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Speaker 1: Welcome back to those amigos. I'm Wilmer Valderama and I

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Speaker 1: am Freddie Rodriguez.

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Speaker 2: So last week we were talking about inspirations, right, the

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Speaker 2: moments that really stuck with us, the moments that made

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Speaker 2: us like, you know, like the moment when I was

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Speaker 2: talking about seeing my show in the small town that

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Speaker 2: maybe I'll be on be on TV.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Or the times that that I saw other

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Speaker 3: actors speaking Spanish, right, which.

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Speaker 2: I know, those are moments that really kind of told us,

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Speaker 2: oh well maybe maybe us too. For me, as we

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Speaker 2: are nas with someone that kind of made it obtainable.

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Speaker 2: I had an accident when I first got a year.

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Speaker 2: I felt like that was something that really kind of

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Speaker 2: And while we were at it, we just kept talking. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so clearly we were inspired. So let's get back into it.

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Speaker 3: You know, what I try to tell the younger generation

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Speaker 3: to be an actor and that's it, right, I go,

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Speaker 3: I go. You look at people like Ron Howard right,

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Speaker 3: like he started off as an actor and then became

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Speaker 3: You know, they're they're you got your Larry David's right,

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Speaker 3: of in it somehow, you know, like keep your options open.

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe maybe if you explored or dug a

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Speaker 3: little deeper, maybe you're you're a good writer, Maybe maybe

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Speaker 3: you should also explore that as well. Maybe you should

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Speaker 3: explore directing, especially now that we have the youtubes of

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Speaker 3: the world and other and and and where you can

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Speaker 3: shoot an entire movie on your phone. Yeah. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: so be taking advantage of that, which which also I

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Speaker 3: I you know, when young actors ask me, uh, you

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Speaker 3: know what, what what should I be doing? You know,

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Speaker 3: I always tell them, dude, just be doing it, right,

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Speaker 3: be doing it whatever it is is. Starting to just

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Speaker 3: be doing it and doing it. Could be making movies

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Speaker 3: for YouTube, you know, making your own stuff, you know,

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Speaker 3: because every time you do it, you're gonna get better,

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Speaker 3: Your skills are gonna get sharper. Maybe somebody's gonna see

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Speaker 3: something you did. I mean, man, look at like Isa

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Speaker 3: Rey for example, or Quinta Brunson or some of these

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's that's that's really good.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think in my mind, like what what

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Speaker 2: could I offer in this moment about ambition vision, you know,

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Speaker 2: having a vision that you want to materialize, that you

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Speaker 2: want to come when I become real.

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Speaker 1: The truth is that you can't wait.

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Speaker 2: For the opportunity to come with you, to come to you,

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Speaker 2: because that's that's just kind of how it work. You

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Speaker 2: And I always you know, I always tell young people.

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Speaker 2: I was like, look, there's two ways that get this

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Speaker 2: can go right. You're working, you're nine to five, and

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Speaker 2: somebody goes, hey, you can be a star. He you, buddy,

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Speaker 2: And I promise.

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Speaker 1: You you're gonna wait a loan that for that. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Or you can say I am a star. I do

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Speaker 2: have the talent and I'm gonna continue to work on

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Speaker 2: I also also tell a lot of people it's not

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Speaker 2: what you it's not the movie and it's not the show.

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Speaker 1: It's what you leave on that screen that gets you

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Speaker 1: the next job.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I couldn't agree with that more. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I've been on stuff where, you know, I work with

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Speaker 1: Yeah you know he never consisted. Yeah it's a mad.

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Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, he kind of sucked in this thing

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Speaker 3: like I don't care what it is. I remember when

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Speaker 3: like cable, whether I worked with Christian Bale or not. Like,

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Speaker 3: I don't care if it's network, Like, I am always

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Speaker 1: You think it is?

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Speaker 2: What do you think it is that drives your soul

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Speaker 3: Because it's all I know how to do, because it's

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Speaker 3: what it was taught to me when I was eighteen

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Speaker 3: with so many wonderful great.

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Speaker 1: I mean came to play.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've worked with some of the greatest directors, producers, actors,

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Speaker 3: on very specific cylinders, you know, and that's what I

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Speaker 3: we're in an industry where, you know, back in the day,

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Speaker 3: when we were coming up, right, it was like, well,

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Speaker 3: you're a TV actor, you're a commercial actor, you're a

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Speaker 3: Now it's none of that all that stuff is out

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Speaker 3: the windows, you know. So like so I was taught

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: And I and I never forget that someone three feet

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Speaker 2: somebody is waiting for me to to slow down and

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Speaker 1: And I think that's you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's why I try to do so many things right,

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Speaker 2: That's why you know, I venture into so many different

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Speaker 2: an atmosphere in an environment, a landscape where like most

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, I'm that dude. Man.

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Speaker 2: I really feel in my heart that, like I just

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Speaker 2: this is my call in here is to continue to

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Speaker 2: to say like, oh, let's keep pushing the line forward,

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Speaker 2: Let's push the let's push that bar higher, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I think that that's that's the gift of this moment.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're entering a moment of our industry where

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Speaker 2: corporate is following suit, you know, national communities are waking

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Speaker 2: sitting where we're sitting, to be able to shepherd and

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Speaker 2: go to. To me, you're an inspiration, Freddy. And you

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Speaker 2: talk about inspirations, you talk about the people that were

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Speaker 1: You know, we're about almost.

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Speaker 2: The same age, you know, but you started a little younger.

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Speaker 1: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I had to do too many no, no, not too many years,

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Speaker 2: you know, enough years that I had to burn, those

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Speaker 1: But I think the the.

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Speaker 2: And you know, that's what those amigos is about. Like,

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Speaker 2: it's about getting to know the battles, cars, the wounds,

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Speaker 2: And the fact that you've had the pedigree to to

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Speaker 2: And I was I saw myself in him because I

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Speaker 2: always wanted to play dirty. I wanted to play the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know I was privileged enough to get

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Speaker 3: we all get to tell him this in person. But

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Speaker 3: I you know, I've I've done two films with him,

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Speaker 3: to face many times. But my sophomore year of high school. Uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I was a drama major and I was

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Speaker 3: speak to my drama class. Oh way, yeah he was.

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Speaker 3: He was doing Did you ever tell him? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: have had extensive conversations and he came to speak to

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Speaker 2: I look at it this one story at a time, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Hopefully some of these little nuggets that Freddie and I

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Speaker 2: you know, we should we should definitely see when we

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Speaker 3: Legs, where are you at?

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Speaker 1: Where on you're Johne?

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Speaker 4: Where you at? Can I actually jump into I wanted

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Speaker 3: I got to work with Andy Garcia. We we did

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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, stay loose, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think I I you know, I've talked

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Speaker 2: about this a few times in the past, and I'm

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Speaker 2: proud to bring up this memory.

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Speaker 1: When I was eighteen years old, it was my first

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Speaker 1: year and seventy show.

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Speaker 2: Across our sound stage, Robin Williams was shooting La Doctors.

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Speaker 2: You know, he was doing a guest star at La Doctors. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he was playing a guy with elephant Titus, you know.

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Speaker 2: So he he had this this whole prosthetic thing in

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Speaker 2: his face and all that stuff, you know, and you know,

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Speaker 2: so in between the rehearsals, you know, he came over

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Speaker 2: across the way to meet kurtwood Smith, who had done

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Speaker 2: Dead Boys Society. Oh yeah, you know, so Kirt with

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Speaker 2: and Robin Williams are talking and I walk out and

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Speaker 2: I'm literally I'm eighteen, nineteen years old, and I look

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Speaker 2: up and I go, whoa, Yeah, that's Robin Williams. And

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Speaker 2: as a young comedic actor, this guy is like Mount Everest,

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Speaker 2: you know, like effortless heart, effortless comedy. But at a level,

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Speaker 2: it's just hard to comprehend how real and natural he

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Speaker 2: really was about that stuff and the energy he had.

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Speaker 2: So of course I went up there and I said, Hey, Kurwin,

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Speaker 2: who's your friend here?

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Speaker 1: You know. And they both smiled.

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Speaker 2: And I looked at Robin Williams and I said, hey, Robin,

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Speaker 2: I said, mister Williams, he goes call me Robin and

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Speaker 2: I said, yes, sir, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Robin.

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Speaker 2: Have a question for a young buck like me, you know,

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Speaker 2: wants to be just like you, you know, Any word

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Speaker 2: of advice and he looks at me. Yes, two words

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Speaker 2: of advice. Remember and never forget that your fans, because

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Speaker 2: you will have fans, are going to have three to

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Speaker 2: two minutes of your time for the rest of their life.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what two to three minutes you want them

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Speaker 2: to walk away with?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then he said and two remember and never forget

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Speaker 2: that it is supposed to be fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was changed because I realized very quickly how important

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Speaker 2: it was that everything I did was not just fun

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Speaker 2: but enjoyable.

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Speaker 1: You know. The idea to.

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Speaker 2: Remind yourself that everything is supposed to be fun. The

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Speaker 2: moment you're stressed, you talk about the lose, stay loose.

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Speaker 2: You know, in order to stay loose, you gotta you

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Speaker 2: gotta remember that you have to enjoy this. Relax, take

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Speaker 2: a deep breath, and make sure that it's fun for you.

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Speaker 2: If it's fun for you, it's going to be enjoyable

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Speaker 2: for everybody else, right, And and the thing about impressions,

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Speaker 2: first time impressions that perhaps sometimes are last lasting impressions.

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Speaker 2: You know, two to three minutes you want people to

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Speaker 2: walk away with. You know, no matter what's going on

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Speaker 2: in your day, you know, remember that somebody might be

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Speaker 2: going through the same and whatever you alter those two

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Speaker 2: minutes to be, you know, could either help somebody could

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Speaker 2: also make you comfortable the moment, you create an environmental harmony.

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Speaker 1: And so that really changed everything for me. Wo fun.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever find that you have a struggle with

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Speaker 3: the fun aspect?

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Speaker 2: I think when I struggle, it become less fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it's become what's become more less fun is

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Speaker 2: that I'm running out of hours mm hmm. And it's

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Speaker 2: become even more evident than my time on Earth is

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Speaker 2: getting to a point where now we're I'm living up

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Speaker 2: to halfway through my life and the other half is

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Speaker 2: the last half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh so so you're you're questioning mortality.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm thinking more like, with the timeline where I

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Speaker 2: have left, how much more can I sneak in?

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Speaker 1: You know? So like so that becomes a little not fun.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: That's why I think I do so much as when

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Speaker 2: I get up so early. That's why the all those things.

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Speaker 2: There's my four year old daughter upstairs. It's just a

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Speaker 2: very heavy feed, but it is. It is like a

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Speaker 2: very very sobering thing, like before I leave this place,

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Speaker 2: how am I going to leave it?

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Speaker 1: And I'm stressful with that ship. Dude, I don't know

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Speaker 1: why I do.

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Speaker 3: Yes, huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: I I what about you? I try.

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Speaker 3: I love I love going, you know, for me working,

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Speaker 3: I gotta have fun. Like if I'm not having fun,

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Speaker 3: I don't feel loose.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't well at this point of your career,

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Speaker 2: if he's not gonna be fun, it's a no.

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Speaker 3: Yeah man, yeah, but you'd be surprised. And sometimes, you know,

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Speaker 3: you go on a set and it's not fun. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's not fun. And I find for me anyway, you know,

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Speaker 3: there are some people who thrive and when it's not

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Speaker 3: fun and attention and all that. Like I don't thrive

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Speaker 3: intention you know, so I try to create as much

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Speaker 3: fun as I possibly could, but sometimes it just gets uh,

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Speaker 3: it gets hard, you know, depending on the project.

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Speaker 2: You know, and you also think that namicynamically, you know,

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Speaker 2: you're not the only one going through something or some journey.

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Speaker 2: Everybody else, every actor has their rules and their scars

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Speaker 2: and they're totally yeah. Yeah, and it's it's you know,

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Speaker 2: in that aspect, I would say, when the environment is

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Speaker 2: not ideal, that's when you're responsible to change it. Not

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Speaker 2: for everybody else around it, even though they're going to

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Speaker 2: enjoy it, but you have responsibility to change it for you, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because that's when you're going to try the most.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So if the environment is not great, how do I

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Speaker 2: make this environment better? Because it just helps me? And

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Speaker 2: in retrospect, it feels selfless because you're helping everybody else

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Speaker 2: get to that same frequency you know, of enjoying that

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Speaker 2: moment you're living together, or really you're helping your environment

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Speaker 2: because you're the one has.

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Speaker 1: To be free.

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Speaker 2: But it's difficult because there's very Yes, yes, I mean

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Speaker 2: we should definitely talk about those those moments like how

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Speaker 2: do you enter you know, around you know, an environment,

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Speaker 2: a hostile environment, and how.

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Speaker 3: Do you.

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00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: Know, how do you roll up your sleeves and either

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Speaker 2: make it better or remove yourself from it?

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's definitely an episode some of them.

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Speaker 2: People need to hear about how to move themselves from

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Speaker 2: toxic environments, you know. Yeah, anyways, be turning back to

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Speaker 2: those amigos. Yes, it's such a such a you know,

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Speaker 2: such a privilege to to share this with you, Aaron,

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Speaker 2: and with Leo, and yeah, Ryan and very much Vincent, Lauren,

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Speaker 2: everybody who makes this possible for everybody. And Aaron, thank

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Speaker 2: you for such a provocative question.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's what.

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Speaker 1: I'm here for. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You got anything else in the vault?

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Speaker 4: There we I'm gonna save it for future episode.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I got you all right?

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you everyone for joining those amigos. This was

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Speaker 2: an extra bonus question. Then we love you guys. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for tuning in every week, and thank you for

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Speaker 2: loving the show. And and give us your feedback. Send

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Speaker 2: us on Instagram all your questions and thoughts or any

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Speaker 2: themes or any anything that you think we should answer

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Speaker 2: to talk about more. We're out of those amigos. Talk

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Speaker 2: on Instagram and uh, we'll see you guys there, see

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Speaker 2: you guys there.

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Speaker 1: I'm Freddie Rodriguez Widama.

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Speaker 3: See you next time.

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Speaker 1: M h, m hm, m h.

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Speaker 3: And Wilmer Valdorama.

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Speaker 1: M.

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Speaker 3: Wilmer Valdorama.

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Speaker 1: M h m h m hmmmm mm hm hm m

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Speaker 1: hm hmmm