But can you kind of give us a brief overview of just the your experience with what happened with regard to the cancellation, finding out to where you are maybe today and, you know, how you are dealing with it, if you will?

Well, I mean, the reason we were canceled, and, you know, you can choose to read into a narrative or not.

Like, I mean, the official reason the show was canceled is that apparently it was no longer making money for CBS.

And that is the line, you know, a purely financial decision is what they have said and repeatedly claim was the reason for the cancellation.

And...

i don't like i i will stick to the line the line that was uh the official line but you know people are entitled to their opinions and to have their thoughts based on the actions of the network and the um new owners of the network um but i do think like at no point was it communicated to me that it was for any other reason and at no point was it um you know i was just an employee at the show i yeah like i was not part privy to any of these conversations in terms of like how it has been i mean it was you know the show's great the show was an incredible show the show employed 200 plus people in the city and the state of new york and new jersey you know the New York metropolitan area and we had the best in the business, I will say, like truly the best in the business and every like at every part of the operation, you know.

So it's a it was incredible to be able to work with people who were truly the best and everyone from props to interns to graphics and editors and, you know, and then there were the writers.

Can you talk more about, you know, what led you to, I mean, to talk about your own immigration story is wonderful, but to do what you did, which was to really do some hardcore research into it, what led you to say, I want to write this book instead of the typical memoir?

Yeah.

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Go to your loc- local bookstore.

I think this, this Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day, so that's like a fun plan.

Go out there.

You can find me on social media.

I'm, uh, @felipetorresmedina on Instagram.

Mm-hmm.

Quite a year.

Yeah.

(laughs) And I knew from the beginning that I wanted it to be funny because I, I'm a comedian, you know.

I'm not an activist or some sort of, uh, immigration attorney or...

Uh, my experience with immigration was what I had lived but also what I had, what I knew from talking to other immigrants, be them family members or friends.

So it kind of created this bug in my brain of like, how do I tell all these stories or ins- stories inspired by this? How do I create a funny book about immigration? And at the time I was writing humor pieces for The New Yorker and McSweeney's, and I was finding that comedic voice to talk about immigration.

And I landed on this...... format, 'cause it, it just did so many things for me, you know? I, I don't think anyone had ever done immigration in a fun way.

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

So I thought this would be a really good way to not only involve the reader in a way that I think immigration books don't involve the readers ever- By making them the main characters.

But it was also a way to, for me to tell a bunch of immigration stories, because I was not interested in writing, uh, my story exclusively.

'Cause I thought my story was fine and, and, you know, moderately interesting in the same way that any immigrant's story is moderately interesting.

Uh, what w- what I was interested in is like all the ways and all the, uh, pitfalls and quote, unquote, "dangers" that are in the legal immigration system even, you know? And so I chose to find a way to tell all these stories while using humor and while adding a layer of play.

You know, it, it's playful.

It's a playful book.

So what, what's kind of w- what's going on there?