they pour it in in another thing of ice, and it's just cold and it's delicious, not too sweet, not too tart. It's perfect. Nice. Nice. Yeah. We,
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my thing is lately look, I I drink way too much coffee. I'll tell you that honestly. I heard about that. Yeah. Yeah. I went from this the '64 ounce, you know, Yetis to down to, like, two cups a day. But this Okay. But but it's Saturday and and Yeah. Why not? And well, I took cold meds, so I need to wake up. Uh-huh. So so,
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that's why we're drinking this stuff today. Trying to counter the NyQuil? Yeah. Yeah. But,
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but I I've been I've been I kinda dipped back to the green teas, you know. I I when when I got COVID the first time around, when it first came around, with The OG strain? Yeah. Yeah. The the fir that first round that came around in in, I got sick in in June of the first period of time. So June 20. Right? So, How was it? Was it bad? Oh, yeah. Well, you know what? It was a bad flu, is really what it was. But at the time, you know, things like hydroxychloroquine and and all that stuff weren't verboten. Like, you you know, you were allowed to have those things. And my doctor gave it to me and then within, like, by the by the end of the second day on the on the, hydroxychloroquine, I was up and I was doing my thing and it was all that stuff. But, I mean, yeah, I was sick. But but I couldn't drink anything.
Nothing had any flavor whatsoever. And, my wife at the time, she she said, well, you need to drink something. So so she gave me, green tea with with raw honey and fresh lime. Lime.
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My wife's gonna come on to comment on that right now, I bet. Because that's that's the go to. It is. It's it's the best. Vicks two.
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Yeah. You know, may I don't know. Maybe you could explain this to me since since you're you're you're an eagle pass longer than I am and maybe this is I don't know. What is it with putting Vicks on your feet?
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So I had that exact same question and my wife is the one that was so is is still a big believer on it. So apparently, when you put Vicks on your feet, it's drawing heat to, like, your feet to the soles of your feet, and you're sweating down there. So, like, when you put Vicks on your feet and your socks and, baby, if you're watching, you can correct me on on a comment if you want. It it causes your feet to sweat while you're sleeping. So you're technically sweating everything out through your feet and not all over your body. And I still, like, I still don't believe in it. I still I have a hard time with the cold. We have all these fights, like, oh, I tell you what? It's not the cold that gets you sick. And I know I'm, like, devastating all these these traditional Latinos out there that, you know, they they say that the cold is what gets you sick. No. It's germs. Germs get you sick. The cold makes it worse. Correct. So yeah. Thank you, sir.
It's an argument that I've been having for years. I learned that in the army because I was still a big believer about it. And, of course, you have, like, 50 dudes in a bay Mhmm. And everyone starts getting sick. And the drill sergeants would be like, you guys are gonna get sick. Just so you know, be prepared for it. It's because you have 50 guys sleeping in one room, and someone's getting germs. Someone's got germs. Someone spreads something in it, everybody gets sick. It's not the cold, it's it's germs.
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Exactly. Like, I I I and case in point to to go with you, everybody knows, you know, my audience knows that I work in a nursing facility. Okay. And, you're gonna get sick. You know, you're gonna touch something and and and you it happens. You you you touch something. Especially what I do, you know, I'm not always wearing gloves because I can't. Sometimes I need to actually get my hands onto what I'm working with. Right. And, I don't handle residents or patients. I I do I do facility maintenance and life safety. So, you know, you're always working with your hands and sometimes you forget. You you, you know, and it never fails too. You're you're always working with the sloppiest, nastiest stuff. Like, it happened the other day. I was I had to change a drain set. Oh. And, and of course, as soon as I start taking the stuff off, the the nose itches, the eye itches, all that stuff, and you're like I got all this sludge all over my hands, and it's like, you know?
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It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. Yeah. It's inevitable. Like, that's why, like, when COVID hit, like, everyone started wearing, like, wet buckets on their head or something like that. It's like
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dude, just it's gonna happen. You know, when the aliens from three I Atlas finally land, they're they're gonna look back over our data records and they can say, what was wrong with you?
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Like, what the hell is wrong with these people? Why do they, you know, it was just a it's like men in black how they say that we're, you know, Tommy Lee Jones put it gray, like, we're humans are panicky dangerous animals. You know what I mean? And when we panic, we and fear just makes you do just the craziest things. Absolutely. Like putting, freaking, bags on your hands or whatever for when COVID happened or putting, like, the I know someone had, like, a sponge as a mask or something like that. I remember seeing that too. Wild. It's just it's just nonsense.
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Wild. It really is. So, so so let me ask you this. So so you grew up in Palm Springs Yeah. California. And, now how long now how long did you stay in California? And and then what eventually brought you here to Texas? So I was born and raised in, well, I was born in Palm Springs. I was actually raised in
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I've been it's it's a Coachella Valley. It's it's almost like the Rio Grande Valley. Mhmm. You got Cathedral City. You got Palm Springs. You have Coachella. You have Indio. I've lived in all those places. But I was raised in Cathedral City. But were you born in California or you were here? No. I was born in California. Okay. Born and raised. Yeah. Born and raised, with my parents. My parents actually left Texas. So those of you who say that I'm not a Texan, well, you know, my dad was born in Texas. My grandparents are Texan. All my family lives in Texas. My parents just decided to move to California. You know what I mean? Like There you go. So, and they moved to California. We I was raised there till, you know, I moved out at 19.
Met my ex wife, and then got pregnant, joined the army, at 25. Joined the army, did that for about six years, got to was going through a divorce, and I got deployed for the first, the first migrant crisis that we had in 2019 when the caravan was coming. Mhmm. And the national guard was getting into many, smuggling cases. Like, they were aiding a lot of the migrants coming in, and they were getting caught. So president Trump said, you know what? Screw this. I'm gonna send the federal troops over there. Mhmm. And then our I was in actually Fort Lewis McChord in Washington. There for it to be three years, so I love it when it gets cold.
They said, well, we're going to Texas. We're like, oh, shit. Okay. And then, we came down here. My unit was spread out, to Eagle Pass, Catulla. That's where I got stationed in there. That's how I met my my wife. She's a border patrol agent for twenty plus years. Nice. She got some age on me, but, you know, not age is just a number, baby. You know what I mean? We met, and then I was actually got gone through my divorce, so it was pretty it was pretty crazy time. Your first divorce, I'm sure you know. Uh-huh. Yeah. Unfortunately. And especially when you have a spouse that doesn't wanna cooperate with you, who's just it's a nightmare. You know, she pulled me through that. We met and, you know, we after we spent some time together, after deployment was over, it's time to I I didn't have I got custody of my son. Okay.
So I'm a single dad now, and I can't in in the army, if you don't have a family care plan, do you okay. Okay. What do you wanna do? Do you wanna try to find something, or do you wanna stay in the army? I said, you know what? I'm I think it's time. I can't do this job and leave my son and miss all these birthdays and stuff like that, especially when I have nobody out there in Washington to watch him. There's no family out there. Right. I said, I'm gonna oh, and the argument was, that I there's no way I could take care of my son and be in the army. I said, okay. Point taken. I'm gonna get out of the army. So I got out and moved here to Eagle Pass with my my new my new wife. So what what was the transition like coming back to Eagle Pass? It was very weird. I had to learn I mean, my Spanish was nothing. I had, like I mean, yeah. I knew some. Of course. You you know the the the basics. Oh, you do. Yeah. Yeah. You kinda know the basics.
And then I started learning more into this. So, it small living in a small town, I think, is better than living in a big city. Because, you know, when I go to San Antonio, as soon as you take a right on Military Drive, it's ghetto, you know, and all of a sudden you're just like, you're in some place that you didn't think you'd be. Here in Eagle Pass, it's always safe, you know, I I think. You know, there's all kinds of I mean, it's safe at night. I can go on a jog or I can go with Blake or whatever. It's a good little place. I liked it. I I fell in love with it actually because my my wife started showing me all these places to eat, like, roadies.
Oh, I fell in love with roadies, like, before COVID hit. And they're like Roadies are good. I haven't had roadies in a long time.
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My my, my ex, loved roadies. I mean alright. So little digression here, but it has to do with roadies. So so I like to cook. I and I I cook high end quality meals. And I would cook a storm for my ex. I I would I would all these Italian dishes I'm Italian, so I I I make all these Italian dishes, and I would do all of these all of these plates and and and I mean, I'll show you pictures after the show, but but, and and she would she would get the plate, and she would sit there, and she'd be picking at it. I'm like, what's wrong? Don't pick at my food.
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You know?
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Same thing. And and and she's over here picking at it. She was and and something she had said to me when I first met her and I and I and and brought her up to New York was, she would rather have a hot dog or something from roadies than a big fancy meal. And I'm like, I'm like, babe, I I I you have filet mignon sitting in front of you, and you're you're you'd rather have roadies? Are you shitting me?
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That's my wife too, man. I I well, she fell in love with me because of my cooking too. It has to be an eagle pastel. Yeah. Cooking and all kinds of other things. Like, I started making Mexican like, my mom's recipe Mexican rice or Spanish rice, they call it. And, all of a sudden now her cooking just kinda went. Just like, alright. She loves it when I and I have to be in a good mood. You know what I mean? But I've been working so much and, you know, I just got furloughed. So now I'm gonna have now I have so much time to cook now until the government reopens. She loves the rice, man. And I was just like, okay. What else? And I'll I'll make just like you. I'll I think I made what did I make one time?
It's not fancy. I like I like I said, I used to be a cook back in the day Mhmm. And I love, like, I love Gordon Ramsay. Okay. And I got a recipe for shepherd's pie. Well, it's not lamb, so I think it's called, it's not shepherd shepherd's pies with lamb. What's the other word for it for with when you cook it with ground beef? There's another word for it. I I I know what you're talking about, and I'm drawing a blank on it. Yeah. Well, it's it's it's a knock off of shepherd's pie, and she's just like, she'd rather have, like, you know, a taco from, you know, tacos Los Barrados, the the the the the trucks or taco or, taco Morales or, you know, and a hot dog or bacon wrapped hot dog. Yeah. It's an Eagle Pass thing or roadies.
And I fell in love with all that stuff too. So it's just like and not just the food, you know, the the people. You know, people there's a lot of good people in Eagle Pass. There's a lot of bad people in Eagle Pass, but there's a lot of good people that deserve a voice. Cottage pie. Cottage pie. There you go. Cottage pie. I don't like the name. I like I like shepherd's pie better, man. But, yeah. That's I know I'm I'm starting to flip up flip flop. I'm sorry if I do that. No. No. No. Don't don't. Keep keep me on point, man, because I I can go I can start branching out into a different topic. No. No. We're good. Listen. We got a we got a lot of time, and we got a lot of stuff to talk about. So Yeah. Of course. Just ramble, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. Yeah. Yeah. No. I fell in love with Eagle Pass, And I love it when people call me an outsider. That's what that's all they have against me. Mhmm. You're an outsider. You know, what do who is this guy to tell us to give us inspiration or tell us what to do with our community?
And I'm just like, shut up. Like, this is my community. I've lived here for five years. My son goes to school here. I vote here. I have a big strong I have a I like to think I have a strong foothold in this community. I've done a lot of service. This is my community too, man. Yeah. Yeah. So Well, it and it's it's interesting because I haven't had anybody, at least in my face, call me an outsider. Not not yet. They won't do that. They won't call you an outsider in their face. They'll just do it on the keyboard. Ah. Because then and that's how some people are here. A lot of my haters, I'll see them. And and, like, what do you guys what do you what what comes to mind when you're hating on somebody on the Internet? And this is why I think was created.
So that I mean, you know what Oh, yeah. I stay away from it. Yeah. And people wanna just talk shit anonymously. And I think that's so, like are you ashamed of yourself to to to make an anonymous profile and to be just throwing all this crap out instead of doing it with your own profile. That's why I share everything with my profile. And do I get hate for it? Yeah. I do. Like, when I report the news. Right. Yeah. I do. We're gonna come to that shortly.
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Yeah. We we won't go yeah. I won't jump over that one. We'll get into that in a minute shortly. But, And for the folks that are watching, I wanna apologize right now. Our our stream is degrading a little bit. So Uh-oh. I do apologize for that. It's it's an issue with Spectrum. I hate Spectrum. Oh, is it is the the video a little fuzzy? Yeah. I just saw it up on the monitor there. It's gonna it's gonna go like, retro pixelated. Yeah. Exactly. It's sometimes I look like a blob just sitting here. I mean, I know I have to lose weight, but, you know Oh, if you look like a blob, shoot, I'm gonna look like a like Slimer from, from Ghostbusters. Yeah.
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That's another thing. People love to call me fat. I'm just like Have you seen the majority vehicle pass? Yeah. Exactly. I'm like, hello. I'm not the only fat person here. Like, I get when you when I go to JCPenney to buy something my size, they're all out. I have to go to big and tall and that's too big. You know, I'm like, come on now. They I'm like and I'm asking them, don't you guys have some this is Eagle Pass. Where is all the big boy stuff at? And they're like, oh, well, there's a lot of big boys here in Eagle Pass. Sorry. You know, you're too late. I'm so sick. At least they can acknowledge it. That's I know. Right? That's good. I love it. They they call me fat, like, that hurts me. Like, I know I'm fat. I got a dad bod. So what? You know what I mean? So I mean, it's Dad bod's times two. Yeah. Exactly. And Not you. I mean me. Yeah. No. No. No. That's me. I'm, like, times three.
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But, like I like to call myself a four x fat bastard.
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That's a good one, dude. I'm gonna call myself a two x or three x bad bastard. Do you know what I mean? But, like, when I wear something too big, like, it looks it makes me look fatter. Of course. Yeah. Because I I like to wear loose stuff. I don't like to wear, like, something that's fitted. But people say, oh, no. You look my my producer, Veronica, you know, shout out to her. She's been a big help. Would tell me, you look you look good when you have something that's fitted. I'm like, ew, no. Because then you can, like, see everything.
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Yeah. And she's like, you know what? You can see my six pack of rolls.
[00:50:17] Unknown:
Yeah. Rolls here, rolls here, rolls down here. And she's like, you're a man. Don't worry about it. Like, you're, you know
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Yeah. That's what that's what they that's what they say unless that's what the the less they're actually looking for somebody. Then then it's like, you know, the roles aren't good enough. They want they want the perfect, you know, the perfect abs, the washboards, and I don't know. There's a lot of women out here that like gorditos, man. Yeah? They really do. See, aren't you impressed that I knew what that meant? Yeah.
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Yeah. I am. I'm pretty. Yeah. A lot of they like a lot of gorditos out there, man. And and that's just Eagle Pass, you know. And some actually actually not just Eagle Pass, it's everywhere. A lot of I don't know. A lot of younger women like dad bots. You know, and and that and I yeah. Okay. I I could agree with that. I I just,
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you know, it's just it's a vocal minority that that pitch the idea of you have to be perfect, you know. Yeah. You have to have that 0% body fat. You have to have the rips, and you have to have the cuts, and you have to have the washboard. You have to have all that stuff. It's fantasy. It's but yeah. Exactly. It's not real life. Yeah. You know, it's like it's like I I always say, you know, for a guy, you know, when whenever you talk to somebody, it's like, oh, I'm you know, to a girl, she's like, oh, I'm fat, I'm this, I'm that. Hey, listen. Bones are for dogs. Meat is for men. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And my wife too. She'll be like, oh, no. I'm fat. Don't look don't we'll take, like, a million pictures. And she's like, no. I look fat. I'm like, oh, come on now. You know, just I'm hideous. Don't look at me. Yeah. No. You know. Just give her a slap on the ass and there you go, man. There you go. There see, I think a lot of women misunderstand the slap on the ass. You know, guys understand it because, you know, we're we're into sports and all this stuff. It's it's it's a it's a gesture of accomplishment. Right. You know, you did a good thing.
Go for it. You know, That's that's what it is. It's not it's an appreciation. It's a it's a it's an extension of appreciation. It's it's not what you think. It's it's just acceptance. Right. And and and that's true because
[00:52:09] Unknown:
well, and I'm getting very personal here. It's great. I love it. Like We do that here. Yeah. And my my the minute I'll pass by and I don't give her a nice pat on the butt, they'll be like What's wrong? What the hell? Like, well,
[00:52:22] Unknown:
why why didn't you? You know? It's what what what's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? Yeah. Like, did you what's wrong with me? Who are you who else are you talking to? Yeah. Slapping somebody else's ass? Like
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and I'm just like, no. Let me see your phone. Yeah. Get your phone. What's going on? So, yeah, they do appreciate that. Like, you gotta give them a good slap on the ass. You know what I mean? Those who who like it or whatever. It's it's not it's it's an appreciation. It's it's an acknowledgement. So, yeah, once you stop doing that, then they're like, woah. Hold on. Or once you stop touching, you know, wherever, give them a touch or a kiss or whatever. Yeah. They'll be like, woah, what's going on here? And when women think differently. Folks, this this is the Joe Russo,
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on on a Saturday afternoon, talking here with Ruben Camarillo. And, we are, for those who may be confused, we don't normally do this during the course of the day, but this is, this, you know, this is something different that we're doing. We're enjoying this. It's a lot of fun, I think. We're having a great time. I'm glad. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop them down below in the comment section, or, you could, post a comment on in the live chat on Rumble, I don't think on Youboob. I'm set up for that. Fakebook. Yeah. We we're seeing comments come through on Fakebook.
X, I'm not looking at. So, because nobody watches on x. So, so there are plenty of ways to drop a comment to us. If you have any questions for Ruben you'd like to ask, you know, feel free to send them on over. We like to, have have that kind of interaction. So, and don't forget to like, subscribe, and share it with your friends, your family, and your followers. Help us to spread this thing. Help us with the algorithm. Help us get spotted and seen. Alright. A little station identification right there. Absolutely, man. Alright. So let's talk about your show now. Let's get in let's get into that a little bit. Oh, no. Alright. I like that little segue. Right? That was good. Yep. Good transition then. Professional radio. Yep.
Yep. Now, so so your show is Now You Know Eagle Pass. Mhmm. So what what what really inspired you to do that? Where where did that come from? So,
[00:54:10] Unknown:
you know, I've always been into politics when I was since I was a kid, when I was I tell people this. When in high school, senior year, I took, government. Well, I think it was an elective back in the day. Yeah. It had to be. I don't remember.
[00:54:27] Unknown:
And we learned about the constitution. We learned about Which is I'm sorry to interrupt you, but which is which is pathetic. If if it is, it has to be an elective class to take. You should that should be the core study of every child in school is government, civics, how the thing works, how it's supposed to work, not somebody's opinion of how it's supposed to work. Right. I I
[00:54:48] Unknown:
I yield I yield back, sir. Yeah. No. You can inter please. If I if you have to interrupt me, please do so. Yeah. It it it was an elective. I I think. Don't quote me on that. I it was a long time ago, obviously. I'm already 37 years old, and that's when I was 18. Oh, so long. 55. Yeah. You don't look like you're in your fifties, man. And when you said that when I heard you say that, I'm like, no way. In two weeks, I'll be 55. Oh, okay. He's over here complaining about 38, 37. Dude, well, the army does put, like, ten more years on you, man. I feel like I can feel it. Wish I was 37 again.
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Honestly, because because honestly, the 37, I felt like that was the best I ever looked, the best I ever felt. And then after that, it's all been downhill. So I'm sure yeah. I'm sure the older I'll get, I'll start noticing
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it. But, you know, I'll cherish these younger years while I can. Yeah. Absolutely. But, was I yeah. So the I learned we learned all that stuff, the constitution. We learned about government. We learned about, you know, term limits. Wow. What do you know? And, you know, branches of government, leg you know, legislative, judicial, executive, all that stuff. And I was I was infatuated. And ever since then, like, I got into politics. And, like, that was when, believe it or not, I was a liberal back in the day. I was I did
[00:56:04] Unknown:
I was an Obama liker back in the day. I think everybody in Florida I think everybody flirted with insanity at one point in their life.
[00:56:10] Unknown:
Yeah. Right? And it's okay to admit that. You know? It's okay to go through changes and change your mind. Sure. So It's called maturing. It's called growing up. Yeah. Absolutely. And, you know, Obama had that, you know, that attraction to the younger crowd. Mhmm. You know? Hey. Look at me. I'm cool. Vote for me. Marketing. Yeah. Market. You guys talked about marketing with Danny the other time. And then, yeah, absolutely. And and you're gonna get the younger generation on there. And that's the most important thing. And we'll talk about that right now about my podcast, which is trying to get the younger, the younger audience involved because let's just face it. Eagle Pass is old.
There's a lot of old politics, a lot of old stuff still looming around, and the younger generation just kinda bite into it. You know what I mean? So anyways, fell in love with that. Fast forward when I moved to Eagle Pass, I came in right when they were doing mayor elections when Rolando Salinas was running for mayor. You had Monica Cruz running for, for city council and all that good stuff. And I'm just like and I'm looking at all these signs like, wow. I wanna do this one of these days. I wanna run for office and and and help the community and do that. But you know what? I I'm new here, so nobody knows me, so whatever. Started supporting people, and then the county elections came along.
And, of course, I'm like, where's the Republican party at? I was like and then I met, and this one I'm not gonna get too into this story because it's pretty long because I know the Republican party here was split for a little bit. Mhmm. I think it's more united than ever now. But I I met up with some people. My good friend Sandy who is the she's the county chair, Sandy Cesano.
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Oh, really? Yeah. Interesting. Why do you say that? I have I have reached out to her and her office and the County Republicans on four occasions.
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And not a not even a not even a response. Do you have her number? You have her I'll give you her I'll give you her number. We'll talk after you. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That that well, it and I can attest that I can go up to bat for that. Like, they're it's very unorganized. Like, there's no it was for a little bit, and then I guess their office closed down because they didn't have enough money to fund it, and it just kinda
[00:58:24] Unknown:
it just kinda split. Yeah. I wanted to talk to her after the election because I know that, you know, Maverick County in itself, I don't think it flipped completely red, but it it there was a huge increase in in Republican voting, for Donald Trump. And I know that the Republican party in the county did a lot of work to try to get that. Oh, yeah. And I wanted to talk to her about that. Yeah. Well, you you well, here's here's news flash. There's
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there's, like, two different factions of Republicans. There's the county Republican party that's a little bit to the right, and then you have the Tony Gonzalez lovers. Mhmm. You know what I mean? He's in trouble. Yeah. He's yeah. Yeah. And actually I actually met, I'm sorry. I'm going blank. What's her name? His his, his aide and the one that The human torch? Yeah. The human torch. Yeah. I I actually met her, g Regina. And she's a nice lady. You know what I mean? And we've tried to get, Tony on a podcast and never it never happened. And, yeah, the the it was a two separate there's the Tony supporters, and then there's the non Tony supporters who wanted to same censure him and all that other stuff. Right.
And that was a so that's why I left the I was actually volunteering with them to help any Republican candidates. I saw all their signs. I wasn't completely infatuated. I'm like and then I see how they campaigned, and no no disrespect to them, but I saw a lot of flaws. One of my biggest things is if you're gonna be a politician, you have to learn how to speak. And I'm not saying they didn't know how to speak English. I'm just saying that they like, the county judge who ran against Ramsey. I'm sorry, man. Like, I there's just no chance in hell. It was, it was such a waste of time. The guy didn't know how to speak. Mhmm. He couldn't talk. He couldn't talk to the people. He got nervous. And you're running against Ramsey. English come through, man. You need to step it up. And I can say that as as someone who's a voter. Yeah.
And so I would you know, I got really I couldn't understand. I couldn't process. Like, is this how Maverick County politics is? You know, you can get any I mean, that that's great. If you're any Joe Schmo who wants to run, please go for it. But you need to understand that you hate those phrases. Yeah. What which Joe Schmo's. Joe Schmo's. The average Joe The average Joe. Oh, yes. Sorry. Oh, yeah. We gotta find something else for that now. Great. That's gonna be the average Joe. That's gonna be imprinted in my brain. No. Like, you have to be willing to get your message out. You have to instead of, like and I didn't say they did this, but the thing with Maverick County politics is they love to attack each other personally instead of and they spend a lot of time attacking each other that they don't they don't
[01:01:09] Unknown:
get their message out to the people on what they're gonna do good for the community. I agree with you. Yeah. I I I saw a lot of that in the last couple of election cycles that I've been party to and or at least privileged to to see and observe. It's it's Yeah. It's vicious. It it really is. It's it's vicious. Yeah. And so
[01:01:26] Unknown:
fast forward, all those elections got out and I'm like, you know what? I wanna run for city council. I'm gonna do it. And I ran for city council against my good friend, now my good friend, Mario Garcia. Mhmm. I love to have a relate well, and then everybody's gonna be like, oh, woah. He's with Mario Garcia, and he's with the school district. Right now, there's like a war going between the school district and the city. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I've been I've been following the posts on, what was it, on, Maverick Times? Yeah. I was waiting for you to say that. That's another that's another story on that one. Yeah. I know. But I I I don't know much about them. I'd I'm I get updates on Facebook from the group. Yeah. So I just I don't wanna I don't wanna knock anybody on your podcast, but that'll be a that'll be a story maybe behind the scenes going there.
But yeah. No. It's it's constant, war. And you can tell if you're not I'm not saying people are stupid, but if you're just living in everyday life and you see these kind of things, you're like, wow. This is what's going on with the school district. But what they really don't see is that, okay, you have people from the city trying to implement themselves and can and get power inside the ISD. You know what I mean? I called some guy out who went up with the whole the, the threats at Armando Serna. I don't know if you heard about that. Not familiar. Doesn't sound doesn't ring a bell. So there was there was a threat, at the school.
You know, one of many, many threats and all this other stuff that's been going on since since the Uvalde shooting. You know, they had they had kids pranking and and doing that and what everybody was going crazy, panicking, picking up the kids from school. Fast forward, this happens, and, now they're attacking the school. They're attacking the ISD. They're attacking the superintendent. And the superintendent behind us knows I don't agree with a lot of things that he does been in, but we have that mutual respect as we talk. You know what I mean? I've talked to him. I've interviewed him and stuff. He gets it. He's not gonna pound me for that, like, you know, attack me like a lot of some of the city officials are doing right now because I criticize them when I report the truth.
But, yeah, it's, I started seeing that. I called the guy out for you know, he he read something on he tried to be, like, a concerned parent. And now when you're reading something, I get it. Sometimes I gotta read stuff. Mhmm. But, like, what concerned parent who is scared for their kids is thinking about, like, government codes and, oh, we need this and we need this and government codes and and, and then they go to the city and request a city liaison to be part of the ISD. It's a good point. Yeah. Like, who's I'm not gonna be worried about that. I'm gonna be like, hey, shithead. Like, I you you need to do something about this. My kid my kids are part of this school. You guys need to do better.
Even though, in my opinion, this whole kids doing school shooting threats and all that, it starts with the home. Yeah. I agree. You know? What what more can the teachers, the principals, the superintendent do to control this? Not not not a lot. It starts with the parents. The parents gotta be like, hey. Look. What the hell? I didn't teach you to do this. What's going on? Something's gotta be going on at the home. Anyways, I'm sorry. I'm I'm going off topic. No. No. No. That's fine.
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Actually, you're you're kinda leading into another question that I had for you about the show. Yeah. But but that's fine. We'll Continue. Yeah.
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So, anyway, so we'll we'll we'll rewind after all this stuff. I decided, when I when I lost miserably to to Mario Garcia, I started a podcast called Now You Know Eagle Pass. And I'd said a good friend of mine told me, you don't need a title to serve. Mhmm. That's true. And I thought doing this podcast would give at first, it's it's flip flopped a lot. The first, goal was to bring a conservative voice to Eagle Pass. I I think it it's it Eagle Pass is a totally democratic dominated,
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place. It is. Yeah. And so
[01:05:33] Unknown:
there's a but there's a lot of conservatives out here, man. When Trump came over here, dude, Main Street was flooded. Yeah. And like, you can't tell me all the and and like I would try to go like I would try to interview people like, no, no, no. I'm supposed to be at work. Well, the well, the problem is though is that is it just just to give the audience
[01:05:50] Unknown:
a window as to what you're talking about. You know, there's definitely more people here that are of a different political persuasion. You look at the mayoral election. Right? We're we're a town of or city of about what? 35, 40,000 people. Right. And only 3,500 people came out to vote. Yeah. I mean
[01:06:10] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's and there's another thing that right now, I think the polls just closed for some constitutional amendments. 17 constitutional amendments.
[01:06:18] Unknown:
But the the early voting. Now November 4 is the actual Oh, okay. Person's voting. Yeah. But like, nobody's voted. And just and just on that, I'm glad you mentioned it. Just on that, folks, remember one thing. When you go to the polls and you and you cut cut these are very very important things to be voting on and to consider. Okay? Absolutely. Just remember one thing. If you are reading one of these amendments and it's talking about funding something, remember that the Texas constitution was not written to fund anything. Yep. Alright. Alright. So your default should be automatically no.
Because where's the funding coming from folks? You are already taxed enough, especially here. Yeah. So it's that's why we're in a that's why we're having a problem with our our our escrow right now, because the school district taxes are absolutely ridiculous. Ridiculous. It's the highest tax I have to pay out of all the taxes I pay is the school district tax. Yeah. So, just remember that. The Texas constitution was not written or designed to fund anything.
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So your answer should be no on those. I mean, vote your conscience, do what you gotta do, but keep that in mind. Yeah. And nobody's advertising this. Like, now when it comes to, you know, mayoral elections or county elections, everybody's on their toes ready to go vote. But when it comes to stuff like this, it's very important. Yeah. Super important. And especially, like, you know, again, like you've mentioned, the taxes have been raising. Now we have a city administration that's, you know, raising the tax, raising the, the bridge tolls. Now on this next agenda, which I'll talk about on my podcast later, they wanna spend $60,000 of our tax money to fund an attorney, another attorney for for whatever, just in case. It's It's on there. No joke, man. It's on the agenda for the next city council meeting. I can't wait to see that. Why? And guess what? It's somebody who's related to somebody in the county.
[01:08:14] Unknown:
Interesting. Yeah. You you guys will you'll you'll see all that. But Well, small town politics are always very heavily nepotistic. Oh, absolutely. And it's just the way it is. But the but the thing is that
[01:08:25] Unknown:
And I'm not saying that is a way of just throwing your hands up and walking away from it. I'm just saying that's just the way it is. Right. But that's the problem is people just throw their hands up and walk away from it and they know that. They're like, well, you know, no one's gonna say anything. And that's why I I revamped Now You Know Eagle Pass. Whenever I see, and there are, there are other media entities who and I get it. They gotta make a living. They can't you know, the local local local media's gotta make a living. They gotta have contracts with the city, contracts with the county. And if they say something bad, there goes their contract. Or they if they if they report something that they don't like, you know, there goes their contract. You know what I mean? I don't get paid by those people. I'm get like, your podcast with Danny about giving. Mhmm. I'm all about giving. My mother taught me one thing is to to give. You the more you give, the more you get. You you're gonna get something one of these days.
So I I try to help, open the like, lift the veil for these people for a lot of of us in the community that believe all this BS, that the city or the county throws at them, and they're not liking it. Yeah. You know what I mean? So now I'm vilified. I'm vilified for telling the truth, but it's all factual. That's why I got into journalism. You know? I said, okay. Well, let's let's do something for free, and tell people the truth. So it shifted from Republican politics to, like, now it's totally local. Mhmm. And we try to do good things and and do positive things on the podcast and but we wanna do political analytics. Like, okay. What should the mayor do, for this? What should he be doing? What should city council be voting on? How should they be voting on things?
Why not why not give the people that opinion? And then when they're doing something wrong,
[01:10:10] Unknown:
point it out. Mhmm. Nothing wrong with keeping your leaders accountable and honest in this one. We we need well, they they are public servants. They serve the public. Yeah. So so it's important for you as a member of the public to let your voice be heard and let people know, and let those people that you elected to represent you at government
[01:10:29] Unknown:
know that you're unhappy with something or if they're doing a good job, let them know. Yeah. Absolutely. And I let them know if they're doing a good job, like, I try to like, again, I try to develop a relationship with these people, with city council, with the county judge, and the commissioners, everybody. You know? I want everybody to know that I'm neutral. And because Eagle Pass is so used to having teams just firing at each other. Yeah. You think about, like, the the the colonial wars where they're just in line taking turns, like, involving Little European style of Yeah. Combat. That's what it is. And so, like, here I am in the middle, and they're either perceiving that I'm on this side or I'm on this side. No. I'm not on any on anybody's team. I am I'm for the people. I'm the voice of Eagle Pass. I wanna be the voice of Eagle Pass, and I want to be that person that's taking the hits. Because a lot of people that work for the school district, for the city, for the county, they can't say that stuff because if you go against somebody, guess what? They'll probably get fired or whatnot. It's the truth, and it sucks. Yeah. It's really crappy. So I have a good I have a good job. People like to I love how they like, oh, he's he's just mad because he didn't get a job at the county. That's why he's doing this. Come on, dude. The the job I have is, like, make I make way more money than I would ever do, like, times three than working for the county or the city.
And that's that's for me working hard, and I'm a survivor, man. You know what I mean? So that's why I fund my own podcast. I do what I can to fund everything. I love that I have Veronica, my team, Veronica Pena, my wife. They're my team. You know what I mean? And that's what that's what keeps this going. And one day we'll do sponsors. I've actually tried to get sponsors, and I never took money from them because I it just It's hard. Yeah. It's hard. It's it's not not an easy thing. And,
[01:12:10] Unknown:
you know, we we have a couple of sponsors, but the the sponsors that we we do right now, like, PodHome is a value for value sponsorship because he follows that model. I follow them. That's interesting too. Like, I wanna get into that. Yeah. So so it's yeah. It's a great platform. It it truly is. So, you know, we have an we have an agreement. And then, there's also, you know, we just partnered up with, t and e dot energy. Yeah. And Danny. Danny. And, so, you know, we're looking to see where that goes and how that leads. And what I'd like to do is as far as, like, just to give you some, maybe a suggestion, don't commit to anything long term when you do it. Do do it like a three month deal. Yeah. Because we also have another agreement with another company called Creative Salute, Creative, oh, shoot. I'm thinking Creative Edge. Creative Edge. Okay. Yeah. So Creative Edge is, it's it's a PR firm, based out of Canada.
And, we have an agreement with, as far as, people that they represent, as far as compensation for, for hosting Yeah. Their clientele. And it's nothing huge. It's nothing believe me. Trust me. If it was if it was anything of value, I wouldn't be asking people to help me out with the GoFundMe. Trust me. Oh, yeah. These these podcasts are all valuable. Well, you you put your your time and effort into this. This is a treasure, man. And then I would I would donate for sure. Oh, cool. Appreciate it. Yeah. No. No. Seriously. Send me send me the link. I'll I'll donate now. It's, it's the but when you do something like this and you start off, like you said, you self fund these things. And it's not the easiest thing to get into. No. It's not the easiest thing to start. I'm I'm like I said, I I know I talk about a lot. I I started back in 2016 with Internet radio. You know, I've done a podcast, previous to this one for for three straight years, you know. And now I'm doing this one. It'll be a year actually coming up, November 25. It'll be our one anniversary.
It's not the easiest thing to do. It's cost a lot of money to get started. It really does. I don't care what and like I had people we were talking earlier before the show. I I have people tell me, well, you don't need this and you don't need that, you know, unless you're getting like huge sponsors and you have income coming from you don't buy this, you don't buy that. Yeah. I I get it. But you know what? If I'm gonna be doing this, I'm gonna I'm gonna give it my best. Yeah. Give the give your audience the best quality. Why not? Best quality talk radio we can muster. Yeah.
[01:14:31] Unknown:
Muster without the bluster. There you go. So,
[01:14:34] Unknown:
yeah. But but yeah. You you have to you have to do it. You you have to you have to have a heart for it. And you obviously and and I've checked out a couple of your shows and, you know, I'm I'm definitely be watching more often. And, I'm looking forward to doing to doing more work with you, actually. I am so down for you. I am I because I have to be honest with you, I I I I enjoy this, especially having somebody here because there's a different dynamic to it, you know. It's Yeah. It's a it's a it's a lot more fun, and that's what I'm used to. Because, like, I'm going back to the early days, you know, we had three of us in the studio and, you know, it was hysterical. We do skits and and little pranks on each other during the show and and whatnot. It was Nice. I like that. And it wasn't video either. It was all audio. So, you know, so you had to use your imagination as to what we were doing. You know, know, if we told you we were sitting there with no pants on, you had to think about that for a second, you know. Well, yeah. I wanted to start audio first and, like, I actually wanted to change But you're gonna say you didn't wanna wear pants today. Yeah. Yeah. Well, sometimes I'll be honestly and now people will know this, now you know. Like, when I'm doing remotes, I'll be in my fucking underwear and nobody will know. Something that nobody knew about you but should. There you go. Yes. I do podcast in my underwear sometimes.
[01:15:39] Unknown:
And I I have a shirt on, yes, but I'm not wearing shorts or anything. I'm just in the comfort of my own home just doing it. So there you go Veronica. My my producer is always like, can't wait. It's better to do it in person. I'm just like, yeah, but I like that. No. It's not. Not always. Not always. It has this look. I know we're off track here, but Yeah. But but that's just the way the show goes. So so it's, you know,
[01:15:59] Unknown:
doing in person shows is a good it's a nice thing to do. If you if you have the ability to do it, but it's it's difficult. It's it's hard to say, especially when you're just it's just you. Yeah. You know, you don't have this whole you're you're not you're not, you know, NBC. You don't have a whole team going out there setting up your sound and setting up your lighting. Exactly. You don't have all of that stuff where people are setting up for you. It's hard to do that type of thing. Right. So, you know, to to do something remote is is a lot more cost effective. It's it's easier to do. It's Technology, man. Yeah. Technology is meant to make your life a little bit better, you know. So it makes your life a little better. And, you know, to do the to do the in studio stuff. You know, it's hard to do in studio stuff because like you see, it's a small it's a small studio. It may look bigger on the camera, but it's really not.
And, it's I like it. It gets hot in here quick. It's like right now, it's it's 85 degrees in here. I don't even care, man. Man. It's I mean, it doesn't feel like it. No. It really doesn't. It doesn't feel like it's 85. Yeah. We got a fan, we got fans. I I just realized that the AC was still running. I shut it off. Now you sound better. There you go. You know. But, but it gets warm in here. It gets hot, and it's it's difficult to do. That's why we don't really do it very often. But I think, I think we got something going on here. I think we're gonna do this more often. That's awesome, man. I'm dude, I'm super psyched. Maybe a lot of fun. That. Yeah. It'd be a lot of fun. Are we going back on topic? I was I was just looking to see where I am here.
We're back. I mean, we're still in the podcast thing, I believe. Yeah. Because you already covered we already covered why you did it. We already covered some of the things that you talk about. But actually, here's something for you. Interviews. What interviews have you done that have really, like, surprised you or or changed your perspective on something? Man.
[01:17:45] Unknown:
You ever you ever hear the history of, The Daily Show? I know it's a it's a Democratic show, but, like Yeah. And I've I've look. You gotta know what the enemy thinks. Right? So you gotta sometimes you gotta watch and Yeah. Endure through it and suffer through it. Well, I didn't know that. But before when I I watched it, I thought it was funny. I really didn't I when I was younger, I didn't really see Democrat or Republican.
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Yeah. You didn't pick up the venom. Yeah. No. Because, actually, because back then, it wasn't so venomous. No. You know, now it is. Yeah. Now it is. It it it's it's
[01:18:18] Unknown:
ridiculous how Even the Trevor even the Trevor Noah days, like, I mean, they show that they were good sports. Like, they would make fun of Biden for sniffing people's heads. Right. That was great. I loved it. Like, they're good sports about it. But now it's just far far to the left. And, but you go back to the old days where, not and I think it was even before Jon Stewart. Mhmm. Who was it? It wasn't Chris. It was, oh my god. Who's the guy that plays on 40 year old virgin? I'm getting I'm drawing a blank now. What's his name? Is this a is this like a daisy chain thing between podcasts? Or we just both have brain farts at the same time? Yeah. I think so.
[01:18:57] Unknown:
Because I I I I see I see the guy's head face in my head. I just can't think of his name. Well, the guy that played 40 year old virgin, we'll just call him that. Steve Carrell? Steve Carrell. Yes. Yeah. Steve Carrell. Yes. He,
[01:19:08] Unknown:
he was part of The Daily Show, and the the what really set them off is when they went to they went to go interview John McCain. Mhmm. And, they I think they fooled him somehow thinking that they were just like a groupie group, and they're actually interviewing him and getting him to talk. And he said I can't remember. You guys will have to look at it. He said something, and then they're just like like, that's what made The Daily Show. And John McCain was like, wait a minute. Oh, shit. Like I just got punked. I just got punked. Like, holy crap. And so, like, it's not like that, but I started interviewing politicians here locally wanting to get, to get them to know that they're they're people just like us. They put their pants on one leg at a time. Yep.
And we'd I who did I I think it was our first was, because we didn't start getting into politics. But, we did Eddie Morales. We did Olga Ramos, and that was a hit. Like and they were like, we should do this more often. Mhmm. Get them to come out and just act like normal people because nobody nobody really interviews them. They and I'm sorry to the colleagues out here, for the fellow journalists. Maybe this is something that you can do different. I do notice that some are doing stuff different because I don't like toot my own horn, but we started doing that. Now we sent now we see the change in the media.
People are trying to wear microphones now. You know what I'm like? And now the business journal got a reporter now. Her name is Aileen Hernandez. She, I guess, used to be with KSAT. Now they have a reporter. Oh my god. And it's with every single media, it was shove your camera in their face and have them talk. That's it. And so, like, let's do something different. Let's put my face on there with them so they're not so nervous. I'm there looking like an idiot, and they're looking good and just asking them the right questions. Mhmm. And we know the we know the questions to ask that are not gonna make them feel super uncomfortable. Yes. We gotta ask uncomfortable questions, but not like the questions where, hey. So did you did you do this in high school back in the day? Like, you know what I mean? Like like, no. So that's what kinda got us that that was the the my answer to your question kind of that's what kind of, changed my outlook on stuff. Okay. Let's let's bring let's start talking about politics, in a good way and sometimes in a bad way.
Well and then it went south a little bit when we started telling the truth.
[01:21:34] Unknown:
Well, you know, you know the old saying, you know, once you start taking flack, you know you're over the target. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And and
[01:21:42] Unknown:
the first what really got us going, and it just happened, which is why I'm now public enemy number one, is so I'm dry I'm I'm part of a I do Cub Scouts. Okay. I by the way, Maverick Times, I I've was at war with them for a little bit. It was funny. Like, everybody was like, oh my god. Boom. We we our first elections was the mayoral election with Aaron Valdez and Monica Cruz. Right. We did the first debate. I don't care what people say. We they yes. There was a debate back in the day, but it was crap. And me and Veronica got together, and we did it. We got together with, the owner of the Hyatt. Mhmm. And she says, yeah. We'll give you or the the marketing manager. I was like, yeah. We'll give you a room. We can do it. Let's call them. We called all the candidates up.
It was short time it was short timing because the Business Journal we we had a date, and all of a sudden the Business Journal announced, hey. Here, we have a debate, like, two days before mine. I was like, no. No. No. No. No. This cannot happen. No. So I called them. I called up Monica Cruz. I called up everybody. Hey. Can we do this, like, two days early? And they're like, yeah. Sure. Well, she was like, yeah. Monica was all for it. Aaron was like, oh, okay. Yeah. I'm sure. Casas was like, oh, no. That's too soon. That's too short. I'm like, why? Why is it too soon? Like, you you shouldn't be prepared for this. You shouldn't be ready for it. Like, you know what I mean? And we created the questions. We did it. It was great. We have so many viewers.
I was so stressed out. Like I'm sure you were. Oh, dude. I yeah. I'm stressed out, and I'm like, god. If this sucks, like, I I mean, you know, it that's it was my first debate. And it was so hard to get them all together. And I did it. We did it. And we did it. We got them together. We got it done in a short in a short time. And it was great. It went good. Everybody loved it. However, they didn't share it. Like, the the I got mad at our mayor because I was like, dude, why didn't you share it? He shared the business the the Eagle Pass business drill did when it was I think it was terrible. Mhmm. The the the questions looked fixed, that you couldn't hear them. And he went on Facebook saying, oh, this was, this was an awesome, this was an awesome, debate. It was great. I'm like, wait a minute, fucker. What about mine?
Like, like, I put a lot of effort into that, and I didn't I and and, yeah, I charged them. We we charged them for it. That was our first time we actually charged people for a candidacy kind of things. He told me, no. I loved it. It was great. I said, okay. So why didn't you share it? And I didn't get an answer back. Mhmm. Like, well, we had oh, yeah. I did. He's like, well, we had to analyze it and and take a look at, I don't know, questions. I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? Well, you already had it. So what was was to analyze and Yeah. You know? Yeah. You were there. I like it. Yeah. You were there. People saw it. Why can't you just share it and say, great great debate. I loved it. Awesome. That's it. You acknowledge that? I don't care. I'm happy. Mhmm. You know what I mean? And they didn't they didn't wanna do that. So something was like, alright. Something's wrong here.
And that's when it got ugly. Again, this was our first time actually getting involved with the it was the ugliest election ever.
[01:25:15] Unknown:
Yeah. There were a lot of little little things about this about this election. Especially when it came down to the runoff. And that was Oh. You know, it's it's hard enough to get people to go out and vote in the first place Yeah. Here in Eagle Pass. I mean, do it twice. Again, and I wanted to do something different. I wanted to promote all of them. I wanted to be neutral. I promoted Monica. I promoted Aaron, and I promoted,
[01:25:37] Unknown:
oh god. Here comes the blank again. Jessica Ramon. Mhmm. I and the others, I guess I never got a response from them. Excuse me. So I wanted to play that neutrality. Let's let's promote all of them and get their message across so that people can choose themselves instead of being biased. I told them you guys can put your signs on my lawn. I where I live is where everybody takes a shortcut from Main Street to Bibb. Okay. Everybody goes, and they're gonna see their signs. I said you guys can put signs up. Jessica put a sign up. Monica was the first one to come up and put a big old sign in my lawn. And that was another and then people were like, oh, look. He's just biased, and he he supports Monica because he has a sign in them. And I'm like, no. I told them they all could put signs on my lawn. And then I get a I get a photo from Aaron Valdez. It's a text.
He's like, hey, sir. So is this your house? And it's a picture of my house with Monica's sign on it. I said, yeah. That's my house. And he's like, oh, okay. Well, I see you made an educated vote and, you know, you're you you have your opinion and blah blah blah. I'm like, wait a minute. Hold on. What are you saying? Like, no. I told you you can come put a a sign on my lawn. And you haven't done that yet. Well, you haven't come to pick up my pick it up at my house. I said, I am not going to your house to pick up a sign. No way. That's not how this works. You need to get your ass over here and put a sign on my lawn. There are people who do that. Yeah. That's that's what elections are all about. They go and they take pictures of the sign. Hey. Put it here. We got your vote. Alright. Cool. I gotta go to your house. Like and he's like, oh. Oh, okay. Well, no. I'll go put one. He never put one on. So I was branded as Monica Cruz's personal media.
Right. So it's like and so, like, it was so ugly. You know what I mean? And then finally, fast forward, the the the runoff started happening, and, I guess my relationship with him just kinda went you know? It just Kinda fizzled out? Yeah. It kinda fizzled out, and he never came back to me for another promotion for the runoff. Monica did. I said, okay. Screw it. We'll just promote her exclusively. It's what it is, man. I mean and we did it, and she lost the election by 14 votes. And that ever since then, I said, you know what?
I I was even thinking, you know, no more politics, man. That's it. This is this was the ugliest thing we've ever been through. Like, we weren't even running. Yeah. And we were going through war with other medias because medias would and let's just face it, guys. Like, I'll say it plain and and dry like I say it on my podcast. I didn't the Aaron's campaign was based off of stuff that just wasn't true. They would blame the fifty seven music fest on Monica Cruz when all they they like to manipulate What was the fifty seven Music Fest? Because I'm not I'm not too familiar with it. So the fifty seven Music Fest was was something that took place for Nochez Meixanas, which that was a free event. Okay. That would that's been traditional in the Eagle Pass for years. They have Tejano bands and Mexican bands come over, and, they would it it would be at Shelby Park before all this stuff happened. Okay.
And they they had a new idea. Okay. Well, let's get, like, big time names like, Parker McCollum and some more people. I can't remember off the top of my head. And they wanted to charge people. So you're jumping from a free event to A cover charge. A cover charge. It was expensive. I don't know. I think it was, like, about $400 per ticket. Oh, wow. God. Don't quote me on that. It had to be around there. And then they started lowering it because they weren't getting enough ticket sales Mhmm. To the point where they're giving free they're giving VIP tickets out to people. And what do you know? The people who had the VIP tickets were our public officials. So, like, okay. So not a lot of people showed up. Our local bands were, like, playing for ghosts.
Mhmm. It was terrible. And now you we find out that now our city is 3 point something million dollars in the hole because of that. Wow. Taxpayers had to so now there's forensics, Forensic odics. Yeah. Forensic odics going on, and that's kinda getting swiped under the rug. I think because the city tried to do it like a business. Remember, the city wants to do a free event. They gotta use the taxpayers money. But they wanted to try to make money for the city on this thing. It just didn't work out. Right.
[01:29:57] Unknown:
It probably would have worked if they would have advertised it as
[01:30:00] Unknown:
a paid for event. Yeah. Ex exactly. And and I think that how they did it, they just didn't know what the hell they were doing. Mhmm. And they, so now there's all kinds of suspicious things going on, especially with the promoter and all that. So that's why they're doing the friends that got it. And they blamed it on Monica Cruz. When okay. So there's a and this is why they hated me. I point I I take it personal. I don't when people talk shit about me, I don't take it personal. When they try to fool the community that I live in, I take that personal. Right. I can't just sit back and watch that. So they would post videos of her agree making a motion to, execute negotiations.
When you do that as a council person, you're just, okay. Let's talk about it. Let's negotiate. Let's start the negotiations and go from there. Not, alright. Let's do it. Right. You know? And they tried to make that look like it was her fault. It was she was the reason why the fifty seven Music Fest went through when you had our previous mayor. You had another our councilman Elias Diaz who also voted for it. They're the ones who voted for it, And they blamed it all on her. I'm like, no. It's not how it works, guys. Sorry. And they got mad at that that I was bringing that to light. I gotcha. You know? And and like I said, it wasn't about who I supported. It was about who's full of shit.
And and so that was that's what turned now you know Eagle Pass into, you know, how do I say this? I don't I don't like saying fighting corruption because it's not all corrupt, but you're just bringing things to light. You know? It's it's how we're analyzing things, and there's a lot of people that don't get it, and I I put it out there for them. So that's what kind of fizzled out our our relationship. And so what I gotcha. Now what killed it is when okay. So his her his wife, Stephanie Valdez, got appointed to the hospital board. Mhmm. What do you know? He used to be the chair of the hospital board. Now that chair is vacant, and now she's taken it. What do you think, Hugo Pass? You know? I don't attack people's wives.
However, when I had a meeting with him face to face and when I wanted to try to restore that relationship, all he could think about was that I supported Monica Cruz. And then I'd somewhere along that conversation, I told him, I don't I'm not attacking your wife. I think your wife is she's elegant. She could speak. I think she's good. She's she's done good things for the community, and and she's she's an insurance agent and all that good stuff. However, whoever's idea to put her in the pot put your wife into politics, worst idea ever.
Because now you're open game. You're you're a politician now. You're part of the board. You were appointed. And everybody sees the nepotism in that sort. It's like borderline nepotism.
[01:32:54] Unknown:
So
[01:32:55] Unknown:
So so the so the the members of the board aren't elected. They're appointed by the mayor's office? No. The no. The only reason why she was appointed because his his term wasn't expired yet. So when he got elected for mayor, he had to leave that seat. Okay. So now that's when a seat is open, then they have to appoint somebody until they can have an election. Okay. So so then
[01:33:14] Unknown:
who does the appointing?
[01:33:16] Unknown:
The the board themselves.
[01:33:17] Unknown:
Okay. I gotcha. So
[01:33:20] Unknown:
and there there's a couple people that are favor that favor the mayor.
[01:33:24] Unknown:
And And outside and outside of the appointments for a vacancy, it's it's done by public election? Yes. Okay. So,
[01:33:33] Unknown:
there were 15 other applicants, came down to three or four. Other than miss Valdez herself, there was others that had years in practition. One of them has forty years of pediatrics experience. Another one's a pharmacist. She has PhD. The other one has a PhD as well, and she got it. I didn't think anything of it. We're just like, well, that's just legal past politics, whatever. Fast forward, I'm driving to Cub Scout camp, and my producer sends me these documents. It's like, Ruben, you need to take a look at this. And I'm like, what is this? And it's court documents of she had just gotten, well, this was last year. She got stopped for a DUI, She DWI of a blood cal blood alcohol content of point 15% driving wrong the wrong way in a highway. Wow.
And I'm like, well, this is last year. And she said, well, take a look. They had just she has been on probation for two years, and they just got her an adjudication back in June. So now she has to take these classes. She has to do this and do this before they can just take it off the record. So what my theory is, they wanted to keep that hush-hush. Don't wait until it just falls off and, like, it never happened. So I saw that. I'm like, oh my god. This guy already hates me already. We need to make sure that this is legit. I don't wanna part of being a journalist, you have to make 120%
[01:35:01] Unknown:
sure that this is factual. Yeah. Another another podcaster that I that I listen to regularly or used to listen to regularly, used to say all the time, I don't have to be first, I just have to be right.
[01:35:13] Unknown:
Yeah. So I have people that tell me that. No. You shouldn't have to be first as long as you're right. Because if you try to be first, you're gonna screw up Mhmm. Big time. So I was in the I'm in the truck. I'm trying to do all these speeches to make sure it was her. It was it was a 100% legit that the the the documents we got for us from an attorneys from some attorneys that did some research and sent it to us. For some reason, I don't know. I I did don't tell me the source. I don't wanna know who the source is. We'll do the research for ourself, and we'll become the source.
And, we did. I'm like, damn, it's her. What are we so we voted on it. We're just like, should we post this? Yes. Absolutely. So I'm like, oh, god. Here we go. This is gonna be a roller coaster. So we posted it. Oh my god. We've had positive reactions and, of course, negative from I like to call them the the little birdies. Because some of the in in, in basic training, we had a drill sergeant that would be like, come here birdies. If you don't know something, I'll give you some information. He'll pretend to, like, throw up. Like, you know how, you know, how birds throw up and come and eat little birdies, but so, like, I try to explain why I did it, and they all I guess people, at first, before I explained on a podcast thought that I was just doing it to attack this person, that I was being malicious and vicious, and I just wanted to just to ruin someone's life.
And that's not true. People, it was all about fairness that you had three other people with most experience that don't are not on probation, didn't get the chance because she's the mayor's wife. And so I made that clear to people, and then it got people thinking. And then I got more followers, and then I got more viewers, and then all of a sudden people started paying attention. But at the same time, now I can't have a relationship with these people anymore. Yeah. Well, you know That's shitty, though. It is.
[01:37:05] Unknown:
Unfortunately, you know, there are a lot of people out there who can't differentiate, you know, business and personal. Yeah. That's the easiest way to say it. Yeah. I know. And and that's unfortunate because, you know, look, if you're gonna go into public service, you're you're fair game. You're a target. Absolutely. And, and I don't mean that in a violent way, so No. No. So somebody don't go screaming that I'm talking about violence. Yeah. Yeah. You know how people are. You know, it's you you are you're you're as a public official, as a public representative, you, you know, you you shouldn't have an expected right to privacy as a regular citizen would. Yeah. You know, you are a public figure.
You put yourself out there. These things, you know, it's all fair game. And, I don't think I don't I don't see what you did that was wrong. I don't see I don't think there was, I don't I don't think you did it with a malicious intent in any way. It doesn't seem like that to me anyway. You know, so It was a hard decision to make. It really I thought we had to literally think about after we got the research. And you would have been wrong. I I personally thinking, I I you I I think you would have been wrong to sit on it, you know. I mean, maybe you could have given the heads up, you know, before you did it. I mean, that's I would have probably done something like that. Hey. Look. I got this information. I'm putting it out there. Do you wanna say something about it now before I do? Or
[01:38:26] Unknown:
You know, that was my first thing, but then, like, again, my relationship with them was Already sketchy as shit. Is already sketchy as shit. And, like, I I'm kinda, like, wondering what if I did do that? What would they what would they have said? Would they offer to pay me not to do it?
[01:38:40] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, I I understand it could lead into something like that, but you're but to me, you seem to have integrity, and I don't think you would fall for something like that. No. Absolutely not. And I think, also at the same time, if you think about it like this, if they did do something like that, that's another story right there. You know, and I don't think they would put themselves I I don't think I think they're smart enough not to put themselves in a in a worse situation by doing something like that.
[01:39:05] Unknown:
But then again, I you don't know. Well, I didn't get any phone calls after that. I didn't get any, I mean, yeah, you I got hate from the, you know, the groupies. I like to call them the groupies too. Mhmm. Because here, politics is a popularity contest. The more friends you have, doesn't matter what you did. Yeah. No. It it's not about the issues or ideas. It it's it's about it it is. It's it's like, it's like running for homeschool, for for a homecoming queen and king and all that stuff. Yeah. It doesn't matter what you did. It doesn't matter if you gave somebody a swirly or stuff somebody's head in a trash can. Yeah. You got you you got all kinds of friends to vote for you, and you're good. Yep. And that sucks. And so what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to give people the power to be able to vote for their or to vote whoever they want and and speak out about it. Like, that's what I loved about elections. Like, here, if you wear somebody else's shirt, people gonna look at you like disgusting. Like, if you wear a MAGA hat or something like that. But here in in local yeah. See that? Like, see, and and, like, here, like, I wanted to rock everybody's colors. Like, dude, I love, his his artwork on his shirt. Like, it looks cool. You can represent it wherever you want and then agree and then agree to disagree. But, no, it's like again, it's not like that. It's old European warfare where you're taking turns just shooting each other. Yeah. And and so, like I said, I I didn't get any phone calls after that. I already knew that I mean, I do have insiders, and they're all telling me that everyone's pissed off at me. And I'm just like, well They'll get over it. Yeah. Get over it. No. They're not gonna get over it. It's on them. That's not on you. Yeah. Yeah. They're not gonna get over it. I burned my bridges with them.
I I it wasn't my intention to burn my bridges. Like, it's it's business. None of the other media reported this. Which is interesting in and of itself. Yeah. Nobody. Everybody knows it's the truth. Nobody put it out there. It's just me looking like the asshole. But it's not. It I I at least I don't see it that way. Maybe because I I do this stuff too. But I I, you know, I don't see it that way at all. Like, you you had an opportunity to tell the truth and you told the truth. And that that's that's what's commendable about it. That's all. And and now nobody's saying anything about it. And now I'm like, okay. You're not gonna say anything about it. I'm gonna keep pressuring you till you do. You need to you owe these people an explanation. At least acknowledge it. Yeah. At least acknowledge it. You owe these people an explanation. You owe the you owe the community an explanation as to why someone that's on probation currently on probation. And I know oh, and they did the whole movement with, oh, don't let your past define you. Like, it dude, it's current.
It's not the past. It wasn't I I could if it was ten, fifteen years ago and it was just two drinks and you got caught, okay. Whatever. I wouldn't have even but this was current. They're currently on probation. Three experienced candidates did not get a chance to be on this board. Three people that I two of them I know not one of them I know personally who's a very good person and and I think deserve that seat. Yeah. Give the people an explanation. Say something. Say something, but you're just choosing not to acknowledge it because it's me. So it's just like, no. I'm gonna keep pressuring you. Yeah. I gave it a break because, Halloween and everything, all the kids and stuff, so I just kinda veered off. And then they tried to we had a podcast episode.
Me and Veronica, we jumped on. They all three of them, councilman Diaz, the mayor, and councilwoman Ramon. We the people like to call them the three musketeers because they all vote one way. They went to what's called a Calvagata. It's a it's a horse. It's a they it's like horse rides. Okay. Horse ride. Alright. They did it in Allende Like a cavalcade. Yeah. You call it up. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. They did it in Allende, Coahuila in Mexico. Mhmm. They went to represent the city of Eagle Pass. Me, you, residents, everything. They had the seal on their chest, everything. Well, we saw the video and they and, like, they all look like they've been drinking.
They look come on. We're not stupid. Toasty? Yeah. They look toasty, and they have tumblers in their hand. Like, come on. That's not coffee. That's not water. Come on. Right. Like, come on now. And, like, the mayor couldn't remember his own wife's name, couldn't remember what she did. It could they also had an ISD member there. Like, oh, and you're Christopher Hiller, and and he's just like, EPISD? So, like and then they're stumbling. I'm like and I could see it. I'm like, oh god. So we're like, we have to talk about this. And we put our opinion on it. And we said, okay. Is this professional? I I get it. If you're you wanna do stuff and you wanna party, whatever. Great. Perfect.
But you're wearing you're out there on official business looking like you guys are toasted. How unprofessional is that? You know what I mean? Like, you're you're an I agree with you. And and with It's not a good look at all. Yeah. No. And especially with what's going on with his wife was there too on probation. That's like you're mocking the community. Like, Look. I'm here I am still toasted, and I'm on probation, and I still got to see to to to me, that's what that looks like. You know? And so we talked about it. Like, look. And we didn't we didn't totally destroy them. We just like, okay. What do you guys think about this? And then we get messages from a fake profile on the on the comment section saying, hey. You know, we have stuff on you. We're gonna expose it.
That's where the whole The tranning thing? Having yeah. Me having a trans lover. And, and with my cohost, they tried to say they tried to bring up some child abuse case. And we were just like, ah. So this is what's this is what it comes down to. And then we wrapped up the show not even five minutes after I get a text message, a messenger from our mayor. I posted it. Well, you've seen it, but saying I think I did see it. Yeah. Yeah. That this I don't wanna bring out this person's name because I don't wanna be, like, trying to expose this person. I mean, they can look it up if they want.
This person that has is ready to tell her truth. Be prepared. So I'm thinking, Seth? And so I responded. Well, her truth, not the truth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Her truth. Yeah. And I was like, what are you are you threatening me? Like, what are you threatening me with? And he, like, I guess he looked and was like, like, shit. What did I do? And he put, like, threatening. He responded with threatening like it was no. I said, no. Threatening. Are you threatening me? I think he just threatened me. And then he, like, just gave me a thumbs up and just exited the conversation. Interesting. So right there was his biggest mess up. I posted it. I said, this is what's going on with our mayor.
And after that, silence. And I'm just like, guys, this is what's going on. This is the political vengeance that we need to that we need to escape from. You know what I mean? And like I said, I tried to have relationships with these people. They just know. It it it's all about money. And, you know, I I again, I tell the truth not to be malicious, not because I have anything against these people. I try to like, I'll say something good about Jessica Ramon. And then when she messes up, I'll say something bad about it. Like, I'll or I'll I'll report I'll write an article on it, not like I'm attacking her. Right. When we had a meeting, I don't deny. He was telling me, well, you know, you did cartoons about me. I said, okay. Yeah. They were harmless little cartoons on what what you're being alleged for. He was being alleged for scamming people for solar panels. And so I wrote an article. Hey. Look. This is what's going on. I didn't say he did it. Said this is what's going on. And I wrote little cartoons or I did, like, little AI cartoons of him sweating and everybody's, like, mad at him, and it was funny.
And I said, is did I but yeah. But did I, like, draw a big dick on your forehead or something like that? And he's just, like, didn't say anything. It's like, oh, I'm not people like to say I bash them. Bashing and criticizing are two different things. Absolutely. Yeah. Bashing is when you're calling them stupid or they're like, you're making fun of them. Like, that's That's always one-sided. Yeah. Yeah. And, no, I criticize them. And and you everybody has the right to criticize their leaders as long as it's, you know, it's factual and that they're you're holding your leaders accountable. That's what makes this country great. This isn't Mexico. I always like to say that and they get mad at me when I say, this isn't Mexico where the politics strike fear into their in in the media's eyes. And so that way, they don't say things that they're supposed to. Right. Yeah. This is America.
[01:47:41] Unknown:
So and that's that's where I'm at right now. Wow. That's a lot. Yeah. Well, like, you know, well, couldn't happen to a better guy.
[01:47:50] Unknown:
Yeah. Right? I mean
[01:47:51] Unknown:
No. But I get you. I I we I joke about it, but it's it's it's a serious it's a serious thing. And and you're doing I think you're doing a good job. I I don't think look, you have to you have to you have to go where the story leads. And if that's where the story leads, you follow it. That's it. And you make let let the audience make the make the public draw their own opinions of it. You know, you don't steer them to an opinion. You just lay the facts out, let them come to it themselves. And, you know, unfortunately, you know, a lot of people get into elected office, and I'm not mention I'm not talking about any one specific person. You know, disclosure. I mean, I had I had I had Aaron on the show twice, you know. I personally, I like him. I think he's a, you know, nice guy, and, I think in some things he's doing a great job. There are some there are some things I don't think he's doing enough of.
I don't know who I don't really know anything about Jessica Ramon. I know who she is. I don't really follow. See, my thing isn't I don't I don't follow the politics, the local politics in that way. You know, I I I stick with I have my show, and I I do my thing, you know, mostly with guests. A comment from,
[01:49:00] Unknown:
I see. Yes. You forgot about the veterans investigation. I don't know. I'm not I'm not too sure what she's talking about that. Maybe I did forget about it. I'm sure it'll come to mind. Okay. I I forgot you could see it on your end. Yeah. I could see it on my end. But, and and, again, they try to say, like, I'm now they try to say, I'm in league with our superintendent, who our superintendent who's, you know, all powerful and all this. And I interviewed him for the first time ever because we didn't I mean, I really wasn't a big fan of him. I'm still I can't say I'm a big fan of him. I'm trying to be neutral, and I talk to him now. And then, actually, that's one of the biggest focal points is when the whole incident happened.
He was actually he he said they started a war with each other with the chief of police and how the the they they should have. The chief the the Eagle Pass Police Department is trying to say, well, they should have told us. Eagle Pass ISD is trying to say, well, we thought we were doing the right thing by handling it ourselves, and it became a big old circus thing. I gotcha. And we were the first ones to interview him on that, and we were just, like after he started saying things about chief Amy Gonzalez, we're just, like, like, what was he supposed to say that? Like so and immediately, I had to go talk to the chief and be okay. Let's have an interview on this. And, yeah, again, it's Eagle Pass is so used to okay, Ruben's only saying this because he's on their side.
No. That's not true. Like, I wanna be neutral, and don't make me take sides. I I I I don't wanna take sides. Well, I think I think
[01:50:27] Unknown:
the point of being in the work that we do is not to take sides. Yeah. It's important. I mean, you I mean, if you look at what goes on with the mainstream media, you see what it looks like when you take sides. Yeah. We all know. You know, and that's not that's not what it should be. It should be objective, and we should be looking at these things and reporting on them as as the truth lays out, as the facts state. John Adams said facts are stubborn things, you know. You lay the facts out, and let it let it, let it lay where it fall. You you just gotta let the public make their own decision about it. You keep not steering anybody to it, and that's an and that's important. It takes its toll. It does. I'm sure it does because I'm not like, if anybody is like enjoys doing this kind of thing, you're weird. Like, I don't enjoy Nobody nobody likes being in a position where, you know, you see somebody else in a bad spot. I don't like that. I don't I don't like putting people in a bad spot. I try not to as much as I possibly can. I don't like being put in a bad spot. You know? You're the first one that I'm telling you this. Like, it hurts. It hurt. It hurt for me to do that. I Breaking news here, folks. Yeah. I don't
[01:51:33] Unknown:
I didn't wanna do that. And I my first reaction was no. We probably shouldn't do that because it's it's somebody's wife, and, this is life changing for somebody. Maybe if there's a reason why they didn't want this out there, You know? I I didn't want to. I I don't like it, but the people deserve to know, especially when you're when you're appointing somebody who's going to be running your taxes. It follows in with their bylaws Mhmm. Of ethics and honesty. So now the question is, did the board overlook it? Or is there, like or are there qualification methods just crap and they just didn't they didn't catch it?
Nobody wants to answer the question. Like, they're silent on it. Yeah. So no. Okay. There you go, guys. Breaking news. I I I don't like doing this. I don't. Sucks.
[01:52:29] Unknown:
But you know what? It's unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast.
[01:52:36] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. And whoever smiles and, like, hey. Hey. Yes. Let's put this out there. Like, you needed you need therapy.
[01:52:44] Unknown:
I agree. I I totally totally agree. Yeah. So Alright. So I I got one more question for you about I'm sorry if I about the podcast. No. No. No. No. That's the whole point of the show, bud. Okay. Alright. So what's next for, Now You Know?
[01:52:57] Unknown:
What's next for Now You Know? Well, I don't know. I really don't. Like, we just we've tried so many different things. Like, we tried to do comedy
[01:53:08] Unknown:
because Eagle Pass needs it. Yeah. The one thing about your show that that I find very interesting is that that you actually do skits and you do little little vignettes and things like that, which is great. I mean, not very many podcasts do that. Like, we did that. I don't know if you saw the Friends. Yeah. You you had told me about it on the phone. I had to go find it. So I looked. It got 16,000
[01:53:25] Unknown:
views. Yeah. Which is great. Yeah. And I want and I said, you know what? People need to laugh about it. And and I'm I am like, I hope they're good sports about it. I hope that they'll I know they were few I know some of them were fuming about it. Whoever was telling me that they were okay with it, I don't think so. I think they it made them pissed off. But, like, it wasn't anything vulgar. I was getting phone calls about it, and they were like, why did you do that? And I was like, oh, people need to laugh. Why why not? It was funny. Like, they all vote one way, so I did a friends parody. And and it was funny. It wasn't anything vulgar. Again, I didn't draw dicks on anybody's foreheads or anything like that. I like to make that reference because that's the, you know, that's, like, the classic thing to do when you're making fun of somebody. Exactly. No. And and I let people put their interpretation on it, and it was classic. I liked it. And but as far as what's next, we're just gonna keep podcasting. We're gonna keep, we wanna get more guests on the show. We wanna we kinda wanna go far maybe one day go far beyond Eagle Pass, and just, you know, keep telling the truth, man. Well, see well, in
[01:54:31] Unknown:
your analytics, what do they tell you that your reach is?
[01:54:36] Unknown:
Like, it's why, like, when you click on the dashboard and stuff?
[01:54:39] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Like the the like, so I know I know you're not doing audio feeds yet, but and we're gonna we're gonna work on that. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We're gonna get you set up. Yeah. But, like, for example, like, I know, like, I can click on I can click on my dashboard, at least on the audio side. And I could see that my show is heard in seventy seventy two countries around the world,
[01:55:01] Unknown:
and things like that. So It's gonna be surprising for you to hear, like, I don't know. Well, no. That's fine. You know? I don't look at I looked at all I look is how many followers I have of, like, point 3,700 followers, which is, you know, is that good? For a local podcast? Yeah. That's great. Yeah. I I, you know, I I don't have that. Guess and get this. Here's another breaking news thing. I am getting messages from Facebook saying, hey. Like and I think I've got four four, messages from Facebook saying, hey. Your tax info is not set up yet. Your assets are expiring. And I just because I don't I guess, I'm having an issue right now where I'm trying to, like, set it up, and it's not going to my company, All American Media. Okay.
But, like, I just kinda toss it off. I know people are gonna think I'm crazy for that, but I don't think about the money, dude. Like, honestly and I just okay. I'll get to it eventually. And then before I get to it, there goes more assets. Like, my I just don't get paid for it. Yeah. Yeah. No. I understand. Trying to pave me. My my, some sponsors that I had, I actually lost sponsors because of this whole political thing. And I never like, my thing was, okay. We'll we'll do a contract, and then I'll get to it eventually. We'll do the contract, and you pay me whatever. But until then, I'll advertise you. Mhmm. And I just don't think about the money. I don't. And people, like, think that's so weird. Like, what's what's wrong with this guy? Well, it's different. You know? But you when you're doing these things and you you wanna, you you wanna have a revenue stream because you want the stuff to pay for itself eventually. Right. At least pay for itself. Yeah.
[01:56:24] Unknown:
One day. Someday. Someday. Dare to dream.
[01:56:27] Unknown:
Dare to dream. Well, like, I I actually wanted to do I did a ramen business for a little bit for, like, a day. I heard. And that got taken down because somebody wanted to take me out and thought that it was gonna hurt me and the whole cottage laws thing. And then I'm like, okay. Well, there you go, guys. This is what's happening to me. And I really just kinda brushed it off. I said, I'm not gonna shut up. I'm still gonna keep going because I have a passion. I'm a Japanese enthusiast.
[01:56:52] Unknown:
You know? The way of the warrior, you move forward. You know what I mean? I wanna hear about the ramen. So let's do this. Let's take a quick break here. I've used the restroom. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So Sorry. Let's take a break, and we'll come back with hour number three. Awesome. Awesome. Folks, this is the Joe Russo. Don't forget to like, subscribe, share with your friends, your family, and your followers. Help us to spread this thing around. And it's really important though you hit that like button because that helps the algorithm, helps the show get tracked and found. So, if you're, if you're digging what we're what we're shoveling, send over a a comment. Let us know what you think. Give a like, and, click that support button if you can. Alright. Folks, we'll be back right after this. You stay with us. Alright.
Alrighty. Two hours Wow. In the book. Wow. Welcome back to the Joe Russo. My very special guest, Ruben Camarillo of the Now You Know Eagle Pass podcast. Hour number three. Wow. Craziness. Gonna start getting into this, baby, right now. So we spent a lot of time talking about the show. We talked politics. We were all over the spectrum of things, and I hope you guys have been enjoying the show. Don't forget to hit that like, subscribe, and share with your friends, your family, your followers. This way you'll help us to spread the show around, and it's always important to do that and, and get, you know, more people interested in this stuff. These these conversations are needed conversations. They're and they're not heavy. I mean, got some serious aspects to it, but it's not like Yeah. Yeah. It's a Saturday.
We wanna kinda relax, you know, the Saturday morning shows should be something more fun and relaxed. So we'll we'll go for for a little bit, and then we gotta get ready and turned around for the, for the crypto show with our resident crypto psychic, Marissa Lee, at 3PM central time. So make sure you come on come on back to check that out. We are pushing on episode number 200, folks. We're two we're just a few episodes away from that. Can you believe it? Nice. 200 episodes in in just about a year. So we've been we started the show on 11/25/2025 '24, and, we're coming up on that very quickly. I think we might actually break 200 before the, before the twenty fifth. Before the oh, okay. So, that that's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward to that, and, I'm thinking I gotta reach out to Barry, the the, the owner of Podholme, because Barry was guest number one on episode number one of this show, a year ago. And I think it'd be kinda nice if we, we had him come on back for the number 200 episodes. So I'm gonna see how I reach out to him. I don't know. I just thought about that now. Nice. But, we'll see. We'll see how it all goes. Alright, Ruben. Mhmm. So great conversation today, bro. I really appreciate this. It's a lot of fun. I'm enjoying this. I'm sorry that it's a little stuffy in here right now. I know. It's tough day. I tried to run the AC a little bit before the on the break there, but, It's all good, man. And then, of course, we had the the two lunatics, like, my kids come running in here and Oh, I love them. Had to get them out. That's why I had to restart the, the break music there because Oh. We had to get them out. So it was, it was one of those weird things.
Sorry about that. So now getting to some of your family life, your family values and things like that. And that's I think that's important. We want the audience to get to know who you really are. So, your bio says that your wife, Jackie, serves as served at a border patrol agent. Now she's not active duty anymore. Right? Oh, she's active. Oh, she's still active. Yeah. She's gonna she's gonna go till the wheels fall off, man. Oh, okay. Nice. Very nice. And how long has she been working there?
[02:05:05] Unknown:
I'd say, I think it's about I think she's on year '23 already. '23 or '24? I think so. Don't I mean, she'll probably comment and correct me on that. Yeah. About year '24. Oh, wives are good at that. They they like they like to comment and correct. Oh, yeah. You know, and as long as we're willing just to let them do that and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
[02:05:23] Unknown:
We we know we're right. Yeah. I'm I'm not trying to get you in trouble. You say, I'm not married, so I can say stuff like that. I'm Yeah. I'm good to go. You gotta go home. Well, I'm glad that I have, I have her as, like, my backbone and I love how
[02:05:34] Unknown:
by the way, in just a short tidbit, like, I I work with a lot of females. 25. She said 25. Okay. I work with a lot of females, and it's funny because when you look at, there's a lot of men here in Eagle Pass, sorry, guys, That it's like an insecure thing. I've had I've worked with people. I've worked with someone before, and they, like it's like they wanna be a chief and they try to just kinda overrun you a little bit. But then when you're with females, it's not that they don't challenge you on things. It's like they're your backbone. And they'll tell me, like, Ruben, what do you wanna do? Mhmm. And I'll be like if I'm the type of person that goes, I don't know. What do you wanna do? Then they're just like, I just asked you, dude. Like, what do what do you wanna do? It's like the lion and the lioness. You know what I mean? The lioness I got you.
Takes care of the cubs, the the the pride, they do the hunting, and the the lion is the one that fends off the the other males. But if the lion's weak, you get eaten up. That's that's that's a great analogy. I like that. Yeah. So that's why a lot of females that's why some few, back in the ancient times, like Viking times, females were like great soldiers because they didn't try to they're not gonna try to stab you in the back and try to take supreme of leadership. Well, there unless there there was, like, Kamala Harris. But but but, well, anyways yeah. So they She couldn't lead herself out of a plastic bag. Yeah. But they'll Oh, wait. No. They're not allowed to use plastic in California. So Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. That sucks, man. Yeah. But yeah. No. They they they're good soldiers, man. Yeah. And they will help you, and they will be your pillar. And so that's why I love my producer, Veronica, and, of course, my my wife who,
[02:07:12] Unknown:
has helped me through all of this stuff. And that's something I I appreciate too when I when I, you know, in in talking to you and and hearing the things you say about your wife and and how is that the fact that you both support each other. Yeah. You know, and that that's that's important especially in any relationship. Oh, yeah. It's it's important that you both support each other because you have a you have a calling to serve. Obviously, she has a calling to serve and she's serving our country as, you know, with the border patrol and, you know, and you're doing what you're doing. And and you served your country as in the military and which is again, thank you for for your service again. Appreciate that. Thank you. And, you know, it's, it's important to have that that kind of support and back on me. Especially when you're doing podcasting and doing shows like this, if you don't have if you're married or if you're if you're with somebody dating, you know, in a in a, whatever kind of a relationship you have, if you don't have that support behind you, it it makes it so difficult to do what we do. Yeah. You know, how many how how often do you do your shows?
[02:08:10] Unknown:
Now, we try to do it every Sunday. Okay. So you do a once a week show? Yeah. So before, it was just like whenever we get to it because my hours are totally crazy right now. You know, being a contractor for the government is very demanding. It's I I feel like I'm in the army again. Yeah. So, like, we I I try to accommodate, and then now it's getting to the point where, yeah, we need to do a show every Sunday and and be consistent. And then just give out what's going on in the community, all the past events that are happening, what events aren't gonna happen. Mhmm. And then I'll do, like, a it's called a reality check segment.
I kind of I love judge Jeanine Pirro, how she would do her, like, her opening statement. So I kinda mix that with I'm a big huge wrestling fan, by the way. Like, Centimeters Punk dropping pipe bombs and stuff like that. Like Okay. We save that little segment there, and then we get into the good stuff. And then we talk about, you know, I'll I'll leave my opinion, and then we'll talk about facts. And she yeah. I I love the fact that they've been very supportive on that. Well, that and, seriously, then that's what you need. Like, I I do the show
[02:09:21] Unknown:
anywhere from three to five days a week, you know. And it it's a lot. I know. I'm like, damn, how does he do it? But I don't wanna be at that point. I don't know how I do it, to be honest with you. I I really don't. And there was a point when, when we when we first registered with some of the, services that we use, like pod match and radio guest list and such, where, all of a sudden, it's just like a flurry of stuff, and and I was still feeling my way around with the scheduling aspect of the whole thing. And and my producer, Angela, she's fantastic. You know, she she she picked up on the curve really quick. And, She seems awesome. Oh, she is. She's she's amazing. I I again, like I told you earlier, I don't know how she does it with everything she's involved with. And we call her anonymous Angela. Anonymous Angela? Anonymous Angela. And there's a reason, and I'll I'll get into that in a second. But she, she she's just great. And the when we first started with the, like, pod match and radio guest list and and all those types of services, Man, I and we set up our calendar. I didn't I didn't even think that I had to block out time, you know, so nobody would book.
And went to bed and then woke up the next day literally, this is no exaggeration. I'm not making this up. It was literally went to bed with no bookings and woke up with booked solid from the June all the way through until the September, literally almost every day. Holy shit. And it was like, how the hell am I and and not just one guest, but both because the show might show is two hours, like an hour and a half to two hours, generally. Both hours booked. Wow. You know, so it's like, okay. Well, so I'm doing five nights a week, two guests every night,
[02:11:03] Unknown:
for at least an hour. Okay. Damn. It's like holy cow. Yeah. That's why I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm looking at all these when I'm scrolling through the, the audios, I was like, damn, how does he do it, man? And and you got a good support. I know. I've got great great help. I wanna try to get Veronica on that spectrum too. Like, she's again, she's great. She gets all these ideas, and then we just kinda wing it. Hey. Look. I found somebody who's for Sunday. Next Sunday, we wanna try to get, councilman, Mario Garcia who is a food director Mhmm. For the ISD. And I listened to one of your podcast how about food being close to dog food. And I actually talked to him about it, and he gave me a big old explanation. I said, you know what? We need people to we you need to talk to people. We need to get this out there because people just think that, well, the ISD is just because the superintendent gets paid so much, that's why we have shitty food. No. No. No. It's more than that. The the the Michelle Obama thing where you have to have certain proteins and certain sodium and certain carbs and and then not to mention that Eagle Pass gets, like, the last pick of the litter when it comes to the vendors.
And it's funny because now people that are attacking the ISD are saying that, well, look at Del Rio. They have awesome food. Well, he they just told me that it's because they have their own, like, their own contracted vendor company. So they Okay. They do it themselves. They don't go to outside vendors. They do it themselves. You know, and they Well, that makes sense. Yeah. They order all that food and they pay they pay themselves. You know, they fork out the funds for that. So we're gonna talk about that next week. Hopefully, maybe tomorrow,
[02:12:40] Unknown:
if I can get him on board for tomorrow. Awesome. Yeah. So that's an interesting subject. Yeah. That that is. Because and and I say it somewhat tongue in cheek. It's like a grade above dog food, but it really is. Yeah. When you when you look at it, it's terrible. Now, as far as we go here, it's it's, so I I again, the the Sunday the Saturday shows are just basically originally, they were just every other week. We have our our, you already mentioned it before, our resident crypto psychic comes in, who is great by the way. She is oh, she's amazing. Marissa Lee, hooked up with her through PodMatch, actually. And, we just connected. We just hit it off really well.
And, she so so she what she does is she makes cryptocurrency predictions based off tarot. I gotta get into that. It's it's very interesting. Well, if you wanna stick around for the show, you're welcome. So, she, she she is just amazing with it, and and I wanna say she's she's spot on more than she's off the mark at all. And, anything that she's she's mentioned to me about getting some investment into, it's it's it's always been a plus. I haven't had any problems. The only thing that we're we're kinda struggling with right now is is is her prediction on bull run that was, that she she thought was gonna be coming sometime in, like, September, August, somewhere around there, still hasn't come yet. As a matter of fact, we saw the the crypto market drop, significantly.
It's coming back, but it it did drop significantly for a while. So, I know she's working her way through that stuff, but, but she's great. So we do that every other Saturday. Oh, okay. And, which is today would be the other Saturday. And that's always a good that's always a lot of fun. It's it's not a long show. It's only about an hour, you know, forty five minutes to an hour. Okay. But, so we do that. And then on Sundays, I do a Sunday show. Now the Sunday show is just for me. I I don't do it for I don't do it with guests or anything like that because on Sunday, I teach bible. Okay. So I I do a bible study show on a Sunday, and that that kinda hearkens back to the last show I did, where that was all I did. Just bible study, I did it twice two nights a week, and it's it's a lot of work to do that too because I'm not the sharpest tool in the in the in the box, you know. So it takes Me neither. It takes me it takes me time to to pick up on things, but so it it would take me for for one for one bible study show, it takes me about eight hours of study. Okay. You know, and that's not including the time doing the show.
So, you know, it's it's so it it takes a lot of work, but, and and primarily because I wanna make sure that I'm representing the word of God correctly. Because, you know, you you can handle the word of God, you need to do it Yeah. Correctly. You don't wanna you don't wanna add things in there that Right. No. Yeah. Yeah. So, so that's tomorrow's show. So what and so we started teaching, through what what are called dispensations, which is basically just a period of time and how God deals with man, especially regarding salvation, how you get saved. Alright. So, so we started doing that, and so it's it's been good. I've I've it's been a good study. I've I've not something I haven't taught before. I've taught it quite a few times before, so it's it's comfortable material for me to do. So I'm not spending as much time in prep, it's just kinda like refreshing myself on certain things and maybe updating some of the verses and whatnot if something else pops to mind. So, so that's what I've been doing and it's been it's it's it's
[02:16:04] Unknown:
tiring sometimes. Yeah. I mean, you know, when it comes I can't I'm not gonna pretend like I'm the most religious person in the world. I do believe in God, and I believe in Christ. I just don't practice a lot. Mhmm. But, like, I do I mean, you can't know everything. Mm-mm. Every everybody who's, like, a whether you're a pastor or a priest or whatever. If you're somebody who knows every single verse in the Bible, then good Lord. Like, where do you get from? God bless you, man. But you can see me. Let me rub your head. Yeah. Just so you know, I just work in some of that. Yeah. But if you when you look in in people's Bibles and I hate I hate when I hate drawing on a Bible or highlighting stuff. I just feel like I'm just defiling this thing. It's something so sacred.
Yeah. But you, you know, you
[02:16:46] Unknown:
wanna bookmark those verses when you wanna turn back to it and do some revelation and Oh, you should you should see my I have I have several Bibles. Yeah. You know, and each one is for something specific. Like, I have my preaching Bible, which is the one I use for everything. And if you open that thing up, it's annotated all over the place. I got highlights and underlines and notes and all that stuff all over the place. Yeah. And then I have study bibles. I have I have one study bible that's that I use that's on a more practical everyday, apply it to your life style of teaching.
Yeah. And then I have another study Bible, which is heavy doctrine theology. Okay. So it's and when I say study Bible, I'm talking about I should have brought it in. But, it's you have your text, and then at the bottom of the text, the the person who compiled that material put study notes. Now, things that they've studied over the years and and such. So that's the study bible basically. And it's, I have some great resources. I've had some great teachers over the years. I don't know if if you know about it. I served as an associate pastor of a church up in New York for about little almost two years. Okay. Our senior pastor was sick, very very sick, and so there were times where he couldn't, you know, teach, couldn't preach. And so he asked me if I'd be interested in in taking on that role, and I was like, yeah, as long as the church votes on it, and then it's and it's and it's it's unanimous. It's, you know, if one person says no, then I'm not I don't wanna do it because then, you know, it's just it's I it has to be unanimous.
So, and it what happened? They they voted on it at one of the business meetings. They and they appointed me as an associate pastor. So, yeah. So I got all the paperwork and credentials and and all that stuff, but it doesn't mean anything. It really doesn't. Oh, I see. You know, You're spreading what makes you happy. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Exactly. But but the point is is that, you know, it's it's I'm not any special class of person because I've gone through all that nonsense. I I don't I make mistakes too, and I tell everybody that whenever I teach bible that don't take my word for it. You know, read it, study it yourself. Get your own revelation. Do your own homework on it, do your own research, and if I'm wrong, tell me. Let me know what you think. This way, I wanna learn. I wanna make sure because I know that, you know, based on the study of scripture that when I stand before Christ at judgment, because I picked up that book and I started teaching other people what this book says, I'm gonna be judged at a higher Yeah. Standard than I'm gonna use it. Joe Schmo. Joe Schmo. Yeah.
[02:19:21] Unknown:
I mean, you know, I was always taught that when you read the bible and you get your own you receive your own revelation and you you pray on it, and is this you pray and ask, is this is this the right interpretation that I'm getting from these verses? Yep. And then you just feel it, like, you know, you you feel it if it's right or not. And then you share that happiness with someone else. And they might tell you, well, no. You're wrong about that. I'm like, well, well, that's I'm not telling you that it's right. It's just my personal revelation my revelation. You know what I mean? It's my understanding of the scriptures this. And honestly, I don't you know, I hear all kinds of crazy things when I talk to people sometimes. And it's like they
[02:19:58] Unknown:
you know, I I I go back, I look it up, I study it myself, I pray, I say, alright, Lord, open down my eyes, let me see. Is it am am I missing something? Did I make a mistake somewhere? It's the last thing in the last thing in the world that I could because early on, I'll I'll tell you honestly, early on if my our senior pastor used used to say, when he would call me up to preach, he was like, alright. Now, I'm gonna ask brother Joe to come up and and yell at us for two hours. You know, because I got passionate about it, you know. But and I I would often think too, like, you know, how many how many people that I steer the wrong direction because I didn't understand something properly and and that scares me. And and so that's why when it when those when that thought came to my mind the first time, I was like, well, no. I gotta I gotta really make sure that I'm on point on this. And if I wasn't comfortable doing it, if I wasn't on point with it, I believe me, I would not be doing a bible study episode of the podcast to do it. Yeah. Because you don't you don't know who's who's listening, who's watching, and and, you know, you could trip somebody up and
[02:20:54] Unknown:
Speaking of tripping somebody up, like, we, I I do some cursing on my podcast. Again, I know I've I've listened to some and I think I listened to one of your podcasts where you're like, dude, I'm so I'm I think we were talking about taxes. Yes. You were talking about taxes, and then you're like, I'm so sorry for cursing, man. Like, I I just get into this. And, like, same. Like, I get really I get really passionate. I just start I mean, I'm a veteran. I I've got a potty mouth sometimes. It happens. And then, like, it's our freedom of speech. But, like, what I didn't mention before, what my wife was trying to say about the veterans investigation. So, the guy that I called out about the whole thing with the school board, and he's going up, and it doesn't sound right. Well, he got upset, and they started complaining to the VFW, which is you know the VFW. Right? Yeah. So we have I helped create Cub Scouts and got them as a, what's called a charter organization.
So when you're doing Cub Scouts, you have to have a sponsor, a a charter rep. Otherwise, you guys are, like, if you're working with kids and stuff, you and you go do, like, a camping trip or whatever, guess what? You're responsible for anything that happens. Mhmm. You know, you need a charter organization rep to support. And so I did a I've been noticing ever since that I did cub scouts, people are now talking about it. You you don't hear anything about cub and there's been cub scout packs here for years. And nobody no, media, nothing has ever shared it. And so, like, I get a comp I hear they come and tell me, hey. So we got a complaint about you. I was like, what? It's like, oh, it's from so and so, which was the guy. Two, actually, the guy from the Maverick times because he doesn't like me and this guy.
They both decided to try to, you know, tell them, hey. So you have somebody out here who, is a Cub Scouts commissioner, and he's cursing on his podcast we're complaining about. And they complained to, like, the highest echelon. So they're telling me, like, okay. Now we gotta do an investigation. I was like, but I'm not even a member of the VFW. Like, what's going on here? Like, yeah. But we we still if it goes anywhere, we still have to do something. I'm like, you know, how pathetic is that? Like, you're doing now you're you're doing that, and they're they're promoting another Cub Scout pack, which we separated from because when you're part of a pack and your your charter rep, let's just say, is a Catholic organization, in this case, it is, you can be you can choose you can be picky choosy who your leaders are.
So if you if I say, okay. Well, I don't want I don't want Joe Russo because he's not Catholic. You can do that. There's nothing illegal about it or there's nothing. But we separated from them from that Cub Scout pack because of that. Okay. And then now they're promoting this pack that we left to spite me. Like, they're like, oh, join this pack. I'm not gonna put it out there because I don't wanna put them on blast. Join this pack, you know? And it's we're all the same. You know what I mean? So that's how they're trying to they're trying to cut the legs from under me by doing that. I'm like, you're not hurting me. You're hurting the kids. Yeah. Yeah. And that's pathetic, man. And I call them out for it. And so, like, they instead of getting me for slandering them, they're getting me for they're getting me for cussing on my podcast. And so, like, that's how people are getting tripped up. And I'm like, you know what? If I have to stop cursing on my podcast for the kids, then I'll I'll stop. But I'm not gonna do it for you guys who who are trying to, you know, trying to hurt me. And so that's why I wanted to bring that up because I've she mentioned it and I totally forgot to bring that up. Like, that's that's how they work. They get mad at you for telling the truth and they try to they try to screw with people that you're affiliated with. And I I And they look for any reason to do it too. Yeah. And I take that like I said, I take that personal because you're messing with the people that I have relationships with. You can call me fat. You can, you know, make fun of me, tell me I love transgenders, whatever. But at the same time, when you're talking to people around me, that's that's a no go for me, you know.
[02:24:48] Unknown:
And I just sorry. I had to insert that one in there. No. No. That's good. I'm glad you did because honestly, I I forgot that your that wife mentioned it. So, Yeah. And that that was good. We cleared that up. Well, you told me to put my phone on like, we're gonna put our phones on silent. I just kinda took a peek, and then she she didn't wanna put that on the comments so she texted me. I'm like, ah, that's what she was talking about. So Yeah. No. That that's great. No. I'm I'm glad you brought it up. Because like I said, I I it slipped my mind that she mentioned it in the first place. So Yeah. Yeah. But that's important to get out there too. I mean, look, the you're you're always gonna have somebody that's gonna try to stop you when you're over the like I said before, you know, you start getting flack when you're over the target. Yeah. And it and and so what they do is they'll they'll look for those little add ons, those little tack ons. Anybody in in that worked in law enforcement knows what I'm talking about when I say this. You know, you you get the one violation or the or the one real reason for the stop, and then you start looking for all the other little things that you could just add on to it to make it a bigger thing, so you could blow it up bigger than what it really is. Yeah. You know? So that's that's that's what that is, and you just gotta let it roll. And as far as cursing on on this show, you could say whatever you gotta say, but, you know, I I my show is, like I said, is an anything and everything show. Sacred. Nothing is watered down. Nothing is PC. You say what you gotta say. Get it off your mind. Get it off your chest. Whatever it is. I'll deal with the I'll deal with the little warning stickers they put on. That's being considerate, like, when you said you about the whole cursing, like, maybe I shouldn't curse on this podcast. I don't know. I say it. Look, I I I drop it every now and then too. But, what I find interesting though is, like, Apple Podcasts will put a flag on a particular episode if they detect Oh, crap.
A a curse, you know. Yeah. But it's not but the thing is it's not consistent. It's that's the funny thing, like, I'd like to I went on that rant about taxes and said a few things, and I didn't get any flag or anything like that on on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere really. But I had a guest on the show who who said shit, and I had a flag on Oh, yeah. On Apple Podcasts, you know. So it's it's weird. It's it's very it's very arbitrary, I guess, how they do that. So, so I know we talked about, about your family. We talked about between your wife too and the support that we get, and that's how we got off onto this whole little rabbit trail that we were just on. I didn't mention my son, did I? No. I feel so terrible. I have an 11 year old son.
[02:27:09] Unknown:
I didn't forget about him. I just get so lost in thought whenever I'm talking. This is why, like It's alright. Yes, I have my son. Oh, yeah. I did mention him. I did mention they got custody of him and stuff. Yeah. But you didn't go to details or anything about him? Or No. So he's he's, he's 11 years old. He's a big boy already. I love him to death. My son, Jacob. One of the special things about him, I think he does this better than I do. I think if you look through my my page, he started promoting other people's businesses. And he, like, doesn't need to look at a phone. Mhmm. Doesn't need a script.
He just doesn't and he'll get more views than me because we're gonna get the kids. You know what I mean? And I'm just like, you know, I should be like, you know what? I need to get him off the screen now. No. No. No. He he's he sees what I do. He sees he sees what I do, and he loves it. Like, he wants to be like a YouTuber. He loved, and I tried to stray away from it, Ryan's World, because we know that the parents got the money for making this kid famous. Mhmm. I don't wanna be like that. So I know. I got I got you. Yeah. Yeah. But I tell him, if that's what he loves to do, then I'll let him sit on my he loves to sit at my Rodecaster and start talking. He actually started recording. Good. So I'm like, yeah. He loves that, man. Everyone should have a podcast. Oh, yeah. Exactly. It's therapeutic, man. It is. And, like He truly is. He's gifted. He's very gifted. He's not a sport big boy, but not a sports guy. I was a sports kid when I was his age, and my dad was a huge sports fanatic. And him, he just I let him choose what he wants to do. Like, I tried doing, like, taekwondo, and I tried putting him in flag football, and it's just, you know, just didn't catch. But when he does something like this, like
[02:28:55] Unknown:
That's good though. He loves it, man. Yeah. Promote him. Let's let him do it. Yeah. Just encourage him to do it. Just keep pushing him to do it. So it's, you know, it's not a bad thing to do. I mean, everybody should have a like, I say a half serious half kidding, you know, everybody should have a podcast. Oh, yeah. It's and, actually numbers are, you know, there are over 4,000,000 podcasts out there. Yeah. Only about 400,000 are actually active. Oh, wow. And of the 400,000,
[02:29:18] Unknown:
only about 10,000 are actually They they pick up. Yeah. And it's hard. Like, because it it's now people try to say that podcasting is saturated.
[02:29:27] Unknown:
No. No. I I don't think podcasts are saturated. I think particular subjects in podcasts are saturated. Okay. You know, I that's my opinion. I have nothing to back that up with. I just that's just my thoughts. No. I agree. I agree. You know, I think that, you know, unfortunately, the the the podcast has seemed to do the best right now or like what we talked about, I'm gonna say the name I'm gonna say the word wrong, but, Cheese May podcast. Cheese May. Yeah. Cheese Cheese May. Yeah. That's that's oh, everybody loves Cheese May here. Oh, my god. That's that's unfortunately the the trend. Like, I like, everybody knows. I I I love Rumble. Rumble's a a great, free speech platform to be on. You know, I that's why I stream to Rumble.
And, Rumble's my home. I don't pay much attention to to Youboob or anything like that. I just kinda Youboob. I just kinda leave it. Fake book, you know. That was new for me. Yeah. I just kinda I kinda leave them, like I call Twitter or x. I call it Twix, because nobody knows what to call it anymore. So I just call it Twix.
[02:30:26] Unknown:
Twix?
[02:30:27] Unknown:
X is just x. Plus, what I'm saying, Twitter, x, Twix. Probably Twitter. Yeah. Twix. Yeah. So, you know, but like on YouTube, I don't even promote the YouTube channel. I don't. I don't care about it, to be honest with you. I don't get anything out of it. I think I have like 40 followers on on YouTube. You know, if they follow it, great. Yeah. I follow it. But, you know, I'm not gonna I'm not promoting it. I'm not pushing it because I I have two strikes on on on YouGov already. It's like and all because I was talking about alternative medical therapies, you know, with a former with a former, sponsor of the show. And so that I got a I got a flag for that. And I refused to go through their their sensitivity training for it. So it so they're not gonna remove it until I go through that. So I said, no. Fuck you, man. I'm not doing it. I think YouTube is a thing of the past, man. Like, that was It's a dying platform. That was the in way back in the day. Now there's
[02:31:17] Unknown:
Rumble. You got Twitch. You got x. You got Facebook. You got Instagram. They all share live stuff. See, now it's like you gotta pick one. And the most you get is I think well, you said Rumble's good for you. Right? Yeah. Yeah. For me, Facebook is good. I do wanna try to do more platforms.
[02:31:34] Unknown:
Well, I would recommend you try Rumbles, honestly. Because Rumble Rumble's a good platform and they they don't censor. It's not it's like not like YouTube where where you have to mind your p's and q's. You can't give an opinion without fearing that you're gonna get smacked for it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I mean Shit. I only use YouTube because it it keeps me in the it keeps my library because, like, you know, StreamYard can only hold so much. Yeah. Well, Rumble does the same thing. Oh, okay. They they hold it. And I'll be honest, in full disclosure, everybody knows this already, but you might not. I am a shareholder in Rumble. Oh, okay. So just just to put it out there so nobody says anything, but, I am a shareholder of Rumble. So I I believe in the platform. You know, I I think it's a great I I joined Rumble when I when it first started, and I mean, I didn't I wasn't doing a podcast at the time when Rumble first started. You know, I was kind of in between.
But, Rumble's the place to go, man. And it's a it's a great platform to be part of it. Their their leadership is just so pro first amendment, so pro free speech. Like like France, a couple years ago, tried to get rumble to take down a number of high profile, content creators on off of rumble's platform because of, you know, of, their sensitivity laws and all that stuff. And Rumble said, oh, really? No. We're not taking them down. Hell no. Hell no. And then and of course, you know, they would they threatened them with, with, lawsuits and fines and all that stuff. Rumble said, okay, fine. You know what? We just shut rumble off to you then. Your country doesn't get it anymore. There you go. You know, and that's the way they do it. They're not gonna not gonna take people off their platform. I mean, unless it's something that's super, like, you know, crazy crazy.
You know, there there are some, you know, contingencies in place. Yeah. You know, but but, but as a whole, Rumble's a great platform. I've I've been on for a but, I was saying all that to get back to, you know, what people are talking about mostly, you know, the type of shows that really seem to take off. Rumble does these things where they do they, they highlight shows. So when you when you first go to the Rumble's home to Rumble's homepage, they'll have a show playing, you know. And, you may not be subscribed to it or not, but it's there. It's playing. And I've noticed that a lot of them are these panel shows where you have these, like half dressed women sitting around with a bunch of guys, and they're talking about relationship things, and gossip, and all that stuff. And they have thousands and thousands and thousands of live viewers, and downloads, and plays, and I'm like, listen, I don't wanna sit here with my shirt off.
I mean, if I have to, I, you know, I guess, but, you know, no one's gonna wanna see these.
[02:34:17] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah.
[02:34:19] Unknown:
You know, it's it's not it's not so attractive anymore. Yeah. Even in my twenties maybe, but, you know, not now. You know? But but unfortunately, that's that seemed to me, anyway, it's just my observation, that seems to be the type of shows that are that are really taking off. That and, like like gaming shows. Like, I don't understand. Because I know you I know you you you play games and and and whatnot, but I don't understand what's the point and the purpose of watching either whether it's on Rumble or YouTube or wherever of watching somebody else playing a video game for hours. Like Twitch?
[02:34:58] Unknown:
Yeah. Like like Like when when people, like, will stream and they're just playing forever and we're just watching like, what's gonna happen? Yeah. Like like I I have no idea. I really don't have time to sit and watch somebody else play. Like, I don't even have time to play myself. Myself. Right. I I I don't get it. I think that the the the purpose of it is to get people to watch how they play. Or, like, maybe if you're doing, like, a story game or, like, a puzzle game or something that's hard, and it's kinda like a spoiler. So you watch people play it and, like, ah, that's how you do it. Oh, those are some hidden things that you found or, you know, those are some Yeah. Tips and tricks. Yeah. No. Cheat codes anymore because that's back in the nineties, I guess. So Yeah. Yeah. Click click click click click click click. Up down square. Up down up down. Yeah.
[02:35:38] Unknown:
I remember doing that in Legends of Zelda. No. Nostalgia.
[02:35:42] Unknown:
I'm so sorry if I threw you off to you. I know we talked about the family life. No. No. No. We're gonna get back to it. I just wanted to grab put throw my son in there because Well, I'm glad you did because I wanted to ask you,
[02:35:51] Unknown:
as a dad, you know, the values that that that you were talking about earlier, you know, how do those values show up in your everyday life? As far as like As being as, you know, describing yourself as, you know, you're a patriot. You know, you're you're you're a proud devoted father. You know, how do those values show up in your everyday life? Well, this also falls into being an advocate for men. Mhmm.
[02:36:15] Unknown:
I think that society wants Did you read my notes? Because because that was my next question. No. No. No. Oh, I'm sorry. Dude, we're, like, totally in sync, man. I know. That's true. No. Well, I'm I'm just, like, kinda, like, kinda just taking a little bit of that authority in here. You know what I mean? So I try to teach my son because let's just face it. When the when the Biden administration was here, it fucked everything up, man. True that. The society now wants weak men. And they confuse masculinity with toxic masculinity, and they they say masculinity is bad and all this shit. So as a dad, you know, you wanna teach your son how to be a man. You know what I mean? That's right. And you wanna have him, you know, learn about these values. Not not stuff that he's not ready for, but as far as doing the right thing, you know, being a man as in, like, okay, facing your fears.
Okay? I mean, that doesn't have to just go directly to men. It can go through women too. But, like, facing your fears, you know, staying true to what you believe in. Mhmm. If you wanna do something and you think you can't do it, don't listen to that. You just do it. And I try to teach him the values of helping people. In this case, when it comes down to people who are different from them, like, I had to have a conversation with him about, Your transgender girlfriend. Yeah. Yeah. And I had to sit here with him a hacean. So, yeah, I'm sorry, but, like, don't tell your don't tell your mama Jackie, but, you know, there's we gotta talk about transgenders. No.
No. No. Well, we can throw that in there. Like, let's just, you know, kids who are disabled or, like, who have down syndrome. Like, I teach him again, this will also fall on with this being at school and, you know, blaming teachers and blaming administration when it starts at the home. So I'm gonna tell him, look, when you see somebody who looks different than you Mhmm. You accept them and you accept that they're different. You don't make fun of them. Mhmm. You don't go and if there's something that you don't understand, you can come and ask me, hey, why does this person look like this or whatnot? And I'll tell you. And I'll give you the don't learn it from someone else. Right. You learn because kids are assholes these days. I'm sorry. They are. And and you you when you learn from other kids, which that falls on the parents who don't teach them right, you're you're not learning the right thing, and you're just putting this now you're now you're feeding into the whole bullying thing. Yeah. And and kids think it's right.
It's not that they're like, in The Karate Kid, like, mister Miyagi says, there's no such thing as a bad student, only a bad teacher. There's no such thing as a bad kid, but there are bad parents. Yeah. I I agree with that. Yeah. So and, like, I try to teach them the value like, again, values of accepting those who are different than you are. It might not be your belief. You know? I'm not telling you to do it, but, you know, you need to accept people for who they are. Yeah. And that's how you make that's how we become men, and we become leaders of the household. You are the and that's what God wants. God wants, God's plan is, to create families Mhmm. And to spread, the the man is the leader in the house.
That doesn't mean that you're controlled now. Women like to now, again, this is what society gets wrong. It's not about controlling your women. I think that's cowardice when you try to strike fear into your your counterpart, your spouse Yeah. For them to respect you. No. You need to prove that you can take the lead. That's what women want. Like, you see two Rams butting heads and you see the female Rams like, okay, who's gonna win? Yeah. You know? And okay, I want that one. You know? That's the one that's gonna protect me. That's the one that's gonna be our leader. And so, like, yeah. You get you earn women's respect by doing that, and they wanna follow you, and they wanna they're protected. And I think a lot of people also,
[02:40:08] Unknown:
misunderstand, because you you mentioned scripture, you know. You know, the husband is the head of the wife and so on and so forth. I think a lot of society culture feminism Yeah. Has drilled into people's head and women's heads especially that, you know, that's misogynistic, that's patriarchy, that's all that stuff. No. No. See, biblically biblically, yes, the husband is the head of the wife, Christ is the head of the family, but that doesn't mean that the wife is subservient to the husband. Exactly. The wife is a partner.
You know, God God said that when he created man and he created woman, he created a help meet for him. Yes. Meet meaning equal for him. Yes. Someone that can be at his side and help him through his responsibilities and however you wanna phrase it. So it's not, you know, you're gonna do what I tell you and that's the end of the story. No. That's not how it works. Right. You know, you have an opinion, I have an opinion, we sit down, we put those ideas together, but ultimately, the final decision falls on the man to make that decision because that's his responsibility. You know, if, like I the way I the way I always did was, you know, if if my wife at the time had a better idea than mine, and I thought, well, you know what? That might work. Well, we'll go with your idea.
But that decision is mine to make. Right. You know? And that's and that's
[02:41:42] Unknown:
that's that's biblically speaking. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's why we have, like, women who, again, when you have men who and I call this a weakness in men, toxic masculinity. Exactly. And then they treat their spouse bad. They beat them or whatever. And then that puts in the woman's head, like, I don't need a man. I don't need a man, you know. And then, you know, they explore other ventures, and then that's when things just get all messed up. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, again, society wants to put it in women's head that men just wanna control everything. That's not true. Again, we go by, like, it was, you know, Adam and Eve. Mhmm. You know, they they were one for each other.
And I love it how Danny put we talk a lot, you know, and, he would put this in a sense where, okay. God didn't scold Eve for having him bite the apple. Mhmm. He scolded Adam. So what the hell dude? Like and she's like, well, no. She gave me the apple. No. No. No. No. No. You're the leader here. It's your fault, man. Like, you should have known better. Yep.
[02:42:42] Unknown:
So that's Everybody everybody plays the blame game. Yeah. And that's exactly what that was. That's the typical blame game, you know. Eve blamed the serpent.
[02:42:50] Unknown:
Adam blamed Eve. God blamed the man. Yeah. Exactly. He didn't blame the snake. He didn't blame Nope. He didn't blame Eve. He blamed it was Adam's fault. And so that's how we and that's again what falls into how I teach my son leadership. You know, you take responsibility. If you wanna be a leader Mhmm. Everything's your fault. In the army Yes. I was a sergeant. I had and CO. I had soldiers. If my soldier went and bought a Mercedes, a brand new private, it's my fault. Why? Because I didn't teach him, hey. Look. Don't go out and buy. I know that the banks are gonna now you're a new soldier, and they want you to get they want you to get a loan, loan, loan, loan, loan. And then you go buy a nice car, and guess what? You're in debt. That's that's on me. If my soldier dies, that's on me. Mhmm. You know what I mean? Everything is your fault, and that's how, like, I try to again, like, part of my podcast is to give everybody inspiration on leadership values. Because right now in Eagle Pass, it's you know somebody, that's how you get a job. Or you get you're a manager because you knew somebody, and then you just totally suck. And you just wanna be a manager just to tell people what to do. No. You need to set the example.
When I was making in in the army, when I would make my soldiers do push
[02:44:00] Unknown:
ups, I'll be doing it with them. You know what I mean? You can't tell me I'm lazy. Here I am. I'm doing it with you. You have to lead by example, number one. And then, you know, heavy is the head that wears the crown. So, you know, if you're gonna if you're gonna be in position of leadership, yes. Everything that happens under your leadership is your responsibility. Yeah. You know, whether you were directly involved or not. It is your responsibility to make sure your ship, your or your platoon, or your your I forget how they break it down in the army. It's been a while. Oh, like, your company, your battalion Yeah. Your brigade. Your squad, whatever. Yeah. You know, all of that, like when I was when I was in working in law enforcement, and I I was a squad leader for for a short period of time, you know, before I before I became a a patrol supervisor.
You know, everything that went on in my squad was my responsibility. If we came up short on numbers, it was my responsibility. Why are they doing why why are these numbers not being met? Why are these patrol hours not being met? What are you doing to cause that to happen? Yeah. You know, so yeah. You're absolutely right. You have you have to take the responsibility for it. And it's about gaining the respect too. Like, my wife's border patrol agent, old patrol,
[02:45:08] Unknown:
been raised in the most toughest environment ever. If I didn't know how to lead or be, you know, be the man that could support her because she's got age on me and stuff too, she I I wouldn't have lasted. Yeah. I wouldn't.
[02:45:22] Unknown:
And another thing people, I think, misunderstand too is like, oh, it just flipped out of my head, what I was gonna say. The, it's respecting as as a as a as a leader, like you said, you wanna be respected. You need to be respected by your people. Right? One of the one of the things that I saw that was really misunderstood was that because and I heard it said, and and this is why I'm saying it. We had a we had a we had a one of our, our our inspectors came because, you know, the rank structure in law enforcement, you know, you have your patrol officers, you have your sergeants and lieutenants, captains, deputy inspector, inspector, chief, deputy chief, and all that stuff. Right? So inspector's pretty high up there.
Inspector came by and he was trying to be motivational, because morale was pretty low Mhmm. In this particular in our particular command. And you know, there was a lot of issues with him because of comment that he made. Because he was he became an inspector without ever coming up through the ranks. He was appointed. And he made a comment that he I don't think he thought anybody heard, but it went through the the entire department like overnight. And that was that he would not be caught dead wearing the uniform that we all wore. And so he went on this, you know, he went on this tour of commands and facilities and so on and so forth to try to save face, you know.
And he came to us, and I was there. I heard the whole conversation. And he says, and his thing was, I don't care if you don't respect me, but you have to respect my position. That's the wrong attitude. Wrong attitude. Right. Because if I don't respect you, I can't respect your position. Or if I can't it it doesn't you can't separate the two. You have to respect the person that's in that position in order for the whole thing to work. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't I don't know, but I think that you you can't separate the two. If you're working in that position, you have to have the respect, not only for your title, but for for you as a person. And for you to come out and say something like, I would never be caught dead wearing that uniform. I mean, that's how do you how do you gain somebody's respect from that? No. Can't. You can't. It's impossible. No.
[02:47:51] Unknown:
It's just almost like, I wouldn't be caught like, I'm a I'm a manager. I used to be manager at AutoZone, and I would clean the bathrooms.
[02:47:59] Unknown:
My son works for AutoZone. Oh, yeah. Oh, cool. Which one? Pennsylvania.
[02:48:02] Unknown:
Oh, okay. Yeah. I I was a manager, and I was like, okay. Look. Like, I would clean the shit out of those bathrooms, and I would tell my employees this is how I want it. I cleaned it this way. This is how this is how we expect to do it. And if I gotta show you again, I'll show you again. But you know what I mean? Like Third time's a charm. Third time's a charm. Yeah. And I the same thing with my son. You know? I teach him this is how I'm gonna clean the shit out of your room. And now this is the way I want it. This is the way you're gonna do it, you know, instead of just sitting on a hammock with lemonade saying, hey. Do this. You know what I mean? Set the example.
[02:48:34] Unknown:
Yeah. I gotcha. I gotcha. So we're gonna we're gonna start to wrap it up because it's, we got five minutes. Believe it or not, these the third hour's gone already. Dude, like, I I feel so bad because I feel like you had more questions for me and I just couldn't. I I do, but it could but that'll be the next show. Okay. Yeah. But, one question I always like to ask though is is, who's somebody that you respect right now and what are they doing that inspires you?
[02:48:56] Unknown:
Who do I respect right now? I have I have to say my father. Always. My dad is a man of, who has made mistakes and who has showed me not to make the same ones. I'll always respect my dad. Always, man. Even though sometimes we we'll we'll be on talking terms and sometimes we won't be, but, like, yeah. He's he's he's still doing what he's doing, working his ass off at, and it's already been becoming 60 already. Yeah. Always, man. Yeah. Outstanding. Outstanding.
[02:49:37] Unknown:
And, well, we already kinda covered where we can find you and all that stuff with your podcast, but why don't you throw it out there again?
[02:49:43] Unknown:
I is it okay if I like to throw some shout outs and stuff like that? Please go ahead. Yeah. Well, you can find us at Now You Know Eagle Pass on Facebook. We have Instagram. We have YouTube, You Boop. I'm gonna call them You Boop and Fakebook and stuff like that just because of you, man. We, like, what we talk about, our values fake book. Yeah. The fake book. We talk about our values, and we talk about politics, you know, try to get you guys informed. Big shout out to my producer, Veronica Pena. She's been great. You know, been by my side for for a while now. Big shout out to the OGs, Valerie Rodriguez. She was one of our producers. She's always welcome to come back.
Of course, last but not least, my wife, you know, a big supporter of mine, doing this. You know, shout out to all those who support, you know, LC's Power Hour, you know, Lisa, Cassandra Kane. Thank you so much for supporting. Oh god. I'm I can't be drawing a blank already. Anita Ramos Ramirez, pageantry. Yeah. Thank you guys so much for your support as well. Yeah. Stick around, and we'll we'll try to be as as consistent as possible. And big shout out to, Joe's thanks, bro. Man, you guys, this is a great podcast. I've been I'm hooked. You know, there's a lot of stuff you can learn, from this man. We've had we've had talks already before. We I think we talked for, like, what, almost two hours. Yeah. And my wife was like, who are you talking? Like, what? You're still talking? I'm like, dude. And I told Danny, like, you got two podcasters together, man, and we're gonna talk for, like, like, forever. Three hours today. Yeah. Three hours already. So I don't know what she did, but you but, yeah, we're we're looking forward to collaborating with you, man. And, absolutely, we don't wanna elevate and not about, and I wanna just reiterate to everybody, like, it's not about competition. Like, if someone wants to do something that's the same as everybody else, it's almost like, you know, Fruity Pebbles and the or was it, like, no, Apple Jacks, and then there's Apple to Apples, like the the knockoff of the Apple Jacks. Yes. Like, they wanted to do the same thing. It's okay. Like, you can, you know, we can still coexist, and there's plenty of there's plenty of audience for everybody. Absolutely. You know? So, yeah, I will definitely I'm a huge fan of the Joe's podcast now. So now I'm gonna be, like, shouting this out every single time. Appreciate it. You know? Outstanding.
Appreciate it. Thank you so much for this. Appreciate it. It's very therapeutic.
[02:51:52] Unknown:
You betcha. And what so where can so where can the audience go to find you, your socials, your show, and all that great stuff? You can find me, Ruben Joshua Camarillo. That's my that's my,
[02:52:01] Unknown:
my personal account. You guys wanna hit me up there. I am gonna I do wanna start using Pod Home Outstanding. So we can start getting a website going, and you can find us at Now You Know Eagle Pass podcast on Facebook, on Youboob. We want we'll try expanding to other platforms as well. We're still growing. Help us grow and share us, you know, we wanna support our small businesses and, of course, inform our community on local politics. Outstanding. Thank you. Outstanding.
[02:52:29] Unknown:
Alright. Ruben, thank you so much for being here with us. Yes, man. Just hang out here for a second. We're gonna wrap this show up and then, and we'll chat on the other side. Awesome, man. Alright. Sure. I'm gonna leave you connected though. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Alright, folks. Pro HVAC, our solutions, leverages over thirty years of ex of expertise to provide premier HVAC sales and repair services specializing in both residential and commercial installations. Pro HVAC's team of skilled technicians is dedicated to providing efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions for your home or business with a focus on quality workmanship, customer satisfaction.
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[02:58:37] Unknown:
No. I mean, thanks again, man. Oh, I forgot to mention thank you to Danny Mendoza for sparking this. Absolutely. You know, he's he's a great guy. He's a he's a little overwhelming for me. He's he needs to cut back on the caffeine. Yeah. He needs to cut back on the caffeine, but he's he's such a great guy, man. Big heart. Yeah. I love him. He's a good guy. Love him to death. So I I just like talk shit about him because he he he loves it. We had like a like a stone cold when we when I was with the Golden Fox. I'm sure we'll talk about that another time. Yes. You know, he we're we did have like a stone cold Vince McMahon thing going where I'm we're just I'm just talking shit about him. He's like he's just loving it. So I love you, Danny. Thank you so much for doing this, man. You're you're awesome. Thank you. Alrighty. Well, alright, folks. That's gonna do it for us. So with all of that said,
[02:59:18] Unknown:
folks, thanks for taking some time to be with us this afternoon, this morning. And don't forget to head over to our website, jorooz.com. Leave a comment, leave a suggestion, anything. Let us know what you're thinking. Alright folks, make Texas independent again. Go podcasting, keep a steady stride, keep talking, we'll see you at 03:00. Oh, no. I I gotta clip them back. Coming back from the break. Who cares about the clouds if we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny wings. You can get a lot of it for free. You can get a lot of it for free. It depends. Sometimes it'll it'll like, I I don't trust the numbers that they show on the screen because, like, I'll I'll look at and I'll see
Cold open: eerie lines and on‑air warmup
Show kickoff from Asylum Studios in Eagle Pass
Housekeeping, Saturday setup, guest tease
Value for value and community engagement asks
Website, contact, and support calls to action
Escrow issue, GoFundMe mention, and show flow
Guest intro: Reuben Camarilloveteran, podcaster, community leader
First‑time guest jitters, podcasting vs radio
Hosting vs guesting stories and podcast connections
Origins in internet radio and the early show vibe
Debating healthcare and the Constitution anecdote
Open dialogue, political polarization, and civility
Impressions and levity: Trump voice and laughs
Uncomfortable questions: getting to know Reuben
Nerd side: gaming, anime, comics, Star Trek vs Star Wars
Wokeness in media, streaming choices, and kids
Conservatarian identity and small‑r republicanism
Wind‑down drinks: lemonade, tea, and COVID talk
Vicks on feet, germs vs cold, and barracks lessons
From Palm Springs to Texas: Army to Eagle Pass
Falling for Eagle Pass: food, community, and culture
Body image banter, dad bods, and confidence
Listeners, platform comments, and engagement
Now You Know Eagle Pass: mission and format
Civics spark, political journey, and youth focus
Local GOP dynamics, elections, and campaigning
Messaging vs mudslinging in county races
Running for city council and election war stories
Turnout, constitutional amendments, and taxes
Bridge tolls, spending scrutiny, and small‑town ties
Independent media, accountability, and neutrality
Sponsorships, value models, and production costs
Remote vs in‑studio realities and creator life
Interviews that shifted outlook and media style
Public enemy moment: vetting and posting tough stories
Debate hosting, neutrality push, and runoff heat
Sign wars, optics, and perceptions of bias
57 Music Fest: costs, votes, and forensic review
Fact‑checking narratives and calling out spin
Hospital board appointment and due diligence
Publishing sensitive records and public interest
Silence from officials, pressure to address ethics
Cavalcade clip: professionalism and public image
Threats, fake profiles, and retaliation tactics
Criticism vs bashing and free press lines
The burden of telling hard truths
What27s next for the show: guests, growth, and skits
Analytics, reach, and monetization hurdles
Break to hour three and reset
Hour three open and milestone plans
Family support, workload, and scheduling realities
Wife27s Border Patrol career and team dynamics
Show cadence, segments, and guest plans
School meals, vendors, and policy constraints
Crypto tarot show plug and market chat
Sunday Bible study format and teaching approach
Ministry background, study discipline, and humility
Language on air, Cub Scouts, and complaint campaigns
Targeting affiliations and protecting kids27 programs
Platforms: Rumble, YouTube, and free speech choices
Trending formats, gossip panels, and gaming streams
Dad life: Jacob27s on‑mic talent and nurturing it
Teaching boys to be men without toxicity
Biblical leadership, partnership, and responsibility
Accountability lessons from Army and law enforcement
Closing stretch: influences and gratitude
Sponsor read, announcements, and producer credits
Final thanks, shout outs, and sign‑off banter
