Latest / Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela] / Capítulo 216: "Mi Gente Latino"
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- 1:54Speaker 1: So in case you missed it, it's that time of
- 1:57Speaker 1: year again where Latinos and Hispanic folks come out of
- 2:01Speaker 1: hiding to celebrate Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month.
- 2:05Speaker 4: And you know, over here at Look, I thought our radio,
- 2:06Speaker 4: it's always Latino, Latina, Latine and my personal favorite LATINX
- 2:12Speaker 4: Heritage Month, each and every day. But that doesn't mean
- 2:15Speaker 4: that we don't have some things to say about these
- 2:18Speaker 4: four extra special extra LATINX weeks that we have to
- 2:21Speaker 4: celebrate between September and October. I've always wondered, why do
- 2:27Speaker 4: we start in the middle of September and then end
- 2:30Speaker 4: in the middle of October. Why do we straddle these
- 2:33Speaker 4: two months, like why not one full month? What is
- 2:38Speaker 4: the purpose? But there's actually a reason, and it's not
- 2:40Speaker 4: just because Hispanic Heritage Month in this way is kind
- 2:43Speaker 4: of like a Mestizo month.
- 2:45Speaker 1: I was about to say, yah, yeah, it's like symbolic,
- 2:49Speaker 1: it just makes sense, But there is an actual history
- 2:52Speaker 1: about Hispanic Heritage Month and why these four weeks were
- 2:56Speaker 1: specifically chosen. According to Hispanic Heritage Month dot GOV, each year,
- 3:01Speaker 1: Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September fifteenth to
- 3:05Speaker 1: October fifteenth by celebrating the histories, cultures, and contributions of
- 3:10Speaker 1: American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean,
- 3:15Speaker 1: and Central and South America.
- 3:18Speaker 4: So something interesting is that this observation of Hispanic Heritage
- 3:22Speaker 4: Month actually started a while back in nineteen sixty eight,
- 3:26Speaker 4: and it was originally Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson.
- 3:31Speaker 4: Hispanic Heritage Week was actually expanded by President Ronald Reagan
- 3:35Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty eight to cover a thirty day period
- 3:39Speaker 4: starting on September fifteenth and ending on October fifteenth. It
- 3:43Speaker 4: was enacted into law on August seventeenth, nineteen eighty eight,
- 3:46Speaker 4: on the approval of Public Law one hundred through four
- 3:48Speaker 4: or two. You can look that up if you're interested
- 3:50Speaker 4: in that.
- 3:51Speaker 1: The day of September fifteenth is also significant because it
- 3:56Speaker 1: is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries like
- 4:00Speaker 1: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition,
- 4:06Speaker 1: Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September sixteenth
- 4:10Speaker 1: and September eighteenth, respectively.
- 4:13Speaker 4: So why celebrate Hispanics in the United States?
- 4:16Speaker 2: Why give us a month?
- 4:18Speaker 4: The Why celebrate us as a people and as a population.
- 4:21Speaker 4: So we're going to share some key facts about US
- 4:24Speaker 4: Latinos for National Hispanic Heritage Month. And this coming from
- 4:28Speaker 4: Pew research from a study in twenty twenty three. The
- 4:32Speaker 4: US Hispanic population reached sixty three point six million in
- 4:37Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, which is up from fifty point five
- 4:39Speaker 4: million in twenty ten. This is a twenty six percent
- 4:43Speaker 4: increase in the Hispanic population. And this increase in the
- 4:46Speaker 4: Hispanic population was actually faster than the nation's eight percent growth,
- 4:51Speaker 4: but slower than the thirty four percent increase in our
- 4:54Speaker 4: Asian American population. In twenty twenty two, Hispanics made up
- 4:58Speaker 4: nearly one in five people in the United States, meaning
- 5:02Speaker 4: if you're in a group of five people, at least
- 5:04Speaker 4: one of us is probably of Latin descent.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Latinos or Hispanics, have also played a major role in
- 5:10Speaker 1: US population growth over the past decade. The US population
- 5:14Speaker 1: grew by twenty four point five million from twenty ten
- 5:17Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two, and Hispanics accounted for fifty three
- 5:20Speaker 1: percent of that increase.
- 5:22Speaker 4: The number of Latinos who say that they are multiracial
- 5:25Speaker 4: has also increased dramatically.
- 5:27Speaker 2: We are a very.
- 5:27Speaker 4: Multicultural, multi ethnic, multiracial people group, and more than twenty
- 5:32Speaker 4: seven million Latinos identified with more than one race in
- 5:35Speaker 4: twenty twenty two.
- 5:37Speaker 1: These data points are so interesting because obviously the term
- 5:40Speaker 1: Hispanic was created by the US Census, So I'm so curious,
- 5:46Speaker 1: what is Hispanic and what is Latino? Are these stats
- 5:49Speaker 1: also including folks from Spain because it is they are
- 5:53Speaker 1: part of the Hispanic population If you.
- 5:55Speaker 4: Will, yes, I imagine that the span population is probably
- 6:01Speaker 4: pretty tiny compared to folks of Latin American origin. And again,
- 6:06Speaker 4: according to Pew Research, roughly thirty seven point four million
- 6:10Speaker 4: people of Mexican origin in the US represent almost sixty
- 6:14Speaker 4: percent of the nation's Hispanic population, this at least as
- 6:17Speaker 4: of twenty twenty two, and those of Puerto Rican origin
- 6:20Speaker 4: are the next largest group at five point nine million,
- 6:24Speaker 4: which does not include the three point two million Puerto
- 6:27Speaker 4: Ricans who lived on the island of Puerto Rico in
- 6:30Speaker 4: twenty twenty two. So my, okay, here we go. In addition,
- 6:34Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two, Spaniards accounted for nearly one million
- 6:37Speaker 4: US Latinos. So they do have, it seems, at least
- 6:41Speaker 4: according to Pew Research, they have their own place in
- 6:45Speaker 4: our census data and in the counting of Hispanics.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Right, I mean, and that continues to be the conversation,
- 6:52Speaker 1: what do we call ourselves? And we're not getting into
- 6:54Speaker 1: that today because so many people have that conversation. And
- 6:58Speaker 1: I think, self identify how you want to identify. I
- 7:02Speaker 1: identify as Latina, which I know some folks don't like
- 7:05Speaker 1: that either, but that is true to my identity. There
- 7:08Speaker 1: was a while when I was in college, when I
- 7:10Speaker 1: was identifying as Chicana because it made sense for me
- 7:13Speaker 1: and my political understanding. But then the more time I
- 7:17Speaker 1: spent in Peru and in South America, I just felt
- 7:19Speaker 1: it didn't fit anymore, which is why as someone in
- 7:22Speaker 1: the US, Latina fits. But I also like just saying
- 7:26Speaker 1: we're my background, Well, my background is you know, I'm
- 7:29Speaker 1: proving Mexican. And then if you want to give me
- 7:31Speaker 1: an umbrella term, I'm proudly Latina.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Absolutely, there's the hyper specific of who we are as
- 7:37Speaker 4: individuals and who our parents are, and then there's like
- 7:40Speaker 4: are in group, you know, membership. I identify as Mexican
- 7:45Speaker 4: American or Chicana. I think that's just the most specific
- 7:50Speaker 4: thing identity for me. I was very much raised by
- 7:54Speaker 4: my parents to identify as a Chicana. My dad identifies
- 7:57Speaker 4: as a Chicano, and I just feel like that's my
- 8:00Speaker 4: culture and that's my people, and I'm an la Mexican
- 8:03Speaker 4: American and this is.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Just where we're from and what we do.
- 8:08Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, but I'm not a I'm not
- 8:11Speaker 4: a Chicana that wears like you know those T shirts that.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Say like not Islan.
- 8:16Speaker 4: Yeah, let's say like Uslan and Vivola Rasa and like
- 8:19Speaker 4: not Hispanic, not Latino, not Mexican, Indigenous, you know like those.
- 8:24Speaker 2: I'm not one of those. I just want you guys
- 8:26Speaker 2: to know that.
- 8:29Speaker 4: And so for today's episode, we're gonna talk about some
- 8:32Speaker 4: of our top Hispanic Heritage moments of twenty twenty four.
- 8:36Speaker 4: And these being in no real particular order, we just
- 8:39Speaker 4: kind of thought about, like what was in the zeitgeist
- 8:43Speaker 4: this year as far as Latino, Latina, latinx Latina Hispanic people.
- 8:49Speaker 4: This is not an exhaustive list. If there were things
- 8:52Speaker 4: this year that really stood out to you that you're
- 8:54Speaker 4: celebrating this Hispanic Heritage Month or thinking about, let us know,
- 8:58Speaker 4: leave us a comment, leave us a review, and tell
- 9:00Speaker 4: us what we're missing from this list.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, lookamotes.
- 9:04Speaker 3: We'll be right.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Back, and we're back with more of our episode.
- 9:15Speaker 1: So it isn't a conversation about latinos latinas I think
- 9:20Speaker 1: if we don't start with the iconic, the beloved and
- 9:25Speaker 1: hated Jennifer Lopez.
- 9:27Speaker 4: JLO has given us so much, so much to think about,
- 9:32Speaker 4: so much to watch and listen to, and a lot
- 9:35Speaker 4: to criticize and make fun of.
- 9:37Speaker 2: So this year was no exception.
- 9:39Speaker 4: And if you've been on the internet at all, and
- 9:41Speaker 4: even if you haven't been on the internet, you've probably
- 9:43Speaker 4: seen this meme that took off in a lot of
- 9:46Speaker 4: different forms talking about a Jlo quote from an acceptance
- 9:51Speaker 4: speech that she made in twenty eleven at the American
- 9:55Speaker 4: Music Awards for her win in the Latin Music category.
- 9:58Speaker 4: During her acceptance speech, Jlo thanked mihinte latino, which is
- 10:04Speaker 4: an incorrect use of Spanish. It should be mihinte latina.
- 10:08Speaker 5: Thank you so much, and all the producers on the
- 10:10Speaker 5: album everybody, Uh, don't have to say mi henda latino.
- 10:24Speaker 4: But I didn't realize that this clip and this moment
- 10:28Speaker 4: was from twenty eleven because it was circulating this year,
- 10:33Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, in the past few months, and
- 10:35Speaker 4: circulating in a big way, and people making tiktoks with
- 10:40Speaker 4: the sound, a lot of tiktoks with the sound, people
- 10:44Speaker 4: doing a lot of like theorizing and analyzing and making
- 10:48Speaker 4: fun of It's really taken off. And I just feel
- 10:52Speaker 4: like every single year since Jlo has been working, which
- 10:55Speaker 4: has been decades now, she's been part of the conversation
- 10:59Speaker 4: whether a good way or a bad way, And this
- 11:02Speaker 4: was just one of many ways this year that Jlo
- 11:05Speaker 4: was in the conversation in a major way. She also
- 11:09Speaker 4: had movies out this year that she like self funded
- 11:12Speaker 4: and self produced. Of course we had benefit back in business,
- 11:16Speaker 4: and now they're not anymore. She's just been very busy
- 11:19Speaker 4: and she like she does. She's given us a lot.
- 11:22Speaker 1: She's given us a lot, and it's one of those
- 11:25Speaker 1: things where like nobody asked for this. I feels like
- 11:28Speaker 1: the consensus from the internet. But I for one, will
- 11:33Speaker 1: continue to follow Jlo on her work because I just
- 11:37Speaker 1: think she's someone for me.
- 11:39Speaker 3: Like we can critique. There's like critiques and then.
- 11:43Speaker 1: There's like criticizing, right, So I'm like, we can critique her,
- 11:45Speaker 1: but I'm not going to criticize her, you know what
- 11:47Speaker 1: I mean, Like, yeah, she's given us a lot, she
- 11:51Speaker 1: continues to give and she's just an icon, you know,
- 11:55Speaker 1: love her or hate her. I've been saying this for years.
- 11:58Speaker 1: She's the Elizabeth Taylor. She's gonna get married again. She
- 12:01Speaker 1: loves to get married, she loves love. She's a lover girl,
- 12:05Speaker 1: true and true and true, Like she's a lover girl.
- 12:08Speaker 1: And so you know, I love Jlo.
- 12:12Speaker 4: The next one is a sound that we have been
- 12:15Speaker 4: living for on TikTok. It is so freaking funny and
- 12:19Speaker 4: I love the way that Latinas are using this sound.
- 12:21Speaker 4: So it's kind of like a little bit of a poem.
- 12:24Speaker 2: Tears in my Latina eyes, blood on my Latina thighs,
- 12:28Speaker 2: dreams in my Latina head, I rest in my Latina bed.
- 12:32Speaker 1: It sounds like a poem written in a Chicano Cities class.
- 12:36Speaker 1: When you're like a freshman in college.
- 12:38Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, and you enter into like a spoken word
- 12:42Speaker 4: competition or showcase.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, and this is what you share this. We've
- 12:46Speaker 2: all done it.
- 12:47Speaker 3: We've all done it. No shame, That's how we grow.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Speaking of bad art, exactly what is the source of
- 12:53Speaker 1: this sound?
- 12:54Speaker 3: Do you know?
- 12:55Speaker 4: I have no idea because I was, you know, as
- 12:58Speaker 4: one does. I'm scrolling on TikTok, scrolling mindlessly, and I
- 13:02Speaker 4: saw a TikTok that was like just like an image
- 13:08Speaker 4: with these lyrics and the sound, which sounds like one
- 13:15Speaker 4: of the voice effects. Yeah, on the app, And that's
- 13:18Speaker 4: where I first heard it. And then I started and
- 13:20Speaker 4: I think I sent it to you, and then I
- 13:22Speaker 4: started seeing people Latinas putting themselves on camera, especially and
- 13:27Speaker 4: using the sound, but to like playfully mock their own
- 13:31Speaker 4: use of their various LATINX traumas, especially in their applications
- 13:35Speaker 4: for college, grad school, grants, jobs, opportunities, et cetera.
- 13:40Speaker 2: And I think it's really funny.
- 13:41Speaker 4: It's very like, yeah, maybe we're like kind of indulging
- 13:45Speaker 4: in our own trauma a little bit, but maybe that's
- 13:48Speaker 4: a good thing, because like you got to get something
- 13:50Speaker 4: out of your trauma, and so if that gets you
- 13:52Speaker 4: into college or grad school, then write about it. Write
- 13:56Speaker 4: about your Latina tears.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Do it. You know somebody's gonna love it. There's an
- 14:00Speaker 2: audience for that.
- 14:02Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 14:02Speaker 1: I mean it's also definitely like mocking certain Latinas and
- 14:07Speaker 1: how they show up in their identity online. Some of it,
- 14:11Speaker 1: I think we know the ones. We know the ones
- 14:14Speaker 1: where it's a caricature. It's like what you think Latini
- 14:18Speaker 1: that is. And then there's like, you know, something that's
- 14:22Speaker 1: more authentic, you know.
- 14:24Speaker 3: But that's the thing.
- 14:24Speaker 1: It's like I saw a comment that was like, Latini
- 14:27Speaker 1: that is meant to be corny because it's a colonial project, right,
- 14:31Speaker 1: it's not meant to be like this deep ass thing, right,
- 14:34Speaker 1: which I think is something to consider. Like, there's a
- 14:37Speaker 1: lot of things on like the latinx Internet, if you will,
- 14:42Speaker 1: that's corny.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:44Speaker 4: I also see like younger Latinas on TikTok in particular
- 14:48Speaker 4: talking about how they're very tired of gunchas on everything,
- 14:52Speaker 4: freedom on everything, hot cheetos on everything, no pilas on everything,
- 14:56Speaker 4: And we've talked about that too. Yeah, there is more
- 14:59Speaker 4: out there there for us to pool from. But it's
- 15:02Speaker 4: also you know, once something becomes mainstream, it's mainstream. And
- 15:06Speaker 4: like we just talked about with the Pew data, Latinos
- 15:10Speaker 4: our mainstream. There's millions of us. There's a lot of us.
- 15:14Speaker 4: We are increasing the overall population of the United States.
- 15:18Speaker 4: One in five people is probably of Latino discent on us.
- 15:22Speaker 1: We're not increasing the population depending on we're educating.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Oh, we're educating the population.
- 15:27Speaker 4: You know, one in five people is probably Latino depending
- 15:30Speaker 4: on where you are in the United States. So we're
- 15:32Speaker 4: not like, you know, a tiny people group that's that's
- 15:36Speaker 4: disenfranchised across the board, right, So, yeah, Latinos our mainstream.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Y'all, don't go anywhere lokomotives.
- 15:44Speaker 2: We'll be right back, We're back with more. We hope
- 15:52Speaker 2: you didn't go anywhere.
- 15:53Speaker 4: So moving on our next favorite Hispanic heritage moment, which
- 15:58Speaker 4: is a really recent moment. We are so super duper
- 16:02Speaker 4: proud of our friend DJ Sizzle Fantastic and the Kumiaton Collective,
- 16:06Speaker 4: who have not only performed at the Ford, but at
- 16:09Speaker 4: this point they've also performed on stage at the Hollywood
- 16:12Speaker 4: Bowl alongside such iconic acts as La Sonorra Dnamita the
- 16:17Speaker 4: Hollywood Bowl. Honestly, that Kumbia night, the Hollywood Bowl has
- 16:21Speaker 4: never been so lit. There has never been so much
- 16:24Speaker 4: dancing in the aisles in the stairway. I mean, the
- 16:28Speaker 4: audience was up, they were active and people were.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Having an incredible time. Sizzle looked amazing. She had this
- 16:35Speaker 2: gorgeous dress and this fabulous updu.
- 16:37Speaker 1: She was like channeling Selena. I know she was. I
- 16:40Speaker 1: know that was definitely on her Pinterest board and she achieved.
- 16:44Speaker 3: She looked beautiful.
- 16:44Speaker 2: She did it.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Yeah, she looked gorgeous. So proud of Sizzle and the
- 16:48Speaker 1: Kumiaton Collective and all the folks that were involved, because
- 16:52Speaker 1: the Hollywood Bowl is such an iconic venue in LA
- 16:55Speaker 1: and not just anyone performs there. When I went to
- 16:58Speaker 1: see Carla Morrison last year perform at the Hollywood Bowl,
- 17:01Speaker 1: she said, I can't believe I'm performing at the Hollywood Bowl.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Like Gotla Montesen is like a star, and I think
- 17:07Speaker 1: even she had that moment on stage where she was like,
- 17:10Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm performing here.
- 17:11Speaker 3: And so then to see our friends on.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Stage and to see Sizzle looking so beautiful and repin
- 17:17Speaker 1: for La and her community so hard was such a magical,
- 17:21Speaker 1: beautiful thing to.
- 17:22Speaker 2: See, extremely incredibly.
- 17:25Speaker 4: You can get more Sizzle and actually hear from Sizzle
- 17:28Speaker 4: if you tune into our other podcast, our brand new show,
- 17:31Speaker 4: Senora sex Ed.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Sizzle actually has.
- 17:34Speaker 4: Her own episode with her mom, Goco Loco, and it's
- 17:37Speaker 4: an intergenerational conversation between the two of them about sex
- 17:40Speaker 4: and sexuality and how they learned about sex and sexuality.
- 17:43Speaker 4: So make sure you tune into that episode of Senora Sexed,
- 17:46Speaker 4: also on the MICHAELA Podcast Network.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Next on the list, Mala, have you been following the
- 17:51Speaker 1: Anheila Aguilar and Christinolal drama?
- 17:54Speaker 2: Okay?
- 17:55Speaker 4: Is there some like infidelity and cheating and somebody stole
- 17:58Speaker 4: somebody's man allegedly. Okay, tell me about it, because I only,
- 18:01Speaker 4: like very vaguely have seen mentions of this.
- 18:04Speaker 3: Okay.
- 18:04Speaker 1: So Christiano is a Mexican singer performer. He's very famous,
- 18:09Speaker 1: very popular, and he has kind of now created this
- 18:14Speaker 1: reputation of being like Omohiriego, being a cheater. And so
- 18:19Speaker 1: first he was dating Belinda, the Belinda.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Okay, I know who she is nova, right, she was
- 18:24Speaker 2: in Cheater Girls.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Yes, Belina wasn' that's how I love that's how.
- 18:29Speaker 4: See, that's my reference. That's how I found out about
- 18:32Speaker 4: her for the Barcelona cheatera Girls movie, specifically because she
- 18:36Speaker 4: was in it.
- 18:36Speaker 3: Okay, she was in it.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Okay, So he was dating her, and then he eventually
- 18:41Speaker 1: started dating Gasu. And Gasu is another singer from Argintina.
- 18:45Speaker 1: She has her own musical career and she had a
- 18:48Speaker 1: baby with him very recently. And so it appears that
- 18:52Speaker 1: Anhila Aguilar, who is famously daughter of Pepe Aguilar okay a,
- 18:58Speaker 1: they're a dynasty in Mexico. So she was friends with
- 19:02Speaker 1: Gasu and there was a point where on an Instagram
- 19:06Speaker 1: photo of Christian and Casu, she says fan the sura Lacion, Yes,
- 19:12Speaker 1: shady yes, so she knew them as a couple, she
- 19:16Speaker 1: loved allegedly loved them as a couple. Next thing, you know,
- 19:20Speaker 1: we see Ahila Aguilad and Christian Olan are together and
- 19:24Speaker 1: Gasu just had a baby, like when their relationship went public.
- 19:29Speaker 1: She had her baby with Christian was like only months old,
- 19:33Speaker 1: so there was definitely some overlap.
- 19:36Speaker 3: And of course who got the heat.
- 19:37Speaker 1: From the public was Ahila not Christian, And so there
- 19:43Speaker 1: was like a lot of polemica drama about that. It
- 19:47Speaker 1: was all over my TikTok, honestly, and so I was
- 19:51Speaker 1: keeping up with that for a while. So then next
- 19:53Speaker 1: step Anghela and Christian get married.
- 19:56Speaker 3: No wow, yeah, and so the room is that.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Beilard was like, you are not gonna do that. You
- 20:03Speaker 1: are not gonna embarrass my daughter.
- 20:06Speaker 2: They ma ass us.
- 20:08Speaker 3: So they get married.
- 20:09Speaker 1: So they get married, and there's this video that goes viral.
- 20:13Speaker 1: There's a lot of videos that have gone viral where
- 20:15Speaker 1: people are now making fun of an Hilda gui Lad.
- 20:17Speaker 1: She's kind of the butt of the joke right now.
- 20:19Speaker 1: She's not really liked it. And Mexico in in terms
- 20:22Speaker 1: of like popular culture public consensus, people don't like the
- 20:27Speaker 1: other woman.
- 20:28Speaker 4: We know that, especially when there's a tiny baby.
- 20:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Yes, So there's a couple videos that have gone viral,
- 20:36Speaker 1: but one of them is where she's screeching amor so.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Now folks have replicated that sound.
- 20:55Speaker 1: They've stitched it with the video of her saying ahmod
- 20:58Speaker 1: and they're like opening a ca they're closing something, they're
- 21:02Speaker 1: finding all these ordinary household objects that replicate that same
- 21:08Speaker 1: high screech. And so to me, that has been like
- 21:11Speaker 1: one of the most funny moments if we're thinking about
- 21:15Speaker 1: it for Latino Heritage Month, that like say, youse be done.
- 21:19Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, thank you so much for catching me up. Yes,
- 21:24Speaker 4: I have learned a lot.
- 21:27Speaker 3: You're welcome.
- 21:28Speaker 4: That is drama.
- 21:28Speaker 2: Okay, no wonder it's all over the place. Yes, O
- 21:32Speaker 2: M G.
- 21:33Speaker 3: Yes, and there's so much more. But that's the gist.
- 21:37Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
- 21:38Speaker 4: I know.
- 21:38Speaker 2: That's pretty good drama. There's more drama on our list.
- 21:41Speaker 1: I was gonna say, onto the next because this is
- 21:44Speaker 1: something I'm not familiar with.
- 21:45Speaker 3: But you are.
- 21:46Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, so talk me through this one. Let's
- 21:50Speaker 4: talk about the rise and fall of Shoddy Bay. You guys,
- 21:53Speaker 4: I have been watching from a distance and saying nothing
- 21:58Speaker 4: and not to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been
- 22:01Speaker 4: I'll like send of a long voice memo to Viosa
- 22:05Speaker 4: like theorizing about Shadi Bay and like her place in
- 22:08Speaker 4: popular culture. And I just find the whole Shoddy Bay
- 22:11Speaker 4: trajectory to be fascinating and tragic to watch from a distance.
- 22:16Speaker 4: But there really is no denying her place in like
- 22:19Speaker 4: LATINX popular culture and social media. She has captured the
- 22:23Speaker 4: attention of millions of TikTok users, I think most of
- 22:27Speaker 4: whom are of the Latino community. And she apparently has
- 22:32Speaker 4: had her own following for many years now. A Shadi
- 22:36Speaker 4: Bay is Ecuadorian and she's from Minnesota, and she had
- 22:40Speaker 4: sort of her own kind of underground like following for
- 22:44Speaker 4: a few years, and then in the past couple of years,
- 22:48Speaker 4: maybe two or three years, she has just taken all.
- 22:51Speaker 2: The way off.
- 22:52Speaker 4: And what people seem to initially have liked about her
- 22:56Speaker 4: are her like funny little catch phrases, like she has
- 22:59Speaker 4: a fun way of saying things. She almost has her own,
- 23:02Speaker 4: like shoddy speak and debias and oh my gothos and
- 23:07Speaker 4: all these things that are very quotable. She apparently like
- 23:10Speaker 4: escaped from her mother's home, she says, in Minnesota, because
- 23:15Speaker 4: she like went to some event in a different state
- 23:18Speaker 4: and then just like never went home and then just
- 23:20Speaker 4: came to La and then she moved into like one
- 23:25Speaker 4: of these like content creator houses with like this other
- 23:28Speaker 4: LATINX influencer Uilito and another influencer, Jose Bay is like
- 23:35Speaker 4: in the mix as well. There's like a whole little
- 23:36Speaker 4: group of them. There's a girl named Wendy, and then
- 23:39Speaker 4: they all got beef. They all started fighting with each other.
- 23:42Speaker 4: There was like major drama. They all moved out of
- 23:46Speaker 4: that content house. Shoddy is like on her own now,
- 23:49Speaker 4: but she's like the biggest one out of all all
- 23:52Speaker 4: of them as as far as followers go. What I
- 23:55Speaker 4: think is really interesting about her is that the attention
- 23:58Speaker 4: that she's gotten has been like really intense. Like Cheeky's
- 24:03Speaker 4: had her on stage with her at one of her shows.
- 24:06Speaker 4: I saw online that Shady Bay did like a meet
- 24:08Speaker 4: and greet at the Crito's mall, and it was so
- 24:11Speaker 4: packed out with fans that the sheriffs were like surrounding
- 24:16Speaker 4: Shoddy Bay to escort her and move her through the
- 24:19Speaker 4: crowd of like screaming like Latino fans who showed up
- 24:23Speaker 4: in Currito's, and she's just has like this huge presence,
- 24:28Speaker 4: and she has merch and she has brand deals. She's
- 24:31Speaker 4: appearing on radio, like I think she was on Big
- 24:34Speaker 4: Boy in the morning.
- 24:35Speaker 2: She's all over the place.
- 24:36Speaker 4: However, there seems to be this element of like people
- 24:40Speaker 4: are kind of analyzing her as what some folks would
- 24:43Speaker 4: call like a loll cow, which is, does this person
- 24:47Speaker 4: feel like there the audience is laughing with her or
- 24:51Speaker 4: laughing at her. And it's been odd to like watch
- 24:56Speaker 4: like our Latino TikTok audience sort of like hyph her
- 25:00Speaker 4: up and project her into this level of stardom, but
- 25:03Speaker 4: then also in not unlike in a Jla way, but
- 25:07Speaker 4: then also be super nasty to her and like denigrate
- 25:11Speaker 4: her and talk really poorly about her.
- 25:15Speaker 2: And it seems.
- 25:16Speaker 4: Like like this very double edged thing with Shoddy Bay.
- 25:20Speaker 4: And so I also wonder, like with someone like Shoddy
- 25:23Speaker 4: like did people hype her up specifically because they knew,
- 25:29Speaker 4: like I don't know, like psychologically that there would be
- 25:33Speaker 4: a downfall, And do people almost enjoy like that process,
- 25:37Speaker 4: like this group think of like we're gonna do this
- 25:40Speaker 4: feverish hyping up of this person, They're gonna get real
- 25:43Speaker 4: big and then we're just gonna love the tear down.
- 25:46Speaker 1: You know.
- 25:46Speaker 4: It's almost like when you go on a bender and
- 25:50Speaker 4: you know that you're gonna feel like shit the next day.
- 25:53Speaker 4: You know it's coming, but that's almost part of the experience.
- 25:56Speaker 4: It's the high and then it's the come down. And
- 25:59Speaker 4: that is what I have sort of witnessed or observed
- 26:02Speaker 4: with Shoddy Bay.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:03Speaker 1: I think that applies to women in general, where they
- 26:07Speaker 1: become super popular and then the public turns, like the
- 26:11Speaker 1: tide turns instantly.
- 26:12Speaker 3: We've seen that with Jenna Ortega.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I'm just thinking in the last year, Jena Ortega, recently
- 26:17Speaker 1: with Chapel Rone, Like, there are so many women that
- 26:21Speaker 1: reach like a certain level where they're mainstream or they're
- 26:25Speaker 1: super popular, adoring fans, and then just kidding, you said
- 26:29Speaker 1: something I didn't like or you did something a certain way.
- 26:32Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the same.
- 26:33Speaker 1: Thing here, but I do see a connection with some
- 26:38Speaker 1: of the other starlets, if you will.
- 26:41Speaker 3: I also wonder if it's.
- 26:42Speaker 1: Maybe like the TikTok version of cancel culture, you know,
- 26:45Speaker 1: like where on Twitter it was, oh, we're all going
- 26:49Speaker 1: to like go and like tweet at this person, and
- 26:52Speaker 1: we're all going to talk about them, and we're going
- 26:54Speaker 1: to like quote bring them down or quote cancel them.
- 26:56Speaker 1: And you know, whether cancel culture is real or not,
- 26:58Speaker 1: like that's another conversation. But we saw the people participating
- 27:02Speaker 1: in like a vitriol or a takedown of a certain person,
- 27:05Speaker 1: some deserving, some not right, And so I wonder if
- 27:08Speaker 1: this is maybe the TikTok equivalent, where it's like we're
- 27:10Speaker 1: all going to like band together and get this person
- 27:12Speaker 1: here and then sas.
- 27:14Speaker 4: Yes, that's it, Yeah, it's It reminds me of Anna
- 27:18Speaker 4: Nicole Smith. It reminds me of Pamela Anderson. I mean,
- 27:21Speaker 4: there's a very long list, like you mentioned, especially of women.
- 27:25Speaker 4: Let's build them up so we can then have fun
- 27:28Speaker 4: tearing them down. It's very strange, but Shoddy Bay like
- 27:32Speaker 4: seems to be sort of weathering the storm and making
- 27:35Speaker 4: the best of it. So I don't know, We're I'm
- 27:38Speaker 4: keeping I'm keeping an eye on her right because I
- 27:40Speaker 4: find the whole thing very interesting, but also like leave
- 27:43Speaker 4: her alone, Leave the poor girl alone. I've also noticed,
- 27:46Speaker 4: you know, there are so many different like subsets of
- 27:51Speaker 4: like the latinal like I don't know social media world totally,
- 27:56Speaker 4: and you'll have somebody like Shoddy Bay with millions and
- 27:59Speaker 4: millions of followers. And then I see, like, you know,
- 28:02Speaker 4: latinx content creators that are maybe a little more like
- 28:04Speaker 4: in our sort of sphere, who will ask the question like,
- 28:09Speaker 4: why do we put quote like these Latinos?
- 28:14Speaker 2: Why don't we put these latinos on?
- 28:16Speaker 4: Okay, you know, I saw there was another I don't
- 28:19Speaker 4: remember the name of this person, but there was a
- 28:21Speaker 4: Latina who was like on a podcast somewhere and her
- 28:24Speaker 4: clip went super viral because she was talking about how
- 28:26Speaker 4: she didn't graduate from high school. I saw that one, yeah, yeah,
- 28:29Speaker 4: and we were talking about this that went super viral,
- 28:32Speaker 4: and there was a lot of conversation around it, and
- 28:34Speaker 4: it was the same sort of questions, why do we
- 28:36Speaker 4: hype these Latinas up who like don't have education, or
- 28:40Speaker 4: they're not social justice oriented, they don't do anything for
- 28:43Speaker 4: the community. And I'm like, well, yeah, that's a good question.
- 28:45Speaker 4: Why are you hyping them up just to turn around
- 28:47Speaker 4: and talk mad shit about them? We wouldn't know who
- 28:49Speaker 4: they are unless you us we were putting them out,
- 28:53Speaker 4: you know.
- 28:53Speaker 2: So I don't know.
- 28:54Speaker 4: It's like, don't pedestal people just to turn around and
- 28:57Speaker 4: complain about the pedestal you put them on.
- 28:59Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's move on next.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Well, we obviously have to include ourselves in this list
- 29:04Speaker 1: because we launched a brand new podcast this year, Senora
- 29:07Speaker 1: sex Ed. It's years in the making, and it's our
- 29:12Speaker 1: new podcast featuring intergenerational conversations with Latinas from gen X
- 29:17Speaker 1: to gen Z. We're interviewing Senora Senoritas and we're talking
- 29:21Speaker 1: about all things sex and sexuality.
- 29:24Speaker 4: And now why is this worthy of Hispanic Heritage Month recognition?
- 29:28Speaker 4: Will you tell me the last time you saw a
- 29:30Speaker 4: show like this? You know this is show? This show
- 29:34Speaker 4: is very unique. I think this show is it is
- 29:37Speaker 4: years in the making, It's taken us years to make it,
- 29:41Speaker 4: and there's nothing else like it out there. And we're
- 29:43Speaker 4: interviewing some of the most iconic Latinas ever period about
- 29:49Speaker 4: things like their periods and how they learned about sex
- 29:52Speaker 4: and sexuality. We're talking to them about menopause and perimenopause
- 29:56Speaker 4: and masturbation and virginity and sexual violence and creating art.
- 30:02Speaker 4: It's really interesting and it's really cool. So it's now
- 30:05Speaker 4: it's part of the cultural zeitgeist.
- 30:07Speaker 3: It is.
- 30:07Speaker 1: And we were actually talking to Vittinia, the editor in
- 30:10Speaker 1: chief of Hip Latina this morning, and she said that
- 30:13Speaker 1: when she listened to Senana Sex said it was giving
- 30:15Speaker 1: NPR and well, personally, as a radio audio enthusiast, I
- 30:23Speaker 1: loved it.
- 30:23Speaker 3: I loved that comparison.
- 30:24Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 30:25Speaker 1: That's why I went to grad school. Truly, best compliment ever.
- 30:28Speaker 2: High praise. It's not not everybody gets compared to NPR.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Honey, next past guest.
- 30:36Speaker 4: An says Hernandez, Los Angeles City Council person representing Council
- 30:42Speaker 4: District one, this year launched her very first field office
- 30:47Speaker 4: in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Anie says, famously
- 30:52Speaker 4: historically ran a very iconic campaign against then incumbent Gil Sidio.
- 30:59Speaker 4: She was a first time candidate, a young candidate, a woman,
- 31:03Speaker 4: a Latina, a resident of her district, Highland Park, and
- 31:07Speaker 4: she won in a very historic upset and she's just
- 31:10Speaker 4: killing the game. Yeah, so we love Onie says. We
- 31:12Speaker 4: do have an episode with one says during her campaign,
- 31:16Speaker 4: go ahead and tune into that episode learn more about her.
- 31:20Speaker 4: It's a big deal to be elected to the Los
- 31:23Speaker 4: Angeles City Council. I mean, as far as city Council goes,
- 31:27Speaker 4: We're it, babe, like it's a big deal.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Go ahead and tune in.
- 31:31Speaker 4: We're very proud of that episode and of the work
- 31:33Speaker 4: Onie Says has done.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Keep up the good work.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Next, this is so exciting for me to share. It's
- 31:40Speaker 1: not even my news, but I'm just excited to talk
- 31:42Speaker 1: about it and geek out about it. So iHeartMedia joins
- 31:45Speaker 1: forces with Radio Ambulantes Studios to bring its full slate
- 31:50Speaker 1: of shows to the Michael Dura podcast Network, our home network.
- 31:55Speaker 1: If you're not familiar, Radio narrates the stories of Latino America.
- 32:00Speaker 1: They have been doing it for years. They just launched
- 32:04Speaker 1: their fourteenth season with the Michael Tura podcast Network. And
- 32:08Speaker 1: not just radim Bulante joined the Michael Dura podcast Network,
- 32:12Speaker 1: but also their other show, El Elo, which I listen
- 32:15Speaker 1: to every week. El Elo covers the news and breaking
- 32:20Speaker 1: stories of Latino America, and for me, I love it
- 32:24Speaker 1: because I really try really hard to keep up with.
- 32:27Speaker 3: The news and happenings in Latin America.
- 32:29Speaker 1: So they do political coverage, election coverage, and really just
- 32:34Speaker 1: day to day coverage of what's happening in different countries
- 32:36Speaker 1: in Latin America, and they also have another show called
- 32:39Speaker 1: Central and so those are now on the Michaeldura podcast Network.
- 32:44Speaker 1: We're in good company and I just feel like I
- 32:47Speaker 1: can say Danielle Alarcon is my colleague now because he's
- 32:51Speaker 1: on our network.
- 32:52Speaker 2: We're coworkers, we work together.
- 32:55Speaker 1: They're also producing two new shows with Michael Tura podcast Network,
- 32:59Speaker 1: which is sing So if you're a lover of audio,
- 33:03Speaker 1: if you're a lover of storytelling, I think that you know.
- 33:07Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with these shows, then you should
- 33:10Speaker 1: definitely check them out as well.
- 33:11Speaker 4: Next, I just want to give a quick little shout
- 33:13Speaker 4: out to Marcelo Hernandez, who is an SNL cast member.
- 33:17Speaker 4: And Marcelo has just been generally killing it and just
- 33:21Speaker 4: being the cutest, funniest Cuban Dominican poppichulo ever. I absolutely
- 33:26Speaker 4: love him in the sketches that he does, but specifically
- 33:29Speaker 4: I love him on Weekend Update whenever he's opposite Colin Jost.
- 33:33Speaker 4: He is just a standout. Every time he's on Weekend Update,
- 33:36Speaker 4: his clips go viral. He's also a very talented stand
- 33:40Speaker 4: up comedian, so check him out.
- 33:42Speaker 2: As well.
- 33:42Speaker 4: I'm just super proud of him, and I think he's
- 33:44Speaker 4: doing a great job.
- 33:45Speaker 3: I love that. I think.
- 33:47Speaker 1: Also in comedian podcast Updates, former guest of Look at
- 33:52Speaker 1: Dora and Senora Sex said Heidro Rodriguez, she just launched
- 33:56Speaker 1: a new podcast called Say What You Mean, and I'm
- 33:59Speaker 1: super excited to check that one out to listen because
- 34:03Speaker 1: Ida is just so smart, so funny, so thoughtful, So
- 34:06Speaker 1: I just know it's going to be a great podcast.
- 34:08Speaker 4: She drops gems always always. Definitely tune into that and
- 34:13Speaker 4: our final Hispanic Heritage moment coming up. It's Yasa's birthday,
- 34:20Speaker 4: so what better way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month than
- 34:23Speaker 4: by celebrating the birth of everyone's favorite libra. But I
- 34:26Speaker 4: want to make Kana bs FM.
- 34:28Speaker 3: I love that.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Thank you because I did not expect you to put
- 34:31Speaker 1: that on the list.
- 34:32Speaker 3: But you're right.
- 34:32Speaker 1: I guess it is a part of Latino Heritage Month.
- 34:36Speaker 2: You are part of this country's Latino heritage.
- 34:39Speaker 3: You know what I am. You are in the Library
- 34:41Speaker 3: of Congress, So yes, I am.
- 34:43Speaker 4: That's true. I bet you guys didn't know that. I
- 34:45Speaker 4: bet you guys didn't know we're in the Library of Congress.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Yeah, our website.
- 34:48Speaker 1: Our website was included in the Library of Congress.
- 34:51Speaker 2: It's kind of a big deal, kind of a big deal.
- 34:53Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard of the Library of Congress.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Are you familiar?
- 34:56Speaker 4: We should visit the Library of Congress. We should go
- 34:59Speaker 4: and we should be like, we're in your webs.
- 35:03Speaker 1: Just like that, exactly like that word for words for beta. Yeah.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Absolutely, Oh man.
- 35:09Speaker 4: This has been our Hispanic Heritage Month episode roundup, et cetera,
- 35:13Speaker 4: et cetera. I think this just needs to be a
- 35:15Speaker 4: yearly a tradition.
- 35:17Speaker 3: I think.
- 35:18Speaker 1: So this is now our second episode of this kind.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Last year, season eight, we did a LATINX Heritage Month
- 35:25Speaker 1: phase as well, but we looked at more so the
- 35:28Speaker 1: last decade. So this year we got more specific and
- 35:31Speaker 1: honed in on twenty twenty four and nobody come for us.
- 35:35Speaker 1: We know it's Latino Latina, not necessarily Hispanic, but you
- 35:40Speaker 1: know that's the designated national month.
- 35:42Speaker 2: So yes, Hispanic Heritage Month dot gov. We didn't it.
- 35:48Speaker 4: Okay, blame Lyndon Johnson and Ronald and Ronald.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Because he is the source of many of these countries
- 35:57Speaker 1: problems even now.
- 35:58Speaker 3: So talk to your family's about one's so twisted.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Anyways, this has been another episode of look at Our Radio.
- 36:03Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in.
- 36:04Speaker 3: At you next time.
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