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Welcome to the busted open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca and my guest today is somebody

I've been friends with now for a while and she's constantly changing. She's constantly

reinventing herself. So it's going to be great to catch up with her and find out what

she's doing right now. And that is the great and legendary Annie Cruz. Annie, how are

you? I'm good. Thank you. What an intro legendary. I like it. I like it. You are because

it's been a while. You've been doing your thing for a while. So you're like a legend.

I know I actually was just thinking the other day because I had to write about myself for

another interview. And I was like, I got a heat writing about myself. And then I realized,

oh my God, it's been like, since I've moved to LA, just moving to LA alone has been

nine, 18 years, 17 years, 18 some, yeah. So it's been a long time and a lot of things along

the road. The journey continues. But the thing that I admire about you because you talk

about your time in LA and how long you've been doing your thing. You've gone from acting

to podcasting to, you know, Twitch and, you know, you're still learning and developing

new things. Like you keep, like I'm not joking around. You do keep re-eventing yourself.

Is that on purpose or just circumstance? You know, honestly, I feel like it's a little

bit of both a little bit. It's like a lot of it has to do with circumstance. But then

a lot of it also has to do with when I make that decision, I'm thinking to myself, oh,

let's do something different. Like for example, the beginning of the pandemic, you know,

couldn't work. So I was like, all right, what can, what can I do? You know, and people

are constantly, at least in the beginning, anyways, people were constantly complaining

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