Speaker 1: Come Again, a podcast by Honey German. Welcome to another
Speaker 1: episode of Glasses Come Again. I'm excited today. I feel
Speaker 1: like you are my one and only, you know female
Speaker 1: comedian that I connect with being Benita Prodriguez. You're so
Speaker 1: happy you're here, me too, and I know you. It's
Speaker 1: like with stand up you get to know so much
Speaker 1: about the person you're look I know everything about but
Speaker 1: I really don't.
Speaker 2: It feels that way though, I understand what you mean.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of I feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 2: I'm always happy when I'm in New York I Land
Speaker 2: and I just hit the vibration of the city and
Speaker 2: it's it's just like I just get back to.
Speaker 1: It's a good money city. If you're here, I know
Speaker 1: you're moving. I know you're shaking, yes.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know it's just it's just it's just
Speaker 2: on the move. Where in LA can be really I've
Speaker 2: been to l.
Speaker 1: A and I'm like, what's going Is this all we're
Speaker 1: doing today?
Speaker 2: And relaxed.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, you're so used to like call the train,
Speaker 1: call the uber, make a reservation, go here, go there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that LA. I can see how LA can be a
Speaker 1: little bit different. But you're from Miami.
Speaker 2: So I grew up Yeah, I grew up in Miami,
Speaker 2: going back and forth between the Brons.
Speaker 1: And don't take the bronx away from me.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's it's in you. You can't take
Speaker 2: it away. You know, it's it's not just yeah, it
Speaker 2: is ingrained. It's so funny because when people meet me,
Speaker 2: they never asked me if I'm from Miami. No. No,
Speaker 2: they always say what part of New York are you from?
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's it's a very interesting thing because you know,
Speaker 2: Miami people. Miami people have their own language. I don't
Speaker 2: think I've ever really assimilated into the And I love Miami.
Speaker 1: You claim it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. That's where my mom is right now.
Speaker 1: Alaa is she still there?
Speaker 2: She's still there. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I lived in Miami for a little while. Like that's
Speaker 1: what the Dominican are.
Speaker 2: Al. That's how they.
Speaker 1: Im, Oh what is this place? And it's I love
Speaker 1: it there. And even when I'm in Miami, I still
Speaker 1: go get my hair done there. Yeah no, no, that's
Speaker 1: where that neighborhood. Yeah me too, that your mammy is.
Speaker 2: That's where well mommy is now and she's like in
Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale because she went up with my deal. But
Speaker 2: we we were there. She was there for most of
Speaker 2: the time, and I spent a lot of time there.
Speaker 1: It was back and forth, fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: Or I don't know if it was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: It was more Miami than New York. But it's just
Speaker 2: New York. New York doesn't go away.
Speaker 1: You know, who do you have here in the Bronx.
Speaker 2: So I have family here. My cousins are in Astoria.
Speaker 2: They're not in the Bronx any I like a story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: then city everybody is. Everybody is scattered around. They're not
Speaker 2: in the Bronx anymore. But I say, in the Bronx
Speaker 2: when I come here sometimes and it just feel good,
Speaker 2: right Yeah, it feels like the only borough that hasn't
Speaker 2: been gentrified. You know, they've tried, but they haven't been
Speaker 2: able to. They do have some buildings up in the
Speaker 2: Bronx where you could pay five thousand dollars a month,
Speaker 2: right I know, I know. I stay in one of
Speaker 2: those sometimes because I have a friend that lives there.
Speaker 2: But when you go outside and you turn, you spend
Speaker 2: the block, you ride in the hoods.
Speaker 1: It's still the bodies are still the mini guns. We
Speaker 1: own the Bronx. I feel like that's the one borough
Speaker 1: that we're never going to give up.
Speaker 2: I hope they don't. I hope that. I hope we
Speaker 2: keep it forever.
Speaker 1: You know, we have to have a burrow that we
Speaker 1: can go back to. But like to sobro Garden with Jimmy,
Speaker 1: and it's like it's like back in the days, remember
Speaker 1: Jimmy's Bronx Cafe.
Speaker 2: So all those.
Speaker 1: Spots when you go in there, it feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: the original New York. I called the original New York.
Speaker 2: That's what you call the original New York. I yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel that way too. There's something there. I never
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't feel in danger. I feel I
Speaker 2: just I just hit this the beat, you know. I went,
Speaker 2: I went to get something to eat. The last time
Speaker 2: I was there. I stayed there the last the last
Speaker 2: time I stayed with Angelo. The time before that, I
Speaker 2: was in the Bronx and I stayed there and I went,
Speaker 2: I just got I just got up, walked outside and
Speaker 2: just started walking and then I started eating as I went.
Speaker 2: Everywhere I went, I got something different.
Speaker 1: Mostly now that you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: those walking tours that they do.
Speaker 2: But in the Bronx, Yes, in the Bronx.
Speaker 1: What's your go to with the Latino food when you're
Speaker 1: in the Bronx? What you're getting?
Speaker 2: Ah, you know, it's really hard for me because I
Speaker 2: don't eat pork. But I haven't eaten pork since I
Speaker 2: was a kid and you were a kid. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: my grandmother converted to she became a seven day Adventist,
Speaker 2: so we stopped eating pork.
Speaker 1: This is your Dominican grandma.
Speaker 2: My Puerto Rican grandma, and Puerto Ricans eat a lot
Speaker 2: of pork, right, So.
Speaker 1: Just randomly you go to what you like. Why it's
Speaker 1: not even.
Speaker 2: Christmas, No, it's Wednesday. My sister made the other day.
Speaker 2: She was like, I'm cooking. I said, what are you making?
Speaker 1: We'll not like like just ran whole pork shoulder see
Speaker 1: not not a salad.
Speaker 2: No no, And I don't eat it, So you know it.
Speaker 2: It's it's so the battle between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans
Speaker 2: that it's a ridiculous battle. I eat a lot of
Speaker 2: Dominican food. I eat. I gravitate a lot towards it
Speaker 2: because I love fish and I love chio, and you know,
Speaker 2: I like colorad. So that's my that's my goal to
Speaker 2: So even when I'm in the Puerto Rican neighborhood, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll eat an every once in a while. Battle I
Speaker 2: eat a lot of fish. I have a friend who
Speaker 2: posts about me because everywhere I go there's.
Speaker 1: You get like, do you have a fish? Whish the
Speaker 1: whole fish?
Speaker 2: I'll go see.
Speaker 1: Piccolo is mandatory, delicious, bring the whole thing's so good.
Speaker 1: My husban banasizing about that fry fish. He's Puerto Rican,
Speaker 1: I'm Dominican, and he loves it.
Speaker 2: And no, it's delicious, it's delicious.
Speaker 1: Last time we were there, he had the whole fish.
Speaker 1: I'm like, me too, I like fish.
Speaker 2: I love fish. I love seafood. So, okay, your expensive date,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't order anything I can't afford to
Speaker 2: pay for myself.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, they have I'd be like, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm going to be ordering.
Speaker 2: No, me too, but I'm saying, just in case somebody
Speaker 2: wants to splash on me, I'm like, I can pay.
Speaker 2: My grandmother told me that when I was in the hood,
Speaker 2: very young girl. She goes, don't ever go anywhere you
Speaker 2: can't afford to pay for yourself. Don't let no, don't
Speaker 2: ever subject yourself to the humiliation of a man.
Speaker 1: And I feel you because I've kind of like always,
Speaker 1: I've been a kind of like a flexer, Like if
Speaker 1: I go out to you, I'll be like, you want
Speaker 1: me to pay? Because I never wanted no man to
Speaker 1: feel like I needed him. It was always like I
Speaker 1: always have my car, I always have my crib. I
Speaker 1: always had my degrees. I'm like, but you know, New
Speaker 1: Yorkers and Latinas and we're not. We're not gonna let nobody,
Speaker 1: you know, make us feel like lesser up. I got
Speaker 1: my own bread.
Speaker 2: What's the deal?
Speaker 1: You want to mess with me? Yes or no? Nothing
Speaker 1: necess Yeah, I love that. If I mess with you,
Speaker 1: it is because I like you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, me too, you know it's it's life
Speaker 2: is too short to be with somebody that you don't
Speaker 2: like absolutely, And I don't have a strong stomach like that.
Speaker 2: I look at Joe and I'm like, man, I salute
Speaker 2: them because I can't. It's written all over my face. See, you're.
Speaker 1: No football status, no football because I need to be
Speaker 1: with somebody I like. You don't know, no disrespect, Like
Speaker 1: if you have your your sugar daddy, if you have
Speaker 1: you know, somebody older, somebody who's not as attractive, that's
Speaker 1: on you. But when it comes to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but nah, I can't. I don't have the good
Speaker 2: I don't. I wish because my life would have been
Speaker 2: a lot easier, but I don't have it. That's not
Speaker 2: my thing. Where are you now with love? So I'm
Speaker 2: single right now for you enjoy it. I was in
Speaker 2: a long relationship and it didn't work out, and then
Speaker 2: I went and did some trauma therapy because I wanted to.
Speaker 2: I wanted to investigate within myself what were the shortcomings
Speaker 2: and the issues and how I show up in the
Speaker 2: best way that I can, because I don't want to
Speaker 2: be in any more relationships that are so toxic, and
Speaker 2: and I've just been chilling and I've been talking to people,
Speaker 2: you know, I talked to somebody that I kind of like.
Speaker 2: But I'm just taking my time, just you know, really
Speaker 2: just chilling. I've been in a relationship my whole life,
Speaker 2: Like I feel it feels that way, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like your long term relationship after
Speaker 1: long term relationship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, since you were young since I was
Speaker 2: a child. Yeah, so this.
Speaker 1: Is your first time that you're like single.
Speaker 2: This is my first time that I feel like I'm single.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say, I say single andsane, but I
Speaker 2: say it, and you know, in just but I mean,
Speaker 2: I think probably the most healthy that I've been as
Speaker 2: a single person, because before when I was single, I
Speaker 2: would I was I felt like I was missing something,
Speaker 2: like I was incomplete, And it was because of all
Speaker 2: the stuff they taught me when I was a young
Speaker 2: girl and you know, always being told to find a
Speaker 2: good man and not to.
Speaker 1: It's crazy that you say that because my sister, she's
Speaker 1: been single for a while and we were just talking
Speaker 1: yesterday and she's like, can you believe Mom just told
Speaker 1: mely just have a kid as a single person, Like
Speaker 1: what do you mean without a man? And she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just have a kid just so you can check off
Speaker 1: the kid box. I'm like, what's wrong with mom? And
Speaker 1: I don't want to just say Latina moms because the
Speaker 1: pressure of like like all those boxes and it's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Like life is so different now that I
Speaker 1: feel as far as like feeling that pressure like the
Speaker 1: poso like.
Speaker 2: Nah and you know, when I think about some of
Speaker 2: the men that I have, you know, entertained, not all
Speaker 2: been in relationships with some bombs like that, should not
Speaker 2: ever even have the opportunity to know me. Not because
Speaker 2: I'm all that and I think I'm better than anybody,
Speaker 2: but because I if I was in a sane, whole place,
Speaker 2: I would never entertain these clowns. And so I it's
Speaker 2: just the pressure of feeling like, oh, he has a
Speaker 2: good job, he has money, he has a career, and
Speaker 2: and still he's a clown. It's like, I don't you know,
Speaker 2: I think now I feel happy. I'm like, this is
Speaker 2: the first time I've been happy and single. Like I
Speaker 2: remember being in my room and waking up in the
Speaker 2: morning and just realizing that I was free, and I
Speaker 2: just started crying of happiness, happiness, just that for you.
Speaker 2: I was so happy. I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: what it feels like to be to feel like I
Speaker 2: love this quote I belong deeply to myself. That's beautiful,
Speaker 2: because I felt like I belonged to people, you know,
Speaker 2: And it's just it feels good. So I'm chilling. I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying dating, and I don't believe the propaganda I do
Speaker 2: believe if I want to be in a relationship, I
Speaker 2: can be in one. But I don't choose not to.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, I don't want to be in any old,
Speaker 2: raggedy relationship.
Speaker 1: Just to be like I got a man. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: I got a girl. No man, a man?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just like, don't put that on me. I'm
Speaker 2: oh cool, I'm cool. I just don't. I think when
Speaker 2: I think about being in a relationship with a woman,
Speaker 2: I think about myself. I remember my therapist was like,
Speaker 2: would you date you? And I was like, heyll no.
Speaker 1: Like I say it all the time, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how women date women because just so very temperamental,
Speaker 1: very mood.
Speaker 2: I'm a lot.
Speaker 1: I wake up some days I'm like a hold on Nadia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hormones raging, and shit is not where it needs to be.
Speaker 2: Imagine both of us together.
Speaker 1: I just know I crashing out on our period. I
Speaker 1: can't do we are not doing that.
Speaker 2: I have really bad menstrual cycles. So I just was like,
Speaker 2: I'm just chilling. I'm having a good time.
Speaker 1: From relationships, and I love that. Nobody asking you were
Speaker 1: you going while you took that picture, while you posted
Speaker 1: that story, Yes, Yes, that's stressed. Yeah, I wish I
Speaker 1: shouldn't nobody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, also, you know, just enjoying learning myself in a
Speaker 2: way where I've been talking to people and just learning
Speaker 2: I don't like that, or that is a red flag
Speaker 2: for me, or this is a deal breaker, or you know,
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that he did this, or that he
Speaker 2: said that. I've never learned this stuff. I've always been
Speaker 2: told this is what you deserve, this is what you
Speaker 2: should have, and now now that I've learned, No, it's
Speaker 2: not like I'm just enjoying really learning myself in a
Speaker 2: way that I've never been able to do before, because
Speaker 2: I've been in these crazy.
Speaker 1: Relationships so much noise that you can't even hear my
Speaker 1: soul speak to you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And yeah, you know, my ex was very here's
Speaker 2: a lot of opinions. He was always telling me stuff
Speaker 2: about your career everything, just always you know, in authority
Speaker 2: in so many things. A really wise man, but just
Speaker 2: kind of daddy ish, very daddyish. And so when we
Speaker 2: broke up. I remember when I moved, I went to
Speaker 2: a furniture store to because I was furnishing my new
Speaker 2: place and I couldn't make a decision because I couldn't
Speaker 2: get his voice out of my head and I started
Speaker 2: crying in a furniture store because I kept saying, oh,
Speaker 2: he would think this is a stupid move, or he
Speaker 2: would think it to be able to unpack that like
Speaker 2: in therapy and all of this stuff. I had just
Speaker 2: become the epitome of the women that I used to
Speaker 2: the size when I was younger. I'm never gonna be
Speaker 2: like that. And I had just become like that because
Speaker 2: I didn't allow myself a moment to just listen to
Speaker 2: my own voice. I was always listening to the voice
Speaker 2: of the man in my life, and it just became
Speaker 2: so overwhelming and so boring to listen to somebody just
Speaker 2: because they say.
Speaker 1: So, and then you start trusting their opinion more than
Speaker 1: your own.
Speaker 2: And based on nothing of merit. You're like, you know,
Speaker 2: just thinking back, like why did I listen to this
Speaker 2: person and do this because they told me to look
Speaker 2: at their life, like why are you listening to these people?
Speaker 2: So and I know I'm long winded about the subject
Speaker 2: because I want young women, especially younger women that are
Speaker 2: always being told within our culture, yeah, look for yourself
Speaker 2: and find yourself before you go looking for somebody udos.
Speaker 1: And that's true. You know, find who you are and
Speaker 1: you know if your partner comes and that also, like
Speaker 1: that's searching on the apps on this the dms can see.
Speaker 1: That's got to be exhausting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't. I mean, I've met people that
Speaker 2: I've gone out on date with, uh dates with through
Speaker 2: social media who've d M me, but it's because it's
Speaker 2: people that I know that know somebody that I know.
Speaker 2: But that's not my goal to for dating. And the
Speaker 2: apps just don't work for me.
Speaker 1: People recognize you, like on the apps, they know exactly
Speaker 1: what you use, your your full name.
Speaker 2: No I don't, but no, but you know I have
Speaker 2: guys when they figure out who I am. This is
Speaker 2: the worst on the apps. I got a joke for you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, my god, please don't do that.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's like they'll tell you the joke and
Speaker 2: you're like.
Speaker 1: I was like, left, that's not funny.
Speaker 2: On Match Yeah, on Match, I want my rolls back,
Speaker 2: like everything every whatever's on the app. Look, so I
Speaker 2: am not on an app.
Speaker 1: Let's talk comedy.
Speaker 2: Let's talk comedy.
Speaker 1: I love you on stage, thank you. That's special when
Speaker 1: you have the shorts I'm sorry, I couldn't focus on
Speaker 1: nothing but your legs. I appreciate she got these good
Speaker 1: ass legs. She got these shorts, she's moisturized. Like, I
Speaker 1: love watching that special just because of the way you look.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: The jokes are good too, Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 1: you just look so good. And you know it's because
Speaker 1: I expected you to be tall, because I'm like, she
Speaker 1: don't got little legs, good tall woman legs. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I my grandmother was. I'm not saying yo what I'm weak, right, My.
Speaker 2: Grandmother Dominican grandmother, my Puerto Rican grandmother. I never met
Speaker 2: my Dominican grandmother, so I grew up with my Puerto
Speaker 2: Rican grandmother was a matriarch of my family. Either I'm
Speaker 2: her namesake, but we grew. I grew up with this
Speaker 2: woman whose shoes always matched her purse. You know, she
Speaker 2: never went out Nagula. She used to get her hair
Speaker 2: done every Friday. Yeah, her nails were always done, and
Speaker 2: it rubbed off on me, you know, Like I used
Speaker 2: to go to the salon with her, Milady Salon for
Speaker 2: the blowout every week, and so I just remembered her
Speaker 2: when I when I went on television, because she used
Speaker 2: to love to watch TV and she would always comment
Speaker 2: on the women being a legante and dressed well. So
Speaker 2: I always I honor her that way. So when I
Speaker 2: do my comedy specials, I'm always gonna dress up and
Speaker 2: wear my heels and my makeup. It's me paying homage
Speaker 2: to Mayamila.
Speaker 1: And you're doing a goddamn chop.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You look absolutely amazing. Now you're also an author, you're
Speaker 1: also an actress, you're also a producer. How many hats
Speaker 1: does Idea Rodriguez wear?
Speaker 2: You know, I wear many? Your mom too, I am
Speaker 2: a mom.
Speaker 1: I forgot the most important title.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, No, you don't have to apologize for that.
Speaker 2: That's That's been the greatest gift for me. And now
Speaker 2: that I'm stepping into just becoming AIVA for Eiva, it's
Speaker 2: been fun wearing a lot of hats. What I have
Speaker 2: made a decision and is that whatever hat I'm wearing
Speaker 2: at the time, that's the hat I'm dedicated to so
Speaker 2: that I can do a good job. Because I see
Speaker 2: a lot of people putting on all the hats at
Speaker 2: the same time. And I'm an artist, so I like
Speaker 2: to express myself differently. I don't have that narcissistic trait
Speaker 2: that a lot of artists have that they need to
Speaker 2: be recognized and acknowledged and seen.
Speaker 1: I don't get that from you at all.
Speaker 2: It's not my thing. So, like I directed these comedy
Speaker 2: specials for these comedians and Dominican Ian Laura, who's a
Speaker 2: brilliant voice, and Marcella. I love just showing up in
Speaker 2: my jeans with my sneakers and just directing them and
Speaker 2: putting shining the light on them. I just like to create.
Speaker 2: It's this that's where that's where my sweet spot is.
Speaker 2: So I am a writer though the writing is probably
Speaker 2: the foundation of everything that I do.
Speaker 1: It's like the ground up right, Yeah, even even with
Speaker 1: your comedy, it's like you write the material and then
Speaker 1: you take it from there. So I can see. And
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you know, you mentioned working
Speaker 1: with other women that do what you do, because in
Speaker 1: some spaces, women feel like if I bring you up,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna eat absolutely not. You know, they close doors,
Speaker 1: they gatekeep, so you know you working with you know,
Speaker 1: other women. I love that. It makes me happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it, And I think it's important because
Speaker 2: when you think about latinas in the business, if we
Speaker 2: are really honest, the ones who are very visible, you
Speaker 2: can't think of other women that they've ushered into fame.
Speaker 2: They're too insecure. You know a lot of Latinas in
Speaker 2: the business, and I know people I'm gonna get flack
Speaker 2: for this, but I don't care because we've been over sexualized.
Speaker 2: We're always very much objectified, and we become a shell
Speaker 2: this physical and then we start getting older and then
Speaker 2: what now, Because it's twenty five million beautiful young girls
Speaker 2: that just got off a bus that want to be stars,
Speaker 2: and it's like, you can't insulate yourself from reality. You
Speaker 2: can be you can be around all the people you
Speaker 2: want to that lie to you and tell you everything
Speaker 2: you want to hear, but somebody's coming for it, right
Speaker 2: And so I think it's just sad because, like we
Speaker 2: were talking about this the other day, like name, I
Speaker 2: don't I'm not naming names, but you say, who who
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen that such and such brought into
Speaker 2: the fold so that they could shine? You don't see that,
Speaker 2: you know, And it's it's really sad in our community
Speaker 2: because Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts are best friends and
Speaker 2: they're both have very successful careers. You know, Tina Fey
Speaker 2: and Amy Poehler are best friends. They have successful careers.
Speaker 2: They compliment each other, they show up in each other's
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift and Slanta Gomez. But when you
Speaker 2: think about latinas, you know, you're like why, like, why
Speaker 2: are you so afraid to show up? You know? For me?
Speaker 2: You know, I've been blessed because I have Tiffany how
Speaker 2: it showed up for me. I love, That's why the
Speaker 2: sights showed up for me. You know, Memi Voudez showed
Speaker 2: up for me. You know. But it's just it's a rarity.
Speaker 2: It's when I say, would be that, and it's just
Speaker 2: like why, Like there's room for everybody. And if you're
Speaker 2: at the top and you are at the head honcho
Speaker 2: and you got all the money, you got all the followers,
Speaker 2: you winning, winning, winning, what is ushering another younger woman
Speaker 2: or another woman period? How is that gonna shake you
Speaker 2: in any way?
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think, you know, it stems because it's across
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, different occupations, whether it be acting, oh, comedy, radio.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think it comes from us not having that
Speaker 1: many spots. Let's say a white man in comedy or
Speaker 1: even a black man in comedy. There's a thousand spots.
Speaker 1: And maybe for Latina, maybe we feel like, oh no,
Speaker 1: if I bring you in, you're going to take my spot,
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to cease to exist. Sure, and
Speaker 1: that you know that mentality has to be That's like
Speaker 1: the same thing with me. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: just because I work with someone, Let's say they want
Speaker 1: to launch a podcast, they want to launch a TV show,
Speaker 1: I'm like, put me down, where do I show up?
Speaker 1: I don't feel like if I help someone, I'm going
Speaker 1: to cease to exist because I am very much about
Speaker 1: you know, abundance mentality.
Speaker 2: That's right, when you.
Speaker 1: Put it out, you get it back. But yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're listening and you know you're in a space where
Speaker 1: you can help, actually do it, Yeah, hold the back
Speaker 1: door open.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what it is. It's also entrepreneurialship. It's
Speaker 2: really intelligent to do stuff like that, because oh, Angie
Speaker 2: Martinez is another one that has showed up for me.
Speaker 2: You know, she's that's my o G. Yeah, she's she's
Speaker 2: given me opportunities, she's interviewed me lovely. She shows up,
Speaker 2: but she brought Selena's to my show, like the the
Speaker 2: idea of creating opportunities. Ray is a great example of
Speaker 2: that because she always talks about reaching across. You know,
Speaker 2: Donald Glover, they've made other people stars. That just that's
Speaker 2: good for business. Of course, that creates more, that creates
Speaker 2: more roads, you know, like Donald Glover, do you think
Speaker 2: about he did Atlanta? La Keith, Brian and Zazzi are
Speaker 2: all stars. Now, that's smart. And Donald Glover did.
Speaker 1: Not stop being a star as a result of that,
Speaker 1: so he would be like, now I'm a childish, can't
Speaker 1: be no yah, Donald Glover. I remember it was back
Speaker 1: and forth depending on what we would report on we
Speaker 1: would change the name. Yeah, well yeah, and look where
Speaker 1: is now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And that's what that's what makes her, you know,
Speaker 2: so phenomenal. And I just do not understand what it's
Speaker 2: going to take for us to do that with each other,
Speaker 2: you know, because I love I would love to see
Speaker 2: that in the market.
Speaker 1: I feel like in this room, you know, we're on
Speaker 1: like probably like episode like fifty or sixty. And I've
Speaker 1: said that with everything I'm talking like you know, actors, comedians, photographers,
Speaker 1: you know, like and Luis Gusmann came and he was like,
Speaker 1: I was told I had to come do this same
Speaker 1: thing with David Zayas from all Right, David. He was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, they told me I had to come here.
Speaker 1: So I feel like rooms like this are creating the whole.
Speaker 1: Let's help each other. I love it, you know, and
Speaker 1: I love that. It's like that Chapolanco came, and then
Speaker 1: after that, Shep Bolanca came, like some my coasts came.
Speaker 1: I mean, my co stars came, and it's like it's created,
Speaker 1: but it starts with us. It very much starts with
Speaker 1: us absolutely, because this didn't exist. And I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna create this and I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: people up here. And then Arlene mc was here and
Speaker 1: she's like, I want to work with Cardi and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got to reach out to Carti. And then the
Speaker 1: other day Carti was playing her song and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen for her.
Speaker 2: I love that. Love. So we're gaining.
Speaker 1: Traction, especially here in New York. We just had the
Speaker 1: New York Latino Film Festival, I know, and we were
Speaker 1: just all promoting each other and it's showing up to movies.
Speaker 1: I would want to say that, you know, we're trying.
Speaker 1: Yeah here in New York, my circle, I feel like
Speaker 1: we are generally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds great. I love it. You know, you're
Speaker 2: naming people that I know and people who do show up.
Speaker 2: David Zayas and e Liza, They're they're amazing. They both
Speaker 2: are amazing. They've come to see me perform at the
Speaker 2: Yonkers Comedy Club and he brought Liza to the show.
Speaker 2: He was like, you know, my wife really like loves you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, are you kidding me? I love her.
Speaker 2: I've watched The Bear because of her and louisambiing. You know,
Speaker 2: I just think I.
Speaker 1: Feel like, also, the climate we're in right now is
Speaker 1: really forcing us to we have to show up for
Speaker 1: each other and support each other and post our movies
Speaker 1: and post our comedy specials and post our podcasts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have another option. You see what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: We have to band together more than ever.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I agree. Callisto does a lot of work.
Speaker 1: He's amazing. I had him up here. Him and Manny
Speaker 1: Perez came up here. They have a dope movie. Add
Speaker 1: only feels out now. I was like, Jesus, I saw you.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, but I saw It's an amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing I want to watch. Yeah. Yeah, because Elvis know
Speaker 2: Lasco had a short film that was in at the festival. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's always supporting new filmmakers. So yeah. I actually
Speaker 2: the New York Latino Film Festival hosted one of the
Speaker 2: comedy events that I did. I hosted it for them,
Speaker 2: but it was through them, the comedy competition. Like they've
Speaker 2: been very involved in comedy with Latinos.
Speaker 1: And I say it all the time. When that happens,
Speaker 1: we have to all mobilize, we have to show up.
Speaker 1: They're honoring Michelle Rodriiez. They're showing the Bad Bunny cost
Speaker 1: on forty second Street. I know Time Square is not
Speaker 1: the best place to be, especially when you're in New Yorker.
Speaker 1: You tend to like reject it. I know Bad Bunny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're streaming his last concert. Let's talk Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2: I have time. I love it. I'm so happy. Hope
Speaker 2: is that it's amazing. You know, I love Bad Bunny
Speaker 2: for so many reasons. I've loved him for a very
Speaker 2: long time. The guy who directed my comedy special, Fighting Words,
Speaker 2: Chris Medgado worked a lot with Bad Bunny before Bad
Speaker 2: Bunny blew up up like that at that kid loves
Speaker 2: the island. He doesn't want to leave like we have
Speaker 2: to go to him. He loves Puerto Rico in a
Speaker 2: way that is pure. And I'm very excited that he
Speaker 2: is going to bring this to this stage because regardless
Speaker 2: of what all these racists, crazy people are saying, Bad
Speaker 2: Bunny is going to elevate the Super Bowl and take
Speaker 2: it to places that it isn't. He's going to take
Speaker 2: that show and make it really a global affair in
Speaker 2: a way that it hasn't been. And ever they are
Speaker 2: smart to do that.
Speaker 1: Listen, it's a marketing move, it's a business move. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody has say. They're going to
Speaker 1: be watching and they're going to be watching in Columbia
Speaker 1: and Venezuela and able to do you understand what they
Speaker 1: just did. They don't care about just Middle America white
Speaker 1: man watching the Super Bowl. They understood the assignment. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're going to.
Speaker 2: Global with this. And I mean, in the last few years,
Speaker 2: you know, Kendrick dre and Bad Bunny have been the
Speaker 2: very few Americans who have played the Super Bowl because
Speaker 2: you saw yeah, because you two and Enrique Lesias, those
Speaker 2: are not American citis. I didn't even know Shania Twain
Speaker 2: was not in America.
Speaker 1: Even the weekend from Canada. They were like, Shaquia Columbia,
Speaker 1: I love, but it's true. You know, it is true.
Speaker 2: And he's like one of the few Americans that have been,
Speaker 2: that have been, that are performing at the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And listen, Puerto Rico is fine. Puerto Rico would can
Speaker 2: be fine by itself without the United States. My dream
Speaker 2: is for Puerto Rico to be liberated from this curse
Speaker 2: of being. You know, people think that that America has
Speaker 2: made Puerto Rico better. It is not. It has, you know,
Speaker 2: cut us off at the knees. And I believe for
Speaker 2: that island, even though I live on in the States.
Speaker 2: But when we had Hurricane Maria, I was on the
Speaker 2: ground already raising money, already sending stuff over there, putting
Speaker 2: roofs on people's houses, electricity, sending kits, because that's home,
Speaker 2: that's the motherland. And I dream for free Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll live to see that day?
Speaker 2: I hope so, I hope so. I believe in it.
Speaker 2: I don't. I think that, you know, fascism and white supremacy, oppression, colonialism,
Speaker 2: what part of the trick is to make you believe
Speaker 2: that it'll never end and that it'll never go away.
Speaker 2: And I refuse to accept that.
Speaker 1: I always bring that up. I always always my husbands
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican and I always be like, do you think
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico will ever liberate themselves from the United States?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have to, we have to, We have to say,
Speaker 2: because the reality is is that it's not great there.
Speaker 2: It's not you know, they haven't they're not doing anything
Speaker 2: but poaching the island.
Speaker 1: Oh that that's a whole No, the topic now it's like,
Speaker 1: now let's take the island, let's build these mansions, let's
Speaker 1: take advantage of these tax laws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, taking there is and you know, like when the
Speaker 2: comedian that said that Puerto Rico was a floating piece
Speaker 2: of garbage, I was like, I agree, you know, it
Speaker 2: is a floating piece of garbage because it's full of
Speaker 2: white people that have come there to gentrify the island.
Speaker 2: There are less there are more Puerto Ricans outside the mainland,
Speaker 2: and then then on the on the mainland, then on
Speaker 2: the island. So, yeah, it's a floating piece of garbage.
Speaker 2: You got a bunch of white colonizers that are there
Speaker 2: destroying and infecting our islands. So you're right, it is
Speaker 2: a floating piece of garbage, and we'd like to clean
Speaker 2: it up. We want so come get your man's I
Speaker 2: love this conversation.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like, you know, connected, because
Speaker 1: I'm like everything's saying it's the same exact way that
Speaker 1: I feel because it's something that I always I want
Speaker 1: for Puerto Rico. YEAHCA to be you know independent again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something to the fact that they've always been told,
Speaker 2: you know, you need the States for what? For what?
Speaker 2: To sterilize our grandmothers, you know, for what? For what
Speaker 2: to come and bring and gentrify our land, to try
Speaker 2: to kill our coquie. Like, what do we need you all?
Speaker 1: My mother in law us perto Rican, she said, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck.
Speaker 2: Is going on? What do we need you for? I
Speaker 2: don't know, you tell me what we need you for?
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: I just said, give me that answer.
Speaker 2: I need it. I'm sure some of the dummies will
Speaker 2: show up in my comments section.
Speaker 1: You know, it'll be fine. Listen, it'll be fine. It's
Speaker 1: a reality. And you know, as as Latinos and you
Speaker 1: know Puerto rican you see it differently than the way
Speaker 1: you know America sees it, whether it be black, white,
Speaker 1: or whatever it is for us is different. And when
Speaker 1: I visit, I see it, I feel it. And I
Speaker 1: was reading something that they were like, there's like three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand like vacant homes in Puerto Rico, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful island. There is a reason why these
Speaker 1: homes are empty. You know, there is a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff with you know, the passing down of the homes
Speaker 1: and the people were not being in order, but people
Speaker 1: leaving instead of choosing to going to fix this.
Speaker 2: We have a corrupt government that is negotiating the island
Speaker 2: and becoming sick of fans of this administration and they
Speaker 2: have been, you know, participating in the poaching. You have
Speaker 2: real estate agents who do not respond to you if
Speaker 2: you have a Latino surname. Because we were trying to
Speaker 2: buy wal Term Medicago's house and the realtors would not
Speaker 2: would not respond to us. And who is me? You?
Speaker 2: And it was just me and my just people in
Speaker 2: my life that have been Yeah, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: preserve it. I wanted to it was it's a it's
Speaker 2: it's something beautiful that belongs you know, that belongs to us.
Speaker 2: It's culture for us. No, they sold it to gringo
Speaker 2: and and it's because a lot of us who hate
Speaker 2: ourselves are participating, and you know, in the destruction of
Speaker 2: what our great grandparents and our ancestors built, and they're
Speaker 2: going to pay for that.
Speaker 1: We should be preserving. Yeah, absolutely, like I said, should
Speaker 1: be a museum. Absolutely, all his robes, everything he stood for,
Speaker 1: all his photographs, like they sold that.
Speaker 2: You know how many times I reached out to the
Speaker 2: sold that house to a retired man or something like
Speaker 2: what they would not do. You know how many times
Speaker 2: I have all the emails, I have the receipts, they
Speaker 2: would not respond. And then somebody finally told me they're
Speaker 2: not going to respond to you because of your last name.
Speaker 2: Tell one of your wife friends to email them for you.
Speaker 1: We got to make fake emails.
Speaker 2: As if our money doesn't spend you know.
Speaker 1: You would think that if you're Latino realtor in Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: you'll be like, yes, let's preserve this, mam. We got
Speaker 1: to mobilize. We got to make sure she gets this.
Speaker 1: So my mind is blown.
Speaker 2: Right. You know that the politician in Puerto Rico that
Speaker 2: was speaking about what was happening with the ice, he
Speaker 2: went off. I forgot his name. I follow him. He
Speaker 2: goes so and he just went in on this rant
Speaker 2: and I felt him and my soul like you know,
Speaker 2: I I pray for the day that we learned to
Speaker 2: love ourselves, because that's from their stem. So many of
Speaker 2: our issues that we hate ourselves. We want to be
Speaker 2: in proximity to whiteness so bad, and those people don't
Speaker 2: mess with us like that. Not all white people, but
Speaker 2: the white people you want to appeal to, they don't
Speaker 2: mess with you like that you think they do. They
Speaker 2: just it's opportunity, bro. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I've I've always rejected. It's something in
Speaker 1: my family as far as like you know, wanting to
Speaker 1: be white, wanting to marry white, wanting to talk white.
Speaker 1: And they made me fully rejected. I'm like, nah, YoY,
Speaker 1: I said, I was born and raised here, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be extra Dominicana Malcolm Mela Comedia. I've gone
Speaker 1: to the forty times, I'm like, I'm gonna visit my island.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do what you people are doing.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that, you know, whitewashing myself as a
Speaker 1: Latina is going to make me better, more profitable.
Speaker 2: No, it's sad though. It just makes me sad because
Speaker 2: I know, you know, some people don't know better, and
Speaker 2: if you don't know better, you can't do better. Right.
Speaker 2: They don't have the benefit of an education. They don't
Speaker 2: And that's the biggest problem that we have is a
Speaker 2: poor education. But some of these these super successful people
Speaker 2: that should know better, right, that that's the one. Those
Speaker 2: are the ones that burned me. Because family.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about?
Speaker 2: That's gonna be me for like, it's not.
Speaker 1: That's my word ever ever, And you know it's I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, we've been saying what we want
Speaker 1: and that's the name of your podcast.
Speaker 2: Say what you mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, say what you mean?
Speaker 2: Yes, say what you mean. I think, you know, it's
Speaker 2: important for people to express themselves. I think that even
Speaker 2: though Latinos always say, you know, right, that's the thing
Speaker 2: we I say what I say, but I say what
Speaker 2: I want to say. Nothing's going to keep me from
Speaker 2: saying I keep it real, I keep it a stack.
Speaker 2: But every body that comes on that show will tell
Speaker 2: you the most bold people that I know will be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: there was this time. Because there's always a moment where
Speaker 2: we wish we would say something and we don't. And
Speaker 2: we've been taught that some things are better left unsaid.
Speaker 2: We don't want to rock the boat. We're afraid, and
Speaker 2: so I want to create I wanted to create a
Speaker 2: save space where people could come and say it on
Speaker 2: the Internet for everybody to hear it, and for a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 1: People that can be very scary, you know, even sometimes
Speaker 1: topics that I, you know, take on here sometimes like
Speaker 1: I had to snow the product on I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 1: you know, and me and were going in and my
Speaker 1: BRIDU was like, are you sure, And I'm like, absolutely,
Speaker 1: if I'm saying it, I believe it, I feel it,
Speaker 1: I mean it now.
Speaker 2: She's yeah, I know somebody I love. I was. I
Speaker 2: was on our page the other day because somebody said
Speaker 2: I've never really heard her say she was Mexican, and
Speaker 2: then she pulled out the receipt all the way back.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's all I've always known her to be.
Speaker 1: West Coast Mexican Ghana. But I hate the hold the
Speaker 1: mucho online. I'm like, yo, the ship people say online,
Speaker 1: say it the person say it to my face. Never, No,
Speaker 1: there's no accountability, Say what you mean?
Speaker 2: How did you?
Speaker 1: How did you decide I'm to do podcasting?
Speaker 2: Also, so you know, my my manager and I were
Speaker 2: talking about a podcast in radio. Right I did radio?
Speaker 2: I don't. I wouldn't say I started in in the
Speaker 2: beginning of your career. Well, you know, I dabbled in.
Speaker 2: I would do underground radio in Miami. But I I
Speaker 2: respect journalists and I think that as a comedian because
Speaker 2: so many people. You know, somebody will kiss a cat
Speaker 2: on YouTube and get ten million views and now they're
Speaker 2: a comedian. So I try to respect people's crafts I feel.
Speaker 2: And so journalism is not easy, you know, being doing
Speaker 2: radio is not easy. People think that, you know, you
Speaker 2: just show up and start talking.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, listen, just the nerves. I've been in
Speaker 1: radio ten years and every time you hit that button
Speaker 1: broad I know you got to compose yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're on stage, the nerves ain't easy.
Speaker 2: No, it's a job, it's a it's a career. It's
Speaker 2: a craft, it's a skill. So yeah, I've done it before,
Speaker 2: but not real radio radio as a like a real
Speaker 2: radio journalist. And but I we were talking about a podcast.
Speaker 2: I had a podcast before, I Truth Serum, and I
Speaker 2: did Truth Serum through COVID and it just got really
Speaker 2: heavy and it was it was much very necessary at
Speaker 2: the time. You know, Ben Crump did it and Lathan
Speaker 2: did it. Like I had a lot of people come
Speaker 2: through and do it. Killer Killer, Mike did it.
Speaker 1: Well, these have yeah, don't give us the truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they came and did it. It was a really
Speaker 2: it was during the protest, George Floyd's lynching all of
Speaker 2: that stuff. So we had and it was great, but
Speaker 2: it ended because you know, all things have to end.
Speaker 2: And then so for this one, when I said I
Speaker 2: wanted to do another podcast, we were talking about it.
Speaker 2: I wanted it to also have some levity and to
Speaker 2: be fun and people to see that side of me
Speaker 2: because Truth Serum have been so heavy and so and
Speaker 2: I wanted to keep it short. It's a thirty minute
Speaker 2: podcast and it's fun. I've had some of some great
Speaker 2: people sat Lena's Leva has done it. She's yeah, I
Speaker 2: can't remember anybody right now because I'm sleep deprived. But
Speaker 2: we've had some really good interviews, some really great people
Speaker 2: to stop by and sit in that seat, and I'm
Speaker 2: just really excited about it because I've also had a'mou
Speaker 2: forty nine. I've done forty nine episodes.
Speaker 1: That's dope. But you haven't pushed them all out just yet.
Speaker 2: No, they're they're are all forty. Yeah, we're on hiatus
Speaker 2: right now and we go back at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the year for our fourth season.
Speaker 1: You're on break right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you doing when you're on break?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm on the road. I'm touring because I'm getting
Speaker 2: ready for a new hour that I'm going to shoot
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year. So that's why I'm here.
Speaker 2: I've been doing some stand up. I also was hosting
Speaker 2: a book event with a Dominican writer, Alejandro Edida, which
Speaker 2: you should know. He wrote a book called Loca, just
Speaker 2: got nominated for an award, and it's a beautiful novel
Speaker 2: about a Dominican queer kid. Uh, these queer kids in
Speaker 2: the Dominican Republic and here, and it's it's it's really
Speaker 2: really a beautiful novel. And so I hosted that we had.
Speaker 2: We did a say what you Mean episode about the
Speaker 2: book yesterday. But I'm here working on my stand up
Speaker 2: and I'm shooting a movie. I'm in a movie called
Speaker 2: Hurricane Seasons. I shot part of it here in August
Speaker 2: and I go to Puerto Rico next month to shoot
Speaker 2: for a month. It's gonna come out. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure next year. Yeah, because we finished shooting at the
Speaker 2: end of December. And Elvis Nolasco's in it. Alicual who's Dominican.
Speaker 2: She's my daughter A Journesco nachosen it. She played Lisa Lisa.
Speaker 2: She was here in Alsa Lisa movie. I got to
Speaker 2: hit her up. A Louis Bonsa is in it like
Speaker 2: it's it's really because yeah, we're going back and forth
Speaker 2: between the islands. So yeah, we're shooting that. And then
Speaker 2: when I come back, I go back to the podcast
Speaker 2: and then I do my special.
Speaker 1: You're busy, You're moving, gotta stay busy. Listen getting to
Speaker 1: that coin to.
Speaker 2: See you know, I'm okay. I'm working on my getting
Speaker 2: my Dominican citizenship right now. To get we have to
Speaker 2: go back and regentrify our islands. We have to go
Speaker 2: back to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and lead
Speaker 2: by example and buy property there and raise the property
Speaker 2: value and our and our mother lands. It is important
Speaker 2: it starts with us.
Speaker 1: Definitely, I got some property out there, Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2: You look like you got some property.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. My mother is actually there now. My mother, she's
Speaker 1: always been about real estate. My mother has apartments, houses,
Speaker 1: commercial buildings. She don't invest her money and nothing but
Speaker 1: real estate. She's like, you're selling, then she runs them
Speaker 1: and then she takes all the money. You know, Dominican Alpine,
Speaker 1: you got her own lands. But I love Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: Santo Domingo. I posted, I'm like, yo, this is dope.
Speaker 1: Come here, come to this hotel you know something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But definitely by the properties, especially Puerto Rico. Man, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of properties. You get yourself a nice house
Speaker 1: where you could go back and make sure you bring
Speaker 1: your kids there and be like, this is where we're from.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: We can't really separate ourselves too much, even if we
Speaker 1: were born here. Yep, I say, I'm Dominican.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: You know some people like Dominican American. I'm like just Dominican.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Puerto Rican, and I'm Puerto Rican and Dominican
Speaker 2: because my father's Dominican. I grew up with my Puerto
Speaker 2: Rican family. But I don't feel like I should have
Speaker 2: to say I'm Puerto Rican American because Puerto Rican is American.
Speaker 2: And I'm tired of them doing that.
Speaker 1: All that's right, that right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, it's it's it's it's unnecessary to say that.
Speaker 2: That's them othering us. But you know, I love us,
Speaker 2: I love my people, and I look forward to the
Speaker 2: day where we are victorious, which is all the time,
Speaker 2: we do great things. In spite of all the things
Speaker 2: that they've done to us and try to hold us back,
Speaker 2: were still standing and we still make it happen.
Speaker 1: We're winning, you know, We're leading, and no matter how
Speaker 1: they want to paint us, we're gonna fight back.
Speaker 2: That's right. We're always gonna win.
Speaker 1: We're gonna show them we're gonna be like someone. We
Speaker 1: got our degrees, we got our careers, we got our cribs,
Speaker 1: we got our whips, we go on vacations. We're just
Speaker 1: as good as any other race.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I want to thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Today. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I want you to go to your hotel, get some.
Speaker 2: Sleep, and get ready for my shows.
Speaker 1: Get ready for your shows. Are you gonna be able
Speaker 1: to sleep before you go to those shows?
Speaker 2: Probably not because I don't. It's just it's just because
Speaker 2: I'm only here for a few days, the time difference
Speaker 2: between LA.
Speaker 1: So forget about I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't get with the jet lag.
Speaker 2: But but I come here every month because I have
Speaker 2: to come here for stand up and I wasn't because
Speaker 2: that had become so busy in l A and I
Speaker 2: was working on some other stuff. But now that I'm back,
Speaker 2: because I was here a few weeks ago, I get
Speaker 2: used to it.
Speaker 1: Bring bring your ass back.
Speaker 2: I love it here.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy we got to talk.
Speaker 2: I know you're a little bit better.
Speaker 1: We didn't joke around too much. But it's okay. I
Speaker 1: can watch you on TV.
Speaker 2: You can come to a show, you can show you want.
Speaker 1: You'll hear me right in the background.
Speaker 2: Person is coming to the shows tomorrow. Really, she comes.
Speaker 2: When I directed the special, she was there when I
Speaker 2: was in Puerto Rico and the Dominican republiced shooting the
Speaker 2: documentary from my special. She came to Puerto Rico. She
Speaker 2: shows up.
Speaker 1: Angeliae's a real one.
Speaker 2: I love her. Yeah no, she told me the same
Speaker 2: about you, that we're good.
Speaker 1: But you know, I want to really really thank you
Speaker 1: for showing up today, you know yours.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. This is beautiful.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: We need you.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm working.
Speaker 2: Album.
Speaker 1: Are you a photographer, your director? As long as you
Speaker 1: know you're part of MICHAELA. I'm going to support you.
Speaker 1: Meicano Clad put.
Speaker 2: In the word I will.
Speaker 1: You'll see Grassiers and come again.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
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