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Quote Me…“Say It, Believe It, Live It” · Dos Amigos

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  Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm Wiman about drama.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to those amigos here on the Beautiful iHeart platform.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, and today Wilmer, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: quotes we live by, Quotes that inspire us. It could
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  Speaker 1: be from a person, It could be something you read
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  Speaker 1: in the stall in the bathroom, could be I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want to read that one so inappropriate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have a if I may share this,
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  Speaker 1: you have a wonderful neon sign upstairs. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I first came to your house, I thought, oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: look at that. I just thought it looked pretty and
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  Speaker 1: it worked really well with the aesthetic of your home.
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  Speaker 1: But then today you took me up there and you
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  Speaker 1: really had me look at it and read it and
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  Speaker 1: really sort of meditate on it. But tell tell everybody
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  Speaker 1: what the sign is and what it says and what
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  Speaker 1: it means.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a neon sign that's in my kind of
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  Speaker 3: like my breakfast area, my kitchen area. It's kind of
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  Speaker 3: the area that you know, I kind of filter through
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  Speaker 3: before I go to work in the morning or before
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  Speaker 3: I go to the gym in the morning. And it
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  Speaker 3: reads and it says, if you woke up this morning,
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  Speaker 3: you're already winning. And some of you who have been
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  Speaker 3: listening from the beginning you probably have heard me kind
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  Speaker 3: of softly say it in between conversations and all that
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of things in my life. The pointed
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  Speaker 3: to stand still, look around, take a deep breath, just
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  Speaker 3: appreciate where you are in this moment. Somebody put it
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  Speaker 3: like this, somebody this morning they didn't take a breath. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: somebody this morning. Unfortunately it's no longer with us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so as.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so for me waking up in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's like a win. Yeah, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: were given another day, you know. So it was my
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  Speaker 3: way of kind of reminding myself to not take for granted,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the day that I've been given, to make
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  Speaker 3: a difference, to work hard, to make memories, to you know,
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  Speaker 3: to live the fullest, you know, and to laugh and
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  Speaker 3: to enjoy as much to you know, to kind of
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  Speaker 3: to really reflect on all those things. So if you
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  Speaker 3: woke up this morning, you're already winning. And then I
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  Speaker 3: added to that, if you woke up this morning, you're
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  Speaker 3: already winning. How much more winning do you want to
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  Speaker 3: do today. So the idea was that like you dug
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  Speaker 3: in and you you you plant your feet and you
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  Speaker 3: and you dig, dig, dig and see you have you know,
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  Speaker 3: how much harder can you work today? How much more
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  Speaker 3: can you reach out to and build community and whatever?
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  Speaker 3: So so that's and and it really changed a lot
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  Speaker 3: for me because it made it forced me to appreciate
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  Speaker 3: the day ahead of me. It also forced me to
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  Speaker 3: kind of appreciate where I was in the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Without having to dwell.
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  Speaker 3: Too much about what tomorrow looks like, or what next
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  Speaker 3: week looks like or in the next two years, even
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  Speaker 3: though we always have these plans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's really important to not forget that.
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  Speaker 3: If you woke up this morning and you took dig
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  Speaker 3: breath and you've been giving life today, what are you
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  Speaker 3: going to do with the life you were given this morning?
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  Speaker 2: So so that's where it took me.
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  Speaker 1: Why was it so important for you to have it
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  Speaker 1: made in a neon sign?
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  Speaker 3: I never want to forget it. Yeah, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to forget it. I don't want to take for granted.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to just wake up in two weeks
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  Speaker 3: went by and I can't even remember what.
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  Speaker 2: Last Tuesday was right.
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  Speaker 3: That's why when we went back to the beginning with
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  Speaker 3: the you know the podcast and we talked.
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  Speaker 2: About my hour a Day.
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  Speaker 3: My hour a day was a way of saying, how
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  Speaker 3: do I remember Tuesday? So if every day feels like
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  Speaker 3: this routine. You wake up in the morning, you go
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  Speaker 3: to work, then you go to lunch, then you you know,
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  Speaker 3: you come home and you watch the one episode of
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  Speaker 3: the one thing, you go to sleep, you do it
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  Speaker 3: all over again. If in twenty four hours you don't
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  Speaker 3: have one one hour for yourself, Yeah, how do you
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  Speaker 3: remember Tuesday? How do you remember Friday? How do you
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  Speaker 3: remember Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Right? You know, so.
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  Speaker 3: My hour a day, it's like, how do I define
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  Speaker 3: what do I do for myself for that hour?
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  Speaker 2: Do I meditate? Do I work out or go for
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  Speaker 2: a run?
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  Speaker 3: Do I you know, do I read my chapter my
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  Speaker 3: favorite book? Do I do I listen to those Amigos,
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  Speaker 3: my favorite podcast, the best podcast in the universe of podcasting,
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  Speaker 3: and everything that's every released in the universe podcasting agreed,
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  Speaker 3: definitely so much better than most of the podcasting, Like
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  Speaker 3: many actors I've had out there, So it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so so listen to at least two or three or four,
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  Speaker 3: though sometimes one episode is an hour, right, sometimes an.
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  Speaker 2: Episode is two hours because these guys won't stop talking.
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  Speaker 2: But those guys are great. I love them.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, I'm a huge fan, huge freaking fan. So
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  Speaker 3: when you think about that, you know, it's like, what
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  Speaker 3: do you do in that one hour?
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing that one hour?
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  Speaker 1: I hear it shot in the cool speak easy too.
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  Speaker 3: It isn't a really cool speople kind of like this
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  Speaker 3: one maybe different because I don't know. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think they color corrected differently like this.
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  Speaker 2: It looks it looks different. But my point is is.
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  Speaker 3: That that's one of the reasons why do't forget that
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  Speaker 3: I was giving the gift of breathing again that when
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  Speaker 3: your eyes open up you look to your left, you
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  Speaker 3: might be able to see your four year old daughter
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  Speaker 3: sleeping in the room with you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: Right, you know, you open your eyes, your dog is
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the bed looking at you, waiting
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  Speaker 3: for you to let them out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like there's little things.
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  Speaker 3: That you wake up and you get to do again,
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  Speaker 3: but there's also opportunities to do something for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, if you woke up this morning, you're
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  Speaker 3: already winning. How much more winning you want to do?
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  Speaker 1: And it's rooted in gratitude, Yes, it is the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of that of that quote.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which also keeps it keeps pushing you to do
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  Speaker 3: the uncomfortable, not the complacent. You know, routines that make
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  Speaker 3: you feel safe.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in order to grow.
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  Speaker 3: You have to push yourself beyond the uncomfortable, right, you
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  Speaker 3: have to kind of deal with the uncomfortable as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if you're.
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  Speaker 3: Already winning, you know you're not gonna gain an l
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  Speaker 3: by and by doing the uncomfort do you do you
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  Speaker 3: think it also makes you go.
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  Speaker 1: Besides that, right, you know, there's sometimes as we as
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  Speaker 1: we talk about gratitude, you know, because it's so easy,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like for us to go, oh man, the
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  Speaker 1: thing I was trying to get off the ground didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: or like that part I wanted didn't happen, or like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the thing in the last decade that I've
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  Speaker 1: really been focusing on real heavy is like it's like, wow, man, my.
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  Speaker 2: You know I have this.
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  Speaker 1: I have a house, man, you know, I have food
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  Speaker 1: on the table, Like my kids are good, My kids
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  Speaker 1: are healthy, my bills are paid. My as we talk
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  Speaker 1: about rooted in gratitude, like I've really been focusing on
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  Speaker 1: that lately a lot.
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  Speaker 2: What drives you that? When what what brings you to
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  Speaker 2: that point of gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's I guess. I guess for me is you know,
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  Speaker 1: seeing seeing how other people don't have it as good
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  Speaker 1: as we do, man, And a lot of time when
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  Speaker 1: I in my prayers, you know, I always try to
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  Speaker 1: pray for people who don't have it as as good
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  Speaker 1: as me, man, and just ask God to kind of
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  Speaker 1: bless them as well. And it makes you grateful for
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  Speaker 1: what you have, man, You know what you have? Would
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  Speaker 1: I prefer to, like, you know, be Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we all would, right, But like.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for what I have, Man, I'm grateful for
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  Speaker 1: the for the work that I have. I'm grateful that
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  Speaker 1: the income that I've made to pay my bills, or
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  Speaker 1: the car that i have, or the house that I have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I'm grateful for what I have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And so so gratitude has most definitely been at the
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  Speaker 1: root of it all. But when I when I for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily like a quote like for me, like
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  Speaker 1: it's more of a Bible verse that that I I
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  Speaker 1: like a lot, and it's uh, it's it's Isaiah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 2: It right here.
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  Speaker 1: I want to just make sure I got it, get
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  Speaker 1: it right. Isaiah sixty twenty two says, when the time
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  Speaker 1: is right, I the Lord will make it happen. And
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  Speaker 1: and the reason why that resonates with me like every
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  Speaker 1: single day is because I feel like, in our profession,
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  Speaker 1: we're always in this pursuit right right, in the pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of like, like I said, getting something off the ground
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  Speaker 1: or getting this thing or whatever, and I gotta you
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  Speaker 1: gotta sometimes remind yourself that it's not your timing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it happens when it's supposed to happen, and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: that and that Bible verse keeps me grounded and keeps
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  Speaker 1: me sane because I've you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that I know in our industry who who are
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  Speaker 1: not rooted in that and and and so much of
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  Speaker 1: what they do and so much of what they believe
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  Speaker 1: in is so rooted on or measured by me getting
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  Speaker 1: this part or me getting this thing or be you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that could drive you insane. In this business,
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  Speaker 1: and so you have to kind of change your frame
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  Speaker 1: of thinking in order to be able to survive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and and not everyone's timing is the same, right,
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  Speaker 3: And then you, you know, sometimes you fall in the
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  Speaker 3: trap of, you know, of of creating this imaginary parallel
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  Speaker 3: tracks to other individuals or entities or or you know,
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  Speaker 3: evolutions that you're like, well, I'm not part of that evolution.
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  Speaker 2: Why I'm not keeping up with that? You know?
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  Speaker 3: And the truth is you're gonna carve it at the
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  Speaker 3: moment where you're the strongest to hold it and keep
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  Speaker 3: it and like hell it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and I.
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  Speaker 3: Think that's the the interesting thing to think about what
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, Like the timing is everything. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: you also think about the different times in your life
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  Speaker 3: where you've had certain levels of wisdom. Would you have
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  Speaker 3: been able to hold the opportunity if we will come
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  Speaker 3: to you ten years ago, twenty years ago, or is
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  Speaker 3: this the time where you're old enough and young enough
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  Speaker 3: to actually lead it into a completely different level.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe you, Freddy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you write, you direct, you produce, and you
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  Speaker 3: are an incredible performer. Tons of people are like, this
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  Speaker 3: guy is a real deal. So you think about all
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  Speaker 3: those skills that you gathered through near like, right now
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  Speaker 3: is the time for you to make the uncomfortable funkle?
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  Speaker 3: Like what is the thing? How do you push beyond
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  Speaker 3: what you know? Most people feel comfortable boxing you in? Right,
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  Speaker 3: And like, you know, you brought up Tom Cruise and
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  Speaker 3: it's an interesting example because he continues to define to
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  Speaker 3: like define the odds. Yeah, you know, it continues to
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  Speaker 3: rewrite the playbook for everyone. Now there's a market for
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  Speaker 3: somebody his age to still do the dynamic stuff that
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  Speaker 3: people thought that those ages don't don't do or didn't
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  Speaker 3: do back in the two thousands or in the you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the nineties or the eighties. Yeah, if you got
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  Speaker 3: a certain age, then you got play the dad. Right
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  Speaker 3: he just said, you know, okay, Brad Pig gets to
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  Speaker 3: be you know, Brad pid gets to be this, and
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  Speaker 3: like have you ever done? Gets to be this, And
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  Speaker 3: like all these individuals have now enter around where they
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  Speaker 3: can still be you know, the action stars Lia Niesen.
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  Speaker 2: You believe him kicking ass and taking it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So like I feel like that there's an interesting kind
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  Speaker 3: of paradigm shifting and opening it up.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But you just said something interesting a minute ago. You
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  Speaker 1: said about being in a position in your life where
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  Speaker 1: you're able to receive those blessings, right, because sometimes people
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  Speaker 1: do get blessed in the way that they dream and
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  Speaker 1: the way that they want, and they're not ready to
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  Speaker 1: receive those blessings.
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  Speaker 2: It goes away.
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  Speaker 1: It goes away, or it ruins you, right or you
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  Speaker 1: or you waste it right you you, it drives you crazy,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever, fall into drugs. You you know, like,
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  Speaker 1: look at you right, You're you're you're doing wonderfully. Your
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  Speaker 1: company's thriving, You're producing some such awesome heial Like, do
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  Speaker 1: you think that twenty years ago you would have been
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  Speaker 1: able to handle that responsibility or that success, not on the.
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  Speaker 2: Level that is happening now.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say that I, at the very least
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  Speaker 3: had the foresight to be hungry in the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I created your Mama when I was like.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four something like that, twenty four to twenty five. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: created your Mama on MTV. But I didn't know where
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  Speaker 3: it was going to lead. I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it'd be cool, Yes, I started cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like I'm building an empire.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's like, yeah, cool, if I produce a show
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  Speaker 3: on MTV, you know, yeah, and it started like that.
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  Speaker 2: But those are the seeds for why.
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  Speaker 3: But I agree, I wouldn't to have the foresight to
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  Speaker 3: be able to hand to speak the language I speak
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  Speaker 3: now on the executive level, on the CEO level, like ive.
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  Speaker 2: Not had you kidding me? English is my second language.
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  Speaker 3: I have barely a high school education, so I had
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  Speaker 3: to take myself into like a bachelor degree of the
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  Speaker 3: industry by wearing everyone's shoes, understand what it's like to
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  Speaker 3: walk in them, to then find the the find the
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  Speaker 3: wisdom that turned into the efficient opinion and point of view. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: that made you intentionally thrive to grow into the thing
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  Speaker 3: that you are right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, so you went through this evolution and this
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  Speaker 1: growing period in order to be able to get to
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  Speaker 1: where so you you you work towards it. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: do you think that if and this is something that
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  Speaker 1: you always aspire to, right and then and then and
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  Speaker 1: then you were you were blessed with it, and here
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  Speaker 1: you are and you're and you're emotionally prepared to handle
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, right, I'm saying, like, imagine you Wimer seventy
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  Speaker 1: show straight out and all of a sudden, you have
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  Speaker 1: what you have now? You know, you've you've evolved into
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  Speaker 1: the emotional maturity in order for you to be able
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  Speaker 1: to handle everything you just said. Yeah, yeah, you you you,
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  Speaker 1: you grew, you learned, you you whatever. But but but
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  Speaker 1: there's an emotional maturity to you to be able to
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  Speaker 1: receive and and and to be able to be a
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  Speaker 1: good steward of those blessings.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I think it's a recipe. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: also like a perfect storm of things. You know.
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  Speaker 3: You you also have to look at your environment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you have to look at the people you surround yourself with.
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  Speaker 3: You still, you also have to kind of take an
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  Speaker 3: inventory of you know, what are the resources available to
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  Speaker 3: you in that moment to build your small everese you know,
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  Speaker 3: and like you know, when you're starting the beginning, how
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  Speaker 3: you're just trying to get the next audition, how do
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  Speaker 3: you even have the foresight to you like I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to run a studio one day, you know. Like, but
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  Speaker 3: to your point, it's it's like, you know, your either
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  Speaker 3: lack of understanding or ability to grow emotionally mature to
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  Speaker 3: handle a responsibility like the ones that we we take
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  Speaker 3: on now, you know, has to also be part of
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  Speaker 3: an intentional mathematical equation that you have to do early
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  Speaker 3: enough to say, I can't be hanging out with the
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  Speaker 3: same you know, not go aheads. I can't you know,
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  Speaker 3: I can't be like you know, I can't be carrying
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  Speaker 3: myself that way. You know, like there's certain things that
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  Speaker 3: you have to audit along the way if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to give yourself a shot.
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  Speaker 2: I just emotionally growing.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a kind of a very conscious shedding
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  Speaker 1: period of shedding the knuckleheads, shedding the.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was very fortunate because you know, as an immigrant,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you come in here knowing you got to
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  Speaker 3: get it right from the beginning. But of course throughout
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  Speaker 3: the process you get introduced to the clicks and the
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  Speaker 3: you know, the posse's and the thing whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And I always thought, oh, I'm as strong as my possey,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the idea is like, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: an amount of posse or friends.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know group or you know or you know,
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  Speaker 2: your your.
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  Speaker 3: Surroundings either could propelled you into your next thing, or
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  Speaker 3: it can slow down the arrival of the opportunity, or
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  Speaker 3: it could hold you in the play in the same place,
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  Speaker 3: so you're so you're never gonna get to the right
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  Speaker 3: place at the right time. How crazy is that you
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  Speaker 3: can be holding in place with the people and the
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  Speaker 3: surroundings that you have, knowing that it's easy, it's you
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  Speaker 3: feel protected, you feel it's not vulnerable at all, Right,
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  Speaker 3: But then you stay in the same block radius and
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  Speaker 3: you'll never be able to be at the right time
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  Speaker 3: at the right place because you never give yourself a
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  Speaker 3: chance to like travel lighter on your feet, but at
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  Speaker 3: least if an efficient view on on like who can
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: who makes you better?
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think? What do you think that
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: barometer inside of you? Like, what does it say to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: you when when you feel like maybe I should I
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: should shed this person, or maybe I should shed this
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: bad habit that I have, right like even us as
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: human beings, you know, Like I've been really focusing on
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that lately too, Like you know habits, right, Like.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: I think it's always manifest. I mean, I tell me what.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: You know, what it's like for you too, or what
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: it was like for you too, But I know that
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: it manifested itself in like I'm exhausted to give.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what made me exhausted to give?
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is taking this much emotional uh you know, investment.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: This is taking so much more equity from me.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Like there's things around you that you know are there,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: but they're so comfortable and you don't like change and
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: it's uncomfortable let go of either the bad friendships or
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: you just just keep it around. And like so you
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: put out the fires and the name of harmony as
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: opposed to like getting rid of the fire starters, you know.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: So like so I think that's when you start really realizing,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I got to start choosing myself right now.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: If I'm gonna pay rent, Yeah, I'm gonna have to
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: choose in myself if like if I'm gonna have to
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: get to where I need to be right you know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, I can never can never trust
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: most of the industry to wish me well, you know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I trust my brothers in arms like you that you
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: know have improven in the industry and we only make
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: each other better and try to really lift each other up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: But most people don't you know, you know how it is.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So so it's like you either you have to
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: walk alone sometimes, you know, or you have to just
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: really do an inventory and really walk with those But
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: what what about for you?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: When do you know the same same life for you?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: How do I think for me? Like, as as we
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: grow older and we evolve in life and in our
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and in the industry. In life, I feel like, you know,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: you're mature, and your moral compass changes, and like you know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: when you're young, you're a knucklehead and like that stuff
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: is fun and being rebellious is cool, and like you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and you get older and you're mature, right, and then
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: sometimes there are people around you who are not maturing
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: at the same pace as you are. You know, like, dude,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I love you, but I got a you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: in order for me to mature, in order for for
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: for my compass to grow and to you know, I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: have to I have to. I have to kind of
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: keep you at arm's length.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And I think that in our business as you as
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you also mature in av ARV in our industry, I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of things that you that
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you learn, right. There's there's etiquette that you learn, There's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: there's things that you learned that that you may have
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: not known when you're first starting in the industry that
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: you learn as you get older and you're around enough
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: professionals and then you kind of get it and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you start to if you know, there's I'm constantly sort
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: of evaluating myself and doing self checks in myself and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: what I could improve, what I can't, you know, what
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: habits I have, what bad habits?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: You know. It's great.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: When we had Lewis Howe here and he was talking,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: he gave that analogy about like squeezing an orange, right,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Remember that he was talking about if you squeeze an orange,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what comes out orange juice? Right, So it's like when
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you get squeezed, like what's inside it? You you know, like
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: evaluate what's society you so that when you do get squeezed,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the right juice comes.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Out right, right, you know.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: So I think I'm constantly on that quest. And we're
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: all human, right, so like we're not perfect by no means,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: but I'm constantly just trying to evaluate what that juice
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: is so that so that when the juice duck does
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: come out, it's it's.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Right, bro, No, that's great, thank you for ever and
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: that for me, it's like you get up in the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: morning and take it to breath look around. I'm like,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: that's awesome, that's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to the gym and I'm just like gonna
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: break a sweat.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. And then you know, and then you just
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: start your day and try to like whatever challenge just comes,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: you're gonna solve it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But what about So no coffee before the gym, no food.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: No coffee before the gym. No, but sometimes when I'm
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: doing the four to thirty eight yms, yeah, yeah, give
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: me some of that caffeine.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So bad an empty stomach and you work out on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: an empty stomach.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I do work on an empty stomach.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And so all the ash it doesn't come out.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, really, no, no, no, no, I chose to not
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: have assets.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna choose not to have cancer.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's good that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I'm never I'm never gonna have it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: That's good. It's good. I highly recommend that I did.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: That's what I hear. Highly recommend.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: H Yeah, what.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Is your morning routine? I said, before we get.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: My morning routine. The second. I mean sometimes even when
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I'm in bed, I just pray that's that's really because
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I know that if if I if I get out
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of bed and I go downstairs and it's like, oh,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: let me look at my phone.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: You have a base in your house or you just
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: do it wherever you're at it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, even in my room, there's a there's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a you know, I just get on my knees, or
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: sometimes I get on a bench and I just sit. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: there's a I have a small little gym like with
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a with a with a mat. Sometimes I'll just go there.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: But I have to do it first thing because otherwise
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I get you know, that add kicks in, man, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: my brain.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Starts to go boo.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it starts to spend man. So
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: before that spinding starts to happen, I have to do it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: That And like I've been practicing TM transcendental meditation for
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: a good decade or so, I got to get better
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: at it. I got to be better about it because
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: sometimes I just get so distracted. But like it's helped
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: me in so many ways.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: It's helped me.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Regulate mood and anxiety. I feel like it's made me
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a better actor.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Because because you're more centered, more open.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because you know, you get in front of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that camera and you have thirty people behind you, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: it's so easy to get like and I feel like boom,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: it gives me, like I get so focused and I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: feel like it connects the sort of penal gland with
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: like you know, with all your everything, your gut and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: your heart and right, because acting is just all about
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: like finding the truth and so like if you're connected
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: with all this stuff, it's just about this sending the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: signal down here to like.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And you have to be aligned with your instrument.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Instrument is all of this.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: For all those young actors out there, Yeah, instrument is
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: like your entire bodies how you tell the story. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: if your mind is somewhere else, the body is not
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: going to tell the story, right, So.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah align Yeah, and you're and you're constantly I feel
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that those actors were constantly fighting. It's really easy to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: like read a script and go okay, and then here
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this face, and then here I'm gonna
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you know, here I'm gonna say it like.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: This that hey listen.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: For some people works, you know, I find for me,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: it's easier for me to to to know what the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: emotion is, and in order to get that emotion. Uh, truthfully,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I have to be sort of aligned and internally it
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: takes a lot of work, and you know, I just
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: feel like that's what works for me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Right, It's weird for me when I'm reading a script,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I cannot help but to start performing it. Yeah, of course,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: of course I'm reading the other characters lines. Yeah, it
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: turns into it turns into me making choices based on
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: what I'm hearing back from the script.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: So will you do the other characters lines?
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like I'm playing the other characters, and I'm
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: playing my character, right, So I look at my character,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: and then as they respond to me, I'm making choices
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: as them, and so then I respond to the choices
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: of those characters as the character.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: When I'm called reading it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's the only and that's why it takes me
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: a while to read a script, because I take the
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: dramatic process and everything like, yeah, I take, I internalize it,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I do the whole thing. Like so, so my first take,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: my first honest take of what my character is going
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: through in that scene is informed by how I'm reading
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the other characters.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Wow, hey man, everybody has their way of getting there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You got every you know, every everybody there is to me,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: there's no right way as well.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: It's this yeah, yeah, you know, you know how you're
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: lucky in but but like this was this was a
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: really great reminder to to have those routines to wake
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: up in the morning, you know, practice gratitude, take that
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: deep breath, and then also being one with like the
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: audacity of making the phone call for yourself.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: We kept talking about.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: This earlier, like, you know, if you have this gratitude
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: where you're at, how much farther can you go only
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: realize on how bold you're gonna be with your self worth.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Your self worth is going to inform what you're gonna
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: call to.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: To get to get next. You know.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So are we going down this list of like quotes here, Yeah, that's.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Why we do not need to do it, but we're
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: gonna do it now.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Everything happens for reasons.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Do you believe that it is what it is?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: It is what it is?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It is? What? Do you believe that is what it is?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I don't believe in that. I think it is what
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: It's like a coma because something has to happen after
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that it is what it is.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, then the guy's a prink.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: It is what it is. Okay. Well right, well there's
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: there's no older alternative. That's just what it is. That's okay,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: what it is. Okay, yolo, yolo. Oh you only live once,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: live once? Man? Okay? Cool?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: All right, so let's bet it all on black. Let's
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: lose everything. All right, that's great, that's that's freaking great.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Time heels old wounds?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Does it though? Does it? Are you still time? Are
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you really? Does it really? Time? Are you still holding
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: a grudge? This is this? Is it already thirty years?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Is it obvious from thirty years ago? All right, that's
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the next one.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Dance like no one's watching, Oh my dance, like nobody's
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: watching Wilmer?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Who wrote these?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Uh leo clin it's interesting, it's interesting them?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Is it? I wrote them for this exact reason? Oh,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: because it creates a vicious debate. Yeah, they're polarizing, they're polarizing.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: It is what it.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Gets under my skin.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: When yeah, yeah, no, there's no. It is always a
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: reason for everything. There's always a reason, But we're dexcided
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to ignore it because we want to end the conversation.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: It is what it is, and here.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Fake it till you make it?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Is it? Fake it till you make it? Wow? What
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: happens when you make it?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Is?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You really have to do it?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I guess what happens? Then, smarty pants? When I fake
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: it till I make it? And then when you make it?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: What happens? Now you really have to do it? What
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: happens now?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Now? Now I could wear the real role action, not
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the one I got from the alley town. Is that
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: kind of way?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: It does work?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: But the fake it too it make it is such
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: an interesting one because because okay, you faked it into
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: uh into a career, and then now.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: You have to practice it right When are you gonna
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: learn it?
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know, dude, I guess I guess you're faking
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: and you're unfortunately you're making it right now. Look, but
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: but you know what, everything happens for a reason. Okay,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: it's also it is what it is.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: It helps for me. It is what it is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: It is what it is, you know, And to be
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: honest Leo from two night's episode, Uh, you know, I
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: just know the time is gonna heal everything.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: And uh and I know that after this is done,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you're gonna go home. You're gonna dance like nobody's watching.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: If the tree falls in the forest doesn't make it
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: sound right, right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah. If I didn't see
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you dance, you didn't do it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everything happens for a reason.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. And I guess that
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: you yolo when you dance where nobody's watching.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: But you get home and you dance by yourself and
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: you're just like dancing like nobody's watching.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: What does that mean that you're gonna just be silly?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I guess, I guess it's it's a it's a it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a quote on confidence, right like like saying be confident.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: So that means like dancing front of people, like they're
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: not there to watch you dance, or be as bold.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: As you would when you're dancing at home by yourself,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: right Like, there's a form of confidence that that you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: exude when you're dancing for yourself.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is it?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Well? Listen for those of you who use this on
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: your daily basis, please don't get I know, yeah, you
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: better cut this off.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: The episode you're talking to really annoying optimistic people in here,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: so don't stop.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: No, I'll want yours for you, whatever worse for you.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I'm Wilmer bother Rama, I'm Freddie Rodriguez.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to Those Amigos. This is find
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: your quote, Find you quite, find your quote, find out.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Those words that get you through it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: We love you guys so much, and remember it. If
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: you woke up this morning, you're already winning.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It's you on the next episode
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: of Those Amingos.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Those Amigos is a production from WV Sound and I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Heart Media's Michael Tuda podcast network, hosted by Me, Freddie Rodriguez,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and Wilmer Valdorama.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Those Amigos is produced by Aaron Burlson and Sophie Spencer Zabos.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Wilmrivalderama, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Leo Klem at WV Sound.
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  Speaker 3: This episode was shot and edited by Ryan Posts and
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: mixed by Sean Tracy and features original music by Madison
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Devenport and Hello Boy.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Our cover art photography is by David Avalos and designed
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• 30:29
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• 30:32
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