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Speaker 1: Hey, there's one about dramas. Freddie Rodriguez. Welcome through those

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Speaker 1: and me goes.

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Speaker 2: This is part two of our Beautiful Conversation with Angela

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Speaker 2: Johnson Ray.

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Speaker 3: I am so good at talking. So I'm at this

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Speaker 3: place in my life where I have nothing going on,

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Speaker 3: and it's one of those where I'm like, oh, I

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Speaker 3: think I have to move back home, like I gave

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Speaker 3: it a good go. I don't have money to pay

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Speaker 3: my rent and it's already I'm living at my friend's condo.

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Speaker 3: She was. She was a professional dancer, touring with like

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Speaker 3: every major artists who can think of, so she was

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Speaker 3: doing really well. She let me rent a room out

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Speaker 3: couldn't afford it. But she was my best friend, so

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Speaker 3: she was like, it's fine, just yeah, whenever you can.

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Speaker 3: I was her Joey. She was my Chandler. You know

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Speaker 3: how Chandler used to pay everything for Joe Like it

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Speaker 3: was like that for us. So im as place have

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Speaker 3: sending me gift certificates to the grocery store so I

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Speaker 3: I could like pay my phone bill things like that,

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Speaker 3: and she was very much like don't give up, like

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Speaker 3: stay because they're like, I think I got to come home,

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Speaker 3: and she's like, no, no, no, not yet, don't give up.

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Speaker 3: And at the same time I also felt in my

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Speaker 3: got something. I also felt in my spirit that God

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Speaker 3: wasn't done yet. Even though my circumstance was showing me no,

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Speaker 3: He's done. I felt like my spirit, my gut was

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Speaker 3: like not yet, you know. So I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 3: hold on a little bit longer. I get a call.

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Speaker 3: They're like, hey, do you want to do a set

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Speaker 3: at the ice House? Pays twenty five bucks. I'm like,

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Speaker 3: hell yeah, twenty five bucks. You know how many top

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Speaker 3: promins A little bit of gas, that's all you need.

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Speaker 1: Five bucks.

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Speaker 3: And I lived in Glendell at the time. Glendale to Pasadena. Boom,

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Speaker 3: I'll be there.

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Speaker 1: You can do it in Neutral too.

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Speaker 3: Ye hate you so much right now? So I do

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Speaker 3: this set they behave in my twenty five bucks and

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Speaker 3: it was for at the time, Verizon wireless. This is

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Speaker 3: during flip phone era. Okay, so Verizon wireless was doing

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Speaker 3: this thing where you can download a comedy clip onto

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Speaker 3: your phone for a dollar ninety nine, Like that was

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Speaker 3: that was the thing. So I go, I sign this

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Speaker 3: do my twelve minute set, and they're like, all right,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna upload this to Verizon, and Verizon customers can

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Speaker 3: download your comedy clips and watch you on your phone.

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Speaker 3: That's a new thing. This is a new technology, right,

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Speaker 3: And so it's like.

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Speaker 1: Okay, great, do you on your phone?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So then maybe weeks after that, this brand new

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Speaker 3: thing called YouTube comes out. Yes, who's gonna pay a

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Speaker 3: come and do their set, they ended up taking those

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Speaker 3: Like that was filmed in two thousand and six, this

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Speaker 3: is now January two thousand and seven. My Space days okay,

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Speaker 3: my MySpace page starts blowing up with messages from people

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Speaker 3: people that I don't know, yeh okay, and they're like, hey,

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Speaker 3: when are you coming to perform? In filling the blank Australia, Philippines, Crazy, Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: And it's worth saying that when that platform launched, it

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Speaker 1: It was there, a gate was open.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't like they created they closed the algorithm now

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Speaker 2: and you got to pay to get more engagement. If

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Speaker 2: So imagine the amount of people that eventually got to

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Speaker 4: So you got uploaded right when YouTube started brand new,

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Speaker 3: Going like there was from January to February, there was

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Speaker 1: Crazy, incredible, crazy numbers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, So it was going viral before viral

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Speaker 3: was an actual positive term. Yeah. So I started getting

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Speaker 3: phone calls from family members. They were like, Hey, there's

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Speaker 1: That's how I started.

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Speaker 3: What video is this?

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Speaker 4: Was there something about the video was it?

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Speaker 1: Was it a particular joke.

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Speaker 3: It was just a nail slot, nail salon. It was

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Speaker 3: just that nail salon joke. It was four minute a

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Speaker 3: four minute video. Yeah, this nail salon joke.

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Speaker 3: And it starts going like crazy. So then my MySpace

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Speaker 3: page is not only blowing up with people, Hey, when

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Speaker 3: are you coming to fill in the blank city to perform?

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Speaker 3: Now I'm getting messages that are like, Hey, I'm so

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Speaker 3: So I'm getting all these dms on MySpace. I started

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Speaker 3: getting all these meetings. I had to buy a calendar.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even have a calendar. I what do I

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Speaker 1: I had to go.

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Speaker 3: I went to Staples to buy a calendar, because this

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Speaker 3: I went to Staples to buy a calendar because I

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Speaker 3: they're like, we want you to read for this pilot.

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Speaker 1: Coach in there?

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Speaker 3: Can I just go coach with somebody? Can I have

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Speaker 4: You were seizing the opportunity?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, just right here

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Speaker 1: Yeah cool, easy, five minutes, let's go.

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Speaker 3: We're back bye. Yeah. And then of course no trash

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Speaker 3: because I don't know what I'm I'm doing. Yeah, But

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Speaker 3: January to February, and then I end up getting a

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Speaker 3: new agent, a new manager. I end up getting auditioned

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Speaker 3: from Mad TV. So then my audition for Mad TV.

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Speaker 3: They're like, you need to come in with three original

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Speaker 3: didn't go to Groundlings. I took a free joke writing

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Speaker 3: So I was like, Okay, in my joke writing class,

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Speaker 3: I wrote a joke about my grandpa and like how

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Speaker 3: another one, and then the last one was Bonquiki. I said,

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Speaker 3: and then I became Bonquek. The audition and they're like, okay,

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Speaker 3: Obviously Jennifer Lopez. So I started watching Jennifer Lopez videos

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Speaker 3: I mean, I really just it was just like I

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Speaker 3: And so that all the producers were asking me questions, Jennifer,

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Speaker 3: So I did drunk fallow on American Idol and they

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Speaker 3: And then the last one was Rosslyn Sanchez. I watched

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Speaker 3: So my impression of her was, these are just the

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Speaker 3: that's amazing. And then I booked Mad TV and that

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Speaker 3: I had my agent, my manager, I was on Mad TV,

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Speaker 2: What is the most significant thing you discovered as soon

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Speaker 3: you still have some eggs. Your levels and everything that

438
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 3: they checked, They're like, you still have some, but not much.

439
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 3: So you got to hurry up. Whatever you want to do,

440
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 3: you got to hurry up exactly. And I still wasn't

441
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 3: convinced I want of kids. So I was like, all right,

442
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 3: let me save my eggs with your partner. Oh yeah,

443
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 3: we're married twelve years ago. Oh okay, twelve years. So

444
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, let me save my eggs. So

445
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 3: that way, at least we have some options in the future, right,

446
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 3: So that I go through the process of saving my eggs,

447
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 3: and then every time I would go through it, I

448
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 3: would get bad news. And bad news started with twelve

449
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 3: eggs and they're like, no, you only have six. Oh,

450
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,360
Speaker 3: just caking, there's only four. And it was like that

451
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 3: whole thing love IVF. And it was like the more

452
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 3: they would give me bad news, they were like, this

453
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 3: may not be for you, you know, because every time

454
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 3: we go through this process, you don't really have any

455
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 3: eggs by the end of it, Like, this might not

456
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 3: be for you. The more they would tell me it

457
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 3: might not be for me, the more I wanted it. Now.

458
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 3: It switched from I'm saving my eggs to no, I

459
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 3: want kids. I'm trying to get pregnant. And so we

460
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 3: went through IVF a couple of times and I ended

461
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 3: up getting like, after those couple times combined, end up

462
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 3: getting like five or six eggs, and then we went

463
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 3: and made embryos. None of the embryos were viable, and

464
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 3: they're like, you got to start over, and that's a journey.

465
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 3: At this point, I'm on tour. I just came out

466
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 3: with my book. I'm on my book tour. I have

467
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 3: a bunch of dates for the whole year and a half,

468
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what am I going to do IVF again?

469
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 3: I don't have time to do this again. So then

470
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,120
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, you know I have one

471
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 3: month off in November. I planned one month off for myself.

472
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 3: I said, I'll do IVF one more time in November.

473
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 3: If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, that's it. So

474
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 3: I said, I'm also filming my special in October, so

475
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 3: let me just focus on my special. I started, let

476
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: me get my body right, get it tight. I started

477
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 3: not drinking alcohol, not eating club food after the shows,

478
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 3: like you know that kind of thing. I said, I'm

479
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 3: going to work on myself, get myself ready for my

480
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 3: taping because I'm gonna tape my special. So I'm gonna

481
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 3: get right. I'm working out of the gym, I'm eating healthy.

482
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 3: I didn't realize I was also preparing my body to

483
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 3: get pregnant. So I'm scheduled to do IVF again in November.

484
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 3: I end up getting pregnant naturally in October right before

485
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 3: my taping. Oh did you I was pregnant during.

486
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,640
Speaker 1: I don't even know I was so before you're taping, like.

487
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 3: The week before?

488
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: Yes, so you were? How about how long how long

489
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 1: pregnant were you there? Like, would you like a month?

490
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: Two months? Three months? Well?

491
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,679
Speaker 3: No, not even like a couple of weeks, like.

492
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks.

493
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 4: And do you feel that because you were getting your

494
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 4: body prepared for it? That That's was one of the

495
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 4: reasons why.

496
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 3: I also did a bunch of like through the IVF process.

497
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 3: They were like, oh, you have fibroids. You got to

498
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 3: get your fibroids out. Oh okay, So I scheduled surgery

499
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 3: to get my fibroids out. Then then they went in

500
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 3: for fibroids. Did you're like, oh, you also have endometriosis,

501
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 3: we got to get so yeah. I found out a

502
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 3: lot of stuff about my body I didn't know through

503
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 3: the IVF process. So even though I didn't get pregnant

504
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,199
Speaker 3: via IVF, I'm grateful for the process because I wouldn't

505
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 3: have known. I would have kept trying to get pregnant

506
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 3: and never got pregnant because I had fibroids and got endometriosis. Yeah,

507
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 3: got me all cleaned up, and then I got my

508
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 3: health right and then next thing, you know, it was

509
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 3: like the perfect recipe for me personally, and I ended

510
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 3: up getting pregnant and now I have a two year old.

511
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So okay, thank you for that.

512
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 4: So a week two weeks before you're special, you get pregnant.

513
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 4: Your special happens in October, but then you were scheduled

514
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 4: to have IVF in November. So by the time November

515
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 4: comes around, do you I was pregnant, so you knew I.

516
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: Was gonna ask you.

517
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 4: Do you start going like, okay, I'm about to start IVF,

518
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 4: but man, I'm sleepy.

519
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 3: Oh it was all the things. It was my period

520
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 3: was late, which is never late, and I was like, hmm, yeah,

521
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 3: that's weird. Yeah. And then let me tell you too.

522
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 3: After my taping, we celebrate it, and I remember we

523
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 3: went to d C. I went with the Latino Group

524
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 3: to DC and we went to the White House and

525
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 3: it was a whole thing. And then they had a

526
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 3: big party for us and I celebrated there too. Ay,

527
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 3: And then after that weekend.

528
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to drink.

529
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you didn't know. I didn't know. I had

530
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 3: no clue. It was just like I was just living

531
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 3: my life. But then all of a sudden, I was like,

532
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 3: wait a minute, Periy's late, this is happening whatever. And

533
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 3: then so I remember the next weekend, we were on

534
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 3: the road and the venue got us like a bottle

535
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 3: of champagne and you know, sold that show. Here's some champagne.

536
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 3: And then in my head, I was like, maybe I

537
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 3: shouldn't drink this, just in case I'm pregnant. And I'm like,

538
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 3: I have a pregnancy test at home in my drawer,

539
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 3: but I'm on the road and I'm like, I'm not

540
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 3: gonna have a runner, go get me a pregnancy test.

541
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: It's a random venue in Cleveland, Ohio, you know what

542
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 3: I mean. So I'm like, I'm just gonna wait till

543
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 3: I get home. So they give me champagne. I just

544
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: do like a little sip, and I'm just like, let

545
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 3: me do just in case. And then I get home.

546
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: I have not even twenty four hours that i'm home

547
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 3: before I get back on a flight to leave. So

548
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 3: I get home, I take my pregnancy test.

549
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: So you do it with ham or my.

550
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 3: Husband's gone already, so our next I get home from

551
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 3: Cleveland and then we're going to Hawaii. I have shows

552
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 3: in Hawaii, but it's also gonna be like a little vacation, right,

553
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 3: So my husband he went ahead and I'm gonna meet

554
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 3: him there. So I'm by myself at home with my dog,

555
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm like, that's me and you Bonzo, like

556
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 3: me and you son. Let's let's see if I'm pregnant.

557
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 3: So I did a little pregnanty this, and part of

558
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 3: me I'm like, there's no way.

559
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: Right, and after everything you've gone through.

560
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 3: There's no way. It's just I'm late, I'm stressed. The

561
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 3: road I say it says pregnant and I and I

562
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 3: videotaped the whole thing, so I was like, let me

563
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 3: just in case, and I videotaped myself. My heart dropped.

564
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 3: My it's beating so fast, and I'm like, oh my god,

565
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 3: I have nobody to like share. It's just me and

566
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: my dog, and I'm like, no way, no way, and

567
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 3: it's I can't even call my husband because he's on

568
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 3: a plane to Hawaii on the phone either, like I

569
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 3: want to see him in person, and I'm like, well,

570
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: I can't tell any of my friends before I tell

571
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: my husband, Like what do I do? I try calling

572
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 3: my IVF doctor and I'm like is this can this

573
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 3: even happen? And then she's not answering her phone. I'm like,

574
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 3: nobody's answering their phone that I need to. And I'm like, Okay, well,

575
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 3: I guess this is just between me and God. That's it.

576
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 3: And Bonzo Me got in Bonzo, that's it. That was

577
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: for us. And so I had a full not even

578
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, like a little bit more of this

579
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 3: information just to me and myself. Because then when I

580
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: got to why, I had to tell my husband and

581
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 3: like surprising with that information and it was just yeah,

582
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: it was a wild experience. So then obviously no more IVF.

583
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: And yeah, is your husband also a comedian?

584
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: No, he's in music to music, yeah Scarlett Santana.

585
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which also makes it so bizarre pregnant.

586
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: He still has pretty remarkable Did you.

587
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: Not know my husband's in music? He started in Christian music, Okay, Yeah,

588
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 3: then he moved out of that into just you know,

589
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 3: regular mainstream music, and then now he does sink music

590
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 3: for TV shows commercials.

591
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: It's amazing.

592
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: So speaking of how special and special, Yes, it's a

593
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: perfect seguay to talk about your special. Yeah you have

594
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 2: a special, you shot it already, you're promoting it.

595
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 3: Like, well, my most reason hour was called say I

596
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 3: Want What's on YouTube? My first self produced, self financed

597
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 3: special we founded at the Rhyme and Auditorium Tennessee. Let

598
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 3: me tell you put it up on a YouTube. It's

599
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 3: been incredible. And my next special I'm gonna put on

600
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: YouTube as well. Yeah.

601
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 4: Like comparing that to like, you know, your your specials

602
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 4: on like the Commontential or Yeah, what's that been like

603
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 4: sort of the difference.

604
00:29:54,480 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 3: In regards to everything. Okay, So I get to see

605
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 3: all the information, know all the information, be a part

606
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 3: of all the information, make the decisions that I want

607
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: to make. That that's the best part. Yeah. And when

608
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 3: my special first went up, the amount of views I

609
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 3: was getting on my special was right up with the

610
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 3: top specials that were happening on Netflix, but I was

611
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 3: just happening on YouTube. And YouTube has now become the

612
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 3: place where, like you said that, you get to own

613
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 3: your own stuff and it carries weight in regards to

614
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 3: if you're a touring comedian. A lot of these people

615
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 3: are finding my special on YouTube and Facebook videos. It's

616
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 3: wild the amount of people that have come to my

617
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 3: shows after I've been touring for seventeen eighteen years now,

618
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: and I ask my audience, who hears this is your

619
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 3: first time at my show? And it's seventy five percent

620
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 3: of the people there is their first time seeing me

621
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 3: because they're finding my YouTube that's my special.

622
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 4: Has there been any cons, Like we're just talking about

623
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 4: all the pros and cons. Yeah, of it not being

624
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 4: on a Comedy Central or HBO versus like YouTube.

625
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: The con is optics.

626
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, which affects.

627
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 3: It how which affects in industry because YouTube is not

628
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: respected in the way Netflix is, right, So it's the optics.

629
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: Of it all.

630
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 3: So there's so many times fans will be like, oh,

631
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 3: I saw I saw your Netflix special, but they're not

632
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 3: talking about Netflix. They're talking about my when that's on YouTube.

633
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 3: But now Netflix just goes with comedy special, so they said, oh,

634
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 3: what are you doing your nets Netflix special? Because Netflix is.

635
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: So known for standards such a major category.

636
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 3: Exactly, so people just assume, oh, Netflix is the place,

637
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 3: like that is the peak if you can get a

638
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: Netflix special, you got street cred, You've made it.

639
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: It's like that it used to becoming.

640
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, so how does the optics affect you though.

641
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 3: Well, I would guess in storytelling within industry, like it's

642
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 3: still like the yes and nohers at the top that

643
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 3: Netflix still plays a really big role in things, whereas

644
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: I can show you my YouTube numbers.

645
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 4: But oh, you mean if you mean, if you're trying

646
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 4: to ascend to.

647
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 3: Like sure, getting booked for something, getting my show sold,

648
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 3: like it's a really it'll be eventually it will mean

649
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 3: the same thing that Netflix means. But right now it's

650
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 3: still like, oh, I'm on I'm on CBS or I'm

651
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Speaker 3: on Fox or I'm on Netflix. It still says something

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Speaker 3: different than oh, I'm on YouTube. Well, anyway, it can

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Speaker 3: be on YouTube right right now? Has that not quite?

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Speaker 2: Because YouTube is doing some really disruptive programming. Yeah, programming

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Speaker 2: around here's programming around networks, and you know, it's most

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Speaker 2: of the world who can't access or can't pay for

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Speaker 2: a subscription, and it's finding amazing content, original content actually

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Speaker 2: there and they're being elevated on like single camera level,

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Speaker 2: like it's it's actually.

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Speaker 3: Really cool people watch YouTube more than Netflix. Like Netflix

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Speaker 3: is the number one streaming excuse me, YouTube is the

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Speaker 3: number one streaming platform and it's YouTube and Google is

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Speaker 3: where people look for information. They look for their shows.

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Speaker 3: Most people are watching their shows on their phone, so

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Speaker 3: YouTube is really where people are spending their time. But

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Speaker 3: it's the same thing as if you got your show

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Speaker 3: on Fox, on NBC, CBS. It has a prestige, it

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Speaker 3: has some street cred to it. Even if it's subconscious,

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Speaker 3: it still has something with all these yes and know

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Speaker 3: whers at the top something I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like you're doing what you did with Verizon and what

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Speaker 2: you did with you know, YouTube at the beginning, coming

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Speaker 2: back full circle to fundamentals, you know, you're going to

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Speaker 2: be available to and also think about an international markets.

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Speaker 2: If you're not distributed, if any if like you know,

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Speaker 2: you're not in Netflix UK.

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Speaker 1: Then no one's going to see you're specially in Netflix UK,

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Speaker 1: right like.

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Speaker 2: That, you know, very there's a certain amount of programs

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Speaker 2: that actually are unlocked for a global platform. You know,

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Speaker 2: some things are regional, you know, so I think YouTube

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Speaker 2: is one of those where you're like if if you're

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Speaker 2: somewhere in India, you're like I can find you, you know,

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Speaker 2: on YouTube, which I think is very very disruptive and

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Speaker 2: really really cool. And besides your specials and being that

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Speaker 2: forward thinking, you launch a podcast as well. Yes, with

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Speaker 2: fungula right, what what prompt you for for a podcast?

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Speaker 1: If you weren't doing ready?

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Speaker 3: I was like, how can I stay home more? How

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Speaker 3: can I be with my family, be with my daughter?

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Speaker 3: Touring is great, but I have to leave. How can

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Speaker 3: I be home? And I love having great conversations. So

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Speaker 3: my podcast is about gratitude. And gratitude is one of

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Speaker 3: the main tools that I use in my mental health

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Speaker 3: journey with anxiety, with whatever it is that I'm struggling

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Speaker 3: with or dealing with. Gratitude has always been the easiest

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Speaker 3: tool to use. It's free, and it's right there, it's

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Speaker 3: right in your pocket. You just you. You elevate your

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Speaker 3: vibration with gratitude. You change your perspective with gratitude. So

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Speaker 3: I practice gratitude in my life life. And I said,

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Speaker 3: let me have these great conversations with my guests about

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Speaker 3: what are they grateful for in their life, whether it

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Speaker 3: be a mentor they had when they were in third grade,

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Speaker 3: whether it be they found twenty dollars in their pocket

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Speaker 3: on the way here, like whatever it is is. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: it's super simple, and sometimes it's super deep and an

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Speaker 3: opportunity for maybe if you don't practice gratitude regularly, to

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Speaker 3: reflect and think about those moments in your life that

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Speaker 3: you are super grateful for. Because I helped you get

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Speaker 3: to hear and woo, and I've been able to have

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Speaker 3: some really cool conversations with people all centered in gratitude.

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Speaker 3: And we also do our matitude. We do our one maratitude,

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Speaker 3: and that's what's the thing that's making you mad these days,

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Speaker 3: like getting on your nerves. And even that could be

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Speaker 3: something so simple as my husband choose too loud.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: He tooos so loud. I can't even handle it. And

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Speaker 3: then sometimes it's very deep stuff about their family, my

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Speaker 3: relationship with my dad. It's not great and I wish

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Speaker 3: it was better. And so it's just a really fun

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Speaker 3: experience to have deep, meaningful conversations with people, enlightening conversations

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Speaker 3: and we laugh so much and then we cry, and

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Speaker 3: it's just such a journey that I get to go

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Speaker 3: on with people, learn about different people's lives. It's so

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Speaker 3: fun that I get to do that.

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Speaker 2: No, And also you can see so much of what

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Speaker 2: you're working through in other people and through other people

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Speaker 2: and their experiences, and sometimes the secret sauce is in

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Speaker 2: other people's stories.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you.

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Speaker 1: Can really walk away with those little diamonds that you're like,

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I really needed that.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: We find here all the time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have some really interesting conversations that kind

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Speaker 2: of realign perspective, realign priorities, you know, and most importantly,

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Speaker 2: kind of realize the stillness of we should be present

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's so hard to not think about what am I

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Speaker 1: doing tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: You know, but but the stillness of the of the

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Speaker 2: world now, I think is the is It's really really great.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that you came to share with us today.

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Speaker 2: I know how busy you stay, and I know how

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Speaker 2: much you're on the road all the time, and and

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Speaker 2: to be able to share with your fans and our

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Speaker 2: listeners and everybody on the show, you know, just kind

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Speaker 2: of your perspective and your beginning is make you make

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Speaker 2: you appreciate how iconic it is where you are right now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you know, it's just really good to reflect.

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Speaker 2: You know, because we we never look back right, like

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're grinding, you're like, you know, five

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Speaker 2: years ahead, five years yeah, So it's beautiful to look

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Speaker 2: back and to see you relieve those memories.

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Speaker 1: It's very special.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you for share these with you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for thank you for being our guest.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you, my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: This is Freddie Roger and I'm Wilmer Valdama. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for being here on Those Amigos. If you're watching us,

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Speaker 2: what's up if you're listening to us, also what's up?

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Speaker 1: And this was Angela Johnson Rayes. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Dose Amigos is a production from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's

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Speaker 4: Michael through That Podcast Network, hosted by Me, Freddie Rodriguez

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Speaker 4: and Wilmri Valdorama.

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Speaker 2: Those Amigos is produced by Aaron Burlson and Sophie Spencer Zabos.

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Speaker 4: Our executive producers are Wilmri Valdorama, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson,

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Speaker 4: and Leo Klem at WV Sound.

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Speaker 2: This episode was shot and edited it by Ryan Posts

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Speaker 2: and mixed by Sean Tracy and features original music by

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Speaker 2: Madison Devenport and Helo boy Our.

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Speaker 4: Cover art photography is by David Avalos and designed by

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Speaker 4: Deny holtz.

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Speaker 2: Claw And thank you for being there third amigo today.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys always listening to those amigos.

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Speaker 4: More podcasts from My Heart, visit the R Heart Radio app,

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Speaker 4: Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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Speaker 1: Is youre next week?

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm