This could give me for our podcast. What Up? I'm jizz O. That is John Magic, and we are back. I was about to call this a bonus episode, but it's like a regular episode because usually we've been doing guests every week and we've had a guest for what the past two months, I don't know. Yeah, it feels like it a guest every week we've had we've we've done those episodes and we haven't done an episode in a while where it's just us to which this is the way our podcast started with.
It normally started with just us two and we would have guests here and there. But I think coming into this year, we wanted to kind of focus more on guests. And it's been a lot of fun highlighting some people that are doing big things in Fresno. I mean we've talked to DJ's club promoters, concert promoters, business owners, business owners. Yeah, it's been a lot of fun gettings to know these people. And uh and this week we didn't have anybody, so we thought we would just be us two.
Well, also we have guests lined up like on our schedules. Well schedulings didn't work out, I guess is what I'm meant to say, so we do. We are going to get back to having guests here because another thing I'm seeing is are the numbers have been going up? Yeah, the listenership has been great, So we appreciate all the newcomers and people that's been with us from the beginning. And usually we have when we do these episodes where we record our podcast, usually we have some sort of idea, yeah,
what the topic is going to be. But we decided, let's just turn on the mics and let's just talk about whatever whatever is on our minds. Yeah, because we haven't really had that situation where me and you have just kind of cracked the mic and had an open conversation about whatever just popped in. We've had these guests or we've had topics that we wanted to go down. But with this week, you know, to kind of go back to
it, saying kind of it feels like a bonus in a way. So we thought we just cracked the mic and just kind of see where this goes. Something that I remember us saying about twenty twenty four is we wanted to do new experiences. You remember that was that's a big goal, is new experiences. You know, five months into the year. Have you done anything new, new, different? Yeah, I mean I've done some things. I haven't done anything that was like crazy news. We've been going more,
Yeah, I've been going more conventions. Yeah, I just came from one. As matter of fact, I'm going to be leaving next week. It won't be for convention, but I'll be at Disneyland for a Star Wars night. So I think I've been keeping that same energy of wanting to just do a lot of experiences. The new hasn't really came. I guess maybe new conventions that I've done if you would count that, it's still coming man, And I know next year will probably be my really big new one because next
year I plan on going to Japan. There you go. Matter of fact, I have to pay for that while I'm out at Disneyland. Tickets will be going on sale for Star Wars celebration that will be taking place in Japan a year from now, so I'll be out in Disneyland trying to book that vacation while on vacation. So that should be a lot of fun. How does that work? Is there a monthly payment plan or is this one paid? Like, just do the whole thing. Just do the whole thing.
Yeah, just all in, you know what I'm saying. And first I hope I can get the tickets because these things do sell out. And then after that, it's just going to be like a year of planning because I've never been that far before. Have you traveled that far before? No, that's one of my bucket list travel destinations. Japan is Japan, China. Even so, super jealous and happy for you that you're gonna get to do that. The thing I'm not looking forward to. I think it's like a
thirteen hour flight or something like that. Yeah, what's the longest flight you've done? However long? I don't remember the It could be fourteen hours too to Australia. Oh I heard that one's like one of the longest ones. This was years ago, so I can't tell you an experience, but uh, the thing that I do remember is being excited. Yeah. So you the mentality is you take it for what it is. You go into it
knowing it's going to be a long flight. Yeah, so just you just enjoy the process sort of thing that you say, Just go into it knowing that it's gonna be that long. So just mentally prepare of you know, you don't you don't remember how you felt during that time or like no, man, yeah it sucked. No, I don't. You know a lot of movies. I remember that, just a lot of movies. Sleep, Get some sleep. Yeah. They say to like deprive yourself almost like the
day before. Yeah, so that when you get on the plane you can kind of just crash out. So I think that's that's gonna be one of my plans. But yeah, I mean, I'm with you. The excit I mean, and everything's probably gonna get my adrenaline going in. Yeah, it'll override the annoyance of the flight. I guess. Yes, So I'm interested to hear. Yeah, how how that's gonna go. I've experienced, you know, I've done a lot of new experiences so far this year.
But a big one that I've never done before is a festival. And we've talked about how music festival. I'm going to a country festival this weekend. Oh, you're going to uh stage coach, stage coach, that's the that's basically the Coachella of country, right. Yeah. After two weeks of Coachella, it's like one week off and then it's they use the same staging,
same decoration, everything stays the same. But it's all country artists. This past year, I've been DJing a lot of country events, and there's these songs that I play and I'm like, yo, this is like you you know me. I love it when the crowd gives me energy, so it makes me enjoy the song. And I'm learning that these songs. Oh it's Morgan Wallen, like okay, so now I'm like listening to that. So I just told my as you know, I'm not good at festivals, just
the outdoor, the thousands and thousands of people. But I told myself new experiences, So I want to experience this because I've never experienced it before. Are you going for all days? All days? Is it a two week thing like how Coachella is. No, I think it's just one weekend. And so it was that Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Saturday Sunday. Yep, okay, Oh it's Friday tomorrow tomorrow, so you're gone tomorrow. You didn't get the email. I did get that. I just remembered right now.
So new experience. That's the main thing is. Even though I have these thoughts, negative thoughts of festivals. I've never done it, you know, so yeah, I promise myself new experiences. I mean, yeah, festivals are not my thing, man, even just going to the ones here, the ones here, it's just outdoor events, just the dust, the
dirtiness. But hey, I mean, if if it's something that you're willing to do and you're excited about it, then yeah, yeah, I'll come back with a report to see if all our thoughts is what we think or yeah, who knows, I might enjoy myself. Do you get VIP tickets? Oh of course? Okay, So what does that mean? You get like a better section? I don't know, no idea, but it did
say on their air conditioned restrooms, shaded areas. I think I'm hoping that the VIP section means more space, because that's mainly my thing is just being surrounded by strangers. That's what. You know. We're lucky when when we say we do festivals out here, we're fortunate enough to go backstage. Yeah, we're usually a part of it. Yeah, yeah, I think that would get my anxiety. Is I think we might have talked about this before
on a podcast. Is usually when we do our you know, events in the cities usually we have access to backstage or on stage or in a VIP section, but a lot of times when we're going out of town, we kind of got to be just in the crowd, and I just I can't do it. And a big festival like that or like Coachella is something that I just couldn't do. Man well, like I said, you know,
we always talk about energy. I'm just about energy when it's a big crowd and I'm surrounded by weird energy, and that's kind of that's why my anxiety goes high. But if I can be comfortable and just be, like like I said, in a spacious, spacious area, and maybe that's why it's a good thing that I have the VIP passes. Also, just the people you're with just good energy. So I'm I'm positive, I'm thinking positive about it, and I'm excited. So that's mainly the good step right there,
is I'm excited about it. It's not a burden feeling. Just a side
note on festivals or concerts in general. Because I was watching some of the Coachella performances on YouTube and one thing that I've always kind of noticed recently, and it kind of goes hand in hand when we talk about like the new generation, and as I was watching Coachella, when they would do the crowd shots, it's pretty disappointing when someone's performing and there'd be a lot of people write and maybe a certain song would come on or a certain drop, and
you can hear the crowd kind of erupts in those moments. But when they pan to the crowd, nobody's moving. It bothered because why because everyone's got their cell phones up, so there's no no jumping, there's no moving, there's no dancing, and it's so weird when someone's performing and it sounds turns up and then they pan to the crowd and everyone's steal like that bothers me
so much. I don't know why, because when I look at old festivals or old concerts, you know, or even going way back in the days to the Super Bowl festivals and they would perform, everyone's jumping, everyone's getting
rowdy. It looks like a lot of fun, and everyone's just steal out in the crowd because everyone's recording, and it's just back to you're not really in the moments because obviously we have our share of Tom's or we're recording something maybe we're working, and it really does take you out of the moment when you're having to record something because really you're looking at you're looking at their performance
through your phone, and it's just not the same. And it just sucks that we live in a time where that's what's most important is capturing the footage mix making sure that we post, rather than just kind of being in the moment and having fun. Anyways, that was just a side note. Didn't want to sound like old heads talking about that, but that was something that I just recently noticed watching these Coachella performances, you know, being a DJ
at nightclubs, and yeah, I didn't get that energy too well. I wish I made festival DJ money. Yeah, but you know how people have their lanes, their strengths. It was always weird to me the festival, the festival DJ scene because of what you just said. When the DJs up there performing the thousands, millions of crowds, it looks like it is just staring at you phone. Some are dancing and all this stuff. To me, that's weird. It is, But I think it's just my personality where
I don't want people staring at me. I'm just trying to create an energy so people can dance. So I enjoy making people dance and just have fun. But it's weird when it's just everyone's just watching you DJ. To me, that's weird. Like I said, I wish I was making that kind of money that these festival DJs are making, but it doesn't fit my personality because, Yo, why are you guys just staring at me? I'm just pressing buttons here. Yeah, it's almost more weird for DJ because it's not
like you're dancing up there or performing musically. You're just playing records and people are staring at you. You're not even playing like an instrument. But I kind of just take it as it's this is the generation we're in. I try not to overthink it, but yeah, I feel you like it is. I feel bad for the performer because they feed off energy. I wonder how they're feeling when they know it's that high part of the show and everyone's
nothing. Yeah, that's tough. Another thing that I noticed that we've been having a lot of conversations about is our finances, and we were talking about how there's an episode where we talk about this about that we're both savers we have a savings account in the bank, but as of late, just what maybe for me just to past six to eight months learning about a different savings account where so, for example, I have a Chase savings account, and
I noticed every month I would get sense like here's some sense and each month and I never took it as anything like all right, thanks and just it would just save up. But then you would learn about, no, there's different kind of savings account where you could get more more money, more money back just for having it at that certain savings account. So, you know, I would talk to my mom about it, and she would tell me the things that she's doing. So not to get into super detail, but
I started mirroring what my mom's doing. So now my finance, my financial mindset is slowly changing from how it was before with just having a savings account to now moving my money around to different ones. I have CDs now that can mature. You know, I'm basically trying to make more money by using my money. Yeah, well, yeah, so me and you have talked about that we do a good job in savings, but we noticed that our money is not kind of going to work, it's just sitting there. Yeah,
it's safe, but it's not doing anything. So we've had these conversations, and yesterday I actually set up a meeting with my bank and I switched some things around and I feel better, like, Okay, now my money's kind of going to work, and am I actually gonna speak to a financial advisor about some other things that I can do? But yeah, I mean, this is something that we were talking about yesterday, even with our bosses.
These certain things in life you don't get taught, you know, even like when I was doing my situation with the house that was like a few years in our podcast, when I had bought a house, I didn't even know, like where do I start, who do I call? It was
just so weird. And at the time I had just reached out to a realtor and she kind of explained what you do and how you go about it and all these things and all these terminology, and it's just a learning process and either either it has to be taught to you through maybe your parents, or you really got to go and just learn on your own. But it's something that you don't get taught in school. And it's so disappointing that these life skills that you need, whether it's filing taxes, how to buy home,
how to put your money to work, and what's the difference. Yeah, investments like these. I know you could take those classes in school and learn a little bit more, but this should be kind of the things that you that we were learning in general, not random math classes or random science
classes. And so this is something that me and you have kind of like shared information back and forth about with our finances, which is good because we're helping each other out, but it's just we feel like, man, what if we knew this the information in our twenties. That's where I'm at. Where where did our money be at? Now? An example of that is this was also in a past episode where I talked about I got into stocks. This was during the pandemic. I got into stocks during the pandemic because
that's what my friends were doing. And you also did the Oh no you didn't. What was the movie about? It was Game Stop? You didn't do the Game Stop? Right? Yeah? I did AMC that was popping off during the time. Yeah. Yeah, So I got into learning investments in twenty twenty, and what's wild is four years later there's a good amount Yeah, you know, double it's almost tripled now of my initial investments. So again, like what you said, imagine if we started this in our
twenties. But at least we're doing it now. And it also triggered something right now. These are some guests maybe that we should have. Oh is some financial financial guests? Someone to teach us how to buy a house. That would be some oddo invest some money. What does this terminology mean? Maybe some somebody that knows stocks. That might be a good Yeah. So if you're listening out there and you're a financial person, hit us up.
We'd love to get you on the podcast because I think that would be interesting. Man, that would be some good lessons on the pod. Oh something else is new that happened from both of us recently. We both paid off our car. Yeah, yeah, Biden, we met. Funny story people may not know about this. We pretty much bought the same car at the same time. Yeah, and we both just paid it off within like a month of each other. Yeah. I hit you. I was like,
you know, I just got the email. It says congratulations, you're all done. Got the pink slip. It's official. We paid off our cars. The optimum boys. Yeah, yeah, you talked about your restaurant right that you sold it. Yeah, we sold it, so was that completely done? That's pretty much done. I think there's like one more paperwork that that we're waiting for, but it's pretty much done. The new person that's there opening his restaurant, I think he started April first, Okay, so
yeah, yeah, what restaurants being open in there. I'm not sure. I might have to go drive by the sea if our sign is down already. But yeah, I think we talked about it on a previous episod son. Yeah, good experience. Not sure if I do it again. I mean, especially a restaurant tough. I mean, you are a restaurant during the pandemic. Like if it doesn't get any more tough than that, then then I don't know. But you came out on the other side in the
green, so that's good. I'm DJing. I want to move to this. We started another R and B night at another location at the Standard because we're doing Mondays and just a scene. I know we're gonna have more DJs as guest here and to talk about the scene. And usually when I try to start my own event usually doesn't pan out the way I feel like it's gonna be like not a lot of people show up. But the grand opening of this Thursday night that we do at the Standard, man, it was
a good opening night, and then our second night was amazing. So third Nights tonight, Third Nights the podcast tonight. So I can't wait to see where this goes. But I guess the topic that I wanted to bring up, Man, it's refreshing to see the R and B nineties R and B music in general, no R and B music in general, but it is
a kind of a thing right now. So that's exciting to see. And I think us being in radio, we know that I don't want to call it a phase, but at some point it's not going to be a thing. So yeah, I'm enjoying that all these nightclubs are embracing R and B nights. So that's been a fun thing so far. This is like a middle of the year, like checking. I guess, yeah, kind of what do we was April now about to head into May. Are you watching
anything right now? Streaming? Anything new? Came up on anything the Well? I've always heard about Equalizer with Denzel, never watched it, but I always heard how good it was I finally, I think it was a weekend. I was off, wasn't doing anything, so I streamed all three equalizers. That was fun to watch. So yeah, it was good to watch. And as of late, I'm watching Fallout. It's the Amazon Amazon Prime. It's based on that video game, I think, which I'm not.
I'm familiar with the game, but I'm not familiar what it's about. I'm on episode three and there's something there I'm I'm I'm pretty much invested. Now how many episodes I'm not sure. I don't know, but Fallout so far, so good. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna dive into that at some points on my watch list. I watched this last night and it's actually kind of part of an ongoing documentary. Remember the documentary Jinx. Yeah, about that
Robert what was his name? Fuck Robert. He had murdered all those people, but just like had always gotten away with it, and then he was doing these documentaries talking about it. And then the last episode of of that documentary, he's in the bathroom. He doesn't realize he had the mic on, and he's like, I killed them all and then remember we're like, oh shit, which, by the way, he's actually I think he believed he's dead. Now I think he recently died. Yeah, but they just
came out with a new episode post that drama. So now this kind of takes place of that documentary airing, and they reopened the case and they're bringing him back in for questioning, and that's kind of what this first episode is. Okay, So I saw this, yeah, and my first thought was, why do I need to Why do I need to watch this? You already know what happens. Yeah, So it is he going back on trial to talk about the things he admitted. Well, I don't know how the
trial wins. I believe he well, actually, yeah, he got convicted or he got charged, right, So what is the second part about? So I guess it's just going to be the trial and everything. So, by the way, his name is Robert Durston. Yeah, he did die in January of twenty twenty two, but at this time of this documentary he's
just locked up and so now it's going to go. Now they showed, they actually showed when they brought him in for questioning he was actually So you actually do learn some things because I didn't know this when that documentary is airing the first time around, and he was watching his own documentary and he kind of realizes like, oh shit, like I said some shit in this documentary that I could get caught up on and not to like spoil it, but
he basically tries to go on the run. So this new episode is kind of like that part of them getting him. He's locked up now and then I believe they're probably going to go through the trial and we're going to hear everything from there. So that's kind of what these next few episodes are going to be. But I just got into that last night and it just came
out up on a Max. Is that all your because I was gonna ask if that's all you're watching, because do you feel like so far these past three I'll just say twenty twenty four, there hasn't been those power shows. No, there hasn't, And yes, to answer your question, that is all one watching. But I know June is gonna be like a good month because I know House of the Dragon comes back. Okay, I know the new season of the Boys comes back. There's gonna be a lot of stuff
coming in in May and June and like through the summer. But yeah, to your point, it has been kind of a slower year even movie wise, I haven't really watched that many movies. I'm gonna watch that new movie tonight, actually Challengers with Zendia. She plays like a tennis a tennis to player. Did you ever watch that movie that we were talking about? Civil War? Yeah? I did watch. Do you recommend it? I do?
But you have to go into this movie with a different mindset because my mind was like, oh shit, this is like a civil war of like modern times, like like a civil war in today's day. So I kind of assume, like, oh man, especially with the temperature of the country now, like us so divided, you got right, left, you got blue red. You know, like, is this what this movie is gonna be about. It's going to talk about like how you know, we were
so divided and then we just started to like fight each other. And it's not really about that. It's kind of already going on once the movie starts. It's more about the war correspondence. You know, people that follow the war and you know those people that are actually literally in the war, but
they're like journalists. It's more about what they go through and the things that they see and the photography that they take and the risks they put themselves in trying to get photos and in documenting wars, it's more about their journey while the Civil War is happening in this country. I mean, just to put it in perspective, I mean, we know which side California leans and we
know which side Texas leans. Well, in this movie they're on the same team, so you know, we know that probably wouldn't happen in real life, but in this movie either on the same team. So they you can tell they were trying not to make it because I don't know, they could go down like a deep hole if they really went political with this movie. So it's not really about that. But with that being said, I thought the last thirty minutes are really action packed, really good. There is a
lot of things that are something to be said in this movie. Overall, I thought it was solid. But if you've got to go into that mindset that it's not like a civil war movie storyline I'm a fan of, like you know, those wow moments of oh, it wasn't this guy, it was this guy who was twenty four movie, So they didn't really dive too much into like backstory on stuff or the storyline is pretty simplistic. It follows like these like four reporters and their journey and it's pretty so no twist,
no twists, I wouldn't say that. Nah, all right, nothing crazy like that. I guess we could wrap up with radio life. Yeah, how's what's what's new in twenty twenty four in your radio career? In my radio career, I mean, still doing multiple radio stations, still doing voiceover work, still maintaining great ratings, and still love what I do. So you know, of course, you can catch me on the radio station right here in Fresno on BE ninety five Monday through Friday three to seven. That's
my show. You can stream on the iHeartRadio app. Of course, we got this podcast that we still do on a weekly this could get Me Fired, which you can listen to on iHeartRadio, Apple and Spotify. But yeah, man, everything's everything's going good. Yeah, I mean, on my end, it's been you know, if you've listened to the past of my workload, it's been wild these past couple of years. And I just got a third assistant, so it's definitely helping with the workload and a lot of
events going on in Fresno. Right now, there's like so much did it We're having this conversation about do you feel like it's almost too much? Yeah, because we've talked about this before. It's it's Fresno almost has this mindset if there's kind of too much going on, they sort of have to pick which thing they're going to do, and they're not going to do all of them, so some events kind of get left a little bit and some are
more a little bit more popular. But I mean, we have like the Tequila Fest concert, we have the R and B concert, this coming, the Kisha cole One. You know, they announced Summer Jam, Yeah, Summer Jam ice Cube. Of course, they announced G Eazy coming to the fair in October. That's gonna come up sooner than later. And then who knows what's going to be popping off in between there. But yeah, it's a lot going on in Fresno. It's it's it's been pretty busy out here,
especially on work related stuff. You know, Yeah, I wonder you brought it up. I wonder what people are if if people are picking and choosing one or two of those shows, which ones are going to be big and not only not only to the point of, Oh, there's a lot going on. We're not I'm making the same the money the money we're making, like, do can we afford all these shows? So it's understandable that when people can only pick one or yes to do, Yeah, it's tough.
But yeah, I mean summer's coming up, so I know a lot of people are going to be planning on summer vacations too, So is there money going to that's? Uh? What to what? Out of all the events that that's happening. If you were paying customer, what would I pick? Yeah, what would you pick? I would pick, Uh, let's see what do we have? I would pick the R and B Nights. I think that's gonna be good. That's gonna be at seln Arena. Kisha Ko shouts to bradger Ricky. Second one, I would pick what else do
we have? Maybe the some the summer one with ICEQ. Yeah, because that's gonna be at what Seman Center. I know Baby Bash is gonna be there, so he actually I'll probably be there because I always like to link up with the homie. And then uh yeah, those were probably the two that I picked. Tequila Fest for me because he pain puts on an amazing show, and Busta Rhyme is one of my favorite artists when he puts on an amazing show. Yeah, man, so I gotta see that live.
I want to. You know what, you might have changed my mind now because t Pain because he performed for us before when we had our holiday jam. Were you at that one? Yeah? I think I think so. I don't remember it was te payin forty I was at a holiday jam with UH with Omarion. I remember that with that one, and I forgot these lineups. We did a few of them, but yeah, te Pain because I think people forget about how much hits the catalog. Yeah, the catalog
is crazy. I mean that era of Tea Pain was like he was either he had his own ship that was popping off or he was featureding on everybody ship that was popping off. So he has a strong catalog. So he's going to be popping off at Tequila Fest. And then if you were a bust fan from even like back in the days to you know what he puts out now. And we actually had a chance to interview bust Tho. We always talk about it when the best interviews we've ever done. It was a
lot of fun. So two great acts that's gonna be That's gonna be at chick Chancey Park. Uh. The first one was last year, so this is kind of like the part two of Tequila Fest. Uh. And actually we're gonna be at all these essentially. Yeah, I was just seeing what you would pick if I was a customer. Let's say my second would be the R and B Night. Yeah, just because, like I said earlier in the episode, this R and B Surge Resurgence is amazing. So those
are the two shows i'd picked. But but all the shows uh that's coming to Fresno. We're so lucky to have them all coming in. Always you know, wants to talk shit about nothing coming to Fresno or there's nothing to do, and trust me, there's a lot going on. There's even the the Aladdin Broadway that's coming to fress Are you gonna go check that out? I think I'm I mean, yeah, we were all invited as a staff,
so I might do the staff night where we all go yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's so much to do yet, let's wrap it up. Do you want to talk about the Lakers? No? Okay, good, No, I'm good that I'm good. I'm good.