November 1, 2023 • 48 mins
Jencarlos Canela is a family man. And his dad has a really wonderful beard. Which--if you listened to this episode--you would understand holds a great deal of value. The Cuban-American actor, musician, and future mayor of Hialeah (just kidding...sorta) shows us why he is so beloved. And he's earned it. In this up-close and personal IOOW flight, we heard about how his vecinos' parties started his career, how the tender support of his father helped along the way, the way music prepared him for his acting career, and exclusive intel on his upcoming album. Everything is sweeter with a little canela.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I hate me the same. Let's go to man ready
for launch?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Come on, who we have? What I tell you that
was crazy?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It is a trip. It literally is a trip. I
am in space right now.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Welcome, and you guys out there, you're in for a treat. Jim,
you are about to.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Say, we are in for a treat. We have a
very special human beside us. We do someone who I've
grown to love a lot in the last year. How
do I And I'm really happy to have in space
with us.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Welcome everybody, n card, I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That I'm here. But you know that, Jem and she
was clappy to my love of course, like my look,
she closed her eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Extend your hand so you have a shot at me here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Like put my hand fully extended like four seconds.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I like and make that mean it. But listen, you are.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
A rip and musician, singer and writer, amazing actor, an activist,
a really same Okay, my new candidate for mayor of Hialeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, absolutely, I'm not coming for me.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You've worked together, no, but for real.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Everything that you do is artistic and it's wonderful and
all the artistic mediums and in business, which even just
recently we've been around, You've learned a lot about that,
so I think you have a lot of amazing things
to offer our listeners today, including your face.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So absolutely enjoy.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
All that to look at for those peop who are looking.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I love both of you so much. I'm not just
saying this because I'm here, right, but like, no, I
really am not. I really am not because I respect
both of you so much. I'm such big fans of
both of you, like on a human level and on
a professional level that like, you know, when you I
think the people around you are everything everything, and when
(02:24):
I think of the life that, like you know, what
I'm grateful for or whatnot, I find myself saying that
you are two people that I want to hang out
with more and more and more and have more in
my life because I really do love y'all on so
many levels. So I'm really happy to be here for sure.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yes, you're not letting your Well, that was a great episode, guys,
thank you, so all right with us?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So okay, so let's jel it back a little because
it's so funny.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I was actually talking to M this morning and I'm like,
you know, it's crazy that we've been lucky to have
an form these relationships with people that perhaps we got
to know on a human level before we got to
know on a professional level, like with you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So we're so different though. It's so because you know,
like in this business, like exactly, you bump into a
lot of people, like you coincide with a lot of people.
But like I felt how that affected like the way
I had to check myself because I was We've been
in this business for like so long. I've been in
it since I was a kid practically, And this is
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like you're super tight with a group of musicians and
you go on tour and it's every day together and
then all of a sudden it stops. Like you're on
a TV show. You're like meet these people that become
your family, your friends, and like you become so attached
to them and then it stops. You know, so like
it's like this that's so true. It's a pattern that
if you don't check yourself, you're like wait, wait, where,
(03:52):
like where are my friends and who are my friends
that really like are constant in my life? You know,
it's not just come and go for great moments, but
have been there for the.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Ride, you know, so that's a quality over quantity too,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Sure. So like meeting people on a personal level in
this business is rare. It's rare, it's not common, but
when it happens, it's so different.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's so special.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
So my point exactly, which you actually started to touch upon,
was I started to get to know you on a
professional level a lot more when we started talking about
you coming on the podcast and I started to research you,
like for real. So for those of us who are
just getting to know you for the first time, tell
me how you started and why how did you get
into the business.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I got into the business because so my dad loved
writing songs. He was he was like his business was.
He was the president of the Hispanic US Foundation of Inventors.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Crazy, So he has like twelve patents.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Wow, that's why you're always trying to invent God, no wonder.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
His beard is so good. Remember that when I met
him the other day, he.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Would have to course of courses.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Beard is that good? That was very red.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I don't know the correlation between the beard. I just
feel like a man.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like has like a solid beard. No no, no, no,
but listen, I so yeah, my childhood like like my
the rafts that we would like floating in the in
the beach. They were completely different like everyone else's Like
ours had like a built in goggle system to see
what we do. So I saw my dad doing prototypes
(05:40):
and it was a very creative world. Despite how like
not creative. He comes off as like it's it's kind
of like it's it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
He works in silence.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's crazy, it's crazy. So so it really it really
pushed like I think that gave us, honestly the ability
to like reimagine things. He always told us that it's
sometimes innovation is renovation Gomo, like like the you know,
(06:10):
someone decided to come and put glitter on it and
put you know, like some crystal balls on it and
stuff like that, and then they just rebranded it. And
you know, you know where velcro Ca existed, No, I didn't.
I don't know where Volca.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
That guy was walking his poodle and he would always
get those little pin chitos, those things that when you
walk through some grass get stuck to your socks, you
know that kind of right, and he was like, what
the hell? He couldn't get them off his dog, so
he cut a little piece of hair off and looked
at it under a microscope, one of them that had
the little ball attached, and he realized that the tiny
little pinitas had hooks, and that the hooks were going
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around the curly hair of the poodle, aka the two
sides of the velcrow, the soft one that's more like
the hair, and the one that sticks to it and
hooks on it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
That's that's how velcro was invented.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's that's a fascinating I mean, but that's that's pretty
crazy story.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Anyway, it's pretty crazy story.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I just imagine this guy your microscope and I say
that guy had a beard. I gotta solid beard.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Just the equivalent for women like these are all available
to you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You can you can use any of these buttons.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
O god they does a woman have to have like
a nice juicy bush?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Oh you know what, I do believe that bush confidence
is a thing, and I feel like you have to
you have to be like pretty, evolve into your confidence
as a woman to have bush.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm super into bush confidence.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm into Busch confidence. Yeah yeah, oh wait what I'm
into bush?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So yeah, you're good, You're good, like you're.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'm happy if you're happy.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, got it. I got it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I like my grass mode I got it anyway. Everything.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
No, I'm just saying like I'm referring more to the
principle behind it, you.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Know, like the intention of course of course here that
was an inventor.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So okay, yes, my dad was an inventor. But that
kind of I feel like like it kind of when
I go I have this little thing that I do
that when I go in somewhere, I'm like, how would
I I appreciate the way because I go to a restaurant, Like, really,
we're inside someone's brain thinking about it. Someone came up
with this. This wasn't always like you know what it
(08:32):
is like, someone had to dream this up. It was
an idea. I became obsessed with seeing an idea come
to life. I think that's what made me fall in
love with music. Besides the connection that it gave me
to him because he loved writing songs. Just the thought
of like a thought becoming you know, something on paper
that you know, bringing how do you interpret that into music,
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like through an instrument, putting a progression to it that
matches the feeling that's on those words that those words
like stemmed from. It's an idea that comes to life
and then like as you learn more and more about
every all the other parallels that come with it with
time and being in this business. It's just an idea
after an idea, after an idea, after an idea that
(09:17):
becomes this big, you know project. So I think that
it's stems, you know, after I've been able to analyze,
like all the reasons why music is so important to
me and why I love it. I think it stems
that initially it was about my relationship with my dad.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Wow, and the way that you grew up. So what
was your first gig was Was it a musical gig?
Was it a tampon commercial?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So so I love that your mind went there so
quickly right thinking about it, like if they were the
same thing. But I so so we every December sixteenth,
my family does a party in the house. I could,
it's like it's it's what we call But at the
(10:04):
same time, it's my parents' wedding anniversary, all right, So
on December sixteenth, like they do this like big celebration.
Everybody comes, like family, even from out of town. We
were there.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You were there, I know.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh, I'm like, are you getting I can't forget Okay,
I'm sorry, you know he ruined it spoiled.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But that's like a lot like some people know this,
A lot of people don't that that is where I
That's where I sang the first time. December sixteenth. I
was like six seven years old, and I I told
my parents that I wanted to sing at the next
like San Loas party, like and then, have you learned
(10:46):
a few songs?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You can?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You can sing it?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Did they know you're saying? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Not like they knew that I liked. Like there's videos
with me like two years old, like holding a spoon
and pretending to sing, like they knew that I that
I liked it. So I said, I'm going to like
I want to do is all right? So my mom
took me to Ricky Records, like someplace that that that
sold like CDs and music and whatnot. And she got
me this tape and uh, that's what we had at
(11:12):
the house, like we had a tape player. Yeah, and
then and I remember like yo, the sides and all
that ship and just on repeat. I learned the songs
and I came December sixteenth. I slept the day before
like the the like on the fifteenth, I slept in
the little suit that my mom. I was pumped. He
(11:37):
was pumped. Did you say you were I was like
six seven years old and she said no, I'm like I.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Was twenty.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So so yeah, so that's the day that it started
for me. I sang in that party. And then credit
to my to my dad and credit to my mom.
We didn't know anyone in the music business. So my
dad when he would find out that a neighbor was
gonna throw a party, he'd take me to the house. Okay,
three houses down from ours. He'd take me to the
(12:08):
house and he's like, I would go to the living room,
you know, in a tank top with a beer belly,
some shorts and some you know, some tennis and what's
(12:29):
it called. And I'd sing, you know, with a little fan.
That was like and I'd sing in the living room
for basically like audition. I'd sing for the and then
they're like, and I literally went from backyard to a backyard.
I sang in every single backyard of my neighborhood, every backyard,
(12:49):
and and that's how, you know, that's how I started,
you know, like just singing, different genre and different practicing
and like like with Pepo. Sometimes you'd be singing for
like four people.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They pay you.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, I think the first time like they paid they
paid us like uh five dollars or ten dollars something.
And then and literally I I remember being at a
Mahina the first like festival, so like it's crazy, the
first festival that we sang in. They had turned this
down the year before because what the hell, no, H'm singing?
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So my my well, first my dad wrote a song
called and he tracked down a guy that was a
party planner and oh no, he tracked down the guy
of a radio station. I remember we would park outside
of the radio station because he would want to get
he wanted to get the song played and give a
(13:49):
phone number. Yeah you know, and we know we would
park outside this radio station all the time. After my
dad met the security that knew the guy that knew
the guy that knew the program, and then I got
he got them to play the song. They gave us
like a piece of it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
They gave.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They gave my phone that the phone number and this
party planner caused us. And then my dad says, put
them in the party packages to sing offer him as
part of the party package. So I started doing fifteens
all over Miami, like.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Every good Miami musician started at game since.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Saturday, everybody, do you get there? When you walk around
there like you played my.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, crazy crazy and she's holding a baby with the
stroller like crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I love that every time. It reminds me of like
that moment we're like, yo, yes, we were like like
knocking on doors and doing everything like but honestly, I
never felt, not once, not once did I feel in
that entire process that we were struggling that we were
like that was so fun to me, Like it was like,
(15:03):
you know, I want, I want to get out there,
I want to do this, you know what I'm saying.
Like it was it was something that that we enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, I love that your dad is my dad.
What about your.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Brother crazy and my brother? You know my brother, my
brother didn't honestly, he was my little brother. And the
relationship between my brother and I is special. All my
siblings and I, it's just special. But but like Jason
and I, you know, I've met people that haven't met
me and they're like, wait, wait are you Jason's brother?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I already love you because of how much he loves you.
And they've said the same thing to my brother, you
know where like people like wait us, brother, bro, My god,
that guy loves you. Bro, I feel like I love you.
So it's it's something special for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
So the King says, how did it pop off from
the kingsas well?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The Kings just popped off because we we then like
I remember us getting a call from a place called
m k Apples at the time because they were doing
a cruise to Dominican Republic that was about and they
said that they had done a survey like offering different
artists and that you know, Carlos Canela like was popping
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up in these surveys and popping up and popping up,
and they were.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Like who who Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So then I guess locally, you know, all those parties
and whatnot, and then the magazine and the salons that
this guy had and you know, however, you know, in
that moment, like, uh, I guess things were just like
word of mouth. Yeah, really, that's what it was, word
of mouth. And we get on, we do the fifteens,
and then I find myself for the first time leaving
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Miami to sing and like I had this residency in
Dominican Republic with these with these fifteens things, and that
took us to a festival. There was a festival. This
was the one that I was telling you that they
didn't let us into.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
How old were you in the dr moment?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
In the dr moment, I was probably like, you know,
I was like sixteen, So some time pasted took no, no, yeah,
it took a lot of parties on the streets, a
lot of those backyard parties. It took us like trying
to get into festivals where like the first time that
we got into this festival is because my dad. There
was two blocks freaking Ida was my dad's g my
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dad's two blocks from where we lived. There was a limousine,
Like a guy had a limousine party outside his house.
Bro and my dad. I don't know if he asked
the guy for I don't know. I don't know what
he did, but he got the limousine. No way. He
told my cousins. Okay, he told my cousins. Can you
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know fact check the story? He told my cousins. He
would print out like a headshot of me, pictures of me.
He would give it to my cousins. He'd be like,
my prem so wow, we parked in the back. Crazy,
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we park in the back of this stage. And I
all I remember is that the guy comes up, like
the security. He's like, oh king, and then my dad
goes and then he's like canea and then my dad goes,
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My god, my mind.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I'm like I.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Never even been there Canada, And yo, they bought it.
Like they saw my cousin screaming, they saw the limousine
and everything, and they're like and and like we literally
got in and they eventually they let us sing in
the stage and they like the performance, and they keep
they kept letting us come back. And like years later
in that stage, in that festival, there were some TV
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producers that would that were see like that saw me sing,
and then they asked me about if I knew how
to act. And that's when the whole you know, the
whole TV, the whole TV came.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And this did you when did you ditch the karaoke
machine or that you were still singing at this point?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, no, when I started, when I started doing banquet halls, you.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Know what I'm saying, Like you didn't have musicians or
you know, like when we.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Went from backyard to banquet hall, there was still no musicians. Yeah,
still no musicians. There was one pianist. His name was
Louise and he was he can't say, he was an alcoholic,
so he was just always here. I'm singing in the
He was like crazy, like Louis my dad get guy,
(19:59):
damn bro.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Anyway, Okay, So that's that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So that's how I got into TV and then and
then yeah, and then you know, TV just opened up,
you know, crazy crazy, I mean never never did we
expect it. But that's how Like I didn't want to
do TV. I didn't want to give up music to
do TV. So my dad said, listen, he wants to
do his music. So they put a room. There was
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a room with a piano in it, and they would
let me while I was doing the first shows, they
would let me take my breaks and go, like all
my breaks, go to the room and and create and
do music because that's what I did with my boy Like,
like that's what my boys and I did. We would
live in a studio, I'm telling you, like lived in
the studio, Like I don't remember what my other friends
were doing or like you know. I know they'd go
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out a ton or whatnot. But like, even for basketball
games and the leagues that I would play, I would
always get to the second half because I was taking
a piano class or I was taking but I love sports,
so I was I was just doing that. Yeah, basketball
is my sports ball. Whenever you want, well whatever, I.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Don't know if I don't know if that's going to
be fair right now, because I'm out of shape five
feet and you have literal scars on your hands, right,
that's the indication of how that match is going to go.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
We could keep his hand screwed up.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, this is this doesn't usually happen to me though.
This is the floor that I was playing on.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh yeah, it's the first fault.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
You play point or.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Guard point guard usually or like, depending on who I'm
playing with, I'll play I'll drop the forward forward ship.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah man, I'm a power forward. Imagine anyway.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Okay, Wow, when you started to get into the TV
world and also music, and maybe you can speak a
little bit about this, I feel like, ultimately music can
be as creative as you want, right, Like you can
start with a blank canvas and create your world. But
with TV, you have to like fit into certain roles
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or kind of like put yourself in a different mindset.
How do you differentiate or what do you think is
the biggest different and the biggest comparison between something like
acting and music, Like how do you find how do
you connect your creativity to acting?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's such a I mean, I think the phrase that
sums it up, and it's actually how I identify it
now after like so many years like doing this and
you know, living living of it. You know, is a storytelling,
Like I'm a storyteller. That's what I've identified as. That's
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what I identify as. But like when I'm doing music
at the same time as like I'm preparing for a
role or going to like tell something, there's introspection that
goes into both. It takes a look inside or it
takes you to sit with yourself, and like that. I
feel both of them have that in common, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I Mean.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
The difference is that even though they're both storytelling, I
feel like in one, I'm because I'm more of the
Meisner technique. And Meisner says that great acting is not
acting and that it's not about putting on masks, but
it's about peeling off layers because in our DNA, we
have the ability to be anyone. We're one choice away,
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if you think about it, one choice away always from
being a completely different version of ourselves, or one circumstance
away from hitting a certain trigger or whatnot in a
version of ourselves coming out that you know that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
We're losing somebody or gaining somebody.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Correct, I mean just literally one circumstance and one choice
away from being someone completely different. So acting it just
it allows me to channel certain versions of myself or
like sculpt certain versions of myself that and express those
versions of myself in a way that music doesn't.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah, you've been making art a long time. It's clear
from the stories that you're not afraid of the evolution.
It continues to change. We're privileged enough, which I don't
(24:23):
even know if I'm allowed to say that you're making
music right now, I'm allowed to say that, Yeah, Okay,
it's working on some really really really epic music right
now that probably sounds different than everything before it, And
I'm really excited.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
We're so lucky.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, we're so lucky to have had the sleek feet.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Oh my god, Yes, but it's fucky to have you
because you're a part of it. Oh, I hope. So
you're a part of it, So I hope.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So and I have some ideas.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
We'll talk later because I want to put a mic
and record myself to working and then make that like
somehow in the song please.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, I don't got no ass to make clouds? Can
I say? Take that bone? They'll be bones?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Noise, You will make noise, you will make.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Anyway, What if anything? Can you share us about some
of the projects that you have coming up?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
A thousand percent?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
And you know, well, we sat in a car.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
We did We sat in a car and we talked
about we talked about we talked about a lot of amazing,
amazing things, all right, and we heard this album that
I'm working on. I'm really like, I'm in love with it.
I'm in love with the journey that it represents for
me because besides besides being extra incentivized, because it's a
(25:37):
fusion that I feel does bring like a unique sound
to you know. But it's again the the equivalence of renovation,
you know, innovation being renovation sometimes you know, and then
everything that it means culturally, everything that you know and
the journeys that like, one of my favorite things about
(25:58):
making music is the sense of commune unity it that
it creates. Think about it, like, not just the creation
process of it, but when you're in front of an
audience that is feeling that music, sometimes just as much
more than you are, and they're singing every single word
in the s magnicity that music creates no other art
(26:19):
can create.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And you're creating with them. Yeah, you're creating together.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
You could be in a movie, right and you sit
ten people to see the same scene, and you'll get
ten different reactions. He'll think it's funny, she'll think it sucks,
he'll think it's great. Never you know, and you can
sit in front of an art piece, he'll appreciate it,
she won't get it, like you never know. But if
you press play. It's the only art form, the art
(26:44):
form that has a tempo, that has a time signature
where it makes you move along with whoever's listening to that.
If it's ten thousand people, if it's a million people,
they're all gonna move in the same pattern, in the
same wavelength, in the same frequency, connected in that wod
No other art form can do this. Yeah, it's powerful
(27:06):
it is.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
You know it, and you don't need to speak the
same language. And to me, drums is a universal language
for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So like when I showed them, no, you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I did say anything, it looks I just looked. I'm listening.
I'm active listening.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
You're a good listen. Speak your mind, her brain, I
feel her brain moving.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Sometimes I thought you said something too, you heard me
sink something. Yeah, I heard you.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I was actually no, I didn't have anything to share yet.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
We create, We create with the with the audience, and
it's the most amazing feeling.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I feel like I've put so much thought and like
emotions into like the sound of it, that that's what
I mean, Like the synchronicity that a project like this,
or a decision, a choice, a choice that you make
to say, you know what, I'm going to see this through,
but because I want to see where it takes me,
you know. And I believe in in my intentions where
they're at, like, and I believe in what I'm doing,
(28:07):
what I'm what I'm investing time into. It brings you
conversations where like yo, sometimes I play it and yeah,
someone will say, yo, I love that. But you know
that's it or you know they'll hear it and they
didn't really say much about it or whatnot. But then
you play it to people and they're like, yo, which
has happened to me with this project? They're like, can
(28:28):
you send me that? I want to I want to
work on that. I want to produce that. Dimon Ornino
he did one of the productions of the And it's
because we were in my living room a random night.
He wasn't even supposed to be there. I play a
piece of it and he's like, he got excited, Yo,
can you send me that? And it was the best
(28:49):
decision I ever made because when I sent it to him,
like what he brought to it, you would have never
thought like he would have never gotten to me to like,
hey you want to.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Do our styles or so right?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But you know, Lai season momento like life.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Time, nothing is a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's not. It's not. And when you hear that song
right now as of now, which is the song that
I that I've played in the car, it's it's really
the one that embodies the potential the sound of what,
the sound of what, that universe, that world, fusion of
these elements that we are like could sound like, you know,
So I'm excited to see what journey it takes me
on to to bring it to life visually, to bring
(29:31):
it to life, you know, sound wise and experience wise,
and yeah, it's really exciting experience wise, you guys are
I mean, I can't imagine what it's gonna end up
sounding like, because when you showed us those little pieces,
it already you feel the world.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It feels like you're in the world.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
And that's my favorite thing about albums, and like listening
to albums, which we still very much do. I would
rather put on an album and than a playlist because
when I would follow love with an album, I literally
get to know it. There are certain songs that when
I'm in a certain mood I want to listen to,
you know, certain songs that maybe I'll make it halfway
(30:09):
and then skip. Like I have this relationship with the
album and it becomes this living entity for sure. So
I can't wait to jump in whatever that world is,
and you guys are gonna freaking love it.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So I'm working on that, you know. I love what
I'm doing there. We're producing film, producing TV. We did
two movies, The beginning of this year in Puerto Rico.
We shot them over there with our team over there,
which producing is so so much fun. It's so much fun.
It's so so crazy because like as an actor, it's
(30:41):
one thing, but like to see all the things that
go into making a production happens. That's been a process
that I've been enjoying, like tremendously, tremendously, And.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I'm sure it also helps you appreciate the other side
even more.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, it helps me appreciate the whole. Like you
get so it's so closed in your bubble and you
focus in so much on your process you don't realize
that every other person has, you know, a process parallel
to yours that's helping to add to the sum of
the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So and you know it like you know it. You
know it takes a village. You know it takes team.
But like when you're actually in it, when you actually
have to like shadow them to learn or you actually
have to like you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
What I gonna say, like steer it.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Then you know, I see it with Gem all the
time because you know, she's she steers the ship and
there are times where you know I go to work
on my music or I turn off my brain, and
I can separate in a certain way that she can't.
Because something about producing too is like if you take
a break, the whole operation, you know, crumble. So you
(31:51):
have to have this like there just has to always
be somebody steering wheel. No, And I think that the
key is that you have to be really passionate. If
you're at the head of anything, you can get through things,
and you can learn and acknowledge your faults, but you
have to have passion for what you do. Those are
the most successful people that I've met, you know, including you.
(32:11):
I feel like you're a very passionate guy and and.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Every you love what you do.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
You sat here and talked about food and restaurants like
an art form, which I agree.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I agree, which I agree.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
But it makes me sad because a lot of people
don't experience life like that, and they don't see life.
And to me, that's what gives my world color, Like
the world is so ft, So sorry world, it's not you,
I love you, planet, it's it's us.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
We f it up.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
And you know, I think this is hell. But that's
a whole other that's.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Another podcast episode.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
But it gives it gives my life color, it gives me,
it gives me purpose.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I get it. But you know what THO like, I
think that this is a perfect example of life what's
going on right now this moment you because you realize
that reality perception like totally literally, like everyone is programmed
so differently because like the way you express yourself right now.
But I've felt that there have been moments in my
(33:12):
life where I've felt exactly what you're saying right now.
And then you know, comes a day where I'm like,
my life is so beautiful, you know, like yeah, but
you know what that teaches me. It teaches me that
it's like nothing nothing in life really has a set
(33:33):
meaning to it.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
My cousin literally says nothing matters us.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
That puts the meaning to things, and it is it's
very powerful everything.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
I literally because I'm not going to pay any bills.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Well, I was just about to say that our entire
concept of currency is the assigning of a value to
a piece of paper that are my money is numbers
on a screen, right like it's made up. There's not
a room in a bank in the world somewhere that
has my money.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
And like that it's it's all.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
We've all agreed university to give you know, this piece
of paper value exact and abide by you know the
system that you know the towers me and by the way,
oh my god, I know the diamic like.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
What what what if?
Speaker 7 (34:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
No, no, no, it wasn't. I was going to share
a conspiracy.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
There for the conspiracy segment of the episode.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Really here, I'm kidding. No, no, no, that's not what
I was going to say. That's not But I also
wasn't going to say a conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
So yeah, never mind.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I was super excited.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Do you want to you want to dive into some conspiracy?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Do you have a good one that you want to
let me into?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, listen to me. We go down that hole. It's
not coming up.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You're right right right for post post pot cast cost podcast.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Well, we have a very where's my other?
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Here it is my ass before you leave us today
and before we go what so sad on your side?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
By the way, space juice, space juice full.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Of ideas, nobod we should give people water with green
food coloring.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Okay, I'd be sick. And that's said I like that,
Oh I just throw up in my mouth.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Okay, before you leave us, which I really hope you
know you're back, welcome back, anything, anytime we could sit
here for hours and talk to you talk.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
For me too.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I'm gonna try, but now we gotta.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yeah, yeah, that's like, that's it.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Anyway, before we go to everybody's favorite oxpressions network, I
would love to hear what is in the future for
you and where to look out for you in these
next couple of years. And also if you have any
advice for anybody out there that you know loves creating
(36:22):
and like maybe can't find a connection to it.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Damn, I mean, I don't know, you know, like what
I feel to say because and this is only because
I've I've lived, like the experiences that I've collected have
led me to like this being these being like the
lessons that I've taken with me the most right at
this point in my life is that I would I
(36:51):
would highly incentivize anyone that wants to like create or
be in the creative world to not attach their self
worth to the definition of like society's success. You know,
don't attach your word to your product or whatever it is.
You're creating, you know, getting validation or succeeding, because then
you just you're capping your your full potential, you know.
(37:13):
I feel like I feel like if you I feel like,
if you fall in love with the creative process and
you truly fall in love with like the community that
it creates, if you have a healthy relationship with the
why you do it, I feel like that's the most
important question when you're going to create something. Why are
you doing it? Why are you doing it? And then
who are you doing it for? Right? Because like I
(37:37):
actually heard a saying once. It's said success is measured
by the size of the problem you're solving, multiplied by
the amount of people you're solving it for. And when
I heard that, I was like, wow, that was there's
power in that in that statement. But you can even
kind of shape it, like if you were to shape
that same phrase to personal success. The size of the
(37:59):
problem you're solving multiplied by the amount of people you're
solving for and ultimately you is such a big number,
such a huge number. So that phrase, for me, it
applies to even self, like your journey with yourself as
opposed to the why outside of yourself you know, why
are you doing it? And I feel like, you know,
(38:21):
if that why and that who is in the right place,
the outcome You're gonna love. You're gonna love it, You're
gonna feel successful, regardless of what the outcome of something
with the right intention, you know, it is done as
a creative. As a creator. I just think that that's
such a a very big purpose to carry, you know.
(38:46):
So and in regards to where you like, you know,
as you know, we're working on the album, you know,
and I'm very excited on the real estate side of
(39:09):
what we're doing. Like I got the chance to go
back to my hometown, Hialia, where I'm from, and partner
up with some amazing dudes, you know, and partner up
with the biggest real estate developer in the city of Hialeah,
which is the fifth largest city in the state of Florida.
A lot of people don't know that, but it's a massive, massive,
(39:30):
massive market and uh and what I love about Hili,
I truly genuinely can say that I'm a Miami boy. Yes,
not a lot of places in Miami have the roots,
like the culture and the roots fried that Hyaliah has.
Like you don't you don't see it. Like I've never
heard someone say, hey, don't talk about brigle like that. Yeah,
(39:58):
yeahs name mouth, Like I've never heard that in my life,
Like and you can apply that to that. I've never
heard that from Miami Beach, from Miami Beach man. Yeah, yeah,
never heard that never, Like we have that Brooklyn Pride
and and Hialeah. I've always said that h is for
hustle because you're you're you're taught that and but what
(40:21):
that stands for. I love what that stands for. And
on the real estate side and a creative to be
able to partner up and you see now the entertainment
district that we're developing over dis Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Go visit him in He's hot.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
He's got food trucks delicious and that I'm excited to see.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
And it's a part of my childhood because my uncle
that's the first business that he had when he came
to this country. He was a food truck driving. Story.
Like people people like may see like an ali of
food trucks and they're like, oh, that's but there's like
there's a reason, there's a vibe reason for everything we're
doing there. So I'm really excited about what we're creating
on the on the real estate.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Side and telling you reconsider that my position.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
No, no, no, I have I like my life.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
We creatives can't.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Be down, can we can't.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I don't know how they do it, to be honest,
you like, I just like I know a lot of
politicians and you know, respect respect to like put your
life under that type of pressure because we all face
like different pressure. But like I could, I could, like
have a drink at a bar, right, Nobody's nobody's going
to be like, you know what, what are you doing
(41:32):
here drinking your sorrows away?
Speaker 4 (41:34):
I'm collecting experiences.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
You can't see. Mayor't drunk at a bar. And by
the way, why you would think yeah, I mean, at
the end of the day, I get it, Like, yes,
they have responsibilities and whatnot, but they're human beings too.
Maybe we just need politicians that are willing to normalize.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
You know, the the.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
That they parlam had just elected their first the youngest
person to ever be a part of the Parliament, that
she's twenty one years old, she's two months old.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
You know what, Like, would you ever see Mayor Steve
Bobo cit.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Here in space in my whole world.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Like maybe maybe, by the way, if there's a mayor
that would do it. I think that guy is cool
of got like I got a mad love for him.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Well, at least you have a key already. He's got
to give you a key.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
I always said. I was like, when I know, the
key to a city is like a like token of
like yes, you know. But I've always said, like people
should be involved in giving a key to the city.
There should be a vote.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Look, we're gonna call your dad, you know what I'm saying,
because people's choice.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
What is like.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
To tell you so like it's like, but it's usually
the politicians that give it, which is nice, but for
the people to be a part of giving that even.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Nicera, We're gonna call your dad.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
He's gonna bring the limo, dust off the limo and
we're gonna show up at city hall.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Yeah, and pretend you're a politician.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
It's funny thing.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
It's for the Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 8 (43:04):
For a long time, I thought I wanted to go
into politics because I care a lot about like different
humanitarian issues and I would like to think that I
could be a problem solver at that level. But then
I realized what you just said, which is I'd have
to answer to somebody and that I cannot.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And it's crazy. I've always because honestly speaking, even as
a politician like you have to understand that you could
have all the intentions in the world of changing things,
but at the end of the day, we live in
a system where they've they've made the president a part
of the system, but not the integral part of the system. Yeah,
(43:42):
the president will be replaced every four years, every eight years.
It's the power behind the power that keeps the system
and the machine runner. So you have to you have
to know truly how intricate and deep that system is
rooted and works, and you have to have relationships and
you have to have a series of so many things
and timing and other allies and the right allies and
(44:03):
whatnot to change an entire machine. You know, it's not
rigged that way. And that's why local municipality like we
should vote more, we can action because we can make
more change. We truly can and know we have a
mayor now in Hialiah that honestly, if it wasn't if
it wasn't for that mayor, like the things about entertainment,
(44:25):
like our generation having a seat at the table, you know,
is important. That's something that local municipality can really really help.
Like all right, it's your turn. How can we like
what can we do our parks and rec system? Dude,
I'd love to see it resemble a little more like
like reality nowadays, right, like a baseball field, a basketball court.
(44:46):
That's not I love those things. I grew up going
out to parks and whatnot, but that's not the reality nowadays.
Like that's not the only reality. Like how do we
how do we have a park that still looks like
it did one hundred years? You know what I'm saying?
Where where's the innovation renovation there?
Speaker 1 (45:03):
You know?
Speaker 3 (45:03):
So like yeah, forward thinking local municipalities that that can
really bring solutions and want to work along with city
members and whatnot. That's that's essential. And only the people
can can create that type of opportunity for themselves if
like we cared more about voting locally, you know, I
think it's important.
Speaker 9 (45:19):
And four, he's like Goda, that was super mayor, that
was super mayor of you.
Speaker 10 (45:31):
Now we take that clip and we make a fake
we like we make we sign you up and paid, like, Hi,
I'm running for We take that, he said.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Really quickly, and just say choose me, pick me love
say that please.
Speaker 6 (45:54):
Okay, guys, I'm atty ready to find out what's happening
in outer space.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
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Speaker 2 (46:02):
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Speaker 4 (46:06):
All right, earthlings, This week in space Space News.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
Icon Award is going to be announced December fifth, which
also happens to be my birthday. That's right, So we're
gonna be celebrating prestigious honors in space. And I don't
want to toot my own horn or nominating myself, but
vote for me.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
It's my birthday.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Okay, all right, that was awesome. By the way, I
only knew how to say that. She was gonna say,
my birthday is just like the fifth Take we do?
Speaker 4 (46:33):
Yeah, now he's shading yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
Scientists have discovered the ghost of an ancient megaplate.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
That doesn't.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
You, guys, get through it?
Speaker 1 (46:50):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
You're a professional?
Speaker 4 (46:52):
I'm sorry, is not the worst than me?
Speaker 3 (46:56):
All right.
Speaker 6 (46:57):
Scientists have discovered the ghost of an h mega planet
that disappeared twenty million years ago. You can now see
footage captured by NASA of this ghost planet going wogety
woggany woggany and hunting all the.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Other planets for revenge.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
This is for real?
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Is that fake?
Speaker 4 (47:12):
So the first half is always true and the second
part is always a lie. And now what everybody has
been waiting for?
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Hold on, what you mean the ghost of a planet? No?
Come on, yeah, how do you find the ghost of
a planet?
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Well, go look it up. I just read this is
just the news source here.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
What do you mean, Space's favorite source of news?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Alright, sorry, space news.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Yeah, the website it's called the Space News.
Speaker 7 (47:41):
So anyway, all right, and now the moment we've all
been waiting for the eclipse, Mercury is no longer in
the regato, but the sun is.
Speaker 6 (47:52):
Here to f you all up, So open up that
third eye, stage all of your holes and hope for
the best.
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What did you say about your holes? This is been yez.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Well.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
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You're welcome to you guys out there.
Speaker 6 (48:11):
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I hate me the same. Let's go to man ready
for launch?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Come on, who we have? What I tell you that
was crazy?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It is a trip. It literally is a trip. I
am in space right now.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Welcome, and you guys out there, you're in for a treat. Jim,
you are about to.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Say, we are in for a treat. We have a
very special human beside us. We do someone who I've
grown to love a lot in the last year. How
do I And I'm really happy to have in space
with us.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Welcome everybody, n card, I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That I'm here. But you know that, Jem and she
was clappy to my love of course, like my look,
she closed her eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Extend your hand so you have a shot at me here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Like put my hand fully extended like four seconds.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I like and make that mean it. But listen, you are.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
A rip and musician, singer and writer, amazing actor, an activist,
a really same Okay, my new candidate for mayor of Hialeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, absolutely, I'm not coming for me.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You've worked together, no, but for real.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Everything that you do is artistic and it's wonderful and
all the artistic mediums and in business, which even just
recently we've been around, You've learned a lot about that,
so I think you have a lot of amazing things
to offer our listeners today, including your face.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So absolutely enjoy.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
All that to look at for those peop who are looking.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I love both of you so much. I'm not just
saying this because I'm here, right, but like, no, I
really am not. I really am not because I respect
both of you so much. I'm such big fans of
both of you, like on a human level and on
a professional level that like, you know, when you I
think the people around you are everything everything, and when
(02:24):
I think of the life that, like you know, what
I'm grateful for or whatnot, I find myself saying that
you are two people that I want to hang out
with more and more and more and have more in
my life because I really do love y'all on so
many levels. So I'm really happy to be here for sure.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yes, you're not letting your Well, that was a great episode, guys,
thank you, so all right with us?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So okay, so let's jel it back a little because
it's so funny.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I was actually talking to M this morning and I'm like,
you know, it's crazy that we've been lucky to have
an form these relationships with people that perhaps we got
to know on a human level before we got to
know on a professional level, like with you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So we're so different though. It's so because you know,
like in this business, like exactly, you bump into a
lot of people, like you coincide with a lot of people.
But like I felt how that affected like the way
I had to check myself because I was We've been
in this business for like so long. I've been in
it since I was a kid practically, And this is
(03:32):
like you're super tight with a group of musicians and
you go on tour and it's every day together and
then all of a sudden it stops. Like you're on
a TV show. You're like meet these people that become
your family, your friends, and like you become so attached
to them and then it stops. You know, so like
it's like this that's so true. It's a pattern that
if you don't check yourself, you're like wait, wait, where,
(03:52):
like where are my friends and who are my friends
that really like are constant in my life? You know,
it's not just come and go for great moments, but
have been there for the.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Ride, you know, so that's a quality over quantity too,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Sure. So like meeting people on a personal level in
this business is rare. It's rare, it's not common, but
when it happens, it's so different.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's so special.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
So my point exactly, which you actually started to touch upon,
was I started to get to know you on a
professional level a lot more when we started talking about
you coming on the podcast and I started to research you,
like for real. So for those of us who are
just getting to know you for the first time, tell
me how you started and why how did you get
into the business.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I got into the business because so my dad loved
writing songs. He was he was like his business was.
He was the president of the Hispanic US Foundation of Inventors.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Crazy, So he has like twelve patents.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Wow, that's why you're always trying to invent God, no wonder.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
His beard is so good. Remember that when I met
him the other day, he.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Would have to course of courses.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Beard is that good? That was very red.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I don't know the correlation between the beard. I just
feel like a man.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like has like a solid beard. No no, no, no,
but listen, I so yeah, my childhood like like my
the rafts that we would like floating in the in
the beach. They were completely different like everyone else's Like
ours had like a built in goggle system to see
what we do. So I saw my dad doing prototypes
(05:40):
and it was a very creative world. Despite how like
not creative. He comes off as like it's it's kind
of like it's it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
He works in silence.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's crazy, it's crazy. So so it really it really
pushed like I think that gave us, honestly the ability
to like reimagine things. He always told us that it's
sometimes innovation is renovation Gomo, like like the you know,
(06:10):
someone decided to come and put glitter on it and
put you know, like some crystal balls on it and
stuff like that, and then they just rebranded it. And
you know, you know where velcro Ca existed, No, I didn't.
I don't know where Volca.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
That guy was walking his poodle and he would always
get those little pin chitos, those things that when you
walk through some grass get stuck to your socks, you
know that kind of right, and he was like, what
the hell? He couldn't get them off his dog, so
he cut a little piece of hair off and looked
at it under a microscope, one of them that had
the little ball attached, and he realized that the tiny
little pinitas had hooks, and that the hooks were going
(06:46):
around the curly hair of the poodle, aka the two
sides of the velcrow, the soft one that's more like
the hair, and the one that sticks to it and
hooks on it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
That's that's how velcro was invented.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's that's a fascinating I mean, but that's that's pretty
crazy story.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Anyway, it's pretty crazy story.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I just imagine this guy your microscope and I say
that guy had a beard. I gotta solid beard.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Just the equivalent for women like these are all available
to you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You can you can use any of these buttons.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
O god they does a woman have to have like
a nice juicy bush?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Oh you know what, I do believe that bush confidence
is a thing, and I feel like you have to
you have to be like pretty, evolve into your confidence
as a woman to have bush.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm super into bush confidence.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm into Busch confidence. Yeah yeah, oh wait what I'm
into bush?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So yeah, you're good, You're good, like you're.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'm happy if you're happy.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, got it. I got it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I like my grass mode I got it anyway. Everything.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
No, I'm just saying like I'm referring more to the
principle behind it, you.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Know, like the intention of course of course here that
was an inventor.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So okay, yes, my dad was an inventor. But that
kind of I feel like like it kind of when
I go I have this little thing that I do
that when I go in somewhere, I'm like, how would
I I appreciate the way because I go to a restaurant, Like, really,
we're inside someone's brain thinking about it. Someone came up
with this. This wasn't always like you know what it
(08:32):
is like, someone had to dream this up. It was
an idea. I became obsessed with seeing an idea come
to life. I think that's what made me fall in
love with music. Besides the connection that it gave me
to him because he loved writing songs. Just the thought
of like a thought becoming you know, something on paper
that you know, bringing how do you interpret that into music,
(08:57):
like through an instrument, putting a progression to it that
matches the feeling that's on those words that those words
like stemmed from. It's an idea that comes to life
and then like as you learn more and more about
every all the other parallels that come with it with
time and being in this business. It's just an idea
after an idea, after an idea, after an idea that
(09:17):
becomes this big, you know project. So I think that
it's stems, you know, after I've been able to analyze,
like all the reasons why music is so important to
me and why I love it. I think it stems
that initially it was about my relationship with my dad.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Wow, and the way that you grew up. So what
was your first gig was Was it a musical gig?
Was it a tampon commercial?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So so I love that your mind went there so
quickly right thinking about it, like if they were the
same thing. But I so so we every December sixteenth,
my family does a party in the house. I could,
it's like it's it's what we call But at the
(10:04):
same time, it's my parents' wedding anniversary, all right, So
on December sixteenth, like they do this like big celebration.
Everybody comes, like family, even from out of town. We
were there.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You were there, I know.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh, I'm like, are you getting I can't forget Okay,
I'm sorry, you know he ruined it spoiled.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But that's like a lot like some people know this,
A lot of people don't that that is where I
That's where I sang the first time. December sixteenth. I
was like six seven years old, and I I told
my parents that I wanted to sing at the next
like San Loas party, like and then, have you learned
(10:46):
a few songs?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You can?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You can sing it?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Did they know you're saying? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Not like they knew that I liked. Like there's videos
with me like two years old, like holding a spoon
and pretending to sing, like they knew that I that
I liked it. So I said, I'm going to like
I want to do is all right? So my mom
took me to Ricky Records, like someplace that that that
sold like CDs and music and whatnot. And she got
me this tape and uh, that's what we had at
(11:12):
the house, like we had a tape player. Yeah, and
then and I remember like yo, the sides and all
that ship and just on repeat. I learned the songs
and I came December sixteenth. I slept the day before
like the the like on the fifteenth, I slept in
the little suit that my mom. I was pumped. He
(11:37):
was pumped. Did you say you were I was like
six seven years old and she said no, I'm like I.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Was twenty.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So so yeah, so that's the day that it started
for me. I sang in that party. And then credit
to my to my dad and credit to my mom.
We didn't know anyone in the music business. So my
dad when he would find out that a neighbor was
gonna throw a party, he'd take me to the house. Okay,
three houses down from ours. He'd take me to the
(12:08):
house and he's like, I would go to the living room,
you know, in a tank top with a beer belly,
some shorts and some you know, some tennis and what's
(12:29):
it called. And I'd sing, you know, with a little fan.
That was like and I'd sing in the living room
for basically like audition. I'd sing for the and then
they're like, and I literally went from backyard to a backyard.
I sang in every single backyard of my neighborhood, every backyard,
(12:49):
and and that's how, you know, that's how I started,
you know, like just singing, different genre and different practicing
and like like with Pepo. Sometimes you'd be singing for
like four people.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They pay you.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, I think the first time like they paid they
paid us like uh five dollars or ten dollars something.
And then and literally I I remember being at a
Mahina the first like festival, so like it's crazy, the
first festival that we sang in. They had turned this
down the year before because what the hell, no, H'm singing?
(13:28):
So my my well, first my dad wrote a song
called and he tracked down a guy that was a
party planner and oh no, he tracked down the guy
of a radio station. I remember we would park outside
of the radio station because he would want to get
he wanted to get the song played and give a
(13:49):
phone number. Yeah you know, and we know we would
park outside this radio station all the time. After my
dad met the security that knew the guy that knew
the guy that knew the program, and then I got
he got them to play the song. They gave us
like a piece of it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
They gave.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They gave my phone that the phone number and this
party planner caused us. And then my dad says, put
them in the party packages to sing offer him as
part of the party package. So I started doing fifteens
all over Miami, like.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Every good Miami musician started at game since.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Saturday, everybody, do you get there? When you walk around
there like you played my.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, crazy crazy and she's holding a baby with the
stroller like crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I love that every time. It reminds me of like
that moment we're like, yo, yes, we were like like
knocking on doors and doing everything like but honestly, I
never felt, not once, not once did I feel in
that entire process that we were struggling that we were
like that was so fun to me, Like it was like,
(15:03):
you know, I want, I want to get out there,
I want to do this, you know what I'm saying.
Like it was it was something that that we enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, I love that your dad is my dad.
What about your.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Brother crazy and my brother? You know my brother, my
brother didn't honestly, he was my little brother. And the
relationship between my brother and I is special. All my
siblings and I, it's just special. But but like Jason
and I, you know, I've met people that haven't met
me and they're like, wait, wait are you Jason's brother?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I already love you because of how much he loves you.
And they've said the same thing to my brother, you
know where like people like wait us, brother, bro, My god,
that guy loves you. Bro, I feel like I love you.
So it's it's something special for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
So the King says, how did it pop off from
the kingsas well?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The Kings just popped off because we we then like
I remember us getting a call from a place called
m k Apples at the time because they were doing
a cruise to Dominican Republic that was about and they
said that they had done a survey like offering different
artists and that you know, Carlos Canela like was popping
(16:14):
up in these surveys and popping up and popping up,
and they were.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Like who who Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So then I guess locally, you know, all those parties
and whatnot, and then the magazine and the salons that
this guy had and you know, however, you know, in
that moment, like, uh, I guess things were just like
word of mouth. Yeah, really, that's what it was, word
of mouth. And we get on, we do the fifteens,
and then I find myself for the first time leaving
(16:40):
Miami to sing and like I had this residency in
Dominican Republic with these with these fifteens things, and that
took us to a festival. There was a festival. This
was the one that I was telling you that they
didn't let us into.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
How old were you in the dr moment?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
In the dr moment, I was probably like, you know,
I was like sixteen, So some time pasted took no, no, yeah,
it took a lot of parties on the streets, a
lot of those backyard parties. It took us like trying
to get into festivals where like the first time that
we got into this festival is because my dad. There
was two blocks freaking Ida was my dad's g my
(17:21):
dad's two blocks from where we lived. There was a limousine,
Like a guy had a limousine party outside his house.
Bro and my dad. I don't know if he asked
the guy for I don't know. I don't know what
he did, but he got the limousine. No way. He
told my cousins. Okay, he told my cousins. Can you
(17:42):
know fact check the story? He told my cousins. He
would print out like a headshot of me, pictures of me.
He would give it to my cousins. He'd be like,
my prem so wow, we parked in the back. Crazy,
(18:09):
we park in the back of this stage. And I
all I remember is that the guy comes up, like
the security. He's like, oh king, and then my dad
goes and then he's like canea and then my dad goes,
(18:30):
My god, my mind.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I'm like I.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Never even been there Canada, And yo, they bought it.
Like they saw my cousin screaming, they saw the limousine
and everything, and they're like and and like we literally
got in and they eventually they let us sing in
the stage and they like the performance, and they keep
they kept letting us come back. And like years later
in that stage, in that festival, there were some TV
(18:58):
producers that would that were see like that saw me sing,
and then they asked me about if I knew how
to act. And that's when the whole you know, the
whole TV, the whole TV came.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And this did you when did you ditch the karaoke
machine or that you were still singing at this point?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, no, when I started, when I started doing banquet halls, you.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Know what I'm saying, Like you didn't have musicians or
you know, like when we.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Went from backyard to banquet hall, there was still no musicians. Yeah,
still no musicians. There was one pianist. His name was
Louise and he was he can't say, he was an alcoholic,
so he was just always here. I'm singing in the
He was like crazy, like Louis my dad get guy,
(19:59):
damn bro.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Anyway, Okay, So that's that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
So that's how I got into TV and then and
then yeah, and then you know, TV just opened up,
you know, crazy crazy, I mean never never did we
expect it. But that's how Like I didn't want to
do TV. I didn't want to give up music to
do TV. So my dad said, listen, he wants to
do his music. So they put a room. There was
(20:23):
a room with a piano in it, and they would
let me while I was doing the first shows, they
would let me take my breaks and go, like all
my breaks, go to the room and and create and
do music because that's what I did with my boy Like,
like that's what my boys and I did. We would
live in a studio, I'm telling you, like lived in
the studio, Like I don't remember what my other friends
were doing or like you know. I know they'd go
(20:44):
out a ton or whatnot. But like, even for basketball
games and the leagues that I would play, I would
always get to the second half because I was taking
a piano class or I was taking but I love sports,
so I was I was just doing that. Yeah, basketball
is my sports ball. Whenever you want, well whatever, I.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Don't know if I don't know if that's going to
be fair right now, because I'm out of shape five
feet and you have literal scars on your hands, right,
that's the indication of how that match is going to go.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
We could keep his hand screwed up.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, this is this doesn't usually happen to me though.
This is the floor that I was playing on.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh yeah, it's the first fault.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
You play point or.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Guard point guard usually or like, depending on who I'm
playing with, I'll play I'll drop the forward forward ship.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah man, I'm a power forward. Imagine anyway.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Okay, Wow, when you started to get into the TV
world and also music, and maybe you can speak a
little bit about this, I feel like, ultimately music can
be as creative as you want, right, Like you can
start with a blank canvas and create your world. But
with TV, you have to like fit into certain roles
(21:58):
or kind of like put yourself in a different mindset.
How do you differentiate or what do you think is
the biggest different and the biggest comparison between something like
acting and music, Like how do you find how do
you connect your creativity to acting?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's such a I mean, I think the phrase that
sums it up, and it's actually how I identify it
now after like so many years like doing this and
you know, living living of it. You know, is a storytelling,
Like I'm a storyteller. That's what I've identified as. That's
(22:41):
what I identify as. But like when I'm doing music
at the same time as like I'm preparing for a
role or going to like tell something, there's introspection that
goes into both. It takes a look inside or it
takes you to sit with yourself, and like that. I
feel both of them have that in common, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I Mean.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
The difference is that even though they're both storytelling, I
feel like in one, I'm because I'm more of the
Meisner technique. And Meisner says that great acting is not
acting and that it's not about putting on masks, but
it's about peeling off layers because in our DNA, we
have the ability to be anyone. We're one choice away,
(23:26):
if you think about it, one choice away always from
being a completely different version of ourselves, or one circumstance
away from hitting a certain trigger or whatnot in a
version of ourselves coming out that you know that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
We're losing somebody or gaining somebody.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Correct, I mean just literally one circumstance and one choice
away from being someone completely different. So acting it just
it allows me to channel certain versions of myself or
like sculpt certain versions of myself that and express those
versions of myself in a way that music doesn't.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah, you've been making art a long time. It's clear
from the stories that you're not afraid of the evolution.
It continues to change. We're privileged enough, which I don't
(24:23):
even know if I'm allowed to say that you're making
music right now, I'm allowed to say that, Yeah, Okay,
it's working on some really really really epic music right
now that probably sounds different than everything before it, And
I'm really excited.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
We're so lucky.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, we're so lucky to have had the sleek feet.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Oh my god, Yes, but it's fucky to have you
because you're a part of it. Oh, I hope. So
you're a part of it, So I hope.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So and I have some ideas.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
We'll talk later because I want to put a mic
and record myself to working and then make that like
somehow in the song please.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, I don't got no ass to make clouds? Can
I say? Take that bone? They'll be bones?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Noise, You will make noise, you will make.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Anyway, What if anything? Can you share us about some
of the projects that you have coming up?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
A thousand percent?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
And you know, well, we sat in a car.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
We did We sat in a car and we talked
about we talked about we talked about a lot of amazing,
amazing things, all right, and we heard this album that
I'm working on. I'm really like, I'm in love with it.
I'm in love with the journey that it represents for
me because besides besides being extra incentivized, because it's a
(25:37):
fusion that I feel does bring like a unique sound
to you know. But it's again the the equivalence of renovation,
you know, innovation being renovation sometimes you know, and then
everything that it means culturally, everything that you know and
the journeys that like, one of my favorite things about
(25:58):
making music is the sense of commune unity it that
it creates. Think about it, like, not just the creation
process of it, but when you're in front of an
audience that is feeling that music, sometimes just as much
more than you are, and they're singing every single word
in the s magnicity that music creates no other art
(26:19):
can create.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And you're creating with them. Yeah, you're creating together.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
You could be in a movie, right and you sit
ten people to see the same scene, and you'll get
ten different reactions. He'll think it's funny, she'll think it sucks,
he'll think it's great. Never you know, and you can
sit in front of an art piece, he'll appreciate it,
she won't get it, like you never know. But if
you press play. It's the only art form, the art
(26:44):
form that has a tempo, that has a time signature
where it makes you move along with whoever's listening to that.
If it's ten thousand people, if it's a million people,
they're all gonna move in the same pattern, in the
same wavelength, in the same frequency, connected in that wod
No other art form can do this. Yeah, it's powerful
(27:06):
it is.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
You know it, and you don't need to speak the
same language. And to me, drums is a universal language
for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So like when I showed them, no, you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I did say anything, it looks I just looked. I'm listening.
I'm active listening.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
You're a good listen. Speak your mind, her brain, I
feel her brain moving.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Sometimes I thought you said something too, you heard me
sink something. Yeah, I heard you.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I was actually no, I didn't have anything to share yet.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
We create, We create with the with the audience, and
it's the most amazing feeling.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I feel like I've put so much thought and like
emotions into like the sound of it, that that's what
I mean, Like the synchronicity that a project like this,
or a decision, a choice, a choice that you make
to say, you know what, I'm going to see this through,
but because I want to see where it takes me,
you know. And I believe in in my intentions where
they're at, like, and I believe in what I'm doing,
(28:07):
what I'm what I'm investing time into. It brings you
conversations where like yo, sometimes I play it and yeah,
someone will say, yo, I love that. But you know
that's it or you know they'll hear it and they
didn't really say much about it or whatnot. But then
you play it to people and they're like, yo, which
has happened to me with this project? They're like, can
(28:28):
you send me that? I want to I want to
work on that. I want to produce that. Dimon Ornino
he did one of the productions of the And it's
because we were in my living room a random night.
He wasn't even supposed to be there. I play a
piece of it and he's like, he got excited, Yo,
can you send me that? And it was the best
(28:49):
decision I ever made because when I sent it to him,
like what he brought to it, you would have never
thought like he would have never gotten to me to like,
hey you want to.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Do our styles or so right?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But you know, Lai season momento like life.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Time, nothing is a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's not. It's not. And when you hear that song
right now as of now, which is the song that
I that I've played in the car, it's it's really
the one that embodies the potential the sound of what,
the sound of what, that universe, that world, fusion of
these elements that we are like could sound like, you know,
So I'm excited to see what journey it takes me
on to to bring it to life visually, to bring
(29:31):
it to life, you know, sound wise and experience wise,
and yeah, it's really exciting experience wise, you guys are
I mean, I can't imagine what it's gonna end up
sounding like, because when you showed us those little pieces,
it already you feel the world.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It feels like you're in the world.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
And that's my favorite thing about albums, and like listening
to albums, which we still very much do. I would
rather put on an album and than a playlist because
when I would follow love with an album, I literally
get to know it. There are certain songs that when
I'm in a certain mood I want to listen to,
you know, certain songs that maybe I'll make it halfway
(30:09):
and then skip. Like I have this relationship with the
album and it becomes this living entity for sure. So
I can't wait to jump in whatever that world is,
and you guys are gonna freaking love it.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So I'm working on that, you know. I love what
I'm doing there. We're producing film, producing TV. We did
two movies, The beginning of this year in Puerto Rico.
We shot them over there with our team over there,
which producing is so so much fun. It's so much fun.
It's so so crazy because like as an actor, it's
(30:41):
one thing, but like to see all the things that
go into making a production happens. That's been a process
that I've been enjoying, like tremendously, tremendously, And.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I'm sure it also helps you appreciate the other side
even more.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, it helps me appreciate the whole. Like you
get so it's so closed in your bubble and you
focus in so much on your process you don't realize
that every other person has, you know, a process parallel
to yours that's helping to add to the sum of
the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So and you know it like you know it. You
know it takes a village. You know it takes team.
But like when you're actually in it, when you actually
have to like shadow them to learn or you actually
have to like you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
What I gonna say, like steer it.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Then you know, I see it with Gem all the
time because you know, she's she steers the ship and
there are times where you know I go to work
on my music or I turn off my brain, and
I can separate in a certain way that she can't.
Because something about producing too is like if you take
a break, the whole operation, you know, crumble. So you
(31:51):
have to have this like there just has to always
be somebody steering wheel. No, And I think that the
key is that you have to be really passionate. If
you're at the head of anything, you can get through things,
and you can learn and acknowledge your faults, but you
have to have passion for what you do. Those are
the most successful people that I've met, you know, including you.
(32:11):
I feel like you're a very passionate guy and and.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Every you love what you do.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
You sat here and talked about food and restaurants like
an art form, which I agree.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I agree, which I agree.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
But it makes me sad because a lot of people
don't experience life like that, and they don't see life.
And to me, that's what gives my world color, Like
the world is so ft, So sorry world, it's not you,
I love you, planet, it's it's us.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
We f it up.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
And you know, I think this is hell. But that's
a whole other that's.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Another podcast episode.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
But it gives it gives my life color, it gives me,
it gives me purpose.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I get it. But you know what THO like, I
think that this is a perfect example of life what's
going on right now this moment you because you realize
that reality perception like totally literally, like everyone is programmed
so differently because like the way you express yourself right now.
But I've felt that there have been moments in my
(33:12):
life where I've felt exactly what you're saying right now.
And then you know, comes a day where I'm like,
my life is so beautiful, you know, like yeah, but
you know what that teaches me. It teaches me that
it's like nothing nothing in life really has a set
(33:33):
meaning to it.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
My cousin literally says nothing matters us.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
That puts the meaning to things, and it is it's
very powerful everything.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
I literally because I'm not going to pay any bills.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Well, I was just about to say that our entire
concept of currency is the assigning of a value to
a piece of paper that are my money is numbers
on a screen, right like it's made up. There's not
a room in a bank in the world somewhere that
has my money.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
And like that it's it's all.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
We've all agreed university to give you know, this piece
of paper value exact and abide by you know the
system that you know the towers me and by the way,
oh my god, I know the diamic like.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
What what what if?
Speaker 7 (34:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
No, no, no, it wasn't. I was going to share
a conspiracy.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
There for the conspiracy segment of the episode.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Really here, I'm kidding. No, no, no, that's not what
I was going to say. That's not But I also
wasn't going to say a conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
So yeah, never mind.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I was super excited.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Do you want to you want to dive into some conspiracy?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Do you have a good one that you want to
let me into?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, listen to me. We go down that hole. It's
not coming up.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You're right right right for post post pot cast cost podcast.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Well, we have a very where's my other?
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Here it is my ass before you leave us today
and before we go what so sad on your side?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
By the way, space juice, space juice full.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Of ideas, nobod we should give people water with green
food coloring.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Okay, I'd be sick. And that's said I like that,
Oh I just throw up in my mouth.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Okay, before you leave us, which I really hope you
know you're back, welcome back, anything, anytime we could sit
here for hours and talk to you talk.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
For me too.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I'm gonna try, but now we gotta.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yeah, yeah, that's like, that's it.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Anyway, before we go to everybody's favorite oxpressions network, I
would love to hear what is in the future for
you and where to look out for you in these
next couple of years. And also if you have any
advice for anybody out there that you know loves creating
(36:22):
and like maybe can't find a connection to it.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Damn, I mean, I don't know, you know, like what
I feel to say because and this is only because
I've I've lived, like the experiences that I've collected have
led me to like this being these being like the
lessons that I've taken with me the most right at
this point in my life is that I would I
(36:51):
would highly incentivize anyone that wants to like create or
be in the creative world to not attach their self
worth to the definition of like society's success. You know,
don't attach your word to your product or whatever it is.
You're creating, you know, getting validation or succeeding, because then
you just you're capping your your full potential, you know.
(37:13):
I feel like I feel like if you I feel like,
if you fall in love with the creative process and
you truly fall in love with like the community that
it creates, if you have a healthy relationship with the
why you do it, I feel like that's the most
important question when you're going to create something. Why are
you doing it? Why are you doing it? And then
who are you doing it for? Right? Because like I
(37:37):
actually heard a saying once. It's said success is measured
by the size of the problem you're solving, multiplied by
the amount of people you're solving it for. And when
I heard that, I was like, wow, that was there's
power in that in that statement. But you can even
kind of shape it, like if you were to shape
that same phrase to personal success. The size of the
(37:59):
problem you're solving multiplied by the amount of people you're
solving for and ultimately you is such a big number,
such a huge number. So that phrase, for me, it
applies to even self, like your journey with yourself as
opposed to the why outside of yourself you know, why
are you doing it? And I feel like, you know,
(38:21):
if that why and that who is in the right place,
the outcome You're gonna love. You're gonna love it, You're
gonna feel successful, regardless of what the outcome of something
with the right intention, you know, it is done as
a creative. As a creator. I just think that that's
such a a very big purpose to carry, you know.
(38:46):
So and in regards to where you like, you know,
as you know, we're working on the album, you know,
and I'm very excited on the real estate side of
(39:09):
what we're doing. Like I got the chance to go
back to my hometown, Hialia, where I'm from, and partner
up with some amazing dudes, you know, and partner up
with the biggest real estate developer in the city of Hialeah,
which is the fifth largest city in the state of Florida.
A lot of people don't know that, but it's a massive, massive,
(39:30):
massive market and uh and what I love about Hili,
I truly genuinely can say that I'm a Miami boy. Yes,
not a lot of places in Miami have the roots,
like the culture and the roots fried that Hyaliah has.
Like you don't you don't see it. Like I've never
heard someone say, hey, don't talk about brigle like that. Yeah,
(39:58):
yeahs name mouth, Like I've never heard that in my life,
Like and you can apply that to that. I've never
heard that from Miami Beach, from Miami Beach man. Yeah, yeah,
never heard that never, Like we have that Brooklyn Pride
and and Hialeah. I've always said that h is for
hustle because you're you're you're taught that and but what
(40:21):
that stands for. I love what that stands for. And
on the real estate side and a creative to be
able to partner up and you see now the entertainment
district that we're developing over dis Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Go visit him in He's hot.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
He's got food trucks delicious and that I'm excited to see.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
And it's a part of my childhood because my uncle
that's the first business that he had when he came
to this country. He was a food truck driving. Story.
Like people people like may see like an ali of
food trucks and they're like, oh, that's but there's like
there's a reason, there's a vibe reason for everything we're
doing there. So I'm really excited about what we're creating
on the on the real estate.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Side and telling you reconsider that my position.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
No, no, no, I have I like my life.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
We creatives can't.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Be down, can we can't.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I don't know how they do it, to be honest,
you like, I just like I know a lot of
politicians and you know, respect respect to like put your
life under that type of pressure because we all face
like different pressure. But like I could, I could, like
have a drink at a bar, right, Nobody's nobody's going
to be like, you know what, what are you doing
(41:32):
here drinking your sorrows away?
Speaker 4 (41:34):
I'm collecting experiences.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
You can't see. Mayor't drunk at a bar. And by
the way, why you would think yeah, I mean, at
the end of the day, I get it, Like, yes,
they have responsibilities and whatnot, but they're human beings too.
Maybe we just need politicians that are willing to normalize.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
You know, the the.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
That they parlam had just elected their first the youngest
person to ever be a part of the Parliament, that
she's twenty one years old, she's two months old.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
You know what, Like, would you ever see Mayor Steve
Bobo cit.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Here in space in my whole world.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Like maybe maybe, by the way, if there's a mayor
that would do it. I think that guy is cool
of got like I got a mad love for him.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Well, at least you have a key already. He's got
to give you a key.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
I always said. I was like, when I know, the
key to a city is like a like token of
like yes, you know. But I've always said, like people
should be involved in giving a key to the city.
There should be a vote.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Look, we're gonna call your dad, you know what I'm saying,
because people's choice.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
What is like.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
To tell you so like it's like, but it's usually
the politicians that give it, which is nice, but for
the people to be a part of giving that even.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Nicera, We're gonna call your dad.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
He's gonna bring the limo, dust off the limo and
we're gonna show up at city hall.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Yeah, and pretend you're a politician.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
It's funny thing.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
It's for the Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 8 (43:04):
For a long time, I thought I wanted to go
into politics because I care a lot about like different
humanitarian issues and I would like to think that I
could be a problem solver at that level. But then
I realized what you just said, which is I'd have
to answer to somebody and that I cannot.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And it's crazy. I've always because honestly speaking, even as
a politician like you have to understand that you could
have all the intentions in the world of changing things,
but at the end of the day, we live in
a system where they've they've made the president a part
of the system, but not the integral part of the system. Yeah,
(43:42):
the president will be replaced every four years, every eight years.
It's the power behind the power that keeps the system
and the machine runner. So you have to you have
to know truly how intricate and deep that system is
rooted and works, and you have to have relationships and
you have to have a series of so many things
and timing and other allies and the right allies and
(44:03):
whatnot to change an entire machine. You know, it's not
rigged that way. And that's why local municipality like we
should vote more, we can action because we can make
more change. We truly can and know we have a
mayor now in Hialiah that honestly, if it wasn't if
it wasn't for that mayor, like the things about entertainment,
(44:25):
like our generation having a seat at the table, you know,
is important. That's something that local municipality can really really help.
Like all right, it's your turn. How can we like
what can we do our parks and rec system? Dude,
I'd love to see it resemble a little more like
like reality nowadays, right, like a baseball field, a basketball court.
(44:46):
That's not I love those things. I grew up going
out to parks and whatnot, but that's not the reality nowadays.
Like that's not the only reality. Like how do we
how do we have a park that still looks like
it did one hundred years? You know what I'm saying?
Where where's the innovation renovation there?
Speaker 1 (45:03):
You know?
Speaker 3 (45:03):
So like yeah, forward thinking local municipalities that that can
really bring solutions and want to work along with city
members and whatnot. That's that's essential. And only the people
can can create that type of opportunity for themselves if
like we cared more about voting locally, you know, I
think it's important.
Speaker 9 (45:19):
And four, he's like Goda, that was super mayor, that
was super mayor of you.
Speaker 10 (45:31):
Now we take that clip and we make a fake
we like we make we sign you up and paid, like, Hi,
I'm running for We take that, he said.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Really quickly, and just say choose me, pick me love
say that please.
Speaker 6 (45:54):
Okay, guys, I'm atty ready to find out what's happening
in outer space.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Yes, you're not the only one working hard. Outer space
works harder. Get ready for everybody's.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Favorite news network, Space News.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
All right, earthlings, This week in space Space News.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
Icon Award is going to be announced December fifth, which
also happens to be my birthday. That's right, So we're
gonna be celebrating prestigious honors in space. And I don't
want to toot my own horn or nominating myself, but
vote for me.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
It's my birthday.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Okay, all right, that was awesome. By the way, I
only knew how to say that. She was gonna say,
my birthday is just like the fifth Take we do?
Speaker 4 (46:33):
Yeah, now he's shading yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
Scientists have discovered the ghost of an ancient megaplate.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
That doesn't.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
You, guys, get through it?
Speaker 1 (46:50):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
You're a professional?
Speaker 4 (46:52):
I'm sorry, is not the worst than me?
Speaker 3 (46:56):
All right.
Speaker 6 (46:57):
Scientists have discovered the ghost of an h mega planet
that disappeared twenty million years ago. You can now see
footage captured by NASA of this ghost planet going wogety
woggany woggany and hunting all the.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Other planets for revenge.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
This is for real?
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Is that fake?
Speaker 4 (47:12):
So the first half is always true and the second
part is always a lie. And now what everybody has
been waiting for?
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Hold on, what you mean the ghost of a planet? No?
Come on, yeah, how do you find the ghost of
a planet?
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Well, go look it up. I just read this is
just the news source here.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
What do you mean, Space's favorite source of news?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Alright, sorry, space news.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Yeah, the website it's called the Space News.
Speaker 7 (47:41):
So anyway, all right, and now the moment we've all
been waiting for the eclipse, Mercury is no longer in
the regato, but the sun is.
Speaker 6 (47:52):
Here to f you all up, So open up that
third eye, stage all of your holes and hope for
the best.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
What did you say about your holes? This is been yez.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Well.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
I can't say it enough. Thank you for joining us.
You're welcome to you guys out there.
Speaker 6 (48:11):
I've been aging to show with that lately because we
have some awesome people sitting across from us.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
So just the beginning of this conversation. Unfortunately, you guys
won't hear the rest, but it sucks to be you.
Thanks for listening to this one.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
I love you, I love you, Stay next week.
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Bye.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
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