December 6, 2023 • 45 mins
In Episode 5 of The Exchange presented by WynnBet Nick Mangold and Mark Sanchez are joined by actor and Jets fan, Anthony Ramos. 4:35 - Where Ramos' love for the Jets started and his experiences at home games this season 12:25 - How a talent show helped spark his acting career after wanting to be a baseball player 21:12 - What a week-in-the-life is for Ramos while he's currently filming 8 shows 34:44 - Rapid-fire questions
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Exchange podcast presented by wind Bet. I
am Nick Mangled, joined with me by my good buddy
Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Mark, how we doing? Are you getting in the holiday study?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
If I are any better, it'd be against the law.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Durned straight?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Are you getting in the holiday spirits? Getting ready to go?
Christmas time? Right around the corner?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm midway through a pumpkin spice Lotte season.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Baby, you would you would be a little PSLs in
your life. You're You're the worst. So I feel like
I forget which coach told me, and I don't know
if it was Rax or who, but the back when
we were sixteen game season, the season was split up
into quarters first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter.
So now entering into the fourth quarter, what was that
(00:51):
for you? Playing in December because it's starting to get cold,
especially here in New York, you're getting cold, You're getting
the weather. Did you like it? Was it the excitement
of you know, are finishing strong? What are your thoughts
on December football?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, I knew it was important to win in December.
I knew the idea from other coaches was the crescendo
right into the playoffs. But for a silkow boy. That
was not easy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It was not easy.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I remember the we would have two days off. I
remember going outside with Veto and Gus, our equipment staff guys.
Brendan Berger was a part of that staff. He's no
longer there, but Vito and Gus are still there. Veto
obviously featured epily and hard knocks, as he should be,
but he would take me outside. They'd wet footballs and
(01:45):
I would play catch with them and Shotty and Kavanaugh
and other staff members to make sure I was ready
for these cold winters. And that was after I had
to put away my rainbow sandals and exchange those out
for some ug boots. M was some actual shoes. Yeah,
so that was It wasn't my favorite time and my
(02:10):
favorite climate. Didn't love that because I'm used to Christmas
like Santa brought to you a bike and it's on
the front doorstep and I go outside with like a
take top shorts and flip flocks.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Not, you know, bundled up and cold winter at football.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Was we managed?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You managed? We did? We did.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I love it the football when it got cold, it
was the best place to do. It was all furry,
I get high schools and my beard and everything that was.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It was sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It was when football is meant to be played, but
also in the wintertime. Talking about gifts, and this is
something we've started doing with my kids. Instead of buying
a whole bunch of junk they don't need, we started
doing daddy and mommy dates, and so we started doing
more Broadway shows. Who right, So if it's cold outside,
(03:01):
go inside where it's warm. And so I've been doing
a little bit more on the Broadway, but not anywhere
your level. Don't get me wrong, I'm still still not
quite there, but we've been doing something.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Call me when you get it here, bro, I'll.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Never get there. No one's on your level.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So I think that is a fun little segue to
our guests that we have today. And it's another banger.
So I got to go through the whole list. It's
Grammy Award winning, Golden Globe, an Emmy nominated actor and
recording artists, and obviously Jets fan Anthony Ramos. I think
it's going to be a good one. I'm excited about it.
I got some questions, I got some I want a
(03:40):
little Broadway action, I got some movie questions. So it
should be a fun little interview. So let's get to it, right,
Let's just get into it. You know, neck, you know
what break a leg bud like that? That theater talk
fair NICs.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We'd like to bring in Grammy Award winning Golden Globe,
Emmy nominated Actor, recording artists, and most importantly, Jets fan
Anthony Ramos. What's up, brother? Thanks for coming?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh oh, thanks for having me. Thanks for having me fellas.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm really excited to have you here and I appreciate
you taking the time. So how has this year been
for you as a Jets fan with the excitement and
everything and seeing the crowd. You know, obviously things haven't
gone as exactly as we planned, but I'll tell you what.
The crowd has been fantastic for these home games. What
has your experience been like for some of these games?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, no, I mean I've been a couple.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I went to when when when we played the Chiefs
that we should have won. You know, the referees had
their eyes closed the whole game. Uh they you know,
they worked, you know, the before they all put on
blind folds before they got to the field.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That day made a collective.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Decision, and and then there was there was a there
was a game where where you know, Aaron Rodgers the
first game of the season that I was at and
uh where unfortunately he got hurt And yeah, I was
in the parking lot walk into the stadium, h and
(05:12):
I got there just after, and everybody everybody was like, yo,
Aaron Rodgers got hurt and I'm listening. So I'm listening
on my phone on the radio while I'm walking to
the stadium, and oh man and and me and all
the rest of the people. You can see just just
walking into the stadium deflated, but everybody was everybody, everybody
(05:35):
was still a hype, like you said, like the crowd
was was super in it and and that was a
crazy win.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was such an electric crowd in the beginning too.
And uh, I was fortunate enough to be there on
the field, you know for the player intros and like
that atmosphere was just wild. So I look forward to that.
I feel like Jets fan's had this excitement and hopefully
that you will continue that going uh, you know, as
we continue with these games. But talk about you know,
(06:05):
being from Brooklyn, where your love of the Jets came from.
You know, did it start early on? Did you come
into it a little bit later? What's your what's your story?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I think it was like, you know, the Vinny Testa
Verdi and Curtis Martin like those you know, like like
you know that team, you know. I started loving the
Jets then. And then I remember I can't remember if
Testa Verdi got hurt or what it was, but Chad
Pennington had to go in and then when when you know,
and then I started really loving the way Chad Pennington
(06:36):
was playing.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
He ain't have like the mad velocity on the ball,
but he had super accuracy.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
And uh, and I remember like there was this thing
as I was as I was growing up, I was
it was like a six year span where the Jets
made the playoffs every other year.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
So I knew it was like it was like an
even number in the year we might.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, Mark, like watching you bro was fire, like you know,
I just you know, and then guys like Darrell Reeves
and and uh, you know, I've been.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
A fan for for a long time.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
And then and then like for two years, I just
like I don't know why, I just wasn't watching football
and then for the last three years I came back.
I was like, man, I love this, I love you know.
So I'm like, I go to I go to most
of the games when I'm in New York. But I've
been you know, I've been a Jets fan since since
I was a kid. And you know, it started with
my brother and and you know, he loved the Jets,
(07:31):
and then you know, so did so did my father.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So, so that's that's that's kind of how that's how,
that's kind of how I that developed my love for
the team.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I love that. What about Uh, well, first of all,
do we need to talk about.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
But this is the thing though, I got the frizz going.
I don't know whatever you're using. Its glistening on my
screen right now. Bro, I have to look with a
brightness on my screen.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Because well I just picked up I just it's so good.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, you played for the Jets when you were a kid.
We did a little research.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
So this is what happened.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
So I was starting the season with this team and
then I quit because it was gonna be uh because
I always had like I was playing.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I played the first few games with them, the Rigdale Jets.
I was playing cornerback.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But but then I stopped because I was like, yo,
I'm a baseball player, man, I gotta like, I gotta
focus on the game that I like am actually like
really want to make it. I mean, I was never
going to make it into the major leagues.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I knew that.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Later on, I was like, oh no, I don't think
that's it, but I'll find something new.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
But uh, but.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You know, I just quickly started learning.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I'm like, wow, these guys are like massive, and these
guys are throwing like ninety five, these.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Kids from like Texas, and I'm like I can't I
can't do this. I can't compete.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So but uh but yeah, football man. I loved football,
and even in high school, I would train with the team.
Uh you know, I would train with the football players
because they were just you know, they just worked out
really hard, and I would go on all the games.
And at school. One of my favorite players at school
was my boy Larry Gashi, who ended up playing D
one and now he's like a mad famous rapper.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh wow, yo crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
We liked the two from our school that like went
into the entertainment industry, and we were both I was
playing baseball. It was like a star football player. And
every time we hang out we talked about Yo, my
man had hands though.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Have gone to any like high school reunions?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nah?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Man, I don't know why my school they don't even
they don't. They don't bother with that. They don't do
the high school reunion thing. I don't know if it's budgets,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm like, we have one coming up, I think in
the summer. I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Where where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Misster be Alent in southern California. But one of my
best friends is like on was on studient body or whatever.
So she's planning it and she's like.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You have to go. You have to go.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Of all people, I was like, Oh, I don't know.
Why would you be nervous to give you a hard time?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't know. God, this isn't about me, this is
about Anthony.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We'll get back. We'll circle back to that later.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Nick. No, but I need a full scouter report of
your cornerback abilities. Like you're coming out in the draft,
what are your strengths?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Is it speed? Is it? You know? Aggressivemit?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You know, because like if you see like you know
how it works in the draft, Like if it's a
d lineman, you know, and he's got certain characterists, they
say he's got a motor and he plays through the
snap blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
What are your What are your stats? Bro? What are
your I mean you know.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I definitely had speed. I had I had pretty good
instincts when I was playing, you.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Know, like, okay, so awareness is high.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I like that. You know.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I was definitely uh it was you know, I would
find myself in the right place at the right time,
you know, like interception, you know what I'm saying. So,
so I was you know, I uh, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I think it was really like some of these just
some of these guys are just huge, you know what
I'm saying. So it's like, you know, uh my, my, my,
my tackling, you know, I was, it was, it was.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It was down load, man, I was.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I was, you know, I couldn't some of these guys
in mass I wasn't trying to get run over.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Bro. You know, so I'm like, yo.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Okay, so you know the ankle bitter ankle biter type
I got.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
An I'm rocking them in the back of the knees,
illegal tackles only.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You talk about you know, and and I quarter back
a little bit. I played a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I was don't don't bury the league.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Lead again, I buried the league?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, yeah, you sling it all right, Well we'll talk
about slinging the rock later, all right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Now you talk about, yeah, transitioning from you know, the
sports and when you know, everyone getting bigger and everything
and and into something else. When did you decide what
you want to transition to? And obviously, with your success
that you've had, I think you made the right decision. Again,
I didn't see any high school films, so I can't
say for certain. I'm pretty sure you made the right decision.
(12:31):
For what was that transition like for you? And how
did you get into it?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I think that it was just really like, you know,
I was, I was actually I was playing baseball, man,
and I was I was. I was on the field,
and I was just kind of like, I was like, Yo,
this ain't it, man. I don't think I don't think
this is this is my path anymore. And I just
you know, I just stopped coming to the games, man,
And I really I like coach was mad. Uh but
(13:01):
you know, because I took the jersey and didn't get
it back, Like, yo, I'm bad, bro, like I forgot
and and uh but but I was.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I was.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I started doing theater, you know, in high school, and
you know, I kind of backed my way into it.
I auditioned for a talent show. I thought it was
I thought it was a talent show because I was,
you know, I like to you know, I was singing
in junior high school and I had like a group.
We used to sing Temptation songs at the assemblies and
and then.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I just I stopped. I didn't sing for a while.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I was playing more sports, and then finally I auditioned
for this talent show ended up being a musical that
gave me a lead part in the show. First, I
didn't want to do it because I was like, yo,
that's crazy, Like I'm not gonna memorize all those lines,
you know what I'm saying. But the teacher's like, no,
you should really try it. You should give it a shot.
So all right, you know what, whatever, Sure, why not?
(13:54):
And I got on stage and I was playing this
like character. I was playing Zeus in this show that
the students wrote, and I'm wearing like this burger king
cardboard crown with like a like a blanket for a cloak,
and you know, I'm singing this song and and and
I was like, I feel ridiculous right now, but this
this is, this is this is an amazing feeling like
(14:16):
I'm having a good time. So I just kept going.
And uh, and I just you know, I stopped sports, man.
I mean, I was gonna go play D three h
ball just you know. The school was gonna get me
money to go play. And I had no really no major.
I was just gonna figure out what I wanted to
do in school. But all my applications get withdrawn from
every school that I applied to because we didn't get
the financial aid forms in in time. And and that
(14:39):
my teacher she comes up to me, man, like an angel.
She's like, yo, like I want you to audition for
this one school in New York called AMDA and this
conservatory and uh, and I you know, I had never
really been on in a formal audition before. But she
helped me with the material, man, and I got into
the school.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
She helped me.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I didn't have the money to to even go to
the school and she you know, she gave my name
to the Jerry Seinfeld Scholarship Foundation at the time, and
I ended up meeting them and my grades weren't even
that good. But I was just like, yo, look man,
I just need a shot, Like I just need somebody
give me a chance, you know. And and and this, uh,
this woman, Kate Finnerman, a good friend of mine, now
she was you know. I left that meeting and the
(15:20):
school called me for a loan. I'm like, can you
give me one more day? I didn't really know what
I was gonna do with another day. But then the
scholarship called me and they're like, yo, we'll pay. You know,
we don't usually give the scholarship out the people your grades,
but you know, we're gonna pay for.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Your school for all four years where.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
And that was just like a you know, that was
like a moment where I knew, like, all right, this
is exactly you know, this is exactly where where where
I want to be.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Now my focus now, my focus is on trying to
find movies about sports to make as opposed to playing
sports professional.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I got it, so I got a quarterback you could
probably play, you know, the rise, rise and fall of
Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Maybe yeah, still, bro.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You see what I dealing You see what I deal with?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Damn all of hater bro.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, hold on, let's change the subject. Nick Rude looks.
I want to know this teacher's name because I feel
like that's the story, that's the common thread between so
many people's opportunity, the one person who gives them the
extra notch and you get the opportunity. However it works
out and whoever it lines up. Those kind of things
are huge. So who's this teacher? We got to give
her something?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, her name is Sarah stein Wise.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
She's like one of my best friends now, you know,
like she's mentors. Yeah, man, she's you know, she did
this for a lot of students at the school. Man,
Like Larry's another one. Larry's another one is that you
know when he's playing football. You know a lot of
I think a lot of the a lot of a
lot of kids. You know who we grew up with.
They were going through a lot and you know, came
(16:59):
from kind of rough neighbors and and you know, she
was one of those teachers that really just she mentored
a lot of us, and she didn't really give up
on us, even though we weren't the easiest, uh, the
easiest people to deal with, honestly, Like, I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Know how she dealt with us. You know, we were wild,
We were crazy, bro. It was a wild.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Group of young teenagers running wild and uh. And you know,
but she really like yah, she she just she always
saw the best in us, you know. And and I
think that the more patient she was with us, the
more we were able to see, you know, even a
little bit of what she saw in us, you know,
which helped us keep you know, which helped us keep going,
(17:40):
and which helped us like kind of you know know
that you know what, Yeah, maybe maybe there is a
maybe there is a chance for me in this world.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, maybe I can be more than I thought
I was going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You know what I'm saying, just a little nudge and
a little belief. What about has she seen you perform?
She seen you in commercials obviously that she's seen you
in Hamilton and movies and all that.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, man, So she came.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All of my premieres, you know, in the last the
last premiere we was at was Transformers, and uh, you know,
so she was there.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You're the human and Transformers.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah yeah, and uh so she she you know, so
she was there, and I mean it was a massive premiere,
like it was crazy. We did it in Brooklyn, which
was wild, like at the King's Theater, so that it
was just cool to you know, and I had all
my friends and all my homies from like yo, like
I'm talking about I came deep and you know, it
(18:38):
was just it was just amazing too, you know, to
have her there, and then you know, I had you know,
some of my other teachers and mentors you know, who
flew out just to you know, just to support.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Man and be there and uh, you know.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
So it was it was really really cool too. It's
always cool to share that kind of stuff with her,
you know what I'm saying. Like then we like call
each other next day in debris.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
That was crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
That was wowd Man, Like, you know, yeah, so it
was she she comes to all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
What does she say about your So I have a
really good friend who works with me at Fox Calling Games.
His name is Steven Brown and the only thing he
will drink is Crown Royal. Yeah, and you're the Crown
Royal guy.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dog.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So you know, I went through all this stuff. I
always like bounce ideas off of him. He's got a
good for media and all that. He was a former
coach and probably will coach again. But we go through
all these things. I'm like, dude, he's got an album
and he's got the Transformers thing. He's got that, and
I'm trying to like categorize it before the deal and bro,
you're forgetting the most important part.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So what's up.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
He goes Crown Royal, Crown Royal Man to the Elixir
of the Gods, Like he's just going on and on
about all this Crown Royal.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Bro, that's all you have.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, I'll be Yeah. I saw some guy on the street.
He said, uh, he just he looked a.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Little tank last he looked a little like he like
he had a few crowns. And he goes the guy
like he looks at me. At first, we're talking, we're
having a conversation about something that happened, and then he like, double.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Hey, you're famous. Your famous. I'm like, nah, bro, I
don't know what you're talking about. Crowd Royal.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I'm like, of all them yo, all time. Bro, Yo,
you the dude from the Hennessey commercial. Right, sure, the
dark alcohol.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Uh, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Let's talk a little quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I got a quick question for your time on Hamilton,
because you know, everyone always asks us about our schedule,
football schedule, and you know you play on Sunday and
what your week looks like. I gotta give it to
the Broadway actors and acts because you guys are going like,
how how is that schedule? How do you do all
(21:02):
those shows and rehearsals and everything?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What's that schedule look like?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And give us like peel back that curtain a little
bit into what that week looks like for you.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yo, Well, it's it's eight shows a week man, So
it's you know, usually two on Wednesday too on Saturday.
If the producers hate the cast, they'll do five show weekends.
Uh uh you know, and uh yo, you're just like
it's a it's a grind man. You get Mondays off,
which is the day that no one's doing anything, you know,
(21:36):
so you got Monday off. But it's like no one's
trying to have a drink on Monday, you know. But
you know it's like, ain't nobody going for brunch on Monday?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You know, so.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It's it's but it's it's a grind man like you.
And then sometimes you know, you're rehearsing before the show.
Sometimes if they got to if somebody called out, they
got to put somebody in.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Then understudy got it.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
You know, the whole cast has to come in to
rehearse with the person that's about to go.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
On and and then do the show at night.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
So sometimes you have the theater four hours before you
even are doing the show. And Hamilton was you know,
almost three hours, so that that show was a grind man.
You know, it was that that show was definitely you know,
I mean, you know, but I mean, look, what you
guys do is is is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
You guys are traveling and I was like, I thought
about this.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I'm like your athletes you got to be a little
crazy to be I'm talking about like, yeah, you're in
a different state, you like, I mean, you're traveling to
different places every every single week.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You got to pay taxes in all them states. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's you know, you know what I'm position though, I
would just caution you it's by position. Quarterbacks, totally normal,
offensive line, little little different.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, we are different were We're definitely different people.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
True.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Broadways a grind bro, it's a grind man. But it's fun, man,
you know, it's cool. It's nothing like live theater. Man.
It's like when you guys get out there in place.
It's just that feeling, man, when you feel the crowd.
And every night when we would come out, you know,
it felt like we were playing MSG.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
It thirteen hundred people in the theater, but I felt
like twelve thousand. It was so loud every single night.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I've gotten Mark obviously is a big Broadway guy from
his time here and probably even before and after. I've
gotten into it recently because we started giving our kids
Christmas presents instead of giving them junk they don't need,
we get them experiences, and so we've been doing a
lot more Broadway plays. So I'm starting to get into
it and get the feeling and seeing different shows. And
(23:43):
I think actually Hamilton is on our list this year.
I think that's what my son wants to go see,
so I'm pretty excited about it. But it is it's
amazing watching these performances and what you guys do on
that stage and how you get the crowd into it,
and like how you get so sucked into it? You know,
I don't think I appreciate it as well as I
should have from a whole time here, but really taking
a liking to it. But that transition that you've had
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from the stage to the big screen, how's that been?
Was that something you always wanted to do? Did you
want to get out of theater and go to the
movie side? And especially with the release of the new
movie Dumb Money that was just released, like that, is
that something like you wanted to do or it just
happened naturally?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Now I think, you know, movies, I love movies, man,
Like I've wanted to do movies since I started acting.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I was just like like this, this is where I
want to end up, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And and I.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Love the art of making film. I loved the you know,
the process of it. And you know, my first time,
my first time being you know, actually getting the lead role.
And this was it wasn't in a movie, but a
TV show was with Spike Lee when I just she's
got to have it on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So he turned his first commercial hit into a TV show.
We did two seasons of it.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
And I played the character that he played in the
movie Mar's Blackman, and here, Yo's black Man's black Man.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Money.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You know, honey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
You know what I'm saying. He knows, Yo, I'm telling you.
Man like Yo, Spike and Spike. I remember, so he
came to the show. We came to Hamilton and he's
over here. He's sitting in the second row of the audience.
I'll never forget it. And he's clapping mad aggressively and pointing.
After the show, clapping aggressively and pointing. And this is
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on the bow. So I bowed through the first bow.
I get up and then my boy Chris was standing
next to me. He's like, he ain't pointing at me.
And then we get it and I'm like, you know what.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I had a moment. I'm like, yo, Spike, me like,
is he pointed at me?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yo?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
He comes backstage, he'sai, yoyo, my man, my man, come, come, come,
he come.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
He come here to take a picture and take a picture.
I'm like, Spike, do you want a picture with me?
I was like, all right, yeah, sure man.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Uh And then I get a call like had to
be probably I don't even it had to be like
like a couple of weeks later or a month later,
and all this said was Antony Spike, Spike Lee. And
it was the shortest, the shortest voice, man, I ever
(26:26):
got my entire life, super direct, straight to the point.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And I called him back.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
He's like, Yo, once you meet me in my office,
you know, I go meet him at his office.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
He's like, so, I got a roll, I got this
thing I'm doing. She gotta have you ever seen it?
I was like nah. So he pulls the DVD out
and hands it to me. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and he's.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Like, yo, ma's Mare's Blackly you know, I want you
to And then yeah, man, then I just I did
an audition for the studio for Netflix and he gave
me the role. And that was my first you know,
like lead role on a TV show. And then and
then that was it. Bro I did The Stars Born,
and then Godzilla and I started, I started, you know,
you know, going into getting into films and stuff like that.
(27:12):
And then like you know, In the Heights happened, and
you know, Hamilton, we had already made that movie that
was you know, and they just put it out.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
They put it out years later, but we had we
had shot that film like four years before that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And then yeah, like Marvel happened and Transformers and stuff
like that. So you know, it just all the music,
you know, and it all just kind of started weaving together.
And then you know, obviously you know the Crown, the
Crown commercial and.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Which Spike lead directed.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Come on, yeah, but Spike, Spike called me basically, he goes,
your way, I got something like what you got?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
He's like, y'all I'm working on Yeah. He said, don't
let your agents mess it up.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Dude, dude, That's that's how I'd imagined it would happen.
But that's really cool.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I was like, no doubt, bro, And and then and
then he goes yo, and another thing, I want your mom,
your real mom.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So you got my mom my mom? You know books
are first national commercial?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Uh? Director too hell of an entrance. Well, feel free
to drop my number. Remind him of our hairt connection. Uh,
I'll get you that email you my info just in
case Spike wants.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
See that. Nick.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Things are taken off.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It was just it's all right.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
This way that way keeps going. Mony buzz pretty much.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Tell some nice tell me, I think I have an
idea when you talked about going back to Brooklyn for
a premiere and the whole squads there, everybody before you
become this massive star, but your family, your heritage. You're
a part of this por La Dura h campaign with
(29:15):
the NFL and what that means to you, because I've
felt that in the NFL, and I'm Mexican. I know
you're Puerto Rican, but that Latino one support is unwavering
win loser does what I've kind of felt, and then
making it available two people, reminding them just like you
(29:36):
got reminded by that wonderful teacher of yours that hey man,
you got opportunity and it could be football, but it
could be something else, like work on yourself, find something
you love and get into it. And that whole you know,
push for por La Dura and your involvement. Why is
that important to you?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
I just you know, I when when I was you know,
one of my boys, Jesse Torrero was was directed and
he was directing the commercial and my my friend Lemon Anderson,
who who uh was working with the NFL a lot.
He's like, yo, you know we want to really, you know,
we want to really you know, you know, I know
he's like, yeah, I know you love you know, you
(30:15):
love football, you love sports, and and I want to
also bring that Latin culture and that Latin flavor, you
know what I'm saying to to you know, the commercials
and the things that that the NFL putting out to.
You know what I'm saying that we want to you know,
I feel like in the Latin community, at least growing
up in my experience, you know, even if we love
(30:37):
the game of football.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
We can't really see a lot of presence of Latino's
playing football, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Or maybe they did, but I didn't really see, you know,
Like Tony Gonzalez is one of my favorite players.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I met. I met him like recently, bro At. I
can't remember what it was. I was doing radio.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Row uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yo, And and I met him, and I almost didn't
even say anything to him because it's almost like yo, bro,
I froze because I'm like, Yo, like you a legend, bro,
like you are, Like Yo, I used to watch all
of this dude's games. Bro. I used to watch his highlights,
you know, And and.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
And I think that it was just you know, and
and also like yo, him being Latino Bro. It was
just like a thing, you know, like when you see
somebody that makes you feel like like you identify, you know,
with them.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
You're like, Yo, that's you know, that's that guy. Like
you know that's Mark Anthony, you know, something like that.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
You know, and and you know, so I think that
it was important for me to do that campaign because
I just I just felt, you know, and I wrote
the song for you know, I wrote the song for
the commercial Latino Thiebo, and it was just you know,
it was really like like you know, Latino Thibo, that
song is about being y know, we active, like we
hear you know, we let's get activated. You know, let's
(31:51):
get hyped about you know, let's get not not only
hyped about the game, but let's get hyped about about life,
you know, about the opportunities, the possibilities.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
The next that commercially they did was with this this
this girl thinks I can't remember she's she's an athlete
and she was the leader of the commercial.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
And I'm talking about you know. It was gorge and
beautiful Diane Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The was she the flag football y'all?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I think, yeah, that's her. That's her.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
And I got to play cats with her before a
game in London last year.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh yeah, she could spin it.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
She broke in. She's a beast.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I was like, yo, And you know, check that commercial
out if you haven't seen it. It's it was, I think,
the one that came out right after the one I did,
bro And.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
It was just it was it was beautiful, bro gorgeous.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
They shot it amazing like, and she she just shined
and and it just it just it made me like excited,
you know, excited for for more of those opportunities, you know,
and not just in football, but in sports in general.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You know, I love that my quick sidebar before we
go to our last couple of questions. But Tony Gonzalez
he uh was a former basketball player and then became
tight end. Played football obviously, but in the off season
I met him through a group of friends and we're
all played pick a basketball after my rookie season or
(33:14):
second season or something, and they're running up and down
the court and Tony stretching whatever, and we're on opposing teams.
And I hooped in high school a little bit, you know,
I got a little little sticky baseline jumper. I'm nothing special,
but I you know, I got a little so, you know.
So I'm feeling good and then I see Tony playing
and then they're like, hey, you match up with TG,
(33:36):
and I'm like, TG, oh to damn that. So he's
pretty big guy, you know, so I'm trying to you know,
guard him in the photo.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
He cut the first possession drop step two he had
ready to like dunk.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I just walked out of.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
The wet like I'm not boastered.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Bro.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah, basically I'm gonna go yeah, but I moved out
of the way, so he didn't quite get you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I I side stepped the embarrassment there, so.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I feel he said, you know, I was being generous.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Them on trying to give him the I trying to
give him the arm bar, like you know, it's low
bed dude.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm all right, dude, that's a big yo. Yeah, that's
a big guy. Bro.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
You know, wag me about like fifty pounds.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Oh wrong way class All right?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So, and you want to get to the last section
of our our episode here where we do quick fire questions, Right,
these are going to be really quick. First thing comes
to your mind nothing too crazy. So I'll hit you
the first one other than the two guys right here
on screen. Who's your favorite jet player that you've met.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
And I've met?
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Yo, you guys are my first, the first jets I've
ever met.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
No, no, I promise.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Wait what about when you go to the games? Don't
you go on the field and stunn because.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
I always get the right when the game starts. They
always tell me to come early and I never do.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
And you're on that, dude, I'm on that.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That that's on me.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
But I'm definitely that you guys are the first jets
I'm meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Then we'll take it perfect.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's the best.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
But who do you like more than.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Come on? Mark, chill, bro.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know you know you don't have to say it
right in front of me. I mean, jeez, okay, this
is okay.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm still I'm jumping ahead, Nick, and screw you for
this one, because this is the only one that makes these.
If you had to choose Broadway show or movie, we
ask everybody, but you're the best one to ask one.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
No movies, man, movies, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
All day long.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
The film guy, and the is better. That's a good point.
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's that's a good point. Are you a Peter Luger's
or a Dale Monico's guy.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Said Peter, no Ie strong subway?
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Now taxi all day? Bro?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Really yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I used to train all the time, but this it's
train's getting weird nowadays. Bro, I'm not gonna lie sobby
if I could, I gotta take a taxi.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Bro, I'm like, nah, quick, Uber, what's your favorite Burrow.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Brooklyn? Man maybe took over I.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Don't know, No, definitely Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Maybe Staten Island you never know?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Like is Actually how could I yet about that?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
It's pretty easy. It's the fifth one. I'm kidding. Staten Island.
I love you. That's next theme in this thing.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Dude, he hammers Staten, I don't hammer her.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I I truly enjoy Staten Island. I find it hilarious now,
you know what?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
You know, like Pete, Pete Davison. Pete Davison has opened
my mind, you know, Pete. I met Pete.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
He's like, Pete is so cool, and I'm like, you
know what, maybe Stanton IS's all right?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
You're from st because you worked with them. You worked
with them on Dumb Money, so what's the blur on
the on the movie.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Yeah, and he played you know, he played the lead
Transformer and uh, he played Mirage.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
He did the voice of Mirage.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
So me and Pete have a couple of times, like
I went to see him on set his show Buck Kiss.
That's amazing on Pete Cocky, y'all haven't seen it. It's
like it's it's him and Joe Peshy like crazy cast
and and then you know, and then we hung out
at the Transformers Mere and he's just like he's just
like a really cool dude. Bro, He's like a really
(38:04):
dope human being man and uh, just like super down
the earth, I mean, crazy man, talented, and he.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Loves his family, loves his friends.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
He rolls with his you know, with his crew that
he's been rocking with for a long time. So, you know,
Pete Pizza piece, dope man. I'm hoping I can get
another movie with him. You know, because even even in
Dumb Money, you know, we never saw each other because
we had no scenes together. So me and Pete hadn't
even met, Like we already had shot two movies that
were in the can, but had never met.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
And like, Bro, I've done two movies with this guy
and I've never met him.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
So that's when I went to set to go to
go hang with him. But yeah, he's he's the man bro.
He's so cool.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I love it. That's all right.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Last one for you. Would you rather go to the
top of the Empire State Building or to the Crown
of the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I'd like to go to the crowns and the Statue.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Of Liberty Drake's crowd and bring Crown Royal. Yeah, the crowd.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I love it. This is this has just been a
whole big promo for Crown.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I can't waiting pay dog, I'm just getting paid.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
So can we get a bonus?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
What are we doing than get it after the fact bonus?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
After the awesome. This has been fantastic. Thank you so
much for taking the time to talk with us and
chat it up a little bit about everything you have
going on. The Jets really appreciate you taking the time, of.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Course, of course.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, thank thanks for having me on the show.
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Speaker 2 (40:11):
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Speaker 1 (40:13):
Welcome back into the Exchange, presented by wind Bet. That
was awesome, very interesting. How I like how Anthony said
that he you know, saw the writing on the wall
with sports baseball and just transition to something else and
then goes on to be awesome at it.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
At multiple things.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
I mean, when you got talent like that, you know,
it's it's it's pretty cool to watch those kind of
artistic people, whether it's singing or playing instruments.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Or acting or whatever.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
It's just like, Wow, you have so much. You know,
you don't see it as much in sports. Maybe the
last person is like Deon Sanders, right, play multiple sports
or something. You have multiple talents like that, but like
true to be that accomplished in multiple avenues of your life,
that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
That's pretty promising career for me with Spike Lee. It
sounds like I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Kind of sounds like you're in And I'm glad I
didn't pull the what you did to who was the
wire actor where you recognize them for one of DJ's movies.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I didn't do that with Well, it's the other guys. No,
not the other guys. What was the name of the movie.
It was cartoon the bad Guys?
Speaker 2 (41:38):
He was? He was in that. What about it's a
good crew?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Who what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I'm talking about Anthony Ramos was in a cartoon movie.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I'm glad I didn't bring that up because.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That's something that sounds like I would do and I'd
mess up the name of it, like I couldn't remember
it right there? Guy, have you seen that one DJ watch.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
That I have not? No.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
DJ talked to me about it. I guess he saw
it with one of his buddies or something. But yeah,
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
That's really funny.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
And yeah, that's something I'm glad I didn't see it
because that would have.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Just come out swinging on it.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
In case, DJ, let's put Hamilton on the shelf here,
let's talk about this.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Let's talk about the X animated movie. In case DJ is
an avid listener, play it close to the vest. But
you got any big surprises for him for Christmas? Bring
anything out?
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Oh? Well, today was the end up flag football season,
and he's supposed to have a end of your pizza
party or whatever at the park. But if you can imagine,
it does rain in California, and so the world's gonna
(42:58):
end basically. And now we are going to an indoor
trampoline park and they have one of these huge courts.
It's like a soccer slash basketball thing, and the ground's
pretty spongy, and so now we're gonna have to have
our own little flag football game on that surface, which
I'm fired.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Up about, because please don't blow your knut.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
If you can imagine, I can, really, I can really.
Why would you say that?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Because I because we're getting older and I worry about
these things.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Why would you say that? I just why not just
be positive, like, hey, have a great time, be safe.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I asked you not, I asked you not to do it. No, don't,
don't say don't I ask you not.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I didn't say, don't.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Coach coach what you want when you're when your golf
coach is talking to you, do you want to say,
don't hit in the water, don't hit it in the sand. No,
they say, hey, turn your belly button into the target,
finish through the target, full swing, you know whatever. They
want to say, straight left ar not don't.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I should get a golf coach. That would probably help.
That might actually help. You have a golf coach. I
think you need a like coach, a life coach. Geez,
that hurts.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
And I'm available deep number.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Though for life coaching.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Oh yeah, there's one I'm not paying for.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
I got answers.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
They're not always good answers or correct answer, but I
got it.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
I got answers. Oh, you're on the Bart Scott plan.
He's always got an answer. It might not be correct,
but he's got an answer. He's never gonna never gonna
hit you with an I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
It's right. Yeah, he's never gonna hit you with that
He's gonna have an answer.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Might be completely wrong, but it's it's an answer, all right.
This is a lot of fun for a good, good episode.
Hopefully everyone enjoyed. Uh that was it was neat and
being able to talk on the Broadway stuff, because I
really have. I'm starting to get into it more and
it's it's it's awesome live theater and how immersive some
of these plays are has been fantastic. So I'm looking
(44:54):
forward to continuing that and hopefully maybe he uh he
gets back into.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
One and I could see coming to Fruist eight years later.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, I mean it took a little while, but I
got there, all right, leave me alone, all right, all right? Anyway,
thank you again, great great episode. I try to take
us out as only you know how.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Oh listen, be sure to rate, review, follow and listen
on the iHeartRadio app, on app podcast, or wherever you
get your podcast.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
You nailed this time. Thank you, and I look forward
to the next episode.
Welcome to the Exchange podcast presented by wind Bet. I
am Nick Mangled, joined with me by my good buddy
Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Mark, how we doing? Are you getting in the holiday study?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
If I are any better, it'd be against the law.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Durned straight?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Are you getting in the holiday spirits? Getting ready to go?
Christmas time? Right around the corner?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm midway through a pumpkin spice Lotte season.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Baby, you would you would be a little PSLs in
your life. You're You're the worst. So I feel like
I forget which coach told me, and I don't know
if it was Rax or who, but the back when
we were sixteen game season, the season was split up
into quarters first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter.
So now entering into the fourth quarter, what was that
(00:51):
for you? Playing in December because it's starting to get cold,
especially here in New York, you're getting cold, You're getting
the weather. Did you like it? Was it the excitement
of you know, are finishing strong? What are your thoughts
on December football?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, I knew it was important to win in December.
I knew the idea from other coaches was the crescendo
right into the playoffs. But for a silkow boy. That
was not easy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It was not easy.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I remember the we would have two days off. I
remember going outside with Veto and Gus, our equipment staff guys.
Brendan Berger was a part of that staff. He's no
longer there, but Vito and Gus are still there. Veto
obviously featured epily and hard knocks, as he should be,
but he would take me outside. They'd wet footballs and
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I would play catch with them and Shotty and Kavanaugh
and other staff members to make sure I was ready
for these cold winters. And that was after I had
to put away my rainbow sandals and exchange those out
for some ug boots. M was some actual shoes. Yeah,
so that was It wasn't my favorite time and my
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favorite climate. Didn't love that because I'm used to Christmas
like Santa brought to you a bike and it's on
the front doorstep and I go outside with like a
take top shorts and flip flocks.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Not, you know, bundled up and cold winter at football.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Was we managed?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You managed? We did? We did.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I love it the football when it got cold, it
was the best place to do. It was all furry,
I get high schools and my beard and everything that was.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It was sweet.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It was when football is meant to be played, but
also in the wintertime. Talking about gifts, and this is
something we've started doing with my kids. Instead of buying
a whole bunch of junk they don't need, we started
doing daddy and mommy dates, and so we started doing
more Broadway shows. Who right, So if it's cold outside,
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go inside where it's warm. And so I've been doing
a little bit more on the Broadway, but not anywhere
your level. Don't get me wrong, I'm still still not
quite there, but we've been doing something.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Call me when you get it here, bro, I'll.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Never get there. No one's on your level.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So I think that is a fun little segue to
our guests that we have today. And it's another banger.
So I got to go through the whole list. It's
Grammy Award winning, Golden Globe, an Emmy nominated actor and
recording artists, and obviously Jets fan Anthony Ramos. I think
it's going to be a good one. I'm excited about it.
I got some questions, I got some I want a
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little Broadway action, I got some movie questions. So it
should be a fun little interview. So let's get to it, right,
Let's just get into it. You know, neck, you know
what break a leg bud like that? That theater talk
fair NICs.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We'd like to bring in Grammy Award winning Golden Globe,
Emmy nominated Actor, recording artists, and most importantly, Jets fan
Anthony Ramos. What's up, brother? Thanks for coming?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh oh, thanks for having me. Thanks for having me fellas.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm really excited to have you here and I appreciate
you taking the time. So how has this year been
for you as a Jets fan with the excitement and
everything and seeing the crowd. You know, obviously things haven't
gone as exactly as we planned, but I'll tell you what.
The crowd has been fantastic for these home games. What
has your experience been like for some of these games?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, no, I mean I've been a couple.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I went to when when when we played the Chiefs
that we should have won. You know, the referees had
their eyes closed the whole game. Uh they you know,
they worked, you know, the before they all put on
blind folds before they got to the field.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That day made a collective.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Decision, and and then there was there was a there
was a game where where you know, Aaron Rodgers the
first game of the season that I was at and
uh where unfortunately he got hurt And yeah, I was
in the parking lot walk into the stadium, h and
(05:12):
I got there just after, and everybody everybody was like, yo,
Aaron Rodgers got hurt and I'm listening. So I'm listening
on my phone on the radio while I'm walking to
the stadium, and oh man and and me and all
the rest of the people. You can see just just
walking into the stadium deflated, but everybody was everybody, everybody
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was still a hype, like you said, like the crowd
was was super in it and and that was a
crazy win.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was such an electric crowd in the beginning too.
And uh, I was fortunate enough to be there on
the field, you know for the player intros and like
that atmosphere was just wild. So I look forward to that.
I feel like Jets fan's had this excitement and hopefully
that you will continue that going uh, you know, as
we continue with these games. But talk about you know,
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being from Brooklyn, where your love of the Jets came from.
You know, did it start early on? Did you come
into it a little bit later? What's your what's your story?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I think it was like, you know, the Vinny Testa
Verdi and Curtis Martin like those you know, like like
you know that team, you know. I started loving the
Jets then. And then I remember I can't remember if
Testa Verdi got hurt or what it was, but Chad
Pennington had to go in and then when when you know,
and then I started really loving the way Chad Pennington
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was playing.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
He ain't have like the mad velocity on the ball,
but he had super accuracy.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
And uh, and I remember like there was this thing
as I was as I was growing up, I was
it was like a six year span where the Jets
made the playoffs every other year.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
So I knew it was like it was like an
even number in the year we might.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, Mark, like watching you bro was fire, like you know,
I just you know, and then guys like Darrell Reeves
and and uh, you know, I've been.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
A fan for for a long time.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
And then and then like for two years, I just
like I don't know why, I just wasn't watching football
and then for the last three years I came back.
I was like, man, I love this, I love you know.
So I'm like, I go to I go to most
of the games when I'm in New York. But I've
been you know, I've been a Jets fan since since
I was a kid. And you know, it started with
my brother and and you know, he loved the Jets,
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and then you know, so did so did my father.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So, so that's that's that's kind of how that's how,
that's kind of how I that developed my love for
the team.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I love that. What about Uh, well, first of all,
do we need to talk about.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
But this is the thing though, I got the frizz going.
I don't know whatever you're using. Its glistening on my
screen right now. Bro, I have to look with a
brightness on my screen.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Because well I just picked up I just it's so good.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, you played for the Jets when you were a kid.
We did a little research.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
So this is what happened.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
So I was starting the season with this team and
then I quit because it was gonna be uh because
I always had like I was playing.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I played the first few games with them, the Rigdale Jets.
I was playing cornerback.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But but then I stopped because I was like, yo,
I'm a baseball player, man, I gotta like, I gotta
focus on the game that I like am actually like
really want to make it. I mean, I was never
going to make it into the major leagues.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I knew that.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Later on, I was like, oh no, I don't think
that's it, but I'll find something new.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
But uh, but.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You know, I just quickly started learning.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I'm like, wow, these guys are like massive, and these
guys are throwing like ninety five, these.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Kids from like Texas, and I'm like I can't I
can't do this. I can't compete.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So but uh but yeah, football man. I loved football,
and even in high school, I would train with the team.
Uh you know, I would train with the football players
because they were just you know, they just worked out
really hard, and I would go on all the games.
And at school. One of my favorite players at school
was my boy Larry Gashi, who ended up playing D
one and now he's like a mad famous rapper.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh wow, yo crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
We liked the two from our school that like went
into the entertainment industry, and we were both I was
playing baseball. It was like a star football player. And
every time we hang out we talked about Yo, my
man had hands though.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Have gone to any like high school reunions?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nah?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Man, I don't know why my school they don't even
they don't. They don't bother with that. They don't do
the high school reunion thing. I don't know if it's budgets,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm like, we have one coming up, I think in
the summer. I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Where where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Misster be Alent in southern California. But one of my
best friends is like on was on studient body or whatever.
So she's planning it and she's like.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You have to go. You have to go.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Of all people, I was like, Oh, I don't know.
Why would you be nervous to give you a hard time?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't know. God, this isn't about me, this is
about Anthony.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We'll get back. We'll circle back to that later.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Nick. No, but I need a full scouter report of
your cornerback abilities. Like you're coming out in the draft,
what are your strengths?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Is it speed? Is it? You know? Aggressivemit?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You know, because like if you see like you know
how it works in the draft, Like if it's a
d lineman, you know, and he's got certain characterists, they
say he's got a motor and he plays through the
snap blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
What are your What are your stats? Bro? What are
your I mean you know.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I definitely had speed. I had I had pretty good
instincts when I was playing, you.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Know, like, okay, so awareness is high.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I like that. You know.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I was definitely uh it was you know, I would
find myself in the right place at the right time,
you know, like interception, you know what I'm saying. So,
so I was you know, I uh, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I think it was really like some of these just
some of these guys are just huge, you know what
I'm saying. So it's like, you know, uh my, my, my,
my tackling, you know, I was, it was, it was.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It was down load, man, I was.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I was, you know, I couldn't some of these guys
in mass I wasn't trying to get run over.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Bro. You know, so I'm like, yo.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Okay, so you know the ankle bitter ankle biter type
I got.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
An I'm rocking them in the back of the knees,
illegal tackles only.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You talk about you know, and and I quarter back
a little bit. I played a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I was don't don't bury the league.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Lead again, I buried the league?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, yeah, you sling it all right, Well we'll talk
about slinging the rock later, all right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Now you talk about, yeah, transitioning from you know, the
sports and when you know, everyone getting bigger and everything
and and into something else. When did you decide what
you want to transition to? And obviously, with your success
that you've had, I think you made the right decision. Again,
I didn't see any high school films, so I can't
say for certain. I'm pretty sure you made the right decision.
(12:31):
For what was that transition like for you? And how
did you get into it?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I think that it was just really like, you know,
I was, I was actually I was playing baseball, man,
and I was I was. I was on the field,
and I was just kind of like, I was like, Yo,
this ain't it, man. I don't think I don't think
this is this is my path anymore. And I just
you know, I just stopped coming to the games, man,
And I really I like coach was mad. Uh but
(13:01):
you know, because I took the jersey and didn't get
it back, Like, yo, I'm bad, bro, like I forgot
and and uh but but I was.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I was.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I started doing theater, you know, in high school, and
you know, I kind of backed my way into it.
I auditioned for a talent show. I thought it was
I thought it was a talent show because I was,
you know, I like to you know, I was singing
in junior high school and I had like a group.
We used to sing Temptation songs at the assemblies and
and then.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I just I stopped. I didn't sing for a while.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I was playing more sports, and then finally I auditioned
for this talent show ended up being a musical that
gave me a lead part in the show. First, I
didn't want to do it because I was like, yo,
that's crazy, Like I'm not gonna memorize all those lines,
you know what I'm saying. But the teacher's like, no,
you should really try it. You should give it a shot.
So all right, you know what, whatever, Sure, why not?
(13:54):
And I got on stage and I was playing this
like character. I was playing Zeus in this show that
the students wrote, and I'm wearing like this burger king
cardboard crown with like a like a blanket for a cloak,
and you know, I'm singing this song and and and
I was like, I feel ridiculous right now, but this
this is, this is this is an amazing feeling like
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I'm having a good time. So I just kept going.
And uh, and I just you know, I stopped sports, man.
I mean, I was gonna go play D three h
ball just you know. The school was gonna get me
money to go play. And I had no really no major.
I was just gonna figure out what I wanted to
do in school. But all my applications get withdrawn from
every school that I applied to because we didn't get
the financial aid forms in in time. And and that
(14:39):
my teacher she comes up to me, man, like an angel.
She's like, yo, like I want you to audition for
this one school in New York called AMDA and this
conservatory and uh, and I you know, I had never
really been on in a formal audition before. But she
helped me with the material, man, and I got into
the school.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
She helped me.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I didn't have the money to to even go to
the school and she you know, she gave my name
to the Jerry Seinfeld Scholarship Foundation at the time, and
I ended up meeting them and my grades weren't even
that good. But I was just like, yo, look man,
I just need a shot, Like I just need somebody
give me a chance, you know. And and and this, uh,
this woman, Kate Finnerman, a good friend of mine, now
she was you know. I left that meeting and the
(15:20):
school called me for a loan. I'm like, can you
give me one more day? I didn't really know what
I was gonna do with another day. But then the
scholarship called me and they're like, yo, we'll pay. You know,
we don't usually give the scholarship out the people your grades,
but you know, we're gonna pay for.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Your school for all four years where.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
And that was just like a you know, that was
like a moment where I knew, like, all right, this
is exactly you know, this is exactly where where where
I want to be.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Now my focus now, my focus is on trying to
find movies about sports to make as opposed to playing
sports professional.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I got it, so I got a quarterback you could
probably play, you know, the rise, rise and fall of
Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Maybe yeah, still, bro.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You see what I dealing You see what I deal with?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Damn all of hater bro.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, hold on, let's change the subject. Nick Rude looks.
I want to know this teacher's name because I feel
like that's the story, that's the common thread between so
many people's opportunity, the one person who gives them the
extra notch and you get the opportunity. However it works
out and whoever it lines up. Those kind of things
are huge. So who's this teacher? We got to give
her something?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, her name is Sarah stein Wise.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
She's like one of my best friends now, you know,
like she's mentors. Yeah, man, she's you know, she did
this for a lot of students at the school. Man,
Like Larry's another one. Larry's another one is that you
know when he's playing football. You know a lot of
I think a lot of the a lot of a
lot of kids. You know who we grew up with.
They were going through a lot and you know, came
(16:59):
from kind of rough neighbors and and you know, she
was one of those teachers that really just she mentored
a lot of us, and she didn't really give up
on us, even though we weren't the easiest, uh, the
easiest people to deal with, honestly, Like, I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Know how she dealt with us. You know, we were wild,
We were crazy, bro. It was a wild.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Group of young teenagers running wild and uh. And you know,
but she really like yah, she she just she always
saw the best in us, you know. And and I
think that the more patient she was with us, the
more we were able to see, you know, even a
little bit of what she saw in us, you know,
which helped us keep you know, which helped us keep going,
(17:40):
and which helped us like kind of you know know
that you know what, Yeah, maybe maybe there is a
maybe there is a chance for me in this world.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, maybe I can be more than I thought
I was going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You know what I'm saying, just a little nudge and
a little belief. What about has she seen you perform?
She seen you in commercials obviously that she's seen you
in Hamilton and movies and all that.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, man, So she came.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All of my premieres, you know, in the last the
last premiere we was at was Transformers, and uh, you know,
so she was there.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You're the human and Transformers.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah yeah, and uh so she she you know, so
she was there, and I mean it was a massive premiere,
like it was crazy. We did it in Brooklyn, which
was wild, like at the King's Theater, so that it
was just cool to you know, and I had all
my friends and all my homies from like yo, like
I'm talking about I came deep and you know, it
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was just it was just amazing too, you know, to
have her there, and then you know, I had you know,
some of my other teachers and mentors you know, who
flew out just to you know, just to support.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Man and be there and uh, you know.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
So it was it was really really cool too. It's
always cool to share that kind of stuff with her,
you know what I'm saying. Like then we like call
each other next day in debris.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
That was crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
That was wowd Man, Like, you know, yeah, so it
was she she comes to all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
What does she say about your So I have a
really good friend who works with me at Fox Calling Games.
His name is Steven Brown and the only thing he
will drink is Crown Royal. Yeah, and you're the Crown
Royal guy.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dog.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So you know, I went through all this stuff. I
always like bounce ideas off of him. He's got a
good for media and all that. He was a former
coach and probably will coach again. But we go through
all these things. I'm like, dude, he's got an album
and he's got the Transformers thing. He's got that, and
I'm trying to like categorize it before the deal and bro,
you're forgetting the most important part.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So what's up.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
He goes Crown Royal, Crown Royal Man to the Elixir
of the Gods, Like he's just going on and on
about all this Crown Royal.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Bro, that's all you have.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, I'll be Yeah. I saw some guy on the street.
He said, uh, he just he looked a.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Little tank last he looked a little like he like
he had a few crowns. And he goes the guy
like he looks at me. At first, we're talking, we're
having a conversation about something that happened, and then he like, double.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Hey, you're famous. Your famous. I'm like, nah, bro, I
don't know what you're talking about. Crowd Royal.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I'm like, of all them yo, all time. Bro, Yo,
you the dude from the Hennessey commercial. Right, sure, the
dark alcohol.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Uh, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Let's talk a little quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I got a quick question for your time on Hamilton,
because you know, everyone always asks us about our schedule,
football schedule, and you know you play on Sunday and
what your week looks like. I gotta give it to
the Broadway actors and acts because you guys are going like,
how how is that schedule? How do you do all
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those shows and rehearsals and everything?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What's that schedule look like?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And give us like peel back that curtain a little
bit into what that week looks like for you.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yo, Well, it's it's eight shows a week man, So
it's you know, usually two on Wednesday too on Saturday.
If the producers hate the cast, they'll do five show weekends.
Uh uh you know, and uh yo, you're just like
it's a it's a grind man. You get Mondays off,
which is the day that no one's doing anything, you know,
(21:36):
so you got Monday off. But it's like no one's
trying to have a drink on Monday, you know. But
you know it's like, ain't nobody going for brunch on Monday?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You know, so.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It's it's but it's it's a grind man like you.
And then sometimes you know, you're rehearsing before the show.
Sometimes if they got to if somebody called out, they
got to put somebody in.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Then understudy got it.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
You know, the whole cast has to come in to
rehearse with the person that's about to go.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
On and and then do the show at night.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
So sometimes you have the theater four hours before you
even are doing the show. And Hamilton was you know,
almost three hours, so that that show was a grind man.
You know, it was that that show was definitely you know,
I mean, you know, but I mean, look, what you
guys do is is is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Man.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
You guys are traveling and I was like, I thought
about this.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I'm like your athletes you got to be a little
crazy to be I'm talking about like, yeah, you're in
a different state, you like, I mean, you're traveling to
different places every every single week.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You got to pay taxes in all them states. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's you know, you know what I'm position though, I
would just caution you it's by position. Quarterbacks, totally normal,
offensive line, little little different.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, we are different were We're definitely different people.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
True.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Broadways a grind bro, it's a grind man. But it's fun, man,
you know, it's cool. It's nothing like live theater. Man.
It's like when you guys get out there in place.
It's just that feeling, man, when you feel the crowd.
And every night when we would come out, you know,
it felt like we were playing MSG.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
It thirteen hundred people in the theater, but I felt
like twelve thousand. It was so loud every single night.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I've gotten Mark obviously is a big Broadway guy from
his time here and probably even before and after. I've
gotten into it recently because we started giving our kids
Christmas presents instead of giving them junk they don't need,
we get them experiences, and so we've been doing a
lot more Broadway plays. So I'm starting to get into
it and get the feeling and seeing different shows. And
(23:43):
I think actually Hamilton is on our list this year.
I think that's what my son wants to go see,
so I'm pretty excited about it. But it is it's
amazing watching these performances and what you guys do on
that stage and how you get the crowd into it,
and like how you get so sucked into it? You know,
I don't think I appreciate it as well as I
should have from a whole time here, but really taking
a liking to it. But that transition that you've had
(24:06):
from the stage to the big screen, how's that been?
Was that something you always wanted to do? Did you
want to get out of theater and go to the
movie side? And especially with the release of the new
movie Dumb Money that was just released, like that, is
that something like you wanted to do or it just
happened naturally?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Now I think, you know, movies, I love movies, man,
Like I've wanted to do movies since I started acting.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I was just like like this, this is where I
want to end up, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And and I.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Love the art of making film. I loved the you know,
the process of it. And you know, my first time,
my first time being you know, actually getting the lead role.
And this was it wasn't in a movie, but a
TV show was with Spike Lee when I just she's
got to have it on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So he turned his first commercial hit into a TV show.
We did two seasons of it.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
And I played the character that he played in the
movie Mar's Blackman, and here, Yo's black Man's black Man.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Money.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You know, honey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
You know what I'm saying. He knows, Yo, I'm telling you.
Man like Yo, Spike and Spike. I remember, so he
came to the show. We came to Hamilton and he's
over here. He's sitting in the second row of the audience.
I'll never forget it. And he's clapping mad aggressively and pointing.
After the show, clapping aggressively and pointing. And this is
(25:35):
on the bow. So I bowed through the first bow.
I get up and then my boy Chris was standing
next to me. He's like, he ain't pointing at me.
And then we get it and I'm like, you know what.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I had a moment. I'm like, yo, Spike, me like,
is he pointed at me?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yo?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
He comes backstage, he'sai, yoyo, my man, my man, come, come, come,
he come.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
He come here to take a picture and take a picture.
I'm like, Spike, do you want a picture with me?
I was like, all right, yeah, sure man.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Uh And then I get a call like had to
be probably I don't even it had to be like
like a couple of weeks later or a month later,
and all this said was Antony Spike, Spike Lee. And
it was the shortest, the shortest voice, man, I ever
(26:26):
got my entire life, super direct, straight to the point.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And I called him back.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
He's like, Yo, once you meet me in my office,
you know, I go meet him at his office.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
He's like, so, I got a roll, I got this
thing I'm doing. She gotta have you ever seen it?
I was like nah. So he pulls the DVD out
and hands it to me. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and he's.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Like, yo, ma's Mare's Blackly you know, I want you
to And then yeah, man, then I just I did
an audition for the studio for Netflix and he gave
me the role. And that was my first you know,
like lead role on a TV show. And then and
then that was it. Bro I did The Stars Born,
and then Godzilla and I started, I started, you know,
you know, going into getting into films and stuff like that.
(27:12):
And then like you know, In the Heights happened, and
you know, Hamilton, we had already made that movie that
was you know, and they just put it out.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
They put it out years later, but we had we
had shot that film like four years before that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And then yeah, like Marvel happened and Transformers and stuff
like that. So you know, it just all the music,
you know, and it all just kind of started weaving together.
And then you know, obviously you know the Crown, the
Crown commercial and.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Which Spike lead directed.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Come on, yeah, but Spike, Spike called me basically, he goes,
your way, I got something like what you got?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
He's like, y'all I'm working on Yeah. He said, don't
let your agents mess it up.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Dude, dude, That's that's how I'd imagined it would happen.
But that's really cool.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I was like, no doubt, bro, And and then and
then he goes yo, and another thing, I want your mom,
your real mom.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So you got my mom my mom? You know books
are first national commercial?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Uh? Director too hell of an entrance. Well, feel free
to drop my number. Remind him of our hairt connection. Uh,
I'll get you that email you my info just in
case Spike wants.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
See that. Nick.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Things are taken off.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It was just it's all right.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
This way that way keeps going. Mony buzz pretty much.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Tell some nice tell me, I think I have an
idea when you talked about going back to Brooklyn for
a premiere and the whole squads there, everybody before you
become this massive star, but your family, your heritage. You're
a part of this por La Dura h campaign with
(29:15):
the NFL and what that means to you, because I've
felt that in the NFL, and I'm Mexican. I know
you're Puerto Rican, but that Latino one support is unwavering
win loser does what I've kind of felt, and then
making it available two people, reminding them just like you
(29:36):
got reminded by that wonderful teacher of yours that hey man,
you got opportunity and it could be football, but it
could be something else, like work on yourself, find something
you love and get into it. And that whole you know,
push for por La Dura and your involvement. Why is
that important to you?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
I just you know, I when when I was you know,
one of my boys, Jesse Torrero was was directed and
he was directing the commercial and my my friend Lemon Anderson,
who who uh was working with the NFL a lot.
He's like, yo, you know we want to really, you know,
we want to really you know, you know, I know
he's like, yeah, I know you love you know, you
(30:15):
love football, you love sports, and and I want to
also bring that Latin culture and that Latin flavor, you
know what I'm saying to to you know, the commercials
and the things that that the NFL putting out to.
You know what I'm saying that we want to you know,
I feel like in the Latin community, at least growing
up in my experience, you know, even if we love
(30:37):
the game of football.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
We can't really see a lot of presence of Latino's
playing football, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Or maybe they did, but I didn't really see, you know,
Like Tony Gonzalez is one of my favorite players.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I met. I met him like recently, bro At. I
can't remember what it was. I was doing radio.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Row uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yo, And and I met him, and I almost didn't
even say anything to him because it's almost like yo, bro,
I froze because I'm like, Yo, like you a legend, bro,
like you are, Like Yo, I used to watch all
of this dude's games. Bro. I used to watch his highlights,
you know, And and.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
And I think that it was just you know, and
and also like yo, him being Latino Bro. It was
just like a thing, you know, like when you see
somebody that makes you feel like like you identify, you know,
with them.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
You're like, Yo, that's you know, that's that guy. Like
you know that's Mark Anthony, you know, something like that.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
You know, and and you know, so I think that
it was important for me to do that campaign because
I just I just felt, you know, and I wrote
the song for you know, I wrote the song for
the commercial Latino Thiebo, and it was just you know,
it was really like like you know, Latino Thibo, that
song is about being y know, we active, like we
hear you know, we let's get activated. You know, let's
(31:51):
get hyped about you know, let's get not not only
hyped about the game, but let's get hyped about about life,
you know, about the opportunities, the possibilities.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
The next that commercially they did was with this this
this girl thinks I can't remember she's she's an athlete
and she was the leader of the commercial.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
And I'm talking about you know. It was gorge and
beautiful Diane Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The was she the flag football y'all?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I think, yeah, that's her. That's her.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
And I got to play cats with her before a
game in London last year.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh yeah, she could spin it.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
She broke in. She's a beast.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I was like, yo, And you know, check that commercial
out if you haven't seen it. It's it was, I think,
the one that came out right after the one I did,
bro And.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
It was just it was it was beautiful, bro gorgeous.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
They shot it amazing like, and she she just shined
and and it just it just it made me like excited,
you know, excited for for more of those opportunities, you know,
and not just in football, but in sports in general.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You know, I love that my quick sidebar before we
go to our last couple of questions. But Tony Gonzalez
he uh was a former basketball player and then became
tight end. Played football obviously, but in the off season
I met him through a group of friends and we're
all played pick a basketball after my rookie season or
(33:14):
second season or something, and they're running up and down
the court and Tony stretching whatever, and we're on opposing teams.
And I hooped in high school a little bit, you know,
I got a little little sticky baseline jumper. I'm nothing special,
but I you know, I got a little so, you know.
So I'm feeling good and then I see Tony playing
and then they're like, hey, you match up with TG,
(33:36):
and I'm like, TG, oh to damn that. So he's
pretty big guy, you know, so I'm trying to you know,
guard him in the photo.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
He cut the first possession drop step two he had
ready to like dunk.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I just walked out of.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
The wet like I'm not boastered.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Bro.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah, basically I'm gonna go yeah, but I moved out
of the way, so he didn't quite get you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
I I side stepped the embarrassment there, so.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I feel he said, you know, I was being generous.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Them on trying to give him the I trying to
give him the arm bar, like you know, it's low
bed dude.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm all right, dude, that's a big yo. Yeah, that's
a big guy. Bro.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
You know, wag me about like fifty pounds.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Oh wrong way class All right?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So, and you want to get to the last section
of our our episode here where we do quick fire questions, Right,
these are going to be really quick. First thing comes
to your mind nothing too crazy. So I'll hit you
the first one other than the two guys right here
on screen. Who's your favorite jet player that you've met.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
And I've met?
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Yo, you guys are my first, the first jets I've
ever met.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
No, no, I promise.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Wait what about when you go to the games? Don't
you go on the field and stunn because.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
I always get the right when the game starts. They
always tell me to come early and I never do.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
And you're on that, dude, I'm on that.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That that's on me.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
But I'm definitely that you guys are the first jets
I'm meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Then we'll take it perfect.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's the best.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
But who do you like more than.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Come on? Mark, chill, bro.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know you know you don't have to say it
right in front of me. I mean, jeez, okay, this
is okay.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm still I'm jumping ahead, Nick, and screw you for
this one, because this is the only one that makes these.
If you had to choose Broadway show or movie, we
ask everybody, but you're the best one to ask one.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
No movies, man, movies, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
All day long.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
The film guy, and the is better. That's a good point.
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's that's a good point. Are you a Peter Luger's
or a Dale Monico's guy.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Said Peter, no Ie strong subway?
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Now taxi all day? Bro?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Really yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I used to train all the time, but this it's
train's getting weird nowadays. Bro, I'm not gonna lie sobby
if I could, I gotta take a taxi.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Bro, I'm like, nah, quick, Uber, what's your favorite Burrow.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Brooklyn? Man maybe took over I.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Don't know, No, definitely Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Maybe Staten Island you never know?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Like is Actually how could I yet about that?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
It's pretty easy. It's the fifth one. I'm kidding. Staten Island.
I love you. That's next theme in this thing.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Dude, he hammers Staten, I don't hammer her.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I I truly enjoy Staten Island. I find it hilarious now,
you know what?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
You know, like Pete, Pete Davison. Pete Davison has opened
my mind, you know, Pete. I met Pete.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
He's like, Pete is so cool, and I'm like, you
know what, maybe Stanton IS's all right?
Speaker 3 (37:28):
You're from st because you worked with them. You worked
with them on Dumb Money, so what's the blur on
the on the movie.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Yeah, and he played you know, he played the lead
Transformer and uh, he played Mirage.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
He did the voice of Mirage.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
So me and Pete have a couple of times, like
I went to see him on set his show Buck Kiss.
That's amazing on Pete Cocky, y'all haven't seen it. It's
like it's it's him and Joe Peshy like crazy cast
and and then you know, and then we hung out
at the Transformers Mere and he's just like he's just
like a really cool dude. Bro, He's like a really
(38:04):
dope human being man and uh, just like super down
the earth, I mean, crazy man, talented, and he.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Loves his family, loves his friends.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
He rolls with his you know, with his crew that
he's been rocking with for a long time. So, you know,
Pete Pizza piece, dope man. I'm hoping I can get
another movie with him. You know, because even even in
Dumb Money, you know, we never saw each other because
we had no scenes together. So me and Pete hadn't
even met, Like we already had shot two movies that
were in the can, but had never met.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
And like, Bro, I've done two movies with this guy
and I've never met him.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
So that's when I went to set to go to
go hang with him. But yeah, he's he's the man bro.
He's so cool.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I love it. That's all right.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Last one for you. Would you rather go to the
top of the Empire State Building or to the Crown
of the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I'd like to go to the crowns and the Statue.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Of Liberty Drake's crowd and bring Crown Royal. Yeah, the crowd.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I love it. This is this has just been a
whole big promo for Crown.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I can't waiting pay dog, I'm just getting paid.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
So can we get a bonus?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
What are we doing than get it after the fact bonus?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
After the awesome. This has been fantastic. Thank you so
much for taking the time to talk with us and
chat it up a little bit about everything you have
going on. The Jets really appreciate you taking the time, of.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Course, of course.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, thank thanks for having me on the show.
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Welcome back into the Exchange, presented by wind Bet. That
was awesome, very interesting. How I like how Anthony said
that he you know, saw the writing on the wall
with sports baseball and just transition to something else and
then goes on to be awesome at it.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
At multiple things.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
I mean, when you got talent like that, you know,
it's it's it's pretty cool to watch those kind of
artistic people, whether it's singing or playing instruments.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Or acting or whatever.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
It's just like, Wow, you have so much. You know,
you don't see it as much in sports. Maybe the
last person is like Deon Sanders, right, play multiple sports
or something. You have multiple talents like that, but like
true to be that accomplished in multiple avenues of your life,
that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
That's pretty promising career for me with Spike Lee. It
sounds like I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Kind of sounds like you're in And I'm glad I
didn't pull the what you did to who was the
wire actor where you recognize them for one of DJ's movies.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I didn't do that with Well, it's the other guys. No,
not the other guys. What was the name of the movie.
It was cartoon the bad Guys?
Speaker 2 (41:38):
He was? He was in that. What about it's a
good crew?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Who what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I'm talking about Anthony Ramos was in a cartoon movie.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I'm glad I didn't bring that up because.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That's something that sounds like I would do and I'd
mess up the name of it, like I couldn't remember
it right there? Guy, have you seen that one DJ watch.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
That I have not? No.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
DJ talked to me about it. I guess he saw
it with one of his buddies or something. But yeah,
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
That's really funny.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
And yeah, that's something I'm glad I didn't see it
because that would have.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Just come out swinging on it.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
In case, DJ, let's put Hamilton on the shelf here,
let's talk about this.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Let's talk about the X animated movie. In case DJ is
an avid listener, play it close to the vest. But
you got any big surprises for him for Christmas? Bring
anything out?
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Oh? Well, today was the end up flag football season,
and he's supposed to have a end of your pizza
party or whatever at the park. But if you can imagine,
it does rain in California, and so the world's gonna
(42:58):
end basically. And now we are going to an indoor
trampoline park and they have one of these huge courts.
It's like a soccer slash basketball thing, and the ground's
pretty spongy, and so now we're gonna have to have
our own little flag football game on that surface, which
I'm fired.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Up about, because please don't blow your knut.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
If you can imagine, I can, really, I can really.
Why would you say that?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Because I because we're getting older and I worry about
these things.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Why would you say that? I just why not just
be positive, like, hey, have a great time, be safe.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I asked you not, I asked you not to do it. No, don't,
don't say don't I ask you not.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I didn't say, don't.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Coach coach what you want when you're when your golf
coach is talking to you, do you want to say,
don't hit in the water, don't hit it in the sand. No,
they say, hey, turn your belly button into the target,
finish through the target, full swing, you know whatever. They
want to say, straight left ar not don't.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
I should get a golf coach. That would probably help.
That might actually help. You have a golf coach. I
think you need a like coach, a life coach. Geez,
that hurts.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
And I'm available deep number.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Though for life coaching.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Oh yeah, there's one I'm not paying for.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
I got answers.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
They're not always good answers or correct answer, but I
got it.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
I got answers. Oh, you're on the Bart Scott plan.
He's always got an answer. It might not be correct,
but he's got an answer. He's never gonna never gonna
hit you with an I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
It's right. Yeah, he's never gonna hit you with that
He's gonna have an answer.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Might be completely wrong, but it's it's an answer, all right.
This is a lot of fun for a good, good episode.
Hopefully everyone enjoyed. Uh that was it was neat and
being able to talk on the Broadway stuff, because I
really have. I'm starting to get into it more and
it's it's it's awesome live theater and how immersive some
of these plays are has been fantastic. So I'm looking
(44:54):
forward to continuing that and hopefully maybe he uh he
gets back into.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
One and I could see coming to Fruist eight years later.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, I mean it took a little while, but I
got there, all right, leave me alone, all right, all right? Anyway,
thank you again, great great episode. I try to take
us out as only you know how.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Oh listen, be sure to rate, review, follow and listen
on the iHeartRadio app, on app podcast, or wherever you
get your podcast.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
You nailed this time. Thank you, and I look forward
to the next episode.
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