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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, This is Freddy Rodriguez and I'm Wilmer Balderama.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to those amigos. Today is a very special, very special,

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Speaker 1: very special episode. Yes, because we've never had a dear,

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Speaker 1: dear amiga the show, and we want to welcome the

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Speaker 1: first ever Amiga, the first ever Amiga Melissa Fromta.

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Speaker 2: You know, everybody in the car who's listening in the car.

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Speaker 3: I was like, you, we hope you did not.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, it's just there's so much that song in this

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Speaker 2: well we're so happy.

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Speaker 1: Look, you know, I'm gonna lead with this that that

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Speaker 1: we don't you know, we don't tend to have guests,

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Speaker 1: you know, so when we.

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Speaker 4: Have, you were going to say we don't tend to

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Speaker 4: have women. I was like, because you hate women.

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Speaker 3: Accept me.

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Speaker 2: Mouth, I know that, I think, I think.

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Speaker 1: Know what what I'm what I'm trying to say is

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Speaker 1: is what I'm what I told the very few uh

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Speaker 1: friends that.

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Speaker 2: Very few women before that.

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Speaker 1: You know that when we have a guest, the guest

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Speaker 1: has to really represent something that's been special, that has

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Speaker 1: been you know, really uh you know, not just memorable,

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Speaker 1: but impactful in our lives. So the guests that we

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Speaker 1: have are people that are like really individuals that I

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Speaker 1: know are not just only like minded, but I can

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Speaker 1: provide so much context to the history.

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Speaker 3: And you know, also yeah, the female persuasion.

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Speaker 2: But we're just so happy.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I've told you this before many times,

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Speaker 1: but I'll tell you again on the air office that

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Speaker 1: you know, I've always admire you so much, and I

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Speaker 1: think you're one of the most talented actresses on the planet.

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Speaker 1: And from someone who like has done a little bit

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Speaker 1: of comedy, a little bit of drama, to talk to

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Speaker 1: somebody who has, you know, who has like this same

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Speaker 1: amount of expertise and capacity to be so free to

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Speaker 1: be dramatic and so free to be comedic. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: really really really rare in our industry.

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Speaker 2: And you process all of that. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: you're a beautiful woman.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're an incredible mother, and you're an amazing

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Speaker 1: producer but also an amazing director. So like to have

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Speaker 1: a dear sister of ours coming in.

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Speaker 2: Best our show really really excited.

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Speaker 1: And also you are the host of another Sister you

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Speaker 1: know episode Another Sister a podcast too, you know, to

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Speaker 1: the family of Michael Tuda more Better with Stephanie Mitrice

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Speaker 1: as well. Who's another one of our sisters too, who

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Speaker 1: also by the way, you both of you are like

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Speaker 1: just weapons of mass laughter because they you guys are

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Speaker 1: just so so you two together is like Laverna Chirley.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, thank you so much, so.

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Speaker 1: Just so excited, and thank you for accepting our invitation.

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Speaker 2: This conversation will be painful, but.

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Speaker 3: I dare you.

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Speaker 5: Was where are you from?

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Speaker 4: I am from New Jersey, from born and bread born

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Speaker 4: and bred.

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Speaker 3: In New Jersey, northeast, New Jersey.

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Speaker 4: By what was formerly Giant Stadium for those who are wondering,

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Speaker 4: close ish to Manhattan.

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Speaker 3: My parents are Cuban.

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Speaker 5: Both Cuban, born in Cuba.

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Speaker 4: Both born in Cuba. Came when they were teenagers. When

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Speaker 4: my dad came and he was like twelve. My mom

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Speaker 4: came and she was fifteen. They were high school sweethearts

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Speaker 4: in Cuba. In Jersey, yeah, they met in New Jersey.

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Speaker 4: My mom met my dad like very soon after she arrived,

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Speaker 4: because she was in New Jersey actually with her dad

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Speaker 4: and stepmother while her mom, uh like kind of found

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Speaker 4: a place for them in Miami. But then she met

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Speaker 4: a love at first sight sort of thing, and she

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Speaker 4: was like, Mommy, I want to stay I'm at this boy.

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Speaker 4: And so then she ended up staying with her dad

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Speaker 4: instead of her mom and her stepmom, uh for those

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Speaker 5: He was she was destined to go to Miami. She

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Speaker 5: was supposed to.

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Speaker 4: Ye, she was supposed to go to Miami, but she

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Speaker 4: ended up staying in New Jersey.

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Speaker 5: What did your grandparents do in Cuba?

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, my.

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Speaker 4: On my mom's side, my her dad was a carpenter,

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Speaker 4: think just to stay at home.

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Speaker 4: The woman, the man that my grandmother ended up marrying

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Speaker 4: when she came here was like really my willow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I didn't see my mom's dad that much. He was

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Speaker 4: the matre d at Fountain Blue in Miami.

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Speaker 3: And when I was a kid, I thought that was

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Speaker 2: I was like, that was the time.

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Speaker 3: That was the time, Like we're.

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Speaker 4: Talking like eighties, early nineties like, and I just thought

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Speaker 4: it was like so cool, like a very charismatic guy,

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Speaker 4: I think until he retired yeah wow.

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Speaker 4: And then my dad's my dad's side of the family.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that much about it, to be honest.

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Speaker 7: Goshcha, did you ever see your grandfather in action at

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Speaker 7: the Fountain Blue.

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Speaker 4: I do have a memory of being really little and

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Speaker 4: Fountain Blue, and like seeing him in a suit, But

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Speaker 4: I think it was like really quick. Yeah, I never

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Speaker 4: liked super ought to see him. It's just like the

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Speaker 4: title was cool, you know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he was almost like an actor and right you

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Speaker 3: And he was. He was so charming.

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Speaker 4: He could make me laugh so much as a kid,

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Speaker 4: and he was like the sweetest man and he was

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Speaker 1: Uh, the anyone in your family dabbled in entertainment at all?

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Speaker 4: Not entertainment, But my mom's side of the family has

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Speaker 4: a lot of visual artists, a lot of painters, a

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Speaker 4: lot of sculptors. I have a cousin who was like

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Speaker 4: a music prodigy, a couple other cousins that like danced

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Speaker 4: so that were younger than me for a while, but no,

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Speaker 3: It was all like visual you paint.

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Speaker 4: I did start in painting classes when I was like

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Speaker 3: I did it for a few years I did the

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Speaker 3: Bob Ross technique.

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Speaker 2: Wife would be excited to hear that, really.

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Speaker 4: Yes, which is like not paint by numbers, but like

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Speaker 4: it's very like, you know, it kind of makes like

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Speaker 4: like those painting studios that people go to, you know,

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Speaker 3: Everyone's painting.

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Speaker 4: One's good and you're like, everyone can't be that good

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Speaker 3: It's like there's a certain tricks. So no, I did not.

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Speaker 4: Inherit the family gene, but I did always love like drawing,

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Speaker 4: and I wasn't that good at it though, But my

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Speaker 2: At it really yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it gives.

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Speaker 4: It gives a generation exactly, and my husband has it

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Speaker 2: How young did you get got the bug to perform?

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Speaker 2: Were you like super young or were you yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: My mom put me in dance classes like all women

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Speaker 4: to do all the classes. It was like a dance

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Speaker 4: and theater studio in my hometown. And when I was ten,

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Speaker 4: and I lost my mind.

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Speaker 5: What was It?

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Speaker 3: Was The Secret Garden starring Mandy Patinkin.

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Speaker 4: And Daisy Egan and Rebecca Luker Broadway icons.

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Speaker 3: It was amazing. It was a Secret Garden.

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Speaker 4: And then I got like, uh, I wanted a Secret

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I.

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Speaker 2: Thing as well.

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Speaker 3: The complicated it is.

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Speaker 4: So when I was a kid, I fully believed that

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Speaker 4: I got older, and I listened to those performances that.

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Speaker 2: Your voice change as your girl.

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Speaker 4: Do you think no, I was just fully delusional, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I was like, I can totally sing, and I could not,

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Speaker 3: And at the time. I felt very much like an

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Speaker 4: At first, when I was like a freshman and sophomore

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Speaker 3: But then I fell in love with acting during high.

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Speaker 4: School, and somewhere along the way, I sort of told myself, well,

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Speaker 4: I could just keep acting and dancing and I'll like

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Speaker 3: So I was like, I am a singer.

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Speaker 4: And then while I was in college and I went

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Speaker 4: I'm not a singer, actually a singer. I'm actually not

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 2: You know, Freddy was a rapper?

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Speaker 5: Are you past life?

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Speaker 2: I was like you.

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Speaker 7: I got around some like real ones, and I was

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Speaker 7: kind of like, oh, yeah.

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Speaker 4: That's what happens, right, You're like I am crushing this

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Speaker 4: crushing that.

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Speaker 3: I was so bold in high school.

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Speaker 4: I remember there was a musical theater program I was

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Speaker 4: in at that day school, and I basically like lobbied

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Speaker 4: I was like, so I deserve this.

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Speaker 3: I'm a senior and this we all know this role

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Speaker 3: should go to me.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm cocky as fuck, right right, And like I

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Speaker 4: kind of figured out how to sing it. I was

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Speaker 4: just like impersonating the person that had sung it before

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Speaker 4: and kind of it was in my range enough that.

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Speaker 3: But like there were lots of other parts.

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Speaker 4: I was like, that doesn't and like when it didn't

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Speaker 4: sound good, I was like, what, I'll just sing low,

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Speaker 4: no one will hear it.

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Speaker 3: Like I was so confident a.

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Speaker 2: No audition.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the American Idol was around when I was in

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Speaker 4: high school.

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Speaker 2: It's not fair.

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Speaker 2: But you must have learned to hole the No, yeah,

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Speaker 3: But I know that. I was like, how did I

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing. I did I sing for my audition,

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Speaker 4: And no I care, I'm like, what was my go

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Speaker 4: How did you see like ballet and contemporary and so

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Speaker 5: That's kind of they included it in.

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Speaker 3: It was included in a program.

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Speaker 4: I would start every morning with like three hours of

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Speaker 2: Were you consider doing a musical now?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 3: Yes, live, Yes, it's different, it's different. Television have destroyed

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Speaker 4: Sing and how to project yeah, and like how to

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Speaker 3: And that's just kind of happens with our gig.

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Speaker 7: But but I'm sure, look, I'm sure you could say

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Speaker 3: Yours bleed, But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't give me, give me a part of your world,

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Speaker 4: Kind of like I could like sort of yell on

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Speaker 5: You could yell.

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Speaker 3: I can yell a question.

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Speaker 2: I have a question. If you go to karaoke and

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Speaker 3: Oh no, not part of your world?

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Speaker 2: On your world? Would you murder that?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: What's your what's your?

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Speaker 7: What?

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Speaker 2: You would? A hundred percent you would.

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Speaker 3: No, I'll tell you a go to what's your go to?

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Speaker 2: Like job? What from r from.

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Speaker 3: Rock Rocky Hard? Picture show? Touch me, Bro? That's so hard?

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Speaker 5: How does touch that heart? How does it go?

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to say.

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Speaker 7: How does we're trying to get to Come on, we're

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Speaker 3: How does somebody play it on their phone? This is

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Speaker 3: a trap? No, it's it's you know the one that's Instagram?

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but I yeah, I just I yell it

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Speaker 5: But how does it?

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Speaker 2: But how do you yell?

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Speaker 6: Though?

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Speaker 3: What do you? What do you get out of here?

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Speaker 2: Let me see no way out of here?

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Speaker 3: I hate you both. I have an older brother. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I know this game. I know all your.

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Speaker 2: Moods America, and we're gonna move on. But did you.

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Speaker 5: Did you speak Spanish?

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Speaker 8: So?

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Speaker 3: We did? We so? So the story is.

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Speaker 4: My parents only spoke to us in Spanish until my

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Speaker 4: was like, what are you speaking to him at home?

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Speaker 4: And they were like Spanish, Like, it's really messing him

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Speaker 3: But this is the eighties and like, so they scared my.

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Speaker 4: I'm my brain, I'm fluent, but the connection from here

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Speaker 4: I keep saying that I'm gonna like, really.

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Speaker 2: It's honesty.

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Speaker 1: Your brain has to kind of just lock back in

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Speaker 2: It's just about flowing with it.

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Speaker 3: Every time I'm immersed.

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Speaker 4: I went on a trip to Costa Rica once with

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Speaker 4: You know, every time I go to Florida, like it's

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Speaker 1: But it happens when you have to switch back and

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Speaker 1: forth from England to Spanish because I do junk is

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Speaker 1: unce I was fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: You have no excuses, but I do feel like I

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Speaker 3: But no, you don't in Spanish. Oh in Spanish.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank god you didn't agree, Thank god you didn't

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Speaker 2: That fourteen year old English.

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Speaker 1: She was like, you do because I know the words

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Speaker 7: Those are tough in Spanish, those junkets because it gets

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Speaker 5: I could hold the conversation.

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Speaker 1: And fast, and they want to, you know, they want

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Speaker 2: You're like, I'm trying to remember my sentence, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to give you some flowers because you

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Speaker 1: You you know, you really show up for your brothers

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Speaker 1: and sisters, and specifically in entertainment, and how we continue

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Speaker 1: you know, our cultures and values. You know, so it

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Speaker 1: continue to be you know, amplified and what we make

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Speaker 1: as artists. But you know, but you have been very

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Speaker 1: gave you one, right and you know, so god forbid

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Speaker 2: Can be in the same show because there's too many.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the conversation has really kind of evolving and

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Speaker 1: also to create enough perspective to say that we're we're

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Speaker 1: trying to redefine main stream by uplifting the most mainstream

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Speaker 3: Now on Thursday night, watch all the show.

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Speaker 1: You tell us nine pm, We're there at nine pm,

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Speaker 1: you know, And so so in cultivating that, we we

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Speaker 1: also as a as an audience, as we demand more

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Speaker 1: You know, we can take down the individuals that are

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not investible. And if it's not investible,

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: So that's the type of stuff that I think is

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Speaker 1: so interesting, and you know, I would say, I want

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Speaker 1: You started in soap operas, right, we could have used

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Speaker 1: her and uh, those heads on Camino, but those head

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Speaker 1: is Camino with Eric Strata, but maybe it was before

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Speaker 3: Don't remember it, but I have definitely heard that is Camino.

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Speaker 1: It was Eric Strada had the brightest idea to learn

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Speaker 1: shot a Spanish soap opera and he was one of

455
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Speaker 1: the biggest purposes was Erica Strata had. You know, the

456
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Speaker 1: last thing you remember him doing was punch and chips.

457
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Speaker 1: So when he went down there and he played opposite

458
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Speaker 1: two of the most beautiful Mexican actresses of that time,

459
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: and he was in Spanish where those mohad is comino

460
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: means two women and one one way, only one road.

461
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 5: So the whole thing was about him having to pick.

462
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 2: Having to pick and the two women. The whole thing.

463
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 2: It's like fighting for the protecting, you know, the fighting

464
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 2: for that love and.

465
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Speaker 7: The two.

466
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 3: And so.

467
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 1: But you know, going full circle to telenovelas, which are

468
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: such a big part of our culture. I mean, they

469
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: are our mission impossibles, like they are our star Wars.

470
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Speaker 3: I don't know when I was on the so I

471
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 3: was on the soap opera. It was just my first job.

472
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Speaker 2: I was at right after college.

473
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Speaker 3: It was right after college. So I my last semester

474
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Speaker 3: there was One Life to Live first, One Life to Live.

475
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Speaker 2: That was the first one.

476
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Speaker 4: Yes, I actually wasn't on. I was the All my

477
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 4: Children episodes. Uh were like crossover episodes. So I was

478
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 4: playing my One Life to Live character episodes of All

479
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 4: my Children?

480
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 5: How did that happen?

481
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Speaker 2: Crazy?

482
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 5: How do you?

483
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 4: How do you?

484
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 1: You were doing Marvel comics crossovers before Marvel Comics.

485
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Speaker 5: Yes, I was.

486
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 4: I So my last semester at n y U, I

487
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 4: was in the film and Televis studio and they it

488
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 4: was great because every week they would do a showcase

489
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 4: and they would invite a casting director or an agent.

490
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 4: I met my first agent through that, and then the

491
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 4: casting director. First, the casting director for Guiding Light came

492
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 4: in and I screen tested for Guiding Light, me and

493
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 4: Katie Low's because I went to college with Katie Lows

494
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 4: and we didn't get it. Both of us didn't get it.

495
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 4: And then the casting director for One Life to Live

496
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 4: came through and I again I was a confident teenager.

497
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

498
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Speaker 3: So you would have a one on one with them.

499
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 4: You would like read a scene and then they would

500
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 4: talk to you for a little bit, and so I

501
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 4: read the scene and while she was talking to me,

502
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 4: I went, oh, yeah, and I just screen tested for

503
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 4: Guiding Light last week, like just dropped that in.

504
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 5: Like yeah, like like for leverage, like.

505
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like like in case you don't know, you

506
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 3: know what I mean. It was just like and I

507
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 3: said it all like yeah, and it was really great.

508
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 4: It was a great you know, I didn't get it,

509
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 4: but it's okay, it was a great experience.

510
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 3: Like I just made sure to mention it.

511
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 4: And then three days later they called me in for

512
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 4: like an audition and uh, there was a role that

513
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 4: was being recasted. Yeah, and it was on One Life

514
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 4: to Live. There was a token Latino family, and so

515
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 4: she was it was it was a Latin role.

516
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Speaker 3: This is two thousand end of two thousand three, okay, and.

517
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 2: Very forward thinking for daytime.

518
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 4: By the way, yes, well yes, on One Life to

519
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 4: Live there was a token black family and there was

520
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 4: a token Latin family. So we were represented, we were represented.

521
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 4: We were very progressive. It also meant all of the

522
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 4: black characters were related and all of the Latin characters

523
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 4: were related.

524
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 5: Just related.

525
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like we know, you know, because we live

526
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: in the same neighborhood. We make babies with the each other.

527
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: It makes so much sense.

528
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 4: So the other four Latino characters on the show were

529
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 4: my aunt, my cousin, my other cousin.

530
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 3: Like yeah, and then it was the same.

531
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Speaker 4: Deal with the black family, you know, So there was

532
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Speaker 4: no like, I don't think there were any All the

533
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 4: couples were mixed, do you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,

534
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 4: there weren't enough.

535
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 2: Character couldn't take the same color, you know, Yeah.

536
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. But like David's character had like

537
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 4: two of his girl my husband. That's why I met

538
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 4: my husband. He was on the show.

539
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 3: He was my cousin.

540
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 5: He played he played your cousin.

541
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 2: So that's so mainstream.

542
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 4: And so but two of his lovers on the show

543
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 4: were black, So that was you know, how they would

544
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 4: at least get couples of color.

545
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 2: That was very scandalous for daytime vary scandals.

546
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I ended up screen testing, and I

547
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 4: think I screen tested twice. And then the crazy part

548
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 4: of the story that I've told many times is I

549
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 4: got the call that I got the job on the

550
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 4: day I took my last exam for college.

551
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, so then I was on set like a week later.

552
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 5: Now you got to graduate, right I did.

553
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I finished a semester. Well, I finished a semester

554
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 4: early because I was poor and couldn't afford the tuition.

555
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 2: I barely graduated high.

556
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 4: I did maths credits and a summer session and I

557
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 4: could graduate early and saved my parents a lot of

558
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 4: moner and myself. So yeah, so I so then the

559
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 4: graduation ceremony that was in the spring, I had already

560
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 4: been working.

561
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Speaker 5: Oh wow.

562
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

563
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Speaker 1: So soap operas were your first introduction to to on screen, yes,

564
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: which is crazy because it's single handedly probably the hardest

565
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: and most taxing thing you can do as an actor. People,

566
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: I don't think I understand now how many pages of

567
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: dialogue are you shooting a day?

568
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 2: And how many episodes you're shooting a week?

569
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Speaker 4: And like you're doing six episodes a week, you're doing

570
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 4: on average thirty to forty.

571
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: Pages a day.

572
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 4: Cow Because they shoot so it's shot like a multicam

573
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: right where the fourth wall is your cameras and it's

574
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 4: three to five cameras and it's live editing.

575
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 3: There's someone in a booth going camera one camera.

576
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 2: Do you do it sitcoms?

577
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 3: Right?

578
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 2: Yeah?

579
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 4: Just like you do it sitcoms, right, and you shoot

580
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 4: each scene one or two times and then you move on.

581
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 5: So how do you learn all that dialogue within that period?

582
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 3: You hide your script in a sofa and you look.

583
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 2: At it really because that's before self.

584
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 4: Unless you really fuck something up, they're not going to

585
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 4: correct you. If you basically say the thing, they're going

586
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 4: to move on. Yeah, and also if you say the

587
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 4: words but your performances.

588
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 2: Never, we're going to move on.

589
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's it's super fast and so you

590
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 3: you know, so you can do.

591
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 4: Five or five scenes in an hour or more, you know,

592
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 4: and so you just fly, fly, fly, and then when

593
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 4: they're done with that set, they move all the cameras

594
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 4: to the next set and they do all those scenes.

595
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 4: And you're shooting six episodes a week, so everything is

596
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 4: also from like different episodes. They would try to do

597
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 4: things like in order at least, like but you're just

598
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 4: jumping around. But it's also their short scenes and they're

599
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 4: very and a.

600
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: Couple of people in the scenes, so everybody kind of

601
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: balances line.

602
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there were, It wasn't like I don't remember

603
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 4: it being even No, it's like three four page scenes

604
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 4: it's they're short, and it's like, I.

605
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: Mean, look, let me tell you something. That was your

606
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: first introduction. They didn't feel as hard, but it's like

607
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: a very no.

608
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 3: No, no, no.

609
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 4: It was really hard, And I think the biggest thing

610
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 4: I learned was, you know, it wasn't just about the

611
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 4: performance part was really hard because there were a lot

612
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 4: of days I would leave and go I just did

613
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 4: the worst fucking acting money and that's going to be

614
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 4: on television.

615
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: I was like, what is this job?

616
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Speaker 4: Like I And I'm trying to figure it out. I'm watching, like,

617
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 4: you know, the vets that have been there for a

618
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 4: long time. Some of them are crazy.

619
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Speaker 3: They can just turn on water works like literally action

620
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: and they're like water coming down their face and they're

621
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 3: crying and you're just like, oh, they can just do

622
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 3: that like and you're so you're trying to figure out

623
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 3: like tricks basically for yourself. But the biggest thing I.

624
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 4: Think I learned was the working with so many cameras

625
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 4: and what that how that blocking is? And then the

626
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 4: biggest biggest thing I think I learned was it's like

627
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 4: a twenty person cast and a rotation of like seven

628
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 4: to ten directors and you're working with, and then you

629
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 4: never see the writers. You only see the head writer ever. Uh,

630
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 4: and then you're just working with all these different personalities,

631
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 4: And that to me was like the biggest best thing

632
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 4: I walked away from.

633
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 3: That job with just why because it was I mean,

634
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 3: toxic is like a.

635
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: Strong word, but I complex navigation.

636
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 4: It's a complex It was a very at twenty one

637
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 4: years old, a very complex thing to navigate of. Like

638
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 4: you had these older actors that had been there forever,

639
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 4: you had younger actors that were just starting out. You

640
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 4: had actors in the middle that, like, some were happy

641
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 4: to be there, some were fucking miserable to be there.

642
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 4: Like you just there were so many different dynamics going on,

643
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 4: and you're constant and you're not working. You're working with

644
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 4: the same people a lot, but you're also like thrown

645
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 4: into scenes with people you've never worked with before, and

646
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 4: then you're trying to figure that out. So I think

647
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 4: I felt like it made me, uh, sort of more

648
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 4: flexible and like leaning into just like maybe observing people

649
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 4: or you know what I mean, like when to hang back,

650
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 4: when to be a little bit more of like a

651
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 4: showman and like you know, entertain and like you know

652
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 4: how to kind of read a room, and you know

653
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 4: how to deal with someone that might be difficult, or

654
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 4: you know someone that's like screaming at props because they

655
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 4: don't know their lines and they're trying to stall, you

656
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 4: know what I mean, and like how to handle yourself

657
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 4: in those situations.

658
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 3: And I was so young, right, and I think nothing

659
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 3: shook me after that.

660
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, because as soon as you enter the industry, the

661
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,239
Speaker 1: industry was a fool of all these personalities, right.

662
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 3: I still see plenty of that as you go along.

663
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 4: And so I think for my first thing and then

664
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 4: when I did like Brooklyn nine nine, which was.

665
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: This, did you go from the soaps to that?

666
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 3: No, there was like six years in between.

667
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: Okay, and what happened in those six years.

668
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 3: Barely working of like recurring guest stars.

669
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 5: Collectors, Like what recurring?

670
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 3: I did a recurring on Gossip Girl?

671
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 5: Would you play?

672
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 4: I played a minion of Blair, a minion of Blair

673
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 4: during the Columbia school years. I think it was like

674
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 4: season six or something. I did like six or seven episodes.

675
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 4: It was very fun and that was like wild because

676
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 4: uh there there was they were such a hit show.

677
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was like there would.

678
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 3: Be paparazzi when they'd shoot outside. There would be yeah,

679
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 3: gaggles of schoolgirls like outside the trailers, just like waiting

680
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 3: to see Layton or Blake, Like it was insane.

681
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 5: It was that for you, Like experiencing that for the

682
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 5: first time, I sort of.

683
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 4: Was like mesmerized by it all and I was like, Wow,

684
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 4: this is crazy, and it just felt like it felt like, uh,

685
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know how. It's hard to

686
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,719
Speaker 4: describe because it was like at that point they were

687
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 4: like a well oiled machine. They were just like making

688
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 4: the show, but it felt like everything was so much

689
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 4: more more about like the hype and the gossip girl

690
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 4: of it all, and you know, you be. I got

691
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 4: a little yelled at one time for like leaving my

692
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 4: sides on a chair, you know, like and that kind

693
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: of thing. And then there was one time sometimes they

694
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 4: would give me scripts and sometimes they wouldn't, and then

695
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 4: I had a scene that made no sense and I

696
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 4: you had an all and I had no script and I.

697
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 3: Was like, can I get a script? I don't understand

698
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 3: my scene. They were like, oh.

699
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 5: My god, and I was like what is there?

700
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 7: You know?

701
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: Was it also the contrast of doing that many scenes

702
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: and that many pages and a soap and then going

703
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: to do this guess.

704
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: Oh it felt easier, Yeah, easier two scenes today, you

705
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like one two cameras, like.

706
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: All right, Like then you go to a movie and

707
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: you shoot a three page scene for a week, you know,

708
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

709
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like did you find the acting styles? Like

710
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 5: did you did you?

711
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 7: Did you feel that coming from a soap you had

712
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 7: a very specific acting style that you had to do there?

713
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 5: Did did you find it you had to adjust while

714
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 5: doing a show like well?

715
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 4: I did? In terms of Gossip Girl was very specific

716
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 4: because they had a very specific cadence to the dialogue

717
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 4: on that show and you had to be word perfect.

718
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 3: Oh really you dropped the or an and they would

719
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 3: tell you.

720
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 4: They would tell you, so you had to be the

721
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 4: word perfect and everyone just there was that there was

722
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 4: like a musicality of cadence to that show that I

723
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 4: could sort it that I heard when I was watching

724
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 4: the show before I did it, and uh, and then

725
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 4: when I got there, I remember they were like because

726
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 4: our first episode was almost like an audition, and they

727
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 4: were like basically like if we like you, guys, if

728
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 4: you do well today, we're going.

729
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: To bring you back. I community around.

730
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 3: The no pressure and they were like, oh, by the way,

731
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: don't drop any words.

732
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 5: All right, So they told you that, right?

733
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 6: Yeah?

734
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe they did tell us.

735
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is that it was Gossip Girl. Yeah,

736
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 2: and it was like just chill out.

737
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 4: I definitely like during my time there was a little

738
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 4: got a little like disenchanted with like is it like

739
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 4: this on every show?

740
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: And do I want to do this?

741
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 4: Like M going to be happy and fulfilled doing this.

742
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 4: But then, you know, like life sends you things sometimes

743
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 4: when you most need them. I was like at a

744
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 4: low point and I booked a guest star on Royal Pains.

745
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, with with Mark is a gift? Can we talk

746
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 2: about Mark?

747
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 3: Can we talk about Mark? Can we please?

748
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 2: Do you break it down?

749
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 3: I have wanted to see him in person ever since

750
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 3: this because.

751
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: I was like, they're rebooting it and he's coming back.

752
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

753
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 3: Okay.

754
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 4: Mark is the kind of number one on the call

755
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 4: sheet that arrives, knows everyone's name on the creuse, everyone

756
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 4: everyone's name is, you know, going up to a grip

757
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 4: and being like, how is your daughter's birthday party, like

758
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 4: the best fucking guy completely memorized, has like this crazy

759
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 4: monologue medical monologue that he's doing like first up in

760
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 4: the day and like spits it out and likes so

761
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 4: collaborative with everyone.

762
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 3: My storyline, there was like a few of us. It

763
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: was like a it was like a girl that crashed

764
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 3: on like a jet ski and he saves me and

765
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 3: then we're like part of this little party group.

766
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 4: So there's like five guest stars and this learns all

767
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 4: our names every time we're sitting, you know. Sometimes guest

768
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 4: stars are set like yeah, a little separated like regulars. Yeah,

769
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 4: would come over and talk to us and just it

770
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 4: was the loveliest week and everyone was so happy on

771
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 4: set and having so much fun and it felt creative

772
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 4: and fun.

773
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, this was in New York. Yeah,

774
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 3: And I was like, if this is what it's like,

775
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 3: this is what could be like in I'm so in.

776
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 4: And that experience was so magical because I felt like

777
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 4: it gave me something to visualize to like hope and

778
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 4: dream for. And it's actually what materialized on Brooklyn nine nine.

779
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 4: Like that was the vibe we had. And when when

780
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 4: Brooklyn first started, I remember thinking, oh my god, I

781
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 4: got my role pains, like this is that vibe? What?

782
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 5: And why do you think that is?

783
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 7: Melissa, Like, like, how do you think a vibe like

784
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 7: that is created? Do you feel that it's created from

785
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 7: the top and it trickles down like who dictates?

786
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 5: Like I'm Brooklyn nine nine?

787
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 6: Right?

788
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 5: Was it was it? And like who who?

789
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 3: It was? Andy and Andre?

790
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 4: So every it was Andy and Andre and and I

791
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 4: think to an extent the showrunners, you know, and like yeah,

792
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 4: and they and they also are like this, this is

793
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 4: a no asshole space, you know, Like but when you

794
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 4: have the number one and the number two being so gracious,

795
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 4: so kind to everybody walking on set, greeting the crew,

796
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: treating everyone with respect. Act when a guest star rolls through,

797
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 4: no matter how big a star they are, they see

798
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 4: that and there's no room for tomw Like, no one's

799
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 4: gonna try ship.

800
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: In your show speaking of Brooklyn, and what is very

801
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: evident is that you were doing something that felt like

802
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: the first time of something in a long time on television,

803
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: like tonally, to be that kind of outgoing and innovative

804
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: to say, hey, we're gonna do a show about this,

805
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's like there's elements, there's elements of things

806
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: that really effortlessly worked in some amazing comedies, and they

807
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: were all combined into one formula, and then you had

808
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: the perfect cast that was so liberated by just trying

809
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: things that that's what it really came across. That it

810
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: was you guys are were out there just you're not

811
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: going to give up until it was funny. Yeah, you know,

812
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: and I and it was that's that's what that was.

813
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: Grouper evident. Do you feel like that's kind of the

814
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,439
Speaker 1: environment that the producers and the showrunners they're like, let's

815
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: let's try this line or let's try this thing, Like

816
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: let's like wire, you guys say, improving at times, We.

817
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 4: Were improving at times, and we would do a lot

818
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 4: of alts, And again I think that tone was set

819
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 4: by Dan and by Andy too. Like Andy, if Andy

820
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 4: hears something in a in a scene that's not working,

821
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 4: that's not as funny as it could be, he cannot

822
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 4: let he cannot move on, you know. And he would

823
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 4: pinpoint moments and he would pinpoint just dynamics that needed

824
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 4: needed tweaks and needed reworking. And that was my Those

825
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 4: were my favorite moments, right like, that's what I love

826
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 4: about single camera comedy, is like if something's not feeling

827
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 4: right or landing, everyone just kind of comes together and

828
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 4: is like, what what can we do?

829
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 3: You know, should we play? Should we improv? Should we

830
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 3: you know?

831
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 4: The writer comes with an alt like well we had

832
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 4: this idea, you know what I mean, And it's like

833
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 4: all these people coming together, and then you just fucking

834
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 4: try ship. Then you try like three different versions of

835
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 4: the thing, and sometimes you find something crazy magical that

836
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 4: you're like, oh my, you know where you say cut

837
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 4: and the whole crew laughs and it's the best.

838
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 7: You know.

839
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 4: It's like such a high and and he really from

840
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 4: day one like set that tone. Like I remember when

841
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 4: we did the pilot, he was there every day, like

842
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 4: he took his producer role like so seriously.

843
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 2: Also for him, the stakes were really high.

844
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, he was just coming off that snel.

845
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 5: He was like, is that where you met Stephanie was

846
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 5: on the show?

847
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So Stephanie and I we got cast and

848
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 4: at the time, like you guys were saying, you know,

849
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 4: it was always just one this for us, this was

850
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 4: like we were like, this is really the first time

851
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 4: they've had two Latin latinas on one show and we

852
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 4: were freaking out and we both knew Gina Rodriguez. So

853
00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 4: when we booked the pilot, Gina, uh, if you even

854
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 4: been on like Facebook, like this is like pre Instagram,

855
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 4: right like.

856
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 8: Yeah, like mighty yeah yeah, like like dm us both

857
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 8: and was like, hey, I know you both, and you

858
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 8: both just booked this thing, and we exchanged numbers through that,

859
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 8: and then we were so scared about them deciding to

860
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 8: get rid of one of us that for the Network

861
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 8: table read, we decided to wear our hair very differently

862
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 8: because we were.

863
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 6: Afraid they would confuse us, even though we looked nothing alike,

864
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 6: right right, No, and we both have wavy hair, and

865
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 6: I remember like we talked about it and we were like, yeah,

866
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 6: how and she was like, well, I'm definitely gonna dress

867
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 6: in all black, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna

868
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 6: wear like maybe I'll wear white, like something light colored.

869
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 4: And then I was like, maybe we could do our

870
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 4: hair different and she was like, well, she was like,

871
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 4: my curls don't really Like I was like, my hair straightens.

872
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 4: I can straighten my hair. I was like, I'll wear

873
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 4: my hair straight. And that's literally the reason why Amy

874
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 4: has straight hair on the show and Rosa has big,

875
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 4: curly hair is because from the beginning we just no

876
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 4: one told us to but me behind the scenes made

877
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 4: that decision out of fear, because we just wanted to

878
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 4: look very, very different.

879
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: So you're providing two different perspectives of two different characters.

880
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: By the way, your characters can not be more different,

881
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: but more different.

882
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 3: We sound different, we look different.

883
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 4: But at the time we were just so used to like,

884
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 4: oh there's already we already have a Latin character, or

885
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 4: like people just you know, confusing you like.

886
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 5: Out of fear, but it was also rooted in reality, right, Yeah,

887
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 5: it was a little bit.

888
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: This is how it goes to point.

889
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 3: Out like no one ever does this, like someone's going

890
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 3: to change their minds.

891
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: I got to point out something that's like you know,

892
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: we we we should have a moment for it to

893
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:53,439
Speaker 1: echo for a second, that the two Latina actresses talk

894
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 1: to one another instead of the clearing a competition, who.

895
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 5: Stays yeah, yeah and yeah.

896
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: In the common world where they only get one like

897
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: and most people have resources or opportunities, and they're like,

898
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm going to get this next,

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Speaker 1: so I can't share with anyone.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing that we have to learn from.

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Speaker 3: You know.

902
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Speaker 1: The example of the two of you coming together and

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Speaker 1: be like, how do we both stay here? How do

904
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Speaker 1: we set ourselves for success? Is where I feel like

905
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Speaker 1: a community really needs to continue to resonate, like it's

906
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: not a company.

907
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 3: Never even thought about how that could have Yeah, you're right.

908
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: Gone to souse.

909
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Speaker 3: You could have not talked to each other, right like

910
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 3: the table read yeah yeah.

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00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: Or not be Caddy, but just like in the back

912
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Speaker 2: of your mind also like.

913
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Speaker 3: You could be Caddy.

914
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean?

915
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 3: Like could there are people that might have.

916
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Speaker 4: The perspective of, like I'm a show up. Make sure

917
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 4: I'm funnier than her, right, you know what I mean,

918
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 4: that I outshine her, like just in case they get

919
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 4: rid of one of us, they're going to keep me,

920
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 4: like you know, but we that never even occurred to us.

921
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Speaker 3: We clung.

922
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Speaker 4: The reason we got so close so fast was we

923
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 4: were both new to like this was both our first show.

924
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 4: It really yeah, it was both our first show and

925
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Speaker 4: both first time seeing two Latin characters on a network show.

926
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Speaker 3: And we just like clung to each other.

927
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were just like we are going to survive

928
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Speaker 4: this by like holding onto each other for dear life,

929
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 4: and that's what we did.

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Speaker 7: And but but but there's also you two have this

931
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Speaker 7: incredible chemistry, right, Like was that instantaneous? Was that something

932
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Speaker 7: that I mean really like I'm not saying this to

933
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 7: like blow smoke up your ass, right, but like I

934
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 7: remember hanging out with when us four hung out in.

935
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Speaker 5: Austin, I was like, whoa, they're really they really have

936
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Speaker 5: that chemistry like in real life. Yeah, it was. It

937
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 5: was very Laverne and surely very like and I mean

938
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Speaker 5: that in the most.

939
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Speaker 3: Time, so different.

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00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 4: We're so different Jesus, like Texas girl, like I'm from Jersey,

941
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 4: Like we could not we have different we have different tastes,

942
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 4: we have different But but yeah, like the chemistry was

943
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 4: always there, like we.

944
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Speaker 1: Would there's a DNA structure you guys are connected to,

945
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: you know, like the esthetics and the and the interest

946
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: could be different. There isn't like there's like a sisterhood

947
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: that's like rooted in blood.

948
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's like a soulful.

949
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 3: Kid is like we knew each other in a different life.

950
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 3: That is the feeling.

951
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 4: Yes, for sure, And we definitely have when it comes

952
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 4: to comedy, we're very aligned, like the same shit makes

953
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 4: us laugh. And I think also we both started in

954
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 4: theater and so we had kind of similar coming up.

955
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 4: The seventies was a little different because she stayed in

956
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 4: theater for longer and kind of just did some little

957
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 4: guest stars and then like got Brooklyn. So she was

958
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 4: like very very very new to television, whereas I had

959
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 4: worked a little bit more in TV.

960
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 3: So like in the very beginning was.

961
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 4: Like, you know, like whispering that, you know, like like

962
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 4: this is you know, the cameras over there, like do this,

963
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 4: you know, like technical things. But I also just thought

964
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 4: she was such an extraordinary actress and she was so

965
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 4: freaking funny, and you know she was like so had

966
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 4: that character, like the voice, the way she stood, the

967
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 4: way she wore those leather pants, like.

968
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Speaker 1: Everything was character trade she built for It is amazing

969
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: and so reminder of our audiences. Stephanie Beatrice, uh you know,

970
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: coach star in Brooklyn nine nine. She went on to

971
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Speaker 1: do some extraordinary roles and in the Heights she was

972
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Speaker 1: made a Vela and Kanto. I had the honor of

973
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Speaker 1: playing her father on Encanto. And she's just a gifted singer.

974
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Speaker 3: She very gifted sing singers. She has the opposite story.

975
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Speaker 3: She didn't think she was a singer. And I was like,

976
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Speaker 3: you're a freaking singer. You better fucking audition during the heights.

977
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:53,919
Speaker 3: I've heard you sing on set.

978
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Speaker 5: You could sing?

979
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.

980
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 5: She was like, no, I can't.

981
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Speaker 3: I was like, no, trust me as someone who thought

982
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Speaker 3: she could sing, and then was with you.

983
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Speaker 1: I mean, bro like the fact that she's saying all

984
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: those uh linn Manuel Miranda composed and lyrical songs.

985
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Speaker 2: Those songs are very.

986
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Speaker 3: Very hard to see our generation song time. It is

987
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 3: not easy to sing his songs.

988
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Speaker 1: So she's so reflecting on the both of you. Now

989
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: we're talking about both of your chemistry. You both host

990
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: a show called More Better, More Better.

991
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 2: So I'd like to talk.

992
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: About More Better next because it's not only a sister

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00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: podcast to us, but it's also one of the biggest

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00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: hits and Michael to the podcast network. So excited to

995
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: hear how that came about, and uh and the gift

996
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: that you guys have brought to the people who are

997
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: in search of more Better. Wilmer Valderramai Rodriguez and this

998
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: was part one of two parts with Melissa for Meto.

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Speaker 7: Those Amigos is a production from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's

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Speaker 7: Michael That podcast network hosting