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Hitman talks to Valente Rodriguez · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Hey, guys, what's going on? It is hit Man with you and
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  I have on the phone with me, a dear friend of mine. We've
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  known each other from high school. I'm proud to say that he is my
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  friend. Hopefully you're still my friend. And you might have seen him in
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  some great movies like Blood and Blood Out, Salsa Volcano on TV. You
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  might have seen him in McFarland USA, and of course the George Lopez Show
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  where everybody loves this guy. Ladies and gentlemen. I have on the phone
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  with me, Yes, a true legend. In my head, it's Valentia
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  Rodriguez brother. What's going on? Hey, Hey, what's up? What's
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  up? So everybody out there in radio land? So, so where are
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  you at exactly today? I'm actually in my back room. Uh, it's
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  like my my my audition room because since tod we changed to film and everything
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  at home. But I had I did soundproofing and all that kind of stuff
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  so I could do. Because I'm talking about auditions, I'm like yelling,
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  cussing words and all that kind of stuff, and my neighbors are like,
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  what's the hell's going on? I had to get it, Uh, I
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  had to get it all with home and stuff everywhere. But that's what I
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  am right now because we might be going on strike, so there haven't been
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  a lot of additions going on. Yirst of all, let me let me
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  say thank you for having me on. Brother, thank you so so much
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  for having me on. Well, you know what it's It's like I've told
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  you before, we need to support each other. You know, both of
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  us went to ed colchilsa high school. There's Jack Forever Yeah, yeah,
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  yeah yeah, And so it's like, and you know, we've we've we've
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  we've run into each other lots of times and stuff like that. And it's
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  and I love to support, you know, our brothers from ed col Chils
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  and stuff like that. And and I've been so proud of you from doing
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  a lot of stuff, I mean, besides the acting, you've also been
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  directing and producing and doing lots of other stuff. Recently, you were here
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  in Corpus christy Am seeing the the was it the Vatos Locals Tour? That's
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  tell me a little bit about that tour. Locals comedy tour. We got
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  Florida Mande's headlining, we got Panda Chack go on. We could pick up
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  some comics from the now we go. We're over at Mesquite and uh in
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  in Corpus and we rocked the house man. It was so so good.
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  If any of you guys were listening that we're there, you know, uh,
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  you can you can attest to that, and we're probably gonna go back
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  and do it again. We got some other dates that are going on.
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  We did Dallas, we did McCallan, we did Corpus, we did Houston.
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  We're gonna do some other places and probably go back to to over there,
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  so to Corpus. Like I said, uh, if if you guys
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  want us in your town, you know, call and you got a comedy
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  club, call you a comic club and let them know that we're out there
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  about the look we'll be uh, we'll be contacting them as well. But
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  if they hear from you guys, don't know, Oh yeah, all those
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  guys, you guys are already already got an audience calling them, yeah to
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  come to the show. But it's a really cool show. It's more like
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  an event. It's not like your regular stand up show. What ends up
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  happening is I come out way before the show starts. I'm like icing on
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  the cake. Like pre show, pre show, and then uh, I
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  go through the audience and I shake a lot of hands, I take a
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  lot of selfies and then uh and then and then the show starts, and
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  then I come on and so I'm getting on Space as well for about fifteen
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  fifteen twenty minutes at the very beginning that gol some corny jokes. But they're
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  funny, so I hear. Anyway, maybe they're just laughing at because they
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  think I'm stupid. As long as you're a lave boys, as long as
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  you laugh boys and girls, it doesn't matter. I'll make a fool of
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  myself for you. And then and then the real comics come on. But
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  that and like I said, it's Tanza for sure. He's flooreds on this
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  and he's funny, funny months h and then the night ends, and then
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  hopefully you guys like us so much you buy our T shirts and stuff,
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  because we need to make some money. I can't come from the show and
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  Space the money, you know what it's It's one thing I love about you,
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  dude, is the fact that you are a jack of all trades.
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  I mean, besides directing, producing, acting, and now you're doing stand
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  up it's it's crazy. It's like and you also you also walk back.
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  You did some great skits and stuff on YouTube. Now you've officially just been
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  you just joined TikTok now, so it's it's crazy if because my kid,
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  my sixteen year old sons like, dad, you gotta do TikTok now whatever,
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  Dad, you gotta TikTok. You gotta do TikTok. I'm gonna do
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  tikioki. Tikk tiktoki. We'll see what happened. So yeah, and my
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  head is crazy, man, we'll see what what what would I end up
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  in? What doing in there? So if you're following, if you're on
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  TikTok, you might want to look up Valentia Rodriguez. Make sure you find
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  the original one. You'll know you'll see him right away if you want,
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  go to mind and you and of course I've already started following him, and
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  from there you could find him and make sure you start following him on TikTok.
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  I asked on Facebook just recently, you know, of course I put
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  on there. Hey, I'm going to be interviewing Valentia. Is there any
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  questions that people want to ask? So some of your fans were asking.
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  Of course they're from the valley. They know you're from the valley. So
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  the first thing they asked is what's the first thing you usually do when you
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  come to the valley? Brother, A big oba I'm doing. And for
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  like thirty five years, I've been, you know, going back and forth
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  at least once a year, and every single time I have to eat about
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  town. I have because you don't have that you have down in the rod
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  Grande Valley anywhere else in the whole White Wolf and so. And I grew
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  up on those and that was also hit Man. There was also like a
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  celebration thing for us and down in the valley when because because I didn't grow
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  up with a lot of money, but when we had good times, it
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  was how he does that we had so you know, it reminds me of
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  good times down there as well. And then the other thing I would love
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  to do, but I never ever ever have the time to go fishing,
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  because that was the other big thing, oh, brother, every every week
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  book. Like I said, we'd have a lot of money. But back
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  in the day, going to the beach was free, right, and it
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  wasn't nearly as crowd as it is now. And you could drive on the
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  beach and you could make a fire and catch a fish and spend a couple
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  of days. And so you know, it was those kinds of mini vatations
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  that we did a lot of times. Um. And so those are the
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  two things. And then of course meeting up with all the older friends that
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  I have. Um, it's just it's a blast when I go back down
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  there. I've been, I've been to be really blessed. I've been,
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  I've been seriously, seriously blessed. And and every time I've got done there
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  trying to talk to at least one school, some you know, classroom or
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  something that some of my feature friends are set up. Because the opportunity that
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  I had, which I never saw coming, put me in a place where
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  I can perhaps make a difference in some of these young kids. Flies.
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  And sometimes all you need when you're younger is to see somebody who's who's been
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  successful and see the plan that they had. You know, education. To
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  me, it was education and college, but it doesn't need to be college,
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  to be some kind of technical school, apprenticeship, something to just dedicate
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  your life to that you can be successful. Oh, dude, Wally,
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  with hard work, if You've got your name on the side of the water
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  tower. You've made it. Ha ha ha. Freddy Fender kind of about
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  that gave me and Freddy Fender. Once I die and go to hand,
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  then Freddy Vender going to have two ports seats right there at the big gates.
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  You gotta be there talking about Hey, you gotta pata pa. You
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  got any anybody else got to knocko? Well, you can't say they're us
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  now. See, you brought up, you brought up about your fishing and
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  stuff like that. And I just remembered a while back. Every once in
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  a while i'd see you on Facebook and you would do like it's almost like
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  a cooking type thing where you were making certain oh yeah, like a brand.
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  And I love to cook, man, So you know, if I'm
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  had a baking show on. So that's what I was about to ask you.
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  Why don't you make yourself, get yourself on the Food Network or cooking
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  show or maybe even making your own cookbook. You can get your own cookbook
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  out there and be a a New York Times best selling author, of course
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  I could. I gotta did not go already, man, you know,
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  it's just I'm sometimes I'm a lazy bastard. And so I'm just there's there's
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  so many things that I got going on right now, and uh, I
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  think I do for pleasure. I really do. I bake at least once
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  a week. I'm now I'm getting into making fiscottie wowie fistasios in chocolate dgled
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  with chocolate. Oh they're so good, brother, wo But no, you
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  know that's all in the works. I'm I'm, I'm. I don't know.
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  Perhaps maybe I should knew that as a little personal because I cook.
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  I cook every day for my family. So but but you know, maybe
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  who knows. Now, I'll dedicated to you if I do. Yeah,
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  I appreciate it. I really really appreciate it. So of course, another
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  one of the questions that they asked, of course, is that they loved
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  when you were on Lopez Versus Lopez as a big red show with everybody was
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  there. What was it like going back and and seeing all the old cast
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  members and everything like that. Well, that's surreal, surreal, No,
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  not not just seeing them, but actually seeing them in their character, because
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  I'd see him as Constance and I see m as the leader. Now,
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  Lewis was the one that I hadn't seen in like twenty years, and he's
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  the one that grew up the little boy, right, and so not not
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  seeing them as individuals, although yeah for Lewis, but seeing them playing these
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  characters that I was so from with on stage. Although we're the same,
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  we are different a little different on stage. And then see George as well.
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  And then the really freaking thing Mayan. Yeah, I remember Mayan is
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  I think it was four or five years old then our first show. Indeed,
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  she was a little cubring around everywhere, you know that, And so
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  that was really freaky to see her, h you know, grown into this
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  beautiful woman and then into this great performer. It's just I'm just so freaking
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  proud of her. And I'm sure George is over the top as well.
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  Yeah, you know, I'm just I'm just hoping it goes well, you
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  know, and they get a lot of shows from it. Yeah. Yeah,
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  It's it's crazy. It's like, so another question that one of your
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  fans asked, which I thought was kind of interesting, but it does kind
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  of make sense with everything going on in the DC and the Marvel universe.
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  If you could be in a Marvel movie, what would be your superhero m
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  what would be my superhero ash? I don't even know. Man tackle man,
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  I was, I was thinking the exact same thing could be mandana man,
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  and he would his special stuff would be that all of this stuff that
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  you put on he has so he could throw on onions at you right and
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  blind you in the eyes, or halapanos or or or you know, make
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  the throsty lamp on the ground and make people slide on it. I don't
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  know, no, no worse yet. You can throw you can shoot the
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  like guesso from your arms and then blind them from you. That's right.
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  Oh, that's great. That's a great one. To sign them with cheese.
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  Yeah, and then use the nachos the chiches like like throwning stars.
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  Wow. We're talking with Valenta Rodriguez. He's a close friend of mine and
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  you've seen him in lots of great movies and of course remember body remmbers him
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  from the George Lopez Show. He's got a tour that goes out every so
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  often, the those Locals comedy tour that goes out. So make sure you
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  tell your comedy clubs. So please request for these guys to come into town,
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  because it is one crazy show like crazy now of course you're saying because
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  of this tour right now, it's and to get a little serious now,
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  okay we're talking about you're doing this. One reason why is because of the
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  writer's strike that's going on right now, and I still cannot believe they have
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  not come to terms just yet. What are your thoughts concerning right now concerning
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  the writer's strike because of that? I mean, you know shows it's nothing
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  but reruns and there's rumors going around that it's not it might be going on
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  all the way to December. What what are your thoughts? What's are your
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  thoughts on this? Yes? Yes, Well here's the deal. So the
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  big thing is the Internet. All these streaming services that are rerunning the product
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  that that the writers used to get money when it reran on on on TV
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  and they still do. The problem is not that they're not getting any money,
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  but those numbers that that that streaming services are making. They're not revealing
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  those numbers so that they don't have to increase those those those numbers, those
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  payments to the writers right as well, they're consolidating show so instead of a
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  show having seven or eight writers, know now they only have two or three
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  writers, and they're making them longer, for longer periods of time, for
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  less money, and all different kinds of stuff like that. The thing that
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  goes on top of that is that the actors are also at the end of
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  this month the actors strike, which is, or the actors have already pre
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  voted to strike when the if their contracts, their negotiations, they'll go right
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  at the end of this month, right, And so that's that's just going
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  to stop everything. Everything stops. In eighty seven the last strike, they
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  were saying they lost billions of billions of dollars because although it came in against
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  the only thing in LA, it feeds a lot of things. That heeds
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  carpenters, that feels people who are making the food. It seeds, the
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  people of murdered generators, that feels the studios, that feels the ubers that
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  are going to the studios, that people are going to watch the shows.
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  Blah blah blah. Yeah, it's a huge, huge industry. And so
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  the problem is that the stream I mean sure this is don't want to reveal
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  their numbers. They're saying, we don't, we don't have those numbers,
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  and that's bullshit. Man, because if that's if, if it's the one
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  thing that the thicking Internet is good at is understanding those numbers. They know
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  exactly who is watching, what show, what, they know, they know
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  how to charge it. Don't they charging five dollars or whatever for that one
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  fucking movie. They know exactly who's watching when and wear and all that.
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  Yeah, And so the reason they're not revealing the numbers is because they're making
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  so much money. Yeah, Yeah, and so that needs to be addressed
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  because because it was the beginning of the problem in the last time we were
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  we went on striking two thousand and seven thousand and eight, right that,
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  that's exactly and they will saying no, Internet is still way off, way
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  off bullshit. It's here now, yeah, and so we need to take
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  care of it because those are you know, it's really extremely hard to make
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  a living, extremely hard. And I've been glansed. I've had some big
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  shows and stuff, but for a journeyman aft there one hundred and sixty thousand
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  of us. For most of us, you're making ten ten thousand a year
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  or something like that. Yeah, and so you're barely most of us do
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  not make enough to qualify for health invention, certainly not for health. And
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  so it's we have to we have to have a more equitable, equitable especially
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  when without us you can't make it. Yeah, make it. I completely
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  agree. And now that there's new controversy concerning and I know you hate these
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  two letters AI because baby, it's this this this business. It's it's not
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  only affecting you know, the entertainment industry, but also even the radio industry.
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  A lot of people in the radio business right now are talking about it
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  concerning you know that they had the first AI disc jockey now on the radio
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  now and and there's causing a lot of talk about that and now and also
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  because of the writers strike right now, there's that hints been pump popping up
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  recently concerning AI. There was controversy over the new Marvel that's on Disney Plus
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  the new series UH called an Invasion, Secret Invasion, that the intro was
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  completely done with AI. And because of that, there's controversy on that.
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  I mean, so, what are your thoughts concerning now this AI technology?
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  Boy ol boy, man, it is it is. It is scary because
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  you know, one you could you could put something out representing something that didn't
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  happen. Uh, and and that could cause a lot of damage. Right,
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  that can cause a lot of damage. And then when you think that
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  you could you could, uh, instead of needing four riders, four or
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  five riders or four or five talents, you can just have one individual punching
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  in whatever code they're needing into the AI and then just editing that. Yeah
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  right, yeah, and so I mean beyond before we even get to the
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  terminator ship kind of thing going yeah, because if you if you I can,
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  I can easily imagine that somebody goes, Okay, you know, I
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  want this AI thing works really really well uh as a as a water monitoring
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  thing and the water and we put it in charge of water monitoring thing,
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  and then it makes a decision that a human being would not have made.
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  But it makes a decision that ends up killing twenty thirty forty fifty thousand people
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  when it like waste water into that they or whatever. I don't know what
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  the particular scenario is, but you know, it's it's just it's it's it's
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  crazy. And then so go back to the original thing that you that we're
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  talking about. Um, it's it's hard to believe that we can live performance
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  will never obviously go away because it's live performance. And that's where I think,
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  that's where I think it really is um um in terms, and and
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  I tell young actors all the time, I say, you want to be
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  an actor, get on stage, do it live, do it live,
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  do it live, do it live, and you get really really good,
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  just like in the radio. You know, you do it over and over
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  and over and over, and you do it, and you do it,
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  you do it and you get really good. So that will never change.
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  But no, no, this is a I think it's scary, man,
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  it's really really scary. It can take away jobs, but it can also
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  harmless in a much larger ways than that. Oh yeah, I completely agree
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  with you one. So hopefully across your fingers, it doesn't get to that
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  point. So that's the one thing I'm always kind of worried about. So
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  let's go back to a lighter subject. You've, of course been in lots
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  of great movies, lots of great movies. I still say my personally,
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  I think your best performance was in Volcano. I loved I loved it.
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  When you were you were on the train and it's like you're trying to walk
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  out of the train, and I was like, no, not no,
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  it's like and then I get saved in one of the most heroic scenes I
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  have ever seen. Yeah, it's crazy. Walks through the burning subway with
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  me on his shoulders. He gets to the end and the lava's already flowed.
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  He realize that he has to jump. He jumps in the air,
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  he bursts into flames, and he throws me his safety. Wow. He
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  lands in the lava, he dies. That's crazy and heroic. Man.
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  Yeah. So my question is, out of all the movies that you've done,
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  yeah, would you ever want to see a sequel? Oh? Like
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  Blood and Blood Out Too? Rude? What I know that I do know
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  that that that Jimmy un Devilvaka, I have some scripts that he's been trying
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  to put together. Maybe it's kind of exactly Blood and Blood Out Too.
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  But because you know, there's so par so many problems with rights and stuff
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  in Disney, Disney that was a Disney, that was a Disney thing.
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  Disney was behind that, it was a Disney thing. Yeah wow, Well
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  yeah, because one of Vista was one of its is one of its or
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  it was, I don't know, it was one of its film divisions.
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  Wow, and that's what it was. Yeah, and so that would be
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  part of the part of the consideration there. But uh, you know,
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  they can be put out as something else with a with a but, but
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  they are around the same kind of the same sort of genre, the same
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  sort of story that go on and that. So yeah, come on,
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  Jimmy, let's go, Jimmy. Let's make a deal with Jimmy. Come
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  on, I'll put you guys together, so Hulu. So, okay,
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  one more question for you. I know that you know, whenever you get
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  a chance, you actually love to talk to students. You talk to students
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  all the time to especially when you come down the real Grand Valley. You
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  give advice to a lot of a lot of students about this business and everything
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  like that. So my question to you is right now on the and you
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  know, and we'll put it on the podcast here if you if you have
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  advice. First, let's say that sixteen year old kid who's in high school
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  and dreams that he wants to start acting and to be in the entertainment industry,
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  and he sees you and he asks you he wants your advice. What's
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  the one thing you would tell him? So, look, it's mad enough
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  to dream. You have to do. You have to do, and in
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  order to do, you have to plan. If you're sixteen years old and
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  you you were in the church play, you weren't in you're not in the
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  school play, you don't sing in the shower, you're not you know,
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  you're not acting. You just wish that you could be, you know,
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  a big time celebrity and movie starting that kind of stuff. Then perhaps acting
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  is not the way. Maybe you do it through social media or something else,
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  right, But what acting is about. Acting is about dedicating yourself to
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  a specific thing, a specific art, and there is a way to do
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  it. Now. There are different ways to do it for different people,
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  but there is a particular structure, and that's something that you need to learn.
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  Now. There are some people who are just naturally naturally talented. But
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  even then, even then, by sixteen, that college should have already showed
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  it. Show you already. You're already playing the accordion, playing the guitar,
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  singing, telling jokes. Get you already the funny guy. You're already
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  that new you're already the performer. If that's not a part of your life
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  already, then you probably don't want to do that. And acting is so
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  freaking hard, and making the living and acting its own even double triple three
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  times as is hard. And so if you're going to become an actor,
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  you're probably not even gonna make a living at it. And so it better
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  be something you love, love, love to do, yeah, because you're
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  gonna probably be paying for it. You're gonna be working somewhere else. So
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  then go spend all your free time over there. It's going to cost you
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  gas, it's going to cost your food, it might even cost you two
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  to three hundred dollars asses donate to the production blah blah blah blah blah blah
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  blah, and you're not gonna make any money at it. So just make
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  sure you love to do it, because if you love to do it,
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  it doesn't matter. You haven't fun you're having if even if it costs you,
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  it really doesn't matter. But make sure it's what you love to do.
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  Now. If it is what you love to do, get training.
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  It can be your dad if he's an accordion player. It can be your
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  noah blah blah. It can be the professor at school. It can be
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  a teacher, it can be the college you go to. It can be
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  a group you form in the real Granny Valley and Corpus in Houston. For
• 21:47
  all of these little acting groups, all all the film places, the film
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  festivals that all have twenty four hour film races, understand get into those kinds
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  of groups and do that or do they not play in school? Do that
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  sort of stuff. I found that my cheapest training for four years, four
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  and a half years was college. It might not be like that anymore because
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  of the practices and stuff like that, but there's a lot of great college
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  programs. And so for a young actor, if you're not already doing it,
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  if you're just dreaming about it, you probably want to go social media
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  rock. If you're really an actor, because you've already been doing it,
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  think about that. Let's get on stage. Nothing is really small enough that
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  you can't do. I've been a tree, I've been a dog, I've
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  been a rock, I've been a rock. I've been a dead person on
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  stage. I've been a dead personal stage. Nothing is too small to do
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  do it. You'll have fun, you'll grow, and you'll prepare yourself well
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  and and and the more training you have, the more you're on stage,
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  the better. You're going to be, well, much better you're going to
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  be. You know. You know what, dude, I am so proud
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  of you. It's like you know, of course, any you know you
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  about it, I get all excited. Man. Yeah, it's I'm so
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  proud of you. You've done so well. I mean, you you went
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  you, you took that leap, and because of that, you're you're a
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  really good, great success. And I'm very proud of you. I you
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  went the you went the TV drummer route. I went the radio route,
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  and and and it seems like we're both doing pretty well for each other.
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  And and uh, you know, you're always welcome if you ever come into
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  Corpus. You're more than welcome any time to come by the studios. And
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  I'll put you on the air anytime any place. You got that brother told
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  me that I'm packing my bags right now. I got my cant I'm gonna
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  be out front at about thirty six hours. Oh man, Well, I
• 23:32
  appreciate you taking the time to talk to us today, and uh, and
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  good luck, and I'll look forward to seeing you out on doing stand up
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  very soon with the Vato's Locals Comedy Tour and uh. Next time we're in
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  Corpus Oh yeah dude, yeah, And I will try to find you the
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  best Bothana here in Corpus Christie for you. Okay, you are all there
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  now. You got me real