Speaker 1: I Am all in Again.
Speaker 2: I Am all in Again with Scott Patterson in iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Stars.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, it's so good to see everybody here. Too
Speaker 1: bad it's so freezing cold. Happy Mother's Day to all
Speaker 1: the mothers out there, just no kids. Those mothers work
Speaker 1: hard every single day. They're the most special people in
Speaker 1: the world. So thank you for coming. How do you
Speaker 1: like the pancakes so far? And listen get ready to
Speaker 1: fall in Love with Gilmore Girls all over again on
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Speaker 1: got that going. Here we go. These are the pancakes,
Speaker 1: huh this? And you're gonna be able to buy these
Speaker 1: pretty soon at the WB Studio store dot com. And
Speaker 1: there's also a twenty fifth anniversary blend that you're gonna love,
Speaker 1: So there you go. You might be enjoying that right now.
Speaker 1: You know, Mother's Day is a day that is very
Speaker 1: special to me. I lost my mother in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, and I think she'd be proud of me.
Speaker 1: She made me everything I am today from our long
Speaker 1: talks in our tiny little kitchen, drinking Folger's freeze dried
Speaker 1: coffee crystals, and we didn't really map out this scenario,
Speaker 1: but it was something big and that I had big
Speaker 1: dreams and she encouraged it. And every time I walked
Speaker 1: out the door from the time I can remember to
Speaker 1: go do what I was doing, she would say one
Speaker 1: thing to me, and that was give him hell son.
Speaker 1: And I've tried to teach my own son to do that,
Speaker 1: to walk out the door and try your best, because
Speaker 1: that's what she meant. As we were driving into the
Speaker 1: studio today with my wife and son, and I was
Speaker 1: looking at my wife saying, what a wonderful mother she
Speaker 1: has been to our son. There was a movie poster
Speaker 1: at the red light before we were to turn into
Speaker 1: Gate two of a Formula one. It's Brad Pitt's new movie.
Speaker 1: And my wife was fixated on that for some reason.
Speaker 1: I can't figure it out. And I said, hun, can
Speaker 1: you turn back away from the poster a little bit?
Speaker 4: It's Mother's Day?
Speaker 1: And she turned and she.
Speaker 5: Said, no, no, no, no, it's not his face, honey, it's
Speaker 5: the body. Okay, So, but she's the most wonderful woman
Speaker 5: on earth. It's been twenty five years.
Speaker 1: It's our twenty five year anniversary since I met this
Speaker 1: very special lady, and Honey, I love you and thank
Speaker 1: you for standing by my side and believing in me
Speaker 1: and pushing me when I thought the chips were down
Speaker 1: to get out and give them hell. And that's my
Speaker 1: beautiful son Nicholas right there. So we've made a nice
Speaker 1: little family and we appreciate you guys being here. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to introduce my first guest, okay, and you
Speaker 1: know them, you love them, and I wanted him here
Speaker 1: with me because we're serving pancakes. We've got the maple syrup,
Speaker 1: which is also going to be online as well pretty soon,
Speaker 1: the Lukes Maple Syrup. And how fun is that to
Speaker 1: have Luke's products right coming out of Luke's over there.
Speaker 1: Everything's made right over there by fairies and they descend
Speaker 1: at night and make this stuff. We show up the
Speaker 1: next day and it's all pallatted and created. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: But a guy who I feel has not been getting
Speaker 1: enough credit over the years, and I wanted to showcase
Speaker 1: him because he's an incredibly great guy, incredibly talented guy, Caesar.
Speaker 4: Aris Alvarado.
Speaker 3: Where is he?
Speaker 4: Come on up?
Speaker 1: Aarris? Huh? The man. The myth, the legend is he
Speaker 1: is he over there? There he comes, looks there is
Speaker 1: way about him. Everybody, it's Aris Alvarado. Aris. Tell us
Speaker 1: about since it's Mother's Day, tell us about your mom. Well,
Speaker 1: how did she influence you?
Speaker 4: My mom influenced me by giving me a lot of
Speaker 4: love and always believing in me and is being there
Speaker 4: when I need it all the time.
Speaker 3: I mean she was a single mom, so.
Speaker 4: She she worked hard and uh, she's you know. She
Speaker 4: taught me how to cook, and she taught me how
Speaker 4: to have fun and enjoy life and just be happy,
Speaker 4: you know, just even when things are sad. She always
Speaker 4: had a positive attitude and she was always happy. So
Speaker 4: I always try to be happy in life and try
Speaker 4: to bring joy to the to the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah you are.
Speaker 1: You tend to be the life of the party when
Speaker 1: you like when he walked into the green room and
Speaker 1: everybody got happy. Tell us about your journey getting Gilmore girls,
Speaker 1: How did it happen? How did you know that you
Speaker 1: got the part? And uh, and how you told your
Speaker 1: family about it?
Speaker 4: Originally I came in it was it was really tough too,
Speaker 4: because my car had just broke down and I and
Speaker 4: I got and I got an audition for a part
Speaker 4: on Gilmore Girls, and I parrow somebody's my uncle's van
Speaker 4: came up and it was not for Caesar.
Speaker 3: It was for a different part.
Speaker 4: It was for US foreign exchange student that was with
Speaker 4: the Duce family.
Speaker 3: For the hockey game.
Speaker 4: So my episode aired and I come, I'm supposed to
Speaker 4: come down the stairs and say the dose is left,
Speaker 4: and I go, don't stand. And at the audition it
Speaker 4: was great because I go in and that's why I
Speaker 4: said one line and the whole room started laughing, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, what I just said? One lie?
Speaker 3: I go. I leave.
Speaker 4: On the drive back, they called me right away, Oh
Speaker 4: you got the part. Great. I filmed the part and
Speaker 4: I watched the episode and they cut me out. They
Speaker 4: cut me out, they were and I called my agent
Speaker 4: and hey, what happened they cut me out? He goes, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I forgot.
Speaker 3: To tell you.
Speaker 4: They say they might use you for something else. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's Hollywood.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll call you.
Speaker 4: But a couple months later, three months later, they called
Speaker 4: me and they offered me Caesar, and and it's been
Speaker 4: evercor Caesar ever since how many episodes did you do?
Speaker 4: Twenty two on the first run in three on the revival.
Speaker 1: So you were a fantas a twenty five total. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you heard any rumors about any more? I mean this
Speaker 1: is the question, you know, this is what you guys
Speaker 1: want to know, right, because we don't know anything. We
Speaker 1: just but we hear these rumors and they're we figure
Speaker 1: like everything's like coming from the CIA, right, so it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's it's the CIA is leaking the information to control
Speaker 1: the population. So what do you think.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard any rumors, but I think I think
Speaker 4: we need it right now. I think the show like
Speaker 4: this is needed. Again, it was ahead of his time,
Speaker 4: so let's be on time now, you know.
Speaker 1: Let's take a vote, because I'm not really sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: those of you who don't want any more episodes, raise
Speaker 1: your hand. There's one guy over there, all right, I
Speaker 1: think he starved for a ten. All right, those of
Speaker 1: you who do want more episodes, let's let's whoop it,
Speaker 1: let's hear it. Okay, all right, there you go. I
Speaker 1: think the the Yeas have it. Sorry, sir, you have
Speaker 1: been overrulled. So do you keep in touch with some
Speaker 1: of the cast.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, tell Us, Dick Holmes, Shelley Cole,
Speaker 4: Liz Torres.
Speaker 3: I visit her. I just saw her a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Who else.
Speaker 1: Sally? You ever see Sally? No?
Speaker 4: But I saw her in TUTSI two years ago and
Speaker 4: I went to see her after the show. She's such
Speaker 4: a delight. She's Oh my goodness, yeah, her, her energy
Speaker 4: is amazing.
Speaker 1: Every of my my birthday falls on September eleventh, and
Speaker 1: I so I gout of respect. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: celebrate it on the eleventh. But we were always working
Speaker 1: on that day on September eleventh, and she knew that
Speaker 1: it was, you know, important day for me obviously, but
Speaker 1: that didn't celebrates. So she would pick me. She's so
Speaker 1: strong and she's a diminutive human being, but she's very
Speaker 1: stocky and strong, and she would pick me up and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I'm over two hundred pounds, and
Speaker 1: she she'd throw me over her shoulder and she and
Speaker 1: my would be right here, and she everybody in the
Speaker 1: crew and the cast and says, hey, it's his birthday,
Speaker 1: smack his ass, happy birthday, not kidding. She was that strong.
Speaker 1: And it took about ten minutes for everybody to do.
Speaker 1: You got an I got it at least at least. Uh,
Speaker 1: what kind of thinking about the show if it were
Speaker 1: to continue? What do you give me a storyline? Give
Speaker 1: me a storyline for Caesar.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm I'm I'm actually running Luke's right now because
Speaker 4: Luke is busy. He's got a chain, he's got a
Speaker 4: chain he got I'm.
Speaker 3: Running the place until he gets it.
Speaker 4: And then you come by and I'm like, okay, and
Speaker 4: you've been all mad because I changed the menu again.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, I changed the venue.
Speaker 4: You're like, look, we have a system.
Speaker 3: This is the way.
Speaker 4: It's all the stories. This is not your store, this.
Speaker 3: Is not Caesar's.
Speaker 4: This is Luke's. I'm like, yeah, but does it yourself better?
Speaker 1: There? You go, alright, take it easy.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, you have a chain of Luke's though,
Speaker 4: it's like it's all over Connecticut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the king of diners in Connecticut.
Speaker 1: I like that idea. Yeah, I like that idea. When
Speaker 1: you first started, tell us about your experience, your like,
Speaker 1: your first day on set. What was that like for you?
Speaker 1: Was it your first wasn't your first job in the industry?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was the first job.
Speaker 3: It wasn't, so you want to know what to expect,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: Well, the first time when they did the part that
Speaker 4: was cut that was that was interesting because it was
Speaker 4: at the Dragonfly I think, or the first the first
Speaker 4: the first uh place that they had and bend, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you, and I was backstage and it was really
Speaker 4: cool and Melissa was so nice and I waited the
Speaker 4: whole day and then they shot my thing at the
Speaker 4: end by.
Speaker 1: At but in the trailer for ten hours or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't pay you to act, they pay
Speaker 1: it away. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But my first scene at Luke's was was it was
Speaker 4: hectic too, because it's all fast paced, fast pace. And
Speaker 4: then of course my lines were no ham, no ham,
Speaker 4: no ham, and that was very simple and everything. But
Speaker 4: even just try to say that sometimes for an actor
Speaker 4: the worst thing is to having those simple lines, because like,
Speaker 4: don't mess it up, do not mess up, don't have
Speaker 4: don't have no ham.
Speaker 1: Did you rehearse it the night before?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got home the night before because what happened.
Speaker 4: I was in Vegas when they told me I got
Speaker 4: the part, and I didn't. I was out of town.
Speaker 4: They didn't tell my agent. They wanted me for fitting
Speaker 4: the next day, and I'm like, oh, I'm in Vegas.
Speaker 4: So he called the studio and they said, well, don't
Speaker 4: worry because they have your sizes from the last time
Speaker 4: you were there. Come back within two days. So when
Speaker 4: I got home, usually they send up the script, and
Speaker 4: I had no script. So I called the a d
Speaker 4: and there I was like, what's my I didn't get
Speaker 4: a script because let me see, your line is no ham,
Speaker 4: no ham no ham.
Speaker 3: I was like, got it, I'll rehearse it tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it was what was it like to tell
Speaker 1: the people what it's like working in that diner? Oh?
Speaker 4: Fast pace, fast paced, and it was it was wonderful
Speaker 4: watching you because yeah, because you, I'm like, man, this
Speaker 4: guy's got to I was like, okay, and I'm from
Speaker 4: New York and going to acting school. They're like, slow down,
Speaker 4: you're talking to I come here. They're like, no, you
Speaker 4: got to pick it up again, you know. So like
Speaker 4: watching you concentrate it and do all those and and
Speaker 4: just you and Lauren going back and forth. It was
Speaker 4: it was like, all right, cool, cool, I'm in my
Speaker 4: environment now. They could talk fast, but it wasn't just
Speaker 4: talk fast word perfect. Oh my goodness, that was the
Speaker 4: hard part.
Speaker 1: Those are my best memories is working in there with
Speaker 1: you and then everybody and Lauren and Alexis. Those those
Speaker 1: are great memories. Right over there, that's where I made
Speaker 1: my bones right there. It's just it's a very special place.
Speaker 1: It's very sacred.
Speaker 4: It was great to be back there for the revival. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was like being back home again.
Speaker 1: Did you notice that it was more colorful in there?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was like it really popped in that.
Speaker 1: The floor was spongy.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't notice that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: But my kitchen was bigger. Like they gave me more
Speaker 4: space back there.
Speaker 1: Because in the original series there was no sound issue
Speaker 1: at times with the floor that was creaking. Oh, and
Speaker 1: then you'd have to do it over and over again,
Speaker 1: or you have to come in and loop loop that scene,
Speaker 1: you know, two weeks later on the looping stage because
Speaker 1: the creaking.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But Netflix made.
Speaker 3: It all cushy nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we worked longer hours, but you know, we
Speaker 1: weren't we weren't mad about it because we're so comfortable.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what what are your favorite memories of having
Speaker 1: worked on this show. What is the thing that that
Speaker 1: you take away and you tell people about the memories
Speaker 1: of this show.
Speaker 4: Man, Well, one of my favorite moments was the the
Speaker 4: last episode, the ban Voyage, when we were we converted this.
Speaker 3: There was a big, giant tent over here.
Speaker 4: This is a big party, going away party, and just
Speaker 4: having most of the cast under one tent and knowing
Speaker 4: just saying goodbye, and it really felt like, Wow, you
Speaker 4: know this, this this sucks, this is ending, but it's
Speaker 4: it's a beautiful moment because we're all here.
Speaker 3: Did you know I had no idea? You had no idea.
Speaker 1: Did you know that it was ending?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But I'm like, because it was a good pie to her,
Speaker 1: did you get a right for her? Did you get
Speaker 1: a sense that it was ending?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it was like where we're She's going away.
Speaker 1: So it's like, how did you find out about the show?
Speaker 1: Was I found out at the rap in television History,
Speaker 1: at the rap party. At the rap party?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You found out at the wrap part.
Speaker 3: Somebody said I don't think we're coming back? Yeah, wow, rumors, rumors.
Speaker 1: Wow. I didn't know. I was in Toronto on a
Speaker 1: movie set and my agent called me and oh wow,
Speaker 1: it was over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 1: Then I had to go do a scene where all peppy.
Speaker 4: Oh man, no, no, was that solid?
Speaker 3: We usually saw the Toronto.
Speaker 1: It was different. So tell us about what you're doing now,
Speaker 1: What what's going on with ours and the career projects?
Speaker 3: Just finished?
Speaker 4: I just finished shooting to two movies last month. Uh
Speaker 4: real quick. One one is called Bad Karaoke is a
Speaker 4: horror comedy I play. I just made a quick cameo
Speaker 4: because I worked with these guys before. I did another
Speaker 4: movie called The Pootiology with them, and then I shot
Speaker 4: another movie where I play a announcer, a ring announcer
Speaker 4: for underground fight clubs in Mexico. It's an action movie
Speaker 4: for that one, So that that was pretty fun. It
Speaker 4: was like I shot that last week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Give me the best memory of your mother so far
Speaker 1: today Top memories in honor of Mother's Day, let's talk
Speaker 1: about moms.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't fill in the black, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for my mom, I would have ended up.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I would have ended up. I would have
Speaker 4: ended up a mean person, very bitter person. Yeah, very bitter.
Speaker 1: Very So she put that sunshine and she's she's a sunshine.
Speaker 4: It's like everybody, everybody that makes my mom loves her.
Speaker 4: They like, oh many, she fills you up with food,
Speaker 4: she makes you comfortable. She's always happy. You never see
Speaker 4: my mom sad.
Speaker 3: It's weird.
Speaker 1: She was hid it. My friends used to come to
Speaker 1: our little tiny house and uh, just to be with
Speaker 1: my mom because she would listen to them. She would
Speaker 1: listen to their problems, she would listen to their stories.
Speaker 1: She'd feed them too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she'd listen so, uh, you.
Speaker 1: Know, every day after school there would be like a
Speaker 1: trail of people. They just wanted to hang with her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, very very special memories.
Speaker 4: Did you have like a neighborhood type of environment. Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they knew her and they protected her and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we moved around a lot. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: So but very special woman. Tough as nails. Tough as nails.
Speaker 1: I remember once and she didn't like to stand in lines.
Speaker 3: She would like shit.
Speaker 1: She would tell the people in the front of the line,
Speaker 1: like she would say and she wasn't. She would say,
Speaker 1: I'm a doctor, I did deliver a baby. I have
Speaker 1: to get in here.
Speaker 4: You're not a doctor.
Speaker 3: Well you want to.
Speaker 1: Stand in that hour line. But there was a guy.
Speaker 1: We were shopping for clothes, like jeans or something. I
Speaker 1: was like twelve or thirteen years old, and I didn't
Speaker 1: really like shopping for clothes, but she says, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to look nice for school and all that.
Speaker 1: So we showed. So there was some guy that a
Speaker 1: manager that worked in the store and was giving her
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hard time because she was
Speaker 1: trying to get a discount, right because we didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and he was a little disrespectful
Speaker 1: to a big guy and my mother was five feet tall.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is that when when you feared
Speaker 1: my mom is when she got very quiet and you
Speaker 1: were like, uh oh. She she took one look at
Speaker 1: that guy and she got very quiet, and she says,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about the facts of life, young man,
Speaker 1: you know. And that was it. And he was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So nobody messed with my mom. Ever
Speaker 1: messed with my mom. Her kids to her were everything.
Speaker 1: She would do anything for her kids and everybody else's
Speaker 1: kids for that matter. Tell us about your your best
Speaker 1: friendships from coming from Gilmore girls, who would you say
Speaker 1: or your your best friendships from Gilmore girls besides me
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 4: Oh man, uh, you know, I really like talking to
Speaker 4: Nick Holmes.
Speaker 3: He's a really.
Speaker 4: He's the person that listens and he makes you feel
Speaker 4: really comfortable and warm, and it's just a guy that
Speaker 4: you felt like, you know forever and he he's like,
Speaker 4: he's like, oh my god, he's your best friend that
Speaker 4: you didn't know he was your best friend when you
Speaker 4: talk to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for coming by.
Speaker 4: Its pure.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, Aris Alvarado, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for coming. Hey, everybody, don't forget Follow us
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