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From Shadows to Spotlight: Sofronio Vasquez on #UnIdentified · PHLV Radio

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Speaker 1: He's a being yam gab, the time's a sketch and.
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Speaker 2: You maybe.
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Speaker 3: Rise up handshine to the busy.
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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, welcome.
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Speaker 1: Onto our first episode of Unidentified. My name is Sharing
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Tee also known as Sharon tanneg.
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Speaker 4: And my name is Bren And throughout this podcast series,
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we will be identifying talents throughout Las Vegas and the world.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they are extremely a lot of talents around the world,
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and of course we're gonna start here in Las Vegas,
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the entertainment capital of the world, right Yeah, and everyone
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agrees on that. So what we're trying to look for
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is an extremely talented individual or groups that is out there,
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but no one has ever seen them, or there are
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sightings of them. Just like you and I identified flying object,
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there are sightings of them, but there were never on
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there were never identified. They are still unidentified, right, So
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that's where we're looking for. That we want you to
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be seen. So this is the platform for.
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Speaker 4: It, and for our very first episode, we have something
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very special for you all. Last weekend, we spent it
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with the Voice season twenty six winner, Sofronio Vasquez, who
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and did you know.
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Speaker 1: That his first Asian, first Filipino that had won the.
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Speaker 4: Voice and that's really hard to do, you know, as
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an Asian too in America, you know, but we all.
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Speaker 1: Know that Filipinos are the number one, Oh yeah, because
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we have karaoke machines all over our how our.
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Speaker 4: Normal our houses.
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Speaker 1: Every party, the household of Filipino always has a karaoke
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machine or something like you know, maybe a speaker or
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just a couple of mics.
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Speaker 2: That's just normal for a Filipino household.
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Speaker 4: And so Fronio really grew on us, you know, as
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we spend time with him over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yes, because as a as a I was part of
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the whole entire show from the beginning till end, and
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we did our rehearsal at one of the great studios there.
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Speaker 2: It was an awesome studio.
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Speaker 4: I think it's called Music City, Music City, San Francisco.
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Speaker 2: In downtown in Free something like something like that. You'll
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see it.
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Speaker 1: We'll show you all the videos that we've kept during
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our stint there in San Francisco with Sofronio Aasquez. So
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like brand said that he grew on us because from
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the moment that we did our rehearsal.
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Speaker 2: Of course, he didn't.
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Speaker 1: Really sing like the way he should be singing during
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the show because he has to keep keep his voice voice,
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he has to keep it healthy. So he was just
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trying to you know, even hum. But you know what
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what got my attention during the rehears he's not just
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extremely talented with vocals. But then he was correcting, not
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correcting in a nice way, like Kuya, can you make
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that sound here like this bum bum bum bum bum,
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and then start here, start over here, and then can
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you make like a drum roll in this part. He
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knows what he's doing and he knows exactly what the
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audience has to hear.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what he wants musically, He has a very he
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has an intuition when it comes to music, just how
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right it sounds, how good it sounds when it comes
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to like an audience standpoint, because yeah, as singers too,
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we were an audience, or we are an audience of
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other singers. We like to listen to other singers.
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Speaker 1: And then during the voice of course, he wanted to
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to have that sound still in his show. So like
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a Million dreams, he wanted the drums to get rolling,
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like really you want I want to feel the drums.
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So the drummer kept on like playing the drums and
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up to the point that Okay, that's it, that's the
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sound that I want you to do. So he's he's pretty,
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he's pretty a knowledgeable of music, you know. So at
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the same time, we were asked like, why Sophronio to
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be our very first guest in our first episode?
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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, Well, first of all, now he's identified, but
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before he was unidentified, he.
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Speaker 1: Actually started in a big singing competition in the Philippines
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and that's on tvalen.
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Speaker 4: He And now are you ready to see our interview
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with Sophronio basquezt.
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Speaker 5: Here it is.
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Speaker 4: I think he plays on that show. He did play
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win the grand prize.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he was and he was identified, and then
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after a couple of years he moved to the United
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States in New York and he started a career of
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I think in the dental office.
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Speaker 2: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then so we started auditioning to the voice,
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even audition at the Apollo Theater and other big name
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singing competition.
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Speaker 4: And now are you ready to see our interview with
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Sofronio Vazquez. Here it is. Hi everyone, This is Brandon,
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this is Charonty, and we're here with The Voice Season
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twenty six winners of Fronio Vasquez.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, congratulations.
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Speaker 1: Our first question for you, so this is your journey
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and then in your experience, what is the difference of
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Filipinos evaluating your music talent versus Americans.
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Speaker 5: I think there's not a lot of difference, to be honest,
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But if I could just spot one difference, it would
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be just the appreciation of the diversity, because Filipinos usually
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believe that, or Filipinos are always Filipinos have always this
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concept of you won't make it, you cannot, And I
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think that's the only the only difference here in America,
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because Americans, especially with a music scene is very diverse.
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They don't they don't, they don't differentiate with you in
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a music music side, with skin, skin and whatever. They
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just appreciate your passion and yeah, they're just so excited
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with every music that's in your heart.
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Speaker 2: Very good there, well said.
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Speaker 4: And did you experience that on the Voice when you
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were with Michael Boublay when you met other contestants.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean I definitely felt that experience, And
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I really personally can say that I have the best
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experience because first and foremost, I moved here in America
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very recently, and I never felt that I am just outcasted.
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They appreciated me as a person. They learned to appreciate
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what my culture is. And yeah, that that I think
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that with me is.
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Speaker 2: That's really awesome. That's that's a great experience either.
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Speaker 1: That's why we've been here for a few years and
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then started a voice.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and do you have any.
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Speaker 2: Plans in the future in the next two years? Are
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you recording or are you going to be in a movie?
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Speaker 1: Are you going to be in a musical play?
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Speaker 2: I know you're doing a US tour.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've I've been asked about the same question. But
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if I can just share a bit, I am still
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working on my things. And yeah, I mean I I
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always want the supporters and our friends and of course
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to just wait and because I want that element of
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surprise adver time. Yeah, so then.
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Speaker 1: You're surprising the one entire world.
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Speaker 5: Oh thank you. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that one. Yeah,
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like what you said, we we technically we the Filipinos
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are always a surprise to each each country, each stayed,
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each race, because you're just very passionate of what we're doing.
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So I'm calling out everyone to be excited and just
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be passionate into what you're what you love, and just
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try out. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So in your journey, you're singing journey, you definitely haven't
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had a lot of supporters. Yeah, and your mom is
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definitely your number one supporter. So will she be with
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us in the San Leandrew concert.
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Speaker 5: I actually called her and asked her about it, and
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she wanted to stay in the Philippines for now because
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she don't want to interfere with the crazy schedules. But
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definitely she's going to be here in America and hopefully
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she's gonna catch a specific event or a specific concert.
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So she's very excited for me. She's gonna be like,
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I'm gonna stay and put things and watch you. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well that's okay, very supportive, but I don't know. She's
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she's far away and she's still very.
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Speaker 4: Very that's what her mom does, yes from.
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Speaker 1: Before, but still she's there and Scirit, Well, thank you
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so much for.
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Speaker 5: You to our friends, and I hope you're watching this one.
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Please subscribe to our friends, please support and please support everyone.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much, just so much.
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Speaker 2: Wow, what a great interview. I didn't even realize.
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Speaker 4: That that was really fun for us interviewing Sofron. It
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was really nice, very accommodating, and we will never forget
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that experience.
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Speaker 1: But before we move on, I would like to thank
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a few people here, and I like to start with
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Attorney Victor, the injury law and he's been very supportive
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of us from way back, and.
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Speaker 4: He's very long time supportive, yes.
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Speaker 1: And he's still supporting us up to this day. So
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we wanted to give you so many thanks, Attorney Victor Cardoza.
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Speaker 6: I'm Attorney Victor Cardoza. I've been a lawyer here in
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Las Vegas, helping our community for twenty five years. I
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understand people don't want to see a lawyer unless they
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need to, but it would be my honor to serve you,
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to help you when you have a crisis with automobile collisions, injury,
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trauma claims, property damage claims, DUIs or tickets, please think
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of me. It would be my pleasure to serve you.
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I enjoy and I live for helping our community. Evan
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zero two nine eight seven to one one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Attorney Victor Cardoza.
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Speaker 1: And moving on about Soprano interview, we wanted to to
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let you know, guys that Sofronio is such a great person.
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Speaker 2: He even he.
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Speaker 1: Helped us with our interview with him.
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Speaker 4: We have to like go around the music, help us
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find the background. Yeah, the nice background for us to film.
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Speaker 1: We wanted to find a background of all because it's
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a music city, so we wanted something that's still in
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a music thing because we were actually going to the kitchen.
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But he said, this is a better, better lighting here,
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so let's start here. So that was the start of
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our you know, some sort of an interview with him.
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So we started with an interview about.
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Speaker 4: Just the difference between how Filipinos and Americans evaluate singing
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it talent, and there is very I guess a stark
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not stark, but there is a difference. There is a
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Americans and Filipinos evaluate singing talent.
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Speaker 1: But he didn't say there's a big difference because a
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person like him, he was he didn't have a bad experience.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he told us that he did have a good experience, very.
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Speaker 1: Good experience, which we are very very uh not not
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because we know there's always going to be a journey
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that you know in the beginning, it's not a good
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experience and then.
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Speaker 4: Goes, uh, becomes better better.
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Speaker 2: So with him, it's just it just got better. And
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then there wasn't any.
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Speaker 1: You know, discrimination, It was more of what he said
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was more of diversity. Yeah, it's more diversity surrounding rather
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than discrimination. We didn't even hear that word from him.
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Speaker 4: And if you do notice on the voice it's very diverse,
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is that you watch the voice, there's a lot of
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there's African Americans, Latin Americans, a lot of diversity when
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it comes to culture in the voice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And also while we were in interviewing him, that part
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when I said and the world is waiting for you,
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he got that expression in his case, that bit of
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a shock, like a shot, like he kind of realized
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and that moment that really the world is waiting for him,
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you know. So after that we did ask him about
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his plans uh in the next two years. After the interview,
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we did a chat a little bit. He did mention
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about a recording. I did ask him about recording, and
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then what type of genre He did mention about contemporary.
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Speaker 4: Ye, some type of contemporary type genre that he wants
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to get into.
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Speaker 1: And then also we did ask I asked him about
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his plans on and I did tell him that he
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can be good in Broadway. And we all know, I'm
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sure everybody knew about because it's already on social media
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that he is being offered without audition to be uh
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in Miss Saigon for the toy toy part the toy
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the character toy. So it's it's totally up to him
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if he wants that. But he he'll be great in
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in Broadway, you.
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Speaker 4: Think, Yeah, I think his voice quality is very Broadway asque.
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And indeed you told me too that he sounds a
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bit like Gar.
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Speaker 1: He did sound like Gary, especially when he sings, uh,
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the fast songs.
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Speaker 4: And how and he did sing? How did you know?
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Speaker 2: In the content he did not? Even the fast songs
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he did? He did sing? How did you know?
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Speaker 1: With the cecila Sarcon and Jaya was there, and Jaya
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is one of our top female singers in the Philippines,
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and she was one of the judges of.
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Speaker 4: As well, one of the judges who identified his talent
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from the start.
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Speaker 2: From the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and also now I also asked him, is there
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any shows internationally that he's going to be doing aside
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from the Sophronio tour? Will be in New Zealand, I
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believe in Canada and.
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Speaker 2: Australia.
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Speaker 1: So he did mention but maybe maybe he's going to
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do a bublet concert and David.
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Speaker 4: Foster, maybe he was putting it out there, putting out
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there in the university.
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Speaker 1: Maybe, but it's going to be who knows, right.
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Speaker 2: And then according to him, it's just a surprise.
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Speaker 4: He wants everything to be a surprise.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know that.
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Speaker 1: He's a good person because he definitely loves his mom.
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Always talks about his mom.
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Speaker 4: In the interview, we talked about about his mom. His
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mom wasn't there with him during the show. He did
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say like in the interview that she wanted to stay
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behind in the film pines, but we did tell him that,
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you know, sometimes mom's support from Afar is like the
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most powerful thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, even if.
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Speaker 1: She's not physically there in his journey, but you know
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that the mom's love is always there, always in his heart,
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in his mind. It's so nice to meet for the
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first time. I never met Jaya and she.
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Speaker 4: Is so we did. We did when he performed that
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when I was fifteen years old in the West Gate,
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the West Gate, it was a Jaya and Inigo in
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Ko Pasquad is really fun.
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Speaker 2: I forgot about that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of my first very good, big,
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big events that I sang at.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and also I heard from the producer.
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Speaker 1: That Jaya really really wanted to perform with Sophronio because
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there's a history there and she was one of the
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judges for the town and Tanhalan.
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Speaker 4: And there's little story that she told us during the
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concert when because they hadn't met for a while, her
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and Sophronio, and I think it was that day, the
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day of the concert, they met for breakfast, I believe,
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she said, and then they had the moment and they
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cried with each other, they.
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Speaker 2: Did and stuff like that they did.
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Speaker 1: They cried and then a good thing that she she
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and and then Sophronia still has the boys, because when
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you cry, you definitely lose some kind of you know
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boys that But but then I guess it's it's part
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of it, you know. They were very emotional that morning
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and they were talking over breakfast. So and Cecila Sarcano
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was there too. Uh, she's an icon, like we said, Uh,
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he did a version of how did you Know? And
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then I felt it, Uh, it's very gary and a
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very big friend of Gary Vano.
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Speaker 2: He does sound like a little bit of Gary.
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Speaker 1: And then speaking about how he grew in us, like
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I said, whenever he was we were doing the rehearsal,
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it still doesn't like why why is he the voice?
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Speaker 4: We were looking for the why.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were in him. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But then during the show, when we were already doing
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the show, and then I was one of the singers there,
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I did really see and hear why he is the
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voice Season twenty six.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's such a great talent. Just twenty sings. He
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knows how to use his voice really well. He knows
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how to connect with the audience. He knows how to
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convey that emotion. And the difference between good and great
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singers is storytelling. And that's what we always think about
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when we sing, right, storytelling, We tell us stories. We
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are storytellers as singers, right and.
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Speaker 1: Bringing the audience to the highlight of the story. And
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that's what he did, and that's really how he is.
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Even when he was asked like what do you what
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would you advise to the contestants in need? He did
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judge the singing competition. That's what he said that just
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don't worry about technicalities of you know, how you're singing,
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just you know, just be in the moment, sing from
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the heart and tell a story. And that's what we
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do as singers too.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that is exactly why Sophronia packed that theater.
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It was really packed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he brought he he Well, music really
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reunites people, and that night was it revealed that music
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unite everyone because I I was telling everyone that I
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haven't seen the director's age, haven't seen him in like
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twenty five years, and then uh, the producer, I haven't
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really met, and then we just connected there and everyone
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did and all the singers said they were all great
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and were so nice and we just love San Francisco
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because because of that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the energy in that theater was very, very electric
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that night. Really, I was there, I was watching, I
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was videoing. I was her personal assistant.
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Speaker 1: For the for the week because we really have to
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get this episode one going identified. But yeah, there was
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a lot of love and you felt that with Sophronio
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on stage, and he's just so he's he's a big star,
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but he still is very very grounded and I hope
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he stays that way.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that is an important thing to have, just
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be grounded, being humble, because once you get you know,
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get that arrogance, you know, I guess it's over.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think he's going to be that situation
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because right now he's already that big and he still
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doesn't grasp the the idea of that.
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Speaker 2: Like he still is like I said, I said, the
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world is waiting for you.
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Speaker 1: He is just oh, really, the world is waiting for me,
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but he is. It is the world is waiting for you,
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sopran you. So that's the reason why Sophronio Vascaz is
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our first guest here and not identified Unidentified Episode one.
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Speaker 4: So before we wrap up, we'd like to, I guess
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plug ourselves. Just follow us on Instagram, on Facebook at
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Unidentified podcast, and on our another Facebook and Instagram page
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of Born Famous Entertainment as well and our own Instagram
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pages Sharon Tanyag music at Sharontaniac Music, me at Brand New,
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b R e N Underscore, and you You.
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Speaker 1: And of course our website at Bornfamous Entertainment dot com.
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And of course we also have Facebook Facebook pages. Mine
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is Sharon Tanyang also known as sharant.
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Speaker 4: And my Facebook page is Brent b R E. N N.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for watching and listening to an identified our
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very first episode and with pH LV Radio. My name
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is Sharony and.
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Speaker 4: My name is Brent.
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Speaker 1: Rise up and shine to b CS A thing. It's up.
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