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Capítulo 074: Live! At the Wing with Dj Sizzle & Normz La Oxaqueña · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies a Myth and Bullshit, a radiophonic
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  Speaker 1: novella Local Radio hosted by Malamuno. Hello, Hello, Hello, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to local Radio. Welcome back, Welcome back. This is
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  Speaker 1: and this is the fem Welcome to Season three of
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  Speaker 1: Local Radio. Because fem revenge has never sounded so sweet.
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  Speaker 1: Look Radio is a radio phonic novella archiving the brilliance
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  Speaker 1: and legacies of women and fems of color. And we
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  Speaker 1: are last Mommies of Myth and Bullshit, last locas of
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  Speaker 1: local Radio, radiophonic novella, which is just a really extra
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  Speaker 1: way of saying a podcast surprise. We dropped a new project,
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  Speaker 1: Yes we did, Loki as Anonymous. It has officially been
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  Speaker 1: introduced to the world. We're so excited um for all
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  Speaker 1: of you to enter the world of the Patre Apocalypse
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  Speaker 1: and um Lokith dos Anonymous and learn all about this
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  Speaker 1: new universe that we're creating. Um. So, we dropped a
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  Speaker 1: trailer on our Instagram and our Twitter on Friday, November one,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to talk to you all about what
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  Speaker 1: looks Anonymous is um our vision and our November sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: look at That a live a podcast party. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: this has been in the works for a little over
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  Speaker 1: a year now. We started talking about this back in
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  Speaker 1: and then started filming in April of so it has
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  Speaker 1: just been an incredible journey to launch this project, to
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  Speaker 1: really get it started. So, like Mala said, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: walk you through the vision and talk about our look
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  Speaker 1: at Our Live a podcast party. So let's get into
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  Speaker 1: the Patre apocalypse. Let's do it. So on November sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: we will be having our third I can't believe, our
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  Speaker 1: third installment of Look at Thought Alive a podcast party. UM.
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  Speaker 1: It's part three year look Adversary to celebrate the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we've been podcasting now for three years, which is wild.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be at the Paramount on Caesar Chavez
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  Speaker 1: and Boil Heights, UM. And the second part of our
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  Speaker 1: Look at That Alive a Podcast Party is going to
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  Speaker 1: be our looks Anonymous Project activation. So we're inviting all
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  Speaker 1: of you UM to hit up event bright buy your
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  Speaker 1: tickets for Look at That Alva podcast Party. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you at the Paramount on November sixteenth. And this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be a really fun look at That Alive,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different than past um look at that
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  Speaker 1: a live events that we've done because we're introducing like
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  Speaker 1: a whole new branch and a whole new arm of
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  Speaker 1: look at our Radio. We like to think of ourselves
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  Speaker 1: basically as a production house um, not only using podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: but parties and everything else. So this is our entryway
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  Speaker 1: into creating works of fiction. We're activating Looky That's Anonymous,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just really excited to tell you more about
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  Speaker 1: the vision and the project. So the setting of Lucky
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  Speaker 1: That's Anonymous is the Patriot Apocalypse, which is a near
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  Speaker 1: future gender tech dystopia where we are leading a fem
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  Speaker 1: resistance and revolution against the patriarchy. Uh. The idea is like,
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  Speaker 1: if Malinosa existed in another dimension, what would we be doing? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Would we still be podcasting? Like what kind of circumstances
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  Speaker 1: might we find ourselves in if the world continues on
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  Speaker 1: the path that it's on the right now now And
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  Speaker 1: the answer is yes, we would still be podcasting, but
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  Speaker 1: it would look different right and we would be we
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  Speaker 1: would have an underground pirate radio, which is what we
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  Speaker 1: are doing in Looky That's Anonymous. We have a pirate
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  Speaker 1: radio stay Asian called Radio Loca Absolutely, and we continue
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  Speaker 1: with this theme of incorporating fem technology and our resistance
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  Speaker 1: and in the world of Loki Thos Anonymous and the
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  Speaker 1: patre Apocalypse, we cover up our covert from technology within
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  Speaker 1: a nail salon called the Comre Nail Salon uh, and
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  Speaker 1: we are leading of firm resistance against the agents of
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  Speaker 1: the patriarchy. This is part film project with what we
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  Speaker 1: hope will be episodes and episodic sort of project on
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  Speaker 1: film live action paired with a graphic novel. So um,
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of supposed to be sort of a two
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  Speaker 1: part projects. You can enjoy reading and illustrations in the
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  Speaker 1: form of a graphic novel, but we can also take
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  Speaker 1: that graphic novel and imagine it on film. So for us,
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  Speaker 1: it was important to do that and that's why we
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  Speaker 1: dropped a trailer with a lot of our friends who
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  Speaker 1: helped us. So let's talk about the short and there's
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  Speaker 1: a trailer that you've all seen on Instagram and then
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  Speaker 1: at look at thot a live a podcast party for
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  Speaker 1: the project activation, we're going to show an extended trailer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a ten minute short film. About ten minutes short
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  Speaker 1: film where we walk you through the world that we've
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  Speaker 1: created in look at this anonymous in the patriopocalypse patre
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  Speaker 1: apocalyptic society and all the different women and films that
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  Speaker 1: are in this world which are also in our real lives.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, at local you know that we are
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  Speaker 1: all about. If you've been to any of our workshops,
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  Speaker 1: if you've heard us talk, we're all about building horizontally,
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  Speaker 1: which means working with the folks around us. So we
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  Speaker 1: really brought and hired all of our friends to make
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  Speaker 1: this project possible. We reached out and got community support
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  Speaker 1: from different folks that are creators, that are artists, that
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  Speaker 1: have spaces that they lent us. So really a community project. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a community project. So it's a science fiction
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  Speaker 1: short and uh it was really created by essentially in
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  Speaker 1: all Latin X cast and crew. So the idea is
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  Speaker 1: even taking one of the other themes from our podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: which has been fem Revenge in addition to fem Tech
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  Speaker 1: and turning it into a sci fi piece. So UM,
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  Speaker 1: we want to thank specific people who worked with us
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  Speaker 1: to help make this project a reality. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: um our team Chava Sanchez, Michelle Morrow, and Haavey Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: who helped especially with the production side, the filmmaking side,
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  Speaker 1: and the directing and editing, which is where Chava and
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  Speaker 1: Michelle really just played a humongous role. They're already our
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  Speaker 1: video photo team for the podcast regularly, so they understand
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  Speaker 1: our vision and what we were going for. Hobby is
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  Speaker 1: another person who has worked with us behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of stuff and he helped to produce
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  Speaker 1: Um the film. Yeah, and then as far as talent,
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  Speaker 1: we brought in so many of our friends such as
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  Speaker 1: the lovely Vane Romo model and former guest of Look
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  Speaker 1: at Our Radio, Malas or our home Girl, but Mala's
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  Speaker 1: like childhood lifelong friend, the Trappi Goths, Jen doorres A
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  Speaker 1: k a gen from the Block, my sister Yvonne Um
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  Speaker 1: she makes an appearance as well. We also have our
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  Speaker 1: home Girl Chris soul of Selenamos and Acts Amelie, a
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  Speaker 1: young I g Batty that we have been following for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years and she's like the youth like
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  Speaker 1: I believe she's like nineteen or twenty years old. So
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  Speaker 1: we just wanted to also incorporate someone that's younger and
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  Speaker 1: like being able to bring them into a project that
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  Speaker 1: we're working on. Yes, Um. Also, DJ Zuti is um
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  Speaker 1: front and center in this film, and she looks like
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  Speaker 1: a batty. She looks so good. She's such a natural
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  Speaker 1: when y'all like watch the film. Like when Chava was
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  Speaker 1: filming her, she was just like strutton and walking and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Zudi, you've done this before, haven't you like?
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  Speaker 1: And she told me she I was in a music video.
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  Speaker 1: Yes she was, and she is a video vixen for sure.
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  Speaker 1: She's a pro. So shout out DJ Zuri and DJ
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  Speaker 1: Zuri is going to be joining us on November sixteen
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  Speaker 1: at Look I Thought Alive at the Paramount. She's going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of our DJs, helping us to party
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  Speaker 1: the night away at the Look. At the Look at
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  Speaker 1: the at the Look does anonymous activation and the after
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  Speaker 1: party throw down, so make sure you come out to
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  Speaker 1: see Zuri. We also want to thank the Ethical Punk
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  Speaker 1: who made a cameo in Loki's Anonymous Yes, and shout
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  Speaker 1: out to my man and his friend Adrian, who were
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  Speaker 1: also a part of it. I like literally had to
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  Speaker 1: look at like there's only like three men that I
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  Speaker 1: know in my real life and then we're also a
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  Speaker 1: part of the film because I really only know three
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  Speaker 1: men and also my cousin is in it. Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: like the only three men that I know are also
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  Speaker 1: in the film. Yes, thank you for bringing them, for
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  Speaker 1: bringing the men we needed, be did men we did
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  Speaker 1: specific specifically as the bearded men. Find me among the
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  Speaker 1: bearded men. Okay, so they're in there. There's men, there
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  Speaker 1: are men with beards, and lucky there's anonymous. We also
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  Speaker 1: want to thank Alexamora, who I've also known since I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, because he is the choppy got This
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  Speaker 1: is brother, so it's a family affair. Family affair for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And also shout out to Ernie Brito. He also filmed
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  Speaker 1: our first video with me to our feature and then
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  Speaker 1: also he helped with the cinematography, the video, the videography.
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  Speaker 1: He was the cameraman cameraman for Lokith's Anonymous, So shout
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  Speaker 1: out Ernie. Um my friend that I've known since kindergarten.
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  Speaker 1: Katherine Holman's she did our poster art and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: different green and black imagery throughout as well as the
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  Speaker 1: logos that were created for Lokith's Anonymous. Kathy made those
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  Speaker 1: my lifelong friend and also our resident makeup artist, Roberto
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  Speaker 1: he did a phenomenal job. He did our makeup, our hair,
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  Speaker 1: and every single one of those uh folks that are
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  Speaker 1: in the cast, he also did their hair and makeup. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you'll notice really beautiful makeup work um gems on the
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  Speaker 1: on the face and Robert put all of those looks
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  Speaker 1: together for us. He did a phenomenal job. And also
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  Speaker 1: shout out to Paolo of Collective. He was our set photographers,
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  Speaker 1: so you'll see some of that imagery shared at the
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  Speaker 1: event and then also on the Instagram. And then we
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  Speaker 1: had two lovely pas who helped out a lot on set,
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  Speaker 1: Lizette Lopez and Gabriel Danny. Yes, and Danny has taken
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  Speaker 1: pictures of us before for our last look I thought alive,
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  Speaker 1: So it was nice to work on another sort of
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  Speaker 1: project with Danny. Yeah. And then also a shout out
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  Speaker 1: again to the Trappy Gothice. She did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the styling, the majority of the styling when it came
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  Speaker 1: to the jewelry and the looks the datacuccessories. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: shout out. We love our team, y'all are so amazing
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  Speaker 1: and we're like beyond grateful that you allow us to
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  Speaker 1: work with you, that you come on board with our projects.
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  Speaker 1: It's super amazing. We're blessed to know all of you,
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  Speaker 1: so blessed, so blessed, and everything came out beautifully and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's because like it was authentic, like
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  Speaker 1: French friendships and community energy to bring it together like
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  Speaker 1: it just made sense. One of my favorite things was
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  Speaker 1: when we were all on set, just seeing the girls
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  Speaker 1: just like all talking to each other very organically, and
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  Speaker 1: some of them were meeting for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: real life but have been following each other like many
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  Speaker 1: of us do, and just like immediately clicked and that's
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  Speaker 1: how you know that it's real and it's genuine and
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  Speaker 1: the connection is just like no other. Love it. It
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  Speaker 1: was a It was a lot of fun and everybody
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  Speaker 1: in their pink jumpsuits and dressed up and at one point,
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  Speaker 1: like they all walked to go get boba and they
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  Speaker 1: were in their full, full costume, full makeup, full wardrobe,
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  Speaker 1: and they looked great. It was so funny. Just like
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  Speaker 1: overtaking what downtown Whittier, Yes, uptown and dead So speaking
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  Speaker 1: of uptown wind here we recorded. We filmed in different
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  Speaker 1: community spaces thanks to our friends. So the very first
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  Speaker 1: space that we used was a spot eighteen thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: You know that this is where we record out of
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  Speaker 1: the community radio station. They let us film here at
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  Speaker 1: like midnight on a Friday night. Yeah, and just that
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  Speaker 1: they trust us enough. Thank you so much. Shout out
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  Speaker 1: your Yeah, they really are real ones. They hold it
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  Speaker 1: down always. Um. And then also what your Beauty Collective
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  Speaker 1: is another space, another location that we filmed. That is
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  Speaker 1: where I get my nails done. I get facials done there.
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  Speaker 1: They do hair as well, lashes and everything. My nail
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  Speaker 1: tech is the owner Retro Nails Valeria made us, so
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  Speaker 1: I want to shout out her and thank her as
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  Speaker 1: well for allowing us to film there. Yeah. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you'll see in the in the trailer and in the
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  Speaker 1: short that we're in this beautiful like salon space. So
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  Speaker 1: we're lucky to have had access to that. Um. We
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  Speaker 1: also want to thank I mean, it was community sponsors
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  Speaker 1: like all the way around for like every aspect of this.
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  Speaker 1: Chi chulas Um supplied a lot of the beautiful gems
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  Speaker 1: and decals and things for the faces. Belladonna sponsored the
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  Speaker 1: hair clips. You can see I'm wearing one that says
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  Speaker 1: Diosa Mala was wearing one that says Loca, and also
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  Speaker 1: a couple of belts that the girls wore as accessories. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: donated hoops or ear rings and different accessories. Viva Cosmetics
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  Speaker 1: also donated lipsticks, so we were every single person was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a Viva Cosmetics lipstick. Happily Ever, Gold donated the
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  Speaker 1: nail decals that you're going to see in the short film.
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  Speaker 1: You see a little bit of the decals and the trailer,
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  Speaker 1: but they're much more prominent in the short. Um. Food
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  Speaker 1: for us, we were able to feed like twenty people
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  Speaker 1: the day of and y'all know food is expensive, so
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  Speaker 1: we're like so thankful that they don't needd. They've donated
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  Speaker 1: in the past and they donated this time as well,
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  Speaker 1: and that was we were just super grateful to them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: shout out Gage holding it down. Um. Garlita designs a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the beautiful jewelry that you see us wearing,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm wearing this gold rope choker in the trailer
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  Speaker 1: and in the short and these gold like wonder woman
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  Speaker 1: coughs and then this big like wolf pendant. Um, those
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  Speaker 1: are all from Garlita Designs. Yeah, and yeah, she just
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  Speaker 1: has beautiful work. Um, we have just been fans of
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  Speaker 1: Gtalita design have been wearing her stuff even more as
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  Speaker 1: of lately, and also the La Luna Designs. We were
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  Speaker 1: wearing some of her stuff as well, and she custom
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  Speaker 1: died all of the jumpers. Everything that you see that's
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  Speaker 1: pink that we're wearing, she died for us. Thank you, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for doing that. Yes, what else? The ear
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  Speaker 1: rings that the girls are wearing that our cast is wearing,
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  Speaker 1: those big ear rings are also from Della Luna Designs.
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  Speaker 1: We also want to thank Home Girls beauty shop. She
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  Speaker 1: donated all of the lashes we're wearing gorgeous and they're beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: You have to check her out. Yes, gorgeous. I mean
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  Speaker 1: these are all like latin X owned brands and companies
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  Speaker 1: and restaurants and all this stuff. So it's truly like
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  Speaker 1: all latin X all the way around. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: just want to say I won't say names, but we
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  Speaker 1: reached out to a bigger latin X corporation that has
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  Speaker 1: various um stores and storefronts and we reached out asking
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  Speaker 1: them for a donation and they didn't want to give
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  Speaker 1: us anything. We shot them out all the time, shot
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  Speaker 1: them all the time, but UM, because you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: still indie. They just don't see the investment and they
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  Speaker 1: don't see that we're worth the investment. But when you
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  Speaker 1: look at who's around you and who's creating UM and
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  Speaker 1: who's within your community, like who's your peer, really they're
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  Speaker 1: the ones that are really that are willing to invest
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  Speaker 1: in you. Every single person that we asked immediately said yes,
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  Speaker 1: where can I send it to? How much do you need?
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  Speaker 1: And we feel so in at it to y'all. We
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  Speaker 1: love y'all so much, like truly this is a community
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  Speaker 1: sponsored projects, truly UM and down to the last, last
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  Speaker 1: last details, including the music in the soundtrack so UM.
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  Speaker 1: The music that you hear on the trailer and then
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  Speaker 1: that's in the short is based off of a song
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  Speaker 1: called Trill Lolita by it Sell Chokole. So It's is
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  Speaker 1: a friend of mine who um is just like a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: jack of all trades and is this incredible artist. She
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  Speaker 1: does a lot of beautiful collage work and you've probably
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: seen its Al's college work online. Um. She is a
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  Speaker 1: Hawaiian artist and back in the day she was real, real,
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  Speaker 1: real Internet famous with this song Trull Lolita, and she
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  Speaker 1: like toward in Europe with this song as like a
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  Speaker 1: nineteen year old. So when I met her a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago in l A like I remembered her, I
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  Speaker 1: like remembered this song, and when it came time to
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  Speaker 1: put this film together, I was like, you guys, I
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  Speaker 1: know the song. It's fucking trill lolita and it's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And so we want to thank it Sol for letting
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  Speaker 1: us use the song. And we also want to thank
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  Speaker 1: DJ Bianca Oblivion, who took the song and then kind
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  Speaker 1: of made a jingle out of it. She remixed it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we love a jingle. We love a good jingle. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's important for us to
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  Speaker 1: share the behind the scenes and all of the work
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: that went into curating this community sponsored event and also
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Latin it all Latin X cast and crew, because people
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: can put stuff out but you don't necessarily know the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: inner workings of it. But I think it's important for
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: us to share because whatever project that you want to do,
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  Speaker 1: this is one way that you can do it. You
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: can look at who's around you. You can look at
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  Speaker 1: who's willing to invest in you, whether that be small
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: or little. You know, so just a little like drop
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge that we can share and hopefully you you know,
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  Speaker 1: use it as well. Absolutely, and you know, as always
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  Speaker 1: we always plug like the podcast Venmo for podcast things,
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  Speaker 1: and we will be putting out more information about how
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you can support looky TH's Anonymous as a project. We're
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: still indie and you can imagine all the people we
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  Speaker 1: just listed and like, even though we had help in
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  Speaker 1: community sponsors, we still you know, paid for lots of
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  Speaker 1: these things out of pocket to make this project a
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  Speaker 1: reality and bring the vision to life. So that being said,
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  Speaker 1: if you would like to support the project, there's a
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: lot of different ways you can do so, um, come
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  Speaker 1: to look at That Alive a podcast party on November sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are available on a vent right. You can also
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  Speaker 1: always hit the look at That a venmo um if
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you want to help support this project and we're at
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: look at a dash radio. And also if you do
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: come to the party, buy some merge we are designing
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: specific looky does Anonymous merch that we will be debuting
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: at the actual show. You know that we don't necessarily
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: have an online store right now, so if you want
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to buy any merch from us, definitely you can do
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: so in person. And that has been looky does Anonymous?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yes for now. Now, there's so much more, There's so
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: much more to come. So UM, we're going to go
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: ahead and switch to a song break. And today we
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: are actually going to be airing a live episode that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: we did with Sizzel Fantastic, DJ Sizzel Fantastic and Norm's Lawakao.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: We had a conversation with them for Hispanic Heritage Month
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: live at the Wing last month or two months ago
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: now in September, so we're gonna have to share that
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: conversation with y'all today. We invite y'all to come to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: local podcast party our three year look Aversary support. Invite
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: your friends, buy a ticket, do all that and we'll
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: see you there. Bess Podcast, Belly Rosa and well here.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming. My name is Jaden
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and the events logistics coordinator here at the Wing in
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: West Hollywood. UM. If you've never been here before, welcome, UM.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It's exciting to see new faces um for these events. UM,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and I just wanted to let you guys know that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: this is our first event that we're doing in celebration
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: of Hispanic Heritage Month. Here at the way. The whole
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: line up programming this month, which is really exciting, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we're very happy to kick it off today with this
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: very special live recording of locat Our Radio. Um. Locatur
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Radio has been featured in Forbes and Oprah, and if
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you're new to the show, you can listen to it
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: anywhere that you listen to podcasts. UM. So we're gonna
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: go ahead and get started. Please welcome Mala Adiosa who yes,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: thank you for being here tonight. Thank you everybody for
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: coming out. Can you give a warm welcome to our
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: guest tonight. Dj Sizzel Fantastic and No One Lack and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah, thank you so much to our locomotives for
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: coming out here to the West Side. We know it's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a trick, so we appreciate you
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: all coming out here on a Monday night. We're really
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: excited to be in conversation with our dear friends of
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the collective. So let's get started. Let's get into it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So for those that don't know, I'm Fiosa and I'm Mala,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and we are lass mommies of myth and bullshit. Last
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Look I thought Last look at Radio, which is just
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a really really extra way of saying up podcast. It's
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a podcast, so thank you all for coming out here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: This is our launch, our kickoff for Hispanic Heritage Month.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Makes some noise, makes some noise, and you know you
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: may know Hispanic Heritage Month is that mythical time of
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: year where suddenly journalists, brands, government officials. They love us,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they want to be with us, they want to talk
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: to us. They love the Latin X community. UM and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: so we're excited to celebrate Latinia all year but especially
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: this month, UM and highlight some really important movement makers
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and change makers collective, So thank you too for being
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: here today. Yeah. So you know there are so many
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: things to celebrate about Latino Heritage Month all year round,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: like Mala mentioned, from party collectives to live events to music.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Latinas are culture makers and culture shifters. So we're excited
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: to be in conversation with y'all today. Uh, chatting with
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the co founders of Gum Collective. So we're gonna introduce
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: our guests, smile. Do you want to get us started? Yes,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: So I have the immense honor and privilege of introducing
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: DJ Sizzle Fantastic Swagged the funk Out. Uh So DJ
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Sizzle she is a DJ. She's an event curator from
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: La Costa, Mexico. Makes some noise make from nol Uh.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Sizzle was raised in Boil Heights and she holds residencies
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: for parties across the country. San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: She's coast to coast. Let's make some noise for Sizzle.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And I'm so excited to introduce Norms Fajardo
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: otherwise known as Norma and she's a proud wag raised
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in South central l A and co founded Collective and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Manage manages event production. She's also the co host of Venimo,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: which is an undocupod has the documents the multifaceted lives
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of two undocumented women. Give it up for Norms. So
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: we want to thank you especially for coming all the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: way out to the West Side tonight. I know for us,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: whenever we need to go deep into the West Side,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we're like, oh my god, it's a journey. It's an odyssey. Freeways,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: like three or four freeways to get here. For me
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: at least every freeway. UM, So thank you for being here.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: The first time I ever went to a Kumyaton party
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: was at the Billiards and pool Hall on First Street
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and Boil Heights will will make noise and just this Friday, right,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: we were at the Globe Theater for the two year
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: anniversary of Kumbyaton. Yes, yes, huge, right, So can you
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: give us a little bit of a history, history of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: story behind going from the Billiards to the Globe and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the Kumyaton journey. Yeah, Hi everyone, Hi, I'm super happy
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to be here. And the locomotives for showing up and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: turning it at the hell o all the time, always,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: forever and always um Yeah, it's it's definitely been quite
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a journey and it was definitely emotional this past Friday
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: celebrating our two years. We literally went, I don't know
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: if you are familiar with where bill Heights is at
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: or where the pool hall is at where we first started,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: but it's like this little rinky dink hole in the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: wall bar that fits maybe what like two people talks
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: if that, no, A C, no, nothing. It doesn't even
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: have like DJ equipment, no lights, and so we literally
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: had cash only. Yeah, but people still turn out to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: our events even back then, right, So our first event
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: consisted of maybe like fifty people if that and it
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was all of our close friends, our families that are
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: close friends but don't write little our movements started growing
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and before you knew it, you know, our community really
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: was just so grateful to have a space where they
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: can come and dance and be their most authentic selves,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: where they weren't going to get judged for what they
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: were going to be wearing, how they were going to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: be dancing right. Group of women would come and just
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like feel completely safe and just you know, um happy
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: to be in a space where you know, you saw
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: representation not only behind the DJ booth, but you know
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: from the people who charge, to the people who are
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: taking the pictures to the people who are just m
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: seeing right. It's uh, it's a true representation of what
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: our communities are about. Um. And this past Friday it
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: was just a testament of all of that. In these
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: two years, we've grown from you know, fifty people to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: now selling out venues that are one thousand to one thousand,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: five hundred deep. So you know that that's just a
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: testament who gratulation. Thank you. It was amazing, So thank you.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Um so yeah, so we just celebrated our to your
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: anniversary on Friday. It was our biggest venue yet, the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Globe Theater, Historic Globe Theater in downtown l A. And
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it was definitely magical, Like, it was very emotional, It
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was very memorable the whole The anxiety, the stress, lack
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of sleep leading up to the event was definitely real.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: So I'm still like processing that and recovering from that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: But it was a beautiful site to see the Globe
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: all packed and everyone having a good time and people,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you know, coming up to us telling us that they
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: had an amazing time at Coton. So our journey has
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: been has been, has been real, and it's has definitely
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: grown and we're really happy for that. And I also
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: want to add that the Globe Theater, we were their
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: first Latin Gumbia centric party that they've ever hosted it
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in all of their years in downtown Los Angeles. So
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you know, that's just a testament to our culture, to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: our people, and how far we can come if we
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: collectively work towards something that is true to our roots
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and our values. So yeah, amazing, So can you all
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: take us back? You talked about the very first Gumaton
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: right being in Boil Heights and then moving to this
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: very big venue in downtown l A. So, right before
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the inception the creation of collective, what was the inspiration,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: What was the moment that you were like, Okay, we
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: need to do something. We need to do this really
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: big collective in this party, this movement, well, um a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: huge catalyst to the creation of was essentially the president
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: that we have now becoming president. Um. We and this
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: is a story that I love hearing to say, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: like talk about it. But we essentially a bunch of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: us and documented folks. UM, we gathered at this bart
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: in Lincoln Heights. Elect I don't know if anyone knows
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: about it, but nachos, tacos, I'm hungry, you know what
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to wear. We're sponsored, but we're not. We just um,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So a bunch of us gathered there, a bunch of
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: us and documented folks, and we basically saw the election
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: happening live. And once we realized that this spool was
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: going to be president. UM, it was just a very
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: heavy moment. UM. But also many of us are folks
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that have been involved within documented or immigrant rights movement,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and so we knew that things were going to get
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: even worse, right, and we know the emotional toll that
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: UM fighting for immigrant rights and the mental health issues
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that come up with that. We're gonna get even Moorse
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: since so I think, yeah, that was a huge catalyst
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: for the creation of comte Be because we wanted to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: create a space where it was foreign documented folks to
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: come and you know, release their stress, you know, living,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: dance and joy and just even for a little bit,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: forget about the issues going on in the world, or
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: at least share space with people that are going in
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the same going through the same struggle. So I would
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: say that was a huge catalyst for coon And I'm
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: wondering too how you all found each other and for
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: those in the audience that are new to the Kumaton collective,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: could you describe who's in the collective, what makes up
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: who makes up the collective, and how did you all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: come to find each other and work together. So, as
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Lawrence was mentioning, um, we all do come from an
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: organizing background. That means that we are the rat is
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: crazy that are taking up you know in politicians office,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: blocking the streets, you know, um to stop someone deportation
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: or you know, trying to talk to workers that are
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with that are being exploited. Right, So we do come
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: from an organizing background, whether it's immigrant rights, labor rights,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: or just community organizing through and through UM. That's how
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Norms and I actually met through an internship with the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: UMF l c i O, which is one of the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: largest UM labor organizations in in the nation, and that's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: how we kind of you know that, that's how our
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: first interactions were. It was through workers rights, but then
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we solidified our friendship through music. We were like, yeah, dude,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, we love hip hop obviously, we love
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: like oldies. We love you know, ratchet shipped to the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Beatles all of that. I'm not saying the Beatles are ratchet,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. But then we're like,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: are are kind of where our friendship solidified. We both
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: had such a love for Cumbia, So Norms of swammahaka
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: UM from getrid or right. So these are two UM
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: states in Mexico that are known for like the cultura,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the music, the food, everything, right, And that's how we
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: kind of became to just move on this now movement
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: right to create something that it was going to be
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: representative of our roots as as Norms mentioned right, like
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: we're both undocumented UM so we knew that, you know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we needed to do something not only that was gonna
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: focus on our communities as like you know, Mexicanas, but
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: also undocumented Mexicanas, and whatever project was going to come
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: after that also had to involve other undocumented artists. So
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Norms ended up being well, Norms ended up being um,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: like the production manager of Comertone. Um I ended up
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: being uh, the DJ and like you know, the person
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that kind of does like the liaison with like artists
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and you know, just community um folks. Then we brought
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: on DJ Funky Anamelo who is another badass, amazing DJ
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: um and Paolo who is a photographer who has been
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: in the l a you know, nightlife for about a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: good ten years now. UM and Julio as well. We
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: bought him on after as our flyer maker slash workers
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: slash like you'd have to be Hulo. He's he's a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: character all of all on his own stories, follow our
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: stories to know our team. But all of our folks
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: are folks within the undocumented community who are making waves,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: who are shifting culture, who are being bold enough to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you know, just continue to create our even with all
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: odd stacks against them. You know, and for us that's
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: super important from you know, our production to everything that
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we do right to center our communities because a lot
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: of the time people will forget to really invest or
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: just look within their own circle of amazing talent, right,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: But we acknowledge that and we're like, why are we
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: going to try and go get X promoter or where
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: are we going to try and go get an established
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: CDJ or an established photographer when the talent is right
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: within our community. So that's where we started, um, And
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: that's how m you know, our solid, badass, little immigrant
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that could team came about and we be noised for that. Yeah,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I have a follow up question, do I okay? Thank
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you to you? Um? Okay, So I love the connection
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: organizing for immigrant rights to party planning, which is its
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: own type of organizing. Can you talk about partying as
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: political and why? Well? Okay, so a loaded question, but essentially,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I mean Katon is a space that we created for
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: folks to come in and be themselves. Right, It's a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: space where all people of different shapes and sizes to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: come and be themselves, especially as a you know, as
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a fat woman of color. Like clubs were never really
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: welcoming to me, and so I wanted Komaton to be
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that home for me and for other people, but just
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: in general, like kat is a space for like I said,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: undocumented folks to come in and know that this is
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: their space and this is like we make the rules
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: there and you do what you want to do because
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: this is this is your home, this is your space. Um.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: But yeah, we're aside from that, Komyaton is also our
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: our our goal is to use skat. Yes, come in
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: party with us because you know we're we're going through
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the same struggle. But we're also going to use Komiyaton
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to politicize folks. Hey, like, this is what's going on
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in the world. Um, this is what you should learn about.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: You should you know, read about these bills. You should
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: sign up for these um um signed why my blanking out?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: But sign petition testions. Thank you signed petitions, get more
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: uh involved, learn about this, you know, like learn use
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: what you learn about. Comeatone and you go and you know,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: like use it in your everyday life. Inform other people
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: about what the undocumented you know, immigrants struggle is. So
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: comparty and come learn with us basically and further just
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: within I mean, yes, we are an undocumented lead collective.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: But I think for us also it's about uplifting um
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the oppressed minorities, right, whether it's black folks, whether it's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: queer folks, gender nonconforming folks, right, people that would otherwise
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have access to the platforms that we are now creating. Right.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: So it's it's a lot about also providing those types
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: of resources to folks that you know, we we were
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: just talking about this. It's not necessary, it doesn't necessarily
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: come down to the talent, because the talent is out there.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I can name so many talented people just off the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: back of my head that are within our closed circle,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: but they don't have, you know, the access to the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: connections that access to the resources. Right. And a lot
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: of the time the people that get put on the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: platforms aren't the people with the talent, aren't the people
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: with that should be there. They're the people with connections unfortunately. Right.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: So for us it's really important to continue to like
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: look back within our own communitis and be like not
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to like you wanna you want to have you know
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: this immigrant rights fundraiser akikiks or you want to have
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: you know, you want to talk about immigrants rights. But
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: then have all citizens on a panel or have all
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: citizens artists up there, and it's like na, son, like
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we're here, right, like we're here, we exist, and there's
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: so many of us that are consistently just pushing out work. Um.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: But for oi there, I think just because we are
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: also we do come from the organizing background, um. Organizing.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: For those of you who have been it and whatever capacity,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: you know how stressful and how crazy it can be. Right,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: So for like for us to be able to create
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a space where people can come heal through music on
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the dance floor, y'all, that has been such a moving um.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: It's one of those moving commentaries that people consistently give us. Right,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: thank you for creating this space. Thank you for you know,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: allowing us to dance and like, you know, even escape,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: even if it's for those two hours in the night. Right,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: because some of you all be coming in at eleven
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and our party and it's like at one. So I'm
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: gonna just say that's on Friday, okay, okay, come out
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: to recharge, to rejuvenate, to release, to distress, and it's
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: like almost this sacred magic that happens on the dance
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: floor that you may or may not see if you
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: are just like on the dash flow, you may check
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: out somebody and we like, hey girl, I see you
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: feeling yourself right, But we're up here in the DJ booth,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: or we're up here, I'm seeing, we're here capturing pictures,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: and we see that and we get so emotional it's
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: so hard to hold. I mean, we're both cancers. Let
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: me start there, so we we both consistently just look
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: over and we're like, Friday, I don't know about you,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: but it's so beautiful. It's so beautiful to see our
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: people rejoicing in each other's you know, livelihoods and in
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: turn resistance because this world is trying to funk us
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: all up. You know, the way it's set up right
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: now is trying to, you know, to tear us from
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: reaching our optimum self. I guess. But um, you know,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: we're out here trying to make these waves and trying to,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: um just provide this type of refuel for our folks.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Can we show love to that answer? I'm like, that
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: was an essay in words. I'm sorry. I'm like, it's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: as well, just like write her dissertation up here, or
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: like we'll get to the recording afterwards. Write that down,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: write that down, write that all down. UM. So my
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: question kind of pivoting back a little bit when you
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: were talking about UM working intra community, right and working
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: with our folks. One thing that we've noticed and that
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: we love about y'all is that you bring in your mom's,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you bring in the thes, you bring in your family members,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: right and for us, like as indie creators, like Mala's
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: sister works, she does, she's our events manager, right, our
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: our stage manager, and UM our moms are like very
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: supportive and help us in multiple ways along the like
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: throughout the past three years now, right, So what has
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: that been like involving your family? I know, like Sizzle,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: your mom was there Friday dancing Julio like stage they
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: weren't working. Yeah, So like, yeah, what has that been like?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: And I knowing you, it's been very intentional to bring
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: in your family and just typically your mother. Can you
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: touch on that? Yeah? Absolutely? I think UM for us,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Cuma Ton has rooted itself not only in our love
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: for Cumbia, but our love for Kumbia comes from our parents.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: You know, our ancestors are Dias, our brothers are primos
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: primas p remex is right, whoever really just kind of
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: put that type of music on, put us onto that
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: type of music so early on, right, whether it was
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: blasting the Kumbias on Saturdays or Sunday mornings, and that's
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: how you knew you had to clean right. It was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: also a way to also get you so culturally like
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: aware of all of the beats and talents that our
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: community has, right um. Obviously Kumia started off in Colombia,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: but then started making its way to like Central America, Mexico,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and now it's a world worldwide sound. Um. But it's
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: been so important to us to focus on family dynamics
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: because those are the feelings and those are the memories
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: that bring back the most nostalgia and that makes us
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: feel safe, you know, when this world is trying to
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: crush us day in and day out. Those are the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: memories that we hold on to a lot of the time, right,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: that involved our family love, that involve all these deep
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and strong ties. So for us, it's very intentional to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: continue to uplift You know that all of this knowledge
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: is ancestral knowledge, and you know a lot of the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: values and a lot of things that I have are
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: old to my mama. You know, she raised me in
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the swap meet. So I was out there hustling and
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Sally talking to Senora's trying to sell you know, whatever
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I could sell for a quarter for two dollars. You know,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I was out there hustling from a very very early age.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: And I owe a lot of who I am to
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: my mom. Um. She's not here. She's supposed to be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: here with my thea, but they went out shopping and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: they're like, hey, we're trying to get over there right now.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, girl, it is seven fifteen. This is
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: over at it. But you know what, I'm gonna let
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you do your thing. Uh. But anyway, you know, it's
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: it's so important because again it's just paying homage and
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: respect to them, to our elders who have just for
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: years been pushing this cultural movement forward that now, for
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, is becoming more I don't know hip or more,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: but it's like I saw somewhere that someone was like, yeah,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Kumya is like the new sound. Kumy is a new movement.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I'm like, bitch, where where you've been at all these
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: fucking years? You know what I mean? But I don't
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: know if it's just different people, but I'll let you
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: take it away because I'm about to get into my
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: political rend right now. I just wanted to add that, Um,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, my mom isn't really involved in the in
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the space, but I do love that we have been
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: able to create a space where people actually bring their
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: moms and their grandmas and they're diaz and they're having
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the time of the time of their lives. So I'm
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: really happy we have that space. Yeah, we've seen, like
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: you're you had a MARES event which was amazing. I
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: tried taking my mom but it was like nine o'clock
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: and she was like, no, I can't go out any more.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: She's like, yes, like I can't, I can't do it.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: That event was beautiful and I did cry because, um,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the moms were there right at nine pm and and
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: many of the moms were dancing from nine to two am.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: We did not sit down, So I was your mamma.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I was really happy for that. Yeah, and they probably
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: had like wondering tops and that was it. We we
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: offered free wine for the moms and you know, it's
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: a special day. They served the best so they had
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the times of the time of their life. So I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: was really happy for that. Give it up for mom's
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: We love moms. Uh sizzle. I love that you bring
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: up the swap meet because, um, I see the swap
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: meet in and let me say why, right, because is
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: not just the party. There's vendors, there's food, it's a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: whole affair and it's something so cultural. We love a mercado,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: We love a flea market, We love a swap meet,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: whether it's the Mercato, PCC, Santa Fe Springs, um, the Guyjones. Yes,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: like we like Latin X folks love a community mercado
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: where we can sell, we can show our wares, our
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: artistry and buy from the community. And you've replicated that
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: within the party. Can you talk about like doing that
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and creating that space and how that came about? Yeah? Absolutely,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: um again deriving from lived experiences being in the swap meets,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: um creating that type of community within. Right. You would
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: go there every Saturday or every Sunday, and you already
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: knew no has is gonna set up next to you,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: was gonna set up, you know, on the other side,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and you were gonna go get tackles from Chino Stackles, Right,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: up in front, you know. So it's like this whole
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: community that you were able to build and to create
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: almost like a family. Right, your regular customers would come by,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: you would ask them, Hey, how's your daughter? You know,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen her. We go to school together, you know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: things like that, um, and it's a very I don't know.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I feel that that type of relationship or that type
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: of culture that is formed for a lot of undocumented immigrants,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: that's like your extended family. You know, a lot of
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: us come to this country without our families. You know,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: we can't bring our twenty thirty fifty DS deals three
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: months whatever, right, so we continue to build these communities
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: amongst ourselves. And you see these at the swap meet.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: So that's where my roots come from. And I was like,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: you know what if we're doing and obviously at the
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: swap meets, right, you can have a swap meet without music,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: So you would of the d D you know, playing
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: all the combias, all the jams, all the whatever was popping.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: He was playing um and now you know, moving it
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: into venues. Were like, no, this is what we have
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: to do because this is true to our communities, This
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: is true to our culture. And what we've been able
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: to do, um at most Sciatons is have our vendors
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: come in and also give them that opportunity to give
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: them that platform to do their small business entrepreneurship like ventures. Yeah,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: it's about you know, supporting each other's hustle and us. Actually,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I was really happy, for example, our first
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Katon we had as nice. I don't know if you
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: followed them on I G but I was a huge
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: fan of them, um while I was in school, and
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: so I was really happy to invite them to our
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: first sever coton and so not not only are we
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: fans of their work, but we like it is very
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: crucial for us to support each other's hustle. So was
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: also that space for them. Yeah, and I love that
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: y'all are talking about entrepreneurship right especially um we we
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: think of like the side hustle, right, but like our
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: communities are also like so there's such geniuses that they
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: have been entrepreneurs and side hustlers since like before the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: term side hustler hustlers you know what I mean? Yes, yes,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you finish. Yes, Sizzil agrees with me.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: All Okay, so uh you know, we were talking a
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: little bit about this before we came out here, about
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: being women of color, being entrepreneurs having to work with
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: predominantly white men, right, or being just women and working
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: with maybe white women or you know whatever that may
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: be going into these spaces. Can you talk to us
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: about that experience being the entrepreneurs that you are moving from,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: you know, bigger venues and what that's been like. Yeah,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm the production man R. F. Comerton,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: which essentially means, you know, looking over the logistics of
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: like the entire run of the show, right, what the booking,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the talent, what they need, Um, how our show, our
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: production is gonna look like, making sure that the venue
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: has this information, making sure we have the equipment available,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: making sure we have hospitality, like all the details involved
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: in the in in the event, right and so like
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: the also said, it's we're mostly dealing with older white men, um,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: and with that comes a lot of having sometimes to
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: bite your tongue. However, Um, it's just really frustrating because
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of the times they they underestimate us. You know,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: it's a collective of mostly of brown folks who are undocumented.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: They don't they don't see us packing the venue and
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: having a successful event, But we always freaking do um
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: every time, every time, every time, thank you. And you know,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the older white men aren't gonna like a woman of
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: color telling them what to do or tell them, hey, like,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: I send you this information, ha, come you don't have it?
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Get your ship together, basically, um. And it's also dealing
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: with not just older white men, but like young white
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: men who do the bare minimum, and I'm they're questioning, like,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: how the hell do you have a job if I
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: send you all this information and you still can do it?
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: You know. So Um, it's very frustrating, but it has
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: definitely taught me a lot of lessons where like, hey, like,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I know my ship and I need to remember that.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: And when I send you this information and I get
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: to the event, I know exactly what I'm going to
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: be expecting. And if you don't have it, then you're
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: already You've already messed up. And I'm I'm already unhappy,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: and so I need to like step it up and
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: be more assertive. Right, But um, the key here is
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: to be assertive from the beginning, know that you already
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: know your ship and demand for what you already know
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you need or you know you're event um needs. Right.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: So it's just like growing tougher skin, being more uh
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: sure of what you of yourself and uh and what
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: you already know. So it's a learning lesson every every
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: event we go into, it's always a new lesson being learned.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: It happened at the Globe. So I'm just like, you know,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: keeping tabs, keeping notes, like you know, like I'm getting
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: better with each and everyone. But yeah, it's frustrating. Yeah,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: And I've like I've said this before to Sizzle, We've
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: been on the phone together, and I'm just gonna say
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: this so I can put it out there and we
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: can manifest it. I cannot wait until we own our
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: own space, our own venue so that we can be
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: renting out to women, to un docu folks, to our
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: queer friends, our queer community, and like being able to
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: put on our own events and not be underestimating each other. Yeah, definitely.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: And you like again, from organizing roots billiards in pool
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Hall to the Kumatone collective has been to Harvard to speak.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Can you talk about that that that getting recognition from universities,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: from press, from publications speaking at places like Harvard and
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: representing for your community and what that's been like. Yeah,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: and okay, so that is another ball Clark, right, because
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: it's all of these Ivy League prestigious you know schools, Harvard, Brown.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: We're going to be at Brown, UM in two weeks
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: giving lessons to UM Brown students who are again Ivy
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: League students. UM about entrepreneurship, right, UM. For me, I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: started doing parties, believe it or not, UM, when I
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: was fifteen or so. Back in the day, we used
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: to have flyer parties. I don't know how old y'all are,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: right now, remember the flying parties? Whoop the whoop? What's up? Um? Right?
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: But my career did. I'm thirty now, fifteen years ago, right,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: and nobody really knows this. Like these white men, these
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: like old white men, these like younger little bills that
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: just got out of college and think there's some ship.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: You know. I'm like, dude, seriously, I was doing this
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: ship when somebody was changing your diapers seriously, right, And
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: it's about having all of this business experience that I
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: didn't know back in the day, right, was gonna like
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: serve me, right. My mom used to tell me, get
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: a little bodies get and I'm like, look at me,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: my mom, right, So don't let anybody tell you party
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: won't lead to anything because we're out here speaking at
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Harvard and at Brown when with the looks at the way,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, um, but for real, it's it's this
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: scene where like now, you know, different college students or
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: like different universities are looking to collectives like us because
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: we been able to grow something that started off in
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: a little hole in the wall of fifty people, and
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: we've been able to ranch it out to cities like
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, like Seattle. We're gonna be in New York
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: at the end of the month, right, And these are
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: all residents residencies that we've been able to make within
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: these two years. So I mean, for thank you for us.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: That's been such a freaking like just affirmation, right that
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: whatever we can that whatever we set our minds to
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: do as women, as queerful, as undocumented people, as oppressed minorities,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: we can't do, you know when we have each other's
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: backs like that, right, So I mean that that you're like, yeah, no,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I just want to affirm that so much
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: because you know, I like I got my degree guarduted
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: from EC Santa Barbara back in and I just I
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: feel like the way I was taught and even in
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: under either like in my family or like at school,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: it was very linear, you know, so it was like
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I had to get a degree in order to get
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: a job, you know. But like what you're talking about
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: is like, no, I've been doing this ship since I
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: was fifteen, And like now that you're going into IVY
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: leagues and you're talking about the entrepreneurship of what you've
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: been doing, like it's so mind blowing to me. And
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I just want to affirm that that that's so fucking badass,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and that's amazing that like these now young college students
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: have like y'all collective to talk about entrepreneurship, and like
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: you can be doing this ship while you're in undergrad
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: you know, like while you're in school, or you don't
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: have to go to school, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: because there's so much to say about that too, because
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna sit here and be like, oh,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: don't go to college, Not dude, go to college. Get
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: that freaking get that book smart, but also get that
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: street smart. You know what? I mean, the most lethal combination,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, is somebody who's both school and street smart,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: straight up, right, because you know the ins and outs
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: out of the institutions, out of the streets, and I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: think that is like most of our collective. So you know,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: just be always mindful of that. And even if maybe
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: school is not the right path for you, don't let
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: anybody talk to you out of your dreams, especially out
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: of your creative dreams, you know, because for a lot
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: of us, you know, we all pursued careers or education
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: that is the furthest thing away from like you know,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: event production. But we're out here handling business because these
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: are the skills that the streets taught us. Right, So
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: don't ever like downplay yourselves with whatever you know streets
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: or like street smarts that you do have. Like for us,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: it's so important to always wrap the hoods that we
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: come from, you know, because all of us do come
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: from like the fucking Bario straight up, you know. I'm
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: from Boro Heights, Norms is from South Central Um, Funky
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Karamelos from Pico Union, Hulo from North Long Beach which
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: is hard to um and Baolo where's Ballo from from? Pasadena.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: You know what like the North Molin. Hey, that's why
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I said most of us. But now, honestly, yes, protoscope,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: but also follow your passion. I mean, I'm a history major.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: If you would have told me three years from you
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: know ago, that I would have been producing events events, like,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: there's no way in hell that I would have believed you.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: So if you if your passion is to go to
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: school and also you another you have another passion on
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the side, do both? Why not? But yeah, she's a
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: history major from u c l A. I'm just saw
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: it out there. Yeah, thank you. That's how you feel too,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Like did you like when you were getting your now
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: looking back, like your degree is from toughs, like did
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: you think you'd be like doing panels and doing parties
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: and podcasting and ship like oh, like, oh, my brand
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: is multidimensional home, Like did you think that that was
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: going to be the brand? I had no idea. What
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: about sex fass exactly? I had no idea, But it's
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: one of those things. Were like, Okay, how many of
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: us have heard that we're wasting our time on our
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: social media. We've been on social media since my Space,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: since we were children, since aims or that, and always
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the rhetoric has been you're wasting your time, You're wasting
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: your time, do this, do that, But there's a path,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: there's something there. Social media has been so important as
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: a vehicle for organizing fort and for look, so all
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: that to say, ignore the haters, don't listen to them,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: do what you want to do. It'll work out, It'll
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: pan out, you know. Um So we have a couple
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: more questions left. Yes, um so, shifting gears a little bit,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: but still in line with what we were talking about.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: You have both mentioned, you know, healing on the dance floor, resistance, right,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: can you talk about and doc you joy and centering
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: undocu joy because that's what is right? Can you talk
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: about that exactly? Um So this goes along with you know,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: how sustain mentioned when everything you know, like when ship
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: hit the fan with that full becoming president and I
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: refused to say, right, um you know, like we knew
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: things were going to get even worse. Right, so we
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: were were already used to things being stacked up against
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: this and we're used to like making the best out
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: of the worst situation. And so um is where we
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: it's a space where we preserve and doc you Joey,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: where folks who are undocumented they can come and and
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: really you know, just be themselves, have fun on a
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: dance warend really expressor and doc you Joy despite of
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: everything that's happening outside in the world. You know. So
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: that's that's what doctor Joy for me is. Yeah, and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: for us it's also about again uplifting the narrative that
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: we're not necessarily these pitiful box right, folks that can't
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: fend for themselves, that don't have a voice. Not something
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: you don't need to speak for us. You just need
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: to pass the mic. You just need to shed the light, right,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: whether it's the speakers, whether it's the artist. Again, I
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: go back to this because it's so important to also like,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: you know, whoever is having events to also check your friends,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: right you have and like, for me, we see all
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: of these brands now being like, you know, yes, fucking
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: dreamers and funck I yes, great, that's cute, you know,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: but I don't nowhere basically because it's like the trendy
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: thing to do. I was just telling you the other day,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, god damned girl, Like being undocumented is
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: popular again, you know. I'm like, there's nothing cute really
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: about being undocumented. We have to deal with fucking trauma,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: real ass depression, real ass life choices. You know, we're
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: thirty when we got here, you know, like we haven't
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: even most of us haven't even been able to leave
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the country, you know. Um, And for us, like this
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: is an ongoing thought that we have to have without
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a thought and conversation that we have with each other, right,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: like our youth is escaping us. We're not gonna stay here.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: And this freaking how Lado like I like to call it, right,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: like in this cage of gold. Right, I want to
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: be able to travel. I want to be able to
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: take to to you know, Colombia, to a life, to
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Spain or maybe not Spain. I don't know, y'all to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: call it night list, but you know, different places. I
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: don't know. It just got into my head. I haven't
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: traveled the world. Don't judge me. But it's all of
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: these things that I want to be able to do
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: right personally but also with our collective right, that's what
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I want to be able to do. And for us,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: it's so important to continue to hold space for one
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: another for all of these types of conversations and even
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: a party that is ran for and by undocumented people,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: because when again things go sour, right, you will show
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: up to a spot, You will show up to a place,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: and we don't even have to tell each other. We
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: don't even have to exchange a word, we have to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: exchange eyes. We just you know, share this kind of phase,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: this kind of connection that I don't think anybody else
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: will ever know unless you go through of Like dance
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: is like this is happening, you know, and at the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: end of the day, we're still going to be out
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: here resisting, whether it's dancing, whether it's healing, whether it's singing,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: whether it's crying on the dance group. But we're doing
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: that together and that's a special type of connection that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't think anybody will ever know unless
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: you absolutely go through that. So you know, that's why
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: it's important for us to continue to uplift not only
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: the narratives, but like you know, just our experience is
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: everything that we do is for and by our community
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: because we know like how fucked up things are. Show
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: love once again, once again, Do we love you so much?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: I love y'all. Goodness, we love y'all. We have one
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: final question. Then we're gonna open up um for Q
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: and A. We're gonna open it up for questions. So
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: it is the launch of Hispanic Heritage Month, and we're
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: wondering what your thoughts are about because I'm sure you
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: probably during certain times of the year single the MAO
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Hispanic Heritage Month, you probably get hit up extra. So
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering your thoughts on like these more corporate holidays
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: versus celebrating who we are throughout the year. If you
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: have any thoughts about that, Well, that goes along with
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: what says he just mentioned how it's hip to be
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: undocumented now and everyone's buck guys and um, you know,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: working against UH or fighting for immigrant rights. Um, the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: celebration of ladin next heritage should be all year round.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: And one of the things that for example, we try
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: and focus on at Coton is at Latin X doesn't
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't primarily mean Mexican. We try and stay away from
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: being Mexican centric because our collective is mostly Mexican. We
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: have Paolo who's Peruvian. Shot out shout outpacity, Yes Calo, Yes,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: I love Boolo. He's such a cutie. But um, latin X,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: is you know it's not. We are constantly fighting against
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: trying to be or fighting against being Mexican centric, because
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Latin x is not just Mexico. It's different, you know,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: different Latin American countries. So um, that's sorry, I just
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: lost my train of thought. But expanding the conversation throughout
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: the year, always at all the events rating every day,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: all day, every day type of thing. Yeah, and this
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: is actually a conversation and we're gonna have We're gonna
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: have to have with the venue because again as long
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: as is mentioning, we don't like to be just Mexi centric, right,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: because there's a whole lot of things wrong with Mexicans. Yeah,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: and I say this as a Mexican myself, you know,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: really with the Central American refugees right now and May
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: and anti blackness and anti religions, homophobia lies on a time. Yes, yes, yes,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: so we are. Um. For folks who were at our
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Coton event, Um, we had Banda Angelena's perform. They're all
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: women led banda from mostly Easterly and Compton and they're amazing. Right. However,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed, but there was a
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Mexican flag in the background and then the Mexican light
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: theme like theme lights. We didn't ask for that, and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: so the venue took it upon themselves to to to
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: showcase that. And so that's an issue that we have
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: because us first of all, like like, how do you
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: feel so comfortable like incorporating your own ideas into our production?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: And so it's that privilege, it's that privilege for men,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: that thing. Oh they all Mexicans. This makes yeah, let's
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: makes sense. So it's like, so we're gonna have a
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: conversation about that because asking me at the own we
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: don't we we do not want to be Mexican centric. Um. So, yeah,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I don't know how it's gonna go,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: but it's gonna happen. And I think that it just
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: goes along with like everything, right, even with like June, right,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Pride Month, everybody all of us a sudden everywhere, right banks,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: Coca Cola freak in the NFL, all me right, the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: police the police right? No, yes, absolutely, And there's still
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: people that have police at Pride and that's a whole
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: other issue. But I'm like, y'all don't even know the
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: history of it, and like y'all we here share shaking
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: and like promoting freaking pride and I'm like, we we
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: all don't like you just as an f I I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: But you know what, that's another podcast episode girl, like
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: the yeah pride in the cops and not remembering the
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Stonewall riots, and we can talk about that another day definitely,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: But it it goes back to that right of like
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: this commercialized almost identity right that it's like, oh, it's
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: cool to be queer in June, and it's cool to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: be mexic Centric in September, and I don't know what
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: happens in October, but let's shift to that, right. But
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: for us, it's about continuously paying homage to our queer ancestors,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: to just like the cultural workers that don't necessarily have
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: to be Mexican, right, A lot of them are Central American,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Southern American, right, that are just doing freaking work. And
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: I think that is definitely one of the things that
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: we try to consistently fight, whether it's with the venues
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: or whether it's you know, this doesn't just happen off
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: of like one incident, right, it has to be continuously
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: challenged because that's how people unfortunately kind of just generalize
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: us all and it's it sucks. We want to thank
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: you so much for being here with us tonight and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: doing everything you do. Thank you for having us, and
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: thank you for listening list and also for folks who
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: don't know, Sizzle is our resident DJ, so she DJs
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: all of our look our live shows. She's on the
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: stage with us. We do a variety show. We have
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: so much love for the both of you, for the
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Gumaton collective. Once again, thank you, thank you here with us,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: thank you for having us. I'm major thank you to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: the Wing for hosting this conversation tonight and for approaching
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: us about doing this. Yes, give it up for the Wing,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: so we're going to open it up. It's Q and
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: a time so we have a mic here. So whoever
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: has questions for Sizzle, for norms for us, Yeah, it's
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: all you, not everyone at once. Good evening, ladies. When
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: it comes time to pass the baton onto the next generation,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: what is your greatest expectation of them? And way to
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: make me feel old? I mean, we do have the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: ongoing joke and that we should have started We're all
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: in our thirties and we should have started this when
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: we were in our twenties. Right, But um, I would
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: say to continue with with holding our our vision and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: mission of you know, um, supporting one another, keeping community
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: at the forefront um, and not I guess selling out
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: to certain um trends. Um. But actually I'm not sure
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: that's a that's a loaded question. And um, but what
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: do you mean by the next generation? Yeah, because you've
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: put so much love and hard work, blood, sweat and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: tears into this. So what is it that you're hoping
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: or expecting that this becomes ten years from now? Um? Well,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: I mean the goal from the beginning has always been
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: to establish relationships with other folks and other states. If
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: you want to see your own kind of coton't happen
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: within your city you started, will connect, will collaborate, but
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: essentially you create your space however you wanted to see
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: how you want to see it. Right. But I think,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: like I said, for folks to continue with community building
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: and keeping our fighting for immigrant rights and keeping our
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: mission envision at the forefront of whatever event or space
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: you create. Yeah, um, yes, absolutely, But I think also
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: just being mindful of taking in like, um potential, Um,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: what would you call it? If I'm a mentor, they
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: are a SENTI mentee, Yes, I am about the fenties right,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: because I think it's important. It's important, you know, And
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: I've thought about this as I continue to transition now
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: into my going at stages, um, And I am happy
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: about it because I'm like, yeah, girl, I can't do
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: a twenty four hour rager, Like I will join you
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: for five hours and I'll be like, okay, the way
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: my back and my knees are set up, Um, I
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: need to go to sleep right now, you know. So
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: I'm consistently thinking about that, and also within my own
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: DJ career, right, Like, unfortunately, and this is this is
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: some things that we still have to work towards, right, Like,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: you could be a male DJ and be in the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: business for like freaking forty years and still kill it. Right.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: You could be a warman DJ and maybe be in
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: the business if you're really good and if you practice
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: your technique whatever. But it also, unfortunately, and it's so
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: messed up to say or it's so messed up to
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: even like acknowledge it. Right, A lot of it does
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: rely on your looks, right, and a lot of it
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: when you become like you know, a certain age or
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: when you become a mother, right, Like all of these
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: things Unfortunately, um they're they're factors into how you get booked, right. Um,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: So for me, I've also thought about it. I know,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be in the industry, like, you
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: know until I'm fifty. Girl, I don't want to be
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: up in the club until I'm fifty. I'm just telling
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: you and been and those that's where i mean shout
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: out to to you, I guess and your bachelor life whatever.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just not the type of life
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to live. But you know, I'm also thinking
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: about how am I gonna, like, you know, empower the
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: next generation of women DJs A women producers of women
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs Because all of these like resources and all of
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: the knowledge that I have in my brain, it's not
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: just for me to like keep it up here, right,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: and it's my duty as a woman of color to
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: pass it down to the next generation to be like,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: don't let these motherfuckers think that they can try and
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: run some game on you. Girl. Know, this is what
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I'm not gonna be there at the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: meeting with you, but this is what how I'm going
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: to coach you so that you can go in there
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: and fight your own fights. Right. So it's about that
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: resource sharing. It's about making those intentional connections with folks
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: now that you mentioned that. Yeah, for example, being an
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: event producer, like I can share everything I've learned from
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: from you know, like dealing with each and every venue,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: like how to set up your emails, what kind of
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: details you need to send, what kind of questions you
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: need to send? Uh, you know, what kind of responses
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: you need over through email or over emails, so you
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: can you know, go back and say, hey, this is
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: what you wrote and this is what I'm expecting. Right,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: So just in general, like how to have the initial
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: conversations of booking the event, um the d how to
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: you know, send over the details, or how to book talent,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: or how to just in general, like I can, I
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: can sure everything that I've learned so far as an
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: event producer, maybe right a manual or something, or if
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: you are wanting to set up an event and you
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: need guidance, I'm always dound to share whatever knowledge I
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: already have. So yeah, I can do that. Thank you,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you for that question. Excellent, Yeah, we got more
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: questions over here. Yes, why why is it taking so
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: long to do from National City specifically, girl, I was
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: there this morning, Like I literally drove from San Diego
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: to a week here and I got here like at three.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: I was like, let me take a quick fifteen minute
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: nap and let me do this. But you know what,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: we've actually been trying to get to San Diego for
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: a minute. We tried, and it goes along with like,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: you know, we reach out to venues and once again
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: they underestimate us or they don't know much about us,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: and they're like, no, this isn't something that we're interested in.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: But there was a venue that we actually reached out
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: to they never got back to us. But if you're
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: interested in having us in your town, it's just a
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: matter of reaching out to us and helping us find
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: that venue to have our event. But yeah, we we
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: already try to say if you build it, they will come.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't think the venue is all what
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: the hell is up? But um, you know, and honestly,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I'm also gonna be honest, I don't think we've tried
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: like super hard because our emphasis has also been on
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: securing the venues that have or like securing or making
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: sure that the shows run as smooth as they can.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Go to the venues that have said yes, you know
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: what I mean. So we're not gonna sit there and
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, please there's going too and
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: I please let us in. No, we're not gonna do that.
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  Speaker 1: Go asked to what venues we reach out to, like
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: especially you know, gentrification is a real issue, right, and
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: so we are very careful to go into place is
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: that I have been gentrified and our own white by
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: white people. Right. So if you have a great venue
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: that we should have like in mind, that we should
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: have in our you know, go along with our community guidelines,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: then let us know. But we're very critical as to
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: where we want to take too. We'll be in San Diego,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: soun though. I promise you that. First of all, y'all
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: look super badass and really amazing, So thank you all
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: for coming here and showing up. Um. So my question
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  Speaker 1: is you were talking about how, um, when you would
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: work with like white men specifically and how they would
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: like underestimate you. But then when you guys would kind
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: of bring out all your people and business and basically
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: money that has a lot of power, So like, how
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: would you. How did you guys feel kind of like
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: walking into that power now when you guys are reaching
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: out to new venues. It's something that for me personally,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm still getting used to. Um. Like, we just had
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: our two year anniversary at the Globe and it was
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: a successful night, right, and so we're we need to
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: have a post production meeting where I need to prep
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: exactly knowing that we had a successful event. I need
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: to prepare myself to like go in there and own
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: that and say, hey, like if we're gonna come back
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: to your venue and have another Comerton, this is exactly
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: what I need. Otherwise it might not happen. Norms, do
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  Speaker 1: you have a post production meeting with the venue? We
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: try to. Oh, yeah, we have to have to. You know,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: I go in there and I go with like the
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: print out of the bar, my notes, things I didn't like,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: things that went wrong, things that could have been avoided,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: and go through them, have them basically, have them explained
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: to us why things didn't work out, how we expected
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: them to work out. You have to write that down.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: You have to, you really have, especially with these venues
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: that have all of the this type of cloud, like
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: we're not gonna ask the billiards, hey, guys please, you know, honestly,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: like the Senoras are probably like in their sixties fifty
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: serving alcohol, you know, and that's legit one of the
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: venues that has treated us with more customer service. And
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: we've gotten at these protidures once because you know, we're
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: dealing with community for folks versus dealing with you know,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: people that think they're on some stuff. And you're like, dude, really,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: I've been doing this for longer than you've been alive basically,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: but yes, it's really important to have post production so
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: that when they come with like whatever rebuttal they have,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: you already have all your facts in ordering your yeah,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: and you know, at the end of the day, at
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: the end of the night, they're I was like, oh
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: my god, this is great. I have not been into
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: a venue where they don't fail to offer offer us
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: residency please come back every month, And we're like, um, please,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: We're apply to our email about a post production meeting
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: because that is going to be the deciding factor exactly.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: It's I mean post production meetings. It's a huge it's
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: a new concept for us, right, but they're very important
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: because especially if they if they share that they love
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: the event and they want to have you back. Oh
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: hell yeah, this is I'm I'm the one in power
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: right now. Court, Fine, let's we could have an event.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: But this is exactly what I'm gonna what we're gonna
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: need in order to have another Comyaton at the venue where. Yeah,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: we've had similar experiences, nowhere near to the scale of
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: the Kumaton collective and the parties you throw, but we've
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: done a couple of parties here and there in a
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: couple of parties, hold out parties, a couple of sold parties, right,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: But it's the same thing, Like the venue owners are
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: always white. And what's so wild to me is I
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: think of nightlife in Los Angeles and I think of
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: people of color. I think of women of color, Like
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: you are not going to go to a popping party
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: and it's only straight white guys there. Does not happen,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: that does not exist, does not exist. Like, if it's
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: a good party, there are people of color there, there
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: are women there, there are queer people there. So the
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: fact that, like the nightlife is created by us, but
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: fighting to create the nightlife is so wild to me.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: That's another conversation for another day, But there were more questions.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Malina's got a question over here. Over there, Molina of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: Orange is the new Black? Mostly kill you. I love
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: you all, we love you to thank you, So I
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: want to know. I'm let's let's create some manifestation right here.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: What's like a wish list for a party in the future,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: and it could be the very near future, whether it
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: has to do with guests or or the type of
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: music you have, or something specific for the venue or
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: or giveaway days or like you know, I insert myself
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: in there somehow, you know, something like that. UM, also
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: for y'all, because I've been to your life events and
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: they're popping, so like like just I want to get
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: excited and like look forward to another popping party. What
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: are some some things on your wish list that you
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: want to have for me? I would say, I want
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: to have more funding for cumaton UM. You know, putting
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: on a whole production UM, it takes a lot of
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: work and it takes funds mostly because we do come
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: from a labor organizing background, and whoever we do bring
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: onto our show, we pay living wages. We definitely do
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: not believe in labor free labor and so we want
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: to pay everyone for their labor. However, sometimes we're very
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: limited with our with our funding and um um so
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: I would I wish we had more funding to go
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: to different more cities, especially to be able to travel
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: to different cities with the whole collective and not just
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: few of us because of funding. Um what else? Um?
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: I mean Ultimately, like we mentioned, I would love to
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: travel outside the US and bring freakington to Mexico, to Wahaka,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: to you know, my hometown. Um. But hopefully it happens. Hopefully, Yeah, dude,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: the dreams for Kumieton are big. Like I don't think
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: they're gonna sob at a fifteen thousand capacity venue, you know,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: but probably not as like stress out hopefully Right, We're
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: gonna sit it there enjoying the backstage where everybody look
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: I am seeing maybe I don't know, go you know,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe our children's out there and seeing I
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: don't know, being cute, you know what I mean. But
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: I think definitely the hopes and the dreams for Kumieton
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: are big. I envision Cumieton as a festival, not only
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: you know where it's I mean a party is great
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: doing all of that is great, but again, like a
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: festival that is conscious about the community struggles, a festival
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: that is conscious and wary of liketa culture makers and
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: and shift theres. There's afropunk afro punk right that do
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: and hire all black folks, right, and I think that's
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: the most beautiful freaking thing and they're unapologetic about it.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: And that's what I want to do with our communities
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: as well. Continue to create these platforms because again, the
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: talent is there. Unfortunately, our talent doesn't get booked or
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: gets overlooked a lot of the time. So that is
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: my biggest and realist freaking goal for Kumiaton to be
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: able to take it, you know, not only nationwide because
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: that's checked um, but also take it like wll why
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: why not? Yeah? I would also want to add, I
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: mean the Coumaton Collective is essentially an art collective and
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: of our collective of artists, right, so I would want
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: to see don't having an office space where we have
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: space to work an actual printer to owning our own venue,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: owning our own venue. We've talked about this, We talked
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: about being able to print stuff from like our office
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: instead about the printing is a part it to work
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: and printing it out, you know, um have you know,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: we also discuss, you know, providing scholarships to other undocumented folks,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: providing space for other folks to come in and you know,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: like uh, work on their art. So yeah, I hope
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: we get to that. I wish we get to that.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: We will, we will. We will buck an office space
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: as beautiful as the wing where we can have other
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: people to come in and we have other events, you know,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: not just party night you know night parties. But that's
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: the goal. If you know, funders ill at your girls,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: Funders pay undocumented artists. Okay, women of color. Absolutely, thank
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: you Molina for question, Melina Bobadi. Everyone shout out, so
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: I think we have time for two more questions. Hi,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: every buddy. My name is Jacqueline. I am originally from
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: El Paso, Texas, born and raised. My mom is from Chihuama.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I want to facilitate a
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: panel in El Paso, Texas. If you're open to it,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I would say, let's go party and Watts, But I
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's about that right now. UM, we
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: could figure it out, but I definitely want to connect
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: and see if we can facilitate a panel in my
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: hometown and see if we can brainstorm for some funding.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: I know that there are ways with you know, writing
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: up letters and sending emails and reaching out to a
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: monumental amount of people. So I'll connect with you after.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: But that was just, you know, something I wanted to
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: share and see if we can brainstorm a little bit
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: about El Paso. Thank you. We can go to wattas
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: we just can't come back or I'm just saying that's right.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm trying to come back. I love it.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you. One more question. Final question from Hi. I'm Valerie. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the work that you're doing
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: and the ways that you guys are taking up space. UM.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: It's really lovely to see. And something that kept popping
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: in my mind is like, what these parties that you're
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: throwing and UM, do you guys ever worry about being
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: targets of UM? I don't know ice agents or anything
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: like that. I just wonder what that's like. How do
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: you create a safe space? Does that ever cross your mind? Yeah? Absolutely,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: I think that's always you know, as an undocumented immigrant,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: you can't escape that reality no matter how hard you try,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: no matter how you know bomb the music is, no
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: matter how late you you can't escape the fact that
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: you're still undocumented, even if you're lit, even if you're
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: last in thought. Right, So that has definitely come about,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: and it's one of those things where people are like, well,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: why are you also vocal about being undocumented? And for us,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: it's important because you know, that's how we show our
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: resistance and our resilience in this country, right, because that's
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: what they want. They want us to shut up, they
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: want us to be afraid. They want us not to
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: be as like active, as hustling, as you know, just
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: powerful as we are. But in you know, when we
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: do that, we are being untruthful to ourselves, right, Like,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: undocumented people are some of the most powerful, resilient people
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: that I've ever met in my entire life. Right, some
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: of the people that have been able to handle, you know,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: whatever comes their way even before, and being undocumented was cool,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: right even before the whole dream or movement, the whole
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: you know, immigrant rights movement not there. They're they've been
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: undocumented people here even before, and they've been existing, right,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: They've existed back then. We're existing right now. We'll continue
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: to exist after that. So I think it's very important
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: to also, I we have a duty right to the
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: younger generations to kind of let them know that we
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: are still you know, we've been thriving with them without DACA.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: We were that generation that actively fought for deferred action,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: that tied ourselves to freaking ladders and like got in
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: front of us is got arrested. We were that generation
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: that did all of that, right, and because we did
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: all of that, we were able to gain so much
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: from you know, this administration, right, maybe not this one,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: but in the previous one, right, we were able to
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: gain so much. So for us, right, it's really important
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: to continue to uplift that no matter what. You know,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: like we're living in in crazy dire ass times, but
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: you know, these are the times that it's a specially
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: important for people, especially artists, people with any type of
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: platform to speak up and speak out. You know, Um,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and say like I'm always
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: unafraid all the time, no bitch, I'm a documented and
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: sometimes afraid, right, But you know, at the end of
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: the day, I know that my empowerment and my resilience
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: and you know, all of that is so crucial not
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: only to my being but to those around me and
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: those who are looking you know for I mean, whether
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: we like it or not. You know, we do have
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: some young ones who also look up to us. And
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be over here being on no
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: punk stuff, right, I'm gonna be like not, dude, Like
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: this is what we gotta do. These are the cards
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: that we were dealt, but we're still going to continue
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: to thrive. Let's thank you. Yeah, I mean this this
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: concludes our night. Um, I just want to thank so
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: much love and admiration and thanks to Sizzle and Norms
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: just for everything that you are, your talents, everything, your genius,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: your brilliance. Thank you, um, and thank you to the
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: Wing for hosting tonight's conversation. Thanks to all of y'all
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: for coming for sitting with us. We'll be around for
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: a little bit or look up at our radio. Thank
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: you everybody. Thank you all. This is actually my first
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: speaking engagement, so I was really nervous, but I'm good now. Hey,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: get it up for Norms. Thank you all. You can
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: follow us at and Underscore l A or at Norm's
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: level hucking Out, or at Sizzle zero zero seven on Instagram,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: which is basically our business profile. So hey, thank you all,