Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2: This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm Wiman about drama.
Speaker 3: Welcome to those amigos here on the Beautiful iHeart platform.
Speaker 1: That's right, and today Wilmer, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: quotes we live by, Quotes that inspire us. It could
Speaker 1: be from a person, It could be something you read
Speaker 1: in the stall in the bathroom, could be I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to read that one so inappropriate.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a if I may share this,
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful neon sign upstairs. And I remember
Speaker 1: when I first came to your house, I thought, oh wow,
Speaker 1: look at that. I just thought it looked pretty and
Speaker 1: it worked really well with the aesthetic of your home.
Speaker 1: But then today you took me up there and you
Speaker 1: really had me look at it and read it and
Speaker 1: really sort of meditate on it. But tell tell everybody
Speaker 1: what the sign is and what it says and what
Speaker 1: it means.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: So there's a neon sign that's in my kind of
Speaker 3: like my breakfast area, my kitchen area. It's kind of
Speaker 3: the area that you know, I kind of filter through
Speaker 3: before I go to work in the morning or before
Speaker 3: I go to the gym in the morning. And it
Speaker 3: reads and it says, if you woke up this morning,
Speaker 3: you're already winning. And some of you who have been
Speaker 3: listening from the beginning you probably have heard me kind
Speaker 3: of softly say it in between conversations and all that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of things in my life. The pointed
Speaker 3: to stand still, look around, take a deep breath, just
Speaker 3: appreciate where you are in this moment. Somebody put it
Speaker 3: like this, somebody this morning they didn't take a breath. Yeah,
Speaker 3: somebody this morning. Unfortunately it's no longer with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so as.
Speaker 3: You know, so for me waking up in the morning,
Speaker 3: it's like it's like a win. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 3: were given another day, you know. So it was my
Speaker 3: way of kind of reminding myself to not take for granted,
Speaker 3: you know, the day that I've been given, to make
Speaker 3: a difference, to work hard, to make memories, to you know,
Speaker 3: to live the fullest, you know, and to laugh and
Speaker 3: to enjoy as much to you know, to kind of
Speaker 3: to really reflect on all those things. So if you
Speaker 3: woke up this morning, you're already winning. And then I
Speaker 3: added to that, if you woke up this morning, you're
Speaker 3: already winning. How much more winning do you want to
Speaker 3: do today. So the idea was that like you dug
Speaker 3: in and you you you plant your feet and you
Speaker 3: and you dig, dig, dig and see you have you know,
Speaker 3: how much harder can you work today? How much more
Speaker 3: can you reach out to and build community and whatever?
Speaker 3: So so that's and and it really changed a lot
Speaker 3: for me because it made it forced me to appreciate
Speaker 3: the day ahead of me. It also forced me to
Speaker 3: kind of appreciate where I was in the moment.
Speaker 2: Without having to dwell.
Speaker 3: Too much about what tomorrow looks like, or what next
Speaker 3: week looks like or in the next two years, even
Speaker 3: though we always have these plans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's really important to not forget that.
Speaker 3: If you woke up this morning and you took dig
Speaker 3: breath and you've been giving life today, what are you
Speaker 3: going to do with the life you were given this morning?
Speaker 2: So so that's where it took me.
Speaker 1: Why was it so important for you to have it
Speaker 1: made in a neon sign?
Speaker 3: I never want to forget it. Yeah, I don't want
Speaker 3: to forget it. I don't want to take for granted.
Speaker 3: I don't want to just wake up in two weeks
Speaker 3: went by and I can't even remember what.
Speaker 2: Last Tuesday was right.
Speaker 3: That's why when we went back to the beginning with
Speaker 3: the you know the podcast and we talked.
Speaker 2: About my hour a Day.
Speaker 3: My hour a day was a way of saying, how
Speaker 3: do I remember Tuesday? So if every day feels like
Speaker 3: this routine. You wake up in the morning, you go
Speaker 3: to work, then you go to lunch, then you you know,
Speaker 3: you come home and you watch the one episode of
Speaker 3: the one thing, you go to sleep, you do it
Speaker 3: all over again. If in twenty four hours you don't
Speaker 3: have one one hour for yourself, Yeah, how do you
Speaker 3: remember Tuesday? How do you remember Friday? How do you
Speaker 3: remember Sunday?
Speaker 2: Right? You know, so.
Speaker 3: My hour a day, it's like, how do I define
Speaker 3: what do I do for myself for that hour?
Speaker 2: Do I meditate? Do I work out or go for
Speaker 2: a run?
Speaker 3: Do I you know, do I read my chapter my
Speaker 3: favorite book? Do I do I listen to those Amigos,
Speaker 3: my favorite podcast, the best podcast in the universe of podcasting,
Speaker 3: and everything that's every released in the universe podcasting agreed,
Speaker 3: definitely so much better than most of the podcasting, Like
Speaker 3: many actors I've had out there, So it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: so so listen to at least two or three or four,
Speaker 3: though sometimes one episode is an hour, right, sometimes an.
Speaker 2: Episode is two hours because these guys won't stop talking.
Speaker 2: But those guys are great. I love them.
Speaker 3: They're like, I'm a huge fan, huge freaking fan. So
Speaker 3: when you think about that, you know, it's like, what
Speaker 3: do you do in that one hour?
Speaker 2: What are you doing that one hour?
Speaker 1: I hear it shot in the cool speak easy too.
Speaker 3: It isn't a really cool speople kind of like this
Speaker 3: one maybe different because I don't know. It's like, you know,
Speaker 3: I think they color corrected differently like this.
Speaker 2: It looks it looks different. But my point is is.
Speaker 3: That that's one of the reasons why do't forget that
Speaker 3: I was giving the gift of breathing again that when
Speaker 3: your eyes open up you look to your left, you
Speaker 3: might be able to see your four year old daughter
Speaker 3: sleeping in the room with you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 3: Right, you know, you open your eyes, your dog is
Speaker 3: at the end of the bed looking at you, waiting
Speaker 3: for you to let them out.
Speaker 2: You know, like there's little things.
Speaker 3: That you wake up and you get to do again,
Speaker 3: but there's also opportunities to do something for the first time.
Speaker 3: So you know, if you woke up this morning, you're
Speaker 3: already winning. How much more winning you want to do?
Speaker 1: And it's rooted in gratitude, Yes, it is the foundation
Speaker 1: of that of that quote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which also keeps it keeps pushing you to do
Speaker 3: the uncomfortable, not the complacent. You know, routines that make
Speaker 3: you feel safe.
Speaker 2: You know, in order to grow.
Speaker 3: You have to push yourself beyond the uncomfortable, right, you
Speaker 3: have to kind of deal with the uncomfortable as well.
Speaker 2: So you know, if you're.
Speaker 3: Already winning, you know you're not gonna gain an l
Speaker 3: by and by doing the uncomfort do you do you
Speaker 3: think it also makes you go.
Speaker 1: Besides that, right, you know, there's sometimes as we as
Speaker 1: we talk about gratitude, you know, because it's so easy,
Speaker 1: I feel like for us to go, oh man, the
Speaker 1: thing I was trying to get off the ground didn't happen,
Speaker 1: or like that part I wanted didn't happen, or like,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing in the last decade that I've
Speaker 1: really been focusing on real heavy is like it's like, wow, man, my.
Speaker 2: You know I have this.
Speaker 1: I have a house, man, you know, I have food
Speaker 1: on the table, Like my kids are good, My kids
Speaker 1: are healthy, my bills are paid. My as we talk
Speaker 1: about rooted in gratitude, like I've really been focusing on
Speaker 1: that lately a lot.
Speaker 2: What drives you that? When what what brings you to
Speaker 2: that point of gratitude.
Speaker 1: It's it's I guess. I guess for me is you know,
Speaker 1: seeing seeing how other people don't have it as good
Speaker 1: as we do, man, And a lot of time when
Speaker 1: I in my prayers, you know, I always try to
Speaker 1: pray for people who don't have it as as good
Speaker 1: as me, man, and just ask God to kind of
Speaker 1: bless them as well. And it makes you grateful for
Speaker 1: what you have, man, You know what you have? Would
Speaker 1: I prefer to, like, you know, be Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we all would, right, But like.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for what I have, Man, I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: the for the work that I have. I'm grateful that
Speaker 1: the income that I've made to pay my bills, or
Speaker 1: the car that i have, or the house that I have,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm grateful for what I have, you know,
Speaker 1: And so so gratitude has most definitely been at the
Speaker 1: root of it all. But when I when I for me,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily like a quote like for me, like
Speaker 1: it's more of a Bible verse that that I I
Speaker 1: like a lot, and it's uh, it's it's Isaiah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: It right here.
Speaker 1: I want to just make sure I got it, get
Speaker 1: it right. Isaiah sixty twenty two says, when the time
Speaker 1: is right, I the Lord will make it happen. And
Speaker 1: and the reason why that resonates with me like every
Speaker 1: single day is because I feel like, in our profession,
Speaker 1: we're always in this pursuit right right, in the pursuit
Speaker 1: of like, like I said, getting something off the ground
Speaker 1: or getting this thing or whatever, and I gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta sometimes remind yourself that it's not your timing. You know,
Speaker 1: it happens when it's supposed to happen, and uh, and
Speaker 1: that and that Bible verse keeps me grounded and keeps
Speaker 1: me sane because I've you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that I know in our industry who who are
Speaker 1: not rooted in that and and and so much of
Speaker 1: what they do and so much of what they believe
Speaker 1: in is so rooted on or measured by me getting
Speaker 1: this part or me getting this thing or be you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like that could drive you insane. In this business,
Speaker 1: and so you have to kind of change your frame
Speaker 1: of thinking in order to be able to survive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and not everyone's timing is the same, right,
Speaker 3: And then you, you know, sometimes you fall in the
Speaker 3: trap of, you know, of of creating this imaginary parallel
Speaker 3: tracks to other individuals or entities or or you know,
Speaker 3: evolutions that you're like, well, I'm not part of that evolution.
Speaker 2: Why I'm not keeping up with that? You know?
Speaker 3: And the truth is you're gonna carve it at the
Speaker 3: moment where you're the strongest to hold it and keep
Speaker 3: it and like hell it, you know.
Speaker 2: And and I.
Speaker 3: Think that's the the interesting thing to think about what
Speaker 3: you're saying, Like the timing is everything. But you know,
Speaker 3: you also think about the different times in your life
Speaker 3: where you've had certain levels of wisdom. Would you have
Speaker 3: been able to hold the opportunity if we will come
Speaker 3: to you ten years ago, twenty years ago, or is
Speaker 3: this the time where you're old enough and young enough
Speaker 3: to actually lead it into a completely different level.
Speaker 2: And I believe you, Freddy.
Speaker 3: You know, you write, you direct, you produce, and you
Speaker 3: are an incredible performer. Tons of people are like, this
Speaker 3: guy is a real deal. So you think about all
Speaker 3: those skills that you gathered through near like, right now
Speaker 3: is the time for you to make the uncomfortable funkle?
Speaker 3: Like what is the thing? How do you push beyond
Speaker 3: what you know? Most people feel comfortable boxing you in? Right,
Speaker 3: And like, you know, you brought up Tom Cruise and
Speaker 3: it's an interesting example because he continues to define to
Speaker 3: like define the odds. Yeah, you know, it continues to
Speaker 3: rewrite the playbook for everyone. Now there's a market for
Speaker 3: somebody his age to still do the dynamic stuff that
Speaker 3: people thought that those ages don't don't do or didn't
Speaker 3: do back in the two thousands or in the you know,
Speaker 3: in the nineties or the eighties. Yeah, if you got
Speaker 3: a certain age, then you got play the dad. Right
Speaker 3: he just said, you know, okay, Brad Pig gets to
Speaker 3: be you know, Brad pid gets to be this, and
Speaker 3: like have you ever done? Gets to be this, And
Speaker 3: like all these individuals have now enter around where they
Speaker 3: can still be you know, the action stars Lia Niesen.
Speaker 2: You believe him kicking ass and taking it, you know.
Speaker 3: So like I feel like that there's an interesting kind
Speaker 3: of paradigm shifting and opening it up.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 1: But you just said something interesting a minute ago. You
Speaker 1: said about being in a position in your life where
Speaker 1: you're able to receive those blessings, right, because sometimes people
Speaker 1: do get blessed in the way that they dream and
Speaker 1: the way that they want, and they're not ready to
Speaker 1: receive those blessings.
Speaker 2: It goes away.
Speaker 1: It goes away, or it ruins you, right or you
Speaker 1: or you waste it right you you, it drives you crazy,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, fall into drugs. You you know, like,
Speaker 1: look at you right, You're you're you're doing wonderfully. Your
Speaker 1: company's thriving, You're producing some such awesome heial Like, do
Speaker 1: you think that twenty years ago you would have been
Speaker 1: able to handle that responsibility or that success, not on the.
Speaker 2: Level that is happening now.
Speaker 3: But I would say that I, at the very least
Speaker 3: had the foresight to be hungry in the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I created your Mama when I was like.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four something like that, twenty four to twenty five. Yeah,
Speaker 3: created your Mama on MTV. But I didn't know where
Speaker 3: it was going to lead. I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: it'd be cool, Yes, I started cool.
Speaker 2: It's not like I'm building an empire.
Speaker 3: No, it's like, yeah, cool, if I produce a show
Speaker 3: on MTV, you know, yeah, and it started like that.
Speaker 2: But those are the seeds for why.
Speaker 3: But I agree, I wouldn't to have the foresight to
Speaker 3: be able to hand to speak the language I speak
Speaker 3: now on the executive level, on the CEO level, like ive.
Speaker 2: Not had you kidding me? English is my second language.
Speaker 3: I have barely a high school education, so I had
Speaker 3: to take myself into like a bachelor degree of the
Speaker 3: industry by wearing everyone's shoes, understand what it's like to
Speaker 3: walk in them, to then find the the find the
Speaker 3: wisdom that turned into the efficient opinion and point of view. Uh,
Speaker 3: that made you intentionally thrive to grow into the thing
Speaker 3: that you are right now.
Speaker 1: Right, So, so you went through this evolution and this
Speaker 1: growing period in order to be able to get to
Speaker 1: where so you you you work towards it. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: do you think that if and this is something that
Speaker 1: you always aspire to, right and then and then and
Speaker 1: then you were you were blessed with it, and here
Speaker 1: you are and you're and you're emotionally prepared to handle
Speaker 1: that stuff, right, I'm saying, like, imagine you Wimer seventy
Speaker 1: show straight out and all of a sudden, you have
Speaker 1: what you have now? You know, you've you've evolved into
Speaker 1: the emotional maturity in order for you to be able
Speaker 1: to handle everything you just said. Yeah, yeah, you you you,
Speaker 1: you grew, you learned, you you whatever. But but but
Speaker 1: there's an emotional maturity to you to be able to
Speaker 1: receive and and and to be able to be a
Speaker 1: good steward of those blessings.
Speaker 2: You know. I think it's a recipe. I think it's
Speaker 2: also like a perfect storm of things. You know.
Speaker 3: You you also have to look at your environment. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you have to look at the people you surround yourself with.
Speaker 3: You still, you also have to kind of take an
Speaker 3: inventory of you know, what are the resources available to
Speaker 3: you in that moment to build your small everese you know,
Speaker 3: and like you know, when you're starting the beginning, how
Speaker 3: you're just trying to get the next audition, how do
Speaker 3: you even have the foresight to you like I'm going
Speaker 3: to run a studio one day, you know. Like, but
Speaker 3: to your point, it's it's like, you know, your either
Speaker 3: lack of understanding or ability to grow emotionally mature to
Speaker 3: handle a responsibility like the ones that we we take
Speaker 3: on now, you know, has to also be part of
Speaker 3: an intentional mathematical equation that you have to do early
Speaker 3: enough to say, I can't be hanging out with the
Speaker 3: same you know, not go aheads. I can't you know,
Speaker 3: I can't be like you know, I can't be carrying
Speaker 3: myself that way. You know, like there's certain things that
Speaker 3: you have to audit along the way if you're going
Speaker 3: to give yourself a shot.
Speaker 2: I just emotionally growing.
Speaker 1: Did you have a kind of a very conscious shedding
Speaker 1: period of shedding the knuckleheads, shedding the.
Speaker 3: Well, it was very fortunate because you know, as an immigrant,
Speaker 3: you know, you come in here knowing you got to
Speaker 3: get it right from the beginning. But of course throughout
Speaker 3: the process you get introduced to the clicks and the
Speaker 3: you know, the posse's and the thing whatever.
Speaker 2: And I always thought, oh, I'm as strong as my possey,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: But you know, the idea is like, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: an amount of posse or friends.
Speaker 2: Or you know group or you know or you know,
Speaker 2: your your.
Speaker 3: Surroundings either could propelled you into your next thing, or
Speaker 3: it can slow down the arrival of the opportunity, or
Speaker 3: it could hold you in the play in the same place,
Speaker 3: so you're so you're never gonna get to the right
Speaker 3: place at the right time. How crazy is that you
Speaker 3: can be holding in place with the people and the
Speaker 3: surroundings that you have, knowing that it's easy, it's you
Speaker 3: feel protected, you feel it's not vulnerable at all, Right,
Speaker 3: But then you stay in the same block radius and
Speaker 3: you'll never be able to be at the right time
Speaker 3: at the right place because you never give yourself a
Speaker 3: chance to like travel lighter on your feet, but at
Speaker 3: least if an efficient view on on like who can
Speaker 3: who makes you better?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think? What do you think that
Speaker 1: barometer inside of you? Like, what does it say to
Speaker 1: you when when you feel like maybe I should I
Speaker 1: should shed this person, or maybe I should shed this
Speaker 1: bad habit that I have, right like even us as
Speaker 1: human beings, you know, Like I've been really focusing on
Speaker 1: that lately too, Like you know habits, right, Like.
Speaker 2: I think it's always manifest. I mean, I tell me what.
Speaker 3: You know, what it's like for you too, or what
Speaker 3: it was like for you too, But I know that
Speaker 3: it manifested itself in like I'm exhausted to give.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what made me exhausted to give?
Speaker 3: Oh, this is taking this much emotional uh you know, investment.
Speaker 2: This is taking so much more equity from me.
Speaker 3: Like there's things around you that you know are there,
Speaker 3: but they're so comfortable and you don't like change and
Speaker 3: it's uncomfortable let go of either the bad friendships or
Speaker 3: you just just keep it around. And like so you
Speaker 3: put out the fires and the name of harmony as
Speaker 3: opposed to like getting rid of the fire starters, you know.
Speaker 3: So like so I think that's when you start really realizing,
Speaker 3: Oh man, I got to start choosing myself right now.
Speaker 3: If I'm gonna pay rent, Yeah, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: choose in myself if like if I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: get to where I need to be right you know,
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I can never can never trust
Speaker 3: most of the industry to wish me well, you know,
Speaker 3: I trust my brothers in arms like you that you
Speaker 3: know have improven in the industry and we only make
Speaker 3: each other better and try to really lift each other up.
Speaker 2: But most people don't you know, you know how it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so it's like you either you have to
Speaker 3: walk alone sometimes, you know, or you have to just
Speaker 3: really do an inventory and really walk with those But
Speaker 3: what what about for you?
Speaker 2: When do you know the same same life for you?
Speaker 1: How do I think for me? Like, as as we
Speaker 1: grow older and we evolve in life and in our
Speaker 1: and in the industry. In life, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're mature, and your moral compass changes, and like you know,
Speaker 1: when you're young, you're a knucklehead and like that stuff
Speaker 1: is fun and being rebellious is cool, and like you know,
Speaker 1: and you get older and you're mature, right, and then
Speaker 1: sometimes there are people around you who are not maturing
Speaker 1: at the same pace as you are. You know, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you know, I love you, but I got a you know,
Speaker 1: in order for me to mature, in order for for
Speaker 1: for my compass to grow and to you know, I
Speaker 1: have to I have to. I have to kind of
Speaker 1: keep you at arm's length.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think that in our business as you as
Speaker 1: you also mature in av ARV in our industry, I
Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of things that you that
Speaker 1: you learn, right. There's there's etiquette that you learn, There's
Speaker 1: there's things that you learned that that you may have
Speaker 1: not known when you're first starting in the industry that
Speaker 1: you learn as you get older and you're around enough
Speaker 1: professionals and then you kind of get it and then
Speaker 1: you start to if you know, there's I'm constantly sort
Speaker 1: of evaluating myself and doing self checks in myself and
Speaker 1: what I could improve, what I can't, you know, what
Speaker 1: habits I have, what bad habits?
Speaker 2: You know. It's great.
Speaker 1: When we had Lewis Howe here and he was talking,
Speaker 1: he gave that analogy about like squeezing an orange, right,
Speaker 1: Remember that he was talking about if you squeeze an orange,
Speaker 1: what comes out orange juice? Right, So it's like when
Speaker 1: you get squeezed, like what's inside it? You you know, like
Speaker 1: evaluate what's society you so that when you do get squeezed,
Speaker 1: the right juice comes.
Speaker 2: Out right, right, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm constantly on that quest. And we're
Speaker 1: all human, right, so like we're not perfect by no means,
Speaker 1: but I'm constantly just trying to evaluate what that juice
Speaker 1: is so that so that when the juice duck does
Speaker 1: come out, it's it's.
Speaker 3: Right, bro, No, that's great, thank you for ever and
Speaker 3: that for me, it's like you get up in the
Speaker 3: morning and take it to breath look around. I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's awesome, that's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the gym and I'm just like gonna
Speaker 2: break a sweat.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. And then you know, and then you just
Speaker 3: start your day and try to like whatever challenge just comes,
Speaker 3: you're gonna solve it.
Speaker 1: But what about So no coffee before the gym, no food.
Speaker 3: No coffee before the gym. No, but sometimes when I'm
Speaker 3: doing the four to thirty eight yms, yeah, yeah, give
Speaker 3: me some of that caffeine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So bad an empty stomach and you work out on
Speaker 1: an empty stomach.
Speaker 2: I do work on an empty stomach.
Speaker 1: And so all the ash it doesn't come out.
Speaker 2: I'm like, really, no, no, no, no, I chose to not
Speaker 2: have assets.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna choose not to have cancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's good that.
Speaker 1: I'm never I'm never gonna have it.
Speaker 2: That's good. It's good. I highly recommend that I did.
Speaker 2: That's what I hear. Highly recommend.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, what.
Speaker 2: Is your morning routine? I said, before we get.
Speaker 1: My morning routine. The second. I mean sometimes even when
Speaker 1: I'm in bed, I just pray that's that's really because
Speaker 1: I know that if if I if I get out
Speaker 1: of bed and I go downstairs and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me look at my phone.
Speaker 2: You have a base in your house or you just
Speaker 2: do it wherever you're at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, even in my room, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a you know, I just get on my knees, or
Speaker 1: sometimes I get on a bench and I just sit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a I have a small little gym like with
Speaker 1: a with a with a mat. Sometimes I'll just go there.
Speaker 1: But I have to do it first thing because otherwise
Speaker 1: I get you know, that add kicks in, man, and
Speaker 1: my brain.
Speaker 2: Starts to go boo.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it starts to spend man. So
Speaker 1: before that spinding starts to happen, I have to do it.
Speaker 1: That And like I've been practicing TM transcendental meditation for
Speaker 1: a good decade or so, I got to get better
Speaker 1: at it. I got to be better about it because
Speaker 1: sometimes I just get so distracted. But like it's helped
Speaker 1: me in so many ways.
Speaker 2: It's helped me.
Speaker 1: Regulate mood and anxiety. I feel like it's made me
Speaker 1: a better actor.
Speaker 2: Because because you're more centered, more open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because you know, you get in front of
Speaker 1: that camera and you have thirty people behind you, and
Speaker 1: it's so easy to get like and I feel like boom,
Speaker 1: it gives me, like I get so focused and I
Speaker 1: feel like it connects the sort of penal gland with
Speaker 1: like you know, with all your everything, your gut and
Speaker 1: your heart and right, because acting is just all about
Speaker 1: like finding the truth and so like if you're connected
Speaker 1: with all this stuff, it's just about this sending the
Speaker 1: signal down here to like.
Speaker 2: And you have to be aligned with your instrument.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your.
Speaker 2: Instrument is all of this.
Speaker 3: For all those young actors out there, Yeah, instrument is
Speaker 3: like your entire bodies how you tell the story. And
Speaker 3: if your mind is somewhere else, the body is not
Speaker 3: going to tell the story, right, So.
Speaker 1: Yeah align Yeah, and you're and you're constantly I feel
Speaker 1: that those actors were constantly fighting. It's really easy to
Speaker 1: like read a script and go okay, and then here
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this face, and then here I'm gonna
Speaker 1: you know, here I'm gonna say it like.
Speaker 2: This that hey listen.
Speaker 1: For some people works, you know, I find for me,
Speaker 1: it's easier for me to to to know what the
Speaker 1: emotion is, and in order to get that emotion. Uh, truthfully,
Speaker 1: I have to be sort of aligned and internally it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of work, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: feel like that's what works for me.
Speaker 3: Right, It's weird for me when I'm reading a script,
Speaker 3: I cannot help but to start performing it. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 3: of course I'm reading the other characters lines. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: turns into it turns into me making choices based on
Speaker 3: what I'm hearing back from the script.
Speaker 1: So will you do the other characters lines?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like I'm playing the other characters, and I'm
Speaker 3: playing my character, right, So I look at my character,
Speaker 3: and then as they respond to me, I'm making choices
Speaker 3: as them, and so then I respond to the choices
Speaker 3: of those characters as the character.
Speaker 2: When I'm called reading it.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's the only and that's why it takes me
Speaker 3: a while to read a script, because I take the
Speaker 3: dramatic process and everything like, yeah, I take, I internalize it,
Speaker 3: I do the whole thing. Like so, so my first take,
Speaker 3: my first honest take of what my character is going
Speaker 3: through in that scene is informed by how I'm reading
Speaker 3: the other characters.
Speaker 1: Wow, hey man, everybody has their way of getting there.
Speaker 1: You got every you know, every everybody there is to me,
Speaker 1: there's no right way as well.
Speaker 3: It's this yeah, yeah, you know, you know how you're
Speaker 3: lucky in but but like this was this was a
Speaker 3: really great reminder to to have those routines to wake
Speaker 3: up in the morning, you know, practice gratitude, take that
Speaker 3: deep breath, and then also being one with like the
Speaker 3: audacity of making the phone call for yourself.
Speaker 2: We kept talking about.
Speaker 3: This earlier, like, you know, if you have this gratitude
Speaker 3: where you're at, how much farther can you go only
Speaker 3: realize on how bold you're gonna be with your self worth.
Speaker 3: Your self worth is going to inform what you're gonna
Speaker 3: call to.
Speaker 2: To get to get next. You know.
Speaker 1: So are we going down this list of like quotes here, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Why we do not need to do it, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna do it now.
Speaker 1: Everything happens for reasons.
Speaker 2: Do you believe that it is what it is?
Speaker 1: It is what it is?
Speaker 2: It is? What? Do you believe that is what it is?
Speaker 2: I don't believe in that. I think it is what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: It's like a coma because something has to happen after
Speaker 3: that it is what it is.
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
Speaker 1: Okay, then the guy's a prink.
Speaker 2: It is what it is. Okay. Well right, well there's
Speaker 2: there's no older alternative. That's just what it is. That's okay,
Speaker 2: what it is. Okay, yolo, yolo. Oh you only live once,
Speaker 2: live once? Man? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3: All right, so let's bet it all on black. Let's
Speaker 3: lose everything. All right, that's great, that's that's freaking great.
Speaker 3: Time heels old wounds?
Speaker 2: Does it though? Does it? Are you still time? Are
Speaker 2: you really? Does it really? Time? Are you still holding
Speaker 2: a grudge? This is this? Is it already thirty years?
Speaker 2: Is it obvious from thirty years ago? All right, that's
Speaker 2: the next one.
Speaker 1: Dance like no one's watching, Oh my dance, like nobody's
Speaker 1: watching Wilmer?
Speaker 2: Who wrote these?
Speaker 3: Uh leo clin it's interesting, it's interesting them?
Speaker 2: Is it? I wrote them for this exact reason? Oh,
Speaker 2: because it creates a vicious debate. Yeah, they're polarizing, they're polarizing.
Speaker 2: It is what it.
Speaker 3: Gets under my skin.
Speaker 2: When yeah, yeah, no, there's no. It is always a
Speaker 2: reason for everything. There's always a reason, But we're dexcided
Speaker 2: to ignore it because we want to end the conversation.
Speaker 2: It is what it is, and here.
Speaker 1: Fake it till you make it?
Speaker 2: Is it? Fake it till you make it? Wow? What
Speaker 2: happens when you make it?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: You really have to do it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I guess what happens? Then, smarty pants? When I fake
Speaker 2: it till I make it? And then when you make it?
Speaker 2: What happens? Now you really have to do it? What
Speaker 2: happens now?
Speaker 1: Now? Now I could wear the real role action, not
Speaker 1: the one I got from the alley town. Is that
Speaker 1: kind of way?
Speaker 2: It does work?
Speaker 3: But the fake it too it make it is such
Speaker 3: an interesting one because because okay, you faked it into
Speaker 3: uh into a career, and then now.
Speaker 2: You have to practice it right When are you gonna
Speaker 2: learn it?
Speaker 3: I don't know, dude, I guess I guess you're faking
Speaker 3: and you're unfortunately you're making it right now. Look, but
Speaker 3: but you know what, everything happens for a reason. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's also it is what it is.
Speaker 2: It helps for me. It is what it is.
Speaker 3: It is what it is, you know, And to be
Speaker 3: honest Leo from two night's episode, Uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: just know the time is gonna heal everything.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: And uh and I know that after this is done,
Speaker 3: you're gonna go home. You're gonna dance like nobody's watching.
Speaker 2: If the tree falls in the forest doesn't make it
Speaker 2: sound right, right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah. If I didn't see
Speaker 2: you dance, you didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. And I guess that
Speaker 2: you yolo when you dance where nobody's watching.
Speaker 3: But you get home and you dance by yourself and
Speaker 3: you're just like dancing like nobody's watching.
Speaker 2: What does that mean that you're gonna just be silly?
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess it's it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a quote on confidence, right like like saying be confident.
Speaker 3: So that means like dancing front of people, like they're
Speaker 3: not there to watch you dance, or be as bold.
Speaker 1: As you would when you're dancing at home by yourself,
Speaker 1: right Like, there's a form of confidence that that you
Speaker 1: exude when you're dancing for yourself.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2: Well? Listen for those of you who use this on
Speaker 2: your daily basis, please don't get I know, yeah, you
Speaker 2: better cut this off.
Speaker 3: The episode you're talking to really annoying optimistic people in here,
Speaker 3: so don't stop.
Speaker 1: No, I'll want yours for you, whatever worse for you.
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