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Michael Peña

Michael Peña

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Michael Peña (Crash, End of Watch, Ant-Man, The Martian, CHiPs) is an American actor and musician. Michael sits down with the armchair expert to discuss his love of rehearsal, feeling like a man without a country and his experience overcoming the lack of Latino roles as an early actor. Dax wonders if he robbed Michael of the "actors bond" during CHiPs and Michael gives the backstory on his character in Observe and Report. Dax and Michael discuss how parenting methods have changed, Michael refuses to believe he's a movie star and Dax accuses Monica and Michael of having rhythm.

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Jojo

Efficient like German train conductors... well... they're really not efficient. I think you meant the suisse train conductors 😂

Feb 11th
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Béné

Damn, nothing about him belonging to the Church of Scientology? I would imagine that's a big part of his personal story which according to him led to his growth and betterment as an actor. Curious to know though: did you guys choose not to ask him about it or did he ban that subject altogether beforehand? Would have been interesting in light of the Remini documentary...

Feb 7th
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Jane Feast

I would love for you to get Fr. James Martin, SJ on the podcast. He is editor-at-large of America magazine, author of Building a Bridge about lgbt Catholics and advisor to Martin Scorsese on Silence.

Jan 30th
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Martin Riggs

Pena ruined narcos

Jan 29th
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Nathan Gooch

Martin Riggs what? how so?

Jan 30th
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