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Capitulo 019: A Love Letter to Chillonas · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies, A Myth and Bullshit, a radiophonic novella,
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Speaker 1: cute cap lo, really fun to record, really fun to plan,
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Speaker 1: the look at the US Guide to Goddess Worship. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you for listening today. Um So, before we get into
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Speaker 1: our content, we want to do some updates. Um. I
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Speaker 1: believe it was last week or in the last two
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Speaker 1: weeks our episode with Damain though we had a cross
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Speaker 1: collab with Domining the podcast. So cute, so fun. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was so much fun. So thank you to Louise
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Speaker 1: and Brenda of Famining the podcast for inviting us to
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Speaker 1: be on the show. And we talked about rape culture. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we talked about rape culture. Um. I really liked that episode.
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Speaker 1: I think it was very educational, like the way that
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Speaker 1: it was formatted, the way that we the way that
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Speaker 1: they asked the questions and guided the conversation, and then
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Speaker 1: of course like the way we engaged. So I was
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Speaker 1: really happy with the way that episode came out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think the conversation, like it was just such
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Speaker 1: an important conversation to have, and I was really happy
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Speaker 1: and excited that they were so open to the conversation
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Speaker 1: and wanted to talk about rape culture and abuse in
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Speaker 1: mostly in Latino communities, is what we talked about, right,
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Speaker 1: So go check that out. Though they're on iTunes, they're
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Speaker 1: on sound they're everywhere. Yeah, they're on audio Boom. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if they're on SoundCloud, but for sure you
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Speaker 1: easy way to find them as iTunes. Yeah, so you
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Speaker 1: can check out that episode. Yeah, please do. It's really great. Um,
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Speaker 1: tweet at them, tweet at us when you're listening and
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Speaker 1: let us know what you think. Questions you might have, Yeah, absolutely. Um.
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Speaker 1: And then we had a really fun running with a local.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was so cute. Yes, Um, Mama
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Speaker 1: and I were working at a coffee shop in the
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Speaker 1: Arts District and um, well, MANA got there first, so
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Speaker 1: you start the story. So I had gotten there and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to go get some coffee, and um, when
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Speaker 1: I went up there, the woman the head behind the
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Speaker 1: cash register was like, oh my god, do you have
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Speaker 1: a podcast? And I was like yes, And she was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, I love look at thought our radio.
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Speaker 1: You're so cute, Like love the podcast, loves, I love Mala,
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Speaker 1: I love the whole thing. She was so sweet and
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Speaker 1: it turned out to be the owner of the book
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Speaker 1: Vocal Shop and they're on Instagram, and so Rebecca, the owner,
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Speaker 1: the artist behind it, it was her and she happened
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Speaker 1: to work there and we happened to be working there
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Speaker 1: that day and she recognized us and she was so sweet.
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Speaker 1: We got hats. Yeah, she gave us these really adorable
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Speaker 1: gifted us these very adorable hats. Mom is actually where
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Speaker 1: in hers today. Yes, we'll put up a photo. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we will discuss our outfits in a little bit, But
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Speaker 1: we just want to give a shout out to Rebecca
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Speaker 1: from she's on Instagram. Um just at MAKA and she
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Speaker 1: does pop up shops here in l A. I believe
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Speaker 1: she's originally from Austin or from Texas at least. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and so it was so nice to meet her in person.
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Speaker 1: She was so sweet and so good to us. Um,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, shout out. She spoiled us. She did coffee
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Speaker 1: and goodies from her shop. Yes, yeah, so cute. So
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Speaker 1: that was fun. And then we also had a fun
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Speaker 1: meet up with one of our favorite podcasts. Yes, we
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Speaker 1: had to meet up with Cathic own Cheeseman with Sebastian
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Speaker 1: and Yes Cheeseman or brother and sister and sister. Listeners
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Speaker 1: didn't know they're amazing. Sebastiana and I have been friends
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Speaker 1: for quite a while now, um, and it's so great
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Speaker 1: that like we're both podcasting. Um. Yeah, so we got
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Speaker 1: to plan a future episode that will be in the works.
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Speaker 1: We can tell you all that now. Um. So there
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Speaker 1: will be there will be some more cross collapse. There's
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Speaker 1: going to be a lot more cross collapse. We like collapse, Yes,
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Speaker 1: we do. So if you're a podcast and you're listening,
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Speaker 1: you know, hit us up, hit us up and we'll
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Speaker 1: create magic. Yes, absolutely. Um. And then last night, Um,
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Speaker 1: well today's Saturday. And last night we went to Scam
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Speaker 1: and Jam. We did at the region a party hosted
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Speaker 1: by Bayologna and Los Angeles Cruise Night and yeah, they
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Speaker 1: have a monthly party and it's basically like old school
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Speaker 1: Chicano oldies, basically like songs that you would hear like
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Speaker 1: a Cruise Night and a Cruise Night low writing music. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and they had like an all women, all women DJ's right.
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Speaker 1: Ga mother was there from Cheating the Vinyl cl played
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Speaker 1: um Jada Boo in the past, like the past Scam
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Speaker 1: and Jam parties like sand One was doing like live
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Speaker 1: painting on stage. You know. It's a really fun event.
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Speaker 1: It's a really cute event. There's vendors, they were they
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Speaker 1: had a photo booth. Um you know La La was
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Speaker 1: there a La La. Well, their photo booth was actually
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Speaker 1: the first. That was the first time they had a
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Speaker 1: photo booth. Last night, brand new element and it was
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Speaker 1: so much fun. I have the pictures right here from
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Speaker 1: last night. And we were with Yessica the poet of course,
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Speaker 1: um one of Mala's friends, Melissa. Melissa our friends. She's
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Speaker 1: our friends, she's our friends. Yeah, it was so much fun.
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Speaker 1: So thank you to La La for getting us on
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Speaker 1: the list and all be showing us a good time.
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Speaker 1: So check and scam and jam. You can find out
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Speaker 1: about future scam and jams on Instagram. Yeah, really fun.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, honestly, today we're recording. We always
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Speaker 1: record on Saturdays, and sometimes, you know, we have our
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Speaker 1: good days and sometimes we have our bad days. That's
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Speaker 1: a good transition. We're recovering from checking um and see
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Speaker 1: how we're doing. Oh girl, how are we doing? Well?
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Speaker 1: Know today I'm a little bit tired and sad and hungry. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I feel the exact same way, tired, sad and hungry. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been kind of a sad Girl. Recently same, I
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Speaker 1: have been super emotional. It's been this past week was
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Speaker 1: brhuff and I felt I saw someone else post on
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Speaker 1: Instagram like, did anyone feel like this week was a
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Speaker 1: year long? And right? I felt like this was the
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Speaker 1: longest week ever emotionally, just like dragging myself through the week.
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Speaker 1: And you have your good weeks and you have weeks
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Speaker 1: where you're like, why is happening? So today's episode, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we podcast for the sad Girl. This goes
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Speaker 1: out to all the sad mummies, all who are in
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Speaker 1: their feeling. Yes, we are in our feelings today we
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Speaker 1: just want to nap. Yeah, and I'm going to add
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Speaker 1: that mama is in some great lounge attire. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: thank you all. Can you describe your own yes, let's
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Speaker 1: let's describe our outfits. Um, So today I taught a
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Speaker 1: self defense class. Well that's the other thing. So we
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Speaker 1: went out to scam and jam last night, and of course,
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Speaker 1: inevitably we ended up at King Taco to go get food.
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Speaker 1: And like Melissa, this was the fourth weekend in a
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Speaker 1: row that she ends up at King Taco like after
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Speaker 1: going out. So and two of those nights have been
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Speaker 1: with me. So we end up in King Taco, we
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Speaker 1: get our tackles. We dominated that they have a jukebox
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Speaker 1: at the one here on Star Travis. Oh, yes, I remember,
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Speaker 1: We've been to that one. Yes. So we bought like
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Speaker 1: eighteen songs and I guess that they were all Selina.
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Speaker 1: Many of them were Selena, many of them were Checkira.
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Speaker 1: We played some Baita is my home girl. I love Baka.
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Speaker 1: She's one of the original ship talkers. She was singing
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Speaker 1: about how men are trash before we were even a
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Speaker 1: twinkle in our parents. I you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: She's been doing this ship for I'm just following in
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Speaker 1: her light, in her free step, in her in her legacy.
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Speaker 1: So that was us at King Taco. So we we
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Speaker 1: were we were out and eating late. I went home
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Speaker 1: and then this morning I had to be up to
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Speaker 1: teach us self defense class of four hour self defense
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Speaker 1: class at nine am, nine to twelve. So I'm struggling.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, so my outfit, UM, my outfit. I'm wearing
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Speaker 1: this one of my favorite lounge pieces. It's this body
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Speaker 1: suit UM that has kind of like a racer back
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Speaker 1: and it's pink and black, sort of like stripe and
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Speaker 1: then I have like my pink fuzzy slides and I'm
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Speaker 1: wearing the hat from Boco Boco that Rebecca gave me
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Speaker 1: and it says and it's pink, So I'm pink from
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Speaker 1: from head to toe. Literally, different shades, different picture as always.
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Speaker 1: Yum So, I would like to today my look. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to borrow my friend Claudia's phrase, but like I
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Speaker 1: am just like stay at home dog mom looks love,
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Speaker 1: bitter and single and to stay at home dog mom
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Speaker 1: that is a look but still cute obviously. Yeah. Um
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Speaker 1: so I'm definitely low energy today as well, not for
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Speaker 1: the same reasons. Um actually left scamm and Jam before
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Speaker 1: the all y'all did, And it was so ridiculous because
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Speaker 1: I was walking out and my boo and I left
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Speaker 1: early because we were both tired, and um we were
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Speaker 1: standing outside like to cross the street, and there were
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Speaker 1: these two men in a in a big truck, um
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Speaker 1: like you know, waiting for the light to turn green.
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Speaker 1: And I could feel the two men kind of just
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Speaker 1: like looking at me. But I was like whatever, like
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Speaker 1: we're gonna cross, they're gonna leave, Like I don't need
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Speaker 1: to make it a deal. Whatever, but anyway, so we're
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Speaker 1: both like going in the same direction. I we're walking,
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Speaker 1: they're driving obviously, So the light turns green at the
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Speaker 1: same time, and the walk to to walk turns green.
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Speaker 1: So we start to go and all I hear is
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Speaker 1: that booty, Oh my god, and you were with your booth.
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Speaker 1: I was with the person that I'm saying, And I
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Speaker 1: was like, you know, generally, you think that when you're
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Speaker 1: with someone that is visibly your partner, that you'll be fine,
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Speaker 1: no one will bother you. But that is not the
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Speaker 1: case with these men. They're so bold, they're in the
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Speaker 1: worst ways. But see how in the car like that
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened if they were outside. I don't think,
11:25
Speaker 1: right it could have been. It could have been a
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Speaker 1: different situation, right. I once had I once had an
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Speaker 1: experience where my ex boyfriend we were in New York
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Speaker 1: and walking down the street and some guy did say
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Speaker 1: something directed towards but it was kind of almost like
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Speaker 1: he was like challenging my ex partner to something, but
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Speaker 1: it had to do with me, And you know, like
11:46
Speaker 1: they're both from New York, New York guys, so to
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Speaker 1: be honest, like I don't speak New York ease, and
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Speaker 1: like I couldn't really catch what exactly he said, Like
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Speaker 1: there was an exchange that took place that was just
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Speaker 1: beyond my ability to comprehend. You were so l a.
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Speaker 1: I'm so l a, but I knew that it was something.
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Speaker 1: It was something, and he was being disrespectful and it
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Speaker 1: was because of me, you know. But sometimes they are
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Speaker 1: like that, they're confrontational. It's really this weird, like I'm
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Speaker 1: going to challenge you to a duel in front of
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Speaker 1: this woman. It's like a mating ritual. So weird. The
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Speaker 1: same thing happened um a while ago where we were
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Speaker 1: walking in Long Beach and some man looks at me
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Speaker 1: and then looks at my boo and goes, you better
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Speaker 1: keep that locked up at home, you see, Like what
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Speaker 1: is that? There was no need to say that, and no,
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Speaker 1: you will not keep me locked up at home, right.
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Speaker 1: It's just bizarre. Why it's bizarre, and it's so interesting
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Speaker 1: how men like lead with that behavior Like that man
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Speaker 1: was a complete stranger and the first and only interaction
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Speaker 1: you ever have with him is that. That's weird. These
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Speaker 1: men don't quit it. The other day, I was walking
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Speaker 1: papas around my block and this gross man in his
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Speaker 1: car like followed me. But he did this thing where
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Speaker 1: he would drive by me really slowly and try and
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Speaker 1: talk to me, and when I ignored him, he would
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Speaker 1: like turn a corner and then loop back around, and
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Speaker 1: he did that five or six times. He's cut. He
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Speaker 1: followed me all the way home, and he kept coming
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Speaker 1: up next to next to me to try and say
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Speaker 1: things to me. He was like a Latino guy, like
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Speaker 1: in middle aged. And so finally I was just like,
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Speaker 1: go home to your fucking wife. I know she's waiting
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Speaker 1: for you, and she's probably piste off at your dumbass.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing here? Your children and your wife
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Speaker 1: get out? So anyways, yeah, another reason why we're tired.
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Speaker 1: I trained, Yeah, and they're bullshit again always. But I
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Speaker 1: wanted to feel cute even though I'm so tired. So
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Speaker 1: I'm actually just wearing just a long dress. It's um,
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Speaker 1: just a long click cream colored dress. I actually picked
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Speaker 1: it up in bed when it's cotton, so it feels amazing.
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Speaker 1: And it's a completely backless which is one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite cuts. Um, and it is a high slit on
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Speaker 1: the leg, so I look cute and I'm wearing red lipstick.
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Speaker 1: But I'm exhausted, but no one would know. No one
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Speaker 1: would know. Sometimes you have to give yourself that extra love,
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Speaker 1: you know what, If you can and you're feeling down,
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Speaker 1: you have to just like adorn yourself more to make
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Speaker 1: it out the door. Yes, yes, and I was. It's
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Speaker 1: so funny because I was running late to actually get here,
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Speaker 1: but of course I got here before mama, and it
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Speaker 1: was hilarious. Always I'm my MoMA. I'm running late, okay,
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Speaker 1: and I got here. Friends anyway, Um, before we get
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Speaker 1: onto our little song break, any updates that you want
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Speaker 1: to share with us personal projects? Um, I don't think so. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I haven't talked about I haven't talked about my everyday
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Speaker 1: feminism fellowship. Yes you did on the last one. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you talked about your article. Yeah, you're working on a
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Speaker 1: new one. I'm working on a new one. I'm working
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Speaker 1: on several, so one of the ones that I'm working
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Speaker 1: on right now, I actually sorry, No, I I do
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Speaker 1: have a new updates new projects. So, um, I am
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Speaker 1: writing an article based off of an interview that I
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Speaker 1: did with a queer Chicana filmmaker. Her name is Adelina
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Speaker 1: Anthony and she's from San Antonio, Texas. And she's a playwright,
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Speaker 1: she's made film, she's an actress. And recently she and
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Speaker 1: her partner Marisa, they have uh their co owners of
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Speaker 1: this production company, Adria Productions. They produce their own films,
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Speaker 1: their wife wife team and their bomb. I love it
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Speaker 1: their bomb. They're both UM queer Chicana artists, filmmakers, and
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Speaker 1: so they recently created a film called Amigas with Benefits
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Speaker 1: and it was in the PBS Online Film Festival. And
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Speaker 1: so I'm interviewed um Adelina and I'm writing an article
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Speaker 1: based on that interview and about the film. So look
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Speaker 1: out for that. I love that. When I was in college,
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Speaker 1: actually that's to meet Adadna Anthony Um. She came to
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Speaker 1: a she did her performance of UM and she did
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Speaker 1: a performance at the university and then I got to
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Speaker 1: go to dinner with her afterwards with some like Chicano
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Speaker 1: Chicana studies faculty, you know. So she's so it's so
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Speaker 1: funny because you meet her, or so interesting. I shouldn't
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Speaker 1: say funny, but it's so interesting because the way someone
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Speaker 1: performs and then the way they are when they're just
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Speaker 1: like hanging out with you. And she just was like
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Speaker 1: so calm, such like an observer. You know, when we
16:30
Speaker 1: were having dinner, she was definitely like I remember her
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Speaker 1: being more quiet and like listening and looking around and
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Speaker 1: definitely more observant. And I feel like that has allowed
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Speaker 1: to do with being an artist. And then you see
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Speaker 1: her perform and it's like boom, just you know, she
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Speaker 1: saves it. Yeah, for the stage. Yeah, exactly, she definitely
16:48
Speaker 1: saves her energy. Um, so that's exciting that you're working
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Speaker 1: on that. I'm really excited to see the final product.
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Speaker 1: I'll share the interview. Yeah, I'll share it with you all.
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Speaker 1: And you know, basically, she treats her films and her
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Speaker 1: filmmaking as medicine and they have like a spiritual elder
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Speaker 1: on set. So I'm writing it about that, you know,
17:06
Speaker 1: like film is like medicine. I love that it's a framework. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I'll share that with you all, Um when it
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Speaker 1: comes out. And I think, did you have any updates
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Speaker 1: that you wanted to share? Yeah, you know, I actually
17:20
Speaker 1: recently performed at a storytelling event, so I want to
17:24
Speaker 1: shout out the organizer, Ernesto. He goes by and document
17:29
Speaker 1: on Instagram and the name of the event is called
17:32
Speaker 1: Cocoon underscore LB because it's actually based in Long Beach,
17:35
Speaker 1: but I think they're looking to take it to different cities. Um.
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Speaker 1: So I participated as a storyteller and the theme was
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Speaker 1: the I in Instagram, So it was examining five photos
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Speaker 1: from your the beginning of your Instagram to present day.
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Speaker 1: So really had me reflecting on the past three years
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Speaker 1: because one of my first few posts is actually when
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Speaker 1: I was still living in Biddu and I was traveling.
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Speaker 1: So I looked at that picture and thinking about like
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Speaker 1: what I had just gone through while I was in
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Speaker 1: Fidu and then coming back to finish up my senior
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Speaker 1: year at Santa Barbara and then moving back to l
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Speaker 1: A and then starting the podcast and all these different things,
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Speaker 1: so really talking about my trajectory. So it was really great.
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Speaker 1: Um and what's really cool about there or his he
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Speaker 1: had he had a partner that he was doing it with,
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Speaker 1: but she actually left to do her PhD in Boston,
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Speaker 1: so he's the only one facilitating at the moment. And UM, there,
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Speaker 1: I guess you could say, their little like philosophy is
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Speaker 1: um he'll transform, liberate, so that's the point of the storytelling.
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Speaker 1: So it was super great so we will post a
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Speaker 1: flyer in the future for their event. Um, they try
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Speaker 1: to have one once a month, so highly recommend, especially
18:45
Speaker 1: if you're like trying to get into performing and just
18:47
Speaker 1: need a safe space to kind of tell your story.
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Speaker 1: It was nice for me, was liberating and had me
18:52
Speaker 1: examining things I hadn't hadn't wanted to think about in
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Speaker 1: a while. So it was good. It was good. I
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Speaker 1: definitely felt the liberating aspect. I love that. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: great that you should were able to share. Yeah, and man,
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Speaker 1: it really had me also reflect on the podcast because
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Speaker 1: I can come here and talk and be good and
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Speaker 1: we're exchanging energy and I can engage with all of
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Speaker 1: y'all via social media and then when we meet in person,
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Speaker 1: but actually like speaking public speaking is so it's so different.
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Speaker 1: So definitely reflecting on like ship this is hard, right
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Speaker 1: and prop to people that can that just perform and
19:25
Speaker 1: that's their craft, you know. Um, yeah, it is a skill,
19:29
Speaker 1: It is a skill. Skill, It is a talent absolutely, um.
19:33
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe well I'll be doing more of that
19:34
Speaker 1: in the future, but for now, it was a nice
19:36
Speaker 1: little taste of it. Yeah, thank you, thank you. So
19:41
Speaker 1: we're going to go into a quick break and U
20:26
Speaker 1: of it and little ship. All right, So today we're
20:31
Speaker 1: gonna have a really we're gonna have really chill content,
20:35
Speaker 1: um because again, we're tired. We're tired the world, like
20:38
Speaker 1: not only our personal lifes to like the world is
20:40
Speaker 1: trying us. And definitely what we advocate for during Brongo
20:45
Speaker 1: hour is like joy you know, like there are other
20:49
Speaker 1: platforms where y'all can talk about like everything that's going
20:52
Speaker 1: on in the world, especially in Charlotte's Ville, like and
20:56
Speaker 1: shout out to those you know, media news and all
21:01
Speaker 1: of that an individual. Yeah, but we are tired. We're tired.
21:06
Speaker 1: So we're actually going to just do like a little
21:09
Speaker 1: like get to know us and talk about like a
21:11
Speaker 1: little facts about us and ask each other some questions. So,
21:16
Speaker 1: um mona can you share a little known fact, a
21:20
Speaker 1: little known fact about me? Yes, so a little known
21:23
Speaker 1: fact about me, something that like, um, I love to
21:28
Speaker 1: share when I meet new people, you know, if I
21:32
Speaker 1: want to get to know you, Like, I'm a very
21:34
Speaker 1: I'm a very goofy sort of person, and when I
21:37
Speaker 1: was younger, I really channeled that. Um. I did a
21:40
Speaker 1: lot of musical theater in high school, but one of
21:44
Speaker 1: my favorite facts about myself is that I actually went
21:46
Speaker 1: to the Junior Olympics once for speed walking, for racewalking.
21:51
Speaker 1: Did not that I'm dying. I competed in the Junior
21:54
Speaker 1: Olympics in racewalking and I came in sixth place in
21:57
Speaker 1: the nation. All you heard it first. I will not demonstrate.
22:03
Speaker 1: I will not show anybody. If you see me on
22:06
Speaker 1: the street, don't ask me to demonstrate my racewalking form
22:10
Speaker 1: because I will not do it. It's in my past,
22:12
Speaker 1: it's behind me. It's a deep, dark secret. Clearly, that's
22:16
Speaker 1: so funny. So yeah, I was just like a little weirdo.
22:19
Speaker 1: I ran track and cross country for many years. I
22:21
Speaker 1: did too. I did cross country in high school. Loved it,
22:23
Speaker 1: very fun. But there was a period of time where
22:26
Speaker 1: like racewalking was like my event, and it's a two
22:28
Speaker 1: mile that's intense, it's a six events, but you're walking,
22:34
Speaker 1: you're racewalking, and there's a specific form of specific technique.
22:37
Speaker 1: There's judges like every hundred meters watching your technique in
22:41
Speaker 1: your form because if your if your foot placement isn't correct,
22:44
Speaker 1: you can get you know, disqualified. Yeah, it's a whole thing.
22:48
Speaker 1: It's a whole world racewalking culture is wild. I'm no
22:52
Speaker 1: longer part of that community, but I once I was.
22:55
Speaker 1: I'm dying. That's great. How about you little back? Oh
22:59
Speaker 1: my god, Okay, if you've known me forever, then you
23:01
Speaker 1: do know this. But um, I don't think our localmotives
23:04
Speaker 1: would know this. So I was actually a vegetarian for
23:06
Speaker 1: six years? Six Yes, when did When did it begin?
23:10
Speaker 1: When did it end? It began probably when I was
23:13
Speaker 1: a sophomore maybe a freshman in high school and I
23:18
Speaker 1: stuck through it. I was like very adamant that I
23:21
Speaker 1: was gonna be a vegetarian for the rest of my life.
23:24
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, the reason that I actually stopped being
23:27
Speaker 1: a vegetarians because I moved to Peru. So I of course,
23:31
Speaker 1: in Latino families, Latino X families, you've experienced this. If
23:34
Speaker 1: you're a vegetarian, like you go to parties and you like,
23:36
Speaker 1: what do you have? Like aros holes? Maybe like an egg,
23:41
Speaker 1: like your your options are very limited if your family
23:43
Speaker 1: isn't supportive. If they are, like, yes, they will accommodate you.
23:47
Speaker 1: But some of our families don't get it. And that's
23:49
Speaker 1: like a whole other conversation that maybe you'll have in
23:51
Speaker 1: the future. But I already felt like okay, Like I
23:55
Speaker 1: go home and I can't eat any of my mom's
23:57
Speaker 1: cooking and for Mexican food. And then I go to
23:59
Speaker 1: my family parties and I can't have any Peruvian food.
24:01
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be actually in Biddu so I'm gonna
24:04
Speaker 1: eat everything. Yes, And I did eat everything. And I
24:07
Speaker 1: told myself that I was going to transition back into
24:10
Speaker 1: being a vegetarian when I moved back to the States,
24:12
Speaker 1: and I did not. And I am I'm sorry if
24:16
Speaker 1: you're vegan and vegetarian listening, but I really love to
24:18
Speaker 1: eat cheeseburgers and I love to eat that possana and
24:22
Speaker 1: we I think one day I will transition back into
24:25
Speaker 1: strictly plant based lifestyle, but for now, I'm definitely enjoying. Yeah,
24:32
Speaker 1: the meats. Meat is great. Love meat a lot um.
24:36
Speaker 1: Yesterday I had this mole from this this um. They're
24:41
Speaker 1: a restaurant called They're a company catering company. Yeah, and
24:45
Speaker 1: I love Jocelyn shout out, shout out. So last night
24:49
Speaker 1: we had like a work event, um, a volunteer appreciation event,
24:53
Speaker 1: and they were there and they catered and they made
24:56
Speaker 1: all the food and she made this delicious bom bom
24:59
Speaker 1: bom bomb bam um um vegan mole and so instead
25:03
Speaker 1: of using they used mushrooms and it was so good
25:08
Speaker 1: it sounds like god. Okay. Fun fact, I actually met Jocelyn,
25:11
Speaker 1: the creator of Stop It Yes, and she was well,
25:18
Speaker 1: she's been a vegetarian. I'm not sure if she's vegan,
25:20
Speaker 1: but she's lived a plant based lifestyle for many years um.
25:24
Speaker 1: And she talks about I think attributes that to her
25:26
Speaker 1: father getting sick um and then using really using food
25:29
Speaker 1: is medicine. Um. But I actually met her in Bedeu
25:31
Speaker 1: because she was her and a few other Mohas were
25:34
Speaker 1: at a Latino Latino America and El Gharibe feminist conference
25:41
Speaker 1: and it just so happened to be in Lima while
25:43
Speaker 1: I was in Lima. So one of our friends, Silky Sylvia,
25:48
Speaker 1: she actually connected us and was like, hey, Ariana's there
25:51
Speaker 1: or is there? Um, these are some Mouhadas from l
25:54
Speaker 1: A that are going to be in Lima at the
25:56
Speaker 1: same time at this conference. So we all met and
25:58
Speaker 1: it was one of those things where it's like so
26:00
Speaker 1: cosmic because you're like, how the fact did this happen?
26:02
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's how I met jocelyss small world, right, right,
26:06
Speaker 1: But I think that I would be more inclined to
26:09
Speaker 1: eat vegetarian and eat plant based if all those options
26:13
Speaker 1: are available, right or if like, but when you're raised
26:17
Speaker 1: where all of your meals are centered around a meat,
26:21
Speaker 1: you have to completely change the way you approach food
26:24
Speaker 1: and grocery shopping and cooking and what you supply. Absolutely
26:27
Speaker 1: right now, I'm down to like, I do my best.
26:30
Speaker 1: I'm not always good at it, but I try to
26:32
Speaker 1: have just like, all of my meals be pump based
26:34
Speaker 1: except for one because realistically I know that I'm going
26:36
Speaker 1: to have like chicken or something at right, So I'm
26:40
Speaker 1: trying that and it's it's definitely I mean, I feel better.
26:43
Speaker 1: But you know, we'll see when I transition back completely
26:47
Speaker 1: if that happens, I think it will in the future. Yeah,
26:51
Speaker 1: I think if I was dating someone that was also like, yes,
26:53
Speaker 1: let's do it, it would definitely be easier. But what
26:55
Speaker 1: do you do when you're dating You go out to dinner,
26:57
Speaker 1: you go out to brunch, you do things. A lot
27:00
Speaker 1: of a lot of things revolve around food and drinks. Right,
27:03
Speaker 1: So if I was me, yes, and me hilarious. All right,
27:10
Speaker 1: let's go, let's transition toward next question. So, um, you
27:15
Speaker 1: know in Spanish in English, we have a lot of
27:18
Speaker 1: fun phrases. What are what's a favorite phrase of yours? Yeah? Um,
27:24
Speaker 1: this was actually inspired by your hat that you're wearing. Yes,
27:28
Speaker 1: but is definitely one of my favorites. That's a good one. Yes,
27:34
Speaker 1: that's my And there's really not such like a poetic
27:40
Speaker 1: equivalent in English, there's not. No. I definitely went through
27:44
Speaker 1: a my horosona phase a few months ago. Um, after
27:48
Speaker 1: I was like on and off with someone, after multiple
27:52
Speaker 1: on and off relationships. You know, it's just like fuck,
27:56
Speaker 1: like why am I doing all of this? I'm not
27:58
Speaker 1: putting all of me through this, right, So definitely, like,
28:02
Speaker 1: if it's not working, it's not working, right, So you
28:06
Speaker 1: gotta let it go. So and something something good will
28:10
Speaker 1: come to you. And not only relationship wise, but job wise,
28:13
Speaker 1: project wise, friendship wise, So many things open up when
28:16
Speaker 1: you're not focused on one person, right, Um, one person
28:20
Speaker 1: that's not right for you and you're forcing it, forcing
28:23
Speaker 1: and forcing it, and fuck it's not supposed to work
28:25
Speaker 1: out right, So hell yeah, that's an important important phrase.
28:30
Speaker 1: But you know what there is some type of an
28:31
Speaker 1: equivalent in English. I could do I could do battle.
28:35
Speaker 1: That's a good one, right, which we're gonna credit to
28:37
Speaker 1: black women absolutely, well, maybe just white ladies don't have
28:40
Speaker 1: a phrase. You're right, we have a phrase. I can't
28:44
Speaker 1: you know, we wouldn't know, We wouldn't know, so I wouldn't.
28:49
Speaker 1: But for me, I love because it's like, first of all,
28:56
Speaker 1: there's an emphasis on the company, right or that really
29:00
Speaker 1: lationship being bad or toxic. It's not like, oh, I'm
29:04
Speaker 1: fucked up or it's my fault or I'm a problem.
29:07
Speaker 1: It's no the acknowledging that it's the relationship, right. And
29:13
Speaker 1: I can be good by myself absolutely, And it's also
29:17
Speaker 1: like I think when relationships, when they're unhealthier, they go
29:21
Speaker 1: they go wrong. It's very easy to put the blame
29:23
Speaker 1: on just one, but a lot of the times it's
29:26
Speaker 1: the both of you, so you know, and not that
29:29
Speaker 1: you're like you shouldn't weigh it out necessarily, but like,
29:32
Speaker 1: definitely both people need to be held accountable. So I
29:35
Speaker 1: think exactly what you're saying, like the relationships and I
29:40
Speaker 1: can be good by myself and I am, And isn't
29:43
Speaker 1: that what we want. We just want to be good,
29:45
Speaker 1: stress free, Like, your relationship should not cause you like
29:49
Speaker 1: premature wrinkles. Yes, your relationship should not cause you stress.
29:55
Speaker 1: One time I knew that I was like in a
29:58
Speaker 1: stressful relationship because into a fight with my partner at
30:01
Speaker 1: the time. Let's say it was like on a uh
30:05
Speaker 1: Friday night or something, got into a fight with him.
30:07
Speaker 1: But then in the morning the next morning, I had
30:09
Speaker 1: an appointment at the doctor, so got into this fight, screaming, yelling, horrible.
30:14
Speaker 1: The next morning I go for my checkup, they take
30:17
Speaker 1: my blood pressure, and I've never had ever in my
30:20
Speaker 1: life high blood pressure, never, never, But the morning after
30:24
Speaker 1: this fight with this partner, I did. And I even
30:27
Speaker 1: told the nurse. I was like because she was surprised.
30:30
Speaker 1: The nurse was like that, You're usually very regular and
30:33
Speaker 1: normal and healthy for you, and so this is a spike,
30:36
Speaker 1: this is different for you. And I was like, literally,
30:38
Speaker 1: it's because of this man who stressed me out and
30:42
Speaker 1: is now literally affecting my physical health. Oh my god,
30:45
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So sometimes on a lot
30:50
Speaker 1: of different levels, there's a reason that when when people
30:54
Speaker 1: and relationships like the glow up happens, right, either they
30:58
Speaker 1: get into a new hobby there at the gym. They're
31:00
Speaker 1: doing yoga, they're doing something that's like new, maybe something
31:03
Speaker 1: they've always been wanting to try. They dance or something. Yeah, um,
31:07
Speaker 1: there's a new hobby. Like your friendships get stronger, there's
31:11
Speaker 1: a reason that that's happens. And I always like, like
31:15
Speaker 1: for me, I always feel like in doing work like
31:18
Speaker 1: domestic violence work and rape crisis work, one of the
31:20
Speaker 1: primary functions of my job is really helping people to
31:24
Speaker 1: break up with their aft up partners. I'm just like,
31:27
Speaker 1: I'm a breakup You're a breakup consultant. I'm a breakup consulting.
31:31
Speaker 1: You need to add that to your time. And I
31:33
Speaker 1: love it. I love helping people to break up with
31:36
Speaker 1: their partners. Absolutely. Mama is not friend that if you
31:39
Speaker 1: tell her something in your relationship, she'll be like, Okay,
31:41
Speaker 1: well you can dump him, but you can dump them.
31:44
Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. I really advocate for it really does.
31:46
Speaker 1: If your life is stressful, if there's fucked up things
31:49
Speaker 1: going on and your relationship is causing you even the
31:52
Speaker 1: least bit of inconvenience, dump them. You will feel better.
31:57
Speaker 1: It's just not necessary. Yes, So now I want to
32:01
Speaker 1: ask you what is one of what is the phrase
32:03
Speaker 1: that you really like? Oh my god, one of my
32:05
Speaker 1: favorite phrases which I actually have like memorialized in a
32:10
Speaker 1: Sundia stitches. Embroidery is and Sundia stitches right, Um, she
32:19
Speaker 1: embroiders what do you call those things? Those rounds, I
32:23
Speaker 1: don't know what they're called, but the round embroidery mages.
32:26
Speaker 1: And she puts different phrases and images and pictures. You
32:30
Speaker 1: can find her on Instagram on Twitter, and she does
32:33
Speaker 1: beautiful work. So I ordered one from her with little
32:36
Speaker 1: tear drops on it and it says chion love it.
32:39
Speaker 1: And I love that phrase because it's like, yes, just
32:42
Speaker 1: like today, we're chingona, but we're sad sometimes and low energy.
32:48
Speaker 1: We are sad girls today, and you have to be both.
32:51
Speaker 1: It's a balance, it really is. Crying is good for you, Yes,
32:55
Speaker 1: letting yourself be sad. Letting yourself be sad, and you
32:58
Speaker 1: know what, more and more off in. I allow myself
33:01
Speaker 1: to be sad even in public, Like I cry in
33:03
Speaker 1: public all the time. That was me. A few weeks ago,
33:06
Speaker 1: I had a really cathartic session with my therapist and
33:09
Speaker 1: I was all in I literally cried for a day straight.
33:13
Speaker 1: And I was just crying everywhere, like driving, like bawling
33:16
Speaker 1: my eyes out, listening to Santsa, which is actually really sad,
33:20
Speaker 1: very very sad. Can't even though it's very upbeat. Um. Yeah,
33:25
Speaker 1: And I was just crying forever, so definitely, And I
33:27
Speaker 1: credit the gym yesterday crying in public. Just I was
33:32
Speaker 1: texting like a few friends about something that I was
33:34
Speaker 1: going that's going on right now, and just having them
33:37
Speaker 1: support me was like fuck, and started crying. It can
33:40
Speaker 1: be even even positive reaction absolutely make you cry, because
33:45
Speaker 1: crying is not always bad. It's not always a bad
33:48
Speaker 1: thing that triggers it. Really good things can trigger crying, right, totally,
33:53
Speaker 1: totally hmm. Okay, even when we're sad, we're going to
33:57
Speaker 1: beaching us exactly, even when we're sad, And that's part
34:01
Speaker 1: of being a China is embracing your sadness and writing
34:04
Speaker 1: with it, yes, writing that way, yes, yes. So I
34:09
Speaker 1: have another question for you, um, because I already know
34:13
Speaker 1: the answer and I want our listen. So, when did
34:17
Speaker 1: you realize that you were a Bruja? So? Um, I
34:21
Speaker 1: first realized I was a Bruja. I think that me
34:24
Speaker 1: and my friends. Even when we were very young, um
34:28
Speaker 1: in elementary school, we had this inclination towards dabbling in bruheria,
34:34
Speaker 1: dabbling in witchcraft. So for example, this is one of
34:37
Speaker 1: many examples, but for example, we went all out with
34:40
Speaker 1: this and we used to have sleepovers all the time,
34:43
Speaker 1: me and my friends. And you know, not a lot
34:46
Speaker 1: of people are allowed to sleep over at other people's houses,
34:48
Speaker 1: but our little group of friends there was like three
34:51
Speaker 1: or four of us. Our moms were alco madres and
34:53
Speaker 1: really close, and we were able to hang out with
34:57
Speaker 1: each other and have sleepovers. And we like, we're ay
35:00
Speaker 1: elaborate with our sleepovers. So what we began to do
35:02
Speaker 1: one year was we would actually schedule our sleepovers and
35:05
Speaker 1: time them. We would look on the calendar and find
35:08
Speaker 1: out when we could expect, like the next full moon
35:11
Speaker 1: to be. We would only have our sleepovers like on
35:14
Speaker 1: the night of a full moon. So we did a
35:16
Speaker 1: couple of them where night of a full moon at
35:19
Speaker 1: my house, we like slept outside under the light of
35:23
Speaker 1: the full moon. We bought a weiji board. We sat
35:28
Speaker 1: inside a circle of salt and we put garlic everywhere.
35:31
Speaker 1: I have this rain stick that my dad has had
35:34
Speaker 1: for years, and we passed it around like person to person.
35:38
Speaker 1: We did we had a seance basically, and that was
35:42
Speaker 1: like our sleepovers usually involved some sort of attempt at
35:47
Speaker 1: like mysticism, and we were in elementary school. I love it.
35:50
Speaker 1: You were having seances at the age of like twelve
35:52
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, and it was really fun. It was really fun.
35:57
Speaker 1: I think that we um, we got to explore sort
36:01
Speaker 1: of that curiosity and just the fact that we were
36:04
Speaker 1: just so drawn to it. We wanted to do that stuff.
36:08
Speaker 1: I used to when I was a little girl. My
36:10
Speaker 1: family members were always um, you know, giving me things
36:14
Speaker 1: to help me make, like oils and like potions and stuff.
36:18
Speaker 1: I was always grinding up leaves. I was always creating potions.
36:23
Speaker 1: I was collecting little glass like containers and vials and
36:26
Speaker 1: stuff so I can keep my stuff in it. One
36:28
Speaker 1: year for Christmas, all I wanted was a hit, like
36:31
Speaker 1: I requested am from my meno from my uncle that beautiful,
36:35
Speaker 1: and he gave me a giant stone one like a
36:37
Speaker 1: beautiful one, and I was We had a eucalyptus tree
36:40
Speaker 1: in our backyard, so I was always grinding up eucalyptus
36:43
Speaker 1: leaves and doing things with eucalyptus. So I was in
36:46
Speaker 1: like my brew has ship as a child, and they,
36:49
Speaker 1: like my friend Kathy was the same, and she was
36:53
Speaker 1: she was really into like being in her yard and
36:55
Speaker 1: plants and potions and all this stuff. So we were
36:58
Speaker 1: the little blue Haas and that's how our always talked
37:01
Speaker 1: about us, and they would kind of make fun of us.
37:03
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's when I first knew I love that,
37:07
Speaker 1: how about you? So for me, I don't have anything
37:09
Speaker 1: like specifically like that, but I remember always feeling like
37:12
Speaker 1: I could feel everyone's energy and wanting things to protect
37:15
Speaker 1: me from it. And I would tell my dad because
37:18
Speaker 1: he always had like a charm or something around his
37:21
Speaker 1: neck for protection, and I would tell him like I
37:24
Speaker 1: want one, and he would be like, no, you're too young,
37:26
Speaker 1: you don't need one. But I really really wanted one.
37:29
Speaker 1: And I remember telling him like Mick, I'm mad, and
37:33
Speaker 1: I like there was just something about people, like I
37:35
Speaker 1: just knew um that there was something I didn't like,
37:38
Speaker 1: there was some energy, and my dad would tell me
37:41
Speaker 1: like it is it? Like it is something like that,
37:47
Speaker 1: like you're too young to feel like someone isn't good
37:50
Speaker 1: or that this person isn't like whatever you know, which
37:53
Speaker 1: isn't true exactly. So I just I remember always being
37:57
Speaker 1: very aware of other people's energies. Maybe not necessarily I mean,
38:01
Speaker 1: of course towards me, but just in general, like in
38:04
Speaker 1: the room, towards other people. Being very observant. I was
38:07
Speaker 1: a very shy kid, um so, being very observant of
38:10
Speaker 1: everything that was going around going on around me. So
38:13
Speaker 1: I feel definitely in terms of energy work and now
38:15
Speaker 1: protecting myself when I'm out and about or even just
38:18
Speaker 1: in close company with other people, um that I may
38:21
Speaker 1: not know, definitely taking care of myself and my energy
38:25
Speaker 1: and my physical body, my space. That's why my space
38:28
Speaker 1: is my sanctuary. And I tell anyone that comes in,
38:31
Speaker 1: like we're not talking about problems in here, like this
38:34
Speaker 1: is my sanctuary. We can talk about it outside if
38:36
Speaker 1: you're not bringing that in here. Um So, yeah, always
38:40
Speaker 1: being aware of what was going on around me um
38:42
Speaker 1: as a little girl, amazing, right, But intuitiveness, but intuition,
38:48
Speaker 1: but like the fact, basically being a child and path
38:51
Speaker 1: basically it's exhausting. I think that's why I'm so tired
38:54
Speaker 1: now as an adult. I'm just like being caring loads
38:57
Speaker 1: like feeling everything and nobody of being let me help you,
39:02
Speaker 1: let me take away, let me hold someone exactly exactly,
39:06
Speaker 1: and it helps helps, it does, it really does. Um.
39:11
Speaker 1: I think also like being a child, being the youngest
39:15
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with it. Being the only
39:16
Speaker 1: girl in the family had a lot to do with it.
39:19
Speaker 1: Being like my mom's friend but her child. We definitely
39:23
Speaker 1: had to like go more girls type of relationship, which
39:25
Speaker 1: is a very weird thing to have as a kid,
39:28
Speaker 1: you know, So definitely taking on that emotional labor for parents,
39:32
Speaker 1: family members, and they're adult emotions that are so heavy,
39:36
Speaker 1: like rot with all kinds of yes yetuff yes. I
39:40
Speaker 1: was a very depressed little kid and nobody, Yeah, nobody
39:44
Speaker 1: would do anything. Nobody could do anything about it. I
39:46
Speaker 1: think nobody wanted to see like see it or maybe
39:50
Speaker 1: like think like, oh, Grotto, she's going through a phase.
39:53
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a lot. So I really value
39:55
Speaker 1: like energy work now as an adult seeing my therapist.
39:59
Speaker 1: Those are very those are things that I hold very
40:01
Speaker 1: sacred to me and my healing since I'm like undoing
40:03
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, you know, Yeah, that's fabulous. I mean,
40:08
Speaker 1: just the realization and sometimes like our own emotions are
40:13
Speaker 1: like the hardest things for us to understand. Yeah, and
40:16
Speaker 1: you know it's so interesting, like vibes that you give
40:18
Speaker 1: off without I think even trying to um, but there's
40:22
Speaker 1: other people that are like you that feel them. I
40:24
Speaker 1: actually received this message yesterday from a friend of mine
40:27
Speaker 1: who were social media friends and we've met a few
40:29
Speaker 1: times in person um, and she messaged me just saying
40:32
Speaker 1: she thought of me and she wanted to send me
40:33
Speaker 1: some love. And I was going through it yesterday. I
40:35
Speaker 1: was like, really sad for a bunch of reasons. And
40:38
Speaker 1: then she tells me, hey, like I wanted to connect
40:40
Speaker 1: you with my healer because she does like physical therapy
40:44
Speaker 1: but for like forgetting trauma or releasing traumas from the body.
40:47
Speaker 1: And I was like what she like read me? You know.
40:52
Speaker 1: So it was really interesting the way like you, I guess,
40:55
Speaker 1: engage your Yeah. Yeah, it's very sting, yea know. And
41:01
Speaker 1: that's how you know that somebody is like truly a
41:04
Speaker 1: healer if they can sort of pick up on what
41:06
Speaker 1: it is that you're in death ste or what you need. Yeah,
41:09
Speaker 1: mind you ahead and talked to this ahead in months
41:12
Speaker 1: and you know we're social media friends, so how how
41:14
Speaker 1: can you really know what someone's going through? You know
41:17
Speaker 1: what she did, which I think is amazing. That's great. Yeah,
41:21
Speaker 1: that's fabulous. Social media wins again. It does yet again
41:25
Speaker 1: shadow haters telling us to get off Instagram. Shut the
41:30
Speaker 1: funk up up you get off Instagram. I know, right. Um.
41:35
Speaker 1: Even today I posted a picture like send me send
41:38
Speaker 1: me love today friends, and I got so many very
41:40
Speaker 1: sweet messages. Yeah. So people be people, people know, people know,
41:46
Speaker 1: people know. So our final question for today in our
41:50
Speaker 1: getting to know you segment, um Yosa why Yosa? Like?
41:55
Speaker 1: What does that name that title mean to you? Yeah?
41:59
Speaker 1: You know, I think we we talked about Didosa Goddess
42:03
Speaker 1: a lot in the last but I still like, hold
42:07
Speaker 1: a lot of it still holds true to me. Um,
42:09
Speaker 1: someone that is flawed. Um. So for me, I think
42:13
Speaker 1: being h is like recognizing my divine feminine, recognizing the
42:18
Speaker 1: divine feminine others. Um, coming from a place of healing,
42:24
Speaker 1: coming from a place of love and gentleness, but also
42:27
Speaker 1: recognizing that I'm flawed. I've made a lot of mistakes.
42:30
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of people and I've also been
42:32
Speaker 1: hurt by a lot of people. And um, and people
42:36
Speaker 1: have also made mistakes, So recognizing everyone is on their
42:39
Speaker 1: own process, in their own journey of growth of healing,
42:42
Speaker 1: no one is on the same page. Um and I
42:45
Speaker 1: think that's definitely why we harm each other, especially in relationships.
42:48
Speaker 1: Um So, for me, it's just I think also really
42:51
Speaker 1: recognizing that I am a essential and sexual being. My
42:56
Speaker 1: sexuality is very important to me, um and allowing that
43:02
Speaker 1: in a place of healing as well. So really just
43:05
Speaker 1: coming from a holistic perspective, I think is what is
43:08
Speaker 1: why Dyosa is very important to me. Yeah. I love that,
43:12
Speaker 1: and I think that Yosa suits you. Thank you. I
43:15
Speaker 1: think it's fitting well, thank you, thank you, embody the name,
43:19
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. So great. When we're
43:22
Speaker 1: on in public and people call us Mala, it's hilarious.
43:26
Speaker 1: I love it. It's very sweet. Um. I also love
43:28
Speaker 1: my name though. You know, my name is Ariana and
43:30
Speaker 1: I was named after Maya Willa on my on my
43:32
Speaker 1: dad's side. Um So, I love my name. I think
43:35
Speaker 1: both names are very fitting. Um people call me Dyosa
43:39
Speaker 1: and people call me Ariana, and both I love so,
43:42
Speaker 1: you know, But for the sake of the podcast, we're
43:44
Speaker 1: going to continue with Yosa. Absolutely absolutely, yeah, um So
43:48
Speaker 1: I want to to close up. I want to ask you, um,
43:51
Speaker 1: why mala, Well, I think that for me, I have
43:57
Speaker 1: always loved the idea of embracing the shunned woman, the
44:06
Speaker 1: woman who like for me, I remember one of the
44:09
Speaker 1: first books that just really really drew me in was
44:11
Speaker 1: actually The Scarlet Letter and Hester Prynne, right, who was um,
44:18
Speaker 1: a young woman, a very young woman who had this
44:22
Speaker 1: just like in colonial times, right, I think they were
44:24
Speaker 1: Quakers or something. They were. I think they were like,
44:27
Speaker 1: what is it when you came from Puritans? There were
44:29
Speaker 1: Purits there, regal they were Puritans. There were Puritans. So
44:32
Speaker 1: I don't usually reference like, oh, like you know this
44:35
Speaker 1: puritan is like I identify with this Puritan. Right, but
44:39
Speaker 1: but right, being a young person, a young girl reading
44:43
Speaker 1: reading anything about women in literature and the women in
44:46
Speaker 1: sex and women in pregnancy and women in stigma, we
44:49
Speaker 1: should have an episode on that. Oh yeah, on on
44:52
Speaker 1: on on the mamas right of the world. I have
44:55
Speaker 1: always been drawn to those women, those figures, the ones
44:58
Speaker 1: who have our shipped on and talk it on, right,
45:01
Speaker 1: usually because of something having to do with their expression,
45:04
Speaker 1: their sex, their sexuality. Right. So like Hester Prynne in
45:08
Speaker 1: the scarlet letter. She's a young Puritan woman who has
45:11
Speaker 1: an affair with the priest, and she becomes pregnant right
45:15
Speaker 1: by this priest, and she is forced basically her consequence
45:19
Speaker 1: because essentially what she did was considered criminal, her public shaming,
45:24
Speaker 1: what she had to wear a scarlet, a red letter
45:26
Speaker 1: a on all of her clothes, that's stood for like adulteress,
45:31
Speaker 1: right to stigmatize her and cast her out from the community.
45:34
Speaker 1: The Hester Prince of the world, the Monica Lewinsky's, the
45:37
Speaker 1: Yoko Ono's who get involved with powerful men sexually romantically,
45:43
Speaker 1: and then the women are shipped on and ostracized and
45:45
Speaker 1: they're bad, bad, bad and bad women, you know, the
45:48
Speaker 1: Anita Hills. Those are my people. I love those women.
45:52
Speaker 1: I love those women and for me always, you know,
45:55
Speaker 1: growing up in a Catholic family and a Catholic household, UM,
46:01
Speaker 1: really not vibing with that, not liking it, stepping away
46:04
Speaker 1: from all of that, kind of just behaving the way
46:07
Speaker 1: that I want to behave um and a lot of
46:09
Speaker 1: times to the horror of my family. Not because I
46:13
Speaker 1: want to spite anybody or rebel against anyone. It's more like, no,
46:17
Speaker 1: this is how I feel comfortable living my life, you know,
46:20
Speaker 1: and I'm a mom and I'mala for those reasons. And
46:24
Speaker 1: I also for me, I take Mala and look as
46:27
Speaker 1: sort of in turn, So when we talk about look
46:30
Speaker 1: as like for survivors, like reclaiming the term right and
46:35
Speaker 1: reclaiming this idea that we're not hysterical, we're not crazy,
46:40
Speaker 1: we're exposing ship that we don't like, right, I think
46:43
Speaker 1: that the Mala is also like the loud bitch to
46:45
Speaker 1: absolutely right, who is speaking her mind and maybe even
46:48
Speaker 1: calling out people and making others look bad because you're
46:51
Speaker 1: talking about, well, this is the violence that you've done,
46:53
Speaker 1: and this is how you're bad. Right, So that's what
46:56
Speaker 1: I mean totally Yeah, and I think you can be
46:58
Speaker 1: a little bit of both also, oh absolutely, and the
47:03
Speaker 1: yang we embody that I think I completely agree with
47:07
Speaker 1: you definitely. I think why we're we have good energy,
47:10
Speaker 1: we're good, we have a good vibe, good chemistry. Agree, yes, yes, So, um,
47:16
Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap We're wrapping up now. We want to
47:20
Speaker 1: talk about actually our next Um, so we're actually going
47:24
Speaker 1: to open up the We're going to open up the
47:28
Speaker 1: episode or to our listeners because we want to do
47:31
Speaker 1: twenty questions. So we're posting a Curious Cat link so ali,
47:36
Speaker 1: y'all can ask some questions. We've gotten some along the way,
47:39
Speaker 1: but I think this will be a good way to
47:40
Speaker 1: really direct all of the questions that y'all have for
47:44
Speaker 1: the podcast, and we're going to answer twins. So we'll
47:47
Speaker 1: be picking twenty questions that y'all submit. Um, I guess
47:51
Speaker 1: the best twenty year or whatever we feel like, answering
47:53
Speaker 1: whatever we feel like. To be honest, whatever we feel like,
47:55
Speaker 1: answer whatever we like, because we're not going to force
47:58
Speaker 1: ourselves to like expose we're talking about things and we
48:01
Speaker 1: don't want to. But definitely we've seen along the way
48:04
Speaker 1: that you'll have questions about us, so this will be
48:07
Speaker 1: a good way for you all to get to know
48:08
Speaker 1: us more. And this is a little preview of that.
48:11
Speaker 1: This episode was a preview of that. So ask us questions,
48:15
Speaker 1: ask us questions, and we're going to post the Curious
48:17
Speaker 1: Cat link right so you'll find it. Look out for it. Yeah, um,
48:21
Speaker 1: and you know what, get creative with your questions. They
48:24
Speaker 1: can be questions about us. If we feel comfortable, we'll
48:26
Speaker 1: answer those personal questions, questions about our opinions on things,
48:31
Speaker 1: and interpretations of stuff whatever. Yeah, definitely did. We've gotten
48:36
Speaker 1: some emails in the past few weeks asking us UM
48:39
Speaker 1: some some questions and this will be a good way
48:42
Speaker 1: to also answer them. Yeah, we don't have a specific
48:44
Speaker 1: theme these questions. We don't So whatever you guys feel
48:48
Speaker 1: like asking. Yeah, definitely, I'm excited. I'm excited too. I
48:53
Speaker 1: want to see what you all are going to submit.
48:55
Speaker 1: You can't wait. Yeah, And the cool thing is that
48:57
Speaker 1: you can ask anonymously. Yes, but you can also list
49:00
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49:02
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49:05
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49:11
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49:28
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49:32
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49:35
Speaker 1: what was it? It was a gift. It was a
49:37
Speaker 1: gift of the both of us when we were we
49:39
Speaker 1: had our little beach day and the caption was like
49:41
Speaker 1: share your best your favorite UM, your favorite picture in
49:46
Speaker 1: your favorite bikini, your favorite bathing suit. Yeah. So, a
49:49
Speaker 1: couple of people responded, Yes, So if you haven't done
49:52
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