August 21, 2025 • 30 mins
Wilmer and Freddy explore the quotes that have shaped their lives and mindsets over the years. Wilmer reflects on the power of the simple reminder, “If you woke up this morning, you are already winning,” and how it helps him stay grounded, grateful, and ready to take on the day, even the messy and average ones. The conversation dives into morning routines, daily wins, and the psychology behind why mornings often bring us the most joy. From personal mantras to polarizing phrases like “Everything happens for a reason” and “Fake it till you make it,” this episode is all about the words that stick with us and why.
“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 (00:04):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm Wiman about drama.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Welcome to those amigos here on the Beautiful iHeart platform.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's right, and today Wilmer, we're going to talk about
quotes we live by, Quotes that inspire us. It could
be from a person, It could be something you read
in the stall in the bathroom, could be I.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Don't want to read that one so inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, you have a if I may share this,
you have a wonderful neon sign upstairs. And I remember
when I first came to your house, I thought, oh wow,
look at that. I just thought it looked pretty and
it worked really well with the aesthetic of your home.
But then today you took me up there and you
really had me look at it and read it and
(00:52):
really sort of meditate on it. But tell tell everybody
what the sign is and what it says and what
it means.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So there's a neon sign that's in my kind of
like my breakfast area, my kitchen area. It's kind of
the area that you know, I kind of filter through
before I go to work in the morning or before
I go to the gym in the morning. And it
reads and it says, if you woke up this morning,
you're already winning. And some of you who have been
listening from the beginning you probably have heard me kind
(01:21):
of softly say it in between conversations and all that
there's a lot of things in my life. The pointed
to stand still, look around, take a deep breath, just
appreciate where you are in this moment. Somebody put it
like this, somebody this morning they didn't take a breath. Yeah,
(01:41):
somebody this morning. Unfortunately it's no longer with us.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, so as.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know, so for me waking up in the morning,
it's like it's like a win. Yeah, you know, you
were given another day, you know. So it was my
way of kind of reminding myself to not take for granted,
you know, the day that I've been given, to make
a difference, to work hard, to make memories, to you know,
to live the fullest, you know, and to laugh and
(02:08):
to enjoy as much to you know, to kind of
to really reflect on all those things. So if you
woke up this morning, you're already winning. And then I
added to that, if you woke up this morning, you're
already winning. How much more winning do you want to
do today. So the idea was that like you dug
in and you you you plant your feet and you
and you dig, dig, dig and see you have you know,
(02:29):
how much harder can you work today? How much more
can you reach out to and build community and whatever?
So so that's and and it really changed a lot
for me because it made it forced me to appreciate
the day ahead of me. It also forced me to
kind of appreciate where I was in the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Without having to dwell.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Too much about what tomorrow looks like, or what next
week looks like or in the next two years, even
though we always have these plans.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's really important to not forget that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
If you woke up this morning and you took dig
breath and you've been giving life today, what are you
going to do with the life you were given this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So so that's where it took me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Why was it so important for you to have it
made in a neon sign?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I never want to forget it. Yeah, I don't want
to forget it. I don't want to take for granted.
I don't want to just wake up in two weeks
went by and I can't even remember what.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Last Tuesday was right.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
That's why when we went back to the beginning with
the you know the podcast and we talked.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
About my hour a Day.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
My hour a day was a way of saying, how
do I remember Tuesday? So if every day feels like
this routine. You wake up in the morning, you go
to work, then you go to lunch, then you you know,
you come home and you watch the one episode of
the one thing, you go to sleep, you do it
all over again. If in twenty four hours you don't
have one one hour for yourself, Yeah, how do you
remember Tuesday? How do you remember Friday? How do you
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remember Sunday?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Right? You know, so.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
My hour a day, it's like, how do I define
what do I do for myself for that hour?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do I meditate? Do I work out or go for
a run?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Do I you know, do I read my chapter my
favorite book? Do I do I listen to those Amigos,
my favorite podcast, the best podcast in the universe of podcasting,
and everything that's every released in the universe podcasting agreed,
definitely so much better than most of the podcasting, Like
many actors I've had out there, So it's like, you know,
so so listen to at least two or three or four,
(04:24):
though sometimes one episode is an hour, right, sometimes an.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Episode is two hours because these guys won't stop talking.
But those guys are great. I love them.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They're like, I'm a huge fan, huge freaking fan. So
when you think about that, you know, it's like, what
do you do in that one hour?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What are you doing that one hour?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I hear it shot in the cool speak easy too.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It isn't a really cool speople kind of like this
one maybe different because I don't know. It's like, you know,
I think they color corrected differently like this.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It looks it looks different. But my point is is.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That that's one of the reasons why do't forget that
I was giving the gift of breathing again that when
your eyes open up you look to your left, you
might be able to see your four year old daughter
sleeping in the room with you.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Right, you know, you open your eyes, your dog is
at the end of the bed looking at you, waiting
for you to let them out.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know, like there's little things.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That you wake up and you get to do again,
but there's also opportunities to do something for the first time.
So you know, if you woke up this morning, you're
already winning. How much more winning you want to do?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And it's rooted in gratitude, Yes, it is the foundation
of that of that quote.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, which also keeps it keeps pushing you to do
the uncomfortable, not the complacent. You know, routines that make
you feel safe.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, in order to grow.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You have to push yourself beyond the uncomfortable, right, you
have to kind of deal with the uncomfortable as well.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So you know, if you're.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Already winning, you know you're not gonna gain an l
by and by doing the uncomfort do you do you
think it also makes you go.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Besides that, right, you know, there's sometimes as we as
we talk about gratitude, you know, because it's so easy,
I feel like for us to go, oh man, the
thing I was trying to get off the ground didn't happen,
or like that part I wanted didn't happen, or like,
you know, the thing in the last decade that I've
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really been focusing on real heavy is like it's like, wow, man, my.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You know I have this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I have a house, man, you know, I have food
on the table, Like my kids are good, My kids
are healthy, my bills are paid. My as we talk
about rooted in gratitude, like I've really been focusing on
that lately a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What drives you that? When what what brings you to
that point of gratitude.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It's it's I guess. I guess for me is you know,
seeing seeing how other people don't have it as good
as we do, man, And a lot of time when
I in my prayers, you know, I always try to
pray for people who don't have it as as good
as me, man, and just ask God to kind of
(07:17):
bless them as well. And it makes you grateful for
what you have, man, You know what you have? Would
I prefer to, like, you know, be Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, I think we all would, right, But like.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm grateful for what I have, Man, I'm grateful for
the for the work that I have. I'm grateful that
the income that I've made to pay my bills, or
the car that i have, or the house that I have,
you know, like I'm grateful for what I have, you know,
And so so gratitude has most definitely been at the
root of it all. But when I when I for me,
(07:54):
it's not necessarily like a quote like for me, like
it's more of a Bible verse that that I I
like a lot, and it's uh, it's it's Isaiah, Yeah,
I have.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It right here.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I want to just make sure I got it, get
it right. Isaiah sixty twenty two says, when the time
is right, I the Lord will make it happen. And
and the reason why that resonates with me like every
single day is because I feel like, in our profession,
we're always in this pursuit right right, in the pursuit
of like, like I said, getting something off the ground
or getting this thing or whatever, and I gotta you
(08:25):
gotta sometimes remind yourself that it's not your timing. You know,
it happens when it's supposed to happen, and uh, and
that and that Bible verse keeps me grounded and keeps
me sane because I've you know, there's a lot of
people that I know in our industry who who are
not rooted in that and and and so much of
(08:45):
what they do and so much of what they believe
in is so rooted on or measured by me getting
this part or me getting this thing or be you know,
I feel like that could drive you insane. In this business,
and so you have to kind of change your frame
of thinking in order to be able to survive.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, and and not everyone's timing is the same, right,
And then you, you know, sometimes you fall in the
trap of, you know, of of creating this imaginary parallel
tracks to other individuals or entities or or you know,
evolutions that you're like, well, I'm not part of that evolution.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Why I'm not keeping up with that? You know?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And the truth is you're gonna carve it at the
moment where you're the strongest to hold it and keep
it and like hell it, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And and I.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Think that's the the interesting thing to think about what
you're saying, Like the timing is everything. But you know,
you also think about the different times in your life
where you've had certain levels of wisdom. Would you have
been able to hold the opportunity if we will come
to you ten years ago, twenty years ago, or is
this the time where you're old enough and young enough
(10:02):
to actually lead it into a completely different level.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And I believe you, Freddy.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You know, you write, you direct, you produce, and you
are an incredible performer. Tons of people are like, this
guy is a real deal. So you think about all
those skills that you gathered through near like, right now
is the time for you to make the uncomfortable funkle?
Like what is the thing? How do you push beyond
what you know? Most people feel comfortable boxing you in? Right,
(10:31):
And like, you know, you brought up Tom Cruise and
it's an interesting example because he continues to define to
like define the odds. Yeah, you know, it continues to
rewrite the playbook for everyone. Now there's a market for
somebody his age to still do the dynamic stuff that
people thought that those ages don't don't do or didn't
do back in the two thousands or in the you know,
(10:53):
in the nineties or the eighties. Yeah, if you got
a certain age, then you got play the dad. Right
he just said, you know, okay, Brad Pig gets to
be you know, Brad pid gets to be this, and
like have you ever done? Gets to be this, And
like all these individuals have now enter around where they
can still be you know, the action stars Lia Niesen.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You believe him kicking ass and taking it, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So like I feel like that there's an interesting kind
of paradigm shifting and opening it up.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But you just said something interesting a minute ago. You
said about being in a position in your life where
you're able to receive those blessings, right, because sometimes people
do get blessed in the way that they dream and
the way that they want, and they're not ready to
receive those blessings.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It goes away.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It goes away, or it ruins you, right or you
or you waste it right you you, it drives you crazy,
you know whatever, fall into drugs. You you know, like,
look at you right, You're you're you're doing wonderfully. Your
company's thriving, You're producing some such awesome heial Like, do
(12:01):
you think that twenty years ago you would have been
able to handle that responsibility or that success, not on the.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Level that is happening now.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But I would say that I, at the very least
had the foresight to be hungry in the field.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, because I created your Mama when I was like.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Twenty twenty four something like that, twenty four to twenty five. Yeah,
created your Mama on MTV. But I didn't know where
it was going to lead. I was like, you know,
it'd be cool, Yes, I started cool.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's not like I'm building an empire.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, it's like, yeah, cool, if I produce a show
on MTV, you know, yeah, and it started like that.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But those are the seeds for why.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But I agree, I wouldn't to have the foresight to
be able to hand to speak the language I speak
now on the executive level, on the CEO level, like ive.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Not had you kidding me? English is my second language.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I have barely a high school education, so I had
to take myself into like a bachelor degree of the
industry by wearing everyone's shoes, understand what it's like to
walk in them, to then find the the find the
wisdom that turned into the efficient opinion and point of view. Uh,
that made you intentionally thrive to grow into the thing
(13:13):
that you are right now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Right, So, so you went through this evolution and this
growing period in order to be able to get to
where so you you you work towards it. I'm saying,
do you think that if and this is something that
you always aspire to, right and then and then and
then you were you were blessed with it, and here
you are and you're and you're emotionally prepared to handle
(13:35):
that stuff, right, I'm saying, like, imagine you Wimer seventy
show straight out and all of a sudden, you have
what you have now? You know, you've you've evolved into
the emotional maturity in order for you to be able
to handle everything you just said. Yeah, yeah, you you you,
you grew, you learned, you you whatever. But but but
there's an emotional maturity to you to be able to
(13:58):
receive and and and to be able to be a
good steward of those blessings.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know. I think it's a recipe. I think it's
also like a perfect storm of things. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You you also have to look at your environment. Yeah,
you have to look at the people you surround yourself with.
You still, you also have to kind of take an
inventory of you know, what are the resources available to
you in that moment to build your small everese you know,
and like you know, when you're starting the beginning, how
you're just trying to get the next audition, how do
(14:28):
you even have the foresight to you like I'm going
to run a studio one day, you know. Like, but
to your point, it's it's like, you know, your either
lack of understanding or ability to grow emotionally mature to
handle a responsibility like the ones that we we take
on now, you know, has to also be part of
(14:49):
an intentional mathematical equation that you have to do early
enough to say, I can't be hanging out with the
same you know, not go aheads. I can't you know,
I can't be like you know, I can't be carrying
myself that way. You know, like there's certain things that
you have to audit along the way if you're going
to give yourself a shot.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I just emotionally growing.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Did you have a kind of a very conscious shedding
period of shedding the knuckleheads, shedding the.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, it was very fortunate because you know, as an immigrant,
you know, you come in here knowing you got to
get it right from the beginning. But of course throughout
the process you get introduced to the clicks and the
you know, the posse's and the thing whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And I always thought, oh, I'm as strong as my possey,
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But you know, the idea is like, you know, you know,
an amount of posse or friends.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Or you know group or you know or you know,
your your.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Surroundings either could propelled you into your next thing, or
it can slow down the arrival of the opportunity, or
it could hold you in the play in the same place,
so you're so you're never gonna get to the right
place at the right time. How crazy is that you
can be holding in place with the people and the
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surroundings that you have, knowing that it's easy, it's you
feel protected, you feel it's not vulnerable at all, Right,
But then you stay in the same block radius and
you'll never be able to be at the right time
at the right place because you never give yourself a
chance to like travel lighter on your feet, but at
least if an efficient view on on like who can
(16:33):
who makes you better?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, what do you think? What do you think that
barometer inside of you? Like, what does it say to
you when when you feel like maybe I should I
should shed this person, or maybe I should shed this
bad habit that I have, right like even us as
human beings, you know, Like I've been really focusing on
(16:56):
that lately too, Like you know habits, right, Like.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I think it's always manifest. I mean, I tell me what.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You know, what it's like for you too, or what
it was like for you too, But I know that
it manifested itself in like I'm exhausted to give.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, what made me exhausted to give?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Oh, this is taking this much emotional uh you know, investment.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This is taking so much more equity from me.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Like there's things around you that you know are there,
but they're so comfortable and you don't like change and
it's uncomfortable let go of either the bad friendships or
you just just keep it around. And like so you
put out the fires and the name of harmony as
opposed to like getting rid of the fire starters, you know.
(17:44):
So like so I think that's when you start really realizing,
Oh man, I got to start choosing myself right now.
If I'm gonna pay rent, Yeah, I'm gonna have to
choose in myself if like if I'm gonna have to
get to where I need to be right you know,
And I don't know, I can never can never trust
most of the industry to wish me well, you know,
(18:05):
I trust my brothers in arms like you that you
know have improven in the industry and we only make
each other better and try to really lift each other up.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But most people don't you know, you know how it is.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, So so it's like you either you have to
walk alone sometimes, you know, or you have to just
really do an inventory and really walk with those But
what what about for you?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
When do you know the same same life for you?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
How do I think for me? Like, as as we
grow older and we evolve in life and in our
and in the industry. In life, I feel like, you know,
you're mature, and your moral compass changes, and like you know,
when you're young, you're a knucklehead and like that stuff
is fun and being rebellious is cool, and like you know,
(18:50):
and you get older and you're mature, right, and then
sometimes there are people around you who are not maturing
at the same pace as you are. You know, like, dude,
you know, I love you, but I got a you know,
in order for me to mature, in order for for
for my compass to grow and to you know, I
have to I have to. I have to kind of
(19:12):
keep you at arm's length.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And I think that in our business as you as
you also mature in av ARV in our industry, I
think that there's a lot of things that you that
you learn, right. There's there's etiquette that you learn, There's
there's things that you learned that that you may have
not known when you're first starting in the industry that
you learn as you get older and you're around enough
professionals and then you kind of get it and then
(19:35):
you start to if you know, there's I'm constantly sort
of evaluating myself and doing self checks in myself and
what I could improve, what I can't, you know, what
habits I have, what bad habits?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You know. It's great.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
When we had Lewis Howe here and he was talking,
he gave that analogy about like squeezing an orange, right,
Remember that he was talking about if you squeeze an orange,
what comes out orange juice? Right, So it's like when
you get squeezed, like what's inside it? You you know, like
evaluate what's society you so that when you do get squeezed,
the right juice comes.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Out right, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So I think I'm constantly on that quest. And we're
all human, right, so like we're not perfect by no means,
but I'm constantly just trying to evaluate what that juice
is so that so that when the juice duck does
come out, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Right, bro, No, that's great, thank you for ever and
that for me, it's like you get up in the
morning and take it to breath look around. I'm like,
that's awesome, that's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm going to the gym and I'm just like gonna
break a sweat.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That's awesome. And then you know, and then you just
start your day and try to like whatever challenge just comes,
you're gonna solve it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
But what about So no coffee before the gym, no food.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No coffee before the gym. No, but sometimes when I'm
doing the four to thirty eight yms, yeah, yeah, give
me some of that caffeine.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So bad an empty stomach and you work out on
an empty stomach.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I do work on an empty stomach.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And so all the ash it doesn't come out.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I'm like, really, no, no, no, no, I chose to not
have assets.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, I'm gonna choose not to have cancer.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, well that's good that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'm never I'm never gonna have it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's good. It's good. I highly recommend that I did.
That's what I hear. Highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
H Yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is your morning routine? I said, before we get.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
My morning routine. The second. I mean sometimes even when
I'm in bed, I just pray that's that's really because
I know that if if I if I get out
of bed and I go downstairs and it's like, oh,
let me look at my phone.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You have a base in your house or you just
do it wherever you're at it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you know, even in my room, there's a there's
a you know, I just get on my knees, or
sometimes I get on a bench and I just sit. Yeah, yeah,
there's a I have a small little gym like with
a with a with a mat. Sometimes I'll just go there.
But I have to do it first thing because otherwise
I get you know, that add kicks in, man, and
(22:09):
my brain.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Starts to go boo.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it starts to spend man. So
before that spinding starts to happen, I have to do it.
That And like I've been practicing TM transcendental meditation for
a good decade or so, I got to get better
at it. I got to be better about it because
sometimes I just get so distracted. But like it's helped
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me in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's helped me.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Regulate mood and anxiety. I feel like it's made me
a better actor.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Because because you're more centered, more open.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, yeah, because you know, you get in front of
that camera and you have thirty people behind you, and
it's so easy to get like and I feel like boom,
it gives me, like I get so focused and I
feel like it connects the sort of penal gland with
like you know, with all your everything, your gut and
your heart and right, because acting is just all about
like finding the truth and so like if you're connected
(23:09):
with all this stuff, it's just about this sending the
signal down here to like.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And you have to be aligned with your instrument.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, yeah, your.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Instrument is all of this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
For all those young actors out there, Yeah, instrument is
like your entire bodies how you tell the story. And
if your mind is somewhere else, the body is not
going to tell the story, right, So.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah align Yeah, and you're and you're constantly I feel
that those actors were constantly fighting. It's really easy to
like read a script and go okay, and then here
I'm gonna do this face, and then here I'm gonna
you know, here I'm gonna say it like.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
This that hey listen.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
For some people works, you know, I find for me,
it's easier for me to to to know what the
emotion is, and in order to get that emotion. Uh, truthfully,
I have to be sort of aligned and internally it
takes a lot of work, and you know, I just
feel like that's what works for me.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Right, It's weird for me when I'm reading a script,
I cannot help but to start performing it. Yeah, of course,
of course I'm reading the other characters lines. Yeah, it
turns into it turns into me making choices based on
what I'm hearing back from the script.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So will you do the other characters lines?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, So, like I'm playing the other characters, and I'm
playing my character, right, So I look at my character,
and then as they respond to me, I'm making choices
as them, and so then I respond to the choices
of those characters as the character.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
When I'm called reading it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Wow, that's the only and that's why it takes me
a while to read a script, because I take the
dramatic process and everything like, yeah, I take, I internalize it,
I do the whole thing. Like so, so my first take,
my first honest take of what my character is going
through in that scene is informed by how I'm reading
the other characters.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Wow, hey man, everybody has their way of getting there.
You got every you know, every everybody there is to me,
there's no right way as well.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's this yeah, yeah, you know, you know how you're
lucky in but but like this was this was a
really great reminder to to have those routines to wake
up in the morning, you know, practice gratitude, take that
deep breath, and then also being one with like the
audacity of making the phone call for yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We kept talking about.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
This earlier, like, you know, if you have this gratitude
where you're at, how much farther can you go only
realize on how bold you're gonna be with your self worth.
Your self worth is going to inform what you're gonna
call to.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
To get to get next. You know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So are we going down this list of like quotes here, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Why we do not need to do it, but we're
gonna do it now.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Everything happens for reasons.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Do you believe that it is what it is?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It is what it is?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It is? What? Do you believe that is what it is?
I don't believe in that. I think it is what
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's like a coma because something has to happen after
that it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, then the guy's a prink.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It is what it is. Okay. Well right, well there's
there's no older alternative. That's just what it is. That's okay,
what it is. Okay, yolo, yolo. Oh you only live once,
live once? Man? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
All right, so let's bet it all on black. Let's
lose everything. All right, that's great, that's that's freaking great.
Time heels old wounds?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Does it though? Does it? Are you still time? Are
you really? Does it really? Time? Are you still holding
a grudge? This is this? Is it already thirty years?
Is it obvious from thirty years ago? All right, that's
the next one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Dance like no one's watching, Oh my dance, like nobody's
watching Wilmer?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Who wrote these?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Uh leo clin it's interesting, it's interesting them?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is it? I wrote them for this exact reason? Oh,
because it creates a vicious debate. Yeah, they're polarizing, they're polarizing.
It is what it.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Gets under my skin.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
When yeah, yeah, no, there's no. It is always a
reason for everything. There's always a reason, But we're dexcided
to ignore it because we want to end the conversation.
It is what it is, and here.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fake it till you make it?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Is it? Fake it till you make it? Wow? What
happens when you make it?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You really have to do it?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I guess what happens? Then, smarty pants? When I fake
it till I make it? And then when you make it?
What happens? Now you really have to do it? What
happens now?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Now? Now I could wear the real role action, not
the one I got from the alley town. Is that
kind of way?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It does work?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
But the fake it too it make it is such
an interesting one because because okay, you faked it into
uh into a career, and then now.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You have to practice it right When are you gonna
learn it?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't know, dude, I guess I guess you're faking
and you're unfortunately you're making it right now. Look, but
but you know what, everything happens for a reason. Okay,
it's also it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It helps for me. It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
It is what it is, you know, And to be
honest Leo from two night's episode, Uh, you know, I
just know the time is gonna heal everything.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And uh and I know that after this is done,
you're gonna go home. You're gonna dance like nobody's watching.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
If the tree falls in the forest doesn't make it
sound right, right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah. If I didn't see
you dance, you didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I get it. I get it. And I guess that
you yolo when you dance where nobody's watching.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But you get home and you dance by yourself and
you're just like dancing like nobody's watching.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
What does that mean that you're gonna just be silly?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I guess, I guess it's it's a it's a it's
a quote on confidence, right like like saying be confident.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So that means like dancing front of people, like they're
not there to watch you dance, or be as bold.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
As you would when you're dancing at home by yourself,
right Like, there's a form of confidence that that you
exude when you're dancing for yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's it. That's it?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Well? Listen for those of you who use this on
your daily basis, please don't get I know, yeah, you
better cut this off.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The episode you're talking to really annoying optimistic people in here,
so don't stop.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, I'll want yours for you, whatever worse for you.
I'm Wilmer bother Rama, I'm Freddie Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Thank you for listening to Those Amigos. This is find
your quote, Find you quite, find your quote, find out.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Those words that get you through it.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
We love you guys so much, and remember it. If
you woke up this morning, you're already winning.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Thank you so much. It's you on the next episode
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Speaker 1 (29:56):
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and Wilmer Valdorama.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Those Amigos is produced by Aaron Burlson and Sophie Spencer Zabos.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Our executive producers are Wilmrivalderama, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson, and
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Speaker 3 (30:17):
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
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Speaker 3 (30:29):
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Speaker 1 (30:34):
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Speaker 2 (30:41):
See you next week.
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm Wiman about drama.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Welcome to those amigos here on the Beautiful iHeart platform.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's right, and today Wilmer, we're going to talk about
quotes we live by, Quotes that inspire us. It could
be from a person, It could be something you read
in the stall in the bathroom, could be I.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Don't want to read that one so inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, you have a if I may share this,
you have a wonderful neon sign upstairs. And I remember
when I first came to your house, I thought, oh wow,
look at that. I just thought it looked pretty and
it worked really well with the aesthetic of your home.
But then today you took me up there and you
really had me look at it and read it and
(00:52):
really sort of meditate on it. But tell tell everybody
what the sign is and what it says and what
it means.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So there's a neon sign that's in my kind of
like my breakfast area, my kitchen area. It's kind of
the area that you know, I kind of filter through
before I go to work in the morning or before
I go to the gym in the morning. And it
reads and it says, if you woke up this morning,
you're already winning. And some of you who have been
listening from the beginning you probably have heard me kind
(01:21):
of softly say it in between conversations and all that
there's a lot of things in my life. The pointed
to stand still, look around, take a deep breath, just
appreciate where you are in this moment. Somebody put it
like this, somebody this morning they didn't take a breath. Yeah,
(01:41):
somebody this morning. Unfortunately it's no longer with us.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, so as.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know, so for me waking up in the morning,
it's like it's like a win. Yeah, you know, you
were given another day, you know. So it was my
way of kind of reminding myself to not take for granted,
you know, the day that I've been given, to make
a difference, to work hard, to make memories, to you know,
to live the fullest, you know, and to laugh and
(02:08):
to enjoy as much to you know, to kind of
to really reflect on all those things. So if you
woke up this morning, you're already winning. And then I
added to that, if you woke up this morning, you're
already winning. How much more winning do you want to
do today. So the idea was that like you dug
in and you you you plant your feet and you
and you dig, dig, dig and see you have you know,
(02:29):
how much harder can you work today? How much more
can you reach out to and build community and whatever?
So so that's and and it really changed a lot
for me because it made it forced me to appreciate
the day ahead of me. It also forced me to
kind of appreciate where I was in the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Without having to dwell.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Too much about what tomorrow looks like, or what next
week looks like or in the next two years, even
though we always have these plans.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's really important to not forget that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
If you woke up this morning and you took dig
breath and you've been giving life today, what are you
going to do with the life you were given this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So so that's where it took me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Why was it so important for you to have it
made in a neon sign?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I never want to forget it. Yeah, I don't want
to forget it. I don't want to take for granted.
I don't want to just wake up in two weeks
went by and I can't even remember what.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Last Tuesday was right.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
That's why when we went back to the beginning with
the you know the podcast and we talked.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
About my hour a Day.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
My hour a day was a way of saying, how
do I remember Tuesday? So if every day feels like
this routine. You wake up in the morning, you go
to work, then you go to lunch, then you you know,
you come home and you watch the one episode of
the one thing, you go to sleep, you do it
all over again. If in twenty four hours you don't
have one one hour for yourself, Yeah, how do you
remember Tuesday? How do you remember Friday? How do you
(03:51):
remember Sunday?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Right? You know, so.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
My hour a day, it's like, how do I define
what do I do for myself for that hour?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do I meditate? Do I work out or go for
a run?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Do I you know, do I read my chapter my
favorite book? Do I do I listen to those Amigos,
my favorite podcast, the best podcast in the universe of podcasting,
and everything that's every released in the universe podcasting agreed,
definitely so much better than most of the podcasting, Like
many actors I've had out there, So it's like, you know,
so so listen to at least two or three or four,
(04:24):
though sometimes one episode is an hour, right, sometimes an.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Episode is two hours because these guys won't stop talking.
But those guys are great. I love them.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They're like, I'm a huge fan, huge freaking fan. So
when you think about that, you know, it's like, what
do you do in that one hour?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What are you doing that one hour?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I hear it shot in the cool speak easy too.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It isn't a really cool speople kind of like this
one maybe different because I don't know. It's like, you know,
I think they color corrected differently like this.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It looks it looks different. But my point is is.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That that's one of the reasons why do't forget that
I was giving the gift of breathing again that when
your eyes open up you look to your left, you
might be able to see your four year old daughter
sleeping in the room with you.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Right, you know, you open your eyes, your dog is
at the end of the bed looking at you, waiting
for you to let them out.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know, like there's little things.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That you wake up and you get to do again,
but there's also opportunities to do something for the first time.
So you know, if you woke up this morning, you're
already winning. How much more winning you want to do?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And it's rooted in gratitude, Yes, it is the foundation
of that of that quote.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, which also keeps it keeps pushing you to do
the uncomfortable, not the complacent. You know, routines that make
you feel safe.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, in order to grow.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You have to push yourself beyond the uncomfortable, right, you
have to kind of deal with the uncomfortable as well.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So you know, if you're.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Already winning, you know you're not gonna gain an l
by and by doing the uncomfort do you do you
think it also makes you go.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Besides that, right, you know, there's sometimes as we as
we talk about gratitude, you know, because it's so easy,
I feel like for us to go, oh man, the
thing I was trying to get off the ground didn't happen,
or like that part I wanted didn't happen, or like,
you know, the thing in the last decade that I've
(06:26):
really been focusing on real heavy is like it's like, wow, man, my.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You know I have this.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I have a house, man, you know, I have food
on the table, Like my kids are good, My kids
are healthy, my bills are paid. My as we talk
about rooted in gratitude, like I've really been focusing on
that lately a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What drives you that? When what what brings you to
that point of gratitude.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It's it's I guess. I guess for me is you know,
seeing seeing how other people don't have it as good
as we do, man, And a lot of time when
I in my prayers, you know, I always try to
pray for people who don't have it as as good
as me, man, and just ask God to kind of
(07:17):
bless them as well. And it makes you grateful for
what you have, man, You know what you have? Would
I prefer to, like, you know, be Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, I think we all would, right, But like.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm grateful for what I have, Man, I'm grateful for
the for the work that I have. I'm grateful that
the income that I've made to pay my bills, or
the car that i have, or the house that I have,
you know, like I'm grateful for what I have, you know,
And so so gratitude has most definitely been at the
root of it all. But when I when I for me,
(07:54):
it's not necessarily like a quote like for me, like
it's more of a Bible verse that that I I
like a lot, and it's uh, it's it's Isaiah, Yeah,
I have.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It right here.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I want to just make sure I got it, get
it right. Isaiah sixty twenty two says, when the time
is right, I the Lord will make it happen. And
and the reason why that resonates with me like every
single day is because I feel like, in our profession,
we're always in this pursuit right right, in the pursuit
of like, like I said, getting something off the ground
or getting this thing or whatever, and I gotta you
(08:25):
gotta sometimes remind yourself that it's not your timing. You know,
it happens when it's supposed to happen, and uh, and
that and that Bible verse keeps me grounded and keeps
me sane because I've you know, there's a lot of
people that I know in our industry who who are
not rooted in that and and and so much of
(08:45):
what they do and so much of what they believe
in is so rooted on or measured by me getting
this part or me getting this thing or be you know,
I feel like that could drive you insane. In this business,
and so you have to kind of change your frame
of thinking in order to be able to survive.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, and and not everyone's timing is the same, right,
And then you, you know, sometimes you fall in the
trap of, you know, of of creating this imaginary parallel
tracks to other individuals or entities or or you know,
evolutions that you're like, well, I'm not part of that evolution.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Why I'm not keeping up with that? You know?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And the truth is you're gonna carve it at the
moment where you're the strongest to hold it and keep
it and like hell it, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And and I.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Think that's the the interesting thing to think about what
you're saying, Like the timing is everything. But you know,
you also think about the different times in your life
where you've had certain levels of wisdom. Would you have
been able to hold the opportunity if we will come
to you ten years ago, twenty years ago, or is
this the time where you're old enough and young enough
(10:02):
to actually lead it into a completely different level.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And I believe you, Freddy.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You know, you write, you direct, you produce, and you
are an incredible performer. Tons of people are like, this
guy is a real deal. So you think about all
those skills that you gathered through near like, right now
is the time for you to make the uncomfortable funkle?
Like what is the thing? How do you push beyond
what you know? Most people feel comfortable boxing you in? Right,
(10:31):
And like, you know, you brought up Tom Cruise and
it's an interesting example because he continues to define to
like define the odds. Yeah, you know, it continues to
rewrite the playbook for everyone. Now there's a market for
somebody his age to still do the dynamic stuff that
people thought that those ages don't don't do or didn't
do back in the two thousands or in the you know,
(10:53):
in the nineties or the eighties. Yeah, if you got
a certain age, then you got play the dad. Right
he just said, you know, okay, Brad Pig gets to
be you know, Brad pid gets to be this, and
like have you ever done? Gets to be this, And
like all these individuals have now enter around where they
can still be you know, the action stars Lia Niesen.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You believe him kicking ass and taking it, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So like I feel like that there's an interesting kind
of paradigm shifting and opening it up.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But you just said something interesting a minute ago. You
said about being in a position in your life where
you're able to receive those blessings, right, because sometimes people
do get blessed in the way that they dream and
the way that they want, and they're not ready to
receive those blessings.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It goes away.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It goes away, or it ruins you, right or you
or you waste it right you you, it drives you crazy,
you know whatever, fall into drugs. You you know, like,
look at you right, You're you're you're doing wonderfully. Your
company's thriving, You're producing some such awesome heial Like, do
(12:01):
you think that twenty years ago you would have been
able to handle that responsibility or that success, not on the.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Level that is happening now.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But I would say that I, at the very least
had the foresight to be hungry in the field.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, because I created your Mama when I was like.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Twenty twenty four something like that, twenty four to twenty five. Yeah,
created your Mama on MTV. But I didn't know where
it was going to lead. I was like, you know,
it'd be cool, Yes, I started cool.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's not like I'm building an empire.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, it's like, yeah, cool, if I produce a show
on MTV, you know, yeah, and it started like that.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But those are the seeds for why.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But I agree, I wouldn't to have the foresight to
be able to hand to speak the language I speak
now on the executive level, on the CEO level, like ive.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Not had you kidding me? English is my second language.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I have barely a high school education, so I had
to take myself into like a bachelor degree of the
industry by wearing everyone's shoes, understand what it's like to
walk in them, to then find the the find the
wisdom that turned into the efficient opinion and point of view. Uh,
that made you intentionally thrive to grow into the thing
(13:13):
that you are right now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Right, So, so you went through this evolution and this
growing period in order to be able to get to
where so you you you work towards it. I'm saying,
do you think that if and this is something that
you always aspire to, right and then and then and
then you were you were blessed with it, and here
you are and you're and you're emotionally prepared to handle
(13:35):
that stuff, right, I'm saying, like, imagine you Wimer seventy
show straight out and all of a sudden, you have
what you have now? You know, you've you've evolved into
the emotional maturity in order for you to be able
to handle everything you just said. Yeah, yeah, you you you,
you grew, you learned, you you whatever. But but but
there's an emotional maturity to you to be able to
(13:58):
receive and and and to be able to be a
good steward of those blessings.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know. I think it's a recipe. I think it's
also like a perfect storm of things. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You you also have to look at your environment. Yeah,
you have to look at the people you surround yourself with.
You still, you also have to kind of take an
inventory of you know, what are the resources available to
you in that moment to build your small everese you know,
and like you know, when you're starting the beginning, how
you're just trying to get the next audition, how do
(14:28):
you even have the foresight to you like I'm going
to run a studio one day, you know. Like, but
to your point, it's it's like, you know, your either
lack of understanding or ability to grow emotionally mature to
handle a responsibility like the ones that we we take
on now, you know, has to also be part of
(14:49):
an intentional mathematical equation that you have to do early
enough to say, I can't be hanging out with the
same you know, not go aheads. I can't you know,
I can't be like you know, I can't be carrying
myself that way. You know, like there's certain things that
you have to audit along the way if you're going
to give yourself a shot.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I just emotionally growing.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Did you have a kind of a very conscious shedding
period of shedding the knuckleheads, shedding the.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, it was very fortunate because you know, as an immigrant,
you know, you come in here knowing you got to
get it right from the beginning. But of course throughout
the process you get introduced to the clicks and the
you know, the posse's and the thing whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And I always thought, oh, I'm as strong as my possey,
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But you know, the idea is like, you know, you know,
an amount of posse or friends.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Or you know group or you know or you know,
your your.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Surroundings either could propelled you into your next thing, or
it can slow down the arrival of the opportunity, or
it could hold you in the play in the same place,
so you're so you're never gonna get to the right
place at the right time. How crazy is that you
can be holding in place with the people and the
(16:12):
surroundings that you have, knowing that it's easy, it's you
feel protected, you feel it's not vulnerable at all, Right,
But then you stay in the same block radius and
you'll never be able to be at the right time
at the right place because you never give yourself a
chance to like travel lighter on your feet, but at
least if an efficient view on on like who can
(16:33):
who makes you better?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, what do you think? What do you think that
barometer inside of you? Like, what does it say to
you when when you feel like maybe I should I
should shed this person, or maybe I should shed this
bad habit that I have, right like even us as
human beings, you know, Like I've been really focusing on
(16:56):
that lately too, Like you know habits, right, Like.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I think it's always manifest. I mean, I tell me what.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You know, what it's like for you too, or what
it was like for you too, But I know that
it manifested itself in like I'm exhausted to give.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, what made me exhausted to give?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Oh, this is taking this much emotional uh you know, investment.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This is taking so much more equity from me.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Like there's things around you that you know are there,
but they're so comfortable and you don't like change and
it's uncomfortable let go of either the bad friendships or
you just just keep it around. And like so you
put out the fires and the name of harmony as
opposed to like getting rid of the fire starters, you know.
(17:44):
So like so I think that's when you start really realizing,
Oh man, I got to start choosing myself right now.
If I'm gonna pay rent, Yeah, I'm gonna have to
choose in myself if like if I'm gonna have to
get to where I need to be right you know,
And I don't know, I can never can never trust
most of the industry to wish me well, you know,
(18:05):
I trust my brothers in arms like you that you
know have improven in the industry and we only make
each other better and try to really lift each other up.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But most people don't you know, you know how it is.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, So so it's like you either you have to
walk alone sometimes, you know, or you have to just
really do an inventory and really walk with those But
what what about for you?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
When do you know the same same life for you?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
How do I think for me? Like, as as we
grow older and we evolve in life and in our
and in the industry. In life, I feel like, you know,
you're mature, and your moral compass changes, and like you know,
when you're young, you're a knucklehead and like that stuff
is fun and being rebellious is cool, and like you know,
(18:50):
and you get older and you're mature, right, and then
sometimes there are people around you who are not maturing
at the same pace as you are. You know, like, dude,
you know, I love you, but I got a you know,
in order for me to mature, in order for for
for my compass to grow and to you know, I
have to I have to. I have to kind of
(19:12):
keep you at arm's length.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And I think that in our business as you as
you also mature in av ARV in our industry, I
think that there's a lot of things that you that
you learn, right. There's there's etiquette that you learn, There's
there's things that you learned that that you may have
not known when you're first starting in the industry that
you learn as you get older and you're around enough
professionals and then you kind of get it and then
(19:35):
you start to if you know, there's I'm constantly sort
of evaluating myself and doing self checks in myself and
what I could improve, what I can't, you know, what
habits I have, what bad habits?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You know. It's great.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
When we had Lewis Howe here and he was talking,
he gave that analogy about like squeezing an orange, right,
Remember that he was talking about if you squeeze an orange,
what comes out orange juice? Right, So it's like when
you get squeezed, like what's inside it? You you know, like
evaluate what's society you so that when you do get squeezed,
the right juice comes.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Out right, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So I think I'm constantly on that quest. And we're
all human, right, so like we're not perfect by no means,
but I'm constantly just trying to evaluate what that juice
is so that so that when the juice duck does
come out, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Right, bro, No, that's great, thank you for ever and
that for me, it's like you get up in the
morning and take it to breath look around. I'm like,
that's awesome, that's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm going to the gym and I'm just like gonna
break a sweat.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
That's awesome. And then you know, and then you just
start your day and try to like whatever challenge just comes,
you're gonna solve it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
But what about So no coffee before the gym, no food.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
No coffee before the gym. No, but sometimes when I'm
doing the four to thirty eight yms, yeah, yeah, give
me some of that caffeine.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So bad an empty stomach and you work out on
an empty stomach.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I do work on an empty stomach.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And so all the ash it doesn't come out.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I'm like, really, no, no, no, no, I chose to not
have assets.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, I'm gonna choose not to have cancer.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, well that's good that.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'm never I'm never gonna have it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's good. It's good. I highly recommend that I did.
That's what I hear. Highly recommend.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
H Yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is your morning routine? I said, before we get.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
My morning routine. The second. I mean sometimes even when
I'm in bed, I just pray that's that's really because
I know that if if I if I get out
of bed and I go downstairs and it's like, oh,
let me look at my phone.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You have a base in your house or you just
do it wherever you're at it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you know, even in my room, there's a there's
a you know, I just get on my knees, or
sometimes I get on a bench and I just sit. Yeah, yeah,
there's a I have a small little gym like with
a with a with a mat. Sometimes I'll just go there.
But I have to do it first thing because otherwise
I get you know, that add kicks in, man, and
(22:09):
my brain.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Starts to go boo.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it starts to spend man. So
before that spinding starts to happen, I have to do it.
That And like I've been practicing TM transcendental meditation for
a good decade or so, I got to get better
at it. I got to be better about it because
sometimes I just get so distracted. But like it's helped
(22:34):
me in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's helped me.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Regulate mood and anxiety. I feel like it's made me
a better actor.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Because because you're more centered, more open.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, yeah, because you know, you get in front of
that camera and you have thirty people behind you, and
it's so easy to get like and I feel like boom,
it gives me, like I get so focused and I
feel like it connects the sort of penal gland with
like you know, with all your everything, your gut and
your heart and right, because acting is just all about
like finding the truth and so like if you're connected
(23:09):
with all this stuff, it's just about this sending the
signal down here to like.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And you have to be aligned with your instrument.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, yeah, your.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Instrument is all of this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
For all those young actors out there, Yeah, instrument is
like your entire bodies how you tell the story. And
if your mind is somewhere else, the body is not
going to tell the story, right, So.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah align Yeah, and you're and you're constantly I feel
that those actors were constantly fighting. It's really easy to
like read a script and go okay, and then here
I'm gonna do this face, and then here I'm gonna
you know, here I'm gonna say it like.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
This that hey listen.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
For some people works, you know, I find for me,
it's easier for me to to to know what the
emotion is, and in order to get that emotion. Uh, truthfully,
I have to be sort of aligned and internally it
takes a lot of work, and you know, I just
feel like that's what works for me.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Right, It's weird for me when I'm reading a script,
I cannot help but to start performing it. Yeah, of course,
of course I'm reading the other characters lines. Yeah, it
turns into it turns into me making choices based on
what I'm hearing back from the script.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So will you do the other characters lines?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, So, like I'm playing the other characters, and I'm
playing my character, right, So I look at my character,
and then as they respond to me, I'm making choices
as them, and so then I respond to the choices
of those characters as the character.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
When I'm called reading it.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Wow, that's the only and that's why it takes me
a while to read a script, because I take the
dramatic process and everything like, yeah, I take, I internalize it,
I do the whole thing. Like so, so my first take,
my first honest take of what my character is going
through in that scene is informed by how I'm reading
the other characters.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Wow, hey man, everybody has their way of getting there.
You got every you know, every everybody there is to me,
there's no right way as well.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's this yeah, yeah, you know, you know how you're
lucky in but but like this was this was a
really great reminder to to have those routines to wake
up in the morning, you know, practice gratitude, take that
deep breath, and then also being one with like the
audacity of making the phone call for yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We kept talking about.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
This earlier, like, you know, if you have this gratitude
where you're at, how much farther can you go only
realize on how bold you're gonna be with your self worth.
Your self worth is going to inform what you're gonna
call to.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
To get to get next. You know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So are we going down this list of like quotes here, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Why we do not need to do it, but we're
gonna do it now.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Everything happens for reasons.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Do you believe that it is what it is?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It is what it is?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It is? What? Do you believe that is what it is?
I don't believe in that. I think it is what
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's like a coma because something has to happen after
that it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, then the guy's a prink.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It is what it is. Okay. Well right, well there's
there's no older alternative. That's just what it is. That's okay,
what it is. Okay, yolo, yolo. Oh you only live once,
live once? Man? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
All right, so let's bet it all on black. Let's
lose everything. All right, that's great, that's that's freaking great.
Time heels old wounds?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Does it though? Does it? Are you still time? Are
you really? Does it really? Time? Are you still holding
a grudge? This is this? Is it already thirty years?
Is it obvious from thirty years ago? All right, that's
the next one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Dance like no one's watching, Oh my dance, like nobody's
watching Wilmer?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Who wrote these?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Uh leo clin it's interesting, it's interesting them?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is it? I wrote them for this exact reason? Oh,
because it creates a vicious debate. Yeah, they're polarizing, they're polarizing.
It is what it.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Gets under my skin.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
When yeah, yeah, no, there's no. It is always a
reason for everything. There's always a reason, But we're dexcided
to ignore it because we want to end the conversation.
It is what it is, and here.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fake it till you make it?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Is it? Fake it till you make it? Wow? What
happens when you make it?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You really have to do it?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I guess what happens? Then, smarty pants? When I fake
it till I make it? And then when you make it?
What happens? Now you really have to do it? What
happens now?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Now? Now I could wear the real role action, not
the one I got from the alley town. Is that
kind of way?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It does work?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
But the fake it too it make it is such
an interesting one because because okay, you faked it into
uh into a career, and then now.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You have to practice it right When are you gonna
learn it?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't know, dude, I guess I guess you're faking
and you're unfortunately you're making it right now. Look, but
but you know what, everything happens for a reason. Okay,
it's also it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It helps for me. It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
It is what it is, you know, And to be
honest Leo from two night's episode, Uh, you know, I
just know the time is gonna heal everything.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And uh and I know that after this is done,
you're gonna go home. You're gonna dance like nobody's watching.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
If the tree falls in the forest doesn't make it
sound right, right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah. If I didn't see
you dance, you didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I get it. I get it. And I guess that
you yolo when you dance where nobody's watching.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But you get home and you dance by yourself and
you're just like dancing like nobody's watching.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
What does that mean that you're gonna just be silly?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I guess, I guess it's it's a it's a it's
a quote on confidence, right like like saying be confident.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So that means like dancing front of people, like they're
not there to watch you dance, or be as bold.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
As you would when you're dancing at home by yourself,
right Like, there's a form of confidence that that you
exude when you're dancing for yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's it. That's it?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Well? Listen for those of you who use this on
your daily basis, please don't get I know, yeah, you
better cut this off.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
The episode you're talking to really annoying optimistic people in here,
so don't stop.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, I'll want yours for you, whatever worse for you.
I'm Wilmer bother Rama, I'm Freddie Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Thank you for listening to Those Amigos. This is find
your quote, Find you quite, find your quote, find out.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Those words that get you through it.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
We love you guys so much, and remember it. If
you woke up this morning, you're already winning.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Thank you so much. It's you on the next episode
of Those Amingos.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Those Amigos is a production from WV Sound and I
Heart Media's Michael Tuda podcast network, hosted by Me, Freddie Rodriguez,
and Wilmer Valdorama.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Those Amigos is produced by Aaron Burlson and Sophie Spencer Zabos.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Our executive producers are Wilmrivalderama, Freddie Rodriguez, Aaron Burlson, and
Leo Klem at WV Sound.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
This episode was shot and edited by Ryan Posts and
mixed by Sean Tracy and features original music by Madison
Devenport and Hello Boy.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Our cover art photography is by David Avalos and designed
by Deny.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Holtzklaw and thank you for being at Third Amigo Today.
Appreciate you guys, always listening to those amigos.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
For more podcasts from My Heart, visit the R Heart
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Speaker 2 (30:41):
See you next week.
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