Redefining One’s Life

Ever wondered how a humble barista transformed into a successful videographer and photographer?  Adrian, a multi-talented individual who took a leap of faith during the COVID-19 pandemic and shifted his life from LA to Texas to redefine his dreams. While serving coffee at Redefined Coffee House, Adrian discovered his calling and, with guidance from his mentor David Lopez, embarked on an impactful journey into the world of videography and photography. Understand the significance of passing knowledge and how he capitalized on learning to carve a niche in the industry.

Join us as he shares his ambition to create a coffee shop that surpasses his current venture and why watching subpar movies fuels his inspiration.  And if you're an aspiring behind-the-camera artist, you'll want to hear his practical advice about using available resources effectively.

Adrian's journey is not just about career transformation and business goals, but also about understanding life and authenticity.  Don't miss this episode packed with laughter, learning, and valuable life lessons to redefine your own slice of life.


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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:03

What is up you guys? We are back. Another episode of Kimbo Slice of Life with my homie.

Speaker 2 0:11

Adrian Howdy, how's it hanging?

Speaker 1 0:13

Texas y'all.

Speaker 2 0:14

Yeah, I became Texan real quick.

Speaker 1 0:17

Adrian is a videographer, photographer you from LA.

Speaker 2 0:22

Originally born Los Angeles and I moved here two and a half years ago to Great Fine Texas Wait why'd you come over? Here it was during a whole, you know COVID pandemic thing.

Speaker 2 0:33

Okay, so you're one of them, I'm one of them but I was like I talked about this in like other podcasts but like I was 23, I was like single with like no kids and I was like why not just move to Texas? Screw it, because I'm such as like a supporter of small businesses. But all the small businesses in California were closed down because of COVID, but in Texas they're like now we're still up, and there was a coffee shop called Redefine Coffeehouse in Great Fine that was looking for a barista as well as a photographer and creative, and I was like I'm down, so I just drove three states away and then became a barista there and then told people I did photos of video and voila, here we are here we are wait.

Speaker 1 1:09

How does it feel being on the other side of the camera right?

Speaker 2 1:13

now, I hate it, I fucking hate it. It's. That's why. I'm sweating right now that's why I do videography, so I'm behind the camera. So whenever I try to make YouTube videos, I'm like staring at the like, the lens, trying to look at it, but like I'm like a fly, I'm just like looking everywhere else. I like this is fine like, but if I do it by myself, god damn, I'm terrible at it. How?

Speaker 1 1:35

long have you been a like videographer?

Speaker 2 1:39

Um, so it was 2019. I was a college. I was like one of my last semesters in college I was like a loser because I was like I was bored, I didn't learn anything. Yeah, and I was a barista. I was a pretty damn good barista and I met this one guy his name is David Lopez and he walked into the coffee shop. We were working one night and he's taking photos of us making coffee and I'm like, like, what are you doing? Like, is this for fun? Like I always see you around? He's like, yeah, I'm just doing it for fun. Sometimes it's paid. But, like, I was like I'm down to learn that skill. Like, um, any recommendations told me to like, save up some money, go buy a camera, bought a camera, found him and he was like, yeah, I'll teach you everything I know.

Speaker 2 2:15

So he taught me everything he knew for free and that kind of like you know, just like skyrocketed this like creative, maybe I can get into YouTube, maybe I can get into this, etc. And then I just learned videography through YouTube and um learned how to make business through YouTube and through him and to this day we're like best friends and he's like my mentor. So anytime I have a photography, videography question, um, we ask each other and just talk to each other like all the time. So did you?

Speaker 1 2:40

meet him here, or did you meet him?

Speaker 2 2:41

back home, met him in LA, met him in LA and then, um, he took me on to some paid gigs he had and then eventually I started getting paid gigs and then I would bring him on. We did some paid stuff together and to this day, when people ask me in LA like give a photographer, videographer you recommend, I always recommend him. And when he asks from in LA, when somebody's like I'm going to like Dallas and you have anybody you recommend, he recommends me. So and every time we, every time I go back, we're always like hanging out, visiting, so that dude is a homie, so shout out, david.

Speaker 2 3:10

So he's what inspired you or helped you get started Big time inspired and helped me get started because, um, like his story of just what was crazy was actually me back up a little bit. So I was at. That coffee shop was at 18 South Faroaks Avenue pasting in California. It's called Blue Bottle Coffee. Like 10 years ago or five years ago when I was a barista there, we used to be called a coffee bean and tea leaf, which is only a California coffee shop, and David worked there as a barista and some other photographer went in there and David asked him questions and that guy taught David photography.

Speaker 1 3:46

That's so crazy.

Speaker 2 3:47

So six to five years, however, many years later, same story, but it's a different coffee shop and now it's David as the mentor going to me and me asking him questions. So it's pretty damn wild, pretty damn wild. I didn't know that until like two years into our friendship. I was like are you serious? He's like, yeah, you just asked me, just like I asked him, so, and that's his mentor and David's my mentor. So it's cool because I get to learn from David's mentor and David and all that knowledge is getting passed into me, which is like 20 years of photography going into me in less than four years.

Speaker 1 4:18

Yeah, it's like a domino effect, kind of like a pay it forward.

Speaker 2 4:21

Yeah, pretty damn, like it's pretty crazy. But like, if you work in the hospitality and the customer service industry in order to like not saying move up, but like learn skills, learn people, you just got to ask questions, you just got to tell people like, oh, I'm interested in doing this, I would love to find out more about you, like your career. That's actually how I got my first internship. I was in college, at a 2.1. Like I said, I was dumb, like I'm not a dumb guy, but I just don't like college, right, I just never liked it and I knew if I applied to these internships my resume, my cover letter, none of it would matter because my academics was so crap. So then I was like, all right, well, let me just work at a coffee shop that's next to marketing agencies and this one coffee shop blue bottle, it was next to so many different marketing agencies and advertising agencies. I'm like cool, what do marketing agencies? Like the people who work there, the county executives, or graphic designers, the videographers what do they do before they go in? They always pay like $6 for a latte because you know they got money and like they like doing that so that I work the morning shifts at that coffee shop and, yeah, let alone.

Speaker 2 5:23

I met two account executives and a graphic designer at an advertising agency. Learned their names, learned their drinks was like oat cappuccino, oat latte, avocado toast. We just talked to them like every morning what's up, how are you doing? Like, what your projects are working on? And then, over like a few months, I told them oh, I'm a senior looking for an internship. Do you have any advice for me to find an internship in a marketing agency? They don't know my GPA, they don't know I'm dumb and they don't know, like I have no skills, and they're like do you want one? Like we like you and I'm like yeah. So then, like after that shift, I walked upstairs, smelled like coffee and got the internship. And that's how I got my internship.

Speaker 2 5:57

So, yeah, so like you don't need to be smart at all, you don't need to be at 3.8, 4.2, no, screw all that. You just need to put yourself in that environment and just expand your personality into people and they'll grab onto you if they like you. Yeah, so that's what my little brother's doing right now. He moved from LA to Grapevine with me and I'm telling him tell everyone, because he works as a server and I'm like tell everyone, like your name's Fernando and like, oh, you're a drone pilot in Grapevine, and if you're like a server, you just tell someone, oh, hi, my name's Fernando, that's it. It's boring, like nobody cares.

Speaker 1 6:35

I should. I don't do that either.

Speaker 2 6:36

Yeah, just do that.

Speaker 1 6:37

With my day job. Nobody really knows I have a podcast. Nobody knows I model or act Because I'm like I don't know, I just keep it separate. But I feel like I would open more doors if I actually tried Like, hey, I do this, I do that.

Speaker 2 6:49

Yeah, all you got to do is just introduce yourself as like what else do you do? So, like my name's, fernando, I'm a drone pilot in Grapevine, texas. They're like, oh sweet, maybe that person doesn't need to know that, but maybe someone they know might need a drone pilot. Oh, I met this one guy at this one restaurant. I don't know what his portfolio, his website is, but he said he's a drone pilot. So that's higher, because the best power of marketing and advertising is still in person. He'd have the most fire Instagram, the most fire website, but none of it will matter if it comes to in-person marketing. You just got to be friendly and nice. So, yeah, go, I don't know, tell people who you are. My biggest advice don't hide who you are.

Speaker 1 7:27

What kind of content do you specialize in, Bro I?

Speaker 2 7:29

don't know I've. This is a question a lot of creatives have a problem with, or maybe they don't I do, but like it's like niching down.

Speaker 2 7:39

So, it's like if you have to pick one thing to shoot, what do you do? And I'm like I don't know, like what makes me money? Like what am I passionate about? So like it's like do you box yourself in into a niche that you just focus on and you just kill it, like you do good at one thing, or do you open that box and you can do everything, but you're good at it. Like you're not amazing at it, but like it's kind of like when you like those video game characters, like there's usually one character that's like good at speed, defense, attack, and there's some characters that are like really good at attack but have really bad defense. It's like pick your pros and pick your cons. So I'm trying to niche down now and I think I'm going more towards like coffees, like coffee shops and like about us videos, which isn't really niching no-transcript. You know people and clients like who are you? What do you do? What makes you different? Where are you from? Where are you trying to go to?

Speaker 2 8:33

I like that because it shows like your past and it shows like the growth you wanna go into, because nobody, no business, is like yeah, we're fine the way we are. It's like all right. You're gonna fail because you have to change and adapt and have goals because the world's only you know it's changing with you know social media, ai, stuff like that. You have to improve your business or else, if you keep it the same, you're gonna get left behind. So it's cool asking a business on camera, like where you guys been, like how you guys start, where you are now, where you wanna go, and it's cool, you know, in a few months and a few years, seeing that growth happen, and it could go. It all goes back to that about us video of like this is what we were. Now we're over here, now you can do an new about us video and talk about your new goals.

Speaker 2 9:13

So I would say that's what I wanna niche down on and like I hate charities. I hate charities but like so for my charity as a business, I rather donate my time to like a small business who can't afford like a $1,000 video, $1,000 shoot. I'm not trying to charge them. So I'm like just take my content, use it for your marketing, use it for your website, your social medias, I don't care, but I'm not gonna charge you, just take it. If they pay me, they don't have to, and if they wanna give me free stuff, they don't have to. I'm never asking. And like the life, like a good, like life tip is like never like for tips, like cash tips and stuff. Like if you work like as a barista or bartender, tips are never expected, but always appreciative. So I do that with all my clients. I'll just throw some extra stuff on there, why not? I'm not asking for anything back, just take it and use it. So I just like giving.

Speaker 2 10:05

Wow you're nice, huh yeah, maybe that's my problem. I'm too nice, but I don't know. I just like giving. Who doesn't like giving? It's nice. It's a nice feeling.

Speaker 1 10:13

How do you approach telling a story through like video?

Speaker 2 10:18

Kind of a little bit what I talk. It's like where'd you come from? Where are you at now and where are you trying to grow? Right, I think, with the idea of a story. It's told in like three chapters, right, the beginning, the middle, the end right. So the beginning who are characters are the middle is the conflict and the endings are resolution, right. So it's like so, where did you grow up? How was life? Where are you at now? What's the conflict now that's not letting you grow right. Our conflict now is we're not getting enough sales. The conflict now is we don't have any marketing Cool.

Speaker 2 10:54

So this video is gonna potentially help with that and if it does, then you're gonna reach your end goal, right. And then that chapter ends and, just like Star Wars, you keep making movies, even though they're bad now. But okay, episode two, episode three, you just keep going, right. And I think it's crazy how, like some businesses have chapter one and some of them are at chapter 20, and like they close, some of them are at chapter like 300 and they keep going. I think it's really cool, because everything has to end. Just because your business end doesn't mean a new business can't end. So with my business. I don't know when it's ending. I don't know because, like, I feel like I can do anything if you're just honest with yourself and honest with your skills and your clients. So for videos and photos, I might do it for like the next five years, maybe the next 10. But like as soon as I can build a coffee shop that makes more money than my company, that's when I'm doing it, but till then, nah.

Speaker 1 11:43

So you want your own coffee shop.

Speaker 2 11:45

Yeah, I feel like every photographer, every hipster is like a woman coffee shop Too many of them. Yeah, I don't know where. It's DFW, not California. I'm never going back. No, screw that place. I don't know. Maybe Africa, oh, wherever, I don't know. I just want to. I just want to be different. I just I don't want to do the same thing where you have baristas with like tattoos who don't care about their customers. I know that's me, but I do care about my customers. I actually do care about them. So I don't know, maybe I'll go with Elon Musk and build them on Mars or something. I just want. I just want genuine people. That's it.

Speaker 2 12:20

So we'll see. I like Tennessee. I never go into Canada, so Canada has like fire coffee shops, never going there. So I don't know, maybe in the middle of nowhere, like Montana and, like my clients, like Buffalo, yeah yeah, I'm down just to explore different place, put my coffee shop there and just be like this is who I am. This is very, very simple guy. I sound very complicated, but I'm very simple. I just want to serve good coffee to good people, that's it.

Speaker 1 12:51

Yeah, how do you stay inspired to create? I?

Speaker 2 12:54

don't. How do I stay inspired, honestly? Honestly, it's like movies. I love watching Terrible movies. So, like last night I watched that new Dracula movie, my little brother. For some reason, every movie Hollywood puts out, he's like this is gonna be good. I'm like this looks terrible, like the last voyage of the Dementor, and it was about Dracula, god awful. But like there is a scene where, like you know, I don't spoil it when does this podcast come up? All right, so fuck, this movie is terrible. So like there's a scene like this kid gets bitten by the vampire. You're like, oh, they're having, like a funeral for him, right. And they're like, oh, it's sad. But they see the kid move and they're like, oh, it's sunny, right, and you know what the Sun's out. Vampires, like you know, they blow up, unlike Edward Cullen from Twilight, but basically they they unravel the sheets and the kid catches on fire. They start like throwing them into the water and it was so, so damn bad, because they're trying to make us feel sorry and sad for the kid.

Speaker 1 13:59

It was hilarious acting, or was it bad?

Speaker 2 14:03

Everything was terrible and this movie has like a hundred million dollar budget. I'm just like this is like the most powerful scene of like we're supposed to be crying, that the kids on fire like Just like screaming, and I was like this is terrible. I never want to make that shot again. So, like seeing bad movies and seeing like I never want to steep that low, that's my inspiration. Like I can't. I got like I'm good, I'm alright, but I'm not that bad. And these guys are backed up by millions of dollars. But also good movies to like Blade Runner 2049. It's a really good movie. The OG Star Wars was really good. Everyone likes the new Dune with like Timothy Chalamet can opener, whatever his last name is. That's. That thing is terrible. You ever seen Dune God? Awful.

Speaker 1 14:45

No idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 14:46

Yeah, it's like the new, it's like the Dune part two is coming out and you have, like, the actress Zendaya, which you know. I think she's alright. She just always like stairs to the screen like I don't know, I also just stare at the screen but also what's her last name? Yeah, what the hell you're not special.

Speaker 2 15:06

Yeah, like you're not special, you're just like anyone else. Fucking Zendaya, that's it. I don't like it. I just I saw her name, I saw her and I'm like I don't like you. I just never will. And also that Timothy Chalamet dude, I don't understand the hype. The one show I do like is the bear. I forgot who the actor is. Have you seen the bear? No, that, that's a good movie. I mean, it's a good show. That actors great. I don't know what we is, but yeah, shout out to him.

Speaker 1 15:37

So what advice would you give someone who is looking to be behind the camera taking pictures?

Speaker 2 15:46

videos. Don't buy expensive equipment. Use your iPhone for now.

Speaker 1 15:54

Yeah, I'm gonna be saw a podcast about that. Yeah, they're like you, your iPhone. The guy was a videographer and he's like your iPhone and I was like what?

Speaker 2 16:03

Yeah, your iPhone's like $1,000, like, use it Like. And the apps on there are like five to 10, 20 bucks. For example, like I don't know how much. I think DaVinci Resolve, the new, best editing app. Every videographer uses it. They act like they're the next like I don't know greatest cinematographer ever lived. I'm like, you're not, it's like 200 bucks. But why are you spending that much money for a program you don't know how to use? Yeah, you can learn, but like, just go on the iPhone, get spliced and you're good. Yeah, yeah, see producers even being like it's way too much.

Speaker 1 16:34

No, no, no, oh, it's free.

Speaker 2 16:35

No, no, yeah, now DaVinci Resolve's free, but like the studio version. They're like oh, that's all. The best features are screw that, stick to free stuff, you don't need to buy the stuff. So my little brother is a drone pilot and I he's my drone. He's like I can't wait to buy my drone. I'm like why, just use mine. He's like I want mine. I'm like this is the stupidest thing ever. Just use mine. It's literally here collect and dust.

Speaker 2 16:57

So, yeah, I would say use your iPhone. You'd be surprised what kind of quality you can get, especially if you have like a 13 Pro, a 14 Pro, like you're fine, you don't need to get. So. For example, you want to get like a Canon R6 Mark II cool, that's $2,600, and you want to get a lens cool, that's $1,400,. Now you're at what? $4,000. Now you got to get the SD cards okay. Now you're at 420, 4250,. Now you got to get the batteries cool, now you got to get this, and now you're $5,000 deep and you could have just used your pocket. So, yeah, yeah, no, it gets dumb, expensive. And then you're like cool, how much is your client paying you? Well, it's my first shoot ever, so I'm doing it for free. You're like a hundred bucks, all right. Well, you got $4,900 that I'll have to pay off.

Speaker 2 17:40

So, if you're good and know what you're doing, yeah, buy the camera equipment, but, like now, stick with your iPhone because, like they're my favorite images ever, I'll probably with my iPhone still and not my camera. Oh, really, yeah, like 100%, because I don't have my camera with me at all times and it's annoying carrying it like all the time strapped in. Or like your backpack, your phone, you just that's it. So I would say, yeah, use your iPhone, don't buy stuff until you for sure know that's what you exactly want to get into. Like and also like, if you want to be like I don't know a professional driver, or like a chauffeur I don't know, you're not gonna lease an Audi and be like I'm good. Like, no, just fucking borrow one. Or like ask a friend to borrow theirs, or go on Touro and rent one, or whatever. Or like I don't know, just don't buy something.

Speaker 1 18:23

If you're not committed to it.

Speaker 2 18:26

Okay, so I'm gonna ask what's one of the biggest life lessons you learned, like while growing up, biggest life lesson Doesn't have to be like with you know videography and stuff, right, biggest life lesson I would say just really, really just work on yourself. Don't rely on anyone. Don't like act like the world's against you and you'll be fine. Like, just work on yourself. It's a little lonely of a road, but you'll see how far you've come and you're like cool. I get to meet all these cool people, like what the hell?

Speaker 2 19:00

So I grew up in an area where, like, we're not supposed to like be in, like you know, a nice apartment, stuff like this. Like no, we're supposed to be on the streets and I'm like bro, like I can get like you know, like like friends and what the fuck am I trying to say? I don't know, just fucking be yourself. Just be yourself, I don't care. Don't be someone you're not. Don't be someone you're supposed to be because of destiny or because it's written Now. Just be yourself. Like I like coffee, I like flowers, I like tattoos. That's who I am right I think we mentioned this earlier. Like for some reason, people get a little intimidated by me, not because I'm an A-hole or anything, but I'm just confident. I'm like you know, I'm 5A, but my doctor said I'm 5-7, so screw him. But like you know, I'm just just be me and just be you. Don't be afraid to be yourself. So that's the biggest life lesson.

Speaker 1 19:52

Okay, be yourself, guys, listen to Adrian Cortez with the S, not a Z.

Speaker 2 19:57

Yeah, if you spell it with a Z, you're dead to me. I swear to God. You know how many times I'm like Cortez with an S and I'm like, okay, you put a Z. I'm like I swear to God, if you put a Z, I'm throwing this table. It piss. I don't know why, but it just like pisses me off.

Speaker 2 20:10

So we have a scholarship in California. My dad's a high school football coach and I was in marching band too, so we do two scholarships. One of the football team won to the marching band it's like I think, $500 for your college, which is great. And this one kid from the marching band wrote like a beautiful essay about like how marching band impacted their life. I'm like I'm about to tear up, Like this is some Scorsese stuff. And then at the end it said thank you to the Cortez family with the Z Fucking ripped it up immediately.

Speaker 2 20:35

My God damn, how dare you disrespect me and my family? How dare you Cause like, here we are about to sponsor you $500. You'll get your books, your overpriced books you're not going to read and God, you just don't even know how to spell our name. Throw that out. It's just like I don't know. It's like the most common, like it's the most basic respect to me, like if you misspell my first name, I get it. It's a bit hard, but like the last name, I'm telling you C-O-R-T-E-S and you're like okay, z, do your ears work? Like I don't understand.

Speaker 1 21:06

No, my thing is like oh, what's your name? Kimberly? Oh hey, kim. I'm sorry, I know a lot of people call me Kim, but I don't like it.

Speaker 2 21:14

Yeah, if you didn't say Kim, don't say Kim, straight up, so like growing up.

Speaker 1 21:19

Literally something happened yesterday like on the phone. They're like who am I speaking with? Kimberly Kim? So I'm just like I didn't say.

Speaker 2 21:25

Kim, I'd be like, excuse me, what the hell did you just say? Growing up, so my name's Adrian Cortez, so it's A-C, right. So people would call me like air conditioner, and I'm like what the fuck? And I embrace that, like that's kind of funny Air conditioner. And then my little brother in high school, for some reason, I don't know why, it just became super funny. I don't know. That's when meme culture popped off, but like they would call me a drain, like a drain. A drain. You like wash your hands in or something. So they would make Photoshop pictures of my face on a drain and be like look, say a drain. I'm like what the hell's wrong with you? I don't understand.

Speaker 2 22:06

Like I'm driving around to band practice and they're like what's up, a-drain? And I'm like all right, so I don't, I don't, I don't know.

Speaker 1 22:12

What's your favorite pizza?

Speaker 2 22:18

It's my favorite Italian restaurant. You know the answer.

Speaker 1 22:22

I know it because you told me before this podcast.

Speaker 2 22:25

So I was on a date, like a few years ago, and this one girl asked like what's your favorite Italian restaurant? And without hesitation, I was like Domino's. And she was like get out of here. And I was like no, no, no, no. So I called my best friend, jeff, and I was like he didn't even know I was on a date. I just called him real quick hey, hey, bro, what's the best Italian restaurant? Without hesitation, oh, domino's. Bro hung up and then stopped dating that girl.

Speaker 2 22:45

I was like how dare you disrespect Domino's name? Their rebrand was like sick because they were a failing company in like the 2000s. Then, like 2010 or 2011, they brought up that Domino's tracker. Holy shit, changed the game. What's that? So it's like, you know, on the app it has like that tracker. Well, you don't order Domino's, right? I don't like Domino's. How dare you? It's a garlic. So like they did this, like rebranding where they made like their typography was different, the logo changed, and like they did this crazy rebrand and like on the app it tells you like who's preparing your pizza. It's like Tyler is putting your pizza in an oven. I'm like, yeah, tyler, better not. You know, I, better not. I don't want to cuss. Better not mess that shit up. Like better, make that thing perfect. And you have like oh Anna's cutting your pizza. And then you get back to your pizza. I'm like, oh Anna, cut it. Like you know, this place is like a clock with like more than 12 numbers on it.

Speaker 1 23:33

So just like yeah, wow, they went in debt.

Speaker 2 23:37

Yeah, no, I think it's cool and it's just really good, Like what my Domino's Pizza is. It's the hand-tossed, it's large because I'm an animal. I'll eat all of it. You get extra marinara sauce because I like it saucy. You get pepperoni, jalapenos, that's it. You can get olives and mushrooms, but I'm broke, I don't want to. I can't get more toppings, but I do like Costco Pizza. I can eat an entire.

Speaker 1 23:56

Costco Pizza. I love that those prices have not changed.

Speaker 2 23:59

Well, yeah, you heard about the Costco's like CEO. So it was like two or three years ago the Costco CEO changed and he went into like a new CEO, right, and the new CEO was like we're gonna raise the price of like a hot dog right From like the $1.99, because you get a dog, because you get for $1.99, I think you get like a Polish giant hot dog and a drink. And the old CEO told him this is legit, like I'm gonna quote.

Speaker 2 24:23

So I'm going to cuss. If you change the price of the hot dog, I will fucking kill you Straight up. Said that to the new CEO on like audio. He's like okay. So because of that they kept the price of everything and if he changes it the old CEO will murder him.

Speaker 1 24:41

Oh, I'm interested. I did not know that.

Speaker 2 24:42

Yeah, no, the old CEO, Costco is amazing Straight up threatened to murder someone's life for changing the price of a hot dog. If that's not the most American thing ever, I don't know what is.

Speaker 1 24:52

Right.

Speaker 2 24:53

Yeah, like I don't know if Costco's in Canada or anywhere else, but like that is a good American business, do not change the price of a hot dog. I don't know if anybody knows this, but like when I grew up like I would go help my dad clean pools but after we go clean pools at a Home Depot we'd get like more supplies. They would have these hot dog ladies like sell hot dogs Like there were the best hot dogs ever, they would be out there.

Speaker 2 25:14

Yeah, did you ever have one? No, are you serious? That was like Gordon Ramsay before Gordon Ramsay. Like they were amazing. Also, being in LA, there was hot dog ladies. After every concert and everything, there was a hot dog lady. I was walking around USC just like think like one random Thursday with my buddy and I see this hot dog lady. I'm like, oh, I was literally just thinking of one, but I don't have any cash. So I walk up to her and she's like, oh, I want one, right, but I don't have cash. And she's like Venomal and I was like they're upgrading Center like 10 extra bucks. I was like, thank you for evolving, I got one hot dog. You just enjoyed that, jimmy, down my throat. It was so good.

Speaker 1 25:52

I haven't had a hot dog like forever.

Speaker 2 25:54

No, they're my favorite, my favorite favorite food, any food that makes me feel like I'm on the lake, like I'm just on a lake drunk. It's like pizza, hot dog and a can of Bud Byter Miller Lite. I love it. It's so good.

Speaker 1 26:10

Thank you, adrian, for coming on giving us what you got with your tattoos and coffee.

Speaker 2 26:19

I'm just kidding. Yeah, hope this episode was good. I kind of just say random stuff, but I mean it's funny and it's me. So yeah, thank you guys and thanks for having us, thanks for having me, and we're going to go do a photo shoot right now.

Speaker 1 26:34

Yeah, we are. So YouTube fam, don't forget to subscribe, because I only got like 20 subscribers, so please subscribe and like comment. You can find Kimball Slice of Life podcast on Apple, spotify or anywhere you get your pods. We will see you all in two.

Speaker 2 26:50

See you guys.