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Muy Excited The Brave Steps Taken Inside The Podcast World Of Marcia Garcia · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: I guess you could say it's a page out of
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Speaker 1: the old radio days, and can I really do that?
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Speaker 1: Since I've been in radio since the age of fourteen,
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Speaker 1: stretching all the way back to the disco era. The
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Speaker 1: one thing that's missing from today's music scene it's history,
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Speaker 1: which was the reason why we created the new podcast,
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Speaker 1: Music's Lost History. I'm going to totally set you up
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Speaker 1: on what song we're talking about, but the question is
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Speaker 1: can you guess it before I share it? Music's Lost
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Speaker 1: History Only on Erro dot net, arr Oe dot Net.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Hello, and good morning party people.
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Speaker 2: I'm well, how are you to errow?
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm excited to share a conversation with you because
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Speaker 1: you seem to be so wide open into learning new
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Speaker 1: things as well as tackling old things. They just need
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Speaker 1: a new little twist to it.
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love you know, storytelling and going on a
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Speaker 3: deep dive, you know.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's exactly where my heart is.
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Speaker 1: It's so funny that you say the deep dive because
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Speaker 1: people think that we're really kind of weird and we
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Speaker 1: say we're gonna do that, or my crutch word is
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go do some research and they look at me,
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Speaker 1: they go, you're always doing research. Yeah I am. Because
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Speaker 1: there's a lot to learn, why not go for it?
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Speaker 2: I agree? I agree.
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Speaker 3: You know, and at a time when everybody's using AI,
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Speaker 3: there's nothing more human than learning something through a story.
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Speaker 3: We've been telling stories and around fires and in caves
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Speaker 3: and at bed time for time immemorial, and so yeah,
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Speaker 3: you want to stay human, storytelling is the way to
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you brought that up because with
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Speaker 1: the AI, because I actually do a podcast with Alexa
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Speaker 1: from Amazon, and the whole entire goal of this thing
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Speaker 1: is that she's AI technology, I'm reality. And the thing
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Speaker 1: is is that I'm with storytelling, that the differences between
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Speaker 1: the stories, and I'll call her out in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I think I'm more dependent on your show,
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Speaker 1: because you are real, You're not AI. That you are fact,
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Speaker 1: and you're going to take us into areas of self exploration.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you. Yeah you know. By the way,
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Speaker 2: now I want to listen to your podcast.
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Speaker 1: Oh she's weird. She gets so much stuff wrong, I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you, But that's what I love about it is
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Speaker 1: that that she gets things wrong. And and and and
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Speaker 1: But that's why I trust you is because you have
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Speaker 1: the humanside of the reality of where we are today.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. You know. We use a lot of the tools
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Speaker 3: of journalism, right, so thorough research, rigorous fact checking.
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Speaker 2: A sum reporting.
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Speaker 3: But you know, the show goes beyond journalism and it's
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Speaker 3: it's a storytelling show that's.
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Speaker 2: Both really funny and fun.
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Speaker 3: But at the end of each story, we want to
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Speaker 3: tell you what it means, and we want to make
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Speaker 3: sure that you finished the episode feeling more enlightened, like
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Speaker 3: you've you've learned something quite revealing and and leaving you
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Speaker 3: with the takeaway that's full of depth and meaning, but
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Speaker 3: making it completely fun and satisfying and a hoot along
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Speaker 3: the way.
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Speaker 1: Is there any subject that you won't go to or
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Speaker 1: you sit there and you ponder for that's a good
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Speaker 1: old Northern word for you from Montana. We're gonna ponder here.
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Speaker 1: Do you sit back and ponder just a bit and say,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, and then something tells you inside your
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Speaker 1: heart go for it. Nobody else is talking about it,
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Speaker 1: go for it?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, you know. I never try to shame
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Speaker 3: my curiosity. If something makes me curious. If something makes
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Speaker 3: me excited to learn, I won't. I try never to
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Speaker 3: squash my curiosity. And so you know, that's what we have,
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Speaker 3: for example, an episode right now about Chihuahuas, the dogs,
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Speaker 3: you know, and their ancient history and where they come from,
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Speaker 3: and you know just what an important role they played
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Speaker 3: in the Americas before Europeans arrived, and how they were
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Speaker 3: seen as you know, spirit guides into the underworld and
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Speaker 3: they were sort of seen as these mystical, magical creatures.
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Speaker 3: And we give you the whole history of the Chihuahuo
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Speaker 3: from their very ancient origins to you know, the nineteen
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Speaker 3: ninety nine Taco bellt Chihuahua and Paris Hilton's Chihuahuan and
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Speaker 3: why this little dog captures the American imagination like no
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Speaker 3: other breed except maybe arguably the Golden retriever, right, and
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Speaker 3: what it is about chihuahuas and what it says about
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Speaker 3: humans and our relationship to animals and how ancient that is.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, we go into stories like that. We also
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Speaker 2: go into pop culture.
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Speaker 3: We have an episode coming up about Britney Spears and
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Speaker 3: one of her I would say, the miss performances. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and how people talked about her and to her at
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Speaker 3: the time, and really about who owes her an apology.
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Speaker 3: So it's a very expand set of topics that I
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Speaker 3: just get very excited to talk about, really thoroughly research
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Speaker 3: and told in a really fun way, but with some
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Speaker 3: meaning at the end.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you are speaking such a truth there.
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Speaker 1: Because here's the thing. Here's the thing. When you speak
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Speaker 1: of Britney Spears, I can go to you know, chat GPT,
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Speaker 1: I can go to Jim and I They're going to
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Speaker 1: tell me this little love story and give me all
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Speaker 1: this data that it's been programmed with. But when you
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Speaker 1: have a podcast like yours, what happens is is that
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Speaker 1: you give us that honesty and to be able to
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Speaker 1: look beyond these videos that we're getting that it might
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Speaker 1: not really be her being odd, that somebody created this path,
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Speaker 1: and that you're willing to take that step as a
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Speaker 1: journalist and give us a clearer, better view so we
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Speaker 1: can stop judging this girl.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think you know, I'm forty one,
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Speaker 3: and so I was fifteen years old in the year
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Speaker 3: two thousand and I think a lot of elder millennials,
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Speaker 3: I would say, are in this stage in their life
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Speaker 3: where they're able to look back now as an adults
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Speaker 3: with life experience, maybe with children.
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Speaker 2: I'm a mother and I'm able to look back with
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Speaker 2: a little more wisdom.
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Speaker 3: And say, ah, this is what was happening, and this
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Speaker 3: is what it meant. And I'm able to, you know,
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Speaker 3: provide some cultural analysis now that I'm older, and I
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Speaker 3: think that's happening to a lot of folks. And so
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of nostalgia in the podcast for sure, too.
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Speaker 3: We look back at these big cultural moments that many
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Speaker 3: of us might remember from our adolescents or young adulthood
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Speaker 3: or even childhood, and we make meaning of these moments
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Speaker 3: through now, you know, with the experience of somebody in
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Speaker 3: middle age.
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Speaker 1: You know, well, I love the way that you're using
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Speaker 1: culture as a learning tool, because you know how it
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Speaker 1: is everybody hears that word culture or cultural and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, here comes the little flags that are saying,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, I'll take down on it a harbeat.
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Speaker 1: But yet you give us the opportunity to see that
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Speaker 1: all culture has a meaning. We are at fault for
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Speaker 1: not taking the time to research it and to know
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Speaker 1: a better meaning of that culture.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, culture is everything, right, It's not
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Speaker 3: just what you're reading, but it's the TV show that
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Speaker 3: you're into. It may be the video game that you're
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Speaker 3: playing later today. It's also like the games and the
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Speaker 3: stories you tell your children. It's the dogs you have
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Speaker 3: and that you love. Like culture, I just I don't
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Speaker 3: believe in highbrow culture or lowbrow culture. I believe all
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Speaker 3: culture matters and it all says something about who we are.
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Speaker 2: As humans and how we evolve to live with each other.
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Speaker 3: And so yeah, like I said, I'm never shaming my curiosity.
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Speaker 3: I love to be a student of culture from every direction.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's no such things as highbrow or lowbrow culture.
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Speaker 2: It all matters.
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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of culture, we all have this image of
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Speaker 1: the beautiful Ricky Martin, and the thing is is that
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Speaker 1: when he does a political song, I wasn't shocked. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I was going, well, it's about time, because Ricky has
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Speaker 1: always been involved in movements in culture, in making sure
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Speaker 1: that there was a voice for places where everybody was
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Speaker 1: hiding from, and so to see him do this was
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Speaker 1: just such an amazing, peaceful place inside my heart.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so glad you say that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, our first episode out right now you can watch
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Speaker 3: it on YouTube or you can listen to it anywhere
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Speaker 3: you get your podcasts is about Ricky Martin and his evolution,
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Speaker 3: you know. And this started because I was watching the
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl and more of course, he made a cameo
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Speaker 3: in there, and my eleven year old son behind me goes,
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Speaker 3: who's that?
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Speaker 2: And I think, oh, my gosh, who Ricky Martin is?
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Speaker 2: And I said, all right, let me tell you who
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Speaker 2: Ricky Martin is.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: You know, no matter who you are, whether.
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Speaker 3: You're Latino or not, there is something to glean from
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Speaker 3: Ricky Martin's life and legacy because history really is about
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Speaker 3: what it takes to go beyond the expectations that people
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Speaker 3: have of you and to live authentically. Because Ricky Martin
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Speaker 3: was expected in the late nineties to really live out
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Speaker 3: this trope of the sexy Latin lover, and there was
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Speaker 3: this expectation that he had to be seductive to women
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Speaker 3: and suits women, and that he had to be sexy,
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Speaker 3: and really that was far from who he really is,
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Speaker 3: you know, And it's about what it took to rid
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Speaker 3: himself of those expectations and to live more authentically and
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Speaker 3: to come out that's who he really was.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love the way that you're saying that,
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Speaker 1: because you're absolutely right about that. In the nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 1: because we were trying to be like Julio Iglesias and
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Speaker 1: have that sexual appeal or Evenonio Banderas is the way
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Speaker 1: that you know, you sit there and you think this
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Speaker 1: is the way they're supposed to be, and then when
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Speaker 1: somebody I work with comes to me with a story
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Speaker 1: of their culture and I'm going, but, but, but, but that's
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Speaker 1: not what I was taught through Ricky Martin. That's not
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Speaker 1: what they told me how it's supposed to be. But
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Speaker 1: Ricky was the one that said, look, we are human.
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Speaker 1: We do make decisions and we do things in the community.
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Speaker 1: And that's what opens up a lot of people's eyes
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Speaker 1: because of a podcast like this. It's like there is
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Speaker 1: a human side.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And you know, I always want to tell
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Speaker 3: these stories ultimately.
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Speaker 2: In a way that's human.
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Speaker 3: Centered and heart centered and open hearted, you know, and
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Speaker 3: and you know these are sure they're pop culture giants,
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Speaker 3: but they're also people and I want to get to
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Speaker 3: sort of like that human side of who they are.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There is more with Marcia Garcia
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Speaker 1: coming up next, the name of the podcast Mooie Excited.
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Speaker 1: We are back with Marcia Garcia. I want to know
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Speaker 1: how many notebooks you go through, because I am addicted.
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Speaker 1: When Taylor Swift released that photo for holding all of
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Speaker 1: her journals, I was like going, oh my god, I'm
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Speaker 1: not such a freak after all, and with all the
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Speaker 1: research that you do, I want to see your journals.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're speaking my love language. I am
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Speaker 3: a journal hoarder. I go to store and I see
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Speaker 3: a pretty journal and I'm like, oh, I want this,
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Speaker 3: And then in my mind, I'm like, what about all
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Speaker 3: the journals you have at home? But I truly do
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Speaker 3: go through them quickly because I am taking so much notes.
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Speaker 3: You know. I come from journalism, you know, and I
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Speaker 3: think what we do now is sort of like it's
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Speaker 3: not straight journalism, you know, because it's cultural criticism, it's commentary,
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Speaker 3: it's cultural analysis, it's storytelling that's also really fun and voicy.
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Speaker 3: But I still believe in the tools of journalism and
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Speaker 3: so a lot of thorough research and fact checking and
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Speaker 3: so yeah, as a journalist by training, those notebooks are
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Speaker 3: never far away from me.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I mean it was Walter cronkite that
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Speaker 1: used to say, and that's the way it is today.
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Speaker 1: I believe it through the podcasting and through modern day journalism,
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Speaker 1: it is the way that it is, and that back
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Speaker 1: then it was still a part of a network. They
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Speaker 1: had to follow by the rules they can only go
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Speaker 1: so many minutes long. But with podcasts such as yours,
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Speaker 1: it's like how much time you got, Okay, sit down,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about it, and let's listen to it, mister listener.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, you know. And our episodes are about
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Speaker 3: twenty five minutes long.
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Speaker 1: It's perfect.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So it's not this overwhelming, you know, forty
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Speaker 3: five or our episode that you're going to have to
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Speaker 3: sit through. It's it's fun and short. But we cover
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Speaker 3: a lot in those twenty five minutes. And you know,
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Speaker 3: I've never believed in a journalism that comes from a
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Speaker 3: place of nowhere, meaning.
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Speaker 2: Like, oh I just popped up and this these are
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Speaker 2: the facts. I believe.
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Speaker 3: You know that as journalists we have to sort of
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Speaker 3: acknowledge our blind spots and also our expertise. We're covering
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Speaker 3: stories based on sort of our place in the world
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Speaker 3: and our vantage from that point or viewpoint. And so
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Speaker 3: I'm very transparent with my audience. If I love an artist,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you, you know, like I grew up
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Speaker 3: listening to this, like this is my heart is in
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Speaker 3: this and so there's a lot of that in the show,
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Speaker 3: just and also a lot of personal anecdotes and like
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Speaker 3: what these stories mean to me. In the Chihuahuas episode,
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Speaker 3: I tell you about the beautiful Chihuahuas that meant so
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Speaker 3: much in my life that I've loved. I tell you
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Speaker 3: about my own adolescence and relationship to Ricky Martin, and
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Speaker 3: so yeah, I think it's it's storytelling that's very transparent
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 1: All Right, I'm glad you went back to the Chihuahua
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Speaker 1: because there was a question that popped up, because that
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Speaker 1: is the art of listening, and I always want to
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Speaker 1: bring things up. And the thing is is that you
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Speaker 1: talked about it being a spirit keeper or a spirit guide.
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Speaker 1: Now I have to ask you, do you think that
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Speaker 1: you are a spirit guide?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've never I've never quite thought about that.
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Speaker 1: I have this podcast I want you to listen to.
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Speaker 1: It's host. It's you, it's you.
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Speaker 3: You know. I don't know if I'm a spiric eye,
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Speaker 3: but I do believe that I am connected to the
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Speaker 3: people I love beyond the realm and this lifetime. I
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Speaker 3: do believe that my soul knows the soul of my
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Speaker 3: child's beyond this lifetime.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I do strongly believe that that there
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Speaker 3: are some tethers and some connections that are based in
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Speaker 3: the soul and are not you know, subject to this
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Speaker 3: to this lifetime or this earthly realm.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I love your podcasting the way that in all
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Speaker 1: the research that I've done, they're all saying that you
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Speaker 1: got to go back to the culture, You got to
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Speaker 1: go back into the realism of life. And because so
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Speaker 1: many people are basically just you know, stamping their their
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Speaker 1: they're big photograph up on podcasting, and it makes it
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Speaker 1: look like that it's nothing but a selfie on a podcast.
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Speaker 1: But you give us the reality of it all. And
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Speaker 1: I want to know how you gain the confidence to
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Speaker 1: ask real questions, because you know, in a candy coded world,
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Speaker 1: we like to ask those simple things just to get
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Speaker 1: through it. But no, not you. You go in for
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Speaker 1: the deep story.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you. That means a lot to me.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think it goes back again.
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Speaker 3: To my training as a journalist, and I started off
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Speaker 3: in very serious sort of accountability government journalism, And yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think I learned to ultimately like be a truth
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Speaker 3: seeker in all things and to be to always strive
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Speaker 3: for fairness, and so yeah, I think I take those
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Speaker 3: lessons with me for sure. But also I always think,
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Speaker 3: if I'm wondering about something, even if it seems silly
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Speaker 3: or small.
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Speaker 2: That means that likely someone else has wondered about this.
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Speaker 3: And if I just let my curiosity be my guiding light,
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Speaker 3: then I know, you know, I know that I'm going
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Speaker 3: to get to somewhere where it's going to feel universal
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Speaker 3: and people are other people are going to care.
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Speaker 2: And also.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to front you know, I don't want
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Speaker 3: to appear to be smarter or more learned than I am.
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Speaker 3: Like I want to discover things with you if I'm
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Speaker 3: also just discovering them with you, I want to be
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Speaker 3: real about where I am in my learning journey about
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Speaker 3: this topic. If I'm a hardcore expert, you know, I'll
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Speaker 3: share that with you. But if I'm just learning and
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Speaker 3: letting my curiosity guide me, like i'm, I'll share.
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Speaker 2: That with you too. And I think it comes it
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Speaker 2: comes from that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is such a dear future listener podcast in
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Speaker 1: the way that only because I've been doing this since
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and I'm always fascinated with somebody and a
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Speaker 1: group of people that will find a podcast from twenty
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Speaker 1: twelve and it's it'll be number one on the list.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going, how is it that you were able
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Speaker 1: to do this? Well, you're doing it. You're creating pot
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Speaker 1: cast that people ten or fifteen years from now are
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Speaker 1: going to discover for the very first time, and they're
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Speaker 1: still going to relate with it because you put it
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Speaker 1: in a language of reality.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Well, that's that's so kind of you
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Speaker 2: to say. You know, I do.
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Speaker 3: I do want to produce work that people can listen to,
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Speaker 3: you know, thirty years from.
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Speaker 2: Now or forty years now. I think a lot about
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Speaker 2: you know, my son is my son is twelve.
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Speaker 3: But I always tell people like, I'm ready one day
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Speaker 3: to have grandchildren too, Like I yeah, like I want
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Speaker 3: to produce work that my grandchildren will one day.
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Speaker 2: Listen to and make meaning of the world with. And
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Speaker 2: so yeah, thank you for saying that.
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Speaker 3: I do. Ultimately, I want to produce something that's very human,
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Speaker 3: regardless of the time frame and what year it comes from.
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Speaker 3: I want to ask like deeply universal human questions. You know,
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Speaker 3: what does this mean? What does this say about us?
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Speaker 3: What does this say about about love? You know, about belonging,
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Speaker 3: about relationships?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about everything
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Speaker 1: that you're doing? Because I want them to know more
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Speaker 1: than just the podcaster. I want them to know the person.
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you, that's so kind of you.
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Speaker 3: They can They can follow us on YouTube We're under
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Speaker 3: MOUI Excited with Maria Garcia. They can also follow the
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Speaker 3: podcast on any podcast app. It's called MoU Excited with
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Speaker 3: Maria Garcia, and they can follow me on Instagram.
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Speaker 2: I'm at Maria is MOUI Excited? With a dash in
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Speaker 2: between every an? Underdash? Is that what those are called?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Underdash between every every word?
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 1: Please come back to this show anytime in the future.
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Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Eric, wonderful to.
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Speaker 3: Be with you.
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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Oh thank you you already are?
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Speaker 1: Oh thank you? Well it started with you. You listening
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Speaker 1: to this podcast. You're gonna walk away a different person.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I appreciate you