WEBVTT 00:01:20.590 --> 00:01:22.849 Maybe. Maybe. I've seen them without me. Maybe, 00:01:22.870 --> 00:01:25.150 yeah. I apologize to them. They're great episodes 00:01:25.150 --> 00:01:26.750 when you're not here, so trust me. They're crap. 00:01:26.969 --> 00:01:28.989 Yeah. And of course, we got Kwez in the back. 00:01:29.069 --> 00:01:31.049 What's up, Kwez? All right, Kwez. Taking care 00:01:31.049 --> 00:01:34.730 of all the great comments on there. But before 00:01:34.730 --> 00:01:38.189 we get started, first things first, we want to 00:01:38.189 --> 00:01:41.349 send our condolences to the Larry Allen family. 00:01:41.349 --> 00:01:44.450 Yes. Unfortunately, Dallas Cowboy Lyman. passed 00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:48.590 away, I believe age 52. 52. So our hearts and 00:01:48.590 --> 00:01:51.629 condolences go to you guys. Absolutely. And we 00:01:51.629 --> 00:01:54.769 hope just, you know, just try to get through. 00:01:54.950 --> 00:01:57.769 I mean, too young. I mean, very young. Yeah, 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:01.069 I'm sure it was a shock to them as any time anything 00:02:01.069 --> 00:02:03.310 like that happens. But thoughts and prayers out 00:02:03.310 --> 00:02:04.890 to them. Yeah, thoughts and prayers out to you 00:02:04.890 --> 00:02:07.629 guys. But on happier news. Yeah, on a lighter 00:02:07.629 --> 00:02:10.770 note, a way lighter note. Way lighter note. Congratulations 00:02:10.770 --> 00:02:20.180 to the Wessicle Lady Painter. It cannot be more 00:02:20.180 --> 00:02:23.680 of a storybook. Bottom of the seventh, one out. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.800 Base is loaded. Full count. Pitch comes right 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.919 down the middle. Bam. Gone. Out of the ballpark. 00:02:32.300 --> 00:02:41.419 Beautiful. Congratulations, ladies. What was 00:02:41.419 --> 00:02:44.560 her name? Ortiz? Ortiz? I believe her name was 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:49.699 Ortiz. My gosh. You're going to be famous. They're 00:02:49.699 --> 00:02:51.259 going to make movies about you. They're going 00:02:51.259 --> 00:02:53.460 to name a street after you. You're in Westlaco 00:02:53.460 --> 00:02:56.099 somewhere. Somewhere. Probably on Old 83. Yes, 00:02:56.219 --> 00:02:58.419 around there. Don't worry about it. Don't worry 00:02:58.419 --> 00:03:01.159 about it. It's going towards Dallas. Don't worry 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.180 about it. They're all going to know your name. 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.740 But guys, today on the podcast. Oh, my gosh, 00:03:07.819 --> 00:03:11.919 guys. If you guys tuned in for today, man, we 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:14.780 got a great guest. First time ever having anybody 00:03:14.780 --> 00:03:18.500 in our podcast that is literally Hollywood royalty. 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.139 Me, Hollywood royalty. It is Hollywood royalty. 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.900 It is. It is, bro. It's Hollywood royalty from 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:28.159 the RGV. Ladies and gentlemen. Just get to it 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:55.319 over. I know. I'm scared. First of all, welcome. 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:58.960 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for being 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.280 here, man. Thank you. First of all, surreal to 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.819 have you in our studio. First of all, I'm so 00:04:03.819 --> 00:04:05.500 used to seeing you in the TV screen. I'm sorry. 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:12.740 I mean, we did. We did meet up last year in September 00:04:12.740 --> 00:04:15.740 at the South Texas University Festival, which 00:04:15.740 --> 00:04:19.339 was also a big shout out to them. It's a great 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:23.660 event. It's a great event. It's been over 10 00:04:23.660 --> 00:04:25.420 years, I believe, coming up this year, if I'm 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:26.839 not mistaken. Coming up this year, yeah. Yeah, 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.819 and I mean, it's just amazing how much entertainment 00:04:30.819 --> 00:04:34.139 they bring down. Not only that, a lot of well 00:04:34.139 --> 00:04:37.319 -known actors, directors, writers, stunt women. 00:04:38.140 --> 00:04:40.060 And now that they come down and give a lot of 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:42.620 advice to the young entrepreneurs that are trying 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:44.439 to get into the business. It's totally for free. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.819 Exactly. Completely for free. So if you guys 00:04:46.819 --> 00:04:48.860 are interested in wanting to be in the industry 00:04:48.860 --> 00:04:51.300 and you don't know what, what, what, come by 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:53.259 there, come by there and drop into a seminar, 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.019 drop into, you know, a lot of different classes. 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.439 We had one dude that was doing, putting a piece 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:04.300 of glass in somebody's eye, the makeup artist. 00:05:05.699 --> 00:05:08.120 Editors, like you're saying, sound people, the 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.379 stunt people, so if you're interested, come by 00:05:10.379 --> 00:05:12.120 because it's totally free. Come by, walk around, 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:23.279 see what you learn. Get into some trouble. No, 00:05:26.860 --> 00:05:28.660 I appreciate you coming, first of all, coming 00:05:28.660 --> 00:05:32.279 to the podcast once again. Matt, I don't know 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.300 where to start. I mean, let's start from the 00:05:34.300 --> 00:05:36.220 beginning. I know you told you the last time 00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:38.480 we had you on the show there, you started where 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.920 you come up, where your up comings are from. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:43.339 Let's start from the beginning, you know, where 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:47.540 are you from and how we got to Hollywood, David. 00:05:47.699 --> 00:05:49.399 That's what I wanted to ask. Go ahead. It's all 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:51.879 you. It's Texas, man. It's Texas. But I mean, 00:05:51.980 --> 00:05:54.560 I was born to a family of migrant farm workers. 00:05:54.939 --> 00:05:57.920 And at about three months old... Yeah, we went 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.779 Pal Norte. We would go to Florida and Texas always, 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:03.540 always. And then in the winter months, we'd go 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:06.019 further north, Michigan, all over the place, 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.199 Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, 00:06:08.579 --> 00:06:11.000 California, Oregon, Washington, por donde quiera, 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:16.000 man. So at about 15 was the last time we did 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.839 that. Mom got a job working at the cafeteria 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.480 in Ed Couch at one of the schools. And so we 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:23.319 were able to stay. Then we would only go during 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.110 the summer. But living that life, actually working 00:06:27.110 --> 00:06:30.810 in the fields, which most of the people my age 00:06:30.810 --> 00:06:33.550 have done in one at one time or another. Maybe 00:06:33.550 --> 00:06:36.629 they didn't do it as hardcore as I did, but most 00:06:36.629 --> 00:06:39.649 of my generation has worked in the fields or 00:06:39.649 --> 00:06:41.529 knows somebody that's worked in the fields, right? 00:06:41.689 --> 00:06:44.569 Really, really hard work. And that's where I 00:06:44.569 --> 00:06:48.050 figured out that size game, I don't want to do 00:06:48.050 --> 00:06:50.430 this the rest of my life, man. I don't want to 00:06:50.430 --> 00:06:52.860 do this the rest of my life. And so I started 00:06:52.860 --> 00:06:55.939 concentrating on education, education. And people 00:06:55.939 --> 00:06:57.439 always ask me, do you always know you want to 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.420 be an actor? I said, no, no, no. The first thing 00:06:59.420 --> 00:07:02.019 I knew I didn't want to be was really, really 00:07:02.019 --> 00:07:06.959 poor the way we were. I didn't want to be poor. 00:07:07.579 --> 00:07:13.379 I didn't want to be poor. And so I started doing 00:07:13.379 --> 00:07:15.319 good in school. And I thought I wanted to be 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.920 a lawyer. because I thinking, I need to make 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.480 money. In my head, it was doctor or lawyer, doctor 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:23.680 or lawyer. And so I thought maybe I'll be a lawyer. 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.899 And for whatever reason, I had a little bit of 00:07:26.899 --> 00:07:29.399 brain and a little bit of luck. I had some really 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.959 amazing teachers, really, really amazing teachers 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:34.740 that are certainly responsible for a big part 00:07:34.740 --> 00:07:39.540 of my success. But when I got to college, the 00:07:39.540 --> 00:07:42.269 first class I took was a theater class. It was 00:07:42.269 --> 00:07:44.509 a summer class where they were doing four shows 00:07:44.509 --> 00:07:46.829 in five weeks, so it was really, really intensive. 00:07:47.810 --> 00:07:49.990 And right after I took that class, I went, you 00:07:49.990 --> 00:07:52.730 know, Saskia, I don't need to be a lawyer. I 00:07:52.730 --> 00:07:56.370 just need a college diploma so that when I graduate, 00:07:56.730 --> 00:07:59.149 I'll be able to get a real job, not be in the 00:07:59.149 --> 00:08:01.170 fields anymore. Exactly. So that was the plan. 00:08:01.189 --> 00:08:02.730 That was just the whole plan right there. I'm 00:08:02.730 --> 00:08:06.110 going to graduate with a theater degree. Maybe 00:08:06.110 --> 00:08:08.550 I'll teach somewhere. Maybe I'll work backstage. 00:08:08.730 --> 00:08:11.149 I don't know yet, but we're still building. But 00:08:11.149 --> 00:08:13.389 first and foremost, I need to get that diploma, 00:08:13.490 --> 00:08:16.550 that college degree. And when I graduated, I 00:08:16.550 --> 00:08:21.009 thought, well, if I'm going to maybe teach it 00:08:21.009 --> 00:08:23.209 someday, because I really thought I was going 00:08:23.209 --> 00:08:25.230 to be a drama teacher, you know, somewhere in 00:08:25.230 --> 00:08:28.889 the Rio Grande Valley. I should go out and see 00:08:28.889 --> 00:08:31.129 what it's like. That way I can come back and 00:08:31.129 --> 00:08:32.549 tell them, look, this is what the book says, 00:08:32.669 --> 00:08:34.169 but this is what I experienced. Pretty much test 00:08:34.169 --> 00:08:36.409 the waters. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have some 00:08:36.409 --> 00:08:39.309 practical experience. Exactly. I went out there 00:08:39.309 --> 00:08:41.610 and it just, it went well. It went really, really 00:08:41.610 --> 00:08:44.049 well. I got four jobs real quick, none of them 00:08:44.049 --> 00:08:46.549 were acting, but I knew I needed to pay bills. 00:08:46.690 --> 00:08:48.889 Right, exactly. So I was working as a courier, 00:08:48.950 --> 00:08:50.710 I was working as a carpenter, I was working at 00:08:50.710 --> 00:08:53.009 a video store, and I was working as a telemarketer. 00:08:53.049 --> 00:08:55.850 I'm going to sell them. I was selling gold. I'm 00:08:55.850 --> 00:08:59.090 going to do the worst job in the whole, in forever. 00:08:59.659 --> 00:09:04.159 The only good thing was when at six o 'clock 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:07.299 when the boss left, we had a long distance phone 00:09:07.299 --> 00:09:22.500 line. So we'd call the whole family. Four months 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:26.080 into that in December. I walked into an agent's 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.980 office. Again, one of my professors down here 00:09:28.980 --> 00:09:31.679 had written me a letter of introduction. He had 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.980 one friend he'd gone to Texas Tech with. She 00:09:34.980 --> 00:09:38.159 was an agent. She said, if you're not a member 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.500 of the union, I can't represent you, but come 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:41.940 on in, let's talk for five minutes, see what 00:09:41.940 --> 00:09:44.659 you got. And so I talked with her a little bit, 00:09:44.740 --> 00:09:48.460 and I had an old VHS tape of stuff I'd done in 00:09:48.460 --> 00:09:51.279 college. And when I was leaving, I said, Terry, 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.559 do me a favor. I have a tape. Right here, and 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.820 I see you have a tape player. I'm gonna leave 00:09:55.820 --> 00:09:58.100 this with you. It's only five minutes. Do me 00:09:58.100 --> 00:10:01.919 a favor. Look at it. And if I suck, just tell 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.240 me right now. You know, put an end to it right 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.500 now. If I'm terrible, tell me. Brother, you're 00:10:06.500 --> 00:10:09.440 terrible. You need to go be a carpenter. Right. 00:10:09.700 --> 00:10:11.679 And she laughed a little bit. Monday? Keep building 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.019 houses. And she laughed a little bit, and then 00:10:16.019 --> 00:10:17.539 the next morning she gave me a call. She goes, 00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:20.480 I'm not gonna sign you, but I'm gonna send you 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.769 out on a couple of things. See how you do. represent 00:10:22.769 --> 00:10:25.570 you temporarily. And the first thing she sent 00:10:25.570 --> 00:10:28.190 me out on was a movie called Salsa, The Motion 00:10:28.190 --> 00:10:30.509 Picture. Yeah, we talked about that. Yes, yes, 00:10:30.570 --> 00:10:35.529 yes. Really good soundtrack, the movie. Tito 00:10:35.529 --> 00:10:38.429 Puente, Celia Cruz, we got some really good people 00:10:38.429 --> 00:10:42.789 on soundtrack. And then that was my first job. 00:10:43.029 --> 00:10:45.409 And I ended up working eight weeks on that movie. 00:10:45.490 --> 00:10:47.889 And so I made some really good Feria. I put that 00:10:47.889 --> 00:10:51.740 in the bank. Then I quit my job. I started looking 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:54.480 for theater, some theater to be part of because 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.580 I had a really strong theater background. And 00:10:57.580 --> 00:11:00.279 I found one, the theater center, the Latino Lab 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.740 at the Los Angeles Theater Center. It all from 00:11:03.740 --> 00:11:05.480 there, it was just building, building. I got 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.620 to play and then I did da, da, da, da, da. The 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:11.230 first TV thing I did was a Golden Girls. That's 00:11:11.230 --> 00:11:13.889 how long ago it was. I was the air conditioning 00:11:13.889 --> 00:11:19.889 repairman. I look like I'm 17 years old. I'm 00:11:19.889 --> 00:11:22.649 carrying a new body. I was already like, I don't 00:11:22.649 --> 00:11:27.029 know, I was 25. I think I was about 25. But that's 00:11:27.029 --> 00:11:29.009 how it started. That's how it started. And I 00:11:29.009 --> 00:11:30.970 did a lot of theater work at the beginning. I 00:11:30.970 --> 00:11:33.929 was still doing TV every now and then and a couple 00:11:33.929 --> 00:11:43.649 of movies. And then in 93, We are 92. I got cast 00:11:43.649 --> 00:11:47.710 in Blood in Blood Out. Yeah. Wow, man. I got 00:11:47.710 --> 00:11:49.690 cast in Blood in Blood Out. One of the most classic 00:11:49.690 --> 00:11:52.570 movies. Any Latino man. And it just started coming 00:11:52.570 --> 00:11:54.970 out on, they just put it on a streaming service. 00:11:54.970 --> 00:11:56.629 Right. Because before that you couldn't get it. 00:11:56.690 --> 00:11:58.269 You couldn't find it anywhere. And the funny 00:11:58.269 --> 00:12:00.669 thing you say that last night, my wife and I, 00:12:00.769 --> 00:12:04.950 we were going through our Roku. Right. And we 00:12:04.950 --> 00:12:08.230 saw Blood in Blood Out on Broadway. Yeah. I was 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:11.710 like, what the heck? I go, please don't turn 00:12:11.710 --> 00:12:16.110 this into a Western story. Please don't. Please. 00:12:38.169 --> 00:12:40.289 Is it just weird or does that sound awesome? 00:12:40.529 --> 00:12:43.950 It's a shit! It's a shit! It's a shit! It's a 00:12:43.950 --> 00:12:46.710 shit! You heard it first! He had two of your 00:12:46.710 --> 00:12:50.049 butt bumps! Where did my butt bump meet? I don't 00:12:50.049 --> 00:12:53.850 know. Where did his ass end up? Oh my gosh. But 00:12:53.850 --> 00:12:56.049 that was a trip, man, because none of us knew. 00:12:56.049 --> 00:12:59.629 Well, I didn't. The person who had the most experience 00:12:59.629 --> 00:13:02.570 of all of the Pato Locos was Jesse. Jesse Rodrigo. 00:13:02.929 --> 00:13:05.110 Because he'd already been on Fame and he was 00:13:05.110 --> 00:13:06.929 already famous. Right, right, right. Really. 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:09.580 The rest of us were just starting out, but there 00:13:09.580 --> 00:13:11.379 are a lot of people in that movie. Billy Bob 00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:13.220 Thornton? Billy Bob Thornton's in that movie? 00:13:13.220 --> 00:13:15.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the prison? Is it Benjamin 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:20.000 Brack? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Raymond Cruz? He 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:25.139 went from that movie to Clear and Present Danger, 00:13:25.340 --> 00:13:27.879 then he did Aliens 4, then he did The Rock, then 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:32.299 he did Under Seas, and just movie after movie 00:13:32.299 --> 00:13:34.610 after movie. A lot of people. did a lot of work 00:13:34.610 --> 00:13:37.049 after that movie. Oh, man, it's crazy. It's crazy 00:13:37.049 --> 00:13:39.149 that you bring that up with the blood and blood 00:13:39.149 --> 00:13:41.210 out because that was like one of the most like 00:13:41.210 --> 00:13:43.909 I say, it was an epic film. And I mean, there's 00:13:43.909 --> 00:13:46.730 so many. Everybody knows the catchphrases as 00:13:46.730 --> 00:13:49.250 a whole. The whole thing. I mean, everybody, 00:13:49.250 --> 00:13:51.929 you know, who saw it when we were like we were 00:13:51.929 --> 00:13:54.649 in school. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. 00:13:54.690 --> 00:13:57.649 Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. 00:13:57.909 --> 00:14:03.590 Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. 00:14:03.659 --> 00:14:07.039 Look at that. Right there, and then I got this 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.659 one over here. Something I want you to write 00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:14.620 your stuff on there too. Brother, Jesse's performance 00:14:14.620 --> 00:14:20.440 in that movie is amazing. Amazing, it is amazing. 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.200 It's really his movie, brother. Because he's 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.360 the one that's got the journey. He goes from 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:27.779 being a beautiful artist, then he hurts his back, 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:29.779 then he gets addicted, then he's a marijuana, 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.070 a heroin addict, and then the... His little cousin 00:14:33.070 --> 00:14:36.070 dies, and he gets, you know, his family pushes 00:14:36.070 --> 00:14:39.830 him away. By the end, he's gone through this 00:14:39.830 --> 00:14:43.350 crazy journey, and he's kind of found some peace. 00:14:43.669 --> 00:14:46.450 He kind of figured it out. And that last scene 00:14:46.450 --> 00:14:50.230 with him dancing with Ben Brad in the LA River, 00:14:50.429 --> 00:14:57.860 that is beautiful, man. This is from crystal 00:14:57.860 --> 00:15:11.940 morning Ernie is the best friend everybody has. 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.019 If you didn't have an Ernie, you were the Ernie. 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:21.840 That's exactly right. If you paid attention during 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:25.320 that show, Ernie kissed all the girls. Ernie 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.600 kissed Sandra Bullock, brother. What? Yeah, it's 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:33.860 true, man! We want details, details of it. You 00:15:33.860 --> 00:15:37.669 gotta search through all the episodes. We're 00:15:37.669 --> 00:15:44.210 gonna go a frame by frame It would have been 00:15:44.210 --> 00:15:47.309 weird if George was like the one kissing everybody 00:16:04.169 --> 00:16:06.909 That's the next level right there. I got your 00:16:06.909 --> 00:16:13.409 back though. So after doing the blood in blood 00:16:13.409 --> 00:16:16.169 out, I mean, what was next? What was over the 00:16:16.169 --> 00:16:18.990 horizon? How did you end up going into? I was 00:16:18.990 --> 00:16:22.370 still in the middle of trying to figure out if 00:16:22.370 --> 00:16:24.870 I wanted to stay with the theater stuff. And 00:16:24.870 --> 00:16:27.269 I moved away from that and moved more through 00:16:27.269 --> 00:16:30.370 to television and movies. And I started doing 00:16:30.370 --> 00:16:34.759 a lot. Being very successful, I went from movie 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:37.080 to movie and then more TV, more TV, and then 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:38.919 I was in Aaron Brockovich as well, and then I 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.519 was in Mi Familia as well, and doing really, 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:47.259 really well. And then in 2001, in December of 00:16:47.259 --> 00:16:51.639 2001, I got the call for The George Lopez Show. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:55.200 And it was, the very first call though was just 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.200 to the casting director. And they sent me a script, 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:00.879 they sent me a script and I read the script and 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.960 I was really excited because I've never seen 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.220 a script like that. There hadn't been a show 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:09.059 like that for Latinos anyway. And then I looked 00:17:09.059 --> 00:17:11.839 at this character of Ernie and I went, I can 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.660 do that, man. I can do that character. I know 00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:17.599 that character. And so I went in, she liked it 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.160 and called me back. I went in again and again 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.880 and again. I went in seven times. And then at 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.160 the end, it was just me and this other guy. And 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.720 I went into a room, probably maybe twice as big 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.400 as this room, but there were maybe 150 people 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.130 in it. It was packed. It was back, back, back, 00:17:34.130 --> 00:17:38.390 back. And I went, I got on stage. So ready. By 00:17:38.390 --> 00:17:40.230 then I'd done it seven times. I was, you know, 00:17:40.230 --> 00:17:43.349 ready. And there's a reader somewhere in the 00:17:43.349 --> 00:17:44.950 first row that's going to be reading the other 00:17:44.950 --> 00:17:46.750 lines. So you find that guy, you ready? Yes, 00:17:46.769 --> 00:17:49.470 I'm ready. All right. I turned around like that. 00:17:49.630 --> 00:17:52.809 And when I turned back to the audience, they 00:17:52.809 --> 00:17:55.109 laughed. I hadn't said anything and they laughed. 00:18:19.259 --> 00:18:23.660 I'm driving home and It's feeling really good, 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:25.500 man. It's feeling really, really good. And my 00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:27.640 agent calls on the way home. Hey, what's up? 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:29.880 I said, that was a days of the flip phone. Oh, 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:34.480 there you go. But I didn't have dinner. Dinner's 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:42.759 always fucking breaking. Damn it. I had to put 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.819 it out the window. I said, no. And it's my agent. 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:51.029 And she goes, how'd it go? And I said. They went 00:18:51.029 --> 00:18:53.390 really well. It was surprising. I think it weren't 00:18:53.390 --> 00:18:55.470 really well I'm hoping it's gonna go well and 00:18:55.470 --> 00:18:57.170 she goes well. Yeah, they did you already got 00:18:57.170 --> 00:19:00.769 the job Wow Before I got home they'd already 00:19:00.769 --> 00:19:03.009 called that is awesome. Yeah, that is awesome. 00:19:03.009 --> 00:19:05.829 We got booked for four shows Usually there's 00:19:05.829 --> 00:19:08.309 one pilot right, but we had a special thing going 00:19:08.309 --> 00:19:12.769 on where we had four And then we did that that 00:19:12.769 --> 00:19:16.240 was 2002 The end of 2001, it came on the air 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.900 in 2002, and then we kept going. We did six years, 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.039 120 shows. Yeah. Shoot, man. That's crazy. Awesome 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.880 show. It is crazy. And it was an awesome time, 00:19:26.019 --> 00:19:27.940 man. We had so many really good people on it. 00:19:28.539 --> 00:19:30.759 And sitcom is amazing because you carry a lot 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:33.859 of writers. You carry eight, 10, 12 writers. 00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:39.160 And once you're into it for a year or two, the 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:40.799 writers already know you. They know what you 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:43.329 do well. And so they're writing specifically 00:19:43.329 --> 00:19:46.230 for you, you know? And then if it doesn't work, 00:19:46.349 --> 00:19:49.029 they'll rewrite it, you know? And it's a really 00:19:49.029 --> 00:19:51.349 short week, and you don't work on the weekends, 00:19:51.650 --> 00:19:54.450 and every fourth week, you get off. Yeah, you 00:19:54.450 --> 00:20:00.250 get the whole week off. If you can do it, it's 00:20:00.250 --> 00:20:02.970 the easiest job in the world. The pressure comes 00:20:02.970 --> 00:20:07.069 in when the audience gets in. Because we used 00:20:07.069 --> 00:20:10.569 to do a live show. And so we have 150, 200 people 00:20:10.569 --> 00:20:13.309 in the audience. And the cameras are all like 00:20:13.309 --> 00:20:15.430 this. They're watching over the top of the cameras. 00:20:15.630 --> 00:20:17.690 You do the scene. If it works, great. But if 00:20:17.690 --> 00:20:22.369 it doesn't work, then everybody comes in like 00:20:22.369 --> 00:20:24.390 a huddle. They figure out what you're going to 00:20:24.390 --> 00:20:26.390 do. Then they bring the actors in. They go, OK, 00:20:26.410 --> 00:20:29.329 everybody ready? All right. Cut this line. Don't 00:20:29.329 --> 00:20:32.549 come in on that line. You don't. They give you 00:20:32.549 --> 00:20:35.309 like, I don't know, five minutes worth of notes. 00:20:37.309 --> 00:20:39.970 Everybody got it? OK, here we go. Roll camera. 00:20:41.629 --> 00:20:43.630 That's when the talent comes in, because you 00:20:43.630 --> 00:20:45.470 have to have the confidence to go, yeah, I can 00:20:45.470 --> 00:20:49.029 do it. I'm fast enough. Yes, I know it. I know 00:20:49.029 --> 00:20:51.089 what to do. I'm not going to mess up. Or even 00:20:51.089 --> 00:20:53.509 if I do mess up, we'll work our way out of there 00:20:53.509 --> 00:20:57.710 to have that confidence. And that's where I think 00:20:57.710 --> 00:20:59.849 the big bucks come in, because not everybody 00:20:59.849 --> 00:21:02.089 can do that. Not everybody can do that. It's 00:21:02.089 --> 00:21:04.250 a tough one. You had a question? No, I was just 00:21:04.250 --> 00:21:06.170 going to ask him. He pretty much answered it. 00:21:06.349 --> 00:21:08.230 Like, what's it like having that interaction 00:21:08.230 --> 00:21:10.869 with the audience right there? It's really cool 00:21:10.869 --> 00:21:15.930 because a single camera, like dramas and stuff 00:21:15.930 --> 00:21:17.930 like that, they're shooting out in the world. 00:21:18.430 --> 00:21:21.009 You got no audience, right? And it's one camera 00:21:21.009 --> 00:21:23.309 and you got to do it four or five times to get 00:21:23.309 --> 00:21:25.910 all the angles. This one, we had four cameras, 00:21:26.089 --> 00:21:29.140 four cranes across the front. And we would do 00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:31.160 it once or twice and everybody would be covered. 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.480 And then you got George and Belita, who's just 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:36.859 amazing. Belita played the mom. And then Constance, 00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:39.680 who's gorgeous and really talented as well. And 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:41.420 then the two kids who were extremely talented. 00:21:41.660 --> 00:21:43.940 And then you got George, who's always cracking 00:21:43.940 --> 00:21:48.059 up, trying hard not to laugh because he's so 00:21:48.059 --> 00:21:51.700 funny. It was beautiful, man. It was a beautiful 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:57.819 time. As far as I'm concerned, for now, that's 00:21:57.819 --> 00:22:00.119 been the best project I've been a part of. That's 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:01.859 awesome, man. I know we got a couple of comments. 00:22:02.259 --> 00:22:08.000 What's up, brothers? Luis Rizzo says, good evening, 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:11.019 friends. Christian Morin says, him coming out 00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:21.589 and the new guy was the best. That was beautiful. 00:22:21.789 --> 00:22:23.930 They flew me to Austin for that one. And it was 00:22:23.930 --> 00:22:27.430 like storming. And I was in my hotel room, like 00:22:27.430 --> 00:22:29.869 on the 20th floor, and there was lightning. And 00:22:29.869 --> 00:22:34.230 I was like, god damn it. I just got this part. 00:22:36.230 --> 00:22:41.089 I mean, as far as like movies, I mean, I know 00:22:41.089 --> 00:22:45.069 being in Texas, that's my board. You know, that's 00:22:45.069 --> 00:23:09.859 environment. So doing doing I mean being living 00:23:09.859 --> 00:23:13.960 here in the RGB I've noticed you come and visit 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.799 a lot. I'm not going to put anybody in the spot, 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.259 but not many actors or talents that made it out 00:23:22.259 --> 00:23:25.519 really come back and come back home and bring 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:30.720 stuff with them so we can see. What I saw at 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:34.700 the convention, you helped out a lot of people. 00:23:35.660 --> 00:23:39.680 Your workshops were amazing. So much information 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:42.599 for these young upcoming people that are trying 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:44.680 to get into the entertainment business. I mean, 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:46.299 when you see these young eyes looking at you 00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:49.359 with full attention, what are the feelings going 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.599 through you? It's beautiful, man. I'm really, 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:53.500 really proud, actually. I'm really, really proud. 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:55.279 Because when I was going up, and one of the reasons 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:57.900 I do it is because when I was going up, that 00:23:57.900 --> 00:24:00.619 didn't happen. No, that didn't exist, right? 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.119 And this was back in 1987. And so I didn't have 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.200 anybody to turn to to ask what's it like or do 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.160 you have any advice or any of that kind of stuff? 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:11.960 And then the other thing is that it's an industry 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:15.460 where if you really want and all of life is like 00:24:15.460 --> 00:24:17.680 this. If you're doing something, you want to 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.920 be really, really good at it, you got to really, 00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:22.819 really put your time in, really put your time 00:24:22.819 --> 00:24:27.799 in, right? But in this particular industry, it 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:30.819 might not happen. no matter how hard you work, 00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:33.980 it might not happen. So it has to be something 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:36.660 that really has to be in your heart. You really, 00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:38.859 really have to want to do it. And I want to prepare 00:24:38.859 --> 00:24:41.900 these kids for that. The second reason is that 00:24:41.900 --> 00:24:44.859 without the help that I got from all those people 00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:46.599 that were in the Rio Grande Valley, those teachers 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:48.460 I was telling you about, my parents and my own 00:24:48.460 --> 00:24:50.519 family, I wouldn't have been able to do what 00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:52.460 I did. I would not have been without all that 00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:58.109 support. Because when I got to Pan Am, I still 00:24:58.109 --> 00:25:01.869 needed to take diction and enunciation and speaking 00:25:01.869 --> 00:25:07.390 classic, which is fine, right? But that only 00:25:07.390 --> 00:25:10.349 means you can play that one character. So if 00:25:10.349 --> 00:25:11.890 you want to move forward and you want to make 00:25:11.890 --> 00:25:14.470 it your career, you want to work 20, 30, 40 years 00:25:14.470 --> 00:25:18.529 at it, you need to understand how to do that. 00:25:18.549 --> 00:25:20.650 And there's a method, there is a way. And that's 00:25:20.650 --> 00:25:22.529 why there's acting class and directing class 00:25:22.529 --> 00:25:26.420 and writing class, all that kind of stuff. to 00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:30.740 pay all of those people back, because seriously, 00:25:30.940 --> 00:25:35.099 my life changed 160 degrees, man, 180 degrees. 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:38.559 I was going this way, and before I knew it, I 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:41.339 was going that way because of the teachers, because 00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:43.980 of the mentors that I had. And that path that 00:25:43.980 --> 00:25:47.359 they put me on, it turned out really, really 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:50.000 good. Really, really well. I've been blessed. 00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:54.640 I wouldn't have been able to, if I had dreamed 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:56.759 it, I wouldn't have dreamed this. I never thought 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.240 I'd be there. My first thought was, I just want 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.480 to make a living as an actor. I just want to 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:05.500 work enough to be able to pay my bills and that 00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:07.519 sort of stuff. And so that's another reason I 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:10.220 come back. And then the third reason is, like 00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:13.680 in 2010, we did a film. We did a couple of films. 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:15.980 We shot in Elsa and Far and Raymondville, all 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:18.680 over the valley, actually. and I had a crew that 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:21.960 was 90 % from the Rio Grande Valley, 90 % of 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:24.440 the people from Pan Am. Well, not then, it was 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:28.920 UTRGV, I think. And then after I finished that 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:32.319 a year and a half later, about five to 10 of 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:35.000 those people had moved to LA. One of them started 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:38.200 working on Westworld, another one went to Jane 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:40.720 the Virgin, another one, and that sort of stuff. 00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:44.279 When I'm thinking... If I had a little bit of 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:46.319 thing to do with that, that makes me really proud. 00:26:47.460 --> 00:26:49.359 Because at the end of the day, if you're working 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.339 film and television, you're working advertising. 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:54.859 And what you do is you sell Pepsi, you sell Clorox, 00:26:55.140 --> 00:26:57.259 you sell beer, all that advertising in between 00:26:57.259 --> 00:27:00.099 the shows, that's what you're selling. And so 00:27:00.099 --> 00:27:01.500 if at the end of the day you're gonna look at 00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:04.759 your life and say what kind of significant? Significant 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.759 contribution am I making other than just being 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.500 a celebrity and you know getting free meals when 00:27:10.500 --> 00:27:13.240 people see me at McDonald's, right? What is it 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:15.640 that I can truly point to in my life and go? 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:17.880 I'm proud of that. You know, I help those people 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.279 out Yeah, and so that brings me a ton of energy 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:25.359 a ton of and then The people down here, you know, 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:27.460 I got all my family down here. So I visit every 00:27:27.460 --> 00:27:29.339 time I come down here. I'll go visit them And 00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:31.019 then the fajitas, of course, we don't have them 00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:34.700 over there. That's what I was going to ask you, 00:27:34.740 --> 00:27:37.200 but comments came in. Crystal Morin said, Panam, 00:27:37.339 --> 00:27:40.660 so OG, I love it. Linda Caso says, hola, boys. 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:43.380 Let me ask you, I got a question for you. Since 00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:45.559 you've been out there, I mean, how are you? What's 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:51.019 up? So what's better? Valley tacos or Los Angeles 00:27:51.019 --> 00:27:57.009 tacos? Los Angeles doesn't have tacos. You married 00:27:57.009 --> 00:28:04.710 here first. Los Angeles has cold tortillas. Everybody 00:28:04.710 --> 00:28:06.769 at me, I'm like, I'm telling them, mira, what's 00:28:06.769 --> 00:28:09.670 in every single taco? What's the one thing that's 00:28:09.670 --> 00:28:13.700 in every single taco? Tortilla. You got to put 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:15.819 something in the tortilla, right? Exactly. So 00:28:15.819 --> 00:28:17.400 if you don't pay attention to the tortilla, and 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:20.460 I'm a foodie, now you're in my ballpark right 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:23.400 here. Yeah, we got you right now. If your tortilla 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.480 is cold, forget it. You already lost. You already 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.039 lost. Exactly. If you try to make a taco and 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:33.240 the tortilla breaks. Dude, come on now. No, no, 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:36.319 no, no. And I got another question going. No, 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:38.859 Selena says Tex -Mex or authentic Mexican food. 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:44.180 There you go. What would you consider the fajitas? 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:47.359 Is fajitas Tex -Mex or is that authentic? That's 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:54.420 a good question. Now what authentic? I love mole. 00:28:55.099 --> 00:28:58.240 Mole from Oaxaca, right? That's Mexican. But 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:01.299 there's also green mole and in New Mexico they 00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:04.299 put green chile or red chile all over the stuff, 00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:07.279 right? So different regions have different stuff. 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:12.759 If it's good, I'm gonna eat it. If it's good, 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:16.339 there's one thing, one kind of food, just one 00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:20.500 food that I hate. And it's only a certain way 00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:27.720 it's prepared. Spinach. But I like raw spinach. 00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:39.940 When we were kids, when we were kids. We were 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:41.920 in fucking kindergarten and they'd go get all 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.420 day long. And I hope P .J.'s school smell like 00:29:44.420 --> 00:29:47.460 beach space. Yes! No, I mean, I wouldn't introduce 00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:51.039 this bitch because of Popeye, but as you can 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:54.420 see, it did not work. As you can see, this bitch 00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:59.140 was B .S. This is the only thing here, everything 00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:02.160 is on Selena's ass. Does he like cute tacos for 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:06.099 breakfast? You know what? Are the cute tacos 00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:08.819 the ones they sell at Stripes? Yes. Well then, 00:30:09.059 --> 00:30:12.140 yes. 2010, that was my routine. I'd get up at 00:30:12.140 --> 00:30:13.440 five in the morning, because I was sitting in 00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:15.220 Edinburgh, we were shooting in Elsa. I'd get 00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:17.539 up at five in the morning. I'd come down, I guess, 00:30:17.779 --> 00:30:20.700 107, verdad? And there was a Stripe. Just as 00:30:20.700 --> 00:30:22.980 you come out of Edinburgh, I'd stop there and 00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:26.059 I'd buy 100 breakfast tacos. And that's what 00:30:26.059 --> 00:30:28.059 we'd feed the crew in the morning. Nice. Wow. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.359 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right here, you got another 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.740 comment from... Who is this? Linda? Linda. Hey, 00:30:33.900 --> 00:30:37.740 it's Taco Tuesday. That's today. Christina Bennett 00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:40.859 says it's taco science. Yes, it is taco science. 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.880 It is taco science. I mean, yeah, man. I mean, 00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:48.119 food down here. I mean, I've been I've been up 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.539 north before and I've tasted the foods and did 00:30:50.539 --> 00:30:52.099 what they say. Mexican restaurant. We go over 00:30:52.099 --> 00:30:56.339 Mexican restaurants like, no. No. It's different. 00:30:56.539 --> 00:31:00.259 The beans are different. Most of the time in 00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:01.819 L .A. if you're talking beans, you're talking 00:31:01.819 --> 00:31:05.779 black beans. Right. Yeah, unfortunately. So very 00:31:05.779 --> 00:31:08.519 few places do I know that they will sell refried 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:10.900 beans, you know, the pinto beans that have been 00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:14.819 refried. Right. And then they use a lot of sour 00:31:14.819 --> 00:31:16.859 cream. They put a lot of sour cream on stuff. 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:19.660 Right. The Taco Bell method. Yeah, exactly. Yes, 00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:23.470 yes. This ain't a baked potato. Hey, you know 00:31:23.470 --> 00:31:26.150 what I've noticed? I was at a, I went with a 00:31:26.150 --> 00:31:30.210 friend at a taqueria in Pharr and I had never 00:31:30.210 --> 00:31:33.069 seen anybody put papa, like papa in their taco. 00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:36.549 What? Like a big, like a big potato. No, not 00:31:36.549 --> 00:31:38.150 a big, I'm just, no, I'm not saying lunch, taco, 00:31:38.329 --> 00:31:40.450 lunch, dinner. I've never seen that. I've never 00:31:40.450 --> 00:31:44.170 had a potato salad. You know how they put all 00:31:44.170 --> 00:31:46.630 the, like a, like a loaded potato. Oh, like a 00:31:46.630 --> 00:31:48.049 loaded potato. And they just scoop it and they 00:31:48.049 --> 00:31:50.089 put it on the taco, which already has beef steak 00:31:50.089 --> 00:31:52.309 and all that stuff. Right. Oh, shh. I've never 00:31:52.309 --> 00:31:55.970 seen that before. That's evolution. No, sir, 00:31:56.190 --> 00:31:58.809 that's called the step to overkill getting a 00:31:58.809 --> 00:32:01.750 heart attack. That's a mech solution right there. 00:32:02.029 --> 00:32:03.369 Well, you know, there's a step. You know one 00:32:03.369 --> 00:32:05.490 of the things I do miss? You guys ever had the 00:32:05.490 --> 00:32:08.450 Frito Pies? Oh, yeah! In the football games where 00:32:08.450 --> 00:32:10.430 they just cut the Frito bag and they put the 00:32:10.430 --> 00:32:14.289 chili on the top? I'm not gonna lie, man. My 00:32:14.289 --> 00:32:16.930 mama makes a hell of a Frito Pie. Yeah, she does. 00:32:17.329 --> 00:32:20.099 She makes the taco meat. the ground beef, the 00:32:20.099 --> 00:32:22.500 taco meat flavoring on top. Once that's done, 00:32:22.619 --> 00:32:24.140 she gets the Fritos. She throws the taco in and 00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:24.940 she sprinkles it with a little bit of love. I 00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:27.880 mean, it's good. It is good, as you can see. 00:32:28.220 --> 00:32:31.319 It's good. It's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Yeah. 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:33.680 Mama, you know what I want. Make some money. 00:32:34.440 --> 00:33:06.259 Make some money, man. So I mean you've done Coming 00:33:06.259 --> 00:33:08.079 down here and bringing all that talent down bringing 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:10.779 all this information. I know you told me a story 00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:13.400 about I would believe was a young lady But yet 00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:15.900 spoke to she had just graduated thing from Patom 00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:18.299 Pat America in time I won't let you talk until 00:33:18.299 --> 00:33:19.900 the whole story, you know the story you were 00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:22.359 telling me about that That she can't see it was 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.980 thanks to you. Yes. Yeah. No and I and that's 00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:29.819 a that's a You know, you think you're gonna make 00:33:29.819 --> 00:33:31.920 a, your hope, you hope you're gonna make a difference 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:33.859 in somebody's life, but you're thinking it's 00:33:33.859 --> 00:33:36.339 gonna be in a direct conversation with somebody. 00:33:37.859 --> 00:33:40.140 And in this particular case, it happened to be 00:33:40.140 --> 00:33:42.519 both because one of the things that ends up happening 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:45.000 is, for example, I'm gonna add to that story. 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:48.000 There was a young man who came up to me not too 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:55.160 long ago and he said, my mom was sick and She 00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:57.420 was going through some kidney problems. My mom 00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:58.779 would say she was going through some kidney problems. 00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:01.200 And we thought it was going to be really, really 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:04.180 serious. And so for a whole month, she had to 00:34:04.180 --> 00:34:06.119 go through this whole routine. She was in the 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.980 hospital. And then at the end of the month, they 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:11.800 were going to do the surgery. And every night 00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:15.800 at a particular time, they would come and they'd 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:19.679 turn on the George Lopez show and watch it. And 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.039 then he said, you know, the George Lopez show 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:26.420 got us through those, made us bond, gave us laughter, 00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:30.460 and made that time a lot shorter, right? And 00:34:30.460 --> 00:34:32.599 so that story, and then stories like this young 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:37.559 woman who said, I saw you speak, and I had misgivings 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:39.940 about doing what it is that I wanted to do. And 00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:44.440 I heard you say, at the end of the day, you want 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:49.039 to get to a place where you've made really strong 00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.699 decisions, really important choices, but they 00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:55.239 were your choices. And so you need to empower 00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.079 yourself so that when you get to that place, 00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.920 you make the right choice and you make a very, 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:02.639 very strong choice. And then the last thing that 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:04.480 I had said to her, because I say this to everything, 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:06.659 the same thing I said earlier is, doesn't matter 00:35:06.659 --> 00:35:08.619 where you're from, doesn't matter how tall you 00:35:08.619 --> 00:35:11.059 are, how short you are, doesn't matter your color 00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:13.800 eyes, doesn't matter all of that. None of that 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.699 matters. What matters is how dedicated you are 00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:19.739 to what it is that you're going to do. How dedicated 00:35:19.739 --> 00:35:22.239 you are to that and how kind you are to the world. 00:35:22.420 --> 00:35:24.800 Because whatever energy you put out there, you're 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:27.679 getting that energy back. It's going to come 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.280 right back at you, right? If you want a tough 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.940 life, then put tough energy out there. If you 00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:35.920 put kind energy out there, you'll feel that coming 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:40.519 back. And that young woman actually made me cry 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:45.269 because I started thinking about without even 00:35:45.269 --> 00:35:49.210 knowing it, you're part of an industry that can 00:35:49.210 --> 00:35:52.429 change people's lives without you ever coming 00:35:52.429 --> 00:35:55.769 in contact with them, ever at all. And that's 00:35:55.769 --> 00:35:59.130 the power of television. There are houses around 00:35:59.130 --> 00:36:02.530 us that are not in an air conditioning and are 00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:05.010 broke down. and they don't have a lot of income, 00:36:05.050 --> 00:36:07.449 but they have three or four TVs in their house. 00:36:08.389 --> 00:36:11.630 And so we need to see ourselves, our Latino selves 00:36:11.630 --> 00:36:14.789 on that little box so that that validates us. 00:36:15.010 --> 00:36:17.329 We need to tell our stories and we need to tell 00:36:17.329 --> 00:36:20.090 the stories because the other doesn't know us. 00:36:20.190 --> 00:36:21.690 They don't know our stories. They think they 00:36:21.690 --> 00:36:23.849 do, but they don't. We need to tell those stories. 00:36:24.269 --> 00:36:28.670 And it's up to... Our creatives are people who 00:36:28.670 --> 00:36:30.849 write music, people who do paintings, people 00:36:30.849 --> 00:36:33.130 who do novels, people who make movies, people 00:36:33.130 --> 00:36:36.469 who do TV to tell that story, right? And the 00:36:36.469 --> 00:36:39.150 more we nurture these people, the better it's 00:36:39.150 --> 00:36:43.010 gonna be for all of us in the end. And I just 00:36:43.010 --> 00:36:45.510 hope that I can keep making those kinds of differences 00:36:45.510 --> 00:36:48.090 in people's lives over and over and over and 00:36:48.090 --> 00:36:52.840 over. You know as long as movies and shows like 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.960 George Lopez and Blood and Blood are out there 00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:58.360 where you can't see yourself and you can't relate 00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:01.159 so strongly to characters I think you will because 00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:03.199 it's like you said you never know what's going 00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:05.920 on in someone's life but you don't you just you 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.579 just did it you know you know to do the show 00:37:08.579 --> 00:37:11.400 you never anticipated that you were going to 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:19.889 be a part of so many people's lives. In 83, I 00:37:19.889 --> 00:37:25.909 got to Pan Am, and the film guy there, Dr. Jack 00:37:25.909 --> 00:37:28.150 Stanley, goes, you gotta watch this movie. You 00:37:28.150 --> 00:37:30.869 gotta watch this movie. And it was, the other 00:37:30.869 --> 00:37:34.050 guys have seen the movie Zoot Suit. Zoot Suit, 00:37:34.349 --> 00:37:38.190 I've heard of it. I've heard of it. So up until 00:37:38.190 --> 00:37:41.730 then, I would watch TV, and. Okay, the beaver 00:37:41.730 --> 00:37:44.170 would come downstairs and go, Hey, mom, I'm hungry. 00:37:44.409 --> 00:37:46.489 And the mom would go, Well, why don't you have 00:37:46.489 --> 00:37:48.730 yourself a bowl of cereal beef, right? And they 00:37:48.730 --> 00:37:50.849 would do that kind of stuff. Okay, so in this 00:37:50.849 --> 00:37:56.429 movie, the guy, the kid comes down. That was 00:37:56.429 --> 00:38:01.070 the very first time I saw that on TV on a screen. 00:38:01.469 --> 00:38:06.489 I'm like, that's what I do. Right? I have a taco, 00:38:06.530 --> 00:38:08.940 I don't have cereal. I don't have, you know, 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:12.699 I have a taco for breakfast. And that was another 00:38:12.699 --> 00:38:15.139 one of those times where the world got a little 00:38:15.139 --> 00:38:19.199 clearer, a little more open for me, and gave 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.940 me the idea that maybe I could do that. Maybe 00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:25.539 I could do that. And that's the last reason that 00:38:25.539 --> 00:38:27.900 I come down here and talk to a lot of kids, because 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:33.039 I tell them, look, I'm here. I'm from Elsa. I 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:35.900 lived up. fucked up life to begin with as a migrant 00:38:35.900 --> 00:38:37.579 farm worker, and I put myself through school, 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.099 and I went out there, and by the grace of God, 00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:42.900 and with the help of a lot of people, I achieved 00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:45.659 some really pretty remarkable dreams. But that 00:38:45.659 --> 00:38:48.039 means you can do it, too, because it's already 00:38:48.039 --> 00:38:51.199 been done. Prove that it could do it. You make 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.059 us see that it is possible. That's exactly right. 00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:55.960 Exactly. And you feel that motivation. And then 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:59.269 I tell them... Don't build walls in front of 00:38:59.269 --> 00:39:01.949 yourself. Don't give yourself excuses. There's 00:39:01.949 --> 00:39:03.809 gonna be plenty of people that are gonna build 00:39:03.809 --> 00:39:07.070 walls in front of you. You don't have to do that. 00:39:07.289 --> 00:39:10.369 There'll be plenty of struggle, right? So love 00:39:10.369 --> 00:39:12.789 yourself, be kind to yourself, and then dedicate 00:39:12.789 --> 00:39:14.389 yourself to whatever it is you need to do. It 00:39:14.389 --> 00:39:16.050 doesn't need to be acting or painting or whatever. 00:39:16.230 --> 00:39:17.849 It's whatever you wanna do. You wanna be a mechanic, 00:39:17.989 --> 00:39:19.590 you dedicate yourself to that, you become a great 00:39:19.590 --> 00:39:22.110 mechanic. You make a great life. It's beautiful. 00:39:23.059 --> 00:39:24.900 And the funny thing that you say that, I mean, 00:39:24.940 --> 00:39:27.280 coming to being in the Hollywood phase and California 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:29.719 phase of the entertainment business, we've talked 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:33.320 to a lot of people that we had on the show that 00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:35.139 have been through the Hollywood or the entertainment 00:39:35.139 --> 00:39:37.820 business. And they say that being in the business, 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:42.039 you have to have that thick skin. Actually, I 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:44.019 was thinking very much the entire time he was 00:39:44.019 --> 00:39:47.079 talking, I was thinking about, remember, we had 00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:50.150 a bunch of creative guys who did a movie. here 00:39:50.150 --> 00:39:52.989 in the valley yes yes that's uh premiering on 00:39:52.989 --> 00:39:55.050 amazon oh yes they're on amazon that big shots 00:39:55.050 --> 00:39:57.369 little guy is called the name of the movie is 00:39:57.369 --> 00:40:02.409 called find me i know brooklyn is in that brooklyn 00:40:02.409 --> 00:40:04.730 dillard's in that i know matthew that's in that 00:40:04.730 --> 00:40:08.489 i know several other i know brenda who is in 00:40:08.489 --> 00:40:12.210 that Yeah, I just did a movie with a couple of 00:40:12.210 --> 00:40:14.210 those people, or not a couple, but a whole bunch 00:40:14.210 --> 00:40:15.750 of those people, and probably a lot of the crew 00:40:15.750 --> 00:40:19.969 of that movie as well, in Brownsville in December. 00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:24.940 Yeah, well, well. Can't wait to hear about that. 00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:27.940 Noah Salinas, my best memories with my brothers 00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:31.199 was watching George Lopez late at night. You 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:33.420 can't miss it late at night. You wake up out 00:40:33.420 --> 00:40:36.400 of nowhere. You just wait for some cowbell. Ding, 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:38.800 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:39.500 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:39.619 --> 00:40:41.260 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.260 --> 00:40:41.260 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.260 --> 00:40:41.360 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:41.360 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:41.400 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:41.840 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:41.840 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:45.699 ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:47.989 ding, ding, ding, She says, uh, sons, is that 00:40:47.989 --> 00:40:50.969 a hint about the, you know, about the, uh, fruit 00:40:50.969 --> 00:40:55.989 pie? I don't drop hints, Mom. I want fruit pie. 00:40:58.190 --> 00:41:00.730 Where's my man? I don't see him. There's no hint 00:41:00.730 --> 00:41:03.670 in here at all. Mom's on there. Do you see Mom 00:41:03.670 --> 00:41:05.530 on the screen? I don't see Mom on the screen. 00:41:05.949 --> 00:41:08.369 Ooh, Mom, bigger bowl for me, Mom. Bigger bowl 00:41:08.369 --> 00:41:14.090 for me. Uh -oh. Daddy hungry. Oh my gosh. So 00:41:14.090 --> 00:41:17.389 yeah, the stories like that, we've heard about 00:41:17.389 --> 00:41:19.909 having the thick skin in the entertainment business. 00:41:20.309 --> 00:41:22.969 When you had your time in there already and you've 00:41:22.969 --> 00:41:25.269 been through that, do you still put up that thick 00:41:25.269 --> 00:41:27.690 skin when you go for an audition? It's a little 00:41:27.690 --> 00:41:30.130 different for me now only because I've been there 00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:35.489 37, 38 years. 36 of those years I've been a member 00:41:35.489 --> 00:41:38.929 of the union and and and I have a significant 00:41:38.929 --> 00:41:41.730 amount of work and so I'm making money off residuals 00:41:41.730 --> 00:41:44.289 and and and we were syndicated as well and that 00:41:44.289 --> 00:41:49.889 sort of stuff and after all of these years I've 00:41:49.889 --> 00:41:52.030 I've kind of figured out a system for myself 00:41:52.030 --> 00:41:55.190 um it used to be you auditioned live you don't 00:41:55.190 --> 00:41:57.210 do that anymore now you you tape it and then 00:41:57.210 --> 00:41:59.389 you send it in over the over the internet so 00:41:59.389 --> 00:42:04.199 that's changed a bit um but I fail probably 90 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:07.579 % of the time. Maybe I get 10 auditions and maybe 00:42:07.579 --> 00:42:11.739 I get one, right? And so understanding that, 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:19.519 it's more about if you don't like to audition, 00:42:19.619 --> 00:42:22.559 you might not want to be an actor. Right? Because 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:25.079 auditioning might be the only acting you get 00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:27.559 to do. Exactly. You might never get that job, 00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:29.679 right? Exactly. And so you have to take advantage 00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:34.880 of the audition. And so instead of going, damn 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.769 it, I didn't get that one, I go. Great. That 00:42:38.769 --> 00:42:40.949 means I can audition for something else. Exactly. 00:42:41.030 --> 00:42:42.510 Because once you get a job, then you're tied 00:42:42.510 --> 00:42:45.429 to that job. Exactly. And so I try to always 00:42:45.429 --> 00:42:47.530 look on the bright side. You know, my glasses 00:42:47.530 --> 00:42:50.469 always have full. Always, always, always. I'm 00:42:50.469 --> 00:42:52.849 already here. I'm in the game. You know, and 00:42:52.849 --> 00:42:57.070 then the other thing that I tell actors is, look, 00:42:57.389 --> 00:43:00.489 you need to give yourself credit for the things 00:43:00.489 --> 00:43:03.389 you've done. Because it's awfully hard, even 00:43:03.389 --> 00:43:06.690 if you only get one job, one commercial, or one 00:43:06.690 --> 00:43:09.630 maybe extra part or something like that. It's 00:43:09.630 --> 00:43:11.530 a really hard thing to dedicate yourself to. 00:43:11.829 --> 00:43:16.369 So getting one job, you should be proud of yourself 00:43:16.369 --> 00:43:21.489 and reward yourself for the small little victories. 00:43:23.489 --> 00:43:31.940 Because when you create Again, a musician, an 00:43:31.940 --> 00:43:35.539 actor, a writer, a painter, it's important to 00:43:35.539 --> 00:43:41.039 think of yourself as that and have faith in yourself. 00:43:41.260 --> 00:43:43.639 You don't have to think I'm the best in the world, 00:43:43.699 --> 00:43:45.480 you know, I'm Van Gogh and I'm going to paint, 00:43:45.780 --> 00:43:47.800 no, no, no. What you do have to think though 00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.079 is I have something to say and this is the way 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:53.320 I'm going to say it. This is my form. I'm going 00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:54.860 to make it a painting, I'm going to put in a 00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:57.420 song, I'm going to put in the book, right? And 00:43:57.420 --> 00:44:00.650 then give yourself to that. whatever that requires. 00:44:01.590 --> 00:44:03.389 Because people have different ways of doing different 00:44:03.389 --> 00:44:05.670 techniques, different ways they do it. So give 00:44:05.670 --> 00:44:07.530 yourself to that, but have faith in yourself. 00:44:07.889 --> 00:44:09.650 Not everything you're gonna create is gonna be 00:44:09.650 --> 00:44:13.829 great, but that's okay. That's fine. That's where 00:44:13.829 --> 00:44:16.550 trial and error is all. I mean, you're not always 00:44:16.550 --> 00:44:19.710 gonna be somebody's cup of tea. No, at all. It 00:44:19.710 --> 00:44:21.530 could be the greatest thing in the world and 00:44:21.530 --> 00:44:24.090 somebody's gonna hate it, right? But that's okay 00:44:24.090 --> 00:44:26.389 because, and I tell the other thing I tell young 00:44:26.389 --> 00:44:29.590 people, look. It's not your job to criticize 00:44:29.590 --> 00:44:32.889 your work. What your job is you reach in your 00:44:32.889 --> 00:44:35.110 heart You tell your chest open you reach inside 00:44:35.110 --> 00:44:37.489 you take your heart out and you show it to the 00:44:37.489 --> 00:44:41.150 world. That's your job What they do with it whether 00:44:41.150 --> 00:44:43.329 they they take it and then they put it up here 00:44:43.329 --> 00:44:45.210 and they cherish it or they knock it To the ground 00:44:45.210 --> 00:44:48.130 and step on it. That doesn't matter. You've delivered 00:44:48.130 --> 00:45:07.630 your message Can you do that again, but with 00:45:07.630 --> 00:45:19.840 more emotion? But you do have to, because you 00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:22.340 know what? It is hard, man. It's hard. And you 00:45:22.340 --> 00:45:25.079 see all these stories of actors or musicians 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:28.519 or other artists who committed suicide, who turned 00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.260 to alcohol, who turned to drugs, who had depression, 00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:33.539 who gave anxiety and all that kind of stuff. 00:45:33.699 --> 00:45:35.780 It's hard to live in your brain. It's already 00:45:35.780 --> 00:45:39.440 hard enough. And then you bring in this new thing, 00:45:39.820 --> 00:45:42.159 you know, your phone, your social media, all 00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:47.969 of that world. And that's just another... That's 00:45:47.969 --> 00:45:53.190 a million extra voices in your head. And then 00:45:53.190 --> 00:45:55.590 you start reading your whatever what they say, 00:45:55.769 --> 00:45:57.150 you know, you're in a movie or something and 00:45:57.150 --> 00:45:59.190 somebody thinks you suck or whatever and you 00:45:59.190 --> 00:46:21.119 700 comments. I hate your knees. That is crazy 00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:25.860 when you do it. I've heard of that too. I personally 00:46:25.860 --> 00:46:28.500 can't understand how people can let so many outside 00:46:28.500 --> 00:46:32.239 voices in, but I mean if you open yourself up 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:36.230 to the world as much as you say. I can kind of 00:46:36.230 --> 00:46:38.389 understand why that could affect someone. You're 00:46:38.389 --> 00:46:40.650 going to get the reaction. Like you said, you 00:46:40.650 --> 00:46:42.130 tear your heart open, put a show to everybody. 00:46:42.510 --> 00:46:44.250 It's going to go both ways. It's going to get 00:46:44.250 --> 00:46:46.690 praised or stepped on. And you just got to be 00:46:46.690 --> 00:46:49.829 prepared to take that. You have to have the courage, 00:46:50.190 --> 00:46:52.170 brother. And that's the first thing I tell kids. 00:46:52.409 --> 00:46:57.530 Look, at 18, it turns into your life. You become 00:46:57.530 --> 00:47:00.829 an adult. You become legal. Not for everything, 00:47:00.869 --> 00:47:14.590 but for most things. But it's your life and you 00:47:14.590 --> 00:47:17.809 need to have the courage to say to yourself this 00:47:17.809 --> 00:47:19.829 is what I want and this is how hard I'm going 00:47:19.829 --> 00:47:24.250 to work because sometimes people will and with 00:47:24.250 --> 00:47:26.590 the best intentions they're not trying to bring 00:47:26.590 --> 00:47:31.340 you down they're trying to protect you. That's 00:47:31.340 --> 00:47:33.519 a hard life, Mijo. I don't know, maybe you should, 00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:36.340 you know, do this as a backup plan. Maybe you 00:47:36.340 --> 00:47:37.260 should do this as a backup plan. We've always 00:47:37.260 --> 00:47:39.079 talked about that. We've always talked about 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:41.500 that. We're always out of love. We're not wishing 00:47:41.500 --> 00:47:45.039 you bad, but they don't understand that, you 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.139 know, I want this badly and I want to, you know, 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:49.360 I want to dedicate my life to it. And then there 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:51.360 are the other assholes that are just trying to 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:54.380 bring you down. You'll be back in three months, 00:47:54.579 --> 00:47:57.619 you know. So you have to prepare yourself for 00:47:57.619 --> 00:48:00.219 that, you know, and I think as long as you're 00:48:00.219 --> 00:48:02.099 dedicated and you really, really love what you 00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:04.820 want to do, because it will take your life. It'll 00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:07.219 take your life. It'll take your whole life. It's 00:48:07.219 --> 00:48:10.179 a beautiful life, but you know, so just make 00:48:10.179 --> 00:48:13.199 sure it's really what you want to do. So any 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.980 more comments here? We got one here. Crystal 00:48:15.980 --> 00:48:24.139 says preach. I want to walk into ongoing traffic 00:48:24.139 --> 00:48:33.300 right now. Send the fire truck, I can take it 00:48:33.300 --> 00:48:41.039 off. Break it. Wow. No, that's the thing. I've 00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:45.199 seen Mr. Rodriguez go up on stage and do his 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:48.860 class. And the way he talks, I mean, it's like 00:48:48.860 --> 00:48:51.300 things are possible. Never think that it's not. 00:48:51.300 --> 00:48:56.260 Sure. Because you got to, you are your own. Critic 00:48:56.260 --> 00:48:59.360 you pretty much you are and you and you as a 00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.880 human being are at the very very top of the chain 00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:05.900 and we are in terms of intelligence in terms 00:49:05.900 --> 00:49:09.300 of Computers that we can carry around and in 00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:11.840 our pocket in terms of our technology in terms 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:14.239 of where we are We're at the apex of everything 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:18.300 right now the best it's ever been ever been here 00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:21.769 and in the United States even better in terms 00:49:21.769 --> 00:49:24.010 of opportunity, in terms of job, in terms of 00:49:24.010 --> 00:49:26.449 the place you want to go, in terms of wages getting 00:49:26.449 --> 00:49:29.110 even between men and women and doing the same 00:49:29.110 --> 00:49:32.869 kind of work. And then as well, now you don't 00:49:32.869 --> 00:49:35.070 have to go to Hollywood anymore because of this. 00:49:35.070 --> 00:49:37.130 Yep, yeah, no, you're right. What you guys are 00:49:37.130 --> 00:49:38.650 doing here, we're in West L .A., we're on the 00:49:38.650 --> 00:49:48.480 third floor, let's go to the building. Well, 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:50.260 I'll probably be back next month, and then for 00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:53.199 sure in September for the show. Guys, we're booked 00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:56.800 for next month, September. That's right. I think 00:49:56.800 --> 00:50:00.440 we're having a barbecue. Chris Moniz says, let's 00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.440 not walk into anything, please. We all are loved 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:05.659 and appreciated and deserve a spot in the sport. 00:50:06.139 --> 00:50:08.960 I'm just playing, dude. Where was it? Where was 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:13.440 it? Crystal, my knees. Crystal, we're just kidding. 00:50:15.019 --> 00:50:16.760 If you would have kept on talking, I would have 00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:18.679 ran. I would have bumped into you. I'm done. 00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:21.599 I'll give you five bucks to do it right now. 00:50:21.940 --> 00:50:24.760 I'll give you five dollars to watch you run into 00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:30.980 a parked car. Let's see what happens. Hold on 00:50:30.980 --> 00:50:34.980 to this mic. Hold my beer. Hold my beer. All 00:50:34.980 --> 00:50:43.139 great stories. Hold my beer. Let's dive in to... 00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:47.960 To your younger self, what were the favorite 00:50:47.960 --> 00:51:08.889 hangouts from back in the day? I was so do you 00:51:08.889 --> 00:51:12.170 guys remember when they shut it down? It used 00:51:12.170 --> 00:51:15.429 to be beautiful. It's kind of beautiful. The 00:51:15.429 --> 00:51:19.070 park and then the pavilion and they had music 00:51:19.070 --> 00:51:21.670 and everything and then one time some girl went 00:51:21.670 --> 00:51:24.190 in the water and Amoeba apparently this is the 00:51:24.190 --> 00:51:26.570 story I heard. Amoeba crawled up her nose and 00:51:26.570 --> 00:51:31.349 then she died. That day I was there. I was in 00:51:31.349 --> 00:51:58.530 that water No, my chance. Bro, I drink Donna 00:51:58.530 --> 00:52:00.570 water. I'm good at it. I'm good at Donna. Hey, 00:52:00.949 --> 00:52:05.190 does Donna have a lake? Well, I wouldn't say 00:52:05.190 --> 00:52:06.809 that. Listen, I just have a tip for tomorrow, 00:52:06.809 --> 00:52:11.510 man. You keep hearing about the Donna lake. You 00:52:11.510 --> 00:52:16.469 get a water bottle. It looks like water. It moves 00:52:16.469 --> 00:52:20.510 like water. No, it doesn't move like water. It's 00:52:20.510 --> 00:52:24.250 not water. No. I love my city data, but yeah, 00:52:24.349 --> 00:52:26.269 that's not a place we want to take any of our 00:52:26.269 --> 00:52:31.429 tourists. Not even on me. Crystal Morin says 00:52:31.429 --> 00:52:36.630 quiz needs a padded room. Why? Just because he 00:52:36.630 --> 00:52:40.289 wants to run into a park car? Those words hit 00:52:40.289 --> 00:52:44.289 me, dude. Those words hit me. Those are good 00:52:44.289 --> 00:52:49.519 words. It was, well, it was Delta Lake. It was 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:51.659 Delta Lake. And, you know, I joke about the canales, 00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:53.639 but no, we used to go fishing in the canales. 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:55.460 We used to take our bikes and stuff like that. 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:57.219 People still go fishing in the canales. Then 00:52:57.219 --> 00:53:00.260 there was Dairy Queen. We had one when I was 00:53:00.260 --> 00:53:02.820 a kid, we had Dairy Queen. That was all I remember 00:53:02.820 --> 00:53:05.260 we had. And then Pizza Hut came in a little bit 00:53:05.260 --> 00:53:09.920 later. But that was it. We were rancho. The population, 00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:12.659 probably about 4 ,000. It was still only like 00:53:12.659 --> 00:53:16.710 5 ,000. Pizza Hut with the Pac -Man table. Then 00:53:16.710 --> 00:53:18.789 it was an economy in the corner and that's where 00:53:18.789 --> 00:53:45.650 it had You're a pretty much small town. And what 00:53:45.650 --> 00:53:49.440 do you think of the Valley now? Okay, the whole 00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:52.619 thing is how does it take 20 fucking years to 00:53:52.619 --> 00:54:40.679 fix that road over there in five? There's only 00:54:40.679 --> 00:55:03.119 one road in the area! Yeah, yeah, I was friends 00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:04.880 with that with some of the causes as well as 00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:07.659 Matt. I was friends with 10 customers. He was 00:55:07.659 --> 00:55:10.360 about 2 years older and I am graduated just ahead 00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:13.889 of me. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Watch mom jump up there. 00:55:14.750 --> 00:55:16.889 They're related to us. Oh my gosh, here we go. 00:55:17.489 --> 00:55:21.769 That's how mom stopped. We were famous for a 00:55:21.769 --> 00:55:23.690 while because we had one of the drive -ins. We 00:55:23.690 --> 00:55:25.489 used to have a drive -in in El Salvador. In El 00:55:25.489 --> 00:55:27.750 Salvador? In El Salvador, yeah. Yeah, in Carlos' 00:55:27.989 --> 00:55:30.550 night. Hombre, forget it, brother. You packed 00:55:30.550 --> 00:55:33.110 a car, te hace el barbeque, pe to el jale. Oh, 00:55:33.789 --> 00:55:49.849 wow. You park it backwards like that. The idea 00:55:49.849 --> 00:55:51.289 was then they were supposed to build another 00:55:51.289 --> 00:55:53.550 one in McAllen. They were going to build one 00:55:53.550 --> 00:55:56.929 in town, but I guess it never started, never 00:55:56.929 --> 00:55:58.469 happened. The project crashed. I thought it was 00:55:58.469 --> 00:56:25.420 going to come back when COVID did. Speaking of 00:56:25.420 --> 00:56:29.239 fun and funnier fun good old times You have a 00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:32.059 show coming up. Yes, Thursday, Thursday night. 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:34.059 There's a university code right here. So you 00:56:34.059 --> 00:56:36.920 guys University Draft House in McAllen. It's 00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:42.300 on 83 and Colonel Rowe. 83 and two. It's a really 00:56:42.300 --> 00:56:45.099 nice place on top, but we on the bottom there's 00:56:45.099 --> 00:56:47.760 a basement. It's and he's trying to turn into 00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:50.780 a comedy space. We we did. This is our third 00:56:50.780 --> 00:56:53.599 month in a row. Awesome first month we sold out 00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:55.679 the second one. We came really close this one. 00:56:55.719 --> 00:56:58.260 The tickets are going as well. I think all of 00:56:58.260 --> 00:57:00.139 the. tables all the private tables have been 00:57:00.139 --> 00:57:02.099 sold there's still some tickets i think it's 00:57:02.099 --> 00:57:05.699 30 bucks 30 bucks uh with this with this qr yeah 00:57:05.699 --> 00:57:09.380 it's me it's flow it's uh anthony and then tonight 00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:12.280 on thursday night we're having uh sonia trevino 00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:14.260 is coming sonia trevino is from from the river 00:57:14.260 --> 00:57:17.739 yeah i've done a show with her we did a show 00:57:17.739 --> 00:57:20.219 with her in in huéslaco uh here in huéslaco actually 00:57:20.219 --> 00:57:24.659 at the It was the ranch house. Yes. Okay. She's 00:57:24.659 --> 00:57:27.500 going to join us on Thursday night. So the show 00:57:27.500 --> 00:57:30.400 starts at seven. So come on by if you want to 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:33.480 catch a show. Yeah. Yeah. I like the name of 00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:37.340 the guy says way funny. The way funny show. Way 00:57:37.340 --> 00:57:42.079 funny. Not the way funny. The way funny. They 00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:44.820 keep paying for car washes and storage units. 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:47.039 We're never going to get a driving. Oh, that's 00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:50.230 true. There's so many car washes here. It's so, 00:57:50.230 --> 00:57:55.170 it's just, it's almost the same. Crystal, you 00:57:55.170 --> 00:57:57.809 wanna be on the show, Crystal? Crystal, you need 00:57:57.809 --> 00:58:01.869 to stop doing cocaine before it's done. It's 00:58:01.869 --> 00:58:08.369 making you crazy. Oh my gosh. Don't do that. 00:58:08.650 --> 00:58:17.980 Don't tell him that. Why is it normally? Oh, 00:58:17.980 --> 00:58:21.400 my gosh, man. 58 minutes into the podcast, guys. 00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:25.099 Time goes fast. We'll do it again. We'll do it 00:58:25.099 --> 00:58:28.480 again. We love you back. We love to have you 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:31.119 back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For real, come 00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:33.460 back. For real, come back. I mean, the next time 00:58:33.460 --> 00:58:35.719 you come back and you want to bring, if you have 00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:37.300 any comments, you want to bring one of your, 00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:38.619 one of the comedians with you. Oh, that'd be 00:58:38.619 --> 00:58:41.280 cool. Well, you know what? In September, let's 00:58:41.280 --> 00:58:43.349 you come to September and I'll... You know, well, 00:58:43.349 --> 00:58:45.789 bringing them over, maybe. Nice. Fantastic. We 00:58:45.789 --> 00:58:49.469 had Lieutenant Phillips. Yes. Yes. I actually 00:58:49.469 --> 00:58:51.289 got to... You talked to him a little bit. Yes, 00:58:51.289 --> 00:58:53.469 I talked to him a little bit. It was surreal, 00:58:53.469 --> 00:58:57.349 man. Yeah. I was like, I got jealous. And everybody 00:58:57.349 --> 00:58:58.570 was telling me, did you do it? Did you do it? 00:58:58.570 --> 00:59:00.909 I go, do what? Richie, what am I going to do 00:59:00.909 --> 00:59:03.809 that for? I'm not going to do that. No. I'm not 00:59:03.809 --> 00:59:07.469 going to do that. It was so cool because I started 00:59:07.469 --> 00:59:09.530 telling him about a story. My cousin is from 00:59:09.530 --> 00:59:12.869 Corpus Creek, California. I know that he grew 00:59:12.869 --> 00:59:15.809 up in far graduated from there. And I started 00:59:15.809 --> 00:59:18.769 telling the story about on the movies, my cousin 00:59:18.769 --> 00:59:21.090 was there and they were seeing down watching 00:59:21.090 --> 00:59:22.590 when he got up and started fooling around and 00:59:22.590 --> 00:59:23.730 says, hey, I'm going to be on that screen one 00:59:23.730 --> 00:59:26.889 of these days. And when I told him that, he just 00:59:26.889 --> 00:59:30.969 looked like ghosts of Christmas past. He's like, 00:59:31.409 --> 00:59:34.670 holy moly, how do you know that story? I go, 00:59:34.889 --> 00:59:36.969 my cousin told me. I just want to confirm it's 00:59:36.969 --> 00:59:40.389 true. And sure enough, it goes down. Wow. It's 00:59:40.389 --> 00:59:42.989 true. How great is that? This was back in 82, 00:59:43.949 --> 00:59:46.289 83. 40 years ago. When I said this, he goes, 00:59:46.550 --> 00:59:47.989 yeah. And right there, he goes, you know what? 00:59:48.269 --> 00:59:49.690 Give me a beer. I'm like, guys, give me a beer. 00:59:51.389 --> 00:59:56.889 Yes, I'm drinking a beer with sir. But he hasn't 00:59:56.889 --> 01:00:31.590 called me back. That's the best one to do because 01:00:31.590 --> 01:00:34.500 the other one And Valente Rodriguez with the 01:00:34.500 --> 01:00:36.519 blue check mark, that's not me. It used to be 01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:39.679 me, but somebody hijacked my shit. Oh, really? 01:00:39.980 --> 01:00:42.780 So all of the blue check marks, Valente Rodriguez, 01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:46.000 they used to be me, but now it's some Vietnamese 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:54.179 guy, Van Tran. Van Tran! Somehow they got my 01:00:54.179 --> 01:01:36.150 shit and $300 and I'll send it back to you I 01:01:36.150 --> 01:01:39.969 was lucky enough to reach out to you through 01:01:39.969 --> 01:01:42.269 Messenger on Facebook and I was very fortunate. 01:01:42.269 --> 01:01:45.909 You can find me on Facebook. It's just my head 01:01:45.909 --> 01:01:50.639 with glasses on a bubble bath. That's the one, 01:01:50.739 --> 01:01:53.980 that's the one. And unfortunately I can't friend 01:01:53.980 --> 01:01:56.820 everybody. I'm almost full of friends, I think 01:01:56.820 --> 01:01:59.440 like 3 ,000 I'll go see, but if you want to follow, 01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:00.900 and that's why I'm saying Instagram, because 01:02:00.900 --> 01:02:03.159 Instagram is either just to follow and then do 01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:06.079 it. Right, right, right. They can find information 01:02:06.079 --> 01:02:08.900 about shows that you're doing on there. Okay, 01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:11.679 excellent. Last but not least, I want to ask 01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:14.159 you one more question. When it's all said and 01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:17.760 done, Everything's in a book. You're up in the 01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:20.500 gates of heaven. What do you want to be remembered 01:02:20.500 --> 01:02:23.219 by? I want to be remembered by the influence 01:02:23.219 --> 01:02:26.900 that I made on people's lives. I want to be a 01:02:26.900 --> 01:02:29.139 footnote in everybody else's life. I don't want 01:02:29.139 --> 01:02:32.250 their story to be... And then one day I met Melendez 01:02:32.250 --> 01:02:34.190 Rodriguez and that was the best day of my life. 01:02:34.210 --> 01:02:38.789 No, no, no. I want my name to be a footnote in 01:02:38.789 --> 01:02:42.170 their big story. I want them to say, I met this 01:02:42.170 --> 01:02:44.489 guy and he was really cool and he helped me along. 01:02:45.610 --> 01:02:47.929 That's all I need. That's all I need to be able 01:02:47.929 --> 01:02:50.250 to actually make a difference in somebody else's 01:02:50.250 --> 01:02:52.849 life and contribute to the world in a good way. 01:02:52.869 --> 01:02:54.989 I want to be a good dad. I want to be a good 01:02:54.989 --> 01:02:58.530 husband. I want to be a good and kind individual 01:02:58.530 --> 01:03:03.690 to the world. Because this might be heaven, guys. 01:03:03.750 --> 01:03:06.309 This might be it. We don't know where we're going. 01:03:06.949 --> 01:03:09.389 When we die, we don't know. We gotta make this 01:03:09.389 --> 01:03:11.789 place the best we can. And the easiest way to 01:03:11.789 --> 01:03:14.750 do that is to be loving and kind to each other 01:03:14.750 --> 01:03:16.590 and look at the world with kindness and with 01:03:16.590 --> 01:03:20.429 love. And it'll make the world better. Make the 01:03:20.429 --> 01:03:29.380 world a better place. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We're 01:03:29.380 --> 01:03:32.019 running into walls here, brother. You're an inspiration, 01:03:32.420 --> 01:03:35.960 sir. I'm gonna be the rock. Come on, brother. 01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:42.800 Let's go run through a wall. Oh, yeah. Oh, my 01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:44.400 gosh. Thank you so much, man. Thank you guys 01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:45.800 for having me here. Thank you for coming. I appreciate 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:48.099 you taking the time out. Taking the time out, 01:03:48.119 --> 01:03:49.500 coming up here with us, man. Having a little 01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:52.099 fun with us. None of that. I'm going to say bless 01:03:52.099 --> 01:03:55.139 in the studio for us finally getting blessed. 01:03:55.679 --> 01:03:57.860 Oh, it's beautiful. I love the stuff. Thank you 01:03:57.860 --> 01:04:02.000 so much. You need more velvet. See, you see. 01:04:03.099 --> 01:04:07.920 You know, you know, we're not going to hear the 01:04:07.920 --> 01:04:11.019 end of it from bro. You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, 01:04:11.019 --> 01:04:14.980 yeah. Okay. We're all for the big bro show. We're 01:04:14.980 --> 01:04:17.519 not going to hear the end of it. I told you, 01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:33.889 I told you. Thank you so much. I appreciate you, 01:04:33.909 --> 01:04:36.130 man. I hope to see you back again very soon and 01:04:36.130 --> 01:04:38.389 continue doing what you're doing. You are a blessing 01:04:38.389 --> 01:04:41.289 to the RGB and bringing all that knowledge down 01:04:41.289 --> 01:04:43.809 here is helping us out. Thank you, brother. And 01:04:43.809 --> 01:04:47.389 you're funny. Thank you so much. I appreciate 01:04:47.389 --> 01:04:49.369 you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that is 01:04:49.369 --> 01:04:52.869 the podcast for this evening. Great podcast, 01:04:53.010 --> 01:04:56.010 man. Fantastic. Great podcast. It was awesome 01:04:56.010 --> 01:05:00.369 having them on the podcast, man. It's a blessing 01:05:00.369 --> 01:05:03.730 to have people like Mr. Rodriguez be on the podcast 01:05:03.730 --> 01:05:07.869 with us. I mean, it's very rare to have. So what, 01:05:07.949 --> 01:05:29.099 are you going to pay me my money or what? There's 01:05:29.099 --> 01:05:32.159 our podcast for the night. We will see you Thursday. 01:05:32.619 --> 01:05:34.179 We'll give you another good one. Another good 01:05:34.179 --> 01:05:35.440 one. Another good one. Who's got a Thursday? 01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:39.000 Coming in, Mr. Cuellar coming in from Mr. Chopped. 01:05:39.179 --> 01:05:41.820 It's a barbecue place here in Westonville. I 01:05:41.820 --> 01:05:45.139 tried my best, guys. I tried my best. I tried 01:05:45.139 --> 01:05:46.800 my best to do the podcast there, but he said 01:05:46.800 --> 01:06:12.059 no. That is the podcast we will see you next 01:06:12.059 --> 01:06:18.280 week WITCHES!