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#6 | Brittany Mouttet · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus with Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: In this episode, we have the pleasure of having as our guest Brittany Mute.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brittany is the host of the Leading Ladies of Corpus Christi podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're interested in listening to this episode, stay tuned.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the show, Brittany.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hi, thank you for having me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you heard about us by me offering uh to get Sydney some merch.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, I think you followed me first.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you know, I don't know how that worked.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think you you might have followed me first, and I saw what you were doing, and so I follow immediately followed you back.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then yeah, you messaged saying that you were a fan of the podcast and you wanted to give me merch.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you're the first and only person to be like, hey, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll pay for it instead of you giving it to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and that was a surprise to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why why did you do that?
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  SPEAKER_03: I and I am sorry if that's weird, but I just feel I don't ever how do I say this?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to take things from people.
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  SPEAKER_03: I never want to be in the position where I'm taking things because it's really important to me to show support, especially to someone like you, Jesus, with what you're doing.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love your brand.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's important for me to put my money where my mouth is, you know, because I will share your stuff all the live long day.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I also, if I can, want to support you monetarily as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's why I'm like, no way, I'm I'm paying you for this.
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  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, this this is this is a legit transaction here because I want to support my business.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I definitely understood.
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  SPEAKER_01: I understand like they want some paying somebody for their work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so when you brought that, I was like, oh man, she's that's legit.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, haven't you heard?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure you've heard it, but where people who have brands or people who are influencers or anything like that, you know, there's always like, oh, I can't pay you, but you'll get a lot of exposure, you know, and it's like, well, exposure, pay the bills.
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  SPEAKER_03: And don't get me wrong, sometimes we can't afford to support you with money and purchases, you know, and that's when of course sharing and everything like that comes into play.
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  SPEAKER_03: But if I can, I'm gonna support you by funding, helping fund you, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So how so do you think do you think of that also in terms of like uh like supporting local and keeping money in the local economy?
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you think about that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Truly, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I'm are you from Corpus?
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  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so born and raised in Corpus Christy, you know, so you've been here and you saw what it was like growing up, and there wasn't a ton of local businesses here doing really cool things like what we're seeing now, you know, it was pretty much dominated by chains, dominated by mall stores, all that kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: So to see people either from Corpus, from the surrounding area, or from someone else coming into the coastal bin to start a business, crucial.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we want our city to grow.
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  SPEAKER_03: And whenever businesses like yours decide to stick around and do really cool things, locals and hopefully others will realize how important it is to support you in that way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because what you're giving is quality items as well, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: And I find that, yeah, the majority of local businesses do that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they put like their blood, sweat, and tears into it, providing you know, a really uh valuable product to the economy.
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  SPEAKER_03: So absolutely, I think people should definitely consider a local option before maybe going to a big box store or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was thinking about that too.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, what if we owned buildings here?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we we rent a lot as uh small businesses, and it's like, man, what happens if we own the building?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: We can own the property, and that would definitely uh help the economy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I love the city.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, so that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which school, uh, which schools did you go to?
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  SPEAKER_03: I went to uh I started off at Woodlawn Elementary and then I tested into the gifted and talented.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I went to I went to I went to Windsor Park and then Baker Middle School and then King High School.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, I was gonna guess King.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, she probably because I like I said, I was kind of stalking you before this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like uh listening to a scene of your podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: You you appeared on several podcasts, a horror podcast, uh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, and I listened to I was listening, I was like, she's probably from I was thinking Carol, but I was like, Oh, she's probably king.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was just you just I don't know, you kind of guess, you know what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're we're from the same town.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're like funny because when you're from here, you do you are kind of able to determine.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's funny.
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  SPEAKER_03: Where did you go?
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  SPEAKER_01: I went to Ray for three years, dropped out of high school, went back to Miller for because I didn't want to, I didn't want to deal with the people at Ray after dropping out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, it's just kind of embarrassed.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, you know, I'm just gonna come over here, just keep my head down and finish, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was that was my kind of thing there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so you you played soccer, yep, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And you and the number 16.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why'd you pick the number 16?
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh god.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are great questions, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, so my first love was Keanu Reeves.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know, I I I uh have gotten over those emotions for him, but I still respect him.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um and I'm not sure if you've ever seen the movie The Replacements, but when he comes back to play football, his number is 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, oh, that is so hilarious that you asked me that.
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  SPEAKER_01: My husband's gonna back up when he hears the number 16, and then another thing I found out is that your your original screen name on I think AOL had to do with Rogue from X-Men the cartoon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, why is that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh, okay, you are amazing with your research and the fact that you know this about me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, so I am the only girl.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh I have two brothers, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: And so what my older brother did, I did.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like he's the you know, the coolest, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: And so comic books and that kind of thing, and of course, um, comic book cartoons, and one of them that we watched religiously was the X-Men cartoon.
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  SPEAKER_03: Have you ever seen that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I remember the intro song.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you know, and then Rogue is just I just love her, like she's strong, and she doesn't put up with any.
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  SPEAKER_03: Can I say bad words?
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: She doesn't put up, she doesn't put up with any shit.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh I love Gambit too, and so their chemistry together, I just thought I just love them.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I I have to admit that I was disappointed with her depiction in the movies.
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  SPEAKER_03: I really like the actress, but I just didn't love the character.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I'm hoping she gets some redemption later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah, and her accent was killer too.
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  SPEAKER_01: She had an accent.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she was pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, Rogue is cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: I I stand by it, I love her.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nice, nice, nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, so you're so you're involved in the city, and your podcast is is awesome, which is called The Leading Ladies of Corpus Christie.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you guys are listening, check it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, aside from that, um, what do you so what do you do for work in the city?
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  SPEAKER_03: So, I'm a senior project manager, and I feel like this is a point of contention potentially.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm a senior project manager at the Owen Stevens Water Treatment Plant in Cal Allen.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I'm in the water department, and uh we're the only drinking water treatment plant for the entire area.
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  SPEAKER_03: So all of industry, all the way to Padre Island National Seashore, all the way to Port A.
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  SPEAKER_03: The water that y'all are getting out of your faucets is from the plant that I'm at.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, what like what do y'all do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like filtration and stuff?
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, yeah, how cool that you know that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that's one of the final processes of treatment.
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  SPEAKER_03: So just kind of like a basic most water treatment is uh it follows the same kind of steps.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you start off with source water.
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  SPEAKER_03: So your source water is like your raw water, so uh not in our cases anything with salt.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's a totally different thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: But so we use water from like lakes and rivers.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you know the kind of water I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you've ever been in Oasis River, you can see how kind of dark and murky it is, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: So we bring that water in and then we do something called uh pre-sedimentation, which is where we let like all the heavy stuff settle out, so it just sits in a basin for a while.
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  SPEAKER_03: I can this is you probably did too much detail.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you're no, this is definitely interesting for me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah, go ahead.
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  SPEAKER_03: So so you start off with so before there's really any treatment, you're letting all the heavy solids come out because y'all have seen that river water, you know what's in there, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Once it starts coming into the plant, then we start adding chemical to the water to make any of the solids that haven't settled out, the chemical that we add binds to those additional um, we're gonna call it like dirt and leaves and like turbidity, that kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, what it does is it makes something called a flock that gets really heavy and then also settles out.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it's really just a process of getting everything to settle out like naturally.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then, of course, we add chlorine, and then of course, there's uh filtration involved.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, like you had mentioned, um, that's one of the final steps before it gets stored and then distributed out to you guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's so awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Zayn, yeah, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh Zayn had a question.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, Does the plant produce energy as well?
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  SPEAKER_03: Not I had no idea this was live.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh hi, no, we don't produce energy, strictly uh potable water.
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  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're pretty much a science person.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, so I am a science.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you and you're a Tamu CC alumni, me as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, congratulations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you have uh a degree in biology.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you do that for the city, and now you're kind of popular for mostly for your leading lady corporate security podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and the story is very interesting in how you came upon that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, would you like to share some of why you started your podcast?
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  SPEAKER_03: Definitely.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I'm a mom um to a four-year-old.
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  SPEAKER_03: His name is Saint, he's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I wasn't somebody who was dying to be a mom.
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  SPEAKER_03: This might be like a controversial thing to say, but I wasn't, you know, I wasn't sure I wanted to have kids, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, um, he I believe that he he chose me.
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  SPEAKER_03: So uh all throughout my pregnancy, I was really amazed with what my body was doing.
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  SPEAKER_03: It uh it really was an incredible experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: And after I gave birth to him, I really realized how incredible women are, you know, that they, you know, the majority of them have the capacity to do this if they choose to.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh I was just feeling really inspired by just being a woman, period.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I thought, because I followed a lot of women who were personal friends that were going back to school or starting a business or whatever, and I was like, I want to reach out to them and let them know I think you're incredible.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know we don't really talk that much, but just keep kicking ass because you're doing an amazing job.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then the idea just kind of progressed to well, what if I have a conversation with them about why they do what they do?
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  SPEAKER_03: And then, well, why don't I just do a podcast?
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  SPEAKER_03: And then it just kind of organically came to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when I first heard your podcast, I came upon it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and we mentioned I mentioned this earlier.
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  SPEAKER_01: Earlier, I thought your podcast, I listened to like one episode, I remember what it was, and this was like two years back, and I was thinking, and and I kind of came at it negatively because I thought it was like an anti-male type of thing, and when I started listening to it, I was like, Oh, this is really interesting, and it seems like you really care about your guests, and that's so awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you're uh and I like to consider you a leading lady because of that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, thank you.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's very awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, uh, why podcasting?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it could have been like different avenues, I guess, but why did you choose podcasting for uh that your platform?
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  SPEAKER_03: That is a great question, and I will answer it, but I want to touch on something you just said.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much for telling me that you initially thought my podcast was something, and then still giving it a chance and realizing it wasn't.
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  SPEAKER_03: That that's a huge lesson, I think, for people.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, you can assume something based on um a cover or a title or a picture or whatever, and you still gave it a shot and and realized you know your perspective was wasn't correct.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um so so thank you for that.
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  SPEAKER_03: That that that's big.
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  SPEAKER_03: So why I chose to do podcasting was I I genuinely love talking to people.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm curious.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want to know like all about you, not in like a personal, like nosy way, but I just want to I just want to know you.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm I don't really care for small talk per se.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll do it, but I really want to get to know people and what makes them tick and how they feel about things, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I feel as though I'm good at getting people to open up, and I think that that's just my gift.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, so I I'd say that's why I love having conversations with people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you did you learn did you how did you learn that along the way like that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like just how to do that?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm wondering if I just saw how my parents talk to people because my parents are kind of like that, um, very open.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're never just trying to get out of a conversation, you know.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_03: You know how you've been in conversations with people and you can tell they're not really into it, and maybe like kind of looking around, like who else can I talk to?
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: I wasn't I wasn't brought up that way, and also you have me in a disadvantage because I don't really talk about myself.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so used to talking to people about themselves, and uh yeah, so I think it was just my parents were probably the example because they're always asking people about themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that's very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you bring up your parents, uh, and your last name is Mu Tay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm telling you, I listened to your pa so Mu Tay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and your parents are what what are your the origins?
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: I I I remember your dad was uh Trinidad.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, my dad was born in Trinidad and Tobago, which is a small island in the Caribbean, um, right off the coast of uh South America.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he moved over here to Gregory, Portland when he was 13.
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  SPEAKER_03: And my mom was born in some small little town right out of Houston called Barbers Hill, like tiny.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh and uh yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: So they, you know, it was very controversial for my mother to start seeing my dad because you know, my dad is um ethnic, and my mom's like this blonde, blue-eyed white girl, and uh that did not go over well with her parents initially, but it's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's yeah, that's an interesting story.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is interesting.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: So cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: So your dad, um, so did they did did they help you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are they either one of them like into science like you are or like communications or something?
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  SPEAKER_03: They I would say uh they have an interest in it, but both of my parents are actually only high school graduates, neither one of them went to college.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, so it was hardcore instilled in me and my brothers to go to college.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's common.
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  SPEAKER_03: What year did you graduate?
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  SPEAKER_01: 2002, I think.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's sad.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember.
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  SPEAKER_01: 2002.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, you and I are like the same generation because I'm 2004, and I feel like I feel like our parents were just I I don't know about your parents, but my parents and like my peers' parents were very much like college, like no other option, college, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, and I think it's because they they didn't go so um, but as far as their interests, they were interested in I mean, just about anything.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like my dad isn't traditionally educated, but he can talk to you about anything.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, like dropping facts, like, yeah, he's he's a smart dude.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so your brother did your brothers go to college as well?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so my older brother went to college, he's an accountant, and my little brother, the baby, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, he's the one who's kind of like start, stop, start, stop college.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, so then he got married and had two babies and realized he didn't want to do the hourly wage thing anymore.
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  SPEAKER_03: So this is his last semester of the physic, what is it?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: Physical therapist assistant program at Del Mar.
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  SPEAKER_03: So he's about to graduate with that certification.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're the middle child, no sisters, no sisters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow, and I was thinking, I was like, well, now you have a lot of women that you talk to.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like they're kind of sisters, you know.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: You kind of made your own way to have sisters.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you think about that?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you're right.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: I never even thought about that, but that's so true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Awesome, yeah.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let me see what else I got here.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: So you get in the middle child, you got two brothers, you're doing the podcast now.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so for your podcast, you have you said that you have people volunteer themselves.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: How do you get guests?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so initially I reached out to women that I knew personally because it's always easier to talk to people you know, right?
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_03: You would think.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: Have you ever interviewed anybody you know personally?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, don't think so.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I interview people, but like kind of no, you know what I mean?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: But not like close friends, yeah, not somebody that's close, yeah.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you would think it would be easy, and for the most time it it is, but every now and then you'll come across somebody you know like personally that just clams up, like they they can't it's like one-word responses.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: So that's okay, we made it through.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, so I started off with that, and then if I I can pretty much guarantee if I'm following you on social media and you have a business or you're an artist or you run a nonprofit or whatever, I I have the intention to talk to you if if I'm following you.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_03: But it's important to me that I follow you and not just immediately reach out, have you on my podcast, and that's that.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_03: Like I want you to, I want to interact with you, I want to like your stuff, I want to share it.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I want to show you that I'm supporting you, you know, even before I ask you to be on.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but after the podcasts have been going on for some amount of time, I would have people reach out and be like, hey, you know, what's the process to get on your podcast?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_03: Do I need to be nominated?
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: Or, you know, what's how do I go about it?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: And like literally just ask me to be on.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_03: I love it when people I love it when people come to me because it isn't.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, is it awkward for you to reach out to people and be like, hey, be on my podcast?
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: I I'm awkward about it.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, well, I kind of feel I I kind of know that it's what I have to do at first.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I kind of just hit it face like head on, like, okay, I gotta do this, you know.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I just kind of did it.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: And I have to admit, I I prefer that the host reach out to the person.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: Because nothing, I I think it's amazing the number of podcasts that we have.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I there's some podcasts that would prefer that you you uh put in like a like you nominate yourself kind of thing.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_03: Like, okay, you want to be on my podcast?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: You you tell me you want to be on my podcast kind of thing.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_03: I I always thought that was an interesting approach.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: Because I'm like, I would never do that.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: I'd never be like, yes, talk, talk to me.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and your your Instagram is kind of I don't know if it's because you don't have a leading ladies Instagram, also, but you do it like based out of your profile, which in my eyes is kind of like that's kind of selfless because a lot of people's Instagram have their self in there, but you kind of put other people in there, so that's awesome.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: So how so are you are you thinking about starting a put uh an Instagram for that?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: No, people always ask me that.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, I I don't know.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_03: I quite a few people have either suggested it or asked me if I was gonna do it, and it's a good question because most people think, okay, I need to start its own page or whatever, but I don't know.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like it's such a part of me.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: It just makes more sense, and I think I'm like a little bit lazy, like don't want to maintain two pages, like what you see is what you get, so you're gonna have like memes interspersed with shouting out of business, uh slash pictures of my kid.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, you you just care, you just care about people.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty cool, and then your husband's uh IG is just like you and your son on there, which is man, that guy loves y'all a lot.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: So that's props to him.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta get him on the show.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_03: Agree, you need to meet him.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_03: You would love him, like he's just a genuinely good dude.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he seems like a pretty cool guy.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's got a nice, he got a nice smile.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: I saw a birthday pic that you had him on there, and then he and then I saw him without the beard and with the beard.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: So either way, he looks good.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: So he does, he does.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: He's got it going on, he's got a great like thing going on.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there you go.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, so your son, how's that?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: How's that going?
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: Racing your son, or uh, by the way, I absolutely am having so much fun in this interview, and I love that it's really about me.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's my personal life.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: I I'm so digging this.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, my son is amazing.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I think I told you all already his name is Saint.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I promise it's not after Kim and Kanye's son.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: We named him after my uh husband's grandfather, who just passed away this past December.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, his name was Santos, and when Dale and I became serious, he was always saying he wanted to name if we had a boy, Saint, as a playoff of Santos, and then you know, when I was pregnant, we found I was a boy, and the we actually considered not doing it because Kim and Kanye have a kid named Saint, but we did it anyway.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: I just always have to that like precursor, but yeah, he's amazing.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: He we did not push superheroes on him, but he is like a ride or die Spider Man fan, and his favorite Spider Man is Miles.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Morales.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I have to admit he's also my favorite Spider-Man.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_03: And uh he's just great.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: He just left the house dressed up like Miles Morales.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: So if anybody sees Miles Morales walking around town today, that's my kid.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_03: He likes to, I mean, dressing up constantly.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, he just keeps things so fun and so interesting.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: He really does keep me young.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: So I I just love that kid.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: And he starts school in August.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: I have a I have a son, he's he's gonna be two, but really, yes.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: What's his name?
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: His name is uh what's his name?
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: His name is Michael.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: I forgot around two years.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's two, and I see him running.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm off, I don't see him a lot, so I'm at work, and then when I come home, the little dude has just got his own personality, and he's just everywhere.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Sons are awesome, daughters are I got a daughter too.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, kids are awesome in general.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my daughter's six.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow, how cool!
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're they're they're growing up and they play with each other, and it's just it's awesome to have to have kids.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, that makes me so happy.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, definitely.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: So so I imagine uh you're you so I imagine you're thinking about your son's future, you know what I mean?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like oh yes, yeah, like what's even like if he has has a spouse later, you know what I mean?
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like, uh is there uh do you have do you ever have why I mean what are some of the things that that like not bother you, but uh that you think about your son like, oh, I don't want him to, you know what I mean?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like what are some of the fears that you have uh regarding your son?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's a great question.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um fears would be I really don't want him to be an asshole.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_03: Like I really don't.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_03: I and kids are gonna be assholes, right?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: You know, whatever.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_03: Like we've all been assholes on occasion, right?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but but I just I want him to learn from his mistakes.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want him to keep repeating patterns or you know, kind of thing because he just refuses to face the truth of it that he needs to be a better person, you know.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um I I worry that because he starts school next year, that he'll see someone being bullied and won't speak up or something.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so I try to instill that in him, you know.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I think that's my biggest thing, is just there's always that little bit of fear that he's not gonna be a good person, not a perfect person, but a good person.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then I just try to remind myself like really as parents, our job is to just guide them in the best possible way, and then ultimately, you know, they're gonna live their lives how they want to live their lives, you know.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_03: But I'm so I mean, okay, so you have a two and a six-year-old, so I I mean they're still little, so you still have a lot of control over their lives, but there's gonna be a point in time where we don't, you know, and it's just I hope, I hope I taught you everything you needed to know, but I'll also always be there for him, you know.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like it'd be difficult to let go once whenever it's time.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but we have to, you know, like we have to as parents to just let him go.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: Our par our parents did, you know.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, for sure.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: I think back in the like my parents were not as concerned, or at least they didn't show it.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, some of the things that I'm concerned with, you know, and I feel like we turned out pretty good.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: So nice, I think.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's like, all right, go do it.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: You're you got all the tools, go.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, but you gotta believe I did like put through them put them through hell at times, you know.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think back even even like like like my parents and my teachers.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I was talking to a middle school friend and uh he's a teacher now, and I like uh yeah, bro.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: You remember we we gave him hell when we were kids, you know.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: Are the kids like that to you too?
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, Yeah, they're like, damn, like I feel like such a jerk for yeah, some of the things I did, and I think that's a good sign, right?
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_03: Whenever you feel a little bit of remorse for past actions, that's definitely good.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: Not to like shows that oh go ahead.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: That shows that you're changing.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: No, it shows that that you're changing and you're willing to continue growing, uh you know, just maturing altogether.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh, what what does your setup look like for your podcast whenever you put it on?
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_03: It is the most basic setup, it's literally one of those uh oh my gosh, I can't remember it.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's a little it's a recorder, it's literally just like I can't remember the brand of it.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_03: Right?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_03: Zoom, it's a zoom recorder, yeah.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_03: I mean it's old school, it's probably like eight years old, and uh two mics and headphones.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: What kind of mics?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_03: They're just uh uh oh my god, you're asking me all these specifics.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's all right.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_03: What is the word?
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, just like your traditional mic, but there's a word for it.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_03: I can't remember.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'll get back to you on that one.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's a shoot, man.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: I just remember, but my first setup was a boom mic because I was literally using equipment we already had, and Dale used to make movies for CC7 Day.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_03: So we had a boom mic, and I refused to drop any money on equipment, so I would use a boom mic before oh dynamic mic.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_03: That's the word I've been looking for.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_03: For just standard dynamic mics, those are the the ones that I have now.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: So when did you decide to so when so when did you decide to drop some money on some new equipment?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_03: When I realized when I realized it was something I like to do, because I I'm I'm a Capricorn, okay.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if that means anything to you, but I don't want to spend money unless I know I'm gonna utilize it, you know.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_03: I wasn't gonna do a few episodes and then drop a bunch of money, do a few episodes, and be like, ah, forget it and put it and put it away.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_03: So after doing it for a while, it's like okay, maybe we shouldn't just like be using a boom mic.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_03: Like we got some dynamic mics, but nothing expensive.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Is it different uh having an interview um with somebody face to face as opposed to like on a zoom meeting?
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_03: For sure.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so Zoom meetings are they're great because you can literally roll up like a minute before and and it's fine.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um, the only thing I think could be potentially be a drawback is stuff with the internet, right?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_03: So if there's a lag or anything like that, but of course that can be removed through editing.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_03: But I don't do live streams like you do, so there might be a little bit more pressure there.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um but as opposed to in person, you can really, you know, you're you're really kind of experiencing the person firsthand.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_03: Um there's no distractions around them.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes when there's a zoom meeting, there are distractions with people like with their pets or their families or whatever.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_03: So I feel like in person it's a little bit more, definitely more personal.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_03: But I do enjoy the the digital interviews for sure.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: I want to I want to do like in person's kind of in the future.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you're really good.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I hope you stick with it.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, appreciate that.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, appreciate it.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: So, how do you get rid of the nerves every time you have an interview?
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's wait, do you go ahead?
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_03: No, what were you gonna say?
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna say, do you consider it an interview or a conversation?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_03: I do consider it a conversation.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I call them interviews, just I think um it just kind of comes out that I'll call it an interview, but to me it is a conversation similar to what we're doing right now.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I'm always nervous.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm nervous to be a guest and I'm nervous to be a host.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: It was more common pre-pandemic days to take a shot of tequila before because that helps people kind of chill a little bit, myself included.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um but now something that I do is before a podcast, I'll kind of set an intention.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_03: So it's something as simple as saying, I want my guests to have a good time at this podcast, I want them to feel comfortable with me, I want them to represent themselves how they want to be represented, and I want you know to make them feel at ease.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_03: And so I'll literally just like say something like that, and then how about what do you do for nerve?
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what's uh what was the question?
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for nerves.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_03: What do you do for nerves?
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's more physical.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like I try to like like flex my muscles just so that the muscles can get some of the nervousness, you know what I mean?
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_03: That's smart.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and then I have like uh like I have water.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: I just I've been in front of the camera for a while.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh not in front of the camera, but more with the microphone.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: I just I just kind of just I don't know.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's weird.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: I know for sure I flex my muscles to get like you know some energy in there to help keep myself from shaking, you know what I mean?
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good idea.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_03: I never even thought about doing that.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: I might have to Yeah, no, I used to be uh I used to perform uh classical guitar because my my bachelor's is in music, so I had to do performances.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I had to do performances on stage, and I was studying up.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, how do I because I would always get nervous and and I had to use my fingers and I if I was shaking and playing at the same time.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: So one of the things that they were saying is take like a small walk, that way some of your nerves can, you know, your muscles can uh I guess absorb some of that nervousness.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, but that you're that's a whole other level of of nerves because you're not just up there talking, which of course of course is nerve-wracking, you're up there playing an instrument.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, whoa, that's another level.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's another level.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it I've learned a lot through that, through actual performing.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you can listen, you can know when people are listening because it's dead silent, like you hear dead silence, and they're just waiting for the next note, and then a lot goes into it.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of like preparing for an interview.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: You just you have to do all this research, and then it's you have to memorize, and then you gotta play and see how people respond.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because when people respond, the music you change the music, it's pretty cool.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's not yeah, you change the music because you know they're listening, like you can sustain a note for as long as you want if they're really listening, you know what I mean?
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because they're waiting for that next note, but the music says to play it like this, you know.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's pretty cool.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the way how that comes out whenever you perform.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_03: That is cool.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: I'm in awe of people who have musical talent, so good job.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: You don't play an instrument.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever tried playing an instrument?
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_03: I have tried, I just I don't maybe maybe I'll attempt it again, but some people just have it, you know.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: Clearly, you do.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_03: You went to school for it.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, the rest of us are just posers.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're good.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: So uh the music, what are you listening to now?
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: What's in the uh CD player movie?
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's funny that you said that.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_03: I drove my 2006 suburban into the ground, and that thing had a six-disc CD player.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um, right now I make playlists, I'm the worst about uh listening to what's on the radio or anything like that.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um so a big one that I'm listening to.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man, uh I've been jamming best of you by the Foo Fighters, like jamming it.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_03: And then the news about their drummer came out today, and uh like so so sad.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: What happened to the drummer?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_03: Their drummer just died.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_03: They're like on a South Taylor Hawkins, I think.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_03: Don't quote me on that, the name might not be correct.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_03: But uh they were on a South American tour and they were supposed to play a show last night, and they found him dead, and he was only 50.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, yeah, sad, super sad.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_03: Because and I'm sure if you saw a picture of him, you'd know exactly who he was.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: Because like the other like uh second most recognizable person from the band, anyway.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_03: Been jamming best of you a lot, and then um I really like like oldies.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_03: So uh my musical taste is based on my dad.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um, my dad, I love my dad's taste in music, so I've been listening to a lot of like Jim Croce, Commodores, America.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um Wow, yeah.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_03: What is that?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: What is that like 50s?
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what is that?
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_03: More like 70s, oh okay 60s, 70s.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um I tried I tried playing a song for Saint earlier this past week, and he was like, I don't like this.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_03: This is putting sleep.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's a cool name, Saint.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's something does he got a middle name?
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: What's his middle name?
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_03: The little guy has two middle names, so uh it seems extreme, but it's because my dad's family being from Trinidad, they have two middle names.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_03: So me and my brother have two middle names, and then some now Saint has two middle names.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, it's um mine and my husband's father's first name.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_03: So my dad's name is Jacques, and uh my father-in-law's name is Ray, so my son's name is Saint Jacques Ray.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I like it.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_03: It sounds blue bougie as fuck.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, it does.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's all good.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: My my son's middle name is Alexander.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_03: I've always loved all those names.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_03: I don't like it.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: What's your daughter's middle name?
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my daughter's middle name is Mariela.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's beautiful.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Her first name is Francesca.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_03: Francesca Mariela, yeah.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_03: Her name on that's like poetry.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's so beautiful.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's weird the way I came across the middle name.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was watching a Spanish movie because I was substitute teaching in a Spanish class, and the lady's name was Mariela.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: So that's how I got her middle name for her name.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know, my wife, she she agreed, so my wife's awesome.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's a beautiful name.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_03: I would love to meet her.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: She likes she's she's kind of she doesn't like to be on the camera, she doesn't like to take pictures.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, she's kind of like your husband, like he doesn't because I you told me before we were talking that he didn't want to have a picture with the with the t-shirt and stuff, which is cool.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, what but he's literally wearing it right now, and also that's good this up.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, he forgot it, but he was gonna be wearing this too.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_03: But he's rocking your your shirts all the time.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_03: But maybe we need to like make a pact that we are gonna start like taking more pictures of our significant others and like putting them out there.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that would be cool because I keep get her on, but she's like, No, don't post it because I picture she had the hoodie, my daughter had a hoodie.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, let's take a picture and put it on.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Oh, she took the picture, but she's like, No, don't put it up.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_03: So you just you just need to do it, you just need to do it and then ask for forgiveness.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: That it might work for her, yeah, probably be in a doghouse for a day or two.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: So you got a bunch of books back there.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: What are you reading right now?
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_03: Not as much as I would like to be reading, Jesus.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um it's hard with kids.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um, right.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_03: I am like in the middle of the memoirs of Cleopatra, which is a historical fiction kind of thing.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: There's nonfiction elements to it, but it's really good.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just all about Cleopatra and how she came into power and the whole thing with Caesar and then Mark Anthony and all Anthony and all that.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's really good, really interesting.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_03: I've read it before and I'm trying to make it through again, but I don't I'm not as prolific a reader as I used to be because of I'm distracted all the time.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, you think you got kids?
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: Kidding shoot.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_03: He's insane.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so how far you how far ahead do you schedule your your guests?
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_03: I have guests scheduled through the end of May currently.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I try not to do it too far, maybe like to eight weeks of guests, you know, and then I'll as as I like uh finish up with one, then I'll add another, you know.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I like to give people at least a couple of weeks notice.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: I try not to do anything last minute, and then I always reach out the day before to confirm that we're still on in case they need to reschedule or anything like that.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_03: But I'd say probably like two weeks.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: Right on, that's cool.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: Is there it's just it's because so you don't really look that far.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: Do you consider what you're doing like a career, like uh podcasting, or what do you think about that?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think if the opportunity came up for me to do it full time and the terms made sense, I would definitely do it.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_03: I love you know getting to know people in that kind of way and also telling the world about them.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_03: That's like my favorite thing.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, have you heard of Corpus Christi originals?
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_03: Have you seen their shirts?
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, have you seen you know Eliminate Stand Cosmetics?
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_03: Check this out.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's like my favorite thing.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like, look, what's happening in Corpus?
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's like so why do you do that?
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you do that for for people?
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's yeah, you fucking weirdo.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_03: What's that about?
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like what the heck?
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: Why why are you so weird like that?
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's okay.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_03: I've been weird my whole life, and I'm finally weird.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I don't know how to describe it.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know what?
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_03: And maybe I'm getting a little personal, but you know, I've experienced when I was younger people not really caring to get to know me, you know.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, even now.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_03: Even now, I'll and it doesn't bother me anymore, but you know, just some people just won't give you the time of day for whatever reason, and never felt good.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_03: And so I want to give everybody the time of day.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_03: I everybody has a story to tell, you know, everybody's important.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I mean, there's few people, you know, with the exception of people who are like really, really hateful and only have hateful things to share.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_03: I want to talk to everybody, and um, you know, but it's a I I want people to feel or to know that they're important, and and that's a big thing for me.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_03: So I guess it stems from past childhood trauma, maybe.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, no, that's pretty cool.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: And it's and it seems like that the format that you're doing is it's uh it's uh I guess popular because it's like having a conversation with somebody is um it's kind of cool to listen into, you know.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe for some people that don't know how how how to have a conversation, and just listening.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's kind of why like I wanted to start this podcast just to have a conversation, have conversation with people in corpus, you know, they may have something going on.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like I I even wanted to get like a like a homeless person on the show, you know what I mean?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: I love that because because look, they're a part of the city, it's like and get him on the show, he's an original too, you know what I mean.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like there's no why why do we need to exclude them if they're part of the city, also?
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, and that's you thinking outside the box, really, because it can be easy to kind of fall into the well, you know, who's popular right now?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_03: Who's who's who's uh a big name, you know?
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_03: And and while big names are important and popular people are important, and you want to talk to them, I also want to talk to the people who are you know six months into their business or whatever, you know?
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_03: So I think that's really amazing that you have even considered that.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: Because and the reason because there's people out there that are like like us or like me, you know what I mean?
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Hispanic, I bore I grew up in Corpus, I'm born here, that uh their voice, their voice is not heard, just going back to that, like how you like like people have a story, you know.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's got a story, and if somebody hears from somebody that's kind of relating to them, you know, it could be an encouragement, and that's that's another thing that I like to do is to help encourage people uh just to be better, you know.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, I love that.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_03: And I there needs to be more people like you, you know, thinking about how they can do that.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's huge.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so the reason we had you on is because you're a leading lady.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: Interview leading ladies all the time, and uh just wanted you to just just come on, you know what I mean.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, let me invite um Britney on, you know, and I invite a lot of people, everybody from people that you know, people that may not be doing like have have businesses or whatever, just like you're saying, like just to have them on.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: So I appreciate you coming on.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, thank you so much for inviting me.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_03: I love that you started a podcast.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_03: Please keep doing it.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_03: You are very good at it, and please keep making the merch, man.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_03: I love the merch.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_03: I'll be putting it in order next week.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's so awesome.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate you.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yes, so how do we which uh platforms are you on so people can uh find your cast?
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_03: Say that again.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so sorry, you lagged a little.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, which which um podcast platforms do you have your podcast on?
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, so you can pretty much find the podcast anywhere you stream them, but the biggies are SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_01: Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, well, we appreciate you.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to wrap it up because I hear my kids in the back and I gotta go help my wife out.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: You too.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for coming on.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, have a good day.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, bye.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_03: Bye.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: All right, y'all.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: That was Brittany our guest Brittany Mute.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: Check out her podcast, Leading Ladies of Corpus Christi.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'll leave a link in the show notes where you can find Brittany and her show.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, thanks a lot for listening, guys.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: Stay tuned for the next episode, and we appreciate y'all.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: Check out this this the merch at our store, Corpus Christi Originals.com.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh thank you.