WEBVTT - Finding Her Funny - The Melissa Fumero Interview Part 1 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.400 Hey, everybody, This is Freddy Rodriguez and I'm Wilmer Balderama. 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:12.600 Welcome to those amigos. Today is a very special, very special, 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:17.600 very special episode. Yes, because we've never had a dear, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.000 dear amiga the show, and we want to welcome the 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:34.519 first ever Amiga, the first ever Amiga Melissa Fromta. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.440 You know, everybody in the car who's listening in the car. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.120 I was like, you, we hope you did not. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.279 Sorry, it's just there's so much that song in this 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.800 well we're so happy. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.519 Look, you know, I'm gonna lead with this that that 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.640 we don't you know, we don't tend to have guests, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:54.920 you know, so when we. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.840 Have, you were going to say we don't tend to 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.520 have women. I was like, because you hate women. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:00.520 Accept me. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:10.680 Mouth, I know that, I think, I think. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.520 Know what what I'm what I'm trying to say is 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.840 is what I'm what I told the very few uh 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:19.640 friends that. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.119 Very few women before that. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.040 You know that when we have a guest, the guest 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.680 has to really represent something that's been special, that has 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.120 been you know, really uh you know, not just memorable, 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.000 but impactful in our lives. So the guests that we 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.720 have are people that are like really individuals that I 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.760 know are not just only like minded, but I can 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.520 provide so much context to the history. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.200 And you know, also yeah, the female persuasion. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.040 But we're just so happy. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.120 And you know, I've told you this before many times, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.440 but I'll tell you again on the air office that 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.120 you know, I've always admire you so much, and I 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.000 think you're one of the most talented actresses on the planet. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.920 And from someone who like has done a little bit 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.520 of comedy, a little bit of drama, to talk to 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.040 somebody who has, you know, who has like this same 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:22.440 amount of expertise and capacity to be so free to 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.200 be dramatic and so free to be comedic. Yeah, it's 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.359 really really really rare in our industry. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.280 And you process all of that. And by the way, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.240 you're a beautiful woman. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.320 You know, you're an incredible mother, and you're an amazing 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.919 producer but also an amazing director. So like to have 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.639 a dear sister of ours coming in. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.040 Best our show really really excited. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.840 And also you are the host of another Sister you 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.800 know episode Another Sister a podcast too, you know, to 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.560 the family of Michael Tuda more Better with Stephanie Mitrice 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.000 as well. Who's another one of our sisters too, who 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.720 also by the way, you both of you are like 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.320 just weapons of mass laughter because they you guys are 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.720 just so so you two together is like Laverna Chirley. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.560 Oh my goodness, thank you so much, so. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.840 Just so excited, and thank you for accepting our invitation. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.160 This conversation will be painful, but. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.280 I dare you. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:20.680 Was where are you from? 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.520 I am from New Jersey, from born and bread born 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:25.320 and bred. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.480 In New Jersey, northeast, New Jersey. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.880 By what was formerly Giant Stadium for those who are wondering, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.600 close ish to Manhattan. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:37.520 My parents are Cuban. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.560 Both Cuban, born in Cuba. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.520 Both born in Cuba. Came when they were teenagers. When 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.000 my dad came and he was like twelve. My mom 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.760 came and she was fifteen. They were high school sweethearts 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.240 in Cuba. In Jersey, yeah, they met in New Jersey. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.880 My mom met my dad like very soon after she arrived, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.880 because she was in New Jersey actually with her dad 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:05.040 and stepmother while her mom, uh like kind of found 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.280 a place for them in Miami. But then she met 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.200 my dad and it was like a kind of like 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.720 a love at first sight sort of thing, and she 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.760 was like, Mommy, I want to stay I'm at this boy. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.640 And so then she ended up staying with her dad 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.000 instead of her mom and her stepmom, uh for those 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.279 like high school college years and then they got married 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:27.800 super young, and yeah, so. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.240 He was she was destined to go to Miami. She 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:30.720 was supposed to. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.720 Ye, she was supposed to go to Miami, but she 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.159 ended up staying in New Jersey. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.159 What did your grandparents do in Cuba? 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.520 Oh gosh, my. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:45.320 On my mom's side, my her dad was a carpenter, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.640 and I believe her mom and her mom was I 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:50.720 think just to stay at home. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:51.760 Mom. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:57.960 The woman, the man that my grandmother ended up marrying 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.680 when she came here was like really my willow. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:03.560 Yeah. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.240 I didn't see my mom's dad that much. He was 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.159 the matre d at Fountain Blue in Miami. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:09.680 No. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.680 And when I was a kid, I thought that was 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:12.760 so fancy. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.320 I was like, that was the time. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.120 That was the time, Like we're. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.039 Talking like eighties, early nineties like, and I just thought 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.320 it was like so cool, like a very charismatic guy, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.159 I think until he retired yeah wow. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:28.799 Yeah. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.080 And then my dad's my dad's side of the family. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.040 I don't know that much about it, to be honest. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.800 Goshcha, did you ever see your grandfather in action at 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:41.599 the Fountain Blue. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.440 I do have a memory of being really little and 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:52.280 like seeing the lobby and that grand staircase of the 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.360 Fountain Blue, and like seeing him in a suit, But 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.360 I think it was like really quick. Yeah, I never 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.840 liked super ought to see him. It's just like the 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.159 title was cool, you know. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.000 Yeah, he was almost like an actor and right you 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.400 ever see those matrix. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.719 And he was. He was so charming. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.480 He could make me laugh so much as a kid, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.839 and he was like the sweetest man and he was 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:19.520 the best. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.280 Uh, the anyone in your family dabbled in entertainment at all? 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.840 Not entertainment, But my mom's side of the family has 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.960 a lot of visual artists, a lot of painters, a 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.600 lot of sculptors. I have a cousin who was like 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:40.280 a music prodigy, a couple other cousins that like danced 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.960 so that were younger than me for a while, but no, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.200 no one in entertainment. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.840 It was all like visual you paint. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.800 I did start in painting classes when I was like 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:55.599 nine and ten. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.640 I did it for a few years I did the 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.359 Bob Ross technique. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.160 Wife would be excited to hear that, really. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.480 Yes, which is like not paint by numbers, but like 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.760 it's very like, you know, it kind of makes like 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.680 anyone can paint a little bit like anyone's or it's 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.000 like those painting studios that people go to, you know, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.280 they got a certain ways whine and like yay, yeah, yeah. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:20.160 Everyone's painting. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.360 One's good and you're like, everyone can't be that good 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:22.760 at painting. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.200 It's like there's a certain tricks. So no, I did not. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:33.440 Inherit the family gene, but I did always love like drawing, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.600 and I wasn't that good at it though, But my 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:36.400 kid is good. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:37.920 At it really yeah. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.080 Yeah, yeah, it gives. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.400 It gives a generation exactly, and my husband has it 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:43.240 on his side too. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.480 How young did you get got the bug to perform? 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.960 Were you like super young or were you yeah? 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:49.559 Yeah. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.560 My mom put me in dance classes like all women 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.760 do with their daughters. And as we as I got 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.840 older and like my friends started quitting, I kept going 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.480 and then I followed a dance teacher from the rec 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:10.040 center to a dance studio, and then I just wanted 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.000 to do all the classes. It was like a dance 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.000 and theater studio in my hometown. And when I was ten, 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.120 my parents took me to see my first Broadway show 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.400 and I lost my mind. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:23.240 What was It? 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.480 Was The Secret Garden starring Mandy Patinkin. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.920 And Daisy Egan and Rebecca Luker Broadway icons. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.720 It was amazing. It was a Secret Garden. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.840 And then I got like, uh, I wanted a Secret 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.760 Garden journal after that, and I got like all the 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.280 Secret Garden stuff and I was just like and listen 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.120 to the soundtrack all the time and subsessed with it. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.440 Yeah, so I. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:47.120 Thing as well. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.400 The complicated it is. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.400 So when I was a kid, I fully believed that 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.000 I was a singer, and I took voice lessons and 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:09.720 I got up on stage many times and sang when 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.959 I got older, and I listened to those performances that. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.160 Your voice change as your girl. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.600 Do you think no, I was just fully delusional, Okay, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:23.480 I was like, I can totally sing, and I could not, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:30.000 but I could when it came time to like audition 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.760 for colleges, and I knew I wanted to be I 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.400 knew I wanted to be a theater major. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.600 And at the time. I felt very much like an 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.319 actor and a dancer for a while. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.440 At first, when I was like a freshman and sophomore 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.880 in high school, I thought I would major in dance 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.360 and like go that route or like try to audition 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.360 for dance companies right after high school. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.920 But then I fell in love with acting during high. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:58.600 School, and somewhere along the way, I sort of told myself, well, 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.280 if I learned how to say well enough, I won't 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.800 have to choose because I could do musical theater and 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.400 I could just keep acting and dancing and I'll like 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:07.880 figure out the singing part. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.480 So I was like, I am a singer. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.120 And then while I was in college and I went 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.280 to college with like crazy thing like people that are 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.280 on Broadway now, I was like, oh, where'd you go? 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:27.240 I'm not a singer, actually a singer. I'm actually not 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:34.480 that good at this. I yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:34.880 I was. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.680 You know, Freddy was a rapper? 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:41.360 Are you past life? 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:42.600 I was like you. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.319 I got around some like real ones, and I was 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.560 kind of like, oh, yeah. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.960 That's what happens, right, You're like I am crushing this 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:53.880 crushing that. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.120 I was so bold in high school. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.400 I remember there was a musical theater program I was 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.920 in at that day school, and I basically like lobbied 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.800 to get the lead, but like in a way where 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.600 I was like, so I deserve this. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.079 I'm a senior and this we all know this role 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:11.800 should go to me. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:17.720 Like I'm cocky as fuck, right right, And like I 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.640 kind of figured out how to sing it. I was 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.280 just like impersonating the person that had sung it before 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.920 and kind of it was in my range enough that. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:26.840 But like there were lots of other parts. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.880 I was like, that doesn't and like when it didn't 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.880 sound good, I was like, what, I'll just sing low, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:31.600 no one will hear it. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:37.320 Like I was so confident a. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.199 No audition. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:46.319 Yeah, the American Idol was around when I was in 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.960 high school. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.800 Yeah, oh yeah. I was like this is happening. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.319 And then very quickly after getting to n y U 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.480 and like being in vocal performance class with these. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.080 I mean but I mean it's not in the back 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:04.520 and you. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.840 Just feel yourself shrinking in your chair. But it's not 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:07.960 everything I knew. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:09.040 It's not fair. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.439 It is not real. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.000 It's not real, and it's not fair, you know, like 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:19.480 some of these people, uh that are extraordinarily talented and singing. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.120 They have been doing. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.760 Vocal pull ups for their entire life, entire life, you know, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.600 society like the notes they can hit his. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.240 Insane and singing like you know, like like painting is 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.120 I think like comedic timing. I think is like you 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.640 can't there's a big chunk of it cannot be taught, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.040 like you either have it or you don't, you know, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.400 And I yeah, it just it was very humbling. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:48.520 And then so then did. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.720 You change gears into them? Like I think I'm an 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:51.640 actress or. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.120 You know, I was in the musical theater program at 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:54.640 ed Yu. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.680 But you must have learned to hole the No, yeah, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.120 don't give yourself more. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.960 But I know that. I was like, how did I 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:06.520 get here? 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:06.920 Right? 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.120 And well, you got there for a reason though, I 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:10.640 mean I did. 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.199 But here's the thing. I did I sing for my audition, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.680 I must you have to Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did sing. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.199 But I sang a song. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:18.960 What was the song? 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.120 Oh? God, do I remember? 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:21.760 N is Low? 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:22.840 I sang? 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.400 And no I care, I'm like, what was my go 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.679 to change? 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.400 That's why we're not in the program. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.040 No, it must have been some music. Who knows. It 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.920 might have been like part of Your World or some shit. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.240 I don't know, Yeah, that's always the go to. Is 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.000 that Latin? Or or the Little Mermaid? 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.640 Yeah, it was probably a Disney song. So I sang 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.400 for the audition and I did a monologue. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.520 So anyway, so then when I'm in the program and 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.560 I'm watching all these singers, I'm like, holy funk, how 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.280 did I get here? I kind of quickly realized that 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.160 there were three groups within the class. Right, most people 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.600 were extraordinary singers and they were there to become better 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.040 actors and better dancers or be comfortable get better with 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:13.360 that movement. And then the medium to small size group 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.439 was the extraordinary dancers who and a lot of them 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.440 could sing and they were there to like become actors. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.120 And then the small it's great, the one that I 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:28.040 think I was in was people that were actors who 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.160 could were there to get better at singing. And I 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.320 was also a dancer, so you know, I had I 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.560 had I think that helped. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.040 Well kind of dancer were you? 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:42.920 How did you see like ballet and contemporary and so 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.640 you were a dance minor theater jazz. I wanted to 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.480 be a dance miner, but the way the program was 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.200 structured like there literally wasn't time to do it. But 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.480 in my program, I had like three hours of dance 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:56.800 three or four times a week. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.400 That's kind of they included it in. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.000 It was included in a program. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.160 I would start every morning with like three hours of 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.160 dance classes and then have acting and singing, and it 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.120 was a great program. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.600 Were you consider doing a musical now? 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:09.360 No? 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:11.200 Maybe? 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:11.920 No? 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:20.080 Yes, live, Yes, it's different, it's different. Television have destroyed 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.239 my voice. First of all. I would have to completely 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:23.480 relearn how to. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.520 Sing and how to project yeah, and like how to 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.440 sing with this voice, because you know, hours and hours 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.120 on a TV set, Like I literally speak lower than 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.160 I did when I was younger. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.160 And that's just kind of happens with our gig. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.760 But but I'm sure, look, I'm sure you could say 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.720 you might have not been yeah good as. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:50.600 Yours bleed, But I don't know. 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.200 I don't give me, give me a part of your world, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.040 give me give me. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.680 Kind of like I could like sort of yell on 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:04.440 pay you know, it's kind of that. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:03.800 You could yell. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.440 I can yell a question. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.720 I have a question. If you go to karaoke and 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:12.480 you pick, what's the karaoke. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.040 Oh no, not part of your world? 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.320 On your world? Would you murder that? 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:18.800 No? 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:20.760 What's your what's your? 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:20.880 What? 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.160 You would? A hundred percent you would. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.280 No, I'll tell you a go to what's your go to? 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.840 Like job? What from r from. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:37.040 Rock Rocky Hard? Picture show? Touch me, Bro? That's so hard? 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:38.640 How does touch that heart? How does it go? 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:40.080 I'm not going to say. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.600 How does we're trying to get to Come on, we're 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.640 trying to get the melody you said, that'll be the one. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.120 How does somebody play it on their phone? This is 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.800 a trap? No, it's it's you know the one that's Instagram? 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.320 Yeah yeah, but I yeah, I just I yell it 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:56.280 on pitch. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:57.440 But how does it? 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:58.280 But how do you yell? 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:58.600 Though? 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.440 What do you? What do you get out of here? 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.920 Let me see no way out of here? 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.760 I hate you both. I have an older brother. Okay, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.879 I know this game. I know all your. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:16.000 Moods America, and we're gonna move on. But did you. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.160 Did you speak Spanish? 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:29.359 So? 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.440 We did? We so? So the story is. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.199 My parents only spoke to us in Spanish until my 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.119 brother started elementary school and he had a tea and 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.199 one of his teachers called my parents in and she 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.119 was like, what are you speaking to him at home? 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.480 And they were like Spanish, Like, it's really messing him 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.080 up at school because he was speaking in Spanglish. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.199 But this is the eighties and like, so they scared my. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:02.240 Immigrant parents and they still spoke to us in Spanish, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.840 but they stopped making us respond in Spanish. So I 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:11.280 grew up like I always say, I'm in my ear, 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:16.600 I'm my brain, I'm fluent, but the connection from here 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.880 to my mouth is not fluent because I grew up 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.080 hearing Spanish and responding in English all the time, and 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.360 so it's gotten a little bit better over to yours. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.840 I keep saying that I'm gonna like, really. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:30.800 It's honesty. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.679 Your brain has to kind of just lock back in 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.159 and say, hey, I'm going to tap into what I 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.840 know this is in there. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:39.560 It's just about flowing with it. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:40.880 Every time I'm immersed. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.439 I went on a trip to Costa Rica once with 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.320 a friend and she didn't speak any Spanish. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.119 By the end of the trip, my Spanish was like 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:50.119 so much better. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.600 You know, every time I go to Florida, like it's 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:53.840 in there, it comes back. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.639 But it happens when you have to switch back and 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.840 forth from England to Spanish because I do junk is 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.440 in English and Spanish, and I would I start, dude, 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.479 if I start in English and then I have to 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.080 do now another ten in Spanish. My brain is like, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.359 you know, like it's just like really really hard to 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.159 kind of click it. And I grew up Spanish my 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.359 first language, and I didn't want her to speak English 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:16.240 unce I was fourteen. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:17.720 Wow, yeah, so. 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.000 You have no excuses, but I do feel like I 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.800 have the vocabulary of a fourteen year old. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.960 But no, you don't in Spanish. Oh in Spanish. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.320 Oh thank god you didn't agree, Thank god you didn't 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:30.240 agree them. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:31.720 That fourteen year old English. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.399 She was like, you do because I know the words 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.679 like a compromise and constitution in English, and so yeah. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.120 Those are tough in Spanish, those junkets because it gets 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:41.840 so technical. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.440 I could hold the conversation. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.160 And fast, and they want to, you know, they want 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.439 to kind of like make it fun and snappy, and. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.800