1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: How you doing. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 2: This is Freddy Rodriguez and I'm about the rama. Welcome 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: to those amigos today. Uh three amigos and Gus, yes, 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: the little it's you know, introduced our incredible guest today. 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 3: Well let's see here we have esteemed comedian, former NFL cheerleader, 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 3: former Mad TV cash member, Angela Johnson. 7 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: And come on, come on, I mean we have such 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: a big audience here. They told that to cheers much. 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 4: It's Angela Johnson Rays. Now I added my married name 10 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 4: name in the game. 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: We all appreciate that at. 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 5: Those Yeah, yeah, yeah, I took about ten years of 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 5: us being married before I was like, all right, well 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 5: you had it for ten looks like you're sitting around so. 15 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 2: So, you know, here at the Amigos, we we love 16 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: asking the way back questions, you know, like where you're from, 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 2: you know where you're parents from. 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm from the Bay Area, from the Bay Jose, 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 5: San Jose. My dad grew up in LA And funny story, 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 5: when I first moved to LA to pursue my dreams 21 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 5: to be an actress, if I would get lost going 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 5: to auditions. And again this is before you know GPS 23 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 5: on your phone. This was the Thomas Guide and everything 24 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 5: like that, and I would print out my map from 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 5: the computer at home, my my Yahoo maps, and I 26 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 5: would print it out, and if I ever got lost, 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 5: I would call my dad and tell him what street 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 5: I was on, and then he would navigate me to 29 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 5: get to my. 30 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 6: Audition from memory. 31 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, from memory wow. 32 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 5: Yeah. So he'd be up in San Jose and he 33 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 5: would navigate me to my audition in LA. But my 34 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 5: dad grew up here in LA and then moved to 35 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 5: the Bay. My mom's from the Bay from San Jose. 36 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 6: Ethnically, where are your parents from? 37 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 5: I'm Mexican and Native Americans, fourth generation my dad, yeah, 38 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 5: and they both have Native blood as well, mainly my 39 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 5: grandpa my dad's side, but both my parents do have 40 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 5: Native blood. 41 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 4: But I'm fourth generation. 42 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 5: My my grandma was born here, I think in Utah. 43 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, what tribe? 44 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 5: If I may ask, Tigua Tigua, and I don't know 45 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 5: too much about it. 46 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 4: I wish I knew more. 47 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 5: I wish, And then I would ask my grandpa. Anytime 48 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 5: any of us asked our grandpa to give us like 49 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 5: answers on things, it was always different answers. He's since passed, 50 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 5: but we all got different answers. How we got the 51 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 5: last name Johnson, We all have different answers. He told 52 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 5: us something about a Swedish ship came here one day, 53 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 5: hooked up with a Native American person something whatever. He 54 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 5: told us so many different stories of our origin. And 55 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 5: then I I just I wish. 56 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 4: I knew more. 57 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 5: Like our family reunion when I was young, was on 58 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 5: a reservation in Phoenix, in Arizona when I was a 59 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 5: little kid. 60 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 4: But I don't know anything about it. I wish I did. 61 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 6: And both of your parents are from the same tribe. 62 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 5: No, I don't know what my mom's bloodline is. 63 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 4: Connected to. I only know from my dad's side. 64 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: Wow. 65 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: And so you lived up in the Bay And when 66 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: did you decide to come down to Los Angeles two. 67 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 5: Thousand and three, I moved here. I was a cheerleader 68 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 5: for the Oakland Raiders. 69 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 6: Before you came here. 70 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was twenty And the 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 5: only reason why I auditioned to be a cheerleader for 72 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 5: the Oakland Raiders is because I wanted to be an actress. 73 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 5: And I was using that as my sign if I 74 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 5: should pursue the entertainment industry, you know, And at first, 75 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 5: the entertainment industry was just a fantasy, a very far 76 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 5: fetched fantasy. That's that's not for people like me. That's 77 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 5: not for people where I grew up. 78 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 4: That's for them. You know, I don't know. I don't 79 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 4: know how to I don't even know how to do it. 80 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 5: And then I remember when the Internet first came out 81 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 5: and everybody had AOL dial up. I remember logging onto 82 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 5: AOL dial up and trying to search how do you 83 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 5: get an agent? And being in San Jose and I 84 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 5: was like trying to search how do you start being 85 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 5: an actor? 86 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 4: And I found like an acting school in like a 87 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 4: modeling agent. 88 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 5: They're like, okay, send your resume, and like what resume? 89 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 5: Like I don't have yeah, And then so I remember 90 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 5: I just made up a resume. 91 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: What you put in the resume because I have, you know, 92 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: I put the most unnecessary stuff and the special skills? 93 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: How did you fill your out? 94 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 5: So my first resume, before I knew anything, I don't 95 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 5: even know. There was not even a proper like structure 96 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 5: to it. It was just like what school I went to, 97 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 5: and then any kind of acting. I wasn't even an 98 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 5: acting class in school, but I just like made up 99 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 5: stuff and put on there. I was like, I can 100 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 5: do this accent, I can dance. I can't. 101 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 6: And you did absolutely no acting before. 102 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: You did no, zero, nothing. You were just like I 103 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: want to be an actress, like high nothing like that. 104 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: I love it. 105 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 4: Wow you I didn't do any of it. 106 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 5: And I remember I printed it was like in purple 107 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 5: ink and I printed. I was like, let me at 108 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 5: least make it pretty. 109 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 110 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, And I just mailed it out to a bunch 111 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 5: of people, and of course I didn't hear back from anybody. 112 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 5: And so I ended up having a friend, a friend 113 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 5: of a friend at the time, who had moved to 114 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 5: LA from San Jose, and she was in a Ross commercial. 115 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 4: And she was in an instinct. 116 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: She was doing she was doing it. 117 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 5: She was I knew somebody famous was this is just 118 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 5: like how how do I do. 119 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: Holding up the rasher? Tell you I'm such a similar 120 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: moment to yeah. 121 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 5: And I remember I get on the phone with her 122 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 5: one day and I was like, hey, I want to 123 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 5: do what you're doing, Like how do I do that? 124 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 5: And she was like, okay, Well, if you ever moved 125 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 5: to LA, I'll help you. I'll help show you the 126 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 5: ropes I'll help you get started. 127 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And I was like, hmm, all right. Now 128 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 4: it's like I have an actual past. 129 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 1: You have some kind yet. 130 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 5: Exactly exactly if I want to, Like I've been trying 131 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 5: but I don't know what I'm even looking for. But 132 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 5: now I have a girl saying well, if you come 133 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 5: out here, i'll help you. So right around that same time, 134 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 5: I ran into an old friend who I grew up 135 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 5: doing pop Warner cheerleading with since I was eight years 136 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 5: old and hadn't seen her in years, and we were 137 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 5: at some club. 138 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 4: We were dancing. 139 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 5: We're like, oh, yeah, how you been, and she's like, oh, 140 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 5: I'm a raiderete now and I'm like, oh, good for you. 141 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 4: And she's like, we have tryouts next week. You should come. 142 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 5: And I was like, oh no, that's not really my jam. 143 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 5: And of course, because i'm like tomboy, you know, and 144 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 5: when you think of like raderets, you think of like 145 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 5: sexy pretty And I'm like I'm good, thanks, and she 146 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 5: was like, no, you should come try out, and I 147 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 5: started to think about it. 148 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna. 149 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: Go try out interesting challenge, like yeah. 150 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 4: Not even because I want to be a cheerleader for 151 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 4: the Oakland Raiders. But I'm going to use it as 152 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 4: my sign. 153 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 5: If I make the squad, right, then I'll go to 154 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 5: LA and my friend says she would teach me how 155 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 5: to get started, so then I'll do it. But if 156 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 5: I don't make the squad, I'm gonna use it as 157 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 5: my sign that the entertainm ministry is not for me, 158 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 5: and I'll just figure something else out. 159 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: So Unfortunately, if you hadn't made it. 160 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 4: Let me tell you what was. 161 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: The tryout? 162 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 4: Like what did so it was in Oakland. 163 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 5: There was seven hundred girls at this open call audition 164 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 5: the first. 165 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: I mean everyone wanted to be a Raider girl dude 166 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: like in the day dooms. 167 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 5: There was like it was kind of costumes like cats, 168 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 5: like just why anybody came. Everybody came, whether you were 169 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 5: mentally healthy or not. Everybody came to this audition. 170 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: They're hanging out sandwiches. Everyone shows up. 171 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, there is over seven hundred girls there. 172 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 5: In the first round of the audition is really just 173 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 5: you stand on a stage with like twenty other girls 174 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 5: at the time. 175 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 4: They break it down in groups. 176 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 5: And then one at a time, you like step forward 177 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 5: and you answer a question and then you step back 178 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 5: and that's it. 179 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 4: That's the whole first call. 180 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 5: And then so I made it past that round, I'm like, oh, okay, great, 181 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 5: this is good. And the next round was you had 182 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 5: to learn a routine and perform the routine in front 183 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 5: of judges. Now it's down to like maybe three hundred girls. 184 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: Now, did you have any dancing experience, You're like. 185 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 4: No other than the Pop Warner cheerleading. 186 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: I had a rhythm, yeah, yeah, yeah, h I could dance, 187 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: You could probably remember choreography and. 188 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 5: Synchron exactly, but I didn't know technical dance moves like purowets. 189 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know that that job was giving to 190 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: that one person that can do it. Everybody else can 191 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:48,079 Speaker 1: do the dance. 192 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 5: So the dance routines that were doing in Pop Warner 193 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 5: are very like stiff I'm a cheerleader, you know, and 194 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 5: this was more like. 195 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 4: Purohet turn, flip your hair, yeah yeah yeah, And I'm. 196 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: Like, oh, it's a performance, oh yeah yeah. 197 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 4: And it was a whole different vibe from what I 198 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 4: grew up doing. 199 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 2: Did you feel like you were getting character too, Like, 200 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: were you like somehow embodying something else? 201 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 4: I definitely it was one of those like till you 202 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 4: make it. 203 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, think about the contrast, right, You're like, oh, I'm 204 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:17,959 Speaker 2: kind of like a tom girl that you know, I 205 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 2: don't know about that. 206 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden something else wakes up and. 207 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 4: You're like, yeah, y, yeah, I think it was. 208 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 5: I knew I had rhythm. I couldn't really do the 209 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 5: move that she was teaching. 210 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 4: We were in this like. 211 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 5: Banquet hall of a hotel and there's a stage and 212 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 5: the choreographer is on stage with her Britney spears microphone 213 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 5: and she's like teaching us all the choreography and there's 214 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 5: like three hundred us trying to learn it. And they're 215 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 5: doing you know, like turn and slip your hair and 216 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 5: all the thing. And I'm just like, well, I have attitude, 217 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 5: and I have like you know, I know how to 218 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 5: sell it, and I have personality. 219 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 4: I know how to work it. So I was just 220 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 4: working it and I was like, what what are I cam? 221 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: As long as I enjoyed, I can flip my hair. 222 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 5: I probably won't spot where everybody else is spotting, but 223 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 5: you're gonna see. 224 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 4: My hair, right. 225 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: But that's what they're looking for. 226 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 2: They're looking for that comfortability, that confidence. Yeah, the steps 227 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 2: are the steps you can learn that. Nobody has enough 228 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 2: time to learn them anyways. You know they're just looking for, like, 229 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 2: who is just enjoying it, who's having. 230 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 4: Well, it's a little bit of that. 231 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 5: But also you gotta be in line with everybody when 232 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 5: you're doing the performance up front. 233 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 4: You gotta know what you're doing. 234 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 5: So there was definitely that moment of the choreographer coming 235 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 5: off of stage, weaving her way through the three hundred 236 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 5: girls and coming up to me and saying, clearly, you 237 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 5: have no. 238 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 6: Dance experience, no way. 239 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 4: That was. 240 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 5: You have something that cannot be taught ah, And I. 241 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 4: Knew exactly what she meant. 242 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 5: She was right, I didn't have dance experience, and she 243 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 5: was also right, I do have something in me, and 244 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 5: I know it. I didn't have acting experience from high school. 245 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 5: I didn't have it, but I knew I had something something. 246 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 5: I knew I had something to offer. I knew there 247 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 5: was something within me, and I ended up making the squad. 248 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 5: And I remember when they called my number. I think 249 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 5: I was like number eighty nine or something. I forget, 250 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 5: but I remember they called my number that I had. 251 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 4: Made the squad, and my first thought was not. Oh 252 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 4: my gosh, I'm a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders like 253 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 4: I made it. My first thought was. 254 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 5: I'm going to be an actress. 255 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is I'm going to be an actress. 256 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 4: This was my sign and so I did it for 257 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 4: one year. We went to the super Bowl that year, 258 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 4: Like what a year? 259 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: Topict. 260 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 5: So the very next weekend after the Super Bowl, I 261 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 5: came home, I packed up my room and I moved 262 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 5: to LA and my little station wagon, my hand me 263 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 5: down station wagon that my mom gave me. I packed 264 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 5: up my room, drove til the very next weekend after 265 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 5: the super Bowl, and my friend kept her word and 266 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 5: she helped me get started as an extra. 267 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 4: I was an extra on Friends. That was my first 268 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 4: Still to this day, it's my favorite job. 269 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: I wait, wait, so. 270 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 6: Talk so so walk us through that experience. 271 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 4: Oh a magical experience, let me tell you. 272 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 273 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 5: So my friend she kept her word and she's like, Okay, 274 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 5: this is what I want you to do. I want 275 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 5: you to go sign up at Central Casting and to 276 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 5: go be an extra. 277 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 4: When you get there, there's gonna be a line of 278 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 4: people out the door waiting to sign up to be 279 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 4: an extra. 280 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 5: I don't want you to wait in line. I want 281 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 5: you to go to Ralph's. I want you to get 282 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 5: a tray of cookies, and I want you to bring 283 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 5: a raider at headshot. Go to the front window. Ask 284 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 5: for this man. When he comes out, give him the cookies. 285 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 4: Give me your headshot. Just say I'm new to town 286 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 4: and I want to be an extra. That's it, That's 287 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 4: all you need to do. 288 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 5: And immediately I start thinking like, oh my god, people 289 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 5: have told me about casting couches. 290 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be that girl one of these 291 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 4: sleazy cookies. You try to have me drop off? What 292 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 4: you sprinkles mean? Is that code for something? 293 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: No? 294 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 4: Thank you? 295 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: But you know what, I gotta tell you something. 296 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 2: The cookies was a real thing, dude, because all of 297 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 2: us brought cookies to casting directors, to aid jans to 298 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 2: like you know, yeah, like I that was the thing. 299 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 2: I remember I brought cookies to something yeah before. 300 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 4: So she knew what she was doing. 301 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 3: And I. 302 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 4: Show up, I do the thing. There's a line of 303 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 4: people out the door. I'm like, oh my god, she 304 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 4: was right. I'm walking past people with my sleazy cookies 305 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh my god. 306 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 5: They all know, like they're all judging me right now 307 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 5: as I walk past them with my cookies and I 308 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 5: go inside as you know is you know, say I'm here. 309 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 5: I don't remember his name and say I'm here, and 310 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 5: she's like, yeah, hold, I'll help you right out. This 311 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 5: guy comes walking out from the back offices and he's 312 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 5: wearing a Raiders hat no and I'm like, oh, hello, 313 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 5: this is for you, and it's my Raider at headshot 314 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 5: and we're fresh off the super Bowl like a month ago. 315 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 4: We're just at the super Bowl. 316 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 5: Immediately he's like, Raider's no way, Oh my gosh. Then 317 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 5: we start talking about you know, Raiders stuff, and it's like, 318 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 5: oh my gosh. So you're here, all right, great, give 319 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 5: me your number, blah blah. Next week he calls me. 320 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 5: He's like, hey, I have a spot on Friends. If 321 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 5: you want to go on Friends. I'm like, oh, my 322 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 5: favorite show in the woid world. 323 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 6: Yeah I do. 324 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 4: I do want to be on Friends, Thank you so much. 325 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 4: And so I go to be an extra on Friends. 326 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 4: I don't know what I'm doing. 327 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 5: It's my first time being on the set of an 328 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 5: actual TV show. I don't know anything, Like my friends 329 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 5: trying to prepare me like, okay, this is. 330 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: What you do, you know, like live audience, the whole thing, 331 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 2: some monsters, like. 332 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 5: What it's going to be like just know your place, 333 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 5: don't be trying to talk to everybody. Just you know, 334 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 5: She's give me all the tips that she could give 335 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 5: me to prepare me. And then at the time, I 336 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 5: don't know if you guys. 337 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 4: Remember this, the hustle to try to get your SAG card. 338 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 5: But it was like being an extra. You get your 339 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 5: non union voucher or your union voucher, and you had 340 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 5: to get like three union vouchers in order to join SAG, 341 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 5: right right right, But so all these non union extras 342 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 5: were waiting for a union extra to not show up 343 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 5: so that they could get their their vouchers. So that's 344 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 5: how it worked. So if this union SAG extra didn't 345 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 5: show up, now we have an extra SAG voucher for somebody, 346 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 5: and so people would get it, and whoever the ad 347 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 5: like the most you get the SAG voucher. Once you 348 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 5: got three of them, then you got to join the union. 349 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. 350 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 5: Well, this guy put me in the computer system as 351 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 5: a SAG extra, So immediately I just started getting SAG 352 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 5: vouchers right away because he just hooked me up. And 353 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 5: then I had all these extras trying to learn from me, 354 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 5: going how do you get to sag? 355 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 4: How do you get a SAG voucher? 356 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 5: I don't know how yeah, and I'm like this guy 357 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 5: laugh and I was like cookies, just like, yeah, bring sprinkles. 358 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 5: So I ended up getting my SAG vouchers like immediately 359 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 5: within my first three times of being an extra, and 360 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 5: ended up making friends with the A D. Because I 361 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 5: was funny and I would make him laugh and he 362 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 5: was funny and I would laugh at his jokes, and 363 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 5: so we would just goof off with each other and 364 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 5: he'd be like, I'm gonna bring. 365 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 4: Friends yea, yeah, yeah yeah. 366 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 5: And so he'd bring me back and then the next da, 367 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 5: I'm gonna bring you back again. Next you know, I 368 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 5: was an extra for season nine and ten. 369 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 4: I'm in the background. 370 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: You can see me like making a living. 371 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 4: By the way, Oh this is my living. This is 372 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 4: my groceries. 373 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 5: Let me tell you yeah craft service, Yeah, that was 374 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 5: my groceries. 375 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 4: You better believe I came with my satchel a bunch 376 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 4: of Wriday there. 377 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. 378 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 2: Also that at that time friends had I mean yeah, 379 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 2: they were like the biggest show. 380 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 4: Oh, the best service. 381 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 2: So the craft service was like you know, probably corn 382 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 2: dogs and lobsters. Oh one night did they recorded Friday Nightdays? 383 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 4: It was magic. 384 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 6: Did you ever cut a reel of like all of 385 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 6: your like walk away? 386 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 4: I should do that. 387 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 6: You should. 388 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 5: I've been tagged, Like people will be watching an episode 389 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 5: and they find you, they find me, and they'll tag 390 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 5: me and on Instagram and I'd be like, oh, that's me. 391 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, totally. 392 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 5: There was one moment though, cutting ahead a little bit, 393 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 5: but there was one moment. I had booked a movie 394 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 5: and it was filming in Alabama, and I'm in the 395 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 5: gym at the hotel and I'm running on the treadmill 396 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 5: at the gym, and I'm watching Friends on the TV 397 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 5: screen and I see myself walk by in the background, 398 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 5: and it. 399 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 4: Was this magical movement yes, of like this is where 400 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 4: I started. 401 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 5: Yes, And here I am like on location yea to 402 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 5: like film something where I get to say words yeah, 403 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 5: you know, like so magical. 404 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 4: Such a cool, cool experience. 405 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 2: To reflect on that, right to just say, like, one 406 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: day you said I just need a sign, and. 407 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: God gives you the most miraculous sign. 408 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 2: You know, I made you in the squad so you 409 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 2: can go do your destiny, like you made it to 410 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: the Raiders in the super Bowl, just so you can 411 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: go your destiny. And then you see yourself and reflecting that. 412 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 2: It's really really, really special. Going back to the set 413 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 2: of friends. You were there for so long, like how 414 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 2: was the cast? 415 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: Was the cast credible? Yeah, there will be really cool people. 416 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 5: I definitely had moments where I got to speak to 417 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 5: all of them and be very like friendly with them. 418 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 5: And and I think it's really because I knew my place. 419 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,959 Speaker 4: Like I wasn't trying to be friends, be friends or anything. 420 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: You were there so often that at some point you're. 421 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 5: Gonna have And then they would say hi to me 422 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 5: because they recognized me, and you know, they would just 423 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 5: have their moment, Hey, good to see you, and I'm like, 424 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 5: oh my god, she's happy to see And they even 425 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 5: invited me to their Christmas party, their holiday party. 426 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 4: I was like one of the only extras there. 427 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 428 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 2: And did you did you have you bumped into any 429 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 2: of them? Since you no interesting, I haven't interesting. 430 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 3: Should you should invite them to one of your shows? 431 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 3: I should, and and then and then that should be 432 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 3: a part of your show. 433 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 4: Done that for that. 434 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 1: To make it happen. 435 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're entire castcast too well. I do have 436 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 4: a funny story of one time I was a stalker. 437 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: Yeahed to break. 438 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 4: News one time I was a stalker. 439 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 5: I do have a comedy special called Technically Not Stalking, 440 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 5: but that's that was about my husband. But Marta Kaufman, 441 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 5: one of the creators of Friends. One time I was 442 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 5: driving in Beverly Hills and I saw her getting out 443 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 5: of her car and walking into a seven eleven and 444 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, that's Marta Kaufman. 445 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 4: I have to go say something to her. I could 446 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 4: be like on her next show or something. This is 447 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 4: like that young desperate actor. 448 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: I'm like, bliss, oh. 449 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 4: And like Martin, it's a sign. Marta Kaufman is right there. 450 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 5: I pull into seven eleven and I follow her in 451 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 5: to the seven eleven and I'm just like going up 452 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 5: and down the aisle, just like fully stalking her. 453 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 4: Then she gets to the register. I don't know what 454 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, and I'm like, excuse me, are you 455 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 4: Marta Coffin. She's like yes, and I'm like, it's so 456 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 4: nice to meet you. And then I walked out. 457 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 6: You didn't you didn't tell her your name or that 458 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 6: was just a weirdo. 459 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 4: I didn't buy anything, I didn't bite. 460 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 3: I can't. 461 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 2: Nobody teaches us well say like no, I justn't what 462 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 2: to say in that situation, you know, like what do 463 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 2: you say? 464 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:21,479 Speaker 4: It was such a weirdo. 465 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 3: So now you have to invite Marda Coffin in your 466 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 3: podcast if you're watching. 467 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 2: When from from from those moments of you know, being 468 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 2: an extra? Why were your first auditions that eventually were like, 469 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 2: oh I'm going for a part, like how how long? 470 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: And then which ones were those? 471 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 5: I crashed every audition I could. I my first bookings 472 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 5: were commercials. 473 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 4: I booked a. 474 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 5: Sprint commercial and that was a I crashed that audition. 475 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 5: My friend got that call and I just showed up 476 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 5: with your. 477 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 2: Friend that Oh yeah, I was a national car Oh yeah, 478 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 2: yes I. 479 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 5: I my first speaking role for an actual like show. 480 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 5: A character that I auditioned for was the Shield and 481 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 5: I lied on my resume. So my friend who showed 482 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 5: me the ropes, she was like, Okay, we gotta get 483 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 5: you a real resume. I had nothing to put on it, 484 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 5: so she helped me put some things on it. And 485 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 5: then I had another friend at the time, Noel Noel 486 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 5: Googliami Noel g So he gave me all of his 487 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 5: credits that he had ever done, and he was like, 488 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 5: just put this on your resume. Just say you were 489 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 5: like Yolanda or somebody. And he's Hector and everything, right exactly, 490 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 5: So every basically everything he was on. 491 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 4: Probably Latinos. There, there's some chola next to him, you 492 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 4: were the chola. Just put Yolanda. 493 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 6: I was mousey. 494 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was mousey. 495 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 5: So I started adding all these credits to my resume 496 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 5: that I was not on. But are you really going 497 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 5: to go look for these two lines in this one episode? 498 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 5: It was one of those kind of things, right, So 499 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 5: now I have this resume of it's not extensive, it's 500 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 5: not thirty things, there's like six things, you know, like 501 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 5: I'm still getting started out. 502 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a perfect heist. 503 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 4: Oh the perfect. 504 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 5: I go to the audition and immediately the casting Dirk, 505 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 5: I forget what show it was. 506 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 4: All these names leave my brain. 507 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 5: But so she's reading my resume and she says, oh, 508 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 5: I'm just gonna make up a show here, because I 509 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 5: don't remember which one it was. 510 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 4: So let's just say. She's like, oh, you were on 511 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 4: CSI Miami and I'm like mm hmm yeah. She's like, oh, 512 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 4: that's funny. I cast that show. I don't remember you. 513 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: Ah, oh my god? Why why? 514 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 4: Okay, just go it's weird. 515 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 6: But did it Did it say like the actual episode 516 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 6: you were on? 517 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 4: No, it just said the show and my character. 518 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I mean, but at this point, like 519 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 2: to you and I remember everything your cast? 520 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty three episodes show. 521 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: Did you get the part? 522 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 4: I booked it. It's one of those things. I always 523 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 4: remember you. 524 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: But the beginning, I don't know what I got to 525 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 1: do to. 526 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 5: Get in here, but I got to show you I 527 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 5: can do this. It was training, but I can do it. 528 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: The beginning of this podcast, we all kind of shared, 529 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 2: you know, the the delusion of bliss and outgoings of 530 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 2: the hustle. Yeah, and we talked about those moments. We 531 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: we just kind of hacked the game a little bit. 532 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 2: And in order to hack the game, you have to 533 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 2: be foolishly just optimistic about the fact that you are 534 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 2: the chosen one, you know, and that's something that, like 535 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 2: we all kind of you have to possess if you're 536 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 2: going to enter like the five percent of working people, 537 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,239 Speaker 2: you know. And and that story reminds me so much 538 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,719 Speaker 2: when when we talk about like I used to go 539 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 2: to Backstage West and go to the agent submission only 540 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: auditions because we know those were the good ones. Cata 541 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 2: Cauls were like, you know, here we go, but like 542 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 2: agent submission. So I show up and I will memorize 543 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 2: my auditions. I memorize from like people's shoulders, you know, 544 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 2: and I just. 545 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: Rise because I didn't get his highs. 546 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: I don't have an agent, so like I look down 547 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: and I just like like I'm like okay, no, no, no, 548 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 2: and I'm like okay, he's going, and I'll go this okay, 549 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 2: just memorized, memorized, and then I put like you know, 550 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 2: Smiths and Associates because I thought it was like a 551 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 2: very Caucasian. 552 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: And then in the number, I like to put my 553 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 1: pager because I was like, yeah, it was pretty it 554 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: was pretty crazy. 555 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 2: So you reminded me of that moment because that's like 556 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 2: sometimes especially we we have to be scrappyard, you know, 557 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: also like we can't. We're not gonna we're not gonna 558 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 2: enter through the front door, you know. And now it 559 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: us really into through the front door. We have to 560 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 2: kind of bullishly get optimistic and. 561 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 5: Guests and those stories are such good reminders for us 562 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 5: even where we are today, in our own careers, in 563 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 5: our own lives, where we may take for granted, or 564 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 5: we may get jaded, or we. 565 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 4: May feel. 566 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 5: Bummed about something, or the colors of your dream start 567 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 5: to look a little muted, it starts to pale a 568 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 5: little routine, right, you know, it's a little bit of 569 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 5: of that. And then when you remind yourself of these stories, 570 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 5: it almost like ignites something in you and then the 571 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 5: colors of your dream start to get a. 572 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: Little lights the fire up again. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 573 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 3: But you said something interesting earlier. You said I had 574 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 3: no experience. I did knock when I was a kid, 575 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 3: but I knew that I had something in me. 576 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 6: I don't know what that thing was. And the same 577 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 6: with you, right, you knew you had something in you. 578 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 3: So yeah, we could sit there and hack the system 579 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 3: and crash auditions and all that, but all of that. 580 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 1: Is but once we're rod. 581 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's predicated you knowing that there's something there 582 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 3: which is beyond like, oh, I just. 583 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 6: Want to be famous. Oh yeah, or like a dream. 584 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 6: You know, your inner self, you know you possessed something. 585 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 2: So you booked a bunch of guest stars and then 586 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 2: a few few guests and then you landed. 587 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 4: What so I was went from an extra to a 588 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 4: stand in on a different show. Yeah, So the a 589 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 4: D once Friends was done, he left and went to 590 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 4: this show and he brought me with him. 591 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 6: Can you can you say what Joe? 592 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's called Love and it was on upn Love 593 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 4: Love Ink Loving Club Love Ink. 594 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 595 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 4: So it was like a dating service show. Right, it's 596 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 4: a sitcom. Yeah yeah, yeah, And so I'm a stand 597 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 4: in now on that show. And that's where so the. 598 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 5: Shield came after this, because this is where I got 599 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 5: my actual first speaking role. And I was a stand 600 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 5: in for the entire season and the very last episode 601 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 5: they didn't cast one of their co star roles and 602 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 5: the cast said, well, what about Angela? 603 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, she's always saying the line. 604 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, what about her? Why don't you give her this role? 605 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 4: And they're like okay, And. 606 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 5: That's how I got my first speaking role. I didn't 607 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 5: audition for it, but that's how I got my first 608 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 5: speaking But. 609 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 2: Also, you know, one thing to explain to everyone who 610 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 2: doesn't understand what a standing is. 611 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: A standing is is. 612 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 2: Another performer who who has the job to kind of 613 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 2: prep the scene before the actor comes in to perform. 614 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 2: So they stand on the mark that the actor blocks 615 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 2: when they rehearse, you know, and they technically recite the 616 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 2: entire scene. Some stand ins, you know, choose to perform 617 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 2: the whole scene for when, by the way, the cameras 618 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 2: are not rolling, but they're performing this scene with the 619 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 2: other stand ins to make. 620 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 5: Sure the cameras can practice, the lights can get there 621 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 5: and everything. 622 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes they ask you not to perform. 623 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 5: Sometimes they would be like, don't they don't want you to, 624 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 5: They don't want you to like perform it. 625 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 4: And then some they would just let you have your moment. Listen, 626 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 4: she was a professional. 627 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 3: Okay, why do you think they would say not to 628 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 3: perform it? 629 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 7: I don't know, fear they that I'd be better and 630 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 7: then Jennifer Aniston would be no more. 631 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 4: Sometimes they just. 632 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 5: Want you to walk, hit your mark, say like the 633 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 5: beginning of the sentence and then whatever and like that's it. 634 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 5: But so that's how I got my first speaking role 635 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 5: was on that show. So I went to be a 636 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 5: stand in while I'm a stand in on this show. 637 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 5: I'm going to this church and every Tuesday night at 638 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 5: this church was their creative arts ministry night, and so 639 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 5: they would have a dance class, an acting class, production 640 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 5: if you want to get a production, there's production class. 641 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 5: Because it's a church in Hollywood, so they know that 642 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 5: most of their congregation is people trying to be the 643 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 5: entertainment industry. So they had all these free classes that 644 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 5: they offered. I was in their acting class and we 645 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 5: would play improv games and I would be funny in 646 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 5: the improv games. And then there was a woman who 647 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 5: was there who said, Hey, do you want to come 648 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 5: take my joke writing stand up comedy class? And I 649 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 5: was like, I don't know. 650 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 4: Is it free? 651 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 5: And she was like yeah, it's just in this room 652 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 5: over here, and I'm like, oh, okay, sure. So then 653 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 5: I leave the acting class and I go to the 654 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 5: stand up comedy class, and that's where I first start 655 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 5: writing jokes. And I remember at the time, I was like, yeah, 656 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 5: I could probably do that. I do this Nail Salon character. 657 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 5: I'm sure I could make that into a joke, and 658 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 5: she was like, Nail Salan jokes are so hacky. 659 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 4: Everybody has one stay away from Nail Slan. 660 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: I love it when people say that. 661 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 5: And I was like, you know what, but I don't know. 662 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 5: If anybody doesn't like me, I think I'll still do it. 663 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 5: And I took this class and at the end of 664 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 5: the class and it was like a two month class. 665 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 5: Every Tuesday night, our graduation was we had to perform 666 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 5: at a real comedy club and it was a bringer. 667 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 5: Everybody had bring ten people, right, so everyone in the 668 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 5: audience knew this was a graduating stand up class. 669 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 4: They knew just laugh it was not funny. Is a 670 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 4: warm wind? 671 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course. 672 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 4: We all wrote jokes and. 673 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 5: The teacher went through everybody's set and she picked your 674 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 5: five minute set from everything you wrote in these past 675 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 5: two months. She picked your five minute set, and then 676 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 5: when it got to me, she said, just do all 677 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 5: your jokes. 678 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 4: So I had twelve. 679 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 680 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 5: So I go on stage, I do my joke and 681 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 5: my closer is this Nail Salon bit, which at the 682 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 5: time looked and sounded a little bit different because the. 683 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 4: Ending of that joke was a callback. 684 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 5: This new thing I learned called a callback in my 685 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 5: class was a callback to a joke I did earlier 686 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 5: where I talked about me being an extra. I wrote 687 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 5: a joke about me being an extra and how my 688 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 5: parents were so proud of me. And so the end 689 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 5: of the nail salon joke ended with me calling my 690 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 5: mom saying, this girl's talking the nail salan lady's talking 691 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 5: about me. And she goes, oh, she doesn't know who 692 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 5: you are. 693 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 4: Show her who you are. 694 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 5: And then I get up and I just start walking 695 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 5: silently back and forth because that's what I did as 696 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 5: an extra. 697 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 4: So that's my I'll show you who I am. Oh amazing. 698 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 4: So that's how that joke ended. Should I bring it back? 699 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:36,239 Speaker 4: I think? 700 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 5: So I did this stand up comedy class while I'm 701 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 5: a stand in on this show. Then the show gets 702 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 5: canceled and my friend the ad who basically just took 703 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,239 Speaker 5: me to every show he was on, now he's not 704 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 5: on a show, so he didn't have any work either. 705 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:59,719 Speaker 5: So now I'm on unemployment and I'm waitressing at whatever 706 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 5: restaurant I can waitress at, and I'm doing stand up 707 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 5: comedy kinda like I didn't want to be a comedian. 708 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 5: I wanted to be an actress. So every now and 709 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 5: then I would go do like a five minute set 710 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 5: at whatever bar, whatever, laundry mat whatever, you know what 711 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 5: I mean. 712 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 4: But I didn't want to be a stand up so 713 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 4: I wasn't like pursuing it. 714 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 5: And I get I'm I'm this is around the time 715 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 5: when I have no agent, I don't have any auditions 716 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 5: coming in, I'm waitressing, I'm on unemployment, and now I'm 717 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 5: at the end of unemployment. 718 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 4: Unemployment checks run out. I don't know if everybody knows that, 719 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 4: but they don't last for. 720 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 5: So unemployment checks are done, and I'm kind of in 721 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 5: this place where I'm like, oh, I. 722 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 4: Think, excuse me, sir, she has to go. This was 723 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 4: so fun, so much. Tune in for part two. 724 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, very good place to uh, you know, split 725 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 2: this one in two. We're gonna we're gonna embrace this 726 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 2: one as our part one of our conversation with Angela 727 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 2: Johnson Rayes. Please say tune for Part two of Those Amigos. 728 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 3: Dose Amigos is a production from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's 729 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 3: Michael through That Podcast Network, hosted by me Freddie Rodriguez 730 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 3: and Wilmer Valdorama. 731 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 2: Those Amigos is produced by Aaron Burlson and Sophie Spencer Zabos. 732 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,719 Speaker 3: Our executive producers are Wilmer Valdorama, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson, 733 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 3: and Leo Klem at WV Sound. 734 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 2: This episode was shot and edited it by Ryan Posts 735 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 2: and mixed by Sean Tracy and features original music by 736 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 2: Madison Devenport and Helo. 737 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 3: Boy Our cover our photography is by David Avalos and 738 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 3: designed by Deny Holtz Clau. 739 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 2: And thank you for being a third amigo today. I 740 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 2: appreciate you guys always listening to those amigos. 741 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 3: More podcasts from my Heart visit the r Heart Radio app, 742 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 3: Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. 743 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: See you next week, MHM