Andy Garcia
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217 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Yeah, and he would go in there and he'd put a rack with sneakers that were like $1.50 for a sneaker, very cheap sneakers. The company was called Leeds, in fact. And I would go with him on the weekends with the promise that he'd take me to McDonald's afterwards, you know. And then he'd go there, and then he'd put your rack, and then he'd come back two weeks later. You sold four sneakers.
You owe me $5, and I'll reload those sizes. It was like a consignment business. And based on that, he started his own consignment business with socks. So it was his first business he started on his own. He got a...
a distribution from a gentleman out of Puerto Rico who was making these socks that were traditional in Cuba called Casino and Once Once 1111, which are those kind of nylon socks that are kind of see-through with patterns, very popular in those days and within our culture. And he started putting those on his own in consignment, and he started building a business.
And he had T-shirts and this and that. And all that stuff eventually grew to a multimillion-dollar fragrance business.
Yeah, exactly.
We were never on salary. Like, you know, when we needed to go out one night or whatever, my mother had the, you know, the bank envelope with a zipper. And she would go, come over here. And she'd go like this. Thanks, Mom. But there was no, like, your own salary. Here's your payment. All the money went to that zippered envelope in the business.
And they ran the family out of that envelope, you know.
No, no, no, no, no. He had trained me. I was ready. Both him and my brother and I were very involved in the business and the business already was taking off. You know, the fragrance business. When I decided to, you know, I was in college, so to go the other direction, of course, he had seen me on stage and stuff and but I was difficult for him.
Not that he was saying, you know, don't do it, but it was like, you know.
Yeah, right, right. Probably pretty similar. He wasn't as, it was more like a private struggle for him, I think. You know, it's like, I always joke that I think my father would probably say like, I love my son, but he's not Humphrey Bogart. You know what I mean?
They can't, they have no concept of that you can maybe make a living maybe in this, in the arts, you know, because that's not what they come from.
None whatsoever. I mean, they knew they existed, but. What is that trajectory to their eye? My mother, on the other hand, she would say to them, let them go. Let him go. If he breaks a wing, he knows where to come back. But let him go. He's got to go.
I had to go. I left a business. I was prospering. My brother was my partner. My father was my partner. My partner, it was taken off. It was at the moment where it was taken off, the fragrance side of it. They were supportive. My brother was supportive. It's hard to reason with... with a straight bullet. It's something that calls to you. You don't pick it, it kind of picks you.
So it's hard to... There was this anecdote that I came about, just flashed on. I was doing a commercial that I was directing and acting in, in Miami, and I was on Lincoln Road. It was about five years ago, maybe six years. And a young priest came up to me. He must have been 30 years old. 30, you know, young seminarian, but priest. And he said, can I speak to you for a moment? And I said, sure.
And we're Lincoln Road in between shots. And he says, my grandfather was, I forget his name, but he was the owner of Navarro Pharmacy. pharmaceutical chain in Florida. We used to sell to.
Yeah, they had many stores at the time, maybe five or so. And I was the delivery boy. I would deliver to Navarro family, and I knew his grandfather, because he would receive the stuff and sign it. How you doing? Tell your dad I need him to talk to him. They were very good friends, because my dad was a very loved, much-loved individual. And...
He says, my grandfather told me a story that when you left, this is a priest telling me this story who's 30 years old. When you left for, when you were leaving for California and you were on your way or you had just left, or before you left, your father went to see him because he was very distraught, you know, with what was going to happen.
And he was asking, you know, consoling him, asking, you know, like a priest to his grandfather, saying, you know, my son's leaving town, and, you know, what do I do? He's going to Hollywood. I don't even know where Hollywood is. You know, to me, Hollywood is like a fictitious place, and... And the young priest said that the grandfather looked at my dad and he said, you got to let him go.
You got to let go. So it was interesting that this story was out there and eventually found its way back So I figured like, oh, my dad was struggling so much.
No, no, no, no. It was all private angst.
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