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Capitulo 026: A Year in Review · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: Radio Radio radios a myth and bullshit radio phonic novella
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Speaker 1: Local Radio hosted by Malam. Hello, welcome back to local radio. Welcome, Welcome.
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Speaker 1: This is Mala and this is DIOSA. This is Get
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Speaker 1: Another Girl Hour. Yes, Look at the Radio is a
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Speaker 1: podcast archiving the brilliance and legacies of women and fems
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Speaker 1: of color. Thank you for joining us once again. Yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being here. It's been a hot minute
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Speaker 1: since we last recorded, and we're so happy to be recordings.
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Speaker 1: And we've overcome a lot, honestly to record. Yes, as
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Speaker 1: you all know or maybe you don't, but mercury is
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Speaker 1: in retrograde, which is known to block communication. And the
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Speaker 1: last Saturday when we tried to record, everything was a
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Speaker 1: hot mess and it was weird because everything was a
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Speaker 1: hot mess, like one thing after the other. But the
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Speaker 1: middle this wasn't working, Like there was this weird sound
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Speaker 1: coming on the radio stack at the radio station out Yes,
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Speaker 1: and then when we were trying to tell you all
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Speaker 1: about it, are the sound on our phones? We're working either.
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Speaker 1: And then like I was having trouble uploading shipped to
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Speaker 1: my story, like things things that I uploaded you couldn't
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Speaker 1: see on so strange. It was just because we had
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Speaker 1: every intention of coming in here and recording. We did
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Speaker 1: come and we couldn't because the sound was sucked up.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it was just a weird day and we
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Speaker 1: were like, yeah, mercury is definitely in retrograde. Someone has
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Speaker 1: done like a weird on our technology and it's trying
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Speaker 1: to stifle us. But we overcame and now we're here. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we cannot be silence. You cannot kill a bad BT, No,
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Speaker 1: you cannot. So anyways, so so much has happened since
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Speaker 1: we last recorded. We want to give you all an
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Speaker 1: update before we get into our main content. The Gardener
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Speaker 1: as mother like gardener. So, um, we've been busy. We've
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Speaker 1: been busy. Porcallo happened about two or three weeks ago. Now,
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Speaker 1: that was November nine, on a Sunday a La downtown
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Speaker 1: l A. It was a lot of fun. It was
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I mean, I was honestly, very
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Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised that so many people came out specifically for
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Speaker 1: Latinox podcasts. Yes, like it was all it was podcasts.
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Speaker 1: Like we had panels, we were tabling, um, there were
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Speaker 1: different topics. It was really fun there was merch. We
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Speaker 1: got to meet some of our listeners, which is always
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Speaker 1: our favorite part about doing events. We love that. Um
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Speaker 1: and Yeah, I think we didn't know what to expect
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Speaker 1: and like mol said, we were pleasantly surprised. We got
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Speaker 1: to share a little table with umfic on cheese Man
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Speaker 1: shout out. And our setup was so cute. We had
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Speaker 1: our pink BoA's and our Velita's and swag and all that.
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Speaker 1: So poppy hats, Our poppy hats. Shout out to everyone
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Speaker 1: that has purchased them. Now available in black, they're super
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Speaker 1: and black super cute. Were currently sold out. Mona and
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Speaker 1: I don't even have a black one. You don't. They're exclusive, yes,
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Speaker 1: so if you were lucky enough to get your hands
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Speaker 1: on them, they'll be back in the country. People want them,
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Speaker 1: like our family members think that they're going to get
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Speaker 1: them for free. They're like, oh, could I get a hat?
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Speaker 1: Were like for fifteen dollars first seventeen Mama, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: my mom was like, my mom was like, um, can
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Speaker 1: I get one? And I was like, yes, it'll be
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Speaker 1: seventeen dollars. Yes, even my mother but she's a big
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Speaker 1: fan of the podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know,
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Speaker 1: support your local podcasts absolutely, and we got to meet
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Speaker 1: some of our favorite podcasters. We met, you know, the
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Speaker 1: folks of shout Out that are a lot of town
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Speaker 1: and that is Yeah, Latinos to lunch ump a lot
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Speaker 1: around girls. They were some one, all of them, like
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Speaker 1: we were all there. It was fun, it was fun,
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Speaker 1: it was cute. Thank you everybody for who was there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: shout out to the organizers as well. And then in
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Speaker 1: addition to podcast studio, we've been like, we've been doing
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Speaker 1: a little like university circuit recently. It's been honest, very cute.
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Speaker 1: It's been real cute, very academic, right, fun. So we
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Speaker 1: went to a few days later, we went to maybe
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Speaker 1: a week later. I can't even remember. Everything is such
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Speaker 1: a but we went to pitts Or College and one
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Speaker 1: of the Clamont colleges and it was super super great.
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Speaker 1: We were mod and I were on a panel that
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Speaker 1: was very fun, moderated by one of the students that
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Speaker 1: organized doing that actually brought us out there, and it
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Speaker 1: was amazing. Yeah, and it wasn't so great. People were
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Speaker 1: really asking questions and really getting into the material and um,
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Speaker 1: we basically talked about our particular womanisms and feminisms and homisms.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely what we always do. We always do what we do,
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Speaker 1: yes and when, And we were at USC. They're Latino
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Speaker 1: Student Assembly invited us to fancy there basically night of musica. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: thank you Karen for bringing us out. And it was great.
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Speaker 1: It was a really good time. I mean good show
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Speaker 1: um local l a like Latino x bands, local talent um.
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Speaker 1: And the day of that show, it was like the
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Speaker 1: last day of classes for all of like the SC students,
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Speaker 1: so I think that they were just like so relieved
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Speaker 1: to be done with the semester. So it was a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. And
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Speaker 1: then even more, Oh my god, we have so many
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Speaker 1: updates because it's been such a long time we last recorded.
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Speaker 1: All of the stuff is accumulating. But then we we
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Speaker 1: had an event. Our friend Bukafalaha was here from out
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Speaker 1: of town and invited us along with mad Um, to
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Speaker 1: go like do a night of like you know, film
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Speaker 1: with Bukafalaha. He has a documentary called hall Um, which
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Speaker 1: has a lot to do with like blackness and Latin
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Speaker 1: America UM and constructions of race. We went to go
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Speaker 1: talk about our prod deject about and there were some
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Speaker 1: listeners there in the audience, you know, did his thing
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Speaker 1: with his poetry. It was fun. It was a really
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Speaker 1: nice night. Yeah, and I we had we all. I
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Speaker 1: think we have some new listeners now. We had made
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Speaker 1: some great connections. So I'm really happy if you're listening, friend,
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Speaker 1: you went to the book of thank you to Me.
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Speaker 1: And then in addition, we were selected um by Word Agency.
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Speaker 1: Are girls over a Word Agency? They featured us as
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Speaker 1: one of their twenty five days of word women, So
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Speaker 1: women opening real doors and um it was super cute.
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Speaker 1: They did like a short interview with us. They asked
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Speaker 1: us like our favorite what we're grateful for, and then
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Speaker 1: our favorite moments or collaboration from um so just to
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Speaker 1: read it a little bit. Seventeen was our year of collaborations,
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Speaker 1: from throwing parties to our friends with our friends Ala Junta,
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Speaker 1: to hosting book and EP release events for local artists
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Speaker 1: like Yessica and Donna. We've been busy all year. We
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Speaker 1: had a good year. He did have a year. And
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Speaker 1: that's what this sizzle is over here and Espasio and
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Speaker 1: she's like hats us on her Instagram recording right now. Girl,
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Speaker 1: we love her, We love sizzle. Yes. And then one
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Speaker 1: woman to know is Amilie and yes, you can find
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Speaker 1: her at on Instagram at mass up on home. She's
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Speaker 1: so cute, she's very cute. She's she's a fellow youth.
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Speaker 1: We're not fellow, but she's a you's and we love
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Speaker 1: her and shout out we are, Yes, we love her.
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Speaker 1: She's amazing. Um, she's super dope and yeah, definitely someone
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Speaker 1: to know. And this cut pizzle is all about it's
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Speaker 1: a year in review. We are going to be talking
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Speaker 1: about our favorite different memories of this year. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: got into some ship this year. You know, the good,
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Speaker 1: the bad, the ridiculous, the scandalous, yes, the embarrassing. Oh god,
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about all of it. I'm so
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Speaker 1: well when you say it like that. Okay, we begin.
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Speaker 1: So the first the first memory, of course, at the
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Speaker 1: top is our favorite home memories. Favorite memory, Yeah, who
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Speaker 1: wants to start? My favorite home memory is that I
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Speaker 1: think I've talked about a little bit um already in
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Speaker 1: past coup peoples, is that I got a relationship right
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Speaker 1: here and the breakup to six months right so, like
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Speaker 1: I was like running out the door at that point,
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Speaker 1: and I was so excited. So I'm like, yes, I'm free.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a health show. I'm gonna be out
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Speaker 1: here in these streets. I'm gonna I'm gonna get it.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna have a great time. What I learned.
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Speaker 1: My favorite memory of this year is learning that it's
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Speaker 1: much harder to be a home than most people think.
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Speaker 1: Exhaust It's so hard, so hard, it's take so much work.
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Speaker 1: I haven't made any home memories. Basically, is what I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to say is I haven't made any home memories
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Speaker 1: this year because it's hard, it's a lot of work.
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Speaker 1: The options are limited out there. I can think of
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Speaker 1: a shut up, okay, I like whatever, who are just
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Speaker 1: regular memories? I wouldn't even consider those whole memories necessarily.
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Speaker 1: This is true, you know, because I think that there's
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Speaker 1: your your regular levels of having fun. But then you
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Speaker 1: you reach the next level and those are your whole levels.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't get there this year, unfortunately, got it.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I feel like this was my peak year. Yes,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about it. This is my peak ho year.
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Speaker 1: And now I'm just like, you know, not out and
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Speaker 1: about anymore. You're a sabbatical I want a sabbatical. I
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Speaker 1: started the year like, hello, ho ish you're resting. I'm resting.
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Speaker 1: I'm on a Britain Well not a break, but I'm resting, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on sabbatical. No, I mean I think to illustrate, like
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Speaker 1: I like like I would have beat, I would have
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Speaker 1: been I would be the biggest home. I would be
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Speaker 1: the biggest home. But like, for example, this year, on
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Speaker 1: one weekend, I had too different guys like in my
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Speaker 1: apartment in one weekend. But did I did I? Did
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Speaker 1: I get digged down? I didn't how I know exactly
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Speaker 1: what you're talking about? How does that work? And they
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Speaker 1: were like to like living breathing men, you know, like
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Speaker 1: fully functioning. And I still did not get it where
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Speaker 1: I live at all. So I didn't make any home memories.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sad. I know, I'm just I'm just waiting.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm laying in wait. To be honest,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you have to wait to be a home with
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Speaker 1: my batteries person. You know. Oh that's everything that's true.
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Speaker 1: That's everything that's true. Yeah, So okay, next question, favorite
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Speaker 1: homegirl memories that I have a lot of. Yes, there's
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Speaker 1: been quite a few. What are your favorite Homegirl memories
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Speaker 1: from this year. Well, let's see the mommy celebrated the
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Speaker 1: when year anniversary. Yes, oh my god, we had two
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Speaker 1: anniversaries this year. We did. We had two big ones.
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Speaker 1: First there was the Mummy Verse three and then something
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Speaker 1: that I think is really funny to me. And also
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Speaker 1: just like I always joked, like MoMA's my other partner
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Speaker 1: because like if you look at my Instagram, it's like
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Speaker 1: my bow and then Mala like it's like them too.
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Speaker 1: Um so exactly, so we actually Mama and I we
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Speaker 1: unlocked like a level of homegirl love because we have
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Speaker 1: a joint big that was a great memory. That was
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Speaker 1: a memory. We were at the bank together, yes, together
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Speaker 1: with our social opening a bank account together, and um
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Speaker 1: we were perceived as as partners and yeah we are.
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Speaker 1: And it was funny because I don't know what do
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Speaker 1: we call the banker the manager when a manager the
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Speaker 1: bankers they were. The manager was like, oh, oh, are
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Speaker 1: YouTube partners and they were like very sweet, really nice.
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Speaker 1: They were like this for household items. They were like yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: we're partners. Yes, yes. It was very cute. And then
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Speaker 1: we also had another partner moment where We went to
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Speaker 1: this like the music center after dark, Yes, and they
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Speaker 1: had like like an Afro Cuban night with different floors
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Speaker 1: and bands and so much fun, all kinds of stuff,
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Speaker 1: a dance floor DJ's and there was this one mohead
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Speaker 1: who was doing lessons partner dancing, and we coupled up,
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Speaker 1: of course, and we funked up everybody ship and they
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Speaker 1: had to The instructor had to change up her whole language.
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Speaker 1: She did because of course it was it was very
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Speaker 1: gendered and it was like perceivably hadtero couples, right, But
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Speaker 1: then Mama and I came in and then she started
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Speaker 1: saying like, oh, grab your grab your your partner, or
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Speaker 1: grab your your dance partner, right, definitely switching up the language.
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Speaker 1: And it was really funny because Mala was lead and
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Speaker 1: I was like, why does Mama get to be les? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we switched and switched and then it was so
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Speaker 1: funny because the women were like rotating and I feel
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Speaker 1: like they didn't know how to act. Yeah yeah, because
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Speaker 1: the instructor kept saying like, um, she was like the
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Speaker 1: assumption was like the one in the middle that's being
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Speaker 1: passed around was always correct because she and the one
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Speaker 1: doing the passing was always a keys and then she
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Speaker 1: had to change up the language to like leader and
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Speaker 1: follower instead of we have her these gender languages. It
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Speaker 1: was so cute, it was very fun. So that was
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Speaker 1: a good homegirl memory. Yeah, I loved our mommyniversary. I
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Speaker 1: even honestly would consider mommy getting to be a home
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Speaker 1: by or I don't talk about that one my favorite
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Speaker 1: memory of it's memory that we will always remember in
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Speaker 1: very few words and very details. Can you let our
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Speaker 1: listeners know about my getting mommy Gedding was a series
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Speaker 1: of very unfortunate events that took place at a party
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Speaker 1: that will go a name not too long ago. Um
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Speaker 1: wherein you know, you know, you know when you mix
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Speaker 1: alcohol and you know, bad attitudes and you know, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes tensions rise and sometimes even homegirls get into it.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say where two of the mommies. There was
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Speaker 1: two of us they will remain unnamed. But we came
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Speaker 1: out alive and well and still loving each other and
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Speaker 1: supporting each other. This is true. I mean the fight
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Speaker 1: took place across like several different locations and various mediums
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Speaker 1: and various mediums. We were like parking lot, king, taco phone,
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Speaker 1: text call. Yeah, it was like a whole thing across platform.
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Speaker 1: Momma was not my favorite memory. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's still a prominent memory, but we had other good memories.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think our Look Adversary, like our one
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Speaker 1: year anniversary was really fun and like we got to
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Speaker 1: meet so many listeners look a Motives. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: That was one of my best memories of the whole
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Speaker 1: year for sure. The Look Aversary, I agree, it was
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Speaker 1: definitely my favorite memory. I think it was such a good,
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Speaker 1: like end of year type, like we're starting a new
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Speaker 1: year as look at our radio so like to see
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Speaker 1: everyone that supported us from the very beginning to like
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Speaker 1: new listeners there and their partners that were there with them.
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Speaker 1: It was super right. And then of course, like we
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Speaker 1: love our friends over at La Junta l A, so
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Speaker 1: being able to plan that with them with super super dope,
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Speaker 1: super amazing. They're really good people. Yeah. Yeah, and I
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Speaker 1: mean this year also, like, um, I think that, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think this transitions us now into the next categories.
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Speaker 1: Just look at our memories like podcast memories and the
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Speaker 1: Look Adversary, And I think the fact that this year
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Speaker 1: we actually began like doing workshops and like going to
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Speaker 1: speak at schools, universities conferences starting with like UC Santa Barbara, Yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having us u c l A shout
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Speaker 1: out silky USC. We've been at USC now Pasadena City College,
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Speaker 1: um Pitzer. We have more coming in the year. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we will share this later to be announced at a
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Speaker 1: later time. I'm a later date, yes, so yeah, just
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Speaker 1: good stuff, you know, And I think, like I want
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Speaker 1: to shout out everyone that has our listeners, followers look
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Speaker 1: on what is that have donated money to our venmo.
16:11
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, that have become patrons and that
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Speaker 1: have purchased a Bobby hat. Um, because what you'all don't
16:18
Speaker 1: know is like when mom and I started this project,
16:20
Speaker 1: like everything, of course, we like front right every every
16:24
Speaker 1: everything that we do, like we obviously use our own money,
16:27
Speaker 1: and it's hard, obviously, um so hard. With your donations
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Speaker 1: and like with your support, we've been able to order
16:33
Speaker 1: our business cards or stickers, our hats and like hopefully
16:37
Speaker 1: expand to other things in the future. So thank you
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Speaker 1: to everybody that has like really given their money to us.
16:44
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for giving us all the paper.
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Speaker 1: You know, what's somebody but the thing is, it's so
16:51
Speaker 1: cute because, like we had several different listeners tell us
16:55
Speaker 1: both in person and online, like in those words like
16:59
Speaker 1: people want to know how they can support you and
17:01
Speaker 1: how they can people want to give you their money.
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Speaker 1: That's literally what we're said. Mohed told us that at
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Speaker 1: east Side Love to our face, like people want to
17:08
Speaker 1: give you their money. So we're just giving the people
17:10
Speaker 1: what they want, which is the opportunity to give us
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Speaker 1: their beny. You're welcome, Thank you everybody, You're grateful. Anyways. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, those are some good as memories, if I
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Speaker 1: do say so myself, I think so too. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I didn't share my home memory. What's your home memory?
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Speaker 1: Don't remember though? You know, we're like which one Um,
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Speaker 1: I was acting a fool and I was drunk and
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Speaker 1: I um had sex in the car after after our
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Speaker 1: what circumstances, after our the girls and I the mommy.
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Speaker 1: Tonight we had our our pool party. That was a
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Speaker 1: good time. It was so much fun. It was so
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Speaker 1: fun drunk and got quintaco after. Yeah, we were so drunk.
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Speaker 1: We were so drunk. It was a good time. It
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Speaker 1: was forward to round two, same next year, because that's
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Speaker 1: a good clean fun that's yeah, it's safe for my
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Speaker 1: parents house. It was fun, okay, cool, Okay, Well we
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Speaker 1: reminisce on our home memory. Oh my god or call
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Speaker 1: um and and and and and and and and and
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Speaker 1: and um um um um um um um um um
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Speaker 1: um um of it and little ship. We're back and
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Speaker 1: we actually have a cute guest here with us today. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Ludi Lava heyy girl. Ludy is a writer and editor,
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Speaker 1: a creative and artist, and Ludy's out here for like
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Speaker 1: special purposes in addition to coming in saying hi to
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Speaker 1: us today is so Ludi, can you introduce yourself to
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Speaker 1: our listeners? Yeah? Hello, it's such a pleasure to be
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Speaker 1: here um with look at the radio. Um. Yeah, my
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Speaker 1: name is Ludy. I'm based in Brooklyn, Um, Guatemalan Slovakian
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Speaker 1: diaspora baby from Seattle. And yeah, I'm so happy to
19:39
Speaker 1: be here with y'all. Thank you for joining her, Thanks
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Speaker 1: for being here, and what brings you to l A Well,
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Speaker 1: my partner has a installation project at twenty nine rooms
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Speaker 1: right now, so I'm just here supporting her. That's so dope.
19:52
Speaker 1: And can you tell our listeners a little bit about
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Speaker 1: what is twenty nine rooms like if they don't know, Yeah, absolutely,
19:57
Speaker 1: it's an interactive art event put put on my refinery
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Speaker 1: twenty nine. So originally it started in Brooklyn. I think
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Speaker 1: this is the first year that it's going to be
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I think next year it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: coming to a few more cities around the country. UM.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just basically a space for for artists
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Speaker 1: to have installations, um and kind of interactive pieces. UM.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of different different mediums. Um. But
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Speaker 1: my partner's project is virtual reality. It's a project called
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Speaker 1: neuro Speculative Afro Feminism. Uh. And it's pretty dopey. All
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Speaker 1: should check it out. That's amazing. We need to go
20:29
Speaker 1: and get some pictures that we do. We do explore
20:32
Speaker 1: the arts. We need to go see. Thank you, thank
20:34
Speaker 1: you telling us about that. And we're also you know,
20:37
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask Loudy to share some of your favorite
20:40
Speaker 1: memories of this year of seventeen. Um, I don't know,
20:44
Speaker 1: you know, we shared particular categories like home memories, homegrowl memories,
20:48
Speaker 1: our favorite podcast memories. Do you have any particular memories
20:52
Speaker 1: from this year that are really sticking out to you.
20:56
Speaker 1: I have a lot This has been a pretty weird year,
20:58
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people. So there's been
21:01
Speaker 1: you know, there's been a lot of a lot of
21:03
Speaker 1: good stuff, but also rolled in a lot of intense
21:07
Speaker 1: ships to be honest. So, um, I don't know. I
21:10
Speaker 1: guess it's not a specific memory, but one of my
21:13
Speaker 1: highlights of this year has been Well, in April, I
21:17
Speaker 1: was just not feeling it. Trump was just like a
21:20
Speaker 1: thing in like a thorn in my foot, and I
21:23
Speaker 1: was having some I was kind of struggling, and my
21:26
Speaker 1: lease was up, and my girlfriend and I just decided
21:29
Speaker 1: to leave and we just threw all of our stuff
21:31
Speaker 1: into a storage unit. We didn't really have like a
21:33
Speaker 1: plan exactly, but we just decided to go to Iceland
21:36
Speaker 1: because we had never been there before. We found a
21:39
Speaker 1: super cheap flight and like low key, I just used
21:42
Speaker 1: my damage to post had to like go to Iceland.
21:45
Speaker 1: I just had to get away, um and kind of
21:47
Speaker 1: reconnect with myself and figure out what I wanted to
21:49
Speaker 1: do moving forward. So we did that. Yeah, and then
21:53
Speaker 1: I landed in l a for like three months uh
21:55
Speaker 1: this summer, and that was just you know, a really
21:58
Speaker 1: incredible experience for me because I had never really spent
22:00
Speaker 1: much time here and now it's just kind of beautiful
22:04
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm starting to have a community
22:06
Speaker 1: here as well. So that's kind of the highlight is
22:08
Speaker 1: just like me giving myself permission to take some time
22:12
Speaker 1: away and you know, figure out what I needed. Um
22:15
Speaker 1: And you know, I also was able to reconnect more
22:17
Speaker 1: creatively with myself. And it was around that time that
22:20
Speaker 1: I started first playing around with like illustrator and photoshop.
22:23
Speaker 1: You know, before I'd only done really like analog illustrations,
22:26
Speaker 1: and that's kind of become a whole thing that I'm
22:28
Speaker 1: now doing for work. So yeah, that's very cool. Yeah,
22:32
Speaker 1: I love that it was. It was a good time,
22:34
Speaker 1: a good spring kind of revival. That's awesome. And I
22:39
Speaker 1: think now the next memories that we want to talk
22:42
Speaker 1: about are coming back to the podcast, right, our favorite
22:45
Speaker 1: gupp low Yeah, our favorite episodes so far this year.
22:50
Speaker 1: And I have a hard time snaring it down and deciding,
22:53
Speaker 1: do you know what your favorite one of this year
22:55
Speaker 1: has been? No, because I'm a Libra and I have
22:58
Speaker 1: like two we have favorites of like everything that's right
23:02
Speaker 1: when you I don't know what my favorite is of anything.
23:06
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can give you my top three. I'm
23:08
Speaker 1: the same. That's so funny. I feel, yes, well, I
23:16
Speaker 1: mean this is one of our later ones. I mean
23:18
Speaker 1: I really like our first one, look at Pistemologies. I
23:21
Speaker 1: love Look at Pistemos set the groundwork for every podcast.
23:24
Speaker 1: But I also love a more recent one, which is
23:28
Speaker 1: um talking about mistresses, just because you know, it's just
23:32
Speaker 1: a topic that's just so here and dear to my heart.
23:34
Speaker 1: And I even feel like even before we actually started recording,
23:38
Speaker 1: I was talking about like recording something about like the
23:42
Speaker 1: Demonized Women, right, we have been wanting to do like
23:45
Speaker 1: specifically like a Mala episode, even though we didn't call
23:49
Speaker 1: it that, I feel like in other words, and so
23:54
Speaker 1: I love that one I wanted to do. We're gonna
23:57
Speaker 1: the thing is our favorite pizzas, like look at Pistemologies
24:00
Speaker 1: from Defense from Tech. We're going to do part two. Yeah,
24:03
Speaker 1: they're going to come back. They'll come back. So I
24:05
Speaker 1: think this is also a good time to say, like,
24:07
Speaker 1: if you if there's one in particular that you want,
24:09
Speaker 1: like a second a sequel, let us know, um, I
24:12
Speaker 1: would say, now, looking at our guffet list, Um Guide
24:17
Speaker 1: to Goddess or Shop. Yes, that was a really good one. Yeah,
24:23
Speaker 1: I would say that one. And then also the Multidimensional
24:25
Speaker 1: Home always a fun one. That one was really great.
24:29
Speaker 1: I love whenever we talk about sex or like centering
24:31
Speaker 1: hop politics. I think that's where we thrive. We thrive
24:35
Speaker 1: when we talk about sex, we do we do? Um? Yeah, Florish,
24:39
Speaker 1: I agree, And Ludi, are you do you listen to
24:42
Speaker 1: lots of podcasts? Are you like a big a big
24:44
Speaker 1: podcast head? I am? More recently. It was always something
24:48
Speaker 1: that I was low key like, oh my god, I
24:50
Speaker 1: was doing this pot listening to podcast and I felt
24:52
Speaker 1: so insecure. I was like, I don't in the podcast,
24:54
Speaker 1: like I definitely should. Um. But yeah, this last year,
24:57
Speaker 1: a couple of years, I've gotten a lot more into it,
24:59
Speaker 1: just because you know, I haven't. I've been out of
25:01
Speaker 1: school for like a few years, and I just really
25:04
Speaker 1: miss a like amassing new knowledge and like exposing myself
25:07
Speaker 1: to just different you know, not that I don't learn
25:09
Speaker 1: a lot just moving through the world like as like
25:12
Speaker 1: a human being, but like you know, sometimes so yeah,
25:15
Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot more into them, and like I
25:17
Speaker 1: just I love you guys so much, and I'm like,
25:19
Speaker 1: it's just the very fact that you exist, like it
25:21
Speaker 1: just gives me so much life, and I just, yeah,
25:24
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate that. Um let's see, I think
25:30
Speaker 1: we have another category, favorite pop culture memory. Yes of
25:34
Speaker 1: this year, I don't have one off the top of
25:36
Speaker 1: my work. I have to think. Yeah. I mean, I
25:38
Speaker 1: feel like a lot has happened, happened, and I think
25:41
Speaker 1: since so much has been happening globally, that translates to
25:44
Speaker 1: lots of things happening in pop culture as well. You know,
25:48
Speaker 1: it's just been an active year, and a lot of
25:50
Speaker 1: times I feel like what what artists are doing and
25:53
Speaker 1: what stars are doing is sometimes a reaction to what's
25:56
Speaker 1: happening in the world or a reflection of it. So
25:59
Speaker 1: it just I just feel like there's been a lot
26:00
Speaker 1: of activity. I mean, one example, like Cardie B by
26:05
Speaker 1: herself has made so and so many moves. She's Grammy nominated.
26:10
Speaker 1: This is true in one year she has made she engaged,
26:14
Speaker 1: She's Grammy nominated. Thank you Cardi B for spicing up yar,
26:22
Speaker 1: giving us something to shake her asses too. She gave
26:25
Speaker 1: us lots of entertainment, like lots of just news and
26:28
Speaker 1: news ship because it's always something new with her recently.
26:31
Speaker 1: Always it's like this new thing with Cardi B. Happened,
26:34
Speaker 1: Cardi B did this, CARTIV did that. But it's all
26:36
Speaker 1: been positive. It hasn't been like scandal really well, accept
26:40
Speaker 1: Cardie has been problematic. Yes, she continuously. We've talked about
26:44
Speaker 1: this invious episodes. Yes, so there's that element that's always
26:49
Speaker 1: there that we want to acknowledge. But she's made moves.
26:53
Speaker 1: She's made moves, you know. So as far as pop
26:54
Speaker 1: culture memories, I'm happy for her. Um. I feel like
26:58
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ladies in hip hop right now
27:00
Speaker 1: that are like on the come up and that are
27:02
Speaker 1: like being seen. Um, so that's exciting. That's for me.
27:07
Speaker 1: I think that's a good pop culture memory. Beyond gave birth,
27:11
Speaker 1: that's mine, that's mine. Yes, thank you Gottess, Thank you
27:17
Speaker 1: gottess is for bringing this life, these lives into the world. Yes, highlight,
27:24
Speaker 1: there we go. That's a good one. Her maternity shoot
27:27
Speaker 1: at that is. It's fine. When Milestone of the year,
27:31
Speaker 1: all the white feminists quote feminists were mad as hell. Um,
27:36
Speaker 1: Megan Markel is engaged to that prince. Yes, that Prince
27:41
Speaker 1: that guy, that redhead. That's fine, It's be a royal
27:45
Speaker 1: wedding and soon, very soon, Christy Tigan is having another
27:49
Speaker 1: baby with John leon Ab. Oh wow, I love them.
27:53
Speaker 1: They're cute. They're very cutely, right, Yeah. Do you have
27:56
Speaker 1: a favorite pop culture memory of this year, Ludy, Sometimes
27:59
Speaker 1: I'm is the worst of pop culture. Like I get
28:02
Speaker 1: a little anxious them because I consume media obviously, but
28:05
Speaker 1: it's hard to like pick one and I'm just being
28:08
Speaker 1: liberate and probably but I don't know, I guess it's
28:11
Speaker 1: not one moment, but it's just like it's been so
28:13
Speaker 1: nice to see how pop culture is shifting to reflect
28:16
Speaker 1: the moment that we're in politically and socially, and like,
28:19
Speaker 1: I don't know, like throughout how much ship we've been
28:21
Speaker 1: through this year, it's like so nice to see so
28:23
Speaker 1: many creatives and artists and people in media just like
28:26
Speaker 1: stepping up and being like yeo, I'm just gonna make
28:28
Speaker 1: this and like people, I don't know, it's so validating
28:31
Speaker 1: to to see so many, you know, people of color
28:33
Speaker 1: and marginalized people being creative and like making ship and
28:36
Speaker 1: using that as a artist too. It's not just you know,
28:39
Speaker 1: you know, it's a coping mechanism, and but it's also
28:41
Speaker 1: like a way to empower ourselves and to make ourselves
28:44
Speaker 1: feel like in control even though things can feel like
28:47
Speaker 1: they're spinning out of control a lot of the time.
28:48
Speaker 1: So I don't know, that's been really amazing for me.
28:51
Speaker 1: Just like music, this year has been a year of
28:53
Speaker 1: just incredible music, film TV with all centering like a
28:58
Speaker 1: lot of marginalized folks, and like, I don't know, I
29:00
Speaker 1: live for that, So yeah, I mean yeah, I think that, Like, um,
29:05
Speaker 1: there's been a lot to watch and a lot to
29:07
Speaker 1: listen to. Um. Selenna got her star Hollywood, and we
29:13
Speaker 1: still haven't really seen the actual star. If y'all remember
29:17
Speaker 1: we went to the actual like when they unveiled it,
29:22
Speaker 1: the ceremony, the ceremony with the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
29:26
Speaker 1: Mayor Garcetti was the labor. It was a really emotional
29:30
Speaker 1: it was beautiful. I remember Chris Perez was there, Oh
29:33
Speaker 1: my god, and he brought her roses goodbye. It was
29:39
Speaker 1: like I would have been like a mess. It was
29:42
Speaker 1: very emotional to see like how moved everyone still is
29:46
Speaker 1: by her and her presence and what she does, what
29:49
Speaker 1: she did. People love hers, Selenna continues to have big years.
29:53
Speaker 1: I know that collection that was last year, right, and
29:57
Speaker 1: this year's star on the Hollywood and the cool the
30:00
Speaker 1: Google homepage that they did the Whole Little Animal and
30:02
Speaker 1: then the one did the wax at the Wax Museum.
30:05
Speaker 1: When did that become with us this year, last year,
30:07
Speaker 1: in the past two years, Wax figure, Hollywood Star Walk
30:13
Speaker 1: of Fame, Mac mac collection. Well, moving on to another diva,
30:19
Speaker 1: mis Rihanna blessed us with fenty Yeah she did, she did,
30:24
Speaker 1: she did, and it has been very well received. Yeah,
30:28
Speaker 1: I agree. She just came out with her red lipstick
30:30
Speaker 1: and I saw it at Sappho the other day and
30:32
Speaker 1: it's so beautiful, it's very pigmented. Good. Yeah, I'm glad.
30:40
Speaker 1: So yeah, those are good pop culture memories. I don't know,
30:43
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, like, what else has happened this year.
30:46
Speaker 1: It's like, I feel like the past few the past
30:48
Speaker 1: few weeks or even months even, and we've just been
30:50
Speaker 1: so inundated with all this like sexual assault, enviolence against women,
30:55
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we don't need to talk about that
30:57
Speaker 1: right now. When we did an episode on it, but
30:59
Speaker 1: it's just like it's just a constant. It's just right now,
31:02
Speaker 1: like when I'm thinking about what's happening in the media,
31:04
Speaker 1: like that's all that I can think of. That's kind
31:06
Speaker 1: of sad, right, so it's hard to think of, like, well,
31:09
Speaker 1: what was my favorite thing? You know what I mean? Yeah, no,
31:12
Speaker 1: I mean I was reflecting on that a lot, Like
31:14
Speaker 1: I went to Mexico City this year. I went to
31:16
Speaker 1: Mexico City and then I went to Miami this year. UM,
31:19
Speaker 1: And when I went to Mexico City, you know, I
31:22
Speaker 1: was reflecting on the fact that so much of that
31:23
Speaker 1: trip like revolved around violence against women. Like I went
31:27
Speaker 1: to this UM. They're in Mexico City. They have a
31:31
Speaker 1: genocide museum called the Museum of Tolerance, and they on
31:34
Speaker 1: different floors, different levels. They have basically information and like
31:38
Speaker 1: exhibits having to do with like different genocides from throughout
31:42
Speaker 1: the world, like historically and like today like continuing continuing genocides, right,
31:47
Speaker 1: And one of the floors was specifically about femin CEO
31:50
Speaker 1: in Mexico, so it was like an entire genocide which
31:52
Speaker 1: is only of like Mexican women. And on a different
31:55
Speaker 1: floor they had one about Guatemalan women. So I'm like,
31:59
Speaker 1: in this one museum in Mexico, there are two floors
32:02
Speaker 1: just on genocide of women. That's fucked up. And I
32:07
Speaker 1: was only in Mexico City for like five days, so
32:09
Speaker 1: I go to the genocide museum. And then a couple
32:11
Speaker 1: of days later we hear the news of that young
32:14
Speaker 1: woman who was found on the campus, murdered like strangled.
32:19
Speaker 1: And the day after she was found, the prosecutor, the
32:22
Speaker 1: district attorney was already tweeting out about how she was
32:25
Speaker 1: in poor moral stand and she lived with her boyfriend.
32:28
Speaker 1: The hashtag that came out of that with what are
32:32
Speaker 1: they going to say about exactly? And many women were
32:34
Speaker 1: tweeting like, you know, they're going to say that I
32:39
Speaker 1: wore a short skirt and I like to go clubbing
32:41
Speaker 1: and drinking with my friends. They're gonna pull up my
32:43
Speaker 1: social media and say she was a home she hated men,
32:48
Speaker 1: she had a comming all that ship. Yeah we could talk,
32:51
Speaker 1: but that's true. Has been full of like sexual violence,
32:56
Speaker 1: I think. Also like thinking on the flip side, also
32:58
Speaker 1: like resilience. So seeing like all these women coming forward
33:02
Speaker 1: and even the women that don't come forward, you know
33:04
Speaker 1: that are still existing and living and thriving. Um that's
33:08
Speaker 1: also something to celebrate, right yeah, I mean the Time
33:11
Speaker 1: Time magazine person of the Year. They called them the
33:13
Speaker 1: silence breakers, but basically survivors. They can just said survivors,
33:17
Speaker 1: but they can't, they won't, but they won't. In other words,
33:22
Speaker 1: survive survivors. It's been the year of the survivor. I
33:24
Speaker 1: would say, I agree every year, right m M. I
33:29
Speaker 1: also want to shout out both of us. I'm going
33:31
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to ourselves because we it
33:35
Speaker 1: took us a while to get out of certain relationships
33:38
Speaker 1: that we knew were bad for us, that we're hurting us,
33:41
Speaker 1: that maybe we you know, a lot of ship was happening,
33:43
Speaker 1: and like was the year that we like set ourselves free.
33:48
Speaker 1: And I'm really proud of us. Yes, I'm a free Yes,
33:54
Speaker 1: I love it, yes, and like to because it's hard.
33:57
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to use. You broke up, like your
34:01
Speaker 1: breakup lasted six months, like my lasted like a year exactly,
34:04
Speaker 1: so like it's real. Yes, thank you, thank you gottesses
34:08
Speaker 1: for helping us guiding us away. Yes, well, I'm all
34:15
Speaker 1: out of memories, honest, I'm exhausted this year. I'm exhausted.
34:19
Speaker 1: Yea same same. We have a really really special coming
34:24
Speaker 1: for y'all next week. Yes, we have a special guest
34:29
Speaker 1: for our next and we're going to keep that a
34:31
Speaker 1: secret until we record with her. It's gonna be so amazing.
34:35
Speaker 1: So we're gonna leave with a good note, with a
34:39
Speaker 1: bank yes, our canality. Yes. So anyways, any final thoughts,
34:52
Speaker 1: final thoughts, final words. Drink lots of water. Drink water,
34:58
Speaker 1: get sleep moister, eat good, eat your greens. You know
35:03
Speaker 1: what your body needs. Put down the stop getting the
35:06
Speaker 1: fried food met me to me, eating French fries to
35:11
Speaker 1: that's me to me. I constantly have to tell myself yeah,
35:15
Speaker 1: I don't know, just keep kicking ass and surviving in
35:17
Speaker 1: this crazy at world one. That's good, right, Yeah, thank
35:23
Speaker 1: you for tuning in again. Yes, thank you so much.
35:27
Speaker 1: I love you all. We will catch you next time.
35:30
Speaker 1: Seat those