WEBVTT - Origins 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:16.480 So it's happy. Welcome to those amigos. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.280 Welcome to do a media you know, that's that's how 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:19.840 we do things. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:22.920 I am we. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.880 So uh here, we are here, We are there. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.479 You know a little water for them, are we are 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:33.440 we switching. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.040 Up in a little while. Yeah, we'll brobably switch it 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:35.920 to guns, you know. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:41.519 But because it's apropos, we are in your speakeasy. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:42.880 And and and for those. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.960 Of you out there who can't really see this magnificent space, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.519 this is Wilmer Valderrama is wonderful speakeasy. I mean, this 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.680 thing is pretty impressive. I hope that one day we 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.480 just get the kinda put the camera around. But there's 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.200 this awesome bar over there. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.960 Hey, Aaron, you went into the yourself a bit. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.440 Absolutely absolutely, what's going on, y'all. My name is Aaron. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.760 I'm a producer for Docent Migos. Consider me your third 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.760 amigo for today's episode. I'm over here. And if you 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.720 have any questions or things. If the audience out there 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.280 wants to ask any of our wonderful gentlemen a question, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.400 I'll be here to present it to you all. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.640 But I'm excited for the journey. And yeah, let's have 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:23.160 a good time. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.840 Yeah, Eron Wilmer, I want to know what the inspiration 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.360 was behind this thing? And I'm I'm every time I 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.720 come here, I just I never want to leave. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.800 Me too, me too so much. Nobody can get me 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.080 to go anywhere anymore. What was it? 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.120 What was the inspiration? 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.199 Like, you know, I gotta say, I think Timothy Alton 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.400 discovered me, right, And everybody knows about this guy for 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:45.800 a very. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.120 Long time, and I discover him late. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.440 And I just love that every single one of these 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.520 pieces has said so much, and every piece had an 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.120 opinion about itself. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.720 Like what would you how would you describe his style? 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.040 It's like vintage new, but it's really a vintage, but 0:01:59.160 --> 0:01:59.760 it's made new. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:00.280 Right. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.400 He also uses vintage artifacts and then gives it new purpose, right, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.920 Like there's just stuff like that, and it's just really 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.080 you know, the deep collars, I don't know, it feels 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.440 like something I've never had before, and I feel inspirational 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.639 to me, you know, in many ways. And but yeah, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.079 so so I got my first lamp from him, and 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.320 I was like, oh, this is cool. And then he 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.240 turned into a couch, and then he turned into a table, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.320 and then he turned into like a in artwork and 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.960 it's just start aspiring ball from But I'm like, I'm 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.560 like a you know, I'm like a Timothy Olton double 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.800 R L guy, you know. So I love that that 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.400 stuff is my It's. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:32.799 Very indicative of the style. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.919 I mean, even even like this, like I don't know 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.960 if y'all could see it, woman has this wonderful kind 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.320 of bronze tin roof here ceiling should. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.600 I Yeah, yeah, it's wonderful. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.680 Yeah, well yeah, it was definitely like this experiment and 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.040 that you imagine telling your your lady that the room 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:57.160 downstairs is something that you even have a stage there man, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.240 And yeah, we have a piano there, we have Sheila, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:00.560 he's goes there. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.679 I think one day we'll have Sheil come in and 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:03.880 do a thing, you know. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.960 And we had people perform on that day. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.359 Yeah, yeah, I think uh Leo clam who's one of 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.320 the ex producers. He's just an incredible producers. Done a beautiful, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.400 beautiful work. And you know, we had we had a 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.120 little birthday here and but we had a little piano there. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:20.880 We have she like the bongos that she gave me 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.000 for my birthday and stuff. So we're I mean, I look, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.079 I just I love this. I love music. I love 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:25.880 this this corner. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.240 I mean you could have like a full band up there, man, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.880 I mean this is like this reminds me of the 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.200 space that I would see like in New York, somewhere 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:34.160 like downtown. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:34.720 I think. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.440 So, you know, I feel like you know has that 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.280 you know I you know you talk about the wells 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:39.279 covered newspapers. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:40.760 Yeah, you know what's that about. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.160 So my friends found this guy who was selling thirty 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.920 years of headlines, real newspapers, thirty years, and he was 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.240 selling for a one hundred bucks. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:50.840 So he for the whole bundle. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.760 Yes, he just wanted it out of his garage. So 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.440 I bought the whole thing. And then I said, uh, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.360 you know what am if you put it on the walls. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.560 And so we have like headlines from you know, Mike Tyson, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.400 you know Mike Tyson in the ear and you know 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.520 the eighty four Olympics, you know Kobe Bryant joining the 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.080 Lakers eighty four. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.560 He had eighty four Olympics newspaper. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.160 Yeah and yeah, so that became the one paper of 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.960 the room, and he just felt like the whole place 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:17.640 had an opinion. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.000 But speaking of opinions. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.599 You know, we still and I have some Yeah, we 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.640 don't know why we're here, we're doing this kind of 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:25.240 what we're here? 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:26.880 How do we do this? 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:27.200 Like? 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:27.760 What happened? 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:28.480 Did we do this? 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.359 Welcome to those? Am he goos? 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:30.640 Oh? 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:31.680 Yes, welcome to those. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.680 The podcast so you explore the many topics that run 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.320 through Freddy's and might. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.640 Have our brains, so that you can get a sense 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.680 of what it's like when Wilmar and I get together 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.599 and we just talk and all of a sudden it's 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:45.960 like three four hours later. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.920 Yeah, well, perfect segway into like how do we ended 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.080 up here with microphones and speakeasy and like how did 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:52.599 this happen? 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:53.120 Yeah? 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.000 I feel like there was a lead up to that day, though, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.640 because woman and I have known each other twenty five 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.599 years or so, and I found that every time that 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.400 you and I got together, whether we're on a plane 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.480 to London or whatever, it's always like five six seven 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.680 hours of us just talking and it always seems so seamless, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.880 it didn't seem forced or anything, and so I always 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.840 felt like that was the foundation of why we came 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.520 here today. However, that leads us to the night we 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:29.200 got together we had a group text between myself, Wilmer 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.760 and shout out to Jay, Hernandez and Rock and we 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.080 had a group text, and for like a year we 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.279 kept saying, when are we getting together? 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.440 When do we get together? When do we get together? 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.520 Finally it was the it was the strike right, and 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.960 it was Jay goes, come on, I know none. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.080 Of you bastards are working, so let's go and have dinner. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.080 And we finally did it, and we got together and 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.880 what was that wonderful restaurant. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:54.599 We went too. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.640 It's a it's an Argentina and restaurant on Marroo's my 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.440 favorite steak house in Los Angeles. Highly recommend visiting. Beautiful 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.320 family own. The mom is still doing all the is 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:05.760 it really? 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:06.919 Yeah? 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:12.000 Everybody who you met was you know, brothers, and it's 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.599 beautiful and it's been there forever. I mean it's like 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.679 this hidden jam and yeah, it's it's amazing. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.479 But so we we ended up showing up who he said, Hey, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:20.760 you know what six o'clock dinner. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.440 Yeah, because you know we're all like like three old men. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.040 Yeah, we can go bed early. Cut to you know, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.799 two thirty in the morning. We're still talking and close 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.560 to doing and We're on Merrows telling your mama so 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.600 fat jokes. Like it got to a point where we 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:35.760 just started talking about anything. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.200 Okay, hold on, did everybody hear that we were on 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.280 Melrose at three in the morning telling your mama jokes? 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.400 So you could imagine the cars that were passing by, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:52.159 and we're watching j Hernandez and Freddie Rodriguez looking like 0:06:52.200 --> 0:07:00.120 three three delinquents Mels at three. Yeah, which is a 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.680 quick shout out to a Warmer. First show he produced 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.240 called Yo Mama, which I was an incredible fan of, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.120 and as we're there al Melrose, I brought it up 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.880 and we fell right into the ya Mama jact. Yeah. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.960 No, I that was my first Frankenstein. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.000 That was my first audacious Uh maybe I could be 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.320 a producer too, you know. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.560 And then I created this thing and MTV says yes. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.680 But speaking of all the you know, origin stories and 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.360 all that, I think about our culture, and I think 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.840 about the likability, the likability, the likability of all of 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:40.080 us somehow ended up embracing a life of you know, entertainment. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.360 What was that moment for you? Just kind of getting 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.640 down to it, like, what was that moment for that 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.280 you you were like, oh, you know, I want to 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:46.720 be an actor. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.320 Yeah, well, I mean, and this is the absolute truth. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.920 I really wasn't good at anything else. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:56.280 And I'm dead serious. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.080 I feel like I started acting when I was like thirteen, 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.400 and I feel like it's such a crucial age where 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.680 you're trying to find yourself and you're trying to find 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.120 your identity. And I had cousins who were studious, and 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.040 I had friends who were athletes and so on and 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.400 so forth, and I just wasn't really good at any 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.200 of that stuff. And it wasn't until I found acting 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.360 and I found the arts that I really found what 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.920 I felt was my calling, which was in contrast to 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.880 what my parents had planned for me. Right, My parents 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.600 migrated from Puerto Rico to Chicago, didn't speak English. And 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.880 I don't know if you experienced this with your parents, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.120 but definitely like one track mind, right, came from Puerto 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.080 Rico to Chicago, worked, raised their kids, one of their 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.040 kids to go to school, one of their kids to 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.080 get jobs, you know, lead a normal life. And then 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.440 here I come like, I want to be I want 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.880 to get altita, I want Yeah, what it is that 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.680 it's a hobby, you know, because there was so many 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.280 plays and so much off I was doing in Chicago 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.800 at that time, and it wasn't until I started to 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.920 do it professionally that they started to see that I 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.480 could actually pay the rent. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.360 But it just it just didn't compute for a long time. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:21.640 You know, did you have the same. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.920 Experience pretty similar? I mean in the sense that you know, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.679 we are we see, came here to work. We came 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.040 from the different country to you know, where'd you guys, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.120 where'd you guys come from? Well, we came from Venezuela. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.600 So my mother is Columbia. My father's Venezuelan, so you know, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.000 we but they had met at Miami, and you know, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.520 we'll get deep into that later. But I but I 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.840 think the moment that I said to myself, oh why 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.480 not acting right was almost by necessity, in a weird 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.040 illusion away, you know. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:48.920 Necessity. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:49.920 Yeah, necessity. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.400 I felt like you know, I was I was still 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.040 in high school, you know, but I was always acting, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.160 singing and dances just for fun. You know, I never 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.599 did it professionally. And I remember my dad used to 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.280 drive this masta, you know, held put up for sales 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.480 sign on the moss die and yeah, something like that 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.240 and he would put it for sale sign. And he 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.360 would use this car to transport parts from shop to shop. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.840 And if for sale sign, he will sell the car 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.880 for a little profit. They would buy another one a 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.800 little more expensive, would put it for sale sign, then 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.800 buy another one, put it for sales sign. And that 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.240 car was just hustling, you know what I mean. And 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:22.840 then one day that car got. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.280 Stolen from the front of the house. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.040 Oh wow, and I saw for the first time, you know, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.480 the uncertainty and the concern, and the and the fear 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.440 from my mom and from my dad. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.080 And because that was the money man, that was the 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.720 money maker, that was the train, right, and that was 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.560 what was carried in us buy and well that he 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.240 was selling that he was also making some money and 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.760 using the car and that was a lifeline. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.880 And you know, in Los Angeles you need a car. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.880 Like you to get around, you need a car. And 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.439 you know, honestly, that was the moment when I saw 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.520 their concern, I said to myself, I got to get 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.320 in the game. And I was maybe fourteen fifteen years old, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.560 and I said, I got to do this. And you know, 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.000 remember hearing this commercial. Are you between the ages of 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.079 sixteen was it? Oh man, are you between the fourteen 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.840 and sixty years old? Do you think you got it 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.800 takes to what it takes to to be a TV 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.560 personality and commercials and you know morning Saturday morning shows. Uh. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.800 Then come to the Hilton and laxah blah blah. We 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.960 do a showcase where industry. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.160 Experts, industry experts, they are going to deem to see 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.360 if you got what it is? 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:25.320 If you got it? 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.160 Yeah, So I told my dad and my Dad's like, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.480 what what is this? 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.880 You know? So we go we showed up this showcase 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.000 and then he was like, but did. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.640 You do it before that? Or did you just have 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.040 a natural I guess I was doing theater right. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.760 I was singing and dancing, you know, but again because 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.880 it was like extra codc activities and in school, that 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.120 was the why I did it, you know, because it 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:48.559 was fun. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:48.760 You know. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.280 I was like, and I didn't know how to speak English. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.120 So the more I did that, the faster I was 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:53.200 learning how to speak English. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:53.360 Right. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.040 Yeah, but you know the audacity of thinking that you 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.560 could be that, That's something that I think culturally we 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.040 all have. Yeah, but into it takes a certain amount 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.679 of perfect storms to happen, you. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.120 Know, right, perfect storms. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.319 Yeah, so what you say to your family, Hey, I 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.480 want to audition and or like I wanted to how 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:11.400 does this happen to you? 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.240 Decided you in the theater. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.640 Or yeah, I sort of stumbled into it. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.560 In the Chicago public school systems at that time, the 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.880 arts were practically non existent, just to be honest, And 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.520 so my school had no arts, no sports, nothing extracurricular. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.840 And this is a really important point. You know, what 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.520 happens to kids at that age if there's no direction, right, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.160 if there's nothing that they're necessarily interested in, whether it's 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.360 the art of sports or something else, then they're susceptible 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.280 to becoming a product of their environment. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.320 Okay, and I grew up in Chicago. I grew up 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:44.040 in the inner city. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:45.719 I grew up wear a lot of gangs, a lot 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.439 of drugs, a lot of graffiti, a lot of everything 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.640 that you would imagine is in the urban environment. And 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.280 I found myself pretty much going in that direction, or 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.520 saw that I could have gone in that direction if 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.480 I had no If I had no direction, family saw 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.760 it as well. And so when I discovered acting, I've 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.960 just found my calling. But a lot of that was 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.160 just because I wasn't good at anything else, you know, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.959 and people need to understand that, you know, not every 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.280 kid is a is an athlete, not every kid is 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.280 a mathematician. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:14.600 You know. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.120 You got to find the thing that that the thirteen 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.800 year old kid is good at and then they'll thrive. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.000 What's the strength and how do you cultivate that? Exactly? Yeah, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.320 And honestly this. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.240 Is one of the purposes of where I feel this 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.640 show hopefully be a space for it to explore all 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.800 these ideas and all these thoughts, all these subjects. You know, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.360 how do you demystified? Right, how do you how do 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.240 you disarm the thought of. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.520 Any ambition you have? 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.520 You know, I think that there's so much in culturally 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.120 that we have to kind of fight against, you know, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.720 in order for us to break ground, or break new 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.679 environments or go into new roads, right take take new 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.960 chapters that perhaps our family never thought realistic for us, right, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.200 you know. So, so I really hope that this space 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.200 that this podcast you know, kind of allows us to 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.000 disarm those thoughts, to create a new a new way 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.960 of thinking, you know, and I think you think about 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.240 the generation that we're experiencing right now, and you know, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.680 the youngans who are going to carry the torch from 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.800 whatever we were able to humbly achieve. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:09.080 And I think that's the. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.880 Part of this experiment, you know. And we'd like to 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:16.320 invite everyone who's who's joining us in this podcast to say, hey, like, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:17.920 remember when you used to dream big? 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.080 Right like, is it too late to keep dreaming? 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.840 You know, bring some friends, you know, but perhaps the 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.040 third amigo that can inspire you and me, you know 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.920 into other ways you know, that can hopefully translate into 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.240 inspiration for others. You know, this is a show for everyone, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.680 and we hope that everyone really really enjoys it. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.240 Yeah, this is a show for everyone. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.680 You know. I want to hear other people's journeys as well, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.600 whether you're in the entertainment industry or not. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.880 You know, what's it like to be in business, what's 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.200 it like to be a doctor or a nurse or 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:48.320 a teacher or that. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.800 I want to know what that journey is like and 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.640 how culturally that's impacted you and how that steered your 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.640 journey or whatever decisions you made in that journey. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.360 Yeah, and what life hacks you know, what ways do 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.640 you can you hack the life that was perceived or 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.160 stereotypically given to you, And how do you break that 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.120 apart and say, hey, you know, I'm going to rewrite 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.400 a new chapter, like how can we do that? And 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.000 then you know, also, let's make sure this is fun, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.240 you know, you know, you. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.840 Know, because that's just who we are, you know. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.920 I think one thing I can say about Latinos is 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.080 that when things get a little complicated, you know, we 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:27.960 don't complain about it. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:38.480 We turn the music a little. Yeah. So let's I 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.400 had a question real quick, how did you two meet? 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.720 Because this is like a dope friendship and I know 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.320 it's been years in the making, and I just want 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.560 to say, like, when was the first time y'all connected 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.000 and knew like, okay, this is going to be like 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.479 a brother or like life. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.880 Or something like that. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.400 Like how did you all come across each other? 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.200 That's a great question, that's a weird question. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.920 I'd say, well, you should go first, because there's multiple 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.400 instances in my life when you and I crosspass words. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.960 It's like, yeah, this is yeah. I remember I was 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.520 doing I was doing a show I want to say 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.840 nineteen ninety eight, maybe ninety nine, and I remember you 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.200 came to visit a friend and you came on set 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.480 and I think I was shooting at Sony or something, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:30.880 and I remember the hair person or the makeup person said, hey, you. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.080 See that guy. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.520 He's he's a Latino actor like you. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.120 And I remember them specifically pointing you out as you 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.600 walked in and you said hello to your friend. And 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.560 at that point I really hadn't met too many other 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.520 Latino Latina actors in Hollywood. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:52.080 Man. I really fell alone, you know. And I just 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:53.600 remember looking at you and going. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.240 Like, whoh, there's somebody else like me, you know. And 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.000 then I believe your show came out after and obviously 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.480 seeing you on that, I was incredibly proud to see you, 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.680 you doing your thing. And then I just remember being 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.640 out and us having mutual friends and meeting through mutual friends. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.320 I remember seeing you, I don't know if it was 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.200 Conan O'Brien or whatever, and you were dancing sad side. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.679 And I was like, he dances sas like man, like, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:23.560 you know, I. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.399 Grew up dancing South Simon didn't get you know, And 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.880 that you spoke Spanish, and which is crazy. You tell 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.399 me that Spanish was your first language and you didn't 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.000 speak English because your English was so impeccable, I would 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.680 have never guessed that you only spoke Spanish. So there 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.720 were a lot of elements that you possessed that felt 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:43.840 very familiar to me. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.480 And you just felt like somebody that I had grown. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:47.000