October 16, 2025 • 32 mins
This week, the Dos Amigos welcome back Wilmer’s wife Amanda Pacheco for an intimate and fun conversation about love and family. From parenting surprises to who's most likely to cry during a movie, nothing is off-limits. Plus, Freddy hosts a lightning round of "Who’s More Likely To?" that reveals more than they expected!
“Dos Amigos” is a comedic and insightful podcast hosted by two friends who’ve journeyed through Hollywood and life together. Wilmer Valderrama and Freddy Rodriguez push through the noise of everyday life and ruminate on a bevy of topics through fun and daring, and occasionally a third amigo joins the mix!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, Rama, Freddie Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, welcome back to those amigos. Is this part two
of our conversation with my Jimmy Churi. I'mna Pacheco. I
hear we're going to play a little game.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, we are.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But before we play a game, we had a few
more burning questions. Right, what was your perspective when we
first started meeting? I mean, you know you also, I
think we should really ask her about this. But but
that's a really funny.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
St She's like, I got a different story.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I mean, do you want to talk about why you
fell in love with my dad first?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So if you've seen like his interviews, you know he's
talked a little bit about this. But when Wilmer reached
out to me, he had you know, we were just
talking and chatting and he had said something in Spanish,
and I replied back, oh, you know, I know, I
look like I'm just a white girl, but I'm actually
(00:59):
my and I know Spanish, like I can understand what
you're saying. And then he's like, oh, well, in that case,
he starts sending me messages in Spanish, and I'm like,
I can understand it, and so I instantly like hit
up my dad and I remember this all like so clearly.
(01:22):
It's crazy, how vividly, like every piece of this story is.
I was like literally lying in my bed. I was
like off work that day, and I hit up my
dad and I was like, Dad, you know, and I'm
telling him everything that's going on, and I'm telling him like, oh,
I have to respond to this message because I told
this guy that I spoke Spanish and I was fluent,
(01:43):
and now I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And so he's like, Okay, well, shoot, what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So I tell him what he said and he starts
laughing and he's just responds right. So I repeat it
back to my dad. I'm like, sounds good, Like do
I sound good? He's like, yeah, great, send it. Send
the message. Boom sends me one immediately after. I was like,
so then I have to like I'm like still on
the phone with my dad. Meanwhile, my dad is like working,
(02:10):
he's trucking, driving on the road, and so I'm like, ah,
he messaged me back already, and so I'm like, this
is what he said. This goes on for a while,
back and forth we're talking. Then he sends me voice
message and I'm like, oh, so then so then it's like,
you know, it's like next level has to speak it. Yeah,
(02:34):
and it gets worse because eventually we have to meet
in person and so so yeah, so that goes on
and then yeah, we ended up meeting in person.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And I'm like, wait, did you answer the voicemail?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, it sounded great. I mean I had a really
great teacher, so I few, but yeah, and then you
know he wants to meet in person, and so we
ended up meaning in person.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And I remember that like super clear.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I drove by and if you've ever been to zinc,
you can see, you know, where the outdoor patio is.
So when you're driving by, like I saw him sitting
there and I'm looking over and I'm like, oh my god, Like,
first of all, he's there already, Like am I late?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are you early on time? I don't know, but you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Were sitting there, and I remember there was no parking.
I just moved to LA and I'm just realizing like, wow,
there's nowhere to park.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
This is crazy madness place.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But there was Valet and so I'm like, I'm from Rockland,
Like there's not Valet, Like no one valets and so
I remember I parked really far away because I was like,
I'm got a valet, so I parked like yeah, no,
so I parked super far away. And then I'm walking
up I see him and then I but I remember again,
(03:56):
I'm on the phone with my dad like as I'm
driving there, and I'm like, oh my god, I see him.
And we were joking that I was going to need
like an earpiece because I was like yeah, and then
uh but yeah, I mean he realized quickly that I was.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Actually not speaking Spanish to me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, and he's like, so who was who was that?
And then then your dad and I was like, wow,
so maybe maybe he should.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Come to Yeah, should come to coffee, because so interested,
but there's there's sense of humor, was so alike and
so and then I met her dad and I was like,
this is my guy.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So he's he's such a great friend to me and
and such a beautiful member of her family and it's
just it's just so fun. But anyway, so his father,
his father, her father made it, you know, like such
a great entry point. I was like, oh, I love
for him to meet my father. And then it was magical.
My dad is like my dad is like a party
(05:00):
in a small little kitchen. Like he just likes to
cook and hosts people and all that. And as soon
as Armando and my dad met, it was like instant
compared instant compa I can see that. Oh my god,
they laugh all the time. My dad cooks him dinner
every night. It's like the whole thing. But he just
became such a strong and important member of our family.
(05:23):
And then you know, we made this decision that like,
you know, we we got engaged.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, so yeah, so how many months after your dating
that you got.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Engaged It was more like seconds, I think, No, it
was like a year.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It was about a year.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, it was about a year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And well, you know, you know, but also also like
we were at a point of our lives and our
age where we're like, okay, you know, what do we
want from life? You know, and and it felt to
me like our worlds were aligning and the fact that
our interests were, you know, finding its place at the
right time, at the right place. So when we got engaged,
(06:02):
during that year, we were on a bunch of trips
together and one of those trips was to Japan. And
when we were to Japan, that's when we said I
love you to each other for the first time. And
that's when our conversation was like, okay, what are our
intentions here? You know. So when we had this conversation,
you know, it felt like we were on the same
place at the sun. You know, we were at the
same mindset and and we realized that what we were
(06:27):
with each other was a family. And then as soon
as that happened, we you know, we were engaged and
the whole thing. And and then all of a sudden
we got hey with COVID and we were in the
middle of planning a wedding. And then during COVID they're like, oh,
it's going to be done in April. They said, okay, well,
and then when he wasn't that in April, they were like, okay,
(06:48):
so what's more important to us the wedding or started
a family, And that's when the kind of became a possibility. So,
but that was such an interesting time too. I remember,
you have to experience so many things on our own
really because it was COVID, you know, like you have
to have your first how was how was.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So during COVID, what was the biggest surprise about each other?
That you that you realized I mean, because right you're
forced to be with yes in each other's face. Like
what was what was what was the biggest surprise for me?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I guess for me it was like even further back,
like when we were traveling a bunch, like just his
level of patience with me, because I feel like I'm
not like super you know, complicated, but I definitely like
have my own way of going about things, and so
(07:47):
traveling like I was like, you know, sometimes we'd get
to the airport and then I was like, you know,
he'd be like checklists, like do you have this?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You have this? Yeah, I've got everything.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
We get to the airport, I'm like I don't have
my passport and we're always late. So like there was
like a lot of, you know instances where like I
got to sell like see so many sides of him
that I was like, he could have responded and reacted
so differently to so many different like scenarios that I
(08:18):
put ourselves in, And when I saw how he handled
those situations, I was like, Okay, like wow, this person
has you know, so much just like patience.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
For me, and like I don't know just I was.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I was pleasantly surprised at like how like gentle you
are with like you know, how you handle situations.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I feel so seen the first time. No my advice
versa though. I mean, like I told this story for
probably three years. We go to Houston, Texas. We're going
there for Comic Poloosa, and I'm HOSTINGLUSA with the two
lead girls of Game of Throns and we're there and
(09:05):
then it's like a lot of work and we're doing
this thing and I'm there and I'm like, okay, they
don't need me downstairs until eleven. I was working the
night before whatever, like let's just I'm gonna take a
little nap, you know. When I wake up from the nap,
my clothes were were hanging and there was a steamer
(09:28):
that had just been you know, used for the shirt.
And I was like, somebody come up and doing that stuff.
And I was asked her who who steamed my clothes?
And she was like I did, And I said, what,
why why do my clothes? She goes, where are you
gonna wear?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
This?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Stuff's wrankled, like I'm probably not right, and then she
just walked out like duh, one plus one equals too.
And I was like, oh okay, Like you know, I've
been so self maintained and self soothed, you know, for
so long that it felt like that was such an
(10:09):
interesting moment, right, Like it's like to to to do that.
But the point I'm making with the the Houston thing,
it was like and I was like, where did you
get a steamer? And she had like order it the
night before and and like packed it in her back
because she was most likely going to use it and
then she used it on my shirts and then here.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And you tell that story so many times makes me
realize that I should probably give you more stories like
that to tell.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, because that's that stories.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Seven years old? And now you know definitely went the
other way around. No, I'm kidding, No, that's meaningful. That's
very meaningful to ye. But that was all those first
instances where like, same thing, we were noticing different aspects
of how we were treating one another in that moment,
and it just kind of paved the road for the
for the possibility. You know. But I know in so
(11:02):
many ways, the arrival of our family. Yea father, yeah,
now his fatherhood and motherhood and and uh, you know,
she makes it look easy. You know, she makes it
look really easy. I was I was a sitar zign
night twice now witnessing her bring uh two miracles of
children into into our world. And I always say this, like,
(11:25):
and we don't deserve the sacrifice that women go through
to you know, to bring you know, children into into
our world. And and it's something just like extraordinary, you know,
to to watch it, to see it, to experience it,
to feel it is life changing, is life changing for
any man. And you know, she did it with a smile.
(11:48):
It's like really she went in there and she's like, Okay,
let's go have this baby. I mean, I be terrified,
you know, but but it is it is. It is
just I'm just a hod of you and everything you're
you've been, you've done for our family and you've made
it as a family for it. Now, so we have
a complete seven months seven week old, seven seven week
(12:12):
old and she's here doing a podcast you know with
brand new Banks.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
With brand with brand new banks looking looking fantastic.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Okay, so now you go from dating to like, now
now you have two kids, you know, So what's what's
what's been your take on parenthood with with Wilmer as
a pop, as a pop, as a as a company owner,
as a as a successful thespian, as all of it.
(12:49):
I mean, he's juggling, juggling many many balls, spending many plates.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
What's your what's your take on it?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
H you had such an interesting question. So, yeah, parenting
has it really was something that I felt like happened
like such a whirlwind because I went from like this,
you know, you heard a little bit about some of
my travels, and I felt like I was just like this,
(13:21):
Like I was just like free.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Free with the wind, honestly, like wherever it took me,
like day by day, like.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And when I met Wilmer, I saw what life could
look like and what life could be, and to me,
that was stability.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That was.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Something that I just id never a different adventure that
I like never had seen for myself. And one of
the biggest things was like becoming a mother. I didn't
see myself as that until I met him. And I
think a lot of that I owe to him, because
I don't want to get emotional, my god, but but yeah,
(14:05):
I started to see that in me because he saw
that in me, and that was something that I had
an experience in any of my other relationships before, because
I don't know if it was because like where I
was at in my life, but it definitely just felt
like this person, you know, saw me as a mother,
(14:27):
and so then therefore, like I start started feeling the
confidence of like, okay, like I could be a mother,
and I started to see myself as a mother. When
I lost to my mom, it was something that I
almost wasn't sure that I wanted to do because I
was like, I don't have my mom here to do
this with, and that scared me. I wanted her to
(14:50):
be a part of that journey with me. But with him,
I felt like I could do anything and he just
like believed in me and saw so much in me,
and so being a parent alongside him, I just feel
like constantly empowered. And you know, I'm seven weeks postpartuer,
(15:13):
so like I'm going to start crying.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What are some of the family traditions that you may
have had as a kid that you're hoping now to
incorporate with Wilmer as a as a husband, as a
as a you know, the father of your two.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I mean we've started, we've started some of our own
that I think unique to us. You know, we've also
embraced some of some of her families as well, because
I think her family does a great job but showing up,
you know, you know, but I I have to say that,
you know, as as busy as I have been and
(15:53):
have become, you know, the relentless search to leave my
family massive legacy where they have nothing else to do,
Like if I'm gone, I'm obsessing over leaving them something
that could take care of them. I think that's kind
of part of the redlandless search for the entrepreneurship and
all that stuff, and like what am I you know,
what am I leaving her? What am I leaving my kids?
(16:15):
You know? And like you know, so that that I
think that takes a lot of you know, commitment in hours.
That being said, Amanda does an incredible job at making
sure that you know, for example, I do set. I
have a double banker, and double Banker is a trailer
that has two different trailers, two different dressing rooms in
(16:37):
one trailer, one for yourself, yes, that one for me,
and then I have the second one for my family.
So you know, we you know, it has their names,
you know, Jimmy, Turi and and Chucky. Yeah, uh in
a canoe, and so they had their own side of
the trailer, which ended up being like we were using
only on the one side, you know. But but the
(16:59):
point is that I want her to know that even
if I'm on set, you know, she has a place
for her, for her and for her family on that set.
The set is incredibly understanding, you know, they understand, Yeah,
I'm out, I'm gone for some reason. My family cannot
just visit me whenever they want to. She has a
permanent drive on, she rolls up, has her space, you know,
(17:21):
and and uh Nakano has her routines with our crafty
chefs who are incredible people, and and she makes her
little sandwiches with them. She's like, she's this is so
she know, she watches n CIA. She has a little
n cis bulletproof vest, you know, baby bulletproof as jackets
for fun. And but we work on that. We work
(17:42):
to figure out that, you know, that this journey that
I'm on is our journey together, you know. And and
it's hard, but it is difficult, right because we do
have a great village around us, right but the time
that the top the stuff that we're building, you know,
it's takes a lot of business hours, you know. But
(18:04):
when it comes to the traditions and coming full circle
to that, Christmas is a big one. You know. There's
a couple of trips a year that we have to make,
you know, and I think sometime throughout the year we
have to go camping this Otherwise he kills me if
a year goes buy and we don't at least go
put up a ten somewhere, even if it's in our backyard,
you know. But I look, I think Christmas is a
(18:27):
big one for us, and in a tradition for us,
I think it's like, you know, finding one or two
times in the year where you're just so spontaneous that
you pick one random place around the world and go.
You know, but yeah, did you want to speak to
traditions a little bit?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I feel like we're every year like we're starting new traditions,
and we're like trying to think of new traditions to start.
Sometimes it's hard for me because I always want to
do like something new all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So it's like a.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Part of me is like, oh, you know, maybe we
should do that same thing that we did last year.
But and then another part of me is like, yeah,
but I want to do something completely different, that's something
totally new.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
So that might even be a tradition.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I think that's our tradition is to like keep it
different every time, you know. But you know, now with kids,
as you know, you build an entire environment where you're like, Okay,
what what is Christmas for Nakano and Wolf? You know,
when we can provide it? What is things giving feel like?
For her? What is that? You know? And and you know,
(19:32):
Amanda is so by the details. She she'll buy all
she goes to Michael's and buys all the arts and
crafts and shall build the Christmas cards from scratch, you know.
She'll decorate the you know, the tree with the different
theme like she she really does it up for for
Nakano and I kinda just lives like a really you know,
(19:56):
magical time. But she also earns it though. Nacana is
like a really really exceptional, smart, smart young girl, and
she's just a brilliant young woman. I hope that when
she listens to this podcast when she's old, she's like,
that's what my parents, you know, thought of me. But
in kind of coming from circle and wrapping it up
a little bit, we have again. You want to play
(20:16):
a game? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, so so this is gonna be a kind of
a quick round, uh game. I'm gonna I'm gonna fire
away some questions, right, and then you all answer as
it comes. Okay, first question, Uh, who is first to
fall asleep during movie night?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know. You can flip a coin on that one.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, it's usually me, but the kind of both of
us kind Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a tiebreaker. Yeah,
trying to sit and watch Usually I would say, usually
me how quickly?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And though I guess, I guess you can do it
like how quickly? In yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Make it past like the credits?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, or you do oh the credits at the beginning
the open Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Who was first to plan an adventurous family trip?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Me?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yes, yeah, you'll make it like super epic and over
the top, but I will definitely initiate.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah. Who is more likely to laugh at their own
joke before finishing it?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Shut up? Shut up? I mean the problem is that
I see it before I do it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Who is more likely to be the stricter parent.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Stricter parent.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Stricter.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
We just have like like slightly different parenting styles.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I think you're I think you're a little bit
more patient.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
A little yeah, I mean yeah, I'm way more patient.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, like way more patient, you mean, yeah. I I
want them to understand that it's wrong when it is wrong.
And I think there's some you know, the reasoning is,
I try to make it as simple and as quick
as possible. She has a really caring and loving conversation
about why this is wrong, and I just tell Naconna
(22:22):
she'll never talk to her mother like that again.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But it's like, you know, it's that have different finesss,
Like he wants to tell her once and that's it,
and I want to tell her once also.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
But I but like we communicate differently.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, it's probably the.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Way because of how we grew up, right, Like I
just you grew up with a Latina mom.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I did not few. I grew up with a Latino dad.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, And he says yes to have, yes, do not play. Yeah,
you know, let's tell you once. But I think it's
like I don't know. For me, I think learning consequence
as soft as this cons Queen's are for her. You know,
it's like invaluable. You know, it's invaluable. And right now,
it's when it becomes truth. You know, once they feel
(23:09):
like they're taller than you, and because she will be
and she's smarter than you, you know, all of a sudden,
they don't have to listen to you anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Who is more likely to cry during a sad movie?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I've definitely seen you like tears?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Oh yeah, I cry all the time in movie.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
She's more emotional than me.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's just like a tears.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's the actor in me. It's the actor in me,
you know it is it? No, no, not that I'm notxious.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You hold it together.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I hold it together. I have. I do a very deep,
deep breath.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
One of those just let it, let it happen every movie.
I dude, I cried a K Pop Demon Hunter. Yes
I cried that one. And if you've seen the movie
and you're home, you watch the movie, you know exactly
what part of talking. Who is more likely this is
(24:18):
my voice without the lies? Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Who is more likely to say let's order in instead
of cooking?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah me?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, you love ordering food?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I do love or food. You're right. I also do
love cooking.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I love really, I love like My version of that
is like me saying what I want and then like
cooking together is like me telling you what I want
and then you're cooking and it's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Who is more likely to buy something off of Instagram ads?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Instagram as This is the wrong question, Amazon, Amazon, It's
probably the right question. Who do you think will be?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I mean, I don't leave the house much.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, so min offense, I have to shop online. But
you did just recently get influenced by watching Blippy, did
you not?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Oh? Yes, I was from Blippy and I found the
company that made these bats, so that you know that
they were making that baseball bats. I was like, oh,
those are cool, okay, and I bought two of them
and I went I watch watching Blippy and then I
was like, what was this company? I was the name
of the company, and I went to their Instagram account
and then I found the shop store and I bought
two bats to baseball bats from And so that was Blippy.
(25:39):
Not as embarrassing as Amazon, I don't think. But Amazon,
you know my my my email is also linked to
that account, to the Amazon to the Amazon account, and
so to her credit, she will buy a lot of
little things. She's always looking for the best price. She
(26:00):
ever wants to buy anything full price because she knows
she can find it somewhere else for fifty percent off,
and she normally does so. She's like a lot of
little things that she buys and then like the next
day I get like ten e mils about her returns.
She returns a lot of stuff. But it is it's
it's you know, it's I agree with her, Like, let's
let's feel the toy. Is it cools? What is the thing?
(26:23):
You know, Let's let's shop.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Let's sometimes you just late night shop.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Me. You buy all these things, and all of a sudden,
I'm like, why do I have so many of these
fuzzy onesies?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Liken sit out to Amazon. You know she's here her
first sponsorship.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Man who is more likely to lose their keys or
phone more often?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Hello, definitely not me.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I have like severe adhd I.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Several times, Oh yeah, keys too, But like luckily Nikano,
she is on it. So anytime like I leave my
phone around, she's she keeps tabs on where my phones
at and my keys? Actually, like I'll get in the
car and it's like hot here, and I'll like get
in the car and I'm like shooting all my keys
and she's like, mom, you left them in your other purse.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
And I'm like, wow, s show she remembers.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, she's like, I told you not to leave them there.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Ah. So who's more likely to stay up way too
late scrolling on her phone?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I hate that question?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Why because we both are so bad at it?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, yes, I mean mine is like mine's a combination,
you know, it's a combination. It's like I can't stop
scrolling through emails or answering emails or texting people back
that I haven't they didn't text from ten in the
morning it's now nine pm. And then like sometimes my
compression is fun is watching like really stupid comedy, Like
(28:00):
you know how many funny ship I send you in
the middle of the night, take one am, and I'm
probably saying you some really stupid stuff on Instagram, But
I just like to laugh. So it's my problem. Yeah, yeah,
and I have a problem with it for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Who's more likely to befriend a stranger instantly at a party?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Also, you.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I can't stop talking to strangers. It's my favorite thing. Yeah,
maybe is it not?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You're you're a people person.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I love it? Yeah, I love it? Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
No, it's accurate.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Who's more likely to binge watch a show from start
to finishing a weekend? And and what shows are you
all watching?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Do you think it's because I just have like a
little more time than you needed to watch stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
No, I lose interest quick. I lose interest quick, Like
I know if the series is Yeah, that told me
I want or two. But you really give it a shot?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Oh yeah, Like if I start something, I have to
watch it because otherwise I'll never watch it again.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
So yeah, me.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah. What's the one thing about woman that people don't know?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Mmm mm hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Let's see. It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
That's a good question. There's really no surprises, like you
are what you get?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Uh? Do people know that you have to order a
hot dog every time you're to the movie theater?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Is that news?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh that you didn't know that?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
The shots.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
And not just what but like you have to order
two hot dogs? Like I.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Feel attacked.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I feel attacked.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
When we walk into the theater, like you are in line,
I'm like, what are you doing? We just had dinner,
like he has to get too hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's a weird thing. She's absolutely right, it's a weird thing.
I could have just had a full on you know,
meet sauce pasta with garlic, bread and like dessert. And
I'm like, so let's go watch some movie. I literally
I am hypnotized by the kids. I go straight to
it and I go two hot dogs, now, one, two
(30:16):
hot dogs? You're sure? And I said on my shore, yeah,
two hot dogs, and you know, must catch up. And
then I put hell openions on it, like the pickle
hell opinions, and then it's party one for I have
one hot dog for the trailers, and then one hot.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Dog for is it because like when you were a kid,
it was like traditions, So you're keeping tradition up or what.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's a weird thing.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, Amanda, thank you so much for being on the show.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
We're very grateful. Thank you for allowing us to occupy
the space in your home.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Every every every episode. Sure, and and and and texting
her till that kind of the start. You know, do
those heels a lot smoother and softer, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, you have such a beautiful family, such beautiful children,
and you and your pop is so cool and even
your extended friends you dove with who I've had the
pleasure to sit down and chat with, and it's just, uh,
you know, indicative of who you are. So thank you
so much for being with us today. Thank yeah, I'm
Freddie Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And Wilman about Durama. Thank you for watching Those Amigos,
watching and listening to Those Amigos where you got your podcast,
and thank you Freddie for leading this conversation with my
absolute better half with Banks.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The better Half with Banks. Those Amigos is a production
from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's Michael through That Podcast Network,
hosted by Me, Freddie Rodriguez and wilm of Valdorama.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Those Amigos is produced by Aaron burs and Sophie Spencer Zabos.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Our executive producers are Wilmri vald Ramo, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson,
and Leo Clem at WV Sound.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This episode was shot and edited it by Ryan Posts
and mixed by Sean Tracy and features original music by
Madison Devenport and Halo Boy.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Our cover art photography is by David Avalos and designed
by Deny Holtz.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Clau And thank you for being there third amigo today.
I appreciate you guys always listening to those amigos.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
For more podcasts from My Heart, visit the R Heart
Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your
favorite shows.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
See you next week.
Hey, Rama, Freddie Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, welcome back to those amigos. Is this part two
of our conversation with my Jimmy Churi. I'mna Pacheco. I
hear we're going to play a little game.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, we are.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But before we play a game, we had a few
more burning questions. Right, what was your perspective when we
first started meeting? I mean, you know you also, I
think we should really ask her about this. But but
that's a really funny.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
St She's like, I got a different story.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I mean, do you want to talk about why you
fell in love with my dad first?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So if you've seen like his interviews, you know he's
talked a little bit about this. But when Wilmer reached
out to me, he had you know, we were just
talking and chatting and he had said something in Spanish,
and I replied back, oh, you know, I know, I
look like I'm just a white girl, but I'm actually
(00:59):
my and I know Spanish, like I can understand what
you're saying. And then he's like, oh, well, in that case,
he starts sending me messages in Spanish, and I'm like,
I can understand it, and so I instantly like hit
up my dad and I remember this all like so clearly.
(01:22):
It's crazy, how vividly, like every piece of this story is.
I was like literally lying in my bed. I was
like off work that day, and I hit up my
dad and I was like, Dad, you know, and I'm
telling him everything that's going on, and I'm telling him like, oh,
I have to respond to this message because I told
this guy that I spoke Spanish and I was fluent,
(01:43):
and now I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And so he's like, Okay, well, shoot, what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So I tell him what he said and he starts
laughing and he's just responds right. So I repeat it
back to my dad. I'm like, sounds good, Like do
I sound good? He's like, yeah, great, send it. Send
the message. Boom sends me one immediately after. I was like,
so then I have to like I'm like still on
the phone with my dad. Meanwhile, my dad is like working,
(02:10):
he's trucking, driving on the road, and so I'm like, ah,
he messaged me back already, and so I'm like, this
is what he said. This goes on for a while,
back and forth we're talking. Then he sends me voice
message and I'm like, oh, so then so then it's like,
you know, it's like next level has to speak it. Yeah,
(02:34):
and it gets worse because eventually we have to meet
in person and so so yeah, so that goes on
and then yeah, we ended up meeting in person.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And I'm like, wait, did you answer the voicemail?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, it sounded great. I mean I had a really
great teacher, so I few, but yeah, and then you
know he wants to meet in person, and so we
ended up meaning in person.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And I remember that like super clear.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I drove by and if you've ever been to zinc,
you can see, you know, where the outdoor patio is.
So when you're driving by, like I saw him sitting
there and I'm looking over and I'm like, oh my god, Like,
first of all, he's there already, Like am I late?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Are you early on time? I don't know, but you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Were sitting there, and I remember there was no parking.
I just moved to LA and I'm just realizing like, wow,
there's nowhere to park.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
This is crazy madness place.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But there was Valet and so I'm like, I'm from Rockland,
Like there's not Valet, Like no one valets and so
I remember I parked really far away because I was like,
I'm got a valet, so I parked like yeah, no,
so I parked super far away. And then I'm walking
up I see him and then I but I remember again,
(03:56):
I'm on the phone with my dad like as I'm
driving there, and I'm like, oh my god, I see him.
And we were joking that I was going to need
like an earpiece because I was like yeah, and then
uh but yeah, I mean he realized quickly that I was.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Actually not speaking Spanish to me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, and he's like, so who was who was that?
And then then your dad and I was like, wow,
so maybe maybe he should.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Come to Yeah, should come to coffee, because so interested,
but there's there's sense of humor, was so alike and
so and then I met her dad and I was like,
this is my guy.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So he's he's such a great friend to me and
and such a beautiful member of her family and it's
just it's just so fun. But anyway, so his father,
his father, her father made it, you know, like such
a great entry point. I was like, oh, I love
for him to meet my father. And then it was magical.
My dad is like my dad is like a party
(05:00):
in a small little kitchen. Like he just likes to
cook and hosts people and all that. And as soon
as Armando and my dad met, it was like instant
compared instant compa I can see that. Oh my god,
they laugh all the time. My dad cooks him dinner
every night. It's like the whole thing. But he just
became such a strong and important member of our family.
(05:23):
And then you know, we made this decision that like,
you know, we we got engaged.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, so yeah, so how many months after your dating
that you got.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Engaged It was more like seconds, I think, No, it
was like a year.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It was about a year.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, it was about a year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And well, you know, you know, but also also like
we were at a point of our lives and our
age where we're like, okay, you know, what do we
want from life? You know, and and it felt to
me like our worlds were aligning and the fact that
our interests were, you know, finding its place at the
right time, at the right place. So when we got engaged,
(06:02):
during that year, we were on a bunch of trips
together and one of those trips was to Japan. And
when we were to Japan, that's when we said I
love you to each other for the first time. And
that's when our conversation was like, okay, what are our
intentions here? You know. So when we had this conversation,
you know, it felt like we were on the same
place at the sun. You know, we were at the
same mindset and and we realized that what we were
(06:27):
with each other was a family. And then as soon
as that happened, we you know, we were engaged and
the whole thing. And and then all of a sudden
we got hey with COVID and we were in the
middle of planning a wedding. And then during COVID they're like, oh,
it's going to be done in April. They said, okay, well,
and then when he wasn't that in April, they were like, okay,
(06:48):
so what's more important to us the wedding or started
a family, And that's when the kind of became a possibility. So,
but that was such an interesting time too. I remember,
you have to experience so many things on our own
really because it was COVID, you know, like you have
to have your first how was how was.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So during COVID, what was the biggest surprise about each other?
That you that you realized I mean, because right you're
forced to be with yes in each other's face. Like
what was what was what was the biggest surprise for me?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I guess for me it was like even further back,
like when we were traveling a bunch, like just his
level of patience with me, because I feel like I'm
not like super you know, complicated, but I definitely like
have my own way of going about things, and so
(07:47):
traveling like I was like, you know, sometimes we'd get
to the airport and then I was like, you know,
he'd be like checklists, like do you have this?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You have this? Yeah, I've got everything.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
We get to the airport, I'm like I don't have
my passport and we're always late. So like there was
like a lot of, you know instances where like I
got to sell like see so many sides of him
that I was like, he could have responded and reacted
so differently to so many different like scenarios that I
(08:18):
put ourselves in, And when I saw how he handled
those situations, I was like, Okay, like wow, this person
has you know, so much just like patience.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
For me, and like I don't know just I was.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I was pleasantly surprised at like how like gentle you
are with like you know, how you handle situations.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I feel so seen the first time. No my advice
versa though. I mean, like I told this story for
probably three years. We go to Houston, Texas. We're going
there for Comic Poloosa, and I'm HOSTINGLUSA with the two
lead girls of Game of Throns and we're there and
(09:05):
then it's like a lot of work and we're doing
this thing and I'm there and I'm like, okay, they
don't need me downstairs until eleven. I was working the
night before whatever, like let's just I'm gonna take a
little nap, you know. When I wake up from the nap,
my clothes were were hanging and there was a steamer
(09:28):
that had just been you know, used for the shirt.
And I was like, somebody come up and doing that stuff.
And I was asked her who who steamed my clothes?
And she was like I did, And I said, what,
why why do my clothes? She goes, where are you
gonna wear?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
This?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Stuff's wrankled, like I'm probably not right, and then she
just walked out like duh, one plus one equals too.
And I was like, oh okay, Like you know, I've
been so self maintained and self soothed, you know, for
so long that it felt like that was such an
(10:09):
interesting moment, right, Like it's like to to to do that.
But the point I'm making with the the Houston thing,
it was like and I was like, where did you
get a steamer? And she had like order it the
night before and and like packed it in her back
because she was most likely going to use it and
then she used it on my shirts and then here.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And you tell that story so many times makes me
realize that I should probably give you more stories like
that to tell.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, because that's that stories.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Seven years old? And now you know definitely went the
other way around. No, I'm kidding, No, that's meaningful. That's
very meaningful to ye. But that was all those first
instances where like, same thing, we were noticing different aspects
of how we were treating one another in that moment,
and it just kind of paved the road for the
for the possibility. You know. But I know in so
(11:02):
many ways, the arrival of our family. Yea father, yeah,
now his fatherhood and motherhood and and uh, you know,
she makes it look easy. You know, she makes it
look really easy. I was I was a sitar zign
night twice now witnessing her bring uh two miracles of
children into into our world. And I always say this, like,
(11:25):
and we don't deserve the sacrifice that women go through
to you know, to bring you know, children into into
our world. And and it's something just like extraordinary, you know,
to to watch it, to see it, to experience it,
to feel it is life changing, is life changing for
any man. And you know, she did it with a smile.
(11:48):
It's like really she went in there and she's like, Okay,
let's go have this baby. I mean, I be terrified,
you know, but but it is it is. It is
just I'm just a hod of you and everything you're
you've been, you've done for our family and you've made
it as a family for it. Now, so we have
a complete seven months seven week old, seven seven week
(12:12):
old and she's here doing a podcast you know with
brand new Banks.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
With brand with brand new banks looking looking fantastic.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Okay, so now you go from dating to like, now
now you have two kids, you know, So what's what's
what's been your take on parenthood with with Wilmer as
a pop, as a pop, as a as a company owner,
as a as a successful thespian, as all of it.
(12:49):
I mean, he's juggling, juggling many many balls, spending many plates.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
What's your what's your take on it?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
H you had such an interesting question. So, yeah, parenting
has it really was something that I felt like happened
like such a whirlwind because I went from like this,
you know, you heard a little bit about some of
my travels, and I felt like I was just like this,
(13:21):
Like I was just like free.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Free with the wind, honestly, like wherever it took me,
like day by day, like.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And when I met Wilmer, I saw what life could
look like and what life could be, and to me,
that was stability.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That was.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Something that I just id never a different adventure that
I like never had seen for myself. And one of
the biggest things was like becoming a mother. I didn't
see myself as that until I met him. And I
think a lot of that I owe to him, because
I don't want to get emotional, my god, but but yeah,
(14:05):
I started to see that in me because he saw
that in me, and that was something that I had
an experience in any of my other relationships before, because
I don't know if it was because like where I
was at in my life, but it definitely just felt
like this person, you know, saw me as a mother,
(14:27):
and so then therefore, like I start started feeling the
confidence of like, okay, like I could be a mother,
and I started to see myself as a mother. When
I lost to my mom, it was something that I
almost wasn't sure that I wanted to do because I
was like, I don't have my mom here to do
this with, and that scared me. I wanted her to
(14:50):
be a part of that journey with me. But with him,
I felt like I could do anything and he just
like believed in me and saw so much in me,
and so being a parent alongside him, I just feel
like constantly empowered. And you know, I'm seven weeks postpartuer,
(15:13):
so like I'm going to start crying.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What are some of the family traditions that you may
have had as a kid that you're hoping now to
incorporate with Wilmer as a as a husband, as a
as a you know, the father of your two.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I mean we've started, we've started some of our own
that I think unique to us. You know, we've also
embraced some of some of her families as well, because
I think her family does a great job but showing up,
you know, you know, but I I have to say that,
you know, as as busy as I have been and
(15:53):
have become, you know, the relentless search to leave my
family massive legacy where they have nothing else to do,
Like if I'm gone, I'm obsessing over leaving them something
that could take care of them. I think that's kind
of part of the redlandless search for the entrepreneurship and
all that stuff, and like what am I you know,
what am I leaving her? What am I leaving my kids?
(16:15):
You know? And like you know, so that that I
think that takes a lot of you know, commitment in hours.
That being said, Amanda does an incredible job at making
sure that you know, for example, I do set. I
have a double banker, and double Banker is a trailer
that has two different trailers, two different dressing rooms in
(16:37):
one trailer, one for yourself, yes, that one for me,
and then I have the second one for my family.
So you know, we you know, it has their names,
you know, Jimmy, Turi and and Chucky. Yeah, uh in
a canoe, and so they had their own side of
the trailer, which ended up being like we were using
only on the one side, you know. But but the
(16:59):
point is that I want her to know that even
if I'm on set, you know, she has a place
for her, for her and for her family on that set.
The set is incredibly understanding, you know, they understand, Yeah,
I'm out, I'm gone for some reason. My family cannot
just visit me whenever they want to. She has a
permanent drive on, she rolls up, has her space, you know,
(17:21):
and and uh Nakano has her routines with our crafty
chefs who are incredible people, and and she makes her
little sandwiches with them. She's like, she's this is so
she know, she watches n CIA. She has a little
n cis bulletproof vest, you know, baby bulletproof as jackets
for fun. And but we work on that. We work
(17:42):
to figure out that, you know, that this journey that
I'm on is our journey together, you know. And and
it's hard, but it is difficult, right because we do
have a great village around us, right but the time
that the top the stuff that we're building, you know,
it's takes a lot of business hours, you know. But
(18:04):
when it comes to the traditions and coming full circle
to that, Christmas is a big one. You know. There's
a couple of trips a year that we have to make,
you know, and I think sometime throughout the year we
have to go camping this Otherwise he kills me if
a year goes buy and we don't at least go
put up a ten somewhere, even if it's in our backyard,
you know. But I look, I think Christmas is a
(18:27):
big one for us, and in a tradition for us,
I think it's like, you know, finding one or two
times in the year where you're just so spontaneous that
you pick one random place around the world and go.
You know, but yeah, did you want to speak to
traditions a little bit?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I feel like we're every year like we're starting new traditions,
and we're like trying to think of new traditions to start.
Sometimes it's hard for me because I always want to
do like something new all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So it's like a.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Part of me is like, oh, you know, maybe we
should do that same thing that we did last year.
But and then another part of me is like, yeah,
but I want to do something completely different, that's something
totally new.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
So that might even be a tradition.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I think that's our tradition is to like keep it
different every time, you know. But you know, now with kids,
as you know, you build an entire environment where you're like, Okay,
what what is Christmas for Nakano and Wolf? You know,
when we can provide it? What is things giving feel like?
For her? What is that? You know? And and you know,
(19:32):
Amanda is so by the details. She she'll buy all
she goes to Michael's and buys all the arts and
crafts and shall build the Christmas cards from scratch, you know.
She'll decorate the you know, the tree with the different
theme like she she really does it up for for
Nakano and I kinda just lives like a really you know,
(19:56):
magical time. But she also earns it though. Nacana is
like a really really exceptional, smart, smart young girl, and
she's just a brilliant young woman. I hope that when
she listens to this podcast when she's old, she's like,
that's what my parents, you know, thought of me. But
in kind of coming from circle and wrapping it up
a little bit, we have again. You want to play
(20:16):
a game? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, so so this is gonna be a kind of
a quick round, uh game. I'm gonna I'm gonna fire
away some questions, right, and then you all answer as
it comes. Okay, first question, Uh, who is first to
fall asleep during movie night?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know. You can flip a coin on that one.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, it's usually me, but the kind of both of
us kind Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a tiebreaker. Yeah,
trying to sit and watch Usually I would say, usually
me how quickly?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And though I guess, I guess you can do it
like how quickly? In yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Make it past like the credits?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, or you do oh the credits at the beginning
the open Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Who was first to plan an adventurous family trip?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Me?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yes, yeah, you'll make it like super epic and over
the top, but I will definitely initiate.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah. Who is more likely to laugh at their own
joke before finishing it?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Shut up? Shut up? I mean the problem is that
I see it before I do it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Who is more likely to be the stricter parent.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Stricter parent.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Stricter.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
We just have like like slightly different parenting styles.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I think you're I think you're a little bit
more patient.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
A little yeah, I mean yeah, I'm way more patient.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, like way more patient, you mean, yeah. I I
want them to understand that it's wrong when it is wrong.
And I think there's some you know, the reasoning is,
I try to make it as simple and as quick
as possible. She has a really caring and loving conversation
about why this is wrong, and I just tell Naconna
(22:22):
she'll never talk to her mother like that again.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But it's like, you know, it's that have different finesss,
Like he wants to tell her once and that's it,
and I want to tell her once also.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
But I but like we communicate differently.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, it's probably the.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Way because of how we grew up, right, Like I
just you grew up with a Latina mom.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I did not few. I grew up with a Latino dad.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, And he says yes to have, yes, do not play. Yeah,
you know, let's tell you once. But I think it's
like I don't know. For me, I think learning consequence
as soft as this cons Queen's are for her. You know,
it's like invaluable. You know, it's invaluable. And right now,
it's when it becomes truth. You know, once they feel
(23:09):
like they're taller than you, and because she will be
and she's smarter than you, you know, all of a sudden,
they don't have to listen to you anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Who is more likely to cry during a sad movie?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I've definitely seen you like tears?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Oh yeah, I cry all the time in movie.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
She's more emotional than me.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's just like a tears.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's the actor in me. It's the actor in me,
you know it is it? No, no, not that I'm notxious.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
You hold it together.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I hold it together. I have. I do a very deep,
deep breath.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
One of those just let it, let it happen every movie.
I dude, I cried a K Pop Demon Hunter. Yes
I cried that one. And if you've seen the movie
and you're home, you watch the movie, you know exactly
what part of talking. Who is more likely this is
(24:18):
my voice without the lies? Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Who is more likely to say let's order in instead
of cooking?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah me?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, you love ordering food?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I do love or food. You're right. I also do
love cooking.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I love really, I love like My version of that
is like me saying what I want and then like
cooking together is like me telling you what I want
and then you're cooking and it's my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Who is more likely to buy something off of Instagram ads?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Instagram as This is the wrong question, Amazon, Amazon, It's
probably the right question. Who do you think will be?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I mean, I don't leave the house much.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, so min offense, I have to shop online. But
you did just recently get influenced by watching Blippy, did
you not?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Oh? Yes, I was from Blippy and I found the
company that made these bats, so that you know that
they were making that baseball bats. I was like, oh,
those are cool, okay, and I bought two of them
and I went I watch watching Blippy and then I
was like, what was this company? I was the name
of the company, and I went to their Instagram account
and then I found the shop store and I bought
two bats to baseball bats from And so that was Blippy.
(25:39):
Not as embarrassing as Amazon, I don't think. But Amazon,
you know my my my email is also linked to
that account, to the Amazon to the Amazon account, and
so to her credit, she will buy a lot of
little things. She's always looking for the best price. She
(26:00):
ever wants to buy anything full price because she knows
she can find it somewhere else for fifty percent off,
and she normally does so. She's like a lot of
little things that she buys and then like the next
day I get like ten e mils about her returns.
She returns a lot of stuff. But it is it's
it's you know, it's I agree with her, Like, let's
let's feel the toy. Is it cools? What is the thing?
(26:23):
You know, Let's let's shop.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Let's sometimes you just late night shop.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Me. You buy all these things, and all of a sudden,
I'm like, why do I have so many of these
fuzzy onesies?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Liken sit out to Amazon. You know she's here her
first sponsorship.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Man who is more likely to lose their keys or
phone more often?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Hello, definitely not me.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I have like severe adhd I.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Several times, Oh yeah, keys too, But like luckily Nikano,
she is on it. So anytime like I leave my
phone around, she's she keeps tabs on where my phones
at and my keys? Actually, like I'll get in the
car and it's like hot here, and I'll like get
in the car and I'm like shooting all my keys
and she's like, mom, you left them in your other purse.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
And I'm like, wow, s show she remembers.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, she's like, I told you not to leave them there.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Ah. So who's more likely to stay up way too
late scrolling on her phone?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I hate that question?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Why because we both are so bad at it?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, yes, I mean mine is like mine's a combination,
you know, it's a combination. It's like I can't stop
scrolling through emails or answering emails or texting people back
that I haven't they didn't text from ten in the
morning it's now nine pm. And then like sometimes my
compression is fun is watching like really stupid comedy, Like
(28:00):
you know how many funny ship I send you in
the middle of the night, take one am, and I'm
probably saying you some really stupid stuff on Instagram, But
I just like to laugh. So it's my problem. Yeah, yeah,
and I have a problem with it for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Who's more likely to befriend a stranger instantly at a party?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Also, you.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I can't stop talking to strangers. It's my favorite thing. Yeah,
maybe is it not?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You're you're a people person.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I love it? Yeah, I love it? Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
No, it's accurate.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Who's more likely to binge watch a show from start
to finishing a weekend? And and what shows are you
all watching?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Do you think it's because I just have like a
little more time than you needed to watch stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
No, I lose interest quick. I lose interest quick, Like
I know if the series is Yeah, that told me
I want or two. But you really give it a shot?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Oh yeah, Like if I start something, I have to
watch it because otherwise I'll never watch it again.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
So yeah, me.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah. What's the one thing about woman that people don't know?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Mmm mm hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Let's see. It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
That's a good question. There's really no surprises, like you
are what you get?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Uh? Do people know that you have to order a
hot dog every time you're to the movie theater?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Is that news?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh that you didn't know that?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
The shots.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
And not just what but like you have to order
two hot dogs? Like I.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Feel attacked.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I feel attacked.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
When we walk into the theater, like you are in line,
I'm like, what are you doing? We just had dinner,
like he has to get too hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's a weird thing. She's absolutely right, it's a weird thing.
I could have just had a full on you know,
meet sauce pasta with garlic, bread and like dessert. And
I'm like, so let's go watch some movie. I literally
I am hypnotized by the kids. I go straight to
it and I go two hot dogs, now, one, two
(30:16):
hot dogs? You're sure? And I said on my shore, yeah,
two hot dogs, and you know, must catch up. And
then I put hell openions on it, like the pickle
hell opinions, and then it's party one for I have
one hot dog for the trailers, and then one hot.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Dog for is it because like when you were a kid,
it was like traditions, So you're keeping tradition up or what.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's a weird thing.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, Amanda, thank you so much for being on the show.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
We're very grateful. Thank you for allowing us to occupy
the space in your home.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Every every every episode. Sure, and and and and texting
her till that kind of the start. You know, do
those heels a lot smoother and softer, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, you have such a beautiful family, such beautiful children,
and you and your pop is so cool and even
your extended friends you dove with who I've had the
pleasure to sit down and chat with, and it's just, uh,
you know, indicative of who you are. So thank you
so much for being with us today. Thank yeah, I'm
Freddie Rodriguez.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And Wilman about Durama. Thank you for watching Those Amigos,
watching and listening to Those Amigos where you got your podcast,
and thank you Freddie for leading this conversation with my
absolute better half with Banks.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The better Half with Banks. Those Amigos is a production
from WV Sound and iHeartMedia's Michael through That Podcast Network,
hosted by Me, Freddie Rodriguez and wilm of Valdorama.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Those Amigos is produced by Aaron burs and Sophie Spencer Zabos.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Our executive producers are Wilmri vald Ramo, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson,
and Leo Clem at WV Sound.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This episode was shot and edited it by Ryan Posts
and mixed by Sean Tracy and features original music by
Madison Devenport and Halo Boy.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Our cover art photography is by David Avalos and designed
by Deny Holtz.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Clau And thank you for being there third amigo today.
I appreciate you guys always listening to those amigos.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
For more podcasts from My Heart, visit the R Heart
Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your
favorite shows.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
See you next week.
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