WEBVTT - Ricky Martin 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.240 This is he said Aya Vijo with Eric Winter and 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:05.279 Rosalind Fantaz. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.920 Hello, Hello, Hello, morning, morning after buen dia mihin the 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.720 ODA met today, I am excited to welcome a dear 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:18.720 friend to the show. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:19.599 I'm excited too. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.400 Yes, he really doesn't need an introduction. We're going to 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:27.400 do it anyways, right because he is huge, a musician, philanthropist, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.960 a dad, an inspiration and currently starring in Apple TV 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.519 Palm Royale. Do you understand Eric Winter that he has 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.479 sold more than sixty million albums worldwide as a solo artist. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.240 Began acting in TV commercials at the age of six. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.839 Nu Though he was Menuro in nineteen eighty four, and 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.360 then he left the band in nineteen eighty nine, joined 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.160 the cast of the Mexican tele NOVELA al cansar UNEs Treja. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.840 Why he was on General Hospital too. Let's not forget 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:57.720 that he did. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:03.520 He won Premiolo Nuiz Through. He's done Broadway Limiss in 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:10.039 nineteen ninety six, che also in Broadway twenty twelve, a Vita. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.520 He has a foundation, the Ricky Martin Foundation, many campaigns 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.880 against human trafficking. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:23.800 Let's not forget outstanding Emmy supporting Actor nomination for Versace. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.600 You're absolutely right. Do you know what's his actual name? 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:32.000 His real name, I don't Enrique Jose Martin moralist, Okay, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.680 I don't know. Yes, Enrique Jose. And as a kid, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:37.720 they call him Kiki. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.920 Can't wait to chat with him. That's gonna be great. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:41.560 Hey, what's going on? 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.920 Hey, Kelly there? 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.920 I love that art in your background. That's so cool. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.480 I have I have visited. I have, Yeah, she came 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.000 to visit and yeah, and she's only eating apple And. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.320 Where are you notcalist in your house? 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.280 Not modeling my house? So we rented a house in 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.280 the meantime. It's one of those things because of the 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.800 floods we got. It got really flooded. No from here, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.119 because yeah, come yeah, So we took advantage. I said, okay, 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.520 let's clean it all up. Let's take advantage of this. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:15.840 And it's working up fine. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:16.720 So that's good. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:17.200 That's good. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.840 But listen, going through remodels and building, it's it's it's 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.560 stressful because we've done it twice already and it's been 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:24.520 a nightmare. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.480 And they tell you three months and it takes seven. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:32.400 Yeah, I've yet to see a contractor beyond time. With 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.119 any part of any construction. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.960 You want to hear something, you know, something crazy. We 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.440 had a problem with our house or we had to 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.359 do the same thing we were. We were like basically 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.720 building back the house, and we had to rent and 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.639 I kept and I got pregnant during the rental with Dylan, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.360 my second the second one, and the whole thing was 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.480 telling the contractor, please, I don't want to deliver. I 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:54.720 have to be at the rental. I want to be 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.960 back home, so make sure you have ten months that 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.960 I just meet out. I had my baby and six 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.600 months later the house was ready. It took a year 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:05.160 and a half. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.680 That's where it goes. It is incredible and it doesn't 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.480 matter if it's in La Puerto Rico. It really doesn't matter. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.000 It's just how I know it's crazy. But anyways, listen away. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.160 We are so excited to have you with us. Thank you, Brook. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.720 It's been a while, like we've been dreaming about having Riki, 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.600 So thank you so much for taking the time of 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:25.000 doing this. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.040 Much, for inviting me. Please are you kidding me? Congratulations 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.200 and all the success and everything and light and many 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:33.760 more to comfortfully. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.480 Oh as well. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.320 I mean, you're always busy You're always doing incredible things, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.839 not just with work but with philanthropy and everything else 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.440 that you do. You're always making a huge impact. But 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.520 with your latest project now Palmrele this is I mean, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.240 this's been a lot of fun. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.000 We really enjoy. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.880 The sunes, this music ears. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.680 Man, How what was that like? I mean, what's what 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.680 was the filming experience like for you? Like TV it 0:03:58.720 --> 0:03:59.400 was a tax singe. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.280 I mean, a lot heavy hitters in this in this 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.520 show with you, right, like you've done that many times. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.960 But you always have to bring your A game to 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.360 the scene, obviously, because I'm so lucky to be surrounded 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.040 by such amazing actors. I mean, where do I start. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.800 I mean, let's start dropping names. You know, Carol Burnett, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:24.560 it's Laura Dern, It's the one and only Kristen Wigg. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.560 You know. It's like we can keep going because it's uh, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.719 it's it's it's like a dream team of like I said, 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.719 wonderful actresses. And then the story is so wonderful and 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.920 it's so brilliantly written. And Apple TV plus was they 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.599 were so generous because it's I can you can see that, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.080 you can see the love. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:51.440 And for sure you can tell it's expensive expense on 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:52.680 that shows. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.359 Can but I want to know about the process before 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.320 Ricky was this? Uh? Was this an offer that you 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.479 have to ca mystery? Read like, how did it go 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.600 down for you to? Did you read the material and 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.440 you call your people saying you know what I want in? 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:06.400 How did that go? 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.479 You know? So it all started in a in a 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.480 in an after party in an Oscar night after party 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:18.360 where I was just dancing and and the creator of 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.440 the show, the One and Only Ape Sylvia, was there 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.120 and he just he said he went to my agent 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.240 who was with me, and he said, is what is 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:33.960 he doing now? And my agent goes, He's ready, He's ready. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.280 He goes, let's talk. Let's talk. Two weeks later they 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.880 sent me the script and uh, two weeks two weeks later, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.600 I was flying to LA to meet with the director, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.200 Tate Taylor, who was someone that you know, I love 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.839 and he's been wonderful and and and and obviously you 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.159 know the typical question, who's attached to it? You know? 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.640 And and they just started dropping in. I'm like, I 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.279 don't even need to read this, let's jump in. I 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:07.120 meant get ready. Obviously, I I met with Tate and 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.440 and you know, I read all my scenes and I'm like, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.000 I'm ready, let's read. I'm ready to audition. And he 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.839 goes like, no, I know what you can bring to 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:19.400 the table, don't worry, see you on set. That's great, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.360 and let's do it. So it was wonderful and but 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.840 it's it's it was challenging. It was comedy. It was 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.279 the first time, you know, I did comedy. I'm lucky 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.359 to say that I was, you know, I was you know, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.000 someone like Carol Burnette was holding my hand in the process, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:38.400 and she taught me the wonders of of just forgetting 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.560 forgetting the script. You know, just leave your script on 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.320 your trailer and and let's walk and let's have fun 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.440 and whatever whatever happens between cut, between action and cut 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.920 is is. It's about having fun. So it's it was 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.480 a very beautiful experience where I felt I felt free. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.640 You know. The other projects that I've done were about 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.160 telling someone's story and not in this case. This was 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.159 a novel of soap opera album. I'm sorry, and you 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.320 could just add to it. And to have the writers, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.840 you know, behind the camera taking notes of what we 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.760 were coming up with. Wow, we were giving and as 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.320 you know, and so we helped develop the characters a 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.920 little bit. So it was it was the most amazing experience. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:23.800 And so did you. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.360 So you did get to improvise quite a bit with 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.640 a lot on the scenes. I want to say a lot, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:31.840 but they gave you freedom. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.200 For me, it was a lot, and and Kristin would 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.600 say it wasn't that much, and I'm like, okay, perfect, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.280 you know, but but but but but I wasn't a 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.600 slave to the script. It where you know, if you 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.200 don't say the right words, we can get sued, which 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.080 was another case that I worked with in the past 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.520 with another production, and so so we were free. It 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.920 was the freedom of the liberty that I felt in 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.280 this project just to jump in and come up with 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.760 things and and I improvise on stuff that later on 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.640 were brought to different scenes because they were so effective 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.480 and and it was it was very special. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.680 Now I imagine something like, I mean, you were nominated 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.560 for an Emmy with Versace, right, So you're going from 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.920 drama drama, huge rhyme, Murphy right, like, very specific style 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.600 of storytelling into something like this. Was there a lot 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.160 of freedom in comparison like I with comedy, I find 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.400 that you often get a bit more freedom to dive 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.200 into the character and how you want to build out 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.760 the comedy with the dialogue. In a show like Versace 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.440 or a series like Versace that was that far different, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.800 was ryan very particular on dialogue. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.200 We were not allowed to improvise at all because we 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:50.160 were telling someone's story. Yeah, and whenever we said we 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.600 chose another word, we would have the legal department show 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.040 up and say, wow, you cannot do this. You have 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.400 to go back to what is specifically on the script. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.679 And it's understandable because we were telling the story of 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.559 the genre in this case and say it's a novel. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.000 We were a little bit more more, a little bit 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.360 more now. We were great to to bring to bring 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.320 our Jews to the to the picture. And uh, I 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.240 mean there's magic in both. Obviously, you know, we're telling 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.000 the responsibility of telling the story of someone as iconic 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.160 as also it was wonderful, it was beautiful. But but 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.320 but it's it's incredible the darkness that you deal with 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.720 when you're when you're working with comedy. Right in order 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.080 for it to be effective, there there has to be 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.680 this darkness behind it, and and and I was dealing 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.680 with secrets that everyone had secrets in this palm real situation, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:49.120 and and and we were able to to create our 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.199 own secrets that later on hopefully will become something else. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:57.200 I I I was, I don't know. I'm still I'm 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.040 still floating over this. I saw the last episode and 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.600 I've been dealing with this script for two years, and 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.280 I was still in shock of how how what happened? 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.000 You know? And so there's been nothing but a wonderful experience. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:11.800 And I'm very lucky. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.240 And that's fantastic. Did they announce a second season, Ricky 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.800 or not yet? You guys don't know. You're not supposed 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:18.320 to say anything. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.000 Now, I'm like, come on, apple to you plus bring 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.040 it on and come. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.760 On so you will be off for it because I 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.360 know the last episode with something tragic happens to you. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.600 So you we don't know what's what's going to happen. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.559 If there's a second season, you're more than happy to 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.080 come back. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:42.360 Course, I listen, I am. I love music and music 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:47.000 will always be there and music, obviously, what music has 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.960 has brought to my life is something that I will 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.640 always be very thankful and grateful. And we cannot deny 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.720 that part of that wonderful, that wonderful aspect of storytelling. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.960 The first time I was in front of the camera 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.960 telling a story as an actor, I was fifteen years old. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.400 With Manul, we moved to Argentina and we did a 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.160 TV series in Argentina. And at that moment when I 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.760 heard action for the first time, and I started telling 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.800 my story of this kid that was abandoned by his 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.080 father and he had a single mother. In the darkness 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.480 and the crying and the long it was something that 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.800 hooked me to acting right. And then obviously music came 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.920 into my life and did its thing, and I couldn't 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.880 just push it away. It was magical what was happening. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.280 Once again, it's about storytelling. If it's through music that 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.520 I write or music that I don't write, if it's 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.520 about a script, it's about storytelling. I had the honor 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:47.120 to be on Broadway. I've worked. I did Glee, and 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.679 then I did the Assassination of Danni VERSACEI and then 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.800 I went back to Broadway and then and now this 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.880 this is something that I that I that I want 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.560 to get ready for. I've been getting ready for many years, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.440 but with a lot of respect and passion. Whatever I 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.240 do in this is because some ways, somehow people are 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:13.760 feeling some kind of of of of It's because it's 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:19.360 thought provoking and we're telling are are making people think 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.560 some way somehow and maybe changing the way they think 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.400 about life. And because of that, it's about storytelling. We 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:32.439 go back to that aspect of the fluidity of entertaining. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:46.960 Right, have you ever thought about developing something for you, recky, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.679 Like is there a TV show or a movie or 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:50.760 a limited series? 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:51.160 Like? 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.160 Have you ever thought about you know what? I love 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:58.200 acting clearly very good at this. It's about storytelling. Do 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.640 you think that you will develop something that you have 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:01.320 more control? 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.559 My agent is constantly telling, constantly telling me, bring the book. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.480 Bringing that that book. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.640 If you find that book, let's make it happen. And 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.920 there are some really interesting things that I that I'm 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.120 going through right now that I am that I would 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.720 love to bring into life. You know, it takes five years. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.400 The first time I said, you know, I want to 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.120 do Broadway. I want to go back to Broadway, and 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.520 I want to do a Vita. It literally took five 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:32.840 years from that thought until we started production. So I, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.680 you know, I just I turned fifty two years old, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.000 and I think I am in a very special place 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:42.080 in my life where I can where I don't have 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.920 to prove anything to everybody. I just feel very comfortable 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.720 with my emotions where I'm at spiritually, physically, and and 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.480 and I don't, I don't. I just have to. I 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.080 just have to be grounded and vulnerable enough without fear 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:02.440 in to to to talk about things that I am 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.440 really concerned about through acting like I've done with music 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:11.960 some way, somehow, And then also very lucky to say 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.640 that people around me are inspiring me as well, and 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.280 the team that I've encounter in this journey has been wonderful. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.320 So we'll see what happens. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.400 This is something I've always wanted to know, and you're 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.120 the perfect person to ask because an entertainer that has 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.520 reached so many different mediums in entertainment, right, I know 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.120 what the feelings like when you dive into a great 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.680 character and that rush that you get when you finally 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.800 connect to the character and you see it through, whether 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.800 it's a series or a movie, whatever it is. Right, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.640 you've done Broadway as well, but you've also sold out 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:51.280 massive arenas with people singing your music. What's the biggest 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.240 adrenaline rush as an entertainer or that feeling that's just 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.600 like you're out of body, you're out of body experience 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.600 in a way, because to now it has to be 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.840 it has to be that. But I mean, I want 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.920 to hear from you what is because it's all different. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:05.160 They have. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.880 You know, you've done Broadways. You're still in front of 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.000 a crowd, and the. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:13.320 Power, the power of the crowd doesn't comper to anything 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:18.360 because you know you have twenty thousand people giving you 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.240 energy right there, right that's at that moment when you say, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:28.520 everybody put your hands together and your music a huge 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.160 arena to a song that you created, you know, I 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.760 don't know years ago, and it is really beautiful. And 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.320 Broadway you have that, and Broadway on Broadway, I haven't. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.280 I had a moment where you know you're working on 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.000 actuals because I was. I was doing the miss and 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.640 I was I was playing Marius right and and there's 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.680 a moment where this character dies in my arms and 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.480 it's very wonderful moment, very sad, very dramatic, and all 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.360 of a sudden, from the last road, I hear someone 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.640 say freaky. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:06.040 I love Yeah, Oh, my god, So you know it 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.680 makes you break character or did you just stay? You stay? 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.480 You were like I didn't hear I didn't hear it. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.240 She resurrected. I was like, yes, they right there. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.040 Do you know that I went through I saw you 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.240 when you're did li miss? Oh that went to see you? 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.480 I went to Broadway? Yes, I saw him do the miss. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.480 It was because I love Broadway and we love you. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.280 So I was like, oh my god, what an incredible 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.520 Let me let me ask you something and this is 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.360 just me here tripping, you know, like because you have 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:42.600 you have accomplished so much. Do you take moments that 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.200 you're in the bathroom, you're in the sauna, like you're 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.320 by yourself, and let's say that it's a difficult time 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:53.000 in your life. Do you think and did you say 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.840 thank you? And those moments of greatness like you're in 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:01.560 a stadium with twenty five thousand people adoring you. How 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.680 does it make you feel reaky? You know, like, do 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.040 you go to God, I've been so freaking blessed? Or 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.959 does it feel lonely? Does it feel amazing knowing that 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.640 you're it? 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.159 All of the above. Russell I started when I was 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.720 twelve years old. Like I said, I'm fifty two, and 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.760 I've had moments of joy, and I've had moments of 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.240 deep sadness and moments that are dark where I feel 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:35.000 lonely even though I'm surrounded by you know, one hundred 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.320 and fifteen people, people that travel with me when I'm 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.480 on the road. We could be like one hundred and 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:45.960 fifteen people, right, and that becomes your family. And sometimes 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.679 you feel the adrenaline of, like I said, the crowd 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.359 twenty thousand and thirty thousand people singing and dancing to 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.720 your music, and then the silence of when you go 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.679 back to your room, you gotta be careful because the 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:04.719 crowd could be a bit painful. So I'm just a 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.199 survival I am. I am so lucky. I don't know 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.520 it's because if it's because of my spirituality or because 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.919 it's it's been it's been really sad at times, you know. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.000 And and uh and but like I said, I I 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.240 have people around me that they hold my hand, they 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.200 at my back, and they said, let's let's keep doing 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.520 this because you were born for this. For sure, this 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.280 is it, this is your life. Why do you want 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.879 to quit that? We can quit, We can quit for 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.960 a minute and then you're gonna say, Okay, I want 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.560 it again. In there, I said once I was in 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.080 Australia and I said, it's either my mental health or 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.280 the next three shows that I have. So I want 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.879 to go back home because my mental health. I feel weird. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.760 I don't. I am not comfortable today. And I left. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.240 I counseled. Everybody was like, what are you doing, Rickist, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.879 It's three more shows, come on, we can do this. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.040 And I'm like, well, I want to be home. And 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.000 I went home, and that's all I wanted. I want 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.280 to be home. I wanted to be home with my dogs. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.040 I wanted to jump in the ocean. You know, you know, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.000 our little island has that thing in the ocean that 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:21.080 it fixes everything. So all I wanted. This is like 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.240 twenty something years ago. By the way, this is many 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.640 many years ago, but this is the living la vida 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.800 loca moment where I was high fiving God in so 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.359 many ways. But at the same time, I didn't know 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.280 who I was. I was I was being pressured to 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.920 come out as a gay man when I was not ready, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.800 you know, I was, you know, but then I had 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.600 the pressure of but you were a sex symbol. You 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.360 got to shake those hips because they're dancing and they're 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.560 screaming when you do it. And I'm like, okay, I 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.200 can do this. I've been trained to do this since 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.320 I was on an Ulu. You know. This is this 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.320 is this is my entertaining mask that I wear. But 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.359 I said, but I don't want wear masks. But wait, 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.600 hold on a second. So I was lucky enough to say, Okay, 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.840 I'm gonna stop. And I took my sabbatical and I 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.320 just went to India and I went into ashrams and 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.800 I meditated, and I became a Buddhist. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.840 And by yourself, you had a family with you, you 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.199 have a you had some people with you along for 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:21.640 the ride. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:22.680 That time. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.760 I went to India because I met this Puerto Rican 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:30.440 monk in Thailand and really, wow, Puerto Rican Buddhist monk 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.320 in Thailand. And I'm like, who are you? Yes, I'm 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.399 Puerto Rican. And I'm like, oh yeah, and so what 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.600 are you doing? Well? I was. I was a Puerto Rican. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.400 I was a monk, Buddhist monk up in the mountains 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.800 of Thailand. And I'm like, oh, we need to talk brother. Okay, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.879 there going story short guys. I three weeks later we 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:53.040 were hiking the Himalayas and then and then you know, 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.520 I was, I was in touch with this other philosophy 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.320 is that heeled me. I grew up as an boy 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.760 in Puerto Rico. We went to the same cool rustling 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.720 I would. You know, every Friday, we would go to 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.439 Mass and I was to the priest and I was 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.159 and it was beautiful. And I have that foundation, you know, 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.320 of spiritual foundation who's very solid. But I needed more. 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.359 I needed more because what I had was not enough, 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.320 and I was it was scary. It was scary. So 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.040 I went to India and I did my yoga deep yoga, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:27.520 and I and I went into heavy mantras and Buddhism 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:31.480 and and now I keep searching. I keep searching. I'm 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.920 always looking for more when it comes to spirituality. And 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.040 at the end of the day, this is helping me today. 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:43.320 I of I guess I've in my mind, I draw 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.199 an ideal of what I want my life to be. 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.359 And I just be healthy for my kids because I 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:54.080