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Anabel Itoha - A Melting Pot of Cultures and Music from Barcelona to New York · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 3: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 3: of pudding and now here's Jen. Good afternoon, everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: welcome to this week's episode of Kats and Pudding. And
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  Speaker 3: today I have a great guest on she First of all,
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  Speaker 3: she's beautiful number one, Oh my god, she's gorgeous. And
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  Speaker 3: this is Annabelle. And I'm gonna spashy your last name
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  Speaker 3: because I butcher atoha ah, I do it. I said
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  Speaker 3: it because I butcher everybody's last time. I'm so bad,
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  Speaker 3: so sorry. Well, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me so beautiful, like
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean anybody who can look gorgeous and rock and
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  Speaker 3: like a like a jersey like that. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta be hot, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta be comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: So so you are recording artists, yes, so, and you
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  Speaker 3: are coming. You have some some music out now that's
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  Speaker 3: on Spotify, that's trending, and so tell us about that,
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  Speaker 3: tell us what's going on, and tell us your genre
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  Speaker 3: of music.
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  Speaker 5: So well, I'm from Spain, from Barcelona. I'm half African,
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  Speaker 5: and I just moved to New York.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, Yeah, I love it. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: Barcelona was Yeah, it's a nice possible, it's.
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  Speaker 4: A nice city.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, so I started doing music like six years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Have a couple of songs out. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of work, you know, a lot going on. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm happy. I'm happy to be here. I'm on Spotify, YouTube, everywhere,
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  Speaker 5: so anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: What what is your job? What is your favorite genre
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  Speaker 3: of music?
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  Speaker 4: R and B? But yeah, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking now, that's what you're saying.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I'm trying to mix a lot of things because
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  Speaker 5: I'm a mix of cultures and a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 5: so I'm trying to mix R and B with pop
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  Speaker 5: and afrobeads, nice trying to find the sound.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like you should be a model instead of
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  Speaker 3: a second. Thank you for telling you that.
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  Speaker 4: I think it all comes together.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you gotta you gotta look good, you gotta
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  Speaker 5: sound good, and you gotta you know, everything is is important.
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  Speaker 4: But thank you. You look good too.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Well, not as good as you, but thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Where So when did you move to
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  Speaker 3: the city.
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  Speaker 4: I moved here in April last year.
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  Speaker 3: So you've been here for almost a year, almost a year,
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  Speaker 3: and you're kind of acclimated now to New York City. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot different, right.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even live in the city. I live in
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  Speaker 4: New Rochelle.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, so you're kind of here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still yeah, that's all right. It's a crazy city. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, can make it happen here.
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  Speaker 3: If you can make it here, you can make it anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Like Frank's an exercise right there.
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  Speaker 1: You go.
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  Speaker 5: That's when I'm so happy. And not everybody can do
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  Speaker 5: it though. That's why I'm I got here. I gotta
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  Speaker 5: make it happen. I gotta do it. I'm like no,
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  Speaker 5: sometimes I cry, I'm like mom, I want to go
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  Speaker 5: back cool.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, listen, we're not doing this. You're grown. You
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  Speaker 4: decided to go stay there, do what you said you
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  Speaker 4: was gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: And she's right. If you're going to do it, you
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  Speaker 3: make that trip across the ocean, and now you're here.
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  Speaker 3: You left your whole family.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure, all right?
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  Speaker 3: How old you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm twenty eight?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're not a baby, You're I know you are.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I'm ay. I have kids that are your age,
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  Speaker 3: so they're still my babies. They're still babies. But you
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  Speaker 3: know you, you know now if you're gonna do it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: make things happen for yourself now, and you will. You will.
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  Speaker 3: You have a brightness to you. So you're a stock.
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  Speaker 3: You're definitely a stock. You look like a movie star.
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  Speaker 3: Saw yes, do you are you planning on maybe at
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  Speaker 3: some point going into acting or anything like that?
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  Speaker 5: Listen, never say never, I never say no to anything.
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  Speaker 5: I love art in general. I love art because it's
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  Speaker 5: a way of expressing who you are to new people.
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  Speaker 3: You know, do you paint to do you like an artist?
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  Speaker 3: That type of water? Because it's funny I that you
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  Speaker 3: say that too, because people who're saying want it's funny
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  Speaker 3: actors want to be rock stars, and rock stars want
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  Speaker 3: to be actors. It's so funny. All it's just and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them want to be artists. Hill, so
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  Speaker 3: it's like they want to be both of them, want
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  Speaker 3: to be with one or the other, and want to
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  Speaker 3: be painters.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying I don't want to. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: I'm not good. You know, I could try.
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  Speaker 3: You know what everybody thought Picasso sucked, right, so now
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  Speaker 3: you might be that Pocasso. That's like, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: could draw like a you know.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a beautiful part of being an artist.
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  Speaker 5: You can do whatever you want. And some people it's
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  Speaker 5: also about how you bring it up. I'm saying, like
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  Speaker 5: how you do it. It doesn't matter what you do,
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  Speaker 5: it's how you do it. Yes, that's true, and there's
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  Speaker 5: always people that are going to like what you do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen says, if you're going to do something, know
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  Speaker 3: what you're gonna do, you're gonna laugh, do it, do
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  Speaker 3: it laugh, laugh, Then you better laugh if you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna, if you're gonna start something, you better
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  Speaker 3: try to finish it. So it's it's it's because if
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  Speaker 3: you don't, You're never gonna always gonna say why why
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  Speaker 3: didn't I do that? That's the why I think it's
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  Speaker 3: worse than not succeeding. You know.
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  Speaker 4: That's funny.
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  Speaker 5: In Spain, everybody like, you know, I don't know any artists,
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  Speaker 5: so everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Was like, you're crazy.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna do that, like nobody ever did that around us,
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  Speaker 5: you know, And they're like, you have a plan B,
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  Speaker 5: you have another option for your life, like what you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna do if it doesn't work. I'm like, it's gonna work,
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  Speaker 5: you know why, because I'm not gonna stop trying until
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  Speaker 5: I make it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a good way to be. So you have
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  Speaker 3: to and you have to at least give it that
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  Speaker 3: fighting chance, and if God forbid it doesn't, then you
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  Speaker 3: try the next day. There's there's another path that God
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  Speaker 3: has for you if that doesn't happen. But the only
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  Speaker 3: path for you is for you to be a stock.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're a stock. I could tell, I could tell
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  Speaker 3: when are you are you doing any like live performances
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that?
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  Speaker 4: Right now?
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  Speaker 5: I have a lot going on and I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 5: I just I'm not sure if I can give the
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  Speaker 5: information but I'll make sure you see what I'm doing. Ok,
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  Speaker 5: we have to and yeah, live performances, a lot of podcasts.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I also have an interesting story, So it's
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  Speaker 5: not everything about music.
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  Speaker 4: It's also me as a person, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, like, well, give us a little bit of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean only the fact that I'm from Spain,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm half African and I just came to New
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  Speaker 5: York to do music. I don't know here in Spain,
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  Speaker 5: it sounds crazy because like, first of all, you made
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  Speaker 5: it to New York. You're doing all these you wasn't
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  Speaker 5: even trying in Spain, Like it's all crazy around celebrities.
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  Speaker 4: All these work is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I also go to school here, you know, because my
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  Speaker 5: English is not where it needs to be. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: like it's a lot and people don't understand, Like I
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  Speaker 5: have a whole new life here, Like I love my
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  Speaker 5: family and friends, but now I have a whole new
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  Speaker 5: like family for me, you know, my new team. Everybody
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  Speaker 5: is so like, I don't know supporting me. I feel
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  Speaker 5: like I have too different lives.
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  Speaker 3: All this is the life that you're trying to succeed at,
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  Speaker 3: so you have to, yes, my other life.
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  Speaker 5: Is more like, it's not who I used to be
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  Speaker 5: with the people and the place that made me and
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  Speaker 5: got me ready to be here now, you know, So
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  Speaker 5: it's not two different lives.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's a parallel life. Yes, that's yes. And
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  Speaker 3: your mom is totally and your mom is totally supporting you.
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  Speaker 3: What about your dad?
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  Speaker 4: My dad passed away when I was seven years old.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. It's my dad passed away when I
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  Speaker 3: was very young to eleven.
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  Speaker 5: It's you know, it's tough because I don't even remember
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  Speaker 5: feeling sad about it. But I have an amazing step
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  Speaker 5: dad who raised me since I was thirteen years old.
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  Speaker 5: And listen, my mom and my stepdad, I got to
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  Speaker 5: thank them because I wouldn't be here without them and
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't be the person who I am.
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  Speaker 3: You had a very very supportive mom. You could tell
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  Speaker 3: she raised you right. She did a good job.
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  Speaker 4: She cries more than I do. She's crying all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what, she's your biggest fan. It's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest supporter. She's gonna be that right when you are.
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  Speaker 4: And my best friend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what, that's good that you know
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  Speaker 3: that there's a lot of fake people, especially in the
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  Speaker 3: industry you're in. You gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 4: You want to talk about that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Keep you keep your keep your core people close to you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: temptation out there with that, you know, and and be
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  Speaker 3: careful that you don't you know, get into You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's people out there that are looking to screw you
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  Speaker 3: and they don't care. You know, they think you're from
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  Speaker 3: another country. You don't know what's going on. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a savvy, savvy assholes that want to take you know,
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  Speaker 3: that want to that want to you know, uh, bank
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  Speaker 3: off of you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm also a very quiet person, so if you listener,
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  Speaker 5: it's good. It's good observers. So a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: think that I don't see what's going on. They think
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on. But the whole time,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just planning how to get out, to get your attacked, good,
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  Speaker 5: how to get rid of you.
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  Speaker 3: But that's but that's a good way to bath. You know,
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  Speaker 3: either got to be upfront and in their face, or
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  Speaker 3: if you're a person sitting back and watching, that's even
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  Speaker 3: scarier because you're like a stealth bomber, and it's like
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  Speaker 3: something happens and it's like come, yeah, what.
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  Speaker 5: I say when they like, enjoy now because when they
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  Speaker 5: you're not going to have access to me and you're
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  Speaker 5: not even going to realize when that happened. It's just
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  Speaker 5: what's happening. The whole time I was seeing you, I
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  Speaker 5: saw you coming.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a good Listen, you're that's a good way
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  Speaker 3: to be. And keep that. Always keep that, don't you know,
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  Speaker 3: don't be like oh yeah, well, keep that.
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  Speaker 4: I'll keep that.
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  Speaker 3: Keep that in here. And always always if you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're not grounded, go I don't need to lecture you,
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  Speaker 3: but always call your mom. Call your mom if you
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  Speaker 3: feel that way, just callt mom. Is this person, she'll
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  Speaker 3: she'll be crazy.
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  Speaker 4: She always knows.
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  Speaker 3: She'll she'll know, like she'll know, like if something's going on,
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  Speaker 3: she'll hear it in your voice. You'll feel it, and
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  Speaker 3: she'll feel what you're feeling and tell you get away
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  Speaker 3: from that person. Run it's good, they're good, they're not
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  Speaker 3: go away and she will and just keep that, always
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  Speaker 3: keep that, don't don't you know? And I can tell
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  Speaker 3: that you're a good you know, you're a good daughter,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll keep close. You'lo sometimes be perfect. Nobody's perfect.
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  Speaker 3: That's I know it's perfect. But my last guest we had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I love my kids, but as a segment,
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  Speaker 3: I love them, but and it's not. Everybody's perfect. And
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  Speaker 3: you do when you love them, but their times when
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  Speaker 3: they're annoying, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I love them.
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  Speaker 5: One thing I'm a good daughter on because I love
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  Speaker 5: my mom like I know what love is.
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  Speaker 4: Because of her. So that's the best thing nobody ever
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  Speaker 4: did for me.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know what, And somebody told me it's a
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  Speaker 3: long time ago. The best thing that a parent could
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  Speaker 3: do is love their children. I love each other and
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  Speaker 3: love their children, and then the kids will will love
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  Speaker 3: you back. And that's so true. They'll love you. They
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  Speaker 3: always damn by you, you know, So just keep that.
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  Speaker 3: You always keep that. So that's good. You have a
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  Speaker 3: good ground, so you're gonna make it because you're grounded,
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  Speaker 3: so you're not going to go astray. What do you?
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  Speaker 3: What do you? Where do you see yourself in five
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  Speaker 3: years from now?
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  Speaker 5: In five years see myself being happy and being proud
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  Speaker 5: of myself. I don't know what that means, because you know,
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  Speaker 5: these industries. Crazy might be an actress who knows, you know,
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  Speaker 5: But I just want to make sure I every day
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  Speaker 5: I wake up and I go to bed and I'm
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  Speaker 5: you know, I did what I wanted to do that day.
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  Speaker 5: That's I want to be in the same place I
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  Speaker 5: am right now doing what I want to do.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. So let everybody know where they can
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  Speaker 3: find you and with a good fine and listen to your.
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  Speaker 5: So well everywhere Spartify, Instagram, it's Annabelita A N A
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  Speaker 5: B E L I D O h A. Listen, stay
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  Speaker 5: tuned because it's a lot coming all right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited. I can't wait. I want to be I
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  Speaker 3: hope you invite me to If you do have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of listen.
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  Speaker 4: You're already invited to everything.
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  Speaker 3: I better be. Let John zomb be calling your mom
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  Speaker 3: and saying, listen, your daughter. You know she's got to come.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna vite you. Because I'm in a corner. I'm
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  Speaker 3: one of those people who, oh God, I got all
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  Speaker 3: love for her. But you're so sweet, you want us.
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  Speaker 3: You have a great energy to you, and I'm so
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  Speaker 3: happy to have you on my show.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here and love it. I love
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  Speaker 4: to come back.
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  Speaker 3: I want I was just gonna say that, so I
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  Speaker 3: want you to come back, and I invited what happened? No,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to. I like to have my guests
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  Speaker 3: to come back because I want to see what how
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  Speaker 3: the president and you could see all the wonderful things
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  Speaker 3: that are happening to you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, and.
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  Speaker 3: You deserve it. You're a good You're a good girl.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need sound conscenane, but you are. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That's good. But and I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 4: That's oh wow, thank you, proud of you.
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  Speaker 3: I am good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm proud of you too.
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  Speaker 3: So sometimes I'm not proud of myself, but I appreciate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're so cute. Well, I was a great show.
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