I'm in this now.

Yeah, I don't know.

The I've made it comment, I think, is weird because...

And I can only speak for myself.

It never feels that way.

Like, this... industry and this landscape, and you know, this as it changes so fast, like the goalposts move and move.

So I've, I've found it to be like where I've made it as knowing that, wow, I can sustain myself.

We're going in this direction right now, and I'm at the center of it.

Uh, you, do you feel like the Latino community is, um, united in any way right now?

I see it, but I think in, in the overall sense, there's so much work to be done.

I think there's a lot of forward-facing people and, like, I'm part of a group called Latinas Acting Up, and, like, our queen Gina Torres is part of it, and Diana Rivas, and, like, so many...

Eva Longoria is part of it, too.

Like, there's so many women who have had now access and are in positions of power to really move the needle, but the rest of the community has to show up.

And I think creating these spaces that aren't cost-prohibitive, that people can really show up and show their support in different ways, we can only build it.

Like, everybody else has to come.

Mm-hmm.

So what was stuff that you found out? Like, is he excited for halftime? Is he nervous? You

know what's interesting? He reads so even keel.

He was such a calming presence.

which, with all the chaos around him, I found really, really impressive and very endearing.

I was already a fan, but the way he just approaches everything, he's like, very slow-paced.

He was like, look, whatever, we're here, I've been doing press for seven hours, but let's just do the shit for a while.

It was really cool to sort of see him in that vein, not on in the entertainer format, and I thought it was also very vulnerable of him to just step into an interview that way.

Did he tell you at all? Has he been practicing a while? Is it going to be an elaborate performance? Did he tell you any

Yeah

...

the Dominican Republic, we're so tethered, like the two islands.

And for me, seeing him and his success, it feels like a part of me and a part of my family is represented up there, and, and-

Mm

... not something we ever thought was on the board for us.

Uh, and that's what he echoed to me yesterday.

He's like, "It's just I carry so many cultures and so many different people with me, but- While it's heavy, it also lifts me up at the same time.

MJ, you got to tell us about

it.

Both of you know the importance of investing in yourself as a woman.

So I've self-produced, self-funded a labor of love.

It's called Becoming Undefined.

It's a digital talk show.

It's over on my YouTube channel.

So who are you rooting for this Sunday?