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Capítulo 123: An Interview With Flores · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: We have a snippet of an interview that I did
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Speaker 1: last year with Flores, who is a recording artist. You
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Speaker 1: can hear the full thing on Patreon. But before we
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Speaker 1: do that and get into that portion of today's episode,
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Speaker 1: we do want to jump into Weird Things White Women
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Speaker 1: Did this week. We love this segment. We don't do
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Speaker 1: it every episode. Sometimes we need to wait until a
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Speaker 1: particularly notable weird the thing happens and then we can
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Speaker 1: bring you our analysis and our thoughts about it. So
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of things this week that we came
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Speaker 1: across on Twitter and that are streaming on like Hulu
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Speaker 1: and HBO Max. So there's a bunch to get into.
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Speaker 1: So let's get started. Let's get started. This is our
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Speaker 1: first Weird Things White Women Did of the season of
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Speaker 1: the year. So we're excited to bring back a listener. Faith.
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Speaker 1: And so we have noticed in increasing popularity visibility in
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Speaker 1: white girl scammer shows. And I know, Mama, you have
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Speaker 1: been keeping up with some of these shows. So can
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Speaker 1: you introduce some of these shows to us, the first
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Speaker 1: one being Inventing Anna. Okay, yes, so good, Such a
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Speaker 1: good show, like just as a TV show. This is
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Speaker 1: streaming on Netflix, and it is a dramatized like you know,
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Speaker 1: um drama basically about a dramatized drama. It's a drama.
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Speaker 1: Were's it's late, y'all when we're recording it. We're tired,
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Speaker 1: but we're giving the content. We're giving you the contents.
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Speaker 1: And it's a dramatized drama. It's a dramatized drama. It's
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Speaker 1: a dramatization of the story of Anna Delvy, who is
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Speaker 1: a real life scammer, a socialite wanna be who was
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Speaker 1: able to like trick a bunch of New York elite
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Speaker 1: and like the cultural circles into basically paying her way
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Speaker 1: through a lot of stuff, vacations, trips, parties, dinners, and
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Speaker 1: she also got a bunch of investors and banks to
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Speaker 1: give her tons of money to start like a social club.
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Speaker 1: And um claimed to have a very rich father, to
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Speaker 1: have vast assets in Europe, and that she was German,
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Speaker 1: but really she was Russian, and she gave herself a
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Speaker 1: fake name, a whole twisted affair. The show is so good,
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Speaker 1: very addicting, really well done, and basically it's following the
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Speaker 1: journalist who uncovered the Anna Adelvie story and really followed
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Speaker 1: it and wrote about it for the first time. So
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Speaker 1: you know, we love our gossip. We love a crazy
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Speaker 1: white girl, and this one in particular is really interesting
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Speaker 1: because if you look at the real life Annadelvie and
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Speaker 1: like the chatter around her, people are like, she kind
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Speaker 1: of looks like a little goofy, Like how did anybody
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Speaker 1: mistake her for like a German socialite, And it's just
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Speaker 1: interesting to see, like, Okay, this person was very cunning
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Speaker 1: but looks very like a girl next door ballet flats
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Speaker 1: in kind of a thing, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Interesting the mastermind but a mastermind. Yeah, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: also like the white girl scammers get like all the
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Speaker 1: media attention and the shows made about them. Now, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure this show is really good because it is a
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Speaker 1: Shonda land production, so I trust, I trust that it's
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Speaker 1: good and it dives into like really important things, but
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Speaker 1: it's still very interesting. You know. This is it's like
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Speaker 1: a very weird phenomenon where these white girls do shady
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Speaker 1: things and then get like, you know, really big book deals,
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Speaker 1: movie deals, what have you so interesting? And then that
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Speaker 1: brings us to the next one. Yes, and this is
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Speaker 1: my thing is like, um, I don't think invent inventing
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Speaker 1: Anna is talking about anything important, Like I think, like,
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any broader societal messages. I think
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Speaker 1: it's like a straight up drama like Shonda land classic
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Speaker 1: about like a very salacious drama, the drama about this
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Speaker 1: case that's been in the media. So it's a very
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Speaker 1: fun watch. The other one that I've been watching is
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Speaker 1: The Dropout um on Hulu starring Amanda Sea Freed. We
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Speaker 1: love her and she is playing the role of Elizabeth Holmes,
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Speaker 1: who was known in Silicon Valley as the like nineteen
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Speaker 1: year old whiz kid who founded their NOS and her
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Speaker 1: whole claim was that she had invented a technology that
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Speaker 1: could detect like a whole battery of disease with only
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Speaker 1: a single drop of blood. Like she was claiming to
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Speaker 1: eliminate the need for like excessive in her words, like
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Speaker 1: blood draws that gets sent to labs and then UM
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Speaker 1: test blood for things. She was claiming that she had
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Speaker 1: invented this technology j that eliminated that single prick of blood,
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Speaker 1: and she got these like billions and billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: in investments. She got big contracts with Walgreens to like
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Speaker 1: put these machines in like Walgreens health centers and have
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Speaker 1: actual patients go in and like get their blood work
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Speaker 1: done there with the the you know, drop of blood
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Speaker 1: technology that she claims to have invented. However, turns out
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Speaker 1: that that technology UM their betas and their prototypes never
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Speaker 1: actually worked. They uh, they're scientists, Like we're actually taking
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Speaker 1: the blood drops and using like um Quest diagnostic machines,
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Speaker 1: which is like the competitor like company. So they were
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Speaker 1: pretending to have invented new technology when really they were
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Speaker 1: just like using existing technology and even like doing full
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Speaker 1: on blood draws and then sending the blood to other labs.
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Speaker 1: So it was like then her professors from Stanford because
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Speaker 1: she like came up with this concept as like a
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Speaker 1: student at Stanford and dropped out at nineteen and founded
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Speaker 1: the company. Her professors at Stanford came forward and we're like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: she brought this idea to us, and we told her
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Speaker 1: that it was crazy and that it would never work.
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Speaker 1: And her whole deal was, like Steve Jobs is her idol,
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Speaker 1: girl Boss, girl Boss, girl Boss, Green Juice is only black.
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Speaker 1: Turtlenecks taught herself how not to blink and wanted to
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Speaker 1: like turn herself into like a Steve Jobs, like Mogul
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Speaker 1: girl Boss, Way Too Close to the Sun and Elizabeth Holmes.
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Speaker 1: Her whole deal was, um, if somebody tells you know
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Speaker 1: it's not possible, they just don't have a growth mindset
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Speaker 1: and they're just not the right people for you to
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Speaker 1: be talking to, Like you need to be surrounding yourself
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Speaker 1: with people who believe that anything is possible. So that
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Speaker 1: was her whole like insistence on I don't care what
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Speaker 1: anybody says, I believe in this idea, So I'm going
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Speaker 1: to take it all the way to the bank and
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Speaker 1: all the way to Walgreens. And her scientists were like, yeah, Um,
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Speaker 1: the accuracy rate for things like syphilis is like less
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Speaker 1: than fifty. So they were giving out these test results
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Speaker 1: to people for things like syphilis with like zero degree
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Speaker 1: of accuracy, like just crazy stuff. And again all that
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Speaker 1: to say, white girls can get away with a lot
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Speaker 1: and can get people to give them a lot of
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Speaker 1: money without very much reason or evidence. I'm like this
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Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of girl bosses on Instagram, you know,
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Speaker 1: like elevate your frequency, which is true, but you know
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Speaker 1: that type of girl bossy language where it's like don't
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Speaker 1: take no for an answer, but it's like if your
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Speaker 1: prototype doesn't work, then like you should take no for
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Speaker 1: an answer. Yeah, when you're talking about like the health
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Speaker 1: of human beings and test accuracy, absolutely test accuracy, communicable
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Speaker 1: disease um, you know, like hipp uh you know, like
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Speaker 1: the what is it that that doctors the Hippocratic oath,
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Speaker 1: Like you have to you there's ethics in these things.
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Speaker 1: So she was just like leaping over all the ethics
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Speaker 1: and saying her big motto was do or do not
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Speaker 1: there is no try. And that's like a Yoda quote
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Speaker 1: and so she would like say that in all of
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Speaker 1: her interviews and like had like big like wall size
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Speaker 1: paintings of that quote all over the There nos offices
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Speaker 1: like shoot literally never dared saying yeah do or do not?
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Speaker 1: There is no try like Yoda her guiding print. So
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Speaker 1: so those are some weird things that white women have
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Speaker 1: done this week. And there's more said. Do you want
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Speaker 1: to tell this is the weirdest of them all? This
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Speaker 1: is some This is some fucked up ship, But tell
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Speaker 1: them what happened this week? This is some weird, horrific
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Speaker 1: white women anti choice ships that we stumbled across online
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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Molla sent me this link and so this
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Speaker 1: anti choice quote activist in extremist um. She was arrested
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Speaker 1: because she um pretended to be a person that wanted
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Speaker 1: to receive abortion care, and when she was given access
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Speaker 1: to the clinic, she actually like took it over with
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Speaker 1: like a couple of people and were like obstructing people
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Speaker 1: from getting their care, which is actually a federal offense.
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Speaker 1: So she was arrested and what they found in her
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Speaker 1: home were the remains of five fetuses just in her home,
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Speaker 1: like medical waste possibly like I don't know how that's
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Speaker 1: been described yet, but five fetuses we're found at her home. Freaky,
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Speaker 1: Where did she get them from? What is she doing
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Speaker 1: with them? Whose fetuses are those? Like this is creepy.
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Speaker 1: So many questions and it's kind of like, are you
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Speaker 1: what are you trying going to prove? You know, it's
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Speaker 1: just not great. It freaks me out, and I'm yeah,
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Speaker 1: where did she get that? Where did they come from?
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Speaker 1: How would you have access to all of these fetuses?
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Speaker 1: Is she performing abortions in her house? But also, like
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Speaker 1: you know, there's like a certain week weeks right where
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Speaker 1: like you can no longer receive an abortion, you're not,
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Speaker 1: there are no abortions being performed on like fully formed fetuses,
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Speaker 1: So like, where did there? Where did they come from?
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Speaker 1: There's so many questions. We're gonna keep an eye on
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Speaker 1: this story, I mean, and by that, I mean we're
15:40
Speaker 1: gonna just keep scrolling Twitter and if there's an update,
15:42
Speaker 1: well we will tell you. We're gonna tell you breaking news. Um.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, Elizabeth Handy um dang. So oh wait, no,
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Speaker 1: there's still one more weird white woman who did a
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Speaker 1: weird thing this week tell them theos no this past week.
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Speaker 1: I feel just like Amy Schumer being on the oscars
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Speaker 1: is kind of a weird thing. I don't really get
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Speaker 1: her humor, I don't get her bits. So I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to give her as a weird things my women
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Speaker 1: did and all to all, you know, white people and
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Speaker 1: non black people that decided to have an opinion about
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Speaker 1: anything not related to them, shut the funk up, is all,
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Speaker 1: is all I want to say. Yeah, it's the slap
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Speaker 1: heard around the world, and we have heard every possible
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Speaker 1: take at this stage of the game. UM, I will
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Speaker 1: say that I think one of the weirdest parts of
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Speaker 1: Amy's Oscar hosting was the dress with the bow on it.
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Speaker 1: Not a fan favorite, not my favorite, not my favorite.
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Speaker 1: Um And for those of you out there who are thinking,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, why are they going so hard on
16:49
Speaker 1: the women, like what about the white men? I will
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Speaker 1: say fuck you Tom Sigura, You're a piece of ship,
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Speaker 1: because he went on Twitter and was saying the nastiest, meanest,
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Speaker 1: rudest thing is about Jada Pinkett and like for wet,
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Speaker 1: my only concern, my only take on this whole situation
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Speaker 1: is Jada. Okay, literally, that's that's that question. That's the
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Speaker 1: only thing that you should be asking and do so quietly, please, Jada. Yes,
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Speaker 1: nobody needs your Yeah, thank you. Tom sigh, thank you
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Speaker 1: very mud m Yeah, and you know, this is a
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Speaker 1: segment that started weird things white women did. That started
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Speaker 1: by the actual in person things that weird white women
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Speaker 1: would say to us. So sometimes, you know, that's actually
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Speaker 1: how the segment was born. It was like white women
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Speaker 1: that would say weird racist thing to us. And you know,
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Speaker 1: I will say now, especially like you know, working from home, Um,
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Speaker 1: my interaction with white people is very minimal, So sometimes
17:55
Speaker 1: we got a draw from popular culture, and during the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: still in pandemic, we had we had to like look
18:01
Speaker 1: at what was happening around us and the weird things
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Speaker 1: that we're going on. And so if you're like, like
18:06
Speaker 1: Mala said, if you're thinking, like wait, why do they
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Speaker 1: do this segment, it's because of that. That's that's where
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Speaker 1: it came from. I'll never forget we should, okay, just
18:15
Speaker 1: because like now I'm reliving the origins. So one of
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Speaker 1: the first ones and one of my favorites, me and
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Speaker 1: my friends Hatiana were at Perch downtown and it was
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Speaker 1: like a weekend, it was like during the day. So
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Speaker 1: there was a bunch of people there and this one
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Speaker 1: white lady was like sitting on a stool and not
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Speaker 1: a proper chair, because you know, perch like has like cute,
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Speaker 1: like couchy type seating, but it gets full and you
18:43
Speaker 1: wait around and when it looks like someone's leaving, you
18:46
Speaker 1: pounce and you get your seats. So we're doing what
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Speaker 1: everybody else is doing, and we're standing and we're having
18:51
Speaker 1: our cocktails and we're having a lovely time. And this
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Speaker 1: white woman like gets up off of her stool and
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Speaker 1: she like points at it, and she like says to us, like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, please sit here. Whenever I see women
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Speaker 1: of color standing, I'm like, please just rest. Please just
19:08
Speaker 1: said please just rest direct quote. I will never forget
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Speaker 1: steered into my brain. I mean, Tatiana were like, uh,
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Speaker 1: we're okay, We're really fine, Like we're not exhausted. We're
19:21
Speaker 1: at the perch, enjoying a seventeen dollar cocktail, Like we're okay. Honestly,
19:30
Speaker 1: why we're on vacation, so just why Well, one of
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Speaker 1: my one of the things happened to me that I
19:38
Speaker 1: don't know if you brought it on the segment, but
19:40
Speaker 1: one of the things that weird white people did to
19:43
Speaker 1: me was when I was buying a ton of laundry
19:45
Speaker 1: detergent for the company I worked for where we had
19:49
Speaker 1: thirty homes and one of my tasks was to go
19:52
Speaker 1: and buy thirty thirty like you know, jugs of laundry detergent. Um.
19:59
Speaker 1: And when they were scanning me, the casher was scanning me,
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Speaker 1: this like old white couple behind me was like, oh,
20:04
Speaker 1: she must have a lot of kids. Jesus Christ, Like,
20:08
Speaker 1: oh my god. And I was so stunned that I
20:10
Speaker 1: said nothing because I was so shocked, like it like
20:15
Speaker 1: me speechless because I'm like, oh my god, what kind
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Speaker 1: of micro Russian what kind of racist as ship that
20:20
Speaker 1: these old white people just said to me? And I like,
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Speaker 1: we'll never forget because I didn't say anything. Um, And
20:26
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's definitely like a weird white thing that
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Speaker 1: someone said to me that I will like not forget ever. Right.
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Speaker 1: And it's like so crazy because you look so young
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Speaker 1: first of all, and so tiny, like you don't look
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Speaker 1: like you've had a child, much less a bunch of children,
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Speaker 1: Like what are they even thinking? Yeah, I mean, and
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Speaker 1: this was like, you don't look like a mom. I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't look like a mom. You don't. You just don't.
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Speaker 1: Don't I don't have any mom things on me ever,
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Speaker 1: you know, like like you know, you know, like mom,
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Speaker 1: mom's car stuff, Mom carry Harry things, mom things, mom things. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: respect to all moms, but like I am not a mother.
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Speaker 1: And so it was said in a very racist way,
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Speaker 1: stereotypical way. And so that is the genesis of weird
21:19
Speaker 1: things white women did. That's the genesis. So that's why
21:23
Speaker 1: we do it. Um. Yeah, but you're right, we don't
21:26
Speaker 1: interact with white women like we used to. Well, also
21:29
Speaker 1: because you were working at a predominantly white girl I
21:32
Speaker 1: was working in Pasadena, Adam, which is why we had
21:36
Speaker 1: to start this segment. Because Mama was like, I can't
21:38
Speaker 1: take their ship, like I need to bet somewhere. I
21:41
Speaker 1: needed an outlet. I needed an outlet. Good times. Honestly,
21:46
Speaker 1: such good times, um our segment that is born of
21:50
Speaker 1: the trauma. Yes, that's the good time. That being said,
21:55
Speaker 1: if you have a weird thing a white woman did
21:58
Speaker 1: to you or a white person did too, you can
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Speaker 1: all we send it in. We have a voice memo
22:03
Speaker 1: type of situation called speak pipe on our website, or
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Speaker 1: you can send us an email and we might share
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Speaker 1: it on a future episode. Yes, had to look at
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Speaker 1: our radio dot com and uh make it happen. And
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Speaker 1: now we are very excited to introduce a little snippet
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Speaker 1: from an interview that I did with singer songwriter Flores.
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Speaker 1: You can listen to the full convo on Patreon and
22:31
Speaker 1: just if you haven't visited our Patreon, you really should.
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Speaker 1: It's our look at our productions Patreon. There are four
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Speaker 1: tiers two years worth of content we've been posting consistently
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Speaker 1: since it's a mix of artwork, audio photos, obviously the
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Speaker 1: book club Um. When there are events we like let
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Speaker 1: you guys buy tickets first on Patreon, and things like
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Speaker 1: this interview with Flores. So a little bit about Flores Um.
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Speaker 1: She has been described by Pigeons and Planes as the
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Speaker 1: future of R and B and making it look easy
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Speaker 1: Wonderland Rights. Flora's rights from the heart, with her lyrics
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Speaker 1: stemming from personal experience. She is an indigenous Mexican American
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Speaker 1: song stress from the Chihuahuan Desert of El Paso, Texas.
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Speaker 1: She was born and raised in the Tigua Indian Reservation
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Speaker 1: and she is an R and B bilingual singer songwriter.
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Speaker 1: She has a Colors performance that you can see on
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Speaker 1: YouTube for her song Oceans Beautiful Song, Beautiful Colors performance,
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Speaker 1: and that video has over one point four million views.
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Speaker 1: She has nine million streams on Spotify alone. Really beautiful Artists.
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Speaker 1: So I hope you guys enjoy and again head to
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Speaker 1: the Patreon for more and mummies of it and little ship.
24:37
Speaker 1: You're joining us from like Norway or somewhere right? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I live really far. I live in Norway. I lived
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Speaker 1: here for several years. Can you tell us how you
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Speaker 1: went from you know, growing up living your life in
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Speaker 1: Texas and now finding yourself streamed millions of times all
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Speaker 1: over Spotify and living in Norway and living your scene
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Speaker 1: your songwriter dreams. Take us through the journey. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think I had pretty small town like mentality in ol Paso,
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Speaker 1: and then I met because we have a we have
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Speaker 1: a base there, effortless military base and it brings in
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Speaker 1: a lot of international people from different backgrounds. And I
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Speaker 1: met in nor region and I fell in love and
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Speaker 1: I came here basically often a love story. Are you
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Speaker 1: loving it? Are you do you right? In Norway? Do
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Speaker 1: you find you're able to be creative? How has that?
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Speaker 1: How is your location contributed to or shaped your artistic journey.
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Speaker 1: I think actually, I think that it's been more possible now,
25:39
Speaker 1: well obviously because of the Internet, but also because Norway
25:42
Speaker 1: has a really good quality of life by comparison to America,
25:46
Speaker 1: Like you don't have to worry about healthcare, and you know,
25:50
Speaker 1: university for most people is pretty cheap. It's like a
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars a semester. So it's like and and because
25:58
Speaker 1: you get paid so well used to work anywhere, you
26:01
Speaker 1: kind of have a decent standard to you. You get
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Speaker 1: paid five weeks of vacation every year. If you have
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Speaker 1: a baby, you got a year off for free. They
26:09
Speaker 1: pay you your full salary. So it's like so many
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Speaker 1: things that make it easy for you to be creative
26:14
Speaker 1: because you don't have to worry about all the other stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I felt when I lived in America it's always
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Speaker 1: a hustle. It's always the side hustle. Everything you have
26:23
Speaker 1: to do to like just you know, pay the bills.
26:26
Speaker 1: So there's a really big contrast because I didn't have
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Speaker 1: health insurance in America when I lived there, right, so
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Speaker 1: who among us who does right? But here it's like
26:38
Speaker 1: and I see myself sometimes I don't even use it,
26:41
Speaker 1: and I need to go to the doctor. I'm so
26:43
Speaker 1: used to not going. Then I'm like I'll wait, I'll wait,
26:46
Speaker 1: I'll wait, And then I'm like, oh, ship, I gotta
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Speaker 1: use this free health care. Yeah wow, the way America
26:54
Speaker 1: has damaged us deeply. I don't need medical treatment. I'll
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Speaker 1: fall off for me to get there, right. Basically, so
27:04
Speaker 1: so Florida's I'm so interested in learning just the genesis,
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Speaker 1: the beginning of When did you start singing? When did
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Speaker 1: you realize that you had a voice? Uh? Yeah, I'm
27:14
Speaker 1: so curious how that that started for you. Um, it
27:18
Speaker 1: started really young that I like to sing with musical family,
27:22
Speaker 1: So I have a lot of My mom loves music,
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Speaker 1: and we grew up listening to it and we grew up.
27:27
Speaker 1: I grew up actually in a Jehovah's Witness church, so
27:30
Speaker 1: we actually sang quite a bit in the church. Terrible singing.
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Speaker 1: People sing this church singing. I feel like, unless it's
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Speaker 1: like a Baptist church, unless it's like a Black church.
27:42
Speaker 1: I grew up in a Roman Catholic church with many
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Speaker 1: like Mexicans, Latinos, and the singing is not great. It's
27:48
Speaker 1: not church yad like it's a little solemn, right, like
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Speaker 1: very like Gregorian chants, like yes, yes, yes, very much. So,
27:57
Speaker 1: so that's what I kind of grew up in. But
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Speaker 1: I think as a young girl, I had actually a
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Speaker 1: counselor when I was in middle school and he heard
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Speaker 1: me saying and then he started to record me, and
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Speaker 1: then we had like many tours through the middle schools
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Speaker 1: and then high school. I thought I was going to
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Speaker 1: be on Broadway at one point in my life because
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Speaker 1: I love theater at the time. Unfortunately, there isn't a
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Speaker 1: lot of places for people don't know that Broadway is
28:25
Speaker 1: grueling and also it's very black and white. There is
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Speaker 1: nothing in between, like the racial aspect of it is
28:32
Speaker 1: like growing up realizing oh my god, I'm never going
28:35
Speaker 1: to be able to be any any lead actress in
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Speaker 1: any show was pretty sobering. But um, but then that
28:44
Speaker 1: made me sort of venture on into making my own music.
28:47
Speaker 1: And I think, like many years ago, maybe ten years ago,
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Speaker 1: when I was younger, it was really difficult to be
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Speaker 1: in the music industry because there was no Internet like
28:57
Speaker 1: it was like at its infancy, and so it was
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Speaker 1: like either who you knew or having money helps like
29:04
Speaker 1: a lot to get at yours and there was like
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Speaker 1: no space for us. I feel like this is like
29:12
Speaker 1: a time to be alive, really really really, it's like
29:17
Speaker 1: a renaissance. Yeah, it's amazing. I'm I feel lucky to
29:21
Speaker 1: be a part of it. Really, and you do like
29:25
Speaker 1: you're part of the renaissance, the pioneer. Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. I mean, just thinking about
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Speaker 1: what would it take to become a star, say in
29:37
Speaker 1: the day of like a Marilyn Monroe, right, and you
29:40
Speaker 1: think about there were only a handful of studios working,
29:44
Speaker 1: a handful of networks, a handful of people calling the shots,
29:48
Speaker 1: and you really had to kind of be picked out
29:50
Speaker 1: of obscurity, like someone had to pluck you out and decide,
29:54
Speaker 1: we're putting this girl on, We're making her a star.
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Speaker 1: We're putting her in the classes, we're putting her in show,
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Speaker 1: we're putting her name in lights, and we're putting her
30:02
Speaker 1: out there. These days, you know, we put ourselves out there,
30:06
Speaker 1: you know. We we give ourselves stage names, and we
30:10
Speaker 1: figure out our aesthetic, and we find our audience and
30:12
Speaker 1: we build our platforms and we just make ourselves stars now,
30:17
Speaker 1: which I think it's empowering. It's also exhausting. Honey, I'm tired.
30:23
Speaker 1: I'm so tired. I mean, your page is so gorgeous.
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Speaker 1: I just have to say it, thank you. But enough
30:30
Speaker 1: about my Instagram page. We need to talk about your
30:33
Speaker 1: beautiful work on this Color's performance. I am just blown
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Speaker 1: away by your voice and by how much your music
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Speaker 1: is just really taking off and I love to see it.
30:45
Speaker 1: You know, my family is from Chihuahua, Mexico, and so
30:49
Speaker 1: you don't always yeah, you don't always get that like global,
30:53
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like there's a Chihuahua connection and it's
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Speaker 1: R and B and she's killing the game and she's
30:57
Speaker 1: in Norway, Like this is amazing. How have your fans
31:01
Speaker 1: been connecting with you? And I'm so curious, like what
31:04
Speaker 1: do people say to you about your music and what
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Speaker 1: it does for them? Oh, that's a great question. Um,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I have I have a very small
31:13
Speaker 1: fan base, but the people that I have known, I've
31:16
Speaker 1: known them for years. Like the people that are always
31:19
Speaker 1: talking to me, some of them are good friends of
31:22
Speaker 1: mine now and we're just like on active. I'm very
31:25
Speaker 1: active with people who reach out to me. So when
31:27
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, it helped me through this period of
31:29
Speaker 1: my life or I lost a family member here and
31:32
Speaker 1: and this helped me pull me through this. Then I
31:35
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, even if it's one person, it's
31:38
Speaker 1: just it means the world to me. So I actually
31:41
Speaker 1: have a very personal relationship with the fans that I
31:44
Speaker 1: do have because they've just been there since day one.
31:48
Speaker 1: Because the Color's video is in two thousand seventeen, those
31:51
Speaker 1: are a really long time with pre pandemic. Yeah, Like
31:56
Speaker 1: I had all these things that we were going to do,
31:58
Speaker 1: right was the year, all these things and then and
32:01
Speaker 1: then it was a pandemic, you know. But yeah, I
32:04
Speaker 1: think it makes you feel like you're valid. I get
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Speaker 1: a lot of people feeling saying that, like they feel
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Speaker 1: the emotion of my voice, and I think that that's
32:12
Speaker 1: really important to have because a lot of the times,
32:16
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to throw shade at a lot
32:18
Speaker 1: of artists, but there's a lot of auto tune in
32:21
Speaker 1: this industry, and for me, that's like I will never
32:26
Speaker 1: use it in my life because I'm a bit old school.
32:29
Speaker 1: Because you know, you should hear what these do. They
32:32
Speaker 1: have something to say, like it can you feel the
32:34
Speaker 1: visceral emotion in the songs they write? And a lot
32:37
Speaker 1: of people don't write their song we either anymore, so
32:41
Speaker 1: it's it's changed a lot, but then not, I think, um,
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Speaker 1: for the most part, my fans are really great. I'm
32:48
Speaker 1: excited to get new fans and I'm curious how that
32:51
Speaker 1: will be. But because I like to talk to everybody,
32:54
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I may not have a lot of
32:56
Speaker 1: time to talk to everyone, but it's so hard hard, right,
33:00
Speaker 1: because it's like the folks that reach out to you,
33:03
Speaker 1: like you want to engage with all of them, and
33:06
Speaker 1: we I think we try, We try our best, responding
33:08
Speaker 1: to comments and messages, but but sometimes it's it's just
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Speaker 1: a lot. There's only so many fingers on our hands,
33:16
Speaker 1: you know, we can only talk to so many people.
33:19
Speaker 1: But it's so exciting. I love that you have die hards.
33:22
Speaker 1: I think that that's like the sign of like a
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Speaker 1: long lasting career. All right, y'all, So to listen to
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Speaker 1: the rest of that interview, you can head over to
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Speaker 1: Patreon dot com slash Look Underscore Productions. Thank you so
33:36
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