And once we agreed that it was about getting past that comfort zone and just going full in, I just pulled from the proud mama’s boy in me.

He’s an insecure mama’s boy who desperately works to make himself into the type of guy who’ll be wanted and respected.

The self-proclaimed mama’s boy and former pro basketball player who now works as a day trader will become only the second Black lead of the series, which launched in 2002.

And that worries him, in ways that go beyond the financial: “I sometimes don’t want to come off as a mama’s boy because I feel like women don’t like that.”

Here’s a Latino math question: how do you guys get to be both the perro and the mama’s boy?