1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: And you wearing the white coat is labbed as a 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: dental technician. That was not the life that you saw 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: for yourself. Horrible in a laboratory body. Look, it's a 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: great profession if you want to do that, but it 5 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: wasn't for me. There's no applause, there's no groupies, there's 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: no cocaine. All the things that you we've talked about. 7 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: This what you went that's why you went into the business. 8 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: That's why I went into the business. And there was 9 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: none of that in the in the laboratory. Hi, I'm 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: Oscar Nunyaz. You know me probably best from the office. 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 1: And I have to count them. Two SAG awards, How 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: many do you have? Hello everybody, and welcome back. Here too, 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: off the beat. I am your host, Brian Baumgartner. And 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: oh no, here we go today. I am bringing on 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: a guest who need needs no introduction, but probably would 16 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 1: demand one anyway. He has my friend from the dandr 17 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: Mifflin accounting department and also friend in real life, Oscar 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,559 Speaker 1: nun Yez. Now, while you might know Oscar best from 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: well our time together in the office, did you know 20 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: that Oscar once worked in a laboratory. Yes, Oscar worked 21 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: as a certified dental technician, which we all know is 22 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: the gateway to comedy. H Oscar joined me from his 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: closet today too well, to dive in deep about his 24 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: start in the improv world and the incredible journey that 25 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: brought him and his family from Cuba at a young 26 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: age to the US. What I ended up with was 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: a totally new side to my old friend. I heard 28 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: stories I have never heard before, including how Oscar feels 29 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: about putting his hands in people's mouth. So, if you're 30 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: up for a little sage, advice and a lot of 31 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: very dry humor, join me in welcoming the Shall we 32 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: say incomparable Oscar nun yez bubble and squeak. I love it. 33 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: Bubble and squeak on bubble and squeaker cookie every month 34 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: left over from the nab people. Here you go. Hello, 35 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: there's Brian. What's up? Oscar? What's up? Man? How are you? 36 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,399 Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you? Did your wife just say 37 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: if you get bored, you can play with your daughter's toys. Yeah, 38 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: because the computer is uh set up on a little 39 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: stand that she has a little rolling table on the top, 40 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: and the shells below are full of her little toys, 41 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: her my little ponies. Yeah, and other things. Oh all right, Oscar, 42 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: are you are you thought out? Oscar and I were 43 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: just in Wyoming together. Are you thought out yet? Barely? Man? 44 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: It was cold, It was very cold. Zero belows minus 45 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: thirteen Was that the lowest we got? Let me just 46 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: throw out some numbers at you. Three, zero, ten, eleven. 47 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: Those are the ones I remember. Yeah, we went down 48 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: to zero. Yeah, I think we went below zero, but 49 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: I think we did too zero. It's great to see 50 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: you again. Thank you for coming and uh and talking 51 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: to me. We talked a lot about the office last time. 52 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some other things today. One 53 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: of the reasons I wanted to chat. I think a 54 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: lot of people don't know you were actually born in Cuba. 55 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: See see, yes, I was born in Cuba. You were 56 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: born in Cuba, and you left Cuba and went to Venezuela. 57 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: How long were you in Venezuela Just a year? Why 58 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: did you leave Cuba? Because the revolution took place, and 59 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: that there was a lot of corruption in the government, 60 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: in the presidency and whatnot, and so I think the 61 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: time was there was like revolution in the air, and 62 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: people weren't happy per se with the government, but it 63 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: wasn't catastrophically out of control, but it was, I don't know, 64 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: it was a volatile time. I think there were three things, 65 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: like three revel Like there was a union unions, and 66 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: the students were having a revolt and at that time 67 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: and Castor. Oh, these three movements started happening about the 68 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: same time, which I think was I don't know, fifty 69 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: eight or yeah, or fifty nine. And his revolution. He 70 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: he left on a yacht from Mexico with like twenty 71 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: seven guys or something, and it picked up steam in 72 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: the Sierra Madre and the mountains, gathering people behind them, 73 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: and they came into the city and Batista the president, 74 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: unlike the president of Ukraine, who is a real patriot 75 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: and a you know, wonderful person, this fella cut and run. 76 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: He had no qualms about leaving. He left with then 77 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: three million dollars, which is astronomical. He left the country 78 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: and that's it. And then the Castro swept in. And 79 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: then he said he was going to, uh, you know, 80 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: have elections and clean up the government, and he did, 81 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: and he stayed in power basically, and then he you know, 82 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: he went to the United States and asked for support, 83 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: and they thought he was a flash in the pan 84 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: and they said, get lost, you won't last two weeks. 85 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: We'll be back there, you know. And then he went 86 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: to Russia and they did back him up, and then 87 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: he came back and declared, we are communists now, and 88 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: so there's no more private property, and they confiscated private 89 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: lands and so they took a real estate and from 90 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: us and all that stuff. And my uncle had a ranch. 91 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: They came to take his ranch and he armed his 92 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: ranch hands and I think they shot two communists and 93 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: they threw him in jail as a political prisoner tilt eighty. 94 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: He was in jail from nineteen sixty nineteen eighty and 95 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: we got him out in nineteen eight. And my parents, 96 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: they were just starting their professional careers. My mom was 97 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: a dentist, my dad a lawyer. And my dad's friend 98 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: came up to him and said, uh, they just made me. 99 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: This new government just made me ambassador to my scout. 100 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: Do you want to be my assistant? Will leave with 101 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: our families and go And my parents thought about it. 102 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: They're like, no, we don't want to do that. And 103 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: then they're like, well, what do we have to leave. 104 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: So they're like, we are leaving the country, and the 105 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: newly formed government said we need professionals. You guys should stay. 106 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: They said thanks, no, thanks for leaving, and they said, okay, 107 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: you can leave. You can't take anything with you. Everything 108 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: stays here. So they left anyway. So they left. They 109 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: left with me, and they took a ham, like a 110 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: fifteen pound ham with them, and we took a boat 111 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: to Venezuela like a cooked ham to like a cooked ham, 112 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: and we for for us to eat, but we ended 113 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: up splitting it with people on the boat. We took 114 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: a boat to Venezuela. We were there a year. They 115 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: didn't like it. My mom particularly didn't like it. You know. 116 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: She was, like, I said, a dentist in Cuba. She 117 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: got to Venezuela, my dad was hanging out with some friends, 118 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: and I don't know, one of his friends, his new friends, 119 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: says something to the effect of, you should be in 120 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: the kitchen. Why are you here, Why are you discussing 121 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: this with us? And she's like, oh, no, no, no, 122 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: and she's like, we're leaving this country. So they did. 123 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: They left and we went to Massachusetts. We were there 124 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: a year. My sister was born there. Now it's and 125 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: all their friends were in New Jersey, and Massachusetts was fine, 126 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: but they were the only Cuban family there and they're like, 127 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: let's go to Jersey where all our friends are. So 128 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: that's what they did, and that's where I grew up. 129 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: That's like a thumbing sketchy. Yeah, you were telling me 130 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: this story while we were in Wyoming, and the idea 131 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: of them knowing that it was a bad situation fairly 132 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: quickly and making the decision to stay with their stuff 133 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: and their land and their property or having the option 134 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: to leave, and the boldness that that must have taken 135 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: at that time. To remember, they knew the couple. They 136 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: knew the guy. He's not like some who was this man. 137 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: They were at school with this guy. My aunts graduated 138 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: college with him. They knew him from school. It's like 139 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: you went to high school with that Helms, like Ed 140 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: Helms took over the country what And they knew he 141 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: was an asshole from schools And they're like, oh no, 142 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: this isn't good right, you know, he wasn't a good guy. 143 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: He wasn't a cool person. So they were like, oh 144 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: my god, we're in trouble. He's volatile, he's unpredictable, all 145 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: those things. He's got an inferiority complex. It's it's crazy, 146 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: it's not good. It would be like, if you were 147 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: taking over, you'd be like, oh no, but but free 148 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: tacos for the nation every Tuesday, free tacos, free Cuban sandwiches. 149 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: He was not. It's not like, oh, we knew Bill 150 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: Clinton in school or Hillary Clinton or Bob Dole. How 151 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: was he? Oh, he was studious and serious, and he 152 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: was he was okay, and they volunteered a lot. He 153 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: wasn't a volunteering helping children read. He was a whole 154 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: May he rest in peace? Is he? Daddya? Castro is dead? 155 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: I find that so interesting. By the way, your mom 156 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: was a dentist. Yeah, what of it? I don't know 157 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: if I just learned this or not. I don't remember this. 158 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 1: But in this research, you know, we we research extensively 159 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: our guests. You mean you go on Google? You you 160 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: I am dB You're a certified dental technician. Is that right? Yeah? 161 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: I'm afraid. Really, I'm not good. I am I'm not 162 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: good at it? Is this because your mom was a 163 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: dentist that had something to do with it. Yeah, I 164 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: was floundering and I'm like whatever, and and my mom's like, 165 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: you know, you know your cousin Julio is a dental technician. 166 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: He has his own laboratory. I'm like, yes, of course 167 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: I know that. She's like, did you ever think And 168 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, okay, because the thought being I could 169 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: work for for my cousin Julio who had a dental laboratory, 170 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful trade. It pays well. And I'm 171 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 1: like why not? And so you went to school and 172 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: you got certified. Yes, I wouldn't for two years Magna 173 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: Institute of Dental Technology in Manhattan. How did I not 174 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: know this information? Because this is the greatest Did you 175 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: ever consider running the scheme? You know Angela famously she 176 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: talks about it all the time, worked at one dentists. 177 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: Did you did you ever think maybe she could refer 178 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: people to you, like, go to this address if you 179 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: want your teeth clean, and then it would be you there. 180 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: You guys could split the money. That would have been 181 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: a good thing before the office. Yes, had it been 182 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: dental hygienist but not dental technician. Oh wait, what's a 183 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: dental technician. Well, what's the dental What does the dental 184 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: technician do? Then, if you go in for a bridge 185 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: or false fake tooth or whatever, and you know when 186 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: I was doing this, it was the eighties, when you 187 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: went for a ceramic bridge or whatever, and they take 188 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: a form from your mouth and impression, they'll send it 189 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:15,119 Speaker 1: to the laboratory and they make the bridge in porcelain, 190 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: and you get a wax thing and you make you 191 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: carve the tooth out and you bake it and then 192 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: you send it back to the dentist and he puts 193 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: the bridge in your mouth. The person who actually makes 194 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: the bridge or the fake, the fake teeth, the implants 195 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: is a dental technician. So they you never see a patient. 196 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 1: This makes way more sense. You never put your hands 197 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: in a patient's mouth. That's that makes way more sense. 198 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 1: Because I thought you had your hands in people's mouth 199 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: and in their face. That did not make any sense 200 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: to me. No, no, okay, So you were a craftsman. Yeah, 201 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: it was a craftsman. I wouldn't be able to put 202 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: my hands in a person's mouth. I find it highly 203 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: erotic and it wouldn't work for me professional work for 204 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: anyone so yeah, I was. I was a dental signition, 205 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: and then I wasn't good, but I was very funny 206 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: and charming. But they would always have to do my 207 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: work over again because it wasn't too good. And then 208 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: I would be there for a while and then they're like, oh, Oscar, 209 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: we have to get rid of you. And I'm like, 210 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: I know it's not working, but here did you hear 211 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: this one? And you know, you would just tell jokes 212 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: as you were trying to make the would be funny. 213 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: They like, they liked having me every job, liked having 214 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: me around up to a point and like, oh, that's 215 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: all he's got. I would plateau and they're like, oh, 216 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: you don't really know what you're doing. And I'm like 217 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: I'm like, I really know, but why when? Why did 218 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: you just see that? You know, you're watching Harvey Korman. 219 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan of a Harvey Corman 220 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: and the Carl Burnett Show, and you're seeing these fake 221 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: teeth and you're like, oh, let me make these fake teeth. 222 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: This will be funny, this will be Is that what 223 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: you did so funny? So funny? Ah? So your family 224 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: arrived essentially with nothing into the uses and you moved 225 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: to Jersey because they knew there. But it was a 226 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: different time. We were welcomed in Massachusetts with open arms 227 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: by the Catholic Church, and there was a family that 228 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,479 Speaker 1: sponsored us, Bob and Jane I want to say Mayfield 229 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: h They have two daughters. But anyway, the man owned 230 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: a lightbulb company or something in Boston, and they had 231 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: a yacht in Marlboro Head and they had a big 232 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: house with a big yard. I was four years old, 233 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: but I remember all this, and they they helped us. 234 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: They gave he gave my father a job as a 235 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: warehouse manager in one of his warehouses. They were well 236 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: to do and they were very wonderful and charming, and 237 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: they helped my family and the Catholic church. There was 238 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: a father, Soto Longo, who took us to a Chinese restaurant. 239 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: I remember that in Boston, and um, he was very 240 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: nice to us. So we were welcomed by the I 241 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: was not putting a cage. We were welcomed by the 242 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: country and by this and by this wonderful family. And 243 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: then but after a year my parents were like I 244 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: think they were kind of lonely, and all their friends, 245 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: as I said, all their friends from university, all their 246 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: attorney friends and doctor friends and dentist friends. The first 247 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: wave of immigrants who left Cuba, the professionals in nineteen 248 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: sixty approximately, We're going to Florida and New Jersey and 249 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: they're like, come on down to Jersey. You guys were 250 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: all here, and that's what they did, and you grew 251 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: up there right across from Manhattan. Did you go into 252 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: the city a lot as a kid, Yes, as a 253 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: kid with my parents, and then as soon as I could, 254 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: when I was like seventeen sixteen, seventeen eighteen, I would 255 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: go as often as I could. It was a bus 256 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: right away. I think it was sixty cents or something 257 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: like that to take the bus across the Lincoln Tunnel 258 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: right out of where Tony Soprano comes out of at 259 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: the beginning of uh right there, take that right into 260 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: the Port Authority. You went to not just the Magnet 261 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,479 Speaker 1: Institute of Dental Technology. You went to a lot of colleges. 262 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: I went, I bounced around a lot. You went to 263 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: Fashion Fashion Institute of Technology. You were interested in fashion. 264 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: That was the first school after high school, was f 265 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: I t I should have gone to a regular college, 266 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: but I went to f I T because you were 267 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: interested in fashion. Yeah, I wasn't, and still am. It 268 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: fascinates me that whole world. So yes, I went to 269 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: f I T for a for a minute. I went 270 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: to F I T because I liked fashion. But my 271 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: cousin Eddie, who was I think five, he's five or 272 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: six years older than me, he would go clubbing a lot, 273 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: and he would go to Student four and fitted in 274 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 1: all these clubs, and some guys saw him at Studio 275 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: fifty four, and somehow or other he became a model 276 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: for Don Robbie, who was a fashion designer in New 277 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: York City. And Don Robbie worked for one of these houses, 278 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: either the or or um Cardan. I don't know which one. 279 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: I don't remember, but it was one of those. There 280 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: are two big, huge houses. I wonder which one. It 281 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: was so a long time ago, but Eddie worked for him, 282 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 1: and he was in g Q magazine back in the day. 283 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: And one time I visited Don Robbie's offices, which were 284 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: six Avenue, which is one of those big iconic buildings. 285 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: Whenever they showed New York City and they show sixth 286 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 1: Avenue or Fashion Avenue, it's the same Avenue. It's it's 287 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: in front of It's in a lot of movies because 288 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: of the fountain in the front and all that right 289 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: across kind of across from Radio City Music Hall. And 290 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: I went up to the offices and the elevator opened 291 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: up and everything was pink and gray, and there was 292 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: disco music blasting in the offices as if it were 293 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: a discotheque. But it was a place of work, and 294 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: everybody looked cool. It was like the double worst product, 295 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 1: like that Eddie was there, Don Robbie was there, and 296 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: it was it was party. It was insane and I'm like, 297 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: holy sh it, And so I can still doodle, but 298 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: back then I was better at illustrating. And I'm like, 299 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go to f I T 300 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: it's right across the river. Uh And it's a good school. 301 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: Calvin Klein went there. Did Bill Blasco there? I don't know, 302 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: but Calvin Klein might be their most famous Alma Mado 303 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: but I uh so I put together a portfolio of 304 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 1: sketches of fashion of shoes and clothing and whatever, and 305 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: that's what got me into the school. And I was eighteen. 306 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: I went straight out of high school. But it was 307 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: basically because you wanted to work in an office like 308 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: this is this? Is this the idea? Yes? And I 309 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: like this yeah. And also it was you know, Brian 310 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: Disco was big at that moment, and I had one 311 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: ft in rock and roll and one foot in the 312 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: disco world. I had like American friends at high school 313 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: and they listened to Neil Young and leads up on 314 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: all that ship and I would party with them. But 315 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: my Cuban friends they would like to go out clubbing. 316 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: So I was like, like in both places, and I 317 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 1: like doing both things. And so I'm like, yeah, sure, 318 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 1: way not I could do this. But in f I 319 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: t it's a serious place, and I go there. I'm eighteen. 320 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: I never took home at school. You know, in high 321 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: school you could take like cooking or sewing or any 322 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: stuff like that. I didn't. I didn't not the days. Yeah, 323 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: so my parents, yeah, I'm like a little older than 324 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: your parents, just to set things, to give people an ideas. 325 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: So so I didn't know how to sew at all. 326 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: And they're like, so then you know you'll have illustration. 327 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: I'm like cool art history, cool textiles, cool marketing, cool draping, 328 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: and sewing and tailoring. I'm like, what that's class? And 329 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,679 Speaker 1: and you go into that class, they're not showing you 330 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: they're in it there to go there, like here's the material, 331 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: cut it draping, and everyone's doing it. Everyone's like all 332 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: these people, first of all women, and then the few 333 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: guys who were there knew what they were doing already 334 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: because they were doing this as they were kids. And 335 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm not gonna embarrass myself. 336 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: Better skip this class and just go hang out in party. 337 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: So eventually they're like, well you really haven't done anything. 338 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, asta, Leavista, I know what's coming next. So 339 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: I left there and then I was doing a couple 340 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: of jobs and then that's where my mom's like, look, 341 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: you have to do something. You have to And that's 342 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: when I went to dental technology school. And now when 343 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: I was in dental technology school and I graduated and 344 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: I started working in the field, yeah, Magnet Institute of 345 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: Dental Technology is a Yeah, that's where I went, and 346 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: now I'm a dental technologist. Right, So when I started 347 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: working that summer as a real dental technologist, six months in, 348 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, what am I doing? I 349 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 1: don't want to do this. And then I'm like, all right, Oscar, 350 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: you know and and I never Junior and senior year 351 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: for me, my parents were getting a divorce. It was 352 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: a mess. I never and still I'm just learning how 353 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: to ask for help from people and use resources. So 354 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: I was like, So I finally asked me. I'm like, 355 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: oh my god, what do you really want to do? 356 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: Just say it, don't be afraid to say it. Say it. 357 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I want to do stand up. 358 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: I want to be a comedian. I want to be funny. 359 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: But that was too scary for me, so I'm like, 360 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 1: I want to be an actor. I could ease my 361 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: way into comedy. So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna 362 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: learn how to I want to take acting lessons. So 363 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: that was less scary for you than to say I 364 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: want to be doing stand up. Stand up is terrifying. 365 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: Still is to me to this day. I like sketch 366 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: more than stand up. To do like improv, that's what 367 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: I like. So I gotta I picked up a backstage 368 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: and started looking through it and signed up for some 369 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: classes auditions, started doing commercial classes, went to some drama classes. 370 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: Eventually maybe a year later, I was working in retail, 371 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: which I love retail in blooming Dale's and I auditioned 372 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: for an improv troupe in the village and I got 373 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 1: in and I was like, Okay, this is cool. And 374 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: that's when I started, you know, doing what I really 375 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: wanted to do. I wasn't doing it in high school. 376 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: It took me forever because all through grammar school in 377 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 1: high school, people were telling me not to be a 378 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: wise ass. They're like, what are you doing. They weren't 379 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: saying this is good, work on it. They're like, don't 380 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: what are you doing? Were they telling you like be 381 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: in your place, you know, don't cause a scene, be 382 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 1: good and not encouraging you, or no one had the 383 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 1: idea for you, like maybe you should perform or do 384 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 1: a play or no. My friends would say it, and 385 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: you know, God help you. If you tried to help me, 386 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you didn't know what you're talking about. 387 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: Or I would go the other way. I'm like, you 388 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: know whatever, people tried. People my friends were like, you're funny, dude, 389 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: do something. But I didn't go out for drama. I 390 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: wasn't helping myself, you know. I wasn't helping myself until 391 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, this is this is for real. 392 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: Now I can't skate by anymore on charm because now 393 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: I'm moving out of the house. I need to pay 394 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: rent and bills. I you know, I've got to get 395 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: a j O B. Right, And you wearing the white 396 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: coats as a dental technician. That was not the life 397 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: that you saw for yourself. Horrible in a laboratory, but look, 398 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: it's a great profession if you want to do that, 399 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: but it wasn't for me. There's no applause, there's no groupies, 400 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: there's no cocaine. All the things that you we've talked about. 401 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: This what you went that's why you went into the business. 402 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: That's why I went into the business. And there was 403 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: none of that in the in the laboratory. So you 404 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,239 Speaker 1: get this improv troupe in the village. You're excited. I 405 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 1: presume you're still working at this point. You said retail. 406 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: You're still working during the day and then trying to 407 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: perform get better at night. Is this that we had. 408 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: We did a lot of shows. We would perform Friday 409 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: and Saturdays on St. Mark's Place, a stret between First 410 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: Avenue and Avenuay. There was a lot of fun. Why 411 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: did you make the decision to move to Los Angeles? Well, 412 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: A lot of stuff happened between moving out to l 413 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: A and New York. What did I do? I lived 414 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: in DC for three years. I did theater in d C, 415 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: lived with my brother in law and sister, I think, 416 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 1: for a year in Florida, and then from Florida I 417 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: moved out to l A. I didn't want to go 418 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: back to New York. New York was fun. I was single, 419 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,719 Speaker 1: I had no responsibilities. What makes it, which makes it 420 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: more easier to live there, But I wanted I wanted 421 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: to come out to l A just because New York 422 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: was just hard. It wasn't it wasn't working. I'm like, 423 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to have two jobs. I don't want 424 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: to do that. I just want to act. And I 425 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: can see that happening more in Los Angeles. In New York? 426 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: Does that make sense? People seem to have careers. So 427 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: you start working, you start doing improv in New York, 428 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: but then you start acting in shows, Like you moved 429 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: to d C and you're like doing shows. They're like, like, 430 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: are you a working actor at this point? No? No, No, 431 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: In New York. I did uh we were doing a 432 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: shock of the Phony. I did Um Street Theater and 433 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: then I got somehow into a touring company. It was 434 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: a children's touring company toured and it was touring at 435 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: the Smithsonian Institutes ind in DC, and I met a 436 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: young lady there and kind of started dating her, kind 437 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: of left New York to go and be with her, 438 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 1: and ended up being there like for three years. I 439 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: worked for the Cuban American National Foundation and I waited tables. 440 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: Also also did theater at the Wooly Mammouth and DC 441 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,239 Speaker 1: has a lot of good theater down there, so I 442 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: was doing a couple of plays. I did my first 443 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: I think it was a not a student's film, but 444 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: a film for students. It was an industrial yes, yes, yes, 445 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: like an educational something about I know what had something 446 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: to do with library, how to use a library in general? 447 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: How do you use a library? The Dewey system and yeah, yeah, 448 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: something like that. I remember doing that and that movie 449 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: is still being shown today, it is. And I did 450 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: a commercial, but mostly theater. I had a good time. 451 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: I had a nice time in d C. I was 452 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: there as long as it could. I was when I 453 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: think the Redsicans won the Super Bowl. Riggins was the um. 454 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: That's how I can tell time by what the sports was, 455 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: what was going on. And then my friends called me 456 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: from New York. I said, hey, we're doing a play. 457 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: Come on, we wrote something. You could be in it. 458 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: And I decided, Okay, I'll go back to New York. 459 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 1: And when I went back and moved in with my 460 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 1: father and found out he was gay, I didn't know. 461 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: And that was a big fucking crazy shit happens? Is 462 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: this true? Yeah, You've never said this before and never 463 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: to all you this. No, So you moved back to 464 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: New York, You're you're now working in the theater, you 465 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: go back to do a show, you don't have a 466 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: place that you move in with your dad, and then 467 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: you find out he's gay. I thought a big cool Yeah. 468 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: I moved in with my dad and he was drinking 469 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: a little too much, and I'm like, why is he 470 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: drinking so much? And it was because he was conflicted 471 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: and oppressed and all that ship and and he was 472 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: being gay. And I found that. I'm like, oh my god. 473 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: And then I told my sister and she's like, yeah, 474 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: I kind of knew that. And then I told my 475 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: old family friends that I grew up with Felix Man. 476 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: I found out my dad's game. And he's like, Oscar, 477 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: you didn't know. I'm like no, and he's like everyone knew, 478 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: we all knew. And I'm like really, He's like yeah, 479 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: and I'm like oh man, And then I started thinking 480 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 1: about it. I said, okay, yeah, I can see that, 481 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: but I didn't know. You know, I didn't know, and 482 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: so we were okay with it, but he was not. 483 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: So yeah, So that did happiness? Did he was he 484 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: able to come to a no? No? I told my 485 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: mom and and my mom's like, this is what happened. 486 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: So when I was like seventeen, sixteen or seventeen, he 487 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: had a friend. He was really cool, attractive guy, tall guy, Ernie, 488 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: and he would come over the house and we loved them. 489 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: And he had a minister snauser, which is why my 490 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: sister and I love ministerial snausers. And he knew that 491 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: he was like my dad's friends. They would come over 492 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: the house. My mom knew him, and we would go 493 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: over his house for dinner too, and he was a bachelor. 494 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: He had what we would call back then, I guess 495 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: a Penthouse Briant, and it was kick ass. He had 496 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: a grand piano, he had like the zebra sk in 497 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: like a fucking playboy, you know, like a cool like plants, 498 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is fucking cool. And he's my 499 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 1: dad's friend. Cool. And by the way, that guy got me. 500 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: He got me a job I called by Boyer and 501 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: associates as a messenger for like three years. So he 502 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: was a good guy. He got me a really cool job. 503 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: But when I was in high school, you know, it's 504 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: fucking life. So that was happening. That was happening, and 505 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: my mother goes, okay, so when you were in high school, 506 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: she's like you remember, and I'm like, yeah, he wasn't 507 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: coming home some nights and she's like, yeah. He would 508 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: say he was working Landing was and she's like one day, 509 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm like what the fuck and he said now I 510 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: have to stay late or whatever. And she's like okay, 511 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: And I remember this her going on. She was very 512 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: cool about I remember how on the phone being go 513 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: and celebrate. You gotta raise, celebrate, go with your friends. 514 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: So my mother goes, look, I called your dad's work 515 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: and I'm like, can I talk to him? He's working late, 516 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: and they're like, what do you mean he's working late? 517 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: The offices are closed, And then like the next day, 518 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: she's like, funk this. So she got on the bus 519 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: and went to New York to confront him, to talk 520 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: to him because something was off. And she went to 521 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: his office and she's like, where where's that's his nickname? 522 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: And they're like, he went to lunch at such and 523 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: such a place. So she's walking to the place, right 524 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: and she's at the corner and she's waiting to cross 525 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: the street to go to the Delhi where the restaurant 526 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: wherever he's gonna have lunch, And she looks across the 527 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: street and my dad's across street and he sees her, 528 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: and they look across the street at Ernie's on the 529 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: other corner. Each one's on the corner and they all 530 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: look at the sh other. My mother's like, that's when 531 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: I knew these motherfucker's were having we're having an affair. Really, Yeah, 532 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: that's a that's like a movie. Yeah, that's like that's 533 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: a shot from a movie. So she knew at that point, 534 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: and they yeah, but that's time, I mean my early twenties. 535 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: They now and then she goes, so wait, they go 536 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: to the restaurant. Of them, they sit down, she knew him. 537 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: They all it's Arnie and she's like these So they 538 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: go and they sit down and she's like, what then 539 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: is going on? And Ernie says, I don't have a 540 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: dog in this fight. And he gets up and he leaves. 541 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: My mom's like what are you gonna do now? And 542 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: he and she's like, you gotta come get your ship 543 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: and leave and he's like, I know, I know. And 544 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: that was basically it. And then Ernie passed away a 545 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: couple then after this or no, they were they weren't couples. 546 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: They were older men. They sneaked around, they weren't proud, 547 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: they were fucking embarrassed and weird about it. They were 548 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: in the fucking closet, Brian. So it's a different the 549 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: whole different thing. I mean, I'm sure there were older 550 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: guys who were cool and but not these guys. So 551 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: now too fast forward. When I so when I go 552 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: stay with my dad, he's got a duplex and I 553 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: go inside and it's Ernie's furniture. He left it to him. 554 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I didn't know this. Yeah, Ernie, Ernie 555 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:00,080 Speaker 1: passed away, and and my dad dated another guy, a 556 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: Puerto Rican man. His name was Pedro, and he was 557 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: super nice. He was cool, he had a family, he 558 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: got the worst. It wasn't just like us the same thing. 559 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: Only problem is Pedro wasn't so he wasn't filled with 560 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: self hatred, so he wasn't an alcoholic. And he tried 561 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: to save my dad and we're like sorry, Pedro, and 562 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: after a while he's like, I can't do this thing. 563 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, I don't blame you, save yourself because 564 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: he was a cool guy. But my dad was and 565 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: he never drank before. He never was like this fucking 566 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: crazy alcohol, like fucking crazy crazy. I'm sorry, dude, and 567 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: this is like one eight. Growing up, he was funny, smart, witty, 568 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: but that whole thing just fucking fucked him up. Sea Yeah, yeah, 569 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: no matter what you tell him. Anyway, I stayed there 570 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: for a while and then left, and then that's when 571 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: I came to l A, went to Florida and then 572 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: went out to l A. Because you wanted to be 573 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: an actor, yes, I wanted to be an actor. I 574 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: could be an actor. I wanted to be in comedy. 575 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: I wanted to be in comedy, whether stand up or sketch, 576 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me. Comedy is what I love. 577 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: So that's what as you can tell from this story, 578 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: the hilarity. So so yes, I wanted to come out 579 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: here and I did, and I joined the Groundlings as 580 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: soon as I was old. When we were shooting The 581 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: Office and well there's the gay witch hunt episode and 582 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: Oscar gets to leave from the Office because of what 583 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: Michael has done. Well this was because you actually got 584 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: another show during this time with a lot of your 585 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: friends from the Groundlings. Halfway Home. You actually shot a 586 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: full season for Comedy Central while we were shooting The Office. 587 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: I mean you were so you were the only person 588 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,959 Speaker 1: I think who had another show happening during the run. 589 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: Can you talk about that show a little bit, the 590 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: experience of doing that show for Comedy Central, because when 591 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: it rains, it pours. I did an episode of Rene, 592 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 1: and those kids were they were so cool John, Tom 593 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 1: and Carry that they made my episode of double episode 594 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: and they said, not only that, we went to the 595 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: executives at Comedy Central and told them they should meet 596 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: with you. So that was already kind of happening. We 597 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: already had meetings scheduled with Comedy Central. How did I 598 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: get on their radar? Oh? I think when I was 599 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: in the Groundlings, And I'm gonna go backwards a little bit. 600 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: When I was in the Groundlings, our troop in the 601 00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: Sunday Company was really cohesive and we all loved each 602 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: other and we were very funny. And we went ahead 603 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: and did a show outside of the Groundlings. We got 604 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: a review, a good review. The Groundlings was not pleased 605 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,959 Speaker 1: with that. They're like, you guys are in the Sunday Company, 606 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: what are you doing? We were like their competition because 607 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: we were a separate show outside of the Groundlings. Anyway, 608 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: we performed that the HBO workspace, and I think that's 609 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: where some people from Comedy Sound to had me into 610 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: chat about Wooks show or what I would be interested 611 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,359 Speaker 1: in doing something like that. So I got together with 612 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: my friends from the Groundlings and Damon Jones and Cheryl 613 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: Hines and a couple of other people, and and we 614 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,320 Speaker 1: put together a sketch variety show just like the pilot, 615 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 1: like a little fifteen twenty minute thing. And I took 616 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: it to them to Comedy Central and showed it to them, 617 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: and they said, Wow, this is really good, and we 618 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: would do this, but we just signed the guy to 619 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: do a variety show, this guy, Dave Chappelle, we just 620 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,439 Speaker 1: signed him to do a variety show, so we can't 621 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: have two variety shows. Do you have something else? And 622 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 1: then we came back with ten ideas and they liked 623 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: Halfway Home. And then while we were doing the Office, 624 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 1: that show was scheduled to happen, and I'm like, do 625 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,439 Speaker 1: I have to choose? This is awful? Right? Oh? Yeah, 626 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,240 Speaker 1: it's lable, Like I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh my god, 627 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: I told you this. Steve Carrell. Correll was crossing the 628 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: parking lot at the office where we used to park 629 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: our cars and a lot of stuff, and I caught 630 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: up to him, like, hey, Steve, I told him what 631 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: was happening. I said, Steve, I love the office, I 632 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: love being here with you guys, but we just I 633 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: just got offered to do a job on Comedy Central. 634 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: Do I say no? What do I do? And he said, Uh, 635 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 1: it's not your job to say no. Say no to jobs, 636 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 1: oscar Your your job is to get jobs. Don't say 637 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: no to anything that's not your problem. Let them work 638 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: it out. Let NBC work it out. With your managers. 639 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: Don't do everything you can, don't say no to anything. 640 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, thank you. So we went ahead with 641 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: both things, and Greg Daniels, being the wonderful, wonderful mentions 642 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 1: that he is, worked it out and he's like, we're 643 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: gonna give you an escape hatch and then you can 644 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,879 Speaker 1: come back. Is there anything you request? And I said, 645 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: in honor of my father, can I make out with 646 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,480 Speaker 1: Steve Carrell before I leave? And he said, yes, we 647 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:28,839 Speaker 1: will do. That's terrible, that's not true. That's that's not true. 648 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: Halfway home. If you haven't seen it, anybody out there, 649 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,279 Speaker 1: you really should check it out. It's so fun. Octavia 650 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:44,959 Speaker 1: Spencer that was in then. Oh, she's a real actress woman, 651 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 1: she was a real actress with it. She's crying what 652 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 1: she's crying in a scene she's using sex memory Octavius Spencer, 653 00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: all my friends and it was improvised. The improvised. Yeah, 654 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun. And then I came back 655 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: to the office. How cool is that? The best? I 656 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 1: have to ask you? Also, during the office you shot 657 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 1: it's a really underrated comedy of the of the odds. 658 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: Isn't that what we call it? The two thousands, the 659 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:23,719 Speaker 1: proposal you shot with Betty White, God rest her soul, 660 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,200 Speaker 1: truly an American treasure. Talk a little bit about working 661 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,439 Speaker 1: with her. I had the opportunity a few years after 662 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,760 Speaker 1: you to work with her, and UM, no greater thrill 663 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,320 Speaker 1: for me in the business for sure. Well, there's a 664 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,440 Speaker 1: lot of reasons, Betty White being one of them. I 665 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 1: got to work with her. I can't believe it. There 666 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,520 Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons the movie was a hit. 667 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: Timing was a big reason because there was a movie 668 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 1: that was number one before us, a crazy ass funny, funny, 669 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,520 Speaker 1: funny movie, number one at the box office for three 670 00:38:58,560 --> 00:38:59,799 Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Do you know the movie I'm 671 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 1: talking come about? And then the fourth week we were 672 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 1: able to beat it. If we would have premiered in 673 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,440 Speaker 1: its third week or second week, we would have been 674 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: number two or three or four or nothing. But we 675 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 1: were number one when we premiere because it was this 676 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: movie's fourth week and it was already in its way down. 677 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 1: It was The Hangover, Is that right? It was, which 678 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: our friend at Helms was in. Yeah, I didn't realize that. Unbelievable. 679 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,839 Speaker 1: When The Hangover was in its fourth week, we came 680 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: out and then we were able to usurp it because 681 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,160 Speaker 1: it was his fourth week. But anyway, anyway, what was 682 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 1: her husband's how Lindon from a password? That's where I 683 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 1: first knew her password, and she just killed it. And 684 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 1: Mary Tyler Moore absolutely killed that. Mary Tyler Moore was 685 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,080 Speaker 1: an amazing show. She was Mary Lou. She wasn't a 686 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,719 Speaker 1: main character, but when she came on, she just tore 687 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: it up and and with her and she was happy, 688 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: go lucky, but she she was smiling, but she would 689 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,439 Speaker 1: say horrible eve things, and she was dangerous and would 690 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: threaten Mary Tyler Moore, but she would smile. She she 691 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,839 Speaker 1: just comes from that school, that borderline Vaudeville school where 692 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,040 Speaker 1: it's just it's just a little bit too much, it's 693 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: a little bit too presentational. But they get away with 694 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 1: it because they fell it and they push it and 695 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 1: they don't give her ship. And that's where she came from. 696 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,760 Speaker 1: And I love that school. I love that old school 697 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,880 Speaker 1: that Tony Randall Harvey and she's right up there and 698 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 1: she's beautiful. And then on top of that, she really 699 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 1: really loves animals, and my family we love animals, and 700 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: she puts her money. She had it all. What did 701 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: you do with her? Hot and Cleveland? And had a 702 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: few episodes of Hot and Cleyland right right right, right right, 703 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: Hot and Cleveland. Sure. Yeah, it was just amazing, truly 704 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:53,759 Speaker 1: a master class. Even if she was six, she's been 705 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,560 Speaker 1: nineties for fifteen years. Yeah. I mean when I worked 706 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,800 Speaker 1: with her, I mean it was just the audience came in, 707 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: she got on stage and it was like, just delivered 708 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,759 Speaker 1: every take. We're lucky, We're lucky. Um. You have been 709 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,560 Speaker 1: working on Mr. Iglesias that show. I know it is 710 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: not coming back, but now, oh boy, did I just 711 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: tell you? How did you find out that it wasn't 712 00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,960 Speaker 1: coming back anymore? I don't know. I think the paper. 713 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 1: Why do I keep saying the papers like like it's 714 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 1: the fifties. I don't know how I found out. And 715 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 1: I know you don't read You don't read anything. You 716 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,800 Speaker 1: don't read anything. What do you mean I don't read anything? 717 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,399 Speaker 1: I read stuff? Yeah? Do you emails? Do you read 718 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,440 Speaker 1: emails or do you have them read to you? Be honest. 719 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,960 Speaker 1: I read the headlines of the email. What it is? 720 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,520 Speaker 1: You played a theater teacher? Yeah? Three cameras sit com 721 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,759 Speaker 1: in front of an audience. How was that? Did you 722 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,759 Speaker 1: have a good experience? I mean, it's it's much more 723 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,719 Speaker 1: like live theater. Well, you have to wait for the 724 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,080 Speaker 1: last to the last to die, and every line. We 725 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 1: had to wait because it's it's just what it was 726 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,800 Speaker 1: not you you didn't have to wait, right, No, because 727 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: because there were no lefts now there were. We had 728 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,359 Speaker 1: to wait. Man, we had. It's it's throws off your 729 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: timing and whatnot. But it's a different experience. You know, 730 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,759 Speaker 1: it's not theater. I prefer to work either theater one 731 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: take all the way through or like on the office 732 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,919 Speaker 1: without people there, without the audience, without the audience. Yeah yeah, 733 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,919 Speaker 1: Well also during this quarantine time, I know you told 734 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: me a lot about your experience. I mean, spoiler alert 735 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 1: to those of you out there. You're going to be 736 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,320 Speaker 1: in a big Disney movie coming out here. Do you 737 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,320 Speaker 1: want to you want to reveal the news? Well, not 738 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,759 Speaker 1: that it matters whatever, it's just work. It's just I mean, 739 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,239 Speaker 1: why don't you just say is that one movie? Why 740 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,840 Speaker 1: don't you just say what it is? I ask you 741 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: a question, why is it like I'm in two movies. 742 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm in two movies. I'm going to be in two 743 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 1: movies coming out. Oh, sorry, two movies. You don't have 744 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,719 Speaker 1: to be so you don't know. Even it's too movie, 745 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,040 Speaker 1: not that it matters to zero two it's the same, 746 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,280 Speaker 1: or five, it doesn't matter, it's too The Law City 747 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:15,440 Speaker 1: and the Disenchanted. Yeah, Disenchanted we shot in in Dublin, 748 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: and The Law City we shot in the Dominican Republic 749 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 1: and it was very cool. It was very cool. I 750 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,239 Speaker 1: went with my family, saw Sandra Bullock again speaking of 751 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,439 Speaker 1: the proposals, so it was yeah, it was very fun 752 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,719 Speaker 1: and and got to work with our coworker on the office, right, 753 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,920 Speaker 1: Amy Adams, and Disenchanted. This is the this is the 754 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:39,279 Speaker 1: sequel to Enchanted, right, Yes, it's funny because like we're 755 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,720 Speaker 1: talking about the Proposal earlier, these two movies, The Law City. 756 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: I think Sandra Bullock is responsible for me being in 757 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:48,920 Speaker 1: it because she called the senor you want to be 758 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,840 Speaker 1: in this movie because she remembered me from the Proposal 759 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,600 Speaker 1: and the other movie Disenchanted. The director of that movie 760 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,240 Speaker 1: is best friends with the director and flesher of the Proposal, 761 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: so he called me up and he's like, as my friend, 762 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,439 Speaker 1: she's my best friend, and we had a wonderful chat 763 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,840 Speaker 1: and Amy. Of course Amy was there and my Rudolph 764 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,399 Speaker 1: is in the movie. So yeah, we had a great 765 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 1: time in beautiful Ireland. We're going on a little tour ourselves, 766 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 1: Oscar coming up soon. Oscar and I are going to 767 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,880 Speaker 1: speak to some colleges about the office and about life. Right. 768 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,120 Speaker 1: We're going to Indiana coming up here soon, Oklahoma City 769 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,800 Speaker 1: very shortly as well. What is it like working with 770 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,400 Speaker 1: me on stage in a live environment? What's the experience 771 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,760 Speaker 1: for you? I can only get into work with me again. 772 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,560 Speaker 1: I love vaudeville and I'm a big fan of like 773 00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 1: Mahoney likes someone who has e ventriloquist dummy like I have, 774 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,920 Speaker 1: Like I have a voice and I'm speaking and then 775 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 Speaker 1: I'll like I'll throw to you and then you know, 776 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,080 Speaker 1: you speak. But we've worked out hand signals and and 777 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,800 Speaker 1: it's working out well, and I kind of guide you. 778 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:07,200 Speaker 1: And not that you're like a ventriloquist dummy. You're much 779 00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,799 Speaker 1: more than that, because you're much more expressive. But it's 780 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 1: that kind of feeling like I'm oh, he's really gets 781 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,200 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and you're really listening and pay attention 782 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: to my directions and you do really well, and it's seamless. 783 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,239 Speaker 1: People watch the show and they think we're just having 784 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,239 Speaker 1: a conversation. They don't know that I'm guiding you with 785 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: hand signals and that you've got your hand up mys 786 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,279 Speaker 1: I was making it nice and now you just burn 787 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,200 Speaker 1: the whole thing. You burn it to the ground. No, no, no, Brian, 788 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,000 Speaker 1: It's so much fun. It's so much fun because boy, 789 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,160 Speaker 1: we've talked about the office a lot and people are 790 00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,920 Speaker 1: interested in it. But we have the freedom to go 791 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,839 Speaker 1: and take them off the road and then come back 792 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,960 Speaker 1: again and kind of weave and have fun, and it's 793 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,040 Speaker 1: it's very enjoyable. I have to say, how do you 794 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,720 Speaker 1: feel about it? Oh? I love? I mean, I truly 795 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,640 Speaker 1: it's the best, right, it's the best. And I you know, 796 00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,320 Speaker 1: I've said this many times when people say who is 797 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,319 Speaker 1: your face person to work with? It's you know, I mean, 798 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,319 Speaker 1: come on, it's obviously like Krasinski or krel I mean 799 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,080 Speaker 1: I have to say, obviously me too. Yes, really, I 800 00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:15,840 Speaker 1: was making a joke. Well yeah, we were, Oh me 801 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,719 Speaker 1: to Don Krasinski, what a rube? I was about to 802 00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,360 Speaker 1: give you a compliment. I don't I I'll let you, 803 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,839 Speaker 1: but you know what, they know what you're gonna say, 804 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,640 Speaker 1: I'm the fun you know whatever. Look, the truth is, Brian. 805 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,840 Speaker 1: It's so cool to see the faces on the kids, 806 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,120 Speaker 1: right they light up and then when you talk and 807 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,799 Speaker 1: then it's live, so we can we can mess with them. 808 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,359 Speaker 1: And I like that too. We called back on them 809 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,000 Speaker 1: and we point them out, and it's it's it's like 810 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,840 Speaker 1: a show. It's like having a show. Anyway, Hanover Indiana, 811 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,640 Speaker 1: Hanover College. We'll see you soon, Oscar. Thank you so 812 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,400 Speaker 1: much for coming on and chatting. I really after our 813 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:56,719 Speaker 1: conversation about your parents, moving from Cuba and just your 814 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,480 Speaker 1: start as a dental technician. Really, I had no idea 815 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,719 Speaker 1: about your father. So you're you're full of surprises. There 816 00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,520 Speaker 1: are still I still get stories after all these years 817 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,120 Speaker 1: from you. I did not know that. How about that? Yeah, 818 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 1: it's um, it's a thing, Oscar neun us quote, it's 819 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,840 Speaker 1: a thing. Thanks, Oscar, life is a thing. You're welcome, buddy, 820 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:34,160 Speaker 1: I'll say, so, I'll talk to you soon. Well what 821 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,719 Speaker 1: else could I say that Oscar hasn't already? Thank you, 822 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 1: my friend, for truly for giving us a glimpse into 823 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,000 Speaker 1: your history. And uh, well I can't wait to see 824 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,920 Speaker 1: what we get up to on our college tour. Also, 825 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:55,040 Speaker 1: keep your eye out for Oscars too, new movies The 826 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,520 Speaker 1: Lost City and Disenchanted with our old friend Amy Adams. 827 00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,560 Speaker 1: And in the meantime, don't forget to like and subscribe 828 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,840 Speaker 1: to this show wherever you get your podcasts. Also, you 829 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,640 Speaker 1: can follow us on Instagram at Off the Beat Until 830 00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:24,960 Speaker 1: next week, everybody, thank you so much for listening. Off 831 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,839 Speaker 1: the Beat is hosted an executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, 832 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,880 Speaker 1: alongside our executive producer Langley. Our producers are Diego Tapia, 833 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,560 Speaker 1: Liz Hayes, Emily Carr, and Kristen Vermilion. Our talent producer 834 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,840 Speaker 1: is Ryan Papa Zachary. Our theme song Bubble and Squeak 835 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:47,120 Speaker 1: performed by my great friend Creed Bratton, and the episode 836 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,040 Speaker 1: was mixed by seth Olandski