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Capítulo 110: Métale Sazòn with DJ Sizzle · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: This past month alone, we have released teasers for a
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Speaker 1: today before we get into our amazing interview with one
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Speaker 1: of our favorite people in the entire world. So before that,
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Speaker 1: we do want to share some quick updates with you,
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Speaker 1: and the first one being UM that I launched a
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Speaker 1: book club under look at that our productions, which has
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Speaker 1: and we're growing and just want to let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the book club for a little bit. And so I
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Speaker 1: I already have the next couple of months planned out,
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Speaker 1: which is really exciting. And UM, you know this idea,
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Speaker 1: you know, I really resisted launching a book club mile
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Speaker 1: there's so many great book clubs already, Like why should
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Speaker 1: I launch one myself. But you know, I will say
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Speaker 1: that after quarantine or during quarantine, during the I was
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Speaker 1: reading a lot and I wanted to discus us these
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Speaker 1: books with people, and I had nobody to talk about
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Speaker 1: it with, and I would like post the pictures of
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Speaker 1: a local author, writer, amazing person and so we will
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Speaker 1: be discussing that book at the end of the month,
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Speaker 1: and we also have an interview with her that I
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Speaker 1: will be sharing on the Patreon what I love about
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Speaker 1: Lokas Libros. In addition to the adorable logo which is
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Speaker 1: the logo which is so cute for Locals Libros um
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Speaker 1: it's already a highly successful book club and it hasn't
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Speaker 1: even had its first meet. It's like super successful. And
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Speaker 1: if you ask me, yeah, you haven't even had your
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Speaker 1: first meeting and you have like sixty members. Yeah, it's exciting,
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Speaker 1: it's very good. So well thanks getting there. You can
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Speaker 1: at your own pace. You just will lose out on
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Speaker 1: the discussion, but you know, as always go at your
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9:28
Speaker 1: But that also leads us to another announcement that we
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Speaker 1: have about a new podcast that Mama is that Mama
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Speaker 1: has created and it is hosting and it's also not
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Speaker 1: only a podcast, but a web series. Because you know
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Speaker 1: that I look at the look at the other productions.
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Speaker 1: We have to do it big, we have to do
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Speaker 1: it all. It can't just be one little thing. It
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Speaker 1: has to be an entire production, and that is what
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Speaker 1: we are seeing with Marijuan at Us. So Mama, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about it. Yes, yes, thank you, UM, it's true.
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Speaker 1: With yes said is true, I mean, this is really
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Speaker 1: exciting because like look at Thought our Productions, this is
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Speaker 1: a multimedia project. So if you head to Spotify or
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Speaker 1: any of the podcast streaming platforms and you plug in Marijuana,
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Speaker 1: a podcast for poth heads, you will find the official
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Speaker 1: is possible. To make sure you subscribe, you also want
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Speaker 1: Thought our Productions YouTube channel. We actually have like a
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Speaker 1: good amount of work up there. We have short films,
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Speaker 1: channel because I will all ob posting marijuana episodes to
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Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. Because it's also like a sketch comedy series.
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Speaker 1: So we have interviews, we have guests, we have musical numbers,
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Speaker 1: we have sketches, we have parodies. It's the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: it's the whole nine, So you can expect some really
11:20
Speaker 1: fun guests. All the guests are stoners, All the guests
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Speaker 1: are pot heads. Not everybody is necessarily smoking on No,
11:27
Speaker 1: all of the guests are smoking on camera. At this point,
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11:52
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Speaker 1: can I also say that Marijuaneda is also a very
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Speaker 1: highly anticipated project without there being an actual pilot episode yet.
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Speaker 1: This is also this is also true. There's no episode yet.
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Speaker 1: We have press, honeys, we have press, we have trailers,
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Speaker 1: we have teasers, we have pressed, but no actual episode yet,
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Speaker 1: a true full length episode. So I love it. Brand
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Speaker 1: highly anticipated, much anticipated. People want it. It's exciting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. It is ru Um. There's been
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Speaker 1: the one who really sounded the alarm on American Dirt
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Speaker 1: you can read all about it there. Thank you. Babies
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Speaker 1: first press. Yes, we love when a baby project gets
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Speaker 1: its first piece of press. It's very exciting. Yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 1: So with that said, um to really reap the benefits
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15:17
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Speaker 1: to get to this place where like all of this
15:23
Speaker 1: is just coming together and the projects are forming, and
15:26
Speaker 1: we have like a slate and it's like a fully
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Speaker 1: our updates for today. I think I think that's enough.
15:50
Speaker 1: I think we've we've shared enough, We've shared a ten
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Speaker 1: and so now without further ato, were really excited to
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Speaker 1: introduce our our guest stuff to day's episode. We have
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Speaker 1: the honor of the pleasure of interviewing, of talking with
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Speaker 1: our friend, our homegirl, Zassi a k A d J. Sizzle.
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Speaker 1: You may know her as one of the co founders
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Speaker 1: of Collective. She also just launched her own business Slash
16:21
Speaker 1: really huge undertaking a project and we're gonna be talking
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Speaker 1: all about her new venture in the restaurant industry today.
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Speaker 1: And so without further ado, we're gonna go on a
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Speaker 1: quick songbreak and then we're gonna bring on Sizzle to
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Speaker 1: talk about all things entrepreneur, hustling, everything m m m
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Speaker 1: it and ship Okay, local motives. We are super excited
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Speaker 1: to introduce to have welcome our next guest onto local radio.
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Speaker 1: She is what I like to say, our resident DJ.
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Speaker 1: I look at radio at all the local lives, You've
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Speaker 1: probably seen her, You've probably been to her events. We
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Speaker 1: have the one and only DJ Sizzle Offense joining us today.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Sizzle, Hey girl, Hi y'all, how are you thank
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Speaker 1: someone for having me? We are huge DJ Sizzle fans
18:04
Speaker 1: over here at look at that our radio. Um. I mean,
18:07
Speaker 1: just like everybody that we end up collaborating and working with,
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Speaker 1: we start out as fan girls. And the same is
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Speaker 1: true with DJ Sizzle and the Kumiaton Collective. And I
18:17
Speaker 1: think that That's how I was introduced to you and
18:20
Speaker 1: your music and your empire really, um, the Gumiatone collective
18:25
Speaker 1: and your whole like range of events and now like
18:30
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial ventures, and you're genuinely really really good mixes that
18:36
Speaker 1: we blast when we skate sometimes. UM, there's just so
18:40
Speaker 1: much to talk about with DJ Sizzle, So we want
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Speaker 1: to thank you so much for taking the time to
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Speaker 1: be on the show. And can we just start with like,
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Speaker 1: let's start with your DJ work. Let's start there. That's
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Speaker 1: how I feel like most of our listeners are probably
18:53
Speaker 1: know you. Yeah of course, UM, hi everyone, my name
18:59
Speaker 1: is DJ Sizzle. UM, it's a pleasure to be here
19:03
Speaker 1: and be able to connect with y'all. Um after a
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Speaker 1: whole as pandemic, you know, like what is life right now?
19:11
Speaker 1: It brings me so much joy just to be able
19:13
Speaker 1: to see your beautiful faces and congratulations on everything that
19:17
Speaker 1: you are doing to UM, it's been a wild ride
19:21
Speaker 1: for I think all of us now and getting to
19:24
Speaker 1: see each other at different points of success in our
19:27
Speaker 1: lives like that is super amazing and I am here
19:32
Speaker 1: for it. Congratulations to lasts um. As you know you
19:36
Speaker 1: have mentioned, UM, I am a dj and I have
19:38
Speaker 1: mentioned too, right, I have a dj um and I
19:42
Speaker 1: am the co founder of Cumiaton, which is a nationwide
19:46
Speaker 1: cultural movement which focuses on centering women um, immigrant queer
19:53
Speaker 1: ali al b t q uh plus folks um not
19:58
Speaker 1: only on the dance floor but behind every and any
20:03
Speaker 1: aspect of our production process. Amazing. Thank you so much
20:08
Speaker 1: for that little background on collective. And you are speaking
20:13
Speaker 1: of being like a national movement, a nationwide movement. You
20:18
Speaker 1: were just in New York. You had a pride of
20:21
Speaker 1: event with another queer collective called Adibato. Correct, So tell
20:26
Speaker 1: me a little bit about that collaboration. And just like
20:30
Speaker 1: traveling again, working again, husting again, now that everything has
20:34
Speaker 1: opened up, you know, still in a pandemic, but things
20:37
Speaker 1: we are moving forward, right, So tell me a little
20:40
Speaker 1: bit about that. Yeah, so um, shout out to our
20:45
Speaker 1: East Coast, from shout out to our n wife, from
20:48
Speaker 1: Queen's Corona of Brooklyn, all of the boroughs out in
20:53
Speaker 1: New York. Super you know so much love. I'm a
20:56
Speaker 1: super fan of New York. And if it wasn't for
20:59
Speaker 1: y'all's brutal winters, I think I would definitely want to
21:02
Speaker 1: live out there for a time. But yeah, she's she's
21:06
Speaker 1: like cool saying that she's she's from the you know,
21:09
Speaker 1: tropical coast of Also, you know, we can't do cold
21:12
Speaker 1: like that. UM. But it was beautiful and it was
21:15
Speaker 1: actually really amazing to be able to build with another
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Speaker 1: UM you know, queer dance party UM led by undocumented folks,
21:24
Speaker 1: which you know has always been so important for us
21:27
Speaker 1: as undocumented artists DJs. UM. It's super important to continue
21:32
Speaker 1: to build community UM, not only on you know, on
21:37
Speaker 1: the streets and the protests and political spaces, but also
21:41
Speaker 1: in the nightlife. UM. And it has been such a
21:46
Speaker 1: beautiful welcoming UM to be able to build with folks
21:50
Speaker 1: in the East Coast UM and and create that camaraderie
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Speaker 1: if you will, of you know, close to coast love. UM.
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Speaker 1: There's just so much richness, culture, ambientive virus in York
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Speaker 1: that you know, it has absolutely captured my heart and
22:11
Speaker 1: my entire soul, you know, UM, with their food, with
22:14
Speaker 1: their music, with their just way of life. So UM,
22:18
Speaker 1: once again shout out to the Arabato Collective and everybody
22:21
Speaker 1: else who has been part of the collective and of
22:25
Speaker 1: the movement as a whole. I think that I love
22:27
Speaker 1: so much about Kumbaton is the fact that she would
22:30
Speaker 1: bring DJs from out of state to play parties here
22:34
Speaker 1: in l A, many of them being after Latin X
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Speaker 1: DJs from New York. Like I want to say, DJ
22:41
Speaker 1: bon Bona right is one of the DJs that is
22:44
Speaker 1: like a friend of Gumbaton and has come and played
22:47
Speaker 1: in in a multiple of your parties. Um, And that's
22:51
Speaker 1: how I was introduced to her in her music. And
22:55
Speaker 1: I missed that a lot. I miss going to parties
22:58
Speaker 1: of course seeing DJ Carmello play, seeing DJ Sizzle play,
23:03
Speaker 1: maybe seeing DJ Zuri play, but then all the out
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Speaker 1: of state and like traveling talent, and then you also
23:09
Speaker 1: would like at your parties, like we went to the
23:12
Speaker 1: Globe to the Gumaton anniversary and you just brought out
23:16
Speaker 1: tons and tons and done some different musicians and acts
23:20
Speaker 1: and bund us and it was amazing. Um, what is
23:23
Speaker 1: kumiat Throne coming back? And what was it like not
23:27
Speaker 1: doing in person the way it was like? What was
23:32
Speaker 1: that like for you? Yeah? It was really hard, you
23:36
Speaker 1: know because it was a space that we had fostered
23:40
Speaker 1: for three years prior to the pandemic. We um had
23:44
Speaker 1: our three year anniversary during a pandemic. So, um, it
23:49
Speaker 1: was a little bit um of of a challenge. It
23:53
Speaker 1: was pretty sad, you know, not to be able to buy,
23:55
Speaker 1: not to be able to see people, not to be
23:57
Speaker 1: able to like hug people. As a DJ, I feed
24:01
Speaker 1: off of the energy that the crowd provides, um, and
24:05
Speaker 1: kind of messing with that, I guess, um in terms
24:09
Speaker 1: of for example, you know, it's just not the same
24:13
Speaker 1: in a computer screen on a telephone. You know, it's
24:16
Speaker 1: just not the same. But people manage to continue to
24:22
Speaker 1: show up and show out. And I was so surprised
24:26
Speaker 1: by that. Pleasantly surprised, I might add, because I didn't
24:30
Speaker 1: know whether the music or our vibes were going to
24:33
Speaker 1: be able to translate well virtually. Um. But I am
24:36
Speaker 1: so incredibly glad grateful that it did, because it not
24:41
Speaker 1: only helped me mentally, emotionally, spiritually, but I think it
24:45
Speaker 1: helped out a lot of people. Um that we're going
24:48
Speaker 1: through things in the pandemic, right, and I think that's
24:50
Speaker 1: what our community is all about. Um, we have each
24:54
Speaker 1: other's backs when nobody will have our backs, right, because
24:57
Speaker 1: we know that nobody's going to have our back, Like
24:59
Speaker 1: communities that to have our back, and it was really
25:01
Speaker 1: beautiful to foster this new virtual space and continue to
25:05
Speaker 1: connect and continue to grow even in a pandemic. So UM,
25:10
Speaker 1: while it was hard, I think it definitely UM affirmed
25:17
Speaker 1: UM our community are family ties, and you know, we're
25:22
Speaker 1: super excited to be able to come back in the
25:24
Speaker 1: summer of UM we might do UM. So this is
25:30
Speaker 1: an exclusive right here. UM. We are doing a event
25:36
Speaker 1: in which we are going to be premiering a video
25:39
Speaker 1: that we did with Casey E t Um and you
25:43
Speaker 1: can check that out via on et s platform as
25:48
Speaker 1: well as on our cumae platform. But we're gonna be
25:51
Speaker 1: premiering that UM July not excuse me, June UM at
25:58
Speaker 1: a very special location that we are going to talk
26:00
Speaker 1: about in you know the coming the coming minute. So
26:05
Speaker 1: July July eighth, this when it's coming out. Yes, how exciting. Congratulations.
26:12
Speaker 1: So for those who maybe are not aware, you can
26:15
Speaker 1: now become aware. Sizzle and the collective have done some
26:19
Speaker 1: really amazing like projects and collaborations, and you've also been
26:22
Speaker 1: featured like in like different like documentaries and press and
26:27
Speaker 1: there's people have written about you like they're a big deal.
26:31
Speaker 1: So I highly recommend to go do your research, do
26:35
Speaker 1: your reading, do your viewing, um, because not only are
26:37
Speaker 1: you guys, you're so much more than than like a party.
26:44
Speaker 1: You know, it's like connected to so much more than
26:47
Speaker 1: just just a party, right, And I think that all
26:51
Speaker 1: of that comes out really beautifully UM in these sorts
26:54
Speaker 1: of interviews. So I'm excited. I will be tuning in
26:57
Speaker 1: as a fan girl to the case Et project, So
27:00
Speaker 1: thank you for dropping that exclusive. Here, I want to
27:04
Speaker 1: talk about your mom, Um DJ Coco Loco and all
27:07
Speaker 1: the IG lives that you two did together, because you
27:10
Speaker 1: were consistent with the I G lives over the course
27:14
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, super cute, with themes and backdrops and
27:19
Speaker 1: choreography and crops and like the whole thing. I would
27:25
Speaker 1: send them to the aside, like do you see this?
27:27
Speaker 1: This is so fucking cute. Can you tell us a
27:29
Speaker 1: little bit about what that was like doing the lives
27:32
Speaker 1: with your mom? Yeah, DJ Coco, hype woman and most
27:39
Speaker 1: importantly Mom to myself, Loco Loco is just the powerhouse
27:45
Speaker 1: of you know, badass three um as she calls herself.
27:50
Speaker 1: She's like, you are so influenced. I'm like gol who
27:52
Speaker 1: told you look at you know, she's not wrong. She's
27:57
Speaker 1: not wrong. She and I and though um we do
28:01
Speaker 1: call her copa loco, a k lego ma um because
28:09
Speaker 1: you know, whenever I would play right like when we
28:13
Speaker 1: started doing the virtual um Life DJ sets, I mean,
28:17
Speaker 1: you know, she lives with me, so anytime that I
28:21
Speaker 1: would play, and my the type of music that I
28:24
Speaker 1: play is mostly Latin x UM rooted obviously in Afro
28:28
Speaker 1: Latin X music, whether it was Fumbia, whether it would
28:33
Speaker 1: on side, literally all in any music is rooted in
28:38
Speaker 1: um Afro Afro Latinia or just black folks period. You know.
28:43
Speaker 1: Um she would come by and she would um, you know,
28:47
Speaker 1: just dance and have a blast. And you know she
28:52
Speaker 1: wasn't on camera yet, but she would be dancing around
28:54
Speaker 1: the living room or you know, dancing while she cooked.
28:56
Speaker 1: And one of those moments I was like, place do
28:59
Speaker 1: you want to come? And that's why are you hiding?
29:01
Speaker 1: Come over here? And that was it. A star was
29:04
Speaker 1: born right after that. You know, she loved the camera
29:07
Speaker 1: and the camera loved her. I love that. I love
29:12
Speaker 1: that because we know a thing or two about like
29:14
Speaker 1: supportive moms. Our mom's living with us, us living with
29:18
Speaker 1: our moms and then them being very much around like
29:21
Speaker 1: the creative process, um, like even right now when we
29:25
Speaker 1: were recording, like my mom is walking by the dogs
29:28
Speaker 1: are like you know, and like being able to be
29:30
Speaker 1: creative in your home with family can get difficult, but
29:33
Speaker 1: it also brings like these really beautiful moments where they
29:36
Speaker 1: get to be involved in the process. So I love
29:39
Speaker 1: that you shared that because she has definitely been present
29:43
Speaker 1: and very visible at like lots of Yeah. Absolutely, I
29:49
Speaker 1: feel that, you know, this quarantine just kind of solidified
29:52
Speaker 1: her title as you know, go Go Hype woman. What
29:56
Speaker 1: we call her is the mother of ceremonies, you know, yes,
30:01
Speaker 1: always been their supporting Yeah, I love that, And you know,
30:07
Speaker 1: one of the going back to like when we met
30:12
Speaker 1: and then just collaborating over the years, like we have
30:16
Speaker 1: definitely talked about like being women, curating nightlife spaces, um,
30:24
Speaker 1: working with venues, working with the men that manage these venues,
30:29
Speaker 1: and we have like long had a long time dream,
30:34
Speaker 1: right or goal of one day owning our own venue
30:37
Speaker 1: or being able to collaboratively have a space that we
30:41
Speaker 1: can all use and be comfy using. And I have
30:44
Speaker 1: to deal with us back and forth and like lies
30:47
Speaker 1: also or being like cheated of money, like all those
30:50
Speaker 1: different things that could happen when you are in nightlife.
30:54
Speaker 1: And so I heard on the street and but on
30:58
Speaker 1: the street, I mean Cecil told us that, um, you
31:02
Speaker 1: may or may not be working towards the venue. And
31:05
Speaker 1: maybe by the time this episode is out, you know,
31:09
Speaker 1: more people will know. So let's let's go back and
31:11
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Yes, UM, word on the street
31:15
Speaker 1: is correct. Um. Coming this summer July, I'm gonna be
31:22
Speaker 1: opening a lifelong dream of mine and my mom's, which
31:27
Speaker 1: is to have a little restaurant UM with a little
31:31
Speaker 1: more included UM, where we are going to be able
31:34
Speaker 1: to sell my mom's delicious food, you know, host events, UM,
31:38
Speaker 1: and literally have access to the spaces that many times
31:44
Speaker 1: we were denied of deprived of, right Um. And it's
31:48
Speaker 1: been such a wild ride, but we are here and
31:53
Speaker 1: you know, like it's surreal even to like speak it now,
31:56
Speaker 1: because it was many times where I just felt like
31:59
Speaker 1: there was are gonna happen, you know. UM. So just
32:03
Speaker 1: to give you a little bit of a background, UM,
32:06
Speaker 1: we have been looking for a space for well Over,
32:10
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe like four or five years. UM.
32:14
Speaker 1: We are undocumented immigrants the Mexico. UM never been shy
32:21
Speaker 1: about our status on on in the contrary, like, um,
32:26
Speaker 1: you know, I've always been vocal about it because you know,
32:30
Speaker 1: being undocumented doesn't really define who you are other than
32:35
Speaker 1: a badass period um. But you know, it's never been
32:40
Speaker 1: something that I have, um, really hid from people, you know,
32:46
Speaker 1: um and as many of us know, right like, we
32:52
Speaker 1: come from immigrant parents as well, who left behind a
32:56
Speaker 1: lot of their own personal dreams to give us a
32:58
Speaker 1: better life. And that's exactly what my mom co Loco
33:02
Speaker 1: did for me, you know. Um. We arrived here when
33:06
Speaker 1: I was four years old. UM. And she has been
33:09
Speaker 1: working as a housekeeper as a street vendor um for
33:14
Speaker 1: well over twenty years until the pandemic happened. UM. And
33:18
Speaker 1: that's when she was, you know, um forced to stop working. Um.
33:22
Speaker 1: She no longer had her job as a housekeeper as
33:24
Speaker 1: a swap meet ender. UM, so she had to stop,
33:29
Speaker 1: you know, doing all of that for her safety, which
33:32
Speaker 1: was fine. I was thankfully able to like continue to
33:35
Speaker 1: do my work. Shout out you know, social media, shout
33:38
Speaker 1: out the different platforms that allowed me to still you know,
33:42
Speaker 1: be able to provide for my family. And myself. Um,
33:47
Speaker 1: and you know again, this was a dream of my
33:50
Speaker 1: mom's to be able to own her own restaurant, as
33:53
Speaker 1: she was a restaurant here back in Mexico. But for
33:57
Speaker 1: different reasons, you know, that didn't work out. Um, but
34:03
Speaker 1: her dream has always been, you know, to own a
34:05
Speaker 1: little restaurant. So I busted my butt. If y'all knew
34:09
Speaker 1: me before the pandemic, I was gigging to three gigs
34:13
Speaker 1: and one day and one night, I would, you know,
34:17
Speaker 1: wake up in l A, take a flight to um
34:20
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and then go to Seattle the next day,
34:24
Speaker 1: come back to l A the following day to be
34:26
Speaker 1: able to do another gig. It wasn't necessarily because it's like,
34:30
Speaker 1: oh my god, Sizzle just like loves to hustle, Sizzle
34:33
Speaker 1: just loves to which I mean, yes, it's true, right,
34:37
Speaker 1: I love the music. I loved um my career as
34:40
Speaker 1: a DJ. But it was because I was hustling to
34:42
Speaker 1: save up for this dream and a little by little,
34:45
Speaker 1: you know, all those gigs that I took, even the
34:48
Speaker 1: little ones, I was like, I'm gonna put away money.
34:50
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put away money and play Boom. Dina's too
34:53
Speaker 1: with the signors to be able to actually have some
34:56
Speaker 1: sort of you know, accountability and just be like, UM,
35:00
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not touching that money, and it's a
35:02
Speaker 1: pool of money, you know, so shout out to the
35:04
Speaker 1: things in the hoods that are handling the fundinas and
35:07
Speaker 1: that helped me saved UM and I was just I
35:10
Speaker 1: was able to save up enough money to UM, you know,
35:13
Speaker 1: put forward to get this UM little dream for my
35:17
Speaker 1: mom and I and UM. We literally got the keys
35:21
Speaker 1: UM March the first week of March. The following week,
35:29
Speaker 1: the pandemic hit and we were like, okay, UM, what
35:32
Speaker 1: does this mean. A few days after everything was shut
35:35
Speaker 1: down and you know, as we all know, things were delayed.
35:39
Speaker 1: You know, UM city or government agencies were closed, so
35:44
Speaker 1: there was no way we can continue to move this UM,
35:48
Speaker 1: this little dream of ours forward. It was stalled for
35:51
Speaker 1: a very long time until very recently. You know. It
35:54
Speaker 1: took us a here and some change to finally move
35:58
Speaker 1: the city, to plead with the city and get um,
36:00
Speaker 1: you know, the permits that we needed to get the
36:02
Speaker 1: inspections done. It's been a whole last roller coaster, but
36:06
Speaker 1: we are here and we are ready to open UM.
36:11
Speaker 1: The doors. So, yes, long story to tell you. Yes,
36:16
Speaker 1: we are here. Congratulations Sizzle, Like nobody deserves this more
36:22
Speaker 1: than you, you know, Like it's true, the hustle from
36:26
Speaker 1: Sizzle is like so real pre pandemic and still you know,
36:30
Speaker 1: I don't think that the hustle has really stopped for you.
36:32
Speaker 1: It never really stopped. Um. So I'm just so proud
36:36
Speaker 1: of you, and I'm excited because I know that it's
36:39
Speaker 1: going to be bombed all the way around, just like
36:41
Speaker 1: everything else that you do. So how can people support?
36:45
Speaker 1: Where is the restaurant? How can they how can they
36:48
Speaker 1: go partake and support and check it out? Yeah? So
36:52
Speaker 1: the restaurant is located in Huntington Park, which is a
36:56
Speaker 1: hoppy to skip away from Boil Heights, which is thenighborhood
37:00
Speaker 1: that I was raised in. Um. It is in South
37:04
Speaker 1: um E s ly Um. And it is located on
37:08
Speaker 1: seven one to seven Pacific Boulevard, Huntington Park, California, nine
37:14
Speaker 1: zero two. Look at that I memorized the address already.
37:18
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So, Sizzle, what is the name of your
37:22
Speaker 1: restaurant and how can people go support? Yes? So the
37:26
Speaker 1: name of the restaurant is called sasson Um and Our
37:31
Speaker 1: tagline is where the food, the drinks, and the vibe
37:36
Speaker 1: are always on points No sasson is you know el
37:42
Speaker 1: punto either the laponda the lambie. So it's a play
37:48
Speaker 1: on all those things that we hope to continue to
37:52
Speaker 1: foster and create. Right, everything will just me on point there.
37:56
Speaker 1: I love that. That's so beautiful And on Pacific, my
38:00
Speaker 1: I add, that is iconic if you're from the area,
38:04
Speaker 1: you know Pacific. Even if you're not, you may have
38:06
Speaker 1: heard of Pacific in HP and Huntington Park and iconic
38:12
Speaker 1: street of like vendors, immigrant folks hustle there. You go
38:16
Speaker 1: buy anything and everything there. So that's so amazing that
38:20
Speaker 1: that's where the restaurant's going to be and we cannot
38:22
Speaker 1: wait to support you know now, you know, like on
38:26
Speaker 1: any given day you'll probably find us there. I mean
38:28
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. We're gonna be there all the time.
38:31
Speaker 1: We were just telling this Aliil, you know, we're going
38:33
Speaker 1: to be there all the time. I'm ready. I got
38:36
Speaker 1: the proseco on Locke for y'all. Love you, you know,
38:43
Speaker 1: you know, you know, Okay, wait, so can I be
38:46
Speaker 1: messy and bring like all my dates there? Like will
38:53
Speaker 1: be like mala blink twice. If you're in trouble, girl,
38:56
Speaker 1: like one of us will come to get you. You know.
39:00
Speaker 1: Have you sew that? Have you seen that meme where
39:02
Speaker 1: it's like it's something like this woman like takes her
39:05
Speaker 1: her dates to like the same place and she like
39:08
Speaker 1: tells him like, oh, I never bring anyone here, like
39:11
Speaker 1: that's gonna be you like, oh that is never brought in.
39:15
Speaker 1: But actually wink And we all know we have those
39:21
Speaker 1: spots because Lord knows it my dating times, you know,
39:25
Speaker 1: I would go to, you know, a little spot out
39:28
Speaker 1: here in downtown l A. And the waiters already knew,
39:30
Speaker 1: like they would give me the look, so we're gonna
39:33
Speaker 1: be tight like that. Yeah, that's how it. Okay, maybe
39:36
Speaker 1: I'm not as messy, but I would not do that.
39:38
Speaker 1: I would go to different places all the time. I
39:40
Speaker 1: do not need to be caught up by anybody, Okay.
39:43
Speaker 1: Oh no. There was definitely a time where I would
39:47
Speaker 1: take all my dates downtown, somewhere downtown, and then we
39:50
Speaker 1: would end up at Lasita. And it was at Lasita
39:52
Speaker 1: where the bouncers were like raising eyebrows at me because
39:56
Speaker 1: there was a little you know, there was a windmill
39:59
Speaker 1: and there was a wind meal of dates there, you
40:03
Speaker 1: know what, before Last bed Last was canceled. That was
40:06
Speaker 1: my messy spot. I we all have one where I
40:11
Speaker 1: would end up and I would take the dates. You're right,
40:13
Speaker 1: You're right, Okay, I think I saw you at Lass
40:17
Speaker 1: like once or twice. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Probably, I
40:25
Speaker 1: love it. Oh my god, I'm so excited. I've been
40:27
Speaker 1: not probably, I have been caught up there though. So
40:32
Speaker 1: is this a story time? No, no story time, I'm not.
40:35
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you myself. I think there was a
40:37
Speaker 1: little bit of a delay. But I have gone to
40:41
Speaker 1: the last bed last, pre pre cancelation um, pre pandemic
40:45
Speaker 1: where pre partner um, where I would run into people
40:50
Speaker 1: with like when I was with someone and then I
40:52
Speaker 1: run into somebody else and I was with somebody else,
40:54
Speaker 1: and then it was like you know how that goes,
40:57
Speaker 1: you know what happens. And also, here's the thing is
41:00
Speaker 1: is then you take your dates too. If you take
41:02
Speaker 1: your dates to too many different places. Now they know
41:05
Speaker 1: about all these places, and if you kind of isolate
41:08
Speaker 1: it to one spot, you know what I mean, It's
41:11
Speaker 1: like you can decide to just not go back to
41:13
Speaker 1: that spot. Well, maybe I shouldn't take them to your restaurant, Sizzle. No,
41:16
Speaker 1: it's a safe space I need. I need the emotional
41:20
Speaker 1: support your girl. Thank you, hi ji ji any who Sizzle.
41:29
Speaker 1: I want to know to like where can people go
41:32
Speaker 1: to a listen to your music? To follow you um,
41:36
Speaker 1: to follow gumiaton and can we look forward to any
41:39
Speaker 1: Gumaton parties in the near future? Yes, of course. Um.
41:45
Speaker 1: You can find me on social media UM Instagram at
41:49
Speaker 1: Sizzle zeros Real seven, SoundCloud at um DJ Sizzle Undersports,
41:54
Speaker 1: zeros Real seven, on Twitch. I promised to come back
41:58
Speaker 1: to the live streaming on Twitch and on i G
42:01
Speaker 1: Live and on Twitch I am at DJ sizzles zero
42:04
Speaker 1: zero seven. We are planning our comeback, Askumaton, um, but
42:10
Speaker 1: we are proceeding with caution just because it's still freshly
42:14
Speaker 1: off of pandemic right um and it is. You know,
42:19
Speaker 1: our events on average are anywhere from like five plus
42:24
Speaker 1: folks now, so we want to make sure we're proceeding
42:27
Speaker 1: with caution. And we're trying to look either for the
42:30
Speaker 1: perfect outdoor venue or um, you know, just give it
42:34
Speaker 1: some time until we see how indoor stuff is going
42:37
Speaker 1: to play out. So we're being careful. But you can
42:40
Speaker 1: follow at k Instagram, at Kuma Underscore, l a um,
42:46
Speaker 1: or check out our website for more info. W Oh
42:49
Speaker 1: my god, I was gonna say www dot Oh my god,
42:53
Speaker 1: I totally dated myself, but I don't know. You can
42:57
Speaker 1: check out our website dot org. I like the w
43:04
Speaker 1: w W let's bring that back. Let's keep it lady.
43:08
Speaker 1: When I do that W, I'm like, who the hell
43:11
Speaker 1: even does that anymore? I'm like, legit embursed. It's vintage.
43:17
Speaker 1: It's vintage. Everything from the two thousands is back anyways,
43:20
Speaker 1: So why not the way we talk? Oh my goodness.
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