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Capítulo 036: Let's Podcast with Lets.Give · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: Radio. Loco Radio Radio comis a myth and bullshit radio
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to local radio. Welcome back, Welcome back. It's
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Speaker 1: your host and I'm Disa and we're recording once again,
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Speaker 1: UM from Rado Spasio here at EsPAS nine and Wild Heights. Welcome, Welcome,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to another capit local Radio. Local Radio is a
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Speaker 1: and fans of color. That's what we do. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for tuning in once again. For today's capito, we have
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Speaker 1: an interview with Morenita and Mike from Mike of also
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Speaker 1: known as Hood Crop Profit. I'm like, which name do
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Speaker 1: I use? Better? As non profit? Um, And we'll be
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Speaker 1: interviewing them in a little bit, but we're gonna do
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Speaker 1: our regular segments before then. Yeah. UM, so last time
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Speaker 1: on look at our radio. You heard our episode catch
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Speaker 1: up Colin. We're actually very curious about people's thoughts about
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Speaker 1: the episode. We have heard some positive feedback, UM about
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Speaker 1: just like the conversation the way that uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: like discussing balance, discussing accountability, um. I think also we've
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Speaker 1: heard from people that especially those like shop latin X
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Speaker 1: like reached out to us like people who are you know,
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Speaker 1: creating something online or have some type of a presence
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Speaker 1: or a business or an account or what have you.
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Speaker 1: And maintaining that accountability with the people you're interacting with, right,
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Speaker 1: and also setting boundaries, right, that's always hard for us,
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Speaker 1: I think as individuals, as women, it's hard for us
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Speaker 1: to set boundaries. And then once you're getting into like
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Speaker 1: creating content, then thinking like, oh, I also have to
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Speaker 1: have boundaries with this, you know what I mean in that.
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Speaker 1: So I think we're still learning how to negotiate that absolutely.
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Speaker 1: As the further podcast. So you know, I've always like,
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Speaker 1: you know, we want to hear from our listeners, like
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Speaker 1: what you think of any particular the lower of a
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Speaker 1: discussion on a topic of an interview, we do want
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Speaker 1: All right, what okay? What what was in our Curious
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Speaker 1: Cat this time? So we have so many curious Cat
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Speaker 1: may questions, which I love. Thank you so much to
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Speaker 1: everyone that's been um submitting questions. It's been difficult sorting
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Speaker 1: through them to pick up because we want to answer.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot. We have a lot of guys
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Speaker 1: are very curious, very curious about this one. This one
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Speaker 1: I thought was really funny in an interesting it's UM,
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Speaker 1: what is your what is your least favorite and most favorite? Radio?
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Speaker 1: First of all, are there people who have least favorite episodes?
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Speaker 1: Because I am like a ghast. I didn't know that
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Speaker 1: that was a thing. I don't have the least favorite. No,
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Speaker 1: of course I don't have the least favorite because I
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Speaker 1: value all of the work that we put into each
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Speaker 1: and I value and love all of the guests that
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Speaker 1: we've had on the show. UM, I will say that
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Speaker 1: I get a little like like um, like ben Ahinna,
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Speaker 1: like cringe E like cringe E. Are earlier episodes like
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Speaker 1: our very like our first maybe even ten we were
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Speaker 1: just starting when we were first starting, because the sound
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Speaker 1: quality right and even UM, I think now our format
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Speaker 1: is just much more refined. I think in the beginning
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Speaker 1: it was very much like just listen to us chit chat,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We're not we don't really
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Speaker 1: have a structure. But now I really love the structure
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Speaker 1: that we've developed UM and how we try to like
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Speaker 1: really time everything so that it's not just us, you know,
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Speaker 1: going on and on about one certain topic or not
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Speaker 1: even getting into the topic. You know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Because I listened to UM one of my favorite I guess, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess all of them are my favorites. So I
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Speaker 1: can't even say, like one of my favorites. But like
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Speaker 1: choosing a favorite kid, you have one? Do you have
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Speaker 1: a favorite? I'm like, wait, everyone has one. They can't
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Speaker 1: they won't admit it, but know. But like our Goddess
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Speaker 1: Wordship episode, I love that episode. I love what we've
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Speaker 1: done with it. I love the workshop that we did
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Speaker 1: at University of Oregon UM. But I think when I
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Speaker 1: listened to it now, it took us like a good
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes before we actually started talking about goddess worship,
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Speaker 1: and we were talking about a bunch of different things
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Speaker 1: before we even got onto the topic. And I think,
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Speaker 1: like now, with my ear. I'm like, I don't like that.
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Speaker 1: Sure what I'm like, let's get to it. Yeah, there
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Speaker 1: are days where it's like, yeah, we are going to
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Speaker 1: go off topic because a dog is gonna come into
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Speaker 1: the es fassio, you know what I mean. But like
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Speaker 1: now I feel like we're more structured. We are more structured.
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Speaker 1: I think that we've fallen into our group are rhythm
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Speaker 1: and we didn't have to force it just over time. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we've been learning. We've been learning. I think one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite we're talking about favorites, right, I always like
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Speaker 1: the multidimensional Home is such a fade. I also fem
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Speaker 1: Revenge just and for me, the Cups two. It's not
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Speaker 1: just like the episode, like listening to it itself, it's
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Speaker 1: only it's also like the names, like fem Revenge is
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Speaker 1: like one of my favorite names. Right. Um the songs
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Speaker 1: that we choose to use, you know, so um those
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Speaker 1: are definitely and then look even I mean I know
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Speaker 1: that our first ones are weren't not as refined, but
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Speaker 1: look at sistemologies and when we had the girls mom
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Speaker 1: Muse and Meaches, that was a really fun one. It
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Speaker 1: was very fun, and I love our look at phistemologies.
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Speaker 1: I think that really laid the foundation for what we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about, what the podcast is about. Um yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't change that for for anything, um,
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Speaker 1: but I do like to listen to it to see,
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Speaker 1: like how far we've come. Yeah, and we've come very far. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean even just the fact that now, like even
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Speaker 1: I was like looking at the Instagram the other day
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Speaker 1: and I looked at the very first post, like our photos,
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Speaker 1: our first photos, um, like our first little canvas, and
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Speaker 1: then now to see like the photos that we're taking
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Speaker 1: and the stages that we're on, and now we have
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Speaker 1: like the video element, and it's cool too for me
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Speaker 1: to see, Like you said, like the couples don't just
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Speaker 1: stay as audio, they turn into workshops exactly exactly, living
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Speaker 1: breathing things. Yeah. Also, I love it. I love it. Growth.
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Speaker 1: Growth is amazing. Next question, Okay, this one is hilarious
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Speaker 1: and also very valid. So how do you teach your
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Speaker 1: twelve year old niece that men are trash? It's a
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Speaker 1: good question, and I have an answer for that question.
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Speaker 1: First of all, you can never start too young teaching
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Speaker 1: um kids about patriarchy and about violence against women and
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Speaker 1: about violence against queer people. It's never too young to
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Speaker 1: talk about boundaries, to talk about safe space, how to
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Speaker 1: say no to people. For me, like when I hear
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Speaker 1: that question, how do you teach your twelve year old
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Speaker 1: nieces that men are trash? What I hear is how
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Speaker 1: do you prepare your twelve year old nieces to survive men? Right?
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Speaker 1: Those are the conversations. I have a lot of little
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Speaker 1: cousins who are little girls. There's a lot of girls
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Speaker 1: in my family and a lot of little girls, and
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Speaker 1: so I'm always very cognizant of the things that I'm
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Speaker 1: saying to them and the lessons that I teach them.
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Speaker 1: Like one time, my goddaughter Chloe's, I asked her like, oh,
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Speaker 1: like what does what does a princess do? Like like
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Speaker 1: mimic for me a princess And she goes like this please,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, no, let's try this again.
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Speaker 1: You know. So like things like that just little ways, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I would say, like it's just so normalize
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Speaker 1: the way we um the way we recognize boys, like
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Speaker 1: as girls right, as young girls, whe we recognize boys
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Speaker 1: attention is like very harmful, Like the teasing, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, and then we recognize that as like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's because they like me, or oh it's because thisseness
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Speaker 1: and that you know what I mean, It's like it's
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Speaker 1: that they like you, but actually they do not. So
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Speaker 1: how do you teach your tild your niece them and
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Speaker 1: our trash? Yeah, I mean, I like Mama said, like,
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Speaker 1: it's never too early to learn about consent. It's never
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Speaker 1: too early to learn about um, how to say learning,
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Speaker 1: how to say no, learning like what you your body needs,
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Speaker 1: what your boundaries are, right, Like we've talked in like
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Speaker 1: how do you um? Children really pick up on the
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Speaker 1: vibes that a person is admitting, right, if someone feels
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Speaker 1: like strange to them, it's probably because this person is
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Speaker 1: not going to be good for them, not a safe
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Speaker 1: person exactly. I like in my self defense classes when
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Speaker 1: I teach our assertiveness portions, especially when I'm with women
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Speaker 1: of color, especially when if I'm with like a Spanish
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Speaker 1: speaking group, I like to talk a lot about how
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Speaker 1: the fact that we basically not beat the intuition out
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Speaker 1: of little girls, but we discourage it so much that
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Speaker 1: we become adults. We know something is bad for us.
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Speaker 1: We know we don't like something. But but Gadita's right,
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Speaker 1: and we just kind of like just kind of grin
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Speaker 1: and bear it. And I always tell you know, especially
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Speaker 1: if I'm teaching um self defense to youth, listen to
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Speaker 1: your intuition. Like the said that creepy uncle, that creepy
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Speaker 1: relative or neighbor teacher that hugs you and puts their
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Speaker 1: hand in the wrong place, hugs a little too tight,
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Speaker 1: a little too long, too intimate. You know that that's
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Speaker 1: predatory behavior, like you can feel it. Allow your kids
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Speaker 1: to say no to adults, allow your kids to even
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Speaker 1: sometimes come off as rude to adults. What the fund
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Speaker 1: does it matter if an adult man is offended, who cares?
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Speaker 1: My concern is is your twelve year old niece safe? Right?
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Speaker 1: So that's how that would be my approach, completely agree.
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Speaker 1: Did we want to answer another? Those are all the
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Speaker 1: ones I have? Okay? Those are cute, those are funs Okay? So,
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Speaker 1: and do we have anything for weird things white women
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Speaker 1: did this week? Okay, well, weird things white women did
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Speaker 1: this week? No, I wasn't really around any white women
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Speaker 1: this week. I have a new story me either. But
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Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday. Okay, so on Easter Sunday. Um I
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Speaker 1: went to and um we were I drove, so we
10:27
Speaker 1: were pulling out, my family and I and UM, we've
10:30
Speaker 1: parked right across the street from his house. And we
10:32
Speaker 1: parked and we're getting out and immediately a white woman
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Speaker 1: comes out of her house and she goes, are you
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Speaker 1: guys here for for Easter Sunday? Or are you guys
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Speaker 1: here for like visiting or something like that. And I
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Speaker 1: didn't even acknowledge her because I knew something was gonna have,
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Speaker 1: something weird was going to happen. And then my mom
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Speaker 1: all like all my mom love, moy nice. She's just like,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, we're going to my son's and then she goes,
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Speaker 1: okay because I have people coming to And then she
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Speaker 1: comes and she brings out a freaking um a cunc
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Speaker 1: she's reserving parking, and I just like looked at her.
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Speaker 1: I looked at the cone and I was like, that
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Speaker 1: is illegal. And I just walked intide. It was like
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Speaker 1: that you can't reserve parking with a cone, Like you
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Speaker 1: can't can't sing grandma, I can do whatever she wants.
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Speaker 1: Way comes out to ask us if we're parking there,
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Speaker 1: and then puts a cone. Now that's hilarious. That's a
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Speaker 1: good one. It was very strange. It was like, why
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Speaker 1: are you being weird? Um? Weird white ladies. Weird white ladies. Okay, Um.
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Speaker 1: We also have since Okay, so we're going to jump
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Speaker 1: into our interview with a bring them in, Yes, Mona
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Speaker 1: and Mike. Um. So, I wanted to say that we
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Speaker 1: have events coming up and Um, April tenth, we will
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Speaker 1: be at USC We're doing a multidimensional home workshop, so fun.
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Speaker 1: We'll share the details. It's at seven thirty, I believe.
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Speaker 1: And then April thirteenth, which is a Friday, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: be at UCSB you see Santa Barbara, and we're giving
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Speaker 1: a keynote at their Hood Defeat the conference. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be cute. It's gonna be really cute. And in April seventeen,
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Speaker 1: we are going to be at USC again and we're
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Speaker 1: doing a fem defense workshop, also very cute. Yes, so
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Speaker 1: we're super excited. Checkout the Instagram event. We'll post more
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Speaker 1: about the events and where to find us and how
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Speaker 1: to get there and all that. Yeah. So we're gonna
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Speaker 1: go into a sound break, yes, and then we're gonna
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Speaker 1: bring them Bring on Monnitan Hood Profit and and and
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Speaker 1: and and and and and and and um and all right,
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Speaker 1: thank you to Monita and Mike. UM. We're so excited
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Speaker 1: to have them both here, so we're gonna let them
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Speaker 1: introduce themselves. Hi. I'm Monita, and I'm the CEO and
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Speaker 1: founder of Let's Give. My name is Mike, and I
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Speaker 1: do Poemes also known as Hood Profit, also known as
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Speaker 1: Head Profit. Thank you so much for being here with
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Speaker 1: us today. And this is actually the second time, like
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Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been a year, Right, the second
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Speaker 1: time we've had Let's Give here at Espasio and look
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Speaker 1: at radio to talk about your projects, your events, the
13:48
Speaker 1: really exciting programs that you guys are putting together. So
13:51
Speaker 1: thank you for coming back to update us and keep
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Speaker 1: us in the loop. We love it. Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 1: I don't thank you guys so much for having us.
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Speaker 1: We've done We've been able to accomplish a lot since then. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We we actually sent forty nine pounds of donations and
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Speaker 1: morrocane relief to Puerto Rico after the hurricanes. Right, we
14:11
Speaker 1: got a chartered playing me. I think we were like
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Speaker 1: the second organization that sent the most out of l A.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing, really dope. And then like we just finished
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Speaker 1: Bakersfield with that actually, so we helped over four families
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Speaker 1: with closed donations and like hand massages to the microphone
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Speaker 1: work community. That's amazing, amazing. Congratulations, thank you all of
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Speaker 1: the work that you all have been doing. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much. Yeah, I really appreciate the way that let's
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Speaker 1: give how you all have been able to really like
14:42
Speaker 1: get so many community members to like really show up
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Speaker 1: and show out and on the ground and really put
14:50
Speaker 1: in that that work and that effort. It's it's not
14:53
Speaker 1: easy to do. No, grassroots organizing is very different. No,
14:56
Speaker 1: it's not, especially since we're like we're youth based and
14:59
Speaker 1: by youth and reaching out to the youth of the
15:01
Speaker 1: community that's helping is fourteen seven, and so it'll get
15:06
Speaker 1: a little difficult at times, like we're still kids, you know.
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Speaker 1: But I think the thing that's really dope about us
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Speaker 1: is like every everybody here in the organization and everybody
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Speaker 1: that's being attracted to the organization, they're really about helping
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Speaker 1: the community and like really about serving Um. They're not
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Speaker 1: self entitled. We don't do this for like self gratification
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Speaker 1: or anything. UM, so yeah, it's it's really dope. So
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Speaker 1: everyone like it's hard, but it gets done, you know,
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Speaker 1: yeah amazing. So, UM, tell us a little bit more
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Speaker 1: about why we're here today. We're talking with you today.
15:41
Speaker 1: So last year we were a part of culture. So
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Speaker 1: let's talk about that. So a tricical culture is an
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Speaker 1: arts collective night UM created by Let's Give. So this
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Speaker 1: is our second annual tribe and UM what we do
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Speaker 1: is we bring arts to like arts as a collective
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Speaker 1: to a commun nity that doesn't usually get it. Um
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Speaker 1: it was Hawthorne. I grew up in Hawthorne. Happens really close. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: hathens really close to my heart and I growing up,
16:08
Speaker 1: I realized that like I was always having to go
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Speaker 1: out to these different communities, um, hours away from my
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Speaker 1: own to to to get these art experiences. And it
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Speaker 1: kind of like hurt that that was never in my home.
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Speaker 1: So I brought it to a local high school. Well,
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Speaker 1: we as a as Let's Give, brought it to a
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Speaker 1: local high school. And it's performances musicians, singers, poets, UM,
16:33
Speaker 1: big poets that I'm really really close to, Mike Yessica UM.
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Speaker 1: And then we have so we have musicians we have dancers,
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Speaker 1: we have poets, we have an entire art walk, and
16:45
Speaker 1: we also have vendors. So the vendor aspect of it
16:48
Speaker 1: is bringing like small mom and pop shops or like
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Speaker 1: cyber shops to vent and they get to keep a
16:55
Speaker 1: percent of the proceeds. And the artists they get to
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Speaker 1: vent and they get to sell their artwork and to
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Speaker 1: get to keep of the proceeds. So not only are
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Speaker 1: we helping the economy of local artists, because as artists
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Speaker 1: we know hard that can be sometimes not having that outlet,
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Speaker 1: but we're also providing arts and unification through the arts,
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Speaker 1: like black and brown unity through the arts into a
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Speaker 1: space that doesn't usually get that. So that's the beautiful
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Speaker 1: part of it. And and you're participating in Tripole culture,
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Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit about your role
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Speaker 1: and what the event means for you your participation. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think even just to modernate this point
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Speaker 1: exactly of like bringing these spaces back home, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. And I think, like in doing social
17:39
Speaker 1: justice work or in like community work or whatever, it's hard,
17:43
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's hard, and it's draining,
17:45
Speaker 1: and it's hard to get up and organize and to
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Speaker 1: UM and to strategize constantly, especially against systems that are
17:52
Speaker 1: like directly affecting you. UM. And I think that's one
17:56
Speaker 1: of the reasons it's so important, UM to have this space,
18:00
Speaker 1: especially like me coming into the space and going like
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Speaker 1: this is needed, UM of like going, yeah, we we
18:06
Speaker 1: work on all these things, but when do folks have
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Speaker 1: time to do When the folks have time to celebrate,
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Speaker 1: when the folks have time and space in their homes
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Speaker 1: with people that look like them, UM, to hold space
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Speaker 1: for each other, you know. And I think the other
18:18
Speaker 1: part of that is also like we UM, we always
18:21
Speaker 1: talk about like dismantling these systems. We always talk about
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Speaker 1: the work that we do. We always talk about social justice.
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Speaker 1: But then also I kind of go, like, when we
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Speaker 1: talk about dismantling these systems, what else are we also
18:31
Speaker 1: doing to rebuild institutions? You know what I mean? Like,
18:34
Speaker 1: I think we talk about institutions and becomes like this
18:36
Speaker 1: trigger word UM. And it's because we we have like
18:40
Speaker 1: can I cause ye and tight and I just think
18:48
Speaker 1: like we haven't really fucked up relationship with institutions, you
18:51
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's it's dangerous and it's it's
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Speaker 1: unhealthy UM. But then also I think we have to
18:58
Speaker 1: take it upon ourselves to rebuild it, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, because it's just like we dismaged all these
19:02
Speaker 1: insituations and then where do our people have to help UM?
19:05
Speaker 1: And I think Tribe is like does a really good
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Speaker 1: job of doing that, you know what I mean of
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Speaker 1: like rebuilding a consistent space UM for folks to heal
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Speaker 1: and live and thrive in that's home and also with
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Speaker 1: people that look like you, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: So I think that's when Yeah, it's it's it's a
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Speaker 1: very beautiful event. It is. I mean last year when
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Speaker 1: we were there, like the flyest black and brown youth
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Speaker 1: were there, like dress so cute, so beautiful outfits alone right,
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Speaker 1: we didn't even honestly, we didn't even see the performances.
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Speaker 1: We were outside outfits alone. Well. Last for what we
19:42
Speaker 1: were doing is we were interviewing the vendors, so that
19:45
Speaker 1: was sort of our role. And this year we are
19:47
Speaker 1: we're going to be participating in Tribe called culture, but
19:51
Speaker 1: in a different capacity, yes, which I think we're still working,
19:55
Speaker 1: but we will be there nonetheless for DVD, dbd well thing, No,
20:00
Speaker 1: I can definitely bet for the artists last year, not
20:03
Speaker 1: only the visual artists, but also the performances they're amazing.
20:07
Speaker 1: And this year like we're taking it up and not
20:11
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Like Weapons of Mass Creation that was
20:14
Speaker 1: playing earlier, they're going to be playing upon there he's playing.
20:18
Speaker 1: We have Kevin sand Bloom again this year. You mean
20:20
Speaker 1: we got Yes could profit het know Fortune and you
20:24
Speaker 1: got a Hilla and then um like Chinging on Fire.
20:28
Speaker 1: It's just it's amazing. It's going to be super dop.
20:31
Speaker 1: That's a great line up. Yeah. No, and that's even
20:33
Speaker 1: the lineup to the ice for it's amazing. And then
20:37
Speaker 1: we have like local poets and like people that are
20:40
Speaker 1: going to the school that are being going to be
20:42
Speaker 1: performing as well. So can you tell us a little
20:44
Speaker 1: bit about the high school and like the community that
20:47
Speaker 1: um you're posting this event and at Loose Singer right yeah,
20:50
Speaker 1: losing your high school right there, and it's like borderline Hawthorne,
20:54
Speaker 1: Lawndale area. Um, it's really close to my heart. I
20:58
Speaker 1: wasn't able to go there. Um, they've they've really come
21:01
Speaker 1: up though since my childhood, I mean, losing her used
21:04
Speaker 1: to be known for race riots and a lot of
21:09
Speaker 1: pain within our community was focused in losing her, and
21:14
Speaker 1: they've really they've really been able to clean themselves up.
21:17
Speaker 1: And there's such the campus is beautiful and it is
21:20
Speaker 1: a very beautiful and it's it's um it's a landmark
21:23
Speaker 1: actually in Hawthorne. So it's a historical landmark in Hawthorne early. Yeah,
21:27
Speaker 1: my my entire family, all of my siblings went there,
21:30
Speaker 1: My dad went there, my mom almost went there, but
21:32
Speaker 1: her mom didn't let her, like she didn't let me.
21:35
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, it's it's a landmark in not only
21:38
Speaker 1: my life, but in Hawthorn as well. Yeah, for sure.
21:41
Speaker 1: And who would you say, like if you were to
21:42
Speaker 1: describe the let's give tripe culture attendees demographic, like who's going,
21:48
Speaker 1: who's showing up? Like who's you know, who the fly is?
21:51
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a family. It's a it's a family event,
21:55
Speaker 1: you know. So we have all ages, moms, dad's, grandpa's on,
22:00
Speaker 1: these uncles, those aunties and uncles that aren't really your
22:02
Speaker 1: aunties and uncles, but like they still are. Yeah. Yeah,
22:07
Speaker 1: and the block, the block is coming, the block is
22:10
Speaker 1: showing up is dope, Oh my god, just to like
22:14
Speaker 1: see you about it, like just gets me so excited
22:17
Speaker 1: because you're you can see like how much passion you
22:21
Speaker 1: have for this project, because I know that this is
22:22
Speaker 1: your baby spearhead this Yeah, no, I um, this has
22:26
Speaker 1: been my vision. This arts collective has been my vision
22:29
Speaker 1: since before I even started Let's Give, And it really
22:32
Speaker 1: was I started Let's Give so that I can do
22:34
Speaker 1: something like this, and like, yeah, let's give. We we
22:37
Speaker 1: help and we work in our communities as well. But
22:40
Speaker 1: like I needed that outlet. I needed a form of
22:43
Speaker 1: being able to bring the arts. And you know, try
22:46
Speaker 1: called culture isn't the only way we bring arts into
22:48
Speaker 1: our community. Through Let's Give, we try to incorporate arts
22:52
Speaker 1: not only radically, but as a form of healing and
22:55
Speaker 1: as a form of giving back to our community every
22:58
Speaker 1: chance that we get. When we're in when we're helping
23:01
Speaker 1: the microp farmers in breakersh Field, we have a kid's
23:03
Speaker 1: corner set up for them where we do arts and
23:05
Speaker 1: crafts with them, and we talked to them and we
23:07
Speaker 1: connect with them through arts and crafts. And so Let's
23:11
Speaker 1: Give really really helped me visualize and conceptualize and bring
23:16
Speaker 1: tribe to life. And without Let's Give, I wouldn't do
23:20
Speaker 1: this so it was it's this duality that is truly
23:23
Speaker 1: amazing and they're both my dreams come true. So yeah,
23:26
Speaker 1: it azing. Thank you. So can I ask how do
23:29
Speaker 1: you two know each other? And how did you two
23:31
Speaker 1: meet and like get in and you know, like what
23:33
Speaker 1: are the origins of the organ of this the work
23:36
Speaker 1: that you all do poetry? So I met him at
23:39
Speaker 1: an open mic that going to positivity pride was actually
23:43
Speaker 1: putting on. Yeah, and it was a little over a
23:46
Speaker 1: year ago. M hmm, very cool. Yeah, No, I mean
23:51
Speaker 1: I read a piece. I read a piece that I
23:53
Speaker 1: read a lot. Actually, it's called Egoon and it's just
23:55
Speaker 1: about like honoring my ancestors. It's a note to my ancestors.
23:58
Speaker 1: And I guess I don't think immediately we clicked, um
24:02
Speaker 1: just on like being the only Afro Indigenous people in
24:05
Speaker 1: the poetry space um in a predominantly ground space and
24:08
Speaker 1: being like, oh ship, you look like me. Yeah, And
24:11
Speaker 1: then and then it just kind of cracked. And I
24:12
Speaker 1: think it was around the same time the tribe was happening,
24:15
Speaker 1: and then you all put me on the tribe and
24:18
Speaker 1: like yeah, and he really became like a mentor to me,
24:21
Speaker 1: like a big brother. He helped me with my poetry
24:24
Speaker 1: and and really like healed through these things that I
24:26
Speaker 1: was going through at the time through poetry and like
24:29
Speaker 1: through mentoring me through my poetry and stuff, and like
24:32
Speaker 1: I was able to do a lot of healing in
24:34
Speaker 1: in that time spand and like he touched on earlier,
24:38
Speaker 1: like both being Afro Indigenous in this space where like
24:41
Speaker 1: the duality isn't isn't seen as much, and like being
24:45
Speaker 1: able to talk to somebody about that about being black
24:49
Speaker 1: and brown and spaces that are usually only brown were
24:52
Speaker 1: usually only black, and like having that dialogue with someone
24:55
Speaker 1: that I I I'm not close to the Puerto Rican
24:58
Speaker 1: side of my family, So having that it was really
25:00
Speaker 1: really big for me because I wasn't able to have
25:02
Speaker 1: that dialogue that I mean needs to be had absolutely
25:06
Speaker 1: And as poets, so there's so many Oh my gosh,
25:10
Speaker 1: there's so much to talk about. There's so many levels
25:13
Speaker 1: and things going on here. Okay, the poetry, the poetry scene.
25:18
Speaker 1: Let's give the internet Instagram like building community, Like let's
25:22
Speaker 1: talk about that, like like as poets, as activists, as
25:26
Speaker 1: artists and being very active also like online, like what
25:29
Speaker 1: has community out in real life versus community like being
25:32
Speaker 1: built on Instagram and stuff, like what has that been
25:35
Speaker 1: like for you all? Because this is like, I think,
25:37
Speaker 1: an ongoing conversation for us, and we see how you all,
25:40
Speaker 1: like also are very active, So I'm curious. I think
25:44
Speaker 1: I really get to connect with younger brown girls through
25:47
Speaker 1: through my Instagram. I mean I don't have as big
25:49
Speaker 1: of a platform as him, but like I do get
25:51
Speaker 1: young girls often deem ng me and like trying to
25:54
Speaker 1: have these conversations with me that they don't usually get
25:57
Speaker 1: in other spaces, and I'm all the way here for that,
26:00
Speaker 1: and so I talked to them and I get to
26:03
Speaker 1: give them advice and stuff, and I wouldn't be having
26:05
Speaker 1: that because they're not in my own community. And I
26:08
Speaker 1: think it's really awesome too, because I grew up in
26:12
Speaker 1: in Hawthorne, but I also had to go to schools
26:14
Speaker 1: and really white spaces and that was really really hard
26:17
Speaker 1: for me because there was nobody who shared the same
26:20
Speaker 1: ideologies as me, and I was always having to be oh,
26:23
Speaker 1: that one loud revolutionary chick that like, oh my god,
26:26
Speaker 1: she's so annoying, whereas like online, and it happened a
26:30
Speaker 1: lot when I was beginning of my friendship with Mike
26:33
Speaker 1: of like we would go out on weekends to to
26:35
Speaker 1: open mics and stuff, and like we'd be the popular
26:38
Speaker 1: kids out there that like everyone wanted to talk to
26:40
Speaker 1: and like be around and stuff. And then right the
26:42
Speaker 1: next day I was having to go back to school,
26:44
Speaker 1: where like I was at the bottom of the totem
26:45
Speaker 1: pole again. So it was like it gave me a
26:47
Speaker 1: chance to really open up and be who owned myself
26:51
Speaker 1: and own the revolution in my soul and like be
26:56
Speaker 1: unapologetically radically me and that helped me so much survive
26:59
Speaker 1: through my school. Yeah, and and I also think it's
27:02
Speaker 1: it's cool because you're not often in these communities, are
27:06
Speaker 1: in these spaces where you can have dialogue with people
27:10
Speaker 1: who think the same way as you. Know, like you're
27:12
Speaker 1: often in the community that you find and that you
27:17
Speaker 1: build online is very biased, yes, and it's very filtered,
27:20
Speaker 1: but that's it's it's a plus because you could have
27:23
Speaker 1: these dialogues and then go back into these spaces that
27:25
Speaker 1: aren't that are the opposite and know what you're talking
27:29
Speaker 1: about because you're being presented these different ideologies. I think
27:33
Speaker 1: that's yeah great. Also, I think like um, since jump,
27:39
Speaker 1: like I mean, so I came up in like the
27:41
Speaker 1: organizing world of like hardcore like organizing and like agitating
27:45
Speaker 1: and educating. Um. And so even now, like I always
27:49
Speaker 1: look at social media as a tool, um of like
27:52
Speaker 1: I've been given this platform for whatever reason, and like
27:55
Speaker 1: the work that I do in my art and like
27:57
Speaker 1: I try to use a light it utilize it in
27:59
Speaker 1: organizing as much as I can, UM. And like I
28:01
Speaker 1: think in just life and like all the things I
28:03
Speaker 1: try to utilize my ship as like resistance as a
28:06
Speaker 1: radical act, as organizing. UM. But I think I have
28:09
Speaker 1: qualms with social media a lot because while it's like yes,
28:12
Speaker 1: it's this gateway and it's like this beautiful tool that
28:14
Speaker 1: you can use, also I think like, um, I don't know,
28:20
Speaker 1: it just makes me uncomfortable. It makes me uncomortable because
28:23
Speaker 1: I know a lot of folks that go on social
28:24
Speaker 1: media be like yeo, man a rally with a flyer
28:26
Speaker 1: and then like you not really you know what I mean? UM?
28:28
Speaker 1: And then I think like also just like the trending
28:31
Speaker 1: of like all this like and like yeah, yeah, you
28:34
Speaker 1: know what I mean, UM, And it makes me we're uncomfortable.
28:37
Speaker 1: But then also as an organizer, I kind of go
28:39
Speaker 1: like yo, social media has taken it a step further
28:42
Speaker 1: that I don't have to do now, you know what
28:43
Speaker 1: I mean, because like now I get you and you
28:45
Speaker 1: already going to marches, okay, but well let me teach
28:47
Speaker 1: you this now you know what I mean. Let me
28:49
Speaker 1: educate you on this, you know what I mean? Um.
28:50
Speaker 1: And So while I have qualms with social media, a
28:52
Speaker 1: lot of going like I know you're not connected to
28:55
Speaker 1: an order, like what you're saying, Like I can tell
28:57
Speaker 1: you didn't like go through Um, I know you were
29:01
Speaker 1: not taken. Yeah, and it's just like a jump. And
29:04
Speaker 1: while it fus with me also kind of go like okay,
29:08
Speaker 1: like we get it somewhere at least, you know what
29:09
Speaker 1: I mean, Like at least like the steps are being
29:12
Speaker 1: kind of ticking, um yeah yeah. And I think and like,
29:17
Speaker 1: as a coming from Let's Give, I wouldn't have been
29:22
Speaker 1: able to reach out to so many youth to come
29:26
Speaker 1: and join us if it weren't for the platform that
29:28
Speaker 1: was created for Let's Give and the page itself. Because
29:33
Speaker 1: of how much it's been built, We've been able to
29:36
Speaker 1: reach out to so many more people and get in
29:38
Speaker 1: contact with so many more people that it was such
29:41
Speaker 1: an important tool to raising Absolutely, yeah, I want to
29:45
Speaker 1: I do want to say that, Like something that we
29:47
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier in the interview was just the
29:50
Speaker 1: sheer numbers of the people that you were you were
29:53
Speaker 1: able to fill a plane with donation, you know, and
29:56
Speaker 1: for me, I saw, I definitely saw that connection with
29:59
Speaker 1: the youth on the internet, Like that is like a
30:02
Speaker 1: new sort of organizing space, right, Definitely. It's just amazing
30:06
Speaker 1: to me that, Like I think it's dope and I
30:10
Speaker 1: think it's somethings that not a lot of other organizations present.
30:16
Speaker 1: Is that anybody who joins us, we do the research.
30:19
Speaker 1: Like we're not walking blind into any any event that
30:23
Speaker 1: we do. When we're going into the microphone workers in Bakersfield,
30:26
Speaker 1: we do research on what they have to go through,
30:29
Speaker 1: suicide numbers, the mental health issues that are presented in
30:33
Speaker 1: these spaces, And when we're going into skid Row, it's
30:35
Speaker 1: the same thing. We're like, we're not whoever comes in,
30:39
Speaker 1: You're not going to be uneducated about the spaces that
30:43
Speaker 1: you're going into, no matter if you're brown, no matter
30:45
Speaker 1: if you're black, no matter if you're white. Like we
30:48
Speaker 1: present the research and it shows when you talk to
30:51
Speaker 1: the members. That's very important. I appreciate that. I think,
30:54
Speaker 1: and you know, talking about like reasons why we are
30:57
Speaker 1: so happy to have you here again and to continue
31:00
Speaker 1: to like collaborate with you all and with Let's Give
31:02
Speaker 1: is because a like I love you and think you're adorable.
31:05
Speaker 1: Number one, I've seen you perform your poetry at a
31:08
Speaker 1: couple at the Poetry Lounge and at Yessica's um book release,
31:13
Speaker 1: and you're incredible. Um And also like just the projects
31:17
Speaker 1: that you all very intentionally choose to undertake right and
31:21
Speaker 1: delivering very like real material like needs and goods, and
31:25
Speaker 1: like the Bakersfield project, like my I love that project.
31:28
Speaker 1: My families from Bakersfield. I come from generations of farm workers.
31:32
Speaker 1: My dad was a farm worker, you know, So like
31:34
Speaker 1: for me, that's a beautiful project that is such like
31:36
Speaker 1: a local like in l A, like a California socw
31:39
Speaker 1: like a need, you know, especially for so many Latinos,
31:42
Speaker 1: even who are urban Latinos here in l A. Many
31:45
Speaker 1: of us have our families out in agricultural communities, right
31:50
Speaker 1: and we've just migrated now to the city in different ways.
31:52
Speaker 1: So I love That's what I really love about Let's
31:55
Speaker 1: give the very intentional projects you undertake. Thank you so
32:00
Speaker 1: much to truly. Um so I realized we've been talking
32:03
Speaker 1: so much and let's give and a tribe called culture,
32:05
Speaker 1: but we actually didn't say the dates. All right, right,
32:11
Speaker 1: so right now you can go on our website at
32:13
Speaker 1: Let's Give movement dot org. Our tickets are on sale.
32:16
Speaker 1: You want to get them now before they run out.
32:18
Speaker 1: It's actually the show is going to be at Losing
32:21
Speaker 1: Your High School on April. That's a Friday night, all right,
32:25
Speaker 1: Friday night. Doors open at six five, doors open at five.
32:31
Speaker 1: You want to get there early because we have a
32:32
Speaker 1: whole art walk and vendors and stuff, and you want
32:35
Speaker 1: to be able to have time to go through everything.
32:38
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, I love it. And where can people
32:41
Speaker 1: keep up with you too and follow your comings and
32:44
Speaker 1: goings and support your work as well as individuals. We
32:53
Speaker 1: don't have to. Instagram is so profit p r o
32:58
Speaker 1: f E t um and even just like with Let's
33:01
Speaker 1: give stuff a personal stuff, all the things are there.
33:04
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sending. The shirt's also so much nights
33:07
Speaker 1: and bows, waters and boils and all those little I
33:11
Speaker 1: love the rings that you're wearing. The crystals are really beautiful.
33:15
Speaker 1: Nah one day, one day we'll have a conversation about
33:20
Speaker 1: like how many of us have histories of It's very real.
33:27
Speaker 1: We are coming to the end of our time with
33:29
Speaker 1: you all quick go ahead, so let's give. You can
33:34
Speaker 1: follow us on Instagram at let's stock give and then
33:36
Speaker 1: you can follow me La Monnita with three as at
33:40
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33:44
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