Back at El Camino High, Rich tries to teach Lozo how to skateboard. The lesson quickly collapses into injuries, insults, Fantastic Four arguments, and Lozo explaining that the girl he almost lost his virginity to was not a slut. Then, after a beat, admitting she probably was.
Before the afternoon is over, the pair also descend on former teacher Mr. Padilla, who somehow survives the encounter with his patience intact.
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Behind the Scenes
The first Rich & Lozo had been an accident. Daryl, Ray, and Snyder started the day intending to mess with Lorenzo Ocon, then Richard Castromayor walked into the movie and the collision between the two became far more interesting than the prank that started it.
Rich & Lozo 2 was different. This time, putting Rich and Lozo together was the idea. There still wasn’t a script or much of a plan. The crew simply returned to El Camino High School with a camera, put the two of them in front of it, and waited for the conversation to go somewhere it absolutely shouldn’t.
Put Rich and Lozo together, turn on the camera, and wait.
The closest thing the afternoon had to a premise was Rich attempting to teach Lozo how to skateboard. That provided movement and the occasional injury, but mostly it gave the pair something to do while the real movie happened in conversation.
Fantastic Four arguments, insults, sex stories, and whatever else crossed Lozo’s mind could take over without warning. Rich’s role was often simply to keep pushing, contradicting, or laughing until Lozo gave him something better. When Lozo insists that the girl he nearly lost his virginity to wasn’t a slut, only to reconsider almost immediately, the joke doesn’t need a setup. The camera just happened to be there when he talked himself into the punchline.
The afternoon also brought the pair back into contact with former teacher Derek Padilla. Rather than behaving any differently in front of an adult, Rich and Lozo simply folded him into the movie. Padilla’s ability to tolerate them becomes its own quiet joke, especially against the constant stream of provocation surrounding him.
That interaction is part of what separates these early shorts from anything the group could’ve easily scripted. El Camino wasn’t just a location. It was an environment full of people who already knew Rich, Lozo, Daryl, and the rest of the crew. Teachers, students, hallways, parking lots, and whoever happened to walk past could all become part of the film without warning.
By the second film, Rich and Lozo had become a repeatable formula without ever becoming conventional characters. Nothing needed to be invented for them. Their real personalities supplied enough friction on their own.
The appeal remained the same thing Daryl had recognized when Rich first appeared in the original short. Richard Castromayor was an instigator. Lorenzo Ocon was a reaction waiting to happen. Put one next to the other and the movie could generate itself.
Years later, both uploads of Rich & Lozo 2 would eventually be removed from YouTube, including the LozoTV version first posted in 2008 and the Dollars & Donuts upload from 2023. By then, the short had already survived through DVDs, the larger Lozo archive, and finally Livid.
The format would keep returning too. There were still more arguments to have, more places to wander into, and, apparently, more lessons nobody was going to learn.