33. Planet Pops: Emilio Estefan

Buckle up, Earthlings—because our guest is none other than the legendary Emilio Estefan. Music pioneer. Freedom fighter. Grammy collector. Cultural icon. And now? The first Cuban in faux-outer space (pronounced fow-ter). 

With 19 Grammys, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a lifetime of breaking barriers, Emilio’s legacy is already the stuff of history books—but on this week’s episode, we go way beyond the headlines.

We talk about what it was really like to flee Cuba—and rescue his family, the real first band he ever formed, the time he was lost at sea for 7 days without food or water, and the twist of fate that changed everything.

He opens up about being told he was too Latin to make it in the music industry—and how he turned that rejection into a revolution. Plus, he shares his first impression of Gem, fills  the room with laughter through his iconic “Emiliadas,” and reflects on what it means to be a dreamer, a doer, and most importantly, a dad.

To wrap it up, we get a surprise visit from IOOW Season 1 space crew member, Mama Gloria Estefan, talking about the first full length album she’s released in 18 years and her latest single.

It’s soulful, hilarious, and deeply inspiring. Don’t miss our conversation with the man behind the music—and one of the hearts behind this show.

Featuring: Emilio Estefan, Emily Estefan, Gemeny Hernandez

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was going to nobody who was really famous. I
was going for real music, real people, and you know,
to keep some of the legacy, especially for given music,
because that's my heritage. It's a beautiful thing to have.
You know. The family is important, believe it or not.
For me, it's the biggest production. And when I was leaving,
I got the bag and the like. They say, you
could be famous, but you have to pay the bill. Now,

(00:21):
you know price Sometimes it's not to get a diploma.
Price when you accomplish something and you share with other people.
My dad told me one day, the best feeling in
the world is when you give something to somebody. The
worst feeling what you had to ask. Money is important,
and success is important, but I think to be happy
and to feel, I mean that you did something for
the community, for global is an incredible thing. I never

(00:42):
got to sleep if I feel I have to tell
you something that you have to hear. I don't like
to hold anything for anybody, because I think that's what
should be set used to tell me. You can sell records,
you cannot buy love. I say, if you don't sign her,
you don't get you Ennifer Love. You don't get Shack
and you don't get glorious seff marketing. But it was
a crazy idea. I got on a boat that was
only like twenty two feet, very small boat, and we

(01:04):
got lost for seven days without food and water.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
And my mom was pregnant.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Was pregnant? I mean, Sacha told me that. Well, look
the way you went to school, I said, Miami High Season. Man,
I never go there. They never teach you English.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh Sacha, what a little twirch. Welcome earthling space worms, Senora,
senoras and everything in between. The truth is, I could

(01:34):
sit here and only talk about the human being on
the couch with us today, and that would be way
more than a gift to us. All I could talk
about the way he's been married to his wife for
forty six and a half years, wow, and he's still
leaving notes love notes on her nightstand and in her luggage.
The way he works twelve hours a day and still

(01:55):
drops off medicine for his daughter and her partner on
the way home. And the way he waits except at
five am to feed stray animals that probably wouldn't consider
themselves straight at all, considering they have better mattresses than
most of us, not to mention what he's managed to
achieve in other ways. It would be a shame to
not list those accomplishments, because they are just as rare

(02:16):
as his soul.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
We are in the presence of a living legend, with
an astonishing nineteen Grammy Awards, a Presidential Medal of Freedom,
induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and so much more.
Emilio is not just a producer. He's a musical and
artistic architect who has helped shape the global soundscape for
over four decades, writing and creating the soundtrack to our Lives,

(02:41):
working with supernovas including Shakira, Reggie Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony,
Celia Gruz, Carlos Vives, the Whalers, Gloria and Emily Is, Stefan,
Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Carlos Santana, and the list goes on,
and contributing to some of the biggest movies of all time,
including Top Gun, The Special, Anastasia, The Little Mermaid, and

(03:02):
so many more.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
But why is he truly the best? Because he's my
pops and a grandpa and a husband and a son,
and trust me, one of the best ones to ever
exist in all of the galaxies, including here in outer space.
And that's probably the accolade if you asked him, he'd
be most proud of. Please welcome to outer space the
one and only my Poppy because.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
She's my daughter. I love her fool So you know,
say what you get. I mean when you have it,
such a beautiful family. But you know, the only thing
I can tell you, I never see a give on astronaut.
I can tell you.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Okay, well, you're the first. For those of you out there,
this conversation is going to be in Spanglish, so you're
gonna hear a little bit of English, so get ready for.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Maybe another language the world. It was a lot about you,
and that's good. You're somebody that should be studied for many, many,
many many years, not only because of, like we mentioned,
what you've accomplished, but who you are inside. I think
that's what truly makes you out of this world. And
there's a few things about you that we know or

(04:16):
that maybe you haven't talked about. A lot that I
would love to ask you today, starting with everybody knows
Miami Sandwichine and everybody knows Mom. Everybody knows Miami Latin
Boys even but can you tell us about El conjunto Kapatio.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Co hunt Kapeta was something that you know, I wanted
to be an advansition when I was in Cuba and
we used to play when everybody went to launch it.
You know, in Santiago de Cuba, we used to bring
all the kids around to your Goman performer and then
the only thing available wasn't.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Accordion And how old were you?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I was probably eleven years old, wow, twelve years old.
But it was a tough time at the same time
because I will haven't the best time of my life.
But I made a decision at eleven years old to
go leave Cuba to save my family, not to get
any military as so realistic and sometimes probably you don't know,
it's really hard to confront life when you're eleven years old.
You have to make a decision to live knowing that

(05:07):
pro you will never see your family again. But if
I could stay at the time, that could be the
end of my family. To stay in a communist country.
My music was what I saved my life. I think
that's the reason I done so many great things from music.
Because you know, when you do something you love, that's
the man thing and life and to me was a
blessing many years after real and I with a family.
I have a beautiful marriage and my family is a

(05:29):
beautiful family. I have the best daughter in my whole life.
I love you too, so you know, it's a beautiful
thing to have. You know, the family is important, Believe
it or not. The family is extremely important for me.
It's spent for me. It's the biggest production. So what
you're talking only to accordion conga take guitar. You know something.

(05:49):
We became really famous and there was time you know,
believe it or all that. You know, they after three years,
I mean the the bis A game, we left to Spain.
It was incredible because you know, getting too Spain, living
with a beautiful family, and you know, I tell this
story because people need to know your life can change
in one minute and a flight to spend eight hours.
When I got there, we was almost homeless, and we

(06:11):
used to go to a church for food and you know,
and I used to eat it between Monday and Friday.
I used to go to the church where I call
the given people and then afterwards, I mean Sari and Sonday.
So a guy played the accordion and went there. I said, listen,
I know it's a lot of given people coming to
Madrid and the guy who plays a night, but I
can come for lunch and you give it food for
me and my dad. You know it will be okay.

(06:31):
And you know it was in the way it was
a blessing because I wasn't enjoying playing the accordion, but
I was, you know, I got free food. Sometimes people
need to know Latinos, especially we look, you know, we
do so many things to save her family and to
do things beautiful things. I also wanted to make a
contribution to you know, to Latinos and to Latino's families
and to this incredible country that we live. That is

(06:52):
an incredible thing to do. I always say, always a
new kid a labuy, I say, God, bless America. It's
a blessing, I'm going to tell you, because to live
in freedom is the main thing that you can have.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's true. Well, and there aren't a lot of places
in this world right now that experience that freedom. But
also the freedom that you've given your family and your
children by making that sacrifice. That a lot of us
out there listening. You know, probably family share the same story. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Absolutely, we have a lot of people like that. But
it's a beautiful thing. I mean, when you accomplish a
lot of things in the long run, what you want
to leave is a legacy to you, which is the
more important thing in my whole life, you and my grandson,
of course, my wife and you know, the family. I mean,
that's a that's a beautiful thing to have, you know,
to accomplish and create something that people. People are so

(07:42):
nice to me and in to glory I go out
of people give me kiss and thank you God, blessing.
It's so nice that it was, you know, he said,
you know, make music and you know it's a beautiful.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's a beautiful You do a lot more than but
we can leave it there.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
It was nice. The other there went to a place
and you know, I went to gets on the sellars
for the kids that made the mosticus in the studio
it was and guy said, Ali said, oh my god,
hell and he was so loud. I got a lot
of people come from the kitchen the beauty parlo. I
mean it was like forty people I took, like, you know,
forty pictures and when I was leaving, I got the
back and they like they say, you could be famous,

(08:17):
but you have to pay the bill now.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
So I don't know if you know this, but this
is actually your fifth appearance on in our own world.
You came on for a father of the bride for
a second. We did a prank call with you.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
The first daughter the.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Association of you know, she has like an incredible timing
and getting air plane. She said, you know you want
the best, said, you know, food and wine, and thank
you so much. Say you're going to be careful with you.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
We also did a club we did had a little
cameo of you, and so it really is a pleasure
to have you.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, pay me, pay me.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
We paid him in.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
On that after your famous days and which capito is
also what well my grandpa and I heard today actually
in a reconnaissance.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes, we're doing some research.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yes that cap three stooges three.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Ye, your grandfather won the lottery twenty seven times.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Was the luckiest guy in the whole world, Like he
died with one perachuse and monso because he gave his
money away to all the poor people in the world.
He was a great role model for me as a
person because he left the prize. You know, price sometimes
not to get a diploma, apply a price when you
accomplish something and you you share with other people. My
dad told me one day, the best feeling in the

(09:59):
world is when you give something to somebody. The word feeling.
What you had to ask now the way he did,
Kapitia was a guy and that was a bad guy,
and then he played the role that said, listen, Kapeti,
you say, a good guy give money to everybody. He
wanted to change his name because he likes the guy
and it was only like you know something on radio,
But you know, that's the only reason in his mind

(10:21):
he wanted to do that. And then he sticked with
us a nickname.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, well didn't you. You told me one time of
story that you grabbed money from one of the times
he won the lotto and you opened up a shoe factory.
No underwear, underwear factory.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
He did. He did that in Cuba. I mean, but
I did hear when I would When I came from Cuba,
I grew up with a Bacardi family. I was sixteen
years old and I needed to work, and you know,
and I went as a police I need work, and
you know, they put me as an office boy. And
then I remember I used to go early in the
money to make coffee for everybody. I said, monded to
come here coffee. And then it was a lady said,

(10:54):
oh my god, a midio, I need to bring the
kids to the school. I don't have the money. And
he said, you know something. One day she comes to
I just want the lottery. I said, oh my god,
I'm so happy. I made a special coffee. I say,
I'm kidding. Thirty minutes later my dad called me said,
come home, we just want the lottery from Perrico. Oh
you know what I did. I put some money. I
put it, I saying something we are long here. Something
happened to me or it didn't happened to you. I

(11:16):
want to be sure. You said some money. Yeah, And
we put into some stuff from Bacardy. Wow, so you know,
I was, it's only five people in the world. I
want to say, lead a piece of briccardiy, I mean
my thing. It's very small, but I owned that and
I was a I mean then Bacardi board, the grey
use patrols, so many other things. Sometimes you have to
think in the long term, what is going to happen,
because what happened to me. I never wanted them to

(11:38):
have that problem, my family and my kids, because it's
really hard to lose everything in hey hours that you fly.
Because one person, I mean one person, I would never
like to say his name, change the history of Cuba.
How it's still people suffering in Cuba, How people still
don't have the freedom, how people don't have food, you know,
which is a horrible thing.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Horrible. So you mentioned earlier when you left your family
in Cuba, right, And one of the other incredible things
that you and mom have done is the Broadway show
On Your Feet, which not only had an amazing run
on Broadway, but it's traveling all the world. Has been
translated into a Maria out of languages, and there's a

(12:17):
very powerful scene in the show where you're at the
airport and you're holding a photo and you leave your family.
Did that really happen or was it something.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Like that happens? Because my grandfather knew that I would
never see him again. I said this picture, so you
remember me like that? So many people happens. It's only
Latinos you're talking about Jewish people, I'm Italian people. Sometimes
people need to make a move in life, you know,
to make a better life from their family. And I

(12:47):
knew I got it to I have to go to
Cuba at the time, because you know, it was very
difficult to stay thinking that, you know, getting too fifteen
years old, you get in a military action. But I
really realized it. I never went in a bike or
skate because you know, my childhood was worrying how am
I going to live my family? And like that is
a lot of people, a lot of people from many countries,

(13:07):
a lot of people from many many countries. I go
to that kind of pain, and you know, I think
I hope that the world they learned to make things
better for everybody and get to a better world when
it comes to it. Sometimes because one person can change
the life of many people. Look what happened to go,
I say, dictator for many, many.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Years, and look at you.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
You're one person who has changed the world for better.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
For a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm very happy because you know, we always work. I mean,
money is important, and so says it's important. But I
think to be happy and to feel I mean that
you did something for the community for Global is an
incredible thing.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, you're amazing. A few weeks ago, your niece Lily
was receiving her Hollywood Star and we heard a story
that I've heard a couple of times, but I don't
think everybody has heard. If you want to share it
with people, I think they would really love to hear
it of how you essentially rescue them Lily and and
Michi and Papo, your brother from Cuba. What was what

(14:04):
was that like?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, that was the first time came. I mean I
never said that to anybody because I didn't want to
say that.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, she was receiving the.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Start and she mentioned that she was leaving a safe
country because when Cuba opened Maria, that was the only
chance that I got to get them out. It was
twenty years. There was long It's not what they was
going out, but it was a crazy idea. I got
on the boat that was only like twenty two feet,
a very small boat, and we got lost for seven
days without food and.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Water, and my mom was pregnant.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
It was pregnant, and you know something. Finally, when I
got there, they told me the boat was so small
that I cannot get them, so I have to come
back and then believe it or not, when you do
something beautiful. We play a benefit in Costa Rica for
the present, for the benefit kids that we didn't and
I said, listen, I need a favor. You need to
see you can get a bisa for them. And then

(14:54):
the president said I would do that for me, and
then they came to Costa Rica.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm sorry, how long did you say?

Speaker 1 (14:59):
You got lost for seven days?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's what is that experience?

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Like?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
We brought some food with us, but you know, we
didn't bring enough for the four people that went in
the boat. So we were thinking we was going coming
and coming back, and you know it was tough because
really listen, you're in the middle and we have no gas.
If we ran out of gas, so what we did
mean that mean we brought some cookies and you know,
some things that you can keep with you know, and

(15:27):
we used to divide that and now I used to
put like a we used to put like a little
bit of a plastic to collect water when whenever the
rain we put whatever we have to collect the water.
It was tough because Gloria was pregnant when I give did.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
You ever think what happened? What if I don't get back. Yeah,
many times, my poor mom, like your poor dada, your
poor mom, for sure.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
And there is no communication, no communication whatsoever. I remember
they let us go in a private buss.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
And it took me twelve twelve hours to get from
the boat and they put they made us way, you know,
standing there for twelve hours. I was almost I think
like probably fourteen days without taking a shower.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
And I went to a hotel. I made a line
when I called my brother, and my brother said, oh
my god, we're free, will coming And I said no,
I mean you know something that I was not allowed
to bring. And then he said, you know something, try
to continue life and do what you have to do
and forget about us. I said, no, I know, never
forget about you. Where are you going to get you out?
And then four years later they went to gost Africa.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Wow. Wow, you were all the way there to make
sure that he knew and crossed all the way and
swam and took a bus.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
First his life, his family, his wife, his kid on
the way.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
But you know, I never said that. To an interview,
she said that she was getting at touched him and
I said, oh my god, everybody nobody, nobody.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
I think that it's a perfect story to describe your
character because your character precedes you. That's like Emily said,
your your success, your resume. I had Jose send me
your ePK because I was so impressed by it.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I wanted to show my friends.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
I do look at everything he's done. I'm part of
the Amelia Stefan fan. Yeah, but you as a person
as a father, and I've gotten to see it up close,
which they haven't had that opportunity. You're an incredible human being,
and I think that that's really the lesson that you
have to teach humanity. I really think that's your legacy
is the man that you are, the father that you are,

(17:27):
the husband, the grandfather, the father in law.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's in the music, It's in everything, sure does you know?
And I think that's a beautiful thing that you all
constantly teach me about how you can spread powerful messages
through music in such a dark time and that way
we really care.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Do lyrics when you write lyrics? Tell me so the
song that I wrote in my whole life is coming
out of there an accidently. I mean, we was in
the top of the world, and you know, we made
president Bush and the White House. Then we went to
Sony bought a Columbia pictures. We went to celebrate the night,
and then the next day we got into an accident

(18:03):
and they told us the Gloria probably whenever woke again
and no more kids. And then you are you too
also became like a you know something. You became as
a miracle too, that you know, and your mom said,
I going to have her and I want to get
back in the stage one year after. Your mom is
an incredible person. It's so beautiful, and you marriage somebody

(18:24):
that you admire and you fall in love even more
to the years because you know time is running out
and it's beauty to spend the time that you have
with the people love.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
But that's okay, everybody, but you know the long wrong.
Let me tell your money is important, famous, important, more
important to be happy if you have a balance between
money and you can help other people and the same
time you're a happy person. I see a lot of
famous people and rich people know famous they enjoy I
still buy you know me one purchase, oh my god,

(18:55):
a new purchase tomorrow, gonna wear that the meaning you
lose that forget about it. Yeah. Now, sometimes you know,
the only thing I never go to sleep if I
feel I have to tell you something that you have
to hear. I don't like to hold anything for anybody
because I think that's the what should be.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, he's going to put it in a song and
send it to you. Yeah, before you pass away, we're
going to put you in battle and download you onto
a computer so you never die.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Poor guy. He's worked his butt off.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
So you come in from Cuba, before you impregnated mom
the first time, what was the first job that you had? Like,
how did you get off your feet? Before you got
on your feet and you know became what you guys became.
What was the first thing.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I'm going to tell you When I came my end
got like almost night. Kids in the house. We used
to sleep in one room with my grandmother and they
I knew I play accordion. I saw, I say. I
went to acarding. Then at three o'clock I used to
change go to school to seven o'clock. Seven o'clock. I
used to go to an Italian residant to play the

(20:10):
accordion for tips. Now how did I boy the accordion?
It was crazy because my aunt told me we can't
afford to buy an accordion that I was one hundred
and seventy seven daughters. I convinced my uncle, said uncle, please,
I'm going to find work. Don't worry about I'm playing
an Italian restaurant and I learned to you know, the Godfather.
I play all the Italian music.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
And I still come to it.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
And you know something, we was not allowed to eat.
Musicians was not allowed to eat or drink in the restaurant.
So whenever I used to aad some money, used to
go to the next door and buy a sandwich or
buy it crackers and something, I eat it. And you
know something. The only reason I tell you that because
you know something people need to know in order to
accomplish them that you have to work. And you know me,
I work five o'clock in the morning, happy, and I said,

(20:52):
what what is going to be today? Let me see this?
And then at the end, I only have twenty minutes.
At the end, I have twenty five meetings, which is
a beautiful name.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
He's got to rush out of here after that, I know,
I guess I was cracking up back there. So do
you remember meeting mom? That was you so then you
were working up a cardy. You said, then you finished school.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I finish school. I don't know how with my English,
you know, I mean Sacha told me that. Well, look
when you went to school, I said, Miami High. See
the man, I never go there. They never teach you English.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Sacha, what a little turk. He's just like me. He's
just like him to know.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
He's very funny.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I remember you told me once about your ingenuity when
you were working up a cardy about uh, you know
the story about the Sasha's Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh? Yeah, a lot of stories.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Weave.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
The first thing that I did because I grew up
with the family and I love them. There that there
was my family. When it came like somebody made the
other end pan beach, I said, we love you. They
said you loved me when you know I used to
get papers around And that's what it's true. When you
are broken, you're not famous anything, and they help you.
One thing is to be always appreciates thank you for
what you did for me. Now, A beautiful thing is

(22:21):
that I knew there was really at the time that
we start, that was on the seventies. All the Kiva
people was very you know.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
I mean like they used to say no dogs, no.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
No, no, sad about cube and the whole thing. But
I used I learned on the qua music like me.
So I used to go to the house and play
one Tad and Dog and they fed made food. They
said you allowed to drink and you know, a couple
of drinks, and they give me tips. And the end
when I left, I left with one hundred and fifty bucks,
was a lot of money for so you know something.

(22:52):
We became like a family. It was a beautiful thing.
And I saw them in Pambeach and so we did
a whole big two a big celebration for a friend
of ours. It was beautiful to chair with people that
you know help you when you at the beginning. And
the beginning was tough. But then they told me, listen,
we want to create. Bring the cordy, but bring maybe
a couple of more musicians that you know in Cuba.

(23:12):
I used to call that. They said, gave me two
or three guys. Used bring the three guys. I wrote
a song called he writes the album.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
He writes music every day. He writes new songs every
day and happy with the new album.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
The album is yeah, you know something. And then I
said okay, and then I said, oh, your song good.
We love that. People used to dance with the conga
do all the things and the I mean people. It
was like incredible. And then they started getting the barbets
us and we used to get the weddings. The first

(23:46):
bar missa for me was a chock when I saw
the kid in the chair going up. These people are weird.
And then the guy said, we're going to sell very
we need to and they say, I saw that was
bringing aka, they brought the bread. That's what's going on.
But I got to see. Really. The waiter told me, man,
it's a song called you learned that ship. You're gonna
you're gonna make some money. Yeah, I did it to day.

(24:07):
I bought the record. I went and learned. They give
a fifty bucks like yeah, sending of the song I
should learn.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, one of the magic songs you have.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Great. So the sashes, oh, the sashes, that's.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Right, such as you know my dad and my mom
they used to have an incredible factory, a huge factory
of on they wear and Cuba. When they came. That
was the way that they put together the whole small
factory and I know what's the whole promotional Baccardi that
was a was Bacardie and Cooke and they told me,

(24:50):
oh my god, they send the bill. The b is
like four daughters and something for every teacher. Will be
a lot of money to give away. I said, you
can do that in the factories. You know we can
do that. So I I was seventeen years old and
I went to a factory. I said, listen, this is
the kind of thing that I want to do. How
much would you charge me to make this tea shirt?
And the teacher was I said, well, this we have

(25:11):
a new thing. It's called detail. It's something instead of painting.
You pressed that with it, brought it to my boss.
T Oh that looks good. That's amazing. And the guy
told me it's going to be one dollar and eleven cents.
I thought, he said one daughter eleven cents. So he
told me, you al said, you know, because you have
to market, put two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.

(25:34):
And that's what I made my first fifty thousand bucks. Wow,
it was I was very creative. And that's what you know.
When people need to know, you need to be created.
You need to be in charge to create and do
the best that you can when they give you an opportunity.
I did such a good work, they told me we
have it the whole thing that you know for miss
bacardiy rom cake, and they want to charge, isn't brook? Yes,

(25:55):
you know what they're going to pay embroidered and you're
going to give that and they're going to throw it away.
Just probably the problem. I said, do you think you
can do in the factory? And we kind of doing
the factory, but I can't find a way to do
it through the factory. So I went to a funeral home.
I saw the amazing you can make me something, I said.
I said, okay, if you can do it, yes, all

(26:18):
depends how many people die, but I can do it.
And I made some money with that.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh wows.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
As you can see, before the music really started taking off,
you were innovating long before that, oh for sure, and
making it work. Do you remember when the first time
you realize that you guys were like famous in the
music world, You remember, like what was that moment for you? Earlier?
Like oh my gosh, like.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
The first time we heard ourselves on radio. I have
to stop the car. I said, oh my god, it
was a song called and I said, with a local company.
And then you know something. But I always on my
mind when I made you mind. My idea wasn't even
to bring women to the group because at the time
women was not really famous to be a musician. It

(27:10):
was like a totally especially for Latino. Let's say I
want to create some something I believe it or not,
and the producer who produced more women in the history
of any producer, which is great. Yeah, but I'm gonna
tell you something. The funny thing is, you know something.
We did that The first album was a huge hit.

(27:31):
But the second album, we got a call from Sonys
at the time, I said, we want to do sign
you you guys and I say okay, I said, we see.
It depend on a contract with the guy who signed
up for three albums, but we never got paid. So
I told the guys keep the albums. I mean, sometimes

(27:51):
you have to let things go to look for a
new future. And the guys say, okay, going to keep it,
Thank you, goodbye. I don't think you're going to have
a future. So we did, and we did a In
the album that we did, we include doctor bit and
I need a man. Of course, the company said, well,
Latino company, we have no money. But your mom and

(28:12):
me we went to every breakad pools and with discribled
that all of a sudden went number one in London,
number one, and I in England, number one, in Holland, Germany,
all over the world. And we flew to Holland and
we play a club that was packed and we played that.
People went crazy. We said we want more, we want more,
but you know we played. I said, Gloria, we should
play the keep and congas because you know this. Gloria said,

(28:34):
what they don't know English, I don't know Spanish. Let's
do it. It was a big, big hit, and Gloria
came out with the idea to do a song conga.
Then she talked to the drummer that he'd come out
with a hook, and then we went to the studio
with the hook and we finished, I mean he almost
finished the song. We finished his song in the studio
and then I was so excited, Oh my god, we

(28:54):
want to go to Sony, we want to blow them away.
I went seven times then never let me upset. And
the morning was only to in and out because I
used to work on my part of the time little
now now until the day that he let me go upstairs.
And the guy said, oh my god, congratulate you. This
is great, and I said, I have a new album.
I want to hear. When he started hearing the rhythm,
he said great, but he he he hear English and say,

(29:17):
this will never happen in America. Absolutely, you have to
take the pianou, the trumpe, salt, the percaussion, now by
the well with all respect if women can be in
front of the group. And then you missing up. And
then he said, and you have to change your last name.
I said, nothing that you said are going to change.
I said him a bad work. I don't say a
lot about word. But I told him saying, you like

(29:38):
it to know this was America's when it looked like
and you're going to have a new rhythm. Yeah, And
he told me you feel that way, go back to
your country. That's why I said see you later. Seven
years later it was President Sony.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
How's that for a bad world?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Like, I'm not going to back to my country. I'm
going to sit in your chair. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I know he was not the president. He so only
and at the time, one person decided was even you
are a chairman or the president. It was one guy
about the expert about repertory, and he said, we like it,
we don't like it. Not With internet, you can do
whatever you want.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
People.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
People decide by the time, believe it or not. It
was a lot of racist about you know, but you know,
in the long run, I think it's something that I felt.
I felt proud about what I did, even could be
the end of my career, glorious career. And I was
very proud of your mom that she sticked to, you know,
to say, I'm not changing my name young who I am.

(30:34):
I mean, I feel comfortable doing it. And you know something,
it was a beautiful thing to go through a lot
of things. And sometimes I talk about it because people
need to know that it's not an easy thing to
be in the music business. And you know, so you
you take a lot of pride to something that is
important because every step of the way you can ruin

(30:56):
a whole life. We want bad decisions, That's what I say.
Every has consequences. And you know something, we your mama
and me, we always take care to be sure we
have we do things right because I mean, we're proud
where we come from, and we'll probably everything we're accomplished,
and that's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. And you really are like that,
and you're one of the people who really uses the
responsibility of your position and your influence. And it's constantly
like you know, you know, like don't drink and drive.
It's not worth it, you know.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
But it's true because he said, he goes, maybe who's driving.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Of course people do that. Listen, if you are famous
and you're have the money, I mean, I want to
tell you I have my takailas this. I'm not the
same I'd like to answer. I like to enjoy life,
share with people that I love. Like why should I
get drunk getting you know, I said, I bring a driver,
even have to go walking, I will not drive.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
And by the way, even if you don't have all
the money in the world, if you're going out drinking,
one drink is like what fifteen dollars. If you're drunk,
you're already spending way more money than a cab costs.
Just have one less drink and at great or that
guys anyway with ubers.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, that's problem is solved.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Nobody needs to drive. You said something that's incredible that
you've worked with the most females out of out of
a producer. One of those females that I think there's
a very a story that describes you really well, is
are incredible. Celia Cruz, who unfortunately is no longer with us,
but has been on you know, it's just on the

(32:26):
quarter and it is still so present in so many
people's lives and in my and M's deep dive Researchia
the mom And when you were getting ready that Celia
called you, I was sa.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Show what you called me? Oh you know, Tony, I
was already working. Gloria was all over the world number
one on things. I was starting to work, which I
gat everything by My dream was to work with her
because I love her. Yes, And I said, I did.
I wrote a song for you that's beautiful. You need
to go to the studio because I really want in
pressed her and she was so nice always she sent

(33:09):
cards and congratulatings and you know said, and it's the
energy on her and her husband was so beautiful. And
she comes, Hey, I'm coming to Miami. I said, I'm taking.
I hardly hear you, but you know something. I'm so
happy you want to meet in the studio. Said no, no, no,
I want to hear this song. Go. I didn't like that.
I said, your lepongos song on le pongos a sole

(33:30):
pongos a song. He said, Oh my god, I love that.
Keep going. Said no, no, I'm taking I say no.
I said, Gloria, say this coming tomorrow. We need to
finish this one because we wrote on this song became
lumber one.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Wow wants the best experience in my whole life.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
And then you know, she called me. He said, Emilio,
I don't have a record label. And I said, listen,
I have Cressent Moon, but I don't want to get
you in Crest Moon. I don't want to make any
money from you. I want to go you to go
straight to Sony. When I sent her to Sony the President, Emilia,
I don't think that's a good idea because you know
her age. Come on, you have to be crazy to somebody.

(34:07):
And you know something, I say, If you don't sign her,
you don't get Jennifer Love, you don't get Check, you
don't get Gloriousteff and market. And then I called Tommatola
I said she's going to be I don't even worry
about it. And she died with like seven number one.
She left me the more beautiful note and her clothes.
She left me like a address, her weak her shoes,
saying how sameful she was, because you know, something is

(34:30):
to nothing, lies better to die within nothing, and she
deserved that. Her and Cahaw is for people that.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Brought the you that got him signed when he came
from that.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
You know, something is a beautiful thing that you know
I was if I became president of Sony, I was
going to nobody who was really famous. I was going
for real music, real people, and you know, to keep
some of the legacy, especially for given music, because that's
my heritage. I want to be sure that we kept this,
and we did. We want to Grammys with a child.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
We want first sure sessions, right, incredible records we did
with and the Garcia those are like archival records. Those
are like things mark everybody like that.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
People need to really you saw a lot of the history.
I mean, she was there in the studio when they
had a lot of things happen.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
You know, I remember how warm Celia was. Oh my god,
she was something you know she she had like that,
that energy and just like and I wrote a song for.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Her and there wasn't number one for her, and what
she was singing that that was the first time that
I saw her crying. She cried, said just in case
I don't make it back. And you know something, she didn't.
But she brought a lot of pride for women, especially
African American women. Yeah, because she tells me a lot
of story that was really hard. It managed to be
African American, be a Latina and not speaking English, but

(35:46):
she said, you know, and being no young person, but
she died with pride. And when they gave me the manager,
which is done the incredible work. They gave me some
of the first going to save. Yeah, it was in print.
I have you know something that that's for me. I say,
that's the thing you do in life that you know
that is a beautiful thing to be able to help

(36:08):
somebody else. And she didn't need help. She deserved all
the recognition that she got.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
You did her first video, right, first video that's increat.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I got the company said she wanted to do a video. Say,
oh my god, let me see what kind of buddy
you said? Two thousand dollars, Like, what am I going
to do with two thousands? But I did a video
and I did it like I love Lucy. Yeah, one thing,
you want, one thing? And she was so happy, she
was so happy.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
It's so so awesome people are trying to do now.
It's amazing. So many of the things that you've done
now people are like, I'm going to do that again.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, that's called keep a coffee forget about that.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
We've talked about a lot of your accolades, and like
we said, we know you have a lot of places
to go, but there are a couple of little funny
things and Jim, I'm going to give you this so
that you have one in your hands and we can
oh my god, oh like a lottery. Oh, we can
kind of go back and forth here.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Okay, I have to ask. I know that there's a
long list. I don't think I could answer this question,
but I have a feeling you will. What is your
favorite thing about your daughter Emily?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
My favorite thing? Everything I know, I know, but I
love because you know, she has her own personality. Yeah,
she she doesn't like to be helped. She likes to
do things by herself that I need help. Yeah, and
she knows I'm there twenty four hours whatever she needs,
and she knows that. And she's what I love is

(37:37):
an Emilio and Glories improved because she's better than me
and Gloria. Yes, she's a lot like you. She's a
lot like you know something. She's humble, she doesn't want
to always recognize her talent. But it's amazing that she
got a career. There's a career. There is more beautiful
on the whole world because you know, you get free love.

(37:58):
Tell me you can sell records, you cannot buy love.
And you know something, when the amount of recognition get
from people that you know that you don't expect, it's
people that they love you. I mean the realists, they
follow you. We have funds from Gloria and me all
the way from the beginning, and they still like family
is now. We don't have enough word to say. I mean,
she's going live now with a new album. You're getting

(38:19):
millions of people from all over the world saying, you
know how happy they are, They asking for a tour
and this kind of thing. I mean, that's a beautiful thing.
I mean, when you're in this career, it's not only
your family you have an extent the family that love you.
They don't ask you for anything, they give you everything.
And that's a beautiful that's a beautiful thing to have

(38:40):
as a career.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, I love that.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Okay, do you remember your first impressions of jam when
you met her. It's almost been ten years, No nine years.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
No, eight years, it'll be nine this year.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
It was, I mean, beautiful, will we'll like here from
the beginning, I remember the beginning, of course, the main
question who is she?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah, I came out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Listen for me to that you're going to have that
who Who's who? Has a family? What's going on? I
mean that happens to anybody. Any father to tell you
if you have a dog and you're going to live
in somebody's house, you're going to say, I don't care.
I mean it was a girl, it was a boy,
it was an African American, it was a marchant, and
I don't care. It was the only thing that I cared.

(39:27):
Somebody who love you and take care of you, and
you love her, and that to me, that wasn't That
was his confusion about you know, I mean, we don't
care nobout his gay anything. I mean, we look anybody
no color. We don't look anybody like And why did
I tell you say I want you to be happy.
As long as you're happy. We're extremely happy. Thanks guy.
You has a beautiful relation for so many years and

(39:48):
you still have it. And you know something, that's what
I have with your mom, my mom.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Relationships are hard work, like you know.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
I remember the beginning, up said, listen, I gotta do
a background. I was kidding. I was going something. Did
second something? Let me tell you a lot of people
do that. And I said, who are they? Where did
they come from? You never know? I was twenty two
a terrorist. I don't know you're terrorists.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
I couldn't be loud, be cool, zep.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I have something to tell you all Okay, I didn't
tell I also get a lot of my quirkiness from
my father.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yes, they call.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Him yeah, and I call her yeah time, I said,
I said, the people who were from this bank also
for forty years. I know in our house staff, my
same stuff in the office, the same musician. And I'm
so happy because you know, to work for me. It's
the easy things you can have and the worst thing

(40:41):
because I'm a professionist. I don't forget anything. I mean,
I work in three olymplex, at four halftime Super Bowl,
forty events, in the White House six. I mean, the
only at the World Cup, the least Cup. And the
only reason you know I achieved I think so many
things is not that I have the education for that
is because I'm very persistent and I love life. I

(41:02):
would love very positive. I don't want to deal with
negatives with anybody. People around me have to have the
same energy to say, love what you do, and it's
a blessing when you have that.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
You know, this morning, I have my nephew, we call
him Baby Lips Franklin Gevla, and he's starting to learn
piano and I actually kind of like channeled you because
my cousin who's his mom, was like, oh, you know,
he's nervous because he wants to get it perfect right
in the beginning. And I was like, I'm going to
put on my million Stephan cap and I sent my
video and I said, Franklin, you just have to enjoy it.

(41:34):
And I know that's your that's one of your biggest
same way.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Because let me tell you, a lot of people worries
about things and you know, so the meaning that is
happening now will never come back.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
And I read that in a lot of songs. And
you know something, if you if you I just wrote
a song that is a beautiful song. I said, sing
before you're going to whatever you're going to say, one
word can hurt a lot. And sometimes you know that
when I try to get upset, I get away because
you know, sometimes I said thing I said, let me
don't say better not I got that from you to
let me tell you I learned that said, Okay, see

(42:04):
you tomorrow talk. Let's talk tomorrow. Let me tell you.
Get me upset if I have to work to two
o'clock in the morning, don't come to saying that. You know,
I'm hungry. You hungry. You have to like I do
when I'm eating sometimes, right, I mean, and you know,
people have to have the same principle to work. Now,
time to enjoy, to have a party. Let's have a party,
time to enjoy, to have a concert is great.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Everything in his time.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Time to work is time to work.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Okay, speaking about like I said, funny things and the
relationship that you have your employees and everything. Funny little
things about my father, for for example, just to set
the mood. He travels with yes. But I now do
that because he cleans the hotel room first thing. When
he keeps yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
He makes us bad, of course.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
But I need the hotel. It looks better than when
I came to I want to tell you why. Number one,
the person who's cleaning that you have to have respect
for people that they pay and you don't have the
abuse that you're paying a room because they are poor people.
Number Two, a lot of people that they are con celebrity,
they leave everything. Like you said, that's not fair for.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Those Number Three, I love you and ever since, even
when you were dating Mom, you would vacuum your footprints
on the road.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
And now.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Now you're not allowed to have trash in the trash
can oh, I can't trash, can't sleep inside the trash
outside trash.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Okay, it's too.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Agree with all of it, okay. And one of the things,
which is actually an easter egg. I can't wait to
talk more about races. But there's a little clip in
races of you kicking over a stick in the street,
and that's something that we do either when we're traveling
or when I will send these in the video. Now
what I was saying, who can kick over the biggest stick?

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Yeah, so people should you should go look at the
racist video and see that's the video that he took
to send to Emily when he was traveling of them,
because we used.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
To do it all over the world, and you know
something that it went. I mean of course being at
either girl, but even through time when she wasn't both
traveling whatever. See when I do it and I can
be in Japan, I can be in transit and we
go and and I send it to her.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah, so it's just for stretching.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
No, no, I do this.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Now go watch music video. That one is depressent. One
more story that really is just close to my heart.
God bless your that I was in college and they
were having this big event at their house. I had
to put my cards down. I can't even get through
it having this big event at the house. And one

(44:49):
of the ladies who works at their house was like
a second mother to me, Maddie Mariam. I've spoken about
her before on the podcast. Who's still with them to
this day? Had put away some of the stuff that
was left over from the party. Uh, and so my
dad calls me and he was already laughing, kind of
grumpy on the phone, away good morning. I'm like, probably

(45:10):
because no, I feel terrible. I was spending the entire
morning throwing up or throwing out. I'm like, He's like,
oh my god. I went to the kitchen to try to,
you know, to eat. I went like, Wayawa and cheese
and crackers. So I go to the fridge kind of look.

(45:31):
I go to the fridge, you know, I take it out.
I see there's lemon, grass, goat milk. I said, okay,
different cheese.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
I said, this is fancy cheese. It was a big
part of the let me you someday. Okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna do the clothing on this.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Okay, please take it from here.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
I mean, I love what you have. Cheese you too,
By the way, I used to do for you every morning.
I have my cheese for you, desert. I used to
take her this cool everyday to get her breakfast in
the money and.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Show in the car.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
She was spoiled. You think I mean, I mean, I said,
oh my god, I mean, we don't buy this kind
of cheese. Probably is very specy. I don't know. They
brought this kind of cheese, grass or something that has
to be incredible. I got, I got a cracker, I
got pulled some I pulled a crack and I pulled
the cheese and I went I said, oh, that's weird

(46:26):
a little bit weird. But you know when I saw it,
I said, man, this tastes horrible. So I tell my shelf,
listen what kind of cheese? Said no, that's the cheese
that was so.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
So guys by me?

Speaker 1 (46:38):
I said, who, who in the world one thing to
pull soap with this? That was on my phone?

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Who like no? Because then then my mom, your dad
is calling, goes baby, it's eleven girl as poisonous. I
was to say, my god, anyway, so taking away now
you know where I'm going.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Oh yes, okay. So my introduction to these emilias was
one day because you know, you know, I have an
eye explain emily. I really feel you should explain it,
because emilia is emilioisms in Spanish.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
We're going to talk and now we're going to talk
about something called which is what we affectionately call my
dad's language, which is very surprising sometimes but it's a
combination of English, Spanish, and invention and imagination. Yes, so

(47:38):
we're gonna talk about that.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
But so you know what, I love fashion, So I
always and this man is the most fashionable man you'll
ever meet in your life. So I always look at
your shoes. I always look at your jewelry. And one
time you were wearing shoes and I'm like, wow, I
love your shoes. You go, baby, but I go, where
did you get them? He goes, dumb Cruse and I'm like, wow, okay,
because it's normal. I mean the other day he was like, oh,
I was talking to the Pope. He says crazy stuff

(47:59):
all the time. I guess Tom Cruise Center shoes. It
was not Tom Cruise Center shoes. They were Tom Ford.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yeah. Well, like it's like it's like all the information
is there, but it kind of like smashes together, like
Jamie Lee Curtis.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Running and paying attention to you know, things that is
all important to me and all the things that are important. Right,
But I love sometime say that knows. I mean, when
you're married for forty something years, your man never let
me go to the doctor by myself. Liten, you tell
them you confuse after you leave. Now, because I'm thinking
about music. I'm doing this. So the doctor said hello,
I mean, how are you saying hello? How are your doctor?

(48:35):
And see say, where do you come from? He said,
well the problem that you have? I said, well the
problem he has a pain here and disarm and you
know the hair here, I say, and the one sais sick.
But it's not his arm. It's his arm. So so
you know, because evenhen I go to the doctor, I go,
I have to go so fast. I tell things that

(48:57):
you did. You forgot to tell him this and.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
That got she goes for check. Okay, so now we're
gonna we're gonna grace your ears with a couple of
more emilianas. He called the hoover Dam, Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
By the way, his.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Love you have heard him quite get there up. But
that was a preview of what I really get.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I love people's faces, my face.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
We were in loved and we were on the bus
and it was my first time in England. He was
made a baby. Howking bum palace?

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Okay. He calls them heart rumors instead of heart murmurs.
He orderedgana ice cream instead of pomegranate.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Oh court on blue instead of code blue.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
French.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Okay. He refers to the plane like when the planes
go down the black box. He calls it the.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Instead of it. Told somebody put money in their mouth
instead of put your money where your mouth is.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Honestly the same. Also great when he was going to
my show, he said he was going to my recycle
instead of my recital. I love that one. Oh this one,
love it. He called a Wretha Franklin, your wreathra of Franklin,
which is strangely harder. It's so much harder.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
So YOUA, I just go the sound you right, right right,
it makes sense, It makes sense. What about oh here
road models instead of role models.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah, as you can see, these are just another layer
to be around him. That just is like the cherry
on top.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
You know what happened because realist, I never had have
a chance to even I went to college, you know what.
So many things happening that I did. I mean with
good notes because I think it was because my ear
was so good that I remember things more than anything else.
And but yeah, never went to it location, I never
learned music. I want so many Grammars and everything because

(51:02):
you love what you do. But it was difficult. I
had to bring my family support that you work play
the according do that. I didn't have a chance. Like
many kids go to school.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I go to Harbor and I didn't have to study music,
and I ain't gonna have the ideas and the melodies
and all the things and the production with me.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
I said, okay, let me write you Okay, don't that.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
No. Literally, he'll put it in his phone and I
know you'll be around it and by the end of
the day he's like, boom.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
This is my favorite thing that happened to I think
probably in my life, my whole life. When Emily is
moving back from being Berkeley from I just said that
the air condition is broken. A company. I said, oh
my god, you call a company? Said do you stay
with the dogs? He gets you got your dogs and
I said, baby, of course, I mean you're packing anyways,
and the way I can help you. So he called

(51:49):
a He called a company. The guy come in with
the whole thing. He's observed fixing the air conditions and
I'm doing doing the window packing the whole things underweiks.
They're doing the glasses with it, you know. Then I
came to parking and the guy said, if people in
Spanish ticket like you say, yeah. I love the way

(52:09):
the Dominican republics too. I said, yeah, do you have
a little car man? I said yeah. I said, man
for us, you clean really good. I can send you
a lot of people. I said, do you think we
can have a beer. It's really hot in this place.
So I got a beer and bought a pizza. But
then I take my hat out. The guy look at me.
I said, man, you looked like somebody like a Robbie

(52:33):
the Neros, But I know you're on't Robbie the Nero nomant.
My can't is really skinny. You look like a million
stephan I said, yeah, I'm a middia stef. I said,
what the hell you're doing cleaning apart?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Yeah. Then I get back from the gig and you
see are drinking beer eating pizza. Apartment was spotless.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Yeah, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
And uh that night as well, we had these lanterns
and I I've got and he's like a wait baby,
and and we're all like, oh, you know we're gonna do.
We're all gonna race because it was a bunch of
them and you have to like build them by hand,
and we're like we're all going to race to see
who finishes, but my dad had a business dinner like

(53:13):
down the street, so like Heather, my mom and I
had started, and then Heather and my mom started getting
really upset each other, and my dad shows up like
halfway through, and my mom and Heather were having cosmos
and and he comes and he like joins the party.
So they're like, they're having cosmos and he had already
come from dinner. So he comes and in the time
that Heather and her built like I don't know, like

(53:35):
three he was there for like forty minutes, and he
built one lantern and the minute he walked away, the
lantern just popped open. And so we went to sleep,
and the next morning he woke up and he goes
out there.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
He goes, eh, that's what happened.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
And you work too much and you don't sleep enough,
which you need to do. I need to work my
ass off and need to learn from your work ethic
and have better time management like you, so that I
can be getting music from the funeral home and make
a movie and writing soundtracks, and me flying all over
the world and producing the Olympics and producing the biggest

(54:15):
events in the entire world and still releasing albums and
still waking up in the morning five hours office.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
I enjoy every single minute and that's what that's what
happened people. And I wrote that in the new song
that is number one now basedly an amazing thing because
it's a song that the first time my whole history
became like number one, like the first first day. Is
that that people say, I cry and dance on the
same time, And so because I tried to send a
message of hope for people, like people have to enjoy

(54:44):
the and everything you do in life has consequences and
how you have to do things right to get a
good feedback in your life. And you know it's the
way it should be.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yes, amen. So speaking of it, which at this very moment,
you can go on YouTube and watch the video and
by the time this episode come out shortly, you're gonna
have another song which I can't tell you the name. Man,
I'm gonna stay behind the camera and you can't see it.
So won you're gonna have a second video and an
entire album that he's poured so much love into and
like he said, not only does it make you cry,
it makes you Dance's voice is as she sounds incredible,

(55:17):
as always every time. And it's the first line album
she's released and you've released in eighteen years. Okay. And
I've had a feeling about this since I've been hearing
these songs since a little bit ago. And yeah, so
enjoy that risis. And speaking of Rasis, before we let
you go, we wanted to offer you an opportunity to
do something. Okay, as you can hear, we are literally

(55:42):
in this We've to go live greeting fam We're beaming
down from outer space and we were here talking everything. Raisis. Congratulations,
Thank you so much, Mama high jam him.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
I congrab the legends that beautiful.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
Song you wrote, by the way, were you were saying
it over here? Love friends from all over?

Speaker 2 (56:16):
So that's good English. Well mom, as the you know,
being the other half of this project, in the spirit
of this interview, do you have any questions for that
about the project?

Speaker 4 (56:28):
Okay, babe, Yeah, Emilio Quanto, I.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Mean listen, he spent two years, two years because you know,
this is an important album, because we want to be
sure that with the beautiful legacy to a lot of people,
a lot of people, they need to realize the value
about family. This song is about family. It's about what
you do with your family with time pans by and

(57:01):
some of the families are fans that has been with
I was talking here with interviews so many years. People
that has been following us for so many years given
so much love that I want to thank you. I
think this song is about that. It's about the family,
it's about heretage, it's about leaving a beautiful legacy to
a lot of people and bringing the hope to live
in a better world.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Yeah that's not a song right there, that's another song
he's writing the next album.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Okay for power Quent to.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Consume created a love song.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
I wrote a song for you, like I've done a
lot of songs for you, but you know you sing
it from me, which is a beautiful thing. People say,
Oh my god, Gloria so in love with you. I said, yes,
there you have it.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
I know you wrote it for me, Babe. I have
to say it because it's so funny. He comes to
me and says, Babe, I.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Wrote a love song for you.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Oh baby, sing.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
It for me.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
But I'm gonna tell you this that you know something.
This Almo is about love, giving back all the love
that people help us for so many years and you know,
to share this time with you. It's been the hard
live of my whole life. And you know something is beautiful.
To be able to make a record that you know,
like Goes number one is getting the incredible. You know

(58:35):
something it's about people know that, you know, music have
no age. Anybody who love music. Age is important, but
you know it's it's good to do good music and
least on some great music behind for a new generation
to recognize the Latino music has no language, said, we're
going to reach with this album, like many of the
albums that we don't other people all over the world.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
Wanted to be, you know, for people to realize.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
Emilio and I, well, I'm in my sixties.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
He's already in the next decade and he has been
and I've been.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
More productive creatively than ever in my life.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Maybe because the things like raising a family, like getting
through those moments in life.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Now the creative project can.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
Be focused on Emilio Disco Para. He's making records for
Nico Gusi, the Whalers, the.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Tenors from Canada. This record guy, he says, Seema fun.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
He's like he's doing more than ever in his Lifetiva
Kahamas yet.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Albums in Patal. He doesn't slow down this man.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Listen, we're going to have a big surprise for the
third single. For all these times, we're gonna do something
that we've never done. So get ready, certain ceo baman
okay with the album is like a look a different

(01:00:17):
different languages, different countries. They'll learn about Latin music because
of you. So I'm very proud of you and very
proud of my daughter's here and we're having a great time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
So yeah, let you go. Congratulations mom, little question? Why why?

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Just one morning questions? Baby? What's your pet teeve about me?

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Every time you asked me a question and broshing my
teeth before something years that agos a baby? Then answer me.
I'm going chack baby, God, you never downed too minutes
to be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
To be fair, though he probably spends fifteen percent of
his day brushing his teeth.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Well, congratulates, So tonight we're going to celebrate.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
There you have it all right, well Germaine, Dad, in
the spirit of in our own world, there's one more
tradition that we need to speak about before you make

(01:01:35):
your way out of outer space and back to Earth,
but thank you for joining us for this small and
short window of such a the enormous planet and universe
that you are. But without further ado, we go. Everybody's
so it was my next thing out of space finess.
This is actually a very important day in space news

(01:01:56):
because you're going to see there's a resolution to the
storyline that's been going on for many, many, many many
months now here space and outer space. So without any
further ado, here we go. It's space news. NASA has
captured the exact moment a star is born. The images
are stunning and connect us to the Cosmos, displaying two
plates of light forging towards each other, and most incredibly,

(01:02:20):
when you zoom in three X you will see Lady
Gaga and Bradley Cooper making out. Next, the US Space
Force released a new strategy blueprint outlining in how it
plans to integrate artificial intelligence into its operations and improve
AI literacy amongst its personnel. The document, titled we will
be Faking Everything from now On, was published on March

(01:02:43):
nineteenth in response to Defense Department directives calling for more data. Well,
at least they're not even trying to lie to us. Anymore.
AI's taken over. Now they're gonna go back and recreate
the fake moon landing. Is it fake?

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Is it not?

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
We'll never know. We'll never know. I just report the news. Okay. Finally,
like I said, it is a very important day in space. Okay,
Mahina that you with claustrophobia nine months anywhere, let alone
in space, you wouldn't be able to do it. Okay.
After months of reporting the poor astronauts stuck up in space,
they are finally successfully back on Earth. And unfortunately that

(01:03:18):
poor lady's hair is back in gravity. I really liked
it sticking up like that. I'm sad. That's really Ultimately,
that's what I'm gonna miss. It was a momentous homecoming
for NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams after finally
returning to Earth after spending nine months in space, and
by the way, it was only supposed to be nine days.
Reports are merging this is absolutely true. Look it up sharing.

(01:03:41):
The astronauts will only receive about one thousand dollars extra
in total for this space disaster. So kids, if you
dream of dedicating your lifetime and your body and your
mind to space travel don't but welcome home. Butch and
Suoni yay.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
And this has been spaces.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
That. It's not a secret. You are absolutely one of
my favorite human beings in the world. Whether you made
me or not, I learned from you every single day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
You didn't make me, and you're one of my favorite
and I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Really appreciate you taking the time and the wisdom and
opening up and sharing with us. And congratulations on the record.
We love you so much. I would say, tell me
what you're working on, but now it's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
A lot of coming up, to a lot of great
things coming up. But more than I think, I'm so
proud of you, guys. I'm so proud of you because
you know something. I think you are like me a
lot of things I wish I was like I really
in the long run, and you too. We try to
do things what is right. We live in a time
that you know that it's great to have family values
and to have unity in the world that we need that.

(01:04:47):
I think I hope to this that we don't today.
People need to learn that. You have to go to
a lot of things in life, but always it's good
to be free and a free country. It's always good
to give it back to a free country and to
always never forget where you come from. So this is
what you guys have do is continued, continued everything that
we did. I hope you make it better.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
We'll see you next week. Bye.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
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