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Carving Your Own Path with Leo Gonzalez · Dos Amigos

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Speaker 1: Leo came on that way, way that way.
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Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing.
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Speaker 1: This is Freddie Rodriguez and.
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Speaker 3: I'm Wilmer Valderrama. Welcome to those amigos. Uh. I know
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Speaker 3: some of you guys are a long time subscribers, so
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Speaker 3: thank you so much for listening to the show. Thank
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Speaker 3: you for telling a friend, thank you for clicking and subscribing.
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Speaker 3: Today we have a very special episode. Yes we rarely,
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Speaker 3: but we rarely have guests, but when we do, we
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Speaker 3: prefer those.
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Speaker 1: Big, big deal for us.
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you that much.
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Speaker 3: Leo Gonzalez, Uh, welcome to those amigo in the house.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, and.
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Speaker 2: This is nice. You guys have a live audience. I've
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Speaker 2: never seen that on your show. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: You play. Yeah, we got a video package and all
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Speaker 3: many that don't get any laps, but welcome man, welcome
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Speaker 3: having heard And I just want to do a quick
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Speaker 3: little bragget you know and and uh intro to you
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Speaker 3: because uh, Leo, I I've I've known about you for
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Speaker 3: a very long time. I came across your your content,
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Speaker 3: uh a very long time ago, and uh very quickly
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Speaker 3: then I shared it with my friends, and very quickly
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Speaker 3: I I I subscribe to it, and then I show
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Speaker 3: my wife and like, did you see this one?
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Speaker 4: That you see this one?
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Speaker 3: You are very very talented performer, and I can only
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Speaker 3: describe it as a great actor, because I think that's
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Speaker 3: more important to say. You know, there is like content
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Speaker 3: creators and influencers. You're just beyond that to me. You know,
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Speaker 3: you're not on the LA base, so like l A
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Speaker 3: you know, La Rosa stand up you know. But I
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Speaker 3: but I also recognize that you know, you you self
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Speaker 3: made an opportunity for yourself and carve the space for
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Speaker 3: you that only you can really perform in.
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Speaker 4: And uh, there's not another Gonzalees, you know.
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Speaker 3: And I think the idea that there we get to
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Speaker 3: have a show where we can just give you some
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Speaker 3: flowers is super dope.
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Speaker 4: And look, I think your grind is undeniable.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: For those of you who know you online, they they
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Speaker 3: have laughed with you, They've they've seen you grow, they've
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Speaker 3: seen you evolved, and now you're on to do some
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Speaker 3: really big things. And and I wanted to highlight those things, man,
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Speaker 3: because I feel proud to see another fellow comedian you
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Speaker 3: know that that basically puts himself in the game and
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Speaker 3: that's hard, right because you're knock on doors. But you
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Speaker 3: decided to just make your own house. Now they're knocking
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Speaker 3: on your door to try to be in your business.
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Speaker 4: So that's that's exciting. And then this is fred Rodriguez.
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Speaker 2: Then Freddy, what do you have to say?
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Speaker 5: Yo?
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Speaker 6: Man?
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Speaker 1: And congrats up.
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Speaker 6: You know, before you walked in here, Wimer was telling
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Speaker 6: me about the stuff that you do on and and
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Speaker 6: I think your trajectory has been so fascinating to me.
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Speaker 6: What little I know and what little I've read, but
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Speaker 6: I'd love to jump into that.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: Where where are you from? Where were you born?
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Speaker 2: Born in Hanford, calveard of Hanford, California.
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Speaker 1: No, no, where is that?
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Speaker 2: It's three hours away. It's near Fresno. Okay, yeah you
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Speaker 2: should come by, love it with a little barbecue outside.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from there and I moved to LA during
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Speaker 2: the pandemic like five five years ago.
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Speaker 1: Where where are your parents from?
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Speaker 2: Juan? My dad and my mom's family from Trunck.
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Speaker 6: Gun and and uh and they were born there and
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Speaker 6: went to northern California.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my my my mom was my mom's from here
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Speaker 2: from women and then and and then and then my dad, Uh,
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Speaker 2: he's there, and then he went back to Mexico. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but he comes back and forth?
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Speaker 6: And so did did did I read write?
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Speaker 1: You were?
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Speaker 6: You were a journalist first, So so take me through
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Speaker 6: the trajectory of how your parents go from Mexico to
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Speaker 6: northern California and then you were Latino, which I'm very
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Speaker 6: proud of whenever I see Latinos like you and who
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Speaker 6: go for professions like journalism and stuff that traditionally would
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Speaker 6: probably not have our people in it, right, Like, how
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Speaker 6: did that journey go from Northern California to journalism?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm obsessed with with with storytelling. I think,
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Speaker 2: like I do you remember? I mean, you know Anne Curry, right,
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Speaker 2: Like I was obsessed with her growing up because I
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Speaker 2: love I love She's so bad like everything, like everything
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Speaker 2: that she did. I was like, damn, like I believe her.
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Speaker 2: The way that she tells that person's story is is
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Speaker 2: is the way it should be told, you know? And
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Speaker 2: and I was and I thought from an early age,
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Speaker 2: I was like I want to I want to defend
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Speaker 2: someone because I feel like that was like journalism is
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Speaker 2: defending truth, that situation, that truth, that that journey, and
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Speaker 2: I'll like I want to do that what Anne is doing,
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Speaker 2: and and and so that's what I wanted forever. And
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Speaker 2: so when I was a little kid, I we had
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Speaker 2: in my hometown there's a lady that went missing. It's
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Speaker 2: a small city. It's like, you know, fifty five thousand
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Speaker 2: people wish and and and a lady went missing. And
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Speaker 2: so all the news was coming to town daily, and
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Speaker 2: I just was I was running to the news trucks.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I just want to see them go live,
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Speaker 2: you know I did. It was so sick to like
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Speaker 2: see to see this thing like right there, and and
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Speaker 2: and so as soon as I graduated school, I went
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Speaker 2: to UH to Eureka, to Humboldt. I spent a year
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Speaker 2: a little over a year there and and got my
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Speaker 2: first job doing like master control in a TV station.
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Speaker 2: And then from there I kind of went back to
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Speaker 2: friends of my mom, got sick. I went back got
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Speaker 2: a job at on NBC on for a few years
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Speaker 2: as a as a photographer. And I loved it, you know,
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Speaker 2: because it's like because like I don't know how, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like when it's on and then
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Speaker 2: like the other four channels are the English ones, like
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Speaker 2: this is ours like this is our like, this is
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Speaker 2: their safety and the communication to like, you know safety,
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Speaker 2: it's an institution.
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Speaker 3: I mean you turn on that TV. You turn on
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Speaker 3: that channel and he's on twenty four to seven. You
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Speaker 3: don't change the channel.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and probably something your parents as you were growing
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Speaker 6: up were watching, right, And then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 6: here you are like working there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you look at like, you know, the anchor
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Speaker 2: that he's still the anchor and he was the anchor
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Speaker 2: when I was a little kid. So now I like
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Speaker 2: get a job there and he's my I'm like working
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Speaker 2: with one of my heroes, you know, and every day.
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Speaker 2: And he's a bad guy now I imagine, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: I know he's and he's even better than I you know,
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Speaker 2: imagined and now and and he's and he's and it
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Speaker 2: was amazing because he was being for real, like it
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Speaker 2: wasn't like a it wasn't like an act. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: like it was really cares and being the one that
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Speaker 2: that translates the scary stuff, you know, And so that
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Speaker 2: was special. And so I was there for a while
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Speaker 2: and then I went to Reno and and it was
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Speaker 2: at a different news station, and and that's where I
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Speaker 2: was when I when I started, when I did my
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Speaker 2: first skit, I had no intention of doing any sort
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Speaker 2: of skit. Ever.
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Speaker 4: What was that skin?
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Speaker 2: It was a news reporter skit because I had just
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Speaker 2: graduated school.
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Speaker 3: And Bro, and I just just take a second, Bro,
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Speaker 3: because you have nailed that character on levels. That is
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Speaker 3: so really it's so comedic, it's so funny, it's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Right yeah, but when you really look at the nu ounces,
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Speaker 3: the beats, the process. I remember there one where like
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Speaker 3: there was a delay. Oh you know, the delay and
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Speaker 3: the and all of the little things. You knew that
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Speaker 3: you were coming from such a truthful place that you
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Speaker 3: just knew what it was like to actually be the
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Speaker 3: guy on that camera.
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Speaker 1: Was it was it modeled after anybody? They care all
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Speaker 1: of them.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean there's there's I mean to this day,
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Speaker 2: I watch every single day. I'm like, I'm a fan.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't watch any movies or TV shows.
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Speaker 2: I watch Good Morning America, you know, and like I love,
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Speaker 2: like there's people that I like watching, Like, oh, Rachel
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Speaker 2: Scott is on right now. Yeah, you know, Martha Raddits
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Speaker 2: is on right now, Like you know, gave good tierras
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Speaker 2: and and like, those are the people, and so, I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're all, they're all like nuances that I've like, i mean,
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Speaker 2: I've studied these people forever on a local level and
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Speaker 2: a national level, and I'm I'm very judgmental, you know,
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Speaker 2: I critique it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the common denominator? Like, what's one thing that
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Speaker 3: you're like, Oh, they all do this, they all.
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Speaker 2: They all have just like the way that they do
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Speaker 2: like a little you know the movie their heads.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when they're listening or where they're like clicking between
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 2: My favorite is when they're about to go, when they're
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Speaker 2: about to get tossed to and the person is reading
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Speaker 2: their intro and they're like right right, yeah, Joey, you know,
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Speaker 2: and they like and they dip into the words.
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Speaker 6: Do you think that's that's purposeful or do you think
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Speaker 6: that's just Yeah, I think it is.
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Speaker 1: Let me let me pretend like I'm like revving up
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Speaker 1: to like, yeah, I think.
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Speaker 2: It's part of what makes them feel like, Yeah, they're all.
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Speaker 2: They're all. They're all going off of the last person
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Speaker 2: that they saw. And I and I also am critique
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Speaker 2: critique is sometimes I'm like sometimes I'm like, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's funny, but sometimes like you should not do the voice.
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Speaker 4: Right, I just talk like yourself, just.
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Speaker 2: Talk normally like some people do, like that little that
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Speaker 2: little voice thing like it was too fun. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: all right, what you're someone's family just died. Maybe you
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Speaker 2: should not do the voice. Maybe you should try to
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Speaker 2: know it sounds that cool, you know.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I just thought the other day I
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Speaker 3: was in I was in New York and I did
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Speaker 3: some press junket this week and I went to a
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Speaker 3: to a few you know, Latino publications and Longst Shore
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Speaker 3: and I, you know, I did like the you know
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Speaker 3: that the Today Show and CBS Mornings and whatever, and
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Speaker 3: then I went to the Latino stuff.
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Speaker 4: And I remember it was while I was sitting waiting
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Speaker 4: to do my interview, I.
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Speaker 3: Watched Interest or whatever and and I and I always
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Speaker 3: wonder why they always sound like this.
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Speaker 4: When it will met Valderrama like what like soccer, but.
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Speaker 3: It's it's like, okays, bien el puerto, like but what.
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Speaker 4: That like you know, I'm kind of nailing it.
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Speaker 6: Like it's like like that does.
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Speaker 3: And that's so then like you you start seeing a
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Speaker 3: lot of them, like becomes the second issue. And I'm like,
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Speaker 3: I wonder if that's how you get people to remember
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Speaker 3: what you're saying, Like, is there a tactic?
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Speaker 4: Is that a science?
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Speaker 3: Is that like a thing they teach, like you got
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Speaker 3: to get people to remember the operator moments and nothing.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but they just talk.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's iconic enough that we talk about it, right, Yes,
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Speaker 2: you know that's it. I went to and they and
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, I want I was like curious, like
11:36
Speaker 2: how do you guys do the voice over? You know,
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Speaker 2: like you know, like that type of thing, like the
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Speaker 2: way that they like, the way that they you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, yeah, that's bro easy.
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Speaker 6: How were you on this path to journalism? And then
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Speaker 6: one day you decided to do a skit.
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Speaker 2: Because I I, there's this there's this the creator whose
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Speaker 2: name is Adam, who does these videos that I saw.
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Speaker 2: And when I was working, because I was content, I
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Speaker 2: was I was perfectly like.
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Speaker 1: And you were doing photography in Reno.
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Speaker 2: I was a PA. So I was doing the graphics,
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Speaker 2: the tele a problem through all that stuff, and I
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Speaker 2: loved it. And I and you know, I had just
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Speaker 2: gone over like a like a like a really hard
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Speaker 2: year and and and so I was like very content
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Speaker 2: I'm doing. I was doing Instacart delivery during the pandemic.
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Speaker 5: Yeah and uh and uh and then uh uh door
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Speaker 5: dash and people were tipping and I you know what
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Speaker 5: I mean, Like I love delivering because like I eat
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Speaker 5: their ass, like when I show up, I'm like, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 5: I got the eggs right on top up there.
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Speaker 2: Love you know, like treat them how yeah, yeah, thank
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Speaker 2: you so much. With my mask, I'm like walking with
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Speaker 2: a limp. And and so I was getting tipped good
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Speaker 2: and uh and I was doing I felt good about
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Speaker 2: everything and and and so anyways, I see this this
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Speaker 2: TikTok er Adam and I see his videos and I
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Speaker 2: was like, I need to I need to download TikTok
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Speaker 2: because they were on Twitter and and I just kept watching.
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Speaker 2: He's so funny, he's so creative and and I'd never
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Speaker 2: seen someone do such a such a Mexican comedy in
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Speaker 2: such a real way, because there's a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that do like, you know, very animated comedy and very
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Speaker 2: like dramatic situations. Yeah, and and I and I've just
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Speaker 2: never related to that, like I love like the dry,
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Speaker 2: little tiny things, and he did that tiny stuff a
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Speaker 2: lot I gotta download TikTok and so I downloaded it.
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Speaker 2: And then one day right after, I got rejected from
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Speaker 2: the state because I i it was a PA but
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Speaker 2: I had applied to be a reporter right when I
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Speaker 2: got my degree and they rejected me. And so then
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Speaker 2: I was like, all right, let me just do a
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Speaker 2: skit pretending to be a reporter. And then after that
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Speaker 2: it like changed, it flipped everything. Wow. After that, I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh, like, you know, and that was like
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Speaker 2: my first day. I got like thirty thousand followers and
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Speaker 2: I never had followers. I've never had anything. I never
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Speaker 2: had a first yet.
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Speaker 4: What was the content of the first cast?
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Speaker 2: It was it was me impersonating the delay. It was
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Speaker 2: it was on the green screen. I've never used a
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Speaker 2: green screen before. I used the weather wall at work
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Speaker 2: and then he shot it at work, No no, no,
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Speaker 2: in at the at the Renal one, which is one
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Speaker 2: of the English networks. Yeah, and and we had like
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Speaker 2: three hours of a break because of the you know,
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Speaker 2: the newscasting, and nobody was in the studio, so I
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Speaker 2: would just be in there just doing my little you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah and uh and yeah. So that that after that
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Speaker 2: one got that traction I was like, damn, I got
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Speaker 2: a lot of things that you guys might like, and
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Speaker 2: so I kept putting more, and then next day another
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Speaker 2: a few thousand followers and and.
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Speaker 1: The same character did you did you try?
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Speaker 2: I was doing news, and then I was like, I'll
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Speaker 2: try this one too. Yeah, it was like a dad
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Speaker 2: or like you know, it's like a teacher, and then oh,
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Speaker 2: then I did a teacher one, and then that one
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Speaker 2: was like my next mountain, and then after and then
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Speaker 2: there you know, and and not ever knowing this type
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Speaker 2: of world, I was like, I then it got like
15:37
Speaker 2: it started getting posted on like mean pages, and I
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Speaker 2: was like damn, Like I'm like, I'm on the snapchat homepage,
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Speaker 2: like it was so weird. And that all happened like
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Speaker 2: starting May of twenty twenty through like July August October,
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Speaker 2: I take a trip to La to collab with two
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Speaker 2: two people that were also doing comedy skits. I never
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Speaker 2: collapsed with anybody.
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Speaker 1: I've never done anything before.
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Speaker 2: No, I still wanted to report at that time, but
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Speaker 2: I was just like, this is a fun hobby and
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Speaker 2: and I came I met these two guys and and
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Speaker 2: that day I was like I don't know, I feel
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Speaker 2: like I have to be in la like genuinely, not
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Speaker 2: even like as a pick me, like I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I know, like genuinely like I didn't. I was like
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Speaker 2: I kind of like something is pooling me. And those
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Speaker 2: two guys, one was living in uh in t O
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Speaker 2: like like Newbury Park, and the other one was in Venice,
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Speaker 2: and they both wanted to move out of home and
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Speaker 2: and and so we got a place in Crenshaw. I've
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Speaker 2: never been to Crenshaw. And and we got an apartment
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Speaker 2: there and the living room was just a green screen
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Speaker 2: with like two like poles, like it was very like
16:53
Speaker 2: just taped up. And I got like two ring lins
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Speaker 2: like you know. And every day was doing skits. Every day,
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Speaker 2: I was writing random things.
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Speaker 3: But did you create kind of like a work flow
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Speaker 3: for you You're like from nine to you know, twelve,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this many sketch and then take a break,
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Speaker 3: do some more stuff right, and then.
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Speaker 2: Go do door dash and then come back. Because I
17:14
Speaker 2: was like I just told myself, I was like I
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Speaker 2: don't want to I don't want to have a job,
17:19
Speaker 2: and then not be able to do it, and then
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Speaker 2: I lost the plot. You know, I'm like let me
17:24
Speaker 2: just do that, make a little money, and then like
17:25
Speaker 2: and then at the time TikTok was you know, they
17:27
Speaker 2: were paying they paid their paint creators, and so I
17:30
Speaker 2: was like making some money on there. I was like
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Speaker 2: and I got my first brandy. And then after I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh.
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Speaker 1: Oh, here we go, We're in business.
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Speaker 6: I have a right, that's great, that's incredible. What an
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Speaker 6: incredible journey, right, Like how just when it's right right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned a lot of you know, different instincts
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Speaker 3: that were just evolving within you. Every time you will
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Speaker 3: see a person or a character or somebody that worked
17:58
Speaker 3: through your life and then you do a video for it.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 4: I remember you some of the restaurants.
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Speaker 3: The ordering at a restaurant was hilarious, and the person
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Speaker 3: is waiting for you to finish ordering, but they you know,
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Speaker 3: every time the person gets to the register, they've had
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Speaker 3: like they've had ten minutes in line, and then when
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Speaker 3: they get there, they just don't know what they want. Yeah,
18:16
Speaker 3: you know, so that stuff felt like it's such a
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Speaker 3: kind of human experiment, right like you're just you're you're
18:21
Speaker 3: so intuitive to kind of listen, which I think back
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Speaker 3: to your passion for reporting. Half of the job is
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Speaker 3: to really listen and understand how to convey what you
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Speaker 3: what you're receiving to the people at home and to
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Speaker 3: you know, draw out performances, if you will, or truths
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Speaker 3: you know, from individuals. Since then, have you gotten the bug?
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Speaker 3: Just like I'm an actor, that's like, that's what I am.
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Speaker 2: I want to act, but I haven't called myself that yet.
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Speaker 3: But you do realize that your sketches are full on
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Speaker 3: scenes and you're actually I know you're you're improving a
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Speaker 3: lot of it, but you're actually performing as an actor
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Speaker 3: in those scenes. And that's one of the reasons why
19:07
Speaker 3: I appreciated it so much, is because you know, it's
19:09
Speaker 3: not like you're working for a punchline. You're actually embodying
19:14
Speaker 3: a character, and you're making that situation not just watchable,
19:18
Speaker 3: but funny.
19:19
Speaker 4: And there's a beginning, middle and in to your sketches.
19:22
Speaker 3: Most things that went viral in the era of influencers
19:26
Speaker 3: or you know, even viners like Vine, you know, it
19:29
Speaker 3: was just about like the one face or the one
19:31
Speaker 3: thing or whatever, you know, but then they started getting
19:33
Speaker 3: really sophisticated. I think you kind of caught onto that.
19:37
Speaker 3: Why do you feel like you're hesitanting to call yourself
19:39
Speaker 3: an actor.
19:40
Speaker 2: Because I feel like I have to take a class. Though,
19:45
Speaker 2: you know, I always feel so like I don't know,
19:48
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of the time, I don't feel
19:50
Speaker 2: this way necessarily anymore, and I don't mean it in
19:54
Speaker 2: like to like downplay myself, but sometimes, like people, a
20:02
Speaker 2: lot of the times, I'm like, I feel like I
20:04
Speaker 2: cut in line. You know, as a content creator, you
20:08
Speaker 2: get this constant feeling of like what are you doing here?
20:13
Speaker 2: You know, like people went to to, uh, you know,
20:19
Speaker 2: an improv school, they went to UCB, they went to
20:22
Speaker 2: this and this, and they did drama in school and
20:25
Speaker 2: then you just step in, you know. So I think
20:28
Speaker 2: that there's like those parts of it that I've like
20:31
Speaker 2: kind of like.
20:32
Speaker 4: Is it that imposter syndrome thing or yeah, cause.
20:35
Speaker 2: It's like you just you just and then And I
20:38
Speaker 2: think because it also happened so fast sometimes, I mean
20:40
Speaker 2: it's been yeah years now, but there's been so many
20:44
Speaker 2: moments that you just forget it just you were in
20:46
Speaker 2: it and they were so quick that you don't realize like, oh,
20:49
Speaker 2: I I did do this, and you do this and
20:52
Speaker 2: I don't know so and then I realized I did.
20:55
Speaker 2: I did my first like acting. I mean I did
20:59
Speaker 2: a few little things before, but I did the show
21:02
Speaker 2: this full on Hulu and and I thought so natural
21:07
Speaker 2: in that because I was playing a character that I
21:12
Speaker 2: played that kind of was in my first year of
21:15
Speaker 2: TikTok and.
21:17
Speaker 1: What did you play on this fool?
21:21
Speaker 2: It was like one of Chris Destrada's friends from high
21:25
Speaker 2: school or something. I forgot the name, but but it
21:29
Speaker 2: was so it was so fun and it was the
21:32
Speaker 2: perfect day, like the perfect day from the top to end.
21:36
Speaker 2: But then I but then I then I get cast
21:39
Speaker 2: for the Keanu Reeves movie from last year with with
21:45
Speaker 2: the Season Sorry, oh yeah, and like the this full
21:49
Speaker 2: episode was like I did like half the episode. But
21:53
Speaker 2: then then I do this uh what is it called fortune?
22:00
Speaker 2: Good Fortune? I'm on there for like eleven seconds, and
22:04
Speaker 2: it was the hardest thing I've ever done because I
22:07
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know what I'm doing here, Like
22:10
Speaker 2: I I literally had.
22:11
Speaker 3: To you think it was you just telling you, like
22:14
Speaker 3: these guys have been doing it forever and here I
22:16
Speaker 3: am like just pretending to do it or is it?
22:18
Speaker 2: Like I realized, I was like I don't know how
22:19
Speaker 2: to look like when it's in Provence skits. I know
22:24
Speaker 2: who I'm impersonating. I know exactly what cashier I'm thinking about.
22:29
Speaker 2: I know exactly what kind of customer. But then I'm
22:31
Speaker 2: in this thing and I'm like, I'm a pool guy
22:36
Speaker 2: with my pool equipment and I delivered my line and
22:39
Speaker 2: now that he's talking, I don't know what to do
22:42
Speaker 2: with my face.
22:43
Speaker 4: Oh interesting?
22:44
Speaker 2: And I was like, bro. And I remember like after that,
22:47
Speaker 2: I did a I talked to someone else and I
22:50
Speaker 2: was like, what do I do with my face? And
22:52
Speaker 2: They're like, just listen? Yeah, And I was like, all right, cool,
22:56
Speaker 2: next time?
22:56
Speaker 1: So what why did you next time?
23:01
Speaker 4: But is that a reporter thing?
23:02
Speaker 6: Right?
23:02
Speaker 3: Like you know, you're you're listening to the words and
23:05
Speaker 3: you know you're waiting for it to actually you know,
23:07
Speaker 3: retort the energy, and you're like, you know, it's an
23:10
Speaker 3: interesting thing.
23:10
Speaker 4: I I know exactly what you're talking about.
23:13
Speaker 3: You know, you know there is this kind of little
23:17
Speaker 3: window when like you're across from an actor who's done
23:20
Speaker 3: it forever and it comes to so naturally for them,
23:22
Speaker 3: and they're just flowing with words that are like.
23:25
Speaker 4: On a page.
23:27
Speaker 3: You're not just like flowing and just coming up with
23:30
Speaker 3: something funny and cutting it liter or like you have
23:32
Speaker 3: like a script and you you know, you're memorizing the script,
23:35
Speaker 3: and then this other person also memorize the script and
23:37
Speaker 3: they depend on you to say the line, and you know,
23:40
Speaker 3: you got to find a rhythm together.
23:41
Speaker 4: You got to listen to it.
23:43
Speaker 3: There's a lot of elements that take a lot of practice,
23:47
Speaker 3: but I think you've had I mean a million hours
23:51
Speaker 3: of practice and embodying characters. I think probably in that
23:54
Speaker 3: moment you probably you needed to do is this person?
23:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, now I think about it, I'm like, let's run
23:58
Speaker 2: it back right, do it again? And now I know
24:01
Speaker 2: how to look.
24:02
Speaker 6: But but why did you feel in this fool that
24:04
Speaker 6: you knew how to look? But when you did this
24:06
Speaker 6: movie with Keanu you didn't.
24:08
Speaker 2: Know because I didn't know who the pool guy was,
24:13
Speaker 2: Like I need to know who they are, Like does
24:15
Speaker 2: he have kids? Like does he the younger brother? Is
24:18
Speaker 2: his older brother in jail? Like I need to know that.
24:22
Speaker 2: And if I would have known that, then I know
24:24
Speaker 2: the stakes of what my pool job is. I guess,
24:29
Speaker 2: and that's what I needed to know. And I think
24:31
Speaker 2: in this fool, I was like, oh, I'm the I'm
24:36
Speaker 2: the alcoholic friend who's still stuck on the past that
24:41
Speaker 2: like I got you know, I can do that, you know,
24:43
Speaker 2: because even I just did a thing that Eva directed
24:48
Speaker 2: a few months ago, and that I didn't think I
24:51
Speaker 2: could do that because that was you know, a major
24:54
Speaker 2: The person I did it with was those major celebrity Yeah. Ok, yeah,
25:00
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's crazy, Like I don't know,
25:05
Speaker 2: but but I knew the character more. And Eva made
25:10
Speaker 2: me feel sure because I love it, I love him,
25:14
Speaker 2: and in that situation, I'm like, just let me if
25:18
Speaker 2: I can, just let me hit the beats and then
25:22
Speaker 2: just throw some other little words around. And Eva made
25:24
Speaker 2: me feel so comfortable and give me so much room
25:27
Speaker 2: for that.
25:30
Speaker 3: But by the way, just know, that's the hardest thing
25:32
Speaker 3: to do for an actor. That's the hardest thing to
25:35
Speaker 3: be free to say. Let me just fly here, let
25:38
Speaker 3: me make some choices, let me add some blank pages
25:41
Speaker 3: here and there. That's the thing that makes actors petrified.
25:44
Speaker 3: Like some of us grew up doing that, right Like,
25:47
Speaker 3: you know, we've done comedy, we've done drama, and we're
25:50
Speaker 3: very comfortable flowing because we know these guys that were
25:53
Speaker 3: playing before we come to set to your point. For
25:57
Speaker 3: an actor, most actors, the scariest thing to do is
26:01
Speaker 3: to get off that page. Well, when you get off
26:04
Speaker 3: that page, everything falls apart for most most people.
26:07
Speaker 4: So the fact that you're feeling free to flow, you know.
26:11
Speaker 2: On the page, I'm like, I can we change it.
26:15
Speaker 3: But then you do it enough that you know how
26:16
Speaker 3: to like start with the page, go into the whole things,
26:20
Speaker 3: bring it back to the middle of the page, start
26:23
Speaker 3: the things, make sure that your partner doesn't you know,
26:26
Speaker 3: it's not lost, and how to respond to you. You know,
26:29
Speaker 3: but you're giving them their cues to make sense with
26:32
Speaker 3: their lines, and that happens over time.
26:33
Speaker 4: What you're doing, it's amazing.
26:35
Speaker 3: I mean, like it's your super powered and I think
26:37
Speaker 3: the more you cultivate that, the more you're going to
26:39
Speaker 3: you feel you know that you're going to be just flying.
26:44
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm excited by it because I I think
26:49
Speaker 2: so much about how much of a different story I
26:53
Speaker 2: have than some of the people that I've seen in
26:59
Speaker 2: LA things. You know, I think, like I used to
27:03
Speaker 2: watch things back then where I'm like, all right, like
27:07
Speaker 2: another movie about like another part of LA and I'm like,
27:11
Speaker 2: we're in Fresno. We're over here, We're far away from La.
27:14
Speaker 2: Like my dad is working in the fields and my
27:18
Speaker 2: mom's at a tomato plant. Like that's not the same, like,
27:20
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm like, and so I constantly think
27:23
Speaker 2: I want to do a project where it feels more
27:25
Speaker 2: like a Mexican in Yakima, you know, and a different part,
27:32
Speaker 2: because there's so many things that are the same, but
27:35
Speaker 2: it's not. It doesn't all feel like LA. And I
27:38
Speaker 2: think that gave me like doing little things like this,
27:41
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, okay, I want I'm trying to you know,
27:44
Speaker 2: collect more and save us. I introduce my own thing
27:47
Speaker 2: that feels like like what I know, Yeah, something more familiar.
27:52
Speaker 3: You realize so much more about Los Angeles that kind
27:55
Speaker 3: of almost no one is really from Los Angeles, you know.
27:58
Speaker 3: They're from around Los Angeles and they congregate in Los Angeles.
28:01
Speaker 3: They commute with the Los Angeles way of life, you know,
28:04
Speaker 3: but they're from everywhere in the world, everywhere in the
28:06
Speaker 3: in the country, right, Like everyone moves to Los Angeles
28:09
Speaker 3: for that dream, right or you know, they commute with
28:13
Speaker 3: De La for all reasons, you know. But I think,
28:15
Speaker 3: you know, people think about Los Angeles and they think about
28:18
Speaker 3: this like the four black radius. It's either downtown in
28:20
Speaker 3: LA or Hollywood Boulevard that they think that's what LA is.
28:24
Speaker 3: Around the planet, they think, Oh, it's the stars on
28:26
Speaker 3: the floor, it's the sign on the on the hill,
28:29
Speaker 3: you know, And in LA is so much more than that.
28:31
Speaker 3: To your point, there's so many people that embody with
28:34
Speaker 3: the culture of the LA and and they all deserve
28:38
Speaker 3: to be told a story that can also feel mainstream.
28:40
Speaker 3: And you know, and I think what you're doing is interesting.
28:43
Speaker 3: Are you are you directing? Are you producing? Is that
28:46
Speaker 3: something you have passion for it?
28:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't started yet. That's why I'm here. Actually, no,
28:53
Speaker 2: I I I'm developing something right now that I that
28:58
Speaker 2: I wrote like a year ago. And and so yeah,
29:04
Speaker 2: it's it's been getting close, right. I have these two
29:06
Speaker 2: people that I've been working with who who I am
29:10
Speaker 2: all mysterious and two people I can't say who. But
29:16
Speaker 2: but it's you know, but it's stuff that I know.
29:18
Speaker 2: It has, it's stuff that I that I grew up doing.
29:22
Speaker 2: And and so the storyline that these characters are all
29:24
Speaker 2: real people that that I show. Yeah, it's being written
29:30
Speaker 2: as a as a series. But there's also you know,
29:33
Speaker 2: there's also other little comedy ideas that I have, and
29:37
Speaker 2: and then also like, seriously, I want to do something
29:39
Speaker 2: serious like that'd be nice, you know because you know,
29:43
Speaker 2: did you see Will Ferrell and the on the Apple
29:48
Speaker 2: shows like Strength? I want to do bro that was
29:56
Speaker 2: like that changed me. I want to be like that
30:00
Speaker 2: word because I think we'll for as one of the
30:01
Speaker 2: funniest people. And then to see that, yeah, we'll tell
30:07
Speaker 2: you about that.
30:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, your stuff reminds me. It's almost like curb your enthusiasm.
30:11
Speaker 6: There's a there's a letter there to David quality, to
30:15
Speaker 6: your to your stuff, and and to just rewind a
30:18
Speaker 6: little bit what you said, you know, a little while ago,
30:20
Speaker 6: like oh man, did I jump a step or whatever?
30:23
Speaker 6: You know, I can understand why you felt that way,
30:25
Speaker 6: but like seeing what Wilmer has showed me with Leo
30:28
Speaker 6: showed me, uh, your skits. Your stuff seems so grounded,
30:33
Speaker 6: Your comedy seems so grounded. And and I could understand
30:37
Speaker 6: if you were somebody who who wasn't necessarily good but
30:42
Speaker 6: had a big following and maybe jumped the step, as
30:45
Speaker 6: you said, because of your following. But but there's something
30:48
Speaker 6: in the quality of your work that's deserve it. I
30:51
Speaker 6: feel of of of where your trajectory is going, and
30:54
Speaker 6: I can tell just by looking at the stuff that
30:57
Speaker 6: that they showed me.
30:57
Speaker 1: So uh, I don't think you should feel that way.
31:00
Speaker 1: I think that you're earning your your position.
31:03
Speaker 6: I just think that people are discovering how good you
31:05
Speaker 6: are and how you know, how well you're writing.
31:07
Speaker 4: And every entry point is different.
31:09
Speaker 3: Every actor has a very different way and how it
31:13
Speaker 3: worked for them.
31:14
Speaker 1: You know.
31:14
Speaker 3: Some people went to juilliards. Some people get picked up
31:18
Speaker 3: about a high school play or stand up or stand
31:20
Speaker 3: up they're like, oh, you know, you'd be funny in
31:22
Speaker 3: a movie, right and starts and and they started doing
31:24
Speaker 3: drama and comedy, you know.
31:25
Speaker 4: So so I wouldn't.
31:26
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be so worried about, you know, the runway
31:30
Speaker 3: you've had before you got the shot, you know, I
31:32
Speaker 3: would worry more about, you know, you know, about what
31:35
Speaker 3: you do with it, you know, because that's that's how
31:38
Speaker 3: you start paving the road ahead.
31:40
Speaker 4: I think we both are.
31:41
Speaker 3: Going on thirty plus years and you you're probably going
31:43
Speaker 3: in what almost forty forty years.
31:47
Speaker 2: I wasn't even born a little.
31:49
Speaker 1: A little older a little older.
31:52
Speaker 4: Like like fifty five years in the game. I thing,
31:54
Speaker 4: you know you started, you started when you were twenty.
31:56
Speaker 1: You know that's right. I'm really seventy. Yeah, it's Latino.
32:02
Speaker 1: It's good Latino jeans. Jeez, you know, you know sort
32:05
Speaker 1: of vampire.
32:06
Speaker 4: Sorry, Brandon, what is it based on?
32:10
Speaker 1: She said? I said, well, sorry, you look great, man.
32:13
Speaker 1: She was like Beige olt Age, whoa, I gotta use
32:18
Speaker 1: that weeic.
32:28
Speaker 3: So your stand up is something that's become a destination
32:31
Speaker 3: for you. How do you feel about stand up?
32:33
Speaker 1: Well?
32:33
Speaker 3: How did the people were like, oh, you should do
32:35
Speaker 3: stand up now? Like it's very different than what you're doing.
32:38
Speaker 3: We just discussed the fact that I, in my heart
32:40
Speaker 3: think you're an actor, and and now people are like,
32:43
Speaker 3: get on stage and tell us a story for for
32:46
Speaker 3: you know, twenty minutes or whatever it is.
32:49
Speaker 2: I mean it's crazy. I mean I didn't think I
32:52
Speaker 2: was gonna do this part, and so the stand up
32:54
Speaker 2: was even way out of ever, like why would you
32:58
Speaker 2: even think of doing that?
32:59
Speaker 1: You know? But so you're doing stand up now right now?
33:03
Speaker 2: Yeah? I just finished the tour like a few two
33:07
Speaker 2: three weeks ago.
33:08
Speaker 1: How long is your set?
33:09
Speaker 2: An hour?
33:11
Speaker 1: You put together an hour set. It's incredible. Man, that's
33:16
Speaker 1: incredible man.
33:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it you know, it's it's it's so nice
33:22
Speaker 2: because like some of these people have been there since
33:25
Speaker 2: the beginning. Yeah, they've been there since the since the pandemic. Yeah,
33:29
Speaker 2: and I'm like, damn, like they're said, your old ass
33:32
Speaker 2: come yeah this group.
33:34
Speaker 3: Like it's like, how does it feel when you walk
33:36
Speaker 3: into theater and you're like, Okay, I gotta put an
33:37
Speaker 3: hour show right now, But then you look at the
33:39
Speaker 3: audience that showed up and bought a ticket to see you.
33:42
Speaker 2: No, it's it's it genuinely is an honor because I'm like,
33:46
Speaker 2: you know, it's I say, it's it's one thing to
33:50
Speaker 2: to support and be so loving from home to pay
33:55
Speaker 2: for parking, you know what I mean, Like that's a lot,
33:59
Speaker 2: get a sitter, and then these clubs have two drunk
34:02
Speaker 2: to drink minimums. Yeah, like they're spending a lot. So
34:07
Speaker 2: I'm like, please laugh three times at least, like and
34:10
Speaker 2: if not, like whatever you need after you know, vacuum.
34:14
Speaker 2: But it's it's, I mean, it really is. It's crazy,
34:17
Speaker 2: and it's I never you know, it's such a strange
34:21
Speaker 2: feeling to go to another town and have like these
34:26
Speaker 2: four sold out rooms at a place that you've never
34:31
Speaker 2: been to too, and I've never been there, you know.
34:33
Speaker 2: And then and like you guys like they're sponsoring my
34:37
Speaker 2: my trip to go try random cool things in Chicago
34:41
Speaker 2: or go blackout in San Antonio. I don't know, like
34:45
Speaker 2: that's that's crazy.
34:47
Speaker 1: Is your is your is your Hour Special sort of reflected?
34:50
Speaker 2: Uh?
34:51
Speaker 1: Is it sort of a variation of the skits you
34:54
Speaker 1: were doing already.
34:55
Speaker 2: It's there's it's you know, it's talking about some of
34:57
Speaker 2: the people in society, but a lot of it is
35:01
Speaker 2: is you know, they're they're kind of seeing the person
35:06
Speaker 2: they're they're seeing the people watcher. They're talking to the
35:08
Speaker 2: people watcher, you know, the person behind all this kids,
35:11
Speaker 2: that's who's talking that night. And and I'm kind of
35:14
Speaker 2: I like to think of it as I'm kind of
35:16
Speaker 2: putting like a mirror on the stage and like about you,
35:20
Speaker 2: like this is what the videos are. They're all about you, Like,
35:22
Speaker 2: this is what you look like to me? Uh uh
35:26
Speaker 2: an only child, you know, who's just like interested in everybody.
35:31
Speaker 2: And and so that's what that well, that's what that is.
35:33
Speaker 2: And it's been it's been cool. You know I've been
35:39
Speaker 2: I just go with it, you know. I never thought
35:42
Speaker 2: about doing it. And then I was with like a
35:46
Speaker 2: little over a year ago, mar Solo Hernandez was performing
35:49
Speaker 2: in UH in Ontario and and he uh we had
35:55
Speaker 2: we had uh we had just had breakfasts a few
35:59
Speaker 2: weeks before, and he was, you should do some stand up.
36:01
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm good. And and then we're on
36:04
Speaker 2: Ontario and he's like, if you come, like you're in
36:06
Speaker 2: do five minutes. And I was like, all right, I
36:08
Speaker 2: won't go then, and I was no, but I was
36:10
Speaker 2: like I'll go.
36:11
Speaker 4: I was like, fine' so okay.
36:12
Speaker 3: So the process of your like five minutes, what do
36:15
Speaker 3: I say for five minutes?
36:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what to say. I was like,
36:19
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't in the last five years,
36:23
Speaker 2: I don't think I've been a part of anything, you
36:27
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But then when I was up there,
36:29
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I'll just talk about Marcelo. I'll
36:31
Speaker 2: talk about I'll talk about this whole thing. And and
36:35
Speaker 2: it felt good. It was it was nice and and yeah,
36:40
Speaker 2: it was nice, you know, and I never have, like,
36:42
Speaker 2: you know, had that experience, and and the good thing
36:46
Speaker 2: is like, you know, Marcelo and I we have because
36:50
Speaker 2: it matters. I've I've seen it. We have a similar audience.
36:53
Speaker 2: I can't walk into Jay Leno's audience, you know, they're
36:57
Speaker 2: not gonna know me, and and but with him, it
37:01
Speaker 2: was very helpful that they did. And then a few
37:03
Speaker 2: months later I went, I was in New York with
37:07
Speaker 2: my eggs and I uh and I now and uh
37:16
Speaker 2: and I'm Marcelo was I told him I want to
37:18
Speaker 2: come to your show and He's like, all right, I
37:20
Speaker 2: do five minutes all that. So I did it. And
37:22
Speaker 2: then after I was like, damn, this is crazy, this
37:24
Speaker 2: is cool whatever, But now I'm good from doing it again.
37:28
Speaker 2: But then I'm in Paris for the Olympics and I
37:33
Speaker 2: and I FaceTime Marcelo because we're leaving. He's at the
37:36
Speaker 2: airport leaving. I'm getting there, and I was like that
37:39
Speaker 2: day I was like on the bike, I was riding
37:41
Speaker 2: through Paris by myself, got the music on and I
37:44
Speaker 2: was like, fuck, let's go on to her, you know
37:47
Speaker 2: what I mean, just like just like I'm in pair
37:50
Speaker 2: like that, all like all that brought me to this.
37:52
Speaker 2: Imagine if I just do more things that are like
37:55
Speaker 2: feel foreign, you know, And I was like bonjoy, like sure.
38:02
Speaker 5: And.
38:07
Speaker 2: So I.
38:11
Speaker 6: Could go cout go Yeah, man, I feel like, you know,
38:18
Speaker 6: I don't know what you call the universe god. People
38:21
Speaker 6: they kind of tell you where you should be going, right,
38:24
Speaker 6: And if enough people were saying go in this direction
38:27
Speaker 6: and do stand up and do all, you know, everything
38:29
Speaker 6: that you it almost seems like a lot of what
38:32
Speaker 6: you are doing now is because the people around you
38:35
Speaker 6: have been encouraging to do it right, because they're seeing
38:38
Speaker 6: something in you that perhaps you weren't seeing in yourself
38:42
Speaker 6: prior to.
38:42
Speaker 2: That, right, and I know, I feel like I had
38:44
Speaker 2: a lot of that yeah. And then and then I
38:47
Speaker 2: get to Marcello, and then he was the opposite of that.
38:51
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
38:52
Speaker 2: He tells me he's like the very first time, he's like,
38:54
Speaker 2: do do five minutes at the Ontario Show. And I
38:58
Speaker 2: was like, all right, if I go, I go. And
39:01
Speaker 2: I'm used to people being so nice for years, like you're,
39:04
Speaker 2: you know, super supportive, supportive. And then Marcelo tells me
39:10
Speaker 2: he's like, come and do five minutes. But if you
39:14
Speaker 2: don't do the five minutes, I won't ask you about it,
39:18
Speaker 2: Like I won't be disappointed. I won't we don't talk
39:21
Speaker 2: about it. Damn damn. Like I've never been challenged like that,
39:29
Speaker 2: Like I had like a stern fathering.
39:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost like, man, if you don't if you
39:34
Speaker 3: come and you don't do the five minutes, I know
39:36
Speaker 3: you don't want it.
39:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, ah and sound that I don't want it.
39:40
Speaker 4: It's just like okay, Yeah.
39:43
Speaker 2: I was like, now I can't let him down by
39:45
Speaker 2: not not letting him down, you know, Like I was like,
39:49
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna go and I'm gonna be funny now.
39:52
Speaker 2: And I was so scared, Like driving to Ontario went
39:55
Speaker 2: by myself and I was driving, I was like shaking.
39:58
Speaker 2: I was like, bro, I can't believe I'm gonna do this. Yeah,
40:00
Speaker 2: And then I get there and.
40:02
Speaker 3: You don't understand, like how how much pressured being on
40:06
Speaker 3: a stage with a microphone in a crowd who literally
40:09
Speaker 3: paid to laugh, right, Like their return of their investment
40:15
Speaker 3: has to be laughs, right. But you know, through this,
40:18
Speaker 3: you put that pressure on yourself and then you don't
40:20
Speaker 3: enjoy the crowd. You think the crowd is there already
40:23
Speaker 3: judging you. You know, it's like it flips, but so wait,
40:26
Speaker 3: your five minutes. What are the five minutes about?
40:28
Speaker 2: You know what I I talked about Paris and at
40:33
Speaker 2: that time, because you remember the opening Life, I said
40:36
Speaker 2: something about because it was during that time that that
40:41
Speaker 2: the that the person in the in the he flipped
40:45
Speaker 2: and you remember that he did what I can't really
40:47
Speaker 2: do it on the podcast, but he was like he
40:51
Speaker 2: was going over the thing and like all of him
40:53
Speaker 2: went up and flipped. Oh okay, you remember that, Leo.
40:56
Speaker 1: Oh he landed on the on the pole. Was that
40:59
Speaker 1: that that.
40:59
Speaker 2: Dude his his his pole went over the pole.
41:06
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And I talked about that.
41:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that was my I think that.
41:12
Speaker 3: Was then he hit himself with with with well he
41:15
Speaker 3: was he's what's the name of that sport, the high jump? Right,
41:19
Speaker 3: So you're rolling with the stick, right, and you hit
41:22
Speaker 3: on the ground and then you you have it bring
41:27
Speaker 3: you up to it to a high, to a certain high,
41:30
Speaker 3: to a certain you know height, and then and then
41:33
Speaker 3: you're supposed to flip over it and not and the
41:37
Speaker 3: stick has to stay there. Apparently he flew over and
41:42
Speaker 3: just missed it by like maybe an inch and a
41:44
Speaker 3: half and basically his Monaco just off of the pole
41:51
Speaker 3: and he was like, and then people saw it in
41:54
Speaker 3: slow motion globally he became a global sensation.
41:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's what I think. That was
42:02
Speaker 2: what I something about that, like, I hope you guys
42:04
Speaker 2: saw me at the Olympics or something. I forgot, but
42:08
Speaker 2: that's why that was the biggest thing. And then just
42:11
Speaker 2: about traveling pretty much being likening. Oh yeah, I just
42:15
Speaker 2: got back from Paris.
42:17
Speaker 4: Yeah that's very good. Well that's how it works, you know.
42:24
Speaker 4: So what's next for you? What is the next thing
42:26
Speaker 4: you got lined up?
42:26
Speaker 2: Well, by the time this is I have past, but
42:30
Speaker 2: I'm doing the Netflix is a Joke festival on Saturday.
42:33
Speaker 2: And when they told me about that, my agents they're like,
42:37
Speaker 2: do you want to do it? And I was like, yeah,
42:39
Speaker 2: I'll do it. I thought they were being like, you know,
42:43
Speaker 2: maybe not. I thought I'd have to go through something.
42:46
Speaker 2: And then the poster came out. I was like, damn,
42:48
Speaker 2: I guess I'm gonna do the festival.
42:50
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
42:51
Speaker 3: And by the way, the best comedians of this entire
42:54
Speaker 3: generation are on that lineup, which.
42:56
Speaker 4: You should be really proud of yourself for.
42:57
Speaker 2: That's wild. Yeah, it's crazy, and so yeah, thankfully it
43:05
Speaker 2: sold out a few days ago, and and it's at
43:07
Speaker 2: a theater and and like arts district, and and I
43:12
Speaker 2: got some cool things planned because I wanted to feel very,
43:17
Speaker 2: very prideful. I wanted to feel very because you know
43:21
Speaker 2: what I always wanted to do. And if anybody wants
43:24
Speaker 2: to talk about this, I want to do this thing
43:26
Speaker 2: where you do a comedy show in a city, and
43:29
Speaker 2: then that same place where you just do the show,
43:33
Speaker 2: clear the chairs, and then at turans to just a
43:35
Speaker 2: party like a club, you know, So maybe we'll started
43:40
Speaker 2: in Fresno.
43:41
Speaker 4: At that point people would be losing goose, you know.
43:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we just laughed. And now we all turn
43:45
Speaker 2: up with it, right, you know, it's a proper follow
43:48
Speaker 2: up the show.
43:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. That's a good idea.
43:51
Speaker 1: Man.
43:51
Speaker 3: Well congratulations and Netflix. Uh it's a joke. I mean,
43:55
Speaker 3: I love that lineup. I love how it activates community.
43:58
Speaker 3: I love how it just travels everywhere in this It
44:00
Speaker 3: is really really fun and you're gonna you're gonna kill it.
44:03
Speaker 1: Man.
44:04
Speaker 4: How long is that said?
44:05
Speaker 2: It's an hour, It's an hour. The show's ninety minutes.
44:08
Speaker 4: Somebody opening for you. Yeah, think about that though.
44:12
Speaker 1: I think by the body opening.
44:14
Speaker 4: Somebody's for you?
44:26
Speaker 2: No, I have you know Whidow. Yeah, yeah, he's doing
44:31
Speaker 2: the opening and I'm such a fan of him. I
44:34
Speaker 2: was he's opening for you, not like that, like I
44:38
Speaker 2: was not going first?
44:39
Speaker 4: Okay, like that, how long is it said?
44:43
Speaker 2: He's doing fifteen minutes? I okay, Like okay, you know,
44:55
Speaker 2: And there's some musicians before the show because when they
44:59
Speaker 2: give me, you know, the doors open at six, so
45:01
Speaker 2: I'm like, the show don't start till seven, but from
45:04
Speaker 2: six to seven, I'm like, let's do some programming there too.
45:07
Speaker 2: So I hired a band who's gonna just be doing
45:09
Speaker 2: like gorrillas, you know, because I want them to. I'm like,
45:13
Speaker 2: if we're there, let's use the space, you know, while
45:16
Speaker 2: we have it. So so there's every everybody.
45:19
Speaker 3: You enjoying that now, like you enjoying the stage time? Now,
45:22
Speaker 3: like are you flowing with it? I'm not enjoying it. No, No,
45:25
Speaker 3: I don't get I don't get as stressed. I think
45:27
Speaker 3: right now, this one feels like the higher stakes one
45:30
Speaker 3: just because like.
45:31
Speaker 2: Everybody, but they love you.
45:34
Speaker 4: Man, You're gonna you do great.
45:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's at the specific electric It's it's like a
45:40
Speaker 2: newer place you open this year. But it feels it
45:45
Speaker 2: feels it feels nice, and it just feels like, you know,
45:48
Speaker 2: I'm constantly having these moments of like, damn, like this
45:52
Speaker 2: is it? Like we're in it? Like when when did
45:56
Speaker 2: we go in it? When did it? You know you
45:58
Speaker 2: kind of like don't realize what what Which moment in
46:02
Speaker 2: the last few years was one of this, Oh yeah,
46:06
Speaker 2: you know it.
46:07
Speaker 3: I don't know, Freddy, you can offer any instinct there
46:10
Speaker 3: in there too, but you know from Tod've been uniform
46:13
Speaker 3: for a long time. I would tell you that once
46:15
Speaker 3: you're in it, some of us have a tough time
46:18
Speaker 3: blink like being present because we blink and all of
46:23
Speaker 3: a sudden, like oh ten years, we blink like you know,
46:26
Speaker 3: not not for anything. I say this and like just
46:28
Speaker 3: like to reflect in the fact that it just happened
46:30
Speaker 3: to me. I was in New York doing press. It's
46:34
Speaker 3: somebody said, congratulations on your two hundred episodes. I didn't
46:37
Speaker 3: see I is, And I was like, bro, I just
46:40
Speaker 3: got there right, So like you know, if you blink it,
46:44
Speaker 3: it's going to go by.
46:45
Speaker 1: But it was like a.
46:45
Speaker 3: Decade that's almost ten years now, and I and I
46:50
Speaker 3: just tied that seventy show for two hundred, So I
46:53
Speaker 3: did two hundred seventy show. But so it's like it
46:56
Speaker 3: just and I don't I don't remember it being that long,
47:00
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So the fact that you're
47:03
Speaker 3: acknowledging that this moment that you're in it now, it's
47:06
Speaker 3: just more of a reason to just don't forget to
47:08
Speaker 3: enjoy it.
47:09
Speaker 2: I constantly I'm like telling myself, I feel this, bitch, Yeah,
47:13
Speaker 2: have fun. When I left the taping earlier, I was like,
47:18
Speaker 2: give me my bagel, and I was like, oh my god,
47:20
Speaker 2: this is cool. Like I just I got the nice
47:22
Speaker 2: water bottle, you know, like we're in it, like this
47:25
Speaker 2: is it, and it's it's so nice to have work,
47:28
Speaker 2: to be able to like like this is this is
47:30
Speaker 2: it working?
47:31
Speaker 1: This is it?
47:32
Speaker 2: This is it? In the version where ith.
47:34
Speaker 4: But this is you doing who you are. You understand that,
47:38
Speaker 4: like you've just become what you what you wanted, either
47:41
Speaker 4: accidentally or by manifestation.
47:44
Speaker 1: Now you are being who you are.
47:46
Speaker 3: And now when you perform and the strength of what
47:49
Speaker 3: you decided, this is who you are.
47:52
Speaker 1: Dude.
47:52
Speaker 4: It's it's it's magical because now you're in that road.
47:55
Speaker 4: Now you all you have.
47:56
Speaker 3: All you can do now is grow, create, and it
48:00
Speaker 3: and the more fun you have, the more fun they will.
48:02
Speaker 1: You know.
48:02
Speaker 4: That's the rule, and that's what it is.
48:04
Speaker 3: And when something is not fun, stop, pause, fix it, yeah,
48:08
Speaker 3: and then get back to the fun.
48:09
Speaker 4: Because this ship is supposed to be fun.
48:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it and it is it is. I
48:14
Speaker 2: I like to make sure that the that the magic
48:17
Speaker 2: dust stays in it, you know, because there's certain people
48:21
Speaker 2: like that I look up to that I'm like, I
48:23
Speaker 2: don't ever want to meet them, not because of that
48:25
Speaker 2: thing of like your heroes. I don't want to meet
48:27
Speaker 2: them because I want still magic, you know. I want
48:31
Speaker 2: there to still be something that I can't reach, that
48:33
Speaker 2: I can't that I don't want to my favorite band.
48:36
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't want to meet them because I
48:38
Speaker 2: who's your favorite band? They're from Colombia.
48:46
Speaker 7: Come in, God, my god, that'd be crazy. You should
48:58
Speaker 7: have I know you.
49:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, but now that you mentioned that, we're gonna have
49:04
Speaker 3: to tell Carlos and to go home.
49:05
Speaker 1: You know, Oh no, come in.
49:08
Speaker 3: There's a stage right there, bro oh five minutes, because it's.
49:15
Speaker 2: How humble? Quick?
49:17
Speaker 4: Are you humbled?
49:18
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, no, man, but keep keep doing what
49:20
Speaker 6: feels organic to you, because it's obviously who you are
49:24
Speaker 6: is what's working.
49:26
Speaker 1: You know.
49:27
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure the bigger you get, the more money
49:29
Speaker 6: you're going to start to make. You know, you may
49:31
Speaker 6: have other influences steering you in different directions, but just
49:35
Speaker 6: stay true to ye who you are. Man.
49:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, well man, thank you so much for coming. And
49:42
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see now just the next chapter
49:44
Speaker 3: but hopefully all of us be a part of it somehow.
49:47
Speaker 2: And anyone want to do five minutes on my show ever,
49:49
Speaker 2: let me know, let me know, I might on my
49:53
Speaker 2: one day, on my one day.
49:55
Speaker 4: Come on one day.
49:56
Speaker 3: The only thing I can do for you if I
49:58
Speaker 3: and like I said, I think if you ask me,
50:00
Speaker 3: I like, if if Leo asked me one day, like,
50:01
Speaker 3: hey man, I want you to do five minutes on my show,
50:04
Speaker 3: and whatever could you do it.
50:08
Speaker 2: Minutes?
50:09
Speaker 3: I'm like, I would have to be very obvious and
50:12
Speaker 3: I would have to do like a dramatic monologue for
50:16
Speaker 3: five minutes as faz.
50:19
Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be great, That'd be crazy.
50:22
Speaker 4: It's the only thing I can pull out of that hat.
50:24
Speaker 1: Would you come with the with the with the hair,
50:26
Speaker 1: and I.
50:27
Speaker 4: Would ask everybody to close their eyes for five minutes.
50:33
Speaker 4: That would be my five minute, you know moment. But
50:36
Speaker 4: I don't know stand up communities. I mean I buy
50:38
Speaker 4: down by the home. Who know how to tell a
50:42
Speaker 4: story for an hour?
50:42
Speaker 1: Man?
50:43
Speaker 3: So yeah, I got to go to the cheap shot,
50:46
Speaker 3: you know, like, but yeah, that's incredible, man, No, that'd
50:49
Speaker 3: be great.
50:50
Speaker 1: Man. We're incredibly proud of you. Man.
50:51
Speaker 6: We always talk about the baton getting passed down the
50:56
Speaker 6: different generations. We talk about the generations that came before us, right,
51:00
Speaker 6: people that we were watching, and then all of a
51:01
Speaker 6: sudden we're in their place and you're you're the note.
51:04
Speaker 6: You're the new generation. Man, You're the baton has been
51:07
Speaker 6: passed to you.
51:08
Speaker 1: Yeah.
51:08
Speaker 2: I feel I feel lucky because I I have a
51:12
Speaker 2: lot of you know, Constance Marie yesterday we were with
51:15
Speaker 2: her and she said the similar type of.
51:17
Speaker 1: Thing was beautiful person.
51:20
Speaker 2: So and that's I feel so lucky because it's like
51:25
Speaker 2: to be so helpful? Is so? Is it so important
51:29
Speaker 2: when when you're doing this thing and you know, it
51:33
Speaker 2: feels already weird, and then and then you know people
51:37
Speaker 2: that you look up to being so nice, you know,
51:39
Speaker 2: it's crazy and and you know, and and when when
51:42
Speaker 2: I the night that we met at the that was
51:45
Speaker 2: like twenty twenty two, maybe twenty three, I don't know,
51:48
Speaker 2: the that dinner, you know, like the white suit on
51:52
Speaker 2: and bro that night, I was like, bro, I have
51:56
Speaker 2: to go meet them. I was I broke because I
51:58
Speaker 2: I for who I was with, probably another X but
52:02
Speaker 2: we were We were there and I was like, I
52:05
Speaker 2: just want to see if I can say high cause
52:07
Speaker 2: I get because I don't like to say hi to
52:09
Speaker 2: anybody because I'm like I don't want to bother them,
52:11
Speaker 2: like you know. But I was like, let me go.
52:13
Speaker 2: And then you like when you said you do me already,
52:16
Speaker 2: that was one of those moments. I was like, I
52:19
Speaker 2: guess we can't. We have to stay in LA for
52:22
Speaker 2: another year, you know what I mean. Like that's one
52:25
Speaker 2: of those like you have those moments and it's like
52:28
Speaker 2: for me honor to hear that it's true.
52:31
Speaker 4: I was very.
52:32
Speaker 3: Genuinely excited when you came up. I was like, bro,
52:34
Speaker 3: I know exactly who you are.
52:36
Speaker 2: That's literally how you said it. Yeah, And it was
52:39
Speaker 2: it was huge. It was It's happened only three times
52:43
Speaker 2: in almost six years where it's like this is this
52:47
Speaker 2: moment was like adding my adding you know, another year
52:52
Speaker 2: to the contract of maybe this is fine, maybe this
52:56
Speaker 2: is gonna be okay, And that was.
53:00
Speaker 1: To sign wow, thank you for sharing that.
53:03
Speaker 2: Man.
53:03
Speaker 4: I didn't know that that's.
53:06
Speaker 2: So now this is actually that's crazy.
53:09
Speaker 4: And now Freddy is doing five minutes.
53:12
Speaker 2: Five minutes, five minutes, I'll do forty five maybe wells.
53:19
Speaker 4: Congratulations, You're so proud of you man.
53:21
Speaker 3: And by the way, like we need you, right, we
53:23
Speaker 3: need you to keep succeeding, we need you to keep
53:25
Speaker 3: moving it forward. And uh, you know you said you're next, right,
53:28
Speaker 3: so so go and go and enjoy it and then
53:30
Speaker 3: tell everyone how beautiful our culture is too.
53:33
Speaker 6: Right.
53:33
Speaker 3: So that's part of that's part of the message of
53:35
Speaker 3: of what you embodied with art. So I'm Wilma Valdorama,
53:39
Speaker 3: Freddie Rodriguez, was Leo Gonzalez, and uh, thank you for
53:43
Speaker 3: watching or listening to Those Amigos.
53:49
Speaker 6: Those Amigos is a production from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's
53:53
Speaker 6: Michael Through That podcast network, hosted by me, Freddie Rodriguez,
53:57
Speaker 6: and Wilmer Valdorama.
53:58
Speaker 3: Those Amigos is produced by Cooper and Sophie Spencer savels Our.
54:02
Speaker 6: Executive producers are Wilmri Valderrama, Freddie Rodriguez, and Leo Clem
54:06
Speaker 6: at WV Sound.
54:08
Speaker 3: This show is mixed and mastered by Sean Tracy and
54:11
Speaker 3: original music by Madison Devenport and Hala Boy.
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54:20
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54:21
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