February 19, 2026 • 29 mins
Victor, the owner of Villa's Tacos talks about the Bad Bunny Super Bowl experience, New Locations & much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Victor Tacosis for making it out today, bro Cruise.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Everything well, everything is great. I saw an interview that
your dad did.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I think it was world news and he was very
emotional about what what you did for VS Docles and
what you and Bad Bunny did you know on one
of America's biggest stages. And he became so emotional, he
was so proud, and he reminded everyone that we come
to this country and we're not we're not criminals, and
we're not here to steal.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're here for a better life, and that's exactly what
it is.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Congratulations, Thank you so much, Thank you so much. I
feel like that moment was I got emotional watching. Yeah,
me too, Honestly, I still get emotional thinking about it,
and it's still like surreal. But you know, in that moment,
I was I was more than just representing myself, were
representing my company. It was representing my my family. You know,
our cold youre my city, my little community or Europe
(01:03):
and yeah, like you know all the taco, all therasas
the takhetos of not only Los Angeles, not only the US,
but of Mexico and beyond. You know, there's there's ta
phttos in every part of the world, and you know,
for that moment, I represented them all. Yeah, it was
(01:24):
It was an honor, and it wasn't easy getting there.
You know, a lot of people they could see me
on that stage and they'll be like, damn, you're so lucky.
But if you were to really you know, understand what
it took to get to that point. Luck has nothing
to do with it, has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But it's.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Talk about those days.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I was broken and broke.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Like if I was broke, I was rich at that moment,
but I was like, yeah, I was beyond broke, max
style credit cards, negative bank accounts, empty refrigerators. Just you know,
I had a newborn, we had our first born, newborn daughter,
and I had to provide her. And I was working
sixteen hour days, more tired than ever, and and just
(02:07):
like you know, I just I knew that I had
something good going on. So I promised myself I wouldn't
give up, even even though every every even though I
should have given up, or you know, like you could,
you know, I could have given up. I knew that
there was there was a rainbow on the other side
of the store.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
As there was a grill on the other side right
on the Super Bowl stage. Were you selling tacos out
of the crib? No? Yeah, in the beginning, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
In the beginning, I was selling tacos out of my
grandma's front yard.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I asked my my Theo Martine, if if it was okay,
if you would let me sell tacos out of.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
My grandma's front front yard.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And at the time, Higland Park was ready, like you
know what, we know Highland Park to be actually, like
I gentrified. So there's people doing their thing on the
street over there. But I'm like, you know, let me
just stick to our home and let me sew tacos
right here.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So I did that a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And then after I'm like, you know what, there's a
lot of like action going on on Avenue fifty one
in York, so let me go over there. And at
the time it was nothing but vegan vendors, and I'm like, yo,
this to you guys, like this might be like Vegan Capital,
Vegan Corner, but to me and my family.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
This is still Highland.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Park, you know, something like let's just let's throw some
sauce back into Highland Park. Let's keep it HP exactly HLP.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And you know, we we parked our grill right there,
and we were starting to like, you know, build build
the brand, capitalizing on on on our product on my network.
You know, like just I kept on doing like videos
to trying to get my name out there. And then
once we were starting to get traction, that's when everything
(03:43):
shut down. Right, That's when the pandemic came.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And tough time, but even tougher for your business.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But you know, I've always been one to think outside
the box, and I put my innovative cap on. You know,
I shut down for like a month or two. But
then I realized, what do we still got? We still
got our home, right, we still got Like we didn't
we started selling off Sunding tacos in the front yard
of my gama's house. Now, let's go to the backyard
where there's like a safe social distance of like six
(04:11):
feet because the gate in between that has like vines
on there is separation. So let me just I came
up with an idea. We would take pre ordered pickup
pre orders on Tuesday at noon for Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday eighty slots Friday eighty slots, Saturday, eighty slots on Sunday,
and you would only be able to get in on
Tuesday at noon. And then at first we would sell
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out in like five minutes. And it took me like
ten hours to do everything pen and paper because I
felt like I had time and this was the time
that I wanted to build that relationship with all two
hundred and forty people that were placing order.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So that's what I did at work.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, a lot of work, a lot of work, a
lot of work, but I mean, like I said, I
had time, and it was creating a service, creating something
that while everything was closed, like I was giving you something.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
To look forward to on Friday, Saturday was Sunday. Right, So.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We took the orders and at first we was sell
in five minutes, then four, then three, and as we
started selling out faster, you know, there's always people that
like hey and just always want to put the two
cents in, like, oh yeah, right, you're not setting out.
So what I started doing. I started screen recording studying
a song. Let's say the song hits, it's like it's
peak point at twenty seconds. So at eleven fifty nine,
(05:24):
with forty seconds out, hit play on YouTube Premium. And
I got YouTube Premium because that's you could record.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And do other stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So I hit play on that, and then like ten
seconds before Noon hits, I started screen recording on my
phone and then as soon as Noon hit, my voice
kind of gone, so I can't really do that, but
it was like all the orders started coming in, and
then I started posting that, and once I started posting that,
people were like, damn, this is the real deal, like
not lying point, you know. But at that moment, I
(05:51):
felt like I was on top of the world. I
felt like I was Connor McGregor doing is Connor McGregor dance?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, yeah yeah. It felt amazing amazing have like the
support for my community in a time where like I
needed it the most and they needed it the most,
that's right, you know. So like and during the pandemic,
instead of you know, our business going down, our business
skyrocketed up, like and we were just growing NonStop. That's
(06:17):
when we filmed with the Netflix Taco Chronicles that's from
our segment, and that also like shot us up in
popularity and we won our first Taco Madness Championship during
that that stage. In that time period.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
This isn't an overnight story. I mean it's been interviewed
by local news for years, for over ten years now, for.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Like eight and a half, eight and a half, almost
a decade.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, you know, we're almost I feel like that's also
too why.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I mean me being one of those people like we're
at our super Bowl party and we see you and
we're just like, oh my god, oh my god, oh
my god. We start freaking out because that's not like
you said, that's like are that's so many groups that's
just represented in one moment.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
No, definitely, you know, like I had to keep it
a secret so I couldn't really tell anybody, but I
felt like it hit even more because no one really knew.
And I see like that meaning that it has Leonardo
Kraprio right like and honestly like.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
By the way, he's got the Mexican whistle down.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah he does, he does. In that moment, you know,
I did feel like like I was representing not even
the ghettos, but I was representing my city. I was
representing the youngsters who like look at me and see
themselves in me, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
They be like wow, yeah, young business.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Owners and the people that understand my story and my
struggle and where I come from, where my family comes from,
Like they see themselves and they're like damn, Like yo,
if they could do it, then there's a chance I.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And that's why I felt so compelled to last week
take on like seventy plus interviews, like I lost my voice.
I did it like he ain't a little sick and
just like like was literally running on autopilot. But I
felt like it was my duty and I felt like
God put me in that position because he knew I
could do it, you know, instead of like me telling
(08:12):
this news station, this news station, now, I can't do it.
I'm ready overwhelmed, like I told my sister, and like, yo,
bring them all on, like whoever wants it right now,
Like I'll do it because I felt like there's there
may be in that interview or this interview, maybe that
kid was listening, you know, maybe maybe that the entrepreneur
who's who's going through tough time and here's my story
of me. Also going through a tough time but having
(08:34):
to press svere through that in order to make it
to the stage that you know, the whole world saw
you on.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So I felt like it was my duty.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And that's why God put me in that position, because
he knew that I could do it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Exactly. Man.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Kobe Bryant has has has played a big role in
my life and even though I didn't never had the
pleasure to meet him. Actually, there's there's a video of
me like going to a parade in my fixed gear
bike with like orange rims I put on top of
my head like that. I'm like spin Kobe, Kobe, and
he points in me and he goes like that, like
you know, But Kobe Bryant had that mentality too, is
(09:08):
like I'm either gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.
I'm either gonna win or I'm gonna win, and I'm
not gonna stop until I do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I also had had that same vibe, had that same
mission as well, They're gonna get this done and we're
gonna do everything, but give up.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's it. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Napoleon Hill has a great quote. It says winners never
quit and quitters never win. And I have that framed
up in my house on like on gold leaf letter
and I look at it every day and I just
remember it, like that's what it takes. You know, if
I would have if I would have been stuck in
in like in the bad times, you know, I would
have never made it out and experienced the good times.
(09:45):
And there's still a lot of life left to be lived.
But that's how that's how I take my day to day.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Like life is.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I just try to be a little better today than
I was yesterday, a little better tomorrow than I wish today,
And I try to be a little better and better
every day. So a lot of people, maybe they see
the overnight success, so they see that I opened three
restaurants in three years, They're like, damn, how'd you open
three restaurants in three years? But you're forgetting about the
other five and a half years that took to open
up the first restaurant. So it wasn't three restaurants in
(10:14):
three years, right, right, it was three restaurants in eight
and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's right, that's right. That's different math, it's way different.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Like I did an interview yesterday and she's like, Wow,
how'd you open three restaurants in three years, and I
was like, you know, you're forgetting about the other five
and a half without due respect.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So you know a video I really enjoy, bro is
the video when the show's about to start and I
think you're filming it right or maybe the medical glasses
are aa right, and you're you're yelling your bad Bunny
like it's time, Papa, Yeah, yes, Temple, let's go.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's temple.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And he looks at you and you guys kind of
have that moment where you make quick eye contact and
you are reminding him that this is his moment.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, and you are incouraged.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And that's who we are as Latinos, right, and people
who don't give up, we encourage others that are giving
us a shot that this.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is still your moment. Amen. It's a great, great big
That was a moment.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That was a great moment, honestly, And I could just
tell bad Bunny was locked in and get me the
thumbs up, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All right, he's about to kill it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He's about it, you know, because we had been practicing
for he had been he was at the practices like
a lot of people. That's a question that maybe no
one has really asked me, like it was he at
the rehearsal?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Was he rehearsal? And he was? He was. He was
there for likew he was there for three weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
He might have not been in every rehearsal, but since
the beginning that I was at rehearsals, like the day
after I got to the first rehearsal, he was right there.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So that wasn't the first time seeing him. No, yeah, yeah,
but you know, we kept professional.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm not going to be like Corsal, like oh hey,
bad bunny and get.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Your number real quick brow, none of that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
No, no, no, we keep the professional and we appreciate
the opportunity to acting.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How many times did you have to keep reminding yourself
to make sure that, like you say, meta record on
those glasses, I just press the button.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because sometimes yeah, you got I like, hey,
mauta record right that I.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Ended up getting them stolen, But yeah, I saved all
the footage. And that's exactly why I saved the footage
in that moment, like in the height of everything, as
soon as I walked off stage, like when I got
back to the trailer, the first thing I did before
after calling my wife, before calling my family back home
that we're having like the watch party is. I waited
(12:24):
like ten minutes for it to download on my phone
because I'm like God forbids I lose these glasses and
I lose that content. That content, I mean, it's priceless.
I wouldn't even put a price on it, that's right,
you know, because I was like the one that recorded that.
I was on the field when there was like no
cameras right there and yeah, behind the scenes, so it
was cool.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah. Now for me, what was that process?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Like, you know, obviously you get the phone call and
you've been chosen to represent the ghetto's at the super Bowl,
which isn't small's. This is one of America's biggest stages
and for you know, for to have a performer perform
in Spanish and to represent vendors and culture and latinos
and hard work and visionaries like that. You know, what
(13:06):
was what was that process? You know, you get the
call obviously is it from a casting director?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
He was my boy. He was my boy.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
What I what I was told is that there they
wanted vias you know, so like yo, go get Vias
and they're like, he's like that's my boy.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Wow, instant connect. So you hit me up.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
He's like, yo, vic I got like, I got the
biggest casting I've ever done. And then I signed the
NBA first, and he's like, yo, they want you for
the Super A halftime show.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And I was like, real, like the cater or what
are we doing? Commercial? Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You know, I'm up for it all. He's like, no,
they want you to They want you to come out
on a halftime show. So I was still kind of confused,
like whatever, like let's do it, you know, until until rehearsal.
Then then we then I understood what I was going
to do.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now with the with so many people there, right, did
you know Ricky Martin was going to show? Did you
know Lady Gaga was going to perform?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They didn't get there till like like a day before,
so it wasn't till like the day before that, and
I was like, what the heck is that Ricky Martin?
Is that Lady got And yeah it was. I thought
it was going to be. I thought it was gonna
be like Calderon riding a part of the song they
used like his music. You guys heard that part, right,
(14:26):
and so I was like, it's Calderon from the three
weeks from like the start of the rehearsals. We heard
that part, and I was like, Oh, Calderon is going
to be the special guest.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
But it wasn't. It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It was crazy plots, you know, it went everything just
kind of you know it it got together. Yeah, it
just it happened like in perfect unison. And I guess
something that I haven't haven't like said it like at
the stadium, like when you see the people in the
in the stadium, like I've seen videos after, like they
(14:58):
weren't too like into the performance, right, and but in
that moment, it's like I'm not looking at at the sky.
It sounds like there's a lot of people that are clapping,
but there's like certain sections that weren't. And I was like,
those people needs on people right now. I mean, it's
not cheap to get into the super Bowl, so maybe
you know, with all the wealth that they've accumulated, they
(15:18):
left out the sasson that's what they need.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, and it's still a little more of that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The halftime show was more for the people at home.
Watching it's not necessarily for the crowd there now.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
There is to watch a game that I heard wasn't
even that good, you know, But the halftime show. If
you if you don't think that halftime show was one
of the greatest halftime shows in the history of halftime show, trip,
you have no idea because like watching those dances from
up close, from like the first song to the second
song to where like Ellie and Tommy got married, like
those are my boys and my boy and she's one
(15:55):
of the guys. Yeah, it was just like it was.
The choreography. The boreography was by charm shoutout charm. Uh
it was. It was great like it was. It was
just beautif beautiful, plot beautiful, choreography, beautiful like even when
the pianists, i mean the violinists right there, just it
was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
If you don't, if you can't acknowledge the beauty behind
it was the art, the art behind it, then I
mean you could be looking at the moment, Lisa and
you don't you wouldn't think that's beautiful, you know exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Now you lack vision.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hey, you spend a lot of time with the cast, right, Yeah,
you guys spent a lot of time with each other.
Death was their connection. There you guys keeping up with
each other.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh yeah, so we have a group chat all of us,
that's right, and Jack.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Group people. Well right now.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
It's just like like the cast that like the cast. Uh,
the people got engaged, people got married, the people that
were at the cocoa stand, the nail tech with the
person's shoes getting the nails haircut.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, that was my boy too.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I got a haircut from him, and like Ginghi, she's
from New York. She was braiding up Sierra, which is
like another homegirl. But we're all in the group chat,
just sticking together because now we're like family both And
in the beginning of rehearsals, when I got there, I'm
not used to being without my phone for four to
six to seven hours, especially like you know, I got
(17:28):
I got a lot of my play and just doing
a lot at once. But at first everybody was like
complete strangers and it was cool being there, but I'm like, yo,
I can't wait for this to be over. And then
as time started progressing, I was like, yo, I love these.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
People, and then they became my friends.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And then like when we got to Santa Clara. That's
when like the bond really came together and all of
us were like spending every moment of the day together
and it was just it was beautiful and I'm like, man,
I really don't want this to end.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And the day before, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It was like our last hurrah, and we got together
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know, it was kind of sad to see that.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And then after the Super Bowl, after we went back
to our rooms and it was time to say goodbye,
it was I remember shedding some tears, like damn, Like
I love these people, bro like, and there's a chance
that we might not ever be in the same room
all of us again. Life and life is life, and brother, man,
that's the power of love. And I think Benito for
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bringing such a talented group of individuals together and for
relaying his message to everyone because I lived my life
with so much love. I like to say, you know,
if there's people that hate people that they don't even know,
then that I'm that one person that loves people that
he doesn't even know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So you come my restaurant and I treat you with
mad love.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And I even tell like if we have a big line,
like I just wanted to tell you guys like I
love you guys, like, man, thank you guys so much.
You know, I've seen you there and people be like, well,
how are you going to love someone that you don't know?
It's like, well, how are you going to hate someone
you don't know?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Exactly same thing, same thing. That's a fact, man.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, yo, I just think that this whole thing is amazing.
Like you said, I think especially you working so hard
and going through what you did right before the pandemic
and during the pandemic is really what sets not only
just like a person or individual, but as a business owner.
You put yourself, You put yourself in a position to
be to perhaps this happened for you, and that is
(19:33):
like just incredible, man, like you should be very very
proud of you.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
This isn't luck, man, It's not takes It takes over
ten years to be coming over next and ever.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I put I put my life in God, you know,
I put it on in my Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ's hands. And and he's good. He's been good to me.
He's never left me. He's you know, he gives me,
he gives me, discerning me, he gives me advice, and
it would be I would be taking too much credit
to say like everything on the menu was like I
(20:02):
came up with this, Like how did I come up
with it? Because God gave me the blueprints and I
just ran with it. I listened, that's it exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You listen. I'm just we're here to serve exactly, and
it goes to make it to heaven.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But the message everything else is just a plus.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You know. That's right.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know when when when La saw you there, the
Ketto saw you there, Latinos saw you there, we were
all there.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Exactly, That's how that felt, bro.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, it was That's what it was. That's why it
was like, man, it was my it was my duty
to do this and to be here and to be there,
to be as many places I could, because it was
it wasn't my win.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It wasn't my win.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It was our wins. This is your win to JCB,
it's all of our wins in there.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We won. It felt that way. It felt that way,
it did. I know it still feels that way.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You know, it's crazy, bro, no one's talking about the game.
I'm sorry, NFL, I'm sorry, but no one.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And the game was a.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Little bit lack lester. Let's be honest, right, but no
one is talking about that game.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Everyone the NFL is even talking about the game on
the NFL just kind of swept it under the had
to apologize.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
The real is the halftime.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Fortunately there was a there was a football game during
the halftime show. I guess that that had to happen. Yeah,
but the halftime show was the main event.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It really wasn't And what a what a what a
show man?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Did you get to watch any of the game or
were you guys back stage? We're back.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We're in the in like the stadium, not the stadium
next door, but there's like a place.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That we were in a holding area, holding area. Okay,
you're there.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
We got there like at eleven am, and we didn't
we didn't leave there till like we didn't make the
walk till like four and then we hit the stage
till like five thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's a long day, okay. Man generally just took over
and of course, and you're just there, You're happy to
be there, You're.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Just you're preparing so grateful to be there.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Man. I was they feed you at the Super Bowl?
Oh yeah, yeah, but I mean nothing, nothing like via.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm not gonna liee you guys man. The first day,
the first day we were there, they gave us some
tacos and they looked good.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You were like, yo, Bro, don't ever disrespect Yeah, and
every everybody because everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Like they looked at me like what do you think?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Like what do you think?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
These tacos have no like, no season, no flavor, Like
they literally had no flavor.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Probably the worst tackles ive ever had.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but yeah, they were they were,
but everything else is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I mean yeah, after.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That, the food ended up getting better, But I'm sorry,
those are the worst tackles.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
That's exactly why you have to go to Bro.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You've earned the right to say that, though you feel me,
you've earned the right. Hey.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And then there's also a video I think you took
as well, when the show was over and you guys
are walking and bad Bunny is thinking everybody and everything's
going crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Right for a moment, you could tell he had a
lot to say, you know, yeah, And that's why I
felt like these past two weeks, I've even though I
have like like a one on one conversation with him,
just being around the need to I feel like like
I know him or understand him a lot more. Yeah,
it's like in that moment, he was just like.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Like he just he had a lot of words to say.
He was gonna burst motion right and then and then
Honestly I missed.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I missed out when he when he got to the tent,
like the tent where like we were in the hold,
he came and came to think all all of us
and all the dancers.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
But I was too.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Busy giving an interview over that. I shouldn't have done that,
but I was. You know, that's just all right.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You were giving yourself to the people. Man.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
But I missed that. I missed that moment. But I
mean we had our own moment.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Like what and I was when I was the moment?
Yeah I did? You did? Man? And shout out to
Fernando Vargas as well. Yeah, I was right there in
front of you, kind of prepping doing push ups. Yeah,
when you were hyping up bad Bunny for his moment.
He's a good dude.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, man, I know there was Emilyano.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It was a Fernando no, no, Fernando's dad. I'm sorry, yeah,
you're right, you're right, you're right, you're Emilio. And then
my Puerto Rican boy. Oh shoot, that's right. I forget Sander.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
That guy's a good good for him as well, man,
you know, spending the same time with them, like they
were cool. I even came to our hotel. Xander was
staying at the Four Seasons, but he came to our
hotel and he ended up coming with us bowling and
just like, you know, you spent some time with us.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Because that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, we're like a family, so he wanted to be
part of that family.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Come on now, yep. So we have three locations, are
we locations? Are we going to expand?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
More?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I mean this year we're opening three more in Los Angeles.
We're opening one in one in South past which I
already announced, one in Hollywood, so that was the latest
one that I announced. And then we're also coming to
my hometown of Atwater Village. We're opening our third Vas
Tackles restaurant this year. It's going to be the sixth
(24:47):
Vias Tackles restaurant. So when I say the third Via
Tackles restaurant, people got to get confused. But it's a
sixth Via Tackles restaurant, the third one in LA of
the year, and that one's going to be opening my
hometown of Atwater Village, and that one means a lot
to me.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
That was like, that was like my homecoming. You know.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I grew up on the thirty one hundred block of Palida.
I went to Addwater Elementary, I went to Irvy Middle School,
I went to Marshall High School. And you know Atwaters
has always been home what I what I consider home.
You know, it's changed throughout the years. Someone say for
the better, others would disagree, but it still remains home
(25:24):
to me. You know, Vincent's Market still in the ham
and cheese there, they still smack. My family actually owns
Vincent's Market. Yeah, my family, that's my family. So uh,
you know I used to work at Atwater Elementary and
and now like opening a restaurant in Atwater, it feels.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Like like it's my homecoming.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Like when I went to Addwater Elementary in that parking
lot where we're gonna have like our guests are gonna park.
I did the tree lighting ceremony there and I was
singing like probably that song.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
From Ryan carrier.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But it's it's like a full circle moment. So I
always always imagine that I would come back to Water
Village and open my restaurant there. But you know, like
I'm glad I opened up in the Highland Park because
I was also like my home away from home, So
that was where my family. My family's been in Highland
Park for forty five years. So like if I wasn't
(26:15):
in that water, I was in Highland Park. But for
the most part, I was mainly in thatwater, Like that's
where I would lay my head to go to sleep,
and that's where I would you know, winter school, and
all my boys would come. We would ride bikes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But I celebrated my eighteenth birthday in Highland Park. My
dad threw us a Mexican party, and if you know
what that means. You know, in Mexico they partied a
little different at eighteen.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, responsibly.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, but it's cool. Man, Like God is so good,
but yes, sir, He's blessed me. And it feels good
to like open up a via tackles in that water
and just like have a full full circle moment like homecoming.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
That's going to be like my homecoming Tide of California
soon maybe we're thinking about.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, that's more than the idea. I just haven't anounced
it yet. Yeah, yeah, it's already. It's time something, it's
something we gotta coming. We gotta we got we got
something cooking. But I love I'll tell you this. I
love competition. Competition is what feeds my soul, good for you.
And I think as far as like tacos goes, there's
(27:27):
there's you know, l A, there's there's like there's Vegas,
there's New York, right because New York is one of
like the foody capitals of the world. But thee yeah, yeah,
yeah in New York. I mean it will be we'll
be there in two years, you know. So, like I
love competition, and I'm ready for this next chapter of
(27:47):
these tacos. And that's why, like you know, I'll be
the first one to wake up, last one to go
to sleep. And you know, am I tired?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Maybe a little bit?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
But am I am I hungry? Am I ready? Am
I do? I have a braining desire for more? And
in my am I am I ready for the next
step whatever that means. I'm man, I'm ready. I went ready,
I go to see Braddy. I I brush my teeth ready,
I you know, I take a shower.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Ready. I just I'm ready, baby like whatever, bring it on.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah see I'm not I'm not scared of the challenge.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, I won't talk all the time. Exactly one out
of time. Broye vs. Tacos. Yes, Victor, my God, thank you, congratulation.
Shout out everybody right here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Shout out you guys, shout ninety two three, Yeah, Real
ninety two three, Hope for hip hop, j Cus, thank
you for having me. Tell my family out there listening.
I love you, guys. Tell the team listening, hold down
the floor. I'll be home right now. Thank you guys
for all the love. Thank you for the support. Vic
Tacos in the field.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Let's get back to work, bro, Let's go. Yeah, let's
take a picture of
Speaker 2 (28:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Victor Tacosis for making it out today, bro Cruise.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Everything well, everything is great. I saw an interview that
your dad did.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I think it was world news and he was very
emotional about what what you did for VS Docles and
what you and Bad Bunny did you know on one
of America's biggest stages. And he became so emotional, he
was so proud, and he reminded everyone that we come
to this country and we're not we're not criminals, and
we're not here to steal.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're here for a better life, and that's exactly what
it is.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Congratulations, Thank you so much, Thank you so much. I
feel like that moment was I got emotional watching. Yeah,
me too, Honestly, I still get emotional thinking about it,
and it's still like surreal. But you know, in that moment,
I was I was more than just representing myself, were
representing my company. It was representing my my family. You know,
our cold youre my city, my little community or Europe
(01:03):
and yeah, like you know all the taco, all therasas
the takhetos of not only Los Angeles, not only the US,
but of Mexico and beyond. You know, there's there's ta
phttos in every part of the world, and you know,
for that moment, I represented them all. Yeah, it was
(01:24):
It was an honor, and it wasn't easy getting there.
You know, a lot of people they could see me
on that stage and they'll be like, damn, you're so lucky.
But if you were to really you know, understand what
it took to get to that point. Luck has nothing
to do with it, has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But it's.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Talk about those days.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I was broken and broke.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Like if I was broke, I was rich at that moment,
but I was like, yeah, I was beyond broke, max
style credit cards, negative bank accounts, empty refrigerators. Just you know,
I had a newborn, we had our first born, newborn daughter,
and I had to provide her. And I was working
sixteen hour days, more tired than ever, and and just
(02:07):
like you know, I just I knew that I had
something good going on. So I promised myself I wouldn't
give up, even even though every every even though I
should have given up, or you know, like you could,
you know, I could have given up. I knew that
there was there was a rainbow on the other side
of the store.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
As there was a grill on the other side right
on the Super Bowl stage. Were you selling tacos out
of the crib? No? Yeah, in the beginning, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
In the beginning, I was selling tacos out of my
grandma's front yard.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I asked my my Theo Martine, if if it was okay,
if you would let me sell tacos out of.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
My grandma's front front yard.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And at the time, Higland Park was ready, like you
know what, we know Highland Park to be actually, like
I gentrified. So there's people doing their thing on the
street over there. But I'm like, you know, let me
just stick to our home and let me sew tacos
right here.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So I did that a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And then after I'm like, you know what, there's a
lot of like action going on on Avenue fifty one
in York, so let me go over there. And at
the time it was nothing but vegan vendors, and I'm like, yo,
this to you guys, like this might be like Vegan Capital,
Vegan Corner, but to me and my family.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
This is still Highland.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Park, you know, something like let's just let's throw some
sauce back into Highland Park. Let's keep it HP exactly HLP.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And you know, we we parked our grill right there,
and we were starting to like, you know, build build
the brand, capitalizing on on on our product on my network.
You know, like just I kept on doing like videos
to trying to get my name out there. And then
once we were starting to get traction, that's when everything
(03:43):
shut down. Right, That's when the pandemic came.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And tough time, but even tougher for your business.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But you know, I've always been one to think outside
the box, and I put my innovative cap on. You know,
I shut down for like a month or two. But
then I realized, what do we still got? We still
got our home, right, we still got Like we didn't
we started selling off Sunding tacos in the front yard
of my gama's house. Now, let's go to the backyard
where there's like a safe social distance of like six
(04:11):
feet because the gate in between that has like vines
on there is separation. So let me just I came
up with an idea. We would take pre ordered pickup
pre orders on Tuesday at noon for Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday eighty slots Friday eighty slots, Saturday, eighty slots on Sunday,
and you would only be able to get in on
Tuesday at noon. And then at first we would sell
(04:34):
out in like five minutes. And it took me like
ten hours to do everything pen and paper because I
felt like I had time and this was the time
that I wanted to build that relationship with all two
hundred and forty people that were placing order.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So that's what I did at work.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, a lot of work, a lot of work, a
lot of work, but I mean, like I said, I
had time, and it was creating a service, creating something
that while everything was closed, like I was giving you something.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
To look forward to on Friday, Saturday was Sunday. Right, So.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We took the orders and at first we was sell
in five minutes, then four, then three, and as we
started selling out faster, you know, there's always people that
like hey and just always want to put the two
cents in, like, oh yeah, right, you're not setting out.
So what I started doing. I started screen recording studying
a song. Let's say the song hits, it's like it's
peak point at twenty seconds. So at eleven fifty nine,
(05:24):
with forty seconds out, hit play on YouTube Premium. And
I got YouTube Premium because that's you could record.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And do other stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So I hit play on that, and then like ten
seconds before Noon hits, I started screen recording on my
phone and then as soon as Noon hit, my voice
kind of gone, so I can't really do that, but
it was like all the orders started coming in, and
then I started posting that, and once I started posting that,
people were like, damn, this is the real deal, like
not lying point, you know. But at that moment, I
(05:51):
felt like I was on top of the world. I
felt like I was Connor McGregor doing is Connor McGregor dance?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, yeah yeah. It felt amazing amazing have like the
support for my community in a time where like I
needed it the most and they needed it the most,
that's right, you know. So like and during the pandemic,
instead of you know, our business going down, our business
skyrocketed up, like and we were just growing NonStop. That's
(06:17):
when we filmed with the Netflix Taco Chronicles that's from
our segment, and that also like shot us up in
popularity and we won our first Taco Madness Championship during
that that stage. In that time period.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
This isn't an overnight story. I mean it's been interviewed
by local news for years, for over ten years now, for.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Like eight and a half, eight and a half, almost
a decade.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, you know, we're almost I feel like that's also
too why.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I mean me being one of those people like we're
at our super Bowl party and we see you and
we're just like, oh my god, oh my god, oh
my god. We start freaking out because that's not like
you said, that's like are that's so many groups that's
just represented in one moment.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
No, definitely, you know, like I had to keep it
a secret so I couldn't really tell anybody, but I
felt like it hit even more because no one really knew.
And I see like that meaning that it has Leonardo
Kraprio right like and honestly like.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
By the way, he's got the Mexican whistle down.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah he does, he does. In that moment, you know,
I did feel like like I was representing not even
the ghettos, but I was representing my city. I was
representing the youngsters who like look at me and see
themselves in me, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
They be like wow, yeah, young business.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Owners and the people that understand my story and my
struggle and where I come from, where my family comes from,
Like they see themselves and they're like damn, Like yo,
if they could do it, then there's a chance I.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And that's why I felt so compelled to last week
take on like seventy plus interviews, like I lost my voice.
I did it like he ain't a little sick and
just like like was literally running on autopilot. But I
felt like it was my duty and I felt like
God put me in that position because he knew I
could do it, you know, instead of like me telling
(08:12):
this news station, this news station, now, I can't do it.
I'm ready overwhelmed, like I told my sister, and like, yo,
bring them all on, like whoever wants it right now,
Like I'll do it because I felt like there's there
may be in that interview or this interview, maybe that
kid was listening, you know, maybe maybe that the entrepreneur
who's who's going through tough time and here's my story
of me. Also going through a tough time but having
(08:34):
to press svere through that in order to make it
to the stage that you know, the whole world saw
you on.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So I felt like it was my duty.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And that's why God put me in that position, because
he knew that I could do it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Exactly. Man.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Kobe Bryant has has has played a big role in
my life and even though I didn't never had the
pleasure to meet him. Actually, there's there's a video of
me like going to a parade in my fixed gear
bike with like orange rims I put on top of
my head like that. I'm like spin Kobe, Kobe, and
he points in me and he goes like that, like
you know, But Kobe Bryant had that mentality too, is
(09:08):
like I'm either gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.
I'm either gonna win or I'm gonna win, and I'm
not gonna stop until I do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I also had had that same vibe, had that same
mission as well, They're gonna get this done and we're
gonna do everything, but give up.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's it. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Napoleon Hill has a great quote. It says winners never
quit and quitters never win. And I have that framed
up in my house on like on gold leaf letter
and I look at it every day and I just
remember it, like that's what it takes. You know, if
I would have if I would have been stuck in
in like in the bad times, you know, I would
have never made it out and experienced the good times.
(09:45):
And there's still a lot of life left to be lived.
But that's how that's how I take my day to day.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Like life is.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I just try to be a little better today than
I was yesterday, a little better tomorrow than I wish today,
And I try to be a little better and better
every day. So a lot of people, maybe they see
the overnight success, so they see that I opened three
restaurants in three years, They're like, damn, how'd you open
three restaurants in three years? But you're forgetting about the
other five and a half years that took to open
up the first restaurant. So it wasn't three restaurants in
(10:14):
three years, right, right, it was three restaurants in eight
and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's right, that's right. That's different math, it's way different.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Like I did an interview yesterday and she's like, Wow,
how'd you open three restaurants in three years, and I
was like, you know, you're forgetting about the other five
and a half without due respect.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So you know a video I really enjoy, bro is
the video when the show's about to start and I
think you're filming it right or maybe the medical glasses
are aa right, and you're you're yelling your bad Bunny
like it's time, Papa, Yeah, yes, Temple, let's go.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's temple.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And he looks at you and you guys kind of
have that moment where you make quick eye contact and
you are reminding him that this is his moment.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, and you are incouraged.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And that's who we are as Latinos, right, and people
who don't give up, we encourage others that are giving
us a shot that this.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is still your moment. Amen. It's a great, great big
That was a moment.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That was a great moment, honestly, And I could just
tell bad Bunny was locked in and get me the
thumbs up, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All right, he's about to kill it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He's about it, you know, because we had been practicing
for he had been he was at the practices like
a lot of people. That's a question that maybe no
one has really asked me, like it was he at
the rehearsal?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Was he rehearsal? And he was? He was. He was
there for likew he was there for three weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
He might have not been in every rehearsal, but since
the beginning that I was at rehearsals, like the day
after I got to the first rehearsal, he was right there.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So that wasn't the first time seeing him. No, yeah, yeah,
but you know, we kept professional.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm not going to be like Corsal, like oh hey,
bad bunny and get.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Your number real quick brow, none of that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
No, no, no, we keep the professional and we appreciate
the opportunity to acting.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How many times did you have to keep reminding yourself
to make sure that, like you say, meta record on
those glasses, I just press the button.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because sometimes yeah, you got I like, hey,
mauta record right that I.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Ended up getting them stolen, But yeah, I saved all
the footage. And that's exactly why I saved the footage
in that moment, like in the height of everything, as
soon as I walked off stage, like when I got
back to the trailer, the first thing I did before
after calling my wife, before calling my family back home
that we're having like the watch party is. I waited
(12:24):
like ten minutes for it to download on my phone
because I'm like God forbids I lose these glasses and
I lose that content. That content, I mean, it's priceless.
I wouldn't even put a price on it, that's right,
you know, because I was like the one that recorded that.
I was on the field when there was like no
cameras right there and yeah, behind the scenes, so it
was cool.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah. Now for me, what was that process?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Like, you know, obviously you get the phone call and
you've been chosen to represent the ghetto's at the super Bowl,
which isn't small's. This is one of America's biggest stages
and for you know, for to have a performer perform
in Spanish and to represent vendors and culture and latinos
and hard work and visionaries like that. You know, what
(13:06):
was what was that process? You know, you get the
call obviously is it from a casting director?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
He was my boy. He was my boy.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
What I what I was told is that there they
wanted vias you know, so like yo, go get Vias
and they're like, he's like that's my boy.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Wow, instant connect. So you hit me up.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
He's like, yo, vic I got like, I got the
biggest casting I've ever done. And then I signed the
NBA first, and he's like, yo, they want you for
the Super A halftime show.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And I was like, real, like the cater or what
are we doing? Commercial? Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You know, I'm up for it all. He's like, no,
they want you to They want you to come out
on a halftime show. So I was still kind of confused,
like whatever, like let's do it, you know, until until rehearsal.
Then then we then I understood what I was going
to do.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now with the with so many people there, right, did
you know Ricky Martin was going to show? Did you
know Lady Gaga was going to perform?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They didn't get there till like like a day before,
so it wasn't till like the day before that, and
I was like, what the heck is that Ricky Martin?
Is that Lady got And yeah it was. I thought
it was going to be. I thought it was gonna
be like Calderon riding a part of the song they
used like his music. You guys heard that part, right,
(14:26):
and so I was like, it's Calderon from the three
weeks from like the start of the rehearsals. We heard
that part, and I was like, Oh, Calderon is going
to be the special guest.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
But it wasn't. It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It was crazy plots, you know, it went everything just
kind of you know it it got together. Yeah, it
just it happened like in perfect unison. And I guess
something that I haven't haven't like said it like at
the stadium, like when you see the people in the
in the stadium, like I've seen videos after, like they
(14:58):
weren't too like into the performance, right, and but in
that moment, it's like I'm not looking at at the sky.
It sounds like there's a lot of people that are clapping,
but there's like certain sections that weren't. And I was like,
those people needs on people right now. I mean, it's
not cheap to get into the super Bowl, so maybe
you know, with all the wealth that they've accumulated, they
(15:18):
left out the sasson that's what they need.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, and it's still a little more of that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The halftime show was more for the people at home.
Watching it's not necessarily for the crowd there now.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
There is to watch a game that I heard wasn't
even that good, you know, But the halftime show. If
you if you don't think that halftime show was one
of the greatest halftime shows in the history of halftime show, trip,
you have no idea because like watching those dances from
up close, from like the first song to the second
song to where like Ellie and Tommy got married, like
those are my boys and my boy and she's one
(15:55):
of the guys. Yeah, it was just like it was.
The choreography. The boreography was by charm shoutout charm. Uh
it was. It was great like it was. It was
just beautif beautiful, plot beautiful, choreography, beautiful like even when
the pianists, i mean the violinists right there, just it
was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
If you don't, if you can't acknowledge the beauty behind
it was the art, the art behind it, then I
mean you could be looking at the moment, Lisa and
you don't you wouldn't think that's beautiful, you know exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Now you lack vision.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hey, you spend a lot of time with the cast, right, Yeah,
you guys spent a lot of time with each other.
Death was their connection. There you guys keeping up with
each other.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh yeah, so we have a group chat all of us,
that's right, and Jack.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Group people. Well right now.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
It's just like like the cast that like the cast. Uh,
the people got engaged, people got married, the people that
were at the cocoa stand, the nail tech with the
person's shoes getting the nails haircut.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, that was my boy too.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I got a haircut from him, and like Ginghi, she's
from New York. She was braiding up Sierra, which is
like another homegirl. But we're all in the group chat,
just sticking together because now we're like family both And
in the beginning of rehearsals, when I got there, I'm
not used to being without my phone for four to
six to seven hours, especially like you know, I got
(17:28):
I got a lot of my play and just doing
a lot at once. But at first everybody was like
complete strangers and it was cool being there, but I'm like, yo,
I can't wait for this to be over. And then
as time started progressing, I was like, yo, I love these.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
People, and then they became my friends.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
And then like when we got to Santa Clara. That's
when like the bond really came together and all of
us were like spending every moment of the day together
and it was just it was beautiful and I'm like, man,
I really don't want this to end.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And the day before, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It was like our last hurrah, and we got together
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know, it was kind of sad to see that.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And then after the Super Bowl, after we went back
to our rooms and it was time to say goodbye,
it was I remember shedding some tears, like damn, Like
I love these people, bro like, and there's a chance
that we might not ever be in the same room
all of us again. Life and life is life, and brother, man,
that's the power of love. And I think Benito for
(18:33):
bringing such a talented group of individuals together and for
relaying his message to everyone because I lived my life
with so much love. I like to say, you know,
if there's people that hate people that they don't even know,
then that I'm that one person that loves people that
he doesn't even know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So you come my restaurant and I treat you with
mad love.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And I even tell like if we have a big line,
like I just wanted to tell you guys like I
love you guys, like, man, thank you guys so much.
You know, I've seen you there and people be like, well,
how are you going to love someone that you don't know?
It's like, well, how are you going to hate someone
you don't know?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Exactly same thing, same thing. That's a fact, man.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, yo, I just think that this whole thing is amazing.
Like you said, I think especially you working so hard
and going through what you did right before the pandemic
and during the pandemic is really what sets not only
just like a person or individual, but as a business owner.
You put yourself, You put yourself in a position to
be to perhaps this happened for you, and that is
(19:33):
like just incredible, man, like you should be very very
proud of you.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
This isn't luck, man, It's not takes It takes over
ten years to be coming over next and ever.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I put I put my life in God, you know,
I put it on in my Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ's hands. And and he's good. He's been good to me.
He's never left me. He's you know, he gives me,
he gives me, discerning me, he gives me advice, and
it would be I would be taking too much credit
to say like everything on the menu was like I
(20:02):
came up with this, Like how did I come up
with it? Because God gave me the blueprints and I
just ran with it. I listened, that's it exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You listen. I'm just we're here to serve exactly, and
it goes to make it to heaven.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But the message everything else is just a plus.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You know. That's right.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know when when when La saw you there, the
Ketto saw you there, Latinos saw you there, we were
all there.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Exactly, That's how that felt, bro.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, it was That's what it was. That's why it
was like, man, it was my it was my duty
to do this and to be here and to be there,
to be as many places I could, because it was
it wasn't my win.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It wasn't my win.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It was our wins. This is your win to JCB,
it's all of our wins in there.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We won. It felt that way. It felt that way,
it did. I know it still feels that way.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You know, it's crazy, bro, no one's talking about the game.
I'm sorry, NFL, I'm sorry, but no one.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And the game was a.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Little bit lack lester. Let's be honest, right, but no
one is talking about that game.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Everyone the NFL is even talking about the game on
the NFL just kind of swept it under the had
to apologize.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
The real is the halftime.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Fortunately there was a there was a football game during
the halftime show. I guess that that had to happen. Yeah,
but the halftime show was the main event.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It really wasn't And what a what a what a
show man?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Did you get to watch any of the game or
were you guys back stage? We're back.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We're in the in like the stadium, not the stadium
next door, but there's like a place.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That we were in a holding area, holding area. Okay,
you're there.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
We got there like at eleven am, and we didn't
we didn't leave there till like we didn't make the
walk till like four and then we hit the stage
till like five thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That's a long day, okay. Man generally just took over
and of course, and you're just there, You're happy to
be there, You're.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Just you're preparing so grateful to be there.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Man. I was they feed you at the Super Bowl?
Oh yeah, yeah, but I mean nothing, nothing like via.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm not gonna liee you guys man. The first day,
the first day we were there, they gave us some
tacos and they looked good.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You were like, yo, Bro, don't ever disrespect Yeah, and
every everybody because everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Like they looked at me like what do you think?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Like what do you think?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
These tacos have no like, no season, no flavor, Like
they literally had no flavor.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Probably the worst tackles ive ever had.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but yeah, they were they were,
but everything else is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I mean yeah, after.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That, the food ended up getting better, But I'm sorry,
those are the worst tackles.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
That's exactly why you have to go to Bro.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You've earned the right to say that, though you feel me,
you've earned the right. Hey.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And then there's also a video I think you took
as well, when the show was over and you guys
are walking and bad Bunny is thinking everybody and everything's
going crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Right for a moment, you could tell he had a
lot to say, you know, yeah, And that's why I
felt like these past two weeks, I've even though I
have like like a one on one conversation with him,
just being around the need to I feel like like
I know him or understand him a lot more. Yeah,
it's like in that moment, he was just like.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Like he just he had a lot of words to say.
He was gonna burst motion right and then and then
Honestly I missed.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I missed out when he when he got to the tent,
like the tent where like we were in the hold,
he came and came to think all all of us
and all the dancers.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
But I was too.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Busy giving an interview over that. I shouldn't have done that,
but I was. You know, that's just all right.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You were giving yourself to the people. Man.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
But I missed that. I missed that moment. But I
mean we had our own moment.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Like what and I was when I was the moment?
Yeah I did? You did? Man? And shout out to
Fernando Vargas as well. Yeah, I was right there in
front of you, kind of prepping doing push ups. Yeah,
when you were hyping up bad Bunny for his moment.
He's a good dude.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, man, I know there was Emilyano.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
It was a Fernando no, no, Fernando's dad. I'm sorry, yeah,
you're right, you're right, you're right, you're Emilio. And then
my Puerto Rican boy. Oh shoot, that's right. I forget Sander.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
That guy's a good good for him as well, man,
you know, spending the same time with them, like they
were cool. I even came to our hotel. Xander was
staying at the Four Seasons, but he came to our
hotel and he ended up coming with us bowling and
just like, you know, you spent some time with us.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Because that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, we're like a family, so he wanted to be
part of that family.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Come on now, yep. So we have three locations, are
we locations? Are we going to expand?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
More?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I mean this year we're opening three more in Los Angeles.
We're opening one in one in South past which I
already announced, one in Hollywood, so that was the latest
one that I announced. And then we're also coming to
my hometown of Atwater Village. We're opening our third Vas
Tackles restaurant this year. It's going to be the sixth
(24:47):
Vias Tackles restaurant. So when I say the third Via
Tackles restaurant, people got to get confused. But it's a
sixth Via Tackles restaurant, the third one in LA of
the year, and that one's going to be opening my
hometown of Atwater Village, and that one means a lot
to me.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
That was like, that was like my homecoming. You know.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I grew up on the thirty one hundred block of Palida.
I went to Addwater Elementary, I went to Irvy Middle School,
I went to Marshall High School. And you know Atwaters
has always been home what I what I consider home.
You know, it's changed throughout the years. Someone say for
the better, others would disagree, but it still remains home
(25:24):
to me. You know, Vincent's Market still in the ham
and cheese there, they still smack. My family actually owns
Vincent's Market. Yeah, my family, that's my family. So uh,
you know I used to work at Atwater Elementary and
and now like opening a restaurant in Atwater, it feels.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Like like it's my homecoming.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Like when I went to Addwater Elementary in that parking
lot where we're gonna have like our guests are gonna park.
I did the tree lighting ceremony there and I was
singing like probably that song.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
From Ryan carrier.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But it's it's like a full circle moment. So I
always always imagine that I would come back to Water
Village and open my restaurant there. But you know, like
I'm glad I opened up in the Highland Park because
I was also like my home away from home, So
that was where my family. My family's been in Highland
Park for forty five years. So like if I wasn't
(26:15):
in that water, I was in Highland Park. But for
the most part, I was mainly in thatwater, Like that's
where I would lay my head to go to sleep,
and that's where I would you know, winter school, and
all my boys would come. We would ride bikes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But I celebrated my eighteenth birthday in Highland Park. My
dad threw us a Mexican party, and if you know
what that means. You know, in Mexico they partied a
little different at eighteen.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, responsibly.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, but it's cool. Man, Like God is so good,
but yes, sir, He's blessed me. And it feels good
to like open up a via tackles in that water
and just like have a full full circle moment like homecoming.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
That's going to be like my homecoming Tide of California
soon maybe we're thinking about.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, that's more than the idea. I just haven't anounced
it yet. Yeah, yeah, it's already. It's time something, it's
something we gotta coming. We gotta we got we got
something cooking. But I love I'll tell you this. I
love competition. Competition is what feeds my soul, good for you.
And I think as far as like tacos goes, there's
(27:27):
there's you know, l A, there's there's like there's Vegas,
there's New York, right because New York is one of
like the foody capitals of the world. But thee yeah, yeah,
yeah in New York. I mean it will be we'll
be there in two years, you know. So, like I
love competition, and I'm ready for this next chapter of
(27:47):
these tacos. And that's why, like you know, I'll be
the first one to wake up, last one to go
to sleep. And you know, am I tired?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Maybe a little bit?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
But am I am I hungry? Am I ready? Am
I do? I have a braining desire for more? And
in my am I am I ready for the next
step whatever that means. I'm man, I'm ready. I went ready,
I go to see Braddy. I I brush my teeth ready,
I you know, I take a shower.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Ready. I just I'm ready, baby like whatever, bring it on.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah see I'm not I'm not scared of the challenge.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, I won't talk all the time. Exactly one out
of time. Broye vs. Tacos. Yes, Victor, my God, thank you, congratulation.
Shout out everybody right here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Shout out you guys, shout ninety two three, Yeah, Real
ninety two three, Hope for hip hop, j Cus, thank
you for having me. Tell my family out there listening.
I love you, guys. Tell the team listening, hold down
the floor. I'll be home right now. Thank you guys
for all the love. Thank you for the support. Vic
Tacos in the field.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Let's get back to work, bro, Let's go. Yeah, let's
take a picture of
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Cruise show on Real ninety two three.
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