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Speaker 1: Either Rodriguez, good morning. Well either you know, first of all,

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Speaker 1: What was running through your mind? Meeting your father and

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to go back and see it um,

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Speaker 1: grown up with our parents, with a parent, a mother

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Speaker 1: and little boys like me who haven't been around their

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Speaker 1: parents and to let them know that they're not alone,

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Speaker 1: that a lot of people go through that and it's

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Speaker 1: okay to feel what you feel. Because we saw I

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Speaker 1: because you know she is. This is a sincere moment.

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Speaker 1: could have. She could be dreading this moment and she

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Speaker 1: could be wishing for this moment simultaneously, which is what

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Speaker 1: of questions. You feel it all in that one moment

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Speaker 1: right there. And even when he sits down, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what to do either, you know. And so so

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Speaker 1: you have two people coming into a space. They know

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Speaker 1: their names, but they don't know who they are. They

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Speaker 1: don't know what to say. And that's why it's this

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Speaker 1: special is so good because it takes you on all

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Speaker 1: these journeys. Oh you're gonna laugh a lot at the

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Speaker 1: Special fighting words. I laughed a lot. I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't pause at one time when when

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Speaker 1: when she walked out on stage in the Bronx and

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Speaker 1: standing up for her. The DJ announces her, she come

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Speaker 1: good stuff, and she dances away and to the Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: She dances away to the Dominican Republic. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a foodie. Now I kind of got mad because

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Speaker 1: you see them to all that great food, talk about

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Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico. And plus, I'll be remissed she pays

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Speaker 1: it forward, y'all because she has other young comedians on

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Speaker 1: the show and just recognize them. They're not doing full sets.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that she allowed that to happen was

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Speaker 1: a blessing for their careers because a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are gonna watch this special and just being able to

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Speaker 1: tag that because people have to our tifty Hannitch just

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Speaker 1: to Speedy healt So she's always had this mindset that

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Speaker 1: if I've been here, I'm gonna help somebody else. That

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Speaker 1: is really the nature of your personality. And I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to say you are good. I'm a fan now.

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Speaker 1: I may not I know who i Riquez was, but

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Speaker 1: I know who she is now and I will always

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Speaker 1: support you. Thank you. I appreciate that. And as you

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Speaker 1: called that list of names, if you make uh, there's

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Speaker 1: one distinct commonality in all of them is that they're

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Speaker 1: all Black American people. And I say black American because

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Speaker 1: there are black Latinos to Latin the people, and I

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Speaker 1: want to I want to bring to light that. But

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Speaker 1: I just want to say that, haw, did it not

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Speaker 1: been for the Black American community, my career would not

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Speaker 1: have taken off. And the thing is that I'm always

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Speaker 1: going to be thankful for that, and I hope that

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Speaker 1: we can spill that into our my community to learn

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Speaker 1: how to support each other that way and to pay

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Speaker 1: it forward and not to just blow each other up,

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Speaker 1: because it's always been I mean, Tama Goings and Valerie

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Speaker 1: Bending are the ones that that put me on the

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Speaker 1: shock All Star was the first Latin person to ever

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Speaker 1: do that. Wanda Sykes and Page her With put me

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Speaker 1: all Last Comic Standing. Tiffany gave me my first half

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Speaker 1: hour special, and that has always been something very important

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Speaker 1: and meaningful. I grew up in a in a predominantly

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Speaker 1: black and brown community. My high school had two white kids.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was Latin or black and we and we rocked

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Speaker 1: with each other because it was us against the world.

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Speaker 1: You know. We had our beefs internally. Of course, to

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Speaker 1: say that that that didn't happen is a lie, But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, when we were gonna

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Speaker 1: do speech and debate, it would be us against the

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Speaker 1: white boys because we are all we had. And I'm

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Speaker 1: always going to be eternally grateful for the people who

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Speaker 1: showed up for me. Kenna Hart also put me on

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Speaker 1: l O L. He's the first person to bring to

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Speaker 1: put me up on a stage in Montreal for the

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Speaker 1: Just for Last a couple of years ago. Absolutely, so

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we can't just you know, exploit

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Speaker 1: the black community and then you know, forget about them

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Speaker 1: when we win, because a lot of people do that.

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Speaker 1: And I'm always I'm always gonna rock with my people.

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Speaker 1: And when I say my people, I say black and

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Speaker 1: brown people because that's really who my people, that's who,

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Speaker 1: that's my people. My dear. She's a comedian, she's an actress, writer, producer,

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Speaker 1: executive producer. Ida Rodriguez. Fighting Words is aeron now on

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Speaker 1: HBO Max. Uh. It's a comedy special slash documentary. It's travels.

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Speaker 1: It's an inside look at a brilliant stand up comedy

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Speaker 1: mind and guess what, she's funny. Thank you all right

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Speaker 1: for coming on my show. Thank you for how with

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Speaker 1: me on my show. And keep doing the good work.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it, We need you and um that's part

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Speaker 1: of my work. My war work is bringing financial literacy

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Speaker 1: to the communities that are like mine and and we

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Speaker 1: gotta keep doing it. So keep doing the good work.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. If you want to hear or

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