Speaker 1: And you wearing the white coat is labbed as a
Speaker 1: dental technician. That was not the life that you saw
Speaker 1: for yourself. Horrible in a laboratory body. Look, it's a
Speaker 1: great profession if you want to do that, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't for me. There's no applause, there's no groupies, there's
Speaker 1: no cocaine. All the things that you we've talked about.
Speaker 1: This what you went that's why you went into the business.
Speaker 1: That's why I went into the business. And there was
Speaker 1: none of that in the in the laboratory. Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: Oscar Nunyaz. You know me probably best from the office.
Speaker 1: And I have to count them. Two SAG awards, How
Speaker 1: many do you have? Hello everybody, and welcome back. Here too,
Speaker 1: off the beat. I am your host, Brian Baumgartner. And
Speaker 1: oh no, here we go today. I am bringing on
Speaker 1: a guest who need needs no introduction, but probably would
Speaker 1: demand one anyway. He has my friend from the dandr
Speaker 1: Mifflin accounting department and also friend in real life, Oscar
Speaker 1: nun Yez. Now, while you might know Oscar best from
Speaker 1: well our time together in the office, did you know
Speaker 1: that Oscar once worked in a laboratory. Yes, Oscar worked
Speaker 1: as a certified dental technician, which we all know is
Speaker 1: the gateway to comedy. H Oscar joined me from his
Speaker 1: closet today too well, to dive in deep about his
Speaker 1: start in the improv world and the incredible journey that
Speaker 1: brought him and his family from Cuba at a young
Speaker 1: age to the US. What I ended up with was
Speaker 1: a totally new side to my old friend. I heard
Speaker 1: stories I have never heard before, including how Oscar feels
Speaker 1: about putting his hands in people's mouth. So, if you're
Speaker 1: up for a little sage, advice and a lot of
Speaker 1: very dry humor, join me in welcoming the Shall we
Speaker 1: say incomparable Oscar nun yez bubble and squeak. I love it.
Speaker 1: Bubble and squeak on bubble and squeaker cookie every month
Speaker 1: left over from the nab people. Here you go. Hello,
Speaker 1: there's Brian. What's up? Oscar? What's up? Man? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you? Did your wife just say
Speaker 1: if you get bored, you can play with your daughter's toys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the computer is uh set up on a little
Speaker 1: stand that she has a little rolling table on the top,
Speaker 1: and the shells below are full of her little toys,
Speaker 1: her my little ponies. Yeah, and other things. Oh all right, Oscar,
Speaker 1: are you are you thought out? Oscar and I were
Speaker 1: just in Wyoming together. Are you thought out yet? Barely? Man?
Speaker 1: It was cold, It was very cold. Zero belows minus
Speaker 1: thirteen Was that the lowest we got? Let me just
Speaker 1: throw out some numbers at you. Three, zero, ten, eleven.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones I remember. Yeah, we went down
Speaker 1: to zero. Yeah, I think we went below zero, but
Speaker 1: I think we did too zero. It's great to see
Speaker 1: you again. Thank you for coming and uh and talking
Speaker 1: to me. We talked a lot about the office last time.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some other things today. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons I wanted to chat. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know you were actually born in Cuba.
Speaker 1: See see, yes, I was born in Cuba. You were
Speaker 1: born in Cuba, and you left Cuba and went to Venezuela.
Speaker 1: How long were you in Venezuela Just a year? Why
Speaker 1: did you leave Cuba? Because the revolution took place, and
Speaker 1: that there was a lot of corruption in the government,
Speaker 1: in the presidency and whatnot, and so I think the
Speaker 1: time was there was like revolution in the air, and
Speaker 1: people weren't happy per se with the government, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't catastrophically out of control, but it was, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was a volatile time. I think there were three things,
Speaker 1: like three revel Like there was a union unions, and
Speaker 1: the students were having a revolt and at that time
Speaker 1: and Castor. Oh, these three movements started happening about the
Speaker 1: same time, which I think was I don't know, fifty
Speaker 1: eight or yeah, or fifty nine. And his revolution. He
Speaker 1: he left on a yacht from Mexico with like twenty
Speaker 1: seven guys or something, and it picked up steam in
Speaker 1: the Sierra Madre and the mountains, gathering people behind them,
Speaker 1: and they came into the city and Batista the president,
Speaker 1: unlike the president of Ukraine, who is a real patriot
Speaker 1: and a you know, wonderful person, this fella cut and run.
Speaker 1: He had no qualms about leaving. He left with then
Speaker 1: three million dollars, which is astronomical. He left the country
Speaker 1: and that's it. And then the Castro swept in. And
Speaker 1: then he said he was going to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: have elections and clean up the government, and he did,
Speaker 1: and he stayed in power basically, and then he you know,
Speaker 1: he went to the United States and asked for support,
Speaker 1: and they thought he was a flash in the pan
Speaker 1: and they said, get lost, you won't last two weeks.
Speaker 1: We'll be back there, you know. And then he went
Speaker 1: to Russia and they did back him up, and then
Speaker 1: he came back and declared, we are communists now, and
Speaker 1: so there's no more private property, and they confiscated private
Speaker 1: lands and so they took a real estate and from
Speaker 1: us and all that stuff. And my uncle had a ranch.
Speaker 1: They came to take his ranch and he armed his
Speaker 1: ranch hands and I think they shot two communists and
Speaker 1: they threw him in jail as a political prisoner tilt eighty.
Speaker 1: He was in jail from nineteen sixty nineteen eighty and
Speaker 1: we got him out in nineteen eight. And my parents,
Speaker 1: they were just starting their professional careers. My mom was
Speaker 1: a dentist, my dad a lawyer. And my dad's friend
Speaker 1: came up to him and said, uh, they just made me.
Speaker 1: This new government just made me ambassador to my scout.
Speaker 1: Do you want to be my assistant? Will leave with
Speaker 1: our families and go And my parents thought about it.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, we don't want to do that. And
Speaker 1: then they're like, well, what do we have to leave.
Speaker 1: So they're like, we are leaving the country, and the
Speaker 1: newly formed government said we need professionals. You guys should stay.
Speaker 1: They said thanks, no, thanks for leaving, and they said, okay,
Speaker 1: you can leave. You can't take anything with you. Everything
Speaker 1: stays here. So they left anyway. So they left. They
Speaker 1: left with me, and they took a ham, like a
Speaker 1: fifteen pound ham with them, and we took a boat
Speaker 1: to Venezuela like a cooked ham to like a cooked ham,
Speaker 1: and we for for us to eat, but we ended
Speaker 1: up splitting it with people on the boat. We took
Speaker 1: a boat to Venezuela. We were there a year. They
Speaker 1: didn't like it. My mom particularly didn't like it. You know.
Speaker 1: She was, like, I said, a dentist in Cuba. She
Speaker 1: got to Venezuela, my dad was hanging out with some friends,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, one of his friends, his new friends,
Speaker 1: says something to the effect of, you should be in
Speaker 1: the kitchen. Why are you here, Why are you discussing
Speaker 1: this with us? And she's like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: and she's like, we're leaving this country. So they did.
Speaker 1: They left and we went to Massachusetts. We were there
Speaker 1: a year. My sister was born there. Now it's and
Speaker 1: all their friends were in New Jersey, and Massachusetts was fine,
Speaker 1: but they were the only Cuban family there and they're like,
Speaker 1: let's go to Jersey where all our friends are. So
Speaker 1: that's what they did, and that's where I grew up.
Speaker 1: That's like a thumbing sketchy. Yeah, you were telling me
Speaker 1: this story while we were in Wyoming, and the idea
Speaker 1: of them knowing that it was a bad situation fairly
Speaker 1: quickly and making the decision to stay with their stuff
Speaker 1: and their land and their property or having the option
Speaker 1: to leave, and the boldness that that must have taken
Speaker 1: at that time. To remember, they knew the couple. They
Speaker 1: knew the guy. He's not like some who was this man.
Speaker 1: They were at school with this guy. My aunts graduated
Speaker 1: college with him. They knew him from school. It's like
Speaker 1: you went to high school with that Helms, like Ed
Speaker 1: Helms took over the country what And they knew he
Speaker 1: was an asshole from schools And they're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: this isn't good right, you know, he wasn't a good guy.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a cool person. So they were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're in trouble. He's volatile, he's unpredictable, all
Speaker 1: those things. He's got an inferiority complex. It's it's crazy,
Speaker 1: it's not good. It would be like, if you were
Speaker 1: taking over, you'd be like, oh no, but but free
Speaker 1: tacos for the nation every Tuesday, free tacos, free Cuban sandwiches.
Speaker 1: He was not. It's not like, oh, we knew Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton in school or Hillary Clinton or Bob Dole. How
Speaker 1: was he? Oh, he was studious and serious, and he
Speaker 1: was he was okay, and they volunteered a lot. He
Speaker 1: wasn't a volunteering helping children read. He was a whole
Speaker 1: May he rest in peace? Is he? Daddya? Castro is dead?
Speaker 1: I find that so interesting. By the way, your mom
Speaker 1: was a dentist. Yeah, what of it? I don't know
Speaker 1: if I just learned this or not. I don't remember this.
Speaker 1: But in this research, you know, we we research extensively
Speaker 1: our guests. You mean you go on Google? You you
Speaker 1: I am dB You're a certified dental technician. Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid. Really, I'm not good. I am I'm not
Speaker 1: good at it? Is this because your mom was a
Speaker 1: dentist that had something to do with it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was floundering and I'm like whatever, and and my mom's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you know your cousin Julio is a dental technician.
Speaker 1: He has his own laboratory. I'm like, yes, of course
Speaker 1: I know that. She's like, did you ever think And
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, okay, because the thought being I could
Speaker 1: work for for my cousin Julio who had a dental laboratory,
Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful trade. It pays well. And I'm
Speaker 1: like why not? And so you went to school and
Speaker 1: you got certified. Yes, I wouldn't for two years Magna
Speaker 1: Institute of Dental Technology in Manhattan. How did I not
Speaker 1: know this information? Because this is the greatest Did you
Speaker 1: ever consider running the scheme? You know Angela famously she
Speaker 1: talks about it all the time, worked at one dentists.
Speaker 1: Did you did you ever think maybe she could refer
Speaker 1: people to you, like, go to this address if you
Speaker 1: want your teeth clean, and then it would be you there.
Speaker 1: You guys could split the money. That would have been
Speaker 1: a good thing before the office. Yes, had it been
Speaker 1: dental hygienist but not dental technician. Oh wait, what's a
Speaker 1: dental technician. Well, what's the dental What does the dental
Speaker 1: technician do? Then, if you go in for a bridge
Speaker 1: or false fake tooth or whatever, and you know when
Speaker 1: I was doing this, it was the eighties, when you
Speaker 1: went for a ceramic bridge or whatever, and they take
Speaker 1: a form from your mouth and impression, they'll send it
Speaker 1: to the laboratory and they make the bridge in porcelain,
Speaker 1: and you get a wax thing and you make you
Speaker 1: carve the tooth out and you bake it and then
Speaker 1: you send it back to the dentist and he puts
Speaker 1: the bridge in your mouth. The person who actually makes
Speaker 1: the bridge or the fake, the fake teeth, the implants
Speaker 1: is a dental technician. So they you never see a patient.
Speaker 1: This makes way more sense. You never put your hands
Speaker 1: in a patient's mouth. That's that makes way more sense.
Speaker 1: Because I thought you had your hands in people's mouth
Speaker 1: and in their face. That did not make any sense
Speaker 1: to me. No, no, okay, So you were a craftsman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a craftsman. I wouldn't be able to put
Speaker 1: my hands in a person's mouth. I find it highly
Speaker 1: erotic and it wouldn't work for me professional work for
Speaker 1: anyone so yeah, I was. I was a dental signition,
Speaker 1: and then I wasn't good, but I was very funny
Speaker 1: and charming. But they would always have to do my
Speaker 1: work over again because it wasn't too good. And then
Speaker 1: I would be there for a while and then they're like, oh, Oscar,
Speaker 1: we have to get rid of you. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know it's not working, but here did you hear
Speaker 1: this one? And you know, you would just tell jokes
Speaker 1: as you were trying to make the would be funny.
Speaker 1: They like, they liked having me every job, liked having
Speaker 1: me around up to a point and like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: all he's got. I would plateau and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't really know what you're doing. And I'm like
Speaker 1: I'm like, I really know, but why when? Why did
Speaker 1: you just see that? You know, you're watching Harvey Korman.
Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan of a Harvey Corman
Speaker 1: and the Carl Burnett Show, and you're seeing these fake
Speaker 1: teeth and you're like, oh, let me make these fake teeth.
Speaker 1: This will be funny, this will be Is that what
Speaker 1: you did so funny? So funny? Ah? So your family
Speaker 1: arrived essentially with nothing into the uses and you moved
Speaker 1: to Jersey because they knew there. But it was a
Speaker 1: different time. We were welcomed in Massachusetts with open arms
Speaker 1: by the Catholic Church, and there was a family that
Speaker 1: sponsored us, Bob and Jane I want to say Mayfield
Speaker 1: h They have two daughters. But anyway, the man owned
Speaker 1: a lightbulb company or something in Boston, and they had
Speaker 1: a yacht in Marlboro Head and they had a big
Speaker 1: house with a big yard. I was four years old,
Speaker 1: but I remember all this, and they they helped us.
Speaker 1: They gave he gave my father a job as a
Speaker 1: warehouse manager in one of his warehouses. They were well
Speaker 1: to do and they were very wonderful and charming, and
Speaker 1: they helped my family and the Catholic church. There was
Speaker 1: a father, Soto Longo, who took us to a Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 1: I remember that in Boston, and um, he was very
Speaker 1: nice to us. So we were welcomed by the I
Speaker 1: was not putting a cage. We were welcomed by the
Speaker 1: country and by this and by this wonderful family. And
Speaker 1: then but after a year my parents were like I
Speaker 1: think they were kind of lonely, and all their friends,
Speaker 1: as I said, all their friends from university, all their
Speaker 1: attorney friends and doctor friends and dentist friends. The first
Speaker 1: wave of immigrants who left Cuba, the professionals in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty approximately, We're going to Florida and New Jersey and
Speaker 1: they're like, come on down to Jersey. You guys were
Speaker 1: all here, and that's what they did, and you grew
Speaker 1: up there right across from Manhattan. Did you go into
Speaker 1: the city a lot as a kid, Yes, as a
Speaker 1: kid with my parents, and then as soon as I could,
Speaker 1: when I was like seventeen sixteen, seventeen eighteen, I would
Speaker 1: go as often as I could. It was a bus
Speaker 1: right away. I think it was sixty cents or something
Speaker 1: like that to take the bus across the Lincoln Tunnel
Speaker 1: right out of where Tony Soprano comes out of at
Speaker 1: the beginning of uh right there, take that right into
Speaker 1: the Port Authority. You went to not just the Magnet
Speaker 1: Institute of Dental Technology. You went to a lot of colleges.
Speaker 1: I went, I bounced around a lot. You went to
Speaker 1: Fashion Fashion Institute of Technology. You were interested in fashion.
Speaker 1: That was the first school after high school, was f
Speaker 1: I t I should have gone to a regular college,
Speaker 1: but I went to f I T because you were
Speaker 1: interested in fashion. Yeah, I wasn't, and still am. It
Speaker 1: fascinates me that whole world. So yes, I went to
Speaker 1: f I T for a for a minute. I went
Speaker 1: to F I T because I liked fashion. But my
Speaker 1: cousin Eddie, who was I think five, he's five or
Speaker 1: six years older than me, he would go clubbing a lot,
Speaker 1: and he would go to Student four and fitted in
Speaker 1: all these clubs, and some guys saw him at Studio
Speaker 1: fifty four, and somehow or other he became a model
Speaker 1: for Don Robbie, who was a fashion designer in New
Speaker 1: York City. And Don Robbie worked for one of these houses,
Speaker 1: either the or or um Cardan. I don't know which one.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but it was one of those. There
Speaker 1: are two big, huge houses. I wonder which one. It
Speaker 1: was so a long time ago, but Eddie worked for him,
Speaker 1: and he was in g Q magazine back in the day.
Speaker 1: And one time I visited Don Robbie's offices, which were
Speaker 1: six Avenue, which is one of those big iconic buildings.
Speaker 1: Whenever they showed New York City and they show sixth
Speaker 1: Avenue or Fashion Avenue, it's the same Avenue. It's it's
Speaker 1: in front of It's in a lot of movies because
Speaker 1: of the fountain in the front and all that right
Speaker 1: across kind of across from Radio City Music Hall. And
Speaker 1: I went up to the offices and the elevator opened
Speaker 1: up and everything was pink and gray, and there was
Speaker 1: disco music blasting in the offices as if it were
Speaker 1: a discotheque. But it was a place of work, and
Speaker 1: everybody looked cool. It was like the double worst product,
Speaker 1: like that Eddie was there, Don Robbie was there, and
Speaker 1: it was it was party. It was insane and I'm like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, And so I can still doodle, but
Speaker 1: back then I was better at illustrating. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go to f I T
Speaker 1: it's right across the river. Uh And it's a good school.
Speaker 1: Calvin Klein went there. Did Bill Blasco there? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but Calvin Klein might be their most famous Alma Mado
Speaker 1: but I uh so I put together a portfolio of
Speaker 1: sketches of fashion of shoes and clothing and whatever, and
Speaker 1: that's what got me into the school. And I was eighteen.
Speaker 1: I went straight out of high school. But it was
Speaker 1: basically because you wanted to work in an office like
Speaker 1: this is this? Is this the idea? Yes? And I
Speaker 1: like this yeah. And also it was you know, Brian
Speaker 1: Disco was big at that moment, and I had one
Speaker 1: ft in rock and roll and one foot in the
Speaker 1: disco world. I had like American friends at high school
Speaker 1: and they listened to Neil Young and leads up on
Speaker 1: all that ship and I would party with them. But
Speaker 1: my Cuban friends they would like to go out clubbing.
Speaker 1: So I was like, like in both places, and I
Speaker 1: like doing both things. And so I'm like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: way not I could do this. But in f I
Speaker 1: t it's a serious place, and I go there. I'm eighteen.
Speaker 1: I never took home at school. You know, in high
Speaker 1: school you could take like cooking or sewing or any
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I didn't. I didn't not the days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so my parents, yeah, I'm like a little older than
Speaker 1: your parents, just to set things, to give people an ideas.
Speaker 1: So so I didn't know how to sew at all.
Speaker 1: And they're like, so then you know you'll have illustration.
Speaker 1: I'm like cool art history, cool textiles, cool marketing, cool draping,
Speaker 1: and sewing and tailoring. I'm like, what that's class? And
Speaker 1: and you go into that class, they're not showing you
Speaker 1: they're in it there to go there, like here's the material,
Speaker 1: cut it draping, and everyone's doing it. Everyone's like all
Speaker 1: these people, first of all women, and then the few
Speaker 1: guys who were there knew what they were doing already
Speaker 1: because they were doing this as they were kids. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm not gonna embarrass myself.
Speaker 1: Better skip this class and just go hang out in party.
Speaker 1: So eventually they're like, well you really haven't done anything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, asta, Leavista, I know what's coming next. So
Speaker 1: I left there and then I was doing a couple
Speaker 1: of jobs and then that's where my mom's like, look,
Speaker 1: you have to do something. You have to And that's
Speaker 1: when I went to dental technology school. And now when
Speaker 1: I was in dental technology school and I graduated and
Speaker 1: I started working in the field, yeah, Magnet Institute of
Speaker 1: Dental Technology is a Yeah, that's where I went, and
Speaker 1: now I'm a dental technologist. Right, So when I started
Speaker 1: working that summer as a real dental technologist, six months in,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, what am I doing? I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this. And then I'm like, all right, Oscar,
Speaker 1: you know and and I never Junior and senior year
Speaker 1: for me, my parents were getting a divorce. It was
Speaker 1: a mess. I never and still I'm just learning how
Speaker 1: to ask for help from people and use resources. So
Speaker 1: I was like, So I finally asked me. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what do you really want to do?
Speaker 1: Just say it, don't be afraid to say it. Say it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I want to do stand up.
Speaker 1: I want to be a comedian. I want to be funny.
Speaker 1: But that was too scary for me, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want to be an actor. I could ease my
Speaker 1: way into comedy. So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: learn how to I want to take acting lessons. So
Speaker 1: that was less scary for you than to say I
Speaker 1: want to be doing stand up. Stand up is terrifying.
Speaker 1: Still is to me to this day. I like sketch
Speaker 1: more than stand up. To do like improv, that's what
Speaker 1: I like. So I gotta I picked up a backstage
Speaker 1: and started looking through it and signed up for some
Speaker 1: classes auditions, started doing commercial classes, went to some drama classes.
Speaker 1: Eventually maybe a year later, I was working in retail,
Speaker 1: which I love retail in blooming Dale's and I auditioned
Speaker 1: for an improv troupe in the village and I got
Speaker 1: in and I was like, Okay, this is cool. And
Speaker 1: that's when I started, you know, doing what I really
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I wasn't doing it in high school.
Speaker 1: It took me forever because all through grammar school in
Speaker 1: high school, people were telling me not to be a
Speaker 1: wise ass. They're like, what are you doing. They weren't
Speaker 1: saying this is good, work on it. They're like, don't
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Were they telling you like be
Speaker 1: in your place, you know, don't cause a scene, be
Speaker 1: good and not encouraging you, or no one had the
Speaker 1: idea for you, like maybe you should perform or do
Speaker 1: a play or no. My friends would say it, and
Speaker 1: you know, God help you. If you tried to help me,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you didn't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Or I would go the other way. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, people tried. People my friends were like, you're funny, dude,
Speaker 1: do something. But I didn't go out for drama. I
Speaker 1: wasn't helping myself, you know. I wasn't helping myself until
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, this is this is for real.
Speaker 1: Now I can't skate by anymore on charm because now
Speaker 1: I'm moving out of the house. I need to pay
Speaker 1: rent and bills. I you know, I've got to get
Speaker 1: a j O B. Right, And you wearing the white
Speaker 1: coats as a dental technician. That was not the life
Speaker 1: that you saw for yourself. Horrible in a laboratory, but look,
Speaker 1: it's a great profession if you want to do that,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't for me. There's no applause, there's no groupies,
Speaker 1: there's no cocaine. All the things that you we've talked about.
Speaker 1: This what you went that's why you went into the business.
Speaker 1: That's why I went into the business. And there was
Speaker 1: none of that in the in the laboratory. So you
Speaker 1: get this improv troupe in the village. You're excited. I
Speaker 1: presume you're still working at this point. You said retail.
Speaker 1: You're still working during the day and then trying to
Speaker 1: perform get better at night. Is this that we had.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of shows. We would perform Friday
Speaker 1: and Saturdays on St. Mark's Place, a stret between First
Speaker 1: Avenue and Avenuay. There was a lot of fun. Why
Speaker 1: did you make the decision to move to Los Angeles? Well,
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff happened between moving out to l
Speaker 1: A and New York. What did I do? I lived
Speaker 1: in DC for three years. I did theater in d C,
Speaker 1: lived with my brother in law and sister, I think,
Speaker 1: for a year in Florida, and then from Florida I
Speaker 1: moved out to l A. I didn't want to go
Speaker 1: back to New York. New York was fun. I was single,
Speaker 1: I had no responsibilities. What makes it, which makes it
Speaker 1: more easier to live there, But I wanted I wanted
Speaker 1: to come out to l A just because New York
Speaker 1: was just hard. It wasn't it wasn't working. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to have two jobs. I don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. I just want to act. And I
Speaker 1: can see that happening more in Los Angeles. In New York?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? People seem to have careers. So
Speaker 1: you start working, you start doing improv in New York,
Speaker 1: but then you start acting in shows, Like you moved
Speaker 1: to d C and you're like doing shows. They're like, like,
Speaker 1: are you a working actor at this point? No? No, No,
Speaker 1: In New York. I did uh we were doing a
Speaker 1: shock of the Phony. I did Um Street Theater and
Speaker 1: then I got somehow into a touring company. It was
Speaker 1: a children's touring company toured and it was touring at
Speaker 1: the Smithsonian Institutes ind in DC, and I met a
Speaker 1: young lady there and kind of started dating her, kind
Speaker 1: of left New York to go and be with her,
Speaker 1: and ended up being there like for three years. I
Speaker 1: worked for the Cuban American National Foundation and I waited tables.
Speaker 1: Also also did theater at the Wooly Mammouth and DC
Speaker 1: has a lot of good theater down there, so I
Speaker 1: was doing a couple of plays. I did my first
Speaker 1: I think it was a not a student's film, but
Speaker 1: a film for students. It was an industrial yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: like an educational something about I know what had something
Speaker 1: to do with library, how to use a library in general?
Speaker 1: How do you use a library? The Dewey system and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. I remember doing that and that movie
Speaker 1: is still being shown today, it is. And I did
Speaker 1: a commercial, but mostly theater. I had a good time.
Speaker 1: I had a nice time in d C. I was
Speaker 1: there as long as it could. I was when I
Speaker 1: think the Redsicans won the Super Bowl. Riggins was the um.
Speaker 1: That's how I can tell time by what the sports was,
Speaker 1: what was going on. And then my friends called me
Speaker 1: from New York. I said, hey, we're doing a play.
Speaker 1: Come on, we wrote something. You could be in it.
Speaker 1: And I decided, Okay, I'll go back to New York.
Speaker 1: And when I went back and moved in with my
Speaker 1: father and found out he was gay, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: And that was a big fucking crazy shit happens? Is
Speaker 1: this true? Yeah, You've never said this before and never
Speaker 1: to all you this. No, So you moved back to
Speaker 1: New York, You're you're now working in the theater, you
Speaker 1: go back to do a show, you don't have a
Speaker 1: place that you move in with your dad, and then
Speaker 1: you find out he's gay. I thought a big cool Yeah.
Speaker 1: I moved in with my dad and he was drinking
Speaker 1: a little too much, and I'm like, why is he
Speaker 1: drinking so much? And it was because he was conflicted
Speaker 1: and oppressed and all that ship and and he was
Speaker 1: being gay. And I found that. I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then I told my sister and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of knew that. And then I told my
Speaker 1: old family friends that I grew up with Felix Man.
Speaker 1: I found out my dad's game. And he's like, Oscar,
Speaker 1: you didn't know. I'm like no, and he's like everyone knew,
Speaker 1: we all knew. And I'm like really, He's like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like oh man, And then I started thinking
Speaker 1: about it. I said, okay, yeah, I can see that,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know. You know, I didn't know, and
Speaker 1: so we were okay with it, but he was not.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So that did happiness? Did he was he
Speaker 1: able to come to a no? No? I told my
Speaker 1: mom and and my mom's like, this is what happened.
Speaker 1: So when I was like seventeen, sixteen or seventeen, he
Speaker 1: had a friend. He was really cool, attractive guy, tall guy, Ernie,
Speaker 1: and he would come over the house and we loved them.
Speaker 1: And he had a minister snauser, which is why my
Speaker 1: sister and I love ministerial snausers. And he knew that
Speaker 1: he was like my dad's friends. They would come over
Speaker 1: the house. My mom knew him, and we would go
Speaker 1: over his house for dinner too, and he was a bachelor.
Speaker 1: He had what we would call back then, I guess
Speaker 1: a Penthouse Briant, and it was kick ass. He had
Speaker 1: a grand piano, he had like the zebra sk in
Speaker 1: like a fucking playboy, you know, like a cool like plants,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is fucking cool. And he's my
Speaker 1: dad's friend. Cool. And by the way, that guy got me.
Speaker 1: He got me a job I called by Boyer and
Speaker 1: associates as a messenger for like three years. So he
Speaker 1: was a good guy. He got me a really cool job.
Speaker 1: But when I was in high school, you know, it's
Speaker 1: fucking life. So that was happening. That was happening, and
Speaker 1: my mother goes, okay, so when you were in high school,
Speaker 1: she's like you remember, and I'm like, yeah, he wasn't
Speaker 1: coming home some nights and she's like, yeah. He would
Speaker 1: say he was working Landing was and she's like one day,
Speaker 1: I'm like what the fuck and he said now I
Speaker 1: have to stay late or whatever. And she's like okay,
Speaker 1: And I remember this her going on. She was very
Speaker 1: cool about I remember how on the phone being go
Speaker 1: and celebrate. You gotta raise, celebrate, go with your friends.
Speaker 1: So my mother goes, look, I called your dad's work
Speaker 1: and I'm like, can I talk to him? He's working late,
Speaker 1: and they're like, what do you mean he's working late?
Speaker 1: The offices are closed, And then like the next day,
Speaker 1: she's like, funk this. So she got on the bus
Speaker 1: and went to New York to confront him, to talk
Speaker 1: to him because something was off. And she went to
Speaker 1: his office and she's like, where where's that's his nickname?
Speaker 1: And they're like, he went to lunch at such and
Speaker 1: such a place. So she's walking to the place, right
Speaker 1: and she's at the corner and she's waiting to cross
Speaker 1: the street to go to the Delhi where the restaurant
Speaker 1: wherever he's gonna have lunch, And she looks across the
Speaker 1: street and my dad's across street and he sees her,
Speaker 1: and they look across the street at Ernie's on the
Speaker 1: other corner. Each one's on the corner and they all
Speaker 1: look at the sh other. My mother's like, that's when
Speaker 1: I knew these motherfucker's were having we're having an affair. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's like a movie. Yeah, that's like that's
Speaker 1: a shot from a movie. So she knew at that point,
Speaker 1: and they yeah, but that's time, I mean my early twenties.
Speaker 1: They now and then she goes, so wait, they go
Speaker 1: to the restaurant. Of them, they sit down, she knew him.
Speaker 1: They all it's Arnie and she's like these So they
Speaker 1: go and they sit down and she's like, what then
Speaker 1: is going on? And Ernie says, I don't have a
Speaker 1: dog in this fight. And he gets up and he leaves.
Speaker 1: My mom's like what are you gonna do now? And
Speaker 1: he and she's like, you gotta come get your ship
Speaker 1: and leave and he's like, I know, I know. And
Speaker 1: that was basically it. And then Ernie passed away a
Speaker 1: couple then after this or no, they were they weren't couples.
Speaker 1: They were older men. They sneaked around, they weren't proud,
Speaker 1: they were fucking embarrassed and weird about it. They were
Speaker 1: in the fucking closet, Brian. So it's a different the
Speaker 1: whole different thing. I mean, I'm sure there were older
Speaker 1: guys who were cool and but not these guys. So
Speaker 1: now too fast forward. When I so when I go
Speaker 1: stay with my dad, he's got a duplex and I
Speaker 1: go inside and it's Ernie's furniture. He left it to him.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I didn't know this. Yeah, Ernie, Ernie
Speaker 1: passed away, and and my dad dated another guy, a
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican man. His name was Pedro, and he was
Speaker 1: super nice. He was cool, he had a family, he
Speaker 1: got the worst. It wasn't just like us the same thing.
Speaker 1: Only problem is Pedro wasn't so he wasn't filled with
Speaker 1: self hatred, so he wasn't an alcoholic. And he tried
Speaker 1: to save my dad and we're like sorry, Pedro, and
Speaker 1: after a while he's like, I can't do this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, I don't blame you, save yourself because
Speaker 1: he was a cool guy. But my dad was and
Speaker 1: he never drank before. He never was like this fucking
Speaker 1: crazy alcohol, like fucking crazy crazy. I'm sorry, dude, and
Speaker 1: this is like one eight. Growing up, he was funny, smart, witty,
Speaker 1: but that whole thing just fucking fucked him up. Sea Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no matter what you tell him. Anyway, I stayed there
Speaker 1: for a while and then left, and then that's when
Speaker 1: I came to l A, went to Florida and then
Speaker 1: went out to l A. Because you wanted to be
Speaker 1: an actor, yes, I wanted to be an actor. I
Speaker 1: could be an actor. I wanted to be in comedy.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be in comedy, whether stand up or sketch,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me. Comedy is what I love.
Speaker 1: So that's what as you can tell from this story,
Speaker 1: the hilarity. So so yes, I wanted to come out
Speaker 1: here and I did, and I joined the Groundlings as
Speaker 1: soon as I was old. When we were shooting The
Speaker 1: Office and well there's the gay witch hunt episode and
Speaker 1: Oscar gets to leave from the Office because of what
Speaker 1: Michael has done. Well this was because you actually got
Speaker 1: another show during this time with a lot of your
Speaker 1: friends from the Groundlings. Halfway Home. You actually shot a
Speaker 1: full season for Comedy Central while we were shooting The Office.
Speaker 1: I mean you were so you were the only person
Speaker 1: I think who had another show happening during the run.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that show a little bit, the
Speaker 1: experience of doing that show for Comedy Central, because when
Speaker 1: it rains, it pours. I did an episode of Rene,
Speaker 1: and those kids were they were so cool John, Tom
Speaker 1: and Carry that they made my episode of double episode
Speaker 1: and they said, not only that, we went to the
Speaker 1: executives at Comedy Central and told them they should meet
Speaker 1: with you. So that was already kind of happening. We
Speaker 1: already had meetings scheduled with Comedy Central. How did I
Speaker 1: get on their radar? Oh? I think when I was
Speaker 1: in the Groundlings, And I'm gonna go backwards a little bit.
Speaker 1: When I was in the Groundlings, our troop in the
Speaker 1: Sunday Company was really cohesive and we all loved each
Speaker 1: other and we were very funny. And we went ahead
Speaker 1: and did a show outside of the Groundlings. We got
Speaker 1: a review, a good review. The Groundlings was not pleased
Speaker 1: with that. They're like, you guys are in the Sunday Company,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? We were like their competition because
Speaker 1: we were a separate show outside of the Groundlings. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we performed that the HBO workspace, and I think that's
Speaker 1: where some people from Comedy Sound to had me into
Speaker 1: chat about Wooks show or what I would be interested
Speaker 1: in doing something like that. So I got together with
Speaker 1: my friends from the Groundlings and Damon Jones and Cheryl
Speaker 1: Hines and a couple of other people, and and we
Speaker 1: put together a sketch variety show just like the pilot,
Speaker 1: like a little fifteen twenty minute thing. And I took
Speaker 1: it to them to Comedy Central and showed it to them,
Speaker 1: and they said, Wow, this is really good, and we
Speaker 1: would do this, but we just signed the guy to
Speaker 1: do a variety show, this guy, Dave Chappelle, we just
Speaker 1: signed him to do a variety show, so we can't
Speaker 1: have two variety shows. Do you have something else? And
Speaker 1: then we came back with ten ideas and they liked
Speaker 1: Halfway Home. And then while we were doing the Office,
Speaker 1: that show was scheduled to happen, and I'm like, do
Speaker 1: I have to choose? This is awful? Right? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's lable, Like I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I told you this. Steve Carrell. Correll was crossing the
Speaker 1: parking lot at the office where we used to park
Speaker 1: our cars and a lot of stuff, and I caught
Speaker 1: up to him, like, hey, Steve, I told him what
Speaker 1: was happening. I said, Steve, I love the office, I
Speaker 1: love being here with you guys, but we just I
Speaker 1: just got offered to do a job on Comedy Central.
Speaker 1: Do I say no? What do I do? And he said, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not your job to say no. Say no to jobs,
Speaker 1: oscar Your your job is to get jobs. Don't say
Speaker 1: no to anything that's not your problem. Let them work
Speaker 1: it out. Let NBC work it out. With your managers.
Speaker 1: Don't do everything you can, don't say no to anything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, thank you. So we went ahead with
Speaker 1: both things, and Greg Daniels, being the wonderful, wonderful mentions
Speaker 1: that he is, worked it out and he's like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you an escape hatch and then you can
Speaker 1: come back. Is there anything you request? And I said,
Speaker 1: in honor of my father, can I make out with
Speaker 1: Steve Carrell before I leave? And he said, yes, we
Speaker 1: will do. That's terrible, that's not true. That's that's not true.
Speaker 1: Halfway home. If you haven't seen it, anybody out there,
Speaker 1: you really should check it out. It's so fun. Octavia
Speaker 1: Spencer that was in then. Oh, she's a real actress woman,
Speaker 1: she was a real actress with it. She's crying what
Speaker 1: she's crying in a scene she's using sex memory Octavius Spencer,
Speaker 1: all my friends and it was improvised. The improvised. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fun. And then I came back
Speaker 1: to the office. How cool is that? The best? I
Speaker 1: have to ask you? Also, during the office you shot
Speaker 1: it's a really underrated comedy of the of the odds.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what we call it? The two thousands, the
Speaker 1: proposal you shot with Betty White, God rest her soul,
Speaker 1: truly an American treasure. Talk a little bit about working
Speaker 1: with her. I had the opportunity a few years after
Speaker 1: you to work with her, and UM, no greater thrill
Speaker 1: for me in the business for sure. Well, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons, Betty White being one of them. I
Speaker 1: got to work with her. I can't believe it. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons the movie was a hit.
Speaker 1: Timing was a big reason because there was a movie
Speaker 1: that was number one before us, a crazy ass funny, funny,
Speaker 1: funny movie, number one at the box office for three
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Do you know the movie I'm
Speaker 1: talking come about? And then the fourth week we were
Speaker 1: able to beat it. If we would have premiered in
Speaker 1: its third week or second week, we would have been
Speaker 1: number two or three or four or nothing. But we
Speaker 1: were number one when we premiere because it was this
Speaker 1: movie's fourth week and it was already in its way down.
Speaker 1: It was The Hangover, Is that right? It was, which
Speaker 1: our friend at Helms was in. Yeah, I didn't realize that. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: When The Hangover was in its fourth week, we came
Speaker 1: out and then we were able to usurp it because
Speaker 1: it was his fourth week. But anyway, anyway, what was
Speaker 1: her husband's how Lindon from a password? That's where I
Speaker 1: first knew her password, and she just killed it. And
Speaker 1: Mary Tyler Moore absolutely killed that. Mary Tyler Moore was
Speaker 1: an amazing show. She was Mary Lou. She wasn't a
Speaker 1: main character, but when she came on, she just tore
Speaker 1: it up and and with her and she was happy,
Speaker 1: go lucky, but she she was smiling, but she would
Speaker 1: say horrible eve things, and she was dangerous and would
Speaker 1: threaten Mary Tyler Moore, but she would smile. She she
Speaker 1: just comes from that school, that borderline Vaudeville school where
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a little bit too much, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit too presentational. But they get away with
Speaker 1: it because they fell it and they push it and
Speaker 1: they don't give her ship. And that's where she came from.
Speaker 1: And I love that school. I love that old school
Speaker 1: that Tony Randall Harvey and she's right up there and
Speaker 1: she's beautiful. And then on top of that, she really
Speaker 1: really loves animals, and my family we love animals, and
Speaker 1: she puts her money. She had it all. What did
Speaker 1: you do with her? Hot and Cleveland? And had a
Speaker 1: few episodes of Hot and Cleyland right right right, right right,
Speaker 1: Hot and Cleveland. Sure. Yeah, it was just amazing, truly
Speaker 1: a master class. Even if she was six, she's been
Speaker 1: nineties for fifteen years. Yeah. I mean when I worked
Speaker 1: with her, I mean it was just the audience came in,
Speaker 1: she got on stage and it was like, just delivered
Speaker 1: every take. We're lucky, We're lucky. Um. You have been
Speaker 1: working on Mr. Iglesias that show. I know it is
Speaker 1: not coming back, but now, oh boy, did I just
Speaker 1: tell you? How did you find out that it wasn't
Speaker 1: coming back anymore? I don't know. I think the paper.
Speaker 1: Why do I keep saying the papers like like it's
Speaker 1: the fifties. I don't know how I found out. And
Speaker 1: I know you don't read You don't read anything. You
Speaker 1: don't read anything. What do you mean I don't read anything?
Speaker 1: I read stuff? Yeah? Do you emails? Do you read
Speaker 1: emails or do you have them read to you? Be honest.
Speaker 1: I read the headlines of the email. What it is?
Speaker 1: You played a theater teacher? Yeah? Three cameras sit com
Speaker 1: in front of an audience. How was that? Did you
Speaker 1: have a good experience? I mean, it's it's much more
Speaker 1: like live theater. Well, you have to wait for the
Speaker 1: last to the last to die, and every line. We
Speaker 1: had to wait because it's it's just what it was
Speaker 1: not you you didn't have to wait, right, No, because
Speaker 1: because there were no lefts now there were. We had
Speaker 1: to wait. Man, we had. It's it's throws off your
Speaker 1: timing and whatnot. But it's a different experience. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not theater. I prefer to work either theater one
Speaker 1: take all the way through or like on the office
Speaker 1: without people there, without the audience, without the audience. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Well also during this quarantine time, I know you told
Speaker 1: me a lot about your experience. I mean, spoiler alert
Speaker 1: to those of you out there. You're going to be
Speaker 1: in a big Disney movie coming out here. Do you
Speaker 1: want to you want to reveal the news? Well, not
Speaker 1: that it matters whatever, it's just work. It's just I mean,
Speaker 1: why don't you just say is that one movie? Why
Speaker 1: don't you just say what it is? I ask you
Speaker 1: a question, why is it like I'm in two movies.
Speaker 1: I'm in two movies. I'm going to be in two
Speaker 1: movies coming out. Oh, sorry, two movies. You don't have
Speaker 1: to be so you don't know. Even it's too movie,
Speaker 1: not that it matters to zero two it's the same,
Speaker 1: or five, it doesn't matter, it's too The Law City
Speaker 1: and the Disenchanted. Yeah, Disenchanted we shot in in Dublin,
Speaker 1: and The Law City we shot in the Dominican Republic
Speaker 1: and it was very cool. It was very cool. I
Speaker 1: went with my family, saw Sandra Bullock again speaking of
Speaker 1: the proposals, so it was yeah, it was very fun
Speaker 1: and and got to work with our coworker on the office, right,
Speaker 1: Amy Adams, and Disenchanted. This is the this is the
Speaker 1: sequel to Enchanted, right, Yes, it's funny because like we're
Speaker 1: talking about the Proposal earlier, these two movies, The Law City.
Speaker 1: I think Sandra Bullock is responsible for me being in
Speaker 1: it because she called the senor you want to be
Speaker 1: in this movie because she remembered me from the Proposal
Speaker 1: and the other movie Disenchanted. The director of that movie
Speaker 1: is best friends with the director and flesher of the Proposal,
Speaker 1: so he called me up and he's like, as my friend,
Speaker 1: she's my best friend, and we had a wonderful chat
Speaker 1: and Amy. Of course Amy was there and my Rudolph
Speaker 1: is in the movie. So yeah, we had a great
Speaker 1: time in beautiful Ireland. We're going on a little tour ourselves,
Speaker 1: Oscar coming up soon. Oscar and I are going to
Speaker 1: speak to some colleges about the office and about life. Right.
Speaker 1: We're going to Indiana coming up here soon, Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: very shortly as well. What is it like working with
Speaker 1: me on stage in a live environment? What's the experience
Speaker 1: for you? I can only get into work with me again.
Speaker 1: I love vaudeville and I'm a big fan of like
Speaker 1: Mahoney likes someone who has e ventriloquist dummy like I have,
Speaker 1: Like I have a voice and I'm speaking and then
Speaker 1: I'll like I'll throw to you and then you know,
Speaker 1: you speak. But we've worked out hand signals and and
Speaker 1: it's working out well, and I kind of guide you.
Speaker 1: And not that you're like a ventriloquist dummy. You're much
Speaker 1: more than that, because you're much more expressive. But it's
Speaker 1: that kind of feeling like I'm oh, he's really gets
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and you're really listening and pay attention
Speaker 1: to my directions and you do really well, and it's seamless.
Speaker 1: People watch the show and they think we're just having
Speaker 1: a conversation. They don't know that I'm guiding you with
Speaker 1: hand signals and that you've got your hand up mys
Speaker 1: I was making it nice and now you just burn
Speaker 1: the whole thing. You burn it to the ground. No, no, no, Brian,
Speaker 1: It's so much fun. It's so much fun because boy,
Speaker 1: we've talked about the office a lot and people are
Speaker 1: interested in it. But we have the freedom to go
Speaker 1: and take them off the road and then come back
Speaker 1: again and kind of weave and have fun, and it's
Speaker 1: it's very enjoyable. I have to say, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about it? Oh? I love? I mean, I truly
Speaker 1: it's the best, right, it's the best. And I you know,
Speaker 1: I've said this many times when people say who is
Speaker 1: your face person to work with? It's you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, it's obviously like Krasinski or krel I mean
Speaker 1: I have to say, obviously me too. Yes, really, I
Speaker 1: was making a joke. Well yeah, we were, Oh me
Speaker 1: to Don Krasinski, what a rube? I was about to
Speaker 1: give you a compliment. I don't I I'll let you,
Speaker 1: but you know what, they know what you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm the fun you know whatever. Look, the truth is, Brian.
Speaker 1: It's so cool to see the faces on the kids,
Speaker 1: right they light up and then when you talk and
Speaker 1: then it's live, so we can we can mess with them.
Speaker 1: And I like that too. We called back on them
Speaker 1: and we point them out, and it's it's it's like
Speaker 1: a show. It's like having a show. Anyway, Hanover Indiana,
Speaker 1: Hanover College. We'll see you soon, Oscar. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on and chatting. I really after our
Speaker 1: conversation about your parents, moving from Cuba and just your
Speaker 1: start as a dental technician. Really, I had no idea
Speaker 1: about your father. So you're you're full of surprises. There
Speaker 1: are still I still get stories after all these years
Speaker 1: from you. I did not know that. How about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's um, it's a thing, Oscar neun us quote, it's
Speaker 1: a thing. Thanks, Oscar, life is a thing. You're welcome, buddy,
Speaker 1: I'll say, so, I'll talk to you soon. Well what
Speaker 1: else could I say that Oscar hasn't already? Thank you,
Speaker 1: my friend, for truly for giving us a glimpse into
Speaker 1: your history. And uh, well I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what we get up to on our college tour. Also,
Speaker 1: keep your eye out for Oscars too, new movies The
Speaker 1: Lost City and Disenchanted with our old friend Amy Adams.
Speaker 1: And in the meantime, don't forget to like and subscribe
Speaker 1: to this show wherever you get your podcasts. Also, you
Speaker 1: can follow us on Instagram at Off the Beat Until
Speaker 1: next week, everybody, thank you so much for listening. Off
Speaker 1: the Beat is hosted an executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner,
Speaker 1: alongside our executive producer Langley. Our producers are Diego Tapia,
Speaker 1: Liz Hayes, Emily Carr, and Kristen Vermilion. Our talent producer
Speaker 1: is Ryan Papa Zachary. Our theme song Bubble and Squeak
Speaker 1: performed by my great friend Creed Bratton, and the episode
Speaker 1: was mixed by seth Olandski