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Yeah, my mom crushed my Lizzie McGuire dreams.
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Real quick, she's like,
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You're not dressing like that.
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Welcome back to Latino.
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Hey, I'm Alejandro and I'm Jenny,
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and last week I was out because I was celebrating my daughter's
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birthday, but this week the team is out because where are
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they're at the World Baseball Classic,
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guys, all the way in Miami.
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so thanks for the invite.
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Well, someone had to be here,
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brother. That is true.
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But we can start over there.
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I don't imagine in this setup like over there in Miami somewhere
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That would be really cool in the middle of it all
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Like right outside while people are walking by.
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Exactly. Just like ESPN in the back.
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And then we get stopped by security because we don't have permission
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We do it the right way.
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We get all the little permits that way.
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Speaking of permits and things that are prohibited,
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dude, because our team,
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like I said, is in Miami.
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And they took a picture,
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there's this sign when you first walk into the Miami Stadium.
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And again, only in the World Baseball Classic will you see
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this sign where it says like instruments that are allowed and the
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ones that are prohibited.
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So you see like was it bongos,
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tambourine, well, yeah,
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permissible instruments. That is so funny.
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Like all this, like a whole band of salsa can come
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no little thundersticks or trumpets,
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but oh man, it just goes to show how much of
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a party it is over there because dude,
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like in the stands and stuff.
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It's a vibe. It's a good though.
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And I love how each culture,
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Latino culture has their bands.
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Like us is. And then you got the Dominicans with You
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know, all their drums and the bongos and you know what
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is trumpets you can bring in trumpets trumpets the guido dang mana
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Oh, I know the guido and the guida.
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You can't bring a kazoo,
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so no kazoos, no pots and pans.
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what was it, the princess or princess Princess house.
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So your princess house at home.
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Royal Prestige. That's what it is.
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Prestige. I've been to those presentations before,
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the Teflon, the hex class,
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Teflon or Teflon. I thought it was Teflon.
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I think that's bad for you now,
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like the non-stick stuff.
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oh, everything's bad for you now,
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brother. Yeah, but speaking of stuff that also is bad
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it's like, you know where the sausage came from and all
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that stuff, but that is true.
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We don't ask questions.
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There are some things we don't ask questions,
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with the gizzy glizzy gobblers,
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but so I was looking more into this game,
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right,, just to see like what's the,
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what's the vibe in Miami,
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and they actually do have a hot dog menu.
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That was a bad segue,
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but they have a hot dog menu.
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of the teams playing in Miami.
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So it's Israel, Netherlands,
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Nicaragua, Venezuela, and DR.
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So for Israel, they have a tahini dog,
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which is topped with pickles,
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and tahini sauce. That's it.
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There's Netherlands, which is a fricael brugi,
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broch. Sorry if I mispronounced that,
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which is a deep fried hot dog topped with curry,
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Nicaragua, which is a fritanga dog.
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And they have the hot dog topped with ensalada,
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cilantro, pepitas, and crema.
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Venezuela perro condo. So it's a hot dog topped with onion
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cabbage, pink sauce,
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pepitas, and cotija cheese.
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And last but not least,
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the Dominican Republic has a tigre dog,
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which is topped with garlic,
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cilantro sauce, crispy tostones,
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and cheddar cheese, and that sounds pretty tasty.
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So funny that name Tigre.
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since our team is in Miami,
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we actually had them go try it.
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And Gene sent us a clip of his socks,
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so let's go ahead and check it out.
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Let's see what this theater dog is all about.
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I appreciate the effort,
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but this hot dog ain't no tire.
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Like, I don't know what they did.
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I don't know what they did here,
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but it ain't, it ain't it.
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Love. T. Gene is a tough critic.
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Let's be real. He's a big back like my boy,
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so big back to big back,
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I can see why Gene maybe expected more,
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you know. But then again,
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he did take us to the,
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the Chili's of Puerto Rico where we went,
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and he said it was really good.
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Oh, so you don't think no,
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no, but it was really good.
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but supposedly the place he took us to,
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a lot of people were,
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this is bus in this place.
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my coworkers, and they're like,
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Dude, that place is literally the chili's of Puerto Rico.
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Why would you take them there?
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I'm like, it was good though.
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So Gene's not a trusted source when it comes to food,
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like 100%. I don't know,
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but it was delicious.
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It was delicious. But I,
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yeah, maybe I think overall like again they're just trying to
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kind of appeal to all the countries that are playing at that
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stadium. So it's like very like,
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like I mean for a Mexican dog they probably would have put
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what corn mesquite on top of a guacamole,
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guacamole. I could see.
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Jalapenos. I could see it kind of being treated like a
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taco. Maybe. I don't know.
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That sounds nasty, but I feel like that's what they would
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Pink's Hot Dogs has the Guadalajara dog.
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What is that? I don't know,
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dude. It's been a long time since I've had Pink's hot
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dogs, but I remember that I had ordered the Guadalajara dog
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and I think it had like sour cream and like different
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and that's when it gets all,
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it's already kind of bubblegus,
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but this ketchup and mustard and you're good.
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But then we start adding,
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I don't know. I'm a very simple guy when it comes
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to hot dogs. I would say sebollita a little bit and
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just ketchup and maybe maybe a little mayo.
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Sometimes I don't like the mayo it mixed with the ketchup,
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but I know mustard for me.
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I don't like mustard,
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just honey mustard. And I see your jersey.
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I see Mexico. I'm not gonna lie,
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man. The other day when they lost to the US I
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was like, You can't.
06:20
Like the soccer team keeps saying it's down,
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and now the baseball team.
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And I was like so like,
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I was, I was so excited.
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Well, because, dude,
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I, I know we're in the US,
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go US and go Mexico,
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that's me because also,
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I always think if my parents didn't migrate.
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To the US, I would be straight up Mexican.
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That's like my roots,
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you know what I mean?
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I just happen to be born here.
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That's it. So speaking of Mexico,
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and it's kind of a weird situation.
06:54
It's kind of, you know what,
06:55
if this team wins and this team loses,
06:59
So regardless, they have to win to be in,
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right, to move to the next stage.
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If they win scoring 4 or less,
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The US. Because the way that the group is right now
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it's like if Mexico wins and they'll be like 3-1,
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3-1, 3-1 like for the US,
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so like then it becomes like a game of like all the
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the, the runs and the games leading up to today
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if they lose, obviously they're out.
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Tantania quedano Fuera. If they win,
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we're in. But then it's funny because depending on how much
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they win by and stuff,
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it,, it affects the US and Italy.
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By scoring 4 or less,
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If they win scoring 5 or more,
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Italy is out. So it's kind of like,
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a lot of like math there.
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So again, I don't want the US to be out because
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like, like regardless,
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like a lot of those players are cool like during the regular
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season, but it is interesting to see like again like because
07:58
the US coach and the reason I bring it up is because
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the US coach is like,
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hey guys, we're looking good,
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we're in. And then again,
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depending on this game with Mexico,
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they're either in or out.
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Oh well, he shouldn't,
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he shouldn't be speaking too soon.
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Yeah, he spoke too soon too soon,
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I'm rooting for Mexico,
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dude, dude, I fuck with Randy heavy.
08:23
I fuck with them heavy.
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like. He's so good and he's not even Mexican,
08:29
dude. But that's the thing.
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He's an honorary Mexican.
08:32
It's Cuban. It's Cuban,
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but, but they took him in in Mexico and he has
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his family there. His daughters are Cuban,
08:40
Mexican, and it's just,
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man, that guy has so much love for Mexico.
08:45
No, yeah, he's awesome.
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He was a big figure last year.
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And yeah, it's been fun watching him play and he
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brings that energy that I feel like the World Baseball Classic needs
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Well, not that it needs,
08:59
but like the energy that is always brought with the World Baseball
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Classic. He doesn't fall short,
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but I just have to say.
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The USA team is so boring.
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It's they're boring, brother,
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because it's like, dude,
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like have like I see the clips on Instagram and TikTok of
09:18
like oh the celebrating and then the Dominican Republic,
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the way they're celebrating and then the way Mexicans,
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no yeah, I think it's just like very much like the
09:32
kind of like baseball sacred,
09:34
don't do that. But again,
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we luckily, hopefully when they,
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when they're done this tournament,
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they'll be influenced by the other people that are in their,
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I mean, other teams are in the,
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you know, the tournament and be like,
09:46
It is fun. Let's let's turn up a little bit,
09:48
but we'll see. And so we actually did do a poll
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for the game prior to Mexico losing to USA.
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And,, 82% of people wanted Team Mexico to win
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obviously. And then,
09:57
7% were for Team USA.
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I mean, I don't know,
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again, it's, it's always interesting when it's,
10:02
these Mexican Americans,
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you know, myself included,
10:05
where it's like, oh,
10:06
Who do I not root for?
10:08
Again, either way we,
10:09
we win, I guess you can say,
10:11
but it's always fun repping your,
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you know, your upbringing,
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your heritage for sure.
10:16
I do. I want Mexico to win,
10:17
but hey, if the US goes far.
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I'm also American, so I,
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I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be mad,
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you know, but Mexico.
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that's enough from us.
10:28
We have a fun interview with Nezza,
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We do. And as you know,
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she is Dominican and Colombian,
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and we got a chance to speak with her.
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Daniela and Jean got a chance to speak with her
10:41
about her upcoming, well,
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her documentary and more stuff.
10:45
I don't want to spoil it,
10:46
so all right, let's check it out.
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It hasn't even been a year,
10:52
Neza, since we first met.
10:55
When was that, July?
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I think it was July or June,
10:58
so barely a year ago,
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life has just been so fruitful and beautiful for you and it's
11:07
just been so amazing to see it all and I'm just so
11:11
proud of you. How are you?
11:13
I'm good. How are y'all?
11:17
We're here. We literally saw each other last night.
11:19
We saw each other last night.
11:21
My favorite thing in the world is when I go to a
11:23
work event and I walk in and I lock eyes with a
11:26
beautiful Nezza and I'm like,
11:28
I'm safe. Everything's fine.
11:30
This is, everything's going to work out.
11:32
Yeah, every time I say I'm like,
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now I have somebody.
11:34
I love it. Literally we walked in and I was like
11:36
Is that she was like,
11:37
Is that Nezza? I was like,
11:38
Where? And then I was like,
11:40
and then she turned around and I was like,
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it's it's become a thing now.
11:46
Well, congratulations on everything.
11:49
I want to talk La Tierra del Valor.
11:52
You just basically a month ago were in Sundance in full glam
11:57
as she should. Yeah,
11:58
yeah, yeah. How was that experience?
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Crazy. It was my first Sundance.
12:04
even when we started making the dock,
12:05
we never, at least I never imagined Sundance.
12:11
maybe like South by because I'm already performing.
12:13
we're already like in the door,
12:16
but when we got the call,
12:18
I was just like stunned and I,
12:20
I think it was just like,
12:21
I think it was meant to be there.
12:23
I think God was like,
12:24
it's meant to be there because we were hoping that by the
12:27
time we got to Sundance,
12:29
the doc would be a little less relevant,
12:30
right? But it ended up being the most relevant like ever
12:34
because Minneapolis happened the literally a day before our premiere,
12:39
so you had already landed.
12:40
Like that was unfolding as you guys were ready to we were
12:43
already, we were already in Utah when all of that was
12:45
unfolding. Yeah, so,
12:48
but other than that it was,
12:49
it was great. Like it was just,
12:50
it was so beautiful.
12:51
I cried every single time.
12:52
It was my first time seeing it.
12:53
Oh my God, how was that?
12:55
I've always wondered because Spoiler alert,
13:05
wait, wait, hold on,
13:07
What do you mean break this down for me.
13:11
I mean when we interviewed Neza last Daniela,
13:14
Daniela has a cameo in the docks and I'm sitting there in
13:16
the back row next to Orlando and Issa and Elsa and I
13:23
just go and everyone looks at me and they go.
13:27
And that alone was just such a like a beautiful feeling.
13:30
Thank you for including us in that moment.
13:32
But for you, how was,
13:34
how was seeing that for the first time while you're in Sundance
13:36
for the first time ever?
13:37
It, it was an out of body experience,
13:40
I think, I think watching a dog.
13:42
That you're the subject of it is,
13:46
And I hadn't watched back the Dodger footage since,
13:50
you know, and so yeah,
13:52
I still cry every time I like I've watched it.
13:54
I think the screening last week was like the 6th time and
13:57
I. I cry every time because it just,
13:59
it takes me back to just like,
14:01
yeah, the scariest freaking thing I've ever done,
14:05
but it was welcomed in.
14:06
It was like everyone loved it.
14:07
We got a standing ovation on our last on our last I
14:10
was going to say your reactions stand out after,
14:14
which one in particular,
14:16
there was a guy on our last day and he was from
14:18
New York and he We did like Q&A's and I actually had
14:23
to run the last day Q&A,
14:24
which was also freaking weird having to do a Q&A about a
14:29
doc that you're the subject of.
14:31
I was like, bear with me.
14:32
It's really weird talking about myself when,
14:35
you know, it's so personal.
14:36
It was very, but he literally gets up and he's like
14:40
Christina and Nezza.
14:41
He's like, that's the,
14:42
he had the thickness like.
14:44
The thickest New York accent ever and he was like,
14:47
that's the best documentary I've ever seen in my life.
14:51
And he was so like so ecstatic about it that our producer
14:57
was like, people are going to think we planted him.
15:04
that was like that's like one of the most memorable ones.
15:08
this one girl who I think must have been like 20 she
15:12
was like, I just want to say,
15:13
and she started sobbing and then I started sobbing,
15:17
just thank you. She's like,
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I have immigrant parents.
15:20
I remember being here in Utah when that happened.
15:23
I remember seeing the video and she was just like,
15:26
it just meant everything to me.
15:27
And so yeah, there's just like there's certain people that I
15:30
remember most from from Sundance,
15:31
but everyone was lovely.
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Have your parents watched it yet?
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My parents have not seen it.
15:37
They're going to see it very soon,
15:41
at a festival near the bay,
15:44
but I am gonna go with them and because I
15:47
didn't wanna just send it to them like to watch on a
15:49
laptop. I want them to see them.
15:50
They're the stars, you know they are like like my like
15:53
at Sundance everyone was coming up to me and I was like
15:55
are your parents here in Utah?
15:57
Like, are your parents here?
15:58
No, they're in the bay.
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So I wanted them to see it for the first time on
16:04
so they were, they will find.
16:07
So let's talk about the Bay because you are a Bay Area
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girl representing always your parents.
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I mean, I'll I'll leave it for when people get the
16:18
chance to watch the documentary.
16:19
Did they meet in the Bay Area?
16:20
They met in San Jose.
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Yeah, yeah, they met in San Jose dancing on my
16:25
mom's. Birthday and the rest is history.
16:28
And I made the joke.
16:30
yeah, literally, if y'all two had a baby,
16:36
Are your parents, are you both Dominican and your parents are
16:41
my parents came here in the 80s.
16:43
if y'all had a baby,
16:49
But I always find it interesting when it's like,
16:51
you know, like Dominicans usually stay in New York.
16:54
You know, when they come to New York,
16:56
East Coast for them,
16:57
was it your mom or it was my mom.
16:59
In another universe on another planet somewhere,
17:01
there is a New York version of Nessa with a thick Bronx
17:04
accent for sure in a metaverse somewhere.
17:08
I think, I don't know why she chose California.
17:10
She was like, some of my sisters were going and I
17:12
just went with them.
17:15
Because I told my older cousins like,
17:18
that flight is too far.
17:22
I'm like, What the hell?
17:23
Like the United States to them just exists like New York,
17:26
Miami, DR is like the little triangle.
17:29
All the other states on this side don't exist.
17:32
But I guess that's like my number one question every time I
17:35
meet a fellow Dominican,
17:37
but that are from New York,
17:38
they're like, How did you end up in California?
17:40
Like my mom, there's some more.
17:42
Colombians compared to Dominicans,
17:45
especially in the Bay Area,
17:46
San Jose has a huge,
17:47
we have a Colombian festival,
17:49
huge Colombian festival in San Jose that we would always go to
17:52
growing up, and there's amazing Colombian food in San Jose.
17:56
So love it. I love it.
17:58
Well, we do have a segment on the podcast called Peroca
18:01
Essentially fans of the show call in and they're asking for
18:05
your advice and input.
18:07
So let's hear them out.
18:08
Me like me like you.
18:13
Hey guys, super big fan of the pod.
18:15
Also, Neza, I love you.
18:17
OK, so for the last like 3 weeks or so,
18:19
I've been seeing this guy who is super manly,
18:23
like very much my type,
18:24
but the only thing is that I can't tell if he's a
18:27
Republican and I've tried asking him.
18:29
I've tried, you know,
18:31
kind of bringing up things that are happening and he always just
18:33
waves it off and says like,
18:34
oh, I'm not interested in politics or I don't want to
18:36
talk about this. So,
18:37
I don't know if I should just like flat out ask him
18:40
if I should break up with him.
18:42
I feel kind of lost,
18:43
so any advice would be appreciated.
18:50
I don't know about y'all.
18:52
But I personally would just like ask just to get it over
18:55
with because There's just,
18:58
I feel like there's just,
18:59
there's no like you shouldn't be wasting time and your energy.
19:03
Obviously she's stressed. Yeah,
19:05
It's taking a toll on her so I was like I would
19:07
just like get it over with,
19:09
ask and Yeah, save yourself on the next couple of weeks
19:14
of, of stress because for me personally,
19:16
I don't know if I'd be able to do it.
19:20
I personally cannot. I can't,
19:26
In defense of it being relationship advice,
19:29
it's not that political to communicate something that's of value and something
19:33
that's important for you.
19:35
just ask and move accordingly.
19:38
But I think, I think him kind of being like,
19:40
Oh, I'm not really political is kind of a flag already
19:44
I think she needs to go through his playlist.
19:48
A playlist will expose somebody.
19:50
You don't even need to have that chat with him.
19:51
What's this person's name,
19:53
whoever, whatever your name is.
19:54
So go through his playlist.
19:55
I'm pretty sure it will expose him and then,
19:58
and then you can move accordingly.
20:00
Like why do you have 3 kid rock albums on shit?
20:05
Like, yo, keep it moving.
20:07
Like you don't need to even ask him that.
20:09
I'm, I'm sure there's been red flags already.
20:11
If she's sending this voicemail,
20:13
the flags have been brewing.
20:15
Yeah, because dating and love should be easy.
20:17
That's why that's why I always say like when you find love
20:19
in your life, like it's easy.
20:20
There shouldn't be no like.
20:22
Yeah, it really just,
20:23
it's smooth sailing. Yeah,
20:24
and in 2026, I don't judge anyone who cuts anyone off
20:28
for different morals and values because at this point that's what it
20:32
comes down to, you're not going to be embarrassing me out
20:34
here. I already embarrassed myself like having two people,
20:39
yeah, I can't do that.
20:41
But as we always end the segment by saying pero quien.
20:46
Big shoulder shrug and then little go through that playlist side eye
20:52
OK, so talking about you growing up in the Bay
20:56
we just did Picture day.
20:58
You talked about high school.
20:59
We wanted to ask you about your first jobs,
21:02
your first, your first time booked and busy,
21:05
booked and blessed. What was your first job?
21:08
My first job was Coldstone.
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Stop. I worked at an ice cream store too.
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I wanted, I wanted Jack.
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I applied. I wanted it so bad.
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My mom actually worked at Jack in the Box when she was
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pregnant with me. So I came out of the womb craving
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chicken sandwiches. That is my favorite thing ever.
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curly curly fries. No,
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Jack in the Box chicken sandwich.
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You open it, you put the curly fries.
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You've got to make sure that the curly fries are fresh.
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You've got to ask for them.
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Fresh, not the old ones.
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And you put them in with some ketchup and you add Swiss
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cheese. Anyways, back to Coldstone.
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Yeah, it was Coldstone.
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It actually was the Coldstone at the Great Mall in Milpitas,
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California, and it was the busiest one in the bay because
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we had, it was in the mall.
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And so, and there was also across from the movie theater
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so packed. But when I worked at Coldstone.
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You had to sing for your tips.
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No way. That doesn't exist anymore.
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Yes. So my interview,
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they made me stand on a chair in the middle of the
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food court and sing a song of my choice to see if
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I would if I basically,
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you can't have embarrassment if you're working at Cold Stone.
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So whenever someone drops any tip in the tip jar,
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you have to sing a Cold Stone song and we learned them
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before starting that song.
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I know. So like For example,
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we'll be what da da da da da da da da.
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So the Cold Stone version is like,
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we'll be mixing on the Coldstone when you tip,
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and then my coworkers go,
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when you tip, we'll be mixing on the Cold Stone when
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you tip, when you tip,
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and we all, whoever got the tip would choose the song
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you'd have to be like the like the the entourage every time
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every time. And so my friends would come over after
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high school and sometimes just to.
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I would tip you on purpose.
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So sometimes my friends would just come to just tip so that
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wait. Would you tip?
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What would get a song if I tipped a quarters?
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Anything, the 5 cents a penny.
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Anything in the tip jar.
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I mean, I loved it because I was a singer.
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I was like, I love this.
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But my coworkers were like,
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there was this one that had a dance.
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There's only one that had a dance attached.
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It was called The banana song.
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And anytime someone chose the banana song,
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everyone would be like,
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Damn, do you still remember the dance?
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No, I don't remember it at all.
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I remember there was like a spin.
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I'm going to TikTok all this stuff.
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I feel like it's all on there because it doesn't exist anymore
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Tell her about the Coldstone Puerto Rico.
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No, there's a guy that has a song NPR on TikTok
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Cold Stone. It's his order,
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but like in a salsa,
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like singing it. It's fire.
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He calls it cold stone at the end,
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but then he says cold stone at the very,
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very end. So it's got like this.
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it's his order, but in salsa.
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You have to send that.
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That's hilarious. Yeah,
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I loved it. So essentially it was cold stone ice cream
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but you were actually singing and performing.
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Yeah, so it was like it was like my first performance
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what did you do with that first check?
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Like you remember what you bought?
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I. Did for sure it was closed though 100%.
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It went right back to the mall.
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It literally went right back into the mall.
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Justice. I miss justice.
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My mom always was like,
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why did they hate it?
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They always dragged to the children's place or Gap or Old Navy
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but justice was a huge no for me.
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Yeah, my mom crushed my Lizzie McGuire dreams.
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Real quick she's like,
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you're not dressing like that.
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How old were you when you had the,
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that Coldstone job? I was 16.
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And I mean, after that,
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obviously what led to you hopping online and yeah,
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and obviously this moment eventually,
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but, I mean I moved to LA and on a
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dancer's salary I still had to work.
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A job. So I worked at Forever 21 for like a
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year. I worked at PacSun for six years here in LA
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Every, every single one you could think of.
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I'm not kidding, Santa Monica,
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Glendale, all of them,
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Santa Monica, all of them,
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you don't make, obviously it's more for the experience,
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right, to go on tour,
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and I was, you know,
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I was very blessed that I started booking very early on when
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I. I first moved here,
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but I think it's because when I moved here,
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nobody had red curly hair.
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I had like fire engine,
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big curly hair, and so I was like commercials were like
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Yeah, the curly headed her.
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I need her. I need that.
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And so I was booking a lot,
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but it still wasn't enough to like,
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you know, it's expensive in LA.
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This is not somewhere where you can come without a plan.
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And you said packs and I'm like,
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because I work retail.
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all those Christmases, all those things,
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Black Friday, Black Friday.
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Black Friday, and then on top of that,
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you're probably dealing with auditions and trying to schedule your hours around
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that. I got so lucky that my manager and my district
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manager were very supportive of my dance and just wanting to be
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a performer. So anytime a big audition came where it like
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affected the schedule, they would,
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they would just rework the schedule.
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Thank you so much because I would not.
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Yeah, I would not be like where I'm at honestly without
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it. It really is those people throughout your career that make
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all the different, obviously it's your parents,
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but it's the people that are like,
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I got you, I cover you,
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or let's do lines with you or whatever it is.
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That makes me happy new year.
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And when did you decide to fully move on from from retail
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and from all the gigs and and become who Nezza is Neza
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it all started with Univision.
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so Univision, wanted to make a Team 10.
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so they basically were like,
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Hey, Team 10's working out.
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Let's make a Latin Team 10.
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And so they, they got this house and it was supposed
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to be a big group of us.
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It ended up just being me and Franny.
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So that's how we became like sisters basically.
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And that's what started it all.
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We, we started recording music.
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We distributed it to Univision,
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and I started my YouTube channel in that house as well.
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Where was the house?
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It's in LA. So we're like,
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oh my goodness, yeah,
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I still drive by it all the time and I'm like,
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oh, I wish I missed this house.
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Yeah, that's, so this is literally the era of like
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the Paul brothers are dropping diss tracks on each other.
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Melrose chaos is breaking loose,
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literally. That was in 2016,
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2018, 2018, a couple of years after.
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Wow, that's what started it all.
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And was that when Music started as well because you mentioned you
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started recording with Franny.
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Yeah, I started recording music in that house and then when
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we were done with that,
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I just focused on solo.
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I've been in a lot of girl groups,
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really. Yeah, I've been in a lot of girl groups
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when I first moved out here when I was
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18, was in a girl group,
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chaos, and then in like 2017 was in another girl group
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and then YouTube found me and I was like,
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I'm, I'm very blessed with the fandom that I have because
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of YouTube. So I miss it a lot.
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I haven't been on YouTube in a minute.
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I do want to make my return at some point,
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but yeah, music is the focus.
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Yeah. And yesterday,
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literally yesterday, it was announced that you're going to be performing
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at Outside land. I know how.
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Much this means to you because you are a Bay Area girl
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as we talked about in the beginning.
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How are you feeling?
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It still doesn't feel like it's me on the lineup.
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I mean, I sobbed when I got the news last week
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and I sobbed when I saw my name on the,
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For some reason, maybe it'll hit me as we get closer
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but it still doesn't feel like it's me because I've wanted
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and I just honestly can't even believe that that it's happening.
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It's happening. I know it's happening.
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Crazy. Little me would not believe what's happening.
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I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of this past year
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Like I just remember I saw you the day you sat
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on Jamie Lee Curtis's lap.
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Oh my God. And I was at the day.
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Yeah, it was a freaky Friday premiere and you're like,
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you're not going to believe this,
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but I, I just like I was on a bus with
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Jamie Lee Curtis and I bawled my eyes out and it was
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the best day and then I saw the video the next day
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I'm like, oh my God,
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you were not kidding.
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and then two weeks later you were walking,
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we were walking with Shakira Shakira,
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2020, and you know it's gonna it's just keep progressing.
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Yeah, God's God's blessing me.
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Sure, in a crazy way,
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so talking about Jamie Lee Curtis and some throwbacks,
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what was your number one Disney movie?
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They don't do it anymore.
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They don't, they don't give me no more.
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They don't have it anymore home from school.
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I know. I used to do it all the time.
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and you're watching Disney Channel Disney Channel movie.
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OK, Princess Diaries.
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Oh no, did you ask Disney Channel or Disney?
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It could be Disney because but like it's different.
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It is very different because Disney Channel is like cool runnings and
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AI, that's the OG AI.
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That's the OG like chat GPT.
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Like if y'all think about it,
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that shit tried to kill me.
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She tried to kill them in the house,
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right. She just trapped.
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She was trying to trap them.
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She's like, my precious,
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you know what I mean?
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She's like, You're mine.
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Heavyweights with Ben Stiller and Kenan Thompson.
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I don't know if I watched that one.
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It's a camp for fat kids.
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it's really, it's good.
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No, but Princess Diaries,
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it's still, I still watch it till this day.
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Like I'm obsessed. I have stickers.
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I, it's my favorite.
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Freaky Friday's Disney, right?
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Yeah. That's my go to 20 years.
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That's my go to airplane movie.
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If I'm on, if I'm on an airplane 9 out of
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10 times, if it's on the thing,
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I'm watching Freaky Friday.
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That's so funny. It is a good one to just like
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have on just to have,
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just to have a play.
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I know all the little moments that I tune in for and
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we're landing. Yeah,
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was there any character you talked about it briefly,
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but That you were specifically in love with,
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like for me it was Gabriella from High School Musical.
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I, it was Raven Simone.
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Who I was in a room with,
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I was in a room with last Thursday,
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but I couldn't get myself to say anything to her.
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but like. Like I've met her once,
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I don't know, I just panicked.
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I panicked, I panicked.
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I didn't say anything to her,
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but my, I think even like comedic wise,
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like she taught me how to be funny 100%.
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Like everything I do,
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all my little like quirks that I do,
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like when I'm trying to be funny is Raven Simone.
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You know what's funny,
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I worked very closely with Annalisa,
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right before this job.
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yeah, I was working.
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Very closely with her.
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She taught at an acting school,
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and I, I was helping all the actors,
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and they, a lot of them were on the Disney Channel
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That's why I said Raven would,
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yeah, I've met her once,
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but it wasn't even like me.
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I was dancing for Zendaya at the time,
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and Zendaya had the Casey Undercover premiere,
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and so we went and I brought my mom with me.
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I don't know why my mom was there with me,
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but she saw Raven Simone.
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Obviously she knew how much I loved her.
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I blink and my mom's gone.
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I'm like. Where she and then I see her in the
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corner with Raven. I go,
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No. And then she's like,
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Vanessa Benn. And I'm like,
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come take a picture with Raven.
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and yeah, in the moment I told her that I loved
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her, but that was like a decade ago and it's crazy
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my mom took me to go see Ashley Tisdale at the Glendale
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Americana, and then because Ashley Tisdale.
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Actually was brunette confused a blonde woman for Ashley Tisdale,
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and I took a picture with someone,
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Ashley Tisdale. I got home,
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looked at the picture,
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and was like, that is not Ashley Tisdale,
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and she's literally, you can see her in the corner of
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the picture being like,
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Mommy, they just do it.
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They just do it to us.
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I kind of forgot to tell you about this.
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Don't worry. Don't worry.
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You just Take a beat and you have 30 seconds to explain
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why this alien shouldn't take you up into space and why you
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deserve to stay on Earth.
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Or, or maybe you want them to take you.
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aliens of planet, wherever you're from,
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you don't know, she don't want me.
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listen to my song Tasty though.
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I, I feel like I have a lot of
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booty shaking left to do on this planet.
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I got to play Coachella one day.
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I just got outside land,
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so maybe Coachella is next.
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So you just, you just got to leave me on the
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I will dance for you whenever you want.
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you're safe. You're safe.
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they didn't, they didn't want this smoke.
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You're safe. You're safe.
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we got to get that alien checked out,
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bro. It's like the 2nd time today.
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You got, you got it,
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yeah for any restrain restraining order time.
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We're gonna have to call the Burbank City,
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City of Burbank. NASA,
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call NASA. It's crazy.
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Hey, if you're listening,
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we have a perfect idea in mind.
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I'm manifesting the best thank you for what's to come,
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and I know what's to come.
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You talked about Coachella,
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we talked about the documentary.
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I mean, when can the public look forward to watching the
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dog, dog pretty soon.
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yeah, hopefully really soon and I can't wait for everyone to
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it's a really important piece.
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The message I want people to understand that it's,
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it's us everyday people that are going to do it.
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I hope people see themselves in me and feel inclined to just
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so I'm really excited for everyone to see it.
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Well, we are going to be cheering you on.
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Thank you for joining us on Mi Gente Latino.
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I didn't even see that.
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Look, we got JLo right here,
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little JLo handle Latino.
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