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Speaker 1: a huge part of my culture. I don't want to

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00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: say that though, because at home, like my grandfather would

427
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: cook you know, uh some coacho and and like dotes

428
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: and like all of these you know, Colombian dishes and

429
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: my father would too, and so like I feel like

430
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: a huge part of our cuisine was like very much

431
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: you know, Colombian, and the influence from from our background

432
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: and our heritage from home. Um. Yeah, language was always

433
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: was always a struggle, and it wasn't until I went

434
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 1: to to undergrad and I was in a room full

435
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: of like a lot of these you know, classmates and

436
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: friends of mine who were from Miami, who were fluent

437
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: and so in touch with their culture that I started

438
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: to try to dig in and learn more than I

439
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: am on that journey now of trying to trying to

440
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 1: to learn the language. Um And it's a slow and

441
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: steady practice, you know, Yeah, as you're speaking, I never

442
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: really thought about, like, and maybe this is just my

443
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: privilege of like being a New Yorker, Dominican new Yorker

444
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: who like, you know, obviously, I go to Washington Heights

445
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: and there's thousands of us, and then you know, I

446
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: grew up upstate where there was like five of us,

447
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: and you know, so I was able to see beyond

448
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: where I grew up and understand that if I just

449
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: go to my backyard, there's a whole world of us.

450
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: And I never realized that privilege until you're you're speaking now,

451
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: because I feel like if I didn't have that, I

452
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: wouldn't be fluent in Spanish. I probably would. Um. You know,

453
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: my mother, um is it got her doctorate in English

454
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: education as a as a like I think, and that

455
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: was her like way of being like, you know, I

456
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: came to this country at fourteen, I didn't speak the language.

457
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to master it. That's just my mom, that's

458
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: who she is, um. But it's like, and I also remember,

459
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: you know, I spoke a little Spanish at home, you know,

460
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 1: and that and that, but it wasn't until I went

461
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: to I begged my mom to let me go to

462
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: Costa Rica in high school as an exchange student because

463
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: I really just wanted to be immersed. And I was like,

464
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to know little. I want to learn more,

465
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 1: and I want to go to the heights and be

466
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: able to talk to my grandmother and this and that,

467
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: and be able to talk to my friends that I've

468
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: met who are coming from d R. And so I

469
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: feel like I just closely also relate to like and

470
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: I think there's something and the reason why we both

471
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: love Shakespeare so much. I think like we both love language,

472
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: and that's why I wanted to like touch based on

473
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: Spanish because I know when we first met. That's my

474
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: other thing too that I'm working on. I'm like, Daryln,

475
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: don't be assuming everybody out here speak Spanish. But because

476
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: I remember I literally spoke like full on sentences to

477
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: you and you were like, um hey, and I was

478
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I

479
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: totally assumed and like, uh, I mean and I was

480
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: like Darylyn, like, you know, not everybody has that same

481
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: that is not there on their different journey with the language.

482
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: Um well, simultaneously though not everybody. I will sit there

483
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: and be like no, no, no, no, slow it down,

484
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, and repeat what you said. But at the

485
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,719
Speaker 1: same time, on my end, I can't assume that every

486
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: Spanish speaker is going to want to take the time

487
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: to break to break it down, nor should they have to. Um,

488
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I also feel like

489
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: it's my duty too. Well if you want to that,

490
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: that's just free Spanish lessons for me, and I'm down

491
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: to do that and I'm down to talk to you

492
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: any day. So listen, we gotta we gotta all be

493
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: there for each other. And I just think that, like,

494
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's something really fascinating that us as

495
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: both Americanized Latino young people in this world moving around,

496
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: Like I just related so much to you, I still

497
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: get nervous speaking Spanish, even if I feel like I'm

498
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: fluent or people like no, you're fluent. You're fluent. I'm like,

499
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: sometimes I get a little grammar thing, you know. Sometimes

500
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, sometimes my writing Listen, writing and

501
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: speaking is a whole different thing. So sometimes my writing

502
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: is not that strong. But there's this like disconnect that

503
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: we as Americanized young Latino people have been and there's

504
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: something that's been instilled in us, you know, even my mother.

505
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: I think about my mother, I'm like, she came to

506
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: American and she was like, I'm going to get the

507
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: biggest degree you can get in English literature and and

508
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: know everything in English. Like well, I mean, it's like

509
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: that aspirational immigrant mentality of like, if people are going

510
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: to give me the respect, you know, I'm gonna excel

511
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: and do the best, achieve the highest level of the thing,

512
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: because then I've proven to myself and proven to everybody else.

513
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: Even though why do we have to do that? You

514
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I definitely saw that with my dad.

515
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: My dad, you know, he wanted he went to school

516
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: for for business and computer sciences, and he wanted to

517
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: own a business, and he wanted to buy a big house,

518
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: and he wanted to have, you know, all of the

519
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: the American dream. You know, he wanted to achieve that

520
00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: and for himself, but you know a little bit so

521
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: he I think I could have that acceptance. Yeah, absolutely,

522
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, as the as the outsider. Interesting how these

523
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: these things are passed on generationally, because that was a

524
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: huge thing for me too. I was like, I shouldn't

525
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: have to prove I shouldn't we shouldn't have to prove anything,

526
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Um, But there was something

527
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: inside of me that was like I need to prove

528
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: to myself maybe. And it's not the piece of paper, agree,

529
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: it's all of the struggles and everything that happened in

530
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: your process towards that. That's just this reminder, that's just

531
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: this maybe like a maybe that maybe I look at

532
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: my degree is sort of just like a It's like

533
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: a giant you ever write like words of aspiration, not

534
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: affirmation like a post it note. It's like I am

535
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: enough and you put it on your on your mirr

536
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: or whatever. So for me, my degree is just a

537
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: giant word of affirmation, you know. And so I wonder

538
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: if if you're if your mother you can relate to that.

539
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: You know, you bet that degree is sitting right in

540
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: the house when you watch it, it's proud. It's gym

541
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: prize possession. Yet and I also and also I think

542
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: as as as their children, we both wear I wear

543
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: that pride for pridefully as well, you know, like look

544
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: at what my mom's accomplished. And then it's like, you know,

545
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: obviously we are doing it in our own way as well.

546
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: It's it's it's wild to see generational I don't want

547
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: to call a generational trauma. It's a better word for it, Chris,

548
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Generational people would say that, but you

549
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: know what I call it intergenerational anxiety. That's what I

550
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: would intergenerational anxiety. People would say like that the trauma

551
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: has passed out. But I don't want to say like

552
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: trauma because you know, anxiety is something that a lot

553
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: of us deal with on a on a day to

554
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: day thing, but for me, it's also like an energy

555
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: and fuel and it's something that I just have to

556
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: record with and deal with and overcome m But because

557
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: of it, I don't know if I would have achieved

558
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: all these things if if I hadn't had those traumatic

559
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: or or experiences or dealt with these anxieties. We're seeing

560
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: my father's you know, his journey and learn from that

561
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: and experience. So that's what I call it. I don't

562
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: know if like I love that. No, I love that

563
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: scientists are like scholars. Someone's listening to that and they're like, obviously,

564
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: people don't know what's that. It's not called that, okay.

565
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: But what I love about whatever it is that, whatever

566
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: it is that the scholars call it is what you

567
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: and I have done and are doing with it, especially

568
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: listening to your story. And you ny about to take

569
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: the stage to kill this production. And everybody, if you're

570
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: in the city, go catch Christopher M. Ramdaz and as

571
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: you like, get at the delicate Little Court Theater. He's

572
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: about he's about to kill it. I can't wait to

573
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: come and route you on. This is the moment of

574
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: mor Anita that everyone's been waiting for, because we got

575
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: some questions for you, some really special questions. Are you ready? Okay? Yes? Please?

576
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: Yespeak yes? Well, I have to I have to ask

577
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: what is your favorite Shakespeare play. That's hard. I'm gonna

578
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: have to say. I'm gonna have to say Twelve Night

579
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: because it was it was the play that introduced me

580
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: to and I feel like that's like everybody is, you know,

581
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: but it's the one I did a Shakespeare camp that

582
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: my my aunt and uncle enrolled, my sister and I

583
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: end when I was like eight years old, and that

584
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: was my and I played Sir Toby. We did like

585
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: a miniature, yes selections, but junior junior version. Yeah. And

586
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: so I have to say, like, I don't know if

587
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: I would even be here if it wasn't for that place.

588
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say I'm gonna say twelve of mine.

589
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say twelve. It was the first play that

590
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: I did in grad school. It was the first full

591
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: fled Shakespeare play that I did it in an entirety.

592
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say twelfth Night. Okay, I love

593
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: that for you. But but but I also would say

594
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: my favorite Shacker play is the one that I would

595
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: say my favorite Shakespeare play is the one I'm currently

596
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: working on, of course, but I'm gonna say my favorite

597
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: Shakespeare character, we go. My favorite Shakespeare character is Iago

598
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: because I try to. I think it's a wonderful exploration

599
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: in like why villainous people do what they do what

600
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: they do. They're hurting, yes, they're they're hurting. It doesn't.

601
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't, it doesn't absolve and it doesn't like justify them.

602
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: But he's hurting. It's such a great character, such a

603
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: great role. I mean, oh my gosh, such an intense journey. Okay.

604
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: Second question, if you could switch the lead character of

605
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: a movie into a different film, who would it be

606
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: and into what film? I'm gonna have to do some

607
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: math here. Okay. So if I could switch a lead

608
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: character from any film, from any movie into a different movie,

609
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: so he's there, they are still playing the lead in

610
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: another movie, who would it be an into what film?

611
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: This is an intense question. Okay, I got it, I

612
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: got it. Hannibal Lecter Okay, into like best in Show,

613
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: like mockumentary, Okay, which character in that? Like any Christopher

614
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: Guest movie? But like best and show like a dog show,

615
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: Hannibal Lector at a dog show being like ladies, I

616
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: love my pooches name. I think I think you have

617
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: something here. I think you have something here that's rich.

618
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: You are a clown, indeed, a clown indeed. Okay. Third

619
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: and last question, Okay, what have you seen or read

620
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: lately that you'd recommend to our listeners? Um, I'm gonna

621
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: do two things because they actually this is thank you

622
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: for asking this question. It really, Um, Peaky Blinders is

623
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: the TV show, of course. Yeah. I just I got

624
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: COVID recently, so I binged Peky Blinders. I just I

625
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: just love sort of like there's wit and humor, but

626
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: like it's dark and it's like I'm rooting for the

627
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: bad guys. You know what I'm saying. Yes, And they

628
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: also like use language except I'm going to say the

629
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: language in the script, the cinematography or like everything about beautiful. Um.

630
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: It also it's dangerous though, because it makes me want

631
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: to sit there and like light up a cigarette and

632
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: drink and drink all day. Chris, you're invited over going

633
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: to Blinders the next Oh, the movie. The movie's coming

634
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: out next. Did you know that there's a Chris so

635
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: exited the next level of movie? And because of because

636
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: of piggy Lins in the sixth season. I don't think

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Speaker 1: called the Poison Tree by William Blake. And it's just

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Speaker 1: a really really beautiful poem. But William Blake. I've been

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Speaker 1: reading William Blake poems a little bit every day. I

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Speaker 1: love that. That was my favorite question questionnaire moment of

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Speaker 1: Morranita so far. That was so good. That just hit home.

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Speaker 1: Chris Good, thank you so much for coming on here

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Speaker 1: and for like sharing the love of language with us

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Speaker 1: have I'm so gladly connected finally in this universe. I

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Speaker 1: think the universe works in miraculous and crazy ways. So

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Speaker 1: um so grateful that our paths have crossed and continued across.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for you have such an incredible spirit. Uh

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Speaker 1: Darylyn I I it's just magnetic electric. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: that you have this podcast. Thank you for having me

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Speaker 1: and comfortable. And I thank you for letting me come

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Speaker 1: on here and just ramble about love and what I

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Speaker 1: love to do. And yes, if we want to follow

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Speaker 1: you and like continue following your journey, where do our

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Speaker 1: listeners tap in? How do we find you? What's the plug?

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Speaker 1: Um it's on Instagram, which as he as he as

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Speaker 1: he's finding it's see underscore ram brother man is it

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Speaker 1: A M A N. I'm gonna have you spell the

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Speaker 1: whole thing out, Okay see underscore r A M B

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Speaker 1: R O t H A M A N. And maybe

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Speaker 1: I need a new social public on social media guru

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Speaker 1: out there who you know. We'll have opinions about that,

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Speaker 1: but I love this. I love this. Everybody go follow Chris.

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Speaker 1: He's amazing, He's incredible. Go find him and as you

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Speaker 1: like it at Delacore Stage, um, Shakespeare in the Park

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Speaker 1: this summer. It's going to be incredible. We cannot wait

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Speaker 1: to see you and support you so much. Love Chris,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on what Anita? Thank you so much, Darren,

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Speaker 1: I thank you for having it. This has been such

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. Mon Anita is a production of Sono in

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