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Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 4: When the Funnier All Stars came around, they produced a
Speaker 4: sound that was the sound of the city. That was
Speaker 4: the sound of the subway, that was the sound of
Speaker 4: the streets. That was the sound that I knew that
Speaker 4: was coming from my kitchen. That was the sound of
Speaker 4: rice and beans and my block and the fire hydrant going.
Speaker 4: And it was the first time in my Puerto Rican
Speaker 4: culture that I've a part of the culture.
Speaker 2: From Fortromedia, It's Latino USA. I'm Mariano Hossa Today a
Speaker 2: conversation with Oscar Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress Rosie Perez.
Speaker 2: Rosie Perez is the iconic New Yerekan actress that you
Speaker 2: might know from movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right
Speaker 2: Thing or the nineties classic White Men Can't Jump.
Speaker 4: Well, you know billy. I've got a different settles amount
Speaker 4: you want to hear them. Sometimes when you win, you
Speaker 4: really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've seen her in HBO's The Flight Attendant.
Speaker 4: I have a bounty on my head. Can you believe it?
Speaker 4: I'm aprized?
Speaker 1: Who would have thought me a prise?
Speaker 2: She started her career dancing on the nineteen eighties show
Speaker 2: Soul Trains. Then, she says she was noticed at a
Speaker 2: nightclub by Smike Lee, who put her in his critically
Speaker 2: acclaimed film Do the Right Thing.
Speaker 4: Trust Me, Trust too, Monti the West. Time I trusted you,
Speaker 4: we ended up with a son. Remb your son.
Speaker 1: I do remember my son.
Speaker 4: His name is Hecley.
Speaker 2: Rosie is a choreographer, an author, a boxing commentator, an activist,
Speaker 2: and now, most recently, Rosie has added podcast host to
Speaker 2: her resume.
Speaker 4: From Puturo Studios. Amosi Peretz and This is Our Thing.
Speaker 4: The Birth of Salsa in.
Speaker 2: Nuebayon Futuro Media's podcast, tells the story of Faanya Records,
Speaker 2: which is known as the legendary motown of Sansa music.
Speaker 2: Fanya was home to some of the biggest Latin artists
Speaker 2: during the sixties, seventies and eighties.
Speaker 1: Think about artists like.
Speaker 2: Willie Colonne, Ector Lavo, Celia Cruz, and Ruben Blades, all
Speaker 2: of whom broke the mole. A few weeks ago, I
Speaker 2: sat down with Rosie a WNYC's Green Space here in
Speaker 2: New York City in front of a live studio audience.
Speaker 2: We're going to bring you that conversation now where we
Speaker 2: spoke about Rosie's love of boxing, what led her to
Speaker 2: use her voice as an activist, and how hosting this
Speaker 2: podcast was a dream come true. Rosie Perez, it is
Speaker 2: so great to have you on Latino USA. Welcome to
Speaker 2: the show here live at the Green Space. First, and
Speaker 2: we're going to do apart from saying, oh my god, Rosie,
Speaker 2: thank you for coming to Lower Manhattan. You've got to
Speaker 2: be with the toll, especially with the reason why we're
Speaker 2: all here is because of salsa. Salsa music and the
Speaker 2: celebration of the birth of salsa here.
Speaker 1: In New York City, which would be our new podcast.
Speaker 4: This story stops in Uptown, New York City.
Speaker 1: You heard it as walking at Barrio.
Speaker 4: He's Underdogs created a sound that changed music.
Speaker 1: Forever, and we called it Susan.
Speaker 4: And one label captured that sound like no other Fania
Speaker 4: Records Fania Records.
Speaker 2: But before we talk about Susan the podcast, Rosie, I
Speaker 2: just need to get your take on this moment in
Speaker 2: New York City, Like, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1: What's up for you?
Speaker 2: Because like you know, your friends with Spike Lee and
Speaker 2: he's like driving around the like the pope in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: You know, all he needs is a little popemobile to
Speaker 2: be doing that. It is a moment and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be because I'm one honest all the time. I'm not
Speaker 2: a sports person. I know nothing about sports. I didn't
Speaker 2: even know that they were in the playoffs until a
Speaker 2: week and a half. I know, for Shane, I know,
Speaker 2: I know small Mexican girls can't jump.
Speaker 1: So the email go, what this is? What's going on
Speaker 1: for you as.
Speaker 2: A lifelong New Yorker New Yurekan moment, It's amazing.
Speaker 4: It's an amazing time right now. When they won Game five, Nick, parents,
Speaker 4: this is not a dream.
Speaker 1: After fifty three years, the next are finally embrya champions
Speaker 1: once again.
Speaker 4: Like most New Yorkers my age, I was in bed
Speaker 4: watching because it ran late, and I was so excited.
Speaker 4: And you can hear the screams from the street right
Speaker 4: and I wanted to go outside, and I had my
Speaker 4: nightgown on, my granny nightgown, and I run to the
Speaker 4: window and they're screaming. The neighbors are screaming up out
Speaker 4: my window going woo hoo. When I go, whoa, and
Speaker 4: my husband goes, get out of the window. You look
Speaker 4: like a crazy old lady. And the person downstairs she goes,
Speaker 4: everyone's a crazy old lady. And it was just so exciting.
Speaker 4: Brooklyn was electric. The city was electric, and it was
Speaker 4: very nice because the gentrification that's been going on in
Speaker 4: the city, specifically in Brooklyn and out of Burrows. It
Speaker 4: was the first time that neighbors who would just pass
Speaker 4: me right by will go yo, let's go next, and
Speaker 4: I'll go.
Speaker 1: Let's go next.
Speaker 4: I know you, you ignore me all the time. I'm
Speaker 4: love hello, I'll take it. So it was just great.
Speaker 4: The city really came together over this team was fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: I like, Rosie was also in bed, but I was asleep,
Speaker 2: and I think one of the best ways to be
Speaker 2: woken up is by the screams and cheers of your neighbors.
Speaker 2: You know because I'm in Harlem, and then they took
Speaker 2: the speakers out and it was blasting music.
Speaker 4: For the next time.
Speaker 1: It was such a celebration.
Speaker 2: So, Rosie, you've had an incredible career, you know, someone
Speaker 2: like me and been watching it from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: We're so proud of you and all of your successes
Speaker 2: and the fact that you are a actress.
Speaker 1: Can I just say so?
Speaker 2: So when you get this call like do you want
Speaker 2: to be the host of a podcast about the birth
Speaker 2: of salsa?
Speaker 1: What made you say I'm going to jump in?
Speaker 4: I said, Oh, my gosh, I can't believe this is happening,
Speaker 4: because it was a full circle moment for me because
Speaker 4: as a new Eurecan it was difficult growing up in
Speaker 4: the sense that when I would go back to Puerto Rico,
Speaker 4: they would call me a white girl or American and
Speaker 4: they would never let me have that moniker of Puerto Rican.
Speaker 4: And then when I would come to the States, then
Speaker 4: I had to deal with the presudice of them saying, oh,
Speaker 4: you're a Puerto Rican.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It was like where do I fit? You know, where
Speaker 4: was my identity landing? And for me, when the Funnier
Speaker 4: All Stars came around. They produced a sound that was
Speaker 4: the sound of the city. That was the sound of
Speaker 4: the subway, that was the sound of the streets. That
Speaker 4: was the sound that I know that was coming from
Speaker 4: my kitchen. That was the sound of rice and beans
Speaker 4: and my block and the fire hydrant going. And it
Speaker 4: was the first time in my Puerto Rican culture that
Speaker 4: I felt a part of the culture. I felt like
Speaker 4: they were speaking for me in their lyrics and the
Speaker 4: fun and then the corny love stories and then the
Speaker 4: politics that were in their lyrics. And so when I
Speaker 4: went back to Puerto Rico one summer and they came
Speaker 4: on the radio in Puerto Rico, I am singing the
Speaker 4: songs and my Spanish was so bad that they couldn't
Speaker 4: believe that I was speaking Spanish so well. And it
Speaker 4: was my sister Carmen, who's here tonight. It was the
Speaker 4: first time I felt like we bonded bela right, and
Speaker 4: because we're both singing the same songs, and she took
Speaker 4: pride in saying, yeah, we're from New York and I
Speaker 4: never heard thatt Rica. I never heard that in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4: And so when I got this call, to be honest,
Speaker 4: I started to cry and my manager was like, you
Speaker 4: don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: I go no, no.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no no no, and it was why
Speaker 4: are you upset? And I said, because I cannot believe
Speaker 4: they picked me. It was an emphatic ya.
Speaker 1: I love that so much. I love that so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I think that the thing that you feel
Speaker 2: with Rosie on this podcast is her full heart being present.
Speaker 2: To be clear, I did not grow up in New York.
Speaker 2: So I'm a Mexican kid who grew up on the
Speaker 2: South Side of Chicago and all right, okay, let's go
Speaker 2: to Chicago. Salsa was not part of my growing up.
Speaker 2: I would hear it here and there, but it was
Speaker 2: not my experience that I get to New York basically
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nineteen eighty, which is when Selsa was happening,
Speaker 2: and I got to experience because I was working at WKCR,
Speaker 2: all of the salseros coming to the station, and salsa
Speaker 2: changed my life and helped to define who I am
Speaker 2: as a Latina in the world.
Speaker 1: So I do have to ask, do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite song?
Speaker 4: Plastico?
Speaker 2: Oh, We're not surprised that Rosie's favorite song is going
Speaker 2: to be from Ruben Blades off the album and Plastico plastica.
Speaker 4: Yes anything by Ruben Blades and a shout out to
Speaker 4: the departed Willie Cologne. But that one I loved because
Speaker 4: growing up an object poverty, you know, being around so
Speaker 4: much of materialism and money is status and this and
Speaker 4: that that that song just pierced my soul, you know,
Speaker 4: where they're talking about the plastic people, and they're talking
Speaker 4: about how empty they are and the money they spend
Speaker 4: just to look a certain way. And when I was
Speaker 4: growing up, my sister could tell you I really didn't
Speaker 4: care about clothes. I really didn't. Just as long as
Speaker 4: my hair looked good, that's all I get. That's very
Speaker 4: Porto Rica. How many Porto Ricas understand me, Tony, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you see. And we were poor, and I remember going
Speaker 4: to school with holes in my shoes and feeling that shame,
Speaker 4: but I didn't care. At the same time, I had
Speaker 4: to go to school. I had a mission. I was
Speaker 4: going to be something. I was going to make something
Speaker 4: up myself. I was going to change my life. And
Speaker 4: these clothes didn't matter, and the money didn't matter, and
Speaker 4: this and that and then that song came on and
Speaker 4: as a young person hearing someone so poetic, you know,
Speaker 4: and the music was so beautiful. So that's why that's
Speaker 4: my favorite.
Speaker 2: Coming up on Let you Know Usay, we dig deeper
Speaker 2: into how Sasat shaped Rosie's activism.
Speaker 4: Fannio song when they talked about rich people in the
Speaker 4: separation of wealth in the city, all that just impacted
Speaker 4: me so deeply.
Speaker 1: Stay with us.
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Speaker 2: It's Latino Usa. I'm Maria no Josa. Today I'm in
Speaker 2: conversation with Golden Globe Emmy and Oscar nominated actress Rosie Perez.
Speaker 2: Before the break, she was telling us about how salsa
Speaker 2: shaped her as.
Speaker 1: A New York Weeken.
Speaker 2: We're going to continue my conversation now, which took place
Speaker 2: in front of a live audience in New York City
Speaker 2: at the Green Space. So the thing about salsa again,
Speaker 2: we're talking about like the golden era, like seeing the
Speaker 2: famous people performing at the salsa festivals and hearing it
Speaker 2: on the radio. Bero tamenfem right, because it was so powerful,
Speaker 2: Because it was so big, that means that things that
Speaker 2: are difficult happen. And when the team set out to
Speaker 2: tell this story, that was part of what we had
Speaker 2: to deal with, right, some of the more difficult things
Speaker 2: that came up with the birth of Salsa. I mean,
Speaker 2: there was all kinds of business issues, obviously, but also
Speaker 2: there was the question of addiction aids, marginalized Puerto Ricans
Speaker 2: in New York City, and the poverty. So what was
Speaker 2: your reaction to that, Rosie, knowing that you're going to
Speaker 2: have to share a little bit of the dirty laundry,
Speaker 2: how did that sit with you?
Speaker 4: It said very well, in the sense that in any
Speaker 4: type of storytelling, you have to tell the good, bad,
Speaker 4: and ugly, or else you're not doing the story. It's service.
Speaker 4: You know, you're doing a disservice to this storytelling. But
Speaker 4: it was hard. It was hard to read. It was
Speaker 4: hard to say because what I thought of Fania, it
Speaker 4: was all glitz and glamor and the music. And then
Speaker 4: when I heard about other issues, like you said about
Speaker 4: business issues, misogyny as well, and all these acism and
Speaker 4: the racism is I was like, oh wow, okay, But
Speaker 4: at the end of it, I just felt like, Okay,
Speaker 4: so they're human beings, you know, things happening, and through
Speaker 4: all of that mess that happening, the music was so powerful.
Speaker 4: That's what prevailed, That's what pushed through. That's what we
Speaker 4: still remember. But I still think that that had to
Speaker 4: be told as well.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that you spoke about how salsa
Speaker 2: really helped you with your New Yorrekan identity. Talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about how salsa helped you understand this connection
Speaker 2: between the island and New York City.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, being a New Yorkan, which just
Speaker 4: basically means a Puerto Rican who was born in New
Speaker 4: York and raised in New York. Majority of us are
Speaker 4: in the closet about it, and I came out a
Speaker 4: long time ago because I just got sick and tired
Speaker 4: of it. Our Spanish isn't great because it was a
Speaker 4: misguided attempt of assimilation of our parents. They were treated
Speaker 4: so poorly. The racism was so palperable that they didn't
Speaker 4: want us to struggle. So it was like English, English, English,
Speaker 4: And then you would go to the island and you're
Speaker 4: the kids would make fun of you because you couldn't
Speaker 4: speak Spanish well. So that's why when Fania All Stars
Speaker 4: came around, you know, I felt.
Speaker 1: A part of it.
Speaker 4: I felt like it was mine. You know. It was
Speaker 4: something that I could bring back to the island and say, hey,
Speaker 4: look at this, you know. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I got I became cool, you know, I became like
Speaker 4: really cool, and it was just it was pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: And like half of the people from New York that
Speaker 4: went down to the island used to lie their asses off.
Speaker 4: They would say, oh, I was at Yankee Stadium at
Speaker 4: the concert. No you weren't. You know, Oh I was
Speaker 4: at the Cheetah Club. No you weren't.
Speaker 1: Stop lying, you.
Speaker 4: Know, and you know, but that's how proud we were,
Speaker 4: you know. And then you know, people would lie and say,
Speaker 4: oh I met Willie Cologne on the subway. I said, no,
Speaker 4: you did it, you did it. But you know, a
Speaker 4: lot of times I remember allowing some of the lies
Speaker 4: just because I saw people just feel proud.
Speaker 2: So the other thing that was happening in New York
Speaker 2: around salsa was that it was deeply political. Seisa was
Speaker 2: very much related to the political activism of the time.
Speaker 1: And frankly it was protest music. It was absolutely protest music.
Speaker 2: It was played loudly on the street, and often it
Speaker 2: was a community experience, right, people would just suddenly take
Speaker 2: out the club and they'd be playing. But in specifics,
Speaker 2: what was it like for you to talk about this
Speaker 2: in the podcast and talk about the Young Lords and
Speaker 2: their relationship with salsa and the politics of salsa.
Speaker 4: There were two things that really gave birth to me
Speaker 4: becoming an activist. One was Muhammad Ali the way he
Speaker 4: stood up. You can agree with him or not, but
Speaker 4: he did stand up when he stood up with something
Speaker 4: and he paid the price for it, and he didn't
Speaker 4: back down.
Speaker 5: Negros going out.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna die, I'll die fighting you. I'm gonna die.
Speaker 3: As a white people not be calls Chaplin's and Japanese
Speaker 3: that freedom.
Speaker 4: And for me as a little girl, that was very
Speaker 4: impactful because I love boxing. And the other thing was
Speaker 4: the Young Lord's when they hijacked an X ray truck
Speaker 4: so that the people who were ignored and marginalized and
Speaker 4: weren't getting health care in the barrio, they provided health
Speaker 4: care in the bodrio. They took over a hospital.
Speaker 1: Our plan was to take over Lincoln Hospital. Taking over
Speaker 1: the hospital.
Speaker 2: We're gonna run it.
Speaker 1: You're out and I will walk into your car.
Speaker 4: The city totally ignored Spanish Harlem in regards to picking
Speaker 4: up the trash, and it was just piling up. You
Speaker 4: thought COVID was bid. You have no idea what was
Speaker 4: going on. And these activists, and they were all college
Speaker 4: educated kids, they took the trash and they put it
Speaker 4: in the middle of the stry and they burned it.
Speaker 2: We have to begin to stand up to the people,
Speaker 2: the Puerto Rican people, and says a novel.
Speaker 4: And it was pure anarchy. And at first when you're like.
Speaker 1: What are they doing?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, no, this is bad. The garbage got
Speaker 4: picked up and it continued to get picked up. In
Speaker 4: regards to the hospital, things got improved. And you may
Speaker 4: agree or disagree with their methods, but what inspired me
Speaker 4: was their tenacity and their dedication and their follow through.
Speaker 4: And what also with Fania songs. They would talk about
Speaker 4: criminals and they wouldn't glamorize them. They would say, this
Speaker 4: is look, how pathetic, this is what are we doing
Speaker 4: as a people. When they talked about rich people and
Speaker 4: the separation of wealth in the city, all of that
Speaker 4: just impacted me so deeply. And these were people who
Speaker 4: were fearless because there was a heavy prejudice about being Latino,
Speaker 4: specifically about being Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Hey, We're back with our live
Speaker 1: interview with Rosie pres.
Speaker 2: I want you to try to talk about a little
Speaker 2: bit more what's it like to be a young Latina
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn hearing salsa and how you made that connection
Speaker 2: to I, little Rosie understand that I can be an activist,
Speaker 2: that I can make a stand on political issues, on
Speaker 2: social justice. I am going to vote, I am going
Speaker 2: to be see myself as an organizer, an activist. Kind
Speaker 2: of make that connection because what we do know is
Speaker 2: that this very thing is also happening right now in
Speaker 2: New York City.
Speaker 1: Gets back well.
Speaker 4: I was awarded the state until my father and my
Speaker 4: aunt got me out, and I came out in abject poverty,
Speaker 4: but I was happy. But still I grew up surrounded
Speaker 4: by injustice. And there were people in my life that
Speaker 4: I saw who would fight and they would get fired
Speaker 4: or they would get pushed back or at least in
Speaker 4: that and I would see that the thing that I
Speaker 4: didn't see with the Fania all Stars. In their music
Speaker 4: was fear. I didn't see fear. I didn't hear fear.
Speaker 4: I heard well composed, un apologetic. This is how it is,
Speaker 4: and something needs to be done. And when they would
Speaker 4: get on stage, it was the same feeling. They were
Speaker 4: just so self assured and there was jubilation and fire
Speaker 4: and compassion all built in it at the same time.
Speaker 4: And then when they would step off the stage, they
Speaker 4: were still that and that's inspiring as a young person,
Speaker 4: it really is inspiring. And they were friends with the
Speaker 4: Young Lords. Ray Boretto was very That's what I learned
Speaker 4: in the podcast. I might feeling like I knew this.
Speaker 4: I didn't know it, and I'm reading it. I'm not like,
Speaker 4: oh snap, you know that he would show up for them,
Speaker 4: and they would show up for each other. But I
Speaker 4: think that it was their composed fearlessness that spoke to
Speaker 4: my heart and made my chest puffet. And when there
Speaker 4: is a scary moment in life, to stand up is terrifying,
Speaker 4: and you got to find a way because if you don't,
Speaker 4: things won't change. And you got to find your way.
Speaker 4: Not everybody has to be a loud, big mouth, not
Speaker 4: saying I am, but you know what I'm saying. Everyone
Speaker 4: could find their way, and they did. Everyone thinks that
Speaker 4: they have to be out marching in the streets. There's
Speaker 4: other ways that you could find, and I found my way.
Speaker 2: So we're going to talk about boxing a little bit,
Speaker 2: because you know I'm a boxer.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that I did.
Speaker 4: And I'm very excited right now. My god.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Rosie, unlike you who you are
Speaker 2: a boxing fanatic, you're known as Cows, the first Lady
Speaker 2: of boxing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: My story about boxing is that in twenty fifteen, several
Speaker 2: close people to me, including my dad, were dying and
Speaker 2: Donald Trump was running for office and one of the
Speaker 2: people at my Jim said, you really should come and
Speaker 2: take our boxing class at six point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: I was like, crazy, people do that? Yeah, So that
Speaker 2: became me.
Speaker 1: Feels good, right, it's the best, it's the best.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about how boxing is a part of
Speaker 2: your power.
Speaker 4: It spoke to me as a kid because they're alone
Speaker 4: in the ring, but yet they have a team behind
Speaker 4: them and they're silent, but they're there. And when I
Speaker 4: started to understand what it took to even step into
Speaker 4: the ring. It was dedication and hard work and tenacity
Speaker 4: to become a champion, and that's what I wanted. And
Speaker 4: so when I learned that, like around the age of
Speaker 4: ten or eleven, about the Bible of boxing, if you will,
Speaker 4: you cannot be a champion unless you are dedicated, unless
Speaker 4: you put in the hard work. And sometimes even when
Speaker 4: you get to step into the ring, you might get
Speaker 4: knocked down. And the champions are the ones that get
Speaker 4: back up and you may take a loss. The real
Speaker 4: champions are the ones that come back again and try
Speaker 4: again and try again. And I would get knocked down
Speaker 4: continuously as a kid, and I would in my head
Speaker 4: imagine I was Ali or I would imagine I was
Speaker 4: Sugar Ray Robinson. So it was to me that's what
Speaker 4: boxing meant to me. It meant that you were by yourself,
Speaker 4: but yet you are not alone. But only you can
Speaker 4: step in the ring, and only you can in the fight,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna have to take a few punches, but
Speaker 4: if you're good at it, you're gonna avoid as many
Speaker 4: punches as possible, because the art of boxing is to
Speaker 4: hit and not get hit. And to me that was life,
Speaker 4: and it just taught me that.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have a couple of questions from our New
Speaker 2: York audience. How has claiming your new Eurekans in a
Speaker 2: professional arena changed since the beginning of your career until now?
Speaker 4: It was claimed before I even stepped into the realm
Speaker 4: of the entertainment business. And I think that's why it's
Speaker 4: allowed me to maintain my sanity, because this is a
Speaker 4: very very very difficult business to be in. Or you
Speaker 4: face rejection all the time. You face misogyny, you face racism,
Speaker 4: you face sexism, you face now ageism. But if you
Speaker 4: have a solid foundation and you understand who you are
Speaker 4: and you have a base to go to support you,
Speaker 4: that part of that's me as a new Eurekan, and
Speaker 4: that's what helps me keep going and in my activism.
Speaker 4: It's the same reason. It's the same thing being a
Speaker 4: new Eurekan. Though it presses me on because Puerto Ricans
Speaker 4: were fighters. What a new Eurekan. We're tough fighters. We
Speaker 4: are tough because we have to deal with so much
Speaker 4: on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: The question from our audience says, what would you do
Speaker 2: differently if you were starting your career today from Gerald.
Speaker 4: If I were to do it all over again. I
Speaker 4: think Spike Lee changed my life. Shout out to Spike Lee.
Speaker 4: I had no idea this wo's gonna happy. So I
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't think so much of what is.
Speaker 4: I just think of what else, what's going to help me.
Speaker 4: But if I were to start again in the entertainment industry,
Speaker 4: I would have prepared myself for the business side quicker.
Speaker 4: I mean, I got the memo. Boy did I get
Speaker 4: the memo. But I wish I would have walked in
Speaker 4: with the knowledge instead of discovering it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful. Thank you, Rosie.
Speaker 2: You know, I could stay here for a long time
Speaker 2: and we would just have so much to talk about,
Speaker 2: and then we might even get up and dance or
Speaker 2: even attempt a spar It has been so wonderful to
Speaker 2: spend some time with you.
Speaker 1: Rosie. Thank you so much for joining me on Let
Speaker 1: the USA Live here in New York City.
Speaker 4: You're a legend, and I thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Braby.
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