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[0:00] Linedy Genao: Welcome back to Entre Acts Season 2! I'm so excited for our first episode of the season. Thank you all so much for the love and support you gave us for Season 1. It was much bigger than anticipated and I'm so grateful. We took a little break for the summer, you know, to just relax, recoup, and just get so many exciting ideas for Season 2. Now, Season 2 couldn't just start regular degular in the studio, right? Because boring! So we have something so exciting for the Season 2 premiere. Are you ready? Let's go! Oh, and what's this? This is the new Entre Acts tote bag that you can get very soon. Alright, so like I said, we're not going to go to the studio today for our premiere episode. We're going to meet our guest and we're going to ride in style.

What was that? We're going to ride in style around Times Square in a vintage 1950s car, courtesy of Welcome to Times Square. Thank you so much. And we're going to ride in style and do the episode together while we're cruising around Times Square. Let's go!

[1:22] Linedy Genao: Alright, y'all. We're here at our studio today and we're going to ride around in this 1957 Ford Fairlane. Welcome to Times Square. Thank you so much for lending us this car for the day. I'm not driving. I'm going to be a passenger princess with my guest, but we're so excited. We're about to meet our guest. Are you ready? Here we go. Here we go. Hi, so excited. Look at our ride today. Did you know what color the car was? Because you can't match it with a car. Not fair. The spirit will tell me. I'm dead. They did. Let's get in the car. Let's go. This is oh my gosh, y'all. This is courtesy of Welcome to Times Square. Thank you so much for letting us get into this vintage 1957 Ford Fairlane. Wow. Me too. I am married. Okay, we're ready to go. Let's do cruising. Let's do this.

[2:29] Linedy Genao: Alright, everybody. We're officially about to be rolling through Times Square, and I'm not alone in the backseat anymore, señores. Okay, my guest today is someone who has been an inspiration to me for so long. If you grew up anywhere near Connecticut, and especially as a Latino, you know exactly who this is. If you were ever looking for a blueprint on how to make it in this industry without ever losing your voice and saying fiercely and unapologetically yourself to every accolade, it's this person. He is a three-time Tony Award nominated artist whose work is a masterclass in range from originating Sonny in In the Heights to dazzling us in La Cage aux Folles and The Boys in the Band on Broadway and on Netflix to shining in Tick Tick Boom, Welcome to Chippendales, Netflix, Black Rabbit, I Do Me All, and recently Lincoln Center Theater's Nightside Songs, earning a well-deserved 2026 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Ensemble. Sitting right here on the passenger side of my best friend, of your best friends, is my friend, the one and only, Robin De Jesús!

[3:37] Robin De Jesús: Hello, welcome to Times Square! Everybody, hold on. Thank you, welcome to Times Square for letting us ride in style in a vintage 1950s car. Yes, I feel pretty. I feel mad for me. I feel pretty. Oh, so pretty. Señores, Robin, thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited. I love you, girl.

[3:54] Linedy Genao: I love you. You are the season two premiere guest, which is so exciting. First is the worst, second is the best, third is the better. With a hairy chest? That doesn't work. Sorry, guys. Whoa, hold on. I'm furry. I'm an otter, so it's fine. I'm in the community. I'm, well, okay, señores. Okay, Robin, so obviously we're not in the studio today because I wanted to do something exciting for the season two premiere, so I usually start my episodes with an icebreaker game of dominoes. Okay. You know, in our culture, dominoes are super important, but it's not your regular, regular dominoes. It's the entreazo. But obviously, we're going to be playing, what is the name of this game today? It can't be dominoes. What can we call it? Is it called capicu? Capicu. Ya tu sabes. Capicu! Okay. Oh, wait, let me change my flash card. Okay.

[4:42] Linedy Genao: Would you rather fight a bunch of pigeons or dodge a bunch of rats?

[4:42] Robin De Jesús: Oh, I've already fought rats before, so I guess I'll go to new territory and fight pigeons.

[4:47] Linedy Genao: Yeah, I actually, a rat fought me, but we won't talk about it. Okay. What do you like in between your bread? What's your favorite kind of sandwich?

[4:56] Robin De Jesús: Oh, in between my bread, I love, love, love, love, love jamon y queso si el pan es pan sobao. I know it's so simple, but like, it hits. It's rice.

[5:00] Linedy Genao: Do you like mayonesa?

[5:00] Robin De Jesús: No, but no, that hits. Okay. Okay. Speaking of, is it a crime to put ketchup on your pastel, or is it a valid survival choice? Because not everybody makes them the same. Like, if they're well-seasoned, they got that good amount of meat inside. They're real crispy, not crispy. Wow. I meant to say chubby, but, um, but yeah, then those don't require, I'm already, like, my lips are like.

[5:29] Linedy Genao: I know, I don't have any breakfast, so. I feel you, I feel you. But like, I don't, I don't hate on the ketchup on pasteles. Love it. I, yeah, I enjoy that. I used to put ketchup on my white rice when I was a kid.

[5:39] Robin De Jesús: Me too. Yeah, my aunt and my grandmother used to always say that when I got married, no one was going to throw rice or throw ketchup at me, because I used to put ketchup on everything. I'm a ketchup lover.

[5:46] Linedy Genao: Yeah, I see government funded the accent resource to say hola. Ketchup lovers unite. Okay, last one. If you had to do this entire episode in an accent, which would it be?

[6:00] Robin De Jesús: Oh my goodness. Why, whatever do you mean, what accent would I do? I could never. I need a dialect coach for that. Please, honey, do we have the resources for that? Por favor. What was that? Por favor is like my Bloomberg Spanish. Like, I love to be like, que lo que mi gente. Que lo que mi gente. Que tengo que ir. You, the R, you hit it. I love it.

[6:23] Linedy Genao: Yeah, I love it. Speaking of, y donde esta mi gente. Okay, you know what, let's ask one more. Okay, so what is the one ingredient you think ruins everything it touches?

[6:40] Robin De Jesús: One ingredient that ruins everything? Wasabi. I cannot do wasabi. Nah, nah, nah. Wasabi made me feel like I did a line of Peruvian Blow and I'm about to die.

[6:45] Linedy Genao: Robin, so ya tu sabes. We're on Entre Acts. Entre Acts is a podcast where we talk about the entre, the in between period, us artists experience, right? And so I always love to compare it to, you know, teachers. You don't ever ask a teacher in the summer who has off and has a well-deserved break, what are you doing for the summer? And they have no shame in saying, living my best life, going on vacation, doing whatever. But us as artists, it's typically taboo or there's some shame involved with when we're not working and how that defines us and our artistry. And so I wanted to create a safe space where we talk about that and use that space and this conversation to empower others that, you know, it's a great place to be in. You know, obviously it has its struggles, but there are so many positives to that. So I wanted to ask you, what does the in between mean to you?

[7:34] Robin De Jesús: The in between to me is like, it's the moment of surrender. It's the moment where your devoutness most comes into play, that trust, that like, that will be done kind of that place, right? Because you know when you're used to working and having a great time, you feel so comfortable, it's really easy to get privileged. Like it happens pretty fast. So the moment that you're humbled by not working, a lot of triggers can come up. Like I've not always been my best. I've not always been impeccable when I'm not working. But the moments where I felt like I've been able to absorb the most and be most present in life is when I am so faithful to the fact that I'm where I'm supposed to be, that I'm doing what I love to do, that I'm in this for the long game and not for present satisfaction.

And the moment that I also recognize that I have to, I actually have that period to lean into my faith, to lean into what I believe and continue to grow. So the work never stops. It's always there. Like you're always learning. You're just learning from a different viewpoint.

[8:50] Linedy Genao: Yeah. No, I love that. It's absolutely right. And I'm experiencing that myself right now. You said like connecting back to my faith and just like my spirituality because I've been out of work for three weeks recovering from a concussion. And like obviously that's all in here, but it makes you go crazy in here too and in here. And so I don't know, I needed to hear that. I love that.

[9:12] Robin De Jesús: Yeah, absolutely. A hundred percent. I mean like also the body parts, they spiritually, first of all, I'm like, I'm like, Alice is giving it to me right now. Come on Lost Boys. Like I already forgot what I was going to say because I got so taken away by the Lost Boys.

[9:28] Linedy Genao: The Lost Boys made you lose your train of thought.

[9:28] Robin De Jesús: The Lost Boys made me lose. Let me bring my accent back. Please. No? Me gusta, pero me gusta. I, okay, I can't, I can't. No, no, but you're absolutely right. It's, we all, that's why I said there's a lot of positives, but also it's really hard. We're not our best selves during that time because of like.

[9:50] Linedy Genao: Yeah, oh and that's what, and that's what I was saying was like your body parts spiritually affect so much. And when it comes to the throat, I know for me as a queer man and I would imagine for you as a woman, that like the throat, that's a place where the patriarchy really informs where you place and how you navigate. There's, for me, it's like my internalized homophobia can often create tension here. One of my best friends, Dominic Colon, used to always say that when he was at school at NYU, a lot of the women would have meltdowns and not meltdowns, like breakdowns in class, rightfully so. It was, it was actually a very necessary threshold for them because they'd realized that they've been placing in, in the place of daddy's good little girl.

[10:31] Linedy Genao: I feel that.

[10:31] Robin De Jesús: As opposed to like, huh, and wherever your voice lies naturally, it's different for everyone. But like that spiritually will really get to you. And I don't, I don't, I guess I don't know the brain as much, but I would imagine everything.

[10:48] Linedy Genao: Yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely. So now that you've been a part of such high profile, you know, projects and accolades, everything like that, do you feel pressure to keep the momentum going? Do you, does that in-between period feel any different to you?

[11:06] Robin De Jesús: Yes, all the time. I'm like, where is the momentum that I can get really entitled? You know, I've been really, really fortunate in my career. And I have these moments of like, where is the momentum that I deserve? I shouldn't be jumping projects and projects and projects. And then I sit back and I'm like, but I'm also mad picky. And I like what I like. And I, I feel like our work is so spiritual. And it's a place where I feel most accused, most devout to God. It's a place where I know God most. So I have a hard time disrespecting it with something that I might think is just not for me. I'm not going to show up. It's like, you know, when you're with the family through the Novenas, I don't know if your family does that. I'm like, why y'all rushing? Like, you're not being present. Why are we doing this? Then if we're just going to rush through this, that's kind of how I feel about that.

[11:54] Linedy Genao: You just brought me back to so many childhood memories. It might be as living room on the floor in Queens. And if we didn't say the rosary properly, you know, it's funny. I used to love the Novenas as a kid because the food was...

[12:12] Robin de Jesús: It's always so bomb.

[12:13] Linedy Genao: Claro.

[12:14] Robin de Jesús: Solo sandwichito de Faihang.

[12:15] Linedy Genao: You know what I'm talking about?

[12:16] Robin de Jesús: Yes.

[12:17] Linedy Genao: The Puerto Ricans make this thing.

[12:18] Robin de Jesús: It's like, it's like spam straight from the can in the blender with roasted red peppers

[12:23] and cheese whiz.

[12:24] Linedy Genao: Not the cheese whiz.

[12:25] Robin de Jesús: The cheese.

[12:26] Linedy Genao: And once you do that, government fondness hits.

[12:29] Robin de Jesús: That or white wonder bread.

[12:31] Linedy Genao: It feel right.

[12:32] Robin de Jesús: I love that.

[12:33] Linedy Genao: Señora, we are in the middle of Times Square, but I feel like we're at Univision.

[12:38] Robin de Jesús: Hola, buenos dias.

[12:39] Linedy Genao: Estamos aqui en Times Square por Robin de Jesus.

[12:42] Robin de Jesús: Ay, que rico pasar el dia contigo.

[12:45] Linedy Genao: Es que mira todas estas cosas que están por aqui.

[12:48] Robin de Jesús: Hey, no, there's back view.

[12:50] Linedy Genao: Hey!

[12:51] Robin de Jesús: Mira caballos.

[12:52] Linedy Genao: Hello everybody.

[12:53] Robin de Jesús: Follow Entrex, Spotify, YouTube, Season 2, Robin de Jesus.

[13:00] Linedy Genao: Wait, I know I'm getting off topic, but we have to talk about our concert.

[13:04] Robin de Jesús: Yeah, oh.

[13:05] Linedy Genao: Señores.

[13:06] Robin de Jesús: Y señores.

[13:07] Linedy Genao: No, si, y señoras.

[13:08] Robin de Jesús: Y señores.

[13:09] Linedy Genao: I don't know what the.

[13:10] Robin de Jesús: Señorex?

[13:11] Linedy Genao: No, no.

[13:12] Robin de Jesús: Señorex.

[13:13] Linedy Genao: Everybody, mi gente.

[13:14] Robin de Jesús: Everybody, mi gente.

[13:15] Linedy Genao: Y donde esta mi gente.

[13:16] Robin de Jesús: We have a cabaret coming up Monday, November 2nd at the People's Theater of Town.

[13:23] Linedy Genao: Talk to us about that.

[13:24] Robin de Jesús: What can people expect with our cabaret?

[13:27] Linedy Genao: I mean, I think people can expect us to give the sauce and flavor that we have.

[13:32] Robin de Jesús: Like, it's got to be a combo of obviously musical theater stuff.

[13:35] Linedy Genao: Canon songs from the American songbook.

[13:38] Robin de Jesús: But also, you know, our Dominican and Puerto Rican experience and how that's informed our palette.

[13:43] Linedy Genao: And I feel like there's so many people that we know who the references that we have and the songs that we bounce to and what triggers what lyrics.

[13:52] Robin de Jesús: Because we're people who will randomly burst into song because a random word makes us think of it.

[13:57] Linedy Genao: And so, like, that's sort of like, I almost said unhingedness.

[14:03] Robin de Jesús: And I kind of, it does still feel appropriate.

[14:05] Linedy Genao: I think it's the Minor Divergence.

[14:07] Robin de Jesús: But like, to where I jump around, I don't always feel at home with everyone.

[14:12] Linedy Genao: People don't always feel it.

[14:14] Robin de Jesús: But I feel like for us and us coming from this place of complete authenticity and this place of just being who we are.

[14:25] Linedy Genao: We're going to give a great, great bomb ass concert.

[14:29] Robin de Jesús: And we're going to honor the people's theater.

[14:31] Linedy Genao: Welcome them into their home.

[14:33] Robin de Jesús: Give them a good limpieza.

[14:35] Linedy Genao: And wish them well.

[14:37] Robin de Jesús: Because they're doing incredible work that matters.

[14:39] Linedy Genao: And the people they represent.

[14:41] Robin de Jesús: It's so important to support this theater.

[14:43] Linedy Genao: To support a theater that is uptown.

[14:45] Robin de Jesús: To clock the fact that theater happens everywhere in New York.

[14:48] Linedy Genao: As fierce as Times Square is and as much as we love it.

[14:52] Robin de Jesús: But like, it's not all there is.

[14:54] Linedy Genao: Hay mucho mas.

[14:56] Robin de Jesús: Absolutely, absolutely.

[14:58] Linedy Genao: And so, I'm going to continue talking about that.

[15:00] Robin de Jesús: But right now, we're driving down 41st Street.

[15:03] Linedy Genao: And in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

[15:07] Robin de Jesús: We're going to hit the Nederlander Theater.

[15:09] Linedy Genao: Which is where you made your Broadway debut.

[15:11] Robin de Jesús: Yes, yes.

[15:13] Linedy Genao: In Rent.

[15:15] Robin de Jesús: I was 21 years old.

[15:17] Linedy Genao: I found out on my sister's 30th birthday, November 11th, 2005.

[15:20] Robin de Jesús: And they were like, be at the theater tonight.

[15:22] Linedy Genao: And I had been working takeout at Bertucci's.

[15:26] Robin de Jesús: I love Bertucci's.

[15:28] Linedy Genao: Them rolls be hitting, right?

[15:30] Robin de Jesús: Or they used to, because they closed.

[15:32] Linedy Genao: In Connecticut, yeah.

[15:34] Robin de Jesús: And I'll rise up.

[15:36] Linedy Genao: I'll rise like the day.

[15:38] Robin de Jesús: Maybe they won't, but whatever.

[15:40] Linedy Genao: Wow, wow.

[15:42] Robin de Jesús: Yeah, and I remember I quit on a Friday night.

[15:46] Linedy Genao: And the restaurant was like, they wished me all the best.

[15:49] Robin de Jesús: But they were also like, how are you going to leave us on a Friday night?

[15:51] Linedy Genao: You know we're busy.

[15:53] Robin de Jesús: And I was like, okay, bye.

[15:55] Linedy Genao: Because they were literally like, how are we going to pay?

[15:57] Robin de Jesús: How are we going to pay?

[15:59] Linedy Genao: How are we going to pay?

[16:01] Robin de Jesús: Last year's rent.

[16:03] Linedy Genao: This year's rent.

[16:05] Robin de Jesús: Next year's rent.

[16:07] Linedy Genao: Okay.

[16:09] Robin de Jesús: Back to it.

[16:11] Linedy Genao: But back to our concert.

[16:13] Robin de Jesús: You're going to get a lot of this, right?

[16:16] Linedy Genao: So the People's Theater is a 19,000-square-foot theater, I think.

[16:20] Robin de Jesús: It's the largest Latin theater in New York City.

[16:22] Linedy Genao: The first Dominican-managed.

[16:24] Robin de Jesús: Mina Lora.

[16:26] Linedy Genao: Superwoman.

[16:28] Robin de Jesús: And we're a part of their inaugural season to open up their brand-new multipurpose, multi-generational artistic space.

[16:34] Linedy Genao: So excited.

[16:36] Robin de Jesús: Get your tickets at People's Theater.

[16:38] Linedy Genao: We're in New York City, you know that.

[16:40] Robin de Jesús: Get your tickets at the People's Theater.

[16:42] Linedy Genao: Website, Monday, November 2nd at 730.

[16:46] Robin de Jesús: We'll see you there.

[16:48] Linedy Genao: I love that you're like, oh, God, it's Times Square.

[16:50] Robin de Jesús: God bless these people.

[16:52] Linedy Genao: And I'm like, get that guy in.

[16:54] Robin de Jesús: We balance each other out.

[16:56] Linedy Genao: Make it a week through.

[16:58] Robin de Jesús: Make it a week through.

[17:00] Linedy Genao: I can't.

[17:02] Robin de Jesús: So what is the most boring but essential thing you do during an in-between period that keeps you sane?

[17:06] Linedy Genao: I guess yoga.

[17:08] Robin de Jesús: No, I think it's my plans.

[17:10] Linedy Genao: I'm a big plan daddy.

[17:12] Robin de Jesús: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[17:14] Linedy Genao: Oh, we've got to share about that.

[17:16] Robin de Jesús: When we were on Zoom and I saw your plans, I was like, oh, my God.

[17:18] Linedy Genao: Yo tengo una abundancia de las matas en la casa.

[17:20] Robin de Jesús: And like all the aunties and cousins will take cuttings from myself.

[17:24] Linedy Genao: But it's a really great way for me to ground myself.

[17:26] Robin de Jesús: It's something that's also really intuitive.

[17:28] Linedy Genao: And that I feel an ancestral connection with it.

[17:32] Robin de Jesús: Like a lot of my relatives did work with land.

[17:34] Linedy Genao: And granted, they're in-house.

[17:36] Robin de Jesús: Like I can feel this sort of communication happening.

[17:40] Linedy Genao: And I am very aware that I need to be grounded.

[17:44] Robin de Jesús: And to have dirt in my hands.

[17:46] Linedy Genao: And to have life coming from those plants.

[17:48] Robin de Jesús: There is like, there's a relationship there.

[17:52] Linedy Genao: And it's funny because I work with different healers.

[17:54] Robin de Jesús: And, you know, new age stuff that people might think is whack.

[17:58] Linedy Genao: But as a believer, they'll often come up and be like, yo, your plants love you.

[18:04] Robin de Jesús: Like they love being in your home.

[18:06] Linedy Genao: They feel very connected to you.

[18:08] Robin de Jesús: Do you talk to them?

[18:10] Linedy Genao: I absolutely talk to them.

[18:12] Robin de Jesús: I absolutely talk to them.

[18:14] Linedy Genao: I tell them they're pretty.

[18:16] Robin de Jesús: I tell them I'm proud of them.

[18:18] Linedy Genao: Yeah.

[18:20] Robin de Jesús: And sometimes I realize when I'm in a place of fear,

[18:26] Linedy Genao: sometimes I will put things off.

[18:30] Robin de Jesús: I will procrastinate.

[18:32] Linedy Genao: And what I don't know is all of a sudden I'm like,

[18:34] Robin de Jesús: these plants do not need any more attention.

[18:38] Linedy Genao: Like babe, you're fine.

[18:40] Robin de Jesús: It's just that because it's a safe place,

[18:42] Linedy Genao: I would rather go to them than to the work that I have to actually do.

[18:44] Robin de Jesús: Yeah.

[18:46] Linedy Genao: But also because of that connection, I'm able to talk.

[18:48] Robin de Jesús: I can identify the thing and be like, okay, gather me planties.

[18:52] Linedy Genao: Thank you.

[18:54] Robin de Jesús: Thank you.

[18:56] Linedy Genao: Yeah, no, I talk to my plants.

[18:58] Robin de Jesús: Especially while I've been cooked.

[19:00] Linedy Genao: I will be healed.

[19:02] Robin de Jesús: What's your favorite plant?

[19:04] Linedy Genao: I have so many.

[19:06] Robin de Jesús: But I love, I think it's the first plant I purchased.

[19:08] Linedy Genao: And it's this huge, oh my gosh, I forgot what it's called.

[19:12] Robin de Jesús: Forgive me, planta.

[19:14] Linedy Genao: No, it's a huge plant.

[19:16] Robin de Jesús: I got it at Ikea, believe it or not,

[19:18] Linedy Genao: six years ago.

[19:20] Robin de Jesús: But it is thriving.

[19:22] Linedy Genao: Thriving.

[19:24] Robin de Jesús: And I just put one of the big leaves on my forehead.

[19:26] Linedy Genao: And I'm just like, I will be healed.

[19:28] Robin de Jesús: I will recover fully.

[19:30] Linedy Genao: Thank you so much. I love you.

[19:32] Robin de Jesús: No, I love that.

[19:34] Linedy Genao: Hashtag plant daddy.

[19:36] Robin de Jesús: So why don't we give our audience

[19:38] Linedy Genao: a little sneak peek

[19:40] Robin de Jesús: of what we're going to give

[19:42] Linedy Genao: at our Camaray.

[19:46] Robin de Jesús: We have to be on the right key.

[19:48] Linedy Genao: Five, six, seven.

[19:50] Robin de Jesús: Que tontos, que locos.

[19:52] Linedy Genao: Somos tuyo.

[19:54] Robin de Jesús: Estando con otros.

[19:56] Linedy Genao: Que tontos, que locos.

[19:58] Robin de Jesús: Oye, come see us.

[20:00] Linedy Genao: November 2nd.

[21:00] and been a couch potato

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: People's Theater.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: Los bonitos son $45.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: Es lo que quedan.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: Los VIP se vendieron ya.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: Somos VIP.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: That's what I was thinking.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: Selfie.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: Say cheese.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: I love that man so much.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: Me too.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: Now we're going to get to

[21:00] Linedy Genao: a very important segment.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: Cheese man hot takes.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: What's a rule you hated

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: from your parents that you now fully support?

[21:00] Linedy Genao: A rule that I hated from my parents?

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: To not play video games.

[21:00] Linedy Genao: My mom would not let me

[21:00] play video games because

[21:00] she said I was going to fry my brain

[21:00] and that I was going to get lazy.

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: And the thing is

[21:00] Linedy Genao: because it took so long to clock

[21:00] like the neurodivergence

[21:00] Robin de Jesús: for me, I

[21:00] think it would have been true.

[20:58] Linedy Genao: I think I would have easily gotten addicted to it

[21:02] Robin de Jesús: and I needed to be out and about, running

[21:04] Linedy Genao: a month, burning off energy.

[21:06] Robin de Jesús: And I also

[21:08] Linedy Genao: as a kid I loved reading books.

[21:10] Robin de Jesús: So I think that was a healthier

[21:12] Linedy Genao: alternative for me.

[21:14] Robin de Jesús: I played video games with my kids

[21:16] Linedy Genao: and my nieces and nephews.

[21:18] Robin de Jesús: I just play what they tell me.

[21:20] Linedy Genao: And that's the whole point.

[21:22] Robin de Jesús: I'm absolutely terrible. My fingers

[21:24] like don't know.

[21:26] Linedy Genao: I love like Mario.

[21:28] Robin de Jesús: I love Mario

[21:30] Linedy Genao: and like racing games.

[21:32] Robin de Jesús: Football games I used to play

[21:34] Linedy Genao: when I was little. I didn't know anything but I just used to

[21:36] Robin de Jesús: pick the Broncos or

[21:38] Linedy Genao: what's the team with the

[21:40] Robin de Jesús: star? Cowboys just because it was a star.

[21:42] Linedy Genao: And then obviously Giants,

[21:44] Robin de Jesús: Jets and Patriots.

[21:46] Linedy Genao: Were you a Nintendo kid? Yes.

[21:48] Robin de Jesús: So I will say this, actually I do have a favorite game

[21:50] Linedy Genao: and it is Mario Brothers, like the classic one.

[21:52] Robin de Jesús: One and three, I didn't like two.

[21:54] Linedy Genao: I don't even remember.

[21:56] Robin de Jesús: I just

[21:58] Linedy Genao: remember that that was my opinion but I actually have

[22:00] Robin de Jesús: little games in years so I don't remember either.

[22:02] Linedy Genao: I might have to start playing.

[22:04] Robin de Jesús: What is your perreo song?

[22:06] Linedy Genao: Ooh, my perreo song.

[22:10] Robin de Jesús: I mean I have to go back to El General.

[22:12] Linedy Genao: Right? Like all

[22:14] Robin de Jesús: of his stuff. The whole

[22:16] Linedy Genao: catalog game.

[22:18] Robin de Jesús: And I know it's not

[22:20] Linedy Genao: a perreo song but

[22:22] Robin de Jesús: like it's perreo adjacent.

[22:24] Linedy Genao: It's like what part are you going to?

[22:26] Robin de Jesús: That makes me want to get

[22:28] Linedy Genao: the meat off the bone. And to me perreo

[22:30] Robin de Jesús: is like slow cooker meat. Yes.

[22:32] Linedy Genao: It's like you put in the slow cooker and the fat breaks down

[22:34] Robin de Jesús: and it comes off the bone. Yes.

[22:36] Linedy Genao: And then it jiggles like that, you know?

[22:38] Robin de Jesús: And that's how it makes me feel like that.

[22:40] Linedy Genao: I love that.

[22:42] Robin de Jesús: Oye, now we're passing the theater where I

[22:44] Linedy Genao: made my Broadway debut.

[22:46] Robin de Jesús: The Marquis. I did On Your Feet here

[22:48] Linedy Genao: and then I went down one theater

[22:50] Robin de Jesús: and I did Dear Evan Hansen and then I went down

[22:52] Linedy Genao: to the next theater and I did Bachelorette at the Imperial Theater.

[22:54] Robin de Jesús: So 45th and 46th Street have

[22:56] Linedy Genao: a very special place in my heart. Do you still get excited

[22:58] Robin de Jesús: when you talk about it? Yes. Yeah.

[23:00] Linedy Genao: I do. I do. I love it.

[23:02] Robin de Jesús: I walk by and I can get the giggles.

[23:04] Linedy Genao: You know, it's just like

[23:06] Robin de Jesús: a good little affirmation of how far

[23:08] Linedy Genao: we've come and like what

[23:10] Robin de Jesús: we've been able to do. Because I think sometimes

[23:12] Linedy Genao: we get so caught up on

[23:14] Robin de Jesús: or you can when you have moments of negativity

[23:16] Linedy Genao: you can forget who

[23:18] Robin de Jesús: you are and you can forget how blessed you are

[23:20] Linedy Genao: and what you've achieved. And there's like

[23:22] Robin de Jesús: you look up and you're like, oh, there's that reminder.

[23:24] Linedy Genao: Yes. Absolutely.

[23:26] Robin de Jesús: If you have a hidden talent

[23:28] Linedy Genao: what's one thing you can do perfectly that has

[23:30] Robin de Jesús: nothing to do with theater?

[23:32] Linedy Genao: That I can say

[23:34] Robin de Jesús: on the show.

[23:36] Linedy Genao: Maybe you'll say it at our cabaret.

[23:38] Robin de Jesús: You'll only know if you get your ticket.

[23:40] Linedy Genao: I get the

[23:42] giggles.

[23:44] Robin de Jesús: What's one thing I can do?

[23:46] Linedy Genao: I mean, I have to say

[23:48] Robin de Jesús: I guess it's not a talent, but I do think

[23:50] Linedy Genao: I'm pretty great at yoga.

[23:52] Robin de Jesús: And whenever people see me in practice, they're like

[23:54] Linedy Genao: I did not

[23:56] Robin de Jesús: not necessarily like I'm not giving like

[23:58] Linedy Genao: inversions, handstands with you know

[24:00] Robin de Jesús: without a wall, but

[24:02] Linedy Genao: I'm going pretty deep.

[24:04] Robin de Jesús: Is that a talent? Yes.

[24:06] Linedy Genao: I need to go back to yoga.

[24:08] Robin de Jesús: I used to do hot yoga all the time.

[24:10] Linedy Genao: With Bikram or like Hatch?

[24:12] Robin de Jesús: Both, but lately

[24:14] Linedy Genao: Bikram because there's a studio right by my house.

[24:16] Robin de Jesús: But does it smell like feet?

[24:18] Linedy Genao: It doesn't.

[24:20] Robin de Jesús: But my first time doing it, my first experience

[24:22] Linedy Genao: with Bikram period was

[24:24] Robin de Jesús: during COVID.