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and Jackie Cruz · Untraditionally Lala

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my loves. This is give them La La with
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  Speaker 1: rand I'm doing the opening time.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, yeah, that is intense.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just one more time. Tell me if it
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  Speaker 1: was good.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my randall, you're blasting.
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  Speaker 1: For your headphone down. Keep this. Don't cut it. I
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  Speaker 1: want everybody to hear how it really is. Okay, do
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  Speaker 1: not cut in the stacy. We're odd. This is live,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to do it one more time and
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  Speaker 1: without you interrupting me. Okay, Hello, my loves, beautiful people,
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  Speaker 1: this is give them Lalla with Brand.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, hello, my little bambinos. I'm
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  Speaker 2: feeling very in the spirit of just all things. Baby.
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  Speaker 2: All I do all day long is look at Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna be real, real, real right now. I
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  Speaker 2: on my Instagram used to like when you go to
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  Speaker 2: the explore page, it was like full of useless information
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  Speaker 2: about like who's breaking up with who? Who just made
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  Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars off of what? And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I need to change the algorithm. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: feeling very motherly and all I want to see on
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  Speaker 2: my Explore page are puppies and hedgehogs and babies. So,
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  Speaker 2: you guys, for like four hours straight over my birthday weekend,
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  Speaker 2: I literally just looked through images of baby hedgehogs, babies,
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  Speaker 2: puppies and liked all these images. So now when you
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  Speaker 2: go to my explore page on Instagram, that's all you see.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what's happening on the planet except
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  Speaker 2: for what these little puppies have done all day long.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best. I feel great about it.
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  Speaker 1: What's a hedgehog?
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  Speaker 2: They're like almost looks like a baby porcupine.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just one of your little cute pages. It's
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  Speaker 1: so cute because you stalk dogs, Dailey, I know that
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  Speaker 1: now it's.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, I'm totally I have come to
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  Speaker 2: the realization that my baby will never be as cute
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  Speaker 2: as a little baby puppy. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody.
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  Speaker 1: My god, No, I don't think my god, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: oh my guess what.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also going to tell you this, your baby will
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  Speaker 2: never be as cute as a little baby puppy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to disagree. I'm gonna I'm gonna disagree, laughing disagree. True,
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  Speaker 1: this is bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: Look up a little baby lab or golden retriever, and
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  Speaker 2: you tell me you have seen a baby, but you.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell me. Want you to look at me in
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  Speaker 1: the face right now and just say that you've just
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  Speaker 1: told the world aka your fans, yeah, that our baby
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  Speaker 1: will never be.
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  Speaker 2: As I'm also telling them about won't be as cute.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, no baby ever will be as cute
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  Speaker 2: as a little puppy.
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  Speaker 1: I am pivoting right now to this conversation and I
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  Speaker 1: am leaving it at this Our baby, but it will,
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  Speaker 1: our baby will be cuter than any damn dog ever
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  Speaker 1: on this.
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  Speaker 2: Planet once I see it. Look, look at my mom,
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  Speaker 2: Lisa Goes. Both of us are dog people. I thought
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  Speaker 2: even Lisa Vanner Pump would be like, there's no baby.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, moving on, I'm done with this conversation. What I
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  Speaker 1: do want to talk about. What I do want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. Zala's very dramatic. There was a cord that
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  Speaker 1: bothered her, so she flicked it away like she was
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  Speaker 1: protecting us from the army.
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  Speaker 2: Because since I got prego, I feel like my eyes
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  Speaker 2: are sensitive. My hearing is that everything's just heightened, so
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  Speaker 2: like little buzzing noises. I'm like, what is it? What
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  Speaker 2: is that. Okay, I want the light is just too bright.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about it from the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the coin. Yeah, since you've been pregnant, you have
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  Speaker 1: had that what they call that glow, that happiness you have.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that. The other side of that, the other
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  Speaker 1: side of that gloat. Now, the other side of that
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  Speaker 1: clowe is the hormones are an overdrive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I say overdrive, I'm being kind. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you share the level of hormones that you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling as a expecting mother? Just how are you different
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  Speaker 1: in these ten weeks do you feel you know, so
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  Speaker 1: future mothers and other mothers that have been through this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how are you dealing with the hormones?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that this is you asking that even
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  Speaker 2: though it's like something that in this very moment, we
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  Speaker 2: can be like, your hormones are crazy. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: really important for us to talk about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: that's why I brought it up. You're my hormones are
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  Speaker 2: out of whack. And I would be lying if I
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  Speaker 2: said I wake up and I think that life is
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  Speaker 2: just awesome and I'm pregnant and I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: a mom right, I wake up and I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: really sad and I feel depressed, and I need to
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  Speaker 2: talk to somebody. And then I'll go through the day
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  Speaker 2: and I kind of start, you know, reminding myself or
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  Speaker 2: trying to like, you're very lucky, you're very blessed. And
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  Speaker 2: even though I know these things, hormones are a very
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  Speaker 2: tricky thing.
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  Speaker 1: And they're powerful, and then they yes, and I and
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  Speaker 1: I want to add that just because you are healthy,
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  Speaker 1: thank God, and you you know, have a roof over
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  Speaker 1: your head and all those things, hormones are a real
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  Speaker 1: thing and you aren't going through that. And it's and I,
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  Speaker 1: being your partner, watched you more so than normal. Let's
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  Speaker 1: call it really struggle a little bit with the ups
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  Speaker 1: and downs, you know, high low, high low. And I
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  Speaker 1: just want people to know, and I want you to know.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you this already, is that it's okay
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  Speaker 1: and that we're in it together. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: just how it is. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it's I think it's okay to feel the way you're feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I just feel for any anybody who's going
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  Speaker 2: through this pregnant. I know that a lot of women
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  Speaker 2: suffer from postpartum. I'm in it, so this is like, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: why am I feeling this way when like, I have
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  Speaker 2: a life inside of me and this is so awesome,
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  Speaker 2: Like why do I feel upset? I don't think, but
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  Speaker 2: I feel for women who when when I hear about
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  Speaker 2: these stories now going through it. It can become torturous
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  Speaker 2: to be inside of your own mind in those moments
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  Speaker 2: when your hormones just really are kicking your ass. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm no doctor, but I want people to know if
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  Speaker 2: you are going through something like this, to definitely reach
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  Speaker 2: out to someone and talk to somebody. I find a
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  Speaker 2: lot of comfort in talking to my mom. My doctor
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  Speaker 2: also knows that I'm you know, up and down frequently.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't come to the conclusion of I should be
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  Speaker 2: back on It's pretty known that I take anxiety and
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  Speaker 2: depression medication. I stopped taking it once I got pregnant
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  Speaker 2: because I was so worried, and now that my hormones
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  Speaker 2: are out of you know, it's funky. I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be on a prescription right now with
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  Speaker 2: this new life inside of me. I just I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: if I can talk through these and you're telling me
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  Speaker 2: my hormones are just out of whack and I can
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  Speaker 2: get through this. Let's stick to that script for now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, And I think it's important also the fact you
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  Speaker 1: can acknowledge just take away, you know, just just living
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  Speaker 1: right now in the moment. And I've been with you
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Now you are it's your I mean,
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  Speaker 1: your hormones obviously are playing a huge trick on you.
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  Speaker 1: They're sending you up, they're sending you down. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: actually equate it, you know, watching you and somebody who
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  Speaker 1: loves you so much doesn't want to see obviously you
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's like a washing machine. It's like
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  Speaker 1: you're bouncing like you know, you'll get settled for a second,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get quiet and then boom, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 1: in its little things that are sending you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: up and down. So at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I keep telling you when I when I call you,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you it's okay, and we'll get through it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're going to have some tough days, tougher days.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, though, I always
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  Speaker 1: try to remind you that you know, you're you're growing
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful soul inside you and in six months, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a baby. So we just gotta you know,
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  Speaker 1: we just gotta hang in there.
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  Speaker 2: Which is so crazy because I think about it and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like when I go to the doctor's office and
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  Speaker 2: she has like just walls of newborn babies that she
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  Speaker 2: has delivered, and I'm like, oh, this is just the
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  Speaker 2: best place ever. But then I'll go home, take a
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  Speaker 2: nap and wake up and I'm like, my freedom is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be gone soon. It is such like a mind
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  Speaker 2: f wait. So I'm gonna try to stop cursing as
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  Speaker 2: much because I'm going to be a mom soon. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: don't but don't don't count on it.
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  Speaker 1: But let me tell you. But let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: What First of all, I did tell you that when
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  Speaker 1: that baby comes, the running out of the house quickly
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  Speaker 1: and is that's that's over.
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  Speaker 2: But I know, but I'm so addicted to things that
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  Speaker 2: I love. Like I think about how I was with
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  Speaker 2: my dog and it was like we were running together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were like little soldiers. So that she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be me and my boo, my baby, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna be an issue. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you treat your dog like a child. So
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  Speaker 1: this is just a step up. It talks back. That's
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  Speaker 1: the only difference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 1: That, like how I said it. Yeah, okay, so the
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  Speaker 1: next step in our little baby because we're gonna, We're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: I want to start a regular segment on it.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, was that the first thing? Hold on now, because
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  Speaker 2: you're I know you're going to bring up the gender reveal.
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  Speaker 2: You posted the sonogram picture? Was that the first sonogram
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  Speaker 2: picture you've posted? I think so, dude, he's felling so
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  Speaker 2: much tea. I haven't posted, not.
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  Speaker 1: One, but I only have twelve followers, so it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of cute.
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  Speaker 1: I like it, and you like and don't you like that?
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  Speaker 1: I am so into it. I mean that's very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I love that part. Anyway, I didn't mean
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  Speaker 2: to cut you off.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you did, But but the thing is, I cut
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  Speaker 1: you off for the last twenty episodes, so you you
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of cutting off to do to me.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say that you you just went
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  Speaker 1: to the doctor today. I was on FaceTime with you
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  Speaker 1: today and you gave blood. So this today. I want
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  Speaker 1: to do a baby update every episode, so that the
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  Speaker 1: baby update, I will give it and then you will
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  Speaker 1: confirm it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The baby update is because Lola won't tell you guys
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  Speaker 1: that shit, so I'm just going to do it. The
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  Speaker 1: baby update is she went to the doctor today, she
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  Speaker 1: gave blood, and that is for us to know the
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  Speaker 1: gender correct or and correct that is correct.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, it's to see if there's down syndrome
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  Speaker 2: and you know things that that's the most important.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so share that, share what that test was today.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a check to see that the baby
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  Speaker 2: is healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You know there's obviously things you cannot test for when
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  Speaker 2: it comes out, but a lot lucky enough that science
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  Speaker 2: has allowed us to know if your child will have
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  Speaker 2: downs or not.
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  Speaker 1: So there's probably like there's a lot of things they
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  Speaker 1: can take out of the equation.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: The gender is the fun aspect.
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  Speaker 1: It was a serious tap, but the gender is the
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  Speaker 1: fun part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the gender is the most fun. The other stuff
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  Speaker 2: is kind of you're a little bit nervous until you.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm not tell our fans something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the next episode, which will be the baby update episode,
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  Speaker 1: that the big baby update episode, will be at that
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  Speaker 1: point we will know the gender of our child. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're sitting.
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  Speaker 2: There, oh my gosh, it's so weird.
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  Speaker 1: So when you're sitting here looking at me, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're going to know for the rest of your life
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you'll be raising a son or a daughter.
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  Speaker 1: So this so the episode goes from as you refer
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  Speaker 1: to our child right now as an it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you can tell it, keep telling me.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't let me, let me a squid, a baby,
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  Speaker 1: gummy bear, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't call it him or her. I can call
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  Speaker 2: it whatever you want, him and her.
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  Speaker 1: So the exciting thing is next week you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at me saying my daughter or my son.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's heavy. Oh my god. That is
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  Speaker 2: a large task to take on, a big responsibility, which.
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  Speaker 1: From that point the following episode, we will be updating
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  Speaker 1: our listeners on prepping the nursery, because you can't prep
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  Speaker 1: a nursery if it's an it.
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  Speaker 2: No I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't prep a nursery for a gummy bear.
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  Speaker 2: No you can't. However, I love these these stuffed animals,
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  Speaker 2: and people have been giving me a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're like dogs. Yeah, do you remember the name. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they're expensive, that's all I know. I looked at it
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, wait, this person was like me
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  Speaker 2: a lot because this stuffed animal was seventy eight dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Who sent you a stuff animal?
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  Speaker 2: Madison's brother, Well, that's so nice. Yeah, but you bought
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  Speaker 2: me one at the Las Vegas Airport. Yeah, I know
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  Speaker 2: that they got me one too. So now I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, we were having lunch.
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  Speaker 1: We're having lunch at my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: It's only only natural. Well, yes that I have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuffed animal dogs in the room because you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just fitting.
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  Speaker 1: What's my fried chicken place called in Vegas? I'm a
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  Speaker 1: natural baby.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember so good. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about today's guest, because we will make
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  Speaker 1: it all about you for the next nine months.
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  Speaker 2: Oh love when it's about me all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's your podcast. So but we will talk about the
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  Speaker 1: baby a lot and you being the expecting mother, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because we will pay homage to you daily. But today
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  Speaker 1: we are going to pivot to our guest, which we
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  Speaker 1: have the incredible Jackie Cruz obsessed obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: I became obsessed with her when I saw her on
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  Speaker 2: the show a little show called Orange is the New
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  Speaker 2: Black on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I think that she's so good. She's so good.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, I have to tell you something
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  Speaker 1: cool because you're a music aficionado or I think that's
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: the right word, and you love music. So when Jackie
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Cruz was in high school, she worked with will I
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  Speaker 1: AM's producers in a girl group called Crush Velvet. What
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  Speaker 1: that's Jackie Cruse. She don't fuck herround, No.
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  Speaker 2: She's just talented.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm excited to have Jackie Cruise, and I
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: know you you love Jackie Cruise, So I think we
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: should take a quick commercial break, come back. And she
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  Speaker 1: also had just got married, so we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Oh shoot during COVID. Yeah, okay, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back.
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  Speaker 2: We are back, my little benbinos, and we have missed
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  Speaker 2: Jackie kru.
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  Speaker 3: Bay Lucky.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Jackie. First of all, First of all, congratulations, you
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: must start out by telling us that you just got married. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love that response. Oh shit, yeah I did I
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  Speaker 2: did do that. Please tell me how this went down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, this will be the first people that
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  Speaker 3: I talked to about it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh shit, damn spill all.
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  Speaker 1: The team, Jackie, before you tell us. I have to
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. You know, our wedding was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be April eighteenth, as you probably know, and and because
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  Speaker 1: of COVID, we pushed it back September and then Lalla
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  Speaker 1: called me. I was like, we cannot do this now,
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  Speaker 1: we must do it next year. I'm boat we pushed
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  Speaker 1: the next year. So I just want to hear your experience,
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  Speaker 1: like was that the projected real date or did you
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  Speaker 1: have to move it or did you just improvise?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I am like hippie vibes, Like I was like,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: you know what, COVID is a good excuse not to
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  Speaker 3: invite everybody? You know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're smart.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not like it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I did get away with it,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: but no, I just wanted something small. It was going
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: to be like this, no matter about if it was
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  Speaker 3: COVID or not, you know what I mean. So like it.
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  Speaker 3: It was sad that I couldn't, you know, invite the
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  Speaker 3: people you know that are older in my family, just
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  Speaker 3: to protect them. But other than that, it was just
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  Speaker 3: beautiful immediate family. Fernando Garcia rosas my podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You know what sucks Jackartith. You know what sucks, Jackie
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you could say your man's name like that,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: and Lala's gotta go out there and say randall Emmett.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I'll changing my.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Name do something.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Wait.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, so he's an artist. How how did you guys meet?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, this was like six years ago. I
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: was looking. Yeah, I was actually walking into a place
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: where I was going to sing at with my guitarist
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: and Fernando was bartending, and I was like, holy shit,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: that guy is fucking hot. But he looks like he's sixteen,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Like what the fuck?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Then he started he was in sixteen. But then
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: he started talking to me and he was like, old mommy,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: what can I get you? And I'm like, oh god,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: oh my god. I was like, where are you from Columbia?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Because I just like broke up with a terrible Columbian.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I was like, where you from Columbia? Because I was,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: you know, already pissed. But he had an accent. But no,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: he's Mexican, so other than that, like he I guess
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: he heard me sing and he was like, you know, yeah, totally.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: And then like we broke up actually last year for
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: like what no, a year and a half. And then
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: he had this dream about me and it came to
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: me through like his brother's like girlfriend and she's like
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: you want to hear this, and I'm like, I hate, man,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I fucking hate I want to hear nothing. Right and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: then and then I fucking read it and it was
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: like the most beautiful like scenario, and like I'm like, fuck,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call him. And then this Christmas or last Christmas,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: we started talking again and he proposed because I was like, yo,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want a boyfriend. I don't want no man,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: like nothing. And I was like I'm dating a lot
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: of people right now, and he's like, well let the
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: best man win.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Wow, he was up for the challenge.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I like this guy. Oh yeah, he's cool.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: And then finally, you know, I was like, you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: if you want to marry me, that's a different question,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: but I don't want a boyfriend. So awesome.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: She's like, I don't want to man or boyfriend, but
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a husband now that I will take.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to just say something right here, Jackie, you're
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: a straight up badass to I mean, that's pretty badass.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's like I want nothing.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: But that's a real man too, to be like, all right,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: let's do this because most men quote unquote boys four
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: years you know, Damn, I'm so happy for you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: So here did your mom too? Like my family's a matriarch,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: like my mom's hafa, like the boss. And he asked
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: my mom and she said yes, And I said, what
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the hell did you tell her? He's like, I promised
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: her to love you forever. And I was like.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: To go, I have chills. That is so sweet. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And then where did you guys get married? You said,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: you said you're a bit of a little hipster, so
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: how did you?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, in Mexico, in Mexico, and it was
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: like the most I don't know, it's like our little
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: secret spot that I don't want to like say right now,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: but I'll have to say anything you don't want to say.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: But I was just like I wanted to disappear with
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: my family for like, you know, I wanted to disappear
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: with him. And we disappeared in Mexico for like a month,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: and then the last week we invited like twelve people
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: and they came and stayed with us in the villa,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and I created the wedding in the month that I
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: was there by just meeting people and saying, hey, you
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: think I could get married here and they're like, yeah, sure,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Like it was just like that. I hired local people.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I just flew out my photographer and one of my
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: best friends is my makeup artist, Elena. So that was
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: it and it was beautiful.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You're so cool, Like that is the coolest thing I've
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: ever heard. I just went to much like no stress
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: at all. And can I tell you there is no
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: culture that I adore more than Mexican culture. I like,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with it. So I can only imagine the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: love and the passion and the fun that went down
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: during that time.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: A beautiful indigenous ceremony, spiritual. We had you know, the shaman.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: She was incredible and she sang to us, and there
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: was a you know, a drummer and someone you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Are you at any point gonna show videos of this?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, because I'm dying to see it. Oh
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: my god, you see.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: It soon because I'm coming to y'all soon.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's right, I'm gonna see you. Wait, are
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you coming by the way, that we're gonna switch gears
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: down to that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I have hold on. I have to know this. I
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: have one question before, like Randa likes to say, we pivot,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: did you guys write your own vows?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: It was funny because my uh, the girl was like
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: from a conason and I'm like, nah, girl, I wrote
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: this down and She's like no, no, no, and I
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: was like no, and then she started singing AHM, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like trying to say my vows. Yeah, it was
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: like a comedic moment. But yeah, I definitely wrote them
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: and he wrote his and we both cried. It was
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: just it was beautiful. I really recommend that.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I fully agree.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I already I've already written sane. Yeah, I have to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: polish it up, but I'm like ready to go.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm ready to go too. I'm well, I'm so
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: happy for you Jackie.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I also want you guys to promise me I'll
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: take you to my little hiding spot in Mexico. We
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: go together to celebrate Yeah, this movie that's gonna come
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: out soon.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: And by the way, by the way, Jackie, I'll provide
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the jet and you just show us the spot.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Will go Randall. You know I've never been on a jet.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Right, stop that bullshit, Jackie. Right now, I break you
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: right now, I'm breaking that ship right now, Jackie, I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: need to treak it. I will break that ship right now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Nobody's allowed to get on the mic with me and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: tell me they are a virgin private jet person. So
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I am. Yeah. We are going. So we're gonna pick
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: a trip, you and your man, me and Laala. We
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: won't go super far because Lala is pregnant, but we'll
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: go somewhere somewhere fun.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, congratulations. I didn't know that.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mama. It's I just say it's lazy. Yeah, dude,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: it's an exciting time. Yes, people are getting married and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: making babies during COVID. There's a there's a little bit of.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Good during this coming out of it, and you know what,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: the world, the world is healthier. I gotta be honest
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: with you, Like the corals, you know, everything is like
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know, growing back, yeah, thriving.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: We need it, you know, we needed, Jackie. We need
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: like a reset. You know, we just did a reset.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: And I think all of us because we're always like
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: what's next, What's next? What's next, Like we never really
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: appreciated the moment. Like I've been watching your IDs and
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: you You've had beautiful moments with your with your daughters lately,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like you really wouldn't have
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: had that time before.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And I'm going to tell you something.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I've had more quality time with my partner here, I've
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: had more quality time with my children. Lala is always
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: living ten steps forward and I'm living thirty steps forward.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And for the first time, we don't have to live
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand steps forward. I mean we obviously, you know,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we played more pickleball together. We watched more movies and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: TV shows. I would have never seen the seventeen thousand
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: episodes of television that Lala and I cuddled and lay
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in bed and watched if this hadn't happened.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I love that we have to find the light in
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the dark times. I guess you know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I'm pivoting to the career right now, right, all right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So Jackie, I need people to hear because you are
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a boss. You're a boss both in acting and in music.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Just give me a snapshot, you know, I know you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: started out in high school with like will I AM's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: producers and had a girl group or or a music group.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Tell me how that hall started and how you got
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to where you are, Like what was your journey? Your path?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, my journey was crazy. Like I told you,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I came here at fifteen from the Dominican Republic. Like
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I was the only Dominican here really, Like there was
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: one and I'll name her Donya Ramirez.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I spoke to her. I was I think
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I was a co check girl when she was in
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Fat Albert or whatever. And I was like, I'm Dominican too.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I want to sing an act and she was like, girl,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: you can do it. And I fucking will always remember
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: that shit that she like was like, you know, really
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: really beautiful heart, and she like called me and gave
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: me advice. But yeah, but like it was hard because
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I didn't have any friends. You know. I came here
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: like eleventh grade, like you know, people thought I was
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: cool or whatever because I was like from a different
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: country that they thought was in New York. I'm like, nah,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: it's not a New York son, It's like the Caribbeans.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: They're like, oh, they never heard of it, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: back then, that's what happened, you know, and I guess
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: you know, I went into this Hamilton High school, which
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: actually I know that one of your other uh my coach,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: well and my co stars and another actor in your movie. Uh,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: he also went to that high school. And he was
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: popping at that time.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Wait, which hurt. Oh, awesome, that is so cool.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: We went to like that music academy or whatever, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: that's awesome. Yeah, and I you know, he was popping
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: back then, you know, and I was just like, wow,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: that's so cool. He goes to my high school. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: we weren't in classes together. But regardless, like you know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I was. My mother always was very strict with me,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: and you know, I came into this La scene Matt early,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: and you know, kids were mad independent, you know, they
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: had their own money and we didn't. You know, I
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: received paysos, not you know, dollars, so I had like
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: paysos coming from the Dominican Republic. So we had this
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: little studio apartment in Koreatown and then my mom you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: moved in her like now husband, and I was just like, Mom,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I can't you know, be like a teenage girl in
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: a studio, living in the kitchen, so like, I'm moving
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: out and I met this like girl because I had
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: two jobs. I was like the cashier at Baja Fresh
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: at the Beverly Connection, oh yeah, and then wow yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: And then I was the co check girl in Hollywood
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: and Highland for this club called Level three or Club
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: one seven and it was like a fifteen and over
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: year old club or whatever.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah damn yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: And there was like all these Disney kids, so I
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: felt good. I was like, you know, like you working
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: co check, meeting all these cute little Disney celebrities seven
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Evan you know whoever. Like I'm dating myself now, but AnyWho.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Long story short is that I met this girl and
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I moved out, and you know, I told my mom,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: who changed her life for me, you know, like I
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: don't like what you tell me to do, so I'm moving.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: She's like, you want to go, Jackie, go, but don't
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: fucking come back. Sorry. I don't know if I can
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: say that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody say what you want here.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: He was just like, you know, being an adult is
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: not easy. Just don't come back. And I was like, fine, mom,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: my ride is outside. It was like a Honda Civic.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I was mad and pressed and as I didn't have
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: a ride, so I was just like cool, long story short,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: is it? That fucking ride got me into a major
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: car accident And like at sixteen, like I like flew
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: out of the car because I wasn't wearing a seapot
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: and I had immediate like brain surgery and you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: a coma. I wasn't gonna live and then like I
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: random left. Yeah, So, like I talked about it in
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: my album and I have a song called Melly sixteen
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: because there was this little girl in a wheelchair who
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: like came up to me and was like, you're so
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: pretty when I had like a shaved head and like
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: pretty much not a face, and that just changed my life.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: So I dedicated my song to her, and she's in
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: my actual music video which is called Melly sixteen and
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: my album. So yeah, so that's really how it all
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: started kind of, and like I kind of gave up
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: on acting because in Hollywood, you know, they're just used
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: to seeing like maybe the Mexican like look and there,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: they don't really understand that Caribbean we're just mixed with
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: like Africa and indigenous and you know, Spanish, so like
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: we look different, and all of us look all different,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: you know, colors, So they didn't really understand why I
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: had this long, curly hair and I could speak fluent
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Spanish and I didn't look Mexican, you know. So that's
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: why I gave up on acting. Wow, focus on music. Yeah,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: and music brought me to New York.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, So what how old were you when you went
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: to New York for music?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: So I went to New York for music, maybe twenty three,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: and I gave up acting and I started at fifteen.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Imagine I had my car accident.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: What a loss to our community? You know what I mean?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: You waitning, I mean, I'm saying. I'm serious. You don't
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: at that time, Like at that time, you decide you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: just get down because of the opportunity. You don't feel
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: as there. You go to New York and then you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: get into the music scene, right what you're already into.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But I mean, now, what happens in New York? Well,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you know what, let's say, quick break, We're gonna come
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: right back at two seconds. Now, I want to hear
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: all of this. This is awesome.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: We're back with Jackie Cruz. Okay, so you are now
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: twenty three at this time and you're in New York
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: doing music. Now, tell me did people understand more of
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: like because I know that New York now has a
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: very heavy dr population. Were they more receptive of where
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: you come from? They always had it right, yeah, New York,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Like I.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Was born in Queens, Like New York always has the
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Dominican the Puerto Rican like okay, really heavy. But it
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: was like, you know, the movies are made in California, you.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Know, but you probably, I mean you come out to
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Californian you probably felt like there was no place for you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: People didn't understand like where you're.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: At because remember that I'm coming from the Dominican Republic,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and right when you're this little girl and watch TV,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: you just think of Hollywood, you know, totally you don't
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: think of like New York. Which that's why I said
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I was probably the only Dominican who didn't move to
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: New York and was in California, right, Right.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: So when you got to New York, did you feel
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: like like I'm home, I feel comfortable and content here.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Because like there was also like a Broadway show
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: called In the Heights and they were all about like
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: it's a Dominican story.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Do you know that my friend Do you know that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: my friend Andrea Burns was in in the Heights?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yes? Wow? You know?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, my.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Friend Andrea Burns, which was one of my best friends
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: growing up. We went to the New World School of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the Arts of Miami together and she still is a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: big Broadway person. And the first time I ever heard
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of into into the Heights was her. And she's her
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: family's his mother's Venezuelan and the fathers. You know, uh,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: just a Jew like me.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: But you know, you know that's that's what like called
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: me again. Like I love to sing it's my heart,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: it's my soul, and that's who I truly am. But
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I also love to play all these different people because
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I have. It's an outlet for me and like to
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: be honest, like I missed it. And there was this
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: girl that you know, I was waitressing at Lavo. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: opened up Lavo. Wow, and Knowheppenberg is still yeah. Boys
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: call them, Yeah, they're my there are my people. You know,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I love them. And you know, Noah always believed in me.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: He's like one day Jackie, I see it and he
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: always told me that, And you know, Melissa always. She
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: would actually his wife would always come to my shows
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: at the big where I sang, and they would be
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: like five people and one of them was Melissa.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, amazing. Yeah.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: These are my like my they're my heart, like they're
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: they're true people.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I just I just want to tell you one thing.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Noah and Jason and Noah always just like our buddy
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: David Grutman in Miami. You know those are just yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: me too. Yeah, but I'm saying those are like people.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: They're like they are on top of the world. And
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: even when I was coming up and didn't have much,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure you felt the same, they treated me
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the same as they treat me today as they did
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: twenty something years ago.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: So I lacktly when I was a waitress for them,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: you know, like I was his friend first, then I
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: was his waitress and then you know, I can't really
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: hang out with them too much because of you know,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: work issues. But then but they were still always respectful.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: They believed in me. They were you know, Melissa was
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: my friends. And then now like shit, they get me tables,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like they're the best. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: you know, Dave Grutman is the one who gave me
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: my first well he recommended me for my first waitressing
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: job in Miami.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's amazing. And they probably all knew that
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you were gonna be someone great someday. And it feels
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: good when people who who see celebrities all the time
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: and then they look at you and you like, you know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: you haven't quite made it yet, and they're like, you're
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: gonna make it one day. You're like, damn, you.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Really think so? But it shows their character, don't Yeah.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: And it just makes you believe that you are, you know.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: So like that's why I give him so much credit. Literally,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: he could be busy as hell and he'll always text.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: So I always got to give a shout out to
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: my people because let me tell you something. I was
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: working as a waitress season one, two and three at
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Lavo before I got fired. But we'll talk about that late.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: But yeah, like you know what I mean, Like Orange
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: didn't pay me until later on until you know, the
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: show kicked off and they were like, oh, we got
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: something here. And it was a test, you know. The
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: first season was a test and they picked out the
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: people they wanted to write for. But the reason why
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I got the show was because I missed, you know, acting,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: and one of the girls had a manager and she
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: was like, see my manager, and the manager's like cool.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: And my first audition was for Flaka. And there's also
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: another girl that worked with me that was like this
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: feisty Latina uh and I'm gonna color out Karina.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: She would get that crazy and like I would imitate her.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: You know, I was like, don't fuck with my three m's,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: my mama, my man. She said, my mama, my man,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: and my money. You fuck with my money to that bitch.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: She would literally talk like that right, Oh my god.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I love her, And then she would have a crush
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: on the like manager and she's like I saw you
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: talking to my man. I was like, girl, he's just
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: teaching me how to use like micros and she's like, oh,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: did you say anything about me? Like she's fucking nuts.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: So like when I auditioned for Flaka, it was Karina
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: that I was like embodying.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: No, you're channeling a girl that you knew from Like
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: that's awesome, Yes, yes, that's my girl, yo.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: And now she's she finished high school. You know, she
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: had a tough upbringing, but like she's living her dream
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: right now, and I call her like Flacka's future, you know, yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: because you know she got out of the of that world, right.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I think everyone fell in love with you when you
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: stepped onto Orange is the New Black, because every time
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: you stepped onto the screen, it was like you were
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: just infatuated with what you brought to that character. I'm
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: being dead serious. I remember I first started watching Orange
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Is the New Black when I moved to LA seven
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: years ago. I don't remember how many seasons y'all had
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: at that time, but I just remember I was like,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: this show is single handedly making me feel like I'm
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: gonna make shit happen out here. Like I don't know how,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: but I'm feeling less depressed.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because we're finally we see like us kind of
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: like we get to see us on TV, which we
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: don't usually see right.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: In the backstories of everybody, Like I think Jenji Cohen
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: is just absolutely fucking brilliant. I mean that had to
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: be just like it's surreal moment when they're like, oh,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: by the way, like we are gonna was it? Or like,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: did you guys not know that Orange was gonna be
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: that big, No.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: We like this is when Netflix was still like mailing
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: you like CDs. Oh shoot yeah, Like my cousin was like, oh,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to pay for that shit, Like is
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: that like what she's like? Is that a web series?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Like I got mad? I got made fun of? Like seriously, wow,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Well now he's laughing.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Out right exactly. You tell him, Jackie. I gotta tell you.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: People don't know. Jackie's like a huge deal besides being
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: an actress. People know you, but you're a huge deal
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: of music. I've seen you perform at football stadiums like
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: it's nobody's business. Nobody's business.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: That's it was scary. You got to act like it's.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: All right now. I just want to tell people that
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: are listening because people I don't know if they know,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: but you know, we just after six months of being
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: shut down on my first movie I'm directing Midnight, which
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: people have heard about, and they've had a meal her
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Sean and Machine on Kelly and Megan Fox. Jackie has
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: been part of this cast from the jump. It's just
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: we've been shut down and we actually resume filming now.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So Jackie is about to collab with her friend Randall
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: so there we go.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Gosho, yo, do you know that I've been dreaming about
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: this like the whole twenty twenty oh man, Like I
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be in Puerto Rico. I was already
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: supposed to be on your jet.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I doubt that's true, Jackie. You were already supposed to
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: be on that jet. But you know what, the world
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: came to a halt and we are now going to
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: try to push it forward again.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: So anyway, I'm so excited.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: We're ready, Jackie. We're ready for you. Yeah, we're ready
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: for you, and and you're going to crush it. You
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I've always known you were going to crush it and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I was lucky to get you. And you were such
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a bench in the whole process. So thank you.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: When he told me that you took that role, I
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my, I san girl out. Not over
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: very many people, but there are certain people that I
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: just there's something about them where I'm like.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: You know what, la la, I do believe you because
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: when we first met, you were a fucking like gem,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: like such a sweetheart. I gave you my number that night.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: We did did Yeah, No, you and I hit We.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Have some you know, mutual friends in common. I know, yeah,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: like I worked at SIR before I moved to like
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: New York.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, how the fuck did we not? Yes, she worked
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: at SIR?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Stop this bullshit? Are you seriously like.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I like raised Lulu? No, I'm kidding yo, like I
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: used to like Lulu. Like her first three words was Mama, dada,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: and Jackie, I'm not kidding you.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: You could ask here, Oh wait, how did we not
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: start this conversation?
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like and I have spoken about this so
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: many times, Like I just like didn't even think about
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: it when you detail.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: That organically, because you know, wait.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Who did when you worked at SIR? When you worked
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: at SIR? Who else worked there from the existing cast?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Do you remember? Like was Jack's there? Tom Sandoval?
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: No, Jack's wasn't fair, But I knew about him because
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: we had mutual friends and he liked Christina. You like
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Christina Christina Kelly. I know Christina Kelly was there when
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I worked there. We know it's like one of my
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: best friends.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: So Jackie is like dear friends with this amazing chick
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: named Kelly. Kelly and I used to hang out every
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: single day because she had a big dog and I
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: had a big dog, so they would run around in
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: her backyard. And now Kelly lives in Texas, best friends
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: with Danny, Shay and Madison and they all work at
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the same restaurant. How small is this world. I'm just
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: putting that out there. It's crazy.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: By the way, I want to tell you something, Jackie.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Just side note. I text Noah, Jason and Grutman and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I just told them that they have to listen to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: our podcasts, and Grutman and Noah within two seconds text back, awesome.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: So nice. See that's who they are.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: She is. Jackie's such a little gem because when I
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: first met you, I like, I come off as someone
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: who like I pretend like I just have all the
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: confidence in the world. I fake it till I make
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: it girl, And when I saw you, I was like,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm obsessed with her, like just she
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: just has so much talent. There's there's not a lot
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: that impresses me. But when you're a talented person, that
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: right there, I'm immediately just in awe.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: And so nic my episode is called faked and then
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: fake it some more.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: That's that is awesome.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Like literally, it's it's what it is. But yo, thank
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: you so much for that love, Like I really do
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: believe it, and like, you know, I appreciate you and
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Randal so much because I watch you guys, and you know,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: it ain't easy doing everything that you're doing. And now
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: you're pregnant, and like you know, I see your makeup, lying, girl, I.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: See you know.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: We're just all trying you.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: We're out here trying to make a dollar, baby.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, if you don't give up, if
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: you don't if you just work on your craft and
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: just don't give up and be the best that you
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: like for you I'm not trying to be the Army
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: right now, but like be the best that you know,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: like you can be for yourself, Like I criticize myself.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: I have grown so much since season one on Orange,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: like I am have blossomed, and I have more to blossom. Like,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: just don't give up. You know people are always gonna
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: say she don't think she can act. Well maybe I
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: can't right now, bitch, but like why, you.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Know it's amazing, right, I love it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Jack?
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Before we let you go, is there anything that you
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: are working on that you're excited about besides your new
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: your new marriage, which is like the ultimate thing that
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: you have coming up that you want to tell us about.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I have this franchise like movie that's coming out
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: called Trummer's Seven.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, dude.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: True.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: I filmed it in Thailand like in November of last year,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: and like the experience of like touching like elephants and
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: like working like around such beautiful nature was just like
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: worth it and it's it was fun. I get to
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: be an action hero Jackie.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: How long are you in Thailand for ten days? That's
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: amazing that I did a bunch of movies back in
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the day in Thailand and it was life changing for me.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: So I completely relate.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Do you take me there, Rand when we can.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. Okay, let's go.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: I love it, Jackie. You're the ship for coming on
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: our podcast.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: We love you so bad. Thank you. We can't wait
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: to see you tomorrow.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, I will see I will see you tomorrow, Jackie.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Right, thank you guys for inviting me and asking me.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Like, we love you and thank you and I can't
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: wait to see you tomorrow.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: I did a freaking ted talk like thank you. Yes,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Guys so much. Love, We love you. Thank you, Jack.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I really love her. It's so crazy because every time,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: like our guests that come on, I feel like we
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: know most of them, and then every time we have
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: them on, I'm like, they're so cool and sweet, like
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: they don't have to come. You are such a rookie.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I can't even believe it. Like I'm having a really
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: genuine moment and your phone.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: You know, how can I tell you something? You know
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: how I used to stop that line of mine where
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I'd say, oh, don't forget about me with ran Yeah,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: rookie got to go away.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Well, you would think that you'd stop being one, you know, right,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: stop being a rookie, and it will come up with something.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not a rookie because I am the greatest.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Like thirty something episode.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Greatest talent booker on the face of podcasts.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: All I'm gonna say is, look.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Stacey even else, Yes, that's true. Have you ever seen
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: a podcast come out of the gate thirty episodes in
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: with the level of talent I brought? So if I'm
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: a rookie with the damn cell phone, I'm an expert
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: high level on talent booking.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, let the phone ring, baby, You're right you're right,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: letter Ring Rookie.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: All right, baby, I have to ask question you know what.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you something. An I'll shut up
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: again because I get excited. You know. I feel like COVID,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: you know, slowed a lot of friendships down that we have. Yeah,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and I really miss people like Jackie and we need
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: to make a little more of an effort to like
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: get together.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: With I have learned during COVID that I value the
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: friendships that I have, that we pick up where we
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: left off, that we may have not spoken for weeks,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: maybe a couple months, and it's just like we are
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: right back where we used to be. So I agree
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: with you, and I also think it's important that we
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: acknowledge the fact that our guests do not have to
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: come on our podcast. They do that because they want
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: and they are badasses for doing that. So just like
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: our guests, you guys don't have to listen, and you do,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: and we love you for that. Thank you for coming
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: back every single week to listen to us bumpcoms. We
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: love you and we will catch you next Wednesday.