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Capítulo 078: Moving Whittier Forward · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies a Myth and Bullshit, a radiophonic
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  Speaker 1: start Ala La Loca Mortis, Welcome to Season four of
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  Speaker 1: At a Radio is a radiophonic novella archiving the brilliance
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  Speaker 1: and legacies of women and fems of color. I'm Theosa
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  Speaker 1: and I'm Mala, and we are Las Mammies of Myth
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  Speaker 1: and Bullshit. Last local local radio radiophonic novela, which is
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  Speaker 1: just a really extra way of saying a podcast. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back everyone, Welcome back seventy eight. It's a beautiful day.
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  Speaker 1: We're so close to a hundred. I can't wait. We
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  Speaker 1: should throw a party. I think that we should do
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  Speaker 1: like an actual live show, like a taping kind of thing. Okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I like this idea. I'm going to put that out there.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your eyes and ears peeled to pay attention, because
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  Speaker 1: we'll probably be announcing our centennial, a centennial extravaganza to celebrate. Yeah, girl,
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  Speaker 1: damn we out here. I like that idea. That's cute.
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  Speaker 1: Why not We'll do it do it? Yeah, any excuse
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  Speaker 1: to throw a party. To be honest, we don't need
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  Speaker 1: an excuse to throw a party, but it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: have one. Absolutely as a reason to celebrate. Yes, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of celebrating, Yes, speaking of celebrating, Yesterday, wash, Yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day. Yeah, by the time you'll listen,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a week from Valentine's Day. Um, but Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 1: It was cute. Yeah, it was cute. It was cute.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do for Valentine's Day? Your couple, partner,
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  Speaker 1: how did you celebrate? Okay, so we went to dinner
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  Speaker 1: at this new Peruvian Japanese restaurant in downtown l A.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, it with a little bit underwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to name the restaurant. Um, we
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  Speaker 1: want your unfiltered like food critic like review. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so the thing with Fusion, like I love Fusions. I'm
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  Speaker 1: like not like a purist because they're like Pruvians that
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  Speaker 1: like it needs to be authentic, like whatever that means,
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  Speaker 1: and like provings take their food very seriously. Like we've
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  Speaker 1: been voted number one in Latin A Marian Killinary for
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  Speaker 1: like seven years in a row. So proving food is
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  Speaker 1: very serious. Um, and that has its pros and it
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  Speaker 1: has its cons, right like cons Folks in Biddu like
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  Speaker 1: if you're there, like you don't really see other restaurants
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  Speaker 1: like you know, like here or even when I was
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  Speaker 1: in Chile, there's restaurants that have there's different types of restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just Chilean food, but it was just all
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  Speaker 1: Prullian food. Exactly why would we need We're literally number one?
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  Speaker 1: Why would we eat exactly exactly? Do actually appreciate the fusion?
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, I went to this restaurant and it's um
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  Speaker 1: Peruvian Japanese fusion, so that's like considered nick nicka food
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  Speaker 1: and it was still underwhelming. Yeah that's upsetting. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And that was for Valentine's Valentine's So of
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  Speaker 1: course Hernando was like, well you picked the restaurant obviously,
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  Speaker 1: of course obvious, Obviously it's my fault. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, this is what this is what I
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  Speaker 1: like about Valentine's Day for us at least, so like
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  Speaker 1: we do date nights weekly, like, but we we tend
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  Speaker 1: to like go to like our the spots that we love.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, well it's Valentine's Day, let's go somewhere different,
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  Speaker 1: let's go somewhere new zone. Yeah, switch it up. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to like you know, you want to. You
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  Speaker 1: want to break the routine. So that's why we went there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was underwhelming. I will not be returning, but you
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  Speaker 1: know we did something different and that's cute. That's cute,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. Um, for Valentine's Day, I watched All the Boys.
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  Speaker 1: I love the four ps I Still Love You. So
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to use spoilers right now because at
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  Speaker 1: this points has not finished watching ps I Still Love You.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like twenty minutes from finishing. So yeah, so no spoilers.
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  Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen it, like, we won't spoil anything.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I'm going to generally talk about I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say that I'm team John agreed, Team John
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  Speaker 1: all the way. Hell yeah, I'm team John Ambrose A
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  Speaker 1: because I love his name, John Ambrose McCullin. It's a
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  Speaker 1: nova name. I love it. It's perfect. And he's an
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  Speaker 1: old soul and he loves the elderly and he's just
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  Speaker 1: very subtle and underrated and understated, and I appreciate that
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  Speaker 1: he has that hopeless romantic vibe to him, whereas Peter Kazinski,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like fun boy extraordinaire. Like in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: he's like fun bog stradinaire. What wants to be a boyfriend? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: like he really does, but he still has these has
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  Speaker 1: these fun boy tendencies where he like shows up late,
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  Speaker 1: is that a party and isn't talking to her. He's
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  Speaker 1: like playing flip cup, you know, to be in high school?
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  Speaker 1: To be in high school? Right, So, yeah, he has
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  Speaker 1: the fun boy tendencies he to be a boyfriend. Will
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  Speaker 1: he be the boyfriend in the end, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: because I haven't finished, so did not tell me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna We're not going to do all that, but
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  Speaker 1: it is And then okay, I understand. I'm like asking
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  Speaker 1: a lot for like high school kids. Right. As far
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  Speaker 1: as emotional intelligence, it's true, I would think I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep that in mind. I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: there in high school though, their children. But she, Laura
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  Speaker 1: Gene is very emotionally intelligent, and I very much attribute
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  Speaker 1: that to her father. Actually, I like her dad, her
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  Speaker 1: white dad, um Aiden from Sexon City Love. Whenever he's
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  Speaker 1: in anything, and I'm like Aiden, Team Aiden. He's like
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  Speaker 1: forever Aiden, And honestly, in every role he plays is
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  Speaker 1: just a variation of Aiden in My Big Wedding Aid.
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  Speaker 1: He can do no wrong. He can do no wrong,
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  Speaker 1: Like he's long hair. He's just like a sweet, gentle
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  Speaker 1: white man. You know, we need those, we do, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't need them, but I need them in a movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice when they exist. Yeah. I love Laura Gene.
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  Speaker 1: I think that she's hope. Like she's like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: have like all these crushes and I'm going to write
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  Speaker 1: about them and I'm just gonna put it out there
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  Speaker 1: and I'll get fun. And she, you know, is like
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  Speaker 1: kind of good at balancing these boys and kind of
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  Speaker 1: just you know, working her way through them and seeing
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  Speaker 1: what's out there. And she's obviously been through a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother died right, she was raised by a white man.
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  Speaker 1: She has a precocious little sister who forces her into
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  Speaker 1: her romances even though she's not quite ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Like I appreciate Largine so she can do
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  Speaker 1: no wrong. Team John Ambrose, That's all I gotta say.
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  Speaker 1: Watch it if you haven't it, and then let us
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  Speaker 1: know your thoughts. What team are you on, Team John,
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  Speaker 1: team Peter? Let us know tell us. Um, it's funny
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  Speaker 1: to me too because the actors are adults in their twenties,
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  Speaker 1: but it's high school romance. So on the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, why do I care so much about
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  Speaker 1: this movie? But then on the other hand, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these are adults, like adults playing teenagers playing kids.
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  Speaker 1: It's so weird. It's it's a very weird because I'm
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  Speaker 1: invest it in it, because I mean it's a rom com,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I'm invested in the rom com, the rom
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  Speaker 1: com of it all. I can never get enough rom
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  Speaker 1: com energy. Same, same, same, same. So that's a fun one. Um.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I did for Valentine's Day. Because a bitch
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  Speaker 1: is single, as we know, as we know as I
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  Speaker 1: talk about a bitch a single. Um. I'm still on Hinge.
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  Speaker 1: I've stopped responding to messages though, I've just started using
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  Speaker 1: hinge for meme content honestly, because there's it's like endless
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  Speaker 1: content on Hinge, you know what I mean? Um, men
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  Speaker 1: say weird funny shit all the time. Um, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't even necessarily need to meet up with them. It's
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  Speaker 1: just to get the giggles. What they're saying is ridiculous, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or entertaining, Like there's this one um that I saw
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know why I think this is so
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  Speaker 1: fucking funny. But on his profile, he said on his profile,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I don't care what your body looks like
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  Speaker 1: in a bikini. I want to see what your brain
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  Speaker 1: looks like in a bikini. Like he could have said,
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  Speaker 1: I want to care about like I care about what
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  Speaker 1: you have to say, period, but your brain and a bikini,
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  Speaker 1: like the image, the image of it is hysterical. That's
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  Speaker 1: fucking weird. That's funny. That's a brain and a bikini,
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  Speaker 1: Like I can, I can picture it, you know, funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's like what I can only look at so many
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  Speaker 1: profiles where they say their most controversial opinion is pineapple
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  Speaker 1: on pizza, Like I can only do so much, Like okay,
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  Speaker 1: these trends, Hinge trends, Hinge trends. Most controversial opinion is um,
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  Speaker 1: pineapple on pizza. Most controversial opinion. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these two write parks and rec versus the office. The office.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of men out there debating and intellectualizing,
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  Speaker 1: and this is like the cornerstone of their personality, this
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  Speaker 1: one conundrum, like these two shows. Um right, they don't
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  Speaker 1: even make new episodes of these shows anymore, but this
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  Speaker 1: is their most controversial opinion. And also men who say
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  Speaker 1: the scariest thing they've ever done is moved to l A.
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  Speaker 1: There's a ton of scared ass dudes who just moved
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  Speaker 1: here on Hinge looking for love, and I can only
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  Speaker 1: do so much of it. I'm unimpressed. I'm very unimpressed.
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  Speaker 1: But I have made some good memes because of it,
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  Speaker 1: so I guess it's worth it. We're on the apps
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  Speaker 1: to mind for the content. Do you think if I
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  Speaker 1: told my partner that he would be okay with it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Do do do it? Oh my god, I would laugh
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  Speaker 1: so fucking hard. I want you to set up a
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  Speaker 1: secret camera and like do it as a prank. You
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  Speaker 1: know those couple pranks that they're always seeing on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: That could be yours. I could see like going wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very quickly on Hinge for the content, content creation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running by it, and I'll be like, but Mama said,
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  Speaker 1: Mama told me to I'll write a note. I will
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  Speaker 1: send a note home. I will send a fucking note home.
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  Speaker 1: This is an assignment of podcast assignment, it's required. You
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  Speaker 1: know what. I've actually never been on the apps, so
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  Speaker 1: I there's a part of me that is curious. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: not to date anyone, but just like, what is it
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  Speaker 1: like to be on these apps? Because because girl, my
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  Speaker 1: friends are on it, Like it's not just you, My
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  Speaker 1: other friends have been on it and they have gone
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  Speaker 1: through lots of things on the app. So there's parts
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  Speaker 1: of me that is curious for that reason. You're not
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  Speaker 1: to actually date, but I mean also run that by
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  Speaker 1: your partner like that would he probably wouldn't be okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then within reason it makes sense. I guess it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. It doesn't make sense to me because read
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  Speaker 1: on the app, we need it. What if he asked
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  Speaker 1: me that, I'd be like funk. No, well that's different,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the same at all. He doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: podcast to promote this is true. Do you remember when
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  Speaker 1: our friend um was dating someone or still dating this
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  Speaker 1: person and then our other friend found the boyfriend on
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  Speaker 1: the app like he forgot to delete his app? Wait
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  Speaker 1: run that time? That let me let me my memory memory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say it without naming it. So we
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  Speaker 1: have a end that her partner was on the apps, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and they were still dating. They were dating and he
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  Speaker 1: was still on the apps, right, And the reason we
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  Speaker 1: found out is because our other friends saw his profile. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's all coming back to me, right. So the thing
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  Speaker 1: that happens, the thing with the apps is I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: there's algorithms and all this ship with the absolute right
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  Speaker 1: that like, they put people in your path for reasons,
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  Speaker 1: and it's crazy to me when I run into like
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  Speaker 1: people that I know for people that I've already messed with,
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  Speaker 1: or people that I definitely don't want to mess with
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  Speaker 1: because I'm swiping left or on hand. It's just an
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  Speaker 1: X right, and I'm like, if they if I can
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  Speaker 1: see them, they can see me. And what I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: is we're both mutually avoiding each I mean that's good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: But what annoyed me so fucking much is I got
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  Speaker 1: on I got on a hinge and then I had
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  Speaker 1: two different men be like, hey, we've met before, we haven't,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, halfway, have have we met before? Have
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  Speaker 1: we met? And then I had met both of them
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  Speaker 1: be for but I just hadn't. I just I've met
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in my life, so I was
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  Speaker 1: annoying because I'm like, I want to meet complete in
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  Speaker 1: total strangers where we have no overlap whatsoever, like in
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  Speaker 1: our world. So I don't know, I'm like, Ellie's too
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  Speaker 1: fucking small. I need to try something else. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: going to try speed dating. Um, but until then, here
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  Speaker 1: we are, well girl, thank you samal So, Um, we've talked. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing that has the timeline on fire is
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  Speaker 1: Jammie Jamil. Have you been keeping up with this with
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  Speaker 1: the drama here and there yet? What are your thoughts? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's summarize. Summarise. So right now people don't like Jamille
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  Speaker 1: Jamil because they've decided that she's annoying. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: people haven't been liking Jamilla Jamil in general. It's been
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  Speaker 1: building and um, recently, something really interesting has happened on
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  Speaker 1: the timeline that I've been watching carefully. So somebody pulled
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  Speaker 1: up screenshots of past interviews that Jamila has done where
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  Speaker 1: she talks about her different diagnoses, allergies, she has health issues,
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  Speaker 1: and she has like multiple chronic health issues. So this
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  Speaker 1: troll account put up a screenshot of Jamila's like past
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  Speaker 1: interviews where she's talking about different cancer scares, different issues
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  Speaker 1: that she's lived with for a long time. And what
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  Speaker 1: this person is saying is like, oh my god, look
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  Speaker 1: at all of these like fake health concerns that Jamila
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  Speaker 1: claims to have. She must have munch Housen by proxy.
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  Speaker 1: So then the internet basically has latched onto that and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way that like Jamila could actually have gotten
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  Speaker 1: hit by a car twice and had a cancer scare
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  Speaker 1: and have this like chronic diagnosed disease and all these
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  Speaker 1: like allergies. She's a liar. She's horrible. So it's become
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  Speaker 1: like really wild because it looks like people have found
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  Speaker 1: an excuse to pile on. Right. All people need is
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  Speaker 1: an excuse. See, I didn't know that was happening. I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were referring to the job that she took
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  Speaker 1: to host the show about ball culture, And so that's
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  Speaker 1: how she was on my timeline because she like people
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  Speaker 1: were upset because there are folks that have been or
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  Speaker 1: are still in the community, so either like elders or
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  Speaker 1: like currently that have been in the ball culture community.
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  Speaker 1: So that they could have easily been put up for
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  Speaker 1: this job. Right, So when I was seeing Jimmie Jimill
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  Speaker 1: on the timeline, was for that reason that she shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have taken that role. Yeah, that was like the that
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  Speaker 1: was the reason people didn't like her two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and then now they don't like her now, then like
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  Speaker 1: her for for her chronic illnesses. And so it's wild
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  Speaker 1: because it's like all these different things, right, like should
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  Speaker 1: she have accepted that job? And then once she was
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  Speaker 1: like called in or called out on it, she went, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm bisexual, like I'm queer, and so I have a
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  Speaker 1: right to do this. So it becomes like this layered
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: conversation about when do you claim queerness? Is it just
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: now to defend like absolutely defend your actions right to
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  Speaker 1: just right? But like, Okay, as a queer woman, and
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  Speaker 1: if I were to be put up for that job,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't take it, Like that's not them in the community,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not my community. Like I'm not a part
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  Speaker 1: of drag culture culture, you know, so I wouldn't know,
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  Speaker 1: Like no, no, so I wouldn't and I don't if
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  Speaker 1: I think of like the little that I do know
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  Speaker 1: at this point, about ball culture and walking in balls.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I would never think of Jimmie La Jamil,
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  Speaker 1: like she would never come up in the topic for
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  Speaker 1: any reason. So that was weird. But then people have
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  Speaker 1: been circling back now with the most recent stuff with
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  Speaker 1: her health and saying wow, like your able is m
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  Speaker 1: is showing because there are plenty of people who live
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  Speaker 1: with multiple chronic that's not out of the really fucked
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  Speaker 1: up thing to latch on to. We should be talking
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  Speaker 1: about her accepting the job and then claiming queer. I
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  Speaker 1: mean she and she very well, Like I don't doubt
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  Speaker 1: her queerness, right, I don't think that she's not bisexual.
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  Speaker 1: But to use it now like leverage it, like, oh
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  Speaker 1: but I'm part of the community too, so I can
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  Speaker 1: do it. But can you actually? Should? You? Should? Should you?
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  Speaker 1: And you actually though? So that's Jamille Jamil And then um,
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  Speaker 1: the other thing that I saw on the timeline that
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  Speaker 1: was really yeah, this one was rough right, like change
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  Speaker 1: of topics. I saw this on I know that you
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  Speaker 1: probably saw it on Twitter. I saw this on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: because I follow a lot of Latin American feminist pages
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook. I'm still on Facebook, Okay, telling my age.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still on Facebook. Um and so this is how
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  Speaker 1: I heard about the story. So um do you want
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  Speaker 1: to do you want to start? So um? I came
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: across a tweet coming from Mexico talking about a woman
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  Speaker 1: than a hashtag has been started. A woman named Ingrid
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  Speaker 1: Escamilla was murdered like horrifically and dismembered. And the word
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  Speaker 1: that I saw on the first tweet was that a
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  Speaker 1: Mexican man killed and skinned his ex wife. And so
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  Speaker 1: women have been taking to the streets and protesting as
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  Speaker 1: they have been now for like many years and decades
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  Speaker 1: at this point, right. And the hashtag that we hear
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  Speaker 1: coming out of Mexico and Latin America new massa menos,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: right and vivas and vivas so talking about femicideo in
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Mexico and Latin America. UM and how this is just
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: another very recent example of how herrivic the violence is
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: and and continues to be in Mexico, the violence against women,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the femicide. And it was really disheartening but not surprising
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to see that, you know, Mexican federal police have been
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: um gassing protesters and Spring protesters with whatever, like caustic
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: substances and then when you look on Twitter, like in
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the comments, uh commenters who are commenting in Mexico in
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Spanish talking about, you know, how dumb the women protesters are,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: how they're not helping, how the man has been arrested,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: what more do you want? Like what are you protesting exactly?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, my god, Like it's all the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: comments that I have seen have been negative towards the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: protesters in their response to this, and it's like, my God,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: where is the anger about the fact that a woman
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: was skinned like and dismembered and her son, who is
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: has I think a developmental disability. I think they have
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: an autistic child in common that I read in one
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: of the articles coming out of Mexico that their son
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: witnessed his mother's murder. He witnessed his father murdering his mother.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: So it's like, this horrific crime, but all the anger
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that I'm seeing online is about the protests and the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: actual femicide. See. And that's interesting because in the news
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: report that I saw, it was actually just as horrific,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: but it was told a little bit differently, So maybe
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: maybe now the story is clearer, But when I first
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: heard of it, it was that you know, major trigger
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: warning to about violence gets woman, but that he had
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: actually removed all her organs. Yeah, and that he called
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: his wife, his current wife, and said I killed a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: woman and she's the one that called the police. And
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: so that is how I heard that interpretation of this case,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of this of this murder of this woman. So I mean,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: maybe there's a development. So now maybe that isn't true.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe what I read wasn't true, but that was my
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: understanding is that he's currently married to another woman and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: always the one that turned him in. Yeah. Yeah, Well,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I mean the thing is, those details, you know, are
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like in alignment with what I read. Um, that's crazy,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that's insane. Like So it's just we talk about violence
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: against women on this podcast all the time because it's
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: really relevant. And I think that it also, like when
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: we've talked about cases of hit US and BIDU, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I think that when it happens in our home countries,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: there's just like a very deep call to talk about
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it and share on the podcast because it's just the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: plight of our the women in our home countries in here.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, femicide in here as well.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: It's true. So I went to Mexico City recently. I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: was there not too long ago, and I don't I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: don't know if this this did happen in Mexico City.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: This woman, this man murdered his ex wife in Mexico City.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And this was this week. Right, So I was in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Mexico City a couple of weeks ago and I was
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: with UM, my friend, the Trapic Gothic. We went for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: like a birthday trip for me and UM. I was
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: out with with my friend and we were getting backles
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and we had been drinking and stuff, and so we
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: were just having a good time and there was like
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a really cute guy at the table next to us.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So of course I was feeling friendly, so I like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: tapped his shoulder and I was like, hey, like come
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: sit with us. So he came and he sat with us,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and he's Mexican, he's from Mexico City, but he goes
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: back and forth between the US and Mexico. And so
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: we were talking and of course, obviously, like I liked
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to trap men into conversations about feminism and violence against women.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden, I'm talking to this
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: guy about femicide. Right, Yeah, I did that. The other
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: day actually with us with someone from Mexico City, dead
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: friend Scarlett her Putt, while was visiting, and then all
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of a sudden we first talking about the femicide. You know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I'm a joy to be around, so I'm like, yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: like feminine ceo, it's a problem, this, that and the other.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And it was wild because basically this man was like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of that, Like I've never heard of
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: this issue like this. I never heard of such a thing.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And he's a grown man, he was definitely in his
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: early thirties. Um, and so that he reveals to us,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you know, essentially in his own words that he doesn't
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: believe in women's rights and this whole concept of mass
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: violence against women is news to him. And what is
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: this thing, this word about femicide against women. It was
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: just a bizarre cognitive dissonance. Girl, if I was bizarre,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I need to stop doing this.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I need to stop engaging men in these conversations because
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I know the outcomes. It's not but it's I don't know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I just sometimes I feel like fighting, and that's what
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I want to fight over. That's you know, that is
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: very real. So Neona mass Neona men A. Uh, the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: fight continues, um checking on that story about ingrid Escamia,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and let's continue talking about it in our own like
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: spheres of influence, you know, absolutely, And like with my
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: upcoming trip, I haven't shared it yet, but I have
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: an upcoming trip and I'm going to bed and I'll
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: be there by myself. And so these are the things
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: that crossed my mind when I think about traveling alone.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And I have family in Peru, so like, I really
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: won't be alone both the majority of the time, but
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I do have a small trip plan just for myself.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And so these are the things that I think about,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you know that no other you know, male traveler has
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to consider when he's you know, backpacking through fucking South
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: America or Europe, you know. And so and I won't
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: be backpacking obviously, but still, like the just the idea
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: of being alone in a country where a femicide, where
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: violence against women, you know, is high. You know, there
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: are definitely things that cross my mind. And I've I've
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: been not to say, like I hate of pathologies, like oh, well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: like our countries are so unsafe. They're not, but they
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: can be for women. That's an unfortunate reality. And it's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: like the countries, if our home countries and the United States,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you know, they can worry about their own pr and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: it's not you know, our fucking jobs to make our
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: home countries look good when they're sucking up and when
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: men in our communities are being total fucking genocidal maniacs
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: literally literally, you know, your your image in the public
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: eye is not my job. I will talk to about
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Mexican men all fucking day as long as these stories
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: continue to come out. I do not care. I don't care.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I second that second that, you know. And it's like
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: really upsetting when it's like a white supremacist like Donald
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Trump makes a statement like, oh, Mexico sending over rapists
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and murderers, and while that is not the profile of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the vast majority of immigrants, migrants, undocumented folks, refugees, what
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: whatever word we're using, right, um, it's also not possible
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: for me to sit here and say and defend Mexican
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: men when you have you know, an ingrid you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and there's just like countless cases, it's hard for me
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to defend Mexican men against those types of statements when
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they are behaving in these ways and committing these mass
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: acts of violence against women. So some food for that,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: some food for that, do better, alright, and so okay,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: again there's no smooth transition, so we're just gonna you know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: pivot to our next topic. Um. So, for folks that
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: have seen or maybe you were there, we were at
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: UC Davis and we did a talk on sexual education,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: sexuality myth busting, which titled oh my Sex while latin XT.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It was so fun. It was a lot of It
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: was a packed house. There were a lot of students there,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: majority majority Latin X students. We met list like long
• 24:56
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• 25:00
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• 25:02
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• 25:05
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• 25:07
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• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and um, we want to thank the Multicultural Center, um,
• 25:16
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• 25:21
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• 25:24
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• 25:26
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• 25:29
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• 25:33
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• 25:36
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• 27:58
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• 28:42
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• 28:45
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• 28:46
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• 28:49
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• 28:52
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• 28:55
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• 28:57
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• 29:00
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  Speaker 1: all you look us. Let's hear y'all's questions. Oh yes,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: sounds of my childhood. To be honest, same, I missed
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: this pit Bull, I know, I miss I missed the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: pit Bull. I miss Skulo Pitbull. Yeah. Yeah, he's so
• 30:33
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• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So our first question is how do you overcome fear
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of putting yourself out there. I want to be a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: writer who you just got to do it. You just
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: literally and that sounds super like trite, but you really
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: just have to do it. Do it. You have to
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: force yourself. You have to write. Like I think, when
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: we get afraid of writing, we stop writing. But then
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: that doesn't solve the writing part of it. So you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: have you just have to write. Um and then I
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: think like, oh my computer died, Yeah, that's that's okay.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: So I think a part of the fear of writing
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: is like rejection. Right if I pitch this, is it
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: going to get accepted? Am I gonna? Is it going
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to find a home? And I think one really accessible
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: tool that I see people using is medium. You know,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: if you just want to get into the practice of
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: consistently writing something, medium is a good is a good
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: place to start having a blog, you know, folks still blog.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You can just really just have your writing live there
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and it can hold you accountable to be publishing consistently. Yeah,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and there's no I think in the past what has
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: tripped me up with writing is thinking that it has
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to look a specific way or there is a proper time,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: place way to write. Let me tell you, like I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: used to just okay, I'm going to carve out five
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: hours on a Sunday afternoon and find a coffee shop
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and sit down and write. And it's going to be
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: like opper writing. That does not work for me. My
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: notes app on my phone is popping. I am constantly writing.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: But I had to figure out that like sitting down
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: or having a fucking quill and parchment paper like is
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: not the way it's going to work. I'm like, suck it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: An idea pops into my head, a phrase, a thought
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: like even just I don't know, like a sentence. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: will write all of that ship down. You know, use
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the notes app on your phone, don't be afraid to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: use your technology or whatever, you know, shortcuts you have
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: available to you. Yeah, or like you know, some folks
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: actually like to write on papers. So carry its tiny
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: little notebook that you can stick in all your bags,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: having your car, have multiple like whatever. Yeah, so just
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: do it, literally, just do it. Do it. And I
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: would also say embrace the word vomit, like just write
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it down. Just write it down, and you know, use
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Google Drive. I love my Google Drive we use Google
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Drive UM for local like for outlines and for notes
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and for ideas and things like that. UM and I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: have my own personal Google Drive, and I just have
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: tons of documents that I've just even if they don't
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: make sense now or they don't fit in a sequence now,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: like eventually, they can be edited that way. So you
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: have something in your brain, just get it down before
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you forget it, before it leaves you. Absolutely, thank you
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: for that question. Absolutely, Okay, next question, what can I
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: do when my long term ex partner is constantly in
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: my dreams? I'm so sorry. First of all, yeah, that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: sounds horrible. This sounds I'm just assuming that this is
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a bad thing. Yeah, yeah, okay, maybe we should talk
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: about it in both ways. Yes, So if it's a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: good thing, maybe you need to reach out. Maybe there's
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: unfinished business. However, if this was a toxic relationship, I'm sorry.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: It sounds like sleep paralysis, sounds like a nightmare, sounds
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: like an exorcism isn't needed. I don't know. I don't know.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Friends like I once had a reading, tarot reading, and
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: this reading, the woman who was doing it for me
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: said that my ex had sticky energy, that he was
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: just watching and just on me, like spiritually, energetically, just
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: on me in a sticky way. And So if it's
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: if this is one of those situations right that you're
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: having trouble shaking someone, I think it just takes time,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and I think eventually your brain is going to stop
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: inducing these dreams in you. But you have to like
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: eject them from the rest of your life. Like if
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: you're seeing them on your feed, that's stimuli, right that
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you're going to come up later, you're psyche up. You
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: scrub it clean, scrub bleach it. Yeah, I agree. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: second that. I second that. That's that's all. That's all
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the advice that I have could luck to you. Bless
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you child, Bless you child. It'll get better. You know
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: what's right for you, Like you know what you need
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to do. If it's a positive thing, you know the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: steps that you should take. If it's something like healing
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: from a toxic relationship, then you also know the steps
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you need to take. You know, getting them out of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: your life in whatever way is usually the best way.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I've had the experience in all of my really bad
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: relationships is just prolonging the breakups and having multiple breakups
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: we break up, and then we see each other again,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and then we break up again, and we have to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: do the breakup all over again, right you know? And yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, if that's you, girl, you got you gotta
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: cut that ship loose and the energy you know that
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: is stuck there. It's not good and it can be
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: used in so many positive ways towards something else. Absolutely
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: kill it with fire. And yeah, all right, we have
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: strong we have strong feelings. Well, I'm I'm gonna like
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: no friends, no friendships with your ex type of person.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Likely we've said that before, it remains the same. Nope,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I can't. Not for me. I'm not capable, or I
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: just it just hasn't happened for me. I haven't wanted to. No. No, Now,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: if you are my ex, you're my ex as in
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: in the past, as in gone, as in never again,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: as non existent. We're done, your purpose served in my
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: life and vice versa. Thank you. Now you know I
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: don't need to be in your life anymore. You don't
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: need to be in mine. Nope, so exactly, thank you. Next,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: thank you, Next to quote Ms Grandy Ariana grandy alright,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Next question, last question, A cute, little simple question. Thank
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you for keeping it light, for keeping it fun. What
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: is your go to makeup look? Anything that Robert puts
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: on my face? Shout out to Robert or makeup. My
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: go to makeup look is anything Robert puts on my face.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: That's it. I'm not a I'm not a huge makeup
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: person myself. I will do on um, like a lip,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I will do foundation and powder. I might do a
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: highlight sometimes. I might do eyeliner sometimes, but other than that,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I keep it pretty natural. Yeah, Mama doesn't really wear makeup. Me.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, I have like many things that
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I do, so my go to would be a liner,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a wink liner with a mauave, lip brows obviously, UM,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: a light contour and some highlighter, a light, a light
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: dusting a little bit. I don't need to I don't
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: need to use the you know, not when it's powder.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I'm during a blank the cream. I don't need a
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: cream contour cream counters like at night time when I'm
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: gonna get out. But I'll do like a powder contour
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: during the day, just a little some some a bronzer,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: you know. Um. Lately, though, I've been really bored of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: my makeup looks. Like super bored, but I also don't
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: want to do more, so it's like really confusing. But
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: what I've been doing now is wearing colored eyeliner. So
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: like today I'm wearing a blue liner and I put
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: blue mess care on and that makes me feel better
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: because I'm like, Okay, this is different, but it's still
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: like in my usual realm of what I do. You know.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I like to try to switch it up,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: but you'll probably catch me in a wave lip of
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the time. But the blue liner is very fierce. Today.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Our friend Mania gave this to me at our Mommy
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Christmas and our gift exchange. Yeah, shoutout New York surviving
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the cold grad school. Yes, we miss you, we love you. No,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: but yes, low Key did that. She's a she navigated
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the whole ship by herself first to her family. We
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: love her. We're very proud of so proud, very proud
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: of her. Yes, alright, y'all. So we are really excited
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to launch a new segment, a recurring segment that we
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: will be having on the podcast called Latinos and Plitics
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: or Hitters in Politics, And today we are launching this
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: new segment with one of our favorite people in the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: entire world. Homegirl community member. Yes, do you want to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: read the vibe? Yeah? So for those of you who
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: are new to Yasmine and her work in her life,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Yasmine was born and raised in Whittier, California, raised by
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: two immigrant parents from Chile and Mexico. Yesmine has dedicated
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the past six years to serving students in higher education.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: As her role as a student affairs professional, Yasmine is
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: dedicated to addressing the issues everything ranging from homelessness to
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: engaging community members, balancing the budget, and many many others.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Yesmine wants to bring responsible, ethical leadership that includes karen
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: compassion in her decision making. And she's running for Whittier
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: City Council. She's running for her council for District three.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: She's in the thick of campaigning, canvassing. Election season is
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: we're in the cost of it. It's a couple of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: weeks away. So we are going to be chat with
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: her today about her journey, what it's like running as
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: a woman of color, as a Latina in local elections,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and so much more so, without further ado, We're gonna
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: bring on Yasmine. Okay, look on what is so without
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: further Ado. We are so excited to be in conversation
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: today with the amazing Yasmine Ferrada. She's running for District
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: three councilwoman, potential councilwoman for the City of Whittier. So, Yasmine,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: welcome to look at that our radio. Thank you so
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: much for inviting me. We are really excited to be
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: chatting with you today. You have had an incredible journey
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: prior to campaigning. Now you're in the thick of it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: You're a couple of weeks away from elections, right, so
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: we just want you to take us on the journey
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: with you, you know, tell us about what this journey
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: has been like. What have you been up against, what
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: has it been like for you running absolutely UM so yes,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: like you said, elections technically start February twenty two, so
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: um we are right around UM election times. So I
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: have been campaigning since August. I decided to run in July,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: so it feels like this UM campaign itself for this
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: race has been UM super long. Most of my opponents
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: began real campaigning in January, so it just feels like
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I've kind of been UM been running for almost two years.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: It feels like a very long time. UM. But back
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: in July, UM, I started getting more involved in politics
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: when we actually elected my cousin Natalia Barajas to the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: South Waier School Board. So seventy of the students in
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the South Wigiear School UM district, we're failing in English
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: and math and UM they had board members that had
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: been in office for thirty plus years, and you know,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: at the detriment of the students. So we figured out
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: how to do this ourselves. We just googled how to
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: run a campaign. We started figuring out how other folks
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: have done it, and UM, we ran her campaign, door knocked,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and she got elected. So we started realizing that, like,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: we just need the information to get this going, and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: like literally the possibilities were endless. So I started getting
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: involved in my own district to figure out who our
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: leadership was because our leadership has kind of been disconnected
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: from our community. UM. And the person who's currently hold
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: office has been office for about twenty plus years, UM,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: longer than half of my life, and UM, we really
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: didn't know much about her, right and so that was
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: troubling to me. So I researched a little bit more
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: and I realized, you know, they had um donated their
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: own money to Proposition eight back in the day. Um
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: so they're like anti l G B t Q. We
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: had with your pride um you know, on the cusp
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of happening, and they were not super thrilled or supportive. Yeah,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and like we just see the demographics of what you're
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: changing and so many possibilities of making the city amazing,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and the leadership you know, kind of stifles that. And
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: there's a lack of political will to really push Whittier forward. Um. So,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: you know, in conversations with my family, I sat down,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I was like, look, I want to run for office.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: What do you all think? And they were like do it,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: let's do this. Um. So we started, you know, researching
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: all this stuff because let me tell you, when it
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: comes to politics or running a campaign, there's a few
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: people who know how to do it really well, and
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: they hold that information near and dear to them. Um
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: it's knowledge is power, right, as the saying goes, So
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: they want to make sure that they only give all
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: of that knowledge and information to people that they deem
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: as an electable candidate. So then the term like electability
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: comes up, right, and then the conversation of like what
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: is an electable candidate? And it's you know, very much
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: dripping in misogyny and patriarchy, you know, slight racisms like classism. Um,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: these kind of issues come up. I was suddenly deemed
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: as like not worthy because of who I like, who
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: my identity was a person. Yeah, when you say electability,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the first thing that I thought of was respectability, right,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and who was the most respectable quote candidate? And like
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: what deems someone respectable to run? Right? And like similar?
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, was not the first woman
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: of color to run, but considering what she was up against,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: she was up against a machine, she had an incumbent,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: she was not she didn't come from a political background.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: And I think that that really set the wave for
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: women to now, especially women of color, to be running
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: now in New York in your elections. Yeah, yeah, I
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: mean imposter syndrome runs deep in politics, right, and it
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: has been used as a very effective tool and leaving
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: folks out of this profits. So I think once we
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: started seeing women, um, you know, like the Squad and
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: other women being elected across the country, we started seeing
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: as like young women of color, that this was a possibility, Um,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: that it can happen that you don't have to be
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: part of the establishment to make it and to and
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: to see it through. It just literally requires engaging your community,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: which unfortunately has been the one thing that political establishments
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: don't do. UM. Yeah, because I think that it's more common,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: at least in my experience, for folks to not know
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: who their elected official is. When I was a community organizer,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: that was part of the thing one of the things
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: that I was doing with our residents was engaging with
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: them about their engaging with them about their civic responsibilities
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: or civic engagement even because like who is your elected
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: official very basic and like how can you reach out
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: to them when you need something in your neighborhood, you know,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: and those are things and I think it's really common
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: to not know who that person is. And that's for
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of different reasons, and it touches upon what
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you're saying, Yeah, And I think it's not on accident, right.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I think people are committed to withholding information and connection
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: to UM community because it allows them to continue doing
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: what they do right. UM. So, when I first decided
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to run, there was another person who was running for
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: UM against our incumbent as well, he's you know, an
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: older uh Latino man. So because we both have Latino surnames.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: The conversation was, if both of us are on the ballot,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: we're going to split the vote. Interesting and so what
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: was his what was that conversation with him? Like? Yeah,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: so I was like, well, let's sit down, all like
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: bride eyed and bushy tailed. Right, I'm like, let's sit down.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I'll share my platform, you share yours, and we'll have
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: a conversation. You is gonna be the one who goes
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: up and runs. So I, you know, I sit down
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: and we're having this conversation and they're like, ye, can
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: you raise money? Yes? Yeah, yeah, but are you gonna
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: do this? Yes? So can I share my platform with you? Sure?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: So as in like mid platform, they're like, let's not
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: waste each other's time. I think that you should just
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: let me run and I'll let you work for me.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I'll let you work for me. Generous you thank you
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: so much? Right? It was it was at that moment too,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: because then, you know, if I really would have felt
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: that he was um the candidate that I felt comfortable with,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I probably you would have stepped down and assisted that
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: because the point is to have a leader that we
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: know can one be the incumbent and to really bring change,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: an effective change to our community. So I didn't feel
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: that way. So on Monday I called him. I said,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: thanks for the opportunity, but I'm going to be running anyway,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: thank you, but no thing. Yes, so and so did
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: he withdraw from the campaigners. He still running, still running,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: made on. So it was it was going to be
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: fine for him if you stopped running, But he had
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: no intentions not to run himself and like share absolutely
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: or give somebody else the chance. He's going to be
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: him or nobody? Right? Interesting? And is this like a
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: common attitude that you've encountered in this process with Well,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: my question is with the Latinos, So with the men specifically, Yeah,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: with the men in general, man, with whoever. Yeah, I mean, Unfortunately,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I think, Um, when you are withheld from political spaces
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: for so long, when you start to get invited into
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: these spaces, unfortunately folks adopt the practices that are already
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: in the space, right um, and so they start kind
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: of emulating what has previously oppressed. I'll Latinos from entering
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: into that, into that space absolutely, Like I think Mala
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: and I talked about this, but like if you look
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: at the city of Belle and how they were embezzling,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: like all their elected officials, and it's like Latinos get
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit of power, and this is what they do, right,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: and it's like our investment in white supremacy and the institutions. Right,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: they were like, Okay, well we made it, so now
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: we're going to do exactly what the white folks were doing,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: right bucket, Like we're not We're not getting anywhere doing that,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you know. Right, It's really interesting and Wittier for you know,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: this sort of election to be taking place, is a
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: really interesting city. And if you're not from southern California,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: you've probably never heard of Whittier. I don't know anything
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: about Whittier, right, Like it's one of those places like Pasadena,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: but it has like a very rich history history because
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: they're also extremes in the community. Like Richard Nixon is
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: from Whittier. Okay, so the light note you were born
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: in your Belinda, I'm not claiming Richard Nixon Wittier. Wittier
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: claims him too. Yeah, so yeah, the establishment I do
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: not write. So he went to witter College in the
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: office and Whittier. Yes, we have every building almost named
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: after the Nixon Planza, there's a Nixon restaurant. UM. So
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: you have that side of Whittier, white affluent, very conservative.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: But that's not all there is to Wittier. Can you
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: talk about the Wittier that you know, and that the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Wittier you're you know, campaigning on behalf of Yeah, So
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: there is a demographic change right since probably the mid
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: to early nineties. UM, there was like a large influx
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of you know, Latin X folks moving into Whittier UM
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: and moving into the quote unquote more affluent areas of
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Whittier UM. When our family moved to East Whittier, which
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: is where we live now, UM, we were receiving letters
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: in the mail like there goes the neighborhood, like that's
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, don't leave a mattress outside of
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: your lawn, even though we hadn't, right, they wanted to
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: make sure that was not allowed in that area. My friend,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go off topic, but I just
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: want to say my family had a very similar experience,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and we moved into our neighborhood where the city was
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: coming to a knocking on our door constantly. We had
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: a neighbor that was constantly reporting us first miniscule things
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and that's very real, absolutely, and so it was very
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: telling of like who the demographic had been for so long. Um,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: so we see that shift now. Um, you know, growing up,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: most of my friends were Latin X. So all of
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: us that were that AIDS. You know, the baby boomers
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: had a lot of children and then they had children, right,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: so we're all coming up now as like a young
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Latin X population Swimmenian agent Wittier right now at thirty five,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: which is a lot younger than um what it may
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: have been. Yeah, and it's seventy latin X seven D
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the city as a whole, so seventy. And there has
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: never been an elected Latina Latina official. Yes, interesting, never
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: been an elected Latina look at that, right, and then
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: it's yeah, but have there been? There have been men
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Latinos that have been elected, just not women, just not women.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: So we're seeing a pattern. Yeah, So I mean it's
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: very different now as on door knocking. You know, there's
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: folks that are excited about change, there's folks that have
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: never had an elected official knock on their door door.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Before there's folks that didn't know they could vote for
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: city council. They didn't know who their city council member was.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: And regardless of whether I'm accounidate that's running or not,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: it was extremely troubling to me to kind of talk
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to people and here they're there their testimony that they
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: have been literally historically disenfranchised from the political process. This
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: is the first time there will ever be UM that
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: there has ever been an election on a primary so
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: witty are usually did their own election UM, and so
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: we saw some issues with that in the past. UM.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: You know, Lizetta Scobella ran for office UM in two
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: thousand eighteen for District four, and she lost by forty votes,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: and then they did a recount because of the way
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: that they had actually made the ballots, so she technically
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: lost by three votes. Oh my god, it's that tight. Yeah.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: So now that it's you know, like it's done with
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the county, we're seeing like an exciting time that there's
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: a possibility that folks are going to go out to
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: vote because it's the primary election, UM, and more people
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: are going to turn out, which is, you know, good
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: for us and the incumbent seat that you're after right now, Like,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: has that seat? Whoever has been holding that position? Is
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a woman, right, a white woman? And how long has
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: she been in office for? So in that position technically,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: um for about seventeen years and she's been running unopposed.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: She's just been walking on year after year. She hasn't
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: actually had to campaign. This is like her first time.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: So okay, So is this a West Coast AOC type situation,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: like when you left everything and stack on the chairs.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: But from your perspective, because I think it's easy for
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: us to be like, oh, you're like at AOC, but
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: do you feel like it's a similar setup? I mean, yeah.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: The only thing is is that unfortunately, UM, a lot
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: of our our support was split in half because of
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: myself and the other and let you know of that
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: was running for or that is running against her. UM.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: But it's definitely interesting. I mean, I think that we
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: have already one in the sense that she is starting
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: to compass she is starting to come through to a
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: political UM to community events. UM, she's starting to change
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: her position on homelessness, She's starting to change her position
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: on environmental sustainability. UM. There's a lot of things that
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: had never happened before, and just having somebody run against
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: you is kind of pushing, which is unfortunate because this
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: is literally what you should have been doing, right. Yeah,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: so fascinating speaking about the issues. I wanted to hear
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: because you know, if you well, this is nationwide, but
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: we're in a homeless crisis, especially here in Los Angeles
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: right and and even in the city of Whittier. So
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I wanted to hear your platform on how, if elected,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: how you would address homelessness because I know that that's
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: like the question each person is getting, like across l
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: A County, folks that are campaigning and running for office.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to hear your platform. So are folks
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: that are listening if any of them are residents of
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Whittier and are in District District three, they can hear
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: it straight from you. Yeah. Absolutely, So homelessness, we know,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: is a crisis all over the county, like you said, um,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and in Whittier, we saw a huge increase in encampment
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: across our city and so that is what really got
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: the community alarmed. Um, some upset, some upset for the
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: lack of response to it, but everyone has a very
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: emotional response to our homelessness crisis. UM. And so we
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: recently had a homelessness or housing forum. I was the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: only candidate to show up. So we know that because
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: of the poll, homelessness is the number one issue for
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: every community member, regardless of party line, regardless of stance
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: on it, it's the most important issue. And UM, I
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: was the only person out of District three to show up,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: which was alarming to me. Including the latino that's running
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: against you. Interesting, right, and so you know the first forum,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: I'm standing next to folks. You know, they're calling them vagrants,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: they're calling them, um, just blight of the community. And
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: I took personal offense to that. So you know, we've
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: been seeing incamin and Parnell Park. Parnell Park is the
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: park that's in District three. UM. And so Saturday mornings, UM,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: me and folks from a couple of other organizations go
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: over there and take UM our your members living in
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the park, breakfast, burritos and coffee and we'll just sit
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: and chat with them, right, like, what is it that
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: you need in order to assist you? UM, they're community
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: there with your community members. UM, they are moms, they're veterans.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: UM they're folks that have jobs. So I think the
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: common misconception, right is that you know, folks are just
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: drug addicted or have mental health issues and refuse service
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: and just want to live there, right, um, which I
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: think is important to acknowledge that mental health and drug
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: addiction does not automatically mean that you're a homeless individual.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: We have folks that struggle with drug addiction and um,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: you know, severe mental health issues, but are from a
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: socio economic status that allows them to be housed while
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: they deal with those. So I think that's important to acknowledge. UM.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: My plan would be the first thing is to ensure
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: that we have sufficient amount of beds for our community members. UM.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if you've heard of the Boissey
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: case that happened not too long ago, and what essentially
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: did um was it deemed it unconstitutional for cities to
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: arrest or ticket um homeless individuals living on the street
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: if their cities did not have a sufficient amount of
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: beds for them to be offered. That's really big and
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: it was huge, and so essentially our Wittier Police department
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: could not do any of those things if the City
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: of Willier did not provide an adequate amount of beds.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: We knew this back in two thousand eighteen, two seventeen,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: and to this day, we still do not have the
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: adequate amount of beds. So when our community members are
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: constantly calling the Wittier Police Department, you know, because they're
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: unsettled or you know, they feel sure quote unquote unsafe,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: our Wittier Police Department cannot literally cannot do anything. UM.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: And so you know, one of the things that we
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: have to do is ensure that we have a sufficient
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: amount of beds. We have like four or five different
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: nonprofit organizations that are already doing the work to provide
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the resources and Wittier UM, I think we need to
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: work together, UM with folks that are already doing the
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: work to streamline UM. We see a success in what
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: is called a common entry system, so that we can
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: U track folks, right, we can provide them the information,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: provide them the services, and track it in a system.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: So then we are able to kind of like make
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: sure that they're on the track in terms of services
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: UM to become successful, right, or to become I mean
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: at least safe housed and UM, you know, not in
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: in crisis mode, right, a very bare minimum. We know
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: this disproportionately affects women and folks from the l g
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: B t Q plus community because shelters are oftentimes unsafe. UM.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: I think that a lot of our trans brothers and
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: sisters that are living on the street don't feel safe
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: going into shelters because they're gendered, right and oftentimes, um,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: the staff or or the system doesn't have that into account.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Domestic violence shelters really only accepts his gender women, right.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: And if a woman has a child who's over fourteen
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: or sixteen, not a child, yeah, if it's a boy, right,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: and they can't take their boy children into shelterworthy. So
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: all these things that like push people into homeless right
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: right absolutely. Um. You know, there's a poll that showed
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: likeent of local businesses would be willing to um to
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: employ folks experiencing homelessness, which is huge because they shared
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: that one of the hardest things to do is go
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: to a job interview because you know, what are you
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: gonna do? Take all your stuff with you? Um, And
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: so it's difficult, right because you need to have interview clothes,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: you need to have you know, all of the things
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: that maybe we don't think about on a daily basis, UM,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: and so community, the community is responding with solutions, and
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: the community is responding with ways of how to assist
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: these folks. UM. And the current mayor that's running for
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: reelection and the incumbent who am running against have been
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: sending flyers for the past like three months, just criminalizing
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: these folks, taking pictures without these people's consent and adding
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: them on flyers. Um. You know, just beware, they're taking
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: over your community. That's horrible and it's stirring a lot
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: of fear. Absolutely, it's propaganda, that's yeah. I mean this
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: is these are not new tactics. We've seen this happen before.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: And so there's like an upset individuals. We had a
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: shooting in Parnell Park. An individual drove up into the park,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: got out of his car and started shooting into the incambment,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: shooting at the homeless community, which is not uncommon, right,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Like attacks on the homeless person right directed at home
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: is kind of is pretty common. Their hate crimes, right,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I agree, And and you know the person who kind
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: there's like vigilante groups that are you know, harassing, stealing
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: and taking things from these people. And they all serve
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: on the campaigns of my incumbent and the mayor. UM
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: and so that's very troubling. That's domestic terrorism, oh my god.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: And so what in the world, right, and so you know,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence that these things people are attacking me.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: But I mean, this is this is not what the
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: city of what you're is, This is not what who
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: our community is. Um. I think as I'm talking to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: folks at the door, they're excited to be able to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: have conversations about what's happening because they also want input
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: on what solutions can happen. And you know, surprisingly, most
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: of our community member solutions have a layer of compassion
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: and a layer of responsibility that they feel towards helping
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: their community members out, which is opposite of what we're
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: seeing from our leadership ironically. Yeah, I mean, the point
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: of an elected official is that you're serving your constituents
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: and that includes includes homeless folks, right, You're the homeless
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: folks are a part of your constituency and also taking
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: into account what your constituents want. It's not just Okay,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this because I think that this
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: is what's best for the community. I mean, the woman
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: I'm running against was on Channel four and literally said
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the solution is to turn the sprinklers on on them
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: until they get so annoyed that they move along. And
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: it's like, where do we logically believe that homeless people
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: will go? And you just continue to push them further
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: and further away. It's like this wish that they'll disappear,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: that they're not going to disappear. We have to engage
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: with them and actually provide solutions, and very bizarre. I
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: think what's missing of this of the conversation around homelessness
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the most is affordable housing. You know, the state of California.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: So Governor Knewsom was like, you all need to have
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: a certain amount of affordable housing. And so our mayor
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: goes on, you know, rants and campaigns to criminal criminalize
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: the state government and local governments, like you know, they're
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: coming and trying to invade our city. Um, but only
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: because he refuses to ensure that we have affordable housing
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: in Wittier. Um. So if the meeting age thirty five,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: I'm twenty nine, I would love to start you know,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: my life and um like settled down right, purchase my
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: own home in Whittier, and that is impossible. I like
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: a full time job, a decent paying job, right, and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: it's still impossible for me to be able to afford
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: to live in Whittier on my own. And that's me
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: being born and raised in Whittier and you know, not
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: doing too bad for myself. So I mean that's something
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: that they've been committed to ensure that it doesn't happen
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: because of development money. It's insane. And I mean, you know,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: it's like Whittier is experiencing things that are happening in
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: other way shapes and forms throughout like southern California, the
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Greater l A County, right, um. And I'm wondering how
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: the community has received you. I'm hearing that there are
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: folks who are happy and who are engaging, and who
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: are happy that you're on the trail, um and in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: this process. But has that been true across the board? Um? No.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's with every you know, political candidate, right,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be folks who really love you and folks
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: who really don't like you. Um. But I think what's
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: unique about my situation is that they don't not like
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: me because of my policy stance, Like they don't like
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: me because of who I am or what I represent
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: and who do they think you are? I was going
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to say, what do you represent to that? Who are
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: you and what do you represent? Um? Things that I've
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: heard have been like you're a brown beret who is
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: attempting to And I'm like, first, yes, I'm first of all,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: let's talk about that a little bit um brown beret.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: That's such a throwback my point exactly exactly. I'm like,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: I wonder who came up with that, right right? Um?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: That I am like a bleeding heart liberal that just
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: wants to like make what you're a communist city, which
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: we know is you know, literally impossible. Um and also
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: out of my jurisdiction, you know, if I get elected.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Um what else? I've been called a chola, I've been
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: called you know a lot of slurs against who I am,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: like my sexuality as a woman, right um, where it's
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: like slut or things of that nature. Right, come up?
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Often are these things happening like verbally like in real life?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Are they online? I'm trying to understand, like how people
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: say these things to you? Half of it or I
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: would say, probably like of it is online? Okay, so
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: the next door app Um, I don't know familiar what's
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: on next door that this is happening. Well it did, Yeah,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: it was happening. I don't know if it still is.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: I try to stay off of next door just for
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: my life. The neighborhood watch is on next door being
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: dumb as hell. Wow. Yeah, And I mean, like it's
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: just baffling to me because I don't I try not
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: to take it personally, right, Um, but you're attacking things
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: that have absolutely no like nothing to do with what
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I could potentially bring to leadership. But your current leadership
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: has kind of literally done nothing, and you are committed
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: to supporting them simply because of their actual identity, like
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: their racial identity, right, which is kind of um, you know,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: similar to at the federal level what we're seeing now. Um.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: And I knew this going in, like I would have
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: to work ten times harder than all of my opponents,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: which is why I've been door knocking since August. And I,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: you know, show up and research as much as I
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: can before I show up to places, because showing up
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: and saying I don't know the answer to something is
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: unacceptable to me, which is what's happened and you were
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: door knocking this morning before you came to record today. Yeah,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: you're like you're very committed and it shows. Thank you absolutely,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: and you have like a team behind you, so who
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: has been supporting you and joining you on your canvassing
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: and that way, like if folks listening want to get involved, like,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: how can they lend a hand? Yeah? So our volunteers
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: spanned from high school student into some of the calcate
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: l A students I work with UM two colleagues, to friends, cousins, family,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: community members, UM that just reach out on Instagram and
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: want to get involved. UM my team specifically, so my
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: campaign manager, her name is Madison and White, and my
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: field coordinator is Francis Gomez. And I was very intentional
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: about hiring young women because I definitely believe that there
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: is something to say about the commitment and the passion
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, the honesty and transparency that young women bring.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: And that's you know, what I what I want my
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: campaign to be about and what my election and what
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I want that to mean too, is to ensure that
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: we're bringing other young women along. That's a beautiful thing.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Paying it forward. I wanted to ask you for folks,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: that are listening, especially the young women that are listening
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: that are interested in a future in politics. What advice
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: can you give them? Oh? Um, I'm like, how much
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: time do you I mean, I would definitely say, um,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: one is secure, Um, your platform? Why do you want
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: to do this? Because that why is what you're going
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: to be holding onto throughout the entire craziness that is
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: a campaign cycle. Right, Um so hold onto your yum.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Make sure you build a circle of people that you
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: one hundred and trust around you. I can't stress that enough. Um.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: You know they say campaigns really show who your true
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: friends are, and it does. Um So I would definitely
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: say that. I would definitely reach out to other women
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: who have ran for office because in my experience, they
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: have been the most supportive and willing to share information. Um. Yeah.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to to realize that you're gonna
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: hear a lot of no, and you're gonna hear a
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: lot of it's not your time, it's not meant for you. Um,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: you have you should wait a little bit longer. But
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: the truth is is that if you're moved to serve
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: your your community, and you're moved to make a difference,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: then Uh, there is no too early or too soon
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: to start doing that. Yeah, that's great, thank you. Yeah,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: And I think it's important right that it's public office
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: is for the public. Shouldn't be for a tiny sliver
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: of the population who meets certain like identity marker or
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: like the legacy politicians that their families have. And we
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: see that all across l A. The folks that have
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: their parents have run they were mayors, and so now
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: I'm the mayor. I'm a refer mayor literally literally for like,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: you know, council members, councilmen, council women, all across l A,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: like there are the legacy politicians. Yeah, and unfortunately that
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: crosses ethnic lines, right, that crosses um well, I don't
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: even think that crosses specially economic lines, because I feel
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: like that's pretty much the same. But I feel like,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: you know, oftentimes we want to hope that our communities
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: stand behind us, but I think it's important to acknowledge
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: that it's different for young women, young progressive women. Yeah,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: absolutely gonna jump behind you and really believe that they
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: made for other folks. All the things we talk about, right,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: the within the community, the patriarchy, the machiese mall the
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: violence against women, It all carries over and I you know,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: you're you're living it, you're seeing it. And I'm curious too.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: We hear a lot right about harassment, workplace harassment, sexual
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: harassment in all industries and across the board, and like experiences.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that you again who you are, You're young,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: you're Latina, this you're very pretty right, Like we've also
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: kind of you know, we notice kind of from Afar
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: that even your Instagram and your dress and everything, as
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: you've been part of this process, you know that you've adjusted.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Can you talk about like, I don't know that process
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: and what goes through your head or how you make
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: choices now in this specific world, because I feel like
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: you have, uh, like there's hypercritical eyes on you, right,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: and so like, how has that impacted you? Um, well,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: it's been tough, I would say, Um, I think I've
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: always kind of been an advocate for making sure that
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: women feel safe to be their authentic selve um. So
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: it was definitely a little bit of of a hurdle
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: to adjust who I was in terms of what I wear, um,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: how I speak, right, everything is kind of being micromanaged.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Why I don't wear pearls. That's a thing that people are.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: People are very upset that I don't wear pearls, um,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: because how dare I? I'm sucking dead. I'm like, I'm sorry,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: I can't. The priorities, the priorities, and I mean, that's
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: just I have to start thinking about how somebody who
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: literally has the opposite framework of myself, how they would
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: view me. And so in the time where you're working
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: so hard on like loving yourself unconditionally and ensuring that
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: the framework is based on our own greatness, having to
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: all so have the framework of you know, deficit right,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: like what is wrong with me? Or what is someone
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: else going to think is wrong with me? At the
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: same time, it's extremely exhausting. Um. But I think it's
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: one of the things about being a young woman running
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: for office. UM you oftentimes and I try to, you know,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: remain in terms of like physics, like aesthetically authentic to
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: the most that I can, UM, But knowing that in
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: order to get into spaces, in order to have conversations
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: with people, you have to play that game. And so
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: as long as I don't have to adjust on my
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: policy stance, as long as I don't have to adjust
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: on what my UM purpose for running is. Then I'm
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: okay with like wearing a blazer everywhere I go or
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: you know, not having too much makeup on. You know,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: there's like sacrifices that I'm willing to accept and sacrifices
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: that I'm not and you know right that I'm not
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: is like policy or who I accept donations from. UM.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: But in terms of harassment, I think that's also something
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: that's super important. Going back to your question about what
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I would advise is never go anywhere alone. And I'm
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: sure y'all say this already on your podcast, but be
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: like hyper aware. UM. One of the other things that's
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: an added layer for young women is that there is
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: still predators in the political system, right so justly their
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: elected officials doesn't make them not you know, the boogeyman
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: and so UM. You know, one thing that I had
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: to learn pretty early on is I cannot go to
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: a meeting after six pm if somebody from my staff
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: is not with me because when I need a witness,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: if they're going to try to switch what I'm saying
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: and too, because it's unsafe. UM. Just period that it's
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the fact that it's unsafe for women to run to
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: campaign to campaign is horrific, um, but not surprising, right,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: you know? And then it just adds like it adds
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: so much perspective even thinking about AOC and we know
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: that she did a lot of campaigning and door knocking
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: and thinking about what safety brook cautions do women young women,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: especially across the board, across the country, What kinds of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: like crazy precautions are y'all taking so that you have
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: a chance right at winning one of these seats. And
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: it's like I worked forty hours a week, so when
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: the time shift happened, I would get home at like
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: six and it's already getting dark. So if I don't
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: have like a light flashlight or pepper sprite or one
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: other person to go with me, I can't door knock alone,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: where it might be a little different for um, for
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: say a man, right um. But also I think it's
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: also important to recognize that oftentimes folks that you would
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: trust in the political sphere change if you don't ask
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: for permission, or if you if you're not asking the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: gate keepers for permission. And so what I've experienced was
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't ask Apparently I didn't ask the correct people
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: permission to run for office UM in a democracy, so
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: so that piste a lot of people off. And so
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: what happened was that they ensured they did every think
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: they could to make sure that I drop out. So
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: the first three months of me openly canvassing and openly
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: campaigning was probably the toughest that I've ever endured because
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: people that were the closest to me did everything they
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: could to make sure that I dropped out soon enough
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: for the other gentleman to have an easier time running
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: for office. What kinds of tactics were they using to
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: try and get you to drop out? Because it sounds
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: like stuff was going on like you were, you were
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: going through things. Are you comfortable sharing some of those experiences? Yeah,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: I mean the easier but also UM effective tactics were
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: to ensure that I didn't receive the endorsements from really
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: large scale endorsements that come with a lot of money
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: and canvassers UM, and that was either through bad mouthing
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: or promoting the opposing candidate UM. And so that happened
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: super early on UM within very strange and sneaky ways.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm not a career politician, so I had to
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: like get with the program quickly. That people don't operate
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: in the regular the way that they do in the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: regular world, right, every thing is like, well, what do
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: they really mean or what do they really want? So
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: I had to learn that very soon. Um. Also, I
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: think sexual harassment is also another added tactic that they
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: were attempting to do. Um, you know, things like you're
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: not going to get endorsements that I know I could
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: have got you. You're not going to get donations and
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: that I know I could have got you. But if
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: you do X y Z, I can give you money
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: my endorsement, and we can have like conversations about how
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I can support you moving forward. So there were people
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: who try to get you to do like certain things
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: in exchange for money, endorsements, support like literal sexual favors up.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: That's crazy, yeah yeah, And this was early in the
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: campaign process. This was very early in the campaign process.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: So it I mean, I would be lying if I
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: didn't mention that. It took me two weeks to kind
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: of like recalibrate after that, like wait a minute, like
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: what like this is what we could deal with? Um,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think I was prepared for that. But well,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: also because a lot. I mean, violence prevails through silence, right,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: So if folks and the women in the past have run,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: I doubt they're talking about it publicly. Right. And this
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: is not just in Wittier, but across the board, like
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the things that women that are campaigning are experiencing and
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: that's not talked about. Right. Honestly, I can't stress that
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: point enough because I even reached out to other elected officials,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: women who have been in office for years, like, hey,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: this happened to me, and I'm not sure if this
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: is common or you know, this was an elected official
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: who did this. So it's like, what happens? Where do
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: I go from here? And it was very much like
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: a sweetie, this is the way the game goes. I'm
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: sorry you're experiencing that, Like it's not gonna last forever.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: So it's like, no, this is what happens. This is
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: what men in office do when young women are trying
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: to break in, Yeah, or not break in, but earned
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: their spot, earn their place. Um, what are the options
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: available to like a woman experiencing sexual harassment on the
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: campaign trail? Like, what are your realistic options? That evening
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: I sat down with the people closest to me, and
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: it was like when I come out with the story
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: and I named him and we have you know, a
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: full disclosed situation, UM, when people are already calling me
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: the slurs I mentioned earlier, UM, and are attacking me
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: based on my looks. The chances of them UM hearing
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: that and feeling sorry, or hearing that and being like, wow,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: she's really having you know, a lot, a lot, many
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: more hurdles than I would have, UM, we're very slim
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: to none, and if anything, probably would have been received
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: as this was one of my tactics and hoping to
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: gain some support or sympathy empathy UM for a vote,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: and I think I had to make the decision that
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: UM mental health wise, I think it would have been
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: a lot more harmful had I come out and been
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: received that way, UM than if I just wait until
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: this campaign is over and then you know, than it
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: is what it is, and you know it's still it's
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: still on the right, So it hasn't gone away. I
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: haven't forgotten. Folks close to me know exactly what happened.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: There's documentation, so it doesn't go away. It's just I
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: also have to think strategically of how this will affect
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: my campaign because we don't live in a world right
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: that's going to be like, I'm so sorry that happened
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: to you. How can I support absolutely? And I mean,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: it says so much about what we don't know as
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: far as what women in office are experiencing and surviving
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: and living through, because, like you've just shared, the option
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: to go public with something like this or file a
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: justified report is really not on the table because it's
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: almost like a guarantee that your your your ship will
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: be sunk and will be used against you it public record,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: and how it's you know when we talk about blaming
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: the victim, right, but it's like, how dare you do
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: this in the middle of a campaign? They know and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: men in office no exactly what you're doing. They know
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: that you're between a rock and a hard place, like
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: the mud and the dirt. They're completely and totally aware.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: And what's infuriating is that they get paid through public money,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: like we pay their salaries and vote them into office
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: or let them walk on yr after year, and it's
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: just infuriating. I'm furious for you, you know, I mean, yeah,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: thank you, but you know, this is somebody that we
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: see often and that I still have to see often,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: and so also understanding that I don't think I've ever
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: had the opportunity to process um as yes, mean but
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: process as and so I'm like holding off on that,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: which I'm like therapy is gonna be real fun march forth.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, like I am literally not allowed to process
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: as yes right now, because there's one no time for it,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: and to um, it's not gonna matter because the decisions
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: that are being made are for out of and the elections.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: There's just like a your compartmentalizing your identities and yourself
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: for the campaign, which is something that your other opponents
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: most likely are not having to do. No, because it
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: also requires a level of self awareness where self work.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Right going into this, like, I don't ever want to
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: be the leader that that leads with my ego or
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: that leads coming from like a space that doesn't feel
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: like I'm good enough, So I'm going to come in
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: here and rule over people. Um. That is actually not
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: common for people that want to work on themselves to
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: be leaders um, And unfortunately that's why we are where
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: we are. So the election is coming up soon, yes, Um,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: where can people sign up to help you? To camp
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm like rally the trees, like people out there
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: and on the ground, UM to help you out and
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: get this seat and win this election. And what data
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: is the election? So l A County has changed their
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: voting process. So before it was one day or unless
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: you had a vote by mail ballot. This time it
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: starts February and it goes until March three, So there's
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: about ten days, eleven days to go to a voting center. UM.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: If you live in l A County and you're registered
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: for in l A County, you can go to any
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: voting center in l A County. UM, so whatever is
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: most convenient for you. UM. And that's how that's going
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: to go, which is very exciting to get out the vote,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: which is normally three days is now going to be
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: like fifteen days. So that's gonna be super I mean,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: it's exciting because more people are going to come out
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: to vote. UM. My website is Ferrata for the number
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: four Whittier dot com and that has UM. You know,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: it allows you to make a contribution monetary contribution, to
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: sign up to volunteer, UM, get to know my platform
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. UM, and it has like all
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: of my social media on there as well. All right, y'all,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: y'all better give her your any give her all of
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: your money behind her. Yes, no listeners and Wittier. Yes,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: I'm one percent positive. I run into because I get
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: my nails in a Wittier and I run into listeners
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: at the nail slant. I know that y'all are out there,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: so show up, show out, support, um, help change like
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: politics and Wittier in a real tangible way. Absolutely, and
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: like we're so as a as a whole as a society,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Like we're so invested in getting Trump out of office
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: and electing like our Democratic candidate, which is so important.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: But also the local elections are just as important and
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: they really affect your day to day So even if
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: you're not in Wittier, wherever you're at, pay attention to
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: who's running, being an informed voter, it will affect your
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: day to day life whoever is elected into office. Aboutely well, yes, mean,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today and um
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: talking on look at about your experience and your process
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: and your campaign. Is there any final words anything? I mean,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: thank you all so much for an inviting me. Um,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: it's so exciting to be on Look Radio. We love you, girl.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: This is so exciting. We've been trying to make it
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: happen forever and we're here and we're hearing. This is
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: very exciting. Thank you all so much for inviting me.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: This is a very exciting time, y'all. So, even if
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: you cannot get engaged in my campaign specifically, UM, like
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: Yosa said, make sure you are looking into folks that
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: are running around you. Um. Nothing affects our day to
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: day life more than local politics and local officials. Um.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: And so they're the least um, they're the least races
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: with the least voter engagement because folks are not too
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: it's not very exciting, it's very parks and rec um.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: But we have an opportunity to change that. So get
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: out there and vote and support your local candidate for Yes,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: let's make it happen. She has a look at out
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: an endorsement. Okay, she truly does. Could they could never literally,
• 1:25:03
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