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Speaker 1: the Man, so it's time we get down to business.

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Speaker 2: But wait, what what have we been doing this entire show?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 1: Ch'all for me? Life's a party.

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Speaker 2: Well I know that for sure, and just like you,

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Speaker 2: Mark Anthony has lived an extraordinary life, But unlike you, Joseph,

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Speaker 2: he's also been able to keep his personal life well personal.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the world's a stage and i'm its great at

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Speaker 1: star like Bettle, why should I rob anyone of quality entertainment?

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Speaker 2: When it comes to Mark, on the other hand, there

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Speaker 2: is so much we don't know about him.

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Speaker 1: But uh, but you be knowing. We're nosy bitches and

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Speaker 1: we love the juice. So on today's episode.

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Speaker 2: We're going to bring it all back to where Mark

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Speaker 2: is now in his career, but.

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Speaker 1: We're also going to take you closer look at his relationships,

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Speaker 1: especially his marriage to j Lo and very passionate passion

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Speaker 1: project at Cantante, and.

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Speaker 2: More importantly, Joseph and I are going to kick it

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Speaker 2: off by taking it back to his performances with legendary

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Speaker 2: singer Celia Cruz. I'm your host, Liliana Ooscaz.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an icon.

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Speaker 2: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on

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Speaker 2: how today's most famous Latin v stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 1: And given the world some extra level.

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Speaker 2: Sit back and get comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Because we are going in the only way we know how,

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Speaker 1: with buenas vibras.

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Speaker 2: Buenasriesas, and a lot of opinions as we relive their

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Speaker 2: greatest achievements on our journey to find out what makes

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Speaker 2: them so iconic.

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Speaker 1: Mark Anthony has become a voice for Puerto Ricans.

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Speaker 2: Says the Mexican I love you for that, and honestly,

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Speaker 2: you guys, I don't think of Puerto Rican da parade

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Speaker 2: would be complete without at least like three to seven

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Speaker 2: of Mark Anthony's greatest hits blaring through the streets of

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Speaker 2: New York City. I mean, it happens every year. It

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Speaker 2: happened when I wrote on a Float and he basically

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Speaker 2: gave Puerto Rico an anthem with Preciosa. Now, he didn't

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Speaker 2: write the song. That was Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernandez

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Speaker 2: back in nineteen thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: But we'd be lying if we said Mark Anthony's interpretation

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Speaker 1: isn't the one people think of instantly.

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Speaker 2: For sure, you think of the song, you think of

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Speaker 2: Mark Anthony. It's hand in hand and it's part of

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Speaker 2: a tradition of music that speaks for an entire country.

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Speaker 2: Our icons give a voice to people that often feel ignored.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that the reason for this whole podcast?

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Speaker 2: Oh so prolific? And yes, Joseph, we have come along

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Speaker 2: with from our first episodes with Bad Bunny, but the

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Speaker 1: Our icons make sure to wave their flags up high.

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Speaker 1: They never back down from standing up for what they

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Speaker 1: believe in. And I'll drink to that.

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Speaker 2: It's eleven.

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Speaker 1: Akay, you need to stop exposing that ass as.

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Speaker 2: You wish, sir, while you're coming to terms with your

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Speaker 2: extra party habits, I'm gonna pack it on up and

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Speaker 1: Then.

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Speaker 2: Thus, back in the seventies, Sansa was taking the world by.

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Speaker 1: Storm, and in the eye of the hurricane was none

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Speaker 1: other than Urusola Ilaria Celia de la Caida Gruz Alfonso

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Speaker 1: aka Celia Gruz. Oh my god, did Ilaria Peppina Baldwin

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Speaker 1: name herself after Queen Celia. I'm done with her? What

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Speaker 2: Much like Mark Anthony at the forefront of the Latin explosion,

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Speaker 2: Celia was at the forefront of the salsa boom. This

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Speaker 1: That included salsa supergroup La Faga All Stars.

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Speaker 2: See Puerto Rico and Cuba, just I've always had this

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Speaker 2: Band, you bet your ass class is in session here

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Speaker 2: obalas sobre coso, which translates too Cuban and Puerto Rico

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Speaker 1: Oh. I love that Stelia worked with Tito Pente back

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Speaker 2: But let's not get ahead of ourselves. It did take

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Speaker 2: I love this performance that they gave the world. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: performances are like a gift, and sometimes they're just performances.

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Speaker 2: The two of them together was so warm. It's everything

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Speaker 1: Chills on your face. Everybody is dancing. The rhythm got.

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Speaker 2: You, it did. Thank you, Gloria, Gloria, I gotcha. Hello,

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Speaker 2: the sound machine got you. So in two thousand and one, Joseph,

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Speaker 1: You graduating high school? Probably buzzed off of Miller lights?

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Speaker 2: and it was fi like fire, magic, It was all

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Speaker 2: Of course the music is stand out, But you know

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Speaker 1: What are you going to talk about? Nervous?

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Speaker 2: Mark Anthony's outfit. Yes, this was like you know how

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Speaker 2: And I feel like somebody dressed him for church for

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Speaker 2: There were no dark sunglasses right right, There were no

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Speaker 2: I think he was still trying to kind of find

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Speaker 2: it makes sense. But the two of them, you clearly

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Speaker 2: see that they have such a connection that goes beyond artist.

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Speaker 2: It's personal for them, and it was beautiful their voices together.

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Speaker 2: You know, one thing I always say with Mark Anthony's

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Speaker 1: Sings one thousand percent. But also can I just say that,

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Speaker 1: how does he look like he's four years old? I know,

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Speaker 1: like he looks so so so young, but he still

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, how kind of like changes

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Speaker 2: No, because I think his voice is so pure and

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Speaker 2: no idea, but I think some artists are born with

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Speaker 2: a lot when he's in a duet with someone. But

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Speaker 2: interestingly enough, here with Selah, it doesn't pop as much

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Speaker 2: The synergy is so beautiful between the two of them.

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Speaker 2: heard this song performed played a million times. Do you

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Speaker 2: know that I am never known what quimbata actually means.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it means. Please tell me what

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Speaker 1: quimbara means.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, first of all, I thought it was Spanish.

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Speaker 2: But it is believed that the word quimbata actually has

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Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, bitch, then I am ketam buying

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Speaker 2: I want more kumbata in my life. Kimbada, quimbera, kimba, kibita.

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Speaker 2: That's really hard to say. I can't even imagine singing it.

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Speaker 1: I remember watching the jalub performance. Do you remember that

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Speaker 2: She sang any songs?

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Speaker 1: She say yes, And the thing is is I wished

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Speaker 1: she was able to say kim ra as many times

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Speaker 2: It's very hard to say, but I do love that performance.

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Speaker 2: That is, to me like classic Jalo, And I do

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Speaker 2: love when Jaelo honors another icon, because we think of

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Speaker 2: her as so iconic that it's really beautiful to see

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Speaker 2: her honoring a fellow icon.

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Speaker 1: Fast forward to March two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: A tribute special was held in Celia's honor, hosted by

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Speaker 2: both Mark Anthony and Cuban Royalty in her own right,

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Speaker 2: Loria Stefan.

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Speaker 1: Titled Celia Cruz As to God. It managed to raise

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Speaker 1: over one hundred and forty five thousand dollars for the

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Speaker 1: Sei La Cruz Foundation.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this would be the last time Celia Cruz would

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Speaker 2: two thousand and three. And this special was filled with

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Speaker 1: Every single one, every single one. Don't even name them all.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna name host. Yes, that's on Patty LaBelle, Mark Anthony,

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Speaker 2: Gloria Gainor. I mean, there were so many people there

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Speaker 1: Exactly in freaking ms jeemish. We stay bringing these full

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Speaker 2: It really does give you goosebumps, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: The cosmos are speaking to us, babes.

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Speaker 2: He finally looked like the star and the showman that

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Speaker 2: What bring it?

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Speaker 2: Bring it? And we know this. Mark Anthony is a

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Speaker 2: So you know that this is a biopic, right, It

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, People magazine wrote about the film,

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Speaker 2: Them and listen, it's okay. Maybe the film wasn't a

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Speaker 2: Around this time, they weren't breaking up just because they

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Speaker 1: All kind of f Dare you say, Janthony, all right,

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Speaker 1: forgive me?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Either way, people wanted more of them. Breaking into

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Speaker 2: Mark Anthony is, let's call it what it is, a

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Speaker 1: Most likely to counteract any rumors of their potential split.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's true. If people are saying you're going

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Speaker 2: I mean you're stuck with each other, whether you want

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Speaker 2: Anthony covered faithfully by Journey and dedicated it to his

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Speaker 1: Let's be real for a sec working on a movie

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Speaker 2: So during this particular performance, Mark Anthony walks out on stage.

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Speaker 2: By the time the two did call equits in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: It got so ridiculous. Imagine having a grant an ABC

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Speaker 2: One thing I do know is that Mark is still

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you really have

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Speaker 2: And I don't mean like on a red carpet. I

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Speaker 1: Right, right, just in the daily life. But you know,

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Speaker 2: Oh totally.

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Speaker 1: But it did get really bad. There were rumors that

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Speaker 1: out of your mouth slap in Jada Pinkett Smith Well.

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00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 2: In Mark's words when talking about the divorce, he simply said,

440
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 2: these things happen. The relationship wasn't working anymore, and they

441
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 2: realized this was the best option for the both of them.

442
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: Mark had been in various relationships before Jlo.

443
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 2: There was de Wi Rosado, who he had a daughter

444
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: with and then adopted son with.

445
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Speaker 1: There was also Dominican American actress Claudette Lally and.

446
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 2: Former Miss Universe Dianaa Thoris remember her from the Jalo episodes?

447
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: Did you know he also has kids with her?

448
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 2: Hmmm, snip snip man, snip snip.

449
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: It's okay. After their divorce, she traded her engagement ring

450
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: for a Cardier watch.

451
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 2: This major boss moves you get it, Dianada.

452
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: After that, Jalo and Mark officially tied the knock.

453
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Speaker 2: Not to be shady, which, by the way, means that

454
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 2: you're about to be so shady. Cue the shady music.

455
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 2: But I have to say Jlo is the one out

456
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 2: of all of the wives that for sure like stands

457
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 2: out the most. And I'm not trying to make this

458
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 2: episode about her. I know we keep talking about her,

459
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 2: but in this particular episode, I mean, when you think

460
00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 2: of Anthony, it's really hard not to also think of

461
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 2: j Loo. They were almost kind of like the Megan

462
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,879
Speaker 2: Markle and Prince Harry Puerto Rico.

463
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: Actually facts, I'm not even gonna because like, who else

464
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: did they pay six million dollars for photos of their kids.

465
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 2: For exactly they seemed to have everything, but d Day

466
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 2: came in twenty fourteen.

467
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: And five months later he proved you can't keep a

468
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: good man down because he then married model Shannon Nelima.

469
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Speaker 2: Two years later, they split.

470
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Speaker 1: During that time, Anthony and Lopez kissed at the twenty

471
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Speaker 1: sixteen Latin Grammys, and then Mark and Lima announced their separation.

472
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Speaker 2: You're right, I remember they split way before the kiss.

473
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Speaker 3: But okay, Escandelo, Okay, when do I get to Yelbingo

474
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 3: around a little later in the show, But around six

475
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 3: years later he found love again in his current wife

476
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 3: for Miss Universe spataguay naw the ot Fedida.

477
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 2: By the way, they are also expecting a child the

478
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 2: seventh for him first for her Bingo, snip, snip, and

479
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 2: is he trying to give Nick Cannon a run for

480
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: his money? But now that we have all of that

481
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 2: relationship drama out of the way, we're reminded of something.

482
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: Uh he has a lot of kids.

483
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 2: Yes, that too. But while Joseph and I and we

484
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 2: know you guys listening love a little cheesema with a

485
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: celebrity's personal life, Mark is one of those icons that,

486
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 2: like I said earlier, is truly a talented artistic musician,

487
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 2: regardless of what is happening in his personal life.

488
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 1: Okay, he's a best selling artist for a reason. Crafting

489
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: enough ballads for the first dance of Beny Weddings to come,

490
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: and everything he's been through further fuels his music. You

491
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: can't sing romantic sids without having a low romance and

492
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: a whole lot of drama in your life. You know

493
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Absolutely, do you have a favorite Mark song?

494
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: I can't pick favorite songs. I don't work like that.

495
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 2: I mean, I work in three years.

496
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do this. Why don't you do the top

497
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: three Mark songs that pop in your head? They could

498
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: be your favorite, they could just be the ones that

499
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: pop in your head.

500
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 2: Okay, So I would say that when I think of

501
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 2: Mark first of all, when I think of Mark, one

502
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: song comes to mind, which is a VV of me

503
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: V that.

504
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's that's globally, that's.

505
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 2: Just the one, Like, that's just the song that everyone's like,

506
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 2: oh yeah, obviously that one, I will say. And I'm

507
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 2: not like one of these people that's like, oh, this

508
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 2: song lifted my soul during a dark time, Like by

509
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 2: the way, no shade if it does for you, I'm

510
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: just not one of those people. I will say that

511
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: there were moments when I was going through like postpartum

512
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 2: with Santhy, when I would have to play that song

513
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: to like get myself out of my baby funkiness. No, yes,

514
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 2: I think something and I would play it for us

515
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: like i'd play it for Santhia I because I think

516
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: there was something so like elevating about the song. There

517
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 2: was something I needed that right, Like I was in

518
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 2: like sleepless nights, like diaper haze, like just postpartum. It's crazy,

519
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 2: and that song really did like take me out of

520
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,239
Speaker 2: like the sadness that I was experiencing. Like I just

521
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 2: I really helped. So anyway, I think vivid me vida.

522
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: Next song I love is con La Coriente because it's

523
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 2: so early in Mark's career and it was like his

524
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: first Oh it's so good. It's such a classic. It's

525
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 2: also such a classic salsa song.

526
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: So it has more trumpetty it's music.

527
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: It's like it's pure, like it's a pure salsa song, right,

528
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: because there's like I think salsa like everything right, things

529
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: get mixed in. There's a hybrid to me that is

530
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,719
Speaker 2: like a classic salsa. It follows Sulza very classically, and

531
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: then by Yeah Boy, which is newer but like BITJ

532
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: I'm on my way, like where's the party? I Am

533
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: on my way?

534
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: That is a good one.

535
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: That is that is like round up the troops, let's go.

536
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: You chose three Spanish ones and that's just you know,

537
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: kind of your relationship with Mark Anthony and for me,

538
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: just because I didn't really listen to like trumpets and

539
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: saxophones because they hurt my ears. I'm really much into

540
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: his like English music, Like I was obsessed with you

541
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: saying to me and you sang to me like oh

542
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: my god. It just it was such a beautiful love song.

543
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: You know, such I'm you're a cheese puff. You have

544
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 2: left cheese.

545
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: Butter icy cheese puffs. You could be a.

546
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: Crunchy like a crunchy spicy cheese puff.

547
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: And also I need to know the song.

548
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 2: I need to know what's wrong with you? What is

549
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: wrong with you?

550
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: Are like my Mark Anthony penty droppers and they're not

551
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: even like but they're just so good for me. I

552
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: just I love I can really feel his voice, like

553
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: I know, like he's one of those singers that I

554
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: can feel what he's saying, like for me, you singing

555
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: to me and I need to know. I feel like

556
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: I hear the words, I feel the words. I am

557
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: the words bitch, Hello and goodbye.

558
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 2: He's a multi talented artist with so many hits as

559
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 2: you just heard us go through. But since his singing

560
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: career took over, his acting career was forced into early retirement.

561
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: Until twenty twenty one when lin Manuel Miranda gave him

562
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: a call.

563
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: It took fifteen years from Mark Anthony to return to

564
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: the world of acting.

565
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: Wga and sag Astra Strong by.

566
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 2: The way, Babes your words to the amptpiece ears.

567
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: How do you keep busy in the meantime? You know?

568
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: Between the wives so shady.

569
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: Well, Our's career doesn't just stop at entertainment. In January

570
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, he launched the Maestro Cares Foundation alongside Henry Cardenas.

571
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: Together they've opened an orphanage in La Romana, Dominican Republic,

572
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: as well as a youth home and schools in Barraanquia, Columbia.

573
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: Okay, just like our homegirl Frianta Shaki.

574
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: Alongside Jennifer Lopez. He's also continuously committed to giving back

575
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 2: to Puerto Rico. Remember back in twenty seventeen, right after

576
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 2: Hurricane Maria, they held the One Voice Almost live a

577
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: concert for disaster relief.

578
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: Do you remember now I do? Yes, I Do?

579
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: And our other icons Benito and Bruno Mars were also

580
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: a part of it. He also collaborated with becoming an

581
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: icon star lin Mino Miranda.

582
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: Wait, what was the name of that song?

583
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: You mean the one that they all sang together?

584
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: Yeah?

585
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh almost like praying. And the roster

586
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: on this song, by the way, is kura it is.

587
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 2: You had Jennifer, Gloria stiff On, Fat, Joe.

588
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: Camila Cabello remember her, she was in that.

589
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: Yes, and then wait, We're not done, Luis Fonsi rita moreno,

590
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 2: Gina Rodriguez who even knew she's saying? Hello?

591
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: I wait, Gina Rodriaz.

592
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: Yeah she's not. Everyone was on this and this song

593
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 2: even cracked the Billboard Hot one hundred at number twenty.

594
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 2: And there was a little cameo from someone very special.

595
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: Do you know who are you.

596
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: Gonna say, John Leguizamo, No the cookie because he was

597
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: in one.

598
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 2: Yes, fine, but he was not the special cameo. It

599
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: was the Frog. My son Santhi loves cookies.

600
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: They read about the bookies the Frog. The noise in

601
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: the beginning, it's at the beginning.

602
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 2: At the end, it's like it's like the siren sound

603
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:50,959
Speaker 2: of Puerto Rico.

604
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to learn how to make that noise because

605
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: it will rally up the troops that we know that

606
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: we're going a happy hour.

607
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: It's insane to think that when Lynn was only eighteen

608
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 2: years old, he saw Mark on Broadway in the Cape Man,

609
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: then he got marked to be in The Heights. I

610
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: mean that is unreal.

611
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Mark was on Broadway.

612
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: Uh huh, I know. I did not know this until

613
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: we started researching for this show. But the show didn't

614
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 2: do as well as it could have. It did get

615
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: Tony nominations, but critics buried it under negative reviews.

616
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: Honestly, these people are so damn.

617
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 2: Bored hater nation. Well, it worked out for Lynn. Mark

618
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: had gone from someone that was collaborating with people he admired,

619
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: like Tito Puente and Celia Cruz, to being that person

620
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: for the next generation. And not to mention that in

621
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: the Heights of the movie was an incredible milestone all

622
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: on its own.

623
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Speaker 1: It's no wonder why Mark Anthony said yes without hesitating.

624
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: See the role of Sonny's father, mister de la Vega,

625
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: was written specifically for the film. It doesn't actually exist

626
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 2: in the original production, but Lynn wanted it to be Anthony,

627
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: so he texted him, I mean, yeah, NBD, right, no

628
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 2: big deal. I have Mark on spied Del too.

629
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: Sure, Jane.

630
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 2: What we know is that Mark had been a big

631
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: fan since the musical first debut on Broadway in two

632
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, which is what made it so easy

633
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: for him to say yes, Lynn, abvi, I'll do it,

634
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 2: And this particular moment actually marked his return to acting

635
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: for the first time in fifteen years.

636
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: Wow. I mean honestly, Lynn must have been doing front

637
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: and backflips.

638
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, And people were excited. But director John M. Chew, well,

639
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: he was worried. Uh huh. Let me tell you why

640
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: don't you dare? He thought, here's this iconic singer that

641
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: brought forth a cultural phenomenon in the music scene of

642
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: New York and whatever beyond the globe, and now he

643
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: was supposed to be on a set for a pivotal

644
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 2: two minute scene in mister Chew's film. I mean he

645
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 2: was nervous.

646
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: It was insane. There was extra security because people kept

647
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: crowding the area just to get a good look at him.

648
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: Two unsurprisingly ended up being so impressed with the brief

649
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: time he got to spend with Mark on set. He

650
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: told USA Today that guy will win an oscar one

651
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 2: day if he does more movies. For sure.

652
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: What a career from Latin freestyle to becoming a minority

653
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: owner of the Miami Dolphins. Who the f would a thought?

654
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 2: It's really out there. Mark Anthony stands as proof that

655
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 2: life can take you in so many different directions. So

656
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Speaker 2: far in his life and career, he's given US twenty

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Speaker 2: five Billboard chart hits.

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Speaker 1: He's won a bunch of awards.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise known as Grammys. Let's give praise where praises do?

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Speaker 1: Okay, my mistake A bunch just was. It's easier to.

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Speaker 2: Say, And there's no doubt why he was ranked one

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Speaker 2: of the two hundred greatest singers of all time.

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Speaker 1: One thing's for certain. Mark Anthony remains one of the

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Speaker 1: most influential New yor Weecans in the history of this city.

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Speaker 2: And we can't wait to see what he does next

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Speaker 2: On the next becoming an icon.

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Speaker 1: It's finally time for the ultimate icon that's excited.

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Speaker 2: I'm like that little kid that wakes up to go

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Speaker 2: to disney Land in the morning. Okay, you guys, we're

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Speaker 1: Wait, you guys, hold on, you can toads. Relax because

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Speaker 1: it's not for the super Bowl this time, we swear no.

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Speaker 2: This time, we're shaking our bodies and getting ready to

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Speaker 2: do the Gunga. So gather around and feel the heat

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