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Speaker 1: You know reggaeton, but do you know the whole story?

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Speaker 2: Hi?

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Speaker 3: I'm Genie Montaibo, senior producer and sound designer of Loud

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Speaker 3: The History of Reggaeton?

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Speaker 1: Did you hear the news?

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Speaker 3: Loud is backed by a popular demand. Listen to all

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Speaker 3: ten episodes that break down the beats, politics, and power

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Speaker 3: behind the genre, hosted by herself Evie Queen. Listen now

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Speaker 3: only on Spotify.

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Speaker 2: Judy made at the making an entrance with your biceps.

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Speaker 1: I'm working on it. I'm trying, mate, I'm trying.

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Speaker 4: You got it? Can I just say something?

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Speaker 1: Say something? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Why you're so cute? Man? You are so cute.

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Speaker 1: It's lighting, No.

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Speaker 5: But it's look at Bassa's and I never say this

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Speaker 5: to you, but like, you're gorgeous and you always look

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Speaker 5: amazing on camera.

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Speaker 1: I'm adorable.

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Speaker 4: From Futuro Media. It's Latino Usa. I'm Mariano Posa.

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Speaker 5: Today I speak with the adorable and talented actor Judy

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Speaker 5: ray Is. We talk free speech, motherhood and how Judy

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Speaker 5: ray Is is having a moment. Does the name Judy

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Speaker 5: ray Is ring a bell? Well, she's the kind of

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Speaker 5: actor that you might not know by name, but believe me,

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Speaker 5: you know exactly who she is.

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Speaker 2: I've had it to here, so let me make it

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Speaker 2: very clear us for the last time, sir, I'm Dominican.

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Speaker 5: She's Dominican from the Bronx, and she's been gracing our

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Speaker 5: screens for decad Aids. First as Nurse Carla on the

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Speaker 5: sitcom Scrubs.

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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Carla, You're handsome. Be careful, Mike's brown man,

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Speaker 1: we both do kill me.

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Speaker 4: She was Zoila on Devious Maids.

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Speaker 2: Soila, you must know someone who's strapped for cash in

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Speaker 2: a barrio Santovius.

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Speaker 4: Oh good, give him a call. Quiet Anne on clause.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't even be in this position if you weren't some

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Speaker 2: dusty old hag Hey.

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Speaker 5: And these days she's playing Lieutenant Selena Soto on the

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Speaker 5: true crime comedy High Potential.

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Speaker 1: She's not a cop. She certainly didn't sign up for this, Selena.

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Speaker 5: Stop.

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Speaker 4: Judy is really having a moment.

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Speaker 2: That's when you figure out you're having a moment, right,

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Speaker 2: because I've been doing this for over twenty something years

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Speaker 2: and I've never done Good Morning America.

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Speaker 4: Back now with Dodgres Judy Rays she's.

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Speaker 1: No stranger, so you're like, oh snap.

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Speaker 5: The second season of High Potential is now one, and

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Speaker 5: a reboot of Scrubs is on the way. And before

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Speaker 5: we start, well, full disclosure, Judy and I have been

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Speaker 5: friends for over twenty years.

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Speaker 4: So here we go.

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Speaker 5: Judy, it's so wonderful to have you on Latino USA.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 5: All Right, So what we're going to do to open

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Speaker 5: is three rapid fire questions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay.

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Speaker 5: Number one, what is the most embarrassing thing that has

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Speaker 5: ever happened to you on set?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I know exactly the third or fourth episode for Scrubs

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Speaker 2: when Carla and Turk become a love interest and we

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Speaker 2: have a kissing scene and I just shove my tongue

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Speaker 2: in his mouth.

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Speaker 1: And he say, oh, you still lattice? I was like,

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Speaker 1: what you know?

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Speaker 6: Character?

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Speaker 1: I was mortified. Everybody was laughing at me.

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Speaker 4: Sounds like an honest mistake.

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Speaker 5: I would say, Number two, what is the most frustrating

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Speaker 5: thing that you've ever experienced while acting?

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Speaker 2: That's tricky, I think, having to remind a certain creative

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Speaker 2: So what am I?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 2: Am I really a Mexican because I'm Dominican and immediately

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Speaker 2: get defensive. I was like, no, no, no, I just I

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Speaker 2: want to be able to deliver the correct accent. It

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Speaker 2: was a thing of having to communicate that consistently. That

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Speaker 2: kind of thing is frustrating.

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Speaker 4: Finally, your fondest memory of Scrubs.

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Speaker 2: Wow, we did this musical that was one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite moments and I got to sing.

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Speaker 1: For the last time.

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Speaker 4: Don't make a big to do. I was simply testing you.

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Speaker 2: Then why'd you tell jd R Baby's Black Second? That

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Speaker 2: was the story by the way, about the frustrating moment

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Speaker 2: was on there. And my favorite thing about Scrubs is

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Speaker 2: that Bill and team always respond to the concerns or

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Speaker 2: the worries with some humor or a really speaking to

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Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're asking for. But we did

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Speaker 2: a musical that I got to sing and dance on, So.

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Speaker 1: Card When will you be back?

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Speaker 3: Not for one long?

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Speaker 2: And we did an adaptation of The Princess Bride, So

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Speaker 2: those things to be part of. Things like that are

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Speaker 2: like my favorite things, which are musicals. And The Princess

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Speaker 2: Bride is a dream come true.

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Speaker 4: Being an actor.

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Speaker 5: Even though it's very glamorous, it can be very lonely

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Speaker 5: and scary, right, But I want to ask you, Ma

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Speaker 5: meet that what it feels like to be having this

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Speaker 5: moment because you're doing Scrubs, You're doing high potential, a

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Speaker 5: major comedy drama on ABC.

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Speaker 4: You're a producer in your own right.

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Speaker 5: You're an amazing mom and a amazing and I was

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Speaker 5: traveling someplace when I saw it. Oh my god, Judy's

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Speaker 5: full here and makeup doing Good Morning America.

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Speaker 4: Okay, go Judy. What does it feel like?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 2: Ever since Scrubs, I've worked pretty consistently, and I'm proud

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Speaker 2: of that, and I've had the opportunity and create the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to do a whole bunch of different things. But

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Speaker 2: when I start hearing that people are crazy about the

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Speaker 2: show and my mother and my sisters are texting me

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Speaker 2: about how much they love the show, is like, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Something's happening here.

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Speaker 4: I texted you know you did.

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Speaker 2: That's when I think I really stepped outside of myself

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Speaker 2: and saw this thing is getting big.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been.

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Speaker 2: Up until recently able to just like get around everywhere

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Speaker 2: without oh my god.

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Speaker 4: Don't tell me you're getting those things where you like

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Speaker 4: just go to get.

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Speaker 1: It makes me really nervous.

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Speaker 2: It makes me really nervous because I usually don't even notice,

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Speaker 2: you know, but I get self conscious sometimes I'm like,

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Speaker 2: am I really going to have to put on makeup

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Speaker 2: to go.

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Speaker 1: To the store.

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Speaker 5: That's what it ultimately comes down to, right, Isn't that tragic? Okay,

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Speaker 5: now let's talk about high potential.

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Speaker 4: The cleaning ladies were arranging my boards.

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Speaker 1: You see a cleaning lady, I see more. Morgan is

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Speaker 1: high potential.

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Speaker 5: So the plot is that it's a single mom with

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Speaker 5: an exceptional mind. She's recruited by you, Lieutenant Selina Soto.

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Speaker 5: You're the boss of all of the detectives, and I

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Speaker 5: just wonder what it's been like for you to play

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Speaker 5: a Latina in a leadership role when you know, like

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Speaker 5: a lot of the media that we're seeing is about

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's what an incredible opportunity for everything that

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Speaker 2: you just said.

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Speaker 1: It's all about women.

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Speaker 2: It's a mom, it's her kid, her kid is biracial,

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Speaker 2: and it's a really diverse group of people at a

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Speaker 2: time where it's literally very slowly being erased for lack

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Speaker 2: of a better term. And I know it sounds dramatic,

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Speaker 2: but it's happening right before our eyes. The director of

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Speaker 2: who is this. I don't want to be token leadership,

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Speaker 2: you know. And she was like, Oh no, that's not

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Speaker 2: they were relentless about addressing concerns or changes or tweaks.

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Speaker 2: It's a constant project. I mean, when does that happens?

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Speaker 2: I'm saying it's a moment in time. How rare this is.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you're going to bring in subversive personalities

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Speaker 2: like a Caitlin, you're already a little bit off right

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Speaker 2: in terms of following the law or doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Me work with cops. You got a dead body, you

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Speaker 2: Which is why it makes it a little bit more

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Speaker 2: interesting pursuing these really complex and dark and strange cases.

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Speaker 2: I am wide open and actually inquisitive about using what's

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Speaker 2: happening now. You can't avoid the hest and Latino situation forever.

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Speaker 2: You have an audience to appeal to, so that you

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Speaker 2: have to have some kind of a balance. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know that we can get away with it for

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Speaker 2: too long. But in the meantime, the opportunity is there

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Speaker 5: So from the profession of acting to the politics of

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Speaker 5: the moment, we are living through censorship by the government

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Speaker 5: towards media companies, corporations, journalists. As an actor, you're affiliated

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Speaker 5: with a major television network, ABC, and I'm wondering, how

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Speaker 5: what you can and can't say? You know when you

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Speaker 5: see what happened to Stephen Colbert and to Jimmy Kimmel.

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Speaker 5: So how are you kind of managing this moment on

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Speaker 2: What an excellent and difficult question, because I find myself

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Speaker 2: to the point of me having a moment, having had

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Speaker 2: the blessing and the opportunity to work pretty consistently all

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Speaker 2: the way up until now, up until this moment. For me,

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Speaker 2: the message is that I'm here to serve additional purposes,

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Speaker 2: right in terms of using whatever you want to call it,

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Speaker 2: will listen that things are pretty fucked up right now,

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Speaker 2: and that you know everything we are. Everything that I

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Speaker 2: am as an Afro Latina, as an actor, as a

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Speaker 2: middle aged woman, mother of a queer kid, creative, everything

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Speaker 2: that I am is being threatened.

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Speaker 1: And yet here I am.

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Speaker 2: So is the answer to not say something or to

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Speaker 2: say something, and I struggle with it constantly. You get

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Speaker 2: that survivor's guilt. As a Latino, I have two huge jobs,

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Speaker 2: I'm making incredible money, I'm living in LA I'm all right.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I see what you and I don't want to

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Speaker 4: not that I say.

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Speaker 2: I'm all right in that guilt where I'm doing better

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Speaker 2: as most actors and the most Latinos. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, and you want to be able to make

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Speaker 2: something out of it, to make some kind of a contribution,

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Speaker 2: and to.

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Speaker 1: To stay silent is not an option.

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Speaker 5: Coming up on Latino USA, I continue my conversation with

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Speaker 5: actress and producer Judy Reyes.

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Speaker 2: The second you stand up, and it's that's what's been

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Speaker 2: happening over this version of the Trump administration. The second

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Speaker 2: you stand up for yourself, they back.

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Speaker 5: Off with us. Yes, hey, we're back, And I'm speaking

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Speaker 5: with Judy Reyes about her acting career, but also about

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Speaker 5: how she's processing the political moment that our country is

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Speaker 5: living through. You were raised in the Bronx, you are

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Speaker 5: LA and the politics of LA. I mean, it's kind

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Speaker 5: of crazy what we've been living through incessantly in these times.

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Speaker 5: And I think back actually to the protests outside of

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Speaker 5: They were carrying signs that said, you know, defend free speech.

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Speaker 5: Yes, hey, we're back with Dominican American Hollywood star Judy

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Judy.

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Speaker 1: Would you mind breaking it up so I can you understand?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you two things.

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Speaker 1: We had a wonderful table read. It was really special.

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Speaker 5: So it's like literally just happening as we speak. Are

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Speaker 2: They sent us the script and I was like, this

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Speaker 2: And that's really all I know. You know, we kind

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Speaker 5: So Judy, one of the things that I've known about

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Speaker 4: no is your dream role?

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Speaker 2: I want to be on stage. I want to be

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Speaker 5: Yes, and if you got that role, you would dance

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Speaker 5: I'm not a dancer. I'm not a singer.

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Speaker 1: Three days.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Number two. Who inspires you?

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Speaker 1: My kid inspires me. My husband inspires me.

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Speaker 2: There's a relentlessness to the two of them that is

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Speaker 4: I love that me too. What gives you hope these days?

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Speaker 1: My kid and young people.

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Speaker 2: I had never thought I would be at the age

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Speaker 5: Judy Ray is actor, producer, mom, wife Amiga Gorgasa.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for doing what you do.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, honey, I'm so happy for you, so proud

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