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Speaker 1: When we last left him, Ricky Martin was busy giving

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Speaker 1: an unforgettable performance at the nineteen ninety nine Grammys.

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Speaker 2: Hanny, he made his mark my words to read. That night,

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Speaker 2: he was the first Latino artist to sing in a

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Speaker 2: World Cup and shook his bond bond, shook his bomb

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Speaker 2: bond at the Grammys.

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Speaker 3: Joseph, I can't see you, but are you sweating.

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Speaker 2: My chiky baby? I'm a fit thing. It's giving moisture.

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Speaker 3: Ooh, Dowey, I like him.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so those black leather pants definitely had an effect.

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Speaker 1: Right after that performance, interested in Ricky Pete and suddenly

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Speaker 1: everyone wanted a piece of him.

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Speaker 2: Van de Paca, vent de Paca, vent de Paca.

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Speaker 1: Whoa, Oh, hold on, hold on, Cowboy, We've got a

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Speaker 1: lot to cover before we get to that single.

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Speaker 3: Ricky was all in right from the start.

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Speaker 2: This wasn't his first rodeo.

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Speaker 1: The States were just discovering who he was, but the

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Speaker 1: music world wasn't new to him, and he was going

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Speaker 1: to make the most of this moment.

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Speaker 2: He was going to blow open some doors, and.

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Speaker 1: He was generous enough to make sure that those doors

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Speaker 1: stayed open wide enough for future icons to follow through.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host Lilianavosquez.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon.

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Speaker 1: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on

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Speaker 1: how today's most famous LATINX stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 2: And given the world some extras at all, Sit back

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Speaker 2: and get comfortable, because we are going in the only

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Speaker 2: way we know how, with buena vis.

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Speaker 1: Bunasas and a lot of opinions as we relive their

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Speaker 1: greatest achievements on our journey to find out what makes

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Speaker 1: them so iconic. The World Cup, all eyes were on

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Speaker 1: Ricky Martin. He was in the middle of the Sta

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Speaker 1: de France, singing all by himself, with no dancers and

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Speaker 1: no big entourage other than abandon sight.

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Speaker 2: Mia Moore, What did you expect? That's what you get

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Speaker 2: when you're cheese miandoing.

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Speaker 3: Wait, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Well, rumor has it that when Ricky was offered the

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Speaker 2: World Cup song home, dude couldn't keep his Lingui get that,

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Speaker 2: his lips sealed, his mouth shut.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got it, and.

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Speaker 2: He told everybody on they Mama he would be doing

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Speaker 2: the song before if he confirmed it. Ah, the press

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Speaker 2: got hold of this cheese man and it quickly became headlines,

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Speaker 2: making all those soccer officials really piss noid. Suddenly they

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Speaker 2: was like, bitch, you ain't got no money and we

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Speaker 2: ain't given you an Moday, zero production, nothing, what zilch niente.

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Speaker 1: I always thought he was just being modest and going

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Speaker 1: for like a very streamlined, clean girl, esthetic girl.

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Speaker 2: He was like, boppy, I don't care, nothing going to

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Speaker 2: rain on my parade. So he suited all the band

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Speaker 2: members in very basic white teas and black trousers and

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Speaker 2: sang and danced his heart.

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Speaker 3: Off and we all know it worked like a charm.

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Speaker 1: By the way, look at you, mister Cheesema, you are scooping.

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Speaker 3: The Scooper girl.

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Speaker 2: You know I got it well.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Martin saying thirty minutes before the final match, in

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Speaker 1: front of an audience of sixty five thousand people.

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Speaker 3: But with one and a half billion.

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Speaker 2: Viewers, I mean in a time when there was no

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Speaker 2: social media.

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Speaker 1: Yep, performing in front of an audience of more than

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Speaker 1: a billion viewers worldwide was the opportunity of a lifetime,

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Speaker 1: and Ricky knew how to make the most of this

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Speaker 1: internationally renowned event by recording the song in multiple languages.

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Speaker 2: Okay, met a little Ricky all lost in translation is shit.

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Speaker 1: He made three versions of Lacova de Lavida, one in Spanish,

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Speaker 1: one in French, and of course the other in English.

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Speaker 1: About his performance, he said this, I'm a soccer fan

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Speaker 1: and I wanted it to be evident in the music

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Speaker 1: for all to feel. What I feel when I'm in

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Speaker 2: Is giving like the chills. Chills, and I know football aficionado,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: With the premiere of laco ba de la vida, Ricky

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Speaker 1: Martin went from being a Latino artist to a worldwide revelation.

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Speaker 1: This interpretation marked a milestone. It was the springboard for

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Speaker 1: his international career, exactly what he needed at that precise

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Speaker 1: moment in time. Lacoba de Lavilla has been hailed as

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Speaker 1: the best World Cup anthem of all time by multiple

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Speaker 1: sources and became a musical template for every other World

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Speaker 2: The song spread like wildfire all over the globe, and.

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Speaker 1: It didn't take long for Ricky to attract the attention

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Speaker 2: Can you confirm it was only the song and not that.

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Speaker 3: Em Hold, please let me check my sources.

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Speaker 1: With the Grammys insight, Ricky knew that he would never

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Speaker 1: be offered a better opportunity to impress.

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Speaker 3: The American market.

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Speaker 1: Everyone interested in music would have their eyes on the gallop.

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Speaker 3: It was exactly what he had been waiting for.

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Speaker 2: Talk about some nerve racking moments, I mean all the

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Speaker 2: who's who in that audience, I can feel the butterflies.

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Speaker 1: Well he didn't, because Ricky Martin was pure energy on

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Speaker 1: the stage and left the entire audience in awe. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: minus the first twenty rows of bland faces.

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Speaker 2: Shut your butt, not the bland faces dragged them lil okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Let me try this again, bared af faces made by

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Speaker 1: older white men who were clutching their wives' pearls. Then

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Speaker 1: it all changed. Everyone jumps out of their seats to

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Speaker 1: applaud him. And let me tell y'all, this is not

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Speaker 1: something that you often see, especially back then at the Grammys.

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Speaker 3: How would you sum up the performance in one word?

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Speaker 2: Bitch? That's two words.

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Speaker 3: Fuegle bitch doesn't count. It's just an ending. It's a punk.

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Speaker 3: It's like an exclamation place.

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Speaker 2: It was an explanation point. Mm hm. Fuegle bitch. That's it.

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Speaker 1: I think it was one of the first times that

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Speaker 3: It was the first time.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people in that room probably heard a

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Speaker 1: I don't care how white, green, orange, purple, yellow, or.

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Speaker 3: Blue you are. That music is the world's music.

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Speaker 1: If you do not get up and dance when you

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Speaker 3: You need to be resuscitated. Call an ambulance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're body. Just listen. Those elderly people got up

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Speaker 2: there and they started shaking their bondman as well. It

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Speaker 1: Even that night, Rosie O donnell, who happened to be hosting,

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Speaker 1: no idea who it was, but now I know, and

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Speaker 1: all of you do too. As it happened, everyone wanted

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Speaker 2: Do you really want it? Yeah? Do you really want it?

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Speaker 2: I really want it?

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Speaker 1: Everybody wanted it. In one of Ricky's best moments at

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Speaker 1: the Grammys was when the auditorium nearly collapsed in that

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Speaker 1: standing ovation. But there was another one that happened backstage

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Speaker 1: when he was praised by none other than Madonna, who

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Speaker 1: wanted Ricky to be in all of her photos.

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Speaker 2: Talk about an extreme makeover. He transformed from hardly known

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Speaker 2: to Madonna's bff. And you know, oh she loves her gaze.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I still think it was because of those

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Speaker 2: black leather pants.

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Speaker 1: Dammit, it didn't matter why the next day the whole

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Speaker 1: world wanted to know who's that guy. Ricky conquered the

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Speaker 1: American press and an entire nation succumb to his sex

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Speaker 1: appeal and dynamic personality. He was invited on shows like

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Speaker 1: The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, of course,

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Speaker 1: and he quickly became a media darling. He was on

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Speaker 1: every cover you could not escape Ricky Martin. We're talking Time, Newsweek,

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Speaker 3: He was literally everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Believe me, being a celebrity can be really, really consuming.

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Speaker 1: Okay, just because you're on TikTok does not make you famous.

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Speaker 1: Just because you're a celebrity sculptor.

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Speaker 3: You're not famous, Okay, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, you're famous to me and in the becoming an

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Speaker 3: No, it is famo sof okay.

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Speaker 1: Even if he was being harassed and had fans following

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Speaker 1: him at all times and literally everywhere, he said, I

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Speaker 1: was very flattered when the doors of an airport opened

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Speaker 1: and I saw so many people there waiting for me,

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Speaker 1: taking pictures of me and asking for my autographs.

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Speaker 2: Talk about being a nice guy. I mean, he's literally

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Speaker 2: just like me.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, because when you landed here at LAX,

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Speaker 1: I had to fight through the TMZ Corps just to

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Speaker 1: help you get your bags in the car, right, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, you would be surprised. Let me tell you.

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Speaker 1: Ricky became so popular that he was offered the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to perform at the inauguration of the president of the

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Speaker 2: Stop it dot org, please tell me it was the

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Speaker 1: It was two thousand and one and Ricky was asked

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Speaker 1: to perform at President Bush's inauguration ceremony a few years

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Speaker 1: before Obama.

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Speaker 2: Oh now, I remember even Bush couldn't contain himself and

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Speaker 2: gave it to Ricky's charm. He got the president all

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Speaker 2: swaying his hips side to side and.

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Speaker 1: Shit yeah, and all politics aside. This is a neutral statement.

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Speaker 2: Okay, also neutral statement. He wasn't good at much, you

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave that right there.

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Speaker 1: Ricky's performance at the ceremony was fun and lighthearted. That January,

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Speaker 1: America got a new president. But all we really wanted

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Speaker 1: was an album from Ricky, and he gave us what

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Speaker 1: we wanted. The demand was so high that Ricky Martin

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Speaker 1: released his next album two weeks early.

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Speaker 2: He is literally the BA that keeps on giving.

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Speaker 3: And the States just kept on taking.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Martin debuted atop the US Billboard two hundred, breaking

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Speaker 1: the record for the largest first week sales for any

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Speaker 1: pop or Latin artists in history. He sold over seven

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Speaker 1: Joseph It became the best selling album either by a

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Speaker 2: Of course, he was going to break the Latin records.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was very few latinos before him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, of course there was Gloria Stefan, and he

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Speaker 2: Santa Gloria, nosllos Miami esta trono a men.

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Speaker 3: Now, we're not short changing the queen like esmeo No

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Speaker 3: before Ricky.

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Speaker 1: Gloria had been the first to make her way up

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Speaker 1: the charts in both Spanish and English.

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Speaker 2: She was the first note doubt, but Ricky was the

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Speaker 2: first one to cause them.

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Speaker 1: Don't do not say it. You know my feelings on

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Speaker 1: this word explosion. At the time, Ricky was even bigger

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Speaker 1: than Brittany and y'all, I don't find me, do not

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Speaker 1: come back?

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Speaker 2: Oh bit, you better work er. This happened the same

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Speaker 2: here as Britney's Baby One More Time debut.

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Speaker 1: The only album that sold more than Ricky at the

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Speaker 1: time was the Backstreet Boys's Millennium. Ricky's album sold anywhere

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Speaker 1: between fifteen and seventeen million copies worldwide.

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Speaker 2: That sounds all very larger than life. Really, I mean

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Speaker 1: The numbers don't matter. The only thing that really mattered

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Speaker 3: Everyone loved it. It was written by Ricky's very good friend.

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Speaker 1: Ricky, Draco Rosa and Chris Rock even referred to this

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Speaker 3: That's what you think.

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Speaker 2: That's what you thought it was.

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Speaker 3: Whoop there it is. No, honey, this was bigger than

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Speaker 1: To this day, Livin Love de Loca is considered to

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Speaker 3: History to hit number one.

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Speaker 1: Andy Romero from Billboard even wrote, if you look up

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Speaker 1: Ricky shaking his bond bond and or live and Love

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Speaker 3: Look up.

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Speaker 2: That is hilarious. I mean, my dictionary is nothing but

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Speaker 2: pictures of Ricky Martin.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, that's the two thousand and one Merriam

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Speaker 1: Webster Boigua udition correct.

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Speaker 2: Come to think of it, the Independent said, wait, can

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Speaker 2: I read this part?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead?

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Speaker 2: Me me, me, me me, Okay, I'm ready. The single

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Speaker 2: of your shoulders. While People's Jason Sheeler credited as a

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Speaker 2: Check and Dequey Lessias, Mark Anthony, and Jennifer Lopez.

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Speaker 3: I'm so triggered. I'm so triggered.

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Speaker 1: I'm so triggered. We should have given a trigger warning

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Speaker 1: before we started. But you really enjoyed doing that, didn't you.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 1: It was a great song, and sure the lyrics make

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Speaker 2: That's what his music makes me want to do.

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Speaker 1: And back then it was everywhere TV shows, movies in

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Speaker 3: No one could have.

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Speaker 1: Guessed that it would become a pop culture anthem, but

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Speaker 1: Latin sounds.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Latin sounds, do you remember Santana's album.

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Speaker 3: I Still Play That?

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Speaker 1: No, you don't, Yes, when you're cleaning clean anymore. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my mom's not listening. I mean, I clean after

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Speaker 3: I don't need to.

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Speaker 1: Be cleaning to listen to Santana. I just want to

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Speaker 3: It's it's such a vibe.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what's so amazing about music is

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Speaker 3: And that was like just such a vibe back then.

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Speaker 1: So yes, Santana, I mean speaking of also other sexy latinos,

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Speaker 1: like do you remember how hot Enrique Glessis was?

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Speaker 2: Oh my hold on? Everybody thought he was so hot,

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Speaker 2: but I could not get over the mole. I could

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Speaker 2: not get over the male you are doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm so dirty right.

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Speaker 2: Now, Endrika, I love you now that you got the

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Speaker 2: male removed. I can't. I could not. I couldn't deal

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Speaker 2: with it. Everybody thought he was so sexy, not but me, No.

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Speaker 3: What yours mole?

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Speaker 2: I do want to get out of this mole talk.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm getting a hole. I prefer talking

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Speaker 2: about Christina Aguilera. I mean she was too dirty to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it wasn't just Christina. Do you remember ninety

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Speaker 2: Soon even boy bands were releasing songs in Spanish. I

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Speaker 2: mean ninety eight degrees, wol they give me just one

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Speaker 2: night Nache?

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Speaker 3: Okay, that is like the most basic, bland attempt at

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Speaker 3: a Latin song ever.

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Speaker 1: I would have respected them if they sang the entire

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Speaker 1: una noche? And they couldn't even get it right nick Lache,

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Speaker 1: like overly mouthing una nocha into a microphone.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry it didn't do it for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It was basic Spanish one oh one. They

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Speaker 1: skipped the whole semester and I'm not here for it.

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Speaker 3: Bye.

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Speaker 2: They're like, I like milk igoe, leche, dondala, bibio tech.

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Speaker 2: It was really it's giving.

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Speaker 1: No, it's giving exploitation. And it was one and it

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Speaker 1: was not the first time. I mean, other artists tried

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Speaker 1: nineties color Me Bad, Rico Suave.

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Speaker 2: Rico Swave. I don't remember them.

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Speaker 3: Wait, do you know that I just did an interview

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Speaker 3: with Rico Swave.

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Speaker 2: No, you didn't. It was a recall Swave up, sorry

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Speaker 2: to interrupt the recording. Everybody, Chrico Swave and you interviewed him. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: we've interrupted, We have been interrupted. Yeah, I need a

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Speaker 2: little more background as to why you interviewed Rico. Is

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Speaker 2: he like a Walmart reader?

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Speaker 1: Now, I just shared that I interviewed Rico Suave and

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Speaker 1: our producer Carlos.

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Speaker 3: Jumped in the middle of our recording. He shook the zoom,

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Speaker 3: he shook it. Okay to go to ninety eight degrees.

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Speaker 3: This episode is.

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Speaker 1: Pure fucking chaos. Okay, so let me tell you what happened.

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Speaker 1: I was doing an integration for Amazon because I host

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Speaker 1: a lot of their shows their live streams, and Rico

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Speaker 1: Swave has actually become quite the entrepreneur.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Rico Suave has a line of salsas and sauces

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Speaker 1: and they are very popular and people all over the

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Speaker 1: world indulged and their delicious flavor profiles from Latin to barbecue.

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Speaker 1: So therefore, Rico Suave has made a buck or two

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Speaker 1: beyond his like one hit wonder fame. So Rico, You're

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Speaker 1: welcome and thank you guys.

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Speaker 3: That was fun.

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Speaker 2: So he still is Rico.

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Speaker 3: He's Muirico so much.

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Speaker 1: Mrico back to our regularly scheduled programming. Ricky Martin opened

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Speaker 1: the door for artists to make their music not just

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Speaker 1: gimmicky one hit wonders preach. After the Living Levi the

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Speaker 1: Loca phenomenon, Ricky released the song She's All I Ever

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Speaker 1: Had as the second single from the album. It also

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Speaker 1: a Spanish version, Beya, that also topped the charts in

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Speaker 1: the Hot Latin tracks.

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Speaker 2: With Ricky on every radio station and with other artists following,

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Speaker 2: the opinions of the Latino community started changing.

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Speaker 1: When called a voice for those Latinos, Ricky said, there

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Speaker 1: are many stereotypes in Puerto Rico or Latin America, but

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Speaker 1: there are also many things that we must change, and

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Speaker 1: I feel that I have to do it, and I

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Speaker 3: Power to do it.

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Speaker 1: Here's a guy who pretty much comes out of nowhere,

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Speaker 3: It was perfect timing.

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Speaker 1: A movement was building and he became a catalyst for

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Speaker 1: change in the entertainment industry. Ricky didn't want to take

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Speaker 2: Ill Gas, No Break Ricky.

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Speaker 1: Within a year of Living Levy the Loka, Ricky released

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Speaker 1: sound Loaded. The process behind the Soundloaded album was to

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Speaker 1: feeling lucky and he wanted to put out his next

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Speaker 2: I totally understand it. It happens to me every time

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Speaker 2: I meet an.

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Speaker 1: Aquarius, those damn aquariuses water signs.

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Speaker 3: But y'all, it was too soon.

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Speaker 1: Soundloaded came out to a saturated market and bombed. The

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Speaker 1: albums were just too similar. You didn't need to buy

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Speaker 1: two albums when they were almost the same thing. First

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Speaker 1: Living Love the Loka and then She Bangs, which kind

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Speaker 1: of seemed like a part two of Living Love the Loka.

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Speaker 2: It was like eating the same dessert twice.

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Speaker 3: Which isn't always bad, but in this situation it was.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting hungry, now we should go out for cake.

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Speaker 3: After this cake in tequila.

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Speaker 1: I'll be But the point is, when you start out

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Speaker 1: that red hot, it's hard to stay on top, and

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Speaker 1: soon even great sales seem like a disappointment.

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Speaker 2: Listen, the higher you climb, the harder the fall.

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Speaker 3: That's just how show business works.

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Speaker 2: That's how love works, Hayne.

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Speaker 3: I think you need.

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Speaker 1: Better boyfriends, Joseph and you get on Raya or something.

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Speaker 3: Can we upgrade Grinder to Reya?

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Speaker 2: Who are you telling?

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Speaker 1: People began to question whether Ricky was just another pre made,

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Speaker 1: manufactured pop star, any pop star really too studied, too

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Speaker 1: well dressed, too well groomed, all in all too perfect,

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Speaker 1: And it was just as easy to hate him as

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Speaker 1: it was to love him. And at some point the

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Speaker 1: media turned its back on Ricky and the audience doesn't

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Speaker 1: blame the media, but they do blame Ricky. Oh doro

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Speaker 1: that Ricky Martin star was fading. He was no longer

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Speaker 1: the guy everyone wanted, but now he was the guy

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Speaker 1: everyone wanted to hate. I still want him, naturally, but

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Speaker 1: it's really the nature of the beest fame.

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Speaker 2: But Ricky took it as a low blow, like really personal.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're sexy and funny and handsome and

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Speaker 1: extremely talented, everyone wants to take pictures of you.

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Speaker 2: Believe me, I know I know that all too well.

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Speaker 3: Name one person that wanted to take a pic ture

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Speaker 3: of you.

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Speaker 2: It's just too many. It's just countless, countless people. I

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Speaker 2: can't even go outside of my apartment. I'm telling you.

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Speaker 2: The media put him under a microscope.

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Speaker 1: He was one of the most handsome men in the world.

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Speaker 1: But what was his story? He said, When I get

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Speaker 1: on stage, I give it my all, the same as

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Speaker 1: when I'm in front of the cameras. And that's why

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Speaker 1: when I lock myself in my room that belongs only

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Speaker 1: to me, that key is not for sale. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: enough for audiences to enjoy Ricky's performances.

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Speaker 3: They wanted more. They wanted to know what was hiding

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Speaker 2: Door girl, And it was way back in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: Was photographed on the beach with women, with men, with people.

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Speaker 3: What did it all really matter? Love is love right exactly.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Martin, like many other celebrities at the height of

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Speaker 1: their careers, endured endless speculation about his sexuality. He'd brush

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Speaker 1: deflect by saying, Hey, I'm a pop star. You can

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Speaker 1: fantasize about me all you want.

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Speaker 2: Mm hm, Fappy Chule's you don't have to tell me.

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Speaker 1: Twice, Ricky's personal life became under such scrutiny it deserves

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Speaker 1: an episode on its own.

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Speaker 2: You're such a tease. I can't stand you.

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Speaker 1: I know, for Ricky being the center of attention stopped

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Speaker 1: being fun. He wanted to quit. In two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: he already had six albums with three international hits and

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Speaker 1: two Grammys to his credit. He gave himself to his

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Speaker 1: audience and to his performances, but he soon got tired

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Speaker 1: of the insistent and continuous questions about his private life.

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Speaker 1: Ricky wanted his life back. It was time to step back.

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Speaker 3: And reflect on what was happening around him.

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Speaker 2: OHMG.

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Speaker 1: After the huge success of Live and Levy the Loka

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Speaker 1: and Sound Loaded, Ricky got on his plane and decided

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Speaker 1: to travel the world. He went to India and fell

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Speaker 1: in love with the country, its people, and its culture.

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Speaker 1: He has said of his trip there, I went to

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Speaker 1: India and Nepal, and I have to admit that when

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Speaker 1: I got there, I experienced a spiritual awakening. It was

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Speaker 1: a trip that changed my life. I felt an inner

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Speaker 1: piece that I had never felt before.

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Speaker 2: It's giving the Eat Prey love phase for Ricky.

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Speaker 3: You know what, I actually loved that book and I

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Speaker 3: love the movie even more.

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Speaker 1: There I said it what it was a book. I

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Speaker 1: need to get you an audible subscription stat That's how

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Speaker 1: Ricky began his annual trips to India and where he

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Speaker 1: discovered his daily meditation practice. India helped him find his footing,

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Speaker 1: to discover who he was as a person and as

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Speaker 1: a human being. Ricky traveled through rural areas for two

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Speaker 1: or three weeks at a time, staying in whatever local

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Speaker 1: accommodations were available.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh hell no, Heny, I need that five star rating.

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Speaker 1: You and your four seasons. I cannot with you. Ricky,

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00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: on the other hand, grew a beard, carried a backpack,

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Speaker 1: and rode and beat up cars and trains all over India.

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Speaker 1: He loved the magic of the country and still tries

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Speaker 1: to go back twice a year.

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Speaker 2: Ah, the stars, they're just like us. Sounds like my trips.

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Speaker 1: Back to what is Ricky's time in India infuse centeredness

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Speaker 1: into his life. He said, every morning, my priority is

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Speaker 1: to have my feet on the ground. That's the most

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Speaker 1: important thing. Because after listening to so many people telling

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Speaker 1: you what a good musician you are, how well you

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Speaker 1: perform on stage, you start to live in the clouds.

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Speaker 3: And if you live in the clouds, when you come down,

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Speaker 3: the fall hurts a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's why I have to be strong on the spiritual

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Speaker 1: and emotional level. During these trips, Ricky became aware of

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Speaker 1: the economic and social problems that plagued India.

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Speaker 2: This is all feeling very Sadartha right.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, you're telling me that you haven't read Eat, Pray, Love,

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Speaker 1: but you've read Siddharta.

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Speaker 2: Levels, lils, there are levels to me.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and two, Martin witnessed the horrors of

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Speaker 1: human trafficking as he rescued three girls living in the

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Speaker 1: impover streets of India. Preventing these girls from falling prey

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Speaker 1: to this horrendous crime was a personal awakening. Ricky not

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Speaker 1: only talked about what he saw, but he took action.

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Speaker 1: His experience influenced him so much that it later led

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Speaker 1: him to the creation of the Ricky Martin Foundation to

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Speaker 1: defend children's rights, be it sexual exploitation or child trafficking.

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Speaker 2: Wow, he really is a good person.

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Speaker 3: He's such a good person.

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Speaker 1: Ricky, strengthened by his spiritual and social work, or is

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Speaker 1: ready to take another step in his musical career. In

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, after several months of traveling and

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Speaker 1: building his foundation, Ricky found his advocacy, changing his approach

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Speaker 1: to his entire career. He said, it's all about awareness.

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Speaker 1: It's all about talking. It's all about telling people there's

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Speaker 1: a problem that should be attacked. And I will use

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Speaker 1: my music to do this to leave this information out there.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, but we need more Ricky's in the world.

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Speaker 3: I'm inspired to do more.

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Speaker 1: I feel like anytime you see a celebrity putting their

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Speaker 1: fame and their megaphone to good use, it's really inspiring

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Speaker 1: because not everybody does it.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been on a trip that'll changed who

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00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 2: you are? Oh?

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Speaker 3: My god? Absolutely? You know not to get like.

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00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: To emo and oh God, don't start. Don't you pray

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Speaker 2: love me? Bitch? Do not you pray love me? No?

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Speaker 3: I'm being serious.

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Speaker 1: Last month, I actually took a trip down to Tijuana

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Speaker 1: with a charity and a foundation here in la and

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Speaker 1: we all know that there is a terrible immigration crisis

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Speaker 1: happening in this country. And we went to visit a

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Speaker 1: school that was started in a school bus.

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Speaker 3: Because a lot of the images that we.

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Speaker 1: See in news are the grown ups, but you forget

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Speaker 1: these grown ups have children. These children come with their families,

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Speaker 1: and where are they getting educated, where are they going

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Speaker 1: to school? Their entire lives have been disrupted. And so

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Speaker 1: I went down to Tijuana and toured a group of

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Speaker 1: buses that are actually mobile learning centers that go around

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Speaker 1: to different shelters and different places in Tijuana and help

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Speaker 1: bring education and literacy to children under the age of eighteen.

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Speaker 3: It's really incredible.

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Speaker 1: And again, it's not India, and it doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: be India.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the thing is like, this is happening here.

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Speaker 1: This happens at the end of my street, right Like

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00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: this happens in La, this happens in New York, this

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Speaker 1: happened to Chicago, this happens in small towns. So for me,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a trip to India. It was a trip

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Speaker 1: to Tijuana, which is not that far. It's two and

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Speaker 1: a half three hours from La. So yes, that trip

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Speaker 1: was definitely a game changer for me, and I think

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Speaker 1: it can happen on so many levels. I think travel

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Speaker 1: is the way that we change our opinions and our

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Speaker 1: viewpoints on the world.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, but now I'm not even going to tell

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00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 2: you my travel story because that one was just so amazing.

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Speaker 2: I went to Fort Lauderdale alone and it was fun,

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Speaker 2: that's all.

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Speaker 3: There's just like no, okay.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you are minimizing what that trip did

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Speaker 1: for you. So it was a huge opportunity for you

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Speaker 1: to see yourself as an individual who is currently in

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Speaker 1: search of being a better version of yourself. And you

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00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: needed the space of traveling alone without the inhibitions and

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Speaker 1: without the restrictions of others to really see yourself for

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Speaker 1: the first time.

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Speaker 2: There you said it. That is all true, folks, and

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Speaker 2: I encourage everyone to travel alone.

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Speaker 3: If you haven't, it's literally good for your soul.

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you there is nothing more liberating and

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Speaker 1: exciting than traveling alone.

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Speaker 3: Ricky found his way.

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Speaker 1: He found a spiritual path, an artistic voice, and a

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Speaker 1: way to give back to the world that wasn't just

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Speaker 1: about the music.

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Speaker 2: And that's why Ricky Martin is one of the most

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Speaker 2: influential artists in the world.

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Speaker 1: There are so many artists that have cited him as inspo.

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Speaker 1: I can't even begin to list them all. They've all

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Speaker 1: benefited from the path that Ricky paved. Singers being able

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Speaker 1: to feel confident enough to sing in their own language

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Speaker 1: and letting the audience find them so true.

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Speaker 2: There's eving this one samba a makalna. I have no

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00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 2: idea what they're saying, but when everyone is lyddy at

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Speaker 2: a Mexican party, you know what song's coming on.

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny talked about Martin's legacy during

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Speaker 1: an episode of Behind the Music. He said this, there's

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Speaker 1: no doubt that he opened the door for an entire

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Speaker 1: generation of Latin artists. I'm doing great things today in

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Speaker 1: the music industry thanks to those doors that he opened.

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny, as we know, has been inspired by Martin

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Speaker 1: since he was a kid, and one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: was that passionate energy that he had.

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Speaker 2: I mean just because I can't get enough vanakaka hell.

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Speaker 1: I love when you sing on this show. We can't

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Speaker 1: afford the songs, but we can't afford you. Bad Bunny

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00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: also mentioned that he's inspired by martin coming out. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to be gay to be inspired by that

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00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: action of honesty and freedom of being yourself against the

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00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: world despite everything you deserve.

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Speaker 2: Hold your horses hanging. We haven't talked about that yet, oh.

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Speaker 3: But we will.

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