Welcome to Truest Blood, the official True Blood podcast.

I'm Kristen Bauer and I'm Deborah Amool.

And you've been invited in.

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On truest blood.

Welcome back to truest Blood where we sink our fangs into the series

bite by bite. This week on this episode we're speaking with Kevin Alejandro who gives an inspiring performance as

Jesus Velazquez. He opens our minds and our hearts with such compassion and

fearlessness and we can just so easily see how Lafayette might

fall in love with such a catch. This is probably one of my favorite relationships on

the series Lafayette and the Zeus and so much is due to these two actors who I think similarly

Just have again these huge hearts and you feel them beating through the screen.

Yes I couldn't agree more and the magic that is the storyline, the arena that they're in is in their relationship, it's on screen, it's

absolutely beautiful. I can't wait for you to hear from him, but first let's have a

quick bite. Psychology and magic.

at first glance, he Seuss Velazquez appears to embody a contradiction.

The science of psychology and the craft of magic can't possibly reconcile in one philosophy. Psychology rooted firmly in the logical and magic rooted in the spiritual. but perhaps they have more in common than we give them credit for.

In magic, a practitioner believes in the

supernatural resides in a deeper connection to the natural.

Rituals, totems, herbal effects,

all help prepare the spirit for greater clarity.

In psychology, a practitioner believes in the power of the mind and opening one's awareness

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