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Put You On: Ezekiel Pacheco

February 10, 2025
Ezekiel Pacheco, making history as the first DACA recipient to take the lead role in a film, is putting us on to the people behind his success.
Show transcript
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right here with Ezekiel Pacheco at JK Ice Cream and Snack Shop
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here in Watts. Thank you so much for having me here
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I really appreciate you guys coming out here and supporting my
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story. It means a lot.
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Oh yeah, of course it's busy.
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We see people coming in and out,
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so can we check it out?
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Yeah, yeah, let's go.
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You guys got everything in here yeah we got ice cream,
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tortas, soil locos,
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juices, it's a little bodega been here since 2008 right there
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my mom, my dad,
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yeah, so we have everything we need here essentials for the
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people of the community.
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Coffee class beauty blenders family secret recipe that we have for the
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cream. Yeah, my mom was making it for a long
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time, so I'm glad you guys like it.
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She's gonna give you guys a torta too at the end so
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you guys can share and some fruit.
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I travaja juntos and familia.
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moss loss familia la la boretore total neo fasila.
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It's cool to have the shot,
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but it came with a lot of also burdens of there's a
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lot of violence around here and a lot of crazy things have
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happened. My main goal was to really just get my parents
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out of here and that way they can.
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Retire and not have to work anymore samos momento porque cis queso
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metanos. Thanks for letting me come work here.
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So you're acting now and then you to hop out here at
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the shop when I was younger.
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I just grew up working here all the time.
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That's just what I knew and I'd be in the cash register
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Now my acting career has been taking off,
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so I'm pretty. Busy nowadays.
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I wanna dive into the acting scene,
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the film scene, and expand my knowledge,
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and well, you got a good mentor and a good support
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system, him and my dad,
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man, hardest working people I know.
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That's right. That's right.
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They're back. We're at the gate.
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I'm almost time to.
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You guys are like literally the prime example of immigrants make America
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great like they do and and it's like you guys are the
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perfect example of that.
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What do you, what do you feel about like everything that's
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going on right now?
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It's very unfortunate just because the way they're treating us right now
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it's very inhuman, you know,
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it's disrespectful and and then I'm also the first DACA recipient to
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lead a film. I'm doing things that haven't been done before
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in the history of filmmaking and.
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Regardless of any adversity I've been through,
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I've been able to achieve my dreams,
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and I'm still, this is only the beginning.
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my goal is to be the best and I'm on
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my way to that lot of people,
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us, we represent strength and and discipline and,
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you know, hard work,
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and I believe my parents have been a testament to that my
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little brother, myself and people around this community so I just
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hope Mr. President Trump is able to give us a little
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more respect and empathy towards us and we can figure out a
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solution, you know,
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towards the situation. Before y'all go we got you got some
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tortas made up right here the pollo,
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yeah, for the whole team,
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everybody gets a torta.
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Here's one for you.
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a nice chicken torta,
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yeah. Oh, before we go though,
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talk your socials, man.
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Yeah, my Instagram is at Ezekiel Pacheco_ same thing for everybody
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else. I only have Instagram_ Kenny Pacheco.
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Thank you guys so much for following us and supporting us.
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It means the world.
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Thank you all again.
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God bless you guys and and thank you guys.