WEBVTT - Getting Caught Up 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:05.240 This is he said, Ayadiho with Eric Winter and Rodlin Fantas. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.120 All Right, hello, hello, welcome back another episode, he said, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:13.960 Is this is not your first one back? No, you 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.160 were gone for that deepop one. You missed that one. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:17.280 I missed that one. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:18.920 I cannot believe that was really good. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:20.400 I was actually devastated. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.640 Yeah, it was very interesting. I mean, we've talked a 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.560 lot about you came up with video, but we've talked 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.240 a lot about the AI movement, and and I hear 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.240 in his perspective and how you know, obviously the positive 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.519 you can gain from it was pretty cool. Yeah, but 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.480 you missed a good guest. You missed a good guest. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:36.000 I did. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.640 You were in New York. Talk to us about that trip. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.159 I know you got to see an amazing play with 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:40.800 our friend. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.879 Justin know that, guys, I went to New York. I 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:50.600 did this choice first. It's a SMR sexy. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:50.760 No. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.360 I've been sick for weeks now. I think I got 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.000 I don't know what I got, not weeks, but I 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.480 got like a week and a half at least, and 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.640 I got a really bad sore throat. I thought it 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.120 was I'm swallowing glass. It was just really bad and 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.120 just I don't know if it was a flu. I 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.840 don't know what it was. The problem is I started 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.360 a cleanse that I'm still doing, which has been amazing, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.440 but because it's like these liquids, it's pouches that tastes 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.160 horrible and these capsules, and I can only eat vegetables 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.080 and only eleven bites three times a day and a 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.800 little bit of blueberries or blackberries, so it's I have 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.280 like an empty stomach. So I was like, no sugar, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.280 no salt at all. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.360 No cars. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.319 So it's been a trip. But the problem is that 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.280 I knew that I needed antibiotics to get better fast, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.080 but I said, there's no way that I can take 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.200 an antibiotic while I'm doing this cleans and I was 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.360 already like five secs six days in, and I was like, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.160 I'm not going to stop these clans. I worked so 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.320 hard because I I'm like a sugar addict, and I'm 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.160 going there's no way that I can do this all 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.279 over again. So I decided just to run it out 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.800 with no medications. And it's taking longer than expected, and 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.640 now I lost my voice and. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.720 This is actually great. For days, I just. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.160 Couldn't even speak, and it will hurt every time as 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.600 I spoke. So I'm hoping that I'm good for this 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.400 weekend because we're recording a music video and I'm singing 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.560 and I don't know how I'm going to do that. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.519 And then Monday I'm recording I know the song, I 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.680 don't know I'm gonna do that. And then I was 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.480 telling Eric, guys, if I don't know if you have 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.600 ever done like a cleans where there's no sugar, no 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.679 salt at all. I've been seeing visions and I see 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.400 mosquitoes flying by, and I see these black dots constantly, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.440 and I think I'm going crazy. I'm trying to kill mosquitoes. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.799 And my son Dylan goes, what are you doing? And 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.799 I'm going there was a mosquito and there's no mosquito. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:39.800 Is it like I feel? 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.160 So now I know how people do drugs and when 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.160 they go cold turkey and they just the brain, I 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.560 guess goes completely haywire. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.280 I'm going to try this cleans actually not exist extreme 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:55.560 as you. I'm going to try it as well, but 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.760 I'm going to do the I'm going to start with 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.160 the proteins out the gate. She couldn't do it any 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.760 protein for a week, no meats. It was all eleven 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:09.560 days vegetables and certain fruits, berries with the proteins, and 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.720 then we take all the herbs. There's like pedalts and 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.640 herbs and things that are helping your liver and your 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.239 kidney's cleanse. If I did it her way, I would 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.280 just probably disappear. I therese way too much weight. I 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.600 don't want to lose to use something incredible. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.520 Guys, you know that I have documented that I have 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.120 a lot of stomach issues. As a matter of fact, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.560 I'm doing a colon in the oscope next week. So 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.200 my stomach is always a mess. And I am not 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:44.960 kidding you. I haven't had one stomach ache in thirteen days. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.440 I still think a lot of your stomach stuff comes 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:53.160 from like the garlic, the certain certain condiments. It's like 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.240 the pod map diet, Like you can't have garlic in 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.480 the FOD map. You can't. Like you should start looking 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.920 at that diet in particular fove map and really try to. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.880 My stomach is like normant. My stomach is like sleeping, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.360 and I just go I cannot believe that I am 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.960 paint free for days and days. I'm not used to 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.560 that anymore and when it comes to my stomach, and yeah, 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.440 it's what I'm doing is hard to the point that, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.040 like I said, I'm seeing visions and I want sugar 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.120 so badly. But at the same time, it's been such 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.520 a blessing and incredible to be pain free when it 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:28.359 comes to the stomach. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:33.159 No, for sure. Now I talk about the play you saw, because. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.520 I know you've raised So I was in New York 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.000 and then I'm as with us when I got whatever, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.960 I got the bug, probably flying back and I went 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.720 to see Real Women Have Curves and my friend just 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:46.760 Sinam a childo. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:52.080 Who just got nominated for Tony got nominated for Tony. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.800 And the show is so good and I highly recommend it, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.839 and it was incredible as a Latina just to feel seen, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:03.920 you know, because it's a show about the Latina immigration 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.160 in the eighties. I don't relate to that to the 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.680 extent of because I'm Puto Rican. You know, we're American citizens, 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.840 so we don't go through the struggles of like Mexicans 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.200 and Colombians and Venezuelans and Dominicans people that have to 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.800 really experience the immigration experience. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.120 But the music was. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.960 Just phenomenal the performance, as said t Hijo, director choreographer, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.960 it was incredible and I sat there Eric and I 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.960 was like, I cannot wait to be on stage on 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.680 the Broadway because it was surreal. It was surreal, and 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.919 Justina just like a rock star and I love her 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:39.360 so much. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.680 Yes, you'll make it happen. You'll get to have that experience. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.960 We'll find out when, but you'll you'll make it happen hopefully. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.000 I want to give a shout out to all our 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.120 listeners all over the world because I was so impressed. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.520 I was in Paris this past weekend for a con 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.760 meeting all the fans in Europe, and I cannot thank 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.880 you all enough for the support for the podcast. I mean, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.360 so many people, like they get up, by the way, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.960 when our podcast drops. They're telling me they wake up 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.080 at like three in the morning to listen to the 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.360 drop of the podcast. I mean that early. They watched 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.080 the rookie and then the podcast drops shortly after, so 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.440 they they're literally they're like, we get up at like three, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.440 we watch it as a group on the streaming platform. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.400 I'll listen to the podcast and then I'll go to 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.560 school or I'll go to work with like three hours 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:27.960 of sleep. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:28.799 It's amazing. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.680 So the support for the podcast podcast Better in the 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.760 US does really well overseas, I mean advice, No. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.599 I think internationally we love you guys, and I wish 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.119 I would have been there to meet you all. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.000 Yeah, yeah, I would have been incredible. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.559 It's amazing people love it and we appreciate it because 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:46.719 we have a lot of fun and we do it 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.479 with a lot of love, and we share a lot 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.839 of stuff, you know, personally and professionally, and it feels 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.640 like you are part of our family. Yeah, and we 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.719 there's I'm gonna post it a little later. There's a 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.080 fan from England, Becky I think is her name, and 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.279 she did this art that we have here. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:07.640 Yeah, very cool. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.320 Would you go to so many gifts and so many 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:11.080 presidents here. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.160 It was a really amazing event. You all are. The 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.120 support means the world to us, so thank you. That 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.080 was really cool. And also so many people it's like 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.480 I forget when we post something on social media how 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.480 it goes everywhere. And so many people were so complimentary 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.840 to Sabella for winning her tournament in O Hi, which 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.920 I have to say, it was a pretty wild experience, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.000 like I didn't know how big of a tournament this was, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.800 but this was. This tournament's one of the most respected 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.760 and oldest tournaments in like junior tennis. It used to 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.960 be maybe it still is, like the big ten pac 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.000 ten tournament for colleges. We just went there to play 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.680 a regular tournament, not really understanding how big it was. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.440 But she got so many congratulatory texts and things like 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.000 that just for her hard work and being able to 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.720 win this tournament. And it was a cool experience because 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.000 it was the first time she's ever played a three 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.320 full set match. In the finals, there was an umpire, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.160 balls on the court. It was like watching a real 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.960 pro match. Me incredible. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.120 I loved it, and I was so glad that I 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.000 came back. I basically flew back and we went straight Hi. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.760 I was exhausted, but to see her overcome the biggest 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.200 thing for me, besides just the pride that she won, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.440 you know, is when she made it to the finals. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.840 We stayed at this hotel and then it was like 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.800 a third in the morning. It was a very early finals, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.920 and she was so nervous. She was like she almost 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.600 had a panic attack, and she's like, I'm gonna throw up. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.480 She felt so ill, and I've been there, you know, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.320 like that you have big performances and you're like, I 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.760 remember one the first time that I sang live seven 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.600 thousand people Shrine Auditorium. It was special for ABC, and 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.319 I remember to this day. I got sick to my stomach. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.520 I was paralyzed, and I kept telling my manager, I 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.680 cannot do it. I'm dying, and and she's like, just go, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.920 and she basically pushed me. And then it was real 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.080 and it was beautiful. So I knew what she was 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.240 going through, and I was like, maybe you can do it. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.760 Just every even your opponent, feels like this, you know, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.240 you know the only one. This is amazing. Just use it. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.400 You know, it's good that you have it. It's going 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.640 to help you. And to see that girl thinking that 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.000 she's going to collapse, right, and I'm going, they're going 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.560 to warm up. They're warm up for like five minutes 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.320 with the opponent, and then the thing starts and I'm 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.680 sitting down with Dylan and I'm praying and I'm going, 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.520 oh my God, God, please please give her strength, Please 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.800 give her strength. And she starts warming up, looking so 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.240 beautiful and so confident. You will never know that she. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.280 Was freaking out. What was crazy is you saw the 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.240 nerves get to her. She actually started the match up, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.959 and then the girl came and there's an opponent. She's 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.560 played against this girl for years since their kids, and 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.360 a really sweet girl the other opponent, or she'd say 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.760 the opponent, very sweet girl. And family's there, and there's 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.720 really no stress because there's an umpire, so you're not 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.560 like typical parents where it's like everybody's worried about calls. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.600 It's like there's an umpire calling the calls. But Sabella 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.520 was up, came down, lost the first set, was very low. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.240 In the second set, I was like, wow, she's gonna 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.959 Her nerves were still. She was still struggling with it, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.120 but she somehow settled it in, settled in and the 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.440 second set, made a huge comeback one the second set, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.080 and then won the third set to win the whole thing. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.720 And it was impressive. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.360 And mentally and mentally I saw her trying to keep 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.520 it together. She will sit down from the little brakes 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.720 and then she will put the towel on top of 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.439 her face and just breathe, and I'm going, oh my gosh, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.319 you might work at a house, you might, and it 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.439 was it was beautiful to watch. We still want her 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.880 to be able to control frustration because she's a kid, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.440 you know. But when they start playing and they start 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.840 making even if she's up comfortably up, she makes a 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.120 mistake and she gets so frustrated. And we're trying to 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.040 teach her that in the game of tennis, you have 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.560 to be cool as eyes. You know, you cannot give 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.960 your opponents any kind of like indication that you are 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.760 losing your mind or you're getting insecure. So that's something 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.880 that we still have to work work on because she 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.199 gets she's very dramatic and everything is like deep when 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.280 she's like showing that. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.800 Up and parents might be able to, you know, resonate 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.959 with this. Like she's a bit of a perfectionist and 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.120 it's to a fault. That's not a good thing. It's 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.880 it's something that even in school we have to start 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.720 working with her on when she has big tests like 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.760 being able to just breathe and not. And I used 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.760 to be a terrible test taker. I was awful. Why, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.040 Like I would just get so nervous, I would study 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.640 and blank when I'd take tests Like I was I 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.840 was a good student, and you know, not great. I 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.319 was a good student in high school, junior high and 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.360 all that. I got to be a much better student 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.640 in college when I really buckled down and learned like 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.520 better ways to study. But you know, she takes after 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.320 me a lot with that, Like her nerves can get 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.880 the best of her even with school, and so it's 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.440 something we're trying to work on. I'm sure a lot 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.679 of parents can relate when you're dealing with kids and testing, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.640 and you know, you see a lot of that as well. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.760 Like it's it's interesting because I was never one of 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.600 those kids that was you know, straight a's like school 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.360 came easy to me. I had to work really hard 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.839 to study and be good in certain classes. I wasn't 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.079 honors and everything and all that, you know, And teaching 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.120 her to try to study, stay focused, do the best 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.559 she can. Obviously, we're not expecting you to be valedictorian, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.560 to be perfect, to have the highest grades, but we 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.320 want you to work hard. We want you to have 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.040 good grades. I don't want to see, you know, tennis 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.360 take over and become a problem with school. So it's 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.360 it's balancing the emotional of what comes with school as well. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.319 It's a lot. It's it's it's you feel the pressure 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.040 when all your some of your friends it comes so easy. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.680 Some of your friends it doesn't, and you you feel 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:31.400 the pressure there too. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:43.439 He's doing amazing, though. What about Dalan This morning he 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.920 had to perform. He was a bell like the chapel 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.920 and they have to do this like two songs using 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:55.480 bells like Twinkle twinkle. And it's a trip because we 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:01.520 definitely have two kids that are just not natural role performers, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.679 you know what I mean. He was so nervous and 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.920 so like, I don't get me the heck out of here. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:11.320 He's just basically standing looking frozen, uncomfortable, and it is 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.160 his worst nightmare. And it's like I see the kid 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.239 that we have at the house, which is this crazy, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.360 super confident, loud laughing like he is so performative at 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.040 the house with mom and dad outside he wanted to 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.640 put needles in his eyes and I'm looking at him, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.559 going what is going on? I'm the same with as Bell, 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.520 I was like like the same. She was like I 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.160 don't want to be here. I don't give a heck 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.880 about this bell thing. And then you see all the 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.760 kids that are very like so into it and I'm 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.520 looking at til and going wow, the parents are both 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.320 performances like at that age. I remember in first grade 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.800 I was a girl doing like little recience myself. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:55.280 I was not really I couldn't stand public speaking. I 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.160 couldn't stand being in front of people. I'll never forget. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.400 In junior high, I got approached to go and acting, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.120 and a friend of mine was like, you know, my 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.920 this head of the schools as an agent. They want 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.120 to represent you, but can you start taking some acting classes? 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.600 So I went with another friend to some acting classes 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.800 just for fun, to see what I would learn. Hated 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.200 it with passion. I had to do little scenes, it 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.960 was recorded, learning how to slate mine. I was dying. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.480 I had anxiety every day being in this class, acting 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.080 in this class, trying to talk to people like I 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.200 could not break through. And I said nope. I took headshots. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.400 I had all this like you know, for modeling, for acting, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.920 all this stuff done in preparation that I might actually 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.280 follow through with it. Couldn't stand it, couldn't get myself 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.920 to even come close. I said, I'm done. I'll just 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.040 stick with sports. Even in sports, like I remember why 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.400 I excelled more in football in the positions I was in. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.440 It's because I wasn't like a I wasn't a position 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.960 like shooting free throws in basketball. I would get so 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.000 nervous anything where it put me as a center of attention. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.000 I got exactly Yeah, I hated it. And it wasn't 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.160 until college that I took the drama class that I 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.200 was like, oh, I can have a little fun with this, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.400 and I just kind of let my inhibitions kind of 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.280 go away and not be so stressed out. So I 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.800 fully relate to where they're at. And what's funny is 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.480 in eighth grade, now Sabella gets some electives of classes 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.760 she wants to try. What's the first class she put? Acting? 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.040 She did? She put it, which I'm actually excited about 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.760 because I think it's just great for public speaking and 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.280 being in front of people. And she has to do 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.800 scenes in the class, and she don't think she realized that. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.480 Actually I actually think that she'd be really good and 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.160 she's much better at it now. She's been saying, I 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.000 want to I want to act. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:28.480 I want to act. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.960 Let's see how that plays out. But with Sabella, it's 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.800 not that she loves she's not the show off, you know, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.040 the girl that is going to be like and I 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.800 have the lead, I want to be on stage. But 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.760 I think once she starts actually doing work scenes, you know, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.440 I'm doing the working scenes with other girls and actually 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.280 putting up a play or a scene, I think she'll 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:51.960 actually be very very. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.160 Very Yeah, they definitely took it after me when it 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.360 comes to all that it's fun. They did not get 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:57.160 your gane. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.480 I was like, where do you want to stand up? 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.960 Being like listen, you see those kids though, like it's 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.880 funny and Dylan's great, like even one of our good 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.520 friend's daughter, she just loves to perform. You can tell 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.720 she's like, yes, she's looking for the spotlight in a 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:11.960 way like she's that confident. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.440 Guys, when I competed for Miss American Petitious this pageant 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.760 that that I represented Puerto Rico and it was the 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.760 fifty States and Puerto Rico was the country invited, so 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.600 it was fifty one contestants. It was in Tennessee. So 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.720 I remember that they're doing the you know that every 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.840 pageant has the choreography and Puerto Rico because I'm a pe, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.160 and they will go by like alphabeticuar. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:36.040 Type of things. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.720 So I was towards the back and so we're rehearsing, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.360 and I see that this choreographer is just not working out. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:44.520 The girls are frustrated. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.400 They they're not getting it. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.000 It was looking horrific, right, So I'm doing my thing 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.200 and I get more and more annoying, and I tell 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.160 the director of my pageant because I go with I 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.080 flew with my whole team, the whole Puerto Rico team 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.000 behind the organizers and direct everybody. And I tell Louise 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.320 and then afgot and I said, listen, if they would 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.000 just give me a break, if I can just I 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.679 can choreograph this and I can just do it and 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.560 I make it more easy for these girls and this 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.760 will move much faster because I'm getting really frustrated. This 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.560 is like ridiculous wheeze. And he's like, are you comfortable 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.040 with that? The girls are gonna hate you because they're competing, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.080 And here I am asking, can I teach you? Right? 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.240 And he's okay, let me ask. So he went to 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.640 the organizer and says, listen with presents Puerto Rico rustling 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.679 and she can help you know, she's a dancer, And 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.400 the lady was said yes, go ahead, this is taken 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.000 too long. And I changed. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:40.840 The entire thing and girls for the competitors choreograph the 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.600 thing for the competitors call choreographed to play with everybody. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.080 And then they asked me this, what's crazy? They said, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.919 can she be and it's all document? Can she actually 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.880 be in the front? So we do the opening act? 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.119 So going we do it, we can follow her and 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.440 then she can move to her possession. I won't. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.640 I don't know, because you're clearly with the standout and 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:04.040 so I want to. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.440 Actually, all the girls were lovely. They were like, yeah, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.000 we need her to be on the front so we 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.159 can follow her. I was like, and then I remember 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:18.120 the girl that Susandly that competed in Yes, she was there, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:24.200 Susantly she was. She was Miss Minnesota. To this day, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.960 we she's lovely. I love were Lately we're like, oh, 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.520 now we have kids. Her daughter is a figure skater. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.119 She she came to me and just said, you know, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.199 I read the poem, like can I can I have 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.560 your hand? I want to I want to read, and 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.160 she gave me this whole reading and she mentioned something 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:45.120 about it's crazy how comfortable you are, like you're competing. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.320 Everybody's so nervous, and you're like, can I help? 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:51.640 Our kids have been like in the back. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.560 Then I would that would have been like perfect, I 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.040 don't have to dance. No, But I was just always comfortable. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.399 I don't know why I'm excited when in the scope 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.159