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Capítlo 079: Quarantine Confidential, Part 1 · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: Radio radio Radio Commies of Myth and Bullshit Radio phonic
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Speaker 1: novella Look Radio hosted by Malamn. Welcome to season four
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Speaker 1: of Local Radio or rosas wanted for Crimes against the Patriarchy.
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Speaker 1: We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you Quarantine Confidential,
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Speaker 1: a special pandemic cast about our experiences with quarantine and
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. I'm Fiosa and I'm Mala. Our intention behind
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Speaker 1: this mini series is to archive our experiences and our
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Speaker 1: communities experiences during this global coronavirus pandemic. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: joining us on this journey. Um, it's already a wild journey.
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Speaker 1: It's day. I don't even know what in quarantine and
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Speaker 1: self isolation. Um. This is our first piece of audio
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Speaker 1: that we're going to be putting out since really this
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Speaker 1: whole thing blew up. Yeah, episode that we put out,
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Speaker 1: I don't think we had any idea that we would
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Speaker 1: be in. No, it's it's been a very interesting time,
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Speaker 1: to say the least, like so many things have changed
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Speaker 1: and like so many things have gone. On our last episode,
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Speaker 1: we chatted with yes and Ferrada about her campaign running
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Speaker 1: for council District three of Whittier, and so we were
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Speaker 1: in a very different mindset. I was preparing for my
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Speaker 1: trip to Bidu, Like it was a very very different time.
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Speaker 1: And um, well you know, life come back you fast,
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Speaker 1: right and not even like life has to be put
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Speaker 1: on pause because we're still living and we're still doing things.
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Speaker 1: But like your plans are definitely being postponed. You have
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Speaker 1: to like very very much rewire your your own programming
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Speaker 1: right now, right because you're it's really not business as usual,
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Speaker 1: and there's no way for it to be business as
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Speaker 1: usual in everything every like meaning of that phrase, right
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Speaker 1: Like work is different, your social life is different, your
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Speaker 1: family life may be different. It's yeah, we're in very
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Speaker 1: interesting times right now. It's really wild. I mean, so
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Speaker 1: I don't even know where to begin. There's so much
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Speaker 1: to talk about. I mean, we can you mentioned Peru right, like,
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Speaker 1: let's there, Okay, Okay. So I left Forbidu on February nine,
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Speaker 1: so it's been almost a month now, and um, the
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Speaker 1: day before I left, there was the very first reported
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Speaker 1: case of coronavirus in Mexico, and I had a layover
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Speaker 1: in Mexico. So immediately my mother texts me and it's
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Speaker 1: like cancel your trip. Postponing you have to go at
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Speaker 1: a later time, you cannot go. And I was very
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Speaker 1: much like really like following the hype of like at
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Speaker 1: the time, we were still talking about it, like the flu.
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Speaker 1: Right at that time period in February, it was very
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Speaker 1: much like the flu is worse, like the flu kills
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Speaker 1: more people. So that's very much where I was basing
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Speaker 1: my my opinions and my facts on about COVID nineteen so.
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Speaker 1: And also at the time, there were no cases in Pidu,
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Speaker 1: so I felt like it's it was appropriate to continue
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Speaker 1: my trip, so I did, and my last few days
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Speaker 1: there was when the very first few cases of the
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Speaker 1: coronavirus started appearing or being confirmed in Pidu. So definitely
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Speaker 1: feeling the energy shift while I was there, not only
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Speaker 1: for myself, but I wasn't here for the initial like
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Speaker 1: hoarding and panic buying, you know. So my Frima would
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Speaker 1: call me and was like, there's no water here, there's
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Speaker 1: no this, there's no that, and I didn't really believe her.
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Speaker 1: And like I would talk to my mom and she
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Speaker 1: was like, no, there's stuff here, Like I just went
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Speaker 1: to the grocery store today. Things are fine, right, So
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Speaker 1: I didn't really know what to believe. And then my
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Speaker 1: last couple of days they're like the last two days
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Speaker 1: I saw. I started to see people panic buying there
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Speaker 1: as well, and then I was like, oh shit, what
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Speaker 1: the funk is happening? And then I was like anxious
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Speaker 1: to get back home because I was like, what if
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Speaker 1: I had already thought like what if I get stuck
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Speaker 1: like somewhere. I was leaving on a Thursday, and then
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Speaker 1: I had a layover in Mexico, so I was like,
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Speaker 1: what if somewhere along the way, like I get stuck.
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Speaker 1: And then I come back on a Friday, and I
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Speaker 1: come back, I go around midnight, and it was really
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Speaker 1: interesting to see how international arrivals were being handled at
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Speaker 1: l a X. So right, I saw absolutely no signage,
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Speaker 1: like no lines anywhere for if you're sick, if you're
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Speaker 1: feeling these symptoms, contact you know whatever number, if you're sick,
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Speaker 1: head over to this website. I saw nothing like that.
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Speaker 1: And in Mexico and Biddu, where I was at both
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Speaker 1: of those airports, there were signs everywhere. Sure, And so
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Speaker 1: I get to L A X and there's none, and
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Speaker 1: I go through customs and there's absolutely no questions about
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Speaker 1: like are you feeling ill? Did you come into contact
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Speaker 1: with anyone that was ill? Nothing like that. So it
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Speaker 1: was very confusing to go through that process. And then
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Speaker 1: a couple of days later, bid who actually close their
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Speaker 1: borders so you know, ends and no outs. So I
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Speaker 1: literally like you narrowly escaped, narrowly, truly truly. I left
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Speaker 1: on a Thursday and by Monday the borders were closed,
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Speaker 1: and it's like a really so the president of PROVE
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Speaker 1: has been criticized a lot by foreign travelers and just
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Speaker 1: like I'm assuming embassies because he reported like he made
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Speaker 1: that announcement on a Sunday, like in the evening and
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Speaker 1: was like by midnight, you can't leave. So if you
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Speaker 1: had a flight on Monday, like the Holist day, that's
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Speaker 1: it stuck, you know. So I was and I have
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Speaker 1: kind of thought about that. So like a day or
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Speaker 1: two before, like I kept checking the news and like
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Speaker 1: following like the announcements because I was like, what if
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Speaker 1: literally there's a lockdown and then I can't go home,
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Speaker 1: And sure enough, lockdown people gonna go home. Girl, You
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Speaker 1: got out of there not one minute, like I know.
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Speaker 1: And now it's like there's like four cases four hundred
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Speaker 1: confirmed cases. Folks are literally on lockdown, like quarantine. You
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Speaker 1: there's a curfew like after a p M you cannot
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Speaker 1: go anywhere. There's like military tanks like so that people
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Speaker 1: don't like sit their homes like it's serious. Serious. So yeah, girl,
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Speaker 1: I'm back. Thank Thank god, its thank goddess, thank everything,
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Speaker 1: Thank everyone that's in my experience, like coming back and
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Speaker 1: then entering like the beginning of social distancing and now
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Speaker 1: we're in you know, safer at home here in l A.
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Speaker 1: So like, what has your experience been through all of this? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And it was funny because you know, you were over there,
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Speaker 1: but you had gotten like your international texting plan and everything.
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Speaker 1: So we were still texting and just do you know,
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Speaker 1: giving each other updates back and forth and checking in
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Speaker 1: and you asking us what's going on over here and
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Speaker 1: what's going on over there? And um, like we sent
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Speaker 1: to each other. You sent to me an article about
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Speaker 1: like now the US is charging folks to be like
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Speaker 1: helped out of Peru. Right, Okay, there you go, right
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Speaker 1: right that The United States government is like, yeah, we'll
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Speaker 1: get you out of Peru, but we're gonna charge you
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Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars. Yeah, that's wild, dude. My experience has
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Speaker 1: been um mostly centered around work, right because I work
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Speaker 1: at a school. So schools are these small communities with
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Speaker 1: tons of people in close proximity to each other, and
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Speaker 1: you know, the kids are always touching each other and
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Speaker 1: sharing drinks and food and everything. There's no such thing
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Speaker 1: as social distancing in a school small children. So um,
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Speaker 1: it started at school and they were really getting the
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Speaker 1: faculty prepared and saying, look, we don't really know what
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Speaker 1: to expect. We're just listening to the CDC. We're just
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Speaker 1: listening to you know, the health department locally and basically
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Speaker 1: prepping us to teach online for an extended period of time.
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Speaker 1: That was step one. Hey, like some trips, some field trips,
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Speaker 1: some things might get canceled because we want to stop
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Speaker 1: community spread and it hasn't gotten to us yet, but
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Speaker 1: we want to participate in prevention and we're just following guidelines.
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Speaker 1: So it went from let's start getting ready to teach
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Speaker 1: online to programming across the board getting canceled to literally
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Speaker 1: from one night to the next, they like sent us
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Speaker 1: an emergency text, they emailed us, they called us, and
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Speaker 1: they let us know. Like it was like eight nine
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Speaker 1: pm on a weeknight, and they were like campus is closed,
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Speaker 1: do not come back tomorrow, basically, don't come back ever
9:23
Speaker 1: on standby. Um, and that's what it's been. So we're
9:27
Speaker 1: getting ready to just take and it's the thing is
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Speaker 1: there online schools, but you can't just create an online
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Speaker 1: school overnight. That's not how that works. And so it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting come Monday of next week, which
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Speaker 1: is our first day back, to see how it all works.
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Speaker 1: And UM, I really am very concerned about how this
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Speaker 1: is going to impact education and college and all that
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Speaker 1: stuff across the board moving forward, because I can't all
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Speaker 1: all school no and not expect a ripple effect. So
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Speaker 1: that's I've been at home. I've been at home with
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Speaker 1: papas and with my I'm taking care of one of
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Speaker 1: my grandparents who's here with me, and that's it. We're
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Speaker 1: just staying in and going to the market when we
10:15
Speaker 1: have to and just trying to keep ourselves occupied. Writing
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Speaker 1: it out. Yeah's writing it out, Sam, And so like,
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Speaker 1: have you been have you been following like a schedule
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Speaker 1: for yourself? Like have you created a schedule? You kind
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Speaker 1: of just like I'm just gonna do what I want
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Speaker 1: throughout the day, or like, how has it been like
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Speaker 1: for you, like staying at home not so much as schedule,
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Speaker 1: but specific tasks that I want to accomplish in whatever
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Speaker 1: order they get accomplished. And um, I try and give
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Speaker 1: myself like categories, you know, like sort of per Marie Condo, right,
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Speaker 1: like organizing as a category and paperwork as a category. Um,
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Speaker 1: things I want to donate as a category, things like that.
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Speaker 1: So just kind of like all the things that I
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Speaker 1: don't get to work on, in the little projects that
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Speaker 1: get set set aside because of life, I'm just doing
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Speaker 1: all that. Yeah. How about you, Well, you're still going
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Speaker 1: to work because you work in healthcare. Oh my god. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so talk about that girl. Okay, So the safer at
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Speaker 1: home does not apply to my field, to my field
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Speaker 1: of work, it does not apply because we are in
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Speaker 1: the health care industry where healthcare partners, we provide living
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Speaker 1: assistance for folks with developmental disabilities, and we provide services.
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Speaker 1: So safer at home does not apply to us. So
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Speaker 1: even though I do not give direct care, I still
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Speaker 1: have to be in the office because we're basically doing
11:47
Speaker 1: emergency response operation wise, It's not like, as we said, earlier,
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Speaker 1: like it's not business as usual. So usually are clients
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Speaker 1: that are in a day program, they go and they
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Speaker 1: go on into the community, they go work, and they
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Speaker 1: have these different tasks depending on there are different abilities.
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Speaker 1: So that is canceled. So now we have clients home
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Speaker 1: from nine to two nine am to two pm, where
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Speaker 1: they would usually be out in their program, so dealing
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Speaker 1: with perhaps more behaviors because they're used to their routine
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Speaker 1: and they're used to doing something in the community and
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Speaker 1: now they have to be home. So there's all these
12:26
Speaker 1: different things that are at play right now, like industry wise,
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Speaker 1: and it's very much day to day. So last week
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Speaker 1: I was able to work from home two days out
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Speaker 1: of the week. This week I've been in the office
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Speaker 1: and then like tomorrow I get to I get to
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Speaker 1: work from home. So it's just kind of it's very
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Speaker 1: touch and go. One of our caregivers was actually pulled
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Speaker 1: over by the police and they were like, where are
12:51
Speaker 1: you going, Like happy home. Yeah, So they're really pulling
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Speaker 1: people over and telling them to go. I had no idea.
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Speaker 1: I know that because obviously, like our governor in California,
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Speaker 1: Governor Newsom, was like, oh, you can still be out
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Speaker 1: and like Mary Garcetti said the same thing, like to
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Speaker 1: the grocery store, you can go sking like those things, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, like this person got pulled over. So now
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Speaker 1: like my work provided us little cards that were supposed
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Speaker 1: to keep in our wallet, that says like we're at home,
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Speaker 1: like I'm exempt from safer at home. Yeah, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: have not heard one of those stories. And I had
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Speaker 1: no idea that they were pulling folks over. Yeah, girl,
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Speaker 1: So because Garcetti did get up on TV and say
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Speaker 1: this doesn't mean, yeah, you can't go for a walk
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Speaker 1: or you can't maybe found much less restrictive than I
13:52
Speaker 1: guess actually is I mean? And also, you know where
13:55
Speaker 1: we provide services are like the smaller so we will
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Speaker 1: we provide services all over La County, but specifically, like
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Speaker 1: there are some cities that we work in that have
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Speaker 1: their own governments, so like city and Santa Fe Springs,
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Speaker 1: City of Whittier, City, Manebello. So I don't know if
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Speaker 1: they have their own rules, but typically even like the
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Speaker 1: smaller city governments follow like what l A the l
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Speaker 1: A City mayor says, Oh, I don't really know what
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Speaker 1: that's about. But yeah, so I'm you know, I've been
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Speaker 1: on the lookout, you know for cops. Like if I'm
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Speaker 1: driving to work and like, funk, am I gonna be
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Speaker 1: about to get pulled over for whatever reason because I'm
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Speaker 1: supposed to be at home, but I don't know those
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Speaker 1: little cards are supposed to protect us. Supposedly, it's just
14:42
Speaker 1: my tiniest little car. Like, um, excusing officer, I can
14:46
Speaker 1: drive to my office. Yeah, I'm like, Um, our employers
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Speaker 1: are they? What if? Okay? Because let's let's hypothetically for
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Speaker 1: things like this, Um, it's like then up to the
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Speaker 1: discretion of the individual police officer to decide whether or
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Speaker 1: not baking you have a good reason for being out,
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Speaker 1: and then whatever fucking dude in a uniform decides over
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Speaker 1: exactly exactly jesus, I know, I know, I don't like that.
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Speaker 1: I know it's scary, scary girl. And then like, just
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Speaker 1: like the good thing is that our office is like
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Speaker 1: spacious enough that I'm not in close proximity to people.
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Speaker 1: So when I am there, like I can close my door,
15:33
Speaker 1: and like when people walk in there not walking directly
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Speaker 1: into my space, they're still like there's probably a good
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Speaker 1: ten feet um, but nonetheless, like the energy around is
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Speaker 1: like murky, it's funky. People don't want to be there,
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Speaker 1: like people like we have to continue working for the
15:50
Speaker 1: sake of our clients and our individuals, but people don't
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Speaker 1: want to be out like they want to be home safe.
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Speaker 1: You know. I say that you can be in your
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Speaker 1: own home, so that that girl, it's a miss. So
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Speaker 1: you were saying earlier that you are taking care of
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Speaker 1: one of your grandparents. Yeah, and so how has that been, Slash.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen the like multiple post by different
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Speaker 1: like millennials talking about their boomer parents and how they
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Speaker 1: can't get them to stay home and like typically like
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Speaker 1: Latino Latin X parents, have you had that experience with
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Speaker 1: either your grandparents or your parents? So I think that
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Speaker 1: my grandparents have definitely been dismissive, but they haven't acted
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Speaker 1: on that dismissiveness. So my mom, I think, has been
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Speaker 1: good at sort of just explaining to them what's going
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Speaker 1: on and why it's really important for them to stay inside.
16:46
Speaker 1: And what's been difficult for us to explain to them,
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Speaker 1: um my grandparents is why we can't be around them,
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Speaker 1: or why we have to be at a safe distance
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Speaker 1: from them, or why, um, you know, we wouldn't all
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Speaker 1: be in the same house. I think what my mom
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Speaker 1: really wanted for and what my mom really wanted for us,
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Speaker 1: was for all of us to be in the same
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Speaker 1: house and all hold up together under the same roof
17:11
Speaker 1: the mother's dream. The mother's dream like we're in quarantine
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Speaker 1: and you have to stay in the house and definitely
17:19
Speaker 1: with me not allowed to leave pert her dreams. So
17:26
Speaker 1: but of course, like what we've been learning is the
17:29
Speaker 1: familial spread is a big thing, and if we have
17:33
Speaker 1: the option to not all be in one house at
17:36
Speaker 1: the same time, that's the healthier option for us. I
17:39
Speaker 1: think based on what I'm reading, and I think part
17:42
Speaker 1: of why we wanted to do this quarantine confidential special
17:46
Speaker 1: like pandemic cast is to talk about like all the
17:49
Speaker 1: things we're learning as this goes. Because something I've noticed
17:54
Speaker 1: is all of this language, all this vocabulary has been
17:58
Speaker 1: introduced to lie are just very general way of talking now.
18:02
Speaker 1: But I've seen like articles and graphs and explanations and
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Speaker 1: Twitter threads and all these different things describing and defining
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Speaker 1: quarantine versus self isolation, versus social distancing versus physical distancing.
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Speaker 1: And I felt, I feel like from one night to
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Speaker 1: the next there was like an expectation that we all
18:22
Speaker 1: knew what all this stuff was. But it's like a
18:25
Speaker 1: whole new like set of terminology that we were not
18:28
Speaker 1: using at all before. Yeah, and there's just, like you said,
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Speaker 1: like an expectation that we're all supposed to be in
18:36
Speaker 1: the know about this terminology. And it's still evolving. Like
18:42
Speaker 1: last week it was social distancing, this week it's physical distancing,
18:46
Speaker 1: because we're not encouraging folks to like isolate, you know,
18:50
Speaker 1: like socially, Like we still want folks to call each
18:52
Speaker 1: other and FaceTime into all of that, but we are
18:55
Speaker 1: we are expecting folks to maintain a physical distance. So
18:58
Speaker 1: now we're exactly so now we're using this terminology. So
19:03
Speaker 1: it's going to keep changing, most likely in the next
19:05
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Yep Um, and the expectations and what
19:10
Speaker 1: they tell us to do and what not to do,
19:12
Speaker 1: like it's very rapid and it's hard to keep up with.
19:16
Speaker 1: And I don't know, it's wild. I've been learning a
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Speaker 1: lot um about like the way that the health care
19:25
Speaker 1: industry is so privatized to a point that it's like
19:28
Speaker 1: suffocating all of us. The stuff with the masks insanity,
19:34
Speaker 1: the gloves, the mass to protective gear, the lack of it. Right,
19:39
Speaker 1: Like last night, I had sent Tomala this thing that
19:42
Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter that a private hospital here in
19:46
Speaker 1: so cal tweeted a link for folks to purchase masks
19:50
Speaker 1: so that they could give them to their doctors. And
19:53
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I understand why our healthcare professionals need them.
19:57
Speaker 1: That this is not what I'm fighting. I'm that you're
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Speaker 1: that a corporation, a multimillion dollar corporation, is asking individuals
20:05
Speaker 1: to buy masks for their employees. I cannot wrap my
20:09
Speaker 1: head around that, and how our federal government continues to
20:13
Speaker 1: to not do anything right and it's literally failing millions
20:17
Speaker 1: of people. And obviously I understand who are our president is,
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Speaker 1: so it makes sense. One percent makes sense. But I
20:25
Speaker 1: still cannot wrap my head around these corporations asking individuals
20:29
Speaker 1: please pay for this protective year for my employee. It's
20:34
Speaker 1: mind boggling, It's ridiculous. I don't understand how we continue.
20:41
Speaker 1: I mean, I think this is the last year of
20:46
Speaker 1: like blind American exceptionalism and also ship and that narrative,
20:52
Speaker 1: because how can we sit here and um, you know,
20:55
Speaker 1: I was watching the news this morning and a doctor
20:58
Speaker 1: from I don't know, some state, Becky. She was talking
21:00
Speaker 1: about his hospital and how the Center for Disease Control
21:04
Speaker 1: UM when those doctors at his as this man's hospital, asked,
21:07
Speaker 1: what do we do about the protective year that we
21:10
Speaker 1: don't have, and the CDC formally recommended to them, Oh,
21:13
Speaker 1: you may want to use like handkerchiefs and things instead,
21:17
Speaker 1: And this doctor was, like I was talking about how
21:20
Speaker 1: he was just stunned and without words that this is
21:23
Speaker 1: an official, formal c d C United States federal government recommendation.
21:29
Speaker 1: That is some third world ship girl, honestly, honestly before
21:35
Speaker 1: time in the jungle, right right right, and like even
21:41
Speaker 1: how we have to like we as it, like the
21:43
Speaker 1: United States has to. We're talking about converting like ships
21:48
Speaker 1: into like hot like hospital type like triage centers, Like
21:52
Speaker 1: we're creating triage centers and like the Colosseum, Like don't
21:55
Speaker 1: quote me, I know that it's not the Colosseum, but
21:57
Speaker 1: like that's like the mindset that we're in right now,
21:59
Speaker 1: that we're going to create these like triage centers in
22:01
Speaker 1: public spaces, which I understand there's a shortage of beds,
22:05
Speaker 1: but I'm like, what kind of like first world nation
22:11
Speaker 1: are we? You know, entrico MIAs obviously, Like what kind
22:16
Speaker 1: of ship is that? It's ridiculous. I mean that we
22:21
Speaker 1: don't already have enough of this protective gear and the
22:24
Speaker 1: stuff that is needed to begin with that there, it's
22:28
Speaker 1: out there, but it belongs to private companies and manufacturers.
22:32
Speaker 1: And I'm like, where's the can we just buy it
22:33
Speaker 1: all in bulk? It's sucked up? So here's some other
22:36
Speaker 1: things that like we want to keep an eye on, right, Um, so,
22:39
Speaker 1: how many of our friends and community members rely on
22:45
Speaker 1: parties and Medicago's and pop ups and in person events,
22:50
Speaker 1: you know, us included, Like we are involved in events
22:55
Speaker 1: and all the university gigs, like any basicles peaking gig
23:00
Speaker 1: this spring is now canceled, you know, So that's like
23:05
Speaker 1: a reality for many folks. Yeah, um, you know so
23:10
Speaker 1: just I mean what we refer to as the gig economy,
23:13
Speaker 1: but anything creative, anything involving the public and nightlife and events.
23:18
Speaker 1: And I'm concerned for the state of the arts, art
23:25
Speaker 1: and culture and entertainment. What's gonna be, what's gonna happen
23:28
Speaker 1: where we gonna be? Right, I know, school in the
23:34
Speaker 1: fall I think about universities, Like is campus housing going
23:37
Speaker 1: to be a thing? Yeah, there's so much I mean,
23:42
Speaker 1: And like I saw this really great article about how
23:45
Speaker 1: it was actually positive, Like it sounds like scary and negative,
23:49
Speaker 1: but it's like we will never be the same once
23:52
Speaker 1: this is over and so and it's by political and
23:55
Speaker 1: so they talk about how folks are like predicting like
24:00
Speaker 1: mindsets changing, so like our society moving from a very
24:04
Speaker 1: individualistic society to more communal And also like we're all
24:09
Speaker 1: going to have a little bit of an O. C.
24:12
Speaker 1: D tendency meaning like incessant washing of hands and wiping
24:16
Speaker 1: things down. Like there's gonna be things that we carry
24:18
Speaker 1: with us based off of this experience, like for the
24:23
Speaker 1: rest of our lives. So there's gonna be a shift
24:27
Speaker 1: like culturally and societal wise based on this. So like
24:30
Speaker 1: it it'll be really interesting to see how the movements,
24:33
Speaker 1: how this is reflected in the movement spaces and the
24:36
Speaker 1: party spaces, and like are people gonna be somewhat traumatized?
24:42
Speaker 1: You know, and like especially if they lose someone really
24:44
Speaker 1: close to them or someone that they know, Like how
24:46
Speaker 1: is this going to change us? And so yeah, we're
24:50
Speaker 1: literally living through history right now. You know, as corny
24:54
Speaker 1: as that may sound, but like it's true. It's true,
24:57
Speaker 1: and like twenty years from now, thirty years from now,
25:00
Speaker 1: like the way our administration handles this is like not
25:04
Speaker 1: going to be forgotten either, you know, like we're going
25:06
Speaker 1: to be living through the repercussions of it. It's very true.
25:11
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of it, a lot of
25:13
Speaker 1: the societal changes hopefully will be good ones. I hope, So,
25:17
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope. Um, we'll see what happens. But
25:21
Speaker 1: it's like this is our this is like our plagued
25:26
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. This is our moment, this
25:28
Speaker 1: is our moment, moment. It's true, what happens true, yeah,
25:34
Speaker 1: because there have been like natural disasters that have affected
25:37
Speaker 1: different parts of this of the nation, right Um, but
25:43
Speaker 1: like a pandemic like this of this magnitude affecting everyone globally,
25:49
Speaker 1: like it's been decades. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean certainly
25:56
Speaker 1: one for the books. Um, we'll see how it last.
26:02
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I have. I think it's so it's wild too,
26:08
Speaker 1: because it's almost like we were I don't know, we
26:13
Speaker 1: the royal we as a culture, you know, both praising
26:19
Speaker 1: the way that the internet social media helps us to connect,
26:23
Speaker 1: but also right kind of being sad about how it
26:28
Speaker 1: separates us, right, people being on their phones, people being
26:31
Speaker 1: you know, online all the time. It's like we were
26:35
Speaker 1: in a weird way prepping globally or something like this,
26:41
Speaker 1: because I don't know if there's ever been a time
26:43
Speaker 1: before where we would have been able to maintain like
26:46
Speaker 1: this level of interaction and connectivity during a shut a
26:50
Speaker 1: lockdown like this. Absolutely yeah, okay, And like that made
26:55
Speaker 1: me think about something like personal that happened while I
26:58
Speaker 1: was on my trip, So I would like prior to this,
27:01
Speaker 1: like I plan on having like a full on like
27:04
Speaker 1: debrief on my trip, but like no, you know, it's
27:08
Speaker 1: like it's over a past. But I did want to
27:10
Speaker 1: share that I like connected with my dad's eldest brother.
27:15
Speaker 1: So I like found him, like nobody had his number,
27:18
Speaker 1: and I literally had to go walking like I had
27:21
Speaker 1: to find somewhat of an address like leaven Lak. That's it.
27:27
Speaker 1: That's all, that's all that I knew. And then little
27:30
Speaker 1: little so I literally went up to strangers and was like,
27:35
Speaker 1: do you know the senior? And so I like eventually
27:38
Speaker 1: find him and it's like this whole thing. But I
27:42
Speaker 1: find him and now I'm friends with his son, who's
27:45
Speaker 1: my primo. I'm friends with him on Facebook and so
27:48
Speaker 1: now like so like he called me today and was like,
27:51
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Right? So we were talking. It
27:59
Speaker 1: just like was like without this kind of connection, like
28:03
Speaker 1: social media technological connection, like I wouldn't be able to
28:07
Speaker 1: talk to this pretty moo and like find my father's brother. Right,
28:11
Speaker 1: So like those kinds of moments, it's like this is amazing, right,
28:15
Speaker 1: and you really can have this connection with folks because
28:18
Speaker 1: of this tool that we have, right you know. I
28:23
Speaker 1: mean we wouldn't have been able to like maintain a
28:27
Speaker 1: podcast right if there was a lockdown and it had
28:30
Speaker 1: been we were doing this like in the early two
28:32
Speaker 1: thousands or the nineties, Like we wouldn't have been able
28:35
Speaker 1: to do this to keep recording. Our studio space is
28:39
Speaker 1: shut down, right, um, because if you think about it,
28:44
Speaker 1: it's a confined space and everyone is touching the same
28:46
Speaker 1: equipment and it's Mike's close to the mouth and the
28:49
Speaker 1: whole thing. So we're shifting and we're figuring it out.
28:53
Speaker 1: And we had to figure out our zoom meeting and
28:55
Speaker 1: how to record, and we realized, like we don't really
28:58
Speaker 1: do video content at home. We're not YouTubers, so now
29:02
Speaker 1: we need to figure out like our home like recording
29:05
Speaker 1: what is our home studio? Right? Um, Yeah, it's it's
29:12
Speaker 1: a lot of adapting right now and and just being
29:16
Speaker 1: okay with that and getting comfortable with that. With adapting
29:21
Speaker 1: and nothing but change. The not knowing, yeah, the not
29:24
Speaker 1: knowing and yeah, and there can be a lot of
29:27
Speaker 1: anxiety in that, you know. And I think just acknowledging
29:31
Speaker 1: that helps, Like things are not going to be normal
29:34
Speaker 1: right now, you know. It's it's a new kind of normal.
29:38
Speaker 1: It's a new kind of normal. It's like definitely a
29:40
Speaker 1: pause on unlike on civilization, which I think in many
29:46
Speaker 1: ways can be like refreshing to the planet being right.
29:51
Speaker 1: Like I've seen definitely photos and things circulating about how
29:55
Speaker 1: the air is so much cleaner and the water is
29:57
Speaker 1: so much cleaner. Already just with the past couple of
30:00
Speaker 1: weeks of people being inside and business is being closed
30:03
Speaker 1: and just shipped slowing down, you know. So I don't know. Yeah,
30:09
Speaker 1: and we live in such a fast like especially here
30:12
Speaker 1: in l A. Well, I've heard New Yorkers say that
30:14
Speaker 1: l A is like slow to them, but like for us,
30:16
Speaker 1: like l a like really fast, like we you know
30:22
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's really fast. So like it's definitely
30:24
Speaker 1: a different kind of pace right now, because it has
30:27
Speaker 1: to be, you know it is. I mean, I'm I've
30:32
Speaker 1: been thinking about it right like, and the past a
30:36
Speaker 1: few years we have just been all over the place
30:40
Speaker 1: like go go, go, go go, just bouncing from one
30:43
Speaker 1: thing to the next and multiple like jobs in a
30:48
Speaker 1: day and appointments and interviews and traveling and multiple states
30:53
Speaker 1: in the weekends and all this crazy shit, and like
30:56
Speaker 1: to slow down And is that really normal for us
30:59
Speaker 1: or help for us to be on like that all
31:02
Speaker 1: the time? You know, truly slow it down. Yeah, we've
31:07
Speaker 1: been forced to slow down, like you and I, I
31:10
Speaker 1: mean everybody in general, but I mean like you and
31:12
Speaker 1: I in the way that we were living our lives
31:14
Speaker 1: with like two full time jobs and personal lives, social
31:18
Speaker 1: lives and then traveling thrown into that mix as well. Insane. Yeah,
31:24
Speaker 1: it's a lot. Yeah, And I think like as we
31:28
Speaker 1: progress as like podcasters and producers, we are definitely more
31:34
Speaker 1: um cognizant of like when we can say no and
31:37
Speaker 1: then it's ok to say no and well now we've
31:40
Speaker 1: been forced to say no because we have to. Um.
31:44
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean going back to adapting. Like in
31:47
Speaker 1: a way, it's like the show must go on in
31:49
Speaker 1: the sense of life. We're gonna keep creating content in
31:52
Speaker 1: the in ways that we can. It may not be
31:54
Speaker 1: the same, um, and we may have to put some
31:57
Speaker 1: things on hold until the future and told the Fall
32:00
Speaker 1: and all of that, but um, yeah, we're still going
32:03
Speaker 1: to be bringing content to y'all. And that's like the
32:05
Speaker 1: one of the really great things of the podcast is
32:08
Speaker 1: that you can do remotely. Yeah. Yeah, and um, you know,
32:14
Speaker 1: so speaking of content that we're gonna bring to our audience,
32:18
Speaker 1: to our look on what is um, we shot a
32:22
Speaker 1: short film. Yeah. It is also a sort of proof
32:25
Speaker 1: of concept for this story called um lookith as Anonymous, right.
32:31
Speaker 1: So last year with our crew and our friends and
32:35
Speaker 1: our community, we shot like a ten minute short UM
32:41
Speaker 1: about this post apocalyptic society and the name of this
32:46
Speaker 1: apocalypse that like, um, the story like takes place and
32:50
Speaker 1: is called the Patreopocalypse. And the idea is that in
32:53
Speaker 1: Lookitha's Anonymous, right, Um, the Patreopocalypse, toxic masculinity has caused
32:57
Speaker 1: the downfall society, the collapse of economy and technology and
33:01
Speaker 1: all this crazy ship right which sounds like right now right,
33:04
Speaker 1: So basically what we're living right now. We predicted this
33:08
Speaker 1: um in Loki those Anonymous, so we um put out
33:12
Speaker 1: a trailer for Looks Anonymous on the Instagram. We showed
33:17
Speaker 1: the full short film at our last look I Thought
33:20
Speaker 1: Alive a podcast party back in November at the Paramount.
33:23
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is, because everybody's stick at
33:26
Speaker 1: home and um have you all now have time to
33:29
Speaker 1: consume all the content, We're gonna put out our short
33:32
Speaker 1: LOOKI Does Anonymous the whole short film on i G
33:35
Speaker 1: t v and YouTube this week. So um, we will
33:40
Speaker 1: be posting, we'll be talking about it. We're gonna host
33:42
Speaker 1: like a viewing party basically on Instagram so we can
33:46
Speaker 1: walk watch together and talk about it on I G Live.
33:49
Speaker 1: Um it's gonna be cute. Yeah, absolutely, and yeah we're
33:53
Speaker 1: gonna be We're jumping on the IG live train, UM
33:57
Speaker 1: so that we can chat about the film and just
33:59
Speaker 1: look a thought our radio in general and answer any
34:02
Speaker 1: listener questions they all may have. So yeah, we're excited.
34:05
Speaker 1: We like we're thinking about um prior to this, like
34:09
Speaker 1: how we can contribute to the art world or just
34:13
Speaker 1: the creative world right now because art and creativity is
34:17
Speaker 1: so important, especially during times of of dress and stress
34:20
Speaker 1: and all of that. So this is our offering to
34:23
Speaker 1: our listeners and to the folks have in supporting us. Um.
34:27
Speaker 1: We had actually delayed on making this public or free
34:30
Speaker 1: even because we did want to set it behind a paywall,
34:33
Speaker 1: because we invested in this project. We pay every single
34:38
Speaker 1: person that worked on it crew wise. UM, we gifted
34:42
Speaker 1: our cast with like products and and other things, and UM,
34:46
Speaker 1: it was really a labor of love and something that
34:48
Speaker 1: we hope to continue. So we did consider for many
34:51
Speaker 1: months putting it behind a paywall. Um, but because of
34:55
Speaker 1: you know, the current situation that everybody is in, we
34:58
Speaker 1: wanted to shed some lie, some positivity and like share
35:02
Speaker 1: our art with y'all exactly. Yeah, so that's the goal. Um.
35:07
Speaker 1: Looky TH's anonymous and so many different community members worked
35:10
Speaker 1: on it, and a lot of community sponsors, right so
35:13
Speaker 1: from Bella Donna to Gella Getsa, um Homegirls Beauty, Um,
35:21
Speaker 1: who else be the cosmetics we filmed at both eighteen
35:26
Speaker 1: nine and with your Beauty Collective. Yeah, so they all
35:30
Speaker 1: either donated projects, food accessories, lent to space. Hobby Mendoza
35:37
Speaker 1: was our our producer who helped us put it together.
35:42
Speaker 1: Chava A k A, Jose Salvador Sanchez, and Michelle Morrow
35:47
Speaker 1: our video photo team. And then we've had a really
35:49
Speaker 1: amazing cast of all kinds of DOSI people that we
35:53
Speaker 1: all love. Latin X traders, like, most of your faves
35:56
Speaker 1: are are in it? Your I g phaves sores, yeah,
36:08
Speaker 1: scat yes, so yeah, we just want to share that
36:12
Speaker 1: with y'all and it will be out later this week
36:14
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, we're excited to be to see your baby. Yes, yes,
36:18
Speaker 1: absolutely tell us what you think. Yes, leave a little comment,
36:23
Speaker 1: give us a little like I don't forget to continue
36:27
Speaker 1: loving us out loud, especially in these ridiculous times. Yes,
36:32
Speaker 1: now more than ever, it's important to really, really really
36:35
Speaker 1: support your favorite creators. Um Uh. Some folks that we
36:40
Speaker 1: love that definitely need support are the folks of Guion Collective. Um.
36:46
Speaker 1: You know, they throw parties and they throw parties all
36:49
Speaker 1: over the country and that's the work, that's what they do.
36:52
Speaker 1: And parties are not happening. Parties are not happening. Yeah. Additionally,
36:58
Speaker 1: like is closed right now, but you can buy from
37:02
Speaker 1: them online or buy a gift card. Um. And also
37:05
Speaker 1: Mina one of the co owners. She runs a he
37:07
Speaker 1: latina business UM called he latin X, which is really cute.
37:13
Speaker 1: And I just ordered a he Latina latina from her
37:17
Speaker 1: last week and it was so good. It did not
37:20
Speaker 1: last two days in my house. Everybody ate it. My
37:23
Speaker 1: parents loved it. So um she's actually doing like pickup
37:27
Speaker 1: orders so you can go and like Nico brought it
37:30
Speaker 1: to me with his little gloves on and just like
37:32
Speaker 1: placed it in my car, you know, so like no
37:35
Speaker 1: contact pickup. So yeah. So like support support, support support.
37:40
Speaker 1: They're like local artists, thank you so much to the
37:43
Speaker 1: local community well and beyond. So yeah, definitely consider donating
37:49
Speaker 1: purchasing from all the folks we mentioned. Um what else, Yeah,
37:57
Speaker 1: I mean as far as other things demic wise, people
38:01
Speaker 1: to support stuff like that, your local like ethnic markets,
38:04
Speaker 1: I would say, and your local like ethnic restaurants that
38:08
Speaker 1: are still open. I know that some of the small
38:10
Speaker 1: like leftinol Um restaurants are at least doing delivery or pickup.
38:16
Speaker 1: I've seen signs, you know, so like the small um
38:20
Speaker 1: you know, POC owned markets. Um. I have found are
38:26
Speaker 1: less likely to be sold out of stuff. I've just
38:28
Speaker 1: been going to my local like Central American Market, um
38:32
Speaker 1: to pick up what I need fruits and vegetables and basics,
38:36
Speaker 1: and um, the big stores are just impossible. And there
38:42
Speaker 1: are like lines out front out the door like it's
38:46
Speaker 1: the club and it's the wildest thing. I never thought
38:48
Speaker 1: I would see a line outside of Smart and Final,
38:50
Speaker 1: Like it's so bizarre. It's so bizarre. Um, I mean,
38:54
Speaker 1: I understand that people need things, understand, but I'm like
38:59
Speaker 1: everybody going to the store like doesn't make it doesn't
39:03
Speaker 1: make any like hygienic sense at all, you know, like
39:07
Speaker 1: the bombarding of it and the wildest things that I
39:11
Speaker 1: have seen. So I went to Food for Less, right,
39:13
Speaker 1: my local Food for Less, and they had put out
39:18
Speaker 1: like a big thing of um, you know, disinfecting wipes.
39:22
Speaker 1: But it's one of those where you pull one out
39:25
Speaker 1: and it's serrated, so you have to pull it off
39:28
Speaker 1: and then use it to the next person can pull
39:30
Speaker 1: off the next one. People were just like going and
39:35
Speaker 1: like rubbing their hands on it and then like not
39:38
Speaker 1: tearing it off, and someone would come and just like
39:41
Speaker 1: pull it down and then use the next part above
39:44
Speaker 1: that hasn't been touched. And then when people did, I know,
39:47
Speaker 1: and I'm like waiting in line to enter the store,
39:50
Speaker 1: right and I'm like, what the fuck? And then I
39:55
Speaker 1: and then finally someone does start, you know, wipping off,
40:00
Speaker 1: tearing off sheets of the disinfecting wives. But then people
40:05
Speaker 1: started just throwing them on the floor next trash. I
40:10
Speaker 1: felt like there wasn't a trash can bage just through
40:13
Speaker 1: the wipes next to the god. And so in that moment,
40:18
Speaker 1: I just really felt a lack of hope right us
40:24
Speaker 1: because of things like that. Just seeing how people handle
40:27
Speaker 1: stuff is just very mind boggling. Yeah, one thing that
40:30
Speaker 1: I've noticed is that when people wear gloves, they're then
40:34
Speaker 1: they're like touching like everything that they shouldn't be. And
40:37
Speaker 1: I'm like, just because you have the gloves on, like,
40:40
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can touch everything and then touch your face,
40:43
Speaker 1: like it makes sense. So my new thing right now
40:47
Speaker 1: is that I take the debit car that I'm going
40:51
Speaker 1: to use outside, removing from my wallet, I put it
40:55
Speaker 1: in my pocket. Um, I leave my purse and everything
40:58
Speaker 1: in the car, and then I go into the grocery store,
41:01
Speaker 1: putting on my gloves of course, and then I go
41:03
Speaker 1: and I do my shopping and then load up my
41:06
Speaker 1: car and then remove my gloves and then throw them away. Yeah,
41:10
Speaker 1: and so that way you're not like tempted to like
41:12
Speaker 1: look at your phone if you hear it vibrate or
41:15
Speaker 1: you hear it ring, and then that way you're not
41:17
Speaker 1: digging into your purse to get your card out with
41:20
Speaker 1: your your infected gloves or your use gloves. Right. So
41:25
Speaker 1: that's like one tip is like pull out the card
41:27
Speaker 1: first before you go into the store that you're going
41:29
Speaker 1: to use, and keep it in your pocket. That's a
41:33
Speaker 1: good tip. Yeah, that's a good tip. And especially because
41:36
Speaker 1: like I've gone to a couple of different stores and
41:40
Speaker 1: a lot of people are not wearing gloves, cashiers are
41:43
Speaker 1: not wearing gloves and do not have masks on. Yeah,
41:47
Speaker 1: I became I haven't seen I've seen gloves more, but
41:49
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any masks used really at all. Or
41:53
Speaker 1: if I do, if I do see the mask used,
41:55
Speaker 1: people are like putting them on and off, and I'm like,
41:58
Speaker 1: that's not how it were. Once you touch it, it's done,
42:02
Speaker 1: like it's done. You have to throw it away, and
42:04
Speaker 1: putting you one on. I guess I all that that
42:06
Speaker 1: also goes back to what we were said, does go
42:07
Speaker 1: back to like what we were saying, there's an assumption
42:10
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to know how to put these masks
42:13
Speaker 1: on right or how to take gloves off properly. And
42:15
Speaker 1: like I am in the health care field, so I
42:17
Speaker 1: do know these are things that are common knowledge to me. Um,
42:20
Speaker 1: but yeah, for folks that have no experience using these
42:24
Speaker 1: types of things, these protective year before, like you're just
42:27
Speaker 1: not going to know, yes, And let me say this right,
42:31
Speaker 1: like the not knowing peace. It's we're like really seeing
42:36
Speaker 1: in real time how people in many ways do not
42:40
Speaker 1: like we don't know how to take care of ourselves,
42:42
Speaker 1: like as a just like as a country, Like we
42:46
Speaker 1: joke every once in a while on Twitter there's oh
42:49
Speaker 1: my god, these people say they don't wash their legs
42:52
Speaker 1: in the shower. I'm shocked these people say that they
42:56
Speaker 1: don't wash their ass or they don't they don't wipe
42:59
Speaker 1: their asked because then the other like these things we
43:03
Speaker 1: have seen how people are not hygienic, like in this
43:06
Speaker 1: sick of ways before this, before this, yeah, and now,
43:11
Speaker 1: we were never equipped. We were never equipped for them. No, no,
43:16
Speaker 1: never it's so weird. Like I saw when I was
43:19
Speaker 1: at the airport coming back, when I was leaving Lima. Um,
43:23
Speaker 1: I saw someone barefoot in the airport and I was like,
43:27
Speaker 1: I don't understand, Like how walking around in Lima he
43:32
Speaker 1: took off Okay, he took off his shoes when he
43:34
Speaker 1: sat down, but then he had his feet up on
43:37
Speaker 1: the seats that other people are going to sit on,
43:39
Speaker 1: And I was like, why are you doing this? Like
43:43
Speaker 1: what is the point? Are we in living room? Like
43:46
Speaker 1: that's all right? And I just kept looking like why
43:49
Speaker 1: is this company? Shoes off in public places? Is a
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Speaker 1: really weird thing that's always bothered me anyway. Yep, So
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Speaker 1: horn Corn, this has been the first installment of Quarantine Confidential. UM,
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Speaker 1: I feel like this new little mini series we're doing,
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Speaker 1: I mean it might not be such a mini series
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Speaker 1: because I don't know how long is it gonna laugh?
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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, we really don't know. Um. We do
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Speaker 1: have some interviews scheduled actually for y'all, so it will
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Speaker 1: be some type of like normalcy in the way that
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Speaker 1: we conduct the rest of the these episodes while we're
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Speaker 1: will be having some interviews who scheduled for y'all. Yeah
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