July 17, 2025 • 33 mins
Growing up in Florida and attending the University of Florida set him on a path to radio. He explored all kinds of jobs and careers before landing where he is now producing a radio show, running social media, and launching his own podcast. Check out his podcast, Los Yappers, where he chats about everyday life, laughs, and everything in between.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to at Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Patrick mccasac from Roby Commercial in Services along with Trent.
He'sim from the Roby family of companies.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We are your hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're gonna flip it around today, have a little fun Tren.
We're gonna have Kelvin, Yeah, our amazing producer as our guess.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're gonna learn a little bit of about him. He
really is. We're we're like on our six six month
anniversary now, I think, And dude, he's like a pro.
He's I'm a little really good. I'm intimidated. I'm I'm
nervous and sometimes I think you mess up and then
when I listen to the show, he has corrected it.
You think that, I think. I think we do all right.
(00:41):
We know we're pretty raw and real. We don't edit anything.
We're not trying to be some phony blooney you know
what that means. No, it's kind of like ton No,
I don't. I never I like blooney. All right, let's
stop talking about sandwich meat. I like you, like you
like blown.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You know, I probably had a thousand, probably two thousand
ballooney and crap or whatever the slices are that coming
up the plastic sandwiches as a kid, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I love making sound. My dad made sandwiches. That was
the meal he liked to cook for us.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We and uh, one time I came to your house
and we were in a hurry and we couldn't have lunch,
and you made be a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I think you put some potato chips on that. Oh
I do that, yeah, and a lot of mustard and pepper,
yeah in maynaes unless it's uh, yeah, apparently I'm putting mayonnaise,
but a lot of mustard. I think either you made
a rake. But it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was rapping and napkin and you know, I got
this weird sandwich, got chips on it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
He was good. Well, my dad used to put lettuce
on the sandwich, and in my household with my five kids,
lettuces not readily available as much as it was growing up.
So we get the crunchiness from the potato chips and
get a little get a little salt from them as well.
So it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, okay, so I'm gonna I gotta let his story.
So I watched a founder, you know, the story with
McDonald's story about Ray Kroc over the weekend. I just
got into it and it was one of those things
like I was on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And watching that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He was crazy, said, well, do you remember the scene
where it was that it was Ham. It was everything
was a certain way. You didn't deviate. You sold Hamburger's
French fries and coke products or soda. And his initial
franchise he sold to some country club friends and they
kind of lost track of the restaurant and one of
them put lettuce. He got a burger with lettuce on it,
(02:26):
and he tracked those jokers down at the golf course
and comes running out at them while they're about to
tee off, and he said, what is this and they said, well,
it's a lettuce.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No more, no more franchising making the putting the same
way every time. Yeah, and it is pretty cool. I
don't know if you remember the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He started finding people that were like young couples that
were looking for an opportunity, and I mean really changed
the way franchising is done in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What years were that pastor sixties? Well, you know think
speaking of sandwiches. You know what's really cool with is
my son Ford's ten and Knox this five and I
talk about this a lot. NOx is still loving on
loving on mama, uh because because Reagan's stay at home
mother and uh and you know they just spend so
(03:11):
so much time together. But but Ford's ten and you
know he's growing up. He's watching me. He likes chopping wood.
He likes telling me when he split split some firewood
today and you know, asked me if I throw the
baseball and stuff. But every time we go eat, like
at a sub shop or something, instead of him getting
(03:31):
a kids sub or a six inch sub, all right,
he says, I get what you get, so I'll get
so I get the foot long sub and and make
it my way. And he he loves it. But uh,
we ate at Jersey Jersey Mics, which was really good Sunday,
and uh, I got they have a hot hot honey,
(03:54):
uh chicken chicken sandwich and it is hot, dude, But
he could he likes hot. He's trying to be getting
the you know, hot sauce and stuff. He said, Dad,
I can't. I'm throwing in the towel. Homie. Where did
where did this.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hot honey phase coming? It is like everywhere's got hot honey,
hot honey pizza. I got hot honey.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Hummus O Reagan puts hot hot honey on pizza. It's good.
We got the jow, we got the bottle. You got
hot honey at your house? No, I need to get
something I just heated. I'll say you a bottle for
like fourteen head up in the Michael wave. Wow, you
were What.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Do you think you're You're like a corny comedian feelings.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I mean I told you I was nervous. You like
you like a kid comedian. Are you nervous? No, I
don't know what you said. You hadn't said you said
we had a professional podcast. You're nervous because our Yeah,
our competitor is coming on. I don't want to blow.
I don't want to blow my opportunity here. It's like
the clash of the Titans. He's like, man, why did
(04:57):
I agree to do this? I'm so excited to hear
about Caleb story. Learn more. We we always say we
said this on the last last show. It's like speed
dating on steroids, and we were sitting here. Kelvin gets
to learn a lot about us, But we're gonna learn
a little more about him today. I will tell you
I do reflect and think it's really cool, uh Kelvin,
(05:20):
Uh that you get to get to see us talk
to so many variety of people and uh and and
hear this. Uh, I think I need to get a
couple of my river rats on the show so I
can really see that. But those guys are, man, I'm like, come,
you need to come on the show. They think I'm
like some star because I have a podcast, and I'm like,
come on the show and tell your story. And they're like,
(05:42):
I don't have no story. And they might be that
they might not want that public fivelight one. How I
got it figured out? Will Bartle. Will Bartle used to
tell me, Uh, this is twenty years ago. He said, Man,
those people up on that north side of the river,
he said, they done got it figured out. He's like,
they have it calculated to an exact science. How little
(06:05):
they have to work to drink bush lights and ride
on the golf cart all day.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Genius that just maybe don't remember that those real men
of genius commercials.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I mean that is like tee it up really And
I was like, man, you're on something. He's like, and
you know, you get older, You're like, huh, maybe they
do have it figured out?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What's like the story I I'm sure you've heard a
million times of the rich York business person that takes
a vacation with the fishermen and all he does is fish.
And he's like, well, you know the whole story of like, well,
I'm just trying to do it right now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, he said, why we could do this, Get you
to do this, grow you a business and do this
and then and then one day you'll have all this money.
He said, why would I do today? He said, one
day you'll have all this money and you can retire
on an island and go fish. And he's like, huh, yeah,
I just okay, we got the story. But there's my
favorite song right now I happened to play about a
month ago is uh is colt Ford and it's called
(07:00):
nothing in Particular And the basis of the song is
he's come on over and doing nothing in particular today
and uh and the really cool thing is my uh
my country rap music that whatever country music that I
like my kids, My kids aren't all that into and
(07:22):
and uh, Piper said that was her favorite song.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Ring now, So colt Ford, who's the Sonny Leedford Sonney
Lefford out of Gaston County.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Uh, you know Eric Church, but uh, kid g if
you really want some some country rats like Kid Rock's cousin. Yeah,
I like kid Rock. Who doesn't like Kid Rock? I
got you Hardy? Oh yeah, all right, we get we
getting roll. Let's go nothing in particular. So what you got?
(07:50):
You wish you got any family trips coming up?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I've got a trip to Indiana. I think you're going
to Illinois. I get to fly up. I always love
to see man laws and in my family. But my
wife's family up there, they're all fantastic. So they go
for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
My wife, my daughter who works.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My wife works in the school with in the school,
not for the school system. Of course, carletts out at school.
So I I d fly up, usually on a Friday,
and get and I helped drive home on the Sunday. Okay,
so that's that's my next It's great corn corn and
beans up there, corn beans, livestock.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, let's say who's wheelers. How about this? We'll see
who's corns taller? This is this gets pretty serious. How
about that? I mean you put that out there? Oh yeah, Reagan,
you know when I drive around and try to see
what where businesses growing, and where houses are being built
or remodeled and office buildings are being built. Reagan's like,
can we just get there? She's like, You're just like
my grandpa riding home from church. He's got to go
(08:45):
all the way around to see how his neighbors corns growing.
Two things.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
One, I think Grandpa farmers stand just his eyebrow. He
just pulled a m on that bed, and that's probably
how he respond to that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Just but.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know what that means Midwestern. He does the same thing.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
We were driving home from a jock on the Greenwich's like, hey,
they ever finished the uh the soccer complex. I'm in
the road road and we're going right past it. I
was like, I don't know what's pulling there and check.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
She goes, no, I don't want to go in there.
Let's go home. But well, why'd you say that? She
was like, I figured you would know. I enjoy Yeah.
Characteristic of old farmers, is they not. They take into time,
that's it and they let it happen, and I enjoy that.
It's good. I uh yeah. Sunday morning, I was a
(09:31):
little late for church, so I listened to it on
my phone and I rode around our old church, checked
it out, rode around the Graveyard Road everywhere. That's cool
by myself. Uh well, Reagan was in there saying where's trip.
I get that too, you know, but totally understanding. Well cool, Well, yeah,
(09:53):
we'll be going to Illinois in a couple of days.
We were driving up and back fourteen hours. You said, yep,
mine's nine so it's a little bit, a little bit easy.
It'll be good. We're gonna have a good time. We
get to see uh, Reagan's family. We stayed with their
aunt and uncle, and then it's gonna be a lot
of fun. Awesome. My kids get to go swing on
(10:13):
the tire swing Yeah, I mean just that's the cool
part about it. And I get a little for arrow heads.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't know what that was. I think we had
a glitch, but we're all well, well, well, Kelvin is
our guest. He's back here running the show and he
has a podcast of his own. We're gonna learn all
about this when we come back on the app On
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Welcome back that home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'm patrickmcasac from Roby Commercial in Services along with Trent
Hasten from the Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Kelvin.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yes, you are with us on the other side of
the producer's booth. Now you're getting your picture taken. I know,
you know he does. As tall as he is, he'd
probably get a good vantage point down. Probably can uh,
there's might get a good one on. Trent not wearing
a hat today, so Mike, get a good forehead forehead.
Oh you were going, you were going glare I mean there,
(11:19):
and you're gonna get my You're gonna get my gray hair,
which is great and which is kind of ironic.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We talked about this before.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You and I always are having baseball hats on every
time we do the radio, and this time we don't
have baseball hats on, but you, my friend do.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And you know me, I like to do my hair,
but not today, guys. It's a haircut week. It's a
haircut week.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So that's vicious. I understand. How how often do you
get your haircut?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Like every three weeks? You know, third week is the
rough one.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So I'm a six week kind of guy. Oh wow,
So I guess started get the flocks and it starts
to get pretty ugly up there. I'm about four. But
if I go a little long, then you're like, I
gotta get a hair right. It's like happens quick in
the hat. You're like, man, I'm exactly so well. Calvin
has been our producer here at Aheart since January, since
(12:06):
we came to Aheart Radio. Jeff Niper is trying to
take his job sitting back there. But Calban tell us,
tell us about your story. Where are you from?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But so I was born and raised in South Florida.
My parents came here from Nicaraua. They were escaping the
government overtaking that happened in the eighties, if I'm not mistaken. So, yeah,
so they escaped from their country. They wanted a better
opportunity here to come to America and started life. My
(12:41):
mom came here late eighties. I'm not sure when my
dad came, but I know he came before her. And yeah,
they they built themselves from literally nothing. My dad was
working for the government in Nicaraua, so he definitely had
to go.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But my mom was I.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Think working in the banking industry, and she was like, well,
anything is better than being here right now, So they
decided to make the trip.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
In the eighties. In the eighties, and where did y'all live?
In South Florida?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There was a city named Sweetwater, and that's when they
first came here. There was a lot of other immigrants
that came and that were living in that kind of hub.
And if you go to South Florida and if you
want like really good nick rawand food, that is like
the hub of like all the nick Rawans is Sweetwater.
For some reason. The rest of South Florida is all Cubans.
But yeah, that was when we started out, was Sweetwater.
(13:32):
But by the time I was born, we grew up
in Kendall, which is more suburban.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Okay, wow, when, yeah, when did you come to Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I came to Charlotte July twenty twenty two, Oh so
not recently, pretty recent.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, what brought you here?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I heart, I I.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
O fist bumps. Back in the back there you saw it.
It was a double. It was a double. It was
it was.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
It was.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It was so different, big culture shock moving here, especially.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
From July twenty two. You're coming up on three years. Yeah, wow, yeah, congratulations,
how is it now?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I think at the beginning it was really rough when
you move from the place. Like if I had moved
from somewhere else that I had already moved from my hometown,
I'd be fine. But this was my first experience really
moving away to a different state, and it was a
culture shock.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I am a minority, but I didn't grow up as
a minority. So you know, in South Florida, pretty much
everybody is Hispanic over here. Now I'm a minority, so
it's different. It's much different. You start to kind of
appreciate your culture a lot more now when you're in
an area where, oh you are quite different.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well. I did a job for a Charlotte client in
twenty twelve down in West Palm Beach, YEA, and I
stayed down there for about six months in the poolhouse,
and I managed this project. And you're right, a lot
of Cuban and I really enjoyed the family culture the
(15:06):
South Florida had. So I went to some barbecues and
stuff because they knew I was there and my family
was here if I didn't go home for the weekend
or you know, during the week. It was fun. I
really enjoyed South Florida. When I was there. It was good.
And my sister went to Nova Southeastern for school, so
she spent some time there. Nice.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We love visitors. We have people that we can show
our culture too great.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I will just as an outsider looking in on that
twenty twelve experiment in South Florida. The client was awesome,
I mean the best people. I went and visited Trent
for three or four days. We had a hair brained
idea to maybe start an electrical business in that market,
and it was like, dude, you do. Everybody like they
were also welcoming. This is a chile guy. We're going
(15:50):
to go over and visit his shop, and you know,
he's laughing because I did not. The poolhouse was like
luxury living compared to where he put me.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I was.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I was like sleeping in the construction site. Like waking
up in the morning with dudes are like saws as
like trying to kick me out of the way because
I'm sleeping in my sleeping bag on the on the
concrete floor. But that's I mean, it was great determination
to hustle.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I look back at it. I didn't realized you were
there for six months. Yeah, I mean, and everybody told
me leading up to going down, like he said he
wanted us to do it when we were slow, we
need to work. Yeah, I decided to do it. And
then the month that I told everybody I was going
to do it, They're like, you're not gonna get anything
under and there, not gonna accept you your old southern
(16:32):
country boy. And you know, it built all this fear
in me and in social anxiety, right, and then how
am I gonna get these folks to work with me
and produce and get you know, perform. And it was
the complete opposite. Oh yeah it was. It was open arms, welcoming,
Hey I need this, Well here, I'll introduce you to
(16:53):
so and so and uh. It was a great experience.
It was awesome. So I had a good time down there,
and I enjoy when I can go back. I mean,
it was this is how much Kelvin twenty twelve, we
didn't have much money, so, I mean, it was coming
out of the recession. But when Reagan would come down.
I would drive her and I had a couple of
(17:13):
kids at the time. I mean, it's crazy to tell
the story around. And I would say, hey, look we
could we could maybe buy this house. I could use
it as a South Florida office and have a place
to stay too, you know, And she just was like,
you were from North Carolina? What are you trying to do?
For all the right reasons. But she didn't stay down there.
(17:33):
I mean she liked coming down there, but she didn't
stay down there like I did. I got, I was,
I was all in right.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Did you try any good food while you were down there?
Any Cuban food? An I did?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, I mean I went to Cuban. It's like three
or four all Cuban except me cookouts, So whatever they had.
I mean, I'll eat you know when I when I
uh go El Salvadora. Been there a couple of times
on mission trips, you know. I mean, what you put
it in front of me, I'll you do it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So yeah, so I enjoy that. That's what I enjoyed
about life. I enjoy as you hear or say, everybody
has a story. Yeah, So tell us how did you
get into radio?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
My career started. I would say college, but you know,
in college it's just kind of fun. It's like all extracurricular.
But I went to the University of Florida. I got
my bachelor's degree there, and my main focus entering into
college was to study news, like hard hitting news. I
wanted to be a news reporter, but I wanted to
be out like in war. I wanted to be in
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the middle of real.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Hurricanes, tornadoes. I wanted something.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
More than just the stocks or the election, Like I
didn't care about reporting that stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I wanted action.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And when I got into UF, I got into the
journalism college.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
But then on top of that.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I had to pass a news test, which was really
ridiculous because I'm paying all this tuition money. Why should
I apply to the school that I already got into.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But I digress, which is like the top journalism school
in the country. Yeah, I mean, it's no joke.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I mean, I knew you weren't going to give yourself
a compliment, but I'll give it to you. I mean,
it's very difficult to get into.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It is it is, and it was the best time
of my life. Like I would go back if I
could go back in any time in my life, it
would be that that time of my life. But I
ended up not passing the news test, and I was
so disappointed. It was really, to be honest, thinking about
it now, it was very subjective. You would write a
new story and then somebody would read it and be like, well,
(19:31):
that's not how I would report it, and that's how.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You would not pass current events.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I got down current events, like I know everything that's
going on, and there were different things. It was like
local news, national news, pop culture, which I was totally
fine with, but it was that the writing segment. They
just didn't think it was strong enough. So I said, okay, fine,
I will take a different route. And I went into
the production route at UF and I said, you know what,
if you guys do not want to produce me, then
I'm going to create things that I'm going to produce myself.
(19:57):
I want to produce the things that I want.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He's an entrepreneur.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I did a little bit, and that's when that started.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I started to learn how to do camera work, editing, audio,
how to script write, and I actually did a pretty
good job. I did a really decent job. I was
always the student before I got into the production route.
I was always the I'll be your actor, like I'll
be your your person in front of the camera. I
don't care. I was never shy about that. But when
I started to get behind the camera, I was like,
oh crap, I could do this stuff too. So that
(20:25):
was really validating at the time. And yeah, I randomly
got into radio. They put me in a rock station
and like, I don't listen to rock music. They were like, well,
this is the only thing that's available, so go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So I did it.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And that's how I started radio. Was tracking an online
radio show, online rock radio show, and the.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Rest really and that was with iHeart.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You were doing that or not iHeart?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That was with UF okay before you get okay.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Then from that point on, I did an internship with
iHeart for one summer and I loved it. But it
was in the promotions department, which was it's pretty standard
when you get into radio, it's good to go through
the promotions route.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I came back.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They wanted to offer me a job, but I said no,
I have to get my degree. So then I came
back finished school and it took forever for me to
get into radio after that, Like after I graduated. Yeah,
because I came back and I had so many school
projects under my belt, but I had no connection, and
I was somebody who I'm not the strongest when it
comes to networking. I'm quite shy, really awkward social anxiety.
(21:30):
So for me, I think that was like my biggest
downfall was not networking enough. I was able to meet
somebody during that time in my internship and she started
to move up in her career and finally she always
kept me in mind. I always kept in contact with her,
and she texted me one day randomly. She was like, Hey,
we have an opening for a traffic position for afternoons,
(21:53):
somebody just reporting the traffic.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Super simple.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
She was like, you'd have to leave your job, And
at this time I was I went from the DMV
to an advertising agency, and I was really happy at
the advertising agency and had full benefits full time, and
I thought to myself, Okay, what do I do. Do
I finally go for the dream job but I have
to start all over at the bottom, or do I
(22:17):
stick with the advertising job that was paying decent and
wasn't anything crazy. But I was quite privileged at the time.
I was thankfully living with my parents and they were
not charging me rent. So I said, Okay, this is
a good opportunity.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I gotta do it me now.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
So I did it. I took the chance. I worked
my way up.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I eventually became a morning show host, which was my
dream job in Miami. And then certain things happened, you know,
the pandemic happened, COVID layoffs happened. They let go of
my two co hosts, and the show ended up becoming
a water down version of a radio show. I couldn't
talk about the things I was passionate about, so I
(22:55):
started to look for jobs. Finally, after a while, I
think I did the solo thing for like nine months.
I did the morning show that I wanted for like
a year. But but yeah, when I was doing it
solo for nine months, it was great. Great paycheck was
the best one I've ever gotten, but it wasn't enough
to fill my soul. So I see that Charlotte was
looking for an executive producer. I felt like my social
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anxiety after the pandemic wasn't getting better, so I figured,
let me take a step back from being in front
of the mic and let me go back to something
that I'm pretty good at doing, and that's why I
took this job, and I went with a morning show
that I believe in and that I fully love and
I love the way that they do radio.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
That's Miguel and Holly.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
So yeah, that's how what brought me to Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Very cool man.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I mean, we we always talk about on this show
that like we would have I don't know if we
would have ever gotten to hear this whole story just
with the interactions that we have had a it's a
remarkable story.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I'll make fun of Florida here in a little bit,
but please do.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The second thing I want to say is like, so,
but you are back behind the microphone now doing I mean,
you're you're doing the producer thing and you're as well,
you have a podcast, and I think you come on
the show.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So I'm quite frequently right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I try not to sound like I'm complaining when it
comes to that, but like I do a lot, and
you know, it's it's been interesting. I think a lot
of people in the building think that I'm just a producer,
and sometimes in radio you get treated just as that.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
But I don't. I'm not just a producer.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Like I'm not only hosting this, I'm producing content, I'm
their social media manager. I'm also my own podcast host. Now,
so you kind of and it's kind of the new
wave in radio two. You kind of have to do
so many things now, it's not just one job anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So I think it's great. I mean, we we lucked upon,
thank you, Jeff. We looked upon Kelbyn to be our producer.
Uh and we're on our on our half of first year.
Uh and and it's great. So tell us about your podcast.
I mean, I'll go ahead and tell you. You don't
come across like you have social anxiety. Gree God bless you.
(24:54):
It's cool. And uh, I think you have a wonderfully
bubbly personality and you've You've really made us feel welcomed
in here, and you do a great job every time
Patrick misses up.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And to be completely honest with you, you had some
really big shoes to fill. We we are not professional
radio people, I mean, contrary to to most popular belief,
but we absolutely loved our producer at the other place
where we were recording the show. So that was a
big deal to me and I think Trent as well
(25:25):
that I mean, we were sizing you.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah I'm joking a bad I'm joking, but but yeah,
I mean we the producer. It makes us sound great obviously,
and I know you do that professionally, but we do
need some help. This isn't what we do every single day.
So we've always had an immense amount of respect. I'm
not speaking for you, Trent, but the immense amount of respect
and appreciation for what you do.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah, thank you. That really means a lot. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, you guys really just came in here and you
guys already knew what you needed to do, and I
was just here to facilitate that and help you in
any way that I can. You guys have been nothing
more than nice to me, so that kind of works out.
If you're nice to me, I'm nice to you.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know. As far as for the confidence things, it's
new to me. I won't lie. It is new to me.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I have a job that forces you to be confident.
But I'm just putting on a show. But this year
specifically has been really really great. I have taken my
health as a priority and I'm just doing things now
that I love, like unapologetically. I used to just have
hesitation towards any decision that I used to and I
think that came along with the weight loss more than anything.
(26:31):
And so with this newfound confidence, I said, Okay, well
I want to get back in front of the mic,
But how can you if there's already an established show.
It's not like I can insert myself the way that
I would want to. So I said, fine, I'm going
to know what I know best. I'm going to create
my own opportunity. So thankfully the iHeart has been super
supportive and they were like, YEA, if you want to
(26:51):
do a podcast.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And it took a while to find a host because
I wanted somebody that was going to care about this
project as much as me. But how like, who would
you need a good partner if you want something great
to happen. I assume you two are great partners in
this aspect to your business. So it was kind of
the same thing with my podcast. Yeah, so I decided
to go with my husband.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Really, my husband is a very shy, socially anxious person,
but he is so intelligent and really level headed, and
he gives the best advice in the world. And he's
always been my confidant.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
So for me.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
After a few trials and tribulations, we became the podcast
host for ours called Los Yappers, Los Yeos, Losieappers.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I'm wanna listen to Los Yappers or in the vehicle,
I'm actually gonna download that right now. So what do
y'all talk about?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
We're I think our main thing for us is just
we're a newlywed Latino queer couple and we're talking about
everyday things. I think, me personally, I wanted it to
be more about being we're in like queer topics, but
it really has become just relationship stuff, everything that we
deal with. And you know, I have a ton of
like my bro friends from college that we keep up with,
(28:09):
and they'll text me and they'll tell me things like, dude,
like I have the same thing, like Oscar's just.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Like my wife, blah blah blah blah, like things like that.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I could be a little politically incorrect and I'll I'll
say that my husband's like my missus, Like that's my business.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
There she's at it again. Yeah, So you know, it's
really just about life, relationships, fun stuff, whatever whatever's on
our mind. We call it the gay agenda.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Uh, so so yeah, it's just a fun, a fun conversation.
Whell Instagram really split my dms. Yeah in Charlotte, No,
in Miami South for Yeah, we've been together for seven years.
He uh, he had just gotten out of like a
five year relationship and it was like two months afterwards,
and he sent me a DM He's like, can I
(28:56):
take you out sometime? And I was like I wasn't
even following him back on Instagram the time, and I
was like, sure, sounds good. And then the first ten
minutes that we met, he was like, yeah, I just
got a relationship in like two months ago. And I
was like, oh, how long was it? Five years? And
I was like, wait, I'm the rebound yea. So I
was like, whatever, it's free dinner, I'll just go.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
That was seven years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Though, that was seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Wow, Yeah, that's awesome. So when'd you get married? March?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Like literally three months ago?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I knew, we knew that, I know. But for the
listen about your wedding.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The wedding was great. We decided not to spend thousands
and thousands.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Of dollars on it. We did it in Georgia in
his family's home.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Oh well, we're in Georgia, flowery branch. All right, yeah,
all right, keep going. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
And uh and yeah, it was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It was really calm, nothing too over the top.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I never want to do it again.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Way too much planning, way too chaotic, way too much
family politics.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Yeah, I never want to do that again. But it was.
It was a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'll tell you your parents get to come up.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
No, okay, really okay, but that's maybe that's an episode
for another day.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's all good. What were you gonna say? No, I
was gonna say it is. Weddings are so my brother.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Got married and my my my wife's sister got got married,
you know, right before we got married.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And I'll tell you it is tough. Just what I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It was both were unbelievably beautiful weddings and said, well,
we we were kind of like, hey, let's go away
and pick package see where everything's already decided for us, right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And so we got we got married in Cabo Saint
Lucas Maccat's, Mexico, and that was all the family has
already been together recently, so we just picked package see
and went with it.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I love that, super easy.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, The easiest thing for us was we had a
party planner, like a luxury picnic person, and she set
it all up for us. Everything else was us so
very cool.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Man. Here we go. We got the newlywed. We're newlyweds
together six months, three months?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Four?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You're four months now?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
H all right, so now I got my four. I
gotta give you some Florida flack. Okay, I grew up
in Georgia. Tons of Georgia fans. I know you guys
hate Georgia. Georgia doesn't really like Florida either, And so
do you know how you could tell a Florida fan
when you go to the largest cocktail party in the
world in Jacksonville, when Georgia would play Florida? How did
you know which one was Florida and which one was
a Georgia fan the George. So as you're riding in,
(31:20):
anybody that's wearing George Sheen Swortz was there, like, Oh,
there's a Florida guy, there's a Florida gal. Georgia Georgia
fans are all preppy, you know, a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Do you got a couple of pair of shorts? I
thought they gave them to you when you like, you know,
they issued them.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Dude, that was I got to go a couple of
those guys they actually went in, but a couple of
those outdoor cocktail man that was fun. That was such
a I mean, just everybody. It's a tense fun you're
one side or the other.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It was cool.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
It's a party. Like I don't care about sports at all,
but I love to tailgate. Yeah, that is my cool stuff. Well,
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You were rooting for Florida during the basketball tournament this year.
Oh yeah, yeah, so for sure got a little bragging rights.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I'm very much the I will show up when they win.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, fair Weather fan. Yeah, oh good, all good Well Calvin,
it's awesome. Love she appers check it out. Thank you
for what you do for Patrick and iHeartRadio. You're very
professional in first class. Do a great job. What is
one thing that you live by? You know, I you
hear us ask this a lot of Sure. Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It is tough.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I don't think I've often received a lot of advice
or you know, anything like from a mentor much. But
what I have learned or what I've appreciated more is
that this right now like today, two o'clock whatever. This
is the youngest you will ever be in your life,
so do it. There's going to be a time when
(32:48):
you are seventy you're closing your eyes and you're gonna
be like, oh my god, remember when you were thirty
two in Charlotte, why didn't you go and do that thing?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I don't want to be seventy five and close my
eyes and think, oh my god, I wish I was
thirty two again. Regrets, no regrets, And I'm doing it now.
So I hope that people do that more often.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I hear you, Yeah, you know, that's kind of the
way I live my life is you can't tell I
don't know how it is on my body.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Well, there is the opposite.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
People will be like, well, this is also the oldest
you'll ever be, and I'm like, and then that's why
our vibes don't match.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Last half full of last half himpteds there you go.
Well you you put on a positive vibe and I
like it. Let's go. I learned so much about you.
Thank you for being on here. Wow, it's gonna be awesome.
Uh yeah. Kelvin ow Los yappers. Check it out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Uh go do the Gold rule, treat others the way
you want to be treated, and carry a smile around
on your face because you don't know what good it'll do,
but it's doing good.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Thanks for listening at Home with Ruby.
Welcome to at Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Patrick mccasac from Roby Commercial in Services along with Trent.
He'sim from the Roby family of companies.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We are your hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're gonna flip it around today, have a little fun Tren.
We're gonna have Kelvin, Yeah, our amazing producer as our guess.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We're gonna learn a little bit of about him. He
really is. We're we're like on our six six month
anniversary now, I think, And dude, he's like a pro.
He's I'm a little really good. I'm intimidated. I'm I'm
nervous and sometimes I think you mess up and then
when I listen to the show, he has corrected it.
You think that, I think. I think we do all right.
(00:41):
We know we're pretty raw and real. We don't edit anything.
We're not trying to be some phony blooney you know
what that means. No, it's kind of like ton No,
I don't. I never I like blooney. All right, let's
stop talking about sandwich meat. I like you, like you
like blown.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You know, I probably had a thousand, probably two thousand
ballooney and crap or whatever the slices are that coming
up the plastic sandwiches as a kid, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I love making sound. My dad made sandwiches. That was
the meal he liked to cook for us.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We and uh, one time I came to your house
and we were in a hurry and we couldn't have lunch,
and you made be a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I think you put some potato chips on that. Oh
I do that, yeah, and a lot of mustard and pepper,
yeah in maynaes unless it's uh, yeah, apparently I'm putting mayonnaise,
but a lot of mustard. I think either you made
a rake. But it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was rapping and napkin and you know, I got
this weird sandwich, got chips on it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
He was good. Well, my dad used to put lettuce
on the sandwich, and in my household with my five kids,
lettuces not readily available as much as it was growing up.
So we get the crunchiness from the potato chips and
get a little get a little salt from them as well.
So it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, okay, so I'm gonna I gotta let his story.
So I watched a founder, you know, the story with
McDonald's story about Ray Kroc over the weekend. I just
got into it and it was one of those things
like I was on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And watching that was crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He was crazy, said, well, do you remember the scene
where it was that it was Ham. It was everything
was a certain way. You didn't deviate. You sold Hamburger's
French fries and coke products or soda. And his initial
franchise he sold to some country club friends and they
kind of lost track of the restaurant and one of
them put lettuce. He got a burger with lettuce on it,
(02:26):
and he tracked those jokers down at the golf course
and comes running out at them while they're about to
tee off, and he said, what is this and they said, well,
it's a lettuce.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No more, no more franchising making the putting the same
way every time. Yeah, and it is pretty cool. I
don't know if you remember the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He started finding people that were like young couples that
were looking for an opportunity, and I mean really changed
the way franchising is done in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What years were that pastor sixties? Well, you know think
speaking of sandwiches. You know what's really cool with is
my son Ford's ten and Knox this five and I
talk about this a lot. NOx is still loving on
loving on mama, uh because because Reagan's stay at home
mother and uh and you know they just spend so
(03:11):
so much time together. But but Ford's ten and you
know he's growing up. He's watching me. He likes chopping wood.
He likes telling me when he split split some firewood
today and you know, asked me if I throw the
baseball and stuff. But every time we go eat, like
at a sub shop or something, instead of him getting
(03:31):
a kids sub or a six inch sub, all right,
he says, I get what you get, so I'll get
so I get the foot long sub and and make
it my way. And he he loves it. But uh,
we ate at Jersey Jersey Mics, which was really good Sunday,
and uh, I got they have a hot hot honey,
(03:54):
uh chicken chicken sandwich and it is hot, dude, But
he could he likes hot. He's trying to be getting
the you know, hot sauce and stuff. He said, Dad,
I can't. I'm throwing in the towel. Homie. Where did
where did this.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hot honey phase coming? It is like everywhere's got hot honey,
hot honey pizza. I got hot honey.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Hummus O Reagan puts hot hot honey on pizza. It's good.
We got the jow, we got the bottle. You got
hot honey at your house? No, I need to get
something I just heated. I'll say you a bottle for
like fourteen head up in the Michael wave. Wow, you
were What.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Do you think you're You're like a corny comedian feelings.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I mean I told you I was nervous. You like
you like a kid comedian. Are you nervous? No, I
don't know what you said. You hadn't said you said
we had a professional podcast. You're nervous because our Yeah,
our competitor is coming on. I don't want to blow.
I don't want to blow my opportunity here. It's like
the clash of the Titans. He's like, man, why did
(04:57):
I agree to do this? I'm so excited to hear
about Caleb story. Learn more. We we always say we
said this on the last last show. It's like speed
dating on steroids, and we were sitting here. Kelvin gets
to learn a lot about us, But we're gonna learn
a little more about him today. I will tell you
I do reflect and think it's really cool, uh Kelvin,
(05:20):
Uh that you get to get to see us talk
to so many variety of people and uh and and
hear this. Uh, I think I need to get a
couple of my river rats on the show so I
can really see that. But those guys are, man, I'm like, come,
you need to come on the show. They think I'm
like some star because I have a podcast, and I'm like,
come on the show and tell your story. And they're like,
(05:42):
I don't have no story. And they might be that
they might not want that public fivelight one. How I
got it figured out? Will Bartle. Will Bartle used to
tell me, Uh, this is twenty years ago. He said, Man,
those people up on that north side of the river,
he said, they done got it figured out. He's like,
they have it calculated to an exact science. How little
(06:05):
they have to work to drink bush lights and ride
on the golf cart all day.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Genius that just maybe don't remember that those real men
of genius commercials.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I mean that is like tee it up really And
I was like, man, you're on something. He's like, and
you know, you get older, You're like, huh, maybe they
do have it figured out?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What's like the story I I'm sure you've heard a
million times of the rich York business person that takes
a vacation with the fishermen and all he does is fish.
And he's like, well, you know the whole story of like, well,
I'm just trying to do it right now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, he said, why we could do this, Get you
to do this, grow you a business and do this
and then and then one day you'll have all this money.
He said, why would I do today? He said, one
day you'll have all this money and you can retire
on an island and go fish. And he's like, huh, yeah,
I just okay, we got the story. But there's my
favorite song right now I happened to play about a
month ago is uh is colt Ford and it's called
(07:00):
nothing in Particular And the basis of the song is
he's come on over and doing nothing in particular today
and uh and the really cool thing is my uh
my country rap music that whatever country music that I
like my kids, My kids aren't all that into and
(07:22):
and uh, Piper said that was her favorite song.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Ring now, So colt Ford, who's the Sonny Leedford Sonney
Lefford out of Gaston County.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Uh, you know Eric Church, but uh, kid g if
you really want some some country rats like Kid Rock's cousin. Yeah,
I like kid Rock. Who doesn't like Kid Rock? I
got you Hardy? Oh yeah, all right, we get we
getting roll. Let's go nothing in particular. So what you got?
(07:50):
You wish you got any family trips coming up?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I've got a trip to Indiana. I think you're going
to Illinois. I get to fly up. I always love
to see man laws and in my family. But my
wife's family up there, they're all fantastic. So they go
for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
My wife, my daughter who works.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
My wife works in the school with in the school,
not for the school system. Of course, carletts out at school.
So I I d fly up, usually on a Friday,
and get and I helped drive home on the Sunday. Okay,
so that's that's my next It's great corn corn and
beans up there, corn beans, livestock.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, let's say who's wheelers. How about this? We'll see
who's corns taller? This is this gets pretty serious. How
about that? I mean you put that out there? Oh yeah, Reagan,
you know when I drive around and try to see
what where businesses growing, and where houses are being built
or remodeled and office buildings are being built. Reagan's like,
can we just get there? She's like, You're just like
my grandpa riding home from church. He's got to go
(08:45):
all the way around to see how his neighbors corns growing.
Two things.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
One, I think Grandpa farmers stand just his eyebrow. He
just pulled a m on that bed, and that's probably
how he respond to that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Just but.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know what that means Midwestern. He does the same thing.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
We were driving home from a jock on the Greenwich's like, hey,
they ever finished the uh the soccer complex. I'm in
the road road and we're going right past it. I
was like, I don't know what's pulling there and check.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
She goes, no, I don't want to go in there.
Let's go home. But well, why'd you say that? She
was like, I figured you would know. I enjoy Yeah.
Characteristic of old farmers, is they not. They take into time,
that's it and they let it happen, and I enjoy that.
It's good. I uh yeah. Sunday morning, I was a
(09:31):
little late for church, so I listened to it on
my phone and I rode around our old church, checked
it out, rode around the Graveyard Road everywhere. That's cool
by myself. Uh well, Reagan was in there saying where's trip.
I get that too, you know, but totally understanding. Well cool, Well, yeah,
(09:53):
we'll be going to Illinois in a couple of days.
We were driving up and back fourteen hours. You said, yep,
mine's nine so it's a little bit, a little bit easy.
It'll be good. We're gonna have a good time. We
get to see uh, Reagan's family. We stayed with their
aunt and uncle, and then it's gonna be a lot
of fun. Awesome. My kids get to go swing on
(10:13):
the tire swing Yeah, I mean just that's the cool
part about it. And I get a little for arrow heads.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't know what that was. I think we had
a glitch, but we're all well, well, well, Kelvin is
our guest. He's back here running the show and he
has a podcast of his own. We're gonna learn all
about this when we come back on the app On
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Welcome back that home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'm patrickmcasac from Roby Commercial in Services along with Trent
Hasten from the Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Kelvin.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yes, you are with us on the other side of
the producer's booth. Now you're getting your picture taken. I know,
you know he does. As tall as he is, he'd
probably get a good vantage point down. Probably can uh,
there's might get a good one on. Trent not wearing
a hat today, so Mike, get a good forehead forehead.
Oh you were going, you were going glare I mean there,
(11:19):
and you're gonna get my You're gonna get my gray hair,
which is great and which is kind of ironic.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We talked about this before.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You and I always are having baseball hats on every
time we do the radio, and this time we don't
have baseball hats on, but you, my friend do.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And you know me, I like to do my hair,
but not today, guys. It's a haircut week. It's a
haircut week.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So that's vicious. I understand. How how often do you
get your haircut?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Like every three weeks? You know, third week is the
rough one.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So I'm a six week kind of guy. Oh wow,
So I guess started get the flocks and it starts
to get pretty ugly up there. I'm about four. But
if I go a little long, then you're like, I
gotta get a hair right. It's like happens quick in
the hat. You're like, man, I'm exactly so well. Calvin
has been our producer here at Aheart since January, since
(12:06):
we came to Aheart Radio. Jeff Niper is trying to
take his job sitting back there. But Calban tell us,
tell us about your story. Where are you from?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But so I was born and raised in South Florida.
My parents came here from Nicaraua. They were escaping the
government overtaking that happened in the eighties, if I'm not mistaken. So, yeah,
so they escaped from their country. They wanted a better
opportunity here to come to America and started life. My
(12:41):
mom came here late eighties. I'm not sure when my
dad came, but I know he came before her. And yeah,
they they built themselves from literally nothing. My dad was
working for the government in Nicaraua, so he definitely had
to go.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But my mom was I.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Think working in the banking industry, and she was like, well,
anything is better than being here right now, So they
decided to make the trip.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
In the eighties. In the eighties, and where did y'all live?
In South Florida?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There was a city named Sweetwater, and that's when they
first came here. There was a lot of other immigrants
that came and that were living in that kind of hub.
And if you go to South Florida and if you
want like really good nick rawand food, that is like
the hub of like all the nick Rawans is Sweetwater.
For some reason. The rest of South Florida is all Cubans.
But yeah, that was when we started out, was Sweetwater.
(13:32):
But by the time I was born, we grew up
in Kendall, which is more suburban.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Okay, wow, when, yeah, when did you come to Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I came to Charlotte July twenty twenty two, Oh so
not recently, pretty recent.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, what brought you here?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I heart, I I.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
O fist bumps. Back in the back there you saw it.
It was a double. It was a double. It was
it was.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
It was.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It was so different, big culture shock moving here, especially.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
From July twenty two. You're coming up on three years. Yeah, wow, yeah, congratulations,
how is it now?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I think at the beginning it was really rough when
you move from the place. Like if I had moved
from somewhere else that I had already moved from my hometown,
I'd be fine. But this was my first experience really
moving away to a different state, and it was a
culture shock.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I am a minority, but I didn't grow up as
a minority. So you know, in South Florida, pretty much
everybody is Hispanic over here. Now I'm a minority, so
it's different. It's much different. You start to kind of
appreciate your culture a lot more now when you're in
an area where, oh you are quite different.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well. I did a job for a Charlotte client in
twenty twelve down in West Palm Beach, YEA, and I
stayed down there for about six months in the poolhouse,
and I managed this project. And you're right, a lot
of Cuban and I really enjoyed the family culture the
(15:06):
South Florida had. So I went to some barbecues and
stuff because they knew I was there and my family
was here if I didn't go home for the weekend
or you know, during the week. It was fun. I
really enjoyed South Florida. When I was there. It was good.
And my sister went to Nova Southeastern for school, so
she spent some time there. Nice.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We love visitors. We have people that we can show
our culture too great.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I will just as an outsider looking in on that
twenty twelve experiment in South Florida. The client was awesome,
I mean the best people. I went and visited Trent
for three or four days. We had a hair brained
idea to maybe start an electrical business in that market,
and it was like, dude, you do. Everybody like they
were also welcoming. This is a chile guy. We're going
(15:50):
to go over and visit his shop, and you know,
he's laughing because I did not. The poolhouse was like
luxury living compared to where he put me.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I was.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I was like sleeping in the construction site. Like waking
up in the morning with dudes are like saws as
like trying to kick me out of the way because
I'm sleeping in my sleeping bag on the on the
concrete floor. But that's I mean, it was great determination
to hustle.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I look back at it. I didn't realized you were
there for six months. Yeah, I mean, and everybody told
me leading up to going down, like he said he
wanted us to do it when we were slow, we
need to work. Yeah, I decided to do it. And
then the month that I told everybody I was going
to do it, They're like, you're not gonna get anything
under and there, not gonna accept you your old southern
(16:32):
country boy. And you know, it built all this fear
in me and in social anxiety, right, and then how
am I gonna get these folks to work with me
and produce and get you know, perform. And it was
the complete opposite. Oh yeah it was. It was open arms, welcoming,
Hey I need this, Well here, I'll introduce you to
(16:53):
so and so and uh. It was a great experience.
It was awesome. So I had a good time down there,
and I enjoy when I can go back. I mean,
it was this is how much Kelvin twenty twelve, we
didn't have much money, so, I mean, it was coming
out of the recession. But when Reagan would come down.
I would drive her and I had a couple of
(17:13):
kids at the time. I mean, it's crazy to tell
the story around. And I would say, hey, look we
could we could maybe buy this house. I could use
it as a South Florida office and have a place
to stay too, you know, And she just was like,
you were from North Carolina? What are you trying to do?
For all the right reasons. But she didn't stay down there.
(17:33):
I mean she liked coming down there, but she didn't
stay down there like I did. I got, I was,
I was all in right.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Did you try any good food while you were down there?
Any Cuban food? An I did?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, I mean I went to Cuban. It's like three
or four all Cuban except me cookouts, So whatever they had.
I mean, I'll eat you know when I when I
uh go El Salvadora. Been there a couple of times
on mission trips, you know. I mean, what you put
it in front of me, I'll you do it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So yeah, so I enjoy that. That's what I enjoyed
about life. I enjoy as you hear or say, everybody
has a story. Yeah, So tell us how did you
get into radio?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
My career started. I would say college, but you know,
in college it's just kind of fun. It's like all extracurricular.
But I went to the University of Florida. I got
my bachelor's degree there, and my main focus entering into
college was to study news, like hard hitting news. I
wanted to be a news reporter, but I wanted to
be out like in war. I wanted to be in
(18:36):
the middle of real.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Hurricanes, tornadoes. I wanted something.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
More than just the stocks or the election, Like I
didn't care about reporting that stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I wanted action.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And when I got into UF, I got into the
journalism college.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
But then on top of that.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I had to pass a news test, which was really
ridiculous because I'm paying all this tuition money. Why should
I apply to the school that I already got into.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But I digress, which is like the top journalism school
in the country. Yeah, I mean, it's no joke.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I mean, I knew you weren't going to give yourself
a compliment, but I'll give it to you. I mean,
it's very difficult to get into.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It is it is, and it was the best time
of my life. Like I would go back if I
could go back in any time in my life, it
would be that that time of my life. But I
ended up not passing the news test, and I was
so disappointed. It was really, to be honest, thinking about
it now, it was very subjective. You would write a
new story and then somebody would read it and be like, well,
(19:31):
that's not how I would report it, and that's how.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You would not pass current events.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I got down current events, like I know everything that's
going on, and there were different things. It was like
local news, national news, pop culture, which I was totally
fine with, but it was that the writing segment. They
just didn't think it was strong enough. So I said, okay, fine,
I will take a different route. And I went into
the production route at UF and I said, you know what,
if you guys do not want to produce me, then
I'm going to create things that I'm going to produce myself.
(19:57):
I want to produce the things that I want.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He's an entrepreneur.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I did a little bit, and that's when that started.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I started to learn how to do camera work, editing, audio,
how to script write, and I actually did a pretty
good job. I did a really decent job. I was
always the student before I got into the production route.
I was always the I'll be your actor, like I'll
be your your person in front of the camera. I
don't care. I was never shy about that. But when
I started to get behind the camera, I was like,
oh crap, I could do this stuff too. So that
(20:25):
was really validating at the time. And yeah, I randomly
got into radio. They put me in a rock station
and like, I don't listen to rock music. They were like, well,
this is the only thing that's available, so go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So I did it.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And that's how I started radio. Was tracking an online
radio show, online rock radio show, and the.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Rest really and that was with iHeart.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
You were doing that or not iHeart?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That was with UF okay before you get okay.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Then from that point on, I did an internship with
iHeart for one summer and I loved it. But it
was in the promotions department, which was it's pretty standard
when you get into radio, it's good to go through
the promotions route.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I came back.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They wanted to offer me a job, but I said no,
I have to get my degree. So then I came
back finished school and it took forever for me to
get into radio after that, Like after I graduated. Yeah,
because I came back and I had so many school
projects under my belt, but I had no connection, and
I was somebody who I'm not the strongest when it
comes to networking. I'm quite shy, really awkward social anxiety.
(21:30):
So for me, I think that was like my biggest
downfall was not networking enough. I was able to meet
somebody during that time in my internship and she started
to move up in her career and finally she always
kept me in mind. I always kept in contact with her,
and she texted me one day randomly. She was like, Hey,
we have an opening for a traffic position for afternoons,
(21:53):
somebody just reporting the traffic.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Super simple.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
She was like, you'd have to leave your job, And
at this time I was I went from the DMV
to an advertising agency, and I was really happy at
the advertising agency and had full benefits full time, and
I thought to myself, Okay, what do I do. Do
I finally go for the dream job but I have
to start all over at the bottom, or do I
(22:17):
stick with the advertising job that was paying decent and
wasn't anything crazy. But I was quite privileged at the time.
I was thankfully living with my parents and they were
not charging me rent. So I said, Okay, this is
a good opportunity.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I gotta do it me now.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
So I did it. I took the chance. I worked
my way up.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I eventually became a morning show host, which was my
dream job in Miami. And then certain things happened, you know,
the pandemic happened, COVID layoffs happened. They let go of
my two co hosts, and the show ended up becoming
a water down version of a radio show. I couldn't
talk about the things I was passionate about, so I
(22:55):
started to look for jobs. Finally, after a while, I
think I did the solo thing for like nine months.
I did the morning show that I wanted for like
a year. But but yeah, when I was doing it
solo for nine months, it was great. Great paycheck was
the best one I've ever gotten, but it wasn't enough
to fill my soul. So I see that Charlotte was
looking for an executive producer. I felt like my social
(23:15):
anxiety after the pandemic wasn't getting better, so I figured,
let me take a step back from being in front
of the mic and let me go back to something
that I'm pretty good at doing, and that's why I
took this job, and I went with a morning show
that I believe in and that I fully love and
I love the way that they do radio.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
That's Miguel and Holly.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
So yeah, that's how what brought me to Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Very cool man.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I mean, we we always talk about on this show
that like we would have I don't know if we
would have ever gotten to hear this whole story just
with the interactions that we have had a it's a
remarkable story.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I'll make fun of Florida here in a little bit,
but please do.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The second thing I want to say is like, so,
but you are back behind the microphone now doing I mean,
you're you're doing the producer thing and you're as well,
you have a podcast, and I think you come on
the show.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So I'm quite frequently right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I try not to sound like I'm complaining when it
comes to that, but like I do a lot, and
you know, it's it's been interesting. I think a lot
of people in the building think that I'm just a producer,
and sometimes in radio you get treated just as that.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
But I don't. I'm not just a producer.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Like I'm not only hosting this, I'm producing content, I'm
their social media manager. I'm also my own podcast host. Now,
so you kind of and it's kind of the new
wave in radio two. You kind of have to do
so many things now, it's not just one job anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So I think it's great. I mean, we we lucked upon,
thank you, Jeff. We looked upon Kelbyn to be our producer.
Uh and we're on our on our half of first year.
Uh and and it's great. So tell us about your podcast.
I mean, I'll go ahead and tell you. You don't
come across like you have social anxiety. Gree God bless you.
(24:54):
It's cool. And uh, I think you have a wonderfully
bubbly personality and you've You've really made us feel welcomed
in here, and you do a great job every time
Patrick misses up.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And to be completely honest with you, you had some
really big shoes to fill. We we are not professional
radio people, I mean, contrary to to most popular belief,
but we absolutely loved our producer at the other place
where we were recording the show. So that was a
big deal to me and I think Trent as well
(25:25):
that I mean, we were sizing you.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah I'm joking a bad I'm joking, but but yeah,
I mean we the producer. It makes us sound great obviously,
and I know you do that professionally, but we do
need some help. This isn't what we do every single day.
So we've always had an immense amount of respect. I'm
not speaking for you, Trent, but the immense amount of respect
and appreciation for what you do.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah, thank you. That really means a lot. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah, you guys really just came in here and you
guys already knew what you needed to do, and I
was just here to facilitate that and help you in
any way that I can. You guys have been nothing
more than nice to me, so that kind of works out.
If you're nice to me, I'm nice to you.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know. As far as for the confidence things, it's
new to me. I won't lie. It is new to me.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I have a job that forces you to be confident.
But I'm just putting on a show. But this year
specifically has been really really great. I have taken my
health as a priority and I'm just doing things now
that I love, like unapologetically. I used to just have
hesitation towards any decision that I used to and I
think that came along with the weight loss more than anything.
(26:31):
And so with this newfound confidence, I said, Okay, well
I want to get back in front of the mic,
But how can you if there's already an established show.
It's not like I can insert myself the way that
I would want to. So I said, fine, I'm going
to know what I know best. I'm going to create
my own opportunity. So thankfully the iHeart has been super
supportive and they were like, YEA, if you want to
(26:51):
do a podcast.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And it took a while to find a host because
I wanted somebody that was going to care about this
project as much as me. But how like, who would
you need a good partner if you want something great
to happen. I assume you two are great partners in
this aspect to your business. So it was kind of
the same thing with my podcast. Yeah, so I decided
to go with my husband.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Really, my husband is a very shy, socially anxious person,
but he is so intelligent and really level headed, and
he gives the best advice in the world. And he's
always been my confidant.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
So for me.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
After a few trials and tribulations, we became the podcast
host for ours called Los Yappers, Los Yeos, Losieappers.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I'm wanna listen to Los Yappers or in the vehicle,
I'm actually gonna download that right now. So what do
y'all talk about?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
We're I think our main thing for us is just
we're a newlywed Latino queer couple and we're talking about
everyday things. I think, me personally, I wanted it to
be more about being we're in like queer topics, but
it really has become just relationship stuff, everything that we
deal with. And you know, I have a ton of
like my bro friends from college that we keep up with,
(28:09):
and they'll text me and they'll tell me things like, dude,
like I have the same thing, like Oscar's just.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Like my wife, blah blah blah blah, like things like that.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I could be a little politically incorrect and I'll I'll
say that my husband's like my missus, Like that's my business.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
There she's at it again. Yeah, So you know, it's
really just about life, relationships, fun stuff, whatever whatever's on
our mind. We call it the gay agenda.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Uh, so so yeah, it's just a fun, a fun conversation.
Whell Instagram really split my dms. Yeah in Charlotte, No,
in Miami South for Yeah, we've been together for seven years.
He uh, he had just gotten out of like a
five year relationship and it was like two months afterwards,
and he sent me a DM He's like, can I
(28:56):
take you out sometime? And I was like I wasn't
even following him back on Instagram the time, and I
was like, sure, sounds good. And then the first ten
minutes that we met, he was like, yeah, I just
got a relationship in like two months ago. And I
was like, oh, how long was it? Five years? And
I was like, wait, I'm the rebound yea. So I
was like, whatever, it's free dinner, I'll just go.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
That was seven years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Though, that was seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Wow, Yeah, that's awesome. So when'd you get married? March?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Like literally three months ago?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I knew, we knew that, I know. But for the
listen about your wedding.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The wedding was great. We decided not to spend thousands
and thousands.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Of dollars on it. We did it in Georgia in
his family's home.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Oh well, we're in Georgia, flowery branch. All right, yeah,
all right, keep going. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
And uh and yeah, it was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It was really calm, nothing too over the top.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I never want to do it again.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Way too much planning, way too chaotic, way too much
family politics.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Yeah, I never want to do that again. But it was.
It was a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'll tell you your parents get to come up.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
No, okay, really okay, but that's maybe that's an episode
for another day.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It's all good. What were you gonna say? No, I
was gonna say it is. Weddings are so my brother.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Got married and my my my wife's sister got got married,
you know, right before we got married.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And I'll tell you it is tough. Just what I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It was both were unbelievably beautiful weddings and said, well,
we we were kind of like, hey, let's go away
and pick package see where everything's already decided for us, right.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And so we got we got married in Cabo Saint
Lucas Maccat's, Mexico, and that was all the family has
already been together recently, so we just picked package see
and went with it.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I love that, super easy.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, The easiest thing for us was we had a
party planner, like a luxury picnic person, and she set
it all up for us. Everything else was us so
very cool.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Man. Here we go. We got the newlywed. We're newlyweds
together six months, three months?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Four?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You're four months now?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
H all right, so now I got my four. I
gotta give you some Florida flack. Okay, I grew up
in Georgia. Tons of Georgia fans. I know you guys
hate Georgia. Georgia doesn't really like Florida either, And so
do you know how you could tell a Florida fan
when you go to the largest cocktail party in the
world in Jacksonville, when Georgia would play Florida? How did
you know which one was Florida and which one was
a Georgia fan the George. So as you're riding in,
(31:20):
anybody that's wearing George Sheen Swortz was there, like, Oh,
there's a Florida guy, there's a Florida gal. Georgia Georgia
fans are all preppy, you know, a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Do you got a couple of pair of shorts? I
thought they gave them to you when you like, you know,
they issued them.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Dude, that was I got to go a couple of
those guys they actually went in, but a couple of
those outdoor cocktail man that was fun. That was such
a I mean, just everybody. It's a tense fun you're
one side or the other.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It was cool.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
It's a party. Like I don't care about sports at all,
but I love to tailgate. Yeah, that is my cool stuff. Well,
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You were rooting for Florida during the basketball tournament this year.
Oh yeah, yeah, so for sure got a little bragging rights.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
I'm very much the I will show up when they win.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, fair Weather fan. Yeah, oh good, all good Well Calvin,
it's awesome. Love she appers check it out. Thank you
for what you do for Patrick and iHeartRadio. You're very
professional in first class. Do a great job. What is
one thing that you live by? You know, I you
hear us ask this a lot of Sure. Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It is tough.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I don't think I've often received a lot of advice
or you know, anything like from a mentor much. But
what I have learned or what I've appreciated more is
that this right now like today, two o'clock whatever. This
is the youngest you will ever be in your life,
so do it. There's going to be a time when
(32:48):
you are seventy you're closing your eyes and you're gonna
be like, oh my god, remember when you were thirty
two in Charlotte, why didn't you go and do that thing?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I don't want to be seventy five and close my
eyes and think, oh my god, I wish I was
thirty two again. Regrets, no regrets, And I'm doing it now.
So I hope that people do that more often.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I hear you, Yeah, you know, that's kind of the
way I live my life is you can't tell I
don't know how it is on my body.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Well, there is the opposite.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
People will be like, well, this is also the oldest
you'll ever be, and I'm like, and then that's why
our vibes don't match.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Last half full of last half himpteds there you go.
Well you you put on a positive vibe and I
like it. Let's go. I learned so much about you.
Thank you for being on here. Wow, it's gonna be awesome.
Uh yeah. Kelvin ow Los yappers. Check it out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Uh go do the Gold rule, treat others the way
you want to be treated, and carry a smile around
on your face because you don't know what good it'll do,
but it's doing good.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Thanks for listening at Home with Ruby.
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